Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Taste of life ❯ Chapter 10 ( Chapter 11 )
[ P - Pre-Teen ]
By: Nekocin 
Anime/Manga: Digimon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 12.07.2003 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.5K | Visits: 262 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Digimon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 12.07.2003 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.5K | Visits: 262 | Status: Completed
Taste of life
Chapter: 10
Author: Nekocin
Email: Neko_cin_6@hotmail.com
Disclaimer: characters are not mine. Fic is mine.
Warnings: I forgot to warn everyone on my first chapter -_____-;; Beware of OOC. Oh, it might not be as entertaining as my first few chapters... because I'm trying to be a bit serious. This chapter sounds a bit dramatic for some reasons unknown. Still a bit short.
Author's notes: I'm sorry for taking this long to update. I've been getting more and more new ideas and such. (I'm kind of jumping to one fandom to the other by the way). But I'll try not to dump my fics. I've been thinking about revising this fic, but I guess I just have to finish it first and then revise it just to make it more readable. I feel guilty for leaving you guys hanging a few months ago. Had writer's block again x_X. My first year as a freshman in Senior High is almost about to end. Next week begins our 2nd round repetition and I'm quite a bit nervous since I've 12 subjects. ;_;
So... *gets pinned by forks* O.O;; Okay, okay... I'll stop babbling.
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"What's with the books?"
Taichi looked startled for awhile, but then wiped off his startled look. "Hey, Yamato" he grinned and moved away from the library's door.
Yamato had crossed his arms over his chest and stared incredulously at Taichi. He eyed the books in Taichi's arms suspiciously and looked disapprovingly at Taichi.
"What are you implying here?" Yamato pointed at the books. As Taichi's best friend, Yamato definitely knew the fact Taichi hated reading books. Seeing Taichi with a bundle of thick books was quite suspicious in Yamato's opinion.
Something must have happened to Taichi while he was away from him during lunch.
The world must be coming to and end, because the last time he remembered Taichi putting up a fight when he was forced to read a book.
Taichi smiled. "I'm studying flowers if that's what you're wondering. And it kind of have something to do with our plan E" he whispered mysteriously and cheered inwardly when he saw Yamato's determined look. It just simply meant Yamato would agree to do anything once he heard about their new plan.
//Aa... the wonders what imagination can do// Taichi mused as he pictured his best friend getting his soon-to-be wife some flowers. It might be too suspicious to Sora... but it was kind of sweet to have Yamato charm her without noticing.
"What's the plan?"
Taichi grinned evilly that went unnoticed to his friend. Yamato was just simply too occupied with some victorious praise in his head.
"Do you know to what Sora is allergic to?" Taichi leaned closer to whisper into Yamato's ear.
*~*~*~*~*
If it wasn't for the fact that Sora had felt something was quite wrong during her last class, she wouldn't be frowning confusedly the whole time.
Hawk eyes bore into her head like arrows through their prey. Sora would've ignored the intimacy right away. But for some reasons unknown the hawkish eyes kept increasing tenfold whenever she tried to ignore them.
That's why she was sitting stiffly in her seat, while paying attention to her class. The irritating pricking of nervousness found their way across her usually warm skin, giving her goose bumps.
//Damn! Today is really not my day// She thought sourly. Sora stared blankly at the scribbles on certain Literature points. It didn't take a rocker scientist to know whose eyes those had belong to. She imagined an obvious arrow pointing at a certain Ishida student.
//Creep!// She scowled inwardly. Why she'd easily accepted the engagement was beyond her. She was only trying to be nice to him that morning.
Feeling nauseated, she carefully looked over her shoulder. Bad idea.
Mr. Ishida also known as Yamato was GRINNING at her. He was really grinning at her albeit mischievously. That odd twinkle in his eyes gave away how much he was enjoying_enjoying whatever he was really thinking about at the moment.
Sora's face twitched a bit in disgust. Note: A sloppy grin on a dreamy face like Ishida Yamato's face did not match. The guy really looked... out of place.
//I wonder what he's grinning about...// She turned her attention back to the teacher and scowled. //Maybe he's plotting evil... the guy is definitely childish.//
At the farthest corner of the class, Taichi was twitching embarrassedly. Beads of sweatdrops adorned his forehead when he noticed Yamato's expression throughout class.
