A/N : Late again -_- I'm having rough times yesterday, sorry.
Chapter 32
Courage
"What's with you guys?!" Daisuke raised his voice toward his fellow comrades. Takeru was lying his head lazily on the table, so did Hikari.
"I'm tired…" Takeru pouted, throwing his pencil away and shut his eyes.
"Well… it can't be helped Daisuke. Takeru has already worked almost half of the total," Hikari merely smiled, but she couldn't hold her drowsy eyes. Soon, she closed her eyes too.
Daisuke grumbled to himself. Was this mean that he need to work the rest?
He glanced at the clock. It pointed at 10 PM.
"It's already late, though," he mumbled to himself. But then, he gripped his pencil tighter.
"But we need to finish this all," the goggle boy stared sharply at the book.
Yes, this day they got ton of homeworks, and the deadline was tomorrow. The whole class had cursed the teacher that did that without thinking.
School wasn't only at his subject. They had lot of homeworks else than his subject, mathematic.
That's why Takeru, Daisuke and Hikari gathered at Hikari's apartment, working hard and need to race with time to finish it all. They had worked since 4 PM and with the total of 6 hours, Takeru and Hikari had managed to solve 100 from 200 questions. Those were really difficult, so that Takeru and Hikari felt really tired for thinking the answer. They even had used lot of papers as for their 'counting' paper before putting the right order on their book.
Daisuke knew well that this time he couldn't rely on them. He had to work with it, no matter how much his hate toward the subject.
He lend Takeru's book for a while, copying the formula that he thought he would use it later. Finishing it, he picked up the questions book and carefully wrote the question.
At first, in instant he felt very sleepy and lazy when his eyes caught a row of numbers, common feeling during mathematic and physic lesson. However, this time he had overcome it and tried his best to work it.
"Hey, it isn't that bad!" Daisuke exclaimed in his heart when he had finished one number.
He managed to work all of it as the time flow and the night had gotten very dark.
It's really surprising that at 3 AM he had already finished the last 100 questions. Daisuke threw his arm lifelessly as he lied himself on the ground.
Still, both Takeru and Hikari was still asleep. Daisuke felt a bit sorry for them if he woke them up. He wondered, who would do their homework? Daisuke was really tired for not sleeping and keep writing and thinking for that night.
In a sudden, a door opened and Taichi went out. He rubbed his eyes while yawning, before blinked a few times at the view.
"Daisuke? Takeru? You're still here?" Taichi was about to raise his voice, but quickly lowered it when he realized that only Daisuke who was awake.
"Ssh, be quiet Taichi-senpai," Daisuke silently poked the floor next to him, and Taichi sat beside him. Daisuke then told him that they had a really freaking teacher that ordered them to do that. Taichi was almost laughed, but he did know well that Takeru, Daisuke and Hikari were really tired for their efforts.
"So, have you finished all of them?" Daisuke nodded slowly at Taichi's question, but then he frowned.
"I have, but neither Takeru nor Hikari have. They fell asleep, exhausted after working half of the difficult questions, and I managed to work all of the rest. But still…" the younger boy glanced at the duo sleeping teen.
"It's not a big problem! I can copy your work for Hikari, and maybe Takeru too," Taichi smiled, signaling that he lend him a hand.
"Thank you very much, Taichi-senpai! I'll do Takeru's, and you'll do Hikari's," with that, both of them hurriedly copied Daisuke's work to both Takeru and Hikari's book.
"Gah!" Takeru quickly woke up.
"God! I fell asleep!" he brushed his palm to his messy hair and looked around, and then found three books were stacked together.
Curiously, he wandered around and hilariously found Daisuke and Taichi were sleeping in out of order position.
"Then how about our homeworks…" Takeru mumbled, presuming that they all had fallen asleep. But when he checked his own book, he was shocked that there were lot of answer that wasn't written by him.
He frantically checked at Hikari and Daisuke's book, which were finished too. When he checked his book and Daisuke's book, he quickly realized that it was Daisuke's writing, although that Daisuke had did his best to copy Takeru's style of writing.
