Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ New Life ❯ Things Are Only Gonna Hurt Worse ( Chapter 4 )

Warnings: In case you didn't notice, the stuff that happened in the digital world isn't exactly what happened in the series. And the bishies' status is finally told! Remember, no matter what it is right now-this is Taito! Taito! Okay? I do have to have some kind of a plot, you know.

New Life

Chapter 4: Things Are Only Gonna Hurt Worse

On Monday Yamato walked slowly to school-slower than usual-too busy racking the thoughts in his brain to notice that somebody was calling his name. "Yamato!" He finally noticed when his name was yelled in his ear, and he jumped to the side, clasping his hand over his ear.

"Ow! What'd you yell in my ear for?!"

"I've been trying to get your attention for the past five minutes! And a hello would be a lot nicer than `what'd you do that for?!' you know."

"Fine. Hi, Sora. What's up?"

"Can't I walk to school with my boyfriend?"

"Yeah, but why did you come half way across town? You don't live anywhere near me."

"I felt like it today. I got up really early and I couldn't get back to sleep."

"Oh."

"What's on your mind? Normally you're more talkative than this."

"Nothing. I was just thinking about some stuff that happened this weekend."

"So what happened?"

"Nothing, really. Tai came over at three in the morning."

"Why was he coming over at three? Why not, like, noon or something? It's just a little more rational, you know."

"Tell him that. Or maybe you should tell Hikari that."

"Don't tell me she was gonna try to give him a make-over again."

"Yep. He ran out and you know him and late at night alone."

"Yeah. I remember when he thought Agumon was a t-rex."

"Then I pinned him down when we woke up."

"You did it when he wasn't looking again, didn't you?" Yamato just grinned as a response. "Cheater."

"Well he got me back right away. Slammed me up against my bedroom door."

"You deserved it."

Yamato stopped where he was and Sora kept walking. "What do you mean I deserved it?"

"I mean you deserved it. Betcha can't pin me down!"

Sora started running as fast as she could toward the school and Yamato ran after her, even though he was far behind and knew he wouldn't be able to catch up. "Hey! No fair! You're way ahead and you run faster!"

"You know, you save more energy if you don't yell while you're running!"

"Shut up!"

She quickly disappeared around the corner and when Yamato went around after her he ended up running into Taichi. They fell on the sidewalk with a loud thud and the blonde screamed in frustration, not bothering at all to get off his friend. Sora stood in front of the two boys and laughed.

"Thanks Tai. I knew you wouldn't mind getting run into again."

"I don't mind, but I think my chin will start minding soon. You guys really have to stop with this chasing thing on mornings when you set your alarm clock early."

"Tai! You weren't supposed to tell!"

The blonde climbed off his friend and stood up in front of Sora, a soft smile spreading across his lips. "You get up early just to walk with me? That's so sweet! Thanks." Yamato leaned over and kissed Sora lightly on the lips.

"Get a room already!"

"One kiss and you tell us to get a room." Yamato rolled his eyes and shook his head.

"What? I'm serious! I've seen you two making out before, and believe me-it is not a very pretty sight."

"You're just jealous `cause you're too afraid to ask Mika if she likes you."

"Maybe I have a good reason for not asking her! Like maybe the fact that she's already got a boyfriend?"

"Oh? When'd she get a boyfriend?"

"On Friday, and I think she has a really bad taste in guys."

"Then she's gotta like you!" Yamato and Sora instantly started laughing.

"Well I suggest you stop laughing, Yamato, because her boyfriend is Shizuma."

Yamato stopped laughing and froze when he heard the name. Taichi walked off onto school grounds, leaving Sora to wonder why Yamato was acting so weird about Shizuma going out with Mika.

"Matt? What's wrong?" She set her hand on his shoulder, but he pushed her hand away and started walking towards the school building.

"It's nothing. Come on, before we're late."

Sora ran to catch up with her boyfriend, wishing she knew what was going on.

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Yamato sat on the unmade bed, waiting for what he knew was inevitably going to happen. When he heard the doorknob turn his breath caught in his throat, causing him to cough. As the door opened he scooted further back on the bed, the time for the door to swing wide open seeming to take an eternity. Finally Shizuma stepped in and shut the door behind him.

He calmly walked over to the bed and stood in front of Yamato, cupping the blonde's face in his hands. "Don't tell me you're scared, Yamato? Not after all the fun we've had together."

"I never have fun with you, Shizuma."

Shizuma let go of Yamato's face and backhanded him. He quickly grabbed the blonde's chin and turned his head so he was facing him again. With his free hand he waved his pointer finger side to side in front of Yamato's nose. "That's not a nice thing to say. Now hold still."

He climbed on the bed and sat behind Yamato. Leaning back, he reached behind his bed and grabbed something that Yamato couldn't see.

"Take your shirt off." Yamato hesitated for a moment, but did as he was told. He set the shirt beside him on the bed. "That's much better. Now close your eyes-I've got something for you. No peeking."

The blonde closed his eyes tightly, knowing that something bad was going to happen in a few seconds. He felt something scratchy rub against his chest and come close to his neck. It felt like a rope.

Behind him, Shizuma was holding the end of a thick rope. He crossed the ends and switched the hands they were in, then yanked hard.

Yamato couldn't breathe-the rope was far too tight on his neck-but still he tried desperately to get air into his lungs. He brought his hands up and tried to grab the rope and pull it off his neck so he could breathe, but he didn't have any luck. As he tried harder to grab the rope, he ended up scratching shallow holes in his neck, although he had no idea he was doing it-all he could feel was the tightness of the rope around his neck.

Two minutes passed and Yamato finally lost consciousness. Shizuma laughed evilly as he let go of the rope.

"About time. Now I get to have some fun."

TBC

Now you wanna know what Shizuma is gonna do to Matt, right? Well you don't get to know! I'm evil-get over it. I might tell later, but I'm still not sure what I'm gonna have him do even, so you don't get to know until I know. Sorry I won't be able to get up another chapter this weekend! I wish I could!