Hey everybody! Yea, I did it again. Almost another month has gone by and I
haven't updated. But I'm trying to update and manage 10 fics at a time,
soon to be 12, and so you'll have to be patient please. It'll get done in
time. Now, to answer reviews.
Leonheeroyue: Hey, thanx. I might use that suggestion later on.
Sillie: Yea, poor Tai. Glad you liked it.
Redrum: Glad you liked the overall affect of the chapter. Um, I don't mind if you totally skip over the whole Takesuke thing. Just please read the beach chappie! Which is this one.
Claire1308: Hmm, glad you like this fic. Um, as for Taito content and romance content in this chapter, I'll try. After all, I have 3 more stories to write for this series. =D
Limmie: I'm so glad you like my series. And the whole Takesuke thing will be happening.
NEo-cHaN: I'm continuing as soon as I can Neo. You need to update Kukachi and get on MSN soon.
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Innocent Wolf: Glad you liked that chapter. I updated as soon as I could.
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Lucifer Marque de Forcee: Lol, all right, I'll put in the Takesuke chapter soon. Everybody likes Daiken, but I like Takesuke a TINY bit more. Only because it's not seen as often.
Vialana: You're another one who I love getting reviews from. They always make me feel good about myself. =D Anyways, I will be putting a Takesuke chapter in this fic. Yea, I just thought it'd be fun to make Yama afraid of heights, and Tai's like me. Both actually smart, but not given enough credit.
Aero-Grrl: Takesuke will be written! Who's POV, I dunno yet, lol. Yea, glad you enjoyed this last chapter. Sorry this wasn't posted sooner!
All righty peeps, now that that's over. Let's see. Like previously said, I have too many fics going on right now, so bare with me for updates. To make up for it, I'll try writing long and good chapters. Anyways, please read the bottom notes for something VERY important.
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People think that all I want to do is sleep. And of course they're right, but in the summer, it's a different story. I mean, think about it. In the summer, you have so much more time to go out and just explore the world. And I love exploring the world. Maybe it's just the leader part of me that makes me like that. But back to my point. So, to prove you people wrong, let's just say I was up and out of bed by 9 am. I didn't even have to be anywhere until noon, but I had nothing better to do. I walked out into my living room and found Kari already sitting there.
"You're up early." She said to me, without breaking contact from the TV. I nodded and flopped down next to her on the couch.
"What's the occasion?" She asked me.
"Yama's taking us to the beach today." I said happily. Kari raised her eyebrow in question.
"Us?" She said uncertainly.
"Yea. Me, TK, and Dai." I filled her in.
"Oh. I see. Those two huh?" Her voice sounded hollow.
"Yea. They're actually pretty fun to hang out with." I said, watching the cartoons on the screen.
"If you say so." She shrugged and went back to watching TV.
"What's that suppose to mean?" I asked her.
"Never mind." She said and ignored my gaze. But of course, I wasn't gonna give up that easily.
"Something wrong between you all?" I asked.
"Just drop it Tai." Kari growled at me. I turned towards her and saw a look of anger and frustration painted on her face.
"You should know me better then that, Kar. What's going on?" I persisted her. She sighed and faced me again.
"Promise not to tell?" She asked me first.
"Of course." I promised her, wanting her just to tell me what happened.
"It's TK. I'm in love with him." She said simply.
"And?" I urged her on.
"And, Daisuke keeps getting in the way. Lately, TK has been spending more time with him then with me and it's driving me crazy!" She finished off. And I could tell that it was. But, being the wise older brother that I am, I decided not to say anything. Instead I simply said, "Don't know what to tell ya kid", got up, and went into the kitchen to make myself some breakfast. But I'll skip the rest of my morning and jump right into the part where Yama picked me up to go out.
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The doorbell rang and I vaulted over the couch, knowing exactly who was going to be on the other side. I flung open the door and pounced on Matt. He grinned and shoved me off.
"Hello to you too." He chuckled slightly and pulled himself and me to our feet. I grinned at him and hugged him.
"Are we ready to go yet?" I asked him.
"Ready whenever you are, smart one." He said and rolled his eyes. I stuck my tongue out, grabbed my bag and slipped on my shoes.
"See ya Kar." I said goodbye to my sister. She sort of grumbled something.
I shrugged and shut the door.
"What's up with her?" Matt asked me as we walked towards TK's and Daisuke's building.
"Apparently, my sister has a crush on your brother, who's spending more time with Dai then with her." I replied as we boarded the lift to TK's floor.
"Kari's jealous of Dai...is that what your telling me?" he raised his eyebrow.
