Ugh. I need to turn my brain off, so I can finish the stories I already have started. WHY does my brain INSIST I write all this crap, instead of finishing what I have? Reviews are splendid. Pairings undecided, if any. May just be a Taichi/Yamato friendship, could be a Taito. Depends on you. That's right, you guys get to choose whether I make Yamato and Taichi and COUPLE, or just FRIENDS. Voting starts NOW, and ends after I post chapter THREE. Let the voting, and reviewing, commence!
I don't know Yamato and Taichi, Natsuko or Yuuko, or Digimon. I do own Haro, Sakura and the plot.
And as I've said so many times before this, I'm Canadian. I'm following the Canadian school system for them. Sorry if it bothers you.
Taichi watches the ball sail from his friends foot, and crash into the chest of a blonde boy. His hand immediately comes up to cradle the spot.
"Don't be a baby, Yamato. Give me back the ball." Taichi's friend demands. Yamato's arms drop, and he kicks the ball lightly back to them.
"Whose that?" Taichi asks. His friend shrugs.
"Just Yamato. He's my little brother."
"I didn't know you had a little brother. I thought you only had a little sister." The brunette says, still watching Yamato. He sits on the grass a few feet away from them, alone. The older boy shrugs.
"He's different. His eyes look more like yours, then mine."
"Oh." Taichi says, turning to look away from him. He hardly ever got to play soccer with the older kids. So when they did let him play, he didn't let anything stop him. Eventually though, the older boys get tired of the game, and disban, allowing Taichi to go investigate Yamato. The boy still hasn't moved from his spot, and is pulling grass out of the ground absently. Taichi makes a lot of noise walking over to him, so that he doesn't surprise the other boy by accident. Yamato looks up.
"Hi. I'm Taichi. You look lonely. Wanna be my friend?" The five-year old boy asks. Yamato's blue eyes widen, and he looks around, searching for..someone. Then he looks at Taichi and shrugs.
"My brother might get mad. You're his friend."
"I can be your friend, too." Taichi says, slightly hurt that the other boy doesn't want his companionship. Yamato's eyes return to the ground. Taichi sits next to him, and helps the blonde rip apart the grass carpet beneath them. They pick at the grass for awhile, before someone else joins them. A girl, a little older then Taichi.
"Yamato, what're you doing? Mom's going to be mad, you got yourself all dirty!" She says. Yamato looks at his hand.
"I'm sorry." He whispers.
"You're always sorry." She whines back at him. Yamato pouts, still looking at the dirt on his hands. The blonde girl reaches down for her brother, and yanks him up by the wrist. She drags him away without so much as a glance at Taichi.
"Bye, Yamato!" Taichi calls. They both freeze. The girl looks between them with wide eyes.
"Bye, Taichi.." Yamato mumbles. The girl gives a hard yank, and Yamato stumbles. Taichi doesn't think it's very nice, but pushes it out of his mind. They're probably late to get home. Taichi runs towards his mom, to tell her about his almost new friend, Yamato.
Three weeks later, Taichi waits impatiently for his mother to hurry up and get ready. It's far too early to be awake, especially for Taichi, but today is his first day of school, and he's excitied to go.
"Mommy, is it time to go yet?" He whines, bouncing by the door.
"Not yet, Tai."
"But I want to go to school!" Taichi stomps his foot, pouting forming on his lips.
"Soon. Just let me finish my coffee. Why don't you come have some juice?" His mom suggests.
"Okay!" Taichi runs to the kitchen and watches his mom pour him some juice. Taichi drinks his juice, as his mother finishes her coffee.
"Is it time to go now, mommy?" Taichi asks, smiling innocently. With a sigh, his mother nods.
"Yes, Taichi. It's time to go now."
"Yay!" Taichi screams, before running to the door.
Across town, Yamato is ready, and has been for twenty minutes, and is just waiting for his mother to finish up, to drive them to school. His sister, Sakura, who is sliding her shoes on, helped him, so he wouldn't get in anymore trouble, after accidentally breaking a cup. Yamato shifts nervously beside his sister as their brother appears. If Sakura notices, she doesn't say anything. Yamato looks down immediately. Haro doesn't like when Yamato looks at him. To Yamato's great relief, the ten year old doesn't even look at him.
"Are you excited, Sakura-chan?" He asks. The seven year old smiles.
"Yea!" She says happily. Sakura's eyes move to Yamato, and she smiles. Yamato doesn't return it, casting his eyes down the second Haro turns to look at him. Yamato swallows hard. He waits for a shove, or a hit, even a pinch. Nothing happens. When the boy manages to look up, his realizes it's because his mother has entered the room. She looks tired. And annoyed.
"You managed to get ready without breaking anything else?" She asks her youngest child, eyebrows raised. Yamato nods once.
