Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Taste of life ❯ Chapter 3 ( Chapter 3 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

Disclaimer: I don't own these characters. They're not mine. Only the fic belongs to me, but not the characters [Oh, I forgot something to tell you guys Kenichi, Hiroshi, Mr. Takenouchi, Mrs. Takenouchi, Mr. Kanzaki and Mr. Ishida are my own characters. Sora and Yamato's parents aren't from the anime.] End of story!

Taste of life
chapter 3
by: Nekocin

Author's notes:

Sam: Sorry for taking sooo long with the Sorato introduction. Thanks for the review and ... ::gasps:: Nooo! XD You've used the puppy eyes ^_^'

Rizza426: ^-^' Well, that's how I've portrayed him. So he's kinda OOC, but since this is an AU no one can stop me from writing how he WILL become! Like in this chapter >:D He's evil!!! VERY VERY evil IMAO! >: P. ^-^' Sorry, didn't mean to tell you what's going to be in this chapter.. Thanks for the review.

Venursia: I hope I've already answered both your questions here ^_^. Do you really have a lot of questions in mind? I suppose I've already seen that coming... -_- since I'm taking this fanfic a little slooooow.
Anyways, I think if you want some answers you have to read the upcoming chapters too ^-^. Thanks for the review.

Icey Nightshade: ^-^' Hehehehe... Was he really that scary/mad? I really didn't mean to make him like that on purpose, hence the short notice that fans shouldn't come stabbing me when I'm not even in the middle of my fic to explain why he's... @_@ weird/mad. ^-^' He WILL become normal... but not yet_ oh, shoot, I'll stop chattering before all my plans are on this notice ^-^. You just have to wait for the next few chapters... and thanks for the quick review ^_^.

Here's chapter 3 and sorry for taking sooo long with the introduction. Here's where the SORATO come in. The one you've all been waiting for, am I right? >:D TADAAA!
::crosses fingers:: hope it's good or NOT THAT BAD.

// ... // thoughts

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Kenichi watched as Yamato was preparing himself to receive the 'new guest' in their house. He had noticed that Yamato was practically acting normal the whole morning when he woke up. The boy was doing his usual routines like waking up late, grumbling around and then getting a bath before heading down for breakfast.

The mysterious aura which he had been giving off was suddenly... gone? Or was it just tensing up? What happened to those creepy grins and that freaky voice changing tone of the young master? Was he battling himself inwardly or something? Taichi was also preparing himself, but was actually the only one besides Mr. Ishida who's thrilled that the day when Yamato's soon-to-be wife is coming over.

"Kenichi! Are the roses ready?" Kenichi snapped out of his thoughts when Mr. Ishida called him.

"YES, SIR! They're in the hall...!" Kenichi answered and noticed Yamato was frowning.

"Roses? What are they for?" Yamato asked and Kenichi simply shrugged.

"Master had asked for red roses... maybe trying to please the girl..."

"Oh..." was Yamato response and mumbled something under his breath. Kenichi didn't ask what he'd said and gave Yamato his jacket.

"YAMA! Are you ready?" Taichi shouted and burst into the room.

"Sure... It's show time, my friend..." Yamato grinned and Taichi's smile fell.

"Huh?"

"You know..." Yamato brushed past Kenichi and dragged Taichi along.

*.*.*.*.*

A carriage was heading into the Ishida estates grounds. That's no doubt, the carriage that was sent by Mr. Ishida to pick Sora up early that morning. Sora's parents couldn't really bear letting their daughter go, but they gave in when Sora didn't cry out in frustration. They'd noticed she was spacing herself out and some time ago they'd caught her smiling strangely when there was really nothing to smile about.

"We're here, Miss Takenouchi..." someone knocked on the roof of the carriage and her eyes shot open. She must have fallen asleep while they were heading to Ishida's mansion.

"What?" she looked confused and stuck her head out of the window.

"WELCOME! WELCOME!" A loud and deep voice startled her and almost fell over the window. She'd luckily regained her balance and stepped out of the carriage.

