[fanfic] Digimon Adventure 02: Uncertainty

[higuchimon]

Title: Uncertainty
Characters: Iori, implied Ken
Word Count: 199||Status: One-shot
Genre: General||Rated: G
Challenge: Diversity Writing, A50, 199 word drabble; Digimon Flash Bingo, 961, stubborn; Word Count Set Boot Camp, #26, 199 words;
Summary: Can people change? In specific, can Ichijouji Ken change from being the Kaiser to a good person? Iori isn't sure. Nor is he sure if he wants to believe this.

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Ichijouji Ken was the Digimon Kaiser.

Or had been the Kaiser.

Iori wasn’t certain if there was a difference. Sure, he looked like he was trying to get better, but how could they know? How could they be sure that he wasn’t just pretending, waiting for all of them to let their guard down?

And even if he wasn’t, being sorry for everything he’d done didn’t make any of it go away. He’d still hurt Digimon and didn’t even believe at the time they were real beings. He didn’t care about all the destruction he’d caused.

So Iori wasn’t going to trust him. Not yet. Not until he knew that Ichijouji truly had changed, not until he admitted that what he did could never be undone.

He wasn’t sure if people could change that much. He didn’t know if he wanted to believe that.

Sometimes people confused him more than he liked to think. Maybe when he got older he’d know more about them? Iori had to hope that.

But the idea of people changing that much, going from someone like the Kaiser to a nice guy?

That one was going to take some work for him to believe.

The End

Notes: I am sorta thinking of writing something with Ken and Iori interating on a long-term basis, hours or even days. Maybe even something with Iori and the Kaiser interacting. Hm...