"Yes, Mother. Sa-" Sakura shakes her head, and he abandons the rest of what he was doing to say. Yamato loves Sakura more then he loves his mother. Sakura might be mean to him when she's around Haro, but she's the nicest to him over-all. Although, their parents are mean to all of them equally. At least, that's what Sakura said to him, when she'd come to him in the middle of the night when he was crying. His mother doesn't notice the begin of his words, and doesn't question him. All she had heard was the 'yes' and she had stopped listening to her youngest. Natsuko flings open the door, and walks down the steps. Haro is on her heel immediately. Sakura takes Yamato's wrist gently when he doesn't move, and leads him down the steps towards their car.
"Don't worry, Yamato. You'll like school. A whole six hours away from home. It's nice." She promises. Yamato nods, not sure what to say.
Yamato's car, and Taichi's mom, pull up to the school at the same time. Taichi notices the blonde family immediately.
"Haro! Hi! And Yamato!" The boy practically bounces over to them.
"Hey Taichi! How do you know Yamato?" The older boy asks, aiming a kick at Yamato's shins. The boy doesn't move, and doesn't make a sound when their legs connect. He doesn't even notice. Or so it seems.
"We ripped grass out together one day. Sakura yelled at him for getting his hands dirty." Taichi explains as his mother follows her son over to the family. Yamato's mom climbs out of the car behind her children. Sakura and Yamato move over to make her room, Yamato ducking behind his sister to stay out of his mother's eye sight.
"Taichi. We need to go, hun." Taichi looks at his mom, then indicates the blonde children in front of him.
"But mom...That's Haro! He's ten. And his sister Sakura, and my almost friend, Yamato. I met them at the park." Taichi whines. Natsuko raises an eyebrow at Yamato, who hides even further behind Sakura. Sakura peeks at him, but says nothing.
"Well, it's nice to meet them, but you're going to late." Natsuko decides to step into the conversation.
"Hello. I'm Natsuko Takashi. We've just moved here, at the beginning of summer. I don't suppose you know a decent baby sitter, hmm? I'm having some trouble finding a permanent nanny, at the moment. Our last one wouldn't move from America with us, sadly."
"It's nice to meet you. I'm Yuuko Yagami.." Yamato peeks around his sister to look at the lady whose speaking with such a strange voice. Sakura takes his wrist again, knowing the two woman will probably be talking for awhile.
"Come on, Yamato. I'll take you to class. And don't worry, she just knows who Mother is." Sakura says, quietly. Haro has already disappeared.
"Mom, I'm going with them!" Taichi interrupts, pointing at the retreating backs of the Takashi siblings. His mother nods her approval, and he dashes after them. Taichi falls into step with the two blonde children. Sakura leads them to the gym, were she gently pushes Yamato inside.
"See, over there?" She points to a group of young kids in the front row. Yamato nods. "You and Taichi go sit with them. I have to sit with the kids my age, so they can put as in our new classrooms, okay?" Yamato nods, and does as sister asks him.
Taichi follows, looking for other people he knows. He fins Sora, and Mimi, and grabs Yamato before he manages to sit, and drags him over to some of the girls in his moms daycare.
"Hi Sora! Hi Mimi!" The boy greets happily. "Sit, Yamato." Yamato does as Taichi asks him.
Two weeks after school had started, Natsuko had informed her children that Mrs. Yagami would be watching them after school until dinner time. Then, Father would pick them up and bring them home, at least until they could find a nanny that lived at the house. Yamato was nervous as the end of the day neared. He didn't want to go to someone else's house. He didn't have to worry. Taichi was excited that Yamato would be coming over, because that meant Taichi could really be Yamato's friend. Even if Yamato didn't want to be friends with Taichi. Sakura had been happy for Yamato. Haro had become angry, at both of them, and had taken his anger out on them. He had pushed Sakura down, and nearly broken Yamato's hand by slamming it in the door. Neither of them said a word to their mother, but Yuuko did. Natsuko was not impressed with her younger children for getting their brother in trouble for an accident.
Yamato was seven the firs time he showed up to school with a black eye, and split lip. Afer school, when Yuuko had asked him what happened. Sakura burst into tears. Haro was long gone, choosing to just do what he wanted after class. His mother never even argued with him about it. Yamato had spilled out some lie about Sakura tripping him, and him falling through the glass table in their living room. Yuuko had nearly cried herself at the forced lie.
A week later, a man named Hiroaki Ishida had said Yamato was his son. Him and Natsuko had had a one-night stand around the time Yamato would've been conceived. By that time, Taichi was old enough to know how famous Natsuko was as an actress. And everyone else knew who she was, too. She admitted over live television that yes, she had a one night stand with Hiroaki. She denied Yamato being his son. Hiroaki insisted on a dna test. Natusko refused. The subject was dropped, for awhile.
