Time As Always Time Chapter 6

Friday October 6th 2023…
Five days later.. 10:50 am

"It's okay Taichi, your mother is fine she won't die just because she has cancer." Mimi's voice lingered in his mind that was what she had told him the other day when he was feeling sad.

Taichi looked down at the paper work on his desk then his eyes wonder to the alcohol cart. 'Why did they put that in here.' he thought nervously his looked away from the alcohol then stared at his hands they were shaking.

"Oh my god…." he whispered he put them on his lap quickly. His mind was telling him to go there but his heart was telling him to go to Sora.

A buzz came from the telephone. "Mr. Yagami you have an appointment at eleven." his secretary told him. "Okay thanks." he pushed the button then attempted to go back to work.

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Obadia Secondary School…

"OH……I see now." Mina trailed off knowingly looking at Saria "What? What's with that look." she questioned pushing her hair out of her face back behind her ear. "Saria all the obvious signs are there." Mina replied Saria acted like she didn't know what she was talking about.

"I have no idea what you are talking about." Then pretended to fix up her kilt. "Sure you don't."

"Well to you yeah they are." Saria replied. "Saria come on you like him why are you arguing that with me?" her best friend questioned her. "Okay, fine I'll tell you what I think. Some where we can talk where there aren't no people around." she looked around then to her friend by the wrist and dragged her somewhere to where no one will find them.

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"Dude you came to your sense what happened to you last weekend when you went to Tokyo?" Kevin asked him Davis just tapped the table they were sitting at the Mid-Night Express. "Look I thought long and hard and I'm going to do it…I'm going to tell her." he said.

Kevin laughed, "Okay is this the same Davis from last week?" Kevin asked. "I mean, I might be taking that extra risk that she might not think of me more then a friend but I think we can still be best friends after we know where each other stands." he replied he took a sip of his strawberry smoothie.

"Okay so where are you taking her too? A festival?" Kevin questioned. "Yeah the festival in Tokyo…I even went out and picked out a kimono for her." he replied.

"Whoa you really went out of yourself." Kevin took a sip of his banana smoothie. "Well my step mom helped me pick out one last weekend…she thinks it's a perfect way to tell Saria that I like her." he explained to him.

"Okay, okay…I see your point. and then all u have to do is cozy up to her then you tell her…that you think you like her right?" Kevin asked. "Something like that expect that I know I like her." Davis said he took another sip of his smoothie.

"Right lover boy now are you going to drive us back to the school cause I don't want to get into trouble." Kevin said he got up from the table taking the rest of his smoothie with him; Davis stood up as well the two boys left to go back to school.

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Tokyo International Airport 1:00 pm…

Hikari with Hope in her stroller waited at the arrivals, Hikari watched the arrivals board waiting patiently for Takeru's flight. She sighed she needed him home with her, she was upset about her mothers cancer.

She smiled seeing Takeru's flight number came up "Daddy's plane came Hope." Hikari told her "I don't see Daddy." she replied. "Not yet honey he has to get off the plane and get his bags." Hikari told her.

She sat down at a free chair and had the stroller facing her every once and a while she looked to were the passengers from the planes come out from. "Hmm still no sign of daddy Hope." Hikari told her two year old, who frowned. "When is daddy going to be here?" she asked.

"Well Daddy, has to pick up his suitcases…and he has to walk a long ways back here…so soon honey we got to wait for a while longer." she told her daughter once again both waited in silence until "When is he coming?" she asked again. "Honey I already told you he'll be here in a moment."

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Takeru stood at the luggage rack he looked at the tags from one suitcase then left it the man next to him picked his up off the rack. Another one came on the belt Takeru looked at the suitcase the sighed. "Finally!" he cried he pulled the suitcase off the belt and set it down next to him.

Takeru had a suit on his hair was messy a bit from sleeping on the plane to Tokyo. He picked up his carry on luggage and slung the sash on his shoulder the picked up this suitcase and pulled it along it was pretty big and had wheels on the bottom of case.

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Hikari waited anxiously, for him to come out. 'Come on Takeru hurry…I need you.' Hikari thought quietly remember what her mother told her last week. She frowned just thinking about the possibility that her mother could die of an awful disease. She blinked back her tears. 'No, don't cry Hikari…you have to stay strong for your daughter and Takeru.' she thought then wiped her eyes dry.

