No, I am not dead. I've just been very busy lately. Last two weeks of school were hectic, but now it's summer and I'll have a lot more time to write, but I am writing three stories at the same time, so what do you expect? I have to go back and fourth between them. It's hard to do, but I'm excited because I took a writing class this summer in a city about an hour away with two of my good friends. It's writing for a teen newspaper, so hopefully I will improve my writing ability even more. Just don't freak out if I haven't updated for a while. I will finish these fics. I'm not going to just give up and disappoint everyone, including myself. So, here you go, the next chapter of Sweet Misery. It's not the longest, but it's a pretty good chapter.

SWEET MISERY

CHAPTER TWELVE

Tai opened his eyes. He was in his room, lying in his bed. Had this all been a dream? Was he dreaming right now? Tai didn't have a clue. He sat up slowly and peered around the room, until his eyes met with a calendar. He ran up to it and saw an X marked on the 20th of March. His eyes drifted to the year and his eyes widened. 2002?!?! That was…five years ago. Then that must mean…. He hurried to the mirror and nearly screamed. Staring back at him was his reflection, but it wasn't exactly what he had expected. His face was finely drawn and looked younger. His old pair of blue sports goggles strapped around his mop of hair, and he was wearing brown cargo shorts, a blue shirt, and sneakers. 'Wow, this is what I call a blast from the past.' He thought.

He threw open his door and ran into the living room. "Mom? Dad? Kari?" He called out across the apartment. Kari walked out of the kitchen with their cat, Miko.

"Taichi, you're up from your nap already?" She said. It took Tai a minute to do the math. Okay, he had gone back five years. Sixteen subtract five is eleven, and Kari is two years younger than him, so that made her nine? Wow, this was weird.

"NAP?!" He questioned. "I never take naps!"

Kari giggled. "Well, you decided to about an hour ago because you were so tired from last night."

He gave her a completely baffled look. "Remind me, what exactly did I do last night?" 'I probably sound like such an idiot right now.' He thought to himself.

"You spent the night at Sora's after your soccer game. How can you not remember?" She eyed her brother suspiciously. "Did you get hit in the head with the soccer ball yesterday?"

"No, I'm fine. Things are just a little fuzzy I guess." He mumbled, and then he noticed that his parents were nowhere to be seen. "Where are mom and dad?"

"Out."

"Where?"

"Dunno." Kari replied, sticking to one-word answers.

Tai knew Kari would think he was crazy, but he started rambling anyway. "KARI! Something strange is going on! I went into the past! We did!" He yelled. "I'm sixteen and you're fourteen! Now you're nine again, and I'm eleven!"

She gave him a funny look, just like Tai knew she would. "Okay then, Taichi. I think you woke up too soon. You need more sleep."

"NO, I DON'T!" He screamed. This wasn't getting him anywhere. He needed to talk to someone who would understand what he was talking about. Then it hit him. "SORA!" He actually shouted this out loud. Was she stuck in the past too? Only one way to find out. "I'm going out Kari. I'll be back soon." He told her, bolting out the door.

"Alright." She replied, as he headed out the door leaving her standing there.

When he got outside he noticed something even stranger than waking up in his room five years younger. This place didn't look like Odaiba, but he did recognize it. In the distance he saw the bridge. The bridge where it all started. He was in Heighten View Terrace.

This didn't make any sense. He had moved to Odaiba after the digimon incident when he was seven. That was four years ago, so why was he still living here when he was eleven? 'My head hurts! This is way too confusing!' He thought.

He hurried down the sidewalk trying to remember where the hell Sora lived. Then he saw it, the huge building. She had lived in that tall apartment building!

Sora sat in her living room arranging flowers for her mother. For the past half hour she had been totally confused. She had awakened in her room and noticed that she seemed to be younger. She nearly screamed when she saw her reflection in the mirror. According to her mother, she had gone in her room to take a nap. "So, did you and Tai have fun?" Her mother asked.

Sora stared at her. She had been with Tai? When? "Uhh…yeah, we did." She replied, uncertainly.

"That's good."

"Yeah…" Sora trailed off. She examined her old apartment. It was exactly how she remembered it. What had happened? Why was she here? Shouldn't she be in Odaiba if she went back in time five years? Not Heighten View Terrace. A knock on the door snapped her out of her daze and she got up to answer it.

There was a blur of motion and she was pulled out the door. The figure closed the door and looked at her. It was none other than Tai Kamiya, who was eleven again just as she was. The two stood in the hallway. "Tai, what's going on? Why are we eleven again?!"

"I don't know. I'm trying to remember what happened…"

That's when something clicked in Sora's mind. "The Dark Ocean, Leandramon, Daemon, Puppetmon, Datamon…we were there."

"You're right, and they said something…something before everything faded to black, but what was it? I can't remember."

They stood there in silence trying to remember. Their minds were all fuzzy. "Does 'what do you think it would be like if the Digi-destined didn't remember their past?' ring a bell?" A voice asked, as a figure appeared in front of them.

"Kenji!" Tai exclaimed at the hooded figure in front of them.

"I have a lot to tell you two, so we better sit down somewhere." Kenji said, putting down his hood.

Well. There you go. It's kind of short, but it will have to do. It's better than nothing right? Kenji's back. WOO! What's he have to tell Tai and Sora? What's going on? Are they really in the past? You'll just have to wait till the next chapter!

Let me know what you think! Suggestions and comments are much appreciated!