Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Forever ❯ Part 4. ( Chapter 4 )

Disclaimers: Don't own Digimon 02 or any season.

Warnings: Shounen ai, yaoi.

PM: Bah, I hate writing battle scenes; so don't expect to see one.

Daisuke: Yeah, let's get to the good stuff.

PM: Like the ending of this fic!

The Digimon Kaizer smiled to himself as he watched his pretty little red head sleep, tucked up by his side. Daisuke was exhausted, but he had returned home with a smile across his face. The battle between the digidestined and his consort had been an interesting one, their tactics almost clock work and predictable. The Kaizer knew that the fate of the digimon world wouldn't be settled today, but he hoped that Daisuke would show the others that future battles wouldn't be easy. Next time he would send Daisuke out with a small army of his own digimon, some collared and some not, and the red head could test his leadership skills.

" Will my little lover become a general as well? " The Kaizer whispered, playing with a lock of Daisuke's hair. An image of Daisuke mounted upon a stead heading into battle with a flowing cape behind him, arm raised as he shouted out commands with a fire of determination in his eyes came to mind. The Kaizer smiled and shook his head. ' Can't let him harden too much. I might loose what I love about him. '

A low key beeping sound caught the Kaizer's attention and he rose from bed to its source. Heading out from his personal chambers and into his control room. Typing up a screen, a single red light blinked, signifying that someone was approaching the base.

The Kaizer smiled and sat back in his throne to wait, ' I wondered when he would arrive. '

* - * - *

" Ken, are you sure you want to do this? " Wormmon asked, glancing around their surroundings for any guards.

Ken nodded. It was almost eerier of how he remembered his way around his former base. He knew finding it had been too easy, that the Kaizer wanted him to find it. Funny, addressing the Kaizer of someone else, rather then himself. The Holder of Kindness came upon the doors that led to the control room and paused for a moment before stepping inside. Wormmon stuck to his side when the door closed behind them.

" You came sooner then I had expected, " the Kaizer remarked from his throne, sitting casually. He cast his other half a smile, " Was there something you wanted to say? "

" Let Daisuke go, " Ken replied.

The Kaizer raised an eyebrow, " Go? Am I holding him prisoner here? Daisuke's staying with me out of his own free will. You, of all people show know that, Ken. " He waved his hand, " But enough of that. Have a seat. We have much to talk about."

A chair appeared out of nowhere behind Ken and the boy sat down. Wormmon climbed into his lap. The little green digimon felt utterly confused watching Ken and the Kaizer facing each other. His first reaction upon entering the control room of the fortress and seeing the Kaizer was to join the boy's side, mostly from habit, but also because the Kaizer felt just like Ken. A little different from the Digimon Kaizer he had known when Ken was just eleven years old, but his essence felt the same. It was too confusing. Having the being known as Ken Ichijouji divided up into two parts. The Kaizer seemed to notice this.

" I think poor Wormmon-kun is confused, " The Kaizer chuckled, " Torn between the two of us because we feel almost alike to him. Just like Daisuke does. As much as the boy says he loves me, I think he sees a little of you in me and perhaps I was an easy distraction to escape his heartache over you. I'm not so naïve not to wonder about it. "

" Then he's not in love with you? " Ken asked, a little confused, a little hopeful.

A twinkle came into those violet eyes hidden behind the goggles, " Oh, I wouldn't say that. I think over time he'll come to love me completely. But then, where will that leave you? "

" Why should you care? " Ken spat.

" I told Daisuke that I couldn't hate you because you are me, but I can hate what you've done. There is still a link between the two of us, it will never go away and I can sense what you're feeling. They feel like my own sometimes. " The Kaizer paused for a moment, " Tell me, what did Miyako say that made you break up with Daisuke? I'm curious. "

Ken was silent for what seemed like the longest moment. This was completely different from the conversation he thought he would be having with the Digimon Kaizer. There should have been more arguing, screaming, and threats. Nothing as civil like this. The Kaizer almost seemed concerned for him? Why? The Kaizer should hate Ken for hurting Daisuke and tossing him aside when the boy no longer needed to hide behind his persona.

" Why do you care? Don't you hate me? " Ken asked.

" Because I'm no longer a being created by a little boy's anger, guilt, rage against the world and his family for placing him in his brother's shadows and something to be used for a dark being's lust for power. I am my own person now, " the Kaizer said.

" Perhaps Daisuke is better off with you anyway, " Ken murmured, " You strive to survive in a world where you're no longer suppose to exist and can control yourself. You're strong and brave. You do what you want and don't care what people think." The indigo haired boy felt a lump in this throat and swallowed hard against it, fearing the tears that threatened to fall. ' Weak boy! ' His voice sounded ready to break. " I'm simply someone who fell back into his brother's shadow and follow other people's orders."

Ken held Wormmon tightly to his chest, feeling the first few tears slip down his face and lowered his face. Damn. He felt like such a little child before the Digimon Kaizer!

" Then perhaps Ken Ichijouji and the Digimon Kaizer aren't meant to be divided. "

Ken's head shot up, " Nani? "

The Kaizer had removed his goggles, his eyes no longer cold and indifferent towards the other boy, and had left his throne to approach his other half. " We both love Daisuke even if you are to marry Miyako and start a family with her, Daisuke will always love both of us no matter how many times he pledges his love to me, you yearn to have the ability to control your life when we were one, and I long to make Daisuke happy completely. That, and I would like to be able to leave this world from time to time with Daisuke. He cannot stay here all the time. He wasn't born in this world and will long to return there. I wish to go with him, but as a being born in this world, I cannot. Not like our digimon can. "

" This that possible? " Ken asked. Anything, anything to fix his mistake with Daisuke. The eagerness was so visible in his eyes and voice. The Kaizer shook his head.

