Author: Fugu

Archive: ask before

Warning: I've seen the Digimon shows until Izzi's adventures as leader with TK's team, once. So it's pretty much AU and major OOC because I have very little memory of it. Major sap, possible Mpreg (if it does happen, it won't be the usual nine months with baby at the end) angst and oh yes, pretty plot less

Rating: PG-13

Disclaimer: purely for entertainment purposes, own no copyright.

Title: The Fool On the Hill (from the Beatles song)

Pairing: obviously most incredibly sappy Yamato Ishida/ Jyou Kiddo.

Taichi Kamiya/ Sora Takenouchi, Mimi Tachikawa/ OMC, etc.

Notes: If you have read my other fics, you know that I just write for the sake of Sap and hurt/comfort; you know that I don't start arcs chronologically either. More so, I'm not a prolific writer, but I need to finish what I start. I don't know when I'll finish this story. It's been going on for more than 10 years! This is a work in progress, meaning that at anytime I might go back to rewrite and polish this fic as I add chapters. If any of these things are peeves, then you shouldn't be reading this story. Cheers ^_^

The Fool On the Hill

4. Pay Attention to your Children

(June 21st 2006)

Taichi stomped through the corridor pulling his hastily packed bag.

His wife following him, screeching like a banshee.

His head was ready to explode, already a droning buzz was deafening half of her wails and he itched to slap her mouth shut, but no matter how angry he was he wasn't the type of person to become physical about it, unlike his bitch of a wife.

When he'd found out the only time she had slapped Sandy, as he liked to call his daughter, let's just say that it had been one of there more spectacular row. Thinking about his babygirl he made his way to her room. He wouldn't leave without saying goodbye. And how did it hurt, all of a sudden he realized just what it meant to leave. He knew that it was the preliminaries to a definite breakup. Guilt squeezed his stomach when he thought about the arguments his wife had about his behavior. He loved Sandy and he was already giddy about the little boy on the way. He wanted to be more at home to be with his children, unlike other Japanese men he wasn't arguing from the "Roles of the Sex" point of view. He genuinely couldn't put more time at home because of the difficult time he was having at work.

See, he had been thinking about quitting his job for a while now, to find one that would allow him to be more at home. He had a lot of his mother in him and even his dad had been that sort of a family man.

When he could, he enjoyed spending time with his babygirl, cooking dinner, washing dishes etc. But to be able to leave his job he had to work overtime to accumulate money for a sabbatical he would take to go back to school and train as a preschool teacher. A drastic turnabout from the career of lawyer he was presently fulfilling at his firm.

He had explained it all to Sora when she started being impatient and nagging about her own life, in which supposedly the children where infringing. She hadn't wanted to fall pregnant again and that had triggered a new level of vehemence and violence in her prose. And that's what rankled him the most, the woman was accusing him of a behaviour that he had to adopt by pure necessity to be able to fulfill what she tought where her demands, never mind it being actually his deepest wish and dreams. He just asked her to be patient and stop the spending for now, be a house wife until he could fulfill the role himself to his hearts content, but she was deaf to his pleas. He suspected that the thought of living a more sedate life, once he changed career, was also a sore point for Sora.

He was worried that once they divorced he wouldn't be able to see his children, usually court sided with the mother on these matters, but althought Sora was a good person, she was not suited and never would be for motherhood. He had found out the hard way.

Deep in his musings and ignoring the witch screaming at his retreating back, he pushed the door to his girl's room open. He wanted to reassure her that Daddy loved her and that he would come by to see her soon, he also wanted to leave a contact number and address that she alone would know in case she needed to be "rescued" from her mother's bitching.

"Hey, babygirl, Daddy needs to have a little talk with you."

He turned to his soon to be ex-wife "Do you mind." Sora scowled, her face splotchy red and panting from her recent tantrum. For a moment he felt worry for the baby in her 6 month belly, surely it couldn't be good the stress she was putting herself through, but he refrained from commenting he knew where it would lead, again the sore point of being in an unwanted pregnancy, yadda, yadda. He regretted that he hadn't even been allowed to feel his son, this time around, his wife selfishly keeping her belly private. He didn't know if she realized how harsh the punishment really was to him. She swiftly turned around and stalked to the master bedroom slamming he door shut, making the thin walls shake.

Taichi sighed. He moved into Sandy's room closing the door and left his luggage near it.

"Baby", he called quietly, "Daddy needs to speak with you."

He looked around curiously when he heard no answer and realized that the room was obviously empty. He frowned and moved around to look at the other side of the bed while still calling for his daughter, he even looked under the bed and the closet, an uneasy feeling settle in his chest. He quickly strolled out of the room and started to systematically search the whole house. Once outside he started to become frantic when he searched the pool and the garage thinking that she had drowned or was stock, never mind that the front and back door of the house had been locked. Panic seized him when he realized that his little girl had disappeared, he sprinted inside and barged into the master bedroom.

"Sora", he called, "tell me that Ayaka is with you in the room."

Sora who had been sitting by the bedside scowling at the wall, raised her head to look at her turd of a husband and the scatting insult died at the tip of her tongue when she realized the frantic state he was in. Moreover he had called there daughter Ayaka, this was serious.

"No" she replied slowly.

"Oh God" strangled whisper.

"Do you know where she could have gone at this hour?" he asked as he ran to the phone ready to call her friends. Maybe she was at one of their house, he knew how she hated they argue. He winced.

"You wouldn't need to ask this question if you where here more often, " Sora snapped.

"Sora, not know", he replied harshly," Ayaka is missing, I couldn't find her in the house or outside."

Sora blanched "What do you mean you couldn't find her."

Taichi wasn't answering as he was already on the phone with the parent of one of Ayaka's friend.

Sora pulled her cellphone from the nightstand and dialed Ayaka's number. Taichi was a little sheepish that he hadn't thought about this in the first place. They waited as the phone rang, nobody was picking up and Sora started to sweat. That's when Taichi realized that he could here a melody from Aya's room. He rushed there to find the cellphone on the floor. He came back in the room with it still ringing. Upon seeing this Sora's hand slowly lowered from her ear with the cellphone still ringing, a slight tremble attacking her frame.

"Oh Lord"

~oo0oo~

They had called all of Aya's friend becoming more frantic as the list shortened without them hearing the voice of their child. Finally they called the police to report the missing and an agent came by to take the report.

Taichi was in the kitchen with the man explaining the situation, Sora was up in their room lying down, Taichi's sister keeping her company. They had called the family, the stress of the situation had made her lightheaded.

"We'll file the report, and be on it right away. The first 72 hours are crucial. In the mean time, I suggest that you round up some neighbors and make small search parties around the neighborhood. I will ask a patrol car to come around and circle it. She might be near, just hiding at the park or in a neighbor's backyard." He looked at the occupants of the kitchen. Taichi, his parents and Sora's whom they had called and was satisfied that there restless energies was focused in a path that wouldn't hinder the job of the police force when the men left to search and the women grabbed their phones. He took his leave after calling for said patrol and promised to be in touch.

to be continued