Disclaimer: I do not own Digimonor any other TV show, book or game. otherwise I would just incorporate my ideas into the actual thing.

AN: I do not currently have a Beta reader so I am checking it over myself but if someone would like to Beta read for me just message me. Also this Fic is goign to deal with issues such as suicide and possibly drugs

The Trials of Hope: America

Chapter 1: The Shooting

T.K. was depressed. It had been three whole week and he hadn't received any news from Kari or any of the other digidestined there apart from his brother Matt. He wished his friends would talk to him more as he felt very alone in America even after three weeks. This was mainly due to school not starting until a few weeks ago and his English not being all that good. A lot of the girls found him "cute" but he refused to flirt with them because of one thing. Kari. Kari was constantly on his mind however much he tried not to think of her. Kari had sent a couple of emails the first few days but then they just seamed to stop. He had only made one friend so far a boy called Willis however he had yet to go over to his house and to meet his family. On the other hand he had also never come over to T.K.s house either. School was tough because he had to learn every thing in English whereas he was far more comfortable to learn in Japanese. He had started to work on a way to reach the digital world just so he could talk to someone about all his problems but he didn´t think he had any chance of succeeding especially when Izzy had failed on several occasions. The only person that he thought might be able to do it apart from Izzy was Willis who was at least as good as Izzy if not better but T.K. Did not want to spread around the knowledge of the digital world. T.K. whished that there was someone who he could talk to about the digital world but all of the digidestined promised not to talk about it except to other digidestined. T.K. trudged up the road that lead to his new school without much enthusiasm as Willis wasn´t going to be there as he only came to school every other day because he was need at home to help on his farm and still managed to get the top grades as wellas doind advance courses.

As he sat down in home room he started to wonder whether or not it was actually worth it to come to school when the only lesson he actually managed to do well in was math which always used to be one of his worst subjects. That was one of the main things he found annoying about going to school here. At least Willis could speak Japanese, this was due to his old girlfriend, so they could actual have a decent conversation. As he was pondering all this one of the boys that was always causing him trouble came up to him and turned his opened bag upside down spilling the contents across the floor. T.K. just ignored this for a couple of minutes and then started to pack his things back into his bag. Just as he was zipping it shut a gunshot was heard in the corridor. T.K. was the only in the room not to freeze up and instantly ran to the door to lock it. However he was just a faction too late as the gun man had just turned the corner into his corridor as he leaned out to close the door he instantly slammed the door shut by using his momentum of hurling himself into the corridor. The gunman just walked slowly towards him his gun raised aiming at his chest. T.K. just thought that it was a good thing he might have managed to save the other students in his class. He put down his reaction speed to having to live by his wits in the digital world when half the time you were being attack but here he didn´t have the others to help him or even Patamon. He looked at the gunman and realised that he was one of the kids in the grade above him. T.K. saw a slight twitch in his finger and dived forwards towards the gunman. The shot hit his arm causing him to whimper in pain. But he just waited as the gunman got closer until he was almost within arms reach. At that point the gunman stopped and started to take careful aim at T.K.s head. T.K. took this opportunity to get up and punched the gunman with his uninjured arm. The boy recoiled due to the punch but T.K. fell to his knees from the pain in his right arm. The gunman then shouted "you bastard" and shot him in the left shoulder causing T.K. to collapse. The sound of running foot steps could be herd running down the connecting corridor. The gunman lifted up the 10 year old T.K. and pressed the gun to his side. T.K. Closed his eyes and thought "Shit how the hell am I going to survive this. Why did I have to act the hero." He heard several gunshots and felt an intense pain in his side. T.K. crumpled to the ground and blacked out.

AN: hope this ok for the opening I have all ready written the next chapter but will probably hold it until I get a Beta reader. If you have problems with my storyline then don´t complain I am not forcing you to read it. If I am being inconsistent though please tell me. Also I expect that there are spelling and gramma mistakes so don´t make too big a deal out of them as I am trying my hardest.