Thanks so much!
Dark Qiviut: I don't want too give it away, but you're on the right track. By the way, I'm glad you loved my evil cliffhanger! Davis will be more of an ass in this chapter but you'll also get to see a little insight on his character. Hope you love this chapter!
Lugga: Mwah! Onizuka and Ken? Hmmmmmm, intriguing but I like Daiken better! Davis will admit his feelings later, but you might want to KILL HIM before he does, but it's all happy in the end so remember you don't have to kill him. I want to make sure that Ken has a happy ending because I know now that I probably won't with my "Davis"….so one of us will be happy. Here's the update!
Takuya: Sorry it's sad, these next few chapters are heart breakers! You might want a box of tissues for the next two after this one. Sorry you feel empty inside….I know exactly how it feels. Ten cookies for you Takuya, hope you enjoy this chapter!
BooBoo: Don't worry, I'll write till I'm finished! I hate it when other people write these awesome fanfics and never finish them! It drives me nuts! I'm glad you think "Walking in The Dark" is worth reading! Hope you love this chapter and keep reading till the end!
Ficmaster: I love Davis too, I love him a lot. However he's a bigger ass in these next few chapters, but there is some insight on his character that makes up for it. But don't worry, he'll be the Davis we all know and love in the last two chapters! Hope you keep reading it!
Demon King Piccolo: Yay you're back! I'm trying to update fast so you all don't have to suffer! And I'm so happy you see what I'm doing. Onizuka is suppose to represent Ken's happier times in the past with Davis. Onizuka reminds Ken so much of Davis and it causes him to remember more things and ache for Davis even more. Frankly, I totally wish that there was an Onizuka in my life, he's so awesome, if you get the chance, check out GTO.
DrippingRed: Yay! I luv you too! Sorry it took a while to update, I have a lot of school projects due right now! Yes, Davis has been a bad boy, a very bad boy; he will redeem himself don't worry but before that he will a lot more pain, not half as much as Ken. Hope you love the chapter, here's your update!
SoieYoli: Well, I'm continuing! Thank you so much for calling me an awesome writer, it makes me feel so special! Oh yay! I'm glad you read my story and keep reading it till the end, here's the next chapter!
LoveSovereign (Times 2!): Band Trip? Oh what do you play? I play clarinet, it's the best, are you in Marching Band as well? Anyway, this story is more like, Ken and Davis are friends, Davis realizes he has feelings for Ken, Davis ignores Ken, Ken gets upset and realizes he likes Davis, Ken does something stupid because he thinks Davis hates him, Davis hates himself for causing Ken to do said thing, and then they get together! Okay I can breath now, after all, this story will be a Daiken, I hope it's not too stereotypical for you! I'm sorry, don't pull your hair out! And I will totally subscribe to your C2, I've been looking for a good one for my story! Sorry about the ¾ parts, it was -- but I have an MSN sever so I can't edit it before I post, it's so dumb, that's why my profile was the same for two years. And yes, Ken and Onizuka's conversation was foreshadowing, glad you caught it! Hope you love this chapter!
Rochelle: Yay! You're back again! Yes, evil stupid Daisuke, I still love him though, he'll redeem himself later, just wait for it. Hmmm, Onizuka/Ken……like I said with Lugga, tempting but I love Daiken and Onizuka's straight, a big perv but straight, sometimes I wonder if he is….hmmmmm…..ack, no Daiken Daiken Daiken! Anyway, I'm so glad most of you guys are catching the little hint bombs I'm throwing, yes Davis IS very very jealous of Mr. Onizuka. If you have some free time, I suggest going to the bookstore and reading some GTO manga's there, it's a little perverted at the beginning but you have to look at the bigger picture to grasp the true meaning of GTO. Sorry about the cliffhanger and slow update (School + STAR WARS OPENING NIGHT!) Hope you love this chapter!
Sabrina-Rosalie: Thanks for the nice review! I'm happy that it's a story you can go back and reread, I know a few stories like that and it always make me happy rereading them. Thank you for reading it, I will continue writing this for myself and all of those other poor people out there who feel Ken's pain. Love the chapter!
Vampire-Child-Of-The-Light: Thank you! All you guys make me feel so special! I'm glad you like my story and I really hope you keep reading it! Here's the update.
