I'm…BBAAAAAAAAAAAACCCHHHHH!!!! Or maybe Mozart, my hero! Willie m'boy!
Fetch me a glass o' juice and we'll get a-started with the story. Thanks to
all the people who reviewed, you all gave me more reason to continue.
Mabuhay Sorato! Mabuhay Pilipinas! Mga pinoy, huwag mag-alala! Mabait ang
Diyos,, kaya magkakaroon na tayo ng pandaidigang kapayapaan at Kalayaan
para sa buong mundo!
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Yamato Ishida had a lot on his mind, but little to do.
He was strolling around in the park on Saturday, enjoying the peace. After all, it would be hard to have peace in school on Monday once his fan girls knew where he was. Matt was always a fan of playing soccer, but his career of music usually took up his time for the game. He used to be on his school's soccer team, but when his schedule became too trying, he had to quit it.
In this school, Matt was hoping to be able to try out for the team. Goalie would be nice. Maybe forward would be fun.
So Matt brought his old soccer ball to school, bouncing it around and doing little tricks that he had done so long ago that he nearly forgot how to do them in the first place. He was in an empty field, a lovely meadow where he could have peace while practicing for soccer when his kick suddenly went haywire and shot the ball out from under his feet erratically.
He cursed because he was thinking about the girl who he had knocked over the day before. She was a pretty girl, but he'd seen prettier. She seemed angry at him. Well, duh. You knocked her over and didn't even say sorry. You think she'd be shouting with joy?
The ball shot out and suddenly, there was a thump. Matt recognized that thump. The ball had hit someone.
He quickly sprinted to the grove where the ball had gone and saw someone walking out. His hair was chocolate brown and defying the rule of gravity. It was enormous! The guy was holding his soccer ball. (A/N: There's 10 points being given out here!)
"Hey," he slowed down his sprint. "That's mine."
"I know that." The guy grinned. He looked about 15, Matt's age. "You were doing pretty well before the ball decided to hit me. What happened?"
Matt looked sheepish. "Well, I had a lot on my mind. I'm sorry if it hit you."
"T's all right. I caught it before it smashed my face it. I'm Taichi Kamiya. Tai, actually. You look new to Odaiba." He handed me back my ball.
Matt nodded. "Yeah. In fact, I am new to Odaiba. I'm attending Odaiba High School on Monday with my cousin. My name's Matt Ishida."
"Travel a lot?"
"Yep."
So Tai and Matt proceeded to continue the conversation and soon, they started kicking the soccer ball around together. Tai was really good at it. Matt asked him if he played on a team and found out that he played in the OHS team.
He was relieved to know that he was enrolled in the same school. At least he knew someone other than Mimi and that rude girl. After all, hanging out with girls all the time might make a guy seem…gay, or something. And that was one thing Matt did not need on the tabloid newspapers. Besides, who said that he was going to hang out with the redhead?
Surprisingly enough, Matt's fame was unknown to Tai. As popular as Tai was in Odaiba High School, it turned out that he never really listened to rock music, but he admired classical music. (A/N: Weird for Tai, but I LOVE classical music!) Matt thought that that was cool. He always thought highly of classical music, especially baroque and renaissance. He knew how to play the piano and often wondered where that path would lead him if he dedicated himself to it.
Matt decided not to tell Tai who he was. After all, he didn't want his friendships to be ruined with the fact that he was an icon. He would tell Tai in time, but at the moment, he needed to practice for the team. He didn't want Tai's head to be up in the sky with amazement, so he kept it a secret.
The two of them spent the day kicking the ball around idly. Tai gave Matt some pointers to help improve his skills and hoped that Matt would be able to join the team.
Tai informed him, "Soccer tryouts are on Wednesday. Thursday if you miss it. The coach is a cool person. She won't blow you over for missing tryouts. But you'd better practice well because there's this girl I know of who has a mean kick. She just might make it into the team, if she's interested. She shows as much promise as you do."
Matt shrugged. "Then I'll have to beat her."
Tai looked pleased. "Well, this would liven things up a bit. Other than that silly rumor going around."
"Which one is that?"
"The one that stated that a bunch of stars are crashing into our school."
Matt fidgeted a little. "Well, never mind that. Let's start practicing."
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Sunday was passing quickly for the people of Odaiba. For some reason, there was a large quantity of young people listening to gossip. I'm supposing that you all know why. The girls of Odaiba High School were extremely excited, for once, eager to go to school. Some people, though, had no idea of what was happening and apparently didn't care.
