Tai and Matt were waiting outside. (For the record, they were making out in the trees by the entrance) None of the three younger destined saw them, until Ken heard a giggling, and turned around to investigate. Tai stepped onto the pavement behind Daisuke, at the same time that Takeru exited the hospital.
"That took long enough." He reprimanded them, straightening his oddly mussed clothes. Matt was still hidden behind one of the bushes.
"Actually, I would say that that didn't take nearly long enough." Takeru mouthed off, moving pass the brunette. Tai blushed, and they could hear Matt giggling. "You know, I almost wish that Dai hadn't let the cat out about you two. Since he did, you've made out just about every place possible."
Stepping out beside his boyfriend, Yamato scowled at him. "You're bed's safe. For now. So watch your mouth." The younger blonde blanched at the thought. His brother gave him a derisive smile. "That shut you up."
Tai, taking the musician's hand, looked at him patiently. "You should be nice." With a quick glance at the boy in question, he leaned over and whispered something in Matt's ear, causing the taunting grin to turn to a decided leer.
Blue eyes widened, and he gasped. "What did you guys do?" They didn't answer, just walked toward the waiting car with angelic expressions. "Seriously, guys, what did you do?" The looks of innocence dissolved as they fell into a fit of chuckles. Takeru shrieked in frustration, and took off after them, the three running towards and around the car.
Daisuke and Ken were left to walk together. With a smile aimed at his friends, he talked to Ken. "Am I allowed to pick up my things?" He was refering to his disownment.
"Yeah. They said that you have two weeks. Then everything's going to be dumped in the trash." They got to the car as Tai and Matt jumped into the back, and locked all the doors. They laughed at the angry blonde circling the vehicle. "You can store some of it at my place."
"Thanks. I think I'm going to stay with one of these bozos. They all go to my school, so it would be more convenient." Takeru climbed up on the hood, and then onto the roof of the car. Matt was yelling, Tai convulsed in laughter, hanging halfway into the front of the car. The back door opened. and then the chase reversed.
Brown hair stuck out a windo was Tai rolled it down. "Come on, you two. Plenty of room for all of us."
"Yeah, especially since Takeru's volunteered to walk home!" Matt was by the trunk, watching his brother feint right, then left.
"What a threat, Yamato, since I live a whole six blocks from here." With a sudden thoughtful gaze, Dai looked up at the hospital, only then realizing that he'd been there twice on Sunday. Down the street one way was the diner where he'd had coffee with Jyou, and back the other way, was the side-street where...
"Earth to Dai!" Ken waved a hand in front of his face, bringing the redhead back to the present. "Welcome back." It was a significant reminder.
"Thanks."
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They headed to Tamachi to drop Ken off, Tai, and Matt sitting in the front. The younger three were left to crunch together in the back seat. Daisuke was in the middle, Takeru on his right, behind Tai, Ken on the left behind Matt. It wasn't exactly comfortable, but they had all been in worst positions, and couldn't really complain.
Except for Takeru. "Man, Matt, turn the radio down!" His brother had been kind enough to let him in the car, despite his threat of making him walk home. A glare from the older sibling revealed that he was regretting his leniency.
With a smirk in the rear-view mirror, the blonde reached out, and turned the dial. All the way up.
"Damn it, Yamato!" Takeru's yell fell into the throb of music, decipherable to only Daisuke, who was thrush against his side. He could feel the vibration of the redhead's laughter, and he turned to him with a glare. The brown eyes that met his were slitted in mirth, their sparkle half-covered by long lashes.
Swallowing hard, he looked past him to Ken, who was grinning quietly in the corner, shaking his head. Tai reached out and turned the music down, leaving them in silence for a moment. "It's not bad enough that you fight with my sister over the radio, Takeru. Now you have to fight with my boyfriend, too?"
"You're just pissed because we came out before you two could really get going." They all turned to look at Ken, who was smirking in the back. "What! It's true."
He spoke defensively, his pinks turning pink at the sudden attention. Daisuke laughed out loud. "About time. I knew I'd rub off on you, eventually."
