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Digimon
IV: Set-up
Saga: The Child of Darkness
"Hey! Lain! Wait up!" Matt yelled out still chasing after her. "Don't tell me you actually intend to change all of your classes on me! Come on! LAIN!"
"Joking!" Lain shouted out stopping in mid run. She turned around so she was facing him and begun to laugh a little as he ran up to her finally a little out of breath. "I wanted to see what you would do if I said that."
"Yeah alright. Can we go now?" Matt asked looking down the sidewalk at all the people that were starring at the two of them oddly. "Were supposed to met the rest of the gang in the park. Lain?"
"We are? How come? Is this supposed to be a meeting of some kind?" Lain asked looking at Matt a little confused. "Because if it's about me… then I'm not to sure that I want to go…"
"But it's not…or at least I don't think it will be about you," Matt said a little lost at words. "But you have to come anyway. Your part of the team now, and if your not there, then the team won't feel whole. You get what I'm saying right? You're just as important as the rest of the group."
"Yeah I get it," Lain replied rolling her eyes at him. "Well then come on. Let's go then." Lain began to walk in the direction of the park with Matt at her side. The people finally stopped starring and went back to their own business. "So the whole gangs going to be there?"
"Yeah everyone. Oh wait, you haven't met the other three kids, there the newest members to the group," Matt replied smiling at Lain. He shoved his hands into his pockets and continued to walk. "I'd watch out for the one with the goggles. He's a little crazy when it comes to girls; it's a little scary if you ask me. I mean I know I might be bad, well that is considered to some people, but he's worse. Like his sister…" He shuddered at the thought of the boy's sister. "Anyway to better topics, what do you think about starting school on Monday?"
"School?" Lain muttered groaning. "What if I don't want to go to school? School's boring and all the people are mean to me…"
"Not when you have me and Tai on your side. Were here for ya Lain," Matt replied laughing. He threw one of his arms around her shoulders and then pulled her in closer to him. "Don't worry about a thing. The gang and me have got your back the whole time, well that doesn't count Cody. He's the youngest Digidestind. But he's still in Jr. High… but when you see him out of school I'm sure he's gonna have you back also."
"What is it with you trying to make me feel so good today?" Lain asked laughing a little. "It's a little creepy. If you know what I mean?"
"Hey man I just want my new friend to have a good time with me. That's all," Matt replied laughing also. "Hey! Here it is! Everyone should be around here somewhere!"
Lain rolled her eyes at the blond headed boy again and then gazed around the park. She could hear the loud mass of voices from a group of people. They all started to come into view; it was the rest of the Digidestinds.
"Wow there sure is a lot of us," Lain said getting out from under Matt's arm. She continued walking up to them and then stopped when she was at least five feet away.
"Hi again?" Lain began looking at Tai, TK, Kari, and Sora. "Sorry that I rushed out on you earlier. I was sort of messing with Matt's mind, and it worked too!"
"Really?" Mimi asked looking at Lain a little confused. "I didn't really get that out of what TK to-" She was then cut off by Sora jabbing her hard with her elbow. "Ow! Sora! What was that for!?"
"Mimi!" Sora said looking at Mimi as if she had just noticed her. "Lets go over here and have a little chat for a minute. Kari! Yolei! Get over here! You're going to be in on it too! No Lain… you stay there!" She gave Lain a small smile and then dragged the three other girls away from the boys.
"Uh? What was that all about?" Tai asked looking at them confused. "TK?"
"What? I don't know what there doing!" TK said looking at Tai shocked. "If I did wouldn't you have thought that they would have at least included me in on what they're staying to each other? I'm guessing it has something to do with Lain because she was brought along with them…"
"I knew it," Lain said crossing her arms over her chest and then got a depressed look on her face. "This was all to good to be true. They don't like me. But then again… how could I have not guessed that…" Lain sighed and then shifted a little uncomfortable.
