The Tai Therapy
"Mom! It's on sale
for 45% off!" Taichi Yagami begged, pointing at a pair of rollerblades winking
at him teasingly thru a store window.
"No, Taichi, for the last time, no." his
mom answered firmly.
Hikari pointed at a bestselling book in a
bookshop, "Why not get a good book instead?"
Taichi snorted, "As if."
~*~
"You're WHAT?!" Sora yelled in Taichi's
face.
"I'm opening a therapy center." He
replied happily, setting up a small wooden stand that said, "Lemonade 10
cents The Tai Therapy 25 cents"
"You?
Who never listens to anyone's problems?" Koushirou laughed.
Taichi glared at him, "Shut up."
Yamato remarked, "You? Who I once said had ice running thru your
veins?"
Taichi glared at him too, "Shut up."
Sora joined in, "You? Who has hair twice the size of your brain?"
Taichi glared at her too, "SHUT UP."
~*~
Taichi folded his hands together and
looked out of his little wooden stand.
"No one's coming…weird." He said to himself. "I thought they'd be coming in by the hordes."
Just then a figure skipped past the
stand. Taichi immediately recognized
the burgundy hair and goggles.
"Hey Daisuke!" he shouted, "Wanna be my
first customer?"
The boy looked past his shoulder at
Taichi, "Therapy center?…thanks but no thanks." And walked away.
"You'll regret it!" Taichi called after
him, "I mean it!"
~*~
"A whole hour wasted." Taichi grumbled to
himself.
A hour had passed and still no one had
came to his stand. After Daisuke
passed, Miyako had strode past also, but she too, refused.
Then another familiar face came into
view.
"Takeru!" Taichi called, waving his hand.
Takeru looked up, "Taichi?"
Taichi perched himself on the stool, tall
and confident (he thinks). "Wanna be my
first—and this is serious, folks, first!—ever customer?"
Takeru looked up at the sign,
"Therapy? Um…you're a therapist?"
Taichi coughed, "Not professionally, but
soon."
"Er…right. Well, I gotta go. See ya
later." And without a second glance, Takeru hurried away also.
~*~
Taichi was snoozing in the afternoon sun,
since no one had came by since Takeru, which was about a hour ago.
There was a sudden, "Mister, hey mister!"
and Taichi's head snapped up.
A customer?
It was a little boy, staring at him, "Why are you
sleepin'?" he asked, thumb in mouth.
Taichi sighed, "Never mind that. Now run along, go play in the sandbox or
something."
The little boy stared at Taichi some
more, "Wuzzat you have on your head?"
"My headband."
"No, the brown fuzzy stuff."
Taichi's face grew red, "THAT'S MY HAIR."
"Oh." The little boy nodded slowly and
walked away.
~*~
Now it's been another hour, and so far no
one has passed by since the little boy except Iori, who Taichi had presumed
would've refused to therapy too.
"So, no customers?" a teasing voice
sounded from behind him.
Taichi groaned and turned around to face
Sora Takenouchi. "Don't need to rub it
in."
"Can't say I'm surprised." Sora taunted.
"After all, who wants to pay a quarter for therapy from an immature boy when
they can get it for free at school or something?"
Taichi retorted, "Well, I can probably understand
them better than adults. You know, like
about love problems." At the word "love" he glowered at Sora.
Sora's face colored, "A-ah, whatever,
Taichi. Later days." And she left.
~*~
"Doin' good?" Hikari asked.
"Oh yeah, just great. Tons of customers." Taichi replied
sarcastically.
"I can tell." Hikari nodded.
Taichi sighed, "Just leave me alone,
wouldja?"
Hikari giggled, "Okay, okay, fine…I was
about to offer advertising but, if you insist…" she shrugged.
"What didja say about advertising?" Taichi
perked up.
"Welllllll," Hikari drawled, "I'm a pretty good
photographer, and I can take pictures of you with *cough* patients *cough* and
scan it in the computer, then have Koushirou print it out as a brochure and
hand it out."
Taichi looked at her, wide-eyed, "You
would do that for me? Seriously?"
"Anything as long you'll be my slave for
a month." Hikari grinned.
"Fine, fine." He sighed.
~*~
"I want the photo of me super-sized on
the front of the brochure." Taichi instructed.
Koushirou sighed, "This is the largest it
could go, Taichi."
"Here, I'll make it go bigger." Taichi
grabbed the mouse from Koushirou and skated it over the pad.
Koushirou's eyes followed the cursor on
the screen and suddenly screamed, "NOT THAT BUTTON, TAICHIIII!"
"Oooooops." Taichi grinned sheepishly as
the computer screen went blank.
Hikari punched the power button and the
computer rebooted.
But another horrifying mistake was soon
to be found.
"TAICHI YOU DESTROYED ALL MY FILES!"
Koushirou screamed.
~*~
"Aw c'mon Koushirou, it was an accident!"
Taichi tried to explain to his friend as they walked back from the repair shop.
Koushirou was ignoring him and his fists
were clenched at his sides.
"Koushirouuuuu!" Taichi
whined. "It was a DAMN mistake!"
Hikari whirled around, "Taichi!"
Koushirou said thru gritted teeth, "Don't
go cussin' cuz you messed up my laptop and all the important files on it and
all the school reports I'm supposed to turn in and all the major stuff on
it. You can just grab a knife and give
it to me."
~*~
"Please please please Jyou?" Taichi
begged on his knees.
Jyou Kido looked at him skeptically, "You
sure you wont break my computer?"
Taichi nodded fervently, "'course I'm
sure! I'm so sure I'm sure!"
Jyou sighed, "Well then, I suppose."
Hikari whispered, "Careful, he always
says he's sure and then—KABLAM—something goes wrong for sure."
Jyou looked at Hikari. "Thanks for the tip. I'll keep that in mind…definitely."
~*~
"You said you wont break my
computer!" Jyou sputtered. "Now you crashed
all the files including the fifty-pages long school report I'm supposed
to turn in tomorrow!"
Taichi looked shamefacedly at the ground and mumbled, "I
said sorry."
"You think that'd help bring back my
files?" Jyou shouted.
Hikari held up a hand, "Now, calm down,
Jyou. And Taichi, I dunno how you're
supposed to repay Jyou but maybe you can try writing a note to Jyou's teacher
explaining why his file got erased."
"FIFTY-PAGES!" Jyou continued moaning.
~*~
"Okay, I suppose we can forget the
brochure part." Hikari sighed as she crossed another name off the list. (Here's what the list looked like:
-People willing to help with brochure
idea:
Koushirou Izumi
Jyou Kido
Yamato Ishida
Sora Takenouchi
Miyako Inoue
Takeru Takashi
Iori Hida
Daisuke Motomiya)
Taichi nodded grimly. "Let's try something else then."
A/n- OMG, this is so ridiculously
short! But I dunno how to continue it…so
if you have any ideas for Taichi's get-moolah-fast method, please review or
email me at DigimonGoddess@aol.com!
Later dayz
CyberSerpent .~
