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This is a yaoi story about Tai and Matt. A Yamachi. Tai=Uke Matt=Seme It's a pure angst with very little, if any, fluff. Which is very weird and different for me, but I was in a bad mood and I haven't written anything f whi while.

I am warning you now that if you don't like boy x boy relationships you'd better leave now. You flame, I kill, understand?

Disclaimer: Don't own 'em…I'd screw up Tai-chan so much that even the censors couldn't fix it. (I hate censors) I don't own the song either and I can't really remember who does at the moment either, but it's theirs and not mine.

Anyway, enjoy the story.

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A chestnut haired boy walked slowly down the lonely streets. His shocked mind didn't register the rain pouring down around him or the biting cold cutting through the thin sleeves of his shirt. All he could feel was the one thin line of blood still trickling down the side of his face and all he could think of was what had happened only an hour ago…

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The heavy wooden door burst open, as Taichi was slammed hard into it.

"Get in there you little bitch!"

Tai scrambled to get up off the floor in hopes of somehow getting away as his boyfriend stormed in, shutting and locking the door to his apartment.

"Miaki, I'm sorry!" Taichi cried. "Please, I didn't mean to! I didn't!"

Miaki grabbed Taichi's arm tightly and yanked him up off of the floor.

"Suddenly you're too good for me, huh my little Tai-chan?!" Miaki spat.

"No! Not at all!" Tai was frantic. "I didn't mean to Miaki! I promise I didn't!"

Taichi and Miaki had been walking home from the mall when Miaki suddenly spun around on Tai, dragging him back into an ally and pinning him up against the brick wall. Tai was terrified, Miaki had done this before and it had ended up with Tai going to the hospital, saying he fell down the stairs. He didn't know what Miaki was going to do this time. The older boy grabbed Tai's wrists and held him painfully to the wall as he leaned in to kiss Tai.

Still scared of what he might do, Tai acted on instinct and turned his head away from Miaki. Something he was never allowed to do.

Miaki had turned red with anger and after hitting Tai across the face once, had dragged him back to his apartment

"I'll teach you some manners!" Miaki shoved Tai back onto the floor.

"Miaki please, stop! I'm sorry!" Taichi pleaded as his boyfriend approached him.

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Tai shivered as the temperature continued to drop. He didn't even notice as the light turned red, didn't look up when he heard the car horn.

"Taichi!"

Tai felt himself being shoved to the ground, out of harms way. He slowly opened his eyes and saw a pair of worried blue ones staring into his. Tai quickly turned his head to the ground.

"Tai…what were you doing?"

No response as Tai continued to just stare at the ground.

Yamato had seen Tai step in front of that car. Did he not see it or was he trying to get himself hurt?

'No…this is Tai we're talking about…' Yamato's mind told him. '…but…then why?'

Tai still hadn't moved or spoken.

"Taichi?"

Concerned, Matt gently gripped Tai's chin in his hand and raised his head so they were eye to eye.

Matt gasped and drew up in shock.

Tai's face was terribly cut up and as he quickly glanced over the rest of the boy, he assessed that the rest of him wasn't in any better shape. He was black and blue all over and blood was still dripping from some open wounds.

"Tai…what happened to you…?" Matt asked, shocked.

Matt looked back up into Tai's eyes and saw so much fear and sadness there that it truly scared him.

Matt's shock quickly turned to anger as he saw the tears in Tai's eyes.

"Who did this to you Taichi!?" Tai couldn't answer. He began to shake his head back and forth slowly, wrapping his arms around himself and crying.

Matt's eyes softened, this wasn't the time for questions.

Yamato pulled Tai into a hug, letting the distraught boy cry into his chest.

"Shhh…it's alright Tai…" Matt soothed. "It's alright…"

Matt finally felt the cold register in and realized that Tai was wearing only jeans and a long sleeved t-shirt.

Prying the sobbing boy away from his chest momentarily, Mpullpulled off his jacket and wrapped it around the brunette's shaking shoulders.

"C'mon Tai…" Matt said gently. "We need to get you out of the cold before you freeze to death…"

Tai nodded slightly and allowed Matt to help him to his feet.

Yamato wrapped his arms around Tai's shoulders, supporting him as he guided him down the sidewalk.

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The two boys reached Matt's apartment. His father was still at work and would be till tomorrow night so they had the whole place to themselves.

Matt led Tai to the couch.

"Stay here okay Tai? I'll be right back."

Matt ran to the closet and got some towels, blankets, and bandages.

Yamato returned to the living room to find Tai not on the couch, but curled up in a corner of the room, knees pulled up to his chest, chin resting on his arms.

Now Matt knew there was something else really wrong with Tai. Something he couldn't see. Something beyond his physical injuries.

"Tai…" Matt whispered, approaching the smaller boy as he would a wild animal. "Tai…It's Matt, okay?" The blonde kneeled next to Tai as the boy continued to stare straight past him, unseeing, as though he were watching a scene that Matt couldn't see…

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