The Game of Life
By theladyknight
Disclaimer: Digimon and The Newlywed Game—not mine!
A/N: Thank you to everyone for such an enthusiastic response...I just love hearing what you have to say! Hopefully this chapter doesn't disappoint you! Thank you so so much to everyone who reviewed this story so far!
Forest-Maiden: Thanks, capturing their personalities was something I tried hard to do!
Xymi Angel Ghost: You're not the only one who liked the idea of a drag queen...I'll try and tie it in later...hehehe...
Jksfaerie: Glad you like it!
Erica: Thank you!
Kattrin: I guess it does sound kind of unrealistic but I'm kind of basing it off a few different ideas...and there's the whole fact they have a really odd teacher...but I'm glad you like it!
Cris: Thank you!
Aino Yuy aka Usagi-Hater: Thank you so much! I can't believe I actually made you like Mimi for like even a half a second. Wowz, I hope you like the rest!
crazyamzy: There are more contests on the way...hehehe
blondie121147: Maybe your bf should start taking lessons from Yama...J/K, maybe! Yeah that would be nerveracking in front of a bunch of people...their prize better be good!
Chapter 3: The Newlywed Game
As the day went by, I stayed in this odd ecstatic utopia. I am Mrs. Yamato Ishida, well for the next month at least. How cool does that sound, Sora Ishida! My God, I'm starting to sound like some of Yama's obsessive fan girls. Next thing I'll be signing my name that way.
This whole thing is like way over my head. I can hardly believe any of this is true. It's like a dream. I am Sora Ishida, a fashion designer, and wife of Yamato Ishida, an astronaut. How unbelievable and yet utterly fantastic does that sound? Oh well, reality kicks back in. It's not like any of that will ever happen. I've got to stop daydreaming!
Have you ever noticed, though, when your head is up in the clouds you ALWAYS run smack dab into someone? "Ouch." I felt myself falling, only to be caught by a strong pair of arms as I walked into the lunchroom.
"Wow, you'd better be more careful. Next time someone else might have to catch you, which means I would end up feeling very jealous." Yama smirked as he placed me back on my feet.
"What do you mean?" I responded, not caring I was supposed to be heading into the lunch line, and Yama was supposed to be getting to class.
"Well, as your loving husband, it's my duty to watch out for you. I may just have to kill some guy if he decided to put his arms around you to catch you. Putting arms around you is a privilege reserved for me, no one else." I blushed at his statement and then caught what he had said. Reaching my hand up, I slapped his shoulder. Hard. "Ouch! Guess I deserved that one, huh?"
"Hell yeah you do!" I joked. "Wait, so you'd let me fall and crack my head open instead of letting some guy save my life?"
Yama shook his head. "Sora, Sora, Sora…why would you need some guy to do that when you've got me? I would be there in a heartbeat to catch you!"
I laughed at Yama's flirting and waved the back of my hand in front of his face. "Hello, Ishida, we're already married! The flirting stage has passed!"
He chucked and ruffled my hair. "Aw, Sor, what's the fun in that?" Yama pouted. "So speaking of our married life, I believe we have an assignment to work on. Pick you up after tennis and work on it at my place?"
I smiled. "Retard, you pick me up everyday!" One of the benefits of living next to Yama and Tai is that I never have to drive to school. Don't get me wrong; it's not like I don't have a car or don't like driving—I love driving—it's just Yama's got one sweet car, and he always offers to drive me places. So with that said, I opt to let him drive me to and from school and occasionally other places. It's like having my own personal chauffer! And believe me, it by far beats riding with Tai. It's downright scary with him behind the wheel. Last time I rode with him I almost lost my lunch! "Sounds good to me. But shouldn't you be getting to class?"
"Shit!" he exclaimed looking at the clock. "I'm five minutes late. Oh well, I'll just use the same excuse I always do: rabid fan girls, my teacher eats it up." I rolled my eyes at his excuse. "See you then Mrs. Ishida." He winked. Blushing, I got in the line and sunk into an even greater state of ecstasy…
I walked into class the next day, clutching my notebook and greeted by Hikari. "Learn anything interesting?"
She smiled. "You have no idea how hard it is to find something you don't know about your best friend!" I raised an eyebrow. "Okay, well, maybe you do. Let's just say it required a lot of digging."
Sitting down in my seat, I had to agree with her. Yama and I had worked for two hours trying to find five things about him and five things about me that were previously unknown.
