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Sorry for the rant... on with the story.


"There is no Hope without light and Light can't shine without Hope" - Azulongmon
"The Light inside of our hearts is called Hope." - Takeru


"T-TK??" Everyone jumped in shock and then tried to look casual as they saw TK's reaction to their panic. Kari sweatdropped and blushed, her friends were so subtle.

Almost imediately TK noticed Kari standing there blushing delicately and everything else was forgotten for a moment as they gazed into each others eyes. The moment lagged and seemed to them to be nearly an eternity.

Kari quickly broke their gaze and bit her lip, afraid, and TK blushed. They had had their moment, a look which spoke of everything that ever needed saying, yet at the same time left so many things unsaid. It was more than TK had ever hoped for, yet no where near enough. He needed more.

Kari had actually come to the Digi-anniversary, something TK hadn't even dared to hope for. But now that she was here, what next?

"Teeks," Joe broke the akwardness, smiling at the lastest arrival warmly, "How have you been? Heard your book was a best seller, congrats." Joe then pulled the younger blonde into an embrace and TK felt welcomed and relaxed once more.

"Yeah," he risked a glance at Kari wondering if she'd read his book, perhaps even seen the dedication, "it's been good. I'm working on a prequel at the moment."

This caught everyone's attention and TK was effectively grilled about this by the older digidestined children. Except Sora, Tai and Kari who remained quiet.

"Well," TK began smiling proudly, "I was thinking, you know, what if there was a second generation of digidestined, our kids. And when they were older they could save the world just like their parents before them..." He trailed off as he saw the expressions change at the mention of digidestined kids, and all eyes turned to Kari who just wanted the ground to swallow her up. "Erm guys? What's up?"

It was then that Mimi saved the day, "Nothing TK, but well..." she smiled and glanced at Matt and the kids, "your story idea just seemed so relevant. I don't believe you've met my daughter, Aimi. She's over there with Matt. A true second generation digidestined." she glanced happily at Izzy, "Our baby, a child of Knowledge and Sincerity."

TK certainly hadn't met Aimi, in fact he hadn't even known that Mimi had had any children, especially with Izzy. He winced slightly at the thought of how out of tune the digidestined were with each other and the major things in their lives these days. He looked over to where Mimi pointed and smiled to see a little girl dragging his brother and another little boy around the playground. The little girl must have been about three and she was adorable.

But at that moment his attention was snatched from the little girl with his brother to the little boy. The boy looked just like he had looked when he was that age as he helped the little girl down the slide and smiled happily at Matt. It was like staring right at his past self and he gasped slightly. He realised without being told that this must be Kari's son and felt his head go light. It wasn't just Kari's son, it was his and Kari's son. Their child, their little Miko...

He gulped and his face turned pale.

Joe looked at him worriedly, "Teeks?"

"Y-Yeah" he rasped, his lungs lacked oxygen as it seemed that he had simply forgotten how to breath.

Miko was so perfect, a mixture of Kari and him, innocence and love, hope and light.

"TK?!" Tai put his arm on his shoulder and shook him back to his senses, TK almost choked. At least he had remembered how to breath again.

"Who is that... other kid with Yama?" he asked as his knees went shaky.

Everyone hesitated and all eyes were again on Kari. There was silence for a while before Kari looked up into TK's eyes fearfully.

She's scared of me... he reeled back in shock, Kari is terrified of me. What have I done to deserve this? Have I ever given her any reason to be afraid? Have I ever given anyone any reason to be afraid of me?!

He shook his head in disbelief, no he hadn't, and yet here was Kari, the very last person in the entire universe who he would or could ever hurt and she was scared of him pure and simple. It broke his heart.

Her bottom lip began to quiver as she said softly, "That's my son, Miko." She dropped his gaze and the atmosphere became charged as everyone waited for his response. Now all eyes were on him, all except the ones which he longed to look at him, those beautiful amber eyes which refused to face him.

"Miko..." he whispered tenderly, "and... and who's the father?" He regretted asking it as soon as the words had escaped his mouth. Kari flinched as if in physical pain and tears formed under her thick eyelashes. Also, if TK wasn't mistaken, she began to tremble slightly. He shouldn't have asked it as he already knew the answer, yet he wanted to hear it from her, that was all he asked. Yet it was too much, she looked terrified.

