DISCLAIMER: I do not own Digimon or any of its characters. I just like to torture them. Please don't sue.
A/N: WOW! I have gotten SO MANY nice (not just nice, most of them are downright sweet) reviews on this! One girl said she was really pleased that I was treating both Motomiya siblings like humans, and the general consensus is that Davis is bashed entirely tooo often. At first, I was one of those who put him down, too, but after the Digimon movie came to video and I finally got to see it, I don't know, I guess it just made me see something in Davis that I had never seen before. NO I DO NOT have a crush on him, but now he's one of my favorite characters...as to the ending of this fic, a lot of people are asking for a Dakari (or is the correct speeling Daikari?). I'm not spilling the beans, but I think I have given ample hints in these notes. (AND THE TITLE!) Thanks to all of you who reviewed (you know who you are...there are so many of you it'd probably fill a page just to list you all).
Wednesday rolled around. Kari stood, hiding behind her locker door. Davis was coming. She could hear him talking with one of his soccer buddies. ~Why am I hiding? I'm going to say yes, and besides, he can see my feet. He knows I'm here.~
"Bye, Shane. Catch ya after school, right?" Davis said.
Kari heard "Shane" say something and run off.
"Hey, Kari," Davis greeted her.
"Hi, Davis," she smiled. ~This is so different from my stiff "hello". Quick! Before he asks...ask him! Jun said he thinks it's the guy's job...~ she thought. "Umm, Davis, do you have any plans tonight?"
The hall suddenly became so silent Kari distinctly heard Davis's jaw hit the floor. Instantly he was a mass of nervousness, astonishment written all over his face.
~Did Kari just ask me if I have plans?~ "I...um...I...I...no!" Davis finally shoved out the single syllable that made all the difference in the world.
"Well, then, Davis, since I'm free, why don't you take me out somewhere?" ~I can't believe I'm going through with this!~
~She...she...she...asked...me...me...me...to go...go...go...on a date...date...date...~ Davis was flabbergasted, and since it was Kari, he decided to lay aside his conception of his having to ask her and just jump at the opportunity sent down from Heaven. "That...sounds...great..."
"Wonderful! Meet me at the cinema at six, and then after the movie we can go to dinner." ~How original, Kari.~
~Meet her? She doesn't want me to come get her? Oh well, who cares, this is the best thing that's ever happened to me!~ "I'll...be...there..."
Kari smiled. ~Just like planned...~"Okay. See you then!"
By lunchtime it was all over school that Kari had *asked* *Motomiya* on a date *AND* they were going out that night.
Sora and Kari were sitting together. "So you actually did it?" Sora gushed. "Kari, you little heartbreaker!"
"Hey, this was your idea," Kari reminded her. "Don't pin *all* the blame on me."
Sora laughed. "Okay. By the way, I don't care how late you get back, I want you to promise to call me and tell me all about it."
Kari tilted her head. "Sora...this is different than going out with someone I like. You'll hear all about it on Monday, I'm sure, and besides, you can at least wait until tomorrow morning."
Sora blushed. "You're right. You must think I'm butting in. Forget about it."
"Don't worry over it. No big deal."
After school, Kari got a call from T.K..
"Hey, Sora filled me in on your plot to get rid of Davis. I've gotta say that it's a brilliant piece of planning."
Kari laughed. "Thank you, but it was Sora's idea. I called her to complain and she thought it up for me. All I thought to do was to talk to Jun. By the way, if this comes up between you and Matt, tell him that I heard Jun Motomiya call him 'her beloved Matt' with my own two ears."
T.K. laughed a bit. "I will, even if I have to bring it up just to tell him. Anyway, I just called to wish you good luck."
"Thanks. Hopefully, I won't need it, but it couldn't hurt anything."
"Yeah. Bye!"
"Bye!" Kari hung up. ~Does he want it to go well--actually, it would have to go badly for it to go well--so that I'm free to go out with *him*? Oh, I hope not. Breaking two hearts in one week is too much for me.~
That evening, Kari did not dress up or wear any special makeup. In jeans and a yellow t-shirt, she waited outside the cinema. Davis was a little disappointed. He, after all, had...not really dressed up either.
