A/N: I no own.

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Daisuke stared at him, then burst out laughing. Yamato jumped, because he hadn't expected that. Tears, fists, screams and blood, but certainly not /laughter/.

He felt a strange sort of shiver run up the back of his neck.

"Very funny, Yamato," Daisuke said once he had calmed down. "But seriously, tell me what's wrong with Hikari-chan."

"Daisuke-kun," Yamato said carefully. "Last month, "that jock" as you put it, dumped Hikari. Broke her heart."

"HE WHAT??!?!?" Daisuke roared, interrupting Yamato. "I SWEAR I'LL KILL HIM!"

"There are better people to kill!" Yamato half shouted right back, getting his attention. "Now, as I was saying, I found her, and comforted her and whatever at my place..."

Again, Daisuke interrupted. "Well, that's good. At least SOMEBODY here has a brain and sense of feeling."

"Daisuke, please!" Yamato insisted. "This would be SO much easier if you'd stop interrupting!"

Daisuke shook his head. "I'm sorry, Yamato. Where were you?"

Yamato sighed. "Either way, Daisuke, the comforting must have gone too far, because," Yamato took a deep breath, seeing as he was short of it.

Daisuke, of course, interrupted. "Too far? What do you mean by that?"

"I mean, Daisuke Motomiya, that Yagami Hikari is pregnant." He crossed his arms, to show he was older. Maybe Daisuke would think better of killing him if he knew that Yamato was OLDER.

The entire world around them seemed to fade; all they heard was each other, Yamato and Daisuke.

Seeing as Daisuke was in a sort of shock and disbelief, Yamato grabbed his shoulders and gave him a quick, hard shake.

"Daisuke," he said, "Hikari is pregnant with my child. Takeru and Taichi know, and they're supportive. Hikari's parents are a bit on the hysterical side, and I haven't told mine yet."

Daisuke seemed to come out of his dumbfoundedness a bit more. He pushed Yamato's hands away, slowly, sluggishly.

"No. this is some sort of joke, right? You're testing my loyalty to Hikari..."

"Yes, Daisuke, this is a test of your loyalty, but what I'm saying is true. Hikari does have my child right now, and that's that. No abortion, no adoption, we're keeping it." he sighed, taking a step back. "whether you and the others are supportive or not."

Daisuke also took a step back, though it seemed to be more of a way to look Yamato up and down better. He shook his head.

"I don't believe you."

Yamato snapped; loss of sleep, stress, and the thought of his mother finally did it. "Daisuke," he almost snarled, throwing his head back and tangling his fingers in his hair, pulling lightly. "Don't make this harder than it already is! You know the truth, the truth is the truth, Hikari is in my bed right now, Takeru and Taichi know, the others probably know too, why can't you just accept that?"

"You shouldn't pull your hair, it makes you look stressed," Daisuke remarked. "You have to prove it, Yamato."

"I am NOT buying ANOTHER pregnancy test, Daisuke, and if you look at this from my point of view, you'd understand that I AM stressed, and I can't waste time talking to you anymore." Yamato forced himself to stand up straight and tall, hands falling back to his pockets. "I have to tell my Okaasan, and her wonder willy too. So if you'll excuse me." Almost coldly, Yamato brushed past Daisuke, headed at a brisk pace to his car.

"Yamato." Daisuke's voice stopped him in his tracks. He grumbled something, then turned around.

"You got Hikari pregnant, her parents are angry, and Taichi is supportive of this?"

It DID sound a bit hard to believe. The way Daisuke said it.

"Daisuke-kun, it's true. If you want, you can catch Hikari with a pregnancy test (that you buy, not me, I'll remind you) and you can see for yourself."

"But even so," Daisuke insisted, "You'll need a doctor, a LOT of money..."

"And you can grant both of those?" Yamato turned again. "Hikari and I will manage, Daisuke. We have Jyou as a last resort, don't we?" he took another step forward, stopped, and sighed.

"I'm sorry, Daisuke. I really am, but this is the truth. It happened, it's happening, and there's a lot that still has to happen. I need to tell my parents, now, you can ask Taichi or Takeru if you want. Call Hikari."

"I will. Where is she?"

Again, Yamato stopped, then turned and almost stomped back to Daisuke. Taking a pen, he took Daisuke's hand and wrote down his phone number on it.

"She might be sleeping," he warned, then turned and walked away once more. Daisuke watched him for a while, then looked down at the numbers on his hand.

"That's Yamato's number," he said to himself softly. No. it couldn't be, it just couldn't. at a sort of loss, he looked up again, as Yamato unlocked his car. Sora jumped to her feet and darted over to him. They exchanged a few words, then he got in his car, she backed away, and he drove off.

Daisuke watched in a sort of hurt silence.

After what must have been forever, he recognized the feeling of eyes on him. He turned his head slightly, placing a mask of neutrality on his face, to see the others all looking at him, and both Tai and TK coming his way. He let them come.

"Is it true?" Daisuke asked immediately when Tai came to a stop in front of him.

"That Hikari's pregnant with Yamato's child?" Taichi sighed. "Yes, Daisuke, it is. I saw the results for a test, and I believe Hikari when she says Yamato is the only one that has seen her naked, and everything else."

"Why? I mean, those tests aren't always right..."

"Even so," Taichi pointed out, then sighed. He put a comforting hand on Daisuke's shoulder just as Takeru made it over to them.

"So you know?" the blond asked simply.

"I don't believe it."

"It's hard to, isn't it?" Takeru paused. "I was the first one she told, apart from Yamato and her parents, Daisuke-kun. I swear I almost killed Yamato. But you know, I wasn't hurting, am I still am not, because I don't love Hikari like Yamato does. And I want you to think, Daisuke, really hard. How you love Hikari, and if," he paused once more, glancing at Tai, who got the hint and left. "How you love Hikari, and if you think that it's a lover kind of love, would it be able to match up against Yamato's."

"Yamato loves her." Daisuke said, scoffed. "Doesn't everybody love Hikari? Yagami Hikari, the girl who has every boy in school after her, every girl in school jealous of her, even high school boys." He frowned, not really noticing the tears that threatened to fall. He felt like he had been punched in the stomach and thrown down the sewers by Hikari herself. "How do you know Yamato loves her? Did you hear him telling her?"

"I don't think he's ever told her," Takeru said gently. "But you know he loves her. If he didn't, he'd have not taken responsibility like he is now."

"I don't care," Daisuke whispered.

"Daisuke," Takeru offered, "it might help if you go on ahead home and, you know, think about it."

"I'm going home," Daisuke said, taking a deep, shuddering breath, "But I'm not going to think about it."