The bell rang, its noise echoing through the hallways as students hustled and bustled to escape the dreary confines of the school and to a weekend of care-free fun.

TK walked slowly and solemnly towards the exit as students hurried past him. He stared forward blankly, deep in thought. All day long he had been pondering, different plans and outcomes swirling around in his mind, so oblivious to everything else that he had been scolded twice by his math teacher for daydreaming and not paying attention.

He reached the exit, still lost in his thoughts when a voice called out to him and snapped him out of his trance.

"TK over here!" Yolei called. TK looked over and feigned a slight smile, as much as he enjoyed the presence of his friends he had been hoping he could avoid them, at least for a little while. "What's the matter TK?" Yolei asked adjusting her glasses as she looked TK up and down questioningly.

"Nothing's wrong…" TK lied

"You're going to have to lie better than that," Yolei scoffed.

"Yeah TK," Davis chuckled, "nothing gets past Yolei, you should know that by now. What's up?"

TK hesitated, trying to think of an answer when a call from behind them caught their attention.

"Hey guys!" Kari shouted, TK felt his stomach plummet as he saw her run towards them. "What's going on?" she asked worriedly sensing some tension in the air.

"TK's hiding something," Davis joked, "maybe he's cheating on you or something."

"Shut-up!" Yolei snapped as she clubbed Davis on the head making Davis whine in pain and cower as she aimed another swing at him.

"What's wrong TK?" Kari asked staring deeply into TK's eyes as if she was able to look into his soul and find the answer.

TK stared at his feet unable to look Kari directly in the eyes. He had been worried about this all day long, but he knew that he couldn't keep up this charade any longer. He looked up at her sheepishly.

"Kari, could we talk… in private?"

"Sure TK." she said as TK led her away from Yolei and Davis, Davis made another mocking remark and Yolei's foot connected with his shin making him yelp in pain.

When they were far enough out of earshot Kari asked, "What's wrong TK? I know something is up, you haven't been yourself lately."

"Well, it's just that…" TK paused, thinking. He had been making up scenarios in his head all day, figuring out the best way to say things, but in the end every scenario ended the same way, badly.

"TK?"

"Wha-? Oh sorry Kari, I must've zoned out or something."

"TK please," Kari begged, "if there's something wrong you can tell me."

"Kari…I-I… I…," he stuttered.

Kari seeming to know the answer decided to break the silence herself, "You want to break up with me…don't you?" she managed, a hint of sadness in her voice.

TK looked into Kari's eyes, a slight bit of shock on his face. He had made up several plots in his head of what was going to happen, he hadn't expected Kari to know what he was going to say, but the fact that she knew hurt him even more.

TK looked back to his feet. "I'm sorry Kari," he said sadly, "I don't want to hurt you, and I really do like you Kari, it's just…".

"You don't feel that way about me, do you?"

TK continued staring at his feet, he could feel tears welling up in his eyes, he could only imagine how Kari had to be feeling.

"I'm sorry," he sniffled, "I-I'm so sorry." he could feel tears starting to flow down his face.

Kari stared up at TK, confused. He was the one crying yet she was the one getting dumped. Unsure how to react she reached her hand out to grab TK's shoulder but before she could he backed away.

He turned away, wiping his tears on his sleeve. "I-I'm sorry, I should go…" and without a second thought he bolted towards the schoolyard gates leaving Kari behind. Yolei and Davis watched on dumbfounded unable to figure out what had just happened in such a short conversation.

"Kari what's going?" Yolei asked as her and Davis walked over and joined her.

"What's up with TK, why did he just run off?" Davis asked, confused by something other than his classes for once.

Kari stared right through them, thoughts swimming in her mind. She could hear Yolei and Davis continue questioning her but she ignored them.

"I'm gonna go home," she said finally, leaving Yolei and Davis even more confused than they already were as she walked away.

Matt sat on the sofa staring blankly at the television, trying his best to ignore Tai who had been pestering him for the past hour.

"Aww, come on Matt," Tai whined as he brushed his fingers through Matt's blonde unkempt hair, "nobody's going to be home for a couple hours, what's wrong with fooling around just a little bit."

"Come on Tai, I'm trying to watch TV," Matt groaned as Tai continued running his hands through his hair. He didn't like anyone messing with his hair, Tai was the exception, although he was still rather annoyed. "What if someone comes home early?"

"Nobody will come home early. My dad's working late, my mom's out with her girlfriends until later and Kari and TK were going to go on a date. See? Nothing to worry about," he teased as he started running his other hand up Matt's shirt.