"Yup, pretty much." I sighed.
"Interesting.." he didn't say any more as we reached TK's apartment. He gently lifted his hand...and started pounding the hell out of the door.
"Teeks, let's go!" He yelled through the door. I rolled my eyes and leaned against the wall. TK soon opened the door.
"Damn, did you have to yell?" TK complained as he let us inside.
"Hey Dai, we're ready to leave!" TK shouted into the next room. Daisuke wandered out from the kitchen with his bag and a piece of toast shoved in his mouth.
"And you were complaining about their yelling." He mumbled under his breath. He swallowed the last of his toast and licked his lips.
"We leavin' or what?" Daisuke asked.
"Yea, let's get going." TK said as he bounced out the front door, dragging Daisuke behind him.
"Think we're going to spend more time babysitting them?" I asked Matt.
"Definitely." He sighed and we followed them outside.
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We reached the beach in good time. As we approached the sand, TK and Dai immediately dropped their stuff and ran for the water. I raised an eyebrow and shook my head.
"Like I said, we're pretty much babysitting these two." I said as I took off my shirt and unfolded a towel.
"Yea, but think of it this way. At least we'll be prepared for raising kids." Matt said as he stretched out on the sand.
"Are you trying to imply something?" I asked playfully.
"Maybe." He grinned. I just laughed and looked around the beach. It was a pretty great day to hit the beach.
"We couldn't have planned this day any better if we tried." Matt voiced his opinion.
"Yea, I know. The sun is shining, the skies are clear, and it's not crowded. Couldn't be better." I replied.
"Yea, beautiful waves....big group of people walking right at us." He trailed off. I nodded and slowly closed my eyes. Suddenly his words sunk in.
"Big group of people?" I repeated and sat up. We both looked out to the distant and watched the group come closer and closer.
"Tai!" one of the figures called my name. Wait, I recognized that voice. I stood up, along with Matt and we wandered over towards the group of people.
"Tai!" I was jumped on and knocked to the ground. I opened my eyes and looked up at my attacker. I grinned once I saw her.
"McKenzie!" I said happily and hugged her. She hugged me back and pulled me to my feet.
"We haven't seen you forever!" she squealed. Ryan rolled his eyes and walked up behind her.
"Mc, we saw him last week. That wasn't very long ago." He said as he wrapped his arms around her waist.
"So? I missed my Tai." McKenzie pouted. Matt playfully growled and wrapped his arms around my neck.
"No. MY Tai." He said childishly and licked my cheek.
"Gross!" I started laughing. Matt grinned back. I looked down at where Ryan's hands were and smirked.
"So you two finally got your heads out of your asses and hooked up?" I asked.
"Yea, the day after Matt and I....well, yea." Ryan shrugged. I nodded and changed the subject.
"What are you guys still doing over here?" All right, Matt changed the subject.
"We needed major vacay time." McKenzie said.
"So we decided to stick around with Justin and Mimi." Ryan finished.
"Justin and Mimi?" I repeated. We all looked up and saw them coming towards us. Mimi on Justin's back with her backpack on. She saw us though and instantly vaulted off.
"Tai! Matt!" She shouted and jumped on both of us.
"Hey Meems." We replied simultaneously. She grinned and hugged us both.
"This is so cool, we're all here!" She grinned again.
"Ugh. Stupid useless junk." Justin grunted and dropped everything he was holding in his arms.
"Nice to see ya again, JT." I said. He grinned and looked at me.
"Hey Tai." He greeted me. I looked around and saw Daisuke and TK walking towards us.
"Whoa, hello people." TK said.
"Dude, do we know these people?" Daisuke asked.
"Friends of Tai's." Matt explained for me.
"Yea. McKenzie, Ryan, and Justin. Obviously you know Mimi." I introduced them.
"Wasn't there one more girl who came over with you?" TK asked me. Realization dawned on me then.
"Yea, that's right. Did Tyce go home?" I asked.
"Nah, she's been walking around town with a few guys." Justin said. I raised my eyebrow.
"She's right there." I replied. And she was walking towards us with another guy with brown hair and green eyes. She saw me, grinned, and repeated Mimi and McKenzie's actions.
"Tai!" She jumped and landed in front of me. She hugged me as well and grinned.
"Dude, you have no idea how cool Japan is!" She said excitedly. The guy grinned and walked up behind her.
"You get excited over the simplest things, you know that?" He said and shook his head.
"You know it." She replied and looked at us.
"Who's your friend?" Matt asked.