Some of the other guys were even giving him confused looks. Taichi's Yamato-kun's best friend. Why is he sitting that far from Yamato-kun? It's out of place to see them so apart. They all wondered.
That's easy. Because Taichi wanted to sit as far away from the weird Yamato. What's with the guy and unusual facial expressions?
Taichi didn't really expect Yamato to be so accepting about the weird plan. The guy was definitely inexperienced when it came to personal stuff. Hehehe. Yamato even looked scarier with that Cheshire-car-like grin. Ugh! The guy was thoroughly evil...
Taichi wondered slightly if Takenouchi was going to be just as gullible as Yamato when plan C would be put to work.
He hoped his hard work would be appreciated later on. Maybe he could add some conditions or something. Maybe he should...
"... And now for the cast!" the teacher smiled brightly as she pulled out her notebook.
Taichi snapped out of his current thoughts. He frowned in confusion as low groans reached his ears. Seemed like his fellow-students hated doing something for Literature class. [1]
//What?//
"Oh, don't be such a spoil sport, class! It's fun. it's time to show how good you can act" the teacher remarked excitedly. A young woman dressed in a soft pink uniform. Somehow the pink really did match her profile. The teacher even had a pair of ruby eyes, they somehow reminded him of Takenouchi-san. Her purple hair seemed surprisingly quite soft and well cared of_unlike some of the female teachers he'd known in his past.
//Seemed like I've missed a part of the school program// Taichi raised an eyebrow at his teacher. If the Literature teacher's really hyper or happy, something eeeevil must be lurking in the corners of that notebook of hers. He eyed the notebook warily, maybe even suspiciously...
"But Miss Inoue, what if some of us don't know the story?" one of the girls remarked, smiling nervously or maybe even hopefully at the teacher. She wanted to escape the teacher's wrath. Her friends nodded in agreement.
"Aa, that's no problem. Everyone is getting a copy of this book here" Miss Inoue smiled softly and patted the book on her desk.
The book was really thick... judging from the thickness, it must be around 700+ pages.
Taichi's eyes bugged out. How was he going to read that book?
"But-but-but teacher, what if none of us can finish THAT whole story?" this time one of the guys remarked nervously, maybe even hopelessly.
Miss Inoue just smiled brightly. There was really no way any of her students could understand her methods as the Literature teacher.
"Maybe you're right..." she said mysteriously and eyed the class carefully through her glasses. It never bothered the class that her glasses were a bit too big for her. They actually made her much more mature and yet... maybe even attractive.
"Huh?"
Miss Inoue winked. "Even though you might have a point there I'm still in charge of this activity. In other words I'll writing the script myself. Anyways... let's get back to where I've left off"
She ignored the stares she was getting from her students and flipped through her notebook.
Sora frowned at the teacher's attitude. Something told her that Miss Inoue was more than what she let on. Judging from the way her classmates had reacted_not counting Ishida Yamato_the play might be very... interesting if the teacher wrote something based from THAT thick book. How bad could this play be?
An unconscious smile touched her lips as she felt satisfied with her observation. She might get to like this class after all... Damn that Ishida! Spoiling her fun in sharing most of her favorite classes with him. Damn him!
"...since you're new here I think I've an idea who you're going to be..." Miss Inoue's voice snapped her back to reality.
"What?" Sora voiced her confusion when she looked up, startled that Miss Inoue had taken the time to walk up towards her. She quickly recovered from her temporarily surprise.
The teacher didn't seem to mind that Sora hadn't been paying attention. She just smiled sincerely. What is it with her and the smiles? She looked almost... amused.
"I was saying since you're new here. I think I've an idea who you're going to be in this play..." Miss Inoue scribbled something quickly in her notebook as her voice trailed off. "... how about Melody herself? Yeah, that's a good one. You're Melody from now on. You're the main character. You're the angsty type. You're going to be the heroine in this one. Yeah... yeah... yup. I like the idea"
Sora titled her head in confusion. Miss Inoue was babbling as if she wasn't there... maybe even as if she was talking to one side of her. Before she knew it a pair of red eyes was observing her face.
