Disclaimer: I don't own digimon.
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.
What The Future Brings
Davis glanced around. Either Kari had hidden herself really well or she was running from him. He and the others had been searching for her for over an hour. "Kari! Come on! This isn't funny!" Yolie screamed, worried about her best friend.
Davis' digivice beeped. "This way." He climbed onto the back of his digimon Raidramon and they took off. Halsemon, Stingmon, and Digmon came up behind him. Halsemon and Stingmon by air. Digmon on the ground with Raidramon.
Cody was the one who saw her first. "There she is!"
Kari sat by the water of a river in an open field. Her knees were pulled to her chest and her arms wrapped around them as she stared, unblinking, into the rushing water. "Kari," Davis cried as he jumped off Raidramon's back. He knelt down beside her. "Kari, are you okay?" She didn't answer.
Raidramon returned to Veemon as the other digimon returned to their rookie stages. He went over to Gatomon who sat a little bit away from her partner. "She won't tell me anything," the white feline said.
"Kari, talk to me. Why'd you leave like that?" Davis asked softly.
"Let me try!" Yolie pushed Davis out of the way. "Oops. Sorry Davis," she said after he fell into the water. Everyone laughed. Even Kari broke out of her trance to giggle at him. "Good job, Davis. You woke her up."
"Yeah, that's he grumbled as he pulled himself from the water.
Yolie turned back to Kari. "Hey, are you alright?"
Kari's face lost its smile. "I'm fine."
"Lair."
"I don't want to talk about it!"
"But we're your friends. We want to help," Cody spoke up."
"But there's nothing you can do! Kari Kamiya is dead! So who the hell am I?" No one answered. "Why can't I remember anything?"
"So, what are you going to do? Stay here for the rest of your life?" Ken asked.
"That was the plan," she replied before erupting into a fit of coughs.
"Are you getting sick?" Davis asked as he placed a wet hand on her forehead.
"No, but you will be if you don't get into some dry clothes. You're freezing!" She cried.
"Well, I guess we should go back. No thanks to Davis," Yolie said mockingly.
"To me?! Who pushed me in, Yolie?" Davis yelled.
Everyone laughed. "We should go back," Ken said as he walked up behind Yolie. He wrapped his arms around her waist and rested his head on her shoulder. "Its probably very late."
Kari looked away. "Bye."
"Oh, no! Don't even Kari! You're coming with us!" Yolie replied.
"But-"
"No buts! You don't look well and this has to be hard for you. You're coming back!"
"No."
"Yes," all the DigiDestined replied.
Kari sighed in defeat. "Whom am I staying with?"
"Me," Yolie replied quickly, before Davis could volunteer. Cody helped Kari off the ground and they all walked back to the DigiPort. Davis shivered quietly and Kari wrapped her arms around him in a warm hug.
"Thank you," he smiled at her. They went through the DigiPort and landed on top of a pile of people in Cody's room.
"We need to put down pillows before we go into the DigiWorld," Yolie said from the bottom of the pile.
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They knew she was there. Not all of them, but some. She was alive and breathing. And yet in another world she was dead and had been for two years. One of these two would have to disappear if the other was to be remembered.
The question is, which one. The one that was dead or the living breathing one. To most people this would be a simple question. You save the living. The living go on, death does not.
But it was more complicated then that. There would be so many records to delete and memories to erase. A whole part of the world to reconfigure.
But as always the living go on.
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"Shut up, Sora!"
"Tai, you had way too much to drink," she argued.
"Then walk home!" He yelled as he got into his black jeep.
"Please, Tai. Let me drive."
He ignored her pleas and turned on the car. She jumped in beside him. The car jerked forward. "Damn it!" He backed out of the space and sped out of the parking lot.
"Tai, you're swerving. Can you even see the road clearly?"
"Shut up!" He grabbed her wrist.
"Tai, watch the road!"
Tai looked up and saw a couple walking across the intersection with no knowledge of the speeding car coming at them. He swerved.
"Hit the brake!"
The jeep slammed into a tree. Sora screamed, but her scream died as she hit the dashboard. Glass shattered and rained down on the both of them.
Tai sat up, panting and drenched in sweat. He looked around and realized he wasn't in his crashed jeep. Or sitting beside a bloody unconscious Sora. He was sitting in his bed, dead sober.
He forced himself from the bed and into the bathroom. Squinting from the bright light, he stumbled over to the sink and turned the handle. Water poured from the faucet and he splashed some on his face. He winced at the cold, but at the same time it felt good.
