Betraying Innocence

A/N: erm... x.x; maybe I AM ruining the innocence of the Takeru and Hikari relationship... blah, whatever! XD; Also, I'm gonna make Kiriri's my 'official' hangout place for this fic! You need one in every fic! ^.~
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Chapter 3: Twists and Turns

"Miyako... Takeru and I, well..." Hikari paused, trying to word it the right way. "Takeru and I, we really aren't... just friends." She hung her head. "I lied to you... we actually have a pretty close relationship, very close. I was over at his place tonight."

Miyako gaped at Hikari. "Y-you guys, h-have be-been..." she trailed off, letting the rest of the sentence fall into silence.

Hikari looked up and nodded.

Miyako gulped. "How long?"

"It started a couple of weeks after school ended this summer, I went over to Takeru's place since we decided to fill out our college applications together... and it just happened." Hikari looked down at her hands. "And we just kept meeting every night; his mom was always out. It... it was so real. A rush, and addictive. And being the summer, there were no school and no rumors, and everything was perfect..." She took a deep breath. "But then, I skipped a period. And I guess it really hit us then how real this was and how many bad things could come out of it. So we stopped."

"And... when school started again, you two..." Miyako stared at Hikari.

"Yes... I swore that I wouldn't, but I couldn't help myself," Hikari let out a dry sob, "it's all my fault... I caused so much commotion."

"What? Is this what happened tonight?" Miyako asked.

Hikari nodded. "Yeah, I was over at Takeru's again. But he forgot that Yamato was going to come over and pick up something he left there the last time he visited, and he caught us..." She drew in a shakey breath. "It was so chaotic... Yamato totally freaked, and then he called Taichi and told him everything. Being him, Taichi totally overreacted and started shouting his head off at Takeru over the phone and how he was going to rip his head off and stuff. And Taichi had Daisuke on hold at the time, so Daisuke basically heard the whole thing. After Taichi told me to come home and hung up, Daisuke called and he also screamed alot and threatened to rip off other parts of Takeru..." Hikari buried her face in her hands. "It's all my fault Miyako! I didn't mean for anybody to find out! And I was too scared to go home, so I wandered around until I got to your place."

"Hey..." Miyako patted Hikari on the shoulder. "It's alright... I'm sure both Daisuke and Taichi were overreacting. It was really bound to happen sooner or later... I mean, everybody thought you two were going to end up together anyway."

"But not this way, Miyako... not this way." Hikari started crying, trying to stifle her sobs.

"Hikari... it's going to be okay," Miyako gave her friend a sideways hug and handed her a tissue. "It's really late, why don't you get some sleep?"

Rubbing her now blood-shot eyes, Hikari gave a little nod.

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Miyako walked down an aisle of boothes at Kiriri's, surveying the people in each booth, looking to find the right one. It was Saturday, she had just managed to convince Hikari to go home minutes ago, and had ran all the way to the Kiriri's where she was suppose to meet Ken. It was a 5 block run, and she was out of breath. Seeing a familiar dark haired person sitting in one of the last boothes, Miyako smiled and slid in across from him.

"Hi!" She said in a somewhat breathy voice. "Sorry I'm late."

Ken Ichijouji looked up from his mug of coffee. "Miyako! You startled me..."

Miyako grinned at him. "Sorry, I guess you were deep in thought... ne? You sure looked like it."

Ken looked down again. "Yeah..."

Miyako leaned forward with concern etched across her face. "What's wrong?" She really didn't need more bad news plaguing her life.

"I... I got another letter," Ken looked up and stared into Miyako's eyes. Something flickered across them, and Miyako knew that this letter was no playful post from a friend.

"It is from a college?" Miyako said in a hesitant voice, afraid of hearing the answer.

Ken nodded. "It's from America. This university in Masschusetts, they want me."

Miyako gasped, putting a hand across her mouth, a look of pain flickered across her face for a spilt second. "M- MIT?! That's like the second best technology school in America!"

"Yes, MIT. My parents was hoping I would be accepted into that school... ever since I got that stupid award for the computer program I wrote last year. The- they're making me go." Ken reached across the table and placed his hand over Miyako's. "But I can't... I'm not leaving all my friends here. I can just go to TokyoU, I think that'll be good enough for my parents."

Miyako stared at Ken's hand covering hers. "B-but what happened to the fact that they wanted you to be closer to home?"

Ken sighed. "I don't know... they go through all these phases, and even though my parents love me, they're really making me into a basket-case over this college thing."

"But... in the end, it's your go, isn't it? It's your choice whether or not you go." Miyako said in a eager tone.

Ken curved his lips upward in a small smile that didn't seem to reach his kind yet sad eyes. "I guess... do you want me go to, Miyako?"

"I..."

