LSR: I had to rewrite this chapter because something had failed while
trying to save the document, so I basically couldn't really remember what I
had wrote earlier, but I'll try my best to remember the chapter. I was at
the end of the chapter when I was saving it and went bye-bye.
Blismon: You need help with your brain because I think I remember some of it.
LSR: You only got to see a part of it, I think it was the beginning part of it, so I don't think that you know the rest of the chapter. Anyways, I'm going to be toast since she knows! AHH!
Blismon: You don't even know if she likes you street racing or not, but the chances are that she hates it. Also, the chance of her liking this kind of illegal sport is very slim. So I hope you good luck!
LSR: HEY! You're supposed to be helping me, not giving me advice!
Both boys walked out of the washroom and joined their respective girlfriends waiting for them at the table. Dna and LSR were heading out of the restaurant as well as Tai and Sora. But Sora and Dna never even said a word after the message they saw on the cellphones. They were silent as night, but both boys thought that the girls were just playing with them by not talking to them. (A/N: Boy. Do I ever feel stupid!) Tai and Sora headed to the aquarium which Tai had been thinking to go with Sora for a long time.
Sora's P.O.V.
Tai has been acting normal like nothing had happened after his street race. Maybe he's just doing this because he doesn't want me to know. But I'm just scared that his life is at stake. This sport isn't supposed to be on the streets and Tai knows that I hate the sport, so why would he ever want to do this? If he liked me, I know that he would stop doing that sport.
End of Sora's P.O.V
Tai looked at Sora and it looked like that she was in another world thinking of something important. Tai asked her if she was okay or not, but she kept on saying that she was okay again and again. Finally, Sora couldn't resist, but to ask him.
"Tai, may I speak to you something privately where there aren't many people?"
Tai was surprised at the question that she just asked him. He was wondering what could be so important that they needed to speak together alone where there was not much people. Tai thought of many possibilities, even some not so good ones, but it just didn't seem like Sora to be like that.
When Tai and Sora had gone to their "quiet place", Sora took a deep breath. She shot a quick question that she hopefully won't get Tai steamed and mad at her.
"Do you street race?"
Tai paused for a moment as Sora just asked that question. She knew that something was wrong and she thought that her theory was right. (A/N: Girls think too much.)
"I'm sorry if I got you mad, Tai, I mean I don't know, but I just wanted to make sure that you didn't."
"Why would you think so? Ah. never mind, don't answer that question. The answer to your question is no," Tai lying, "you hate that sport of street racing, so why would I do that?"
"I don't know, I just had that feeling and I just wanted to make sure if you were or not."
Tai and Sora went back to their part where they left off in the aquarium. Neither Tai nor Sora said anything after Sora asked that question that struck Tai kind of hard to hear, especially from his own girlfriend. Sora regretted ever asking that question and knew that Tai was angry on the inside, but not showing it to her. Sora still thinks that Tai was lying to her, but why would he lie to her she always kept on wondering. He knows that she didn't like street racing, but why would he do that?
Tai drove Sora home that day and before Sora got out of the car, she said, "I'm sorry Tai, for the question that might not be true that I asked today."
"It's okay."
Tai was feeling better a bit, but he would never forget what she said to him today. Tai drove back to his apartment thinking of the time in the aquarium and playing it in his mind over and over. He thought he should stop street racing for Sora, but there was more on the line. (A/N: More info about that later on. It's going to be in this chapter, so don't worry about waiting.)
Tai watched Sora as she was walking towards her apartment building to make sure that she was safe before he will leave her. She pressed the special code for the entry for the apartment building and she was about to go in when some people that looked like jokers came along. The security for the apartment building was unfortunately asleep at the time, so he wouldn't be able to see them coming.
"What are you doing tonight, missy?" the leader of the jokers asked.
Tai came along and told them to back off. But predictably, they wouldn't listen, so a gang fight had started to happen, but it's only Tai against a gang. Tai called out for Agumon and launched his attack, Pepper Breath. Most of the gang members were injured, but most of them went through more pain than that before. Not long after Agumon came into the fight, FG, ML and LSR came into the fight.
"I saw some fireworks while I was cruising around town, so I decided for the rest of the gang not to miss it." FG told Tai.
"We all have to digivolve." Tai, the former leader told the rest of the group.
Now there was some adding into Tai's fight going on and they are about to experience a gang fight against another.
LSR/ ML/ FG: Digi-modify! Digivolution activate!
DIGIVOLUTION
Blismon: Blismon digivolve to. Dracielmon!
