Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Wolf ❯ Chapter 4 ( Chapter 4 )

Chapter 4:

The night air was refreshing and gave Matt sometime to think. Not very long though, because he soon reached the old warehouse where his gang's headquarters was located.

From the outside it didn't look like much, but on the inside it was pretty complex. The place had a small basement and three floors. The ground floor looked like a true warehouse just to throw people off, and it was pretty useful for storage. The second floor held the true hangout place. It had a nice living room, kitchen, and other useful rooms. The third and final floor held the offices, including his own.

He sighed as he entered the unlocked doorway, and went to the stairs. The building had an elevator, but Matt rarely used it. He didn't like being in the small moving room, with nowhere to go.

He could already hear voices from the second floor. It sounded like a few people were having a discussion in the kitchen area. Sure enough he saw a small group sitting around the table. They didn't seem too happy either.

"What's wrong?" Matt asked genuinely concerned. Normally he would keep an emotional mask on while dealing with people, but the people he was talking to now were ones he trusted.

"Hey Matt" Chorused around the table. Takeru, Daisuke, Kojo, and Koushiro where probably his most loyal members, then again, they were definitely.

Koushiro wasn't an actual member, he didn't want to be in a gang, but he did know everything that went on, and even helped out occasionally with technical things.

Takeru was still Matt's little brother, but many things were different now. He also was practically second in command and could do whatever he wanted, and still get away with it.

Daisuke was basically a messenger boy. It wasn't because he couldn't handle anything else, but because Matt and T K would not let him try.

Kojo was practically a best friend to Matt. He had been one of the first people to join the gang, and had never let Matt down.

These four people were the ones Matt trusted most in his life.

"What's wrong?" Matt asked again.

"We had another job go bad. Matt that is the fourth just this month!" Takeru exclaimed.

"How many died?"

"Seven"

"Seven isn't too bad."

"Matt, that doesn't mean seven altogether. It means seven of us."

Matt cursed under his breath as he sat down at the table.

T K continued, "Matt that is the fourth time this month. Something is wrong."

"We have some type of rat in the gang" Kojo growled. "Some one is telling the police where and when we are going to hit next. The other gangs know about it too."

"Your bank account is depleting rapidly, as well because some one is stealing merchandise before you even have a chance to sell it." Koushiro added.

Matt sighed and rested his head on the table trying to take all of this information in. He was beginning to wish he had stayed home.

Daisuke cleared his throat a little and Matt turned to look at him.

"You have bad news too?"

Daisuke nodded and quietly mumbled, "Talk of mutiny," while glancing at his feet.

"Figures" Matt ran his fingers through his hair trying not to lose his temper. He took a deep breath, and looked around the table. "Ok so basically I have an enemy in my own gang that is trying to ruin me."

"That's putting it simply" Koushiro nodded.

"Okay then, I have two questions," Matt looked around the table, "How many are still loyal, and is there any clue who the `mastermind' is?"

"Luckily most are still loyal, but unluckily we have no idea who is behind all this"

"If most are still loyal…………. call a meeting Dai"

"Right"

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Tai woke up woke up as his stomach growled loudly. He sat up and waited a moment as the memories came back.

He stood slowly and stretched, wondering if Matt was awake yet or not. Tai began to poke about the apartment, which he noted was very nice. Matt wasn't anywhere. Tai began to panic slightly when he remembered Matt's words from last night.

`Maybe I will see you in the morning.'

"Matt! Yamato!!" Tai screamed at the top of his lungs hoping someone would answer.

No one did.

Tai fell down on the couch. It was then he noticed the note on the coffee table.

Tai read it quickly and breathed a sigh of relief. He wasn't sure why he was so worried, but he was.

Tai smiled as the perfect idea came to him. He quickly got ready, and ran out the door.

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Tai was extremely thankful for his good memory. He found the gang hideout by remembering the way they left yesterday. He ended up at the back of the building and walked around to the front.

