Hello, everyone! So here's a funny story. I visited my young cousins a week ago, and we watched some old VCR tapes, one in which was Digimon. It brought back a lot of memories. I used to be ga-ga over this show, especially over the pairing of TK and Kari. I went home and rummaged through my old journals and saw an unfinished Takari piece. So now, 3 years later, I decided to complete it (and revise it). I know it's different from my usual Nejiten pairing, but I want to try something different. So I hope you enjoy!

I Love You, BF!

by iJutsu

"Looks like Amber got the hots for you, TK!" giggled Kari, as she nudged her best friend who stood next to her.

"Ha, I wish. She didn't even look at me."

"TK, she winked at you!"

"Are you sure that was a wink? Not an awkward eye twitch?"

"You gave her flowers this morning near her locker. Flowers!"

"Flowers YOU bought that I just happened to drop by at her locker!"

"You can't tell me that wink was for nothing!"

"Maybe that was the wink of doom and she plans on killing me for even thinking of hitting on her."

"Gah, you're so humble!" Kari whined, as she closed her locker and linked her arms with his, "You've been such a magnet ever since middle school, and you know that! How many girlfriends have you had? Hm. Well, there's Sheila. Then there's Janine. Then Janelle, then Cindy, then Daisy, then Belle! Oh, and remember that French girl, what as her name again..?"

"Oh stop it Kari, you're making me sound like a pimp," he laughed.

"Excuse me! Usually boys would take pride in that!"

"You're right, you're right. Besides, I wouldn't have gotten so many girls if it wasn't for you. I still owe you big for pairing me up with so much girls who wouldn't even give me a glance. What are you? Some match-making wizard?"

"I have my ways," Kari winked, "Besides, that's what best friends are for. In fact, I bet I'm good enough to book you and Amber a date this Saturday at that carnival thing going on near the beach."

TK blinked, "You're that good?"

"I'm that good."

Before they knew it, they already walked into class. They then took their seats, which were unfortunately not next to each other. TK waved goodbye to Kari as he took his seat next to Davis, who already challenged him to a soccer game before TK was even able to sit down. Kari sat besides Yolei, so that wasn't a problem at all. She was her best friend, girl-wise, that is. Yolei was staring straight at Kari as she took her seat. Kari raised a brow, since she noticed Yolei staring ever since she and TK entered class. Settling her stuff down, she turned to Yolei.

"Good morning!" Kari smiled.

"Oh, don't you good morning me! Please don't tell me what I just heard was true!"

"What are you talking about?" Kari asked, honestly confused.

"You know exactly what I'm talking about Kari Kamiya!"

"Yolei, I honestly don't know what you're talking about!"

"You and TK? Are you seriously going to pair him up with another girl? And Amber? And you bought flowers for TK to give HER? Really, Kari? Really?" the frustration in her voice slowly went away as she took a deep breath and gave Kari a more concerned look, "Kari, why? Why do you keep doing this to yourself?"

Kari stared for a moment, but finally understood what she meant. She sighed in defeat and slid down on her seat a bit. She stayed quiet for a moment before answering Yolei.

"He's my best friend, Yolei. What else am I supposed to do?"

"Um, NOT offer?" Yolei stated as a matter of fact.

"But he really likes her," Kari said, defending herself, "And I just want to help him out."

"Oh puh-lease, Kari! That's what you said about all the other hundred girls before her! And more than half of them didn't even last more than 2 months!"

"Maybe this one will be different…"

"That's what you said last time."

"Oh hush," Kari pouted, as she slid more down her seat in defeat. She sighed and placed her head down her desk, with her face still facing her purple-haired friend, "I just want him to be happy, Yolei."

"Honey, but what about yours?" Yolei asked quietly, placing her head down to level out with hers and to look at her straight in the eyes, "When is your happiness finally going to come first, and not his? He's your best friend, too. Isn't he supposed to make you feel equally happy? I know you care, but c'mon. You can't keep doing this to yourself."

"Yolei, TK does make me happy. You know how happy he makes me. And he does treat me like a best friend! Because that's what we are," Kari's face then dropped down slowly, "Best friends. And that's all we'll ever be. And I'm thankful for that, Yolei. I really am..."