He walked out of the bathroom and quickly got dressed. He wouldn't get back to sleep tonight. After he had that nightmare he wouldn't sleep again. The horrible fear of reliving it once more that night kept him from it.
He walked out of his apartment and out of the building. Gray clouds covered the sky in every direction. The air was cool. He headed towards the same spot he had for the last two years. Every day, he never missed one.
Actually that was a lie. Then there were the few days he had been in the hospital. He had a concussion and glass all inside his skin. But he didn't care about any of that. What he cared about was Sora. When the paramedics came he was barely conscious, but that was much more then she had been. She never woke up from flying into the dashboard. She was in there a few weeks longer then he had been.
When he was in court for drunk driving. The day he had been ordered to community service and AA meetings and had his driver's license taken away. He had missed those few days.
He never missed a day after that. Never, in the entire two years. But still it didn't feel like it was enough.
He could see where he was going in his mind. He had etched it in his memory. He had memorized every detail.
He walked down a tan dirt path. It was hard to believe anyone would be here so early, but there people were, scattered her and there, crying against or for loved ones. He kept his head down. It was hard enough coming here day after day. He didn't need a break down before he even got there.
Then he saw it. The gray head stone with the crest of light etched into it. Tai knelt down and pulled up a couple of weeds that had sprouted before returning to a standing position once more.
"Hi Kari," he said aloud. "Ah, geez. The last few days have been really hard to get through. TK said you were still alive and I almost lost control and beat him up. Then some guy and this girl who looked like you tried to convince me you were her. I-I almost hit her too." He winced at the memory, the terror in the girl's eyes. "Everyone keeps telling me I have to move on, but I can't. I can't shake the craving for alcohol or the memories of the accident or the knowledge that I killed you."
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Sora walked slowly through the cemetery. She had promised herself that she would visit Kari's grave as the first thing she did when she got to Odiaba.
Up ahead she saw someone else at Kari's grave. Tai. She hadn't seen him since graduation. He avoided her after that. Never returned her calls or answered an email. He just cut himself off.
She got closer. He still hadn't noticed her. He was talking. To Kari, she assumed. "…or the knowledge that I killed you," he said.
"Oh, Tai," she mumbled. Why couldn't he accept it wasn't his fault?
"Everyone tells me it's not my fault, but it is. If I hadn't brought you back to Japan we wouldn't have met up with the others. If I had made sure you had taken your meds we wouldn't have gone home. If…" He paused. "If I hadn't been so weak Apocalymon wouldn't have taken control of me. I can't do anything right," he choked.
Sora stepped forward. "Tai."
He whirled around and brushed away his tears. "Sora?! What are you doing here? I thought you and Matt weren't coming back for a few days."
"That flight got cancelled. Matt and I took the one that came in last night."
For a moment neither spoke. Then, "You heard everything I said, didn't you?"
"Pretty much," she replied. "Why, Tai? Why do you keep beating yourself up for all of this? When you came back to Japan it was for Kari to get better. You had no idea we'd be here. And Kari was in charge of her medication, not you! She should have known to take it. And Apocalymon. There was no way for you to fight Apocalymon."
"Sora, I'm a coward. When my friends needed me the most I left. I left my baby sister die. And after she died I allowed myself to get lost in alcohol. I almost killed you."
Sora didn't say anything at first. "Tai, that was ten years ago when you left. We made it through just fine. You didn't let her die, truth was she didn't have much longer anyway. I know it still feels like you did, but you have to listen to me. It wasn't your fault." She didn't say anything about the accident. Truth was he had almost killed her. She had been unconscious in the hospital after the accident for three weeks. Then after she was released after a month and a half she had to go into physical therapy for three more months. It wasn't fun, to say the least.
"I can't move on."
"You can! She'd want you to." He started to walk away from her and the grave. Sora followed him.
~~~All traces must be deleted~~~
He stopped and pulled a small pink flower out of his pocket and turned back. "What the hell?"
Sora looked back at him. "What's wrong?"
"It's gone."
"What's gone?"
"Her grave. It's gone." He pointed to where the grave had been.
Sora walked back. Indeed it was gone. "What the hell?" There was a beeping sound from both Sora's and Tai's pockets. They both pulled out d-terminals, mini computers, and opened them. They both had emails. "Its from Gennai."
"Mine too," Tai muttered.
Tai read it in silence while Sora read it aloud. "Things aren't always as they seem. Two different world, two different bodies, one soul. Only one can take a world. Only one can house the soul. The other is deleted. One has been deleted. The other houses the soul."