Here he got nervous. What was he supposed to do? Walk in there and ask for Matt? He stood before the door shifting nervously. What was he going to do?

Suddenly a hand grabbed him, and pulled him around to the side of the building. Tai freaked remembering how he first arrived at the place unconscious. He kicked the guy in the gut, and turned to run.

"Wait!" The man panted slightly. "Don't go back out there someone will see you. I am surprised they didn't already catch you the way you were standing at the door like an idiot."

Tai stopped backing away, wondering what this guy was talking about. "What do you mean?"

The man smiled, "Oh, good innocent act. I see I got sent a true professional." He clapped Tai on the back rather hard. "Anyway, I hope you brought all the equipment you need because once I get you in you are on your own. Remember your target"

Now Tai was really intrigued. "Refresh me?" He prompted.

"Fine. I suspect your gang isn't really evolved much if they don't even tell you your targets. Anyway, you are after an important person of this place. Now be careful, the two main bosses are brothers and they look similar. You should be able to tell the difference though. You are after the younger one. Stay away from the older, because he will see right through you. Okay? Opps, I forgot to describe him. He has blonde hair, blue eyes, and is absolutely adorable. Don't let that get in the way. Also watch out for his brother, man that guy is too sexy for his own good." The man drawled off in thought.

Although Tai was completely mortified of what was going on, he couldn't help but agree with the man that Matt was sexy.

"Right," The man began again, drawling Tai away from his thoughts, "You got it?"

Tai nodded meekly, just wanting to get away from this guy.

"Okay then follow me." The guy walked to the back of the building with Tai following.

He opened a door and looked around before he let Tai follow. "Okay you are on your own from here. They have called a big meeting, and you can kill him right after its over. Got it?"

Tai tried to stay calm and look professional. "right" He managed to mumble.

Tai sighed as the guy left. Okay so now he was in the building, and he knew someone was trying to kill…………. Wait a minute. The boss was Matt, and someone was trying to kill his second in command, they said they were brothers? That meant T K? A light bulb clicked in Tai's head as he realized that he had seen T K already yesterday. T K was the one that suggested that Tai be took to Matt in the first place. Tai really owed T K right now, and saving his life sounded like a pretty good way to repay him.

Tai finally mustered up the courage to peek around the corner. No one was in sight. He slowly began his way down the hall. He came to the end of the hallway, and looked out into the room that it led to.

It was a large storage room just like you would expect to see in a warehouse. There was a small crowd gathered on the other side of the room, and Tai could easily pick out the two blonde heads in the crowd.

The meeting ended, and Tai hid between a couple of large boxes. The gang quickly scattered, and Tai caught a glimpse of the retreating blonde heads. He also saw the guy that let him in staring at him wanting him to hurry.

Tai followed Matt and T K trying not to be noticed. The said two seemed deep in conversation anyway, so Tai easily followed them up two flights of stairs.

On the 3rd floor it got a little harder to follow because the crowd was gone. There were three other guys with the two.

Tai suddenly felt like hitting himself on the head. With everyone else gone, he could easily talk to Matt. He didn't need to sneak after them.

The five men stopped at a doorway for a moment, and the three Tai didn't recognize left, while Matt and T K entered. Perfect.

Tai walked up to the door trying to remain calm. Suddenly he heard some voices behind him. That speeded up the process of opening the door.

Tai quickly threw open the door and shut it behind him. Tai's back was against the door as he sighed loudly, and sunk to the floor. He finally felt safer. When he opened his eyes that security left him. There was a gun pointed at his head.

Matt recognized Tai quickly, and told T K to put his gun away.

"Tai what do you think you are doing?" Matt demanded.

"Sorry" Tai said sheepishly. Then he remembered how he got in. "Matt! Someone is trying to kill T K"

Both sets of blue eyes widened considerably. "Come again?" T K asked.