"What?" Izzy asked looking at Lain a little confused. "That's not true. I've been talking to Mimi and a lot and she says that she really likes you…well that is she really doesn't know you that well but she'd probably like to get to know you a little better. Kari likes you too, Yolei and Sora most likely. You're an easy kid to get along with."
"Kid?" Lain asked looking at her shocked. "No! I'm not a kid! I'm seventeen!"
"WHAT!?" Matt yelled out spinning around so he was facing her totally now. "No way! No your not! You can't be! I mean you said you were in twelfth grade right!? Well then you're supposed to be eighteen like the rest of us! That is unless you're in eleventh grade and you lied to my dad! Lain how could you!?"
"What are you talking about?" Lain asked looking at him confused. "I skipped the eighth grade. And I was put into ninth. That's why I'm a year younger than most of you…wouldn't you think that? Why would I lie to your dad? I mean he is the one who is letting me stay in his house… Aw man… I forgot to thank him again.. Oh well I'll just do it when I get back home." She smiled and then noticed that the four girls came walking back over giggling. Lain gulped as they stopped right in front of her and then smiled.
"So uh…hi?" Lain said nervously as she waved at them a little. "Um…can I do anything for you?"
"Yes I think you can," Sora said laughing a little but managed to control it. "Come with us Lain. We have something to talk to you about."
"I…uh…wouldn't it be best if I just waited here with Matt?" Lain asked stepping closer to him.
"No way!" Kari cried out. "Then we wouldn't be able to tell you this wonderful thing!"
"What? Nah…it's okay. I'm fine standing right here," Lain said now grabbing a hold of Matt's arm, and looked as though she didn't dare let go.
"Tai?" Sora said looking at Tai with a bright smile on her face. "I guess you could be in on this too…well your first task is to detach Lain from Matt!"
"My pleasure!" Tai said smiling brightly also. He walked over to Lain and then grabbed her hands and managed to detach her off of Matt after five whole minutes of struggling, cries of pain, biting, and a lot of kicking. He then swung her so she was on his shoulder and turned around and faced Sora. "What now?"
"Just come with us," Kari replied managing to hold back all of her laughter. She then looked at the rest of the group and smiled. "You guys go on ahead, we'll meet you all at lets say…the school in an hour? TK!? You know the plan!"
"Huh?" TK said looking around a little paranoid. "What plan?" He laughed a little nervously.
"And don't you dare tell anyone!" Yolei cried out pointing a threatening finger at him. "Or you're going to have to deal with me. And it's not going to be that pretty…"
"Okay," TK managed to squeak out before he set off with the other remaining bunch of people.
"Okay, okay!? What the hell are you guys going to do with me?!" Lain shouted out at Matt and the others got out of site.
Sora laughed a little evilly. "Well you see on the first day back at school they have this dance."
"So," Lain said rolling her eyes. "I don't like dances. Remember, I've told you. I don't do that girly stuff…"
"Just be quite and listen for a moment," Yolei said interrupting Lain's thoughts. "You're going to the dance with one of the guys… Except Ken! He's mine! Already taken!"
"What!? Say's who!? I don't want to! You can't make me!" Lain shouted out as if she were about to throw a fit. "And put me down Tai! I mean you can't have fun holding me up here like this!?"
"Actually I am," Tai replied smiling. "Sora never let me do this to her."
"Shut-up Tai!" Sora screamed out turning a little red. "We'll it doesn't matter Lain. You're our friend now and we don't want you to have to stay at home with Mr. Ishida because you don't have a date to the dance."
"I told you! I'm not going! PUT ME DOWN NOW TAI!" Lain shouted out right next to his ear. This instantly worked because he let go of her and then saw her fall to the ground.
She cried out in pain and then stood up. "Thanks a lot!" She then turned her attention over to the four girls and sighed. "Why are you doing this to me!?"
"Well you have to at least go to this one!" Kari cried out, now basicly pleading with Lain. "How do you know that you don't like them if you've never been to one at this school!?"
"Fine, fine," Lain replied shaking her head. "I'll go, but I can't promise you that I'll go with a guy. Cause I wouldn't have any clue who to go with, and I'm sure that none of the people here would actually want to waste their time on me."
