AN: Okay! Finally rewritten and proofread! I'd really like to thank ProtoBlues and Chikin Wang for really making me realize that I need to slow down!! I reread it and proofread, so I hope it's better now. *crosses fingers.
To Lottie11: thanks for the Kari idea, I think I'll do it. ^ ^
Important!!! Please please please, read the previous chapter!!! I have rewritten chapter 18, so I feel more comfortable with it. Please review!
Disclaimer: Digimon = not mine.
Chapter XIX - Kisses
"Yamato! Good morning!" Sora greeted the blonde cheerfully in her school uniform the next morning.
Yamato grinned, "Happy, are we?" The couple stood in Sora's lobby, where the girl had been waiting for the singer to arrive and drive her to school. Leaning down, Yamato moved his face mere millimeters away from Sora's in anticipation for a kiss.
"We're going to be late." The auburn haired girl stated as she smiled innocently and ran towards the BMW parked outside.
"Hey, w-wait!" Yamato called after her, but she only turned around to stick her tongue out at him playfully. Pouting, the blonde gave up and followed the girl out. "Sora, it's the last day before Christmas vacation starts. Shouldn't I get a present?"
"No. Or else you don't get one on Christmas." Sora stepped into the car after Yamato unlocked the doors and buckled her seatbelt.
Getting into the driver's seat, the handsome singer pouted. "Bu-but, what about a kiss?"
"You're such a child, Yamato. Fine then, if you really want a present, then here," Sora took out a little package from the bag of presents she placed in the back seat. "For you."
Yamato looked at the present with newfound glee, making Sora laugh and call him a "big baby," but he didn't care, the present was all that was on his mind. A present, from Sora. Taking the neatly wrapped gift in his hands, he tore apart he red wrapping paper with caution and pulled out a thin cardboard box. Opening the box, he found a simple Santa's hat, awaiting him. Looking at Sora with a raised brow, he questioned her choice, "A Santa hat? Don't get me wrong, I love anything and everything you give me, but a Santa hat?"
The girl broke into laughter at Yamato's words. "Yama you dork, first, take it out, second, it's not your real present, it's just for fun today."
Following her instructions the singer took out the hat and examined it. Mistletoe was attached to the white cottony ball at the tip of the hat, curving out in front of Yamato as he put it on with a wide grin on his face. "I love it," he said genuinely and with boyish excitement. Leaning over, he decided to take advantage of the old Christmas tradition and waited for the 'second part' of his present.
Taking the hint, Sora closed the gap between them and happily kissed him full on the lips. "Now drive, we're going to be late."
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Yamato was having a hard time keeping girls away as they noticed the mistletoe hanging above his head so openly. Sora wasn't very pleased at the fact that the girls literally flung themselves at Yamato for a chance to kiss him, but ended up laughing at Yamato's expression. By the time they got to their chemistry class, the blonde looked like a deer caught in headlights.
Yamato cowered in his seat, on the lookout for any girl that wasn't Sora. Though the hat had certain side effects, he was able to take advantage of it and steal about 26 kisses from Sora at various intervals. Leaning over and wrapping an arm around the girl, he grinned and pointed to the mistletoe. Sora sighed but willingly kissed him on the lips once more. Truth be told, she enjoyed it. Yamato smiled to himself, 27…
By the end of chemistry class, Yamato had worked out a system. He would take off the hat, and immediately put it on at any sign of a ruby-eyed, auburn haired girl in the distance so he could steal a kiss. The only thing he couldn't understand was why he didn't think of it sooner. Mr. Chin had allowed the students to take the period off, and just enjoy the last day of school before the vacation, like most of the teachers in school would most likely do. Many students didn't even bother bringing schoolbags.
For the lunch period, Sora had taken the Santa hat and placed it on her own head for fun. Yamato agreed that she take it for the rest of the day, but glared slightly at the guys inching towards the clueless auburn haired girl. The six of them had decided to move into the lunchroom, since the cold weather was too much to stand. They had managed to claim a corner and sat comfortably, finishing off their meals.
Sora couldn't help but grin mischievously at the girls who seemed so disappointed by the fact that Yamato no longer possessed the red velvet hat. At the same time, she noticed the boy's sudden protectiveness when she put on the hat. The girl sat between Yamato and Taichi, after the blonde singer had decided firmly that it was the best way to keep away the guys. Sora could have sworn that Yamato was hallucinating, what guys? Who would want to kiss me?
"Presents after school, right?" Jeff asked eagerly.
The auburn haired girl nodded to confirm the statement.
Aki laughed, shaking his dark blonde strands. "You're thinking about the presents too much, man."
"Don't tell me you're not, Aki." Jeff replied, knowing perfectly well that the amethyst-eyed boy dreamt about them. Aki chuckled and looked down at his food, suddenly interested by the individual strands of spaghetti.
Tai suddenly spoke up, remembering seeing Jamie talking to a girl earlier the day in the halls. "So Jamie, who was the girl I saw you talking to?" The chocolate haired teen said loudly, so everyone at the table heard.
