Tai: My lil sis does not
own digimon. As much as she'd like to, she just doesn't. I have spent several
nights comforting her about that fact. Enjoy her stories, but don't sue. She
means no infringement of any copyrights and is extremely grateful for the incredible
creations that provide her this creative outlet. ::hugs C-chan:: Shh, it's all
right.
STORM OF SINCERE
KNOWLEDGE
I lean face first into the wind and squint.
"Izzy-chan, the wind's picking up! Can you find the
weather in that thing?"
A few taps on his keyboard later, he brings up a weather
page.
"Just as I suspected," he nodded. "There's
a low pressure system moving up from the southwest and it's dangerously close
to colliding with the high pressure system coming down from the northeast."
I pull my head in and look at him dully, blinking.
"English, perhaps?"
He turned and grinned.
"Gomen, Meems, there's a storm coming."
I shake my head.
"So what do we do?" I inquire, looking back at
the tree branches flapping about.
He's silent for a moment and taps slowly at the keyboard.
"It's going to be pretty severe. Winds up to
sixty-five miles per hour," he muses, reading from the screen. Suddenly,
he spins from the desk. "You lock all the windows, I'll get all the doors.
Make sure Tentomon is inside and we'll hide out in the basement."
I nod and nervously fly about the house, slamming all the
windows shut and locking them immediately. I get to one particularly stubborn
pane and struggle with it as the wind whips in. I should've gotten this
one first, I contemplate.
Izzy comes dashing in and clamps his hands over mine,
pressing down to shut the glass. There's a loud slam as the tenacious window
finally gives way and shudders closed. The two of us stand, panting a bit in
exhaustion. We lean against the glass and sigh. The loud sound of rain pelting
the glass forces us away and we land in the center of the room. After a shocked
second or two, I realize I've landed on him, and I swiftly roll
off of him, with quite a blush.
"Oi, gomen, Kou-san," I mumble.
"Eh...it's all right," he murmurs, not moving
from his prone posture on the carpet. "Make sure it's locked," he
says, suddenly jumping up. "The last thing we want is glass shards flying
at us." Hai, I feel REALLY safe now. "I'll get
Tentomon settled...somewhere..."
I nod as he rushes out. The window lock clicks into place
under my fingers and I slump to the floor. I can't believe I fell ON
him...oi, Kami-sama, why me? Mimi no baka.
Out of nowhere, I swear, there's a prodigious
crack of thunder. Heh, I learned that word from Izzy-san. I wasn't scared. Not
at all. I was merely...surprised. That's the only reason I screamed as loud as
I did.
All right, I was scared.
I almost laughed when Izzy responded with a scream that rivaled
mine in volume.
"NANI?!" he yelled as he fell up the stairs.
I didn't know a person could do that.
"Oi, Izzy-san...go-gomen, I was st-startled."
I bite back tears as he abandons Tentomon on the bed.
"I didn't realize you were afraid of storms,
Mimi-chan."
His expression is something like pity or sympathy. I
haven't seen much of one or the other, so I can't be sure.
"I'm not!" I protest, but a defiant tear
tumbles down my cheek as a flash of lightning throws me into him.
"Okay...I'm not exactly at ease with it," I admit slowly. He lets out
a small chuckle and hugs me quickly.
"Come on, we'll watch a movie or something. Maybe we
can get your mind off of the storm."
I nod, ashamed of crying in front of Izzy-san, but follow
him meekly, Tentomon following me.
I cower on the couch, my knees bent to my chin, as Izzy
finds a CD to slip into the DVD player. I find my gaze slipping to a slightly
less appropriate place and I blush, studying the upholstery pattern.
The cushions shift under me as Izzy practically falls
next to me.
"Here. The Matrix. Um...I think you'll enjoy
it."
His tone indicated perhaps I wouldn't understand it. Ha!
Little did he know I'd seen it seven times. In the past month.
"Is it just me, or is that one guy a total
jerk?"
Izzy face faults and blinks at me blankly.
"Uh...yeah. Yeah, he's a total moron."
I smile as we turn back to the screen, but my victory is
short-lived as another clap of thunder causes me to jump and let out a
terrified squeal. There's an earsplitting crack and the room goes dark. I
scream again. Tentomon joins me with a mechanical
"Ahh!"
I scrunch myself up and
whimper a bit. A hand rests gently on my shoulder and I jump again, only not
quite as severely.
"Oi, it's all right, Mimi-chan," Izzy whispers.
"The power went out."
"It's so dark, Izzy," I whine.
"I know. It's all right. We probably blew a fuse or
something. I'll go...um...do whatever it is you do to fix...that sort of
thing."
"NO!"
"All right, I'll just get a flashlight."
"NO! Izzy, I know I sound like a child, but please
don't leave me."
There's a pause, and the cushions move again as he
settles back to his former position.
"Okay. Okay, it's all right, Mimi-chan."
"Gomen nassai, Kou-san. I get so scared in the dark.
I feel so foolish," I whisper.
There's another pause, and Izzy tentatively slips his arm
around my shoulder.
"Oi, don't worry about it. I'm right here, ne?
Nothing's going to happen. Tentomon's here as well, so we're all set."
Tentomon clicks his claws in agreement.
Tears escape me and I sniffle on the couch. Izzy tuts and
pulls me into his lap.
"Come on now...don't cry."
He sounds panicked as opposed to worried, but I'm sitting
here in his arms, so who am I to complain?
"Go-gomen na-nassai, Izzy-san."
"Oh, come on. Don't be sorry. Everyone's afraid of
something."
I blinked. Izzy's afraid of something? Izzy? The boy who
fearlessly helped to save the world-two worlds-while I stood in my pajamas?
"You-you're afraid of something?"
I feel him nod, softly sending his chin rubbing against
my head.
"Before today, I was afraid of being alone forever.
I was beginning to think my computer would be my only comfort."
He chuckles briefly and I find myself holding onto him
for all he's worth. And to me, that's a lot.
"Izzy? Is the storm over?" I ask as the sound
of the rain fades away. He lifts the shade and peeks out.
"Yeah. Let me get a flashlight and we can figure out
that fuse box."
He stands, and I catch his shirttail.
"Izzy-chan? Wanna light a candle instead?"
*owari*