"Kari, you like him," Yolei frowned, noticing her obvious pain, "And you know that. He even confessed his love to you last year, and you rejected him."

Kari stayed quiet. Yolei continued, "I bet all those girls he dated right after asking you out are just rebounds. It's amazing how you guys are still the best of friends."

"I don't want to ruin our friendshi-"

"Don't even say that, Kari. Don't even bring up the whole 'I don't want to ruin our friendship' gibberish! Kari, listen. Those words are for wimps who are scared of risking their happiness and then end up missing out on something much greater."

Kari became speechless to Yolei's last response. Thoughts started to over-flow her head. Unhealthy thoughts for that matter. "Am I a wimp…?" Kari thought to herself disappointingly as she let out a flustered sigh. Yolei sighed too, noticing Kari's discomfort, and then sat back up, stretching a bit. The teacher just now walked in. Without looking back down at Kari, she spoke.

"Think about it, Kari. If you guys are still able to be best friends after a rejection, then no doubt you guys will still be friends after a break up. You guys are that strong."

School had just now ended, and what Yolei last said to her was still fresh in her mind. It was only Thursday and now she has more than just homework to think about. Thank God that was the last class and that tomorrow's Friday though. Trying to forget about their conversation, Kari walked over to her locker. She opened it and stared blankly to remember if she had any homework. Long seconds later, instead of staring blankly into the locker to remember homework, she ended up staring dully at the taped photo of her and TK right at the center. A small smile found it's way to her lips as she lightly traced the photo with her finger. Now realizing what she was doing, she shook her head and blushed. "Get a hold of yourself, Kari! TK likes Amber. You're his best friend. You're supposed to help him out. That's your job, to make him happy! And remember, YOU'RE the one who rejected him. YOU said it'll be best to remain best friends. And that's what happened right? We're still best friends and everything's just perfect! Just how I wanted it to be…right?" Kari was now very annoyed with her thoughts. She always hated second-guessing herself. Just one of those pet peeves. Frustratingly, she slammed her locker door shut, only to reveal her best friend standing right beside her. His big, foolish smile then turned into a worried expression.

"Kari, what's wrong?"

"N-nothing, TK!" Kari stammered, blushing embarrassingly, "I just have so much homework, and my grades aren't doing so well. Senioritis will be the death of me! Ha ha ha…ha."

TK looked at her strangely. The look he gave her made her feel uncomfortable, especially since Kari was as easy to read as a book. He sighed.

"No seriously, Kari. What's wrong?"

A nasty feeling hit her strong on the gut. If there was anything she hated more than anything in the world, it was lying to her best friend. And the fact that he noticed so quickly hurt her more. The concerned and sad look that was showing through TK's eyes made it way harder for Kari to keep her thoughts stable. Too much was already going through her head, and it showed. Her body temperature was building up, which made it seem like she was getting a fever. Kari panics a bit too easily, and TK knows that. Before she knew it, she felt his pair of arms wrap around her shoulder and her head being laid against a firm, warm chest. She looked up to TK's concerned face.

"What's bothering you, Kari?" he asked sadly, "Are you sick?"

Kari sighed, and buried her face in his chest. She didn't want to look at him, especially if she actually does blurt out what she wants to ask. She softly wrapped her arms around him as well, and slowly turned her face to the side for some air. She took a silent deep breath, and braced herself.

"TK, are you mad at me?"

TK was quite appalled from the question, "Mad? No, of course not. Why would I be mad?"

Kari gulped, "Are you mad that I rejected you? N-not reject, but refused to be your girlfriend?"

Kari felt his body tense up. He slowly removed himself from the embrace, which almost killed Kari inside. She immediately assume she hurt his feelings to ask such a question. At this point, she couldn't even look up once she felt his arms fully leave her. She didn't want to see the pain in his eyes. But seeing her more afraid to look at him, made TK even more concerned that she was hurting herself over this. He placed a hand on her shoulder, motioning her to look up at him. She didn't. He sighed.

"Kari, that was more than a year ago. Of course I'm not mad," he said, reassuringly.

