Yamato looked at his sleeping son. It had been two years since the accident and since he had received the news that Ryu was his son and not Taichi's. At the moment Taichi was paying $2,000 a month for the pain and suffering he caused Sora. It was the only way that Yamato wouldn't send his sorry ass into a comma. 'Screw jail!' Yamato remembered thinking. 'If I wanted that ungrateful son of a bitch- no offense Yagami-san- to be molested and unwrapped for the holidays so he suffered the feelings Sora had to bear for so long, I would just put him into a comma and slowly beat him until he reached the comma.'
"Daddy?" Yamato was pulled from his memories as he heard his daughter's voice. He glanced over at her and smiled.
"Yeah, Ko?" Himeko smiled and sat up in her bed. "Shouldn't you be asleep, young lady? If I remember correctly you have school tomorrow!" Himeko smiled at her father, who flashed his 'Yamato Ishida' smile.
"Yeah, but I can't sleep when you are staring at Ryu sleeping." Yamato looked at his daughter, obviously confused. "I can hear you talking to him while he's asleep. Daddy, I don't think he even remembers you saying those things to him. Besides, if he did, he sure didn't understand them. I mean, look at the family he has now."
"Yamato, come here! It's almost 2 in the morning and you need to sleep, too." Sora smiled from the door way. Yamato smiled at his wife. She was standing in the door smiling at him, while allowing a shoulder of her robe to slide down her arm revealing her naked flesh. "Come to bed, Yama!" Sora ordered with a hint of something else in her voice. Yamato's jaw dropped as he stared at Sora.
"Coming!" Yamato chanted as he quickly kissed Himeko's head and ran out of the room, throwing Sora over his shoulder in the process.
"Yama!" Sora cried as her husband laid her on the bed and quickly stripped down to his boxers. "Yamato Ishida!" Yamato froze at the sound of Sora's voice.
"Yeah?" Yamato asked, hoping she wasn't going to say that she had waited all night for him and now she was to exhausted. He had wound up doing this every time and he was getting tired of it.
"Let's talk while we are waiting for Himeko to go to sleep." Yamato sighed and clambered over to the bed. He plopped down besides his wife and smiled, before he placed a romantic kiss on her lips.
"What do you want to talk about?" Yamato asked as he pulled away, leaving Sora searching for his lips a few seconds after he left.
"Uh?" Sora paused as she came back to her senses. "Oh, yeah, um…How much longer is Taichi going to pay like this?" Yamato narrowed his eyes. "You two used to be best friends. Not like I'm saying what…he did was good…but the...fact that it…effected your friendship is…Yamato! If you are going to taunt me with those eyes and keep planting kisses on my arms like that, I'm going to hurt you!" Sora said as she glared at her husband. Blue puppy dog eyes stared at her in return and she smiled. She almost always fell for those eyes, almost, because when she was honestly pissed they wouldn't work one bit.
"Fine. No more." Sora stared at Yamato as he stood up and walked around to her side of the bed. Sora glanced over her should as she heard Yamato start to empty his bladder.
"Yama, why are you taking so long?" Sora asked, a little concerned with the amount of time it was taking for him to finish with the bathroom. "Yama, do I have to-" Sora was cut off by a pair of arms wrapping around her. She turned around to face her husband and smiled at him.
"Hey, Koibito." Yamato said in a hushed voice, that sent shivers up Sora's spine.
"Hey, Ai." Sora said. It was their pet names for when they wanted to have some fun. Do to some problems that had come up they hadn't been able to express their love for one another.
"I love you." Yamato whispered as he kissed the nape of Sora's neck. Sora blushed, even after seven years of marriage and a hell of a lot more of dating, Sora still blushed at the slightest things that Yamato would do or say to her. While Yamato still loved the idea of seeing her blush, it reminded him of when they started to date and all of the land marks they had reached in their relationship.
Next day- At the park
"Higher, Daddy! Higher!" Ryu cried as Yamato pushed him on the swing. Across from the two boys, on the grass, sat Sora and Himeko. They were setting up the picnic lunch, when Taichi came up to them a bashful smile on his face.
