So I've been a little neglectful and I apologize. I've really tried to give you all the Taiora I've promised, but I think I didn't do as well as I wanted to. I'll try to do better next time.
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Anyway...not much to say this time around. DISCLAIMER: I don't own Digimon. Just enjoy!
The Taming of Sora
Sora used to be fun and outgoing, she used to like talking and being bubbly, but then it all stopped. Maybe it had to do with the loss of her mother, maybe the reality that she had to play mom to her younger sister, maybe just adolescence. Whatever it was it changed her. Mimi never changed, she remained kind and slightly air-headed, and popular. She wanted to date boys, it wasn't like there was a lack of possibilities but it was a common known fact that the Tachikawa girls weren't allowed to date. Their father was Mr. Over-Protective, come with in ten feet of either one of his daughters and you won yourself a one way ticket to the grave.
Chapter Seven: The Blond Behind the Door
Sora stood in the doorway stunned. Her mouth opened and closed as if she was going to say something. Her eyes were narrowed but there was shock and confusion masking the slight anger. Mimi's giggling carried down the staircase. Keisuke grunted and Tai's scratched the back of his head nervously.
"Uh, Sora, are you ready? We'll be a little late but you can have some more time if you need." Tai inwardly groaned.
There she was in dark wash jeans, platform sandals, and a red tube top. She wasn't what he'd call a vision. And then the fact that she was standing there like a guppy fish trying to breathe, made this small revenge and deceit ploy even better. He couldn't wait till this was all over. Then he could mock and laugh at her for a change.
Tai turned to Keisuke and shook his hand, "Thank you sir, it was nice to see you. We'll be going now."
Keisuke returned the gesture and clapped Tai on the back. "It was nice to see you, son. Come by anytime."
Tai grabbed a hold of Sora's hand that was hanging limply at her side and steered her to the entrance of her home. Stunned, Sora just allowed it.
Inside, her mind was a frantic mess. She was struggling with one, why Taichi Kamiya was here, and two, how he knew they were going to see a band. Perhaps Kari had told him but Kari would never send Tai. And Tai would never agree to something so stupid. Kari had in fact told Sora TK would be picking her up. This didn't make sense. Before Sora could really grasp it, she was standing in front of the door to her home.
And someone was knocking on the other side of it.
Matt stood in front of an unfamiliar door and waited till the occupants of the home answered. He could hear hushed voices on the other side of the oak door and it finally opened.
A woman with a pleasant smile stood inside. "Oh you must be Koushiro's little friend. It is so nice to finally meet you. I'm Yoshie Izumi! Please come in!"
She ushered Matt into the living from of their small home. She grinned broadly and offered him food. Matt graciously declined. She introduced Matt to Izzy's dad, Masami.
"Well Kou is up in his room. Feel free to go up there. He said he'd be expecting you!" Yoshie gushed.
"Thank you," Matt said as he walked out of the living room and up the stairs.
As he climbed the steps he heard Izzy's mother speaking to his father. "Can you believe it? He actually has a friend now! This is wonderful. That boy didn't look like he knew a thing about computers!"
Matt stopped and rolled his eyes. He knew he was what some would call good-looking but that was just stereotyping. Matt took it into offense but then realized that Izzy didn't socialize, so Matt coming over was an exceptional event in Izzy's life.
He reached the landing, there were three doors and Izzy was standing in front of the only open one. Izzy's hand was covering his face and he was sighing. "That was embarrassing. Sorry."
"Don't worry about it man. Rents… that's their job," Matt said sympathetically. He clapped his hands together and nodded toward Izzy, "Well go get dressed and we'll go to the party."
"I am dressed."
Matt took in Izzy's full appearance. He was wearing creased khaki trousers, a button up collared shirt, and shiny shoes. Matt bit back laughter. "Back into the room. You are not going anywhere with me looking like that."
"TK?" Tai asked as he stared at the young blond.
"Tai? Sora?" TK questioned, looking thoroughly confused as his moved his head from side to side. "Uh?" He ran his hand through his hair and tried to smile.
"Who are you?" Keisuke challenged as he stared at TK.
"TK, he's TK," Sora mumbled.
"TK?" Keisuke said with a raised eyebrow. Then he scoffed, "What kind of a name is that?"