She looked at the small crowd who were obviously receiving her.
"How was your ride, miss Takenouchi? I hope it wasn't THAT bad since you were always used to going on foot, right?" The man with a cheesy grin in front of her said and she shook her head.

"Erhm... right, let me introduce myself... I'm Mr. Ishida, your father's childhood friend..."

"It's nice meeting you, sir. I'm Takenouchi Sora." Sora responded politely. //So this is Mr. Ishida...// She narrowed her clouded eyes and observed the man. He was around his forties or fifties, but seemed to be in a good shape. He had a few gray hair and was neither too slim nor too fat.

"And this is my son Ishida Yamato..." Mr. Ishida snapped her out of her thoughts as he gestured to the boy with the piercing blue eyes. He gave her a nod and pouted suddenly. Sora blinked a few times... what happened? Was the boy a little... uhm... crazy?

Mr. Ishida had given his son a glare when Yamato didn't make a move to step forward or something. He just nodded, which is surprisingly quite impolite in Mr. Ishida's opinion. One shouldn't greet the young lady like that after all.

Yamato pouted. Damn his father. Why can't he just distance himself from the girl? She seems so plain... normal with his greeting. He sighed inwardly and felt defeated by his father again.

He walked forward to the confused-looking Sora and groaned inwardly... the girl is an airhead. He's going to marry an air headed person! The fury is heating up inside him and before he knew it, he'd cleared those thoughts away and grinned unsuspected... he noticed Taichi froze when he saw the grin on his face. He couldn't care less about what Taichi's going to complain.
"Ishida Yamato" he said bluntly and extended his hand.

Sora smiled, her eyes weren't picking up her smile and just stared at the boy in front of her.
//This is bad... he looks older than me...// [1] she groaned inwardly and accepted the handshake.

"Well then..." Mr. Ishida cleared his throat after their hands were quickly pulled away.
A sneer was formed on Yamato's lips, but Sora didn't notice the dark looks she was getting from the other boy.

"Yagami Taichi! I'm Yama's best friend!" came the cheerful answer and the boy stepped forward. He bowed down dramatically, ignoring the horrid looks he was getting from his best friend [2].

What the hell is his friend doing?!! They had been practicing for this day and he just came out of nowhere making a move to his soon-to-be wife.
//At least this one isn't that tense as Mr. Ishida's son...// Sora thought and returned a little bow.

"Kenichi here is our butler, Hiroshi here is our cook..." Mr. Ishida gestured to the two men.

Sora noted that Kenichi must have been working for the Ishida family for quite a long time. He could have been her father or so to say, because the gray bangs matched her father's hair.

Kenichi bowed slightly and smiled. She noticed the sad gleam in his dark eyes and wondered if he was getting tired of working as the head servant. Hiroshi on the other hand was just as cheerful-looking as Taichi and grinned. He bowed slightly too and grinned again. The cook must be quite eager for her arrival... why... she didn't know.

A few younger-looking servants were being introduced and they seemed to be the only ones who weren't aware of the tension which was rising. They'd greeted the 'new guest' cheerfully, more cheerfully than Taichi. Sora had to admit she liked these servants, they were joking around, pushing each other playfully... ignoring the glares they were receiving from both their masters and Kenichi.

It seems like a boring introduction to Taichi. He'd noticed that all along. Everyone was really tensing up when they'd met the girl. She was just as creepy as his friend Yamato, because she was giving them the ghostly smile and those colorless eyes. He shuddered when he compared those two together, but was surprised that the mysterious aura around her was gone as soon as she met those goofy servants.

He blinked a few times and wondered... what had happened? He shrugged. He just hoped that Mr. Ishida isn't going to fire them because of their goofy behaviour in front of the girl. Besides she doesn't seem THAT bad for a young bride... Ugh... he has to clear those thoughts RIGHT now, before his Yamato is going to kill him.

Kenichi watched as the girl was led by one of the new servant girls who was going to be serving Sora from then on. He had to admit that she must have had a rough time too. Getting married at this age... now he pitied the girl also.

