Author's Notes: Wow... thank you for the reviews, especially you BudgerigarLT!!! I mean, you even took the liberty of e-mailing me your review, ^_^ THANK YOU!!! I'm dedicating this chapter to ya! Oh and by the way, you asked why Matt told Tai he's her guardian angel? It's answered at the end of the ficcie. If you don't really get it, it's answered on my end Author's Notes. Enjoy!!!
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'Either this guy's insane, or he's really telling me the truth...' Tai thought, as he stared at the blondie in front of him. 'It would explain why I hate him so much.'
"You're not going insane. Angels can't lie," Matt stated.
Tai stared at him with disbelief. "You can read minds?!" he asked surprised. He was getting even more angry. How dare this guy just invade his mind.
"Only yours. Heaven-" Tai winced. "-Gave me this power in order to know what evil plots you're up to. I can't let you harm her."
"I think I had that idea since you proved what you were."
"Maybe we can make a deal-" Matt began.
"The last time we made a deal with you ass holes, you blew us off-" Tai stared, his blood boiling.
"Please. Can we refrain from using those types of wor-" Matt said calmly but Tai was too angry to control himself.
He slammed Matt onto the wall and picked him up by his shirt. "Lookie here Mr. Goody-two-shoes. We don't make deals with you anymore. Your fucking calm attitude is pissing me off even more. Just leave me alone, and I'll leave you alone!"
"I'm sorry, but I can't do that. You're going against our rules, and you're trying to harm one of our future angel's destiny. We can't just let you get away with it."
"Bitch! I said leave me alone!" Tai yelled, as he raised his fist up to Matt's face. The next thing he knew, his fist was bleeding, and he was yelling curse words in thirteen different languages. Somehow, Matt had the power to relocate himself.
"I'm sorry but I can't do that, as I have said earlier- We'll talk about this later..." he said quickly, before dissipating into thin air.
Tai looked around confused. Oni said that both Heaven and Hell couldn't bring down spirits without making them into human beings. How did this happen?
"Tai?"
Tai looked at where the sound of the voice came from. Behind him, he found Sora.
"What are you doing here? It's been a couple of hours already... School's been done since forever," she said.
Tai shook his head. 'What in the world just...?'
"I heard someone yelling and then I came to see who it was... Why is your fist bleeding?"
Tai gave her a look of bewilderment. Why was she suddenly acting so nice to him, just after she yelled at him and left? "I... I..."
"Come here..." she said, taking his hand. "You must have hit the wall pretty hard for some reason... Were you mad at it or something? It's bleeding like Niagra Falls!"
"I... There was..." Tai tried to explain. How could he? Sora said that she wanted no more supernatural talk. 'It's not like you care about her feelings right...?' his conscious asked. 'Of course you do!' the other side argued. "Some kid pissed me off, but they ducked and ran away before I could-"
"So you tried to punch someone this hard? What is it with you guys? Too much testosterone..." Sora said, shaking her head. She took out a piece of cloth she was sewing for Home Economics class and wrapped it around Tai's fist.
"Thanks..." he muttered.
Sora just ignored the way he said it, but concentrated on the word that he said. "Umm... lets take a walk... There was this question that I've been meaning to ask ever since you told me about... Mrs. Kamiya."
Tai just nodded. If he could get Sora to trust him... then she would listen to him, and think that he was telling the truth if he lied about Matt, and how she had to stay away from him. (A/N: Did that just make sense? Sorry...) Didn't he try to make a plan like this before though? Didn't it back fire all too quickly? He would just have to try again.
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As the two strolled around the park, Sora suddenly interrupted their silent moment with her anticipated question. "Is the reason why you went to hell just because you committed suicide? I mean you didn't do anything else but that? I know that it's a really bad sin to just kill yourself, but I mean, you didn't kill anyone?"
'Shit...' Tai thought. 'How scary is that? A guy just kills himself, but besides that did nothing else that was bad? If I say yes, how intimidating will I still seem to her?'
"Well...?" she asked.
'Well...?' both his consciences were asking. "Yeah." 'How could you tell her the truth you ass? Now she'll never listen to what you say!' 'This is a good thing. Now that she knows you're not that evil, she'll be able to trust you a little more, she might even have sympathy for you.'