"And that's a good thing, because...?" Blue eyes twinkled in the rearview mirror as Matt turned his attention back to the road.
"Because I'm a wonderful, and amazing human being, and there should be ten thousand more like me, with the same irresistable good looks, and charming ways." He waited for the inevitable laughter, but the simply looked at him, Tai nodding in agreement.
"About time you realized that, too." His idol turned to grin at him, and he felt tears well up again. "Oops. Now look what I've done. Ken, Takeru, cheer him up!"
Ken looked at the blonde. Violet eyes met blue, and the blush disappeared behind another smirk. "Have at it." Daisuke frowned at Ken, and then looked also at the blonde. Takeru met his gaze, inwardly wishing that the door would fall off, and the wind would suck him out of the car.
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When Ken was gone, Tai turned the radio back up to an acceptable volume. Which meant that Matt and he were happy, and Takeru was glaring at the both of them, hoping that he still had his hearing when it was over.
Daisuke turned back to the blonde, and raised an eyebrow. "You have some nerve."
"Excuse me?" Blue eyes turned to him incredously. He might be having trouble hearing over the music, but he had recieved that message loud and clear.
"You heard me, TI. Of all the stupid things you could have pulled, why the hell did you kiss me?" There was no anger in his voice, just exasperation.
"I'm so sorry, Mr. Perfect! It just seemed like a good idea at the time!" Defensive now, Takeru crossed his arms and looked away from him. If he had had any doubts before about screwing things up with that kiss, they were gone now. Things were well screweed beyond belief, and now Daisuke seemed bent on rubbing his nose in that fact. "If it makes you feel better, I'd take it back."
"Why would that make me feel better?" Brown eyes were wide with complete shock, leaving the blonde to stare at him in confusion.
"Isn't that what this is about? You don't care for me that way, and you don't want me to get the wrong idea just because you might be staying with me?" He spoke as if it were obvious, but he could tell by the redhead's expression that something wasn't quite right. "Dai?"
Instead of answering his assumption, Daisuke asked a question on his own. "Do you realize, that when you want to be all buddy-buddy again, you call me Davis, but when you're being serious, and trying to really talk to me, you call me Daisuke?"
"Uh, no. I didn't realize that." He blinked, trying to recall how they had gotten onto this topic. "So, you're not mad at me for kissing you?"
"It was a kiss, Takeru, nothing more. Why would it have bothered me?" Brown eyes turned from him to stare straight ahead, and Daisuke shrugged noncommitally. "It's not like you jumped me, or asked for me to fall madly in love with you."
The blonde drew back in reaction to the words, though they were spoken as if they meant nothing. He turned away to look out the window, ignoring the niggling feeling in the back of his mind. Out of the corner of his eye, he looked at the boy beside him, trying to pinpoint his uneasiness.
Something wasn't right. Daisuke's body was tense, rigidly so, and he refused to look at him. His gaze had drifted to the left, and he had a feeling that he was hiding his face from Tai and Matt in the front seat. On instinct, hoping that he wasn't wrong, he leaned over, making sure that Dai would be able to hear him.
"Maybe I should have tried jumping you, since the kiss didn't bother you." At the word 'jump' Dai had turned around sharply, and their lips were scant centimeters apart when he was done talking. Their breathes mingled for a moment before freezing in their respective chests. They didn't notice the sudden quiet as the engine was cut, as their eyes locked and sucked the other in.
In the front, Tai and Matt had turned around in their seats, their arms resting in their headrests, to watch. The grinned at each other as two head leaned closer in, until their lips were pressed ever so lightly against another.
A tap sounded on the window, and then the door was opened roughly. "Takaishi Takeru!" Four pair of eyes turned to look at a very...angered Mr. Ishida.
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End note: God, does it ever end? Wait until Chapter 20, when I have Ken abducted by aliens. Just to have more angst and drama to a story already overloaded with it.
Oh, yeah. By the way, I am extremely pleased to announce that Alias has accepted my version for Weddings-chapter two. It's cool, and wonderful, and I am so totally please, and Alias is now my hero. So, go read it, both chapters, and tell the world how wonderful they both are (just don't mention the fact that Chapter 1 is better, cuz I'll be crushed, and I'll cry, and you'll read nothing from angst from me for all of...two days.) That said, good day.
