The Game of Life
By theladyknight
Disclaimer: Digimon—not mine!
A/N: Please R&R and a huge thanks to everyone who does!
I lurv Digimon: Hello! I'm in the process of editing this fic right now, so I figured why not respond to a few of your reviews right now. First off, thanks for the nitpicking. When you get a lot of those "OMG, you have to update soon," yada, yada, yada, things, you tend to forget the number of mistakes in your fic. I know I have plenty. Let's see, actually when I first wrote this fic, I was basing it in America. I just much perferred the Japanese names to the dubbed ones. That's the reason for Ms. Greene's name and some of the others. I figured why not throw in a loopy teacher with some crazy ideas...that's why some of the games don't really fit all that well. The one's coming up are much more relevant -scratches head- at least I think so. Also, you'll probably notice, because I do, that my writing changes as the fic goes on. It's a result of maturing -I think...lol!- and me being smarter and doing research on the things I needed to know that I didn't, usually regarding the Japanese culture. I'll address anything else later cause I'm supposed to be writing a persuasive speech right now. But just keep on reviewing and sending your comments, they really are beneficial! Thanks!
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Chapter 7: Meeting the Family
"So Meems, when are we going to meet and work on our project?" Taichi asked through a mouthful of food.
"Taichi, if we eat somewhere with my parents, you're really going to need to work on your table manners."
Yamato smirked. "Do you really think that could happen?"
I laughed while stirring the mystery meat around on my plate. "I doubt it. He's always eaten like that."
Tai stuck out his tongue. "You never answered my question."
"I'll talk to my parents." Mimi replied.
"So, is there a time we can get together?" I asked the blond sitting next to me. Hopefully we can get something worked out now that we've taken care of the little problem we just solved.
Yama went to respond but Tai cut him off. "When will you two get together? Honestly, we're all waiting."
The blond faced him. "What!"
"You know he's right, Yama." Takeru rolled his eyes. "So do you, Sora."
"Do yourselves a favor and admit you like each other." Koushiro said, joining the conversation.
"We all see it. You two must be really blind if you can't." Hikari added.
Mimi wore a sly smile. "We've seen the looks you give each other when you think no one's looking and I saw your little "method" of transporting gummy worms between yourselves at the last challenge." She paused dramatically. "I saw you kiss Sora, Yamato."
Our faces both began to heat up. "Ooh! Ooh! So it's true!" Taichi exclaimed hysterically. "It's about damn time!"
The bell rang pausing our conversation and getting us away from the others. "Let's get outta here." Yamato whispered as we took our trays up.
"Where to? We have class now."
"So?" He answered, picking up his book bag. "We skipped most of last class. We have study hall next, it's not like we're going to be missing anything."
"We're gonna get our asses chewed if we're caught." I reasoned. "Besides, what are we going to do?"
He gave me his gorgeous smile. "We can go eat lunch with my dad. He'll be at his office and we can just pick up some fast food. Otherwise I can't think of a time he will be free that the two of us are."
Well, that made his suggestion more understandable. We have to meet with his father sometime for class and this does seem like the only way. "Alright. But if we get caught…"
"I'll make it up to you somehow." He promised, grinning.
I raised an eyebrow as we sat down in our seats in study hall so the teacher could take roll. Luckily, this day of the week we have the oldest teacher in the school. She's pretty scatterbrained and forgets a lot of stuff.
"All right class, I have a lot to do. Keep yourselves busy and don't bother me."
She looked down at her work and as people began talking, Yamato gave me a nod. Our desks were right next to the door and snuck out of the room, walked down the hall, and after checking to make sure our principal wasn't patrolling that hall at the moment, snuck out the door.
Yamato and I laughed all the way to his car and the whole drive to Burger King (not mine!). Five minutes later we pulled up in the radio stations parking lot and headed up to Mr. Ishida's office.
He was pretty shocked to see us there.
"Yamato, Sora, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be in school?"
His son rolled his eyes. "We're here to do an assignment, dad. For one of our classes, the teacher assigned us partners and we're "married" to them. We have to meet the in-laws and have them sign a sheet to prove we did. Oh, and we brought you lunch."
Hiroaki Ishida stared at the two for a minute, letting the information sink in before letting out a laugh. "So you two got paired together. Could it be telling us something about the future, huh?"
My cheeks turned rosy and I faced the window so the two men couldn't see them. "Dad," Yamato began, "seriously, can we just stay on subject?"
"Of course son, but admittance is the first step…"
We spent the next half and hour eating our lunch with Matt's dad and having a nice conversation about all sorts of things with him. He nearly choked on his food when he heard Takeru and Hikari had been paired up. "Now if there are any two people who belong to be together as much as you two, it's your brother and Hikari."
Yama and I kept glancing at each other whenever he said something like that. Does everyone have something to say about this? But as soon as the subject would make its way into the conversation, it would drop.
Hiroaki Ishida is a nice guy. He's quite different than I expected him to be. Of all my friend's parents, he's probably the one I knew the least about until today.
I looked up at the clock and realized it was time for us to get back to school before we got in trouble. "Yama, we've better be heading back."
