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AN: Well, Onizuka returns to this chapter, yay! It's much sadder than the last one so bear with me. Hope you get as much out of Walking in the Dark as I do. By the way, there's a: dun dun dun: CLIFF HANGER! Mwahahahaha, actually I'm sorry, I'll try to write the next oone but it may take a little longer (tons of homework and it's going to be difficult for me to sit down and write it without crying!)
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon or Onizuka from GTO, they own me.
Walking in the Dark
Chapter 5: I See No One but a Ghost
Onizuka slammed open the door and froze, he dropped the bag of spicy chicken ramen he was carrying and his eyes widened with horror. There was broken glass everywhere and blood. Onizuka numbly kneeled down and shook Ken's shoulder, "Hey Ken…..are you awake?"
Ken shivered and stared outside his window, it was still raining. He slipped out of bed and readied himself for school. The indigo haired teen sighed and walked into the kitchen after he was ready, he sat next to his father who was reading the news paper.
"Hey Dad, can you give me a ride to school today?"
"Sure Ken, just let me finish this article really quick," Mr. Ichijouji glued his eyes to the paper for approximately 2.47 minutes and they were out the door.
The ride was extremely uneventful and boring, Mr. Ichijouji turned on the radio and listened to the traffic report while Ken looked out the window. When arriving at the school, he ran out of the car and into the building so he wouldn't get wet. The former Digimon Emperor took a keen interested in his shoes and he staggered to his locker, number 666. Today, the metal contraption took pity on him and opened on the first attempt. Ken looked in his locker (whom he had dubbed Garfunkel) at all of the pictures of him and Davis.
He stared at them blankly for a few moments, then hesitantly he started taking them down one by one, ten pictures in all. He looked at each one sadly as he put them into a blue folder and placed it in the back of his locker. It hurt to much to look at them anymore, whenever he thought about Davis now, it only brought him grief. Willis stood behind him and patted his shoulder, "You'll be okay Ken, Davis is just a jackass."
Ken closed his locker and stood up, "Yeah….I'm fine," looking at Willis he gently smiled, "really…..I am."
Willis arched his golden eyebrow at the smaller boy and cocked his head to one side, "Your uniform looks awfully big on you Ken….did it always look that way?"
"Uhhhh yes. Yes it did."
Willis nodded slowly, "Hmmm, okay. Now come on, T.K. and Kari are waiting for us."
Ken followed Willis to their usual table and took a seat next to T.K. and the furthest seat from Davis. Goggle Boy II chatted on like Ken wasn't even there, talking about times he spent with Ken, only without the Ken there. He talked about how DemiVee-mon buried him in the sand at the beach and left them there for two hours while the In-Training Digimon played in the water. Ken took a deep breath and told his heart not to cry, he nudged T.K. and engaged him in a conversation about French class.
Davis looked over at Ken with the corners of his eyes and smirked slightly, Kari noticed it and asked, "Davis? What's the smirk for?"
"Nothing Kari, nothing at all."
She groaned and muttered something about Davis being an immature brat, Davis on the over hand, took no heed to it and shouted to T.K., "Hey T.K., you and Kari want to come over to my place on Friday for a movie night?"
"Who's coming?" the basketball player inquired.
"Well," Davis began, "hopefully you and Kari, Yolei, Willis, Cody, and……Ke¾that's it."
T.K. shrugged, "Sure, why not." He looked over at Ken who just smiled back at him and whispered to T.K., "I hope you have fun over there!"
T.K. became dismayed, "Can I talk to you for a moment Ken? Alone?"
"Sure."
They walked off into the same hallway Ken's locker was in and T.K. scratched the back of his neck, "Umm Ken, how many "movies nights" have you heard about?"
Ken looked at him confused, "Just one…I remember when we used to have them all the time, me and Davis always planned them though….."
T.K. exhaled heavily, "Well, Ken…..this is the fifth movie night Davis is having without you."
Ken blinked and stayed silent for a minute, "Oh…..I see."
"Sorry I didn't tell you sooner."
"No, it's okay," Ken mumbled, "I hope you still have fun anyway."
