Okay, first of all thank you for the reviews! It was great to know people were reading this. Second, yes I remember that Izzy's parents died in a car accident. But that's only what his adoptive parents told him. That may not be the case. There's something to ponder. Well, on with the fic…
Oh yeah, I know I said that Matt, Tai, Sora, and Izzy were going to New York, New York, but I changed that. Its now Albany, New York.
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.
Searching
Tai opened the door to the hotel room and walked in, followed by Matt, Izzy and Sora. He gazed around in awe at the penthouse sweet hotel room. "Holy crap, this is cool!"
"I told you I had connections," Matt replied smugly as he set his bag down on the couch.
"You really stayed here?" Tai asked as he began to explore the room, traveling in and out of doors.
"Oh yeah," he smirked. "Had a wild party too!"
"Wow, this is beautiful Matt," Sora gasped.
Matt took her hand. "I shall give you the grand tour, my dear." He pulled her deeper into the room. "This is the living room. You have the beautiful sofa, imitation paintings from artist who have been dead for years and the entertainment center with a TV, DVD, VCR, and five disc CD changer. Off to the left we have the first bedroom, which comes complete with a queen size bed, personal bathroom, and a nice view of the city. Then to our right we have the other bedroom, which also comes complete with a queen size bed, personal bathroom, and beautiful view."
"So, who gets what room?" Izzy asked.
"Well, uh," Matt and Tai shared evil grins. "Tai and I will share this room and you and Sora can share the other!" Izzy and Sora exchanged blushing looks. Tai and Matt laughed at them.
"You two are perverted idiots," Sora shook her head.
"So tomorrow we'll go to that apartment building and talk to the manager," Izzy informed the group.
"Awwww, can't we sightsee?" Tai asked.
Izzy glared at him. "This is the exact reason I wanted to go alone! This trip is strictly-"
"Strictly business," Tai and Matt repeated, mockingly.
Izzy glared at them. "I told you that before we came! I just want to do find her and go back to Japan." Tai and Matt just rolled their eyes. "You guys should go out and sight see. I'm going to do some work." Picking up his bag he walked into the room Matt had designated for him. He sat down on the queen size bed and pulled out his laptop.
The door opened and Sora walked in, carrying her own bag. She sighed upon seeing Izzy hunched over his yellow pineapple laptop. "Izzy, for five minutes can't you live without that thing?" She asked. He grunted in response. She set her own bag down. "Come on, let's have some fun. Go sight seeing with us."
"I wanna get this work done," he refused.
"Izzy, we're in New York, we have to do a little sight seeing. This may not be New York, New York, but its still a new place. Let's go out, pretty please," she begged, pushing the lid of the laptop close. "Matt and Tai are going out. I'm going with them. Come, please. Tomorrow we will go to those apartments and find out what we need."
He looked up at her. "Your not going to take no for an answer, are you?"
She grinned. "Nope. The day is young, its only 10. We'll look around for the rest of the day, then tomorrow we'll do whatever you want."
A mischievous grin crossed his face. "What if you and me do what I want tonight?" She blushed. He laughed. He grabbed her by the waist and threw her down gently on the bed. She giggled as he kissed her and the tickled her neck.
"EW!"A voice yelled. They both looked up to see Tai and Matt in the open doorway. "A little kinky, ain't it?" Tai asked Matt.
"Oh yeah," the blonde teen laughed.
Izzy gave a defeated sigh and got off the bed, helping Sora up as he did. "Ready to go?" He asked them. "Sora convinced me to go sightseeing with you guys for today. But tomorrow we're going to those apartment buildings!"
"M'kay," Tai grinned. "Let's move out." He ran for the front door with Matt behind him. "I call shot gun!" Izzy held out his hand and Sora took it. They followed the boys out.
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"Is this the place?" Matt asked as they pulled up to the Cook Creek apartments.
