Tai found himself laying on the floor in Sora's room still holding onto the run away note she wrote.
"What the hell? What happened?"
He sat up and felt around his body. With a huge sigh of relief, he said, "Well, at least I'm back in my own body!" Tai looked at the time. "Eight thirty?!"
~*~
Tai ran as fast as he could to his house. Once he reached his front door, he crept inside as quietly as he possibly could. From the kitchen he heard his mom cooking dinner, Kari was at the table helping her by mixing something, and his dad was on the couch watching the news on T.V. All of them were going along with their business.
Tai tip-toed his way toward his room, hoping that he would be seen unnoticed, but,
"Tai, where have you been?" His mom asked.
He ceased and looked at his mom with a nervous smile on his face. "Oh, hi mom. I was at Sora's."
"Oh? Did you two work things out? Well, you must've if you were there talking to her all night!"
"Huh?"
"Sora's mom called earlier this morning and told me that you and her talked your problems out."
"Er... yea..." Tai sat down at the table next to Kari.
"So, what really happened?" Kari asked in a whisper.
"It's none of your business."
"Come on! Please!"
Tai let out a disgusted sigh and said, "Well if you keep spilling the stuff you're mixing on me, no, I won't!"
~*~
Although Kari didn't get to hear what happened that night when her big brother went to Sora's to talk matters out. But Tai didn't understand what occurred last night.
He stayed copped up in his room for the rest of the day still trying to figure out what happened and if there was anyway for him to go to the digiworld without ending up in Biyomon's body again.
Then, there was a knock at his door.
"Tai," He heard his little sibling's voice say, "It's me, Kari. Can I come in?"
Tai dragged himself off of his bed and walked over to the door to open it. He not only met a pair of pink eyes, but eight more sets of blue, brown, purple, and red.
"Tai, we've been really worried about you. You've been trapped inside your room for almost the whole day without telling me or any of us what happened last night." Kari said.
"So how about it? Will you enlighten us?" Izzy asked.
Tai opened his door wider and murmured out, "Come in."
Once the whole gang was in, Tai closed the door and walked over to his bed and plopped down on it again.
"There's something weird going on, Tai, and I sense that you know what that something is. So spill the beans, man." Matt said.
"Sora hates me." Tai groaned.
"What?"
"Sora went to the digiworld and she's not coming back until her love for me has ended..."
"Why didn't you go after her?" TK asked.
Tai gave TK a look and replied, "Don't you think I've tried that already?! Once I tried to go, I ended up in Biyomon's body. As Biyomon kept asking Sora all these questions about our relationship, the less and less she began to love me. And once Biyomon put a blindfold over her eyes, I wound up back here."
"Why did she put a blindfold over her eyes anyways?" Mimi voice asked.
"Huh? Mimi?" Tai asked and looked at all the people in his room. "Where are you?"
"I've managed to get in touch with her in America through the Internet." Izzy told him.
"Well? Are you gonna answer my question or what?"
"Basically, the main reason Biyomon did that in the first place was because we were in the girls' Jacuzzi and we thought that since Sora was with Gatomon in the market, that she wouldn't come back till around night time, but just by our luck, she left Gatomon and came into the Jacuzzi. So, in order not to see what I wasn't suppose to, Biyomon put a blindfold over her eyes."
~*~
After many questions and having Tai repeat some events over and over, the digidestined came to a conclusion: Tai was inside Biyomon's body because she was Sora's best friend and she'd tell almost anything to her, so then Tai could ask Biyomon to ask Sora a question just about anything that had to deal with their relationship. Ask for the blindfold, once it was placed over Biyomon's eyes, at the same time Sora must've sealed the love she had for Tai out of her life forever. Of course, that was just a theory.
"So then she should be coming back." Tai said.
"I guess so."
"Wait a minute." Izzy announced. Every eye was fixed upon him, and Yolei, who was now using his laptop and talking to Mimi.
"Sora e-mailed me! But it's in a riddle form, and since I'm no good at riddles, I don't understand it." Mimi said.
Tai jumped to Izzy and Yolei's side. "Mimi, can you e-mail it to us? Maybe we'll be able to figure it out!"
"Sure, no problem. I've already sent it so you should be getting it soon enough."