"Waste? You got to stop being so negative," Tai said shaking his head. "Look. I'm going with Sora and basicly Yolei is forcing Ken to go with her… Oh yeah and I'm taking Kari with me also."
"What!? No way Tai!" Kari shouted out at her brother as she put her hands on her hips in protest. "No! I want to go with TK! And besides! I've already asked him and he said he would!"
"What!?" Tai shouted out sounding shocked. "I'm going to kill the kid the next time I see him!"
"Tai!" Sora cried out running over to him. She then glared up at him and sighed. "Look! Focus your attention on Lain right now! Who cares if Kari's going with TK! At least it's not Davis!"
Tai muttered something angrily that no one caught. He then crossed his arms over his chest and looked at Kari with a frown. "Fine. You can go with TK. But I'm not letting you or him out of my site…"
"Thank you Tai!" Kari said smiling happily at her brother. She then turned over to Lain. "Now then…who should you go with…?" She put herself into a thought mode as Lain starred at her horrified.
"No, no, no," Lain said smiling nervously. She backed up a little to only run into Tai and jump like a scared rabbit. "It's okay! I don't have to go with anyone! I don't know any guys anyway! So what's the point!?" She then laughed a little nervously.
"I got it!" Tai shouted out happily. He then slapped his hands down on Lain's shoulders, she jumped again, as if scared to death. "You can go with Matt!"
"What?!" Lain shouted out baking away from the crazy teen behind her. "No way! I couldn't do that! No, no, no, no! I don't want to go with anyone!"
"But you said you would!" Mimi said looking at Lain as if about to cry. "Come on Lain! Please! This is my last year in Japan! I'm going to America next year for collage and I don't want to see you waste your last year away either! Please Lain! It would make me so happy!" She put on puppy eyes, still looking as though she were about to cry.
"I…I…fine," Lain muttered and then looked sideways a little. "But I don't think Matt is going to like this… I mean after all I have been such a jerk to him…"
"Hey. That won't matter to him," Tai said patting her on the back. "I mean this is Matt Ishida were talking about here! The ladies man!"
"I don't like the sound of that…" Lain said looking at Tai nervously. "You make it sound as though he's some guy that all the girls worship…"
"Well they do…in a way," Tai replied laughing nervously. "But don't worry. I'm sure that Jun won't freak out over it or anything. After all he is going with you, and the other girls should calm down. Though I'm not to sure that they'll be happy with what they see…"
"Hey! Stop that! Your make accusations again! Who says that he's going to want to go with me in the first place!?" Lain said pointing a finger at Tai.
"Yes but he will say yes," Kari said smiling happily at Lain. "I know he will.
"Huh?" Lain said looking at Kari a little confused. Kari knew something that she didn't, and she was sure that it wasn't going to be too good for her.
"Absolutely not!" Matt said looking at his brother shocked. "What would dad think!? He'd kick her out of the house! I mean first of all dad wasn't too happy about a girl staying in the house… and now that you say I should ask her to the first dance… no way!"
"But Matt!" TK protested walking backwards so he could face his brother. The group had split up once again. The other besides him and Matt had already headed towards the school, while the two of them walked around the park again. "You have to! I mean who else would Lain go with!?"
"I don't know, you!?" Matt said spiting out the first thing that came into his mind. He then laughed when he realized what he had just said because his brother's face had gone red.
"I can't," TK replied going red again. "I'm going with some one else."
"So you finally plucked up enough courage to ask Lain! Go little bro!" Matt said happily patting him on the shoulder. "Nice to hear…wait…" His brother's expression was still nervous. "Don't tell me she asked you!?"
"Yeah…she did. Yesterday," TK said still nervous. "But that's okay right?"
"I guess. But still it would have been better if you had done it yourself. But now all you have to worry about is Tai finding out and then killing you," Matt laughed at the thought of it. "Sorry but I can't help you there. You're going to have to stick up for yourself and get some respect from Tai to get the girl!"