"Oh, this is Dracon. (A/n: Pronounced Drak-en.) He's 16 and"
"Somebody you met 2 days ago." Justin finished for her. Tyce glared and shrugged.
"Yea, but he's originally from England too." She smiled dreamily. We just shook our heads and said nothing.
"Well, what are we still standing around for? Let's go do something!" I suggested as Matt and I ran off. Everybody else hit the water or the sand. TK and Daisuke were busy having a water fight, Dracon was trying to teach Tyce how to surf, and Mimi, Justin, Ryan, and McKenzie were having a chicken fight with eachother. Matt and I sat on the beach, away from the others.
"Well, that was unexpected." He said to me as he rolled over onto his stomach.
"What?" I asked, rolling over as well.
"Everybody showing up. BIG coincidence." He replied.
"Yea, but it keeps TK and Dai occupied." I pointed out. TK and Daisuke were now swimming around with Ryan and Justin.
"True. Meaning more alone time with eachother." Matt grinned. I nodded and kissed him.
"You bet." I grinned and got up.
"Where you going?" he asked me. I grabbed his wrist and started dragging him down to the water.
"Correction, where are WE going?" he asked me.
"Come on, Matt. We're at the beach. We should be doing something, not just sitting on the sand." I pointed out and reached the wet sand. I finally let go of him.
"Yea, but do we really have to right now, Tai? I'm really kind of liking to idea of sitting and just relaxing." He suggested as he stood up. Without him noticing, I grabbed a handful of wet sand.
"Because you know, we have all day and-" he was cut off as I threw the sand ball at him, hitting him in the face. I started laughing as the sand slowly dripped off of his face, like wet goop. He looked up at me and glared. I grinned and waved. He smirked, grabbed his own sandball and launched it at me, getting a direct hit at my chest.
"So, you wanna play rough huh?" I growled. He nodded and tackled me to the ground. I yelped and fell on my butt. We wrestled around on the sand for a while, bombing eachother with sandballs. Matt finally got off and pulled me up.
"Ok, I'll stop. Only because I love you." He said to me.
"Thanks." I said, shaking sand out of my black flame swim trunks.
"Except, I don't love you enough not to do this." He grinned and pushed me backwards, right into the ice cold water.
"IIE!!! COLD!" I screamed. I heard him laughing from the nice, dry and warm sandbank. I narrowed my eyes and smiled. While he has his back turned, I grabbed his ankle, causing him to fall in to.
"HEY! COLD!" He yelped as he resurfaced.
"I win." I smirked.
"Oh, nu-uh." He grinned and dunked me.
"Hey!" I whined and jumped on him. He ducked just in time those, so I ended up flying over the top of him and landing in the water.
"Damn you." I cursed at him.
"Makes ya love me all the more, huh?" he grinned.
"Yea, it does." I returned the grin and swam towards him. I wrapped my arms around him.
"See, this was a good idea." I poked him in the back.
"All right, so it was good to get off of the land." He agreed. I nodded and kissed him again. I swear, I can't get enough of his kisses. He always tastes like spearmint. I removed my mouth and slowly worked my way to his neck. I don't think he even realized what I was doing until I started actually biting his neck.
"Ow! Tai!" He squirmed away. I grinned innocently and released his neck. I smirked to myself, knowing that there would be a mark there.
"Next time ask if you can give me a hickey, mmkay?" he asked.
"But it's more fun this way." I replied. He sighed and shook his head.
"Whatever you say." He said and looked out to the beach.
"Who ya watchin?" I asked, focusing my sight in the same direction. He pointed towards the edge of the water, where TK and Daisuke are building something. A sandcastle it looked like. But Matt wasn't watching the sandcastle. He was watching the two boys themselves. Daisuke was talking a mile a minute while TK continued to play with the sand, listening quietly. Noticing that TK was staring off into space, Daisuke threw some wet sand at him. TK tilted his head to the side, curious as to what he just did. TK started talking to Daisuke, this time, Dai listening. Daisuke frowned and hugged TK. TK gave him a small smile and they went back to building their castle.
"They remind me of someone." I said, breaking away from their scene. Matt turned and faced me.
"Us."
"What?" I said, glancing between him and those two.
"Us. When we were kids. Don't you see it?" Matt said to me.
"Not really." I said truthfully. Matt tilted his head to the side and looked back to them.
"See, Dai is you, and TK is me. Dai's the more animated, vibrant one. And lately, TK's been more secretive and quiet." He explained.
"Just like you used to be." I said to him. Matt nodded and continued to watch them.
