Notes in the end of chapter, please read them!
PART 3: MOTOMIYA DAISUKE
Yamato tried to call Daisuke's cellphone for one hour, but nothing. The goggle boy let the battery ran out or he was ignoring him. The mental image of Daisuke upset and avoiding him for days was stuck in his head, and Taichi's voice saying the phrases "Yamato, you shouldn't yell at Daisuke. You know how paranoid he is!" and other ones were annoying him.
He needed to talk to Daisuke. He needed to apologize for losing his patience and releasing all his frustration against the poor kid.
"Hello? Daisuke? It's Yamato—"
"Hello, this is Daisuke and if you need to talk to me, please record a message after the 'beep'. I'll call you as soon as possible, if is it an emergency." *BEEP*
He had no luck. Daisuke wouldn't call him back after that, maybe later… Maybe if he try to call his home… But what if Jun answer the call? Or Mrs. or Mr. Motomiya? He wanted to talk to Daisuke before he feel extremely bad for what had happened!
"Goddammit Daisuke!"
The telephone rang. For a moment, Yamato wished that Daisuke would say something stupid just to confirm that he wasn't hurt. But when he answered, it was just Taichi.
"Yamato? Hey… Are you okay…? I was thinking of that weird theory of the kiss and… I thought if you weren't thinking of that too. Also, did you talk to Daisuke? He went to apologize for that behavior."
"You too?" - Yamato sighed, more relieved about not being the only one bugged with that crazy story - "Yes, he did. But… Something went wrong and I accidentally yelled at him."
"You what?! Man, he went to apologize and you just—"
"And I knew you were going to say that. I'm trying to call him but he's ignoring me. You're his 'beloved' senpai, can you call him and—"
"Is it Yamato-san?" - he heard Daisuke's voice on the other side of the phone.
"Yes it is. Do you want to talk to him?" - Taichi replied him.
"… No, I'm… I finished the homework. T-thank you for the help"
So Daisuke had been there and now he was leaving because Taichi was talking to him.
"T-Taichi, please stop him and let me talk to that idiot!" - he asked Yagami.
"A-ah? Okay…" - Taichi's voice became a bit muffled - "DAISUKE, wait! Yamato wants to talk to you! Come here, okay… Ah? Your mother called you?"
"He's lying, I bet!"
"I'm not lying!" - Daisuke had answered - "And y-you… What do you want?!"
Two mistakes in the same day?! No way!
Yamato had lost his voice, but after Daisuke calling him for the third time, he responded:
"Daisuke, I'm sorry about yelling at you. But your crazy story was stuck in my head! I do not hate you, ok?"
"Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Now can I go?"
"A-are you listening to me?!"
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The TEEN-AGE Wolves was going to have a show and Yamato was writing new lyrics. There was an opportunity that some record company might come and see their talent; Yamato asked Miyako to help him with mixing the SFX of the two new songs, also record the samples to be sent.
He was busy, more than usual. His moments with Sora were filled by band practice (at least she understood, and she enjoyed watching them playing), and he only went back home to sleep. Only a few days he had time to dinner with Sora or to talk with Taichi, Koushirou, Joe, Mimi…
But how about Daisuke?
"So, can we go?"
That day he was going to explode, but the young goggle boy had appeared to see how he had been and now he didn't stop making so many questions about the show. Yamato played two wrong chords thanks to Daisuke's annoyance.
"Yes, you can. Now can you shut up and let me practice?! Also, why don't you go talk to Taichi? Why are you here?!"
"Because Taichi-san is not at home and I thought I could watch you play!" - Daisuke replied with a happy smile that made Yamato think of a little Pomeranian dog.
"You can, but" - he forced a smile - "please, be quiet. I can't play if you keep talking. When I finish practicing, you can ask me whatever you want, even how many hair strands are there on Taichi's head."
"Really? I wonder how many hair strands Taichi-san's head is made…"
He gave up. Daisuke isn't someone he would have such a normal conversation with.
Yamato started to play when Daisuke stopped talking, and everything was going well. Too much perfect… No, there's something wrong.
Daisuke fell asleep. That's all.
Yamato felt like it was an insult to his music, because he thought Daisuke had been so interested to hear his new song and then… He fell asleep.
But instead to kick Daisuke out of his house, Yamato just took the boy from the chair and put him on the couch, with a blanket. He went to his room and kept practicing his chords.