"Thanks. Oh, there's the bell, damn, that went by fast. Catch you at lunch okay?"
"Yeah," Ken replied and then walked off to his first class pondering. The movie nights were Davis and his thing, there wouldn't be movie nights if the two hadn't started planning them together, Ken felt a pang a disappointment. So Davis actually really doesn't want to be around him, Ken set his school case down and sat at his desk feeling numb everywhere except for the burning sensation of his heart. He knew shouldn't care much, but he did.
Lunch came and went, all Ken did was sit and read while Davis gathered up everyone important to play a card game. Kari ended up winning all of the games, she smiled coyly at Davis and gathered up all of the winnings, which were about 120 M&M's, 20 gummy worms, and 45 junior mints. Davis threw down his cards and accused her of cheating, Kari merely shrugged and handed her winnings to T.K. He smiled and hugged her, "Love you babe!"
"Love you handsome!"
T.K. gathered up all the sweets into three zip lock bags right before the bell rang; Ken sighed and closed his book, he waited for T.K. and then headed off toward French class. Davis walked next to T.K. while Ken remained a couple of steps in front of them.
"Kari so cheated! There was no way she could win all of the games!"
T.K. sighed, "There only one cheating there was you Davis."
"I WASN'T CHEATING!"
T.K. gave his annoying laugh and pulled an Ace of Spades from under Davis' sleeve, "Then what's this?"
Davis grabbed the card back, "Okay T.P., I cheated kay? Happy now?"
T.K. laughed again, "Yeah, really badly!"
Davis rolled his eyes in disgust as T.K. caught up with Ken, "Hey!"
"Hey," Ken sighed while walking into the classroom, he paused and looked around, "Where's Madame Eggleston?"
Griffin, another guy in their class walked in after them and asked the same thing, "Where's Mrs. Eggo?"
The class filed in a sat quietly after the bell rang, their teacher was no where in sight. After about five minutes, Griffin stood up, "Well, it's been nice and all, but I think I'll leave now."
The lanky brunette picked up his school bag as the door slammed open, he quickly put it down and resumed sitting. A tall (and very handsome) man walked in wearing a white suit and sunglasses, an unlit cigarette hung out of his mouth and his hair was bleached platinum blond, which looked really funny because he still had black eyebrows. The man set his briefcase down and wrote on the white board to big bold letters: GTO. As he walked over to the desk the entire class repeated , "GTO?"
The man continued rifling the desk in search of a seating chart when Davis raised his hand, "Ummm, who are you?"
The man sighed and stuck the cigarette and sunglasses in his briefcase, he walked back over to the white board and gave a charming smile, the class looked at each other confused, Ken smiled and melted inside, finally help was on the way, "I'm your substitute teacher. Mrs. Eggleston had to leave immediately due to a family crisis, so I'll be here for the next two weeks."
Goggle Boy II nodded, "And what does GTO stand for?"
The bleached teacher arched his black eyebrow, "Oh, GTO? It stands for Great Teacher Onizuka."
Davis leaned back in his seat, "And you're Onizuka?"
"Yes…"
Davis burst out laughing, "MAN! That is fresh!"
Onizuka blinked and knocked his two index fingers together pretending to be nervous, "Umm, is that new kid lingo for stupid or something?"
Davis laughed harder, "Oh man!"
Onizuka straighten up and looked at Davis, "Hey, is there someone sitting behind you?"
"No, no one sits behind me," Davis replied still chuckling a little bit.
Ken felt as if he'd been hit in the face with a brick, no one? No one? Ken was a 'no one?' He fought back the tears and sank in his chair, how could Davis just sit there and causally say that no one was there when he knew Ken sat behind him every day. It made Ken feel sick that Davis acted like he was a ghost even in front of a teacher.
Onizuka found the seating chart on top of the desk (verse in the desk) and looked at it, "You're Davis right?"
"Yeah."
"Someone sits behind you."
Davis shook his head, "No one sits behind me."
Onizuka walked over to Davis' desk and leaned down so he could stare the seated Daisuke in the eye. Ever so slowly he started to inch up and peer over the spiky mass of hair. Davis gave him a weird look, "What are you doing?"
