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Urk....Do I have to go through this again?
A/N:
I'm trying to do as much as I can with this series right now. o-o With band
camp and work, I'm gonna have a hard time doing anything. So, sorry if there
are any delays, and thanks for staying with this series. I know chaptering can
get...somewhat annoying cause you have so much to read, but I'm glad you're all
enjoying it!
To Win Your
Heart
Chapter 4
Ken looked over Takeru's shoulder to
see Miyako throwing disgusted glances his direction. Swallowing the lump in his
throat, he looked at Koushiro, who was explaining everything. But his words
seemed to not transfer in his mind as he stared blankly at whatever was before
his eyes. Which made Koushiro stop mid-sentence as he realized that Ken's eyes
happened to be glued to his legs.
"What's wrong?" Daisuke
asked as Koushiro turned red, his mouth agape. Ken didn't have the slightest
clue that Koushiro had stopped, and continued to stare. Koushiro's brows
furrowed.
"Uh...Ken?"
Ken's head didn't move, so Takeru
tapped him lightly on the shoulder. Ken looked at Takeru, looking like he was
trying to put a puzzle together in his mind. "Hey, Ken, you ok?"
"Y-Yeah...," he muttered,
looking at Koushiro who was quickly tucking his legs under him. "What are you
doing?"
"Hiding my legs."
"Why?"
"Y-You were..eh, staring. It's
not very comfortable to be stared at...," Koushiro said, a slight tone of
embarrassment ringing in his voice.
"Hey, you don't say anything
when Yamato..," Takeru began, until he felt Koushiro's fist on his head.
"Gomen nasai."
"Now then...," Koushiro
started, withdrawing his hand from Takeru and crossing it with his other.
"You get what I'm saying?"
They all nodded in agreement, and
Ken found it easier to just agree, though he had no idea what on earth Koushiro
had just discussed.
***
"I can't believe they asked me
to come here...," Ken mumbled to himself as he looked over his shoulder to
see Miyako glaring at him. She was glaring with such cold, intense eyes, he was
sure he would have a thousand holes in his back.
I can't believe they asked him to
come here! Miyako snarled in her mind. The thought of being near him disturbed
her, but the thought of him working with them disgusted her to no end. She
continued to glare her icy stare at Ken when he turned around. He quickly shot
his gaze back to the front, and she snorted.
Takeru turned his head to look at
her. "Something wrong?" he asked.
She jumped slightly. "N-No! Why
do you think that?"
"No reason at all,
Miyako," he replied, stressing every syllable in her name. She looked at
him and stuck her tongue out.
"No one said I had to comply to
this! I can be rude if I want, ok?!"
"Hey, no one asked you to say
anything! No one made you leader!" Daisuke snapped, jumping in front of
her.
"No one said you could be,
either! You're only leader cause Yagami-kun gave you those goggles! We didn't
decide on it as a group! I think we should right now!"
"Now is not the time to debate
on this!" Iori interrupted, but was quickly shoved out of the argument by
Miyako's hand. "Hey--!"
"Stay out of this, kid!"
Miyako glared back at Daisuke. "Well?"
"And you're saying you could be
a better leader?"
"Are you saying I couldn't
be?" Miyako challenged, standing taller, hovering over the boy, pulling
her shoulders back and up to bring some height to herself. Daisuke glared back,
trying to match her height.
Hikari stepped between the two.
"This isn't the time!"
"Stay out!" they both
snapped, and she retreated. Takeru rolled his eyes and grabbed Ken and Iori's
arms and dragged them off.
"Takeru...," Ken began
until Takeru cut him off.
"Hey, we're leaving, whether
you comply to this or not," he said, looking back at the other three, and
not waiting for a response, took off.
Miyako and Daisuke didn't notice a
thing, but Hikari began to tug at their arms. "Takeru just left with Iori
and Ken! Aren't we gonna follow?"
Miyako's eyes grew wide and she
looked at Hikari. "WHAT?! Follow KEN?! Never! Not all in my..."
Daisuke did the first thing that
came to mind. He couldn't stop the hand that flew towards her face, and after
he had hit her, he knew it was too late to try and stop anything. He just
stared at her, unable to believe the action he just took. Miyako looked back
with the same shock on her face.
"Y-You jerk....," she
whispered before she smacked him back. "I hate you! How could you stick up
for him?!"
