(April 7th, 2010)
Since you held up the bargain of reviews, as I promised here's the next chapter! Okay the moment you've all been asking about! Finally I reveal the boyfriend!

Disclamier: I don't own Digimon or any of its characters.

THE DOMINO EFFECT

FunkyMonkey713

CHAPTER 6: War

~TPOV~

"Please just show up, stay for one song. One song! Please?" She drew out the 'e' for dramatic effect and pouted her lips. Hikari's face lit up as her frame shook with laughter

"Fine, but only one song, then I'm gone, deal?" Miyako nodded bouncing up and down in her seat with uncontrollable excitement "oh my god this is so fantastic! Ok so we need to go shopping and get new dresses then…" she rambled on but Takeru noticed Hikari's gaze wandered off across the room where the gang of guys from this morning walked through the cafeteria door. A smile grew on her face and her eyes grew bright, a small giggle escaped her lips as she leapt up from her seat and bolted across to the guys.

Takeru looked around the table, looking for an answer for Hikari sudden disappearance. Miyako and Catherine rolled their eyes at each other and continued their conversation about dress styles; Ken and Iori looked back at Takeru then quickly looked away and stuffed their faces with bites of pizza. Takeru looked back to the entrance in time to see the brunette open his arms and see Hikari launch herself at him. He wrapped his long arms around her waist and lifted her off the ground and spun her around, her tiny arms folded around his neck holding him close. Takeru could hear their laughter across the room; he frowned and turned to Ken,

"You've got to be kidding me, THAT is her boyfriend?!" He looked around disbelief coloured his face, Ken and Iori exchanged looks of uncertainly.

"No. No way! The guy is a complete jackass! A prick! She cannot be dating him!" He was outraged, furious! How could a girl like that be dating a guy like him?! He thought as he folded his arms and stared at the brunette, seething with anger. He watched as Hikari and the brunette walked over to their table holding hands, not taking theirs eyes off one another.

"Hey guys!" the brunette spoke to the others smiling like the happiest guy on earth (which Takeru thought was legitimate because he would feel the same if he was in his position). He scanned the faces until he saw Takeru, then his smile faltered and turned upside down.

"And who this guy?" Takeru looked up at him, arms still crossed and gave a fake smile.

"I'm the fresh meat, remember?" Hikari and the others looked back and forth between the two confused.

"Do you two know each other?" Miyako asked, still puzzled.

"No. Not at all. Never seen him in my life." The brunette spoke with his teeth gritted and jaw clenched. Hikari looked at him then pointed to Takeru,

"Ok then... Takeru this is Daisuke, Dai this is the new transfer student from Gosen." Takeru's polite side came out of him as he held out his hand waiting for a shake. Daisuke hesitated then let go of Hikari's hand to grasp; he took Takeru hand and the two squeezed with all their might. Miyako shook her head, "Boys and their egos…" she whispered to Catherine. Hikari watched both males arms flex with thick, strong muscles, neither of them breaking eye contact or the vice-grip handshake. Hikari looked from one to the other then the handshake; finally she stepped between the two placing her hands on theirs,

"Okay guys, why don't we finish our lunch before the bell rings alright?" The two didn't stop for another 30 seconds, then both relaxed and sat down on either side of Hikari still glaring at each other.

The rest of lunch was tense; Daisuke constantly flaunted Hikari in front of Takeru's by kissing her neck and whispering things in her ear, which made her blush or laugh. Takeru would have given anything to go over to him and rip off all his limbs, then throw them in a dumpster. Hikari seemed to be unfazed by any of this, only looking over at Takeru once. He felt like shit; there was no other way to put it, he'd been replaced (sort of, technically he'd never been her boyfriend, but that was beyond the point). Instead of Hikari spending lunch hour laughing and flirting with Takeru, she barely looked his way because of her stupid jackass boyfriend kissing her neck.

Every time she blushed at something Daisuke had whispered in her ear or when he kissed her, he desperately wished to be in his position. He would have given anything to be able to publicly display his affections for her; yeah he knew it was stupid to be jealous over a girl he met three days ago. But there was something about her… When they we together, he felt complete, their relationship was so seamless, so… effortless. Now he had the feeling that he was going to have to work much harder to get her back. For good.

~KPOV~

After Daisuke had showed up, Hikari felt giddy. She had forgotten what it was like to be around Dai and the amount of attention he always gave her. The entire lunchtime he trailed kisses down her neck sending her nerves into spasms, she could hardly control herself. He always teased her like that; kissing her in her most sensitive spots, like her neck or below her ears, in a public place where she still had to act normal. He whispered things in her ears telling her how much he missed her, how crazy he'd been without her and then the things he'd like do with her tonight when they were alone. Every time his breath brushed her skin, she honestly thought she was going to go insane, she knew she was blushing so frequently that she was about the colour of a ripe tomato now.

