Digi-Draft Day

Chapter 2

A/N: I am so sorry for the late update school started and what not but any who here is chapter 2 I'm not fully satisfied with it but i think this is the best it will get.

Also addressing a review from LILFOC,yes she is an adult but I'm going off her personality from the anime and I would think that she would want to get an approval from them before heading out. I hope it helps you understand why she is asking her parents.

Disclaimer: I do not own digimon or am in no way associated with the NBA. One can still dream though.

*Takeru's Apartment (Draft one week away)

Takeru having just woken up from the previous night of training at the gym to keep up his physical fitness and work on his game groggily began to look outside the window of the apartment. He had never been in such a fancier place. The apartment was located on the 15th floor of a nice building that was located in Manhattan so he wouldn't be as far from the place the draft would be held. As he looked out into the city where he was able to see some people on the street going about their day and his sights had stopped at a family standing by the door of what looked like another apartment complex. The man was holding up his daughter on his shoulders while his wife was laughing with her son next to her hold his hand. The boy was just smiling and taking in the time he had with his family.

"Admiring the view?" Yamato had woken up and had been looking at his younger brother looking outside the window having a smile on his face, which had started to become more frequent ever since his meeting with his agent last week.

Takeru had turned around and had wonder just how long he had been there looking outside the window looking at the happy family. "Oh, yea it's really nice." Yamato noticed his soft tone and wanted desperately to know what Takeru had on his mind. As Takeru looked on the family had now left the building it was in front of, and were no longer in sight. He sighed and turned around to face his brother with the smile still on his face. "Well I have to go get ready I have to go meet with the agent again I need to let him know how many people are coming." He began walking back to his room, and then Yamato stepped in front of him to stop his progress.

"You mind moving?" Takeru confused as to why his brother would get in his way he was just getting ready.

"See about…. your agent called yesterday actually while you were at the gym" Takeru's furrowed his brow and was about to ask why his brother hadn't told him his agent had called, but Yamato was quick to realize that look. "But don't worry he asked about what you're about to go talk to him about and I already told him who was coming." Yamato avoided Takeru's gaze by suddenly finding the floor very interesting.

"Why did you do that?" Takeru wondered why his brother would do something like this.

"Well because I knew what you were going to tell them already." Yamato looked at him, matching his blue ice-cold stare with his own.

"And what exactly was I going to say huh?" Takeru felt like his brother was once again getting involved where he shouldn't have.

"You know our mom was coming and that dad couldn't make it. So really it was simple as saying just reserve for three people. Or did I miss someone?" Takeru couldn't answer back because he knew Yamato had been correct, he knew none of the others were going to be able to come over and even though he wished it, Hikari wasn't going to be there either he would go through an important part of his life with his brother and mother, but no Hikari.

"Whatever, but don't do that again." He walked past his brother and into the room slamming the door behind him and fell on his bed. Lying flat there he pondered thought his thoughts of his new life with Hikari and his soon to be born child. His mind raced with ideas of how he would be able to manage his career and his family. Could he ask Hikari to move here? Would she even want to be here?

Losing himself in his thoughts he fell back into a deep slumber where he would hope he could find the answers to all his questions.

*Japan (Draft 6 days away)

The next morning Hikari woke up thinking of last night, and how Taichi had acted towards her going to America. He never said anything more that how Takeru would be nothing more than an overzealous jerk who would leave me for a bimbo from America. Though she knew he was wrong it didn't help that she was pretty self conscious and wondered how Takeru could ever fall for a girl like her.

The day went fairly normal to say the least, she went to work and then went to go hang out with Miyako and her other friends the younger digidestined. At the park where they were celebrating Daisuke's opening of his first noodle cart, which had surprisingly stated to become very popular.

At the park the whole group was sitting in a bench talking about recent events in their lives and reminisced about the times when they had their digimon. Now being almost ten years since they had defeated Malomyotismon and having to say good bye to their digimon, they had all gone back to their normal lives of schooling and being normal children. Still every year on the anniversary of defeat of the Malomyotismon, they would get together just like they would now.

"Hey Kari didn't I tell you that I was going to be a success with noodles." Daisuke grinned at her as she gave back a smile.

"Yes you did, but it's only been a few days Dai, how about you wait a couple of weeks before you call yourself a success" she teased the brunette who really hadn't changed much, except he didn't wear the goggles, instead he kept them plastered up on his wall at his house next to a picture of all the digidestined. While the group laughed at Daisuke's expense, Hikari suddenly felt her thoughts slip away towards her blond boyfriend, how he would have laughed at her making fun of Daisuke.

