Something More
By Hannio
Chapter Five
A right to be pissed
DISCLAIMER : I don't own Tai, Matt or Tk they belong to the owner of Digimon however I do own Elliot or Eli as he's called
AUTHOR NOTE: Right here's chapter 5 finally, the reason it took so long is because I was busy updating others stories and I've rewritten this about 5 times till finally I got it.
This is one of the only chapters, which features Matt's thoughts these will be few and far between ok? It features a big aspect of the brother relationship between Matt and Tk which is very important to the whole story, well at the moment anyhow, I hope you enjoy it anyway, chapter 6 will be up as fast as I can physically do it or get inspiration for it.
"Stupid Tai, he's such a Jackass" Matt Ishida thought as he made his way to the front of the school, he couldn't believe the way Tai acted towards him in Science. Just what was his problem? He viciously kicked a coke can that lay into his path and watched it smash against the wall. Tai hadn't pissed him off this much since. He frowned slightly, probably not since they first went into the Digital world all those years ago. He sighed his anger leaving him in a rush and hoisted his rucksack further up his shoulders.
Surely there had to be a reason why Tai had acted like that. He knew that something was wrong between the two of them; he had noticed it for a while. There seemed to be a hesitation on Tai's side. They still did stuff together all the time but at times it was almost uncomfortable as if Tai didn't want to be there.
"Yo Matt wait up?" Matt turned and saw his friend Elliot waving his hand at him and rushing up. Elliot was one of both Tai's and Matt's friends and he was a laugh, almost a mixture between the two of them in personality. Now a small smile came to his face as he slowed his pace slightly
"Hey Eli what's up?" he questioned as they began walking again
"You know this and that, a little bit more of that. What about you" Matt shrugged his facial expression dropping slightly "Dude are you ok?" Eli questioned, Matt smiled at him but it didn't reach his eyes "Something happened didn't it" Eli remarked and Matt made a grimace inwards Eli had that way of always knowing the stuff you were trying to hide but he could never see what was right in front of him.
"Maybe" Matt replied, he had always been able to talk to Eli who was good at keeping secrets.
"Is it Tai?" he asked, Matt looked up sharply and searched his friends hazel eyes
"What makes you think it has anything to do with Tai?" he remarked. Eli shrugged and answered
"Because I've only seen you like this once before when you argued with Tai once for 10 minute, you had exactly the same expression on then as you do now"
"Something wrong with Tai but I don't know what. He's different towards me and I have no idea why, it's not as if we've argued" Eli looked at him for a second, he had a feeling he knew why but it wasn't his place to interfere
"Try not to worry about it my man Tai will be fine he's probably just sorting some things out and you caught him on a bad day"
"Maybe but the stuff he said to me makes me wonder every he's having a serious bad day at me every day"
"What did he say to you to make you think that?" Matt shrugged his shoulders studying the floor
"More like what he doesn't say anymore, that and the fact he called me Yamato today this is Tai even when we weren't friends he refused to called me Yamato why suddenly change" Eli's eyebrow rose but all he said was
"Just let it go mate it just isn't worth musing over and I'm sure tai meant nothing by it" Matt shrugged unable to place it out of his mind
"I gotta go" was all he said, Eli frowned at him in confusion
"Don't we normally walk further than this together" Matt gave a slight smile at him
"We do but Keru is coming back to mine and so I'm gonna pick him up like I said I would" Eli nodded sympathetically everyone knew that the two brother rarely saw each other as much as they both wanted to and so they always took the chance when they could to see which other even if it was only for an hour or so.
"Ok see you soon" Matt nodded and said his farewells and turned down a side road that headed towards the pizza parlor Matt always met Takeru at. A small smile came over his face as he gave a thought to his brother, they looked the same both with soft blond hair and sparkling blue eyes set in pale face that made them stand out against the other people in Japan but they were different in personality as anyone could be. Matt was completely the older brother concerning Tk, always protecting him and being there for him whenever he needed him, but he also did the usual teasing where people were concerned, especially about Davis and Kari he found it funny to see TK's fair face go scarlet as he mumbled under his breath and told him to go away. Tk was the happy optimistic of the two, even after all this Matt still looked at things in a careful way that bordered on pessimism, but the two evened each other off and made the perfect combo. Now he looked up to see his brother waiting patiently for him, arms crossed as he leaned against the wall.
