Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ A Devil's Halo ❯ Feelings and Flashbacks ( Chapter 3 )

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

Disclaimer: I'm bored, so I'll just put it. I don't own Digimon... sadly. If I did I would obviously make the official couple Tai and Sora, and I would have put a lot more hints along the way in the show... but that's just me. ^_^ Enjoy!



A Devil's Halo: Part Four
'Feelings and Flashbacks'



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"You know better than to go out of the house late at night Sora Takenouchi!" Mrs. Takenouchi said, keeping her voice clam, but harsh, as she paced around the room.


Sora kept her eyes to the ground. She was ashamed of what she did. She had never acted so irresponsible before in her life... but the feeling of it was exhilirating! She loved it, and now she couldn't safely say that she was never going to do it again. 'Loosen up!' was the thought in her mind, and she was going to listen to it... hmm... every now and then, not all the time, or it would start her mind up with things more sinful than just sneaking out of the house during curfew. 'Curfew... none of my other friends have it... but my mom always said it was for the better... she usually tends to be right, so I should listen to it.' Sora thought.


"...Especially with that boy! You don't know what what he's capable of! He's been out on the streets for a year, and I don't understand how you could have just gone off with him like that!" Sora's mother continued, as she lowered her voice even more, for she didn't want Tai to hear it.


"I'm sorry mom. I know that what I did was wrong... I don't know what came over me," Sora said, finally looking at her mom in the eyes.


Her mother nodded, and sent her off without a punishment. She knew Sora better than that, she would never do that again.



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Tai looked at himself in the mirror. Every night... every night, for the past three days, his eyes always turned red. If Oni turned him into a human on Earth, then why did his eyes change to red at night?


Tai contacted Oni once again to ask. It wouldn't hurt to ask. Besides, it seemed important, so Oni probably wouldn't get as mad.


"What is it this time you imbecile? I was trying to take a nice beauty rest."


Tai smirked a little hearing that. He was the ugliest creature alive in hell, and no matter how much sleep he might get, that face would never get prettier. In fact, the more sleep... the more appalling... unless that's what beauty meant to his master. Tai suppressed a laugher in his throat. "I was wondering sir... My eyes turn red every night, when the moon rises. What's it supposed to mean?"


"Fool. It's meant for you to remember that you are still a demon within, and no matter how deep you feelings will be be on Earth again, you can't change the fact," said Oni.


"How deep my feelings get on Earth? What do you mean?" Tai asked.


"You irritating ass! Fine, last question. Sending a worker down from either Heaven or Hell is the most dangerous thing that the high commanders can ever do, but every once in a while they send them down for a little business. It's dangerous, because sometimes, the workers get attached to certain things, mainly people. They fall in love, and somehow, they find ways to really be alive again. It's a shame because none of the high commanders could send one of their workers down as just a spirit, or in their normal heaven or hell form. They must turn them into humans, and humans get... feelings... I'm sickened with just the sound of that word. Now. Stop bothering me. I'll tell my minion to send to a book about it tomorrow!" Oni said. When he was finished, he quickly cut off the connection.


Tai nodded. 'It's not like I'll ever get attached anyway. I've always hated Earth... no wonder I committed suicide...' he thought, as he crawled back to bed.



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A couple of days have passed and Mrs. Takenouchi had finally gotten the papers from the agency, which means that Tai's now admitted to Odaiba High...



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"Well Taichi Kamiya. I'm actually expecting to see your homework today... and don't give me the answer that your dog ate it again, because I know for a fact that you don't own a dog," said Ms. Kawazaki.


"Okay them miss, you caught me! I admit it," Tai said, hanging his head down. "I ate my homework." There were snickers coming from scattered places in the room. Others were just smiling, waiting for more trouble.

(A/N: Can you just imagine Tai shoving a whole paper down his throat and swallowing? :::People cheering::: Shove Tai, shove!!!)

Tai folded a piece of paper into an airplane, and let it fly... straight into Ms. Kawazaki's face! Now the whole class was uproariasly laughing.


Ms. Kawazaki's face turned red from anger. Tai didn't seem to mind. The class continued to laugh. Sora on the other hand wore a look of disbelief, embarrassment, and annoyance. Ms. Kawazaki then sent Sora to bring Tai to the principal's office.



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"Ever since you came to this school, all you've ever done was cause trouble! I don't get it! What's your problem?!" Sora asked, visibly annoyed.


Tai crossed his arms, and stared blankly ahead. "Hell if I know," he said, laughing at his own inside joke.


"Ahh!" Sora yelled, as she threw her hands up in the air and just walked off ahead of him.


