Forbidden Love by Yueh_moon
~ A/N ~
Thankies to everyone who read. Special thanks to Sillie, Sakura blossoms 4, nEo-Chan, Lil Yaten Fae, Takato the dreamer, Ravynne-Satu-DarkFlame and of course my Yami, Koori-Yami for re-viewing. I'm glad you liked it! =^.^=
I hope you all got your E-mails all right! Plushies for everyone!
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For those of you who didn't review.
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Next time please review, I would really appreciate it! ^.~
Chapter 2 is the next installment of 'Forbidden Love' and I have finally decided about the whole psychic (special thanks to Ravyanne for pointing out that I spelled it wrong *blush* sorry about that.) powers thing!
*turns to Shini*
Drum roll please Yami! ^.^
*Shini takes out a drum from God knows where and drum rolls*
I -have-decided-that-I'm. Not going to tell you! You have to read it!
*Shini stops the drum roll and eyes Yueh_moon evilly*
S-Sorry Yami.
*Yueh_moon shrinks against the wall*
*Shini smiles at her Hikari's fear, packs up and leaves*
Bye Yami! ^.^ Now on with chapter 2!
~ Chapter 2 ~
~ ***** ~
If I had any dreams that night, I couldn't remember any of them when I awoke. A glanced at the clock. 8:30. I guess dad had believed that I was sick or something and was keeping me from school today. I secretly thanked him as I rolled back over on my side. I lay there for a few more minutes before hearing a crashing sound in the kitchen.
Humph, dad's making breakfast. Wait a second, dad works on the weekday's ne? So why would he be home on a Friday- Oh shit today is Saturday!
I quickly climbed out of bed and ran into the shower, then quickly got dressed. I had forgotten that I had to be at the Jr. High School by 10!
I ran next to the kitchen, ignoring my father I opened the refrigerator and pulled out the necessary items for the picnic. I was attempting to leave when my father finally spoke up.
"Who, what, where, when and why?" he asked.
I was hesitant to answer but it's not as if I had a choice in the matter.
"Uh, Taichi, Sora, Koushirou, Mimi, Jou, Takeru, Daisuke, Hikari, Iori, Miyako, and Ken." I stopped to count if I got all the names, and then continued. "We are having our annual digi-destined reunion/picnic and we are meeting at the school, to go to the digiworld." I said rather quickly.
My father slowly lifted his eyes off his newspaper to look at me.
"And to Uh, destroy some control spires." I said finishing finally.
My dad just sat there clearing his throat as he continued to stare. I knew what he was going to do.
He would start off with "You kids shouldn't be involved with such things as other dimensions; they can solve their own problems without your help." Then rant for about an hour making me late even if I snuck out.
To my surprise he said:
"All right."
I was so shocked I almost fell over.
"All right?" I asked questionably.
"Yes, all right. Eat your breakfast before you go though, can't have you hungry."
He slowly pushed towards me a plate of modern yaki.
"Arigato." I said, sitting and then mowing down my food.
As I grabbed my bag to leave dad spoke again.
"I think you will be needing this." He said, throwing me something, which I caught. I looked down to see my digivice.
"Thanks dad." I replied amazed that number one, I had almost forgotten it and number two dad seriously wanted me to go.
"Hey Yama, deliver a message for me would you?"
"Of course."
"Say hi to Gabumon for me."
I smiled and nodded.
"I will, Ja ne dad!" I yelled as the door to our apartment closed behind me.
As I walked to the middle school, my mind kept on wandering back to Tai. How was I going to act towards him? Moreover, I still didn't know what's going on with me. In the end I decided that I would try to act as humanely possible as a 'seriously questioning my sex preference' boy could be. As far as I could see, I was normal and this was a normal part in a teenager's life. Isn't it?
I silently crept into to the school and up into the computer room. All of the original Digidestians were their excluding Taichi and Hikari.
"Hey guys!" I said happily.
Everyone looked over to see who called.
"Yamato!" Mimi replied happily, racing towards me practically knocking me over.
"Hiya Mim's, haven't seen you in a while."
"I know, I missed you soooo much!" Mimi said smothering me with kisses. Finally, she stepped back, looking me up and down.
"Yamato, you've grown up so much.and you're sooo handsome!" This statement quickly led to a tangent and I just tuned her out.
A couple minutes later she left me to go talk with Sora, who kept on blushing, as she looked my way.
That, among other things, has lead me to believe that Sora has a crush on me. I wish she didn't and liked someone else, someone that loved her back. Like Tai, as much as it kills to admit it. For as long as I have known Tai, he has had a crush on Sora. He was always doing little things for her when he was smaller, like carrying her books, open doors and pulling out her chair...you know, little things like that.
However, I have noticed that recently he hasn't been too interested in her what so ever. Maybe it's just a phase while his body recuperates from being 'Sora obsessed' and once it is functional, the obsession would start all over again. I just pray she does not have a crush on me, or at least confront me about it. I don't want to hurt the poor girl's feelings by 'rejecting' her. Well, at least Tai would be happy about that, giving him an advantage. Oh well, as long as he's happy I guess.
"Yama, Ohayo!" My brother said happily as he came to my side.