Matt blushed. Tai certainly was persistent… and his hands felt pretty soft too. He pondered for a moment.

"Alright fine," he caved, "but nothing too hot and heavy, just in case."

Tai practically threw himself onto Matt and the two locked lips, if only for a second when Matt heard the door start to open. He grabbed Tai by the shoulders and threw him off suddenly.

"Ow! What was that for?"

"Oh, hey Kari," Matt called towards the door as he saw her enter trying to act as cool as possible.

"Oh! Hey Matt," she said, sounding slightly surprised seeing the tall blonde, "Where's my brother?"

"Kari? What are you doing home so early, I thought you and TK had a date," Tai asked as he stood up and brushed himself off. He was rather irritated that his fun time had been cut short.

"No reason," she said trying to hide the slight depression in her voice. She went into the kitchen and opened the fridge to look for a small snack.

With Kari's back turned momentarily Tai playfully grabbed a hold of Matt by his waist pulling him closer so he could kiss his neck.

"Tai quit it!" Matt shouted as he pried himself from Tai's grip.

Kari turned her head and looked at the two boys, both trying to keep straight looks on their faces. She raised an eyebrow at them, smirking.

"You know, you don't have to hide anything from me, I know what's going on," she said, acting completely normal.

"Wha-what are you talking about Kari?" Tai asked, trying to stay cool.

"I know you guys are together so you can stop acting coy around me."

The two boys turned red in embarrassment, "B-but how did you know?" Matt asked worriedly.

"I saw you guys making out a couple weeks ago in your van, Matt," she stated as if it were just a completely normal occurrence to see your brother and your… ex… boyfriend's brother going at it like wild animals.

"Tai!" Matt grumbled, "I keep telling you to quit starting things in public, I knew someone would catch us eventually."

"Uhh, if I remember correctly," Tai started, "the last time we were in your van, you were the one acting like you were a bitch in heat." Matt glared at Tai like he was about to tear his face off.

"Guys, guys calm down," Kari shouted, hoping to prevent another break-up "it's okay, I don't have a problem with it."

Tai and Matt paused their bickering and stared at Kari, only just realizing what she had said.

"Wait, so you don't care that we're… you know…" Tai asked.

"Gay? Of course not, why would I? You're my brother Tai, I'll love you no matter what. And Matt, you've been like an older brother to me too, I'll always care about you no matter what. Besides, you two make a really cute couple," she grinned.

The two boys blushed then moved over and gave Kari a warm hug.

"Kari, you're the best sister in the world," Tai beamed, he could feel his eyes beginning to water, "I was worried you were going to hate us or something."

Kari looked up into the two boys' faces and smiled, "Like I said Tai, you're my brother, and Matt practically is too. I could never hate either of you just for loving each other."

"Thanks Kari," Matt grinned, "but could you keep this a secret for us?" Kari could sense the worry in the blonde's voice.

"But why?," she asked, puzzled, "I'm sure everyone else would be just fine with you two."

"It's not that, it's just… we kind of wanted to tell everyone else ourselves, you know, the next time we all get together."

Kari smiled in understanding, "Of course, if you two want to tell everyone else yourselves, then that's fine with me. Your secret is safe with me."

"Thanks Kari," Matt said, and then another thought dawned on him, "Oh and uhh… could you, maybe not tell TK either? I know you guys are always telling each other things in confidence, but I wanted to tell TK myself."

"Oh, uhm… sure… yeah, that's fine with me." she stammered and her face fell. Matt and Tai both realized that something was bothering her.

"Kari, is something wrong? You aren't your normal, cheerful self," Tai asked, worried about his little sister.

Matt seemed to sense what was wrong and without hesitation asked her, "Kari, did something happen between you and TK?" Kari nodded slowly, and she could finally begin to feel the tears welling up in her soft brown eyes.

Tai immediately jumped into the role of protective big brother, his face turned red and he started to shout angrily, "What happened Kari? What did TK do? Oh, if he did anything to hurt you I'm gonna kill him."

Matt frowned at Tai, not especially pleased at the threat to his little brother's wellbeing, "Tai, if you want to hurt my baby brother, we're gonna have a big problem here."

Tai went to open his mouth to retort back but Kari stepped in to stop another argument, "Guys, stop it, I don't want you breaking up too." Matt and Tai stopped allowing what Kari had just said to sink in. Matt was the first to ask.

"TK broke up with you?"