"It's short of Takeru, sir." TK gulped. His crystal blue eyes searched Sora's auburn ones. He was lost. And very curious as to why Sora was standing in front of the door with Tai Kamiya's arm wrapped around her waist. As far as he knew, the two never interacted… ever!
"Well Tawk-eh-ruu," Keisuke annunciated his name, "what are you doing here?"
"That is a good question Mr. Tachikawa." Tai said to Keisuke. He turned his gaze to TK, his gaze burning into the younger guy. TK looked to Sora helplessly, but she was on another planet.
"He's here for me Daddy!" a cheery voice interrupted the tension.
The four people standing in the doorway turned to see Mimi standing at the foot of the stairs with her hands on her hips, and a bright smile on her face.
"I see." Keisuke's voice had turned deadly. "Well fine. But I don't want you laying a hand on her. You're mouth, tongue, and penis better stay at least fifty feet away from her. Or else I'll chop them off!"
"That's enough Daddy," Mimi said kissing him on the cheek. "We'll be home later."
Mimi grabbed TK's arm and pulled him out of the house. "Just play along," she whispered urgently.
"Good night, Mr. Tachikawa, I'll have Sora home early!" Tai yelled as he half dragged Sora to his car.
He put her in and ran around to the driver's side. Tai smiled at her father one last time and drove away. They'd only gotten about a block away when Sora finally snapped back to reality. "What the hell do you think you are doing!?"
"I'm taking you out on a date," Tai responded innocently.
"I've heard enough stories about girls who even attempt to go out on dates with you. Trust me, I don't want to. I can't even stand you! Let me out of this car!" She tried to open the door but it would release. "Let me out!"
"Sora, this is a moving car! What are you going to do, jump?" Tai said cheekily. "Besides, the doors are child safety locked."
Sora was fuming, but at his smile she felt the chill began to melt. Then she reminded herself that she disliked the big haired idiot sitting next to her. "Look, I don't know what the hell you are trying to pull, but I don't find this funny. If this is some damn joke, I don't want to be a part of it!"
Sora kept talking but Tai drowned her out by turning on the radio. There was a CD inside that he'd taken from Kari. There was big money at stake and he needed Sora to like him. Not for his own personal gratification but for the satisfaction of making her feel as horrible as she'd ever made him feel. The song played as Tai banged his palms against the steering wheel keeping time. He eventually moved onto humming along, and finally using words. "It's a beautiful lie, it's a perfect denial…" The more and more the song played the more Tai realized this song was so fitting to sitting in this car with her. "It's time to forget about the past, to wash away what happened last…" Sora was the one unattainable thing he couldn't have. Because she was the one who wanted nothing to do with him.
"What the hell am I doing here? With you of all people," Sora said acidly with an unnecessary roll of her auburn eyes. "Who put you up to this?"
Tai didn't say a word. He was finding her even more unpleasant yet at the same time humorous. He was enjoying her childish sighing and angry stares. Several times he resisted the urge to laugh.
"Are you going to answer me?" Sora asked.
"Are you going to act like a bitch?" Tai countered.
"Screw you!" she hissed.
"I guess that was a yes."
"Jerk." Sora slumped back in her seat and crossed her arms over her chest.
"Drive."
"Wha?" TK asked in confusion.
"Just drive me to Tara's party, and then you can go to Kari," Mimi replied.
TK nodded and started the engine to the car. He was lost. The plan was for him to pick up Sora, so why was Tai there, and why had Mimi cheerily announced that TK was her date. Mimi was a nice enough person, shallow, but nice. She'd never been rude or cruel to either him or Kari, so he had nothing against her. As he navigated his way to the party that almost the entire school would be attending, he remembered his brief conversation with his brother. Matt had been very interested in what TK was doing then when he mentioned the Tachikawas…
He turned to find Mimi reapplying a coat of shimmery lip gloss, "Mimi?"
"Huh?" she muttered as painted her lips with the glitter pink goo.
"Do you know my brother?" TK asked.
Mimi put her lip gloss away and stared at TK. His blond hair, his blue eyes, the slight pull at the corners of his mouth... "Matt? Matt is your brother?"
Kari stood outside of Moonshine. She was very upset. First off, she was standing there alone. Second, the damn bar was closed! And lastly, she was angry because she'd gotten dressed up for nothing. She stared down at her closed and adjusted her leather pencil skirt. The platform baby doll shoes on her feet gave her about two inches of height. The red corset that was snuggly tied to her upper body was supposed to give off that eerie glow that Kari adored under the club lights. She groaned and kicked a can before walking back to her car. She needed to text Sora before she and TK showed up for nothing.
