Okay. It's been over a month since I've updated and that makes me a shithead. I'm SO sorry it's been so long. I had the chapter almost done, and then it decided to delete. Then I had writer's block. Oh, and it doesn't end there. Then, water spilled all over my laptop. :D But it's working, so it's all goooood.

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season, and I sure hope you all weren't thinking I wasn't going to continue this bad bitch anymore. It ain't over till it's over. :D

Anyways, Sydney's got a new story out so if you like Takumi and KouKei in a multichapter high school teenager situation, so please, go check it out. :D

Uh, also, I thought of a couple new songs for characters and/or couples if you'd like to listen and EE-MAH-JIN!:

Jar of Hearts – Christina Perri – Izumi (about Takuya of course. :D)

Breakeven – The Script – KouIzuTaku

Kiss Me – Sixpence None the Richer/Newfound Glory – any couple :D

The Big Bang – Rock Mafia – everybody

OKAY. So without further ado, please enjoy this shitty chapter of Here's to the Night! :D

Review replies to chapter 25:

Jennison Silverye: Aww, I'm glad! :D I agree. Poor Akira just wanted to do the right thing, and Saburo just wanted his baby back. (: Saburo actually isn't working yet. He's finishing high school first. He has a chance to go to college as well, unlike Naoki and Keiji, who were kinda forced into doing what they had to do. Haha, I loved your answers. (: Thanks for the review and I hope you like this chapter! :D

GIRLSLIKEEBOYSBITCH: I'm glad ya did. You understand how much time it takes me to reply to reviews, so I'll cut yours short! GOMENASAIIII~!

Moorbles240: Oh, Saburo and Akira belong together. :D For all we know, this could be the last chapter! It all depends on how much I get done in each chapter! I'm not sure if I'll still be giving them out in other stories, but we'll see. :D Thanks for the review and I hope you like this chapter!

Empyrea: I know. So cute. :D Thank you so much for reviewing and I hope you like this chapter! :D

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"Kouji, how old are you?"

The raven looked at the woman sitting on the bed, wearing nothing but his button down shirt. She was twenty two years old, long legs, blonde hair, big tits.

"I already told you I'm nineteen, Shizuka," he muttered, staring at the hickeys lining his collarbone. "Didn't you hear the first time?"

She smiled gently. "I heard you the first time. But I want to know how old you really are."

He paused and looked up at her through the mirror. "Nineteen."

"Oh come on, would you rather me guess?"

"Whatever."

"You're sixteen. Seventeen in… June? July?"

"July."

"I didn't realize that you were that young until you came. So innocent. I remember being sixteen. That's when I lost my virginity." She smiled. "How old were you?"

"What the hell kind of question is that?"

"Ah, ah, don't get so touchy. I was just asking."

Kouji sighed. "Yeah, I know. Sorry."

"Fourteen."

The woman's jaw dropped. "Fourteen? You were just a baby!"

"I know. I was drunk."

"Oh my God… I just… fourteen?"

"You find that weird or something?"

"At the age of fourteen, I wouldn't be ready to lose something as valuable and… and important as my virginity."

"Don't act like you have more self-respect than I do. You just had sex with a sixteen year old."

"Oh contraire, you were nineteen until you came."

He rolled his eyes. "I'm out of here."

"Aww, don't get mad Kouji. I'm sorry if I offended you."

"Don't worry about it."

"Can I ask you something?"

He looked at her reflection. "What?"

"What makes you so… sad?"

"Kouji! What happened to him? Is he gonna be alright?"

His heart felt like it weighed a ton just then. "What do you mean by that?"

"I sense this… this sadness about you. The constant sex with girls and the drinking and smoking and the sneaking out and disrespect to your parents is a defense mechanism. You know what that is, doll?"

He nodded slowly, actually not upset by the use of the pet name.

"Well, what are you hiding from? What keeps you up at night?"

"It's nothing."

She stared at him for a moment, eyes narrowed. "You have a brother or a sister… that you're not as close to anymore."

"Stop it."

"Or a friend who's betrayed you."

"Shut up."

"Or you love somebody who you don't think is capable of loving you back."

"Shut the fuck up, Shizuka!" And he broke.

"Please be okay, please be okay…"

"Kouji, wake up… come on…"

"I'm so sick of everybody, okay? That's what's wrong with me! My best friend fucking ditched me for some bitch, alright? Every fucking day my brother looks at me like I'm the most disgusting piece of shit on the planet! We don't talk anymore, we don't hang out, it's like we don't know each other! I'm in love with the most beautiful, perfect girl I've ever met, and she understands me! She fucking understands me, but you know what? You wanna know what? She's in love with the person I was closest to since I was eleven! The only friends I have left are Tamotsu and Keiko, and Tamotsu and I don't even like each other that much, and deep down, Keiko doesn't give a shit. That's why I'm fucking sad, alright?"

