Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Lost Star: That Same Beautiful Song ❯ Angst ( Chapter 2 )
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By: Splash 
Anime/Manga: Digimon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Romance | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 01.06.2002 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.3K | Visits: 380 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Digimon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Romance | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 01.06.2002 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.3K | Visits: 380 | Status: Completed
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Lost Star:
That Same Beautiful Song Part 2
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Notes: And so it continues... by the way, I forgot to mention that Tai grabbed some clothes after everybody stopped staring at him. Even someone like me can get tired of boxer Tai's ~_^ I didn't realize there was a bit of a plot hole until I finished this pic of the Daiken-ish scene: http://www.zyfect.com/users/gottaito/pics/yaoi/LostStarDaiken.htm
Speaking of mistakes... I said that Skullsatamon was a mega, but actually he's an ultimate. But with all the other ultimate guys he was whipping with one hit and the fact that a really powerful mega was the only one around who could destroy him, he was a LOT like a mega... but on the other hand, I might be confusing you again! Hehe, continuing..
I'll be doing more of those story inspired pics along the way, lately I've been getting lotsa inspirations ^_^
*Reads a comment about how this was the worst Sorato fic ever* Uh... this is NOT a Sorato fic... I repeat NOT NOT NOT... it's ANTI-Sorato... *rolls eyes* I shall never do a Sorato fic unless I get something like piles of big bucks (then again, maybe not still...) and even Lost Star: Sora was intended to be Taito, even if I said it could have been a standalone Sorato. So to make it clear... this fic is TAI AND MATT!!!! And ANTI SORA AND MATT! If you love Sora and Matt as a couple, then you should NOT NOT NOT be here. There should be plenty of fics worth your Sorato time.
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The long silence in the room was deadly. The Oreo in Kari's hand remained uneaten, as the girl was too nervous to move.
And the tears flooding down Tai's cheeks were silent even as they fell on his sweater, soaking through the soft material.
And in Tai's mind... going in circles, he could make out him and Matt standing in the exact same positions Daisuke and Ken were at that exact moment, wearing their usual Digimon World outfits... but then he blinked, and a different pair stood in its place.
" Oh God, oh God, Matt... oh God.. no..." he mumbled, barely registering that his lips were even moving.
Daisuke finally raised his head and turned it a little to see Tai's breakdown, and then turned to Ken, who had turned around at the same time. They nodded in unison, and walked over to Tai. And stayed there, just... standing, comforting the boy with their mere presence.
The tension broke as a loud ringing noise buzzed in their ears.
" I'll get it," Kari said in one quick breath, taking long strides out of the room to get the phone.
The three boys stayed in their places unmoved, except for Tai's occasional sniff and sob.
A faint sound of something being picked up was heard. " Oh, TK! Hi!"
They listened to the casual conversation between TK and Kari for several minutes, and finally...
" Tai," Daisuke spoke, as firm as Ken was earlier. Tai was too busy crying to be surprised. But just the thought that he knew Matt didn't love him anymore made him cry harder, forcing him to put his arm over his face to hide it from the others.
Daisuke's short temperature got to him again, as he forcefully pulled away Tai's arm and gritted his teeth. " TAI!"
The brunette gave a little squeak and stared back at Daisuke with forlorn, wet eyes.
" You ARE going to do more besides mope... right?" There was a gentle, hopeful smile on Daisuke's face, lighting up his better features.
Tai sniffled again and mustered up the best optimistic answer he could. " Don't worry, I won't give up that easily, Daisuke."
That got him an even greater smile.
" Would you like to go on a walk with us, Tai? Maybe grab a few somethings to eat?" said Ken, seeming rather pleased with the response himself.
' Probably a good idea,' Tai thought, ' maybe I'll be able to come up with a plan of some sort...'
" Sure, lemme get my coat," Tai replied, reaching for the paw print coat on his desk. ' Then again... I like the trench coat better.' He grabbed the black one instead. ' Sorry, Coach, but I can't go advertising our team ALL the time...'
