I know Meiko technically doesn't really have any family other than her parents, but just remember that this is a fanfiction. at least, I had planned on giving Davis a girlfriend in this fanfiction, which is actually being generous next to the guy responsible for the DeviantArt comic strip from which I got the inspiration to even write this fanfiction in the first place. whoever was behind that comic strip only gave Tai a girlfriend from whom to get Valentine's chocolates and left Davis to suffer the burden of staying single. now, that actually is evil.
disclamation: I do not own the 'Digimon' anime in any way, shape, or form, nor do I reign over the beings of the Digital World. I don't even know who does own the series and holds the rights to its ownership. the one thing I actually know about the anime's rights of ownership is that they're not mine.
Meanwhile, Davis and Mary chatted up their own conversation about Valentine's Day.
Daisuke 'Davis' Motomiya: You know, Mary, I was at first not sure how to react to you coming out of Tai's apartment building when you actually live in mine, but now that you're here, I guess I'm kinda glad that I ran into you on my way back to our apartment building.
Mary blushed at Davis' acknowledgement of her journey to make him feel better, and maybe even more.
Mariko 'Mary' Kanatamiki: I-I'm glad I ran into you, too, Davis. I-I actually do have a little something for you for Valentine's Day. I-I know it's not much…
Mary then held out a gigantic box of Valentine's chocolates for Davis.
Mariko 'Mary' Kanatamiki: I just hope it's enough to make up for your lack of recipience in valentine's chocolates throughout the day.
Davis at first drooled at the sight of the box of sugary treats. Upon Mary's reminder that he did not get one box of chocolates all day, however, Davis suddenly began to get the feeling that…
Mariko 'Mary' Kanatamiki: What's wrong, Davis?
Daisuke 'Davis' Motomiya: You're not giving me these chocolates out of pity, are you, Mary?
Mary saw her faux pas when she suddenly realized that she mentioned that Davis did not receive chocolates from anyone else that day. She became desperate to take back what she said.
Mariko 'Mary' Kanatamiki: NO, NO, Davis! I promise you that these chocolates aren't for pity. I just felt bad that you were treated like that all day. I felt like it wasn't fair to you. And, I…
Mary began to blush once again. Davis just became confused by her display since it at first sounded just like she only gave her chocolates to him in order to apologize for everyone else's behavior that day. Mary just could not seem to get her words out at that point, so Davis decided to encourage her with everything he had.
Daisuke 'Davis' Motomiya: Mary. Come on, Mary. You should just say what you need to say. You can get your words out. I believe in you.
Davis' last sentence echoed in Mary's mind until she finally found the courage to get her words out.
Mariko 'Mary' Kanatamiki: I really, really like you, Davis. I love you even. There. That's what I wanted to say to you, but couldn't until your encouragement reached me.
Davis appreciated the sentiment of a girl finally liking him enough to love him, but failed to understand why Mary seemed to like him at all, especially since she had always been much too pretty and nice for him.
Daisuke 'Davis' Motomiya: I'm flattered that you seem to like me enough to love me, Mary, but why do you even think that way of me? I mean, you're one of the prettier and more popular girls in our class, and you're rich enough to get any guy you want. So, why do you like me, of all the guys even in school?
With that, it now dawned on Mary that Davis already forgotten their encounter when the two of them were about eight years of age. Davis' loss of memory from that day seemed to bring Mary quite close to the brink of tears. When Davis saw this, he now became desperate to correct whatever faux pas he had done to offend her.
Daisuke 'Davis' Motomiya: I-I didn't mean to offend you, honest. I just wanted to know why you like me when you're clearly far too pretty and nice to settle for a doughy, average-looking jerk face like me.
Mariko 'Mary' Kanatamiki: It's not that, Davis. I'm really crying because you forgot that day that I treasured forever.
Then, Mary flashed back to the day about which she was talking and narrated her own flashback.
Present Day Mariko 'Mary' Kanatamiki's narration: It was around when we were both eight years old. I was going to the same school as you and Kari Kamiya at the time. Of course, I never spent much time near you nor thinking about you at that point. To me, you were just some random face in my classroom.