"KARI!!" Tai's voice rang through the young girl's room. "YOUR STUPID CAT KNOCKED MY DRINK ALL OVER MY HOMEWORK!!!!"
Kari Kamiya sighed irritably. An argument like this happened every night. Although she and her older brother often enjoyed these fights, she was in no mood for it tonight. She had to contact TK somehow for a project that was due for Tuesday. She tried calling him several times (all right. The whole freaking day.), but she never reached him. Always his machine. Just a while ago, she went to his building and attempted to see him, but she rang the doorbell all day and pounded on the door and never got a response.
And right now, she was doing math homework (algebra) that didn't want to be solved. It stubbornly refused to give her the answers she needed.
"What do you mean?" Kari shouted. "Miko is right here!" She picked up her cat.
"Well, your Miko just spilled mom's soda on my homework, thus making it more incomprehensible than it usually is! The teacher won't accept it at all!"
"Yeah, well what do you want me to do about it!?" she yelled back at him.
"How about killing your cat?" His head poked through the door, bushy hair nearly dismantling the door. "That'll do just fine. It just might make me feel forgivable enough."
Kari reached for her old stuffed toy and threw it at his head. "Get lost! I'm trying to do my homework!"
"I was, too, then it turns out that all the work that I spent three hours on has gotten mom's special soda all over it!"
Kari rolled her eyes. "So what, Tai? It's just soda. Besides, Tai, brother dear. That was just addition! Addition! I'm doing algebra, and you're bugging me, so I cannot submit this tomorrow if you keep at it!"
Tai retorted, "It may just be soda, but it's Mom's soda! What's worse, it's Mom's special soda! Do you know what that stuff does to metal? Moreover, do you know what it does to a single sheet of paper? It's a million times worse!"
"Then do it again! Tai, you make such big problems out of minor nuisances! You copied the problems in your notebook and you have your solutions on a different piece of paper!"
"But I can't understand my own writing! It makes my head hurt to look at it!"
"That's your own problem, so leave me alone! Leave Miko alone, too!" She gave him a warning glance.
Tai stopped. "What's wrong, Kari? You look a little frazzled."
"Well, of course, it has nothing to do with the fact that you are bugging me! My brain already hurts from algebra and your stupid Mozart CD's. I'm perfectly fine!!" She threw down her pencil in frustration.
"Kari, you know you can always tell me." Tai sat down on her bed, clearing it of all the clutter Kari had previously dumped onto her new bed. 'New' because Kari had finally convinced her parents that she needed her own room. After all those years sharing a room with her infuriating but fun older brother, she needed it. "After all, big brothers are supposed to solve their little sisters' problems if it gets too bad."
"Not if they're math problems," Kari muttered, shooting him a dark look. "And then they make it worse by giving inexplicable explanations for the equations."
Tai grinned. "That's what we do. Oh, and by the way, does your problem have anything to do with that project that you and TK have to finish for school on Tuesday?"
Kari looked up, amazed. "How did you know?" She wondered if there was some psychic brain after all in all that mass of bushy hair.(A/N: No insult to Tai fans here, but these are sibling things.)
"Well, you've been telling me all about this exciting picture project that you have to do for weeks then nothing happens," Tai answered.
Kari looked glum. "Maybe I should've just done it with Yolei. Or Davis, maybe. But TK seemed like the perfect choice! He's always so responsible and all that that something must be wrong!"
Tai shrugged. "Just—"
RRIINGG!!! The phone in the kitchen suddenly went off.
"I'll get it!" Kari yelped eagerly, hopping off her chair and running past Tai. "It might be TK!"
Tai muttered gloomily about something that sounded like, "Ungrateful little sister," but Kari couldn't put it past him to try.
Kari grabbed to wall phone and said, "Hello?"
"Kari!" her friend Yolei Inoue cried on the other end of the telephone conversation. "Did you hear the news? Did you hear the news? I can't believe it! This is actually happening! I'm so thrilled!"
"Oh. Hi, Yolei."
"Kari, you don't sound too happy to hear me. But I'm sure that you'll be happy to hear this!"
"Joy of joys."
"Kari, what's the matter? It's not like you to be this unhappy."