"A-are you really over it?" she said rather quickly, still looking away as uncomfortable as ever, "Are you really over me?"

"Kari…"

"Are you really happy being just best friends? Are those other girls just rebounds? A-are you just lying to yourself so I'll be happy?"

"Kari, what in the world are you talking about? I…"

"Am…Am I that bad? Am I…"

"TK!"

A sudden voice came from behind Kari. Kari turned her head around, and TK looked up. Both their hearts dropped. It was the wrong person at the wrong time. The very wrong person at the very wrong time. TK's hand slid off Kari's shoulder clumsily as he looked at the being that just now approached them. Kari just turned her head back around and remained silent, head down.

"A-Amber, what are you doing here?"

"I just want to thank you for giving me these flowers," she smiled, embracing softly the flowers in her arms, "They're really beautiful. It was really sweet of you."

Kari winced, and TK was at a loss of words. He managed a shaky smiled, and rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, "You're welcome."

She then flashed a charming smile at him; a smile he couldn't even ignore, despite the situation he was in.

"Why?" she asked.

"Why, what?" TK asked back, confused.

"Why did you send me these flowers, silly!"

TK froze on the spot. All of sudden, everything and every reason he planned to get closer to Amber was gone. He didn't remember a thing. He couldn't even recall the reason why he even started liking her in the first place. All of that suddenly didn't matter anymore. The only thing literally on his mind was Kari. Speaking of Kari, he totally was guilty for forgetting her presence. He looked down at her, who just continued looking down, biting her bottom lip. She let out a shaky sigh and turned to Amber and smiled. Amber blinked then smiled back happily.

"Kari! I didn't notice you! Look at what TK got me, aren't they beautiful?" she said, showing her the flowers in her arms. It was obvious that Amber didn't know that Kari too had a crush on TK, so she didn't find it that insulting.

"Yeah, it's beautiful," Kari said quietly.

"Gee, Kari," Amber said worriedly, "You face is turning a bit red. Are you feeling okay?"

"Yeah, I'm just…"Kari then changed her words, "N-no, you're right. I am feeling a bit sick. I should go."

She then turned to TK and gave him such a soft, sad smile that stabbed TK right through his heart. Her smile was painful. Especially coming from his best friend, a fake smile would be the worst.

"See you tomorrow, TK," Kari said, leaving him alone with Amber with absolutely nothing to say.

Later at night,

Kari was lying face down on the floor with nothing but a pillow to support her face. Thoughts of what she did earlier haunted her mind. She grunted loudly into the pillow and kicked her legs up and down childishly. It may have happened hours ago, but she was deadly embarrassed. "Why did I put TK on the spot like that?" Kari thought angrily to herself, "Why did I even have to bring it up? Not only was that awkward, but that was rude! I just can't go asking if he's over me and then put him down about all those other girls. What got over me? Ugh, Kari, you're so stupid!" She grunted loudly into her pillow once more before rolling back onto her back, face towards the ceiling fan. She was guilty of wishing for the fan to suddenly break apart and slice off her neck. Sighing and putting her deadly thoughts aside, she pulled out her phone. She had to get her mind off things, and her first instinct was to call Yolei. She stretched out her arms first, but as she did so, her phone rang loudly, startling her, and causing her to drop her phone on her face.

"Smooth, Kari, smooth," she said sarcastically as she sat up, rubbing her nose.

She grabbed her phone which was luckily still ringing. She looked at the caller ID and gasped softly. Luck wasn't the best word to use. It was TK calling. Kari just stared at her phone. It was as if she was staring at a bomb, and if she doesn't press the right button, it'll explode. But she had to do something, and she had to do something fast. She could either pick up the call, and explain herself and possibly lose her friendship, or she can ignore the call and sulk in her misery with no one but the floor and the pillow to accompany her. Kari took a deep breath. She picked up the call.

Boom.

"TK?"

"Hey, Kari. How are you feeling?" TK asked kindly.

Kari sighed in relief from the voice on the other end. Same old gentle, sweet and caring voice. She nodded, "Yeah, I'm feeling a bit better. Sorry if I worried you. I feel so bad."

"No, it's alright. Don't feel bad. What's a best friend for, right?"

