Ardour - Sequel to Welkin
by: sakuramimato (sakuramimato@hotmail.com)
Disclaimer: No Digimon to watch today, yet, I still don't own Digimon.
Author's Note: Don't get mad at me for the coupling! :'( If I were writing a Sorato fic, my pen name would be sakura'sorato' and this fic would be under Sora and Matt's name. Iie! You'll see what I mean.
I also noticed something on [tokyopop.com]! I was browsing there for some dubbed Japanese-style Mangas on Cardcaptor Sakura and they have about 15 volumes of the CLAMP comic dubbed in English (but preserved the Japanese-style Manga format). The best thing: They're going to have dubbed Japanese-style DIGIMON Mangas, as well! If you've read the Japanese Mangas, I am so jealous! It's too bad I no longer live in Asia (poo..), but I guess I'll spend my money on buying the Digimon mangas from tokyopop, instead. (My friend's sister knows the president, I'll have to ask her, though).
Well, if you're a Digimon fan in my situation that can't get the original Japanese Manga, Tokyo Pop will have the Mangas dubbed and out sometime this year. I'll keep updated on one of my sites. For the long A/N, I'll add an even longer fic.
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Chapter 5
Matt awoke in his dark room, the curtains to his window draped over it, causing only but a few beams of light to enter into the darkness. He groaned as he sat up on his bed, feeling a tight sore in his back and a slight headache. Noticing that he had fallen asleep early last night, he recalled what had happened the day before. Walking into the hallway, he noticed that his dad hadn't come home from the tv station.
"Talk about creepy." he said to himself, walking back into his room to get a clean pair of clothes out of his closet and wardrobe. "Dad must be working late again. Maybe Mimi should have told him not to overwork instead of me over-rehearsing with the band."
He stepped into the bathroom and sighed, "Oh, well.."
After he had freshened up (spending almost an hour to get his hair right), he retrieved his guitar from the foot of his bed. He'd chosen a black pair of slightly baggy pants and a white shirt underneath a black jacket. (Not really the tuxedo look, not tight and stuff. XD) He left the apartment and locked the door behind him.
It was about 08:30 in the morning, and noticing that he had quite a while before practice started, he decided to get a hot capuccino from a coffee shop on the way to the auditorium. The walk was only a couple of minutes away, so he took the time to get to there and bought one to go. After paying for his beverage, he hailed a taxi, not wanting to risk a stain on his clothes. The drive was a short one. He paid for his fare and met up with his band.
"Hey, guys. Did you start practicing without me, yet?" he asked, taking a sip from his drink.
The members shook their heads. "We were going to go and get some drinks ourselves, but it looks like you beat us to it."
"Since practice starts in a few, we're just going to get some coffee from the manager's room." the keyboard player said.
Matt nodded and went to tune up his guitar. 'Okay. I'm just going to have to forget about this whole Mimi thing. It's a new day, so better to start it off right than think on and on about what happened yesterday.'
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"Tai-chi!" Mimi exclaimed as she ran up to her friend. Davis paced right beside him and smiled at her enormous burst of energy. She wore her white boots with the wooden platforms, a red skirt with white stripes down the seams of the skirt and red threading. She wore a white, short-sleeved shirt showing her midriff with a red heart on it. Over her shirt, she wore a white, mini-zipped hoodie (unzipped in her case) with red strips on the sleeves. She had put on some red hair extensions in her hair, not wanting to bother with the wash-off temporary hair color.
"Hey, what's up, Mimi?" Tai asked her.
It was around ten in the morning as the three were walking towards the park, the grass still damp from the sprinkling they got last night. Mimi had met up with the two heading into the park for she was out walking past it. Noticing that of her closest friends, she only found one girl, she aspired to find her other female friends to catch them up on what was going on in her life. "Not much really. It's not that cold in the morning over here compared to New York, thank goodness. Well, I was wondering if Miyako and Hikari are around Odaiba. I didn't see them at all yesterday besides Yamato, you, Daisuke, and Sora."
"Heh, you're lucky today." Davis spoke up. "Kari and Yolei are at the Yagami/Kamiya residence. I'm not sure what they're up to over there, though."
"Arigatou." she thanked him. "Taichi, where is your apartment?"
Tai burst out laughing, noticing the same attitude that he knew her with. "You always have been the same way."
He gave her the directions (across the street from Yamato's apartment complex) and she thanked him.
When she came upon Tai's apartment, she knocked on the door and waited for someone to answer. A purple-haired girl with large eyeglasses opened to door and gasped in amazement at the sight of who was standing in front of her. "Mimi?!"
