Disclaimer: As usual, I don't own Digimon. If I did, I'd be living the good life in Los Angeles instead of in Fresno! This fic contains Taiora-as usual! Also contains some Daikari, Takari, Mimato and Daiyako!
Digimon
Trip to America
Chapter III-The path for Friendship and Sincerity
Spending Friday evening inside his hotel room wasn't the way Tai Kamiya had planned it. He and Sora had originally planned a double date for themselves, Matt and Mimi. It would be a test-to see if Mimi harbored any feelings for Matt. If that theory proved true, then the next step would be to see if Matt could muster up the bravado to admit his feelings to her.
The problem was the rain. It hadn't let up since the DigiDestined got to America and showed no signs of stopping soon. The only one on the team who liked the rain-as well as thunderstorms-was Sora! She was outside, just standing there in the rain with the same clothes she'd had on earlier. They were getting more and more soaked the longer she was out there. Tai couldn't take it anymore. He was prepared to go out there and try to convince her to come inside when Agumon stopped him.
"Tai, it's late. Shouldn't you get some sleep?" asked the tiny Dinosaur Digimon.
"You should be asking that question to someone else." was Tai's reply as he headed out to the patio of his hotel room. Thanks to Mimi lending Tai some money, he was able to get the team out of the motel room they'd originally went into and managed to get them into the Ramada Inn. Tai's room was right next to Sora's-pretty much how he'd planned it. He pulled off his jacket and wrapped it around Sora's arms.
"Shouldn't you come inside and go to bed? It's cold, late and you look tired. Biyomon had to eat your food because a certain someone didn't come in for dinner and she was getting hungry."
"I've been waiting for you to come out here. Doesn't the sky look lovely?"
Sora asked calmly.
"Yes, it does. Do you know what would make it lovelier? If we were inside, watching it from behind a plate-glass window." Replied Tai as he pulled her inside. Sora sighed with slight irritation, but allowed Tai to pull her in. She didn't want to have to explain to her mom how she'd gotten sick in America.
"Now…go to bed, and we can watch the rain in the morning."
"OK."
Sora turned to leave, but stopped when she heard Tai sigh.
"Don't I get a goodnight kiss?"
Sora responded with a kiss on Tai's forehead.
"You call that a goodnight kiss?"
Sora giggled slightly, then pulled Tai's face close to hers for a passionate kiss, one that could've gone on for the night, if not for Agumon.
"Hey you two! Some 'mons want to keep their lunch in their stomachs, so get some sleep!"
Tai and Sora laughed as they pulled away.
"Goodnight, Tai. I love you."
"I love you too, Sora. Goodnight."
Once Sora was gone, Tai eyed his Digimon with an evil look.
"Tai…what are you doing with that pillow?"
"PILLOW FIGHT!"
Morning. The rain was still going on, but Tai was woken in the worst possible way.
"Pepper Breath!"
"AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
AGUMON!!!!!!!"
Sora laughed as she heard Tai's scream.
In enters Matt on Tai, hair looking worse than it does.
"Mmm…someone cooking barbecue?"
Tai glared at Matt with the same look he'd given him when he'd shot him in the Digital World. "Talk about the hair, and you'll die before even getting to speak to Mimi!"
"OK! I can't think of a worse way to be woken up, though."
That's when they heard a scream.
"AHHHHHHHH!!!!!! YOLEI!!!!!!"
"Why does that sound like Davis?" asked Tai calmly.
In enters Davis, and he looked worse than Tai's hair!
Tai and Matt had to force themselves not to laugh.
"What's so funny? Can't a guy wake up in the morning without people laughing at him?" demanded Davis angrily.
Needless to say, everyone got up in their own way and did what they wanted. Davis took Kari and Yolei to the Statue of Liberty like he'd said he would. They had Veemon snap a picture of the three of them near it.
Davis hummed with ease as he downloaded the picture onto his Dterminal, then e-mailed it to one of the DigiDestined.
"Hi, Davis! What are you doing?" asked Yolei sweetly.
