I've made the rating higher due to all the swear words in this probably not necessary but better safe than sorry.

Ok this is the second chapter and I warn you don't be surprised if it sucks. I rewrote this thing twice and it still isn't any good. I typed it out pretty late as well so it's probably full of mistakes. Nothing much happens in this chapter just introducing the characters that will appear later. Daisuke and Takeru are about 17 in this fic still not old enough to smoke but lets pretend that they can. Once again reviews are nice flames are not and just prove stupidity.

Disclaimer: Don't own digimon never have and never will so don't sue.

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Takerus POV

*shit oh, shit oh, shit oh shit* Of all the people in the world why did it have to be Daisuke. I mean we were never friends in the first place and now I have to share a room with him. Someone up there really doesn't like me...I think I need to sit down. I go to sit on the bed but somehow manage to miss it completely and plop my ass on the floor instead. Daisuke appears to have gotten over the shock now judging by the way he's smirking at me.

"Well well well fancy meeting you here."

I mentally cringe at the tone he's using * oh yes this will be a fun experience.*

"So what did Mr Perfect do to land himself in the loony bin?"

"Don't call me that" I snap finally finding my voice " And its none of your business as to why I'm here."

"Oh I'm so sorry if I upset you" Daisuke drawled sarcastically " please allow me to make it up to you your highness"

*That's it! * Ill be damned if I let him talk to me that way. I open my mouth to tell him off but a loud crash and screaming from outside stopped me from doing so. I jump off of the floor and fling open the door to see what's going on. About two doors down from us a skinny kid wearing baggy clothes with long ink black hair was being yanked off of another kid by two orderly's. Daisuke was standing by my side now watching the scene take place with minimal interest.

"hmmmm that's the third time this week"

" GET THE FUCK OFF OF ME!" The kid was screaming as another three orderly's ran up one of them holding a syringe. I watch as two of the orderly's grabbed the kids arms the other two taking his legs. They hoisted the kid up and attempted to hold the kid still while the reaming orderly with the syringe tried to inject him with it. After some difficulty they managed it a minute later the kid sagged in there arms and the orderly's carried him off down the hall and out of sight.

"Wha...what the hell was that all about?" I manage to ask turning to Daisuke. Daisuke merely shrugged as if it wasn't important.

"That" Daisuke started calmly "Was Randy Hawk field. He's from America and been here the longest. If I were you I would just stay away from him. He's got a really horrible temper he would probably try to kill you if you looked sideways at him for a minute longer than necessary."

Daisukes eyes widened at the sight of a guy with short red hair strolling past.

"Its about time I've been waiting for him all day" Daisuke muttered running out the door.

" Where are you going?" I call out to him.

"Ill be back soon" Daisuke calls before disappearing down the hall. With a sigh I sit down on the bed opening my suitcases and slowly start to unpack while I wait for Daisuke to come back.

Daisukes POV

"Yukito come on man stop already" I call out to the nurse strolling down the corridor. I put on a bit of speed and manage to get in front of him successfully stopping him.

"Did you not here me or where you just ignoring me?" I panted slightly pissed.

"Ignoring you" Yukito replies cheerfully " but now that you've stopped me what can I do for you?"

"Your know what it is that you can do for me" I answer "I've come to get the cigarettes you've been promising me for ages now."

"Who says I've got any cigarettes on me?"

"Oh come on you've always got cigarettes on you. You said over a week ago that if I was good you would get me cigarettes and I've been very good ask anyone round here so keep your end of the deal and gimme gimme gimme."

I stand hand outstretched waiting for him to dish the goods that I know he has.

Yukito is actually a pretty cool guy come to think of it. He's like Rumi he treats us as people and not as pests like the other nurses and orderly's do. The best thing about Yukito though is that he will usually give out cigarettes to us nicotine addicts to save us from going any crazier than we already are...If we've been good of course.

"Oh don't worry about that Daisuke I did ask people around whether you've been good and I got a little story involving you, lumps of wet clay and a very pissed off art teacher. Would you care to explain that one to me?" Yukito smiles sweetly at me.

*crap* "It was an accident I swear it the clay was really slippery and it just flew right out of my hand..."

"All the way across the room to conveniently land on the art teachers head?"