"Hey baby brother!" I said happily wrapping my arms about him.
"Long time no see." He answered.
Damn I miss him so much.
I didn't have time to bring back old memories because just then Hikari and. Taichi entered the room. Immediately our eyes met again. It was odd like last time, but I couldn't pull away. I just stared into those two pools of dark brown searching for some hidden secret, what secret I didn't know.
"All right, everyone's here so let's jet!" Daisuke said as he held his digi-vice up to the computer screen.
"Digi port open-"
"What a minute!" Miyako yelled smacking Daisuke's digi-vice out of his hand and onto the floor.
"Dai, why do you always get to open the digi-port?" She asked angrily.
"Because I'm the B team leader." Daisuke answered matter-o-factly.
"Right, you get to do everything else, this is the only perk the rest of us get!" Miyako shouted.
"Fine." Daisuke shouted back. "We'll let Kari open it."
Kari went red and shook her head, giving the message that she would pass. Instead of helping the situation by not interfering, it in turn became worse. Miyako and Daisuke continued to fight for what seemed like an eternity.
"Geez you guys, give it up." Iori mumbled as he neared his way to another computer screen.
"Digi-port open!"
A blinding white light encircled us and we were pulled into the computer, landing in a heap on the grass. From what I could see, it appeared that all the boys had landed on the bottom, with the girls on top and sadly, Sora had landed on me.
"Oh, gomen Yamato-sama." She said turning red, and quickly getting off.
I winced at the 'sama' part.
"It's okay." I replied, getting to my feet and dusting myself off. There was an awkward silence between us for a couple of seconds.
"Uh, Yamato-sama?"
"Yeah?"
"Uh, I was wondering if you. wanted to do something sometime."
Oh shit.
"Uh, okay." I said with a shrug.
I think her heart stopped and thus caused all of her blood to rush to her cheeks because I swear she was as red as Mimi's highlights.
"R.really Yamato-sama?" She asked timidly.
"Yeah sure, sometime." I said uneasily, placing my hands in my pockets.
"All right then.uh, got to go help Mimi do.something." Sora said quickly and she ran off to where Mimi was.
I let out a sigh of relief and advanced to the group as well.
~ ***** ~
After much deliberation, we decided to go eastward since it seemed the fastest route to get to where our partners were supposed to meet us and started off.
Takeru and Hikari were laughing joyously with Daisuke and Miyako who were still arguing behind them. Iori was watching Dai and Miyako and showing his disapproval by shaking his head as he talked with Ken.
Sora finally gave up telling Mimi about her 'good news' because Mimi was swooning over Jou, pelting him with kisses because she claimed that he had saved her from getting, dare I say it? Grass stains on her skirt! Man, some girls.
Tai wasn't far from my side but not close enough to my liking. He was talking with Koushirou and whenever possible he would look my way.
Soon we reached our destination, which was an open place in the forest with a sacred stone in the center. This was where the eight originals first set foot onto the Digital world, the first place I met my partner in this world.
After what seemed like forever, something caught my eye. About half way down the path, I saw a small horn coming up from the horizon. I immediately stood up and ran towards it.
I must admit, I probably looked very strange just standing up all of a sudden and then bolting down a pathway but I didn't care, I knew who was coming over that horizon.
Taichi was next to follow suit, and then the other older members of the digimon team followed him. I could hear Tai running behind me, and I imagined for a moment him running as the wind whipped through his hair while his chest expanded and compressed as he took in and let out breaths.
I soon stopped fantasizing because I could see a circular body equipped with two crimson eyes and the horn atop its head.
"Tsunomon!" I yelled happily, racing even faster to my long awaited friend. He was close enough to yell back a 'Yama'.
My knees gave way and I held my arms out-stretched. Tsunomon jumped into them and he was greeted with a very desperate hug.
"Tsunomon" I whispered as I held him close. "It's been a while huh."
"You have no idea." He said to me, eyes brimming with tears like my own.
I chuckled at his statement, it was so true. You see, a day in digi- world is equal to about a minute in our world, so if haven't seen Tsunomon since February two years ago in our world, just imagine what it must be like for Tsunomon and the others.
Anyway, I think that us older kids scared the new appointed Digidestian into believing that we were all nuts because they just kept on staring at us, only Hikari and Takeru understood. The 'B' team not only gets to open the Digi gate and go freely 24-7 if they so choose from the Digital world and ours, but only their digi-vices known as D-3's work on the gates. Thus leaving us originals to rely on the new kids. Of course, THEY wouldn't understand our loss; they see THEIR digimon on a daily basis.
After all us older kids had been caught up with our partners we unanimously decided that it was time for lunch and we started to set up the picnic.
"Hey Yama, can I talk to you for a moment?" Tai asked as we finished spreading out the picnic blanket.
"S.sure Tai." I answered, feeling my stomach churn as I followed him.
He led me away from the group to insure us privacy.
"I just.wanted to say" he started before taking a deep breath "That I'm happy that you're dating Sora." He said, finishing.
I just stared at him, not knowing what to do.
"I'm uh not really dating her; we're just going to hang out sometime-"
"It's okay Yama, you can have her. Don't let me get in your way." He quickly cut in with a smile.