Tai watched her walk off, then he crept into the boys bathroom, planted the age old prank: a stink bomb, then he went over to the girls bathroom and did the same thing.



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The next thing they knew, the two of them were receiving retribution: Tai, for doing his pranks, and Sora for letting personal feelings get in the way of watching guard over him. The two had clean up duty everyday after school for six weeks.



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Sora sat on her bed staring at the ceiling. She hated that day, and she hated that night when her mom had caught her out of the house. She hated Tai for getting her in trouble those two times. Never again will she listen to that boy. Besides that, when she asked him if he wanted to work together with her at night on the homework, he would refuse, locking himself inside of the room. Everyday he did that. Whenever he forgot to lock himself in the room, he would never face her, and quickly try to kick her out. Maybe she should get some things straight with that inconsiderate jerk. If ever he wanted to do something that would be considered a sin, he should just leave her out of it.


Sora stood up, and walked out of her bedroom door. She walked across the hallway to Tai's room, and knocked heavily, showing her anger. "Tai! Open up! I have to talk to you!" she said.



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Tai looked over at his clock: Seven. His eyes usually turned red at around eight, so maybe he could just talk to her for a while. He opened the door, and Sora walked right in.


"Don't talk, just listen," she said, as she walked in front of him.


Tai gave her a blank stare. 'Now what?' he thought.


"If you want to go and have 'fun' or whatever... Get in trouble yourself. Some how, I always get into trouble with you. Okay, I admit the part about us sneaking out was partially my fault, but you asked me, and I just wanted to be nice... Not a very good excuse, but... and that time with the stink bomb. I can't believe you! At first I thought that you were a pretty okay guy, that was up until I noticed that ever since I met you, I did three things that I would have never done before!" Sora said, sticking three fingers up in Tai's face. "THREE!!!"


"Okay... not entirely my fault..." Tai said, but Sora cut him off.


"Quiet! If it weren't for you, my school records would still be clean, but now, if I ever want to go to college, I might never get the chance to because you trashed my record! I blame you!" Sora said, poking Tai on his chest.


Tai grabbed her wrist, and held it tight. "Don't you dare blame me for the things that happened. It was your choice! Besides, when the teacher told you to 'escort' me to the office, you could've just refused," Tai said in a matter of fact tone, letting her go.


"I can't refuse! Don't you understand? I don't want to lose my teacher's respect! If I ever refuse... then my teacher would give me bad marks on my report card... then I can never go to a good college, and then..." Sora said, as her anger just suddenly melted into sadness. "Forget it, why am I telling you about this?" she said, as she wiped upcoming tears from her eyes.


Tai gave her that same blank stare, and Sora just left after that. He wasn't going to ask. Stupid humans, always getting emotional. 'Probably crying about stupid grades...' he thought, as he laid back on his bed. He closed his eyes, feeling a little warmth come on them. 'They turned red earlier than usual...'



^o^ ***Flashback*** ^o^



"Where is she mom?" A little boy, with a great mop of brown hair said, looking at his mother pleadingly for an answer.


"She's in a good place honey. Don't worry about it. She's happy now," the woman said, as she hugged her son. She tried to hide the tears from him, for fear that he too would start crying.


"What does that mean?" asked the young boy.


"Honey," she said, turning the little boy to face her, "Kari's not in pain anymore. She's in Heaven, and she's happy there."


"When is she coming back?" his bottom lip began to quiver, he really didn't want he the answer he knew his mom would give him.


"You have to realize that she's not going to come back anymore sweetie, but she'll always be with us..." She couldn't finish her sentence, and she just broke down crying. Mother and son stood in the middle of the hospital hallway crying.



^o^ ***End of Flashback*** ^o^



Tai tried to block that memory from his mind, and ever since he became a demon, it never returned. Since he was once again human, the bad memories would just come back to him. Each and everyone one.



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After school that day, Tai and Sora were once again searching the janitor's closet for cleaning tools.


"...So... where's your dad anyway?" Tai asked nonchalantly, looking though a pile of rags, for the cleanest one.


Sora froze. She didn't want to talk about it, especially to someone like him. It was his fault that they were stuck here doing this in the first place. Why would she have to tell him? So what he lived with her? It didn't matter. She could keep everything she wanted inside, and never tell a soul. Besides, Mimi was her best friend, and if she couldn't tell Mimi about it, she would defiantly not tell Tai. "You know it's rude to just ask questions like that," she said instead. "Ah ha!" Sora took the floor wax, and rag from the closet, and waited for Tai.


"Geeze, sorry ma'am," Tai said sarcastically. He found a clean rag, and the desktop cleaner, then he lightly kicked the closet closed. "You know what'll be fun?" His face light up, and his lips curved to a mischievous smile.


