Author's note: The end? Maybe. Maybe not. If you're reviewing from this chapter, respond with one of the following: Good Bad Horrible Okay or my fave 'Rae, you are an absolute genius. I love you, please continue'. If you really like this, and have a possible ending, since it is yaoi, you can also add: Kensuke Daiken Daikeru Takedai Or even Daiyako (if you don't know what yaoi is, this is probably your choice), or even Daishiro. Just leave Jyou and Tai out of it. I won't object to a Yamasuke, either, but that's as odd of a couple as Daichi.
Disclaimer: Fanfiction. Fiction. Fan. Get it? Don't own. Am fan. Is fiction. (obviously, since they're cartoons (sorry, anime)).
Warning: yaoi reference and possible coupling. Maybe. Maybe not
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Author: Rae
Title: Undecided (Yes, that is the title now)
Content: angst, drama, and yaoi (whoopee)
Daisuke rolled off of Ken and laid back on the grass. It really was a beautiful day, and now that he'd had his confession, he felt better. A lot better than he had for a long while.
Takeru was looking down at the blue-haired boy, and the brunette next to him with raised eyebrows. They were both smiling happily as they stared up at him from the ground. He could understand Ken feeling happy at finally helping Dai, but he couldn't grasp the other boy's mood swings.
"I give." He announced to his friends. "If I had known that we only had to let you tackle Ken, we could have gotten to this point sooner." He closed his mouth as he realized exactly what he had said. He had put the fact that Dai was gay to the back of his mind without really thinking about it. He was thinking now.
And so, obviously, was Ken, since he jumped up from the ground quickly and stood next to T.K. Daisuke watched them both through hooded eyes, the smile on his face mocking. "I'm not about to jump you, so get over yourselves. Both of you." He pushed himself to his feet, and waved at Kari, her brother, and Matt. They walked over and joined them.
"So, everything's good now? We're all getting along again?" Hikari eyed them suspiciously. The three boys grinned back at her, causing her to step toward her brother. In a mock-whisper, she told Tai, "I'm scared. Very scared."
Ken dusted his pants off, and Dai made to sweep the dirt of the back of his jacket. He stopped when his friend seemed to freeze in place. With a smirk, he waved at T.K. to do the honors instead. When Dai went to walk away, Ken put a hand on his arm and stopped him.
"Sorry, Dai." The other boy shrugged. "Don't pretend it doesn't matter! You said that you were done. Now turn around." The other boy complied. "Close your eyes." Eyelids drooped over piercing brown eyes.
A second later, Dai was lying flat on his back again. He looked up in stunned surprise as Ken sat on his chest. "That wasn't very nice."
Ken laughed, pushing his hair back from his face. "I know. It wasn't any nicer when you did it to me. Now, if you say you're sorry, and say it nicely, I'll let you up."
The brunette hesitated, and then grinned naughtily. "What if I don't want up?" Ken paled, then flushed bright red. He didn't know whether to get up and run, or stay there so that he knew Dai was harmless.
Takeru and Hikari were laughing. Tai and Matt were hiding their smiles by looking away. Ken was the only one not finding the situation funny. "That's not fair."
"I don't play fair." Davis admitted it huskily, his smile slowly fading as his friend made no move to get up. "Can I get up now?"
Ken thought for a moment, and then shook his head. "You have to apologize first. That's the deal." The brunette was surprised. He had felt certain that his little comment would send Ken shooting away from him. Feeling decidedly uncomfortable, Davis said sorry.
The older boy rolled off of him and stood beside Kari. Dai stood up and glared at everybody for a moment before grinning. "You all came out here to see me? Is it my birthday? Or did I win a prize and forget about it?" His voice was sounded like normal, highly excited and slightly annoying.
Everyone relaxed a little. It seemed that they had gotten him over it, or he'd gotten over it himself. Either way, he seemed to have moved on. He chose that moment to kneel down, lean over, and vomit. Kari leaned down to pull his hair back. Nobdy else moved. When he was done, he coughed a little bit, and wiped at his mouth with his sleeve.
"Are you okay?" Tai squatted down, and leaned over to look at his face. With a pointed glance down, Dai sat back, his strength leaving him. "All right, stupid question. Are you done?"
"For now." He laid down on the grass, an arm over his eyes. "I think that I'm starting to like it down here. Soft grass, warm sun. Vomit and flowers perfuming the air."
Matt, for the most part, hadn't done really anything, so he felt obligated to do something now. That's what happens when you get stuck in the melodrama of someone else's life. He tapped Dai on the amr and held out his arm. "Come on, we owe you ice cream. We'll even put antacids and cherries on top."
The younger boy let himself be pulled to his feet. His friends were being extremely nice, but he was feeling resentful towards them. They had invaded his privacy, intended to read his journal, and just wouldn't leave him alone in general. For the first time in a while, he knew that he wasn't alone.
(a/n: shoot me now for the sap. I can't help it, it's ingrained. I was raised on it, I swear.)
Takeru put an arm around his shoulders. "Think of it this way. You now have more room for food than you did before. And since Tai and Matt are paying, we'll make them take you to the all-you-can-eat-buffet." Kari nodded in agreement as they started walking in a group.
