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Last Updated: o4.o4.o5
Foxy kitten, Calmer of the Storm, miaow227, lottie11: Thanks for agreeing with my decision to rewrite this fanfic Sorry if I made the swearing harsh it's not that harsh in comparison with other fanfics and I hope this chapter is better…but I guess it's going to be shorter hehe And about the takariness I'm taking the time and making it slow till they get together…as the same goes for the michi and sorato, for this fanfic has only begun.
Savoan Locc: Hey cuz! You meant 'cuter' yeah? lo0l you one funny boy! I'll have thoughts of adding Izzy if I can aiightz?
I'M-a-ReBel: In 'the packet' there were about 24 tablets. And about the thing about cannabis…I was half asleep when I wrote it lo0lz so mind me of my stupidness since I'm not really informative about drugs. Anyway…I better get on with this…
Sorry for not updating sooner peoples I've been real busy lately because I just started school again and it's getting harder with the loads of homework I've been getting. So if this takes time in updating…you know the drill. I guess this should start now…
NOTE: xxxxx means song change, in this chapter as well as the other future chapters containing songs
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LIMITZ
..CHAPTER 5/ Good and Bad News..
By flipstahhz
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Angry tears swelled up on Hikari's face as she voraciously wiped them away with the back of her hand.
Stupid Takeru…how could he go back to it...after what happened?
"Kari…" her brunette brother sighed as she pulled her up from the filthy ground then demanded, "What's wrong? You should look after yourself! You look pale..."
"Tai, I'm fine," stated Kari angrily, " It's nothing…I just didn't feel good before. There's nothing to worry about."
"Nothing?" repeated Taichi frowning in obvious disbelief, noticing her eyes were a bit pink. He bombarded her with questions, " You call throwing up in the street 'nothing'? Why can't you just tell me when you're not feeling well? You should have stayed back with Sora! Why are you crying?"
"Just leave me alone Tai…" she said weakly as she began walking away, but her brother on the arm held her back.
"You're not getting out of this that easily. Keeping everything in only causes trouble," he spoke furiously, anger appearing in his cinnamon coloured eyes.
" I said…leave me alone.." she shook his grip off.
"Leave you alone?" he queried. " How can I leave you alone? Don't you see how worried I am about you? Kari don't you ever forget that I'll always be there for you…I know I was an ass back in Odaiba, I didn't -"
"Always be there for me?" she repeated harshly, eyes bulging sarcastically, " What are you talking about? When I needed you the most…you left me! You acted as if I was no one to you, you only gave a fuck about yourself...and no one else! You didn't care...you didn't care of the other people you'd leave behind..."
Tai didn't say anything back, but his eyes seemed to be full of rage that he was fighting to control. He couldn't say anything back...
Sensing the situation Yamato tried to butt in, " Tai…maybe you shoul-"
"NO!" he growled. He was absolutely sick of this crap that was repeatedly going on. Absent with his anger, his hand struck Kari on her cheek making her push him away as she held her throbbing cheek.
"Tai…you moron! Stay the fuck away from me," she whispered in a hurt but meaningful voice as she ran off from the two older boys and called over to them. " I'm going back to Mimi's house! And don't you fucking stop me."
Within seconds, she had raced herself away from her brother and Yamato, not even stopping to take deep breaths as she forced herself away.
"What a bitch," Tai stated.
"Siblings, not much to expect from them," commented Yamato with a shrug, " Though I know deep inside they just want to show affection. Don't worry, Kari will come around."
Tai let a guilty sigh escape his lips as he pushed himself behind Yamato who was following Kari at a specific distance.
"I do hope so, that pretty much was my fault for being a dick of a brother..."
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As soon as Matt and Tai had arrived back at Mimi's house (after many mistaken turns) they had finally reached it. Taichi stormed towards Kari's room as soon as they had got there, but she locked the door and told him to piss off. Admitting defeat, Taichi gave an angry scowl and sulked his way to the lounge room to watch television. While Matt still stayed behind the girl's room, knocking patiently.
" I said GO AWAY TAI! Leave me ALONE already!"