They heard the e-mail chime and got the e-mail. It read:
"Cotton candy, kiddy and scary rides,
Fun and a bunch of lights
But one thing that's the best of all
The prizes not found at the mall!
Someone won me one, and was so generous
That the memory of it was, oh, so precious!"
"It sounds like a good old memory to me." Yolei said.
"Tai?" Kari wondered.
"Cotton candy and rides." Tai echoed. Children's laughter filled Tai's ears. "Fun and a bunch of lights." He had a short vision of some lights. "Prizes." More laughter flooded his ears like it was all happening again.
"What do you remember, Tai?" Joe asked.
Tai's eyes wondered from Izzy's eyes to Kari's and so forth. Then his deep caramel eyes fixed upon something. "I know what she's talking about. Gotta run guys, later!" He said and bolted out the door.
~*~ "Hello, Mrs. Takenouchi."
"Oh, hello, Tai."
"I left something in Sora's room. Would it be alright if I go and get it?"
"Sure, go on right ahead."
Tai walked into Sora's room and looked around. He went through every drawer, every cabinet, and anything where she might have stored that "something" he was searching around for.
After nearly stripping the room from every inch for half an hour, Tai sat upon Sora's bed.
"Where in the world would she put such a thing?" He sigh exhaustedly and laid back on the bed. "I give up."
Then his hand whist by something fuzzy. Tai sat up and looked at the object and gave a little victorious laugh. "Yes, I got it!"
~*~
The sound of that indistinct and familiar laughter filled his ears once again. He glanced around his surrounding. Through one of eyes he saw Sora's room and through the other he saw some kind of light.
Finally, with a blink, Tai's eyes were back into focus and saw lights, the smell of popcorn and cotton candy filled his nostrils, and laughs and shouts of joy echoed in his ears. He was at a carnival in the digiworld!
Digimon of all levels rode on the rides, tested their luck on the prize concession stands, and roamed around for their next destination for laughs and fun.
Two hands covered Tai's eyes. "Guess who?"
"Sora?"
The hands flew off and there she stood. Her red eyes sparkling in the gleam of the carnival's lights. Her brown hair was put down like it always was and she was leaning on one side.
"What took you so long?" Sora asked in disgust.
"How did you expect me to get here earlier if you e-mailed Mimi?!"
Sora sighed. "Well, I have been e-mailing you and I thought that I might tell her to give you a message!"
Tai looked at his digivice. She was right. Sora had e-mailed him nearly 13 times and he hadn't known it.
The next moment he felt the warmth and weight from Sora's body against his and her soft, brown hair brushed past the left side of his face. "Umm Sora... What are you doing?"
"What does it look like I'm doing? I'm hugging you."
"But I thought that you hated me."
"Yes, you did think didn't you?"
"Ok, what's going on here?"
"Happy 3rd Anniversary!"
"What?"
"Tai! Don't you remember? Three years on this day we became more than friends. We fell in love and started dating!"
"So, you were never mad at me from the start?"
"Now that I think about it..." Sora said and put her hands on her hips and started tapping her foot. "Tell me, who is Rika?"
Tai pulled out the object he searched for in Sora's room. It was the pink teddy bear. "Sora meet Rika."
"Huh?"
"You didn't think that I wouldn't remember about our anniversary either, did ya? While we were at the park I remembered that it was our anniversary and wanted to give you something special. Then I recalled that you hadn't named the bear I won for you, so I was thinking up some names. Then once you asked me what was wrong, I accidentally said the name I had in mind aloud."
"Oh Tai..."
"Just one question. Why was I trapped in Biyomon's body and heard all those things that you said about me?"
"Remember when we first started dating and you told Joe, Matt, TK, and Izzy how you were just dating me just to make me feel better?"
"You heard that?!"
"Uh huh. Well, I happened to overhear you say my name and listened behind a tree, thank you very much. So when I got mad at you for calling me Rika, I remembered that day and sought out for some sort of revenge."
Tai chuckled slightly and nervously. "Well, you got your revenge alright."
~*~
"Hey, Tai! Sora!" Davis shouted.
"Over here guys!" Sora yelled back.
"So, have you two made up?" Mimi asked.
"I think this'll answer your question." Tai said, grabbed Sora, and gave her a kiss.
