Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon, nor will I ever do.
A/N: I made this because I was stuck at home doing nothing. Criticise all you want, this is a first.
THE WILL TO PLAY
"Daisuke! Wake up honey, don't you have a game today?" asked his mother.
'Not this again…' Daisuke thought as he sprang out of bed and raced around his room, getting his gear on. Racing into the dining room, he grabbed his sandwich and a glass of milk. Kissing his mother good-bye, he ran out of the house, hoping to catch his friends on the way.
It's been a year after MaloMyotismon's demise. The gateway to the Digital World had been closed down temporary until everything was back to normal. The gateway re-opened, but only to those who had a digivice. Right now, the Digimon were all having a vacation in the Digital world…
Daisuke Motomiya, now 13, became one of the best junior soccer player in the district, the other being Ken Ichijouji, the former Digimon Emperor. Daisuke's crush on Hikari Yagamii never let off, although now, his simple infatuation had evolved into that of love. He didn't know why, he didn't how, but it did. When he confessed his love for Hikari, she slapped him, yelling at him by saying how he could take advantage of her. This nearly killed him, and as the days rolled by, became very cold to Hikari. He never spoke to her again, and ignored her when she tried to talk to him. It was that day, that he gave up on love completely.
Ken Ichijouji also continued with his soccer game, being one of the best alongside Daisuke. The two had
became the closest of friends, and hung out together whenever they had time. He transferred to his friends' school simply because he wanted to be closer to them. Miyako and he had been going out for 3 months now, when both of them confessed their love for each other, with a little bit of help from Daisuke and the others of course.
Miyako Inoue became closer friends with Daisuke, even though sometimes they have their fights and arguments. She and Hikari are still best friends, and go to each other when they have some 'personal' stuff to talk about. She confessed her love to Ken with the 'help' of Daisuke. Since the 'incident' between Hikari and Daisuke, she had been helping Daisuke more often to get him back on track. Even though sometimes, his ignorance pissed her off to high heaven, she never gave up and still helps him, to which he is very grateful, but he never shows it…
Iori Hida at age 9, became a champion in amateur Kendo. He is more outgoing than he was before, and is always lending a hand when needed. His prune juice loving grandfather is still training him, and although he won't admit, he has been seen around with a cute girl the same age as him. When he heard about the 'incident' he too, with Miyako showed more respect to the former leader, and often gives him some wise advice.
Takeru Takaishi is the best junior basketball player in the school. Him and Daisuke, although don't demonstrate it, show each other respect in a reasonable way, which has mind boggled the rest of the team, since all they use to do was fight. He and Hikari dated for while, before they realized that there wasn't any love in the relationship. He was there when Daisuke had confessed to Hikari, and he was there when Daisuke was slapped and yelled at, and he was there where he saw the first drops of tears that he had ever seen drop from the eyes of their fearless leader.
Hikari Yagamii, who had taken up photography classes, is the child of light. She had dated Takeru once, but they broke up due to the lack of love. She and Miyako are the best of friends and share all their secrets with each other. When Takeru and herself had broken up, she took this time to re-collect herself. One day at lunch, Daisuke had asked to talk to her in private. It was there where he had confessed his love for her, and she didn't know what came over her. She lost it and slapped him as hard as she could, yelling at him for trying to take advantage of their friendship. She saw the tears fall out, but that only lasted a while, as she saw the gaunt face. That was the last time he had ever talked to her, she had tried continuously to apologize, but each time, she would be ignored. Most nights, she cried herself to sleep thinking about that day she had lost one of her best friends.
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Daisuke ran towards the soccer field where his district team was about to play to ladder leaders, which so happened to be Ken's team. As he ran, he wondered how he was going to try and beat Ken this time. They had played on so many occasions, and the head to head score was standing at 5-5. This was their last meeting until the finals, this was Daisuke's chance to prove to himself and to his team, that he's capable of guiding the team to their first ever championship. The thought of cheering crept into his mind, when he shoots for goal, he could hear the huge yells and shouts, and chants coming from the stands. He'd run around like a mad man after he'd scored a goal. Amidst the crowd, he would see his friends cheering for him and waving around their arms like mad. He would give them a salute, then his eyes would fall on her, and all the joy would die, as tears fought to make their way to the surface.
Daisuke shook that thought out of his head, and he looked at the ground. He could see the tears falling freely from his eyes as he remembered the day. He stopped for moment, and looked around. To his surprise, he had ended up at the field already. Seeing as though no one was around just yet, he made his way to the middle of the field and looked up to the sky. He couldn't fight it as the flashbacks came back to him.
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He remembered waking up in the morning, his mom yelling for him to get ready, as there was only ten minutes till the bell rang. Silently laughing as he remembered cursing himself and then waking Demiveemon by dropping his clock on him, resulting with Davis thrown out of his bedroom. He had asked his mom where Dad and Jun were, to which she replied that they had gone already. Jun wanted to meet up with some of her friends, and Dad had gone out early, so he could come back early enough to spend some time with the family. Grabbing a slice of toast, he ate it and gulped down some apple juice before saying goodbye to his mom and racing out the door.