I never meant to hurt you Kari... I just wanted to be there for you. I'm sorry. He looked at her, willing her to look back at him. But she didn't, she kept her head down as if ashamed, the last thing TK wanted.

But before Kari could say anything Tai intervened. Big brother to the rescue, as always, thought TK. Tai left Kari's side and waltzed over to TK, grabbing him by the shoulders and dragging him away, he had decided he would spare his baby sister the pain of explaining and so he had decided to do it himself, even though it pained him to even think about it.

The other digidestined watched after them and circled around Kari comfortingly, except Sora who took this opportunity to slink off and be with Matt. Away from Kari and the whole distasteful scene.

But Kari was not going to shrink out of her responsibility, this was her job to tell TK not Tai's, she owed them both that much.

"Wait, Tai!" She called after them. Tai and TK spun around as she walked over and TK was delighted to see her looking directly at him. He tried to smile at her, to reassure her that it was all okay, but all he managed was a small upwards curve of his lips, which never reached anywhere near his eyes. He was just too nervous, his heart was beating like crazy and every step that Kari took towards them seemed to last an eternity.

Tai released TK from his grip and backed away a few steps to give his sister and TK some room. The other digidestined kept their distance too, but all of them watched intently even Matt and Sora from the playground.

"TK, its you." She whispered with a tremor to her voice, "You're the father, Miko is your son... Nozomiko - son of hope."

There was complete silence as everyone allowed this to sink in.

Then TK stepped towards Kari, the love of his life and smiled properly. "I know." He whispered into her hair as he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close.

Kari allowed herself to be held by her best friend as she thought about what he had just said. He knew, he already knew, of course he had known! It was obvious to anyone when looking at little Miko that he was Takeru Takashi's child, you just couldn't miss the resemblance. He had just wanted to hear it from her, and to be honest she had just wanted to tell him, all this time she had been longing to tell him. She held him tighter as she felt tears fall down her face.

She had found her hope.


Miko watched as his mama clung to a handsome man, hugging him. Mama never hugged men, she said they were smelly. But obviously this man wasn't smelly as she clung to him for a very long time.

He felt a tug at his sleeve, little Aimi his new friend.

"Wan go play Miko?" She asked smiling happily, her dimples appearing.

Miko glanced at Matt, Uncle Matt, who was with another woman and didn't look like he wanted to play anymore - he was too interested in watching mama and the nice smelling man as they hugged. Oh well, him and Aimi could play together happily, he nodded.

"You wanna go on the slide again Aimi?" He asked taking her hand in his and leading her towards the big yellow slide which she seemed to love.

She nodded, "Yeth, lets go Miko!" She toddled along steadily and Miko helped her up the steps and then ran around to the front of the slide to catch her. She fell into his arms happily and clung to him as he helped her toddle around for another go.

He wondered why mama had never had any other children, he decided he wanted a little brother or sister, someone cute like Aimi. He would tell mama later.


When Sora approached Matt she was still frowning slightly. Matt was too interested in watching Kari and his brother though to notice. Eventually he turned to face her and managed a small smile. He still hadn't forgotten his old feelings for this beautiful woman and that made him feel akward. Sora smiled in return, but still looked troubled.

"What's wrong?" Matt asked eventually, when he was sure that Sora was not going to be the one to speak first.

"Kari. I just can't believe her and TK-" she stopped and sighed loudly.

"Join the club." Matt smiled wanly.

She glanced sideways at him for a second and turned slightly red, "I'm pregnant."

"What-?!" Matt's eyes nearly jumped out of their sockets as he turned to stare at her. Talk about a crazy day...

But why is she telling me this? He frowned. She knew how bad he was with... stuff.

"Yes, I'm pregnant." She turned an even darker red and fiddled with her hair. She needed to tell someone about her situation, spill her heart out, and Matt seemed like the only one who would listen. There was always Tai, but he seemed too wrapped up in his silly baby sister and her melodrama to give a damn about her troubles. So she turned to Matt, her old love. "I was seeing this guy, a real jerk he was-"

"Why do you put yourself through that Sor?" Matt butted in sadly, "Why date a jerk, surely there must be guys out there that won't-"

"It doesn't matter why I dated him, Yama." she sighed.