Suddenly feeling conscious of her looks, Sora flushed and tried not to flinch from the criticizing look Miss Inoue was sending her. She knew she didn't have much of a high opinion on her looks. It was sort of a weakness maybe. Heck. Even the teacher looked pretty, prettier than her even [3].
Noting from the uneasy look Takenouchi-san was sending her, Miss Inoue just smiled reassuringly. "Perfect!" She commented to no one in particular as she clenched her fist in satisfaction. "You're perfect for the role!"
Sora was startled by the teacher's comment. //Perfect?//
"Inoue-sensei?..."
"You're Melody now. As for your counterpart..." Miss Inoue directed her thoughts towards the rest of the class. Students cringed involuntarily. Even though the Literature teacher is nice and all, she could be very picky.
"Ishida-kun! Heheheheh... I know you've your fan club so why not? Even if it's a bit stereotypical. Don't worry. Since I'll be handling the script it might have some unexpected things. So it's not a problem. Since you're the cute one, why not play Ryuu?" Miss Inoue beamed and strode gracefully back to the front of the class.
Having snapped out of his thoughts, Yamato dropped his jaw. "EH?!!! The counterpart?!"
Taichi felt himself smile at that turn of events. Even Takenouchi-san looked shocked.
This was making his plan even more interesting.
He watched as the rest of the girls of his class grumble something out of jealousy about Sora getting the heroine part. It was amusing to see them getting jealous because of the casting and yet... very, very dangerous. Besides no one really had an idea that Takenouchi-san's going to be the soon-to-be Mrs. Ishida. Taichi chuckled to himself, receiving weird looks from the nearby guys from his side of the row.
*~*~*~*~*
"How is she doing?" Mr. Takenouchi asked worriedly. Mr. Takenouchi and Mr. Ishida were discussing the future of both Sora and Yamato.
No matter how hard Mr. Takenouchi had tried to forget the look Sora had had on when she left, he just couldn't help but feel guilty about the whole situation. Sora... she did mention she was in her room the other night. Mr. Takenouchi sighed warily. He wondered if Sora's going under some kind of psychological pressure or something.
Mr. Ishida didn't have to ask whom he was referring. It was quite obvious his best friend had endured some kind of pressure. He, himself, felt piteous about the arrangement. But heck! He had arranged it. He had brought them together! What more did he need to do?
Force them in love? That's... interesting, but not possible.
Suddenly he felt conscious of his actions. Why had he actually made that arrangement?
"She's doing fine according to my resources..." Mr. Ishida answered patiently, expertly erasing his self-consciousness of having done something terrible with both Yamato and Sora's destinies.
Mr. Takenouchi looked skeptical at him and sighed again. "I'm just making sure I've not destroyed Sora's world unintentionally. You should've seen her eyes when she'd agreed that night. It was... not Sora. She looked creepier than I'd expected from her. And besides that she's MY DAUGHTER. I feel as if I don't know her anymore than she knew me." He explained and looked up at Mr. Ishida.
"She's going to be fine. I'm sure you must have figured it out already. My son is a bit... difficult to handle. If she's having it bad here, she could just walk out of this house this instant. I doubt she's really someone who gives up this easily. I've seen the way they glare at one another... it's almost funny to see them like that, you know?" Mr. Ishida assured and chuckled to himself. Mr. Takenouchi frowned lightly at his friend as if he'd never seen him before.
"I'll try to keep her comfortable" Mr. Ishida directed his gaze at his Sora's father. Suddenly he looked old in Mr. Takenouchi's eyes. It was as if loneliness had consumed his youth after all those years living with a son who had more energy than he'd ever had in his time. Mr. Takenouchi wondered if his friend needed a woman figure in his household who might give the younger Ishida the love he never could give after the death of Mrs. Ishida.
"You're a nice man" Mr. Takenouchi commented sincerely, he eyed Mr. Ishida softly. "I believe you're doing the right thing even if a part of me disagree of letting my daughter go like that. It's Yamato, isn't it?"
The composed look crumbled as soon as he'd heard that. Coming from a friend who'd not seen in a long time was quite impressive.