"Well you see I was at Matt's place, and I found the note so I decided to try to come here cause I was really lonely. I remembered where the place was, but I wasn't brave enough just to walk in. Suddenly some guy starts talking to me, and I realize that he thinks I am an assassin here to kill T K. He gets me in the building, and I just followed y'all up here."

Tai said all of this very quickly while the other two resembled fish. Tai's voice got very soft suddenly as he said, "I think I am gonna cry."

Matt's composer came back to him as he went over to Tai, who was still on the floor.

Matt wrapped his arms around Tai, and Tai cried into his shoulder.

Takeru looked at the scene, and then calmly turned around and walked to the desk.

"How can you be so calm?" Tai asked Takeru once he had finished crying.

"You learn" Takeru's voice was devoid of any emotion.

Tai looked to Matt for an answer, but he seemed not to care.

There was a small bang on the door behind as someone tried to come in. Matt pulled Tai away from the door, just as the person was about to ram it. Said person went flying across the room, and hit the front of the desk.

When Matt had pulled Tai away from in front of the door, he had sat Tai in his lap. Matt also wrapped his arms around Tai and rested his head on Tai's shoulder.

The person on the floor finally got up, with the help of Takeru. They said a few soft words to each other, before T K wrapped his arms around the other.

It appeared things were about to get a little more intense, but Matt chose this moment to shift and slam the door shut. The one in Takeru's arms jumped slightly and T K glared at Matt.

"was that necessary?" Takeru asked with annoyance.

"I think so" Matt smirked. "Especially since someone is trying to kill you"

"So its true?" The boy in Takeru's arms asked.

T K sighed, defeated. "Yes"

Tai snuggled closer to Matt as the other two began to speak softly. The words began to get louder as Tai realized they were arguing.

"Look just forget it alright?" T K finally asked exasperated.

"Fine!" The other said, turning his back to Takeru. He suddenly seemed to notice the others in the room. "Hey Matt why are you sitting on the floor?"

"Cause its comfy" Matt answered while tightening his hold on Tai.

"Uh huh, I'm sure," The boy smirked. He began to walk towards them while swaying his hips slightly. "You wanna know what I think Yama?"

"Not really"

"I think you love me and want me so much that you found someone who looks just like me"

"I disagree"

Tai watched as the boy continued his way towards Matt, and ignoring the glare coming from T K.

"Don't deny"

Matt laughed. "Look Daisuke, he can't look like you because he is older, meaning you look like him"

Tai's eyes widened and he choked slightly "Daisuke?" He stammered.

Daisuke smiled. "That's my name. Beautiful isn't it? Suiting for a beautiful person. And who might you be?"

Tai stood gaping. He looked at T K in astonishment. Takeru grinned at him.

"Didn't expect that did you?" Matt laughed softly.

Tai shook his head.

Daisuke gave a confused look around the room. "Is there something I don't know here?"

"Dai," Takeru came up behind him "This is Tachi."

"Oh" He said calmly at first, then, "TAI!!"

Daisuke attempted to wretch Tai away from Matt, but seeing as Matt would have none of it, he simply hugged them both.

"Don't leave me out!" T K cried showing a rare bit of emotion as the four entered a giant group hug.

This was the point were the door opened again, and unfortunately the four standing directly in the doors path were hit.

"Oh sorry guys. Didn't mean to interrupt anything." Said a smirking person.

"Who is this? Some one else from the past?" Tai mock demanded.

"No Tai, this is Kojo." Matt answered him.

Kojo smiled and mock saluted.

"However," Matt continued as another person entered the room. "Let me reintroduce you to Koushiro."

"That is definitely not expected." Tai stated.

"I don't know what you are talking about Matt. I take no claim to this place what so ever." Koushiro defended himself.

"Join our group hug!" Dai piped "We are welcoming Tai"

That got Koushiro's attention, and soon he was pulled into the giant hug as well.

