Author's Note: Hello there. I'm 'For The Love of Tiger Lilies', but you can call me Lelaine. I haven't written in such a long time and I just recently decided to take up into fan fiction again. I have one story up, and this shall be my second. This will be my first attempt at a Digimon fan fiction, and I hope it will be to your liking.
This is an "AU" and the rating for the time being will be at T. It may change into M if I ever decide it needs to be changed.
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon. If I did, well... I don't know. My imagination isn't quite up to par right now to think of a witty plan for what I would do. (:
Chapter One: Promises.
A knock at the door stirred the twelve year old redhead from her sleep. She groaned, the sun hitting her half lidded eyes. She groaned louder when the knock at the door came again. "Sora, Matt and Tai are here. They said something about playing soccer?"
Sora Takenouchi sat up in her bed, rubbing her eyes from sleep. It took her a moment to register what her mother had said to her through the door. Once it sunk it, Sora's deep ruby eyes widened. "Oh crap!" Quickly, a voice through the door scolded her. "Language Sora!" Sora's mother absolutely hated when her daughter swore. It certainly wasn't lady like. With a sigh, the only adult in the house put her hand to her forehead and started to walk down the hall, not before she called out to Sora. "I'll tell them to wait in the living room."
The redhead hurriedly got herself dressed, pulling on a yellow tank top and tugging on some jeans after stripping herself from her pajamas. With pants too long she opened her bedroom door and hopped across the hall into the bathroom. The noise made the heads of two boys in the living room raise a brow in the direction. The both shrugged and looked back to the television, watching Saturday morning cartoons. "I still can't believe Ash is only ten. After three years." They both agreed to this statement.
In the bathroom, Sora applied the white tooth paste onto her toothbrush, put it under the water for a split second then put the brush into her mouth. Struggling with one hand brushing her teeth, her other hand worked the hair brush to flatten the unruly locks of orange-red. With a frustrated grunt, Sora placed the hair brush by the bathroom sink and spit out the toothpaste. She rinsed her mouth and toothbrush and placed it back on its stand. Deathly staring at her reflection in the mirror she shook her head and reached her hands up to mess up her hair.
The twelve year old girl stomped back over to her room and grabbed her hat, tugging it on her head. She slipped on some socks and met the two boys around her age in her living room. Their eyes were glued intently on to the screen that he didn't notice the girl's presence. That didn't bother her, not one bit. In fact, she joined them on the couch to watch one of their favorites 'Pokémon'. Sora raised a brow, trying to decipher which episode it was with only watching three minutes of it. "Is this the one where Ash says goodbye to Butterfree?" The brunette boy beside her nodded. "Yeah." His matching chocolate brown eyes never once strayed from the television screen.
That was Tai Kamiya. His gravity defying hair defined him, other than his trademark goggles he wore. Know one knew exactly why he wore them, he never went swimming with them on anyway. He said they made him look cool. Tai was in Sora's grade and class, he was one of the loud ones and had a lot of spirit to him. Many looked up to him as the leader type.
"We should get going," the second and last of the two boys on the couch commented. The boy's name was Matt Ishida. Well, actually he was Yamato, but don't ever call him that. He'd have your head on the playground any day. He was a blond boy who seemed to put jell in his hands and run his fingers in his hair in every which way. Sapphire eyes were eyes that were supposed to tell all the soul's secrets, but he was the exception. He usually kept to himself, no one wondered why. They merely accepted it.
Sora snapped out of the cartoon show's trance and nodded, standing up to block Tai's view of the TV and turning it off. "Yeah, plus. Didn't you say the others were going to meet up with us, too?" Quickly jumping off the couch and onto his feet, Tai grabbed the soccer ball and jolted out the door. "Mom's going to kill me! I told Kari I'd be there fifteen minutes ago!" Matt's sapphire eyes widened and he soon followed Tai out the door. "Oh man, TK!" Sora laughed and walked out the door, calling to her mom wherever she was in the house. "Mama, I'll be back before dinner!" With that, Sora exited the apartment, closing the door behind her.
Hearing her daughter's footsteps quicken and become heavy as Sora fought to keep up with the boys, the woman let out a sigh. "One of the boys."