"That took long enough." He reprimanded them, straightening his oddly mussed clothes. Matt was still hidden behind one of the bushes.
"Actually, I would say that that didn't take nearly long enough." Takeru mouthed off, moving pass the brunette. Tai blushed, and they could hear Matt giggling. "You know, I almost wish that Dai hadn't let the cat out about you two. Since he did, you've made out just about every place possible."
Stepping out beside his boyfriend, Yamato scowled at him. "You're bed's safe. For now. So watch your mouth." The younger blonde blanched at the thought. His brother gave him a derisive smile. "That shut you up."
Tai, taking the musician's hand, looked at him patiently. "You should be nice." With a quick glance at the boy in question, he leaned over and whispered something in Matt's ear, causing the taunting grin to turn to a decided leer.
Blue eyes widened, and he gasped. "What did you guys do?" They didn't answer, just walked toward the waiting car with angelic expressions. "Seriously, guys, what did you do?" The looks of innocence dissolved as they fell into a fit of chuckles. Takeru shrieked in frustration, and took off after them, the three running towards and around the car.
Daisuke and Ken were left to walk together. With a smile aimed at his friends, he talked to Ken. "Am I allowed to pick up my things?" He was refering to his disownment.
"Yeah. They said that you have two weeks. Then everything's going to be dumped in the trash." They got to the car as Tai and Matt jumped into the back, and locked all the doors. They laughed at the angry blonde circling the vehicle. "You can store some of it at my place."
"Thanks. I think I'm going to stay with one of these bozos. They all go to my school, so it would be more convenient." Takeru climbed up on the hood, and then onto the roof of the car. Matt was yelling, Tai convulsed in laughter, hanging halfway into the front of the car. The back door opened. and then the chase reversed.
Brown hair stuck out a windo was Tai rolled it down. "Come on, you two. Plenty of room for all of us."
"Yeah, especially since Takeru's volunteered to walk home!" Matt was by the trunk, watching his brother feint right, then left.
"What a threat, Yamato, since I live a whole six blocks from here." With a sudden thoughtful gaze, Dai looked up at the hospital, only then realizing that he'd been there twice on Sunday. Down the street one way was the diner where he'd had coffee with Jyou, and back the other way, was the side-street where...
"Earth to Dai!" Ken waved a hand in front of his face, bringing the redhead back to the present. "Welcome back." It was a significant reminder.
"Thanks."
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They headed to Tamachi to drop Ken off, Tai, and Matt sitting in the front. The younger three were left to crunch together in the back seat. Daisuke was in the middle, Takeru on his right, behind Tai, Ken on the left behind Matt. It wasn't exactly comfortable, but they had all been in worst positions, and couldn't really complain.
Except for Takeru. "Man, Matt, turn the radio down!" His brother had been kind enough to let him in the car, despite his threat of making him walk home. A glare from the older sibling revealed that he was regretting his leniency.
With a smirk in the rear-view mirror, the blonde reached out, and turned the dial. All the way up.
"Damn it, Yamato!" Takeru's yell fell into the throb of music, decipherable to only Daisuke, who was thrush against his side. He could feel the vibration of the redhead's laughter, and he turned to him with a glare. The brown eyes that met his were slitted in mirth, their sparkle half-covered by long lashes.
Swallowing hard, he looked past him to Ken, who was grinning quietly in the corner, shaking his head. Tai reached out and turned the music down, leaving them in silence for a moment. "It's not bad enough that you fight with my sister over the radio, Takeru. Now you have to fight with my boyfriend, too?"
"You're just pissed because we came out before you two could really get going." They all turned to look at Ken, who was smirking in the back. "What! It's true."
He spoke defensively, his pinks turning pink at the sudden attention. Daisuke laughed out loud. "About time. I knew I'd rub off on you, eventually."
"And that's a good thing, because...?" Blue eyes twinkled in the rearview mirror as Matt turned his attention back to the road.
