"Dealing With Past Issues"
Here is the second part of the Daiuya story I wrote. Please enjoy and review!
Dai and Takuya were walking down the street towards a diner they usually went to for dates or to hang out with their friends, Veemon walking behind them with Salamon on his head.
They passed by many other digimon and humans as they went, finally making it to the diner and walked inside.
"Man, that smells good." Takuya said.
"It's Burgermon's food. Of course it smells good." Dai said.
Unknown to them, a group of humans and digimon heard her voice and looked over curiously to see who was speaking.
"Oh, welcome back you four. Is this a double date?" TorikaraBallmon asked as he flew over.
"Naw, we're just hanging out." Takuya said.
"We'll have a plate of your best burgers." Veemon said.
"Yes, please." Salamon added in.
"All right. Go on and sit down and I'll go tell Daddy your orders." TorikaraBallmon said as he flew off.
Takuya, Dai, Veemon and Salamon chose a booth that was located at the window and in clear view of the group of humans and digimon, making the group all gasp in surprise.
"No way. It's Dai and Veemon." The brunette male gasped.
"Is she on a date? I can't believe she has a boyfriend or one that looks that good." The lavender haired girl said.
"Really, isn't this one of the reasons she didn't want to be friends with us in the first place?" the Hawkmon said making his partner look down sadly.
A Rookie level Burgermon then walked over to the couple's table and set the tray of burgers down for the group.
"Here you are. Enjoy!" he chirped.
"Thanks." The two former Digi Leaders chirped.
"Have a nice day." Salamon said as Veemon waved him off.
"Man, I love these when they're freshly made." Takuya said as he picked up one of the burgers.
"And you love them even more after I taught you how to cook them yourself." Dai teased.
"Hey, Koji's were worse than mine." Takuya pouted.
Day just giggled at that as she kissed his cheek making him grin at her.
"You both suck equally at being cooks." She stated making him fall to the floor out of his seat at that.
The group watching them, the Digidestinds, all kept quiet as they tried to listen in on what they were talking about and figure out how to approach their former leader to speak with her.
"That was mean." Takuya grunted as he looked up at the girl from his place on the floor.
"But true." Veemon said as Salamon just giggled.
Rolling his eyes, Takuya got back up into his booth and started eating again while talking with his girlfriend and digimon friends.
"She looks so happy." Ken said as he stared off at his former best friend.
Would she even view him as her best friend anymore or has someone else taken his place after so long?
"And beautiful. She's grown so much over the years." Kari sighed.
"So has Veemon." Patamon said.
"Yeah, did he get taller?" Armadillomon asked.
A Champion level female Burgermon then walked by them, so Yolei held up her hand.
"Excuse me, miss?" she asked.
MommaBurgermon turned to the Digidestinds with a smile.
"Yes, how can I help you?" she asked.
"You see those two over there?" Yolei asked pointing to the couple.
"Oh, yes. Dai and Takuya, such wonderful kids. You know, they saved the world from Lucemon." MommaBurgermon said making the digimon gasp.
"From Lucemon? He tried to make a comeback?" Hawkmon asked.
"Who's Lucemon?" TK asked.
"He was once a good Celestial digimon, but he was corrupted by his own power so ten powerful digimon rose up and sacrificed their lives to defeat him. They were given the title of the 10 Legendary Warriors to honor them." Gatomon explained.
As they were talking, Dai noticed them and gasped in shock at the sight of her former team wondering why they were in the diner in this city of all places.
Takuya noticed her stunned expression and looked over to spot the Digidestinds while Veemon and Salamon also looked over.
"If this Lucemon guy was rising up, then why weren't we called to help save the world? Why was it Dai and that guy over there?" Yolei asked.
"Takuya over there and five other children were given the Spirits of the Legendary Warriors that they were bonded with so they could fight Lucemon." MommaBurgermon explained.
"So they could transform into digmon themselves?" Cody asked as the group all gasped and exclaimed in wonder.
Sighing, the child of Miracles stood up from her booth and started to walk over as her friends and boyfriend followed her.
"But what about Dai and Veemon? What did they do?" TK asked.
"Well, they were able to fuse together to become a powerful digimon and became the Legendary Warriors' Knight, then the child of Miracles fell in love with the Warrior of Flame who was also the leader of the group while Veemon feel for Ophanimon, one of the Three Great Celestial Angels." Someone said.
The group looked up and gasped to see Dai was the one who spoke while Takuya had his arms wrapped around her waist while Salamon was still on Veemon's head.
"Miss me guys?" she teased with a smile.
"Dai!" Ken gasped as he stood up with Wormmon in his arms, both having sorrowful eyes.
