Alright again sorry that I haven't updated in a while but I had to do a lot of things for Graduation and then me and my friends went to the Great Wolf Lodge. But know it is Summer for me so I will be updating as much as possible.

Disclaimer: Zakuya Kanbara does not own anything digimon or of that sort saddy. (I wish I did.)


Digital Differences

By Zakuya Kanbara

Chapter 2: The Attack

It always horrified Takuya to see kids actually happy to get to school. Especially when they were so happy that they skipped up the front steps and walked through the corridors laughing and happy like they were on a playground instead of locked in a cold brick building for seven hours a day. To him it almost seemed like they were happily walking in to a prison.

However, he did sympathize with those, like himself, who had to sprint to school in order not to be caught late and forced to endure an extra hour of detention.

If Takuya was lucky he would have made it inside the building. In fact he was halfway up the steps before a tall, thin girl slammed in to him.

He went hurtling up the steps, and before his face banging in to the cement he caught himself, and when he turned around to yell at the girl he found the words not coming out of his throat.

She was beautiful. Probably the most beautiful middle scholar Takuya had ever laid eyes on, but something seemed familiar about her that he could not put his finger on it. With her long, messy, golden colored hair that practically reached her waist, but was covered up by her white hat, and large blue eyes. She stared down at him apologetically, her blue eyes wide with concern.

"Are you alright?" she asked, reaching for his hand.

"Yeah I'm fine-"

"Takuya Kanbara!" the teacher on duty snapped as the late bell went off. Takuya groaned, "That's anotherdetention," she sighed, handing him the slip, "And who's this?"

"Misa Jun Takaishi or you can call me MJ, ma'am. It's my first day."

"Well, in that case I'll let it slide. But be sure not to make a habit of being late Miss Takaishi," the teacher said, her hand itching for her slips as if she had wanted an excuse to write up another one.

Luckily she found her excuse as another student ambled up behind them and Takuya and MJ took the opportunity to slip past her as she encircled her latest victim.

"What's your homeroom?" Takuya asked as they walked silently toward the Main Office so MJ could get her schedule.

"8D, I believe. They sent me a sample schedule in the mail," MJ said cheerily, holding her sample class list up to him.

"Wow, mine too," he said taking her list from her, his eyes widening, "This is crazy, I think we have all of our classes together!"

"I sure hope so," MJ whispered.

"What was that?" Takuya asked, looking at her.

"Nothing!" she smiled.

Zoe sat in cooking class with Koji and Koichi, and she was lecturing them.

"You can't come to this school," she said, shaking her head as she shoved a tray of cookies in the oven. "You cannot leave Takuya all by himself on the other side of town."

"Zoe it's hardly the other side of town," Koji corrected.

"We wouldn't if we had a choice," Koichi said. "This is what's best for our family. This is the only area that mom and dad can both afford living in while still being close to their jobs. This way we can live on the same street. We can actually be together."

Zoe sighed, they were just making her feel worse, "I know… but you know how Takuya is. I just can't see him being by himself all day and not causing some kind of huge disaster!"

JP's stomach growled from where he sat next to the oven, watching the cookies slowly melt and harden, "I say we eat first and then worry about Takky."

"I think Zoe's more worried than the rest of us," Koji observed.

"I wonder why that is," Koichi teased leaning back on the counter.

Zoe whirled on them, her cheeks reddening, "You better not be saying what I think you're saying. I would have to be some sort of-of idiot to like that goggle head! Che ne pensate Io sono? Uno stupido?"

"Calm down Zoe," Koichi said, laughing as almost everyone in the class turned to look at her, "That's not what we were saying at all."

"Oh," she said perplexed, her face as red as an apple, she turned away from them and looked out the window, "Well it's still not true."

"Of course not Zoe," Koji snickered.

"Cookies are done!" JP announced, opening the oven. But they weren't done. JP just really wanted a cookie and Koji and Koichi spent three whole minutes persuading him to put them back in the oven while Zoe stared out the window toward the direction of Takuya's school.

It's not true, she thought, I don't like him.

Then she glanced at the clock, it was still a few hours until school would be over and then they could see each other again. She shook her head, clearing the confusing, strange thoughts of Takuya that had been cluttering her head lately. Ever since they had returned from the Digiworld Takuya had been different.

He had been showing signs of it back in Digiworld but now she could see that he really had matured. He was still goofy and weird but underneath it all he was much calmer now as if he knew more about the world than other people. This was true, even though they were only in middle school.

For some reason she was only calm when she was with him. She stared in the direction of his school, longing for the bell to ring so she could leave cooking class. There was way too much time to think when she was here.

Takuya was staring out the window. One more hour of school and then it would be over. He still had detention but sometimes he could get off it. He'd just have to distract the teacher on duty somehow, and he usually could.

He glanced in the direction of Zoe's school, wishing that the bell would ring. He wanted to sit in the park with her again. Her and the others, he meant, of course. He couldn't even imagine why he had been thinking of just him and Zoe in the park alone.

He shook his head and at the front of the class the teacher snapped her ruler against the chalkboard.

"Mr. Kanbara?" she yelled, snapping Takuya's focus to the front of the classroom, "What did I just say?"

Takuya stared at the blackboard speechless, but not because of his teacher. There was something being written across the top of the board. No one was writing it but it still appeared in all caps and neat handwriting and no one reacted. It was as if only Takuya could see it.

'GIVE ME THE KEY.'

Takuya shivered, suddenly feeling very unwell.

"Mr. Kanbara!"

Takuya opened his mouth to say something smart when a girl at the back of the class who had been staring out the window screamed and jumped from her seat. All of the students whirled around just in time to see a strange black object hurtling towards the school.

"Bomb!" someone screamed as all of the children ran from the classroom.

But it wasn't a bomb. Takuya would know that creature anywhere. It was too swift and fast to be anything manmade. It was a Digimon.

Takuya threw himself over his teacher's desk just as the Digimon crashed through the window, glass shattering everywhere. The force of it slammed the desk in to the wall, dragging Takuya with it and it took him a moment to catch his breath.

"Come out, come out, little boy." the Digimon cooed, as if throwing yourself through the third floor of a building was as easy as jumping in to a pond. "Come out and play."

Takuya crawled out from underneath the desk and faced the Digimon.

He opened his mouth, prepared to say something witty when he noticed someone standing in the back of the classroom holding a… Digivice!

"What are you doing here? Where did you get that Digivice?" Takuya spluttered instead.

MJ Takaishi grinned, "Saving you. And none of your business."

Zoe was watching the clock, there were only a few minutes left of school.

She scribbled some more notes that their teacher had continued writing, oblivious to the time and the significance of the last class of the day.

She anxiously glanced out the window toward Takuya's school and her breath caught in her throat.

From the third floor of the school building a thick black column of smoke was rising in to the air like an omen of death.

Tommy sat on a bench across from Zoe's school. He was younger than the others so his classes got out earlier than theirs. Still, he waited patiently for the bell to ring so they could all go get Takuya and hang out in the park.

Tommy had a good feeling that today was going to be one of those days that the entire gang would meet up and do something together, so when he looked up at the clear blue sky and saw the plume of smoke drifting toward him his eyes widened in alarm.

He feared it wasn't going to be one of those days after all.

Who is this new girl that Takuya met? Will she actually be able to save him? You will just have to keep watching Digimon Digital Monsters.

TBC...