A week later...Thursday night....Dance countdown: 1 day
"Tai, can I talk to you about something?" Kari asked as she walked into his room.
Her brother was laying on top of his bed, writing on a piece of paper with his History text
book sprawled out in front of him. He was supposedly doing his homework, but he didn't notice that his sister walked into the room.
"Tai?" Kari poked him in the shoulder.
"Wha??" Taichi yelped and quickly covered the piece of paper. "Hikari, don't
scare me like that!"
Hikari just gave him a weird look. "What are you hiding?"
"Oh, um, nothing. I'm not hiding anything, what makes you think I'm hiding
something??" Behind his back, he quickly tore off the paper from the spiral notebook,
crumpled it up, and tossed it in his trashcan.
Talk about being subtle...Hikari thought with a smile playing on her lips. She
cleared her throat. "Um....Taichi, I wanted to talk to you about something..."
"Sure." He cleared the textbook and notebook off his bed, and gestured to the
empty spot. "Sit down. What do you want to talk about?"
"Umm....It's sort of about TK...." she said, trying not to blush.
Tai raised his eyebrow. "What about him?"
"He....he's acting all weird around me," she replied, frowning. "I don't know
what's wrong with him. He barely listens to me, and he doesn't come over after school
anymore,-"
"Yeah, I noticed that," Taichi interrupted. "He's usually walking home with you,
isn't he?"
"Yup...whenever he doesn't have basketball practice, that is," Kari said. "He
doesn't even hang out with me that much anymore. And whenever I call him on the
phone, he says he has to do something, and he'll call me back. But he never does. And at school, he always tries to get away from me. It's like he's avoiding me." Hikari thought back to that day when she tried to talk to Takeru at school....
Hikari was waiting at Takeru's locker during dismissal. She really needed to talk
to him, and it seemed like a life time since the day they last chatted. It seemed like
eternity since the last time they even hung out as friends.
"Hey TK!" Hikari called out, as she saw the blonde walking toward his locker.
She noticed that his blue eyes didn't have the same sparkle that they usually did.
Takeru saw Hikari waiting at his locker, smiling and waving at him....
And he turned and ran in the opposite direction.
"How long has he been like this?" Taichi wanted to know.
"Oh, I don't know," Hikari said. "Maybe, like, a week? He really has been acting
strange. I watched his basketball practice yesterday, and he missed a foul shot. He never misses foul shots! And to top it all off, he seemed so distracted, the basketball whacked him on the head."
Taichi was surprised. "Really? That seems so un-TK like....Maybe someone was
messing with him at school. Or insulted him, or something," he suggested lamely. They both knew that TK was very well known at school and one of the most popular boys in the class. No one ever messed with him, even though he wasn't the fighting type at all.
"I asked his friends on the basketball team afterward if there was anything wrong
with him," Hikari said, looking at her hands. "They said that he's been acting like that all week....missing the ball, letting it slip out of his hands, getting hit by it....The coach
seemed really pissed. They said he was about to take him out of the big game this
Saturday, but then he thought about it. It turns out he trusts Takeru, and has faith that hewon't mess up on the game."
"Well, that's good," Tai replied. Something came to mind. "Kari, I want you to
think very hard. When was the first time last week that Takeru acted weird?"
Hikari sighed. This isn't going very well, she thought. I've been thinking so hard
about it, my head is about to burst. She looked at her brother, Taichi, who was looking
back at her, expectantly. His brown eyes were looking at her with patience. A very
familiar look to Kari. Almost like....
Daisuke! she thought with a jolt.
That day when I first told Takeru about me and Daisuke, she realized. He did
seem a little quiet when we all walked to school. Now that she thought about it, it wasn't like him to forget to study for a test, like he told Daisuke when she asked him if anything was wrong. He looked very distracted all day. He even avoided eye contact with Daisuke and Hikari. It was like he was thinking about something else....
Is it possible...?? Hikari thought, as her heart started beating faster. Could he
like-
"Well?" Taichi asked, interrupting her thoughts.
She told him about what she found out, and when she was finished, she saw a
sparkle in his eyes. He smiled a little, and tried very hard not to laugh.
"What??" she demanded.
"You're going to laugh at me if I tell you," Taichi said.