"Oh no. Tell me he's not gonna cry. I hate it when people cry." Takuya whined but then shut up when Dai shot him a look.
Pulling away from him, she then walked over to Ken and wrapped her arms around in a hug surprising him at the sudden action.
"If I could forgive you for being the Digimon Emperor, then I can forgive you for plenty of other things." She said.
With that said Ken hugged her back and cried into her shoulder while Wormmon crawled down and walked over to Veemon who smiled at him and held out his hand, the two friends smiling at each other as they shook hands while the rest of the digimon gathered the dragon and puppy.
Looking over at her old team, she pouted at them.
"Aw, was Ken the only one that missed me? Matt told me you guys were all depressed when I moved away." Dai said.
"Matt? You still kept contact with him?" TK asked.
"Why him and not us?" Yolei asked.
"Because Matt understood what I was going through better than you guys did." Dai said.
She and Ken then pulled out of the hug as Takuya took her hand and looked over the group of Digidestinds and digimon, unsure of what to think of them all at the moment.
"So what brings you guys here?" he asked.
"We were just on a road trip for fun and to check out the other digimon in Japan, checking to see how well they were getting along with the humans." TK explained.
"How did you two meet anyway?" Kari asked.
Before either of the former goggle heads could talk, the door to the diner opened and in came the rest of the Warriors, Tommy spotting them and ran over as Zoe, Koichi, Koji and JP followed at a normal pace with Bokomon, Neemon, Patamon and Lopmon.
"Hey, here you guys are." Tommy said as he wormed between the two and smiled up at the tanned skin couple as the pink banned Patamon sat op top his head.
TK gasped as he looked at the kid, being reminded of himself when he was younger.
"Hey, what's going on here?" Zoe asked as she saw the group.
Koji frowned at them as he grew defensive while Koichi met eyes with Ken, both gasping as they recognized something within each other.
Dai noticed this and smiled as she knew these two would have a lot to talk about.
"This is my old team." She said.
"Wha?!" JP exclaimed while Koji glared coldly at them while Zoe gave them an angered look and even Tommy gave a slight frown.
"Ease off, guys. She already told them she forgave them. Or, at least she did to Ken." Takuya said.
"Well, she shouldn't forgive them." Koji said.
"Yeah, we don't want them to take advantage of her kindness and just go off hurting her again." Zoe stated which made the Digidestinds all look down sadly.
Rolling her eyes at this, Dai just sat down next to Kari while the Warriors all sat down near them too, Takuya having his arm wrapped around his girlfriend's shoulders.
"To answer your question, I met Takuya when I first moved here four years ago." Dai said.
(Four years ago…)
The Motomiya family had moved to Shibuya, a nice town with houses instead of tall apartment buildings.
They had moved in to a house that was a nice light blue color and had just finished bringing their things inside when the family in the house next to their came over for a visit.
Dai had been just coming down from her room and paused when she saw the family of four, a man with tanned skin and long black hair tied back, a woman with auburn hair, a small boy with brown hair, brown eyes and pale skin like his mother while the boy who was Dai's age had tanned skin like his dad and also had dark brown hair that was styled like his mother's.
Something that put Dai off were the square goggles he had around his neck because they reminded her too much of Tai and she was trying to get over her old friends who had hurt her.
"We hoped that we could be the first to welcome you to the neighborhood." The man said.
"Thank you." Mr. Motomiya said.
Jun looked off to the side and spotted Dai hiding around the corner with Demiveemon clutched to her chest and a distressed expression on her face.
Mrs. Motomiya saw what Jun was looking at.
"Well, I'm Mai, this is my daughter Jun, husband Jiro and my youngest daughter is called Daisuke." She said.
Sighing, Dai walked out from when she was hiding, the family noticing her, the oldest son staring at her with a small pink tint to his cheeks.
"Well, it was wonderful to meet you. Perhaps you can come over for dinner so we can get more acquainted." The woman said.
She had seen how her son reacted to seeing the mahogany haired girl and was cooking up more than just dinner for tonight.
"That's sounds wonderful." Mai said.
"We'll be there. What time should we arrive?" Jiro asked.
"I think 7:00 should work out for us all." The man smiled.
"All right then, we'll see you at 7:00." Jiro said.
"Goodbye then!" the woman said with a wave.
The family then left, Jiro closing the door behind them and turned a stern gaze onto his youngest.
"You behave tonight, understood?" he asked.
Teeth grinding behind closed lips, Dai just nodded her head and then left to go into her room, locking the door behind her.
She sighed sadly as she set Demiveemon down on her bed, the dragon giving her a worried look.
"Dai, are you OK?" he asked.
"Yeah, buddy. I just don't think I'm up for making new friends so soon." she said with a small smile for him.
