Closing Time
by Moonlit Eyes
Warnings: Shounen-ai (do I ever write anything but?)
This is an AU, Alternate Universe. Imagine how life might've been like if the digidestined didn't...well...become digidestined.
A/N: Well at least I learned a lesson from King of Hearts and will never attempt a murder mystery again. It hurts my head when I don't concentrate on fluff. j/k Anywayz... Time to share my playlist with the world!
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon...not even Sonya since technically she's a digidestined too.
Prologue
Closing Time by Semisonic
"Every new beginning comes
From some other beginning's end..."
Taichi stood in the middle of the spotlight, his eyes closed, and he swore he could still hear them. The crowd, the fans, chanting out his name as he kicked the winning goal in and marking his place in Odaiba High School history as the student who scored the most goals in school history, the student who helped his team by being the captain who took them to nationals, the player who was the most wanted by every university team in the nation. He had made his face known on almost every high school sports magazine in the country. And his life had been set the second he made that goal in the finals at nationals while standing in the spotlight. In the spotlight, just like he was now.
"Hey, Taichi-sempai! You done sweeping the stage? I want to close up and get out of here!" Sonya's reached the stage in the same loud and demanding tones she usually used. Taichi sighed as his memories were forced into the back of his head and he came crashing back into reality. No longer was he living life to the fullest on a large green field, wearing his team uniform proudly, and being Taichi the Soccer Star. Now he was just Taichi the Bartender, working 6 to 2 every night Tuesday to Saturday. Taichi who served up drinks to his customers and cleaned up after them before going home.
"Damn that's depressing," he muttered to himself before walking towards the light controls and flicking off the spotlights, trying to forget the limp that he'd grown accustomed to the past three years. He hated think about 'what if' but couldn't stop himself. What if he was still a soccer star? What if he didn't walk in front of that car that night? What if they could have fixed his knee?
"Are you okay, Taichi-sempai?" Sonya smiled as he came to stand next to her. Sonya started out an exchange student from Russia that went to Odaiba High School with him. She eventually moved back to Japan a year after they graduated and ended up working with Taichi on the same shift. Sonya was one of the few people Taichi talked to after high school, though he did wish she was still polite and sweet like she used to be. Instead she ended up being corrupted by a sister of Hikari's friend, Miyako.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Let's lock up," he indicted to the keys in her hand.
"Okay."
They both locked the door and walked up the steps that led down to their place of work, passing the sign that read 'Oblivion' in proud red letters.
Yamato stared at his guitar. Then at the card in his hand. Then back at his guitar. Back and forth, back and forth, before sighing and leaning back into his couch. His raised the card up into the air and read the loud red letters on a black lace pattern.
Yamato Ishida, former lead of the Teenage Wolves
LIVE at Obsidian
Fri and Sat ONLY in July!
He sighed again. The blond really didn't know why he let his younger brother convince him to sing again. It had been two years since the band broke up. Though it had started because of a disagreement between his bassist and drummer, he knew it was coming and he never planned on continuing his singing career when the Teenage Wolves were no more. Frankly he didn't know if he could make it by himself. What was Yamato Ishida without the rest of the pack?
"Whatever, I'm not trying for a record contract or anything. Just a small gig at a bar to make you happy, okay?" That's what he had told Takeru, but now he was regretting it. He just hoped that his new songs were appreciated.
TBC
WOO! A new fic already? Geez, I'm quick! Jokes...anywayz, till next time.
OH! And Sonya really was a digidestined. Remember when they all went around the world in Digimon 02? She was from Russia...I think. All I really remember for sure about her was that her partner was Snimon since that's really fun to say.