Izzy checked the invoice for the address. "Yeah." He hopped out of the car. "I'll run in real quick," he informed, leaning into the car through the front open window. "I'll see if I can get a change of address of something and then we'll go get a bite to eat or something."
Matt put the car into park. "Alright, we'll be right here." He hit Tai in the chest. "If we can keep Tai entertained long enough."
"Hey!" Tai snapped insulted.
Izzy snickered as he turned away from the car and followed the signs to the office of the Cook Creek apartments. He entered the brightly lit room and approached the desk where an ebony haired female sat looking at a magazine and popping her gum, which she chewed loudly. He cleared his throat when she didn't acknowledge his presence. "Can I help you sir?" She asked, her voice high and nasally.
"Yeah, can I speak to the manager or whoever's in charge?" He asked.
"Yeah, just a sec. ROGER!"
A tall man in his late thirties walked in. His eyes were hidden behind dark mirrored sunglasses and his skin was a golden brown from spending too much time in the sun. "Yeah?"
"This man wants to speak with you," the gum-snapping woman said.
The man looked up at Izzy and flashed him a white toothy grin. "How can I help you?" He asked as he pulled off his sunglasses. He had a farmer's tan where his sunglasses had been.
"I'm trying to find someone who used to live here. I was hoping you could look up the name on your records and see if there's a change of address or something." Izzy pulled the yellowed invoice from his pocket and handed it to the manager.
Roger ran a hand through his grown out blue hair as he read over the paper. "Uh, I don't have the authority to give you that information. Technically those records are off-limits to the public. Sorry." He played with a strand of blue hair as he handed the paper back to Izzy.
Izzy shoved it back into his hand. "Please! Its incredibly important!"
Roger's smile disappeared. "Listen buddy, I can't do that! By law those records are off limits to you! Now get out before I call the cops." He crumpled up the invoice and shoved it into Izzy's chest.
He caught it in his hands and his shoulders hunched in defeat. "Okay, I'll go. Sorry to bother you." He walked out of the air-conditioned office, ignoring the annoying ring of the bell over the door, and into the hot, muggy parking lot. Shielding his eyes with his hand he spotted the faded red compact car he and his friends had rented. Every window was rolled down, Tai's head hung out of the front passenger's window, a pair of black shades covering his eyes and Sora's bare feet stuck out from the back passenger's side window. A familiar Teenage Wolves tune blared from the speaker. Izzy tickled Sora's foot to make her pull back and he got in the car.
"So?" Matt asked expectantly as he tapped on the steering wheel in tune with the music. Tai turned it down to hear Izzy speak.
"I couldn't get any information," he reported, sounded defeated.
"We figured as much," Matt shrugged.
"Huh?" Izzy inquired confused. "You expected me to fail?"
"No exactly," Sora admitted. "Okay down to business. Manager girl or guy?"
"Guy-"
"Age?"
"Late thirties maybe. I'm not sure exactly."
"Perfect," Sora said with a small smile.
Before he could ask what she was talking about, Tai popped up on his knees facing Izzy, looking serious. "Anyone else in the office?"
"The receptionist."
"Guy or girl? Age?" Tai pressed on.
"Girl, early twenties. What's with the anomalous inquiry?" Izzy demanded, his head spinning in confusion.
His three friends exchanged glances. "In English Izzy?" Matt asked.
"What's with the whacked questions?" Izzy corrected himself, dumbing down his English. (Okay I realize dumb is not a verb, but I use it as a verb quite often so don't yell at me. This is why I will never be an English major!)
Sora looked at the two guys in the front seat, ignoring her boyfriend's question. "You guys know the plan, right? Matt, you've got the receptionist. Tai, your look out." Tai groaned and mumbled something like 'I'm always look out'. Izzy's eyes bulged slightly and his mouth dropped open as he watch Sora tug at the bottom of her shirt to reveal a little cleavage. "Tai, if your eyes go any lower then my neck I'm going to slap you a new face." Tai grinned as Sora finish straightening her shirt. "Let's go." The three got out of the car and Izzy scrambled out to follow them.
