Always Left Out
Chapter 3: The Reason Why
By Salamon2
Salamon2: For those of you asking for some action in this story... here's where it really begins... the other two chapters are just to setup the story, this is where things begin, and it starts turning Dark after this point, here is the pivotal point, the turning point, the climax is coming... I can sense it! Anyway I think I have a pretty good idea of how to end the story, but I'm not positive yet on how to do it...
Salamon: He can't make up his mind yet on which ending to put on... are we winding down yet?
Salamon2: As you can tell she can't wait for this story to be over with... no, it depends on how this chapter goes, and which ending I choose, there's a short way to end it, end it the next chapter, or to end it in another four or five chapters.
Salamon: Anyway, to quicken the pace... Salamon2 doesn't own Digimon.
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The wind rustled, as Matt waited for T.K. at his apartment, figuring that their mom had told him to not touch the answering machine. He knocked on the apartment door, but found that it opened, he entered the dark apartment and saw on the floor two large puddles of soy sauce, and his computer on, D3 not where it usually was, and the whole place just totally abandoned.
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"Do you think he'll show?" asked Tai as he and Izzy were being directed by Sora on how high to put to the banner saying: Happy Birthday Takeru.
"I think so, after all he wouldn't be so blind to think that Matt taking him to the park wouldn't mean something was up" said Mimi, who had come back from America, for the weekend.
Kari had been in silence since Monday, and Davis, had no idea what was wrong with her. He walked to the lonely tree she was under.
"Hey Kari..." said Davis and Kari sighed and said hello in response.
"What's wrong?" asked Davis.
"I... I... can't say..." said Kari turning her head away from Davis, who sat down on the bench next to her.
"Come on, you can say anything to me Kari, and it can't be that bad..." said Davis hoping it wasn't anything on a certain subject.
"I know why T.K. isn't here... and personally I can't blame him..." started Kari
"How do you know?" asked Davis and Kari sighed.
"Do you remember last week when we had that New Digidestined meeting?" asked Kari
"Yeah..." said Davis
~*~Flashback~*~
"I'm bored... hey want to make up a game to play until T.K. comes?" asked Cody
"Sure... how about we roll Uppamon to someone and the last person who had it has to pick a person for the person they send it to... to..." started Yolei
"To say something bad about them... if it isn't good then... they get pegged by my... uh... marbles (pulling out a bag of marbles)" said Davis and Uppamon did not like the sound of the game.
"I don't know..." said Kari
"That sounds kind of malicious..." said Ken
"O come on, it's only a game, what could happen, and let's change it to a pillow, because I don't want to be sued for throwing a marble into someone's eye... And if you don't want to be play, go and be bored..." And the game began, only Cody and Uppamon refused to play unless they first made fun of Davis, which everyone agreed to. So they critiqued Davis, Joe, and Mimi. Then moving to, Yolei, Cody, Kari, Tai, Sora, and Ken; playfully teasing each other, or committing foreplay. By the time it came to Kari's turn the whole group had gone from cautious to joking with the game.
(Salamon2's Note: Okay I know, Davis is not that malice but later in the chapter he will make apologies... I promise, you can consider this a low point on Davis at the moment, or a lack of thought on mine)
"Hey Kari... it's your turn!" said Davis, grabbing Uppamon and rolling him at Kari and shouting T.K. as her person to say something bad about.
"Well... alright I'll play, but only on the ground that nothing I say counts in reality..." said Kari with a dizzy Uppamon in her hands
"That's what we've been doing since the beginning..." said Tai and the others nodded in agreement.
"Just go... after you, this insensitive game is over!" said Ken
"Okay... well T.K. always does protect me a bit too much... I mean the occasional is okay, but every time... I mean... I can take care of myself..." said Kari who then aimed Uppamon for Cody.
"That's too weak..." said Davis, too caught up in the game to care who it was, just wanting something better than that to end this 'cheery' game with. Really Davis didn't care about the game, it's just that someone said something bad about him... and he wanted fair treatment to all mentioned in the game.
"Alright... what can I say about my bro... when he was younger he always cried a lot... was what you could call a cry baby... and he was always my shadow..." said Matt.
