Your Heart will Lead You Home
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon, if I did I would be rich and I would not have to deal with you people, JOKE! Anyway, I also do not own the song "Your Heart will Lead You Home." Kenny Loggins does. Ok also this is my first attempt at a songfic, so don't flame me too bad
Sunny days, and starry nights, and lazy afternoons. You're countin' castles in the clouds, and hum little tunes.
It had been a great summer. Kari and TK were now offically dating, much to Davis's dismay. They hadn't really spent much time with the other DD. Most of their days were spent on top of a beautiful flower covered hill in the Digital World, watching the clouds. Sometimes they would even stay there until nightfall, and they would count the stars until they both fell asleep, right there on the hillside. When such night was spent like this, and when they returned life wasn't as sweet as they had imagined it. Kari came home, and discovered that her parents were getting divorced in a week so that her father could marry the woman that he had been cheating with for the past five years. In one instant every security Kari had was lost, and not being able to deal with the stress, she disappeared.
But somehow right before your eyes, the summer fades away. Everything is different, everything has changed.
~~Tai
"We STILL haven't found her, Matt. STILL!" Tai screamed over the phone as he fell down on his sofa, exhausted.
"I'm sure Kari will show up, she doesn't seem like the runaway type to me."
"That's what WORRIES me! I can't see her running away. I think she's been kidnapped."
"Tai, don't get yourself all worked up, I'm positive that she will show up. I AM!" Matt exclaimed. He was busy cooking dinner for his dad, and nearly burned his hand on the stove as he slammed it down in aggravation.
"Tai, TK is here, I'll call you tomorrow. And for the last time, I am sure she is fine. It was really hard for her when your parents got divorced."
"I know, I'll see you at school tomorrow." Tai sighed heavily, and hung up the phone. He walked slowly into his little sister's room, and sat down on her bed. "Where did you go Kari? We tore the Digital World apart, and the police have been searching for you here for a week. Where would you go?" Tai hadn't slept more than 3 hours a night in the past week, and due to utter exhaustion he fell into a deep sleep on his sister's bed. His mother didn't even wake him for school the next morning.
'He's been so worried lately, I'll just let him sleep." Miss Yagami thought as she walked into the kitchen to cook the usual breakfast. She always cooked the same thing in the morning, to try and give Tai a better sense of normalacy. She was very glad that Matt and Tai were best friends. She figured that Matt would help Tai get through the divorce, but she never thought her daughter, her PERFECT daughter, would run away. 'Maybe I'll just take Tai in late today. He probably needs to be with Matt anyway.' She thought.
~~TK
TK was also having problems with Kari's disappearance. He couldn't figure out why she would leave him. He figured she would at least tell him where she was going, wouldn't she? He couldn't even talk to Matt about what he was going through. At least the person Matt liked hadn't run away from home. TK sat in his bathroom and washed his face for the 5th time that morning.
"You're going to be late TK." He said alloud as he glanced in the mirror. "Another lovely day at school, without Kari. Great." He whispered sarcastically as he left his apartment to go and meet Yolei and Cody.
~~ Kari
Kari awoke suddenly that morning. She had already been gone a week, she knew that, but she wasn't sure if it was the right time to go home yet. Everything had changed over the summer. How could she be expected to go back to that? She knew that her world had been shot into darkness, and without any hope for the future, her light had gone out as well, leaving her nothing to get out of the place that she had been thrown into. She felt as though she couldn't turn to anyone for help. She got up slowly, and looked around the forest. Just through the brush lay the hill where she and TK had spent so much time. She sighed sadly, and turned her back on the hill. She quickly leapt onto a nearby branch and laid down there, taking a moment to balance herself. She looked through the thick branches to the clouds above, and smiled when she saw one that looked like TK.
~~ At school
Many of the kids had heard about Kari Yagami's disappearance from the news. Many of these kids knew that it was best to stay away from the people she was close to. Most of them either looked very worried, or really angry. TK sat alone at lunch in order to get his thoughts together. When Ken came over and sat next to him he saw that TK was writing a song for Kari.
"Sing it." Ken said softly as he set his tray on the table.
"I'm no musician, that's Matt. Besides, it's just the chorus." TK said as he closed his notebook.
"Sing it anyway." Ken said, or rather ordered, as he looked sternly into the broken hearted youth's eyes. TK, giving in to Ken's famous stare, (called the stare of doom by the other DD) opened his notebook to the page that it had been on previously. He began to sing, in a quiet, low alto voice…
If you feel lost, and on your own, and far from home. You're never alone, you know. Just think of your friends, the ones who care, they all will be waitin' there, with love to share. And your heart will lead you home.
TK stopped and looked at his friend. He almost considered Ken his best friend, since they had both gone through similar experiences with their brothers. TK could talk to Ken, almost as much as he could talk to Kari, and without her there, there truly was no one else for him to turn to.
"See, I think you did that better than Matt ever could." Ken said as he looked over the rest of the lyrics for the song.
"Why is that?" TK asked as he picked up a half of his sandwich.
"Because it came from your heart, and that is the most beautiful music of all. If you want to sit with us tomorrow, I'm sure Yolei would be happy. She is getting a little bit annoyed with Davis." Ken smiled as he stood. He gave TK a slight nod, and sat down with Davis, Yolei, Cody, and Izzy, who for some reason now had the same lunch as them.
'Maybe tomorrow…' TK thought as he finished his lunch and went to class.