Back with another new idea, guys. I'm just so full of ideas at the moment that I just can't not write them down. Building off of 'Night At The Movies' but not necessarily a sequel, I decided to do a prom story. Upon research and finding out that they don't do this kind of thing in real-life Japanese high schools, it's less of a 'prom' per say and more of a 'end-of-year school dance' kind of thing. Hope you guys enjoy it nonetheless.

Once again, I want to thank my constant collaborator and friend Music Chick for helping me with this. She is the absolute greatest in the world.

Disclaimer: Don't own Digimon or any other properties related to it, etc. etc. I don't own Inuyasha either.

There comes a time in every young person's life when they transition from a child to an adult. This would normally be signified by an eighteenth birthday or graduating high school in most parts of the world. In other instances, prom is the ultimate indicator of maturity. Having to step out of one's own shell to ask a person of the opposite sex to go to a dance can be the most unnerving experience.

On this day at Tsukishima High School, students are buzzing with excitement as not only are finals and the end of the school year finally coming up, but for upperclassmen there is the anticipated excitement of the end of year dance; boys asking girls, girls waiting to be asked, and others trying to make the moment perfect before they finally ask.

For someone like Tai Kamiya, it is a recipe for trouble. While normally confident in himself and in everything he did, he was not immune to the troubles that all boys experience when trying to ask a girl to a dance. For one thing, the girl he wanted to ask was someone he couldn't have been more nervous about asking.

That girl was the one and only Sora Takenouchi.

The two of them had been best friends since they were practically in diapers but ever since they became teenagers, maybe even before then, Tai could not deny the feelings he had for the auburn-haired beauty. They played soccer together when they were younger. They did almost everything together-name it and they had done it.

But some things are easier said than done.

Hard rock music blared through the entire locker room as the Tsukishima High soccer team changed out of their sweat-soaked practice jerseys and into their school uniforms for the upcoming day of school. Several members were still in the showers to clean off the sweat and grime of the early morning practice. Tai Kamiya was one of them.

As he scrubbed body wash on his body, he couldn't help but overhear some of his teammates' conversations. One in particular caught his ear.

"So Shiro asked Yumi to the dance yesterday."

"No way! What did she say?"

"She said no."

"Aw. Poor guy."

Tai rolled his eyes at the conversation. He had more important things to worry about than who had failed at asking who to the dance so he kept out of it.

"Hey, Tai," a voice came.

He spoke too soon. He turned to see his co-captain Takahiro showering next to him.

"What, Taka?" he asked.

"Have you asked someone to the dance yet?"

Tai shook his head. "No, not yet."

"Not yet?" Takahiro chuckled in disbelief. "Dude, girls would be lining up for you to ask them. How come you haven't yet?"

"I'm waiting for the right time to ask the person I want to," he replied. Tai shut off the shower and walked out towards his locker to change into his school clothes.

"You're planning to ask Sora, aren't you?" Takahiro gave him a knowing look, a smirk on his face as well.

Tai's face erupted into a blush, causing his friend's smirk to grow even wider.

"W-What gave you that idea?" he stuttered.

Takahiro chuckled. "Dude, we're not stupid. We know how you feel about her. Rumor has it though that Matt already asked her to the dance."

Tai's face fell. "He did?"

"Yeah, but lucky for you she supposedly said that she was waiting for you to ask her before making a decision."

His whole mood brightened a bit after hearing that statement. If Sora hadn't said yes to Matt right away, then he still had a chance after all.

"So you better get a move on and ask her before she decides to go with Matt."

"Shut up!" Tai's face had turned bright red by this point.

After fixing his tie, he walked out of the locker room to escape anyone else who would try to approach him about the subject. It was already hard enough getting a girl alone to ask her to the dance but with Sora it was even harder. She could be very unpredictable sometimes and that was what frustrated Tai the most about her.

His phone buzzed in his pocket as he walked down the hallway towards his locker. He took it out before looking at who had messaged him. It was Izzy.

'I'm at your locker.'

Tai quickly responded back.

'On my way. I'll be there in a minute.'

Continuing his pacing toward his locker, he took notice of all the conversation going on around him. Girls were gossiping about the latest invites and who they would be going with while the guys nervously looked at them, obviously afraid of asking one the big question. Tai would have thought it to be pathetic but he would be called a hypocrite because he didn't have a date himself, at least not yet.

'Why does this have to be so hard?' he thought to himself.

Finally his eyes rested on a locker with the Crest of Courage symbol on it and walked over to it. Izzy stood with his shoulder resting on the lockers next to it, looking at Tai expectantly.

"About time you got here," Izzy smirked. "I was beginning to worry."

"Today was a particularly hard session so I showered longer than normal," Tai explained as he entered the combination on the lock before opening his locker and taking out his books for first period. "What do you need, Izzy? You sounded frantic yesterday when you asked me to meet you at my locker."

Looking around nervously, the computer genius leaned in to whisper in Tai's ear.

"Do you know if anyone's asked Mimi to the dance yet?"

Tai snorted before laughing out loud. Izzy tried to hush him before anyone would notice but everyone around them was too caught up in their own things to care.

"That's what you were so worried about?" Tai cackled. "Izzy, you make me laugh."

"What's so funny?" Izzy demanded, his face red from a combination of embarrassment and anger.

"Mimi has been waiting for you to ask her for weeks now," the Digidestined leader explained, his laughter dying down. "Just get it over with. What are you afraid of? The worst she can do is say no."

"That's not what I'm worried about," his friend retaliated.

"Then what is it?"

Izzy stood silently for several seconds. His face was even redder than it was before due to how embarrassing the reason was.

"I'm afraid she's going to laugh at me," he admitted.

