If you liked the first chapter, you'll love this one. What madness awaits the group as they go to the movie? You will see very shortly. I don't believe I gave a friend a proper shout out in the last chapter so I'm going to do it here. Thanks a lot for the help, Ren. You are the greatest. End shout out.
Won't leave you guys waiting any longer. Enjoy.
TOHO Cinemas
Shibuya
"EXPELLIARMUS!"
"AVADA KEDAVRA!"
Matt and Tai watched with annoyance as people ahead of them in the line to get into the theater started make-believe dueling with their wands. Everyone was decked out for the occasion with robes, shirts, some even in full costume…except for the two of them and Izzy as well as Meiko.
Sora and Kari were also fully dressed in costume with Gryffindor robes, white formal shirts and red ties. Mimi wore a Gryffindor shirt and TK matched with a robe as well. Tai, Matt, and Izzy wore the new warm-up jackets that Sora made with each of their crest symbols in big stitching on the back and their names in cursive on the front right section of the chest.
The line to get into the theater stretched for almost four blocks, stretching out into the main part of Shibuya. Luckily for the Digidestined, they were in the section of the line that was closest to the theater so they would not have to wait very long.
"Remind me again why we agreed to this," Tai said, looking at his sister with a miserable expression.
"We haven't even gotten inside yet, Tai," Kari replied. "Once we're in there, it'll be fine."
"Yeah, how much longer is that gonna be?" Matt interjected, sounding just as impatient and miserable as Tai. "We've been waiting for almost an hour."
Sora rolled her eyes as her two male friends moped around.
"You two are just determined to have a bad time, aren't you?" She sighed. Wanting to change the subject, she looked at Mimi and Izzy. "Do you guys know where Joe is? He said he'd be here a few minutes ago."
Before the two of them could answer her, a voice called out to them from a few feet away.
"Hey guys."
Everybody turned to see Joe walking towards them. He too was wearing a full outfit with a Ravenclaw robe and a blue tie. With his glasses, they made him look like a real Hogwarts student. When they saw who was hanging on his arm, everyone's eyes widened.
"It can't be," Tai breathed.
Matt's face turned paler than its usual color as he saw who it was. He fought the urge to hide behind Tai. It was Jun Motomiya, his crazy former super-fan who practically threw everything but the kitchen sink at him to get him to date her when they were younger. She was prettier than when she was fourteen; her maroon hair was still spiky but had grown longer and a cute face replaced her formerly boyish one. She too wore a Ravenclaw robe, matching with Joe.
"Uh oh, guys. Jun Alert," Matt said. "We have been spotted and are being pulled in by her tractor beam."
The maroon-haired girl giggled. "Hi everyone," she greeted before smirking at Matt. "You don't need to worry, Matt. I'm taken at the moment."
She looked up at Joe lovingly. He returned the look as he hugged her closer to his side.
"She's your girlfriend?!" TK, Sora, and Kari cried out at the same time.
Joe chuckled. "Yes she is," he replied. "We've been going out since last month."
"What did she threaten to do if you didn't go out with her?" Matt demanded. "Did she blackmail you like she did me?"
Jun giggled once again. "Oh Matt, you are so funny. Why would I want to blackmail my big, strong, cuddly panda bear?"
"He's still traumatized, my little honey bear," Joe returned just as sweetly. "Don't pay him any attention."
They both leaned in for a kiss, blissfully unaware with how uncomfortable and green around the gills his friends were getting at the scene.
"Get a room, you two," Tai felt like he was going to throw up with how mushy the two of them were getting. "I'm not sitting through a movie with you if you're going to be doing that."
He turned to Sora.
"Did you know about this?" He asked, glancing over at the couple making out next to them.
She shook her head. "No I didn't. It's certainly odd but everyone's entitled to their own happiness. We just need to support them."
"I say he should drop her while he still can," Matt entered the conversation. "Who knows what Jun could be planning. It could be something big."
Mimi giggled. "Paranoid much, Matt?"
He narrowed his eyes at her. "When a girl chases you around for four years, you have every right to keep your guard up."
After a few more minutes, the line began moving. Once they got inside the theater, Matt moved off from the line to buy confectionary goods for the whole group while everyone else moved ahead to get seats.
While waiting in line, a voice from next to Matt called out to him.
"Matt?"
Matt turned to see the source of the voice. It was Mr. Nishijima with an arm around Himekawa. He was wearing a red silk shirt and black slacks while she wore a black dress. Two buttons at the top of the shirt were unbuttoned to reveal a medallion resting on his chest.
"Mr. Nishijima," greeted Matt. "Agent Himekawa. What a pleasant surprise. What are you guys doing here?"
"Date night," Nishijima answered with a shrug. "We haven't been able to go out much since the infected Digimon epidemic was taken care of. Maki here's been swimming up to her eyeballs in work."
"Darling, behave," she admonished, lightly smacking him on the shoulder. "What are you kids doing here?"