Ken, being the detective and prodigy that he always was caught sight of Hikari losing herself in her thoughts. Over the past couple years the couple and ken had become very close due with his relationship with Miyako and having become best friends with Takeru as well. The fact that Hikari was missing Takeru came as no surprise, but the concern he had for her was still the same since he knew that Hikari is the type of person to blame herself for things. "Kari. Are you ok?" Hikari was taken out of her thoughts and turned to see that the group had sized their laughter and had all been looking at her.

"O… ummm yea I'm fine just a little tired from work that's all." She smiled half heartedly hoping that they would all believe her. Lucky for her most seemed to believe her but Ken was not fooled he has caught on to how Takeru and Hikari would hide their true feelings about things and could now tell when they were hiding something.

"It's Takeru isn't it?" Ken spoke aloud as he did Hikari tensed up and he was rewarded with an elbow to the side from Miyako who was glaring at him intensely. "I'm sorry I just…"

Hikari had cut Ken off before he could say more. "It's ok you don't have to apologize, I do miss him but I'm really ok. He calls me a lot and sends me texts so it's like he never left" she smiled this time putting more effort as to not cause concern to the others, since it was Daisuke's day.

As everyone dismissed the event as Hikari just missing him Ken knew something was wrong, since missing a boyfriend/best friend was bad, it looked like Hikari was hiding something more from them, but since he feared Miyako's glare and wrath he quietly let it go since he didn't want to go home with an angry Miyako.

As the day became night the digidestined began to leave home first was Iori and Daisuke who lived in the same building, as they began to walk Daisuke suddenly stopped and turned around. "Hey so are we going to watch Takeru's Draft?" The question came suddenly that Hikari didn't know how to respond.

"Yea we should all watch it at Hikari's house." Miyako was quick to start getting a party set up for them to watch Takeru get drafted to the NBA. Ken and Iori nodded in agreement of the idea.

Hikari had forgotten to tell them about Yamato's plan to go to America and be with Takeru. She began to fidget her fingers and was avoiding eye contact with all of them. "Well you see….. Yamato came up with a plan for me to go to America to be with Takeru." The reaction from the rest of the group was a giant "Oh."

"Sorry I had wanted to tell you all but it kind of just slipped my mind" she said in an apologetic tone.

The group looked at one another each turned to face her and smiled. " You don't have to apologize you know" it was Miyako who had spoken up, with a wide grin on her face she knew how much Hikari had missed Takeru, due to both her down mood and how she wouldn't even leave her apartment that much.

"Yea don't worry about it, we can all watch it from my house anyways." Daisuke was next to reassure her that they were fine about her decision.

"Yea but you better clean up your apartment last time we hung out there I swore I saw rats crawling around." Iori spoke loudly to assure everyone heard his comment. This caused Daisuke to turn his attention to him.

Glaring at the youngest digidestined "Hey they weren't rats and my apartment is very clean just so you know besides I do have a girlfriend that helps me around my apartment when I'm not home." He grumbled a few incoherent words at him before Ken got in the middle of them to separate them before anyone got hurt.

The two girls had broken into laughter causing the boys to start laughing along with them. Hikari had felt relieved that even her friends weren't mad at her decision, but she knew better than to doubt their support. It was at this point she was confident of her choices she had made. The only secret left to be told now was of her incoming baby to which she still needed to say, but that was for a different day. Now she was just content with being happy with all her friends. Still wondering how Takeru was doing since he was just with his brother.

*Takeru's apartment (Draft 6 days away)

The next day after not really getting out of the apartment the day before, his mind had been too occupied with Hikari and their future. Hearing the alarm go off he sighed at the thought of getting up and starting the day this early granted it was a Saturday and he could afford not to wake up early his habits won out in the end. Lazily getting up and heading to the bathroom to shower he went to his phone to check his for any messages he might have missed. Seeing an empty inbox he set the phone down and head to shower.

Hearing the shower turn on Yamato and snuck into Takeru's room and grabbed his phone form the counter. He mentally noted that he had about ten minutes before his little brother would come out of the shower. He wasted no time in dialing the number he wanted. Making sure that the person on the other line picked up he cleared his throat. "Umm… yes Jacob? Ok good I wanted to know if everything the seats were arranged from the draft. Yea I'm making sure you got it all right since my brother is still a bit under the weather but not to worry he will be fine by Friday." Yamato had felt a bit guilty having lied to make his plan go, but nothing was going to stop his idea from working. "Any ways I just wanted to know if everything was good. Thank you and have a wonderful day." He hung up the phone just as the shower turned off. Setting it back where it was he left the room and hurried back out.