Kari realized she had just given away the answer to her problem and turned away as her face turned red. She had hoped she could have kept this to herself for a little while, so that she could think about it in peace. Of course she knew that Tai would have dragged it out of her eventually anyway. She turned back to face the two boys and nodded her head slowly.

Tai remained speechless. He had always pictured TK and Kari as the perfect couple, well besides Matt and himself. He had even been the one to urge TK to ask Kari out (which originally had seemed like a poor idea even to himself; encouraging a boy to make a move on his sister - although TK had been a much better idea than Davis). Tai remained staring, open-mouthed, ready to catch flies, trying to wrap his head around what could have gone wrong between the perfect little couple.

Matt was the one to break the silence, "Kari what happened? Why did TK break up with you?"

Kari opened her mouth to answer, then closed it again, pondering to herself about the reason that TK had given her. But that was the thing, TK had said next nothing, she had guessed it by herself and had been able to figure out all the reasons as well. She realized that she had known it was coming for a while, she just hadn't wanted to believe it herself. She also realized that, even though it hurt, she didn't feel like her heart had been ripped out her chest, the way it appeared in all the silly movies she had watched and the way that other girls at school reacted when they got dumped. Really, it wasn't a total surprise that she and TK were breaking up. Everything she had guessed as to why TK was dumping her, were the same feelings she had had herself for a little while now.

"Kari?… Are you okay?" Matt asked, pulling Kari out of her thoughts.

Kari wiped away the few tears she had shed and looked up into the older boys' faces and smiled, "I'm fine."

"Fine?" Tai asked bewildered, "Kari, TK broke up with you, how are you 'fine'. Girls saying that they're 'fine' means that they are totally not fine."

"Tai calm down. Okay, I'll admit, it hurts a little, but…"

"But what?" the older boys asked.

"But… I kind of saw this coming," she said rather sadly as she moved towards the couch to sit down. The two boys followed her, each sitting on one side of the girl and wrapping an arm around her shoulder.

"Kari, what's going on?" Tai asked, deeply concerned that his sister had taken a blow to the head. Most girls did not react this calmly to being dumped, then again, Kari wasn't most girls.

"Well, it's just…do you guys remember when we went to see that fireworks show back in August?" The boys nodded and she continued, "Well, that was when TK and I, had our very first kiss, I mean not the little kisses we always gave each other on the cheek, but a real mouth to mouth, deep and passionate kiss." Tai shook his head, trying not to picture his sweet baby sister doing something not quite so innocent.

"But you guys had been going out since Christmas. You only took things this far now?" Matt asked, feeling rather shocked. Tai and himself had done quite a lot more than Kari and TK had done in the same time frame.

"Well, we were just as content holding hands and giving each other little kisses. Neither of us had actually made a move to go any farther than that."

"Okay, fair enough… so you two kissed, and then what?"

"Well… there were fireworks going off around us, but…"

"No fireworks of your own." Tai blurted out as if he had known exactly how the two young teens had felt at their most intimate moment.

"Tai!" Matt squawked, rather embarrassed that his boyfriend had been as insincere as he had been about something so emotional.

Kari however, seemed completely fine with her brother's response. She nodded her head, knowing that what Tai had said described the situation completely. She reached a hand up to stop Matt from smacking his not so subtle boyfriend and continued.

"Exactly. There was nothing. It was an amazing kiss, I'll say that much. But I just… didn't feel anything. And after that, everything seemed different between us. And when TK wanted to talk to me today I could just tell… he was breaking up with me."

Tai wrapped his arm around his little sister tightly, "Are you feeling okay Kari?"

"Yeah, I'm fine Tai, don't worry about me," she leaned into her brother and gave him a hug. Then she realized that even though she wasn't hurting from the break-up, someone else was. She sat upright, worry crossing her face, "TK!" was all she managed to say.

"What about TK?" Matt asked, concern rising for his younger brother.

"Well it's just that… even though TK was breaking up with me… he was the one that seemed the most hurt by it. He started to cry and he kept apologizing to me and before I could stop him he had run off." Kari rose from her seat, preparing to go see how TK was. Even if they were no longer boyfriend and girlfriend, they were still friends, and she wasn't about to leave him feeling as depressed as he seemed.

Matt sensed what she was planning and grabbed her arm, "Don't worry about TK, I'll go talk to him." Matt stood up, leaned over and gave Tai a peck on the cheek, grabbed his jacket and left without another word.

The two brunette siblings sat together silently for a moment. Kari leaned against her brother as he wrapped his arm around her again.

"Are you sure you're okay Kari?"

"Yeah, I'm okay. It still hurts though."