In her flashback, an eight-year-old Mary was just looking out the window from where she stood in the sunlit hallway. A brood of eight-year-old male bullies saw her and at first sight, all they could think of her as was a rich snob and a spoilt brat.
Young male bully #1: Come on, guys, let's give the new girl something to sad about in her perfect life.
Young male bully #2: I bet she's just as bratty as her status as basically an aristocrat makes her out to be.
Young male bully #3: I bet she doesn't even have a clue what the real world is like.
Young male bully #4: I bet she can't even go to the bathroom on her own with having an accident on the way.
Young male bully #4: I bet she's never had a homecooked meal in her life.
Young male bully #5: Yeah, she probably had her family's servants do all of her cooking. I bet she can't even do one thing without them watching over her.
Young Mariko 'Mary' Kanatamiki's thoughts: Go ahead and keep saying those things. I know taking all of your unhappiness out me without even once thinking that I, myself, might just be unhappy with my own so-called 'perfect' life is exactly what makes you feel good about being commoners. I don't even care about how it'll impact me, just go ahead and shoot me down.
It was then that the young Mary heard someone stand up for her, of all people. It was a little boy around her own age who stood up for her, judging by the sound of his voice.
Young male voice: Leave her alone, you jerks. You got some kinda nerve talking about a girl like that where she can still hear you loud and clear. You guys have got no right to bully anyone like that. You wouldn't like it if someone talked that way about you, would you?
The young Mary turned towards the young male voice and saw a dark-skinned, brown-eyed, fuchsia-brunette boy defending her from these male bullies. She was initially right about him being around her age.
Young male bully #2: So what if anyone talked that way about me, I wouldn't care, and she obviously doesn't care either. Just look at that look on her face. She's obviously desperate to shut our comments out, and that alone makes her arrogant.
Young fuchsia-brunette boy: No, it means that she's trying to do the smart thing and ignore your bullying towards her.
Young male bully #5: Didn't you even hear what she did once after failing to get outta bed on time? She ran across the street when she didn't even have the right-away. And because she's rich, she wasn't even scolded by the police officer who stopped her hundred meter dash to school. She just got a police escort to school, instead. It's not fair to the rest of us who gotta walk to school on our own.
A/N: Keep in mind that the incident I'm describing is purely a work of fantasy and has absolutely nothing to do whatsoever with anything that could possibly happen in real life. Never, ever, EVER try anything even close to that incident on your way to school, EVER! I mean it! The laws of all you pedestrians are for your own safety. If you don't obey them, the officers of the law will doubtlessly punish you. If an officer of the law does not punish you, the streetway traffic will simply kill you, seriously!
The young Mary finally decided to stand up for herself just long enough to inform her bullies that…
Young Mariko 'Mary' Kanatamiki: If you bullies need to know, I did happen to scolded and let off with a warning from the police officer that day. I was just lucky that the officer from that day was kind enough to give me a police escort to school since getting an education is just as important as pedestrian traffic laws and was a good listener. A better listener than any of you could ever even hope to be, anyway. She only gave a police escort to school because she found it unfair to ask a child to choose between obeying traffic laws and getting to school on time.
A/N: Now, isn't that a choice that no one should ever be forced to make in real life? If only, if only.
Male bully #1: Yeah, and why would we wanna hear news like that from the likes of you, Mary Mary Quite Contrary!
There it was. That awful nickname by which all of the kids in their school who did not like Mary called her. Of course, it was enough to get her to back down from her determination just long enough to turn her face away from them and start to silently cry up a monsoon.
The fuchsia-brunette boy, however, snapped after hearing what this cruel nickname seemed to do to this poor girl. He snapped alright just enough to become the bully, himself, towards this brood of jerk faces, especially considering their responses to Mary's reaction from right before the fuchsia-brunette boy had snapped.
Young male bully #3: What a loser.
The third bully chuckled harder than a monkey's cheeky laughter.
