Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Harsh Memories ❯ Remembering pain ( Chapter 3 )

Yamato frowned, as he looked at his little brother. " You mean you don't remember anything from the accident? " he asked incredulously as Takeru shock his head. Yamato sighed, as he readied himself for the long tale of how T.K. had ended up in the hospital in the first place.

---------Flashback scene---------

Takeru Takaishi had just finished his "study" session with Hikari and Tai. Takeru was still angry over the fact that the only real reason Taichi had asked him to come over and "study", was because he had rented some English films. Since Takeru and Koushiro were the only ones who understood any English at all, and since Koushiro was currently working in the high school's computer lab, trying out some theories about the digi-port, it had fallen on Takeru to translate the films for Taichi. Takeru kicked a can slowly down the sidewalk as he started his trek back towards his apartment complex.

As T.K. walked, he began to think over everything that had happened over the past few months. He was thus absorbed, as he wandered down the path that would lead him back to his apartment. He was thinking about how weird it had been when he had first used the DNA-digivolving technique, as he began to cross the road. He reached the other side, and continued on, still absorbed in his own thoughts. He began to wonder exactly how the others felt about their respected digivolving partners. Takeru thought back to the first time he had ever met Iori. It had been the first day he had gone to his new school after moving into the Odaiba area. He remembered how serious Iori had seemed at first glance, and how formal Iori had been during their first meeting. It had taken a long time, but eventually, Iori began to open up to the digi-destined, and had began to share his opinions, and to a degree, the reasons behind his formality. T.K. would never forget the effect of Iori's father dying, and Iori seeing the death of his fathers best friend Owikawa. He remembered how Iori had actually cried at Owikawa's death, and at his sacrifice. Then, Takeru began to recall the time when Iori's O-Jiichan had confronted Owikawa, and had attempted to bring him out of his depression. He remembered that Iori's eyes had begun to water, as his Grandfather had begun to tell the tales of both his father's and Owikawa's past. He remembered that even though he had only DNA-digivolved with Iori once, his connection to the younger boy had caused his eyes to water as well, as he could almost feel the others pain. < It was palpable, almost as if I could taste his pain as I watched him,> he thought.

As Takeru was absorbed with his thoughts, he began to cross the crosswalk, first glancing upwards to check that the light was with him, and that no one was attempting to make a turn into the lane he entered. He began to whistle to himself quietly as he jogged across. He reached the midway point of the crosswalk when he began to hear the screeching. He glanced up briefly quickly enough to see the oncoming vehicle. He was coherent enough to begin reading the license plate, before the car rammed into him while still going at around 25 kilometers. T.K. was thrown a few feet, before landing hard onto the pavement. He heard the car come screeching to a stop. At this point, Takeru's vision began to dim. Before he blanked out completely, he saw a blur of brown jump in front of a rather gruff looking man that had leapt from the vehicle.

---------End flashback---------

Yamato continued on with the story from where Takeru's memory had begun to fade away. " That's when he dived in front of you Take-chan. He managed to shield your body from whoever had been driving the car. You see, the driver had some kind of warrant against him. He noticed that you had been reading his license plate while he had driven towards you, and had apparently decided you shouldn't be able to implicate him in another crime. I still don't know why he thought killing you wouldn't make things worse, but I guess he figured he had had nothing to lose. Thankfully he had been there, or else you would probably not survived the attack, " Yamato finished, as he grinned down at his incapacitated O-touto-chan.

"Yamato, " Takeru sighed out, "You still haven't told me who saved me! "

Yamato sighed as he prepared to tell Takeru the rest of the story.