Amarezza Dolce

- a fan fiction written by Meeko Melodie

Meeko: Having a bad week, just screwed up some French shit (not that I care) and all the college applications messed me up. But the comments are awesome! Thanks! Here's chapter three of Amarezza Dolce. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: Don't own Digimon and its characters and all that. Done.

Thank you to the following dudes and dudettes for their comments:

Luisa Perez: Thanks! When I looked back to the original one though, I was thinking: woah, did I write that stuff 2-3 years ago? So here I am, rewriting it.

Kouzumi4eva: You scared me for a sec there! Yes, a big difference between this and Betrayal, because I was just thinking some parts of it doesn't really make much sense to me anymore, like I'm just creating stuff out of the air. Like, remember how Kouji and Izumi were already together at the beginning? I didn't provide any background information on that and so it's kind of confusing. Yea. So, thanks for your comment.

FAITHful: Yes, Kouji as a pianist, who would see that one coming? Everyone was thinking about that, believe me. Love triangle? It's going to be more like a love pentagon in future chapters. Well, I'm still glad you're reading this even though you're a TakuyaxIzumi fan. And yes, I like Kelly Clarkson; she's got a nice voice.

Mysterygal02 / Izumi Rules / Kimuku-chan

Chapter Three: In Love and Waiting

"Hey, what's eating you?" her worried voice pulled Kouji back on to the reality as he met her emerald gaze. It was rather strange, but whenever he saw himself in the reflection of her bright eyes, he could just forget everything that annoyed or worried him, or at least attempt to do so; everything was brought to a still in his mind as he looked intently at her face.

"Nothing," he dismissed those thoughts quickly and with her hand still in contact from earlier, Kouji pulled the girl gently closer to himself. She gasped with surprise as she practically fell into his out stretched arms; even being with her for almost three years, her every expression, every word and every breath had always been a temptation. He seriously didn't know how he had survived all those highly alluring situations but he had swore that he could not do that, take her innocence, that was, until they were fully aware of what they were doing.

He didn't want to ruin the life of the girl he loved so damn much if they had made a mistake. Though deep in his heart, he knew, Kouji knew this was not a mistake. Izumi could not be a mistake.

The pair slowly backed up towards the nearest supporting object from their original position, which happened to be the trunk of a tree close by the steps leading towards the beach; Kouji pinned her softly against the rough bark, his cobalt blue eyes never leaving her sea-green ones.

"What do you think you're doing?" she asked teasingly, raising her eyebrow in this sarcastic way of hers that Kouji found almost too irresistible. Must be those hormones at it again, huh?

"I don't know," he smirked, keeping one hand on her hip, and the other busy with tucking loose strands behind her ear smoothly; done with the task, he put that hand on her cheeks and using his thumb, he began to trace her lower lip in a torturing slow manner and replied her question at the same time, "to catch up with you, maybe?"

"But we just saw each other four days ago," she reminded him, trying to ignore the heating sensation that his skillful finger was igniting on her moving lips and was traveling further inside, burning her internally.

"Really?" he said in return and leaned his head at the croak of her neck, a strong scent of her, and only her, drugged him without sense, "it seems way longer than that." His warm breathes caused Izumi to shiver despite her mind telling her to take a chill pill. Another thing that was nagging her head was that Kouji seldom showed his affection in public, though by the look of things, they weren't exactly in a very public setting, given that most of the crowds were concentrated around the ocean rather than gathering around them.

This instant thought immediately set off a few giggles that spilled from her lips and Kouji looked at her strangely, as if asking, "what's so funny?" Without the question coming out, however, Izumi answered him, "it's nothing."

"Do I have to force it out of you?" he threatened her in a whisper beside her ear, than looked back at her with his intense pool of dark blue. She stared down at the ground, cheeks rising to an uncomfortably warm temperature, "maybe."

"Don't blame me," Kouji warned seriously and leaned in, his one hand sneaking behind her and supporting her at the back of her head while the other held her steady on the waist; he touched his lips softly to hers, his words were the only threats he was willing to give and nothing more than that, but it seemed Izumi had other ideas. She responded to his kiss with more force and thick with passion; it was so hard for him to break it up until he had to breathe to live.

