Of little brothers and best friends.

Tash: yep it's me again. Again this fic contains a boy + boy relationship and much Sora bashing. I don't own Digi, if I did Yama would never have cut his hair or become an astronaut at the end of 02, (shudder!).

Mat: I'm filling in the huge plot gap that this chapter has regarding Emily who Tash does own. She's known Tai since he moved to Odiba therefore they're really good friends. Emy knows about the digiworld and has this really freaky habit of reading body language.

Tai: As usual, all spelling and grammar mistakes are due to Tash's plot to destroy dictionaries around the world. P.o.v changes will be marked by a % then whose p.o.v it is so if it's my p.o.v it'd look like this % Tai. The end of a p.o.v will be marked by a $ at which point the story will revert back to Yama's p.o.v. Everything else remains unchanged.

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@ Hey Takeru.

Hey Mat.

Can you come over?

Why?

I want to talk to you about something.

Ok, I'll see you in a minuet. You ok?

I'm fine Takeru.

If you say so.

I looked at the phone for a moment after Takeru hung up and smiled, the kid never missed a trick. Ever since we'd come back from the digital world Takeru had joined Tai in the annoying habit of being able to read me like a book. Placing the phone back on the hook I walked into the kitchen and fished out the kettle. Takeru turned up just as the water came to the boil, a smile plastered on his innocent face. He sat down on the sofa and wordlessly waited as I poured the water into the waiting teapot. A few minuets later I walked into the living room balancing two cups of tea. Takeru took one from me as I sat down and placed it gently onto his lap.

"So what did you want to talk about?" He asked sweetly. I breathed deeply and decided to give him one piece of information at a time.

"I'm gay." I said simply. I waited for him to react but he just took a sip of his tea. "Takeru your supposed to say something like `really that's nice` or `that's sick Matt`.

"Sorry I wasn't sure if you wanted a response."

"Well I do."

"I think it's great that you can admit that sort of thing to me Mat. When did you realise?"

"When I realised how cute a male friend of mine was."

"Uh hu. So is that all you wanted to say?"

"No I wanted your advise about something." I said suddenly very hesitant about telling Takeru about Tai. Takeru seemed to look at me for a moment then he placed his cup onto his lap again.

"Look if you want me to help Mat your going to have to drop me more of hint about what ever the hell your going on about." He said smiling gently. I took another deep breath and tried to form the words I'm in love with Tai and I wanted to know if you could help me figure out how in hell I can tell him. ` but I chickened out and merely said.

"I wanted to ask you if you could help me tell the guy I like that I like him." Takeru laughed gently and I felt a blush creep up onto my cheeks.

"Mat you might as well drop the act, I know that you like Tai."

"Really! Is it that obvious?"

"Only to me, you've been staring at him an awful lot recently." Takeru said as I blushed again. ^You know that if Takeru noticed Tai would have and that means he knows ^ my inner voice supplied, I shook the thought away and realised that Takeru had said something.

"Pardon?" I enquired. He smiled gently and shook his head.

"I asked if you loved him." He said gently.

"Do you want the truth?" I enquired. He nodded and I smiled. "Yes, I love him so much that I just want to tare all his clothes off and…"

"Enough, I think I'm too young to know that." Takeru said blushing fiercely.

"Sorry. So what do I do?"

"I may have an idea about that." He said smiling.

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%Tai

I opened the door and smiled when Emily's jade green eyes met my chocolate ones.

"Thanks for coming so quickly Emy." I said gently. She smiled and waltzed into the house.

"No problem handsome." She said flashing me a flirtations wink. I smiled and closed the door. Emily always flirted with me when I was down because she knew that it cheered me up. "So what do you want?" She enquired as she slumped into my couch.

"Just to talk."

"Uh hu, I've known you since you were little Taichi and I know that you only make tea when you have something on your mind."

"Have I told you that you're scary when you do that?"

"Several times. So who's the lucky guy?" She enquired gently. I paused in the kitchen doorway and gave her a speculative look.

"Your mouths open." She quipped gently. I closed my mouth slowly and reminded myself that telepathy was biologically impossible.

"How'd you do that?" I enquired as I vanished into the kitchen.

"Easy, I've known you were gay since last month when you took me clubbing. I remember that you spent the whole of that night staring at he barman's ass." She said the humour in her voice evident. I smiled as the memory came back to me.

