(A/N:) Okay this is Part 3, and this goes back into the past, about one and a half years into the past, and this is where the main bulk of the story should be. The prologue, and Parts I & II were the only ones in the future, so now it's in the past okay? Understand? It's in the PAST, it's not picking up where it left off, it's picking up ABOUT 1 AND A HALF YEARS AGO. So please don't be confused and be like "What the hell? Is this different fic?", cuz it's not, it's the same one. Here are the ages again: Taichi, Yamato, Sora, Ken, Koushiro & Jun – about 14-15 years old, Takeru & Kari – 4-5, Miyako & Jyou, – about 13-14
(I say "about" just because I don't want to list all their birthdays, some are older then others but none should really exceed or be any lower then the ages I put, well actually all in all its not like it really matters I mean if you mistake someone's age by a year is it really going to effect the fic that badly? Okay now I'm rambling, so on with the story!)
Disclaimer: I don't own digimon, sorry if you thought I did, but alas it'll never be mine… so nothing belongs to me at all and that's that.
Warning: Yaoi, boy & boy relationships. If you don't like reading about this kind of stuff then don't, I'm not forcing you to and I've never asked you so don't if you don't want to, but if you do then obviously read it.
Now on with the story!
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Part III: Moo?
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(Yamato's POV)
Taichi. He was my best friend ever. I loved him in every way… even as more then a friend. Yet I'd never let Taichi know I'd fallen in love with him – that would have to stay a secret for as long as I could possibly keep it one. Today was the day of our annual camping trip, we took one every weekend. Ever since we both found a love of camping we've gone on trips every week. We'd walk there sometime late in the day – usually around eight 'o clock – and we'd set up camp somewhere in the woods that were by Odaiba park. Our town, Odaiba, was relatively large compared to what you'd think a town would be. We had large television studios, my father worked at one (and got quite wealthy from it might I add), large malls, lots of houses, and plenty of other oddities usually estrange to a town – we were really city…
So Saturday, which was our special camping day, always made me happy. Out in the woods with my best friend who I could watch all night and wonder how he looked under his clothes…
"Yamato! Are you ready yet?" My father called from downstairs. I took one look in the body mirror I had in my room and looked myself over. I was wearing baggy shorts, low-rise brown boots, gloves that matched my boots, a short-sleeve button-up brown shirt with a gray vest over it. My blonde hair was propped up with gel and skin was flawless – I've never gotten acne before but I know it's coming and when it is I'll be ready because everyday I've cleaned my face and put on an acne-preventing cream – so all in all I looked pretty good. I grabbed my pack and headed down the stairs to where my dad was waiting to drive me to the woods. Normally I would walk but some days it just seemed easier to have my dad drive me so I wouldn't have to carry all the supplies in my pack and I could just relax in the car.
When we reached there I said goodbye to my father and waited for him to drive off and then continued into the woods. There was a particular spot that I liked in the woods; it had a large rock that protruded from the ground that curved over in an obtuse form acting almost like a small cave. I always used to go there and wait for Taichi to show up, I'm usually earlier then him because most days he has soccer practice. Taichi plays soccer on the Odaiba Tigers soccer team along with a few of his friends – well they're all his friends, but some are better then others. Sometimes I sort of feel envious of the other kids on Taichi's team because I never was graced with good soccer skills – not because I really wanted to play, but because I'd get to see Taichi naked in the showers like everyday. I know that sounds a little perverted but come on! Everybody wants to see somebody naked… especially if that person is as hot as Taichi Yagami!
As I finally reached the campsite with rock I noticed I wasn't there first… but the other being was not Taichi. There was a deer eating grass and moss right by my favorite rock completely ignoring me.
"Shoo stupid deer this is Taichi's and my spot so you have to go get your own!" I shouted, running towards it flapping my hands around trying to scare it away. It just raised its head momentarily and stared at me grind food in its mouth. Why wasn't it scared of me? Weren't deer normally supposed to run away 'mooing', or whatever sound it is that deer's make, when a person comes at them? Well if they're supposed to this particular deer didn't get the memo.
