Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters and any coicidences are just a coicidence.

Author's Note: It sure has been awhile since I wrote anything that wasn't forced upon me. I have only written for class assignments, but that's it. It's been what…3-5 years? Yeesh. Well lately I have felt the need to give some love to my OTP. Hope you enjoy the first chapter, it's a slow start but it'll pick up. (:

Hate to Love You – Chapter 1

Kouji POV

It has been three years since we had ventured to the Digital World. We are now in our last year of middle school. Takuya, Kouichi, Izumi and I are in eighth grade. Junpei is already a freshman in high school and Tomoki is still catching up to us. We are all still close, and at least once a month we meet up and hang out together. Izumi and Junpei are in the middle of working things out, he finally got the nerve to ask her out a few months ago. Takuya is the captain of our school's soccer team. He became captain not too long ago, last year another chosen child much like us, Daisuke, was captain. My twin brother is pretty much my best friend. We go over to each other's houses almost every weekend. Tomoki and Takuya's little brother are in the same class. And I, well I don't think I have changed; much.

Every now and then, I think back to what all of us had gone through together. The good times and the bad, we always stuck together. And every now and then, I think of Takuya.

Oh now I have your attention?

As of late I have been thinking of Takuya a lot. I wasn't always close to him; in fact I couldn't stand the guy during our first encounter. Spirit evolving, thinking he was the shit, and he couldn't even save Tomoki, I DID. Ah, getting side tracked. Anyway, in the beginning I never liked him. I thought he was arrogant and obnoxious. But when we had to start working as a team, I got to know him. He's strong, confident, compassionate, and…

He's one of the nicest guys I know. It's just lately, I haven't been able to think about anything, or anyone, but him.

xxx

School is half way through; it's almost the beginning of fall. The air is really fresh, and the leaves are starting to change colors. Besides winter, fall has to be one of my favorite seasons of the year. Takuya and I have a few classes together, math (he's lucky, without me he probably die), gym, and English (which none of us is good at). Right now we are in math. I don't mind it much, I find it easy to understand while Takuya…no. God, he forces me to tutor him and then doesn't pay attention to anything I explain to him. It's so frustrating, but lately I don't mind. It's an excuse to be near him. Today has been really off, I've been such a klutz it's not even funny. I tripped walking up the stairs. Who does that? Luckily no one was around. In homeroom, sensei volunteered me to pass out papers and when I reached out to grab them from her, I dropped the whole stack. Izumi was there to help me pick the papers up quickly, but it was embarrassing. I felt my face flush and I glared angrily at the people that just stared at me. It's like they never seen papers fall. I admit I've never been so clumsy, but still. It's all because of Takuya. I can't get him out of my head.

As we sit in class listening to our sensei explain problems from the chapter we're in, I see Takuya writing down something. Really fast, what's his problem? I've never in my whole life, seen him take notes. And if he does, they're copied from me. All of a sudden, he looks up, and then turns around to look at me. I quickly look down at my book before he could see I was observing him. I feel my face get warm, even though the classroom is so cold. I then shift my eyes to look at him, he's crumpled the paper and put it in his bag. Weird. Now another piece of paper and more jotting of whatever he's writing. He sure looks nervous. Class seems to go on forever, I started to pack up my bag, and I see Takuya shove everything into his backpack and get up to walk towards me. Somehow this makes me flinch because he has no emotion on his face. I stand up and take step forward to meet him in the middle of the aisle of desks.

"If we sat closer, I would've gave this to you earlier," he says coldly.

Takuya hands me a paper folded up sloppily, before I could reply, he walks away from me.

I froze there for some reason, I didn't think of anything. I wasn't nervous, it's just. His face. He had no emotion at all, his deep brown eyes looked dark, not the usual Takuya. Something was up, he looked so drained. I looked down at the note, flipped it over to see:

Read this when you are alone

What? I wanted to open it so badly. Now I was nervous.