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I really like the Japanese names so that's how I write em, sorry if you're a fan of the English versions.

All characters do not belong to me, just their thoughts and actions in this story.

I was heading to see Tai when I spotted him.

He was smoking a cig in the alleyway near his apartment, I cursed how cool he looked leaning against the wall with a distant look on his face. I hated that he could escape reality so easily, so I walked up him intending to ruin his peace.

"You smoke?"

Wherever he was, I startled him back to reality. His eyes focused on me and he shrugged apathetically. And here I was thinking he was supposed to be the friendly guy.

I started walking away with he grabbed my wrist, and spun me around.

"Don't tell." With that he flicked his cig out and walked the way I had come leaving me alone in the alleyway, thinking about what I had just seen.

Figures he would be concerned with his image, what a prick.

It was almost midnight when I heard the knock on the door, I glanced at the clock thinking mom was early and forgot her keys.

I got up to open the door and nearly closed again it when I saw Daisuke looking like he wanted to crawl into a hole and die.

I just looked at him and he looked back. He was mess split lip and a shiner on his left eye. Finally he opened his mouth.

"Can I stay tonight, only for tonight I swear."

For a second I just looked at him, it had been three weeks and Yama or anyone had yet to learn of my smoking habit, so I guess I owed him something. I shrugged and let him in,

"Sure."

I didn't ask why he needed a place to stay when he had a nice warm house with a family, and he didn't ask where my mom was.

We sat in silence on the couch pretending to watch the program I had on before he had interrupted.

My mother didn't come home that night.

It rained the night after I stayed at Takeru's, luckily my parents realized what assholes they were being.

Or rather they realized how it would make them look as parents if their kid was out on the streets, so they let me back into the house.

Takeru never mentioned that night and I filed it away as another secret between us, the list seemed to be getting a longer.

I dreamed about the Digiworld often, about patamon and all the other digimon, but sometimes the dreams took a violent turn.

Devimon haunted my subconscious, and I was too afraid of my rage to confront my fears.

It wasn't so much that I couldn't let go of what happened all those years ago in the Digital World, or that Devimon scared me, it was how I reacted. I hated all evil with a passion, and to me Devimon was the manifestation of that evil.

A dark feeling took hold of my heart when I thought of the pain and darkness that evil digimon created, it held on and it sqeezed my heart till I thought it would burst.

I opened my eyes only to find that I couldn't see, my hand reached out blindly trying to find something. I knew I was in this darkness for a reason, I knew I had thrown myself here, but for the life of me I couldn't remember why. I could think so clearly but on one train of thought, if I tried to deviate everything became hazy. Search, find, search, find, my mind supplied, it seemed like hours I was searching, wandering in the dark. I saw a light and began to run towards it only to find I had something holding me back, I turned to see what I was caught on and came face to face with Devimon, eyes glowing. Then the wind hit me whipping through my hair and bringing a smell I had hoped to long forget. Devimon sank his teeth into my neck to spread his poison.

I muffled my scream that night, but nothing could stop the cold sweat, or the burning sensation I awoke with after dreaming. I remembered the wind's smell and my blood ran cold, it smelled like salt and death.

The Dark Ocean.

dun dun dun!!! lol not an original plot but hey I do my best. So let me know if you like it cuz I have a lot of alternate ones that I can sub in, I just thought this one worked the best.

Takeru's and Dai's encounters are supposed to be short and random, I don't believed in love at first sight or that you can go from hate to love in an instant. If anything they are just craving understanding that they can only get from a stranger and slowly building a bond so I wanted to show it step by step.