"I do not really worry about my younger son's welfare. Yes..." Mr. Ishida took a deep breath and closed his eyes. "Yes. I feel as if he needs some support. Since Takeru-kun, my younger son, was too young to remember his mother's face, he didn't really grief for her death. Yamato-kun, however, was... close to her. It was like a death blow to him when she lied on her death bed. That time he didn't understand why she'd to leave... but now that he does, he refused to love. It's in his nature I think"
Mr. Ishida took a shaky breath and swallowed nervously. "It's in his nature to love someone and yet... when special people leave_he views it as such_he feels as if they'd abandoned him. It was more like an emotional pain he refused to acknowledge after his mother's death. He just refused to be someone who could easily get to love and be loved."
*~*~*~*~*
"I can't believe I'm stuck with her again!" Yamato complained as soon as he'd bumped into Taichi on his way to his ride home. Taichi bit back a smile. He was very understanding enough not to comment about that. It made his plan a bit easier.
"I'm still here, you know!" Sora retorted. After their last class, she'd been keeping quite a distance from the two just to get out of school. By the way, she also needed a ride back to the Ishida estate so... that's why she's sort of following them.
Yamato threw her a dirty look, not noticing his fan club closing on to them. "It's rude to eavedrop on people's conversation, you know?"
"Look who's talking!" Sora glared, suddenly feeling her anger welling up. She thought she'd left the real Sora in the mirror, but now she was very sure that Sora was still there. Inside of her. Why hadn't she abandoned her real self yet? Maybe it was because of that snob!
"How dare you talk back, Takenouchi!" a new voice broke in. This startled the trio as soon as the voice had neither come out of their throat. To their utter horror they'd found themselves inside a circle of Yamato fans. They'd formed walls around the trio!
They were all Yamato fans indeed. Mean looks adorned their ones love-sick faces. Taichi sighed warily as Yamato panicked inwardly. Sora seemed to be the only one who cringed noticeably under the looks the girls were sending her.
EEP!
>.>.>.>.
End chapter 10
Endnotes: (sorry about the long notes)
1: How do you guys actually call those classes? In my country we take Literature along with the language. Like Dutch class with Dutch Literature, English class with English Literature and Spanish class with Spanish Literature.
2: -_-;; Had no names in mind, so I put Inoue Miyako from Digimon 02 in this chapter.
3: A woman's weakness, I guess. Doesn't anyone feel it whenever people just look at you and you feel conscious of your looks? It's like they're really judging if you're cute, pretty... whatever. *blushes*
scorpion05: ^_^ Thank you for keeping around. I'm trying to finish the fic as soon as possible since I fear you readers will hunt me down till the fic comes to a conclusion. ^_^ As for your questions I haven't thought about Taichi knowing Mimi and such -__-;; I'll think about it. As for the pranks... I'm racking my brains to find a good opportunity. Thank you for reviewing. @-->---
Imagi chan: -_- Aa... one of the negative stuff about my writing. I've no beta-reader and such since I kind of read and correct my own stuff. But I'll try to do some justice with my grammar problem -__-;; I tell others about their grammar errors, but can't seem to find my own. Anyways thank you for reviewing. @-->---
Venursia: *squirms* Gomen, gomen, gomen, gomen... it's still a bit hard to keep the storyline in check once my anonymous muse is pinching me to work on another new fic or work on the other fics. I've a few fics to go, fics that haven't been updated since they last had been published. *blushes* Thank you for keeping around. I'm sorry if it's getting a bit cheesy or corny. I hope this chapter is alright ^___^. Anyways thank you for reviewing. @-->---
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Julieta Perez: You reviewed again? OoO Gee... you guys sound so desperate. ;_; I can't seem to find any good Sorato stories around since I've been a bit far away from the Digimon fandom. I mean I read stories of said pairing just to get into the mood... now I'm not really sure if I can do that. Thank you for reviewing. @-->---
Does anyone know any good Sorato fics? *twiddles her fingers* I'm trying to get into the mood after two weeks or so... -__-; I guess I might be pinned again for being late for updates...
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Chapter: 10
Author: Nekocin
Email: Neko_cin_6@hotmail.com
Disclaimer: characters are not mine. Fic is mine.