And then he realized that he just opened up more than he ever had to a complete stranger he'd just fucked, one that was six years older than him. Shit.

Shizuka stared at him, not looking disgusted or horrified or anything. She looked sympathetic. "And how does that make you feel, Kouji?"

He stared back, his heart racing and his hands shaking. "What?" he choked.

"How does that make you feel? You? Not your brother, or your friend, or that girl, or Tamotsu or Keiko. You. How does it make you feel?"

So he answered. The only feeling he'd had since he lost his virginity. "Alone."

Shizuka slid across the bed, wrapping her arms around him. "At sixteen years old, you shouldn't be going through all of this alone."

He closed his eyes and it finally hit him. "I know… I know…"

He returned the embrace and let one tear loose.

"That's it, Kouji… open those eyes, alright?"

He groaned and peeled his eyes open, seeing Kouichi and Izumi sitting over him. The ground was shaking and his head was throbbing. "What happened?"

"You got hit in the head," Izumi said, helping him sit up. "Are you okay?"

He groaned and held onto his head. "Yeah. Where are we?"

Kouichi bit his lip. "We're in the park a couple miles away from the bridge. You don't remember anything, do you?"

"No…" God his head hurt.

"It was Leviamon, he hit the bridge with something, and it made it start to fall apart…" Izumi looked pale. "We were taking people off the bridge, all digivolved, and then it just collapsed, right in the middle. You got hit in the head with something, and then I took you off the bridge and brought you here."

"It collapsed?" Kouji's eyes widened in shock. "Is everybody alright? Was anybody hurt?"

"We… we weren't able to get everybody off the bridge. We tried, but..." Kouichi let his eyes slip shut. "A few cars went into the water."

Kouji stared at his brother. "How many?"

"I don't know, Kouji."

"Then why didn't you check to make sure? Why didn't you go and try to save them?" Kouji snapped.

"Because I thought you were dead!"

"And you cared more about my life than the lives of those other people? Izumi was fully capable of taking care of me."

"A lot was going through my mind, alright? I wasn't thinking straight. Keiko, Takuya and Junpei went to check the cars out afterwards, anyways…"

"How long after? Huh? A minute? Two? You let those people sit in those cars for that amount of time?"

"I get it, alright?" Kouichi snapped. "I fucking get it!"

"You're a coward," he said darkly. "Just like Duskmon."

Kouichi stood up and stomped away.

"Kouji, what's the matter with you?" Izumi asked. "Why would you say that?"

"Shut up Izumi."

"No, you shut up. I'm so sick of your attitude." She let go of him, allowing him to drop onto the grass. "Enough of the feeling sorry for poor Kouji bullshit. You're in the position you're in right now because of your choices! Nobody told you to fuck every girl in the school! Nobody told you to drink your ass off every weekend! Nobody told you to become an asshole either! So grow up!"

She walked across the grass, her fists clenched at her sides. "And by the way, every car that fell into the water was recovered by Keiko, Takuya and Junpei. Nobody was hurt."

Kouji sighed and stared at the grass, uncrossing his legs. His head hurt, his body ached, and now he was pissed.

"You really messed up this time, huh?"

Kouji growled. "Shut up Lobomon."

Lobomon shrugged. "I just think it's weird that while you were knocked out, you had that flashback from a week ago."

"What about it?"

"Well, you told Shizuka about how alone you are, and you cried about it. And then when you have the chance to reconcile with your brother, you pushed him away."

"I don't need your smart ass comments, alright?"

"Don't forget that I'm you as much as you're me."

"Shut up, you don't make any sense."

"Keep pushing people away Kouji. See where you end up."

Lobomon left him alone. He laid in the grass and closed his eyes, wishing he had a concussion so he'd never have to wake up.

"Decisions, decisions," Leviamon said, circling around Tomoki. "What is Tomoki gonna do? Save the people on the bridge? Protect the people here?"

Tomoki made up his mind. The bridge was more important at the moment. He turned around.

"Ah, ah, there's one more detail I haven't mentioned yet," Leviamon said.

Tomoki turned slowly. "What?"

Leviamon moved his tail towards Tomoki, hissing something under his breath. Chiaki appeared wrapped around his tail, panicking. "Tomoki!"

"Let her go!" Tomoki yelled. "Now!"

"I'll make a deal with you, Ice. You either take the girl and stay here to fight me, or you go to the bridge and save the people there…"

"Give her to me!"

"Slow down little one. There's one more thing."

"What? Just tell me!"

"Michiko is on the bridge."

