A/N: Okay, to clear up a few things that might be bothering you, the older digidestined are around the age of 18- 19, Joe being the exception, he's 21. The younger digidestined are 15-16 yrs and Cody is 13.
Also, since this is taking place during the summer, I don't think the digidestined would have that much time to spend in the digital world if it was during school, it would be during July- August, when they have time off from school. They will be going back to school eventually, but that will be later on in the story. In America, where Mimi and Davis are, it is also summer vacation, so Davis is over there on a summer program.
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Chapter X: Just Friends?Hey Kari,
Hope everything over there in Japan is going well. I'm fine over here. This cooking school mom sent me to is great! I can open my noodle cart in no time at this rate! It's great to be out of the house and away from Jun! How's the rest of the gang back home? Is Tai alright now? I heard that you met some trouble in the digital world the other day. Yamato told us not to worry about it though. You're okay right?
Well, changing the subject, I met a great girl over here. She's American though, and her name's Julie. She's in my cooking class and she wants to open a restaurant of her own someday. I think I may even be falling for her! But don't tell anyone yet… especially T.K.! I don't want him hanging this over my head forever. How is T.K. anyways? Is he still trying to hit on you? Wait… I think that was me. Haha. I guess you don't have to worry about me anymore, cause I think I might ask her to be my girlfriend. I'll send a picture with this email for ya.
I ran into Mimi the other day actually. She's living with a girlfriend of hers in downtown New York actually. They rented out an apartment a couple miles away from my cooking class. At least Veemon has a friend to play with now. I told Julie about my being a digidestined and everything and she actually took it pretty well. Plus, she thought Veemon was, and I quote, 'cute and cuddly!' Haha! Man, she should see him when he digivolves… I wonder if she'll still think he's cute and cuddly then. She ended up poking and pinching Veemon's cheeks all day that day.
Poor Veemon.
Oh, and she also said she would love to meet the rest of you, so when I come back to Japan later this year, at the end of summer, she might come with me for a week or two and then head back.
Okay, I should run now, I have to go pick Julie up for our 'date.' Well, it's not really a date cause we're not officially boyfriend and girlfriend, but I hope to be sometime soon! We're going out to see a movie.
Love,
Davis
Davis re-read his email once again before pressing the SEND button. He watched a tiny little dinosaur take the letter in his mouth and bounce across the screen. Once it disappeared from view, signaling that the message was sent, Davis closed his d-terminal and glanced at his watch. 3:30 PM. Stretching out a bit, he got out of his seat in the café that he was in and took his wallet out of his pocket. Taking out a couple of dollar bills and some change, he placed it on the tabletop, grabbed his d-terminal and walked out of the café. 'That pizza was good. I should bring Julie here sometime,' Davis thought as he walked over to Julie's apartment complex.
Davis walked towards a big building and entered the building through the glass doors. He nodded to the receptionist at the front desk and went over to the elevators. Waiting for the elevator to come down to the lobby, Davis took a look around the lobby and suddenly spotted a flash of pink hair. 'Mimi?' Frowning, Davis made his way over to the pink haired girl until he was about a foot away from her. "Mimi?" he voiced out his question.
The pink haired girl turned around, her brown eyes landing on Davis. "Davis!" she said, giving the brown haired boy a big hug.
"Mimi, what are you doing here?" Davis asked as he tried to pry the bubbly girl off of him.
"Oh, I came here to meet a friend, but he's not home right now so I was on my way out. What are you doing here?" Mimi asked, her eyes narrowing in suspicion.
"I came to pick Julie up to go to a movie," Davis replied. Before Mimi could reply, Davis heard a small 'ding' go off, indicating that the elevator had come down. "Oh, that's mine!" Davis said as he ran over to the elevator. As he waited for the people in the elevator to file out, Davis turned to Mimi and said, "I'll see you later!" as he waved bye to her and got onto the moving contraption. He pressed '10' on the panel and waited quietly in the corner for the elevator to come to a stop on the 10th floor.
Getting off the elevator, Davis turned right and walked down the long hallway. He stopped in front of the door numbered 1017 and rang the doorbell that was placed beside the door. He waited for a couple of seconds before a blonde haired girl opened the door. "Come on in Davis," the girl replied after seeing the boy. Smiling, Davis entered the clean apartment and slipped out of his shoes before taking a seat on the couch in the living room.
"Do you want anything to drink or eat?" she asked as she rummaged through the kitchen cabinets for a glass.
"No thanks, I ate before coming here; a glass of water will be fine," Davis said as he looked around the apartment. Granted it wasn't the first time he was over, but the cleanliness and artistry of the apartment awed him every time he came over. There were paintings placed on every wall, some bought in art- auctions, some hand made by Julie's roommate.
The blonde haired girl came out of the kitchen carrying a glass of water and handed it over to Davis. "Thanks," Davis nodded before taking the glass. "These are some amazing paintings," Davis said as he gulped down the glass of water.
Giggling, the blonde haired girl said, "you say that every single time you come over. Thanks though." Davis smiled and placed the glass on the table in front of him.
"So where's Julie?" he finally asked, seeing that he had been waiting for about five minutes now.
"I thought you would never ask," Julie's roommate replied, taking a seat next to Davis. "She's almost ready," she replied as she grabbed the TV remote off the side table. Switching the TV onto the art auction channel, she then remembered Davis was over. "Do you want to watch anything?" she asked as she offered him the remote.
Davis shook his head and said, "No thanks. Anyways, Julie's ready now," as he got up off the couch and watched as the brunette came out of her room.
"Hey Davis," Julie said as she walked over to him and gave him a brief hug. "Let me go grab my purse and we can leave." She ran back to her room, got her purse and came back into the living room.
"I'll see you later Janice," Julie said as she took Davis's hand in hers and dragged him out the door. Janice just waved as the couple left, her eyes glued to the t.v. Locking the door behind her, Julie turned towards Davis and asked, "Are you ready?"
Davis nodded and took her hand in his as they walked down the corridor together. "You look nice," he leaned over and whispered into her ear. Julie, blushing, mumbled a quick 'thanks' and looked at the floor. She straightened her short black skirt out and pulled her pink spaghetti-strapped top down a bit, before stepping onto the elevator. "Stop fussing, you look fine," Davis whispered to her as she kept fumbling with the border of her top. Smiling slightly, she placed her hands at her side.
As they stepped out from the elevator, Davis waved at the receptionist once again and placed his arm around Julie's waist as they left the building. "I see you're chummy with the receptionist there," Julie said, laughing.
Davis shrugged. "I met him a couple of times so we know each other." Taking two tickets out of his back pocket, Davis scanned the tickets for the show time. "Let's see… it says the show is at 4:30, it's 4 pm now. So by the time we get there, it will be around 4:15. The movie's around two hours long so we'll get out around 6:30. Do you want to have dinner after that? Then I can bring you back," Davis said, running the times through his head.
"Sure, that sounds great," Julie replied as they started walking towards the bus stop. Catching the bus, they went over to a theater that was near by and bought a couple of treats for themselves before they went in to watch the movie.
As the movie started, Julie settled into her seat, placing her head on Davis' shoulder. Davis suddenly stiffened, not sure what to do in this situation.
Sure he had pursued Kari, but Kari never returned his affections so he had no experience in these types of situations. He decided to place his arm around the brunette's shoulders and she snuggled in a little closer to him.
