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Looking Back
Chapter 2
Yet again these pages call to me. Their blankness aches to be filled with my words. So, I will begin with the epic story of our lives. I guess I will start with where the cartoon left off. It didn't show you much about what happened immediately after the sacrifice of Oikawa. That was an important point in all of our lives. His sacrifice taught us all that we had something to believe in, something to look forward to. And we had to work and believe in ourselves to attain that dream. It wasn't going to be easy, but we could make it through. But, I'm sure you want to know what happened.
Immediately after her gave up his life to promote the harmony and beauty of the digital world we were all standing there in awe. I had tears streaming down my face, so moved by his sacrifice was I. We regained our composure as Tai yelled out, "Never forget what he has done for us all." A cheer went up amongst the digidestined from all over the world.
"Sora, Sora!" Mimi screamed at me. She had run down to me where I was standing and hugged me.
"Oh Mimi, I have missed you so much. There is so much to tell you." I told her
"Well, I have a suprise for you." She said, "My parents want to bring you to New York for the summer next year. If that's okay with you."
I hugged her, "That would be wonderful. It'll be just like old times."
She ran off then as Izzy told her that he was opening the New York gate. I waved at Michael and her as they went back to the real world. I felt a pair of arms circle me from behind and gasped as I turned, expecting to see Matt, but instead saw Yuri. "Ummm, hi Yuri." I knew that he couldn't understand me but he smiled down at me and did the oddest thing. He kissed me. I blinked in suprise and he said in his native tongue, "Bli npekpachlin coe cmejilih coe iinphacoght. Bhaht B iipoiiljiam." He shook Izzy's hand as Izzy blinked at him after watching the exchange and waved and winked at me as he went back to Russia.
I looked at Izzy and blushed at his stare. He motioned for me to look up and I saw both Matt and Tai glaring at Yuri as he went into the portal. This was not good. I turned towards where Davis and the others were and Yolei ran up to me.
"Sora, was that as good as it looked." She asked me
I blushed redder again, "It was okay, I guess. But not as good as my Matt." I winked up at Matt just to ensure him that everything was okay. But he frowned at Izzy. Like it was Izzy's fault! Slowly the groups of people began to make their way out of the digital world. Izzy sent the children back to Japan and their homes.
We all gathered around Gennai, wanting to know the question that was on the tip of all of our minds. It was Kari that asked him, "Gennai, after we leave, will we be able to return here?"
Gennai smiled at us and said, "Yes, since he was so willing to sacrifice his life, you may all return whenever you like. Even you original digidestined will now be able to open a digiport when you want to come here." We all smiled with relief and took turns hugging him and our digimon.
"Please hurry back soon, Sora." Biyomon said to me. Then she winked and went to the other digimon.
"I will, I promise!" I said to Biyomon. I ran up to the group and Matt put an arm around me. This was right, being with him. I knew that. But things had been so hectic that we really hadn't been able to have a good talk about us and where we were. Tai looked at us with the pained expression he always had when he saw us together. My heart went out to him, but there wasn't anything that I could do. We were all transported back to the real world and were all in Izzy's apartment.
Tai regained his composure and said, "I am tired and I am sure that our parents are all worried about us. So I say we discuss all of this Monday after school. Remember, we have to start school back then. Meet at the park then!" He ran out the door and the rest of us had no choice but to follow suit. Matt offered to walk me home but I told him I would make it fine on my own. I kissed him on the cheek like I always did and he ran off after Tk to check on their mom. I went my own way home to see my parents.
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It was to be three days before I saw or heard from anyone from our group. This worried me, not to hear from Matt, but I knew that we all needed time with our families to recuperate before school. I walked into the school on Monday morning and walked to my locker. Everyone at school seemed non too enthused to be there today. I was among their ranks. I knew that one of my hardest semesters lay ahead and I was ready to go ahead and get it over with. I took out my books for my first class and then looked for the others. Even though we had spent all the break together, I missed them, especially Matt.
It was Joe and Izzy that I saw first. "Hey guys," I said as I walked up to them.
Joe hugged me and then Izzy and I smiled. "You ready to hit the real world again?"
Izzy grinned and Joe said, "Well I only have one more semester left and then I'm done with high school."
"Where are you planning on going to college?" Izzy asked him.
Joe blushed and said, "Well, I was thinking some where in the United States."
I laughed and replied, "You wouldn't want to be heading somewhere near New York, now would you?"
