"Taichi!!! Taichi!!"

The boy opened his eyes, his vision blurry. He rubbed them, trying to figure out who was waking him up.

"Yeah... Yeah.. .Alright mo--err... Hikari."

"You're close to late." she stated plainly. He let out a yelp and ran down the stairs and into the kitchen. Hikari shook her head
and followed up after him. When she reached the kitchen, he was scarfing through his breakfast of scrambled eggs, toast and bacon,
getting ready to chug his whole cup of milk.

"Slow down, you might throw up! Hee hee!"

"soyth...." was the reply from the full mouth of the goggle head.

"So... today's your last day of detention? Hey, onii-chan... I'd like to say that even though you got detention, I still really look up to you.
The detention being pointless or not."

"Thanks Hikari,"


Sora looked at the clock impatiently. 'Please finish Taichi... I know you can...' She didn't know why, but she felt nervous.
Like if they stayed any later, both of them would be locked up. Not that, that would be so bad. They could probably talk the whole
time about soccer. In addition, any girl would kill her to be even close to him. Most of the girls in the school were the "typical" ones.
They were ones who went for looks, or the fame. And Taichi has both. Talk about bad luck. Sora usually heard those girls gossiping too.
Though she didn't care.

"Finished!" the boy announced, raising his hands in the air to stretch.

"That's wonderful! Now all we have to do is leave the papers here. You DID write your name on them?"

"Of course."

Their social studies teacher entered the door. She gave Taichi "the look" her impatient, "you better get working" one.

"I'm finished. Well, Sora and I better go." he grabbed Sora's hand and ran to the door, only to be stopped when his best friend was almost out.

"Ms. Takenouchi... thanks for always being there. I think your presence had improved his behavior. "

Sora turned her head, gave her teacher a smile and continued her walk out, closing the door after. Taichi looked at her, eyes
rolling.
"Oh brother... your presence eh?"

"Guess she thought I did more than helped you with work."

"Sorta..." he replied. But he wasn't looking at her. As if he didn't want to meet her eyes. Maybe it was because he wanted to still be the confident,
arrogant, hard headed guy. But he was feeling a little less than that. Too comfy, but not so confident, as he was when working with her out on the fields, plying soccer.

"So, want to walk home together again?" she asked after the long silence.

He gave her a nod, this time meeting her eyes, a grin on his lips.

"I'm hoooome!!"

A shriek filled the air, one probably not heard. The 'I'm home' was probably echoing and bouncing about in everyone's head like a jumping bean.
Taichi went to the kitchen, fixed him one slice of bread, and toasted it. During the time it was toasting he was humming and as soon as it was all
over, he picked it up, trying to ignore the heat and spread some melted cheese spread. After putting the spread back into the fridge, he stuck the bread into his mouth and entered his room.

The boy's eye's widened. And the toast fell from his mouth. He looked like a fish out of water. Everything was cleaned in his room,
all clothes in the basket, everything so organized... Then it struck him. 'Maybe now that my room is cleaned... that I can find that letter.'
He didn't need to do much looking. The envelope lay right before him, on his table. He ran the back of his hand over his forehead in relief.

He picked the letter up, read through it again and then took out the piece of paper Sora had written the alphabets in.
He scanned both at the same time, finding that most of them matched.

"This is definitely Sora's. Unless, someone forged..."

"Who would forge...? Taichi-oniichan.. That letter seemed too important to be forged."

Taichi turned his head to see his youngest and only sister leaning on his door, arms crossed. Her face was serious.

"It could be... a fan girl!" Taichi exclaimed.

"Get a grip."

Hikari... Don't tell me... You looked at it, didn't you!?"

The girl looked down at the floor. She was filled with guilt and sadness. Her head rose and her eyes met Taichi's, after
finding courage.

"I'm sorry... I wanted to help you, so I cleaned your room. And when I found the letter the envelope was pretty wrinkled
and the paper was out, just there in the open. Out of curiosity... I looked. And before you came home, I decided to make it look as if it wasn't touched."

The little girl's brother took in a deep breath and then heaved out a big sigh.

"Thanks Hikari. I forgive you."

"You're welcome...."

A/n: blah.. ^-^ hope this is a good chappie too. =/ been too busy working on my mouser skills. R/r please!