"You always had the strangest ways to get my attention, much like Daisuke throwing wet sand at my brother." Matt continued.
"Only because I knew something was bothering you when you clamed up." Matt nodded.
"Right, then I would tell you what was up."
"Not without putting up a fight."
"TK puts up a fight all right, just not psychical."
"Right. Then you would break down, and tell me."
"And then you would always hold me and say everything would be ok." Matt finished. I nodded and looked back at the boys. Now they were busy wrestling with eachother, the sandcastle forgotten for now. You could hear the laughter coming from the beach as TK rubbed some sand into Dai's hair.
"They really are like us." I said slowly.
"Yea. Both totally oblivious to the other's feelings."
"Until someone tells them." I finished. I swam towards the shore, with Matt following me. We both got out and walked over to our stuff. I flopped down on my towel and Matt sat next to me. I twisted my neck around, trying to uncramp it.
"Having a problem?" Matt asked.
"My back and my neck hurt." I complained as I stretched out. Matt gave me a small smile and started rubbing my shoulders.
"What are you doing?" I asked him.
"What does it look like dork? Massages usually help." He said as he ran his hands up and down my back.
"Yea, that's true." I replied, my eyes starting to droop.
"Did you get any sleep last night?" he asked me.
"Nope. How could I? You're all I think about, and you keep me up all night." I told him.
"You do realize that can be taken in two different ways." Matt chuckled from behind me.
"Oh shut up." I grinned. I opened my eyes again and watched TK and Daisuke. 'Those two really are like us.' I mused. 'Except we're better.' I jerked awake, fighting to keep my eyes open. Matt's massage felt so good and relaxing.
"You can take a nap if you want. I don't mind." Matt said, obviously noticing my drowsiness. I nodded and finally let my eyes close. And I could still feel Matt's hands run their way over my body.
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"Tai, wake up. Time for lunch." Matt's voice whispered into my ear. I groaned and opened my eyes.
"Huh?" I blinked the sleep away.
"Lunch. Want some?" He held out a plate of food.
"Yea, sure. Who brought food?" I asked him as sat up.
"Mimi and Justin." He replied.
"Where'd they all go anyways?"
"Tyce and Dracon left a while ago, but they said they'd be back. The rest of them are around." He pointed down the beach. Mimi and McKenzie were chatting away while Ryan and Justin threw food at eachother. TK and Dai were sitting with them, stealing food from eachother's plate when the other wasn't looking.
"That's cool." I yawned.
"You're still tired?" I nodded and felt a headache erupting in my skull.
"Where's mine?" I asked, noticing that Matt only had one plate.
"In my hand."
"So where's yours?"
"In my hand."
"I see." I suddenly felt too tired to keep my head up. So I dropped it, right into the lap of Matt's Hawaiian print surfer shorts. He didn't say anything and let me stay there.
"You hungry?" he asked. I sort of just shrugged. He raised an eyebrow.
"You ok?" I nodded and snuggled up to him even more. Once again, he didn't say anything and started to eat. He had a cherry in his hand when I whined. He looked down, slightly amused.
"Want some?" I nodded. He scooped a handful from the bowl next to him and held them out to me. Instead however, I opened my mouth. Getting the hint, he grinned and fed the cherry to me. And he continued to do that until I closed my mouth.
"You sure you don't want anything else?" I shook my head no and sighed contently. He shrugged and finished eating his food. Without warning, I sat up and kissed him. He was caught off-guard at first, but returned the gesture.
"Tastes like cherries." He grinned. "What was that for?"
"Just a thank you." I replied and closed my eyes. I curled up closer to the warmth of his body. I felt him place a gentle kiss on my cheek and pull me closer.
"You're welcome, model boy." He grinned. I didn't say anything. I relaxed into his arms and fell back asleep.
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Well there we go, finished chapter. Sorry if this wasn't as good, but yea. ANYWAYS! So, next chapter is going to be a Taito thing, but then the chapter after THAT is going to be the Takesuke chapter. More details on that next chapter. Also, I have decided that this is not going to be the last story in the Model series. I have come up and figured out 3 mores stories I can write to go with this. You don't need to read them, but just thought I should say I'll be writing them whenever I finish this and some of my other fics. Well in the meantime, please review and I'll post whenever I can.
KTF: Or whenever you write it.
All right, I admit it, I didn't even start typing this until last Friday. @_@ But it's written! Lol, see ya people. Oh, and just a side note. I also started a new Taito. It's an AU called Black Rose. Just in case you're interested. I wrote a ton of stuff, yaoi mostly, but is that really a bad thing? =D Bai!