~BACKTRACK~
At school, he met up with his digidestined friends. Miyako, Ken, Takeru and last but not least, Hikari. Iori wasn't there as his whole class was on a field trip and they had left earlier. They began chatting about what they were going to do today and the usual stuff. Daisuke began to eye Hikari, and when she turned to look at him, he looked away to the kids playing soccer and commenting about them. This proved to be a good cover-up because she didn't say anything. When they reached their lockers, Daisuke was surprised to realize that he had not forgotten anything at home. He was more surprised to close his locker, turn around and nearly walk straight into Hikari, who had been waiting for him.
"Holy Shi…Hikari! Sorry…" he stuttered, while Hikari giggled.
"Come on, the other's are waiting for us."
The smile on his face faded a bit as he realized that. "Oh…"
She noticed that, but decided not to press anything.
When they had caught up to the others, they found them chatting about the soccer match between Odaiba Elementary and Tamachi. Apparently, Ken wasn't too thrilled about playing his old school. It was weird, because although he plays for Odaiba, he continues to play for Tamachi in the district league. Daisuke was mind boggled at that, and when he asked, Ken replied, "I play with my friends from Tamachi, and I just don't want to abandon them you know."
During Maths, all Daisuke could do was stare out the window, silently cursing his teacher for droning on and on about utter 'crap'. His experience in the digiworld had increased his instinct reactions, in which this case, proved useful as he turned his head toward Hikari only to be staring back at her. He nearly fell out of his chair when he realized.
'GAH…oh man!' He let loose a little smile when he saw Hikari giggle a bit, then turn to face the teacher, and faked paying attention.
At recess, Daisuke walked up to Ken and asked him about the game this weekend, they conversed about how they were going to kick each other's butts, laughing at moments and then giving each other some friendly punches as they traded insults. Just as they were, Ken found Miyako stepping out of the food line, and said goodbye to Daisuke as he walked over to her. He chuckled as he saw them both share a kiss. A light tap on the shoulder startled him quite a bit, as he nearly knocked the victim over. He caught the culprit just in time to see it was none other than Hikari.
"Hikari! So sorry! Please forgive me, I wasn't…" he droned on and Hikari dusted herself off, then giving Daisuke a warm smile.
"Don't worry about it. What were doing here anyway, I saw you looking out into space. You alright?" she asked, concerned.
'There she goes again, getting concerned about others, not about herself. One thing that I loved about her. Wait…love? That's a pretty big word Daisuke…but I do love her. I don't know why, I just do. She's just so…heavenly.' His daydream was halted as Hikari shook him lightly.
"Daisuke! You listening to me?" she asked.
"Huh? What?" he asked, causing Hikari to giggle again.
"The bell's gone silly, we have to get back to class!" she said as she ran off laughing all the while.
'There she goes…'
LUNCH
'This is it, I have to do it, I have to let her know now!' he yelled inwardly.
He had been contemplating to whether he should tell her or not. In the end, his romantic side one the battle, and he was heading out to the grassed area, where his friends usually hung out at lunch. He found them all sitting down in the shade by a tree. He walked over there, and waved back when they waved at him. He sat down next to Hikari, and after about 15 minutes of eating his sandwich automatically, he gathered up the courage to tell Hikari that he needed to talk to her in private.
"Uh…Hikari-san, could I…uh, please speak to yo…you in pr…private?" he stumbled.
The others looked on with interest. Hikari looked at him and smiled. "Sure Daisuke."
Both of them walked off to where there wasn't anyone around to break their convo.
"What's up Daisuke?" Hikari asked with a smile.
Daisuke began feeling the heat in his cheeks as he turned quite red. Calming himself down, he took a deep breath and looked at Hikari.
"Hi..Hikari, I've known you a long time, when we first met, and till now, how close we've been."
"Sure Dais, I know that." She said, confused a bit.
"Y…Yeah, I know that, it's just that…*Sigh* I love you Hikari. I've realized that I've loved for a long time." He stuttered. He looked down at his feet, and when he looked back up, he wasn't expecting it.
SLAAP
Daisuke's head was nearly twisted as his head took a wild turn. He touched his cheek, and immediately let go as it hurt pretty bad.
Everyone now turned to look at the both of them. Everyone had heard the almighty slap from Hikari. Eyes were now on Hikari and Daisuke.
"HOW COULD DAISUKE?! HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT?! DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!" she yelled, causing Dais to flinch. This was too much, he wasn't really expecting this.
"YOU TOOK ADVANTAGE OF OUR FRIENDSHIP, I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS, JUST BECAUSE TAKERU AND I BROKE UP DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN JUST GO SAY "OH HIKARI, I LOVE YOU!" LIKE THAT!" she kept yelling.
Daisuke's head started swirling. 'Whispers, so many whispers…'
"YOU INCONSIDERATE ASSHOLE! I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT I WAS FRIENDS WITH YOU! YOU PIECE OF TRASH! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU! I HOPE YOU DIE YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF CRAP!"
