OMG! I had 4 pages in size 10 font, and then my computer decides to crash, and none of it was saved. God I hate my computer… Well here we go.. Again..

It wasn't big news to know that his father was gone again for a few days. In fact with his job, it happened quite frequently. Even before he had ever gone to the digital world, Matt was being left alone in the house. Now that he found himself at the mature age of 18, nothing had changed, except for the fact he wasn't as afraid of someone coming and finding out that a thirteen year old was left home alone ninety percent of the time. He knew that with becoming an adult, one had responsibilities in order to keep such things as this apartment. He also knew that if his dad wouldn't go on all of these crazy story runs for the company, he wouldn't have the money to support Matt living with him. Of course, Matt wouldn't have ended up on the street, but worse. He would have ended up living with his mother and Takeru. Not that he really minded Takeru, but his mother and him, never really got along all that great. She never liked his aloof attitude, and icy exterior, it clashed too much with Takeru's happy attitudes. Thankfully, his dad went on every errand his boss sent his way, with no complaints, and thus, Matt was left in his apartment. Though, if anyone were to pay attention, they would think Matt lived alone, and that older gentleman would just come to visit every once in a while.

Yamato let out a sigh, snatching the note off the table roughly and crumpling it in his hand. As if the note burned just to keep in his hand, he tossed it into the trash underneath the counter that was previously it's home. Normally Matt's father's trips never seemed to bother him, but being that today was the day before Thanksgiving, it slightly irked Matt, that whoever had given his dad the job, could be such a jackass. Looking around the dark house, he was almost glad that they had school today. The silence was deafening, and the dark apartment was almost eerie as Matt looked around. Running his fingers through his smooth blonde locks, he grabbed his school bag and headed for the door. Taking a last glance over his shoulder at the dark house, he turned back to the door, reaching for the handle, which without him even touching it turned on it's own.

The door swung open, hitting Yama straight in the face, and connecting with his nose mostly, with a sickening crunch. Matt knew exactly what idiot had thrown open the door with such force, then again, it was the only other person that ever came to his house really. As he stood there, eyes tearing from the pain shooting through his nose, and hand covering his nose, as if the door would attempt to connect again, he saw the brown haired doofus peek around the corner.

"Oh shit! I'm sorry Yama!" Tai slid around the door, closing it behind him, and stepping closer to Matt. Matt on the other hand was glaring daggers at Tai, which probably weren't as effective with tears leaking from his icy blue eyes. His hand was gingerly moved from his nose, as Tai's slightly tanner one grabbed his wrist to pull it back to examine the damage. The damage was apparently great enough to make Tai cringe, which instantly signaled Matt, that his nose was bleeding. Tai may have been the leader, the brave one, hence why he had the crest of courage, but when it came to someone else's blood, especially his blonde haired best friend, Tai tended to get a little iffy. Putting his other hand to his nose, as if it would stop the bleeding, Matt let himself be lead to the bathroom. Tai began running one of the washcloths under some warm water, before handing it over to Matt, who gratefully took it and instantly put it under his nose. As Matt stood there, holding the cloth under his nose, Tai decided to take a seat on the closed toilet seat.

"Why were you behind the door anyway?" Tai's head tilted slightly to the side, and Matt might have smiled at the puppy like actions had he not been in pain. Sometimes Tai's actions were usually seemingly taken from an animal of some sort. Generally it seemed Tai may have been a puppy in a past life, Matt's nose was disagreeing and saying he was probably a pack of wild elephants. It wasn't till he looked back over that Tai was waiting for an answer.
"I was going to go to school, which we will probably be late for now, thanks to you." Matt groaned as he looked at his watch, and noticed that to make it to school on time, they should have left by now. He attempted to glare at Tai, but found that he probably didn't look to menacing holding a wet rag under his still bleeding nose. Tai found that those icy blue eyes glaring at you, would make anyone freeze in their spot, but Tai had been subject to those eyes, quite a few times. More often than not, when they were kids in the digital world. Those glares even barely fazed him anymore,

"Well if someone wouldn't have been standing behind the door. I mean we walk to school everyday together, didn't think today would be different." Tai noticed the slight drop in Matt's shoulders, and would have had to be blind to not notice Matt hang his head. Tai wasn't exactly the smartest in their group of friends, but he knew Matt's reactions better than anyone. He had also been over to Matt's house more than anyone, and knew that nine out of ten times, his father was gone. Apparently today wasn't any different.