Young male bully #4: Yeah, she'll never amount to anything except for the aristocratic trash that she really is.
Then, the entire brood of male bullies joined in on their collective laughter at Mary's expense fest.
Young fuchsia-brunette boy: Shut up, all of you!
One of the male bullies then dared to ask the fuchsia- brunette boy what he had just said to them…
Young male bully #1: Huh, you say something, y_
… only for the first male bully to get scared half to death at the very sight of what welcomed him on the fuchsia-brunette-haired boy's face. It was so terrifying, in fact, that the first male bully became far too scared to respond any further.
Young fuchsia-brunette boy: Who do any of you think you are to say that being rich automatically makes you snob? Do you all think that poor people can't be demanding, too? Just who do you think you are? Do you think you're kings of the world or something, huh? Well, answer me! Where's your self-righteous fury, now?
The young Mary saw where this was going for this boy and her male bullies. It seemed like only she could do something about it.
Young Mariko 'Mary' Kanatamiki: That's enough, kid. Leave them alone. They've had enough.
It was right then and there that the fuchsia-brunette boy looked directly into the young Mary's eyes and saw that she was still crying, only for her own bullies at that moment.
Young Mariko 'Mary' Kanatamiki: Please, leave them alone. If not for them or for yourself, than leave them alone for me. I can't stand all of this bullying, anymore. I don't even care who the bully is, anymore. It just has to stop.
With these words from the young Mary's lips, the fuchsia-brunette boy decided that it was, indeed, time to settle down and let the bullies be. So, the brunette-haired boy finally seemed to let it go.
Of course, the male bullies were not willing to let it go, though…
Young male bully #1: You just wait, girly girl. No girl ever gets our own bully to back down from bullying us. We're more than capable of doing that ourselves.
… and unfortunately for the male bullies, the teacher happened to hear what had gone down.
Teacher: And, just what if Miss Kanatamiki could have handled all of you on her own? What do you suppose could have happened to you, then? Hmm, Mr. Hamadaki and school bully brood?
The first of the male bullies, Sho Hamadaki, and his entire 'school bully brood', as the whole gang of jerk faces were known as by the teachers, finally turned around just long enough to see the real reason why Mary had wanted her hero to stop bullying her bullies.
As if their luck could not get any worse, the teacher who happened to learn about their bullying this time was none other than Temari Wanjiku-sensei, or as the school bully brood usually called her, Godzilla-sensei. The school bully brood called her Godzilla-sensei because she would holler at any of her students would behave poorly, but she really seemed to have it out for bullies like them.
A/N: I am very much not sorry for all this evil towards bullies. I really hated it with every fiber of my being whenever it happened to me, even when it would have been forced upon me as a form of affection. I do not believe in teasing someone out of love, period! It's nothing short of a type of hate crime in my book and deserves to be treated as such. I do, however, love it if bullies get what they deserve. I also happen to believe in karma.
Meanwhile with the young Mary and the fuchsia-brunette boy who helped her out, they had managed to walk away from the situation just in time to escape the wrath of Godzilla-sensei for being late for getting back to class. Although they failed to make it back before the school bell rang, the two of them had actually managed to get back to class in time since their teacher for the class they had just after their lunch break was running late, again. The fuchsia-brunette boy did not feel the need to let the teacher know, but the young Mary seemed to feel like it would have been the right thing to do.
Young Mariko 'Mary' Kanatamiki: Excuse me, sensei. I know I actually managed to get back to class before you even walked through the door, but both me and this brunette-haired boy next to me were a little late getting back to class.
The fuchsia-brunette boy could not believe that the girl he had the nerve to rescue from bullies thanked him for the rescue by snitching to the teacher on the both of them. Luckily for the brunette-haired boy, the teacher for the present lecture happened to be none other than the exceedingly clumsy, near sighted and quite befuddled Haruki Kanamori-sensei, otherwise known to his students as Mr. Adorkable-san.
