Title: Rain on Saturday-Overboard
Note: This is mainly chapters four and five of Weekend Rain re-worked for purposes of this fic.
Sora followed them from a safe distance, not wanting to draw attention to herself to quickly. They seemed to be discussing something, and TK and Yamato looked less than please about whatever it was. She watched Davis go to the information desk, and ask for something, coming back with a pad of paper, and a pencil
She followed them through the mall, and into a store. *This is rather effeminate stuff, especially for macho boys, Tai and Davis. I wonder what's up?* A familiar voice at the back of the store drew her attention, and she made her ay cautiously there, to find Daisuke on a glass case, with mud leaking down the sides, yelling like a member of the fashion police.
As she followed them out again, she couldn't help but snicker at the look on Matt's face. He hated to be embarrased at all, but public scenes pissed him off especially bad. It was a wonder that he hadn't killed Davis by that time.
They paused between two shops, and spoke together for a moment, before Matt said something that obviously surprised them all. He grabbed ahold of Tai, and pulled him into the middle of all the shops.
"WHY DID YOU KISS HER? WHAT DID YOU HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH?" No, no, no! They had looked so happy, she had been certain that they had resolved everything. This wasn't supposed to be happening.
*Come on, Tai. Just tell him how you feel. Just tell him that you're so in love with him, you would do anything for him. Just tell him!*
"I didn't kiss her, Yamato." She could feel the pain in his voice. "I thought you knew that."
"No, I didn't, -Taichi-! Remember, you didn't bother to talk to me today. You chased me down, spoke to my brother, told me that meeting had been her idea, and then you ran back to T.K. and Dai. How am I supposed to know anything from that?"
"I didn't kiss her. She kissed me, and I didn't have a chance to stop he runtil after you were running away. I pushed her away, and tried to find you."
She saw the acceptance in Matt's gaze, and realized that he was going to let it go at that. *Not if I have anything to say about it.*
"But you told me you loved me, Taichi. You told me that Yama didn't deserve me, and that you'd take care of me." She hated the lie, and the pain that she felt slash threw Matt caused real tears in her own eyes.
"Are you in love with her?"
"Yes!" She made a grab for Tai, knowing that he'd evade her grasp. *Come on, Tai. Just tell him!*
"No, Yama. It was never Sora." She wanted to cry at the broken expression on Tai's face.
"Then who? You broke my heat today, Yagami Taichi! At least prove to me that it wasn't with her." She looked at him, and caught his little slip up. *So, he broke your heart, but it may, or may not, have had something to do with me?*
"Don't ask that of me, Yama. Please." * Push it, Yamato. Make him tell you. This has to be done now, so that you guys can get together, adn be truly happy.
"Tell me who, Tai. If not with my girlfriend, who are you in love with?"
"Why are yo upushing this, Yamato? Sora's yours if you want her. I've told you before, I don't care for her like that. I'm sorry about what happened today, but she's lying when she says that I started it. I would never hurt you like that, even should I have loved her."
"Right, Taichi. And the fact that you two were inseperable before we started going out? That was you not being in love with her? Simply tell me who, then. If you can name off one person with a semblance of sincerity, then I'll get down on my knees, and beg you to forgive me."
"You want the honest-to-goodness truth, Yamato? Then here it is." Tai pushed his face into Matt's so that there would be no mistaking the sincerity in his face and voice. "I have only ever loved one person in this world, Yamto. I started out being in love, then realized that that phrase, 'to be in love', was overused, and actually quite immature at times. You feel jealousy and envy towards a person you're 'in love' with. I realized that it was beyond that."
"I realized that to love someone was to put their happiness before you're own, whether they knew the sacrifice yo umade, or not. To watch the person you love go through each day totally oblivious to how you feel is the hardest thing that I've ever had to deal with. And keeping silent, especially for me, was -so damn- hard, Yama. Can you realized how hard it is to watch the person you love love another? Love someone who you know doesn't share their depth of emotion, but who makes them happy? It hurts!"
Is breath was coming out in ragged gasp. "It hurts, Yamto. But I've done that everyday for four years. I've watched kisses and caresses, dried the tears, been the rock that kept everything together. But my world fell apart, and no-one was there to pick up the pieces. I died the day you told me that you were going out with Sora."
She could tell by the hurt expression on Matt's face that he had no clue how Tai really felt. Tai *Hurry up, Tai, before he walks away, not realizing.*
"You thought I was 'in love' with her because we spent a lot of time together. In a way, you could have been right. Closeness can breeed affection. But you forgot something rather important. I spent everyday with -you-. We were together for nearly twelve hours a day, every day, Yamato, and you never knew. Yes, I loved my best friend, but she was never that to me, not since we came back the first time.
She saw the understanding as Tai put his hand on Matt's cheek. "I've only ever loved one person in this world the way I love you, Yama. How could you think that I would do something to hurt you? How could you lose your faith in me?"