Sora saw the glint in his eye, and she shook her head, "No... no no no no!!! I've already talked to you about this. If you want to go do something, don't do it while I'm even around, because they'll only blame me for the not keeping watch over you! Anyways, how old are you?" She remembered that she had never asked him that question before, and she was curious.


Tai gave her a lopsided grin, and said, "You know, it's rude to just ask questions like that."


Sora scowled. 'This guy's getting irritating!' she thought, as she began waxing the floor the old fashioned way. The principal wouldn't let her or Tai use the electric waxer, and she had a pretty good idea why.


"Okay, I'm kidding. Sixteen," he said. "You?"


"Same. When was your birthday... or when is your birthday?" Sora asked, trying to scrub some gum off the floor, with a heavy metal brush.


'I don't have one now... after fifty years, I think I kinda forgot when my birthday was... I can tell you my death day...' he thought, smiling at the picture that arose in his mind: Sora would be cramped up at the corner stuttering 'Y-you-you- -...Your d-d-earth d-da-day?'. "Ju...ne... thirteenth on a Friday," he smirked. This oughta make her at least a little creeped out.


"Oh really? That's cool, so you're older than me by... six months," she said. She didn't even look weirded out. She just smiled and kept working.


"December... hmm... I hate the snow," Tai said, frowning at the idea that if he didn't quicken up her sinning, he'd have to touch snow again. 'Bad memories...' he thought, with a twinge of sadness.


"Why? It's so beautiful, especially during Christmas!" Sora said, standing up from her position. She spread her arms out and began to spin, raising her face up to the ceiling, imagining snow falling down on her.


Tai watched as the girl turned. He could just imagine her in the snow; she would look just like those figures in the snow globes he'd seen in one of the windows of a gift store. "Because it kil-" Tai began but caught himself.


Sora stopped her spinning, and she stared right at him. "Killed who?" she asked.


Tai turned around. "Forget it. It was a long time ago, it's not like I even cared..." he said, he took a deep breath and exhaled. 'Feelings' were coming back to him, and he tried to block it away from his memory.


Sora shrugged uncomfortably, and turned around to continue her work once again.


Just then, in front of Tai, a huge red, leather book dropped out of the sky, literally. Tai was surprised at first, but then he took time to read the title of it: Hell's Messenger's Questions and Answers for Everything. 'Oh man...' he thought. This was one large book, and how was he supposed to hide it? He ran out of the room to his locker, and stuffed his book inside the backpack he had in it.


"Hey! Where are you going?" Sora asked, as she dropped all her work and ran after him.


Tai slammed his locker shut and turned around to face her quickly. "Just forgot a worksheet..." he said, smiling sheepishly at her.


'Worksheet...? When was the last time I've ever heard Tai say "worksheet"? Then again... when was the first time I've ever heard him say it?' Sora thought, suddenly getting suspicious. She tried to look behind Tai. 'Another one of his pranks?'


Tai walked over to Sora. He placed his hands on either of her shoulders, and turned her back around towards the classroom that they were cleaning up.



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"We've been here for a really long time now, don't you think Tai..." Sora said, looking outside the window, at the setting sun.


Tai suddenly became nervous. They had to clean up the room now, since it was Saturday (A/N: Saturday is Japan's Friday... I figured that out a long time ago, but I made a mistake in my other fic...). The principal would defiantly want his school cleaned up, for the one day that students wouldn't be there. It wasn't like Tai cared or anything, but he still wanted Sora's trust. She figured out that he got her into trouble, so he would lay low for a while until she forgot. Beside the point... since it was become dark... his demonic side would remind him of his true self once again. It wasn't like he would forget though, but there was no way of stopping it.


"What time is it?" he asked, keeping his head down just in case he began to feel that slight heat.


"Seven forty-three about..." Sora said, looking at the classroom clock.


'Shit... I'm screwed. Plus it's not like Sora would be too happy to see me lock myself inside of the boys' bathroom. There must be a way to stop this... If only I could get to the book without that girl following me...' Tai thought. Just then he came up with a simple idea. 'It's not like she's crazy enough to follow me to the bathroom...'. "Look Sora. I have to umm... go..." he said. 'Man this is embarrassing...'


"Huh? No, we're not done yet," Sora said, standing up, looking a little annoyed at him.


"No... I mean..." Tai said looking around. "Nature calls..."


Sora formed a little 'o' with her mouth, and blushed from embarrassment.


Tai ran to his locker, took out the book, and went to the bathroom, slowly looking through pages.