"No I won't. Tell me!" Hikari said, frowning.
"I have a feeling that maybe....just maybe....that Takeru has a crush on you."
Hikari stared at him. This was exactly what she was thinking. This was exactly
what she was hoping. She liked Takeru ever since the Digiworld, and now she knows that it's possible that he likes her back! Now, wait a minute, she stopped herself. You're with Daisuke, remember? Takeru is just your friend. He is just your friend and nothing more.
Hikari crossed her arms stubbornly and said, "Well, I don't like him. I'm with
Daisuke."
Tai looked at his little sister, and saw color coming up on her cheeks. He knew
she liked Takeru, but she didn't want to admit it to him. Or herself. "Hikari...." started
Taichi. "Tell me something....What do you think of Daisuke?"
Her face lit up. "Oh, he's great! He's smart, and funny, and sweet, and
kind.....Takeru was right about giving him a chance."
"Okay, put him aside from your mind," instructed Tai. "What do you think of
Takeru?"
Hikari smiled. "He's awesome too. He's always been there for me, ever since we
were little kids. He's such a great friend."
"Friend? Is that it?" Taichi inquired.
Hikari opened her mouth to say yes, but nothing came out. She thought about it.
Hard.
Do I really like him only as a friend? Am I denying myself?
"I don't know, Tai," she admitted. "I just don't know...."
"Well, I guess you need to sleep on it. It's getting late," he said.
"Yeah...I guess you're right. Good night, Tai. Thanks," she said as she got up,
and gave him a hug, but a thought struck her. She smiled, and promised herself to take
care of it later.
"Anytime," he said, hugging her back.
When it was midnight, Hikari got out of bed, and crept slowly down the hall to
Taichi's room. Making sure not to wake anyone up, she slowly opened the door, praying that it wouldn't squeak. It didn't.
Tai was snoring sleepily, as his sister crawled in, searching for the spot where he
kept his trashcan. But it wasn't easy, since she couldn't see anything. All she had was a little key chain light that barely worked. She accidentally bumped into the edge of his bed, and made a thunking sound.
Hikari winced as Taichi moved from his deep sleep. But he just turned over and
started snoring again.
Letting out a big and quiet breath, she made her way to the trashcan, and looked
inside. She found what she was looking for, since Taichi crumples up his pieces of paper in a certain way, even though he never knew it. Slowly and silently, she crept back to her room, and turned on a light. She opened up the piece of paper, the same one Tai threw out when she walked in his room.
She smiled a laughed quietly as she saw the big heart and the words 'Sora
Takenouchi and Taichi Yagami 4ever' and below the heart, in small print 'Taichi loves
Sora, Sora loves Taichi' and little hearts all around the page.
This is going to be good blackmail one of these days, she laughed to herself, as
she hid it in her bookshelf and went back to sleep.
Journal entries that same night....
Takeru:
I've been so bummed lately! It's the thing with Hikari, I know it. I just love her so much.
I hope I get the courage to tell her soon. But what good will that do? I'll only embarrass
myself. She doesn't really care for me, I know it. It always seems like she's ignoring
me....well, okay, I always ignore her first. But what can I do? She's so hung up with Dais lately, I don't want to ruin her life....
Daisuke:
Kari or Tammy....Kari or Tammy....Kari or Tammy....Augh! I can't seem to make up my
mind! Tamashi and I have spent a lot of time together this week. I'm surprised Hikari
didn't slap me yet....I know! I'll flip a coin! Head for Hikari, Tails for Tamashi....Damn,
it landed on Kari! Wait, I should be happy! Augh, okay, once more....Okay, it landed on Tammy....That's good right? No! It's wrong! Okay, two out of five....
He does this all night until he did it so many times, he forgot who had the most number of flips. He gives up and goes to bed.
Tamashi:
I don't care what really happens to that Yagami girl. Daisuke is practically drooling over
me! He's going to be mine as soon as the dance tomorrow ends....
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>.< Okay, this fic is totally getting sucky. I fast-forwarded it a week, coz I know some of u guys are gettin tired of my rambling chapters, and want some Takari. So, the next chapter is going to be the dance. I know, finally! I just had to stick this in, coz I wanted u to know what was going on in Tamashi's mind, and Hikari needed that talk with Taichi so....Well, I'll be back soon!
