Disclaimer: I don't own digimon, it belongs to their creators. No money is being made off this story.
WARNINGS: Taiora here, so make sure you read this please, don't complain to me that it wasn't Taito or Sorato or anything ok? (For any new fans Taiora means Tai & Sora are the couple)
Note: For some reason the italics didn't appear to work when I converted the story to so thoughts will be acknowledged with these symbol things '…' and I found the site where I got the parents names! Or at least a site like it because it has the names I used. It's in my profile, the link, you can find the Yagami/Kamiya family under the K htm and the Takenouchi family under the T htm as well as just about all the digimon characters!
Note 2: Sorry for the long wait everyone, I get serious writers block so I have to remember for future stories to either write the whole story first or even just 2 chapters or something, I didn't even intend on finishing this fic…
Tai's 'secret' Crush part 2
Sora Takenouchi was looking in the mirror at her reflection. Her orange red hair was gleaming, she had just washed it, dried it with her blow-dryer and combed it out. She was getting ready to go on her date with Tai, which would take place shortly. Making arrangements was tricky since they were unsure of where to go so they decided to meet at the park. She checked to make sure she had everything and finding that she did, she walked out of her room, said good-bye to her mother, and closed the door of the apartment behind her…now the interesting part began.
12:30 pm
Taichi Yagami grinned broadly. Coming towards him was his new girlfriend, Sora Takenouchi, on their first ever date! She smiled back looking somewhat shyer than before. They had already kissed but it seemed awkward now that they were actually going on a date instead of just hanging out. Tai was excited and nervous at the same time, he'd never really felt like this before. His heart leapt with joy, he was so proud that he'd finally told her.
Sora's heart beat quickly against her chest as Tai took hold of her hand and they began their date. Having decided they didn't know where to go, Tai had suggested a walk. His mother hinted to him it was a very romantic thing to do so he went with it.
Tai had found some clean khaki pants to wear for his date and a really cool button up shirt. Sora thought he looked really hot and was trying to decide whether or not to tell him so. She was wearing the hair clip Tai had given her long ago and a cute sky blue dress with black shoulder straps that Mimi specifically told her to wear. The night before Sora had described all the clothes in her closet to Mimi on her orders so that the fashion queen could give her the best advice.
As the two walked hand in hand down the street people near by awed and they ever heard someone whisper "Aww look at the cute couple". 'We really did look cute together' Tai thought as he passed by a store and glanced in the window. He gave her a peck on the cheek and steered her into a random store.
"Where are we going?" Sora giggled nervously. Tai shrugged and looked into her eyes. "What?" she asked thinking that her appearance looked funny as she looked at her dress. Tai took hold of her chin softly and tilted her face up so that she was staring into his dark brown eyes.
"You look so cute." He said simply and kissed her. Sora blushed as she noticed that there were quite a few people in the store. She didn't complain though as Tai was a really good kisser. Before Sora had time to try to kiss back Tai had already let go of her and was steering her around the store.
'Leave it to Tai to be the dominant one, then again he is the guy and I'm supposed to be the shy girl' Sora thought to herself. Now you all know Sora isn't exactly shy, being somewhat of a tomboy, but when it comes to guys she gets nervous.
Sora was very nervous at this point since she had no idea where Tai was walking to or if he had plans but in truth Tai had no clue what to do on dates (poor thing) so he found just walking around a store with her something to do.
The store Tai had taken her in was a sports store, what else did you think it was? Sora still liked sports and of course Tai did too but it probably wasn't the best place to bring someone on a date, he had just wanted an excuse to kiss her again. (There were too many people outside pointing and aww-ing at them)
So they roamed around looking at things talking every now and then and pointing out things that they needed. New shoes, new skirt, new soccer ball, new tennis racket…apparently they needed new everything because they named quite a few things.
It was nearing lunch time by the time they exited the shop and were walking again so Tai suggested a small comfy looking spot near the water.
Sora was impressed. ' I never thought he'd do something romantic.' She thought to herself giggling.
"What's so funny?" Tai asked curiously and his eyes were saying 'Are you laughing at me' kind of look. Sora just smiled at him and took the menu that a waiter had just given her and hid behind it looking at the meals.
Tai took his menu too and disappeared behind it also looking for something to eat. He blew a stray piece of hair out of his eyes and peered over his menu at Sora who was busily studying her menu. When he looked away Sora looked up to see Tai studying his menu also. That's how it went for another few minutes while they tried looking on the menu for something to eat.
