Disclaimer: Digimon does not belong to me though however much that I wished Ken did.
Author's Note: Thank you every one for your enthusiasm and reviews on my story! I love you guys! This is the second chapter of Rainy Days and I hope it'll get just as many reviews from everyone. This one might not be as good as the first one since I had a hard time trying to write about Daisuke's personality. The chapter name is kind of stupid, but I couldn't think of anything really dramatic or interesting. Thanks again for all the reviews and comments!
Rainy Days ~ Chapter 2 ~ Friends and Food
Ken looked once again at Daisuke and yet again suppressed another sigh of confusion. The way he was acting made no sense and ever since they had known each other, he had never seen Daisuke like this.
He was strangely quiet and there was a brooding, gloomy air about him that had replaced his chatter and confident, cheerful self. That was unusual enough as it was, but whenever Chibimon emerged from Daisuke's backpack he would put on a mask of forced cheer and smiles, Ken didn't like this one bit. It wasn't like Daisuke to hide anything from his Digimon partner and besides that there was hardly anything that Ken could think of that could actually bring his friend into such a depression.
Well hardly anything anyway, but there was one thing that he knew could and this one thing was something that Ken himself couldn't cure.
Hikari Yagami.
The Chosen Child of Light and also Daisuke's crush, she was one of the things that Ken had ever seen that made his friend so depressed. Not this depressed of course, but enough to sometimes bring him to tears, enough to make him hide behind that brash, cheerful mask of his, enough to make him want to never smile again.
But typically it had mostly been Chibimon who told him of Daisuke's troubles, consulted him for ways to cheer up Daisuke, so now it was strange now that Chibimon didn't know what was going on. Somehow his thoughts returned to Hikari and another glance at Daisuke made him finalize his analyze, whatever was hurting Daisuke had something to do with the Chosen Child of Light.
The rain continued to fall though not as heavy now and the comfortable silence between them continued though there still was a bit of strain to it. There was so many questions that he wanted to ask Daisuke, but he knew his friend, he would only talk when he was ready to.
His gaze was drawn to him again. His cinnamon colored hair was wet with the raindrops and almost seemed to glimmer. How ironic that it also seemed to cast a shadow over those beautiful chocolate brown eyes dark with pain and…beautiful? Where had that come from?
Ken flushed as he looked away struggling to be inconspicuous thankfully though Daisuke was too deep in his thoughts to notice. He was all too grateful when they finally arrived at his apartment, he would finally find out what was wrong with his friend and not to mention being warm too.
Ken glanced to his side and blinked confusedly for a moment at the empty space beside him instead of Daisuke then realized that the boy had continued walking.
"Daisuke!" He called and saw the boy shake his head and turn back looking extremely embarrassed and sheepish.
"Sorry, Ken I was thinking."
"I thought you said that thinking too much hurt your head." Ken said attempting a joke hoping that would cheer Daisuke up somewhat and it worked. That familiar large goofy grin spread over his face and his chocolate brown eyes light up. That made Ken smile.
"Heh, well I'm different I can always make exceptions." Daisuke replied raising his head ever so slightly and sniffed indignantly at him managing to look like a spoiled brat. It was obvious that Daisuke wasn't going to let Ken win so easily.
"Yes well Your Highness, my apartment is here and not halfway down the street if you've realized that by now. And I'd suggest we'd go up there now." Ken said sweeping into bow and Daisuke grinned.
"Yes Mother, of course Mother, I'll listen to your every word Mother!"
Ken laughed along with Daisuke and half-dragged and half-walked his towards the elevator before he could think of another comeback. He unlocked the door, darkness meet him and for a minute he hesitated.
Darkness like the darkness inside him.
He shook himself away from the thought and groped in the dark for the light switch. Golden light flooded the room and he allowed himself a small sigh of relief.
"Wormmon, I'm home and Daisuke and Chibimon are with me!" He called as he and Daisuke took off their wet shoes, a small voice from Ken's room replied.
"Ken!"
A small green Digimon suddenly emerged from the room down the hall and hurried quickly over towards them. "Wormmon. I met Daisuke along the way back home and so I decided to invite over." He gave his green Digimon a warm hug and smiled happily, it was the best when Wormmon greeted him home. The caterpillar-like Digimon always welcomed him with such enthusiasm and cheerfulness it was hard to stay in those "pity moods" as Daisuke had so eloquently put it.
"Hi Daisuke! Where's Chibimon?"
"In here, in here! Daishuke let me out!"
The frantic wiggling in the backpack and the voice inside it answered Wormmon's question. Daisuke wrestled his backpack for a moment before triumphantly holding up the blue Digimon like a trophy.
"Wormmon!"
"Chibimon! Why are you still in in-training form?" Wormmon asked and a large grumbling answered his question without words again. The blue Digimon and his partner blushed while Ken laughed as the last of his dark thoughts were pushed into the farthest corners of his mind.
"I'm hungry and Daishuke's hungry too!" The little Digimon declared the obvious and Daisuke smiled giving his Digimon a hug and looked at Ken questioningly.
"You wouldn't have food to feed a hungry Digimon and a hungry human would you?" Daisuke asked as Chibimon squirmed and finally popped out of his arms to land beside Wormmon jumping around energetically.
"Yeah I think that I have some cake and food leftover from dinner last night. What about you Wormmon are you hungry?" The Digimon shook his head.
"I think it would be best if you eat something too Ken since I'd be embarrassed being that only Chibimon and I are eating."
"I didn't think you could be embarrassed my dear friend." Daisuke glared at Ken for a moment and decided to take it face value as opposed to get into another verbal fight with his friend, Ken usually won.
"Everyone gets embarrassed sometime Ken, you know that. Anyway so are you going to eat or not?" Daisuke finally said and Ken nodded while grinning, smirking, was a better word. He decided to ignore that as well.
Ken rose and offered Daisuke his hand, he took it smiling and they headed towards the kitchen together with their Digimon trailing behind them. Ken suddenly dropped his hand as if it was burning coal and Daisuke gazed at him curiously, but Ken had already stuck his head into the refrigerator.
"Do you want spaghetti or pasta? We could have ice cream and leftover chocolate cake for dessert."
"Anything that's food sounds great to me, right Chibimon? I'll have the pasta if you want the spaghetti either way works for me as long as I get some ice cream!" Daisuke replied as he leaned against the nearest wall. He was feeling much better now and he glanced at Ken and smiled. It was all because of him that he was feeling like anything at all actually.
After eating I'll talk to him, he'll be able to help me, he always does. Daisuke thought and decided firmly on his decision. He could trust Ken.
Well what did you think? Is it okay? Did I do a good job? A bad one? Is Daisuke or Ken's character okay? Thanks for those who are still here reading and as always reviews, comments and criticism is always appreciated bad or good.