Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Choices of Heroes ❯ Her ( Chapter 3 )

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Sorry for the long gap between updates. Mainly it was due to being extremely busy with schoolwork. It's kind of hard to focus on my stories when I get an assigned a report almost every other day. Hopefully this chapter can be somewhat of an apology.

As for the disclaimer, I don't own digimon.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991

Chapter 3:

Her

“I don't know if I should be here.”

“Oh come on Daisuke, why don't you try and enjoy yourself? It's a party after all.” exclaimed Hikari. They were at a party being held by their friend Samuel Bentson. He invited Daisuke and his friends to show his gratitude for the work that they have done for him. Everything was going fine except that Daisuke was feeling uncomfortable.

“I'm telling you Hikari, my track record at parties hasn't been that good. The last one that I attended didn't turn out so well.”

“I know that. Remember I was there.” she replied as she recalled the day that they reunited with each other. “Why don't you try and mingle with some of the other guests? You never know, you might get some new friends out of it.”

“I don't know about that. I'm not that good in meeting new people. Besides, they'll just run for the hills if they ever saw my mean bumpy face.”

Before anything else could be said some dashing looking man came walking over to them. “Excuse me good sir. Do you mind if I ask this lovely lady for a dance?” Hikari was indeed flattered but seem to be apprehensive in answering.

“Go ahead Hikari. Go and have some fun, I don't mind.” Getting the okay she was lead to the dance floor, leaving Daisuke to stand by the wall like a wall flower.

“`You sure you don't mind Daisuke? Oh, I don't mind Hikari. Go ahead and leave me on my lonesome.” he muttered to himself. “What do I do now?”

Becoming thirsty he went to the snack bar to get a drink and as he was there he bumped into someone. “Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't see where I was going.”

“That's okay. I wasn't looking either.” responded the person that Daisuke bumped into in a feminine voice.

Lifting his head he caught his first glimpse at who he collided with. It was a woman about his height. She had short black hair that went halfway down her neck which helped to bring attention to her green eyes that resembled jade. The outfit that she had on was a classy but at the same time casual dress suit that just went past her knees.

“Hello there, my name is Huroko Suzuki. What's yours?”

Her voice sounded almost heavenly to his ears as it caused him to stare. He soon regained his senses as he shook her hand. “The name's Daisuke Motomiya. I once again want to apologize for bumping into you. I didn't make you spill anything on yourself did I?”

She just giggled at his obvious nervousness. “No I didn't spill anything and like I said before, it wasn't entirely your fault since I wasn't looking either. Why don't we just say that it was both our fault and leave it as that?”

“Very well, I'll go along with that.”

For the next couple of hours the two of them talked about all sort of things and having a great time. Fortunately Daisuke was able to avoid talking about his `alternative life' by either twisting the truth around completely making stuff up.

They were having so much fun that they didn't notice Hikari coming over. “Hey there Daisuke, are you ready to go?”

“Huh? What are you talking about?” Obviously Daisuke didn't know what his friend was talking about.

“It's almost midnight and mostly everyone has already left. Remember, you did tell me that you wanted to leave about this time.”

“I guess I must of last track of time talking to this lovely lady. Oh, where are my manners, Huroko Suzuki, this is Hikari Kamiya. Hikari, this is Huroko.”

“So, you're the lady that Daisuke has told me so much about. I'm honored to meet you.” Sticking her hand out, Huroko waited for Hikari to do the same. “The feeling is mutual.”

Accepting the show of friendship Hikari shook the newcomer's hand but was caught by surprise when the newcomer's gripe became tighter. Pulling her hand free she looked at the lady with a confuse gaze. “Well, are you ready to leave Daisuke?”

“Yes I am but do you mind going home on your own? I happen to promise to take Huroko home.”

“But I rode here with you. How am I supposed to get home without a ride to get there?” Hikari was a little shocked about the change in Daisuke's attitude.

“I guess that is a problem.” Reaching into his pocket he took out something and handed it to Hikari. “Here, take the keys to my car and drive it home and just bring it back to me tomorrow. I'll just walk Huroko home instead. It shouldn't be that bad to do.” Before she could get a word out Daisuke was already leaving with his new lady friend following close by. Just before they left, Huroko gave Hikari a smug look as if to say, `look at who he belongs to now.'

