Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.

Summery: Au, Nearly found out by Matt and his friends at School, Taichi hiding in his real form of Taiko Aida, is waiting to be found out by Mimi and Izzy who she is sure will recognize her from the few times they have met.

Info: When Tai is dressed as Taichi, she well be referred to as a male, and when's dressed as Taiko, she will be referred to as a female.


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Taichi's Little Secret
Part III
Taiko and Taichi.
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Blushing a bit, Taiko lifted up one hand and waved at them while having a nervous smile on her face at the same time. "Um, hi." Her eyes looking at Matt as she waited for him to say that he recognized her, or if he didn't do, then Mimi would be more then likely to recognize her.

Matt stared at her as he get the feeling like he had met her before, but was having a little trouble fitting it in with someone he knew. "You know, you kind of look familiar." He stated as he looked more closely at her. "Have we met, somewhere before?"

Next to him, Mimi nodded as she poked her head forward, staring at the girl as well, her eyes narrowing as she gazed down at the girl's outfit. "That uniform, isn't that..." Reaching out a hand as she spoke, Mimi froze when Taiko backed away from her.

Eyes growing wide in panic At Mimi's actions and words mixed with Matt's. She gave a quick grin as she backed away from them, looking down at her free arm as soon as she had gotten far enough away. "Hey, look at the time, got to go, see ya." Turning around and bolting off, Taiko freaked out as she picked up the sound of the group running after her.

"Taiko, wait up, please!" Sora's voice cut through the air as she took off the messy haired girl as fast as she could, blinking as she found herself having trouble keeping up with her. "Taiko."

Behind her, Matt followed as well, his curiosity driving him to try and find out if that nagging feeling of having known her from somewhere really was true, and if it was, from where.

Pushing herself ahead even faster, Taiko thanked the stars for her having been a part of her last schools soccer team, well until it was starting to become too hard to hide her secret from the other team players. Jumping over a tree branch in her way, she pushed her way through a small bush and ducked around the corner of the school building, stopping as her eyes swept over the area, looking for a place to hide or run off to.

A few seconds later, Sora and Matt turned around the corner as well, both of them breathing a bit harder as they looked around the area they were in. Over there was the school dumpster, the path down to the schools parking spot, and one of the few back doors into the school, a door which was currently closing.

Pushing it open, Sora took a few hasty steps into the small hallway, then she stopped and looked around in confusion, there didn't seem to be any traces of the messy haired girl, but hadn't she just run into this place. Turning her head, she cast a look up the small staircase, trying to see if someone were hiding somewhere on it.

Behind her, Matt had entered as well, walking past her and looking down the hallway as he stepped through the second door opening, standing in the back end of the students area. "She's not out here."

"No ones on the staircase either, think she's hiding in a class room?" Sora's asked as she turned her head, staring at the blond haired boy as she walked out to join him.

Matt didn't answer right away as he rubbing a hand on his chin, eyes half closed as if he was thinking about something else at the moment. "Sora?"

Turning her head at the question, Sora stared at her best male friend as he gave her his best-concentrated look, one she had only seen a few times in the year they had known one another. "What is it Matt?"

Not answering right away, Matt turned his head to look back the way they had come, staring at the door leading into the file room. "Nothing." Turning back and walking towards the door leading out of the building, he reached out and took a hold of Sora's hand. "It's just, didn't Taiko look familiar to you?"

Giving him the look, Sora shook her head as she started to walk down the hallway after him. "Of course she looks familiar, I met her before."

"Oh" Matt replied as he struggled to keep up with his friend's pace.

Inside the school building, Taiko didn't waste time looking for a hiding place, instead, she had simply pushed open the first door in front of her and stepped in trough it to hide inside the room behind it. Closing the door behind her at the same time as she picked up the sound of her pursuers entering.

Hearing the sound of Matt and Sora talking together for a few moments before leaving, she let out a breath of air as she relaxed, her arms slumping a bit as she stepped away from the door, looking around the room for the first time. Row after row of boxes and papers were stored on a series of shelves inside the place.

Sliding down the door, Taiko shook her head as she finally found herself sitting on the floor. "Why?" Pulling her knees up close to her, she rocked a bit as she wondered what she had done to deserve the life she was living through, and finding no answer to it. "Jun, Davis... I need you, I need a friend."

