Blast: Whew. Yes, I'm in the sixth chapter. The plot thickens!
Mai: I'm shutting this side of me off. Heartaches in this chapter. And also, thank you so much for the reviews. I appreciate it. Now, I don't own Digimon, or its characters.
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CHAPTER VI: WHY?
Sora and Matt returned to the gallery, where they found Ken, Miyako, Hikari, Taichi and Mimi waiting for them. Well, it wasn't obvious, but they could see. Ken, Miyako and Hikari were talking about the paintings that Tai made. Taichi and Mimi are talking in another part of the huge room. Smiling inwardly, they went towards the latter.
Mimi noticed their arrival first. "S-eh, Fauna, you're here already." She grinned. (AN: Damn! I made the same mistake on the other chapter! Forgive me! I'll repost that!)
"And why would I stay late, Miss?" Sora grinned mischievously, and observed her stepsister and the painter. "Would you mind telling me what is invading your mind that is making you grin like that?"
"I do hope you two got acquainted already." Tai smiled innocently. He caught Matt's death glare at him, which is spelling the word DEATH perfectly. A roguish smirk went out of the brown haired boy.
Mimi became aware of the time and looked outside. The sun was beginning to set, and if they are not back in the mansion, the Ladies will have a fit. "Um, sorry to interrupt, but we have to go. Mother, Lady Koe and Lady Marissa will be worried if we're not home before nightfall."
"Who are the other two?" Matt inquired, the two names seem to be ringing a familiar tune in his head.
"Lady Koe is Ken's mother, a friend of Lord Takenouchi." Sora filled in. "Lady Marissa is Miyako's mother who happened to be the best friend of Lady Sora's mother."
"Wait a minute. Lady Marissa Inoue?" Matt asked, knowing quite well the young lady.
"Yes. Why? Do you know her, Matt?" Sora asked, hoping that what she is thinking is not the same as what is flowing through the young boy's mind. If it is, then she's toast.
"She is a close friend of the Royal Family of the South." Matt answered, and was quickly sent a glare from Mimi and Tai. He blinked. "Well, I heard that she is a very good friend of the recent King's youngest sister."
Miyako heard the conversation and gave a look to the redhead. Sora shook her head, and mouthed, 'Save me.'. She quickly excused herself from the two persons she'd been conversing with and decided to cut in the conversation. "Um, excuse me, mother made specific on coming home early."
Sora sighed appreciatively at Miyako's direction. "Well, I guess we have to go." She looked at Matt. "I'll see you again sometime, Matt."
"Likewise, Fauna." He placed a fleeting butterfly kiss on her lips, causing the young girl to blush immediately. "See you later."
Tai looked at Mimi. "I'll be at the manor first thing in the morning, Lady Mimi."
Mimi remembered what she have talked about with her companion and smiled. "We'll be expecting you, Lord Kamiya."
After saying their goodbyes and walked their way back to the Takenouchi estate, Sora let out a sigh of relief, and glanced to Miyako. "That was too close for comfort."
"You owe me." Miyako said, before turning her attention to Ken and began talking about things.
"I didn't quite understand what you were talking about." Mimi said, glancing at Sora's direction.
"I wish I could tell you, Mimi, but I can't." Sora answered solemnly, looking at the ground. "I will be able to tell you what that means, if I will be able to get out of Lady's Louise's palm and father with me."
"I see." Mimi said. Suddenly, with the vivacity of a six year old, she make a little dance around the street. "He's coming to our house! He's coming to our house! He's coming to our house!"
Sora shook her head, amused. While she and Matt are starting a steady relationship, Mimi is dancing, singing that her boyfriend is going to the house, and by all means, Lady Louise won't allow such romance between them. She sighed. 'I miss father so much.'
As they arrived home, Marissa greeted them all with a wide smile, especially Sora. "Sora, guess who's here to see you!"
Sora blinked, and then followed the woman to the living room, where she saw another presence, a presence that always make her feel warm. Her face was wreathed in smiles as she ran towards the man. "Father!"
"Ah, my little Tyan!" Lord Arthur Takenouchi took his only daughter into his arms. "I missed you so much!"
"Father!" she looked up to him and smiled, tears springing freely out of her eyes. "You came back!"
"Of course." He grinned and patted his daughter's red hair. "I don't want to leave you here with Louise." They sat down on the couch, Marissa, Miyako, Ken, and Mimi sitting on the other chairs. "We have so much catching up to do."
"But before anything else, Sora, your father is going to tell you something very important." Marissa said. She glanced at Miyako, who nodded, and turned to the two unnecessary audiences.
