Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Dead on the Surface ❯ Date to Death ( Chapter 1 )

Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon or its characters. I also have no relation to Bandai or Toei Animation. People's names are left in Japanese romanji, not the English dubbed names. Thank you.

Note: After reading my fanfic, please consider sending a review. It will be most appreciated. [This story takes place one year after Season 02 when everything is done and done. The 25-year reunion at the end of the show never took place.

Second Note: You will know why it is called "Dead on the Surface" after reading this first chapter. Anyway, I won't keep you waiting any longer. Begin J.

Dead on the Surface by Pinoydude
Co-Categories: Drama/Mystery
Sub-category: Romance
Chapter 1

On Wednesday, Takeru Takaishi's mother was going off to a business trip at Kyoto. She had to submit a novel she was writing for many months already. She was packing up her things, and hotel reservation when Takeru began speaking to her. "Hey Mom, on Friday, I'm thinking of going out with Hikari, to see a romantic movie that she likes, and I want to buy her a gift. You think it's okay if I go while you are out?"

"Sure, you've been planning this for a while haven't you? You have been asking me the same question over and over again for the past month already. I'm surprised you are still up to it," answered Mrs. Takaishi.

"Yes Mom, thank you!!" Takeru said with excitement, " Thank you so much. I love you." He always says, "I love you" whenever his mom finishes completing her sentence. He wanted to make sure his mom kept thinking about him. But then she always answers…

"Yeah right…" his mom said sarcastically, "Just make sure you lock the door, and also, don't answer the phone unless there's a message, all right Take-kun?" And his mom always said that to him whenever she left. She would always think something would happen to her baby every time she would leave, and she'd never forget to say those same words.

"Yes mother, I will. Don't worry," Takeru announce also to his mom rolling his eyes.

"And don't forget to give Hikari the happiest day of her life, okay Sweetheart? If you do, you'll make Mom proud of you, and maybe you two can get married. Well of course you will, you know she's the only one -"

"Oh, just be quiet now," Takeru cut her off and blushed. Then, his mom left for the door to the subway just a few blocks down.

Two days passed by quickly as Takeru waited anxiously. After he got off from school on Friday afternoon, Takeru was excited about his list of plans for Hikari and him on what they would do on that night. He had a pocket full of crumpled paper, with sentences that would be sure to compliment his love. The two were off to see a movie just right down the block called Aishiteru. (A/N: I believe the title in English would be called "Love", but I don't know much Japanese. :-P) They wanted to show their relationship towards each other by seeing a romantic movie, of course. Then afterwards, Takeru would bring Hikari to his apartment and try to find a way to cook her dinner. His brother Yamato came by to say, "Hello," and, "Good luck" on Friday afternoon before he went to his friend's house, and his band rehearsals. He has been going to for the concert his band is going to hold in two weeks. He also left his young brother some ingredients and recipes that will work for the dinner.

The blonde haired boy was getting ready to stop by the house of his brown-eyed girl. "Oh, I hope everything is ready. I need this to turn out just right…just the way I planned it," he said. He took his favorite, ironed green and yellow long sleeved shirt from his closet, and placed it carefully and gently over his head. "I want to make sure I don't get out there looking like a bum," Takeru laughed, "that's why I ironed this shirt for one hour to get all the wrinkles off." Then he wore his teal colored shorts and placed his beach hat that was placed on a rack with the spot saying, "USE FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS" It's not surprising that he has several of the same hat for each day. He put on cologne and took 6,000 yen (more than 50 dollars) from his money vault and walked out the door making sure everything was locked. He also remembered to bring his dark green windbreaker just in case. "TAKERU of Hope" was written on the top right of the windbreaker.

Takeru walked all the way to the florist shop, which happened to be out of the way from Hikari's house, and bought the best roses he can find with 4,800 yen (saving the rest for his movie tickets). "I hope she will like these; I saved months of allowance just to spend on this night. I'm going to go broke the next morning!" He joked at himself, while walking tirelessly to Hikari's house. He got to the door and heard a conversation from her house.

"Hikari, what are you getting ready for?" said Taichi. It seemed that he sounded astonished; probably by the way Hikari may look like when Takeru sees her at the door.