The five things he learned about me: 1) I'm a good kisser; 2) I once broke a window at the Yagamis while playing a game of indoor soccer, blamed it on Tai, and got away with it; 3) I got on the wrong bus on the first day of school in kindergarten and it took my an hour and a half to get home; 4) The real reason I quit soccer; and 5) Actually I have thought of a career in art design, though never as a fashion designer.
Yamato insisted on putting the first one on the list. Then he'd said. "Are you going to put it on your list, that I'm a good kisser too, I mean?" What was I supposed to say? I knew it was true and knew my face had to be showing what I thought. But I didn't want him to know I've got a slight crush on him. So I had made up an excuse not to.
"Ms. Greene will think we're not taking this thing serious and being lazy if I write that too." I answered, avoiding the question he had asked. The truth…he's not a good kisser…he's an unbelievable kisser!
Number two on his list was a great memory to recall. Taichi and I were twelve and had just come back from this big soccer camp. We had decided to try out these new soccer moves they had taught us, and I kind of got a little carried away and kicked the ball into the window. Mrs. Yagami came in and wanted to know what happened. Taichi was so shocked that for once in his life, he was speechless! I did the first thing that came to my mind: pointed in Tai's direction. I don't think he's forgiven me for that yet.
The bus story was stupid, but Yama found it "cute". There was nothing cute about it…I should know! Next I informed him the real reason I had quit soccer, not the gay excuse I had given him and Tai about wanting to give something knew a try. The reason I quit was because of the people on the team. All the girls just assumed they could show up to the games and win. No one wanted to try or practice; they were all stuck up little rich girls. Not all of them were bad; they had just gotten in with the wrong crowd. Needless to say, I quit and took up tennis, finding myself much more comfortable with my new teammates and work ethic.
Finally, as to my dream about being a designer, well, I really can't say when that came about. I've always admired art in its many different forms. We would take class field trips to museums and while others would enjoy missing school and causing mayhem, I would marvel at the architectural structure and always find myself sketching little ideas I came up with. I guess even when I go shopping with Mimi and Hikari, I find myself looking at the outfits and just coming up with something I think would look cool in my mind. Maybe some sort of design is in my future.
My list of Yama's unknown facts was truly unknown. Fact number one about Yamato Ishida: he slept with the light on until he was five. I so could not believe that. I laughed and told him it was cute, much cuter than me getting lost on the first day of kindergarten.
Fact number two: he's part French. You'd think that in all the years we've known each other I would have sometime found out about his background. Obviously not.Yamato and Takeru's grandparents on the Takaishi side live in France and have their whole life. Maybe that's where he inherited all that charm…
Unknown fact number three: Yamato beat Taichi in soccer at the beginning of freshman year. Where was I at when this happened? I don't know all the facts, but I very much intend to razz Taichi about it…he always makes fun of Yama and tells him sports are for the tough guys, not the wimpy music players. We'll see who's wimpy…
For surprising fact number four, I found out Yama is a sweetheart. Okay, guess I already know that, I'd better rephrase it. Somehow Yamato Ishida is even sweeter than I thought. He and his band visit a nursing home once a month and entertain the elderly with some of their favorite songs. Damn, why can't all other guys be like him?
And finally I found out Yamato's greatest fear in life. No it's not snakes or spiders or anything most girls are afraid of. It's not blood or water or anything along those lines. The thing Yamato Ishida is deathly afraid of is, get this…clowns! That's right, clowns. Our conversation had been absolutely hilarious…
"What the hell! You're afraid of clowns?" I had exclaimed, not believing him at first.
He was dead serious. "Have you never seen the movie It?" (Not Mine!) He defended.
"Hello, we watched it together at my place. You were perfectly fine during the movie!" Clowns, that's the kind of thing Taichi would be terrified of!
Yama shook his head persistently. "Well I was fine until I went to sleep and had a dream about aclown with a bloody mouth filled with sharp teeth STALKING me!" he exclaimed. "Sora, you cannot tell anyone about this. Promise."
"Fine."
He smirked at me. "Seal it with a kiss?"
I felt my face heat up. He wants to kiss again? Wait, why am I disagreeing! "I guess." The last thing that entered my vision was Yama's adorable smile. His lips touched down on mine very briefly, igniting a stream of butterflies shooting up in my stomach. How does he do this?