"Go away stupid deer! I don't want you here when Taichi shows up! This is my spot! You can't have it!" I gave the beast a light kick on its leg to try and prod it into moving. It just stopped chewing and then stared at me again making a small grunt sound. Suddenly it nudged its head against my chest pushing me back slightly before it returned to eating its grass. You've got to be kidding me.
"GO THE FUCK AWAY YOU STUPID DEER!" I yelled picking up a small rock and throwing it at the deer trespassing on my turf.
The deer just grunted once again and then continued eating ignoring me. I swear I never thought an animal, much less a deer, would be practically telling me that it wasn't going to move and that it didn't care that I was here. I just sighed and rubbed my forehead irritated. I guess it wouldn't be that bad if the deer stuck around, it would go away eventually and hopefully soon.
There was a rustling in the bushes and I saw the deer's ears twitch backwards aiming them at the direction of the sound. Again there was a rustling and the deer lifted its head to look over at Taichi coming into the clearing that was supposed to be our spot. The deer dropped the grass from its mouth and fled in a panic, as Taichi looked it in the eye. This is insane… I kick the freaking thing and it hangs around but when Taichi just so much as looks at it – it runs away mooing or whatever it does, I should really find out what sound deer's make… and maybe sue preschools for not teaching me what sound it makes and putting me in the situation…
"Hey Taichi!" I wave gleefully over at him loosing the irritated feeling quickly as I see his face. He's always had that quality about him, he could make anyone feel better just in his presence – it was amazing.
"Yamato! Hi! What's up buddy?" He said bringing me into an embrace. The second I felt his arms around me I couldn't help but release a sigh of content. If only his hugs were a little less "friendly" and a little more "relationshipy". We sat down by the rock in the clearing and began to set up camp. It was always a similar routine: First we'd set up camp and make our tents – separate tents, which honestly I hated – and then we'd get out our dinner we brought and talk about random things, and then we'd cook the food after starting a fire if the food needed cooking, and finally we'd end up playing a game, or just talk some more until we fell asleep, and rarely even we'd sometimes go searching through the woods just for the hell of it.
I looked Taichi over before setting up my part of the camp. He was wearing a blue shirt – it seemed always like blue was his favorite… everything! Blue shirts, blue wallpaper, blue notebooks, blue-ink pens, blue eyes… I breathed a sharp intake of breath. Blue eyes! I had a pair of those! I wonder if Taichi liked my eyes, I mean they were blue so it could only make sense…
"Yamato! Yamato! Are you even listening to me?" I snapped my head over to Taichi's face noticing my gaze had been lingering on his body.
"Are-Are you drooling Yamato?" Taichi said leaning forward trying to view my face better. I quickly wiped the corners of my mouth noticing I had in fact been drooling, curse hormones and anything related to them!
"Uh, no-no! I was –was just, um… gargling?" Taichi gave me a skeptical look.
"…Gargling?" Taichi asked definitely looking like he wasn't buying it, I had to admit it was a pretty lame excuse.
"Yeah cause I… like to… gargle before… I um… eat… yeah…." I said scratching the back of my head smiling sheepishly. Taichi looked now like he knew I was lying for sure.
"I don't know what's up Yamato but your kinda freaken me out." Taichi gave me an odd look before returning to setting up camp.
"Hey who doesn't like gargling? Some people would consider it a tradition."
"Yeah and some people would consider it swishing bubbly water around in their throat and spitting it out, which by the way you've yet to do." Taichi said raising an eyebrow suspiciously. You'd think we'd have to be insane to get all in a hissy fit about something as trivial as gargling… but nothing is ever too trivial for Taichi, in fact I bet he could talk about random small things all day and never get tired, just talk and talk and talk as if what he's talking about actually matters – which he normally does, like ten freaking times a week! Jeez sometimes he never shuts up… but I seriously can't find anything more adorable then when he starts to babble on and on like that.
