BrnttsDoItBest- Aww! Someone else who likes the violence. I always liked it when Tai and Matt fought, just cause it was funny. Wow, know there is a statement that proves I'm desensitized to violence... Anyway, good guess on why ;)

Psyclone- Thanks! I was thinking about doing it two ways, so that everyone can be happy. We'll see.

ghikiJ- Yep, but the fight is really short. Yeah, I am sneaky, but I don't know about brilliant. Tai will have problems this chapter, he'll definitely be missing his powers.

KoumiLoccness- You know what? Izzy does rhyme with Bizzy! And for those who don't know, Bizzy has several meanings, including a marijuana cigar, the name of a member of Bone Thugs N Harmony, and leaving some place. Also, Izzy rhymes with Hizzy, which means your house or place of residence. Shizzy is another word that can rhyme, which means sure. With all of the being said, my new favorite sentence is now "Izzy is going to bizzy out of his hizzy to go hang with Bizzy and smoke some bizzy, fo shizzy."

Sweetyakane- Yeah, I like hippie Davis too. I hope I didn't take too long updating! (PS- You're not weird, trust me. You aren't the one who just dissected current slang in a response to the review above.)

Digilover- Hehe! I'm glad that people like Davis! I hope you like this chapter!

AddictiveJon- Thank you! I try to be evil and great on a daily basis.

Vigatus- Thanks for reviewing!

Kari-HP- Go violence! Too bad it is really short. Thanks!

Star- Hope I don't disappoint!

Kaye- Yeah, I like the dad scene too. I hope you like this chapter!

Luinas- AWWWWWW! You are so sweet! I'm glad to know that you like the story so much! Enjoy!

Lord of swords and waffles- First off, I must say that your name kicks butt. That said, I'm so happy that you reviewed! I'm actually very happy that you like both couples, cause that means you won't be disappointed which ever way it goes. Anyway, thanks for reading!

Torri-Chiobie- Thanks for all of the reviews! I hope you keep reading.

Nickygirl- Ah, sorry if it wasn't really clear. His mom told him that the chapter was named wrong; Women didn't really just want to fall in love, they wanted to be loved and love others. And, since Tai is loved by his family and friends, the curse was broke. Hope it's clearer now.

Mrs.Ishida-to-you- Sorry, I'm just a confusing person. Thanks for reviewing!

AN- Thanks to all of the reviewers again! I'm sorry the responses are short, but I wanted to get you to the story faster :) But I really had fun with the response to KoumiLoccness. Ah.

Sorry it took so long to update, I have had major writer's block. Blah. Well, I hope that you like this chapter, because I know that you guys have been waiting a long time for it! (hides under desk) please don't hurt me…please don't hurt me…. ENJOY!

Meant to Be

When Tai woke up that morning, he had no idea how it would end. He just knew that today, it HAD to end. "It" being this the relationship problems with Sora and Mimi.

And how he wished he still had his powers. It had only been three days without them, but Tai realized how much he had come to depend on it. Now, he could only look at the girls' faces and guess what was going inside their minds. It was driving him even crazier than the curse had at first.

After waking up that morning, and coming to all of these conclusions, Tai headed down to a park near his home, hoping that practicing soccer would help him clear his mind. It was helping, a little, or at least did until the present when Tai stopped, noticing another person nearby.

Tai picked up his ball and walked over to a bench where Davis sat, looking slightly gloomy. Tai noticed that he was wearing his normal clothes again, except for the leather sandals.

"Violet said they looked good," Davis explained when he saw where Tai was looking. Tai nodded in agreement and sat down next to him. They sat that way for a while until Davis spoke again. "They didn't really like the poetry."

"Yeah," Tai agreed.

"Or the hippie act."

"Yeah."

"And I called Yolie 'blossommon'," Davis said shamefully, burying his face in his hands. "Don't get me wrong, I don't get annoyed by her because she's a girl, just because she is herself."

"Oh, well, that's nice," Tai said, rolling his eyes.

"No, don't you see? At first I under appreciated girls, then I over appreciated them. I've decided that I was wrong both times, and that we are all equal. So I think Yolie can be annoying just because that's who she is, not because she is a girl."

Tai looked at his friend, considering him for a moment. It seemed that the curse had helped more than just Tai. Tai patted him on the back and gave him a smile. "It's weird, realizing all of this all of a sudden, isn't it? It makes me feel so grown up, like I've matured in such a short time."