"What the hell does that mean?" Tai screamed, attracting the attention of other mourners. "What are you looking at?"
"Calm down," Sora begged. She didn't like when he raised his voice. It scared her. The amount of anger behind his words was enough to make you back away and cower from him.
"Sorry," he replied softly. "I'm going over to Izzy's. He'll figure this out."
"Tai, you can't go now. Its 6: 30 in the morning. He's probably still asleep."
"I suppose. See you around."
"Tai, what if you came back to TK's apartment. Come see Matt. Then we can figure this out."
"Bye Sora."
"Tai! You're too damn stubborn! Get over yourself and stop avoiding everyone!"
"Shut up, Sora! Leave me alone! I didn't ask to talk to you; in fact I didn't want to see you! I just want to be left alone! I don't need you or the others or anyone for that matter! Stay away from me!"
For a moment she just stared at him, dumbfounded. Then she slapped him. "You know what, your right. Is that what you wanted to hear? You abandoned everyone who needed you, killed her, you almost killed me. You got what you wanted. Someone finally blamed you. Do you feel better?" He touched the cheek where she hit him. "You have no idea how lucky you are to have friends that put up with your crap! No one has ever turned away from you, no matter what. Izzy has made sure he was there to drive you anywhere or just hang out. Joe and Mimi make sure to check up on you. TK was your friggin' errand boy for a while! I never gave up on you, no matter how much pain you put me through. And Matt never beat your ass in for the crap you said and did! Did you even notice he never once talked to you about the accident? I told him not to touch you, so he just didn't say anything because he was afraid of losing control and beating the hell out of you! But its not like you would have cared, right?" She started to leave. He watched her leave, too shocked to follow.
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Yolie glanced at the clock that sat on her desk across the room. 7 o'clock it glowed. She had been awake from sometime now, listening to Kari toss and turn. Every so often her young friend would mumble something, a name or phase. It was usually the name Tai.
She got up from her sleeping bag on the floor and walked over to the desk to look at the papers Ken handed her. Taichi Kamiya. That had to be whom Kari was mumbling about.
She got dressed and brushed her hair. School started in an hour. "I wonder if my parents will notice is Kari's here?" She thought aloud.
"Not if I'm not here." Yolie looked over at the bed. Kari was sitting up, exhausted, looking like she hadn't gotten a minute of sleep.
"Oh, and are you coming school with me?" She asked as she put her hands on her hips.
"Why do you insist that I stay here in the real world? Will I be Cody's tomorrow and then Ken's the next?"
"Well, at least till your eighteen," Yolie admitted. "And I doubt you'll go to Ken's considering he's in Tomochi."
"I'm going back to the DigiWorld."
Yolie opened her mouth to argue when the phone rang. "Saved by the phone," she smiled. Kari just made a face at her. She picked up the phone, "Hello?"
"Yolie?" A voice said.
"Hi Davis, what's up?" She asked as she glanced back at Kari. She wasn't looking at her, but instead out the window.
"Did you get an email on your d-terminal?" He asked.
"Um… let me check, I barely got up." She reached for the gray mini-computer and turned it on. Indeed she had an email. "Who's Gennai?" She asked.
"I dunno, just read it," he replied.
She opened the email. She read it into the phone, "Memories of the past are warnings. But warnings are ignored and memories are forgotten. The truth of 'her' past lies in another world, there is nothing left for 'her' there. Return 'her'; allow 'her' to come back. The pain will be gone."
"What do you want to bet that's from the Digital World?" Davis asked. "You up for a little ditching today?"
"Of course," she replied.
"Good, Ken will meet us in the Digital World. I'll be over in a few minutes, then we'll go over to Cody's and use the port there."
"Alright," Yolie shrugged. "Bye." She put down the phone. She looked Kari. The girl looked at her with a pained face. "What's wrong?"
"N-nothing," she replied.
"Lair. Come on; get up. Davis will be here in a few minutes."
"Okay," Kari replied. She tried to get up, but couldn't.
The doorbell rang a few minutes later. Yolie opened it and saw Davis. "Ready?" He asked. Yolie nodded. "Where's Kari?"
"In my room, she doesn't look so well," she replied.
"Show me." He followed Yolie to her bedroom where Kari was sitting with her knees pulled to hr chest. He head rested on her knees. Davis sat down on the edge of the bed. "Kari, what's wrong?"
"Dai," she said, her voice very low. "I don't feel good. My chest hurts."
"What do you mean it hurts?"
