Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Forever ❯ Part 5. ( Chapter 5 )

Veemon and Wormmon sat perched at the end of their humans' beds, watching the two boys sleep very much like a couple of kids watching their parents sleep if one came across the tender scene.

" They look so kawaii when they're asleep, " Veemon whispered to his green skinned friend, unknowingly using a favorite phrase Daisuke would utter when watching Chibimon sleep, tail curled up and covering his face.

" And tired. They had a long day, " Wormmon whispered back.

" Couldn't have been that long, " Veemon chuckled with a knowing smirk. Wormmon gave a little cough, not being as out spoken as his dragon like friend. Must be Daisuke's influence. True. Said couple were spooned up against each other, Ken's face was tucked against the back of Daisuke's warm neck, and the dark silk covers were been pushed down enough during sleep to show that neither were wearing any clothes. Well, not anymore.

" I think Taichi and Yamato took it the best, " Wormmon commented, recalling a brief conversation both digimon and Daisuke overheard, well eavesdropped, via Ken's spy cameras as the group retreated out of sight of the Kaizer's army. Miyako was having fits again over her fiancé's betrayal just before Kari had finally broken down and slapped the girl, shouting and yelling at her in turn. TK and Jyou managed to calm her down while Taichi and Yamato pulled Miyako aside to rebuke her previously unknown prejudice against homosexuals and her just dislike of Daisuke once they found out as to why Ken had broken up his engagement with Daisuke before thanks to the Holder of Light's outburst.

" Mmm… " Veemon agreed, his thoughts going back to hours earlier.

When Mrs. Ichijouji had started making calls to the kids she thought had to be Ken's friends about his sudden disappearance, everyone pretty much concluded that the boy had gone back to the Digimon world for personal reasons. They all knew about Ken and Daisuke's relationship and those without insight were confused as to why the sudden change of engagement. Miyako had all, but started having fits when the remaining chosen children gathered at Koushiro's apartment. Everyone wisely allowed the girl to rant on for a brief while before trying to get her to quiet down. Kari calmed the purple haired girl down, if only to get her to shut up before she did something she regretted and that was to slap her. The Holder of Light had a feeling inside her that perhaps the reasons for Ken's sudden disappearance had something to do with the sudden appearance of the Digimon Kaizer and Daisuke as his consort. She wondered briefly if they next time they saw any of the three, would Ken no longer who he had been when he left? After a brief talk with the older teens, they all went to the Digimon world to try to find Ken.

Koushiro, after hearing this newly required information about Ken and the Digimon Kaizer being two different beings now, was intrigued with this news and had brought his lap top alone to try and gather some fresh data on the side of the Digimon world no one with a 'pure heart ' would bear to touch.

" …Just exactly how powerful this darkness is? I want to make sure in the future we won't have to worry about destroyed Dark Masters coming back if that is possible. Perhaps I could ask the Kaizer… " Koushiro had pondered during a short conversation as they took a short break so he could set up his laptop for gathering the data.

" You want to ask him questions?! " Miyako practically shrieked, " He's our enemy! And hardly someone trustworthy to give out that kind of information! Why would you even want to know?! "

" Information is information, " the red head replied, not looking up from his typing, " Not matter who is the source. Besides, this Kaizer is different from the one before. Maybe he'll like the keep things interesting during his little conquest of this world. "

Just as Miyako was starting to turn red in the face before another outburst of rage, Sora suggested that they carry on ahead in their search for Ken. It was a short search. They found Ken waiting for them, alone for what appearances seemed, in normal garb, and leaning against a tree. Almost everyone noticed that Wormmon was absent. Miyako charged foreword, both happy and ready to give her fiancé a talking to.

" Hold, onna. " Ken had raised a hand to stop her before she reached him. Although he hadn't struck her, the force and tone in his voice made it seem that he had. She knew that voice, that look in his eyes. Was this her Ken or the Kaizer pretending to be him in order to trap them all? The Kaizer wasn't a trust worthy person as she had told Koushiro before. But damn, her easily sidetracked mind thought as she took in his air of 'hot bad boy, ' he really is so unfairly hot.

