Mind Trip-I Can't Sleep Through This
By Cerridwen

A.N. Disclaimer standard. Don't own Digimon™. If I did, I use them to destroy Dic and Funimation. In case you're all wondering,
yes, this is a random song fic, an different song each chapter. " I Could Sleep (The Wuss Song)" belongs to Kay Hanley and
her band Letters to Cleo. They were the favorite band in "10 Things I Hate About You". If you like some rocker chick, I
advise you to get one of their CDs if you come across it.


~It's okay that you forget.~
It's alright that you don't wanna remember
In your hands you've got a martyr's head,
~In your mind, I know that's what you wish you were.~

#"You'd be better off this way. Tell Takeru I have no hard feelings for him, just my respect. Give Iori and Miyako my
best regards and wishes. Good bye, I'll miss you all." Daisuke reach out to turn off the camera, but stopped to add one more
message. "I love you, Hikari." *click*#

"Daisuke..." Hikari stared at the computer screen, tears streaming down her face. She was watching the farwell video a
second time. She loved him too. She kne she did. She knew it since she was still in diappers, and was reminded of thet love when she
was captured by Myotismon, and when she got sick in the Digital world in the fight against the Dark Masters. Hikari loved Daisuke.

But now, he's gone. Daisuke promises to come back someday, but what will she do until then? Hikari blamed herself for
all of this. 'If only I hadn't teased him so much. He wouldn't feel that way. And the whole think with Takeru...' "IT'S ALL MY
FAULT!!!" Hikari screemed her thoughts.

"Hikari?" Taichi opened the door a bit. Ken Ichijyouji was with him.

Ken knelt down beside Hikari, who was now crying hysterically."Hikari-san? What's the matter? You called me saying I
had to see something imediately. And what was that cry all about?" Ken and Taichi looked about the room. The blank computer
screen was flickering. Beside it was a torn envalope, and hanging on the monitor corner were Taichi's goggles. Ken walked over and
took them of from the perch, about to question Hikari, when she glanced up at him.

"Dai...Daisuke...He told me to give those to you."

"What?"

"Kari-chan, what are you saying?" Taichi took his imotochan by the shoulders and tried to get an understanding.

"He's gone." Ken's mind shoot up and spun back to her. "What do you mean gone?!" Hikari nudged her oniichan's hands
and walked over to the computer next to Ken. She pushed the play button on the corner of the keyboard, and the RealPlayer was
activated, playing the message for the third time. Ken leaned in and Taichi came to watch as well.

~Turn my blue sky black,~
You're such a hard luck baby.
That's what's the matter with you.
~But I could sleep through this.~

#"Hikari, when you get this package, you'll understand my dissappearance. Please show this to Ken alone first, before
you share it with the rest of them... Life here has just become too intense. I try too be a good leader and live up to the crests I bear,
but I just fall from all graces. I'm ridiculed as a jerk, a dummy, a lousy leader...It's unbearable. So, I'm going. I know I can't run from
my problems, I learned that from Yumeko and Keida. But running away will allow me to find who I am and where I belong, so that I
may solve my problems. I promise I will be back, but until then..." Daisuke took out Tai's goggles from his vest pocket and held them
out to the camera. "Give these to Ken. He's been my closest friend over the past few months. You'd be better off this way. Tell Takeru
I have no hard feelings for him, just my respect. Give Iori and Miyako my best regards and wishes. Good bye, I'll miss you all." Daisuke
reached out to turn off the camera, but stopped to add one more message. "I love you, Hikari." *click*#

