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Summary: AU. First part in the Series, expected to be around four chapters + prologue long. AU everyone, Taichi has a little secret, okay maybe it's not that little at all.
Thoughts=====================================
Tai's little Secret
Prologue=====================================
Depression, that's what I feel right now. Depression of having to be the way I am. At first it was fun, but now, it starting to become too much for me to handle. Always hiding my true self from the others. If only those boys would have let me play soccer with them those years ago. Then maybe this wouldn't have happened in the first place.
Taichi grumbled as she looked up into the ceiling of the room she shared with Kari. It had been two days since they had returned from the digital world to the real world, and now more then ever, did she hate the front she put up for the others, it had been what, five years, six, since he had begun to dress this way, to hide what she really was, a girl.
Pulling off the headband, she allowed the thick brown hair to fall down from it normal messy mop on top of his head. Running a hand through it, she slowly rolled over in her bed and stared at the wall. All she wanted, was a chance to be what she was, what she had been since she was born. Not something all her friends thought she was, a boy.
As she drifted off into her little dream world where she wasn't one of the guys, but more like a girl. Still though and outgoing, but able to show what she was with out fearing to scorned for it. All her new friends had been made after they moved here. They weren't like the ones back in the old neighborhood. All stiff and formal, a boy played in the mud, and a girl stayed home to clean the house and look after the children, bah. Why couldn't she be like Sora, She was tomboy that was clear, but she still managed to be a girl. Have I really forgotten what's it like to be a girl?
Her dark thoughts were broken by the soft knocking on the bedroom door, she had made it a habit of closing the door when she was alone or when she didn't knew if any of her friends came over. Sure her mum had understood her, and helped her by yelling out loud whenever one of them showed up. "Come in." It came out as a soft yell and sounded very girl like at that moment. Cursing a little on the inside, she feared to hear the comments from her friends if it was them outside the door.
As no one came, and the only sound she heard was the door softly closing, she rolled over to see her sister, standing in the doorway, with her eyes downcast. "Kari, What's wrong?" Her eyes opened, and her protective instinct for her little sister took over. "Nobody hurt you, did they?" Her eyes spoke of the pain she would inflict on them if they had. One good thing coming from pretending to be a boy, you learned how to fight real fast.
Kari or Hikari as her real name was looked down at the floor, for a few moments, then she pulled her hand out from her back and held up a thick brown envelope with Tai's name on the front. Sitting up, she grabbed the envelope from her and tore it open while shaking. Puliing out the papers, her eyes ran over the first four lines and then a wide grin filled her face. "They accepted me, they accepted me, I got accepted by Kasumki Freewood's Alternate Teaching School" Jumping down from the bed, she made a victory sign at her little sister.
Kari looked at her with sad eyes as she danced around the room. "Yeah, but, we'll be so far apart. I don't want to lose my Neesan. Even if you don't act like a girl." Her words took on a mocking note in the end, as she tried to cover up her sadness.
Tai turned her eyes to stare down at her little sister. "What do you mean I don't act like a girl?" Eyes crossed at the last words.
Kari looked her up and down. "Well, let's take the clothes for a starter, too baggy, and you hair." Moving her hand and sounding very much like Mimi would have.
Tai lifted her hands and clamped down on her hair and gave a death glare at the grinning girl in front of her. "Okay, so my clothes and hairstyle could use a little help, big deal." Huffing Tai turned back to the paper that was sticking out of the envelope.
Behind her, Kari grinned as she tried to look over shoulder of her big sister, and see the paper she was holding. Failing, she stepped back and put on her best puppy eye look. "Nee-san, please. Can I read it?"
Tai looked back over her shoulder and sighed at the puppy eyes. "Someday you have to teach me how to do that." Handing over the papers, Tai noticed the teary eyed woman standing in the doorway. Gulping, she took a step back and brached herself. "Okaa-san?" Voice timid, she quickly looked around to see if there was a way to escape her mother death hug.
Rushing into the room. Her mother wrapped her arms around her and nearly chocked her to death with the hug. Letting go of the spluttering brown haired girl, she looked down at the blushing faces of her twos daughter as she stood up. "My little girl, already going out into the big world. Oh I'm so proud."
Tai sweatdropped and looked up at his crying mum. "Come on, I just a year or two. I'll only be, what on the other side of Japan. It's not like I'm leaving for America you know." Finding herself in another bear hug, she felt like crying herself for having such an emotional mother. "Mom, come on, let go of me. Will you?"
Nodding, her mother stood up and clapped her hands together. "If you're going away to that school." Tai gulped at the strange look in her mom's eyes, as she went off into a dream world. "You'll need some new clothes, you can't show up dressed like a tomboy, maybe a nice summer dress, or how about a Kimono." Going into a dream world, she never noticed the empty stare for her oldest daughter.
Sweatdropping again as her mother began to hum, Tai quickly lifted the letter up to his mum. "Mum it's a school, not a party." Giving a small glare at the still gushing woman, she handed the letter back to Kari again. "I'm not showing up at a now school in a Kimono." Both her mum and Kari looked at one another and then at Tai. Slowly she backed off and waved her hands in front of her. "No way, I mean it, I'm not doing it." Staring at the two puppy eyes faces that both her mother and sister made when she refused, she gave a long sigh. "Fine, but nothing fancy, got it."
Kari hi-fived her mother and then looked at her big sister. "Come on, I can't wait to see you in one."
Their mum nodded and went to get her purse and shopping bag. "We'll head over to the next district. I heard from Mrs. Tachikawa that they're having a sale there this week."
TBC.
Read the authors notes. I'm offering a to send everyone a mail when I update. That is, if you want to read some more off this fic.
Taichi: A given (``first'') name (not yet classified by gender)
Translations.
Nee-san: Big sister, less formal and commonly used.
Okka-san: Mother.
AN: Hiya everyone. I bet you're all dying to flame me into an early grave. But guess what, I don't care. Send all the flames you want. It's cold and I could use something to heat up the room with. Well, from the writer point of view. I would have liked for this prologue to be a little longer. But alas it didn't. Instead, behold my power over paragraphs. See you sometime around Friday. If nothing goes wrong, the next chapter should be ready by then.
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