Hidden Secrets
	::Tai Chick and Yama Chick sit on Tai Chick's bed,
Yama Chick is holding a necklace with a ring on it and
swinging it back and forth in front of Tai Chick's
face::
Yama Chick- You are getting sleepy...very sleepy...
Tai Chick- I was sleepy before, you're cheating! 
Yama Chick- Fine, ::continues to wave ring:: you're
getting sleepyER...very sleepyER.
Tai Chick- no I'm not.
Yama Chick- ::sticks out tung:: Shut up, Draco and Ken
are Kawaii...Quatre is not...
Tai Chick- Draco and Ken baka, Quatre Bishounen...
::Tai Chick gets hit, then restrans Digitwin::
Yama Chick- ::triumphantly:: I GOT THE PHONE!
Tai Chick- ::blinks:: what does that have to do with
anything?
Yama Chick- I dunno
Tai Chick- ::rolls eyes:: anyways, here's my new fic,
it's a Kensuke, with a little bit of Taito throw in
for comic relief. I bash just about everyone, and
Daisuke's addicted to Drugs, Chibimon runs away...read
it, I like this one.
Yama Chick- You were writing behind my back!
Tai Chick- Gomen my Digitwin, next time I'll tell you
what I'm planning.
Yama Chick- ^_^
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  
	"Daisuke! Daisuke come back here!" Taichi called as
the spiked hared, goggle wearing boy dashed down the
street. Daisuke stopped and grumbled.
	"What's your hurry?" Taichi asked him. "Why don't you
come over so we can talk."
	"I don't wanna ‘talk'." Daisuke stated, obviously
angry at the very idea.
	"Well weather you want to talk or not, we're talking.
You've missed three days of school in the past two
weeks, and I know for a fact that you cut at least two
of those days. This isn't like you at all, I want to
know what's wrong."
	Taichi didn't say another word, but kept a strong
hold on Daisuke all the way to his apartment, so he
couldn't think of running off.
	Once there Taichi went into the kitchen and grabbed
to sodas, and a candy bar for Chibimon.
	"Candy! Candy!" Chibimon exclaimed in glee as Taichi
passed him the chocolate. Daisuke only scowled more.
	"Daisuke, if something is wrong, you can tell me. I
won't look down upon you or anything." Taichi said
opening his can and taking a sip.
	"Yeah, at least not anymore than you already do."
Daisuke snapped.  Taichi almost spit out his soda in
surprise.
	"What are you talking about?" He whispered. But
Daisuke wasn't about to do any talking. He picked up
Chibimon roughly.
	"Let's go." he said.
	"Candy! Candy!" Chibimon said again, with something
in his mouth, but it wasn't candy. Daisuke made a grab
for the object, but Taichi was quicker. 
	"Daisuke." Taichi said sternly, looking from the
object he held in his hand, and back at the smaller
boy. "What, it this?"
	"Whatever it is it isn't yours! Give it to me!"
Daisuke said with a mix of anger, fear and sorrow in
his voice, he made a swipe for it.
	"Looks like drugs to me," Taichi said, unable to
believe what was happening. "Now why would Chibimon
have it?"
	"Don't know, there are a bunch of psychos around
maybe he found it on the ground."
	"Nu-un! In your backpack Daisuke!" Chibimon said
gleefuly, unaware at what was going on. "Candy!
Candy!"
	"No Chibimon," Taichi said. "Not candy, bad food,
very very bad. Don't let Daisuke have any."
	That was it for Daisuke, having Chibimon being put in
charge of him. "What do you know anyway!? You…you and
your perfect life! With all the friends you could ever
want! What…what do you know!?"
	Daisuke stuffed Chibimon in his bag and stormed out
the door, just as Yamato walked in. Taichi was still
holding what Chibimon was chewing on.
	"Problem?" Yamato asked, eyeing Taichi in disbelief.
	"Yeah, Daisuke's hiding something…and I don't know
why."
	Yamato glanced at Taichi, he could tell that he was
really upset. "Any idea why he's hiding something?"