Ken frowned, seeing that look coming into Miyako's eyes of her earlier years. Her face might not have shown it, but her eyes betrayed her. Ken's frown turned into sneer. How the hell had he ever allowed such a girl to manipulate him?

" Ken? " TK called to his friend. The indigo haired boy turned to look at him for a quick moment, then ignored him as he turned to address them all. A kind of wicked glee of fun at their expense dawned in his eyes and then it was gone as quickly as it came. A more Ken-ish look came back to his violet eyes. Miyako was relieved. This was her Ken after all.

" Tell me, when you look at me, who am I? " He asked.

" You're Ken Ichijouji, of course! " Miyako piped up, " And my fiancé at that! Ken, the next time you decide to run off and- "

" No, you're not Ken Ichijouji, " Kari cut her off, earning a glare from the girl, " You're the Kaizer. "

" No, he's-! "

" No, you're both right, " Ken said, pushing himself off the tree to stand on his own.

" Great. And here I was just getting used the idea of Ken and the Kaizer being two different people, " Iori commented.

" Oh, we were never really different people, " Ken smiled, waving his hand in the air at that comment as if the brush what Iori had said, " the Kaizer, just before we became whole again, said that perhaps Ken Ichijouji and the Digimon Kaizer weren't meant to be divided. And Ken Ichijouji agreed. So the problem was fixed."

Miyako burst into tears, " H-how could you!? How could you do this to me?! "

Ken glared dangerous at her, " I think the question is how could you? My reasons are my own business and Daisuke's. All you- " He gestured to the digidestined, " need to know is that in the digimon world, we'll be enemies. Out in the real world, nor Daisuke or I have any reason to fight you. I'm not asking for our two sides to be friends, but rather have a truce for everyone's sake. And neither Veemon nor Wormmon in any of their forms will fight your digimons. That said, I shall leave you and suggest you do the same before my army arrives. "

" Army? " TK said.

Ken gave them a smirk, " You really didn't think I'd face you all and your digimon without one? Ja ne. "

The boy was swallowed up by an under ground route as his massive army came crashing over the trees. Having lost two members of the team and facing an army bigger then anticipated, the digidestined had no choice, but to retreat and quickly.

" Do you think it'll be hard for them? " Veemon asked, bringing things to the present. He didn't clarify which side he meant. Perhaps both.

Wormmon nodded. It wouldn't be so bad in the digimon world where the lines between friends and enemies seemed more clear where Ken was trying to take over the digimon world and the digidestined were naturally selected to oppose his efforts, but in the real world and outside their families, where opponents are former friends and schoolmates, it would be more difficult. But maybe only for a little while, when they were still just kids in a sense and perhaps after time Ken's digimon world domination efforts would be turned to the real world.

Or perhaps Ken might come to rule over the leaderless land and both he and Daisuke would stay there permanently. Perhaps a crafty, but no longer cruel leader, the Kaizer having cut his puppet strings and having love, was just what the digimon world needed to keep less crafty, but more cruel and heartless foes from taking over and destroying their world. The future was ahead of them and unwritten.

Daisuke woke, having a feeling that someone other then Ken, was watching him and found his digimon and Wormmon watching them from the end of the bed. So he wouldn't wake his lover, Daisuke gestured for the two to join them under the covers. Veemon smiled with glee and quickly cuddled up to his human opposite side of Ken. Wormmon crawled over to Ken and snuggled up to the still kind boy. Daisuke smiled at the little family like picture the four of them made, that thought taking a short train ride towards him and Ken actually having a family (Of course he would be the 'mother' 'cause Daisuke couldn't see his more dominate lover subjecting himself, he being a Kaizer and all with a world to tend to, of nine months of a living hell and utter bliss at the same time) before he dismissed the thought. Hell, they had plenty of years ahead of them before they even talked about having cute little chibi Kens and Daisukes. The red head giggled at that before he closed his eyes and allowed sleep to return.

He would later wake from laughing from a dream where Ken, in a frilly housewife apron chased after their kids, and earn a murderous look from the Kaizer.

Owari.