"Sorry, I was just out of it," Matt said, staring at the blood that swirled around the drain before falling down along with the water. Tai being the soccer fanatic he was, had had enough bloody noses in his days, and knew that staring down, was not the way to get rid of one. Then again, Yama tended to steer clear of any physical activities unless it involved him playing his guitar, wherever necessary. He doubted that Matt had ever had a bloody nose in his life.

"Your never gonna stop the bleeding that way, Yama," Tai said sighing , pushing himself off the toilet seat. He walked over to Matt, coming up right behind him, and pushing his head up, so that Matt was instead looking towards the ceiling. Now if he had been anyone else he probably would have found himself with an elbow in his stomach for getting into Matt's space bubble. Seeing as he was Tai though, he had no worries as Matt just growled at him, but did as was told. Tai then chose that time to steer himself in front of him, and carefully walk Yama backwards so he could sit on the toilet seat, and Tai could actually see his face. Tai as carefully as he could, reached a tanned hand out towards Matt's nose, gently pinching the bridge of it. When Matt's eyes didn't tear, he knew that at least nothing was broken, and Matt would live to see another day.

"Here lets move the cloth," as he said this, Tai reached for the cloth, glad when Matt let him take it. He had a little bit of blood still on the path to his lips, which Tai quickly wiped away. "Looks like the bleedings stopped." After cleaning up the remaining bit of blood, Tai tossed the washcloth into the sink. He watched as Matt put his head down slowly, as if the slightest movement would make his nose gush blood, then looked at his watch.

"Well school's started already." Sighing he ran a hand through his hair, fixing the strands that had fallen out of place while he had his head tilted back. He stood up, feeling a sudden pass of dizziness, which he figured was because of the nose bleed, and not eating breakfast. He looked around, and when not seeing it, assumed he probably left his bag in the other room. When he felt eyes on him, he looked over to Tai, who was watching him like a hawk. "What?"

Tai instantly put his hands up in defense, recognizing the annoyed, cold tone in Matt's voice. Without even taking another glance at Matt, he ducked out of the bathroom and into the other room. Matt sighed, figuring that he was already grabbing his book bag and waiting for Matt to join him, so they could head to school, late as they were. When Matt stepped out of the bathroom though, he was greeted with the sight of Tai sitting at the table. Looking quite pleased, and eager.

"What are you doing? We have to get to school." Matt rested his hands on his hips, feeling like a mother asking her child a question they already knew the answer to.

"Well I thought since we're already late, we may just stay here." Tai sighed, but he did have a point. If they were to go in now, they would get detention, and would spend the entire day sitting in the detention room with Mr. Hirosaki. The most neurotic, disturbed teacher at any high school, anywhere. It had to be complete silence in the room, and even the sound of a heavy sigh would send the man into a full out panic. Though it was fun to make slight noises within the first ten minutes of class, after about thirty, it began to get old, and irritating. Matt sighed, and Tai must have realized instantly that he was giving in to play hooky.

"So, you hungry," Tai asked sheepishly. Matt knew it didn't matter if he was or not, but that was Tai's subtle hint, that he wanted Yama to make him something. He didn't really have a problem with fixing Tai something to eat. At least when Tai was here, he had a reason to cook, and someone actually ate it after it was cooked. He walked to the fridge, knowing that it didn't really matter what he made, as Tai was practically a garbage disposal when it came to food. Then again, when it came to Tai's mothers foods, sometimes he imagined you would have to be a disposal. Though Matt generally liked to cook, he just wasn't in the mood, and instead went for cold sandwiches. Tai though noticed this instantly.