"Sora," Taichi started, but felt his heart shatter when Sora looked at him with cheerful eyes, then suddenly narrow into slits. He felt the rage inside of his old childhood friend and wanted nothing more then to be rid of him.
"What do you want, Taichi?" Sora demanded as she kept her eyes glued to her old friend, while Himeko was standing besides her.
"Uncle Tai!" Himeko chimed loud enough to turn Yamato's head. Taichi caught the sudden flash of blond in the distance and immediately set himself to sprint if what ever occurred called for it.
"Hey, Himeko, nice to see you, honey. Why don't you go to your father, sweetheart?" Taichi said, glancing in Yamato's direction. Taichi felt his gut wrench at the sight of Yamato turning to face him, with nothing but venom dripping from his eyes.
"YAGAMI!" Yamato's voice was stern as he approached the small group, with Ryu in his arms.
"Yamato." Taichi nodded, acknowledging Yamato's presence. "I just wanted to talk to Sora. I-" Yamato put Ryu down in Sora's lap, then turned to face Taichi.
"Yeah, I know. You wanted to apologize, right?" Taichi nodded. "Well, go ahead, if you want to apologize so much, then why don't you do so while I'm here?" Yamato stared at Taichi, waiting for an apology he knew wasn't going to be given. "That's what I thought. Now, if I ever see you around my wife or either of my children I will rip you limb from-" Sora ran in between Yamato and Taichi, and pressed herself against her husband.
"YAMATO!" Sora cried as she kept herself between the two men. "Don't! You need to stop, Yama. Please, I…I…" Yamato stared at Sora, trying to figure out what she wanted to say.
"Sora, I'm sorry. Please, you have to understand. I'm so sorry that I got carried away and caused so much stress between you and Yamato. Honestly, you know me pretty well, I just… Sora, I've loved you since I was little. I thought it was just feelings that you felt for friends, but I just got carried away." Taichi caught the flame in Yamato's eyes rise at his last words. Yet, Taichi thought he had caught a glimpse of something else, something that was like…mmm…maybe, Regret?! Taichi pushed that thought out of his mind immediately.
"Taichi, please, just go." Sora whispered as she kept herself against her husband.
"I'm sorry, Sor. Honest to God- or whoever the is up there running this world- I am sorry." Sora nodded, but turned away from Taichi. Hanging his head in shame, Taichi turned and started to walk away.
"Yama?" Sora asked as she looked up at her husband. She immediately saw some pain in his eyes. She glanced over her shoulder at Taichi's fading back. "You don't have to be so strong and ruin your friendship for me, Yama." Sora said in a hushed voice. Yamato looked down at her and smiled.
"Why would I let that happen?" Yamato wrapped his arms around Sora's waist. "I just never knew." Yamato hit himself on the head. "How the hell could I call myself his best friend when I couldn't even tell he was in love with my wife?!" Sora grabbed Yamato's free hand and held it in hers.
"Yama, go speak to him." Yamato looked at Sora a little confused.
"But I thought you hated him." Sora shook her head.
"How do you think you would treat the person that ripped their trust from you?" Sora asked, her body fighting shakes of fear. Yamato held her closer to him.
"I should've killed him a long time ago. Then I was capable of not feeling pity towards him." Sora chuckled and kissed Yamato's shoulder. "Go with Ryu and Himeko. I'll be back." Sora nodded and watched as her blonde husband ran after the mass of brown in the distance.
"Taichi!" Yamato cried as he approached his old friend. Taichi spun around, planting his fists in front of him, expecting the ambush of fists. When none came, Taichi lowered his fists and stared at the blond staring at him.
"What did I do now, Yamato?" Taichi asked, expecting to be accosted by Yamato's harmful words. Yamato leaned against the tree besides him to regain his posture. Taichi just stared at him, trying to figure out what was going on.
"We need to talk," Yamato paused as he glanced over his shoulder to see if Sora was watching. Gratefully she was too far back to see what was going on.