Darkgabumon: Darkgabumon digivolve to.Blackgarurumon!
Tigramon: Tigramon digivolve to. Tigermon!
Agumon: Agumon digivolve to. Greymon!
The joker gang had their Digimon too, but numbers of them, an army. The army was the same with the police's. All of them were Gotsumon and Mojyamon. But this army of them looked stronger and bolder because the jokers had trained their army against one another to raise up their skill level.
"ML and LSR, you take the Gotsumon. As for FG and I, we'll take the Mojyamon." Tai told the rest of his gang.
All of them nodded and went to their assigned positions by Tai. The Gotsumon were greater in number while the Mojyamon were in a champion level while the Gotsumon were only rookies. Each partner nodded to their tamers for they were ready to battle the army.
"Let's get this business taken care of quickly." ML said to LSR.
"Then let's get going by kicking some digital butts." Dracielmon said.
Dracielmon: Hydro gun!
Blackgarurumon: Dark Howling Blaster!
The hits attacked the Gotsumon and deleted some of them, but some of them withstood the attacks.
"They're really got trained unlike the police's army." ML remarked.
Dracielmon: Fire Blast!
Darkgarurumon: Dark Blue Blaster!
After those two attacks, the Gotsumon part of the army was down to a easy situation. There were about twenty of them left, so they decided to finish them off once and for all.
Dracielmon: Fire Blast!
Darkgarurumon: Dark Blue Blaster!
They absorbed all the data that had been in the Gotsumon's part of the army and divided equally between the two Digimon. ML and LSR decided to join FG and Tai with the Mojyamon. Greymon and Tigermon used Nova Blast and Ice Blast repeatedly on the Mojyamon. They were making slow progress in the deleting.
Greymon: Nova Blast!
Darkgarurumon: Dark Blue Blaster!
Tigermon: Ice Blast!
Dracielmon: Fire Rage!
That deleted the rest of the army that the jokers had and all four Digimon equally shared the data that they were absorbing.
~ Sora thinking: Tai saved me even though what he had heard me say to him this afternoon. ~
The jokers all looked at each other and started to run away while all the Digimon de-digivolved. Blismon was going after the jokers and used Fire Ball against them which made their bottoms so hot they were yelling like crazy. Blismon returned to the group using Teleport.
"Are you okay, Sora?" ML asked.
Tai left and headed for the car without looking at Sora one more time after they saved her from the jokers. ML, FG and LSR felt weird why Tai would leave after the battle. ML and FG went to their own cars and drove off. LSR looked at Sora once again before he left and he had saw that Sora was quite unhappy. LSR decided to follow Tai for awhile, but the problem was that LSR didn't know where Tai was headed to. LSR saw Tai's car at the red light in front. He was heading onto the direction to the mountain in the city. LSR went to the left lane which Tai was on the right lane waiting for the light. There wasn't many cars at the time, so they decided to race each other for practice.
The green light hit and both cars were off to the mountain. Tai looked serious at the wheel, not that he doesn't look like every time. But this time, he looked like he was having a cloud in his mind. The first turn of the mountain, Tai drifted and Tai was ahead of LSR at the time. LSR didn't drift his car on the first turn because he didn't expect Tai would drift his car. LSR's car flew to the other lane and Tai was almost to the second turn and LSR tried his best to catch up with him. LSR drifted the second turn and was close to Tai's car. LSR tailgated Tai's car with drifts, but LSR saw that Tai was not at his best with drifting today, but LSR just followed Tai for he didn't know where Tai was going.
When they reached the peak of the mountain, they stopped their cars for the cars needed to rest after all that racing. Tai lay down on the top of his car above the engine and his head was on the window of his car. LSR had parked his car next to Tai's, so he did the same. LSR felt the engine of his car was warm after the race. There was silence between Tai and LSR for a long time for LSR wanted Tai to think about his problem that he had for a while before he said a word. Around ten minutes of silence, LSR finally decided to open his mouth for a conversation.
"So what's the problem now? You seem that you have troubles with Sora."
"How did you know that?"
"I could see it in both of you two's eyes."
Tai told LSR about the whole thing that had happened during in the afternoon. After the story had been told, LSR fell silent all of a sudden. He thought of this afternoon with his girlfriend, Dna and how she acted. She acted like how Tai described what happened to Sora.
LSR grabbed his cell phone and phoned the boss. He asked his boss about if he had made a phone call to his cell this afternoon. His boss told him that he had left a text message to all the racers about the next race which was tomorrow night. His boss also said that he had left the message while LSR and Tai were eating with their girlfriends. LSR remembered he left his cell phone alone with Dna number of times while Tai only did once.
