If Tonight Were All We Had
Fan Fic by: Miiko Ashida, age 11
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A/N Takato asks Lee an innocent question: what if it was the last day in the world?
Takato Matsuka and his friend Lee were sitting on the bank of a river. It was their favorite place to swim. To bad Ruki isn't here, Takato thought. She'd enjoy seeing Lee in swimming trunks. Then an odd feeling, almost like jealousy, washed over him. Takato didn't like it one bit. Lee was climbing out of the water, and Terriermon followed closely. "Lee, tonight could be the last night of our lives. You knew that, didn't you?" "Yeah. Why do you think we came here?" "Umm, my parents won't be home, maybe we should invite Ruki over for a slumber party?" said Takato, quickly changing the subject. "Sounds good to me!" exclaimed the taller boy.
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"Moshi moshi, Makino Ruki?" A bored sounding voice answered the phone. "Who's calling?" The two boys at the other end of the line looked at each other. "Ummm, subway lines, do you know a Renamon?" Takato asked, causing the other to collapse in giggles next to him. "Takato?! That had better not be you!" "I told you, it's the subway lines, asking for Renamon." "What do you want?" "Lee wants you to spend the night at my houch!" The blob on the floor that was Lee had just kicked him. Takato began laughing. "My parents aren't home, and it is possibly the last night of our lives, or anyone's, so we thought we'd celebrate and have a sleepover!" "We-e-ll, Ruki answered carefully. "Sure! Mom, can I spend the night at a friend's house?" A muffled voice could be heard in the background, saying "Well, only if it's I girl" Ruki sighed and answered, "No, sorry. I can't, you're not girly enough. Bye." Lee sighed. "So is it still on for just the two of us?" "Yep. But only if you help me pick out the movies." "Great! I can cover the pizza, too" "Who said anything about pizza?! That's for regular sleepovers, and this is an end of the world one. We're eating candy all night, man!" Lee laughed, and asked what he needed to bring. "Oh, nothing we don't have here," answered Takato. "C'mon, let's go get some movies!" "I've got enough for 5. How 'bout you?" "Ah, 4." "Great, at two hours each, we're good for 18 hours!"
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In the video store
"OK, one rule. I am watching no chick flicks, got it?" Lee giggled. "Yes, Ma'am!" he said, faking a salute. The two boys headed off down one isle. Anime, how coincidental. (A/N Well, ya never know! They have the card game of digimon in the show, why not anime?) Soon, Takato was making a beeline for the digimon movie 3. "Takato! You want to watch this? Don't we have enough of it screwing up our lives?" "We might learn some good techniques!" "Right." Lee still sounded skeptical. After two hours, they had enough left for two movies, Lee's choice. Oh no, Takato thought, seeing where the other boy was headed. I hate horror movies, he whined to himself. I'll look like such a wimp if I wind up shaking in his lap! Lee's voice cut through his worrying. "Here's a good one! Takato? What's wrong? You ok man?" "Um, yeah. I was just wondering if you would tell me when the scary part comes up, alright?" "That spoils the movie!" "What do you think I would rather have spoiled, the movie or my pants?" "Oh. Yeah, I'll tell you. Sorry, I didn't know you scared that easily. Wouldn't have guessed it from how brave you are in a fight." Was there a compliment hidden in that? "In a fight I have control over what happens. I can choose whether or not someone dies. In a fight, I can give my life in exchange for theirs." He said simply. Lee did not pursue the subject.
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Later that afternoon
Takato sat on the couch, thinking about the fact that it was quite probable their lives would be over the next day. Just the thought of it scared him, so he began to ponder more pleasant facts, such as what sort of things he and Lee would do Wonder if he knows I was just kidding about the candy? Takato thought. Lee was a lot of fun to hang out with; Takato would definitely want to spend the last hours of his life with him, but was the fact that he was cool the only reason? Takato shook the thought from his head. Why was he thinking that way lately? A loud knock at the door caught his attention. Oh great, his parents would spoil everything. For instance, there was no way they would let him watch movies all night. Even if it was the weekend "Takato! Did you want to see me before we all died, or are you barricading the doors?" Takato shot up out of his seat. "Hang on Lee! Just a minute, I got kinda tangled up!" which was perfectly true; he had been twisting the telephone cord for the past half hour, picking up the phone to call Lee, then slamming it down again.
TBA
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