Why hello everyone, and welcome back to Reflection Reflected. I bet you are all wondering why on earth I chose such a "deep" name for what appears to be a fairly lame humor and romance story… well, you'll see. We all are obviously a lot like our parents, so we may be considered their mirror… I will have to post the words to the song we wrote… you'd get it then. Well, Disclaimer: We don't own the original Digimon concepts and peoples, but we do own the new ones because everyone owns themselves. *sighs, hits Aaron on head before he can say duck* And © info can be found in the first chapter and the last one as well once I get it posted.

Reflection Reflected

By Lyra Kamiya

Chapter 2

Saturday Insanity… Takaishi style

Saturday…

Hikari Takaishi sat silently gazing out the window. A few light snowflakes danced through the air in contrast to the glistening bay in the distance. The snowflakes were not from a current snowfall… instead the light winds were blowing them off of local roofs. As the ocean glistened in the mid-morning sun, nothing could be heard but the distant squawking of seagulls.

"Naka! Naka-Bri! Do you know where my science book is?!"

And the local squawking of her son.

"No, Dani, I don't!" Naka replied.

"Guinamon, help me look! We're already late!"

Kari sighed gently as she listened to a scene unfold that had so often been her brother and herself… The book seemed to be lost beyond all hope, the sister appeared to be at fault, the brother and his digimon searched franticly for it. Kari didn't even have to turn to know its location, once she heard his bookbag hit the wall as he turned the hall corner.

"Doki…" he froze upon hearing his mother call his name. "Doki-kun… it's in your pack." He blinked twice, not knowing how she could tell that with her back turned away from him. He opened the top flap of his bag and looked inside… there was his science book.

He grinned sheepishly and headed towards the door, "Arigato, Mama. Ja ne."

"Doki-kun… aren't you forgetting something?"

"Ahh, mom… aren't I too old for that?"

"Not that," she replied, holding up his D-watch. "This."

"How'd you…" he stuttered in shock at the idea of his mom knowing that he was still a destined… ^_^ '

"Your father was your age once."

"Arigato! Sayonara!" he called, racing out the door before she could finish.

"'Some things never change'," she recited with a sigh and turned back to the window. Something caught her eye… was that… a Veedramon? No… only rookies and below were allowed in the real world, and Veedramon were by no means tame, let alone a rookie or below. She looked back at where it had been… nothing. She shrugged and scanned the horizon. Wait… behind that building… a Snymon? As she watched, it faded away. "Oh no…" breathed. "Not again. Takeru… Takeru-chan! Call the others!"

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A few blocks away, on the third level of an apartment building, a girl with blue hair also stared out the window… but it wasn't the bay she was interested in. "Where is he…" she growled.

"Niru-ko… it's not the end of the world," Re'i pleaded as he watched her pace. She gave him an icy glare in response.

"I don't know… maybe we should be happy she's angry. It's a change from her old personality," Jennifer commented from her place on the back of a sofa. She was also met with a stare that could freeze a nova blast…

"Jen… I don't know why you're even here… None of the other older kids are." She snarled before looking back to the window.

"They'll be here at 2. It's 12:30… and my mom had a dentist appointment," Jennifer replied. Her mom was the dentist… and without a dad, Jennifer had to come early.

Kori glanced up from her seat in the corner chair, wiped a tear from her eye, adjusted her glasses, and then went to put her head back on her knees. Re'i glanced over long enough to blink twice and give her a questioning look. She smiled weekly, sighed, and hung her head. Re'i shrugged and was about to mention that they really needed to talk to Erika about how she was treating her sister, but Niru interrupted him before he even started.

"Dani-kun! Hurry up!" she was hanging halfway out the window yelling in an attempt to flag down a now very shocked Doki three floors below.

Moments later Doki arrived in the apartment still shaken by Niru's behavior. "What happened to the shy workaholic named Niru-Umi-ko?"

"She left. Why? You like her better?"

"No… I just think you need to find middle ground, Niri."

"Well…" Jennifer interrupted. "Two things, one… best friends," she winked, "shouldn't fight and two… I'm gonna call Keiji and tell him to open the gate so we can hang there until the others get here."

"Right then… I'll start the computer," Re'i responded. Niru took the opportunity to get mad at Jennifer. Kori looked up from the corner again.

"Oh… hi Dani," he glanced over and was about to return her greeting but she re-adjusted her glasses and put her head back down.

"Konnichi wa…" he said softly before collapsing with a sigh on the now-empty couch, exhausted from the half-mile run to get there.

"Yo… Keiji-kun," Jennifer said on the phone. "Could you open the gate?

(On the phone) " I'm sorry Jen-ko but I can't… I'll hit the program but we are in such a hurry… you'll have to hook it up from there," Keiji explained

"Where are you going?"

"The hospital."

"What!? Now? Today?!" she said loudly enough to catch everyone's attention.

"Yep I'm about to have a little sister but I'll try and be over by two anyway but bye!"

Jennifer silently set the phone back down.

"So…?" Doki asked.

"Izumi family, party of four," Jennifer grinned weakly.

"Oh…" came a nearly unanimous chorus from the room. Only Re'i was silent… he stared blankly at Jennifer out of question. Everyone else in the room did the same towards him.

