Yo-Yo

Chapter 2: Day of Reckoning

By: ChaoticSpecter

Disclaimer: I do not own anything pertaining to Digimon. This is being written for entertainment purposes only.

A/N: This fic contains shonen-ai. If this offends you in any way please hit the back button on your browser. All of you brave enough to keep reading this enjoy. I would like to take the time extend my eternal gratitude to those of you that reviewed. I appreciate you taking the time to tell me what you thought of my little piece of fiction. You guys rock! .

Today was undoubtedly the worst day of my life. The day just progressed form bad to worse, I mean, just when I didn't think it could get any worse, it did. Yes, today was one for the record books. The first thing happened while I was walking around the kitchen looking for something- I don't even remember what the hell I was looking for anymore. But I burned the hell out of myself, so I am now proudly sporting a large burn mark on my left forearm. After giving myself a third degree burn, I headed to school where I discovered that I failed to grab the project that I had been killing myself to complete for the past week. And not only did I forget this project, I forgot every piece of homework due today and my mother could not bring any of it because she was out for the day. I sulked about this until lunch where I discovered the worst news of the day up until that point.

I threw myself next to Daisuke fully intending to sleep the rest of the day--or the lunch period, whatever--away when Yamato waltzed up to the table with a girl form our sixth period class and proceeded to rip my heart out of my chest. At least that's what it felt like he was doing.

"Hey guys, this is Karen, she's my new girlfriend," Yamato said looking me directly in the eyes. How could he be so cruel? Everyone started to politely introduce themselves while I just stared stupidly. I didn't know what to think.

His girlfriend! I thought incredulously. His fucking girlfriend? He never even said anything about this girl until today and now he just ups and announces in front of everyone that they're dating. I felt so used. I know Yamato and I have been sleeping together and that he doesn't want anyone to know about it, but I expected more from him. Yamato is my best friend; I didn't expect him to disrespect me in such a way--And to smirk at me while he was saying it. I shut my eyes in shame. Yamato could be so incredibly heartless at times.

"I have to meet some people for a project," I mumbled as I stood to leave the table. Everyone cast suspicious glances in my direction but I could care less. I actually did have a group meeting to attend, but I was going to blow it off in favor of sleep after the incredibly fucked up morning I had. Then Yamato showed up and suddenly the meeting seemed infinitely more inviting. God, I fucking hate Yamato sometimes. That fucking bastard.

I spent the rest of the day avoiding everyone and ignoring Yamato during our shared classes. I was so incredibly fed up with everything by the time school let out that I wanted to scream. Why can't I seem to catch a break lately? What God did I piss off to deserve this type of punishment? I was knocked out of my self-depreciating thoughts when I ran into a wall and fell flat on my ass. I just gave up and stayed on the ground. What was the point in getting up when I'd probably be back in the same place in five minutes?

I lay flat on my back staring at the ceiling for what felt like forever in an attempt to calm down. At least that was what I was doing, until Yamato's face hovered into my line of vision. I let out a startled yelp and attempted to recoil in my shock, but all I got for the attempt was a headache. Yes, I smashed my own head on the floor of the deserted hallway.

Yamato merely raised an eyebrow at my actions while I attempted to stand with as much dignity as I could. As it turns out, it was Yamato that I had run into, not the wall. Just my luck, literally running into the exact person I was hoping to avoid. As soon as I was back on my feet Yamato was shoving me against the wall of lockers knocking the breath out of me. Great, like I hadn't been banged up enough today.

"What the hell is your problem, Yagami!" he hissed. I just stared blankly. He couldn't possibly be confused as to why I would want to avoid him. It's painfully obvious. "Answer me," he growled fisting his hand in my shirt.

"What do you want me to say, Ishida?" I asked voice cold. Yamato seemed surprised, his eyes widened slightly and his grip on my shirt went lax.

"What's the matter with you?" he asked voice soft his eyes peering intently into my own. I could only laugh in response.

I used his surprise to get away from him. "What's wrong with me?" I asked incredulously. "Do you even have to ask? I should think it was obvious." I bent to grab my backpack from where it had fallen when I had run into the brick wall known as Ishida Yamato.

"Taichi… if this is about Karen you're being unreasonable. She's just some girl. She could never replace you."

I could only stare at him in shock for a few minutes. Did he really just say what I thought he did? "I'm being unreasonable!" I yelled when I was finally able to find my voice. "Me!" I couldn't believe it. Of all the shit for him to pull. "I'm not the one fucking my best friend and keeping it a secret! I'm not the one who went out and found himself a girlfriend on top of that.," I just couldn't believe him. How could he even be surprised that I'm upset? He's so ashamed of me that he doesn't even tell anyone about me then he goes out and dates some random girl he's never shown an interest in and I'm supposed to be happy about that? He never thinks about how any of this shit makes me feel.

"I told you she can't replace you, Taichi," he said while looking at me like that one sentence solved everything.

