Realization chapter 4
Tofu
Hey! Hey! Hey! First of all thanks for all the reviews! *bows* rilly appreciated them hehehehehe there were a few reviews that were pretty enthusiastic yah so thanks for those too. Yah thanks for all the encouragement written in those reviews they rilly do mean a lot to me! So ok anywayz thanks a lot and now on with the fic! Oh yah forgot Note: I'm a girl by the way so that u noe. Oh yah disclaimer: don't own any characters from digimon.
---------- (Tai's POV)
I dashed down the morning streets, carelessly bumping into a few people who weren't as in a hurry as me, carrying their suitcases and spilling out angry words at me when I didn't stop in front of them and apologize for my inconsiderateness (hahahaha this happens to me sometimes when I'm late meeting my friends, I usually go out just around 5-10 minutes before we were supposed to meet at a mall or something.. hahahaha but yah, it doesn't rilly matter that much cuz my friends noe that I'm scatterbrain and they r usually late too). Oh well, it's not like they are going to remember that this happened next morning, might as well not waste my time on them.
I looked at my wrist, forgetting the fact that my watch wasn't even there, expecting my watch to be there to tell me the time. "Crap, life is such a bitch sometimes." I mumbled, accidentally bumping into the fifth person that was in front of me, not noticing that it was the person that made my day a living hell yesterday.
I ignored the occurrence and saved my breath and apologies for the rest of my dash and for principle of the kindergarten.
------- (Yamato's POV)
I was walking down a peaceful looking street with a few business men hurrying their way to their offices to start off their days work. They are just in those kind of suits my father used to be wearing, cheating people's money and luring them into signing these contracts by telling them these false achievements made by their company and also telling them these ideals their company had set for themselves to follow.
I glanced down at this small sheet of crumpled paper that had my younger brother's, Takeru, current living address. I looked around, trying to look for the building's name or road number that is indicating on the sheet of paper, when suddenly a sear of pain was felt on my shoulder as a person that seemed to be in a hurry bumped into me.
"Gosh, what a thoughtless and insensitive bastard!" I thought as I rubbed my sore shoulder with my right hand, having the sheet of paper clipped between my fore and middle finger.
I looked up to check out who the hell just tried to knock me down onto the floor and saw the type of hair color that was distinctly owned by one person.
"Wow, I don't know if I should just call this a coincidence or destiny." He thought while his natural instincts cut in and he also ran off in the direction Tai was heading to.
----- Third person POV
Finally being able to reach his destination in such a remarkably short time, Tai pressed his extended his right arm onto the school wall to support his exhausted self, while naturally resting his left hand on his left lower thigh, right above his knee.
"Ahem!" An old voice coughed behind Tai, sending Tai a distinct warning to straighten himself up.
Tai slowly turned, directly facing the old principal of the kindergarten, Kurosaki-san.
"Ehh.Ohayo Kurosaki-san! Why are you out here on such an early morning? Out for a stroll?" Tai said pleasantly, really trying hard to come out with an excuse that may be decent enough for the old geezer to believe, you can even hear the wheels turning inside of Tai's overworking head.
"Yah good morning to you too." The principal smiled.
"Wow what kind of technique is that, is he trying to trick me into something with that innocent smile of his?" Tai questioned himself in his mind.
"Oh yah Mr. Yagami," Principla Kurosaki said suddenly, pretending that he had just call to mind that there was something important that he needed to tell Tai. "Ah, almost forgot, Yoko is really having trouble in being able to control your over energetic class, a fight seemed to be going on in there I think, between the kids, so I think it's better for you to hurry into your class Tai. Don't want to disturb the other classes do we?" He smiled.
"Oh.Oh yes sir, I'll go to class straight away." Tai was about to leave when he felt a hand patting on his shoulder.