"Yeah." He replied, checking the time as well. "I'll see you later, dad."
Mr. Ishida smiled. "It was nice having lunch with the two of you. Have a good day now kids, and remember: admittance is the first step! You're going to have to tell her sometime, Yamato!"
We walked back to the blonde's car in silence. "So…"
"So," I responded.
"We need to get a new set of friends and family members."
"Definitely."
He laughed. "I…never mind."
"What?" I responded.
"It's not important right now." He answered, driving back towards school. I gave him a quizzical look but he said nothing more. Guess I'll find out later…
Yamato and I arrived back at school with just enough time to slip into study hall before the bell rang. The rest of the day went by really fast. Since we had until Friday morning to get the rest of our family meetings done, Yamato and I decided to have breakfast with my parents on Friday morning.
We hadn't heard from Taichi or any of the others how their "meeting the parents" times went but I was sure we would hear all about it on Friday during class and they wouldn't be a bit normal.
The doorbell rang at 7:30 Friday morning and dad greeted Yamato. "How are you doing today?"
"I'm pretty good, Mr. T. What about you?"
"Fantastic. Toshiko's making some of my favorite breakfast foods so there's no reason for me not to be happy."
The blond chuckled and noticed me. "Hey Sora."
"Hello, Yamato." I replied smiling at him.
Dad laughed. "Aren't you going to give her a good morning kiss?"
"A good morning kiss?" I wondered.
Dad rolled his eyes like it was the most obvious thing in the world. "I kiss your mother every morning. Now go on…I'll leave you two in private so I don't get yelled at for watching you kiss."
Yamato was fighting the urge to crack up but I was trying not to strangle my dad. I bit my lip as the blond moved closer to me. "I hate my dad."
"Why, because he's making you kiss me?" Yamato asked sounding rather hurt.
"Of course not," I replied. "He just comes up with the craziest ideas."
Yama grinned and whispered, "So, you don't mind that I have to kiss you?"
"Um…I…no." I stuttered feeling weak in the knees.
"Good." He leaned down and brushed his lips against mine. I shut my eyes and fell right into the kiss immediately. There's just something about him and the way he kisses me that make me almost float on air. Yamato deepened the kiss and his tongue entered my mouth.
Okay, there's nothing going on between us yet every time we kiss, the kisses are so passionate and full of…love. That's it; I think I have fallen for Yamato or fell for him long ago but took me forever to realize it. But if he isn't pulling away, and I'm not pulling away, does it mean he feels the same way.
I wrapped my arms around him and kissed him back with as much hunger not caring if my parents walked in. This feels so right. "Sora, Yamato! Breakfast is ready!" mom called from the kitchen.
We ignored her, lost in our own little world. "Are you two still kissing?" Dad shouted. This time we did break away, both breathing deeply. "That was one hell of a kiss if you did."
Yamato and I looked at each other. "I'm sorry." He murmured. "Guess I got a little carried away."
"So did I. There's nothing to be sorry about." I replied.
Yama and I walked into the kitchen and took our seats. "Holy cow, Mrs. T! You're going to make me fat with all this food!" Yamato exclaimed.
Dad sat down next to the blond and nodded his head. "Toshiko, you did make a lot. Were you planning on inviting Taichi over or something?"
Mom shook her head. "I made a lot so Sora would have plenty to eat this weekend while we're gone."
"Where are you going?" Yamato asked as dad began passing the food around.
"Some friends of ours are getting married about eight hours away from here tomorrow and it's adults only." Dad explained.
"I see." the blond replied.
Mom, dad, Yamato, and I made small talk while we ate the delicious array of pancakes, muffins, sausage, eggs, and fruit. Keeping with the tradition our friends and Mr. Ishida started, mom and dad teased us about getting together.
"Stop being stubborn!" Mom exclaimed. "When Haruhiko finally got around to asking me out, I already had a boyfriend! Luckily however, the guy turned out to be an idiot and your father and I finally got together."
"Sora, tell him you like him before that happens to you." Dad replied.
Yamato and I looked at each other. "Do you get the feeling EVERYONE is trying to set us up?" he asked.
"That's the biggest understatement I've ever heard. Look, if by chance something happens between us…"
"…we'll let it happen and go from there. But we don't want people making us hook up because that's the way they want to see us, okay?" Yamato finished my statement and added his own to it.
Mom and dad's faces both fell. "All right. You two better be heading off to school."
"Thanks for breakfast, Mr. T., Mrs. T."
"No problem, Yamato. You know you are welcome here anytime." Mom smiled at him as she signed the slip saying we had met with them.
"See you on Sunday night, Sora." Mom and dad said, giving me a hug.
"Have fun."
"We will." They replied. "Remember what we said about telling him." Dad whispered to me.
I grabbed my bag and shut the door before they could say anymore. Yama looked at me and wrapped an arm around my shoulder. "Those meetings didn't go too bad."
"I agree. I could imagine each of our meetings being much worse."
He laughed. "Well now we can go to school and see how everyone else's were."
