Disclaimer: still don't own digimon nothing has changed since the last update.
A/N: I'm actually really grumpy right now, you see I'm tired and I want to go to my friends party now, but alas it doesn't start until six and it's only three! I'm bored out of my wits so I'm going to type this even if it doesn't get posted until three days after it's been typed.
Thanks to my loyal reviewers and my new ones, I have to go look up your names, but once again, alas, I'm not allowed to get on again until Sunday. I'm practicing my self control, which consequently means this won't be posted till Sunday, or today even though I'm typing it on Friday…anyways on with the story.
Chapter Four: O'Brother of Mine
TK sat next to Kari in his assigned seat for two months not speaking to her. What she had done to him hadn't been fair, she had turned his already tipping life upside down and he just wasn't willing to forgive her yet. Even though every day for the first month she had come in and tried to talk to him he was determined not to speak to her until she apologized for tormenting him on his first day of knowing her.
Kari sat down next to TK who was staring ahead and not looking at her. He had been avoiding her and her friends ever since their first meeting, although he probably thought they were all freaks after his crash course in digimon that day. Kari highly doubted that they would get him anywhere near the digital world, let alone them after that, but Tai was making her try to get on his good side. Kari at this point of wasting two months trying to get him to talk to her figured the best way was to apologize for her actions that day. She suddenly noticed that her teacher had been talking this entire time and her head snapped up just in time to hear the rest of her assignment.
"…work with the person sitting next to you. You have the rest of the day."
"Obviously their teacher was being lazy again if she was giving them a whole day to find out and write and essay about the person sitting next to them. While this was true Kari also realized that her teacher had just given her an entire day to work things out with TK.
"TK?" she asked uncertain of his response, or if he would even respond
"Yes?" he said with a sigh
"Look I'm sorry about our first meeting the other month. We didn't mean to startle you."
He looked taken back by her apology; apparently she really did want to be friends.
"It's alright." TK said after a moment thought
"Can we give the friendship thing another go?" she asked smiling genuinely
He smiled a full smile back at her, "I'd like that."
"M'kay," she said looking down at the questionnaire for their essays, "I guess I'll go first."
"Alright," TK agreed looking down at his own paper
"Where were you born? That's an odd question."
"Yea, it is. Hmm whatever, I was born in a hospital in Heighten View Terrace, surprisingly."
The rest of the day went on much like this, answering questions and asking them, then turning the whole thing into an essay. Most of the questions were useless and made for terrible essay's, but the class wasn't complaining since they probably wouldn't have any homework considering that they were coming up on the last month of school and even the teachers couldn't wait for their summer vacation. After they finished TK and Kari were permitted to go outside and relax.
"I can't believe you were born in the same hospital two months before me." TK said
"I know that was a surprising out come."
"Hey, what made you guys think I was your friend Matt's brother?"
"When Matt's little brother was three, eight year ago, he was kidnapped in a shopping mall the day after his birthday and he hasn't been seen since, and you look like how he was pictured grown up. I understand if it scares you, but don't you want to meet your family?"
"My whole like I thought that they didn't want me, but know I find out it may not have been their choice. It's a hard decision to make because I love the parents I have now, but I've always wondered, why? I suppose you wouldn't know though."
"I wish I could tell you I understand everything going through your mind right now, but I would like to help you, Matt, and his parents."
"What was his little brother's name?"
"Wow you're pretty curious for a guy who didn't even have a desire to ask questions before two months ago."
"Sorry, I've just been thinking a lot since then and I can't help but wonder if maybe he was right."
"What's your heart saying?"
TK smiled, "It's telling me to trust you guys and maybe ignore my head once."
"So maybe you want to find out for sure if…" she let the sentence hang in the air for a moment
"Yea, I want to find out if I've been living the world's biggest lie."
"I think Izzy may be able to help you then."
"Oh, yea, how?"
"Just trust me," she said an evil smile crossing her lips as she dove to tickle him at the same time he dove to tickle her.
Several minutes later both lay on the grass out of breath from laughing.
"Well for only being friends for the day," TK breathed, "that was highly entertaining, but I won."
"You did not!" Kari said with mock hurt
"Why don't you put your money where your mouth is?"
"Humph! Fine then why don't you put your money where your mouth is?"
"So….how is Izzy going to help me?"
"He's got his ways, but a guy like Izzy has to keep some secrets."
TK chucked at Kari a little, "Geniuses tend to keep their methods secret and their lives secret. That's what my dad always tells my mom when she wants him to teacher her how to fix the computer, or maybe he says that cause he knows she'll just make the problem worse."
It was Kari's turn to laugh now, "Come on school almost out."
Once the school bell rang TK walked out with Kari, Davis, Yolie, and Cody. They headed in the direction of Izzy's apartment where Matt, Tai, Sora, Joe, and even Mimi, who came via digi-port again, were waiting with Izzy. When the younger kids walked in with TK the older ones were surprised to see him with them.
"Hi," Tai said inelegantly as he looked at Matt, Mimi, Sora, and Joe, "let's go get some food guys, I'm starving."