"Just drop it Tai, 'kay? I'm so starved right now it's not even funny." I lied. I couldn't be less hungry if you paid me. In fact I kind of felt full, but I knew for a fact that food was something Taichi could never turn down. My prediction was correct as he dropped the subject and began to take all the food out of his bag and mine and quickly began digging into it as if it was his first meal in weeks.
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(Taichi's POV)
So much for Yamato being "starved", as he called it. He barely touched his food, so I ate it for him! See what a good friend I am? I ate his food for him! That's got to be like a billion friend points. Okay so friend points isn't even a real thing and I just thought it up right now, but if they existed – I assure you I'd have like a billion…
Yamato and I soon went to bed after we ate, putting out the fire and only letting a small candle glow in the darkness in between our two separate tents. Ugh the word separate just makes me want to gag. It's like we're so homophobic that we can't even share a tent together, much less a bed. I wish it were different, I wish Yamato would be more open-minded about these kinds of things so that I could be closer to him – in the mental and physical sense. I want Yamato close to me; I want him close to me forever! I want to wake up to his hair tickling my chest and my arms wrapped around his waist, and hot breath to flow over my body, and his hands to be…
"MOOO!" Moo? What in the world-?
"MOOO!" Apparently something was mooing outside my tent and it woke me up from a pretty pleasant dream, which made me quite annoyed... I opened up a tent to see a few deer pass by slowly just barely being able to make out their outlines in the darkness, I noticed the candle had gone out, and everything was dark and shadowy…
I went back to bed hoping I could recover what was left of the dream I was having – loving how it was going so far… Yamato was so hot, and today I practically had to stop myself from ripping his clothes off right then and there. He always wears the sexiest things, I think he does it on purpose to annoy me… well actually I know he doesn't do it to annoy me but it sure feels like it cause it seems like every time I see him he just keeps getting hotter and hotter. I wish he were mine so badly it almost hurts. The fact that he's so close but so far away annoys me to extremes. I could almost smell his blueberry shampoo from over here… mmm… I love blueberries….
"T-Taichi, do-do you think I could sleep in your t-tent tonight?" I was awoken by Yamato's question and also by the fact that I knew I had smelt his lovely blueberry scent.
"Sure I'll just get my stuff outta here then–"
"No Taichi, with you in it too. C-Can we sleep in the same tent?" Yamato seemed extremely hesitant and nervous; it was as if he was asking me to the prom rather then to share my tent.
"Um, sure, go ahead, I guess." I said watching him slowly make his way towards me.
"Is it okay that I sleep here? If you're uncomfortable you can tell me." NO! I'd be twice as comfortable if you slept here! In fact I've wanted you to ask me something like that since I was like ten!
"No, it's totally cool, I'm not uncomfortable in the slightest." I pulled him down into the covers almost a little too enthusiastically and I was hoping he didn't notice my eagerness. He was so gorgeous, especially now because he was just in his boxers and a t-shirt. I couldn't believe it! Maybe this time I wouldn't have to dream about waking up with Yamato next to me, maybe now I could relive the dream and have it be a reality…
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(Yamato's POV)
"No, it's totally cool, I'm not uncomfortable in the slightest." A quite eager Taichi pulled me down under the covers pretty quickly before I could even react. I couldn't believe he'd said yes! I wanted to just cuddle up to him right now and tell him how much I love him, and how amazing he is, and how cute he is, and how sexy he looks in just his boxers… I wonder what's under those… Bad Yama! Stop thinking about Taichi like that when he's so close to you he could probably feel you getting hard. You've got to calm down and not think of how many places you could kiss him besides on his face…
Shit! Telling yourself to not think of it only makes you think of it more! If Taichi looked down to find I was hard I don't think he'd ever let me live it down, and if he found out I was gay I don't know what he'd do… he might stop being my friend…
His arm slowly wrapped around my waist, painstakingly slowly, it was as if he was trying to give me time to say no. Of course any normal straight boy would say no, so I had to act like I was already sleeping and didn't notice. I clamped my eyes shut and made my breaths quiet and slow in an attempt to try and show Taichi I didn't know what was going on. When his arm fully wrapped around my waist he slowly pulled me closer to him and then I realized just what was going on. Yeah, straight guys would object to their best friend doing this… but if the best friend were straight why would he be doing it in the first place?