When they got to the ticket stand, Davis asked for two, and then only pulled out enough money for one.
"Umm...Davis...I didn't..." Kari turned one pocket inside-out. "I thought, since this is a date..."
~Aww man...I didn't even think about that! Why didn't I think to ask her to go Dutch?~ He sighed a little to himself and pulled out enough for her ticket as well. ~Hey, I bet she expects me to pay for her dinner too! Well, that's one week of allowance I can kiss goodbye!~
Davis sulked a bit through the previews, but when the movie started, he became attentive. They'd decided to watch a romantic comedy, which was actually a first for him. He found it more interesting than he cared to admit.
Near the end, when the main characters realized they were hopelessly in love, Kari sat a bit lower in her seat, wondering what Davis *might* do.
Davis, on the other hand, was wondering whether he should do *anything*. ~I've been trying to get her to come on this date for months! I don't want to blow it on the first night, after she actually shows some interest! But what if she wants me to...?~
Finally, he put his hand on hers. She stiffened in shock, but before she could decide what to do, the credits started. He moved his hand, blushing, and stood.
~Talk about perfect timing!~ she thought, relieved. ~But, still, I wonder what would have happened...had it not...~
"Kari? Are we going now?" Davis asked.
She snapped her head up. "Oh. Yeah. Sorry. I was just thinking. Let's go." She stood up and they left the theater.
He wanted to go someplace quiet for dinner. He had so many questions for her. ~Like why she wanted to go on a date all of a sudden. I mean, one day, she's saying that there's no way she'd ever go on a date with me, and two days later she's asking me to take her!~
But Kari, doing exactly what Jun said he would hate, insisted on a fast-food place. He relented--he still didn't want to blow it.
It was bright and noisy inside, and there were people coming and going constantly. There were no places to really talk.
Kari fought her impulse to eat quickly and get it all overwith, and ate slowly the way she was accustomed to doing. In fact, she let herself drag it out, but talked very little. She watched the people come in and out the door and paid very little attention to her "date".
Davis played with the straw in his soda. ~This isn't as much fun as I'd hoped it would be. And I don't think it's because I expected too much. Maybe Kari is different than what I thought.~
Suddenly, watching the door paid off for Kari. Yet another thing that would turn Davis off walked right in. "Hey! Yolei!"
Davis snapped his head up and looked over his shoulder. It was Yolei, with two girls he'd seen her hanging out with but didn't know.
"Kari! Hi!" Yolei, with both her friend following, came and sat next to Kari. "Hey, Davis, Kari, these are my friends Sandi and Trina, girls, these are Kari and Davis."
"Hi!" Kari said. Sandi squeezed into the booth on the other side of Yolei, and Trina plunked down next to Davis. "What are you doing out and about?"
"Oh, the usual," Yolei said. "Absolutely nothing. Up until today you knew the tragedy of being single."
Kari smiled, and blushed.
Davis was upset. ~Who does Yolei think she is? Dragging all these girls in so that Kari and I can't talk, even though she and everyone else in school knows that we're on a date! Hey! What Yolei just said makes it sound like I've asked Kari to be my girlfriend! I mean, I was going to, later tonight, but...~
"Well, I'm sure you two have plenty to talk about, so we'll go on and leave you alone," Yolei said, and she and her friends left to go order.
Davis thought they would leave and go to another restaurant, but they ordered and sat at a table too far away to hear anything, but close enough to see *everything*. ~Just when I thought Yolei might be a decent person and *leave* *us* *alone*, she proves me wrong.~
~I'll have to thank her later,~ Kari thought.
"Kari?"
"Yeah?"
"Are you almost finished?"
Kari looked down, she had finished her burger and there were only a few fries left. She picked them all up and ate them in one bite. "Yes. I'm done...and I think I'd best head home."
"I'll pay so we can take the train..."
"I'm not allowed to ride the trains at night."
"Then I'll walk you."
