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Take THAT!
(Seishuun Dettane)
Chapter Six
The lights on the soccer field were nearly blinding.
T.K. squinted, shading his eyes at the bottom of the field seating. He and Kari were sharing a blanket on the grass, and Kari was on her knees, snapping pictures left and right of her brother and the soccer players.
"Can you see with that horrible lighting?" T.K. asked over the noise of the crowds.
Kari shifted positions on the blanket, and didn't lower the camera once. "Beggars can't be choosers, T.K." She paused, and switched positions again. "Where's your brother?"
T.K. blinked. "Matt?"
"No, your other brother." Kari teased, her face blocked by the camera. "T.K., what other brother do you have?"
"He's with Joe, Izzy, and Mimi, I think." T.K. leaned back on the blanket, propping himself up with his elbows.
Kari lowered her camera, and let it hang around her neck. She turned around to look at T.K., her face devastated.
T.K. idlely watched the soccer players ont he field, not even noticing Kari's movements. "We left them at the tea shoppe to come to the game. Who knows wh--GYAAK!"
Kari grabbed T.K. by the collar, and shook him. "Mimi's home and you didn't TELL me?!"
T.K. held his hat still on his head, and nervously laughed. "...slipped my mind?"
Kari dropped him, "I can't believe you didn't tell me! She must think I'm so selfish for not seeing her!" She began to cry hilariously loud.
"Wait! That's not it at all!" T.K. sat up, and tried to comfort Kari.
"T.K.!!!!!!!" Davis stormed over to the picnic blanket in his soccer uniform, his face twisted with fury.
"D-Davis!" T.K.'s eyes widened, "Get back on the field!"
"And let you make Kari cry?!" Davis pushed T.K. out of the way, and took Kari's shoulders. "What'd he do, Kari?! You can tell me!"
Kari sniffled, "Mimi's home, and--!"
Davis got a little blue in the face, and glared to T.K. over Kari's shoulder. "You didn't."
T.K. blinked. "Wha--?"
Davis released Kari, and got T.K. in a headlock. "You cad! you cheated on Kari with a girl four years older than you?! I don't care how good-looking you might find her, that's UNFORGIVEABLE!"
Kari immediately stopped crying. "What?"
T.K. sweatdropped. "...cheated on...?"
"...Mimi?" Kari peeped.
Davis blinked, and looked at both T.K. and Kari. "Huh? Then why was Kari crying?"
T.K. was still in a headlock, and his back was beginning to feel it. "I wouldn't do anything with Mimi! They'd kill me!"
Davis let go of T.K., and T.K. fell to the ground, rubbing his neck. "They?"
Kari nodded, her eyes wide.
Davis had a stupified look on his face. "They?" He repeated.
"Y'know..." Kari nodded towards Sora. "Them."
"Sora?" Davis looked even more perplexed. He paused, and his eyes widened in enlightenment. "Oh! Them!"
T.K. and Kari sighed.
"Does Yolei know? Why didn't Mimi come to the game? Does anyone else know?" Davis started flooding the two with questions.
Kari put a hand to her forehead, and T.K. folded his arms.
"Which question do you want to start on?" Kari sighed.
"Davis! Get your body back on the field!" Tai stormed over to the three freshmen, and grabbed Davis by the ear. "Kari, you're gonna have to start staying home if you don't stop distracting him."
"It's not my fault!" Kari whined.
"Ow! Leggo!" Davis squirmed.
"Move it, or I'll make you be the soccer ball." Tai flatly droned.
"Yessir! Leggo, Tai!" Davis whined.
"Captain." Tai twisted Davis's ear a bit.
"OW! CAPTAIN!" Davis bellowed.
Kari and T.K. nervously paused a few minutes after the two boys were back on the field.
"He seems to be taking your decision well." T.K. casually said.
"Huh?" Kari looked to T.K..
"Your decision not to date." T.K. looked to her with a crooked smile. "I mean, he hasn't changed, but it does lower the stress level a bit."