But he couldn't keep playing it, a memory appeared in his mind and he forgot how to play for a few moments. The memory of Takeru falling asleep while he plays the harmonica… Him carrying his brother to his bed and then going out and keep playing it outside the house.
He got up from the chair and watched Daisuke sleeping. Even when he was sleeping that idiot looked like a happy child, with no problems, with a peaceful life… And Yamato was aware that Daisuke had his own problems, but… He was so good at dealing with them! And how about him, Yamato? Yamato was still having some problems to deal with. He wasn't a person that you can go and tell jokes with at any time. His temper made people think he's anti-social, grumpy, angry…
Daisuke is always being called as a jerk, brainless, pathetic, simpleton… And he is always smiling and dealing with it. He didn't care about what the others think, but Yamato…
He cared. Or at least he was caring about what Daisuke thinks of him.
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"Ahh… I'm so sleepy…"
Daisuke woke up two hours later, finding himself on Yamato's couch, covered with a blanket. He looked around and found Yamato on the kitchen; the goggle boy yawned, then got up from the couch and went to the kitchen.
"Yamato-san? I'm sorry, I slept! Aren't you angry?"
"Huh?" - Yamato looked at the boy - "No, I'm not. To be honest I finished working in the songs while you were sleeping like a baby" - he chuckled.
"Didn't I bother you?"
"Are you kidding? You didn't. Do you want pancakes?" - Yamato smiled.
"I didn't know you like pancakes…" - Daisuke blinked - "I… E-eh…?"
"Mimi-chan once sent me this recipe by e-mail and I tried…" - he blushed a bit - "It's good when we can try something new…"
"So do you like to try new things too!" - Daisuke grinned - "Me too, I try movies, books, food and even languages! They say I'm good at learning… The English class doesn't like me because of my grades."
Yamato glanced at Daisuke in surprise: Did he say that he has good grades at English?!
"R-really?" - Yamato back to watch the pan, putting the pancakes on a plate.
"Yeah," - he nodded - "That time we went to America, I translated what the natives were talking. Miyako and Iori said they were thankful for my English."
"B-but it isn't—"
"Nope. It isn't too good, but I like to learn new languages" - he replied - "It isn't hard to me. I can pronounce and speak a good and understandable English. Ah, do you know Ichijouji can speak Spanish? I think 'Kaiser' is something in Spanish…"
"Y-yeah, I know he speak a bit of Spanish because I was with him when he used it, do you remember?" - he turned off the stove, putting the last pancake on the plate - "While you were with Mimi-chan in New York, I was with him in Mexico."
"He told me about the girl called Tacos."
"I don't think her name was Tacos, but…"
Yamato put the pancakes plate on the table, Daisuke looked at them and thought: Wasn't it Okonomiyaki?
Anyway, it was delicious.
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"So did you spend your day with Yamato?" - Taichi asked Daisuke, after the school. He had picked Hikari, and then Daisuke too.
"Yeah, and we ate American pancakes" - he said happily - "He sent me Mimi-san's e-mail so I can make at home. Do you want to try?
"So did you stop thinking he hates you?" - asked both Taichi and Hikari, but Daisuke didn't reply them.
"Senpai, how many hair strands do you have?" - the young boy innocently asked - "I forgot to ask Yamato-san…"
Taichi didn't reply, he just stared at Daisuke; Hikari giggled, because it was something usual from Daisuke: random questions to avoid certain questions. But Taichi's react was like he were counting how many hair strands he had, which made Hikari a bit surprised.
"I have no idea!" - he said - "Now go, tell us if you will stop thinking that Yamato hates you!"
"I never said he hated me," - Daisuke said with an expressionless face - "I said I thought he hated me because he was always stressed out when I talked to him."
"But we didn't say you said he hated you!" - Taichi growled.
"I think I had the wrong idea about him, but now… Maybe he's like me. Except I'm not grumpy."
"No, you are" - the Chosen of Courage rolled his eyes - "especially when Takeru is around."
Just by mentioning it, Takeru passed by and waved at them; Daisuke's smile dropped and he pouted. Taichi chuckled because he was right about that. Daisuke is jealous about Takeru, about his relationship with the Yagami siblings.
Taichi patted Daisuke's head and smiled. Hikari just kept watching Daisuke's face.