Kari sighed. ~If I had an excuse, any excuse, I'd use it, but I don't. Since we're out on a date there is no logical reason that Davis shouldn't walk me home.~ "All right."
As they left, Yolei let out a loud wolf whistle. Color crept up into Davis's face.
It was chilly outside, and Kari wished she'd thought to wear a light jacket like Davis's. He offered his to her, but Jun had said he really hated being turned down, and she didn't want to encourage him, so she refused it. Again, he was disappointed but tried not to show it too much.
They talked, but not about anything important. The conversation covered the movie, seeing Yolei, school, things like that.
"I can't believe Yolei had the nerve to do that," Davis said.
"Do what?" ~Even though I know very well "what".~
"Come over and drag her ditzy friends along with her. The entire school knew we were going on a date, so there's no way she could have *not* heard about it. She should have known to leave us alone."
Kari decided to play it down, Yolei was just being friendly, and besides, it would grate on Davis's nerves. "Oh, Daisuke, I'm sure she didn't mean to interfere..."
"What'd you call me?" Davis ground to a halt.
Kari hid her smile well. ~I just killed two birds with one stone!~ "Oh, sorry, I wasn't thinking and it just slipped out." ~On purpose.~
"Kari, ever since we've known each other you've never let it 'just slip', even when we first met." It bothered him that he was thinking negatively of Kari, but it seemed odd to him that she would say it.
"I was thinking about Yolei, and I wasn't paying attention. Sorry."
"Yeah, whatever." Davis turned away from her until the pout he couldn't help disappeared. He wasn't too fond of his "real" name. It was what he was called by annoying people like teachers, and doctors, and--when he got in trouble--his parents. Granted, it sounded completely different coming from Kari, but *that* fact hadn't clicked until after he had complained about it.
When they reached her apartment building, she wouldn't let him come upstairs, much less inside, even though her parents wouldn't mind having him stay for a while.
"It's still early," Davis protested.
"Davis..." she frowned.
He stared her right in the eyes, and *then* it hit him. "You...didn't...really..."
"Really what?"
"Want to..."
"Want to what?" ~Is he onto me? Has he seen through my plan?~
"You...just wanted me to...leave...you...alone." His voice was cracking. A single tear rolled down his cheek. ~Why can't she understand how much I really care? I know that I'm not always so great at showing it, but my intentions are good. I try to get her to see...~
~Oh, no, I didn't think it would be like this...I didn't want him to be sad, I wanted him to be angry at me!~ "Davis, I--"
"Don't...tell me it isn't...true...because...it...*is*." He looked down. "Isn't it?"
His words were heartfelt, making Kari sorry she'd ever started the whole business. ~It wasn't supposed to end like this! He was supposed to get mad because I was so irritating, and storm off...he wasn't supposed to get his heart broken! He was supposed to wonder what he ever saw in me! He wasn't supposed to cry!~ Tears welled up in Kari's own eyes.
Davis didn't get an answer, but suddenly it didn't matter to him. He walked off without another word, without so much as a glance back. If he had looked up and seen the look in her eyes, he might have stayed. There was something there that hadn't been there before.
Kari wanted to run after him and apologize, but her feet were rooted to the ground. Her throat was too tight to make any sound.
As soon as he had disappeared from sight, she let herself fall against the wall of the building, and slide to the ground. She felt like she was on an emotional carousel, 'round and 'round and 'round. Her tears felt like rain on her cheeks.
She spoke aloud, even though he was no longer there to hear. "Davis...I'm sorry...I can't believe...that I honestly thought...I could do this...without hurting you!" Sobs racked her body for several minutes. Finally she got them under control--but barely. She ran upstairs and into her apartment.
She began taking her shoes off and heard Tai yelling hello. She walked for the door of her room.
"Hey, Kari, how was your..."
*SLAM!*
"...date?" Tai looked at Agumon, who was sitting at the table.
"Don't look at me, just hurry up with that omelet."
"Omelet? OH NO IT'S BURNING!!!"
A/N: Just to end on a note of humor so I don't get anyone mega-depressed. *The readers all yell "TOO LATE!!!"* *authoress falls over from loudness of noise* Dude, you don't have to yell!!!
