New Story, new anime, writing Digimon fics now. Been a Sorato fan forever so I thought to myself 'why the heck not?'

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Shift.

Edited- August 18, 2009

Summary: Sometimes friendships change feelings develop and we find ourselves wondering if everything is in vain. Sometimes life moves so fast and we are dragged along. It's enough to make you write a song about it.

Disclaimer: I own a lot of things; Digimon is not one of them. Oh, but the song is mine. Purely KageSakura so don't steal please and thank you.

Ship: Matt x Sora

Chapter One- Minor setbacks

How can it be that life passes us by

Have you ever wondered why?

And here we are standing around

World outta control

Spinning out of control

And I can't let go

But I don't feel like standing arou

"ARGH! No. No. No. !!!"

I dragged my eraser over my scratchy writing, leaving a pink mark of residue over the mayhem. I was totally not in the mood for song writing.

Taking out a fresh sheet of paper I tried again, and by try I mean stared at it blankly for five minutes. This is not working out.

After about ten more unproductive minutes I admitted defeat. I got up stretching and glanced at the clock: 4:53 AM. I should have gone to bed hours ago, but it's not like my dad is around to yell at me for breaking night again. He recently got a promotion at that TV station of his and that meant more hours, meaning, he was home only in the day, which he took to sleeping. I never saw my old man anymore, but I can honestly say it's not any different from how it's always been.

I made my way to the kitchen in the dark, my head ached and I needed an aspirin. Well considering I had just spent so many hours staring at my homework and song lyrics by the light of a desk lamp, I wasn't surprised.

Fumbling in the cabinet I found the aspirin and instinctively popped it into my mouth washing it down with a glass of water. Then a weird realization came over me: Sora is gonna yell at me again.

The redhead had recently taken to thinking she was my mother or something, and lectured me on how breaking night every night would lead me to an early grave, and she wasn't going to stand by and watch it happen. Whatever that meant…seriously she always worries too much.

5:15 AM. Maybe I should go lie down.

I made my way to my room, got into my bed and blacked out.

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The next day I made it to school just as the bell rang. I sat in the back of the class hearing my teacher's drawling voice somewhere in the distance. He could have been speaking Russian for all I knew; I was so out of it. I was counting the ceiling tiles (68) for the third time, when I heard my name being called.

"Huh?" I snapped out of it.

"Mr. Ishida, as you seem to be concentrating so hard I was wondering if you could enlighten the class on the importance of the drosphilia model in molecular genetics."

I blinked. I could hear people whispering to each other, some of them laughing.

"Um…."I said slowly…I read this last night. I tried not to blush knowing that Miyamoto would get a kick out of it, he loves torturing students. I was his favorite victim.

Come on! Drosophilia model in genetics…I pleaded with my brain. Then it all came back to me.

Miyamoto sensei was already looking in his grade book, a red pen between his fingers. "Well it seems Mr. Ishida is getting a ze--"

"Wait you didn't let me say anything," I responded. "It's because the drosphilia fly has only four chromosomes one of which is sex-linked making it easy to identify the locations mutations on different alleles and is a classic example of simple Mendilian inheritance." I'm sure I quoted the text book at that moment, but it didn't really matter. I had won this round.

Miyamoto froze, a look of disappointment and surprise painted perfectly on his rigid face. I smirked. This was killing him inside, he had been so eager to give me that zero.

Before he could say anything Risa Takahashi, the class brainiac, spoke up. "He's right you know, sensei."

His lips formed a thin line. "Of course," he said. "Now let us turn back to chapter 24…."

I turned and thanked Risa who sat behind me. She smiled and showed me what page we were currently reading.

This is going to be a long day, I think to myself.

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At around lunch time I made my way outside, to the spot where all the cherry trees are. I saw the familiar bushy head of my best friend Tai. As I approached him I noticed Sora was with him too. She glanced in my direction and made a face.

"What?" I asked.

"You broke night again." It was a simple statement but the way she said made it sound like: "Why don't you just jump off a bridge while your at it?"

She started to say something else but her friend, Keiko, Reiko—whatever, came up from nowhere and tapped her shoulder. "Sora we have to get going…"

"Oh yeah, you're right," Sora smiled sheepishly. She turned to Tai and me. "You're going to be at the game on Wednesday right?" You see, Sora had recently joined the tennis team, and was actually doing pretty well.

I nodded.

Tai got this really weird grin on his face.

"Of course! Girls in short skirts hitting balls around, I wouldn't miss it!" he laughed.

I groaned. So did Sora. Keiko What's Her Face, just stared.

"You'll have to forgive Tai," I sighed. "The lack of attention from the opposite sex has driven him down the path of perversion."

"No kidding..." What's Her Face sweatdropped. Like in those anime shows you know, she actually did it.

It took Tai a good minute to react. "What did you just call me?!"

I burst out laughing as he threw a punch at me.

"Well as fun as it is watching you guys hit each other I have to get going," said an amused Sora. See you guys around."

Tai watched her leave and then turned to me. "What was that all about?"