-/-/-/-/-

“This night didn't turn out as bad as I thought it would be.” exclaimed Huroko. They were walking down the streets heading towards her apartment. The place that they were walking through appeared to be a rough neighborhood but thankfully nothing happened. However that changed when three sleazy looking men stepped in front of them.

“Well, look at what we have here guys.” spoke the apparent leader of the three. The other two simply snickered. “Be smart and hand over all your valuables.”

Not being intimidated, Daisuke just brush them aside. “You don't know who you're missing with so just leave before you'll regret it.” As he was passing them, one of the men shoved him down to his hands and knees. “You shouldn't have done that.”

“Why is that? Are you going to do something to stop us?”

Daisuke just smiled at the man's stupid attempt of being tough. “As a matter of fact…yes.”

Moving quickly he got back up and grabbed one of the men by their jacket. Tossing him away he was jumped by another one from behind but he dealt with him quickly as he tossed him over to his fallen companion. With those two out of the way Daisuke turned his attention to the last remaining person. When he caught sight of him he was shocked to see that the leader of the three had Huroko in front of him with a knife pressed against her neck.

“Now listen to me very carefully buddy. You stop your assault on my friends or this little bitch here will have a new hole to breath from.”

“That's where you're wrong.” Going vamp he ran over and got the guy away from her before any harm could be done. Getting rid of the guy's knife he brought him close. “You listen and listen well. If you smart you and your friends will get the hell out of here or I'll beat you so bad that even your own mothers won't be able to recognize you. Do I make myself clear?”

“Y-Ye-Yeah, sure.” In particle fear he ran off with his two friends following close by.

With that out of the way, Daisuke turned his attention to Huroko who caught sight of his face. Realizing what she was staring at he turned away and concealing his face. “Don't look at me. Just go on your way and don't look back.”

Instead of leaving like he expected she came over and turned his face back to her. “I don't see anything wrong. All I see is the face, a different one granted but the face of the person who took it upon himself to protect me.” Those words seemed to relax Daisuke as he returned his back to normal.

“Why don't we continue on to my place and on the way you can tell me about the real you.” Continuing on their walk he told her the truth about him and fortunately Huroko was real open to it. Finally they reached her apartment.

“Well, I guess this is where we say so long. See ya later.” As he was about to leave he was stopped by Huroko grabbing his arm.

“Who said we had to say goodbuy now? Come on in and we'll have a couple of drinks.” Daisuke wanted to say no but for some reason he couldn't.

“Okay. I mean it's only a couple of drinks. What could be the harm in that?” Allowing himself to be dragged inside and after a while one thing lead to another but that is better left unsaid.

-/-/-/-/-

“Where can he be? I mean, where could he possibly have gone?” questioned Hikari. Both she and Takeru were at Daisuke's house to discuss about something only to find that Daisuke was nowhere to be found.

“What's the big deal if he's not here? Can't he just have sometime to himself?” asked Takeru as if it was nothing really important.

“There isn't a problem with that but he should've left a note or something. On another subject, where were you at the party?”

“I was just socializing with all the lovely women who were there. That was some night I had. With all those numbers I got I could make my own phone book.”

“You're a real lecher you know that?” Takeru responded by sticking his tongue out.

“Maybe he's with that girl you told me about. Perhaps the two of them had a little `happy hour', if you know what I mean.”

“That's nonsense. They just met each other and besides, Daisuke isn't one to do such a thing.” Hikari didn't know who she was trying to convince, Takeru or herself.

At that moment they heard the sound of singing from outside and it sounded like whoever was singing was coming closer. The door opened to reveal Daisuke was the one who was singing. “Good morning you guys. Isn't today just a beautiful day?” His friends looked at Daisuke in confusion.

“Uh, are you okay buddy? You don't seem like yourself.” asked a bewildered Takeru who was still a bit freaked out by his friend's actions.

“Of course I'm okay Takeru. I'm just so at ease because I had a great night with a fantastic woman.”

“So does that mean you actually `did it'?”

Daisuke had a huge smile on his face. “I won't answer that question but I won't deny it either.”

As the two of them shared a laugh, Hikari for some unexplained reason was hurt by Daisuke's sudden infatuation with this new girl but quickly hid it before it was noticed. “Well not that we got that out of the way what are we going to do now?”

“Sorry guys I can't stay. I have to meet Huroko in a few minutes to take her to the movies.” remarked Daisuke as he headed for the door.

“Are you serious? Didn't you just leave her place a while ago? So why are you going out again so soon?” Hikari asked.