Yamato's injuries became more frequent after that though, causing Taichi to worry immensely for his friend. Sure he didn't understand what a one-night stand was, or why it even mattered. When his mother had explained that it meant Yamato's dad might not actually be his dad, Taichi still didn't understand. Shouldn't his father love him anyways, since he had raised Yamato his entire life? Yamato became more and more quiet, not wanting to talk to anyone. Eventually, Hiroaki got his dna test. Yamato was at Taichi's house when the results came in. They were ten.
Yamato and Taichi are sitting on the floor, working on a puzzle together. It's a rare occasion, now, for Yamato to do anything, that's not sitting by himself. Sakura sits nearby, watching carefully. There's a loud sound outside of the bedroom. Yamato jumps to his feet, and hides behind his sister.
"Yamato?" She asks. Eyes going wide.
"Mom's here." He whispers, blue eyes landing on Taichi. He realizes what he said, and snaps his lips shut firmly. There's yelling, and then Natsuko throws the door open, She's scary mad, Taichi flinches away from her. She goes straight for Yamato, causing Sakura to leap away from the boy, not wanting to be part of the wrath that is her mother. Natsuko grabs Yamato's bare arm, and Taichi notices the blood that forms there immediately. Yamato doesn't make a sound.
"Come, Sakura." The girl throws a pleading glance at Taichi, before following her mother, and terrified brother out of the room. It takes Taichi less then five seconds to regain himself, and leap to his feet, running after them.
"Where are you going?" Taichi demands. No one answers him. Natsuko waits impatiently for her children to put their shoes on, and then she ushers them out of the house, the door slamming behind her. Taichi looks at his mom, whose crying.
"What's the matter mom?" He asks. Yuuko just shakes her head.
Thirteen year old Taichi stares up at the movie screen he had pestered his mom into taking him to. It's a bit late, but it's a birthday present anyways. He watches as a blonde haired, blue eyed boy runs around with a bunch of other kids, in a place called the "Digital World". The boy is no longer Yamato Takashi, but Yamato Ishida.
"Think he remembers me?" Taichi asks his mom as the movie ends.
"I don't know, Taichi. I bet he does. Three years isn't that long." She tries to reassure her son. They hadn't seen the boy since Natsuko had ripped him from their house all those years ago. Sakura and Haro, and even the newest member, Takeru, still live near-by, and occasionally Sakura brings Takeru by, just to say hello. She hasn't seen or heard from her brother, either. And then the movie came out. Hiroaki, it turned out was a movie director. And Yamato, with his looks, got into the movies easy enough. During interviews, though, he never said much. Mostly just smiles and nods, or shakes of his head.
"Do you think he likes being an actor? That's what his mom does, right?" Taichi asks. Yuuko doesn't know what to say, so she doesn't answer.
Taichi, Sora and Mimi watch the trailer for the new Digimon movie on the T.V's at the store.
"He's cute." Sora says, as Yamato flashes onto the screen.
"He totally is!" Mimi gushes. The three of them are waiting for Sakura, and five year old Takeru, who apparently has a present for Taichi's sixteenth birthday. This is there usual meeting spot.
"Taichi!" All three of them turn to the younger boy, whose running up to meet them.
"Hey, Takeru!" Taichi greets happily.
"Hi Sora, and Mimi." Takeru says, sweetly, eyeing the girls. They both return his hellos.
"So?" Taichi asks. "Where's this absolutely, super amazing birthday present?" Takeru peeks back the way he came, then back towards Taichi.
"Uh. It was..Come on!" The little boy grabs Taichi's hand, and leads him back the way he'd come. Taichi sees Sakura. Sakura waves at them, which Taichi returns. Then Taichi notices the sapphire blue eyes of the boy next her.
"See? That's your birthday present." Takeru says, pointing at the boy.
"Uh." Taichi says, not sure why the little boy is giving him another boy for his birthday. Takeru stares at him, with wide eyes.
"I don't think he knows who you are." Sakura says, softly.
"Am I really that eas-" His voice broke Taichi's mental scanning of people he knows.
"Yamato!" Taichi shouts, at the same time Sora and Mimi do. Yamato looks up at them, and flashes them a smile, before Taichi has him held in a tight grip. Yamato laughs.
"Oh, so you remember me now, huh?" The blonde teases. Taichi gives him a sheepish grin before letting him go.
"It has been six years." Taichi says, quietly.
"And I know for a fact that you've seen both my movies, and the T.V show I'm in." Yamato accuses. Taichi's tan cheeks flush a dark red.
"I didn't expect to see you here, that's all." Taichi weakly tries to defend himself. Yamato just laughs again.
"My dad and I, we moved here. Apparently the next movie I'm in needs the high-school here. Plus, I missed my sister, and Takeru. And I wanted to piss my mom off." The last part is almost whispered, so only Taichi and Sakura can hear. Sora and Mimi are still staring. Takeru is yanking on Taichi's sleeve.
"Get birthday present?" He asks.
"Your brother is the best birthday present, ever." Taichi says, grinning at the little boy.
Alright, end. Should I keep this in third person, or should I make the rest of it first person? You decide! Don't forget to review!