Hello everybody! ^^ I'm soooooo sorry that I haven't updated sooner. I've been too busy chatting, updating my journal, and making icons. Plus my schoolwork gets in the way alot of times to. So I get to tired to update my stories. Well, now I'm back on my feet and I decided to update the one story that seems to be the most favorite. ^^Well enough stalling and on to the story.

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Braces Cases Chapter 3 - The Unnoticeable Part 1

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Chew, chew, chew. Bite, roll, and chew. It's coming... Chew, roll, and toss. So close... Open mouth. Chew, Chew, and Chew! Almost there... Blow, blow, and blow...POP!

"TAICHI KAMIYA, WILL YOU STOP IT!!!"

Explosion! "Stop what Kari?" Just play innocent.

"Don't play innocent with me!"

Uh oh. She figured me out.

"Stop chewing gum in my ear! I'm trying to watch TV!"

And what's so great about watching 'The Bacherlloret' anyways?

"Just please get out of here and stop bugging me."

Sigh. "Ok, fine." Maybe a walk around the block will stop me from being bored.

"Thanks Tai." I turn to see Kari smile with relief.

"Eh, you know you're gonna miss me." I give my oh so famous grin.

"Yeah right." She whispers.

I just grin stupidly. "Yup! Right!" Then I shut the door.

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All I've been doing this whole week is munching on junk food. Not that it really matters much. I spend so much time at soccer practice that I never ever gain any weight.

Right now I'm just chewing on some gum while walking down town. Not much to see really. OH wait what's that place? I've never seen it before.

As I walk closer I realize it's a wedding shop. I front are some manikins. One with a black tux and the other with the actual wedding dress.

I just continue to stare. Why am I concentrating so hard on a couple of plastic dolls anyways? Hmm...for some reason I can't take my eyes off of them. They look like such a cute couple. Doll wise that is.

HEY! WAIT! MATT! I freeze and stare. The manikin in the tux turned into Matt! He looks so beautiful and elegant. Then suddenly the manikin in the dress turned into Sora. I stare silently as I watch them turn towards each other and smile as they held hands. Their lips reaching ever closer. Fear draws ever closer in my heart as I watch them near each others lips. I have to stop him. I never told him how I felt and now it's too late. Matt please...you have to listen to me..."Matt I lov"

"HEY TAI!"

"ACK! WHAT THE HECK!" I turn and glare at the intruder. "Huh, oops. Sorry I didn't mean to yell." Stupid imagination of mine.

"It's ok Tai" Yolei smiles at me. Though I can still tell she that is a little scared. "Sorry to disturbed you, but apparently you were to busy staring at a plastic doll.