During all of this, she didn't completely forget about Takeru. She was so stupid not to mention to him that she had a boyfriend, up till now she had lead him on with all that flirting and holding hands. Sure, to her Takeru was her friend, but maybe she'd given him the wrong idea. She stole a single glance at Takeru during lunch; his chin was tucked to his chest and his arms were crossed over his chest. He was glaring at Daisuke like he was going to slice off his head and feed it to lions; his eyes were dark and the disapproval was obvious. I'll talk to him later she told herself as she tried to think with Dai biting her ear. She turned to him and leaned over to breath lightly in his ear,

"If you keep doing that, I'm going to have to drag you off to a closet and make you finish what you're starting." That certainly got his attention, his eyes grew wide and he grinned devishly. Her hand rested on his thigh and grazed it up and down; something that he adored, his breath caught.

"Does that mean you're making an exception to the rules?" In their relationship Hikari had set some ground rules; no sex on school property, no sex while her parents were home and no dating or sex with other people. If she hadn't set some of these rules, Daisuke would be constantly trying to get her cut class, which was a huge no-no in her books.

"No, I'm just showing you how annoying it is." She said sweetly as her hand moved higher, his hand quickly grabbed hers.

"Yeah but the entire school doesn't notice when you're excited about something." She laughed because that was one of the plus sides of being a girl. "But if you want, you can help put me out of my misery." She pursed her lips and shook her head,

"In you're dreams Dai." The bell rang and everyone got up to put his or her trays away. She and Dai got up together still holding hands, and then he walked her to her photography class.

~TPOV~

Takeru had watched Daisuke walk Hikari to her class then head to the locker rooms. He sighed and followed; it seemed they shared gym class together. The locker room was filled with twice the guys as normal; I guess the basketball team has practice now, he thought as he pulled on his gym uniform. Daisuke was surrounded with guys, hitting him on the back and laughing with them, Takeru had to guess that Daisuke was "The Man" with the male population of the school. He was glad that Daisuke didn't talk to him; he wasn't sure if could be civilized with him if he did. He left the hordes of boys as he strolled into the gym and saw his gym teacher talking with a man he didn't recognize. Fujiama-sensei noticed Takeru and waved him over; when we went over he clasped him on the shoulder and pointed to Takeru, still speaking the tall, African-American man.

"This is Takeru Takaishi, the new transfer student I was telling you about. He's a decent player I think you should give him a shot!" The dark man surveyed Takeru then nodded,

"Sure, join our practice today and we'll see if you have the potential to be on the team." He put out his hand waiting for a handshake, "I'm Mr. Hounsou, the basketball coach." Takeru took it with a huge grin on his face,

"I'm Takeru sir, but everyone calls me TK." Mr. Hounsou smiled, he was definitely a handsome man; Takeru guessed he was in his mid to late twenties.

"It's nice to meet you TK, now let's go play some ball." They walked over to a group of twelve boys horsing around with each other, waiting for the coach. As soon as Mr. Hounsou came over they all stopped and formed a line facing him, waiting for instructions.

"Hello boys, I'd just like to say again what a fantastic job you've done over the past two weeks at the tournament, with any luck we'll beat the Hiroshima High school team with no problem!" The boys whooped and cheered, huge grins plastered to their faces. "But there's no time for celebrating just yet, we have less then four weeks until the exhibition game with them here on our own turf. We need to be ready to crush them and take back the title we so deserve! So without further ado let's get to work! Everyone grab a ball and let's work on our layup drills in pairs. Hop to it!" Half the boys ran to the bin full of basketballs while the other half formed a single line at the half way marker. The coach shouted over to a tall lanky boy with a mop of ginger hair and motioned him over. "Hudson, you'll be paired up with Takeru today, he's trying out." They both nodded and shook hands,

"You're the new transfer student right?" His voice was accented slightly; Takeru guessed he was from the west. "Nice to meet you, I hope you're ready; coach is normally tough but for tryouts he's a beast." The redhead grinned goofily, his eyes dancing with humour, Takeru could see he was going to like this guy. They spilt up into the two lines and watched the other pairs go. As he stood in line Takeru felt the other guys staring at him like road kill, the guys on either side shoved him back and forth; he just took a deep breath and ignored it until his turn arrived. He started with the ball throwing it to Hudson who dibbled it then tossed it back to him. Then Takeru ran with the ball and years of practicing kicked in as his muscles did all the work, he didn't even think about it. He jumped; his fingers mere inches away from the hoop as he flicked his wrist and the ball went swooshed through the hoop. The adrenaline was exhilarating, as blood pumped through his body, Hudson gave him the thumbs up and they went to the back of the line again.

