Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ A Devil's Halo ❯ A Place to Stay ( Chapter 2 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Author's Notes: I realize that there is a chapter missing, but I've just placed this chapter up on fanfiction too as my second chapter. Something information has been missing too, but that's just minor compared to everything else that I have written. All seventeen chapters of it. I just wrote 'Part Three' anyway, just so that everyone will know that.



I'm sorry for the mix-up, and at any time, when I feel like editing this story, I will make a new second chapter, but in ff, the story's finished, and no one's complaining about my missing chapter. The missing information is truthfully just very minor, please ignore it. Thank you. Please enjoy!




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A Devil's Halo: Part Three A Place to Stay




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The rain began pouring down, hard over 'Tai'... or Otrisaki. Okay, so strike one for Sora. Doesn't he get any award for what he just did? Can't he at least get some means of shelter? 'Life's a bitch, so as long as you're like one of my little minions, you're life will be just a load of crap. You listen to everything that I say. Now get there, and do some work! Oh... by the way... Welcome to hell.' Tai remembered Oni say to him the first day he stepped into the fiery pit of doom.



Tai shoved his hands into his pockets, to keep the warmth from escaping his hands... practically the only part of his body that wasn't freezing from the cold yet. He stared at the ground, mad, aimlessly walking through the streets of Odaiba, not knowing where to go, what to do, where the nearest shelter from the rain was. Even the bums seemed to have it made, as he stared at them, inside their humongous boxes, cuddled up next to some stray dog or cat, watching him with warning eyes, warning him to keep away from their 'property'.



Just then, Tai had felt the rain stop crashing down on his head, and he looked up to see if there was a building that he unnoticeable walked under. No. There wasn't, but there was the next best thing. Sora was holding a black umbrella above her head, and his. He was probably walking around the area for so long that he hadn't noticed that it was already the next day.



"Hey... you're soaking wet. Didn't you go home last night? It's been pouring like this ever since," Sora said, taking off one layer of her clothing, her rain coat, and placing it over Tai's shoulders.



"Home...? Oh. Yeah. I mean no. I didn't," Tai said, not noticing the mistake that he had just spilled out. He was concentrating more on the warmth the rain coat gave him.



"What do you mean you didn't go home? You don't have one or something?" Sora asked, walking along side him.



Tai's mind was beginning to wander. His head felt like it was spinning out of control, and he just began noticing that his movements were sluggish. "No..." he managed to say, as he tried to keep his balance.



Sora watched him, as she quickened her pace, and pulled on his arm to follow her.




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Sora managed to bring Tai over to her house. She had to half carry, half drag him, the rest of the way to her couch, because he had blacked out. She placed a cold face towel over his forehead, and walked over to her mom's room to tell her that she brought an ill friend over, whom she saw wandering the streets.



'No home? How could he possibly have no home? Just look at his clothes. They look so new. Maybe he ran away? If he did, wouldn't his parents care? Wouldn't they report him as a runaway, or missing? If so, his face should be posted up around the neighborhood, and they would be talking about a lost teen in the news. Then again... if he ran away, wouldn't he even think of bringing some clothes, food, and money with him? What should I do now?' Sora thought frantically. He was still a stranger, but her mother had always been hospitable to the homeless. Would her mom let her take in a teenage boy stranger?



Sora looked up from the spot on the ground she concentrated on, as she thought. Tai stirred, and woke up. "Where am I?" was the first thing that came out of his mouth.



"You...You're at my house..." Sora said, slightly blushing. It was very improper to bring a complete stranger to your house, and lay them on your couch after they had blacked out, so she quickly added, "You have a fever. You must've stayed in the rain too long, and you just blacked out. I was going to wake you up so you could change out of those soaking, cold, wet clothes, but I decided to let you rest first. Maybe it was a bad idea..."



"No! No... I needed that rest. Uh... you have dry clothes?" he asked.



"Yeah... my dad's. Here..." Sora said, getting a pair of jeans and a shirt, for the teen laying cold on the couch.




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When Tai walked out from the guest bedroom that Sora's mom asked her to prepare, he found mother and daughter sitting, eating a quiet dinner. He just realized that he was hungry, for he hadn't eaten anything in nearly twenty four hours. His fever had gotten the best of him, and he was asleep all day.



Sora had stood up from her seat almost immediately. She had forgotten that he was there for a minute. He was so quiet, ever since she brought him in. Her mom had approved his stay. She was so sympathetic that a young teen was wandering around in the rain, that after hearing Sora's story, she immediately said yes.



"You shouldn't have gotten up. I mean you could have called. You're still sick, I don't understand how you could have had the strength to get out of bed," said Mrs. Takenouchi.



"I'll get you a plate, just go back to bed. Wasting your energy will just make things worse," Sora said, taking a plate out of the kitchen cupboard. "Well...?" she asked. Tai just stared at her, then nodded and went back to the bedroom.




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'Why are they being so kind to a total stranger?' he thought, as he laid down on the bed. He placed his cold hand over his forehead to soothe his headache. 'I remember this... when I was still human, I got a fever... Wait. I'm a HUMAN?! Then why did his eyes still turn red?' His thoughts were disturbed by his 'project'.



"I just... well I didn't know what you wanted, so I just put everything on your plate. You can pick out the things you don't want. It doesn't matter," Sora said, handing Tai the plate. He took it, and began eating, like a person who hasn't eaten in works.



She smiled a little knowing that he wasn't going to be wasting food. "Why don't you have a home?" she asked him suddenly.



Tai stopped eating. He had no excuse. He'd just have to make it up along the way. Then again, he was never that creative. "I... I ran away when I was... ten..." he began.



