My hand fell asleep writing this chapter. -.- Well, here it is. I'll try to get another chapter in before I go on vacation. I don't think my mom's going to let me bring my lap top with me so I won't be able to type.

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Chapter 5 -- Stone In Love

Just kiss back, just kiss back, Yamato kept telling himself, but his body wouldn't respond. He just sat there like a stone unmoving. Just kiss him and he'll stop, he'll leave you alone, Matt. Isn't that what you wanted? But, did he want Tai to leave him alone? He felt like he was being torn in three: one part of him wanted to push Tai away and run, the other just wanted to lean in and return the kiss, while a third didn't want to do anything at all.

Eventually, Taichi pulled away when he got no response. He rubbed the back of his head nervously, and Yamato thought he saw a bit of sadness flash across his face for a second. "Well, guess we better get going."

Yamato said nothing and just sat there staring dumbly at his best friend. Tai sighed and grabbed his wrist pulling him along like a child. They didn't talk as they walked to the red car or as they drove back to Yamato's house. The blonde just kept his blue gaze fixedly outside chasing the moon with his eyes. Every time he even gazed over at the brunette, he started to warm up and got that fluttery feeling in his stomach. Soon, even the moon was hard to look at without having its glowing surface reflect the brunette's face. Stupid Tai and his promises of the moon.

Finally, they drove up to Yamato's house and he started for the door handle. His arm was suddenly grabbed and he turned his head to see a blank faced Tai starring at him. Yamato didn't like that face one bit. It wasn't natural for the usually grinning brunette to be so expressionless. Why does he look like that? Did I do that?

"M-matt, um, about the kiss," Tai started.

"You still haven't taken it yet, try again." Yamato wanted to smash his head into the dashboard when he heard the words that came out of his mouth. However, those very same words made his friend's face light up again, even if the smile was faint.

"But I failed," protested Taichi.

Yamato rolled his eyes. "Ever heard of second chances."

"Really?"

"Really," Yamato answered, even though the second chance he was talking about pertained to himself. Next time I won't just sit there like a rock.

"Now, I've played with you enough today, can I please go and sleep for what little I have left of this day."

"Sure, see you Monday, Matt."

Yamato opened the door and got out. "Yeah, and you better have your paper done for Johnson's class. It's due when we walk in the door."

"What!" exclaimed the brunette. "How many pages is it suppose to be?"

"Ten," answered the blonde matter-of-factly.

"Well, shit."

"Have fun," Yamato said before shutting the car door and walking to his front door. He watched as the red car speed off down the road in amusement. He wondered how long it would take his best friend to realize the paper wasn't due for another two weeks.

"Oh well, if he does it tonight then he won't have to worry about it later," mused the blonde and walked into his house.

It was dark, but Yamato didn't bother to turn on the lights. He about knew just where everything in his house was and thought it might be a good idea to see how far he could get before he ran into something. Plus, the concentrating kept his thoughts away from the brunette.No thoughts about him tonight, Matt, just sleep. You'll feel better in the morning, and will be able to think better when you're not so Tai-induced

The next morning, Yamato woke up with a headache. He tried to sleep it off but to no avail. Eventually he got up and walked to his kitchen and opened a cabinet. He grabbed the aspirin and plunked a couple of pills into his mouth before washing them down with a glass of water. An hour later he found himself sitting lazily in front of the television, the medicine finally taking its effect.

He had made himself a bowl of popcorn, but hadn't eaten more than a handful. Instead, he was using the bowl as a basket and shooting the popcorn into it blindly missing most of them. Usually, Yamato wouldn't be doing something so messy. Sure his house wasn't spiken span clean, but the only place that was ever really dirty for long periods of time was a corner in his bedroom that he threw things in. Food was the thing he lease liked having in random parts of his house and he'd probably look at the popcorn on the floor later and sigh. Right then, however, he could really care less where the popcorn landed.

Apparently sleep hadn't helped any with his recent dilemma. He felt guilty and thought he might have hurt Tai's feelings by not reacting. The blonde could tell his friend had worked hard to get that kiss. On the other hand, Yamato wondered why his friend wanted his kiss so badly anyways. Technically, Tai had stole his first kiss, but it had been chaste. Couldn't the brunette be happy with that? He didn't think Taichi would be cruel enough to play a joke like that on him. So, what was the reason he wanted a full out kiss so bad?

Yamato lifted his hand to his mouth and touched his lips. Tai had kissed him. He'd been kissed. By a boy. By his best friend. By Tai. Butterflies started fluttering in his stomach and he grew warm. A smile crossed his mouth and he shook himself in surprise. What was that crazy guy doing to him?

Suddenly, the phone rang and Yamato jumped up wincing when he heard a few popcorn pieces crushing under his feet into the carpet. He rushed over to the phone and picked it up. "Hello, Yamato Ishida speaking."

"Hey Matt."

"TK! You haven't called in a while, what's up?" Yamato asked pulling out a stool from the bar that served as his table and sitting by the phone. He was excited to finally hear from his brother. They hadn't talked since school started.

"Oh, you know, the usual," answered TK in a tone that hinted at something more.

"The usual? You sound as if you're bursting to tell me something. What's the good news?"

There was silence on the other end for a few seconds. "It's Kari. We went on a date."

"What, really? How did it go?"

"Well, at first I was kind of nervous, but then I remembered who I was with and it went pretty well. We went to the movies and ate at our favorite restaurant," said TK.

"Did you get a kiss out of it?" Yamato teased.

"I-I, uh. Well, actually, she kissed me at her door then ran inside. I think I may have tripped going down the stairs from her place with how out of it I was after that."

