Me: Ok peoples! Look I'm back and I know this chapter will be longer than the first one. Plus this Chapter will be a little more focused on Tai and Sora's relationship. But, no sweat...like I said this is a Mimato for all you fans like ME!
Sora: WAIT HOLD ON! Tai and me?
Me: Hehe...of course. I mean look at the way you two look at each other. Besides...where did you come from Sora?
Sora: Well the door was opened, so I let myself in. I was sent here by Matt to get T.K.
T.K: Snore
Sora: But I see he is asleep...hold on...let's get back on the subject of me and Tai! What makes you honestly think I like him?
Me: evil grin Well by the polls...pulls out a pile of papers and clears throat Well let's see here...more than enough people believe you and Tai belong together, but not all. And...hands Sora another pile of papers by the evidence you show with him...you obviously belong together.
Sora: stares at the evidence and blushes Wait where did you get these...and how do these people know about me...am I famous?
Me: Well of course silly. You're a character on a famous anime!
Sora: I'm an anime character! When was someone going to tell me this!
Me: I'll tell you about it later...right now I have to go through a painful stage. Takes a deep breath I don't...I don't own...own...I DON'T OWN DIGIMON! OK! RUB IT IN MY FACE WHY DON'T YOU! Tears form on the rim on my eyes I won't cry...I'm calm...NO I'M NOT! I want to own digimon...but I don't. Don't sue me. Sigh looks around for Sora
Sora: hiding in the closet Can I come out now?
Me: Why are you in there?
Sora: Well you were breaking everything when you were talking about how you don't own Digimon...so I became scared. You know if you're that violent, you could become the next Darkmaster. Comes out of closet
Me: looks around. Broke the T.V, lamp, and tore a couch pillow Oh I'm so sorry. It's just that every time I have to admit that I don't own Digimon, I become so angry...sigh... Well you can leave with T.K now puts head down and waves hand in the air... I need to start my next Chapter.
Sora: Is it ok if I stay here and hear it. Especially since it has me in it.
Me: Sure I don't see why not. Puts a smile on face we'll let's start with Chapter 2!
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It was another long boring day at Odiaba High. The school was deserted except for the children who had after school activities. Music could be heard echoing from the band room, screaming and cheering can be heard from the soccer field and tennis court, and the janitor was making his final pass in the school's halls. About an hour passed by and the music had stopped.
"Hey Matt!" Tai ran up to the blonde boy standing in the middle of the band room.
"Hi Tai. Soccer practice is over already?" Matt grabbed his guitar from a nearby chair.
"Yeah! I totally dominated the field today." Tai clutched his fist. Matt walked over to his friend with his guitar in his hand.
"Sure, what else is new? You always dominate the field. Well hold on. I have to put my guitar up, and then we can go."
"Ok, hurry up."
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Soon after, Matt and Tai walked down the hall of the empty school. Everyday, after their activities, the two teen boys would go chill at the café by the National Library with Sora and occasionally Izzy. Tai had soccer practice everyday, as did Matt with his band, Sora with tennis, and on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, they would meet up with Izzy who worked in the computer lab. The two males headed toward the tennis court. They started to talk about their rough and always boring day at school. They were halfway to the court when Matt all of a sudden had stopped.
"What's up Matt?" Tai looked a little confused as to why Matt had stopped his pace. Tai wanted to hurry to the tennis court. Or to put it in different terms, he wanted to see Sora.
"Um Tai. Isn't today Wednesday?" Matt turned his head to look straight into Tai's eyes with question.
Tai placed his hand on his chin and began to assume. "Let me think...uh...I believe so...why?" he asked, looking confused more than ever.
Matt took one hand out of his pocket, and slapped his forehead. "We have to go meet up with Izzy at the computer room." Matt turned around and signaled Tai to follow. "Come on."
"Aw man, but Sora's practice ends in ten minutes, and I wanted to watch her play."
Matt's face grew an evil grin. "Yeah right! You just want to see Sora in her really short tennis outfit." The blonde nearly tore up laughing.
"Not funny Matt!" Tai blushed, like always at the mention of Sora's name. He raised his fist in anger. "Quit laughing!"