Ken wrapped his scarf around his neck, and Daisuke put on his jacket. They went ahead out the door, immediately enganging in TK and Kari's phone conversation.
" Bouquet of carnations? Gosh, T.V., I didn't know you did all the honky-dori dating stuff like that..."
" Hey, stop making fun of T.V- T.K.!"
" He got you there, Kari." Ken smirked. " It must be contagious."
And on the other line, " I am NOT an electric tube!"
As Tai stuck his arm through one of the coat sleeves, he spotted something that caught his eye in one of the top drawers of his desk. After a little bit of struggle with his other arm, he opened the shelf further out of curiousity. There lay that picture he had found the day Matt came back to Odaiba after three years...
Feeling his eyes water again, he tore his eyes away from the picture, slamming the drawer shut and walking away.
' I've found you before, Yama, and I'm sure I can find you again, but this time you'll have to LET me find you...'
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Now that Tai had all his memory back some great suspicions came up. Besides the obvious plot hole on how Matt had suddenly turned to Sora without Tai intervening, there were other things. After that Christmas day, Matt never had an outing of ANY kind with Tai, not even a friend-friend outing... was all his time THAT occupied because of Sora? Any thoughts after that just sickened him.
" Tai, yoohoo!"
He blinked and looked at the slightly shorter one wearing his goggles.
" What flavor ya want?"
" Uh... French vanilla." He winced. He shouldn't have said that...
" God, what a blant flavor..." Daisuke curled an eyebrow, then turned to the clerk, " You heard him, dude."
If anything, the college-aged man behind the cash register was happy to be called informally. " That'll be $7.79," he said, his voice scratchy with early-morning-work fatigue.
Daisuke began to relieve himself of a 10 dollar bill in his pocket, but Ken grabbed the hand away before the clerk could do anything.
" Ken-!"
With his other hand, Ken pulled out some bills and coins from his own pocket and gave them to the clerk.
The clerk graciously took the money, feeling somewhat shameful for even glancing at the hand where the 10 dollar bill was. He counted it, stuffed them in the cash register and closed it with a ring. " Would you like the receipt?"
Ken had his usual tranquil face on. " No thank you." The clerk gave him a wide smile and briefly left to get their ice cream.
Daisuke looked at him in slight awe. " You gave him exact change?" Ken let his hand go, allowing the him to quickly stuff the bill back to its original place, only to put his hand back in Ken's, " You never cease to amaze me, Ichijouji."
The clerk came back with three cones, somewhat taken back from the sight before him, but nevertheless still cheerful. Exact-change giving geniuses were sure great to have as customers...
Tai came up and silently took his cone, and Daisuke and Ken took theirs with their free hands.
" Now you boys have a good day, all right?"
Daisuke tipped his head in a nod and led the way out, not noticing the other people staring at him as a well known child genius held his hand and a sulking puffy-haired high schooler followed.
They walked down the pavement of the downtown area for a while, merely eating their ice cream. Daisuke and Ken ate quickly assuming that it would melt, even though it was a rather cold day. They spotted Tai taking slow, small licks out of his ice cream. If that didn't signal his melancholy, the distant gaze in his eyes said it all.
" So, Tai, not to be nosy or anything, but why FRENCH VANILLA?" Daisuke asked, simply to break the silence barrier.
Tai flickered his gaze in Daisuke's direction, then went back to looking at his cone. " Matt."
" Hmm?" Daisuke stuffed the remaining bits of cone down his throat.
" I think it was just out of instinct or something..." he continued, " he always got this flavor when we went to get icecream... he said it was because regular vanilla was too plain and chocolate was too tasteful, but French vanilla was..." a pause, and Tai's eyes narrowed farther than ever. " just right..."
The grip on the cone became loose and gravity pulled it down, causing it to spill its cream colored contents on the sidewalk. The two other boys rushed to his aid as he lost all feeling in his knees and broke down, sobbing uncontrollably.
