HI AGAIN! This story got some great reviews so I'm updating sooner than I
planned! Enjoy this next chapter!!!! This is why Yamato was there to save
Taichi.
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Yamato Ishida walked down a side road on his way home. The blonde haired boy was muttering angrily to himself as he trudged along. Yamato was on his way home from a band rehearsal gone bad. Instead of focusing on the music they were playing, Yamato's band decided to focus on how many autographs they had given, how many fans they had, and what their look should be.
Finally, after a couple of hours worth of feuding, Yamato stopped all conversation and ordered everyone to get out, and return the next day. "THIS IS REHEARSAL GUYS! THIS TIME SHOULD BE USED FOR OUR MUSIC NOT YOUR SOCIAL DESIRES!" Yamato had yelled, "GET OUT! RETURN TOMORROW AND WE'LL SEE IF YOU CAN EVEN STILL PLAY YOUR INSTRUMENTS!" Yamato then turned his back on his band and ripped off the shoulder strap to his guitar.
With that said, the band left, to return the next day. Yamato was left alone and sighed to himself as he began to put away his guitar. Then he felt like he should waste a couple of hours and picked up the guitar again, hoping to blow off some steam by pouring emotion into his music.
Two hours later, Yamato felt better and put his guitar away with an exhausted sigh. He rolled his head around on his shoulders trying to work out the knots, then picked up his guitar and started home.
As Yamato continued to walk down the road, looking at his feet, and his guitar hefted over his shoulder, he heard a sudden familiar squeal and froze. Yamato sighed in annoyance as the voice began, "OH MY GOD IT'S YAMATO! LOOK IT'S YAMATO! OH MY GOD!!! CAN I HAVE YOUR AUTOGRAPH?" the voice was very high pitched and annoying, and as Yamato plastered a fake smile onto his face and began to tell the girl that he was quite tired, he looked up and saw not one girl, but around twenty-five girls all goggling at him.
"Er. . ." Yamato stuttered with a nervous look on his face.
"FORGET THE AUTOGRAPH!" another screamed, "I WANT YAMATO!" There was a general loud agreement with the girls who began squealing and advancing towards Yamato.
"Shimatta," Yamato cursed under his breath and took off the other way he had come before.
"AFTER HIM!" Another fan screamed. Yamato ran faster down the street and turned a corner down another side street. The girls followed after Yamato squealing, crying and shouting wedding proposals and offers to the blonde.
When the girls rounded the corner, Yamato was gone. "WHAT?!" "Where Did he go?" After a moment of searching the area, they turned and left the direction in which the came from, most of them crying.
Yamato leaned back against the wall of the alley, bouncing his head off the concrete in exasperation. 'Same thing everyday. . . you'd think I'd love it. . . but now I'm not so sure,' Yamato sighed thinking to himself. After a moments pause, he pushed himself off the hidden alley's wall and started towards the opening before stopping himself. 'They're probably still around. . .' he thought in annoyance, 'I guess it's the long way home today. . .'
Yamato began to walk down the alleyway when he heard rapid footsteps coming from one of the side alleys. In an instant reaction, he dove behind a garbage can in time to see a brunette boy run down the alley past him, his arms bound in front of him, blindfolded and gagged. 'Taichi?!' Yamato thought in alarm.
Yamato began to call out to him when he heard more footsteps and heard a gruff voice call out, "HEY! FUCKIN KID GET BACK HERE!" Yamato instinctively ducked back into his hiding spot and watched as Taichi ran quickly away, his breath coming in short gasps. But it was apparent that the men chasing him were faster and sure enough not even 200 yards from where Yamato was hiding, the men tackled Taichi to the ground, eliciting a cry from the brunette boy.
Taichi seemed to give up as his body stilled and he fought no more. Yamato felt his blood run cold as the men had a conversation about what just happened. "We should kept a closer eye on him," One of the men growled sounding rather annoyed.
"Yeah we should have, but we got what we came for," the other retorted. "Let's get-" But it seemed that Taichi wasn't done fighting and began to struggle wildly against the man who held him. Taichi was rewarded with the man dropping the boy who jumped to jumped to his feet and attempted to run. The man who dropped him quickly grabbed the boy again throwing him to the ground.
"I'm ending this now," the man declared whipping out a knife.