"You're a uh.cute couple."
I didn't know what to do. I stared into his eyes trying to find some sort of emotion and I found it. Tai was hurt. I had broken him, he still loved her and I had taken that away. Not willingly, but none the less, I had let down my best friend.
"Taichi I-"I was cut off by Ken announcing that it was time to eat.
"Let's go then." Tai said proceeding to the picnic blanket.
I followed in silence. My world had come crashing down.
~ ***** ~
Taichi and I hadn't talked since before lunch and it was driving me insane! Stupid Tai! He never even gave me a chance to explain! Man I sure can pick them huh. Why won't he let me explain? On top of all of that, I couldn't figure out WHY I was upset and that was pissing me off as well.
Gabumon had noticed that something was wrong because he kept trying to receive answers, but to no avail. Agumon was trying to get answers from Taichi as well but he would just shake his head and sadly look in my direction.
Come on Taichi stop! You don't know how much that look kills me.
I couldn't help but feel a bit better after I had finished off my meal of curry, sushi, chicken teriyaki, soup and chocolate covered rice balls. Who wouldn't, damn, nothing beats chocolate covered rice balls. Once everyone was ready, we moved on to the first group of control spires.
"Well, let's see what you got old guys!" Daisuke said excitedly.
"You got it." Tai said pulling out his digivice.
"All right let's do it 'A' team!" Our leader commanded.
We all nodded and did as Taichi asked. I turned to Tsunomon.
"Just like old times!" I said to him.
"Okay!" Tsunomon said happily as the familiar rainbow of light
surrounded his little body.
"Tsunomon Digi-volve to.Gabumon!"
"Okay Gabumon, let's warp digi-volve!" I yelled excitedly.
"Gabumon warp digi-volve to.Metal Garurumon!"
I smiled. It had been so long since I had seen him in mega form, about three years in fact. I slowly walk towards him, petting the top of his nose.
'Oh yeah, my Digimon rocks!' I thought with a smile on my face. I looked over at Taichi standing next to War Greymon. It was amazing to think that his and my digimon could combine. I would have never picked anyone else to be best friends with, not in a million years.
A gust of wind spread through the area and it lifted the dust around his feet. He slowly closed his eyes, letting his senses connect with the wind and the earth. The wind whispered through his dark brown hair as the dust continued to dance playfully around his feet.
Tai met my eyes and we connected. This time anything and everything had faded and it was just the two of us. I suddenly felt peace, happiness and longing at the same time as I continued to stare into the eyes of my.lover- no I mean best friend. Taichi without opening his mouth spoke to me.
'Yamato?'
I paused. Tai's voice was in my head?
'Taichi you can hear me?'
Metal Garurumon nudging me in the shoulder snapped me out of our connection.
"Yama are you all right?"
"Yeah, I-I'm fine." I said quickly.
I turned to Tai again but he had his back turned to me, as he spoke with War Greymon. I wanted him to turn and connect with me again. It had made me feel. How to put it? Complete.
That was too weird, I know I have some psychic but I know for a fact that I do not have telepathy powers. And what about that place? Did it have anything to do with Tai?
I was lost. I didn't know what to think. Not only was I unsure about how I felt about Tai, but now I'm gaining new powers? Man, this is confusing.
Tai approached me and I could hear my heart pounding in my chest.
Why is my heart pounding so hard when I see only you?
"Yama do you want to try to DNA digi-volve?" he asked with a smile, as if nothing had happened those few seconds ago.
"Yeah, Let do it." I responded with a small one of my own.
"War Greymon.. Metal Garurumon.DNA digi-volve to."
An intense white light drew the attention of even the B team.
"To.to... Omnimon"
Once the light cleared, standing in front of us was not Tai's and my Digimon but Agumon and Gabumon.
"Nani?" Tai and I exclaimed in unison.
"This is very interesting isn't it?" Koushirou exclaimed with a spark of interest in his eyes.
"What happened?" Tai asked Agumon eagerly.
"I.I don't know Tai." He answered, more confused than the rest of us.
"Gabumon?" I asked.
Gabumon shook his head and a puzzled look was across his face.
"I got it!" Koushirou exclaimed suddenly, grabbing everyone's attention.
"Well spill it, what happened?" Tai asked, everyone else nodding in agreement.
"Well, it appears that Agumon and Gabumon's chromosomes refused to combine, thus the transmogrification of-"
"In words we can understand!" Tai yelled.
"All right Taichi, geez calm down. Agumon and Gabumon's DNA won't link; therefore, they cannot digi-volve into their mega form." Koushirou explained.
"I still have yet to figure out what caused it."
"Well, let's try it again!" Tai said bringing out his digi-vice once more and turning to me.
"Ready Yama?"
"Yeah."
Our Digimon tried to DNA digi-volve a couple more times, but each time was a failure.
In the end, Taichi gave up, something he did very rarely. I kind of have the same trait, but not when I know things are hopeless. It saddened me to see him upset, but what could I do?
~ ***** ~
Once all of the control spires where down it was time to go home. As we started to go through the gate, I remembered the message I was supposed to deliver.
"Hey, Gabumon!" I shouted as the light started to encircle our group.
"Yes?" He asked.