A/N: WOW! I have gotten SO MANY nice (not just nice, most of them are downright sweet) reviews on this! One girl said she was really pleased that I was treating both Motomiya siblings like humans, and the general consensus is that Davis is bashed entirely tooo often. At first, I was one of those who put him down, too, but after the Digimon movie came to video and I finally got to see it, I don't know, I guess it just made me see something in Davis that I had never seen before. NO I DO NOT have a crush on him, but now he's one of my favorite characters...as to the ending of this fic, a lot of people are asking for a Dakari (or is the correct speeling Daikari?). I'm not spilling the beans, but I think I have given ample hints in these notes. (AND THE TITLE!) Thanks to all of you who reviewed (you know who you are...there are so many of you it'd probably fill a page just to list you all).
Wednesday rolled around. Kari stood, hiding behind her locker door. Davis was coming. She could hear him talking with one of his soccer buddies. ~Why am I hiding? I'm going to say yes, and besides, he can see my feet. He knows I'm here.~
"Bye, Shane. Catch ya after school, right?" Davis said.
Kari heard "Shane" say something and run off.
"Hey, Kari," Davis greeted her.
"Hi, Davis," she smiled. ~This is so different from my stiff "hello". Quick! Before he asks...ask him! Jun said he thinks it's the guy's job...~ she thought. "Umm, Davis, do you have any plans tonight?"
The hall suddenly became so silent Kari distinctly heard Davis's jaw hit the floor. Instantly he was a mass of nervousness, astonishment written all over his face.
~Did Kari just ask me if I have plans?~ "I...um...I...I...no!" Davis finally shoved out the single syllable that made all the difference in the world.
"Well, then, Davis, since I'm free, why don't you take me out somewhere?" ~I can't believe I'm going through with this!~
~She...she...she...asked...me...me...me...to go...go...go...on a date...date...date...~ Davis was flabbergasted, and since it was Kari, he decided to lay aside his conception of his having to ask her and just jump at the opportunity sent down from Heaven. "That...sounds...great..."
"Wonderful! Meet me at the cinema at six, and then after the movie we can go to dinner." ~How original, Kari.~
~Meet her? She doesn't want me to come get her? Oh well, who cares, this is the best thing that's ever happened to me!~ "I'll...be...there..."
Kari smiled. ~Just like planned...~"Okay. See you then!"
By lunchtime it was all over school that Kari had *asked* *Motomiya* on a date *AND* they were going out that night.
Sora and Kari were sitting together. "So you actually did it?" Sora gushed. "Kari, you little heartbreaker!"
"Hey, this was your idea," Kari reminded her. "Don't pin *all* the blame on me."
Sora laughed. "Okay. By the way, I don't care how late you get back, I want you to promise to call me and tell me all about it."
Kari tilted her head. "Sora...this is different than going out with someone I like. You'll hear all about it on Monday, I'm sure, and besides, you can at least wait until tomorrow morning."
Sora blushed. "You're right. You must think I'm butting in. Forget about it."
"Don't worry over it. No big deal."
After school, Kari got a call from T.K..
"Hey, Sora filled me in on your plot to get rid of Davis. I've gotta say that it's a brilliant piece of planning."
Kari laughed. "Thank you, but it was Sora's idea. I called her to complain and she thought it up for me. All I thought to do was to talk to Jun. By the way, if this comes up between you and Matt, tell him that I heard Jun Motomiya call him 'her beloved Matt' with my own two ears."
T.K. laughed a bit. "I will, even if I have to bring it up just to tell him. Anyway, I just called to wish you good luck."
"Thanks. Hopefully, I won't need it, but it couldn't hurt anything."
"Yeah. Bye!"
"Bye!" Kari hung up. ~Does he want it to go well--actually, it would have to go badly for it to go well--so that I'm free to go out with *him*? Oh, I hope not. Breaking two hearts in one week is too much for me.~
That evening, Kari did not dress up or wear any special makeup. In jeans and a yellow t-shirt, she waited outside the cinema. Davis was a little disappointed. He, after all, had...not really dressed up either.
