Hey guys, this is my first published fic and I hope you guys enjoy it. I'm going to try and update every Monday, so check in then if you like the story. Also please read and review, anything is welcome, though constructive stuff is preferred =)

Also, sadly (or not depending on whether you like this story or not) I don't own digimon =(

Chapter 1 Where do I Belong?

Tai

That morning was the first time that I had been excited in nearly two months. I don't mean the 'hey schools out we get to go home', or 'I just scored the winning goal in our soccer game' type of excited. No I still managed to feel those despite the semi depression I was in.

No this excitement was because I could start getting myself out of the depression today. I bet your wondering what depression I'm talking about right? How could Tai Kamiya, the happy go lucky leader of the Digidestined, be depressed? That's the easy part, a girl. I mean what else? What else can set a teenager off so much he stops enjoying life so much?

Of course this wasn't just any girl, it was the girl. Her name was Sora Takenouchi, and she's been my best friend since we were six years old. That was probably the problem; I didn't really realize my feelings for her until I was about twelve, and by then we'd become inseparable best friends, and I didn't want to ruin that friendship, cause I mean how could Sora like me as anything more than a friend. So I kept it buried, or at least I thought I did. My friends tried talking to me about it a few times because I wasn't really as unobvious as I thought. I agreed that I should admit that I should have told her, but I chickened out. Me the Digidestined of Courage afraid to talk to my best friend about my feelings for her.

But of course it wasn't that simple, she was beautiful, smart, and funny. She got good grades, was the captain of our schools tennis team and was an intern at one of the local fashion designers in Tokyo. So how could she like me at all? So I just let it go. Eventually though I did work up the courage to talk to her. Mostly because I was just getting tired from waiting, so I decided to tell her, unfortunately I waited too long.

I tried to ask her to this concert, and I'll admit I didn't really do a good job at telling her anything, but she just told me she was waiting on someone else, one of my closest friends Matt Ishida. I was crushed, and left, after encouraging her. Yea that's right I encouraged the girl that I liked to go talk to my best friend. Of course I realized what I had done wrong after the event was over and resolved to tell Sora my feelings after the concert, just to clear them off of my chest. Of course that never happened because of a digimon attack, and before I knew it Sora and Matt were dating.

I actually hated Matt for a while. I mean he was my closest guy friend and he asked the girl that he knew I liked out. But then I remembered that Sora had chosen him, and I let it go, deciding that whatever made Sora happy would be good for me. That sounds so cheesy, I know, but I really felt that way. So things were ok for a while. I wasn't as happy as I could have been and I'm sure it showed especially when I hung out with both Sora and Matt, but it was my own fault, and at least I still had Sora the best friend.

Then about two months ago Sora's behavior did a 180. Usually she was always happy to see me, but that day something must have pissed her off, because when I sat down at her table, she just stood up and left. I was pretty surprised and figured that she had just wanted to be left alone, but when I got up a few minutes later I noticed her sitting with the tennis team laughing like she normally would. This surprised me but I had to get to class so I decided to talk to her about it later.

After classes that day I waited for Sora at the spot where me, Matt, and her usually met to walk home. She and Matt showed up after a minutes of waiting. They were talking happily, though Sora stopped the second she saw me. Matt greeted me and we continued on our way, now with me and Matt chatting about his upcoming concert.

When we reached the apartment building we lived in Sora took off running into it, leaving me and Matt behind. That was different from our usual ritual which consisted of us walking Sora to her apartment, then heading off to ours. Me and Matt were completely confused.

~Flashback~

"What's wrong with her?" I asked Matt.

"I dunno, has she done anything else weird today?" He replied not looking at me as we headed into the building.

"Yea, at lunch I sat down with her like I normally do and she flipped and ran off." I said, starting to get a bit concerned, "I assumed she was just upset about something, but when I left the Cafeteria she was sitting with the tennis team, perfectly fine."

"That is pretty weird." Matt said, sounding as confused as I was. "Maybe she just didn't want to hang out with guys today. I mean she's been hanging out with either me or you for pretty much the last few months, maybe she needs a break."

"Yea that's probably it." I replied.

"Yea, I wouldn't worry about it, I'm sure she'll be fine tomorrow. You wanna hang after I finish practice?"

"Sure, let me know when you're done and I'll come over." I said as I exited the elevator.

~End Flashback~

Unfortunately things didn't go back to normal. Sora would either avoid me, ignore me, or yell at me. Every time I asked her what was the matter she'd just get angry, and unfortunately I've never really been one to think before speaking, so we'd get into big arguments, way worse than any argument that we'd ever gotten into before.

Eventually I decided to be the bigger person and apologize, but she just ignored me, and I didn't understand. What was the matter with her? What had I done to piss her off?

As this got worse, my life seemed to get worse. Sora and Matt were my best friends, and I couldn't go near them without pissing Sora off. For the first time in my life I didn't know where I belonged.

So that leads us to today. Today was an anniversary of ours. It was the day that I had saved Sora from Datamon and for the last few years we had gotten together on this day to celebrate that. We'd promised that we'd always be friends and this was one of the things that we did to always affirm that.

Now onto that day. I jumped out of bed with a spring that I hadn't had for months, and continued with the same spring out into the living room. My little sister Kari obviously noticed how much more cheerful I looked.