"Well, TK and I are supposed to do this project for Tuesday, I've got the pictures already, but every time I call him, I just get his machine! I tried to go to his house yesterday but he wouldn't come to the door." Kari tried not to sound like she was complaining, but she couldn't help it. She was mad at TK. "Is he putting me off on purpose?"
"Kari, Kari, Kari."
"Yes, Yolei, Yolei, Yolei?"
"Stop that. And since you need to know in order not to kill TK tomorrow at school, I'll tell you. TK's brother is coming back into town! He's going to Odaiba High School tomorrow!"
"Matt's coming back? That's great but it's no excuse! He should've at least told me that he'd be busy so I could finish the project on my own. That boy's in for it, big time. That stupid blonde'd better watch out."
Yolei laughed. "That stupid, good-looking blonde."
Kari sighed. "Yolei, must you always talk about boys? It could get trying for the people who don't care."
"Well, if you don't want him—"
"That's enough, Yolei. I think I'll go finish my algebra now."
"But I haven't told you yet who Matt—"
"Bye, Yolei."
Kari hung up the phone. She would apologize to Yolei tomorrow, but at the now, she was furious. Why was TK so irresponsible that he wouldn't tell her that he couldn't make it? How come he told Yolei that Yamato Ishida was back in town and not her?
Well, whatever the answers were, she would get them tomorrow.
One way or the other.
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Sora and Aki walked to school together the next day. It was Monday. Their houses were close by so it was no big deal for any of them to meet at a certain point in the neighborhood.
Yesterday, they spent the day with the famous actress, Mimi Tachikawa. Sora was startled to realize that all actresses weren't as stuck up as she thought they were, after all. Mimi was very down-to-earth. They had become the best of friends in just a short span of time.
"Sora, I can't believe that we're best friends with the Mimi Tachikawa!" Aki exclaimed as she bounced along jauntily, waving at everyone who walked past her. "I mean, yesterday, we were a bunch of nobodies, and now we're chums with a famous actress! That's a large turn of luck. Chloris was so astounded when I called her last night! She's eager to meet Mimi, too."
Sora smiled and nodded her head. "Let's step up a little. I want to get to school early. Things today are going to be interesting."
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OK, rather short chapter, but thou shalt not worry. Sorry, though, about that sudden burst of patriotism back there. Actually, I'm not sorry. MABUHAY! Review and I love you!! Or not, but it rhymed so I got it. The Sorato will appear in the next few chapters disguised as a hideous crone, so it might be a while before Matt and Sora get together. You'll just have to wait and hope that one day, I will feel like putting it in!
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Yamato Ishida had a lot on his mind, but little to do.
He was strolling around in the park on Saturday, enjoying the peace. After all, it would be hard to have peace in school on Monday once his fan girls knew where he was. Matt was always a fan of playing soccer, but his career of music usually took up his time for the game. He used to be on his school's soccer team, but when his schedule became too trying, he had to quit it.
In this school, Matt was hoping to be able to try out for the team. Goalie would be nice. Maybe forward would be fun.
So Matt brought his old soccer ball to school, bouncing it around and doing little tricks that he had done so long ago that he nearly forgot how to do them in the first place. He was in an empty field, a lovely meadow where he could have peace while practicing for soccer when his kick suddenly went haywire and shot the ball out from under his feet erratically.
He cursed because he was thinking about the girl who he had knocked over the day before. She was a pretty girl, but he'd seen prettier. She seemed angry at him. Well, duh. You knocked her over and didn't even say sorry. You think she'd be shouting with joy?
The ball shot out and suddenly, there was a thump. Matt recognized that thump. The ball had hit someone.
He quickly sprinted to the grove where the ball had gone and saw someone walking out. His hair was chocolate brown and defying the rule of gravity. It was enormous! The guy was holding his soccer ball. (A/N: There's 10 points being given out here!)
"Hey," he slowed down his sprint. "That's mine."
"I know that." The guy grinned. He looked about 15, Matt's age. "You were doing pretty well before the ball decided to hit me. What happened?"
Matt looked sheepish. "Well, I had a lot on my mind. I'm sorry if it hit you."
"T's all right. I caught it before it smashed my face it. I'm Taichi Kamiya. Tai, actually. You look new to Odaiba." He handed me back my ball.
Matt nodded. "Yeah. In fact, I am new to Odaiba. I'm attending Odaiba High School on Monday with my cousin. My name's Matt Ishida."
"Travel a lot?"
"Yep."