Panting slightly for air, Izumi said in mock anger, "that was really rude." She pushed him vaguely off of herself while hiding a small smile at the corner of her lips.

"And you're not?" he replied with equal light sarcasm. Just when Izumi was about to open her mouth to 'argue' some more, a voice interrupted her.

"Where's everybody?" The couple sighed at the way too familiar voice; they revealed themselves from behind the tree, hand in hand.

"Hey, Takuya!" she greeted her friend cheerfully, trying to veil all the blush and evidence. The brunette-hair teenager looked at Izumi, then back at Kouji, who was as expressionless as ever (wow, he's good!) then back at Izumi again with a suspicious glint in his chocolate brown eyes, "anything I missed?"

"Uh..." she stammered, didn't even know why.

"Were you two just coming out from behind those trees?" he nodded behind the pair to indicate the place.

"Yes," Izumi knew he saw them.

"Nothing you need to know," Kouji replied for Izumi instead. That shut Takuya up pretty shortly as he shrugged and leaned against the light pole, once again waiting for the two missing people they were waiting for. The trio chatted mindlessly about random topics from school stuff to relationship, which then lead to Takuya whom Izumi kept teasing. Takuya, of course, just laughed them off like it was nothing.

"Finally," Izumi exclaimed when she finally spotted the two approaching figures, "Kouichi, Tomoki, over here!" She waved her hands, which was really unnecessary as they were the only people on the sidewalk.

"What took you guys so long?" Takuya asked as they descended the stone stairs into the sandy areas, where they were trying to find a decent place to settle down their things.

"Having trouble waking up during vacation days," Tomoki laughed, "you know how it is." He slung his backpack more securely on his shoulders as they continued their way through various crowds of sun-tanning people.

"What about you, Kouichi?" Izumi turned to her boyfriend's twin brother, "you're usually the earliest to arrive." As being questioned, the boy with messy, short navy blue locks blowing softly in the sea breeze replied simply, his eyes attempting to draw off from said girl, "just having a bad morning is all." Izumi nodded.

'Kouichi is so quiet today,' she took notice, while sending concerned looks towards him, 'he was never the noisy type but usually, he would be more active around us. I wonder what's wrong." With that thought in mind, she saw Kouichi just stared into space silently through out the short voyage in search of a resting place. At last located one near the wet sand shore, the gang settled their things and sat down on the picnic blanket someone brought.

"Anyone need sunscreen?" Izumi offered, holding out a bottle while squeezing some into her palm. Tomoki accepted some while Takuya refused, claiming he needed to get a tan; Kouichi just quietly shook his head and declined as well. Izumi shrugged at the two boys' reaction and looked down at Kouji, who was already lying on his back with his sunglasses covering his eyes; she grinned, knowing fairly well that his boyfriend under the protection of the shades had his eyes closed, and the boys, upon noticing the evil smirk, grimaced.

She squeezed some more sunscreen lotion into her palm, then she dipped her finger into the large, milky white drops...

And she slashed the white substance on both his cheeks with the speed of a jet plane.

"What the...?" Kouji brushed his face with the back of his hand, resulting in further white streak marks; at that, Izumi laughed harder while the boys tried hard not to laugh along with her. They definitely didn't want to get on the wrong side of him, no matter how much he changed in the last few years, even if it was in a good way.

Kouji crawled back up, like an animal ready to attack, wiping the cream off of his face.

"You're in for it now, Izumi Orimoto," he announced, collecting the bottle of which Izumi had forgotten about and now regretted. With that being said, Kouji grinned wolfishly, got the lotion ready in his hands and fully tackled his girlfriend with the white solution.

The attacks quickly turned into tickling matches as the couple just ignored the presence of their friends, watching and shaking their heads in a comically desperate way.

"Oh boy," Tomoki rolled his big eyes with disgust, then turning to the two older Digi-destines, he asked, "Takuya, Kouichi, want to go for a swim?" Well, what choice do they have? It was either swimming in the sea, or watching the pair doing very uncomfortable things. Hmm, hard decisions, hard decision. They agreed whole-heartedly on the solution.

Meeko: Well, there you go. Somewhat short but I really need to go. Mom's having a temper right now, so the comments! Thou shall remember the comments! Thanks!