Odaiba Tales and Beyond

Chapter 1

Odaiba, the most beautiful place in the world according to some. This was especially true to Davis, it was his home and the one place that he felt like he belonged. This sorts of thoughts was common in this stage of his life. The fact of the matter was that most of his older Digidestined friends had left the for pursuing other opportunities, like going to university or finding a career of their respective choosing.

Davis on the other hand was in his senior year of high school or soon to be a graduate, in only a couple of minutes. Davis and the rest of the younger group had all been in the same school, except for Yolei, all preparing to leave for the same reasons the older group did, to prepare themselves for the future. As far he knew all of his friends had been accepted to various Universities. It was all he was hearing his friends talking about, not that he payed any attention to it because Davis were not gonna follow that path. When ever the topic came up he usually tried to change the subject or stop listening to the best of his ability. The thing he did know about his friends plans were the places he heard in their conversations they had with eachother, places like Kyoto and Osaka.

His friends were planning to leave and heading west it seemed like, away from him. The only familiar face he could spend time with was Cody because he was going to start his junior year. Daisuke still felt somewhat abandoned even though he would have Cody at home with him, but at the same time he knew he would leave too or eventually start hanging out with people his own age. 'Then there was one' Davis often thought to himself.

Davis future on the other hand was, "Sort of straight forward" like his father called it, to open a noodle cart after high school. It was still his dream the same as it was 7 years ago. It was sort of laughable to those who didn't know him but it was his dream and he would hold on to it like his life depended on it, no matter what the cost. His parents had went along and funded his choice to jump straight into "working life" as they called it. It was with some reluctancy they had decided to pay for the necessary equiptment and starting capital but Davis had made a great case for it so they went along with it. It came with a catch though, which Davis thought was fair. He were to live at home, all expenses paid with profit going in to the Motomiya household. If buisness were to not pay off after a certain amount of time, he would go back school and get a education. It was a good plan and he was happy they supported his decision, but the biggest catch in his book were the fact he would miss all of his friends and they would not be by his side. 'I'll make it work, and will be successful no matter what' was his answer to himself when ever he thought about his future and it was those words he gave to those who doubted him.

So there he was standing outside of his school, having left the rest of his graduating class and was standing all by himself, dressed in his school uniform with his diploma in hand. Davis had made the decision to sneak away from his fellow students who were in celebration because he knew that this era of his life was over. Davis had never been the smartest person but he knew when to fight and surrender and this time it was surrender. Surrender to the fact that he would lose something so precious to him that he could not stand it. He would be losing his friends, maybe forever because he could not possibly know what will happen in the future. Davis had also decided not to fight this either for the simple reason that he cared to deeply about them all and would do anything to see them happy.

People were now starting to exit the school area. Most of them were his fellow seniors, some of which were giving him happy greetings as they passed him. He replied with his trademark grin to most of them but his eyes were kept at the exit, searching those three special faces that he was looking for. When he finally did spot the three of them he gave them a even bigger grin and waved his two arms to show were he was. In reply they all called his name in unison with the biggest smiles he had ever seen either of them give before. Davis felt like the three of them were a uncontrolable fire of happiness coming at him and he was about to get burned, badly.

"Hey man, why did you leave?" T.K asked as the trio where almost standing in front of him.

"You know, why should i have stayed? I mean, why listen to the principal give some boring speech about the future?" Davis answered, trying to not sound as annoyed like he was.

"I thought it was a good speech actually. Really inspirational." Ken answered which was met with chuckles from the rest of the group.

"So what's happening now? Do you wanna hang out or something?" Davis asked followed by a shrug.

"I can't today, I have to get home and start packing. I think it's best to be getting it over with, you know." T.K answered while putting his arm around Kari. The gesture was met with her arm around his waist. Davis only responded with a nod and gave T.K a smile.

"I think I should go home too. I have a couple of relatives in town to celebrate graduation." Kari said with a smile directed at Davis. "I don't know for how long they will stay, but I will call you tomorrow.

Davis responded again with a simple nod and watched as his two friends bid their goodbyes. He watched the two walk down the street with their arms wrapped around eachother and he could see, even from a distance that they looked happy.

"Uhm, Davis?"

Davis had forgotten that Ken was part of their little post-graduation meeting. Davis turned to face his dark haired friend, he was starting to get frustrated with his friends at this point. Am i really that unimportant? Davis thought.

"Yeah Ken? I forgot you were standing there." Davis said with his eyes shifting to meet his blue haired friend.

"Is something wrong? You know you can always talk to me." Ken replied and put his hand on Davis' shoulder. Davis looked at his friend's hand before removing it.

"No. It's nothing, i was just hoping that we all could hang out today. That's all." Davis then turned to Ken so they were now facing eachother. "So you wanna hang out?" Davis added and then his friend a grin.

"Sure, if you don't mind tagging along to Tamachi first. I have to leave some stuff." Ken raised his right arm in which he was his diploma.

"Hmm Tamachi you say? Why not?" Davis replied while throwing his arm around Kens shoulders.

It was not the graduation day he expected, the four of them together in celebration after four years of torture. They weren't four friends but sometimes, one is just enough.

A/N: First chapter done. R&R if you want, i only hope you enjoyed it.

By: The Arn