Betraying Innocence

A/N: lala~ first time writing a fic in a while... I need to relieve stress. ^^; I started a fic with a bigger storyline, and this was going to be the second chapter, but I decided to make an entirely different fic and start over.
I'm using their Japanese names, but I'm putting them in English order: first name, last name. Also, if they're unfamiliar with the person, they'll refer to them by the last name. ^^; But I'm taking out all the -san, -chan, -kun stuff.

Time Setting: couple years after 02 ending... old DD's in college, new ones in high school

Chapter 1: Last Beginnings

Hikari Yagami walked into the halls of her high school. Everybody was hurrying around trying to find classes, or reuniting with old friends. She looked at all this and appreciated it for the last time. It was her last year of high school, she was a senior, at the height of her high school life, at the end of her high school life. Soon she would be at the bottom of that ladder again, the smallest, the baby, the rookie in life. It would be a new beginning.

"Hikari!" a voice suddenly spoke up.

Hikari turned around, seeing the owner of the voice brought her mind back to earth.

"Takeru." She acknowledged him. "How are you?"

"Fine," Takeru Takaishi smiled sheepishly at her, "erm... it's been a while."

Hikari smiled. "Well, I guess it has been a while since we last saw each other."

Takeru looked down shuffled his feet a bit. "No... I mean... it has been a while since we last saw each other, but... I... was referring... to... erm... something... else."

"Oh!" Hikari blushed a deep red. "I... I guess it has! Hahaa... hahaa..." she attempted to laugh it off.

Takeru looked at her sharply with his deep blue eyes. "I... missed you." And he reached out for her bare arm.

Hikari quickly moved her arm out of his grasp and took a step back. "Uh... it was nice seeing you again Takeru!" she said in an overly cheerful voice. "But I've gotta run before the bell rings, don't want to be late on my first day!" Hikari took another couple of steps back, "I'll see you at lunch, I think we still have it together!" With a last wave, she walked away quickly.

"Ah... wa-" with his arm still outstretched, Takeru gazed at Hikari's retreating back with a hurt look in his eyes.

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"IYAAA! LIFE IS GOOD! BINGO DA!!" Miyako Inoue stretched her arms out behind her and then relaxed him.

"Miyako!" Hikari bent her head a little in embarrassment as the whole cafeteria took alot of time to stare at their table.

"Ah, what?" Miyako looked at Hikari quite cluelessly.

"The whole cafeteria is staring!"

"Oh, opps... didn't notice!"

Hikari sighed. Why couldn't she be more like Miyako and take life easy and one step at a time?

"Hey... Hikari, are you okay?" Miyako looked at her weirdly.

"Erm, yeah!" Hikari smiled, "just first day weariness I guess." She looked around the cafeteria and attempted to change the subject. "Hmmmm... I guess Takeru doesn't have the same lunch period as us this year."

Miyako bit into her sandwich, "oh yeah, tell me, WHY aren't you guys together again?"

"Look, it's not like that between us," Hikari sighed again. "We're only friends."

Miyako rolled her eyes and sipped her apple juice. "The whole school has been waiting for you two to hook up ever since you guys first walked into the school four years ago! Please don't tell me that the whole school waited for nothing. I swear, even some of the seniors last year seemed sad to be leaving the school without seeing you two together."

Hikari blinked. "Sorry..."

Miyako's shoulders slumped. "Maaaa..."

Finding the topic hard to talk over, Hikari quickly tried to change it. "So! Aren't you glad that it's the last year of high school? Next year, you can finally attend the same school as Ken!"

"Not really..." Miyako's eyes went downcast.

"Is Ken not attending Odaiba University? It's one of the best around, even for somebody as smart as him."

"I'm not sure..." Miyako said uncertainly. "Ken's parents firmly stated that they wanted Ken to go to an even better school since he's been getting letters from TokyoU and even some schools in America!"

A silence overcame their table. It seemed that any topic would bring up bad memories.

