Chapter 3…Back to Tai

this chapter is pretty much a small filler showing that Sora likes Tai... future drama? dundunduunnnn...

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"Hey Tai!!! Pass it, pass it!!!"

It was once again time for the daily scrimmage on the soccer field, and Tai was once again hogging the spotlight even though it was just a regular practice day. He laughed and weaved through his teammates with ease and shot for the goal, which he made. The freshman in his team cheered, while the more experienced players grumbled at him. He threw a cheeky grin at them and got off the soccer field as the school bell rang, indicating that 6th period was over.

This meant school was finally, thank God finally, officially over, and Taichi Yagami has graduated high school. Tai quickly took a shower, dressed, grabbed his things, and ran to meet up with his friends. They were all about to go to the movies to celebrate, and this was the first time in a long time that they were all together like this so he was pretty excited. He finally came up to them, waving. They smiled and waved back, and headed out of the school together.

"Man, I can't believe you made it Tai, I doubted you for a second or two when you didn't do the last two homework assignments for Government!" Jyou said, wiping his forehead with a handkerchief.

"Yeah, but here we all are, going on to become college students! We can wear whatever clothes and accessories we want, plus we get to dye our hair any color we like!" Mimi said excitedly.

"Mimi darling, you dyed your hair any color you wanted regardless of the school rules anyway," Sora said, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah, Sora's right about that one... amazing how much a little crying and kissing up to principals will get yah. Well, it doesn't matter anymore anyway; once we get the graduation ceremony over with this Saturday, we never have to see these stupid, brainless teachers ever again," Taichi said, grinning.

"Hey, I resent that. These teachers need respect; they try their best every year to ensure the students a good future and education. Plus, a lot of them are really nice!" Koushiro said, frowning.

"Pssh…only to the smart, oh-so-special chosen ones," Taichi retorted.

Everyone agreed, to Koushiro's great dislike. They all laughed and talked cheerfully the rest of the way to the movie theater. Once there, they went in to find seats after having bought their tickets. It was instantly clear that they were going to have to split up if they all wanted to find seats.

"All right…I think we have to go in pairs of twos for the best chance. Actually, I think I see three seats in a row over there! Hurry, hurry! Which three of us are sitting there??? Well, two of you guys since I spotted it first!" Mimi said quickly.

They all looked at each other quickly and said in almost unison, "ME!!!"

"All right…that was Jyou and Koushiro, so I guess that leaves Sora and Tai to sit together elsewhere!" Mimi squealed.

"Hey, hey, hey! I definitely heard Sora say 'me' second, and Jyou was third!" Tai said defensively.

"Um, he's right, Mimi," Koushiro said sheepishly.

"Nonsense! Come along you two," Mimi said happily as she dragged the two boys to the empty seats. They looked back at Tai apologetically.

Tai grumbled. It wasn't that he hated sitting next to Sora, it was that he thought Mimi did that arrangement just so that she can be surrounded by boys. Tai grinned at Sora, who grinned back, albeit nervously. Tai looked at her for a second, then decided to shrug it off. Tai noticed that although they got along very well while there were others around, Sora never really spoke with him when they were alone. Tai didn't know what he did to make Sora never really speak with him, but it didn't concern him too much at the moment. Right now, they had to find seats before the previews were over.

Finally, they found two empty seats that were in a pretty good spot, and settled down. The movie just started and Tai instinctively reached to rest his arm on the chair handle, only to find that his arm rested on something plush. Looking down he saw that it was Sora's arm, which she quickly pulled away with a quick sorry and an averting of eyes. He frowned. What was eating her?

"Hey, what's wrong with you? I don't have a disease of any sorts at the moment... what'd I do?" Tai said, pouting.

"Huh? Oh, uh...you didn't do anything wrong, sorry…um…" Sora stuttered.

"Is it because you don't really like me? Because I noticed you talk with me a lot when there are others around, but when it's just the two of us you never say anything…do you only talk with me while the others are around because you're just trying to be nice? I thought we were friends!"

"No! No, it's not that at all, Tai! I really like you; I really do…um…in fact…"

Sora blushed furiously, to Tai's confusion. Oh, so dense.

"Well?" Tai said impatiently.

"I LIKE YOU, ALL RIGHT?" Sora yelled.

Sora shut her mouth quickly, as Tai jumped back in surprise and quickly looked around. Tai noticed some people turned to look at them, and others shushed them angrily. He turned to look back at Sora, frowning.

"Well, if you like me then you don't have to yell it, sheesh. But glad that's over with, cuz I was beginning to think that I was losing a friend of mine," Tai said, glaring at the people who were staring.