Continuing to sit in the same position for more then a few minutes, ignoring the bell as it started to ring loudly both outside and inside the building. After another amount of time had passed, the messy haired girl finally gave a deep shaky breath as she started to stand up, her eyes moving to stare out through the file room, her hand reaching for the doorknob behind her.

Pulling it open, she slowly slipped out and stood in the hallway again, the door leading outside to the right of her, and the inner parts of the school building to her left. "No more." mumbling out the words, she turned on her heels and walked towards the door, reaching out a hand to grasp the door handle, only to freeze as it moved before she hand touched it.

Lifting her head, she stared as the door swung open slowly, making her step back a bit to avoid getting hit by it. "Oh, sorry, I didn't think anyone would be on the other side." The voice mad her focus her eyes, and stare at a tall blue haired boy with glasses on his head stood in the doorway, a thick folder tucked away under his arm. "Shouldn't you be in your class by now?"

Staring at the boy as if she hadn't heard his question, Taiko looked away from him as she closed her eyes and took a deep breath to calm down. "No, I forgot something before, I have to go get it..." Trailing of, she blushed as she noticed where he eyes had moved to as she spoke, her hands pulled her ruined uniform together in a rush.

At the action, the boy nearly dropped the folder as his head snapped up, a blush forming on his cheeks. "No, I wasn't, I just noticed your jacket."

"Just forget it." Taiko muttered out as all she wanted too do at the moment, was to get away from him, and anyone else at the school, for good. "It's..."

"Wait." Speaking out in a concerned and warm tone, the boy handed over the folder to her, as his eyes grew serious behind the glasses. "Hold this for a moment will you." Seeing her confused eyes as she took the folder from him, he gave a small grin as he began to unbutton his own jacket, ignoring the mixture of panic and fear on her face as she watched him do it. Finally pulling it off, he smiled as he took the folder from her. "Here, to replace you own jacket."

Staring at the boy, and finally down at the jacket, Taiko reached out a hand in a hesitant pace, finally closing her fingers around the collar of it, nearly dropping it as the boy let go of it. "Why?"

Smiling a bit at her question, the boy took a few steps in through the door, turning his head to face her, he grinned a bit at her. "Just because it's the right thing to do." Smiling a bit, he reached out to open the door into the file room. "You can always return it to me when your own has been fixed, just ask at the office for a Joe Kido."

Staring after him as the door closed, Taiko held onto the jacket in a slightly tense manner as she wondered what that had been all about, and how she could be so unlucky. "Joe Kido, great, figures I would keep running into the people I should keep away from."

Holding up the jacket, she shrugged a bit and put it on instead of her own ruined one, buttoning it up as she gave a small smile at it all. Then frowning as she pulled open the door and left, not really wanting to stay at the school anymore.

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The city building rose up around her as she made her way down the street, taking care to avoid the glances people shot at her when they noticed the type of uniform she was wearing. Turning a corner, Taiko grinned as she spotted one way of escaping from the people's attention and give her a few moments of fun as well.

Jamming her hand into her pants pocket, she pulled out her wallet and grinned, it was time to enjoy the rest of the day, and just forget her worries for a short while. Stepping up to the glass door, she grinned like a little kid as she stepped into the noisy interior of the arcade.

Pulling out lone of her few remaining yen bills, she slapped it down on the desk and smirked as the manager handed her over a fist full of tokens in exchange. "Thanks."

Grinning as she turned around to face the games, she froze as she was faced with just to many games she had been waiting to try for weeks, that she was now having trouble choosing one.

Moving down between the games, she turned her head and stared at a young blond haired boy and a girl with long purple hair were busy playing some SNK fighting game. Stepping a bit closer, she stared at them trying to beat the other ones character before the time limit ran out.

Then her attention was pulled away as a racing game loudly beeped near her, her eyes getting drawn to the screen as she walked over and dropped into the seat, popping one token into it and getting ready to spend some quality time doing one of her favorite things.

45 minutes and a lot of gaming later, Taiko yawned as she stepped back out the door, her eyes moving to check the store clocks as she passed them. "Three hours before Dad gets home." Humming a bit to pass the time, she continued to walk down the street with her hand pushed into her pants pockets in a relaxed way.