When they got to the ticket stand, Davis asked for two, and then only pulled out enough money for one.
"Umm...Davis...I didn't..." Kari turned one pocket inside-out. "I thought, since this is a date..."
~Aww man...I didn't even think about that! Why didn't I think to ask her to go Dutch?~ He sighed a little to himself and pulled out enough for her ticket as well. ~Hey, I bet she expects me to pay for her dinner too! Well, that's one week of allowance I can kiss goodbye!~
Davis sulked a bit through the previews, but when the movie started, he became attentive. They'd decided to watch a romantic comedy, which was actually a first for him. He found it more interesting than he cared to admit.
Near the end, when the main characters realized they were hopelessly in love, Kari sat a bit lower in her seat, wondering what Davis *might* do.
Davis, on the other hand, was wondering whether he should do *anything*. ~I've been trying to get her to come on this date for months! I don't want to blow it on the first night, after she actually shows some interest! But what if she wants me to...?~
Finally, he put his hand on hers. She stiffened in shock, but before she could decide what to do, the credits started. He moved his hand, blushing, and stood.
~Talk about perfect timing!~ she thought, relieved. ~But, still, I wonder what would have happened...had it not...~
"Kari? Are we going now?" Davis asked.
She snapped her head up. "Oh. Yeah. Sorry. I was just thinking. Let's go." She stood up and they left the theater.
He wanted to go someplace quiet for dinner. He had so many questions for her. ~Like why she wanted to go on a date all of a sudden. I mean, one day, she's saying that there's no way she'd ever go on a date with me, and two days later she's asking me to take her!~
But Kari, doing exactly what Jun said he would hate, insisted on a fast-food place. He relented--he still didn't want to blow it.
It was bright and noisy inside, and there were people coming and going constantly. There were no places to really talk.
Kari fought her impulse to eat quickly and get it all overwith, and ate slowly the way she was accustomed to doing. In fact, she let herself drag it out, but talked very little. She watched the people come in and out the door and paid very little attention to her "date".
Davis played with the straw in his soda. ~This isn't as much fun as I'd hoped it would be. And I don't think it's because I expected too much. Maybe Kari is different than what I thought.~
Suddenly, watching the door paid off for Kari. Yet another thing that would turn Davis off walked right in. "Hey! Yolei!"
Davis snapped his head up and looked over his shoulder. It was Yolei, with two girls he'd seen her hanging out with but didn't know.
"Kari! Hi!" Yolei, with both her friend following, came and sat next to Kari. "Hey, Davis, Kari, these are my friends Sandi and Trina, girls, these are Kari and Davis."
"Hi!" Kari said. Sandi squeezed into the booth on the other side of Yolei, and Trina plunked down next to Davis. "What are you doing out and about?"
"Oh, the usual," Yolei said. "Absolutely nothing. Up until today you knew the tragedy of being single."
Kari smiled, and blushed.
Davis was upset. ~Who does Yolei think she is? Dragging all these girls in so that Kari and I can't talk, even though she and everyone else in school knows that we're on a date! Hey! What Yolei just said makes it sound like I've asked Kari to be my girlfriend! I mean, I was going to, later tonight, but...~
"Well, I'm sure you two have plenty to talk about, so we'll go on and leave you alone," Yolei said, and she and her friends left to go order.
Davis thought they would leave and go to another restaurant, but they ordered and sat at a table too far away to hear anything, but close enough to see *everything*. ~Just when I thought Yolei might be a decent person and *leave* *us* *alone*, she proves me wrong.~
~I'll have to thank her later,~ Kari thought.
"Kari?"
"Yeah?"
"Are you almost finished?"
Kari looked down, she had finished her burger and there were only a few fries left. She picked them all up and ate them in one bite. "Yes. I'm done...and I think I'd best head home."
"I'll pay so we can take the train..."
"I'm not allowed to ride the trains at night."
"Then I'll walk you."
Kari sighed. ~If I had an excuse, any excuse, I'd use it, but I don't. Since we're out on a date there is no logical reason that Davis shouldn't walk me home.~ "All right."
