Three's a croud, four's divine. Chapter two.

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"You shouldn't have run Dai, I wouldn't have hurt you for saying you loved me." Sighed Ken, as he shifted closer to the nervous boy. Shaking his head, he leaned in.

"In fact, I would never hurt you, you're my best friend."

Shivering, Dai felt the puff of breath that stroked his cheek, as his crushed came closer still.

"I know Ken, and that's the problem. I want to be more than friends with you, and now that I've told you, that's ruined as well." Dai closed his eyes and bowed his head in shame.

"I'm a lousy friend, just .just forget I ever said anything. I didn't mean it,"

"Dai, look at me," asked Ken, reaching his hand out to tilt Dai's chin, so that he could look into his eyes. "Open your eyes."

Staring into those soulful brown eyes, Ken took a deep breath and told Dai exactly how much the boy mean to him.

"No matter what you do, what you say, you will never, never loose my friendship. You are my best friend, and will always be my best friend. You brought me back when I lost all sense of self, you trusted me before anyone else. You gave me back my life and for that I will always love you."

"But." Dai tried to interrupt.

Placing his hand over Dai's mouth, he shook his head. "No, let me finish. Dai. Dai I don't just love you as a friend, I. well I, god this is hard, Dai I am in love with you, I just never thought that you would ever return my feelings."

Looking into his loves eyes, Ken watched as emotions swirled through, trying to catch each one as it surfaced. Fear, confusion, resignation, hope and then as Dai finally understood what Ken had been trying to tell him, love blossomed and awe and wonder entered his expressive eyes.

"Ken." He said with a sigh, as he lent forward, capturing his hearts lips in a soft kiss.

"Oh Dai." Ken sighed, as they broke apart. Reaching up, Ken cupped the back of Dai's head and pulled him into another kiss. His other hand reached up to trace a line down his koi's cheek. Nibbling lightly on the delightfully soft mouth, he ran his tongue along Dai's bottom lip, asking for entrance. Groaning, Dai let his mouth fall open, allowing Ken to run his tongue into that warm cavern. Loosing himself in the sweet heaven, Ken was surprised to hear a throat clearing behind him.

Pulling away from his new addiction, a moan coming from both of their mouths at the sorrow of the loss, Ken turned his head towards the sound.

A blush ran up is cheeks as he spotted Tai and Yamato grinning at the pair. Turning to look back at Dai, he noticed a similar blush adorning the boy's face, a shy smile on his lips. His hair tousled and his breathing hitched, Ken thought he had never seen a more beautiful sight.

"I guess you guys have worked it all out then." Said Yamato, a pleased smile on his face. "See Dais, I told you that you had nothing to worry about."

Laughing at the shocked look on Ken's face, he tugged Tai closer to him. "Don't fret Ken, Dai was just worried that you wouldn't return his feelings and needed someone to talk to. Tai and I were happy to help him."

Looking at Dai and the two older digidestined, Ken shook his head. "I am glad that Dai had somebody to talk to, has somebody to talk to, if he can't talk to me."

Standing up, he pulled his boyfriend towards him. His boyfriend. Ken couldn't contain the sappy smile as he thought this. Who knew that he would get this lucky? Laughing, he tugged at Dai's arm.

"Come on, I think we should leave Tai and Yamato, we have plenty of things to discuss." He said, raising an eyebrow. "At my place, alone."

Nodding, Dai waved to the two older boys as he was led out of the apartment. A happy smile on his face.

As the door closed behind them, Tai turned to Yama.

"Damn, I don't think that I've ever seen Dai that happy before. He looked as if he was on cloud nine."

Smiling softly, Yama drew Tai into his arms. "I don't think he has been," he said, "Dai has never really had that kind of love before. His family care about him, but he has never been the focus of so much love from one person. I think Ken is going to be very good for him."

"I think your right." Tai agreed, but a small frown crept onto his lips. "I don't think we are going to be seeing quite as much of him as we were."

"Oh you don't want to left on your own with me? Am I not enough for you?" Joked Yama.