He pulled away from me and smiled again. "You'd better keep your word…"
"I think I can handle it." I answered, surprised I could actually speak after that.
The bell rang snapping me back to the class period. Ms. Greene walked in and gave us all a large smile. "Everyone on time two days in a row. I must be doing something right."
"Do we get our prizes?" Taichi exclaimed. I rolled my eyes. He had to be expecting something very big. Ms. Greene nodded and motioned for my two best friends to come to the front of the room. She handed them each a slip of paper. "What!" Taichi exclaimed. "I owe you one prize which will be handed out at the end of the week? What's up with that?"
"I'm sorry, Taichi, but I spent so much time last night developing what we are going to do today that I completely forgot about the prizes I promised you, Mimi, Yamato, and Sora." Taichi sulked all the way to his seat. "From now on, anytime any couple wins a prize, it will be handed out at the end of the week. You only have to wait two more days, Taichi, and I have a feeling those two days will pass rather quickly, especially after what I have in store for today."
"What would that be?" Koushiro asked.
Ms. Greene's smile got even larger, if possible. "I would like all the ladies to come up to the front of the room and pick up five sheets of the cut-up poster board. Please grab a sharpie from my desk and stay up there. There you will find a list of five questions. Label one poster board one, the next two, and so on all the way to five. On the sheet labeled one, write your answer to question one. Do the same for question two and the others. When you're finished write your initials in the top left hand corner of each sheet, put them together face down with number one on the top and bring them over to me. Most importantly of all, do not confer with the other ladies and especially not with the gentlemen."
I looked at Hikari and Mimi as we walked to the front of the room and followed her instructions. The questions were interesting and kind of clever. I wonder what we're doing. Mimi, Hikari, and I were the last three done, and when we had each handed her our poster boards, she smiled. "Okay, now I would ask the gentlemen to do the same. You will find a list of five new questions, however."
Yamato gave me an odd look but walked to the front of the classroom with the other guys and completed the task. Ms. Greene was busy looking at each of our boards and writing our initials on the back of sheet number one. When each guy got done and handed her his answers, she would check her grade book for who each one's partner was, setting their sheets on top of their partners. When the last guy had finished she grabbed some more poster board and three markers. "Gang, we are going to play the Newlywed game."
My mouth fell open. Where does she come up with this kind of stuff? Ms. Greene explained the rules of the game and looked out at us. "Okay we need three couples to start us off. Any volunteers?"
Taichi's hand shot up in the air despite the pleading look Mimi was giving him. Knowing how easy it would be to beat the two of them, Yamato's arm flew into the air followed shortly by his little brother's. Hikari and I grinned at each other. This will definitely be interesting.
"Come right up ladies and gentlemen! Let the game begin." She pulled six desks to the front of the room. "Take a seat next to your partners. We are going to ask the men questions first. Each of you gets five new pieces of poster board and will write down what you think your wife wrote. Ladies, I'm going to be giving you your answers. Do not, I repeat, do not show these to your husband."
Ms. Greene handed out the new sheets. "Okay, here we go! Question number one: Gentlemen, if your girl was an article of clothing or accessory, excluding undergarments, what would she choose to be?"
The class began laughing as the mouths of all the guys dropped. Taichi, Yamato, and Takeru all furiously began writing. Oh my God, I'm afraid to see what the guys, especially these three will come up with…"I see the three of you are done. Taichi, since you are the closest to me, we'll start with you. What did you think Mimi would choose and offer a short explanation if you want to."
"Well," Taichi began flipping his paper over, "I have to say Mimi would be a shoe." I bit my lip to keep from laughing. Mimi is so going to let him have it! "She constantly goes shopping and is always on her feet going from store to store. She could shop for twenty four hours straight if you let her." Koushiro, sitting out in the audience, was nodding his head in agreement.
"Mimi, what did you choose." Mimi glared at Tai and held up her sign, revealing the word Purse.
"The purse controls everything and holds all the money. What good is shopping without a purse?" Mimi asked like it was the most obvious thing in the world. Taichi gave her a goofy grin and rolled his eyes, signifying for Ms. Greene to move onto Takeru.
"I chose earrings." Takeru answered, sure of his answer. "Hikari loves earrings." Taichi's little sister grinned and reveled her sign, reading earrings. Ms. Greene gave them a grin and marked a tally mark under their name; she had written all the names on the board with room to mark points underneath them.