"Matt!" TK protested sighing. "Can we concentrate on Lain!? She has to get a date to go! And she has no one to go with! Tai is going with Sora! Mimi and Izzy are going together. Yolei's forcing Ken. Cody can't because he's still in Jr. High, and Joe's in collage. And the last person that would leave would be…Davis? Now would you really want to screw up her first memory here in Japan like that?"
"No… I don't think I would," Matt said flinching at the thought of what it would look like. "I guess I see your point. But what if she doesn't want to go? I mean she doesn't like that girly stuff. So that would mean I don't have to go with her!" He laughed. "Neither of us has to go!"
"And why wouldn't you go?" TK asked. "I thought you liked being stalked by all your scary fan girls?"
"What!? No way!" Matt shouted out looking at his brother shocked. "Why would I? Jun is horrible! And the rest are almost as bad as her! Besides, dances aren't really my thing. I mean that sort of stuff is for couples. C-O-U-P-L-E-S. And I know that me and Lain are not. We're just friends."
"So what?" TK asked looking at his brother a little annoyed. "I don't care. You should at least ask her if she's going to go or not. If she doesn't want to…then I guess you're off the hook. But if she does…then it might be a good idea for you to ask her. Make her happy Matt. That's what she needs right now. At least go with her as a friend. It doesn't mean that you two have to become a couple."
"Fine, fine!" Matt said shaking his head. "If she wants to go then I'll ask her. But if not then neither of us are going and you can't stop me!"
"Good," TK said smiling. He then stepped over so he was walking at his brother's side now. "And you have all day tomorrow to bring the subject up! I mean after all you are in all of her classes!"
"Hey! Enough with the stupid dance already!" Matt yelled out getting more annoyed. He stopped dead when he saw Tai and the other five girls in front of them.
"There she is," TK said laughing and then ran over to join the group. "Go for it Matt!"
"Shut-up!" Matt screamed at his brother chasing after him. He was about to tackle his brother to the ground when he saw Lain looking at him a little awkwardly. "Hello?"
"Hi," Lain replied looking around. "Um…nice weather?"
"Yeah. Real nice," Matt said going a little red. He coughed a little and then saw Tai open his mouth to speak.
"Well we'll just leave the two of you alone right now," Tai said grinning widely. "Come meet us at the school when you're done!"
"What!? No don't go!" Lain called out stretching her arm out. She only caught air.
Sora smiled at Lain and then winked. "We'll see you in a while then!" The six of them disappeared out of sight leaving Lain and Matt alone.
Matt looked at Lain a little awkwardly and then coughed. "So uh… how have you been doing lately?"
"Okay I guess," Lain said looking at the ground, she didn't dare to look him in the eye, she'd lose all of her courage and melt like chocolate.
"Anything you want to talk to me about?" Matt asked.
"Nah, nothing important," Lain replied backing up away from him a little. She sat down on the ground and looked up at the sky. "It's nice out here. Isn't it?"
"Hey. You're sounding a little strange," Matt said looking down at her. He walked over to her and then sat down on her right side. "You're not acting like yourself. You're hiding something from me! I want to know!" He smiled at her and then laughed. "You can tell me! Come on!"
"It's nothing really!" Lain said laughing a little back at him because of the way he was looking at her.
"No it's not!" Matt said moving so he was now in front of her. He got close to her face and looked her right in the eye, still smiling wildly at her. "Come on! Tell me Lain! I won't tell anyone else! I promise!"
"No, no!" Lain called back at him laughing again. "It's nothing! It's not important! You can go on living with out me telling you about it! Hey! You're acting a little strange also you know!"
"Am I really?" Matt asked as his smile got wider, he had just gotten a great idea. "Then that's okay, because that means I don't have to act like myself right now!"
"Huh!?" Lain said snapping out of the laughing world she was in and looked at him a little worried and confused. "What do you mean!?"
"This!" Matt said laughing. He flung out his arm and then wrapped it around Lain's shoulders and pulled her closer to him. "Lain! Would you like to go to the dance with me!?"