Haruki Kanamori-sensei: Ah, yes, Miss Mary Kanatamiki, I see you finally managed to make a friend in school. Still, why is a girl with such as perfect a school record from a wealthy family as yourself suddenly friends with the slightly rude, scatterbrained, and ever-tardy Mr. Davis Motomiya?
The young Mary pretended to ponder her explanation for a second before she finally answered with…
Young Mariko 'Mary' Kanatamiki: It's simple, really. He stood up for me against the much bigger jerk faces that are the school bully brood.
Haruki Kanamori-sensei: Well, I suppose that could help with Mr. Motomiya's own school regimen and his studies if you're suddenly his friend. There is also considering that if he's lucky enough to catch any of it, Miss Kanatamiki, some of your own gentleness and compassion might just rub off on him. So long as it doesn't go in the wrong direction, I guess it would be alright for you to be friends with whomever you want, Miss Kanatamiki.
Young Mariko 'Mary' Kanatamiki: Thanks for the heads up, Haruki Kanamori-sensei. I'll keep it in mind. And hey, I'll also have my friend, Kari Kamiya, to help me keep him in line.
The fuchsia-brunette boy, this Davis Motomiya, did not understand the young Mary's motivations, anymore.
Young Daisuke 'Davis' Motomiya: Why did you even snitch on the both of us if you already knew that the teacher would go easy on someone like you while I would have been at risk of getting a months' worth of detentions? Is something wrong with your brain? What did you even snitch on both of us for?
Young Mariko 'Mary' Kanatamiki: To find out the name of my rescuer from the teacher, g'doy!
This motive of the girl he had rescued from bullies recently confused Davis to no end.
Young Daisuke 'Davis' Motomiya: You mean to say that you only snitched the both of us to find out my name?
Young Mariko 'Mary' Kanatamiki: Exactly. The teachers are always the way I learn names.
Young Daisuke 'Davis' Motomiya: You do realize that you could've easily just asked me what my name was instead of snitching on the both of us like that just to find out.
Young Mariko 'Mary' Kanatamiki: I was a bad girl to be late to class. I felt like it was only the right thing to do.
end of Mary's flashback
Mary suddenly began to speak to Davis about that one day as soon as she finished her flashback. Of course, Davis tried his absolute hardest to pay close attention to Mary, but he was overjoyed when she was finally done.
Mariko 'Mary' Kanatamiki: Ever since that day, Davis, I actually liked you just the way you were, warts and all. I never thought you would've forgotten about it by now. I can't believe what a stupid mistake I made just by letting someone come to my own rescue from the school bully brood that day; a mistake I won't make twice in one lifetime.
Mary was now ready to leave in tears and go running right back to her family. Davis stopped her by grabbing her wrist before she could leave, though.
Daisuke 'Davis' Motomiya: Wait a minute, Mary. Now, I have something that I need to say.
Mariko 'Mary' Kanatamiki: Let me go, Davis. I'm done with you.
Daisuke 'Davis' Motomiya: Not until you let me say what I need to say now more than ever.
Mariko 'Mary' Kanatamiki: NO, Davis. I'm done with giving you attention and chances.
Daisuke 'Davis' Motomiya: Just let me tell you something… something I now know that I should've said to you a long time ago.
With this sentence spilling out of his mouth, Mary finally decided to let Davis talk to her.
Daisuke 'Davis' Motomiya: I'm sorry if I had forgotten about my rescue of you all those years ago. I guess that I was always just so enchanted by Kari's own beauty that I seemed unable to look for any other vision. I finally realized today that Kari will never love me the way I am in this lifetime or in any other. Her heart belongs only to T.K., in this life and every other of their lifetimes together. I can only wish the two of them happiness after today. I'm just glad that I could find someone else for me in the same day.
Mariko 'Mary' Kanatamiki: I just wanted to show you that at least someone out there thought you were special, Davis.
Daisuke 'Davis' Motomiya: You have got no idea just how happy you made me simply by choosing me, of all the guys in the entire school, to give your own Valentine's chocolates to, Mary.
With that, Davis and Mary walked back to their own apartment building together, hand in hand.