Across the Crowd Chapter 1: Prologue in Taichi style, a digimon fanfic

Across the crowd

Hannio

Prologue

Putting things into perspective Taichi style.

DISCLAIMER: I own none of the Digimon characters mentioned in this fic, they belong to the creator funnily enough

AUTHOR NOTE: Here we are my new Taito fic, since I've finished Something More, I was left with one extra space for writing and since I'm only revising for exams now, all my coursework id finished I have the time to do this. The prologue is done in Tai's prespective because I wanted a first hand view. I think from chapter one it will be third person again though you'll have to tell me what you think. Remember It's an AU but I hope you enjoy it.

Hi my name is Taichi Yagami. Course if we were in Japan where my family is originally from then it would be Yagami Taichi, but since we're in America then that's not gonna happen is it.

I've lived in America for around about 10 years now, I left Japan when I was 5, yep if you do the Maths then you can realise that I'm 15 now. Well 15 and 5 months and around about 6 days. As you can tell I'm kinda of a sucker for detail, always have been and if things carry on the way they do then I'll always will be.

I go to a local school in the suburbs of Long Island, that's in New York if you don't know and it's pretty good for a school. Well the school and lessons are good. The people are not.

Now in this school you have several different groups, probably the same as every other school. Some people fit in and are popular and well liked and then there are the other ones, which the popular people pick on, to make them look good in front of their friends. I am one of these people. I'm what is considered a skater boy.

Now the funny thing to me is the fact that they believe calling me a skater boy behind my back and, with the more cocky ones, to my face is meant to be an insult. I can't understand why it would be considered that. I suppose it's because I always wear baggy trouser or combats and oversized t-shirt and my hair is always wild and sticking up everywhere no matter what I do with it. That's why they call me it It's not my problem really. I am a skater boy; I have my blades, which I go skating on so why should I give a fuck.

There's only one thing none of the will know about me… The popular group I mean and that's that I am gay. I personally don't care and nor do my small circle of friends but the rest of the school would be a different matter, I don't even think I could cope with that thought of everyone knowing. It's not that I care about it, I am who I am end of story. I'm not even ashamed by the fact, I'm just cautious.

I'm luckier than most people in the school I have a small group of friends who I can trust with everything and who they can trust me with everything. So I can count them on my fingers who care. First there's Shiro, he's the brains of us, before we adopted him he was doing nearly all the school's homework for them just to avoid being beaten up, he doesn't do it now… Well not all the time. Then there's Joe. He doesn't hang around with us much in school because he's in the year above but he still there for us especially Shiro. Daisuke is like me I guess he's a skater boy and he doesn't care who knows it at all. He's the only other one who will stick up for everyone out of the boys, except me that is. Miyako is the loudest girl in the group and she's smart and feisty and unfortunately for us she has a large mouth on her and loves to starts fights. What you gonna do though. My sister Hikari also hangs with us, she's on the school paper as the photographer and she's really good, I think she could be popular if she wanted to but her loyalties lie with us. The last member is Iori, he's in the year below but he's still one of us. So that's our crew, we all skate together, have fun together and stick together.

Most people leave us alone. We're beneath there notice but there is one group who won't do that. They see it as fun to make our lives hell. We give back as good as we get but now they seem determined to crush us. Well I say bring it on, we'll hold our own the same as we always have.

The group I'm talking about is the mixture group. I'll go onto explain just in case you aren't sure what I mean by the term mixture group. In this group you have Cheerleaders, Jocks, even a fucking musician in them, they act like they rule the school and to be honest they do. Everyone is afraid of them bar us. That's what makes us the challenge.

I guess I'll go on and explain them to everyone. Sora Takenouchi is on the cheerleading squad, she's one of those people who appear really nice but at the same time she's pretending to be nice to you she's insulted you. She's like a… a jellyfish, they look harmless but if you get to near them then you know it, Mimi Tachikawa is the head cheerleader and is like you would imagine her to be, pretty but empty headed, she walks around in a dream world not really seeing what was going on with the rest of the school. She's always seemed a sweet girl but I've never gotten close enough to find out. Ken Ichijouji was the boy genius of the group, he was the same age as Dai, or Davis as he's called in class, he's seems a bit stuck up and quiet and I'm surprised he's actually in the group. Takeru Takashi is on the basketball team. No one really knows much about him, I heard him and his brother had a shitty childhood but I don't know if it's true or not, he's a writer for the magazine as well and as much as I hate to say it he's really good. He's one of the ones who can hurt you with one comment. They all can. The last member is Yamato Ishida. Takeru's brother. There is not one person in this school who does not know Yamato Ishida, singer of the band that everyone talks about, everything he does is perfect form his work to his put downs. He's the dangerous one in the school no denying that.

I guess we'll have to be more careful tomorrow when school starts again but we can do it. Nothing dramatics gonna happen anyway.

I know it's short but it is only a prologue, chapter one will be longer and I have loads of ideas for this. Let me know what you think in a review but no Flames please.