Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Taste of life ❯ Chapter 4 ( Chapter 4 )

[ 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, Rika, 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 4
by: Nekocin

Author's notes:

I'm quite sorry for being sooo late with this chapter, since I'm quite occupied with exams -_- Anyways... Heck it's quite strange that after doing one exam I've great ideas for the following chapters ^_^;;; today happened to be English exam -_-'
Here's chapter 4. This chapter might be confusing too.

Rizza426: Well... you just have to read this chapter if Sora's either bitten or not bitten. It seems that these characters are kinda OOC, -_- I should've known that Yamato was quite a major OOC in my fic since everyone seems to find him freaky -_-' He's actually supposed to be like that in this fic of mine ^_^' but I'll assure you that everything is going to be fine... and a little confusing too. Thanks for reviewing ^_^.

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"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. Sora was shocked and felt herself paralyzed all the sudden. The snake shot forward to her arm and she shrieked again. Kenichi looked horrified and gasped as soon as he looked at his arm.
"Mr. Kenichi!!" Sora gasped as she noticed what had happened. Kenichi had pushed her away and was bitten instead. The snake didn't let go as its fangs were deepening themselves into the servant's skin. He stumbled backwards and pulled the damn snake away, gasping for breath.

Sora looked horrified at him and then at the bed. Without a second thought she curled the mattress carefully up and gasped a few times when one of the snakes tried to bite her.

"W-what are you doing, my lady?..." Kenichi said weakly and dropped down on the nearby chair.

"Disposing this thing here! Whoever put them on this bed must be nuts!" Sora spat furiously.

"RIKA!!! GET ME SOME WARM WATER NOW!!!" She called the servant girl. Now she was definitely angry. What kind of people would welcome their guests with poisonous snakes on the bed? It's definitely not funny... Sora tore the big curtains up and began to wrap it around the whole mattress as careful as she could.

After doing that she rushed toward Kenichi who was was holding the arm painfully. Rika gasped when she looked at the bloodied arm and the snake, which had just gotten escaped. She shrieked when the snake approached her. She'd almost dropped the warm water and gasped again when Sora had hit the snake with the table leg continuously [1].

Rika passed Sora, looking horrified and relieved at the same time. "What happened...?" she asked carefully and took one look at the messy room. The curtains were torn away from the windows, the mattress was totally enveloped by the red curtains and what was that hissing sound? Are there more snakes in here? She wondered and looked at the fallen table. Sora had broken the leg just to hit that snake on its head.

"Snakes..." Sora muttered and took a deep breath before heading back to Kenichi's side.

He began to breath heavily and tried his hardest not to fall unconscious. Sora took a good look at the bite wound and sucked the blood up carefully. Kenichi throat went dry when he watched Sora sucking the infected blood out of his veins and than spat it out on the floor. What was she doing? He wondered and watched her tear up a piece of her dress. Rika cleaned his wound and used the piece of cloth as a bandage.

"Where did those snakes come from?" Rika asked and Sora looked at her.

"The question is WHO put them there!" Sora cut in.

"Well... it's definitely not me, my lady" Rika said slowly.

Kenichi looked at his wound for a minute and sighed. "I think it's the young master's doing..."

"The young master? But...why?" Rika wondered and glanced at the mattress.

"I see... " Sora helped Kenichi to stand up and glanced at the mess she'd made.

"It must have been just a prank or something..."

"Please don't mind the young master. He'd been acting very *strange* lately for last few days after the master had talked about the marriage. I mean very very *strange*. He needs time to accept it..." Kenichi said quickly.

"I understand... well, do you need some help with some chores I can help... but after I clean up this mess I've made and thrash those snakes..." Sora smiled brightly for the first time ever since she'd arrived.

"No... no, that's all right. I've enough people around here who can help me" Kenichi said quickly as he held his injured arm.

"Rika, call the others to clean this mess up" Rika nodded and ran out of the room.

"I'll take my leave, my lady" Kenichi said carefully and went out of the room.

Sora heaved a sigh of relief and glanced at the mattress. "THAT wasn't a nice thing to do, Mr. the young master!" she snorted and went to the balcony. "If only..." she said under her breath and looked around.
There were several small balconies above her head and she wondered if she could have a talk with this young master about his *prank*. She picked her dress up and wanted to climb on the shrubs, which were attached to the walls.

"What are you doing, my lady!!" Rika gasped as she pulled her back.

*.*.*.*.*

Yamato was walking down the halls with a smirk on his face while putting his hands in his pockets. Taichi was walking besides him with a big sweatdrop plastered above his head. When will that creepy smile fade Taichi wondered as Yamato began to hum some kind of unknown song... maybe a made up one.

