Disclaimer: I forgot to do this in the first one so this one is for chapter one and two. I don't own digimon never have, never will. Besides if I did the third season wouldn't be as lame as it was, sorry for all those who liked it.
Authors Note: I thank all of you who reviewed. It really made me feel more confident in continuing this story.
Thanks To:
Lord Pata
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Now on to the Chapter
Chapter Two: The Cold Shoulder
"Takeru, why don't you tell us about yourself?"
The boy sighed, "My dad owns Headline Electronics, my mother, Holly-Ann, is a model slash designer. I've never lived in one place long enough to go to a real school and I'm an only child." At this time he looked at the teacher, "I go by TK." He said all this in a rehearsed monotone, like it had been said a million times before
"Why don't you sit next to Miss Kamiya." The teacher said pointing to Kari who was scrambling to get her things back into her bag.
TK nodded and sat down.
"Hi, I'm Kari." She whispered
He nodded. What seemed like hours later the end of school bell rang and TK walked out, Kari and Davis following him. Yolei and Cody saw their friends and tried to catch up to them while trying not to look suspicious about following this mysterious blonde boy (a/n: did anyone else ever notice that Matt and TK are like the only blonde people in digimon until the fourth season?).
"Why are we following this kid?" Yolei hissed when they caught up to Kari and Davis
"His name is TK." Davis said
"So?"
"Cody, he looks like Matt." Kari hissed
TK heard the footsteps behind him and broke out in a run. He turned a corner and stopped waiting for whoever was following him.
Kari, Davis, Yolei, and Cody skidded around the corner and came to a halt. TK gazed at them waiting for an explanation, when none came he decided to speak up.
"Are you following me?" he asked
"Yes." Kari stated simply
"Why?" he asked gazing at her with level eyes
"Dude," Davis said, "your jumping to conclusions, not like we were stalking you." He joked
"As far as I'm concerned you were stalking me."
"We aren't stalkers!" Davis said defensively
"Prove it. Tell me why you were following me."
"We….um…eh…" Davis stuttered trying to think of an excuse
"Were you adopted?" Kari said getting right to the point
TK stared at her shocked, "Why would you think that?"
"You look like our friend Matt."
"Yea, I was adopted, but I have no, and I stress no, desire to meet my birth family. Do you understand?"
"But-"
"No, I like my life now. They didn't want me so I don't want them. Capisce?" He snapped. Kari nodded and he walked away
"Hey Yolei?"
"Yea?"
"Did you get a picture on your phone?"
"We gonna show it to Matt?"
"Yep."
"Now I do feel like a stalker." Davis muttered as they walked to the high school to meet the older digidestined.
As the Tai, Matt, Sora, Izzy, and Joe walked out they saw there younger friends waiting impatiently for them (a/n: I know Joe goes to a different school than the others, so for my sake he's visiting the others at school on a day off. Capisce?)
"Matt, does this kid look like anyone to you?"
Matt stared at the picture trying to place any other name with it, but one name dominated the others that he was thinking up at random, "TK." He breathed
"This is the new kid in our class. His name is Takeru Arrow, TK for short. His father owns Headline Electronics, he was adopted."
"It's not possible. It's too much of a coincidence. To be looking for eight years and right when we're about to give up, he appears out of….nowhere."
"Why didn't you bring him with you?" Tai asked pouncing on Matt's surprise
"That's the hard part. He doesn't want to meet his real family and I think the only way we can even try to convince him is to show him proof that Matt's his brother. It may even be hard then because he thinks his birth parents didn't want him."
"Trick him." Tai said
"How!" Kari asked annoyed
"Do anything to get him here. We need to prove who he is and if he's not then we'll leave him alone."
Kari agreed with reluctance and turned around to go find the object (person) of her current predicament. She looked across the street to see him walking home on the other side, she really had expected he task to be harder.
"TK!" Kari screamed
The unsuspecting blonde jumped and turned to see who had just screamed at him. It was the stalker girl from earlier he sighed, 'I don't have time for this.' He thought angrily, but his need to not be completely rude and walk away took over.
"What?" he yelled slightly exasperated
"Come here." She yelled pointing her finger at the ground for emphasis
"No!"
"Why?"
"I don't know you that well and I need to get home!"
"It'll only take a moment!"
He sighed, it was probably just easier to go along with this crazy girl and see what she wanted. He stepped into the street looking both ways to make sure he wouldn't get hit.
"What!" he snapped as he reached her side of the street
"These are my friends," she said with a smile and pointed to them each as she said their names, "Sora, Izzy, Joe, my brother Tai, and Matt."
TK looked at them each for a moment as they were introduced, but his sapphire eyes lingered on Matt the longest, then he panicked, "I've got to go."
He began to run off when a rather large digimon came out of nowhere. TK stumbled back in astonishment as Tai grabbed him preventing the younger boy from making ass to pavement contact.
"What the hell is that?" he asked looking at Tai then he changed his mind, "on second thought, I don't want to know."
Tai pulled TK off the ground and turned around relived to see that their digimon had come out of hiding.
"That's Lizardmon, but I don't understand why he's more powerful than an average lizardmon should be." Izzy said
"What do you mean more powerful?" Joe asked worried
"He's four times as powerful as he should be, the only way that could happen would be if Devimon and Myotismon found a way to make weaker digimon powerful enough to beat our champion levels."
TK blinked, he had no idea what was going on and he was pretty sure he didn't want to find out, but he was being held in place by Tai who had yet to let go of his arm.
"Gatomon!"
"Got it Kari!" a white cat-like creature jumped forward and was transformed into an angel like creature.
"Celestial Arrow!" she yelled before the other one could say a thing it disappeared
"Did Lizardmon just run from a fight?"
"That's not important right now." Izzy said, "We have to find out what's go-"
"What the hell were those….those things?" TK asked horrified
The digimon (who didn't really have a battle because the authoress is hella lazy and doesn't feel like writing one) turned to look at him.
Gabumon walked over to him almost inspecting him for several minutes, and then he turned to Matt, "Is this your brother?"
Matt shook his head, "I don't know."
"How do you not know?"
TK looked up from the ground where he had been scuffing his shoe, "I have to go." With that he went running.
"Wait!" Matt called taking chase after the younger blonde
The others looked at each other sighed and went in pursuit of the two before Matt did something stupid that he would regret.
Matt was trying in vain to catch up to the younger boy who was running faster than he could ever hope to. He saw his chance, though when TK stopped next to a pond in the clearing to take a breath. Matt grabbed his arm in the same death grip he had eight years ago and hoped it would be enough to keep the boy next to him this time.
TK spun around to see the same teenager Kari had introduced as Matt holding his arm.
"Let go." He said in a panicked whisper
"Do you recognize me?"
"Let go." TK said again
"No, not until you can look me straight in the eye and say you don't recognize me."
A/N: thanks for reading and please review. I probably won't be able to get another chapter out until next Friday or Sunday because this upcoming week is finals week and I will be studying. Also shorter than I would have liked, I'll try to get the next one longer.
Much thanks to those who review
-Princess in the Pea