Then it hit him when he'd almost forgotten that the young master had something in his mind a few days ago. That creepy grin appeared on the young master's face and vanished.
Kenichi frowned... did those two boys meant about this time? The show... or something? He wondered and followed the others after their masters went into the house first.

"She doesn't seemed to be THAT bad as I've imagined..." one of the servants snapped Kenichi out of his thoughts and glanced at the young servants, who were hoping to get a comment from their head servant about Sora.

"I'm sure she's just in her shell once she got here. She must be not used to living in a stranger's house... who can blame her? In my opinion she seems a little_ disturbed about the whole thing here." Hiroshi admitted as he went back to his daily chores.

Kenichi watched them chatter away and rubbed his chin before rubbing his temples again. How is he going to describe her? Creepy? Normal? Strange? Air headed? Disturbed... any more words? Now he has to worry about what the young master was ACTUALLY planning to do. He spotted the big bush of red roses and gasped.
"We forgot to give her the roses!!" he grabbed the flowers and rushed up the stairs, heading towards the guestroom in which Sora was staying.

*.*.*.*.*

"It's time..." Yamato suddenly grinned when both he and Taichi hid themselves in Yamato's room. Yamato was playing with his tie and walked up and down nervously. Taichi was watching him walk from one place to another and sighed.

"When is she going to notice it...?"

"Yama... I don't really think it's a good idea to..."

"It hasn't started yet and you already think it's a bad idea. Of course it's a good idea! She's worst what I've in mind. I thought she would just be a plain normal village girl wearing weird clothes and stuff... but it seems she's worst. She's an airhead! I can tell! She's really and air head!" Yamato poked his index finger on his friend's chest.

Taichi winced. "I think she's... different. I mean... when I looked at her, I've noticed she's just as troubled as you are. She's even given me that weird smile when you threatened me to become your witness... why don't you give her a chance or something?"

"Great! Now you're siding HER. How many times must I tell you that she's after my money!! What kind of friend are you?!" Yamato spat,

Taichi noticed his face was reddening of anger. "Calm down, calm down Yama... okay, okay, okay... I'll just wait and watch what will happen. And if anything goes wrong, you've really no way out."
Taichi sighed.

"Hey! What happened to the roses?" Taichi wondered. Taichi raised an eye brow and shrugged. "It's really not going to please her, I guess..."

*.*.*.*.*

Sora's new room was quite twice the size of her own trusted bedroom. It had beautiful red curtains and a king-size bed with light red bed sheets. //How did he know I like red?// she thought to herself and studied her new room. It has a big wardrobe with a lot of beautiful dresses.

"Too beautiful to wear" she muttered under her breath and looked at the balcony next to her room. What's the hissing sound doing in this picture she wondered. That sound had been disturbing her as soon as she was observing her room.

She leant over to look how high she was and how big the Ishida's lands were. A gasp escaped from her mouth and looked at the wonderful landscape in front of her. You can practically watch the sunset from her balcony. Sora spotted a beautiful exotic garden and smiled.

"They have a really beautiful garden..." She turned her glance back to her room when she heard a knock on her door.

Kenichi was panting in front of her and gave her the big bush of roses.
"This is for you... as a welcome gift..." he gasped a few times for fresh air and breathed heavily. Sora blinked a few times and accepted the roses.

"Please come in..." she gestured to him and side stepped to let him pass.

"Oh no... Miss Takenouchi... I've to go back to work... and the young master might not like it that..." Kenichi said quickly.

"Figures... because I'm younger than him..." Sora rolled her eyes as she put the roses on a nearby chair.

"What?" Kenichi blinked, confused about her answer and wondered if she actually knew what she was talking about.

Before he knew it, Sora had passed a cup of tea in his hands.
"Here... this might help. It's really not a good idea that you've to run down the halls just to give me these roses. I really appreciate it that you really have come all this way here... thank you" Sora smiled. Kenichi noticed a real smile was plastered on her face; her eyes were getting the actual color again.