"Mimi, Ken, I believe we have to explain ourselves to your mothers why we are late in coming home." Miyako said, ushering the two out of the room and towards the recreation room, where the other older persons in the household are staying for a while.
After the trio was out of earshot, Arthur sighed and turned to her daughter. "Sora, I know that you are probably suffering under your stepmother's wing." He started, hearing the conversation, er, argument Marissa walked into. "Marissa had been talking to the King, and he was generous enough to take you in, that is, if you want to."
Sora was torn between delight and sorrow. Delight for the fact that she won't have to hear from Lady Louise no more. Sorrow for the fact that she can no longer see her friends again: Taichi, Hikari, Ken, Sam, Mimi, especially Matt. Matt, how cruel can life be, we can't be destined to be with each other? "I'll think about it, father. If nothing progresses within the next three days, I will go to my uncle. But if it suits me to stay here, then I'll decline."
"Okay, Sora." Marissa sighed, and turned to Arthur. 'She will be harder to convince if she knows what awaits her at the South Kingdom.'
'We'll keep it from her until she decides to go.'
Marissa stands up. "I'll leave you two alone for a while. I will help the Ladies prepare dinner." She then left the man and his daughter to talk.
Matt breathed deeply with annoyance. Damn the Royal Guard. Even though Takeru promised not to tell, the Royal Guard had followed him, and fetched the young crown prince from the gallery. Now, he was in his huge magnificent room, preparing to get a string of concerns from his mother, the Queen. "Just my damn luck."
The huge door opened, revealing the Queen Nancy Ishida. On her face is a mask of worry. "Yamato! What were you thinking?" she ran over to her young boy and enveloped him into an embrace. "You could've been kidnapped or something!"
He let his mother babble all the way. "It's alright, mother. I'm right here, safe and sound, and I just wanted to get out without being spotted by the 'ekk' women of the inner palace. (AN: Yeah, got that from Fushigi Yuugi.)"
"Yamato, please." She sighed. Standing up, she smiled faintly. "Your father wants you in the Throne room now. And Yamato, please change your clothes. You are not some huntsman." She left the blonde in the room. 'If this will stop you from escaping, then I will allow it.' She thought. 'I hope my husband isn't too harsh on his decision.'
Matt heaved another sigh. If he couldn't get out again, he'll never be able to see Fauna again. After declaring his love, he was leaving her like that. No, that can't be. He changed into what the whole kingdom knows as the Prince Yamato Ishida. Striding towards the throne room, he was greeted by the advisers, courtiers and the King and Queen. Takeru is reading a book on the steps of the throne, just beside the Queen. All the other people inside the room aside the Royal family knelt down to him.
"Yamato, that will be the last time I'll hear of you running away." The King declared. "Do you understand?"
"Yes, father." Matt answered. "That will never happen again."
"Now, to business." He ordered. He waved his hand, and instantly, everyone in the room, excluding the family, left the room. "Yamato, as you already know, you are in the age of inheriting the throne."
'Oh, no, not this! Anything but this!' Matt pleaded silently.
"Yamato, your mother and I have been talking to the King of the Southern Kingdom."
Matt's eyes shot open. "What?! You have been talking to the Nonaka's?!" (AN: Like it was any surprise.)
The King disregarded the sudden outburst of his son. "This was a good thing, because the war had been destructive to both our kingdoms. Now, we are negotiating that to make the two kingdoms prosper and stronger, and to do that, we need your help as the crown prince of Ishida to welcome the young Princess into this kingdom."
"What young Princess?"
"Why, the only heiress of the Southern Kingdom herself, Princess Rika Nonaka." The Queen said. "Don't tell me that you aren't ready for this to happen."
The world around Yamato Ishida shattered. It was only a few hours ago that he and the only girl he had laid eyes upon had shared a very wonderful moment, and now, his father, the King, was telling him that he was marrying a Princess to unite the two kingdoms. Although it wasn't told directly, he knows what his parents meant. He gritted his teeth and ran off back to his bedroom, his father ordering him to come back.
The Queen saw the look on her son's face. And she wasn't blind to see what he meant. She turned to her husband. "Let me talk to him. Something is bothering him to even talk about marriage." She followed her son back to the bedroom chambers.
She saw Yamato sitting by the bedroom window, looking outside with a blank expression on his face. She smiled, and placed a hand on her son's shoulder. "Yamato?"
"Hello mother."
"Yamato, tell me what's wrong." She said. "Is it another girl?"
Barely noticed, Matt nodded.
"Oh, I see." She took a chair and joined him. "I can talk to your father about the marriage. But, it will be the Princess' decision if she agrees with her father. You have to convince her that you are not worthy of her." She chuckled softly. "That's what I did to overthrow my last suitor just to marry your father. I love so much, and I'm proud to have you and Takeru as my sons."