Sometimes he wished he could find some kind of eraser to scrub that damn creepy smile off Yamato's face. Taichi had a mental image of him scrubbing Yamato's smile away with a sponge in mind. It would be so... freaking... funny. But... he can never do that since Yamato is his best friend even if he's freaky.

He dropped his shoulders and wondered about their new guest. //How is she anyways?// he thought worriedly. He just hopes the injuries weren't so bad. Besides it was actually Yamato's idea and he was just dragged into it. He felt guilty all the sudden that Yamato isn't such an open-minded person. He just doesn't trust people so easily and Taichi can't blame him for that.

It was dinnertime and so they went to the dinner hall.
"I'm quite content..." Taichi heard Yamato talking, probably referring to either him or the servant who was walking beside them. The servant raised an eyebrow, but quickly dismissed his confusion in his thoughts. Maybe the young master was talking to master Yagami.

"I don't know... Yama... I feel quite guilty... I mean I've never really done this before and..." Taichi stammered, trying not to let some offensive words slip by.

"Ah, forget them! It's just one 'THING' then she'll be gone the next time..." Yamato smirked again.

"I wonder how badly she's injured or something..." Taichi said carefully and Yamato's gaze hardened.

"Like you care?" He snorted and head towards the door to the Dinner hall.

"Excuse me, Yama... but I happened to be very open-minded about these stuff and I don't like holding grudges on someone like you AND I happened to believe she's different..." Taichi snapped.

"You like her?" [1] Yamato stopped his tracks and whirled around. He just couldn't believe his eyes when he saw a rosy color creeping out of Taichi's cheeks. So he really liked her... Yamato snorted and held his chin up.

"I guess you do like her... pffft... wouldn't it be easier if I dump her right after our marriage and you can take her to your home or something?" Yamato said while waving his hand around in front of Taichi's face.

"It wouldn't hurt though if you do that,... Yeah right! What if you really falls for her in those two months you two are going to spend here in this house?! HUH? Or what if it's the other way around? You could have hurt someone's feelings..." Taichi snapped sarcastically and the servant looked at both of the boys, wondering what they were discussing and whom they were referring to.

"A bet?" Yamato's eyes stared at Taichi with amusement.

"W-what?"

"A bet... You want to bet if she'll fall for me? Or the other way around?"

Taichi noticed Yamato's eyes were getting darker. So it meant this is serious. "What's the prize?" Yamato smirked and crossed his arms over his chest.

"So you're interested... Tell you what, buddy. Let's have it like if she falls for you, you can have anything you want from me. Just don't be too exaggerate even though it's silly... But still I will win... but if she falls for me and I for her... well... I guess you won. And you can just humiliate me if you want..." Yamato shuddered when he mentioned the last one and crossed his fingers mentally, hoping that he'll not fall for her.

Both Taichi and the servant stared at him with confused eyes. //What the hell is he babbling about? // [2] both of them thought although the other one didn't know that they'd the same thoughts.

"Do you agree?" Yamato smirked, tearing them both back to reality.

"I guess so..." Taichi scratched the back of his head, still digesting Yamato's sudden weird bet.

"Good... so let's go eat. I sure want to see how well my beauties had done their jobs..." Yamato smirked and the dark gleam in his eyes was deepening again. The same creepy smile was on his face as he chuckled silently, making for the door.
Taichi shuddered. Next time he has to be sure with whom he was dealing with if Yamato asks him a favor, Taichi noted mentally. Because this guy here definitely needs to open his mind more often and stop being so... so... mad.

*.*.*.*.*

Everyone looked up when the boys entered the room. Taichi scanned the seated guests... they must be one of those business people with whom Mr. Ishida was dealing all those years.

"Where's she?" Yamato wondered as he took a seat at the other end of the long table. "Still occupied with the snakes..." He chuckled to himself as Taichi just shook his head.

One of these days, Yamato will learn his lesson. Oh, he just can't wait to see that weird Yamato being destroyed by the girl. He just secretly hoped for both bets to succeed. If she were to fall for him, he gets the girl. But if she were to fall for his best friend and either way too... the weird Yamato would be destroyed that instant. Maybe a new Yamato would be born in his soul... a very gentle one.

Taichi shook his head again when he felt the people at the table were staring at him. They must be wondering why he was standing there. He quickly made his way to his seat next to Yamato's and tried to hide his blush.

