Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Taste of life ❯ Chapter 11 ( Chapter 12 )

Taste of life
Chapter: 11
Author: Nekocin
Email: Neko [dash] cin [dash] 6 @ hotmail [dot] com
Disclaimer: characters are not mine. Fic is mine.
Warnings: OOC, weirdness
Author's notes: *surrenders* Okay, I know I've no right to explain myself *eyes her readers -if there any around - guiltily* I've been away way too long. But compared to my Gundam Wing fanfictions, this Digimon fanfiction is in luck... sort of ^^;; And some of the parts don't make much sense to me. *sweatdrops* This is pretty short.

Chapter 11:

"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 eavesdrop 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 once 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!

"Uhm..." Sora opened her mouth to say... something, anything!

"Takenouchi, show some respect, will you?" one of the girls demanded.

"Uh..." She looked at the guys for some help, but neither ones were looking at her. Taichi was observing the fan club absently while Ishida looked as if he stood rooted to the floor.

"You're standing next to HIM!"

Sora didn't have to guess who's the HIM.

Yamato felt mortified. His fans were here, Sora's here... and Taichi too. He didn't know whom he hated best, his fans or his soon-to-be wife or his stupid best friend. They were all making him nauseous: his fans for being his fans -squealing fans-, Takenouchi for being the soon-to-be wife with a bad attitude and Taichi? Taichi's a dork! That guy couldn't even warn him before he got surrounded by his fans! And then there's also the issue with Takeru, and the damn Neko-chan! And his father! And-

"..." Sora kept silent, waiting for them to continue. Her attention shifted to one girl to another, bored somehow.

"Don't just stand there! Say you're sorry!" probably the head of the club said irritably.

"... what has that got to do with you all ganging up against me?" she wondered out loud.

"As a loyal fan of Yamato-sama, I cannot allow you to speak in such a manner to him" the head proudly used her no-nonsense voice to prove her point... which didn't prove anything to Sora.

From the corner of Sora's eyes, Ishida went beet red because of the girl's obvious way-too-embarrassing praise. If the guy hadn't been such a jerk, she would have thought him as cute and shy. But that's not the problem right now.

"So you're saying-" that I've to apologize to that jerk?, Sora let out a meek questioning smile, looking uncharacteristically dense in Taichi's opinion.

"Precisely!" The head of Yamato's fan club exclaimed, her eyes glinting in delight.

Oh my god, she could read people's minds!

"And if-" I don't want to. She tried again, her eyes wide in innocence.

Taichi didn't know what Sora was trying to accomplish, but it was kind of amusing to see her act like that. Maybe having Sora as Yamato's counterpart in the play was a very good, no, brilliant idea. All he had to do is... probably make either of them fall in love. He hoped his plan will work... it HAS to.
Hmmm... he's looking forward to flowers floating in the air, or maybe violins in his ears, or maybe birds singing some cheesy nonsense melody, or maybe- Gah! He's going to strangle Yamato for dragging him into such a situation..., when he's done with playing the matchmaker that is. His friend couldn't even act his age once Sora moved in. He's issues. Period.

"Then of course my members will make your life H-" Hell. The head of the fan club immediately brought her hand to her mouth and nervously looked around.

Sora looked thoughtful for a while and sighed slowly. "Do you want a deal or something?"

"Huh?"

A strange sort of grin appeared on her face as she opened her eyes. "You know, a deal. You sound like someone who has done this many, many times before"
Taichi dropped his thoughtful look and blinked at Sora. Yamato sent her a sharp look immediately.

"...oh, well yes." the girl was flustered as shifted her weight to her other foot, looking uncomfortably.

Sora gave her a suggestive look.
Almost as evil as Neko-chan's looks, Yamato shuddered slightly at the thought. Oh god! He's going to get married to humanly-built Neko-chan. Wait~ what's he thinking? He cannot marry her; COULD NOT! It's out of the question, he needed to drive her away quickly before she poisoned his mind subtly. EVIL. She's evil!

"Tell you what, you all can have a date with Yamato-sama here before he gets married" she blurted out carelessly, not seemingly bothered when she mentioned something personal in public.

"REALLY?!" The girls exclaimed, looking hopefully.

"WHAT?" Both Yamato and Taichi exclaimed, their eyes resembling big dinner plates for some strange reason.

"ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!" Yamato raised his voice above his fans' squeals.

"YOU CAN'T EXPECT ME TO DATE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM BEFORE MY WEDDING!"