The rest of practice was more drills like half-suicides and more ball handling skills. Takeru didn't tire and kept up with the rest of the team with ease. Finally ten minutes before the end of class they had a scrimmage, dividing the team in half like a normal game. Daisuke and Takeru were each other's checks as they mirrored each other's moves, trying to stop each other from getting the ball. Daisuke was more then rough, trying to trip and shove Takeru whenever he got the chance, but Takeru would duck out his way before he even got near him. Hudson, who was on his team, seemed to be the only one trying to help him, everyone else even his "team-mates" seemed to be playing for Daisuke's side. So instead of five-on-five, it was eight-on-five; Hudson and him made a great team though, they got each other's moves without having to talk.

Finally with a minute to go and still zero-zero, Hudson dribbled down the court, weaving in and out of the other players faster then Takeru had ever seen anyone move before. Daisuke was on Takeru's tail, blocking off any path from Hudson to him. Hudson motioned for Takeru to get ready as he tossed the ball over to him; Daisuke jumped attempting to block him, but Takeru jumped higher snagging the ball. He landed and nimbly dodged around Dai's body, he scrambled trying to keep up with him, they were shoulder-to-shoulder as Takeru moved to the opposition's side of the court heading for the net. Daisuke managed to get slightly ahead of him but Takeru stopped and spun around making Dai confused and a fraction too slow for him. Takeru leapt to the side of him and jumped, shooting the ball off his fingertips and straight into the net, not even grazing the metal hoop. When Takeru looked at the floor, we noticed her was over 4 feet away from the 3-point line. The coach blew the whistle, everyone stopped panting for breath in silence, and Takeru heard Mr. Hounsou say to Fujiama-sensei,

"Decent my ass, the boy's a stellar player!" they both laughed as the team walked over the coach waiting for the team dismissal. "Great work today boys! Get you're rest tonight, for the next month you'll be working a thousand times harder then you did today. TK if I could talk with you" The team dispersed and the coach waved Takeru over "I'm not one to praise but I have to say, you are a stunning player. I need to have you on our team, you're exactly what we need right now. Where on earth did you learn to play like that?" Takeru flushed at the compliments,

"I played for a year on the team at home, but mostly I practiced at an old park with a few friends." The coach shook his head in disbelief "and here I thought you'd tell me that you'd been secretly training with Michael Jordon for all your life. TK you're on the team! Here's your uniform" he handed him a white basketball jersey with the number 87 on the back.

"Thank you so much sir! I won't disappoint you!" He gushed; a huge smile covered his face as the excitement took over. The coached waved him off towards the change rooms, "I have a feeling you won't" he murmured and then took off for his office.

When Takeru entered the change room, he noticed that all the players were surrounding Daisuke talking in hushed voices, when they saw him they all stopped and broke up heading off to the showers or checking their lockers. Daisuke looked up at him, glaring then strode over to him grabbing Takeru by the collar of his shirt and ramming him into the lockers. Nobody even noticed, going about their business, grabbing towels and heading to the showers. Soon it was just the two of them. Daisuke was in his face, to say he was angry was an understatement, and he slammed his body again against the lockers.

"Now you listen here TY, this is my school and this is my team, go back out there and tell coach that you're not joining the team. Do you hear me?" Takeru remained expressionless, not saying a word. Daisuke tugged on him again slamming him even harder into the metal. "Are you deaf douche bag?! Did you hear me?!" Takeru shrugged and tilted his head to the side.

"Sure I heard you, doesn't mean I'm going to listen to you." That really got him going, Daisuke pulled back his arm and formed a fist of his right hand, with lightning speed Takeru reached up and blocked his punch that was aimed for his stomach. "Now, now, you should know violence isn't the answer." He said in a mock-sweet voice a mother would use. Takeru could practically see the steam rolled off him he yanked his fist away from Takeru's restraining hand, pointed a finger at his face.

"Do you think I'm stupid? I see the way you look at Kari, you're crazy for even thinking she likes you. I've got a news flash for you pal; she won't leave me for you. That's just a fantasy you'll have to think of at night while she's over at my place screaming my name. You need to stay far away from her. This is you're only warning; if I see you so much as look at her, I will make your life hell." He spat in his face and let go of his shirt, slamming him a final time then he grabbed his towel and left for the showers.

Author's Note:

I apologize for the Daisuke bashing (but I really don't like him), just warning there's going to be a lot more :D. PLEASE REVIEW.

I'll update as soon as I can with the next chapter! (No reviews, no updates!) Thank you for the wonderful feedback! :D