Disclaimers: I don't own Digimon; I'm simply using the characters for my and my muse's entertainment.

Do I Know You? by Yaoi Girl

All the way to Yamato's house, Taichi talked about some of the things he did and the some of the people he met in America, and Yamato gladly listened.

Every once in a while, Yamato would laugh at something that wasn't meant to be funny, and Taichi would turn to him, confused, and the blonde would inform him that he was randomly throwing English words into his sentences.

"It sounds like you had a lot of fun over there. But you didn't talk much about your host family. Were they mean or something?"

"Oh, no! They were awesome! I just wanted to wait till we got to your house so I could show you pictures of them and some of my friends from school."

Once they were a block near Yamato's apartment, Taichi looked up and around the sights before him.

"I don't remember half this stuff anymore..."

Yamato looked at him in disbelief. "After all the times you've come over to my house, you don't remember these shops and buildings?"

"I just never paid any attention to them until now. I had to learn to do that in America, otherwise, when I'd come home from a friend's house or the mall, I'd get lost and have to either ask for directions, which isn't much fun when you only know a certain amount of English words, or I'd have to call my host family and ask them to come pick me up."

By now, the pair was inside the Ishida residence, sighing in relief at the feeling of the cool air from the air conditioner.

"Where do you want me to put this?" the brunette asked, indicating his bag.

"You've been gone WAY too long if you can't even remember your routine. You always used to come in, throw your bag in a corner, go to the fridge and get something for us both to drink, then go in the living room, plop down on the couch, take the TV remote and find something for us to watch."

"You must've really missed me if you actually remember all that..." Taichi replied as he sat his bag just inside Yamato's bedroom door.

"Yeah, well...I haven't had much else to think of lately. With you being gone, I didn't really have anyone else to talk to. I mean, Jyou would call at least once a week and talk to me to make sure I was still sane and Daisuke would come over to visit and see if I wanted to play soccer with him later or something," the blonde said as he sat down next to Taichi on the couch, taking the can of pop from the brunette's hand.

Taichi looked at him with a mock-glare. "You didn't play though, right?"

"What? Soccer?"

"Yeah."

"Well...I played once, but that was because I had the options of taking Jun on a date or play soccer with the tamer and slight smarter Motomiya."

"I feel hurt. You never used to play with me, even if I begged or bribed you!" he teased, receiving a smile from the blonde.

After taking a few drinks of his pop, Taichi sat his can aside and abruptly jumped from his seat and took off running across the room, Yamato's eyes following him, confused.

A few moments later, Taichi came tearing back through the room with a book in his hands, jumping back into his seat with a huge smiled plastered across his face.

"En pictures!!!!" Taichi yelled out in English excitedly.

"What pictures?"

The brunette laughed. "The girl that I had to live with put 'en' in front of words just for the heck of it. I think she said her and her friends used to do it a long time ago because they were bored, and it just stuck with her. And now I've picked it up. It's really fun too, especially in once Japanese sentence she knew. En pen ga arimasen. (I don't have a pen ^_^;; I do run around saying that too, and half my friends know what I'm talking about. I think the 'en' thing actually started from 'enpitsu' and then went to 'en pizza' and 'en pen' and just other random things...)"

"Sound like you learned quite a bit over there..." Yamato teased.

Taichi stuck his tongue out playfully and opened his book, the first picture of a group of four girls and three guys, one including himself.

He pointed to the girls first. "That's Heather. She was my host 'sister' while I was there. She was a lot of fun to hang out with," he said as he pointed to a girl that was slightly taller than the other three girls. She had brown hair to the middle of her back with blonde and lavender streaks (I wish I could have the lavender streaks...but my mom won't let me...) and blue eyes and was dressed like a tomboy, like all the other girls, in a big navy blue T-shirt and baggy pants. "She was really into anime too, so she had some Japanese DVDs I could watch! I was surprised when I found out she was more into yaoi than anything else."

"And this," he said pointing to the next girl, "is Liz. She into anime and yaoi too. She kinda scared me some days with the way she would run around just randomly giggling..." Liz was about the same height as the remaining two girls. She had brown hair just a little past he shoulders and green eyes (I think...she would kill me if I didn't know this...)