"I thought you didn't care about the wedding" Sora said carefully, surprised at Yamato's outburst. It wasn't really a joke; she had wanted him to date them. Really. Since the guy seemed to hate her guts, she'd decided to set him up with his fan club... they seemed to be very decent people.

"YOU'RE RIGHT! I DON'T. BUT YOU CAN'T JUST GO ANNOUNCING THAT I'M AVAILABLE BEFORE I'M HOOKED UP!"

"I-..."

"HOW COULD YOU BE SO UNFEELING?"

Erhm... that's not the right word to call Sora, but Taichi couldn't have said it better. Probably because he was not the one who's getting dates out of the blue. He watched from the sidelines as Yamato started ranting and raving in front of his fan club. How amusing.

Sora looked as if she'd just realized her error, surprised and shocked. While the Yamato fan club...

Whoops. Yamato mentioned the 'W' word.

The fan club cringed under the voice, their eyes widening at the 'W' word.

"What are you talking about?"

"Wedding?"

"What wedding?"

"Is Yamato-sama going to get married?"

"You never mentioned you were engaged!"

"To whom?"

"Is she any good?"

"You've been deceiving us all this time!" one of the fan girls pointed an accusing finger at Yamato. She looked both angry and hurt. Some way or another the fan club focused their glares on Yamato.

"So that's why you're wearing that ring!"

"Cheater!"

"Tell us who this wife of yours is!"

Sora looked at the fan club and then at the horrified-looking Ishida. It's kind of strange, and sad to say the least. Ishida probably didn't deserve her careless thinking. Hm. Come to think of it, no one deserved it. She's just being cruel because she couldn't get back to being normal, a commoner. Her feelings suddenly clashed.
Damn! Sora's really back!

All Ishida's fault. It's all his fault! Sora closed her eyes and clenched her fists angrily. He didn't have to make her feel guilty about doing him a favor!

"... It's no one's business!" Sora bit out through gritted teeth, glaring at Ishida suddenly. Her anger intensified her once-lifeless red eyes, making them look like a pair of flaming rubies; they would probably put the real rubies to shame. She's ANGRY. She didn't know with whom she's angry at, her soon-to-be husband or the fan girls... Taichi didn't count, since he hadn't done anything. Silently, she wondered why she was being a bit... over-concerned of the little error she'd done without thinking.

Hell. She's protecting Ishida's scrawny ass here!

The fan girls ignored her. They wanted a straight answer from their God [Yamato].

Without any thought or whatsoever Sora stomped towards Taichi, grabbed him by his wrist ["Hey-!"] and dragged him along towards... Ishida. Their eyes clashed in colors and before either Ishida knew it Sora had already grabbed him by his wrist ["What the-?"].

"Come on! We're late" She growled uncharacteristically to Ishida as she dragged the boys along.

She stopped for a moment.

"What's wrong?" Taichi wondered.

Sora turned around and... scrutinized the fan girls with an even eviler glare. "Don't even dare" she spoke threateningly, referring to the girls following them for answers that were not of importance at the moment.
At least the girls were rational enough to cower at the sight of an evil -b*tch- like Sora, and at least they understood those words clearly...
Sora's way too scary when she's eviler than the evil she'd once shown to the boys, Taichi concluded.

He smirked suddenly and looked at his best friend. Sora saved him... a crooked smile appeared on his face. Hmpf. His friend needed a woman to stand up for him? How fortunate and unfortunate. Maybe they can get hook up without his interference...

Nah! He'll play his part anyways. Muahwahaha.

"I can't believe that just happened" A dumbstruck Taichi commented as they headed for their intended ride, a crooked smile playing on his lips.
Yamato grunted something under his breath, glaring at no one in particular. His cheeks were still red... hmmm, maybe it's because of his mood swings getting the better of him these last few days.

Taichi frowned at his friend, but then turned his gaze to Sora. She looked slightly pale, but relieved at the same time. They'd barely escaped the clutches of Yamato's fan club if it hadn't been for her...

"... Me neither" she mutters softly and sends Yamato an unreadable look. Concern and guilt flashed in her softened red eyes. Maybe she shouldn't have said that... because she's actually the one who made matters worse.

Isn't it?

End chapter 11

Endnotes:

I thank those who have read the story up till this story -and still like it-. Truthfully, for some reasons I think this story is not so satisfying as I'd hoped for in the beginning. And as you see, my style is dropping even -_-;;

=^_^=cin