So this is my first story on Fanfiction, i know i know, i'm one of those people too. I hate reading stories where the writer hasn't published one before, however, i think my story might be pretty good. I'm posting this just for a 'run though' I want to see what people think about it before i devote my time to it. Anyway, please R&R!
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon Frontier, however, if i did, Koji would have gotten with Izumi before the series ended. I do own the story though.
Prologue
Izumi Orimoto sighed softly looking out her window; her eyes staring intently at her drive way as the rain hit the ground. She was waiting patiently for when he would arrive home, he meaning her father. Lately it was always like this. She would come home, change out of her uniform and hide in her room until his angry voice yelled for her. Of course, why wouldn't he react like this? She wasn't really his child. For as long as she could remember, her mother and father were quite a happy couple. Always acting 'lovey-dovey' and never really expressing a care to the outside world. However, two years ago her mother died in a car crash, leaving her father to pick up the pieces, leaving him to take care of Izumi. Everything seemed like it was crashing around them, and indeed it was. It was during this period that her father found out Izumi wasn't really his daughter, that his picture perfect wife was sleeping with another man around the time she got pregnant. It was all revealed in a letter that his wife's mother had sent her that he found while sifting through her stuff. That day, he went crazy.
Ever since then things have been rather hectic around her house. Her father would come home drunk and beat her, verbally abuse her and sometimes take it a step further. However, she tried not to think about those instances. It took awhile for her to know how to take care of herself, to put on a mask so no one would know about what was going on in her life. The only thing everyone knew was that her mother was dead; they knew nothing about how her picture perfect family died with her.
Izumi bit her lip and closed her eyes feeling the sun graze her skin. She was thinking about everything, about how she could let this happen to herself, about how she could lose all of her friends if this got out, how she could die if it didn't. Suddenly her phone rang bringing her out of deep thought. Izumi looked down and smiled some; it was Takuya, a friend from school.
At school Izumi was the outcast, she barely had any friends and the ones she did obtain were far from normal. Takuya Kanbara, the captain of the soccer team at her school, was her best friend, the guy who she went to when she couldn't take it anymore. When she first moved to Japan three years ago, he was the first to approach her, and the first to become her friend. He was the only one out of her friends who she trusted enough to tell about her father. Another friend was Koji Minamoto, a cold hearted rebellious kid but he was the one she held close to her heart. Koji looked after her and fought for her when no one else would. When she was first introduced to him, he didn't say two words to her, but when he first talked to her, he managed to make her stop crying. His brother, Koichi Minamoto was also friends with Izumi. Being totally different from his brother, his open mind was what intrigued Izumi the most. Junpei Shibayama was another of her friends. At first she thought he was weird, the way he looked at her made her feel uncomfortable, and because he was a year older, she tried to stay away from him. However, Izumi noticed he was one of the only people who openly loved her, and because of that she considers him one of her best friends. Tomoki Himi, a freshman at her school, was the last to get a spot in Izumi's heart. He was kind to her and because he acted so goofy, she couldn't help but to become a friend of his.
Izumi picked up her phone and quickly answered with a cheerful tone. "Takuya! I've been waiting for your call." She had been in cahoots with him for the past week; they were both trying to figure out some type of plan that could get her out of that damn house. However, Izumi knew deep down it would never work. She sighed inwardly and listened to Takuya ramble about escaping, most of the information went out one ear and in the other. Her eyes were still watching her driveway intently. "Takuya." She spoke softly. "Maybe it won't work…" Izumi knew he didn't want to hear that. "Well what do you propose I do? Leave you there to die?" He snapped back. "You're the princess of Optimism! Why can't you just think this is going to work out?" Izumi winced as he yelled at her; she couldn't stand it when people raised their voice to her. Takuya sighed some and lowered his voice. "Izumi, you know how much I care for you…how much Koji cares for you. Can't you let me give you some help? If he finds out I'm screwed." Izumi nodded, she knew that was way too true. Every time she was in trouble, either Takuya or Koji stepped in the middle. They would save her and help her stand up on her own afterwards; but for once, she wanted to fix this by herself because she knew he could kill them.
Izumi closed her eyes and listened to Takuya ramble on again, ramble about how he loved her, how Koji needed to find out, how she needed to get out of there. "Takuya…" She whispered once again, her eyes finally opening and transfixing on the car in her driveway. "I-He-Takuya-Bye." Her sentence was a bunch of rambled words put into one. Of course, he would know what she was talking about, He always did.
She got up after putting her phone in her pocket and put her ear to her door to listen for her father. Izumi closed her eyes, her body beginning to shake outwardly as she waited for the familiar sound of the door to open. Her heart sped up as he walked in, closed the door, and walked into the kitchen. Just as always, her name was screamed into the quiet residence by a sickening angry voice. Izumi held her breath as she walked out of her room and down the steps like she always did, her eyes looking for the nearest root of escape.
As she got closer, she put on her award winning smile and happy-go-lucky façade. "Hello, daddy! How was your day?" He smirked cold and heartlessly. "How was my day? Well it was fine until I received this!" His voice bellowed as he shoved the electric bill in her face, his palm hitting her nose harshly. "Do you know how much this is for? Huh? Can you tell me how much this bill is for?" Izumi fumbled with the paper trying to ignore the pain coursing through her nose. "U-um two hundred and fifty dollars…" She spoke softly, her voice cracking. "Right! Do you know how much that really is!" He growled as she didn't answer. Suddenly his fist landed smack dab in the middle of her cheek sending her into the wall next to her. Izumi gasped her eyes filling with tears, when she was done collecting herself she shook her head. "N-No I don't." He grabbed her by the hair forcefully pulling her to the door. "Then I want you out looking for a job so you can pay this!" He screamed throwing her down on the wet pavement below.
Izumi let out a scream as she hit the pavement her head hitting the concrete. For a small moment in time she lost consciousness but after a minute or two her eyes opened to stare at the crying sky.
So what do you think? Is it worth continuing? I don't know but please tell me your thoughts!