"I think that I'll settle for ice cream. I don't really feel like actual food, for some reason." He smiled at them, his grin genuine. "But I can't right now. Maybe tomorrow."
They thought about it, but it was Ken who agreed. "We'll pick you up at noon and feed you then. That way, you won't have to eat whatever your mom cooks." They laughed together, then Ken explained to the others. "His mom doesn't cook very well. She tries all these wierd recipes that call for ingredients like snails and caramel sauce."
They made appropriate gagging noises. Dai looked ready to vomit again. "Today, she made maki rolls, but she put chocolate sauce in them." He shuddered at the memory. "And she made green tea, and used soda instead of water. I don't know how she does it, but whatever comes from the kitchen is normally messed up."
They started walking toward Davis's apartment with him. Ken continued to illustrate the lack of cooking genes in the Motomiya family by telling about the single time that Jun had cooked for them. "I swear, I'll never look at teriyaki pork the same again." The others laughed, including Dai. At the door to the lobby, they separated, leaving Dai to go upstairs alone.
Ken trailed behind the others, his brain not registering their conversation, as it had moved on to mundane, every day events. "And then the teacher told teh class to write a poem about the thing they wanted most. I did mine on peace, in both worlds. Dai refused at first to go up and present his."
That drew his attention back to Kari, who continued. "He gave her this really mean look, but walked to the front anyway. Then, he seemed to shake it off, and did this little fluffy poem that you could tell he wasn't reading from his paper. The teacher didn't seem to notice, so he got a passing grade. I've been thinking about it since then, and I'd really like to find that poem, but I don't want to ask him for it."
Takeru nodded. "That's why I was over there the other day, when his parents came home. I wanted to talk to him about it to. He had been acting really odd lately, and I was going to try to help." They were explaining it to Tai, who had been dragged into the middle of it. This was the first that anybody had told him that something was amiss.
"I think that we should get him out of the apartment first, and then try talking to him again. He might be more receptive tomorrow. Tonight, though, we've gotten him over something, hopefully, so we can afford to wait." Matt waited for everyone to agree with him. He and Tai were holding hands, their openness causing both T.K. and Kari to smile tenderly at them.
Daisuke had been right when he had called their relationship early that day. He could be a really observant person at times, given the right situation and attitude. It started Ken to thinking.
*If he's so flaky and stupid as he appears half the time, then how could he see what I couldn't? I don't think that being gay makes it easier to find a closet couple, and he doesn't seem to be around Tai and Matt enough for them to have slipped. I wonder what else he's hiding, besides himself and his depression.*
Hikari and Takeru were having similar thoughts about their friend. But the answers would wait, until they could get Dai to trust them like they had already thought he did, before the world changed its axis. There would be time. They hoped.
Disclaimer: Fanfiction. Fiction. Fan. Get it? Don't own. Am fan. Is fiction. (obviously, since they're cartoons (sorry, anime)).
Warning: yaoi reference and possible coupling. Maybe. Maybe not
___________________________
Author: Rae
Title: Undecided (Yes, that is the title now)
Content: angst, drama, and yaoi (whoopee)
Daisuke rolled off of Ken and laid back on the grass. It really was a beautiful day, and now that he'd had his confession, he felt better. A lot better than he had for a long while.
Takeru was looking down at the blue-haired boy, and the brunette next to him with raised eyebrows. They were both smiling happily as they stared up at him from the ground. He could understand Ken feeling happy at finally helping Dai, but he couldn't grasp the other boy's mood swings.
"I give." He announced to his friends. "If I had known that we only had to let you tackle Ken, we could have gotten to this point sooner." He closed his mouth as he realized exactly what he had said. He had put the fact that Dai was gay to the back of his mind without really thinking about it. He was thinking now.
And so, obviously, was Ken, since he jumped up from the ground quickly and stood next to T.K. Daisuke watched them both through hooded eyes, the smile on his face mocking. "I'm not about to jump you, so get over yourselves. Both of you." He pushed himself to his feet, and waved at Kari, her brother, and Matt. They walked over and joined them.
"So, everything's good now? We're all getting along again?" Hikari eyed them suspiciously. The three boys grinned back at her, causing her to step toward her brother. In a mock-whisper, she told Tai, "I'm scared. Very scared."
Ken dusted his pants off, and Dai made to sweep the dirt of the back of his jacket. He stopped when his friend seemed to freeze in place. With a smirk, he waved at T.K. to do the honors instead. When Dai went to walk away, Ken put a hand on his arm and stopped him.
"Sorry, Dai." The other boy shrugged. "Don't pretend it doesn't matter! You said that you were done. Now turn around." The other boy complied. "Close your eyes." Eyelids drooped over piercing brown eyes.
A second later, Dai was lying flat on his back again. He looked up in stunned surprise as Ken sat on his chest. "That wasn't very nice."
Ken laughed, pushing his hair back from his face. "I know. It wasn't any nicer when you did it to me. Now, if you say you're sorry, and say it nicely, I'll let you up."