"Well, I think Sora would be a jersey because she's involved in so many sports and is awesome at them all." I smiled sadly at Yama.
"I chose a headband. That's the first sports thing that came to mind."
"Eh, we'll get the point back." (A/N: Quick note, the teacher will ask them the question, and then they will stop and write it down, not answer immediately. I just didn't want to write, he wrote, she wrote over and over again...)
Ms. Greene smiled. "So at the end of round one, Takeru and Hikari have the lead. Question number two: what is your wife's favorite sport?" Out of the corner of my eye I saw Yamato smirk. Then I remembered what I wrote. He won't be able to figure it out…"Taichi?" Ms. Greene asked.
"I'm confident the answer is cheerleading. Mimi is like second in command on the squad." Mimi's head fell into her hands. She turned her sign so we could all see the words "Shopping" in big letters. I guess they're not going to win. The team with the most points at the end gets a prize at the end of the week.
Takeru and Hikari both had written cheerleading, go figure. They're like obsessed with each other yet still have not gotten together. Maybe this part of the big game will show them what everyone else can see so obviously. "Yamato?" Ms. Greene asked.
"Tennis, but soccer is a close second. She loves them both." He explained.
You've got to bekidding me. Ishowed my sign to the class, revealing exactly what Yama wrote. He gave me a high five.
"Sora and Yamato are on the board. The score is now Takeru and Hikari two, Yamato and Sora one, and Taichi and Mimi zero. Question three, what would you expect on a romantic first day on Valentine's Day?"
"Flowers!" Taichi exclaimed hopefully after Ms. Greene gave him the okay to go.
"FINALLY!" Mimi shouted showing her sign. Takeru and Hikari yet again got the question right, both answering flowers. I hope that's not what Yama wrote…
"Stargazing…she hates flowers." I sighed with relief and showed my sign. "The Takaishis three, the Ishidas two, and the Yagamis have one. Question number four, what quality do you feel your man most exhibited when he proposed to you?"
"Sincerity. I was being completely honest." Taichi confirmed.
Ms. Greene laughed. "I believe you Taichi."
"Another round without a point," Mimi sighed, "because I wrote humor."
"Did you not think I was being sincere?" Taichi asked.
Mimi rolled her eyes. "Come on, I usually associate humor with you, dork, not sincerity."
"Koushiro, please take her off my hands!" Taichi begged, causing the class to snicker and the boy genius to blush.
"Thoughtfulness. She told me she liked it." The younger blond answered.
"Yep!" Hikari exclaimed. Damn, those two know each other way too well it's almost unhealthy for them not to be together.
Yamato smirked at me. "Charm. That was one of the first words out of her mouth after I proposed." I nodded and held up my sign.
Ms. Greene moved us right along. "Final question, on a scale of one to ten, how compatible do you think you are with your partner?"
"Eleven!" Taichi shouted receiving a handful of laughs. "Actually I chose pi! Yes, I know what pi is…3.14159…Yes, we did cover that in Algebra I!" He answered the question we all were wondering by showing us his sign. Ireally wonder about him sometimes, now being one of those times.
"Well, I definitely didn't think of that." Mimi answered. Her piece of poster board read five.
"Nine." Takeru answered hesitantly.
"Nine." Hikari echoed.
Yamato looked at me. "Perfect ten." He thinks we are a ten…oh my God…
I shook my head not wanting to meet his gaze. "Eight." Quite honestly I thought we were a ten too, I just didn't want to write that. I was afraid of what he would say.
"I tend to have high expectations." He winked at me, and I felt myself blush.
Ms. Greene clapped her hands. "At the end of the girls section the score reads: Takeru and Hikari in the lead with five points, Yamato and Sora are close behind with three points, and Mimi and Taichi are bringing in the rear with one. Now it's the girls turn to answer the questions." She handed out the new board to the Hikari, Mimi, and me and gave the boys their answers. "Ladies, if your man was stranded on a desert island, what would he bring?"
This is an easy one…"Food!" Mimi exclaimed holding up her sign.
"Amen, woman!" Taichi answered. "We got another point!"
"Hikari?"
"Rope and a hatchet." Hikari answered. Takeru shook his head and for the first time, the two got a question wrong. His sign showed the words pocket knife.
"His guitar." I read off my sheet. Yama smiled at me and revealed the same answer.