"Okay Izzy, Sora will go first. Then me and Tai. Tai'll be at the door and when he gives you the signal, you go into the office and find what you need. Leave the rest to us," Matt instructed as he popped a mint into his mouth.
"Um, okay. I take it that the three of you have done this before," Izzy suspected breathlessly.
"Uh, do you remember that senior prank with the photocopies of half the senior class's permanent records, Principal Tomico's toupee up the flagpole and the school mascot cover in shaving cream?" Tai asked as he smoothed back his hair.
"The next words out of your mouth better not be claiming any responsibility to that!" Izzy replied as he rubbed his temples.
"Then you may want to plug your ears," Tai snickered. He and Matt exchanged high five and Sora rolled her eyes, but she couldn't hold in the giggle she got at the thought of their prank.
The four stopped outside the doors of the office. "Okay, I'm going in." She sounded like the hero out of a James Bond flick.
"Wait." Matt stopped her and gave her a look over. He pulled a few strands of ginger colored hair into her face, pushing it over her eyes. Then, with a final tug at the bottom of her shirt, which caused her to call out in surprise, he stepped back. "There," he laughed as she grimaced. "All better."
Sora rolled her eyes and stepped into the office. The three guys watched from their hiding spots behind three large plastic palm trees as Roger walked out of the back office and led Sora through the side entrance, his arm around her waist. They waited about two minutes before Matt went in with Tai following a couple of feet behind. Matt quickly engaged in a conversation with the woman behind the front desk and Tai pretended to be interested in the tacky paintings that decorated the walls inside. The brown haired boy glanced over at Matt and the distracted secretary. He looked back at Izzy and mouthed 'Stay low' and made a hand gesture of pushing at the floor. He waved Izzy forward. 'Hurry.'
Izzy hurried into the office hunched over. The bell over the door went off and Tai stepped on his back, pushing the red head to the floor. He grinned one of his goofy smiles and leaned against the door and Izzy with his weight, "Oops, leaned against the door," he said at the pair by the desk.
From his position on the floor, Izzy could see Matt's eyes light up with amusement of seeing Tai squirm and Izzy being squashed under Tai's foot. He looked back at the girl at the desk. "So Hilary, you single?" He said it to draw attention from Tai. There was strain in his voice, as if it were painful to ask the girl.
Izzy didn't waste any time. He was up on his hands and knees, still struggling under Tai's foot. Tai was getting far too much entertainment out of this position.
'I am seriously going to maim Tai!' Izzy thought.
When Tai's foot was off his back, he had made his way to the back office and to the computer. There had to be some record of this Mizuhara guy. Ten minutes of typing, a sound he loved, passed before Izzy found anything.
"They're back!" Tai suddenly screamed. Izzy looked up. 'How the hell was that part of the plan?'
"Don't mind him," Izzy heard Matt say. "He's a little unstable in the mind. But we'd better HURRY so that I can get him home."
Izzy grabbed the printed sheet from the printer tray table and bolted out of the room on his hands and knees. Once he was safely out the door, Matt said goodbye to the girl and guided Tai out of the building. Once they were all safely hidden behind the shelter of the plastic palm tree grove the three burst out laughing after Izzy punched Tai in the jaw. A minute later Sora walked in, her smile strained. She left the building and approached the boys.
"Izzy, your sister better be one damn good DigiDestined, because if I get my ass grabbed one more time, I'm going to slaughter someone," she said. Tai reached, but Izzy grabbed his hand and pushed him to the ground. The three turned and headed back to the car, with Tai struggling to catch up with them.
"So where we off to next Izzy?" Matt asked.
Izzy read over the paper as his arm snaked around Sora's shoulders. "Washington D.C."