"No worries, you're still my favorite kouhai."
"Oniichan!" - Hikari was also jealous. Taichi patted her head too.
"Hey, there's Taichi for everyone here, no fights" - he laughed - "You two are friends, you shouldn't fight because of me, okay? I like you both, no more no less." - Taichi's hands where one on Daisuke's head and the other on Hikari's. He kept patting both kids with that smile in his face. They were happy by having someone like Taichi by their side.
Hikari hugged his older brother, while Daisuke just kept moving to the other building. He didn't want to talk about Yamato or Taichi, he just wanted to go home and eat something.
And maybe spend his time by watching TV or reading cooking books, to learn more.
No one expected Daisuke to be smart or to enjoy reading, but he indeed was good at some stuff and that made the others impressed. Cooking also was something he enjoyed, making him have a different hobby besides soccer.
He arrived at home, closing the door. Jun was in her room and his mother was in the kitchen. Kouki, Daisuke's dad, didn't arrive from the work yet, so only three Motomiyas were inside the apartment. Daisuke put his backpack on his bed and left the room, going to talk to his mother.
"Uh, mom… Can I ask you something?"
"Sure" - Megumi, Daisuke's mother, said. She smiled at the boy.
"Can I… Can I bake a cake for someone? I want to give them a cake! Something delicious, maybe the best cake they could eat in their lives!" - he waved his hands, making an oversized cake.
"Of course I can help you, Daichan. Which flavor do you like to make? Chocolate?"
"Chocolate is always the best of the best!" - Daisuke's eyes were shining - "Everyone likes chocolate! Yeah, that's it… I will make a Chocolate cake for them!"
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A writer's thoughts:
"Ni, can you write something without joking about Taichi's hair?", I asked myself. I learned that my favorite thing in this episode is not the cute Yamato-Daisuke bonding, but the Taichi's hair joke. And I bet you thought "He didn't ask that to Yamato so he forgot!", NOPE! I've joked about Taichi's natural crown before, in portuguese fanfiction - Crack or Normal stories. Hey, I need to find something fun. If it's not Taichi's, it's Ken Kaiser's. And I love them. No worries.
If you read the first version (those ones posted here had been checked and corrected by my friend Gabriel AKA MC_GADO/ember-frontiers ), you will notice this silly lady here misread about Okonomiyaki. Yes it's a type of pancake, according to wikipedia.
Quoting Wikipedia: Okonomiyaki is a Japanese savoury pancake containing a variety of ingredients. The name is derived from the word okonomi, meaning "what you like" or "what you want", and yaki meaning "grilled" or "cooked" (cf. yakitori and yakisoba). Okonomiyaki is mainly associated with the Kansai or Hiroshima areas of Japan, but is widely available throughout the country. Toppings and batters tend to vary according to region. Tokyo okonomiyaki is usually smaller than a Hiroshima or Kansai okonomiyaki.
So my mistake was that I really mistook Okonomiyaki and thought it wasn't a Pancake. But hey, Yamato is trying Mimi's recipes. She probably made her own kind of Pancakes and thought Yamato would like to test it. Sadly, I can't create my own Pancake recipe because I'm a terrible cook. I wish I could create my own technique and give it to Mimi.
This chapter is about Yamato and Daisuke friendship, and shame on you, 02, for never making Daisuke interact more with Taichi or Yamato. Especially when we have vague information about Taichi-Daisuke and Yamato-Daisuke. I believe our little puppy boy already knew Sora, Koushirou and Yamato too. Hikari was his classmate last year, and Hikari says Taichi and Daisuke were from the same soccer club. Now I dunno, but there's a drama where Taichi ~post Adventure events~ says he quit soccer for a while, but would back to play it later (I assume this "later" means tri.). So maybe Daisuke stalked Taichi? And then befriended Taichi? Who knows? It's a mystery.
And yes, The Motomiya parents have names here.
Those are not random choices, I asked a friend to help me name them and then we used the "Digimon Adventure formula", which means naming the non-named kids' parents after their voice actors. Except Daisuke's father's seiyuu name was already used for Iori's father so we came with another reading of the kanji. And, like my friend said, "They will think it's a Savers reference"... But I like Savers! Except I wouldn't ship Savers!Megumi with Savers!Kouki...
