Disclaimer - Do you think I would be writing this right now if I owned Digimon? Here's a hint, it looks kind of like, 'no'. Pretty simple, huh?

A/N: Back with another chapter! Aren't you all overwhelmed with happiness? Ha!

Behind The Curtain
Chapter Eight

Taichi was going to pull his hair out if the blonde showed up at his work again. He would pull out every strand of his chocolate brown hair. Every. Single. One. The blonde was so frustrating to even think about. He was still a little upset from the previous day. He had been fine with his unbelievably boring life before the blonde came along. Yeah, perfectly fine. When he had said that he wanted something unexpected to happen in his life, he didn't mean a hot blonde who had the worst temper he'd ever seen.

The brunet sighed as he collapsed into the chair behind his desk. He prayed for an easy day, he was too damn tired to do anything that took any kind of thought process. Especially since the only thing that had been on his mind for the past three days was the blonde. There wasn't any more room for anything else. There was a quick knock at his office door, and he groaned. He knew what had to be waiting for him on the other side of that door. It was either the blonde or more work. He thought about not answering, but then thought against it. "Come in." He said quietly.

The door opened and revealed a young woman. Taichi looked up at her pitifully. "There's someone here to see you." Taichi sighed.

"I was afraid of that." He said to himself, and the woman arched an eyebrow at him. He shook his head and said, "Bring them in." A blonde walked in a moment later, and the brunet sighed. He really didn't want to talk to Yamato right now. When the blonde looked up, Taichi's eyes widened. "What the hell are you doing here?" It escaped his mouth before he even had time to think.

"Taichi, right?" The blonde asked, and Taichi nodded. "You remember me--Takeru?" The brunet nodded again. "I just wanted to talk with you about a few things."

Taichi arched an eyebrow. "Things? What type of things? I don't even know you, what is there to talk about?" He was very confused. The blonde didn't look like he was there for anything that had to do with Taichi and his job. He watched Takeru intently, the blonde had his complete attention.

"Yamato." At the mention of the blue-eyed beauty's name, Taichi's eyes widened. That was something he hadn't been expecting. Then it hit him, Takeru was Yamato's younger brother. Why hadn't he realized it before? How could he not of realized it before? How dense can one person be? Obviously pretty dense, the brunet thought. "Don't start something you aren't going to finish." Takeru said pointedly, snapping Taichi out of his thoughts. He looked at the blonde, very confused.

"I'm not going to finish? What's that supposed to mean? I haven't started anything." As the words fell out of Taichi's mouth, the blonde shook his head.

Takeru sighed. "Look, Yamato, he... Taichi, he doesn't need someone hanging around if they aren't going to stick around." Taichi arched an eyebrow, then Takeru shook his head. "That didn't come out right." He sighed. "Yamato... Yamato's got some... Some problems." Taichi had no clue as to what the blonde was talking about. He wasn't making any sense. "Don't play around with him. He needs someone he can depend on, someone that won't run away." Takeru stared at Taichi as the brunet stared back at him. Then the blonde shook his head. "You know what, nevermind. I don't know why I even came."

As Takeru started to walk out the door, Taichi finally found his voice. "Wait!" He called, and Takeru turned back to him. "I don't understand what you're trying to tell me, but... But, I want to understand. I feel like you're telling me that I need to marry him or something, which I highly doubt will happen, but I know that can't possibly be what you're trying to say."

Takeru sighed, and sat back down in the seat across from Taichi. "I'm not saying anything like that. I'm saying that he doesn't have anybody, everyone's run away."

"What about you?" Taichi urged. Now he knew what Takeru was trying to say, it was all coming to him at once. It scared him. And what scared him more was that he wanted to be there for Yamato, in every and any way he could.

The blonde shook his head. "He shut me out a long time ago." Taichi felt like he couldn't breathe, that he needed to go for a walk and think. Now it felt like he was part of a bigger plan. That something much bigger was going to happen, and that he couldn't get himself out of it even if he wanted to. "I know he can be weird at times... But, I think you can help him. You've got to help him."

You've got to help him. Were the blonde's words. It kept repeating in Taichi's head. You've got to help him. What was he supposed to do? Yamato obviously wanted nothing to do with him. If he did he wouldn't of snapped at him like that, right? He knew that he was giving Taichi the idea that he didn't want him around, right? Right!? Taichi debated on stopping at the blonde's apartment. He didn't stop though, what would he say? 'Hey, your brother stopped by my work. Asked me to look after you.' Yeah, right. Like that even sounded remotely exceptable.

The brunet couldn't help but feel like he was drowning. He couldn't breathe; his palms were sweating and it was starting to piss him off. He felt like a burden had been pushed upon him and he couldn't do anything about it, like he had agreed the moment Takeru walked into the office. Like hell he had. He hadn't said anything. But, it was like an unspoken agreement, and now Yamato was Taichi's problem. The brunet winced at the thought. How could any person be a 'problem'? He'd made it sound like Yamato was an inanimate object, and he wasn't at all.

When Taichi walked into his apartment he was met with Daisuke and Ken sitting on the couch fighting over the remote for the television. They didn't even notice him walk in. "Give it to me!" Daisuke whined and Ken raised an eyebrow. "Ken, give it to me!"

"Give what to you?" Taichi asked, his eyebrow arched. He knew exactly what the mahogany haired boy was talking about, but for anyone who didn't it would sound mighty dirty. Daisuke looked over at Taichi, who was in the kitchen.

"Tai, he won't give it to me!" Daisuke whine at him, giving the brunet a pitiful look. Then he shot a glare in Ken's direction.

Taichi walked over to the two, and patted Daisuke on the head. "That's between you two, buddy. I don't want any part of your sex life."

"I'm not talking about that! I'm talking about the remote! Make him give me the remote!" He said; then added, "Smartass."

Ken laughed as did Taichi, then the dark haired boy handed the remote to Daisuke. Taichi shook his head as Daisuke started to whine about something else Ken started doing. Then he tuned the both of them out. He wanted to go see Yamato, but he didn't know if he should. He couldn't decide if he was in the mood to walk on egg shells (A/N: sorry about the cliche).

"TAAAIII!" Daisuke's voice snapped the brunet out of this thoughts. He looked at Daisuke, an alarmed expression on his face. Daisuke noticed this and said, "Relax, you just weren't paying attention." Then Taichi glared at the boy, but he ignored it. "As I was saying: did you see your guy today?" At this Taichi sighed, he really didn't feel like talking about it.

"My guy?" He question, not enthused. "No." He walked into his room, and called out to the two boys. "I'm going to bed, lock up before you go to sleep."

"'Kay!" He heard Daisuke call back.

Not a minute after his head hit the pillow, his was asleep. It didn't feel like he was asleep for more than minute before his alarm when off either. How ironic. He left his apartment right away, Daisuke and Ken were still asleep, and he wanted to stop by Yamato's to see how he was doing.

Taichi knocked on the door five times, and waited for almost ten minutes. He didn't want to leave without seeing the blonde though. He knew he had to be inside the apartment, so he took a deep breath and grabbed the door handle. He opened the door, but saw nothing. The blonde wasn't anywhere in sight. He walked all the way into the apartment and closed the door. He knew he was basically breaking into someone's house, but, he wasn't really if the front door was unlocked and he knew the person, right?

The first door he came to he glanced in. The bathroom; it was empty. The second door he came to was closed. He took another deep breath and opened it. Yamato's bedroom; it wasn't empty. Taichi gasped as glass shattered.

[tbc]

Aero: I'm starting to make this a habit, aren't I? Sorry. Well, please review! You guys have been great! ^^ -Ciao