She couldn't help but take Kenichi as her father... the same old appearances; almost the same attitudes even though she'd just met him. Even if she's in a new strange world, she felt herself relax around Kenichi.

Kenichi looked confused at her and accepted the cup. //There's something about her... what is missing in this picture?// he wondered. Kenichi felt a shiver coming up over his spine. Was the young master planning about something nasty to Sora? And what is that hissing sound...

Sora watched Kenichi drink his cup slowly and can't help but smile.
"May I ask you a question, sir?" she asked nervously, while playing with her fingers. "Yes, my lady... and please call me Kenichi, everyone does..." Kenichi responded and looked up at the nervous-looking girl.

"H-h-how did Mr. Ishida know that I love the color red? Everything here in this room is practically red... I haven't really met him before, so how...?" Kenichi was silent for a while and looked around. The whole room was really red.

"I don't know, my lady... he'd just ordered us to put red curtains, red sheets, red tapestries and some red dresses in here... and the roses were actually my master's idea. While the young master had asked for the ringmaster and..." Kenichi quickly clamped his hand over his mouth.

Sora looked confused at Kenichi and looked at the roses. Then it hit her... what about that secret admirer of hers? She pulled on the tag and was surprised that it contained a poem also.
//It must be a coincidence...//

Something moved under the red sheets of her new bed and it caught Sora's attention. She frowned and blinked a few times. It looked as if her bed sheets were moving... that couldn't be.
Kenichi froze when he caught the sight of something moving under the sheets. He narrowed his eyes to take a better look. He wanted to take a look at what was under the sheets, but Sora had beaten him to it.

She pulled the covers away and her face paled. Her eyes widened and she gasped. This caught Kenichi off guard and gasped also. Sora shrieked and threw the sheets back. Both Kenichi and Sora jumped backwards... the hissing sound was getting louder. A head appeared from under the sheets and the eyes narrowed at the sight of the two beings in front of it.

Both Kenichi and Sora gasped as soon as they saw the head coming out from under the bed sheet. Their hearts were throbbing madly as they backed away. More small heads appeared and tongues making that hissing noise. So that's where the hissing came from...

"W-w-what are those snakes doing there?" Sora managed to get that answer out of her mouth.

"I-I-I have no idea... my lady..." He eventually understood what was going on.

"The young master!" he gasped, not even paying attention as Sora approached the snakes carefully. She shuddered a few times as she approached them, feeling the goose bumps and her hair on her neck was standing on end. She had to get rid of those snakes...

"My lady! What are you doing?!" Kenichi called. One of the snakes shot forward, fangs ready to bite someone and was heading towards Sora's arm...

*.*.*.*.*

Yamato was grinning. The creepy gleam was getting bigger in his eyes. He began to laugh maniacally as his friend Taichi sweatdropped.

"What's up with you?"

"Haven't you been listening?" Yamato grinned, Taichi shuddered when he caught Yamato's gaze.

"The shriek..." Yamato began to laugh again.

//This is really not good// Taichi thought to himself and he was getting worried already. What if his friend is really going to get crazy all the sudden? What if he's really out of his mind after that news... he IS actually out of his mind RIGHT now. The creepy aura is enveloping the usual Yamato he'd known for years. The news MUST have shocked his poor friend... and what about the girl?

>.>.>.>.

End chapter 3

Author's notes:

1: There's nothing wrong with this thought here XP
2: Uhm... It's still going to stay SORATO in the end. So it's not going to be confusing.

::gasps:: I can't believe I'm turning the whole thing all the way around >:< That's NOT a good sign! I mean this fic is supposed to be Sora centric and then Yamato centric or whatever they call it. And gee... I'm kinda rushing, huh? I'm sorry for the rush. And I really don't like this whole plot...-_- it seems a little_bad. I've really tried to make the encounter a little tensing... but not really threatening. It's quite impolite to do so -_-, that's why this chapter is kinda_ weird-_- and uptight. I'll try my best next chapter! I hope you're not losing interest in my first Digimon fanfic here.

=^_^=cin