Yamato felt cold and before he even knew what he was doing, he donned a loud voice dripping with authority, pulled out his cell phone, and yelled, "HEY! STOP IT!" and ran at the men.
Normally, neither one of the men standing in front of him would have ran, but the idea that this guy had possibly already called the police, and that someone had seen them caused the men to run quickly down the other side of the alley shooting a quick, "THIS AIN'T OVER!" back over their shoulders.
Yamato ignored them and slid to a stop next to Taichi who was cowering on the ground. He reached for Taichi who felt his hands and squirmed away shouting a loud "No" into his gag. But this sound came out muffled and Yamato was confused as to what the boy was saying. "Taichi," he commanded firmly to the boy who continued to struggle away from him. He was so scared and the sight made Yamato want to cry. Taichi did not scare easily. . . but Yamato suppose this was the only response Taichi could think of at the moment. "Taichi!" Yamato tried a bit louder, but this seemed to panic Taichi even more as the boy began to shove against Yamato who had trouble hanging onto him. "TAICHI!" Yamato screamed this time. 'He must be in shock,' Yamato thought to himself as he watched Taichi struggle, tremble, and whimper, 'well. . .the only thing I can think of he may not like. . .' Yamato took a deep breath, slapped Taichi across the face and screamed "TAICHI!!" at the top of his lungs.
Finally the boy seemed to cease struggling and took to whimpering pitifully. "Baka, hold still I'll get this off of you," Yamato said struggling to hold his emotions in. He reached behind Taichi and managed to get the blindfold untied. As the cloth fell away, Taichi furiously wiped away the tears, and the pain in his eyes from the sudden intrusion of light. Taichi then blinked a few times and looked straight into Yamato's eyes.
The look that Taichi gave Yamato made Yamato want to cry again. Taichi's eyes lit up in recognition and he managed to shout "Ymmoo" before dissolving into uncontrollable tears again. However, Taichi did seem to relax more. Yamato took a deep breath controlling his emotions and then offered a small reassuring smile before untying Taichi's gag. "Jesus Taichi," Yamato managed, "are you alright?"
Taichi flexed his jaw before nodding slightly. "I. . .I think so," Taichi replied looking at Yamato like he was t he greatest person breathing at the moment. Then Taichi continued, "You have NO idea how glad I am to see you. . .will you untie me please Yama?"
Yamato felt his heart begin to break at how young Taichi sounded. He nodded at his best friend and smiled "Of course Tai just a second," Yamato said in a gentle voice before untying the wrists. Tai seemed to calm at the familiar voice of Yamato and the nickname given to him. As soon as Taichi's wrists were free he rubbed some circulation back into his wrists before wincing and reaching his hand back to touch something on the back of his head.
Alarmed, Yamato moved his hand and stood up on his knees to check the wound out for himself. 'It's a nasty bump, but I think he'll be okay,' Yamato thought to himself before grinning at Taichi, "Ah it's just a bump you wuss!" Yamato said to him before laughing and noticing that Taichi was barely smiling. When Taichi wouldn't smile, that was a definite signal something was wrong. Yamato stopped laughing and looked him in the face "Did they hurt you Taichi?" he asked firmly.
Taichi's eyes were still wide as he replied, "No they hadn't yet, just a few scrapes," Taichi replied looking of fin a slight daze, "but I can deal with that considering. . ." Taichi paused as he paled even more and then began stammering as he began to sob again, "G. . .God Yama, they were gonna k. . .ill me." Taichi then launched himself at Yamato who was still in shock from the statement. He pulled the brunette closer to him holding him close as he looked up at the sky.
'God. . .what if something had gone differently?' Yamato asked himself. Then he went over everything that he had done that day that could have potentially changed Taichi's outcome. Yamato paled even more and pulled Taichi closer.
' What if. . .My rehearsal had gone well and the guys were so focused I stayed in the studio while Taichi was attacked. What if Yamato had been so angry he would have left the studio immediately after kicking his band out instead of being compelled to practice on his own? What if those girls hadn't chased me down that alley way? What if. What If.'
"Yama?" Taichi's voice squeaked pulling Yamato out of his daze.
"Yeah Baka?" Yamato retorted rewarding him with a smile from Taichi.
"Thank you so much," Taichi whimpered hugging Yamato tighter. Yamato squeezed Taichi trying to comfort him.