"You could never lose him..." said Sora
"Um... I can't think of anything..." said Tai
"Neither can I..." said Yolei
"That's it, the game is over... I have to get going myself..." said Ken, gladly getting up and grabbing Minomon and almost dashing out the door, but before Ken left.
"Guys... I'm sorry for doing this... really..." said Davis, out of the blue, surprising everyone, Ken nearly dropped Minomon
Tai sighed and then said "We all have our low points..." who then paused and then said "You just happen to have nothing but them..." said Tai jokingly, and then Ken left.
"Hey!" said Davis
"Apology accepted... right guys?" asked Sora
"Yep..." said the rest of the group.
"Kari, don't stay too long studying..." said Tai getting up.
"I better get going before Jun gets here..." said Matt leaving Davis' apartment with Tai, and Sora. Yolei and Cody said Good Bye and also left.
"Alright... let's get studying..." said Davis
"Davis..." said Kari, pulling out her Math book.
"Yeah..." said Davis
"What do you think will be on this test?" asked Kari
"I don't know... I'm totally confounded by Logarithms... I don't know how to do them at all... if only T.K. was here then he could help us..." said Davis hitting his head on the floor. Then he looked up and said "Kari, I'm sorry for making you guys play that stupid game... I don't even know why I did it, honestly..." he said with all honest sincerity.
Kari sighed and then said "We all have our low points..." said Kari who then said "You just happen to have nothing but them..." said Kari jokingly.
"Hey! I try to be serious and apologize for my actions, and you turn it into round two!" said Davis
"I'm sorry Davis... really... you're right... we should get to work on some practice problems..." said Kari.
~*~End Flashback~*~
"You don't mean T.K. over heard that... wait, how did you find out?" asked Davis questioningly
"When I went to his apartment to see if he was home I ran across his Journal... I don't know why I read it... I knew it was wrong, and yet I still read it!" said Kari starting to cry knowing it was all her fault, her fault for agreeing to play the stupid game, her fault for saying what she said.
"Look, I already apologize to the group, maybe if we find T.K. and all of us apologize then maybe everything will be alright..." said Davis hopefully. Then Kari saw that he was just trying to help, and nodded. And the two got up and went to tell the others; maybe T.K. might show up at that moment.
"Guys, we've got something to tell you guys..." said Davis, and all came into the center.
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"T.K., please, tell me why you're avoiding the others..." said Patamon to the teen, and finally T.K. turned around, Patamon could see him fighting back the tears, as though it was the most painful memory that he could think of.
"When I went to that meeting... I came to Davis' room, which was cracked open slightly and I heard them say...
~*~Flashback~*~
"T.K. always does protect me a bit too much... I mean the occasional is okay, but every time... I mean... I can take care of myself..." said Kari
"That's too weak..." said Davis
"Alright... what can I say about my bro... when he was younger he always cried a lot... was what you could call a cry baby... and he was always my shadow..." said Matt.
"You could never lose him..." said Sora
And with that said, T.K. turned around and headed for a place far away from Davis' apartment.
~*~End Flashback~*~
"My Gosh!" said Patamon, not believing his ears (well wings...).
"Yes... I can't believe it, all these years I've fought side by side with them... and to actually hear what they think of me... even my own brother... people I've trusted for so long... and thought were my friends..." said T.K. who at that point broke into tears, he had only once felt this type of betrayal, and that was when it turned out DemiDevimon had made it all up for his own reasons; but now knowing that the words were not from a second source, or an outside party, but directly from the horse's mouth, he couldn't help but feel as thought he had been lied to his entire life. T.K. was now crying on Patamon's, now dirty, fur. Patamon did nothing but try and comfort his partner. T.K. now laid on the desert sand, Patamon at T.K.'s head, and the sun beating down upon them both, but Patamon not caring the least bit. Right now his partner needed help, and if it was being a shoulder (well stomach... or pillow...) to cry on, so be it.
From a rock not too far off a skeleton's claw grasped it and a skull watched the two, as well as a BlackGatomon, and Devimon.
"Now that our master has separated him from the others, let us take him with the new power our Lord has given us..." said the skeleton Digimon who then, out of a bag he carried took out three balls of energy and gave two to the two Digimon next to him and then they Digivolved.
To Be Continued...