"It's Matt," the blond headed male began but didn't hesitate because she might interrupt him from asking and he was in a hurry to know the answer to his question," Hey Kari, have you seen Sora?"
"Sorry Matt, thought you were Tai. No…she's not here…can you please go now?"
"Fine," he cursed rudely as he walked away without saying thanks.
Noticing how large Mimi's home was he searched almost every bedroom in sight. But she wasn't to be found. He had even peeked in her parent's room (her parents were out), yet she wasn't there.
Then finally a conclusion sprung into his mind, a conclusion that he didn't like…but he had to know...he needed to know if he was right. He ran down the stairs and found his way to the bathroom door.
Please…don't let her be in here and do what I think she's doing…
His fingers ran down the doorknob and turned it slowly.
It wasn't locked.
Not knowing if it was a good sign or not, he tried to brush away his curiosity yet his body still was intense. Somehow he was aware something was going to occur. But he wasn't quite sure what…
He gathered up some courage and thrust the door open.
"S-SORA!"
He was in awe and anger of the situation that he revealed himself to…
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before the scene with Matt entering the bathroom
Do it…
A raspy voiced formed in her head. Her feet kneeled sorely against the ice-cold tiles of the bathroom's floor. Her hands shook as her finger brushed down the sharp blade, causing some oozing blood to escape from her skin and avoiding the pain. She held back the urge to scream, that her bottom lip began to tremble as auburn strands of hair fell onto her delicate face. She shuddered, and began to grip the razor properly. The sinking feeling played in her stomach…Her conscious spoke...
It's your fault…You deserve all this after what you've done…it's your own fault you weren't there when she died...
She sniffed as the guilt plunged into her stomach making silent tears roll down her face. Her transfixed eyes lay back the razor, which was almost touching the back of her wrist, inches away from being slitted. She heard a door open far away and immediately thought it was Kari since she had seen a glimpse of her when she passed the bathroom, causing her to shut the door from anyone seeing what she was up to.
Do it now…!
Her conscious repeated in temptation. It was what it wanted. She was vulnerable and fragile…she'd do almost anything…she had witnessed too much memories...she had cried too many tears...
"Sora…!" a feint voice called in concern, snapping the auburn headed girl out of her trance. She was almost sure that it was Matt...
She stood still, but her sparkling eyes were still focused on the object that she was gripping in her hands.
DO IT NOW! WHILE YOU'VE GOT THE CHANCE TO DO WHAT YOU DESERVE TO GET! YOU DESERVE THIS PAIN!
She weakly obeyed the voice in her head with a stern nod to herself. She slowly placed the razor to her skin and closed her eyes as her finger tightened around the razor…
NOW!
"S-Sora!"
Sora Takenouchi came to halt, with her fingers still holding the object. She knew that voice..and she certainly didn't want him to see. Her eyes darted swiftly around the room and suddenly observed deep blue eyes watching me with obvious intense. In his eyes, she already knew the answer…he knew what she was up to…
Calmly he approached her but spoke in a cold pleading yet demanding tone, "Sora…pass it here. Don't ... don't do this again...please..don't go back there..."
His hands were open, unafraid of receiving the harmful item. He repeated with more strength, " Pass it. I don't want you to get hurt."
"Leave me alone, Matt. It's my decision…I know what I'm doing is right," she said as she eyed the hand in front of her, trying not to look into his pained eyes, for she knew her heart would wrench in guilt.
Knowing he wouldn't budge till the girl did what he wanted, she thrust the razor warningly in front of her so that he wouldn't approach her any closer.
"Sora…" he muttered cautiously with hints of weariness appearing on his expression as he confronted the girl on the floor. " You don't know what you're saying..."
"Stay AWAY!" she yelled hysterically, tears continuing to fall.
As Yamato came closer to her, Sora ignorantly swung the sharp razor in threat and accidentally jabbed the blade into his skin, specks of blood presently coming from his open wound. In reflex action he snatched his hand away from the razor, but didn't show agony in his face. He was shielding his expression, he didn't want to show any sign of weakness and making the auburn headed girl feel guilty. His cold eyes stared at her.