"Sure, sure. You go on ahead. Izzy and I will meet you there. You can go see your girlfriend now," replied Matt.
Tai turned the deepest shade of red possible as he watched Matt walk toward the computer room. Before his friend turned the corner, Tai screamed, "She is NOT my girlfriend!" He turned and stormed off towards the tennis court. 'I wish she was though,' he thought.
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"Hi Izzy, you ready to go?" Matt strolled into the room. He stared at Izzy type furiously on one of the computers.
"Yeah. Hold on Matt. I need to finish up this computer program." Izzy typed away on the computer at full speed not taking his eyes off the screen. "Prodigious!" The computer whiz hit the enter key, shut down the computer, and grabbed his bag, "Ok let's go...where's Tai?"
"Oh...he went off ahead to watch Sora play."
"Whatever! In simpler terms, all he wants to do is watch HER!" Izzy busted out laughing and Matt joined in. "Sometimes, with all my required knowledge, I question when those two will finally go out." Izzy turned off the lights and locked up the computer room. "There so oblivious that they love each other." The boy genius slung his bag over his shoulder and stood beside Matt.
"I know...but what can we do? All we ever do is make fun of the two love birds." The two boys walked off towards the tennis court. Matt had is hands in his pockets like always, and Izzy was in deep thought.
"Well maybe we can get those two to go out."
"How?" Matt stared at the deep in thought, yet mischievous, Izzy.
Izzy smiled. "Well as we know, there is a dance this Saturday."
"Oh, I get it! We can get those two to go together and admit their feelings." Matt grinned along with Izzy.
"You catch on pretty well. Plus, to make sure it works, I'll go with Yolei, and we'll use our extravagant, yet sneaky, brainpower to get those two together. I'll come up with a plan later."
"Izzy...you were and always will be a genius! Without you...I don't know if we would have survived the Digital World..." The sentence echoed in the halls, which sounded kind of creepy.
Flashback
"Uh... this heat is making me dizzy!" Mimi straggled behind the group with T.K. She slowly fanned herself with her large pink hat. T.K panted heavily and tried to catch some of the cool air from Mimi's hat.
"Quit complaining Mimi..." Matt had his hands in his pockets. He looked at Mimi and smiled as he watched her slowly fan his little brother. His forehead drenched of sweat. He slowly wiped off some of the liquid and stuffed is hand back in his pocket. "Even though it is a little to hot."
The air was hot and suffocating. The vast desert spread across the horizon leaving the digidestined in low hopes of survival. Tai urged everyone to move on. Izzy was nearly passing out, and Sora looked really dehydrated.
"Tai...everyone is tired...maybe we should turn back..." Koromon whined in his human's shirt.
"We just can't stop Koromon. Etemon might be back there. We have to press on. Sorry buddy." Tai felt really bad about what he had done to his friend. He never suspected him to change into such a monster like SkullGreymon.
Everyone moved on through the desert. They all seemed so depressed. No one said one word to each other. The sun was coming down slowly, and the heat was dying down. But not before Biyomon broke the silence, "SORA!" Everyone turned around to see what had happened. Sora was lying on the sand with Biyomon hovering above her crying. "Sora! Wake up!" The young girl didn't move.
Tai pushed his way through the crowd. "Sora! What's wrong?" He bent down beside the girl who had just passed out. "Wake up!"
Izzy and Mimi came up to Sora next. "She looks dehydrated. We have to come across water and fast," replied Izzy with worry.
"Is she going to..." Mimi busted into tears.
"DON'T SAY THAT MIMI!" Tai screamed.
"Don't yell at her Tai...we have to concentrate on Sora right now." Matt stared at Tai.
Izzy was about to cry. "We...I..." He turned and sat down. 'We need to find a source of water and fast, or Sora might...she might die.'
"Don't cry Mimi." Palemon patted the crying girl gently. "She'll be alright."
Tai held on to Sora, crying and whispering words like 'don't leave me'. He slowly fanned Sora with Mimi's hat in hopes that it might help her. Matt was trying to comfort T.K, but he was having more trouble trying to comfort himself. Joe was still in shock.