"Seeing who sits behind you of course!"
Davis rolled his eyes, all amusement gone, "No one sits behind me."
Onizuka stood up to his full height quickly and grabbed Davis' head, he force it so Davis had to stare directly at Ken. Davis looked into Ken's eyes and Ken could see mixed emotions hidden in those chocolate brown eyes he could stare at all day, however, the mixed emotions swiftly turned over to hatred. Onizuka held his head there, "Who do you see?"
"No one."
Onizuka released him and the class remained silent and the bleached haired teacher grabbed Davis by the shirt and forced him to stand up, he turned Davis' whole body around so the boy faced Ken and asked again, "Who do you see?"
"No one, "Davis said again, there was no fear in his voice or expression on his face.
Onizuka looked at Ken, "Well, he sure as hell ain't a ghost now is he?"
Davis twisted around to face Onizuka, "I don't see anyone okay! Maybe it is a ghost, who knows!"
Ken looked at his desk feeling hurt more, now he was an 'it'; T.K. stood up and yelled at Davis, "Cut it out Daisuke, you know Ken sits behind you!"
Griffin from the other side of the room nodded, "Yeah man, I see Ken too."
Onizuka pushed Davis back in his seat and grabbed Ken's arm, he lead the small teen to the teacher's desk and made him sit down. He gave Ken a warm smile and whispered, "Don't worry about kid."
Ken nodded and said quietly, "thanks Mr. Onizuka."
Onizuka straighten up his white suit, "Bonjour class."
"Bonjour Monsieur Onizuka."
He continued speaking entirely in French, very quickly, Ken had no clue that his teacher friend could speak French fluently. Mr. Onizuka spoke with such enthusiasm that even Davis looked at him with respect. Onizuka passed out their homework on le Conditionnel and told them it was due tomorrow and that they could work on it the last ten minutes of class. He walked back over to the teacher's desk where Ken was sitting and leaned on it, "How are you holding up kid?"
"Alright I suppose," Ken answered, "I'm just so glad you're the sub…but how did you get the job?"
Onizuka smiled, "Me and Rebecca went to high school together and then we both lived next door to each other when we lived a broad in France. I loved that women…to bad she married my buddy Dan."
Ken nodded, "So you're good friends with Mme. Eggleston?"
"Yeah," Onizuka stole a glance at Davis who was stealing answers from T.K., "So that's your Davis? That's the guy who's making your life shit?"
Ken looked at the desk, "yeah¾"
"Mr. Onizuka!" Griffin called, "Can you help me was this question?"
"Yeah kid, just hold on a sec…" He looked at Ken, "I wanna talk to your parents okay? Not about Davis, don't worry about that. So tell your mom that there's a teacher coming for dinner tonight okay?"
"Okay Mr. Onizuka."
"Good, I'll be there around six," He walked over to Griffin's desk, "Okay kid, what is it?"
Ken smiled and started to wonder why on earth Mr. Onizuka was fired from his last job, the guy was amazing! He looked over at Davis and felt a jolt in his heart, the other boy's face was covered with a dark expression while an intense looking T.K. talked to him quietly. The bell rang before Ken could figure out what they were talking about and Davis raced out of the room. Ken bade Onizuka goodbye and headed toward his last class wishing with all his heart that Davis would talk to him again.
Sure enough Onizuka was there at exactly six o'clock, Mrs. Ichijouji smiled and let him in, "It's so nice that one of Ken's teachers came for a visit."
Mr. Ichijouji walked out of the living and looked Onizuka up and down, the teacher changed from his white suit to a baggy pair of blue jeans and a tight blue tee-shirt that left nothing to the imagination, "You're a teacher?"
Onizuka gave his charming smile and held out his hand, "Eikichi Onizuka, I'm subbing for Ken's French teacher Rebecca Eggleston."
Ken's dad shrugged and shook Onizuka's hand, "Well, it's nice to met you I guess. So why are you here?"
The bleach haired teacher grinned, "I just wanted to met Ken's parents to see his great home life, Sir, you're son is so kind and intelligent! You must be a great parent to raise such a nice kid."
