Something Special for Someone Special
Chapter 1
Hi everyone. I thought that I'd write a Valentine's Day Takari story this year because I've never written one. I know that it's clichéd and been done by many people so many times, but I thought I'd have a go at it myself. This fic is the outcome and I hope you like it. Prepare for some Takari fluff :D
I guess that many of you know that Valentine's Day is done slightly differently in Japan. It's when girls give guys gifts, but the guys don't give gifts back on that day. Instead, they have White Day, which is when the guys are expected to give gifts to the girls who got them something on Valentine's Day. As a result, this is going to be a short multi-chapter story because Japan has two days to write about instead of one. Plus this ended being longer than I originally expected, so I split it up over more chapters.
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon or any other copyrighted things that I mention in this story. I'd be working on Digimon Tri right now if I did own Digimon.
Summary: Hikari finally understood what her true feelings were for her best friend, Takeru. With Valentine's Day coming up, she found herself presented with the perfect opportunity to express those feelings just as long as no other girl beats her to Takeru's heart. Takari.
"Perfect." The corners of Hikari Yagami's lips turned upwards as she gazed into the fridge. Her smile continued to grow as she brushed a stray strand of her silky brown hair from face before reaching to the fridge and pulling out the tray that she had been looking at. "This is definitely perfect."
She sighed in relief as she carefully moved the tray and placed it on the kitchen countertop so that she could inspect it further. Her mahogany-brown eyes studied the surface of the chocolate for imperfections and she couldn't find any. Everything was falling into place just like she'd hoped for with two days left before she handed a certain special best friend of hers these gifts. All that the brunette teen needed to do now was decorate the chocolate and write on the card that she'd bought.
"I hope he likes this," Hikari spoke to herself as she looked at the custom-made tray that had allowed her to mould the chocolate into the shapes that she needed. This particular shape wouldn't be special to anyone other than that the guy she secretly loved. After all, the Crest of Hope was his and his alone.
"I'm sure he will."
Hikari squealed as she jumped and turned to her right. Her face started heating up as her eyes fixed onto her brother's similar brown pair. "Taichi! Where did you come from?"
"I just got back. You were so focused on what you were doing that you didn't even reply when I said hello." Her brother teased as he smirked. He ran his hand through his wild brown hair before he started glancing around the kitchen. "So, where's mine? If Takeru is getting a large chocolate version of the Crest of Hope, do I get one of the Crest of Courage?"
"No," Hikari sighed as she quickly turned back to the stove to check on the white chocolate that she was going to use to write her message onto the milk chocolate crest. "This is just for Keru."
"What do I get then?" Taichi's grin grew as he moved closer to inspect his sister's work. "Can I try a piece of ..."
"Get away from it." Hikari quickly put herself between him and the chocolate she was making for Takeru. "I put some of the left-over chocolate in a tray for you and Daisuke. It's in the fridge. You can munch on some of them now or you can wait a couple of days for me to give them to you. Just remember, if you eat them now, you won't get anything else from me."
Taichi pouted and formed an expression of mock hurt on his face. "Aww. Takeru gets all this special treatment, while Daisuke and I only get the usual obligation chocolates."
"Yeah, that's exactly it." Hikari pouted back as she tried to fight back the bright red blush on her cheeks. "Don't you dare tell anyone, Onii-chan. I've been planning this for a while and I want it to be a secret."
"Don't worry, Hikari." Her brother's smile became a softer one as he gazed at her with pride now filling his eyes. "I know how you feel about Takeru and I have done for some time. I think I've even known about your feelings for him before you even figured them out. I also know he has feelings for you, so I'm glad that one of you is finally making a move. You two will make a great couple and I can see you being together for the rest of your lives."
Hikari didn't know how to reply to that as her blush turned crimson red. She did her best to ignore him as she picked up the piping cone that she was going to use to write her message. How could Taichi be so confident that things would go well between her and Takeru? While it was true that she had figured out that Takeru loved her and that had given her the confidence to go this far and make a move, it was also true that this could change everything in their friendship. Hikari wanted Takeru to be her boyfriend but she also wanted him to still be her best friend too. She would be lying to herself if she said that the thought of their relationship changing too much didn't frighten her.
