The 7th Child
Chapter 1
Iorekbyrnison
His name was Yagami Taichi. That was the name of the train that had rushed into him all hair and tanned skin. Currently he was running a calloused hand through his wild mane of hair smiling sheepishly and stuttering apologies still sprawled on the sidewalk where they had both fallen to.
Koushirou marveled when the hand didn't immediately get stuck and banished the curious image of himself running his own small hands through the gravity defying hairdo. Would those strands be coarse or silky?
"Heh, Sorry about that! I'm Yagami Taichi. I was in such a hurry I didn't see you walking there. My friends always say I need to pay more attention. One of these days I'll learn!" Taichi stood from the pavement with little effort and reached one hand down to heft his giant bag onto his shoulder and offered the other hand to Koushirou pulling the young read head from the ground. The genius resolutely ignored the small spark that occurred when their palms met.
Why was this kid carrying around a camping bag anyway? How was he lifting something that looked to be bigger than himself? Koushirou shook his head. Scratch that. His curiosity could take a hike because he really didn't want to know. It would be best to accept the apologies and just walk away.
Koushirou had been on the verge of doing that when a voice piped up from his side. It was slightly high pitched with a warble and it made Koushirou thing of someone holding their nose while talking ,but the voice cut through the young genius' skin and hit directly somewhere into his soul. Looking down he for the first time noticed that Taichi had companions.
"Taichi! The digivice is reacting!" The warbling voice exclaimed.
Wait. Hold up. Was that a talking bug in a raincoat? Why did the larger one look suspiciously like an orange dinosaur in a hoodie? Koushirou put a palm to his forehead. This July heat was seriously getting to him.
If Taichi noticed the redhead wavering on his feet he did not mention it, but instead pulled one of the small watch-like devices from his belt loop. The thing was beeping and flashing frantically and despite himself Koushirou couldn't help but feel his curiosity spike. He'd never seen technology like that.
"Hey, so it is," Taichi's eyebrows creased in his confusion and for a moment he glanced back and forth between the device and Koushirou suspiciously. The look in those brown eye almost made Koushirou take a step back, but he held his ground. "Hey kid. What's your name?"
Koushirou definitely didn't want the weirdo attached anymore than he already was, but for some reason he couldn't stop the words from tumbling from his lips. "Izumi Koushirou." Taichi smiled.
"Well Izumi Koushirou, catch!" And with that Taichi pitched the small device towards Koushirou who instinctively swiped it out of the air before it could get damaged. The second his palm touched it, however, the beeping became louder and the light grew to encompass himself, Taichi, and those two weird creatures. Within the light Koushirou could just make out the excitement that shined within the brunette's eyes before turning his own attention towards the watch-like thing in his hands. A digivice.
Koushirou would never be able to explain what truly happened that day nor how one tall awkwardly smiling teenager had changed his life forever, but the feeling he received when his hand touched that digivice would never be forgotten. It was like all the questions Koushirou had asked himself over the past few years had been solved instantaneously. All the confusion he had harbored since finding out about the adoption , the disappointment when his mother had told him he couldn't attend camp, and the empty feeling he had carted around since he was younger were all covered and destroyed by the light. He felt complete for the first time in this light and confident that this digivice and all the things that came with it were part of something larger than himself.
It would forevermore be how Koushirou would explain his destiny as a chosen child. It began that day all because of Yagami Taichi.