Joe blushed a deeper red as Izzy and I laughed. "What's so funny?" a voice said as an arm slipped around my waist and pulled me towards it.
It was Matt and my heart started to beat a million times a second. "We were just kidding Joe about where he was going to college at next year." Izzy replied.
"Let me guess," Matt said, "New York?"
Joe turned so red that he looked like a tomato and we all laughed. The bell rang and we all blinked in anticipation for the upcoming day ahead of us. We waved our good-bye's and Matt and I walked to our first class together. We had History with Tai this period and we sat in our usual places.
Our classmates had noticed that Matt and I had walked in together, arm in arm, and I received a few death glares from some of the girls in the room. I noticed that some of the guys were doing the same to Matt. He slipped his hand in mine and squeezed it as Tai came running into the room, late as usual.
He took his seat on the other side of me and I leaned over and whispered, "Did Kari hit the off button instead of the snooze button again?"
He just grinned in reply as our teacher began the welcoming back to our second semester of our junior year.
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We all met at the park, as usual, as soon as school was out. Matt and I were a little late because I had to explain to my tennis coach that I couldn't make it to practice today. When we walked up everyone else was there.
Tai glared at Matt and said, "Well now that we can all get started."
"It was my fault we're late, Tai." I said to him, not wanting a fight between the two.
Tai just stared and then composed himself. "Well, I think that if you want to go the digital world, then you need to have a buddy or a partner. No one goes alone, that includes you Ken." He directed the last comment at the blue haired younger boy. Everyone agreed and we decided that if we were going to the digital world then we would email everyone else to tell them. Izzy had set us all up with D-terminals so that we could all be in contact when needed. We continued to reflect on everything that had happened.
It was when Izzy asked his question that the conversation became strained. "Are we going to try and keep up contact with the other digidestined around the world?"
Automatically everyone looked at me, after what had happened with Yuri. I blushed and said, "Well, we will always have contact with Mimi. I guess we could keep up a certain communication with the others."
Yolei piped up, "I think that we should each keep up a constant communication with the countries that we went to. That way there won't be any confusion." She winked at me and I groaned inwardly. This was not helping things.
Matt spoke up, "I think that we should just have an email based relationship with them. If they have any problems with anything, then they can contact Izzy. They got along fine before we met them, and I'm sure they'll be fine now." He had that determined look on his face that said, 'Don't argue with me'. So we all agreed.
We broke the meeting up and went our separate ways. It was awhile before I saw a lot of them, I mean sure, I occasionally saw Joe and Izzy at school. Matt, Tai, and I all had a class together. I saw Matt all of the time as we went out more and more and got closer and closer. But, it just wasn't the same. Things were too hectic for us. Matt had his band, Joe his studies, Tai had soccer, Izzy had his computers, and I had tennis. It was even harder for us to get to see the younger digidestined.
It was two months before we were all together again. Tai was proposing that we all spend a week in the digital world, just for old times. But, it seemed as if everyone was too busy over the summer. We couldn't all agree on what week. It was then that Matt and I changed our relationship.
"Sora, I need to tell you something." Matt said as he was walking me home that night. The school year was almost over and we were both going to be seniors the next year. We had all planned a huge blowout for Joe's graduation. He was, after all, the first digidestined to graduate from high school.
I smiled up at Matt, "Yes."
"I'm leaving for the summer. The band is going on tour and I think it would be best if you and I broke it off for awhile."
My smile faded and I looked at him, "I don't understand. But, I love you Matt. You know that I do."
He frowned and looked away, "I love you too, I love everything about you. But, neither of us has ever had another relationship. I can't ever see me liking anyone else or loving them. But, I want you to be sure. I don't want you to feel like you were missing out on something."
"But, I know I'm not missing out on anything, Matt."
"What about Tai?" He said and I stopped. "I know that you will always wonder if you and he were destined to be together. I've seen the way that he looks at you. He feels the same way I do about you. I feel that I owe it to him to dive you two a try."
This made me angry, "So your just gonna pass your girlfriend around to everyone whom you think I might belong with when you know that I belong with you!"
"Sora, don't look at it that way."
"Matt, you've made it clear. You don't think that we belong together and your making up this damn excuse to try and break it off with me."
"No... its not like that at all."
"I can tell what is going on. Well, don't trouble yourself anymore, Matt Ishida. I am going away for the summer too. Don't bother to talk to me again."