"Because I'm a wonderful, and amazing human being, and there should be ten thousand more like me, with the same irresistable good looks, and charming ways." He waited for the inevitable laughter, but the simply looked at him, Tai nodding in agreement.
"About time you realized that, too." His idol turned to grin at him, and he felt tears well up again. "Oops. Now look what I've done. Ken, Takeru, cheer him up!"
Ken looked at the blonde. Violet eyes met blue, and the blush disappeared behind another smirk. "Have at it." Daisuke frowned at Ken, and then looked also at the blonde. Takeru met his gaze, inwardly wishing that the door would fall off, and the wind would suck him out of the car.
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When Ken was gone, Tai turned the radio back up to an acceptable volume. Which meant that Matt and he were happy, and Takeru was glaring at the both of them, hoping that he still had his hearing when it was over.
Daisuke turned back to the blonde, and raised an eyebrow. "You have some nerve."
"Excuse me?" Blue eyes turned to him incredously. He might be having trouble hearing over the music, but he had recieved that message loud and clear.
"You heard me, TI. Of all the stupid things you could have pulled, why the hell did you kiss me?" There was no anger in his voice, just exasperation.
"I'm so sorry, Mr. Perfect! It just seemed like a good idea at the time!" Defensive now, Takeru crossed his arms and looked away from him. If he had had any doubts before about screwing things up with that kiss, they were gone now. Things were well screweed beyond belief, and now Daisuke seemed bent on rubbing his nose in that fact. "If it makes you feel better, I'd take it back."
"Why would that make me feel better?" Brown eyes were wide with complete shock, leaving the blonde to stare at him in confusion.
"Isn't that what this is about? You don't care for me that way, and you don't want me to get the wrong idea just because you might be staying with me?" He spoke as if it were obvious, but he could tell by the redhead's expression that something wasn't quite right. "Dai?"
Instead of answering his assumption, Daisuke asked a question on his own. "Do you realize, that when you want to be all buddy-buddy again, you call me Davis, but when you're being serious, and trying to really talk to me, you call me Daisuke?"
"Uh, no. I didn't realize that." He blinked, trying to recall how they had gotten onto this topic. "So, you're not mad at me for kissing you?"
"It was a kiss, Takeru, nothing more. Why would it have bothered me?" Brown eyes turned from him to stare straight ahead, and Daisuke shrugged noncommitally. "It's not like you jumped me, or asked for me to fall madly in love with you."
The blonde drew back in reaction to the words, though they were spoken as if they meant nothing. He turned away to look out the window, ignoring the niggling feeling in the back of his mind. Out of the corner of his eye, he looked at the boy beside him, trying to pinpoint his uneasiness.
Something wasn't right. Daisuke's body was tense, rigidly so, and he refused to look at him. His gaze had drifted to the left, and he had a feeling that he was hiding his face from Tai and Matt in the front seat. On instinct, hoping that he wasn't wrong, he leaned over, making sure that Dai would be able to hear him.
"Maybe I should have tried jumping you, since the kiss didn't bother you." At the word 'jump' Dai had turned around sharply, and their lips were scant centimeters apart when he was done talking. Their breathes mingled for a moment before freezing in their respective chests. They didn't notice the sudden quiet as the engine was cut, as their eyes locked and sucked the other in.
In the front, Tai and Matt had turned around in their seats, their arms resting in their headrests, to watch. The grinned at each other as two head leaned closer in, until their lips were pressed ever so lightly against another.
A tap sounded on the window, and then the door was opened roughly. "Takaishi Takeru!" Four pair of eyes turned to look at a very...angered Mr. Ishida.
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End note: God, does it ever end? Wait until Chapter 20, when I have Ken abducted by aliens. Just to have more angst and drama to a story already overloaded with it.
Oh, yeah. By the way, I am extremely pleased to announce that Alias has accepted my version for Weddings-chapter two. It's cool, and wonderful, and I am so totally please, and Alias is now my hero. So, go read it, both chapters, and tell the world how wonderful they both are (just don't mention the fact that Chapter 1 is better, cuz I'll be crushed, and I'll cry, and you'll read nothing from angst from me for all of...two days.) That said, good day.