Izzy curled his knees to his face and shut his eyes to pull back the tears. 'If only I was smart enough to help...I need some source...a lake, a plant, anything..." Izzy's eyes opened with revelation. His jumped and faced Palemon. 'Palemon...she is a plant...but...wait I know...a cactus supplies it's own water!' Izzy ran up to Palemon. "CHANGE INTO TOGEMON!"
Everyone stopped their crying and looked up shocked from Izzy's outburst. "What?" Palemon was shocked most of all.
"What are you talking about Izzy?" Mimi was on the ground as she stared upon the little boy.
"Listen everyone, a cactus supplies it's own water. If we can emerge that water from Togemon, then we might be able to restore Sora to better health."
End of Flashback
"GO SORA!" A teen boy jumped up and down in the stands. He cupped his hands by his mouth and screamed, "YOU CAN DO IT!"
Sora glided across the court at a running pace. It was hot outside and she felt kind of faint. 'Please let practice be over soon! Please. I hate hot days.' Sora saw the small ball came to the right. She blocked its intrusion on her side as she swung her racket high, and sent the ball in her opponents clearing.
"Winning point...Sora!" called the girl taking score. "Ok, that's it for today." Tasiku screamed. The young girl with golden blonde hair ran to her bag and packed her equipment. "Hey Sora, you wanna go get something to eat with us!" Tasiku yelled. All four girls on the tennis club, Tasiku, Hana, Sukura, and Yuirian, looked towards Sora's direction.
She lifted her hand and shook her head. "No, I have to meet up with some friends like always." She took a refreshing drink from her full water bottle.
Sukura smiled. "Oh you mean Tai." She ran up to Sora and gave her a look. It was on of the looks that said 'I know something'.
Sora removed her mouth from the invigorating water. "Yeah, so what Sukura." She stared at the girl with the high black ponytail. Sukura was one of her best friends on the tennis club, even though she constantly teased Sora about everything.
"Oh come on. We all know you like him. After all he is the hottest boy on the soccer team." Yuirian gave a quick wink and a smile.
A light pink blush filled Sora's cheeks. "What...were just friends. Besides, I'm not only meeting him. Matt is coming with us, and since today is Wednesday, Izzy will be joining us." Sora tried her best to defend herself, even though her voice cracked a bit.
"Oh man. Sora you're so lucky. I really envy you. All three of those boys are soooo cute!" yelled Hana.
Sukura butted in, "Speaking of cute, here comes Tai."
Sora quickly turned around and saw Tai walking down the stands. 'He does look really cute...what am I saying?!' Sora quickly put the revitalizing water back to her mouth in hopes that the liquid would flow to her mind and wipe the thoughts away.
"Hi Sora. You were great." Tai gave one of his cutest smiles. Sora could have fainted right there. She removed the bottle from her mouth and smiled.
"Th...thanks Tai. Was it you who was cheering me on?" She looked at the ground. She wasn't sure if she was blushing or not, and she wouldn't take the chance of Tai seeing if she was.
"Yeah of course. You were the best on the court."
She looked up and smiled. "Thanks." Sora felt a slap on her back.
"Well Sora," Sukura smiled. "We'll be off. See you tomorrow." She gave a quick wink as if saying 'good luck' and rejoined the rest of the tennis group. All the girls giggled.
Sora, just now realizing the wink Sukura gave her, blushed tremendously. "Ok..." She turned and faced Tai. "Well let's go... Hey? Where are Matt and Izzy?" She searched the stands with her eyes.
"Well to be honest, we nearly forgotten about Izzy. So Matt went to go get him," Tai sheepishly responded.
"It's so nice to see how much you care." A male voice echoed on the court.
Tai and Sora turned to see who had joined their conversation. Izzy and Matt stood off to the side of the court, smiling. "I'm sorry Izzy. I didn't mean it like that..." Tai put his hand behind his head and laughed.
"Yeah, don't worry. I understand. You were just excited to go see Sora," explained Izzy with an evil grin and look.