He turned and walked away, TK following. *No. Not possible, dammint. It wasn't fair.* Tai wasn't supposed to walk away. And Matt wasn't supposed to watch him like an idiot.
She backed away from them, the tears flowing down her face. Several people looked at her in pity, but more than a couple of them were glaring at her as she walked away. A week ago, she was Mimi's hero. This week, she's the evil bitch.
"I fucked up, didn't I?" That was the only part of Matt and Davis's conversation that she heard, before they started following TK and Tai out.
She walked a distance behind them, and then tired to catch up to them.
"He said he loved me." Matt stopped in surprise, and she heard the wistful pain behind his words.
"Yamato?" She felt tears threatening as they both turned to her with glares. "I'm sorry. Sorry that I lied, sorry that I put you both through all this. But you see, I knew. I knew that he loved you, and that if he didn't tell you soon, he'd do something drastic. I was going to tell him to go ahead today, but I saw you at the last second and poured out a bunch of lies and kissed him. I thought that, maybe if you saw us together, you'd realize that you loved him, too."
Daisuke looked at Matt, then shook his head at her. "That was stupid. You had to know that they'd fight, and that matt would be pissed."
"I did. But they always work things out better when they argue. It's kind of the building block of their friendship that they disagree so much. It helps when you can see that they understand and respect each other. I always thought that they secretly disliked each other, then I began to realize that they didn't know how to deal with each other any other way. There's this...fire, this spark between them that ignites, and I began to think that it could be something other than animosity.
"As in, we've been lusting after each other without realizing it for years?" Matt supplied, and she agreed. "This was your way of hooking us up?" Another nod. "Damn it, Sora, why didn't you just break up with me and tell me all of this?"
"I knew that you'd never admit to having fellings for him if you thought he'd reject you. You asked me out because I was a safe bet, Matt. You knew that I'd say 'yes'. With him, there was always a chance that instead of kissing you senseless, he'd beat the shit out of you."
"And now that Tai's admitted how he feels, you can do what you should, and go find him." Daisuke and Sora looked at him pointedly as he talked. "You can start by going back to Takeru's with me. He went with him and will hopefully lead him back there. With any luck, we won't have a reversal of earlier, and he'll be ready to talk to you."
They started away from her, but the blonde stopped, and spoke without looking at her. "I'm not certain if I can forgive you for going about this the way you did, but I would like to thank you for getting this all out in the open. No matter how it ends, I wouldn't know that he loves me if it wasn't for you."
Note: This is mainly chapters four and five of Weekend Rain re-worked for purposes of this fic.
Sora followed them from a safe distance, not wanting to draw attention to herself to quickly. They seemed to be discussing something, and TK and Yamato looked less than please about whatever it was. She watched Davis go to the information desk, and ask for something, coming back with a pad of paper, and a pencil
She followed them through the mall, and into a store. *This is rather effeminate stuff, especially for macho boys, Tai and Davis. I wonder what's up?* A familiar voice at the back of the store drew her attention, and she made her ay cautiously there, to find Daisuke on a glass case, with mud leaking down the sides, yelling like a member of the fashion police.
As she followed them out again, she couldn't help but snicker at the look on Matt's face. He hated to be embarrased at all, but public scenes pissed him off especially bad. It was a wonder that he hadn't killed Davis by that time.
They paused between two shops, and spoke together for a moment, before Matt said something that obviously surprised them all. He grabbed ahold of Tai, and pulled him into the middle of all the shops.
"WHY DID YOU KISS HER? WHAT DID YOU HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH?" No, no, no! They had looked so happy, she had been certain that they had resolved everything. This wasn't supposed to be happening.
*Come on, Tai. Just tell him how you feel. Just tell him that you're so in love with him, you would do anything for him. Just tell him!*
"I didn't kiss her, Yamato." She could feel the pain in his voice. "I thought you knew that."
"No, I didn't, -Taichi-! Remember, you didn't bother to talk to me today. You chased me down, spoke to my brother, told me that meeting had been her idea, and then you ran back to T.K. and Dai. How am I supposed to know anything from that?"
"I didn't kiss her. She kissed me, and I didn't have a chance to stop he runtil after you were running away. I pushed her away, and tried to find you."
She saw the acceptance in Matt's gaze, and realized that he was going to let it go at that. *Not if I have anything to say about it.*
"But you told me you loved me, Taichi. You told me that Yama didn't deserve me, and that you'd take care of me." She hated the lie, and the pain that she felt slash threw Matt caused real tears in her own eyes.
"Are you in love with her?"
"Yes!" She made a grab for Tai, knowing that he'd evade her grasp. *Come on, Tai. Just tell him!*
"No, Yama. It was never Sora." She wanted to cry at the broken expression on Tai's face.