" He's gone for good! *Sniff*... this is worse than... when he was out of Odaiba..."
Daisuke could feel his goggles drooping. What did the poor guy do to deserve this?
" You know what, this is really killing ya, and I don't like to see you this way," Daisuke groaned, supporting Tai by one arm while Ken had the other, " We're going to do something about this RIGHT NOW."
" W...wha?"
" You heard us!" Daisuke exclaimed, " We're bringing Matt over to your house even if I have to drag him there myself!"
" Daisuke..." Tai uttered in awe.
" Don't worry, Tai, we'll have things back to the way they should be in no time!"
The way they should be... of course! It's not like Matt would just forget about Tai completely...
Tai, fully motivated from Daisuke's offer, instantly stopped sobbing and got back on his feet. " I should talk some sense into him, shouldn't I?"
" Now THAT'S the optimistic Tai I'm looking for!" Daisuke chirped. " Let's go, go, GO!!!!"
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The phone was ringing when I came back from work. Wearily, I picked it up. TV station work was such a killer, but at least it was so much better than what my other job was...
" Ishida residence."
" Hey, Mr. Ishida, is Matt there?"
" Yeah, just hold on a sec, Tai."
After hearing a short mumble of approval, I put down the phone. My feet carried me to my son's room, and I softly knocked on the closed door. " Matt, Tai's on the phone."
" Yeah... and?"
Wha? Why would he say something like that?
" He wants to talk to you," I replied, speaking as if the answer was obvious... which was true.
" Oh... uh..." I heard some shuffling behind the door, a bit a scrambling, and... " Got it, dad!"
Something was definitely up, so I decided to stick around and eavesdrop. Sure, I know it was rude to listen in on my son talking to his... boyfriend, but hey, curiousity has its influences.
" Your place? Today? Uh...."
By the sounds of it, he was being invited to Tai's house to have... fun. I chuckled silently to myself. Guess I'm still immature in that way. Matt was always so enthusiastic when it came to Tai. He'd jump at any opportunity to be with him for any length of time. Wait a second! Was I going deaf or was he hesitating?
" I guess..."
He guesses? He GUESSES?!?!?! Wha-what?
" I just need to go to Sora's for a bit and I'll be there, all right?"
BINGO! DING, DING! Why didn't I see it sooner? Why didn't I expect it when I saw him walking to school with that woman? My son and Sora... just wasn't... right...
It wasn't because I disliked Sora or her parents or anything, I respect them all. However, Matt and Tai shared an undying bond that was nearly impossible to describe. The way they seemed to understand each other so well, the way they looked out for each other... it made me wonder what had happened to them in the Digiworld that made their relationship so strong.
And now... what's going on?
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" So how'd it go?" Daisuke said as the brunette stepped into the room.
" He said he had to make a quick stop to Sora's place and then he'd be here."
Daisuke's eyes narrowed in disgust.
" God DAMN that woman," he muttered, " She's worse than Jun! WAY worse..."
Tai's eyes ventured in Daisuke's general direction as he sat back down on his chair, stomach heaving on the back part of the seat. " What does Jun think of all this? Does she know?"
" That's how I found out in the first place."
" Isn't she mad at all?"
" She was disappointed, but she suddenly gave up and started stalking one of Joe's older brothers."
The brunette's eyes quirked. " Joe's--nevermind, I don't wanna know."
" I didn't think so," Daisuke replied.
With nothing else to say, an awkward silence followed.
" So..." Ken spoke, " What do you plan to say to him?"
The brunette gave him a long, glowering stare. What do you say to a guy in that kind of a situation? The coldness in Matt's voice was just too painful to hear.
" I don't know... I honestly don't know..."
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To be continued...
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End Notes: A bit shorter than what I wanted to, but I wanted to release something just to make sure people know I'm still alive and WELL! Homework really stressed me out, and I'm still kinda stressed with the piano competition coming up in a couple weeks ;_; Well, at least the mood is kinda good for the fic writing...