Luckily, Davis did not pick a movie that was neither full of romance nor full of horror so both of them enjoyed it thoroughly.
As the movie ended, the two teenagers got up from their seats and stretched out their stiff muscles.
"Now where do you want to go?" Julie asked as they walked out of the theater. Davis' stomach gave the answer as it grumbled softly. "Well, there's my answer." Julie laughed. Davis grinned sheepishly as he placed his arms behind his head and they walked over to a restaurant a couple of blocks down from the theaters.
"This place looks kind of expensive," Julie started as they walked in.
"Don't worry about it. Mimi told me it's not as expensive as it looks, which is good," Davis said as he straightened out his dark blue silk shirt. "Come on," he urged as he took her hand in his. Davis walked up to the guy behind the register and asked for a table for two. Nodding, the man led them to a secluded booth in the non-smoking section and placed two menus on the table and left. Taking a menu into his hands, Davis said, "Order anything you want. Dinner's on me."
"I hope it is… it's not polite to make a girl pay," Julie said grinning. Davis just chuckled and continued to look through his menu. As a waiter came by, they ordered their drinks and meals and waited for the food to arrive.
"You know, it almost feels like we're on a date," Julie said as she folded her arms on top of the table.
"Do you want it to be?" Davis asked, figuring it might be the right time to ask her.
"What?"
"Do you want it to be a date? You and me?" Davis asked again, his voice wavering slightly in excitement and anticipation.
"Are you asking me to be your girlfriend?" Julie asked, looking Davis straight in the eyes.
"Yes."
"Then, yes. I will be your girlfriend," Julie said, smiling. Davis' eyes lit up as a grin filled his face. Davis would have jumped for joy but just then their food arrived.
"Perfect timing," Davis said as he continued grinning. The two of them dug into their meals, Davis explaining more about the digital world to Julie.
As they finished up their meal, the waiter brought over the bill and Davis took a look at it. His eye started twitching as he took a look at the final amount. 'Not as expensive as it looks, eh Mimi?' Davis thought angrily as he whipped out a card his mom had given him for his expenses. Of course his mom would get a full account of where he was spending his money and she had threatened to revoke his money if he didn't spend it properly. 'Oh well… I guess it was worth it. Mom better pay me for this or I'll be broke before the month ends…' The waiter took his card and went to make the transaction.
Looking back up at Julie he then asked, "Do you want to take a walk for a bit? Then I can drop you back home," he offered.
Nodding, she replied, "Sure."
The waiter came back with his card and thanked them for dining at the restaurant. 'You'd better be thankful cause I don't think I'll be coming back here for a while…' Davis thought as he grumbled under his breath.
"What's wrong Davis?" Julie asked as she placed a soft hand on his shoulder.
"Huh? Oh, nothing," Davis replied as he plastered a smile on his face. He pushed the money thoughts out of his head and enjoyed his walk with Julie.
"How old is your roommate?" Davis asked out of the blue.
"Huh? Uh, she's around twenty I think," Julie replied. "She's trying to sell some of her art pieces actually. She's sold a few over the internet, but she's trying to bring them to an art dealer and I think she's planning on opening her own art show or something in the future."
"Cool," Davis replied. They made idle talk about anything that came to their minds until they were back at Julie's apartment door, 1017.
"Thanks for this wonderful night Davis," Julie said as she kissed him on the cheek. Davis smiled and waited for her to go into the room. Before she opened the door and stepped inside, she turned around once again and looked at Davis once more before turning the key.
"Wait," Davis said as he grabbed her hand. Turning around, Julie shot him a questioning look. "Can… Can I- Can I kiss you?" Davis stuttered out as a blush rose to his cheeks. Smiling, Julie nodded and closed her eyes and tilted her head upwards. Davis stepped closer to her and wrapped an arm around her waist, his right arm still holding her hand in his. He brought his lips down softly against hers and his eyes closed as well. He brushed his lips against hers tentatively before pressing his lips upon hers with a little more pressure. She kissed him back and wrapped her arms around his neck. They pulled back slightly, due to the lack of air and the brunette smiled softly.
"Thanks Davis," she whispered before she untangled herself from him and stepped inside her apartment. She glanced at him once more, a slight blush tainting her cheeks and then she closed the door.
Davis leaned against the railing and sighed as he ran a finger over his lips. 'Wow…' was the only thing running through his head all the way back to his dorm that the college had provided for him.
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Joe sighed for the tenth time as he listened to the monotone voice of the professor droning on and on at the front of the classroom. He had signed up for an easy biology course to take over his short break, but was now regretting it. 'When will this class be over?' he thought as he glanced at the clock on the wall. It seemed like the hands of the clock refused to budge and were locked in place at 10:15 AM. It was a brand new day and Joe thought he could change his mind about his professor, but it looked like that wasn't going to happen any time soon.
As the doctor-to-be's hands automatically took down every other word uttered from the teacher's lips, Joe's mind slowly drifted off into la-la land. His mind traveled back to when the digidestined first went to the digital world and where he first met Bukamon. 'Haha.. I remember I was running scared of him the first time I saw him… he was actually kind scary looking with that orange thing he calls hair on top of his head…his thoughts then proceeded to go through their adventures in the digital world-
… how Gomamon digivolved into Ikkakumon for the first time and saved him…
… how he met Leomon and Ogremon for the first time, as both of them tried to kill the gang…
… how Sora and I were sacrifices for the Bakemon…
… Matt and I were both cleaning dishes, well I was, and Matt was cooking…
… Saving Mimi from the Gekomon and Tai's horrible singing… I don't think I was that bad…
… we all defeated Myotismon, the dark masters… I think after that I left to find Matt… Then we defeated Apocalymon…
We all slowly split up after that. Mimi went to the America's with her family, though she comes back every now and then...
I miss her company; it was nice when we were off together in the digital world, she didn't act as preppy or annoying as she usually would and isn't as head strong as Sora is, for a girl, and takes precautions. Something that I'm really grateful for. I should give her a call sometime and see how she's doing,' Joe thought with finality as he came back to the real world.
Joe heard a faint sound at the front of the class that resembled the beeping of a stopwatch or a timer. Looking up at the front of the class, he spotted the professor packing his things away.
"I will go into further detail about this topic next week," the professor said as he placed his notes and books back into his bag. 'Oh great,' Joe thought as he picked himself off the seat, grabbed his books and his bag and walked out of the classroom. As he walked out of the Biology building, he met up with a couple of his college friends, who luckily were not in the same class as Joe was in, and didn't have to suffer through hell, and decided to go out for lunch.
"So where do you guys want to go?" Joe asked. One of the guys' yelled 'pizza,' another one yelled 'McDonalds.' The others just looked at him like he had lost his mind.
"We ate there yesterday, dude," a guy called Matthew pointed out. He had jet-black hair, pointy at the front and the rest of it slicked back. "We'll go get pizza then," he said as he took the lead and started walking to his car. Once the group of five squeezed into Matthew's small car, they drove down to the eatery near by and ordered two large pizzas. When the pizzas came, they dug in without hesitation. The waitress was slightly appalled by the brutal manner in which the guys ate, but left without saying a word. As Joe finished up his last piece of pizza, he heard his cell phone go off. It vibrated in his hand as he took it out of his pocket. Looking at the caller- id, he found that Cody was calling him. Seeing that it was the middle of the day and Cody would be in Kendo practice, Joe frowned and stood up.
