Chapter 4: Time

My mom did not want to let me go, even after my complaints of being in pain. But after a while she finally let me go and I went to sit down on the couch. It was odd remembering instantly who my mother was. But there were still parts that were cloudy. I didn't really know how her relationship was with Matt or Dad for even that matter.

"Mom?"

"Yes T.K?"

"I remember everything about you, but why can't I remember anything about Matt or even Dad?"

The room went eerily quiet.

"Did I say something wrong?.."

"No, not at all honey..its just.."

"Mom and Dad are divorced T.K." said Matt a little coldly.

"Oh…" I didn't really know what to feel, or how I felt even before my memory was gone.

It was awkward in the room now. No one said anything.

"You know, I didn't even get to re-introduce myself, I'm Tai, Kari's older brother." Tai said as he put out my hand.

I sighed in relief, he immediately broke the tension that was in the room. I shook his hand. "Its nice to meet you Tai."

"Oh I almost forgot!" Said Kari.

She got up and gave me a bag. "They're your favorite." She said smiling.

I went into the bag and pulled out a few bars of chocolate. I opened one of the bars and broke off a piece popping it into my mouth. The chocolate and almond combination was vaguely familiar, it tasted amazing.

"That was delicious Kari, thank you."

"Anytime."

Kari went to go sit down by Davis. They looked and smiled at each other holding each other's hand. I got this funny feeling in my chest, I didn't know what it was. Was it jealousy? I didn't know, whatever it was I needed to get my head straight and talk to someone about this later.

"You know.." I said. "I really would like to go out instead of being stuck in here all day."

"Not at all." My Mom said. "You're resting here at least until your leg gets better."

"Mom…I've been inside all day though…."

The apartment door opened up and in walked my Dad.

Was it me or did tension flare up in the air.

"Hiroaki…"

"Nancy.."

"Thank you for telling me about T.K…"

"Its not a problem..I hope I didn't interrupt anything important."

"No..you didn't…"

Something clicked in my head. "Mom, didn't you have a date?.."

She blushed. I don't think she wanted me to say that.

"Oh.." My dad said.

It had gotten extremely awkward at this point.

"I think we should head out Kari." Said Tai.

"But we just—"

"Yep, I think we will too." Said Davis.

"Its getting late." Said Yolie.

One after the other, people made excuses to leave, knowing the relationship between my parents.

The last one to leave was Kari.

"I'll call T.K…" She said as she walked out.

"You think he'll be fine Tai?.."

"I hope so, he just needs time. He remembered his mom right away didn't he? And he somewhat remembered you."

"I guess."

"Why don't you go out with Davis tomorrow, it'll make you feel better."

"Wait, you want me to go out with Davis?"

"Well it'll definitely make you feel better, but no kissing, or hugging, or even touching for that matter."

"You're not making it sound very fun.."

"All in a day's work." He grinned.

Another static filled dream infiltrated my mind.

"ANGEMON? Veemon tell me you can digivolve like that too! Like Angedinosaurmon, or Angesoccermon! Something!"

The image was cut off and another memory appeared.

"Oh! You must be the new kid! I'm Yolie and this is Cody!"

"Its nice to meet you, I'm T.K."

The image was cut off once again.

"Do you think Matt will come back to me Tai?"

"I don't know T.K, we all want him back."

"Why would he leave me alone?..."

The memory was cut off and another one played in my mind.

"T.K, you shouldn't be alone in the dark."

"I know Matt…but…mom and dad…they keep fighting it scares me…"

"It'll be alright, everything will work out.."

"I hope your right…"

My eyes opened up slowly. I could feel some ringing in my ears, and I had a slight headache.

I got up and looked around. It was still early in the morning. The clock read 3 A.M. Patamon was sound asleep on a pillow on the floor.

I took my crutches and quietly went to the apartment balcony. There were two chairs and a table, I took a seat on one of them. It was cold, I wished I took my blanket with me. As if on cue, a blanket surrounded me. I looked over and I saw my mom's tired eyes.

"You should be sleeping."

"So should you."

She took a seat on the other chair, not even bothered by the cold.

"I'm surprised that you decided to stay here Mom."

"Well even though your Dad and I have our problems… you're much more important, I can deal with him for the time being."

I nodded and looked out the Odaiba skyline. I've probably seen it a million times, but its new to me.

"How was I like?"

"Hm?"

"How was I like before the amnesia?"

She smiled. "The best son a mother could wish for."

I smiled. We were quiet for the next few minutes and then I thought about my dream. The last bit of it to be exact.

"Why did you and dad get a divorce?"

She was sort of surprised when I asked this question.

"Its funny, even when you had your memories, you didn't know and never asked."

"I got to know how it happened right?"

"I suppose so.."