"I'm downloading the picture to my Dterminal and e-mailing it to one of the others. He should be getting it right about…NOW!"
At that second, they all heard a faint, but unmistakable yell.
"Noooooooooooooooooooooo…"
Davis couldn't help himself. He started laughing. Yolei instantly joined in. Kari came back with the Digimon and some ice cream.
"What's so funny?"
Yolei managed to stop laughing long enough to explain. "Davis sent the picture to one of the others. He timed his scream to the second!"
T.K. stopped screaming long enough to see the background of the picture. The Statue of Liberty!
"Come on, Patamon! We're going to the Statue of Liberty."
Tai, Sora, Matt and Mimi did go out on their double date, but I'll get to that later. Izzy dragged Joe and their Digimon around to the computer store!
"Please, Izzy! Can we go somewhere else? I'm tired and hungry."
"If I didn't know any better Joe, I'd say you were regressing."
Joe eyed Izzy like he was crazy. "WHAT?"
"Simple. The tone in your voice indicates either total panic, utter insanity or a sign of irritation. From what I recall from the old days, the only time you sounded like that was when we were in the Digital World. Therefore, you are regressing to an earlier stage of life."
Joe glared at Izzy. "Thank you, 'professor' Izzy."
"My pleasure. Now, let's see how these satellite uplinks work on my computer."
Joe, Gomamon and Tentomon groaned. It was going to be a long, rainy day.
Tai eyed his Digimon. Lunchtime was no exception where Digimon were concerned. Where to eat?
"Let's see…there's the Sushi café, then there's a pizza restaurant about a block from here."
"The pizza restaurant! Let's go there!" insisted Agumon.
"Pizza? I'm there!" said Gabumon.
"Yay! Pizza!"
Tai laughed at the sight of their Digimon. To not scare anyone, he'd dressed Agumon in a trenchcoat and hat. Biyomon and Palmon-who Davis retrieved for Mimi-were in a baby carriage. As for Gabumon-he hid inside Matt's guitar case.
"The last time you were in a trenchcoat, we were trying to find out who the 8th child was."
"It was hot that day, wasn't it? It certainly doesn't feel that way today."
Replied Agumon.
"Move over!"
"You move over!"
"Your petals keep getting in the way!"
"Hey you two! You're supposed to be babies and cry, not be babies and argue." Insisted Mimi.
"The last time this happened, we were ambushed by SkullMeramon."
Laughed Sora.
"Then Agumon and I came in and showed that creep who was the 'Mon! Right, Agumon?"
"You said it!"
Tai considered the menu as the others reminisced.
"Hmm. An extra large with pepperoni could do for now. Hopefully, I'll have enough for a takeout during dinner."
"So, Mimi, how's things in the states?" asked Matt, obviously trying to start a conversation.
"Great, although people here know nothing about fashion, they got the food right! And people actually eat food from Japan!"
Matt tried to keep up with her, but it wasn't working.
"Excuse me for a moment."
Matt headed towards the bathroom. Tai's eyes narrowed slowly.
"I'm gonna go see if Matt's trying to step out on the bill. Be right back."
"I can't do this…what if she says no? What if she slaps me? What if-"
"What if the world blows up tomorrow? Calm down, Matt!"
"Calm down? I can't! I couldn't even hold a conversation with her for one minute. What am I gonna do?"
Tai looked Matt in the eye. "Just relax and be yourself. If Davis can be attractive to Kari, then there's hope for you." He joked.
"Ha-ha. Very funny. Thanks, though."
In enters Agumon and Gabumon.
"The girls want to know if you two left for Vegas. Actually, Sora wants to know." explained Agumon.
Tai and Matt started laughing.
"Tell them we'll be out in a minute. And give Sora this." Tai slipped Agumon the $20. Nodding, they both left.
"So…you ready to try again?" Tai asked.
"Yeah. I think I'm ready."
That said, Tai and Matt went outside and headed off to try Matt's attempt at love.
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