Chapter nine (what next)

Tai and Matt were walking through the mall and not really looking for presents.

They didn't really need any. Their surprise was for their parents, siblings and friends. As of three o'clock yesterday they had been considered as life partners. Matt smiled at Tai and then walked into a store. He went straight to a rack of dresses and picked one up that was light blue in color. He turned a small smile on his new "Life Partner" and bought the dress. Then he grabbed a good looking suite and bought it for his dad.

"Why are you buying those Matt I thought we agreed not to buy anything because of our announcement." Tai whispered making sure that none of the others were in ear shot.

"Tai, if we don't buy something then the others will guess that something is up and we don't want that do we?" Matt whispered right back.

Tai sighed and then smiled as he caught sight of his younger sister and Takeru. "Hey Matt, do I continue to call T.K., T.k or should I call him Takeru?"

"You call him that and he'll call you Taichi." Matt said then laughed.

"Point taken." Tai pulled Matt out of the store just after Kari and T.K. walked past it. They walked a little ways down the hall and Tai caught sight of a book store, he dragged an unwilling Matt inside and found a few books on English a subject his father had wanted to learn but never got the chance in school as he had dropped out. Then he found a few books on baking for his mother and they left again with the books in a bag.

"Hey Joe?" Izzy said as they searched though the isle in a store that held a lot of medical books and equipment. "What are we looking for?"

"I don't know Izzy, just something for my dad." Joe replied as he walked past a book on the beginnings of the plague. He found a book on cancer research and finally picked it up. "This will work." he said the two of them walked out and after another half an hour they headed toward the food court with smiles on their faces.

"Hey it's Tai and Matt." Davis said as he and Ken walked back toward the food court with T.k. and Kari whom they had run into outside of the store where Davis bought his parents presents. The four of them called out but noticed that the two weren't paying attention but were watching something on the lower level. The four of them walked the rest of the way to them and looked down to. What they saw was a couple of girls sitting on the edge of the fountain with their hands entwined and their eyes locked. It took them a minute to recognize the two girls as Sora and Mimi but it did come. Cody and Yoli were standing a few feet away from the two girls with identical smiles on their faces for just a second before they headed up to them.

"Well" Ken said then laughed. "I'm guessing it's about time."

"Yeah you'd be right." said Tai with a smile and a wink. "Sora's been to blinded by the way things were when we were younger to figure that out until now."

"Yup true." said Matt with a smile just like Tai's and a shake of his head.

"What did we miss?" asked Izzy as he and Joe walked up to the others. T.K. and Kari pointed over the side and both boys looked. "Ahh..." Izzy smiled

"That means just about everyone has the person they want." Cody said with a small knowing smile at Joe who shot him a glare that said shut up. It was to late though cause Izzy had caught that little knowing smile.

"What's he talking about Joe?" the red head turned to look at his best friend with a questioning gaze and about fell over when he felt himself being pulled toward the taller boy and his lips being covered. It took a minute but Izzy realized that his best friend was kissing him. Izxy gently pulled away with a surprised look on his face and breathed.

The others just stared and smiled when the little Red head pulled the blue haired boy back in for another kiss this one lasted a bit longer then they separated.

"I've been wanting to do that for a long time." Joe whispered with his head still resting against the other boys.

"Good, it means I wasn't the only one." Izzy smiled and turned to the others their little audience and gave them a thumbs up.

Half an hour later they all left the mall and headed home. Matt and Tai dropped off Matt's gift for his mother at her apartment along with T.k. and a letter inviting them to dinner. Then they dropped Kari with her stuff, Tai's and a note saying the same. Each of the other digi-destined would find a note in their mail.

The two of them spent the next two hours cooking and cleaning. Their new apartment was white and dust free by the time they were done. A turkey and a few other items adorned the table in the dinning room and an extra table was set up to seat the other digi-destined. Once everything else was set up they took the time to change in to dresser clothes and to brush their hair even though in Tai's case it didn't much matter.

At six o'clock the door bell rang and Tai answered showing his family and Matt's into the apartment. Ten minutes later the whole group had arrived and everyone was sitting down to eat. When they finished it was Matt's mom that asked.

"Not that it wasn't a wonderful dinner boys but what is really going on?"