"I was just thinking." No need to make me feel even more embarrassed.

~~~ Yolei's POV

"Yeah ok." Tai something's bothering you isn't it?

"So what do you want?'' Oh! Uh...Oh NO! Wait do I say??? Oh, yeah!

"I was just wondering if uh.... you knew where Davis was?" Davis? Oh man! Now he'll know I'm up to something for sure. Since when have I ever asked to know where Davis is anyways?

"No I haven't seen him."

"You haven't? Oh well, thanks anyways. Bye!" Run, Run, RUN!!!

"Bye?"

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Heave, heave. God, why do I have to be so suspicious? Well, what do you expect of the keeper of love and sincerity? Sigh. I wonder what made Tai stare at those manikins like that? He seemed...so sad. Like he was almost about to start crying. I just had to bring him out of it. He was about to say something too. "Matt I lov-" Love what? What on earth could he have seen in that thick brain of his?

Sigh. I need to get my head straight.

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Tai POV~~~

"You haven't? Oh well, thanks anyways. Bye!"

I hold my hand up slightly. "Bye?" Heh? Yolei can run pretty fast. But why did she just run off like that? Oh well, that girl's pretty strange anyways.

I turn back to the store. Matt and Sora were no longing in the window. Sigh. I better go before I actually watch their whole wedding.

I was so scared though. I felt like I had no power to stop them. They wouldn't listen to me. They just kept at it. "So how was it Sora?" Great, now I'm even staring to hear them. "Ok. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was." HUH! Wait that's not from inside my head!

I quickly look up and noticed Sora and Matt just a few feet away from me. I quickly look around for something. Anything to hide myself from their view. I find a couple of trees just to my left and quickly leap in back of one.

Matt smiled and laughed. "See I told you it wouldn't be so bad." I sigh. I love it when he looks like that. So care free and happy.

"Yeah, well it took all you had to convince me to go." Sora smiled whole-heartedly. "I'm grateful you took me."

"No problem. Movies like that shouldn't scare you." Matt placed his arm on Sora's shoulder. I could feel a little pulse of jealous running through me as I continued to watch.

Sora just turned around and smiled. "I know. It was really silly of me to be scared of such a thing. Thanks for being there with me Matt."

"Heh, heh. Any time Sora."

Grrr, why does she get all the attention!?! Suddenly I froze as I noticed Sora getting awfully close to Matt. Matt backed away against the wall of a building. Anger rose within my heart, but I just continued to watch.



She inched even closer to Matt. Her body pressed up against his. She smiled, but it wasn't a normal smile. OH NO!!! SHE TRYING TO SEDUCE HIM!!! I could feel my anger slowly rising to its limits, as she was only just a few centimeters away from his lips. I clutched I tree with my hands, for fear I might jump out and literally kill Sora. My hands were buried deep within the tree bark. Though it did hurt some and I was bleeding a little, I did not, no, could take my eyes off of them.

As I watched Sora press her lips against Matt's, my heart overwhelmed with pain, anger, and jealousy. Whatever you wished to call it. I didn't know what I was feeling. At that moment I decided to leave. I didn't want to stick around and have to watch those two make out.

I turned to leave when I heard a strange gasping noise. That wasn't the kind of noise one makes when you make out. Quickly I turned around. Matt looked anger while Sora seemed to be in complete shock. Matt had pushed her away. His hands were still in that same movement. I pushed against the tree. Hope had quickly pushed aside the jealousy.

~~~Matt's POV

What the heck was that!?!?! One minute we were just chatting casually the next she's kissing me??? This is so strange? I never knew Sora to make the first move.

"What on earth was that?" I said, trying to hide the slight pinch of anger in my voice. Wait! Anger? Why would I be angry at Sora. She's my girlfriend for crying out loud.

"Come on Matt. You and I have been dating for quit some time now and you and I haven't even kissed yet." She sounds so...unhappy. But wait that's right...I haven't kissed her yet?

"I'm so sorry Sora." My voice sounds so weird? "I guess....well...I don't know." Why am I acting like such an idiot!

"Matt? Is something wrong?" Sora seems so concerned about me. Sigh. I better not worry her...

"It's nothing Sora." Sure, just laugh it off. "I guess I just really wasn't ready or something." Stupid!!! "Sorry." I grab hold of her waist and kiss her...uneasily.

Kissing feels so weird? Like something's missing or something like that. But it shouldn't be weird right? As I pull away, I notice Sora's all knowing face. It's all knowing for a reason.

"Matt?" She stares at me with those concerned eyes. I already know what she intends to ask.

"I'm all right. It's my problem ok." She's smiles just as uneasily as I had just done.

"Ok Matt." She waves good-bye. "I'll see you at school." With that she runs off.

"See ya." As I turned back around to go home. I suddenly notice something moving in the trees. "Tai?"

~~~Tai's POV

"H..Hey Matt." I raise my hand uneasily. I still can't believe what I just heard. /"Come on Matt. You and I have been dating for quit some time now and you and I haven't even kissed yet."/ Matt...is that true?

"Don't you say anything Kamiya. I don't want the whole school to know Matt Ishida hasn't kissed his girl." I wince. Why does he always think I'll go out and betray him like that?

I shrug it off. "Don't worry, I'm not that type of guy ok." He just glares at me and walks off. I run to catch up. "Hey, what's with the attitude?"

"Nothing ok, it's just..." He trails off.

"Just what?"

"Nothing ok!" Suddenly he runs off. I begin to run after him. He's acting so weird. What's going through his head?

~~~Matt's POV

God! Why am I running away from him? Why can't I kiss Sora? Nothing makes sense any more!

/Cause you don't love Sora./

What?!?! How can I not love Sora! Tears well up within my eyes. They're streaming down my face now. Why am I crying?