Davis smiled back and nodded. He looked down at his feet and his smiled widened and he blushed slightly. "Having Violet helped a lot," he said. Noticing Tai stiffen, Davis looked hesitant, but said, "Have you picked yet?"

Tai's eyes widened. He had always figured that no one else knew about his dilemma. Tai shook his head, silently answering Davis' question.

Davis stood up, about to leave. He hesitated, however, and turned back to Tai. "I'm not one to give advice, but I think you already know. If you really step back, Tai, you'll see that there is only one girl for you. I can see it every time you look at her, I just hope you can see it too."

Davis started walking away, but Tai called after him, slightly desperate.

"Can you tell me who it is, then?"

Davis shook his head as he continued walking.

Well, at least he tried.


"Tachikawa residence, Mimi speaking. How can I help you?"

"Hi, Mimi. It's Tai."

"Oh, it's you," She said in a relieved tone. He heard rustling in the background and some yelling in another room.

"Things okay over there?"

Mimi sighed. "Yeah, just hectic. Can I call you later?"

Tai hurried on, "I just wanted to ask if we could meet up later tonight."

There was a pause, as he heard Mimi sit on what sounded like her bed. "Not tonight, Taichi."

He couldn't help but notice that her voice sounded really tired. He frowned, but asked, "How about tomorrow, then? Around one at the park by your apartment?"

"Tai…" Mimi started, sounding hesitant

"Please?" He said pleadingly, cutting her off.

"Yeah, okay. I'll see you then."


"Hello?"

"Hi, Sora. It's Tai."

"Hi! How's it going?"

"Good. Hey, do you have plans tonight?"

"No, not really. Do you wanna do something?"

"Yeah, meet me at the park at 4:00, you know, the one where we played soccer as kids."

"Okay, meet you there."


"You picked!" Kari shrieked as Tai hung up the phone.

"What?" Tai said, covering his ears and wincing.

"You picked, and you are going to tell them, right?"

Tai sweat dropped and scratched his head. "Well, actually, I just called them so I would be forced to make a decision. I haven't actually made it yet, though."

Kari looked at him in disbelief. Tai groaned and fell backwards onto his mattress, covering his face with his pillow. "Davis says I already know, or at least he can tell, but he won't tell me!"

Tai felt Kari sit next to him.

"Tai," she started, "I've been thinking. None of us can tell you who to pick, but I think I know a way for you to help yourself. You remember when you couldn't pick whether to go to college or start pro soccer right away?"

"Er, yeah…" Tai mumbled.

"Well, you said you envisioned what you wanted our lives to be like when we were older. I was thinking that maybe you should, you know, do that again."

Tai nodded under his pillow. He relaxed and let his mind slip into thoughts of the future. The happy faces of his friends came and went as he tried seeing them 10 years older. He let himself drift through his daydream when…

"Oh!" Tai gasped, sitting up so fast that his pillow flew across the room. It had hit him so suddenly, that he couldn't believe that it had taken this long.

Kari put a hand on his shoulder to calm him. He looked at her with a confused face and mumbled, "How?"

"How can you just suddenly realize the person for you, just like that? It seems too easy, almost, right?" She asked, and Tai nodded. "The same thing happened with TK. I had been confused for so long, and then you said those words to me, and it was suddenly just so clear, so simple. But that didn't make it any less right. It was what I really wanted, what my heart wanted."

Tai stood up and started pacing the room, excitement building in him. Plans were forming in his head, bouncing all around. He stopped suddenly and turned to Kari.

"I need you to do me a very important favor."


Sora's reddish brown eyes light up in excitement as she looked that the picnic table. Tai stood next to it, smiling at Sora as she took in the dinner set out for them.

"Taichi! This is amazing!" Sora exclaimed, clapping her hands together.

"Thanks. Kari did all of it, really. Everyone knows that I can't cook." Tai said.

Sora smiled and sat down and Tai followed suit. They ate and talked happily about school and graduation in the spring. When they finished, Tai cleared the table and the two of them sat on top of it, watching people walk through the park in front of them.

"I hear that it's supposed to rain later. I had to help Mama put up our store awning earlier so that our outside display wouldn't get wet." Sora said, tucking a piece of her red hair behind her ear and looking at the sky, which was still partly sunny.