"Wow, I haven't seen you this happy in ages!" She says in greeting as I sit down at the table. I smile back at her. Kari and me had always been close, much more so than your typical brother and sister, and she'd been deeply concerned for me. She knew how much I liked Sora and when Sora and Matt had started dating she knew I had been devastated. She's helped me through that and was noticeably concerned when I'd regressed with Sora ignoring me.

"Yea, it's the anniversary today, and I'm pretty sure I should be able to get Sora to tell me what the problem is, then I can fix it!" I told her excitedly, and she smiled.

"Good, because I want my happy big brother back!" She said as she gave me a one armed hug. After she let go I wandered into the kitchen thinking about what I should make for my breakfast when our front door shot open.

"Good Morning!" A loud voice shouted as Davis Motomiya barged into our house.

"Good Morning Davis!" Me and Kari shouted, laughing a bit. Davis walked into the kitchen carrying several bags. Davis had become very close to my family over the last few months. Him, me, and Kari had always been good friends, mostly because me and Davis had played soccer together and Kari and Davis went to the same school. This had been helped along by Davis's long time crush on Kari. That had come to a screeching halt when Kari started dating Davis and her friend T.K., who happened to be Matt's little brother.

That had brought me and Davis closer, since we both had to live without the girl we liked. Our bond had been reinforced and I'd had come to view Davis as a younger brother. Luckily for Davis, Kari had still been willing to be his friend and the two had actually established the same sort of bond, a brother- sister bond. Davis had become an unofficial part of our family over the last few months. Davis for his part had really needed it. He had been having a lot of trouble getting along with his sister and mother at home, and his dad was too busy working to help Davis much, so we had helped him instead.

I looked at the bags that Davis had brought with him. Davis had become an unofficial cook for the Kamiya family since he was trying to start his own noodle cart business. We were his favorite guinea pigs for new recipes. Me and Kari actually really enjoyed it since even his bad recipes were better than moms food.

"What do we have here?" I ask as I go to look in the bag.

"It's for lunch Tai, so you'll have to wait." Davis told me.

I sighed and decided some cereal would be good for this morning. After I finished that up I decided to head to the park. Me and Sora hadn't really talked about today at all, but I was sure she was going to be there, after all we'd promised each other that we would always spend that day together at the park.

I said my goodbyes to Kari and Davis then ran almost the entire distance to the park. Out of breath I plopped down on the hill where me and Sora always meet and just relaxed. Looking up into the sky I just sat and watched the clouds, confident that Sora would arrive at any second.

An hour went by. Then a second. I was starting to get a little concerned at this point. What happens if she doesn't come? I ask myself.

She'll come, she made a promise to you, she won't break it! Another part of me shouted, and I nodded, laying back and looking back at the clouds. I traced all sorts of different patterns in the clouds. It took me a couple of minutes to figure out that all of the patterns I was tracing were similar, they were all digimon. I laughed to myself a bit, thinking back to the last time that I had been to the digital world.

That kept me occupied for the next hour. When I had finally run out of things to think about I sat up, looking around. There were a few couples wandering through the park and some kids playing on the playground, all pretty typical for a Sunday afternoon in the park.

I pulled out my digivice to check the time. It was nearly three in the afternoon, and I started to get a little upset. Is she really not going to come? Is she going to break that promise?

Aren't promises meant to be broken? Another tiny voice asked in the back of my head.

No. The other part said quietly.

Well this wouldn't be the first one she's broken. The other voice shot back. We should just leave, why waste the day waiting?

I have to say the other voice was sounding really tempting, but what happened if she showed up a few minutes after I left? I started wondering if I'd ever be able to leave the park that day when I remembered something. I had a cell phone.

Feeling like an idiot I called Sora quickly. The phone rang once then went to voice mail.

Huh? I wondered, then called again, with the same result. What was happening hit me suddenly, she was ignoring my calls. I felt a huge hole open in the bottom of my stomach. All the pain that I'd been able to ignore for months suddenly came pouring in. I gasped a little at the feeling. I'm pretty sure I'd never felt anything that horrible in my life ever.

It took me a few minutes but I eventually got off of the hill I was on, and started walking down it. I don't really know what made me choose that side of the hill since it was almost directly away from my apartment, but I think it was fate, just like what happened next.

I tripped on one of the tree roots on the hill side and began tumbling down the hill. I'd always been just a little clumsy outside of the soccer field, but this was a new extreme. Eventually I reached the bottom of the hill, being stopped by a bench there at the bottom.

That wasn't fun. I thought rubbing the back of my head, which had hit the bench, and my leg which was pretty cut up from my fall. The people on the bench had jumped up when I hit it, and I looked up to apologize to them. I opened my mouth, but stopped when I saw who it was. The person on the right was fairly tall, in fact as tall as I was, and had blue eyes and blond hair. The girl on the left was pretty tall, though a few inches shorter than the boy. She had reddish-brown hair and the most beautiful crimson eyes I had ever seen.

"Matt…Sora…"

Oh snap, things are really not going well for Tai. Will things turn around for him? Maybe he can have a nice chit chat with Matt and Sora? Who know? Tune in next time to find out.