"Your perverted ways scared them away," I joked. I took a seat under one of the cherry trees and took out my lunch. Man, was I hungry.

"No," said Tai looking serious, he does that once in a while. "Sora keeps letting herself get dragged away by those tennis girlfriends of hers." He sat down and started on his own bento box.

I shrugged. I didn't find it weird; so she has other friends. "You know Tai, she does have a life besides us guys. I think it's good for her to be hanging out with new people, especially girls. I mean, ever since Mimi left, she is the only girl in our group. I can see why she needs a break from all the testosterone."

"I guess…"

I smirked, I couldn't help it. The look on his face was so pathetic; he looked like his favorite soccer ball has just deflated. "Cheer up, man. It's not like you won't see her tomorrow."

Then a thought occurred to me. "Dude, don't tell you're jealous…."

"Of course not!" he said a little too hastily. His face was all friend.

"You really are, you're jealous!"

"Cut it out Matt!"

I started laughing again, once again at the expense of my best friend's misery. I'm a horrible person. "Tai, they're just girls they aren't gonna kidnap her or anything. Besides Sora still likes hanging out with you a lot more than with them. They don't even compare to your….uh…." I ate a mouthful of rice and chewed thoughtfully.

"Dashing good looks?" Tai grinned.

I almost choked. "No way, man."

"You don't think I'm attractive, Matt?"

I think I just lost my appetite.

"Dude, seriously. You need some serious help." I said wrapping up my lunch for later. Thanks a lot Tai.

Tai laughed. "I guess you're right…about that…but also, you're right man I should let her roam free and be her own person, even if it does mean she is hanging with the Barbie tennis crew."

"It's the perfect substitute for Mimi." I thought aloud. If you seriously think about it, it is!

Tai burst out laughing. "You crack me up Ishida, come on man, the bells about to ring."

I got up and walked with him to our next class. Linear Algebra.

Maybe I'll sleep through the next class, I thought yawning.

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The day went by without further consequence and I found myself walking home, with a ton of homework to get done. My band had called my cell phone, luckily practice was canceled. I got to my apartment and quietly (because my dad was asleep in his room) made it to my room.

After about two hours of reading for Biology and two more hours of algebra and physics, I decided to take a break. I went to the kitchen and cooked up some fried rice and took it with me to my room. I still had to do my English homework, so I took out my English book and started reading aloud through mouthfuls of rice.

"A sentence should have a subject and predicate. Other wise it is considered a fragment. When speaking one must also address a subject in a sentence as well as the predicate to evoke a complete thought. For example Mary is a college student, who attends Tokyo University. Mary is the subject of this sentence."

I flipped through a couple more pages and read through lists of vocabulary words I needed to memorize. Some of which I couldn't even pronounce, and the weird spelling of the words made it worse. "I definitely should have taken French instead."

Somewhere between, adoration and guilt the phone rang. I picked it up on the third ring.

"Ishida residence."

"Oh? Matt?" the feminine voice on the other line sounded confused.

"Yes that's me."

"This is Sora….I'm so sorry…I meant to call Tai."

"Oh, well I have his new cell number if you need it," I said.

"No, no. It's fine, in fact…do you mind if I ask you something?"

"Not at all. What's up?"

"Well…that is….I heard, does Tai like me?"

I suddenly felt really awkward. I mean, I had always had the feeling that Tai and Sora (at the risk of sounding corny) were sorta meant for each other. And I knew for a fact that he liked her, despite all this denial. I, along with everyone else in our group was basically waiting for them to cut the act announce their wedding already. It seemed Sora didn't get that memo, or she maybe was just as stubborn as Tai was when it came to absolute denial.

"Um..." I started awkwardly. I thought about pretending I knew nothing. I didn't want to cause problems.

"Please Matt…" the voice on the other side of the phone sounded almost desperate. At that moment I knew I would give in. It was Sora, and she could get me to do anything with one simple phrase. It had been that way since junior high and she knew it perfectly well.

"Well…I started again. "I'm not sure I…gaahhhh why must you put me in this position!"

"Because you're his best friend besides me, and I need to clear it up. All these rumors flying around I have the right to know if their true." I stood silent ear to the phone contemplating on what to tell her without revealing too much. She switched tactics, "Please Matt."

Damn you Sora.

"Sora, you seriously don't know?" I almost smacked myself for getting caught up in this. But as I had said before she had this strange power over me. Girls are like that, and between Mimi and Sora, the guys and I always found our resolve to say "no" futile.

"Know what?"

I ran a hand through my hair, choosing my words carefully. "Tai…that is…yea Tai likes you, he likes you a lot, see. At least he has since day one." Great now Tai is gonna kill me if he finds out.

"Why didn't he just tell me? I had to find out via a rumor from a bunch of freshmen…"

"Well I…all of us were under the impression that you knew…and that you liked him back …but you two were both too stubborn to say anything. That is the case right?"

"I—I'm sorry…I have to go, my mother is calling." And with that she hangs up the phone and my ears are greeted with silence.

I put down the receiver and looked back to my work. "Well that wasn't awkward at all," I said out loud.

