Palm of My Hand / Part 4 / Breaks and Beginnings Summary: A obsessive devotion blacker then Hell...A beauty unconquered, even by imprisonment and devestation... A love that could break the chains of darkness, and save the world... In a twisted tale of Faith and Falling, the Kaizer will follow the lead of his angel to take the last step into the light... @-->--- I held her hand as we went through the portal. "I have to go back Ken..." She looks at me. Eyes downcast. "They need to know that I'm alright." I nod, frightened beyond measure. "You will come back won't you? They won't keep you from me?" She saw through the calm exterior he presented, and willed him to open up inside. "I can't believe it's all over, and they won't." She sighed, knowing she spoke from the heart. "They can't know about us...It would be to unbelievable." My throat becomes tight, my blue eyes scratchy. I nod silently, and she leaves the room after softly kissing my lips, casting glances at me from eyes as golden as the sun. "Wormon?" I look down, but instead of Wormon, there is Minomon. "Hello little fellow..." I kneel, lifting the little creature sucking a soother into my arms. I stare at him, awed by the baby-like animal. Minomon... "Will you...Come home with me?" It knods happily, and I hug it for a moment. I feel awkward. I feel human. "Let's..." I glance around the room. We are in a school. Yolei's no doubt. "Go home..." She went home first. She was teary as she embraced her bewildered father and mother, but was off in a flash to chase down her fellow digidestined. Her Digivice told her they were still in the Digital World, and she quickly ran back to the school, knowing Ken Ichijouji would be gone. Blushing, Yolei remembered their kisses. With a shouted command to find her friends and a burst of light, she was once again thrust into the Digital World. "Yolei!!" A disbelieving, almost hysterical scream accosted her ears, and she raised herself from the heap on the ground, finding the sky blue eyes of Tk wide eyed and in her face. "Yolei! Is it really you!?" He shook her, before giving her a tight squeeze, she looked over his shoulder and found Kari, and Cody and their Digimon behind them. "Hawkmon!" The blonde let her go, and she ran, picking up the happy bird while being hugged by her younger friends. Questions assailed her ears, and she tried to answer them all, but...Her own arose as well. "Where's Davis?" Her friends avoided her eyes,and she grew nervous. "Where's Davis??" "I'm here!" Sudddenly, she was locked in the firece arms of the Digidestined of Courage and Friendship. "Yolei! I thought you were! After the Kaizers base was destroyed, we! And then!" He buried his face in her hair, and she felt tears fall down her throat. "I thought we had lost you forever!" She pat his back, letting her own weeping continue. "It's going to be okay Davis...It's all over..." The explanation was long and stilted at the same time. It was as she said. They didn't believe her. "Nobody can do a 180' just like that!" Tk frowned with a snap of his fingers. The others murmmered agreements, save Davis who silently examined the downcast face of the once captive Digidestined. "She's telling the truth guys..." Golden eyes jerked upwards to lock in desperate relief with maroon ones. "Why else would the control spires be destroyed...One by one...These past couple days." He stood, looking absently in the direction of the setting sun. It cast his tanned skin in a rich bronze glow, his purple hair mellowing to a dusky violet, and his eyes a rich velvet hue. "Why else would he destroy his base? Davis turned, the maturity in his handsome face stunning the others to silence. "When the base was down...The dark spirals stopped working." He turned back to the horizon, his profile stark against the orange shimmer of dusk. "It's over." There was nothing else to say. Two weeks later I shut the front door to the building closed, waving quickly to my mother from where she anxiously stands on the balcony. She isn't ready to believe I'll stay yet. Honestly, neither am I. The afternoon sun beats hot and furiously upon the cracked, grey pavement. I make my way down the narrow streets, enjoying the serene summer city. The sapphire sky is a blue lighter then even my own eyes, and it's endless distance captivates me as I follow the length of it over the town with my vision. A movement against my back startles me, and I look over my shoulder just as minomon comes into view. "Hey Ken! Were are we going?" I smile and pat the thing affectionatly on the head. Friends for life again. Before I can reply, I hear a voice shouting my name. I turn, searching the empty streets and lanes for somebody out of reach. "Over here!" I look to my left, into a small park nestled in the rural district center. I see a figure eagerly waving their arm, racing full tilt towards me. I am enthralled, and my heart aches to the brink of physical agony. "Hi!" She stops before me, hunching forward, hands braced against her knees while she regains her lost breath. The peachy hued summer dress sets off her lavender hair perfectly, which is mussed and swirling about her shoulders from her mad dash across the glade. She grins up at me, reaching a hand up and pushing her glasses back upon her nose. Standing again, she watches me for a moment, smiling, her arms limp at her sides. She is huffing, cheeks pink, frames askew across her perfectly tilted nose, eyes aglow with a light I only dreamed I'd seen. She has never been more beautiful then now. "Hi." She sticks out a slender hand in greeting, waiting for me to grasp it. I do so, tentative and unsure. Especially when I see the circle of fellow digidestined around us. They do not trust me. They do not hate me either. Her hand is eager and warm, firnly shaking my arm in greeting. Yolei lets go, placing a hand against her collarbone. "I'm Yolei Inoue. I live around here and my dad owns the corner store down the block." My eyes widen in astonishment, and I am choked with emotion as I haltingly answer back. "I-I'm Ken Ichijouji...I live in t-the apartments back t-there..." She smiles softly, approving, and I feel a tear slid down my face. She has just given me what I've always wanted. A fresh start.