Spirit Hawk: Ok, here I go again. Let's see here, Kari runs away bcause she want to prove to everyone she knew that she doesn't need them to protect her, yeah that sounds like this. I hope this turns out as good as my past Digimon stories, so read and review.

"C'mon Mom, does Kari have to hang around me at the concert next week." 18 year old Tai Kamiya complained. "She's your sister and she should be watching out for her." his mother said back. "Why do I have to when all of her friends are going to be there. Matt doesn't have to watch T.K." Tai muttered. "That's because he's performing." mother shot back. "Now be quiet so Kari doesn't hear you from her room." The warning came too late, for Kari had heard everything.

"Why does everyone think they have to take care of me!" Kari cried into her pillow. "I can take care of myself." Suddenly a smile crept on to her face. (Why not get even with them? I'm old enough to take care of myself.) She thought. She quietly packed her bag, now all she had to do was wait for the right time for her plan to fall into place. She wrote a note to remind her to get all her money and a plane ticket out of the country.

The next day after school, Kari took a slight detour home. She stopped by a travel agent and got a ticket to get her to California. Kari got the ticket but, she had to convince the agent is was suppose to be for her brother as a graduation gift.(a/n: If you don't believe that, just go with the flow here.) When she got home her mother was screaming at her for being late from getting home from school. Kari just shrugged it off and her mother thought that was unusual for her. There was no fighting, no 'I'm sorry mom, I won't take so long again.', nothing but a shrug of the shoulders and 'Whatever you say mom.'.

Kari slammed her door closed as she entered her room. Kari was still angry at what Tai said the other night about her. She wrote her brother a note:

Dear Tai,

You must be wondering why I writing you and not Mom and Dad. I'm writing to you because you can probably relate to what I have to say. Maybe it's because of what you said about me not being able to survive on my own without you or Mom or Dad. Any case, I'm running away because everyone thinks that I need their help.

I expect that you guys might look for me, but I'm telling you it isn't going to be easy. Naturally first thing you'll do is look in the Digital World. Well, go ahead, but you'll find nothing because I ain't going to be there. I may be back someday, but probably not since I pretty much hate you guys now except Mom and Dad.

It's your fault Tai, I ran away because of what you say about me behind my back. I'll e-mail our parents sometimes, maybe. Thank Izzy for giving me his old laptop computer, you know the one with the original Digimon files on it. It's getting late and I probably should get some sleep, tomorrow's a big day for me

So long, jack ass

Kari Kamiya

Kari then folded the piece of paper and inserted into an envelope and went to bed. Tai woke her up and was rushing her to get ready to school. Tai looked at the clock and noticed that he was going to be late. He tried to get Kari to hurry up. "Why do I have to hurry? I'm not the one late for school." Kari complained. Tai totally forgot that she didn't have class first thing in the morning. "I gotta go, don't be late for school and don't get lost on the way there." Tai said as he rushed out the door.

Kari slipped into her room angrily and emerged with the envelope and the bag she packed the night before. She slipped the note on the table, with her keys on top and left the apartment for the last time. Kari arrived at the airport, trying to find her plane she runs into a girl her age. "Watch where you're going, ok?" the girl said politely to Kari. "Sorry, just trying to find my flight." Kari said. "Where are you going?" the girl asked. "I'm going to California, where are you going?" Kari asked. "Same place as you, I'm running away from my family" she said. "Cool, I'm running away too. What's you're name?" Kari asked.

"I'm Alexis, but everyone calls me either Alex or Ali. What's your name?" she asked. "My name is Hikari, but everyone calls me Kari. "I propose that after we leave here, we stick together and be friends." Alexis said as she dragged Kari towards the plane. "Ok, friend, where are we going after we get there." Kari smirked. " I dunno, but it's going to be one hell of a journey!" Alexis exclaimed as they got on the plane.

Spirit Hawk: *sweatdrops* I think I may have been a little too hard on Tai, but hey Kari is supposed to be mad....no downright pissed off at him. This will set the story up, because if you think what Kari did to Tai was utterly wrong, hehe then you're not going like what happens in the aftermath of Kari's disappearance in the next chapter.