I still do not own Digimon.
Ishida Yamato will appear on Good Morning Japan this morning. More information well be released as we have it, but there is hope for talk about Takenouchi Sora and Ishida's child, as well as her marriage to childhood friend and porn star Yagami Taichi.
Takeru's POV
"What the hell do you want, Matt? It's four in the morning," I said into my speaker. I would be worried, but Matt has a habit of calling drunk from other countries. I thought he was supposed to have Kashi while Tai and Sora were out of town, but for all I knew, it could be next week.
"We're having an important meeting, now. I don't really have time to explain, I just need you to get here and do it quickly," he said. His voice was crystal clear and he definitely wasn't drunk, but that didn't mean that I was happy about this.
"It's so important that it can't wait until a normal hour of the day? You do realize that I have a toddler, right?" I was slowly waking up as I spoke and was coming up with more and more flaws with this plan. "Aren't Tai and Sora out of town anyways?"
"Not anymore. I had to drive down and get them out of there. They got rushed by the paparazzi. I know that this isn't exactly ideal, but if you guys don't get over here now, you're going to hear about this on the morning news instead of from me. Listen, just get over here, ok? I'll see you soon."
The line went dead and I swore, waking up Kari. She blinked at me, slowly coming out of sleep. "What's wrong?"
"Matt just called. He needs us over at his place, immediately. He says that if we don't go now, then we're going to hear about it on the morning news instead. Do you think that we should go?" Kari looked uneasy about the whole thing.
"Yeah, we should go. I'll go get Tomatsu ready once I get dressed. Are Tai and Sora still at their convention?"
"No, the paparazzi got to them. Matt had to go and bring them back."
"Ok." Kari dressed quickly while I tried my best to look decent for work without being able to take a shower. With any luck, this wouldn't take much time and I could grab a shower and really get ready before I actually had to go in.
I met Kari at the van, where she was loading Tomatsu into his seat. He was mostly still asleep and I was grateful for that. If he had woken, he would be crying and it would be awful to settle him down once we got to Matt's.
We took the drive in silence. I had gone to turn on the radio, but Kari stopped me and pointed to Tomatsu. Normally he didn't wake to the radio, but it was better to be safe than sorry. Work was going to suck enough without a splitting headache.
When we entered the house, Koushiro, Mimi, Miyako, Daisuke and Jyou were already there and they looked just as tired as I did. I glared at my brother, then went and hid in the corner. I wasn't in a good enough mood to be very friendly and it didn't appear as though anyone else was awake enough.
Kari came back with Tai and Sora about the same time that Iori and Ken made it inside. Kari looked conflicted, but before I could ask her anything about it, Matt stood up and started to talk.
"So, I'm really sorry to have to have all of you over here so early in the morning, but there are some things that you guys should all know before Tai, Sora and I go on the air this morning and let the whole world know. We're going to go clear up the issue of Kashiwa's paternity today. Earlier Tai and Sora got recognized at their convention and the paparazzi got to them. Since this only seems to be getting worse, I decided that it was high time that the record got set completely straight. People need to know that not am I not Kashi's father, but that I'm not upset about her and Tai, at all. It's kind of hard to be upset when I have someone else." Matt paused as a guy I didn't recognize walked out of the hall. He came and stood next to Matt, who grabbed his hand. "Everyone, I'd like you to meet Haru, my boyfriend."
The words went in my ear, but I couldn't quite comprehend them. Everyone around me began to congratulate Matt and the other guy, Haru, as what he said finally sank in.
"You're... you're gay?" I said, not quite believing the words coming out of my mouth. The room seemed to grow still with my words. I glanced around and most of the people didn't really seemed surprised. They weren't surprised. They already knew. "You're gay and I'm apparently the last one to find out?" I only stopped myself from yelling at the last second because I remembered that Kashiwa and Tomatsu were sleeping just down the hall.
Matt looked around like a deer in the headlights. It didn't look like this was how this was supposed to go. "Wait, who knew? I mean, I know a few people did, but everyone else did?"
"You're not exactly sneaky, Matt," Jyou said. "I saw you with someone and Sora caught you in the act as well."
"And then Sora told Tai, who told Daisuke, who has told me," Miyako said.
"I work with them. There's no way to keep it a secret It's not as if Mimi is quiet about the whole thing anyways. She makes fun of you every chance she gets. It doesn't exactly hurt that we all went out together that one night," Kou said.
I looked over at Ken and Iori, but both of them shook their heads.
There was only one person left. I looked over at my wife, who was looking at her feet.
"Even you knew?" I whispered.
"Yeah. Mimi was making fun of him at the ultrasound and he didn't even try to deny it. I had had some suspicions before, but that confirmed it."
"And you didn't tell me?" I wasn't sure who had hurt me more at this point. Her head whipped up and looked me dead in the eye.
"Would you have believed me?" she asked. I was taken aback by the question.
"Of course, well, once I verified it with Matt," I said.
"I'd have lied. I'd have lied and told myself it was the right thing to do, even if it caused you two to fight."
"Really, Matt? It would have been so awful to have told me when almost everyone we care about already knows? Are you kidding? I'm your brother."
"For the record, I didn't tell anyone but Haru and the PR guy, who I told on the way back here so he could get working on how to deal with this. I haven't even told the band yet."
"Have you told our parents?" I asked. They weren't on the list of people that he had told and I had a sneaking suspicion that they had no idea.
"Uh, not yet. I'm going to call 'Kaasan and we're going to 'Tousan's station, so I was going to talk to him when we got there. Look, I know I haven't gone about this the right way. Trust me, not telling you sooner is probably second only to the mess I made with Sora. I've made a mess. I can't do much about it now. If I could, I would."