"I'll be back you guys, I just have to take this phone call," Joe called out as he walked towards the door.
"Is it your girlfriend?" One of his friends called out, snickering. Joe glowered at the group of friends and walked out of the restaurant.
Joe finally answered the phone. "Hey Cody, how's it going?"
"Hi Joe. I hope I'm not interrupting anything, am I?"
"No, not at all. So what did you call about? I thought you have kendo practice around this time," Joe said, pulling his eyebrows together as he checked to make sure he had Cody's schedule down properly.
"Yeah I did, but Sensei is giving me the day off, so I thought both of us could go to the digital world and see the digimon," Cody asked, a hint of expectation in his voice.
"Uh, sure… but why me when you can take Kari, or T.K., or anyone else?" Joe asked, slightly confused by the smaller boy's request.
"Mainly because we have water digimon, I thought we could go see Whalemon and let our digimon hang out in the water and everything. And I know we haven't been to the digital world recently, so I thought this might be a nice trip. Also, Armadillomon has been dying to see Gomamon," Cody finished.
"Okay. Then how about I come by your place in an hour or so?" Joe asked. He had finished his classes for the day and had just finished his lunch. He decided to head back to his apartment, gather a couple of things as well as Gomamon, call Mimi, and then head over to Cody's place.
"Ok. Thanks Joe!" Cody said as he hung up the phone.
With that taken care of, Joe walked back into the eatery to find his friends ready to go.
"All set Joe?" Matthew asked as he pulled his vest back on and started walking towards the blue haired man. Joe nodded and they headed back to campus. With a quick good bye, Joe gave an excuse that he had to meet someone later today, which was true, but didn't go into detail as he jogged back to his apartment complex which was located a couple of blocks down from the university.
Sighing, Joe grabbed the elevator lift up to the 4th floor and walked over to his room. Luckily he found a corner suite and he was able to live alone, without a roommate… which was good for studying and hiding Gomamon, but also bad because of the lack of company and social life. Shrugging that thought off, Joe opened the door with a swift 'whoosh' and Gomamon came walking around the corner.
Gomamon stuck only his head out from behind the wall that was placed between the entrance and the dining area, a small wall in width, and checked to make sure it was just Joe who walked in. Unfortunately, when Joe had brought one of his friends over to let her borrow his notes, Gomamon came flying at him, thinking he was alone. The poor girl got a shock of a lifetime and ran straight out of his apartment and never came back. Luckily she wasn't in his summer course or he would be in a tough situation pretty much every day.
The small, white digimon came flying over and landed onto Joe's shoulders as Joe took a seat on the small, two-seater couch in his living room area. "So did you bring me anything to eat?" the digimon asked with a curious look on his face. Joe nodded, rummaged through his bag and placed a box of sushi and a small cake on the table. Gomamon's face lit up with delight, as if he had received his Christmas gift a couple months early, and immediately dug into the food.
Meanwhile, Joe picked up the cordless phone that was on the small coffee table and dialed Mimi's number. Two rings later, he heard a soft voice on the other end.
"Hello?" a soft and quiet voice answered.
"Uh, hi. I'm looking for Mimi?" Joe asked, unsure if it was the same bubbly girl that he knew. It didn't sound like her.
"This is she. Who's this?"
"Hi Mimi! It's Joe. How are you?"
"Oh! Hi Joe! I'm great. I was actually watching a movie with some friends. It's midnight over here and we were planning on pulling an all-nighter anyways. It's summer vacation so we decided to go to sleep late, and get up late!" Mimi said, excitement filling her voice.
"Haha. Awesome. That's nice. I'm stuck here taking classes with a really boring professor. I'm just about to head over to the digital world with Cody to spend some quality time with our digimon. Plus Gomamon hasn't seen anyone else for a while, except for the time when Tai was in bit of a fix."
"Yeah. Oh, my friends are calling me again. I'll call you later, Joe?"
"Uh, sure. Yeah. I'll talk to you later Mimi." Joe said, as he got ready to hang up the phone. He could hear Mimi scream 'I'm coming' to her friends in the background.
"Alright Joe. I'll talk to you later! Bye!"
"Bye." Joe said with slight disappointment as he hung up the phone. 'For some reason, that's not how I wanted it to go. Oh well. Now for Cody,' Joe said to himself as he got up onto his feet.
"Gomamon, want to go to the digital world today?" Joe asked as Gomamon licked his lips and savored the flavor of the sushi.
"Sure! I'd love to, but what's the occasion?" Gomamon asked, slightly confused as to why they're going to the digital world on a weekday. Well granted it was a Friday, and Joe had no classes, but they rarely went to the digital world since he had school now.
"Well, Armadillomon and Cody want to see you. So let's go!" Joe said, pumping his fist into the air. He grabbed a hold of Gomamon and went over to the computer in his room. Holding Gomamon under his arm on one side, he rummaged through his pocket for his digivice and opened a digital portal to the digiworld.
"Three, Two, One, here we go!" Gomamon yelled as excitement took over his body.
As they landed by the seaside, they looked around for the small boy and Armadillomon.
"Hey, Joe!" the blue haired guy heard from a couple of yards away. Turning around, he saw Cody and his digimon approach them. Gomamon squeezed out from underneath Joe's arm and flew over to the other digimon.
"Let's go swimming!" Gomamon said as he pulled the other digimon towards the water.
"Nuh uh… only if Cody digivolves me, will I go into the water… looking like this, I might sink!" Armadillomon said, his eyes wide at the thought of drowning. "Cody?"
"Okay." Cody took his digivice out and pointed it towards Armadillomon.
"Armadillomon digivolve to, Submarinmon."
Both Submarinmon and Gomamon took off into the water and then turned back to their friends after a few minutes.
"Hey, do you guys want to come to?" Gomamon asked, remembering that Cody and Joe were also with them.
"Sure," Cody said as Submarinemon's top opened up for Cody to get in. Gomamon asked Joe to digivolve him into Ikkakumon and Joe climbed onto the massive digimon's back. Both digimon and their partners spent some quality time with their digimon.
After a couple of hours spent on the open sea, the two boys finally decided to head back seeing that it was getting late and Cody's parents would be wondering where he went. So with a hug and goodbye, Cody went back to his home and Joe returned back to his apartment.
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Two days after Davis sent his message-
Kari was lying on her bed, Gatomon on lying on her stomach as she was going through her adventures before she met Kari.
"When I first came to this world, I still remember, there was this dog that chased me up a fence the first time…" Gatomon said, her eyes glazed over in remembrance. Kari laughed.
"I would have loved to see that!" Kari replied. She heard a soft beeping coming from her desk, so she gently placed Gatomon on the bed and got up to take a look. Glancing at her d-terminal, she opened it and found that she had two new emails.
Opening the first one, she said, "Oh! It's from Davis!" Gatomon rolled her eyes and thanked god that Veemon wasn't left with Taichi or Kari. He would be sticking like glue to her by now. Kari quickly scanned the email and then came over to sit on the bed with a shocked look on her face.
"What did that goggle head say?" Gatomon asked looking curious.
"Wow… I can't believe that Davis is getting a girlfriend!" Kari gasped out. "I have to tell someone," she said as she ran out of her room. Kari threw open her room door and ran out into the hall but didn't get very far as she crashed into her brother. Tai was pushed backwards, stumbled over Agumon, who was following him like a dutiful pet, not that he is one, and Tai ended up crashing down onto the floor on top of poor Agumon.