She pointed to her heart. "Right here. I'm having really bad pains."
"Come on," Davis said to Yolie. "Let's get her to Cody's now."
"I really need a computer," Yolie mumbled as she slipped one of Kari's arms over her shoulders and Davis did the same on the other side of Kari. They helped her out the door and down the hall.
Suddenly a red haired female came rushing down the hall. Kari did a double take on her. The girl looked at Kari and stopped. "Kari?" She asked.
"How do you know my name?" She asked.
"Kari Kamiya?" The girl persisted.
"Who are you?" Davis replied.
"My name is Sora Takenouchi. Kari, don't you recognize me?"
"Sora," Kari repeated. She began to choke and wheeze. She slipped from Yolie's and Davis' grip.
Sora caught her. "What's wrong with her?" Sora yelled.
"Nothing. We have to go," Davis replied as he took Kari from Sora. Kari's legs gave out and she crumpled to the ground. Sora remembered two years ago, in the school when Kari had collapsed into her arms then.
"Are you taking her to a hospital?"
"We can't," Yolie replied.
"Because she's dead," Sora continued. Both Yolie and Davis stared at her. "Your DigiDestined, aren't you? You're taking her to the Digital World, to Gennai, right?"
"How do you know about the DigiDestined?" Davis asked, as he stood straight up to face Sora.
"Because I am one." She pulled out her Digivice and showed them.
"That doesn't look like the ones we have," Davis pulled out his digivice.
"How are you getting into the Digital World?" Sora asked.
"Through a Digiport, we have to go," Davis said.
"I'm coming with you!" Sora shouted at him.
He looked at her skeptically. "No, we don't know who you are. Mind your own damn business!" He tried to get Kari off the floor.
"TK Takaishi, you talked too him, right?" Davis looked up at her and nodded. "He's a DigiDestined too. My boyfriend, TK's brother, is our leader. Her brother is our ex-leader. Let me get my boyfriend, he can help you carry her to where ever you're taking her. But whether you let us help or not we're going with you!"
Davis and Yolie exchanged glances. "Fine, go get him." Sora ran off down the hall and Yolie knelt down beside Kari and tried to calm the shaking and crying girl.
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Matt sat at the kitchen table looking over the newspaper and eating some breakfast that he had made for TK and himself. Well, he made it for Sora, but for some odd reason she wasn't there. TK was oddly quiet this morning.
The door burst open and Sora ran inside. "Matt! Matt!" She yelled. Matt jumped up from the table and ran to her. TK was by his side in a flash. "Those DigiDestined, they live in TK's building. They're down the hall. Kari's there! She's sick and they're trying to get her back to the DigiWorld. But they can't move her. Matt, they need your help."
"Sora, what are you talking about? Where have you been?" Matt asked, confused.
She ignored his questions and grabbed his hand and TK's and pulled them out the door. Down the hall they saw one figure standing, another lying on the floor, and another kneeling beside the fallen figure. TK recognized them all instantly. "Kari!" He ran and dropped to his knees beside her.
"Hey, what the hell?" The marron haired boy pulled him away.
TK turned and pushed him into the wall. "What's your problem?"
"Knock it off!" Matt yelled. "Good god, Kari." He knelt down beside her. "What happened?"
"We don't know," A girl with purple hair and glasses said. "She collapsed and we have to get her to the Digital World. But we can't carry her up a flight of stairs."
Matt stood up and picked Kari up in his arms. "Where's the portal? How are you getting there?"
"This way," the boy fighting with TK said. They hurried quickly down the hall and up a flight of stairs.
They stopped at the third door down and Yolie knocked. A short fifteen-year-old boy opened it. "Who are they?" He asked, implying Sora and Matt. He knew who TK was.
"DigiDestined," the other boy replied before shoving his way inside the apartment. "Let's go." The other's followed him inside to a room with a computer in it.
"How are you going to get into the Digital World?" Matt asked.
"Like this," the girl replied. She held up a small device and TK recognized it as the same one Tera had given him. "DigiPort open!"
The three new kids disappeared into the computer. "TK, here's my cell phone," Matt said. "Before we follow call Izzy and tell him to contact Tai and the others and do what those three just did."
TK nodded. Five minutes later he was done. "Let's go," he said as he held up his new digivice. "DigiPort open!"
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Sorry this part was bad, but its 12:35 a.m. and I have school tomorrow, but I was deperatly trying to finish this. Please read and review, tell me if you liked it or if you think it was rushed and shabby. Thatnks, later dayz!