Jamie glared. "No one of importance, Tai."
"Aw come on, man! You can tell us!"
"Kamiya, you make too much noise."
"Jamie, I thought we meant more to you." Tai said, hoping to evoke some sort of guilt in the quiet boy.
It didn't work. "Yes, everyone but you, Tai."
"Fine man, but tell me one thing."
"What?"
"Is she a good kisser?"
Tai was answered with a plastic fork being flung in his direction.
Sora laughed, partially at the fact that Tai was making an idiot of himself again, but also because of the fact that she knew perfectly well who the girl was. Her name was Marissa, gorgeous, brunette, blue-eyed, and Jamie's cousin. Jamie had gone to Sora for advice on what to get his cousin for Christmas since the brunette was obviously getting him something, he felt obligated to do so as well. Sora smirked; Tai was making an idiot of himself over something so little again.
Tai glanced over at Sora who was trying to contain her laughter, and then back over at Jamie again. He raised a brow when the situation clicked in his mind. "You told Sora? Sora and not me?!" he exclaimed with feigned hurt.
"Aw Tai, how can you say that?" Sora smiled innocently at her best friend.
"Trust me Sora, I know you well enough to be able to tell when you're laughing cuz you know something I don't." He replied with a tone of pride.
Jamie rolled his eyes and kicked him under the table, causing the chestnut haired boy to lose his delicate balance and tip over sideways toward Sora. He fell onto her shoulder.
"Tai you fool, get off!" The auburn haired girl said through her giggles.
"Don't move!" someone yelled out from across the table.
Sora looked over at Jeff who had exclaimed the order. Tilting her head sideways, she looked at him with a questioning expression. "Huh?"
While Sora remained clueless, Yamato caught on quickly when he glanced over at the two. He broke out in a light chuckle.
Jeff looked over at Yamato who was smiling; obviously he was okay with it, so the spiky haired one continued. "You guys are under the mistletoe."
Aki began to laugh and even Jamie allowed a few chuckles to escape. "Dude, you needa kiss her now," the amethyst-eyed boy informed Tai when he didn't make a move.
Tai colored and looked at Yamato for approval. When the blonde gave a nod and a smile, Tai began his descent onto Sora's lips, and closed his eyes. Yamato watched as Tai gave Sora a soft, chaste kiss on the lips. Though slightly uncomfortable, the blonde had to admit that Tai deserved a kiss at least. Though normally, it should have been on the cheek, Sora and Tai were best friends. Yamato trusted Tai completely and felt surprisingly no jealousy against him- after chanting to himself that it was completely platonic. A few seconds after the kiss, Yamato grinned, "nice huh?"
Sora shoved Yamato playfully on the arm, as Tai nodded, "You bet." Truthfully, Sora didn't mind the kiss; it wasn't awkward, simply innocent and pure. They were childhood friends after all.
Jeff laughed loudly, "All right, Tai!"
Yamato chuckled again, "That one was for free, you're lucky it's a Christmas tradition, man." He glanced over at the other males starting to close in on Sora. "THAT'S THE ONLY ONE! SHE'S NOT A BUFFET!"
For the rest of the day, Yamato had reserved all of the redhead's kisses for himself and by the time the group reached the pizza shop, it had tallied up to 67 kisses. Yamato had kept track.
The group sat in their normal spot in the pizza parlor. The six of them sat comfortably at a booth, laughing and joking together, enjoying the rest of the day. The pizza eaten, the group began to exchange presents, presents that hey hid from each other until the very moment.
The trio from the day before happily revealed the two presents recently purchased roughly 24 hours ago, handing the two parcels to Jamie and Aki. The two opened their presents with wide-eyed wonder and became children when the gifts were revealed. Even Jamie hadn't been able to stop laughing out of genuine happiness.
"This is amazing!" Both Jamie and Aki yelled out, thanking the three endlessly.
"All right, all right, where's mine?" Jeff said, pouting slightly as a joke.
"I wouldn't forget Jeff," Sora replied, giving him a neatly wrapped present. "This one is from just me."
Jeff smiled eagerly and opened the package with haste, revealing a three disc CD package. It was a collection from Jeff's favorite movie that Sora had found out about. The spiky haired teen grinned with uncontrollable glee. The soundtrack was such a hard item to find that the boy had practically given up hope for it. "Sora, you are the best."
"Hold that thought, man." Tai cut in, handing Jeff the gift he had prepared.
Jeff looked at the gift and shook it slowly before setting it down, apparently deciding not to open it. "I don't want to open all of them here and then have to thank you guys endlessly for everything, my throat's going dry." Glancing around at the group he quickly added, "But I'm sure I'm going to love all of them, just like Sora's CD's."
"That sounds like a good idea," Jamie agreed, while passing out the gifts he prepared for Jeff, Aki, Tai, and Yamato. "I've never been good at showing my gratitude anyways."