Okay, this was probably extremely out of charater and no where near my best work, but sorry. I had fun with this chapter. The next four or five chapters will probably be short. Later dayz, please reivew.
Oh yeah, I know I said that Matt, Tai, Sora, and Izzy were going to New York, New York, but I changed that. Its now Albany, New York.
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.
Searching
Tai opened the door to the hotel room and walked in, followed by Matt, Izzy and Sora. He gazed around in awe at the penthouse sweet hotel room. "Holy crap, this is cool!"
"I told you I had connections," Matt replied smugly as he set his bag down on the couch.
"You really stayed here?" Tai asked as he began to explore the room, traveling in and out of doors.
"Oh yeah," he smirked. "Had a wild party too!"
"Wow, this is beautiful Matt," Sora gasped.
Matt took her hand. "I shall give you the grand tour, my dear." He pulled her deeper into the room. "This is the living room. You have the beautiful sofa, imitation paintings from artist who have been dead for years and the entertainment center with a TV, DVD, VCR, and five disc CD changer. Off to the left we have the first bedroom, which comes complete with a queen size bed, personal bathroom, and a nice view of the city. Then to our right we have the other bedroom, which also comes complete with a queen size bed, personal bathroom, and beautiful view."
"So, who gets what room?" Izzy asked.
"Well, uh," Matt and Tai shared evil grins. "Tai and I will share this room and you and Sora can share the other!" Izzy and Sora exchanged blushing looks. Tai and Matt laughed at them.
"You two are perverted idiots," Sora shook her head.
"So tomorrow we'll go to that apartment building and talk to the manager," Izzy informed the group.
"Awwww, can't we sightsee?" Tai asked.
Izzy glared at him. "This is the exact reason I wanted to go alone! This trip is strictly-"
"Strictly business," Tai and Matt repeated, mockingly.
Izzy glared at them. "I told you that before we came! I just want to do find her and go back to Japan." Tai and Matt just rolled their eyes. "You guys should go out and sight see. I'm going to do some work." Picking up his bag he walked into the room Matt had designated for him. He sat down on the queen size bed and pulled out his laptop.
The door opened and Sora walked in, carrying her own bag. She sighed upon seeing Izzy hunched over his yellow pineapple laptop. "Izzy, for five minutes can't you live without that thing?" She asked. He grunted in response. She set her own bag down. "Come on, let's have some fun. Go sight seeing with us."
"I wanna get this work done," he refused.
"Izzy, we're in New York, we have to do a little sight seeing. This may not be New York, New York, but its still a new place. Let's go out, pretty please," she begged, pushing the lid of the laptop close. "Matt and Tai are going out. I'm going with them. Come, please. Tomorrow we will go to those apartments and find out what we need."
He looked up at her. "Your not going to take no for an answer, are you?"
She grinned. "Nope. The day is young, its only 10. We'll look around for the rest of the day, then tomorrow we'll do whatever you want."
A mischievous grin crossed his face. "What if you and me do what I want tonight?" She blushed. He laughed. He grabbed her by the waist and threw her down gently on the bed. She giggled as he kissed her and the tickled her neck.
"EW!"A voice yelled. They both looked up to see Tai and Matt in the open doorway. "A little kinky, ain't it?" Tai asked Matt.
"Oh yeah," the blonde teen laughed.
Izzy gave a defeated sigh and got off the bed, helping Sora up as he did. "Ready to go?" He asked them. "Sora convinced me to go sightseeing with you guys for today. But tomorrow we're going to those apartment buildings!"
"M'kay," Tai grinned. "Let's move out." He ran for the front door with Matt behind him. "I call shot gun!" Izzy held out his hand and Sora took it. They followed the boys out.
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"Is this the place?" Matt asked as they pulled up to the Cook Creek apartments.
Izzy checked the invoice for the address. "Yeah." He hopped out of the car. "I'll run in real quick," he informed, leaning into the car through the front open window. "I'll see if I can get a change of address of something and then we'll go get a bite to eat or something."