Warnings: I forgot to warn everyone on my first chapter -_____-;; Beware of OOC. Oh, it might not be as entertaining as my first few chapters... because I'm trying to be a bit serious. This chapter sounds a bit dramatic for some reasons unknown. Still a bit short.
Author's notes: I'm sorry for taking this long to update. I've been getting more and more new ideas and such. (I'm kind of jumping to one fandom to the other by the way). But I'll try not to dump my fics. I've been thinking about revising this fic, but I guess I just have to finish it first and then revise it just to make it more readable. I feel guilty for leaving you guys hanging a few months ago. Had writer's block again x_X. My first year as a freshman in Senior High is almost about to end. Next week begins our 2nd round repetition and I'm quite a bit nervous since I've 12 subjects. ;_;
So... *gets pinned by forks* O.O;; Okay, okay... I'll stop babbling.
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"What's with the books?"
Taichi looked startled for awhile, but then wiped off his startled look. "Hey, Yamato" he grinned and moved away from the library's door.
Yamato had crossed his arms over his chest and stared incredulously at Taichi. He eyed the books in Taichi's arms suspiciously and looked disapprovingly at Taichi.
"What are you implying here?" Yamato pointed at the books. As Taichi's best friend, Yamato definitely knew the fact Taichi hated reading books. Seeing Taichi with a bundle of thick books was quite suspicious in Yamato's opinion.
Something must have happened to Taichi while he was away from him during lunch.
The world must be coming to and end, because the last time he remembered Taichi putting up a fight when he was forced to read a book.
Taichi smiled. "I'm studying flowers if that's what you're wondering. And it kind of have something to do with our plan E" he whispered mysteriously and cheered inwardly when he saw Yamato's determined look. It just simply meant Yamato would agree to do anything once he heard about their new plan.
//Aa... the wonders what imagination can do// Taichi mused as he pictured his best friend getting his soon-to-be wife some flowers. It might be too suspicious to Sora... but it was kind of sweet to have Yamato charm her without noticing.
"What's the plan?"
Taichi grinned evilly that went unnoticed to his friend. Yamato was just simply too occupied with some victorious praise in his head.
"Do you know to what Sora is allergic to?" Taichi leaned closer to whisper into Yamato's ear.
*~*~*~*~*
If it wasn't for the fact that Sora had felt something was quite wrong during her last class, she wouldn't be frowning confusedly the whole time.
Hawk eyes bore into her head like arrows through their prey. Sora would've ignored the intimacy right away. But for some reasons unknown the hawkish eyes kept increasing tenfold whenever she tried to ignore them.
That's why she was sitting stiffly in her seat, while paying attention to her class. The irritating pricking of nervousness found their way across her usually warm skin, giving her goose bumps.
//Damn! Today is really not my day// She thought sourly. Sora stared blankly at the scribbles on certain Literature points. It didn't take a rocker scientist to know whose eyes those had belong to. She imagined an obvious arrow pointing at a certain Ishida student.
//Creep!// She scowled inwardly. Why she'd easily accepted the engagement was beyond her. She was only trying to be nice to him that morning.
Feeling nauseated, she carefully looked over her shoulder. Bad idea.
Mr. Ishida also known as Yamato was GRINNING at her. He was really grinning at her albeit mischievously. That odd twinkle in his eyes gave away how much he was enjoying_enjoying whatever he was really thinking about at the moment.
Sora's face twitched a bit in disgust. Note: A sloppy grin on a dreamy face like Ishida Yamato's face did not match. The guy really looked... out of place.
//I wonder what he's grinning about...// She turned her attention back to the teacher and scowled. //Maybe he's plotting evil... the guy is definitely childish.//
At the farthest corner of the class, Taichi was twitching embarrassedly. Beads of sweatdrops adorned his forehead when he noticed Yamato's expression throughout class.
Some of the other guys were even giving him confused looks. Taichi's Yamato-kun's best friend. Why is he sitting that far from Yamato-kun? It's out of place to see them so apart. They all wondered.
That's easy. Because Taichi wanted to sit as far away from the weird Yamato. What's with the guy and unusual facial expressions?