"Dad said Hi!" I replied just in time because a second later we were in our own world, a huge pile on the floor.
After everyone was situated, we started to disperse, I would have left sooner but I was waiting for, yeah you guessed it, Taichi.
"Yamato, this is for you." Jou said handing me a letter of some sort, then went over to give one to Tai.
I just glanced at it before shoving in into my back pocket, deciding to read it later.
"Yama, Hi!" Mimi cried happily as she tugged at my sleeve.
"Uh, what's up Mim's?" I asked, suddenly getting the feeling that I shouldn't have done so.
"I was wondering if you could walk Sora home for me. I mean, she practically your girlfriend right?"
I was about to deny it but Sora had come to Mimi's side.
Damn.
"Sure." I said quickly. I looked around frantically for Tai but he had disappeared.
"Yama, if you're looking for Tai, he just left a couple of minutes ago." Hikari said as if reading my mind.
"I'll be right back." I called to Mimi and Sora as I ran out of the computer room trying to locate Tai.
There is about six different ways he could have left the school, and if I chose wrong, I would miss him.
Damn it Tai.
I closed my eyes trying to think of the most logical route Tai must have taken. He had to have gone through the side I decided, so I started in that direction.
I suddenly stopped though. Something was telling me to go the back way. I stared at that route for a couple seconds.
'I must be out of my mind.'
I mumbled before taking it.
~ ***** ~
"Taichi!" I called once I had caught up to him. He hesitated before turning around.
"Oh hey Yamato!" he said with a smile. "What's up?"
"I just wanted to know if you wanted to go with me to the digiworld tomorrow, to figure out what's going on with the whole DNA digi-volving problem."
"Yeah okay, about what time?"
"I donno, how about 11:30?"
"Sounds like a plan." A pause. "Yama, can I walk you home, I have to tell you somethin-"Taichi was cut off by Mimi who was running up to us, shouting my name.
"Yama, aren't you going to walk Sora home?" she asked sweetly.
"Oh, yeah. Right." I said feeling my heartbreak.
"Oh, sorry. I guess I'll see you tomorrow than Yama." Tai said.
We exchanged farewells and I was as bummed out about the whole thing as Tai looked. However, I had different reasons to be sad. I slowly climbed the stairs with Mimi as she chatted away happily about New York and other things about America that I tuned out.
Sora had been patiently waiting for me and I felt the need to apologize. She told me not to worry about it, then saying our good-bye's we left.
We were silent for the first couple of minutes we didn't talk much. Finally, she couldn't stand it anymore.
"Yama if you don't want to date me just say so."
I didn't know what to do or say so I just stared at her dumbly.
"Wha-"
"I'm sorry I made such a big deal about it and forced you into that kind of situation. I just really like you."
A pause.
"But I guess I was too late. You love someone else don't you?"
"I-I really don't know what you're talking about Sora, I don't love anyone."
"Yama don't lie to yourself or to me, I know these things." She said touching her crest. "I can feel it."
"Your power." I said with understanding. When the eight original Digidestain were presented with our crest, Jadeite had said that each had its own special power. Tai and I are the only one's who couldn't seem to release our crest to their full potential; we are still trying to work on it.
She nodded taking my hand.
"If you don't know who it is, you'll figure it out." She said with a smile.
We arrived to the Odiba apartment complex and climbed the stairs until we were outside her door.
"Well, here's my house." She said.
"Thanks Sora." I said. "You've giving me a lot to think about."
"No problem, tell me if you ever change your mind." She said giving me a kiss on my cheek.
"Ja ne." She said happily going into her apartment and closing the door.
Little snake.
I chuckled. At least she's somewhat helpful.
I walked home soon after with Sora's advice repeating in my head.
~ ***** ~
As I crawled into bed, the DNA problem sprang into my mind.
Why hadn't it worked?
Jadeite had told Tai and I before that if our emotions where out of whack that we might have troubles. I made a mental note to remind Tai about that.
Every time I re-thought about it, the same thing sprang into my head. What about my mixed feelings for Tai? I mean, I might be a little attracted to him but it would never work. I mean, come one, #1, we are both boys, #2, we are best friends and #3, There was no way in this world or the next that we could possibly be a couple.
I stopped myself and thought about how I had felt during our connection.
Who was I kidding, I was in love with the former goggle boy, yeah, a boy and my best friend at that. As sick and twisted as some people may think, I couldn't deny it.
I smiled. I felt so good to finally admit it to myself. How good would it feel if I said it out load? I was hesitant, but eventually.
"I love Yamagi Taichi."
Damn that felt so good.
Maybe there was some chance for Tai to like me. You never know. I might even surprise pre judged destiny.
With those thoughts in mind I soon feel asleep, the first time since I was six, with a smile on my face.
~ A/N ~
Did you like it? Was it okay? Apologies to those who hated what I did with the story line.
*pleading eyes*
Please don't hate me to much! I should have chapter 3 up after Thanksgiving Break or maybe sooner. It all depends on if I can get to a computer with Internet before then. Otherwise I have to rely on the school computers.
