Disclaimer: I don't own the Digimon characters, they own me.
Peril of Hope Part 3
by Reppa
Tai's POV
I sat up in my bed, which I had to share with Yamato. Daisuke and Takeru shared the fold out couch and Miyako shared the bed with Hikari. They were all still asleep except for Daisuke, who came padding into the room with his arms folded.
"Good, I was wondering when one of you would wake up." he whispered haughtily, "Now git! I need to torment Yama some more for that comment last night."
I sighed as I shook my head, "Well, can you be quiet about it? The others are still asleep." I climbed out of the bed as Daisuke shifted impatiently.
"Yeah, yeah, now move it! Out!" he replied, shoving me out of the room. I huff as I straighten out my night shirt and headed for the kitchen. As I made my way down the hall, towards the kitchen, I paused when I saw Takeru soundly snoozing in the blankets. He was curled up into a ball with his knees against his chest. He seemed so sweet and innocent like that, but I knew Takeru wasn't all sugar, spice, and everything nice.
I paused, then silently came over to the side of the bed and put one hand on Takeru's shoulder. But just as I did so, there came a blood-curdling scream and a very loud thud followed, causing Takeru to jerk away abruptly.
"Huh...wha?" he looked around in surprise, then saw me looking around the corner, "What was that?"
"I think that was your brother, I thought I told Daisuke to keep the torture volume down."
"Oh, was that all?" he sighed as he pushed himself up into a sitting position, while Yamato came bolting into the room and literally threw himself over the bed and hid under it. Takeru looked up at me in exasperation, "What are we going to do with them?"
"Either we send Yamato to boot camp or we send Daisuke to a Christian school." I answered looking at him in exasperation, "But boot camp would kill poor Yama and Dai would be damned by the teachers the minute he steps in."
Takeru nodded with a sigh as he looked at his older brother under the bed, then sat up sighing, "You're a big baby."
"Silence!" the older blonde hissed in response, he was watching me the same way Miko did whenever she hid under a bed, "And don't you dare squeal, Yagami."
I smiled down at him, "You do enough of that for both of us."
He sneered at me before going silent as Daisuke rounded the corner, "Where is he?"
My smile broadened as I looked at Takeru, who was suppressing laughter. I had to purse my lip to keep from snickering. He smiled, in that oh so innocent and charming way, at the other boy and pointed under the bed, "He's under there."
As Yamato scowled 'traitor', he slowly edged out from under the bed, "Now, Daisuke, can we talk about this? I didn't mean what I said. You're quite frightening, you're very scary. Okay?"
Daisuke 'hmm'ed for a minute, but smiled evilly, "Alright, Yama, I won't kill you. You just won't get any."
"Now that's not fair!"
"Well, I might change my mind, if you help me with something." he smiled and grabbed Yamato's arm. While smiling at Takeru and me in the most unsettling way, he dragged the blonde rock star with him into the kitchen. I looked down at the younger Ishida who looked back up at me.
"I'm worried now." I mumbled, very worried about the boy's smile just then.
"I'm just going to pretend I didn't see him smile at us the way he did."
"Same here."
"Dai, what are you thinking?!?" came the exclamation from the kitchen, which was rewarded with a sharp 'shhhh.' Yamato shook his head in disbelief, not quite believing a word he heard, "How are you so sure about that? This isn't something I'm used to hearing."
"Aw," Daisuke laughed, grabbing his boyfriend's arm, "I saw it with my own eyes."
"You saw what with your own eyes?"
"I saw Taichi kiss Takeru! That's what!" the young goggle boy snickered happily, covering his mouth as he did so. He had honestly seen everything that had gone on between the two yesterday and the day before. "I'm all too serious about this. We need to get them together!"
"Huh?! How are we going to do that?"
Daisuke smiled mischievously, "I know just the thing!"
End