Taichi didn't really expect Yamato to be so accepting about the weird plan. The guy was definitely inexperienced when it came to personal stuff. Hehehe. Yamato even looked scarier with that Cheshire-car-like grin. Ugh! The guy was thoroughly evil...
Taichi wondered slightly if Takenouchi was going to be just as gullible as Yamato when plan C would be put to work.
He hoped his hard work would be appreciated later on. Maybe he could add some conditions or something. Maybe he should...
"... And now for the cast!" the teacher smiled brightly as she pulled out her notebook.
Taichi snapped out of his current thoughts. He frowned in confusion as low groans reached his ears. Seemed like his fellow-students hated doing something for Literature class. [1]
//What?//
"Oh, don't be such a spoil sport, class! It's fun. it's time to show how good you can act" the teacher remarked excitedly. A young woman dressed in a soft pink uniform. Somehow the pink really did match her profile. The teacher even had a pair of ruby eyes, they somehow reminded him of Takenouchi-san. Her purple hair seemed surprisingly quite soft and well cared of_unlike some of the female teachers he'd known in his past.
//Seemed like I've missed a part of the school program// Taichi raised an eyebrow at his teacher. If the Literature teacher's really hyper or happy, something eeeevil must be lurking in the corners of that notebook of hers. He eyed the notebook warily, maybe even suspiciously...
"But Miss Inoue, what if some of us don't know the story?" one of the girls remarked, smiling nervously or maybe even hopefully at the teacher. She wanted to escape the teacher's wrath. Her friends nodded in agreement.
"Aa, that's no problem. Everyone is getting a copy of this book here" Miss Inoue smiled softly and patted the book on her desk.
The book was really thick... judging from the thickness, it must be around 700+ pages.
Taichi's eyes bugged out. How was he going to read that book?
"But-but-but teacher, what if none of us can finish THAT whole story?" this time one of the guys remarked nervously, maybe even hopelessly.
Miss Inoue just smiled brightly. There was really no way any of her students could understand her methods as the Literature teacher.
"Maybe you're right..." she said mysteriously and eyed the class carefully through her glasses. It never bothered the class that her glasses were a bit too big for her. They actually made her much more mature and yet... maybe even attractive.
"Huh?"
Miss Inoue winked. "Even though you might have a point there I'm still in charge of this activity. In other words I'll writing the script myself. Anyways... let's get back to where I've left off"
She ignored the stares she was getting from her students and flipped through her notebook.
Sora frowned at the teacher's attitude. Something told her that Miss Inoue was more than what she let on. Judging from the way her classmates had reacted_not counting Ishida Yamato_the play might be very... interesting if the teacher wrote something based from THAT thick book. How bad could this play be?
An unconscious smile touched her lips as she felt satisfied with her observation. She might get to like this class after all... Damn that Ishida! Spoiling her fun in sharing most of her favorite classes with him. Damn him!
"...since you're new here I think I've an idea who you're going to be..." Miss Inoue's voice snapped her back to reality.
"What?" Sora voiced her confusion when she looked up, startled that Miss Inoue had taken the time to walk up towards her. She quickly recovered from her temporarily surprise.
The teacher didn't seem to mind that Sora hadn't been paying attention. She just smiled sincerely. What is it with her and the smiles? She looked almost... amused.
"I was saying since you're new here. I think I've an idea who you're going to be in this play..." Miss Inoue scribbled something quickly in her notebook as her voice trailed off. "... how about Melody herself? Yeah, that's a good one. You're Melody from now on. You're the main character. You're the angsty type. You're going to be the heroine in this one. Yeah... yeah... yup. I like the idea"
Sora titled her head in confusion. Miss Inoue was babbling as if she wasn't there... maybe even as if she was talking to one side of her. Before she knew it a pair of red eyes was observing her face.
Suddenly feeling conscious of her looks, Sora flushed and tried not to flinch from the criticizing look Miss Inoue was sending her. She knew she didn't have much of a high opinion on her looks. It was sort of a weakness maybe. Heck. Even the teacher looked pretty, prettier than her even [3].