"How long is he gone for?" It wasn't the question that Matt jumped at, but more of that Tai had managed to sneak up behind him without making a noise, and rest his chin on Matt's shoulder, looking down to the sandwiches. It wasn't an odd thing for Tai to lean on him, hug him, or just basically be a touchy person. Yama had grown accustomed to it, and had come to be a little touchy with Tai as well. If one were to look at the pair, they were practically married in the way they acted. So it never came as a surprise when both came to confess their feelings to the other digi-destined. It seemed the only people that didn't know of their feelings, was the other. It never really had become an issue, neither would kiss the other, for fear of risking what they had now, but both craved for something more. It didn't came as a shock to either when Matt leaned back against Tai.

"He'll be gone past Thanksgiving. After that I'm not sure how long he'll be gone this time." Matt noticed the catch in Tai's breath, but when he felt the others cheeks lift, meaning Tai was smiling, it almost sent Matt into a rage. "I don't see how this is-" but his sentence was cut short.

"That settles it then!" Tai said, hugging Yama from behind, laughing into his ear. "You'll have dinner at our house!" Matt dropped the knife he had been using to cut the sandwiches, with a clatter as it fell against the countertop. Tai didn't seem to think anything of it, as he leaned into Yama and proceeded to grab his sandwich and lean back against the table behind him.

"Tai, I can't, I couldn't-" but Tai's glare told him he better stop before he said anything further.

"You won't impose. You're like family to us, and besides, if it makes you feel better, you can pull your weight and help my mom cook. God knows she needs all the help she can get." Tai laughed heartily, but Matt was still a little unsure. Sure it was true, the boys were around each other almost constantly, and the Yagami's truly did treat him as if he were family, but it still felt like he was imposing somehow. "Stop, stop thinking your going to impose." Matt opened his mouth to explain but Tai would have none of it, quickly grabbing the second half of a sandwich, and quickly stuffing the corner into Yama's mouth. Yama glared, but it only made Tai laugh harder. He knew it was useless to argue with Tai once his mind was made up, but it didn't make him feel any better about it.

The day from there on out, was spent, the way they mostly did. They couldn't go to Tai's house until school would be over, or his parents would know they had skipped. That was the one bad part about being part of the Yagami family. If he was in trouble, he was going to get in trouble just as much as Tai was. So the day was spent, playing video games, in which, Tai would pout if he lost, or gloat if he won, which was nothing new to Matt. It was also nothing new, that when he started losing the racing game, he decided to start pushing Yama, and trying to mess with his control, in order to screw him up.

"Dude! Knock it off! I'm going to beat you, just deal with it!" Tai growled, and leaned into Matt completely.

"No way! You're a cheater!" Matt laughed, knowing full well he wasn't cheating, but to Tai, everyone cheated if they beat him. Matt laughed and pushed back against Tai, but wasn't expecting Tai to suddenly move forward, causing Matt to fall behind him. Tai then scoot back again, trapped Matt's stomach in-between Tai's back and the couch. Thusly he couldn't see the screen and ended up veering off the road, giving Tai the chance to swing in front of him, and finish the race in first. When the race was over Tai looked behind him and smirked at Matt. Matt just growled and punched Tai in the back in an attempt to get the big lug to move, so he could get himself unstuck.