	Taichi sighed. "He told me, just before he left that
he thought I had a perfect life, and all the friends I
could want…do you think he feels neglected?"
	"I don't know. Was…that his?" Yamato pointed to the
joint Taichi held in his hand. "Because if that's
yours you and I are going to…"
	"Don't worry it's not mine. Daisuke pretty much
addmitted that it was his, Chibimon thought it was
candy."
	"Well, we could rat him out, or we could try and help
him."
	"I don't want to tell on him just yet, I'm not even
sure he's tried it. He just doesn't strike me as that
kind of kid, why won't he tell me what's wrong?"
	Yamato shook his head. "There isn't much you can do
now." He pushed Taichi onto the couch. "So why don't
you pay a little attention to me?"
	Taichi tried to answer, but failed for the fact that
Yamato's tongue was in his mouth.	
~ ~ ~
	"Chibimon! You stupid little rat!" Daisuke exploded
at the small Digimon, who was cowering on his bed.
"I…don't believe you would do that to me! Now Taichi
thinks that I'm an even worse person than he thought
before!" Daisuke almost started crying, but stopped
himself just in time. "He's going to tell people, and
soon Ken will know, I'll never have a chance with him
then!"
	"Daisuke, don't be sad. Throw the bad stuff away,
then tell Ken how you feel!"
	"It's not that easy."
	"It's not?"
	"No."
	"How come?"
	"Well…um…If I tell Ken how I feel…um…he'll know."
	"Isn't that the point?"
	Daisuke growled. "All right All right I'll tell him!"
	"When?" Chibimon prodded.
	"Tomorrow after school. But you're staying here,
you've caused to much trouble for this week." Daisuke
smiled. As much as Chibimon got on his nerves, he
would be a total wreck if anything happened to him.
	"Will you throw the bad stuff away?"
	Daisuke looked at the opened bag, he didn't need it.
Other people became dependant on in, but he wasn't.
"Sure." He said simply, throwing that bag into the
trash. Chibimon beamed.
~ ~ ~
	It was early in the morning, probably about two or
three, and Daisuke was a mess. He hadn't slept for
hours, he was so nervous about what he was planning to
do later that day. His mind shifted to the small
sample of drugs that were sitting in his garbage can.
	"Just one." He whispered. "Only to calm my nerves,
It's for pleasure, not to cool an addiction."
	Very carefully, so as not to wake Chibimon, Daisuke
made his way over to the window and lit the small
joint. ‘Ah that's better' he thought going back to
bed, he fell asleep soon after. 
	Daisuke looked at his reflection in the mirror just
before it was time to leave for school. "Ready?" he
asked himself. "Ready."
It turned out to be a long day. Ken was no where in
sight for the most part of the day, until just before
last block.
"Hi Daisuke." he said stepping over to him. "Sorry I
wasn't at lunch, I had a test to take for another
school and it took a better part of the day."
"That's okay." Daisuke answered. But in all reality it
was not. He had planed to take Ken outside during
lunch and tell him how he felt, he was ready to
confess, but his plans had gone wrong.
"Well, we better get to class." Ken said, walking
away.
"But I..." Daisuke sighed. "Never mind." but Ken
couldn't hear him anyway. 'I need a smoke.' he thought
to himself.
Last block was toucher. He was twitchy and edgy and he
knew it would be late that night before there would be
a chance for him to get his fix.
"Daisuke are you alright?" Hikari asked looking him in
the face.
"I'm fine!" He snapped back.
"That was rude." Takeru commented. "Why don't you try
to be a little nicer."
Daisuke began mumbling to himself. "I don't have to be
nice if I don't want to be."
"Geeze Daisuke, what's eating you? If it's really that
bad why don't you tell us so we can help you out."
"Look, there isn't anything wrong, now would everyone
please leave me alone?!" Just then the bell rang
signaling the end of class, Daisuke fled the room like
it was on fire.
Heading up the elevator to his family's apartment he
was a shaking wreck. He ran into the door and into his
bedroom thinking of nothing else...that's where he was
faced with a very angry Chibimon.