"Oh my god, Tai, I'm sorry!" Kari apologized as she helped her brother back up to his feet. Then all of a sudden, Kari shouted, "Guess what? Davis is getting a girlfriend! Can you believe it?"
"What?" Tai asked, just to make sure he was hearing this properly. "I thought he liked you…" he said, but secretly hoping that she would hook up with T.K.
'Wait a minute. If she and T.K. go out, then Matt and I have to keep seeing each other in the near future, and with our unstable relationship right now, I'm not sure how it's going to go over with Matt… and throwing Sora into the picture, that will complicate everything even more……
I think I'm getting headache…' Tai thought as his mind went back to what his sister was saying.
"I thought he did, but apparently he found someone else that he really liked over there… I think he decided to ask her that night or something… I'm going to email him and ask him if he's asked her out yet," Kari said as she raced back into her room.
Tai shook his head and continued his trek to the bathroom. Agumon went over to the couch and settled down as he waited for Tai to make him a nice lunch. As soon as Tai came back from his bathroom break, he heard the doorbell ring. He knitted his eyebrows together as he wondered who could be at the door at this time of day. It was in the middle of the week, and at a time when most people are out or working… true it was summer, but not many people knew that Tai and Kari were home that day.
Tai walked over to the door and looked through the peephole. He saw a flash of dark red hair and smiled. As he opened the door, a not-so-tall guy greeted him.
"Hey Tai!" Izzy said as Taichi gestured for him to come in.
"Hi Izzy. Glad you can finally come over and fix my computer!" Tai said laughing. Izzy smiled, took off his shoes and stepped into the apartment.
"How are you, Tai? After what happened in the digital world, I think we were all scared about you," Izzy said as he walked over to Tai's room, Tai leading the way.
"I'm alright. I'm a lot better than I was last week," the brown haired boy said as he showed Izzy his computer. "Well, here it is… the source of all my problems…"
Izzy chuckled and turned on the computer to find out where the problem lied.
"Do you want anything to eat Izzy? I'm going to make myself a sandwich," Tai said.
"I would love one of those drinks your mom made a couple of years ago," Izzy said as he stared at the computer screen.
"Uh, didn't that drink give you an upset stomach afterwards?" Tai asked, his face turning green at that thought. "Never mind, I'll just make you a sandwich as well," he said finally as he walked out of the room, leaving the technical stuff to Izzy.
The brown eyed boy walked into the kitchen and took out a couple of slices of bread, some other ingredients from the fridge and started on making three sandwiches. He filled them full of stuff, so they wouldn't ask for seconds. Taking one for Agumon, he placed the sandwich in front of the yellow digimon and placed a glass of water beside the plate.
"Thanks Tai!" Agumon nodded as he dug into the sandwich, his eyes glued to the t.v.
Taichi brought out two more plates and then proceeded to take his sandwich and Izzy's back to his room. He handed the other sandwich to the red headed boy and placed his glass of water on the table next to the computer.
"What are you doing?" Tai asked, not wanting to be lost, and trying to learn something just incase something like this happened again. He didn't want to keep calling Izzy over every time something went wrong with his computer.
"Well," Izzy started, as he rummaged through the bag he brought with him. He found the CD he was looking for and inserted it into the CD drive and waited for it to be recognized by the computer. He typed in a few commands and the program on the CD started installing onto the computer. "I'm trying to install this program so that it will detect any bugs or viruses your computer gets before it becomes too bad or something. And I'll be running a couple more tests just to make sure that the virus is gone."
"What do you mean the virus is gone?" Tai asked.
"Well, I actually thought I'd find the virus on your computer, but it looks like it's moved to another computer and I can't find any trace of it at all on this one… I'm installing a couple of spy ware softwares to keep you notified if there is a virus on your computer," Izzy said with an interested look on his face.
'Huh… I guess the virus is in me now… and not on my computer anymore,' Tai thought with a slightly shocked look on his face.
"Does that mean I can open a digiport on this computer now?" Tai asked.
"Without landing somewhere that you don't want to?" Izzy said. "Yes."
"Alright!" Tai shouted, pumping a fist into the air. "Can we try it now?" Tai asked as he ran over to the couch in the living room, grabbed Agumon under his arms and dragged him back into Tai's room.
"Sure, if you guys want to," Izzy said, shrugging. The CD was ejected from the computer and Izzy packed it away. He then ran a couple of quick tests on Tai's computer and then turned it off.
"But I can't come with you guys though. I told Ken I'm going to stop by his house for a minute or two to look over some computer project of his. Well, your computer is completely fixed now!" Izzy said as he grabbed his sandwich that Tai made and walked towards the apartment door. "Later guys," Izzy said as he left with a wave of his hand.
"Bye Izzy," Tai mumbled before he ran over to Kari's room to ask her if he could borrow her digivice since he couldn't find his digivice yet.
"Here you go Tai," she said as she threw him the pink digivice. Tai caught it with ease, thanked his sister and ran back over to his room, grabbing Agumon by the scruff, on the way back as he saw the little critter trying to escape back to the warmth of the couch in front of the t.v.
"No you don't, your coming with me to the digital world for a test round, Agumon!" Tai yelled out in glee as he selected a place at random in the digital world and pointed his sister's digivice at the screen. A bright glow filled the room, and as it dimmed down, the two bodies that were there disappeared to the digital world.
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The day after Tai went to the digital world, the sun shone pleasantly through the clean window of an apartment high up on the eighth floor of a tall building. Yamato "Matt" Ishida was currently tightly rolled up in a blanket, fast asleep on his bed, with a pleasant smile on his face.
"Hey Matt!" the blonde haired boy heard someone call out behind him. Turning around, he saw a beautiful redhead come running up to him and jumped onto him as he spun her around by the waist.
"Hey Sor! I've missed you," Matt said in a low, seductive voice as he placed her back onto the ground and he moved in for a kiss.
Sora placed a finger on his mouth before he could come any closer and said, "Nuh uh… you said you would take me bowling first… your not getting anything until we get there, buster!" as her laugher rang through the skies. Matt grinned as he looped an arm around her waist and led her to the bowling alley down the street.
"Here we are," Matt said as he leaned in again. As he closed his eyes again, he felt a soft touch upon his lips. When he opened his eyes for the second time, once again, Sora's finger was on his lips as she stood in front of him, shaking her head.
"Nope, sorry. You're not getting anything till I beat you this time!" Sora said with a determined look in her eyes. Matt smiled with a slightly dangerous look in his eyes.
"Fine. Should I let you win then?" Matt asked, playfully.
"If you do that, then you're definitely not getting any!" Sora laughed.
"Fine, fine…" Matt grumbled as he led them inside the alley.
Sora ran up to the counter and was about to pay for their four- hour rental tickets and shoes, but Matt stopped her with a gentle hand on her shoulder."Don't worry about it, I'll pay… this time," he added with as a joke as Sora glared at him.
"Well that's very… nice of you," Sora replied, suspicion filling her voice. "Are you just trying to get on my good side?" she asked, a smile playing on her lips.