That was it, he couldn't take anymore. So he ran, ignoring all the talk and whispers going on, he ran. Out of school, and into his house, where he found himself in his room. He didn't even bother to read the note that said his mother had gone out to some friend's house. He didn't bother about Demiveemon who was wondering what was going on. All he did bother about was that his heart was torn into pieces, and shoved into a fireplace. It was then that sadness became anger, and it was then he had lost his soft side.
"You ripped me apart Yagamii, you of all people that I respected. No more…"
~PRESENT TIME~
Again, the tears were falling freely. That night, he had received phone calls from all his friends, asking him if he was alright. He said that he was fine, even though he was the opposite. He received a phone call from Hikari, and when he picked up, he slammed it down as soon as he heard her voice.
"How could she…" he sobbed as he cried himself to sleep.
Daisuke was grateful to his fellow Digidestined friends for helping him through his grief. Even some of his other friends helped, to which he was grateful too. Although he was cold to everyone nowadays, he still shows some sort of friendship towards others, except for of course, Hikari. Every time she got close to him, he would make a run for it, or if she was wanting to talk to him, he would look the other way and ignore her. He was angry at her, yes, but he never shouted at her, which to some people were some signs that deep inside, there was still some sort of love for her yet.
Daisuke shook himself, he looked around and saw that some people were flocking in. He noticed that his friends were already here, and were finding a good seat in the stands. He saw Hikari there with Taichi. He felt anger rise again, then drop.
Soon, the game started, with Ken racing past the defences, but not past Daisuke, who stole it off him, ran down the field, crossed it into his team-mate who headed it in for a goal.
"1-NIL TO ODAIBA!" yelled the commentator. The crowd cheered and applauded the skill displayed on the field.
At the end of the match, which was tight, but Daisuke's team held on to win 3-2 in a nail biter. The group congratulated him and Ken as they walked out of the change rooms.
"Congratulations Davis, a well fought game!" said Tai, as he gave Daisuke a noogie, which he freely accepted.
The team yakked on and on until they went their separate ways. Yet Hikari did not go, she looked at Daisuke and spoke. "Dai…"
Daisuke held up a hand. "Leave it Yagamii, what we had before, it's long gone. Your little 'piece of crap' is dead. Long dead." To me, you're a stranger, and that's how I should be to you. I'm an inconsiderate asshole remember? YOU WANTED ME DEAD FOR SHIT'S SAKE! DO YOU REMEMBER THAT!?" he yelled, releasing his pent up anger and sorrow. "You know, for years, I just wanted you to see as a closer friend, but you shunned me out, left me for Takeru, we used to be great friends remember, all those times, where you and I would go to each other's houses and play, and look after each when we were sick? All of it, down the drain…We did it for nothing. I hope I die, that's your wish right? I hope it comes true, BECAUSE I'M SICK AND TIRED OF YOU! YOU SHOULD OF FINISHED OFF THE JOB THERE YAGAMII, YOU NEARLY KILLED ME THERE, WHY DIDN'T YOU GO THROUGHT WITH IT!" he yelled as tears came down.
Hikari was crying so hard, she was down to her knees.
"It was my wish…my wish, to be with you, and know you've torn it up and tossed me into a bin. I guess that's all I'll ever be to you Yagamii…Trash."
That was all he said as he wiped the tears from his eyes, and ran. Away from the person that he thought he had loved. Hopefully forever.
Hikari continued crying on the ground, until Taichi came around, when he noticed his sister wasn't following. When he tapped her on the shoulder, she collapsed into his arms and cried, soaking his shirt. Tai was heartbroken to see his little sister break down like this. 'But then again…she did start this. Daisuke…I'm sorry this had to happen…please forgive her.' He prayed. He noticed that Hikari had stopped crying. He pulled away from the hug and noticed that she had stopped crying and her eyes were red. She got up and ran away from Tai, who was yelling after her. She ran and ran and ran, she was about to run into the park, she ran across the street not noticing a car heading at her at full speed.
The driver, who saw her, tried to apply the brakes.
Daisuke started running home, he was pretty late. He was in the park, when he spotted Hikari running, he also noticed that she was crying. 'Serves her right…Huh?' He saw a car coming at full speed, and then hearing a screeching sound.
"Shit…" he cursed as he started sprinting as fast as his legs could carry him. Thank God that he was out of the park anyway. He only had enough time to attempt a dive and knock her off.
Hikari, as she was running across, heard the screeching tyres and stopped, she turned her head and saw the car coming at her. She did the only thing she could do, scream.
The last thing she remembered was getting knocked into the ground, as she fell unconscious.
Daisuke heard her scream, she never saw him as he dived. The last he remembered too, was getting pounded into the ground where he lost consciousness instantly.
Pedestrians and the drivers all got out of their car. People began screaming and yelling at people to call an ambulance.
"Poor kids…" sighed one elderly pedestrian.
The ambulance came within 5 minutes of contact. The paramedic, who got out of the ambulance, shook his head as he saw the two of them. "They're so young…RIGHT GUYS, HAUL THEM IN. That kid is not going to die while I'm driving around here…"
Bum bum bum… well? What did you think of the first chapter? Tell me your thoughts! I would like to hear some. Please R+R. Ciao