"About what? You want me to kill myself? I mean , for God's sake, Yamato, I lost all of my friends, both of my best friends, my niece, and my own sister! Now thanks to my stupid hormones, I'm never going to see my sister's baby! Your brother refuses to let me near Hikari and- to make matters worse- Hikari was the one that talked Takeru into removing me!" Yamato felt himself split in two. One side ready to say that he got what he deserved, the other saying that they need to talk and maybe they could figure out how to become friends again.
"I'm sorry that you went through all of that pain, Tai, but, you have to agree that you deserved it." Taichi nodded. "I want to talk to you about something you said back there." Taichi raised his eyebrow as Yamato pointed in the park's direction.
"What did I say that made you want to talk to me?" Taichi asked as he plopped down on the grass.
"How you feel about Sora." Taichi made an 'oh' expression and nodded for Yamato to continue. "Why didn't you say anything when I started dating Sora?" Yamato stopped then sat besides Taichi. "Why didn't you say something about your feelings towards Sora when we were younger?!" Taichi looked at the blonde and sighed.
"I didn't say anything, because Sora told me that she was in love with you." Yamato looked at Taichi a little confused. "Dude, I never said anything before that because I wasn't looking at girls like that, besides, Sora always stared at you different from other guys. I didn't get it, but you were also the only guy that didn't treat her like she was a guy, but a girl." Taichi said, obviously remembering how the three of them had been when they were younger.
"I'll never allow you to be alone with her!" Yamato stated suddenly. "If I forgive you, you have to understand that I will never let you touch her in any way that any other guy would. She has to agree with this, too, of course, because she's my wife-" Taichi smiled at Yamato, patting his back.
"If you do something she doesn't like, then you don't visit heaven." Yamato and Taichi broke into laughter. They smiled at each other once they allowed the laughter to die down.
"I missed doing that." Yamato said with a smile. Taichi smirked.
"What, Sora in bed or me?" Taichi asked jokingly.
"You, dumb-ass." Yamato smiled.
"DADDY! DADDY!" Yamato looked over as Himeko came running towards him. "Daddy, Aunt Kari's baby!" Yamato grabbed Himeko in his arms and started towards the car that Sora was driving up in.
"Yama, c'mon, Takeru just called from the hospital." Yamato nodded as he buckled Himeko into the back seat and jumped in the front seat.
"How far apart are the contractions?" Yamato demanded as Sora sped out of the parking lot.
"Takeru said something like 7 minutes. Why's Taichi following us?" Sora asked as she looked in her review mirror.
"It's his sister." Yamato stated.
"Daddy and Uncle Tai were laughing when I came up, Mommy!" Himeko declared.
"Really? Yama, are you and Taichi speaking again?" Sora asked as she looked at her husband.
"Yep. Now, if you don't mind, I have to go comfort my little brother. He's about to become a father, you know." Yamato said, a smile spreading across his face.
Sora parked the car and went running towards the entrance, both of her children in her arms. She ran into the waiting room and stared at the two blondes speaking to one another by the door.
"Uncle 'Keru!" Ryu and Himeko exclaimed as they saw their Uncle stressing out.
"Hey, guys." Takeru said as he stared at his niece and nephew. Takeru's eyes moved to his sister-in-law's eyes.
"How you holding on, Takeru?" Sora asked as she knelt besides her husband. "How's Kari?" Takeru looked up at Sora and Yamato.
"What am I gonna do? My wife's in there having my child." Takeru looked at Yamato, his eyes wide in horror. "How did you do it when Himeko was born?" Yamato shrugged.
"I was clinging to Sora the whole time." Sora laughed.
"Takaishi, Takeru?" The nurse asked as she entered the waiting room. Takeru jumped to his feet.
"Yes? Is something wrong with my wife?" Takeru asked. The nurse smiled.
"Hurry and go, she's calling for you. She's about to have the baby." Takeru ran into the room that the nurse was pointing at.
"I love you, Sora." Yamato whispered into his wife's ear. Sora smiled and hugged Yamato and her kids.
"I love you guys."
