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Authors Note: I am soooooo soooorrryyyyy! If you guys are wondering what took me so long, it was that my USB drive got viruses when I plugged it in our computer. I actually finished this chapter last week Wednesday, but because of the virus, everything in my flash drive got deleted.

This chapter is a bit different than my first one since I couldn't remember every word of it, but it has the same context so it's practically the same. Anyway, I am so sorry once again and sorry for the wait : (

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Girl Talk, Guy Talk & Interesting Events

I woke up today, a bit earlier than I usually did, and scanned around over at my room. It was like it always looked but I saw the white piece of paper that Yama had left last night. I smiled at the memory of that day and all the events that had happened yesterday. I did have a wonderful time and I sure wouldn't mind doing it all over again.

I got up, go dressed and soon, I decided to eat out for breakfast. As I walked out of my room, I saw Cassie walking out of hers and so I decided to ask her if she'd like to join me for breakfast. I walked over to Cassie and greeted "Hey there Cassie, good morning."

"Hey there Sora, you're up already?" she asked with a smile

"Yeah and it seems to me like you're up quite early as well." I told her

"So where do you plan to go from here?" she asked

"Actually, I was planning to go over and get some breakfast for today. Would you like to come with me?" I asked her

"Sure thing, I'd love to, that is….if it's okay with you." Said Cassie and I nodded in reply

"I'd like that." I told her "Come on, we better get going."

Cassie nodded and the two of us went down to the lobby and out of the dorm building. We decided to have breakfast over at that pizza place where Tai and the other took me when I first got to know them. Cassie seemed to be quite familiar with it as well so we both agreed.

When we got there, Jeff met us at the door, and he accompanied us to our seats. We sat near the window and Jeff was there to take down all our orders. As soon as we were done ordering, Jeff left and gave us some privacy.

"So Sora, how was yesterday?" asked Cassie with a smile

"What are you talking about?" I asked her, I was trying to play dumb as for her to not push me further but it wasn't working

"Come on Sora, you can tell me about it can't you? How your date with Yamato went out." She asked

"Um…I wouldn't really call it a date." I told her nervously

"Sor, when a guy asks a girl to spend some quality alone time with him then it is a date. What else would it be called if it wasn't?" a voice had interrupted us, one that was quite familiar to me as well.

Cassie and I both turned to see Meems, Kari and Yolei there right behind us smiling happily. I smiled back at them and asked "What are you guys doing here on your own?"

"Jim dropped us by. He was about to leave for work today when we happened to wake up the same time. He offered to give us a ride here and fetch us again later." Said Meems

"No guys today? Where are the others?" I asked

"They might not be coming here. Their taking a break, the guys are exhausted in playing all day in the arcade yesterday and they decided to use their Saturday as a rest day for all of them. Not like we minded that." Said Yolei

"You guys went to the arcade?" I asked "Is that where you all were?"

"Not quite, they were the only ones who went 'arcading' if that's even a word, some of us had other plans, but yes I guess you could say that we were at the mall most of the time." Said Meems

"Oh, hey you guys want to eat with us?" I asked "Cassie's here with me you know." I told them as I pointed to Cassie

"Hey everyone." She greeted

"Hey there Cassie, nice to see you again today." Said Kari with a smile

"You too." Replied Cassie

"Anyway, you guys want to join us?" I asked again

"Sure thing, we'd love to Sor." Said Meems with a bright smile "By the way, what about you two, I was expecting Yamato and Tai and all the others to be here with you so where are they?"

"That I have no clue, I actually didn't check on thm today and since I didn't get any calls I decided to let them do what they want. They might be spending some time together or something, but I don't have any of the details." I told her. Since I wasn't able to go to the guys dorms earlier I had no idea to where Tai and the others were at.

Soon enough, our orders arrived, Mimi and the other just added a few more along with their drinks but we were settled there in our own conversation.

"So Sor, back to what I was saying…" started Mimi, I smiled nervously I knew where this was going and it was starting all over again. "How did your date go?" she asked

"Meems…" I told her

"Oh no, you are not getting away with just that. How did it go? And we want full details on everything that went on while we were gone." Said Meems

"Please, do I have to?" I asked pleadingly

"Yes!" they all told me in unison

"Or we're going to keep bugging you till you tell us something." Said Yolei and I didn't like that any bit.

"Okay, okay I'll talk." I told them singing in defeat, there was no way I was going to escape this anyway, at least I gave it a try. It just wasn't good enough…

"So what happened? Where did he take you anyway?" asked Meems

"He took me to a café that was near here but it was a bit hidden so only a few people went there." I replied "He said it was relaxing there and he was right, it was."