Sora dropped the razor on the floor, making it rattle throughout the echoing walls of the bathroom. Sure enough, Tai or Kari would supposedly come from the racket, by now, that the pair had caused.
The adolescent boy placed his fingers on his lips, miming that she was not to mention a word, but Sora couldn't help it.
She choked into sobs as her knees gave way onto the ground. "I'm so sorry, Matt! It's all my fault! It's all my fault..."
"You shouldn't have spoken," Matt sighed. " Tai will probably come up now..."
"I had to," she quivered then repeated, "It's my fault."
"What happens, happens. There's nothing else you can do about it."
"Matt shut up…shut the fuck up," she said in annoyance as she tried to steady herself up as she was about to leave.
"Stay where you are."
The pair turned around to see Taichi with narrow eyes darting directly at both of them, then specifically at Matt's cut on his hand and the blood bleeding from the wound.
"Explain."
"Nothing, there's nothing to explain," Matt wasn't going to give anything away. "I just cut myself. Sora tried to warn me not to…but I couldn't resist."
Sora stared at the ground in disbelief that Yamato was covering up for her, even though she was certain it was her fault. He was getting into trouble all because of her.
"Couldn't resist? Matt, don't you fucking keep anything away from me too! Kari's not speaking to me... and I don't need you to be a complete dick as well," Taichi frowned. "That's the lamest excuse I've heard from you Mr. Ishida. Don't just shrug casually as if it were nothing. That cut is pretty deep…what are you playing at and planning to do Matt? Smoking not enough for you now? How about getting drunk, and perhaps killed while you're at it?"
"Stay out of this you screwed up fucker," Matt spoke gruffly as he pushed Tai away to get out of the room." You don't need to go into my business when you've got your own to deal with!"
Tai pushed him back. " Asshole."
The two began tackling each other now. Fists began flying everywhere as they pounded each other down.
"Leave him alone Tai! He's going to loose much more blood…Matt's getting more white...he's becoming paler...please... stop the both of you!" Sora cried over the two who were still insulting each other at the top of their lungs.
Kari had appeared now. Even though she looked a bit paler than usual and her eyes were puffed a bit, she managed to somehow pull Taichi away from the blond and signalled Sora to do the same to Matt.
As soon as Matt got up, he limped his way up the stairs, avoiding everybody there.
"Coward," Taichi muttered under his breath as he wiped some of the blood from Matt's hand that had managed to find his cheek.
Kari silenced her brother off by sending him a disgusted glance.
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It was morning.
Well after midnight, Mimi and Takeru had arrived together from the nightclub and were completely ignorant to what had happened a couple of hours back, in the Tachikawa household. Twisting and turning on his bed, was Yamato and Taichi still held the grudge and instead of sleeping in the same bedroom, he had slept on the sofa, falling asleep to some late night television show. His snores vibrated throughout the whole night. Kari still felt weak and immediately fell asleep, while Sora couldn't help but wake up and fall a sleep numerous times.
And Matt was the first to get up from bed. He looked a lot healthier since more blood had come back to his cheeks after being rather pale the previous night. He still felt drained from the cut. Before he had finished setting up the tables, a brunette headed boy, the exact same age, walked inside the dining room and took a seat on one of the chairs surrounding the table.
Matt ignored the other person's presence, since he already knew who he was and continued to do his duty in positioning the knives and forks.
"Uh...about last night…" Tai started off.
"It's cool. My fault. No biggy," Matt shrugged simply.
"No…it's no one's fault. But you shouldn't hurt yourself you know…"
"Yeah," lied Matt uncomfortably.
One by one, everyone soon was up from their bed. They were all grateful that Matt had prepared their breakfast and were all currently gobbling down their food, except for one of the crew members.
TK gazed at the girl next to him. He hated looking at her because it hurted him mentally, but he couldn't help but give some glances at her. Her actions seemed as if she knew something…He could almost read her like a book…something was seriously bothering her, she was keeping a secret.
