AUTHOR'S NOTES: Wow. I haven't written in a really long time. For those nice people that actually want to read my story, I'm really sorry! I'll get back to work and try to finish this story as soon as possible.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Digimon at all. If I did, I wouldn't be writing fanfics, I'd be writing the actual show.

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THE THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE – PART 5

By: Heero

FOR LOVE OF TAI – SORA

SORA'S POV

I was really scared when Izzy called. He was so frantic that he was talking nonsense. I've never seen him like this. I decided that the best thing for me to do was to go to him and try to calm him down. I tried asking him where he was, but he just kept alternating between talking gibberish and gasping, so I decided that that would be useless. I thought he would probably either be at home or at the school's computer lab, but I didn't want to take the time to go to each. It would take too much time and Izzy sounded desperate. Like I already said, I had never seen Izzy act this way before and I didn't know what he might do. No, I couldn't take the chance. He could hurt himself or even hurt someone else.

Rather than take that risk, I decided to check my Digivice. It hasn't always helped me when I needed it to, but hey, it couldn't hurt right? I got it out and started to concentrate really hard on Izzy. I thought about how frantic he sounded and just about him in general. Like the way he's our Digi-genius, and without his technical help and logical mind, we would've been in serious trouble.

At first it didn't respond and I got rather frantic and scared myself. What if not only Izzy was in trouble?? He would never get so hysterical over any little thing. It must be a really big dilemma. Maybe the younger Digidestined have all been captured. Or the school has found out about the Digimon and are calling our parents and telling them. Oh no! I decided that it would be better to get some help. I could call another one of the Digidestined! I'm almost positive Izzy won't notice that I've hung up on him for a long while. I mean, he has been blabbering on by himself and hasn't listened to a word I've said.

Now I just had to decide which of the Digidestined to call. I think I had better call

one of the older Digidestined. I shouldn't worry any of the younger ones. They aren't old enough to handle whatever could affect Izzy like this. Izzy has the most presence of mind of anyone that I know. No, I had better call one of the original Digidestined. Usually, in this kind of situation, the first person to come to my mind would be Tai, but he has been under so much stress lately. I really don't want to worry him anymore.

Agumon has been taken prisoner by the shudder Digimon Emperor. I know any of us would have been really worried if our partners had been captured, but Tai seems to share a stronger bond with Agumon than any of us will ever share with our partners. Trust me on this. I'm the child of Love and can sense the ties between Tai and Agumon. Agumon is like his brother. A brother that doesn't look like him and isn't even of the same species, but is a brother nonetheless. They are best friends as well as partners. They understand each other so much. That's why Tai has been acting unlike himself these days.

Tai is our leader, but this time, I can't go to him for help. I care about him too much to worry him. I have known Tai ever since we were little. We used to play soccer together. We have always been the best of friends. Then, after going to the Digital World, I found out that I cared about him as more than a friend. Tai has always been nice, friendly, and funny. That is why I liked him so much as a friend. But in the Digital World, I found out how brave and caring he really is. He would risk his own life for the sake of others. Now I realize that I must have loved him ever since we were little, but it took me all that time to discover it.

Although I care for him as more than a friend and wish we could be more than friends, I am perfectly happy to be his best friend if that is all he wants. I will ALWAYS be his best friend. Whoops, speaking of friends, Izzy still needs my help. T.K. and Kari are part of the original Digidestined, but they still are pretty young. Mimi is in America, so I can't call her. Joe already worries enough over nothing at all. He would probably have a nervous breakdown when confronted with whatever is bothering Izzy. That leaves Matt.

Matt, he's perfect! He's cool and collected, so he isn't likely to go into a panic. I just hope that he is at home. He could be at band practice, but then again, he could be at home. I'll just have to hang up on Izzy and hope he doesn't notice I'm not on the phone with him until I actually find him. Okay, now to cross my fingers for good luck and call Matt. The phone is ringing: once, twice, three times.

I started to give up hope and was just about to hang up when I heard Matt's voice on the line. I could have jumped with joy, but I didn't. Instead, I filled Matt in on what the problem was. He agreed on the fact that we had to find Izzy and fast. He would eventually stop talking and realize that there wasn't anyone on the phone with him. Then, who knew what he would do?! But we still didn't know where Izzy was and we didn't know how to find him.

Correction, I didn't know where to find him, but Matt did. He quickly explained his idea to me. We could call Izzy's house and if it was busy, that meant that Izzy was at home and if his mom or dad picked the phone up, we could ask them where Izzy had gone. That was a pretty good idea except for the fact that if it was busy, we wouldn't be sure whether or not it was Izzy on the phone or his parents. We still decided to give it a try. It was the best plan we had at this point. I would call Izzy's home and Matt would try to locate Izzy with his Digivice. Maybe he would be able to get his Digivice to work where I hadn't been able to.

It turned out that we both found out where Izzy was at the same time. Izzy's mother picked up the phone and said that Izzy wasn't at home because he was at the school computer lab. When I found that out, I said a rather short goodbye to Mrs. Izumi and hung up so fast I felt bad for being so rude. But Matt's Digivice had also pointed us towards the computer lab and we were in a hurry to find Izzy. Matt and I ran all the way to the school and made it there in record time. We probably beat a world record, we were so anxious to make sure everything was okay.

It turned out everything wasn't okay. Izzy was in the computer lab, still talking as fast and incoherently as before, only now there wasn't anyone listening on the other end of the phone. He didn't notice us and we were too much in shock to be able to say anything. On the computer screen was an image of the Digimon Emperor practically molesting Tai. He was kissing him and touching him. And Tai wasn't doing anything about it, even though he didn't look all that happy to be with the Kaiser. This wasn't anything like I had expected. This was much, much worse.

END OF CHAPTER 5

END OF SORA'S POV

AUTHOR'S NOTES: YAY!! My fic is slowly progressing. I'll try and write more frequently, even though very few people are actually reading my fic. =( sniff sniff. Oh well. I like writing it and now that it's the summer, I can write more!!

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* The next chapter will be in Matt's POV