Tai blushed uncontrollably again, and if he decided to look to his right, he would of seen Sora blushing as well. "I...I just came to pick her up is all, so we could hurry and get out of this school." Tai frowned. 'What a stupid excuse,' he thought.
"Sure, whatever. Come on and lets go get a cappuccino at the café." Matt turned and headed toward the exit of the school. The three teenagers followed after him.
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At the café, all four of them sat at a round table, with Matt, Izzy, Sora, and Tai sitting in that order clockwise. They slowly sipped their drinks and relaxed after a hard day of schooling. Their conversation started off normal for about thirty minutes. Then the subject came about the dance.
"So Tai," Izzy started off, "who are you bringing to the dance." Matt smiled, but Tai began to choke in the middle of his drink.
Sora started to pat Tai on the back while he chocked loudly. "You ok Tai?" she asked sweetly.
Tai started to laugh. "Yeah, I'm alright."
Izzy sat across from him with a very astonished look. 'I wasn't expecting him to choke.'
"Well..." Tai brought his fist to his mouth and let out a final cough. "I never really thought about the dance."
"Tai, come on now. How can you not think about it? It's two days away," explained Matt as he crossed his arms and smiled widely.
"Well..." Tai began to stutter. "Well...well who are you going with Matt!" Tai felt a little edgy, so the smartest thing to do was change the subject on someone else.
But, Matt new his plan and laughed. "Don't try to avoid the question Tai. We asked you first."
Tai began to sweat. "Well," he squeaked. "I never really had gotten around to asking the person that I like."
"And who is that, may I ask?" Izzy replied, taking a slow sip from his cappuccino hiding his smirk.
"Um..." Tai began.
"I don't think he should answer your dumb question." Sora replied. She was silent for to long. "I believe that Tai can ask whoever, without being pestered about it. And, if he wants to go alone, like me, then let him." She stared at the two tormentors.
"You're going alone Sora?" Tai was quite astonished that a pretty girl like Sora was going alone.
Sora blushed, but made it quickly disappeared. "Yeah." She tried her best not to gaze at Tai.
Matt and Izzy grinned inwardly and stared at each other. They finally got the information they needed. The two people they were trying to set up together were going to the dance alone so far. Matt stood up.
"Well I got to go. See you guys later."
"Sure see you Matt. I'll make sure our plan works!" Izzy exclaimed. He smiled and slapped his hands over his mouth like he said it by accident, which he didn't.
"Plan...what plan?" asked Sora.
"Oh nothing!" Izzy replied as he put his hand behind his head. Matt laughed, then turned and left.
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Matt walked into his apartment. Everyday he saw the same shirts on the couch, the sink was full of grimy dishes, and it smelled of bachelor life. The place was filthy somewhat, but it was cozy. He slid to his room and took off his green school uniform. He slipped into his jeans and ran to the living room shirtless. He jumped on to the shirt covered couch and grabbed the remote. 'Let's see what's on.' He flipped through the channels. "Seen it...boring...seen it...seen...ugh nothing is on." He decided to watch some cartoons.
RIING...RIING...
"Aw man! Just when I began to relax!" Matt reached for the phone and took it off the receiver. "Yes, what do you want! I mean...yes Ishida resident...MIMI!" Matt jumped up off the couch. He hadn't heard from Mimi in a month. He opened his mouth to say hi, but the excited girl screamed words on the other side.
"Matt! Wait till I tell you about my day!"
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Me: Well what do you think?
Sora: Blush Are there any other fics like this, with Tai and I as a couple?
Me: Well yes. A lot of them are on the Internet. Sweatdrops while Sora throws the evidence papers in the air and runs to the computer. What are you doing?
Sora: I'm going to find all the stories on Tai and me, and then I'm going to send flames to the authors!
Me: Hey now! No one likes flamers! I know I don't...now get off the computer and accept reality.
Sora: grumble Yeah...and what exactly is reality! You said I was an anime character! Gets back on the computer
Me: Well sorry you fans...and to you other Taiora writers like myself...I'll make sure, with all my power, that Sora doesn't Flame any of you good people. Well until my next Chapter which I know will be awesome! : ) Well bye...SORA GET OFF THAT COMPUTER!