"Anytime Taichi. I can't let them take my best friend from me. . . who else will make me look smart?" Yamato joked
Taichi laughed shoving Yamato a bit as he sat up shakily. "Funny," Taichi retorted sarcastically.
Yamato shrugged suppressing a grin, "I thought so," the blonde replied. Taichi managed to sit against the wall, remaining silent.
"Are you okay?" Yamato asked worriedly as Taichi's head bowed onto his chest from exhaustion.
"If I didn't know any better, I'd think you were worried about me," Taichi joked looking up at Yamato who looked quite pale. "Oh Yama. . ." Taichi whispered, "I'm fine, I promise, just a little scared. . .let's go home."
"Your home or my home?" Yamato asked.
"Do you mind if I go with you?" Taichi asked, "my parents are on vacation, and I don't want to be alone."
Yamato smiled. "Of course not Taichi let's go," Yamato replied helping his best friend to his feet. The two walked down the road towards Yamato's apartment complex without any further trouble, all the while content to be silent around one another.
Taichi spent a great deal of time at Yamato's house forgetting about the events of the day. Finally, after the sun started to go down, Taichi told Yamato he must return home. Taichi went to get his shoes and turned to see Yamato doing the same. "What are you doing Yamato?" Taichi asked him.
"Walking you home," Yamato replied.
"You don't have to," Taichi said to Yamato feeling a little guilty.
"It's fine Taichi, I would feel bad letting you leave by yourself.," Yamato replied standing up straight.
Taichi smiled. "Thanks Yama." Yamato simply grinned and they walked out of the apartment complex talking animatedly all the way to Taichi's apartment. When they reached the building, Taichi froze at the end of the hall.
"What's wrong?" Yamato asked before following Taichi's eyes. Taichi's apartment door was ajar. Yamato swallowed before walking towards the door. Taichi grabbed him.
"Don't Yama, they might be in there," Taichi whispered.
"Well I can't let you go in there by yourself now can I?" Yamato replied.
"Uhm.yes?" Taichi responded.
"Don't be silly Taichi," Yamato said pushing Taichi towards the door. He pushed the door open and the sight behind it made both boys choke.
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Hooray! It's getting even more dun dun dunnnnnish lol. Nevermind. Well anyways I'm writing the next chapter for this so stay tuned!!! :) And Read AND review again!!!!
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Yamato Ishida walked down a side road on his way home. The blonde haired boy was muttering angrily to himself as he trudged along. Yamato was on his way home from a band rehearsal gone bad. Instead of focusing on the music they were playing, Yamato's band decided to focus on how many autographs they had given, how many fans they had, and what their look should be.
Finally, after a couple of hours worth of feuding, Yamato stopped all conversation and ordered everyone to get out, and return the next day. "THIS IS REHEARSAL GUYS! THIS TIME SHOULD BE USED FOR OUR MUSIC NOT YOUR SOCIAL DESIRES!" Yamato had yelled, "GET OUT! RETURN TOMORROW AND WE'LL SEE IF YOU CAN EVEN STILL PLAY YOUR INSTRUMENTS!" Yamato then turned his back on his band and ripped off the shoulder strap to his guitar.
With that said, the band left, to return the next day. Yamato was left alone and sighed to himself as he began to put away his guitar. Then he felt like he should waste a couple of hours and picked up the guitar again, hoping to blow off some steam by pouring emotion into his music.
Two hours later, Yamato felt better and put his guitar away with an exhausted sigh. He rolled his head around on his shoulders trying to work out the knots, then picked up his guitar and started home.
As Yamato continued to walk down the road, looking at his feet, and his guitar hefted over his shoulder, he heard a sudden familiar squeal and froze. Yamato sighed in annoyance as the voice began, "OH MY GOD IT'S YAMATO! LOOK IT'S YAMATO! OH MY GOD!!! CAN I HAVE YOUR AUTOGRAPH?" the voice was very high pitched and annoying, and as Yamato plastered a fake smile onto his face and began to tell the girl that he was quite tired, he looked up and saw not one girl, but around twenty-five girls all goggling at him.
"Er. . ." Yamato stuttered with a nervous look on his face.
"FORGET THE AUTOGRAPH!" another screamed, "I WANT YAMATO!" There was a general loud agreement with the girls who began squealing and advancing towards Yamato.
"Shimatta," Yamato cursed under his breath and took off the other way he had come before.
