AN: Yep, the last chapter was late, so this chapter will be early! Aren't you guys glad? I left you with a nasty cliffy, eh? (giggles) Fun, fun. Anyways, onto more pressing matters: I'm afraid the exams are looming quite close. I might not update for a bit because of them, but you might see me here and there, sneaking on ff to piss off the 'rents. :D

Fun! And you know what's even more fun? Reading reviews! Whee :D If that's not a huge hint, I don't know what is.

Digimon is not mine. I used Season 1 and 2 characters, but Season 3 people showed up anyways. Ryo and Ruki are such a cute couple, ne?

:3

TUTORING AND ROLLERBLADE LESSONS

Author: (Princess) Strawberry'd

Genre: Romance, Drama, Humour

Anime: Digimon

Summary: Poor Taichi had fallen fast and hard. So, when he swindles his love, Sora, into tutoring him, will he fall deeper into love, and will she fall in love with him? Won't know till you read!

Chapter Eleven: Of Skepticism and Riches

Sora sat still for a few seconds. Taichi chuckled at her reaction, a little awed at his own courage. What made him say that? Oh yes, of course, how could he have forgotten? The mere fact that he was madly –

"Ok," Sora said, simply.

"What?" Taichi responded, stupidly.

"I said, Ok. I'll do your little, 'If you get over 85, then I'll go out with you' thing." Sora repeated.

Taichi stared. He was sure she would have rejected him and he would have enormous amounts of fun spending time on persuading her. "A-Are you sure?"

"Look, do you want me to accept this thing, or not?" Sora said, a little annoyed.

"Yes, yes but… why?" Taichi asked, unable to keep quiet about it.

"Well," Sora said, smirking. "I know you'll never get up to an 85. Isn't your average somewhere around 60 right now?"

Taichi sighed. He should have known. "That's all very true, but what about the factor that I just might get an 85?"

"I'll make it even easier for you," Sora started. "If you get over 80, on any of your subjects, not just your average, I'll go on a date with you. Wherever you want." She added.

"That makes it too easy," Taichi said, finally comfortable with the fact that Sora had just said yes. "90."

"Too hard. 80."

"90."

"80."

"85."

"Fine."

So they were back to where they started.

Taichi had left earlier, and Sora was sitting on her bed, scared at what she just did.

Had she really just agreed to his inane plan?

Yes, yes I think I just did. She thought, running her hands over her face.

Falling back onto her bed, Sora contemplated what she would do. Well, he has to get above 85 first, right? And there's no chance he can do that.

Sora got up, and fixed her hair, smiling. There's nothing to worry about, she told herself.

She waltzed down the stairs, giggling to herself, grabbing some food, and some money and headed out the door.

On her bike, Sora slung her bag over her shoulders, pulled her cap down a little more and headed off to the gas station.

I hope he's not here, Sora thought, nervously, as the station came into view.

But, sure enough, he was. It's like he lives here! Except when he's bothering me, she grumbled.

He was bent over a car engine, his cap on sideways, puffs of his brown hair poking out. A white cloth was draped on his shoulder and patches of grease all over his clothes. His lip was bit and his face was scrunched up in concentration.

Sora had to admit to herself: he did look pretty cute. As she locked up her bike, her fellow worker waved his hand and greeted her loudly. No, no, no, Sora screamed in her mind. Great. He's seen me.

With a chuckle, Taichi jogged up to Sora. "It's nice to know you still come here," he said, sticking a hand in his big pocket, then looking around him.

"Yo, Ryo! D'you know where I put that cloth?" He called to the guy who gave her away.

Ryo looked at Taichi like he was crazy and then shrugged, giving a wink to Sora. Taichi scowled at him. "Stop making eyes! Go find your own girl."

Sora frowned at the implication in that sentence.

"Sor, have you seen my cloth?" Taichi asked, turned back towards her.

Sor? She thought, with a frown of distaste. "It's on your shoulder."

"What? My shoulder?" He took the cloth and wiped his hands, smiling sheepishly. "Oh."

Sora rolled her eyes. "And don't call me 'Sor'" She added, making a grimace.

Taichi laughed. "What's wrong with 'Sor', Sor?"

Sora scowled at him. "I don't like it, ok?"

"So, Sor," Taichi, said, putting emphasis on her nickname.