Grinning up at his other half, Tai laughed, "well when you put it like that, why are we still in the living room?"

Pulling Tai into a deep kiss, Yama slowly walked him back towards the bedroom and closed the door.

*****

"So Ken and Dai started dating and just as Tai said we did start to see less of Dai." Said Yamato, looking over at the younger brunette, who had slowly fallen asleep, resting his head on Ken's lap. "Except when we all went on a double date together, but it wasn't the same as before."

"What do you mean?" asked Iori, "what wasn't the same?"

"We didn't have Dai all to ourselves." Answered Tai, who took up the next part of the story. "We hadn't really realised it ourselves but he had belonged solely to us for so long that we found we didn't want to share him."

"What? It makes him sound like he was some sort of pet." Said Hikari, shock clearly written on her face. "What do you mean belonged? Were you three. er.. you know.." Trailing off, a blush stole over here face.

"No, no nothing like that." Denied Tai, "what I meant was, we were who he turned to, to talk to about what was bothering him, he came to us for a chat or for comfort. It was like he was our little brother or something, but we felt more for him than brotherly love."

"We wanted him with us, what hadn't occurred to us was that what we really wanted was him in our bed" Interrupted Yamato, seeing the shock on the faces before him. "I don't even think that he realised it, until Ken brought it to our attention one afternoon."

*****

Watching Dai chase Veemon, after he had stolen the brunette's last chocolate, Ken turned toward the other couple that had accompanied them on their picnic. Laughing at the look on their faces, he picked up the last sandwich.

"Don't worry, he doesn't really want the last chocolate, its just he and Veemon need to be constantly on the move, they both have so much energy."

Watching the knowing smirks on his friend's faces, Ken thought about what he said, and blushed, stammering "he's always so active, he just never gets tired." The blush deepened as he thought about his explanation.

"I should have just left it at that shouldn't I?" He said, resigned, as the two boys cracked up in front of him.

"Don't worry Ken, we know what you mean. He's just so hyper, that it seems weird when he's not running about." Said Yamato, trying to ease Ken's embarrassment.

"He could never sit still when he was visiting us," said Tai wistfully, "or when we went out, he's just Dai and that's what we love about him."

Smiling at his boyfriend Tai pulled Yama down for a quick kiss, "It's been so quiet without him around recently," he said, leaning back onto the rug. "I guess I miss the hyper activeness."

Nodding, Yama watched as Dai tackled Veemon to the ground and proceed to tickle the digimon into submission.

"You really miss not having him around all the time, don't you?" Asked Ken, watching their faces.

"Yeah, I guess we do," Tai replied, "he is, was, a part of us and we miss that."

Looking at the two boys, watching Dai, Ken realised that it wasn't just their friend that they missed.

"Oh my God," He said in a shocked voice, "you guys love Dai."

Turning to Ken, a confused expression crossed Yamato's face. "Of course we do, he's a good friend."

"No." said Ken, shaking his head. "You guys love him, are in love with him."

"What?" asked Tai, his eyes widening, "No, no, you've got it wrong, we love him, we aren't in love with him."

Turning to Yama with a question in his eyes, he was shocked by the look on his face.

"Yama?" He queried, "we, I, you, we don't do we?"

Looking at Tai, then Ken, his gaze fell on the boy coming towards them. Stuttering he turned to Ken. "we, I, we didn't know, I didn't realise, I thought we just missed his company."

Hanging his head in shame, he couldn't meet Ken's eyes. "I'm so sorry Ken. What are you going to do?"

"What do you mean, what is Ken going to do?" Asked a soft voice from above. "Yama? Tai? Ken? Guys, what wrong?" Dai asked.

Clearing his throat, Ken looked into the eyes of his beloved. "Yamato and Tai just realised something, and they don't know what to do, in fact neither do I."

"What's wrong?" Dai asked, his voice getting anxious.

"Well," said Tai, "we realised that.."

TBC - sorry I just had to leave a cliff hanger!!