Turning around the next corner, she stared at the large building before her, the Mall towering up as she began to walk closer to it. If nothing else, it might help kill some time if she looked through it, she hadn't gotten much of a chance for it the other day.

Pushing past a few elder people, she grinned as she noticed the mall movie theater, that place would help her spend a lot of time, if she could afford it that was. Pulling out her wallet again, she counted the remains of her cash and nodded to herself. Then she lifted her head and began to go over the list of movies.

Stepping up to the counter, Taiko smiled as the lady behind the glass turned to look at her. "Hi, I would like one ticket for the next showing in cinema 10."

The lady nodded as she turned her eyes downwards and began to type on her computer, accepting Taiko's money as she looked up again, a smile on her face as she handed over the ticket. "Here you go, enjoy the show."

"I'll try." Waving her hand a bit, Taiko grinned as she walked further into the movie theater, whistling a bit as she passed a group of people talking in a corner. "27 more minutes before the movie starts, I can handle that." Shooting a look back at the group in the corner to find them staring at her in a shocked way, she groaned a bit. "Then again, maybe I should look for some extra chest binding now that I'm here anyway."

Walking back out of the movie theater, Taiko sighed a bit as she pushed her hands into her pockets again and began to head off towards the local super market. At least they would have something she could use as chest bindings in that place.

20 Minutes later and looking a lot more tense, Taichi Kamiya stepped out of the mall bathroom, having shot several looks in both directions to make sure no one was around to see him step out of the girls bathroom. "Great, now, it's off to my action movie."

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Walking into the mall, Matt sighed as Mimi raced off towards the clothes store almost at once, dragging his girl friend behind her. Leaving him all alone to wander around the rather large building, until they needed him to carry their bags at least. "I need more male friends."

"Right big brother, and next you going to tell me you're giving up on your dream to play in a rock band."

Turning around with a huff, Matt eyes glinting as he took in the almost splitting image of himself leaning against the wall outside of a cafe. "TK, what are you doing here?" Matt asked with a big grin on his face as he walked closer to the other boy.

Shrugging a bit as he pushed off form the wall, TK grinned as he pushed back his front hair. "I'm supposed to be meeting with Kari here, but I forgot what cafe it was." The last was added as TK followed his brother towards a nearby bench to sit on while they talked. "And you Matt, why are you here?"

Sitting down on the bench, matt didn't answer right away as he stared at the people walking past them. "Mimi and Sora wanted to come here and... Well.."

TK grinned a bit at the embarrassed tone of his brother. "You couldn't say no to any of them." Smirking a bit at his brother's annoyed snort, TK shook his head. "You're far to friendly Matt, maybe you should try and stand up to them every now and then."

Giving his brother the look at his comment, Matt shook his head and pattered TK's shoulder. "Just you wait TK, one day it you will be facing this problem."

Frowning at his brother's tone, TK leaned back on the bench with a tired look on his face. "Maybe, but if I can't find where I'm supposed to meet Kari with in the next hour, she'll kill me tomorrow."

Grinning a bit at TK tone of voice, Matt slowly stood up and yawned a bit. "Guess you better try and get a hold of her then."

"Yeah." TK muttered out as he stood up as well, one hand rubbing the back of his head as he pulled out a cell phone form the back pocket of his pants. "One problem though, my cell's dead."

Giving his little brother a sly grin, Matt slowly stood up and pulled out his own cell phone. "Well, I could let you borrow mine, but what would you be willing to do for it?"

Growling at his brother's threat, Matt grinned as he tossed the phone over to his little brother. "Calm down TK, just remember, don't use up all the battery on it talking with your girlfriend." Turning his head at TK's death glare, Matt smirked as he stared off into the mall, freezing a bit as he stared at something he hadn't expected to see there. "Taichi?"

Looking up from the cell phone with a confused stare on his face at what he brother had said, TK stared confused at the blond haired boy. "What?"

The blond haired boy didn't answer the question as he was to busy to stare at the messy haired boy stepping out of the movie theater. "I got to go."

"Matt?" Standing up as he brother almost jumped up, TK stared after the blond haired boy as he took off towards the movie theater. "Matt, what's wrong?"

Still not getting an answer, TK stared down at the cell phone and closed it with a sigh. "You have better have a good reason for this brother." Starting to go after the blond haired boy, he froze as he felt someone grab his shoulder and hold him back.