I stood there for a moment, silent. "I'm still mad at you."
"You should be."
"You're making this very difficult."
"It's either that or I'm a dick about it."
"Damn you." Matt smiled.
"Anyways, there's more to it than that. The paparazzi didn't just find us, they found us at work. We were doing a convention. For porn," Sora said. A few people looked around, not really quite sure what to make of it. It seemed like most people knew this too, but a few people were looking around, unsure of what to make of this development.
"You and Tai are in porn?" Ken asked.
"Yes. That's how we started seeing each other, actually. We had to do a panel and someone recognized us. Noa shut it down and got us out of there, but not before we had a giant mess on our hands. I'm sure it's all over the internet already." I could see Kari watching me out of the corner of my eye, no doubt looking to see if I was going to be upset with her for not telling me about Tai. I hadn't had the nerve to tell her I had known about him for quite some time. I had run across a clip on the Ito Industries website. There were certain things that you just couldn't unsee. Luckily, this was while Matt and Sora were still together.
"Wait, Koushiro, didn't you say that you worked with them?" Kari asked. All eyes turned to him.
"Uh, yeah. I'm not a star though, I run the cameras and do the editing," he said.
"So you watch Tai and Sora have sex all day instead, eh?" Daisuke asked. The way he said it led me to believe that he already knew the answer.
"Well, yeah, but I work on the les..." Kou stopped, glancing at Mimi. "This is all irrelevant. Let's move on."
Matt glanced down at his watch. "No time for that. Sorry guys, we've got to go. We're running late as it is." Sora left the room while Matt continued on. "You guys can stay here and do what you want. If you want to watch the broadcast, you can use the big screen. Channel eight." Sora returned with Kashi and the five of them began to scramble out the door.
"Hold on," I said, stopping them in their tracks. I walked up to Haru and I could see his breath catch. I could tell that he had no idea what I was going to do. I stuck out my hand. "Nice to meet you, Haru. I'm happy to see my brother with someone new. Be good to him, ok?"
"Sure thing, Takeru," he said, taking my hand in his, shaking it briefly. "It's great to meet you too. I'm hoping to get to know you somein the future."
"Sorry, TK, we have to go, now," Matt said as he pulled his boyfriend towards the door. "See you guys!'
As soon as they were gone, I turned and looked at our friends. I looked over our crazy group, the "Chosen' children and chuckled at the name. Everyone's eyes were on me, watching what exactly I was going to do next, so showed them. I turned away and walked down the hall, calling back at them, "I've got dibs on Matt's shower."
A/n: Wow, it's been eleven months. This makes me sad, mostly because I haven't really done any writing in this time (I wrote this all today). Between school, my pregnancy and the baby, I didn't have a lot of time for anything.
So, I had a baby. I had a cute little monster four months ago next week. A little girl named Kara. She looks like her mama and between how hard she wiggles and how much she wants to talk already, she's going to run me ragged. Still, I wouldn't have her any other way and neither would her daddy.
Otherwise, I've just been in a whirlwind. I got my associate's in communication, went to the university for a semester and now I'm back at the community college to get a multimedia journalism associate's (and possibly a creative writing one as well). I just need a semester's worth of class and I have it, so why not?
Well, I'm happy to be back and hopefully on a more permanent basis. I've got a bunch of new reviewers and every time I saw one it made me yearn to get back to it, but life was in the way. I can't wait to see some reviews because I've really missed hearing from you.
Now on to the reviews!
Succubus incubus- I think I have played that! It was pretty fun if it's the game I think it is. I'll have to check it out and see when I have some free time.
HERBIVORE MUNCH- Thanks for the condolences, birthday wishes and congratulations. I will definitely send you that piece, if I can find it on my computer. I'm hoping to get this up before bed, so I don't have time to look for it. I know where the hard copy is, just not the digital.
Koumi-locc- Thanks
The Keeper of Worlds- I'm sorry that it didn't happen again this time! I'm hoping that my inspiration and ability come together more quickly this time.
Vigatus- Thanks for the congrats and happy birthday. I'm hoping you're still around to be happy to see this again.
Ang91- I feel like it's about time they all knew the truth too. Matt took his sweet time with this.
TaioraWarrior- No matter what you do in life, there are always consequences. I've got some ideas for Matt's, but we'll see. It should be fun to have Matt out and proud though.
GaiaGallantmon- lawl katz?
Dylanmon- Definitely keeping Mimi in the picture. Of all of the character's I've written, she's my favorite. Matt is very much gay. Tai was avoiding them. What Sora did was really wrong. There's no excuse for it and I won''t try to make one. She made a bad judgment call.
Bigman723- Glad to know you liked it.
Curlylizard97- Sorry this took so long to get up! I'm happy that you enjoyed it so much that you couldn't stop reading it to review. In many ways, that's better than an actual review. I'm not saying I wouldn't have loved to read what you had to say, but there's something about writing a story that someone just doesn't want to put down. Thank you for the condolences and congratulations. I couldn't be happier to be a mama, I just wish I had more time to write!
Anonymous- I have no plans to give up on this story until it's done! This story has become really important to me. I have no idea where I'm going to end it or how long it will take, but I will finish it out. Thank you so much for the condolences and all of your other kind words!
Guest- I'm glad to know that you liked it so much that you read the whole thing that quickly! Everything is going pretty great. Hope you enjoy the chapter.
As a side note, Happy Valentine's Day everyone!