Hello, this is my first fanfic and I just wanted to thank you guys for coming to read it. For you who can't tell, this is a SORATO! I'm a huge fan of them. Well the first chapter's pretty clean, but later on it starts to change...for the better?...sorta...for the worst?...for some...for the more romantic?...Oh you can bet! Well nuff with my blabbing. Enjoy that first chapter.
CH.1: THE ACCIDENT
The orange haired girl watched sadly as her blonde friend walked out the door. She sighed and sat down on her couch. Her wine colored eyes looked at her surroundings. She was in a hospital waiting room. There had been an accident and a group of her friends had been injured severely.
She watched the door for the Doctor to return with the status on her friends. Takeru had just left the hospital. She knew why he couldn't stand to be there. He didn't want to hear what had happened to his brother. Yamato. Yamato had been the driver and from what they had heard the Doctors didn't expect him to make it through the night. Takeru had said that he would get his parents and return, but it'd take him a while.
That left her alone in the waiting room. She knew that the eyes of other people were staring at her. They were trying to figure out why an eighteen year old girl would be doing in a hospital at 11:45 on a school night. They probably had some wild stories going through their minds, but none of them knew why she was really there.
At the age of fourteen, Takenouchi Sora had lost her parents to a freak accident. She had been the soul survivor and forced into the position of an orphan. She had been staying with her friend Mimi, until the last two years when Mimi moved to New York and left her behind. After that she stayed with her friend Taichi, his younger sister Hikari and his parents. Now, she was in a hospital waiting room, waiting to see the status on her friends and roommate.
The entrance door swung open and Takeru came running in. The fifteen year old blond had obviously run all the way from the parking lot, maybe even his house. Takeru had a brunet with him. Both of them were gasping for air as two sets of parents walked up to them.
"Sora, have they said anything to you!?" Takeru asked between breathes. Sora froze and looked at the six people waiting to hear from her.
"No." She said quietly to the blond.
"GOD DAMNIT!" One of the men punched a trash can, sending it sprawling across the room. The blond woman besides him put her hands on his shoulder and tried in vain to comfort the man. Takeru glanced at the two then looked back at her and sighed.
"Gomen, Sora-sempai." Sora smiled and nodded
"No problem, Takeru, I understand." Takeru smiled and took a seat besides her. The brunet followed and sat on the other side of Sora.
"Okasan, Otosan, sit down, you guys are making me nervous." The two parents that were pacing around the room looked at their daughter and nodded.
"Ok, Hikari." Both of them took a seat across from Hikari and Sora and stared at the door blankly.
"Yagami-san, I'm really sorry that u have to be here. If I had gone, Taichi wouldn't have had to gone my place. I'm really sorry about this." Sora's head lowered to her hands as the tears started to escape her eyelids.
"Sora, don't think like that. You know plain and simple that Taichi would've found away to go even if you still were planning on it." Hikari smiled at her friend. Mr. Yagami stood up and glanced at Sora.
"Sora, we should be the ones apologizing. You lost both of your parents in that accident about four years ago and now you are waiting here because your friends were in an accident. This must be terrible for you." Sora smiled up at him.
"Besides, what ever gave you the idea that my son would let something like this kill him. He's to damn stubborn." Mrs. Yagami added trying to add some humor to the situation.
"Yeah, and Taichi and Onichan would probably be yelling saying that the other one can't die before they do, because then they'll have nobody to battle." Takeru added with a chuckle at the thought of his big brother and Taichi on stretchers yelling at each other to insure that the other was still alive.
"Takeru, your father and I are going to go search for the doctor. Stay here please." Takeru nodded as his mom and dad walked off to the check in area. Since the divorce, neither of his parents could stand talking to each other, unless they had to. But at this moment due to their circumstances they were forced to stay together and help each other. Takeru understood that their first born son- his big brother- was possibly dead at the young age of eighteen and that they needed each other at that moment to help each other through the mess and to look strong for their boys.
The door to the emergency room opened up and Dr. Shigoto entered. He glanced at the small group and walked over to them. Mr. Yagami looked at the Dr. hopefully.
"I'm Takato Yagami, how's my son, Taichi?" The doctor looked at him and cleared his throat.
"Well, Yagami, Taichi is currently doing very well. He is at this moment sleeping. We had to subdue him, because he was yelling at one of the other patients. He'll be allowed to go home in the morning we just want to keep him he for observation."