I looked at her, she was debating whether or not to tell me.

"Well…after we had you, it was only a few years actually that my work schedule and his kept us apart. We were always busy, and we never spent anytime with each other, or with you and Matt for that matter. Things just got progressively worse, we accused each other of cheating, we didn't take care of you two…it just got so bad…After a while we decided divorce was the best thing…"

I looked at her, her eyes showed a distant look.

"Now that I think about it…we were just so stupid. I knew your father wasn't cheating and he knew I wasn't too. We were just young and stupid…and in love."

"Do you still?"

"Hmm?"

"Do you still love him?"

She looked through the glass sliding doors to my dad's door.

"Yes."

We were quiet after that, not saying one word.

"How was your date anyway?"

"Horrible, he took me to a fast food restaurant for dinner and made me pay."

I laughed out loud.

"It was my first date in a long time too…"

"Now I see why it wasn't anything important."

"What do you mean?..."

"When Dad said he hoped he didn't interrupt you."

"Oh…yes. Well I didn't want him to feel bad about it either. By the way T.K, what went through your mind when you mentioned the date?"

"Well…uhh…"

"Exactly." She laughed. She got up and kissed my forehead.

"Go back to bed soon."

She opened the glass door and walked into living room. She didn't go to the guest room though, she went to my Dad's.

I smiled.

Chapter 5: Experiences

I spent the next two days resting my leg up until it was better. It felt good to finally leave the apartment. Although I always had to have someone with me so I wouldn't get lost. My memory wasn't changing much at all though. Although I was a little excited today. I get to go home and look at how I lived, my own room! There was a knock on the door.

I walked over and opened it. Yolie and Cody stood there with their respective digimon.

"Hey T,K ready to go back home?" Asked Yolie.

"For sure." I smiled. Patamon flew up behind me and perked on my head. It felt familiar.

We walked out of the apartment and went down the elevator.

"Say where are Ken, Davis and Kari?"

"Well Ken had to go to Tamachi to visit a cousin of his, and I think Kari and Davis are on a date."

"Oh,…that's cool." I said hiding my disappointment.

Cody seemed to notice my expression. "They'll be back later though."

"How long have they been together?"

"I think a little over a month." Said Yolie.

We walked out of the elevator and then out of the building. The streets of Odaiba had a familiar feel to it. It didn't seem like I was here the first time but at the same time it did.

"Anything seem familiar?" Asked Patamon.

"Somewhat…"

It took about 10 minutes to reach my home. We took the elevator up and stopped at my door. I fished for the keys in my pocket and found them. I inserted the key in the keyhole and took a deep breath. I turned it and then twisted the doorknob and pushed the door open.

The smell of my apartment was homely. It felt like I hadn't been here in a long time.

"Its good to be back."

I walked into my living room just absorbing everything around me. I walked around and experienced my home for the first time. It felt odd to be a stranger in your own home.

"How does it feel?" Asked Hawkmon.

"It feels…right."

I walked over to the door that I thought was my room. I opened the door and looked around. My room was a bit of a mess, the bed wasn't made, a couple of textbooks were scattered, papers were sprawled over my desk.

"I guess I wasn't the cleanest guy…" I laughed.

"It's a lot cleaner than my room that's for sure." Said Yolie.

I walked over to my desk and looked at the pictures.

One was a picture of a group of us with our Digimon. I assumed it was taken when I was younger.

"When was this picture taken?" I asked.

"It was after out first adventure, right before you left for the real world." Said Patamon.

"Oh….and who are the other guys?"

"That's Joe, Izzy, Sora, and Mimi with their digimon Gomamon, Tentomon, Biyomon and Palmon. You'll see them at some point." Said Yolie.

"I see.." I said putting the picture down. I picked up another picture and it was of me, Patamon, Kari and Gatomon.

"And how about this one?"

"That was in New York about 3 years ago, you and Kari went there for vacation." Said Cody.

"Alone?"

"Yep." Said Patamon.

I looked at the picture and a few questions came up in my mind.

"What exactly is Kari to me?"

All 5 characters looked at each other and laughed.

"Maybe you can answer that question for us." Said Yolie.

"Huh?..."

Cody smiled. "Well everyone assumed that you had feelings for Kari, or even the other way around, we all honestly thought it was that way, but it never happened. In fact the day before the..accident, we talked about it. You said you had no feelings for Kari, you just thought she was your best friend."

"Then why did I somewhat remember her and not Matt or my dad?"

"Well…" Said Hawkmon. "Only you know the answer to that."

I put the picture down. "Man, I was a complicated piece of work…"

"Feeling warmer?"

"Much more."

Davis and I were at a small café. It had gotten a little chilly so he decided to take me here to get some hot coco.

