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A/N: This is the sequel to Changed Destiny. I strongly suggest you read that fic before you read this one! Otherwise you won't get it!

And I will continue Born Of Angels for all of you who are freaking because I started this one. I got bored with B.O.A. I'll start it again soon. I can do two at a time.

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What The Future Brings


Dai opened his front door quietly and looked around. It was dark; his parents must have been asleep. It was after ten, still pretty early, but he wouldn't doubt his parents crashed early.

Kari followed, sleepily behind him as they walked down the dark hall into his room. Her fingers were laced with his as he opened and shut his door behind them. "I don't think you should go back so late," he whispered as he turned on the light.

"That's where I want to be, Dai!" She replied.

"Stay, just for tonight. Then you can go back tomorrow," he made her sit down on the bed.

"No," she argued in between yawns.

Dai looked over at the foot of the bed and saw Gatomon and Veemon asleep. "Your staying, end of story. Beside, I don't think Gatomon wants to be awaken up."

"You win, Dai. You win," she sighed.

"You can have the bed, I'll grab the floor." He pulled a sleeping bag from his closet and laid it out.

As appealing as sleeping in a real bed sounded Kari continued to argue. "I'll sleep on the floor. It isn't fair that I take your bed."

"Why do you keep arguing?" He asked. He forced her to lay back and he pulled a blanket over her. "Stop being such a pain and go to sleep!" This time she closed her eyes and fell asleep.

Dai laid down in the sleeping bag and stared up at the ceiling with his hands behind his head, thinking hard. Kari had been incredibly shaken after the encounter with that boy. What a bastard! Messing around with Kari when it was obvious he had another girl.

But then again, what if it was just like the guy had said. It wasn't what it looked like. Maybe he really was from Kari's past. He had mentioned something about Kari having a brother. Would it be a good idea to try and find him?

He sat up and looked at Kari. Today was the best day he had ever had, but it hadn't ended the way he wanted. 'Maybe I'll try to track down her brother. But as for that boy, I'll make sure he never messes with Kari again!' With that promise to himself he drifted to sleep.
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TK turned off his cell phone in defeat. Tera refused to talk to him. She refused to see him; she didn't want anything to do with him. He had really messed up this time. He had hurt the girl who loved, and freaked out the girl he cared for. "Real smooth, Takaishi," he mumbled to himself.

He stopped and looked down the bright street. 'That's not what you need to be thinking about, TK,' he yelled at himself. 'You found Kari! She's alive! But she doesn't remember anything.' "That could be a problem," TK whispered. He turned from the path he was going and walked towards the Izumi household. That's where he could get some answers. Hopefully Izzy was still at home.

He knocked on the brown door and the door opened to reveal a tired looking woman. "Hello Mrs. Izumi," TK smiled. "Is Izzy home?"

"I'm sorry, TK. He's not here. He's probably over at Tai's," she replied, smiling back at him.

"Alright, I'll swing by there. Thank you. Goodbye, Mrs. Izumi." He turned and walked away. He headed down to the apartments where Tai lived. It was close to the university and it was far away from the apartments Tai had lived in when Kari died. He had so many bad memories at those apartments.

He got to the apartment and knocked. The door opened and in the doorway stood a tall, messy haired, exhausted looking boy. Dark bags hung under his eyes. "Hey, TK, what's up?"

"Hi Tai. You look like crap!" TK exclaimed.

Tai rolled his eyes. "Thanks."

"I came to talk to you and Izzy. His mom said he was over here. I found out something on Kari."

Tai stopped leaning against the doorframe. "She's dead, TK. End of story."

"No, she isn't!" TK exclaimed. "She's alive, Tai."

"Drop it, TK," Tai ordered.

"But Tai-"

Tai grabbed TK by the collar of his shirt and pushed him into the wall behind him and held him there. "I said drop it!"

Izzy picked this moment to come see where Tai went. He walked out, horrified to see Tai holding a struggling TK to the wall. "Tai, what are you doing?!" Izzy yelled. He tried to pull Tai off of him. "Let him go!" Tai let go of TK's collar and TK doubled over choking. Tai turned away and walked back into the apartment. "TK, what happened?"