Planting her hands on her hips, Sora whirled around to get to work. Then, she stopped. "Isn't that Izumi-kun?" She asked, and pointed.

"Koushiro?" Taichi squinted and then waved. "Yeah, it is."

Koushiro walked up to the two and said hi. Sora nodded at him and smiled. "Do you work here too?"

"Me? Nah, I have too many extracurricular activities to have a job. But I know if I need one, Taichi could give it to me. He owns this company, you know."

Obviously, Koushiro ignored the frantic actions of Taichi, telling him not to tell her.

Sora's eyes were wide. "Really? He owns it?" She turned to him. "Why didn't you tell me?"

Taichi's shoulder slumped. He shrugged. "I don't know."

"You didn't know?" Koushiro asked. "Oops. I forgot that Taichi doesn't like telling people. This company makes him quite a bit of money."

"Izumi! If you don't stop talking right now!" Taichi held up a fist warningly.

Koushiro laughed. "Right, right. I'll be going now." He rolled his eyes. "Watch out for Taichi's temper. I'd try not to incur the wrath of it." He said to Sora.

Sora nodded, absently. "So that's how you live on your own? And have a car? And about fifty different pairs of rollerblades?"

"Well, yeah, I guess." Taichi put his hands in his pockets, looking at the ground. "It makes people awkward, knowing there's this big rich guy in front of them."

Sora nodded, knowingly. "I guess. Lots of people wanting your money?"

"You could put it that way." Taichi said, lifting his cap and putting it back on, backwards. "'Kay, I gotta get back to work. And you should too. Now that you know I'm your boss and everything." He smirked.

Sora rolled her eyes again. "Yes, sir." She said, with a mock salute.

Taichi laughed and pushed her to her station. "Just get to work."

So she did.

Review responses:

DarkMetalAngel of Destruction: Thanks! Hehe, sorry about the lack of fluff. I'm working on it. Does this chapter meet your expectations? Thanks for the review!

Steve-Racer: Oh no! I'm sure you didn't do as bad as you think you did. :) Thanks for the review!

AxFaTaLxiLLuSioN: Haha! Don't we all ;) Taichi is a cutie. :huggles:

Digimon-Taiora: I know! I have exams in two weeks, and I'm so not ready. Eep! Hehe thanks so much:)

INUYASHAREDSTAR: Hm, yeah Matt has been mentioned. Lol, like for two seconds, in the… second or third chapter. I hope you liked the update! I have three more years too… But I don't want to get out, the real world is scary. x.x

KoumiLoccness: Lol, uhm, true? I thought the Japanese manga had Taiora has a couple? And the pictures were cute :) Even if they weren't Taiora. The Takari was cute :D

Caracalgirl: Well, here's a little secret: I didn't. I started this story, based on a manga I read. Then I started to do my own thing, but I used some of the ideas from the manga. So yeah. :D Thanks for the review!

Shiva-dragon: Hehe, he's gonna have to work hard! I hope you liked the update! Thanks for reviewing :D

Musashibf: o.o what did you do? Throw water balloons? Eep. My teacher would kill me if I did that. Lol but sounds like fun… :wistful: Everyone is leaving? I thought I saw a couple new people in Digimon recently… There should be more Taiora's, eh? Good ones with grammar and everything. :cries:

Star: Hm, I read a bit of everything, or sure, I'd like to know what this story is. :D Lol thanks for the review!

Marie Darkholme: Lol, thanks so much! It's hard coming up with ideas… lol. Hope you liked the chapter!

Judy: lmao, they're not even together yet! And this story isn't that kinda story! It'shumourous and light, and fluffy. Not a 'steamy romance', I think. I'd like to keep it PG, thanks!

JTR648: Haha, Mimi's gonna be jealous alright:D don't worry I'll read them! As soon as I finish my homework… x.x That might take a while. Lol, thanks for the review! I hope you review again:)

I know I promised to update earlier… but I couldn't. Sorry! x.x I had so much to do, and right now I should be working on my project… but I'm not. Ack.

Maybe next week, I'll post the chap earlier. Anyways, two new character introductions! Ryo-kun and Koushiro-han. :D

I'm not really sure what '-han' means, but it's what Tentomon calls Izumi-kun in the anime. :D

I hope everyone liked the chapter! Review now please, because ff is going down on Sunday. Sigh. And reviewing is disabled.

So yeah. Review!