Dancing in the Dark
By: Tai Chick

Part 6: Rebirth


It was a week later. Daisuke had gone home that night to his parents, who were very grateful to have him back. They hadn't asked him why he ran away. They assumed it had to do with the violent fight they had the night he disappeared. The good thing was things seemed to be getting better between his family. Jun even cried when he walked through the door.
He still hadn't been able to face his friends though. They hadn't pushed him either. They knew he would speak when he was ready. At that moment however he was still grieving the death of Hotaru, under his blankets.
"Come on Daisuke, You can't hide forever." Chibimon said, peaking under the covers.
"Go away. I can hide if I want to."
Chibimon thought about that. "I guess you can." and he was silent.
That caused Daisuke to come up from the blankets and face the sun. "I should talk to them." He said at last.
"No you shouldn't. Their horrible rotten friends, who didn't help you in anyway and you're just paying them back by ignoring them."
"Great way to make a guy feel better." Daisuke grumbled. He threw off the covers and headed over to his D-terminal. He sent E-mails to all the Chosen Children, except for Mimi, he would send her a long E-mail later, telling them to meet him at the school in and hour. "There," Daisuke said. "Happy now?"
"Yippie!"

~*~*~

Exactly one hour later Daisuke walked into the computer room at school to find all of the Chosen children waiting for him. He took a deep breath and hugged Chibimon tight. "Everyone...I'm sorry."
"We know you are Daisuke." Taichi said. "The only thing you owe us is an explanation." He held Yamato's hand, fearful of what that explanation would be.
Daisuke talked for the better part of and hour. He explained how he had been walking alone that night, how Sealya had appeared to him and how he learned of the new threat. He knew that they couldn't be defeated from just the outside.
"So everything you did was for the team." Iori said. "All those actions were to make Sealya believe that you were on their side, to help us?"
Daisuke took a deep breath, this was the part he had been dreading. "Not everything...I...I fell. Sealya showed me things, and I guess I went a little crazy. I was really working against you for a while. There isn't anything I can say but I'm really truly sorry." He hung his head and his cheeks burned in shame.
"But you came back." Ken put in, sticking up for his lover. "You cared about us enough to come back and defeat Sealya."
"You're actions were justified." Takeru said smiling. "You were correct in thinking that we couldn't defeat Sealya unless there was someone on the inside."
"Welcome back." Taichi said with a grin.
Just then Ken's cell phone rang and he picked it up. "Moshi moshi. Really!? Okay I'll be there soon. Bye." He put it down seemed flustered. "My mom's having her baby. I've gotta go...but I'd like to take Dai with me."
"See ya, you two love birds." Hikari said, smirking. Daisuke blinked.
"Nani?"
Ken grinned sheepishly. "They know. We don't have to hide it anymore...they all seem to be taking it rather well."
"Get outta here!" Yamato said with a laugh. "I'm sure you have plenty of things to talk about while waiting."
"Nice to have you back Daisuke." Sora added. Everyone else added their agreements. Then Ken and Daisuke walked hand in hand out the door to catch the train to the hospital.

~*~*~

"Ken." Daisuke said taking a deep breath. They had been sitting in the hospital for hours. Ken's mother had come out of the labor room and soon they would go see Ken's sister. Chibimon and Minomon were both asleep. "There's one more thing I need to tell you."
"What is it?" Ken asked concerned.
"The images Sealya showed me...the ones that sent me over the edge, they were of you and Miyako, you were in love with her and hated me."
"Oh Dai! I could never do that! I love you so so much!" He wrapped his arms around his lover. "You don't ever need to worry about that!"
"I'm glad." Daisuke whispered, glad to be in Ken's arms again. Everything was right again.
"Ken, Daisuke." Ken's father called, come see the baby."
It was the tiniest thing Daisuke had ever seen. And she looked so familiar...he knew that it was the reincarnation of Hotaru.
"Well..." Ken's father said sheepishly. "We were expecting a boy, so we don't have any names ready for a girl."
"Hotaru." Daisuke breathed.
"What was that?" Ken's mother asked.
"H-Hotaru, that's who she looks like." Daisuke repeated.
"What a wonderful name!" She exclaimed. "Welcome to the world...our little Hotaru."
"Good job Daisuke." Ken said, taking his hand. "I'll make sure she's a good child."
"And I'll help." Daisuke promised. "For everything she went through before...I'll help."
And as the sunset that beautiful evening, Ken walked Daisuke to the train station. Daisuke swore in his mind that Hotaru's sacrifice would be repaid. He owed her that much.

THE END!!!

Wow, I love the way that worked...not everything turned out exactly as I had planned, but I still think it's good. ::Yawns:: why is it Kai bugs me most at night. Well, that's done. Too bad tomorrow's school. I hope you people enjoyed that, how about some C&C? I always love that...but never seem to get any. Hope you like! I worked hard! Ja!