Great I finally get the words together to say to the girl and she just hangs up.

Seriously, didn't she had no idea the position she had put me in. I had relented, the least she could do was listen.

At like 12:53 AM I decided to go to bed, all my homework, readings, papers, and song writing done for the time being. Now Sora couldn't say anything about my "suicidal sleeping patterns" as she put it. Not that staying up late was going to kill me anytime soon. She was so strange.

I got into the bed and looked up at the ceiling lost in thought. Something was bothering me.

I didn't know what it was. Sora hadn't sounded too enthusiastic, so I didn't know what to expect from this whole situation or how Tai would react. All I knew was I was tired and needed sleep. So I closed my eyes and let the dark wave of sleep take over me, leaving all unresolved issues unresolved; issues to be dealt with in the morning.

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Tai's POV.

I guess you could say I found myself between a rock and a hard place. A few minutes earlier I had been drawing up a schedule for the school soccer team, and then Sora comes out of nowhere demanding to talk. Well her definition of talk was obviously different from mine, because she started yelling about how insensitive I was and then had started crying. I for once, didn't know what to say to make her feel better, and how could I? I didn't know why she was mad at me in the first place!

"Sora," I said putting my hands on her shoulders trying to calm her down. "Please get a hold of your self, tell me what I did to make you this upset!"

Sora jerked away from me, as if I was some poisonous snake. "Don't touch me Tai."

The venom in her voice scared me. This is definitely not the Sora I know.

"What did I do?" She was getting me so frustrated.

"It's what you didn't do. How come everyone in the school knows about your little crush on me? How come I'm the last to know, and the only way I found out was through a freshman girl whose locker is next to mine?"

"Oh…um…" My mind went numb, I could tell you that much.

"I'd think the great Taichi Yagami would have a greater comeback than that." She laughed bitterly.

"Hey now…how is that my fault? I didn't ask to like you, and I certainly didn't go around telling the whole school anything!" I protested.

"Yeah, and you didn't tell me anything either."

"What's the matter with you? Why on earth are you fighting me Sora? This is as pointless as that time you got mad at me about that hat comment…"

Her amber eyes got wide, and shiny. She looked as if she was going to strangle me. I took a step back in precaution.

"This has a lot more importance than that! How can you even say that Tai? You're always doing this! You say things and then wonder why people get mad. You never stop to think about how your words affect others."

This stung, and she knew it. I tried to keep my anger at a minimum level. This was Sora I was talking to after all, I didn't want to seem more like the jerk that I already was in her eyes. But I couldn't stop my voice from shaking.

"What do you want me to say then? What do you want me to do? You're yelling at me for something I can't control, telling me I'm insensitive when I'm trying to avoid another argument. What do you want from me Sora Takenouchi?" In my frustration I punched a nearby desk, sending a flurry of papers to the ground.

At this Sora calms down a bit, I guess I scared her, but I can't help it. I'm really angry and trying not to lose control, but it's hard.

She was standing by the door, staring at the papers, that had fallen. She bent over to pick them up, and arranged them neatly all the while choosing not to look at me. Finally she got up and laid them on the desk.

She turned to face me her amber eyes weren't so fiery now. Instead something else had replaced them. I couldn't understand what though.

"I want…I want you to stop beating around the subject, I want you to tell me to my face, not find out through the school. Not when I'm one of the closest people to you. I'm not sure why but you're always doing this, is like you don't trust me or something. It's like we have all these misunderstandings…and we are always fighting. Our friendship is hanging by a thread, all the time. I want it to stop, and I don't want to threaten our friendship anymore, or complicate it…"

I took a step towards her; she was still standing straight up looking at me. It took all my will to not wrap my arms around her steady frame.

"Complicate it? I like you Sora, and you like me. How is that complicated?" A whole new wave of foreign emotions took me over; I ran my hand through my hair nervously trying to calm down.

"Tai…I don't want to hurt you or this friendship…" She looked me straight in the eyes.

I suddenly found the blue linoleum floor tiles fascinating.

"Look, I like you…a lot, actually… I already met my end of the bargain; I said it to your face, like you wanted. Now it's your turn. "Do you like me?"

"Tai…"

I almost went over and shook her, but opted to shake the desk between us.

"Answer me!"

"I can't." Those wretched tears were in her eyes again. The ones I couldn't wipe away.

She put her arms around herself, as if she was shielding herself. But she kept on talking.

"I can't…you and I…we would just end up hurting each other... and I just can't…" tears filled her eyes again and this time she began to fully cry. I got scared. Crying girls always freak me out. I wanted to just hold her to me and make her stop, but I stay where I am.

"I'm sorry." I said genuinely. No matter how much I want to I can't be her protector.

"Well I have to be going," I said, slinging my backpack over my shoulder. "See you on Wednesday at your game."

She was eerily silent as I walked out. But I could hear her crying even as I made my way down the hallway.

A/N- Had to stop it there, but there is alot more to come. Till next time ha been another plot bunny attack come to life by yours truly, KageSakura.

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