*eyes school computer evilly*
Anyway, Please R/R! See you next chapter! Ja ne! ^.~
~ A/N ~
Thankies to everyone who read. Special thanks to Sillie, Sakura blossoms 4, nEo-Chan, Lil Yaten Fae, Takato the dreamer, Ravynne-Satu-DarkFlame and of course my Yami, Koori-Yami for re-viewing. I'm glad you liked it! =^.^=
I hope you all got your E-mails all right! Plushies for everyone!
*starts to hand out Yamato and Taichi plushies*
For those of you who didn't review.
*evil death glare*
Just kidding, you can have plushies too.
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Next time please review, I would really appreciate it! ^.~
Chapter 2 is the next installment of 'Forbidden Love' and I have finally decided about the whole psychic (special thanks to Ravyanne for pointing out that I spelled it wrong *blush* sorry about that.) powers thing!
*turns to Shini*
Drum roll please Yami! ^.^
*Shini takes out a drum from God knows where and drum rolls*
I -have-decided-that-I'm. Not going to tell you! You have to read it!
*Shini stops the drum roll and eyes Yueh_moon evilly*
S-Sorry Yami.
*Yueh_moon shrinks against the wall*
*Shini smiles at her Hikari's fear, packs up and leaves*
Bye Yami! ^.^ Now on with chapter 2!
~ Chapter 2 ~
~ ***** ~
If I had any dreams that night, I couldn't remember any of them when I awoke. A glanced at the clock. 8:30. I guess dad had believed that I was sick or something and was keeping me from school today. I secretly thanked him as I rolled back over on my side. I lay there for a few more minutes before hearing a crashing sound in the kitchen.
Humph, dad's making breakfast. Wait a second, dad works on the weekday's ne? So why would he be home on a Friday- Oh shit today is Saturday!
I quickly climbed out of bed and ran into the shower, then quickly got dressed. I had forgotten that I had to be at the Jr. High School by 10!
I ran next to the kitchen, ignoring my father I opened the refrigerator and pulled out the necessary items for the picnic. I was attempting to leave when my father finally spoke up.
"Who, what, where, when and why?" he asked.
I was hesitant to answer but it's not as if I had a choice in the matter.
"Uh, Taichi, Sora, Koushirou, Mimi, Jou, Takeru, Daisuke, Hikari, Iori, Miyako, and Ken." I stopped to count if I got all the names, and then continued. "We are having our annual digi-destined reunion/picnic and we are meeting at the school, to go to the digiworld." I said rather quickly.
My father slowly lifted his eyes off his newspaper to look at me.
"And to Uh, destroy some control spires." I said finishing finally.
My dad just sat there clearing his throat as he continued to stare. I knew what he was going to do.
He would start off with "You kids shouldn't be involved with such things as other dimensions; they can solve their own problems without your help." Then rant for about an hour making me late even if I snuck out.
To my surprise he said:
"All right."
I was so shocked I almost fell over.
"All right?" I asked questionably.
"Yes, all right. Eat your breakfast before you go though, can't have you hungry."
He slowly pushed towards me a plate of modern yaki.
"Arigato." I said, sitting and then mowing down my food.
As I grabbed my bag to leave dad spoke again.
"I think you will be needing this." He said, throwing me something, which I caught. I looked down to see my digivice.
"Thanks dad." I replied amazed that number one, I had almost forgotten it and number two dad seriously wanted me to go.
"Hey Yama, deliver a message for me would you?"
"Of course."
"Say hi to Gabumon for me."
I smiled and nodded.
"I will, Ja ne dad!" I yelled as the door to our apartment closed behind me.
As I walked to the middle school, my mind kept on wandering back to Tai. How was I going to act towards him? Moreover, I still didn't know what's going on with me. In the end I decided that I would try to act as humanely possible as a 'seriously questioning my sex preference' boy could be. As far as I could see, I was normal and this was a normal part in a teenager's life. Isn't it?
I silently crept into to the school and up into the computer room. All of the original Digidestians were their excluding Taichi and Hikari.
"Hey guys!" I said happily.
Everyone looked over to see who called.
"Yamato!" Mimi replied happily, racing towards me practically knocking me over.
"Hiya Mim's, haven't seen you in a while."
"I know, I missed you soooo much!" Mimi said smothering me with kisses. Finally, she stepped back, looking me up and down.
"Yamato, you've grown up so much.and you're sooo handsome!" This statement quickly led to a tangent and I just tuned her out.
A couple minutes later she left me to go talk with Sora, who kept on blushing, as she looked my way.
That, among other things, has lead me to believe that Sora has a crush on me. I wish she didn't and liked someone else, someone that loved her back. Like Tai, as much as it kills to admit it. For as long as I have known Tai, he has had a crush on Sora. He was always doing little things for her when he was smaller, like carrying her books, open doors and pulling out her chair...you know, little things like that.
However, I have noticed that recently he hasn't been too interested in her what so ever. Maybe it's just a phase while his body recuperates from being 'Sora obsessed' and once it is functional, the obsession would start all over again. I just pray she does not have a crush on me, or at least confront me about it. I don't want to hurt the poor girl's feelings by 'rejecting' her. Well, at least Tai would be happy about that, giving him an advantage. Oh well, as long as he's happy I guess.
"Yama, Ohayo!" My brother said happily as he came to my side.
