Hi all. This is the third part of Family members. Stay tuned for the next fic that follows this one, 180° Change. Mimi accidentally hurts Izzy with her 'attitude' and so she decides to change before any of her other friends get hurt. (Note, it will not be a Mishiro. )
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon, never had, and *sigh* never will.
On the last part, Izzy and Kari left the hospital to go to Tai's victory bash at the park. Now, let's see the start of the victory party!
Enjoy!
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People were laughing, eating, playing, basically enjoying themselves at the nice outside party that they were invited to. Well, you didn't even have to be invited to go there. Anybody could go. The winning team, the loser team, the team member's family and friends and the spectators. Like I said, anybody could go.
"Kamiya listen to me." A blond haired girl with icy blue eyes said. She was trying to reason with him that Sora, one of the best, if not the best, soccer player on his team, should be able to join her all girls soccer team, and that it wasn't his decision to make. "You don't choose the paths of your team members. They decide what they want to do."
"I'm not going to let you steal Sora from my team!" He said stubbornly giving Mayota and Sora headaches. Not to mention Matt who was listening from afar. He still didn't get why his friends said that Tai had a crush on her.
'Oh well,' He thought 'Maybe he does have a minor crush on her... That would explain why he's making that petty argument last as long as possible... ' He continued to look at the bickering trio. It seemed that Sora hit the mark by saying that if she was on Mayota's team, she would know her strategy. He watched Tai, and saw him shoot glances at Mayota, but deviated his stare when she looked at him. The more Matt looked the more he realised. ' Man, why did he never tell me... Erhg, I can't believe he had a crush on somebody and didn't tell me! I'm suppose to b his best--'
His train of thought was interrupted by one of his friends that he hadn't seen in a long time. "Hey Matt!"
"Hi Joe. Long time no see. You look different. " The other boy responded. Joe did look different, he had changed his glasses to a far cooler pair, and he had let his hair grow. (A/N: Joe looks like he does in 02, but in my series, 02 never happens, and also, this fic is like 1 year after the others beats Apocalymon. I just don't like how Joe looks in 01, so he looks like he does in 02, but the others (Tai, Mimi, Izzy, Sora, Kari, T.K and Matt) look like they are in 01... I know it's confusing.....)
"Thanks, so I see you guys won the soccer match. I'm sorry I couldn't come and see you guys." Joe said.
"Don't worry, you're here now, but tell me, why couldn't you make it?" Matt questioned.
"I'll tell you later. I want everybody to be here when I say it, it's something pretty important. Anyways, anything new?" He inquired.
"Well, Izzy's mom gave birth today and--"
"Mrs.Izumi gave birth? I should give my congratulations to the new big brother. By the way is it a girl or a boy?"
"It's a girl. Anyways, I also found out.. " Matt continued telling Joe what was new until he was interrupted. "That Tai has a crush on somebody..." He mused at the end. 'I'm sure that Joe doesn't know who it is, so I won't have been the only one who didn't know.' He thought.
"Yeah, I know, Mayota. The other teams captain."
Matts head fell.
"You knew?" He asked.
"Of course. Doesn't she remind you of anybody? I don't know who... But she's really familiar... " Matts head fell even lower then before. 'Man, I can't believe Joe noticed that before me.'
"Well anyways, I'm going to say hello to the others and try to find Izzy and congratulate him." Joe then left Matt and went over to Tai, Sora and Mayota to try to stop Sora beating Tai up....
Well as he went to do that, Izzy and Kari arrived in the park and headed towards the blond haired boy with the hanging head.
"Hey Matt, you okay?" Kari inquired as she approached him. He raised his head to look at them.
"Oh sure, just bummed out , that's all." He said. "Anyways, Izzy, how is your new little sister? You must be excited right?" Izzy flashed a big smile and nodded. "I remember the day T.K was born, it seemed just like yesterday th--"
"Wow, Matt, your only 15 and you talk like an old man." T.K said from just behind him. He approached them and went to his brothers side.
"Well sorry T.K for being nostalgic, but your birth was exceptional. Its something that I won't forget. I also can't forget the first time I held you in my arms, " T.K looked up at his big brother "The first time you looked at me with those big blue eyes..." Matt smiled down at T.K., It was a cute brotherly moment, that is if somebody didn't say something....
"Awwww....." Mimi's voice was heard making the brothers stop their fluffy moment. "Oh no don't stop. I'm sure you guys were just about to hug!" She squeaked.
"Hi Mimi." The group chorused to her making her giggle a bit.
"Well hi to all of you. So, " She turn to Izzy. "How's your sister?"
"She's fine and--" Izzy started.