"He took you to café huh…figures, it's a good thing he didn't take you to the mall." Said Yolei "Or else we'd all be there."

"That's true, I mean all of them were there to begin with. Yutaka, Akira and Takashi were there too. In fact, you and Yamato were the only ones missing." Said Meems

Now I think I had an idea as to why he didn't take me to the mall. At first I thought it was just because it was too common but now…I think there was another reason. "I think he knew you guys would be there…"

"That could be true, if he knew about us heading there then he'd have a big reason not to take you there in there first place." Said Meems

"Maybe he just didn't want us to be the ones to disturb your quality time together." Guesses Kari. Actually, a part of me thought that too, but I want going to admit that to them now.

"Aw, that's so sweet of him, he wanted to assure some alone time with you Sor." Said Meems

"Either that or he thinks that we'd be stalking you two while you were there." Said Cassie "Which admittedly, was a possibility…"

"So true, with Davis and the others there and everything…" said Kai and we all laughed at this.

"So anywhere else?" asked Meems

"Well, after that he just took me to places and he took me to the park to watch the sun go down afterwards…" I told them and I sort of couldn't help but smile remembering that moment

"Aw, that must have been nice for the both of you." Said Yolei

They continued to ask me for some more details on what happened and then I told them that Yama just took me to my room in the end and he left a note behind indicating what had happened.
"He went inside your dorm room?!?" asked Meems surprised

"He just left me there to get some sleep it's not that big of a deal is it?" I asked

"Well, considering the circumstances, he did have a good reason you know, but I wonder how my brother would react to this…" said Kari

"Oh don't even start with him. For all you know they're either going to laugh at Yamato for being such a sweet guy for not wanting to wake Sor or they're going to start bombarding the guy with series of questions." Said Meems and I could just feel bad for imagining the stuff that Yama could possibly go through.

We all continued to chat a bit more and after I told them my story, it was there turn to share theirs. Kari told us she spent some time with T.K. which made me really happy for her and Meems was able to spend some time with Koushiro and Cassie with Tai. I guess things turned out quite nicely for all if us, the guys were able to go to the arcade anyway and Yolei said she got to spend some time with Ken.

"Speaking of that, you two haven't been talking much have you?" I asked Yolei

"It doesn't matter, he has things to do." Said Yolei

"You sure about that? Or are you just afraid something might turn up?" asked Meems concerned. We all knew about Ken and Yolei but they seem to have been a bit distant lately and we didn't know why.

"Did something happen?" asked Kari

"No it's nothing, can we please just drop the topic for now?" she asked us pleadingly

Meems just sighed and the rest of us complied, it didn't seem like she was going to open up any time soon so we just shrugged it off fir her sake too. We continued to talk a bit more and once we were done with all our meals, all of us divided the pay. We thanked Jeff for his services and soon we decided to head out and spend some time together elsewhere…

Yamato's P.O.V.

The guys and I went over to my place again this Saturday, they said it would be nice to have some time for ourselves again so I agreed to it. I didn't mind spending some time with them since we'd probably be doing nothing anyway.

We arrived at the house soon enough. We used my car to get there and Yutaka offered to drive. He already knew where my house was so I didn't mind. What surprised me the most though is what I saw when I got there.

As I opened the door to my own house using the keys I had, I saw my dad. He was back and he wasn't alone. He was with a girl and they were talking with each other in the kitchen. As I walked in on their conversation with the guys behind me, I went over to my dad and asked.

"What brings you here dad? You're rarely home." I told him as I looked over at the girl next to him

"Yamato you're here. I didn't expect you to be home. Ah and you brought your friends and T.K with you." He told me

"Is that okay?" I asked, my voice was turning a bit cold and I just couldn't help being pissed. I don't

"Yes of course, they're all welcome here." He told me then he gestured at the blond girl he was with "This is my son Yamato and his brother T.K."

"Hello there, it's so nice to finally meet you." She smiled

"Dad? Who's this?" I asked hoping to get a good answer out of that.

"Oh, right. This is my co-worker, she and I have worked on many of our projects together." He told me and I was hoping, really hoping that he was telling the full truth of it all.

"I see, and she's here because?" I asked. Look I didn't want to be rude or anything, but it's a normal thing for me to react this way. I mean, if your father would be like some kind of stranger in your life then all of a sudden come back with another girl it would totally piss me off, especially when everything with mom and T.K was already going so well.

