D/C: I do not own Digimon or Our Lady Peace.... damn I wish I did.... Raine Maida has an ass that doesn't quit *drooling* ummm on with the story!
***Tai***
"Hello Tai, I'm sorry I had to leave you. Please don't look for me because where I've gone you'll never find me. I know you'll think this is crazy, but I was chosen. Remember when we were kids and at Sunday school Mrs. Kobyashi told us about heaven? Well despite my doubts, I have discovered that there is a heaven and well I was chosen to be ... I guess an angel? It's all so complicated... and I know that you'll understand in time why I left you now. It was either I go there now... or never. Just know I love you and we'll be together again someday. I know we will. Good Bye, Taichi." Tai shut off the tape. He sat in his room unable to move. His face was wet from the tears. He listened to the tape atleast fifty times before he fell asleep. He missed her so much, but he had cope for his parents. He woke early in the morning to the sound of weeping. He drousily walked to his parents room where his mother and father sat looking through a photo album.
"Oh Tai, I'm sorry did I wake you up?" Tai's mother asked softly.
"No mom, it's alright." he replied quietly as he went ans sat beside his mother.
"She's really gone." Tai's father said as he brushed his fingers along a picture of a baby Hikari.
"We'll see her again... someday."
***TK***
He walked around aimlessly trying to get away from the pain of it all. He took out the tape and starred at it as he continued to walk. He stopped and reached into his bag for his walkman. He inserted the tape and reluctantly pressed play. Slowly Kari's voice came on. He gave a sad smile as she began to speak.
"Takeru, please don't hate me for leaving." Kari's voice was uncertain and you could tell she was weeping through the whole thing. "You always said that we were destined to be together, well maybe we are and maybe we're not. I want to hate the person who made me choose between you and... and... Well I guess I should tell you why I had to leave. You see TK... I was chosen to be an angel. At first I thought I was going insane because of this, but it is my destiny and... I had to leave you. I thought this God of ours was so great, but why would he do this to me? Either I go now to heaven, leaving you, or I stay with you till I die and... not go to heaven.... It's all so awful and I still don't know why I chose the way I did. After hearing this you probably think that I didn't love you because I left. But that's not true."
TK's mouth dropped open. "She loved me?"
Kari's voice stopped and some music came on. She slowly began to sing, "I walked around my good intentions and found that there were none. I blame my father for the wasted years we hardly talked. I never thought I would forget this hate then a phone call made me realize I'm wrong." TK's tear filled eyes overflowed as she continued to sing her favourite song, 4 am by Our Lady Peace, "And if I don't make it known that I've loved you all along just like sunny days that we ignore because we're all dumb and jaded.... and I hope to God I figure out what's wrong." TK's legs just gave way as he fell to his knees. His lip quivered as he starred blankly ahead of him, still listening to his Kari sing, "I walked around my room not thinking just sinking in this box. I blame myself for being too much like somebody else. I never thought I would just bend this way then a phone call made me realize I'm wrong. And if I don't make it known that I've loved you all along just like sunny days that we ignore because we're all dumb and jaded.... and I hope to God I figure out what's wrong." He listened to her cry while the instruments played, then she began again, "And I hope to God I figure out what's wrong. And I hope to God I figure out what's wrong. If I don't make it known that I've loved you all along just like sunny days that we ignore because we're all dumb and jaded.... and I hope to God I figure out what's wrong. And if I don't make it known that I've loved you all along just like sunny days that we ignore because we're all dumb and jaded.... and I hope to God I figure out..." She finished with the song and quietly she said, "Takeru Takaishi I do love you and I always will." After that, she was gone.
Many had gathered around TK as he sat in the middle of the sidewalk unable to move. One man called an ambulance on his cell phone. Casually and without expression he looked at the man making him slowly close his cell phone and then TK got up to leave. A woman placed a hand on his shoulder, but within seconds he shot her a face of stone that quickly made her back off. He wiped his eyes and continued down the sidewalk leaving the crowd and their comments behind. He made a decision that day to shut the world out, to never let anyone get as close to him as Kari did. He didn't want anyone to make him forget her. His parents sent him to therapists and doctors of all sorts to figure out what was wrong with him.
As the months passed, Kari's family eventually healed their wounds with help from many people. Tai never gave up hope that his sister would return to them. Tai had his struggles with the loss of Kari, but Sora was his always there for him. As for TK, he sank deeper and deeper into depression as the days and nights flew by. He became gothic just so people would be warded off. He would walk aimlessly around Odablia for hours on end. Instead of going to college on a basketball scholarship he decided he would live at home. It was near the end of the summer when something magical happened that changed everything for him.
TK sat on the park bench quietly reading a book. After a few minutes he looked up and glanced around. He looked over his shoulder nervously then continued reading his book. A few seconds later he repeated this action. Then all of a sudden, TK's watched beeped scaring the crap out of him. He looked at his watch and sighed shaking his head. He put away his book and took our his walkman, just like he did everyday at 6:00pm. Pressing play began Kari's tape. Her voice was the only thing keeping him sane. Just before the tape ended, someone pulled of the headphones that rested on TK's blonde head. The stranger leaned over and whispered in his ear, "Takeru Takaishi I do love you and I always will." His heart almost stopped. He turned his head slowly towards the stranger to see the beautiful brown eyes of the girl he loved more than anything. She smiled brightly and asked, "Did you miss me?" TK's couldn't say a word, all he did was nod slightly. She slid out from behind the bench and sat beside him.
"But how?" TK asked, almost whispering.
"Well heaven is where we can be together." She said still smiling.
"But this means..."
"I'd rather spend a lifetime with you, than an enternity without you." They smiled at eachother for a few moments.
TK leaned closer to Kari and said, "I love you."
"I love you too." Kari said and softly kissed TK.
TK reached to where Kari's silver locket hung around her neck and twirled it between his fingers. Hope & Light Together Forever
Please R&R, I hope you liked it... it took forever for me to think up... :)