Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Time and Love Again ❯ Friends, Snakes, and Empty Classrooms ( Chapter 1 )

TriceroDragon: Something has me very disturbed. I found out that my name is gender neutral... Let me say one thing: Ugh. Nobody likes to find that out about their name. I'm about to look for a legal name change. Maybe make my middle name my first name. But I'm rambling. Well, last chapter we saw a somewhat disturbing sequence of events. Now we see whether those events were real or the product of a dream caused by an insane stunt gone terribly awry... Read on. Also I do own Darren.

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Time and Love Again

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He touched his cheek, and stood there, half mortified and half happily surprised. At the moment he wasn't sure whether to pursue this or let it go. Somehow, he suspected, this was a dream. He pinched himself, hard. Nothing... He tried again. Still nothing... "Shimatta, and I was so hoping this wasn't a dream..." Then he realized he was still wearing his elbow pads. He pulled one off and pinched himself again. It hurt, a lot. He gave a crooked sort of smile. It was dark, because the streetlights hadn't come on yet. He turned toward home and tripped over a crack in the sidewalk. `Ouch!' he yelled mentally. He picked himself up and almost skipped home.

When he reached his doorstep, he tugged his keys out of his pocket and walked in. "Takuya, is that you?" his mother yelled. "Yes mom!" he yelled in answer. "Okay, there are some leftovers on the stove! And where were you so late?" she called out. He hesitated. He sure as hell couldn't tell her what had really happened. His mother would have a Force Five Freak-out. He decided a lie was safest. "I was studying with a friend!" he called. "Which friend were you studying with, Takuya? And don't tell me Davis, Ken or T.K. because I called them and they told me you weren't at any of their houses" Damn, caught red-handed. He wasn't sure if he should fess up or bluff his way through. If he tried to lie again he'd probably get caught. He wandered into the room where his mother was finishing some phone calls. "Okay, truth time" she said. "Okay the truth is I was out with a girl" he mumbled. "What was that? I couldn't hear you over your breath" his mother said slightly sarcastically. "I was out with a girl" he said again, maybe a bit too loudly because Shinya came running in the next minute, munching on a burger, pointing at him "You went out with a girl! You went out with a girl! Takuya's got a girlfriend, Takuya's got a girlfriend" he taunted. "NO I DO NOT!" he yelled defiantly. "Do not yell at your little brother, Takuya! And it's nice to see you finally hooked up with someone. What's her name?" she asked. "Izumi, Mom! Wait, hang on a second! She's not my girlfriend!" he burst out. His mother sighed. "Whatever you say Takuya, Oh I can't wait to tell your father, he'll be so proud" she beamed. "No Mom! Come on don't do that! There's nothing to tell! She's not my girlfriend!"

For the next month or so, he avoided Izumi as best he could. Every once in a while he'd bump into her in the hallway, but he just rushed off hurriedly to his next class. Takuya was getting anxious. Ever since she kissed him, he'd been feeling a bit awkward around her, and considering she was in many of his classes, avoiding her became a daunting task.

Some how he made it to early November with no serious encounters but then... Sometime about two weeks into the month of November, there was a large crowd around a classroom. Takuya, always the inquisitive one, wandered over to see what it was about. As he bumped and jostled through rows of students, he caught snippets of conversation. "Snake escaped--" "Everyone's afraid-" "Someone has to catch it--" these and more he heard. `Hmm... Sounds like a challenge to me' he thought. He stepped to the front of the crowd and volunteered to catch the fugitive reptile. Izumi, seeing Takuya enter the classroom, and having heard about the snake, decided on a little bit of decisive action. `Hmm maybe I should tell him what's really going on' she thought, as she slipped through the unlocked door at the other end of the classroom unnoticed.

Takuya, having caught the snake about 5 minutes after entering the classroom, decided to have a short little lie-down on a desk. His eyes widened in shock when Izumi stood over him.

He sat upright quickly, wondering what the girl wanted. He spoke his mind "What do you want?" he asked. "Just to talk" she answered straightforwardly. "Okay then talk. But no funny business" he said.

Having seen Izumi slip through the unlocked door after Takuya went through the other door made Darren, Izumi's friend, suspicious. Izumi had told him some odd things over the past month. Like the fact that it was her fault Takuya got knocked out. Darren had been basically at every place. Sitting on the hill overlooking the park he'd seen the daredevil antics of Takuya go awry. He had an idea why, when he noticed a flash of blonde hair in the bushes where Takuya was looking before he fell, He'd been waiting for Izumi at her house to study when he saw them kissing. This piqued his interest. He'd always thought they'd get together, but the prospects were blackening. If he could help, he would. Another thing he knew was that Izumi was not really involved with Kouji. He and Kouji both knew that Izumi was only trying to hook up with Takuya. But was Takuya naïve enough to actually believe that they were a couple? He sincerely hoped not. He decided that it was time for Kouji to exit this picture, stage left, so that Izumi could do what she needed to.

TriceroDragon: Just so you know; HE'S NOT GOING TO KILL HIM! How could you even think that of me! I may not be a great fan of Kozumi, but I would never kill him off just so Takumi could live long and prosper, as the Vulcans say (trekkie, or what?) on. Will update Soon.