Please R+R! I REALLLLLLY REALLLLLY REALLLLY enjoy constructive comments, suggestions, etc... ^_^
Splash
http://www.zyfect.com/users/gottaito
Lost Star:
That Same Beautiful Song Part 2
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Notes: And so it continues... by the way, I forgot to mention that Tai grabbed some clothes after everybody stopped staring at him. Even someone like me can get tired of boxer Tai's ~_^ I didn't realize there was a bit of a plot hole until I finished this pic of the Daiken-ish scene: http://www.zyfect.com/users/gottaito/pics/yaoi/LostStarDaiken.htm
Speaking of mistakes... I said that Skullsatamon was a mega, but actually he's an ultimate. But with all the other ultimate guys he was whipping with one hit and the fact that a really powerful mega was the only one around who could destroy him, he was a LOT like a mega... but on the other hand, I might be confusing you again! Hehe, continuing..
I'll be doing more of those story inspired pics along the way, lately I've been getting lotsa inspirations ^_^
*Reads a comment about how this was the worst Sorato fic ever* Uh... this is NOT a Sorato fic... I repeat NOT NOT NOT... it's ANTI-Sorato... *rolls eyes* I shall never do a Sorato fic unless I get something like piles of big bucks (then again, maybe not still...) and even Lost Star: Sora was intended to be Taito, even if I said it could have been a standalone Sorato. So to make it clear... this fic is TAI AND MATT!!!! And ANTI SORA AND MATT! If you love Sora and Matt as a couple, then you should NOT NOT NOT be here. There should be plenty of fics worth your Sorato time.
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The long silence in the room was deadly. The Oreo in Kari's hand remained uneaten, as the girl was too nervous to move.
And the tears flooding down Tai's cheeks were silent even as they fell on his sweater, soaking through the soft material.
And in Tai's mind... going in circles, he could make out him and Matt standing in the exact same positions Daisuke and Ken were at that exact moment, wearing their usual Digimon World outfits... but then he blinked, and a different pair stood in its place.
" Oh God, oh God, Matt... oh God.. no..." he mumbled, barely registering that his lips were even moving.
Daisuke finally raised his head and turned it a little to see Tai's breakdown, and then turned to Ken, who had turned around at the same time. They nodded in unison, and walked over to Tai. And stayed there, just... standing, comforting the boy with their mere presence.
The tension broke as a loud ringing noise buzzed in their ears.
" I'll get it," Kari said in one quick breath, taking long strides out of the room to get the phone.
The three boys stayed in their places unmoved, except for Tai's occasional sniff and sob.
A faint sound of something being picked up was heard. " Oh, TK! Hi!"
They listened to the casual conversation between TK and Kari for several minutes, and finally...
" Tai," Daisuke spoke, as firm as Ken was earlier. Tai was too busy crying to be surprised. But just the thought that he knew Matt didn't love him anymore made him cry harder, forcing him to put his arm over his face to hide it from the others.
Daisuke's short temperature got to him again, as he forcefully pulled away Tai's arm and gritted his teeth. " TAI!"
The brunette gave a little squeak and stared back at Daisuke with forlorn, wet eyes.
" You ARE going to do more besides mope... right?" There was a gentle, hopeful smile on Daisuke's face, lighting up his better features.
Tai sniffled again and mustered up the best optimistic answer he could. " Don't worry, I won't give up that easily, Daisuke."
That got him an even greater smile.
" Would you like to go on a walk with us, Tai? Maybe grab a few somethings to eat?" said Ken, seeming rather pleased with the response himself.
' Probably a good idea,' Tai thought, ' maybe I'll be able to come up with a plan of some sort...'
" Sure, lemme get my coat," Tai replied, reaching for the paw print coat on his desk. ' Then again... I like the trench coat better.' He grabbed the black one instead. ' Sorry, Coach, but I can't go advertising our team ALL the time...'
Ken wrapped his scarf around his neck, and Daisuke put on his jacket. They went ahead out the door, immediately enganging in TK and Kari's phone conversation.