/Cause you can't except the fact./

Except what!?! I was so busy screaming at the voice inside my head that I forgot where I was going. And ran into a bunch of boxes stuff with animals.

"Matt! Are you ok?" Tai runs to my side and grabs my arm. I pull it out of his grasp quickly.

"Leave me alone Kamiya!" Why am I so mad?

"Matt?" Tai looks hurt. Did I hurt him?

"S, Sorry. I didn't mean it that way." I turn my head away from him. God what a jerk I'm being.

"Matt." He puts his hand against my cheek. Forcing me to stare into his eyes. "What's wrong. Please tell me. You know I'm here for you."

Those words. "You know I'm here for you." They some how penetrate through my heart. No ones ever gotten as close to me before as Tai has. He was the first person I'd ever let see me cry. The tears continue to fall. What can I say? Tai reaches up with his left hand and strokes the falling tears away. While all I can do is stare into his deep chocolate eyes.

He doesn't appear to be in full reality right now. His eyes are distant and...loving. So..caring and...warm...

"Hey! You kids get outta there!" I suddenly jump at the sound of some store manager telling us to get. Guess he figured we were out to steal the stuff toys. What an idiot. Either way Tai and me got up and ran. The guy was scary looking anyways.

~~~Tai's POV

God! We were so close! So close to kissing!!! Idiot!!! Stop thing about stuff like that! I shake my head as Matt and me suddenly stop near a tree. MAN! I most perfect moment to show Matt my true feelings for him and some fat ugly dude blows it. WHY!?!?!

I pant for a minute then suddenly out of the blue I hear Matt laughing. I turn to him as if he were insane. "What dear I ask is so funny?" Though I can't help but chuckle too.

Guess we were both insane as we just continued to laugh until I was at the point where I might wet my pants. We both stopped. "Well that was fun." I wiped the tears from my eyes.

Matt smiled. I love that smile, oh what, I already told you that. "Yeah it was." We both stay in silence for a minute. "I guess I...better be going." He seems uneasy. He didn't even look at me when he said that.

Besides he was crying just a minute ago. I better make sure he's ok first. "Hey you wanna come over to my house and I don't know, sleep over?"

"Sure!" Boy that was fast. Heh, he's blushing. HUH!?! HE'S BLUSHING?!?!? "Uh..I mean..ok. If that's alright with you." He tries to hide his blush.

"Sure don't worry about it. Besides you haven't been over for a while. We can chat and stuff. Catch up you know."

"Ok." He smiles again as we begin to walk to my house.

~~~Narrators POV [Finally!]

Mean while on the other side of town as Yolei was walking home she bumped into her favorite digidestined, Mimi. "Mimi!?!? What are you doing here?" Yolei said in complete shock.

"Aww man I wanted to surprise everybody."

"Well you surprised me."

"Oh well, how's it going Yolei." Mimi smiled pleasantly.

"Not so good." Yolei sighed.

"Why? What's wrong?" Mimi questioned worriedly.

"Its Tai. He seems upset about something."

Mimi looked taken back. "Why?"



"I saw him staring at a couple of wedding shop manikins. He started to cry and when I got there he started saying something to one of them."

"And what was he saying." The tone of Mimi's voice changed completely.

"He just said /"Matt I lov-"/ and that was it."

Mimi smiled. "Oh ok. Then I was right. Thanks for telling me. See ya later Yolei!" With that Mimi ran off cheerfully.

"Wait! Mimi! Where are you going?"

Mimi smiled to herself. /To take care of some unfinished business./

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Well, there's the end of the chapter for now. I was going to make it longer so I put 'Part 1' at the top. As always please review. Also, question...should I keep this a Yamachi or change it to a Taito or both? Cause this chapter felt like a Taito to me. Just tell me what'cha think k. Sorry for not putting it up when I planned. I am trying to get the HTML thing down, but right now I'm a newbie at it. Hopefully I can figure out how to do it right. Then you can see all the bold face words and stuff. Oh well, just deal with how it is right now. At least I made sure you're able to read it clearly. I've been practicing too many times to upload this with everthing and I just gave up. Sigh, thanks for reading this story and reviewing anyways! ^^ *smiles* Thank you folks, thank you!