Mr. Yagami nodded and sat down to embrace his wife and daughter. Sora glanced at the doctor.
"How's Kido, Jyou and Izumi, Koushirou? Are they ok?" The Doctor chuckled.
"Miss, they weren't even in the car. There were only Yagami, Taichi and Ishida, Yamato." Sora froze. From the corner of her eye she saw Takeru cringe.
"May I ask what the condition of my Onichan is? He's Ishida, Yamato." Dr. Shigoto glanced at Takeru.
"He's fine at the moment. We have him under observation so that we can make sure the trauma of the accident didn't do that much damage." Takeru sighed and looked at Sora.
"Shigoto-san, may I see him?" Dr. Shigoto looked at Sora and raised his eyebrow in confusion.
"Why would I let you do that?" Sora rolled her eyes.
"Do you remember me?" The doctor shook his head. "About four years ago you had a girl that lost both of her parents in a car accident and put her in-" the doctor interrupted her.
"Takenouchi, Sora." Sora nodded. "Normally we wouldn't allow that, but you can, because you've done this before. Maybe you can get the guy to talk." Dr. Shigoto added the last part under his breath.
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Sora sat on the side of her bed. She couldn't shake the image of Yamato. He had been staring right through her. Everything she said was useless. He couldn't hear anything she said. 'Was I like that? I haven't really talked to Yamato since the accident…no, wait…he hasn't talked to me…why?'
Sora glanced at the picture next to her. It was taken before the accident. Yamato and Taichi were sitting on either side of her and they were on a hammock that had belonged to her mother. Yamato was smiling a little, while Sora was resting on Taichi's shoulder. Sora froze as she remembered the only other time she had seen that look in Yamato's eyes; when his mother took Takeru and left him and his father.
~FLASHBACK~
"Yama!" A seven year old Yamato spun around to look at the person who called him. "Yama, what's wrong? You weren't playing with us and then you just went POOF!" Yamato looked at Sora sadly.
"My mommy left this morning and she took Takeru with her. Daddy was yelling at her to never come back." Tears started to flow from the boy's eyes. "I'm never gonna see my Niisan again and its all my fault!" Yamato fell to his knees crying. Sora immediately hugged him.
"Mommy said that when her and Daddy fight they never want me to think that its my fault because it isn't. Then she hugs me and I feel all better." Yamato smiled at Sora and wiped the tears from his face.
"Arigato, Sora." Yamato took out his harmonica and showed it to her. "My mommy gave me this before she left. Wanna hear it?" Sora nodded.
~End FLASHBACK~
"Oh my God!" Sora looked at the picture again. She was lying on Taichi, scooted away from Yamato. "Does he like me!?"
The door opened and Hikari entered. It was, after all Taichi and her room. "Did you just figure out that Taichi likes you Sora?" Sora froze.
"What did you say Hikari?"
"Taichi's liked you since the day you two met. You should've seen the way he chewed out Yamato when Yamato said that he thought you looked really hot at the prom." Sora sighed. "Anyways, have you got everything packed for college? I mean you leave tomorrow right?"
Sora gasped. With the accident she had forgotten to pack. She climbed out of her sleeping bag and started to throw all of her clothes into her suitcase and smiled. "Yep." Hikari laughed.
"Sora, you've been living with Taichi too long. He's starting to rub off on you." Sora laughed.
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Sora stood in front of the Yagamis and bowed. "Arigato gozai masu. I greatly appreciated your kindness and generosity for letting my stay with you." Sora hugged Hikari and smiled. "Good luck with the boys and make sure not to mess up Takeru and Daisuke, now, boys are so confusing." Hikari laughed.
"I won't. Bye, Sora." Hikari hugged her once more.
"You better write, Sora." Sora looked at Taichi. He looked perfectly fine. He had some scrapes and stitches over his right eyebrow, but nothing really serious.
"I will, Taichi. You take it easy and don't kill Yama while I'm gone. Good luck with the ladies. I'll miss you." Sora hugged him then turn and bowed to his parents and climbed into the taxi.
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"Taichi, do you think that she had something else that she wanted to say?" Hikari asked as they headed back to their house. Taichi looked at his sister confusingly. "I mean, she had to leave after the accident, don't you think that she'd be worried about Yama and you?" Taichi shrugged.