"Oh, god ..." Some of the boys murmured.
"Awww..." The girls said.
Once the two lips parted, Sora slapped Tai across the face.
Silence fell upon the group.
Tai rubbed his sore cheek.
"Sora, what'd you do that for?" TK wondered.
Sora gave a small laugh. "Now my revenge is complete."
~*~
"Sora, are you alright?" A twelve year-old Tai asked a crying Sora.
"I'm no good at it, Tai." She said as more tears filled her red eyes as she heard her say those few words.
"No good at what?"
"Winning prizes."
Tai glanced around at the carnival, looked back at the melancholy Sora, and asked, "Which prize do you have your eye on?"
Sora sniffed and glanced around for the right prize stand. Finally, she found it and pointed to the pink teddy bear under the "Find The Boltmon" stand.
"You wait right here, ok?"
"Tai, where are you going?"
"Just stay here, ok? I'll be right back."
Ten minutes later, Sora saw Tai running over her direction.
"Tai, where'd you go?"
Tai continued to breath heavily then at last he said, "To... *pant* get you... *pant* your prize." He held up the pink teddy bear.
"Oh, Tai!" Sora said. She hugged him. "Thank you so much." She started to cry again.
"Oh no, Sora, don't tell me that this wasn't the right pink teddy bear you wanted."
"No, it's the right one! I'm just crying because you were nice enough to win me it." She hugged him tighter. "Thank you."
"Sora... Sora, you're choking me."
~*~
"Alright!" Tai exclaimed.
"Here you are." The Gustmon said as he handed him a stuffed Biyomon. But in fact, it was the real Biyomon.
Sora laughed. "Hey Biyomon! Having fun?"
"Sure am!" Biyomon replied and flew after the other digidestined digimon.
Tai wrapped his arm around Sora's shoulders. And for the first time in their relationship Tai actually said those nine words out loud and directly to Sora.
The nine words she had been watching for, missed out on, and heard so much about.
Those nine words that he wanted to say the time they fell in love finally came out at the right place and the right time,
"So, you wanna see Davis and the others scream like lil sissies?"
(Hehehe... What'd were you expecting he would say? xD)
"What the hell? What happened?"
He sat up and felt around his body. With a huge sigh of relief, he said, "Well, at least I'm back in my own body!" Tai looked at the time. "Eight thirty?!"
~*~
Tai ran as fast as he could to his house. Once he reached his front door, he crept inside as quietly as he possibly could. From the kitchen he heard his mom cooking dinner, Kari was at the table helping her by mixing something, and his dad was on the couch watching the news on T.V. All of them were going along with their business.
Tai tip-toed his way toward his room, hoping that he would be seen unnoticed, but,
"Tai, where have you been?" His mom asked.
He ceased and looked at his mom with a nervous smile on his face. "Oh, hi mom. I was at Sora's."
"Oh? Did you two work things out? Well, you must've if you were there talking to her all night!"
"Huh?"
"Sora's mom called earlier this morning and told me that you and her talked your problems out."
"Er... yea..." Tai sat down at the table next to Kari.
"So, what really happened?" Kari asked in a whisper.
"It's none of your business."
"Come on! Please!"
Tai let out a disgusted sigh and said, "Well if you keep spilling the stuff you're mixing on me, no, I won't!"
~*~
Although Kari didn't get to hear what happened that night when her big brother went to Sora's to talk matters out. But Tai didn't understand what occurred last night.
He stayed copped up in his room for the rest of the day still trying to figure out what happened and if there was anyway for him to go to the digiworld without ending up in Biyomon's body again.
Then, there was a knock at his door.
"Tai," He heard his little sibling's voice say, "It's me, Kari. Can I come in?"
Tai dragged himself off of his bed and walked over to the door to open it. He not only met a pair of pink eyes, but eight more sets of blue, brown, purple, and red.
"Tai, we've been really worried about you. You've been trapped inside your room for almost the whole day without telling me or any of us what happened last night." Kari said.
"So how about it? Will you enlighten us?" Izzy asked.
Tai opened his door wider and murmured out, "Come in."
Once the whole gang was in, Tai closed the door and walked over to his bed and plopped down on it again.