Leonheeroyue: Hey, thanx. I might use that suggestion later on.
Sillie: Yea, poor Tai. Glad you liked it.
Redrum: Glad you liked the overall affect of the chapter. Um, I don't mind if you totally skip over the whole Takesuke thing. Just please read the beach chappie! Which is this one.
Claire1308: Hmm, glad you like this fic. Um, as for Taito content and romance content in this chapter, I'll try. After all, I have 3 more stories to write for this series. =D
Limmie: I'm so glad you like my series. And the whole Takesuke thing will be happening.
NEo-cHaN: I'm continuing as soon as I can Neo. You need to update Kukachi and get on MSN soon.
CCPheonix: Lol, I love getting your reviews, they always make me smile. So glad you're still reading this series and like it. Too bad this isn't what really happens! *cries* Anywho, next chappie here!
Innocent Wolf: Glad you liked that chapter. I updated as soon as I could.
Lampshadesrgreat: glad you liked it. And although this isn't very soon, I posted! =D
Lucifer Marque de Forcee: Lol, all right, I'll put in the Takesuke chapter soon. Everybody likes Daiken, but I like Takesuke a TINY bit more. Only because it's not seen as often.
Vialana: You're another one who I love getting reviews from. They always make me feel good about myself. =D Anyways, I will be putting a Takesuke chapter in this fic. Yea, I just thought it'd be fun to make Yama afraid of heights, and Tai's like me. Both actually smart, but not given enough credit.
Aero-Grrl: Takesuke will be written! Who's POV, I dunno yet, lol. Yea, glad you enjoyed this last chapter. Sorry this wasn't posted sooner!
All righty peeps, now that that's over. Let's see. Like previously said, I have too many fics going on right now, so bare with me for updates. To make up for it, I'll try writing long and good chapters. Anyways, please read the bottom notes for something VERY important.
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People think that all I want to do is sleep. And of course they're right, but in the summer, it's a different story. I mean, think about it. In the summer, you have so much more time to go out and just explore the world. And I love exploring the world. Maybe it's just the leader part of me that makes me like that. But back to my point. So, to prove you people wrong, let's just say I was up and out of bed by 9 am. I didn't even have to be anywhere until noon, but I had nothing better to do. I walked out into my living room and found Kari already sitting there.
"You're up early." She said to me, without breaking contact from the TV. I nodded and flopped down next to her on the couch.
"What's the occasion?" She asked me.
"Yama's taking us to the beach today." I said happily. Kari raised her eyebrow in question.
"Us?" She said uncertainly.
"Yea. Me, TK, and Dai." I filled her in.
"Oh. I see. Those two huh?" Her voice sounded hollow.
"Yea. They're actually pretty fun to hang out with." I said, watching the cartoons on the screen.
"If you say so." She shrugged and went back to watching TV.
"What's that suppose to mean?" I asked her.
"Never mind." She said and ignored my gaze. But of course, I wasn't gonna give up that easily.
"Something wrong between you all?" I asked.
"Just drop it Tai." Kari growled at me. I turned towards her and saw a look of anger and frustration painted on her face.
"You should know me better then that, Kar. What's going on?" I persisted her. She sighed and faced me again.
"Promise not to tell?" She asked me first.
"Of course." I promised her, wanting her just to tell me what happened.
"It's TK. I'm in love with him." She said simply.
"And?" I urged her on.
"And, Daisuke keeps getting in the way. Lately, TK has been spending more time with him then with me and it's driving me crazy!" She finished off. And I could tell that it was. But, being the wise older brother that I am, I decided not to say anything. Instead I simply said, "Don't know what to tell ya kid", got up, and went into the kitchen to make myself some breakfast. But I'll skip the rest of my morning and jump right into the part where Yama picked me up to go out.
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The doorbell rang and I vaulted over the couch, knowing exactly who was going to be on the other side. I flung open the door and pounced on Matt. He grinned and shoved me off.
"Hello to you too." He chuckled slightly and pulled himself and me to our feet. I grinned at him and hugged him.
"Are we ready to go yet?" I asked him.
"Ready whenever you are, smart one." He said and rolled his eyes. I stuck my tongue out, grabbed my bag and slipped on my shoes.
"See ya Kar." I said goodbye to my sister. She sort of grumbled something.
I shrugged and shut the door.
"What's up with her?" Matt asked me as we walked towards TK's and Daisuke's building.
"Apparently, my sister has a crush on your brother, who's spending more time with Dai then with her." I replied as we boarded the lift to TK's floor.
"Kari's jealous of Dai...is that what your telling me?" he raised his eyebrow.