*Double crap* "It was really slippery clay...oh come on that was a one off thing and she was pissing me off. I haven't done anything else wrong all week please Yukito please" I'm begging him now its been ages since I've had a smoke and the cravings are killing me.

"I don't know Daisuke. The deal was you would get cigarettes if you do nothing wrong all week"

"If you don't give them to me now I wont stop pestering you until you do." I threaten. Yukito doesn't budge. I take a big breath and ..."please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please-"

"Alright alright stop whining here take them" Yukito hands me a packet of cigarettes to which I promptly shove one in my mouth. I wait till he lights it since we aren't allowed lighters ourselves and take a nice big long drag. *Absolute heaven* I blow the smoke out making small smoke rings and flash a smile at Yukito

"Thanks very much"

"Yeah yeah whatever now get out of my way brat I've got rounds to do."

"I take it thats my cue to leave...hey Yukito one last thing how long till dinner?" I ask remembering that I'm supposed to take Takeru down there.

"It's in about ten minutes"

"Oh okay sees ya round then" I walk off leaving Yukito to go about his rounds. As I head back to my room I found my thoughts drifting to Takeru. I wonder why he's here. I can remember back when we were still actively digidestined Takeru was the perfect kind of kid that could do no wrong. Hikari was always swooning over him and everyone else loved him and respected him and would never tease him like they did me. I on the other hand seemed to be the only one that hated him...wait no I take that back to be honest I didn't hate him but I was pretty jealous of him. He had everything that I didn't popularity, good grades, loving and attentive parents, awesome brother, the affections of the girl I had a hopeless crush on and later the affections of my supposed best friend. But to be fair I cant blame him for the last one. Takeru didn't and still doesn't have a clue that Ken is in love with him and he probably never will. Besides last I heard (and that had been awhile ago) him and Hikari were and item. Anyway the point is that his wonderful life made me miserable with the way my shitty little life was going and I guess it was that that made me act in a less than friendly fashion towards him.

But now...I don't know what to think of him...the perfect image he had is shattered now he's here. I mean you don't come to places like this unless you've got serious issues which brings me back to my original thought. What could've Takeru have done to have ended up here?

Takerus POV

*Bored I'm bored, bored, bored, bored* Daisuke had been gone for about twenty minutes now and having finished unpacking my stuff some time ago I had been lying on my bed and had gotten bored extremely fast. I glanced over to Daisukes unmade bed and the books lying on it. I sat up and wandered over to it to see what kind of books Daisuke read. I must admit I was surprised some of them were really complicated with great big long words the kind that only Ken and Koushiro would understand. I picked up another one that had a page folded over *this must be the one that Daisukes currently reading*

"Got bored did you"

I jump dropping the book and turning around flushing guiltily at being caught going through Daisukes stuff. Daisuke stood in the doorway cigarette in one hand a small smile on his face.

*Good at least he doesn't look pissed off*

"Have you read any of them there pretty good"?

"Umm no I don't think so...I don't think I've even heard of half of these titles before"

Daisuke walked over to the bed picking up the book that Id dropped and looking at it fondly.

"I hadn't heard of these before either they belonged to Kumiko originally"

"Who's Kumiko" I ask

"You mean who was Kumiko." Daisuke corrected. "He was my last roommate. Loved to read anything he could get his hands on...he killed himself three weeks ago before you ask what happened to him."

"Oh I'm sorry."

"Don't be. Kumiko was nice but he was a crazy bastard we all knew it was going to happen sooner or later he talked about it all the time."

"Were you two friends?"

Daisuke looked away and I could see sadness floating in his eyes.

"He...he was my best friend." Daisuke said quietly.

Judging by the look on his face I could tell now was a good time to change the subject.

"So where did you go before?"

"Before?...oh before I went to see Yukito he's one of the nursed round here. He's been promising me a pack of cigarettes for who knows how long and I went to get them."

"I take it that you succeeded" I said pointing to his hand which still held the cigarette in it. Daisuke produced a packet of them and held it out to me.

"You want one?"

I shook my head "nah don't you know that smoking will kill you."

At that Daisuke gave a short dry laugh.

"Don't worry it wont be smoking that will kill me trust me." I watch as he takes a few puffs before speaking again.

"Anyway I came back to see if you wanted to come get something to eat."

