Disclaimer: To save me writing this all the time, i'll say it once, at the start of the story. I don't own digimon or any or the original plots, however I do own any other characters and this plot as the story is an Alternate Universe.
Warnings: Is PG-13 for safe measures really. There will be very little bad language but there may be a little in later chapters. This is also a Taito fic so please don't flame for the coupling and if you think you may take offence to this couple then please don't waste your time reading this.
Summary: Yamato's always been the loner at school. Not the type that gets bullied, just the one no one seems to notice. His band is his only way of freely expression emotions without people identifying how he feels. When the new kid Taichi comes to school, everything just seems to get worse until they encounter each other...
Other Notes: This fic will be all in Yamato's P.O.V.
"Please Don't Tell Them"
A Taito Fic by KalesJ
Prologue.
I can remember my first day of school so well and even then I was the loner kid. It doesn't bother me that much. I have a few close friends.
Actually, I hardly ever keep my friends close. Some would call me insecure but I say I'm just over protective of my emotions. It's not that I'm scared of them, it's more like I don't know how to control them. Ah, the joys of being a teenager. I'd say I was moody and quiet and I think that's 'normal.
I hate that word. Normal. How can anything be 'normal'? I've always grown up believing everyone's different and everyone deserves a chance in life. So if nobodies the same, how can 'normal' exist? I guess I'll never know the answer. Then again if I knew all the answers I'd sure as hell be rich outta my mind by now, but still, I don't and I don't think I ever will. Maybe people just need boundaries in life. That's what normal comes from. Average is the same, just sounds more depressing. Let's see, what's normal in my life? I have a dad, a mom and a brother. I live with my dad though, I have since the divorce. I used to see mom and Takeru a lot afterwards too, but then I just stopped visiting. I can't remember why, it was such a long time ago. I still see Takeru sometimes, with his friends. I go and watch his basketball matches too. Dad can't make it usually, he's always working.
Another 'normal' thing is I go to a regular high school. I'm seventeen and have a band. I sing and play bass. I love doing it because it helps me express my emotions freely. I have three other band members. There's Kurari, she's our synth player. She's darn good and pretty cute. Probably the only popular one of us losers too. She isn't like all the other popular girls though. She doesn't laugh at us when we walk past her in the hall and she doesn't like people because of the way they dress or act. Kurare doesn't stereotype everyone like the usual girls at school. Then there's Jack, our guitarist. He's an American exchange student and one heck of a great guitarist. He can make up a new riff at the sight of a good guitar. Last but not least there's our drummer Kuri. He's cool and he's Kurare's twin brother. I've known him for years and he's a great guy to have around if you need cheering up. They're all great.
Here's something a lot of people would class as not 'normal' and no one knows about me. I'm bisexual. I have been for about three years. Never had a relationship with another guy before. Actually one person knows. That's Kurari and that's only because we went out three years ago for about eight months. It's the reason we broke up because I liked someone else, a guy. I can remember when he first came to our school. We didn't exactly get on straight away but after a while something just clicked.
His name was Yagami Taichi and he quickly became star soccer player. Most of the typical school rumors were about him, flying around the school about all the girls he laid at last weeks party. He was on the front page of the school newspaper almost every week and everyone seemed to love him. Even I thought I did, after a while. A long while mind you. I don't know what I think or feel anymore, I sometimes find myself longing to know how he feels. He's the type of guy every girl in the school wants on their arm. Tall, tanned and dark expressive features. The only off putting thing is his lack in academic skills, basically he's kind of stupid. Taichi is a charmer though. The best thing about him, is most of the time he has an innocent look about him, almost angelic because he seems to wonder himself how he does it.
I remember the day we met, it was quite a while a go, well almost three years to this day actually. It's always been clear in my head. It had been several weeks scince Kurare and I had broken up but we're still really good friends and I tell her everything. Sometimes she tells me things too but both of us like to try and keep our emotions inside. Trouble is we do it so severely that it can rip us up right to the very point of destruction but only Kurare and I understand why we do it to ourselves. We're afraid of letting people too close, if they get too close, we could loose them and if that happens we'd be completely torn apart. I think that's why Kurare and I got together in the first place. We're so alike in so many different ways. I think we act more like twins than Kuri and Kurari.