So Tai and Matt proceeded to continue the conversation and soon, they started kicking the soccer ball around together. Tai was really good at it. Matt asked him if he played on a team and found out that he played in the OHS team.
He was relieved to know that he was enrolled in the same school. At least he knew someone other than Mimi and that rude girl. After all, hanging out with girls all the time might make a guy seem…gay, or something. And that was one thing Matt did not need on the tabloid newspapers. Besides, who said that he was going to hang out with the redhead?
Surprisingly enough, Matt's fame was unknown to Tai. As popular as Tai was in Odaiba High School, it turned out that he never really listened to rock music, but he admired classical music. (A/N: Weird for Tai, but I LOVE classical music!) Matt thought that that was cool. He always thought highly of classical music, especially baroque and renaissance. He knew how to play the piano and often wondered where that path would lead him if he dedicated himself to it.
Matt decided not to tell Tai who he was. After all, he didn't want his friendships to be ruined with the fact that he was an icon. He would tell Tai in time, but at the moment, he needed to practice for the team. He didn't want Tai's head to be up in the sky with amazement, so he kept it a secret.
The two of them spent the day kicking the ball around idly. Tai gave Matt some pointers to help improve his skills and hoped that Matt would be able to join the team.
Tai informed him, "Soccer tryouts are on Wednesday. Thursday if you miss it. The coach is a cool person. She won't blow you over for missing tryouts. But you'd better practice well because there's this girl I know of who has a mean kick. She just might make it into the team, if she's interested. She shows as much promise as you do."
Matt shrugged. "Then I'll have to beat her."
Tai looked pleased. "Well, this would liven things up a bit. Other than that silly rumor going around."
"Which one is that?"
"The one that stated that a bunch of stars are crashing into our school."
Matt fidgeted a little. "Well, never mind that. Let's start practicing."
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Sunday was passing quickly for the people of Odaiba. For some reason, there was a large quantity of young people listening to gossip. I'm supposing that you all know why. The girls of Odaiba High School were extremely excited, for once, eager to go to school. Some people, though, had no idea of what was happening and apparently didn't care.
"KARI!!" Tai's voice rang through the young girl's room. "YOUR STUPID CAT KNOCKED MY DRINK ALL OVER MY HOMEWORK!!!!"
Kari Kamiya sighed irritably. An argument like this happened every night. Although she and her older brother often enjoyed these fights, she was in no mood for it tonight. She had to contact TK somehow for a project that was due for Tuesday. She tried calling him several times (all right. The whole freaking day.), but she never reached him. Always his machine. Just a while ago, she went to his building and attempted to see him, but she rang the doorbell all day and pounded on the door and never got a response.
And right now, she was doing math homework (algebra) that didn't want to be solved. It stubbornly refused to give her the answers she needed.
"What do you mean?" Kari shouted. "Miko is right here!" She picked up her cat.
"Well, your Miko just spilled mom's soda on my homework, thus making it more incomprehensible than it usually is! The teacher won't accept it at all!"
"Yeah, well what do you want me to do about it!?" she yelled back at him.
"How about killing your cat?" His head poked through the door, bushy hair nearly dismantling the door. "That'll do just fine. It just might make me feel forgivable enough."
Kari reached for her old stuffed toy and threw it at his head. "Get lost! I'm trying to do my homework!"
"I was, too, then it turns out that all the work that I spent three hours on has gotten mom's special soda all over it!"
Kari rolled her eyes. "So what, Tai? It's just soda. Besides, Tai, brother dear. That was just addition! Addition! I'm doing algebra, and you're bugging me, so I cannot submit this tomorrow if you keep at it!"
Tai retorted, "It may just be soda, but it's Mom's soda! What's worse, it's Mom's special soda! Do you know what that stuff does to metal? Moreover, do you know what it does to a single sheet of paper? It's a million times worse!"
"Then do it again! Tai, you make such big problems out of minor nuisances! You copied the problems in your notebook and you have your solutions on a different piece of paper!"
"But I can't understand my own writing! It makes my head hurt to look at it!"
"That's your own problem, so leave me alone! Leave Miko alone, too!" She gave him a warning glance.
Tai stopped. "What's wrong, Kari? You look a little frazzled."
"Well, of course, it has nothing to do with the fact that you are bugging me! My brain already hurts from algebra and your stupid Mozart CD's. I'm perfectly fine!!" She threw down her pencil in frustration.
