A/N: Hi-hi~! This is a Digimon fanfic that is going to be Hikari heavy. I'm not entirely sure of the pairings that are going to take place in the story. I don't have a concrete plan for this story yet, but rather just small idea of what I'd like to see. With that in mind, I do not own Digimon or any other references that may come up in the story. This is simply written for fun, enjoy~


Chapter 1: "A Nightmare Unknown"

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A shivering breeze swept through the horizon as an otherwise still world rested. Despite the chill of the breeze, no sound accompanied the winds beside that of water drops hitting an enormous ocean. Within this setting a young brunette stood surrounded by the water. The water around only reaching her ankles as slowly the teen's eyes opened. As if in a daze, the young woman looked around her surroundings perplexed. Again, again she was drawn to this strange place. It was a place she was all too familiar with, yet unaware of at the same time. It chilled her bones and tightened her nerves as if the air around would suffocate her at any moment. Color from the world appeared lacking and nothing but the sound of waves could be heard.

Why? Why had she been summoned to this place? Turning around, the brunette's warm hazel eyes tried to examine the area in hopes of recognizing exactly where she had been drawn to. This was as always to no avail; the young woman was at a loss as to where she was. As the water beneath hugged around her legs, panic began to overtake the girl. Her heart race increased as breathing became a struggle. A chilling voice filled the air with a single simple sentence that caused the girl's breathing to stop and heart to speed faster if even possible. "Let go…"

"YAHHHHHH!" In a single moment those same hazel eyes shot open as the teenager practically leaped from her bed in a panic. Huffs escaped young Yagami Hikari as her chest felt tight and the air thin. This dream was one she had been continuously having for several weeks now. Cold, salty sweat plunged from her forehead as the girl slowly and shakily closed her eyes and attempted to regain her composure. Despite the fact that nothing particularly terrible happened in these reoccurring dreams, something within Hikari told her these were neither normal or good dreams.

After being able to steady her breathing and heart rate, Hikari made an effort to allow her eyes to look at her alarm clock. The bright green numbers showed the same time they did every single night- 4:08. She let out an irritated sigh, before quietly turning on a small light within her room. Being so early in the morning, the last thing the girl wanted was to wake any of her family members; this particularly included her older brother. This past month was not the first she had experienced such dreams. In fact, it was probably around the time that she was 8 years old that these dreams seemed to begin plaguing her. For a while it had appeared as if such dreams had left her and with age she had assumed whatever the symbolism for the dream had been that it had served its purpose. Because she was older in age, Hikari believed that whatever plagued her when she had been younger would have been outgrown. Apparently as the past month had proven, this had not been the case.

In the past such dreams were easily overcome by comforting words she received from her brother, Taichi. He was constantly looking out for her and Hikari knew that if anything were to ever bother her, she would be able to rely on him to assist her. That being said, she no longer felt that would be the case. Taichi was now sixteen years old and in his sophomore year of high school. Hikari herself was now thirteen years of age and in junior high. This age difference led her to begin feeling as though she was no longer able to rely on her brother because she needed to become strong herself. However, just because she said it so, did not mean this happened as she wished it had. Hikari had been struggling for weeks trying to be strong and fight whatever it was that was drawing her to the Dark World of her dreams, but it was not something that was easily done.

Letting out a soft sigh, the girl swung her feet around to the side of her bed before slowly placing weight upon them. Her hazel eyes looked to her window and wondered if anyone would even be up at such an hour. She allowed her body to move to the window before slowly opening the class door. Instantly a cool refreshing breeze tickled her skin. This breeze was much different than the breeze in her dream. When she was in that Dark World it felt as though literal darkness was surrounding her. It was much different than the darkness of night, but instead felt like pure darkness. Even the thought was difficult for her to completely understand, however, the differences to her felt like night and day. Whatever the case, in this instant, Hikari drew in a fresh breath of air and let out a sigh of relief. For at least the next day until night came once more, she would be free from the nightmare that continued to plague her.


Before too long the sun began to slowly peak above the horizon and shine light over the land of Japan. For the past three hours Hikari had sat out on the balcony of her family's apartment and looked out over the city of Odaiba. After having her bad dreams it was nearly impossible for her to go back to sleep. She was not entirely sure why it was so hard, everyone had nightmares, but she didn't know anyone who allowed those nightmares to keep them from losing sleeps days if not weeks on hand. It was something she yearned to discuss with someone, anyone. Alas, Hikari did not know how to bring the conversation up. When looking to those around her, the girl always found herself jealous of her friends that had no problem voicing their thoughts and feelings. It seemed as though discussing what was on their mind came easy to them. For the brunette, she had never been able to openly discuss her feelings with those around her. Now, clearly Hikari was close with those she called her friends and it had nothing to do with not being able to trust them; however, it was a level of comfort she just could not break.

A quiet sliding noise distracted Hikari from her thoughts as she turned her body to look at the person joining her on the balcony. A young boy with messy chocolate hair slowly made his way out of the apartment with eyes fixated on the girl wrapping her arms around her knees. "Oniichan." This was more of a statement acknowledging her brother's presence than a question as to why he was joining her on the balcony.

Taichi stared at his sister for longer than most would feel comfortable with. His eyes studied her, noting that she had indeed been up for hours. This was not something he wished to bring up, but instead let out a soft yawn before allowing his body to stretch and loosen his muscles. "Yo, does it look nice out today?"

Having not received any questions from her brother, Hikari let out a soft sigh of relief and turned to look at the sun slowly making its appearance. "There has been a nice breeze. Do you have football practice today?"

"Yeah, I'm getting together with some of the guys after classes get out. Can you believe it's already summer vacation? Time sure does fly doesn't it?" He stated with a hint of happiness to his tone. His thoughts focused on all the time he would now have to play football as opposed to stress over algebra or examinations.

"You've only been counting down since last August. I'm surprised you think it's sneaked up on you." Hikari replied with a slight giggle to her voice. At this comment, Taichi allowed his hand to rest upon his sister's head and slowly ruffle her hair beneath his palm. This action earned a yelp from the teen as she shifted position to get away from her attacking brother. "Oniichan…" The brunette puffed as she pursed out her lips and narrowed her eyes to the older boy.

This caused Taichi to chuckle as he turned from his sister and proceeded towards the apartment door. "You should really stop gawking at the sun. Today would be a terrible day to have to serve detention."

Letting out a sigh that hinting at her exhaustion, Hikari shifted her body to stand from the ground and head towards her apartment just as her brother had. Opening the door to her bedroom the brunette wondered if she had made a mistake in not mentioning her dream to her brother. Normally if something had been bothering her it had seemed as though Taichi would have sensed it and brought it up in conversation somehow. Perhaps she was thinking more into this dream than she needed to. After all, how could a dream about being at an ocean be bad? It wasn't as though she were in trouble in her dream at all… or was she?


A/N: Kind of an uninteresting chapter. I felt like I needed to set the story up before really diving in. Throughout the chapter I really debated on where I was going to have this story fall. I finally decided that this is a post Adventure story with Zero Two never taking place. That means they have never been to the Dark World and know nothing about it. Also some of the more irritating parts of Zero Two never happened such as Daemon being exiled to the Dark World. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and continue reading the updates!