Noting from the uneasy look Takenouchi-san was sending her, Miss Inoue just smiled reassuringly. "Perfect!" She commented to no one in particular as she clenched her fist in satisfaction. "You're perfect for the role!"
Sora was startled by the teacher's comment. //Perfect?//
"Inoue-sensei?..."
"You're Melody now. As for your counterpart..." Miss Inoue directed her thoughts towards the rest of the class. Students cringed involuntarily. Even though the Literature teacher is nice and all, she could be very picky.
"Ishida-kun! Heheheheh... I know you've your fan club so why not? Even if it's a bit stereotypical. Don't worry. Since I'll be handling the script it might have some unexpected things. So it's not a problem. Since you're the cute one, why not play Ryuu?" Miss Inoue beamed and strode gracefully back to the front of the class.
Having snapped out of his thoughts, Yamato dropped his jaw. "EH?!!! The counterpart?!"
Taichi felt himself smile at that turn of events. Even Takenouchi-san looked shocked.
This was making his plan even more interesting.
He watched as the rest of the girls of his class grumble something out of jealousy about Sora getting the heroine part. It was amusing to see them getting jealous because of the casting and yet... very, very dangerous. Besides no one really had an idea that Takenouchi-san's going to be the soon-to-be Mrs. Ishida. Taichi chuckled to himself, receiving weird looks from the nearby guys from his side of the row.
*~*~*~*~*
"How is she doing?" Mr. Takenouchi asked worriedly. Mr. Takenouchi and Mr. Ishida were discussing the future of both Sora and Yamato.
No matter how hard Mr. Takenouchi had tried to forget the look Sora had had on when she left, he just couldn't help but feel guilty about the whole situation. Sora... she did mention she was in her room the other night. Mr. Takenouchi sighed warily. He wondered if Sora's going under some kind of psychological pressure or something.
Mr. Ishida didn't have to ask whom he was referring. It was quite obvious his best friend had endured some kind of pressure. He, himself, felt piteous about the arrangement. But heck! He had arranged it. He had brought them together! What more did he need to do?
Force them in love? That's... interesting, but not possible.
Suddenly he felt conscious of his actions. Why had he actually made that arrangement?
"She's doing fine according to my resources..." Mr. Ishida answered patiently, expertly erasing his self-consciousness of having done something terrible with both Yamato and Sora's destinies.
Mr. Takenouchi looked skeptical at him and sighed again. "I'm just making sure I've not destroyed Sora's world unintentionally. You should've seen her eyes when she'd agreed that night. It was... not Sora. She looked creepier than I'd expected from her. And besides that she's MY DAUGHTER. I feel as if I don't know her anymore than she knew me." He explained and looked up at Mr. Ishida.
"She's going to be fine. I'm sure you must have figured it out already. My son is a bit... difficult to handle. If she's having it bad here, she could just walk out of this house this instant. I doubt she's really someone who gives up this easily. I've seen the way they glare at one another... it's almost funny to see them like that, you know?" Mr. Ishida assured and chuckled to himself. Mr. Takenouchi frowned lightly at his friend as if he'd never seen him before.
"I'll try to keep her comfortable" Mr. Ishida directed his gaze at his Sora's father. Suddenly he looked old in Mr. Takenouchi's eyes. It was as if loneliness had consumed his youth after all those years living with a son who had more energy than he'd ever had in his time. Mr. Takenouchi wondered if his friend needed a woman figure in his household who might give the younger Ishida the love he never could give after the death of Mrs. Ishida.
"You're a nice man" Mr. Takenouchi commented sincerely, he eyed Mr. Ishida softly. "I believe you're doing the right thing even if a part of me disagree of letting my daughter go like that. It's Yamato, isn't it?"
The composed look crumbled as soon as he'd heard that. Coming from a friend who'd not seen in a long time was quite impressive.
"I do not really worry about my younger son's welfare. Yes..." Mr. Ishida took a deep breath and closed his eyes. "Yes. I feel as if he needs some support. Since Takeru-kun, my younger son, was too young to remember his mother's face, he didn't really grief for her death. Yamato-kun, however, was... close to her. It was like a death blow to him when she lied on her death bed. That time he didn't understand why she'd to leave... but now that he does, he refused to love. It's in his nature I think"
Mr. Ishida took a shaky breath and swallowed nervously. "It's in his nature to love someone and yet... when special people leave_he views it as such_he feels as if they'd abandoned him. It was more like an emotional pain he refused to acknowledge after his mother's death. He just refused to be someone who could easily get to love and be loved."