T.K: KEEP IT DOWN!
Me: whisper sorry...
Sora: WAIT HOLD ON! Tai and me?
Me: Hehe...of course. I mean look at the way you two look at each other. Besides...where did you come from Sora?
Sora: Well the door was opened, so I let myself in. I was sent here by Matt to get T.K.
T.K: Snore
Sora: But I see he is asleep...hold on...let's get back on the subject of me and Tai! What makes you honestly think I like him?
Me: evil grin Well by the polls...pulls out a pile of papers and clears throat Well let's see here...more than enough people believe you and Tai belong together, but not all. And...hands Sora another pile of papers by the evidence you show with him...you obviously belong together.
Sora: stares at the evidence and blushes Wait where did you get these...and how do these people know about me...am I famous?
Me: Well of course silly. You're a character on a famous anime!
Sora: I'm an anime character! When was someone going to tell me this!
Me: I'll tell you about it later...right now I have to go through a painful stage. Takes a deep breath I don't...I don't own...own...I DON'T OWN DIGIMON! OK! RUB IT IN MY FACE WHY DON'T YOU! Tears form on the rim on my eyes I won't cry...I'm calm...NO I'M NOT! I want to own digimon...but I don't. Don't sue me. Sigh looks around for Sora
Sora: hiding in the closet Can I come out now?
Me: Why are you in there?
Sora: Well you were breaking everything when you were talking about how you don't own Digimon...so I became scared. You know if you're that violent, you could become the next Darkmaster. Comes out of closet
Me: looks around. Broke the T.V, lamp, and tore a couch pillow Oh I'm so sorry. It's just that every time I have to admit that I don't own Digimon, I become so angry...sigh... Well you can leave with T.K now puts head down and waves hand in the air... I need to start my next Chapter.
Sora: Is it ok if I stay here and hear it. Especially since it has me in it.
Me: Sure I don't see why not. Puts a smile on face we'll let's start with Chapter 2!
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It was another long boring day at Odiaba High. The school was deserted except for the children who had after school activities. Music could be heard echoing from the band room, screaming and cheering can be heard from the soccer field and tennis court, and the janitor was making his final pass in the school's halls. About an hour passed by and the music had stopped.
"Hey Matt!" Tai ran up to the blonde boy standing in the middle of the band room.
"Hi Tai. Soccer practice is over already?" Matt grabbed his guitar from a nearby chair.
"Yeah! I totally dominated the field today." Tai clutched his fist. Matt walked over to his friend with his guitar in his hand.
"Sure, what else is new? You always dominate the field. Well hold on. I have to put my guitar up, and then we can go."
"Ok, hurry up."
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Soon after, Matt and Tai walked down the hall of the empty school. Everyday, after their activities, the two teen boys would go chill at the café by the National Library with Sora and occasionally Izzy. Tai had soccer practice everyday, as did Matt with his band, Sora with tennis, and on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, they would meet up with Izzy who worked in the computer lab. The two males headed toward the tennis court. They started to talk about their rough and always boring day at school. They were halfway to the court when Matt all of a sudden had stopped.
"What's up Matt?" Tai looked a little confused as to why Matt had stopped his pace. Tai wanted to hurry to the tennis court. Or to put it in different terms, he wanted to see Sora.
"Um Tai. Isn't today Wednesday?" Matt turned his head to look straight into Tai's eyes with question.
Tai placed his hand on his chin and began to assume. "Let me think...uh...I believe so...why?" he asked, looking confused more than ever.
Matt took one hand out of his pocket, and slapped his forehead. "We have to go meet up with Izzy at the computer room." Matt turned around and signaled Tai to follow. "Come on."
"Aw man, but Sora's practice ends in ten minutes, and I wanted to watch her play."
Matt's face grew an evil grin. "Yeah right! You just want to see Sora in her really short tennis outfit." The blonde nearly tore up laughing.
"Not funny Matt!" Tai blushed, like always at the mention of Sora's name. He raised his fist in anger. "Quit laughing!"
"Sure, sure. You go on ahead. Izzy and I will meet you there. You can go see your girlfriend now," replied Matt.
