One sentence to say: happy valentine day!

Please forgive me for any grammar mistake, misspelling, or character OOC, seeing that english was not my mother language.

Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon. If I did I will make Takari canon in the epilog.

Chapter 1: Hers

Here's the thing

"Hikari! Hurry up or we'll be late!"

"Just a minute, Onii-chan!"

Hikari Yagami, 15 year old, right now facing a dilemma

"Hikari!"

"A minute!"

She can't decide where to place the cherry for the finishing touch.

"Center… to classic… but how should I place it? right or left…"

"Hikari!"

"I said just a minute!"

"What's took you so long anywa-" Taichi stood in front of the door, taking everything he see in front of his eyes. From the mess on the room to his sister's disastrous hair and what's that on the table… "chocolate?"

Hikari looked at the newcomer and immediately blushed. "Aah! Baka onii-chan! Why do you come here anyway?"

"Didn't it crossed your mind that I come because you took your sweet time?" Taichi chuckled while looked at the chocolate with wonder in his eyes. "Beside, didn't you already prepared the chocolate for today since last night? Why do you still busy with this one chocolate?" Taichi suddenly stop. "No way. Don't tell me…"

"Taichi!"

"… Honmei chocolate?"

Looking at the blushed in his sister's face, Taichi laughed out loud. "Well, well. Hikari Yagami. You want to tell me that finally you decided to gather some courage to make some honmei chocholate?"

"Onii-chan!"

"After 7 years you spent this day each year with him?"

Looking at his sister who suddenly quiet while trying to hide her tomato face, Taichi sighed. "I'm just teasing you." He then pated his sister's head. "I'm sure he will really appreciate the feeling you poured in this chocolate. I can imagine his stupid face while receiving this chocolate of yours."

"Onii-chan…"

"Besides, we're talking about Takeru here. I've knew him nearly half of my life, so I know I could entrust my dearest sister to him."

Hikari blush harder. "Wh..Who told you that this chocolate is for Takeru-kun anyway?"

"Oh? It's not?"

"Err.. well, it's not like you're wrong…" looking at her laughing brother, Hikari pouted adorably. "Mou…Onii-chan. Stop teasing me!"

"Sorry. Sorry." Taichi takes a deep breath. "I just didn't think that this day would come, you know, the day I see my sister confess to other man." Taichi smirked. "Just don't forget me after you two going out, you hear me?"

Hikari grumbled while blushing. "Baka onii-chan."

"Ahh! Look at the time! We're going to be late if we didn't hurry up." Taichi grabbed the cherry from Hikari's hand who just stunned there looking at her brother put the cherry randomly onto the chocolate cake. "There. It's done, so hurry up and wrap the cake and go. Your hair is a mess by the way, did you know?"

Hikari looked at the chocolate cake in front of her. Actually the cherry looked good at the center of the chocolate. And to think she spend all that time thinking where to put the cherry…

"Hikari!"

The crest of light holder awakened from her reverie. "Ah. Wait, onii-chan."

"What aga-"

And his words were cut off by a cube of chocolate that goes into his mouth.

"That's your chocolate. Happy valentine, onii-chan."

"…Hikari?"

"Hmm?"

"… the one that you just gave to me, just a giri chocolate, huh?" Taichi smirked. "So different compared to your honmei chocolate. Truthfully, I'm a bit jealous."

Hikari blushed. "Wha.. What are you talking about, baka onii-chan. Ugh. I've had enough of your teasing. I'll prepare myself so just wait outside!" Swiftly, the crest of light holder pushed her brother outside of the apartment and locked the door.

"Oo…Oi! Hikari! You dare locking me out of the house?! Oi seriously, Hikari?! I want to go in! I'm sorry for teasing you, alright? It's freezing out here! OI!"

I like you

"Good morning, Taichi-san. Hikari-chan."

The Yagami siblings looked at their caller. A blonde haired teen in front of them looked exhausted and lacking of energy.

"Oh my, Takeru-kun! Are you okay?" Hikari immediately looked at the blonde with such worry in her eyes. Taichi looked at the two while smirking, with a startled expression that looked completely fake he looked at his watch while say, "Ah! Look at the time! I'm completely late for my morning practice!"