"Uh…Tai, I don't think you understand-"

"Shhh, the movie's starting!"

Sora sighed and gave up. She turned to look at the movie and peeked a glance at Tai every now and then, who was watching the screen happily. The forever oblivious Tai, oh when will he learn? Perhaps next time she'll just state bluntly 'I LOVE YOU.'

The movie ended, and they got out of the theater. Mimi and Sora were whispering to each other away from the group, where Sora did a lot of shaking her head and Mimi looking as if she was tutting something, both turning to look at him a lot. Tai turned to the boys for help, but they only shrugged. Girls will be girls; they'll always have a lot of 'secret' things to talk about amongst themselves where boys were not allowed.

As they were walking home, they passed by a small group of teenage girls. They were talking excitedly amongst each other, and Tai caught a small piece of their conversation.

"Oh my God, are you serious?"

"Yeah, totally serious! He's missing!"

"Gasp… I hope he's all right!"

And they passed, no longer heard. Tai and the rest looked among themselves, then shrugged. Perhaps the girls were talking about a missing friend of there's or something. Either way, it was really none of their business. They went to eat out at a fast food joint, and after a long meal of talking and throwing of french fries at Sora's head, each headed for home.

Tai came home to a pain in his stomach. That pain was Kari, who had just socked him right where his belly button was.

"What was that for?!!" Tai yelped, clutching his stomach.

"Mom and Dad barely leave yesterday night for a business trip, and you're already starting to bring friends to sleep over? I'm telling!" Kari yelled, folding her arms.

"Huh?"

At first Tai was going to object loudly and say that all his friends went home thank you very much, but as he looked up he saw that there was indeed a person sitting on their couch with his legs crossed, chilling. Tai looked at the stranger, who wore a green cap with dark sunglasses and a strange sense of clothing style. The man finally noticed him, and stood up to walk toward him. Tai backed away.

"Who the hell are you???" Tai said defensively, pushing Kari behind him.

"Aw, come on Taichi Yagami…you should recognize me, being my number one fan and all."

Tai felt like a balloon just got lodged in his throat. Could it be? No freakin' way, how could it be…but, his voice…he knew that voice…and he was speaking in English!

"Y…Yamato Ishida?" Tai managed to stutter.

"That's right," The dreamy voice said as he took off his sunglasses and hat.

There he was. In person. Right in front of him. In his HOME. This was the biggest dream come true ever…but…why was he…?

"I…I…I…" Taichi muttered, still in shock.

"Sorry, I thought that you'd have checked your e-mail by now, since it has been like, what…2 months since I sent it? I guess not, judging by your reaction…" Yamato said, laughing.

Tai just stared a moment longer. He looked so much more awesome in person…wait, an e-mail? 2 months?

"Huh? I actually just checked my e-mail last night…I checked my inbox pretty good, and I do it on a daily basis…but I didn't see anything that may have been you…" Tai said, his voice still a bit weak.

"Huh…well…maybe I sent it wrong…your e-mail was SoccerStar39602 at Hotmail dot com, wasn't it?" He asked, scratching his head.

Tai looked at him, and then it dawned on him. He laughed.

"Yeah, that's me…but from like, how long ago? I changed to gmail a while back cuz that account got overrun with spam, my new e-mail is—oh…never mind, it's too long," Tai didn't want Yamato…the real Yamato…to know that he got an e-mail sn that was called AOkid, It was too embarrassing!

"Oh, I see…well that's too bad, because I took forever to write out that letter to explain this situation the best I could," Yamato said sheepishly.

Kari looked in between them confusedly, not understanding what they were saying. Yamato just gave her a small, acknowledging nod. She held her breath. This guy was so cool! He looked like a weirdo with the over-sized sunglasses, but when he took them off he had beautiful blue eyes, and with his cap off…she saw that he had awesome hair; it was blonde and slightly spiked, with a patch of ice blue dye that matched his eyes. Tai had a friend like this? A really hot foreigner? No wait…is he Japanese? Why is he speaking in English? Why is TAI speaking in English???

Tai couldn't believe it. Yamato Ishida was standing in his living room, and was talking with him like a regular guy…and he REMEMBERED him! After all these years, he remembered Tai and his stupid e-mails and his self-proclamation of being their number one fan!!

"Well…I guess its something important, right? I mean, aren't you busy with work and stuff? Do your band members even know that you're here?" Tai said, motioning for him to sit down on the couch.

"Yeah…guess I have a lot of explaining to do…"

End (: stay tuned. And remember kids, none of those e-mails work. Shhh.