We were all hanging out at the smoothie and movie complex. It's huge and most of the kids from school go there because somethings always going on. They have three floors and a movie theatre with eight seperate screens. One the bottom floor is all the regular shops and fast food joints. The middle is the bars and all the alternative clothing stores and smoothie booths. The third floor is mainly full or perverts as it has all the strip clubs and sex shops. It's pretty concealed, you wouldn't know it was there unless someone told you. We don't go up there too much, well the guys do, Kurari and I tend to say on the first two floors.
Anyway, we were there, on the third floor because right at the back theres a department store and Jack's mom needed something from it. From one of these bars I saw a very distressed Taichi wondering out of it with a few people I thought he was friends with. They took him downstairs and I watched then leave. Curious, I decided to follow because those guys didn't look to happy. I saw the three go out the back doors just in time so I followed. Hardly anyone ever goes out there unless they're about to get the crap beaten outta them. I got the door and opened it. I was right. The guys were kicking his ass pretty bad. I couldn't just stand there, I had to get help but just as I turned away they called. They'd seen me. 'Oh great...' I thought to myself.
"Hey you! Get your ass over here!" shouted one of them. He was tall and had dark hair. All of them were tall and all of them were tough, I recognised them as seniors from school but didn't know their names. I gingerly turned round and the guy who had spoken was on his way over. "You know this guy? You come to help him?" I shook my head.
"I think he's lying Makato!" shouted the blond one as he booted Taichi in the stomach over and over again. I hated seeing people like that. Makato grabbed my neck and kicked my left shin. The pain was almost unbearable. It felt like he'd hit me with steel. The other guys were still laying into Taichi and Makato aimed to hit me again. The voices of happy people and alot of them stopped him.
"Kay guy's I think we better leave 'em here, people are coming. We'll get 'em again!" Makato called and they ran off. The people walked passed without even looking at us but to be honest I was grateful of that.
I limped over to Taichi who was lying pretty motionless on the floor.
"Hey, can you move?" I called as I got closer. He'd never said a bad thing about me so I wasn't too scared, it was his friends that didn't like me. They didn't exactly do anything to me, I've never been bullied really. They all just ignored me.
"I think...er have they really gone?" he asked in a weak voice. It was stained with pain.
"Yeah, they have. Sorry I couldn't help, I just kinda saw them take..."
"It's okay. Thanks here anyways. At least I only had to take two of them." I managed to here a little bit of a laugh from him. I smiled.
"Do you need a hand getting up?" I asked. He was already turning on his stomach. Then very slowly he sat up and rubbed the back of his neck.
"Nah, I'm okay." He said. I watched him get up, ever so slowly but he managed okay. "Hey you're that kid from school. We take algebra together I think? Yamato right?" He said looking at me straight in the eyes. I looked down and almost blushed at the fact he knew who I was.
"Yeah, my friends call me Matt. You're Taichi? The guy who's almost always in the paper." I looked up and saw him smiling.
"Yep, that's me. My friends call me Tai. Don't believe what you read in those papers either, it's hardly ever true!" I smiled.
"What it true then?" I asked.
"Just the good stuff about me, winning games and stuff. Well, it was nice to actually meet you Matt. Hey, aren't you in a band?" he asked.
"Yeah I am. Well, we're okay but..."
"Okay?! I've heard you play in the PA departments at school, you're all really good. Anyways, I'm having a party next weekend. Think you could play for us?" I was shocked, he'd heard us play? We thought no one ever heard us let alone one of the popular kids. I was speechless.
"Uh...sure, I'll talk to the others. Should be fine though, they'd be up for playing a live set. How long you want us to play for?" I asked.
"Oh about an hour if that's okay?"
"I don't think we have enough of our own songs for an hour set. Think we could do some covers?"
"Sure, as long as you promise to play!" I nodded.
"Well I better go, see you later!" and with that Tai jogged off waving. I stood there speechless.
"Matt, what are you doing out here?" I heard a female voice call.
"Hey, Kurari. Listen I've got some great news..."
A/N: Well that's all for the prologue. Hope this is going okay.Will update as soon as possible.