"What!?" Lain called out sounding extremely shocked. "No way! You're asking me to go to the dance…with…with you!?"
Matt looked at her a little token back and then sighed. He removed his arm from around her shoulders and then stood up shacking his head. "I knew you wouldn't have wanted to. I'm sorry to have asked."
"What are you talking about!?" Lain retorted standing up. She looked at him strangely and then smiled. "Yeah I will go with you. That is if you don't mind…
"Yeah of course I want you to go with me! That would be cool, I guess," Matt said smiling.
"Hey…wait a minute… Kari said that you would ask me and that you would want to go with me…" Lain answered looking at Matt strangely.
"Hey TK said that you would want to go with me too…" Matt said looking at Lain strangely also. "Don't you think this was sort of…well…set-up?"
"Yeah. Your right! Something strange is going on here! And I bet TK and the girls were in on it too! The others also," Lain said narrowing her eyes and then frowned. "I can't believe them! They set us up!"
"Boy am I going to have a nice long chat with TK," Matt answered. "Might as well go to the school now and confront the little rats."
"Rats?" Lain asked laughing. "That's a funny way to put it! But then again the girls were just trying to make my first day of school nice…weren't they? I mean they were trying to help me out…"
"Maybe…but still they could have at least included me in on this," Matt replied frowning a little. "Well then come on. Let's go then."
"Right," Lain replied following him out of the park and towards the school.
"Here they come!" Sora cried out smiling at the gang. "Nice work all! And it looks as though they're going together! Their both smiling up a storm!"
The two walked up to the others and then stopped right in front of all of them.
Matt coughed a little and then began to speak. "Well just for all of your information we've figured out you're little scheme."
"We're not to happy about it that you were trying to put us together," Lain began and then paused for Matt to finish. The others looked at them a little confused and shocked.
"But we're not mad at you. In fact were both happy that you took into consideration that you wanted to make Lain feel like she fit in more," Matt finished with a smile.
"Yeah. Thanks," Lain said smiling also. "And this will most likely be the last dance I go to if I have to wear a dress! And none of you are going to make me either!"
Kari laughed at her and then looked at her as though she were going to get down to business. "Then what do you expect to wear? Pants? You can't wear pants to a dance."
"Fine then, I'll wear a skirt or something. But I can't stand dresses cause they don't include a shirt, it's just one whole outfit," Lain replied shuddering a little. "Well can we get off of the subject? What are we doing here at the school?"
"Nothing really," Sora answered. "It's just a nice place to meet up. All part of the plan you know?" She winked at Lain who just rolled her eyes and sighed.
"Well then if were not doing anything," Lain said and then paused. She looked down at the watch she had on her hand. It read 5:00 p.m. "Wha!? It's already five! No way!"
"Really!?" Tai shouted out sounding a little scared. "I have to go! I promised my mom that I would have me and Kari home at five minutes to five! I'm late! Bye everyone! See you tomorrow at school!" Tai ran over and grabbed his sister by his arm, while trying to wave good-bye at the same time.
Everyone just looked at him weirdly and managed to spit out a good-bye.
"Well I guess I better go too," Izzy said looking around. "It's dinner time and I wouldn't want my mom to worry."
"Yeah same here," Davis said. "Dinner! I don't want to miss out on that!"
"Macaroni night," Cody said walking off. "Bye everyone! See you another time when we get together again! Had lots of fun today."
"There goes most of the group," Lain muttered looking at the remaining people. "Well everyone see you tomorrow. I got to go! I'm starving! And besides I've got to get my school stuff ready for tomorrow!" She laughed a little and then took off in the direction of the Ishida's house, followed closely by a sighing Matt.
"Bye Lain! Matt!" Sora called out leaving also with the others. "See you all tomorrow!"
"Yeah!" Lain called back as she got out of sight. "Tomorrow it is then!"
Yep I got this chapter done. Hope you like it people. Sure it is a little short, but so what. I didn't want to drag it on to long. Well you all know what to do. Review and keep reading please!!!