The two brothers decided to go out to a café right close by their apartment was. While it was nothing too fancy it was a better than having to make breakfast and then washing all the dishes. As the two blonds sat at a secluded table with their coffees in the middle, Takeru had not even taken a drink from it and this made Yamato concerned about what is brother was thinking. "Hey Mat, how did you know you and Sora were right for each other?" Yamato had been caught off guard by that question this was definitely not something he would have guessed was on his brother's mind. He looked at his brother wondering what would cause him to ask such a thing.

"Well… honestly I don't know." He spoke hoping to maybe pry at his brother more since it wasn't every day his brother would allow him into his personal affairs willingly.

Takeru didn't want to hear such a response he had hoped that maybe his brother would allow him to find an answer to his dilemma of Hikari and his future together. "What do you mean you don't know?" His tone hinted at desperation and had hoped that his brother hadn't picked that up.

Unfortunately for him Yamato wasn't as dense as he seemed. "Where is this coming from having trouble with Hikari? I thought you two were on good terms when you left?" Now Takeru was wondering himself why he was asking such a question.

He sighed before speaking trying to buy as much time to think of the next words he was going to say. "Well since she is going to have a child, and I am going to be here for basketball, I think I should ask her to marry me?" The word marry was something that made Yamato stop and think of how to respond to that.

"Well to honest with you T.K. I don't think you should marry her." Takeru's eyes shot wide open at his brother's response; this was defiantly not what he needed to hear. "Especially if the only reason you are marrying her is for the baby. The only reason you two should be married is because both of you love each other. You accept each others' flaws, being with that person unconditionally weather there is a baby or not, and accept that you need nothing more than that other person to truly make you happy." Takeru had kept his eyes wide and a shocked expression at what he had just heard.

Takeru took some time to process the information of what he just heard. His brother the guy who would be a goofball half the time was sitting here telling him about love. "I can see now why Sora married you" Yamato smirked at his response. "Still your right I should only marry her out of love, and I do want to marry her, but I don't know if she is at that stage yet I mean I want to but how would I know when to ask her?" Yamato again sighed at his brother's naïve way of living.

"She is ready T.K., and I can assure you she is just waiting for you to get on one knee and ask her." Takeru ponder his thoughts and began to go back to their last date they had, before the baby and the draft.

*Flash back*

"Well that movie sucked." Hikari giggled at the comment of her blond boyfriend. Of course while he was right she really didn't care for the movie she just wanted to spend time with him.

"Hey I thought it was great didn't you like the clichés scene of the answering being in front of them happened." She smiled at him and he just shook his head.

They were walking back to their apartment, but had decided to take a detour to the local park. Being late at night it was empty and the light breeze made the air chill. "Brings back memories doesn't it" Takeru broke the comfortable silence they had been in walking with their hands intertwined.

For a moment she looked around and found a spot that reminded her when they were still in high school having a picnic there with the other digidestined friends. "Yea it does." She stopped and looked up at his clear blue eyes that she could easily stare at for days on end.

They leaned their faces closer together until they had finally kissed; it was a brief but passionate kiss. Breaking off the kiss Takeru found a bench they could sit and rest before heading home. When they sat down Takeru looked strait staring at nothing in particular being lost in thought.

Hikari noticing his state wonder what he was thinking about, but she knew that he was almost finishing his time in college and it was time where he had a choice of either finish his degree or opt to go into the NBA draft. She had been pondering what he was going to do, since she had always pictured being with him in Japan and settling down together in a close by town where he would write and she could teach, but if he went to America to play basketball, it would be harder for her dream to become reality. She didn't want to hold him back, but she wondered if they were still going to be together if he did decide to go to America.

"Hey Kari?" She broke out of her thought at the sound of his angelic voice.

"Yea what's up?" His face had a serious look that she hadn't seen since the last time he played for his basketball team.

"Do you love me?" The question was unexpected and she felt a little hurt that he would even ask such a ridiculous question.

"Of course I do why would you even ask that" Hurt could be heard in her voice, but confusion was what mainly caught his attention.

Takeru had been thinking about what he should do with his future on one had he had promising career in writing, but the work would not be so steady, and it would be hard for him to start immediately and be able to support both Hikari and himself. The other side he could go out for the draft and be part of the NBA, where money would probably not be too much of an issue, but he would have to move to America to play there, and wonder if she would follow him there.

"Well I know it was a stupid question" sincerity was in his voice. "But I had to ask you something else." This time Hikari worried, was he breaking up with here or was he doing something else like proposing? While she loved Takeru with all her heart, she felt that they were too young to get married, since she still needed to finish school and he still hadn't made a decision on what he was going to do for his future. "What do you say we take our relationship to another level?" He took out a box from his pocket and gave it to her.