"Oh you wanna fight?" Tai laughed and moved, but quickly, he was pinning Matt to the floor, while Matt attempted anything he could. Both of his wrists were held in one of Tai's hands, and as Tai sat on his hips, he could find no way of escape. Until he realized he still had his legs, and he was about to fight dirty to win. He kicked his knees up and found that they connected with Tai's back, which made Tai hiss in pain, but gave Matt just enough to roll the boy off of him, and pinned Tai under him. He couldn't hold both of Tai's hands in one, but he could hold them both down, with both of his. He found himself sitting on Tai's hips, and laughed triumphantly. Said laugh was cut short quickly, as realized exactly what he was sitting on. He knew he was sitting on Tai's hips, but why was it suddenly, it felt like… The blush that covered Yama's cheeks was a dead giveaway, that Tai had been found out. The utter horror that fell upon Tai's cheeks after that, was a look Matt had only seen a few times in his life.

"Yama.. Wait.. I-I can explain." Tai's stammering brought him back to reality, and as ice blue looked into chocolate brown, Matt waited for the explanation. After the explanation though, what would he say? It was apparent that this had just gone past the friendship barrier, and was he okay with this? It was true that they practically acted like a couple now, but would the title change something. If they were to be an official gay couple, would things suddenly change between them? He couldn't deny that he wanted Tai, tiny touches, and the way Tai would hang on him, always would send a spark up his spine, so then what was the problem? Life, that was the biggest problem. Being seniors in high school, what would people say if they found out. Tai could throw a punch with the best of them, being athletic and on the soccer team, but Matt was another story. He played guitar, he tussled with Tai quite a bit, but when it came to an actual fight, for his life, if it ever came to that, could he do it?

"Ok.. I can't explain," again Tai's worried voice break into this thoughts. Tai looked mortified, probably expecting Yama to dash away. Tai was ready to catch him though, as Yama noticed both hands were poised and ready to grab him wherever he could if it came down to a chase. But, Matt didn't feel like running, in fact, he was quite content with where he was now. He wanted Tai, wanted him bad, what should it matter what the rest of the world would say?

"Oh god, please don't hate me Yama, I- I can leav--" Tai's sentence was cut short when a pair of lips connected with his own. Tai was of course stunned at first, but was elated when his mind finally put the pieces together. Matt, the ice queen, as Tai sometimes called him, was kissing him. If it weren't for the fact he was under the boy, and currently had more important things, he would have danced for joy. Instead, he chose to show his elation in another way, wrapping his strong tan arms around Yamato, sliding his tongue against Matt's lips, in a silent plea for entrance. The plea was answered and Tai slowly, slid his tongue in to play along with Matt's own. Tai had no idea how, but he could definitely taste cinnamon on Matt's tongue, vanilla too, and something completely unrecognizable, but Tai craved more of it. Unfortunately the need to breath won out, and both boys pulled back, but barely. Yamato's cheeks were flushed, and it took all of Tai's self control, not to find out if he could make the boy blush even more.

"That was a good explanation I'd say," the blonde uttered, slightly out of breath, after a moment of silence. Tai laughed, and held Matt against him, just reveling in the smaller boy on top of him. Yamato on the other hand, was slightly, uncomfortable. Definitely not about how things had turned out, but the fact that he had a certain part of his anatomy standing at attention in his jeans. Not to mention the fact that Tai wasn't really in a different situation, and from what he could feel, this was not a small in the least situation. The mental pictures sent a shiver up his spine, and his breathing picked up dramatically. This didn't go unnoticed by the brown eyed boy below him, but just as he was about to find something delicious to do to his new found lover, the phone begin to ring.

"Oh what is this, some cliché movie?!" Tai yelled frustrated, as Yama laughed, picking himself up off Tai, and heading towards the phone. The caller ID had said that it was Tai Home calling, and wondered who was home at this time in the day.

"Hello?"

"Hey Matt, is Tai over there," said a younger feminine voice. Kari was the one on the other end, and as Matt peeked around to see the kitchen in the clock, found that indeed it was 5 and school had been over for nearly 2 hours.

"Oh yeah Kari, we headed over to my place after school." He lied, but Matt figured that Tai's family didn't know they had skipped today. They'd just wait till after the holiday and the school called their parents. Though, Matt figured it wouldn't really matter much, seeing as no one would be home to enforce the punishment.

