GG (Good Game)
Author's Note: Enjoy the story and R&R.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to or of the Digimon series.
Pairing: Established Hiro x Kotaro.
Summary:
The story of how Hiro got his scar isn't what anyone thought.
Vehicles honked. The signals seesawed between colours without any decongestion of traffic. Somebody had wandered into the middle of the street, apparently ignorant of or intentionally ignoring the stir around him.
"Hiro. The light says walk." Gammamon points, unsure if Hiro will respond.
He loiters a moment more before carrying himself and Gammamon onward. Cars zoom past behind as soon as they're free to do so, yet he barely registers the air gusting through his hood (unlike Gammamon, who ooohs at the rush of wind).
Amanokawa Hiro is moving so sluggishly, one might attribute his slow pace and silence to a ghost. Truth is though, Hiro couldn't be more alive.
He's just in shock, Kotaro's phone call fresh in his mind. Unconsciously, he's lifting his hand to the scar on his earlobe, and it is then the shock abruptly wears off. He takes off running.
Gammamon remains attached, supported by the exertion of his small wings.
"Hiro, that scar…Where did you get it?" Ruli's curiosity replays in Hiro's head.
An animal bit him.
Yes…A scared animal Hiro rescued when he was young, only to be bitten by the very creature.
A dog made the most sense. Ruli was quick to adopt such a stance, and Senpai with her.
But it wasn't a dog. Everyone merely suspected – as Ruli and Kiyoshiro did – that an animal must've done it. And Hiro never corrected them, so that became the official story Hiro stuck to.
A dog biting his ear was easier to explain than Kotaro getting lost in the dark during a camping trip and mistaking Hiro for a monster, defending himself the only way he could.
Well…Easier to explain since Hiro preferred their current relationship private, whereas Kotaro was all too eager to brag.
The irony that monsters actually existed!
Hiro wouldn't stop hugging Kotaro until Kotaro stopped crying. He stayed, and Kotaro's fearful hold with his teeth was what formed Hiro's scar.
These days, Kotaro is more careful not to bloody Hiro's precious ears. Either of them.
Kotaro has a foot out his taxi when Hiro and Gammamon come home.
"Kotaro!"
"Kota!"
"Hiro~o! Gammamon!" Kotaro waves to the duo. "Ya miss me?"
Gammamon leaps from Hiro onto Kotaro's face.
Hiro's greeting is restrained by comparison, although he's tempted.
Kotaro playfully bites Hiro's earlobe in the same spot regardless.