Kari smiled. "Were you stressed, T.K.?"
"Oh, no. Having an athletic, hot-headed, short-tempered star soccer player out to kill you is swell." T.K. fell back on the blanket.
Kari rose her eyebrows, and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. "So now all he wants to do is beat you up."
"That's all." T.K. snorted a laugh. "Because he's still got himself convinced that after Junior year exams, when you do start dating..."
"...you don't think he has a chance?" Kari interrupted him.
T.K. looked at Kari with question in his eyes.
"A lot can change in three years, T.K.. I wouldn't get so confident." Kari hugged her knees to her chest, and watched the field. "After all, we don't want this sort of thing to ruin our friendship."
"He's a teammate, I'm still not sure about that 'friend' thing..." T.K. muttered to himself.
"That's exactly what I mean, T.K.!" Kari rested her chin on her knees, and kept her tone calm. "This bitterness between the two of you has gone on long enough! I'm not dating either of you, so it makes me wonder if it's some other issue."
T.K. grumbled. "Other than the fact that he started it?"
Kari sighed, and rested her forehead on her knees. Boys.
Sora clicked on the end of her mechanical pencil, trying to get the lead out.
"Oh, I can't be out already!" Sora sighed, and opened her backpack. "I just put new lead in last week!"
The evening wind blew in short, unpredictable gusts. Sora was unfortunate enough to let go of her books and paper during one of those gusts, and her papers began to blow into the field.
"No! Stop!" She stood up, and began to chase after her assignment before they reached the field.
Tai caught one that blew by him, and turned away from the players to look at it. His shoulder sagged, and he rolled his eyes. "Geez, Sora..." he muttered, and paced over to meet up with her.
Sora was bent over, snatching up all of the papers, and stuffing them under her arm. Her eyes fell on a pair of black and white soccer shoes, and she followed them up until she looked up to Tai's irritated face.
Tai held out the paper, and Sora sheepishly took it.
"I thought we discussed this." Tai folded his arms.
"We did, and we disagreed." Sora straightened her papers.
Tai made an exhasperated sigh, and angrily tugged the papers away from Sora, looking through them. "Algebra...history...algebra...algebra...English...all of it is schoolwork!" Tai threw it back at her.
T.K. watched Tai and Sora from the picnic blanket. "Gee, things look pretty heated over there."
Kari sighed, and lowered her eyes. "Tai thinks Sora's going too far with the studying." She paused, looking genuinely concerned for the two. "She wants to go to the same college as Tai, but to do that, she's got to get a better grade on the entrance exams. Either that, or get a tennis scholarship there."
T.K. watched Tai plead with Sora. "I didn't know they were having trouble."
"They're not having trouble!" Kari snapped to attention. "They just have a difference of opinion, that's all! They won't break up over it!"
T.K. held up his hands. "Kari, calm down! I know, I know!"
Kari looked over to Sora, who walked away from Tai calmly, and walked over to pick up her backpack. "I think she's coming over here. Make some room."
T.K. sat up, and folded his legs. "She's coming?"
Sora sighed as she tossed her backpack on the blanket. "I don't get your brother sometimes." She sat down in a huff, and reached for her backpack.
Kari smiled. "He's just worried bout you. He wants you to relax some, too."
"I am relaxed!" Sora pulled out a textbook. "I'm just really busy, too!"
Kari hugged her knees tighter as she watched Sora flip through some pages. "I bet Tai'd enjoy it if you'd watch the game every once in a while."
"I do when he's on the field." Sora replied flatly while scanning a page.
"..." Kari gave T.K. a helpless look. T.K. gave her a shrug back.
"Mmm! The cool night air is the perfect thing to finish off a good meal!" Mimi stretched out her arms in the air as she walked ahead of Joe on the empty sidewalk.
"You could've gone a little lighter on the sushi, you gotta admit..." Joe unbuttoned his blazer jacket.
"You're just saying that because the bill was a bit steep." Mimi spun around, and put her hands behind her back.