Sora took a chair, sitting in the corner of the room, and sat down on it.



"Someone took me it, but after that, she died. People didn't know that she had a fifteen year old boy with her, and they had no records that I was adopted or something, so they tried to put me in a foster home. It didn't work out for me there, and the gave me back to the agency. I was moved... uhh... seven times in just one year from home to home. That last time, I couldn't take it anymore, so I ran away from them too. In other words, I've been wandering around aimlessly for a year." 'Well... I only stuttered once.' he thought.



Sora nodded, but some things didn't fit in. How did he own such expensive clothes, and that watch. It must have cost at least two hundred dollars. (Sorry, I don't know jack about yen, except it's yen and the Japanese use it as money ^_^.)




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The next day, Sora had to go to school. Her mom was signing Tai up for the same school too. He was still young and it was the law for people under the age of eighteen to be in school. Tai didn't refuse. There would be a lot of people there. Maybe he would be able to cause a lot of mischief.



"Does he have a birth certificate?" asked principal Ame.



"No... the foster agency is still looking for his files," said Mrs. Takenouchi.



"I see. As soon as you get them, show them to me. Now all you have to do is sign these papers, get these forms filled out by doctors, and by you, and... well... after that, hand them all into the office and he's ready to go! Oh, and he needs to take a test to see which class we should put him in."



"Thank you."



Tai just sat there, quiet. What was he going to do about the papers? He excused himself, and went to the bathroom.



"Lord Oni, I need papers to be made for some foster agency," Tai said, inside one of the stalls, using his communicator watch.



"Is that so...?" asked a deep ominous voice.



"Yes sir," Tai said. He was curious as to why Lord Oni sounded angry.



"Well... you wouldn't need my minions to make it if you hadn't caught a damn cold you bastard!" yelled the voice through the communicator.



"It's a fever sir," Tai said. He was beginning to get scared. What if Lord Oni just killed him now? No. He wanted to live.



"WHATEVER!!! Fine. The papers will be sent in thirteen hours... Stupid idiot. I can't believe that you're living with them... then again.. once you get closer to the girl... the better... She'll listen to you more. Great job then. Keep up the good work..."



"Thank you sir," Tai said, as he ended their conversation. He turned the watch off. 'Geeze... talk about a quick mood swing...' he thought, as he walked out of the bathroom.




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"...So... is he cute?" asked Mimi. One of Sora's best friends.



"Mimi! How could you ask that... you know I'm not like that! He just lives with us because he's got no home. Besides, he'll probably run away from us," Sora said, as the two walked out of their class.



Sora looked up to see a familiar figure walk out of the bathroom. 'Tai! I forgot that my mom was going to put you back in school!' she thought.



"Who's the new guy?" Mimi asked, looking at the same guy.



"That's him," Sora said.



"Ooh... he's cute!"



Sora stared at her friend disbelieving. "Mimi! Shh!" she said, to her friend, as Tai looked over at the two girls. Mimi beckoned him to come over.



"What's up?" he asked.



"This is my friend Mimi. She thinks you're cut-" Sora began, but she was cut off by her friend. She stared laughing at Mimi's beet red face.



"I think you're... uhh... clothes are just cut out for this school! Too bad that we have to wear uniforms though... heh..." Mimi said, making up a last second lie.



"Well... I think you're pretty cute too," Tai said, winking at Mimi.



"I'll see ya later, your mom and I are gonna go and buy stuff at the grocery store. Want something?" he asked, turning his attention to Sora.



"It's fine," Sora said, waving off the offer.



"Your loss..." Tai smiled, as he walked off to the principal's office.



"Oooh... You are SO lucky Sora!!!" Mimi squealed with delight.




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"I'll find the other things," Tai said, splitting the grocery list in half.



"Okay... well.. then thank you," Mrs. Takenouchi said gratefully.




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Tai looked around the isles for anything that he wanted. He didn't have money, and he needed the Takenouchi's to like him, so he didn't want to spend their money. He took a couple of candy bars, snacks, and all the other good stuff (^_^), and hid them inside of his jacket. He ripped off the little white labels, so the alarms wouldn't go off.



(Hmm... what really does set off alarms in grocery stores? I've always thought they were the bar codes...)




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"Hey, wanna go somewhere tonight?" Tai asked Sora, as Sora did her homework.



"I can't, I'm sorry. I have so much homework to do..." Sora said, although the offer seemed so fun.



"Come on. It'll be fun. Besides that. I know everything you're learning right now, so I can do half your work for you after. What do you say?"



"My mom would never let me... Besides, you doing my work is just wrong. I can't do that... It's practically a sin..." Sora said, laughing. She thought that Tai was joking about that, so she just forgot about it.



"I'm serious," Tai said. He touched her shoulder to get her attention away from the books. "Please? Show me around the place?" he asked.



"I'll have to go ask my mom first..." Sora said, but Tai stopped her.



"Why the need? You said that she wouldn't allow you to go, so if you never ask, and she never says no, then it's not a bad thing, right?" Tai smirked.



'Oh man... there I go again, looking like a complete dork in front of him. He just seems so cool... and me so... well... up tight about everything. Maybe I could learn to be care-free from him. Besides, that's what Mimi told me to do. Loosen up a bit.' Sora thought. She smiled at Tai, and nodded, and he opened up her bedroom window. He locked her room door, and turned the volume of the radio loud enough so that Mrs. Takenouchi would think that the two of them were still there.



'Yes... strike two...'




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Author's Notes: Sorry if the chapter's a little too short. I don't usually like doing that anymore, but I've got a head ache from the bright light of my computer. Next chapter, I'll try and make it longer. Ooh man I'm hungry... Please review! Hope that you enjoyed!