"Hey baby brother!" I said happily wrapping my arms about him.
"Long time no see." He answered.
Damn I miss him so much.
I didn't have time to bring back old memories because just then Hikari and. Taichi entered the room. Immediately our eyes met again. It was odd like last time, but I couldn't pull away. I just stared into those two pools of dark brown searching for some hidden secret, what secret I didn't know.
"All right, everyone's here so let's jet!" Daisuke said as he held his digi-vice up to the computer screen.
"Digi port open-"
"What a minute!" Miyako yelled smacking Daisuke's digi-vice out of his hand and onto the floor.
"Dai, why do you always get to open the digi-port?" She asked angrily.
"Because I'm the B team leader." Daisuke answered matter-o-factly.
"Right, you get to do everything else, this is the only perk the rest of us get!" Miyako shouted.
"Fine." Daisuke shouted back. "We'll let Kari open it."
Kari went red and shook her head, giving the message that she would pass. Instead of helping the situation by not interfering, it in turn became worse. Miyako and Daisuke continued to fight for what seemed like an eternity.
"Geez you guys, give it up." Iori mumbled as he neared his way to another computer screen.
"Digi-port open!"
A blinding white light encircled us and we were pulled into the computer, landing in a heap on the grass. From what I could see, it appeared that all the boys had landed on the bottom, with the girls on top and sadly, Sora had landed on me.
"Oh, gomen Yamato-sama." She said turning red, and quickly getting off.
I winced at the 'sama' part.
"It's okay." I replied, getting to my feet and dusting myself off. There was an awkward silence between us for a couple of seconds.
"Uh, Yamato-sama?"
"Yeah?"
"Uh, I was wondering if you. wanted to do something sometime."
Oh shit.
"Uh, okay." I said with a shrug.
I think her heart stopped and thus caused all of her blood to rush to her cheeks because I swear she was as red as Mimi's highlights.
"R.really Yamato-sama?" She asked timidly.
"Yeah sure, sometime." I said uneasily, placing my hands in my pockets.
"All right then.uh, got to go help Mimi do.something." Sora said quickly and she ran off to where Mimi was.
I let out a sigh of relief and advanced to the group as well.
~ ***** ~
After much deliberation, we decided to go eastward since it seemed the fastest route to get to where our partners were supposed to meet us and started off.
Takeru and Hikari were laughing joyously with Daisuke and Miyako who were still arguing behind them. Iori was watching Dai and Miyako and showing his disapproval by shaking his head as he talked with Ken.
Sora finally gave up telling Mimi about her 'good news' because Mimi was swooning over Jou, pelting him with kisses because she claimed that he had saved her from getting, dare I say it? Grass stains on her skirt! Man, some girls.
Tai wasn't far from my side but not close enough to my liking. He was talking with Koushirou and whenever possible he would look my way.
Soon we reached our destination, which was an open place in the forest with a sacred stone in the center. This was where the eight originals first set foot onto the Digital world, the first place I met my partner in this world.
After what seemed like forever, something caught my eye. About half way down the path, I saw a small horn coming up from the horizon. I immediately stood up and ran towards it.
I must admit, I probably looked very strange just standing up all of a sudden and then bolting down a pathway but I didn't care, I knew who was coming over that horizon.
Taichi was next to follow suit, and then the other older members of the digimon team followed him. I could hear Tai running behind me, and I imagined for a moment him running as the wind whipped through his hair while his chest expanded and compressed as he took in and let out breaths.
I soon stopped fantasizing because I could see a circular body equipped with two crimson eyes and the horn atop its head.
"Tsunomon!" I yelled happily, racing even faster to my long awaited friend. He was close enough to yell back a 'Yama'.
My knees gave way and I held my arms out-stretched. Tsunomon jumped into them and he was greeted with a very desperate hug.
"Tsunomon" I whispered as I held him close. "It's been a while huh."
"You have no idea." He said to me, eyes brimming with tears like my own.
I chuckled at his statement, it was so true. You see, a day in digi- world is equal to about a minute in our world, so if haven't seen Tsunomon since February two years ago in our world, just imagine what it must be like for Tsunomon and the others.
Anyway, I think that us older kids scared the new appointed Digidestian into believing that we were all nuts because they just kept on staring at us, only Hikari and Takeru understood. The 'B' team not only gets to open the Digi gate and go freely 24-7 if they so choose from the Digital world and ours, but only their digi-vices known as D-3's work on the gates. Thus leaving us originals to rely on the new kids. Of course, THEY wouldn't understand our loss; they see THEIR digimon on a daily basis.
After all us older kids had been caught up with our partners we unanimously decided that it was time for lunch and we started to set up the picnic.
"Hey Yama, can I talk to you for a moment?" Tai asked as we finished spreading out the picnic blanket.
"S.sure Tai." I answered, feeling my stomach churn as I followed him.
He led me away from the group to insure us privacy.
"I just.wanted to say" he started before taking a deep breath "That I'm happy that you're dating Sora." He said, finishing.
I just stared at him, not knowing what to do.
"I'm uh not really dating her; we're just going to hang out sometime-"
"It's okay Yama, you can have her. Don't let me get in your way." He quickly cut in with a smile.