"Hikari, she might just be in a shock that she could have lost Yamato and me in one second and the same way she lost both of her parents. So, I'm giving her some leeway." Hikari nodded and they headed into the kitchen for lunch.
CH.1: THE ACCIDENT
The orange haired girl watched sadly as her blonde friend walked out the door. She sighed and sat down on her couch. Her wine colored eyes looked at her surroundings. She was in a hospital waiting room. There had been an accident and a group of her friends had been injured severely.
She watched the door for the Doctor to return with the status on her friends. Takeru had just left the hospital. She knew why he couldn't stand to be there. He didn't want to hear what had happened to his brother. Yamato. Yamato had been the driver and from what they had heard the Doctors didn't expect him to make it through the night. Takeru had said that he would get his parents and return, but it'd take him a while.
That left her alone in the waiting room. She knew that the eyes of other people were staring at her. They were trying to figure out why an eighteen year old girl would be doing in a hospital at 11:45 on a school night. They probably had some wild stories going through their minds, but none of them knew why she was really there.
At the age of fourteen, Takenouchi Sora had lost her parents to a freak accident. She had been the soul survivor and forced into the position of an orphan. She had been staying with her friend Mimi, until the last two years when Mimi moved to New York and left her behind. After that she stayed with her friend Taichi, his younger sister Hikari and his parents. Now, she was in a hospital waiting room, waiting to see the status on her friends and roommate.
The entrance door swung open and Takeru came running in. The fifteen year old blond had obviously run all the way from the parking lot, maybe even his house. Takeru had a brunet with him. Both of them were gasping for air as two sets of parents walked up to them.
"Sora, have they said anything to you!?" Takeru asked between breathes. Sora froze and looked at the six people waiting to hear from her.
"No." She said quietly to the blond.
"GOD DAMNIT!" One of the men punched a trash can, sending it sprawling across the room. The blond woman besides him put her hands on his shoulder and tried in vain to comfort the man. Takeru glanced at the two then looked back at her and sighed.
"Gomen, Sora-sempai." Sora smiled and nodded
"No problem, Takeru, I understand." Takeru smiled and took a seat besides her. The brunet followed and sat on the other side of Sora.
"Okasan, Otosan, sit down, you guys are making me nervous." The two parents that were pacing around the room looked at their daughter and nodded.
"Ok, Hikari." Both of them took a seat across from Hikari and Sora and stared at the door blankly.
"Yagami-san, I'm really sorry that u have to be here. If I had gone, Taichi wouldn't have had to gone my place. I'm really sorry about this." Sora's head lowered to her hands as the tears started to escape her eyelids.
"Sora, don't think like that. You know plain and simple that Taichi would've found away to go even if you still were planning on it." Hikari smiled at her friend. Mr. Yagami stood up and glanced at Sora.
"Sora, we should be the ones apologizing. You lost both of your parents in that accident about four years ago and now you are waiting here because your friends were in an accident. This must be terrible for you." Sora smiled up at him.
"Besides, what ever gave you the idea that my son would let something like this kill him. He's to damn stubborn." Mrs. Yagami added trying to add some humor to the situation.
"Yeah, and Taichi and Onichan would probably be yelling saying that the other one can't die before they do, because then they'll have nobody to battle." Takeru added with a chuckle at the thought of his big brother and Taichi on stretchers yelling at each other to insure that the other was still alive.
"Takeru, your father and I are going to go search for the doctor. Stay here please." Takeru nodded as his mom and dad walked off to the check in area. Since the divorce, neither of his parents could stand talking to each other, unless they had to. But at this moment due to their circumstances they were forced to stay together and help each other. Takeru understood that their first born son- his big brother- was possibly dead at the young age of eighteen and that they needed each other at that moment to help each other through the mess and to look strong for their boys.
The door to the emergency room opened up and Dr. Shigoto entered. He glanced at the small group and walked over to them. Mr. Yagami looked at the Dr. hopefully.
"I'm Takato Yagami, how's my son, Taichi?" The doctor looked at him and cleared his throat.
"Well, Yagami, Taichi is currently doing very well. He is at this moment sleeping. We had to subdue him, because he was yelling at one of the other patients. He'll be allowed to go home in the morning we just want to keep him he for observation."
Mr. Yagami nodded and sat down to embrace his wife and daughter. Sora glanced at the doctor.