"We're in big trouble, Tai."
"You don't have to tell me that again. That's why she was acting weird all of a sudden when we left the restaurant."
They didn't talk about the whole thing about their girlfriends knowing that they are street racing anymore because they didn't want to think about what their girlfriends would do to them when they know what they were doing at night. Tai and LSR talked about the latest car parts in stock just trying to forget the subject of their girlfriends for the moment. They also talked about new strategies how to improve their racing. Cars were LSR and Tai's favourite subject to talk about while together alone like this.
It was one in the morning and LSR and Tai start to head down the mountain. This time LSR and Tai drifted better once they talked over about the whole thing about their girlfriends. Both LSR and Tai got down the mountain in no time while they weren't really racing each other this time. At the second traffic light, LSR and Tai went their ways to their apartments. LSR waved good-bye to Tai and he waved back at LSR as they were going to their different ways.
When LSR arrived to his apartment, he saw Blismon watching television late shows. The show was coming to an end and when it ended, Blismon went to sleep for he was very tired from today's adventure. LSR went to the couch and sat there for awhile. LSR picked up the phone and phoned Dna for he knew that she would be still awake at the time like usual on the weekends. The other party on the line picked up and it was Dna who answered the call.
"I know about you reading the message on my phone in the afternoon."
"How did you know?"
There was a silence between them for a while.
"Okay. here's how it goes. There's this international street racing tournament in Italy around the end of the year. I'm the person in charge for witnessing who is going to be the best racer in all of Japan to compete with other street racers around the world."
~ LSR thinking: That's it. It's all over between me and Dna. I just told her the truth, but on the other hand, I feel kind of better telling her because she deserves to know what I've been doing. Please don't be angry at me. ~
Silence again was there during the conversation over the phone. LSR was waiting for Dna's answer for his confession.
"Just take care of yourself out there." Dna's answer to him which made LSR surprised.
"Uh. okay. But aren't you at least a little bit worried?"
"There must be a reason, but I'm just not going to ask."
LSR was surprised at how thoughtful she was of him. He never realized that until now and he was afraid now that he would not fulfill her wishes. But it was late turning back now, so they ended the conversation. After the conversation, LSR's head was filled with confusion.
LSR now just wondered how Tai is with his reasoning with Sora. LSR also knows that Sora hates the sport of street racing, so he thought that it would be harder than what he went through.
*Tai on the phone with Sora*
"Hello? Sora?"
"About that question you asked me today."
"Sorry about that. I didn't mean it."
"It was true. I'm sorry I lied to you at first, but I don't know what you would of done if I told you the truth."
"I would have freaked out on you and never talk to you again in my whole life. This. decision you're making about talking to me right now rather than before is actually a good decision."
"So what are you going to do about me street racing?"
"If your purpose of racing is for fun, then I want you to stop. But if you have any other reason, it depends on the answer you're going to give me."
"The winner of the world street racing tournament will receive six million dollars."
"What do you need all that money for?" Sora interrupted without letting Tai finish.
Tai knew that she would say that and knew that now that he should have said it the other way. But it didn't really matter now, he's got some explaining to his girlfriend. He took a big long deep breath before going on again.
"Kari, from the beginning of her existence, had a lung problem. She hasn't showed much suffering in the years. Now the problem is getting worse and we need money to pay for the operation that she has to go through."
"Couldn't you find another way to get that much money?"
"My parents had been working a lot ever since they discovered about that and couldn't save enough. I tried all the possible ways, now I'm trying to win this tournament."
Sora had a moment of thinking. She was thinking that was just an excuse for street racing since Sora never saw anything wrong with Kari. But Tai did say about hasn't shown much on the problem.
"Just drive safely."
"Okay. I got to go now. I'll talk to you later."
"Okay. Bye."
Both parties hung up on the phone. Tai laid on the couch thinking of what Sora might do and if he was doing the right thing for his sister. Tai loves his sister that he has to do something that he didn't really want to do.
Sora, on the other hand, went to sleep right away because she didn't want to think that deep into what Tai had said over the phone. She was tired, so she fell asleep right away. She didn't really have a good night's sleep that night. In fact, she was starting dreaming on what might happen in the future.
~*Sora's Dream *~
Tai was in the championship race against the representative racer from America. Both Tai and the racer from America were undefeated in the tournament. It was minutes before the race when Tai checked his car for if there were any flaws in it. He finally closed the hood and went up to Sora. Sora hugged him tightly for she wouldn't know what she would do if Tai were to die in the race. The cars approached the start line.