" Don't be too eager, Ken, to agree to something to regain Daisuke's trust and love again out of the guilt you feel for hurting such a feeling boy. I am willing, but you have to want this too, " The Kaizer told him.

" I do! I do! I want to control my life again and not care who doesn't agree with me. I don't want to be weak! " Ken cried, rising from his chair and clutching at his digimon tightly. Wormmon wiggled from the boy's grip, slipping down to the floor and backed away from Ken. Ken wanted the darkness again? He could understand Ken wanted to be no longer weak, the green digimon had seen the boy's control over his life slowly slipping from his grasp again, but to turn to the darkness again?

Memories of a cruel whip and harsh curses and words directed at him flashed in Wormmon's mind. No! If Ken reverted back, Wormmon would loss the Ken he knew. Wormmon scrambled over to Ken, to try and talk him out of it!

" Please, Ken, don't become the Kaizer again! I don't want to loose you! I don't want you to hate me! " Wormmon sobbed into the boy's leg, clutching at him tightly, afraid that if he let go, he would loose the boy.

Ken bent down and cradled the shaking digimon in his arms. How many? How many times had Wormmon suffered at his hands while as the Kaizer? Would he loose his kindness if he and the Kaizer became one again? As much as he longed to become strong again, to have Daisuke by his side, he couldn't sacrifice Wormmon's happiness!

" You have nothing to fear, Wormmon, " The Kaizer spoke gently to the digimon sobbing into Ken's chest. He continued when Wormmon looked up at him, " Ken will have total control. You won't loose the boy you know. " He reached out and stroked the green one's head fondly, " He will have both you and Daisuke to keep him in line. " If he chooses for us to join. "

Wormmon nodded.

" Good, " The Kaizer stood up, " Come. Wormmon should see Veemon while we tend to what we must. "

* - * - *

Daisuke woke up to the sound of Veemon giggling and whispering with someone. Peeking open an eye he spotted Veemon by the fireplace playing some sort of game with Wormmon. He watched them for a moment before smiling and turned over to continue sleeping.

" Wormmon?! " Daisuke cried, bolting up in bed.

" Daisuke-kun! You're awake! Good! " Veemon beamed, climbing onto the bed. He had missed his green friend and was delighted when the Kaizer had dropped him off in his room with Ken. Veemon was surprised to see them both, but he figured that if Kai-kun was with them, it was okay, " Wormmon's here! "

" I can see that. Why? " Daisuke asked. He added, a little hesitant, " Is Ken here as well? "

" Oh, yes, Ken was with Kai-kun when Wormmon was brought to my room, " Veemon replied.

Daisuke got out of bed and dressed in his black blouse and leather pants to go and search for them both. He was curious as to what his lover was planning?

The red head's feet led his beyond the familiar corridors of his lover's fortress and into a level he had never seen before, not even when he and the others' had stormed the Kaizer's fortress in the old days. Stopping outside a pair of doors Daisuke felt something tugging at him to enter them. They parted easily and the room instead was dark, say for a few torches here and there giving it a medieval sort of atmosphere. And the floor was cold. Daisuke grimed at it. Looking straight ahead he saw his lover's familiar backside dressed in his royal attire, something he had seemed to give up over his past few days with Daisuke. The -would be ruler was standing very still, as if he was waiting for Daisuke to join him. Or maybe he was unaware that Daisuke was even standing in the doorway.

Grinning, Daisuke sneaked up behind his lover and tossed his arms around the indigo haired boy. " Love the décor, " he smiled and added in a teasing tone, " Early medieval torture chamber? "

" Wormmon is here. "

" I know. He and Veemon were playing in our room, " Daisuke replied.

" And Ken. "

The red head rested his head against his lover's back, murmuring, " I know. I figured that when I saw Wormmon. "

" Daisuke? "

" Mmm? "

" Close your eyes. "

" Why? "

" Because. "

There was a tone in his lover's voice that spoke of a pleasurable outcome if he did as he asked and Daisuke closed his eyes, titling his head upwards slightly for a kiss, if that was what the Kaizer was going to do. And a kiss he was given. A kiss full of love, passion, and a sense that felt to Daisuke like it had been months instead of just a few hours before their pervious one. Daisuke responded to the kiss, wrapping his arms around the taller boy. When it finally ended, the Kaizer drew a hand over the boy's eyes, indicating that he wanted Daisuke to keep them closed.

" How do you feel? How did the kiss make you feel? "

Daisuke smiled, " Loved. "

" Then know that the one standing before you loves you. "

Confused, Daisuke opened his eyes and they widened.

" K-Ken? "

The indigo haired boy nodded, " Hai. I had to become the Digimon Kaizer again for myself and for you. I lost a part of myself when we parted. And I almost lost you because of it. "

A few tears ran down the red head's face. His heart felt like it would burst. He was happy to have Ken back, but also glad he was the Digimon Kaizer. He felt almost fickle, loving both and now having both. But, it was something Ken had chosen, obviously wanted to do. That was all he needed to care about. Ken brushed them away and pulled Daisuke deeper into his embrace. " I deserve all the yelling and hits you can throw at me, Dai-kun. "

Daisuke shook his head against his lover's chest, " No, no. I don't care. "

Ken curled his fingers between Daisuke's, bringing his hand up to his mouth and brushed his lips across the bronzed knuckles, " I think a new ring is in order. Something gold this time with a ruby surrounded by amethysts. "

Daisuke looked up at Ken. A smile crept over his features; a glint entered his chocolate brown eyes, " And let me tell Miyako. "

The Kaizer smiled, " Grudges, love? "

TBC.

PM: Almost finished! I swear.