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"Car Troubles"

"I'll see you guys tomorrow. Later." Tai called out as he left the guys locker room after soccer practice. He tossed his duffel bag into his Jaguar and drove away from the school. His mind was in overload. Matt was so kindly enough to give him an assignment: To be friend Mimi and convince her what a great guy Matt was. He had no idea how to accomplish that task. 'I never had been friends with a girl before... I know how to be a lover to them, but to be their friend? It seems to look like a lot of work.' He turned his attention back on the road. A big grin formed on his face, he couldn't believe his luck.

Mimi groaned as her BMW came to a complete stop on the side of the road. "Great, a flat tire." She shut the engine off and got out of her car to examine the damage. Yep, it was a flat tire all right. She felt stranded, she had no idea how to change a flat tire. Just then a Jag pulled over to the side behind her car. A young man got out of his car and was walking towards her. He looked nicely tanned and his brown hair was very messy. His athletic build made her want to drop her jaw, but she managed not too.

"Having car problems?" Tai asked.

"Yeah... I have a flat." Mimi answered.

Tai nodded his head as he pretend to observe the car when he was really looking at her. He couldn't get over how beautiful she was. He didn't think it was possible, but she looked better in person than in the magazine. Her hair looked sleek and shiny under the sun and her skin looked kissable. She had this innocent aura around her. 'Not when Matt gets done with her...' His first instinct was to flirt with her. But he remembered he was trying to be her friend. So what should he do? "Do you need help changing it?"

"If it wouldn't be too much trouble. That would be great." Mimi smiled.

Tai smiled back. "Can you pop the trunk open?"

"Sure." Mimi inserted her key in the lock and opened it. He got her spare tire out and proceeded on changing her tire.

"So what's your name?" Tai asked, trying to start up a conversation as he took the flat tire out.

"Mimi Tachikawa. What is yours?"

"Tai Kamiya."

"Were you coming home from practice?" She asked when she saw his duffel bag in his car.

"Yep, coming back from soccer practice."

'God, soccer players are hot.' Mimi smiled to herself. He was screwing on the bolts to secure the spare tire on. She could see the muscles in his arm at work. Little beads of sweat were forming on his forehead. He looked so masculine. 'There are a lot of attractive guys at this school.'

"Shit!" Tai cursed.

"What happened?" Mimi said, returning back to reality.

"I accidentally cut myself."

Mimi went over to go look at his hand. It wasn't a deep cut but it was pretty bad. She felt horrible. "I'm so sorry. It's my entire fault. You wouldn't have cut yourself if you weren't changing my tire."

"It's not serious. I'm fine, really." Tai said, trying to find something to wrap his hand with to stop the blood from flowing. "Could you help me take my shirt off?"

"Err, why?" Mimi asked bewildered.

"It's not anything like that." Tai laughed, realizing what she thought. "I need to wrap my hand and I can't take off my shirt with one hand."

"Oh, okay." She helped his arms out of the sleeves. She then pulled the hem of his shirt and pulled it over his head. She blushed furiously. He had the body of a Greek God. She tore her eyes away from him. "Um, why don't we go back to my house so I can clean the cut and bandage it. It's the least I could do. It's not too far from here. We can take my car since you can't really drive with your hand like that." Mimi said as she looked at the ground.

"Alright." Tai said. 'This is the perfect opportunity to get closer to her. To be her friend of course.' He reminded himself.

"Sorry, the place is a mess." Mimi said as she opened the front door. "We just moved in a couple of days ago and haven't really had the time to unpack." Tai looked around the mansion. It was huge! Boxes were stacked on top of one another and a few opened ones were on the tables. "Why don't you sit on the couch? I'll go get the aid kit." He sat down on the couch and watched her go up the stairs and disappeared. He unwrapped his hand to see if the bleeding had stopped. "Is it any better?"

"It's not bleeding as badly before." Tai answered. Mimi held the kit in her hands and sat next to him. She opened it and got out some gauze and tenderly dabbed at the cut.