Matt smiled. "Thank you mother." He continued gazing below. An idea struck his mind. "Mother, have you heard of the Takenouchi's?"
"The Takenouchi's? But of course!" the Queen answered. "The youngest sister of the Southern King is the first wife of the Lord Takenouchi!"
"You know them?"
"Yamato, before the wars, when I was still a child, I used to go talk to the King of the South and his sister. We were separated by the wars, and last I've heard, his sister married the Lord Arthur Takenouchi and gave him a daughter, Sora, I believe her name is. I'm sure you two will get along wonderfully."
"As Taichi Kamiya told me. I was told by the maidservant of the Takenouchi household that Lady Sora is out of town."
"What? That's nonsense." She said, blinking. "Sora was left in the estate to be with the Lord's mistress, Lady Louise, and her two daughters. And what do you mean by maidservant? I have never heard of the Takenouchi's having a maidservant."
It struck Matt hard. "Then, who the hell is Fauna?"
"Fauna?" his mother asked. "My child, Fauna is the name of Sora's deceased mother, the youngest princess of the South!"
Matt blinked, the truth struck him hard. The girl, the girl, she was the Lady Sora Takenouchi! Why did Taichi hide this from him! Why didn't anyone told him about this?! "But she was dressed like a servant!"
"Servant." This leaves the Queen musing. "It must be the mistress' doing. She is probably hiding the heiress of the estate from the public. So, you met Sora?"
"In a different sense, mother." Matt answered, his heart wrenching with anger. He had fallen in love with the young heiress! No wonder the reactions of the two younger children they were accompanied by were ridiculous. "I'm in trouble, mother."
"Why, Yamato?"
"I...I'm in love with Sora." He said. No wonder Taichi was forcing Sora to him! His friend only wanted him to stick with the truth, but to not tell off what lie Sora gave him. And the letter, the letter belonged to her! "But she deceived me. She made me believe such things!"
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Blast: Oh no! What happened? And why the heck is Rika Nonaka here? How will they solve this? And what will happen to Sora and Matt? Bleaky. And also, 'Tyan' means Sky in Chinese, remember what Sora's name meant? I'm sure you're getting my point. Someone here is obviously out of character. Tell me, will you? R & R!
Mai: I'm shutting this side of me off. Heartaches in this chapter. And also, thank you so much for the reviews. I appreciate it. Now, I don't own Digimon, or its characters.
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CHAPTER VI: WHY?
Sora and Matt returned to the gallery, where they found Ken, Miyako, Hikari, Taichi and Mimi waiting for them. Well, it wasn't obvious, but they could see. Ken, Miyako and Hikari were talking about the paintings that Tai made. Taichi and Mimi are talking in another part of the huge room. Smiling inwardly, they went towards the latter.
Mimi noticed their arrival first. "S-eh, Fauna, you're here already." She grinned. (AN: Damn! I made the same mistake on the other chapter! Forgive me! I'll repost that!)
"And why would I stay late, Miss?" Sora grinned mischievously, and observed her stepsister and the painter. "Would you mind telling me what is invading your mind that is making you grin like that?"
"I do hope you two got acquainted already." Tai smiled innocently. He caught Matt's death glare at him, which is spelling the word DEATH perfectly. A roguish smirk went out of the brown haired boy.
Mimi became aware of the time and looked outside. The sun was beginning to set, and if they are not back in the mansion, the Ladies will have a fit. "Um, sorry to interrupt, but we have to go. Mother, Lady Koe and Lady Marissa will be worried if we're not home before nightfall."
"Who are the other two?" Matt inquired, the two names seem to be ringing a familiar tune in his head.
"Lady Koe is Ken's mother, a friend of Lord Takenouchi." Sora filled in. "Lady Marissa is Miyako's mother who happened to be the best friend of Lady Sora's mother."
"Wait a minute. Lady Marissa Inoue?" Matt asked, knowing quite well the young lady.
"Yes. Why? Do you know her, Matt?" Sora asked, hoping that what she is thinking is not the same as what is flowing through the young boy's mind. If it is, then she's toast.
"She is a close friend of the Royal Family of the South." Matt answered, and was quickly sent a glare from Mimi and Tai. He blinked. "Well, I heard that she is a very good friend of the recent King's youngest sister."
Miyako heard the conversation and gave a look to the redhead. Sora shook her head, and mouthed, 'Save me.'. She quickly excused herself from the two persons she'd been conversing with and decided to cut in the conversation. "Um, excuse me, mother made specific on coming home early."