"Yeah sure lets go" I get up and follow Daisuke to the dining room stopping briefly before entering to get rid of his nearly burnt out cigarette. The dining room itself was pretty similar to the cafeteria we have at school except for all the plants lining the walls. I took my place in line and waited patiently for my food. When I got it Daisuke pulled me over to an empty corner table away from everyone else. I'm not sure what it was that I was eating but it wasn't to bad and I was hungrier than I thought so I wolfed it down. After about five minutes I became aware that Daisuke was staring at me I looked up at him.

"What?"

" Your not gonna last to long here you know"

This caught me completely by surprise.

"Why do you say that?"

"Cause your a weak ass little goody goody that's why. Your not gonna be able to make heaps of friends here like you do at school you wont be popular. In fact I think that by the end of this week you will have pissed someone off and have gotten the shit beat out of you at least twice." Daisuke sat back in his chair and looked at me a moment longer before getting up.

"I'm going to go and take a bath before lights out you can manage without me. Oh and before I go ill give you some advice." Daisuke leaned in closer to me.

"I advise that you stay away from those kids over there" Daisuke pointed to a group of four kids sitting not to far away.

"Don't talk to them or even look at them if you can help it." And with that Daisuke strolled out of the room once again leaving me by myself.

Ten minutes later and I had found myself in the TV room sitting on the couch in the corner writing in the journal that I had brought with me. I was so engrossed with what I was writing that I didn't even notice someone sitting next to me till I felt a tap on my shoulder. I jumped and turned around to come face to face with a boy who looked about 14 or 15 with longish blonde almost white hair and even paler skin than Yamato. He had the most incredible eyes I had ever seen they were such a pale blue it was almost unnatural they were kind of droopy giving him an always sad look. He was also incredibly thin and wore ridiculously oversized clothes. He kept throwing nervous glances around the room like he was expecting someone to jump out at him. He didn't say anything for such a long time that I was beginning to wonder if he could talk when he suddenly spoke up.

"What's your name?" He had a very soft voice with a slight accent.

"Takeru Takaishi" I answer.

"Are you with Randy and his friends?" He was almost whispering now as if he thought he was going to get into trouble if anyone overheard.

"No I don't even know them."

The kid heaved a huge sigh of relief and smiled relaxing more now.

"Good. My names Daniel but everyone round here calls me Danny."

"You have a faint accent where are you from."

"I'm from Australia originally but I've lived in Japan since I was five."

"Hey Danny boy what ya up to" A loud voice rang out from across the room. I could see the group of kids that Daisuke had pointed out earlier Danny had seen them to as he cringed and tried to sink into the couch as if he thought it could hide him. The kids had made their way over to us by now and Danny started to shake.

"You wouldn't be hitting on the new kid would you fag?"

A huge fat guy with stringy brown hair asked. Danny didn't say anything but looked away this pissed the guy off as he grabbed Danny and forced him to look up at him.

"Don't you know that its rude not to look at people when there talking to you shithead."

When Danny still didn't answer him the guy drew his hand back and smacked Danny hard across the face. Danny started to cry and all the kids surrounding him started to laugh. I felt my blood beginning to boil.

"Hey why don't you just leave him he didn't do anything to you."

The fat guy turned to me and so did everyone else *whoops* now all the attention was on me.

"Well you must be the new kid around here. Allow me to introduce myself my names MD and this is Tetsuya and Modoko and we don't like fags like Danny boy here or fag supporters like you seem to be.

* Stay away from those kids over there don't talk to them or even look at them if you can help it. * Daisuke's words floated through my mind. He warned me and I went ahead and got myself up shit creek anyway *Bravo Takeru Bravo*

" I think we should teach the new kid not to interfere don't you think MD?" One of the other kids spoke up.

"Good idea Tetsuya." MD leaned right in close to me and gave me a creepy smile. "How bout we beat it into you" I braced myself.

"How bout you back off."

Everyone turned to see Daisuke arms crossed and in baggy t-shirt and track pants. I noticed Danny's eyes light up when he saw him. MD snarled and stalked up to Daisuke till he was right in his face Daisuke however didn't look particularly worried.

"Was I talking to you." MD spat out.

"No but you were spitting on me so mellow the fuck out." Daisuke answered looking slightly annoyed by now.

"This is none of your business Daisuke so butt out." MD said angrily.

"Yeah well I think it is. That's my roommate your about to beat up and Danny is my friend and that makes it my business if you want me to but out your gonna have to make me."