Tai turned the deepest shade of red possible as he watched Matt walk toward the computer room. Before his friend turned the corner, Tai screamed, "She is NOT my girlfriend!" He turned and stormed off towards the tennis court. 'I wish she was though,' he thought.
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"Hi Izzy, you ready to go?" Matt strolled into the room. He stared at Izzy type furiously on one of the computers.
"Yeah. Hold on Matt. I need to finish up this computer program." Izzy typed away on the computer at full speed not taking his eyes off the screen. "Prodigious!" The computer whiz hit the enter key, shut down the computer, and grabbed his bag, "Ok let's go...where's Tai?"
"Oh...he went off ahead to watch Sora play."
"Whatever! In simpler terms, all he wants to do is watch HER!" Izzy busted out laughing and Matt joined in. "Sometimes, with all my required knowledge, I question when those two will finally go out." Izzy turned off the lights and locked up the computer room. "There so oblivious that they love each other." The boy genius slung his bag over his shoulder and stood beside Matt.
"I know...but what can we do? All we ever do is make fun of the two love birds." The two boys walked off towards the tennis court. Matt had is hands in his pockets like always, and Izzy was in deep thought.
"Well maybe we can get those two to go out."
"How?" Matt stared at the deep in thought, yet mischievous, Izzy.
Izzy smiled. "Well as we know, there is a dance this Saturday."
"Oh, I get it! We can get those two to go together and admit their feelings." Matt grinned along with Izzy.
"You catch on pretty well. Plus, to make sure it works, I'll go with Yolei, and we'll use our extravagant, yet sneaky, brainpower to get those two together. I'll come up with a plan later."
"Izzy...you were and always will be a genius! Without you...I don't know if we would have survived the Digital World..." The sentence echoed in the halls, which sounded kind of creepy.
Flashback
"Uh... this heat is making me dizzy!" Mimi straggled behind the group with T.K. She slowly fanned herself with her large pink hat. T.K panted heavily and tried to catch some of the cool air from Mimi's hat.
"Quit complaining Mimi..." Matt had his hands in his pockets. He looked at Mimi and smiled as he watched her slowly fan his little brother. His forehead drenched of sweat. He slowly wiped off some of the liquid and stuffed is hand back in his pocket. "Even though it is a little to hot."
The air was hot and suffocating. The vast desert spread across the horizon leaving the digidestined in low hopes of survival. Tai urged everyone to move on. Izzy was nearly passing out, and Sora looked really dehydrated.
"Tai...everyone is tired...maybe we should turn back..." Koromon whined in his human's shirt.
"We just can't stop Koromon. Etemon might be back there. We have to press on. Sorry buddy." Tai felt really bad about what he had done to his friend. He never suspected him to change into such a monster like SkullGreymon.
Everyone moved on through the desert. They all seemed so depressed. No one said one word to each other. The sun was coming down slowly, and the heat was dying down. But not before Biyomon broke the silence, "SORA!" Everyone turned around to see what had happened. Sora was lying on the sand with Biyomon hovering above her crying. "Sora! Wake up!" The young girl didn't move.
Tai pushed his way through the crowd. "Sora! What's wrong?" He bent down beside the girl who had just passed out. "Wake up!"
Izzy and Mimi came up to Sora next. "She looks dehydrated. We have to come across water and fast," replied Izzy with worry.
"Is she going to..." Mimi busted into tears.
"DON'T SAY THAT MIMI!" Tai screamed.
"Don't yell at her Tai...we have to concentrate on Sora right now." Matt stared at Tai.
Izzy was about to cry. "We...I..." He turned and sat down. 'We need to find a source of water and fast, or Sora might...she might die.'
"Don't cry Mimi." Palemon patted the crying girl gently. "She'll be alright."
Tai held on to Sora, crying and whispering words like 'don't leave me'. He slowly fanned Sora with Mimi's hat in hopes that it might help her. Matt was trying to comfort T.K, but he was having more trouble trying to comfort himself. Joe was still in shock.