I smiled. "I have a feeling there are going to be some interesting ones."
"Tai and Mimi." We both said in unison, getting into his car…
"Settle down, people!" Ms. Greene called. "I'm glad to see you're all full of stories but we'll only start sharing once your quiet."
Immediately everyone quieted down. "We'll go first, Ms. Greene." Mimi volunteered.
Taichi hit his head against his desk. "Someone remind me how I got stuck with her as a partner."
"Go ahead, Mr. and Mrs. Yagami." Mimi stood up and went to the front of the room and Taichi lethargically dragged himself up to the front, taking his good old time.
"Well, Wednesday night we went out to lunch with the Yagamis at a buffet. They completely agreed with me about Taichi's eating habits and we spent an hour fixing them."
Yamato snickered. "Shut up, Ishida." He mumbled. "It gets worse."
"I can't wait to hear then." Yama replied.
"So we ate supper there for a while and then drove back to the Yagamis house to play cards for a little bit. To make a long story short, Hikari and I whooped Taichi at spoons, poker, euchre, go fish, and a few other games."
Ms. Greene laughed too. "That sounds interesting. So what did you do with the Tachikawas? Taichi, do you care to share this time?"
"Do I have a choice?"
"Not really."
"Damn. We went golfing with Mimi's parents at some rich fancy country club."
"You're leaving out the most important detail, Taichi."
He faced Mimi. "No I'm not."
"Yes you are."
"No."
"Yes."
"N…"
"Mimi, why don't you tell us?" Ms. Greene said, breaking up the argument that could have lasted the whole class.
"I beat Taichi really bad at golf too. Call it revenge for ruining my two hundred dollar pair of shoes in the game with the mud pit."
"Mimi beat…let me get this right, Mimi beat you at golf?" I asked.
Taichi didn't say anything. Mimi smirked. "I beat him bad. Taichi had some funny times too. And since I have a feeling he'll refuse to tell you…I WILL!"
"Thanks, Meems." Taichi answered sarcastically. "I'm sure their lives would not be able to function if you didn't get a chance to make fun of me."
Mimi smiled. "Taichi, you know it's true." She answered, pinching his cheek. "Well on the third hole, second shot, Taichi hit the ball and it went straight up in the air. It came back down a foot from where he hit it."
The class laughed. "I think I can even do better than that." I heard Koushiro say.
"There's more though. On the next hole on his tee shot, Tai hit the ball into a field cows were in and had to walk through some manure to get it. And then on the last hole—the fairway is on one side of a road and the green on another—when I yelled at him to hit it across the road; he hit it onto the highway that is parallel to the course instead."
"It's not that funny." Taichi pouted. "What can I say; I'm a soccer player not a golfer!"
"It is funny." Hikari said. "Taichi, I'm going to tell mom and dad you want to go golfing this weekend."
"This is all your fault." He said, turning to face his wife.
Mimi smiled. "It's not my fault you suck at golfing."
"But you had to open your big mouth!"
"That's enough you two. Flirt on your own time!" Ms. Greene called. "We'll hear from Takeru and Hikari next."
"Well, we ate supper at my mom's house last night. It was nothing too special. When we were done, she and Hikari forced me to watch Ella Enchanted.
"We didn't force you, Takeru." Hikari said. "We gave you a choice."
"Oh yeah, Titanic or Ella Enchanted. (Neither of them are mine!) That's definitely a choice!" he exclaimed sarcastically. "I think all the parents decided to gang up and put the men through hell."
A lot of the guys in the class shook their heads in agreement. "You tell 'em, my future brother-in-law!" Taichi yelled.
Takeru and Hikari both blushed at the comment. "You know he's right, Takeru." Yamato gloated, using the exact same words his younger brother had on him at lunch a few days before. "So do you, Hikari."
"Don't even get us started about your love life, Yama." Hikari glared. "Two nights ago, we went shopping with my parents."
"Yeah, they made me carry around Hikari's bags and stuff for her. Her dad told me that's what it's going to be like when we finally get together…I mean when I get married later." He tried to cover up what he had said.
I caught his slip of the tongue and nudged Yamato. "He finally admits it!"
"It's about time." The older blond said. "Way to go Takeru."
"Well," Takeru said, "fine. Hikari I've liked you a lot for a long time. Will you go out with me?"
Hikari beamed. "Takeru, I've been waiting forever for you to ask me out. Of course!" She gave him a hug and all the girls sighed.
"See, it's not so hard, Yama. Maybe you should try it."
"Next group please!" Ms. Greene shouted before Yama could respond.
The rest of the class went through their descriptions along with Yamato and I. We conveniently left out the fact that we skipped class to meet his dad and that everyone was hinting we should get together.
"Okay, class. It's time for your next assignment."
"On a Friday?" Taichi demanded.
"This one is going to be ongoing until the day class ends." She walked over a blanket which was covering something up. Ms. Greene pulled the blanket off dramatically and we all gasped. "It's time for you all to become proud parents…"
A/N: Please review! I've got to go to my school's play now; I'm going to be late if I don't leave right now! Hope you all liked the chapter!