Turning his head, he blinked when he spotted Sora standing behidn him, her hand on his shoulder as she stared at the older blond haired boy walk off towards the other end of the mall. "Sora, what's wrong?."

Shaking herself out of her thoughts, Sora stared down at TK as her eyes narrowed. "TK, what was it Matt said just a minute ago?"

Feeling even more left out, TK shrugged as he watched Sora take off as well, her pace a bit faster then Matt's. Turning his head downwards, he looked at the cell phone with a tired expression. "Sorry Kari, but I think this is more important."

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Stepping out of the movie theater, Taichi sighed as he felt like kicking something. The movie had a good one; lots of action and foul langue, he just hadn't been able to concentrate on it at all. The reason was simple; he had far to many things on his mind to worry about at the moment.

Staring down at the ground, he smirked a bit as he briefly wondered how the others were taking his sudden absence from the school. Before a frown formed at the memory of them stumbling into him when he had been Taiko instead of Taichi, it was getting harder to hide it, but he had too, if not.

"Taichi!" Matt's voice cut through the air all of a sudden.

Snapping his head around, Taichi nearly fell over as he spotted a small group heading towards him, he could recognize Matt, Sora and what looked like a younger version of the blond haired boy. "No, what are they doing here." Stepping back, he grimaced before taking off as well.

"Come on Taichi, we just want to talk with you." Sora's voice came just a loudly as Matt's had.

Shooting a quick look over his shoulder, Taichi cursed as they were gaining on him, slowly but surely. Turning his head to the side, the messy haired boy smirked as he suddenly turned aroudn a display stand to get out of their view, before running down the first side corridor he found. Freezing when he noticed it was a dead end. "No."

"What's wrong?"

Once more finding he nearly gaining a whiplash from turning his head to fast, Tai froze when he spotted a young girl with short light brown hair standing in the doorway to the girl's bathroom. "Hey, are you okay?"

Shaking himself out of his puzzlement over the girl's question, Taichi quickly looked back down the corridor and bleached when he spotted Matt and Sora standing down there, looking in the other direction as they tired to locate him. "I... I..."

Turning her head, the girl blinked when she spotted the blond haired boy and orange haired girl down there. "Are you in some kind of trouble, you're not a thief are you?"

"No, I'm just..." Taichi started saying as he tried to think of a way to get out this new mess he had just found himself in, and a way to avoid getting spotted by Matt and Sora.

The girl in the meantime had returned her attention to him as a small smile spread over her face. "Are you trying to hide from them?"

Looking even more embarrassed, Taichi nodded as he looked down at Sora and Matt who had stared to go in a different direction, Sora heading towards the other end of the mall while Matt turned to face their direction, stopping only as he noticed someone with almost as messy a hairstyle as Taichi standing near a store in another direction. "Look, I need to get away, I just have to."

Stepping out of the way, the girl smiled as she pointed at the door to the girl's bathroom. "Go hide in there, no one else is inside of it."

Not waiting to even debate it with her, Taichi nearly jumped inside the room as Matt had resuemed turning around. "Thanks."

The girl shrugged and smiled a bit as she took a step down the corridor, stopping as she notice dthe blond haired boy looking at her. "Can I help you?"

Matt stared at her for a few seconds before he sighed. "I don't suppose you have seen a boy my height with a very messy hair style?"

The girl stared at him for a few seconds, before she nodded. "I have, he hid himself in the bathroom." Smiling a bit as the blond haired boy, she suddenly grinned a bit. "You know, you look a lot like someone I know."

At her words, matt face her completed as he felt tried to remember what she had said right after the bit about Taichi, and failing rather badly. "In the bathroom you say, thanks a lot for the help." Moving past her, Matt reached out a hand and pushed open the door into the men's bathroom just across form the girl's bathroom.

As soon as the door had closed behind the blond haired boy, Taichi snuck out of the girl bathroom and moved past him, setting a course for the more open part of the mall, and the exits. "I really hate my life at times like these."

"Really?"

Spinning around on the spot, Taichi stared at the younger brown haired girl looking at him from the corner of the corridor opening, her eyes narrowed a bit with a small bit of laughter as she began to walk over towards him. "Sorry, did I scare you again?"