"I'm sorry, but next time, Tai, it's better for you to change into proper attire when you come to school, it's okay if you're going to be a few minutes later so that you can change into your clothes, since kids imitate adults when they are still at a young age, setting a good example in wearing proper clothing to school for them will be great." The principal kindly added and reminded him. "Oh and here, thought that you might want one of these, a kid gave me a piece of these this morning and because I can't chew it with my old teeth, I'll just give it to you." Kurosaki-san put something into Tai's hand and before he could check out what it was he heard the old principal say goodbye to him, which he immediately replied, then remembering what he was there for, he ran for his classroom.
"God, what a cheerful and weird old man," Tai thought, he opened his hand to find a piece of gum lying on his palm. "Sigh. that was embarrassing."
He popped it into his mouth as he slid open his classroom door.
When he opened the door to see what was going on, he saw a group of spectators had formed a ring around someone or something. He also heard three voices that belong to one female and two little boys.
"Not again." Tai sighed as he slapped his hand onto his forehead.
"Okay! Okay" Tai clapped his hands to catch the group of small kid's attention, even the two little boys who were engaging in a fight. "Are we watching an unplanned movie here? Or is it just you little people who are just trying to give Sakamoto-san a hard time?" He added playfully.
"Nooo! Of course not!" The group of kids started to complain.
"Oh okay, okay, I misunderstood okay.Sorryyyyy." Tai said as he used this hand gesture to tell them to calm down a bit. "Anyways, since I'm already late for today's class and today's a half day, why don't we just spend our time outside and have some fun?"
"YAY!" The whole classed cheer and rushed their way outside to the playgrounds.
"Be careful! I'll be right there!" Tai shouted behind the small crowd. "Hey, Keita," Tai kneeled down and patted on this dark brown haired boy's head. "Can you do me a favor and help me keep an eye on them please? Oh and maybe you can ask a few of your friends to help you too."
"Oh okay," Keita simply replied. "But can you teach me a few of your soccer moves after school sometime?"
Tai grinned. "Yah sure why not, I owe you too much."
The boy smiled and ran off to join his friends.
"My gosh I just don't know how you do that. I think you need to teach me some of those moves some time. When you weren't here, this class was just like a group of Gozillas! It's just amazing that you can control them so easily." Yoko said behind him.
"Oh. I don't know, I think the secret behind that is just that instead of acting like an authoritative figure in front of them, just try to be one of them and understand them more through that method. Cuz when I was at school, I hated it when my teachers always tried to pretend to be all smart and bossy and stuff. So yah, I think that's the tip I guess." Tai said sheepishly. "Oh and thank you very much for substituting for me when I was late, for uhh." Tai glimpsed at the clock, "These twenty minutes." He bowed.
"Oh it's nothing, don't mention it." Yoko bowed too. "Oh yah I'm sorry but there was a fight between Misashi-kun and Kubo-kun, I didn't know what to do and they wouldn't even listen to what I say, you came in just in time to break them off, I think both of them would've gotten really hurt if you didn't come in on time." She added nervously.
"Oh I didn't do that on purpose. hehehehe. I think that was just a fluke, all I wanted to do was to catch the kids' attention."
"Oh, really?"
"Uh, yah, ok anyways, it was nice talking to you and thank you for helping me out here this morning, I really appreciated it." Tai bowed, a sign that showed respect and gratitude.
"Oh, not at all." She bowed in return.
"Ok, I guess I need to go and check on the kids now, talk to you later then. Ja ne." Tai waved and ran out of the classroom.
---- Outside the playground---
Tai smiled as he saw the kids running around, having a great time in the outdoors instead of being jailed in the classroom. "This is where little kids belong." He thought as he smiled, enjoying every moment as he saw his students radiating with their 'light'.
His thoughts were disturbed as he felt someone tugging on the end of his shirt; he looked down and saw one of his favorite students, Risa Yamada.
"Hey Risa-chan. What's the problem?" He said straight away, noticing the troubled look that was on Risa's face.
"Umm, sensei, aren't you going to question the fight between Misashi- kun and Kubo-kun?"
"Why are you so concern? Is there someone in there you really care about?" Tai wiggled his eyebrows to emphasize his last sentence.
Risa-chan blushed and started fiddling with her dress.