"Yamato don't be harsh. I only took her here to talk." He told me

"Sure you did..." I muttered and the guys heard it

Before my dad could say any more, Yutaka cut in and spoke "Um…nice to see you again Mr. Ishida, we'll be in Yamato's room if you need us."

"Yeah, we'll just um…talk about some stuff." Said Takashi

"Alright." He simply replied

Tai and the others greeted my father and then they personally dragged me into my room. When we got there, I sat on my bed and Tai laid down on the carpet and started to toy with the dart board and throw various darts at it. The others just did random stuff and sat on the few chairs that were inside my room.

"Dude, calm down. If we didn't drag you out of there, you could have blown." Said Takashi

"He's right man, you have to calm down. It's not like anything big happened with your dad right? I mean, they were just talking." Said Yutaka

"Then why bring her here? Couldn't they have gone somewhere else? After he just disappears for a couple of times not even caring he can't expect me to just let him waltz right back in without a care in the world can he?" I asked calming down a bit

"We get that, but don't jump to conclusions first okay?" suggested Akira and I guess he was right.

"Yamato, if you have any problems with this kind of stuff, why not talk with him or something?" asked Yutaka

"Right, like you guys don't know the guy. He doesn't even know that his sons come here almost every week only to find the place empty. And don't think he's going to start to care either." Said Tai

I agreed on Tai with that one. I'm not the type of guy who's best friends with my dad since it doesn't look like he even cares anyway. "Tai has a point you know."

"You don't really think he just moved on like that do you?" asked T.K sadly

"Come on Teeks, we can't necessarily just beg him to go back to mom now can we?" I asked with a sigh.

"Chill out already, both of you. We came here to relax remember?" asked Takashi

"Not that we can do that now…" I muttered

"Okay, that's enough, Yamato if you want a counselor just try and open up to someone elsewhere. It's not as thought moping around here now is going to change anything right?" asked Tai

"That's true. Let's just enjoy our day like we always do." Advised Akira with a smile

"Look Yamato, whenever you have some sort of problem, just talk to us man. And if you can't talk to us then talk to someone else you feel you can open up to." Said Yutaka

"Talk to Sor if you have to, she can help with this kind of stuff. Either her or Kari, but I prefer you talk to her since, well it's be awkward to talk to Kari and ask for advice. She is younger than you, you know that right?" asked Tai as he looked at me

"Of course I know that Tai, she's the same age as T.K remember." I told him

"Speaking of Sora, let's drop this topic and take a little recap. Where'd you take her anyway?" asked Takashi with a grin.

"We didn't see you at the mall so we figured you two were somewhere else." Said Akira

"I took her to the nearby café. And I didn't take her to the mall because I knew you guys would be there." I told them jokingly, but it was partly true.

"Ouch man, that hurts. But it's also a good thing. At least you two got to be alone together right?" said Yutaka

"Guys…" I started, I knew what could be a possible outcome of this. One they could tease me to no end or two they'd be throwing questions at me that I didn't even have the time to answer them.

"You know we're just teasing with you right?" asked Takashi

"Yeah, but seriously if you want to know what we did, we just spent some time together period." I told them

"We get that part already, but where else did you take her? Just at the café? I highly doubt that." Said Tai

"We went to places and I just took her to the park before we went back to the dorm." I replied

"Why the park?" asked T.K

"I don't know, she was getting tired so I figured she'd just want to watch the sun go down, and the park has a great view." I told them

"Aw, you two watched it together, I can just picture that." Said Takashi with a smirk

"Come on you guys, it's not like it's that big of a deal. It's normal isn't it?" I asked

"Not for you. For a guy who's never even seen going out with a girl, you sure know where to take them." Said Yutaka "Did you plan this or something?"

"To be honest, no. Why would I do that? I was hoping to do things she wanted and I'd just take her there." I told them

"So, what did you do after the whole park thing?" asked Tai

"I took her back to the dorm that's that." I replied "She got tired afterwards so I had to take her back."

"Well, whatever happened, it sure looked like you had a pretty good time." Said Akira "And you kind of have Tai to thank for that."

Akira was right, if it hadn't been for Tai pushing me to ask Sora about it, I might have just let it go and those things would have never happened. "Yeah, Tai helped me a lot with this one."

