Da Capo (From the Beginning)

-Meeko Melodie

Meeko: Hi, I'm sorry I didn't update for so long, the homework load is huge and I mean it! Anyways, just to answer someone's question, the title: Da Capo means well, it means, from the beginning, just as it had said beside it. And I'll say this again: Digimon doesn't belong to me, so lawyers, just get away from me!! I only own Ryuko Ishida and Ellison Black. Oh and there's going to be a little swearing here and there.

Chapter 4: An Unexpected Reunion

"Well, Izumi, this is your room," Ms. Goldsmith said to the blond hair girl kindly, leading her into the room.

"Thank you," Izumi said, smiling weakly. Ms. Goldsmith closed the door behind her and Izumi put her things down and threw herself on the bed. She was really tired from the long journey and remembering Kouji in the silence; she couldn't help but wondered what Kouji was doing at this very moment. Would he be hanging out with another girl in England? Or would he be just thinking about her just as what she was doing right now?

Izumi lied on her back and stared at the ceiling. Maybe he had decided to forget about her two years ago, Izumi thought to herself dully. Just as she was still pondering, the doorknob was turned and in came a girl.

"Hey," the girl greeted Izumi brightly, giving her a warm smile, "you must be a new student." Izumi nodded shyly. The girl is about Izumi's height, she had hazel colored hair which she tied them in two French braids, chocolate brown eyes which shined brightly through the excitement of a new room mate and she was wearing a yellow short sleeve t-shirt matched with a pair of faded blue jeans.

"I'm Ellison Black," the girl introduced herself, "just call me Elli."

"Hi, Elli," Izumi greeted her, "I'm Izumi Orimoto. It's nice to meet you."

"Same here," Elli replied with a smile, "you know, it's pretty rare that parents would sent their kids to some foreign school at their last year in high school." At the mention of her parents, Izumi answered miserably, "It's not my parents."

"But," Elli was confused.

"My parents died in a car crash three days ago," Izumi explained with tint of tears in her eyes.

"Oh," Elli said, dropping her smile," I'm sorry."

"That's ok," Izumi said, wiping her tears with the back of her hand.

"Do you have a boyfriend?" Elli asked brightly, trying to change the topic. But instead, it back fired.

"Used to," Izumi replied simply.

"What happened?" Elli asked kindly.

"He left for England to study," Izumi explained as plainly as she could, "he promised he'll come back. But he didn't." And once again, her emerald eyes were soaked in tears. Elli didn't know what to do. It seemed that everything that she said made her new room mate cry.

"He promised," Izumi repeated, tears were dropping on her bed spread.

"Come on," Elli said, trying to comfort her, patting her back," I'll take you to a place where you'll see lots of guys better than he is." Izumi didn't really feel like going but she didn't want to disappoint Elli so she decided to check out the place.

Meanwhile. . .

"Kouji," a voice called out," plug that red wire in the hole on the speaker. Kouji did as he was told and said, "Thanks, Ryo. What would I do with this guitar without your professional help?"

"No problem," Ryo said, grinning, as he was trying to plug his own electric keyboard in the gym.

"Are you sure we can use the gym as our practice room?" Kouji asked uncertainly.

"Sure," Ryo answered, "Besides, in ten minutes, I'll bet there'll be at least 20 people in here."

"How come?" Kouji asked.

"Because," Ryo said, still trying to figure which wire he should plug," Screw this wire. Anyways, because there are at least 10 bands in this school."

"Wow," Kouji exclaimed," I'm impressed."

"Don't be," Ryo said, finally plugged the right wire, "believe me, ninety percent of them are amateurs." He stood up and sat on the stool and started to play and adjust the sounds.

The oak doors opened and in came three teenaged boys and one girl. One of the boys who had flaming red hair wrapped his arm around the girl, who had overly make-up on her face. The other two guys were like body guards; they were big and muscular and were standing on each side of the pair.