Just before the race started, Sora was heading toward where ML and the rest of the gang were watching the races. On the way, she heard two guys talking about how happy the boss would be happy that they sabotage Tai's car. She quickly ran up to ML and told him the whole story. Tai's car would go up into flames as the car as the race started because they put in a time bomb into the car.
Everyone was yelling for the race to stop because they knew that Tai's car had a bomb inside of it. They never listened to them telling that the race has to postpone. They were about to start the race.
~*End of Sora's Dream*~
Sora was sweating as she was scared to death by the nightmare that she had. She had wondered if she was doing the right thing to let Tai street race, but she wouldn't know what he would do when Tai's temper was raised. Even though, if Sora told him not to street race, he would find a way to sneak out and race. If she told the police, Tai would fight with his Agumon.
It was just so complicated of what Sora was thinking of. She didn't know what to do in a situation like this. She felt so hopeless to the fact that she didn't want Tai to street race, but he still had to do because it was for Kari's operation.
On the other hand of things, Dna didn't get to sleep very easily. In fact, she wasn't even sleeping at all. She was trying to sleep, but all she did was twist and roll around her bed trying to get a wink of sleep. She had the same problem as Sora, thinking about their boyfriends street racing. Dna guessed that LSR started street racing because it was for the excitement of it, but that was the reason that he did it. (A/N: I didn't really street race. I only did once with Tai. But the rest I just leaded it.) She regretted her actions and wanted to know why LSR had street raced because she couldn't get that off her mind. She just hoped that he would be okay throughout all the races that he has.
Both Sora and Dna didn't sleep after the call that Tai and LSR made to their respective girlfriends. When the sun rose up, Sora finally got to sleep and missed the school day while Dna remained tired and went to school. Sora's telephone was left a message from the school saying that she had not attended her classes for the day. Dna was sleeping more than half of the class. But most of her teachers found out and didn't really care because she was either going to hand in the homework in assigned or not to the teachers.
The rest of the day was the usual like all the other days. The day went by normally with no excitement and no angry shouts at the school. When it was time for school to be over, Sora phoned some of her friends from her classes to ask what was for homework and some gave her the notes that she would need.
As for Dna, she didn't hear the bell and she kept on sleeping until she heard a lot of footsteps and talking in the hall. She was heading toward her locker and saw Sora which Dna doesn't know Sora yet. Dna's locker was right across from Sora and both of them saw each other frequently in the halls. Sora was going to get some textbooks she needed from her locker and Dna was packing up her bag for it was the end of school.
Both of them, Dna and Sora headed home when they had finished doing their business. Both of them hit the books straight once they got home. They finished their homework and slept for a prolonged time.
Sora woke up earlier than Dna did because Sora had skipped school. Sora prepared herself something she would eat for dinner. After eating dinner, she decided she had nothing to do, so she wanted to see Tai race and she would judge if the racing environment is safe for Tai. (A/N: By the way, the race is tonight.)
Dna woke up and ate some snacks. After, she ate dinner and she decided she was going to watch the race, too. (A/N: Remember that both girls read the message, so they know where and when the race is going to occur.)
When Sora arrived, she already saw Tai there along with ML and LSR. Sora didn't know ML or LSR. Tai walked up to Sora and introduced ML and LSR to her. XBB came not long after they were acquainted, then followed FG and EZ. EZ was finally out of the hospital and he was in FG's car since FG was the only one that offered EZ a ride. Tai was confused at why Sora came, maybe she did support him for street racing when his sister was at stake.
Every racer was there. But there came up another person and that was Dna. LSR was shocked at why she was here. LSR introduced everyone to Dna just like Tai and the time of the race was coming.
"Great! Everyone is finally here and including some girlfriends." EZ said.
"Do you believe you'll be in the hospital again?" Dna asked EZ.
"Uh. don't hurt me!"
Every racer that was still in the Japan street racing tournament was getting their cars prepared for the race. While LSR isn't going to race, he talked to Dna for quite a while. LSR finally gave the signal to race to the racers. They all closed their car hoods and proceeded to the start line.
Dna was sitting in LSR's car watching the race while LSR was ready to give the racers the signal to start the race. There was still nothing over the frequency scanner and Sora was hoping that there would be no race at all, but she knew that they had to race some time anyways. Sora watched LSR and he was about to start the race.
LSR: The next chapter is going to be on the race basically and that's all I will say. There is something more than the race in the next chapter.
Blismon: LSR's going to take a break from writing fics for a while because he feels like he needs a vacation to think over the story.