"Yup, pretty much." I sighed.
"Interesting.." he didn't say any more as we reached TK's apartment. He gently lifted his hand...and started pounding the hell out of the door.
"Teeks, let's go!" He yelled through the door. I rolled my eyes and leaned against the wall. TK soon opened the door.
"Damn, did you have to yell?" TK complained as he let us inside.
"Hey Dai, we're ready to leave!" TK shouted into the next room. Daisuke wandered out from the kitchen with his bag and a piece of toast shoved in his mouth.
"And you were complaining about their yelling." He mumbled under his breath. He swallowed the last of his toast and licked his lips.
"We leavin' or what?" Daisuke asked.
"Yea, let's get going." TK said as he bounced out the front door, dragging Daisuke behind him.
"Think we're going to spend more time babysitting them?" I asked Matt.
"Definitely." He sighed and we followed them outside.
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We reached the beach in good time. As we approached the sand, TK and Dai immediately dropped their stuff and ran for the water. I raised an eyebrow and shook my head.
"Like I said, we're pretty much babysitting these two." I said as I took off my shirt and unfolded a towel.
"Yea, but think of it this way. At least we'll be prepared for raising kids." Matt said as he stretched out on the sand.
"Are you trying to imply something?" I asked playfully.
"Maybe." He grinned. I just laughed and looked around the beach. It was a pretty great day to hit the beach.
"We couldn't have planned this day any better if we tried." Matt voiced his opinion.
"Yea, I know. The sun is shining, the skies are clear, and it's not crowded. Couldn't be better." I replied.
"Yea, beautiful waves....big group of people walking right at us." He trailed off. I nodded and slowly closed my eyes. Suddenly his words sunk in.
"Big group of people?" I repeated and sat up. We both looked out to the distant and watched the group come closer and closer.
"Tai!" one of the figures called my name. Wait, I recognized that voice. I stood up, along with Matt and we wandered over towards the group of people.
"Tai!" I was jumped on and knocked to the ground. I opened my eyes and looked up at my attacker. I grinned once I saw her.
"McKenzie!" I said happily and hugged her. She hugged me back and pulled me to my feet.
"We haven't seen you forever!" she squealed. Ryan rolled his eyes and walked up behind her.
"Mc, we saw him last week. That wasn't very long ago." He said as he wrapped his arms around her waist.
"So? I missed my Tai." McKenzie pouted. Matt playfully growled and wrapped his arms around my neck.
"No. MY Tai." He said childishly and licked my cheek.
"Gross!" I started laughing. Matt grinned back. I looked down at where Ryan's hands were and smirked.
"So you two finally got your heads out of your asses and hooked up?" I asked.
"Yea, the day after Matt and I....well, yea." Ryan shrugged. I nodded and changed the subject.
"What are you guys still doing over here?" All right, Matt changed the subject.
"We needed major vacay time." McKenzie said.
"So we decided to stick around with Justin and Mimi." Ryan finished.
"Justin and Mimi?" I repeated. We all looked up and saw them coming towards us. Mimi on Justin's back with her backpack on. She saw us though and instantly vaulted off.
"Tai! Matt!" She shouted and jumped on both of us.
"Hey Meems." We replied simultaneously. She grinned and hugged us both.
"This is so cool, we're all here!" She grinned again.
"Ugh. Stupid useless junk." Justin grunted and dropped everything he was holding in his arms.
"Nice to see ya again, JT." I said. He grinned and looked at me.
"Hey Tai." He greeted me. I looked around and saw Daisuke and TK walking towards us.
"Whoa, hello people." TK said.
"Dude, do we know these people?" Daisuke asked.
"Friends of Tai's." Matt explained for me.
"Yea. McKenzie, Ryan, and Justin. Obviously you know Mimi." I introduced them.
"Wasn't there one more girl who came over with you?" TK asked me. Realization dawned on me then.
"Yea, that's right. Did Tyce go home?" I asked.
"Nah, she's been walking around town with a few guys." Justin said. I raised my eyebrow.
"She's right there." I replied. And she was walking towards us with another guy with brown hair and green eyes. She saw me, grinned, and repeated Mimi and McKenzie's actions.
"Tai!" She jumped and landed in front of me. She hugged me as well and grinned.
"Dude, you have no idea how cool Japan is!" She said excitedly. The guy grinned and walked up behind her.
"You get excited over the simplest things, you know that?" He said and shook his head.
"You know it." She replied and looked at us.
"Who's your friend?" Matt asked.
