Words/Fanfiction/Sporalysis: Part 3
Title: Sporalysis: Part 3
Rating: PG
Show: Digimon 02
Pairing: None
Description: Ken's hearing.. Voices? Hm.
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“Yo! Davis!” a very familiar and strangely excited blonde
haired teenager made his way hastily to the injured soccer player’s side. “Hey
man, how’s the arm?” he asked from the corner of a smile, and doing as he
usually did, allowed no time for his friend to answer. “Sooo, Davis… Buddy…
Pal… AMIGO… Did you do your science homework?”
Davis shot a glance at the golden crowned T.K. and let a
smile grasp hold of his lips as well. “Give me a break, dude. You’re kidding me
right? I’m the one that’s always asking you this question.”
“Ah, yeah I know, that’s why you owe me. I left the
apartment early so I could catch you on the way to school. You better have it,
or you’re in for a royal ass kicking.” T.K. swung a light punch into Davis’s
gut, making the boy flinch back a few steps with a chuckle.
The crippled teenager pushed his friend away with his strong
arm, and continued to walk down the sidewalk to his high school. “What the heck
is so important that you missed out on doing a worksheet on cell division?
I mean, that stuff is great. Hell, I took two hours out of my life to do
it.” Davis trailed a hand through his hair as the last words slipped out of his
mouth. “Then again, I guess I don’t really have a choice, do I?”
The pair came to a stop at a street junction and stood in
anticipation for a red light that would allow their passing. “Haha, damn right
my friend. Nobody in their right mind would want to make out with a kid that
has a broken arm.” T.K. caught the strange chocolate glare he was receiving
from Davis and channeled it into a hearty laugh. “Take that Mr. Soccer Man!
Kari and I got a little close last night, so that’s even more of a reason to
let me copy off your homework!”
“I think not!” Davis growled between jealous giggles. “But,
eh, I do owe you… I’m over Kari anyways. I think Aya has a thing for me, or at
least more of a thing that Kari ever had.”
“Aya’s that girl that you’re always hanging out with during
lunch, right?” The junction lights turned red, and the friends crossed the
street to the sidewalk that was cast before the huge high school.
Davis nodded. He couldn’t help but blush at the fact that
there was perhaps something brewing between the two of them, but then that
nagging, killing, mysterious attacker stabbed his flatter away. It never failed
to do so, and it never failed to leave a throbbing carcass of an infamous
“splitting headache.”
The boy shook his head and released his left shoulder from a
book bag strap. Bringing his body to a stop, he unzipped the bag and rummaged
through the contents. Finally he pulled out a crumpled worksheet and handed it
to T.K. “Just give it back to me before class starts. I think I’m just going to
walk around town for a few more minutes.”
T.K. nodded slightly, the smile that had been on his face
for nearly fifteen minutes seemed to disappear. “Sure. Thanks man, I’ll see you
third period…” The boy ran the rest of the way to the high school and found his
way to Kari like a magnet. Again the golden boy’s face was shining like the sun
again.
Davis watched on with a blank stare, his body mounted to the
sidewalk while contemplating what was conflicting within him. The mystery just
seemed to hand him more knives, and it was getting to the point that he had to
shove the objects into his own sides in order to carry some more.
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Ken was getting to the point that he didn’t even understand
why he went to school anymore. Or at least why he didn’t bring a pillow. The
hour hand on his watch had just reached that sublime limbo between the seven
and eight, and already he had the teacher’s voice tuned out. The idiots
don’t even know what they’re talking about anyway. Ken’s mind hissed as he
lowered his head into the pillow of his arms.
Sleep was only easy to obtain during school, the dark-haired
boy had figured out. At home, there was nothing but nightmares. At school, his
dreams were filled with nothing. In fact, there were no dreams. All there was
were just clean, white, four-walled rooms where nothing could get in or get
out, and all around was a silence that needed no comfort in order to be
reached.
So there was a reason to attend the inane place of teaching
after all…
With eyelids closed, the genius flew off to slumber, and
subconsciously allowed a gateway for an old rival to be opened once again.
---
“Mr. Motomiya… Please explain to me why you are late.” The
very vibration of the science teacher’s voice sent the whole class’s eyes to
the front of the room. T.K. saw his friend and mouthed, ‘I tried to say something!’
Davis pulled the goggles off of his head and folded them
between his palms. “Sorry sir, I can’t.” After his short explanation he
attempted to move his way to his seat, but was stopped in his tracks by that
same deep voice.
“Motomiya, if you don’t have a reason, then you can get the
hell out of my classroom. You missed half the class, so why not miss all of
it?”
“Good point, sir. I’ll see you tomorrow.” The goggle boy
bowed his head and turned back out the door. Not even a smile tickled his lips
as he left the room filled with giggling peers. His mind was too busy with the
countless attempts of trying to get a hold of what was happening within him.
“It was a
bad idea,” Davis whispered to himself, his pace quickening as he treaded down
the school hallway. He pressed out an aggravated growl as he slammed the double
doors of the school entrance open.