"Course I did, my two best friends, as surprising as that is….I wouldn't have it any other way." Said Tai

"You'd just want to wonder what the other guys would be thinking in school once they found out she's taken." Said Yutaka

"She isn't taken yet; all I did was ask her out." I spoke

"Yeah that's the key word, yet, she isn't taken now but she will be eventually. By none other than you no less." Said Takashi

"Right and you expect that to happen in just one day out with her?" I asked

"Just say date already, you went out on a date with her there. Simple right? You already admitted that you asked her out." Said Tai

"It wouldn't be a problem as long as she had fun with you, so you have nothing to worry about." Said T.K

"She did have fun with you right?" asked Yutaka

"She said she did, and she looked like she did." I told him

"Good, then T.K's right. You have nothing to worry about." Said Tai "But mind you, Sor doesn't like to be treated as some kind of damsel in distress, she's capable of taking care of herself."

"Dude, you're lecturing me as if we were already together!" I told Tai

"Oh you will be…" said Tai with a smile

"Man, if you act like this with your best friend then how much more with your sister?" asked Yutaka

"Oh I get much worse in cases that involve any of my friends. And Yamato…" started Tai

"What is it now Tai?" I asked

"If ever you do get together, which I think will happen soon if you keep this up, you better not hurt her." Said Tai and was it just me or was his voice getting a bit deadly right now.

"Tai, don't jump to conclusions, I still want to know if she's the right girl and if ever she even likes me back in the end. But you know I wouldn't do anything like that to anyone." I told him in my own defense.

"You better not. Because if you do, I will hunt you down and I will personally tear you apart, okay?" he told me. The other guys sweat-dropped at Tai's sudden change of attitude. It was like there was this certain dark aura suddenly surrounding him.

"Um Tai…." Started Yutaka

"Man, if we knew you were like this then we officially know that Yamato here could be in big trouble." Said Takashi

"One wrong move and you're done for big brother." Said T.K

"Who knew Tai could sound so deadly when it comes to stuff like this." Said Akira

"Oh I don't just sound deadly, I'll really do it." Said Tai with a smile, but deep down I knew there was an evil glint in his eyes.

"Okay, Tai you're seriously freaking me out here. How do expect your sister to get a boyfriend if you act like that?" asked Takashi

"So this is what Sora meant by you being over protective…" I told him

"Hey I do my job as a big brother, but it's not like I'm going to murder every guy she dates. I just don't want her hurt you know?" he told us and we got the message. Tai's a nice guy and he just didn't want his sister and friends to feel pain and some sort of misery in the end.

"Figures, as least you're doing your job." I told him "And you're doing good at it."

"Thanks for the compliment." He said with a grin

"You know, we haven't seen you this happy since. It's not like you weren't happy before, but I don't know…you look a whole lot happier." Said Akira

"It's them, Meems and the others. It's been a while and knowing that I get to spend some time with them again really lightens things up." Said Tai with a smile "It's been four whole years and it's been tough for all of us."

"I guess that's true." We all agreed on that

All of us continued to talk some more and we even teased T.K a bit when we found out that he got to spend some time with Kari. I know my brother likes Tai's little sis but I don't want to force him into admitting that.

Soon, we've had our fun and decided to leave. When we got down, I noticed my dad was no longer there and his guest was gone too. "They must have gone elsewhere…" I thought to myself and sighed. These were the times when my dad would just disappear without a clue and that's why I'm not even used to having him around anymore. We got out the door and hopped in the car and drove back to the dorm…

Sora's P.O.V

After we roamed around a bit, we decided to head to the park where Yama took me to yesterday. I took them there because they said that they wanted to see it up close. When we got to the park, there were a few people just like yesterday and Meems and the others were surprised at how big it was.

"This place is huge." Exclaimed Yolei

"This is where Yamato took you yesterday?" asked Cassie

"Yeah this is the place. It's really big isn't it?" I told them and they all nodded.

As we were walking around the park we heard a too familiar voice that made me wish I wasn't here right now. And just like me, Cassie thought the exact same thing. That voice belonged to none other than Sasha.

"Well would you look at that, if it isn't Sora and her friends." She taunted

Meems looked over at me and whispered "Now I perfectly know why you do not like this girl. There's nothing to like."

"You'll get used to it Meems, you'll get used to it." I told her

"I don't know how you do." She told me

"Honestly, I don't either." I told her "I would have thought I made it clear that she had to keep her distance because this kind of routine was getting a bit annoying, but I guess she just doesn't get it."

"Looks like whatever you told her didn't manage to successfully sink in yet." Said Meems

Our little conversation was interrupted by Sasha's voice, "What brings you here? Did Yamato finally admit that you weren't worth it?" she asked

"Actually, we beg to differ. Yamato thinks she's really worth his time." Said Cassie

"Oh really? What a waste. You're friends aren't any different from you." Said Sasha, was she picking a fight here? No one insults my friends.