"AFTER HIM!" Another fan screamed. Yamato ran faster down the street and turned a corner down another side street. The girls followed after Yamato squealing, crying and shouting wedding proposals and offers to the blonde.
When the girls rounded the corner, Yamato was gone. "WHAT?!" "Where Did he go?" After a moment of searching the area, they turned and left the direction in which the came from, most of them crying.
Yamato leaned back against the wall of the alley, bouncing his head off the concrete in exasperation. 'Same thing everyday. . . you'd think I'd love it. . . but now I'm not so sure,' Yamato sighed thinking to himself. After a moments pause, he pushed himself off the hidden alley's wall and started towards the opening before stopping himself. 'They're probably still around. . .' he thought in annoyance, 'I guess it's the long way home today. . .'
Yamato began to walk down the alleyway when he heard rapid footsteps coming from one of the side alleys. In an instant reaction, he dove behind a garbage can in time to see a brunette boy run down the alley past him, his arms bound in front of him, blindfolded and gagged. 'Taichi?!' Yamato thought in alarm.
Yamato began to call out to him when he heard more footsteps and heard a gruff voice call out, "HEY! FUCKIN KID GET BACK HERE!" Yamato instinctively ducked back into his hiding spot and watched as Taichi ran quickly away, his breath coming in short gasps. But it was apparent that the men chasing him were faster and sure enough not even 200 yards from where Yamato was hiding, the men tackled Taichi to the ground, eliciting a cry from the brunette boy.
Taichi seemed to give up as his body stilled and he fought no more. Yamato felt his blood run cold as the men had a conversation about what just happened. "We should kept a closer eye on him," One of the men growled sounding rather annoyed.
"Yeah we should have, but we got what we came for," the other retorted. "Let's get-" But it seemed that Taichi wasn't done fighting and began to struggle wildly against the man who held him. Taichi was rewarded with the man dropping the boy who jumped to jumped to his feet and attempted to run. The man who dropped him quickly grabbed the boy again throwing him to the ground.
"I'm ending this now," the man declared whipping out a knife.
Yamato felt cold and before he even knew what he was doing, he donned a loud voice dripping with authority, pulled out his cell phone, and yelled, "HEY! STOP IT!" and ran at the men.
Normally, neither one of the men standing in front of him would have ran, but the idea that this guy had possibly already called the police, and that someone had seen them caused the men to run quickly down the other side of the alley shooting a quick, "THIS AIN'T OVER!" back over their shoulders.
Yamato ignored them and slid to a stop next to Taichi who was cowering on the ground. He reached for Taichi who felt his hands and squirmed away shouting a loud "No" into his gag. But this sound came out muffled and Yamato was confused as to what the boy was saying. "Taichi," he commanded firmly to the boy who continued to struggle away from him. He was so scared and the sight made Yamato want to cry. Taichi did not scare easily. . . but Yamato suppose this was the only response Taichi could think of at the moment. "Taichi!" Yamato tried a bit louder, but this seemed to panic Taichi even more as the boy began to shove against Yamato who had trouble hanging onto him. "TAICHI!" Yamato screamed this time. 'He must be in shock,' Yamato thought to himself as he watched Taichi struggle, tremble, and whimper, 'well. . .the only thing I can think of he may not like. . .' Yamato took a deep breath, slapped Taichi across the face and screamed "TAICHI!!" at the top of his lungs.
Finally the boy seemed to cease struggling and took to whimpering pitifully. "Baka, hold still I'll get this off of you," Yamato said struggling to hold his emotions in. He reached behind Taichi and managed to get the blindfold untied. As the cloth fell away, Taichi furiously wiped away the tears, and the pain in his eyes from the sudden intrusion of light. Taichi then blinked a few times and looked straight into Yamato's eyes.
The look that Taichi gave Yamato made Yamato want to cry again. Taichi's eyes lit up in recognition and he managed to shout "Ymmoo" before dissolving into uncontrollable tears again. However, Taichi did seem to relax more. Yamato took a deep breath controlling his emotions and then offered a small reassuring smile before untying Taichi's gag. "Jesus Taichi," Yamato managed, "are you alright?"
Taichi flexed his jaw before nodding slightly. "I. . .I think so," Taichi replied looking at Yamato like he was t he greatest person breathing at the moment. Then Taichi continued, "You have NO idea how glad I am to see you. . .will you untie me please Yama?"
