Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Time and Love Again ❯ Rollerblades, Walks, and Contemplations ( Prologue )

TriceroDragon: Well, after a short hiatus, I'm back and writing again. I probably won't even mention the name of the high school throughout the story. If I don't, assume that it's made up. I probably ought to mention it's somewhat AU. I threw in a few 02 characters for some variety, and shuffled in a few (I repeat a few [ok maybe several]) dub names and this is what I came up with. Oh and to any angry lawyers out there, I don't own Digimon. *sighs in relief of averted lawsuits* and the reason it starts out the way it does is because a launch pad Kouzumi was the only plausible way to go.

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Time and Love Again

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Takuya Kanbara sat next to his best friend Davis, occasionally poking a sporkful of food into his mouth, in the cafeteria of his high school. `Why do they have to do that there? It makes me want to puke' he thought as he watched a young man and a young woman at a table across the eating area from him. "Jeez what are they trying to do, suck out a lung?" It wasn't until his friend answered him that he realized he said that out loud.

"Who's sucking out a lung?" Davis said around a mouthful of mashed potatoes. "Wha? Nothing" Takuya said absently. "I see what you're talking about," Davis continued, swallowing the potatoes. "Izumi over there with Kouji? Yeah they do look like they're having the time of their lives swapping spit over there"

"Geez, I just lost my appetite" Takuya said, disgusted. Davis, having finished his lunch, obliged Takuya and downed his meal as well. Takuya was amazed. Davis had an appetite to kill an army. "Ugh, Davis how can you eat so much and not be full?" Takuya said, half-amazed, half-disgusted. "I dunno it's just the way I am Takuya, my pal" he said, smirking.

Takuya ignored him and went back to his original activity. "Man they make me sick" he said, aloud again, without thinking. "Ah Takster, that's the beauty of it; you don't have to look at them" Davis replied. "Haven't I told you not to call me that?" Takuya said, getting up and exiting the lunch area. Davis trailed in his wake, still chewing the corned beef he'd swiped from his friend's forgotten tray

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Takuya had always been one to take a dare... or a bet... or any type of chance for that matter. This was why he was strapping on his rollerblades in front of the school right now. His three friends Davis, Ken and T.K had dared him to leap over three park benches, skate across two sets of rail separated by the park entrance, jump clear over a small pond, and circle 3 trees twice each, and leap over a fence to get back to them.

Like the daredevil that he was and always had been, he agreed and was now steeling himself. He took a deep breath then took off at a slow pace. He vaulted the first bench, then the second, followed by the third. He picked up speed and jumped onto the railing. He slid over the black metal, reached the end and leaped across the park entryway onto the other part of the rail. Upon reaching the end, He jumped down onto the turf. He cleared the pond in a smooth leap, and headed for the trees. He circled the first clockwise, the second counter-clockwise, and the third clockwise again.

All that was left to do was to clear the fence. He could do this. It was easy. He just had to concentrate. He initiated the jump. He was flying through the air, the wind in his face. Then something caught his eye. He tried to turn to look at it but forgot that he was in midair. He pulled a rough One-Eighty in the air to look for what he'd glimpsed, but it was gone. Before he could turn around his skate wheel caught on the fence, sending him tumbling across the ground. He rolled about 8 times and hit his head on a tree, hard.

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Takuya vaguely felt blood trickling from his nose and his head throbbing. "Is he okay?" T.K said. "I doubt it. His nose is bleeding and he has a huge lump on his head" Davis replied. "Did either of you see what he turned to look at?" said Ken. "Nope" said Davis. "Nuh uh" T.K replied. "Let's get him to the nurse" Davis said. After this Takuya lost awareness of his surroundings.

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He opened his eyes. It felt like hours had passed. His head still throbbed. It felt like his entire head was being pierced with white hot needles. He ignored this and looked around, somewhat dazed. Davis was sitting in a chair, chewing on a Big Mac. He had a funny smirk on his face. "You okay man?" he asked. "Yeah sure, what the hell happened to me?" he answered. "You rolled into a tree and got knocked out" he snickered. "You lost the dare" he finished. "So I lost a stupid dare. Don't you give a crap that I might've died?" Takuya yelled, then he flinched when stars of pain danced by his eyes. "Okay, okay, calm down man. But there is something you ought to-" Takuya cut him off. "Forget it, I just want to get my stuff and get out of here" he said. "Ok... I just thought you might want to know... Let me get out of here" Davis said, the funny smirk returning to his face.

Davis grabbed his stuff and left. Takuya was getting ready to leave when someone walked into the room. It was Izumi. She tapped him on the shoulder. He spun, nearly jumping out of his skin. "What's up?" she greeted. "Um, uh, nothing, just leaving" he said. "Mind if I walk with you? It's nice to have someone to talk to" she asked. "Sure, I guess..." he said.

They left the school building, him walking a bit stiffly. Maybe he ought to talk... he decided against that. If opened his mouth his foot wouldn't miss a second to jump right in. So they walked, her edging a few inches closer every once in a while, without Takuya noticing. Slowly, she wreathed her hand around his. He hardly noticed. His mind seemed absent.

They arrived at her home. He was sweating like it was the hottest day in summer, although it was early October and there was a chill breeze in the air. She kissed him. Not friend-like on the cheek, but full on the lips. After a few seconds she broke it off and walked into her house, turning to wink at him from the doorstep.