There was always Tara's party.
"Where are we going?" Sora asked icily.
"Must you use that tone?"
"Just answer my damn question," Sora said irritably.
Tai's phone vibrated and he checked the message. "Fuck." He looked over at Sora and smiled. "Well, I was planning to take you to Moonshine, but it's closed."
"No it's not!" Sora sneered matter-of-factly.
"Oh, yes it is. We aren't going there. Here." He handed Sora his phone and she read a message from someone named Ken.
Sora had thought she knew who this guy might be but disregarded it. The message stated that Moonshine was shut down for the week. "Fine then take me home!"
"Ah, no. See we're on a date. And we're going to a little party!"
"You don't mean…" But Tai's smile silenced her. "Why am I even putting up with this?! I should just call the cops and say you kidnapped me or assaulted me."
"Do it." Tai pointed at his phone that was still in her hands. "I believe it's nine-one-one, but y'know, I could be wrong."
"Must you be so asshole-ish?"
"Asshole-ish… ass… hole… ish," Tai repeatedd slowly. "That's a good one. Asshole-ish. Did you think of that all by yourself?"
Sora couldn't, for the life of her, understand what Tai Kamiya was doing. Then again, she couldn't fully understand what she was doing in the car with him either. Her mind was frantically trying to piece together the events of the night. He'd showed up unexpectedly, of that she was certain. The memory of Mimi coming to tell her 'her date' was there floated to the forefront of Sora's thoughts. She'd get back at her, that lying little airhead.
Tai smiled over at Sora, "What are you upset? I was joking. No hard feelings, okay?"
There was too much riding on this. Jou Kido was going to pay for Tai's new car, whether he knew it or not. And because of that Tai found it primitive that he be nice to Sora. They had been driving in silence for about two minutes when Sora turned in her seat to stare at Tai, "Why are you doing this?"
Tai smiled at Sora's confused expression. "Can't a guy just want to date a pretty girl?"
Sora, as much as she tried to restrain herself, blushed a deep red. She could feel the heat in her cheeks and her ears were beginning to blend with her hair. She turned her head away from him and spoke, "Kiss ass. For real, what are you doing?"
"Something I was too chicken to do before," Tai replied confidently.
Sora turned around, skin back to its normal lightly tanned tone. "And what would that be?"
"Taking no for an answer," Tai said. He stopped the car and looked around. "We're here." Tai got out of the car. Sora watched him walk around to her side of the car. She opened the door and he lifted an eyebrow, "Won't even let me be a gentleman."
"I don't need a man to do anything for me," Sora jeered. She was trying to make up for her momentary lapse of judgment and dignity. "Now if you don't mind, can you get out of my way?"
Tai rolled his eyes and smirked, "As you wish, princess."
"Don't call me that," Sora said through gritted teeth. "You have me mistaken for Mimi."
"Come on TK, you can at least wait inside with me for her."
"I don't know Mimi; she's gonna be a little upset if she can't find me."
"Tell her it was my fault!" Mimi held her hand out, "Please!"
TK smiled and grabbed her outstretched hand.
Keisuke was sitting in the living room nursing a glass of scotch. He didn't know what to do with himself. He felt very uneasy, he glanced at the clock and it only told him that it was barely past eight-thirty. He looked around the empty room. It was so quiet.
There was no Sora blasting her music. There was no Mimi talking on the phone. There were no arguments about missing hair supplies and socks. It was pure peace.
He'd wanted peace and quiet for years. Since Sora was six and Mimi five. But now that he had it, he found it difficult to cope with.
Keisuke sat down his glass and pulled open a small drawer in the coffee table. It was hidden; neither of his daughters knew it was there. Inside was a photo album, a history of both of their mothers.
In the beginning of the album were pictures of Satoe. Mimi was nearly identical except she had his eyes. She was sitting on swing and staring up at him. Her hands rested on the curve of her round belly. She'd been pregnant with Mimi. As he turned the pages he came to the first picture he'd ever taken with Toshiko. It was of them, Sora and Mimi. They were at the circus and both girls had ice cream smeared across their faces. The four women in this picture book were his everything. Satoe made him smile, Mimi gave him a reason to live, Toshiko gave him light, and Sora kept his heart alive.