The brunette hesitated, and then grinned naughtily. "What if I don't want up?" Ken paled, then flushed bright red. He didn't know whether to get up and run, or stay there so that he knew Dai was harmless.
Takeru and Hikari were laughing. Tai and Matt were hiding their smiles by looking away. Ken was the only one not finding the situation funny. "That's not fair."
"I don't play fair." Davis admitted it huskily, his smile slowly fading as his friend made no move to get up. "Can I get up now?"
Ken thought for a moment, and then shook his head. "You have to apologize first. That's the deal." The brunette was surprised. He had felt certain that his little comment would send Ken shooting away from him. Feeling decidedly uncomfortable, Davis said sorry.
The older boy rolled off of him and stood beside Kari. Dai stood up and glared at everybody for a moment before grinning. "You all came out here to see me? Is it my birthday? Or did I win a prize and forget about it?" His voice was sounded like normal, highly excited and slightly annoying.
Everyone relaxed a little. It seemed that they had gotten him over it, or he'd gotten over it himself. Either way, he seemed to have moved on. He chose that moment to kneel down, lean over, and vomit. Kari leaned down to pull his hair back. Nobdy else moved. When he was done, he coughed a little bit, and wiped at his mouth with his sleeve.
"Are you okay?" Tai squatted down, and leaned over to look at his face. With a pointed glance down, Dai sat back, his strength leaving him. "All right, stupid question. Are you done?"
"For now." He laid down on the grass, an arm over his eyes. "I think that I'm starting to like it down here. Soft grass, warm sun. Vomit and flowers perfuming the air."
Matt, for the most part, hadn't done really anything, so he felt obligated to do something now. That's what happens when you get stuck in the melodrama of someone else's life. He tapped Dai on the amr and held out his arm. "Come on, we owe you ice cream. We'll even put antacids and cherries on top."
The younger boy let himself be pulled to his feet. His friends were being extremely nice, but he was feeling resentful towards them. They had invaded his privacy, intended to read his journal, and just wouldn't leave him alone in general. For the first time in a while, he knew that he wasn't alone.
(a/n: shoot me now for the sap. I can't help it, it's ingrained. I was raised on it, I swear.)
Takeru put an arm around his shoulders. "Think of it this way. You now have more room for food than you did before. And since Tai and Matt are paying, we'll make them take you to the all-you-can-eat-buffet." Kari nodded in agreement as they started walking in a group.
"I think that I'll settle for ice cream. I don't really feel like actual food, for some reason." He smiled at them, his grin genuine. "But I can't right now. Maybe tomorrow."
They thought about it, but it was Ken who agreed. "We'll pick you up at noon and feed you then. That way, you won't have to eat whatever your mom cooks." They laughed together, then Ken explained to the others. "His mom doesn't cook very well. She tries all these wierd recipes that call for ingredients like snails and caramel sauce."
They made appropriate gagging noises. Dai looked ready to vomit again. "Today, she made maki rolls, but she put chocolate sauce in them." He shuddered at the memory. "And she made green tea, and used soda instead of water. I don't know how she does it, but whatever comes from the kitchen is normally messed up."
They started walking toward Davis's apartment with him. Ken continued to illustrate the lack of cooking genes in the Motomiya family by telling about the single time that Jun had cooked for them. "I swear, I'll never look at teriyaki pork the same again." The others laughed, including Dai. At the door to the lobby, they separated, leaving Dai to go upstairs alone.
Ken trailed behind the others, his brain not registering their conversation, as it had moved on to mundane, every day events. "And then the teacher told teh class to write a poem about the thing they wanted most. I did mine on peace, in both worlds. Dai refused at first to go up and present his."
That drew his attention back to Kari, who continued. "He gave her this really mean look, but walked to the front anyway. Then, he seemed to shake it off, and did this little fluffy poem that you could tell he wasn't reading from his paper. The teacher didn't seem to notice, so he got a passing grade. I've been thinking about it since then, and I'd really like to find that poem, but I don't want to ask him for it."
Takeru nodded. "That's why I was over there the other day, when his parents came home. I wanted to talk to him about it to. He had been acting really odd lately, and I was going to try to help." They were explaining it to Tai, who had been dragged into the middle of it. This was the first that anybody had told him that something was amiss.
"I think that we should get him out of the apartment first, and then try talking to him again. He might be more receptive tomorrow. Tonight, though, we've gotten him over something, hopefully, so we can afford to wait." Matt waited for everyone to agree with him. He and Tai were holding hands, their openness causing both T.K. and Kari to smile tenderly at them.
Daisuke had been right when he had called their relationship early that day. He could be a really observant person at times, given the right situation and attitude. It started Ken to thinking.
*If he's so flaky and stupid as he appears half the time, then how could he see what I couldn't? I don't think that being gay makes it easier to find a closet couple, and he doesn't seem to be around Tai and Matt enough for them to have slipped. I wonder what else he's hiding, besides himself and his depression.*
Hikari and Takeru were having similar thoughts about their friend. But the answers would wait, until they could get Dai to trust them like they had already thought he did, before the world changed its axis. There would be time. They hoped.