"Actually, Taichi-san, I do wonder why the two of you come at this late of time to school."

Looking at his sister whom glared at him, he smirked. "Not my fault someone busy making honmei chocolate in the morning just for her someone special today…"

"Onii-chan! What are you talking about!"

"So that's that. I should go first, see you guys later, enjoy your time." As he bent slightly he whispered something to his sister. "Good luck, Hikari." He laughed out loud while running seeing his sister blushed heavily.

"Looks like I could go to school together with you today, Hikari-chan. It's been a long time, isn't it, since Taichi-san was chosen as one of the player for the next tournament and had to practice early in the morning every day." Takeru came over to his childhood friend with a big smile on his face. "Hmm? Why is your face red like that, Hikari-chan? Are you sick? Did Taichi-san say anything weird to you?"

Hikari blushed harder. "No… nothing. Hahaha. I'm not sick, don't worry. And you know my brother, always do anything weird." Remembering the state of her best friend early this morning, she immediately changed the subject. "That's right. Takeru-kun. Are you okay? You looked pale, you sure you're not sick?"

"Do I looked that pale?" Takeru chuckled. "It's nothing actually."

"Takeru-kun." Hikari looked at the blue eyes in front of her. "You know you could tell me everything."

"Hikari-chan…"

"Is this about your test? Basketball?"

Takeru smiled. "You worry too much, Hikari-chan. Really, this is nothing."

Hikari pouted. "If it's nothing you wouldn't be pale like that. You didn't sleep well last night, didn't you? Thinking about the problem?"

Takeru ran a hand through his hair. "Yeah, you actually right. But really, it's nothing. But if you really want to know…"

Hikari gulped.

"Today's valentine day."

"… Come again?"

"Today's valentine day, Hikari-chan! It's a big problem!"

"I… really don't understand."

Takeru closed his eyes while massaging his forehead. "I could imagine it already. Hundreds of girls surrounded me and giving me chocolates, and I have to bring it back home. How many hand do you think I have? And where do you think I should put the chocolate? And you know I don't like sweets. Ugh. Think about the horror, Hikari-chan!"

It's just a second, but Hikari could feel her heart pierced. Right. Every year Takeru always get so many chocolate, he needed somebody to help him bring the chocolate back home. What makes her think her chocolate that special anyway?

Takeru suddenly stop, making her also stop and looked at him with worry. "Eh? What's wrong, Ta-"

"But let's say, if I could get a chocolate from someone special, I guess I would be willing to go through hundreds years full of sweet chocolate searching for that one special chocolate."

Hikari stunned looking at that soft smile coming from her crush, time seemed stop at that moment.

"Let's go, Hikari-chan, or we'll be late."

Hikari awakened from her reverie. "Wait, Takeru-kun."

"Hmm?"

Her hand trembled holding her chocolate, made especially for the person in front of her right now.

Why can't she give this chocolate?

"Hikari-chan?"

"Si.. since a long time I've always -"

"Takeru-kun!"

They both immediately looked at girls running toward them, chocolate in their hand ready to be given to the blonde.

"Oh no! they came earlier than what I've expected!" Takeru looked at his childhood friend. "I guess I should go first, Hikari-chan." With sweats and a little chuckled he added, "wish me luck this year."

Hikari could only looked at the back of her crush, there's only one question hanging in her heart.

Why couldn't she just say those 3 word?

"I like you."

And you like me too

Hikari gulped, slowly she looked at her best friend's blue eyes.

It started as usual. She saw hundreds of girls in school confess while giving chocolate to her best friend. During recess he running through popular places for confession in school, receiving confession from girls who think today was a good day to confess, seeing today was valentine. What makes her stunned is a fact that each time Takeru come back to class, with sweats from running and smile on his face receiving chocolate, he treated those chocolate like it's a really important things to him. She really admired that side of him, because she knew he didn't like sweets.

"No matter what, even if I don't like sweets, I know how important this chocolate is for them, so I know I had to take good care of it."

That's what he said when she asked about it years ago. That, or maybe fact that he already received a chocolate from someone he liked, making him smiled like that, makes her less confident each year.

Because what's make her think she's better compared to that other girls? What's makes her sure she was more beautiful? More popular? More special?

