(Hey thanks a lot for all the reviews, they helped me want to write this even more. This chapter is a bit longer, as will the following be more than likely but that just means more story right? Anyway without waiting any more here is chapter 2, oh and forgive the cheesiness of the title)

The Light of Friendship

Tai sat staring at the clock. It was 12pm and he had only been awake for half an hour. Thankfully for him it was a Saturday and even more so that it was late December. He got very little sleep last night. He kept having nightmares that started with him and Sora making out in his room. She would then throw him on the bed and take off her top to reveal she was Myotismon and hit him with Grisly Wing. This would cause him to fall into darkness. He would fall into a seat in a garden where Matt and Sora were getting married. Suddenly Tai's chest would glow with Sora's crest of love and he would stand up and protest. Matt would start screaming "TRAITOR!" then hit him with a Metal Wolf Claw from his mouth. Tai would then be frozen and be in the desert only now he was only 10. Suddenly Bridramon would unfreeze him and Sora, who was also 10 years old, would hug him. Then a hole would appear underneath them and they both would fall resulting in him waking up. He had woken in a cold sweat to that nightmare 6 times now and was exhausted.

Tai's room mate had been away and would stay that way until February so that left a month and a few days of Tai on his own. Tai was normally be fine with alone time but after what had happened the night before he needed some company. As if granting his wish he heard a knock at the door. Tai got up slowly and moved towards the door. He didn't get his hopes up as he was in a flat, top floor and next to a guy who got so many packages but was never in for them. Tai also didn't care about the fact he was in grey jogging bottoms and a white vest as he was expecting some annoying mail man. Or even worse some stupid woman who wanted someone to take part in a survey or petition so much that she climbed all the way up to his flat just to get a signature. He opened the door with a disgruntled "What?"

"Is that how you treat an old friend?" Came a familiar voice though seemed foreign as Tai hadn't heard it in so long. In the door way stood Matt Ishida. Former DigiDestined and a good friend that Tai hadn't seen in over a year now. He was dressed in a black over coat and black trousers with grey shoes. "What are you just going to stand there or let me in?" Matt demanded as Tai had been so stunned he had not moved since opening the door.

"Oh yeah come in," Tai said stepping aside to let his old friend in. "Why are you hear?" Tai said, sounding shock and within reason. Matt had started touring with his band before the beginning of this year and had been out of contact for all that time. That wasn't the only time he had been out of contact. For the last 2 and a half years Matt had been working with his band and they had made it big releasing 2 albums and 6 singles. Tai had spoken to him now and again but with Matt being so busy it was hard for them getting together.

"We stopped touring for a few months," Matt explained walking more into the house "and so I have been with family for Christmas." It was at that moment that Tai realised Matt was carrying a carrier bag that looked pretty full. "But seeing as I have seen family," Matt continued as he removed his jacket "I thought I would see friends and you were closest so you're first!"

Tai laughed as Matt threw his jacket over the couch. He was now wearing a green t-shirt with his bands name 'Teenage Wolves' written over a silver wolf. Matt had always looked cool but with those clothes and his long hair he really did look like a rock star. "So what did you have in mind for our reunion?" Tai asked as he went and sat on the couch.

"All my plans lie in this bag," Matt said raising the plastic bag in his hand.

"What in that?" Tai asked now very curious to Matt's plans.

Matt didn't answer but merely put it on Tai's coffee table and opened it up. Inside were two boxes, one on top of each other, each holding 50 bottles of beer. "I like your plan," Tai said opening one of the boxes and pulling out two beers. Then he opened them, handed one to Matt and raising his own up said "To old friends!"

"Here, here!" Matt said and both the bottles clanged and were drunk in one go.

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Sora sat on her bed hugging a stuffed pink bird. She always held it close to her when she felt sick or depressed. She saw it as the closest thing to Biyomon she had in the real world so she held it dear to her heart. "You know if you stay in bed all day hugging a stuffed bird people will start to talk," came the sweet innocent voice of Kari. Kari and Sora had really gotten closer the older Kari got. During the time with the Digimon emperor and the control spires had been when they really bonded. Kari had come to her for advice about being in the group and being a DigiDestined. Sora had helped her and they grew closer and closer. Kari turned to her for a lot of things: fashion, hair, make-up as well as more essential things like boys. Tai had always loved and supported his sister so she had a role model in him but she needed a female to talk to about the bigger things.