"Well, well, well," the flaming red haired boy said, smirking, "if it isn't the little piano player Ryo Akiyama and his little friend." His girl friend laughed in a high note.

"And what do you want?" Kouji said roughly, giving the group a cold stare.

"Who are you?" the red head asked, still smirking as if Kouji was a joke.

"It's none of your fucking business," Kouji snapped, "is it?"

"Akiyama," the boy addressed Ryo," you should teach your friend here to have some manners."

"Why you. . ." Kouji was ready to pound on him but Ryo stopped him and whispered," don't." Kouji stopped.

"Just leave us alone, Joshua," Ryo retorted.

"Fine," Joshua replied, turning to go but he stopped and said," By the way, are you going to Battle of the Bands?" He was asking Ryo.

"Of course I am," Ryo replied cooly.

"Ha," Joshua laughed out loud, "then prepared to lose, kid." With that, he and his group walked to another area to plug up their instruments, laughing on their way.

"Who are they?" Kouji asked, watching Joshua's group distastefully.

"Joshua Li, that's the red head," Ryo explained, "Chris Johnson and Ian Nishikawa are his so call body guards and the bitch Joshua is with is Jocelyn Clarkson."

"Is she really a bitch?" Kouji asked, joking.

"Sure she is," Ryo said and explained in disgust," she sleeps with every guy she could find in school and even on the street." Kouji was speechless for a second then he said slowly, "She didn't. . .you didn't. . ."

"Of course I didn't," Ryo exclaimed, "Jesus, Kouji! Do you think I'm that kind of person?" He pretended to sound hurt.

"She's not exactly what I called pretty either," Ryo said, shaking his head in revulsion and continued," she looks more like an over make up Barbie doll than an actual person." Kouji had to agree to that.

"But what is that Battle of the Bands Joshua was talking about?" Kouji asked.

"It's a competition between bands," Ryo told Kouji," it happens every year but. . ." He hesitated.

"But what?" Kouji wanted to know.

"We need three or more people to enter the competition," Ryo said at last. The boys were silent for some moments.

"Oh well, "Ryo shrugged his care-free shrug," we can worry about that later. Right now, let's rock this place!"

Back to Izumi and Elli. . .

"Where are you taking me?" Izumi wanted to know.

"Just come with me," Elli said, pulling Izumi with her. But as Izumi was being pulled, she bumped into a girl.

"Sorry," Izumi apologized to the girl. She didn't say anything but Elli's smile grew wider.

"Ryuko!" Elli exclaimed.

"Hey, Elli," the girl replied quite calmly. She had long, jet black hair that she tied in a high pony tail, a pair of cold, stormy grey eyes and really pale skin. She was wearing a black top with a skull in the middle, a pair of black flare jeans and white runners.

"Izumi, this is Ryuko Ishida," Elli introduced, "and Ryuko, this is Izumi Orimoto, my new room mate."

"Hi," Izumi said to Ryuko. But Ryuko just merely nodded.

"Where are you guys going?" Ryuko asked Elli.

"Checking out some guys in the gym," Elli said, grinning, "Coming?" Ryuko laughed out bitterly and said, "Sure." The girls walk down the corridor and as they drew near the gym, they could hear people talking, guitar chords slamming and drums throbbing. Elli reached for the handle of the doors and pushed it open. What Izumi saw next made her almost faint.

About thirty people were playing electric instruments at the same time, each in a little group of their own. The noises were unbearable. The three girls walked through the people, covering their ears helplessly. They walked through the little groups of people, with Elli leading the two towards the end of the gym.

"Ryo Akiyama!" Elli yelled, although other noises might have already blocked her voice so she yelled louder, running towards her friend.

"Akiyama!" Elli bellowed again and this time, Ryo heard someone calling his name and looked up.

"Hey, Elli," Ryo called back, waving his hands in an overly excited way (if you know what I mean).

"What's up?" Ryo asked loudly so that Elli could hear him better, and at the same time wrapping his arms around Elli's shoulders with exaggeration. Izumi wondered if they were a couple.