"Maybe," Matt teased as he took out his wallet, paid the money the cashier asked and received two bowling alley tickets and two shoe rental tickets for his payment. "Here you go," the blonde said as he handed his girlfriend one of each. Sora ran over to the shoe counter, gave the man the shoe ticket and told him her shoe size. He went back for a minute or so and returned with her bowling shoes. Sora removed her shoes that she was currently wearing, gave them to the guy behind the counter and proceeded to lace up the bowling shoes. Matt did the same.
As soon as the game started, the four hours of bowling they had zoomed by as quickly as it had started with Sora ending up as the winner, winning by five strikes. Matt bowed his head down in defeat but smiled nonetheless knowing that he'll be a winner at the end of the day because he has the best girlfriend a guy could have.
"Great game!" Matt cheered on as he went up to his girlfriend, who was currently jumping up and down in excitement, and gave her a kiss on the cheek. Sora, caught up in the moment, grabbed his face and gave him a passionate kiss on the lips that left him speechless for the next couple of minutes. Sora had to drag him over to the counter to return his shoes and he finally regained his vocal cords as they exited the building.
"I'm sooo happy!" Sora gushed on and on as they walked back over to Matt's apartment. He had decided to cook lunch for the two of them so they could have a quiet setting to eat at instead of a busy take out place.
When they entered the apartment, Matt found a note on the dining table saying T.K. went to a friend's house and mom and dad were out for lunch at some fancy restaurant with a couple of old friends and won't be back until dinnertime. "So I guess that leaves just the two of us," Matt told Sora as she quickly read over the note herself. She nodded in response.
"So your mom and dad are back together?" Sora asked as Matt took some things out of the fridge and started cooking a preplanned dish.
Matt felt a weird sense of deja- vu wash over him as he remembered he had the same conversation a while ago.
"Yeah, after they found out about the digimon, and T.K. and I going off to another world and stuff, I guess they took comfort in each other because we weren't there, and after we battled the second time around in the digital world, I guess they thought they would give their marriage another try for our sakes and have been together for the past three years or so. I'm happy for them, and it's nice having a mom to cook food every once in a while!" Matt added with a grin.
"That's nice. My dad comes home often now, so mom's a lot happier, and is a lot easier on me now… well I guess she has to be, because we'll all be going off to college when school starts again, in a couple months…" Sora said. "So what are you making?" Sora asked as she sniffed the air. "It smells wonderful!" she said as she clapped her hands together.
"Hehe, sorry, can't tell you. You'll have to wait and see," Matt said as he placed the finishing touches on the food. He grabbed two plates and the rest of the utensils they needed and placed the lunch items in the middle of the table.
Half-hour later, both teenagers were settled down happily on the living room couch, their stomachs full with Matt's wonderful cooking. Sora grabbed the television remote from the table in front of her, curled up on the couch beside her boyfriend and flipped the t.v. on.
After about ten minutes of silence, Matt finally asked, "So, when do I get that kiss that you promised me?" his eyebrows rose in a questioning manner.
"I thought I gave you one in the bowling alley?" Sora said absentmindedly as she continued to stare at the screen in front of her.
"Well, I thought it wasn't much of a kiss…" Matt muttered as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Oh?" Sora asked as she turned her attention onto her boyfriend. "What would you have liked it to be?"
"This…" he whispered as his eyes took on a devilish glint and he leaned over her. Matt wrapped his arms around Sora's waist as he fell on top of her, making her lie down on the couch. He started kissing her neck, and slowly made his way up to her lips where he teased her slightly as he nipped at her playfully. She giggled slightly and wrapped her arms around his neck, pulling him closer to her. Finally having enough, he closed his eyes as his lips met hers in a passionate kiss. Sora felt his tongue touch her lips and she opened her mouth slightly.
As Matt pulled away slightly to catch his breath again, he opened his eyes a crack and saw a strand of pink hair flutter over his girlfriend's face. Frowning, he opened his eyes all the way and was surprised to see himself on top of …
"Mimi?" Matt said out loud, not wanting to believe what he was seeing. Mimi pulled him down once more and met her lips with his. All thoughts left him as he felt her hand snake down to the top of his pants as she slowly tugged on his shirt, pulling it from under his pants. Shaking his head, Matt thought he was just seeing things. He closed his eyes and then reopened them and breathed out a sigh of relief as he found Sora still under him. She ran her hands over his sides and back, leaving a trail of fire behind. Matt closed his eyes once more and moaned out slightly as he nuzzled his head between Sora's neck and shoulder. He opened his eyes once more as he wondered why she stopped her ministrations when he found himself now staring at…
"JUN?" Matt was so shocked this time that he fell off the couch, onto the floor and scrambled back up to his feet as fast as he could. His hair was a mess, his shirt half tucked in, and his belt slightly loose…
Matt closed his eyes tightly, counted to ten and reopened his eyes. "Mimi?" Shaking his head, he wondered what was going on with him and closed his eyes again. As he opened them, he saw Mimi again. He closed his eyes once more, hoping to see Sora.
Jun. Mimi. Mimi. Jun. Sora. "Sora!" Matt cried as he sat down on the couch next to her, trying not to blink again, afraid that she might leave.
"Matt, what's going on? You've been calling me Mimi, or Jun for the past ten minutes… is there something going on that I don't know about?" Sora said with a threatening voice as she glared at her boyfriend. When she recieved no answer from the shocked teenager, she got up to leave and Matt tried to stop her.
"Sora! Wait!" Matt yelled out.
Sora turned to Matt and gave him a sad glance. "Matt, sort out your feelings, and your head. Give me a call when you've made your decision," Sora said with finality as she walked out the apartment door.
Matt woke up with a start, breathing in and out as if he had just run five miles. He felt his throat constricting as if he was just yelling and his heart pounding in his ears. As he slowly rolled out of bed, the dream came back to him and he stumbled over his sheets as he was getting out of bed and ended up on the floor, his legs tangled up in his bed sheets.
A knock at the door woke him out of his stupor and he answered with a 'yes,' his voice cracking as it was still filled with sleep.
"Are you okay, Matt?" his mom asked through the door.
"I'm fine mom," Matt replied as he got up off the floor and placed the blankets back on his bed. Running a hand through his hair, he thought about what he should do now. "I should probably call Sora and talk to her or something…" he said to himself. "But first I need to freshen up," Matt said as he finally realized that he didn't smell that good. Getting a towel and a set of clean clothes out of his closet, Matt opened his door a crack and looked around to see if his mom was still lingering around the door. He didn't exactly want his mom to see him in just his boxers running around the house.
'It was so much easier to get around dressed like this when it was just dad and I… of course it's great having mom here now, but…' Matt shook his head and ran to the bathroom when he realized his mom was in the kitchen cooking lunch. 'Wow, is it that late already?' Matt thought as he glanced at the clock above the living room couch on his way to that bathroom. "Oh well."
Matt quickly stripped down and jumped into the shower, yelping slightly as he found the water had not warmed up all the way and was slightly cold to the touch. "Well, that's one way to wake up," the boy grumbled under his breath as he washed his hair. Once he was completely clean and his teeth and hair taken care of, he dressed and looked at himself in the mirror. 'My hair's not that bad today!' he thought as he smiled back at his reflection. Grinning at his antics, Matt finally got over himself and went out of the bathroom to call Sora.
After a couple of rings, he heard a pleasant voice at the other end of the line. "Hey Sora, this is Matt."
"Hey Matt," Sora replied, a little bit of hesitancy showing through. Matt just ignored it thinking it must be something with her mom.
