Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.
Summary: Fourth part in the Series. Expected to be around four chapters + prologue and an epilogue. AU everyone, Taichi has a little secret, okay maybe it's not that little.
Last time on Tai's little Secret, Tai revealed to the other digi destined that she was a girl and not a boy. Sora didn't take the news very well and ran off. Now Tai is faced with explaining to the other kids why she has been dressing as a boy for the last five years, and finding Sora so she can explain why she even lied to her best friend.
Thoughts.
A few words before the fic starts. I've counted up the suggestions for a couple in this fic, and the result can be found right after the Authors Notes, I don't intend to add Romance to the story as it is, but I do intend to do something with them. You can read more about it after the Author Notes.
Dak.
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Tai's little Secret
Part V
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Sora slowly walked over and looked right into the brown eyes of her former friend. "Tai, we need to talk."
Tai slowly nodded, and the red/orange haired girl before her, took a hold of her arm, and began to drag her over to a more secluded room to talk. As the door closed behind them, Tai felt something tighten in her stomach. "Look Sora, I'm sorry I didn't tell you okay. I was just so scared and."
Tai stopped as she felt someone place a finger over her mouth. Looking up, she stared into two intensely glowing eyes before her. "Tai, it's me. I'm the one who should apologize. I've been a…" Stopping, Sora turned her head to star at the door. Then she calmly walked over and ripped it open. "Can we get some privacy or what?"
The group of chosen children huddled outside the door eeped at sight of a very angry Sora staring at them. Mimi very quickly hid the glass she had used to listen better with behind her back. "Of course Sora, We very sorry about this, right?" The rest of the group all nodded and stepped back from the door. Sora looked from each of them as she gave a very strained smile, then she closed the door and returned to talk with the brunette.
Tai stared at Sora with a whole row of different emotions running through her, but the most common one was anxiety, mixed in with a large potion of fear. Moving her eyes away to stare at the floor, Tai slowly opened her mouth. "Sora, I… I'm so sorry about all this." Turning away from Sora, Tai shoulders shook a little as stress, anxiety and fear began to take their toll on the girl. "I shouldn't have kept it a secret from you, I should have told you so much, but I was so scared." Tai shoulders began to shake even more, as a few tears began to run down her cheeks. "I'm sorry Sora, I'm so sorry for lying to you, for never telling you the truth."
Sora closed her mouth and stared at Tai with big eyes, she had expected something from the brunette, but an emotional breakdown was beyond the stuff she had thought off. Stepping forward she wrapped the brunette in a hug, and began to make cooing noises to calm her down. Holding a still shaking and somewhat crying Tai, Sora felt like face faulting like they did in a manga or Anime. How could someone able to stand up to a powerful monster hell bent on killing all of them, be so scared of telling someone that they were a cross-dresser? "Tai, tell me why, that's all I want to know right now."
Tai looked up from where she was and sniffed. Then she looked around the small room to find something to concentrate on, to hide her own embarrassment at the past. "It… It all started five or six years ago, long before my family moved to Highton View Terrance." Slowly, Tai told Sora of the reason she had been cross-dressing as a boy.
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Mimi, Matt, and Kari leaned in closer to the door, all three of them straining to hear what was going on the other side. Matt simply to know if the group that had fought so hard to stay together would be broken up, Mimi simply because she didn't want to see anyone fight. And Kari was there to see to, that Sora didn't break her big sister heart, and to provide moral support if she did.
Slowly turning her head, Mimi looked right into Matt's face as she noticed the attire he was wearing. "Matt?" Waiting for the blond haired boy to look at her, she wondered how she could best voice her question. "What's happened to you?"
Matt sweat dropped and briefly moved a hand up to the baseball cap on his head as he winched. Slowly, he pulled it down and looked at Mimi as her eyes bugged out. "I kinda had a small accident with a football." Putting the hat back on, Matt quickly made sure that the sunglasses he was wearing wasn't falling off.
Below them, Kari lifted her head and looked up at the two above her with a frown. "Quiet, do you want them hear us?" Returning to stare at the door, Kari quickly pressed her ear towards the wood and paper door and tried to focus on the conversation, taking place on the other side of the door.
Rasp barring the younger girl, Mimi leaned back in as well and began to listen. " I can't hear anything, what are they saying?" Alternating between looking at Matt and Kari, she tried to get an answer. "Come on you guys, what are they saying?"
