Title: Expectations
Characters: Taichi, Daisuke
Chapters: 1-1||Words: 742
Genre: Friendship||Rated: G
Prompt: Yagami Taichi Week 2022, day #3, mentor
Notes: This takes place around the end of episode 2.
Notes: No one can really expect Daisuke. Not even the older Chosen Child of Courage.
Taichi had some ideas about what it might be like to be a senior to younger students. It couldn't be all that hard, could it? What he wasn't all that sure of – because until a certain day it had never occurred to him that it might even be possible – was being a senior Chosen Child.
Even more, if he'd thought about there being younger Chosen, then he'd not thought that there would be a younger Chosen Child of Courage. Least of all that this new one would be someone he'd known for years now – Motomiya Daisuke.
He moved the Digimental of Courage. Taichi wasn't really sure of what the Digimentals were, other than the one they knew about had the Crest of Courage on it, and he hadn't been able to move it at all.
There were things he and Daisuke had in common, he guessed. He thought Daisuke would do really good at protecting the Digital World. Dealing with the Digimon Kaiser wasn't going to be easy.
A human who thinks he can rule the Digital World? The Kaiser had to be a Chosen too – there wasn't any other way that he'd be able to get to the Digital World – but he wasn't the same kind that they were. They wanted to spend time with their partners and friends there, enjoying the panoramic views, the adventures, meeting new friends, regardless of how they were shaped. Taichi couldn't help but worry about the ones they'd left behind. Were Andromon and Ogremon all right? Had Leomon ever hatched and evolved?
Any of them – all of them – could be in danger from the Kaiser. Taichi wondered if he should draw up a list of all their old friends and ask Daisuke and the others to check on them. He guessed Hida-san and Inoue-kun had probably found their own Digimentals by now.
And all he could do was keep babbling for as long as it took to keep the teachers away from the computer room. How long had they been gone? What was going on there?
What he wanted was to go there and find out himself, but if he let his old teacher away, then there was just too much of a risk that the Digital World's existence would be revealed. That wasn't what they wanted. It might happen someday but that wasn't going to be today, and not because they were careless.
Taichi wasn't sure how long it took before he could finally get back to the computer room, just in time to see everyone else falling out of the computer, along with some small Digimon. He blinked a few times, feeling a small pang at not having Agumon with him, and then tried to figure out what was going on.
What he managed to gather from everyone else was that Hida-san now had the Digimental of Knowledge and Inoue-kun had the Digimental of Love. Koushiro and Sora had their own successors.
Then something else he'd heard sank in. "What? Did you say – the Kaiser captured Daisuke?" His eyes darted over the other boy, checking for any obvious injuries. He wasn't surprised to see Daisuke just wave one hand dismissively, as if being kidnapped by a megalomaniac wanna-be monarch was just something that happened to him every day of the week.
"It's nothing. I'm fine. He's an idiot. I think he likes making stupid speeches more than anything else." Daisuke held his tiny partner – Chibimon – in his hands. "I mean, he didn't have to wait until I woke up to put that stupid Ring on V-mon. He could've gone on and done it while I was out of it. He just wanted the chance to blather on about how awesome he was." He wrinkled his nose. "He needs a good smack upside the head." Taichi wasn't going to argue that point. He couldn't stop himself from smiling, though. He'd never been in this kind of situation, but it felt like what his reaction would be. Maybe that was one of the reasons Daisuke shared Courage with him.
"Well, don't get too ahead of yourself," Taichi advised. "There's three of you now, but he's got a big army."
Daisuke waved one hand again, setting Chibimon on his head. "We'll get this done before you know it!"
Taichi blinked again, then had to chuckle. Yeah. He could see what they shared – and he really looked forward to seeing what Daisuke would grow up to be.
The End
Notes: Episode 2 is one of my favorites and I could write about it forever!