I dated him because he seemed to be so much like you and so much like Tai, and that's all I ever look for in guys anymore. But then I found that he wasn't like you at all, no one ever is and its breaking my heart because I still love you - both of you... I'm so confused!

She carried on, "We're not together anymore," she glanced sideways at him to see if she could perhaps spot any reaction - relief maybe? "but when we had been together we... well I... I became pregnant." she ran her hands through her hair and her eyes filled up with tears, "and now I'm stuck with his baby Yama, and I don't know what to do."

Wait, Matt thought, she doesn't mean what I think she means does she?

"You... You are going to keep it aren't you?" He asked anxiously.

"I-I... I don't know, Yama, I just don't know any more." Tears began to flow down her cheeks and she reached for his hand. He was suprised by this, but then shook it off and saw that she needed a friend so he pulled her close and wrapped his arms around her.

They sat there hugging for a while before Matt cupped her chin in his palm and turned her to face him. "You know this anniversary was important right?"

She nodded slowly, gazing into his perfect blue eyes and feeling her heart beet faster once again with that same feeling she always had when around him - love.

"It was important for all of us." He sighed, "Take Kari and TK for example, they need each other, they've always needed each other yet neither one of them has had the guts to get in touch before this. The digi-anniversary brought them back together."

Again Sora nodded, gritting her teeth slightly but seeing that Matt was right.

"Now look at Mimi and Izzy, watch how their eyes sparkle around Joe, Kari, Tai and TK. They might have had each other all of this time, they are the lucky ones, but being in the company of us, the other six digidestined is still like a dream come true for them. Aimi too, see how she has immediately taken a shine to Miko, and she didn't even know who he was, they weren't introduced she just waltzed right up to him and suddenly they are great friends."

Sora nodded again, smiling slightly to see the two children as they played.

"And Joe, he might be a legend and a tycoon at work, but he goes home each night to a lonely flat, handsome as he's become and all. He's a lonely guy with no time to really make new, meaningful friendships. Yet look at him at this moment, a massive smile on his face as he watches TK and Kari and as he chats away to Izzy and Mimi, with Tai being silent but there. Can you see how important that is to him?"

Sora looked at Joe and then back at Matt, "Yes." she whispered.

"And Tai, Sora, Tai is over the moon to be back with the old gang. He nearly cried for joy when I rang him up to give him the idea, and this is Tai, Tai never cries."

Sora nodded as she watched Tai smiling happily at his sister and TK. He did look happy.

"And me, I've been on tour for too long, away from my home and the people who I care about. Do you know who it was that I really missed during those long nights on the road, the tiresome and lonely plane journeys and the screaming masses of fans?" Sora shook her head, "You, I've missed you and the rest of the digidestined none stop through the whole thing. Sure I had periods of missing other friends and family and stuff, but I got over that eventually. I just never stopped aching to get back to be with you guys again. So here I am and here we are."

He ran his hands through his wild, gorgeous hair and grinned, it was not often he spoke about himself and his feelings so easily. He had not really opened up to anyone in a while, but something about Sora had always made him feel safe with her even as a sullen, cold child back in the digital world. He had missed that.

"What about you?" He then asked.

"Me? well I'm pregnant with a child I don't even know if I wanna keep or not, I'm lonely, a sucker in love but other than that life's just peachy." She grimaced and Matt laughed.

Then he became serious and bit his nail nervously, "I don't mean to preach Sor, but I think you should keep the baby cause its the right thing to do."

She winced and scowled, "Yeah, I know what the right thing to do is Yamato."

"Then surely-?" He cut himself off there, not sure that he would be able to say what he wanted without offending his friend seriously.

Sora scowled harder narrowing her eyes, "Surely what?"

He squeemed and refused to make eye contact as he mumbled, "There can be no choice? It's obvious what to do?"

Sora suddenly jumped up, fresh tears in her eyes, "There's always a choice Yamato. I always have a choice! And you wouldn't be so complacent if you had walked a mile in my shoes. I can't believe you'd be so insensitive..." She stormed off leaving Matt to turn red in shame. He hadn't ever wanted to hurt her, yet he stood by his advice. It was never right to get rid of a child and he couldn't change that to please Sora.

He stood up and went after her, she needed him right now and he needed her. Always.