"Then who? You broke my heat today, Yagami Taichi! At least prove to me that it wasn't with her." She looked at him, and caught his little slip up. *So, he broke your heart, but it may, or may not, have had something to do with me?*
"Don't ask that of me, Yama. Please." * Push it, Yamato. Make him tell you. This has to be done now, so that you guys can get together, adn be truly happy.
"Tell me who, Tai. If not with my girlfriend, who are you in love with?"
"Why are yo upushing this, Yamato? Sora's yours if you want her. I've told you before, I don't care for her like that. I'm sorry about what happened today, but she's lying when she says that I started it. I would never hurt you like that, even should I have loved her."
"Right, Taichi. And the fact that you two were inseperable before we started going out? That was you not being in love with her? Simply tell me who, then. If you can name off one person with a semblance of sincerity, then I'll get down on my knees, and beg you to forgive me."
"You want the honest-to-goodness truth, Yamato? Then here it is." Tai pushed his face into Matt's so that there would be no mistaking the sincerity in his face and voice. "I have only ever loved one person in this world, Yamto. I started out being in love, then realized that that phrase, 'to be in love', was overused, and actually quite immature at times. You feel jealousy and envy towards a person you're 'in love' with. I realized that it was beyond that."
"I realized that to love someone was to put their happiness before you're own, whether they knew the sacrifice yo umade, or not. To watch the person you love go through each day totally oblivious to how you feel is the hardest thing that I've ever had to deal with. And keeping silent, especially for me, was -so damn- hard, Yama. Can you realized how hard it is to watch the person you love love another? Love someone who you know doesn't share their depth of emotion, but who makes them happy? It hurts!"
Is breath was coming out in ragged gasp. "It hurts, Yamto. But I've done that everyday for four years. I've watched kisses and caresses, dried the tears, been the rock that kept everything together. But my world fell apart, and no-one was there to pick up the pieces. I died the day you told me that you were going out with Sora."
She could tell by the hurt expression on Matt's face that he had no clue how Tai really felt. Tai *Hurry up, Tai, before he walks away, not realizing.*
"You thought I was 'in love' with her because we spent a lot of time together. In a way, you could have been right. Closeness can breeed affection. But you forgot something rather important. I spent everyday with -you-. We were together for nearly twelve hours a day, every day, Yamato, and you never knew. Yes, I loved my best friend, but she was never that to me, not since we came back the first time.
She saw the understanding as Tai put his hand on Matt's cheek. "I've only ever loved one person in this world the way I love you, Yama. How could you think that I would do something to hurt you? How could you lose your faith in me?"
He turned and walked away, TK following. *No. Not possible, dammint. It wasn't fair.* Tai wasn't supposed to walk away. And Matt wasn't supposed to watch him like an idiot.
She backed away from them, the tears flowing down her face. Several people looked at her in pity, but more than a couple of them were glaring at her as she walked away. A week ago, she was Mimi's hero. This week, she's the evil bitch.
"I fucked up, didn't I?" That was the only part of Matt and Davis's conversation that she heard, before they started following TK and Tai out.
She walked a distance behind them, and then tired to catch up to them.
"He said he loved me." Matt stopped in surprise, and she heard the wistful pain behind his words.
"Yamato?" She felt tears threatening as they both turned to her with glares. "I'm sorry. Sorry that I lied, sorry that I put you both through all this. But you see, I knew. I knew that he loved you, and that if he didn't tell you soon, he'd do something drastic. I was going to tell him to go ahead today, but I saw you at the last second and poured out a bunch of lies and kissed him. I thought that, maybe if you saw us together, you'd realize that you loved him, too."
Daisuke looked at Matt, then shook his head at her. "That was stupid. You had to know that they'd fight, and that matt would be pissed."
"I did. But they always work things out better when they argue. It's kind of the building block of their friendship that they disagree so much. It helps when you can see that they understand and respect each other. I always thought that they secretly disliked each other, then I began to realize that they didn't know how to deal with each other any other way. There's this...fire, this spark between them that ignites, and I began to think that it could be something other than animosity.
"As in, we've been lusting after each other without realizing it for years?" Matt supplied, and she agreed. "This was your way of hooking us up?" Another nod. "Damn it, Sora, why didn't you just break up with me and tell me all of this?"
"I knew that you'd never admit to having fellings for him if you thought he'd reject you. You asked me out because I was a safe bet, Matt. You knew that I'd say 'yes'. With him, there was always a chance that instead of kissing you senseless, he'd beat the shit out of you."
"And now that Tai's admitted how he feels, you can do what you should, and go find him." Daisuke and Sora looked at him pointedly as he talked. "You can start by going back to Takeru's with me. He went with him and will hopefully lead him back there. With any luck, we won't have a reversal of earlier, and he'll be ready to talk to you."
They started away from her, but the blonde stopped, and spoke without looking at her. "I'm not certain if I can forgive you for going about this the way you did, but I would like to thank you for getting this all out in the open. No matter how it ends, I wouldn't know that he loves me if it wasn't for you."