Eventually Tai noticed first and grinned to himself behind his menu. This time while pretending to study it he was waiting for Sora to look at him and when she did Tai looked up too. Sora blinked in surprise for she finally got his attention and smiled at him.
"Sora, do you want something?" Tai asked innocently. Sora giggled at the goofy expression Tai had on his face.
"What-what's so funny Sora?" Tai asked as he picked up a couple straws putting them in his teeth making him look like a walrus. At this point Sora was giggling like crazy and turning a bright pink. Tai smiled. He was always best at making her laugh.
He scooted his chair all the way around the table making walrus noises making her laugh harder. When he was right next to her he removed the straws and pulled her into a kiss.
Sora was in mid-giggle (I might add) and was entirely taken by surprise. When Tai released her she was completely winded and was taking great gasps of breath. Tai looked at her with some concern.
"Am I that good a kisser Sora?" he puzzled aloud. Sora glared at him and smacked him in the arm.
"Eiii!!" he squealed shielding his face with his hands in mock terror. "Sora how could you?!"
Tai scooted his chair back to its rightful place and hid his face behind his menu once again. Sora was just about to yell at him for being so sneaky like that when the waiter appeared.
"Are you ready to order?" He asked pulling out a note pad and pen.
"You bet I am, I'll have today's special please." Tai said promptly handing his menu over to the waiter who took it.
"And you, miss?" the waiter asked turning to Sora. Sora wasn't sure what she wanted yet so she glanced at the special.
"I'll have that too." She said handing him the menu as well which he took and walked away.
As soon as the waiter was gone she glared at Tai again who was staring at her.
"Tai that wasn't very nice!" she hissed, leaning across the table. Tai raised his eyebrows.
"What wasn't?" Tai asked innocently reaching his hands out and laying them on hers. 'Damn why does he keep doing that?' Sora thought as she felt her anger ebbing away. Tai smiled as if he could read her mind and lowered his chin onto his hands staring up at her.
"What is it?" Sora asked, puzzled. This was about the 5th time he'd done that during their stay at the outdoors restaurant.
"Sora you look so cute!" Tai said. Sora shook her head.
"Tai you told me that already!" she said with exasperation.
"But you do! Every time I look at you I just want to kiss you!" he said, looking at her with glazed eyes.
Sora silently thanked Mimi and just gave Tai a flashy smile and a tinkering laugh. She almost laughed at her playing around attitude but what amused her the most was how Tai reacted. His eyes widened and he gaped at her with his mouth slightly open.
"What's wrong Tai?" she asked innocently, now playing the part he'd done to her. Tai blinked at her and grinned.
"Taking a page out of my book, huh, Sora?" he asked smiling at her. She shrugged as if to say 'maybe what's it to you?' Soon after a few more minutes the waiter came back with their food and asked if they needed anything else. They said "no" and he left them to their meal. They had ordered ramune, Yaki-tori, rice and oden.
It was very good too! They munched happily away on their rice and drank their ramune. Sora wondered vaguely how expensive the special was since it was extremely good then started worrying over the price. Again, Tai seemed able to read her thoughts and asked her what was wrong.
"Well, I don't know Tai…all this food, I know it's an outdoors place but can we really afford it?" Sora murmured, brow crinkled in worry. Tai winked at her and pulled out the receipt that the waiter had given him.
"Sora, you must realize that the special is only a special when they're having a special sale!!" Tai cried triumphantly.
Sora blinked at him a moment, somewhat confused. "On sale? Wouldn't you call something that if it were at a grocery store?"
Tai raised his hand about to speak then looked confused. "What?"
Giggling, Sora just shook her head and continued eating. Tai stared at her thinking about what she said.
"Well, maybe it is to you, missy! But I call all food I get, grocery or out a sale!" he pounded the table for emphasize, making Sora squeal as the rice rose into the air and fell back down all over the place. Luckily, it had not gotten on their clothes but the table was covered in rice.
Tai grinned guiltily and cleaned it up. "I hope you filled up on your rice." Tai said laughing uncomfortably.
After an awkward silence, the waiter returned with desserts and re-fills of their drinks. Tai and Sora both paid for their own meal, they felt it better to share plus they always paid for their own food when they just hung out. Wondering what to do next, Tai glanced at Sora who was twirling some of her hair on her finger.
This was too cute and he kissed her on the cheek making her look up at him in surprise.
"Um Tai?" she asked hiding a smile from him. Tai looked into her eyes using his puppy dog eye technique.
