Family History

Author's note: So sorry that this chapter took so long to get out. I had work for the last three days. Alright, here is the plan. I'm not going to kill Matt, which means, this is not the last chapter. Unfortunately, this chapter doesn't have Matt in it. That will be in the next chapter. But, I'm going to my cousins graduation on Wednesday, and when I get back on Saturday, I have to work. So I can't update till next Monday. But I promise to update as soon as possible. Well anyways, enjoy this chapter, and please review.

Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon

Part Nine: The Public's Response and a New Ally.

Kouji yawned while he laid his head back on Izumi's desk. Izumi giggled softly while her slender hands began to play with her husbands black hair. "Tired?" Izumi asked softly leaning her head down till her forehead was resting on top of his. Kouji let off a small grunt opening one of his dark blue eyes, to stare at the teacher who was now sitting at his desk grading papers. Izumi left off another giggle before her emerald green eyes wandered over toward the television set. Having to take high school over again was something that nobody really wanted to do, but it was a perfect way to keep an eye on the digidestineds, so it was back to books. But government was by far the worst class, when the teacher decided to do any teaching. Most of the time, the teacher would just put on the news, and allowed the students to do almost anything. He said something about it being important for students to remain alert on current events, but Kouji knew it was just because the old man was lazy.

"Anything good on?" Kouji mumbled moaning at the soft touch of Izumi's fingers across the tender spot on his neck.

"Not really, they're just talking about the stock market right now," Izumi said stopping when a special report flashed across the screen. "Wait Kouji, there something new," Izumi whispered watching the report with sudden interest.

"This just in, an hour ago, a small private plane crashed in the mountains not too far from Odaiba. The cause for the crash is still unknown…"

Kouji rolled his eyes, and would have put his head back on the desk, if Takuya wasn't gazing at the report with a pale look. "Hey Takuya, what's up?" Kouji asked looking over at his best friend.

"I'm not sure, but something doesn't feel right," Takuya pointed out without taking his gaze off of the screen. Kouji gave off a defeated sigh before he turned back to the screen.

"There were no survivors. It was determined that the pilot died on impact, and the rest of the passengers died shortly after from a fire. The bodies are still trying to be recovered..."

Kouji just stared at the screen while a picture of the scene was shown. It looked terrible. The plane was still burning, but a few rescuers were able to pull out one of the charred remains of the passengers. "Oh my gosh, that is so disgusting," Izumi mumbled causing Kouji to chuckle a little bit, but a moment later, the small bit of humor that Kouji might have had was covered with a sudden dread. The camera zoomed out enough to show the area around the crash, and off to one side, Kouji was able to make out the shuddering form of his grandson. He sat up horrified. His dark blue eyes narrowed into tiny slits, while he studied his grandson's face. Izumi's hand rested on his shoulder, telling Kouji that she had noticed the same thing. Reaching up, Kouji grasped her hand and squeezed it. Silently, the two of them waited for the bad news that they knew was coming.

"One of the victims was the up and coming rock star, Yamato Ishida..."

Kouji felt Izumi's hand squeeze against his at the news, while the horrified gasps filled the room. Kouji bowed his head, before he rouse it to gaze at the reactions of the class. It didn't help that most of the class was filled with the digidestineds. The older kids had waited till their last year to take this class, so that they could take it with the younger kids. But that only meant that all of them were present to hear the news, and none of them where taking it well. It was probably the worst way to learn such tragic news, but there was nothing he could do now.

Sora was sobbing on Tai's shoulder, while Tai had his arms wrapped around her in a death grip. Both of them had shocked and confused looks on their faces, but at the moment, Tai was just staring forward with a dead look on his face. Apparently the news hadn't completely sunk in yet.

Mimi and Yolie were hugging each other, and silently crying, but Mimi was by far the worst. She was clutching her chest, while mumbling about how they never had a chance.