"Can you get your hands off me already?" Elli asked, giggling, "Someone might get the wrong idea." Ryo smiled mischievously but obediently put his hand back down.

"Who might get the wrong idea?" Ryo asked, grinning down at Elli. Then he spotted Izumi and Ryuko, "and who are these two beauties?" During this entire introduction, Kouji was bending his head down, trying to fix the wires.
"Wait," Ryo said, remembering, "I know you." He was looking at Izumi. "You're Izumi Orimoto!" Izumi nodded and gave him a smile.
"I remember you too," Izumi said, "you're the guy in the party two years ago." Ryo was shocked to know that she still remembered who he was.
Then Ryo turned his gaze on the other girl. She looked so different from the rest of them out there: cold, so lonely, such gorgeous features. . .

Ryo walked towards Ryuko and she was eyeing him suspiciously. She suddenly felt a hand groping her back side. . . "Pervert!" she screamed, her face suddenly turned a dark crimson. Ryuko then turned around and hit Ryo on to the ground.

"Ow. . ." Ryo wined, massaging his face where Ryuko had slapped him.

"Serves you right, pervert," Ryuko muttered, looking down on the floor, her cheeks still burning.

"When will you ever learn, my dear friend?" Elli patted Ryo's shoulder in pretend sober. Izumi just giggled nervously. "Hey," Elli said, suddenly remembered something, "where is your friend, Kouji?" (Meeko: I know, I know. You're wondering how Elli know Kouji, right? Well, I decided to skip some parts and she had already met Kouji the day before.)

"Kouji?" Izumi's heart was beating fast. How could it be? No, no, it was probably a different person. Yes, that must be it! Izumi shook her head to get all her thought out of herself.

"He's over there," Ryo said, still with one hand on his face and the other pointing at a blue-haired figure. Elli walked over to Kouji and slapped him on the shoulders.

"Hey, Kouji," Elli said cheerfully.

"Oh, hi Ellison," Kouji said, his head snapped back up from the guitar, smiling a little.

"I want to introduce you to someone," Elli said, pulling him towards the group, "and by the way, can you stop calling me Ellison? It really bugs me."

"Sure, I'll try," Kouji grinned but he stopped his grin right in the air when he caught a glimpse who he was going to meet. Standing right in front of him was Izumi, still unchanged, with the golden blond hair, the smile, the beautiful sea green eyes. . .

Izumi, who at the moment, was staring in front of her, her heart had stopped beating all together and was disbelieved. Is this a dream? She asked herself. Standing there tall and straight was the boy she was thinking about all the time, the boy she had dreamt to meet after two years of depart.

Their eyes had locked to each other's and Izumi was the first to recover from the shock and break the eye contact. Izumi looked down at the floor, murmured something about having a headache and tried to head out the gym door. The others were puzzled at Izumi's actions, only Ryo and Kouji understood. Kouji put down his guitar quickly and ran out.

"Izumi," Kouji shouted, pushing through the crowds. Either she couldn't hear him from all the racket in the gym or she just decided to ignore him, Izumi continued her way towards the door.

"Izumi, wait," Kouji shouted his voice hoarse and he had headed out the door, still following Izumi.

"Izumi," Kouji repeated as he caught up with her in the hallway, which at the moment was empty. Kouji took Izumi's wrist and force her to turn around to face him.

"Listen to me," Kouji said, roughly, still grabbing onto her wrist as she tried to wriggle out of the way. "Just hear me out!" Kouji shouted and Izumi froze at the spot.

Kouji's expression softened as he loosened his grab on Izumi and tilted her chin up towards him. Izumi looked into his dark blue eyes with confusion and, and fear. . . Kouji sensed that and was puzzled why she suddenly felt confused and scared towards him.

Meeko: Yup, that's the chapter! See? I told you I'm going to do Kouzumi on chapter four! Ha!