"We're all going to see Goblet of Fire," Matt replied. "I'm in charge of getting all the stuff while everybody else is off grabbing seats while they're still available. Want to sit with us?"
Nishijima smiled at the offer. "You sure? I don't want us to be cramping your style."
Matt shook his head in assurance. "It's no problem," he insisted. "Plus we're all Digidestined, aren't we?"
"He has a point," Himekawa smiled.
"Thank you, Matt," her counterpart bowed in appreciation. "We appreciate it."
Matt smiled and nodded as well. "You bet. Don't be strangers," he said. "Plus I could use someone to help me carry all the stuff."
The entire theater was packed to the back wall with people. There was not a single seat left open in the house that wasn't saved. It took Matt a few seconds to find the row where the rest of his group was sitting at. A big mop of brown hair was the dead giveaway as to where everyone was sitting so he along with Nishijima and Himekawa moved down to the middle row that had ten people sitting in it.
Scooting down, he sat down in the seat next to Tai and Sora. Matt distributed popcorn and drinks on down the line while Nishijima and Himekawa did the same for the further side of the aisle.
"Mr. Nishijima and Agent Himekawa?" Tai whispered to Matt, noticing the two new additions to the group. "What are they doing here?"
"A date night it seems," Matt replied with a slight chuckle. "We just can't escape them, can we?"
"It's like wherever we go, they follow," Sora nodded as well. "It's ok though. They're friends of ours so it's fine."
Tai immediately spit out what he drank after taking a sip of his drink.
"Matt, this is diet," he complained. "I specifically told you not to get me a diet."
"I'm sorry," Matt replied, irritated. "That was all they had."
That answer wasn't good enough for Tai as he reached across Sora to grab Matt's arm. "Well could you have made sure about that?"
"Will you two stop?" Sora broke things up quickly. "The movie is about to start."
Sure enough, the lights dimmed and the first trailer for an upcoming movie was set to start. Everyone settled in for what they hoped to be a really great movie.
TK and Kari laughed with rousing laughter as they watched Mad-Eye Moody turn Malfoy into a ferret and bounce him around. The entire theater joined them in laughing as well.
TK looked over at Kari in the dimmed light that the screen produced, feeling his cheeks start to turn pink in the process.
'She has such an amazing laugh,' he thought to himself. 'I could listen to it all day if I could. There you go again, stupid! Who knows if she even likes you that way? Why does this have to be so hard?'
Next to him, Kari was thinking along the same lines as he was. It was no secret that she had a major crush on TK but she was concerned about where she fell in the grand scheme of things to him. If the rumors were true and he was seeing someone, she didn't want to put herself in a position where her heart would end up broken like her brother.
But for now, she pushed those thoughts completely out of her head as the rest of the scene played out. She shoved some popcorn into her mouth before offering the bucket to TK, who gladly took some for himself.
Tai squirmed uncomfortably in his seat as Hermione chewed out Ron for bad-mouthing Viktor Krum after the Yule Ball. Watching the two of them argue back and forth brought up some unpleasant memories for the seventeen-year-old, namely when Sora told him she wanted to be with Matt on that fateful winter night three years ago. It was a moment he wished he could have back a million times over and done something beforehand. He really did treat Sora like a last resort as Ron had with Hermione.
Looking over at the aforementioned girl next to him, he too could see a glazed-over look in her eyes. He could tell she was heavily invested in what was happening and wondered if she too was thinking of that moment.
Without even thinking, he reached for her hand and held it in his own. Once she realized what was happening, the two of them stared at each other for a brief moment before turning back to the screen with their faces blushing pink. Tai was thankful that the darkness of the theater shielded his embarrassment.
Their hands did not let go the entire time.
Though the two of them had been best friends since they were in diapers, he wasn't sure what to do anymore when it came to her. He was still fairly certain that he had feelings for her but he didn't know whether she still felt a stronger pull towards Matt over him or not. He would have to not pull a Ron and find the courage to talk to her about it at some point.
'Just stay calm. Stay cool.'
Izzy was desperately trying to keep himself under control as Mimi started squeezing his thigh with her hand, almost copying the flirty behavior of Moaning Myrtle on the screen. He had been glued to the screen the whole time thus far and found the entire storyline fascinating. He may have been going about looking at Harry Potter all wrong this whole time.
Watching Jun cuddle up closer to Joe, who was feeding her popcorn as well, Izzy tried to focus on something else in order to forget the fact that Mimi was invading his personal space.
His whole face then erupted with redness as she laid her head on his shoulder, copying what Myrtle was doing to Harry on the screen. As she snuggled up closer to him, he tried to go with it and be more comfortable but it was tough to keep himself under control.
'Y'know, this isn't so bad,' he thought, unaware of the smile forming on his lips. 'She's just resting her head on my shoulder. That's nothing at all.'