Before he knew it he was back into his thoughts about a gentle Yamato... Taichi smirked and sure looked forward to that day when a very, very gentle Yamato is going to be born in that body of his best pal. Yamato has too many personalities. He's either lazy, spoiled, rebellious, *nice*... and so on... finally the last one... he's mad. He's a real freak!

"Who are we waiting for, father? Isn't dinner done yet?!" Yamato called, bringing Taichi back to reality.

"We're waiting for Miss Takenouchi of course. And also her parents... I've just invited them to come..." Mr. Ishida smiled patiently. Taichi swore he could see smoke coming out of Yamato's ears as his face was puffed up, making him look like he was pouting.

"Be quick..." Taichi heard Yamato mutter something under his breath and couldn't hear the rest of his curses.

*.*.*.*.*

Sora ran towards the door as fast as she could. Rika was trying to keep up with her new mistress and admired her from afar. The mistress was wearing a half-sleeved dress with contrasting colors of blue. The hems were decorated with gold curls and patterns, obviously forming a string of flowers. The blouse was lightly colored lavender as it wrapped the slim upper body of the new mistress firmly. [3] The mistress was quite interesting... Rika opened the door quickly as it seemed like Sora had just burst into the dinner hall.

Sora was panting and grasped for fresh air. She looked at the curious glances she was receiving and smiled quickly.

"I'm so... sorry... for being late. I had... uhm... something to do..." Sora smiled sweetly with a quick glance at Rika, who was also grasping for fresh air.

"That's okay, my dear. Please take a seat... here" Mr. Ishida waved his hand dismissively and briefly glanced at his son, who stiffened when he mentioned about the seat. He pulled out a chair next to him and patted on it, gesturing her to sit right next to him [4].

Sora smiled and glanced briefly at Yamato. Taichi swore he saw something gleaming in her red eyes and wondered what it meant. Was the eye contact meant for him or Yamato? He glanced at his friend, who had been glaring at the girl for quite a few minutes when she'd entered.

"I don't like her look..." he muttered.

"What?" Taichi frowned as Yamato crossed his arms over his chest.

"I don't like her attitude one bit"

"Yama, you've just met her... how do you know her attitude is unlikable? She just smiled and looked at you..." Taichi's voice trailed off, but felt Yamato wasn't quite paying attention to his words.

"...The snakes missed her..." Yamato hissed angrily when he took one last look at her chatting away with some of his father's business partners.

"Huh?" was Taichi's reaction.

"Don't you see? She'd just taken a bath and her skin seemed all white and soft... and the air around her smells like flowers so she must have taken a real bath... jasmine I believe..." Yamato observed her from afar as Taichi's jaw dropped.

How does he know that? He wondered. That FRIEND of his must have watched her all the way. And how the hell did he know her skin was soft...

"Uhm... Yama... you're not supposed to sound like that..." Taichi whispered as he pinched Yamato's arm.

"Ow! Why did you do that for?!"

Everyone around the table glanced at Yamato's outburst. Taichi felt embarrassed when all the attention was turned to both of them.

Sora's chuckles broke the silence. Mr. Ishida was awe struck and wondered if she was a fallen angel [5]. Yamato dropped his eyes and quickly apologized for his outburst. He spared a glance at the chuckling Sora and clenched his fists underneath the table. She was laughing AT HIM? No one had ever laughed AT him before. Sure he hopes he'll win the bet.

Taichi didn't quite notice his friend's clenched fists, because he was trying to digest the so-called angelic chuckles in his head.

Sora congratulated herself inwardly and grinned mentally without anyone noticing the dark gleam in her eyes, which was creeping out of nowhere. //So he wants to play tough too? We'll see about that son...//

>.>.>.>.

End chapter 4

Author's notes:

1: Uhm... I happened to be a real Taiora fan when the series had started, but when I saw the end of second season I was quite surprised that those directors had made a quick switch of partners -_- Sorato in the anime -_-. So don't stab me about this kind of side thing, but I promise it's still going to be SORATO. Only not yet... since I don't really like rushing into character's relationships.
2: ^_^' it will makes sense later on... -_-' but for some reason I don't think it makes sense... it's just like the other way around -_-'. Anyways ^_^ it's supposed to be like that...
3: ::gasps:: I know I suck at describing stuff, describing clothes is quite difficult for me ^_^;;; I really can't picture a perfect dress for her right now -_-'.
4: Well... that's another mystery about Mr. Ishida there... -_-' makes sense, right?
5: I know it's very lame... but it is also needed for the rest of the fic.

Like I said up there... I happened to be a Taiora fan... -_-' maybe next time I'll write a fic about those two together. And uh... sorry about the content here, it sounds a little jumpy or so to say. I'll work on chapter 5 later ^_^

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