Diplomacy
Author's Note: Set during Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning. Enjoy the story and R&R.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to or of the Digimon series.
Pairings: Established Taichi x Koushiro. Referenced one-sided (canon) Daisuke x Hikari.
Summary:
Taichi has a thing against Koushiro's tie, whereas Hikari thinks he's focused on the wrong tie.
Of obvious concern was the giant Digi-Egg above Tokyo Tower, but that wasn't the biggest shadow looming over Yagami Hikari at the moment.
She'd called her big brother to check how he was doing in this climate of fear and uncertainty, and his response had been rightly snippy.
"Hikari, how can you be calling me at such a busy time?"
What was the giant Digi-Egg in the sky?
What was the message it was sending out?
How should the governments of the world react?
These were some of the questions directed ad infinitum toward Taichi and Koushiro. They were up to their necks in the press, cameras and microphones on them at all times.
Their hectic position in the current crisis wasn't the cause of Hikari's minor hesitation. She wasn't feeling guilty because she called while they were busy.
She was feeling guilty because she called while they were busy.
Reports and reporters everywhere, yet they'd finally gotten away for a second, and she'd interrupted!
Hikari sensed the undercurrent of a laugh coming on. Koushiro was protesting Taichi pulling his tie off – and after it took him a billion tries to learn how to tie one by himself without his mother or Takeru's assistance!
She apologized, said goodbye, and pretended to hang up. As expected, Taichi's hands were so busy, he put his phone down from between his ear and shoulder, forgetting to end the call on his end.
It was funny listening to her brother fumble his lips up (down?) to Koushiro's.
She'd been peeping in on them since she was in the fifth grade. So much had changed, but so much was unchanged.
Oniichan's clumsy handling of Koushiro-san.
Koushiro-san's ineffective condemnations, at odds with how he really felt about Oniichan.
Takeru-kun chuckling knowingly behind her.
Daisuke-kun squeezing his fists unknowingly, convinced she and Takeru-kun were hiding something romantic from him.
She and Takeru-kun were, but not anything between them.
Oniichan and Koushiro-san on the other hand…
"Aw crap! Hikari, is that you?" Taichi ugh'd.
"Taichi-san, my tie!" Koushiro yelled at him again.
"Why don't you and Koushiro-san tie the knot already, Oniichan?" Hikari proposed he propose.