LSR: Hope you all read the next chapter where the semi-final race takes place!
Blismon: You need help with your brain because I think I remember some of it.
LSR: You only got to see a part of it, I think it was the beginning part of it, so I don't think that you know the rest of the chapter. Anyways, I'm going to be toast since she knows! AHH!
Blismon: You don't even know if she likes you street racing or not, but the chances are that she hates it. Also, the chance of her liking this kind of illegal sport is very slim. So I hope you good luck!
LSR: HEY! You're supposed to be helping me, not giving me advice!
Both boys walked out of the washroom and joined their respective girlfriends waiting for them at the table. Dna and LSR were heading out of the restaurant as well as Tai and Sora. But Sora and Dna never even said a word after the message they saw on the cellphones. They were silent as night, but both boys thought that the girls were just playing with them by not talking to them. (A/N: Boy. Do I ever feel stupid!) Tai and Sora headed to the aquarium which Tai had been thinking to go with Sora for a long time.
Sora's P.O.V.
Tai has been acting normal like nothing had happened after his street race. Maybe he's just doing this because he doesn't want me to know. But I'm just scared that his life is at stake. This sport isn't supposed to be on the streets and Tai knows that I hate the sport, so why would he ever want to do this? If he liked me, I know that he would stop doing that sport.
End of Sora's P.O.V
Tai looked at Sora and it looked like that she was in another world thinking of something important. Tai asked her if she was okay or not, but she kept on saying that she was okay again and again. Finally, Sora couldn't resist, but to ask him.
"Tai, may I speak to you something privately where there aren't many people?"
Tai was surprised at the question that she just asked him. He was wondering what could be so important that they needed to speak together alone where there was not much people. Tai thought of many possibilities, even some not so good ones, but it just didn't seem like Sora to be like that.
When Tai and Sora had gone to their "quiet place", Sora took a deep breath. She shot a quick question that she hopefully won't get Tai steamed and mad at her.
"Do you street race?"
Tai paused for a moment as Sora just asked that question. She knew that something was wrong and she thought that her theory was right. (A/N: Girls think too much.)
"I'm sorry if I got you mad, Tai, I mean I don't know, but I just wanted to make sure that you didn't."
"Why would you think so? Ah. never mind, don't answer that question. The answer to your question is no," Tai lying, "you hate that sport of street racing, so why would I do that?"
"I don't know, I just had that feeling and I just wanted to make sure if you were or not."
Tai and Sora went back to their part where they left off in the aquarium. Neither Tai nor Sora said anything after Sora asked that question that struck Tai kind of hard to hear, especially from his own girlfriend. Sora regretted ever asking that question and knew that Tai was angry on the inside, but not showing it to her. Sora still thinks that Tai was lying to her, but why would he lie to her she always kept on wondering. He knows that she didn't like street racing, but why would he do that?
Tai drove Sora home that day and before Sora got out of the car, she said, "I'm sorry Tai, for the question that might not be true that I asked today."
"It's okay."
Tai was feeling better a bit, but he would never forget what she said to him today. Tai drove back to his apartment thinking of the time in the aquarium and playing it in his mind over and over. He thought he should stop street racing for Sora, but there was more on the line. (A/N: More info about that later on. It's going to be in this chapter, so don't worry about waiting.)
Tai watched Sora as she was walking towards her apartment building to make sure that she was safe before he will leave her. She pressed the special code for the entry for the apartment building and she was about to go in when some people that looked like jokers came along. The security for the apartment building was unfortunately asleep at the time, so he wouldn't be able to see them coming.
"What are you doing tonight, missy?" the leader of the jokers asked.
Tai came along and told them to back off. But predictably, they wouldn't listen, so a gang fight had started to happen, but it's only Tai against a gang. Tai called out for Agumon and launched his attack, Pepper Breath. Most of the gang members were injured, but most of them went through more pain than that before. Not long after Agumon came into the fight, FG, ML and LSR came into the fight.
"I saw some fireworks while I was cruising around town, so I decided for the rest of the gang not to miss it." FG told Tai.
"We all have to digivolve." Tai, the former leader told the rest of the group.
Now there was some adding into Tai's fight going on and they are about to experience a gang fight against another.
LSR/ ML/ FG: Digi-modify! Digivolution activate!
DIGIVOLUTION
Blismon: Blismon digivolve to. Dracielmon!
Darkgabumon: Darkgabumon digivolve to.Blackgarurumon!
Tigramon: Tigramon digivolve to. Tigermon!