Yamato blinked a couple of times before saying, "Like brother like sister."

"What do you mean?"

Yamato almost smacked himself for letting it slip. "Well, Tai's here. He surprised me on the first day of school. Did you know about this?"

"Heh, well, I went with Kari to the airport to see him off. He told me to keep it a secret."

"Yeah, well he's been terrorizing me ever since."

"How so?"

He sighed and debated whether or not to tell his younger brother about his problems with the brunette. Up until that night he had gone to Lights, his younger brother had been the only one to know he was gay. It had been an accident, his finding out. Yamato had secretly bought a Yaoi manga sometime after coming to the decision he was gay out of curiosity. TK had come over for a visit and was looking for a book Yamato had asked him to get when the younger came across the manga. Luckily, the younger blonde didn't freak out and had actually read the book in a corner before telling his elder brother that he'd even found it. After a discussion of why TK had even bothered to read it (Hikari apparently liked Yaoi and made TK read some) and why Yamato had bought the book, he came out to his little brother.

"Well, I actually kind of went on a date yesterday too," started Yamato.

"Who was the lucky guy?" TK asked teasingly.

"Tai."

"That's not a date. You guys go out all the time."

"He bought me food and my movie ticket."

"Whoa! Why?"

Yamato licked his lips nervously.

"Well, it kind of started a few weeks ago. We went to this club with this guy from college and he told us he was gay then Tai said he was bi so I came out as well."

"Hold on, Tai's bi! No wonder Hikari hides her Yaoi in his room. They must share."

Yamato quirked a brow. He didn't think the brunette would be one to read Yaoi. "Yeah, well, you know how he's always saying things spur of the moment."

"Yeah."

"He announced he was going to steal my first kiss."

"You haven't kissed anyone before?" TK laughed.

"Oh come on. I don't like girls and I was in the closet. How many chances do you think I had to kiss someone?"

"Okay, sorry. Continue with your story, it sounds interesting."

"Now don't go telling people what I'm going to say, okay." Yamato paused for a minute. "Just don't tell anyone about this conversation anyways, even Hikari."

"Aw, not even her."

"No," Yamato stated firmly.

The younger blonde sighed in defeat. "Fine."

"Well, he kissed me last night."

"Really, so we both got lucky."

Yamato shook his head in argument even though he knew the other could not see it. "No, I didn't get lucky. I'm confused, TK, very confused. He kissed me and I didn't do anything, and now there's all these feelings inside of me and I don't know what to do."

"Calm down Matt. Wow, if I'd known you were having such a hard time I would have called earlier."

He hated the fact he was sounding so weak in front of his little brother, but for the first time in so long, Yamato actually had someone he knew well and trusted to talk to other than Tai. He just wanted to pour out all his problems on TK. "I-it's just...I don't know."

"Well, you guys have been best friends for almost a decade, ever thought of having a relationship with him?"

Yamato froze. Had he ever thought of being with Taichi? What kind of question was that? "Yes."

"Really, for how long?"

"Middle school, before I realized I was gay. But I got over it. I don't like him like that."

"Matt, if you didn't like him you wouldn't be feeling confused."

"What?"

TK sighed on the other line and Yamato heard shuffling. "Okay, when he kissed you what did you feel?"

Yamato thought for a second. "Fireworks. Butterflies. A lot of girly stuff. It was strange."

There was silence on the other end for a few seconds until TK said, "I'm nodding by the way. That sounds close to what I felt when Kari kissed me."

"But I don't like him like that. I was just confused in Middle School, I've never liked him that way. I can't!"

"Matt!"

He stopped blabbering when he heard his younger brother yell his name.

"Look, honestly, I don't think you two being together is such a bad idea. And, I don't think you really ever stopped liking Tai."

"I never stopped?"

"No. In fact, from how hysterical you're acting I would guess you were in love with him."

"In love?" In love.

"Look, you're my big brother and I want you to be happy. You've taken care of me, but now I think you need to take care of yourself."

"Yeah, I'll try and do that. I better let you go."

"Okay. Tell Tai hi for me when you see him again. Bye."

"Bye," and he hung up the phone.

In love. Could he be in love? His younger brother was the most important thing to Yamato, if he should take anyones advice it would be TK's. Love?

"T-tai," whispered Yamato blinking his eyes opened.

"Shh, you'll wake them," Tai whispered back sliding in beside the blonde.

Yamato looked around. They were back in the digital world in one of the snow covered lands and hiding in a cave, their partnered digimon curled up in the opposite corner. Beside him, Tai was scooting closer to him, his arms suddenly coming to wrap around the blonde's waist. He felt Tai nuzzle his head into his blonde hair and warms breaths played at his ear

"Tai?"

"Shh, Matt, you'll wake them," repeated the brunette.

The blonde nodded and swallowed before turning his fixing his eyes on the sleeping digimon. Suddenly, he felt a hand slip down his pants and grab him. He eeped, but was quickly quietened by a mouth on his. He tried to protest, but found a tongue lunging into his mouth and was preoccupied with fighting it. Soon, however, he gave in and found he was quite enjoying whatever the brunette was doing to him. Soon there was a tightening in his stomach and Yamato felt himself release.

Tai pulled his hand out and wiped it off it off before turning Yamato on his other side. "How do you feel, Matt?"

The blonde was breathing hard still not down from his high. "Huh, huh,...I love you."

"Yeah? Well, you'll love me even more after this. There was a low feral chuckle before Yamato was attacked again.

Yamato woke up with a start, his heart beating fast and breathing shallow. He didn't even take notice of the mess on the sheets, only one thought playing over and over in his head.

I'm in love with Tai. "I love him."

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