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yawnz really tired right now, but I swore to myself that I'd get this done (truthfully, I guess I'm writing this chapter up right now to get my mind over my stressful piano exam, which is coming up sighz). And I just finished watching Maid in Manhattan staring J-Lo…yeah I've been meaning to watch it for quite some time lo0lz though I do remember that Cowboy Bebop the Movie had two stars more than that… and I was surprised that an anime film bet a 'more popular' film. Okay, I know…I'm going WAY of track and I'd better get a move on…so, here we go
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THE MIXUP
Chapter Eight
By flipstahhz
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The alarm clock rang. A hand automatically reached out to turn it off, as if the person had been waiting for it to do so.
It was the normal and usual routine. Alarm clock rings, get out of bed and get ready for school. Simple as that…but the only problem waswas thatI was out of bed and had gotten prepared earlier…
Hikari had a very disastrous sleep. Then again, it wasn't a sleep at all. After the tiresome cleaning she instantly thought that she was just going to drop onto her bed and sleep into oblivion.
But she was wrong.
As soon as the young brunette had mounted onto the double bunk bed she found herself thinking about how the day had proceeded and was an ounce guilty of how she had acted towards Takeru. She usually would write recollections and all her thoughts in her diary, but she couldn't be stuffed to go down the ladder to fetch the item. Finding she wasn't used to the not comfy bed, she turned on her side while listening to slow music. She was only half-asleep.
When it was exactly 11:59pm her serene environment was crashed as she felt her body bounce on mattress. Hikari then came to realization that she wasn't going to sleep by herself in her own room, but she had to share it with Tai…
Hikari tried to sleep once again, but then was interrupted by Taichi's snoring that wouldn't stay constant for it would go soft than extremely loud and noisy. Then her brother would move around, causing the whole bunk bed to shake. At any time, she was just about to crack…but she determinedly held the urge to scream. That's how it continued throughout the whole night.
Hikari gazed at herself in the mirror and, tied half her hair back with a yellow and pink ribbon. She rubbed the dark bags beneath her eyes then glanced at the boy whom had disturbed her the night before.
Taichi's hair was ruffled in all directions as he slept. His bed sheets were half on the floor and drool was dripping onto his pillow, since his mouth was open wide enough for a huge spider to crawl in.
Unbelievable…he's still able to be like this in the morning! I need to get him up, school starts soon and I feel a bit embarrassed to go to the table and eat breakfast by myself…
Kari giggled and shook her head to herself…she couldn't stay angry at her brother even though her eyes were going to shut of exhaustion any minute. She smoothened out the creases on her uniform and walked directly to her sleeping brother, pulled him out of bed that his masculine body fell onto the wooden floor and shook him till she was sure he would wake up.
"WAKE UP TAI!!!"
Unexpectedly, he rolled over to the opposite side and fell into a deeper slumber.
Kari let out a sigh.
"It takes more than that to get your brother out of bed," someone informed.
Kari spun around to see her father leaning against the doorframe. " We usually get him up five minutes before school by tickling him, since that's his only weakness, and when he realizes he's only got five minutes to prepare…you don't know how fast he can go to get ready!"
"Oh, I see," the girl stuttered shyly.
"Don't be ashamed…breakfast's ready and I'm telling you it will be much different to any meals you've ever had before!" Mr. Kamiya announced ecstatically with a sly smirk.
Hikari gave him a look of confusion…Why was he so happy over breakfast??
She followed him out the door because her tummy was aching for food and settled herself on the table.
"Morning Hikari," Mrs. Kamiya smiled as she poured her 'what looked like' orange juice into her glass.
"Good morning," she greeted as she observed the food settled in front of her. There was rice and egg in her bowl.
Pretty simple breakfast…I wonder what Mr. Kamiya was on about…it's seems alright to me, though the odor smells a bit off the usual it looks quite ordinary…
Holding her hesitation back, she immediately gobbled the food down but then felt as if she wanted to spit it all out. The breakfast tasted of pepper, vinegar, sugar, salt and lemon all blended into one. Kari then grabbed the drink and sipped it down to take away the foul taste in her mouth, just to notice that it wasn't orange juice at all - but vegetable juice. Mr. Kamiya hid a grin as he sneakily spilled his food under the table for their cat to eat…(though the animal didn't seem like she didn't want to do her job.) and observed the look on his daughter's face.
"How are you enjoying the meal Hikari? I know it's not better than you're mothers…but it's better than nothing…I guess," Mrs. Kamiya laughed sweetly.
"Err…it's…ughhhh," Kari managed to mutter. " It's really nice."
"Ohh..thanks, you flatter me," Mrs. Kamiya giggled softly. " Taichi, TK or your father has never said that to me. But I know I didn't mix up a good meal as your other mother would of."
This time, Hikari didn't bother to reply for she was trying her best to control the meal that wanted to throw up out of her quivering mouth.
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"TK, it's time to get up…Teekay?!" The blond headed boy felt his body being pushed to the opposite side of the uncomfortable bed that he still hadn't gotten used to. "Rise and shine, darling!"
