A/N- Ok people, this is my first post to FF.N and it has major religious content, a passage from the Bible, and some Taiora fluff mixed all together.
Please bear with me though, because I worked really hard on it and would like some honest reviews at the end. On with the fic!


Romans 7:14- Part 1

"Oh, please let him be home!" Sora thought impatiently while waiting fo Tai to answer the phone.

"Pick up!" she whined.

"Lo? Tai Kamiya speaking."

"Finally! Tai, you're too slow."

"Well, hello to you to Sora."

"Tai, I have a major favor to ask."

"Name it."

"I haven't been feeling like myself at all lately, and I need someone, mainly you, to talk to."

"Sora, I'm already on my way."

"Thank You."

"No problem. Bye."

"Bye."


Tai hung up the phone and glanced at the desk on the far side of his room.
On it lay a blue leather book and, next to it, a white box. He walked over
to the desk and picked them up.

"Something tells me I'm gonna need these."

He grabbed his coat and headed out the door.


Sora had just plopped down on the couch when the doorbell rang.
"He has such bad timing." she thought.

Tai heard Sora yell "Its open!" so he pushed open the door and stepped inside.
He shed his coat and hung it on the rack after drawing the blue book and the
box from it. Sora turned to him from the couch.

"You got here in a hurry."

"Well, you said you needed to talk, he said as he sat down next to her,"so let's talk."

"I really don't know where to begin." she said sheepishly.

"Think about it, and start whenever you feel froggy." Tai smiled.


"What do I tell him?" Sora thought anxiously."Where do I begin?"

"Tai, what I'm about to say will stay betwen you and me, no one else, right?"

"Of course."

"Promise?"

Tai locked her left pinky with his own in a childish gesture.

"I wouldn't dare break that." he said, nodding toward their hands.

"Alright. I've sorta hit a void in my life. I feel something tugging at my heart,
and I can't figure out what it is. I feel like I'm standing in the middle of a road.
To the left is darkness, and to the right is light. I want to go into the light,
but something is holding me back."

Tai could tell she was trying to hold back tears. He reached behind him and
started leafing throught the blue book for a certain passage as Sora continued.

"I believe there's a God and everything, but I'm still skeptical.That stuff never
seemed to hold anything for me. There are too many exceptions to it.
Is any of this even making sense?"

"Perfect sense. I know just how you feel. I was at that same point once, but
I found hope."

It was then that Sora saw the title of the bok he was holding. It was his
Bible.

"Tai," she said, starting to get defensive, "I do NOT wanna be preached to."

"I'm not going to preach to you. I'm going to show you something that might
help."

He looked up and saw the clock above tha mantel. It was 7:00.

"Oh my gosh! I missed diner! My parents are gonna kill me!!!"

He dug out a small piece of paper from the book and furiously scribbled something
on it. He handed Sora the box and the paper.

"Open the box and look this up.: he said. "Sorry I have to cut this short, but
this'll help. I promise." He pecked her on the cheek and flew out the door.


"O-kay."
Sora sat there, stunned and blushing, after Tai had gone. She looked down at
the box he had handed her and opened it slowly. Inside were a white Bible,
a small green box, and a CD without a label.

"What in the world?" she wondered.

She picked up te green box. It held a small silver cross inside a fish shape,
and she put it on. It was beautiful.

She looked at the paper Tai had scribbled on. She could barely make out:

Sora,
I know this passage in the Scripture that really helped me when I was
at the same crossroads you are. I hope and pray you'll read it. Its
Romans 7:14.
Love,
Tai

"Ugh, yeah right Tai." she scoffed with a smal laugh.


Three hours later, Sora felt worse than ever. Something was bearing down
on her spiritually and emotionally. She felt like someone or something was
speaking to her, but it was without words.It was as if this thing was
communicating with her very soul. The pounding of her heart was so
immense she thought it would burst. She was standing on the brink of
something, but she didn't know what. She was close to tears when her
gaze settled on the Bible Tai had given her. Something compelled
her to pick it up and read the passage her told her about. It took her a
moment to find it, then she began reading..................


The law is good, then, the trouble is not there but with me, because
I am sold into slavery with Sin as my owner.I don't really understand
myself at all, for I really want to do what is right, but I can't.
I do what I don't want to do-what I hate. I know perfectly well
that what I am doing is wrong,and my bad conscience prove I
agree wih these laws I'm breaking. But I can't help myself,
because I'm no longer doing it. It is the sin inside me that makes me
do these evil things.

I know I am rotten through and through as far as my old sinful nature is
concerned. No matter which way I turn I can't make myself do right.
I want to, but I can't. When I want to do good, I don't; and when
I try not to do wrong, I do it anyway. Now if I am doing what I don't
want to, it is plain where the trouble is: sin still has me in its evil
grasp.

It sems to be a fact of life that when I want to do what is right, I
inevitably do what is wrong.I love to do God's will so far as my new
nature is concerned; but there is something else deep within me,
in my lower nature, that is at war with my mind and wins the fight and
makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. In my mind I want
to be God's willing servant but instead I find myself enslaved to sin.

So you see how it is: my new life tells me to do right, but the old nature
that is stil inside me loves to sin. Oh, what a terrible predicament I'm
in! Who will free me from my slavery to this deadly lower nature?
Thank God! It has been done by Jesus Christ our Lord. He has set me
free.


Sora closed the book slowly and carefully, then stared down at it in awe.
This had hit really close to home, so close it left her dumbstruck.
She knew now what was causing the battle inside her, but something
told her that wasn't enough. She needed help and some answers.
The feeling she had earlier had died down a bit,but it was telling her
to find the answers now.

"Tai. I need to go to Tai." she thought.

She threw on her shoes, grabbed her coat and the Bible,and sprinted to
Tai's as fast as she could.



A/N- So? Whadda think? Please, PLEASE review this. There will be a
conclusion, I can't leave it like this. :) Tel me what you think.