Airkid: I'm sorry! The ¾ was suppose to be a dash but it messed up while I posted it! Hope that clears some thing up, here's the next chapter with hopefully no ¾.
Tracy: Sorry about the slow update! It's the end of the school year so all of my projects are due and this chapter kept deleting itself, I'm really sorry! I'm not abandoning it just yet, I'll finish but the next few chapters will take awhile because I'm going to France for two weeks! Hope you love this chapter!
AN: Sorry about the late update, I've been so busy lately! I have only a few days of school left and I got to see STAR WARS OPENING NIGHT! Anyway, I think I got about 4 to 5 chapters left of this story so bear with me! Davis' character will come a bit more to light in this chapter as well so don't plan on killing him yet even though most of you want to! hugs her Davis doll Raise your hand if you want a teacher like Mr. Onizuka! I know I do! And please don't kill me but I'm going to France in 11 days for two weeks, so hopefully there will be one more update before I leave.
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon or Onizuka from GTO, they own me.
Walking in the Dark
Chapter 6: A Simple Piece of Paper
T.K. struggled to hold Davis back, the brunette was going crazy and aimed to severely hurt Onizuka, "It's your fault! It's all your fault! Why weren't you there! Some teacher you are, he might die because of you!"
Onizuka nervously lit a cigarette and stared at Davis, "Actually kid, you're the reason he did this. The only one to blame is you so don't point your finger at me, the only thing I did was offer the boy a helping hand. What did you do? You pushed him away and drove him to a deep depression he couldn't escape from."
Davis shook his head frantically, Cody joined T.K. in holding him back. Hot tears ran down Davis' cheeks, "I didn't know he would resort to that, I didn't know he felt that bad."
Onizuka took a deep drag, "so….what are you going to do about it?"
"I don't know."
Tuesday through Thursday the rain stopped; however, dark gray clouds hung in the sky and blocked the sun from shining. Ken doubted he would ever see the sun again at the rate things were going. He walked to school quickly with a terrible feeling that someone was following him. Every few minutes he'd look over his shoulder to make sure no one was behind him, every time he saw nothing but it didn't make the feelings disappear. A cold wind picked up and Ken started to shiver slightly, he cursed himself that he wore only his school jacket and slipped his hands to the coarse pockets of the wool uniform. He breathed deeply, breathing started to become harder for him over the past few days and his heart either felt dead or it beat so fast he thought it would kill itself.
Cody caught up to Ken and they walked in silence for a few minutes. Ken relaxed a little knowing that Cody was probably the one that gave him the feeling. The younger of the two, Cody, finally broke the ice, "So…..how are you doing Ken?"
"Alright, how about you Cody?"
"Good I suppose, my Grandpa's not feeling to well though."
Ken looked down at Cody, "What's he ill with?"
Cody shrugged, "I don't know, but it's bugging me that he hasn't gotten better yet, I'm worried about him."
Ken arched his head up toward the sky to look at the clouds, "Try taking him to one of those hot springs, it should make him feel a little better."
Cody grinned, "Oh thanks Ken!" he said in his raspy voice, "I didn't think of that before!"
"No problem, I just hope your grandpa feels okay."
The smaller boy beamed, "Wow Ken, you're a lot nicer than you used to be!"
Bang. Ken felt the pain again, he managed to keep the smile on his face while he asked, "Used to be?"
Cody nodded, "Yeah, you used to be really quiet and you only talked to Davis. This year you've really opened up to everyone."
Ken weighed his options, "So you know why Davis is not talking to me?"
Cody frowned, "Sorry but I don't, all he said was that it was a good but stupid reason."
"Thanks Cody," Ken sighed, "I just hope you talks to me soon."
Cody sighed as well, "Yeah, me too. You're such a kind person Ken, Davis is just being stupid."
Ken shrugged, "I hope it's that, I hope he doesn't hate me."
"He doesn't, if he did it's his lost."
"Thanks again Cody," Ken took a deep breath to relax himself, "You're a great friend."
"So are you."
Ken and Cody arrived at the school and waited about three minutes for Davis, T.K., and Kari to walk up. Davis sat at the opposite end of the table and T.K. slid down next to Ken; Kari took a seat next to Cody and engaged him in a long conversation. T.K. nudged Ken and passed him a folded piece of paper; Ken immediately recognized Davis' handwriting. The front of the note read: "To Ken. From You-Know-Who. Read in a privet place."