"Wah? Wah do you want Tai?" he mumbled as he turned back onto his stomach and pulled the feathered pillow over his head to avoid the direct sunlight coming from the window…
Then again, why was there sunlight in the first place? Tai and I never clean up and our clothes are probably piled up to block the light from the window, since it passes as an curtain for our dirty clothing almost reaches the ceiling…And Tai, ain't I the one that wakes up Tai??
"Honey, Tai's not here. It's your mother. Please Takeru, wake up! You'll be late for school," the woman noted in a concerned, yet warm, tone. " I don't want to pull you out of bed…"
Takeru's eyelids swiftly opened as he felt the pillow being lifted from above his head. His azure eyes focused onto the different room then to the woman leering above him. Immediately he jumped out of the bed.
"Uh-er…uh, sorry," he blushed as he then suddenly realized that he was wearing his green boxers.
"Don't get nervous around me, TK. I've seen Matt in boxers before…I'm your mother so there's no need for embarrassment," she winked as she handed him his pressed white school shirt. " I've also seen Hikari in her laundery... so there's nothing to be worried about, and I don't know why I just told you that..."
"Haha...yeah, I think it was best that you didn't share about seeing Hikari in her laundery," he smiled weakly and pulled the shirt on. " I usually where this shirtcreased."
"Then I guess that something new that you'll have to get used to. I like everything neat around here," she beamed back and gave him a friendly embrace. " I reorganized your clothing in the closet, since it was all messy…how can you survive in a untidy suitcase? Anyway, your brush is on the dressing table, to get all those tangles…"
"Thanks again…it alright now," Takeru interrupted. " I don't really brush my hair in the morning, since I'm always in a hurry -"
"That's whyyou just need to wake up early!"
"It's alright," TK laughed. " Where'd you put my hat by the way?"
"On the hat stand off course, it's by your bedside table," Ms. Takaishi directed. " Though I prefer you brushing your hair then putting your cap on, than just putting your cap on without tidying up your hair. That cap could do with a wash as well.You've got your father's hair, like Yamato's…"
TK nodded and walked over to the hat stand and thrust the cap above hismessy dirty blond hair.
"I guess I'm talking too much again, Kari always told me that," she gave a lopsided grin as she pictured her 'daughter' in her mind, " I'll meet you for breakfast in ten minutes so that you can get prepared for school. The rest of your uniform is in the wardrobe, as your shoes are already outside waiting to be put on."
Within seconds, Ms. Takaishi was out and to be heard frying eggs with the smell of oil travelling to Takeru's room as he changed his clothes.
" New room, new family, new home, new healthy food to eat," TK smiled to himself. " Though I'm pretty sure I'll miss that disgusting food mom would used to cook up. But I'm still stuck at that same old school…"
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Takeru Takaishi casually leaned against the Motomiya's fence and waited for Davis to come out and walk with him to school. Usually it was the other way around since it was TK that always woke up later than him, but today was different…
"What are you doing here this early? You're never early…and why are you even waiting for me?!" Daisuke demanded as he suspiciously stared at his blond-headed friend.
"I just want to be honest to you, since you're my best friend and all."
"You 'were' my best friend TK, until you started acting like a little cocky bastard!"
TK gave a smile, " Yeah…okay…I admit I was. But can you please listen to me? And knowing you, you don't keep a grudge that long anyway."
"What!?" Daisuke Motomiya spat as he walked down the street with Takeru trailing behind him. "Tell me already!! Mr. Kamiya..."
"And that would be Mr. Takaishi to you," TK corrected.
Daisuke arched an eyebrow about to babble on about another one of his strange conspiricies, " What? Don't tell me you're secretly a girl and Hikari's secretly a boy and that you two are going to get married or something?! Or that your a secret agent detective that is prettending to be Hikari's long lost brother to do an investigation..."
" Hell no, Davis," TK jumped in before Daisuke kept on going guessing and started to tell the truth to his bestfriend," Well, you know how the group of people would always ring up and say how I belonged to a different family and all…well it was kind of true…"
Daisuke stopped walking and repeated the word he had said seconds before. "WHAT?"
"You see," TK waved his hands abruptly, " The other day, when Kari and I had the injection we were both called to the office this week…the police and this organization/hospital thingrevealed that we were exchanged at birth, which was why we were brought up in different families."
"So you're telling me…" Daisuke fumbled for words. " That you belong in Kari's family and Kari belongs in yours! How crazy can this get? You'd better not be bullshitting in front of my face!"
"You got that right," TK sighed, " I couldn't believe it either..."
"That's just, oh my god, UNBELIEVABLE! Come on TK…stop playin, man!" Daisuke shook his head in irritation.
"Dude, Davis when have you been so stubborn to believe it? It's the truth I swear on the Mighty Basketball," TK laughed.