"I envy your friendship with Ken." Hikari suddenly spoke up.

"Huh?"

"I mean, you guys are just friends, and nobody expects anything out of you guys. You two don't go to the same school, so there's no rumors flying around whatsoever. Yet you and Ken can still meet up everyday and talk like regular friends."

Miyako's expression changed. "Uh... I guess."

Hikari looked up. "Oh yeah, what about you and Koushiro?" she smiled. "You guys have so much in common, and are really just made for each other!"

"Oh! No!" Miyako waved her hands in front of her in a 'I give up' fashion. "We're only friends too! You know me, I'm the kind of girl to drool after those guys in magazines, hehe! And Koushiro seemed to have somebody else on his mind. He seemed really down to be going to that computer convention in Tokyo all alone."

Hikari smiled at Miyako. "Maybe he wanted to take you."

"EEEEEH?! No way!" Miyako laughed.

Hikari giggled. "You never know!"

Lunch, it seemed, was going to be much more fun with teasing involved.

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Koushiro Izumi sat alone in an empty booth in Kiriri's coffee and pastry shop, one of the best in Tokyo. He was deep in thought with his chin in his hands.
The convention in Tokyo was really great, but he felt like that he was missing something... or someone.
The first person that came to his mind was Miyako. Of course, she was one of his best friends, and they had so many similar interests. But there was somebody else... at the back of his mind.

"Lily," he murmured to himself.

----- FLASHBACK -----

Koushiro moved knowingly through one of the computer labs in the technology department of Odaiba University. He wasn't nerdy enough to actually want to be here on a weekend, but Koushiro had forgotten some important files for the program he was writting.
He shivered a bit. The computer lab was in the basement of the tech building, and the day being a bit windy and cold wasn't helping. Koushiro was wearing forest green shorts, a strip tee-shirt, and a pullover sweatshirt.

"Now..." he said to himself, "where are you...?" He was referring to the computer that he had used the day before.

Finding the computer, he pulled out a disk. It wasn't like him to use disks, since it wasn't the safest way to transfer files between computers. He would usually open up a ftp port between his computer and the school's, but today, the school's port was down.
He sighed, pressed a button to turn the computer on, and sat down to work.

Koushiro was almost done with the moving the needed files onto the disk when he heard footsteps echoing off the walls near the entrance of the lab. He tensed a bit, who would be here on a weekend?
It would be safe to say here, that as manly as Koushiro wanted to be, he was scared. He ducked down and hid himself behind all the computer moniters. Koushiro wasn't taking any chances here, what if it was some kind of robber?

He heard the door open and more footsteps. Koushiro peeked between one of the moniters, hoping for the worst, and saw a girl. He blinked. Koushiro didn't recognize this girl, was she a new transfer? The girl seemed to be walking through the aisles of computers and just inspecting it, like she was touring the place. She was soon going to walk past Koushiro's aisle, and he thought it best to show himself.
So Koushiro stepped out from his hiding place and came face to face with the girl.

He didn't get a reaction of quiet surprise like he hoped. Instead, the girl stopped right in her tracks, let out a bloodcurling scream, and slammed her grey shoulderbag right into Koushiro's face.
He fell back and sprawled against the floor. What was she thinking?!

"Stop! Stop...!" Koushiro held up his hands before she decided to do him further damage. "I mean no harm. Sorry I didn't tell you I was here."

He got up and inspected the girl. She had shoulder length black hair that was pulled halfway up, and bangs covered her face. She was wearing combat boots, jeans, a v-neck shirt with a jacket tied around her waist, and a look of surprise on her face.

"Oh..." she had a timid voice compared to the scream from before, "I'm sorry! I didn't know anybody was here, and you stepped out so suddenly... I hope I didn't hurt you!" She looked at him with a weird expression.

Koushiro held his cheek where her shoulderbag had gotten a little too friendly with. "It's okay." He smiled. "I didn't know who you were, so I hid."