"Oh ok, well mom wants him to come home now."

"All right Kari, I'll tell him." He said, thinking back to the previous conversation, wondering if he should ask her to ask her mother if it was all right if he came over for the holiday.

"Thanks Matt! Bye!" And before he could even finish his reply, the phone on the other end was set down, and all he got was a dial tone.

By that point, Tai was already behind him, and draping himself over the back of Yama, indulging in the scent of apple shampoo that Matt used on his hair. He knew because first all, his hair smelled like it, and secondly Matt insisted on keeping a bottle at Tai's house in case he spent the night. Swearing that he would never use whatever 'junk' Tai put in his hair.

"Who was it," he asked, leaning forward just enough so that his breath would tickle the back of Matt's ear. To be honest, after just 'getting together' so to speak, this would have been slightly forward, but to Tai, it seemed that they had been dating forever, it was just now that they had decided to kiss. He was thrilled to feel the blonde nearly sag against him, as well as the shiver that sent up his spine.

"It was your sister, your mom wants you home now." Matt said, and suddenly, it felt as though an icy wall had been put up between the two. Tai of course, didn't notice until Yama pulled away from him a bit.

"All right then, pack yourself and lets go." Tai smiled, and attempted to pull himself back close to Yama, but it seemed the closer he got, the farther Yamato got. It wasn't until that he heard the next statement did he know why.

"I think I'll just stay here. I mean… someone has to watch the apartment, and I mean, my dad may get back early." Tai knew that Matt was making excuses, and couldn't understand why all of the sudden, going to his house was a problem. He had come over plenty of times, and now should be no different.

"I already told you, your going to come with me. You know as well as I do your dad won't be back early, and I'm not about to let you stay here by yourself over a holiday." He put his hands on his hips trying to be assertive, but soon found himself at the wrong end of the famous Yamato ice glare. Tai knew though, that if he weren't home soon, his mother was going to throw a fit, and he just couldn't have that. But he also couldn't have Yama spending Thanksgiving alone.

"Fine then I guess that settles it," Tai said, making up his mind. Before Matt had time to react he was hoisted over Tai's shoulder, and with a spank was being carried into his own room. Matt greatly protested this, but even when they got to his room he wasn't put down. Instead, Tai just grabbed some clothes, walking back into the kitchen, he set said clothes on the table, while he dumped Yama's school bag contents onto the table as well. Then proceeded to stuff the clothes into the bag, then started heading out the door.

"Put me down! Someone is going to see!" Matt's face was pure red, and he was surprised Tai hadn't gotten tired of holding him up by now. Then again, from his place over Tai's shoulder, he did get a nice look at the way his khakis moved against his ass when he walked.

"Sorry Yama, but you should have thought of that before you decided to try to get out of spending the holiday with my family." Matt sighed, glad that at least Tai had the sense to lock the door behind them. Sighing he knew that with Tai being as stubborn and thick headed as he was, he wasn't going to be put down soon. He was vaguely aware of a bag being slipped around his ankle though. "Here I think you can carry your own bag." Matt groaned, and could hear and feel the laugh that Tai let out with, seemingly very pleased with his own joke.

It was an awkward ride to Tai's house. Matt wouldn't have minded as much if it weren't for the fact that everytime he would complain, or ask to be let down, a smack was placed upon his ass that was within very easy reach for Tai. Matt learned quickly not to complain, or ask to be let down. Seeing the stairs below him, Matt realized with horror that they were near Tai's door.

"Tai put me down now! Please! This is ridiculous!" Matt pleaded, but it was to no avail, as once again, it only earned him a smack, and Tai's laugh.

"You think this is bad, wait until I tell my mother that you thought you would be imposing on us." (1) It wasn't until he heard the slight gasp that he knew that Tai's mother had answered the door.