"Are you sure you want to stay like this, Hikari? Don't you get jealous seeing girls giving chocolate to Takeru-kun? Aren't you afraid that one day Takeru-kun would be going out with one of those girls?"

Miyako's word during one of the recess makes her griped her chocolate harder. Sure, she's jealous. Sure, she's afraid. But compared to that, there's greater fear which make her can't give the chocolate nor confess to her best friend slash crush.

Because her greatest fear is the moment when she really confessed and Takeru reject her.

Because she knew she couldn't handle that rejection. She knew she didn't strong enough to hold back the sadness of an unrequited love. She didn't strong enough accepting the fact that she and Takeru would be awkward toward each other.

She didn't strong enough to knowing that the moment she was rejected, she would regret it and wished everything would be back like how it used to be, when she never confessed.

If that's how it worked, isn't it better that she never confessed in the first place?

And in that moment, maybe because his brother is a crest of courage holder, and she really needed it at that time, his word ringing in her head

Good luck, Hikari

Hikari immediately stood and ran after Takeru who just went to the next place to receive his confession, in her mind prayed so that she didn't come late seeing this next confession.

She didn't know why, but deep in her heart she knew she had to see this confession. How this next girl wore her heart on her sleeve with her chocolate. How this next girl had the courage to went for the confession.

She had to see how Takeru-kun receiving this next confession. How he reacted, how he acted, she had to see everything.

And she had to went through it until the end, this story of her first love. Either it's a happy ending or a sad story, she had to have the courage to went through it. She owed it to Daisuke-kun whom she rejected, to Miyako who supported her, to her Onii-chan who cheered for her.

To Takeru-kun, to herself.

When she arrived to the backyard, she ran into a red-haired girl who left the yard, in the middle of the yard was Takeru-kun who held the chocolate, his face contorted as he was thinking about something, which he always did before finally he left the place. Hikari saw it all while taking some breath, in her mind realizing something.

She's late.

While looking at the sky and leaning against a tree, she's releasing some breath. Maybe this was the best. After all, she knew she didn't have the guts to looked at other girls confessing to her long time best friend.

And to think she had gather the courage to looked at it.

"Hikari-chan?"

Hikari jumped looking at Takeru who peeked through the tree, his face so close making her blushed. After cleared her throat she went out of her hiding place and make some distance. "Ta..Takeru-kun.."

Takeru just looked as if he didn't mind the space, with wide eyes he asked, "why are you in such a place? How long have you been here?"

Hikaru blushed and cleared her throat while trying to search for some lie. "I just happened to be here while on my way to the cafeteria. Then I ran into some girl as she walked out of this place. Really, I didn't hear anything."

"Oh. Ok, well then… that's good to hear." Takeru said while trying to make some eye contact with the brunette who somehow find her shoes more interesting than him.

"Yes. That's how it goes. Is there anything you didn't want me to hear?"

Takeru ran a hand through his hair. "Well, not really. It's just that… you do know what's just happening here, right?"

Hikari forced some smile on her face. "That you just get confessed by a beautiful girl? You really are still popular with girls, don't you, Takeru-kun? Who know how many confessions you got today."

"Ugh. Please don't remind me." Takeru hid his blushes with his palm. While opened his finger a little, his eyes looked straight to the girl in front of him. "Even if it's like that, this is the first time you've been anywhere near where I've got a confession, so of course I don't want you to heard it."

"Eh? wh-"

"You really needed to asked that?"

Hikari could only looked deep at the blue orbs in front of her eyes. She didn't know why, but the tone her best friend just uttered sounded so… sad? Disappointed? They looked at each other until Takeru sighed.

"Isn't it awkward if you saw me getting confessed?"

Her chest felt tight. Right. She's too self-centered to only think about herself and her love story that she failed to see her best friend's feeling. Takeru-kun must also had his own love story. Of course it would be awkward when someone saw how he received some confession. Before she become someone who loved him, she was his best friend, she should be aware of how Takeru-kun thinking, how Takeru-kun feeling, all of it.

Really, she's the worst.

But maybe, could she hope? In her deepest heart, she hoped that the awkwardness Takeru-kun talked about was because he also loves her? and he didn't want his loved one saw how other girls confessing to him? She knew she wasn't the prettiest, the most popular one, but she is his best friend. She had some advantage compared to other girls, even if it seems not fair. Could she hope like that?