" Bouquet of carnations? Gosh, T.V., I didn't know you did all the honky-dori dating stuff like that..."
" Hey, stop making fun of T.V- T.K.!"
" He got you there, Kari." Ken smirked. " It must be contagious."
And on the other line, " I am NOT an electric tube!"
As Tai stuck his arm through one of the coat sleeves, he spotted something that caught his eye in one of the top drawers of his desk. After a little bit of struggle with his other arm, he opened the shelf further out of curiousity. There lay that picture he had found the day Matt came back to Odaiba after three years...
Feeling his eyes water again, he tore his eyes away from the picture, slamming the drawer shut and walking away.
' I've found you before, Yama, and I'm sure I can find you again, but this time you'll have to LET me find you...'
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Now that Tai had all his memory back some great suspicions came up. Besides the obvious plot hole on how Matt had suddenly turned to Sora without Tai intervening, there were other things. After that Christmas day, Matt never had an outing of ANY kind with Tai, not even a friend-friend outing... was all his time THAT occupied because of Sora? Any thoughts after that just sickened him.
" Tai, yoohoo!"
He blinked and looked at the slightly shorter one wearing his goggles.
" What flavor ya want?"
" Uh... French vanilla." He winced. He shouldn't have said that...
" God, what a blant flavor..." Daisuke curled an eyebrow, then turned to the clerk, " You heard him, dude."
If anything, the college-aged man behind the cash register was happy to be called informally. " That'll be $7.79," he said, his voice scratchy with early-morning-work fatigue.
Daisuke began to relieve himself of a 10 dollar bill in his pocket, but Ken grabbed the hand away before the clerk could do anything.
" Ken-!"
With his other hand, Ken pulled out some bills and coins from his own pocket and gave them to the clerk.
The clerk graciously took the money, feeling somewhat shameful for even glancing at the hand where the 10 dollar bill was. He counted it, stuffed them in the cash register and closed it with a ring. " Would you like the receipt?"
Ken had his usual tranquil face on. " No thank you." The clerk gave him a wide smile and briefly left to get their ice cream.
Daisuke looked at him in slight awe. " You gave him exact change?" Ken let his hand go, allowing the him to quickly stuff the bill back to its original place, only to put his hand back in Ken's, " You never cease to amaze me, Ichijouji."
The clerk came back with three cones, somewhat taken back from the sight before him, but nevertheless still cheerful. Exact-change giving geniuses were sure great to have as customers...
Tai came up and silently took his cone, and Daisuke and Ken took theirs with their free hands.
" Now you boys have a good day, all right?"
Daisuke tipped his head in a nod and led the way out, not noticing the other people staring at him as a well known child genius held his hand and a sulking puffy-haired high schooler followed.
They walked down the pavement of the downtown area for a while, merely eating their ice cream. Daisuke and Ken ate quickly assuming that it would melt, even though it was a rather cold day. They spotted Tai taking slow, small licks out of his ice cream. If that didn't signal his melancholy, the distant gaze in his eyes said it all.
" So, Tai, not to be nosy or anything, but why FRENCH VANILLA?" Daisuke asked, simply to break the silence barrier.
Tai flickered his gaze in Daisuke's direction, then went back to looking at his cone. " Matt."
" Hmm?" Daisuke stuffed the remaining bits of cone down his throat.
" I think it was just out of instinct or something..." he continued, " he always got this flavor when we went to get icecream... he said it was because regular vanilla was too plain and chocolate was too tasteful, but French vanilla was..." a pause, and Tai's eyes narrowed farther than ever. " just right..."
The grip on the cone became loose and gravity pulled it down, causing it to spill its cream colored contents on the sidewalk. The two other boys rushed to his aid as he lost all feeling in his knees and broke down, sobbing uncontrollably.
" He's gone for good! *Sniff*... this is worse than... when he was out of Odaiba..."
Daisuke could feel his goggles drooping. What did the poor guy do to deserve this?
