Hey! Thanks to everyone who reviewed the last chapter of my story, even when it took me forever to update.

blackgato1- I'm glad to see your still on the site too, lol. I was origionaly planning for Sora's dad to be dead, but then i was thinking and thought I'd add a little twist. Thanks for reading!

Also thanks to- dbzgtfan2004 and JyouraKoumi.

Disclaimer- I don't own digimon.

Enjoy!

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Tai stared at his ceiling as he remembered the incident that took place earlier that day. What was with that strange boy? Seriously, what was his problem? Was he trying to make Tai feel as bad as he could possibly feel? And what did he mean by "Not always."? Tai had been Sora's friend for pretty much his whole life. Not always. Piffit. So that Derek kid had been Sora's friend for 5 years maybe? Tai sat up on his bed and slapped his hand across his forehead. Was he getting jealous? Jealous of a kid he had met only days ago? Ugh. Tai collapsed back down and shoved a pillow over his head. He really needed to relax a little. And with that, the boy fell into a restless sleep.

'Clunk.' 'Clunk.' 'Clunk.'

"What the..?"

'Clunk.' 'Clunk.' 'Clunk.'

Tai awoke to the sound of something outside his door. He glanced at his clock.

"3:30 AM? What in the world..." Tai stumbled over to his door, pushed it open, and walked out onto the balcony. Someone was standing below, with an armfull of rocks, chucking them at the glass.

"Who's there!" Tai called down to the shadowy figure.

The mysterious man responded, "Tai, you don't remember me?"

That voice sounded so familiar, but the boy couldn't name the person it belonged to. "No, s..sorry, sir, but I don't."

The man quietly chuckled to himself, and moved into the light that was casted from Tai's porch light. (You know, those hanging porch lights that are motion sensitive?)

"Mr... Mr. Takenouchi!"

"Yes, Tai, It's me. Suprised?"

Tai was shocked. What was Sora's dad doing outside his balcony, in the middle of the night! "Mr. Takenouchi! What do you want? What are you, how are you? You ARE alive!"

The man laughed once again. "Yes, Tai, I am. I figured you'd be very confused about what's going on, so I came here to explain it to you."

"At 3:30 in the morning?" Tai yawned.

"Yes. Don't you understand Tai? No one can see me. I'm supposed to be dead, remember?"

"But, sir, why were you hiding? I read a newspaper article about your "murder", since you lived through it, why didn't you go back to your family?"

"Simple." Mr. Takenouchi responded. "To protect my wife and daughter. But, unfortunatly, as you can see, my plan didn't work very well."

"What... what do you mean?"

"You see, Tai, If I went back to my family, HE would have come back and tried to kill me again. I didn't want to drag my family into anything like that, so I figured it was best to stay away. If I went back, I would have put them both in danger, and the last thing I wanted for my little girl was for her to be in danger."

Tai was still so confused. "Mr. Takenouchi, who is 'HE'?"

Mr. Takenouchi smirked. "I thought you said you read the article."

Tai quickly nodded. "I did."

"Hmm.. then I thought you would know who I'm talking about." The man responded.

The boy thought for a second. "Micheal Isono!"

"Thats right Tai. As the article probably said as well, My buisness was booming, and his wasn't doing so well. I guess he thought getting me and my company out of the way would make his company rise to the top. Even though he didn't succeed in killing me, His plan would have worked if he didn't get caught. Because of Isono's stupidity, both of our buisnesses were ruined. Without me, of course, my company completly collapsed, and with Isono's ruined reputation, no one supported his company any more.

"Oh..." Was all a stunned Tai could manage to get out.

"Oh? That's all you have to say? The 6 year old Tai I remember would normally have millions of questions if i had just told him somethind important."

"Well, I'm not 6 years old any more Mr. Takenouchi." This time, Tai smirked, but the smile quickly faded. "Sir, since your plan, um, didn't quite work, why don't you come out of hiding now? I think it would mean a lot to Sora if you were there with her. It would make her so happy if she knew you were still alive!"

The man kicked a rock around on the ground. "You don't understand, son, I can't. Besides, I know of Sora's condition. We were only togethor for so long Tai, she probably doesn't even remember me now."

Tai bit his lip, realizing that the man was probably right. "Well, you never know until you try. Why don't you come back?" He at least wanted to try to convince Sora's father to try and see his family.

With that, Mr. Takenouchi simply looked up into the sky. The sun was beginning to shine down on the city, and Odaiba began to wake up. "I have to go now, Tai. Please, you must understand that you can not tell anyone what I have just told you. I don't want to put my little girl in any more danger than she's already in. If you truley care for her, you won't tell a single soul that I'm alive."

Tai swallowed hard. He really wanted to tell Izzy, or Sora what just happened. Izzy could probably use his computer to further figure out this mystery, and Sora would be extremly happy to hear this, but he did care for Sora, and even thought he didn't understand why her father wouldn't come out from hiding, he didn't want to put Sora in any more danger either. The boy looked back down to where Mr. Takenouchi was standing. "He's... he's gone..." Indeed, the man had dissapeared.

Well, Mr. Takenouchi was right about one other thing, Tai sure did have a lot of unanswered questions.

'I guess I'll just have to find out the answers on my own.' The boy thought to himself. With that final thought, Tai walked back inside, shut the door, and crawled into his bed. He glanced at his clock. 5:30. Tai shut his eyes, even thought he wouldn't have much more time to sleep.

Meanwhile, outside, Mr. Takenouchi came out from behind a tree, his face still hidden by shadows. He knew from the look on Tai's face as he closed the door, that the boy wasn't going to tell anybody what just happened.

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OK, so that was an extremly short chapter, but I hope it cleared some things up.

Well, please review, so I can start writing the next chapter! I promise It will be longer and more exciting. Well, that's it for now.

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