I ran away with tears falling from my eyes. It hurt so much to tell him not to talk to me again. I loved him. But, this was clearly what he wanted. I glanced back at him to see tears streaming down his face, also. I ran harder away from him.
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I spent that summer with Mimi in New York. I didn't see any of the other digidestined, except her and Joe, who moved to New York to attend NYU. They started to see each other. He became a freshman in college and she was starting her junior year of high school. The summer passed in a blur, and I dated a lot of guys, but none of them meant the same to me as Matt. I did receive some letters from the others during the summer, but no one told me anything about Matt. I said my good-byes to Mimi in August and made my way home.
I had changed. My hair was a little longer, and I had grown over the summer. I had finally matured. Matt had pushed me to it. There was still the ever present ache in my heart for him, but I had moved past him, or so I thought.
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My first day of school, senior year, was going to be great. I had put on my uniform and walked to school, like all the years past. But, this year was different. This year I was going to graduate. This year was also different because Tk, Kari, and all the others were finally in high school with us, except Cody. So we were going to rule the school - well Tai, Matt, and I would anyway.
I walked in and stood in line to get my schedule. After retrieving it I heard someone yelling my name. "Sora! Over here!" I saw Tk, Kari, Davis, Ken, Yolei, Izzy, and Tai all standing in a group. I ran over and hugged and kissed them all on the cheeks.
"I missed you guys." I said to them and I assured them that I had gifts for them all. Tai was the last one I got to and he picked me up and swung me around.
He breathed in my ear, " I have something to tell you, but it can wait."
Curious, I looked up at him and he winked. So I shrugged and said, "Well, we better start
heading to class now." I turned towards my first class and wasn't paying attention to where I was going. I bumped into someone and was on the floor.
As I looked up to apologize, my words caught in my throat. It was Matt. "Ummm, Matt hi." I blushed as he offered a hand to help me up with. "How was your summer."
He looked at me with those killer blue eyes and my legs faltered again. He caught me in his arms and I was pressed up against him. "It was okay, but it was missing something, or rather someone." He answered me. The bell was what pulled me from his arms as I smiled and turned to leave.
"I have to go to class now, Matt. See you later." I left him standing in the hall, staring after me.
A/N ~ Well, what do you think? Please review! Oh, and I added something to A very Digi-Christmas so go and reread it! Thanks!
Looking Back
Chapter 2
Yet again these pages call to me. Their blankness aches to be filled with my words. So, I will begin with the epic story of our lives. I guess I will start with where the cartoon left off. It didn't show you much about what happened immediately after the sacrifice of Oikawa. That was an important point in all of our lives. His sacrifice taught us all that we had something to believe in, something to look forward to. And we had to work and believe in ourselves to attain that dream. It wasn't going to be easy, but we could make it through. But, I'm sure you want to know what happened.
Immediately after her gave up his life to promote the harmony and beauty of the digital world we were all standing there in awe. I had tears streaming down my face, so moved by his sacrifice was I. We regained our composure as Tai yelled out, "Never forget what he has done for us all." A cheer went up amongst the digidestined from all over the world.
"Sora, Sora!" Mimi screamed at me. She had run down to me where I was standing and hugged me.
"Oh Mimi, I have missed you so much. There is so much to tell you." I told her
"Well, I have a suprise for you." She said, "My parents want to bring you to New York for the summer next year. If that's okay with you."
I hugged her, "That would be wonderful. It'll be just like old times."
She ran off then as Izzy told her that he was opening the New York gate. I waved at Michael and her as they went back to the real world. I felt a pair of arms circle me from behind and gasped as I turned, expecting to see Matt, but instead saw Yuri. "Ummm, hi Yuri." I knew that he couldn't understand me but he smiled down at me and did the oddest thing. He kissed me. I blinked in suprise and he said in his native tongue, "Bli npekpachlin coe cmejilih coe iinphacoght. Bhaht B iipoiiljiam." He shook Izzy's hand as Izzy blinked at him after watching the exchange and waved and winked at me as he went back to Russia.
I looked at Izzy and blushed at his stare. He motioned for me to look up and I saw both Matt and Tai glaring at Yuri as he went into the portal. This was not good. I turned towards where Davis and the others were and Yolei ran up to me.
"Sora, was that as good as it looked." She asked me
I blushed redder again, "It was okay, I guess. But not as good as my Matt." I winked up at Matt just to ensure him that everything was okay. But he frowned at Izzy. Like it was Izzy's fault! Slowly the groups of people began to make their way out of the digital world. Izzy sent the children back to Japan and their homes.