She then went over to one of her boxes that was near the window and opened it up, taking out some of her old soccer gear.
"Hey!" someone called.
Jumping in shock, she turned to look out her window and spotted that boy looking over at her from the window in his own room.
They were about ten feet away from each other, the goggle boy smiling at her.
"You're Daisuke, right? My name's Takuya Kanbara." He said.
Dai kept quiet as she just nodded.
"Not much of a talker are ya?" he asked.
"People like it better when I don't talk." Dai said as she closed her window and then pulled the curtains down.
(Present time…)
"It really took some time for me to get her to talk to me." Takuya said.
"You kept following her around and wouldn't shut up until you got her tell you about her." Veemon stated.
"So she was harassed into hanging out with you? I feel sorry for her." Koji said.
"Her is right here, people." Dai said as she waved her hand to gesture to herself.
The best friends/rivals smirked.
"But what happened? I mean, how did you guys all meet?" Yolei asked.
(Four years ago…)
Shinya was playing with the new race car that Dai had gotten him for his birthday that day while Takuya sat at the table looking bored out of his mind as he stared at the cake.
No one could eat until their father got home from work, but Shinya didn't mind since Dai was playing with him and Demiveemon was hiding inside of her hood of her sweater.
"Hey, Dai, do you think you can help me with a prank?" Shinya asked quietly so his mom and brother didn't hear.
"A prank? Like what?" Dai whispered.
"Like changing Takuya's hair color. Not permanent, but something really wild that would make him freak out." He giggled.
"Yeah, sure. As long as it's not pink or lavender." She said.
Pink hair would remind her too much of Kari and Mimi while lavender would make her think of Yolei, which would make her feel upset over her old friends yet again.
"OK, how about a bright neon green color or would that be cool? Maybe we can just put a lot of different colors in his hair!" Shinya exclaimed quietly.
She just gave a smile at the boy when Takuya ran over and grabbed her hand, hauling her up to her feet and ran for the door.
"We're leaving!" he called to his mom.
"Don't play in the street!" the woman called after them.
When they were running down the street, Takuya held his cell phone up to check the time.
"Where are we going?" she asked him.
"My destiny. I need to get to the train station for my destiny." He said.
This really confused her by the answer, but then a little boy and his dad accidentally kicked a soccer ball into the street making Takuya let go of Dai's hand as he ran after the ball.
"I'll get it!" he called to the father and son.
He got to the ball and turned to kick it back, but didn't see the truck getting closer to him.
"Takuya!" Dai yelled.
Her voice made him look up to see the truck and his eyes widened in fear.
"This is my destiny?" he asked.
Demiveemon jumped out of Dai's sweater and quickly digivolved into his Champion form and grabbed at the boy, flying him away from the truck and over to Dai and then returned to his Rookie form before anyone saw him.
"What the heck?" Takuya asked.
All he saw was a flash of light and then something blue before he was standing in front of Dai safely.
Speaking of the girl, she had her hand over her heart as it pounded hard against her breast.
She had been terrified that she would lose her friend.
"Don't ever do that again." She scolded.
"Sorry, I guess I should've watched where I was going." He said, then checked his phone.
"Ah, we're late!" he yelled and grabbed her hand, almost running into Veemon if he hadn't moved out of the way in time and latched onto Dai's hand as they ran off.
(Present time…)
"We then made it onto the train when Takuya got another message to transfer and after that, we saw Koji on the train across from us and followed him to an elevator." Dai said.
"They didn't know I was following Koji from farther behind them." Koichi said.
"The elevator led to a secret underground station where all these colorful trains were located. JP and I both just went onto a train that was closest to the elevator, but we didn't know each other then." Zoe said.
"I went off on a different train to be alone since I wasn't used to being around other people." Koji said.
"So you were the lone wolf just like my brother used to be." TK said.
"Why is there always a loner in every group?" his Patamon asked.
"It must be a rule just like having a goggle head." Gatomon said.
"Anyway, when we were on the train, Tommy was crying because some bullies pushed him on while Dai was totally silent as she hid behind Takuya. She wouldn't talk to any of us until we got separated into different groups and Z and I got to spend more time with her." JP said getting back into the story.
"Dai? Silent? Are you joking? When she was with us, we couldn't get her to shut up half the time." Yolei said.
Zoe was shaking in anger and was about to stand up to slap her, but Lopmon placed his ear down on her shoulder to make her calm down.
Kari and Hawkmon were giving Yolei disapproving looks while Dai remained blank faced.
"Yolei, go fuck yourself." The child of Miracles said.
