Warning and Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon. Oh, and I warned you of Tai, Matt, and Steve (Sora) already.
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SomehowOFF (part 4 and epilogue) "Matt or Tai"
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Love was blind, but Sora wasn't.
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Her eyes opening, they first looked into Matt's before turning to the screenroom door. "Oh, God, Tai!" her voice cracked. She interrupted her kiss to see more carefully.
In the blink of an eye, she saw the back of Tai's head quickly disappear out of the screenroom.
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"S...St...Sora?" Matt stared at Steve quizzically. Had he truly heard a woman's voice from him, more specifically Sora's? It'd been three years since he heard from her, but...
All of a sudden, the date he had with Steve...blurred. They just finished viewing "Screaming Movie," hiding from the other digidestined, and kissing. Why was the perfect (well, yaoi) date suddenly wrong?
Seeing Steve nervously turn back to him, Matt confirmed his nightmare. Two images, one of the Sora he remembered and one of the twenty-year-old "Steve" connected in his mind. They were the same person, the same da.m person all along!
"...why?" was the only thing escaping from Matt's lungs.
"I'm sorry."
"wHY?" His chest feeling heavier; Matt swallowed. "Why did you...do this to me?!" He never datred a guy before "steve". He told him that and yet he (no, she) let him kiss!
was it a cruel joke? For three years, Sora just disappeared and came back, as a man; one that made Matt think differently., It was weird, though, since he really wasn't sure if he fell for "Steve" at all. Was he just after Sora, or "Steve"?
From the last thought, Matt finally remembered what "steve" (no, Sora) said. "Tai?"
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Having heard Matt mention his name, Sora gulped. Tai was running away, again, while Matt was fading into confusion.
"I'm sorry, it wasn't supppose to be this..." Sora brushed off the imitation mustache of hers as she continued, saying, "...way."
His head shaking in disbelief, Matt looked closely at Sora, who he knew only a few minutes before as Steve.
"Does Tai know?"
Sora nodded, and with Matt cursing slightly, she noted, "But he found out earlier today."
Instead of asking "Why didn't he tell me?", Matt muttered, "Are you with him, or something?"
"...What do you mean?" Sora asked, thinking quickly.
"Do you like him?"
"Yes"
"And me?"
"Yes"
"Do you love him?"
"Yes"
"But me?" He HAD known her as long as Tai had, though as a different person.
"Yes"
Sora didn't blink; she was spilling her heart out in one word answeres.
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What was she, a computer? All Sora did was answer each emotionally challenging question with one word.
"So...you love him more?"
"I dunno." Matt saw Sora's head lower.
"In all this time.... what about me?"
"I dunno."
It WAS another love triangle, another mess that had happened, with Tai and Matt inside. A few times, they'd compete for another woman, but Sora was different. Matt knew her before as a ...
"Man, is this all you can say?!"
"Sorry."
Blinking back slowly appearing tears, Matt noticed some forming in Sora's eyes. Somehow, he wished to wipe them off, and nearly did.
Still, he turned from her and walked. In a steady pace, he walked from her, and out of the screenroom.
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"Matt..." Mimi choked, "...kissed Steve?" She looked from Tai to Joe in worry.
"Are you sure? It could've been..." Joe trailed off...
"I'm positive, Joe!" Tai shouted, though painfully.
Izzy absorbed all the dialogue in wonder from his limousine. Stepping out of the limo, he had one question for the others. "So...Matt's yaoi?"
"...N...not exactly," Joe answered.
"You see, before Steve, I recall he wa dating another person, who was a girl, but, well, I think her name was..." Mimi noted and thought.
Interrupting his wife, who was cute, but sometimes kooky, Joe noted, "Steve is really a...Sora."
"Asora?" Izzy absorbed Joe's words, until they clicked. "Sora?! You mean it was her, all along?!"
Being nodded at by everyone else, heck, even TK, Izzy slapped in forehead in annoyance. "You all knew? Why didn't you tell me?!"
"...well, TK had no clue neither." Tai sighed.
TK shrugged. "Whatever you say..."
Raising an eyebrow, Izzy sighed himself and looked to tai. "So, Matt and ...Sora are..."
"No! It's not like, I mean, it just can't be like..."
Tai was usually well versed, but that time, he was looking for words. It suddenly clicked in Izzy's mind.
"And you liked Steve too."
Tai shook his head. "No..., I liked Sora."
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TK walked off in slight disgust, or was just annoyed; was he the only straight guy? Well, Mimi and JOe were married, but slightly off. (They once dressed up as a beauty queen and bearded old man; the other way around). Maybe he was, except for...
Kari herself was different. She was fianceed to another male digidestined person (his name always angered TK). She tried hiding it form TK by avoiding him. Yeah, like he didn't see ehr engagement ring.
"Da...!" TK fumed, "Da.m!"
"TK?"
He turned to his brother's voice. "Matt?" he paused, seeing some tears glowing from his eyes. "What? Weren't you with Steve?"
Matt calmed gloomily. "Steve's actually..."
"...Sora. I know, but weren't you kissing 'Steve' just before?"
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"I see. So what are you now, yaoi?"
"..." Matt shook his head to that. "I just don't get it. 'Steve' wa Sora all along."
"Yeah, twisted, right?"
"...And yet...is Sora really that bad? I mean, she just dressed up as a guy, it's not like she really..."
"?" TK fumed. "Don't foget about..."
"...Tai." Matt looked to the ground in the slgiht darkeness.
Peering at him for a sec, TK saw the most stupid look in Matt. He was dazed, confused, well, in love."
"So you'll just have her choose, between the two of you?"