Mimi nodded with a wide grin on her face. "It's me! How have you been, Miyako?"
"Great!" her friend replied. Finding herself rather speechless, she motioned for her long-time idol to enter the apartment.
Mimi noticed that she wouldn't be responding in complete sentences, so she asked her simple questions, "Miyako, is Hikari here?"
"Hai." she nodded. Yolei wore her maroon beret, navy socks, khaki shorts, and a printed shirt (outfit from Digimon Movie).
Mimi peered into the kitchen and saw Kari throw away a burnt bag from the microwave saying, "Yolei, you burnt another bag!" She giggled and said hello to her friend. Kari looked up and gave her a warming smile. "Mimi, you're back again!"
"Yep. It's been a long time since I've seen any of you. I'm surprised that not a single one of you have forgotten about me." she giggled.
Yolei's jaw dropped. "We'd never forget about you! If you haven't forgotten about us, then we definitely didn't forget about you! Sure, it's been three years since you've been here, but what made you think that we'd forget you, anyhow?! Mimi, are you okay?"
"I'm fine. I'm just excited about tonight." she had a dreamy expression in her eyes.
Her purple-haired friend cocked an eyebrow. "What's going on tonight?"
"I'm going with Yamato to Morealli's!" she replied with a wink.
"You're not lying?" Kari blurted out, confused to why Matt would accept to go on a date with Mimi. 'I thought he and Sora were together. Why's Matt going on a date with Mimi? Did he already break up with Sora? I hope this is all a mistake..'
"I'm not lying." Mimi nodded with a cheery smile. "We're going there at seven. I know it's a little early, but all the more better for us to go sight-seeing around the city. This is so exciting."
"Yeah!" Yolei agreed, pulling Kari to the side. "Kari, I thought Matt is with Sora?"
"That's what I thought!" Kari replied. "Something weird is going on. Tai did tell me that Mimi was back, but her going out with Matt seems a little off."
"But.. she might not know that they're 'together'. This is really bad."
"I hope Mimi doesn't find out any time soon because I highly doubt that Sora and Matt broke up." Kari added. "I don't think Tai told me about Mimi going out with Matt. I still think he's mad at him."
"Oh, my gosh." Yolei adjusted her glasses and had a grave expressionon her face.
"Where'd you two go?" Mimi called from the kitchen. She found them in Kari's room and told them that the popcorn that Kari had made was finished.
"Thanks, Mimi. If you want, we're going to be watching a couple of hours of Anime videos." Yolei proposed. "If you don't have anything going on."
"I'll join you. Besides, we have a lot of time to make up together! I've got plenty of time to kill until seven." Mimi accepted.
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"Fifteen minute break." Matt called out. He quickly guzzled down a bottle of water halfway and walked over to a nearby window, looking out at the city that lay below him. The thought of wearing black to him was foolish. He had to take off his black jacket because the auditorium had become too humid at noon, three hours ago. He sighed in exasperation and walked back to his band, leaning his back against a wall. "How long until we leave?"
The drummer had been fixing the pedal for the bass drum. He looked up at the lead singer in a puzzled look. "You're tired of all of this already, Ishida?"
"I dunno. There's too much going on in my life. And I thought all of my complications would be done with. I proved myself wrong, again." he sighed and brushed some sweat off of his forehead, his azure eyes had a glazed look about them.
The keyboard player walked up to the two. "Well, just keep up another three hours. We're out at six, so whatever plans you have, you'll have enough time to finish them."
"Geez, twelve hours here is enough to kill someone." Matt added. "I think I pretty much prefer staying here for the time being. How much longer do we have until break is over?"
"Five minutes. You really need to get yourself a watch, Ishida."
"Yeah, remind me about that later on." he replied in a sarcastic tone. "We should get started again."
"Just a few more minutes. If I start playing right now, my arms are going to fall off." the drummer teased as he went in search of his drumsticks.
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"Bye, you two. I'll be sure to call you two tomorrow. Have fun!" Mimi called out to Kari and Yolei who were mesmerized by the Anime video they were watching. When Mimi closed the door, she noticed that it was already dark. "Iie.. What time is it?"
A she walked through the halls, she looked hurriedly in her purse for her watch. "1:45 in the afternoon?! My watch is still in New York time! I must have forgotten to change my watch to Japan time. Since it's 1:45 there, then it must be 6:15 over here! Iie!"