Daisuke glared at her. That action
didn't shock him. Miyako smacking someone never did. "Oh really? Well, I
guess you can just get over it! I don't care what you think! He's one of us!
Which means he can't be all that bad."
Miyako didn't know what to say after
that, which happened to be a first to Daisuke. She had no comeback. She looked
at him, looking somewhat ashamed. But then, that look vanished as fast as it
came, and she furrowed her brows. "Dammit, Daisuke, I will NEVER work
with...with...someone as cruel as Ichijouji Ken! That jerk went around killing
Digimon like it was sport! And you think that he's actually GOOD? You're
insane!"
"Look, it's not entirely his
fault!" Daisuke felt his hands roll into tight fists as he glared at
Miyako. "Look at you! Constantly hurting other people's feelings without
thinking for a second how you'll affect them!"
"Is it my fault I'm telling the
TRUTH?!"
"If I told you what a bitch
you're being, would you go cry your eyes out?" Daisuke realized what he
just said, and bit his tongue as Hikari gasped loudly and Miyako's mouth hung
open, her eyes wide in shock.
"W-What did you just call
me...?" Miyako whispered hoarsely, her eyes starting to turn red as she
held the tears back. Whether it was from hurt or anger, Daisuke knew that she
was getting a taste of her own medicine, though he didn't feel so great about
it.
"Y-You heard! Now you see how
you hurt others!?" Daisuke stuttered, his last sentence replaying again
and again in his mind as Miyako nearly ripped her hair out in anger.
"DIE!!! I hate you!!! You're so
arrogant and stuck up and a brat who's spoiled rotten who's chasing after a
girl that you know has no interest in you! You're stupid! Stupid! Stupid!
Stupid!" she screeched, taking deep breaths after.
Daisuke stood there, scratching his
head. "Like I've never heard that before...."
"You are! What idiot chases
after the same girl that he knows doesn't have one bit of interest in
him?!"
"Have you ever caught the hint
that we think you're annoying?"
"I am NOT annoying! I'm
speaking my mind! There's NOTHING wrong with doing that!"
"So you're saying it's ok to
diss other people but when the tables are turned, it's not?"
"You guys...this isn't getting
us anywhere...," Hikari butted in. "While we're here arguing, we're
not accomplishing anything. You're both so stubborn, it's just like trying to
break two stubborn fighting dogs apart."
"If she'd get it through her
head that Ken's different...," Daisuke began, but Miyako shoved him from
behind.
"People just don't change
overnight, jackass!"
"Knock it off!" Hikari
shouted, and they looked at her. Both looked pissed off, but Hikari could care
less. "Speaking of speaking our minds...I think you two are really
immature. This is a time where Ken needs support, someone to be there for him.
He's going through a lot right now. His loss of Wormmon, his memories of losing
his brother...the thought of not being ACCEPTED by those around him."
When Hikari stressed the word
"accepted", she looked at Miyako, who guiltily looked down at the
ground. "We give you what you need Miyako, and it wouldn't hurt if you
could at least show Ken some bit of kindness...Iori's broken through his shell.
He knows things are different. Why do you have to be so stubborn?"
"Because...I feel that way,
because I listen to my instincts."
"It's not your instincts, just
your stupid hormones kicking in and a time where you hate guys," Daisuke
piped in angrily, and received a fist for a reply on the back of his head.
"No one asked you," Miyako
growled, pulling her fist back and popping her knuckles. "When I feel like
forgiving Ken, I will. Which will be...never. I don't forgive people like
him."
"I don't know what else to say
Miyako, other than you deserve...," Hikari began, and Daisuke finished.
"Bitch slapped."
Miyako turned red. "You two
disgust me! I can't stand you two! I don't wanna work with anyone! I'll go by
myself!"
"That's so unreasonable!"
Hikari said, but Daisuke grabbed her arm.
"If she wants to go alone, let
her. Not like we want a party pooper anyway, whining about everything and why
Ken's helping us." Hikari looked at Daisuke and he turned around.
Miyako became a raging inferno.
"OH YEAH!? I can take care of myself just fine! With you two, Daisuke
would be too busy hanging all over Hikari and her trying to ignore you that
you'd BOTH forget me! So there! I don't care!"
Hikari watched as Miyako stormed
off. Daisuke didn't turn around. Instead, he grabbed her arm fiercely and
said,"Let's go. Knowing her, she'll be fine."
As he dragged her away, Hikari
looked back. Miyako...why do you have to disagree? Why can't we stay as a team?