Agumon: Agumon digivolve to. Greymon!
The joker gang had their Digimon too, but numbers of them, an army. The army was the same with the police's. All of them were Gotsumon and Mojyamon. But this army of them looked stronger and bolder because the jokers had trained their army against one another to raise up their skill level.
"ML and LSR, you take the Gotsumon. As for FG and I, we'll take the Mojyamon." Tai told the rest of his gang.
All of them nodded and went to their assigned positions by Tai. The Gotsumon were greater in number while the Mojyamon were in a champion level while the Gotsumon were only rookies. Each partner nodded to their tamers for they were ready to battle the army.
"Let's get this business taken care of quickly." ML said to LSR.
"Then let's get going by kicking some digital butts." Dracielmon said.
Dracielmon: Hydro gun!
Blackgarurumon: Dark Howling Blaster!
The hits attacked the Gotsumon and deleted some of them, but some of them withstood the attacks.
"They're really got trained unlike the police's army." ML remarked.
Dracielmon: Fire Blast!
Darkgarurumon: Dark Blue Blaster!
After those two attacks, the Gotsumon part of the army was down to a easy situation. There were about twenty of them left, so they decided to finish them off once and for all.
Dracielmon: Fire Blast!
Darkgarurumon: Dark Blue Blaster!
They absorbed all the data that had been in the Gotsumon's part of the army and divided equally between the two Digimon. ML and LSR decided to join FG and Tai with the Mojyamon. Greymon and Tigermon used Nova Blast and Ice Blast repeatedly on the Mojyamon. They were making slow progress in the deleting.
Greymon: Nova Blast!
Darkgarurumon: Dark Blue Blaster!
Tigermon: Ice Blast!
Dracielmon: Fire Rage!
That deleted the rest of the army that the jokers had and all four Digimon equally shared the data that they were absorbing.
~ Sora thinking: Tai saved me even though what he had heard me say to him this afternoon. ~
The jokers all looked at each other and started to run away while all the Digimon de-digivolved. Blismon was going after the jokers and used Fire Ball against them which made their bottoms so hot they were yelling like crazy. Blismon returned to the group using Teleport.
"Are you okay, Sora?" ML asked.
Tai left and headed for the car without looking at Sora one more time after they saved her from the jokers. ML, FG and LSR felt weird why Tai would leave after the battle. ML and FG went to their own cars and drove off. LSR looked at Sora once again before he left and he had saw that Sora was quite unhappy. LSR decided to follow Tai for awhile, but the problem was that LSR didn't know where Tai was headed to. LSR saw Tai's car at the red light in front. He was heading onto the direction to the mountain in the city. LSR went to the left lane which Tai was on the right lane waiting for the light. There wasn't many cars at the time, so they decided to race each other for practice.
The green light hit and both cars were off to the mountain. Tai looked serious at the wheel, not that he doesn't look like every time. But this time, he looked like he was having a cloud in his mind. The first turn of the mountain, Tai drifted and Tai was ahead of LSR at the time. LSR didn't drift his car on the first turn because he didn't expect Tai would drift his car. LSR's car flew to the other lane and Tai was almost to the second turn and LSR tried his best to catch up with him. LSR drifted the second turn and was close to Tai's car. LSR tailgated Tai's car with drifts, but LSR saw that Tai was not at his best with drifting today, but LSR just followed Tai for he didn't know where Tai was going.
When they reached the peak of the mountain, they stopped their cars for the cars needed to rest after all that racing. Tai lay down on the top of his car above the engine and his head was on the window of his car. LSR had parked his car next to Tai's, so he did the same. LSR felt the engine of his car was warm after the race. There was silence between Tai and LSR for a long time for LSR wanted Tai to think about his problem that he had for a while before he said a word. Around ten minutes of silence, LSR finally decided to open his mouth for a conversation.
"So what's the problem now? You seem that you have troubles with Sora."
"How did you know that?"
"I could see it in both of you two's eyes."
Tai told LSR about the whole thing that had happened during in the afternoon. After the story had been told, LSR fell silent all of a sudden. He thought of this afternoon with his girlfriend, Dna and how she acted. She acted like how Tai described what happened to Sora.
LSR grabbed his cell phone and phoned the boss. He asked his boss about if he had made a phone call to his cell this afternoon. His boss told him that he had left a text message to all the racers about the next race which was tomorrow night. His boss also said that he had left the message while LSR and Tai were eating with their girlfriends. LSR remembered he left his cell phone alone with Dna number of times while Tai only did once.
"We're in big trouble, Tai."