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"I can't believe I'm stuck with her again!" Yamato complained as soon as he'd bumped into Taichi on his way to his ride home. Taichi bit back a smile. He was very understanding enough not to comment about that. It made his plan a bit easier.
"I'm still here, you know!" Sora retorted. After their last class, she'd been keeping quite a distance from the two just to get out of school. By the way, she also needed a ride back to the Ishida estate so... that's why she's sort of following them.
Yamato threw her a dirty look, not noticing his fan club closing on to them. "It's rude to eavedrop on people's conversation, you know?"
"Look who's talking!" Sora glared, suddenly feeling her anger welling up. She thought she'd left the real Sora in the mirror, but now she was very sure that Sora was still there. Inside of her. Why hadn't she abandoned her real self yet? Maybe it was because of that snob!
"How dare you talk back, Takenouchi!" a new voice broke in. This startled the trio as soon as the voice had neither come out of their throat. To their utter horror they'd found themselves inside a circle of Yamato fans. They'd formed walls around the trio!
They were all Yamato fans indeed. Mean looks adorned their ones love-sick faces. Taichi sighed warily as Yamato panicked inwardly. Sora seemed to be the only one who cringed noticeably under the looks the girls were sending her.
EEP!
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End chapter 10
Endnotes: (sorry about the long notes)
1: How do you guys actually call those classes? In my country we take Literature along with the language. Like Dutch class with Dutch Literature, English class with English Literature and Spanish class with Spanish Literature.
2: -_-;; Had no names in mind, so I put Inoue Miyako from Digimon 02 in this chapter.
3: A woman's weakness, I guess. Doesn't anyone feel it whenever people just look at you and you feel conscious of your looks? It's like they're really judging if you're cute, pretty... whatever. *blushes*
scorpion05: ^_^ Thank you for keeping around. I'm trying to finish the fic as soon as possible since I fear you readers will hunt me down till the fic comes to a conclusion. ^_^ As for your questions I haven't thought about Taichi knowing Mimi and such -__-;; I'll think about it. As for the pranks... I'm racking my brains to find a good opportunity. Thank you for reviewing. @-->---
Imagi chan: -_- Aa... one of the negative stuff about my writing. I've no beta-reader and such since I kind of read and correct my own stuff. But I'll try to do some justice with my grammar problem -__-;; I tell others about their grammar errors, but can't seem to find my own. Anyways thank you for reviewing. @-->---
Venursia: *squirms* Gomen, gomen, gomen, gomen... it's still a bit hard to keep the storyline in check once my anonymous muse is pinching me to work on another new fic or work on the other fics. I've a few fics to go, fics that haven't been updated since they last had been published. *blushes* Thank you for keeping around. I'm sorry if it's getting a bit cheesy or corny. I hope this chapter is alright ^___^. Anyways thank you for reviewing. @-->---
mizuki no yume: *blushes* You think so? I'm glad... although it might get a bit 'off' here and there. I just hope this chapter does its justice to your interest. ^___^ Anyways thank you for reviewing. @-->---
Serene Faerie: ^^;; So I assume you 'like' it? Thank you for reviewing ^_^. @-->---
Julieta Perez: O.O;; You like it too *drops jaw* Now I'm worried about the ending >_>;; I can't seem to have an idea HOW to make it a bit more in depth instead of useless humour. But I really am glad you're excited. Thank you for reviewing. @-->---
Julieta Perez: You reviewed again? OoO Gee... you guys sound so desperate. ;_; I can't seem to find any good Sorato stories around since I've been a bit far away from the Digimon fandom. I mean I read stories of said pairing just to get into the mood... now I'm not really sure if I can do that. Thank you for reviewing. @-->---
Does anyone know any good Sorato fics? *twiddles her fingers* I'm trying to get into the mood after two weeks or so... -__-; I guess I might be pinned again for being late for updates...
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