Series: Sanguine Bindings||Story Title: Ruler of the Shadows
Characters: Ken, Daisuke||Romance: Ken x Daisuke/Daisuke x Ken
Chapter: 11-40||Chapter: 500||Total: 5,500
Genre: Supernatural, Romance||Rated: PG-13
Notes: In the setting of this story, these are the differing points: the Chosen are roughly five years older than in canon, meaning that Ken, Daisuke, Takeru, & Hikari are sixteen, while Miyako is seventeen, and Iori is fourteen. There are some other differences, but those will be revealed during the course of the story. Except for this: this story will involve vampires. It begins in episode 2, once Daisuke's been captured.
Summary: On his second trip to the Digital World, Daisuke is captured by the Kaiser. Time to learn a little about the guy he's just started fighting. Like the fact he has sharp, pointy teeth and a thirst for more than conquest.
Daisuke didn't pay any more attention to the Chosen's mutterings than he absolutely had to. His mind remained fully subsumed to his Master's will – well, almost fully, that tiny little whisper of resistance crawled its way out of the inner depths when one word reached his ear and sank into his awareness.
Ichijouji. Ichijouji Ken. There wasn't anyone else they could mean by that. His master was the famous Ichijouji Ken, the guy that he'd … well…
Even if he'd been fully in control of himself, Daisuke wouldn't quite have gone so far as to say that he had a crush on the guy. He'd worked his way through a crush on Hikari once already and he hadn't really felt like trying it again any time soon. Sure, Jun could go from person to person until finally latching onto Kido Shuu, but he wasn't like that.
Or at least he hadn't thought he was. But not letting himself be aware of it didn't mean that the crush didn't exist.
It's him. He's the one who is...
For a few uncharted moments, Daisuke's mind soaked freely in the knowledge that the one holding his metaphorical leash was the same one that he'd daydreamed about for a couple of years before this whole Digital World thing turned up to make life even more complicated than before.
Then fangs touched his neck and he let out a small startled squeak, shaking more from surprise than anything else.
He could feel something pass between them along with the blood going from him to Kaiser. The hand in his hair tightened a fraction. He didn't think he could've moved right then even if he'd wanted to, and he had no idea on if he wanted to.
Something wasn't right about all of this. Daisuke didn't know what it was. Part of him – most of him – wanted to easily submit to his Master and let him do what he wished without question. This was his Master; why would he fight him?
But this was also the person trying to conquer the Digital World and enslave the Digimon, and the things he'd seen, even while under Kaiser's control, told him strong and clear that wasn't right at all. He wanted to do something about it, even if it hurt him to do anything that Kaiser didn't order him to do. He wanted to stop the Kaiser.
He couldn't move more than the barest bit, certainly not enough to get away from the teeth in his neck and the tongue teasing blood out of the bites. But he could recognize a difference in the way that Kaiser held him now. It wasn't a possessive feel to it at all.
This was Kaiser holding down a meal he feared would run away.
His fingers twitched. A tiny move, nothing more. Even if the Chosen saw it, they might not have assigned any meaning to it.
But someone did.
"Daisuke?" V-mon's voice rang of hope. "Are you still in there?"
To Be Continued
Note: I said V-mon had an opinion on all of this.