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Well, that's that. The end. I think its good to end it in the hospital, like it started. I hope you guys enjoyed this.
The whole thing with Taichi is that Yamato and him went through enough that they should be able to mend their friendship. just Yama's gonna be stalking him whenever he goes near Sora. So Taichi hasn't regained the trust nor will he for some long long time.
"Daddy?" Yamato was pulled from his memories as he heard his daughter's voice. He glanced over at her and smiled.
"Yeah, Ko?" Himeko smiled and sat up in her bed. "Shouldn't you be asleep, young lady? If I remember correctly you have school tomorrow!" Himeko smiled at her father, who flashed his 'Yamato Ishida' smile.
"Yeah, but I can't sleep when you are staring at Ryu sleeping." Yamato looked at his daughter, obviously confused. "I can hear you talking to him while he's asleep. Daddy, I don't think he even remembers you saying those things to him. Besides, if he did, he sure didn't understand them. I mean, look at the family he has now."
"Yamato, come here! It's almost 2 in the morning and you need to sleep, too." Sora smiled from the door way. Yamato smiled at his wife. She was standing in the door smiling at him, while allowing a shoulder of her robe to slide down her arm revealing her naked flesh. "Come to bed, Yama!" Sora ordered with a hint of something else in her voice. Yamato's jaw dropped as he stared at Sora.
"Coming!" Yamato chanted as he quickly kissed Himeko's head and ran out of the room, throwing Sora over his shoulder in the process.
"Yama!" Sora cried as her husband laid her on the bed and quickly stripped down to his boxers. "Yamato Ishida!" Yamato froze at the sound of Sora's voice.
"Yeah?" Yamato asked, hoping she wasn't going to say that she had waited all night for him and now she was to exhausted. He had wound up doing this every time and he was getting tired of it.
"Let's talk while we are waiting for Himeko to go to sleep." Yamato sighed and clambered over to the bed. He plopped down besides his wife and smiled, before he placed a romantic kiss on her lips.
"What do you want to talk about?" Yamato asked as he pulled away, leaving Sora searching for his lips a few seconds after he left.
"Uh?" Sora paused as she came back to her senses. "Oh, yeah, um…How much longer is Taichi going to pay like this?" Yamato narrowed his eyes. "You two used to be best friends. Not like I'm saying what…he did was good…but the...fact that it…effected your friendship is…Yamato! If you are going to taunt me with those eyes and keep planting kisses on my arms like that, I'm going to hurt you!" Sora said as she glared at her husband. Blue puppy dog eyes stared at her in return and she smiled. She almost always fell for those eyes, almost, because when she was honestly pissed they wouldn't work one bit.
"Fine. No more." Sora stared at Yamato as he stood up and walked around to her side of the bed. Sora glanced over her should as she heard Yamato start to empty his bladder.
"Yama, why are you taking so long?" Sora asked, a little concerned with the amount of time it was taking for him to finish with the bathroom. "Yama, do I have to-" Sora was cut off by a pair of arms wrapping around her. She turned around to face her husband and smiled at him.
"Hey, Koibito." Yamato said in a hushed voice, that sent shivers up Sora's spine.
"Hey, Ai." Sora said. It was their pet names for when they wanted to have some fun. Do to some problems that had come up they hadn't been able to express their love for one another.
"I love you." Yamato whispered as he kissed the nape of Sora's neck. Sora blushed, even after seven years of marriage and a hell of a lot more of dating, Sora still blushed at the slightest things that Yamato would do or say to her. While Yamato still loved the idea of seeing her blush, it reminded him of when they started to date and all of the land marks they had reached in their relationship.
Next day- At the park
"Higher, Daddy! Higher!" Ryu cried as Yamato pushed him on the swing. Across from the two boys, on the grass, sat Sora and Himeko. They were setting up the picnic lunch, when Taichi came up to them a bashful smile on his face.
"Sora," Taichi started, but felt his heart shatter when Sora looked at him with cheerful eyes, then suddenly narrow into slits. He felt the rage inside of his old childhood friend and wanted nothing more then to be rid of him.