"I'm not really up for going out today, can we do it another day?" Sora asked in a distant voice. She felt so bad about what she had done. She didn't even know why she had done it. All she knew is that deep in her heart it was the right thing to do. But that didn't explain why she felt so hollow and in so much pain. She also hated that Tai's sister was here and being so nice. They may be close but Kari would always be Tai's sister. This made Sora feel so guilty and scared. If she told Kari what had happened she knew it would lead in Kari shouting at her. The worst part was Sora knew she would be right and it hurt her so much to see one of her closest friends leave her over this.

"Of course you can silly," Kari said laughing. She never had a fear in the world and even when she did she would just laugh and no one would know. "But there is still something we need to do," Kari said making Sora look up at her. "We need to talk and find out what is going on."

Sora's heart sank with her head and Kari sat down. "I can't Kari I really can't," Sora said as she felt a lump rise in her throat.

"I'm not going anywhere until we talk this through," Kari said adamantly. "You helped me loads of times," Kari said "and the least I can do is help you" Sora raised her head to speak but Kari cut her off and said "Sora I'm not here to judge you! Just to help you!"

Sora broke down and started to cry while saying "I'm so, so sorry Kari!"

She kept repeating this as Kari comforted her and said "why are you saying sorry to me?"

Sora let it all out. She exploded into the story of the night before, how it had been such a good night and how close she felt to Tai. How they had started to reminisce about the old days. About how they kissed but Sora ran away because she just couldn't do it. About how guilty she feels and how she likes Tai but is unsure. These and so many other things she cried out to Kari who just sat there and let her talk her self into a quiet state. After a few moments were Sora regained her composer, Kari "so you managed to get Tai to study over the holidays? Wow that is impressive!"

Sora looked at Kari puzzled and so Kari continued. "You done what you had to do Sora, there's nothing more to it," She said simply.

"But you never saw Tai's face when I left," Sora said, feeling worse as the image of his broken heart in his eyes came back to her, "he was devastated!"

"Maybe so," Kari said "but it's better to do it now than later on and maybe destroy your friendship with him,"

"I think I already did," Sora said looking down at her stuffed bird again.

"Tai will bounce back from this Sora," Kari said reassuringly "he done it when you and Matt got together he can do it again,"

Sora smiled at Kari. Even if she wasn't right Kari always said the thing that made everything feel all right. "Thanks Kari but why aren't you mad?" Sora asked more confused about that now than anything else "I thought you would start shouting at me and storm out?"

Kari sat for a moment in thought and then said "Nah," causing both girls to laugh. "Tai is my brother but you're my friend to and anyway you done what you think was right that's what mattered," and with that Sora had a huge weight lifted off her shoulders.

Sora began to smile and said "I always use to have a crush on Tai as well," Kari leaned in closer to hear more "him and Matt were the hottest boys I knew and Tai was my oldest friends so it was natural to like him more than others," she said almost looking back on his cute 10 year old face.

"You do know the feeling was mutual yeah?" Kari asked and received her answer by the look on Sora's face that made a clear YES!

"Please! Tai was never subtle with his emotions. The one that really gave it away was that he would never tackle me properly in soccer," Sora said almost laughing with the memory "he would get the ball off me but never in a rough way and no matter what team I was on, his or not, he always told me I was amazing," she even blushed now thinking about him saying that.

"Yeah I had the same with Davis," Kari said laughing a little "but poor T.K got more than his fare shares of tackles against him," this caused both girls to laugh again.

"They were always fighting over you weren't they?" Sora asked happy the subject had changed.