Tai nodded, looking up too. He looked at Sora and then away, smoothing out his blue dress shirt he was wearing. "Hey, Sora?"

"Yeah?"

She looked at him, and he noticed how beautiful she looked at that moment, sun hitting her orange hair, red eyes and yellow sweater. She could rival the most beautiful sunset or brilliant flame.

"I need to tell you something really important."


"Why are you all here?" Matt asked, looking at the group of digidestined in his living room, lounging and eating food while talking amongst themselves.

"Matt, they are our friends. I invited them over," TK said, exasperated.

"Yeah, yeah. So where are Tai, Mimi and Sora then?" Matt asked, opening the fridge and pulling out a pop.

Everyone exchanged glances.

"Mimi is…out," Yolie answered evasively.

"Out? Okay…" Matt said, looking suspicious. "Where is Tai and Sora then?"

Kari stiffened. TK looked uncomfortable, looking from his brother to his girlfriend. "Matt, we didn't want to be the ones to tell you, but…"


Sora smiled happily at Tai, pushing his brown hair out of his eyes. He leaned in and softly kissed her on the lips. She pressed her lips back against his firmly, yet gently. It only lasted a few seconds before they pulled apart. She gave him a content smile, which he returned, until a strangled sound broke through calm. They both turned, to see Matt standing a few yards away from them, enraged.

"Get the hell away from her!" Matt snarled in a dangerous voice.

She looked at Matt, stunned, as Tai slowly took his arm away from her body.

'This seemed like a much better idea in my head…' Tai thought, and then focused on what was happening as Matt's fist slammed into his face.

Tai flew backwards off the picnic table and landed on the grass. Tai stood up and tried to sidestep Matt's tackle aimed at him, but was too slow. Both boys went crashing to the ground again, their grunts from the impact with the earth mixed with screaming from Sora, who was still on the picnic table. Matt was on top of Tai quickly, pinning him down and ready to pull another punch, when she yelled-

"Yamato! Stop!"

He hesitated, but didn't turn to look at his ex-girlfriend. He instead glowered at Tai, hurt evident in his eyes, and a whole lot of anger there as well. Tai should have been scared, or at least preparing to fight back, but instead he gave Matt a calm, but disappointed gaze.

"It's about time," Tai scolded.

"What?" Matt said, looking thrown off.

Tai rolled his eyes and tried to look bored...well, as bored as one can look when about to have the crap beat out of them. "It took you long enough. If I knew that my best friend was moving in on the girl I was still in love with, I would have come running as fast as I could."

Matt moved off of Tai and stood up. Tai pulled himself off the ground, wincing as his back protested.

"How did you know that I would find out? You didn't tell me, TK did…"

"Actually, Kari's boyfriend told you. She was doing a favor for me. I was starting to think that she messed it up when you didn't show up earlier."

"But why would you want to bring me here?"

Matt's line of questioning was broken off when Sora seemed to come to herself again. She stood up and stomped over to Matt, finger pointing at him violently.

"Yamato Ishida! What right do you have to come here? And to fight with a friend! Why did you come here?" She asked, confusion and anger present in her voice.

Matt looked at his shoes, not meeting Sora's eyes.

Sora sighed and walked up to Tai and brushed off his back. "Look at what you did to him, Matt. You got his good clothes all dirty. All for something he didn't do…"

"No," Tai broke in, looking ashamed, "I did deserve it. I was trying to win you over, and I took you out on dates, all without telling Matt or asking his permission. I deserved something."

Sora shook her head. "But Tai, why would you have to ask or tell him, even after we broke up?"

Tai grabbed Sora's hand in his and reached for Matt's too. "Because I knew he still loved you." And with that, he put their hands in each others. Matt blushed and looked uncomfortable, and tried to break the hold, but Tai was still holding their hands together.

"Tai…" Matt trailed off in an indistinguishable voice.

"Oh, stop being stupid. I was there when you told me that you weren't ready for her to date again, and that you still had feelings for her. I saw that. And you," He said, turning to a startled Sora, "I know that you still like him too. How you always are thinking about him, and how you still admire him even though you guys split up. And I bet you guys can't even remember what you broke up over."

Matt and Sora looked at each other, and when Tai released their wrists, they didn't pull their hands away from the other. They smiled at each other hopefully, but then Matt turned to Tai, a frown on his face.

"You still like Sora," He stated.