"Tai, can I talk to you about something?" Kari asked as she walked into his room.
Her brother was laying on top of his bed, writing on a piece of paper with his History text
book sprawled out in front of him. He was supposedly doing his homework, but he didn't notice that his sister walked into the room.
"Tai?" Kari poked him in the shoulder.
"Wha??" Taichi yelped and quickly covered the piece of paper. "Hikari, don't
scare me like that!"
Hikari just gave him a weird look. "What are you hiding?"
"Oh, um, nothing. I'm not hiding anything, what makes you think I'm hiding
something??" Behind his back, he quickly tore off the paper from the spiral notebook,
crumpled it up, and tossed it in his trashcan.
Talk about being subtle...Hikari thought with a smile playing on her lips. She
cleared her throat. "Um....Taichi, I wanted to talk to you about something..."
"Sure." He cleared the textbook and notebook off his bed, and gestured to the
empty spot. "Sit down. What do you want to talk about?"
"Umm....It's sort of about TK...." she said, trying not to blush.
Tai raised his eyebrow. "What about him?"
"He....he's acting all weird around me," she replied, frowning. "I don't know
what's wrong with him. He barely listens to me, and he doesn't come over after school
anymore,-"
"Yeah, I noticed that," Taichi interrupted. "He's usually walking home with you,
isn't he?"
"Yup...whenever he doesn't have basketball practice, that is," Kari said. "He
doesn't even hang out with me that much anymore. And whenever I call him on the
phone, he says he has to do something, and he'll call me back. But he never does. And at school, he always tries to get away from me. It's like he's avoiding me." Hikari thought back to that day when she tried to talk to Takeru at school....
Hikari was waiting at Takeru's locker during dismissal. She really needed to talk
to him, and it seemed like a life time since the day they last chatted. It seemed like
eternity since the last time they even hung out as friends.
"Hey TK!" Hikari called out, as she saw the blonde walking toward his locker.
She noticed that his blue eyes didn't have the same sparkle that they usually did.
Takeru saw Hikari waiting at his locker, smiling and waving at him....
And he turned and ran in the opposite direction.
"How long has he been like this?" Taichi wanted to know.
"Oh, I don't know," Hikari said. "Maybe, like, a week? He really has been acting
strange. I watched his basketball practice yesterday, and he missed a foul shot. He never misses foul shots! And to top it all off, he seemed so distracted, the basketball whacked him on the head."
Taichi was surprised. "Really? That seems so un-TK like....Maybe someone was
messing with him at school. Or insulted him, or something," he suggested lamely. They both knew that TK was very well known at school and one of the most popular boys in the class. No one ever messed with him, even though he wasn't the fighting type at all.
"I asked his friends on the basketball team afterward if there was anything wrong
with him," Hikari said, looking at her hands. "They said that he's been acting like that all week....missing the ball, letting it slip out of his hands, getting hit by it....The coach
seemed really pissed. They said he was about to take him out of the big game this
Saturday, but then he thought about it. It turns out he trusts Takeru, and has faith that hewon't mess up on the game."
"Well, that's good," Tai replied. Something came to mind. "Kari, I want you to
think very hard. When was the first time last week that Takeru acted weird?"
Hikari sighed. This isn't going very well, she thought. I've been thinking so hard
about it, my head is about to burst. She looked at her brother, Taichi, who was looking
back at her, expectantly. His brown eyes were looking at her with patience. A very
familiar look to Kari. Almost like....
Daisuke! she thought with a jolt.
That day when I first told Takeru about me and Daisuke, she realized. He did
seem a little quiet when we all walked to school. Now that she thought about it, it wasn't like him to forget to study for a test, like he told Daisuke when she asked him if anything was wrong. He looked very distracted all day. He even avoided eye contact with Daisuke and Hikari. It was like he was thinking about something else....
Is it possible...?? Hikari thought, as her heart started beating faster. Could he
like-
"Well?" Taichi asked, interrupting her thoughts.
She told him about what she found out, and when she was finished, she saw a
sparkle in his eyes. He smiled a little, and tried very hard not to laugh.
"What??" she demanded.
"You're going to laugh at me if I tell you," Taichi said.
"No I won't. Tell me!" Hikari said, frowning.