"Okay, if it's for you then I'll do it!" He said it exceptionally loudly, grabbing a few students' attention. "But first, you need to tell me who it is you like." He whispered, suddenly dropping his voice so that only Risa-chan could hear it.
"I'm not telling." She stuck out her tongue and ran off.
Tai shook his head as he smirked, "I'm going to find out soon!" He shouted teasingly at Risa who was now with her little girl friends. She shot him a look when Tai pretended to look dreamily into the distant sky above.
"Hehehehe this is fun, I should do this more often." He said to himself while he walked off to where Kubo-kun was, kicking the soccer ball with his friends.
Maybe due to Tai's dull sense, he really didn't notice that his conversation with the little girl was being watched and listened by a well- known artist, who was observing this behind the fences that separated the street from the school.
"Hey boys, mind if I join you?" Tai asked as he was replied by a unison answer that he could join the game.
--- Outside of the kindergarten--- (Yamato's POV)
Just by looking at his affectionate and devoted expression he had towards the little kids, it was just hard to believe that he could change into a cold and hard person yesterday night.
If only I had a teacher that's similar to him. or even a father. unlike the one I had.My memories of my childhood might not be as horrible as it was. Living with a father who was such a hypocrite, wearing a mask twenty-four-seven, never stopped telling lies after lies, lying to himself and also his friends and family. his close ones.
I felt someone's hand on my shoulder and turned my head to face the person who interrupted my train of thoughts. I was met by a pair of brown eyes, a pair of eyes that reflected the pain and loneliness that I hid in my heart all my life.
"Ah!" I heard him shout in surprise.
"Yah what?" I replied, feeling annoyed by his stupid attitude. "Haven't seen someone standing out of this school?"
"Oh no, but I've never seen someone who stood here for around and hour or so," He said casually. "Especially a person that has a hobby of asking people to whack others in the head!"
"Well, sorry then." I replied coolly, really trying to suppress the angry emotion that was growing within me. "And by the way, haven't your parents taught you anything about talking politely to those who kindly picked up the belongings in which you carelessly left behind and is trying to return them to you?"
Tai's expression hardened once again and furrowed eyebrows. "Yeah they haven't.. since I ran away from home when I was eleven."
Ah crap! How come I always say and do the wrong things!
"Oh.I'm sorry." I apologized, the volume of my voice suddenly dropped by a lot.
"No it's okay." He sighed, sounding and looking obviously tired, he started rubbing his temples with his middle finger and thumb. "Why don't you just give me back my watch? I really would appreciate it if you just return it to me."
"Well, okay I'll return it to you later. But why don't we get you some pain killers first, you look like you can really use some now." I suggested worriedly, I clapped my hand onto my mouth since I've never heard myself using this voice ever since the time Takeru had pneumonia and was in the hospital for a few nights.
Tai looked at me curiously but didn't care too much about what I just did for too long since he was already occupied with his sore head. "Yeah ok, but my apartment is like a fifteen minute walk from here so it's not that far. I can handle myself."
"No no. I'm going with you, what if something happens to you? I have a car parked near by anyways; it'll only take a couple of minutes to drive you to your building."
Tai's eyes widened mockingly.
"I'm surprised to be hearing that from a person like you." He said weakly, looking as if simply talking could drain massive amount of energy out of him.
I just glared at him and said, "Just wait me here for a few minutes; I need to go and grab my car. Be right back."
Then I dashed off.
--a short while later--- (third person's POV)
When Yamato was back with his car, he saw Tai sitting on the ground, lying against the railing of the school, who had a suffering expression on his face, clearly showing that he was being tortured by the immense pain he had no energy to fight against within his head.
"You okay?" Yamato rushed towards his side, grabbing Tai's shoulders.
Tai only looked up and smirked, giving him a 'do-I-look-ok?' look.