We all gathered around Gennai, wanting to know the question that was on the tip of all of our minds. It was Kari that asked him, "Gennai, after we leave, will we be able to return here?"
Gennai smiled at us and said, "Yes, since he was so willing to sacrifice his life, you may all return whenever you like. Even you original digidestined will now be able to open a digiport when you want to come here." We all smiled with relief and took turns hugging him and our digimon.
"Please hurry back soon, Sora." Biyomon said to me. Then she winked and went to the other digimon.
"I will, I promise!" I said to Biyomon. I ran up to the group and Matt put an arm around me. This was right, being with him. I knew that. But things had been so hectic that we really hadn't been able to have a good talk about us and where we were. Tai looked at us with the pained expression he always had when he saw us together. My heart went out to him, but there wasn't anything that I could do. We were all transported back to the real world and were all in Izzy's apartment.
Tai regained his composure and said, "I am tired and I am sure that our parents are all worried about us. So I say we discuss all of this Monday after school. Remember, we have to start school back then. Meet at the park then!" He ran out the door and the rest of us had no choice but to follow suit. Matt offered to walk me home but I told him I would make it fine on my own. I kissed him on the cheek like I always did and he ran off after Tk to check on their mom. I went my own way home to see my parents.
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It was to be three days before I saw or heard from anyone from our group. This worried me, not to hear from Matt, but I knew that we all needed time with our families to recuperate before school. I walked into the school on Monday morning and walked to my locker. Everyone at school seemed non too enthused to be there today. I was among their ranks. I knew that one of my hardest semesters lay ahead and I was ready to go ahead and get it over with. I took out my books for my first class and then looked for the others. Even though we had spent all the break together, I missed them, especially Matt.
It was Joe and Izzy that I saw first. "Hey guys," I said as I walked up to them.
Joe hugged me and then Izzy and I smiled. "You ready to hit the real world again?"
Izzy grinned and Joe said, "Well I only have one more semester left and then I'm done with high school."
"Where are you planning on going to college?" Izzy asked him.
Joe blushed and said, "Well, I was thinking some where in the United States."
I laughed and replied, "You wouldn't want to be heading somewhere near New York, now would you?"
Joe blushed a deeper red as Izzy and I laughed. "What's so funny?" a voice said as an arm slipped around my waist and pulled me towards it.
It was Matt and my heart started to beat a million times a second. "We were just kidding Joe about where he was going to college at next year." Izzy replied.
"Let me guess," Matt said, "New York?"
Joe turned so red that he looked like a tomato and we all laughed. The bell rang and we all blinked in anticipation for the upcoming day ahead of us. We waved our good-bye's and Matt and I walked to our first class together. We had History with Tai this period and we sat in our usual places.
Our classmates had noticed that Matt and I had walked in together, arm in arm, and I received a few death glares from some of the girls in the room. I noticed that some of the guys were doing the same to Matt. He slipped his hand in mine and squeezed it as Tai came running into the room, late as usual.
He took his seat on the other side of me and I leaned over and whispered, "Did Kari hit the off button instead of the snooze button again?"
He just grinned in reply as our teacher began the welcoming back to our second semester of our junior year.
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We all met at the park, as usual, as soon as school was out. Matt and I were a little late because I had to explain to my tennis coach that I couldn't make it to practice today. When we walked up everyone else was there.
Tai glared at Matt and said, "Well now that we can all get started."
"It was my fault we're late, Tai." I said to him, not wanting a fight between the two.
Tai just stared and then composed himself. "Well, I think that if you want to go the digital world, then you need to have a buddy or a partner. No one goes alone, that includes you Ken." He directed the last comment at the blue haired younger boy. Everyone agreed and we decided that if we were going to the digital world then we would email everyone else to tell them. Izzy had set us all up with D-terminals so that we could all be in contact when needed. We continued to reflect on everything that had happened.
It was when Izzy asked his question that the conversation became strained. "Are we going to try and keep up contact with the other digidestined around the world?"
Automatically everyone looked at me, after what had happened with Yuri. I blushed and said, "Well, we will always have contact with Mimi. I guess we could keep up a certain communication with the others."
Yolei piped up, "I think that we should each keep up a constant communication with the countries that we went to. That way there won't be any confusion." She winked at me and I groaned inwardly. This was not helping things.
Matt spoke up, "I think that we should just have an email based relationship with them. If they have any problems with anything, then they can contact Izzy. They got along fine before we met them, and I'm sure they'll be fine now." He had that determined look on his face that said, 'Don't argue with me'. So we all agreed.