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.
What The Future Brings
Davis glanced around. Either Kari had hidden herself really well or she was running from him. He and the others had been searching for her for over an hour. "Kari! Come on! This isn't funny!" Yolie screamed, worried about her best friend.
Davis' digivice beeped. "This way." He climbed onto the back of his digimon Raidramon and they took off. Halsemon, Stingmon, and Digmon came up behind him. Halsemon and Stingmon by air. Digmon on the ground with Raidramon.
Cody was the one who saw her first. "There she is!"
Kari sat by the water of a river in an open field. Her knees were pulled to her chest and her arms wrapped around them as she stared, unblinking, into the rushing water. "Kari," Davis cried as he jumped off Raidramon's back. He knelt down beside her. "Kari, are you okay?" She didn't answer.
Raidramon returned to Veemon as the other digimon returned to their rookie stages. He went over to Gatomon who sat a little bit away from her partner. "She won't tell me anything," the white feline said.
"Kari, talk to me. Why'd you leave like that?" Davis asked softly.
"Let me try!" Yolie pushed Davis out of the way. "Oops. Sorry Davis," she said after he fell into the water. Everyone laughed. Even Kari broke out of her trance to giggle at him. "Good job, Davis. You woke her up."
"Yeah, that's he grumbled as he pulled himself from the water.
Yolie turned back to Kari. "Hey, are you alright?"
Kari's face lost its smile. "I'm fine."
"Lair."
"I don't want to talk about it!"
"But we're your friends. We want to help," Cody spoke up."
"But there's nothing you can do! Kari Kamiya is dead! So who the hell am I?" No one answered. "Why can't I remember anything?"
"So, what are you going to do? Stay here for the rest of your life?" Ken asked.
"That was the plan," she replied before erupting into a fit of coughs.
"Are you getting sick?" Davis asked as he placed a wet hand on her forehead.
"No, but you will be if you don't get into some dry clothes. You're freezing!" She cried.
"Well, I guess we should go back. No thanks to Davis," Yolie said mockingly.
"To me?! Who pushed me in, Yolie?" Davis yelled.
Everyone laughed. "We should go back," Ken said as he walked up behind Yolie. He wrapped his arms around her waist and rested his head on her shoulder. "Its probably very late."
Kari looked away. "Bye."
"Oh, no! Don't even Kari! You're coming with us!" Yolie replied.
"But-"
"No buts! You don't look well and this has to be hard for you. You're coming back!"
"No."
"Yes," all the DigiDestined replied.
Kari sighed in defeat. "Whom am I staying with?"
"Me," Yolie replied quickly, before Davis could volunteer. Cody helped Kari off the ground and they all walked back to the DigiPort. Davis shivered quietly and Kari wrapped her arms around him in a warm hug.
"Thank you," he smiled at her. They went through the DigiPort and landed on top of a pile of people in Cody's room.
"We need to put down pillows before we go into the DigiWorld," Yolie said from the bottom of the pile.
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They knew she was there. Not all of them, but some. She was alive and breathing. And yet in another world she was dead and had been for two years. One of these two would have to disappear if the other was to be remembered.
The question is, which one. The one that was dead or the living breathing one. To most people this would be a simple question. You save the living. The living go on, death does not.
But it was more complicated then that. There would be so many records to delete and memories to erase. A whole part of the world to reconfigure.
But as always the living go on.
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"Shut up, Sora!"
"Tai, you had way too much to drink," she argued.
"Then walk home!" He yelled as he got into his black jeep.
"Please, Tai. Let me drive."
He ignored her pleas and turned on the car. She jumped in beside him. The car jerked forward. "Damn it!" He backed out of the space and sped out of the parking lot.
"Tai, you're swerving. Can you even see the road clearly?"
"Shut up!" He grabbed her wrist.
"Tai, watch the road!"
Tai looked up and saw a couple walking across the intersection with no knowledge of the speeding car coming at them. He swerved.
"Hit the brake!"
The jeep slammed into a tree. Sora screamed, but her scream died as she hit the dashboard. Glass shattered and rained down on the both of them.
Tai sat up, panting and drenched in sweat. He looked around and realized he wasn't in his crashed jeep. Or sitting beside a bloody unconscious Sora. He was sitting in his bed, dead sober.
He forced himself from the bed and into the bathroom. Squinting from the bright light, he stumbled over to the sink and turned the handle. Water poured from the faucet and he splashed some on his face. He winced at the cold, but at the same time it felt good.