ºRed Eyesº



~There is absolutely no way of removing them. Asking your master will not help, for it is also beyond their powers.~



"Shit!" Tai said out loud.



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Sora was passing through the boys' bathroom to get to the last classroom that had to be done, but she suddenly stopped when she heard Tai curse. She shut her yes for a second, trying not to laugh. 'Someone's having a hard time in there...' she thought, smiling to herself.



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Tai stepped out of the bathroom, upset that he had no plan. He couldn't just leave. Besides, the principal was still here and she wanted to see the clean-up that he and Sora did, throughout the afternoon and night. It was their punishment, and he might as well go along with it. 'Just try to find sunglasses...' he thought, searching through his back pack for the shades that he bought when he first came down to Earth, and putting the huge book back.


He finally found them, but decided to just wear them when he felt the heat coming. He went back to the classroom, and noticed that Sora wasn't there anymore. He grabbed his things, and went to the last classroom that they hadn't cleaned up.



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As Tai entered the room, Sora began snickering. "Had fun?" she asked, with a smirk on her face. 'Okay so this is wrong, I know, but still... it was funny... If this is called loosening up... this is fun!' she thought.


Tai looked bewildered. "What?" he asked, putting his things down.


Sora just smiled, and turned back to her work. "Oh I found this really interesting snow globe. I left it in my backpack... I was supposed to give it to my mom during Christmas, but I totally forgot about it. It's really beautiful... and I... Maybe it'll make you like the snow just a little bit more?" she asked, taking it out, and handing it to Tai.


Tai took it in his hands, and stared at it. There was Santa floating above the streets of Tokyo, and there was this one car off near the back that was going off into a street near the cliff. That car wasn't particularly highlighted, but to Tai it was. He stared horrified at it, and accidentally dropped it.



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"You said that you were going to come over and watch my soccer game dad!" say a young adolescent over the cellular phone.


"I know, I'm sorry Taichi. I know that I promised, but there was a huge traffic jam-" the older man began, but he was cut off.


"A promise is a promise!" said the insecure boy.


"I know but-" the man began again.


"You weren't even there for Kari's funeral! You weren't even there fore anything! What the hell are you doing there that's more important than every other damn thing that's happening here?" yelled the boy.


"So this isn't just about me being late for Christmas is it?" the man tried to reason with his son, but his son didn't want any reasoning as he continued to yell at his father.


"Fuck you..." said the boy with a chilling tone in his voice. "Since whatever the hell you're doing seems more important than the past events of this year, why don't you just go back? You ass hole! I can't believe I called you my dad! I wish you never come home for Christmas!!!" he said finally.


"Tai... you have to understand-- Wait son, I have to--" said the man, panic rising in his voice. There was a pause, and then he finally said, "I love you both very much--"


With that, there was screaming from the young boy's father, screeching, a loud colliding of metal, and then silence.



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"Hey! What did you do that for!" Sora asked.


Tai stared horrified at the broken snow globe.


Sora stared at him. He didn't look too well. Maybe it was just an accident. Besides, she could buy other snow globes out there. "Are you okay?" she asked, looking into his eyes.


Tai stared transfixed at the broken shards of glass and water. "I told him that I never wanted for him to come home... and he died..." he said, in a low, depressed voice.


"Who?" Sora asked confused. "...Was it... your dad...?" she asked, taking the wildest guess she could make.


"Yeah..." Tai answered, without hesitation.


Sora sat down beside him. "My dad died too. It was from a plane crash..." she said, also staring at the broken snow globe on the ground. "He told me that he once dreamt of owning a really beautiful house with a huge garden because my mom always loved gardens and flowers. The fact that he didn't have enough education pulled him away from that dream. I promised him that I would work very hard to get into a good college. Then he had to go off, to see his sister and her new baby... but the plane crashed... I never told anyone this before..."


"Thanks..." Tai said, turning to face her. He had warm tears forming just at the bases of his eye lids, and he tried hard not to make them fall, causing more heat to his eyes.


Sora stared in horror at the sight in front of her. Tai's eyes were glowing red...



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Author's Notes: Sorry for the cliff hanger... I didn't know what else to put, and I don't know... I haven't really put up a lot of cliff hangers in any of my chapters or fics for a really long time, and I just wanted to see all of your reactions... Yes... I'm mean. So sue me. No... wait... that was a joke! :::Looks nervously at the men in suits, with the really nice leathery suit cases::: *Gulp* Lawyers...? How could you...?


Just to clear some things up: Authors Notes: As the religious people know, when people commit suicide, heaven cannot forgive them for ending their life, because it's such a precious gift. Therefore, the people who commit suicide go to hell.




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