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[Tai & Matt]

Tai and Matt headed out North from the cliff edge into the dense, green forest. They looked around for suitable wood, but, whilst they were 'looking', they mostly just walked around with their hands in their pockets. They had, for the last few minutes, been making small, idle chitchat without much thought.

"So…" Tai muttered after their most recent topic had come to an abrupt ending "you and Sora?"

Matt stopped walking and a tired, half-expectant smirk crossed his face. Tai looked at him with a slightly apologetic look, but he didn't retract his question, curious.

"Well," Matt started, leaning against a tree trunk "there was a thing and then there was another thing and her mother didn't like me and my dad didn't like her and T.K. was useless and then she broke my guitar string and I lost her lipstick."

"Why did you have her lipstick?"

"Halloween,"

"I'm going to have to believe that, even though I'm not entirely sure I do," Tai stated blatantly.

"I'm willing to accept that," Matt returned before returning to his vague explanation "and then there must've been a million and one fights about the most pointless stuff, like how I'm messy and she's naggy and you and me and my band and everything else, so, in the end, we just decided it would be better if we didn't see each other."

"Oh OK…" Tai responded, sounding confused as he pondered everything Matt said, but he snapped his head up when something caught his attention "wait, what did she mean 'you and me'?"

"It's nothing!" Matt exclaimed, attempting to keep a straight face "it's just that she kept on bringing up the time when we were going up against VenomMyotismon and you held my hand-"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Tai interrupted, "I held whose hand? I believe you held my hand because you were, and I quote, 'scared'."

"No, you held my hand, I mean, out of the two us you are the most likely to want to hold someone's hand."

"Um, no, Crest of Courage here, I don't need to hold someone's hand. You're the Crest of Friendship; naturally you'd want some contact or something. You asked to hold my hand."

"Well, I think you're wrong!"

"Well you study science, you should know that it doesn't matter what you think; the fact is you wanted to hold my hand!"

"Do you wanna start something here? Is this gonna be a fight?"

"Well it might be, but don't worry, if you get scared you can hold my hand," Tai taunted by gesturing his hand slightly camply.

"Y'know what? There's only one way to settle this," Matt leered, Tai was silent in anticipation until Matt extended his hand "hold my hand."

Tai was silent as he stared at his best friend for a moment.

"So, you admit you asked to hold my hand?" Tai queried confused. Matt shook his head.

"It's something I heard; the way you hold someone's hand shows the relationship. Depending on how you hold my hand will decide who's dominant and who's submissive in the relationship and the submissive one will be forever be known as the one who asked to hold the other's hand." Matt explained, but Tai didn't look impressed.

"So," Tai hesitated, "you're going to try and disprove that you asked to hold my hand by asking to hold my hand?"

"Yes, now shut up and do it," Matt said without even blinking.

Tai stared at the blonde for a short moment, but he soon sighed as he allowed himself to relent. He took a step closer to Matt and raised his hand until it was a breadth away from Matt's.

"On 3," Matt stated, "1, 2…3."

On the signal, they both latched onto each other, entwining their fingers with one another's. Once their hands were locked in, Matt lifted their hands up to eye-level and looked at the positions of their fingers. He looked at each digit for a small second before moving onto the next until he came to Tai's thumb, resting upon his own. At the final digit, Matt stopped, but he didn't reveal the answer whilst Tai looked at him expectantly.

"Well?" Tai asked impatiently.

Matt still didn't reply as he stared at their hands locked together. It was clear that Matt wasn't happy with the result and Tai could see it in his best friend's face and he began to grin. His chest began to heave quickly as he attempted to supress the laughter as he gleaned the answer from Matt's overly expressive face. Matt looked into Tai's toothy face and he began to pout like a child when he loses a board game. However, Matt didn't react like most children would. As fast as a speeding bullet Matt leaned forward to get right in Tai's face, he moved so quickly Tai didn't even have time to stop grinning like the Cheshire Cat when Matt pressed his lips to Tai's. But Tai soon grasped the concept of what was happening, his smile dropped, but before he could think to open his mouth to respond he could only use his eyes to follow the blonde-topped blur running further into the forest; there were no defining features just a colour-layered smudge disappearing into the forest.

"What the-?" Tai murmured.

His jaw had dropped far down at the shock of what had just transpired. His wide eyes looked around for something to hold on to, but instead of resting his body against a tree, he decided to lightly use his fist to punch the tree. He didn't punch hard, but the tree didn't understand that as it snapped in half where Tai's fists tapped it. The tree trunk, one of the few that had managed to stay completely in tact, fell to the ground with the greatest thud Tai had ever heard. Tai was now staring at the destroyed tree that had fallen simply by his act of tapping it. His jaw dropped further, if that was at all possible and he could not help but ask himself the question once more.

"What the-?" Tai couldn't even get the whole question out, but it was less than a polite phrase.

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Matt couldn't stop himself from running and he couldn't control how fast he was going, but he wasn't exactly complaining. If it meant getting away from Tai after that, well, let it be.

Of course, it only took a moment for Matt to realise that he didn't actually know where he was going, he was moving to fast to gather his bearing and he didn't know how to get back to the cliff. The other problem was that he couldn't seem to stop his legs from moving and, whilst that might be fine for some situations, it seemed that there was a different cliff edge getting closer very quickly. Not that Matt could react fast enough before he was already in mid-air.

Then, gravity took effect, Matt had finally stopped moving his legs, but now he was heading straight down. He began to scream at the top of his lungs as he plummeted further down, staring into the empty ravine in which a river used to flow. Matt shut his eyes as he waited for the crash into the earth and then the wait was over as he made contact.

What was confusing was how he seemed to sink into the earth, how cold and wet it was. Matt opened his eyes, but had to close them again when he was exposed to so much blue.

'Blue?' Matt thought to himself, but then he realised 'water!'

Matt flicked his head upwards and he frantically began to swim until he burst through the surface, flicking his hair like a fabulous hair advert as he did so. He looked around him and quickly spotted his little brother and Joe standing at the river's edge staring at him blankly with rising chests like they were scared. Of course, you would be too if a man had just fallen from the sky into a mysteriously appearing river of pure water and then did the single best hair flick you'd ever seen.

Matt smiled and waved slightly nervously at the two of them.

"Hi guys!"

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