"Well Davis fought T.K just kinda watched," Kari said laughing. "Although," Kari said with a look of remembrance on her face "when it came to impressing me T.K did normally do better without ever trying as hard as Davis,"

"Really?" said Sora surprised "I mean I know T.K and you are together now but Davis was always the one who would try everything to get you to like him,"

"Well it was the fact that T.K would rarely try that made is more memorable," Kari said smiling. "One that still gets me was on my birthday two years ago," Kari said almost watching it happen. "Davis had been so proud to have got me a really expensive hat which I doubt I ever wore. I had said so many times I rarely wore hats but hey it was the thought that counted. Yolie had got me a beautiful make-up set while Cody got me a book I had mentioned to him. Ken was so sweet he got me a beautiful bunch of flowers that he had arranged himself. As you can tell Davis was not as pleased with that one. The only person missing was T.K. he came in about 3 hours after the party had begun but I was still happy to see him. He was so quiet when he handed over a box and a card but told me to read the card first before taking off over to the rest of them. I opened the card and it said I wanted to give you the stars but I knew you didn't want them, should have given you the sun as you are the light. Maybe should have got you roses of the longest stem, but instead I got you this as you loved it at first sight."

Sora couldn't help but gasp at how wonderfully thoughtful that poem was and said "That is so sweet!"

"My exact thoughts," Kari said with a blush and a smile then regaining her thoughts she when on with the story. "So as I was saying," she continued "I read the card so now, with T.K's permission, I could open my package. So I did and in it was this white scarf. Now I should probably explain," Kari added as Sora looked puzzled as to why Kari seemed so impressed by a white scarf. "Me and T.K work at Chipz, the computer store, and on our way there in a window of a shop was this white scarf. I had always stopped to look at it while T.K would tell me to hurry up. Well I had sworn every time I would buy it but of course it cost far too much for me so I never could get it," Kari explained.

"Ooooohhhh," was Sora's reaction as she said "so that's why it meant so much. Wow T.K is such a sweat heart. So what did you do?"

"I walked right up to him and kissed him on the cheek, hugged him and told him I loved it," Kari said again smiling into a blush.

"So is that when you knew he was the one?" Sora asked, getting caught up in the love story.

"There abouts," Kari answered grinning "I always kinda knew he was special and all our history made us such good friends but I finally made my decision when I asked him out,"

"Don't stop then," Sora demanded "what happened then?"

"Well in all honesty it wasn't my proudest day," Kari answered truthfully. "You see," she began "I had asked T.K to meet me in the park that day. I wore my best cloths and even though it wasn't to cold out I wore that scarf as well. We met up and I asked him what he thought of me asking out Davis,"

"You did what?" Sora asked so shocked Kari would even think of Davis over T.K, especially after that story.

"I was testing him," Kari answered "it was my weird and delusional way to see how he really felt about me," and at that Kari looked away sheepishly.

"So what did T.K say?" Sora asked not wanting to wait any more.

"He looked so heart broken," Kari said feeling a little guilty "but then he smiled and told me what ever made me happy he was fine with. And so I kissed him!"

"I bet that was a shock," Sora said with a grin.

"Well after a really good kiss, I will always remember T.K for that," Kari said laughing with Sora "he started asking me about Davis and what this meant. Well I told him it was test to see how he would react. He wasn't pleased and told me he was really hurt by that. That he loved me and never thought I would question it!"

"Wow that must have hurt," Sora said sliding over to Kari and putting a hand on her shoulder.

"It did but he was right," Kari said looking down "I began to cry and apologise. I thought I had lost him before I even had him. That's when he done the sweetest thing. He lifted up my head and told me he from this day on, to prove he loved me, he would make sure I never cried again," Kari's mind drifted off into a dream world and left her with a dreamy look on her face.

Sora smiled. It was so nice to see people in love and Sora knew that Kari and T.K were defiantly in love. "That is why you are perfect for each other," Sora said matter-of-factly "he would do anything for you and you know it and it's the same for him. I don't know if I ever had that or," Sora stopped there. She was going to 'say or ever will' but decided not to. Unfortunately for her Kari picked up on it.

"Sora you liked Matt a lot yeah?" Kari asked though already knew the answer.