They finally reached the park where they met up with four other children. One had blue hair and thick lenses for glasses. On his side was a bag with a red cross with it. Leave it to Joe to bring a first aid kit to a friendly game of soccer. He sat on the bench with two other kids. The girl beside him wore a pink cowboy hat, pink dress, and pink socks of all things. If you could sum the girl up in one word, it would be pink. But that was only at first glance. If you knew her like the group of children did, the word would be "Mimi". Mimi was truly the girliest of girls. She didn't like mud, grass, or anything that would get her dress or dirty blonde, almost brown hair dirty. She hated spiders and anything that could crawl.. "Izzy, they're finally here!" Izzy was the boy sitting next to her typing furiously away on his laptop. After a few more key strokes, his eyes looped up from the screen of his laptop with a grin. "Prodigious! Now we can start the game." Izzy was a short boy with red hair. Not as light as Sora's, but red none the less. He was known as the smartest of the group, though a year younger than most. Wise beyond his years, others would say.
"I'll sit this one out." Joe pushed his glasses up on the bridge of his nose as he watched Tai, Sora, and Matt join the rest of the group of children. From the playground just a couple of ways away, two younger kids met up with their brothers. A short little girl with green hair and a whistle around her neck went straight to Tai, tugging his hand. "Where were you?" Beside her was her best friend TK. "Yeah, Kari's been worried sick!" On his head he wore a green and blue hat, on his shoulders a green backpack. This blond hair made it apparent he was Matt's younger brother.
Matt smirked down at the younger boy. "Oh. So you weren't worried at all?" TK shook his head no to which Kari rolled her eyes. Tai laughed and patted his sister on the head. "Don't worry about it, kid. I'm here now. So who's ready to play some soccer?" Tai looked back at Joe, Mimi, and Izzy. Sora went over to the girl dressed in Pink and reached for her hands, begging. "Come on, Mimi. We need it to be fair! Two girls, two boys!" Mimi, usually stubborn sighed and gave in. "Alright."
Teams were picked and it was Tai and Mimi versus Matt and Sora. Izzy was on his laptop, trying to find out the physics formula and solve it in order to help Tai, Matt, and Sora improve their skills for next weekend's game. Joe stood there, calling out encouraging things to the girls while TK and Kari shouted and rooted for their respected brothers.
By the end of the game, Sora and the two other boys were covered in mud and grass stains while Mimi stood clean as ever. Matt and Sora won and were celebrating while Tai was scolding Mimi for being such a girl and not getting a pass to avoid getting her shoes muddy. Matt and Sora had their arms around each others shoulders as they laughed, recalling embarrassing moments during the game. Sora wiped the dirt off her face only to put more mud on her cheeks. Matt laughed and Sora raised a brow not understanding what was so funny.
Soon, parents had come to the playground and field, calling out their children's names. "Izzy! It's time for dinner!" The red head closed his laptop and placed it into his laptop bag strapped onto his back. "Well guys. I'll see you soon. I've figured out the physic's formula, and let me say. With this, you guys will be absolutely prodigious!" With his goodbye said, he turned to leave.
"Mimi!" Another voice echoed. "Mimi!" The girl with the pink cowboy hat waved her hand goodbye, sad to leave but happy to be away from Tai's scolding "Bye you guys!" She then turned to Joe with a smile. "You need a ride? We live in the same apartment after all." Joe nodded and waved his goodbye to the rest of them, holding onto the strap of the first aid kit bag. "Bye guys. I'll see you next weekend." Joe went to a different school than the rest of them. The two walked up the steps and disappeared into Mimi's parent's car.
In a matter of minutes, Tai and Kari's mom bellowed out in an angry voice. "Taichi! Look at your clothes. I have to wash them again?" Kari laughed and pointed at her older brother. "Mom's mad at you!" Tai rolled his eyes and waved to his three other friends before him and Kari we're off. "Kari, shut your trap! We both get the punishment with Mom's cooking."
Sora, Matt, and TK were left laughing in the middle of the field. Their laughter was stopped by a young woman who happened to be Matt and TK's mom. "Takeru, it's time to go home now." She called out from the top of the steps. She smiled noticing her other son. "Oh, Yamato, you're welcomed to join us for dinner! I'll drop you off at your dad's after supper." Matt and TK's mom was the only woman ever allowed, well more like person, to call them by their full first names. Matt and TK's parents were divorced. Matt lived with his Dad, TK with his mother. TK hugged Sora goodbye and ran up the stairs to meet with his mom. Matt looked back at Sora and smiled. "So, we're counting on the only girl on our team to help us out next weekend. You'll be there, right?" Sora smiled back at the blond and held her fist out. "You know it!" With a fist bump, Matt followed TK up the stairs and Sora was left alone in the field for only a few seconds before she went back to her own apartment to have dinner with her mother.
