I don't own digimon.

The sun shone on the group of twelve friends who were accompanied by another 12, well, unusual array of creatures as they sat in a field in their favourite place. The digi world.

"BEAT YOU AGAIN TAI!" A young brunette yelled to her elder sibling for about the umpteenth time that day.

"I don't know how you got so good at basketball all of a sudden." He replied. She blushed slightly and snuck a quick glance at T.K who smiled back at her. Luckily, this moment of eye contact remained unnoticed by any of their friends.

"Want another game?" She asked, "I'll give you a chance!"

"That's what you said last time," Tai reminded her, "And the time before that, and the time before that too…" He slowly walked over to where his girlfriend was sitting.

"Oh well," She sighed and walked over to T.K.

"Y'know, half the moves you pulled on Tai out there even I didn't know!" T.K exclaimed. Kari grinned sheepishly.

"That's why people created the internet." She replied. T.K placed one arm around her waist and pulled her close to him. They watched as Davis desperately tried to get Tai to play a game of soccer with him while Tai gave a half-hearted wave of his hand and turned back to his girlfriend who was resting her head on his chest.

No one knew that Kari and T.K were actually a couple. And, at the moment, they didn't want anyone to know about it. Their brothers where constantly jumping down each other's throats so much that it would only spark another argument.

Sora, who was sitting under a tree turned to look at the boy next to her. He was staring at the couple by the fence talking happily to each other.

"Oh come on. Lighten up will you?" She said to him.

"How can I? The younger sibling of that THING is getting a little to friendly with my younger sibling, and all you can say is 'lighten up'?"

"Matt!" She exclaimed. (And you were expecting it to be Tai, weren't you?) She looked from the blonde next to her to the couple opposite them.

"Look at them. Can't you see how happy they are together?" She asked. The blonde looked from his girlfriend to his brother.

"Yes, I can see that they're happy together. But, you know Tai, he'll get over-protective of Kari and then do something bad to T.K because he's my little brother."

"Anyway, if Tai did hurt T.K, then he'd have to answer to Kari. And losing the friendship of his sister would really hurt him emotionally. He knows that." Sora replied. Matt pondered over this thought for a second. Yes, he supposed it was true. Kari and T.K did have a strong bond between them, but Kari would never stand up to Tai, would she?

He watched as the young brunette walked over to where her brother was sitting. Naturally, T.K hadn't followed.

"Hey guys," She said gently as she sat down.

"Hey Kar," Mimi replied as she snuggled up closer to Tai. After Matt and Sora became a couple, Tai was heart-broken. Mimi had consoled him and they kind of hit off after that.

"Tai, say hello to your sister!" Mimi scolded playfully. Tai mumbled some words that were so jumbled up you couldn't even count them.

But Kari saw it in his eyes. He was mad. And it was probably her fault. He must have seen her with T.K, and now he was going to murder her. In a metaphorical way obviously. She stood up and walked over to a slightly smaller group of friends.

"Hey Kari!" A spiky-haired boy yelled, "How's my girl?"

"I'm not 'your girl' Davis. I've told you that before."

"You're just being modest. I mean, who wouldn't want to be my girl?"

"I think the question is 'who would want to be his girl'." Yolei stated under her breath to Ken, who she was leaning against.

The two had to try really hard for the rest of that conversation not to make eye contact. Otherwise, there would be an unexplainable fit of giggles.

Kari sat down next to Yolei and T.K came to sit down next to her.

"Hey, T.S, you want a game of soccer?"

"Alright," He sighed, "But all six of us have to play."

"Alright then. I choose-"

"Davis, I think considering the fact that you suggested the game gives T.K the right to pick his team first." Ken inserted.

"Oh, right." He blushed. He had been about to choose Kari. Obviously.

"Kari and Ken." He said gently. The two smiled and walked over to T.K.

"Well that leaves me with-"

"What are you doing?" Sora asked.

"Davis wants a game of soccer." Cody explained.

"Can I play then?"

"Yeah, but then we'll need one more person." Sora walked back to the group of older Digidestined and soon everyone lined up to be put in a team. It turned out that the two leaders were Davis and Tai.

In Tai's team were himself, Mimi, Joe, Izzy, Cody and Sora. In Davis' team there were himself, Kari, T.K, Matt, Ken and Yolei. The fact that Kari was on the same team as Matt sparked an argument.

"Kari, Don't you want to be on this side?" Tai asked politely.