"What do you want, Taichi?" Sora demanded as she kept her eyes glued to her old friend, while Himeko was standing besides her.
"Uncle Tai!" Himeko chimed loud enough to turn Yamato's head. Taichi caught the sudden flash of blond in the distance and immediately set himself to sprint if what ever occurred called for it.
"Hey, Himeko, nice to see you, honey. Why don't you go to your father, sweetheart?" Taichi said, glancing in Yamato's direction. Taichi felt his gut wrench at the sight of Yamato turning to face him, with nothing but venom dripping from his eyes.
"YAGAMI!" Yamato's voice was stern as he approached the small group, with Ryu in his arms.
"Yamato." Taichi nodded, acknowledging Yamato's presence. "I just wanted to talk to Sora. I-" Yamato put Ryu down in Sora's lap, then turned to face Taichi.
"Yeah, I know. You wanted to apologize, right?" Taichi nodded. "Well, go ahead, if you want to apologize so much, then why don't you do so while I'm here?" Yamato stared at Taichi, waiting for an apology he knew wasn't going to be given. "That's what I thought. Now, if I ever see you around my wife or either of my children I will rip you limb from-" Sora ran in between Yamato and Taichi, and pressed herself against her husband.
"YAMATO!" Sora cried as she kept herself between the two men. "Don't! You need to stop, Yama. Please, I…I…" Yamato stared at Sora, trying to figure out what she wanted to say.
"Sora, I'm sorry. Please, you have to understand. I'm so sorry that I got carried away and caused so much stress between you and Yamato. Honestly, you know me pretty well, I just… Sora, I've loved you since I was little. I thought it was just feelings that you felt for friends, but I just got carried away." Taichi caught the flame in Yamato's eyes rise at his last words. Yet, Taichi thought he had caught a glimpse of something else, something that was like…mmm…maybe, Regret?! Taichi pushed that thought out of his mind immediately.
"Taichi, please, just go." Sora whispered as she kept herself against her husband.
"I'm sorry, Sor. Honest to God- or whoever the is up there running this world- I am sorry." Sora nodded, but turned away from Taichi. Hanging his head in shame, Taichi turned and started to walk away.
"Yama?" Sora asked as she looked up at her husband. She immediately saw some pain in his eyes. She glanced over her shoulder at Taichi's fading back. "You don't have to be so strong and ruin your friendship for me, Yama." Sora said in a hushed voice. Yamato looked down at her and smiled.
"Why would I let that happen?" Yamato wrapped his arms around Sora's waist. "I just never knew." Yamato hit himself on the head. "How the hell could I call myself his best friend when I couldn't even tell he was in love with my wife?!" Sora grabbed Yamato's free hand and held it in hers.
"Yama, go speak to him." Yamato looked at Sora a little confused.
"But I thought you hated him." Sora shook her head.
"How do you think you would treat the person that ripped their trust from you?" Sora asked, her body fighting shakes of fear. Yamato held her closer to him.
"I should've killed him a long time ago. Then I was capable of not feeling pity towards him." Sora chuckled and kissed Yamato's shoulder. "Go with Ryu and Himeko. I'll be back." Sora nodded and watched as her blonde husband ran after the mass of brown in the distance.
"Taichi!" Yamato cried as he approached his old friend. Taichi spun around, planting his fists in front of him, expecting the ambush of fists. When none came, Taichi lowered his fists and stared at the blond staring at him.
"What did I do now, Yamato?" Taichi asked, expecting to be accosted by Yamato's harmful words. Yamato leaned against the tree besides him to regain his posture. Taichi just stared at him, trying to figure out what was going on.
"We need to talk," Yamato paused as he glanced over his shoulder to see if Sora was watching. Gratefully she was too far back to see what was going on.
"About what? You want me to kill myself? I mean , for God's sake, Yamato, I lost all of my friends, both of my best friends, my niece, and my own sister! Now thanks to my stupid hormones, I'm never going to see my sister's baby! Your brother refuses to let me near Hikari and- to make matters worse- Hikari was the one that talked Takeru into removing me!" Yamato felt himself split in two. One side ready to say that he got what he deserved, the other saying that they need to talk and maybe they could figure out how to become friends again.