"Fuck that, Yamato. I don't care about that shit anymore. You want your girlfriend, you got it. Leave me the fuck alone!" I then pushed past him with the full intention of going home and falling into a coma--or as close to one as sleep would allow. And with any luck I would be able to talk my mother into letting me stay home tomorrow. But I never got that far. Yamato grabbed my arm as I passed him and pulled me back toward him. Unfortunately he happened to grab the arm I burned this morning. Suffice to say it was painful. I screamed and wrenched my arm away from him while Yamato looked on in concern. I scoffed at the thought. Now the bastard is concerned. Right.

"Tai-chan, what's wrong with your arm?" he asked while reaching out to grab it and I stepped away from him.

"Nothing, I just need to go home."

"Bullshit," he said and wrenched my arm from the protective hold I had put it in and rolling up the sleeves. "Jesus, Tai," he said as soon as he uncovered the burn. "When the hell did you do this?"

"What does it matter? It's done."

"Did you even clean this?" he asked while tentatively touching at the edges of the wound. I didn't bother responding and turned my head opting to stare at the wall while he decided to play doctor. He dragged me to the restroom where he cleaned and bandaged it. I guess that bandage he carried around in his backpack actually came in handy for once. He started carrying it around a couple of years ago after we had gotten into a particularly bad fight and got into trouble for it only because we had to go to the nurse's office. "There," he said when he had finished.

"Yeah," I said pulling my arm away and picking up my backpack yet again. "I have to go."

"Taichi, you're going to talk to me. And you're going to do it now," he said before taking my hand and dragging me through the deserted hallways. When we made it towards the end of the school grounds, Yamato let go of my hand, but kept a discreet grip on my coat sleeve. We reached Yamato's apartment and had barely closed the door before he immediately picked up where our 'conversation' had ended. He gazed at me intently from his spot on the sofa for a few minutes before he started speaking.

"Tell me Taichi…Are you really so threatened by that little know it all girl?"

"What does that matter, Yamato? She's your girlfriend. It doesn't matter if I'm threatened or not." This was so pointless. Why does he insist on bothering me when he has obviously decided that he's tired of me?

"Obviously it does, I wouldn't bother asking you otherwise. You know that."

"What the hell is the point?"

"If you feel threatened by her, I will simply have to go find another girl that you don't feel threatened by. I wouldn't want you to be unhappy if I could make it otherwise."

"You're not making sense."

"No, I'm making perfect sense. It's just that you aren't listening."

"Just tell me what you want, Yamato. I'm tired; I just want to go home."

"You aren't going anywhere until I finish with you," he said voice sharp, eyes intense. He gets so uptight about the weirdest things. Why the hell should he always be concerned about where I am? Why does he feel the need to make so many demands on my time?

"Whatever, Yamato. Just tell me what you want."

"I asked you a question and you never bothered to answer it."

"What question?"

"Are you jealous of Karen?" that struck a chord. I was jealous, but not because she was a girl. I was jealous because Yamato openly acknowledged her while hiding me like I'm something to be ashamed of. I'm jealous because she more than likely knows what Yamato wants from her. I'm jealous of so many things, none of them things I would be jealous of if Yamato would just treat me with a little respect. Why is it that he always treats me differently no matter the situation? Why is it that as his best friend I always seem to be shortchanged? Isn't that supposed to be the other way around? I'm so tired of him fucking with me, it's ridiculous. "Well?" he prompted when no answer was forthcoming.

"Not really," was all I could bring myself to say.

"I know you're jealous, baby," he said closing the space between us. "You can't hide things like that from me, you're too honest," he brought a hand up and started running his fingers through my hair. "Just tell me what you want and I'll do my best to make it happen."

"Earlier you said that you would find someone that I didn't feel threatened by," Yamato nodded his head as I said this peering at me intently hand still stroking my hair. "Does this mean that you intend to date someone else even while you are with me?" I asked already feeling the anger build.

"Of course," he said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. I could have strangled him.

I pulled away from Yamato before responding. "What makes you think that I'll go along with this?"

"Why wouldn't you?" he asked his confusion clearly evident. "It's a mutually beneficial arrangement. I can date someone else and still have the opportunity to be with you. You could do the same as well if you wanted." He sounded hesitant to add that last part.

"Why would you want to be with me when you can just be with someone else? You're making an uncomplicated situation more complicated than it has to be. You're dating Karen now; let's just leave it at that."

"No. Karen is not important, you are. I want you to be happy, Taichi. If you are not happy with my choice in a girlfriend, just tell me. I'll even let you choose the girl if you want," he said while slowly closing the space between us once again and slipping his arms around me.

I shook my head. "No, Yamato," I said and tried to move away from him but Yamato tightened his grip on me.

"You can't leave me, Tai-chan," he whispered before claiming my lips with his own. One of his hands slipped into my hair and I moaned. Why does he always do this? Every time I try to end this madness he overwhelms me and I end up giving in.

"You have to stay with me," he whispered when he broke our kiss trailing his lips along my jaw. His lips grazed my neck and I whimpered clinging to him wanting to feel more. The battle was lost even before Yamato made his first move. God, I hate being so weak.

To be continued……….

A/N: This piece of fiction will be a little weird because I'm in a weird place right now. So I apologize in advance for any overt weirdness anywhere. However, I urge you to keep in mind that this is semi-AU so some discrepancies are to be expected.