Dammit Veemon! I would never lie! Ken’s too stuck up to
hang out with me anymore, anyway. If he doesn’t want to go to the Digital World
like the rest of us, then fuck him!
Two hours of his school day was dedicated to sneaking back
into his apartment and doing a much-needed visit to his digimon pal. It had
been a few weeks, and Davis’s broken arm didn’t really help with the whole
transportation of himself between both of the worlds. He needed a friend to
talk to, though, and Veemon was the only one he could think of that could at
least listen without judging.
A pity the goggle boy’s plan didn’t work out as he had
hoped. As soon as he stepped foot into the digital land, his pal came up to him
asking a chain of melancholic questions.
You didn’t need to ask so many questions, for God’s Sake,
Veemon. It’s not like I murdered the kid. “Why wasn’t Ken with you last time?”
and “Is Ken really that busy?” How am I supposed to know! He doesn’t even talk
to me anymore! And well, you know what, I’m sorry that I have more important
things to worry about then a person that can’t even pick up a damn phone.
Davis had finally got sick of listening to the persistent
questions Veemon was asking him, and just left the other world as abruptly as
he had come in. He would have loved to talk about Ken, but it seemed that all
it would have led to was more whining and repeated questions.
I just… Have things to do. I don’t have time to talk to
him anymore… Is that my fault? No! He knows he can come over whenever he wants!
God, if he wants to hang out, all he has to do is just frickin’ say something.
Yeah… If he wants to do something, let it be up to him! Screw calling that
selfish wreck!
It took a shower of car horns to awake the teenager from his
daze. Davis looked around in confusion before he realized that he had walked
into the middle of moving traffic. A scared looking fellow sat in a car nearly
two feet away from the absent-minded goggle boy.
Davis tried to smile weakly and mouthed a ‘sorry’ to the man
and ran the rest of the way across the street. The car that almost hit him
skidded off, and he continued to walk on the sidewalk to his apartment, just as
confused as he was before the incident happened.
“Something’s pissed at me…” Davis inquired in a mutter. He
made sure to keep his eyes up and his mind blank so he could at least get home
with just the broken arm.
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Ken’s eyes drifted open as the bell for fifth period rang
about the school. The sound was so annoying, but he had slept through four
rings, much to his own surprise. He kept his head on his fleshy pillow until
after the ruckus outside of his classroom dissipated into the favored silence.
The teachers had finally shut up, and all that he could hear was the flipping
of textbook pages from the students next to him.
The boy yawned into his arms and finally raised his head
slowly to the world. Ken looked lazily at his desk. Both his large textbooks
were in the corner of his desk, and the sheets of paper he had put out hours
ago still sat in silence with nothing written on them. There was something
missing though. It was his pencil. He looked around under his desk and in his
backpack before he noticed that it was in his hand the whole time. No sooner
when he realized this, he noticed that those blank pieces of paper on his desk
were, in fact, not blank.
Ken squinted with tired eyes at the messy signatures placed
across the white surface. “Hello Ken. Write back.” He looked around at
the classroom, not really comprehending who would write such a childish note to
him. But, from lack of any amusement, he wrote a message back that read, “Hi.”
Again, the dark-haired boy looked around in hope that the
person that wrote him the note would acknowledge the fact that he was awake. It
seemed, however, that the secret admirer was quick in writing a response. By
the time he had turned his attention back to the note, another message was
already written under his.
“It’s been awhile, hasn’t it?”
Ken looked at the paper, wide-eyed and frightened by the
fact that he didn’t even see who had written the quick appearing message.
Cautiously he scribbled down a, “Who are you?” and waited for the
response to come.
Like an action only found in movies, Ken’s hand moved with a
mind of its own and swiped crooked calligraphy underneath the conscious note. “Why
it’s me,” his hand stopped, and Ken tried with all his might to move it on
his own, but to no avail, the words kept appearing on the paper. “What, can’t
remember all the pain we had together? Seems like we’ll be sharing some m…”
The silent boy had, for once, caused a commotion in the tiny
classroom. His arm shot up from the victorious battle between himself, and a
disgruntled cry shot from his mouth. Every person’s head snapped to the
disturbance, the source not even taking notice of those that watched on to him.
Ken closed his eyes and brought his hand back down, only to bring both palms to
the side of his head.
A laughing. A screaming. Insults, yelling, giggling… All
swimming in his head as he looked between thick eyelashes at the paper that sat
on his desk. An anguished line peeled off the side of the paper, and scratched
along the surface of the desk. The pencil whereabouts had grown unknown, and
Ken could do anything but care. If the instrument were gone, then maybe the
yelling would stop. Maybe the insulting voice would change.
“Mr. Ichijoji, do you want to go to the nurse’s office?” The
teacher had crawled his way toward Ken’s seat and looked at the boy with
concern.
All the genius could do was nod his head, and hope for that
if he went, the pain would go away.
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