Matt glanced up and down the aisle and saw all the love going on, trying not to notice as he kept his eyes on the movie. Harry had just fallen into the pensieve to relive Dumbledore's memory of Igor Karkaroff's trial.
Looking to his right, he almost reacted with disbelief as he saw Tai and Sora holding hands. Even though he and Sora were long over by this point, it still stirred something in him that caused him to be angered by the gesture.
Turning away from the scene, he looked down to see his brother and Kari sitting with their hands in their laps, obviously trying hard to not reach out for each other. He wished that those two would stop dancing around each other and step out of the friend zone. He knew his brother too well to know that Kari seemed to have that power to cause him to make a fool of himself. He chuckled silently to himself at that thought.
He noticed Izzy trying to keep himself together as Mimi draped herself all over him. His face was as red as a tomato by this point. Matt then moved to Jun, who was curled up beside Joe and watching the movie with the same glazed-over look that Sora had the entire movie.
'What could she be up to?' he wondered to himself. 'There is no way she has changed since we last saw each other. I'll bet she's planning her way to get to me right at this moment. Poor Joe. It'd be horrible if she broke his heart by telling him she wasn't into him from the beginning.'
Matt did not want to be judgmental, but because of his and Jun's past history he had every right to be suspicious of her. She was not dumb, this he knew with certainty and what scared him most of all. If she was planning her way into his arms, she had another thing coming. As he watched her and Joe pull a Lady and the Tramp with a piece of licorice, seeing how happy she was to be with him, Matt started to have second thoughts about his approach.
'Maybe she really does love him,' he thought. 'Joe seems like he really loves her so maybe I am just being paranoid. She really has changed and I didn't take it seriously.'
Pushing those thoughts out of his head, he glued his eyes back to the screen so that he could enjoy the rest of the movie.
Café
Shibuya
TK consoled a crying Kari as she sipped a cup of hot chocolate. At the end, when Harry got back to Hogwarts with Cedric's body and all the fallout from that happened, all the girls burst into tears. Kari was crying so much that she had to bury her face into the crook of TK's neck.
Across from them, Sora and Mimi too were sipping hot chocolate to calm down from the ending. Unlike their younger counterpart, the two of them had stopped crying a few minutes ago but were still trying to deal with it. Tai and Matt looked at the group of females with confusion. How could they get so worked up over one part of a movie? It didn't make sense to them.
"That was so sad," Mimi whimpered. "Why did he have to be the one to die? It's not fair!"
"Don't you think you guys are taking this a little too far?" Matt asked. "I mean, yeah it was sad and everything but there's no need to be this upset over it."
SMACK!
Matt gingerly nursed his sore cheek, feeling it sting as Mimi's handprint was imbedded in the flesh. She looked at him with utter hatred.
"Don't tell me how I should and shouldn't feel, Matt," she spat. "You wouldn't understand how it feels, you Muggle!"
Sora quickly intervened before things got worse. Placing her hands on Mimi's shoulders, she tried to talk her friend down.
"Mimi, it's alright. Just calm down," she soothed. "It's fine."
Putting down his drink, Tai decided to finally say something. He had kept quiet while the girls worked the movie out of them but now he couldn't be quiet anymore.
"Nevertheless, it was actually a really good movie," he smiled. "Probably the best one by far."
"I agree," smiled Sora. "Can't wait for the next one already. Let's all plan to go for when it does."
Everyone else voiced their agreement with her statement. Tai placed his cup down on the table before he addressed everyone.
"Let's get on the train and go back home," he said. "It's getting late."
Everyone else followed Tai's lead and got up from the table to walk out of the café. After the short walk to Shibuya station, they got on the train for the hour-long ride back to Odaiba. It was past 3 a.m. when they all got back and went their separate ways for the evening.
As Tai and Kari walked back home from the station, the Yule Ball scene replayed through Tai's mind once again. He knew now that he did not want to be in the position Ron had put himself in with Hermione with Sora anymore. If he was indeed to make a move on her, he needed to stop being so hesitant and go for it.
"What are you thinking about, big brother?" Kari asked.
Exhaling sharply, Tai emerged from his thoughts as he and Kari rounded a corner.
"Nothing, kiddo," he replied. "Just remembering something that I need to take care of."
Turning his head forward, Tai looked out at the colorful Rainbow Bridge glowing across the early morning sky and thought of what was going to happen later on. Whatever did, he was ready to accept it with open arms. He could only hope Sora was willing to do the same.
And that's it. Given a dose of inspiration, Tai looks like he's ready to meet this thing head on. Will TK and Kari have the courage themselves to walk out of the friend zone? Will Izzy finally admit how he feels about Mimi? Those are stories for another day, my friends. Hope you guys enjoyed this story because I had a lot of fun writing it. It took me back to when I was first excited about seeing the movie when it first came out. See you guys later and be sure to leave a review because I worked so hard on this story. I would really appreciate it.