"There's something weird going on, Tai, and I sense that you know what that something is. So spill the beans, man." Matt said.
"Sora hates me." Tai groaned.
"What?"
"Sora went to the digiworld and she's not coming back until her love for me has ended..."
"Why didn't you go after her?" TK asked.
Tai gave TK a look and replied, "Don't you think I've tried that already?! Once I tried to go, I ended up in Biyomon's body. As Biyomon kept asking Sora all these questions about our relationship, the less and less she began to love me. And once Biyomon put a blindfold over her eyes, I wound up back here."
"Why did she put a blindfold over her eyes anyways?" Mimi voice asked.
"Huh? Mimi?" Tai asked and looked at all the people in his room. "Where are you?"
"I've managed to get in touch with her in America through the Internet." Izzy told him.
"Well? Are you gonna answer my question or what?"
"Basically, the main reason Biyomon did that in the first place was because we were in the girls' Jacuzzi and we thought that since Sora was with Gatomon in the market, that she wouldn't come back till around night time, but just by our luck, she left Gatomon and came into the Jacuzzi. So, in order not to see what I wasn't suppose to, Biyomon put a blindfold over her eyes."
~*~
After many questions and having Tai repeat some events over and over, the digidestined came to a conclusion: Tai was inside Biyomon's body because she was Sora's best friend and she'd tell almost anything to her, so then Tai could ask Biyomon to ask Sora a question just about anything that had to deal with their relationship. Ask for the blindfold, once it was placed over Biyomon's eyes, at the same time Sora must've sealed the love she had for Tai out of her life forever. Of course, that was just a theory.
"So then she should be coming back." Tai said.
"I guess so."
"Wait a minute." Izzy announced. Every eye was fixed upon him, and Yolei, who was now using his laptop and talking to Mimi.
"Sora e-mailed me! But it's in a riddle form, and since I'm no good at riddles, I don't understand it." Mimi said.
Tai jumped to Izzy and Yolei's side. "Mimi, can you e-mail it to us? Maybe we'll be able to figure it out!"
"Sure, no problem. I've already sent it so you should be getting it soon enough."
They heard the e-mail chime and got the e-mail. It read:
"Cotton candy, kiddy and scary rides,
Fun and a bunch of lights
But one thing that's the best of all
The prizes not found at the mall!
Someone won me one, and was so generous
That the memory of it was, oh, so precious!"
"It sounds like a good old memory to me." Yolei said.
"Tai?" Kari wondered.
"Cotton candy and rides." Tai echoed. Children's laughter filled Tai's ears. "Fun and a bunch of lights." He had a short vision of some lights. "Prizes." More laughter flooded his ears like it was all happening again.
"What do you remember, Tai?" Joe asked.
Tai's eyes wondered from Izzy's eyes to Kari's and so forth. Then his deep caramel eyes fixed upon something. "I know what she's talking about. Gotta run guys, later!" He said and bolted out the door.
~*~ "Hello, Mrs. Takenouchi."
"Oh, hello, Tai."
"I left something in Sora's room. Would it be alright if I go and get it?"
"Sure, go on right ahead."
Tai walked into Sora's room and looked around. He went through every drawer, every cabinet, and anything where she might have stored that "something" he was searching around for.
After nearly stripping the room from every inch for half an hour, Tai sat upon Sora's bed.
"Where in the world would she put such a thing?" He sigh exhaustedly and laid back on the bed. "I give up."
Then his hand whist by something fuzzy. Tai sat up and looked at the object and gave a little victorious laugh. "Yes, I got it!"
~*~
The sound of that indistinct and familiar laughter filled his ears once again. He glanced around his surrounding. Through one of eyes he saw Sora's room and through the other he saw some kind of light.
Finally, with a blink, Tai's eyes were back into focus and saw lights, the smell of popcorn and cotton candy filled his nostrils, and laughs and shouts of joy echoed in his ears. He was at a carnival in the digiworld!
Digimon of all levels rode on the rides, tested their luck on the prize concession stands, and roamed around for their next destination for laughs and fun.
Two hands covered Tai's eyes. "Guess who?"
"Sora?"
The hands flew off and there she stood. Her red eyes sparkling in the gleam of the carnival's lights. Her brown hair was put down like it always was and she was leaning on one side.