"Okay so you still have the ability to do these kind of stupid stuff." Yamato rolled his eyes as he pulled on of Tai's arms around his own shoulders and dragged him towards the car, sagging slightly at the weight. (hahahaha imagine a fat Tai. hahahaha.. j/k j/k)
When they were in the car, with Yamato driving and Tai sitting in the seat next to him, Yamato asked Tai's living address. Tai only had the energy to mumble where he lived, but with Yamato's sharp ears that he was born to possess, he stepped on the gas and drove towards Tai's building.
During the short car ride, Tai yet again had one of his horrifying dreams.
---Tai's nightmare--- (Tai's POV)
I was in the carnival again, hearing echoes everywhere.
"Listen the jester is calling you."
"Do you want a balloon?"
"Come here!'
"Welcome to the once in a year carnival!"
"Ladies and gentlemen!"
I looked everywhere, running towards every direction, really wanting to go to the source of that voice and find out who was the one shouting out these things. confusing me. misleading me.
There was a door at the very end of this path! I ran with all my might, as fast as my short and skinny legs could carry. (Tai's still a kid in this 'dream' by the way)
I opened the door but then suddenly a body fell onto me, shocked by this, I responded by screaming and pushing the body off me.
After a while of struggle, I finally got to my feet. I walked towards the body and found of that it was the dead body of my 'mom', still wearing the white dress that was stained with red and fresh blood.
-- End of nightmare --- (Yamato's POV)
I wasn't sure if Tai was having a fever or not, he kept sweating when I left him there on his sofa to rest, so I decided to go to the bathroom to fetch a towel to wipe his sweat but then when I was halfway there, I heard a series of coughs that came from the living room. Therefore I quickly ran back and kneeled next to Tai's half conscious form.
"You okay?" I asked even though the answer was clearly laid before my eyes.
"Yah." He coughed a few times again and I instinctively patted his back with my hand. " I think it was because I was having this nightmare and when I was scared awake, I kind of choked on my own saliva." He smiled stupidly. "But other than that, I guess I'm fine now."
"I didn't want to feed you anything when you were asleep, just in case you might choke on it." I handed him two pain killers and a cup of water.
"Oh thanks." He gratefully took the pain killers and drank a big gulp of water. "You know, I really couldn't believe that you would actually kind enough to help me out back there."
"Why do you say that?" I asked, somewhat offended by what he just said.
"Well I don't know, judged by my experiences I guess." He detected the sent of anger and quickly looked at me and I automatically turned to face the wall. He grabbed my shoulders and turned me back around to face him.
"Ok I'm sorry. I was just joking back there."
I decided that it was best to give him the silent treatment.
After a while.
"Okay okay! I give up! What do you want me to do?"
Still I gave him no reply.
"Okay I'll do anything so that I can repay you for what you've done for me. Are you happy with that offer!?"
An idea suddenly sparked in my mind.
"Okay. Sounds good enough to me." I smirked while Tai looked at me with a confused expression on his face. "How about a 7 day game?"
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ok that's it for now! Sorry if the game haven't started yet but yah I guess I'll write about it next time then! Hahahaha. oh I'm learning Japanese right now and I've learned that the normal usuage of 'name-chan', like if it's written properly in romaji, it's supposed to be written as 'tyan' instead. thought it would be interesting to share it with u. hehehe
u noe I'm currently obsessed with the Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo series (both manga and drama series) crap I feel so stupid, it's been out for so long now and only now that I've noticed how good it is and starts reading it..sigh. but oh well. hahahaha people ask me y I dun read those kind of mystery manga, it's because sometimes when I can't figure out the murderer behind the whole thing, it just makes me feel stupid. hahahahaha.. Kinda stupid of me.
I hope this story is going on well, I try to incorporate different kinds of emotions that can be expressed by a person, instead of having one person having one specific kind of personality in which sometimes binds the story plot. hehehe. at least that's what I think. since I believe that a person, even though they have a distinct set of characteristics, there are times when they are forced to or naturally show some type of emotions or traits that's not included in the set of characteristics they possess.
oh well. yah hope u liked this chapter
really hope u'll review for this chapter! Comments and suggests will be much appreciated!
Thanks!!!!