"No." She replied.

"Kari…"

"No."

"Kari, get on this side NOW!" He ordered. All eyes were on Kari as she hung her head and walked over to Tai's team. But she didn't.

"No." She repeated.

"I said, 'get on this side now!'"

"I know you did. And I said, 'no.'" No one had ever expected Kari to ever stand up to Tai. Not in all the years that they had known her. The argument, needless to say, stopped there.

The game started. Davis and Tai in goals, the digimon were cheering on their teams and the rest just darting around the miniature pitch.

"Kari, PASS!" T.K yelled to the brunette. She dribbled the ball in between Tai's legs (a move Tai had taught her when she was little) to get past him and then passed to the blonde who took it to the goal and scored. To say that Tai was fuming that T.K and Kari were working together so well would be an understatement.

Once the game had ended, the final score was 13-6 to Davis' team. To Tai's surprise, the person to get most of the goals past him was Kari.

They sat down again and started to decide what they were going to do next.

"Basketball." T.K said quietly. Kari nodded.

"Basketball sounds good." She replied, "So, basketball then?" Most people nodded, "The majority has spoken." They stayed in the same teams as before, with the exception of Tai and Kari sitting out. On Tai's orders. His excuse was that he thought Kari was looking a bit pale and if she went out it would be an uneven number on the teams. This, of course, wasn't anything relatively close to why he really wanted his sister to sit out.

"What is your problem Kari?" Tai asked when they sat down.

"What do you mean?" She asked innocently.

"Sneaky, answering a question with a question." He suddenly turned serious, "Kari, you can't give in to him."

"What do you mean 'give into him'? Give into who?"

"Into Takeru." She sighed but her brother ignored it, "I know you don't really want to be around him. He's stalking you. I saw it before. You were talking and you squirmed when he did something."

"He tickled me, that's all. Anyway, he's not stalking me. If you were watching before, I went over to him."

"That's because you felt threatened by him."

"No I didn't." She replied, her brother really getting on her nerves now, "You just don't understand, do you? Then again, I didn't suppose you would. You're so selfish that, just because you had an argument with Matt, you're denying my happiness."

"Kari, you don't know what you're saying. Maybe you should-"

"Oh I know exactly what I'm saying Tai." She yelled.

Across on the pitch, Cody was watching the argument and not the game. And that was unfortunate.

"CODY LOOK OUT!" He heard someone yell. He turned just in time to see Mimi losing her balance and falling on him.

"Sorry Cody." She replied as she helped him up. He moaned and she realised he was holding his wrist rather tightly.

"Are you ok?"

"Yeah, I think I just twisted my wrist that's all." He walked off the pitch and sat down at the side.

"I'll sit out too," T.K said, "to make it fair." He sat down just a little way behind Cody and overheard a conversation that he didn't expect to hear.

"No Kari, listen to me. Takeru is every bit as bad as his brother," Came a first voice. He didn't turn around because they might accuse him of listening in. Which he was. Well, actually he wasn't. They were just talking so loud that it was quite impossible not to hear them.

"I know he is." T.K couldn't believe Kari would say that about him.

"So you agree that he is on the same level as his brother."

"Yes. Because his brother is a kind hearted person and a good friend and T.K is even more so, and if you would just have the courage to admit that you were wrong then you would realise this!"

"Kari, he's poisoned your mind."

"NO HE HASN'T!" She yelled. T.K couldn't stop himself from turning to look at them. He turned just in time to see her jump to her feet and run off into the trees. He quickly got up and followed her.

"T.K!" He heard Matt yell. He turned sharply to see his brother running up to him. Apparently the game had stopped due to lack of good players.

"What? Be quick Matt, I need to go after her."

"Stay here."

"WHAT?"

"Stay here. It's a pattern with everyone. You get into a fight with someone, you run away, you come back later and all is forgiven." He told his brother. T.K shrugged. He knew that it was true, but didn't know if Kari was the same as everyone else. Anyway, he believed his brother and returned to the camp.

To celebrate the defeat of Malomyotismon, the group had decided to camp in the digital world for a week. It was the summer holidays so school didn't matter and they had explained the situation to their parents who now knew about the Digimon etc.

Night fell. She still hadn't returned. The group slowly made their way into the tents that they had put up temporarily and slipped into their pyjamas then into their sleeping bags. The digimon, having slept during the say, were on guard. Taking it in turns so that the humans had an undisturbed night.

Here's to another story. See ya!