Yamato felt his heart begin to break at how young Taichi sounded. He nodded at his best friend and smiled "Of course Tai just a second," Yamato said in a gentle voice before untying the wrists. Tai seemed to calm at the familiar voice of Yamato and the nickname given to him. As soon as Taichi's wrists were free he rubbed some circulation back into his wrists before wincing and reaching his hand back to touch something on the back of his head.
Alarmed, Yamato moved his hand and stood up on his knees to check the wound out for himself. 'It's a nasty bump, but I think he'll be okay,' Yamato thought to himself before grinning at Taichi, "Ah it's just a bump you wuss!" Yamato said to him before laughing and noticing that Taichi was barely smiling. When Taichi wouldn't smile, that was a definite signal something was wrong. Yamato stopped laughing and looked him in the face "Did they hurt you Taichi?" he asked firmly.
Taichi's eyes were still wide as he replied, "No they hadn't yet, just a few scrapes," Taichi replied looking of fin a slight daze, "but I can deal with that considering. . ." Taichi paused as he paled even more and then began stammering as he began to sob again, "G. . .God Yama, they were gonna k. . .ill me." Taichi then launched himself at Yamato who was still in shock from the statement. He pulled the brunette closer to him holding him close as he looked up at the sky.
'God. . .what if something had gone differently?' Yamato asked himself. Then he went over everything that he had done that day that could have potentially changed Taichi's outcome. Yamato paled even more and pulled Taichi closer.
' What if. . .My rehearsal had gone well and the guys were so focused I stayed in the studio while Taichi was attacked. What if Yamato had been so angry he would have left the studio immediately after kicking his band out instead of being compelled to practice on his own? What if those girls hadn't chased me down that alley way? What if. What If.'
"Yama?" Taichi's voice squeaked pulling Yamato out of his daze.
"Yeah Baka?" Yamato retorted rewarding him with a smile from Taichi.
"Thank you so much," Taichi whimpered hugging Yamato tighter. Yamato squeezed Taichi trying to comfort him.
"Anytime Taichi. I can't let them take my best friend from me. . . who else will make me look smart?" Yamato joked
Taichi laughed shoving Yamato a bit as he sat up shakily. "Funny," Taichi retorted sarcastically.
Yamato shrugged suppressing a grin, "I thought so," the blonde replied. Taichi managed to sit against the wall, remaining silent.
"Are you okay?" Yamato asked worriedly as Taichi's head bowed onto his chest from exhaustion.
"If I didn't know any better, I'd think you were worried about me," Taichi joked looking up at Yamato who looked quite pale. "Oh Yama. . ." Taichi whispered, "I'm fine, I promise, just a little scared. . .let's go home."
"Your home or my home?" Yamato asked.
"Do you mind if I go with you?" Taichi asked, "my parents are on vacation, and I don't want to be alone."
Yamato smiled. "Of course not Taichi let's go," Yamato replied helping his best friend to his feet. The two walked down the road towards Yamato's apartment complex without any further trouble, all the while content to be silent around one another.
Taichi spent a great deal of time at Yamato's house forgetting about the events of the day. Finally, after the sun started to go down, Taichi told Yamato he must return home. Taichi went to get his shoes and turned to see Yamato doing the same. "What are you doing Yamato?" Taichi asked him.
"Walking you home," Yamato replied.
"You don't have to," Taichi said to Yamato feeling a little guilty.
"It's fine Taichi, I would feel bad letting you leave by yourself.," Yamato replied standing up straight.
Taichi smiled. "Thanks Yama." Yamato simply grinned and they walked out of the apartment complex talking animatedly all the way to Taichi's apartment. When they reached the building, Taichi froze at the end of the hall.
"What's wrong?" Yamato asked before following Taichi's eyes. Taichi's apartment door was ajar. Yamato swallowed before walking towards the door. Taichi grabbed him.
"Don't Yama, they might be in there," Taichi whispered.
"Well I can't let you go in there by yourself now can I?" Yamato replied.
"Uhm.yes?" Taichi responded.
"Don't be silly Taichi," Yamato said pushing Taichi towards the door. He pushed the door open and the sight behind it made both boys choke.
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Hooray! It's getting even more dun dun dunnnnnish lol. Nevermind. Well anyways I'm writing the next chapter for this so stay tuned!!! :) And Read AND review again!!!!