Izzy curled his knees to his face and shut his eyes to pull back the tears. 'If only I was smart enough to help...I need some source...a lake, a plant, anything..." Izzy's eyes opened with revelation. His jumped and faced Palemon. 'Palemon...she is a plant...but...wait I know...a cactus supplies it's own water!' Izzy ran up to Palemon. "CHANGE INTO TOGEMON!"
Everyone stopped their crying and looked up shocked from Izzy's outburst. "What?" Palemon was shocked most of all.
"What are you talking about Izzy?" Mimi was on the ground as she stared upon the little boy.
"Listen everyone, a cactus supplies it's own water. If we can emerge that water from Togemon, then we might be able to restore Sora to better health."
End of Flashback
"GO SORA!" A teen boy jumped up and down in the stands. He cupped his hands by his mouth and screamed, "YOU CAN DO IT!"
Sora glided across the court at a running pace. It was hot outside and she felt kind of faint. 'Please let practice be over soon! Please. I hate hot days.' Sora saw the small ball came to the right. She blocked its intrusion on her side as she swung her racket high, and sent the ball in her opponents clearing.
"Winning point...Sora!" called the girl taking score. "Ok, that's it for today." Tasiku screamed. The young girl with golden blonde hair ran to her bag and packed her equipment. "Hey Sora, you wanna go get something to eat with us!" Tasiku yelled. All four girls on the tennis club, Tasiku, Hana, Sukura, and Yuirian, looked towards Sora's direction.
She lifted her hand and shook her head. "No, I have to meet up with some friends like always." She took a refreshing drink from her full water bottle.
Sukura smiled. "Oh you mean Tai." She ran up to Sora and gave her a look. It was on of the looks that said 'I know something'.
Sora removed her mouth from the invigorating water. "Yeah, so what Sukura." She stared at the girl with the high black ponytail. Sukura was one of her best friends on the tennis club, even though she constantly teased Sora about everything.
"Oh come on. We all know you like him. After all he is the hottest boy on the soccer team." Yuirian gave a quick wink and a smile.
A light pink blush filled Sora's cheeks. "What...were just friends. Besides, I'm not only meeting him. Matt is coming with us, and since today is Wednesday, Izzy will be joining us." Sora tried her best to defend herself, even though her voice cracked a bit.
"Oh man. Sora you're so lucky. I really envy you. All three of those boys are soooo cute!" yelled Hana.
Sukura butted in, "Speaking of cute, here comes Tai."
Sora quickly turned around and saw Tai walking down the stands. 'He does look really cute...what am I saying?!' Sora quickly put the revitalizing water back to her mouth in hopes that the liquid would flow to her mind and wipe the thoughts away.
"Hi Sora. You were great." Tai gave one of his cutest smiles. Sora could have fainted right there. She removed the bottle from her mouth and smiled.
"Th...thanks Tai. Was it you who was cheering me on?" She looked at the ground. She wasn't sure if she was blushing or not, and she wouldn't take the chance of Tai seeing if she was.
"Yeah of course. You were the best on the court."
She looked up and smiled. "Thanks." Sora felt a slap on her back.
"Well Sora," Sukura smiled. "We'll be off. See you tomorrow." She gave a quick wink as if saying 'good luck' and rejoined the rest of the tennis group. All the girls giggled.
Sora, just now realizing the wink Sukura gave her, blushed tremendously. "Ok..." She turned and faced Tai. "Well let's go... Hey? Where are Matt and Izzy?" She searched the stands with her eyes.
"Well to be honest, we nearly forgotten about Izzy. So Matt went to go get him," Tai sheepishly responded.
"It's so nice to see how much you care." A male voice echoed on the court.
Tai and Sora turned to see who had joined their conversation. Izzy and Matt stood off to the side of the court, smiling. "I'm sorry Izzy. I didn't mean it like that..." Tai put his hand behind his head and laughed.
"Yeah, don't worry. I understand. You were just excited to go see Sora," explained Izzy with an evil grin and look.
Tai blushed uncontrollably again, and if he decided to look to his right, he would of seen Sora blushing as well. "I...I just came to pick her up is all, so we could hurry and get out of this school." Tai frowned. 'What a stupid excuse,' he thought.