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Miyako sighed and kicked a stone on the sidewalk. In the end, she had just told Ken that she believed in him and would trust him to make the right choice. And that her decision wouldn't matter that much. Despite Ken trying to argue to that, Miyako had came up with a fake excuse and got away quickly. There seemed to be an ache in her chest that didn't want to go away. It had been there since Ken told her about the college thing.
It was so hard to take in the fact that she was one of the Ken Ichijouji's best friends. Just years ago, he was the famous boy genious on television that you could only drool over. Even after he was released from the dark side and the dark spore was taken out of him, Ken still remained quite smart and an excellent athlete.
And now, he was asking her, Miyako Inoue, for advice. Was this world screwed or what?
Miyako snuck a glance at her watch. Ah, I think it's almost time for Koushiro's bus to arrive. I'll go surprise him and see this new friend of his. With this thought, she turned on her heels and walked in the direction of the bus station.

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Hikari quietly turned the key, and opened the door to her family's apartment. She quickly took off her sandals and slipped into her slippers, careful not to make a sound. It seemed that her parents and Taichi were either out or resting. She gave a sigh of relief and made her way into the living room.

A cough made her freeze in her steps.

Hikari turned and saw her older brother, Taichi Yagami, sitting on the couch. An unreadalbe expression was across his face, but it made the blood in Hikari's veins freeze, and she knew she was going to be in it.

Hikari turned towards him and hung her head. "Ta-Taichi."

With the look on his face as cool as ever, Taichi waved his arm to the armchair behind Hikari and in front of him. "Have a seat."

Hikari sat down tentatively.

Taichi stared straight at her. "So."

Hikari shuffled around on her seat uneasily. "So..."

"Innocent little Hikari," Taichi taunted. "Runs around sleeping with guys, not caring that her family's worried about her. Mom and dad even asked me about you, you were always spending the night at a friends house... or so they thought. And then you started disappearing again every night now that school started... sometimes coming back around midnight, sometimes not coming back at all. School projects, sleepovers, mom and dad thought, and WHAT I THOUGHT!!!!"

Hikari cringed. Why was Taichi so protective of her? So protective it came to the point of him hurting her... on the inside. "Tai-Taichi... it was only Takeru. I wasn't sleeping around. I wasn't..." she said. Tears filled her eyes, and her vision blurred a little.

Taichi was now standing and pacing the length of floor in front of Hikari. He waved his arm and dismissed her statement.

"Do you know what could've happened?! Hikari, you're a smart, beautiful, and kind girl. You have your whole future in front of you. Are you going to ruin it just so you could get an inch of feeling by sleeping with some guy?!"

"It's just not SOME GUY!" Hikari raised her voice a bit to get it through to her brother. "It-it's Takeru! Your best friend's little brother! The guy who saved my life so many times in the digital world, the guy who watched over me, the guy... the guy I love!"

Taichi's eyes blazed. "You love him, eh?" He shook his head. "You're too young for love... the only thing that can come out of this is YOU getting pregnant!" Taichi let out a deep breath. "I'm not going to tell mom and dad about this, but I'm putting a stop to this once and for all." He pointed a finger at her. "You're only to see Takeru at school and the two of you will have a friendship-based relationship. You will come right home after school and not go anywhere else unless I'm sure it's important. If I find out anything between you two happened that's not suppose to... I WILL tell mom and dad, and they WILL have a more strict punishment!"

"Why?! Why are you doing this Taichi??! We used protection...!" Hikari looked up defiantly at her big brother even though tears were streaming down her face. "And I started taking birth control too..." She glared at him, "And you would never understand love! Just because you screwed up with Sora doesn't mean love doesn't exsist!"

A strange expression passed over Taichi's face and Hikari knew she had hit a weak spot. She watched as he sat back down on the couch and stared at her blankly. "What happened with Sora has NOTHING to do with this! Hikari, you're my little sister, I don't want you to go through the same thing I did. I love you, I don't want you to be hurt."

Hikari looked at him straight in the eyes, unshed tears shining in her eyes, and already shed ones making a path down her cheeks. "If you do love me, if I am your little sister, give me freedom, give me the freedom to love the man I want."

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A/N: -.- god this chap ending was so cheesy. hehe... sorry this chap took so long to get out! I was really out of inspiration, so I dragged out all my Digimon tapes and watched them over! XD; Also, don't think Taichi's mean! ;.;! I really like him as a character, and he's just protective of Hikari... x.x; I didn't mean to write him like a big bad meanie if he looks like it. ^^;
Coming up in chapter 4... let's see if Takeru and Hikari can actually keep their hands off of each other! And what of Miyako and Ken? Will romance bloom? Or will Miyako run to Koushiro? But what about Lily?
And waiiiiiit, what's with this Taichi and Sora thing? Should I write more about that? 3~ But beware, for I AM a Sorato fan! XD; I was going to have implied Sorato, but maybe this calls for something more...

Disclaimer: yeah... it DOESN'T belong to me...