Every one of the Digidestinds and their digimons' jaws dropped at those words while Koji and Takuya smirked at this, JP snickered, Koichi shook his head is disapproval and Tommy had his ears covered by Zoe who was satisfied with her best friend's response.
"I don't take that kind of shit from anyone anymore. If you have a problem with that, then get out of my town or you'll face my wrath." Dai stated as her eyes flashed a bright crimson red color.
The large group were all silent, the Warriors and their digimon friends watching the Digidestinds and their partners with guarded expressions to see how they would react to this.
"Nice one, Dai." Someone said.
A hand then landed on the girl's head and ruffled it up, making everyone look up to see that Matt had arrived with Gabumon, Tai and Agumon, the duo of Courage looking very surprised from what they had witnessed and heard.
"Do you always have to do that?" Dai pouted up at Matt who smiled at her.
"Yes. So, did you guys learn your lesson yet?" Matt asked as his eyes went straight to his brother.
He didn't want TK to make the same mistakes he once did.
"Yes, we shouldn't have been so rude to you." Cody said with a guilty expression.
"No kidding. You guys were total bullies to her." Tommy said.
"It was a real surprise since Dai is very kind." Said Patamon (Seraphimon).
"Hard to tell." Yolei muttered.
"Yolei, shut the fuck up." Kari said making everyone look at her in shock next.
"No one wants to hear you make things worse. True, we all offended you and were unfair, but at least some of us are trying to make up for it. Grow up." Kari said to her DNA partner.
Tai sighed as he placed a hand on Dai's shoulder making her look up to him as he gave her a sad smile.
"I should have been there for you more. You looked up to me, but I let you down." he said.
"Tai, why did you ever make me the leader in the first place?" Dai asked him.
All eyes were on him as he stood up properly and ran a hand through his hair that was no longer a large bush, but was now a shorter version of it.
"Well, I knew you were pretty brave to get over your fear of being hurt by the Monochromon when he almost hurt Kari. You just pushed it aside and focused on saving her. A good leader protects others and has no problem with putting their wants and needs above themselves. You also tried hard to get the team to work together when Ken joined. Sure, you had some problems along the way, but I made a lot of them too. At least you never tried to kill one of your friends all of the times just because you didn't see things the same way." Tai said.
Koji and Takuya looked at each other as they felt like laughing when they thought back to all of the times they almost killed each other in the Digital World.
What irony that their group was more like the first generation than the second group was.
"You were never scared of facing the dangers that lay ahead of you and you always went right in. maybe not with a plan, but you always won in the end." Tai said.
"You're wrong. I was scared. I was always scared that I would mess up or would fail badly and get us all killed. Not to mention it got worse when I really accepted you guys as my friends." Dai said as she stared down at her hands.
Salamon then hopped up onto the table and placed her paws down on her hands, making Dai look into the Rookie's beautiful blue eyes.
Even in this form, she still radiated that motherly aura that helped sooth her and the others.
"And then we really messed it up by talking bad about you behind your back." TK said.
"We never meant to hurt you." Kari said.
"And I should have told them to stop when I heard them all joking around and saying bad things about you." Ken said.
"Us digimon should have stopped them too. We know better than to let bad things like this happen or let our partners do something that could blow up in their faces." Wormmon said.
Giving a soft chuckle, Dai looked up at her former team.
"If I say I forgive you guys, will you shut up and let me continue my date already?" she asked.
"Maaaybe." TK said making Dai throw a fry at him which got a grin out of him.
"Fine. I forgive you. Hurt me again, I'll let Wolf Boy and Lion Boy kill you. All right? Good, I'm gone." Dai said.
She pulled Takuya up with her, Veemon and Salamon following the couple out the door while everyone watched in either amusement or surprise.
"Who're Wolf boy and Lion Boy?" Yolei asked.
"She means the twins." JP said.
"Why did she call them that, though?" Hawkmon asked.
Settling down in their seats, the Warriors then dove into the story of the Legendary Warriors.
Meanwhile, ExVeemon was flying in the air with Ophanimon, both speaking to each other as they held hands while down on the ground under a tree was Takuya lying on his back with Dai resting on his chest.
Smiling at her, Takuya kissed the sleeping girl on her temple while he rubbed her back.
The meeting hadn't gone like he had imagined it would, like they trying to chew her out or falling to their knees to beg for forgiveness, but it was fine. As long as Dai didn't have to worry about them and felt like a weight had been removed from her chest, then he was happy with how the meeting went.
Besides, like she said, if they turned on her again, the Warriors could kill them or at least give them a beating that would ensure they remembered.
Yawning himself, Takuya closed his eyes as he felt Dai snuggle closer to him and his arm tightened around her waist as he let himself nap away under the tree while ExVeemon and Ophanimon soared over them.
The end.