The indigo haired genius stood up and hit himself in the head, "Oh! I forgot to email back SandWale, I'll be right back T.K."
The blond basketball player winked at him and Ken practically ran toward the computer lab; he left his jacket and school case with T.K. to prove that he would be quick. When Ken was far enough away he collapsed against the wall and stared at the note.
"To Ken. From You-Know-Who. Read in a privet place."
Ken took a deep breath to still his beating heart and shakily opened the note:
"Hello Ken,
This is a message of some explanation and an invitation. You and a selected few have been invited to the Friday the 13th Movie Night. It will be after school of course, just show up at the time you usually due, say 3:30ish? I'm going to make my famous Chicken Curry with vegetables just for you so don't miss out!
Now, finally to the stuff you've been wondering about over the past two, three months? It's all for a good but stupid reason. Just know that if you come on Friday things will start off slow, don't talk to me, let me talk to you or the silence will last longer.
Besides, it's getting near the end of the year and I can't have any problems conflicting with me since I need to buckle down and work hard! Come on Friday, don't ask why, just do it.
--Daisuke
P.S. Write Back."
Ken felt like he was going to cry, he was glad Davis wrote him but the other didn't seem to care about how Ken felt. The genius shook his head, oh course Davis cares, if he didn't then why send the note? Ken folded it up and put it in his pocket, he smiled grimly with a million questions running through his head. What was Davis planning to do? Could he trust Davis to treat him decent? Ken walked back over to the table and sat back down next to T.K.
"So, go well with SandWhale?"
"Yeah," Ken felt bad, he really did need to email the guy, "Things are great with SandWhale."
T.K. grinned, "Good, I can't believe it's Thursday already, the days just fly by!"
Ken froze, Thursday the 12th, tomorrow was the 13th! He nodded slowly, "yeah, days fly by and still I think of you."
"I love that song!" T.K. clapped a hand on Ken's back and tried to ask casually, "So…..what's up with you and Onizuka?"
"Nothing, he's just a good friend of the family."
"Right!"
Ken rolled his eyes, "Sorry T.K., I prefer my men with natural hair and my own age."
"So you're saying you're not attracted to him?"
"Well…..who wouldn't be?" Ken rubbed his forehead, "But I like someone else."
"Who? Who? Tell me!"
Ken looked and T.K. and then looked at Davis for a brief second, T.K.'s grin melted away into a slight frown, "I see…..man Ken, you pick the worse person to get a crush on….when did it start?"
"I'll tell you later, too many people around."
"Right."
The bell rang, Ken ran off to class and pulled out a sheet of paper when he was comfortably sitting at his desk. He sighed and started writing:
"Hello Davis…..
Thank you for giving me the note, it's good to hear from you. I'm sure you have a good reason for doing this, or at least I hope it's good. I won't lie to you Davis, you hurt me really bad…….you have to promise me you won't do this to anyone ever again. I've missed you so much Davis….I want to trust you. You're my best friend, I've been so lost without you. Please consider my feelings and don't burn me again Davis, please don't burn me again.
I need to know, if I go on Friday, will you treat me decently? I don't want to go home crying or anything, I just want things to be the way they were. Sorry I'm cutting this reply short but my teacher is aiming to kill me right now. Please write me back.
Love,
Ken
P.S. Friends right?"
Ken stared at it and put a line through "Love", next to it he wrote "Yours truly", he drew another line through that and wrote, "From". Ken nodded and folded it up, the front said "To Daisuke. From Ken. Please read ASAP."
The indigo haired teen set it on Davis' stand in band, Goggle Boy II grabbed it and shoved it in his pocket so no one else would see. Ken didn't look at him, he was too scared to, Davis was a ticking time bomb, anything could've set him off.
Ken quickly assembled his clarinet a took his place as third chair, he smiled at the two seniors to front of him and started warming up. He hoped Davis would write back soon.
Mr. Nixon cleared his throat, "We're going to start with Freedom Road."
Davis ran off to the library after Band and opened the note slowly. He quickly scanned the message twice and scratched his head. Ken felt bad? Nah, he thought, Ken's just saying that so I feel bad. Davis shrugged and pulled out some paper.