"You're a uh.cute couple."
I didn't know what to do. I stared into his eyes trying to find some sort of emotion and I found it. Tai was hurt. I had broken him, he still loved her and I had taken that away. Not willingly, but none the less, I had let down my best friend.
"Taichi I-"I was cut off by Ken announcing that it was time to eat.
"Let's go then." Tai said proceeding to the picnic blanket.
I followed in silence. My world had come crashing down.
~ ***** ~
Taichi and I hadn't talked since before lunch and it was driving me insane! Stupid Tai! He never even gave me a chance to explain! Man I sure can pick them huh. Why won't he let me explain? On top of all of that, I couldn't figure out WHY I was upset and that was pissing me off as well.
Gabumon had noticed that something was wrong because he kept trying to receive answers, but to no avail. Agumon was trying to get answers from Taichi as well but he would just shake his head and sadly look in my direction.
Come on Taichi stop! You don't know how much that look kills me.
I couldn't help but feel a bit better after I had finished off my meal of curry, sushi, chicken teriyaki, soup and chocolate covered rice balls. Who wouldn't, damn, nothing beats chocolate covered rice balls. Once everyone was ready, we moved on to the first group of control spires.
"Well, let's see what you got old guys!" Daisuke said excitedly.
"You got it." Tai said pulling out his digivice.
"All right let's do it 'A' team!" Our leader commanded.
We all nodded and did as Taichi asked. I turned to Tsunomon.
"Just like old times!" I said to him.
"Okay!" Tsunomon said happily as the familiar rainbow of light
surrounded his little body.
"Tsunomon Digi-volve to.Gabumon!"
"Okay Gabumon, let's warp digi-volve!" I yelled excitedly.
"Gabumon warp digi-volve to.Metal Garurumon!"
I smiled. It had been so long since I had seen him in mega form, about three years in fact. I slowly walk towards him, petting the top of his nose.
'Oh yeah, my Digimon rocks!' I thought with a smile on my face. I looked over at Taichi standing next to War Greymon. It was amazing to think that his and my digimon could combine. I would have never picked anyone else to be best friends with, not in a million years.
A gust of wind spread through the area and it lifted the dust around his feet. He slowly closed his eyes, letting his senses connect with the wind and the earth. The wind whispered through his dark brown hair as the dust continued to dance playfully around his feet.
Tai met my eyes and we connected. This time anything and everything had faded and it was just the two of us. I suddenly felt peace, happiness and longing at the same time as I continued to stare into the eyes of my.lover- no I mean best friend. Taichi without opening his mouth spoke to me.
'Yamato?'
I paused. Tai's voice was in my head?
'Taichi you can hear me?'
Metal Garurumon nudging me in the shoulder snapped me out of our connection.
"Yama are you all right?"
"Yeah, I-I'm fine." I said quickly.
I turned to Tai again but he had his back turned to me, as he spoke with War Greymon. I wanted him to turn and connect with me again. It had made me feel. How to put it? Complete.
That was too weird, I know I have some psychic but I know for a fact that I do not have telepathy powers. And what about that place? Did it have anything to do with Tai?
I was lost. I didn't know what to think. Not only was I unsure about how I felt about Tai, but now I'm gaining new powers? Man, this is confusing.
Tai approached me and I could hear my heart pounding in my chest.
Why is my heart pounding so hard when I see only you?
"Yama do you want to try to DNA digi-volve?" he asked with a smile, as if nothing had happened those few seconds ago.
"Yeah, Let do it." I responded with a small one of my own.
"War Greymon.. Metal Garurumon.DNA digi-volve to."
An intense white light drew the attention of even the B team.
"To.to... Omnimon"
Once the light cleared, standing in front of us was not Tai's and my Digimon but Agumon and Gabumon.
"Nani?" Tai and I exclaimed in unison.
"This is very interesting isn't it?" Koushirou exclaimed with a spark of interest in his eyes.
"What happened?" Tai asked Agumon eagerly.
"I.I don't know Tai." He answered, more confused than the rest of us.
"Gabumon?" I asked.
Gabumon shook his head and a puzzled look was across his face.
"I got it!" Koushirou exclaimed suddenly, grabbing everyone's attention.
"Well spill it, what happened?" Tai asked, everyone else nodding in agreement.
"Well, it appears that Agumon and Gabumon's chromosomes refused to combine, thus the transmogrification of-"
"In words we can understand!" Tai yelled.
"All right Taichi, geez calm down. Agumon and Gabumon's DNA won't link; therefore, they cannot digi-volve into their mega form." Koushirou explained.
"I still have yet to figure out what caused it."
"Well, let's try it again!" Tai said bringing out his digi-vice once more and turning to me.
"Ready Yama?"
"Yeah."
Our Digimon tried to DNA digi-volve a couple more times, but each time was a failure.
In the end, Taichi gave up, something he did very rarely. I kind of have the same trait, but not when I know things are hopeless. It saddened me to see him upset, but what could I do?
~ ***** ~
Once all of the control spires where down it was time to go home. As we started to go through the gate, I remembered the message I was supposed to deliver.
"Hey, Gabumon!" I shouted as the light started to encircle our group.