As they left, Yolei let out a loud wolf whistle. Color crept up into Davis's face.
It was chilly outside, and Kari wished she'd thought to wear a light jacket like Davis's. He offered his to her, but Jun had said he really hated being turned down, and she didn't want to encourage him, so she refused it. Again, he was disappointed but tried not to show it too much.
They talked, but not about anything important. The conversation covered the movie, seeing Yolei, school, things like that.
"I can't believe Yolei had the nerve to do that," Davis said.
"Do what?" ~Even though I know very well "what".~
"Come over and drag her ditzy friends along with her. The entire school knew we were going on a date, so there's no way she could have *not* heard about it. She should have known to leave us alone."
Kari decided to play it down, Yolei was just being friendly, and besides, it would grate on Davis's nerves. "Oh, Daisuke, I'm sure she didn't mean to interfere..."
"What'd you call me?" Davis ground to a halt.
Kari hid her smile well. ~I just killed two birds with one stone!~ "Oh, sorry, I wasn't thinking and it just slipped out." ~On purpose.~
"Kari, ever since we've known each other you've never let it 'just slip', even when we first met." It bothered him that he was thinking negatively of Kari, but it seemed odd to him that she would say it.
"I was thinking about Yolei, and I wasn't paying attention. Sorry."
"Yeah, whatever." Davis turned away from her until the pout he couldn't help disappeared. He wasn't too fond of his "real" name. It was what he was called by annoying people like teachers, and doctors, and--when he got in trouble--his parents. Granted, it sounded completely different coming from Kari, but *that* fact hadn't clicked until after he had complained about it.
When they reached her apartment building, she wouldn't let him come upstairs, much less inside, even though her parents wouldn't mind having him stay for a while.
"It's still early," Davis protested.
"Davis..." she frowned.
He stared her right in the eyes, and *then* it hit him. "You...didn't...really..."
"Really what?"
"Want to..."
"Want to what?" ~Is he onto me? Has he seen through my plan?~
"You...just wanted me to...leave...you...alone." His voice was cracking. A single tear rolled down his cheek. ~Why can't she understand how much I really care? I know that I'm not always so great at showing it, but my intentions are good. I try to get her to see...~
~Oh, no, I didn't think it would be like this...I didn't want him to be sad, I wanted him to be angry at me!~ "Davis, I--"
"Don't...tell me it isn't...true...because...it...*is*." He looked down. "Isn't it?"
His words were heartfelt, making Kari sorry she'd ever started the whole business. ~It wasn't supposed to end like this! He was supposed to get mad because I was so irritating, and storm off...he wasn't supposed to get his heart broken! He was supposed to wonder what he ever saw in me! He wasn't supposed to cry!~ Tears welled up in Kari's own eyes.
Davis didn't get an answer, but suddenly it didn't matter to him. He walked off without another word, without so much as a glance back. If he had looked up and seen the look in her eyes, he might have stayed. There was something there that hadn't been there before.
Kari wanted to run after him and apologize, but her feet were rooted to the ground. Her throat was too tight to make any sound.
As soon as he had disappeared from sight, she let herself fall against the wall of the building, and slide to the ground. She felt like she was on an emotional carousel, 'round and 'round and 'round. Her tears felt like rain on her cheeks.
She spoke aloud, even though he was no longer there to hear. "Davis...I'm sorry...I can't believe...that I honestly thought...I could do this...without hurting you!" Sobs racked her body for several minutes. Finally she got them under control--but barely. She ran upstairs and into her apartment.
She began taking her shoes off and heard Tai yelling hello. She walked for the door of her room.
"Hey, Kari, how was your..."
*SLAM!*
"...date?" Tai looked at Agumon, who was sitting at the table.
"Don't look at me, just hurry up with that omelet."
"Omelet? OH NO IT'S BURNING!!!"
A/N: Just to end on a note of humor so I don't get anyone mega-depressed. *The readers all yell "TOO LATE!!!"* *authoress falls over from loudness of noise* Dude, you don't have to yell!!!