Davis and Kari were cuddled together, but it was obvious that Kari was more concerned about the blonde haired boy in front of her, then her own boyfriend.

Kouji tore his gaze away from the other kids, and rested his eyes on TK. TK was staring at the television, while crystal clear tears streaked down his face. His lips were moving, but no words were forming, and his innocent soft blue eyes were open with denial and pain. Tearing his gaze away from the blonde, Kouji returned his focus to the television screen, where the news reporter was talking about how the concert stage was going to be opened at two o'clock for anybody who wanted to mourn Matt's death.

"It has been confirmed that one of the victims was the famous rock star Yamato Ishida…"

Kouji felt his fists clench in anger as the reporter continued to tell the news with no concern on how his words might be affecting the people listening. Again, Kouji's attention shifted back to his great grandson, who was slowly pulling himself out of his desk. Kouji slowly began to stand up when he felt Izumi's firm hand press down against his shoulder. Kouji turned to give her a questioning gaze when he noticed that Kari had pulled out of Davis's grasp, and was slowly making her way toward the upset teen. Kouji watched sadly as TK took off out of the room with Kari close behind him, and Davis racing after the two with a bewildered look on his face.

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Kari felt her heart throbbing painfully against her chest while she watched TK stumble down the empty hallway. "Kari, stop," Davis demanded grabbing onto the girl's wrist. Before Kari knew what she was doing, she had spun around, and her free hand had connected with Davis's face. Davis's hand released Kari's wrist instantly, while he placed a hand on the red spot that was beginning to form on his cheek. "Kari?" Davis mumbled looking at the girl in front of him with a heartbroken expression.

"Davis, I'm so sorry, but I can't do this anymore," Kari choked allowing her tears to flow freely down her face. Davis stared at her for a moment before he pulled the girl into a hug.

"I know Kari, I know. I knew all along, but I still hoped, still wished that I might have been wrong, I'm so sorry, I never should have forced you into this relationship when it is so obvious that your heart was elsewhere. Go to him, he needs you," Davis said squeezing Kari for what would be the last time they would be together as a couple. Kari pulled away, were she carefully studied the boy's face.

"Davis?" Kari said hesitantly, but Davis only brushed it aside with an encouraging shove.

"Go Kari, I'll be fine as long as we are still friends," Davis said watching as a thankful smile crossed the girl's face. Without needing any more encouragement, Kari took off down the hall toward the were she had seen TK run minutes ago.

Davis watched her go with a broken gaze. "Go to you light my love," Davis whispered before he made his way back toward the class room.

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Kari found TK sitting underneath his brother's locker while he silently held onto all of his brother's belongings with a death grip. "TK," Kari asked, hesitantly sitting down next to the boy. TK shuddered slightly before he leaned his head onto Kari's shoulder.

"It can't be Matt, he was supposed to be home resting today," TK pointed out. Kari grieved inwardly at the small hint of hope that TK was still holding onto. Whether it was because he was still in denial, or because he was hopeful about the worst situations, Kari wasn't sure, but she hoped desperately that TK's hope would be enough to make this whole tragedy just one big nightmare.

Kari's arm slowly made it's way around the boy's shoulder, while she softly murmured comforting words into the boy's ear. TK allowed the items to fall as he wrapped his arms around Kari, and clung to her desperately. For a moment the two of them remained in the embrace before Kari softly lifted TK's face until he was looking directly at her. "Common TK, let's go back to class. Everybody is probably worried about you," Kari pointed out. TK nodded rather reluctantly, but he allowed Kari to help pull him to his feet. Arms still wrapped around each other, the two of them slowly made the walk back to the classroom.