"Oh… just getting ready for Takeru to pick me up, he's taking me to the hit romance movie that everyone has been raving about. Where are you off to Taichi-sama? You look quite prepared yourself"

"As a matter of fact, I am going to walk to Sora's place at right now, and we will go to a fancy restaurant for dinner that I saved up with all my life savings. (…With all his lifesavings? Takeru kept eavesdropping, wondering if what he had was enough to please his girlfriend) We will also be heading to the park for a nightly walk around the park, so finally I can take her back from Yamato, your boyfriend's brother," Taichi announced. (Takeru took down notes of Taichi's conversation to say to Yamato) Taichi murmured, "That's for showing off with his new music band at that Chirstmas show before" He then added, "Well I better get going, just hope Takeru won't keep you waiting the whole night, I'll beat him up if he did."

"Alright, what ever you say…" Hikari responded sarcastically, "I'll beat you and Takeru up if you beat him up. Actually, I'd beat you up more than him," Hikari said as if she was trying to be funny.

"Well see you later," Taichi opened the door, and Takeru had his ear placed by where the closed door would have been. "Oh hi, Takeru… you came right in time. Your girlfriend is waiting for you five feet away from me."

Takeru stuttered and sweat dropped, "Oh…A-Al-right, Taichi-sama. Th-Thank you…" Takeru was red and embarrassed for Hikari seeing him eavesdropping. It looked like Hikari was giggling, and Taichi was walking right out of the gate.

Takeru took a look at her. She was beautiful and sexy to his mind. Daisuke, their classmate who also falls for Hikari, would probably die right on the ground seeing her. She wore a pink-sleeved white shirt. In the front of the shirt, it said in big letters, "Bishojoun Princess" in a red heart edged with sparkling glitter. She wore tight blue jeans around her legs and white sneakers with blue parallel stripes starting from the top right and descending down to the bottom left. She also wore the pinkish white hat from that day she went on a world tour with the group of teenagers to save the world, and her traditional hairclip was at the same place to bat. She also wore a red bandana that had folds in the front and tied on the side of her neck. Takeru was just staring at her drooling from his mouth, like he was frozen in place and almost knocked out. He didn't know how to compliment her good looks and just stuttered, "Uh, O-Okay… you-you wa-want to go-o nu-now?"

"Yes Take-san! I'd love to," Hikari answered. It looked like she didn't have any effect to Takeru's nervousness, and she made Takeru hold her hand.

Damn, I am lucky to have a girl like her. I don't know how she'd still go out with me by the way I talked to her. Maybe it was the flowers. Hmm… I'll just play it by ear to see if I can still impress her with the movie and dinner, Takeru thought in his mind. He was quite happy; they have been friends for many years, like when they were babies. He still didn't know if this would be counted as her being his girlfriend or anything, but he did give her flowers, fact there.

Takeru and Hikari walked side by side to the Odaiba City Multiplex 02 just on the other side of the highway. It looked like Hikari was feeling cold, so Takeru lent her his dark green windbreaker; guess he liked a lot of green stuff. The blonde haired boy felt a warm tingly feeling inside of him when he saw her happy and relaxed.

They used the crosswalks and looked left and right while the traffic light was red. He pushed her faster to keep her from getting hurt by the rumbling noises of the white lights waiting to pass through. When they finally arrived, Takeru paid for two tickets for the movie they were planning to see at that very moment. Lasting for three hours, [quite a long movie isn't it? Didn't I mention it was director's cut edition?] They didn't expect to get home until 9:00 PM.

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The couple went back to his place at the apartment at 9:30 from the movie theatre, so Takeru could attempt to make a decent dinner for his pretty brunette who was in the bathroom getting her make up on. As he put the food on plates and set the table, the doorbell rang. Takeru heard it ring and decided to open the door. He did not remember his promise to his mother about opening the door when she wasn't home, and also he didn't have a screen door or a keyhole to check whom it was. Hikari walked out of the bathroom, and Takeru opened the door without thinking. A man rushed in with a gun facing the couple.

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Takeru's brother, Yamato walked home from his band practice. His head ached, and he had no voice, because he had been playing the guitar and singing all night long. He didn't know what was going on; he only knew that he was walking to the apartment building to visit his brother, and maybe he could sleep over for the night to get some rest. [By the way, Takeru's and Yamato's parents have been divorced and Takeru lives with his mom while Yamato lives with his dad, so Yamato seldom comes to his brother's place and visit and vice versa.] A mysterious figure, about the same size (same or less), as Yamato, rushed toward him and bashed right onto him recklessly. He/she had a hood and a cap on, and looked like he/she had red hair.

"HEY! WATCH WHERE YOU ARE GOING! YOU ---!" Yamato yelled finally realizing he can speak now. But the guy just kept running down the sidewalks, until he couldn't be seen. Yamato, with his head still hurting, didn't really catch all of his details and kept walking to the elevator and then down the hall.