Tomoki went pale. "W-What?"

"Make the decision Tomoki," Leviamon said, smirking. "Chiaki or Michiko. Which one means more to you?"

Michiko or Chiaki. Chiaki was here, with all these other people, in the middle of the city. He was sure that by now his friends had gotten to the bridge and were working on evacuating everybody. On top of that, what would happen if he left Leviamon here?

"I'm staying here."

"Wonderful." Leviamon tossed Chiaki to the side. "I was hoping for a good fight with you."

"Is everybody off the bridge?" Takuya, merged with BurningGreymon yelled, flying above the bridge.

"Yeah!" Junpei called back, he himself merged together with Beetlemon. "Keiko just finished up on the other side!"

"Where's Kouji, Izumi and Kouichi? Hell, I haven't even seen Tomoki around here either."

"Kouji got hurt and Izumi and Kouichi took him off the bridge. I'm not sure about Tomoki though. I'm sure that if something were to happen, he would come too."

"Oh, Takuya!"

The brunette blinked and was shocked when he saw Miyu running over. "Mi… yu?"

"Takuya, I thought something was going to happen to you! Why would you put yourself in danger out here? The authorities should take care of this! And after I told you not to do this Digimon thing anymore!" She latched onto him, completely ignoring Junpei.

"What are you talking about?" Takuya asked, blinking.

"Don't tell me you don't remember our discussion," Miyu huffed, glaring. "I told you that I don't want you to do this anymore. It's way too dangerous!"

Just before Takuya was about to reply, Izumi, who had merged with Zephyrmon, landed next to them. "Guys, Tomoki's in the city!"

Miyu sneered at the blonde turned lavenderette and latched back onto Takuya's arm. "I'm sure you and Junpei can take care of it. Takuya's going to fly me back home."

Izumi narrowed her eyes. "Look, I get it, Miyu. I don't like you either. But we need Takuya-"

"You mean you need Takuya."

Izumi gritted her teeth. "Miyu, don't test me right now. Our friend needs us."

"No, I'll take her back home," Takuya murmured. "We have some talking to do."

Izumi looked like a wet cat. "Fine. We don't need your help anyway." She leapt off the bridge and flew towards the city.

Junpei shook his head. "You need to get your priorities straight, man."

Takuya sighed as he watched the two fly away. Miyu tightened her grip on them.

"Blue Hawaii Death!" Freezing water rushed out of Tomoki's hands, hitting one of Leviamon's claws and freezing him to the ground. He jumped out of the way of one of his fire attacks and smashed him over the head with his weapon… the popsicle…

Right…

Just as he was about to hit him with another attack, the lizard disappeared. Tomoki growled and punched the ground. "Damn it."

"Tomoki!" Izumi ran over to him. "Where'd Leviamon go?"

"He left," the penguin-fused teen said, sighing. "It was out of nowhere too. Coward."

"He caused a whole lot of damage… Are you okay?"

Tomoki gave a nod. "I'm good. Tired out, but good."

"I'm glad." She patted him on the back. "That you're not hurt."

He smiled. "Thank you, Izumi."

"Am I still coming over for dinner?" Miyu asked Takuya, leaning against the locker next to his.

"I had a change in plans, sorry," he murmured. "Kouji called me. Weird huh?"

"Hmph, sure is."

"He was really upset. He needs me, and I'm going to be there for him. But I promise we'll do dinner tomorrow, alright?"

Miyu crossed her arms and pursed her lips. "Fine. I see how it is. Your friends mean more than me now?"

~They always did.~ "Don't be mad. If you were in my position-"

"I would pick you." Miyu flipped her hair. "And you know it."

"Miyu, I-"

"Never mind me. Have fun." She turned and walked away.

Takuya sighed and went back to going through his locker.

"Hey, I was just looking for you…"

He looked up to see Izumi standing there, looking sort of sheepish. "Hey Izumi." He stood back up to his full height, shutting his locker. "What's up?"

She bit her lip and moved forward, wrapping her arms around him and pushing her face into his chest. "I miss you."

"I'm right here."

She shook her head. "I miss the way we were back when we were 11. When there were no girlfriends or boyfriends or fights or drama. Well, high school drama."

He smiled slightly. "Kouji and I got into it a few times. Remember?"

She stepped back, her face red. "I just thought you should know… And I'm sorry."

"Don't be."

At those words, her eyes brightened. "Walk me to class?"

"You know it."

I know. WTF, I disappear for a month and a half and the chapter's that short? I'm sorry. The next one will be at least 3500 words though. Sorry for the shit chapter. D:

Here's my question!:

If you could live any character's life (ANY. That means from Takuya to Tamotsu to Akira to Aya!), whose would it be and why?