Another To Love By:Chibiki

Chibiki: It's been awhile.

Yamato: Sure has.

Chibiki: Reasons why I couldn't put up another chapter: (1.)Older brother chats on internet. (2.)I get hella sick. (3.)And I lived at the mall over spring break. =P

Yamato: And now, the devil's daughter, is back. Someone kill me.

Chibiki: To answer your question, something will happen to Umi, and yeah... for those who like her, you will want to get your knives out when I'm done with this story.

Chapter 7 *cries*

My P.O.V

'What...? Taichi... is that, is that you? You're alive... I'm so happy.' His words echoed softly, though a dream, Yamato couldn't help but feel relieved to see Taichi. Or at least, what looked to be Taichi.

'Taichi, come here. I need to speak to you... Taichi?' The figure was about to face Yamato when a sound of beeping flooded his ears. The figure shimmered away. "It's a beautiful morning, low 60's north and high 50's. Better get a jacket just in case!"

Yamato's eyes pulled up, almost reluctantly, and saw the beige walls of his room. The shadow of things casted themselves among his blanketed body. Laying the inner part of his elbow across his face, he let out a heavy sigh. "Damn alarm clock. I should've thrown you out a long time ago." With a swish of blanket, Yamato stood only wearing his boxers, to tired to wear his pajamas, and made his sauntered walk to the kitchen.

'Dad must be out early to work.' He listened to the humming of the refrigerator as he thought about what to do today, other than sulk around the park that he went to yesterday. Feeling comfy in this solitude, he thought outloud to the cool air.

"No matter how much I tried, I just couldn't find anything to do." He shrugged, as if he was listening to another person, pouring his orange juice. "Maybe I just need some kind of vacation just like the others. But I might get Taichi mad and he could send God out to kill me. Or at least, his little sister.

"And besides, I don't have enough money And I don't want to ask dad for more even if I just spend it on my lunch dates with Umi. Hmm, Umi. She could be available today. We had fun last time, and she really lightened up my mood. But it's Thursday so she's working. Damn..."

Yamato finished with the juice and rinsed it out in the sink. "What else can I do? I could show up for band practice. I haven't gone since Gods know how long.... Nah."

The blonde was getting ready to take a shower, when out of the corner of his eye he saw a figure step back from the window that was in the bathroom. 'Dammit, I told dad not to make a window RIGHT THERE!' For it was behind the toilet, and across form the toilet was the shower.

Now, there were frosted doors that didn't show anything in detail, but still, it was a little unsettling to know that there could be a peeping tom looking in the bathrom while you go pee or something. Feeling defeated, Yamato just sighed and walked into the shower. After sliding the frosted door close, he threw his boxers out and turned on the water.

Little did he know, was that the one watching him was going to make a life enduring scar.

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"Come on Ken, I'm sure you can try to find something in this area. Anything!" Shouted an annoyed Takeru. They were at the same spot where Taichi had concluded suicide, and Takeru never gave up hope that he and Ken would find something. For Hikari's sake. But also for Yamato's sake as well.

"We've been here a thousand times Takeru, and all we ever find is a couple of footprints, a dark crusted area of blood and some clothing fragments around that area." Ken said as he put away his labtop, that Koushiro gave him before he went to Thailand, into it's little breifcase.

"Surely that's enough to open up another search case?"

"No, it isn't. If we want another warrant, then we would have to find something else." Said the dark-blue haired man, looking up at the trees.

"What do we need to find Ken?" The scilence was almost defening in both the men's ears.

"Another DNA sample. If we find something like another hair or something, then we could probably call it a kidnap or murder and open up a new case. Takeru, look in the trees branches or somewhere on the ground away from this area."

"Alright." Even though Takeru looked furiously, he couldn't help but feel awkward by calling Taichi's death a murder case. He just couldn't comply with the idea of a person killing Taichi. It was just so... unreal.

When Takeru looked in a large bush, he found a group of rotten flowers clumped up together.

"Ken! Look at this!" He gestured for Ken to come. The taller man picked up one of the flowers and examined the tip. "These were cut off by someone." It almost sounded as if he was talking to himself. "That must mean that someone was here." He mumbled.

While Ken was looking at the flowers, Takeru stood up and looked to the sky beyond the trees limbs. He felt something tickle his face and reached up to rub his cheek, when he found a single strand of hair dangling from a branch. Takeru's eyes widened in shock. 'A hair!'

"Ken! I found a hair!" He shouted, even though Ken was crouching right beside him. He quickly shot up to see what they would need to open a new case. "It's dark blue, but a little lighter than mine or Jyou's hair." He stated. Takeru looked at him a worry look in his eyes. Ken smiled at him and pulled out his cellphone.

"We have what we need."

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Chibiki: Sorry it took so long. I was trying to think of what else can I do before I finish this story.

Taichi: And for you, the audience, Chibiki will send a Taito pic to anybody that reveiws after they read this. And of course, you must have an email address and such.

Chibiki: It's like a thank you thing. But most of the time it's a picture that I didn't draw so you better not claim it's yours or else. And if you want them to be like, kissing or something, say so.

Everybody: JA NE!!!!