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"I kissed her first. I can't lose her now."
-Sigh- Mimi remembered the old and confusing days, before Joe brightened her life. Competing men, Tai&Matt's silly feuds, those that fell for her. But her diamond ring a la marriage changed everything; it was an instant guy repellant. Not that she didn't love Joe, but she love the attention of the past.
"Tai, are you sure?" Mimi asked, thinking for Sora's sake.
Tai turned from Izzy to reply immediately. "I'm positive."
Looking to Joe, who blinked in agreement, Mimi sighed, then smiled.
"Then what are you waiting for? Talk to her!"
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Tai entered the screenroom of the theatre he re-entered. Looking in, he noticed Sora, who hid her head into her hands. Hearing a few sobs, he stepped closer. As he did, the sobs weakened.
"Matt?"
He didn't want to hear that, but he did. Stepping closer, Tai shook his hea. "No, it's me." He shook off Sora's comment with a slight wince.
Being turned to worriedly by her, Tai sighed. Thinking of Matt's absence from the room, he note, "Relax. I won't run away."
Was she calmed by his remark? Judging by her still-seen agitation, he didn't know what he was going to say. Tai, himself, was looking for words again.
"I love you." Darnit! He was just like a typical romance movie guy. Having immediately botched an attempt to ease into those words, he waited for Sora's response.
"I...I'm sorry." Sora sobbed, but didn't collapse into his arms. Instead, she turned to her hands again, crying awhile.
"...you don't love..."
"I do. I love you, but..."
(Why?) Tai interrupted Sora when he realized her thoughts. "You love him."
She nodded, and he felt suddenly trapped. Tai stepped back and closed his eyes in agonizing thought.
"Who do you want more?"
"I dunno." she sobbed.
"Then, do you love me mo..."
I dunno." she sobbed, sobbing the comment a few more times.
It seemed like she said it before, but it didn't matter. Focusing on the best words he could think of, Tai opened his eyes.
"Please choose, Sora. Even if it's him, please Sora." He felt like pleading, but continued. "Whoever it is, SOra, just end this...triangle."
"Tai," she looked to him in question.
For so long, he was caught up with Matt in rotten struggles. Over sports, girls, etc. Still, at that time, he made a decision.
"You know how I feel, Sora, but if you pick him, I'll understand."
SOra's worried gaze pierced him. Closing his eyes again, Tai continued. "Though...if you choose him, I...we can never be friends."
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"I'm sorry."
TK, for once, looke completely sincere. It'd been a long time since Kari&his' breakup that he wasn't grouchy or sarcastic. Instead, TK was...concerned.
Matt shrugged, miserably. "It's stupid. After one date, I love St...Sora, but I've known her long enough for it, right?"
"-Sigh- You have to follow your..." TK suddenly paused, with a weird new feeling attached. "You have to...yes, go by your...heart!"
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TK cursed, though happily. "Kari! I've been, a dumb..s! I haven't lost her completely, you know." TK chuckled. "I still have a chance!"
Matt was about to "?" in question, but instead realized TK. Kari was only engaged, not completely chained to that other guy. Sighing, Matt smiled weakly. "Then go for it."
TK nodded. "I will, and you?..."
Matt looked to his brother with a mirroring determination. TK was right. "You're right. I'm going to tell her I..."
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Sora looked back to the theatre she was walking away from. Tai told her he loved her, but wante her to choose. When she walked away from Tai to "think it though," she couldn't choose. She still was "thinking."
Walking a few minutes on the sidewalke, she spotted someone approaching her. Since it was dark out, she took a closer look to make sure she was safe.
Recognizing Matt, she bit her lip.
"Sora." His voice was firm, but worried.
"Matt..."
Skipping "I need to talk to you," Matt approached her quicker.
"It wasn't fun finding you, cross-dressed as 'Steve."
"..." Sora sighed in remorse.
"It was worse knowing of Tai. (pause). But, Sora, I..." Sora saw his figure pause. "...I can't give you up."
"I love ytou, too..." Sora saw matt calm, but had to continue. '...But I love Tai."
"..." Sora saw Matt's head shake as he replied. "I understand, but you have to pick one of us, right?"
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A few days later, Sora was still thinking over the two conversations. She hadn't seen either of them; she didn't want to at the time. Sora's eyes still pointed out one thing: she still was unsure. As she entered the but to work, she sighed.
Plannning to move from Tokyo, she was on her way to quit. If her soon-2-be-ex-employer asked "Why?" she'd brush off the fake mustache of hers and explain.
She couldn't be Steve, nor have both Tai and Matt. Being "forced" to choose, Sora instead thought of exiting Tokyo, once and for all, and hopefully having them forget her.
But they wouldn't. As the bus passed one of their residences, she realized how hard it was to choose.
Matt or Tai
The bus passing a few more stops, it finally passed the other one's house. In an instant, she felt...
"Stop!" she shouted to the bus driver.
Nearly causing the bus driver to crash, she stumbled to the front of the bus, to exit.
"Look sir," the bus driver fumed angrily. "Next time, use the buzzer!"
Nodding quickly, Sora stepped out, realizing the word "Sir!" Brushing off the mustache, she turned to where she wished to be.
Walking to his house, she thought nervously, "I love him!"
Ringing the doorbell, she wondered how he'd react.
Still, whether in love, or Somehow OFF, she had to follow her heart. He still loved her, right?
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The door opened.
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Epilogue:
It's up to you. If I had either Matt or Tai in mind for the end, I sure as heck ain't writing which one. Oh, and as for TK, if it worked out for him and Kari, I'm not sure what to have written.
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