When Kari returned to the room, she noticed that the class had broken into several small groups. Many of the girls were in a group where they were silently crying and comforting each other. The other girls that had a boyfriend in this class, where currently in their boyfriend's arms, while the single guys sat alone. Many of them were silently crying, but some chose to wait until they could mourn alone. Kari's gaze shifted over toward the teacher, where she prepared to apologize for leaving class without permission. The teacher was talking on the phone with who Kari guessed was the principle, and from what she could here, the teacher was explaining the situation to the principle so that he could begin to prepare trauma control. When the teacher finally met Kari's gaze, he smiled sympathetically, and waved away her apology before she could even start. Sighing a little relieved, Kari's gaze feel on the new students. Takuya, Junpei, and Tommy were all looking around concerned and thoughtfully, with only a small hint of their grief. Kouji and Izumi had moved till Izumi was curled up against Kouji's chest, and Kouji was able to lean against his brother for some support. But as soon as Kouji saw her with TK, a look of relief crossed his face, and he turned till he was able to whisper something to his brother. Nodding, Kouchi made his way toward the teacher, and they talked silently, when they were done, the teacher scanned the room with a sympathetic look.

"Kari, TK, Davis, Yolie, Mimi, Sora, Tai, Kouji, Izumi, Takuya, Junpei, Tommy, and Kouichi, your excused for the rest of the day," the teacher announced while the new kids made their way towards the other kids mentioned. With a little bit of urging, the thirteen kids made their way out of the class room.

"Common. Lets pick up Izzy, Joe, Ken, and Cody," Takuya said taking lead of the group of kids, and leading them toward the computer lab were Izzy and Ken were currently taking their advanced computer lit class.

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The seventeen kids silently made their way toward the concert hall where the memorial for Matt was being held. Having to break the news to Izzy, Ken, Joe and Cody was probably the hardest thing Takuya ever had to do, but since Tai was in no condition to do it, and since he was the leader, it became his painful duty. Izzy and Ken had refused to believe it without some sort of proof, so the group waited while Izzy returned to the computer lab to check the news website. He came back out of the room barely able to keep the tears from flowing down his normally emotionless face, and that was all the proof Ken needed to know that this was no joke. Ken fainted into Kouichi's arms, silently mumbling about his own brother's death. They next picked up Cody, who went visibly pale, but he nodded his head in acceptance, and silently gave what little support he could toward TK. Joe's reaction was similar to Ken's but he was able to pull himself out of the faint a moment later, and was now silently following Takuya as he lead them toward the memorial.

By the time the kids had made it to the memorial, their grief was momentarily replaced by shock. Already there was a huge line of people trying to get into the concert hall, and each one of them held flowers in their hands. As soon as TK saw this, he allowed an anguished cry to escape his lips, and feel into Kari's warm embrace. The people waiting in line looked at the boy in sympathy when they realized who he was, and they silently moved aside, allowing the boy and his friends a quick entrance into the building. Nodding thankfully at the people, Takuya led the group into the building, and toward the stage. The stage had a huge pile of flowers where all of Matt fans had place their flowers down as a sign of respect. On the stage, Matt three other band members were already playing a soft melody in memory of their leader and friend. All of the band member except for TK were a year older then Matt, and had finished high school last year. They had chosen though, to take a year off before they went to college. That way they could attend college with Matt. But none of that mattered anymore, and the way their feelings were reflected in the music, everyone could feel their pain. Hundreds of fans slowly made their way to the stage, were they dropped off their flowers, and silently moved aside to the next person could pay their respect. The whole scene was sadly beautiful, and very touching. Not even TK had realized just how many lives his brother had touched through his music.

As soon as Takuya was sure that everybody had had enough time to mourn the lose of their friend, he gestured for the group to follow him. When everybody was outside, and safely out of earshot from anybody that could over hear them, Takuya looked at the group thoughtfully, and then nodded at Kouji.

"Digidestineds, I think it is time that we see Gennai. I think he should know about Matt's death before we make any plans," Takuya said sternly pulling out his red digivice. Eleven kids looked at him shocked before five other digivices joined his. In a blinding flash of light, the seventeen kids disappeared.