"Yes Sora?" he asked sweetly. She giggled at this. He was so cute too!
"Just because I do something cute doesn't mean you have to kiss me." Tai looked incredulous to this.
"Why not?" he made a little pout, which was adorable!! She gave him another glare which meant she was trying to be serious.
"Okay, Okay! I'll try to behave myself." He said, looking somewhat disappointed. They walked in silence, holding hands, wandering around looking for something else to do. Later that night they had planned to see a movie which was 2 hours away. They had to do…something!
They walked past a park and sat on a bench overlooking a lake with birds, geese and swans. Sora rested her head on Tai's shoulder and automatically he put his arm around her.
"I don't think I can look at birds for 2 hours…"Tai said starting to fall asleep.
"Aww come on Tai." Sora said nudging him in the ribs keeping him from going down for the count.
Tai had a sudden idea and perked up right away. He looked coyly over at Sora, wrapping his other arm around her and pulled her closer to him.
"You know," he breathed into her ear, "we could have a 2-hour make-out session, what do you say?" Sora was not used to him talking this way and completely unaware he wasn't joking so she started giggling.
"What's the matter?" Tai asked frowning feeling put out. Sora calmed herself down and looked sternly at Tai.
"I don't think I'd make-out with you in a public place for 20 minutes let alone 2 hours!" she told him with some finality.
"Why not?" Tai asked frowning.
Sora blushed. "Because…"she drifted off looking away turning steadily redder and redder.
Tai took this as a good sign that she enjoyed making out with him and jumped off the bench startling her.
"I have another idea then!" he proclaimed, smiling like an idiot and pulling her up off the bench.
"You aren't going to try to take me away to some place that isn't public to make out are you?" Sora asked apprehensively.
Tai sniggered and shook his head 'no'. Sora found herself being dragged enthusiastically by Tai all the way to an arcade.
"We're going in there?" Sora asked raising an eyebrow and looking into the window where there were mostly little kids.
"Yeah! We can have some fun and not have to worry about people staring at us and just let loose." Tai said smiling and leading her into the arcade.
Sora had to admit, it was a lot of fun and since most of the people there were children, they didn't aww them or say how cute they looked together. They certainly could let loose and not feel nervous too. In fact it almost felt like they were hanging out as friends and not as a couple, like some odd people with friends with benefits.
She blushed at the thought of that and tried to continue to have a good time. Tai won a considerable amount of tokens since he was very good at just about every video game and prize machine there. She really enjoyed Dance Dance Revolution, a game where the player danced around on a floor joystick type thing in rhythm to the music!
Tai was also good at the basketball and bowling games where he received most of his tickets. They also had a lot of fun playing some shooting games and driving around on a racetrack outside, but what seemed to amuse Tai the most was when he fed his tickets to the ticket machine that would suck them in and once all were in they'd get a ticket to hand to a cashier person.
The total tickets they had were enough to buy Sora a cute little stuffed cat and little odds and ends. Sora thanked Tai for the cat and they made their way to the theatre. They had 20 minutes to spare. Tai checked his watch and glanced at Sora.
"Twenty minutes Sora." Tai said nonchalantly. Sora glanced at him curiously.
"Yeah what about twenty minutes?" she asked somewhat interested.
"Well…you said you wouldn't make out with me for 2 hours let alone 20 minutes…so once we're on 19 how about that?" he asked looking hopefully at her.
Sora giggled. "Well…"she said pretending to do some serious thinking. "Maybe during the movie if it's boring and you behave."
Tai perked up and smiled, seeming to reassure himself that at some point they would make out which amused Sora to no end.
They arrived at the theatre with 10 minutes to spare for getting popcorn and drinks. Once they got into the specific theater at 5:00 exactly the previews started and they sat in seats as far back as possible. The 2 munched away on the popcorn while watching the previews. Many of them looked quite dull in which Tai would boo and throw popcorn at the screen which most likely didn't hit the screen but people sitting below them.
Sora worried they'd get kicked out so she whispered to Tai he was supposed to behave in which he quieted immediately and threw no more…popcorn.
The movie went by in an odd fashion…first after the movie started, Sora worried over Tai trying to make-out with her or occupy her attention too much. So in that case it went by slowly but when the movie became interesting time spend up. Near the end when not too much was happening, Tai leaned close to her ear and asked her that question she both dreaded and loved.
"When are we going to make out?" Sora thought about this since she loved the fact to get a chance to kiss Tai but didn't want to miss the movie. Deciding Tai was more important than the movie, she reluctantly gave in but warned him not to try anything too funny in which he happily obliged.