Cya next time then
=tofu
Hey! Hey! Hey! First of all thanks for all the reviews! *bows* rilly appreciated them hehehehehe there were a few reviews that were pretty enthusiastic yah so thanks for those too. Yah thanks for all the encouragement written in those reviews they rilly do mean a lot to me! So ok anywayz thanks a lot and now on with the fic! Oh yah forgot Note: I'm a girl by the way so that u noe. Oh yah disclaimer: don't own any characters from digimon.
---------- (Tai's POV)
I dashed down the morning streets, carelessly bumping into a few people who weren't as in a hurry as me, carrying their suitcases and spilling out angry words at me when I didn't stop in front of them and apologize for my inconsiderateness (hahahaha this happens to me sometimes when I'm late meeting my friends, I usually go out just around 5-10 minutes before we were supposed to meet at a mall or something.. hahahaha but yah, it doesn't rilly matter that much cuz my friends noe that I'm scatterbrain and they r usually late too). Oh well, it's not like they are going to remember that this happened next morning, might as well not waste my time on them.
I looked at my wrist, forgetting the fact that my watch wasn't even there, expecting my watch to be there to tell me the time. "Crap, life is such a bitch sometimes." I mumbled, accidentally bumping into the fifth person that was in front of me, not noticing that it was the person that made my day a living hell yesterday.
I ignored the occurrence and saved my breath and apologies for the rest of my dash and for principle of the kindergarten.
------- (Yamato's POV)
I was walking down a peaceful looking street with a few business men hurrying their way to their offices to start off their days work. They are just in those kind of suits my father used to be wearing, cheating people's money and luring them into signing these contracts by telling them these false achievements made by their company and also telling them these ideals their company had set for themselves to follow.
I glanced down at this small sheet of crumpled paper that had my younger brother's, Takeru, current living address. I looked around, trying to look for the building's name or road number that is indicating on the sheet of paper, when suddenly a sear of pain was felt on my shoulder as a person that seemed to be in a hurry bumped into me.
"Gosh, what a thoughtless and insensitive bastard!" I thought as I rubbed my sore shoulder with my right hand, having the sheet of paper clipped between my fore and middle finger.
I looked up to check out who the hell just tried to knock me down onto the floor and saw the type of hair color that was distinctly owned by one person.
"Wow, I don't know if I should just call this a coincidence or destiny." He thought while his natural instincts cut in and he also ran off in the direction Tai was heading to.
----- Third person POV
Finally being able to reach his destination in such a remarkably short time, Tai pressed his extended his right arm onto the school wall to support his exhausted self, while naturally resting his left hand on his left lower thigh, right above his knee.
"Ahem!" An old voice coughed behind Tai, sending Tai a distinct warning to straighten himself up.
Tai slowly turned, directly facing the old principal of the kindergarten, Kurosaki-san.
"Ehh.Ohayo Kurosaki-san! Why are you out here on such an early morning? Out for a stroll?" Tai said pleasantly, really trying hard to come out with an excuse that may be decent enough for the old geezer to believe, you can even hear the wheels turning inside of Tai's overworking head.
"Yah good morning to you too." The principal smiled.
"Wow what kind of technique is that, is he trying to trick me into something with that innocent smile of his?" Tai questioned himself in his mind.
"Oh yah Mr. Yagami," Principla Kurosaki said suddenly, pretending that he had just call to mind that there was something important that he needed to tell Tai. "Ah, almost forgot, Yoko is really having trouble in being able to control your over energetic class, a fight seemed to be going on in there I think, between the kids, so I think it's better for you to hurry into your class Tai. Don't want to disturb the other classes do we?" He smiled.
"Oh.Oh yes sir, I'll go to class straight away." Tai was about to leave when he felt a hand patting on his shoulder.