She watched until she finally saw him. "TAKERU!" she shouted. "Daddy!" Hope cried she saw him as well from her stroller. He hurried to them, Hikari gave him a hug and a kiss, he then bent down and gave Hope a hug and kiss. "How are my favourite girls in the world?" he asked.

"I love you Daddy." Hope replied, Takeru undid the straps in her stroller and picked his little girl up. "I love you too honey." he replied she gave him a hug, and then looked over at Hikari...she had tears in her eyes.

"Hikari? What's wrong?" Takeru questioned concerned he was smiling but it had now faded from his face. "Things happen Takeru…I didn't want to tell you over the phone. It's about my mother." she whispered.

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Yamato's Office
2:00pm…

Yamato was finishing up the last of the paper work for today, he sighed and put the pencil down on his desk. "About time." he replied and rubbed his forehead gently.

He got up from his desk and got ready to head home.

"Hmm….I wonder why I haven't heard from Taichi in a while?" he questioned he shook his head remember that Mimi wanted him home as soon as possible, they were going to go up to Tokyo together with the kids to the festival that was going on there.

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Taichi's office….
2:30pm…

Taichi took a sip of his drink he made earlier; the bottle that had been filled with alcohol was now half finished. He took another chug of it and finished that one glass. He put the glass down. His hands were still shaking like crazy he looked over at the alcohol container.

"Taichi…your three o'clock is here." he secretary called, Taichi frowned his eyebrows frustrated and confused. "Three o'clock? I don't remember having a three o'clock." he told her.

"Oh well now you do." a women walked in…the same one that harassed him when Sora was here with him. "Who the hell are you walking in here like that…" he questioned standing up he got dizzy a bit and stumbled the woman went to him immediately.

"Oh are you okay Taichi?" she questioned and helped him to this sofa. "Yeah…what do you want?" he asked he felt nauseous a bit. "I want you of course…to help you." she replied Lindsay took a seat next to him.

"What?" he asked. "To help you…you seem to have a problem." she pointed out to the half empty alcohol bottle. "Look I don't need help…the only person I would want help from is my wife…now get lost." he told her.

"Oh Taichi…harsh words" she told him quietly she helped herself to his shirt and began to unbutton it. Taichi hit her hands away from him. "What the hell! Just go away! Before I phone the police." he threatened.

"I just want to make you feel better Taichi, no need for that kind of extremity." Lindsay said to him quietly. "I don't need you to make me feel better." he replied starting to get angry.

"Taichi.." she began she got up off the sofa and went behind it…she put her hands on his shoulders and started to give him a back message. "You tell me if this doesn't feel good?" she whispered in his ear. Taichi closed his eyes agreeing, but he shook his head shrugging her off of him, he stood up from the couch and looked at her.

"GO AWAY LINSDAY." he demanded angry "Why did you come here where you hoping I would give in to your seduction because I'm a male, who had a few too many drinks?" he asked. "Well that and what not…but Taichi you never ever dreamed of me before? In high school I was one of Brittany cheerleader friends don't you remember?" she asked.

Taichi thought long and hard for a bit "No, I was a little too busy in high school with my girlfriend who is my wife and I'm not about to cheat on my wife. Now leave!" he shouted he looked over her once and laughed. "My god what have you been doing stocking my wife? Trying to look like her, be the same height as her?" he asked.

"No. it's not hard to be like Sora…I don't even know why you're still with her." Lindsay told him she put her arms on her hips and glared at him. "I'm still with her because I love her, she had my children. Her and them are my whole life." he said.

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Yagami, Taichi and Sora home….

Sora sighed she finished the final load of laundry for the day, after the twins had come home from kindergarten the house was dirty again. "Thank god there are two and they play with each other nicely." Sora told herself out loud, the shrill ring from the phone startled her she went to get it.

"Hello, Yagami residence who's this?" she answered. "Hi mom." Saria greeted her. "Oh hi honey what is it?" she questioned her. "Well after school I'm going with Davis to the train station, and we are going to take that all the way to Tokyo to his fathers home okay."

"Okay honey that will save your father from taking you there." Sora told her. "Okay, um ya is he still a little angry about me going to Tokyo with Davis?" she questioned. "Ya but he'll have to expect the fact that you are grown up…he loves you very much Saria don't let anything else derive that fact." Sora told her up most confidence. "Okay I'll keep that in mind mom and tell Dad that I love him and not to worry…I'll see you both on Monday I love you." she told her quietly. "One more thing be careful sweetie. I love you."