"Really cute. She just seems like a little angel! It's a shame you couldn't come." Kari finished.
"Well, you better not get used to her little 'angel ' face, 'cause when she arrives home, she'll drive you insane." She warned, getting curious looks.
"Mimi, what are you talking about?" Matt asked.
"Oh like you don't know. You can't tell me that T.K was always a little angel now will you?" Matt thought a bit.
"Okay, you're right, when T.K was younger he did sometime make me want to rip my hair out..."
"Thanks Matt." His brother muttered.
"But what do you know about that?" He questioned.
"I'll have you know I have a little brother." She stated. (A/N: She did mention that she had a brother you know.)
"You have a brother?" All the others said at the same time.
"Yes I do. " She responded.
"Why did you never mention him?" Kari asked.
" Cause he's a little demon that's why."
"Mimi that's not a nice thing to say about your sibling. I mean I don't say that about Tai." Kari said.
"That's because you're not the oldest." Tai said with Sora and Joe behind him. " And Kari, Mimi's right, younger siblings are hard to take care of." He teased as he received a small slap from his sister. "See what I mean. You're abusing me...." Tai made a fake crying face.
"Oh shut up." She said.
"Hehe..... Hope your sister is better then mine." Tai said to Izzy as he backed away from an upset Kari.
"Why you..." She growled.
"See!" Mimi pointed to the fighting siblings. " Kari seems like the perfect kid, but now we see that she just loves to tease her bother." Mimi said. " Younger siblings drive their elders insane..."
"I resent that!" Kari said, who had stopped trying to attack Tai, T.K and Joe (A/N: Remember he has an older brother.) said in unison. The others laughed.
"She's just kidding. You know we love you guys." Matt replied. It felt good to have everyone together again. Often one or two would be missing. A little reunion felt good. Everybody was here. And that reminded Matt that Joe would tell them why he wasn't there earlier. "Anyways, I'm going to change the subject before we scar Izzy for life about little siblings..." He gave a little grin. " Joe told me that he had something important to tell all of us once we were all here." He turned to his glasses wearing comrade. "So Joe, what's your news?"
"Well as you know, " He started. " I'm going to start college soon, and today I received a letter. It said --"
"HEY KIDS!" A voice called, who belonged to Mrs. Kamiya said. "The food's ready, you'd better come and get some before it's all gone!"
They ignored Tai and Kari's mom and returned their attention to Joe for him to continue, but instead Joe started to turn from them.
"Hey Joe, you're not finished saying what you were about to say!" Izzy said.
"I know..." He called back." But I'm really hungry. I'll tell you guys later." He said. The others followed his lead to the picnic tables that where next to the food tables where dozens of people had gathered round to feast.
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The kids where enjoying themselves and there was some pretty heated conversations between Mayota and Tai about the stupidest things.
"Wow, would you look at the two of them?" Izzy said." If they where a bit older, I'm sure they'd be taken for a married couple..." He stated, low enough for the two of them not to have heard, but loud enough for a great number of people around them to chuckle. As the two of them continued to fight, Tai suddenly got up and stood on the table and tapped his plastic glass with a plastic fork.
"Could I have everyone's attention please? I would like to thank everybody here for coming. To the spectators who cheered for us, and I'd like to say I'm sorry for everybody who is in Mayota's team, it must be hard to stand her." He placed a hand on his chest " I feel for you... really I d--" He was cut off by a strong pain in his foot, givin courteously by Mayota herself. He yelped in pain and started to jump out and down and fell from the bench. Mayota got up and started her speech.
"I would like to thank Kamiya for humiliating himself so I don't have to do much work. And I also like to say that Sora Takenouchi will be a part of the all girl soccer league, so please give a warm hand for her. "The others did so making the holder of the crest of love blush. After her announcement Mayota sat down. Yamato (A/N: Try and guess why I used his complete name... ) stoodd up for his turn.
"Since everybody is making announcements, I might as well say one. Well, I would like to publicly congratulate my friend Koushiro Izumi " He pointed to him " because his mom gave birth to, what I heard, an adorable little girl." People started to applaud but he silenced them with his hand. " Wait I'm not finished! I also want my other friend Jyou Kido to stand up and tell us what he was supposed to announce earlier."
"Matt, I don't think it's a good idea...." Joe whispered to him. Matt bent down to him.
"Oh come on now!" He pulled him up and then the blond haired boy sat down. Joe looked around to see that everybody was listening to him, and he gulped.