They were all silent for a few minutes as the RealPlayer stopped. Then Hikari spoke up again. "I have myself to blame. He's
my best friend, but I teased him to much. And when Takeru moved to our school...I just teased him more, flirted mindlessly...I should
supported him...I do, after all--" "No, don't blame your self, Hikari-san. We're all equally at fault. Takeru flirted back, and he knew how
Daisuke felt. I kinda subconsiously tried to upstage him. I love Miyako, but she could be a major bitch around Daisuke. Iori...doesn't say
much, but I'm sure he should have supported Daisuke, he really looks up to him." "And I could have guided him better than this. No one
can take all the weight. Come on, Hikari-chan, you gotta cheer up. Besides, Daisuke is running from us, or his problems, remember?"
"Yeah, you have to relize that he needs his time to sort things out for himself. Daisuke's just taken a mind trip. He'll be back. In the mean
time, we better call the others. They have a right to see this, and Daisuke wanted them to see in anyhow." Hikari rubbed her eyes of her
tears. "Alright. But we'll just give him a month or two. If I...we can't take it anymore, we're going out there and looking for him!"

Ken smilled and looked down at the goggles. A legacy of heroic leaders was gonana go into them. But, did he really deserve
that place, or at least, did he deserve it this soon? He streached the googles out a bit and put them on Hikari. "Ken-kun?" "you ought to
have them. I know Daisuke wanted me to be leader, but...let's put it this way: It's my first act as leader to give my position to you. You're
stronger than I am in a sense. You take control, you don't let others push you around, but you'll be open to suggestions. Perhaps in runs in
your family. You and Daisuke share hearts. With that in mind, you'll be a much better leader than I ever will be."

~I am as mystified as I am in it.~
If that's your ride, well then you ought to get it.
It's just as if I wasn't dreaming.
~It's all the same,'cause I still wake up screaming.~

"AH---CHOOOOUUUU!!!!!!!" "Something the matter, Daisuke?" "Feh, someone's talking about me...a lot*...Hikari must have
gotten my package by now." "Daisuke?" "Yeah Demiveemon?" "Where are we going to stay while we're gone?" "Well, I was thinking...The
Haruno Twins would understand and take us in..." "Keida and Yumeko? But didn't they go back to New York?" Daisuke nodded. "But
they told their foster parents that they need to stay in Japan, so they're living with an older cousinin Yokohama. I e-mailed them that I'll try to
visit as soon as possible."

"WE'RE GONNA BE IN THIS TRAIN ALL THE WAY TO YOKOHAMA?!!?!!"

Everyone in the train turned to Daisuke. He panicked and pretended that his D3 was a walkie-talkie (hey, they kinda look like them,
don't they?) "Hehehe, maybe I should lower the volume on this thing." The other passengers all turned back to what they were doing, except for
a little kid in front of him. "Hey, you have a digimon! My friend Seki and I have digimon, but ours aren't this puny..." "Hey who are you calling
puny you little...nagh!" Demiveemon bit the kid's finger. "Ayyiee!"

"-.- =3...It's gonna be a long trip...-.-¿." Daisuke let the two argue, as long as their arguing didn't get so out of hand that people would
stare again. Besides, his tought were somewhere else, as he looked out of the window. "Hikari...I swear, I'll return...and I'll be a much more likable
person than before, you'll see..."

~You're a pilgrim in the box car.~
You can never look back too far.
~You can't even look back.~

At that same moment, Hikari was changing herself, too. She had taken one of her brother's old blue shirts (the lighter one from the movie)
and ripped off the sleeves, wearing it over a white long sleeved tee, and wore dark jeans with a fuzzy star patch on the side that resembled the Crest
of Light and the Crest of Courage at the same time. Finally, she picked up the goggles that sat next to a pucture frame, tied her hair with a thin white
ribbon and put on the goggles. Hikari looked at the picture of herself and Daisuke. "Daisuke...I swear I will wait for you...I promise." Hikari looked up
to the moon as it caused the goggles to gleam down and lead to another shine, hanging from the ribbon; the ring Daisuke gave her on the same Christmas
that she gave him the journal and pendant. "I promise..."

~Turn my blue sky black,~
You're such a hard luck baby.
That's what's the matter with you.
~But I could sleep through anything.~