Part 1

Coming Back Hurts



Ken, Davis, Tai, and Sora were standing around the school gates, chatting for a while before they went their separate ways.

Almost two years had passed since peace had been restored to the Digital World, and everyone had changed a lot. Everyone was in high school now. Davis had stopped crushing on Kari and had moved on. Yolei and Ken were "supposedly" going out, but Ken denied it and Yolei told everyone they were getting married as soon as possible. Cody had grown up a lot. He had always been mature and responsible but now he looked it. Everyone were still good friends and even took trips to the Digital World once in a while.

But not all was happy-go-lucky-land for the Digidestined. A certain two had been through a lot of pain the past year. Especially for one of them. Kari.

Kari and T.K. had grown even more closer after peace had been restored to both worlds. The two had started spending all of their time with each other. Soon, that friendship turned into love, and that love had become unbreakable. But suddenly without an explanation why, T.K. had moved away. No explanation whatsoever, no telling where he was going and how long. He just suddenly vanished one day, without a trace. No one was exceedingly worried, since his dad and Matt was still in Odaiba and they told them that T.K. and his mom had moved to America for family reasons, but everyone missed him terribly.

Kari had been hurt terribly. After that incident, she had refused to go out on any dates with other guys. Outside, she looked normal, but deep inside, memories of that hurt still remained.

Tai had just made a crack about Davis' hair and Ken and Sora were laughing good-naturedly, when they heard a familiar voice calling their name.

"Tai! Sora! Davis! Ken!"

When they turned, they saw a face they had not seen for a long time. It was T.K.

"T.K!!!!!!!" Everyone smothered him in hugs.

After the reunion, Tai grinned and said, "You've still the same T.K. So where have you been all this time? What'd you do for one year?"

"Oh. Um, hey, everyone looks the same too. Except Davis, you're not wearing goggles anymore, Ken, you look more 'smarter' and Tai your hair got bigger, and Sora looks the exact same," T.K. replied, changing the subject.

At that remark, everyone started joking around again, and forgot about Tai's question.

Then, they heard another familiar voice. "Hey everyone!" It was Kari. She came up to them smiling. Everyone greeted her. Then, she noticed T.K.

Kari looked away. "I'll see you guys later." She started leaving.

"Kari." he said quietly.

"Forget it. I have nothing to say to you," she replied coldly and she left without another word.

T.K. stared after her. Then, he noticed everyone was staring at him with curiosity and surprise. He cleared his throat. "Ka-Ri! Wa-it up!" He went after her.