"Oh, this is Dracon. (A/n: Pronounced Drak-en.) He's 16 and"
"Somebody you met 2 days ago." Justin finished for her. Tyce glared and shrugged.
"Yea, but he's originally from England too." She smiled dreamily. We just shook our heads and said nothing.
"Well, what are we still standing around for? Let's go do something!" I suggested as Matt and I ran off. Everybody else hit the water or the sand. TK and Daisuke were busy having a water fight, Dracon was trying to teach Tyce how to surf, and Mimi, Justin, Ryan, and McKenzie were having a chicken fight with eachother. Matt and I sat on the beach, away from the others.
"Well, that was unexpected." He said to me as he rolled over onto his stomach.
"What?" I asked, rolling over as well.
"Everybody showing up. BIG coincidence." He replied.
"Yea, but it keeps TK and Dai occupied." I pointed out. TK and Daisuke were now swimming around with Ryan and Justin.
"True. Meaning more alone time with eachother." Matt grinned. I nodded and kissed him.
"You bet." I grinned and got up.
"Where you going?" he asked me. I grabbed his wrist and started dragging him down to the water.
"Correction, where are WE going?" he asked me.
"Come on, Matt. We're at the beach. We should be doing something, not just sitting on the sand." I pointed out and reached the wet sand. I finally let go of him.
"Yea, but do we really have to right now, Tai? I'm really kind of liking to idea of sitting and just relaxing." He suggested as he stood up. Without him noticing, I grabbed a handful of wet sand.
"Because you know, we have all day and-" he was cut off as I threw the sand ball at him, hitting him in the face. I started laughing as the sand slowly dripped off of his face, like wet goop. He looked up at me and glared. I grinned and waved. He smirked, grabbed his own sandball and launched it at me, getting a direct hit at my chest.
"So, you wanna play rough huh?" I growled. He nodded and tackled me to the ground. I yelped and fell on my butt. We wrestled around on the sand for a while, bombing eachother with sandballs. Matt finally got off and pulled me up.
"Ok, I'll stop. Only because I love you." He said to me.
"Thanks." I said, shaking sand out of my black flame swim trunks.
"Except, I don't love you enough not to do this." He grinned and pushed me backwards, right into the ice cold water.
"IIE!!! COLD!" I screamed. I heard him laughing from the nice, dry and warm sandbank. I narrowed my eyes and smiled. While he has his back turned, I grabbed his ankle, causing him to fall in to.
"HEY! COLD!" He yelped as he resurfaced.
"I win." I smirked.
"Oh, nu-uh." He grinned and dunked me.
"Hey!" I whined and jumped on him. He ducked just in time those, so I ended up flying over the top of him and landing in the water.
"Damn you." I cursed at him.
"Makes ya love me all the more, huh?" he grinned.
"Yea, it does." I returned the grin and swam towards him. I wrapped my arms around him.
"See, this was a good idea." I poked him in the back.
"All right, so it was good to get off of the land." He agreed. I nodded and kissed him again. I swear, I can't get enough of his kisses. He always tastes like spearmint. I removed my mouth and slowly worked my way to his neck. I don't think he even realized what I was doing until I started actually biting his neck.
"Ow! Tai!" He squirmed away. I grinned innocently and released his neck. I smirked to myself, knowing that there would be a mark there.
"Next time ask if you can give me a hickey, mmkay?" he asked.
"But it's more fun this way." I replied. He sighed and shook his head.
"Whatever you say." He said and looked out to the beach.
"Who ya watchin?" I asked, focusing my sight in the same direction. He pointed towards the edge of the water, where TK and Daisuke are building something. A sandcastle it looked like. But Matt wasn't watching the sandcastle. He was watching the two boys themselves. Daisuke was talking a mile a minute while TK continued to play with the sand, listening quietly. Noticing that TK was staring off into space, Daisuke threw some wet sand at him. TK tilted his head to the side, curious as to what he just did. TK started talking to Daisuke, this time, Dai listening. Daisuke frowned and hugged TK. TK gave him a small smile and they went back to building their castle.
"They remind me of someone." I said, breaking away from their scene. Matt turned and faced me.
"Us."
"What?" I said, glancing between him and those two.
"Us. When we were kids. Don't you see it?" Matt said to me.
"Not really." I said truthfully. Matt tilted his head to the side and looked back to them.
"See, Dai is you, and TK is me. Dai's the more animated, vibrant one. And lately, TK's been more secretive and quiet." He explained.
"Just like you used to be." I said to him. Matt nodded and continued to watch them.