"I will buh bye." "Bye sweetie" Sora sighed as she pressed the close button on the phone then dialled a phone number in.

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Taichi's office….

"I told you once already to leave do it now!" Taichi shouted at her Lindsay stood there in her for a moment and smirked. "Leave you but Taichi…. you don't understand that's not how it goes." she whispered.

"That's exactly how it goes! GET LOST!" he demanded once again he stopped as he backed into his desk then every so slowly etching toward his phone. "Taichi don't touch the phone, I won't hurt you." she said stepping an inch toward then the phone rang. "I'm going to pick that up." he picked the receiver up. "Hello"

"Hi honey…. your daughter wanted to tell you that she loves you." Sora said to him, he smiled "That's sweet…why? Did she go some where?" he asked confused for a moment. "Taichi, we talked about it last night don't you remember she's going to Davis' father's house for the weekend."

"Right…I remember. Hey Sora do you want to come down to the office right now…. quickly I need you." he replied eyeing the intruder in his office. "Okay sure, I'll have the twins and Li go over to your mothers then."

"Great Idea Sor…. I'll see you later bye." "Later honey buns." Sora whispered. as Taichi put the phone down Lindsay flipped at him.

"You Asshole!" she cried bitterly. "What's with the language, I'm not yours I belong to my wife! I know what deep in my heart I will always love Sora." he told her matter of factly.

"This isn't the end of this." she replied coldly and stocked out of his office he sighed and took a seat at his chair. "Freaking crazy woman." he poured himself another glass of alcohol and drunk it down quickly.

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Ishida home…

"Okay, Michael go get your bags up stairs and your sisters too don't forget!" Yamato told his son who was at the top he was wearing a blue t-shirt with shorts. "Yamato, here." Mimi handed him a two bags. "Those are my stuff and yours." she replied walking back into the kitchen. Yamato sighed and turned around to bring it out to the van.

Mimi picked up the phone and dialled.

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Ring, Ring…

Takeru dug around in his bag for his cell phone Hikari was driving home, Hope had fallen asleep in her car seat.

"Hello."

"Takeru? Your back from your trip already?" Mimi questioned. "Yeah of course." he answered. "Okay well you won't see us till next week we are going away for the weekend." Mimi replied. "Where?"

"Tokyo your brother is the nicest ever hon." she smiled laughing. "Haha, ya sure whatever you say." Takeru laughed "That's mean you know…if I would have told him that you laughed at him he wouldn't be that happy."

"Well no kidding... I'm surprised that his temper is going down more as the years pass." he cracked Mimi frowned "Takeru…anyways how was you trip?" She questioned "It was good I guess." he replied "Besides being away from home part."

"How's Hikari?" she asked, Takeru looked over at her she was okay now, after she told him about her mother having breast cancer she began to cry but she composed her self enough to drive. "She's okay…. just had a rough week that's all." he whispered.

"Mimi come on I don't want to be stuck in rush hour traffic!" Yamato yelled into the house she rolled her eyes "You heard that right…I got to go…we will talk next week." she said.

"Right one see you later and have fun." he replied and hung up the phone. "That was Mimi, they're going on a trip this weekend." he mentioned, Hikari looked at him for a sec and turned her attention to the road. "They are? Mimi never told me…but then again…your brother…he's weird." she replied. "No kidding."

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Taichi's office….

Sora opened the door of his office she walked in and saw him at his desk head down a glass nearby him. "Taichi?" she questioned approaching the desk. He lifted his head up off the desk. "Sora…thank god." he got up and hugged her. Sora confused patted him on his back softy he pulled away from her.

"I know your not going to like what I'm about to say…but when I phoned you Lindsay was here." he replied. "What?" she gasped. "You heard me Sor…she scared me I don't know what she wants but I think we should file a court order against her." he said.

"Well when she came here was did she sound like she wanted?" Sora questioned him trying to get the story right. "What else dose she want. She wants to jump my bones." he replied.

"Sick woman, no one is touching you…your mine." Sora replied. "Yeah no kidding, I told her that." he agreed then stopped "I mean I belong to myself of course." Taichi replied, Sora smiled "Your so cute Taichi."

"So let's go out and celebrate…a court order." Taichi picked up the phone holding it up to his ear then dialled a few numbers. "Hi, it's me Taichi Yagami." he said into the phone "Yah, his son." Taichi turned around looking at Sora winking. "I want to file a court order." He said into the receiver.

