Revelation Chapter 3 By tofu

Hello everyone, thanks for reviewing! Especially Ice Princess Xia who wrote encouraging comments for both of my chapters, thank you rilly much *bows* and everyone else *bows again*! Oh yah and I just changed my pen name from area99 to tofu cuz I realized that the name area99 is rilly lame and boring so I changed it to a more special one. hehehe..

Ok on with the story oh do I need to disclaimer? Guess I do, just in case: I don't own any characters from the anime series Digimon and I gain no profit from writing this story. And also the idea of Tai's hair color and its descriptions are taken from a manga drawn by Kaori Yuki called Blood Hound, sorry that I forgot to write that in my previous chapter. I can be rilly forgetful sometimes. hope you guyz dun mind. okay now on with the fic!

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Taichi collapsed when he finally closed his house's front door and suddenly clutched the back of his head with his hand. Another wave of pain hit his head again, increasing the amount of pain that was already there and the amount that Tai needed to endure.

It took Tai a great deal amount of time to walk his way through kitchen to get some pain killers. After he swallowed them, he didn't bother to walk into his room and sleep on his bed but instead lied down upon the sofa in his apartment's sitting room.

"God these headaches just drain every drop of my energy out of me, the whack on my head only made things worse." He thought tiredly. "Wonder what time it is now," He raised his left arm just to check the time, but all he saw was just his plain wrist and not a sign of his precious watch. "What the hell!?" He shouted, not even caring whether he said it aloud or not.

Tai jumped out of the sofa, pain still throbbing his head but he could care less about that then. "Where did I put it, I remember that I wore it today to school." He thought, totally frustrated while rummaging through all the drawers.

"Then I got a ticket to the rock show from this parent of Lily," He continued thinking, trying to trace back where his watch by rewinding his day's schedule. "Then I got hit." He slapped his hand on his face and said "Oh crap."

-- Meanwhile in Yamato's locker room---

Silence surrounded him.

Words of the totally stranger echoed within his mind, causing him to be depressed because that was the utter truth.

The actual reality.

A while later, finally being able to get over with the numbness that paralyzed him mind Yamato abruptly realized that he had not been more confused and more frustrated in his life, frustrated about how he was insulted as a person that rose to fame by selling his body, not that it wasn't true but still he couldn't have thought that a person could say that right in front of his face in their first meeting. "Geez I'm attracted to a person with such an unpredictable personality," He thought. "Maybe this will turn out to be interesting." He smirked. (but actually Yamato has a random personality too -_-'')

"Well how should I find him?" He turned his head, suddenly aware of the mess Tai's clumsiness had caused, but something seemed to be glimmering in that pile of mess. He rose from his seat and gracefully walked the glimmering object.

He brought it up in front of eyes and saw that it was an old- fashioned watch with a light brownish leather strap, at the back of it was a name, carved clumsily by someone who seemed to be a little kid.

Taichi Yagami.

"Guess that this won't be the last time we'll meet." Yamato said with a mischievous glimpse in his blue orbs.

--- Back in Tai's place -----

Tai was laying on his bed, given up all hopes that he had misplaced his watch somewhere in his flat.

"God I need some fresh air." Tai thought, patting his head, grateful that the pain had died down a bit.

He quickly slipped into his shoes, grabbed his door keys and headed for the nearby park.

"I just can't believe that much can happen within a day." He thought and walked on, hardly taking notice of the route he's taking, since he was quite familiar with the area and could have his feet carry him automatically to his usual destination whenever he needed time to think.

His hand casually brushed his fingers through his hair, then he started to play with a strand of hair between his thumb and forefinger as he walked down the dark and empty street. Since his hair was quite long, he could get a good look of the color of his hair as rub the lock of hair with his two fingers.

"Suou." He murmured to himself. (by the way Suou is Japanese term for a color that is darkish red with a tint of brown. See this link if you're not really sure of the color: )

That word brought back lots of memories back when he was still studying in school. Lots of people avoided to be friends with him because of his horrible past and the scary color of his hair. The color that calls up the imagery of blood, old blood, violent death, and betrayal.

"Just like blood's own crimson with a breath of darkness." He said as he looked up towards the sky above. He remembered that someone said that to him in his dream when he was a really little kid, right after the death, no murder, of his mother.

"Don't think about it." He told himself, Tai shook away those disturbing thoughts and continued his stroll. He walked pass an old and rusted gate that was the entrance to the park. The park was obviously empty, just as empty as the streets around that area. He walked towards the swings and sank on to the only swing that wasn't broken by teenagers who had a liking in vandalizing things, then coiled both arms around the chains, closed his eyes and breathed in the summer air.

Tai really enjoyed coming to this park whenever he had something troubling him, he liked listening to the distant rumble of the traffic that was beyond the park fences and also the whispering of the trees whenever a set of breeze came along.

It's been nights since Tai had been able to get some decent sleep and now he was finally able to get some. Tai lightly smiled and drifted off to sleep.

--- Tai's dream / nightmare --- (from his POV)

Bright light blinded my eyes and the next moment when I started to open them, I realized that I was at the entrance of a carnival.

"Wow just listen to the sound of the crowd, Tai. Exciting right?" I heard a familiar voice say, it was the voice of my 'mom'.

As though I was a stray spirit locked within this ten year old body, I had no control over the actions I wanted to do. Therefore the reaction I gave to my 'mom' was only eagerly nodding my head.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please come on over and have some fun! Today's is the 'Once in a Year Carnival!' Let's take this chance to forget all the stress and pressure, all the pain and suffering. and HAVE SOME FUN!" The speaker shouted.

"Hey hey, Tai, look over there," 'Mom' gestured over the distance, where a jester was standing, giving out balloons. "He's calling you, why don't you go and join him and maybe get one of those colorful balloons?" She smiled encouragingly, a smile so full of warmth and love that even I was fooled by her and happily went over towards the jester.

But by the time I got there, all the balloons were gone, none of them were there, none of them were for me.

Then all of a sudden, everything went black.

A pair of hands appeared in the darkness and reached for me, feeling isolated and lonely, I gladly reached for them, but when the skin and flesh on the pair of womanly hands started to rot and fall off. I screamed.

-- end of dream ---

"No!" The gasped exclamation slipped from his mouth as he suddenly jolted up into a sitting position. Tai stared forwards, eyes wide with an expression of haunted sorrow. "No..." He whispered; his mind always had trouble separating dream from reality. "I-It's not..."

Sleep could never be an escape for him. Always, always the dreams...

He took a while to regain his consciousness when all of a sudden, a thought hit him.

"Today's Thursday and I have school!" His eyes widened as he said this aloud. He quickly stood up and ran for his apartment, but he looked up into the sky, it was obviously around 9 o'clock. "Crap, fuck that!" He thought and changed his destination to the kindergarten instead, wearing his sweatpants and a t-shirt.

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Okay I guess this chapter's a bit longer than the last 2 ones and I hoped u liked it, basically this chapter gave us a glimpse about Tai's past, which is pretty dark and sad and u'll know more about it in chapters to come. Ok.. ummm. next chapter will be about how Yamato asks Tai to follow a deal he had explained to him about a 7 day game so that he can get back his watch. It'll be a pretty fun chapter. I hope. But oh well, thanks for reading! And pls review if u can! Ok cya next time then! -Tofu