"Well, yeah of course I did," Sora answered without really thinking about it.

"And when you broke up who did you phone to speak to first?" Kari asked again knowing the answer before it was said.

Sora didn't answer. She hated it but she knew Kari was getting at the fact Tai had always been there for her. Maybe that's why she couldn't be with him, because she never knew or appreciated that fact. Or maybe it's because she was never there for him. Kari seemed to pick up that Sora was lost in her own thoughts because she said, very unconvincingly "Well I have to go. I will be back round tomorrow and we are going shopping,"

Sora merely nodded at this command. It was hard to believe but Sora felt better and worse about the previous night now than before. She was glad she found out why she had felt she couldn't be with her. The down point being her reason was her!

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"So we have the internet over run with the copy of this mega evil Digimon," Tai said laughing his head off "and a bomb on its way and Izzy is sitting there complaining about the amount of e-mails coming through,"

Both boys laughed hard. Many hours had past and even more beer lay littered around them. The coffee table now had two and a half boxes of beer on it and another unopened box on the floor. There were also two empty bottles of vodka lying in the kitchen and a bottle of whisky that had just been opened. It was safe to say neither of the friends was sober but they were certainly happy.

"You should see how we felt," Matt said as he and Tai's laughter subsided "Me and T.K are looking for a computer in a place that is lucky to have a phone. We finally find one in a barber shop. It was so awkward to be sitting at a computer, world in our hands and the guy next to us having a trim. T.K still goes there for hair cuts when ever he can, says we owe them that at lest," at this they began laughing again.

They had spent most of the night reminiscing about old days and newer ones. It seemed so long ago that they had saved the world with the new DigiDestined and now, though they still saw the Digimon it still seemed so distant to them.

"Ok so level with me," Tai said after the laughter subsided again "why are you really here? I mean I aint the closest of your friends and even if I was you could have met up as appose to come over?"

Matt took time to pause and drink his beer before he spoke next. When he finally spoke it was in a calming voice hoping to keep things calm. "Well Kari phoned you last night," Matt began "and she knew something was up. She asked T.K to come round and talk to you but, knowing I would have a better effect I done it instead,"

Tai stared down at his own bottle of beer. He didn't talk nor did he plan too. Kari was always good at picking up when Tai had something wrong but this time she didn't know what so Tai could still walk away without being bothered to much. All he had to do was lie. "It was nothing," was the perfect lie Tai used followed by "it's all done now,"

Matt almost laughed, Tai clearly hadn't changed. "You think you can lie to me?" Matt asked causing Tai to merely look away. "Hey you don't want to talk about it fine," Matt said "but you know that it works out better when you do,"

"I kissed Sora," Tai said in a cold hard way.

"Hey that's good news," Matt said "isn't it?"

"She ran out the room," Tai said then explained it, in a little less detail than he maybe should have, but gave all the facts for matt to get the idea.

"I see," said Matt who seemed to be digesting all the information he got. "Well that is a doozey," he said after a moment of silence. Both the old friends couldn't help but laugh. "Hey I can't dream of telling you about girls or love or any of that stuff," Matt said honestly "but I do know that all the time I was going out with her, though she liked me a hell of a lot,"

"You cocky bastard!" Tai said and they both laughed again.

"Well I am amazing," matt said with a wave of his hair "but even I didn't compete with you man,"

That one statement seemed to confirm every thing that Tai had thought but there was still one thing nagging him. "If that's true then why did she walk out?" Tai asked, his heart breaking as the question left his lips.

"I'm sorry man but I don't have an answer for you," Matt said pouring more whiskey into glasses. "However," he said handing one of the glasses to Tai "I do have a solution that will last the night!"

So Tai, reading his mind, downed the glass and said "To girls, to friends, to family and to the DigiDestined!"

(Thanks again for reading; I hope you liked this chapter. The Sora Kari part was easy to write but Matt and Tai took a bit longer because I wasn't sure if I wanted happy or angry, still not sure but now it's done. Hope you keep reading and reviewing because I need you guys to keep me right and keep me going lol)