He was transfixed by the photos, so much so that he failed to hear the knock on the front door. Whoever the visitor was, they were now pounding on the door loudly. Growling darkly, Keisuke rose from his seat and walked briskly toward the door. He yanked open the door and to find a tall teenage guy with shoulder length blue hair. He was wearing small glasses, similar to Keisuke's own. But he had a cocky air about him. One that Keisuke detested.
"What?" Keisuke asked tartly.
Jou held his hand out and grinned deviously. "My name is Jou Kido. I'm sure you've heard of me. I'm here to pick up Mimi for our date."
"Is that a fact?" Keisuke asked. He erected his stance, effectively gaining height over Jou. "Well Jou. My daughter is already on a date. And no, I've been fortunate to have never heard of you." Jou stared at Keisuke with an expression of mingled confusion and arrogance. "And if I were you, I'd stay away from my daughter. I don't need her socializing with the likes of you!" With that Keisuke slammed the door in Jou's face. He walked over to a bookcase and poured himself an even bigger drink than the last one.
He planned on waiting for his daughters to come home.
The entrance hall was packed. People were pressed up against walls making out. Guys were drinking around one of the many kegs and the baseball team was getting a beer bong ready. TK recognized a few guys from the basketball team eyeing him strangely. Girls passed by them and hissed at Mimi. While guys were trying to figure out how TK Takaishi had managed to show up with Mimi Tachikawa when he was clearly dating Kari Kamiya, the two hottest junior girls.
Jou stared at Mimi who was holding a blond teen's hand. He snarled deeply and Miyako, who was standing at his side desperately trying to get his attention, huffed in irritation.
"Go get me another beer," Jou demanded of the lavender haired twat. Miyako looked taken about to be addressed that way. She had thought Jou liked her, after everything they'd done she'd thought he'd choose her. But clearly, by the way he was gawking at Mimi, she was wrong.
"Whatever." Miyako crossed her arms over her chest and pouted.
"If you aren't going to do as I say, then be gone," Jou said with a dismissive wave. The guys he was standing with turned to Miyako and laughed. Her eyes blazed with anger and her face flushed with embarrassment.
"Hey, Jou!" a large guy called out. He was pudgy and had a round head with fat cheeks and beady eyes.
"Junpei," Jou droned lazily.
"I thought you were supposed to be here with Tachikawa, why is that Takaishi dude with her?"
"I don't fucking know, you moron. Go find out!"
Junpei nodded. It was an unspoken command to physically demand answers from TK.
Izzy looked around nervously. He felt very uncomfortable. He didn't dress like this. And he certainly didn't normally catch girls staring at him, when he really thought about it… girls didn't even spare a glance at him. "I feel like I'm naked!" he whispered to Matt.
The blond laughed and shrugged, "Bask in it."
"Shut up, I look stupid." Izzy looked down at his clothes. They weren't terribly uncomfortable but still.
"Quit complaining. I swear I feel like I'm your gay best friend who dressed you!" Matt muttered sourly.
"But you aren't."
Matt sighed, "I know that, but think about it. A hot guy with style, it just screams flaming."
"I see." Izzy noticed a guy who looked almost identical to Matt. He was holding a brunette with an amazing body's hand. "Isn't that your brother?"
"Yeah, that's TK," Matt said taking notice of his little brother. "And that must be his girlfriend. Wow, she's hot. Good job, Teeks."
The girl turned around and Matt's jaw dropped. Izzy bit back laugher and put his knuckles to his lips. "Um… sorry Matt."
"Wait!" Matt snapped. "Who's that guy!?"
Izzy turned in time to find a rather large guy looming over TK and Mimi.
Well...was that enough Taiora? For some damn reason I'm having a hard time writing it. Would my lovely Taiora lovers please refresh my Taiora memory?
Ah, I think I have an idea on which song I want Tai to sing to Sora, but still not sure. Please feel free to submit your song ideas.
If this chapter sucked, I'm very very very sorry. I've had a very hard week. For those of you who've read the most recent chapter of HGFC, you know why, and it's not looking good anymore. I'm trying to pour my heart back into my fic, but it's been difficult.
Oh and one more thing...if you don't like the story or that fact that some characters are OOC, don't review. Don't even read...and DO NOT ALERT if you are going to FLAME!
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