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After School…around 4:00 pm Obadia Train station.

* "Train 34 to Tokyo now boarding, Train 34 to Tokyo now boarding" *

The subway halls were all crowded with people rushing to get onto the trains. Davis and Saria were trying to get through to get onto the train.

Davis pushed through Saria following also had a good grip on to his shirt. "Davis you go there this every Friday?" she called to him almost shouting.

"Yeah all you have to do is push them out of the way." he called back to her. They finally got onto the train and now needed to find a seat.

They walked up the halls for rows of seats finally finding two empty ones, Saria took the windows seat Davis took the inside seat, they put their bags down next to there feet. "Whoa…talk about being rushed." she replied.

"No kidding, but we got on." he said.

Silence fell over the two Saria and Davis both looked around. 'Hmm…come on Saria say something he obviously isn't. We are supposed to be best friends…right?' she questioned and looked over at him, luckily Davis too was off in his own world. 'Say something not to make this trip sucsipous of what you are planning tomorrow at the festival.' he mentally yelled at himself.

"Um I hope your father wasn't mad." he began 'Yah good Idea talk about Mr. Yagami.' he again yelled at himself. "Nah…he wasn't he's just over protective of me...because after all I am his little girl." Saria replied knowingly "Well that good…I think. But he still doesn't like me."

"Don't worry about him…my mom will handle him." She dug through her purse "Here, just a little something my mom wanted to me to give you." she handed him a note "I'm not supposed to look at it…and I didn't." she said to him.

"Okay." he turned away from her a bit so she couldn't see what was on the note.

'Davis, I'm not as….. how do I put it? Crazy as my husband is about having his little girl taken away from him…but you got to understand that it he comes from the heart he cares for her a lot and he doesn't want to her to get hurt. You know all the death threats he sent you are nothing…he's trying to scare you off. I hope your not scared of him because you are a nice boy…and something about this inviting my daughter to Tokyo for a festival sounds very romantic. Although it's not like I haven't noticed the thing that's going on between you too, me and Saria' s father went through the exact same thing…and it took us a tragedy to figure it out…please don't let something like that happen…Take care, of my daughter well.

Mrs. Yagami'

Davis blushed and closed the note quickly 'It was that freaking noticeable?' he questioned himself embarrassed a bit. 'But what did she mean about a tragedy…Saria never told me how her parents got together I don't think.' he looked at her the Saria caught him staring he glowed even redder with embarrassment and turned away.

"Davis what is it?" she questioned. "Nothing, nothing at all!" he cried he drew in a breath then faced her. "Are you sure you look a little faint in the cheeks." she commented observing him.

"Actually…I just wanted to know something if you don't mind." he took another breath in and began. "Your mom mentioned something about a tragedy that made her and your dad realize that they love each other…what was it that happened?" he questioned confused Saria was as well. "Didn't I tell you about it before?"

"I'm not sure." he slowly crumpled the paper in his hands and stuffed it into his pocket. "Okay well when they were our age…my dad liked my mother but my uncle asked her out first before my dad did. So my dad took up drinking a lot to get his mind off my mom. One night my father drunk to much that his stomach started to hurt he was shown outside so that he didn't make a mess on the carpet…and he was left there…he nearly died." she whispered

"Oh…I remember now…you did tell me, they realized after your father was in the hospital fighting for his life." He stopped being lost in thought. "So what was in the note?" she asked trying to peek at the note that Davis tucked away in his pocket.

"Nothing she just told me that I better take care of you." he replied blushing faintly Saria rolled her eyes "Sure…your lying." she narrowed her eyes at him.

"Why would I lie about something like that?" he asked not looking at her directly. "Well I don't know it depends what was in that note." She replied slyly. "No." he said firmly this time. "Okay fine be that way." she sat cross-legged and arms crossed across her chest.

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Parking Garage…

A woman stocked angrily toward her car keys in hand she opened the door to the driving seat and heavily seated herself down slamming the door of the vehicle closed and locked it.

"Damnit…looks like plan B is going to have to do it then." she shoved the car key into the ignition, turning the vehicle on.

"If you didn't want me that's fine…. I'll just have to do it the wrong way…I'm terribly sorry Taichi but I can't just watch and let Sora not help you with your problem. I know I can help you." Lindsay whispered heatedly she revved the motor then put it into drive and took off out of the parking garage.

To Be Continued…