"What took you so long?" Sora asked in disgust.
"How did you expect me to get here earlier if you e-mailed Mimi?!"
Sora sighed. "Well, I have been e-mailing you and I thought that I might tell her to give you a message!"
Tai looked at his digivice. She was right. Sora had e-mailed him nearly 13 times and he hadn't known it.
The next moment he felt the warmth and weight from Sora's body against his and her soft, brown hair brushed past the left side of his face. "Umm Sora... What are you doing?"
"What does it look like I'm doing? I'm hugging you."
"But I thought that you hated me."
"Yes, you did think didn't you?"
"Ok, what's going on here?"
"Happy 3rd Anniversary!"
"What?"
"Tai! Don't you remember? Three years on this day we became more than friends. We fell in love and started dating!"
"So, you were never mad at me from the start?"
"Now that I think about it..." Sora said and put her hands on her hips and started tapping her foot. "Tell me, who is Rika?"
Tai pulled out the object he searched for in Sora's room. It was the pink teddy bear. "Sora meet Rika."
"Huh?"
"You didn't think that I wouldn't remember about our anniversary either, did ya? While we were at the park I remembered that it was our anniversary and wanted to give you something special. Then I recalled that you hadn't named the bear I won for you, so I was thinking up some names. Then once you asked me what was wrong, I accidentally said the name I had in mind aloud."
"Oh Tai..."
"Just one question. Why was I trapped in Biyomon's body and heard all those things that you said about me?"
"Remember when we first started dating and you told Joe, Matt, TK, and Izzy how you were just dating me just to make me feel better?"
"You heard that?!"
"Uh huh. Well, I happened to overhear you say my name and listened behind a tree, thank you very much. So when I got mad at you for calling me Rika, I remembered that day and sought out for some sort of revenge."
Tai chuckled slightly and nervously. "Well, you got your revenge alright."
~*~
"Hey, Tai! Sora!" Davis shouted.
"Over here guys!" Sora yelled back.
"So, have you two made up?" Mimi asked.
"I think this'll answer your question." Tai said, grabbed Sora, and gave her a kiss.
"Oh, god ..." Some of the boys murmured.
"Awww..." The girls said.
Once the two lips parted, Sora slapped Tai across the face.
Silence fell upon the group.
Tai rubbed his sore cheek.
"Sora, what'd you do that for?" TK wondered.
Sora gave a small laugh. "Now my revenge is complete."
~*~
"Sora, are you alright?" A twelve year-old Tai asked a crying Sora.
"I'm no good at it, Tai." She said as more tears filled her red eyes as she heard her say those few words.
"No good at what?"
"Winning prizes."
Tai glanced around at the carnival, looked back at the melancholy Sora, and asked, "Which prize do you have your eye on?"
Sora sniffed and glanced around for the right prize stand. Finally, she found it and pointed to the pink teddy bear under the "Find The Boltmon" stand.
"You wait right here, ok?"
"Tai, where are you going?"
"Just stay here, ok? I'll be right back."
Ten minutes later, Sora saw Tai running over her direction.
"Tai, where'd you go?"
Tai continued to breath heavily then at last he said, "To... *pant* get you... *pant* your prize." He held up the pink teddy bear.
"Oh, Tai!" Sora said. She hugged him. "Thank you so much." She started to cry again.
"Oh no, Sora, don't tell me that this wasn't the right pink teddy bear you wanted."
"No, it's the right one! I'm just crying because you were nice enough to win me it." She hugged him tighter. "Thank you."
"Sora... Sora, you're choking me."
~*~
"Alright!" Tai exclaimed.
"Here you are." The Gustmon said as he handed him a stuffed Biyomon. But in fact, it was the real Biyomon.
Sora laughed. "Hey Biyomon! Having fun?"
"Sure am!" Biyomon replied and flew after the other digidestined digimon.
Tai wrapped his arm around Sora's shoulders. And for the first time in their relationship Tai actually said those nine words out loud and directly to Sora.
The nine words she had been watching for, missed out on, and heard so much about.
Those nine words that he wanted to say the time they fell in love finally came out at the right place and the right time,
"So, you wanna see Davis and the others scream like lil sissies?"
(Hehehe... What'd were you expecting he would say? xD)