The week had gone by fast and it was now the day of the big game. Sora stayed in bed, staring up at the white ceiling. She turned on her left side to look at all her belongings packed in brown boxes that said, "Sora's room" across the sides. Tears dared to fall; however, Sora had no more energy to cry. She had spent the whole week crying as she packed up everything in the small apartment building, taking the week off from school. The first few days from head aches due to the crying, the last couple of days in the week to help her mother pack. Who knew they had so much stuff.
"Sora, honey, the van's here. We have to put the boxes in the van now. Can you help?" Sora silently got out of bed, got dressed, and helped her mother with the boxes. Once they were all in the van, they got in it and drove to the school's soccer field where Sora's mother allowed her to say her final goodbyes to all her friends. Walking to the middle of the field where the rest of her friends were, they all looked at her with grim faces. It was obvious they had lost, and if Tai wasn't captain obvious.
"Sora, where've you been the whole week? You don't look well. Are you still sick? We needed you. We got pummeled. I didn't have my left wingman!" Matt frowned as well, noticing something was wrong with Sora and it wasn't that she had the flu or a cold. Mimi noticed this too and went to Sora's side. "Awh, hon. What's wrong?" Sora looked down at her shoes, her hand rubbing an arm to muster up the courage to tell him the news. Izzy, looking concerned, was the first to speak. "You can tell us." Kari nodded and walked to Sora's side as well, grasping on to her head. "Yeah, we're all friends after all!"
Sora forced her head up to look at them all, the tears finally falling. "I'm... Moving." In unison, the seven other friends proclaimed in shock, "What?" Sora only nodded. "You can't go, Sora!" TK stood in front of her, looking up at her ruby eyes with his own sapphire that mimicked Matt's. "We're all supposed to be friends forever, remember?" Sora nodded, a sad smile plastered on her lips. "Yeah.." Her voice was weak and it was obvious that she no longer believed that. Tai shook his head, noticing the tone in her voice. "And we'll always be friends forever. No matter how many miles separate us!" Sora's smile turned real. Joe became curious. "And.. how many miles would that be, Sora?" Sora looked down again, biting her lower lip. "California..." Mimi gasped. "But Sora, that's so far!" Sora put up the sad smile again. "But like Joe said, we'll all still be friends. Trust me guys, we'll keep in contact. I swear." They all came forward and gave her a hug.
After a few minutes of tears from just about everyone but Matt, the gang broke apart from the hug. Sora looked over at Matt. He had been her best friend. First friend, in fact. They made silly promises to each other. If they were still single by the time they were twenty four, they'd become girlfriend and boyfriend since no one else knew each other the way they did. If Sora couldn't sleep, Sora promised the worried Matt that she would call to talk about whatever was on her mind. Matt promised her he'd stay up. Other promises were very petty ones like if Sora ever got a Sundae, she'd give the cherry to him. If Matt ever got a Soda can, he'd save the little top thing for her to tug off.
Sora walked over to Matt who was looking straight at her, pretending his hardest to make it seem that it didn't phase him that she was going to be thousands of miles away. After all, everything would be the same, right? She took the hat her head and straightened out her orange-red locks of hair. She handed the hat the the blond, smiling. "Promise you'll keep it safe?" Matt slowly took it from the other's hands and nodded. "Promise."
Just then, a honk from the moving van signaled her to hurry up with her goodbyes. Sora took a few steps back and the tears welled up in her eyes again. She waved goodbye with a smile on her face, hoping that this wouldn't be the last she'd see them.
As the seven children waved goodbye to the disappearing into the sunset. Mimi, Joe, Izzy, Kari, TK, Tai, and Matt all stood there. The stood in the middle of the field, no one less member short to their group of friends. They had said goodbye.
The van was out of sight, and all seven of there were now just there.
Author's End Note: And there's chapter one. I have chapter two all set in mind and I may or not may upload it a week from now. Depends on how many reviews I get. I'd love to get ten, but if not, anything between five and ten would suffice. I apologize for my errors in this fic. Please review and tell me what you think!
Next chapter will be when Sora comes back to Odaiba. Wonder how the old crew will react.