But… Taichi was straight! He's had girlfriends, and his own like fan club – full of girls mind you, and he's always asking me how hot some girl he sits next to in class is, and he sits next to quite a lot of girls as luck would have it… So then what the hell was going on?
I could feel now that there was only our thin layers of clothing separating our bodies and my breathing started to increase and I could feel a little bit of nervous a sweat roll down the side of my face. This can't happen now, I can't get all excited because Taichi is holding me – what he's doing is just a friendly gesture – yeah that's it! He's just giving me a hug goodnight or something, or just maybe got cold… he is only in his boxers… Ugh why is this so confusing?
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(Taichi's POV)
God, Yama's like a fucking surgical procedure. I pulled him close to me last night and he freaked out, he probably thought I couldn't tell but I could. Just because his backs turned to me doesn't mean I didn't notice how hard he was trying to act normally. I don't see what the big problem is anyways. If Yamato's straight then why would this bother him? Wouldn't he get all nervous like that if a girl did that to him? I tried not to think about it because after we woke up and I released him he acted as if he was completely fine with what happened and I decided to buy into his act and pretend I didn't notice a single thing was off last night.
We went to go make breakfast and start up the fire once again to cook it. The charcoals from yesterday were still slightly warm and were very tempting to use to bother Yamato. I slowly bent down and took a piece of charcoal quickly and put it behind my back and scrubbed my hands with it making them covered with black soot.
"Hey Yama, can you come over here for a sec?" I asked him, still with my hands behind my back. He nodded his head and began to walk towards me. When he finally reached me I wasted no time in pressing my messy, sooty hands against his t-shirt rubbing it all in and getting it all dirty. He gasped in surprise and his look of calmness that normally came with the morning turned into one of anger and disgust.
"TAICHI YAGAMI I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" He shouted as I ran away laughing. He chased after me with fury in his eyes. Soon though before we got well into our chase it began to rain making me stop in my tracks to look up at the sky. The water streamed down my face, and the trees barely held any of the droplets that flew from the clouds. I felt my whole body get wet in a matter of seconds and the ground around me started to turn slightly muddy…
"Taichi watch out!" Yamato shouted as he flew across the muddy ground sliding right towards me. Oh God… there was no way this could end well…
"Stop!" I yelled right before he smacked into me sending us hurdling towards the ground and landing with a thud. He was on top of me with his hair limply lying over his head drenched with the now fearsomely falling rain. He looked into my eyes panting slightly from the past endeavor, and now I was staring right back. He looked so cute all wet and dripping, I could just reach up and kiss him… just one kiss… no one would ever have to know… He was so close, just about an inch away all dreamy eyed and adorable, if I just lifted my face slightly I could just touch his lips to mine…
"MOO!" The deer made us both jump.
"Fucking stupid deer go away! Are you like stalking me?" Yamato shouted angrily at the innocent animal besides us. It walked over to us and I tried to move but with Yamato on top of me I couldn't get up. Yamato froze, as the deer was almost right on top of us. The deer slowly lowered his head and pressed Yamato's head straight into mine making our lips finally come together, what I had been wanting for so long. Thank you deer…
I kissed Yamato with all the passion I could muster inside my body with my hands running through his hair and his hands cupping my face. He kissed back with an intensity I would have never imagined he'd kiss me with, it was as if he really wanted this as much as I did… did he?