She quickly hailed a taxi when she got out of the apartment complex and overpaid her fare when she left the taxi. Quickly running to the elevators, she nearly collided with a luggage carrier rolling five bags of luggage through the hall way. When the elevator stopped at her floor, she burst out of it and ran to her hotel room, gasping for air when she closed the door behind her.
When she caught her breath again, she walked over to her closet and began looking for suitable dresses for the occasion. As she passed through the countless outfits, she came across an old dress that she hadn't worn in years: it was the pink Randolph Duke silver tulle halter dress with sterling silver necklace she bought for the Winter Ball at Odaiba Academy. Matt was supposed to escort her when her parents requested that she return to New York to celebrate the special holiday with them. She looked at the dress for a long time and shoved it into her other dresses hanging in the closet. "I can't wear that. It's too flashy, let alone not suitable for my date with Yamato. Besides, I can't wear that dress even if I wanted to. It's too important."
After going through all of the clothes in the closet, she decided that her current outfit would suffice and headed to the bathroom to straighten her ruffled hair out. "I hope Yamato doesn't mind. Although the restaurant looks expensive, not that many people in there were dressed lavishly for it."
She left the hotel at 6:30 and hailed another cab to drop her off at Morealli's. There was a long line of couples standing inside the lobby. Many of the people there hadn't made reservations, so she quickly walked up to the clerk. "Tachikawa Mimi. Table for two."
"Konnichi wa. Your 7 o'clock reservation?" he asked her. She nodded and he motioned for her to follow him. Taking a seat, she told him that Matt would join her by seven and took one of the menus.
She heaved out a sigh of relief and looked out the window for any sign of her date. "Ohh.. Yamato, where are you?"
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A/N: What happens ..? I'll have the next chapter up as soon as possible, but if you want, read the brief note below:
I'm going to have to add a new chapter once weekly so I can have time with my studies. In most cases, I'll add one on Wednesday. So, if I forget, you can throw a chocolate rice ball at me for forgetting!
I forgot to add the character's ages: 20 - Ishida Yamato, Takenouchi Sora, Yagami Taichi; 19 - Tachikawa Mimi; 17 - Miyako, Takaishi Takeru Yagami Hikari. The other characters will be added along the way, but since there are so many, it will depend on whether or not their roles will play a huge part in the fic.
by: sakuramimato (sakuramimato@hotmail.com)
Disclaimer: No Digimon to watch today, yet, I still don't own Digimon.
Author's Note: Don't get mad at me for the coupling! :'( If I were writing a Sorato fic, my pen name would be sakura'sorato' and this fic would be under Sora and Matt's name. Iie! You'll see what I mean.
I also noticed something on [tokyopop.com]! I was browsing there for some dubbed Japanese-style Mangas on Cardcaptor Sakura and they have about 15 volumes of the CLAMP comic dubbed in English (but preserved the Japanese-style Manga format). The best thing: They're going to have dubbed Japanese-style DIGIMON Mangas, as well! If you've read the Japanese Mangas, I am so jealous! It's too bad I no longer live in Asia (poo..), but I guess I'll spend my money on buying the Digimon mangas from tokyopop, instead. (My friend's sister knows the president, I'll have to ask her, though).
Well, if you're a Digimon fan in my situation that can't get the original Japanese Manga, Tokyo Pop will have the Mangas dubbed and out sometime this year. I'll keep updated on one of my sites. For the long A/N, I'll add an even longer fic.
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Chapter 5
Matt awoke in his dark room, the curtains to his window draped over it, causing only but a few beams of light to enter into the darkness. He groaned as he sat up on his bed, feeling a tight sore in his back and a slight headache. Noticing that he had fallen asleep early last night, he recalled what had happened the day before. Walking into the hallway, he noticed that his dad hadn't come home from the tv station.
"Talk about creepy." he said to himself, walking back into his room to get a clean pair of clothes out of his closet and wardrobe. "Dad must be working late again. Maybe Mimi should have told him not to overwork instead of me over-rehearsing with the band."
He stepped into the bathroom and sighed, "Oh, well.."
After he had freshened up (spending almost an hour to get his hair right), he retrieved his guitar from the foot of his bed. He'd chosen a black pair of slightly baggy pants and a white shirt underneath a black jacket. (Not really the tuxedo look, not tight and stuff. XD) He left the apartment and locked the door behind him.