"Kari, you know you can always tell me." Tai sat down on her bed, clearing it of all the clutter Kari had previously dumped onto her new bed. 'New' because Kari had finally convinced her parents that she needed her own room. After all those years sharing a room with her infuriating but fun older brother, she needed it. "After all, big brothers are supposed to solve their little sisters' problems if it gets too bad."
"Not if they're math problems," Kari muttered, shooting him a dark look. "And then they make it worse by giving inexplicable explanations for the equations."
Tai grinned. "That's what we do. Oh, and by the way, does your problem have anything to do with that project that you and TK have to finish for school on Tuesday?"
Kari looked up, amazed. "How did you know?" She wondered if there was some psychic brain after all in all that mass of bushy hair.(A/N: No insult to Tai fans here, but these are sibling things.)
"Well, you've been telling me all about this exciting picture project that you have to do for weeks then nothing happens," Tai answered.
Kari looked glum. "Maybe I should've just done it with Yolei. Or Davis, maybe. But TK seemed like the perfect choice! He's always so responsible and all that that something must be wrong!"
Tai shrugged. "Just—"
RRIINGG!!! The phone in the kitchen suddenly went off.
"I'll get it!" Kari yelped eagerly, hopping off her chair and running past Tai. "It might be TK!"
Tai muttered gloomily about something that sounded like, "Ungrateful little sister," but Kari couldn't put it past him to try.
Kari grabbed to wall phone and said, "Hello?"
"Kari!" her friend Yolei Inoue cried on the other end of the telephone conversation. "Did you hear the news? Did you hear the news? I can't believe it! This is actually happening! I'm so thrilled!"
"Oh. Hi, Yolei."
"Kari, you don't sound too happy to hear me. But I'm sure that you'll be happy to hear this!"
"Joy of joys."
"Kari, what's the matter? It's not like you to be this unhappy."
"Well, TK and I are supposed to do this project for Tuesday, I've got the pictures already, but every time I call him, I just get his machine! I tried to go to his house yesterday but he wouldn't come to the door." Kari tried not to sound like she was complaining, but she couldn't help it. She was mad at TK. "Is he putting me off on purpose?"
"Kari, Kari, Kari."
"Yes, Yolei, Yolei, Yolei?"
"Stop that. And since you need to know in order not to kill TK tomorrow at school, I'll tell you. TK's brother is coming back into town! He's going to Odaiba High School tomorrow!"
"Matt's coming back? That's great but it's no excuse! He should've at least told me that he'd be busy so I could finish the project on my own. That boy's in for it, big time. That stupid blonde'd better watch out."
Yolei laughed. "That stupid, good-looking blonde."
Kari sighed. "Yolei, must you always talk about boys? It could get trying for the people who don't care."
"Well, if you don't want him—"
"That's enough, Yolei. I think I'll go finish my algebra now."
"But I haven't told you yet who Matt—"
"Bye, Yolei."
Kari hung up the phone. She would apologize to Yolei tomorrow, but at the now, she was furious. Why was TK so irresponsible that he wouldn't tell her that he couldn't make it? How come he told Yolei that Yamato Ishida was back in town and not her?
Well, whatever the answers were, she would get them tomorrow.
One way or the other.
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Sora and Aki walked to school together the next day. It was Monday. Their houses were close by so it was no big deal for any of them to meet at a certain point in the neighborhood.
Yesterday, they spent the day with the famous actress, Mimi Tachikawa. Sora was startled to realize that all actresses weren't as stuck up as she thought they were, after all. Mimi was very down-to-earth. They had become the best of friends in just a short span of time.
"Sora, I can't believe that we're best friends with the Mimi Tachikawa!" Aki exclaimed as she bounced along jauntily, waving at everyone who walked past her. "I mean, yesterday, we were a bunch of nobodies, and now we're chums with a famous actress! That's a large turn of luck. Chloris was so astounded when I called her last night! She's eager to meet Mimi, too."
Sora smiled and nodded her head. "Let's step up a little. I want to get to school early. Things today are going to be interesting."
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OK, rather short chapter, but thou shalt not worry. Sorry, though, about that sudden burst of patriotism back there. Actually, I'm not sorry. MABUHAY! Review and I love you!! Or not, but it rhymed so I got it. The Sorato will appear in the next few chapters disguised as a hideous crone, so it might be a while before Matt and Sora get together. You'll just have to wait and hope that one day, I will feel like putting it in!