"How's Kido, Jyou and Izumi, Koushirou? Are they ok?" The Doctor chuckled.
"Miss, they weren't even in the car. There were only Yagami, Taichi and Ishida, Yamato." Sora froze. From the corner of her eye she saw Takeru cringe.
"May I ask what the condition of my Onichan is? He's Ishida, Yamato." Dr. Shigoto glanced at Takeru.
"He's fine at the moment. We have him under observation so that we can make sure the trauma of the accident didn't do that much damage." Takeru sighed and looked at Sora.
"Shigoto-san, may I see him?" Dr. Shigoto looked at Sora and raised his eyebrow in confusion.
"Why would I let you do that?" Sora rolled her eyes.
"Do you remember me?" The doctor shook his head. "About four years ago you had a girl that lost both of her parents in a car accident and put her in-" the doctor interrupted her.
"Takenouchi, Sora." Sora nodded. "Normally we wouldn't allow that, but you can, because you've done this before. Maybe you can get the guy to talk." Dr. Shigoto added the last part under his breath.
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Sora sat on the side of her bed. She couldn't shake the image of Yamato. He had been staring right through her. Everything she said was useless. He couldn't hear anything she said. 'Was I like that? I haven't really talked to Yamato since the accident…no, wait…he hasn't talked to me…why?'
Sora glanced at the picture next to her. It was taken before the accident. Yamato and Taichi were sitting on either side of her and they were on a hammock that had belonged to her mother. Yamato was smiling a little, while Sora was resting on Taichi's shoulder. Sora froze as she remembered the only other time she had seen that look in Yamato's eyes; when his mother took Takeru and left him and his father.
~FLASHBACK~
"Yama!" A seven year old Yamato spun around to look at the person who called him. "Yama, what's wrong? You weren't playing with us and then you just went POOF!" Yamato looked at Sora sadly.
"My mommy left this morning and she took Takeru with her. Daddy was yelling at her to never come back." Tears started to flow from the boy's eyes. "I'm never gonna see my Niisan again and its all my fault!" Yamato fell to his knees crying. Sora immediately hugged him.
"Mommy said that when her and Daddy fight they never want me to think that its my fault because it isn't. Then she hugs me and I feel all better." Yamato smiled at Sora and wiped the tears from his face.
"Arigato, Sora." Yamato took out his harmonica and showed it to her. "My mommy gave me this before she left. Wanna hear it?" Sora nodded.
~End FLASHBACK~
"Oh my God!" Sora looked at the picture again. She was lying on Taichi, scooted away from Yamato. "Does he like me!?"
The door opened and Hikari entered. It was, after all Taichi and her room. "Did you just figure out that Taichi likes you Sora?" Sora froze.
"What did you say Hikari?"
"Taichi's liked you since the day you two met. You should've seen the way he chewed out Yamato when Yamato said that he thought you looked really hot at the prom." Sora sighed. "Anyways, have you got everything packed for college? I mean you leave tomorrow right?"
Sora gasped. With the accident she had forgotten to pack. She climbed out of her sleeping bag and started to throw all of her clothes into her suitcase and smiled. "Yep." Hikari laughed.
"Sora, you've been living with Taichi too long. He's starting to rub off on you." Sora laughed.
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Sora stood in front of the Yagamis and bowed. "Arigato gozai masu. I greatly appreciated your kindness and generosity for letting my stay with you." Sora hugged Hikari and smiled. "Good luck with the boys and make sure not to mess up Takeru and Daisuke, now, boys are so confusing." Hikari laughed.
"I won't. Bye, Sora." Hikari hugged her once more.
"You better write, Sora." Sora looked at Taichi. He looked perfectly fine. He had some scrapes and stitches over his right eyebrow, but nothing really serious.
"I will, Taichi. You take it easy and don't kill Yama while I'm gone. Good luck with the ladies. I'll miss you." Sora hugged him then turn and bowed to his parents and climbed into the taxi.
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"Taichi, do you think that she had something else that she wanted to say?" Hikari asked as they headed back to their house. Taichi looked at his sister confusingly. "I mean, she had to leave after the accident, don't you think that she'd be worried about Yama and you?" Taichi shrugged.
"Hikari, she might just be in a shock that she could have lost Yamato and me in one second and the same way she lost both of her parents. So, I'm giving her some leeway." Hikari nodded and they headed into the kitchen for lunch.