"Its Kari," TK choked out.

"You were stupid enough to bring all that up again?" Izzy looked into the younger boy's blue eyes. There was a deep hidden pain that was lost inside of them. "Why?"

"You have to find a way to open the gate to the Digital World! Kari has been living there for the last two years."

"TK, she's dead. She's gone. Her body came back with us. She's buried in the cemetery. You have to get over it, it's been two years."

"No, yesterday I saw her. She was hanging out with three other people in the park. I followed them to a nightclub and I found out some stuff. Izzy, you have to believe me! It was her. Her voice, her face, her name. Kari was standing there, living and breathing. I even held her in my arms."

"TK, that makes no sense."

"I know. But I talked to her and I may have even lost my girlfriend over her. She said her name was Kari Kamiya. She said she couldn't remember anything from two years ago. Except, except for being sick. It's her, Izzy. We have to go to the DigiWorld to find her."

"Can I be honest with you, TK?" He paused. "I think your nuts. And I think your even more crazy to reopen this wound for Tai. But I know you wouldn't do it without a reason. If you say you saw her, then I believe you."

"Thank you, Izzy. I just have to find her," TK replied. "I better apologize to Tai."

"Good idea," Izzy nodded.

They walked into the apartment and saw Tai sitting on his couch, face in hands, shoulders heaving. "Tai, I'm sorry. I'm so desperate to find her. I can't get her out of my head. And I know I sound nuts, but I know she's alive! She's here or she's in the DigiWorld. She can pass back and forth. Please, we could bring her back. I want to bring her back!"

Tai stood up. "I don't want to hear all this crap, TK! Get over it!" He sobbed. "Kari's gone! Let me move on!"

"Tai, I-"

"Shut up, TK. If I could I'd take a swing at you right now. But I'm not that stupid. Give it up!"

Izzy stepped in front of TK. "He wants to help, Tai. We both realize that the amount of pain he's in or Sora was in or anyone else could never even come close to what you felt, but we're trying Tai."

"If you really want to help me you'd buy me a six pack, give me back my driver's license and leave me the hell alone."

"Bastard," TK mumbled too low for anyone else to hear.

"You heard me! Get the hell out of my house! I have class to get to." He pushed the two out of the apartment and slammed the door behind them.

"Screw him. Whether he wants to find her or not I am! Even if I have to do it alone!"

"You don't have to do it alone. Sora and Matt and Mimi will all be willing to help. And I'm sure Joe will give us a hand. Tai, just can't."
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Kari woke up from a fitful sleep drenched in a cold sweat and shaking. She opened her eyes and saw a boy holding her to the bed and trying to shush her. "Sh, Kari, come on wake up. You have to calm down or you'll wake up my folks."

Kari shot up. "Where am I? Taichi?"

The boy stepped back. "No, I'm Davis."

"Dai?" She collapsed into her hands. "I'm sorry. I couldn't remember."

"Who's Taichi?" He asked as he sat down on the edge of the bed.

She thought for a moment. "I don't know. It just came out."

"Were you having a nightmare? Your really pale and you were tossing and turning."

"I can't remember." He gave her a funny look. "Everything, why can't I remember people from before I wound up stuck in the Digital World?"

"I don't know, Kari. But we'll find out somehow. Now, what happened in the dream?"

"I just saw a lot of images. I saw what looked like a hospital room and I saw this boy with big brown hair. I saw lot of those images. And I heard voices. Yelling. A lot of yelling."

"I hate to interrupt, but come on. I'll get you some breakfast. Maybe the color will come back to your face." He helped her out of the bed and opened the door quietly. They walked down the hall and into the kitchen where Davis had her sit down. He began to make his way around the kitchen. "So what kind of yelling?" Dai asked sincerely as he searched through the cupboard.

"Well, I remember this scene. It was like I was watching through the crack of an almost closed door. And there was this boy, the one I said before, and these two older people, they looked like his parents. And they were arguing. I'm not sure what about. I can't remember." She put her head in her hands again.

There was a hand on her shoulder. She looked up and saw Dai smiling at her. "Well, since I can't cook why don't you and I go out to grab a bit."