"It's alright Kari, I'm here." A thought dawned on the boy and he stood up suddenly, moving towards the kitchen.

"What are you doing?"

"The cure to any break-up bad or… well I guess not many break-ups are anything other than bad, but I digress…"

Kari turned around facing the kitchen, seeing a large mop of brunette hair stuffed in the freezer. "Big brother what on earth are you…"

Tai's head popped out of the freezer, he held up a large tub of ice cream and smiled his signature wide and goofy grin. "Nothing fixes a break-up better than ice cream and a lame chick flick," he said as he grabbed two spoons and bounced into the living room. He handed the ice cream to Kari then began searching for a movie to watch.

Kari laughed. Even though he could be a real blockhead, she knew Tai was always there for her when she needed him. She opened the ice cream and helped herself to a large spoonful of chocolate, "Don't pick a sappy movie, I don't wanna watch something depressing, pick something funny," she managed to say even with a mouthful of the frozen treat.

Tai popped in a movie, jumped back onto the couch and grabbed the second spoon, digging in and shovelling more than any normal human being could fit into their mouth.

Kari laughed again but made a slight complaint, "Hey take it slow, I don't wanna hear you whine when you get an ice cream headache like you did the last time." Tai smirked then shovelled an even bigger spoonful into his mouth just to spite her, although it made her laugh even harder.

"Tai?"

"Hwhrt?" he managed through a mouthful of chocolate.

"How did you know… that when we kissed… there were no…"

"Sparks?"

"Yeah."

"Well, it was the same for me and Sora. The first time we kissed, I was expecting to feel something like, a bomb going off in my head. But instead… the bomb was a dud."

"And what do you feel when you kiss Matt?"

Kari noticed Tai's eyes glaze over and a smile spread across his face, different than his normal goofy grins, "It's the most amazing feeling in the world. My whole body heats up and I just feel light-headed. It's impossible to describe with words."

"You two really love each other." "Yeah… but don't worry Kari, I'm sure you'll find your Matt in shining armour one day as well."

"Thanks Tai."

Matt knocked on the door to his mother's and brother's apartment. He stood and waited for a moment. No answer. He figured this wasn't going to be easy, luckily he had a spare key and he decided to just let himself in.

Closing the door behind him quietly, he looked around, surprisingly the apartment seemed rather clean. Their mom was to be away for work for around 6 weeks; it was only into the second week of her trip and Matt half expected the apartment to be a complete disaster. A teenage boy with the house all to himself, Matt didn't think TK would keep things so clean and spotless.

"TK?" Matt called out. Silence. Matt figured TK wouldn't answer but he tried anyway. Even though they hadn't lived together their entire lives, Matt knew how TK could be when he was upset. He would lock himself in his room, lay in his bed and cry, often turning music on to drown out his sobbing.

Matt had learned from previous experiences that it was best to leave his little brother alone when he was really upset. More often than not, attempts to make him feel better would result in him becoming more upset or even angry and Matt didn't like making TK feel worse than he already was so he would usually leave him to cry things out. This time however, Matt felt he needed to comfort his little brother.

He stopped when he noticed a picture sitting on a side table. All four of them, Matt, TK, their mom and dad, all sat together at one table, all smiling. Together. He picked it up and stared at it. It was from a party they had had a couple years ago.

He remembered how happy their mother had been when she found out she had been hired as a journalist for Kyodo News two years earlier. The editor of the paper had been so impressed with her work that he had called her personally to tell her they wanted to hire her. They had a huge celebration party for her and everything.

A couple months ago when they asked her to go abroad for about 6 weeks to cover stories in Europe and America, she jumped at the chance. Things were rather tense between her and TK for a short time after she decided to go however. She wanted him to stay with his father and Matt, but TK had felt he was old enough to take care of himself. At first she refused to agree with him; a couple days home alone was one thing, but six weeks, she was going to agree to nothing of the sort.

Eventually though they came to a compromise: TK could stay at home by himself so long as his father and Matt could come by and check in on him every so often and she would call to check in when the chance arose; and as long as he behaved himself, in other words, keeping the house clean and not having any wild escapades going on in the apartment (although she knew TK was not the sort to do anything remotely wild - that was more like something Matt would do). The final part to their agreement was that, at any time, if she, his father or Matt decided he shouldn't be on his own any longer, then he would have to pack his things immediately and stay over at his father's until she returned.