He liked feeling her soft hands on his. "Okay, I'm going to clean it with the rubbing alcohol. It's gonna sting pretty badly."

"I can handle it." Tai smiled, acting all macho.

Mimi giggled. "Whatever you say." She poured some rubbing alcohol onto a cotton ball and patted the cut.

"Ahh!" Tai cried out as he tried to retract his hand back.

"What happened to 'I can handle it'?" Mimi laughed. She pulled his hand near her lips and gently blew on the wound. "Is that better?"

"Yeah... much." Tai said quietly. He felt a shudder go up his back. 'Get a grip on yourself Kamiya! She's just another girl, another game. Just do what you have to do.' "So, do you like the school?"

"Yeah, I met a couple of people that were nice." She placed a band-aid over his cut. Mimi then chuckled. "I even got to meet the infamous Yamato Ishida."

"Oh? What do you think of him?" Tai asked.

"I don't know I'm very confused. Practically everyone is telling me to stay away from him, even his own brother! But when I meant him, he seemed nice and polite."

'If you only knew what went on in his mind.' Tai smiled. "A lot of things are lies."

"I heard that he was arrogant."

"He's confident."

"That he's calculating."

"He's smart."

"That he slept with the school counselor."

... How on earth was he suppose to spin that around? "From my understanding, they had a mutual relationship."

Mimi laughed at his explanation. "Yeah, sure."

"Come on, you don't expect a grown woman being seduced into something she didn't want to do by a seventeen year old? Matt's not that good." 'That's a big understatement.' Tai thought. "Who has been telling you all these things?"

Mimi was about to answer when the door bell rang. "Excuse me." She smiled at Tai before she got up to see who was at the door. "Oh hi! I thought you were coming over at five o'clock?"

"Yeah, it's five right now."

She spun around to look at the clock on the wall and was shocked to see it was indeed five. "I must have lost track of the time! I'm so sorry! Please come in."

TK entered the house and his smile turned into a frown when he saw Tai sitting in thee living room, without a shirt. "Tai, I'm surprised to see you here." 'Without a shirt on.' TK said with a rather forceful smile.

"Hey TK, it's been awhile." Tai grinned, he enjoyed the shock/jealous expression TK was showing.

"My car had a flat tire and Tai was nice enough to put the spare on." Mimi explained.

"Well that was nice of you Tai." TK said as he put his backpack on the couch. 'That doesn't explain why he has his shirt off.'

"I'll go get you one of my dad shirts so you can wear it home." Mimi said as she disappeared to get a shirt.

A tense silence filled the room once she left. TK made a mental note to work out more and get a tan as he looked at Tai.

"See something you like Takaishi?" Tai smirked. He folded his arms and surveyed TK. It was amazing how two brothers, who look so much alike, are so different. For instance, say there was a fight going between a jock and nerd. TK would rush in there and try to break up the fight. Matt on the other hand would laugh, and even take bets on who would win. It was hard to believe they were brothers.

TK slightly blushed from embarrassment and anger. "So why are you really here?"

"Mimi already told you. I was helping her with her flat tire."

"Don't give me that bullshit. I know you. Tell me the real reason why you are here. What are you up to?" TK interrogated.

"I'm up to nothing. Not that it's any of your damn business. And if you know what's good for you, you will stay out of the way." Tai warned.

"Matt is up to something isn't he?"

"Isn't he always?" Tai smirked.

"If he's planning on fucking Mimi, you can tell him to forget about it. It's not going to happen. I won't let it." TK said with determination.

Tai had to say, he was impressed. This was not the same TK he knew since they were kids. "I see someone finally grew a pair of balls." Tai was a bit worried, TK could be one serious obstacle for Matt. TK did share a trait with Matt. When they are determined about something, they will do whatever they can to accomplish it.

"I hope this shirt fits." Mimi said as she carried one of her dad's shirts. She tossed it to Tai and smiled. "I'll drive you to your car."

Tai smiled sweetly to Mimi as he put the shirt on. "Thanks."

"You don't mind waiting do you? I'll be really quick, his car isn't too far from here." Mimi said to TK.