"Sasha, I'd watch your mouth if I were you…" I warned seriously

"And what would you do about it then?" she asked mockingly

"I would advise that you wouldn't want to know." I replied

"Whatever." She replied then for some odd reason she kept glancing at Kari

"Um, is there something wrong?" asked Kari because she seemed to have noticed it too.

"You must be that girl that was with Takeru yesterday…" she started

"How would you know something like that?" asked Yolei a bit confused and we were too

"Simple, I just happened to be at the mall too, duh." She started "Thank goodness Yama didn't take me to the mall yesterday." I thought

"And let me tell you that he must really pity you." Said Sasha and this made my eyes widen.

"Excuse me?!?" Meems snapped before I could say anything "And what do you mean by that?!?"

"Well, who would want to go out with her? She's not even worth it." Said Sasha mockingly at Kari

"Okay that is it! Who do you think you are?!?" asked Meems "You can't just make accusations like that, you're not some princess so stop acting like some spoiled brat why don't you!"

Before Sasha could reply, my temper must have reached its limits because I did something I normally wouldn't have…

SLAP!

I hit her across the face. I saw the look she gave me. She was wide-eyed and currently speechless at the moment, not that I could blame her for being that way right? Soon enough when all was quiet I spoke "Sasha, I told you to watch what you were saying didn't I? No one ever insults my friends ever or they have to go through me. If you have nothing good to say then just be quiet and don't say anything okay? I already told you that I was getting annoyed, but taking things out on my friends just takes the cake. Don't ever do that again or you and I might have a little fight of our own." My voice was colder than usual and I tried my best not to yell, it was bad enough I caused a small scene by doing that and I didn't want to make it worse.

I stopped and looked over at my friend, who were also staring at me at the moment. "Come on you guys, let's just come back here another time."

They all just nodded in agreement and we soon managed to walk away. As I was walking further from Sasha, I turned back one last time and told her "You know Sasha, I don't think Tai would want to know that you just insulted his little sister."

Meems and the others saw that the color seemed to drain from her face. I didn't know if she was afraid of humiliation or afraid of Tai getting mad at her, but if she does se him get mad at her, she'd wish she didn't do that.

Once we were out of the park Meems got a phone call from Jim stating that he'd be waiting for them at the dorm building lobby to take them home. This was our cue that we had to go back. As we walked back to the dorm Meems spoke "Sor, you okay?" she asked

"Sure I am Meems, I guess I just got a bit pissed at that." I replied with a sigh I don't usually slap people in the face, it wasn't something I was comfortable doing. I wanted to avoid fights if possible.

"It was understandable though, if you didn't do that, I could have." Admitted Meems

"Kari, don't take any of her insults seriously alight?" I told Kari with a smile

She nodded and replied "I won't, I know T.K enough to say that he wouldn't have spent time with me if it was just for pity. He's just not like that, if he didn't want to spend time with me then he wouldn't have offered, he could have just gone home."

"That's right Kari, she's just in big trouble now. If Tai finds out, that girl would wish she never even knew Tai." Said Meems

"Tai won't go overboard, hopefully he won't, but he might never talk to her ever again." Said Yolei

We continued to walk back to the dorm, as we went inside we immediately saw Jim there and he approached us with a smile. "Hey guys, had fun?" he asked

"Yeah we did, thanks a lot for giving us a ride Jim. Jou would have been the one to drive, but he wanted to stay home." Said Meems "Hope it wasn't any trouble."

"No, none at all. You guys needed to spend some more time alone." Said Jim with a smile

"Thanks anyway Jim, we all appreciate it." I told him smiling back

"You're all welcome, come on you guys, let's get home. The others are waiting so we could eat dinner." Said Jim

"The others are eager to eat dinner or is it just Davis?" asked Meems jokingly

"Well yeah, it's mostly Davis." Replied Jim and we all laughed at that.

Soon enough, I gave the others a hug and soon, it was time for them to leave. They had plans to meet up again tomorrow and hang with everyone and I told them I'd just fill Tai and the others in on it.

Once Meems and the others left, including Cassie, she said she had something to do, I went over at my dorm room and after a few minutes alone I decided to check if Tai and the others were back. After all, I wanted to know how they spent their day and I had a lot of things to tell them myself…

Authors Note: I am so sorry again for taking so long to update : ( Please tell me what you think of this chapter. Please Review : )