"Hey, what's wrong pal?" Daisuke asked innocently.
Chibimon was sitting on the floor gripping something
in his hands, he began mumbling countless words.
"What was that?"
"...You LIED!!!" Chibimon screamed, finally facing
Daisuke. "You said you'd throw the bad stuff away and
you lied!" The little Digimon began to cry. "I found
this on the floor this morning...opened, it was closed
last night." he stated holding up the bag of drugs.
"I...I..." Daisuke stuttered. There wasn't anything to
say, he had broken his promise to his best
friend...there was nothing he could do to make it
right again.
"Daisuke BAD!" Chibimon yelled when he realized that
Daisuke wasn't going to tell him it was all a mistake.
He jumped up from where he sat and ran out the bedroom
door. He jumped up to reach the apartment door and ran
out of there too.
Daisuke was shaking even more than he had been. He
reached for the discarded bag and pulled out a joint.
And stopped dead in his tracks. What was he doing?!
His best friend he had ever had just ran out the door
and he wanted that smoke...yes...it wasn't a pleasure
thing anyomore...it was a necessity. 
He clutched the bad in his fists and began to cry.
"What have I done?" he whispered to an empty house.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 
Taichi contunied to gaze at Daisuke's appartment.
Supprisinly enough the boy had been in school that day
after their incounter. His first instinct was to say
that he was getting better. The numorous cases of
skipping school...being caught with the drugs...was
only a short phase. But Taichi's mind refused to let
him rest. Something was wrong. 
"There you are Mr. Yagami." came a teasing voice, from
behind. It belonged to Yamato.
"Konnichi-wa Yamato" Taichi answered not taking his
gaze from the building.
"You know if you don't stop obsessing over Daisuke I'm
going to get jealous." Yamato said slipping his hand
into Taichi's.
"I'm just worried about him." Taichi whispered.
"I know, I was only kidding. I don't like to see you
so worked up."
"There you are Oni-chan!" Takeru said coming up behind
them with Hikari. 
Yamato and Taichi's hands quickly separated, as they
tried not to blush at being caught doing things lovers
do.
"Oh, don't bother with that." Hikari stated. "We've
know about you for the longest time. We need to talk
to you about Daisuke."
Yamato and Taichi exchanged glances of confusion and
relief. Confusion that their younger siblings knew
about them, and relief that they were taking the
arrangement so well. 
"How much do you know about Daisuke?" Taichi asked.
"Just that he's been really edgy and has been skipping
school a lot too." Takeru answered. "Why do you know
anything else?"
Taichi sighed. "That's what I was afraid of. I think I
know the reason for all of his edginess, come on it's
time we all went to talk to him.
The apartment door was closed. "Daisuke! Come on we
want to talk to you!" Taichi yelled pounding on the
door.
"We aren't mad about this afternoon!" Hikari added.
"Stop being a baka!" Takeru shouted at the door.
"If you don't open up right now I'm going to break
down the door!" Yamato yelled, annoyed that Daisuke
was making his lover suffer with worry.
"Why don't we try *opening* the door first?" Takeru
suggested to his brother.
Taichi, ever so carefully turned the knob and pushed
it open. The appartment was full of the sounds of
hysterical sobs. They all bolted toward the sorce of
the noise.
Daisuke was kneeling on the floor covering his eyes
and clutching a bag. His body was were the sobs were
coming from.
"Daisuke...what happened?" Takeru asked.
Taichi was frowning. He carefully unhooked Daisuke's
fist and removed the bag. Both Takeru and Hikari
gasped in surprise, they saw what the bag contained.
"Chibimon ran away." he gasped. "And it's all my
fault!"
"Daisuke what's this? How could you...have this...this
JUNK!?" Hikari demanded.
Daisuke stayed silent, starring at the floor. "I know
what I've been doing is wrong, but please help me find
my friend."
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 
Ken held onto his bag as he walked home from school.
He had to stay after to help a teacher with a
computer. The trouble of being a genius.