Joe nervously smiled. "That's partially it, but..."
"Oh, come on! It's not as though you were looking out for my girlish figure." Mimi walked backwards on the sidewalk. "B'sides, you're gonna be a doctor, you should learn to spend like one!"
"If I marry anyone remotely like you, she'll spend it all for me." Joe replied.
"If you marry anyone remotely like me, I'd consider you a pretty darn lucky guy." Mimi said with a wink, and turned back around. "Isn't this the way to the Junior high?"
"Yeah."
Mimi looked over her shoulder. "This isn't the way to my house."
"It isn't the fastest way..." Joe gave Mimi a lop-sided smile. "You don't mind, do you?"
Mimi smiled back. "Why would I mind? I have every reason to feel safe with you."
Joe laughed softly. "I would hope so."
Mimi stopped walking, and waited for Joe to pass by her. She stolled beside him, and looked up to the streetlights. "Did you have fun?"
"Sure."
Mimi paused, hoping Joe would say more. She got a bit impatient, and spoke again. "Whatcha thinkin'?"
"You really wanna know?" Joe glanced at her.
Mimi nodded. "Of course."
"It's silly. You'll probably laugh." Joe bashfully smiled.
Mimi grinned as she recognized the expression on Joe's face. Her left shoulder that Joe rested his hand on began to twinge a bit. "No, I won't! Spill it!"
"Nah. Forget it."
"Oh, Joe! Come on!" Mimi whined, and reached over to tug on his sleeve.
"...." Joe paused, and glanced into the distance. "What would you say..."
Mimi nodded. "Uh-huh?"
"...to a bit of ice cream?" Joe casually asked.
Mimi stopped dead in her tracks. Ice cream? Her shoulder suddenly felt weighed down.
Joe went a few steps ahead of her, and then stopped to turn around. "Something wrong?"
Mimi smiled, and shook her head. "Nothing!" She began to walk again to catch up with Joe. "Any suggestions?"
Joe shoved his hands in his pockets, and stepped a bit more lively. "Well, there is a nice place we could admire the fine weather."
Mimi skipped a step, and kept her pacing with Joe. "Sounds good to me!"
Joe pushed up his glasses, and put his hand back in his pocket. "You don't mind spending a late evening withthe classic sweater-of-the-small-stuff?"
"It's so nice out, I'll manage somehow." Mimi teased.
Joe sighed, his shoulders sagging. "Somehow."
"Oh, come on!" Mimi gave Joe a hard slap on the back, to which he fell forward. "You know I'm kidding!"
Joe stumbled on his footing, but managed to remain on his feet.
"Tell you what! Let's jsut get a pint of ice cream at the convenience store!" Mimi's eyes lit up. "Maybe Yolei's parents are still there!"
Joe straightened up, and gave Mimi a questioning look.
Yolei Inoue was slouching over the counter at her family's convenience store, struggling to keep her eyes open.
Mimi walked up to the counter, Joe lcose behind her. She leaned over the counter, and rested her chin on it to look into Yolei's eyes. "Now I know why the call it hte graveyard shift. I think she died!"
Yolei slowly blinked. "...."
Joe leaned over Mimi's shoulder. "...she may just be asleep."
"...with her eyes open?!" Mimi kept her chin on the table, but her eyes looked up to Joe.
Joe shrugged. "It's possible."
Yolei's eyes slowly drug over to Joe. "Hey Joe..." she looked back to Mimi, and suddenly blinked to attention. "WAAAAAAH!!!" She shrieked, and fell backwards, off of the stool behind the checkout.
Joe and Mimi leaned over the checkout to check on Yolei.
"You okay?" Mimi called over the counter.
Yolei sprung up, which caused both Mimi and Joe to jump. "OMIGOOOOOOOSH!!! MIMIIIIII!!!"
Mimi gave a victory v. "Of course!"
Joe winced, rubbing his right ear. "I think I just went deaf in one ear..."
Yolei ran out from behind the counter, and latched herself on Mimi's arm. "What are you doing here?!"