There were those words again. Best friend. Kari found herself silent on the other line, staring blankly at her feet. "Why do I feel this way?" Kari thought depressingly, "I should be thanking him. I should be grateful I have someone to look out for me. But then why do I feel so…sad?" Her phone shook a little in her hand, as she struggled to get out the rights words to say. But nothing. For a moment, it was as if she was all alone, with a phone in her ear and no one on the other line. She snapped out of her thoughts once she heard TK's voice suddenly on the other line.

"Kari, you still there?"

"Y-yeah!" she replied, a bit startled, "Sorry, I dropped my phone." Great, another lie. Kari cleared her throat, "So how did it go with Amber? She sure did sound happy earlier! See, I told you the flowers was going to work!"

TK was silent. Kari literally hit her face with a pillow in stupidity for even thinking of bringing up such a subject. Especially now, when TK was obviously getting suspicious with her strange and sudden behavior. Kari's mind was now spinning. She was desperately trying to find something to say to make things less awkward. She opened her mouth to change the subject, however TK beat her to it.

"It went great," he replied, rather quietly.

Kari again froze. That was the last thing she expected him to say. Her throat suddenly became dry. She started feeling that nasty feeling again-that feeling she always gets whenever things go well with TK and a girl. The feeling she's been trying to deny for the past many years.

Jealousy. Kari just couldn't admit that she's always been jealous ever since the first girl. Especially not after she rejected him when he asked her out. That was already a slap to his face saying that she's never jealous. But she was. Possibly even more than jealous, and that was just bad. Kari bit her lip to prevent the muffled noises coming out of her mouth. "No. No! Am I going to cry? What the hell's going on with you Kari? You've dealt with this so many times…why break down now? Why now…?" She felt so bad. She felt bad not being happy for her best friend. Her best friend of all people. TK noticed the muffled breathing and some sniffles from the other end, and got alarmed.

"Kari, are you okay? Are you crying?" he asked, in slight panic, "Was it something I said? Did something happen at school today? Kari, something's up, and I know it, so please tell me. You're worrying me…"

"N-nothing's wrong!" Kari said quickly, "You know my allergies are the worst during this time of year.."

"…Are you lying to me?" he asked, not buying it.

"Y-you know what?" Kari said through her forced smile, not being able to handle her emotions anymore, "I'm glad things worked out with you and Amber. T-That's what you wanted all along, right? I'm so happy for you, TK!"

"Kari…" he said, interrupting her, now extremely worried.

"O-oh! I have an idea!" she exclaimed quickly, ignoring him, "Let's go celebrate! A-at that carnival thing this Saturday. Yeah, it'll be so much fun. Oh, wait, that's when you're going with Amber, huh? Ahaha man, I forgot. I guess we'll just settle for some other time. S-sorry. I hope you have fun with Amber though! Y-you deserve it. S-s-so happy for you."

"Kari, you're crying…"

"N-no, I'm not!"

"Kari, listen…!"

"I have to go. Good night, TK. See you tomorrow!"

With that, Kari swiftly hung up and literally threw her phone at the pile of stuff animals that laid on the floor. She was still shaking, and her hand slowly found it's way to her mouth. Before she knew it, she was crying, trying to prevent to pitiful cries that escaped from her mouth. Strangely finding the strength to even move, she opened her drawer and pulled out her pink diary that she abuses with thoughts. Shakily, she grabbed a thick marker from the shelf and wrote just three big words on one page:

I love you, BF.

Slowly putting down the marker and the diary, she grabbed her pillow and sobbed quietly into it. Suddenly, her phone began to ring again, but she ignored it. Most likely it was from TK, and she couldn't risk feeling like this again and making a fool out of herself once more. With nothing else to do or say, she slowly found her self crying herself to sleep on the floor, with nothing but the sound of her cell phone ringing to sing to her to sleep.

TBC

So, what do you think? I've always adored Kari and TK's friendship. Well, I hope you guys enjoyed it. Read and Review, please! Keep my hyped to write this =) I'll try to update as fast as I can.

Oh, and as for the title, you'll understand it later in the future chapters.

R&R !