"Ken…
Yes friends…period for me--not great friends, not best friends, but friends period. Here's the deal Ken, I may be your best friend with T.K. and other people, but for me, you are not my best friend. You have to realize that I have other friends than the Digi-destine. That should clear some stuff up…but that didn't solve the problem ack! Gotta go.
Daisuke"
He folded up the note and walked over to T.K., "Hey man, you know what to do."
T.K. looked at the paper like it was evil, "Is it a good note?"
"No."
T.K. sighed and took it, "I'll deliver it on one condition."
"What?"
T.K. pulled Davis off near an empty corner, "What's going on between you and Ken? What did he do?"
Davis looked at his shoes, "I can't tell you."
"Then you can deliver your note."
"Wait T.K.," Davis took a deep breath, "Ken……looks….like…."
"Like what?"
"A girl."
T.K. fell over, "So? And he does not look like a girl."
Davis scratched the back of his neck, "Well, you see, his hair, it's so long and….pretty."
T.K. got up and ran a hand through his hair, "Anything else."
"Ken acts like himself you know? Like he was back then, there's always something on his mind that he dwells on…..I like it but….."
"But what?"
"But I feel like he's not telling me anything!"
T.K. gave a heavy sigh, "Davis, Ken tells you everything, don't give me that bull crap. You're the one that doesn't tell him anything."
Davis looked T.K. in the eye, "Fine, you wanna really know?"
"YES!"
Davis grabbed the note from T.K., "Too bad, I'm not telling you, you'll tell Ken."
"Someone has to Davis!" T.K. pushed Davis against the wall and held his by his shirt, "Have you seen him lately? Have you looked at him lately?"
"T.K……."
"Ken's really depressed Davis, he's not eating and sleeping very well. Every day I expect him to just not show up anymore. You can't play with his feelings like this, I won't let you."
Davis glared, "I'm not playing with his emotions Takeru."
"Yes you are Daisuke," T.K. gripped the shirt tighter, "Maybe you don't seem to understand that you're pushing away the one person that loves you the most. Maybe you don't realize that if you treat people terribly like you are to Ken, that person will not want to be near you anymore. Quite burning my friend for no reason!"
Davis shook him off, "Just deliver the damn note, okay?"
"I will not bring Ken more pain for you!" T.K. yelled. The few people in the area quickly left. Davis rolled his eyes at T.K.
"You and your damn morals."
T.K.'s eyes flared and his arms tensed, "You and your damn games!"
Onizuka walked up behind T.K., "Don't touch him Takeru."
"Why not?"
Onizuka took his jacket off and handed it to T.K., "I'll take care of it," he said in a serious voice, "just stand back and don't scream from the terror that you're going to witness."
Davis started to feel nervous but kept his ground as Onizuka slowly walked toward him. The bleach haired teacher had a dull expression on his face as he stopped a foot away from the Goggle Boy, "Say you're sorry kid."
"No."
Onizuka shrugged, "I warned you."
Davis winced expecting a blow, but instead he felt a familiar sensation on his side. He tried to keep it in, but he almost immediately started laughing! T.K. should back in horror as he saw Onizuka mercilessly tickle Davis in the side. After a few minutes Davis had tears running down his cheeks from laughing to hard, "Stop, stop!"
"No," Onizuka said flatly and tickled Davis' other side as well. Davis couldn't stop laughing but in hurt!
T.K.'s mouth dropped open as he watched the "punishment" for ten minutes. Onizuka finally stopped, "That's a little kid punishment, you'll get a real one when you're a man."
Davis laid panting on the ground holding the side that was tickled the most, Onizuka took his jacket back from T.K., "See you in class in oh….five minutes, better not ditch Daisuke."
T.K. looked at Davis, "Well….I'll just give this to Ken."
"Yeah, you go do that."
The bell of class rang and Ken walked up to French with T.K., Davis followed ten steps behind them with his head hung in shame. The indigo haired teen greeted Mr. Onizuka as he walked in and started conversing with him.
Onizuka leaned back in his chair, "Oh, I got your parents call about them leaving earlier tomorrow. So let me get this straight, haha straight! Anyway, so their train got delayed so they're just taking the one before it?"
"Yeah, the 3:00 train. So can you come earlier?"
"Yeah, I'll just take you home from school kid, now go sit down and do your BRR!"