"I'm sorry that you went through all of that pain, Tai, but, you have to agree that you deserved it." Taichi nodded. "I want to talk to you about something you said back there." Taichi raised his eyebrow as Yamato pointed in the park's direction.
"What did I say that made you want to talk to me?" Taichi asked as he plopped down on the grass.
"How you feel about Sora." Taichi made an 'oh' expression and nodded for Yamato to continue. "Why didn't you say anything when I started dating Sora?" Yamato stopped then sat besides Taichi. "Why didn't you say something about your feelings towards Sora when we were younger?!" Taichi looked at the blonde and sighed.
"I didn't say anything, because Sora told me that she was in love with you." Yamato looked at Taichi a little confused. "Dude, I never said anything before that because I wasn't looking at girls like that, besides, Sora always stared at you different from other guys. I didn't get it, but you were also the only guy that didn't treat her like she was a guy, but a girl." Taichi said, obviously remembering how the three of them had been when they were younger.
"I'll never allow you to be alone with her!" Yamato stated suddenly. "If I forgive you, you have to understand that I will never let you touch her in any way that any other guy would. She has to agree with this, too, of course, because she's my wife-" Taichi smiled at Yamato, patting his back.
"If you do something she doesn't like, then you don't visit heaven." Yamato and Taichi broke into laughter. They smiled at each other once they allowed the laughter to die down.
"I missed doing that." Yamato said with a smile. Taichi smirked.
"What, Sora in bed or me?" Taichi asked jokingly.
"You, dumb-ass." Yamato smiled.
"DADDY! DADDY!" Yamato looked over as Himeko came running towards him. "Daddy, Aunt Kari's baby!" Yamato grabbed Himeko in his arms and started towards the car that Sora was driving up in.
"Yama, c'mon, Takeru just called from the hospital." Yamato nodded as he buckled Himeko into the back seat and jumped in the front seat.
"How far apart are the contractions?" Yamato demanded as Sora sped out of the parking lot.
"Takeru said something like 7 minutes. Why's Taichi following us?" Sora asked as she looked in her review mirror.
"It's his sister." Yamato stated.
"Daddy and Uncle Tai were laughing when I came up, Mommy!" Himeko declared.
"Really? Yama, are you and Taichi speaking again?" Sora asked as she looked at her husband.
"Yep. Now, if you don't mind, I have to go comfort my little brother. He's about to become a father, you know." Yamato said, a smile spreading across his face.
Sora parked the car and went running towards the entrance, both of her children in her arms. She ran into the waiting room and stared at the two blondes speaking to one another by the door.
"Uncle 'Keru!" Ryu and Himeko exclaimed as they saw their Uncle stressing out.
"Hey, guys." Takeru said as he stared at his niece and nephew. Takeru's eyes moved to his sister-in-law's eyes.
"How you holding on, Takeru?" Sora asked as she knelt besides her husband. "How's Kari?" Takeru looked up at Sora and Yamato.
"What am I gonna do? My wife's in there having my child." Takeru looked at Yamato, his eyes wide in horror. "How did you do it when Himeko was born?" Yamato shrugged.
"I was clinging to Sora the whole time." Sora laughed.
"Takaishi, Takeru?" The nurse asked as she entered the waiting room. Takeru jumped to his feet.
"Yes? Is something wrong with my wife?" Takeru asked. The nurse smiled.
"Hurry and go, she's calling for you. She's about to have the baby." Takeru ran into the room that the nurse was pointing at.
"I love you, Sora." Yamato whispered into his wife's ear. Sora smiled and hugged Yamato and her kids.
"I love you guys."
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Well, that's that. The end. I think its good to end it in the hospital, like it started. I hope you guys enjoyed this.
The whole thing with Taichi is that Yamato and him went through enough that they should be able to mend their friendship. just Yama's gonna be stalking him whenever he goes near Sora. So Taichi hasn't regained the trust nor will he for some long long time.