About 15 minutes later, a very happy Tai and an exceptionally embarrassed Sora emerged from the movie theater and made their way to Moriallis (the most expensive restaurant in town) which surprised Sora.
"Tai?" Sora asked nonchalantly, "Where are you getting all this money?" Tai raised a questioning eyebrow at Sora.
"Don't trust where I get my money, eh Sora? Well I'll let you know that I've been saving up some money for nothing special and it just so happens that this was a good thing." Tai said avoiding her eyes.
Well, that was crystal clear. He'd wanted to ask her out for ages and saved up some money just for her, aww how sweet!
They walked into Moriallis and talked asked the Garcon if he had a reservation for Yagami. The Garcon checked and said "Oui" and steered them over to a nice table.
"I'm not really sure we're dressed too fancy for this place." Sora said vaguely, looking at all the people in gowns and tuxes.
Tai shrugged looking unworried and took the menu looking over the things.
He decided on Sashimi with miso soup, rice and a good 'ol ramune. While Sora kept looking at the choices, Tai looked around at the people.
Sora decided on Sukiyaki with miso soup, rice and ramune as well. For dessert they planned on just having some Onigiri.
After the Garcon left, the two chatted about the movie and the events of the day. Tai looked up in time to get a shock, Matt was there!! He appeared to be accompanied by his band the Teenage Wolves.
"Yo! Matt!" Tai called waving enthusiastically. Sora glared at him kicking his foot.
"Don't call across fancy restaurants." She hissed although she didn't seem nervous to see Matt and his band.
Matt noticed him and waved and walked over to their table after the Garcon had shown them their table.
"Hi guys, how's the date going?" Matt asked pleasantly. Tai gave Matt a look and Matt seemed to understand this while Sora looked suspiciously at them.
"We've been having a great time, hopefully nothing will go wrong." Sora replied glancing at Tai who looked hurt.
"You think I would do something to ruin our date?" he asked, eyebrows crinkled.
"Knowing you, most likely yes." Matt replied for Sora, causing Tai to glare daggers at him. Noticing he was in the danger zone he continued, "but also knowing you, I know how important Sora is to you so I'll just be over there, call me later."
The two watched him walk off to his band and converse with them, just at that moment the Garcon returned with their food. They thanked him and off he went. Everything tasted perfect, and soon all the food was gone.
"That was fantastic!" Tai exclaimed almost too enthusiastically. He really liked food, that boy. He looked at Sora wonderingly. "Did you save room for dessert?" he asked innocently.
"Sure but I'm not sure it's an actual dessert." Sora chuckled. A nearby waitress took their dishes away while they sat in content silence. Tai checked his wallet for more money. Sora did too so he didn't have to do it all.
Once their Onigiri arrived, they paid for the dinner and left a tip for the waitress and took the Onigiri out with them for a snack on the way home.
It was roughly around 8:30 and they walked back to Sora's apartment, eating the Onigiri which warmed them up since it was a bit chilly outside.
Once at her apartment, the Onigiri long gone, Tai kissed Sora goodnight and told her to call him tomorrow.
"You promise? He asked, leaning his forehead onto hers. She giggled.
"I promise Tai now get going!" He kissed her one last time and walked away staring up at the apartment.
It was the best day of his life, he told Sora how he felt, went on a date with her and was going to talk with her tomorrow too! Things were going well… And so marks the day Tai told his "secret crush " how he felt about her and their date the next day which will ensure a future for them!
The End!
(A/N: There will be an epilogue for this so technically it isn't the end but to the point of what I entitled the story as…yeah…)
(A/N 2: The Japanese foods…my good friend the Dragon Mistress gave me a list of dishes people eat, some of the foods I used are common, some Western…for lunch they had Yaki-tori, which is barbequed chicken on a stick, I'm sure you all know what rice is and oden is a thick type of stew. As for drinks, Ramune comes in many flavors, I've actually tried peach and another flavor. You push down on the top where there is a marble and it falls into the neck of the bottle and stays there. I found this most interesting when I had it, although I am easily amused. For dinner, Tai had Sashimi, which is thin layers of fish that comes with miso soup. Sora had Sukiyaki, which is a type of beef stew with vegetables, and more miso soup. They're dessert was Onigiri which is triangular wedges of rice with meat or vegetables inside, it's mostly a snack though. If there are any more questions, you can always email me about them!)