"I was wondering if you were free today, if you wanted to go somewhere and hang out," Matt asked.
"Um… I'm sorry Matt; I actually have other plans for today. But I do want to talk to you about something actually. Is it okay if I come over in about half an hour or so?" Sora asked.
"Oh, uh, I guess it was my fault asking so late. Sorry. Yeah, anytime today is fine. I don't think I'll be doing anything today anyways, so you can stop by anytime," said Matt as he let out a sigh. 'I hope my nightmare doesn't come true…' Matt thought as a whisper of fear made its way into his heart. 'But then again, I don't think our relationship is going anywhere at this point… and I don't think it's gone anywhere for the past year or so now that I think about it…' Matt finally turned his attention back to the phone but found a dial tone and realized that Sora must have said bye and hung up while he was lost in his thoughts.
Hanging up the phone himself, Matt went over to the kitchen and was greeted by his mom with a kiss on the cheek. "Yamato, take a seat over there and I'll get breakfast? lunch?... i guess it's a very late breakfast, ready for you." Matt nodded and took a seat.
Sniffing the air, the blonde haired boy commented, "Something smells really good mom!"
"Thank you honey," she replied back as she brought over a plate of scrambled eggs, bacon, toast and some juice. "I called Mimi's mom the other day and she gave me some recipes to try out. She said she loved this kind of breakfast that they gave in a hotel in America," Matt's mom said smiling, as she took a seat at the table, in front of her oldest son. "So how is it?" she asked, eagerly waiting for a response.
Matt, his face stuffed with food, replied, "It's really good!" as he swallowed what was in his mouth and took another humongous bite of food. Shaking her head, the blonde's mom smiled and got up and started on getting the house cleaned up.
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Tai got up with a yawn and glanced at the clock on his bedroom wall. '9:30 a.m. huh? Might as well get up I guess, since I can't sleep…' Throwing the blankets off his body, Tai rolled off his bed and walked over to the bathroom to relieve himself. After he was done with his business, the brown haired boy splashed some extremely cold water on his face. Giving a slight yelp as the cold water made contact with his skin, he thought to himself, 'That definitely woke me up!' Shaking himself off like a dog would, Taichi grabbed the towel off the rack, wiped his face of excess water and went over to the kitchen to get himself a bowl of cereal, since that was the only edible thing in the kitchen at that time, and was very easy and quick to make. His parents were still asleep and he didn't want to wake them up just to make him breakfast.
Taichi took his breakfast to the couch where he took a seat and turned on the t.v. He heard a soft creaking noise behind him so he turned around, wondering what that noise could have been. He saw a yellow head from over the top of the couch and grinned.
"Hey buddy, I hope I didn't wake you up, did I?" Agumon shook his head and took a seat beside his friend and glanced at the t.v.
"What time is it?" Agumon asked.
Tai glanced at the VCR under the t.v. and told Agumon the time. "It's 9:55, why?"
Agumon's eyes widened and he leaned over Taichi to grab the remote from the boy's hand. "Hey… what… what are you doing?" Taichi yelled out as Agumon finally had the remote in his grasp.
"My show comes on at 10! I need to be ready!" Agumon yelled back as he switched the channels quickly.
"Huh? What show?" Tai asked, frowning. "I didn't know you had a show…I thought you just watched what Kari and Gatomon watched," Tai supposed.
Agumon just watched the VCR and waited for it to show '10:00' so he could watch his show. Tai shook his head and got up off the couch.
"Alright, have it your way," Taichi said as he took his breakfast and went to his room, leaving the door slightly open if Agumon wanted to come in. He went over to his computer and took a CD from inside his drawer. He placed it in the CD drive in the computer and waited for the computer open the file. Taichi finished his cereal in a couple of gulps and double clicked on the file that opened in front of him. He grabbed a joystick from under his desk and connected it to his computer and waited for the game to boot. Grinning, the brown haired boy was lost in the game for the next couple of hours.
A few hours later, Taichi's eyes were getting a little sore so he decided to take a break. He saved the game, turned off the monitor, leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes for a few seconds. Then all of a sudden, he could hear a voice that sounded very familiar.
"Okay mom, I'll do it later… oh, the phone!" the person said with a slight gasp.
'Sora? It sounds like Sora… what is she doing over here? Did her mom drop her off or something?' Tai wondered as he got up and walked out of his room. "Kari? Did you invite Sora over? He asked as he went into the living room and looked over at the entrance.
Agumon looked up from the t.v. as he heard Tai come into the living room, asking if Sora was here. Since there was a commercial playing on TV, Agumon could spare some time and talk to Tai.
"Tai, what are you talking about? Sora never came here and Kari's still asleep," Agumon said as he saw Gatomon stick her head out of Kari's room, with a fierce look on her face and said, 'shhhh!' and went back into the room, closing the room door quietly.
"That's weird, I thought I heard Sora's voice," Taichi said, with a slightly dumbed out look on his face. He turned around and walked back into his bedroom. His eyebrows knitted together in confusion, Tai took a seat back in his chair in front of his computer and closed his eyes again.
He suddenly heard Sora's voice again as clearly as if she were standing next to him.
"Oh great… it's Matt," Sora said out loud to no one in particular. "She must have seen the caller id or something," Tai said to himself. He went back to the conversation that Sora was currently having. "I shouldn't be eavesdropping like this," the brown haired boy said with a slight grin on his lips, his eyes still closed.
"Hey Matt," Sora replied, a little bit of hesitancy showing through.
Somehow, Taichi could hear Matt too, even though Matt lived a little further away from him than Sora did.
"I was wondering if you were free today, if you wanted to go somewhere and hang out," Matt asked.
"Um… I'm sorry Matt; I actually have other plans for today. But I do want to talk to you about something actually. Is it okay if I come over in about half an hour or so?" Sora asked. "Yeah man! She has plans with me!" Tai yelled out, a wide grin appearing on his face, happy to know Sora decided to hang out with him over Matt.
"Oh, uh, I guess it was my fault asking so late. Sorry. Yeah, anytime today is fine. I don't think I'll be doing anything today anyways, so you can stop by anytime," said Matt as he let out a sigh.
"Bye Matt," Sora said. After hearing no reply from the blonde, she guessed that he had hung up and hung up the phone on her end as well. "Well, I guess that means I should go shower now…" Sora whispered to herself.
Tai could easily hear the noises going on at the Takenouchi residence and heard the redhead go up the flight of stairs in her house to the bathroom, he assumed. With his eyes still closed, he let his body completely focus on the sounds around him, and currently, the only sounds that he was listening to was over at Sora's. He heard what he thought was the light rustling of clothes and then rushing water. The brown haired boy's face turned a bright red as he heard the red head give a slight moan as she stepped into the warm bath. He heard a bit of splashing…. And as soon as he was getting comfortable in his chair, allowing his imagination to run wild for once, Tai's eyes flew open as a heavy weight landed on his stomach.
"Oof… Agumon!" Taichi yelled out, pushing the digimon off of him. "Why'd you do that?" Tai asked, slightly frustrated that Agumon ruined the best part.
"Well, my show is over now and so I thought I'd let you know that the t.v. is all yours now," Agumon said as he jumped over onto Tai's bed and got comfy so he could fall asleep again. Taichi rolled his eyes at the digimon and tried to close his eyes again, straining his ears as far as it could go to hear what was happening at Sora's house. He could easily hear his dad's snores now, but Sora's was out of the picture for a while.
