Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Taste of life ❯ Chapter 5 ( Chapter 5 )

[ 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 5
by: Nekocin

Author's notes:

Venursia: ^_^ Glad you like it ::blushes:: but I still think it needs some improvement, that's why some chapters are kinda boring -_-'. I'll try writing longer chapters ^_^ Just hope my okaa-san doesn't complain. Anyways, I hope this chapter would turn out good too. Thanks for the review ^_^.

Savoan Locc: Glad you liked it ^_^. Thanks for the quick review! ^_^ And uh... What does loc means ^_^'?

Oookay... I hope this wouldn't screw up. I have a mental image how it will go on and still I'm lacking confidence -_-'. And oops... I've noticed I'd put a number [1] in the first scene of the previous chapter. It's where Sora had hit the snake with a table leg ^_^;; I'll fix it here:
---> 1: Well... my father did it before although it wasn't the table leg. It was some kind iron stick, which you can use to open wooden boxes and stuff. I forgot what it's called ^_^'.

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Yamato grunted and dropped his shoulders as he head towards the long stairs, which lead to his wing. The happy chattering of the guests were muffling behind his back. They sounded like bees in Yamato's mind. Taichi didn't come along since he was busy talking to Sora's parents.
//Traitor! // Yamato would call him next time he sees him.

Taichi definitely wanted to win the bet and might want to make a move right now. All he got to do was ask Sora's parents about her deepest desires or something and he'll just come up with a plan to pair Sora up with his best friend.

Yamato took a deep breath before lifting his feet one at a time to walk up the stairs.
This whole night was a nightmare... maybe not a VERY very bad one. But it was... he saw his father doing things he'd never imagined he would do like... tap dancing?! Where the hell did he learn that?! Was he some kind of a dancer in the past?

Yamato didn't know even if he wanted to know. His father would definitely *not* tell him about his past. He only knew his father loved writing poems and was always behind his desk, writing poetries for a certain someone.

Who? He didn't know. Mr. Ishida was quite secretive with these kind of stuff, it's like _ BACK OFF! THIS IS MY PERSONAL LIFE! _ or something. Yamato ran his fingers through his bangs and adjusted his jacket.

As he walked up the stairs he thought about the dinner. He got this feeling that this Sora was making fun of him. He swore he'd noticed something strange about her. When she'd arrived he knew she looked paler than when she was at dinner that night. The smile, which she kept giving, was enchanting a lot of people, he'd noticed.

//Maybe she's a witch... or a wizard something... I'm superstitious again...// Yamato growled inwardly as tried to push those thoughts of Sora to the back of his head. //No time thinking about her...//

A smile appeared on his face as he walked up every step. He imagined a mental image of himself jumping on those damn thoughts of Sora and buried them with sand. //Plan B then?//

He smirked coolly as he noticed a shadow was moving its way down the halls.
//A thief? Can't be...// He ran up the stairs soundlessly and crouched a little as he followed the stranger. There was something familiar about the stranger. Definitely something familiar... The stranger was walking around in the halls without any candles or lights on.

Yamato tried to keep up with his pace and ... slammed his hand on the stranger's shoulder. He yelped and quickly turned around.
"Young master!" he gasped and clutched the front of his chest.

"Don't do that, young master... " Yamato raised an eyebrow.

"Kenichi? What are you doing here?"

Kenichi was standing in the dark and couldn't make out what the young master's face expressed. He figured the young master must be angry with him.
"I-I'm sorry... young master... I-... something came up and I'd to make sure everything was all right..." Kenichi said quickly was hiding his arm nervously behind his back. Yamato frowned.

"What are you talking about?... Was that why you weren't present at supper?"
"Y-yes, young master..." Kenichi dropped his head and could just feel that the young master was not buying that excuse. He could just feel those cold blue eyes piercing through him. And it really pained him. Yamato rubbed his temples instead of getting annoyed by the long silence.

"Well... why didn't you turn on the lights? It's so dark in here..." He looked around for the switch.

Before Kenichi could stop him, Yamato switched on the lights and turned back to Kenichi, who was still hiding his arms behind his back.