He smiled at the goggle boy, and glanced at the clock. It was pointing 6 AM, and he quickly shook the boy.
"Hey Daisuke!" the mahogany-haired boy opened his eyes and yawned loudly.
"What's up, Takeru?" he lazily asked. Takeru simply pointed the clock.
"Let's go home and go back here to pick Hikari," the blond smiled. Daisuke was really sleepy, though he just replied him with a drowsy look. Realizing this, Takeru smiled again.
"Okay, you'll stay here while I'm picking up your clothes and books for today's schedule after I went home first," he said.
Daisuke grinned.
"You're the best, buddy!" he slapped the back of the blond's shoulder, and Takeru could only grin before leaving the place as fast as he could.
Hikari had already awake and watched the whole exchange. When Daisuke's eyes finally landed at her, she threw him a really grateful and appreciating smile.
"Thanks, Daisuke,"
"Ah, it's not a big deal…" Daisuke blushed a bit, and showed her the question book.
"Take a look. He was fooling us around, that he made the first 100 questions seemed really hard and the rest were very very easy, so that when we first saw the questions and didn't try to work for it, we would have given up, despite that the last 100 questions were as easy as piece of cake," Daisuke explained. Hikari had to giggle, but then quickly rose and soon take a bath.
Meanwhile, Takeru were marathoning around. He had assured Daisuke's parent and Jun that Daisuke was okay and asked them to bring the goggle boy's stuff for today's school. They handed it to the blond, and he bowed before dashed back to Yagami's apartment.
"Fwaaah, last night was really an eventful one!" Daisuke exclaimed, his hands were holding spoon and fork. He, Taichi and Hikari had already taken a bath [ not together at the same time of course ], and now were at the dining table.
"I didn't expect that it takes lot of times even until midnight, but I'm glad that you all can finish it. Thank you Daisuke for helping Hikari," Yagami Yuuko, Taichi and Hikari's mother thanked him.
"No… I should be the one who thanked for allowing me sleep here and now having a breakfast here. After all, Hikari did work a lot and I just copied my work from her…" Daisuke scratched his neck nervously, and they all laughed together.
"Sorry for being late!" Takeru suddenly opened the door, and was ashamed that they all had gathered together.
"Ah, sorry sorry for my rudeness!" Takeru bowed bashfully, that he had entered someone's apartment without even knocking it.
"It's okay Takeru. We know you're in hurry," Taichi replied.
"Here, Daisuke," Takeru handed him some pile of books and clothe.
"But I've already had Taichi's old clothes here, and it fit me well," Daisuke said, mentioning the outfit that now he had worn. It seemed fit him well, and as Taichi took a good look at him, he felt like he was seeing his old self.
"Uh, that's okay. By the way, can I sit here?" Takeru asked politely.
"For sure. You all need to hurry, because the school will be started in ten minutes!" Taichi grinned and they ate their breakfast in hurry.
"Thanks for all!" both Takeru and Daisuke bowed to Yagami Yuuko.
"It's really a pleasure for us to have you here," she smiled warmly and Hikari went out too.
"We're off!" they yelled together, and Yuuko could only smile.
"So, who has already finished all?" the teacher asked. No one could be seen nodded. Mostly all of them were grumbling all the way for the insane homework.
"There's no one who can work 200 questions in a day, sensei!" someone yelled, and the others started to yell the same statement too.
However, Daisuke rose from his seat so did Hikari and Takeru.
"So, you three have finished it?" the teacher checked their books, and smiled.
"What can you learn?" the teacher asked.
"It's simple. No matter how hard and how much we need to work, we should have tried first," Daisuke grinned.
"Yah. We worked very hard and it's a relief that we could finish it on time!" Hikari exclaimed.
"Well, there's nothing impossible as long as we have comrades," Takeru added.
The whole class grew silent.
Random writing again !_! well, it's really great if we have friends who can always stay by our side and keep working together even when it seems impossible.