"I'm sorry, but next time, Tai, it's better for you to change into proper attire when you come to school, it's okay if you're going to be a few minutes later so that you can change into your clothes, since kids imitate adults when they are still at a young age, setting a good example in wearing proper clothing to school for them will be great." The principal kindly added and reminded him. "Oh and here, thought that you might want one of these, a kid gave me a piece of these this morning and because I can't chew it with my old teeth, I'll just give it to you." Kurosaki-san put something into Tai's hand and before he could check out what it was he heard the old principal say goodbye to him, which he immediately replied, then remembering what he was there for, he ran for his classroom.
"God, what a cheerful and weird old man," Tai thought, he opened his hand to find a piece of gum lying on his palm. "Sigh. that was embarrassing."
He popped it into his mouth as he slid open his classroom door.
When he opened the door to see what was going on, he saw a group of spectators had formed a ring around someone or something. He also heard three voices that belong to one female and two little boys.
"Not again." Tai sighed as he slapped his hand onto his forehead.
"Okay! Okay" Tai clapped his hands to catch the group of small kid's attention, even the two little boys who were engaging in a fight. "Are we watching an unplanned movie here? Or is it just you little people who are just trying to give Sakamoto-san a hard time?" He added playfully.
"Nooo! Of course not!" The group of kids started to complain.
"Oh okay, okay, I misunderstood okay.Sorryyyyy." Tai said as he used this hand gesture to tell them to calm down a bit. "Anyways, since I'm already late for today's class and today's a half day, why don't we just spend our time outside and have some fun?"
"YAY!" The whole classed cheer and rushed their way outside to the playgrounds.
"Be careful! I'll be right there!" Tai shouted behind the small crowd. "Hey, Keita," Tai kneeled down and patted on this dark brown haired boy's head. "Can you do me a favor and help me keep an eye on them please? Oh and maybe you can ask a few of your friends to help you too."
"Oh okay," Keita simply replied. "But can you teach me a few of your soccer moves after school sometime?"
Tai grinned. "Yah sure why not, I owe you too much."
The boy smiled and ran off to join his friends.
"My gosh I just don't know how you do that. I think you need to teach me some of those moves some time. When you weren't here, this class was just like a group of Gozillas! It's just amazing that you can control them so easily." Yoko said behind him.
"Oh. I don't know, I think the secret behind that is just that instead of acting like an authoritative figure in front of them, just try to be one of them and understand them more through that method. Cuz when I was at school, I hated it when my teachers always tried to pretend to be all smart and bossy and stuff. So yah, I think that's the tip I guess." Tai said sheepishly. "Oh and thank you very much for substituting for me when I was late, for uhh." Tai glimpsed at the clock, "These twenty minutes." He bowed.
"Oh it's nothing, don't mention it." Yoko bowed too. "Oh yah I'm sorry but there was a fight between Misashi-kun and Kubo-kun, I didn't know what to do and they wouldn't even listen to what I say, you came in just in time to break them off, I think both of them would've gotten really hurt if you didn't come in on time." She added nervously.
"Oh I didn't do that on purpose. hehehehe. I think that was just a fluke, all I wanted to do was to catch the kids' attention."
"Oh, really?"
"Uh, yah, ok anyways, it was nice talking to you and thank you for helping me out here this morning, I really appreciated it." Tai bowed, a sign that showed respect and gratitude.
"Oh, not at all." She bowed in return.
"Ok, I guess I need to go and check on the kids now, talk to you later then. Ja ne." Tai waved and ran out of the classroom.
---- Outside the playground---
Tai smiled as he saw the kids running around, having a great time in the outdoors instead of being jailed in the classroom. "This is where little kids belong." He thought as he smiled, enjoying every moment as he saw his students radiating with their 'light'.
His thoughts were disturbed as he felt someone tugging on the end of his shirt; he looked down and saw one of his favorite students, Risa Yamada.
"Hey Risa-chan. What's the problem?" He said straight away, noticing the troubled look that was on Risa's face.
"Umm, sensei, aren't you going to question the fight between Misashi- kun and Kubo-kun?"
"Why are you so concern? Is there someone in there you really care about?" Tai wiggled his eyebrows to emphasize his last sentence.
Risa-chan blushed and started fiddling with her dress.