He went to the end of the hallway at the apartment complex and saw the door. "Why is the door to my brother's apartment wide open?" Yamato thought. Then he added everything together. "Wait… mysterious figure, open door, dang my head aches… Okay now, that means that…OH NO!" Yamato started rushing to the apartment, realizing something terrible must have happened. "What the…" he whispered. Right when he got in, the whole room was ransacked: pillows and seat cushions were everywhere, drawers were dropped down from the cabinets, the television smashed (oh no!!!), and the food plates were still intact, cold and hasn't even been eaten.

Yamato couldn't believe his eyes. He looked in terror. Has this place been robbed? Is everything okay? OH I FORGOT! HIKARI! TAKERU! WHERE ARE THEY? Yamato ran through all the unorganized rooms, going through all the obstacles of furniture in the way. He ran through each room yelling, "HIKARI!!!!! TAKERU!!!!! ARE YOU ALL RIGHT????? TELL ME WHERE YOU ARE!!!!!" He looked in the last room of the house… in which that was… Takeru's…room… He looked into the room. "OH MY GOD!" Yamato's heart burst.

Hikari and Takeru were lying on the ground. They weren't moving. Hikari's mouth was wide open, and her eyes were wide open. It was the worst thing that could happen. She was dressed a bit differently then before also. She only had a plain pink T-shirt; She wore a white pair of short pants, and her hairclip and socks were still on. It looked like the clothes were forced onto her body. Her arms were embracing Takeru's neck. Takeru, on the other hand, was obviously injured, in which that was an understatement. His beach hat was upside down two feet away from him, left alone with no owner.

Takeru's body, though, was shot two times at the top right of his chest, and he had a bullet that went right into his skull. A puddle of red was expanding from Takeru, being absorbed by the carpet in his room; the liquid from the carpet made Takeru's side all red with the murky material, and stained the side of Hikari's clothes. Hikari's bandana also looked untied, and there were bruises around her neck. The two looked like they were posed on the carpet after they were played around with. They were still hugging each other, but they were motionless and they looked like they were going to get ready to kiss each other.

"HELL NO!" Yamato raced towards the phone. His fingers trembled. 9… 1… 1… "POLICE!!! GET HERE RIGHT NOW!!! MY BEST FRIEND'S SISTER AND MY BROTHER ARE DEAD!!! PLEASE HELP ME!!! OH MY… AHHHHHHHH!!!"

The policeman answered back in bewilderment, "Well we aren't sure of the conditions yet, but when we do, we will get back to you." The policeman knew that was a lie. He knew those two kids were already long gone since the time of the call, but he couldn't say it to the fathers. There was no way he could break it to them. He went back toward the apartment with his hat being held on his chest.

As the policeman got back, he invested the crime scene. Everybody had to figure out who killed these two bright children; why did there lives have to be taken? A detective named Misaru Konasawa investigated the scene. He went over to the bodies. "What do you have coroner?"

The coroner said, "The boy is named Takeru Takaishi, his parents had just got divorced and his mom is coming back from her business trip from Tokyo. His stepbrother Yamato was questioned when he became conscious for a bit. He says that the two were on a date together and were eating dinner, but then he passed out again and was given CPR going to the ambulance." She notified, "the 16 year old was shot by three .25 bullets and looked like he's been laying there for at least two hours.

The detective then asked, "Oh alright then, let me right that down. Say… what do you have on the girl there?" He pointed at Hikari who was lifeless looking straight to the bloodstained boy beside her.

"Her name is Hikari Yagami, also 16, the same as Takeru, it looks like the murderer really did it on her, rape, strangled her with her bandana she was wearing on the same night, and forced on clothes that he found elsewhere. We found her original set of clothes in the master bedroom," the coroner was almost breaking down at what happened to Hikari, "and the murderer had left birth control pills in the master bedroom. It was probably to keep from giving away his DNA to us, so we are quite oblivious on who had done this."

"Is that all?" Detective Misaru asked.

The coroner was already showing tears, "No it keeps going. We found two chairs and two sets of rope in the bathroom. We think that both of them were tied up at gunpoint, and the boy was led into his bedroom first, shot, and the girl was in the master bedroom. That's all I have."

"Thank you very much. I wrote all of that down," Misaru responded, "Tell me if you find anything else alright? Thank you." He left the apartment in grief.

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END OF CHAPTER ONE

Well that's the first chapter of my story. Thank you for reading. Sorry if I killed the two best characters in the world. Hehe. I'll keep continuing with this. See ya.