"You don't have to leave; if you did I'd feel like I was imposing on your time together." Matt opened his mouth and closed it several times, making him resemble a fish, "Sorry about our last meeting and how I acted." TK said cutting Matt of before he could say anything stupid.
"You're apologizing to us?" Sora said surprised
"We should be apologizing to you." Cody said supportive of Sora
"Yea after practically kidnapping you and forcing you to call a big burly man to get rid of us; after that I did feel like a stalker." Davis thought out loud
"How about we're all sorry and we're all forgiven and we leave it at that?"
They all nodded in agreement with TK as Kari had a whispered conversation with Izzy. There was and still silence before Izzy turned to TK and said, "Tell me everything you know about your past so I can do some research and figure out if you are who you were raised to be."
TK filled Izzy in on everything he was aware of and thought to be the truth about his life and watched as Izzy typed it all on his computer.
"This may take a few days, considering that you're not in the adoption system and all, I mean if you are who we suppose you are then you won't be in the legal adoption system."
"So where are you getting this information and why will it take so long to get?"
"I have to hack into the hospitals database and then the database from the people your parents adopted you from and that could take my password deciphering program several days."
"You don't know how to hack into the simple database of a hospital or adoption agency?" TK asked
"It's hard to learn things like that!" Izzy snapped irritated at this treatment, "Not like you could do any better."
TK shrugged, "I'm up to the challenge, it can't be any harder than hacking into the government computers, or my dads for that matter, and those are hard to hack."
Izzy stared at him annoyed that TK could do this faster than him and wonder why he would hack into his father's computer company.
"Why would you need to hack you father's computers?" Matt said voicing Izzy's question
TK looked guilty, "It was a prank. I hacked in and changed his flight plans from a business trip to England, I sent him to Russia and then New Zealand."
"Why?" Joe said confused as to why he had wanted to do this to his father
"I was seven and he had missed my birthday, I was mad at him."
"You hacked a computer with security that high when you were seven!" Izzy exclaimed staring at the tall blonde boy
"Yes." He squeaked under the pressure of Izzy's scrutinizing stare
Izzy then moved out of his computer chair and motioned for TK to sit down, "Good you can do some of the work while we go get some food."
"Nice," TK said laughing as Izzy, Tai, Matt, Joe, Sora, Mimi, Yolie, Cody, and Davis left
"So how do you do this magical hacking thing?" Kari asked her eyes sparkling at his surprise that she was still there
"Don't you want to go get some food?" he asked leaning backward in the chair and tilting his head back so he could see her, albeit she was upside down, but hey he was looking at her, right?
"No, I'm not hungry. Besides this whole hacking business has me intrigued."
"Suit yourself, but it's not that exciting."
"Oh, what do you have to do?"
"A guys got to have some secrets." He said teasing her
She huffed at him grabbed a pillow off of Izzy's bed and slammed it into TK's head; resolutely knocking him off the chair, which kept spinning once he had made contact with the floor. Kari laughed as he sat there making it sound like he was injured.
"Are you okay!" she asked concern in her voice as she walked over to him and poked him with her foot.
He reached up suddenly and grabbed her tickling her sides.
"Stop it!" she gasped at him laughing hysterically while trying to retaliate, but failing miserably.
TK stopped tickling Kari when he ran out of breath from struggling with her in order to keep her from 'escaping'. The pair sat on the floor a minute breathing hard before Izzy's computer started to beep saying that whatever TK had typed in was correct on both counts. He got up and helped Kari up then looked at the screen, both files: one on him, Takeru Arrow, and the other on Matt's brother, Takeru Ishida (remember their parents are still married) were exactly the same, except for the fact that Takeru Ishida's cut off at a certain point because they couldn't predict or fill out what was going to happen to him medically after a year. TK noticed that they had the same blood type and surprisingly the same fingerprints, DNA and actual finger prints. HE didn't even hear Kari's voice in the background asking what it said.
"…TK…TK," she shook his shoulder
"Huh," he said coming out of his reverie to look at her
"I asked you what it said."
"Oh, I think…that a brother's instinct is stronger than we thought."
"Why do you say that?"
"Because, I'm not Takeru Arrow by birth, obviously, but I am Takeru Ishida according to the conclusion we can draw from these files and the fact that all the general stuff that tells you who you are legally is identical in both."
"So you are Matt's brother?"
"Yes."
Kari squealed in delight and grabbed him around the neck starting to hug him and changing her mind she pulled his lips to her and they kissed. Neither one hearing the others entering the room due to her squeal of glee.
Tai stared on in shock not able to find the right words to describe his feelings towards what he saw he only managed to cough and the two sprung apart surprised by their audience they blushed.
"We have good news."
"What, your getting married?" Matt asked sarcastically
"No, TK's your brother."
Matt stood there staring at Kari disbelievingly.
It's actually quite funny that the authors note above is no longer valid. You see I meant to have this out by Monday, but I went to play laser tag and jammed my fingers into a wall resulting in a bruise and two stiff fingers so here's you update a week later. READ AND REVIEW!