Ken nodded and sat down behind Davis as usual. He felt the warm tingling sensation that almost made the pain go away, Ken smiled a little bit and started starting working on his BRR (Bell Ringer Review). He quickly finished his questions and started day dreaming; T.K. saw his chance and poked Ken in the side with his pencil. Ken jumped up a foot and whispered, "What is it T.K.?"
T.K. handed him the note without saying a word. Ken saw Davis' back stiffen a little bit and he sat the note on his desk, afraid to open it. The white paper gleamed at him evilly and felt almost cold to touch, Ken felt his warm tingling feeling disappear without a warning. Onizuka stood up and cleared his throat, "Alright, who wants to write the answer for number one?"
Davis raised his hand and wrote his answer in neat handwriting with a blue marker, T.K. answered number two, Ryo attempted number three (but ended up getting it wrong), Griffin scored on number four, and Hakura answered number five. Onizuka clicked his tongue three times, "So close Ryo, but a good try."
Ryo smiled, "Well I'll try harder next time Mr. Onizuka!"
"Alright," Onizuka sighed and went over the review questions with them. French class flew by so fast that everyone jumped when the bell rang. Onizuka assigned them homework really quick and Ken ran to his last class so he wouldn't be late.
The brass door knob felt like ice to touch as Ken rested the tips of his fingers on it for five minutes. The metal gleamed miserably with a dull shine and seemed worn out somehow. The indigo haired genius sighed and turned the pathetic piece or brass and opened the thick slab of wood. He locked the door behind him and stumbled out of his shoes. He then meandered to his room where he pulled the note out and sat on his bed. The paper was too white, the ink too dark, an evil feeling surrounded the paper as Ken carefully opened it.
His eyes slowly read the note, word by word, phrase by phrase; every remark stabbed his heart as he read it a second time. The piece of paper fell to the floor from Ken's numb hands. He stared at the floor for a few minutes and then pulled out his cell phone. His eyes shone as dull as that door knob as he dialed, the phone rang and Ken muttered, "Please pick up….please pick it up."
"Hello? Takashi Residence."
Ken bit his lip and asked, "Hello, is T.K. there?"
"Ken? Is that you?"
"Yeah….can I talk to you?"
The voice sounded a little worried, "Are you alright Ken?"
"Kind of…."
T.K. was angry, ""It wasn't that damn note was it? I told Davis I didn't want any part of this, I didn't want to cause you pain Ken….really."
"It's alright T.K., and it is the note T.K., thank you for giving it to me….I just need to know, did Davis say anything to you about me?"
There was a long pause, "Yes."
"Can you tell me?" Ken asked shakily.
Another long pause, "He said you look like a girl."
Ken didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "I look like a girl? I do not look like a girl T.K.!"
"That's what I said….I think he thinks it's the hair, or something like that."
"Well, did he tell you anything else?"
There was a heavy sigh, "Yeah."
"Will you tell me?"
T.K. paused again, "So Ken…..you never told me when you starting liking Davis…"
Ken rolled his eyes, "Are you avoiding my question?"
"No, just trying to figure this all out."
Ken sighed, "There was this one time, in the beginning of the year when we played soccer together. After a tough game we laid out on the hill and watched the stars….there was fireflies everywhere, that's when I realized that I couldn't live without him. At that time it was just a really close friendship, but over the year when we started doing all the things we did….I felt like…" Ken took a deep breath to keep from crying, "I felt so happy whenever I was around him. After he started ignoring me and treating me like a ghost, I realized how much Davis meant to me, how much I truly loved him…"
"So….it must really hurt for you huh?"
"It does T.K.! But I really don't want to talk about it right now…do you think I'll be treated decent if I abide by his note and go to his house tomorrow?"
"I wish I could say yes but I really don't know."
"Well thanks T.K., I'll see you tomorrow."
T.K. bit his lip, "Okay Ken, feel better."
"I will."
He closed his cell phone and laid out on his bed, thinking of a time when things where simple and fun.
Davis ran into the living room where Ken and the other's were sitting, he paused and looked around, "Where is he?"
T.K. looked at the floor, the was the sound of a motorcycle screeching and driving away, T.K. swallowed, "He left with Mr. Onizuka."
Kari picked at the carpet, "He couldn't take it anymore Davis, he left crying…."