Sorry it's taken me while but I've been kind of busy with school and tambourine practices…anyway I made some time!! Its almost 12 at midnight…I done this just for you's guys!! I hope you really enjoy this

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Fighting For The One You Love

Chapter 8

Will The Truth Come Out Or Just Lies?

T.K held his breath, waiting for Kari's response. Kari looked deeply into those amazing blue eyes that she truly loved. Can she tell him how she really felt about him? Or would he break her heart? Is this some kind of stupid joke that he's trying to pull off, just to see her reaction?

"I really, lov – " Kari started to say.

"Yes?" T.K asked.

"I lov – " Kari again said.

"T.K!!!!" a voice called out from out side the room. This interrupted their moment.

A girl with long, silky black hair walked in. She wore a denim skirt, with a white halter neck. She casually walked in and kissed T.K softly on the lips. T.K broke free.

"Sandra?" T.K asked.

Kari's face turned from nervousness to anger.

^So…he's still with Sandra?^ She disgustedly thought. He was just playing around with her. How could he do such a thing to her? She should've known that T.K never really cared for her. Even though he had saved her from doing suicide, he had no reason to do this to her!

"T.K, oh my darling T.K" Sandra said "I missed you, I told you I'll be back…school in Canada was boring without you, that's why I returned, to be by your side!"

She hugged T.K and T.K couldn't break free. His eyes kept on looking at Kari, pleading to her to help him, saying that there's nothing going on between him and Sandra. But Kari wasn't looking at T.K, she was busy looking at Sandra's features.

Of course, Kari thought, T.K would choose someone like her, tall, slender, soft skinned and probably wanted by a lot of guys. Kari quickly got up and left the room. She surely didn't want to interrupt this pathetic couple. Kari didn't realize it but tears had rolled down her cheeks. She accidentally bumped to another person while she was hurrying to get out. She looked up and found a concerned looking Joe looking down on her.

"Kari? Are you ok? Why are you crying?" Joe asked.

"I'm crying? I didn't realize…*hikZ*" she said through her tears.

"Let's go inside my office and we'll talk about it there, how's that?"

Kari nodded her head.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Willis played a tune on his guitar. No, that didn't sound right. He played another tune, and it didn't sound right either.

"Break!" Yamato called out.

Everyone in the band went off to get their own lunch. Willis sat still at where he was. Yamato walked up to him.

"What's wrong? You're not concentrating, your mind isn't focused" Yamato said.

Willis didn't reply. He was lost in thoughts of Kari. Maybe he should talk to her before he started on this. It'll just wont work out if he still hadn't forgiven Kari to the max. Kari was his inspiration, the girl that told him the meaning of life. She was the reason he was doing this.

~*FlashBack*~

Willis sat down in the empty music classroom with frustration. He gripped his head with his hands.

"What's wrong?" A sweet girl's voice asked.

Willis looked up to find an amazingly enchanting girl in front of his eyes. Should he tell her?

"Nothing…" he lied.

"It sure don't look like nothing" she insisted.

Willis sighed. "My music teacher just kicked me out of the band…"

"Why?"

"Because I had a fight with his son outside school…"

"Oh…can you play something for me?"

"Sure" Willis played a piece of music that he had composed by himself. He sang along as he played. Kari closed her eyes as she listened. When Willis stopped she opened her eyes.

"That was amazing! You can be very famous did you know that? Your music teacher is really stupid in letting you go! He of course didn't see what was really in you, I tell you what, let's go to a place where you can perform that, there's that new café and I heard that there'll be people there who's looking for new talents! This can get you started…!"

Willis first had refused, but she kept on insisting and he couldn't resist the beautiful voice. When he played, she was in the audience cheering him on, she was always by his side and when he was stuck for a tune or lyrics, she will come by and sit next to him. The words will just come out to him and the music will be heard in his ears. Once he got chosen to perform in other places, she was there, always with him, his courier would've been nothing without her. He owe it all to her.

~End Of Flashback~

"Yohoo?" Yamato asked.

"Wha? Wa?" Willis asked as he got back to reality.

"What have you got in your mind?"

"Kari"

"Oh…"

"I can't focus with out her here, every time I'm working on a music she's always by my side, giving me the inspiration…"

"But she's not here…so you have to learn to do it without her…she might break up with you someday, and what would you do then? You need to do it without her"

Willis gave it a thought. She might break up with him. Especially after kissing T.K.

He had to learn to do it without her. "Ok Matt, but I'm telling you, it's going to take a while…"

Yamato nodded. "I'm a patient boy aren't I? Anyway I'm going to visit Taichi now…just for this break…"

Willis nodded while he fiddled around with his guitar.

~Mimi~

"Yes like that" A photographer said.

Mimi was doing many different poses for the camera. Today she had started to do some of her modeling. She was dressed in a Japanese kimono, it was purple with pink cherry blossoms all over it. Her hair was put up into a nice tight bun, there were little cherry blossom petals on her hair. Izzy was sitting down on the sides watching Mimi's every move.

^Gawd she's beautiful^ He thought.

"Ok, that's all for now" The photographer said.

Mimi went to the changing rooms and came out again her hair down, she was wearing a blue, tightened dress. She made her way to Izzy.

"Do you want to go somewhere for lunch?" she asked.

Izzy nodded. "Yeah let's go…"

The photographer looked at Izzy and Mimi, how close are they. He felt jealous. ^I'll make Mimi want me^ he said in his thoughts. (AN. I didn't want to do another triangle…I feel like doing this instead)

~Kari~

Kari wailed as she cried on Joe's shoulder and explained everything to him.