Giving her a half smile back, Tai finally grinned and slowly began to walk down the mall with her. "A little, I haven't really had a good day so far." Giving her a sheepish smile as he added in the last bit, Taichi turned his head to avoid her question glance. "By the way, thanks for your help."

The girl giggled a bit at the way he acted, taking a second to push her small purse strap back up on her shoulder as she moved to keep up with him. "You're welcome, but really, why were those two after you?"

"I'm not sure, most likely something I did at school." Taichi half lied, as he didn't look at her, but rather stared around the mall to spot Matt or Sora in time if they showed up again. "Anyway, thank you again for the help." Turning around, Taichi stopped as he felt the girl grab his arm softly, holding it and him back. "Uh, is there something wrong?"

Shaking her head again, the brown haired girl smiled a bit as she removed her hand form his sleeve. "No, sorry." at her words, the messy haired boy turned his head away from her and got ready to leave again as her hand released the sleeve of his jacket. "Wait, really, the is one thing."

Hearing an internal warning bell go off at the tone of her voice, Taichi silently debated if he should run away from her as well, but then, deciding against it as it wouldn't be nice to her at all. Beside, he owed her for helping him before, and the least he could do, was hear what she wanted. "Yeah?"

"Would you..." The brown haired girl started as she lifted her up from staring at the floor. "... Like to join me?" At the question, she turned her head away, trying to hide the blush on her face from him.

Staring at her in disbelief, Taichi shook his head as a dark cloud formed over him as yet again, the one thing he really didn't want to face again, happened to him anyway. "Join you?" Dreading her answer, he still asked her the one thing he shouldn't have done.

Still not looking at him, the girl smiled as she as lifted up a hand and pointed out the corridor and across the main part of thee mall, and right at the doors leading into the Coffee house. "Just for a little while, I was supposed to meet someone, but he didn't show, and I don't want to have come to this place for nothing."

Feeling a bit more relaxed, but not completely out of trouble yet, Taichi finally nodded a bit as he looked at her. "Fine, but not too long, I can't let them find me."

"Okay." The voice was a bit subdued as she replied, then she grinned and grabbed his hand, dragging him towards the coffee house with a big grin on her face. "By the way, what's your name?"

Frowning a bit, Taichi, answered her while he was busy trying to remain as hidden as he could, something that was rather hard when a young girl was dragging him towards a coffee shop in the middle of a rather large mall. "Taichi, Taichi Kamiya."

Pushing open the door, the girl turned her head to face him. "Taichi huh? I'm Hikari Yagami, but you can call me Kari."

Taichi smiled a bit at her greeting. "Okay, and just call me Tai okay"

Just a bit down the mall, TK eyes smoldered with anger as he spotted his Kari talking with some older messy haired boy like they were old friends, while he had to struggle for several weeks just to get her to agree to a little date, and now it seemed that all someone else had to do was just talk to her to get the same thing. The fact that the messy haired boy was the one his brother had looked for complete passed by him as he thought about throwing his cell phone down onto the ground in anger.

Kari nodded at his words as she slowly turned her head to stare around the coffee shop with a small smile on her mouth as she turned her attention back to Taichi. "We didn't have a place like this back home."

Looking up from the table surface as she chose to speak, Taichi stared at her with a bit of puzzlement in his eyes. "You've never been in a coffee house before?" Then he groaned at the level of surprise he had spoken that with. "I didn't mean it that way, I just..."

"I know." Kari smiled a bit sadly as she broke into the middle of his apology. "I'm just not used to being in a big city like this yet." The last was spoken with a bit of longing in her voice as she started to move her finger in a circle on the table.

Feeling a bit more relaxed and sympathetic, Taichi smiled as he looked at her. "Just moved into town then?"

Kari nodded again as she held her head up with the other hand. "Not really, we been in Tokyo for around a month now."

"Oh." Taichi replied as he took a few seconds to stare at the menu card to see if he could afford anything in the place at all after his unprepared shopping trip and movie expenses. "I moved here a few days ago, from the Nerima district."

Kari looked up at the name of his former district with a small smile on her face. "Really, is it as crazy over there as they say it is?"

Looking a bit strained at the words, Taichi shook his head and nodded. "Yeah, that place could really compete with Juuban in the weirdness factor."

Shrugging a bit, Kari gave a small laugh at the grin on the messy haired boy's face. "So, I guess you're glad to be out of that district huh?"

