"Daisuke!!" She called out in fear as she saw the white rectangular car drive down the street. She turned to the nearest police officer an demanded he tell her where he went.
"Well, little lady," The officer said slowly. "I think it's..."
Hikari, who was quickly losing all patience shouted at him, "Where!!"
"The one on... um..."
Another officer cut in seeing Hikari's frustration and realizing how much she needed this information. "They took him to Kawada Hospital."
Hikari fell on her knees and cried. Kawada was across town. She'd never get there.
She heard the officer who told her where Daisuke was going walking up to her. He kneeled next to her and put his hand on her shoulder.
"Hey Kid," The officer said sympathetically. "I'll give you ride there if you want."
Hikari looked up at his kind face and smiled as best she could. "Thanks."
He helped Hikari up and into his car. She sat down in the passenger sit and stared straight ahead. The officer got in the driver side and closed the door. The drove for two minutes and then the officer started to try talking to the sad girl.
"Was he your friend?"
Hikari looked confused and then answered. "Daisuke. Yeah. My friend."
"What's your name?"
"Hikari Kamiya."
"I think to him you were more then a friend. Witnesses said he called your name before he ran into the street."
Hikari looked down at her feet. What the officer said made a hole in her stomach. A hole full of guilt. It was her fault that he tried to kill himself. He wouldn't have done it if she noticed her feelings earlier. If only... She knew she should stop saying that. He already was hurt and she was going there to try to save him. Even if she didn't know what she was going to do to help him.
After ten minutes the driver stopped in front of a hospital. It was the same hospital she went to when she played soccer with Taichi when she was sick. The closer hospitals had been all filled up. She jumped out of the car in such a rush she forgot to thank the driver.
The hospital was a series of twisted tunnels to her in her panic state. But being the level headed Hikari, she went to the information desk.
"Hello!!" She called and a nurse came to help her. "I'm looking for a boy who just came in here from a car crash. He's name is Daisuke Motomiya."
"He's in Emergency right now. I'm sorry, you'll have to wait."
"Will you tell me when he's out?" The nurse nodded and got back to work.
Hikari didn't want to wait anymore. It just gave her more time to feel guilty. And more time to think about how to apologize and how to tell Daisuke that she did love him more then he knew.
Hikari sat there in the cool waiting room with only her guilt and the fear of Daisuke dying to keep her company. After a eternity of a eternal winter the nurse called her.
"He is in room 278. The elevator is right down there." She pointed to her right.
Hikari ran down the hall towards the elevator and repeatedly pressed the button. For her it took a a life time. When it finally came Hikari pushed her way though half a dozen people and beat the button to go to the second floor.
Once the elevator came, Hikari couldn't get on fast enough. People who were getting off yelled at her and people who were getting on did the same. Hikari blocked them out. She couldn't deal with them right now. She needed to see Daisuke. Alive.
The 'ding' of the elevator signalled the opening of the doors. She ran down the hall as soon as the doors opened far enough to slip though. The numbers on the doors flew by her. 236... 248... . Hikari desperately needed to stop but pushed herself to continue
Then, like gold glowing, the numbers 278, pasted on the white painted door. Hikari burst though, startling a nurse who was checking up on him.
She ran to the side of the bed and scanned Daisuke for injuries the suicide attempt had done to him. His right arm was completely covered in a cast and his head was drowned in bandages. A scar lined his left cheek from his ear to the chin. Hikari reached out to see if the scar was real. It was a sign, his love for her was the cause of this scar. And if she had showed her love he wouldn't be here.
She turned to a younger nurse and asked what was wrong with him. Hikari voice wreaked with desperation. The nurse looked at her. Her eyes were pools of sympathy.
"He's in a coma," the nurse turned away. "Sorry."
Hikari fell on her knees and cried. She crawled over to Daisuke's bed and pulled herself up to look at the hurt boy she loved.
"Daisuke... you can't die... or be in a coma," Hikari said though her tears. "I still need to tell you..."
She broke out in more tears before she could continue. She took his hand and was shocked about how cold it was. She rubbed his hand, doing the least she could do to the victim of her fast judgement.
She was so intent of keeping Daisuke warm, she didn't notice when the soft beep of the heart monitor quickened. Nurses poured into the room and pushed Hikari aside.
"Daisuke!" Hikari called to him in desperation. "Don't die!"