"Sure, whatever. Come on and lets go get a cappuccino at the café." Matt turned and headed toward the exit of the school. The three teenagers followed after him.
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At the café, all four of them sat at a round table, with Matt, Izzy, Sora, and Tai sitting in that order clockwise. They slowly sipped their drinks and relaxed after a hard day of schooling. Their conversation started off normal for about thirty minutes. Then the subject came about the dance.
"So Tai," Izzy started off, "who are you bringing to the dance." Matt smiled, but Tai began to choke in the middle of his drink.
Sora started to pat Tai on the back while he chocked loudly. "You ok Tai?" she asked sweetly.
Tai started to laugh. "Yeah, I'm alright."
Izzy sat across from him with a very astonished look. 'I wasn't expecting him to choke.'
"Well..." Tai brought his fist to his mouth and let out a final cough. "I never really thought about the dance."
"Tai, come on now. How can you not think about it? It's two days away," explained Matt as he crossed his arms and smiled widely.
"Well..." Tai began to stutter. "Well...well who are you going with Matt!" Tai felt a little edgy, so the smartest thing to do was change the subject on someone else.
But, Matt new his plan and laughed. "Don't try to avoid the question Tai. We asked you first."
Tai began to sweat. "Well," he squeaked. "I never really had gotten around to asking the person that I like."
"And who is that, may I ask?" Izzy replied, taking a slow sip from his cappuccino hiding his smirk.
"Um..." Tai began.
"I don't think he should answer your dumb question." Sora replied. She was silent for to long. "I believe that Tai can ask whoever, without being pestered about it. And, if he wants to go alone, like me, then let him." She stared at the two tormentors.
"You're going alone Sora?" Tai was quite astonished that a pretty girl like Sora was going alone.
Sora blushed, but made it quickly disappeared. "Yeah." She tried her best not to gaze at Tai.
Matt and Izzy grinned inwardly and stared at each other. They finally got the information they needed. The two people they were trying to set up together were going to the dance alone so far. Matt stood up.
"Well I got to go. See you guys later."
"Sure see you Matt. I'll make sure our plan works!" Izzy exclaimed. He smiled and slapped his hands over his mouth like he said it by accident, which he didn't.
"Plan...what plan?" asked Sora.
"Oh nothing!" Izzy replied as he put his hand behind his head. Matt laughed, then turned and left.
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Matt walked into his apartment. Everyday he saw the same shirts on the couch, the sink was full of grimy dishes, and it smelled of bachelor life. The place was filthy somewhat, but it was cozy. He slid to his room and took off his green school uniform. He slipped into his jeans and ran to the living room shirtless. He jumped on to the shirt covered couch and grabbed the remote. 'Let's see what's on.' He flipped through the channels. "Seen it...boring...seen it...seen...ugh nothing is on." He decided to watch some cartoons.
RIING...RIING...
"Aw man! Just when I began to relax!" Matt reached for the phone and took it off the receiver. "Yes, what do you want! I mean...yes Ishida resident...MIMI!" Matt jumped up off the couch. He hadn't heard from Mimi in a month. He opened his mouth to say hi, but the excited girl screamed words on the other side.
"Matt! Wait till I tell you about my day!"
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Me: Well what do you think?
Sora: Blush Are there any other fics like this, with Tai and I as a couple?
Me: Well yes. A lot of them are on the Internet. Sweatdrops while Sora throws the evidence papers in the air and runs to the computer. What are you doing?
Sora: I'm going to find all the stories on Tai and me, and then I'm going to send flames to the authors!
Me: Hey now! No one likes flamers! I know I don't...now get off the computer and accept reality.
Sora: grumble Yeah...and what exactly is reality! You said I was an anime character! Gets back on the computer
Me: Well sorry you fans...and to you other Taiora writers like myself...I'll make sure, with all my power, that Sora doesn't Flame any of you good people. Well until my next Chapter which I know will be awesome! : ) Well bye...SORA GET OFF THAT COMPUTER!
T.K: KEEP IT DOWN!
Me: whisper sorry...