“Because I want to, that's why.” answered Daisuke with a bit of anger in his voice. “What's wrong if I want to have a good time? Don't I deserve it Hikari?”

“O-Of course you deserve it. It's just that you're taking this awfully serious with someone you just met just last night.”

“Well, I'm sorry if you've got a problem with that but it's my decision on what I do with my life not yours. Now if you excuse, I'm leaving.” With those words he left, slamming the door behind him.

“Man, what was up with that? That isn't like Daisuke to go all mad man.” exclaimed Takeru, who like Hikari was surprised by Daisuke's outburst.

“I'll agree with you on that Takeru. There's something not right about this, I can just feel it.”

-/-/-/-/-

“So why don't you tell me about some of your past relationships?” Huroko fidgeted with this question for a while before answering.

“There's nothing to really talk about. I did have a boyfriend but he dumped me a few months ago.”

“Sorry if I brought up any bad memories.” said Daisuke, as he felt bad for bringing up the question in the first place.

“That's okay. What about you? Has there been any special girl you had in your past?”

“I've never been a real dater in both lives. However, there was this girl who I wished to be with but it wasn't meant to be. Besides with what happened to me today I'm not interested in any woman, with you as the exception of course.”

“I'll take that as a compliment. But what incident were you referring to?”

“Oh, it was nothing really. My friend Hikari, who you met at the party, said that we shouldn't be moving our relationship like it is.”

Unbeknownst to Daisuke she slowly pulled out some strange medallion attached to a chain. “Well maybe your friends should learn to not butt in things that don't involve her.” “And maybe I have a way to teach her that lesson.”

-/-/-/-/-

“Takeru is that you?” Shortly after Daisuke left, both Hikari and Takeru stayed to look over some stuff. Currently Takeru went out to get some food while Hikari stayed behind. Looking to the door she saw no one. Thinking that it was all in her head she turned to go back to her work only to be freaked out when she saw Daisuke sitting in her chair. “Oh, Daisuke, you scared me.”

For a while Daisuke just sat there with a emotionless look on his face. “Uh, are you still upset with what happened earlier today?”

He remained silent for a moment then let out a small smile. “No, of course not mad at you. That's all water under the bridge.”

Hikari couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. “That's good to hear. I don't want any hard feelings between the two of us.” Looking back to him she saw that he was nowhere in sight.

Turning around she was once again was scared as Daisuke stood right in front of her. “God, can you stop doing that?” Now unlike earlier, Daisuke had a more sinister smile on his face.

“Now why should I do that? I happen to enjoy seeing the look of fear on your face.” Getting a little freaked out by her friend's unusual behavior she slowly began to back away from him.

“What's the matter Hikari?” asked Daisuke as he slowly took a step forward each time she stepped back. “Don't tell me you're afraid of me?”

“N-No. Of course I'm not.” She continued to step away until she was backed up against one of the file cabinets.

“Well, if you're indeed scared, then let me give you a reason to be.”

Doing as he said, Daisuke made his face go vamp. “Maybe you should've thought twice about butting into my relationships.” Reaching over he was about to sink his teeth into Hikari's neck he collapsed to the ground.

“That was close. Thank goodness Daisuke still has his tranquilizer gun from that Balthazar incident thing a while back.” Standing by the weapons cabinet was Takeru with the tranquilizer in hand. Looking down at Daisuke she saw that there was a dart sticking out of his back. “Care to explain what that was all about? I mean, you did have a heated argument with each other but that doesn't mean he should try and take a bite out of you, literally.”

Rubbing her neck, Hikari looked down at the body of Daisuke. “I don't know. He seemed like himself at first. Then all of a sudden he acted like a totally different person. Also, I remember him saying something about getting involved in his relationships. Maybe that has something to do with it.”

“That could be the reason but it doesn't sound like something he'd do.” They suddenly had there attention to Daisuke who was stirring slightly. “What do we do with him? He could still be not himself.”

Reaching over Hikari grabbed one of Daisuke's arms. “I have an idea. Give me a hand with him so I can get that plan in motion.”

-/-/-/-/-

“Damn, did anyone get the number of the truck that hit me?” Slowly Daisuke opened his eyes and checked his surroundings. He immediately realized that he was in his room and judging by the sunlight coming into the room it had to be close to nightfall. “Man, I don't know what happen but I don't care. I have to get up.”