The girl's posture relaxed a little at Koushiro's smile, and she gave him a smile of her own. "The name's Lily Tanaka, pleased to meet you!"

"Koushiro Izumi." Koushiro held out his hand, and Lily took it as they shook hands.

Lily's eyes suddenly brightened as she took in his name. "Izumi, huh? Sounds's familiar... ah! Izumi! I know you! You're Mimi's friend!"

Koushiro raised his eyebrows. "You know Mimi?"

Lily smiled again. "Yep! We're neighbors back in America, she told me alot about her friends here, and I came with her this time since I wanted to check Japan out."

"Aren't you Japanese yourself?" Koushiro queried.

"Yeah, but I was adopted when I was only a baby and taken to America, so I never had a chance to see Japan!"

Koushiro remained silent, she was adopted too?

"Hmmm... Mimi said I would get along with you particularly since you're quite the computer freak," Lily spoke up.

"Are you too?" he couldn't hide the eagerness in his voice.

"Of course!" Lily shot him another smile. "Didn't you feel the sting of the laptop in my shoulderbag?"

----- END FLASHBACK -----

Koushiro shook himself out of his thoughts. The girl, Lily Tanaka, that he had met over the summer was quite an interesting one. They had become fast friends after that incident, and even went to one of Kiriri's chain cafe's in Odaiba afterwards.
They had talked alot about computers, the newest models and the new programs. But Koushiro also found it quite easy to talk to Lily about life.
But he never saw her after that. She had left without giving him an e-mail address or phone number. Lily was probably back in America now, she only came with Mimi for a visit anyways.

He sighed. It's probably just nostalgia, he thought to himself. I'm in the same cafe, afterall!
Koushiro picked up one of the menus lying on the table and looked at the list of coffees and pastries.

"Hi, welcome to Kiriri's!" a voice piped up, causing Koushiro to look up from the menu. "May I take your or-"

His eyes widened. "LILY?!!?"

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Hikari stood at one of the back exits to the school gym and looked inside. It was afterschool, and even though basketball tryouts haven't even started, the seniors players were playing a game overlooked by the coach. Some cheerleaders sat in the bleachers, whispering and giggling among themselves.

"MOVE YOUR ASS TAKAISHI!" Coach Tachima's voice bellowed. "HAVE YOU BEEN SLEEPING THE WHOLE SUMMER?!!"

Hikari watched as Takeru glared at the coach, sweat pouring down his face and arms, soaking his shirt. His breath was laboured.
Takeru obviously didn't like being mocked. As the game started up again, he immediately stole the ball and made a beautiful slam dunk.

A whistle blew. "Okay! Take five everybody!" Coach Tachima said.

Seeing Coach Tachima leave the gym and going into his office, Hikari tentatively stepped into the gym.

"Takeru!"

Hikari's head turned to take in the owner of the voice, and groaned inwardly. The voice belonged to Head Cheerleader Hanazewa Chizumi.
She watched as Chizumi handed Takeru a bottle of water, and attempted to flirt with him. Takeru could only smile and gulp down water.

Hikari took a step back. The gym suddenly felt hot and musty. And it brought back memories of her summer, and how... She shook her head, there was no need to dwell on that.
But she had missed him, it had been too long.

Hikari wrapped her arms around herself, wishing she could hide from the world.

"Takeru..."

*****

A/N: WHEEEE~! Does that count as a cliffhanger? And also the thing with Koushiro? ^.^ Does it, does it? hehe... Takeru and Hikari's relationship is really TOO sickenly innocent for its own good, so I'm just trying to spice it up a little! ^-^ With added drama of course. I'm also giving a first hand try at some Kouyako, even though it'll eventually be Kenyako. Hmmm... and what about this Lily character? ^.~ Oh yeah! What does everybody THINK happened over the summer? heeeheee...
Coming up on chapter 2... Ken and Daisuke appear!
And! If you like this chappie, then I would very much like reviewsssss~ ^o^

Disclaimer: Digimon does not belong to me. puuuu!