It was about 08:30 in the morning, and noticing that he had quite a while before practice started, he decided to get a hot capuccino from a coffee shop on the way to the auditorium. The walk was only a couple of minutes away, so he took the time to get to there and bought one to go. After paying for his beverage, he hailed a taxi, not wanting to risk a stain on his clothes. The drive was a short one. He paid for his fare and met up with his band.
"Hey, guys. Did you start practicing without me, yet?" he asked, taking a sip from his drink.
The members shook their heads. "We were going to go and get some drinks ourselves, but it looks like you beat us to it."
"Since practice starts in a few, we're just going to get some coffee from the manager's room." the keyboard player said.
Matt nodded and went to tune up his guitar. 'Okay. I'm just going to have to forget about this whole Mimi thing. It's a new day, so better to start it off right than think on and on about what happened yesterday.'
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"Tai-chi!" Mimi exclaimed as she ran up to her friend. Davis paced right beside him and smiled at her enormous burst of energy. She wore her white boots with the wooden platforms, a red skirt with white stripes down the seams of the skirt and red threading. She wore a white, short-sleeved shirt showing her midriff with a red heart on it. Over her shirt, she wore a white, mini-zipped hoodie (unzipped in her case) with red strips on the sleeves. She had put on some red hair extensions in her hair, not wanting to bother with the wash-off temporary hair color.
"Hey, what's up, Mimi?" Tai asked her.
It was around ten in the morning as the three were walking towards the park, the grass still damp from the sprinkling they got last night. Mimi had met up with the two heading into the park for she was out walking past it. Noticing that of her closest friends, she only found one girl, she aspired to find her other female friends to catch them up on what was going on in her life. "Not much really. It's not that cold in the morning over here compared to New York, thank goodness. Well, I was wondering if Miyako and Hikari are around Odaiba. I didn't see them at all yesterday besides Yamato, you, Daisuke, and Sora."
"Heh, you're lucky today." Davis spoke up. "Kari and Yolei are at the Yagami/Kamiya residence. I'm not sure what they're up to over there, though."
"Arigatou." she thanked him. "Taichi, where is your apartment?"
Tai burst out laughing, noticing the same attitude that he knew her with. "You always have been the same way."
He gave her the directions (across the street from Yamato's apartment complex) and she thanked him.
When she came upon Tai's apartment, she knocked on the door and waited for someone to answer. A purple-haired girl with large eyeglasses opened to door and gasped in amazement at the sight of who was standing in front of her. "Mimi?!"
Mimi nodded with a wide grin on her face. "It's me! How have you been, Miyako?"
"Great!" her friend replied. Finding herself rather speechless, she motioned for her long-time idol to enter the apartment.
Mimi noticed that she wouldn't be responding in complete sentences, so she asked her simple questions, "Miyako, is Hikari here?"
"Hai." she nodded. Yolei wore her maroon beret, navy socks, khaki shorts, and a printed shirt (outfit from Digimon Movie).
Mimi peered into the kitchen and saw Kari throw away a burnt bag from the microwave saying, "Yolei, you burnt another bag!" She giggled and said hello to her friend. Kari looked up and gave her a warming smile. "Mimi, you're back again!"
"Yep. It's been a long time since I've seen any of you. I'm surprised that not a single one of you have forgotten about me." she giggled.
Yolei's jaw dropped. "We'd never forget about you! If you haven't forgotten about us, then we definitely didn't forget about you! Sure, it's been three years since you've been here, but what made you think that we'd forget you, anyhow?! Mimi, are you okay?"
"I'm fine. I'm just excited about tonight." she had a dreamy expression in her eyes.
Her purple-haired friend cocked an eyebrow. "What's going on tonight?"
"I'm going with Yamato to Morealli's!" she replied with a wink.
"You're not lying?" Kari blurted out, confused to why Matt would accept to go on a date with Mimi. 'I thought he and Sora were together. Why's Matt going on a date with Mimi? Did he already break up with Sora? I hope this is all a mistake..'
"I'm not lying." Mimi nodded with a cheery smile. "We're going there at seven. I know it's a little early, but all the more better for us to go sight-seeing around the city. This is so exciting."
"Yeah!" Yolei agreed, pulling Kari to the side. "Kari, I thought Matt is with Sora?"
"That's what I thought!" Kari replied. "Something weird is going on. Tai did tell me that Mimi was back, but her going out with Matt seems a little off."
"But.. she might not know that they're 'together'. This is really bad."
"I hope Mimi doesn't find out any time soon because I highly doubt that Sora and Matt broke up." Kari added. "I don't think Tai told me about Mimi going out with Matt. I still think he's mad at him."