However when he tried to get up he couldn't since he was tied down to his bed by several layers of heavy chains. “Ah, so you're finally awake?” Turning to the doorway there stood Hikari and Takeru. Both of them came over but kept a safe distance with Takeru having the tranquilizer gun close in hand.

“Care to explain to me why in the hell I'm chained up to my own bed?”

“Well, you gave us no choice after what you tried to do to me earlier.” answered as she instinctively grabbed her neck.

“What are talking about? What did I try to do?”

“You were acting like some kind of psycho and tried to nibble on my neck if you know what I mean.”

“I have no clue what you're talking about.” spoke Daisuke in complete confusion. “The last thing that I can remember is having dinner with Huroko, then the next thing I know I'm tied up to my bed.”

Hikari and Takeru looked at one another in confusion. “Excuse us for a moment since we need to talk about something. So just sit back for a bit.” The only answer they got was a nasty look from Daisuke.

“What do you think Takeru? Think he's telling the truth?”

“It is a possibility. He did mention on having a memory gape. Maybe Huroko put some kind of spell on him because face it, Daisuke harm those he cares for no matter how upset he is with them.”

“But what reason could she have for doing all this?”

“That's what we need to figure out. “We need to find Huroko and break whatever hold she has on him.”

“That sounds like a plan to me. I'll go find where she lives and in the meantime you go back and tell Daisuke that he has to say chained up until this is all over with.”

Before Takeru could have the chance to refuse, Hikari had already ran off to find the needed information. “That's my luck. I think I rather deal with a group of vampire then go back in there and tell him the news.”

-/-/-/-/-

“So it seems as though my little subterfuge has been discovered.” With a wave of a hand the image of Hikari and Takeru disappeared. In a dark and secluded room was Huroko kneeling in the center of a pentagram that was surrounded by candles. “They believe that they can break my hold on their vampire friend?” Reaching into her pocket she pulled out the same medallion she had earlier. “I still have plans for him and no one will stand in my way.”

Waving her hand again a small cloud of smoke appearing in front of her and in that cloud was a sleeping Daisuke who was still chained up. “Ah, so my little dead man is asleep? How sweet. It's a shame that he has to get up but he has work to do.”

-/-/-/-/-

Back at Daisuke's place he was still confined in his room for nearly the entire day. He was currently resting since he could do nothing until his friends were able to do their thing. Unfortunately, his rest became uneasy as a voice kept speaking to him.

“Wake up Daisuke. You have a job to do.” A picture of a man around his age appeared in his mind. “Go find this man and kill him. Don't let anything stand in your way in completing your mission.”

Opening his eyes Daisuke immediately turned vamp and broke all of the chains off like they were nothing. It seemed as though he was in some kind of trance as he ran out of the house, searching for the person that he was told to find.

Thirty Minutes Later…

As soon as he escaped from his home, Daisuke quickly went on the hunt for the man that he saw in his mind. Traveling from rooftop to rooftop he quickly found the person. He had red hair, with green eyes and tan skin. The outfit that he was wearing was a denim jacket with a black shirt underneath and matching jeans.

At the moment he was walking down a nearly deserted street that only a few other people on it. When there was no sign of any obstacles he jumped from the rooftop to the street a little away from his prey.

Walking casually over he tried to make conversation. “Hey there, how's it going?”

“Uh, hey there yourself.” answered the man in surprise.

“Oh, where are my manners? The name's Daisuke Motomiya.” He put his hand out in a sign of friendship.

After a while the man accepted it. `Travis Dean. So is there something you wanted?”

“Nothing in particular I wanted. I was just wondering if you know someone named Horoku Suzuki.”

“As a matter of fact, I do or to be more precise, I did. She was my old girlfriend from a month ago. It was a good relationship at the start but then she started to become more possessive and she wanted to move things too quickly for my liking.”

Nodding his head Daisuke continue to play along. “That's understandable. I mean, why rush in such things. How did she react when you told her about slowing things down?”

Travis started to get a strange vibe about telling this person he just met something personal but continued anyways. “When I talked to her about it she went absolutely crazy. She started yelling that we were meant to be together and wouldn't allow anything to keep us apart. Seeing that things were going way out of hand I broke up with her. However, I always get this feeling that she's somehow watching me.”

As the two continued to talk they walked further down the street where there was not a single person around. While this was going on, the voice that was in Daisuke's head continued to talk to him. “Kill him! Kill him now. Make him like you.”