"This is Erin," he said, pointing to a girl with slightly longer hair than Heather's, with two blonde streaks in her bangs. She wore a pair of glasses that weren't for prescription, just for 'decoration.' "She's a good pillow at lunch."

"And the last girl is Augusta," he said as he pointed to a girl with blonde hair that she had pulled up in a lopsided bun type style. She also had blue eyes and wore glasses. "Sometimes she would just randomly run around in circles and say random things."

Then he pointed to the boys (who I won't go into detail because I'll post a link to a pic of us or something... ^_^;;;). "That's Alex, Heather's boyfriend. His parents are real assholes. They tell him to get out of the house and do something, then when he asks to do something with Heather, it was always, 'no, you need to do your homework', or 'not tonight, you have work to do.' It really hurt her a lot too because the only time she got to spend with him was at school. And that's Evan, Liz's boyfriend. It's funny when he laughs because he looks like a cross-eyed opossum."

"So these were the people you hung out with mainly?" Yamato asked as he looked them over again.

"Yeah. They were a lot of fun to be around, especially when the four girls were together, and with their other friend Cory. But you'll see pictures of him and hear stories about him later."

Taichi turned the page. "That's Heather's younger brother, Brandon. He's only 16, but he's about 6'4"! Heather was only about 5'9", but she could still take him down when she got mad enough, but when they were playing, she would be laughing so hard that she couldn't fight back."

Yamato then laughed at some of the next pictures of the pair fighting.

"Who's that butterball?" he laughed, pointing to a picture of a chunky kid.

"That's Quentin. We called him the chunky-cheese-o-holic. That boy put cheese-whiz on stuff that already had cheese in or on it!" Taichi made a face at the 10 yr. old and quickly turned the page at the memory of the boy putting cheese-whiz on various things. "That's Quentin's dad, Brad. He could be a real jerk sometimes if something didn't get done quickly, but other than that, he was fun to joke around with. And that lady was my 'mom.' Her name's Jackie. She kinda has the same attitude as Brad..."

They flipped through the pages of pictures and they would laugh together at some pictures, while in others, they were trying to figure out what was actually going on.

The brunette had shown him pictures of the neighbors, other family members and friends, and the pets.

As they finished up the book of pictures, Taichi was talking about how on some nights it was hard to get on a computer. "I had two computers I could get on. I could go to one house next door to my 'grandparents' house or the other neighbor's house. Both had cable internet, but Heather was almost always on the computer when she could be, and Brandon was usually at the neighbors house or on the phone. More so the phone than the computer."

"They all look like fun people to be around. Too bad I couldn't go with you..."

"I know...It was kinda boring around there at first with just my 'family' to talk to. I showed pictures of my family and friends to them, and Heather said you were really cute."

"What pictures did you show her of me? The only one I know you have of me are like my birthday when you shoved cake in my face and while I'm making some weird face."

Taichi took his book and put it back into his bag and retrieved the other picture album. He then opened the book to a page towards the back.

The blonde's jaw dropped. "I've never seen this one before..."

Blushing slightly, the brunette replied, "Hikari took it the day before I left."

The picture was of the pair at Taichi's house with Taichi sitting on and end of the couch and Yamato in the middle, resting his head on Taichi's shoulder, the pair holding hands, because it was after the promises to come home and neither were really comfortable with hugging and they had held hands a couple of times before, mainly to mock the lovey-dovey couples. And both were fast asleep.

"Could Hikari make me a copy?" Yamato asked quietly, eyes fixed in awe on the picture.

"I'll just let you have this one and I'll have her make me a new one when I get home," he replied as he removed the image from it's sleeve and handed it to Yamato with a blush. "Heather said we'd make a cute couple...But with her being into yaoi and all..."

"She's right though. In this picture we do make a cute couple," the blonde replied quietly, standing up shortly after and taking the image to his room.

After finding a empty picture frame, he put the image inside and set it on his desk, smiling softly, the smile disappearing in surprise as a pair a warm arms encircled his waist from behind.

"If we're such a cute couple, why don't we act like one?"

TBC

MWHAHAHAH!!!! My muse has yet again returned. Sorry if the chapter was too long. ^_^; I'll try to have a pic of the 'herd' soon so you all can see what me and my friends look like. I'll have the next chapter up as soon as I can!