Not mine. Just Read.
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Sibling Swap
~By Shimegami-chan
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This story is an idea that Kirri came up with, and asked me to write.
Apologies, I've been exceptionally busy/lazy.
1) My birthday came and went
2)I discovered eBay
3) I got a job
4) My Wonderswan and Tag Tamers game arrived in the mail ^_~
So...I've been having a little trouble getting to the computer, if you catch my meaning. I've also become fixated on watching my Digimon Frontier episodes. *huggles episode 4 and Fairymon* Sweet, sweet Frontier...Izumi...Kouji...*glomp* Um, yeah. Back to the fic?
"Well, here we are." Yamato carried his new little sister's duffel bag into his room and deposited it on the bed. "I'll pull out a futon for myself later, and you can have my bed. Takeru usually does."
"Okay." Hikari looked a little nervous at being in the strange apartment. With the removal of the Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs she also had appeared to have returned to her normal self. "Yama--I mean, Oniisan--do you think Oniichan's mad at me?" [a/n for anyone who hasn't immediately gotten that, Taichi=Oniichan and Yamato=Oniisan. Hikari will be a little more formal around Yama.]
"Mad at you?" Yamato turned to face the girl. "Why?"
"Well..." Hikari looked down at the floor. "He was mad at me all morning. I must have done a lot of annoying things today."
Yamato smiled. "It's all right, I'm sure he's not mad."
"But I really messed up things with him and Sora..."
"Him and Sora?" That got Yamato's attention. "What about them?"
Hikari blinked and quickly stepped back. "N-nothing."
"Wait a minute here. Hikari-chan..." Yamato sat on the edge of the bed. "Is Taichi hiding something from me? About Sora?"
"No!" Hikari squeaked. "I was just teasing, but she got really mad, and Oniichan said not to tell!" No matter how much Taichi loved his little sister, if it slipped out that he had a crush on Yamato Oniichan was going to kill her.
"Maybe I should just call Sora, then."
"No, no!" The Child of Light grabbed Yamato's arm with her small hand. "It's...well, Sora likes you, Oniisan!"
Yamato looked shocked. "Wait, what? Sora likes me?"
A little proud of herself for successfully keeping the bigger secret and chastising herself for letting slip something that she probably shouldn't even know, Hikari smiled nervously and rambled on. "Of course! Oniichan says that she's liked you for a long time, but she's afraid you don't like her so she doesn't say anything, only to him 'coz he's her best friend."
It was no secret to Yamato that Taichi had had a crush upon Sora--one that he hoped hadn't lingered. The blonde bit his lip, wondering how to deal with such a situation. The problem was that he had no interest whatsoever in Sora--in fact, his interest lay with Taichi himself. Yamato had been bicurious since he was first old enough to be attracted to anyone else. Taichi, on the other hand...Yamato still wasn't sure how his best friend felt. He hadn't discussed anything like that with Taichi other than the other boy's fleeting iterest in Sora during their time in the Digital World.
"--san? Yamato-oniisan?"
"Eh?" Yamato flinched, startled. "Sorry, Hikari-chan. I was just thinking."
The girl gave her new brother a long, hard stare. "Okay." Inwardly she thought, Maybe I can help Oniichan after all by being here. What just happened? Does he maybe like Oniichan too?
Or was he thinking about Sora?
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"I don't wanna eat this." Takeru pouted and pushed the bowl of instant ramen away.
"Oh, come on, Takeru!" Taichi sighed.
"No. Mama and Oniichan never cook yucky things like this."
"It's ramen. EVERYBODY loves ramen!"
"I don't! I want Oniichan back!"
"Come on, kiddo, eat just a bit?"
"No."
"Please!"
"No!"
Tailmon rolled her eyes. "I traded Hikari for this?"
"You could have gone with her, you know."
"I'm keeping you sane."
Listening to the exchange, Takeru burst into tears. "I want Patamon!"
Taichi glared at the blonde. "You were the one who left him at home!"
"I didn't know I was sleeping over!"
"Tailmon's here!"
"I beg to differ, I think a visit with Palmon might just be what I need."
"Tailmon!"
"...fine, fine..."
Takeru continued to wail.
Taichi threw up his hands. "What was I thinking!?"
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At the Takenouchi house, Sora and Mimi sat giggling on the bed. "Come on, Sora-san, you can do it! Just try!"
Sora, whose face was already beet-red, held the phone in her hand. "I can't!"
"You can!"
Slowly the redhead dialed a familiar number, and lifted the phone to her ear, praying the elder Ishida wouldn't pick up.
In the target apartment, the phone rang. Yamato shut off the shower spray and called out, "Hikari-chan! Can you get the phone?"
Hikari, asleep at the table, groggily sat up and fumbled for the unfamiliar phone. "Ishida desu." [a/n Literally 'This is Ishida,' in this case 'Ishida residence.']
She was met with giggles on the other end of the line. "You sound odd. Did I wake you?"
"Huh?" Hikari blearily cleared sleep from her eyes.
"I have something really important to say, and I don't want you to say anything until I'm done." Hikari complied. "I want you to know that I've liked you for a long time, and I know we're friends, so I don't want to ruin out frienship, but I'd like to ask you out on a date."
Hikari's mouth dropped open as it finally registered what the other voice was saying. Sora! She's asking Yamato-oniisan out!? But what about Oniichan?
The silence on the other end was unbearable. "Um...Yamato? Are you there?"
The television droned on as the next day's weather conditions were announced. The water continued to beat against the opposite side of the wall. Hikari could hear the blonde singing to himself as he showered. And Taichi's voice. "I think maybe I really like him, but don't tell anyone, Hikari!"
Sora. "Yamato? Yamato! Answer me, please!"
Hikari dropped the phone.
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Shi-chan: Ooh, a plot. Imagine that!
Seki: We got some help with the suffixes. Thanks to Megchan and her blessed Dubbing Center, as well as Libek.
Shi-chan: And Kirri, of course!
Seki: Right. Again, Sugar Bombs aren't ours, this plot's not really ours either, but the writing is, so, like, don't steal our sentence structure?
Duo: Since when did you turn into Sugar?
Seki: *shivers* Don't say that name.