The teen girl took a deep breath and went back to check on her chocolate once again. She knew that she needed her full concentration right now because she'd have to start again from scratch if she messed things up. Hikari forced her doubts to the back of her mind and replaced them with how good things will be if she could get even closer to Takeru. The thought of him holding her and telling her how much he loved her filled Hikari with excitement and spurred her on. He had also invited her to his for dinner on Valentine's Day, which had presented her this opportunity and helped her come up with this plan. While it was true that they often had dinner at each other's places, Takeru had been quite insistent that Hikari was with him that evening and she hoped that it was his way of inviting her to make a move or that he was going to finally make his.
"What's in the bag?" Taichi's voice pulled her from her thoughts once again and she heard him rummaging through a plastic bag. "Wow. Takeru will definitely like this gift. He won't ever stop wearing it."
"Get out of there, Taichi!" She was prepared to start throwing various cooking instruments at him if he was going to keep distracting her. "Don't mess them up or damage them."
"No, seriously, Hikari. This hat is the perfect gift for Takeru. He will wear it every day for the …" Taichi paused as he stopped inspecting the specially made black baseball cap in his hands. His eyes moved on from the Crest of Hope that was proudly displayed in the centre with two chibi Patamon on either side to the box he'd just seen in the bag. The older Yagami slowly and carefully reached into the bag and pulled out the box. "Actually, I think this might be the best gift you could get Takeru. How much did you spend on this?"
"It's none of your business, Onii-chan. Besides, I know just how much he's already spent on me for my birthday and that's still over two months away. Takeru always seems willing to spend so much money on me." Hikari sighed as she wearily watched her brother look at the fountain pen inside the case that he was now holding. She had paid for it to be inscribed with a love message from her as well as the continuing theme of the Crest of Hope. "Keru likes writing some of his stories by hand because he finds it more enjoyable than typing it on the computer. I thought I'd get him a new pen to do it with."
Taichi continued to study pen through the see-through lid. "I can tell your serious about this and that you've put a lot of thought into everything. Takeru's one lucky guy and not just because he's the only guy I'd let you date."
"I'm glad that you approve, but it's not like I need your approval. It's my decision about who I date." Hikari shook her head at her brother's overprotective nature coming out. "Now please carefully put the pen back in the bag because I'm frightened that you might break it."
"Fine. Fine." He sighed before doing as he was asked. The wild-haired teen took another glance at the cap before he placed that back in the bag too. The smirk suddenly returned to Taichi's face and his sister gulped as she wondered what he was going to say next. "You know what Takeru might also like. He might like it if you made all of these while wearing your swimwear and took a photo of it."
"What?" Hikari frowned and scratched her head. She glanced down at the pale-yellow dress that she was wearing and tried to imagine a situation so ridiculous where she'd wear her swimsuit while making a Valentine's Day gift for Takeru. "Why the heck would I do something like that? What kind of person would wear their swimsuit to make some homemade chocolate?"
"I don't know," Taichi laughed and shrugged his shoulders. "It was in one of the anime magazines that I read. The girls from a show were all making home chocolates for the guys they had crushes on while wearing swimsuits or bikinis."
"That's just a money-making scheme and you went and fell for it." Hikari sighed as she turned to inspect the chocolate in the pan once more. "No sane girl is going to wear their swimwear to make Valentine's Day chocolate no matter how much they love the guy they're making it for. It's just stupid."
An awkward laugh fell from her brother's lips. "Well, it did look nice."
"Taichi." Hikari sighed in mocked disappointment as she shook her head. "No wonder you don't have a girlfriend if you expect them to do things like that."
"Ouch, harsh." Her brother pouted again, feigning hurt. "That might change in two days though when half of the female population of Tsukishima Senior High will be after my heart. I'll have loads of girls to pick from to find the right one."
"Yeah. Yeah," Hikari sighed again and then glanced down at the floor. She let her shoulders drop as she remembered that she was competing for Takeru's heart against half, or probably more, of the girls at Odaiba Junior High School. They had already made plans together and she was fairly certain that Takeru had feelings for her, but what was stopping another girl from coming along and wowing him? All of her effort would be for nothing if someone else beat her to him.