Before I even knew what I was doing my tongue was prodding into his mouth eagerly and he opened his lips giving me entrance. The kiss went from innocent to intense in a couple of seconds and I loved it… My tongue explored his whole mouth and I loved how he tasted, and I hoped this wasn't the last time I was going to taste him because we had to reluctantly pull away for air.
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(Yamato's POV)
Oh. My. God. Please tell me that wasn't a dream. Oh wow it wasn't. Taichi was looking up at me lovingly with eyes filled with passion, Taichi… wanted this, wanted… me?
He raised his hand to my face and slid it slowly down my face till it reached my chin holding it between his fingers. He pulled me in for another kiss… yeah he wanted me…
Just as we were about to get into a flat out make-out session I opened my eyes and saw the deer eating our food at the campsite only a few yards from us. Stupid deer! I knew he did that for a reason… deer's don't make peoples dreams come true just for the hell of it! The dirty beast wanted our food!
"Taichi! That deer's eating up all our food! Like all of it!"
"Nice try Yama, if you seriously just didn't want to kiss me anymore you could just tell me…"
"No! It's not that," I gave him a quick peck on the lips. "I do, but if you want to eat this morning you'll help me get that thing away from our food!" I shouted getting up from Taichi. I helped Taichi get up and we started running towards the deer with him trialing behind me.
"Go away! Go eat grass! Deer's don't eat French toast!" Another thing preschools didn't teach me… apparently deer's did eat French toast – one was eating it now…
"Yamato I don't think this is working…"
"Ya think?" I asked sarcastically. I began kicking the deer in the leg like I had yesterday and it repeated it's actions from yesterday. It nudged its head against my chest sending me backwards onto the ground. It was then that I saw anger fly into Taichi's eyes. He began to push the beast with all his might until it finally budged and he slapped it hard on it's ass, which sent it off running and grunting and mooing or whatever sound they make…
Taichi headed over to me and held out his hand to help me up which I gratefully took and stood up. He still held onto my hand and brought me close to him once again by using my hand to drag me near. He looked into my eyes lovingly and I could tell what his intentions were next…
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(Taichi's POV)
"So what does this make us, Taichi?" Yamato asked me bringing his eyes to look at me from where he was sitting. I looked back at him and a little caught off guard by his question.
"What do you want us to be?" I said scooting over closer to him to where he was sitting. We both turned to look out into the forest from the large rock we sat on top of us with our legs dangling over the side of the rock.
"I-I think I w-want us to be more then friends…" Yamato said doodling with his finger on the rock.
"Okay then… might as well make it official… Yamato," I said moving his face gently towards me with my hand.
"Would you be my boyfriend?" I asked looking nervously into his eyes hoping the only words that would come out of his mouth would be –
"Yes, yes I would really like that." Those exact words…
I brought him in for a kiss happy with his answer and loving his taste even more then before. Who'd think we'd get together thanks to a deer? I definitely didn't but I was happy we did, no I was totally ecstatic. I could barely contain my excitement and my hands began roaming all over his body while he soon caught on and copied my actions.
To think that I was in a relationship with the guy of my dreams was almost to much for my mind to handle in one day, the fact that I was just kissing him made my heart skip a beat and my mind go into shock and disbelief…
I pounced on top of Yamato so that his back was on the rock and that I was on top of him this time rather then before when he was on top.
"Do you know how hot you look right now?" I asked him grinning.
"I could ask you the same question Taichi." Yamato giggled. Wait… giggled? Since when did Yamato giggle? I put it in the back of my mind and just enjoyed the sound before bringing him into another kiss.
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(A/N:) Okay I personally thought that this was my favorite chapter so far, then again I'm kind of bias being I wrote it… I hope you liked it too! The next chapter stays in the past. In fact I think it's going to stay in the past until you come up to the first two parts in the future, I'm not too sure yet how it's gonna play out exactly… But anyways I hope you've enjoyed it so far! The other chapters won't be as short a time frame as this, like not one chapter will equal like a day or two like this one did, so don't worry it probably won't drag out at all! REVIEW!!! ^___^