Tai shook his head.

"No, we're just friends."

"You were just kissing her!"

"A friendly kiss. I had just got done telling Sora that I thought that we weren't meant to date each other. She makes a much better soccer buddy and confidant than girlfriend. I always thought that we should date because of that, that and everyone thought that we would be so good together, that I just believed that. I finally realized that I don't like Sora like that, though."

Tai walked over to the picnic basket and pulled out a single plate with something already on it and handed it to Matt.

"Now I want to see you guys acting like your usually lovey-dovey selves on Monday. No excuses. Matt, here, enjoy your strawberry cheesecake."

Tai started walking away from the confused couple.

"Where are you going, Tai?" Sora called after him.

Tai turned and grinned. "To go get my mint chocolate cake."


Tai walked through town, glancing up worriedly at the sky every once in a while. He had remembered that he wouldn't get to see Mimi until tomorrow, and on top of that, the sky looked like it was going to dump rain on him any second.

Suddenly, Tai felt something rush by and fall into him, causing him to loose balance and fall over. Tai looked up to see a girl around seven with long blonde curly hair staring at him.

"How about an apology?" Tai asked as she just stood there.

She winked at him with her big blue eyes, then stuck her tongue out and ran away.

"What a brat! Could this get worse?"

The rain that had been threatening finally made good on its promise. Tai grunted as he got up and ran for cover under a small tree in front of a fancy looking restaurant. The tree wasn't protecting him very well, and he shivered in the fall air.

Suddenly, the rain stopped dripping on him as an umbrella covered him. Tai looked behind him to see a strange girl holding it over him.

"Tai? What are you doing out here?"

Tai jumped when he realized it was Mimi's voice, and when he looked closer, that it was Mimi herself. But he could understand why he didn't recognize her at first. Her natural wavy hair was straightened and pulled into an elegant pony tail. She was wearing a cream colored dress suit that Mimi would normally never wear, and sure enough, the boring shoes that he had picked out a week ago.

"Mimi, you look…" Tai trailed off, not knowing how to phrase it.

Mimi scoffed, and said in a disgusted voice, "Elegant? Like a preppy future trophy wife?"

"I was gonna say pretty, but whatever floats your boat."

Mimi shot him a skeptical look.

Tai shrugged at her. "It's not you, but I think you look beautiful no matter what you wear." Mimi blushed at this. Tai continued, "But I have to admit, those are the largest pearl earrings I've ever seen."

Mimi punched him lightly on the shoulder and smiled. "My father's choice. Don't they look horribly expensive?"

"Like you could feed another nation with the money from selling them."

Mimi laughed happily and shifted her grip on her umbrella. "So, how was your date with Sora?"

Tai stopped mid laugh and looked at her shocked. Of course, Mimi and Sora talked about almost everything; Sora must have told her earlier.

"No, its not like that. Sora and Matt are back together," Tai explained hurriedly.

Mimi looked pained and placed at hand on Tai's arm. "Oh, Tai. I'm so sorry. I know that you wanted it to work out this time and all…"

"Wait, no-" Tai started but was cut off by another voice called from the restaurant door behind them.

"Mimi? What are you doing out here? Taichi Kamiya? Is that you?"

Tai turned to see a guy his age standing there in a nice black suit and expensive tie.

"Oh, sorry. I'm coming right back in," Mimi answered. She turned back to Tai. "You remember Michael, right?"


AN- Duh-duh-duh! Why is Michael here? You'll just have to wait till next time! The next two chapters are going to be posted at the same time, so make sure you read both of them.

Now, I would like to apologize to all of you Taiora shippers. I think that they make a really good couple. I just wanted this story to go in a different direction. I do adore all of you, though, for all of the reviews and encouragement you've given me. Thank you so much!

As for my next stories, I've been thinking about several possibilities. There is one where Tai makes a wish (in anger) that they never went to the digital world and then, well, it comes true, and then Tai has to get everything back to normal, but the problem is that everyone is a lot different from Tai's version of them…Yeah, so there's that one. It would be a Taiora and Mimato. Then I was thinking of doing a sequel to What Women Want, but I don't know what the plot would be yet. But you know what would help? Just put in your review what couple you want in the next story (or two) and I'll work from there. It can be anyone, really.

Well, that's all for now. I hope not all of you are horribly disappointed. Thanks for reading!