The nurses did everything until Daisuke's heart beat changed to normal. They didn't even notice Hikari as they left the room in search of new people to save.
Hikari approached the bed one more time, the only sound came from the beep of the machines Daisuke was so crudely hooked up to. The quiet pat of Hikari's shoes against the tile floor echoed.
"Daisuke," Hikari whispered. "I mean it. You can't die, I can't let you."
She took Daisuke's pale hand and squeezed it lightly. "Please wake up."
Her eyes were puffy and pink, her hair matted down by sweat, but she was still beautiful. She lifted Daisuke's hand up and gently kissed it. "Please Daisuke, wake up."
Daisuke remained still and pale. Hikari felt all hope wither away. She cried into Daisuke's hand. "I know you love me, and I love you too. You must understand that."
Hikari sat there crying painful tears into her dying friends hand.
* * *
Daisuke could hear something calling him, he wasn't sure what. The fog in his clouded mind thinned and Daisuke could hear Hikari's tearful voice.
"Daisuke," she said in a whisper. "I mean it. You can't die, I can't let you."
"Why not?" he said regretfully to himself. "You only want me to live to ease your guilt."
Hikari continued her endless wishes for him to live. Daisuke ignored them all, he knew she was lying, she loved Takeru, everyone knew that. The blue-grey fog settled around him, blinding him to Hikari's silent wishes.
The pain he experienced before he entered this dark place was gone. The cool fog comforted him, cooling his blinding hate, towards the world and all people living on this dark planet.
Hikari, he leaned his head back and shivered. Just don't lie anymore. I wouldn't care so much if you just stopped lying. You should really make up your mind, 'They look really cute.' And 'I can't stand anyone talking like that about there brother or sister.' It's ripping my mind apart. Please if you just make up your mind...
Daisuke felt Hikari's tears washing all over his body. He drew away into his own little world once more. He felt confused, Hikari was just saying this out of guilt, but her tears said otherwise. He looked straight ahead ignoring Hikari and her pain.
"Please, Daisuke, please!"
Daisuke was finding it harder to ignore Hikari pleads, no matter what she did to him, he still loved her.
Each tear, each word was bringing him closer to believing her. He felt guilty letting her cry. He forced himself to push that thought back. She should be felling guilty, not him. He hadn't even heard 'I love you' from her yet. The only words he wanted to hear.
He listened to her for five minutes, her quiet tears splashing over his body.
"Hikari, stop putting this guilt on me. I did this to get away from your confused feelings," Daisuke sighed to himself. "Just go away."
"Please, Daisuke I know you love me, and I love you too. You must understand that."
The words lingered in his ears. Hikari would never lie to say that. If she said 'I love you', she meant it. He listened carefully to each sob, each squeeze of his hand sent vibrations though his body.
"Please, just wake up. For everyone. For me."
Daisuke sat there, looking at the fog dance and swim though the empty space. It whispered to him, it wanted him to stay. But Daisuke didn't want to. He wanted to be with Hikari. The feeling was stronger then it ever was before.
Daisuke started to run forward. He trusted his instincts, forward was Hikari. Daisuke seemed to be getting nowhere, but he didn't stop. He could never stop. If he did, he would hurt Hikari forever.
The fog tugged at him. Forcing him to stay. He put all his energy into breaking the fog's grasp.
"No... Let me to Hikari," Daisuke said though gritted teeth. "Hikari, I need you!"
Daisuke couldn't take the pressure of the strange fog any longer. He collapsed, gasping for air. But only the fog filled his lungs. Tears filled his eyes.
"I'm so sorry, Hikari. I should have tried harder."
Daisuke collapsed on the cold, hard floor, his arms holding his weight. He felt every molecule of energy taken from him. His arms collapsed from under him. His face came into contact with the cold hard floor. His eyes slowly closed, driving him into a world of eternal darkness.
* * *
"Please, just wake up," Hikari tried one last time to wake Daisuke up. "For everyone. For me."
Hikari felt Daisuke's hand lift slowly under her soft forehead. Hikari shot up.
"Come on Daisuke," she said in quiet encouragement. "Fight it. You're strong, you will live."
His hand stirred once more, Hikari could feel her heart leap. She knew he would make it, he was the most enthusiastic Digidestined in the team. He could make it.
Daisuke's fist closed around Hikari's hand in a death grip. Hikari didn't notice though. She was glad.... She was trilled he was waking up.