(a/n The Mighty Basketball was what Daisuke and TK's imaginary friends that they made up when they were little, and grown up to "worship" to…and don't ask me how I came up with that o-O)
"You know how I got kicked off the basketball team, I tried out for the soccer team yesterday! And I actually got in! I've been wanting to tell you, but I guess your revelation is more insane and unbelievable than mine! It's obviouslysomething that ya don't hear everyday! …Then again, now you're related to one of the leader of the best band in Odaiba!"
"What?" TK asked in confusion. " Seriously Daisuke…what are you on about?"
"Stupid! How could youNOTknow?!" Daisuke said, rolling his eyes at his ignorant friend, "If you swapped families with Hikari, ain't it mean that you're brothers with the one and only Yamato Ishida?"
"Err…yeah he's my brother I guess. He's my own brother and I didn't even know he had a band - then again…it's a guys band…I like chicks - not guys. How in the world did you know this load of gossip these days,anyway??"
"Jun."
"Jun? What about your sister? What's she gotta do with anything?"
"You see, Jun's full on in love with your brother and his band," Davis explained. " Man you're blinded. You've gotta catch up with reality…don't you??"
"Moving on…I've found something more interesting than knowing that my own brother has his own famous band," TK sneered as he grabbed a pink book out of his bag.
"Aww…TK, I didn't know you liked the color pink," Daisuke teased eyeing the book. "Seriously…what can be more interesting than the aspect of your own bro being famous!?"
"It's Hikari's Diary."
"WHAT?" Daisuke exclaimed that word for the third time.
"It's Hikari's Diary or Journal…whatever you call it," TK waved it in his face with a sly grin prowling into his sneaky faced expression.
"Now, TK…I know you really hate her and all. But seriously…I think it's wrong that you INVADE HER PRIVACY!"
"Keep it down…someone might hear us, Davis," commented TK with his hand over his friend's mouth. " Read the last entry…it's pretty good black mail don't ya know?"
Daisuke hesitated, but his curiosity got the best of him as he snatched the objet off Takeru. Accidentally, he read the wrong page. " I don't get it. I thought you're not pissed off with her anymore and have put all your differences aside? No TK, that just ain't right black mailing her with what I just read…it's justso wrong to do that...as in not good. Everything that's negative, I have to tell you, this one I'm against you…even if I got kicked off the basketball team...it's inhuman to blackmail her with that. I think I'm actually happy I got kicked out of the baksetball team, now...I reckon soccer is a better sport..."
"Come on Dai…it'll be fun, it can't be that bad...you can get back at Yolei because I think she'll get pretty cut that Kari hadn't told Yolei her crush yet…it says in the entry before that. Come o-"
"What? No Takeru…seriously what are you on about? I thought the blackmail had to do with her family and that…"
"No…what?! What did you read?" Takeru's eyes widened as he noticed the sheepish expression written on Daisuke's face, he grabbed the book of him and read it to himself.
Dear Diary…
I feel alone. The fights between mama and papa weren't very harsh, but they were never was like this - this bad. Yama told me to go back to bed, but I still could hear the yelling and screams that echoed throughout our once warm home. In the middle of one night, I woke up to my own mom's sobs. I got out of bed and realized that papa and Yamato were gone. Mama told me that they were going to get a divorce. Though I didn't know what divorce meant at that time, I knew it was bad.
I hadn't seen Yamato or Papa for a couple years now, and I heard that we might go to Odaiba to be with them… I don't know what I'm feeling right now, but I'm certain that I'm confused. I usually cry whenever I think of my brother and father…though this time I feel more sad than usual. I miss them so much, so much that words cannot explain. This time, my tears have all run out that leaves me with nothing but bitter emptiness…I miss them…I envy every other family who doesn't have to suffer this much as our broken one.
-Kari Ishida or Takaishi
Takeru guiltily gulped.
So Kari had secretly suffered from his own family's troubles. How complicated could this issue get? Maybe that was why Kari would always act so happy whenever she saw Yamato…because she hardly had contact with him when she was young, while I…I was living life and having the time of my life - she was struggling.
"See what I mean…TK?" Daisuke said. " It ain't right to use someone's privacy as blackmail…even though, I think, you didn't mean about this about Kari and her past life…you shouldn't."
"Yeah, I know," TK shook his head. " I was meaning another entry I read about Tai, last night.. but don't worry..just forget about it. Forget that I even brought this up..I was stupid to realize that that was the last entry.."
Takeru carefully put it back into his bag, and zipped it up tight.
"We're going to be late for school…and I thought this time we'd be early since you actually woke up early for once. We'd better hurry up because this timeit might be you that willbe kicked of the Basketball Team," Daisuke laughed. " Last one there is late for class!"
"And that will be you," TK stated as he gave a weak smile, running after the brunette boy.
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I know this chapter wasn't long enough, but from my point of view I tried my best…and it's good enough…( okay I'm using the word 'enough' too much!) Ummmz, I don't really feel like saying anything write now..haha get it? Err?!? so I'd best be off! Take Care you guys!!
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NEXT CHAPTER: What will be, will be! Or in other words (truthfully) I forgot!
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