"You always had the strangest ways to get my attention, much like Daisuke throwing wet sand at my brother." Matt continued.
"Only because I knew something was bothering you when you clamed up." Matt nodded.
"Right, then I would tell you what was up."
"Not without putting up a fight."
"TK puts up a fight all right, just not psychical."
"Right. Then you would break down, and tell me."
"And then you would always hold me and say everything would be ok." Matt finished. I nodded and looked back at the boys. Now they were busy wrestling with eachother, the sandcastle forgotten for now. You could hear the laughter coming from the beach as TK rubbed some sand into Dai's hair.
"They really are like us." I said slowly.
"Yea. Both totally oblivious to the other's feelings."
"Until someone tells them." I finished. I swam towards the shore, with Matt following me. We both got out and walked over to our stuff. I flopped down on my towel and Matt sat next to me. I twisted my neck around, trying to uncramp it.
"Having a problem?" Matt asked.
"My back and my neck hurt." I complained as I stretched out. Matt gave me a small smile and started rubbing my shoulders.
"What are you doing?" I asked him.
"What does it look like dork? Massages usually help." He said as he ran his hands up and down my back.
"Yea, that's true." I replied, my eyes starting to droop.
"Did you get any sleep last night?" he asked me.
"Nope. How could I? You're all I think about, and you keep me up all night." I told him.
"You do realize that can be taken in two different ways." Matt chuckled from behind me.
"Oh shut up." I grinned. I opened my eyes again and watched TK and Daisuke. 'Those two really are like us.' I mused. 'Except we're better.' I jerked awake, fighting to keep my eyes open. Matt's massage felt so good and relaxing.
"You can take a nap if you want. I don't mind." Matt said, obviously noticing my drowsiness. I nodded and finally let my eyes close. And I could still feel Matt's hands run their way over my body.
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"Tai, wake up. Time for lunch." Matt's voice whispered into my ear. I groaned and opened my eyes.
"Huh?" I blinked the sleep away.
"Lunch. Want some?" He held out a plate of food.
"Yea, sure. Who brought food?" I asked him as sat up.
"Mimi and Justin." He replied.
"Where'd they all go anyways?"
"Tyce and Dracon left a while ago, but they said they'd be back. The rest of them are around." He pointed down the beach. Mimi and McKenzie were chatting away while Ryan and Justin threw food at eachother. TK and Dai were sitting with them, stealing food from eachother's plate when the other wasn't looking.
"That's cool." I yawned.
"You're still tired?" I nodded and felt a headache erupting in my skull.
"Where's mine?" I asked, noticing that Matt only had one plate.
"In my hand."
"So where's yours?"
"In my hand."
"I see." I suddenly felt too tired to keep my head up. So I dropped it, right into the lap of Matt's Hawaiian print surfer shorts. He didn't say anything and let me stay there.
"You hungry?" he asked. I sort of just shrugged. He raised an eyebrow.
"You ok?" I nodded and snuggled up to him even more. Once again, he didn't say anything and started to eat. He had a cherry in his hand when I whined. He looked down, slightly amused.
"Want some?" I nodded. He scooped a handful from the bowl next to him and held them out to me. Instead however, I opened my mouth. Getting the hint, he grinned and fed the cherry to me. And he continued to do that until I closed my mouth.
"You sure you don't want anything else?" I shook my head no and sighed contently. He shrugged and finished eating his food. Without warning, I sat up and kissed him. He was caught off-guard at first, but returned the gesture.
"Tastes like cherries." He grinned. "What was that for?"
"Just a thank you." I replied and closed my eyes. I curled up closer to the warmth of his body. I felt him place a gentle kiss on my cheek and pull me closer.
"You're welcome, model boy." He grinned. I didn't say anything. I relaxed into his arms and fell back asleep.
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Well there we go, finished chapter. Sorry if this wasn't as good, but yea. ANYWAYS! So, next chapter is going to be a Taito thing, but then the chapter after THAT is going to be the Takesuke chapter. More details on that next chapter. Also, I have decided that this is not going to be the last story in the Model series. I have come up and figured out 3 mores stories I can write to go with this. You don't need to read them, but just thought I should say I'll be writing them whenever I finish this and some of my other fics. Well in the meantime, please review and I'll post whenever I can.
KTF: Or whenever you write it.
All right, I admit it, I didn't even start typing this until last Friday. @_@ But it's written! Lol, see ya people. Oh, and just a side note. I also started a new Taito. It's an AU called Black Rose. Just in case you're interested. I wrote a ton of stuff, yaoi mostly, but is that really a bad thing? =D Bai!