"Keru" he yelled, the younger boy looked up and a big grin covered TK's face as he pushed himself from the wall
"Yama" he yelled back walking over to him, a grin plastered itself across his face as well. Tk was the only one who he allowed to call him Yama, not even Tai was allowed just as Matt was the only one allowed to call his younger brother Keru, everyone else called him Tk or Takeru something they had called each other since before their parents split.
"How are you? School ok?" he asked with the usual brother concern as they set pace against each other and began walking towards the apartment building where Matt lived.
"It's ok and I'm fine though we seem to spend ages in the Digital world sometimes it can get too much to deal with" Matt smiled sympathetically
"Don't worry Keru things will be fine in the end" he promised soothingly, a look of doubt came over TK's face making it look older than his age warranted.
"I don't know Yama sometimes I think we're fighting something that can be deterred but not defeated. Who says it ends with us, we thought it had ended last time but it hadn't with the Willis thing and now with the Ken thing who says there won't be something afterwards?" Matt sighed, he wished he could give TK the answers but he couldn't, there was nothing he could say, his mood dropped. Instead he gave Tk an one handed hug round his shoulders
"I don't have the answers Keru but whatever happens I'm here for you like I've always been" Tk smiled his eyes lighting.
"I know I'm lucky to have you Yama" Matt smiled as he let Tk into the building smiling at the guard as he did. They climbed up the stairs and into Matt's hallway talking quietly about TK's basketball career and Matt's latest gig. Matt stopped suddenly an angry look coming over his face. TK look round to see Tai sitting outside Matt's door throwing a tennis ball at the wall, he had discarded his blazer on his bag, rolled up the sleeves on his shirt and was waiting more patiently than TK had ever seen
"Hiya Tai" he called out, Tai looked up quickly and came to his feet within a second
"Hie Tk" he said brightly "How are you" Tk nodded
"Fine" he replied, Tai's gaze moved to Matt and he looked apologetically at him though he remained silent. Tk looked between then in surprise than Matt turned to him and a smile came over his face.
"TK go inside and start mashing the potatoes you remember how to do it right?" he asked calmly, Tk nodded looking offended
"You taught me" he replied "Course I remember it"
"Good go and do it then" Tk shrugged and nodded taking the key Matt held out to him and walking to the door
"Seeya later Tai, tell Kari to ring me when you next see him ok?" Tai nodded
"Will do" with that Tk went in leaving the two friends to stare at each other
"Look Matt I…" Matt's eyebrow rose
"Oh I'm Matt again am I?" he question, Tai's cheek burned
"Yep, Matt let me explain" Matt shrugged his shoulder
"I think you made it all clear before, when you ignored me" Tai sighed he didn't know what he had expected when he had come here he had an idea but he didn't realize he had hurt him so bad already just like he had always feared he would do
"Look Matt I'm sorry about that, I really am it's just me going through a lot of crap" a slight look of interest came over Matt's face but it disperse as memories of what he said
"That's just not good enough Tai" he said, Tai watched as Matt stormed passed him and put his hand on the door
"I'll make it up to you" Tai promised, Matt turned to him
"You hurt me Tai, I don't know what you can do" Tai looked down
"At least let me talk to you later on the phone" Matt shrugged as he opened the door
"Whatever" then he slammed the door, he leaned against it for a second and closed his eyes, his head hurt, he didn't want to be so harsh, but he really was hurting, he sighed what could Tai do to make it up
"Are you ok Yama? You look upset" Matt looked up and smiled slightly
"I'm fine Keru lets make the dinner" Tk nodded but watched his brother with a thoughtful look, he hadn't seen Matt like this for a while and he was gonna see what was wrong and do something about it if it was the last thing he did. No one messed with his brother when he was around. Not even Tai
Yeah who said that TK can't be protective when he wanted to be, I'm protective over my Bros and they're older than me. He'll probably play a big part in getting them together but I don't know how to do it yet. Just bare with me, I hope you liked it. Please review but no flames. Thank you