"Kari," he whispered on the side of his mouth.
"What TK?" she asked her hands held the fork, which was fiddling with the food on her plate.
"Aren't you going do eat?" he asked in wonder and worry.
"You can't order me to what I don't feel like doing, TK." she winced in the equal quiet voice that he had spoken so they could only hear each other.
"Try…"
"No Takeru…just leave me alone. Why can't anyone fucking leave me alone these days!" she answered abruptly.
TK sighed in defeat and his eyes leered at the food he was fiddling with, trying not to focus on Kari and the secret she was hiding from everyone.
Breaking the sounds of forks and knives, Mimi opened a letter (which laid on the table) and let out a squeal that all attention was drawn to her.
"What?" Tai yawned. "What does it say to make you all hyped up?"
"It's about the competition," explained Mimi as she reread the letter again. "Good and Bad news…"
"Tell us then…" Sora's soft voice spoke up.
"I don't feel like saying it because I'd probably get interrupted by all you guys. I think it's best if we all read it…"
"Can I read it first then?" Matt sighed as Mimi handed him the letter. " I'll just read it to you guys, and if you guys speak over me…I guess you'll have to read it yourself for I'm not going to repeat this."
"Get on with it already, the suspense is killing me," Tai exploded sarcastically. " Out with it."
"Sure," Matt then read…
To The LimitZ Dancers,
We inform you that the competition will not be taking place this month, due to the number of disturbances and with not many countries attending at the moment. We find it very hard to fit in a timetable where all the dancers around the world are available to compete. We have decided to announce the Dance Competition in a further four months on the 27th of July.
Regards,
Corinne Colum
World's Dance Competition secretary
"That's pure stupidity!" spoke Tai in fury as he stood up. " Don't tell me we're going to stay here for four months!"
"Think of it, Tai," Mimi responded to him thoughtfully, " We can go back to Odaiba, Japan if you want. But I think it's better off if we stay here, since we probably don't have enough money to go back after spending it on coming here."
"It's not all about money," TK stood up from his chair with his hands on the wooden table as he spoke after Kari's point of view. " It's wise to stay here for a while, maybe we can learn and inherit the type of customs and dances here and see what we are actually up against. It will give us time to prepare. If we want to the best, we have to try our best. Not to sit back and relax."
"That's a good point," Matt nodded his head. "Tai, I think they've got you in this one."
"Yeah, they have," Tai sighed as he scratched his back.
"So it's settled," Mimi beamed. "We're staying then."
"I guess we have no other choice. We would have stayed anyway," Sora shrugged. " But what about our schooling then...huh? We can't just abandon our studies and live in this luxurious lifestyle the whole time here. I'm sure my mother wouldn't want me to waste my time for nothing…"
"Waste your time for nothing?" repeated Matt. "This isn't nothing. This isn't what we do for money. This is what we do for ourselves. You're mother would have encouraged you to follow your dreams or at least to do what you love best. But I do admit that we need education to do so…but how can we afford all of us to go to a school? When we hardly have a dollar on ourselves."
"The answer's right in front of you."
Hikari raised her eyebrow at Mimi. "In what way?"
" Hadn't I already told you that my parents will be working their asses off for us?"
"Oh... yeah," stated Tai remembering. "Guess we all should be thankful."
"What are friends for?" Mimi smiled then it quickly turned to a frown. " It's like that anyway, since my parents are almost working twenty-four seven. If you haven't realized, I bet you guys haven't seen them since they picked us up from the airport. It seems they care about too much for us, working and all and going on all those shifts…"
Their conversations died down and left them with the food in front of them. Kari spoke up and said that she needed to go the bathroom. The rest of them remaining there continued to eat, while TK observed the Hikari's meal, which hadn't been touched at all. He frowned.
Not aware that someone was looking at him, he turned back to his food.
"Takeru…"
The younger blond looked up at his brother, across the table from him.
"What?" he scowled in reply.
Yamato got off from his chair and made his way out of the room, " I need to talk to you, perhaps in our room. We really need to talk. I'll meet you there."