He walked out of the bathroom and quickly got dressed. He wouldn't get back to sleep tonight. After he had that nightmare he wouldn't sleep again. The horrible fear of reliving it once more that night kept him from it.
He walked out of his apartment and out of the building. Gray clouds covered the sky in every direction. The air was cool. He headed towards the same spot he had for the last two years. Every day, he never missed one.
Actually that was a lie. Then there were the few days he had been in the hospital. He had a concussion and glass all inside his skin. But he didn't care about any of that. What he cared about was Sora. When the paramedics came he was barely conscious, but that was much more then she had been. She never woke up from flying into the dashboard. She was in there a few weeks longer then he had been.
When he was in court for drunk driving. The day he had been ordered to community service and AA meetings and had his driver's license taken away. He had missed those few days.
He never missed a day after that. Never, in the entire two years. But still it didn't feel like it was enough.
He could see where he was going in his mind. He had etched it in his memory. He had memorized every detail.
He walked down a tan dirt path. It was hard to believe anyone would be here so early, but there people were, scattered her and there, crying against or for loved ones. He kept his head down. It was hard enough coming here day after day. He didn't need a break down before he even got there.
Then he saw it. The gray head stone with the crest of light etched into it. Tai knelt down and pulled up a couple of weeds that had sprouted before returning to a standing position once more.
"Hi Kari," he said aloud. "Ah, geez. The last few days have been really hard to get through. TK said you were still alive and I almost lost control and beat him up. Then some guy and this girl who looked like you tried to convince me you were her. I-I almost hit her too." He winced at the memory, the terror in the girl's eyes. "Everyone keeps telling me I have to move on, but I can't. I can't shake the craving for alcohol or the memories of the accident or the knowledge that I killed you."
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Sora walked slowly through the cemetery. She had promised herself that she would visit Kari's grave as the first thing she did when she got to Odiaba.
Up ahead she saw someone else at Kari's grave. Tai. She hadn't seen him since graduation. He avoided her after that. Never returned her calls or answered an email. He just cut himself off.
She got closer. He still hadn't noticed her. He was talking. To Kari, she assumed. "…or the knowledge that I killed you," he said.
"Oh, Tai," she mumbled. Why couldn't he accept it wasn't his fault?
"Everyone tells me it's not my fault, but it is. If I hadn't brought you back to Japan we wouldn't have met up with the others. If I had made sure you had taken your meds we wouldn't have gone home. If…" He paused. "If I hadn't been so weak Apocalymon wouldn't have taken control of me. I can't do anything right," he choked.
Sora stepped forward. "Tai."
He whirled around and brushed away his tears. "Sora?! What are you doing here? I thought you and Matt weren't coming back for a few days."
"That flight got cancelled. Matt and I took the one that came in last night."
For a moment neither spoke. Then, "You heard everything I said, didn't you?"
"Pretty much," she replied. "Why, Tai? Why do you keep beating yourself up for all of this? When you came back to Japan it was for Kari to get better. You had no idea we'd be here. And Kari was in charge of her medication, not you! She should have known to take it. And Apocalymon. There was no way for you to fight Apocalymon."
"Sora, I'm a coward. When my friends needed me the most I left. I left my baby sister die. And after she died I allowed myself to get lost in alcohol. I almost killed you."
Sora didn't say anything at first. "Tai, that was ten years ago when you left. We made it through just fine. You didn't let her die, truth was she didn't have much longer anyway. I know it still feels like you did, but you have to listen to me. It wasn't your fault." She didn't say anything about the accident. Truth was he had almost killed her. She had been unconscious in the hospital after the accident for three weeks. Then after she was released after a month and a half she had to go into physical therapy for three more months. It wasn't fun, to say the least.
"I can't move on."
"You can! She'd want you to." He started to walk away from her and the grave. Sora followed him.
~~~All traces must be deleted~~~
He stopped and pulled a small pink flower out of his pocket and turned back. "What the hell?"
Sora looked back at him. "What's wrong?"
"It's gone."
"What's gone?"
"Her grave. It's gone." He pointed to where the grave had been.
Sora walked back. Indeed it was gone. "What the hell?" There was a beeping sound from both Sora's and Tai's pockets. They both pulled out d-terminals, mini computers, and opened them. They both had emails. "Its from Gennai."
"Mine too," Tai muttered.
Tai read it in silence while Sora read it aloud. "Things aren't always as they seem. Two different world, two different bodies, one soul. Only one can take a world. Only one can house the soul. The other is deleted. One has been deleted. The other houses the soul."