Tai laughed once again. "Dude, she's crazy about you. If she wasn't she wouldn't be waiting for you to ask her to the dance. Go for it, man."

The warning bell then rang, signaling that it was time to get to class. Closing his locker, Tai and Izzy split off to go their separate ways.

"And so the fall of Constantinople was caused by a multitude of factors. For starters, the Ottomans used gunpowder, which was revolutionary for the time period, to blow through the city's walls, and their numbers were stronger compared to those of the Byzantines that they were able to conquer the city after a month-long siege."

Tai tried to pay attention to the lecture at hand but his mind was all over the place at the moment. How was he going to ask Sora to the dance? What if the rumors weren't true and she already said yes to Matt? Learning how the Ottoman Empire conquered Constantinople paled in comparison to this dilemma he faced.

In front of him, the girl of his thoughts was copying notes on the lecture, paying close attention to what their teacher was saying.

"Psst," Tai whispered, tapping her on the shoulder. "Sora."

"What?" she turned to whisper back, annoyed at having her concentration broken. "I'm trying to pay attention. You should do the same."

She returned to copying down notes but Tai would not stop.

"I need to ask you something."

Rolling her eyes and groaning in aggravation, she turned to glare at him. "What do you want?"

"Is there a problem, Miss Takenouchi?"

Sora's face turned red in embarrassment as everyone around them snickered. She turned away from Tai to look at her teacher.

"No, sir," she replied with sincere contrition. "Forgive me. It won't happen again. I'm sorry."

"I know you all find this boring but please do try and pay attention," their teacher said to her before turning to Tai. "Which is what you should try to do every once in a while, Mr. Kamiya. Understand?"

Tai nodded in understanding. "Yes, sir," he responded. "Sorry, sir."

With that, the instructor returned to the lecture he was giving before the interruption. Sora buried her nose into her notebook even more feverishly and kept an iron concentration on the lecture at hand.

"Sora," came Tai's voice once again but she was ready for it.

"Sit boy," she responded.

For reasons Tai couldn't explain, he face-planted onto his desk.

Meiko watched from beside him with confusion in her bifocal eyes.

"What just happened?" she asked herself before turning back to the lecture at hand.

Later that day, Tai and Sora were in study hall together trying to get some work done before the weekend. Tai had a soccer game the next day so he felt the need to get ahead on some of his homework.

At the moment he was reading an Inuyasha manga to try and relax his mind after getting his history essay finished. It was because of Kari that he got interested in the manga and eventually the show, which quickly became one of his favorites. The whole dynamic between Kagome and Inuyasha reminded him so much of Sora and himself.

'Does Sora think I'm Inuyasha or something with those 'sit' commands?' he thought to himself as he looked at her across from him, nose buried in her books as she took notes on the next chapter.

'Do I have Beads of Subjugation on me? How does it keep working?'

Looking up from the novel, he noticed Izzy walk in with a bright smile on his face. He waved to him before turning back to the book. Sora looked up from her notes to see who Tai was waving to before noticing Izzy as well, greeting him with a smile before turning back to the task.

"Why are you in such a jolly mood?" Tai whispered as Izzy sat down beside him.

"I asked Mimi to the dance and she said yes," Izzy replied.

"I told you she would," the Digidestined leader smirked. "You just gotta have confidence, Iz."

Izzy snickered before opening his laptop and working on something there. Despite his confident words, Tai could not help but be jealous of his younger friend's luck at getting a date.

'At this rate, I'll be the only one in my year without a date,' he moaned internally as he looked at the girl across from him. Immediately he felt his hands clench into fists and his mouth became dry as a desert. The fight or flight mentality surged through his system and he was leaning towards the side of running.

"Hey, Sora," he said slowly, trying to figure out how he was going to ask her.

She looked up from her notebook. "Yes?" she responded, raising one eyebrow in curiosity as to what he had to say.

"You're a girl, right?"

'Idiot!' he cringed. 'What kind of a question is that?'

The look she gave him enforced that theme: it was one of confusion. It made her wonder exactly he was trying to go with this. Even Izzy couldn't help but snort loudly before trying to get his laughter under control.

"Last time I checked," her eyes reflected the awkwardness of the situation by darting side to side.

"And I'm a guy so I was wondering if maybe you wanted to go to the dance with me," he said. "Just 'cause I heard that you weren't going with anybody yet."

Sweat started to dot his brow as he waited nervously for her response. He watched as she clicked her pen before putting it down beside her notebook. She then closed it before stuffing it into her bag and zipping it up. All of this waiting for her to respond was making him nearly have a heart attack.

A smile then made its way onto her face.

"I'd be happy to, Tai," she replied. "Matt had asked me before but I was waiting to see what you were going to do before I decided anything. We'll thin out the details soon."

Sora got up from the table and walked towards the door.

"See you boys later," she waved goodbye before walking out of the room.

Tai gave a deep sigh of relief and slumped back into his chair, so far that it caused the chair to tip over and hit his head on the floor. With a groan of pain, he tried to pick himself up. Izzy chuckled at his friend's misfortune, which earned him a dirty look from the Digidestined leader.

Sora giggled to herself in the hallway, having seen the whole thing happen. She rolled her eyes in amusement before walking down the hall towards her locker.

'Tai Kamiya, you really are a piece of work.'

Trust Tai to turn something as simple as an invite to a dance and turn it into something awkward XD How will the dance go? Stay tuned for more of 'Dance With Destiny.' Hope you guys enjoyed that chapter. The whole 'sit' command I just had to use for that segment XD I have been watching waaaaaaayyyyyy too much Inuyasha lately and I think this reflects that. Can't you guys see her doing that to him? I know I can.

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