He was just about to turn up his street when he
noticed a familiar flash of blue round the corner. It
was little Chibimon. "Chibimon!" he called "Where are
you going?"
A sniffling Chibimon turned to face him "Running
away."
Ken was confused. What had caused Daisuke's best
friend to take off alone? "Won't Daisuke be upset?"
"Daisuke's a *liar*." Chibimon hissed.
Now Ken was *really* confused, and didn't bother to
hide it. "Come on now, Chibimon, what would Daisuke
lie to you about?"
"Bad food."
"Bad food?"
"Taichi said to make sure Daisuke didn't have anymore.
Daisuke said he'd throw them away, but he ate it late
at night. He *lied*."
Ken was beginning to get suspicious. "Tell me what
this 'bad food' looked like."
Chibimon quickly explained the joints to Ken as they
walked to Ken's apartment. Ken stopped dead in his
tracks. Daisuke was addicted to drugs. 
"Chibimon." he said seriously, narrowing his eyes. "We
need to have a serious talk. Daisuke's going to need
help, and a lot of it. You're going to need to know
what to do." 

	It was later that night before the better half of the
Digidestines walked into Daisuke's apartment, cold,
wet and defeated.
	Koushirou, Iori and Miyako had joined the search
after discovering that Chibimon was missing. Both
Miyako and Iori had yelled at him, telling him he was
irresponsible for letting his Digimon go off on his
own. Koushirou had calmly said they should look for
Chibimon and *then* figure out what to do about a
responsibility talk
	Slumping onto the couch Daisuke refused to let
himself cry, he had brought this upon himself, he
deserved no sympathy.
	"Don't worry Daisuke, I'm sure we'll find him." Iori
said, looking up at him.
	"I hope you know that when we do find him." Hikari
interjected, glaring at Daisuke. "Things don't stop
there."
	"I know." He whispered, close to tears. "I'm sorry."
	Everyone was interrupted from further confrontation
by Jun, who had just exited from her bedroom. "There
you are, next time you take off of hours at a time,
let me know will ya? Mom and Dad won't be home until
sometime tomorrow...hum...there was something else
too, what was it? Oh yeah! That Ken character you've
been hanging around with called, he said it was really
very important. He said he found something."
	"What did he find?!" Daisuke cried jumping up from
the couch.
	"Oh I don't remember! Why don't you call him and ask
him yourself?" and with that she walked back into her
room, but not before grabbing Yamato's arm, insisting
she needed to show him something, dragging him into
his room and locking the door. Taichi had to be held
back from breaking it down.
	While Iori and Takeru were holding Taichi down on the
couch Daisuke dove for the phone. One
ring...two...three, finally someone picked up. Luckily
it was Ken himself.
	"Ken! Ken! Have you found him?!"
	"Hai." Ken answered. "He's right here, do you want to
talk to him?"
	"Hai." Daisuke whispered, there was a pause followed
by a slight struggling. Daisuke could just picture the
tiny Digimon determined to hold the phone by himself,
but would have to submit to Ken's help.
	"Daisuke?" Came the adorable squeaky voice.
	Daisuke couldn't keep it in any longer, he burst out
into tears, and the others discreetly left the room.
"H-hey buddy...I...I'm...I'm so sorry."
	"S`okay Daisuke. I'm sorry I left." He paused and
Daisuke was suspicions that he was crying as well.
"Come get me now?"
	"I'm on my way." And with that Daisuke hung up the
phone and tore out of the apartment. It only took him
five minutes to cross the town and reach Ken's
apartment.
	He burst into the dark house and Chibimon flew into
Daisuke's arms. "I'm sorry Daisuke, I didn't know...I
still love you."
	"I'm sorry little guy." Daisuke said, still in tears.
"I'll stop, I promise."
	"Hello Daisuke." Ken said, speaking up for the first
time, getting off the couch and walking towards the
two of them. 
	Daisuke quickly whipped away his tears and looked at
Ken, still gripping his little friend. "Thanks
Ken...for finding him. I don't know what I would have
done if..."
