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Chapter 12

The next morning we were woken up by Gennai. Rolling over and groaning I looked at the clock next to my bed, it read, 6:00am, groaning once more I pulled myself out of my warm, comfy bed and started to hunt around for my shoes.
Memories of the night before kept playing in my head as I looked over at Mimi and Yolie who were currently hiding under their duvets.
I smiled to myself, I was exceptionally tired, but it was worth it.
I'd been up with him until gone midnight and we'd talked everything through.

***Flashback***

I pulled away from him after a few seconds. His lips seemed to take me into a strange daze where I always seemed to lose control of my body. It was strange how he could have this affect on me, but I wasn't complaining. It felt like I was flying every time he traced his lips over mine.
Sighing gently I rested my head on his chest and smiled as he brought his arms around me and lead me slowly over to the bench. We sat there for the next half an hour, I think it was, just in each other's arms. We didn't say anything, do anything, we just sat there, content that we were with each other.
My mind was on over time. I'd never experienced feelings like this and in such a short space of time.
After a while he traced his hand up my back and I shuddered under his touch. Stopping suddenly he brought his hand to my cheek and lifted my head up so I could see him clearly.
"What?" He asked gently, stroking some hair away from my face.
"Nothing." I murmured and tried to let my head fall back onto his chest, but he held me where I was. I looked up at him and tilted my head slightly.
"What's wrong?" I asked, this time.
He said nothing for a long time. I watched, as he seemed to be thinking just what to say. After a long silence, broken only by the gentle wind blowing around us, he spoke.
"Sora…" He paused again, "what, what does this mean. For you and I, are we friends, or, or are we more now?" I smiled, it was the first time I'd ever seen him get embarrassed about anything.
"What do you want us to be?" I asked, looking up at him and never once breaking eye contact.
"I, I want us to be friends…" He said. That was where I broke eye contact.
'Friends, that's all he wants, just to be friends, but I thought, I thought with the kiss, the kisses, that he wanted more. I want more…'
But I never finished that thought as I felt his fingers around my chin lifting my head back up to him.
My whole body went tense as he lowered his face to mine and whispered in my ear "… but I want us to be more than that as well."

***End flashback***

I was brought out of my daze, which I seemed to be having a lot of at the moment, by Mimi yelling at Gennai and throwing her alarm clock at his retreating back.

Twenty minutes, and a lot of yelling later, we were all up and dressed and grudgingly making our way down to the kitchen for breakfast.
As we walked down the corridor I felt a pair of arms wrap around my waist and pull me backwards away from Kari, Yolie, Jessica and Mimi.
I would've let out a scream, but I already knew who it was.
Smiling as he turned me round, I tried to say good morning, but his lips were already on mine, making it impossible to do anything but get swept up in the moment.
Closing my eyes, I felt the same familiar feeling creeping into my stomach and my body going numb again.
Not caring though I continued to enjoy the feeling of his lips kissing my own.
I felt the ground beneath me disappear along with all my senses.
I held onto him as my feet started to lift from the ground and moaned gently as his lips travelled down my neckline.
I paid no attention when Gennai's house turned into a swirling mass of blue's, reds and mixing purples.
And thought nothing of the voices I could hear around me, as at this moment his lips were breaking contact with my neck and making their way back up to mine.
I forgot at this moment, as he made butterfly kisses on my mouth, that Gennai's house wasn't full of gigantic clouds breaking slowly apart.
I also failed to recognise that there weren't really hundreds of voices steadily growing softer around me as he brought his hand to my cheek and held me still.
I didn't realise that the clouds had now disappeared and that the walls of the house were back and that my feet were now on the round as he finished his kiss and held my hands in his own.
But I did feel him gently encircle my fingers with his own and bring me back to reality, showing me one of his cute lop-sided grins.
I opened my eyes, and then closed them again. The feelings that had just rushed through my body were unbelievably intense.
Not just the feel of him that close to me, but the fact that I was, once again, regaining control of my body and was able to think clearly again.
What on earth had I just witnessed?
Was it just my mind getting lost in the moment I'd just shared with him, or was it something else?
I didn't have chance to think about it though as he pulled me gently down the corridor I had been walking down five minutes previously and towards the kitchen for breakfast.

When we got into the kitchen everyone was already in, ready to start eating.
The table before us held more food than I had thought possible to eat for a breakfast.
I watched as Gennai waddled around us handing out plates to each of the digidestined.
We stepped forwards into the room, and I looked up at Matt as he scanned the table for our seats. I turned as I heard someone calling my name.
It was Jamie.
"Here, Sora. Saved you a seat." I smiled briefly at him, but turned back to Matt.
He wasn't looking at me though he was watching Jamie like a hawk. I shook my head and walked forward to the table and sat down next to Jamie.
Helping myself to some toast and jam I started to eat. Matt had sat down on the other side of the table, and was still watching Jamie as he piled sausages, fried eggs and bacon onto his plate and then proceeded to cover the lot in tomato ketchup.
I screwed up my nose at his plate but he just grinned at me.
"It's better than it looks." He said and took to clearing his plate.
No one really said a word as we ate the breakfast, there were conversation going on around us, but only in small groups.
When breakfast finished Gennai started to lead us down a part of the house I had never noticed before, straight past the patio where I'd spent most of last night with Yamato.
Yawning I followed the group, floating back to my dream world…