"Yeh, he had a really hot ass." I said as I walked back into the living room, a cup of tea in each hand.

"I'm inclined to agree. Anyway back to your mystery guy, you've been wiggy for the past month so I was inclined to think that you've finally fallen in love." She said as she took a cup from my unresisting hand.

"I never said I was in love."

"Really, perhaps you'd care to prove me wrong then." She said smiling smugly. I was about to object again when beautiful cerulean orbs floated across my mind.

"Can't." I admitted.

"So then answer my first question, who's the lucky guy?"

"You remember when you met my other friends?"

"With uncomfortable accuracy."

"You remember the one that you got into a fight with?"

"The unnaturally attractive blond one?"

"His names Yamato, or Mat." I quipped. Emily smiled and gave me an apologetic glance.

"Sorry, so he's the guy huh?"

"Yes."

"Seemed kind of cold to me, all mouth and no heart."

"He only acts like that some of the time." Tai said as simply. Emy gave her friend a speculative glance as she remembered how odd Mat had been that day.

~ "Hey guys I'd all like you to meet a good friend of mine." Tai said as pushed Emily into the café. The assembled digi destined gave their leader a questioning glance then their eyes flicked to the tall girl.

"This is Emily Kimono, we go way back." Tai said to the staring faces. "Emy this is Izzy (A/n I can't spell Izzy's proper name, please feel free to help me on that matter.), Joe, Mimi, Sora, Takeru, Yamato and my little sister Hikari who you already know." (A/n the younger digi destined are over Davis's apart from T.k and Kari because he forgot to invite them.) Tai said introducing the group in a clockwise direction.

"It's nice to finally meet you." Emily said smiling while her eyes wondered to the one known as Yamato. ^He's cute in an odd way, seems to be sizing me up though^ she though quietly to herself. Tai slumped himself down by Hikari while Emy squeezed in next to Sora and Mimi. Soon the table was buzzing with conversation as the group discussed what had happened to everyone since their time in the digital world and about how Emily had discovered the existence of the place. Emy keep finding her gaze travelling to Mat who was watching her every move. She soon got very angry at the attention that the blond was paying her and decided to find out what his problem was. She stood up quietly and walked towards a section in the café where the others wouldn't hear her talking to him. As she walked by Mat she grabbed him by the wrist and pulled him after her. Once they were away from the others she fixed his beautiful cerulean blue eyes with her own jade green ones.

"What sort of a problem do you have with me?" She asked simply.

"What gave you the impression that I had a problem with you?" The man asked his tone cold.

"The way that you've been staring daggers at me since I walked through the door."

"Maybe I just don't like you." The blond said simply.

"Or maybe I've trodden on your toes."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Maybe me showing up has done something to affect the plans that are floating around in your head."

"I think I like my idea better." The man said his fists tightening slightly.

"I think you like that idea because you're looking for a fight. I think you've got a little crush on Taichi and that you think he likes me."

"TAKE THAT BACK!" the man shouted as his hands flew to Emily's shirt collar. Emily became aware of the hurt look in the man's eyes and realised that he was acting as if she'd discovered something that he wanted hidden.

"Yama put Emily down." Tai said as he came to his friends rescue. Emily watched as the man dropped her and looked at Tai with faint embarrassment painting his cheeks. #

"The way he was with me that day Tai I could have sworn that he was acting like some jealous lover. You know he only reacted badly when I suggested that very thing to him."

"So do you think he likes me?" Tai asked suddenly very hopeful.

"I'd have to see how he reacts around you now to be sure."

"He's got a concert tomorrow, how about you come to it with me."

"Perfect." Emily said smiling gently.

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Mat: I'd like to point out that however jealous I got I would never really hurt a woman and that its only their to fit into Tash's plot.

Tash: So why'd you hit me yesterday when Tai said that I had a nice ass?

Mat *blushes * That was a mistake.

Tash: Whatever you say Yama. I suspect that this fic will be completed before it even appears on fanfiction.net if that's so I'll write a sequel or something. Review, but I don't blame you if you don't, flames are now being used to barbecue CITV for stopping the repeats of 01 just before the pupetmon episode, how I hate them for that!!! Anyway the next chapter will be called something like the concert and will contain (hopefully) a cliffhanger.

Mat: As always feel free to write a lemon chapter for this fic and remember that if any review point out that this would be better off as a Sorato Tash will track you down and kill you.