(A/N: Here it is! Chapter 2! The reaction I got for the first chapter was rather overwhelming, so I decided to continue it. I'd like to thank a few people for inspiration to continue it, and I think you know who you are (I hope you do anyway P)! Thanks for the extremely long wait to everyone else. I hope I can somehow make it up to you all..)

friendship.&.light

yamato and hikari

Everything seemed to change in a moment. It wasn't like she planned to tell Taichi, and she really didn't know why she had. She lay where he had been, her hands supporting her as she was hunched over, her face shamefully looking towards the ground. Hikari kept her eyes closed in hopes that it would help. That if she couldn't see anyone then no one could see her. That would mean she didn't exist, right? If only..

Her mother had rushed to her room moments after, confused by the hoots and hollers brought on by her son. He was obviously a little off his rocker occasionally, but she knew he was very defensive of his sister, and expected something must be wrong with Hikari. She peered in the room with her mouth curved into a small circle, her head titled and brow cocked. Hikari only told her nothing was wrong, Taichi was just overreacting again. But her mother knew better; and with this came her instinct to give her youngest child space.

Tears made slanted trails on her face, though she wasn't exactly sure what she was crying for. For her? For her wasted life? For the baby? For Yamato? Oh, Yamato. She tried not to think of what Taichi was up to. He had stormed out of their room hot-headed and red as an apple. She felt a tickle in her throat and coughed lightly, adjusting herself to lean back against the wall. Huddling her knees up to her chin, she clasped her arms around herself and hummed a soothing tune, a song, one of his..

Wow. The baby. It was sort of weird to think of things that way. Hers, his, theirs. Taichi must've found it really insane, nearly creating a new hallway with his fist upon the news. She expected her brother to react a little less this way, but she knew it wasn't just because of the idea of being pregnant. It was him. Although her brother and Yamato were good friends, there were lines that neither of them could cross, and both of them knew it. He took his chances, and knew the consequences. Taichi was going to find out about their relationship, or whatever it was, eventually.

It all started with a concert. Oh, what a concert. Miyako's sister had extra tickets, so Hikari joined her friend that night. As Jun and the other common fangirls screamed and shouted, huddling hard against the stage, Hikari sat in the distance. She and Yamato had never been particularly close, she assumed they were friends, but it wasn't like they knew each other a whole lot.

Maybe it was just the music, the lighting. But he caught her eye, and for a moment they shared a look. Yamato had given a dopey smile and quickly returned to his affair with the microphone, but it was sort of weird. Sora had talked to Hikari earlier, and had asked her if she could ask him to call her afterwords, so she had waited until everyone had left (even Jun, who had to be pried away by security again). But she never ended up telling him that.

It wasn't like they had done it then. It was just how it began. It continued with calls, small talks and walks that no one really knew about. Relationships within the team weren't too common, so no one assumed they were anything other than friends. Good friends. Really good friends? Sometimes he would sing to her, no one except him (and maybe Takeru) knew her problems. It wasn't easy being the Child of Light, and Hikari found it hard living up to expectations.

Takeru. Oh god, Takeru. What would she tell him? And Sora? Poor Sora. Jun would be horrified. Yamato's dad, his mom? It scared her. Maybe this could've stayed a secret. She thought it could, she thought it would. The positive test in her hand one rainy afternoon slapped her across the face and told her otherwise. She would show in a few months, and that would be that. Her parents were going to bawl at the news, and now Taichi knew. Why did I tell him? Oh, why?

Maybe the confusion of the moment gave her motif to open up to someone. To be completely honest with herself (which she really tried not to be at the moment), Taichi was the only one that knew. Yamato didn't. This created a pain in her chest that outweighed the rest of her aches, a knot that refused to let her breathe. Would he react like Taichi did? She knew he wasn't as hot-headed, but she also knew he needed his freedom. She didn't want to effect his career, his life, especially like this.

"He won't even know the reason why he's coming over there," Hikari bit her lip and curved the upper over it, pursing them against her jeans. "He doesn't even know why Taichi is going to.." She couldn't really finish. She had no idea what her brother might do, but she knew it wasn't good. Her legs failed her now, and she couldn't find the strength to pull herself up. All these thoughts weighed her down, and she cried.

(A/N: Is it okay? I haven't written on this story in ages, and I don't know if it will still be enjoyable to the old fans. It's rather short, but I should be getting to the nitty-gritty good stuff soon. Heh, there's so much drama this idea could spell, and I'm interested to get back into it. I hope you all are enjoying the continuance, lend me a review.)