"What's wrong?" Yamato asked as he noticed how uncomfortable Kenichi was trying to hide something from him.

"What have you got there?" Kenichi's face paled and panicked inwardly. If the young master sees his injured arm he will definitely bomb him with thousands of questions and he definitely doesn't want to tell the young master that his plan had failed. But then again... he wasn't really a good liar. He could never lie to Yamato...

"W-well..." Kenichi started as he backed away quickly before Yamato could take a quick look when he stepped forward. "Do you want to hear the good news or the bad news?"

Yamato frowned and wondered what he meant by that. "Uhm... the good news... I think" He crossed his arms in front of his chest and shrugged. Whatever Kenichi was hiding must be very... something.

"...uhm... the snakes were quite poisonous..." Kenichi said softly as he dropped his gaze. The young master would be quite happy with that, right? He'll definitely ask him about what's the result... Yamato's face lit up as the same dark smile planted itself on his face. He's being mischievous again. He imagined himself rubbing his hands and somehow grew horns on either side of his head. //Next will be my tail...// he thought as he grinned.

"And..." Yamato gestured Kenichi to go on. "What has that got to do with you?"

It just doesn't make sense all the sudden. How did he know they were poisonous and also... how did he know there were snakes? Was he some kind of fortune-teller who can see through that white crystal ball and tell what he was planning all those days. Or was he a mind reader?

"Uhm... almost everything..." Kenichi managed to blurt out and stopped hiding his arm. Yamato looked confused as he watched Kenichi retrieved his arm from his back. He noticed a familiar cloth was wrapped around his left arm and wondered what was going on. Kenichi noticed the frown on Yamato's forehead and sighed.

"One of them bit me..." Yamato froze and narrowed his eyes. The horns puffed away in a small smoky cloud. "What?"

"I went to the new mistress room just to give her the red roses. She'd offered me tea and I was wondering what that hissing sound was. The new mistress caught the moving blankets first and found the snakes on her bed... I don't know what she'd wanted to do because she walked forward to do something and one of the snakes wanted to bite her... I pushed her out of the way and the fangs caught my arm instead..." Kenichi explained as he cradled his injured arm.

"That's it?" Yamato narrowed his eyes again.

"The bad news?" Kenichi shook his head and understood why the young master was angry. The task hasn't succeeded...

"No master... the bad news is that... she's the one who'd thrashed the snakes and cared for my injured arm... you see the cloth here, right?"

"How can she be so generous? She's faking it!! She wants to gain your trust!!" Yamato cut in quickly. Kenichi winced as he looked at the reddened face of his young master.

"Don't be so hard on the girl... she'd done nothing to you..." Kenichi tried to defend Sora. That stopped Yamato as he ran his fingers through his bangs again. Actually... Kenichi was right. But then the image with Sora laughing AT him stormed out of nowhere and dropped down on his head. The image faded and Yamato sighed.

"Fine! If you like her so much why don't you help her too instead of waking me up EVERY morning when I've to go to school!" Yamato growled and stomped away before Kenichi could protest.

Kenichi definitely didn't want to leave his position as the only servant who can wake the young master up in the early mornings. The others will never stand him... the young master will make their lives as hell.
Kenichi sighed and cradled his injured arm; at least he'd defended the new mistress for a while.

"AAARGH!!!"

Kenichi shot up and wondered what was wrong.

*.*.*.*.*

Sora smiled as the guests were chattering about their lives and their own children. //It's almost time... I guess. I wonder...// she thought, not really paying attention to the rest of the conversation. The guests didn't know that Sora came from the THERE [1] and so didn't mind telling her about how much money they'd made.

For some reason Sora wasn't quite interested in the business thing since it made her feel sleepy. It was just boring, hearing them ranting and debating each other's companies. She looked around and tried to remember why she was doing this again. //Oh, so he'd left...// Sora's eyes gleamed with amusement and didn't notice that Taichi was approaching her.

"Hey! Who are you looking for?" Sora looked up and frowned. "Excuse me?"

Taichi chuckled and cleared his throat. "Have you heard about the news yet?"
"News?" Sora blinked, kicking herself mentally why she didn't pay attention to some conversations.

