Author's Note: Hello, Taiora community! This is my first Taichi/Sora fan fiction, and I'm looking forward to write more of them. I've always liked them as a couple but I haven't toyed much about their characters 'til recently. I got this idea from the Mimato story I'm working on (it has Taiora in it), and boy, it sure was fun. :-))

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Comfort Food

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He placed two bento boxes on top of the table, the other one for the sobbing ginger. Thank God, they were eating lunch at the school patio, or else onlookers would reckon he was responsible for a sad Sora. He did have a reputation among their classmates that he pissed her off the most – which is entirely true; even more so than his best friend, her now ex-boyfriend, Yamato.

She had her head down, hands clasped beneath the table, her shoulders heaving up and down. She kept asking a lot of 'why's', followed by words he really couldn't decipher from her hiccuping.

Like most of the time, he had no words; otherwise he'd be saying something that will unconsciously make her feel worse. He placed a hand on her shoulder, patting her, trying to get her to eat. What probably Taichi didn't understand was – why's she the one crying, when she was the one who broke up with his golden-haired, rock star-of-a-friend.

Speaking of the devil, Yamato still owed him a very reasonable explanation as to why all of this had to happen, especially when it all came too suddenly. He only found out recently that his two best friends were already dunzo since yesterday. Or so they say. But even so, all of the sacrifices Taichi made were already seemingly in vain – and God, he still wasn't sure if he had moved on but he definitely had improvement since then, despite them getting together three years ago.

He can't believe he'd say it, but he wished this was just one of the fake, non-serious break-ups that couples do, and eventually get back together, seven days in time. Taichi did not like her crying, even if sometimes he was the reason. He unfolded the napkin of his bento, and started to eat.

But Sora had something else in her mind. Taichi had just aggravated the whole situation she was in for carelessly inviting Yamato with them earlier in class. Fortunately, Yamato still had the decency to the decline Taichi's offer, else she might have just stormed off. She knew her brunet friend did not mean to make her feel this way, but sometimes he was just impossible – just as impossible as he was for criticizing the length of her hair or her taste in food.

"I can't believe it.. how can he act as if nothing happened, still smiling and all?!" croaked Sora, as she started to remember how she and Yamato now became former lovers. And here was Taichi beside her, unaware that it was because of him that she and Yamato started to fall out. Only recently had it seemed utterly pointless to be in a very exhausting relationship.

"Hmm," was all that Taichi managed to say, and it infuriated her. Oh, how she wished Mimi was with her now.

"Taichi-kun, you still haven't changed! Here I am at my lowest, and all you can say is –"

"Sora-chan," he interrupted her venting as he forced a roll of sushi to her mouth with his chopsticks. She muffled a few inaudible curses at Taichi, then started to compliment Mrs. Yagami's cooking. And when Sora seemed to have forgotten what she was about to say, she indulged herself more with the food. He smiled in satisfaction as she seemed to have finally enjoyed his company.