"No it's alright." TK replied.

"After you." Tai said politely as he opened the door for Mimi. She giggled and walked out the door. Tai gave TK a wink and a mischievous smile. Right before he shut the door he could hear TK say 'Asshole.'

Tai was leaning against Matt's locker, waiting for him. He finally saw Matt walking down the hall with a girl giggling by his side. Tai shook his head and laughed. Matt gave the girl a kiss before separated. "I thought you were interested in Mimi?" Tai asked. He was surprised to find himself hoping Matt wasn't anymore. Then the path would be clear for him to pursue her.

"Oh I am. But there's nothing wrong with having a little action on the side." Matt grinned evilly.

Tai was about to reply when Mimi walked over. "Hey. Here's your shirt, I tried to get it as clean as I can. And thank you so much again for yesterday."

"No problem." Tai smiled. He noticed Matt looking from him to Mimi with jealous. He had to say, it felt good knowing Matt was jealous of him, even for that tiny moment. It didn't happen very often.

Mimi smiled and gave him a kiss on the cheek. She waved to the both of them before she departed. Matt looked as if he was going to strangle Tai out of jealousy.

"What the fuck was that?" Matt said angrily. Ahh, there was Matt's famous temper.

Tai wanted to laugh, but he knew that if he did, Matt would punch the daylights out of him. "Let me explain. I was driving home from practice, and I saw that Mimi had a flat tire. I helped her put on the spare and cut my hand. I covered my hand with my shirt because it was bleeding. So we went to her house to bandage it up."

Matt's anger left as quickly as it came. "Oh. So did you find anything out?"

"Yeah. TK is determined to get in your way. He was over at her house. I think he has a thing for her."

"Damn, I got to get him out of the way somehow..." Matt thought. "Hey, isn't your sister coming home from that boarding school?"

Tai looked at Matt suspiciously. "Yeah... why? Wait, you want me to pimp out my little sister!"

"No, nothing like that. I just remembered TK having a crush on her when we were little. I thought maybe we could set them up together and he'll be out of the way."

Tai thought about it. If it means TK getting out of the way for Matt... It also meant he would be out of Tai's way too.

Matt was sitting on the bleachers by the school's pool. He found out during this period Mimi had swim practice. Sure he should be in his history class right now, but he got a girl writing notes and doing his homework for it.

He looked all over the place for Mimi. He finally spotted her coming out of the pool. It was hard to look good in the school's one piece blue swimsuit, but somehow she did it. He didn't want to stare so obviously but he couldn't help it. The way she sashays her way up the ladder to get out of the pool, her hips swaying from side to side. Her long glistening legs taking her to get her towel. He had to look away because he didn't want to get too aroused. A girl has never had this effect on him before.

He looked for her again but couldn't find her. He turned to his right and was startled to death that she was sitting right next to him smiling. "Now why are you here Yamato?"

"I happen to have a free period and wanted to see how the girl's swim team is doing." Matt smiled. He bit his lower lip as his eyes wandered to her body. He was sad to see that she had a white towel wrapped around her upper half.

"Yeah, sure. What are you really here for?" She was surprised to see herself acting so boldly. Never would she have walked up to a guy and be so direct. Especially to one that had such a notorious reputation. She just felt drawn to talk to him, he excited her like no other.

"Alright, you want the truth? I was wondering if you could help me with the math homework. I kinda spaced off and now I don't know how to do it." Matt smiled charmingly.

Mimi thought about it. "Okay. Where and when?"

"I was thinking tonight, at my house." Matt said. 'In my room, where there's a big bed, so we can fu-'

"How about the library?" Mimi suggested. She didn't trust herself to be completely alone with him yet.

Matt strongly objected the idea. He hated the library and is in fact banned from it. The librarian caught him banging a fellow female student against a bookshelf. But he didn't want to seem forceful so he agreed. "Okay, I'll see you there at four."

Hmm, I have never written a Michi scene before. But it's part of the story! There will be a lot more Mimato parts later on. Thanks for reading and review if you want!