She nodded and they walked out of the apartment. They got to a dinner and went in. The place was pretty much empty except for a few rough looking truckers. "Hehe, nice place," Dai joked. Kari just smiled in response. They sat down and looked over the menus. "Alright, so when are you going back to the Digital World? When we get back to my house?"

"Yeah, I think so," Kari nodded. Was Gatomon awake? I didn't see."

"No, she and Veemon were still asleep."

"Okay." The waitress came over and took their order and for a few moments after she left they sat in silence. A man walked by the table and Kari looked at him strangely as he sat down at the front counter.

Dai followed her gaze. "You know him?"

"He's the boy! From my dream! That's him!" Kari whispered.

"Are you sure?" She nodded.
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Tai looked up. His eyes made their way around the small dinner as if searching for something. Then something caught his eye. A brown haired girl sat at one of the booths with a boy across from her. "Kari…" he whispered.

He looked away, ashamed in himself. She was dead. He can't start that again. "I need a drink," he whispered. But he wasn't allowed to drink. Not after the accident… The waitress came up to him. "Coffee, black. As black as you can make it preferably." She nodded and placed a white mug filled with steaming black liquid in it. He took a drink and burned his mouth, not that he cared. Pain was pain, he deserved it.

His eyes made their way back to the girl sitting at the booth and for a moment his eyes locked with her brown ones. Then she looked way. The boy across from her stood up and walked up to him pulling the girl by the arm with him. "Excuse me, sir. I'm very sorry to bother you, but I thought maybe you could help us," the boy said. "My name is Davis and I was wondering if you knew this girl." He pulled the Kari look alike in front of him.

"I'm sorry I don't, why don't you go run along and make out or something," Tai replied harshly.

"Sir, she thinks she knows you. The truth is she can't remember a lot about her past and we were hoping just maybe you could help us." The boy paused. "Sir?"

"I don't think so."

"Her names Kari Kamyia."

"What?"

"Kari Kamiya. Does that sound famil-"

"Get away from me!"

"Excuse me? Sir, I'm-"

"Get the hell out of here! You sicken me! This isn't a very funny joke! Kari Kamiya is dead! Why does everyone have to keep bring her up?!" Tai exploded.

The girl staggered back at his screams. "But…but I'm Kari Kamiya. I really am," she mumbled.

Tai's anger continued to rise as he jumped off the stool he had been sitting on. He raised his open hand, intending and willing himself to hit her. Tears formed in her eyes as she flinched backwards, but she didn't move from his reach. Instead she seemed to be waiting for the attack, readying herself for it. Tai composed himself and let his hand down. "My sister is gone. She died two years ago. Just leave me alone." He threw some money on the counter and walked out of the dinner, pulling on his jacket.
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Kari couldn't move after the boy had left. She was scared and confused. He had said Kari Kamiya was dead. But she was Kari Kamiya. And he had said Kari was his sister. How many Kari's could there be in the world.

She fell to the ground, unable to move. She clutched her chest as she had done so many times when she was little. There was a shadow of pain lurking deep inside her. Not quite substantial, but still there.

"Kari." Two arms pulled her up into a sitting position. She didn't look at the owner of them. She was picked her up off the ground. Finally she looked up and saw a man in a business suit holding her up.

"Come on, son," the man said to Dai who was standing beside him. "Drive you two home." Dai nodded and they walked out of the dinner. The man walked over to a gold car and opened the door setting Kari in the backseat. Dai sat down beside her and she curled up into his chest.

"Kari," he whispered. She didn't look up at him. She just stared into space, eyes still filled with tears that wouldn't fall. "Talk to me. I am so sorry I got you into this. I should have never dragged you over to him." She still didn't say anything. "Kari."

"I'm not Kari Kamiya. Kari Kamiya is dead."

"Hikari! You are Kari!"

"When we get back to your house I'm just going back. I'm not staying in this world anymore."

This time Dai didn't reply. Instead he directed the man where to go.
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Here's chapter 4. Please don't flame me for the scene with violent Tai, I actually think they worked out really well. Please as always read and review. And for right now I'm not going to let anyone know about the main couple. You know Kari and ?. Well, I will decide in due time. I still want your suggestions. Lster Dayz!