At least let her dream that her love was requited.

She must've been daydreaming, because she didn't aware a hand held her hand, and her crush talked to her, "Come on, Hikari-chan. Let's go back to class."

And she didn't even move.

Takeru looked at her like she grew a second head. She knew she should be moving, it's just that, right at that moment there's only one fact come across her mind.

Takeru-kun holding her hand.

Don't get her wrong, it's not like this is the first time her best friend held her hand. It's just that, maybe because the atmosphere screams romance, and the thing she had just thought, making her blushed hard. She could only look at their joined hand with blushes on her face.

Takeru looked at how his best friend act, his eyes also looked at how their hand intertwined. After a while he cleared his throat, his blue eyes looked at the girl in front of him. He then takes some deep breath.

"Hikari-chan."

Hikari raised her head, looking straight at the most beautiful blue eyes she had saw. In front of her stood Takeru-kun with the most serene smile she had saw, time seems stop at that moment.

"I like you."

For a while she felt her heart stop. That smile. That gaze. She didn't know what's on his head right now but Takeru-kun look… peaceful. Like every stressful thing on his mind just disappeared like that. There's something about the smile that pulled her. Because really, for a moment, she felt as if they've come back to being 8 years old, when they were in danger in digital world, she knew she can trust that smile.

The smile that says everything are going to be alright.

She desperately wanted to trust that smile.

And suddenly she remembered what's just happening right now.

Did Takeru-kun really just confessed to her?

But how is it possible? Maybe it was just a dream, when her love was requited. She's nothing, the best she can be was only to being his best friend. Everything is so sudden, so dramatic, is this really happening right now?

"I… I need to go."

After all her chocolate was still in the class.

But I love you

'I like you' is not enough.

It's not like she's greedy, but she had a reason for it.

If you think about it, maybe that's what it means, for Takeru-kun to like her as his friend. After all, they had been friends for nearly half their life, nearly died on every occasion in such strange world since they're just 8 years old. They're already been good friend, of course they like each other.

But it doesn't mean Takeru-kun loves her like she loves him.

So when Takeru-kun said he likes her, to be honest it's just makes her sad, because it's just a bitter reminder that Takeru-kun only looked at her as just his best friend.

Only until that line.

Is there any chance for her to be seen as more then friend? Is there a chance for Takeru-kun to looked at her as a woman rather than an 8 years old little girl stranded in a strange world with him?

It's just so… frustrating!

"Hikari-chan? Are you crying?"

"Eh" Hikari touch her cheek. It felt wet. "Tears?"

No way, she thought, this is the worst timing ever for crying. Right now she should be plastering a fake smile hearing his story about being confessed by nearly half population of school like they used to be doing when going home together. Right now she should be teasing him for being popular with girls.

"Hikari-chan." Takeru held her face, forcing her to looked at his eyes. "You are the one who said that I could be telling you all my problem whenever and wherever we are. You do know that the same thing can be said to you, right?" Takeru make that soft smile of his. "No matter what, we're friends. You know that I will always be there for you."

Yes. Hikari know about it. She knew she could tell him everything. But how could she tell him when the problem involved him of all people?

No matter how desperate she is, she knew she didn't want Takeru-kun to love her because of pity. She wanted Takeru-kun to love her because he really loves her.

Really, she didn't want to felt like this again, this unrequited feeling. Maybe this is the time she put the end of all of this, this story of her precious first love. Maybe it will have happy ending, maybe it will be a sad story, who knows. One thing for sure is that she knew she put the best to this story of hers, and she knew it is enough.

After wipe the tears on her eyes, Hikari smiled while taking out her chocolate.

"Happy valentine day, Takeru-kun."

And the moment she looked at his smile, that soft smile with a hint of sadness, she knew the answer already.

So when the next day she heard Takeru-kun going out with Ayano-san from next class, she knew it was really over, this story of her first love. She could put a fake smile on her face and congratulate the new couple, even if it's hurt. She had time to cry latter in home anyway.

And she didn't surprised at it.

Didn't surprised at all

And you don't love me back