"Not really." Taichi replied as he turned to see a waitress heading towards them, long purple hair and rather large round glasses making her stand out from the others in the place. "Left my best friends behind when I moved here." The last part of the sentence took on a sad note as he spoke, something, which he saw Kari notice as her sudden sympathetic look.

Opening her mouth to ask him something, Kari stopped when she noticed the purple haired girl stop at their table. "Miyako!"

Miyako grinned a bit at the brown haired girl as she pulled out a note pad from her pocket and a pencil from another one of her pockets. "Hi Kari." Then she looked over at Taichi and blinked her eyes a bit. "Who's he, I thought you were going out with TK? Not that he's any less of a hunk to look at then the blond boy."

Growing a bit red in the face at Miyako's comment, Kari quickly looked over to Taichi to see him staring at the purple haired girl with a barely readable expression on his face. "I'm just here to have a cup of coffee with him, as a friend."

"Right." Miyako countered with a sly look on her face. "And just what happened to TK?" Her face taking on a bit of a sad look, Kari simply stared down at the table without answering Miyako's question. "I'm sorry, would you like me to try and see if I can get into contact with him?"

Kari gave a small smile as she shook her head. "No, I have my cell with me, I'll try and phone him again to find out what's keeping him."

Miyako nodded and turned her attention back to Taichi. "So, who are you then?"

Staring her for a full second at her rather blunt approach. Taichi slowly looked over at Kari to see an embarrassed expression on her face again. "Taichi, I'm..."

"A friend, and nothing more." Kari added in as she shot a dark glare at the giggling Miyako who once again shot her a sly grin. "Now if it's not too much, I want a glass of ice tea, Miyako."

Still giggling a bit as she wrote down the order, Miyako turned her attention to Taichi. "And you Taichi, what would you like?"

Blinking his eyes, Taichi shook his head and stared at the menu one more time. "Uh, just a cup of black coffee."

"Right." Miyako replied as she wrote it on her note pad. "Anything you want in that coffee, Cream, Sugar, Milk?"

"No thanks." Taichi replied as she stared out the window of the coffee shop. "I like my coffee with nothing in it."

Miyako nodded at the comment and put her pencil away. "So, one Ice tea and one black coffee with nothing in it." Miyako looked to at them to see if she had gotten it right and smiled as she turned around. "So, separate bills or is one of you paying for the other?"

"Miyako." Kari hissed out the name as she seemed to be wondering just how much trouble she would be in, if she smacked the elder girl with her purse.

Taichi stared after the giggling purple haired girl as she left the table to bring back their orders. "Strange girl." As he spoke, he looked over at Kari and gave a small smile. "So, I was telling you about moving here." Taichi smiled a bit at her nod, before briefly wondering why he was telling her stuff like that, when he had barely even dared to talk to Jun and Davis about anything.

Kari sighed a bit as she spotted the brief look on uncertainty that passed through those brown eyes. "It's okay, you don't have to tell me if you don't feel like it."

Shaking his head at her comment, Taichi gave her a reassuring smile. "It not that, I was just wondering why I find it so easy to talk with you." Seeing her sudden embarrassed look, he grinned a bit. "I'm normally not so eager to talk about my life."

"Oh." Looking a bit puzzled at his comment, Kari smiled a bit as she saw Miyako make her way back with her ice tea, a sly smile on her face as she placed it before her. "Thanks."

Miyako nodded a bit at Kari and turned to face Tai. "Your coffee will be ready in a while." Then her eyes narrowed in a playful manner as she moved her head to look a bit at Kari who where sipping her ice tea. "So, are you two getting along okay?"

Kari chocked a bit on her ice tea at the way the purple haired girl had spoken those words, her eyes flashing a bit as she placed her glass on the table. "Miyako." Kari hissed out the name as she looked over at Tai. "He's just a friend."

"She's right." Taichi added as he looked up at her. "We're just friends, nothing more." Looking at the purple haired girl as she grinned, he felt like shaking his head. "Look, think you can make my coffee one to go, I need to be home in a few hours." Miyako nodded with a sudden strained look on her face as she shot a quick look over at Kari before walking back towards the register.