Matt had been a little confused why TK didn't want to spend time with him and their dad. He had even asked him at one point why he didn't immediately agree to come stay with them, TK had originally just given him some half-assed answer but after some time to think Matt had made his own assumptions. He figured TK was just looking forward to having a little independence (sort of). And of course, being all alone had its perks. He knew what he liked to do around the apartment when he had been TK's age (heck he still did most of those things, sometimes with Tai too) when his dad was at work all day or all night, and he figured TK would be up to the same things as well, having the place to himself. That's why he made sure to always knock before he came around to check on him.

Now however, Matt was looking past his original 'suggestive' ideas and thinking more towards TK wanting to be alone specifically so he could be left alone.

Matt put the picture back and looked down the hallway. TK's door was closed. He couldn't hear any music, but then why would he have to turn on any if he was home all alone. Matt moved quietly down the hall towards TK's bedroom, being careful not to step on the squeaky floorboard and give himself away. He stopped at TK's door and put his ear against it. He could hear TK quietly sobbing. He stood and thought about how to proceed but decided to just wing it. He knocked on the door.

"TK?" Matt noticed that the crying immediately stopped. "TK, I came to see how you were doing. Can I come in?"

"It's unlocked."

Matt turned the doorknob and slowly opened the door. TK was laid on his bed, his face buried in his pillow. Matt slowly made his way over to the bed and sat down next to his brother, he hesitated as he slowly reached a hand out to TK's back and slowly began rubbing his back in an attempt to comfort him.

"Are you okay TK?" he asked, although he felt it was a dumb question, otherwise TK wouldn't have been crying.

"Just peachy," the younger blonde retorted, "now could you leave me alone?"

"I was just over with Tai and saw Kari. I heard what happened."

"How is she?" he asked, his face still in his pillow, muffling his question somewhat.

"Well, I'm not sure exactly, I came right over here to find out how you were. Now could you sit up so we can talk face to face? I'm not here to lecture you I just wanna make sure you're doing all right."

"I'm fine," he said rather abruptly.

"Then you won't mind sitting up and talking with me."

TK groaned then reluctantly shifted himself so that he was sitting up facing his older brother. Matt moved himself so that the two brothers were sitting next to each other, he wrapped his arm around TK and pulled him closer. TK leaned his head on his older brother's shoulder and the two sat silently for a moment. Matt was about to break the silence when TK started to cry again. Matt looked sadly onto his little brother, trying to figure out the best way to comfort him, it made his heart ache when his baby brother was in pain.

"It's okay, it's okay TK, I'm here," he cooed as he pulled his brother into a tight embrace.

"Is-is she o-o-okay?" TK asked through his tears, "Is Kari okay?"

"Well she seemed upset," Matt could feel TK start to whimper harder at this, "b-but then she started saying she was feeling okay and-" he started trying not to upset TK any more than he already was.

"And what?" TK asked angrily as he pulled away from his brother, tears continuing to sting his eyes.

"Well, she was actually more worried about you TK," TK moved away from Matt, sitting with his knees pulled into his chest and his face buried in his arms. "TK, what happened?" he tried to ask as kindly as possible.

"We broke up," he said rather gruffly, "what else do you think happened?"

Matt could sense TK was becoming irritated, he tried to calm his voice to sound as sincere and as caring as possible so as not to anger the young boy.

"But what happened? You two seemed so happy together, and… Kari said you were the one ending things and you seemed so upset by it. Why TK? What's going on?"

TK pulled himself from his brother's embrace, he was starting to feel annoyed by his brother's intrusion. He had hoped to just lay in bed for the rest of the night. Alone. He was about to make another sarcastic comment like his last but then saw the hurt feeling in his brother's deep blue eyes. He realized his brother was worried about him.

"I don't know anymore," he said solemnly.

"What do you mean?"

"It's just, all this time, I thought I liked Kari. Like she was the one for me…"

"She told us, me and Tai. You guys kissed and…"

"And then I realized I didn't actually love her," TK finished. Tears started to form in his eyes again and before he knew it he had lost control and his body wracked with sobs again. Matt moved next to his younger brother again and wrapped his arms around him to comfort him as best he could.

"Don't cry TK, it's okay. Everything's going to be fine."

"No it's not. I'm a horrible person, a horrible friend. Kari probably hates me now."

Matt felt rather shocked by this last statement, "but, why would she hate you? Kari couldn't hate you TK."

"I just broke up with her, without any warning. I know she liked me and I just…," he trailed off as he began crying again.

"TK, she's going to be alright… and honestly, Kari made it seem like she knew already."

TK stopped crying and looking questioningly into his brothers eyes.