"Yes?" He asked.
"Dad said Hi!" I replied just in time because a second later we were in our own world, a huge pile on the floor.
After everyone was situated, we started to disperse, I would have left sooner but I was waiting for, yeah you guessed it, Taichi.
"Yamato, this is for you." Jou said handing me a letter of some sort, then went over to give one to Tai.
I just glanced at it before shoving in into my back pocket, deciding to read it later.
"Yama, Hi!" Mimi cried happily as she tugged at my sleeve.
"Uh, what's up Mim's?" I asked, suddenly getting the feeling that I shouldn't have done so.
"I was wondering if you could walk Sora home for me. I mean, she practically your girlfriend right?"
I was about to deny it but Sora had come to Mimi's side.
Damn.
"Sure." I said quickly. I looked around frantically for Tai but he had disappeared.
"Yama, if you're looking for Tai, he just left a couple of minutes ago." Hikari said as if reading my mind.
"I'll be right back." I called to Mimi and Sora as I ran out of the computer room trying to locate Tai.
There is about six different ways he could have left the school, and if I chose wrong, I would miss him.
Damn it Tai.
I closed my eyes trying to think of the most logical route Tai must have taken. He had to have gone through the side I decided, so I started in that direction.
I suddenly stopped though. Something was telling me to go the back way. I stared at that route for a couple seconds.
'I must be out of my mind.'
I mumbled before taking it.
~ ***** ~
"Taichi!" I called once I had caught up to him. He hesitated before turning around.
"Oh hey Yamato!" he said with a smile. "What's up?"
"I just wanted to know if you wanted to go with me to the digiworld tomorrow, to figure out what's going on with the whole DNA digi-volving problem."
"Yeah okay, about what time?"
"I donno, how about 11:30?"
"Sounds like a plan." A pause. "Yama, can I walk you home, I have to tell you somethin-"Taichi was cut off by Mimi who was running up to us, shouting my name.
"Yama, aren't you going to walk Sora home?" she asked sweetly.
"Oh, yeah. Right." I said feeling my heartbreak.
"Oh, sorry. I guess I'll see you tomorrow than Yama." Tai said.
We exchanged farewells and I was as bummed out about the whole thing as Tai looked. However, I had different reasons to be sad. I slowly climbed the stairs with Mimi as she chatted away happily about New York and other things about America that I tuned out.
Sora had been patiently waiting for me and I felt the need to apologize. She told me not to worry about it, then saying our good-bye's we left.
We were silent for the first couple of minutes we didn't talk much. Finally, she couldn't stand it anymore.
"Yama if you don't want to date me just say so."
I didn't know what to do or say so I just stared at her dumbly.
"Wha-"
"I'm sorry I made such a big deal about it and forced you into that kind of situation. I just really like you."
A pause.
"But I guess I was too late. You love someone else don't you?"
"I-I really don't know what you're talking about Sora, I don't love anyone."
"Yama don't lie to yourself or to me, I know these things." She said touching her crest. "I can feel it."
"Your power." I said with understanding. When the eight original Digidestain were presented with our crest, Jadeite had said that each had its own special power. Tai and I are the only one's who couldn't seem to release our crest to their full potential; we are still trying to work on it.
She nodded taking my hand.
"If you don't know who it is, you'll figure it out." She said with a smile.
We arrived to the Odiba apartment complex and climbed the stairs until we were outside her door.
"Well, here's my house." She said.
"Thanks Sora." I said. "You've giving me a lot to think about."
"No problem, tell me if you ever change your mind." She said giving me a kiss on my cheek.
"Ja ne." She said happily going into her apartment and closing the door.
Little snake.
I chuckled. At least she's somewhat helpful.
I walked home soon after with Sora's advice repeating in my head.
~ ***** ~
As I crawled into bed, the DNA problem sprang into my mind.
Why hadn't it worked?
Jadeite had told Tai and I before that if our emotions where out of whack that we might have troubles. I made a mental note to remind Tai about that.
Every time I re-thought about it, the same thing sprang into my head. What about my mixed feelings for Tai? I mean, I might be a little attracted to him but it would never work. I mean, come one, #1, we are both boys, #2, we are best friends and #3, There was no way in this world or the next that we could possibly be a couple.
I stopped myself and thought about how I had felt during our connection.
Who was I kidding, I was in love with the former goggle boy, yeah, a boy and my best friend at that. As sick and twisted as some people may think, I couldn't deny it.
I smiled. I felt so good to finally admit it to myself. How good would it feel if I said it out load? I was hesitant, but eventually.
"I love Yamagi Taichi."
Damn that felt so good.
Maybe there was some chance for Tai to like me. You never know. I might even surprise pre judged destiny.
With those thoughts in mind I soon feel asleep, the first time since I was six, with a smile on my face.
~ A/N ~
Did you like it? Was it okay? Apologies to those who hated what I did with the story line.
*pleading eyes*
Please don't hate me to much! I should have chapter 3 up after Thanksgiving Break or maybe sooner. It all depends on if I can get to a computer with Internet before then. Otherwise I have to rely on the school computers.
*eyes school computer evilly*
Anyway, Please R/R! See you next chapter! Ja ne! ^.~