Sora sighed appreciatively at Miyako's direction. "Well, I guess we have to go." She looked at Matt. "I'll see you again sometime, Matt."
"Likewise, Fauna." He placed a fleeting butterfly kiss on her lips, causing the young girl to blush immediately. "See you later."
Tai looked at Mimi. "I'll be at the manor first thing in the morning, Lady Mimi."
Mimi remembered what she have talked about with her companion and smiled. "We'll be expecting you, Lord Kamiya."
After saying their goodbyes and walked their way back to the Takenouchi estate, Sora let out a sigh of relief, and glanced to Miyako. "That was too close for comfort."
"You owe me." Miyako said, before turning her attention to Ken and began talking about things.
"I didn't quite understand what you were talking about." Mimi said, glancing at Sora's direction.
"I wish I could tell you, Mimi, but I can't." Sora answered solemnly, looking at the ground. "I will be able to tell you what that means, if I will be able to get out of Lady's Louise's palm and father with me."
"I see." Mimi said. Suddenly, with the vivacity of a six year old, she make a little dance around the street. "He's coming to our house! He's coming to our house! He's coming to our house!"
Sora shook her head, amused. While she and Matt are starting a steady relationship, Mimi is dancing, singing that her boyfriend is going to the house, and by all means, Lady Louise won't allow such romance between them. She sighed. 'I miss father so much.'
As they arrived home, Marissa greeted them all with a wide smile, especially Sora. "Sora, guess who's here to see you!"
Sora blinked, and then followed the woman to the living room, where she saw another presence, a presence that always make her feel warm. Her face was wreathed in smiles as she ran towards the man. "Father!"
"Ah, my little Tyan!" Lord Arthur Takenouchi took his only daughter into his arms. "I missed you so much!"
"Father!" she looked up to him and smiled, tears springing freely out of her eyes. "You came back!"
"Of course." He grinned and patted his daughter's red hair. "I don't want to leave you here with Louise." They sat down on the couch, Marissa, Miyako, Ken, and Mimi sitting on the other chairs. "We have so much catching up to do."
"But before anything else, Sora, your father is going to tell you something very important." Marissa said. She glanced at Miyako, who nodded, and turned to the two unnecessary audiences.
"Mimi, Ken, I believe we have to explain ourselves to your mothers why we are late in coming home." Miyako said, ushering the two out of the room and towards the recreation room, where the other older persons in the household are staying for a while.
After the trio was out of earshot, Arthur sighed and turned to her daughter. "Sora, I know that you are probably suffering under your stepmother's wing." He started, hearing the conversation, er, argument Marissa walked into. "Marissa had been talking to the King, and he was generous enough to take you in, that is, if you want to."
Sora was torn between delight and sorrow. Delight for the fact that she won't have to hear from Lady Louise no more. Sorrow for the fact that she can no longer see her friends again: Taichi, Hikari, Ken, Sam, Mimi, especially Matt. Matt, how cruel can life be, we can't be destined to be with each other? "I'll think about it, father. If nothing progresses within the next three days, I will go to my uncle. But if it suits me to stay here, then I'll decline."
"Okay, Sora." Marissa sighed, and turned to Arthur. 'She will be harder to convince if she knows what awaits her at the South Kingdom.'
'We'll keep it from her until she decides to go.'
Marissa stands up. "I'll leave you two alone for a while. I will help the Ladies prepare dinner." She then left the man and his daughter to talk.
Matt breathed deeply with annoyance. Damn the Royal Guard. Even though Takeru promised not to tell, the Royal Guard had followed him, and fetched the young crown prince from the gallery. Now, he was in his huge magnificent room, preparing to get a string of concerns from his mother, the Queen. "Just my damn luck."
The huge door opened, revealing the Queen Nancy Ishida. On her face is a mask of worry. "Yamato! What were you thinking?" she ran over to her young boy and enveloped him into an embrace. "You could've been kidnapped or something!"
He let his mother babble all the way. "It's alright, mother. I'm right here, safe and sound, and I just wanted to get out without being spotted by the 'ekk' women of the inner palace. (AN: Yeah, got that from Fushigi Yuugi.)"
"Yamato, please." She sighed. Standing up, she smiled faintly. "Your father wants you in the Throne room now. And Yamato, please change your clothes. You are not some huntsman." She left the blonde in the room. 'If this will stop you from escaping, then I will allow it.' She thought. 'I hope my husband isn't too harsh on his decision.'