"You don't have to tell me that again. That's why she was acting weird all of a sudden when we left the restaurant."
They didn't talk about the whole thing about their girlfriends knowing that they are street racing anymore because they didn't want to think about what their girlfriends would do to them when they know what they were doing at night. Tai and LSR talked about the latest car parts in stock just trying to forget the subject of their girlfriends for the moment. They also talked about new strategies how to improve their racing. Cars were LSR and Tai's favourite subject to talk about while together alone like this.
It was one in the morning and LSR and Tai start to head down the mountain. This time LSR and Tai drifted better once they talked over about the whole thing about their girlfriends. Both LSR and Tai got down the mountain in no time while they weren't really racing each other this time. At the second traffic light, LSR and Tai went their ways to their apartments. LSR waved good-bye to Tai and he waved back at LSR as they were going to their different ways.
When LSR arrived to his apartment, he saw Blismon watching television late shows. The show was coming to an end and when it ended, Blismon went to sleep for he was very tired from today's adventure. LSR went to the couch and sat there for awhile. LSR picked up the phone and phoned Dna for he knew that she would be still awake at the time like usual on the weekends. The other party on the line picked up and it was Dna who answered the call.
"I know about you reading the message on my phone in the afternoon."
"How did you know?"
There was a silence between them for a while.
"Okay. here's how it goes. There's this international street racing tournament in Italy around the end of the year. I'm the person in charge for witnessing who is going to be the best racer in all of Japan to compete with other street racers around the world."
~ LSR thinking: That's it. It's all over between me and Dna. I just told her the truth, but on the other hand, I feel kind of better telling her because she deserves to know what I've been doing. Please don't be angry at me. ~
Silence again was there during the conversation over the phone. LSR was waiting for Dna's answer for his confession.
"Just take care of yourself out there." Dna's answer to him which made LSR surprised.
"Uh. okay. But aren't you at least a little bit worried?"
"There must be a reason, but I'm just not going to ask."
LSR was surprised at how thoughtful she was of him. He never realized that until now and he was afraid now that he would not fulfill her wishes. But it was late turning back now, so they ended the conversation. After the conversation, LSR's head was filled with confusion.
LSR now just wondered how Tai is with his reasoning with Sora. LSR also knows that Sora hates the sport of street racing, so he thought that it would be harder than what he went through.
*Tai on the phone with Sora*
"Hello? Sora?"
"About that question you asked me today."
"Sorry about that. I didn't mean it."
"It was true. I'm sorry I lied to you at first, but I don't know what you would of done if I told you the truth."
"I would have freaked out on you and never talk to you again in my whole life. This. decision you're making about talking to me right now rather than before is actually a good decision."
"So what are you going to do about me street racing?"
"If your purpose of racing is for fun, then I want you to stop. But if you have any other reason, it depends on the answer you're going to give me."
"The winner of the world street racing tournament will receive six million dollars."
"What do you need all that money for?" Sora interrupted without letting Tai finish.
Tai knew that she would say that and knew that now that he should have said it the other way. But it didn't really matter now, he's got some explaining to his girlfriend. He took a big long deep breath before going on again.
"Kari, from the beginning of her existence, had a lung problem. She hasn't showed much suffering in the years. Now the problem is getting worse and we need money to pay for the operation that she has to go through."
"Couldn't you find another way to get that much money?"
"My parents had been working a lot ever since they discovered about that and couldn't save enough. I tried all the possible ways, now I'm trying to win this tournament."
Sora had a moment of thinking. She was thinking that was just an excuse for street racing since Sora never saw anything wrong with Kari. But Tai did say about hasn't shown much on the problem.
"Just drive safely."
"Okay. I got to go now. I'll talk to you later."
"Okay. Bye."
Both parties hung up on the phone. Tai laid on the couch thinking of what Sora might do and if he was doing the right thing for his sister. Tai loves his sister that he has to do something that he didn't really want to do.
Sora, on the other hand, went to sleep right away because she didn't want to think that deep into what Tai had said over the phone. She was tired, so she fell asleep right away. She didn't really have a good night's sleep that night. In fact, she was starting dreaming on what might happen in the future.
~*Sora's Dream *~
Tai was in the championship race against the representative racer from America. Both Tai and the racer from America were undefeated in the tournament. It was minutes before the race when Tai checked his car for if there were any flaws in it. He finally closed the hood and went up to Sora. Sora hugged him tightly for she wouldn't know what she would do if Tai were to die in the race. The cars approached the start line.