We broke the meeting up and went our separate ways. It was awhile before I saw a lot of them, I mean sure, I occasionally saw Joe and Izzy at school. Matt, Tai, and I all had a class together. I saw Matt all of the time as we went out more and more and got closer and closer. But, it just wasn't the same. Things were too hectic for us. Matt had his band, Joe his studies, Tai had soccer, Izzy had his computers, and I had tennis. It was even harder for us to get to see the younger digidestined.
It was two months before we were all together again. Tai was proposing that we all spend a week in the digital world, just for old times. But, it seemed as if everyone was too busy over the summer. We couldn't all agree on what week. It was then that Matt and I changed our relationship.
"Sora, I need to tell you something." Matt said as he was walking me home that night. The school year was almost over and we were both going to be seniors the next year. We had all planned a huge blowout for Joe's graduation. He was, after all, the first digidestined to graduate from high school.
I smiled up at Matt, "Yes."
"I'm leaving for the summer. The band is going on tour and I think it would be best if you and I broke it off for awhile."
My smile faded and I looked at him, "I don't understand. But, I love you Matt. You know that I do."
He frowned and looked away, "I love you too, I love everything about you. But, neither of us has ever had another relationship. I can't ever see me liking anyone else or loving them. But, I want you to be sure. I don't want you to feel like you were missing out on something."
"But, I know I'm not missing out on anything, Matt."
"What about Tai?" He said and I stopped. "I know that you will always wonder if you and he were destined to be together. I've seen the way that he looks at you. He feels the same way I do about you. I feel that I owe it to him to dive you two a try."
This made me angry, "So your just gonna pass your girlfriend around to everyone whom you think I might belong with when you know that I belong with you!"
"Sora, don't look at it that way."
"Matt, you've made it clear. You don't think that we belong together and your making up this damn excuse to try and break it off with me."
"No... its not like that at all."
"I can tell what is going on. Well, don't trouble yourself anymore, Matt Ishida. I am going away for the summer too. Don't bother to talk to me again."
I ran away with tears falling from my eyes. It hurt so much to tell him not to talk to me again. I loved him. But, this was clearly what he wanted. I glanced back at him to see tears streaming down his face, also. I ran harder away from him.
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I spent that summer with Mimi in New York. I didn't see any of the other digidestined, except her and Joe, who moved to New York to attend NYU. They started to see each other. He became a freshman in college and she was starting her junior year of high school. The summer passed in a blur, and I dated a lot of guys, but none of them meant the same to me as Matt. I did receive some letters from the others during the summer, but no one told me anything about Matt. I said my good-byes to Mimi in August and made my way home.
I had changed. My hair was a little longer, and I had grown over the summer. I had finally matured. Matt had pushed me to it. There was still the ever present ache in my heart for him, but I had moved past him, or so I thought.
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My first day of school, senior year, was going to be great. I had put on my uniform and walked to school, like all the years past. But, this year was different. This year I was going to graduate. This year was also different because Tk, Kari, and all the others were finally in high school with us, except Cody. So we were going to rule the school - well Tai, Matt, and I would anyway.
I walked in and stood in line to get my schedule. After retrieving it I heard someone yelling my name. "Sora! Over here!" I saw Tk, Kari, Davis, Ken, Yolei, Izzy, and Tai all standing in a group. I ran over and hugged and kissed them all on the cheeks.
"I missed you guys." I said to them and I assured them that I had gifts for them all. Tai was the last one I got to and he picked me up and swung me around.
He breathed in my ear, " I have something to tell you, but it can wait."
Curious, I looked up at him and he winked. So I shrugged and said, "Well, we better start
heading to class now." I turned towards my first class and wasn't paying attention to where I was going. I bumped into someone and was on the floor.
As I looked up to apologize, my words caught in my throat. It was Matt. "Ummm, Matt hi." I blushed as he offered a hand to help me up with. "How was your summer."
He looked at me with those killer blue eyes and my legs faltered again. He caught me in his arms and I was pressed up against him. "It was okay, but it was missing something, or rather someone." He answered me. The bell was what pulled me from his arms as I smiled and turned to leave.
"I have to go to class now, Matt. See you later." I left him standing in the hall, staring after me.
A/N ~ Well, what do you think? Please review! Oh, and I added something to A very Digi-Christmas so go and reread it! Thanks!