Mr. Ichijouji beamed, "Why thank you! Do come and sit down Mr. Onizuka."
The teacher sat down at the head of the table while Ken and his mother brought out a steaming hot dinner. Ken was dressed in nice black slacks and a dark blue button up shirt while his mother wore a nice flower printed dress. She set a plate in front of Onizuka, "So how did you met Ken? It seems like you know him pretty well."
Onizuka looked at Ken who nodded, "Well, I met him at the park and played soccer with him for an afternoon, then we grabbed some ramen and I walked him home."
Ken took a seat next to Onizuka, "You guys were gone so I went outside to get some air."
Mr. Ichijouji nodded and sat at the other head of the table, "You seem to connect well with kids Mr. Onizuka, you seem to talk their language."
Onizuka looked embarrassed and rubbed the back of his head, "Well…not necessarily, this jerk in Ken's class called me something and I'm not quite sure what it meant even now!"
He caught Mr. Ichjouji's interest, "Who was it?"
"Some jerk named Daisuke," Onizuka helped himself to some rice and chicken, "Called me 'fresh' or what not."
Mrs. Ichijouji looked at the table, "Was he treating Ken decent?"
The teacher glanced at Ken and saw the boy was a bit frightened, "Decent, treated me terrible, I hate kids that pick on teachers."
Ken sighed with relief and took his share of rice and chicken, Mr. Ichijouji seemed really happy with Onizuka so far and asked him all sorts of questions about teaching and different colleges, Onizuka happily answered them all. After a while Mrs. Ichijouji changed the subject, "Mr. Onizuka, me and my husband are going out this weekend….would it be possible for you to stay here with Ken?"
Ken and Onizuka nearly chocked on their food, Mr. Ichijouji laughed, "That's a great idea honey!" He turned towards the punk teacher, "You see, when we usually go out on weekend trips Ken stays over at his friend Davis' house….but Davis is not being very nice to him right now so that's not an option and we don't want Ken to be alone by himself. Would you be so kind to watch him? You can eat all you want and we could pay you for your troubles if you want."
Onizuka swallowed his food and breathed deeply, "Sure, sounds like a plan."
Mrs. Ichijouji beamed, "Thank you so much, we're going to be leaving around seven on Friday night and return around the same time on Sunday. You can even stay in the guest room."
Onizuka shook hands with Ken's parents and then pulled Ken off into another room. He had a weird look on his face, "Ken…your parents…..nice but really really weird. Aren't they afraid that I'll molest you or something, not that I would by the way!"
Ken gave a light laugh, "Trust me Mr. Onizuka, my parents can tell a gay pervert from a straight pervert no problem."
THUD!
Ken helped Onizuka up, the teacher gave him a confused look, "How on earth can they tell I'm straight?"
"The way you act," Ken grinned.
Onizuka leaned against the wall, "And they trust me?"
"I trust you and that's all they need."
"Good, then I'll be over here Friday. We're gonna have a blast kid!" Onizuka held up his hand so Ken could high five him.
"Don't worry Ken! We'll have a blast!" Davis grinned at him and held up his hand to high five Ken.
Ken blinked and high fived Onizuka, the teacher winked at him and left at 8 o'clock. The indigo haired teen couldn't help the fact that Onizuka reminded him so much of Davis, he felt so happy yet depressed that Onizuka wasn't three inches shorter, have a tan and reddish brown hair. After the punk teacher left, Ken felt alone and hurt again, he shook his head and took his third shower of the day, relaxing into the steaming hot water and washing his worries away.
Davis dropped the phone on the floor not wanting to believe what T.K. said, he felt horrified and sick. Davis leaned his head against the window, a million thoughts racing through his head, a million different scenarios of how he could've fixed it, a million different ways he could've told Ken how he felt. Davis felt a terrible blinding pain wash over him and he felt something wet hit his hand; confused he lifted his hand up and saw a tear of his roll off his finger onto the window sill. Davis bent his head and cried silently, his chest heaving and tears falling one by one without making a noise. He didn't know that it would go this far, he didn't know Ken was hurting that bad. He didn't know how to tell Ken the he¾