Following the voice's words he started to slow down so he was walking behind his unexpecting prey. Realizing that his newly acquired friend was back up, Travis turned around and saw Daisuke standing there with his head down. “Hey, are you okay man?”

With his head still lowered he answered with no sense of emotion in his voice. “You shouldn't have left her.”

“You're kidding me? Didn't you hear what I said a few seconds ago? The girl was psycho and I for one am glad to be rid of her.”

“You won't be for long.” Lifting his head, Daisuke looked at him but instead of his ordinary face he now had his vampire face. Not wasting a moment he threw Travis against the wall and sunk his teeth into the man's neck.

-/-/-/-/-

“That's it. That's the way.” Still in her apartment Huroko watched on in another one of her image clouds as Daisuke was on the verge of biting Travis' neck.

“Everything is going as I planned. Getting that vampire to become head over heels for me, slowly putting him under my mind control spell and then having him go after my backstabbing love. When Daisuke turns him into a vampire I will use the same mind spell to get him back and no one can stop me.”

“Don't be so sure about that.”

Turning around Huroko saw both Takeru and Hikari in the room with both of them carrying a sword and judging by the looks on their faces they were unpleased. “As so the friends of the vampire have finally come to stop me.”

“Quit the talking and release Daisuke from the spell you have on our friend.” spat Hikari with venom in her voice. “My word, isn't the little lady angry? Could it be because I tried to kill her with her own friend? Or could it be because I was able to give him the pleasure that she could never give him?”

That comment apparently struck a nerve with Hikari as she ran forward with her sword in position to attack. Unfortunately she didn't get close as she was stopped in her tracks by a wave of Huroko's hand. “Do you think I wouldn't be ready to take you on in my very own home?”

Waving her hand she sent Hikari flying back to the wall. `I won't allow anyone to prevent me from getting what I want. Not you or your friend.”

It was then that she realized that Takeru was nowhere to be seen. “Where is he? Did he just run off?”

“Think again bitch.”

Turning around she was met with the blunt end of Takeru's sword, knocking her out. Running over to Hikari he checked to see if she was okay. “You okay?”

Shaking the feelings of discomfort she got back to her feet. “Yeah, I'm just a little sore.” She looked over to Huroko's fallen body. “That takes care of her. Now we need to find what she used to control Daisuke.” Going over to her she saw a medallion close by.

Raising her sword up she drove it into the medallion, smashing it to bits. “Let's hope that's all it takes to bring Daisuke back to normal. It's a good thing that he's in no position to cause trouble.”

-/-/-/-/-

As Daisuke snuck his teeth into Travis' neck he began to drink his blood. However, a second later he came to his senses and back away from Travis. “W-What happened?” Seeing the man on the floor and tasting the bllod on his lips, only one thing came to mind. “Oh shit. This isn't good.”

-/-/-/-/-

Next Day…

“Are you sure you're okay?”

“For the last time Hikari, I'm okay. I should be asking you the same thing. You did receive a hard hit yesterday.”

“Don't worry yourself over that. It was nothing.” Despite what she was saying Hikari still had some stiffness in her body.

“She's telling the truth man.” said Taleri as he entered the room. “When we got there she nearly went commando on that Huroko lady.”

Somewhat shocked at his friend's words, Daisuke looked back at Hikari. “Is that true Hikari?”

Hikari began to stutter for an answer. “W-Well, yeah I did. You're my friend and I couldn't stand back as you were being controlled by some crazy witch girl. Now if you excuse me I have to go somewhere, so I'll see you later.” Before another word was said she went out the door.

“Speaking of crazy witch lady, are we sure that Huroko won't try something like she did again?”

“As sure as we can be I'm afraid. Hikari and I destroyed every magical book and item that we could find in her place. It'll be sometime until she even tries something like that again. What about that Travis guy that she told you to go after?”

“Well, fortunately I didn't drink from him for long. However, he did pass out from the shock. I was able to get him to a nearby clinic to be on the safe side. Hopefully he won't cause us any trouble in the future.”

“Maybe with this whole thing behind us we can get some rest.” exclaimed Takeru.

“You want to know something? As Huroko controlled me I could somewhat see everything but couldn't do nothing to stop myself. Thinking back to all that went on it makes me glad that I'm not involved in a serious relationship with a woman because it might end up like this one.”

I hope that you guys like that chapter. You may notice that I'm leaving hints of Daisuke and Hikari becoming a couple. All I can say about that possible couple is to wait and see how it progresses as the story goes on.