"I'll do the same." Aki, the blonde and amethyst-eyed boy said, while following Jamie's actions and fishing through his bag for the presents for Tai, Yamato, Jamie, and Jeff.
After the guys had exchanged gifts, Sora came to the realization that she remained empty handed. She had given out the last of the presents, which was Taichi's newly custom made goggles (waterproof, even fire proof, extremely durable glass, fitted band, you know… the works). She sighed and leaned closer to Yamato who now wore the mistletoe Santa hat. Perhaps a kiss from Yamato would make her feel better? As if on cue, the blonde leaned down and gave her an innocent kiss on her cheek.
"Hey, don't think we're finished yet." Aki said as he pulled out a huge package from god knows where. "This is a team effort from Jeff, Jamie, and me. We wouldn't have forgotten Sora, you know."
The girl took the large package with a "thanks" and set it down on her lap. She stared at the gift silently.
Jamie gave a rare chuckle, "You can open it, you know."
Sora smiled brilliantly and began to tear away at the neatly wrapped object before revealing a large complete artist's kit of oil paints. "Oh my goodness," she whispered "this must have cost a fortune!"
"It was well worth it, and anyways, it was split three ways, so don't worry about it." Jeff replied.
"How did you guys know?" Sora asked, looking up at the trio with her ruby orbs questioningly.
"We found out that you do a lot of oil painting and you were kind of running out of paint." Jamie said.
The auburn haired girl turned to Yamato, her long strands of hair flowing over her shoulder as she did so. "You knew about it?"
Grinning widely, Yamato put an arm around her shoulders, "Of course."
"Thanks you guys, this is really great, thank you so much." Sora said, turning to each of the guys.
"Okay, okay, save some thanks for me." Tai joked as he took out a thin gift with a red ribbon tied neatly around. "From me."
Sora looked at Tai silently before taking the gift and peeling away the paper slowly. "Final Fantasy!" she said excitedly. "But Tai, it doesn't come out till next month!"
The chocolate haired teen smiled triumphantly. "I have connections."
"Aw thanks!" The girl lunged forward and hugged Tai happily. "Thanks everyone."
"Aw Sora, don't make it sound like you owe us anything. After all, you did get us these kick ass presents too." Aki said, getting up and putting on his coat. "Sorry guys, but I have to leave, my parents want me home before it gets dark."
"We should get going, too." Jamie stood up, followed by Jeff and then the rest of them as they all began to grab their things. After paying the bill and leaving a generous tip for Kyo [he's the waiter, just in case you guys don't really remember], the group stood in front of the pizza shop a little while longer before once again thanking each other and walking off in separate directions.
Sora followed Yamato out to his car. "Ne, Yamato?"
"Hm?" The blonde turned to smile and look at the girl with his glittering sapphire eyes.
"How come you didn't open any of your presents?"
Unlocking the doors to his BMW, Yamato smiled pleasantly. "I need something to do at home."
A smile tugged at Sora's rosy lips as she got into the passenger seat of the car. "Whatever you say, Yama."
* * * * *
The car pulled to a stop in front of Sora's building. Turning off the engine, Yamato turned to look at Sora. The girl smiled, and ran her right hand through her silken strands. "Have I told you how hot you look in that Santa hat?" she said softly, giving him an almost seductive smile.
Her forwardness surprised Yamato. Recovering quickly, he smirked. "It's always good to hear it from you."
Suddenly, fueled by some unknown factor, Sora leaned forward and captured Yamato's lips. Pressing her weight towards him, she sighed softly when she felt his tongue trace her lips. Surprisingly, during their 'activity', the auburn haired girl had managed to move herself onto Yamato's lap, her back towards the steering wheel.
The singer's hands traveled freely up and down her back, then her sides, stopping at her ribs. Sora's hair veiled them, the luxurious strands flowing down over her shoulders and surrounding Yamato. Breaking the kiss at last, Sora smiled against Yamato's lips. "Have I told you how much of a great kisser you are?"
Grinning widely, Yamato gave her a quick kiss. "There's always more where that came from."
Sora flipped back her auburn locks and moved herself off of Yamato. "I should go up, it's getting late."
"I'll help carry your stuff up."
The auburn haired girl's mind raced. Yamato couldn't go to her home, then he'd see the unfinished painting in the middle of the living room. "Uh, that's okay Yama, you should hurry home too."
"You're too popular, you have a lot of stuff to carry."
Sora laughed. "You're more popular, don't think I didn't notice all of those girls give you presents."
"Still, I have to uphold my Romeo status and I must carry your stuff up."
Reaching a hand towards Yamato's face, Sora cupped his cheek, "No thanks. I'm a big girl now, Yama. I can handle it." Giving the boy a quick kiss on the cheek, she grabbed her bags from the backseat and left the car, waving to him when she got to the entrance of the building.
AN: Done! ^ ^
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As for the Michi in the next story… I'm kinda rethinking it… I know! I'm really irresponsible, but it's just that I'm really not a big fan of it. Just let me know what you guys want. ^ ^