"Euh... well, where should I start..." He looked around and stopped Izzy. "Well like Matt I'm going to congratulate Izzy and I'm sure that he will be a great big brother, I just wish I would be there to see it... " The digidestened looked at him with perplexed gazes. "I euh... sorta got this letter this morning to say that I've been accepted for a student exchange programme... I'm leaving tomorrow morning actually." His friends looked at him in shook, but Izzy was taken back the most. It seemed like he had taken it hard. (A/N: No it's not jyoushiro. It's just, if you read my first fic ever 'Like a Brother' you would know that Izzy looks upon Joe as a big brother...) Izzy took it so bad that he left the table and ran away from the others.
"Izzy...." Joe whispered. He looked at the direction his friend had run off in. He would follow him after the others finished asking questions. He knew that Izzy needed to be alone for a moment.
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Night was starting to fall, the party had finished about a half-hour ago, but there was a boy with fiery red hair on the swings. Just sitting there looking up at the first stars that were showing.
"Hey Izzy." A voice said, one that he recognised as Joe. "Can I sit here?" He asked talking about a swing to left of him. The other boy shrugged. "Nice night isn't it?" Joe asked, trying to start a conversation.
Again, Izzy only shrugged as an answer.
"Look, Izzy I know you might be a bit upset and--"
"You're sorry? Yeah, sure you are. " he said bitterly.
"Yes I am sorry. I should have told all of you guys earlier, it just that I sorta ...choked." Joe tried to explain.
"Yeah whatever..."
"Izzy this is not like you. Come on, this is suppose to be a happy day for you. You have a new little sister..."
"But I'm losing you..." He finished.
"Look Izzy, it's not like I'm dying or going away for ever." Izzy turned to look at him. "Plus my parents gave me a going away present. A laptop. You'll be able to contact me whenever you want, and i'll be able to do the same." Joe smiled at Izzy to reassure him. Izzy looked at him then gave him a little smile as well.
"So where are you actually going?" He asked as he returned his gaze to the stars.
"Well if you'd stayed to listen you would know." Joe said to lighten up the mood. "But if you must know, I'm going to Canada, Province of Québec at the University of Laval--"
"University? But you're supposed to go to college."
"Yeah I know, but I don't know why..." He shrugged and looked up at the stars too. "Oh well."
"I'll miss you, you know."
"I know... But hey, it's not like we're going to be a world apart. It's just a continent."
Izzy made a small snort.
"You're right...."
The two boys stayed silent, looking at the sky, till Joe broke the peace.
"I have to go finish packing my things. My plane leaves at 5am tomorrow. I'll e-mail you once I get there." He got up from his swing. "Tell your mom congratulations on the baby, and I want you to send me a photo of her, got that?" He asked. Izzy nodded.
"Don't worry Joe, I would have sent you one even if you didn't ask." They looked at each other for a few seconds more.
"Well, I really should leave. Bye Izzy." Joe turned and walked away. Izzy stayed on the swings looking at the stars, and slowly rocking back and forth.
"Bye Joe...."
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End of part three, and also of Family Members. Hope you liked it. Anyways, if you read my authors note at the start of the fic, my next story that follows this one will be called 180° change, it's a one part story.
Well, as usual, I'd like to thank Loconik Digi. He still edits my work even when I put in some weird couples ^_^.
Oh, and speaking of weird couples, for those of you who read 'Changing Appearance' I'm planing to do a sequel. I don't know the title yet, but there will be some Yakari, Kensuke/Daiken, Jyoushiro (Sorry Nick) (LOCONIK: Arrghh! mutter mutter..) and Tayako (T.K Yolei). (Sorry again Nick. I know you like Takari...)
Oh, and thanks to all of the readers, but especially the reviewers. They were nice enough to say something.
- Kyra (Again, I'm sorry for what I said. Also, I really don't know why I knew you would suggest your name. You're not stuck up. It was just this weird feeling....)
- Buka2000 (Actually Buka, I named Izzy's dad before you named it after Joe's son... He has had his name since July 23 2000. And I think that your first fan fic on FF.net was posted August 24 2000.... There is about a months difference. Besides, I took James's Japanese name from Pokémon...)
- Aquarius. (Thanks , I had a real hard time deciding on the name. I was afraid that people might not like it.)
- Ice Wolf17 (You ask me how I highlight the please review like this. Well, I use Microsoft FrontPage. That's how I manage to do it....)
- Sakura
- Tiffany
- and Kay.
That was all the people who reviewed. I hope you like my fics so far, and if you want, you could and go and see the song-fics I did.
And one last note before I leave to let you review me. At the start of the fic, Joe said to Matt that Mayota reminds him of someone. Well do you guys think she reminds you of anyone? Someone that often fights with Tai, has blond hair, icy blue eyes..... Does Mayota Daishi reminds anybody? Anybody at all?
Well bye bye, and don't forget to Review
-Geneviève