Shock was on her face, she had no idea how to respond to this. Marriage was something she didn't want to rush into and she was sure he didn't want to do the same but what else could this be and what did he mean by taking it to another level? "T.K wait..."

"Just open the box" she was cut off by him.

Slowly she opened the small box that was black with a small gold ribbon on it. Slowly she sees a ring, but not the type of ring she expected to see, it wasn't an engagement ring. She was both relieved and also disappointed at the fact that it wasn't what she thought it to be. "What kind of ring is this?"

The ring was small in size and had a silver color to it with nothing on it, and what confused here even more was that it came in a pair of two. He chuckled at her confusion since he had expected her to react in the way she had. "They are promise rings silly, look at the inside of them." She had a confused expression and took one of the rings and looked at the inside of them. In there they were engraved with a message inside that read "Light and Hope together forever."

She looked at it and tears began to well up and looked up at the blond looking into his eyes. He had a smile on his face and then she let the tears out and cried out of joy. He quickly took her into an embrace and cooed her. "Hikari promise me one thing." He whispered into her ear.

"Anything Takeru." She whispered into his ear.

"We will always be together no matter the challenge or situation." Her tears stopped and moved from her embrace and looked at him.

"Takeru why are you asking me this?" She held her breath as she waited for his answer.

"Because these are promise rings and it signifies the promises we have to each other." He spoke to her in a soft angelic tone as the tears came back.

"I promise, I promise Takeru." With a smile on and tears of joy running down her face, they went back to their hug staying there for what seemed like an eternity to the couple.

*End Flash back*

Takeru looked at his brother and then felt around his neck and there it was, the promise he had made to Hikari of them being always being together. The ring had not fitted him and he had decided to convert it instead to a necklace. Hanging around this neck he played with it catching the attention of Yamato.

"You do know you probably already proposed to her by giving her that ring." He pointed to the ring he was playing with. Takeru had told Yamato the story of what occurred that night with some major details left out. Takeru thought before he responded, had he proposed without realizing it, but it was a promise ring so there was just a promise at stake here, not their relationship.

"They are just promise rings Mat." Smirking at his little brother and how he could be so naïve.

Sighing before asking the one question he probably already knew the answer to, he just wanted to hear it from his little brother's mouth. "And what exactly was this promise?" Takeru's eyes shot wide open he didn't really tell him what the promise was just that the ring was a promise ring that Hikari and he both had.

He averted his eyes from Yamato's gaze "We promised to always be together." He mumbled very softly but Yamato was able to hear it all. He chuckled at his the promise they had made, and Takeru lowered his head feeling embarrassed of what he had just told his brother.

"Dude you are so engaged already." Takeru then decided to avoid his brother's case at all cost. Still it was a relief for him, since he knew Yamato was right and he had proposed to Hikari without even realizing it. Still the doubt he had came not only from himself but his experience with his own family mainly his parent's marriage. He had promised himself he wouldn't want to end up like them divorced and barely standing the presence of the other.

"I just don't want to end up like mom and dad" Yamato had stopped laughing and now had a serious look in him. This is one of the looks that Takeru hadn't seen since the day Yamato had decided to ask Sora to marry him, it was a sincere and determine look. "You shouldn't doubt yourself bro, she loves you and you love her too. What I'm trying to get at is that you shouldn't compare your relationship to our parents'. Many things happen that made them split and you and Kari won't be like that and anyone can tell that by just being around the two of you. Remember like you always told us have hope little brother." This had Takeru in a sense of calmness, something that he desperately wanted and a smile on his brother's face, he became confident in what he knew he had to do.

"Your right I shouldn't doubt myself, but it's just the way I am I guess." He laughed at himself. "But now I know what I have to do and well like you said I have to have hope." Yamato raised his eyebrow and pondered just what was going through his brother's head. Before he had a chance to say anything, his phone started to ring, looking at who was calling he excused himself from the table where they had been sitting to take the one phone call to begin his plan.

"Is everything taken care of?" he spoke into the phone and smirked at the response. He knew everything was going smoothly, and knew the only way it could go south was interference from a certain brunette with large wild hair.

A/N: Well this is a good place to leave off. What do you think good, ok, bad, or horrible let me know in a reivew if you would like to.

The promise rings idea was actually something that just came to me i wanted to do it as a proposal, but in the end i decided to go with the promise rings.

Again i apologize for updating late, and i will update the next chapter as soon as can hopefully within two weeks until then see you all next chapter.