"What the hell does that mean?" Tai screamed, attracting the attention of other mourners. "What are you looking at?"
"Calm down," Sora begged. She didn't like when he raised his voice. It scared her. The amount of anger behind his words was enough to make you back away and cower from him.
"Sorry," he replied softly. "I'm going over to Izzy's. He'll figure this out."
"Tai, you can't go now. Its 6: 30 in the morning. He's probably still asleep."
"I suppose. See you around."
"Tai, what if you came back to TK's apartment. Come see Matt. Then we can figure this out."
"Bye Sora."
"Tai! You're too damn stubborn! Get over yourself and stop avoiding everyone!"
"Shut up, Sora! Leave me alone! I didn't ask to talk to you; in fact I didn't want to see you! I just want to be left alone! I don't need you or the others or anyone for that matter! Stay away from me!"
For a moment she just stared at him, dumbfounded. Then she slapped him. "You know what, your right. Is that what you wanted to hear? You abandoned everyone who needed you, killed her, you almost killed me. You got what you wanted. Someone finally blamed you. Do you feel better?" He touched the cheek where she hit him. "You have no idea how lucky you are to have friends that put up with your crap! No one has ever turned away from you, no matter what. Izzy has made sure he was there to drive you anywhere or just hang out. Joe and Mimi make sure to check up on you. TK was your friggin' errand boy for a while! I never gave up on you, no matter how much pain you put me through. And Matt never beat your ass in for the crap you said and did! Did you even notice he never once talked to you about the accident? I told him not to touch you, so he just didn't say anything because he was afraid of losing control and beating the hell out of you! But its not like you would have cared, right?" She started to leave. He watched her leave, too shocked to follow.
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Yolie glanced at the clock that sat on her desk across the room. 7 o'clock it glowed. She had been awake from sometime now, listening to Kari toss and turn. Every so often her young friend would mumble something, a name or phase. It was usually the name Tai.
She got up from her sleeping bag on the floor and walked over to the desk to look at the papers Ken handed her. Taichi Kamiya. That had to be whom Kari was mumbling about.
She got dressed and brushed her hair. School started in an hour. "I wonder if my parents will notice is Kari's here?" She thought aloud.
"Not if I'm not here." Yolie looked over at the bed. Kari was sitting up, exhausted, looking like she hadn't gotten a minute of sleep.
"Oh, and are you coming school with me?" She asked as she put her hands on her hips.
"Why do you insist that I stay here in the real world? Will I be Cody's tomorrow and then Ken's the next?"
"Well, at least till your eighteen," Yolie admitted. "And I doubt you'll go to Ken's considering he's in Tomochi."
"I'm going back to the DigiWorld."
Yolie opened her mouth to argue when the phone rang. "Saved by the phone," she smiled. Kari just made a face at her. She picked up the phone, "Hello?"
"Yolie?" A voice said.
"Hi Davis, what's up?" She asked as she glanced back at Kari. She wasn't looking at her, but instead out the window.
"Did you get an email on your d-terminal?" He asked.
"Um… let me check, I barely got up." She reached for the gray mini-computer and turned it on. Indeed she had an email. "Who's Gennai?" She asked.
"I dunno, just read it," he replied.
She opened the email. She read it into the phone, "Memories of the past are warnings. But warnings are ignored and memories are forgotten. The truth of 'her' past lies in another world, there is nothing left for 'her' there. Return 'her'; allow 'her' to come back. The pain will be gone."
"What do you want to bet that's from the Digital World?" Davis asked. "You up for a little ditching today?"
"Of course," she replied.
"Good, Ken will meet us in the Digital World. I'll be over in a few minutes, then we'll go over to Cody's and use the port there."
"Alright," Yolie shrugged. "Bye." She put down the phone. She looked Kari. The girl looked at her with a pained face. "What's wrong?"
"N-nothing," she replied.
"Lair. Come on; get up. Davis will be here in a few minutes."
"Okay," Kari replied. She tried to get up, but couldn't.
The doorbell rang a few minutes later. Yolie opened it and saw Davis. "Ready?" He asked. Yolie nodded. "Where's Kari?"
"In my room, she doesn't look so well," she replied.
"Show me." He followed Yolie to her bedroom where Kari was sitting with her knees pulled to hr chest. He head rested on her knees. Davis sat down on the edge of the bed. "Kari, what's wrong?"
"Dai," she said, her voice very low. "I don't feel good. My chest hurts."
"What do you mean it hurts?"