"Well I am definitely starting to feel left out." Kojo said. "so therefore I am leaving. Bye!"

"Wait!" Koushiro cried "We need to go work on that account problem. Bye Tai!" He quickly called and ran out the door.

The hug broke apart finally, giving Tai some much needed air.

"Hey Takeru, you promised me dinner" Daisuke said suddenly.

"Oh yeah. I guess we had better be going guys! Bye!" The two quickly exited.

"Easy come, easy go" Tai stated.

"Yeah and that's the way it always is."

Silence lingered for a moment, before Tai broke it. "Today was pretty scary. Come to think about it, yesterday was too."

"Sorry"

"Do you have any idea how scared I was?"

"Yes"

Tai opened his mouth to reply again, but noticed Matt's face had lost its warmth and emotion.

"Uhhh…. Matt what's wrong?"

"Nothing"

Tai knew he was lying, but didn't want to bug him too much because he didn't want Matt mad at him. Then a question came to his mind that had been bugging him for some time.

"Matt?"

"Yeah?"

"How did you get here? How did any of you come to this?"

Matt laughed bitterly. "Long story"

"I got nowhere to go"

Matt sighed and took sometime to think. Then he asked Tai a question.

"You remember how you just asked me if I knew how scared you were?"

Tai nodded.

"Well I do, because I have been through it." He took a deep breath, and began the story.

"It was shortly after high school ended. All my jobs had gone wrong, I lost all my money, and had absolutely no where to go. I made the mistake of going down an alley. Everything seems to happen in those. Anyway I was put in the exact same position as you. I woke up in a gang's hideout, and they thought their boss would enjoy something pretty. Unfortunately for me, the boss was a complete bastard."

Matt drawled off there not caring to explain what happened between him and the boss. Tai understood well enough. It had almost happened to him, but it had really happened to Matt.

Matt sighed heavily, and continued. "He also took an unfortunate liking to me, and I was trapped there for several months. I learned a lot about successful gangs in those few months, and about self-defense. When I finally got out, I felt so useless and worthless. I was in the lowest slump possible. Then I met Kojo. He also had something against the guy who used me. We teamed up, and took him out. I had nothing left after revenge so Kojo suggested taking over the gang. That was easy enough. Kojo left for a while but came back and joined later. I didn't have any connections with any of my old friends. Then one day shortly after I took over, I was walking around to find something to do. I came across T K. He had gotten into a lot of crap and needed a bit of help. He slowly got drawn into the gang and worked his way to the top. He also pulled Daisuke in somehow. Obviously they are together. Koushiro, well, we just needed a computer guy on a job and hired him, and he just stayed around."

Matt sighed and rested his head on Tai's shoulder, while Tai soaked all of this knowledge in.

Matt suddenly continued. "Currently I am sick of this place. I want out so bad. There is also a lot of rebellion going on. They want to kill anyone close. It's a huge mess"

Tai nodded wondering why Matt could talk about all of this so calmly. He turned to look at Matt, but noticed he wasn't as calm as Tai thought.

Matt's eyes were closed, but tears were still flowing across his face. Tai wrapped his arms around Matt's neck and began to kiss away the tears. "I'm sorry I brought it up"

"Its okay" Matt sniffed a little a buried his head into Tai's neck.

"No it isn't. I think I need to make it up to you."

Matt pulled away and looked at Tai. "How do you plan to do that?"

Tai kissed him. It started off small, but grew as Matt's tongue slipped into Tai's mouth, relearning old and cherished territory.

Tai broke off the kiss when he needed air. "How about a club as well?" He managed to gasp out, trying to ignore Matt nipping about his neck.

"Oh I don't know. We did that last night, and I am having fun now."

"Come on, it will be fun!"

"Fine, here we go again. Why can't I tell you no?"

"Cause I am to cute!" Tai smiled, and bounced to the other side of the room.

"To cute for your own good" Matt followed Tai out of the building.

TBC

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