"Okay, if it's for you then I'll do it!" He said it exceptionally loudly, grabbing a few students' attention. "But first, you need to tell me who it is you like." He whispered, suddenly dropping his voice so that only Risa-chan could hear it.
"I'm not telling." She stuck out her tongue and ran off.
Tai shook his head as he smirked, "I'm going to find out soon!" He shouted teasingly at Risa who was now with her little girl friends. She shot him a look when Tai pretended to look dreamily into the distant sky above.
"Hehehehe this is fun, I should do this more often." He said to himself while he walked off to where Kubo-kun was, kicking the soccer ball with his friends.
Maybe due to Tai's dull sense, he really didn't notice that his conversation with the little girl was being watched and listened by a well- known artist, who was observing this behind the fences that separated the street from the school.
"Hey boys, mind if I join you?" Tai asked as he was replied by a unison answer that he could join the game.
--- Outside of the kindergarten--- (Yamato's POV)
Just by looking at his affectionate and devoted expression he had towards the little kids, it was just hard to believe that he could change into a cold and hard person yesterday night.
If only I had a teacher that's similar to him. or even a father. unlike the one I had.My memories of my childhood might not be as horrible as it was. Living with a father who was such a hypocrite, wearing a mask twenty-four-seven, never stopped telling lies after lies, lying to himself and also his friends and family. his close ones.
I felt someone's hand on my shoulder and turned my head to face the person who interrupted my train of thoughts. I was met by a pair of brown eyes, a pair of eyes that reflected the pain and loneliness that I hid in my heart all my life.
"Ah!" I heard him shout in surprise.
"Yah what?" I replied, feeling annoyed by his stupid attitude. "Haven't seen someone standing out of this school?"
"Oh no, but I've never seen someone who stood here for around and hour or so," He said casually. "Especially a person that has a hobby of asking people to whack others in the head!"
"Well, sorry then." I replied coolly, really trying to suppress the angry emotion that was growing within me. "And by the way, haven't your parents taught you anything about talking politely to those who kindly picked up the belongings in which you carelessly left behind and is trying to return them to you?"
Tai's expression hardened once again and furrowed eyebrows. "Yeah they haven't.. since I ran away from home when I was eleven."
Ah crap! How come I always say and do the wrong things!
"Oh.I'm sorry." I apologized, the volume of my voice suddenly dropped by a lot.
"No it's okay." He sighed, sounding and looking obviously tired, he started rubbing his temples with his middle finger and thumb. "Why don't you just give me back my watch? I really would appreciate it if you just return it to me."
"Well, okay I'll return it to you later. But why don't we get you some pain killers first, you look like you can really use some now." I suggested worriedly, I clapped my hand onto my mouth since I've never heard myself using this voice ever since the time Takeru had pneumonia and was in the hospital for a few nights.
Tai looked at me curiously but didn't care too much about what I just did for too long since he was already occupied with his sore head. "Yeah ok, but my apartment is like a fifteen minute walk from here so it's not that far. I can handle myself."
"No no. I'm going with you, what if something happens to you? I have a car parked near by anyways; it'll only take a couple of minutes to drive you to your building."
Tai's eyes widened mockingly.
"I'm surprised to be hearing that from a person like you." He said weakly, looking as if simply talking could drain massive amount of energy out of him.
I just glared at him and said, "Just wait me here for a few minutes; I need to go and grab my car. Be right back."
Then I dashed off.
--a short while later--- (third person's POV)
When Yamato was back with his car, he saw Tai sitting on the ground, lying against the railing of the school, who had a suffering expression on his face, clearly showing that he was being tortured by the immense pain he had no energy to fight against within his head.
"You okay?" Yamato rushed towards his side, grabbing Tai's shoulders.
Tai only looked up and smirked, giving him a 'do-I-look-ok?' look.