Matt heaved another sigh. If he couldn't get out again, he'll never be able to see Fauna again. After declaring his love, he was leaving her like that. No, that can't be. He changed into what the whole kingdom knows as the Prince Yamato Ishida. Striding towards the throne room, he was greeted by the advisers, courtiers and the King and Queen. Takeru is reading a book on the steps of the throne, just beside the Queen. All the other people inside the room aside the Royal family knelt down to him.
"Yamato, that will be the last time I'll hear of you running away." The King declared. "Do you understand?"
"Yes, father." Matt answered. "That will never happen again."
"Now, to business." He ordered. He waved his hand, and instantly, everyone in the room, excluding the family, left the room. "Yamato, as you already know, you are in the age of inheriting the throne."
'Oh, no, not this! Anything but this!' Matt pleaded silently.
"Yamato, your mother and I have been talking to the King of the Southern Kingdom."
Matt's eyes shot open. "What?! You have been talking to the Nonaka's?!" (AN: Like it was any surprise.)
The King disregarded the sudden outburst of his son. "This was a good thing, because the war had been destructive to both our kingdoms. Now, we are negotiating that to make the two kingdoms prosper and stronger, and to do that, we need your help as the crown prince of Ishida to welcome the young Princess into this kingdom."
"What young Princess?"
"Why, the only heiress of the Southern Kingdom herself, Princess Rika Nonaka." The Queen said. "Don't tell me that you aren't ready for this to happen."
The world around Yamato Ishida shattered. It was only a few hours ago that he and the only girl he had laid eyes upon had shared a very wonderful moment, and now, his father, the King, was telling him that he was marrying a Princess to unite the two kingdoms. Although it wasn't told directly, he knows what his parents meant. He gritted his teeth and ran off back to his bedroom, his father ordering him to come back.
The Queen saw the look on her son's face. And she wasn't blind to see what he meant. She turned to her husband. "Let me talk to him. Something is bothering him to even talk about marriage." She followed her son back to the bedroom chambers.
She saw Yamato sitting by the bedroom window, looking outside with a blank expression on his face. She smiled, and placed a hand on her son's shoulder. "Yamato?"
"Hello mother."
"Yamato, tell me what's wrong." She said. "Is it another girl?"
Barely noticed, Matt nodded.
"Oh, I see." She took a chair and joined him. "I can talk to your father about the marriage. But, it will be the Princess' decision if she agrees with her father. You have to convince her that you are not worthy of her." She chuckled softly. "That's what I did to overthrow my last suitor just to marry your father. I love so much, and I'm proud to have you and Takeru as my sons."
Matt smiled. "Thank you mother." He continued gazing below. An idea struck his mind. "Mother, have you heard of the Takenouchi's?"
"The Takenouchi's? But of course!" the Queen answered. "The youngest sister of the Southern King is the first wife of the Lord Takenouchi!"
"You know them?"
"Yamato, before the wars, when I was still a child, I used to go talk to the King of the South and his sister. We were separated by the wars, and last I've heard, his sister married the Lord Arthur Takenouchi and gave him a daughter, Sora, I believe her name is. I'm sure you two will get along wonderfully."
"As Taichi Kamiya told me. I was told by the maidservant of the Takenouchi household that Lady Sora is out of town."
"What? That's nonsense." She said, blinking. "Sora was left in the estate to be with the Lord's mistress, Lady Louise, and her two daughters. And what do you mean by maidservant? I have never heard of the Takenouchi's having a maidservant."
It struck Matt hard. "Then, who the hell is Fauna?"
"Fauna?" his mother asked. "My child, Fauna is the name of Sora's deceased mother, the youngest princess of the South!"
Matt blinked, the truth struck him hard. The girl, the girl, she was the Lady Sora Takenouchi! Why did Taichi hide this from him! Why didn't anyone told him about this?! "But she was dressed like a servant!"
"Servant." This leaves the Queen musing. "It must be the mistress' doing. She is probably hiding the heiress of the estate from the public. So, you met Sora?"
"In a different sense, mother." Matt answered, his heart wrenching with anger. He had fallen in love with the young heiress! No wonder the reactions of the two younger children they were accompanied by were ridiculous. "I'm in trouble, mother."
"Why, Yamato?"
"I...I'm in love with Sora." He said. No wonder Taichi was forcing Sora to him! His friend only wanted him to stick with the truth, but to not tell off what lie Sora gave him. And the letter, the letter belonged to her! "But she deceived me. She made me believe such things!"
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Blast: Oh no! What happened? And why the heck is Rika Nonaka here? How will they solve this? And what will happen to Sora and Matt? Bleaky. And also, 'Tyan' means Sky in Chinese, remember what Sora's name meant? I'm sure you're getting my point. Someone here is obviously out of character. Tell me, will you? R & R!