Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.
Rating: PG-13
HURT
Mrs. Takeshi walked down the hall of her apartment complex, eager to get some sleep after working the night shift. She reached for her keys to enter the apartment, and oddly, the door was ajar. She entered the apartment, locking the door behind her. A feeling of dread came over her as she saw the door to Takeru's room was wide open.
She stepped in the doorway, shocked to see Hikari sitting up on Takeru's bed, crying on to one of the bedposts. She came closer, and saw Hikari's hands were tied to the bedpost she was leaning against. In shock, all she could stammer out was, "H-Hikari…are you okay? W-Where's Takeru?" Kari's only reply was pointing a quivering finger towards the bathroom. Mrs. Takashi hurried to untie Hikari and opened the bathroom door...and she let out a scream that could be heard from miles away.
Tai awoke from his bed upon hearing the phone ring. He it picked up, shocked to find out it was a call from the hospital, telling them to come and see Hikari right away. He woke up his parents and they all left in a panic. Why was their daughter in the hospital? Why wasn't she in her bed like she was supposed to be? While he and his parents were silent on the way down, Tai's worries were eating away at him, 'I knew something was wrong, she had recently refusing to see Takeru, and they seemed so in love before…'
Tai ran past his parents to the private room where Hikari and Mrs. Takeshi were sitting. The nurse pulled him and his parents aside and warned them, "Your daughter is in a fragile state right now, and while she's alright physically, it seems she's gone through a lot of trauma."
Before they could talk to Hikari, two police officers came in and approached them. "Excuse me, I'm from the Odiba PD," said one of the officers, "I need to question you daughter, and my partner here will be writing down her statement."
"Question her?" said her puzzled father, "What the hell is going on here? We don't even know why she's here!"
"Well, sir, your daughter has witnessed a crime, and we need her statement while the incident is still fresh in her mind," The officer said calmly, then he turned to Hikari, "We need to ask you about what happened to you and your friend, we want to help you. Your parents can sit here too. Is that okay?"
Hikari shook her head and turned away.
"It's okay Kari, just tell them what happened," Her mother said as she held her hand and pointed her face back in the direction of the officers. Her father and brother sat across from her, concerned and eager to hear what was going on. She then nodded her head, agreeing to speak with them.
Before Hikari began her story, Mrs. Takeshi walked off, with excuse that she needed to check if her ex-husband had come. But she was really fleeing from the blame Hikari's parents and her Ex-husband would put on her…
As her parents and brother watched her, their anxious expressions made Hikari's body shake. Turning her gaze away from them and she began to tell her story, "I-It all started a couple of weeks ago when I was over at Takeru's house, we were watching TV and his mom came home with some guy, and then they went to her room. I wanted to leave because I felt uncomfortable, but I stayed because I didn't want to hurt Takeru's feelings. Then we the guy came out of her room, I felt really weird, like he was staring at me, so I left. When I was leaving, he gave me this weird look. Then when I was going out the main door of the complex, I felt like someone was following me. Then I was grabbed by that guy and he pressed me against the wall…"
Hikari began to cry, and while her mother wanted to scream "How the hell did that happen" she encouraged Hikari to keep going, "He was really squishing me into the wall…I was so close, I could feel him, his...things. Then he said he was going to get me, he said he was going to follow me wherever I went, wait till I got to someplace less crowded. He said he'd kill anyone I told, and then…he patted my bottom and sent me out the door. That's when I ran home…and I didn't come out."
Hikari's parents looked at each other. They knew she had been avoiding school lately, saying she was sick. Mrs. Yagami's guilt was finally too much, and she began to cry in her husband's arms, unable to control the anger and shock. "What happened next?" asked the officer.
"I just avoided going out of the house, and I avoided Takeru. Then last night I kept seeing shadows at my window and I kept imagining the guy coming to kill me. I was scared, so I called Takeru, but when he picked it up I lost my nerve and hung up. I thought about him coming in the house, how he'd wake my family up. Then I started getting scared that he'd kill my Mom and Dad and Tai. I wanted to get away from them. I came out to the living room, and heard a knock at the door, I thought it was that guy, but it was Takeru's voice calling to me on the other side of the door. He had seen it had been me calling on the caller ID, so he had come over to see me. But I wouldn't talk to him. I just kept saying how I wanted to get away from the house…so he took me over to his house. Then I told him everything…" Hikari stopped and began to bawl, holding onto Tai, who was stiff in horror at what his sister had been saying, cursing himself for not being there to help.
"Please, we need you to tell us this, this information will help your friend. You want to help him, right?" the officer coaxed Hikari like she was a wounded animal. At first she didn't want to continue, but she thought of poor Takeru, and agreed to keep going.
"I never should have told him!" Kari sobbed, "Because a couple of hours after I told him, Takeru started to make me feel better, but then HE came, that man. He had a key. He told Takeru some lie about how he left something there. Takeru yelled at him for threatening me, and the guy hit him. I cried and shouted for him to stop but he hit him a couple more times, and pulled us into Takeru's bedroom…then he tied my hand to one of the bed posts while he held down Takeru, who was struggling with him. He laughed and said it was easy to keep track of me, because he did stuff like that to other girls before. Then he licked my ear and said he was going to break my spirit first, then break my body later. So he made me watch…I didn't want to watch, but he showed me a pocketknife and said he'd slit Takeru's throat if I didn't watch what he was doing. I screamed for him to stop, but he kept hurting Takeru, hitting him and…hurting him…down there. He kept asking if it turned me on. I kept screaming for him to stop…."
Everyone in the room was frozen, horror and shock and anger continuing to boil in them with every word. "He didn't…" Kari collapsed out of her chair and onto the floor.
To be continued…