Looking over at Kari, Taichi noticed a slightly sad look on her face. "It's my turn to cook dinner tonight. And I hadn't really expected to be invited to a place like this." Feeling a bit sadder as he saw her, give him a fake smile while poking the table, he sighed a bit. "Look, I'm really sorry, but my dad tends to overreact if I'm not home on time and..."

Looking up at him, Kari nodded and followed him with her eyes as he stood up. "It's okay, I don't want to keep you here if you don't want to."

"No, it's not a problem, it was nice talking with you." Taichi answered her as he shot a quick look out into the mall to see if anyone he knew was standing outside of it, placing the last money he had on the table. "Look, Sorry about this, and take care."

"Yeah you too." Kari muttered out as the messy haired boy left the shop. Her eyes moving over to see Miyako staring back her, her mouth forming some words she had no trouble guessing. "Yeah, I think he was a little weird as well, but he seems to be nice enough." She replied in the same manner.

Giggling at the brown haired girl's words. Miyako slowly lifted up a hand and placed it on Kari's shoulder. "Cheer up, you still have TK right?" Giggling a bit louder, Miyako ducked the hand that tried to hit in the side while she moved over towards a new costumer. "We'll talk some more later, right Kari?"

Nodding, Kari grabbed her ice tea and started to drink it. Shooting a quick look out into the mall in time to see the messy haired boy heading towards the exit. "Nice, but strange, too strange. Maybe I should try to reach TK one more time." As she spoke to herself, she had already pulled out her cell and begun to punch in the number for the blond haired boy.

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Leaning on the wall just outside the apartment to catch his breath, Taichi took a few deep, painful breaths as he pulled out the door key and held it up. "Finally." Turning around and unlocking the door, he smiled a bit as he stepped into the hallway. "Home, sweet home."

Kicking open the door into his room, Taichi stumbled into it and dropped his keys on the table, running a hand through his hair as he sat down a this table. "Can this day get any more rotten then it already is?" he mumbled out as he began to think about the event he had just been through, freezing as he remembered forgetting his school bag back in class. "Great."

Sitting up in the chair, he looked down at his uniform jacket, or rather that Joe guys jacket since his own was currently broken, unbuttoning the top part of it as he stood up, briefly wondering what time his old man would be coming home, and what he should expect if he was angry again. Reaching out a hand to open his closet and pull out a shirt, he stopped when he picked up the sound of some ringing the doorbell. "Now what."

Feeling a bit angrier then he should, the messy haired boy turned around and stalked out to the front door, grabbing the handle before pulling so hard on it that the person outside gave a small yelp hen the door was yanked open. "What is it?!"

Staring at the familiar person before him with his best, most annoyed expression as he fired off the rather rude question. Taichi groaned as his day took another deep fall. The cinnamon haired girl was someone he really didn't want to see right now, and judging from her annoyed expression, she felt the same way.

Pulling out the school bag that Matt had insisted she bring home, so she could give it to the messy haired boy since they were neighbors. "Here." Pushing the said object into his chest, she blinked as she noticed him wince a bit. "Save your thanks, Matt asked me to give it too you, that's all." Turning around, she stopped and looked back at him as a small nagging feeling went through her head. "Hey, do you know someone called Taiko by the way? She kind of looks like..." Mimi trailed off as her eyes stared at his chest bindings, or more precisely the two bumps they were trying to hide.

Grabbing the school bag and pulling it down to his side, Taichi snorted as he looked at the cinnamon haired girl, freezing a bit as he noticed her eyes lock onto his chest with a puzzled expression at first then a small look of shock spread when she lifted her head up to his face with a suddenly demanding expression. "It's not what you think." Resulting in him crying out the first thing he could think off, most likely ruining every chance he had to defuse the situation.

Looking up at him, Mimi eyes were filled with a bit of puzzlement before they turned deadly serious. "Oh yeah, then tell me what it really is, Taiko." The name was hissed out as Mimi crossed her arms, daring him to give her a lie for an answer.

TBC: She knows.

AN: Okay, let me start by saying that there will be no bincest/b in this story, none at all. Even if that scene in the coffee house might seem to be the way the story is headed, it is not going to end up like that at all.

Also, parts of it has a... Too rushed feeling to it in my opinion.

Feel like drawing Taiko. If you do and have the time, send it to me and I'll post it on my site as a thank you complete with the name of who made the drawing.