"I…*sobs* I really love him, Joe, and I…*hiks* I thought he feel the same way you know, with the way…*sobs* he's been acting and asking, and that kiss I had with him, *HikZ* it was wonderful, I was about to tell him how I feel until that ugh, girl, came in and spoilt everything…" Kari said.

"What about Willis, Kari?" Joe asked, eager to help her.

"I…I don't know, I mean I *sobs* I love him too but what I feel for T.K is much stronger, but I just realized that T.K never feel any of these feelings for me, he was just playing me…and yet, I can't seem to stop loving him…"

"Kari, he's not playing you, I'm sure he loves you too, you and T.K are always together, doing everything together, and when you left, it really sure punched a hole in his heart, he was quiet and spent most of his times alone…and Sandra, I'm sure it was just a coincidence…"

"If it was a coincidence…" Kari said "She wouldn't of kissed him…on the lips…"

Joe sighed, he didn't know how to help her anymore, to be honest, he doesn't even know what's right anymore, is T.K really over Sandra?

Kari stood up, and wiped her eyes with tissues.

"Thank you Joe, for your time, I'm sure I wasted enough, I really appreciate you trying to help and reason out with me but I got to fixed all this by my self…and once again…arigato" Kari said as she walked out of the office.

"Bye…"

Kari slowly walked out of the office and walked pass T.K's room, she tilted her head to look inside, and she saw T.K and Sandra, talking to each other, they looked deadly serious. Who knows, Kari thought, they might be planning their next date. T.K caught her looking in, but Kari quickly walked away.

"Kari wait!" he called out but Kari didn't care. She could hear him calling out her name, pleading for her to stay, but she just didn't care, she needed to think this through without his image in front of her face.

^ Why does this have to happen to me? I can't stand this, maybe I am suppose to be with Willis, he loves me, he cares for me, he never played me. He never cheated on me, what else can I ask for? ^ Kari thought.

^ Love, Kari, Love, you ask for your loved one to give you the exact same thing ^ A little voice said in her mind.

Kari shook her head in disagreement. "No," she said quietly "I think I'm going to see how Willis's is doing"

~Taichi~

"MR Yagami…you're doing extremely well, you might be able to be let home by next week" the nurse said.

"That's good" Taichi said.

The nurse walked out of the room and then Sora walked in with a bunch of flowers in her hands. She placed them neatly on Taichi's bed side table.

*Silence*

"Sora…I"

"No Taichi, don't say anything…I'll figure this out ok? You just need to give me some time…I'm really confused right now…I just came today, to see how you were going and to have a friendly best friend chat…you know?"

Taichi nodded. He gestured his hand to the empty chair next to his bed. Sora sat down on it.

"So … ?" Taichi asked.

"Mimi is back in Japan did you know?"

"No…how is she?"

"She's fine I guess, she's a model…how does she look I don't even know… I haven't even seen her…she's been really busy lately and I think she and Izzy might have a little something" Sora said.

Sora was expecting Taichi to smile or even laugh. But Taichi's face remained as the way it was.

"What's wrong?"

"I was just thinking, they just met after 4-5 years and they've already started to have something…and us? We've been together since we were a bowling infant and we have nothing…" Taichi's voice trailed off there.

"Oh…"Sora didn't know what else to say. She was lost for words.

"Sora, I just hope you'll think it over with great cautious, I really love you, you know I do, I will never do anything to hurt you…"

"I know Tai, I know…" she said it like she was in a trance.

Somebody knocked on the door. A pair of ocean blue eyes looked at them.

"Am I interrupting something?" he asked.

"No Yamato no…" Sora said quickly.

"Your faces looked deadly serious…" He continued on.

Taichi forced a smile on his lips. "No Yamato, you interrupted nothing."

"That's good then, well Taichi I know I haven't been visiting lately, and I just came to say I'm sorry I ever provoked you…" Matt said.

Taichi nodded understandingly. Yamato lifted up his wrist to see the watch. "Oh damn, I have to go now, I know that was quick but my break only goes for 15 mins and the trip from the studio to here is much longer than I expected…Sora you want to come? You didn't really have a proper introduction with Willis…"

Sora looked at Taichi. "With him like this Matt, I don't think I can leave his side…"

"Nonsense!" Matt turned to face Taichi "It's ok right?"

Taichi nodded. "Sure" he lied.

Yamato grabbed Sora around the shoulder and walked out with her. Sora looked back at Taichi, mouthing to him that she was sorry. She reluctantly walked out of the room with her lover, Yamato Ishida, although she wasn't sure whether he would still be any longer.

~Willis~

Willis brushed his thumb on to the guitar, what possible tune is there that would express his emotions and feelings? What would suit the lyrics? It's impossible to do this without Kari by his side. Then he caught a glimpse of the girl he'd been longing to see. Outside the window he could see the amber hair, the soft gentle lips and the ruby, red eyes that always twinkles in the night. A sudden rush of melody flew around his body. A tune that was never there before popped up to mind. He played with his guitar and sang along. Kari could hear him from the outside. Such talent, she thought, such soothing voice, the voice that put her to sleep, giving her such sweet dreams. Her feet took her to the entrance and she watched with deep concentration at the boy that she loves or used to love or…Agh, she just doesn't know.

Willis stopped playing and looked up. Their eyes met. Their heart started to beat rapidly. Willis, wants to tell Kari how much he greatly loves her and how he can never imagine living his life without her, on the other hand, Kari, was confused, does she really love him? Or has that feeling been washed away but the impish smile of her long time best friend, the secretive eyes, the gentle voice and touch?

Willis put down his guitar and approached Kari while Kari was walking towards him. He is eager to tell her while she is in nervousness, asking herself whether she should tell him, maybe just maybe, it would solve things out.

How's that? Hope you enjoyed it! Don't forget to review!!

~CherryBlossom~