"I have a feeling that maybe....just maybe....that Takeru has a crush on you."
Hikari stared at him. This was exactly what she was thinking. This was exactly
what she was hoping. She liked Takeru ever since the Digiworld, and now she knows that it's possible that he likes her back! Now, wait a minute, she stopped herself. You're with Daisuke, remember? Takeru is just your friend. He is just your friend and nothing more.
Hikari crossed her arms stubbornly and said, "Well, I don't like him. I'm with
Daisuke."
Tai looked at his little sister, and saw color coming up on her cheeks. He knew
she liked Takeru, but she didn't want to admit it to him. Or herself. "Hikari...." started
Taichi. "Tell me something....What do you think of Daisuke?"
Her face lit up. "Oh, he's great! He's smart, and funny, and sweet, and
kind.....Takeru was right about giving him a chance."
"Okay, put him aside from your mind," instructed Tai. "What do you think of
Takeru?"
Hikari smiled. "He's awesome too. He's always been there for me, ever since we
were little kids. He's such a great friend."
"Friend? Is that it?" Taichi inquired.
Hikari opened her mouth to say yes, but nothing came out. She thought about it.
Hard.
Do I really like him only as a friend? Am I denying myself?
"I don't know, Tai," she admitted. "I just don't know...."
"Well, I guess you need to sleep on it. It's getting late," he said.
"Yeah...I guess you're right. Good night, Tai. Thanks," she said as she got up,
and gave him a hug, but a thought struck her. She smiled, and promised herself to take
care of it later.
"Anytime," he said, hugging her back.
When it was midnight, Hikari got out of bed, and crept slowly down the hall to
Taichi's room. Making sure not to wake anyone up, she slowly opened the door, praying that it wouldn't squeak. It didn't.
Tai was snoring sleepily, as his sister crawled in, searching for the spot where he
kept his trashcan. But it wasn't easy, since she couldn't see anything. All she had was a little key chain light that barely worked. She accidentally bumped into the edge of his bed, and made a thunking sound.
Hikari winced as Taichi moved from his deep sleep. But he just turned over and
started snoring again.
Letting out a big and quiet breath, she made her way to the trashcan, and looked
inside. She found what she was looking for, since Taichi crumples up his pieces of paper in a certain way, even though he never knew it. Slowly and silently, she crept back to her room, and turned on a light. She opened up the piece of paper, the same one Tai threw out when she walked in his room.
She smiled a laughed quietly as she saw the big heart and the words 'Sora
Takenouchi and Taichi Yagami 4ever' and below the heart, in small print 'Taichi loves
Sora, Sora loves Taichi' and little hearts all around the page.
This is going to be good blackmail one of these days, she laughed to herself, as
she hid it in her bookshelf and went back to sleep.
Journal entries that same night....
Takeru:
I've been so bummed lately! It's the thing with Hikari, I know it. I just love her so much.
I hope I get the courage to tell her soon. But what good will that do? I'll only embarrass
myself. She doesn't really care for me, I know it. It always seems like she's ignoring
me....well, okay, I always ignore her first. But what can I do? She's so hung up with Dais lately, I don't want to ruin her life....
Daisuke:
Kari or Tammy....Kari or Tammy....Kari or Tammy....Augh! I can't seem to make up my
mind! Tamashi and I have spent a lot of time together this week. I'm surprised Hikari
didn't slap me yet....I know! I'll flip a coin! Head for Hikari, Tails for Tamashi....Damn,
it landed on Kari! Wait, I should be happy! Augh, okay, once more....Okay, it landed on Tammy....That's good right? No! It's wrong! Okay, two out of five....
He does this all night until he did it so many times, he forgot who had the most number of flips. He gives up and goes to bed.
Tamashi:
I don't care what really happens to that Yagami girl. Daisuke is practically drooling over
me! He's going to be mine as soon as the dance tomorrow ends....
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>.< Okay, this fic is totally getting sucky. I fast-forwarded it a week, coz I know some of u guys are gettin tired of my rambling chapters, and want some Takari. So, the next chapter is going to be the dance. I know, finally! I just had to stick this in, coz I wanted u to know what was going on in Tamashi's mind, and Hikari needed that talk with Taichi so....Well, I'll be back soon!