"Well, Mr. Ishida and your father had just talked about school... Mr. Ishida is willing to send you to our school and..." [2]

"Your school?" Sora asked in disbelief. If she's going to get married she has to transfer to a rich school!

"Yes... isn't that great? We can do things together which you've never done in your old school!" Taichi beamed.

"Uh... I don't know..." she sounded nervous and she quickly dismissed those nervous thoughts. Besides there was something going to happen that night and she wanted it to be perfect.

"Will you excuse me? I've to go upstairs..." Sora said quickly and flashed him a quick smile. Sora rushed towards her parents and bid them good night. Rika was waiting for her at the door and gasped when her mistress burst out of the hall.

"Well, uh... this isn't good since Yama has different plans now..." Taichi dropped his shoulders.

Outside the hall Sora held up her skirt as both she and Rika were running down the dark halls. "Where is the young master's room?" She asked quickly.

"Follow me..." Rika said, not quite understanding why the new mistress was so interested. Maybe she was kinda liking the young master...

They silently ran up the stairs to Yamato's own wing. //This I got to see...// Sora grinned inwardly and slowed her pace as soon as they made their way to the wing. She gestured Rika to be silent as she crept carefully down the dark halls. She narrowed her eyes and pricked up her ears. She could hear faint voices from the other end of the wing and slowly tried to make out who were talking.

//Bingo! // She grinned inwardly and could make out Kenichi talking to Yamato. The lights flickered on and Sora quickly pressed herself against the walls of the other corner as soon as she'd pushed Rika against the walls too.

"Wha..." she could hear Rika's voice, but quickly hushed to her to keep silent.

She peaked out of the corner and noticed Yamato stomping away. Then...

"AAARGH!!!"

A playful grin appeared on her face and she carefully followed Kenichi, who couldn't sense he was being followed. Rika wondered why the mistress was being... strange... maybe just as strange as Yamato. It quickly hit her when she wondered if this was how they were supposed to be brought together all the sudden. Two strange people... one couple... what a chemistry! A way of imagining those two like that [3].

"What's wrong, young master?" Sora heard Kenichi's concerned voice.

*.*.*.*.*

As soon as Yamato walked down through the door, he felt something fall on top of his head. Sand?! It caught him off guard and shrieked.

"AAARGH!!!"

He stumbled backwards and fell to the ground. The sand was ruining his hair!! He'd just washed it when he was bathing.

"What's wrong, young master?" Kenichi gasped when he saw that Yamato was covered with heaps of sand.

"WHO THE HELL HAD PUT SAND UP THERE?" Yamato shouted angrily as he pushed himself up. He began brushing the dust from his clothes, his hair and face. "UGH! Now I've got to take a bath!!"

A little note fluttered down on the floor and Yamato frowned. //What the...?// He picked up the note which had a very neat handwriting on it. Yamato frowned and turned the paper around.

~ Hey there! Earth is an element. Snakes crawl around in the earth... get it? [4]~

Yamato ran his fingers through his bangs again and frowned deeper. "Who the heck wrote this? ARGH! Never mind. I'm taking a bath!!" He threw his arms in defeat, throwing the note away and stomped towards the bathroom, leaving Kenichi alone in the halls.

Kenichi looked confused and picked up the letter. He took a look at the letter and frowned. Kenichi looked at the closed doors and wondered if it was from...

At the other end of the hall Sora chuckled inwardly and congratulated herself again. Rika looked worried when she'd heard the young master shout.

>.>.>.>.

End chapter 5

Author's notes:

1: They referred it to the village.
2: Aa... finally got this one here ^_^ Yamato is going to be very bad, I know.
3: I believe my sentence here is kinda misused.
4: Gosh, I do not know how to play with riddles ^_^;;

^_^;;; That wasn't a long chapter what I've imagined... -_-' but anyways, I think the story is really going were I want it to be ^_^. This one is kinda sloooow... so don't mind the slowness of my chapters -_-' and also the jumping parts -_-.
@-->---- A rose for those who like the story so far ^_^.

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