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At the Takaishi apartment...

Takeru had reached the door, and pulled off a note attached from his mother, that his brother would be there by 5:00; and watch him for her, as she had to be out of town.  He sighed.  She still thinks I'm a baby. he thought.  HE walked inside, knowing no one was home, and then shouted,

"I GOT A DATE WITH HIKARI!!!!!  YAHOO!!!!!" Takeru shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Whoa, you finally did it bro." said an unknown voice, coming from Takeru's room.

"Matt?!" Takeru turned around in haste, turning red rather quickly.

"The one and only."  Out stepped Yamato, Takeru's brother.  He placed a brotherly hand on Takeru's shoulders.  "You've grown so much..."

"Thanks Matt."

"Oh TK, since you've grown so much, make us some dinner, I'm starving!" said Matt, mischievous grin spread across his face.  Takeru just started to prepare in defeat.

At the Yamiga apartment...

Hikari was still fuming at her brother.  Once inside, Taichi put a reassuring hand on her shoulder.

"Heh, sorry Kari." said Taichi.

"Ok..." replied Hikari.

"Oh, and I guess TK would like to know about the number of times you scribbled his name out."

"What?"  Taichi revealed that he was now holding Hikari's diary, and started to dash for the cordless phone.  "Hmm... what was his number again?"  He pretended to look through her diary, knowing it would be somewhere in there.

"TAICHI!!!!!" screamed a very angry, and very red Hikari.  Taichi zipped into his room and locked the door.  He took the phone with him.  He set the volume level to very loud and shouted:

"Found it!  Let's see, 4-8-7..." Hikari started to blush more furiously as she pounded on his door.  Her parents were both on a trip to their grandparents' place.

"TAICHI!!!!!" she screamed again.

"It's ringing..."

"TAICHI!!!!!"

"Hey T - oh, Matt?  TK there?" asked Taichi.  The phone had rung at the Takaishi apartment.  Yamato had answered it.

"TAICHI!!!!!" Hikari screamed for a fourth time.

"Who's that?" asked Yamato, hearing Hikari scream Taichi's name.

"Just Kari... erm, I'm holding her diary hostage," Taichi said louder, but then he softened his voice until only Yamato could hear.  "Talk loud; I want her to hear all of this."

"Right," Yamato whispered.  "Hey Tai," He then started to speak up. "Hold on, I'm gonna get TK.  Be right back." Taichi's plan worked; Hikari heard all of this.  She started to go wide-eyed, and deep scarlet.  At the Takaishi apartment, Yamato gave the phone to Takeru and told him to speak loudly.

"Why?" Takeru asked Yamato.

"Tai's speaking; Kari's hollering at him from behind a door."  All Takeru could do was laugh.

"Hey Tai?" Takeru spoke, loudly.  "What's up?"

"Oh, hey TK." Taichi spoke loudly, which at that point Hikari started to bang on the door even harder.

"Who's that?" Takeru asked."

"It's Hikari.  Oh, did I mention her diary, TK?"

"TAICHI!!!!" Hikari screamed for the fifth time.

"No, you didn't Tai."

"Well... in the car, she was writing your name about 10... 11... 12... no, 20 times, in pink ink, hearts written around all of them." said Taichi, grinning.  Hikari felt like she wanted to die, just like that.  She stop banging on Taichi's door, her little hands all red from the friction.  Tears were falling down her face, in embarrassment.  Her face was very red indeed.

"Tai...  I want to speak to Hikari..."

"Sure...  Hey Kari, phone!"  He unlocked his door and quickly tossed it out to Hikari.  She grasped it with trembling fingers.

"T-T-Takeru?"

"Hi Hikari."

"Did you want to speak to me about something?"  Great, she thought, He's gonna say that he doesn't like me.

"No, never mind.  See you on our date on Saturday.  Bye."  Takeru hung up the phone, unable to express his feelings.  When Yamato saw what he did, he couldn't help but give a right hook to Takeru's face.

"Sorry," he apologized.  "It seemed like you needed it."

"Thanks," said Takeru, surprisingly.

Blocks away, meanwhile...

Hikari just stood there, eyes wide open, the phone waiting to be hung up, with the distant beeping sound.

"Takeru..."

TO BE CONTINUED...

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I guess I lied about their date being this chapter =P  Somehow, this seems shorter than the rest.. oh well. =P  Aren't I nice?  Practically no reviews (except for the two I counted) and I write 3 chapters =P  As always, R&R plz  Criticisms welcome