" You know what, this is really killing ya, and I don't like to see you this way," Daisuke groaned, supporting Tai by one arm while Ken had the other, " We're going to do something about this RIGHT NOW."
" W...wha?"
" You heard us!" Daisuke exclaimed, " We're bringing Matt over to your house even if I have to drag him there myself!"
" Daisuke..." Tai uttered in awe.
" Don't worry, Tai, we'll have things back to the way they should be in no time!"
The way they should be... of course! It's not like Matt would just forget about Tai completely...
Tai, fully motivated from Daisuke's offer, instantly stopped sobbing and got back on his feet. " I should talk some sense into him, shouldn't I?"
" Now THAT'S the optimistic Tai I'm looking for!" Daisuke chirped. " Let's go, go, GO!!!!"
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The phone was ringing when I came back from work. Wearily, I picked it up. TV station work was such a killer, but at least it was so much better than what my other job was...
" Ishida residence."
" Hey, Mr. Ishida, is Matt there?"
" Yeah, just hold on a sec, Tai."
After hearing a short mumble of approval, I put down the phone. My feet carried me to my son's room, and I softly knocked on the closed door. " Matt, Tai's on the phone."
" Yeah... and?"
Wha? Why would he say something like that?
" He wants to talk to you," I replied, speaking as if the answer was obvious... which was true.
" Oh... uh..." I heard some shuffling behind the door, a bit a scrambling, and... " Got it, dad!"
Something was definitely up, so I decided to stick around and eavesdrop. Sure, I know it was rude to listen in on my son talking to his... boyfriend, but hey, curiousity has its influences.
" Your place? Today? Uh...."
By the sounds of it, he was being invited to Tai's house to have... fun. I chuckled silently to myself. Guess I'm still immature in that way. Matt was always so enthusiastic when it came to Tai. He'd jump at any opportunity to be with him for any length of time. Wait a second! Was I going deaf or was he hesitating?
" I guess..."
He guesses? He GUESSES?!?!?! Wha-what?
" I just need to go to Sora's for a bit and I'll be there, all right?"
BINGO! DING, DING! Why didn't I see it sooner? Why didn't I expect it when I saw him walking to school with that woman? My son and Sora... just wasn't... right...
It wasn't because I disliked Sora or her parents or anything, I respect them all. However, Matt and Tai shared an undying bond that was nearly impossible to describe. The way they seemed to understand each other so well, the way they looked out for each other... it made me wonder what had happened to them in the Digiworld that made their relationship so strong.
And now... what's going on?
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" So how'd it go?" Daisuke said as the brunette stepped into the room.
" He said he had to make a quick stop to Sora's place and then he'd be here."
Daisuke's eyes narrowed in disgust.
" God DAMN that woman," he muttered, " She's worse than Jun! WAY worse..."
Tai's eyes ventured in Daisuke's general direction as he sat back down on his chair, stomach heaving on the back part of the seat. " What does Jun think of all this? Does she know?"
" That's how I found out in the first place."
" Isn't she mad at all?"
" She was disappointed, but she suddenly gave up and started stalking one of Joe's older brothers."
The brunette's eyes quirked. " Joe's--nevermind, I don't wanna know."
" I didn't think so," Daisuke replied.
With nothing else to say, an awkward silence followed.
" So..." Ken spoke, " What do you plan to say to him?"
The brunette gave him a long, glowering stare. What do you say to a guy in that kind of a situation? The coldness in Matt's voice was just too painful to hear.
" I don't know... I honestly don't know..."
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To be continued...
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End Notes: A bit shorter than what I wanted to, but I wanted to release something just to make sure people know I'm still alive and WELL! Homework really stressed me out, and I'm still kinda stressed with the piano competition coming up in a couple weeks ;_; Well, at least the mood is kinda good for the fic writing...
Please R+R! I REALLLLLLY REALLLLLY REALLLLY enjoy constructive comments, suggestions, etc... ^_^
Splash
http://www.zyfect.com/users/gottaito