"Tai what are you doing!?" Tai's mother's shriek brought about another fit of laughter from him. Tai grabbed the backpack from Yama's ankle and then leant over to set Yama's feet back on solid ground. Quickly spinning him around to look at his mother. He walked in front of Yama and began to speak in a low hushed voice, in which Yamato couldn't hear, but knew that with the look on her face, he was in for it now. Tai just stood behind her as she stepped forward and placed her hands on her hips. "Yamato Ishida, you know that you are welcome in this house no matter what." She smiled and ruffled his hair, which she generally did to Tai, but when doing it to Matt was another story. He didn't have a mop top like Tai did, so as soon as her back was turned, Yama quickly fixed his hair.

"We're going to my room!" Tai yelled even though his mother was only a room away. Her yell in confirmation was all they needed as they raced to his room. As soon as they got into the room, Yama decided to assault the boy who had previously held him on his shoulder in public. Tai just laughed at Yama's feeble attempts, and soon had him pinned beneath him in instants. It didn't take long before they were no longer fighting, and their boyish hormones began to take over. Soon Tai found himself, instead of tickling the boys sides, he was instead running his hands up under Yama's shirt, and was placing gentle bites at his throat. The sweet little mules, and gasps from Yama was enough to get Tai's blood boiling. He groaned, gently rubbing his cloth covered erection against Matt's own, and the higher pitched gasp, made it increasingly hard to not just strip Matt down and fuck him, right then and there. He felt Matt's hands run under his shirt, and scrape his nails against his back, making Tai hiss, and arch his chest closer to his blue eyed friend.

"Boys!" This one word alone was enough to make Tai jump away from Matt quickly, and nearly jump out of his skin. "Dinner is ready!" Both boys sighed a huge relief to find that Tai's mother had merely been yelling through the door, and both had been saved the embarrassment of being caught. A look between the two suddenly caught them both in a fit of laughter that kept them chuckling even as they left Tai's room and headed towards the table. The laughing quickly stopped when they both sat at the table and saw some large nearly black mound that lay against the table.

"Dig in everyone, I made meatloaf, and jerky shakes." Tai quickly glanced at Matt and shook his head as he saw him reach for the glass. Koushiro had learned the hard way about those drinks, and he wasn't about to let Matt learn the same way. The meal was relatively silent for the Yagami family. Tai and Kari argued, and of course, Tai acted like the more immature of the two, even going so far as to show Kari his half chewn food from across the table. Of course Ms. Yagami yelled at him, and Tai's father and Yama attempted not to laugh at the antics. It all felt so comfortable, that Matt had almost forgotten his uneasiness about staying tomorrow. It wasn't until dinner was over and everyone began putting their dishes in the sink that he saw Tai and his mother arguing about something. He had no idea what they were arguing about, but his mother didn't look happy, and Tai just looked upset. He managed to get a bit closer, without being noticed so that perhaps he could hear some of the conversation.

"Taichi Yagami, how could you not ask me first? You just went and told him before I could even have a say in the matter." Tai's mother stood hands on her hips, and Tai more or less, looked like he was a kid again, head bowed apologetically.

"But Mom, I figured you'd say it was fine!" His mother shook her head. With every word Matt felt worse and worse. He knew he would have been imposing coming over, and whether Tai wanted him to come over or not, he should have just stayed home. The fresh sting of tears came to his eyes, and he started to back up, ready to bolt for the door.

"Well Tai, you thought wrong. It is not fine with me, and you better go tell him now!" With that, Tai's mother began walking away. Tai hung his head sadly, and then started walking to where Matt would have been eavesdropping previously. That is, he would have been there, had he not already raced out the door.

Phew. I have been wanting to write something else for a while, but I just now finally got the time to do it. I mean, I've got 5 days off for Vacation from work and school.

(1) My xbf's family was like that. If I would say I didn't want to impose he would tell his mother, and she would almost yell at me for it. It was awkward.

Well, read and review and hopefully the chapters will be a little quicker :