"What do you mean she already knew?"

"Well, she told us how after you two had kissed that she hadn't felt that spark either, she said she had been kind of expecting things to stop between you two eventually. So really, there's no reason to be upset TK."

"But, what if she was just saying that because she knew that's what you would tell me. She had been so happy lately and so excited to go on our dates, and…," his voice trailed off and Matt could tell he was about to start crying again.

"TK look, if you didn't have feelings for Kari, then it was the honest thing to do to end things between you if there was no chance of things progressing." Matt said trying to ease TK's pain with reasoning, "would you rather have spent years with her, feeling nothing and leading her on, making her think that you had a future together?"

"Well… no… I guess… when you say it like that…"

"See, then you shouldn't be sad TK, everything is going to be fine."

"But Matt! I saw the hurt in her eyes when I was trying to break up with her, she looked so sad and disappointed. She still means so much to me as a friend, what if this ruins things between us?"

"Remember what happened when me and Sora broke up?"

"She refused to even be in the same air space as you for a week," TK said, a little sarcastically. Matt rolled his eyes, but he felt better that at least TK was starting to show some of his normal attitude again.

"Yeah, but after that initial week of hostility, we talked again, and we got over it together, and now we're still really close friends, and you and Kari will still stay really close friends."

TK stayed silent, instead looking down at the floor.

"Come on," Matt said as he pulled his brother into a hug. TK returned the embrace, letting out a heavy sigh as if he had been holding his breath for the entire conversation. Matt let go of TK and held his head in his hands, looking into his brother's tear streaked face, "is everything alright now?"

"Yeah…," TK sniffed.

"What's wrong?" Matt asked, noticing that TK clearly wasn't feeling any better despite there being a better understanding of the situation.

"It's just," the younger boy started, "I tried so hard… to feel something, but… nothing."

"There's nothing wrong with that TK, you either feel it or you don't, and Kari isn't going to hold it against you."

TK nodded agreeably, "Okay."

"But… if I could ask…," Matt began, sounding slightly devilish as a wicked grin crossed his face, "is there someone that you might have feelings for?"

"Matt!?" TK cried, rather embarrassed as his cheeks blushed.

"What?! I'm just asking, I mean, maybe the reason you couldn't have feelings for Kari is because you have feelings for this other person instead."

Instead of retaliating with a crude response as he normally would to his older brother's taunts, TK remained quiet as the blush spread across his face even more.

Matt caught on and used the chance to question even further, "come on lil' bro' you can tell me."

"No… there isn't someone else."

Matt was about to accuse him of lying when he noticed that the mood of the conversation has once again returned to a sullen one.

"What do you mean? Come on TK, if there wasn't some girl on your mind you wouldn't have blushed like you just did."

TK winced slightly at Matt's statement, though it went unnoticed.

"It's just… I'm not sure… who… I like. I've just… I've been feeling sort of confused lately, about everything, as if nothing makes sense anymore and I'm just losing my mind, and…," his voice began to quiver as he began panicking, as if he were struggling to find another breath.

"Hey, hey, hey, calm down, it's okay TK, there's no reason to get upset again. Love is a confusing thing. Look if you don't want to tell me who it is you don't have to. I was just teasing, that's what big brothers do."

"Matt?"

"Yeah TK?"

"You'll love me, no matter what right?"

"Of course TK, why would you even ask such a thing?"

"I just… wanted to be sure, that's all."

Matt pulled him into an even tighter embrace, "No matter what TK, I will always be there for you, I will always love you. Never question that. You can always count on me."

TK pulled away from his brother, wiping a final tear from his eye. His smile returned to his face and his usual happy glow showed itself again.

"Thanks big brother."

"Anytime TK. Now, is there anything you want to tell me?"

"No, not right now."

"You sure? You can tell me anything."

"Maybe later."

"Okay."

"If you don't mind, I'd kinda like to just have some time to myself, if that's okay?"

"Yeah sure TK, if you need anything just call me. Okay?"

"Okay."

Matt stood up, taking one last look at his brother as he left the room, closing the door behind him.

As he left the apartment, he thought to himself about the last part of the talk he had had with his younger brother. Something about the conversation unsettled him, and he had a feeling he understood what TK had meant by feeling confused, although he felt it best not to push the subject. He knew that TK would tell him when the time was right.

Well, I hope you guys enjoyed the first chapter. Let me know what you think. It might be a while before another chapter comes out but be patient.

Also if there's any discrepancies between the names (Japanese/dubbed) let me know, I'll try to keep things organized name-wise.