Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.
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Chapter 1
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"Hi, my name's Yagami Taichi and I'm here to get my room."
The middle-aged secretary for student housing hardly looked up from her computer screen as Taichi announced himself. Her hands just flew over the keyboard, then to the mouse to click something on the screen, before shuffling through a cardboard box of thick envelopes.
"Aha." She straightened and turned to Taichi with a smile, "Yagami Taichi, third floor, room 324, here is your welcome pack. It has all the information you need, including your keys. Please read the brochures and notifications thoroughly. If you have any questions, there are student helpers wandering for today and I will be here for the rest of the semester."
"Great, thanks!" Taichi said, before slinging his duffle bag over one shoulder and making his way to the stairs at the other end of the vast atrium.
"Taichi!"
The brunet turned around to see a tall, lanky boy with shoulder-length blue hair, dressed in a dark blue casual suit, grinning at him from the top of the stairs. "Hey, Jyou! You're here already?"
The Kidos lived in the same apartment complex as the Yagamis and the two families had been friends for about 15 years. Jyou, the youngest of the three Kido brothers, was a year older than Taichi, but was starting university the same year as the brunet, due to failing the entrance exam the previous year.
Jyou waited for Tai to join him and the two continued up together. "Well my brothers wanted to get here early. It gives them the whole day to unpack and I got registration and everything sorted really quickly, since not that many new students were around."
"Right." They started up the final flight of stairs, "So you're all unpacked already?"
"Oh, no. I still have quite a bit left, but I needed a break." He laughed lightly. "What room are you in, by the way?"
"324. You?"
"I'm in 344." Jyou grinned, which Taichi returned. "I wonder if your roommate is here already. Mine isn't. I do hope we get nice, quiet ones... I don't want my roommate to disturb my studies."
Taichi laughed, "I'm sure no one will be that horrible. Besides, you can always change rooms if you want, right?"
Jyou frowned, "True, but then the whole move would disrupt my studying..."
The brunet just grinned, shaking his head. He then turned his attention to the door in front of him – 324. He dug through the welcome pack and fished out his key, throwing his blue-haired friend a grin, "Well, let's see how miserable this place is."
The key turned nicely and the door didn't make a sound as it opened. Tai took his first look at his new home for the next year. It wasn't too shabby. The room was quite large and symmetrical: each side contained a single bed, a wardrobe, a desk with an attached bookshelf and set of drawers, a reading lamp, and a chair. There was a door on the right side of the room, which Taichi presumed led to the bathroom.
Without much thought, Taichi made his way across the room, to the window, throwing his duffle bag on the left side of the room.
"Hmm, seems like your roommate isn't here yet, either."
"Yeah, seems so. Check out this view!"
Jyou walked into the room and joined his friend at the window. He stopped, staring out, and could see why the other boy was so excited; the window looked out over a soccer pitch.
"It's perfect for you. Though I don't think you'll get much studying done; you'll just want to join anyone who's playing and I'm pretty sure there will be people there throughout the day."
Brown eyes flicked to dark blue, before returning to stare at the pitch. True to Jyou's predictions, a group of males walked out onto the grass and began kicking a black-and-white ball around. Taichi had a momentary urge to go join them.
The brunet loved soccer and had been playing it for as long as he could remember. In fact, he had gotten a soccer scholarship for U-Tokyo, which required him to be on the university's team, whilst keeping up his grades. Well, the first part certainly wasn't a problem...
"Uh."
The two boys at the window turned around to spot a short, rusty-haired boy at the door of Taichi's room.
"Sorry," the boy started, uncertainly, "I was assigned this room..."
"Oh, no," Jyou threw his hands in front of him, "I'm from a different room, but Taichi, here," a thumb thrown in said brunet's direction, "and I are friends, which is why I'm here. Sorry."
"Oh, that's ok. I thought that they'd made a mistake and tried to shove all three of us into one room. I'm Izumi Koushirou, by the way." He gave a small, polite bow, which the two others returned.
"I'm Kido Jyou and this is Yagami Taichi."
"Hi! I'm your roommate!" Tai announced, a bit unnecessarily, but he was never one to be quiet, even if that meant stating something obvious.
"Nice to meet you both."
"Likewise." Jyou said, before throwing a glance at his old friend, "I better get back to my room. See if my roommate has arrived." He walked to the door and gave Koushirou a nod and smile before exiting, leaving the two roommates to get to know each other.
"I kinda invaded this side of the room." Taichi said, moving to the side he had tossed his bag to. "We can switch if you want, seeing as I haven't unpacked yet."
Koushirou waved this off, "Nah, I'm ok with this side." He then placed his many bags and suitcase by his bed, glancing at Taichi's bag. "That's all the stuff you have?"
Tai looked down, then back at his new friend with a grin, "No, I have the rest of my stuff in my car. Didn't want to bring it all up at once, in case I got lost on the way to my room or something."
"Oh, I see. That was a smart thing to do."
Brown eyes blinked in confusion, before squeezing shut in laughter.
"Wha—"
"Oh, man." Taichi said, wiping away tears from his eyes, "That was classic." He looked at his baffled roommate. "You'll soon learn, Koushirou, my friend, that I'm a lot of things, but smart isn't exactly one of them."
The dark-eyed boy blinked a few times, wondering whether to laugh or not. He decided to go for something in between and gave a small chuckle.
"Speaking of," the brunet continued, "I should probably go get my stuff. Don't want anyone breaking into my car and stealing it all!"
With that, he bounded out of the room and down the stairs, leaving Koushirou to stare after him.
Once back in the lobby, Tai noted that there was a lift at the end of the corridor. Well, that would come in handy with all the stuff he would be carrying in the next few minutes. He turned towards the exit, almost bumping into someone.
A gorgeous someone.
"Sorry." The stranger said in his deep, velvety voice.
Tai looked up into a pair of dark green eyes and felt his mouth go a bit dry, "T-that's ok. I wasn't exactly looking where I was going."
The stranger chuckled, before moving further into the lobby and walking up to the receptionist's desk.
Grinning, Tai made his way out and to his car, glad that there was at least one good-looking guy at this uni.
Yagami Taichi had discovered being bisexual at fourteen, when he had caught himself checking out his teammates in the locker room after soccer practice. At that time, he had been dating a girl from his class and did find her attractive, too, which led him to conclude that he could get on with both sexes.
Being from a loving, supportive, and open-minded family, he had come out to his parents and younger sister about a year later, when he started dating his first boyfriend—a teammate from the school's soccer team.
Not surprisingly, his family had accepted him and had been his pillars of support, through the good times as well as the break-ups. They had treated all his dates, whether boy or girl, with equal enthusiasm and had made all feel welcome into their home. Tai felt that he would be forever in their debt for being so understanding, but knew that they did not want anything in return, that they were not doing anything against their will or natures.
Slamming the trunk of his car shut, he threw a flirtatious grin at a pair of giggling girls, before starting back towards his room, suitcases in tow, for what would be a long day of unpacking.
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