Matt put the car into park. "Alright, we'll be right here." He hit Tai in the chest. "If we can keep Tai entertained long enough."
"Hey!" Tai snapped insulted.
Izzy snickered as he turned away from the car and followed the signs to the office of the Cook Creek apartments. He entered the brightly lit room and approached the desk where an ebony haired female sat looking at a magazine and popping her gum, which she chewed loudly. He cleared his throat when she didn't acknowledge his presence. "Can I help you sir?" She asked, her voice high and nasally.
"Yeah, can I speak to the manager or whoever's in charge?" He asked.
"Yeah, just a sec. ROGER!"
A tall man in his late thirties walked in. His eyes were hidden behind dark mirrored sunglasses and his skin was a golden brown from spending too much time in the sun. "Yeah?"
"This man wants to speak with you," the gum-snapping woman said.
The man looked up at Izzy and flashed him a white toothy grin. "How can I help you?" He asked as he pulled off his sunglasses. He had a farmer's tan where his sunglasses had been.
"I'm trying to find someone who used to live here. I was hoping you could look up the name on your records and see if there's a change of address or something." Izzy pulled the yellowed invoice from his pocket and handed it to the manager.
Roger ran a hand through his grown out blue hair as he read over the paper. "Uh, I don't have the authority to give you that information. Technically those records are off-limits to the public. Sorry." He played with a strand of blue hair as he handed the paper back to Izzy.
Izzy shoved it back into his hand. "Please! Its incredibly important!"
Roger's smile disappeared. "Listen buddy, I can't do that! By law those records are off limits to you! Now get out before I call the cops." He crumpled up the invoice and shoved it into Izzy's chest.
He caught it in his hands and his shoulders hunched in defeat. "Okay, I'll go. Sorry to bother you." He walked out of the air-conditioned office, ignoring the annoying ring of the bell over the door, and into the hot, muggy parking lot. Shielding his eyes with his hand he spotted the faded red compact car he and his friends had rented. Every window was rolled down, Tai's head hung out of the front passenger's window, a pair of black shades covering his eyes and Sora's bare feet stuck out from the back passenger's side window. A familiar Teenage Wolves tune blared from the speaker. Izzy tickled Sora's foot to make her pull back and he got in the car.
"So?" Matt asked expectantly as he tapped on the steering wheel in tune with the music. Tai turned it down to hear Izzy speak.
"I couldn't get any information," he reported, sounded defeated.
"We figured as much," Matt shrugged.
"Huh?" Izzy inquired confused. "You expected me to fail?"
"No exactly," Sora admitted. "Okay down to business. Manager girl or guy?"
"Guy-"
"Age?"
"Late thirties maybe. I'm not sure exactly."
"Perfect," Sora said with a small smile.
Before he could ask what she was talking about, Tai popped up on his knees facing Izzy, looking serious. "Anyone else in the office?"
"The receptionist."
"Guy or girl? Age?" Tai pressed on.
"Girl, early twenties. What's with the anomalous inquiry?" Izzy demanded, his head spinning in confusion.
His three friends exchanged glances. "In English Izzy?" Matt asked.
"What's with the whacked questions?" Izzy corrected himself, dumbing down his English. (Okay I realize dumb is not a verb, but I use it as a verb quite often so don't yell at me. This is why I will never be an English major!)
Sora looked at the two guys in the front seat, ignoring her boyfriend's question. "You guys know the plan, right? Matt, you've got the receptionist. Tai, your look out." Tai groaned and mumbled something like 'I'm always look out'. Izzy's eyes bulged slightly and his mouth dropped open as he watch Sora tug at the bottom of her shirt to reveal a little cleavage. "Tai, if your eyes go any lower then my neck I'm going to slap you a new face." Tai grinned as Sora finish straightening her shirt. "Let's go." The three got out of the car and Izzy scrambled out to follow them.