'I guess I should find out how I do that when it happens next time,' Tai sighed as he got up and went over to the couch to watch some television.
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Sora quickly got dressed and grabbed a backpack that she could carry Biyomon in. "Biyomon, make sure you act like a stuffed animal," Sora reminded her friend as Biyomon went into the backpack. Sora then left her apartment building and broke into a jog towards Matt's. She made it there in about ten minutes and took the elevator up to the 8th floor. Mrs. Ishida answered the door and let the girl in with a pleasant hello. She saw her blonde haired boyfriend sitting on the couch and went over to him. He greeted her with a smile and moved over to one end of the couch so Sora had room to sit on it.
Placing her bag, and Biyomon by the door, she greeted Matt with a "Hey," as she sat down next to Matt.
"Hi yourself," Yamato said with a smile. "Thanks for coming."
"No problem, you're my boyfriend! Of course I'd make time for you… though I can't cancel my plans for today," Sora said with an apologetic smile on her lips.
In the back of his head, the blonde wondered what plans she had and who she was going with, but he planned on waiting until right before she left to ask her.
"Um, yeah, that's what I've been wanting to talk to you about," Matt started. Sora gave him a questioning look. "Well, I haven't been much of a boyfriend to you for the past year or so, and I think both of us know that," Matt said, pausing to take a deep breath and waited to see her reaction. Her face was stoic so he continued on. 'A neutral reaction was better than an angry one,' he decided.
"I had a weird dream last night, and it got me thinking about us. Don't ask me about the dream, because I'm not ready to tell it to you," said Matt apologetically. Sora nodded, understanding his predicament so she did not push for any rhyme or reason.
"While I was waiting for you to come, I first thought, maybe we should hang out more, I should take you out on dates more often, and that I probably don't spend that much time with you anymore and should change that. But is that what we really want? Is that what you want? We still talk and everything, but I feel we were closer when we were just friends than we are now. I know my band is at the top of my list right now, and you're getting ready for college and everything, and you'll probably be moving out to some other place, and I don't think our relationship can handle that. Especially since it's so unstable now." Matt paused when he saw Sora open her mouth to say something.
"You're right, I have been thinking lately that our relationship was at a stand still and it was like having a really good friend that you just made out with once in a while, to put in layman's terms…" Sora said with a slight laugh. Matt smiled at her analogy. "And recently, my feelings towards you have started changing towards more platonic feelings than feelings of love. I know it might have started out that way… actually I think it was just a big crush back then, that I thought was love. Two and a half years really opened my eyes," she said with a smile.
"I guess back then, I was waiting for someone to return my feelings, but I guess I was the one who didn't express it properly, and by the time he had matured enough, I fell for you…" Sora trailed off.
"It's Taichi isn't it?" Yamato stated, knowing that it was the truth. Sora just looked at the floor and Matt took that as a yes. Matt gritted his teeth together and warned, "I don't think you should go near him right now… he looked really dangerous back in the digital world."
Sora glared at Matt and said, "That was another thing I wanted to talk to you about. I found Tai right after you left the digital world and he wanted to apologize to you about what happened."
Matt raised an eyebrow. "I'm not going to believe anything until I talk to him myself. I don't know what's going on with him but I'll probably get Gabumon to come with me when I talk to him… sometime next week," he added as an after thought. Sora hesitated but nodded anyways, understanding how Matt could be scared of Tai. Matt did not see the brown haired boy while he recovered, and all of a sudden, seeing such a change in him would shock anyone.
After a few minutes of silence, Matt broke it by saying, "So… I think we should just take some time off for a bit, sort out our feelings, and after you get ready for college, see how it is there, I'll take care of things over here, and if you and I still want to get back together, we can do that," he concluded with a nod.
Sora totally agreed with him and smiled. "You're right. I think some time off would be good." Sora jumped at Matt and gave him a bone-crushing hug. Matt just laughed and hugged her back as he fell back onto the couch. As the red head lifted her head off his shoulder, she placed her lips by his ear, whispered, 'a kiss goodbye,' and placed her lips on his. Matt's eyes widened slightly as he was completely caught off guard. He closed his eyes and kissed her back for a few seconds and both of them pulled away. Smiling slightly, Sora got up off the couch and walked towards the door. Matt followed her and led her out of the apartment.
"Make sure you call Tai soon," she said as she turned to walk towards the elevators.
"I will," Matt smiled as he waved goodbye. "Some how I get the feeling that we'll be seeing each other again very soon Sor," Matt whispered to himself as he hummed a soft tune under his breath. His heart felt a little lighter as he walked back over to the couch, knowing that Sora and he were closer friends than ever before.
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Taichi sighed for the tenth time as he idly watched a cooking show on t.v. His mind was serenely blank as he closed his eyes.
"It's Taichi isn't it?" Yamato stated, knowing that it was the truth. Sora just looked at the floor and Matt took that as a yes. Matt gritted his teeth together and warned, "I don't think you should go near him right now… he looked really dangerous back in the digital world."
Sora glared at Matt and said, "That was another thing I wanted to talk to you about. I found Tai right after you left the digital world and he wanted to apologize to you about what happened."
Tai opened his eyes with a jolt and wondered what that was. 'I don't think that was a memory… could I actually hear what Matt and Sora were saying just now?' Taichi thought to himself. He thought back to how he felt before he heard Matt and Sora and found his mind in a complete state of tranquility. 'I guess I can try clearing my mind or something and then listening for her voice.' Tai closed his mind and worked on clearing his mind of all thoughts. He took in a couple of deep breaths and let his body relax, not really focusing on hearing anything.
"So… I think we should just take some time off for a bit, sort out our feelings, and after you get ready for college, see how it is there, I'll take care of things over here, and if you and I still want to get back together, we can do that," he concluded with a nod.
"You're right. I think some time off would be good." Tai could hear Matt laughing and then heard Sora whisper 'a kiss goodbye.'
Immediately after that, Taichi opened his eyes and let his thoughts rush back into his head. He really did not want to think about what they were doing, and just hoped that she would kiss him on the cheek or something.
Trying to get his mind off of Matt for now, the brown haired boy glanced at the clock on the wall in front of him and realized that Sora would now be on her way over to his house. "Yikes, I should go and get ready before she comes over," Tai yelled out as he rushed back to his room to grab a towel and a change of clean clothes. He saw Agumon sleeping on the bed and gently woke him up.
"Agumon!" Tai finally yelled, into the yellow digimon's ear.
"What? What? I didn't eat it!" Agumon yelled out as he was woken up. Tai laughed at the still- sleepy Agumon and then remembered that Sora would be over in a couple of minutes.
"Agumon, Sora will be here in a couple minutes. You'll need to open the door for her. I'm going to go shower now, okay?" Tai asked as he rushed to the bathroom. He didn't wait for an answer knowing that Agumon would comply.
Five minutes into his shower, Taichi heard the doorbell ring and heard a pair of feet shuffling towards the door.
"Hi Sora!" Agumon greeted her.
"Hi Agumon," Biyomon greeted as she flew out of the bag onto the floor. Sora too greeted Agumon and then took a seat at the dining table.
"I guess the rest of the family is still asleep ?" Sora asked Agumon. He nodded and then walked into the kitchen.