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Gennai stopped his pacing as soon as the kids materialized in front of him. "Is it true? Is he really dead?" Gennai demanded racing toward Takuya. Takuya nodded his head, tearing his gaze away from the digital man. "No, this can't be," Gennai mumbled looking over the saddened faces of all of the chosen children.

"What is going on here?" Cody's small voice finally asked, ending the unpleasant silence that had fallen over the group. Gennai looked over at the boy questionably before Cody's gaze headed toward Takuya.

"They, keeper of the digi egg of knowledge, are the very first digidestineds, the originals," Gennai said thankful that the small question had sparked interest into some of the other digidestineds. At least the younger ones didn't seem so grief stricken anymore.

"The original? But they are no older then Tai and the others," Davis pointed out.

"Actually, we are over a hundred years old," Takuya pointed out relived that a couple more heads had lifted up in shock at his statement.

"But how is that possible?" Yolie demanded, her curiosity had taken over the grief, but she was sad to notice that TK, Tai, and Mimi still seemed to be dead to the conversation.

"When we became digidestineds, we became legendary warriors. We actually became Digimon instead of helping a Digimon partner evolve. Because of that, our Biological makeup changed, and we ended up aging like Digimon. Which means, we don't really age at all. We stopped aging when we reached our prime, which was the age of eighteen," Tommy explained glad to note that at least the majority of the kids understood what he had said. "I guess Davis doesn't really count," Tommy thought waiting for the next question.

"So why did you come to our school?" Izzy asked.

"Because they were supposed to keep an eye on Matt, and stop him from being killed. But they did a terrible job. They would have failed a long time ago if I hadn't sent someone else to watch over him," a taunting voice said from the shadows in the trees.

"Yeah, well that person failed too, or have you not heard?" Takuya yelled feeling enraged at the fact that he was being mocked by some unknown person or Digimon.

"No, that person did not fail warrior of fire. The guardian of friendship is still alive," the voice continued, only this time it spoke firmly and held a tone that wasn't meant to be questioned.

"Who are you, show yourself!" Gennai demanded enraged that anybody could fool with their emotions with such false hope.

"Certainly," the voice said as the figure stepped out of the shadows into the light. A gasp of horror and disbelief filled the air as the group of digidestineds recognized the Digimon. Standing in front of them with a red smile painted across his face was the evil leader of the dark masters, Piedmon.

TBC.

Author's endnote: Well, how was that? I'm dying to know. And there you have it, Matt is not dead. Yeah!!!!! I should have the next part out by Tuesday at the latest. I might even get it out earlier if my cousins will let me use their internet. So keep your finger's crossed. Now before I get to my questions for this chapter, I have a small contest that I would like to explain to all of you reviewers. Are you ready? Here goes. I'm going to send my inspired pictures of Kung to my 100th reviewer, and since eight is my favorite number, a picture my 88th reviewer. I will also send a picture of Kung to my longest reviewer, and if anybody would like to see the picture I drew of TK and Kari, I can always send it to you. Just ask me in your review for my Takari pic, and leave me an e-mail address. I'll send it to you as soon as possible. Also remember that if you're my 100th or 88th reviewer, that you need to leave an e-mail address otherwise I have no way of sending it to you. The same goes for my longest review, don't forget the e-mail address. And now that that is over with, on with the questions.

Question #1: Was the whole reason why the frontier kids stopped aging confusing? (If it was, I'd like to know why. Be honest, because I need to know if it needs a little bit more explaining)

Question #2: What do you think Piedmon is up to and why? (Hint: Look at the story summary.)

Question #3: Where do you think Matt is and why? (I'm afraid your pretty much on your own for this one. All I can say is give it your best shot. Who knows, you could be right.)

Well, good luck and I hope that all of you Takari readers are happy. Sorry Daikari fans, I really feel like those two belong together, but at least Davis had some moments, right? Well anyways, have fun, and please review. ^_^