With that, Yamato casually walked off.
"Idiot," he mumbled to himself, not noticing that there were other people still surrounding him.
"Don't talk of your brother like that," Taichi sighed.
"I can talk to him however I want, I don't care," Takeru snapped dangerously back, then stormed away meeting up with his brother.
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Yamato Ishida made himself comfortable on his bed. He hadn't expected the news from the people that organized the Dance Competition. He was tired, and he wasn't ready to make a scene out of something, which was not worth it.
He didn't usually speak to his brother much these days. The young innocence of his brother had changed and instead what was supposed to be his brother appeared like an empty soul. Yamato could always see passed the artificial expressions Takeru put on. Matt was the only person who could see his younger brother's emotions through his glassed eyes. That was the only weak spot he could see in his brother.
Was himself
He sighed. He then noticed the bedroom was already messed up from only staying for one night. Across from him was Taichi's bunk bed, while Takeru's bed was on top of Tai's. The room also contained a mirror and a window. Slowly, Matt made his way to view the scenery to see nothing but the large of amounts of other houses displayed before him. He could see the normal blue sky, which spreaded across the plane like a deep ocean of water. He gave a rare smile. Wherever he went, he knew he would drag the blue sky with him. It was like dragging his past, but his past was another story yet to tell. He frowned.
His hands felt for his wallet in his pockets, and managed to take it out. His fingers counted the only money which he had left, the money that his parents had given him since they abandoned the his brother and himself.
A croaky voice broke the silence around him.
"What do you want Matt?"
Matt didn't even bother to turn around.
"I just want you to understand…"
"Understand what? That you're a fucking bastard? I think I already know that," TK spoke sarcastically with hints of meaning in the insult. " What now?"
"Please, I'm not in no mood for lame fights," Matt said rather bluntly.
"This is darn super dooper," TK rolled his eyes.
Even though Takeru had changed quite a lot, he still had that dopey attitude. This made Matt make mocking smile for he couldn't help it. "I know why you hate me, alright? I did it for your own good since I hated how you began following our parents unfortunate footsteps that obviously lead to nothing."
"Just tell me why the hell you want me!" sneered Takeru in irritation. "Get this 'so called' sorting things out over and done with already."
Matt turned around, unexpectedly.
"This is the only money our parents left us for me and you," spoke Matt seriously, there was no sparkle in his eyes. " I think it's best if you go to a private school for our stay here. I can do without schooling."
Takeru stared in awe, he was absolutely not expecting this was what Matt wanted to speak to him about. He almost thought that his brother knew about the drug dealing back at the club, he thought he knew from how Yamato was acting towards him about having some sort of 'private' conversation.
"I thought this money was important for something, so I saved it for a special occasion. And yes, I think the time has come for it to be used. I know how you used to love to write stories…and I wish you to do what you once loved to do. Take this opportunity to go to a really good school."
"What I once loved is all gone. Everything is gone," he replied sternly. " Yamato, what makes you think I really want to go to this 'private' school? You can't really make me go to some poofed up place, which I will only be at for four months! How about you, what about your studies? And why didn't you tell me earlier that you were left with money from our idiot parents?"
"Takeru, if they hated us so much…they wouldn't fricken give us money in the first place," Matt spoke even though he was half sure in what he was saying. "Don't you dare talk like that about our parents. I know what they've done is wrong, but the best for us and saw in their eyes that we were best off alone. I now understand why they didn't want to drag us down into the streets and bad teaching with them. Takeru…why can't you be hopeful like you once were, bro?"
"Being hopeful doesn't help at all."
"So you're going to the private school? Do it for me..."
Takeru sighed, " I'll think about it. And if I'm going, I won't do it for you."
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There's chapter...umm? something for you My chapters are getting longer…and I'm real SORRY for the delay. School just started and I've been loaded with homework, just cope with me for I'm trying my best! Well anyway, I got to go…please review and tell me what you think!
flipstahhz
NEXT CHAPTER: Let's just say that some dancing and a bit of this and that will be going on. More angst…and perhaps fighting! See you next time…
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