Just before the race started, Sora was heading toward where ML and the rest of the gang were watching the races. On the way, she heard two guys talking about how happy the boss would be happy that they sabotage Tai's car. She quickly ran up to ML and told him the whole story. Tai's car would go up into flames as the car as the race started because they put in a time bomb into the car.
Everyone was yelling for the race to stop because they knew that Tai's car had a bomb inside of it. They never listened to them telling that the race has to postpone. They were about to start the race.
~*End of Sora's Dream*~
Sora was sweating as she was scared to death by the nightmare that she had. She had wondered if she was doing the right thing to let Tai street race, but she wouldn't know what he would do when Tai's temper was raised. Even though, if Sora told him not to street race, he would find a way to sneak out and race. If she told the police, Tai would fight with his Agumon.
It was just so complicated of what Sora was thinking of. She didn't know what to do in a situation like this. She felt so hopeless to the fact that she didn't want Tai to street race, but he still had to do because it was for Kari's operation.
On the other hand of things, Dna didn't get to sleep very easily. In fact, she wasn't even sleeping at all. She was trying to sleep, but all she did was twist and roll around her bed trying to get a wink of sleep. She had the same problem as Sora, thinking about their boyfriends street racing. Dna guessed that LSR started street racing because it was for the excitement of it, but that was the reason that he did it. (A/N: I didn't really street race. I only did once with Tai. But the rest I just leaded it.) She regretted her actions and wanted to know why LSR had street raced because she couldn't get that off her mind. She just hoped that he would be okay throughout all the races that he has.
Both Sora and Dna didn't sleep after the call that Tai and LSR made to their respective girlfriends. When the sun rose up, Sora finally got to sleep and missed the school day while Dna remained tired and went to school. Sora's telephone was left a message from the school saying that she had not attended her classes for the day. Dna was sleeping more than half of the class. But most of her teachers found out and didn't really care because she was either going to hand in the homework in assigned or not to the teachers.
The rest of the day was the usual like all the other days. The day went by normally with no excitement and no angry shouts at the school. When it was time for school to be over, Sora phoned some of her friends from her classes to ask what was for homework and some gave her the notes that she would need.
As for Dna, she didn't hear the bell and she kept on sleeping until she heard a lot of footsteps and talking in the hall. She was heading toward her locker and saw Sora which Dna doesn't know Sora yet. Dna's locker was right across from Sora and both of them saw each other frequently in the halls. Sora was going to get some textbooks she needed from her locker and Dna was packing up her bag for it was the end of school.
Both of them, Dna and Sora headed home when they had finished doing their business. Both of them hit the books straight once they got home. They finished their homework and slept for a prolonged time.
Sora woke up earlier than Dna did because Sora had skipped school. Sora prepared herself something she would eat for dinner. After eating dinner, she decided she had nothing to do, so she wanted to see Tai race and she would judge if the racing environment is safe for Tai. (A/N: By the way, the race is tonight.)
Dna woke up and ate some snacks. After, she ate dinner and she decided she was going to watch the race, too. (A/N: Remember that both girls read the message, so they know where and when the race is going to occur.)
When Sora arrived, she already saw Tai there along with ML and LSR. Sora didn't know ML or LSR. Tai walked up to Sora and introduced ML and LSR to her. XBB came not long after they were acquainted, then followed FG and EZ. EZ was finally out of the hospital and he was in FG's car since FG was the only one that offered EZ a ride. Tai was confused at why Sora came, maybe she did support him for street racing when his sister was at stake.
Every racer was there. But there came up another person and that was Dna. LSR was shocked at why she was here. LSR introduced everyone to Dna just like Tai and the time of the race was coming.
"Great! Everyone is finally here and including some girlfriends." EZ said.
"Do you believe you'll be in the hospital again?" Dna asked EZ.
"Uh. don't hurt me!"
Every racer that was still in the Japan street racing tournament was getting their cars prepared for the race. While LSR isn't going to race, he talked to Dna for quite a while. LSR finally gave the signal to race to the racers. They all closed their car hoods and proceeded to the start line.
Dna was sitting in LSR's car watching the race while LSR was ready to give the racers the signal to start the race. There was still nothing over the frequency scanner and Sora was hoping that there would be no race at all, but she knew that they had to race some time anyways. Sora watched LSR and he was about to start the race.
LSR: The next chapter is going to be on the race basically and that's all I will say. There is something more than the race in the next chapter.
Blismon: LSR's going to take a break from writing fics for a while because he feels like he needs a vacation to think over the story.
LSR: Hope you all read the next chapter where the semi-final race takes place!