	"It's okay. He sure had a lot to say, and I think I
pieced together basically what happened." He looked
Daisuke straight in the eye. "Daisuke, you have to
tell me have. You. Been. Doing. Drugs?"
	Daisuke looked at his feet, and then to the ceiling,
there were tears, yes, lots of them. "Y-yes. I-I don't
know what else to say, and you probably wouldn't
believe me anyway."
	Ken took Daisuke's hand and looked at him. "You
trusted me when, I turned over from being The Kaizer,
I'll trust you to tell me the truth now."
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
	"It was probably about six months when it started."
Daisuke began after he calmed down and had some tea,
Chibimon was sitting in his lap, listening to every
word. Ken sat just beside him listing as well. "No, it
was before that, all the little comments, everything
everyone said about how...worthless I was, that I was
a jerk." he swallowed hard. "At first I got offensive,
told people off, then I began to ignore the comments,
just rolling my eyes at them...but after a while it
stung, like people were wounding me."
	"You shouldn't listen to those kind of people, they
just have nothing better to do then hurt people like
you." Ken said stroking Daisuke's hand.
	"It wasn't just anyone! It wasn't anyone I could
ignore! It was Miyako and Iori, Takeru, Hikari, all of
them! They hurt me! I didn't think that they cared at
all!" Daisuke bit his lip, trying to keep the tears
back, he couldn't seem to keep them under control
today. "I fell into a depression I guess, It was
something I kept hidden pretty well, I didn't want
them to start being nice just because they thought I
was sick, If they were going to be nice, they had to
do it on their own." 
	Daisuke laughed bitterly. "I feel like such a little
kid, ‘Mommy, they weren't being nice'." 
	"Don't Daisuke, you have every right, to be angry.
People should realise that comments like that hurt.
Being your so called friends they *should* have
realized." 
	Daisuke laid his head on Ken. And Ken began to stroke
his hair. "What did I do wrong? Was I such a horrible
person they couldn't treat me like a true friend?"
	"Oh my Daisuke." Ken whispered as Chibimon rubbed
Daisuke's hand in comfort.
	Daisuke swallowed and sat up abruptly. "But I'm
getting off the subject..." 
	He never heard Ken whisper the words "No your not." 
	"It was three months ago, almost to the day, I first
got my offer to try some pot. Now don't think I'm a
complete idiot, I said no...at first. But the guy, he
handed me a bag and said ‘Don't be throwing my offer
away so quickly, I think you could use it.' and
insisted that I keep it." Daisuke sighed. "It sat in
my desk for three weeks without thought, but soon...I
just couldn't take anything anymore. It was obvious
that Hikari was in love with Takeru and she loved to
torment me with the knowledge...god did it hurt." So I
tried some, teachers always said that it was awful
stuff, but people used it to escape...what if I could
use it, just a little bit, things seemed so
unbearable...what did I have to lose?"
	Ken gripped Daisuke tightly. "Oh god I wish I knew
what was going on, I don't want you to have to go
through this alone...You have me now."
	Daisuke gripped his hand lightly. "I know, but when
all this was happening, you were still the Digimon
Kaizer, you were having problems of your own."
	"You were going through all this and you still
managed to help me...Daisuke...you're something else."
	"I never meant to...but somewhere in there I got
addicted to the stuff." He looked at Chibimon and
smile weakly. "It took Chibimon running away for me to
realize that I had a problem."
	"I sorry Daisuke, I wanna help you get better! I do
what ever you want!" Chibimon cried, clinging to his
friend's hand.
	"Thanks Chibimon, I appreciate that." Daisuke
answered. He began to shake slightly and sweat. "I
really feel like I could use one now, don't let me
have any...what ever you do."
	"We won't Daisuke, I promise, first thing in the
morning we'll start to get you some help, the very
best."
	"I know!" Chibimon cried jumping off the couch and
heading into hte kitchen, The two boys looked at each
other in confusion until the little Digimon came back
hauling a candy bar behind him. "Fight bad candy with
good candy!"
	Laughter rang out in the apartment, and just for a
moment the tention was lifted and they felt happiness.