The Legacy

Part 4

A Reunion

By Hikari Roivas

Zeke sensed that there was a strange presence in the dark shadows that surrounded the outlaw's home. Casually claiming to just want to stretch, he wandered over toward where he thought the person was hiding.and suddenly jumped forward in time to grab hold of someone's throat! The person gagged, flailing his arms wildly.
Groggily, Jaina looked up. She thought she heard a struggling noise. Suddenly she saw Zeke locked in a death-grip with a figure in the shadows! She gasped. Chris looked up and jumped to his feet, running over to Zeke to help with the intruder. He was just about to strike at the figure's face.when suddenly the figure fell backwards onto the ground, it's, no, HIS face becoming illuminated in the dim firelight. Chris gasped.
"Yama-chan!"

T.K. looked up. He couldn't sleep. What if the bad person that Matt called brother came back? He was getting scared. So T.K. did what any frightened, inhumanely-cute 8 year-old with a brave older brother would do.
He went to sleep in his brother's room.
There was only one small problem. Matt wasn't in his room. Nor was he in the kitchen, having a little glass of milk. Nor was he catching some early morning T.V either. T.K. started to get scared. What if the bad person had already got Matt? He ran to tell his mother.

"Matt! What the friggin' hell are you doing here? At this time and place? On this side of the tracks?" Chris was just as much angry that his brother had obviously found his home as he was worried for his brother's well-being. He helped Matt off the ground, looking him over to make sure that he wasn't bleeding or anything.
Jacen walked cautiously up to Chris and Matt. God, he thought, why do they look so much alike? Jacen stared at Matt for awhile, then turned his attention to Chris.
"Chris."
"Yes, my dear friend Jacen?"
"A question, if you will?"
"But of course."
"Who the hell is this?"
Chris grimaced. He had been blatantly hoping that Jacen wouldn't ask that one particular question. But, oh well, it was now or never.
"My family, I want you to meet my twin brother: Matt Ishida."

"Momma!" Ms. Takashi groaned as T.K. tried in vain to rouse his mother from her slumber. "Momma! You need to get up right now!"
"Oh T.K.," Ms. Takashi said as she slowly sat up in bed. "What happened? Did you have a bad dream?"
T.K. was momentarily startled. How was it that his mom was so smart as to know what had happen?
"Yes Momma. I did."
"Then just go back to sleep, my sweet angel. Dreams can't hurt you."
Okay, so she didn't know everything.
"Momma!"
"What is it, T.K.?"
"It's not the dream that is scaring me.it's just that my dream came true."
Nancy smiled softly to herself.
"Well now, Mr. Takashi, what exactly happened?"
"I dreamed that Matt got taken away by the bad person who sent Daddy away and when I woke up to go lay down with Matt he was gone!"
Nancy froze, a horrible thought coming to her. She knew who she thought T.K. was referring to as "the bad person", but that would mean that.
"Oh my God! Matt's gone looking for his brother!"

"Your twin brother!" Jaina asked in shock as Chris embraced Matt. With a quiet smirk, Theresa stepped forward.
"He's mine!"
Matt blushed. "Sorry, but I belong to my J-chan only."
Jacen looked strangely at Matt. "How do you know my sister? And what do you mean by you "belong" to her?"
Matt frowned. "Your sister?"
Jacen gestured toward his sister. "Jaina."
Matt smiled and even chuckled a little bit. "No, not that J, my J- chan, Jesanae."
Chris smiled. "Oh now you got yourself a girlfriend."
Matt looked at him. "Yeah I've been in love with her since the Digiworld."
Chris frowned. "Pardon my ignorance, but.WHAT THE HELL IS THE DIGIWORLD?"
Matt laughed out loud. "I'll explain later. Right now, Chris-kum, I want you to come home with me. I lost you twice before; I don't want to lose you again."
Chris said. "Matt, either Jaina and the other three come with us or else I'm not going."
Matt smiled. "Fine then. I'll get Mom to somehow let them all stay with us."

And finally, after almost eight years of separation, the twin brothers walked home; one with his new-found friends; the other with his true love and his family.

To be concluded.