I sipped on my drink, it was perfect.

"You know…" Said Davis. ""Its weird, not having T.K around, well I mean, with his memory loss and all."

"I know what you mean.."

"Is it wrong for me to be happy at the same time though?"

I looked at him surprised and angry.

"Davis how could you say that?"

"Easy Kari let me finish." He laughed. "What I meant is…if he didn't push you out of the way, maybe it could've been you with amnesia, possibly worse. I'm grateful for what T.K did, I can't owe him enough."

My anger subsided. "I guess…but..I can't help but blame myself Davis, I hate to see him like that."

"We all do, the most we can do is help him regain his memories. And Kari..don't blame yourself, no one else does."

"Yea…."

"I know, why don't we go visit T.K right now, I think Yolie and Cody took him back to his place today."

I smiled. "Good idea, "

We got up and started to walk towards T.K's. I grabbed Davis's hand and intertwined it with my own. I could see Davis blushing a little. It was cute. I kissed him on the cheek which made him turn even more red.

"You know…since Tai isn't around…."

Davis's D-Terminal went off and he sighed.

He opened it and his eyes opened up in shock. "What?..." I said. He gave me his D-Terminal..I couldn't help but laugh.

Don't even think about it Davis

-Tai

We both looked around and couldn't even see Tai.

"Maybe he's psychic…" Said Davis.

I laughed a little. I won't lie, I did want to kiss Davis. But it seems like Tai would never let me. I remembered the dream I had though when T.K kissed me. That felt good, really good. I felt a little guilty that I dreamt of kissing him, but you can't control dreams right? I also thought it was weird, its like my subconscious knew he had forgotten his past. I wonder how else we were connected…

"I know!" Yelped Patamon.

We looked at him a little confused.

"I think I know what can help jog your memory!"

Patamon flew over to my closet and went through piles of clothing.

"Uhhh…Patamon..what are you doing…"

"One minute!"

I looked at Yolie and Cody both giving me questionable looks. But then both broke out into laughter. I turned around and Patamon pulled out a box labeled "My Hats."

"Uhhh…"

"Just open the box T.K"

I opened the box and in there lay 6 white fishermen hats. I picked one hat up and felt the clothing. It felt familiar. I then suddenly got a small headache. A memory came zipping into my head.

"You left your hat back there T.K"

"Oh thanks Cody, you didn't have to."

"Well I know how you value your hat. It'd be a shame to lose it in the Emperor's base."

"Ah that's okay, I have one hat for every day of the week."

"One for everyday of the week…" I mumbled.

"T.K are you alright?" Asked Cody.

"That's what I told you..after you got my hat back from the base. I told you not to worry. The day we broke those Digimon out of the base…"

Cody smiled. "That's right, do you remember anything else?"

I thought about it.

"I remember crumpling it and going after…the emperor..because od Devimon?...I…I beat up the emperor.."

"YOU WHAT? YOU HURT KEN?" Yelled Yolie.

I was a unfazed by Yolie's yelling, I was deep into my thoughts. "That's right..Ken was the emperor..and Kimeramon…Magnamon…I remember!"

Yolie stopped her yelling.

"I remember everything from that day…that weekend actually!"

"Then do you remember us?" Asked Armadillomon.

"Well..not exactly..i remember the events, but the people are all still blurry..except for how we defeated Kimeramon..and…Cody. Cody..you're my DNA digivolve partner…you like Kendo…and your grandfather is your sensei…I remember you too Cody!"

Cody smiled and bowed. "Welcome back T.K."

"How about me T.K? Do you remember me?" Asked Patamon.

I looked at him, but I couldn't remember anything past his name. "No..I'm sorry.."

Patamon's ears flopped down. "Oh…"

There was knocking on the door.

"Who could that be?" I asked. I walked over to the door and opened it up. There stood Davis and Kari holding hands. It irked me the wrong way but I ignored it.

"Hey T.J!"

Kari elbowed Davis. "Its T.K dummy."

I laughed a little. It felt like déjà vu or something.

"Come on in guys, we're all in my room."

We walked into my room, Yolie and cody with their respective Digimon were sitting on my bed.

"Good news guys, T.K remembered Cody." Said Armadillomon.

"Really?' Asked Kari.

"Yea, it was all thanks to my hat." I said while putting it back on.

"Feels just right too."

Davis picked up the photo of me and Kari.

"You know..I was unbelievably jealous of you two when you went to New York."

"Really? I was assuming you guys just decided to start dating just recently but always had feelings for each other."

"Well it wasn't that simple…" Laughed Kari.

"I see…" I walked over to Davis and picked up the picture of me and the others when I was younger.

"Can..can you tell me what happen? Tell me about the story of us Digidestined…tell me about my forgotten past."