The Greatest of These is Love.... (6)

By:LaurasPoetryCorner

Disclaimer: I don't own digimon but I'd sure love to!

Sora gained her consciousness. Sora tried put her hand to her head. Her hands were tied behind her back. "Where am I?"

"You know where this is." Neerin said harshly.

"The....digital world!" Sora said amazed. " But how?"

"I've got that weird device too."

"A Digivice!"

"Why did you take me here? Why did you knock me out?"

"It's my job to take you to the master."

"I thought that you were my friend, Neerin." Sora said sadly.

"You were easy to fool."

"You didn't even care? "

"Look, if I didn't have to do this, then I wouldn't. My mom's and my lifes depend on this. I wanted to really be your friend, but you wouldn't understand. I can't be my enemy's friend."

"I guess not." Sora retorted.

Neerin kissed Sora softly on the lips. Sora turned her face madly. Neerin moved her head back to his view. "It'll be alright in the end. I promise. "

"Why me?" Sora said as a tear slipped down her cheek.

Neerin turned to the side."My master wants you because you're the holder of the crest of Love. You're stronger than all the other digidestined, Sora. You hold the love of both worlds. You're special, that's why he wants you."

"So you're going to let him take me." Sora said angered.

"You know the story I told you, about my cousin?"

"Yeh, what about it?"

"It's not true."

"So you lied about that too hunh?"Sora said madly.

"No, I didn't really lie. The only thing is, I'm the cousin and my dad's the abuser."

"You mean, your dad abuses your mom?" Sora lightened her tone.

Neerin nodded.

Sora looked to the floor. "I'm sorry." Sora said in sympathy.

All of the sudden Neerin was behind Sora. She felt the ropes on her hands loosen until they fell to the floor.

Sora looked at Neerin.

"I know you're mad at me. I brought a knife." Neerin handed the knife to Sora. "If you want to kill me, kill me. Get it over with. I want to die right now. At least it will make my dad and you happy."



Sora shook her head. "I'm not killing anyone." Sora threw the knife as far away as she could. "I hope that you make the right choices. Remember, no matter what you do, I'm still your friend."

"I'm still taking you to my boss. I need to. I'm sorry. " Neerin took the rope and tied her hands loosely. This time, to the front of her.

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"Tai, is Sora at your house?" Mrs. Takenouchi said worriedly.

"No, why?"

"She hasn't come home yet. I've called everyone, I just don't where she is. You were my last hope."

" It's really late. You mean she's not there?" Tai asked.

"It's eleven o'clock. She wouldn't stay that long without telling me. I'm so worried. Well, tell her if you see her." Mrs. Takenouchi said even more shook up then the last time.

"Bye." Tai hung up the phone. He sat there trying to make sense of what he was told.

"What did she say Tai?" Kari asked.

Tai turned his to his sister slowly. "Sora's missing."

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"Munetoshi, have you seen Neerin?" Mrs. Kanimasa asked hysterically." He's never been this late."

"What do I care, let him go where he wants. One less mouth to feed. " Neerin's father mumbled.

Hatsue sat in the corner trying to control her worry. She bit the side of her nail. Her husband didn't even care. " It's just because he's still drunk, he cares for our son. Where could he be? He had been acting a little strange and remorse, but who wouldn't with a drunk father and a mother who can't be there for him?" Mrs. Kanimasa said to herself.

Hatsue got up slowly and walked to the phone. "I'm calling the police."

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"Calm down honey, we'll find out what happened. Maybe she's at the station. " Mr. Takenouchi said as they parked in the police station's parking lot.

"If anyone did anything to her, if they did anything at all....." Sora's mom said in a shaky voice.

"Calm down sweetheart."

Mrs. Takenouchi pulled open the doors of the station and walked inside. "My daughter's missing, please help."

"We'll need some information on your daughter ma'am."The officer told her.

" Sora Takenouchi, age sixteen, brown crimson eyes, auburn hair, and about 5'4. She was last seen at her school, Odaiba High school. " Mr. Takenouchi told the officer.

"Please," Mrs. Takenouchi begged. " She's a good girl, she's not the type to run away. Someone took her. We need her back."

"Calm down ma'am. We'll do as much as we can to find her." The police man shook Mr. Takenouchi's hand. " I'm Tayoi Tanaka."

"Mr. Tanaka, sir, my wife is a little shook up right now. Could you assure her a little better. I'm trying to keep my sanity and I think I'm losing it. She's our only child. We don't want to lose our daughter again. "

"Again Sir? Has she run away from home or done anything of the manner before?"

"No, no." Mr. Takenouchi took a breath. "Do you remember the incident that happened a couple of years ago? The thing that took place at Highton View Terrace? Where there was a hole in the sky?"

"Yes, I was there..patrolling." The officer answered.

"Do you remember the kids that went up on that rainbow portal? The one with the helmet..."

"Yeah. She's the one that had that heart thing on her necklace right? She was a cutie, she used to help my son when he was in kindergarten."

"That was our daughter. We almost lost her, we don't want to lose her again." Mrs. Takenouchi told him.

Officer Tanaka looked into both of the parent's eyes. "We'll do all we can.....she saved us, we'll save her...."

Mr. Takenouchi bowed slightly. "Thank you."

Mr. Takenouchi put his hand on his wife's as he took a seat beside her. He gave her a weak assuring smile. He looked at his wife, her face was streaked with tears and her face full of worry. His own face was pale from nervousness and inside his heart he cried, trying to help his wife be strong at such a dilemma. Mr Takenouchi took a glance at his watch. It was two thirty in the morning.

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"Please let me go. Our son is missing!" Hatsue begged.

"You are lying, you set this up, you want to turn me in for my drinking woman. I won't let you go." Mr. Kanimasa said angrily.

"I won't turn you in, I won't. I just want to make sure that our son is back home. Don't you care at all, Munetoshi?" Mrs. Kanimasa pleaded with her husband.

"I said no!" Munetoshi shoved his wife to the wall.

Hatsue thought of what she would do. She knew what she was about to do was wrong, but she needed her son. She thought about some of the money she had hid. She would never give all of it, but she had to give some. "Munetoshi, If you let me go, I'll give you the money I found in the couch. Fifty Zen, enough for you to get your alcohol....the only money I have left. "

Mr. Kanimasa's head agreed to the deal, his hunger for the thing that made him abuse. What he thought, made his life a lot happier.

"I'll let you go, but if you tell them anything about me, I'll kill you. And if your son ever tells anything, I'll kill him too. "

"Thank you." Mrs. Kanimasa handed him the money.

He took the money and gave his wife a crooked kiss." No, thank you...." He smiled at his cash.

Hatsue grabbed her mostly empty purse and ran out the door before her husband could change her mind. She opened the car door and drove with haste. All she could think about was getting her son back, unlike her husband.

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~LaurasPoetryCorner