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O.C. #2 : Of course, it's Jake!
Chapter 6
Recap : Kouichi and Tommy reminisced, Takuya decided that he and Kouji should start walking, Zoe recalled her dream in more detail, Kouichi and Tommy met up with the others, and Takuya and Kouji lay down for the night.
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"Tommy!" Takuya jumped over green flames and held him close. Shielding him.
"Tommy!" Takuya saved him from the attacking digimon.
"I know you won't hurt me, cause I'm your friend." Tommy said softly as he cried. Takuya backed off and beat his head against a rock until he transformed back into himself. Tommy could hear him crying.
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"Tommy...Tommy wake up." a voice called. He opened his eyes to see Zoe.
"Hm?" he rubbed his eyes awake.
"You looked like you were having a nightmare...And it's time to wake up anyway." she looked at the lighting sky.
"Ah, ok." he stood up and Zoe offered him her back. He climbed on and laid his head on her shoulder. "It wasn't a nightmare...I was remembering the digital world..." Zoe started. "I was remembering Takuya..." She calmed.
"Must've been nice...recalling good memories." she seemed sad as she recalled her own dream about Takuya.
"What's the matter Zoe?" he asked. "You seem sad."
"Hm?" she blinked and shook her head slightly. "No, it's nothing. Forget it." she smiled.
J.P. and Kouichi finished packing up their things and the group took off walking.
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Kouji woke up first the next day. The sun was already high and he supposed it was almost noon.
'Whoa...My head...' he groaned when he failed at sitting up. 'Wait...I wasn't laying down before...I've moved...How long have I been out?' he turned his head and saw brown hair.
"Takuya?" he asked softly, confused.
'Ugh, this is confusing...When and how and...nevermind.' he took to looking at the sky.
A few minutes later, movement from next to him caused him to come back to reality and look to Takuya. The brunette smiled at the non-glazed look and felt Kouji's head.
"Morning..." he whispered, removing his hand. "Your fevers gone down..."
He seemed to be still half asleep or high, Kouji discovered. So he shook the boy.
"Ow!" Takuya jerked awake and Kouji let go. "That hurt..." he patted his upper arms gently.
"Huh?" Kouji blinked.
"I'm injured ya know!" Takuya whined, pulling up his right sleeve to reveal the actually-well-bandaged-ness. Little ones, like for small scrapes, and white gauze covered his upper arm.
Kouji could see bandages slipping out from under the sleeves of the long-sleeved shirt Takuya wore. His eyebrows came together. That was one of his shirts...He shook his head, that wasn't important!
"Sorry." he apologized. "Why are you so hurt anyway?" Takuya shrugged.
"I dunno." he pulled the sleeve back down. "Was like this when I woke up yesterday."
"Yesterday?" Kouji blinked. "How long was I out?" he put his left hand to his forehead and looked away.
"Well, you were kinda out of it when we were walking yesterday. Maybe...you don't remember." Takuya shrugged.
Kouji just sat there looking at the ground, his eyes shaking as he tried to recall...something...from yesterday. Takuya took pity on him.
"Come on. We need to get walking." he stood up slowly, and inwardly...painfully! "The others are probably looking for us right now."
"Huh?" Kouji looked up to him.
"It's the 2nd day since we fell off that bridge. Don't you think someone would be looking for us?" Takuya reasoned.
"You're being strangely serious..." Kouji whispered as he stood up, wobbling as he did so. Takuya went to help him. "No, you're hurt. I can walk on my own."
Takuya backed off and closed his left hand, the walking stick in his right. He remembered holding Kouji's hand as they walked the day before...and he felt sad...
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"Kouichi, how come we're so lost?" J.P. asked. "I followed the path we took almost exactly I thought, but came out somewhere totally lost!"
"Um...eheh..." Kouichi laughed nervously. "That'd be...because I got us lost..." he sighed and looked at the ground dejectedly.
"But if you hadn't gotten us lost, we wouldn't've had this great adventure." Tommy tried, now walking on his own. "So, it's ok, right?"
"I suppose..." Kouichi sighed again. "But now my brother and his boyfriend are stuck in the woods...Possibly hurt! Maybe sick or close the death! I try helping their relationship and end up crashing it!"
Kouichi, who'd been rambling, suddenly noticed that the others weren't with him. He paused and looked back about 6 feet, where they had stopped walking.
"Huh? What's up guys?" he asked. J.P. raised his hand halfway but paused. Zoe stuttered before any words were formed.
"B-boyfriend?" she managed. Kouichi blinked.
"Ah!" he covered his mouth and jumped up and down, his bag falling to the ground. "I shouldn't've said that!" he bent down and began playing in the dirt like a little kid avoiding an angry mother's gaze.
"Kouichi...?" Tommy took a step forward.
"They aren't actually together yet, but after I read his diary that night they were stuck in the elevator at the resort...I just figured it would be ok..." Anime tears were hanging from his eyes. "I mean...the picture was so cute..."
"What picture?" J.P. asked suddenly. Kouichi blinked and took out his wallet, removing a picture from it's confines. (The sleeping picture, from Trapped!)
He handed it silently over to the others and began twiddling his thumbs. Zoe and Tommy looked over his shoulders.
"Ah! Kawaii!" Zoe cheered.
"Wow...You're right Kouichi." Tommy muttered, then looked away and started muttering to himself things that no one could hear.
"Ah..." J.P. found it hard to talk. "It's just..." he gulped. "Sudden..."
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