Taichi's hand suddenly landed on her shoulder, making her jump slightly as he gave it a gentle squeeze. "I know what you're thinking, and don't worry about it. Takeru has feelings for you and has done for some time. Other girls might give him gifts, they might try to get a date with him and those girls might even try to kiss him, but none of them are you, so they'll fail. Just don't let it get you down and stop you from letting Keru know how you feel about him. He turns down girls on a regular basis just because he wants to be with you. The way you two tease and flirt with one another makes it so blatantly obvious that you both like each other."
Her brother wrapped his arms around her, pulling her into a hug. Hikari returned the embrace and gave him a gentle squeeze before they moved back. She gave Taichi a smile as she glanced up at his face. "Thanks, Onii-chan."
"I'll get out of your way so that you can finish your special homemade chocolate for Takeru." Taichi smiled and ruffled her hair. "Just save the leftover chocolate for me to finish off when you're done."
"I will." Hikari smiled back before her attention returned to the pan filled with white chocolate. She checked it once again as she heard her brother go into his room, leaving her to finish what she needed to do in peace. After brushing a stray hair from her face again, she took the now ready chocolate off the stove and poured it into the piping cone. Hikari darted across the kitchen to the chocolate Crest of Hope and carefully started writing her message to Takeru.
The morning sun shone brightly through Hikari's bedroom window as she checked that her makeup was perfect. She wanted to look her best for Takeru today because, after all, today was the day that she was finally going to confess to her best friend. Her chocolate-brown hair framed her face perfectly, just like normal, and brought out the colour in her mahogany-brown eyes. She'd used her makeup to bring out her natural beauty and had made sure that she didn't use too much because she knew that Takeru didn't really like that. He'd once said to her that he didn't know why she wore any makeup at all because he thought that she didn't need to.
Heat rose into the brunette girl's cheeks at that memory and what it implied. Hopefully he'd find her even more attractive with the makeup that she'd decided to wear today. Hikari took a deep breath as her eyes moved down to her green school uniform. She straightened it and made sure that there wasn't anything amiss. While she had packed a dress into her bag so that she had something else to wear later, she still wanted to look presentable for Takeru during the day.
She noted that her uniform was actually starting to get a little small and tight on her, but that wasn't much of a surprise because she was still a growing girl and one advantage was that it did help to show off her figure. Hikari eyes slowly traced down her body in her mirror and she hoped that Takeru found her as attractive as she found him. Taichi's teammates all seemed to think that she was attractive and a few of them had even told her, so she hoped that her best friend thought that she was too.
Her uniform now hugged the curves of her perky breasts that were getting quite big and were actually similar in size to Mimi's and Sora's. She was actually shocked to find that out during one of their recent shopping trips because the fourteen year old girl was two years younger than Mimi and three year younger than Sora. Hikari's flat stomach and slim waist only made her body look better as it made her busty chest and slim yet curvy hips more obvious. Her green pleated skirt reached halfway down her thighs and showed off her long smooth legs. How could Takeru not find her attractive?
Hikari pushed that thought to the back of her mind as she turned away from the mirror to check her bag for the final time. It was sitting on her bed with the large wrapped box that contained Takeru's chocolate Crest of Hope clearly showing. She didn't know how she was going to keep it hidden all day, but she was going to find a way so that she could surprise her best friend with it later.
"Takeru's chocolates, the pen," Hikari checked off each item on her mental list. "The hat, my dress and finally Daisuke's chocolates."
Hopefully those chocolates would soften the blow if or when Daisuke found out about her feelings for Takeru. She knew that the goggle-head still had a crush on her even if he didn't show it as much as he used to. However, Hikari also knew that he had given up on his chances with her after she rejected him when he asked her out two years ago. Plus he knew how both she and Takeru felt about each other because, after all, he was friends with both of them.
Hikari inspected the gifts one last time before she closed her bag. Today was going to be the day. Her life would change for better or for worse, but either way she had already come to the conclusion that she had to know if Takeru did really return her feelings. "I hope this goes well."
This seems like a good place to leave the first chapter. I decided while writing this to actually split this into more chapters than I originally intended because, if I didn't, this chapter would have ended up rather long. It's also why this chapter is a bit early for Valentine's Day.
I decided to have Taichi be a supportive big brother in this story. While he's still watching out for Hikari, I feel that he would support her and give her a push in what he feels is the right direction so that she can be happy. After all, Taichi knows that both Hikari and Takeru have feelings for each other and he knows that Takeru will make her happy. In the end, he wants what's best for Hikari.
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