MD and Daisuke glared at each other for awhile but then instead of a fight MD turned around and stalked off Tetsuya and Modoko following him.

"Don't think that its over Daisuke wont always be around to protect you." MD called over his shoulder before disappearing around the corner.

"Asshole" Daisuke muttered as he made his way over to us where he knelt down in front of Danny.

" Its alright now." Daisuke said softly " they are gone just stay out of their way for a few days ok?"

Danny sniffed a couple of time then gave Daisuke a small smile before getting up and shuffling off.

Daisuke flopped down on the couch legs hanging over one end and his head on my lap he closed his eyes and heaved a sigh.

"I warned you didn't I."

"I couldn't let them hurt Danny he didn't do anything to them."

Daisuke opened one eye and looked up at me.

"You should learn to mind your own business don't get involved in things that have nothing to do with you."

"Why would they want to hurt Danny anyway?"

"Because they like to pick on people who are weaker than they are that's why."

"That's not much of a reason."

"It doesn't have to be just stay away from them from now on and you'll be right ok."

"Yeah alright."

Daisuke's damp hair was beginning to soak through my jeans getting my legs wet.

"Get your head off my lap."

"No I'm comfortable."

I kick up my legs as hard as I can causing Daisukes head to be bounced up then land again hard.

"Owwwwww that hurt you bastard." Daisuke sat up rubbing his head a pained look on his face.

"Don't be such a sook it can't of hurt that much."

"It did I've have a headache now...hey is this yours?"

Daisuke leant over and picked up the blue journal that had somehow gotten on the floor.

"Yeah that's mine" I said taking it from him.

"Write anything bout me in there?"

"Yes that you're an asshole."

"That's not very nice...can I read it?"

"No you can't read it!"

"Why not?"

"Because it's private."

"You probably only write about how much you love Hikari or your latest perfect grades anyway."

"Why do you think I'd write about that?"

"What else would perfects write about?"

"MEDS" a clear loud voice cut through the noise everyone else was making and stopping us from continuing our conversation. People stopped what it was they were doing and started to make their way towards the voice.

"What's going on?" I ask Daisuke.

"It's almost light out time and they have to give us our medication before then." Daisuke stretched lazily.

"Daisuke Motomiya" The voice called out.

"Yeah yeah I'm coming" Daisuke got up and slowly ambled over.

"Takeru Takaishi". I got up and made my way through the crowd to see a woman wearing a pristine white nurse's dress handing out little cup. When she saw me she gave me a gentle smile.

"You must be Takeru I'm Mrs Katsunuma and these are for you."

She handed me one of the little cups in it were three small round blue pills.

"What are they?" I ask her.

"They help you sleep dear." She then gave me a cup of water "Take them here and then you can go to bed."

After a moment of hesitation I down the pills and water throwing the cups in the bin and start to head back to my room remembering to grab my journal on the way out. When I got there Daisuke was already in bed, arms tucked behind his head staring at the ceiling, books now lying on the floor. He looked at me as I walked in.

"Hurry up and get changed then turn the light off I'm tired."

I quickly throw on and old t-shirt and boxers and turned the light off. I manage to find my way to my bed almost tripping over a couple of those damned books in the process. We lay in silence for awhile and just as I was beginning to feel drowsy Daisuke spoke so softly I almost didn't hear him.

"I'm sorry I was such a bastard when you first got here. I always get like that when I haven't had a smoke in a while."

"And here I was thinking that you just didn't like me." I joked rolling over so I could see his faint outline in the dark.

"Don't get me wrong Takeru I don't like you its just I like you even less when I'm nicotine deprived that's all."

I couldn't tell whether he was serious so I decided to let it pass. We lay in silence for some more.

"Hey Daisuke."

"hmmmm."

"Why didn't MD have a go at you, why did he just walk away?"

Daisuke gave a soft snort. "He walked away because not so long ago I kicked his ass and kicked it real good. He wouldn't dare have a go at me now."

"Oh well thanks for helping Danny and me today."

"mmmmmm" was the sleepy reply I got. After a couple of minutes his soft breathing evened out signalling that he had fallen asleep. I was really feeling tired myself *those pills must be kicking in.* My eyelids closed and I relaxed letting all thoughts about today slip away and let sleep claim me.