"Here in Japan, or here in the store?" Mimi asked.
"Both!!" Yolei eagerly grinned.
"Well, I'm back to stay, and..."
"No kidding?!" Yolei rose her voice again, to which Joe cringed.
"Yeah!" Mimi grinned.
"Perfecto! Now we can be like real sisters!" Yolei's eyes shone behind her glasses.
Joe nervously smiled. "...now this is scary..."
"Hush!" both Mimi and Yolei barked at him, who again jumped.
"...and what about being here?!" Yolei asked. "There's no way you could've known I was working tonight!"
"Oh!" Mimi tilted her head towards Joe. "Joe and I are on a date, we were just gonna pick up a few things."
Yolei and Joe both nearly fell over.
D-date?! Joe felt his blood pressure climb.
"...'a few things'...?" Yolei gave Mimi a skeptical look.
"Yeah!" Mimi smiled cutely, oblivious to the reactions of Yolei and Joe.
"...like...this, that, and the other...few things?" Yolei peeped.
Mimi's smile faded. "Huh?"
Yolei pushed up her glasses, and looked to the far right of the store, clearing her throat.
Mimi looked over her shoulder to a shelf, clueless as to what Yolei was inferring to.
Joe's knees finally solidified, and he got back into the conversation. "Hmm?" He looked in the same direction as Mimi.
Yolei held tighter onto Mimi's arm.
The shelf carried various contraceptives and other forms of birth control.
"...." All three teenagers were silent as it sunk in.
Mimi tugged away from Yolei, and shouted at the top of her lungs, "NOT THOSE FEW THINGS, YOU SICK GIRL!! ICE CREAM! ICE CREAM!!!"
Joe felt his knees go out again, blood rushing to his face. He had the feeling that it would erupt from his nostrils at any given time, unless he managed to keep some level of cool.
We're on a date. She said we're on a date. A date. A date. Joe repeated over and over in his head. You're fine. You're fine. You're fine. You're fine...
Yolei whined. "My mistake!!!!"
Mimi's cheeks were burning, like a jellyfish had just been slapped onto her face. She felt very light-headed form the unfamiliar humiliation. She hugged her arms insecurely, and shifted her weight onto one foot. She nervously glanced to Joe, who was bent over, resting both hands on his knees.
"Look, now you've given him an asthma attack." Mimi rolled her eyes, and Yolei made a remorseful squeal.
"Joe! Omigosh! I'm sooooo sorry!!" Yolei ran over to Joe, and put a hand on his back. "Don't have an asthma attack on us!"
Joe felt as though his entire brain was swelling. He swung his torso straight, lifting his head. The blood in his face raced down to distribute in the rest of his body. "...I'm fine. I'm fine..."
Mimi lowered her red face, and paced over to the freezer section. "...I'll get the ice cream."
Joe smiled, his face still a faint scarlet. "Okay! I'll find some other snacks."
Yolei bowed over and over again. "I'm sorry!"
Joe held up his hands. "...h-honest mistake..."
Yolei took Joe by the wrist, "Hey, tell you what! I'll show you some of the new snacks we got in yesterday! I've tasted them, they're really neat!"
Joe blinked, "...sure..."
Yolei grinned. "Great! This way!" She tugged him down an aisle roughly, and lowered her voice. "It totally thrills me to see you two getting along so well. You guys are my favorite people."
"Really?" Joe eyed the items on the shelf. "...well, thanks, I guess...I don't know what to say to that."
"Nah, it's nothing." Yolei searched the shelf. "It seems so perfect that I'd see you two together when she first got back. It's like out of a book or something." She reached up, and grabbed a box. "Here we go..." She pulled it down, and handed it to Joe. "These are way cool, you'll love `em."
"...thanks..." Joe turned the box over, but didn't have a chance to read it before Mimi showed up.
"There you two are! Trying to run away from me?" Mimi smiled, holding up a few pints up ice cream.