Matt frowned at the noise Mimi made, and pushed her away from him as he tried to focus a bit more on the conversation. Failing to hear anything but murmur from the inside, he pulled his ear away and then looked closer at the door. "I think they're too far away, but it didn't sound like they're fighting in there."
TK, Izzy and Joe looked over from where they sat and shook their head. "Can you believe them? Spying on a private conversation." Joe said, as he looked at the three kids trying to crack open the door with the two inside noticing it. "It's not very friendly to listen in on other conversation like that, don't you agree Izzy?"
Izzy looked up from his laptop and stared at Joe for a few seconds, and then he pulled the headphones and gave a small grin when he noticed the deadpan look on Joe's face. "What?"
Looking closer at the laptop, Joe blinked and quickly pulled it around to stare at the screen. "Izzy, what are you doing?" Pointing a finger at the screen, Joe was close to yelling in the younger boy's face. "Don't tell me you're just like them."
TK looked up from his thinking and stared at the small window on the laptop screen and blinked. "How you get a camera in to them?" Staring with a lot of curiosity, TK followed the scene between Tai and Sora with big eyes. Then he stared up at Izzy blushing and trying to explain himself to a very persistent Joe, demanding a good explanation for spying on two off their friends. On the screen, Tai and Sora broke the hug they were in and slowly stood up, then they started to walk towards the camera and the door.
Stopping, Sora looked up into the camera and narrowed her eyes, than she looked at the brunette behind her. "Hey Tai, is that thing on the wall what I think it is?" Lifting up a hand, she pointed straight into the camera with a mix of a shocked and angry look on her face.
Walking up and looking into the camera as well, then she got the same shocked and halfway angry look in her eyes. "It is, look, there's his special logo." Tai nodded as she recgonized the web cam that Izzy had been showing to them all doing the last week of summer vacation she had spent with them. "Izzy, he must have bugged the room earlier."
Joe and Izzy looked away from their small argument as they heard the loud yell from the computer. Then they looked up at one another. Slding a bit away from the younger one, Joe pulled off his glasses and began to polish them. "Well, at least you won't get away with spying on them."
Izzy slowly reached out to grab his laptop. "Thank for the support man." Joe simply smiled and put on his glasses at the comment.
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Pulling open the door to get outside and take revenge on Izzy, Sora gave a loud scream as the weight of the three kids outside pushed it in faster then she had counted on. Tumbling down on the floor, the child of love stared up at Matt with a blushing face as the boy fell down on top of her. "Matt, get off me!"
The blond haired boy winched at the sound level and looked down at where he lying, blushing like a madman, he quickly jumped up and backed away from the girl. "I'm Sorry!" Rushing back out of the room, he nearly tripped over Mimi and Kari on the way out. Both of them quickly got up as well and followed him out of the room.
Sora looked from the floor were she had fallen, and then at the three huddling together near the wall. "Don't overreact." Standing, Sora calmly walked over towards them. "Don't worry, I'm not mad. Angry yes, mad no." Reaching out a hand, she pulled the three kids closer. "We'll talk later about your little spy trick. But first I have to talk to a certain camera happy boy." Over in corner, the three boys sitting around the laptop gulped.
Stepping out of the room, Tai looked around the room they would be holding the party in. It wasn't a big or fancy room, more along the lines of large room with a few plants and wall decorations thrown in. Looking to her side, Tai smiled as Kari and Mimi looked back with a big smile. Then she stepped for and gave her little sister a hug.
Besides them, Mimi coughed politely and then gave Tai a quick hug as well, then she stepped back and looked at Tai with a smile. "So, tell me everything that happened in there. I want to know it all." Tai felt like screaming as Mimi dragged her over to one of the tables, for a little girl talk.
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Finally walking away from the gossip happy Mimi, Tai looked around the room and quickly spotted Joe and Izzy talking quietly over in the corner, near the end of the room, TK and Kari were also talking about the new Anime shows that had started in the week, and finally, blinking her eyes and extra time, Tai to stifle a laugh when she spotted Matt over in the corner. Quickly walking over, she looked at him with a smirk. "Nice hat!"
Matt's hand went up to the baseball cap on his head and then grimaced. "It was either this or showing up looking like a mummy." Slowly, Matt hand went to the sunglasses he was also wearing and pulled them off as well. Standing out clearly, a dark blue ring circled around his eye. "Do you know how hard it was to get through school looking like this?"
