Goggles.
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By: Sonfaro
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Takato: Contemplation
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They had been bought for their specific purpose. Shielding the eyes from the elements.
Of course, when he had first purchased them, Takato wasn't quite so used to the elements at all. He wasn't a fan of them afterwards either.
Rika had asked about them one day, after a stressful evening of battling realized Digimon, Rika had begrudgingly accepted the goggle heads offer for a midnight snack at the bread shop. She also absolutely denied that this was any thing remotely resembling a date.
Still, it wasn't every day Takato could convince Rika to do anything with him.
Guilmon was asleep. Renamon was… Somewhere. Only Rika knew. The girl in question sat with hot tea in hand, waiting for Takato who was having the hardest time getting the bread he was making for them to stay fluffy. The question simply came out of the air. "What are those for anyways Goggle head?"
"What?"
"Your goggles."
Takato blushed. "Why?"
"I'm curious. Enlighten me."
Takato thought for a moment, not bothering to turn his attention from the bread and towards the crimson haired tamer. "I wanted to impress Jeri I think."
Rika raised an eyebrow. "Oh?"
"Yeah." Takato yawned. He pawed lightly at his goggles before removing them to get a good look at them. "These things saved my life." Seeing Rika's confused face, he decided to continue. "We were going swimming together or something. I wanted to show off my dive. I thought it might impress her." He sighed and faced Rika. "Almost broke my neck." He laughed nervously. "I didn't know how deep the ground was when I jumped. It was really to shallow. I bumped my head and got really woozy. Without these goggles I wouldn't have made it I think. Without them I wouldn't have stayed calm underwater. It was only a few feet from the surface. I managed to push off the bottom and got air. Jeri called the lifeguard, and that was that."
She sipped on the tea in her hands gingerly. "You still haven't explained why you're wearing them."
Takato blinked. "Um… I like them?"
Rika raised her eyebrow. "Wrong answer."
Takato sighed. "I guess I want to channel Davis and Tai."
"Huh?"
"You know. From the TV show. They knew what they were doing. They knew how to care for and protect their partners." He sighed, his attention firmly on the girl before him. "When I made Guilmon, I had no idea what to do with him. But I thought, if those two can be brave, then so can I right? Eventually I just thought WWT/DD." He laughed and blushed at the same time, a look Rika found quite… stimulating. "What would Tai or Davis do."
She smiled. "Did it work?"
"No."
"No?"
"I think that my friendship with Guilmon is better than theirs." Takato nodded. "They're just cartoon characters. This is the real thing. I don' t have any siblings you know, and Guilmon is the closest I'll get to it. I love Guilmon. He's my best friend." Takato smiled and placed the goggles back on his head. "In fact, Guilmon's the one who chose these goggles. He thought they made me look cool. I guess I wear them to show off our friendship."
Rika blushed. "All that, because you bought a pair to impress a girl? You are something else Goggle head."
They sat in silence for a moment. Takato realize that he and Rika were together in the same place, at midnight. With both parents still a sleep. The teen blushed. The silence deepened.
The bakery screaming with the timer sadly, interrupted said silence. Takato panicked and reached for the bread, which was, sadly, as black as the sky outside, and hard as a rock.
"Um… Bread's ready."
"GOGGLE HEAD!"
Takato knew pain was forthcoming. Rika did not like having her time wasted.
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End Contemplation…
Authors Note: Meh. This one didn't turn out right. It felt more like I was trying to hook them up, which, while tempting, is not what I wanted to accomplish. Sorry about that. I'll try better, I promise.
- Sonfaro.