***Flashback***

I don't exactly know, what made me change so suddenly, but if he wanted us to be friends and more, then he'd have to deal with the normal Sora, that was his friend as well as the new Sora, who was now that little bit more.
"Mr. Ishida," I said, sitting up straight and looking directly at him, a slight smile playing on my lips. "Are you asking me out?" I asked, grinning now, with my hands planted firmly on my hips.
"Depends." He smiled, shaking his head at my antics.
"On what?" I asked, fighting to keep my grin under control.
"On what your answer would be." He stated, laughing at my pitiful attempts not to grin like a mad woman.
"Well, you'll just have to ask, if you want to find out." I said, finally getting the grin under control.
What he did next I had not been expecting. Taking both my hands in his, he moved me round so I was looking directly at him.
"Sora, I don't want to ruin what we've already got, but, but I do want more. I can't get those kisses out of my head. You're all I've been thinking about for the past day, or to be honest, you're all I've ever thought about. Before, whenever I'd been in trouble, I thought of your smile and you got me through. Whenever I was upset I thought about your laugh and it made feel better again. I know it's corny, but you complete me Sora, you're everything I dreamt of in a girlfriend, I just never realised until now that you were whom I wanted." He paused, grasping my hands tighter in his own.
"Sora, you'll always have my friendship no matter what, I've told you that, and I hope you realise that I mean it, you mean too much to me just to let you go, but, if you would like, and only if you're sure. I want us to be more, more than just friends."
"Sora will you go out with me?"
At this point I noticed his eyes were squeezed shut. I smiled and gently pushed some of his hair away from his eyes. He looked up sharply, hope showing clearly in his eyes.
I leant forward and smiled at him, kissing his lips slightly.
"You rehearsed that didn't you?" I smiled, looking up at him.
He grinned and shook his head at me.
"Sora, I'm serious." The hope was back in his eyes along with something that I'd not seen many times before, desperation.
It was there in his voice when he'd said all that to me, it was there in his kiss and most of all it was there in his heart and sole.
"Yes, Yamato." I whispered, "yes, I will." And with that he pulled me into a hug, kissing me all over.

***End flashback***

I was brought out of yet another memory by the sound of Yamato whispering in my ear.
We were now in a huge hall. There were climbing apparatus scattered around the room and the only windows that let the rising sun light into the over-sized room, were 20 ft in the air, right at the top of the building.
"Where are we?" I whispered back.
"I'm not sure, something to do with our training." Was whispered back into my ear, sending breaths of warm air down my neck. I shuddered slightly and blushed, hiding my head as he noticed he'd had an affect on me.
Turning my head from him I returned my attention to Gennai.
He was explaining that in order to face this new evil we were going to have to be in perfect physical condition and he was also muttering about how he had such a short time to get us all ready.
"Right, seeing as though the elementals already know what they are doing I suggest you get into groups and listen to exactly what they tell you. I'll come back at 12:00 and you can have your dinner, and don't start moaning all of you, you have never faced anything with this amount of power and to defeat him, you need to be in perfect physical condition, no excuses." And with this last speech running through our minds we paired into groups as he walked out of the gigantic hall, apparently talking to himself.

The next five hours were tiring to say the least. We had to complete assault courses, run laps and make our way through the "magical forest". Jamie explained to us what we had to do, before we entered. (He was our group leader, which hadn't made Tai, Matt or Davis very happy.)
He explained, avoiding the glares he was receiving, that we had to get past the digimon in the forest using only our wits. He also took me aside and let slip that they weren't actually real, just computer images set up to see how well we functioned in a difficult situation.
I passed this information on to Kari, before she entered, but didn't get chance to tell the other's as they were extremely anxious to get into the trees and get back out the other side the quickest.
Sighing Kari and I made our way in together. I decided, for practise that I would treat this as though they were actually real.
So I moved as quietly as I could avoiding branches laying on the floor and going around a pile of leaves that looked suspiciously like they were covering a hole. Kari followed my suit and soon we found ourselves deep in the forest, without so much as a glimpse of a digimon.
"This doesn't feel right." I whispered, as we made our way over some broken branches, ducking occasionally to avoid some lower branches still attached to the trees.
"I know what you mean, it's too quiet, even for a computer simulation, do you think we should go back and…"
But I never heard the end of that sentence. That feeling was back again, right at the pit of my stomach. But no, it wasn't the same, the one I had experienced before had been warm and tingly, whereas this, this left me feeling hollow, empty.
"Run." I said hoarsely.
"What?" Kari asked, with a questioning look on her face.
"Just run." I screamed, jumping out of the way just as a huge fireball flew through the air and landed where we had been stood.
I ran forwards and then to the left trying desperately to avoid the fire raining down on me from above. I looked over my shoulder trying to see Kari but there was no sign of her; she'd disappeared.
"This is insane!" I called. Leaping out of the way of an on-coming fireball and changing direction.
"Come on, Gennai, Jamie, Matt!" I screamed as a branch from a tree hit me in the back, knocking me to the ground and into darkness.

*Giggles*… thought I'd leave you all hanging there, coz I know how much you all like cliff hangers.
Please review and SoDa PoP is it now, write something for goodness sake, before people forget about your fics completely. :P
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