His grip got tighter until it stopped the blood flowing though Hikari's hand, but she still didn't notice. Hikari leaned close enough to kiss Daisuke. He looked like he was in pain, putting all the effort he had in living. His eyes were screwed shut and his breathing was gasps.
Then, to Hikari's fear, Daisuke's grip loosened. Hikari took her hand out from his and stood up.
"Daisuke, you will not die!" She screamed. "I sill need to tell you to your face. If you really love my you will live. Because I can't live without you, Daisuke. My life is nothing without you."
Hikari reached out to touch Daisuke. "Daisuke use your courage. I have seen you in hopeless situations many times, and you still broke though. We are a team, we can do anything together."
Hikari touched Daisuke's forehead and a warm glow filled the room. It was a blue light. The magical blue of courage.
* * *
The fog that swam around heated Daisuke's cold body. The new force pushed the cold blue fog away. Daisuke looked up. The blue fog that was consuming his soul was being pushed back by the most beautiful pink fog. It shimmered with silver and move gracefully.
Like Hikari, he thought.
"Use your courage Daisuke," he heard Hikari's voice towards his left. " have seen you in hopeless situations many times, and you still broke though. We are a team, we can do anything together."
"Is that heaven? Or is that life?" He asked, then though to himself. But either one's the other. Life is heaven with Hikari, Heaven is just life without her.
Daisuke stopped his judging and ran, he ran fast then he ever had before. He was so close. Close to Hikari, his family, his friends, Veemon. He was mere feet away from the bright circle. He reached out, and a warm feeling enveloped his body.
* * *
"Daisuke..." Hikari asked uneasily. "Are you... Okay?"
Daisuke turned his head and smiled gently at Hikari.
"Hey Hikari," he greeted weakly. "What's up?"
"Daisuke!!" Hikari screamed and threw her arms around Daisuke neck, crying tears into his white robe. Daisuke gently squeezed back, trying to keep this moment forever.
"Thanks Hikari," Daisuke whispered under his breath. Just loud enough so Hikari to hear. Thank you for saving my life. Thank you for caring. Thank you for trying. I'll never forget what you did for me.
Daisuke broke free, and looked Hikari in the eye. Her tears were now not tears of sorrow, but tears of joy.
"Daisuke," Hikari said. "I'm sorry. I should have believed you. I never knew..."
Daisuke pulled Hikari close and gently kissed her. She calmed down and began to kiss back. He drew away and looked her in the eye.
"I'm sorry," Daisuke said cheerfully, trying to lighten up the mood. Daisuke never liked sad scenarios. " I should have never down that."
"Daisuke..." Hikari began. "I... I..."
"I love you, too."
The fog wrapped around them. Mixing pink and blue into a hue neither one could describe. They never forgot that colour, their colour. Swirling around, creating their own world. A private haven.
* * *
Daisuke smiled. His cast still covered one arm and his scar was clearly there. Even after he awoke from his coma he still had to stay for his injuries. A week later, here he was, the same energetic Daisuke everyone loved.
Hikari, who was in the back row smiled to herself. She could see Daisuke scan the Digidestined for her. She was behind Yamato, who had done a modern remix of the song "Why Do Fools Fall In Love?" After he heard why Daisuke had attempted suicide (which was a secret Taichi had spilled to him), he thought it would be prefect.
Daisuke caught a glance at Hikari and smiled at her. They had promised they would go out tonight, but Taichi decided to not let Hikari in on the party.
Everyone crowded around Daisuke, giving high fives and congratulations and kisses on the cheek. Daisuke took all they gave him, from his mothers cheek pinches to Yamato's singing. When finally the let Daisuke go, he went towards Hikari, he grinned and winked at her in a way she couldn't help laughing at.
"So, I'm I still the most handsome thing you've ever seen?"
"Defiantly."
The song by Savage Garden, Crash and Burn started and Yamato dimmed the lights and ran off before Jun could catch him.
"So," Daisuke said. "Let's try again. Do you want to dance?"
"I'd love to," she laughed as she put her hands around his neck.
"Great," he answered well putting his hands around her waist.
Hikari and Daisuke swayed gently to the music. They didn't notice when they got a crowd. They were amazed about how much the song was like them. With their eyes closed Hikari and Daisuke rested in the moment letting the words sink in, consuming them and blinding them to anything else but each other.
"I love you, Daisuke," Hikari whispered. "I always will."