"Anyway… what are we supposed to do now?" Niru asked quietly.

"Well… he did say that he was going to connect it… but that he wouldn't have time to hook it up and open it. I'm going to go round everyone up and see if any of them know how," Jennifer called, strolling out the door.

"We could do homework…" Doki joked, trying to lighten the mood. "But what would be the fun in that?"

"Well…" Ben shrugged, "Kori and I do have a spelling test Monday…"

"Homework?" Niru questioned.

"Homework," Re'i and Doki nodded.

Kori slowly got up, adjusted her glasses again, retrieved the spelling list from her bag, and walked to the table.

Doki sighed. "We have *got* to talk to Erika." Everyone nodded in agreement.

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Back at the Takaishis'…

"Hikari-chan, I can't get ahold of practically anyone," Takeru called across the house. "Sora said she'll be over in a few minutes… and Cody in half an hour, he's teaching Kendo. How'd you do?"

"Let me put it this way: Tai-in Kyoto for soccer. Matt and Ken are on tour with the rest of the band. Mimi is in the middle of a photo shoot, then she has about 10 hair appointments lined up. Davis- location unknown," she sighed. "Where's everyone else you called?"

"Joe is on one end of the hospital performing a surgery. Izzy and Yolei are on the other end."

"Oh… shhhhhhhoooot…" Kari changed her choice of words as Brianna walked into the room. "Naka-Bri," she used her nickname to get her attention, "we're in the middle of a near crisis here… I'm sorry… but we're going to be doing a lot of running around, and might loose track of time. Just tell us if we're ignoring you or *anything*, ok?"

"I know Ma-ma. Just one question… why are Karyn and I the only ones who aren't Digidestined?"

"Oh, Naka-chan…" Kari bit her lip, "I'm so sorry honey… I don't know why, but if there was anything, I mean *anything* that your father and I could do about it, we'd make sure you would be right there alongside your friends. But maybe it's for the best… it can be dangerous…" Kari struggled to comfort her.

"I know, Ma-ma. It's just kinda weird… I'm nine… Re'i and Kori are eight… they're destined and I'm not… oh well…" she walked away quietly.

"Takeru-chan," Kari whispered.

"I know… she's so much like you… but I seem to remember someone else who was like her at that age…" Kari gave him a questioning look. "The twins. Brianna will be just fine… you'll see."

"I hope so… but right now, there's something else I'm worried about," she said as she heard the quiet beeping of her D3.

"Oh…?" he said, looking at his own old digivice. His eyes got wide as dozens of dots flashed randomly across the screen.

"Us…" she whispered, watching a Parrotmon fly by then vanish.

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"Hey! Watch it, dad just bought that computer last week!"

"Yeah? Well…" Lyra complained moving the CPU to the floor, "this is what Keiji taught us to do, and we're doin' it."

"Dani… can you grab us an extension cord?" Keli sat furiously typing in some code.

"Niru, does this thing have an infrared link? Otherwise we need to go online." Jared asked.

"I don't see one," Aaron said from behind the desk

"Oye… fabulous. Well, what' the password?" Keli said, poised to type it in

"*I'll* type it." Niru replied bluntly.

Utter chaos was breaking out in the Ichijoujis' living room. Never tell three Kamiyas, two Ishidas, and a Kido to set up a computer. The results can be more frightening then telling the entire Izumi family that they are free to do the same thing.

"Chad… pass me the Winbook (no I don't own them in general but we have a couple around here… that a good enough disclaimer?) I've gotta put up the page again," Kylie Marie snagged the laptop from her brother.

Throughout all of this, the younger members of the Digidestined stood in disbelief of the idea that any of their non-Keiji friends, except maybe Kylie Marie, knew how to do anything with a computer other than chat and play solitaire… Yet now they were practically creating a new Digi-port.

"Site loaded, KM?"

"Ready."

"Alright… www3…" she mumbled to herself, reciting the page that Keiji had created for emergency purposes only. No one had expected to have this be an emergency, but the moment their mom had left the house in a panic, the Kamiya kids has hurried over to the meeting, and everyone else had not been far behind, thanks to Jennifer. With one exception.

"It's 2:15… Jen-ko, where did you say she was?" Lyra growled

"Erika is at a photo shoot with her mother."

"Typical… we're in the middle of a digital crisis and she's off getting her hair done," Jared complained as he checked his D-watch hoping for a clue to her location. (dang just me or is he succeeding in turning into dad?)

"And where," KM mumbled, "Is this photo shoot?"

Jennifer gulped. "Nagasaki…" Everyone sighed.

"It's up! Okay… click this… group password… got it!" Keli exclaimed.

Everyone's attention was immediately returned to the screen. Keli hit the enter button one last time. The screen flashed twice, then a doorway appeared in the middle of the room. "Bingo," Doki commented, preparing to step through.

"Who said that? You? Alright, which prize do you want?" Aaron joked. He was received by the standard hit on the head that Lyra always gave him when he did something stupid. "Okay, fine. Let's just go already.

Next Chapter: We'll Find the Answer

Ok, so that wasn't quite as long as the last one… but still, um… what was I gonna say? Oh well… If I may add another note, although I know you're sick of them, next chapter we start having battles… so now its gonna be a triple genre… geesh… well, review please!