"...M-Mimi! how much do you think we'll be able to eat before it melts?!" Joe gawked at the stack of ice cream Mimi picked out.
Mimi stuck out her bottom lip, and shrugged. "I thought we'd do a bit of taste-testing..."
Joe sighed, and pushed up his glasses again. "Okay, okay...let's just get going before it all melts on us."
Mimi smiled, "Sure thing!"
Yolei insisted that she assist Mimi in carrying the pints of ice cream to the counter. She began to ring them up. "Does anyone else know?"
"Hmm? About me being back?" Mimi waited at the checkout as Joe browsed through the magazines next to her. "Well, the only ones I haven't seen are Davis, Kari, and Cody..."
Joe straightened up. "That brings up a question. Why aren't you at the game?"
Yolei punched a few keys int he register. "Well, it just so happens that I'm going to be the President of the computer club this year..."
"Yeah, Izzy told us! How cool is that?!" Mimi spoke up.
Yolei bashfully grinned. "Y'mean you guys were talking about me?! Oh, I'm all flattered now!" Her face was much brighter as she continued. "Anyway, I need to get a better computer than the piece of trash I have right now, so I'm saving up to build myself a custom one!"
Mimi was impressed. "Build one?!"
"Of course!" Yolei put the ice cream in a plastic bag. "That's the only way to do it!"
"...oh..." Mimi quietly replied, amazed.
"Your total's eleven dollars, even." Yolei set the bag forward. "My only sale tonight."
"Well, I'd say the shift is bad..." Mimi pulled out her wallet, and opened it.
Joe set eleven dollars on the counter, and took up the bag. "Well, we're outta here."
Mimi looked up in surprise. "Hey Joe! I could've paid for it!"
"It's getting late. Let's go, Mimi." Joe put his wallet in his back pocket.
Yolei watched the two with a blank stare.
"But Joe, you paid for our dinner, I feel bad about your paying for dessert, too..." Mimi held her wallet.
"Then pay me back later, don't worry about it now." Joe replied, taking her arm.
Mimi blinked, and hesitated.
Joe looked to Yolei, "We'll see you later, Yolei. Don't stay up too late."
Yolei grinned, and waved. "Same to you two!" She leaned over the counter as she watched them leave. "...how perfecto!" She giggled to herself, and put away the eleven dollars.
"...just chill out already, Mimi."
"Take it!"
"No, keep it. It wasn't that much."
"I said take it!" Mimi tried to shove the eleven dollars in Joe's hand. "I was offering to pay for the dessert, since you took care of dinner!"
"Well, so was I." Joe swung the bag of ice-cream over his shoulder, "Listen, save it for when we go out again, I'm sure we'll find something else to do."
Mimi sighed, and put the money back in her wallet. "Last chance..."
"...do it."
"Fine." Mimi put her wallet back in her purse, and zipped it shut. She tossed it over her shoulder, and looked to Joe. He hadn't changed that much...outside of appearance. He was still trying to be the mature, authoritive voice of reason, although he never really convinced anyone, really...
Mimi looked ahead, and squinted at the bright field lights. She shaded her eyes, and stopped. "Is this it?"
"...yeah. Is it all right?"
"...sure...if you don't mind the people." Mimi looked over to the field, where there were a tiny number of people gathered.
Joe shaded his eyes, and lowered the bag of ice cream. "I thought the game was over..." he muttered.
Mimi looked to him, and grinned. "You were hoping it was empty? You sneak!"
Joe's eyes widened. "That's not it at all! You should know better!"
"Uh-huh..." Mimi beamed, enjoying the outrageous reactions she got out of Joe.
Joe huffed, and swung the bag over his shoulder again. "Oh, come on!"
"I love getting a rise outta you!" Mimi chirped, following behind him.
"Gee, I couldn't tell."
"Close the book already, Sora."
"...Tai! You're breaking my concentration!"
"It's ten o'clock already, for crying out loud!" Tai closed the book, "You can do more tomorrow!"
Sora sighed, and set the book aside. "All right, all right..."