"What kind of food would your man want to be?"
"Ham. Because he is one." Mimi explained.
Taichi folded his arms. "I am not. I chose meatballs…yum, does anyone know what's for lunch?"
We chose to ignore his statement and continued on. "Pasta." Hikari answered and this time Takeru nodded in agreement, giving his own answer.
It was my turn. "Chocolate." Definitely chocolate because he's as sweet as it.
"Chocolate it is." Yamato answered. Yes, two for two. I'm surprised at the little things we know about each other.
Ms. Greene looked at her paper. "Question three, what's your man's favorite school subject."
Mimi smiled cockily. "Lunch."
"We have a winner! No one answered my question about what we're having either! I'm hungry!" Taichi exclaimed.
"You're always hungry, big brother. Physical education is Takeru's favorite subject." Kari answered interrupting her brother.
Takeru smiled. "PE." They're on a roll.
"Music?" I asked Yamato. He shook his head and surprisingly his sign read physics. I never knew that…
"Question number four: if your guy could change one thing about himself what would it be?"
"The hair has so got to go!" Mimi answered. "Big bushy hair is so 1980's."
Taichi frowned. "Do not diss the hair! There's nothing wrong with it. My feet are too small." He answered receiving odd looks from the rest of the class.
"Okay, Hikari, please, please, give us your answer."
"His knees. Takeru's taken a lot of hits during basketball."
Takeru nodded again. "She's got it!"
"Sora?"
"He wouldn't change anything about himself. He likes looking at his appearance too much." I rolled my eyes. It is so true. No matter how much Yamato denies it, he's is obsessed about his appearance, well, at least about his hair.
Taichi nodded. "She nailed that baby!"
Yamato shook his head. "I'm do not like looking at my appearance. But actually that is what I wrote. I'm happy with myself."
Ms. Greene smiled. "Now that we have those, um…personal…issues out of the way, we will have the last question. Ladies, please write down what you think your husbands greatest fear is."
I smirked. Technically I'm not breaking my promise. I'm not telling people; I'm just writing it. Yamato caught my eye and he knew what I was planning. He shook his head, but I could tell hehad it written down.
"Mimi?" Ms. Greene asked.
"He's afraid of losing at soccer."
Taichi stood up. "Why would I be afraid of loosing at soccer when we are invincible?" Ms. Greene motioned for him to sit back down. "I chose ghosts."
I couldn't help myself. "Of all the things in this world, you are afraid of ghosts?"
"What! There are worse things I could be afraid of."
I grinned. "You're right Taichi. There are worse things…" I trailed off, looking at Yama.
"Ha!" he laughed. "I can't wait to see what she wrote for his!"
"Hikari, what do you think Takeru is afraid of."
Hikari revealed her sign. "I think it's sharks."
"Sharks?" Takeru questioned. "I've never seen a shark. I'm terrified of spiders."
"Sora. What is Yamato afraid of?"
I showed my sign, keeping my word about not saying anything. "CLOWNS! Yamato is afraid of clowns!" Taichi roared, which set the whole class off.
Yama smiled embarrassedly. "At least we got the question right." His sign too said clowns.
When Ms. Greene had regained her composure, she quieted the class. "Okay, it's time to have the final scores. Finishing in third place with a total of three points, give it up for Taichi and Mimi!" the class cheered as the two bowed. "In second place with a total of seven points, Yamato and Sora." Yama offered me his hand and we got up and bowed before heading back to our seats. "And finishing in first after missing only two questions, give it up for Takeru and Hikari!"
The two blushed and bowed before heading back to their seats. Ms. Greene called forth three more couples and we listened to their answers. No one came close to the high mark Takeru and Hikari had set. As the bell rang, Ms. Greene, announced we would finish this part of the game tomorrow and see whom the winners were.
Yama walked over to me and draped his arm around my back. "We didn't do too bad, Sor."
"No we didn't. You're not mad at me for the whole clown thing are you?"
He grinned his best grin at me. "I could never be mad at you; it's too hard. Believe me, I've tried but it just doesn't work."
I blushed again. "If you say so…"
He chuckled. "Come on, next class awaits. I'm going to walk you there to make sure I'm there to catch you if you fall, Mrs. Ishida."
That's the second time he's called me that. It sounds so much better when he says it. Mrs. Ishida. "Lead the way, Mr. Ishida." I answered…
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