"Do you want anything to eat?" Agumon asked as he tried to reach for the fridge handle. He tried jumping, but still couldn't reach high enough to grab it and then open it. Sora muffled a laugh and went over to help the small digimon.
"Sure, I'll take a peanut butter and jelly sandwich," Biyomon said as she raised a wing into the air. She flew up and sat on the table.
"Okay, one PB and J sandwich coming up," Sora said as she lifted Agumon and placed him on the table beside Biyomon. He took a seat and pouted, mad that he couldn't reach the fridge door handle.
Biyomon patted Agumon on the shoulder and said, "That's okay, that's what the humans are for," laughing.
Sora laughed and said, "Fine then, you can make your own sandwich, I'll make this one for myself," grinning as she got the peanut butter and jelly out of one of the cabinets. Looking in the fridge, she found the bread and washed a couple of plates and a knife from the sink. After getting all of the supplies, the auburn haired girl started making the sandwiches, one for Biyomon, one for Agumon and one for Tai, knowing both the boys would ask as soon as they saw the food.
As soon as she started on the last sandwich, she heard a door open and looked behind her. She saw the bathroom door open and then remembered Agumon mentioning that Tai went to take a shower. Turning back around, she continued on with her task.
Unfortunately for Taichi, he accidentally dropped some of his clothes in his room so he had to go back to his room, only clad in a towel. Sighing, the boy opened the bathroom door and looked to see if either his parents or Kari were awake. He heard some utensils knocking together in the kitchen and saw Sora making something. He looked over to her right and saw both their digimon sitting on the table, drooling at the mouth.
A couple of thoughts passed through his mind and his eyes took on an playful glint. Laughing, he decided to have a bit of fun. 'After all, she is single now, there's no harm in it… unless my parents wake up,' Tai thought with a groan. Grinning, he momentarily forgot that he was only clad in a towel and crept up behind Sora. The digimon saw him coming but he silenced them with a finger to his lips. They just watched him and laughed.
Taichi tiptoed up to where Sora was, came up behind her and placed his lips right next to her ear. He took in a deep breath, through his nose, and realized that she smelled really good. 'Must be jasmine or something flowery… well she does work in a flower shop,' Taichi thought to himself.
The brown haired boy then whispered a soft, and low 'hi' into her ear and watched her scream in terror. She turned around, pointing her knife at him, but just ended up being pinned between the counter and Tai's body. He placed his hands on either side of her, to grip the counter so he wouldn't fall backwards.
"Wow, watch the knife, missy," he said as she caught her breath.
"Taichi!" the red head screamed as she continued pointing the knife at him. Tai just grinned at her in response and kissed her on the cheek.
"Hi!" was all he said after that.
Sora was momentarily shocked and ended up dropping the knife. It landed with a loud 'clang' on the floor but neither of them took notice. Tai was too caught up in the smell of food behind Sora so he leaned over to get himself one of those sandwiches. As he leaned over, he unintentionally pressed up against Sora, his body against hers. Sora's hands, still up in the air from where she was holding the knife to his throat, immediately wrapped themselves around the brown haired boy's neck so she wouldn't bend back onto the counter.
"Yum! Sandwiches, and my favorite kind too!" he said as he kissed the girl's cheek again. This time, Sora went completely red. "Thanks!" Tai said in appreciation as he pulled back, with a sandwich in one hand. The digimon were just watching quietly as the scene played out in front of them. They needed some form of entertainment in their lives!
Sora gulped slightly and let go of Tai's neck, her arms falling to her side. As they did so, her fingers accidentally brushed against his already loose towel, making it come apart completely. All of a sudden, Tai felt a slight breeze pass by his legs and unanticipatedly realized his towel was under his feet. At the same time, Sora realized what happened and her eyes widened and she buried her burning face on Tai's shoulder.
"Oh my god… I'm sooo sorry Tai," Sora whispered over and over again, trying to apologize. Luckily there was a high wall in the way, between the dining table and the kitchen, so the digimon couldn't see everything.
Tai just laughed and pressed himself a little closer to Sora, so that way she wouldn't be able to see anything that he did not want her to see. "Just don't look down," he whispered into her ear.
All of a sudden, the digimon inside of him gave a mighty roar and he felt the sudden urge to kiss the girl in front of him senseless. The raw emotions were so strong that he started swaying on his feet. He grabbed Sora's waist with one hand and the counter with the other, throwing his sandwich back onto his plate before he grabbed the counter.
'What was that?' he asked himself, panting slightly, but he knew the answer to that question himself. He was part digimon now and digimon, or other animals for that matter, didn't have all those dating and courtship rituals, they just went on raw emotions. If their feelings were reciprocated, then nature just called to them after that. Taichi gulped as he felt another wave of emotions hit him. He liked Sora… he really liked her, maybe even loved her, and he guessed that the digimon side of him knew that and was just doing what digimon did. 'Great, now I'll start acting like an animal… she'll probably think I'm trying to rape her or something,' Taichi thought with annoyance. 'Damned digimon hormones...'
After he calmed down, and felt the intensity of his emotions decrease, Tai heard Sora still whispering that she was sorry and he laughed.
"Hey," Tai started, his voice lowered so he wouldn't wake anyone up. He didn't want to be caught in such a situation. "Hey, don't worry about it… it happens all the time," Tai said, trying to get a laugh out of the girl in front of him, and at the same time, trying to make sure she was still listening to him. Sora lifted her head off his shoulder and looked at him, her eyes wide with shock. "I'm joking! I'm joking!" Tai immediately said, wondering if the girl actually believed him. "I was just making sure you were still listening to me. Don't worry about it. I'll just bend down and get my towel," he started.
Sora suddenly looked slightly uncomfortable, finally realizing that she was pinned against the counter with a naked man pressed up against her. Not that she was protesting or anything, but this was her best friend and she had just broken up with her boyfriend, and the most that she did with him was kiss him. And all of a sudden… this happens.
Sora shifted slightly and her hands accidentally inched a little past his hips, and Tai's breath hitched in his throat. His hands immediately went down to grab hers and he placed them on his shoulders just to be safe. He leaned over and whispered, 'just to be safe,' to explain why he had placed her hands on his shoulders and all of a sudden, a weird urge took over his body. As soon as those words came out of his mouth, his tongue followed after and licked the side of her ear. Tai slowly felt himself give into his feelings as he slowly kissed and teased the girl's earlobe.
Sora was shocked at first but gave into the feelings momentarily as she closed her eyes and let out a very soft moan.
As soon as those feelings came, they were gone, and Taichi finally realized what he was doing. He pulled back as quick as possible, glanced at Sora's face, saw that her eyes were still closed and at that moment, Taichi bent down, grabbed his towel, wrapped it around his waist and ran to his room without glancing back.
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Authors Note:
Well, I hope this chapter was long enough for you all! The previous chapter was around 20 pgs, this one is close to 30! I even surprised myself! I actually wanted to continue writing, but I thought this was a good place to stop.
I was busy for the past few weeks getting ready for some tests. I had four tests this week and I'm exhausted. I was hoping to get this chapter up last weekend and the weekend before that, but I kept adding to it, never finding the right place to stop. This is, I guess, a filler chapter… and I felt like I wasn't explaining what was going on with the rest of the digidestined, so I took a break from just Tai and Sora and went to the other digidestined for a change.
Now Tai's going to have to explain himself, so if you want to see his explanation and Sora's reaction, not to mention the digimon,
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