"Well miss. Takashi we have something to tell everyone." Tai replied standing up and pulling Matt to his feet along with him. "As of yesterday at three o'clock, Matt and I are 'Life Partners'" their parents looked shocked and the younger digi-destined looked confused all but Yoli who screamed right along with Sora and Mimi.

"What?" T.k. asked finally not caring about looking dumb or not.

"T.k. it means that they are for lack of a better way of putting it married." Yoli smiled at her friend and watched as he turned about five shades of red then back to a pale white.

"MARRIED!" Kari screamed and through herself at her brother. "You idiot!" tears were falling down her face as she pushed her way out of the apartment. Tai looked from Matt to the others and followed his sister out. He found her sitting on the stairs of the building.

"You want to tell me what's going on?" he asked running his hands through her hair and hugging her close.

"If I tell you, you won't get mad?" she asked

"You know me better than that Kari." he replied.

"That's just it Tai I don't." she whispered "I had no idea that you and Matt were dating until Ken went in to the hospital and I never expected you to get married." she sighed. "Hell Tai, I went along with the presents thing for two reasons myself."

"What?" he asked taken back by the way his little sister was talking.

"Tai, T.K. and I are expecting." she said shaking.

"Your what!" he screamed "I'll kill him."

"You touch him and I'll never forgive you." she said standing up. " and for that matter neither would you husband." Here she stuck her tounge out at him.

"You told mom and dad yet?" he asked

She shook her head and frowned with another tear rolling down her face. This was the girl he knew the one who had nearly died twice before the time she was six. The girl who held the crest of light. She was scared he could see it in her eyes.

"Does T.k. even know?" he asked not sure why.

"No." she sighed "I don't know how to tell him or mom and dad." she said "Tai I'm scared."

He pulled his baby sister close and watched as she leaned back into it. "I promise to help as much as I can."

The two of them walked back up to the apartment and Tai pulled T.k out explaining to the rest that Kari wanted to talk to her boyfriend. It didn't seem possible to Tai that his sister and T.k. were both seventeen now. It didn't seem that long ago that they had been seven. Tai and Matt answered questioned from both new couples and then answered questions from Cody and Yoli. Davis and Ken sat in a corner of the couch listening but not really hearing anything. By the time that T.k. and Kari came back in Tai and Matt had talked to their Parents and explained about the paper work that they'd had to fill out and all that other stuff.

"You alright?" Their parents asked as the two of them stood near the front of the room hands entwined.

"Considering you'll probably want to kill me, no." T.k. said

"It takes two, T.k they'd have to kill me too." Kari said then turned toward their parents and friends. "T.k and I are expecting."

Both sets of parents were shocked. Matt turned to Tai with a shocked face just to see that he wasn't and the others were looking like they wanted to hide. Davis and Ken were still cuddled on the couch but they looked like they had just been slapped. Cody and Yoli had dropped each others hands and the two other couples looked surprised.

"Could someone say something please." Kari said tears starting to fall down her face again. T.k. took her into his arms and wiped her tears away.

"My baby." both mothers said at once and jumped to their feet pulling the two seventeen year olds into their arms. With that the rest of the gathering seemed to ease back to normal.

"Have you thought about what your going to do?" miss Takashi asked as she sat Kari down.

"The baby isn't due until June and I'll graduate in may, so I can still finish school." she said "so can T.k."

"What about after that?" her mother asked.

"I guess I get a job once I can." she said

T.k. stopped and stared as she talked about what she'd have to do and realized he knew what he had to do. "We'll get married." he said causing the whole group to quite again. "If she'll have me." he ran his hand through his blonde hair.

"Of course I will." Kari said standing up and pulling his head down for a kiss. "It looks like our families are tied together in two ways now." she said with a smile.

"You knew." Matt whispered to Tai.

"For all of about a half an hour before you all found out." he whispered back. "I love you."

"Love you too." Matt whispered and then hugged his sister -in-law.

"Congratulations you two." he said then he pulled his brother close. "You hurt her and you know that Tai will hurt you." he whispered.

"I'm well aware of that fact Yamatto." he whispered back.

"Good cause I don't think even I could stop him." Matt said then smiled "I can't believe your going to be a dad."

"Me either." T.k. said with a smile and a shake of his head.