Tai smiled in victory. "That's better! Now, why don't we spend the last ten minutes we have tonight actually talking with everyone, Miss Socialble?"
Kari leaned into the conversation and waved. "Hi Sora! Remember me?"
Sora furrowed her brow, and lowered her head. "I'm sorry, guys, it's just..."
"We know, Sora. But there's gotta be a balance, y'know?" Kari put her hands in her lap.
T.K. leaned back on his arms, and looked to the field. "I think both Davis and Sora need to take a course on how to balance their lives..."
The four looked to the field, where Davis was fuming, kicking numerous soccer balls into the goal. Between clenched teeth, he growled numerous things about T.K. and Kari and blaming them for how poorly the game went that evening.
"...y'think he took the loss well?" Tai muttered.
"...huh." Sora muttered. "I'd say. At least he's not taking it out on T.K."
Kari smiled to T.K., and nodded. "That's for sure. I'm almost out of band-aids!" She giggled as she felt two arms wrap around her neck, and squeeze before she could let out a scream.
"Mimi!" T.K. looked up at the arms' owner. "...how did you find us?"
Kari put both hands on Mimi's arms, and looked up. "...Mimi?!"
Mimi was bent over Kari, a grin on her face. "Hiyas, kiddo!"
Kari leapt up, and turned around to embrace Mimi. "Omigosh! You came to see me! You came to see me!"
Mimi nervously laughed, "Well, I..."
T.K. stood, "Where's Matt?"
"...who knows? We parted ways at least an hour ago." Joe sat down on the blanket, and rested the bag in the middle of the group. "Anyone up for some ice cream?"
Tai and Sora looked at the pints of ice cream with wide eyes. They both looked up. "Where you...planning this?" Tai asked with a blink.
Joe rose his eyebrows, and gestured towards Mimi. "Not really."
Mimi sat down between Sora and Joe, "Joe and I were going to just have a bit of everything--"
"--Mimi was going to have a bit of everything." Joe corrected.
Mimi flatly stared at him, tightening her lips. "You're making me sound like a pig."
"...I'm telling them what really happened." Joe got out a box of plastic spoons. "...can't they ever sell these individually?"
"...anyway, let's dig in!" Kari clapped her hands together, and sat next to T.K..
"...stupid T.K. n' Kari...they're probably jus' laaaaughing their brains out now..." Davis muttered to himself, glaring at the soccer goal. He took a sideways glance at the group on the side of the field. "...jus' wait `til next game, I'll be unstoppable...Mimi?" He blinked, and looked over the entire party, who was eating ice cream now. He looked over to T.K. and Kari, and his eyes narrowed.
"T.K., you have got to stop eating like your brother!"
"...what do you mean?!"
"...I mean, you have ice cream on your chin!"
"...really?"
"...yes, really!" Kari took a napkin, and wiped it off of his chin. "Honestly, I'm going to enroll you in refining school!"
The two laughed, and Davis's face grew hot. "...and they didn't even offer me any ice cream!" He lashed out on a soccer ball in a tantrum, and it flew towards the party. "T.K.!!!!"
"...huh?" Everyone looked up, and saw the soccerball flying towards T.K.'s face.
"Get down, T.K.!" Kari pushed her companion down, whose thoughts were delayed in all of the sudden chaos.
The two younger of the group we flat on the blanket, and the soccer ball flew by them.
Straight into poor Joe's face, knocking him onto the ground.
"Joe!" Kari and Mimi both looked up, screaming his name in unison.
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Was the ending a bit rushed? I couldn't think of anything more descriptive....was this chapter any better than the last? I hope so. ^^; I think so. I'm actually very amused with a few of the scenes. And what about you, Takari and Taiora fans? Do you think I'm off to a good start with those two other popular couples? ^^ This is fanfiction #93 of Mimou and I heard there's a #94 already up! Please keep an eye out for the Mimou contest, and consider entering! Love yas! Please check out the Mimou shrine page, because it's now up!
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