"Okay Izzy, Sora will go first. Then me and Tai. Tai'll be at the door and when he gives you the signal, you go into the office and find what you need. Leave the rest to us," Matt instructed as he popped a mint into his mouth.
"Um, okay. I take it that the three of you have done this before," Izzy suspected breathlessly.
"Uh, do you remember that senior prank with the photocopies of half the senior class's permanent records, Principal Tomico's toupee up the flagpole and the school mascot cover in shaving cream?" Tai asked as he smoothed back his hair.
"The next words out of your mouth better not be claiming any responsibility to that!" Izzy replied as he rubbed his temples.
"Then you may want to plug your ears," Tai snickered. He and Matt exchanged high five and Sora rolled her eyes, but she couldn't hold in the giggle she got at the thought of their prank.
The four stopped outside the doors of the office. "Okay, I'm going in." She sounded like the hero out of a James Bond flick.
"Wait." Matt stopped her and gave her a look over. He pulled a few strands of ginger colored hair into her face, pushing it over her eyes. Then, with a final tug at the bottom of her shirt, which caused her to call out in surprise, he stepped back. "There," he laughed as she grimaced. "All better."
Sora rolled her eyes and stepped into the office. The three guys watched from their hiding spots behind three large plastic palm trees as Roger walked out of the back office and led Sora through the side entrance, his arm around her waist. They waited about two minutes before Matt went in with Tai following a couple of feet behind. Matt quickly engaged in a conversation with the woman behind the front desk and Tai pretended to be interested in the tacky paintings that decorated the walls inside. The brown haired boy glanced over at Matt and the distracted secretary. He looked back at Izzy and mouthed 'Stay low' and made a hand gesture of pushing at the floor. He waved Izzy forward. 'Hurry.'
Izzy hurried into the office hunched over. The bell over the door went off and Tai stepped on his back, pushing the red head to the floor. He grinned one of his goofy smiles and leaned against the door and Izzy with his weight, "Oops, leaned against the door," he said at the pair by the desk.
From his position on the floor, Izzy could see Matt's eyes light up with amusement of seeing Tai squirm and Izzy being squashed under Tai's foot. He looked back at the girl at the desk. "So Hilary, you single?" He said it to draw attention from Tai. There was strain in his voice, as if it were painful to ask the girl.
Izzy didn't waste any time. He was up on his hands and knees, still struggling under Tai's foot. Tai was getting far too much entertainment out of this position.
'I am seriously going to maim Tai!' Izzy thought.
When Tai's foot was off his back, he had made his way to the back office and to the computer. There had to be some record of this Mizuhara guy. Ten minutes of typing, a sound he loved, passed before Izzy found anything.
"They're back!" Tai suddenly screamed. Izzy looked up. 'How the hell was that part of the plan?'
"Don't mind him," Izzy heard Matt say. "He's a little unstable in the mind. But we'd better HURRY so that I can get him home."
Izzy grabbed the printed sheet from the printer tray table and bolted out of the room on his hands and knees. Once he was safely out the door, Matt said goodbye to the girl and guided Tai out of the building. Once they were all safely hidden behind the shelter of the plastic palm tree grove the three burst out laughing after Izzy punched Tai in the jaw. A minute later Sora walked in, her smile strained. She left the building and approached the boys.
"Izzy, your sister better be one damn good DigiDestined, because if I get my ass grabbed one more time, I'm going to slaughter someone," she said. Tai reached, but Izzy grabbed his hand and pushed him to the ground. The three turned and headed back to the car, with Tai struggling to catch up with them.
"So where we off to next Izzy?" Matt asked.
Izzy read over the paper as his arm snaked around Sora's shoulders. "Washington D.C."
Okay, this was probably extremely out of charater and no where near my best work, but sorry. I had fun with this chapter. The next four or five chapters will probably be short. Later dayz, please reivew.