"I see..." she said, staring at the ground. "I'm sorry that you thought your life was that bad, that you had to go and kill yourself for it... I'm not blaming you, but the fact that I think suicide is one of the worst crimes anyone could do..."
"Okay. Can we just stop talking about that now?" Tai snapped.
"Sorry."
"Whatever..." Tai said, looking away from her.
"To tell you the truth, I know this might sound evil... but when my dad died. I was happy..." Sora began.
Tai shot a look of confusion to her. When she talked about her dad... didn't she talk about him like she loved him that much?
"I know... I'm confusing you and everything about what I said... but it's true. When I was born, my mom said that he never even once looked at me. When I was about ten, he alway treated me like trash. He would go away for weeks at a time to some unknown place. After a while, I found these pictures of this woman and a child just about my age. When my dad saw me looking at them, he yelled at me, and hit me until I blacked out. About five years later, my dad came home devastated. My mom never knew about his other family. Only I did. He began telling me about what happened. They died. His girlfriend and his son. They died because his girlfriend was drunk and she was driving on the snowy road on Christmas. After that, he began treating me like I was his world. A part of me loved it, and loved him, but another part of me would let go of the past. A couple weeks after that, he said that he had to visit his sister, but he was really going to his girlfriend and his son's grave.
"When his plane crashed earlier that day, a huge part of me was relieved and celebrating because the only reason why he began to care about me was because his other family was dead, and I was the only one who knew about them so he could talk to me about them. I was happy, I was overjoyed in fact when I heard my dad's name as one of the bodies found. I was happy because that part of my life was gone. Now I could just live happily with my mother. I was also happy because I repeated to myself that my dad was there, possibly in hell, along with his other family. After a while though, I realized that I've been treating him so cruelly in my mind, and I decided to forgive him. I try to make it up to him, by studying hard, and making his wish come true for my mom." Sora ended.
Tai noticed that while Sora was telling her story, the two of them found a bench and sat down. "What about your mom?" Tai asked. He found himself interested in this story of hers.
"My mom of course was devastated, and she became depressed. Actually, about that dream my dad had. He wanted to give her that huge house so when he left her, she wouldn't be all too sad. Boy was he wrong. My mom loved him so much. Even after what he did to me. She loved me too, but my dad was in the spotlight when he died. So, even if my dad gave her this huge house, it wouldn't matter, because all that mattered was that he was there with her."
"That's... you had a life equally as worse as mine... I'm sorry about that..." Tai said sympathetic. "And you didn't even... I mean you didn't just end your life after what your dad did to you."
Sora gave him a bright, but teary smile. "What about you? What's your side of the story. I've already heard Mrs. Kamiya's."
Tai took a deep breath. If he told her... Wouldn't this be sort of like confiding in her? He's never told anyone this before.
"Look... you don't have to say anything-"
"No, it's fine," he said, waving her off in mid-sentence.
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The two spent three hours there telling each other about their past, and for those three hours, both had forgotten about the reality. Sora was just Taichi's play toy, in his lie, and Tai was a demon.
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"Can you hand me that one over there please?" Sora asked, as she rose high above Tai, on the ladder.
"Which one?" he laughed. "Do you know what you're even doing?" he called to her.
"Of course!" Sora said, giving him a play pout.
"If you do, how come you don't even know what the tools are called?" The next thing Tai knew, there was gutter grime that landed on Tai's head.
It had been a couple of weeks since their talk in the park, and ever since, the two just seemed to be everywhere together.
Mrs. Takenouchi walked outside the front door, and saw the two teens helping each other clean out the rain gutter. She smiled, and walked back in. 'Don't want to disturb then in their little fun...' she thought.
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"Is he really beginning to become friends with her, or is this all just part of his plan?" asked the archangel.
"I've read his mind, but he hasn't been plotting anything ever since that day in the park," replied Sora's guardian angel.
"Interesting..."
"I'll just keep an eye out, just in case Oni finds this out."
In the shadows an 'angel' stood, over hearing the two other angel's conversation. "Interesting... maybe my lord would like to hear of these facts..."
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Author's Notes: So... how was it? I didn't have the internet for a while, so I decided to just write this while I had nothing else to do. Hope that you enjoyed, and please review! By the way, Matt really is Sora's guardian angel ^_^.