"Oh, my gosh." Yolei adjusted her glasses and had a grave expressionon her face.
"Where'd you two go?" Mimi called from the kitchen. She found them in Kari's room and told them that the popcorn that Kari had made was finished.
"Thanks, Mimi. If you want, we're going to be watching a couple of hours of Anime videos." Yolei proposed. "If you don't have anything going on."
"I'll join you. Besides, we have a lot of time to make up together! I've got plenty of time to kill until seven." Mimi accepted.
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"Fifteen minute break." Matt called out. He quickly guzzled down a bottle of water halfway and walked over to a nearby window, looking out at the city that lay below him. The thought of wearing black to him was foolish. He had to take off his black jacket because the auditorium had become too humid at noon, three hours ago. He sighed in exasperation and walked back to his band, leaning his back against a wall. "How long until we leave?"
The drummer had been fixing the pedal for the bass drum. He looked up at the lead singer in a puzzled look. "You're tired of all of this already, Ishida?"
"I dunno. There's too much going on in my life. And I thought all of my complications would be done with. I proved myself wrong, again." he sighed and brushed some sweat off of his forehead, his azure eyes had a glazed look about them.
The keyboard player walked up to the two. "Well, just keep up another three hours. We're out at six, so whatever plans you have, you'll have enough time to finish them."
"Geez, twelve hours here is enough to kill someone." Matt added. "I think I pretty much prefer staying here for the time being. How much longer do we have until break is over?"
"Five minutes. You really need to get yourself a watch, Ishida."
"Yeah, remind me about that later on." he replied in a sarcastic tone. "We should get started again."
"Just a few more minutes. If I start playing right now, my arms are going to fall off." the drummer teased as he went in search of his drumsticks.
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"Bye, you two. I'll be sure to call you two tomorrow. Have fun!" Mimi called out to Kari and Yolei who were mesmerized by the Anime video they were watching. When Mimi closed the door, she noticed that it was already dark. "Iie.. What time is it?"
A she walked through the halls, she looked hurriedly in her purse for her watch. "1:45 in the afternoon?! My watch is still in New York time! I must have forgotten to change my watch to Japan time. Since it's 1:45 there, then it must be 6:15 over here! Iie!"
She quickly hailed a taxi when she got out of the apartment complex and overpaid her fare when she left the taxi. Quickly running to the elevators, she nearly collided with a luggage carrier rolling five bags of luggage through the hall way. When the elevator stopped at her floor, she burst out of it and ran to her hotel room, gasping for air when she closed the door behind her.
When she caught her breath again, she walked over to her closet and began looking for suitable dresses for the occasion. As she passed through the countless outfits, she came across an old dress that she hadn't worn in years: it was the pink Randolph Duke silver tulle halter dress with sterling silver necklace she bought for the Winter Ball at Odaiba Academy. Matt was supposed to escort her when her parents requested that she return to New York to celebrate the special holiday with them. She looked at the dress for a long time and shoved it into her other dresses hanging in the closet. "I can't wear that. It's too flashy, let alone not suitable for my date with Yamato. Besides, I can't wear that dress even if I wanted to. It's too important."
After going through all of the clothes in the closet, she decided that her current outfit would suffice and headed to the bathroom to straighten her ruffled hair out. "I hope Yamato doesn't mind. Although the restaurant looks expensive, not that many people in there were dressed lavishly for it."
She left the hotel at 6:30 and hailed another cab to drop her off at Morealli's. There was a long line of couples standing inside the lobby. Many of the people there hadn't made reservations, so she quickly walked up to the clerk. "Tachikawa Mimi. Table for two."
"Konnichi wa. Your 7 o'clock reservation?" he asked her. She nodded and he motioned for her to follow him. Taking a seat, she told him that Matt would join her by seven and took one of the menus.
She heaved out a sigh of relief and looked out the window for any sign of her date. "Ohh.. Yamato, where are you?"
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A/N: What happens ..? I'll have the next chapter up as soon as possible, but if you want, read the brief note below:
I'm going to have to add a new chapter once weekly so I can have time with my studies. In most cases, I'll add one on Wednesday. So, if I forget, you can throw a chocolate rice ball at me for forgetting!
I forgot to add the character's ages: 20 - Ishida Yamato, Takenouchi Sora, Yagami Taichi; 19 - Tachikawa Mimi; 17 - Miyako, Takaishi Takeru Yagami Hikari. The other characters will be added along the way, but since there are so many, it will depend on whether or not their roles will play a huge part in the fic.