"Okay so you still have the ability to do these kind of stupid stuff." Yamato rolled his eyes as he pulled on of Tai's arms around his own shoulders and dragged him towards the car, sagging slightly at the weight. (hahahaha imagine a fat Tai. hahahaha.. j/k j/k)
When they were in the car, with Yamato driving and Tai sitting in the seat next to him, Yamato asked Tai's living address. Tai only had the energy to mumble where he lived, but with Yamato's sharp ears that he was born to possess, he stepped on the gas and drove towards Tai's building.
During the short car ride, Tai yet again had one of his horrifying dreams.
---Tai's nightmare--- (Tai's POV)
I was in the carnival again, hearing echoes everywhere.
"Listen the jester is calling you."
"Do you want a balloon?"
"Come here!'
"Welcome to the once in a year carnival!"
"Ladies and gentlemen!"
I looked everywhere, running towards every direction, really wanting to go to the source of that voice and find out who was the one shouting out these things. confusing me. misleading me.
There was a door at the very end of this path! I ran with all my might, as fast as my short and skinny legs could carry. (Tai's still a kid in this 'dream' by the way)
I opened the door but then suddenly a body fell onto me, shocked by this, I responded by screaming and pushing the body off me.
After a while of struggle, I finally got to my feet. I walked towards the body and found of that it was the dead body of my 'mom', still wearing the white dress that was stained with red and fresh blood.
-- End of nightmare --- (Yamato's POV)
I wasn't sure if Tai was having a fever or not, he kept sweating when I left him there on his sofa to rest, so I decided to go to the bathroom to fetch a towel to wipe his sweat but then when I was halfway there, I heard a series of coughs that came from the living room. Therefore I quickly ran back and kneeled next to Tai's half conscious form.
"You okay?" I asked even though the answer was clearly laid before my eyes.
"Yah." He coughed a few times again and I instinctively patted his back with my hand. " I think it was because I was having this nightmare and when I was scared awake, I kind of choked on my own saliva." He smiled stupidly. "But other than that, I guess I'm fine now."
"I didn't want to feed you anything when you were asleep, just in case you might choke on it." I handed him two pain killers and a cup of water.
"Oh thanks." He gratefully took the pain killers and drank a big gulp of water. "You know, I really couldn't believe that you would actually kind enough to help me out back there."
"Why do you say that?" I asked, somewhat offended by what he just said.
"Well I don't know, judged by my experiences I guess." He detected the sent of anger and quickly looked at me and I automatically turned to face the wall. He grabbed my shoulders and turned me back around to face him.
"Ok I'm sorry. I was just joking back there."
I decided that it was best to give him the silent treatment.
After a while.
"Okay okay! I give up! What do you want me to do?"
Still I gave him no reply.
"Okay I'll do anything so that I can repay you for what you've done for me. Are you happy with that offer!?"
An idea suddenly sparked in my mind.
"Okay. Sounds good enough to me." I smirked while Tai looked at me with a confused expression on his face. "How about a 7 day game?"
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ok that's it for now! Sorry if the game haven't started yet but yah I guess I'll write about it next time then! Hahahaha. oh I'm learning Japanese right now and I've learned that the normal usuage of 'name-chan', like if it's written properly in romaji, it's supposed to be written as 'tyan' instead. thought it would be interesting to share it with u. hehehe
u noe I'm currently obsessed with the Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo series (both manga and drama series) crap I feel so stupid, it's been out for so long now and only now that I've noticed how good it is and starts reading it..sigh. but oh well. hahahaha people ask me y I dun read those kind of mystery manga, it's because sometimes when I can't figure out the murderer behind the whole thing, it just makes me feel stupid. hahahahaha.. Kinda stupid of me.
I hope this story is going on well, I try to incorporate different kinds of emotions that can be expressed by a person, instead of having one person having one specific kind of personality in which sometimes binds the story plot. hehehe. at least that's what I think. since I believe that a person, even though they have a distinct set of characteristics, there are times when they are forced to or naturally show some type of emotions or traits that's not included in the set of characteristics they possess.
oh well. yah hope u liked this chapter
really hope u'll review for this chapter! Comments and suggests will be much appreciated!
Thanks!!!!
Cya next time then
=tofu