Tai blushed and looked the other way to hide it. "Well, if you hadn't interrupted the match, it wouldn't have happened." Nearly crossing her arms out of old habit, Tai settled with clenching her hands as she shot a glare at the blond boy. "What was that about anyway?"
Matt slowly slid the sunglasses back on and motion for them to sit down. "Tai, what the heck were you thinking. I may be cool with what you really are, and so are the others." Matt looked away from her as he stared through the room and over at TK. "But there are some people who don't think like us." Matt looked back and glanced over the edge of his glasses. "There was a lot of guys from your old soccer team in the gym yesterday, did you stop to think what they might say to the fact that you lied to them?" Not letting Tai speak yet, Matt continued. "What I mean is, you need to think before you rush into stuff like this okay?"
Tai sat in silence for a few moments; then she looked up from studying her own hand. "Matt?" Reaching out, she grabbed his hand and squeezed it for a second. "Thank you." Looking away, Tai smiled. "You're right, I should have been a bit more careful, I just forgot where I was at the time."
Matt nodded and then looked at the two youngest in the group sitting at the end of the table. "Look at them, I wonder if we would have been like them if you hadn't dressed and acted like a boy all that time."
Tai looked down at the table and chewed her lip. "Nope, we would still have beaten the stuffing out of each other." Looking over at Matt, Tai grinned. "No matter the age, we would have been to different to get along peacefully." Tai eyes twinkled with laughter. "But, I do think of you like a brother sometimes."
Matt grinned at the words and stood up. "Now come on, this party isn't over yet, little sister."
Tai looked up at him with a slight frown on her face. "Little Sister. Done you mean big sister?"
Matt crossed his arms and shook his head. "Cause I'm taller then you now, see."
Fuming a little as Matt smirked; Tai made a snort and then stood up as well. "Yeah, but I still kick you ass anytime. Now, come on. I want to know how well you guys can dance. Those lessons Hinako forced me through at school had better not have been for nothing." Looking at the four guys in the room, Tai grinned as she nodded. "Hey Matt, I'm gonna go see if Joe wants to dance."
Matt stopped walking and looked at her. "Joe, you're kidding right?" Although halfway hidden by his sunglasses, Matt's disbelief could be seen in his eyes as he stared at the brunette beside him.
Tai shook her and did her best to hide her smirk. "Sure, I mean he always acting so grown up, he's gotta know how to dance. And don't worry, I might just dance with you as well, if you can dance that is."
Matt's fingers made a funny popping sound as he glared at the brunette. "I'll have you know that I'm a much better dancer then Joe." Pointing at the oldest boy in the room, Matt snorted. "The guy's got two left feet and zero coordination trust me."
Tai looked from the blue haired boy and then to the red head next to him. "Izzy then?" Next to her, Matt sounded like he was choking on his own tongue at the suggestion. "Okay, how about Mimi."
Matt crashed to the ground and then jumped up. "But you're both girls?"
Tai looked at him with a wide grin. "Should I rather dance with TK, he's the last guy left in here." Then she held out her hand to point at the blond haired boy. "If we don't count you that is, Little brother." As they started walking again, Tai stopped and faked a thoughtful look. "Would you feel better if I danced with Sora instead of Mimi?"
"TAI!"
Laughing, Tai looked around the room with a big smile. Looking back, she briefly wondered why she had ever doubted her friends, why she had ever feared something like this would make them hurt her. "Come on Matt, I think Kari wants to take a picture of all of us."
The End.
AN: Well, I couldn't think of a better end to this story. But wait, what was all that stuff about a couple count then. Well, here's the deal. Putting in romance in the main part of story would ruin it completely. So instead, I tumbled with the idea to write up a different ending chapter or future vision where Tai gets paired up with the ones that you have voted for. Based on the amount of Votes each couple has gotten, I'll try to write a small one to two chapter long stories with that couple in it.
To find out more about this, read the conclusion note to Tai's Little Secret, also Frank Moore gave a similar suggestion to me in a review..
Also, if you think that there's something missing from this chapter, feel free to point it out. I don't want to make it look like I slapped up a half finished end chapter.
Q&A:
Mah, I'll answer them in the special end notes bit okay.