She pointed to her heart. "Right here. I'm having really bad pains."
"Come on," Davis said to Yolie. "Let's get her to Cody's now."
"I really need a computer," Yolie mumbled as she slipped one of Kari's arms over her shoulders and Davis did the same on the other side of Kari. They helped her out the door and down the hall.
Suddenly a red haired female came rushing down the hall. Kari did a double take on her. The girl looked at Kari and stopped. "Kari?" She asked.
"How do you know my name?" She asked.
"Kari Kamiya?" The girl persisted.
"Who are you?" Davis replied.
"My name is Sora Takenouchi. Kari, don't you recognize me?"
"Sora," Kari repeated. She began to choke and wheeze. She slipped from Yolie's and Davis' grip.
Sora caught her. "What's wrong with her?" Sora yelled.
"Nothing. We have to go," Davis replied as he took Kari from Sora. Kari's legs gave out and she crumpled to the ground. Sora remembered two years ago, in the school when Kari had collapsed into her arms then.
"Are you taking her to a hospital?"
"We can't," Yolie replied.
"Because she's dead," Sora continued. Both Yolie and Davis stared at her. "Your DigiDestined, aren't you? You're taking her to the Digital World, to Gennai, right?"
"How do you know about the DigiDestined?" Davis asked, as he stood straight up to face Sora.
"Because I am one." She pulled out her Digivice and showed them.
"That doesn't look like the ones we have," Davis pulled out his digivice.
"How are you getting into the Digital World?" Sora asked.
"Through a Digiport, we have to go," Davis said.
"I'm coming with you!" Sora shouted at him.
He looked at her skeptically. "No, we don't know who you are. Mind your own damn business!" He tried to get Kari off the floor.
"TK Takaishi, you talked too him, right?" Davis looked up at her and nodded. "He's a DigiDestined too. My boyfriend, TK's brother, is our leader. Her brother is our ex-leader. Let me get my boyfriend, he can help you carry her to where ever you're taking her. But whether you let us help or not we're going with you!"
Davis and Yolie exchanged glances. "Fine, go get him." Sora ran off down the hall and Yolie knelt down beside Kari and tried to calm the shaking and crying girl.
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Matt sat at the kitchen table looking over the newspaper and eating some breakfast that he had made for TK and himself. Well, he made it for Sora, but for some odd reason she wasn't there. TK was oddly quiet this morning.
The door burst open and Sora ran inside. "Matt! Matt!" She yelled. Matt jumped up from the table and ran to her. TK was by his side in a flash. "Those DigiDestined, they live in TK's building. They're down the hall. Kari's there! She's sick and they're trying to get her back to the DigiWorld. But they can't move her. Matt, they need your help."
"Sora, what are you talking about? Where have you been?" Matt asked, confused.
She ignored his questions and grabbed his hand and TK's and pulled them out the door. Down the hall they saw one figure standing, another lying on the floor, and another kneeling beside the fallen figure. TK recognized them all instantly. "Kari!" He ran and dropped to his knees beside her.
"Hey, what the hell?" The marron haired boy pulled him away.
TK turned and pushed him into the wall. "What's your problem?"
"Knock it off!" Matt yelled. "Good god, Kari." He knelt down beside her. "What happened?"
"We don't know," A girl with purple hair and glasses said. "She collapsed and we have to get her to the Digital World. But we can't carry her up a flight of stairs."
Matt stood up and picked Kari up in his arms. "Where's the portal? How are you getting there?"
"This way," the boy fighting with TK said. They hurried quickly down the hall and up a flight of stairs.
They stopped at the third door down and Yolie knocked. A short fifteen-year-old boy opened it. "Who are they?" He asked, implying Sora and Matt. He knew who TK was.
"DigiDestined," the other boy replied before shoving his way inside the apartment. "Let's go." The other's followed him inside to a room with a computer in it.
"How are you going to get into the Digital World?" Matt asked.
"Like this," the girl replied. She held up a small device and TK recognized it as the same one Tera had given him. "DigiPort open!"
The three new kids disappeared into the computer. "TK, here's my cell phone," Matt said. "Before we follow call Izzy and tell him to contact Tai and the others and do what those three just did."
TK nodded. Five minutes later he was done. "Let's go," he said as he held up his new digivice. "DigiPort open!"
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Sorry this part was bad, but its 12:35 a.m. and I have school tomorrow, but I was deperatly trying to finish this. Please read and review, tell me if you liked it or if you think it was rushed and shabby. Thatnks, later dayz!
