Ebacusta: Hey guys. I had a day off of school yesterday, and I worked on my other fanfiction, but today I decided that I would work on this one. Haha. I hope you enjoy it.
T.K.: Well, it's time to thank our reviewers from previous chapters. Here we go:
Lynn-MinMay
Gennai's Apprentice
digihope
saturnangel
RyshinInsha
miaow227
Endermon
m-chan16
Pikachu-dude
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Kiami Kaiba
Mazz
Animechic13
Angelz
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TakeruHikari
Botan and Kurama Lover
fruitz-kandi. Thank you.
Ebacusta: To answer RyshinInsha's question: Press it.Press it now.You know you want to.Press it.Press the darn review button!Darn you.Press it!"
YOU SHOULDN'T DO THAT IF YOU WANT PEOPLE TO REVIEW YOUR STORY."DARN YOU" IS NOT SOMETHING PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR.ARE YOU STUPID OR EXTREMELY DENSE?"
I am neither stupid nor extremely dense. Even if "Darn You" is not something most reviewers want to hear, you still reviewed it didn't you. Anyway, if I offended anyone with that incorrectly quoted statement I am sorry. I in fact said: This is your conscious speaking. You see the little blue button. Press it and wonderful things will happen. Press the button. Press it. I know what's best for you, press the button. Press The Button Now! You Know You Want To! PRESS THE BUTTON DARN IT! PRESS IT! PRESS IT NOW! YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO! PRESS IT!
But in any case, I just wanted to let you know that I did pay attention to you review, and if I offended you in anyway, I'm sorry.
Kari: dressed up like cheerleader belting out a cheer D-I-S-C-L-A-I-M-E-R! Who wants to do the disclaimer? pose
T.K.: sweatdrops Kari what are you doing?
Kari: still posing Just asking how to do the disclaimer can get really boring really fast. So anyway, who wants to do it?
Matt: I'll do it.
Kari: You have to do it in a cheer.
Matt: dressed up like a male cheerleader cheering Rah! Rah! Rah! Bash! Boom! Bah! Ebacusta doesn't own Digimon! Surprised? You Shouldn't be! pose
T.K.: sweatdrops again and is getting kind of scared Uh, Matt. What are you doing?
Matt: Just getting into it T.K. Now hurry up and start the fic. I can't keep this pose forever.
T.K.: Fic time. whispers Send for help. looks gloomily back at Kari and Matt who have now got everyone else including the author into cheerleading costumes and they are all jumping and dancing around cheering. Please...hurry...
You Could Save Me If You Really Wanted To
By ebacusta
Chapter 4
Kari made her way slowly through the halls towards the school's doors. Looking down silently at the ground she didn't notice the girl standing in her path. She bumped into the girl. Kari looked up.
The girl turned around. She had blonde hair streaked with brown and ocean blue eyes. Kari looked at her. Those eyes. Those eyes. "T.K.," she whispered.
The girl lifted Kari off the ground. "What do you know of T.K.?" she growled. Angrily, Kari was thrown into the wall. "How do you know him?"
Kari responded, "He's...He's my best friend." Kari watched the girl look her over. They froze on her neck and then dropped to her ankle and then flew back up the her arm.
"Did he give those to you?" she asked.
"Yes," Kari nodded. "He did."
"For your 17th birthday?" the girl asked.
"Yes," Kari nodded again. "By the way, I'm Hikari Yagami. But you can call me Kari. I-" She stopped. "What's wrong?" Kari asked noticing the tears welling up in the girl's eyes. "Was it something I said?"
The girl dropped to her knees as the tears began to fall.
"What's wrong?" Kari asked about to panic.
The girl opened her mouth and out fell the words, "You came back...Mom."
"Mom?" Kari asked puzzled.
"Mom," the girl said through tears. "Mommy you came back."
"You're mistaken. I'm only 17. I'm not old enough to have a 17-year-old daughter. I haven't even had that yet," Kari protested. The girl reached in her pocket and produced a small photo album. She opened it and flipped to a particular photo. She turned the book so it was facing Kari.
It was a picture of her and T.K., together, with Yolei and Ken. The girl spoke, "This is a picture of you and dad with your friends in front of the world's biggest ferris wheel in Odaiba."
"I've never been to the ferris wheel with just T.K., Yolei, and Ken before. When we were young, it was always closed down. And when we got older we got too busy to go that often, even when it was open," Kari said.
The girl flipped to another one. "This one was taken one year ago. 15 years after your adventure in the Digital World. 10 years away from how old you are now," the girl told her. Kari looked at the photo. It showed all the digidestined with their children, smiling for the entire world. She ran her fingers along the edge of the picture.
"Who's taking this picture?" Kari said.
"Matt's wife," the girl told her.
"Twenty-seven?" Kari said to herself puzzled. "Do you have an older group picture?"
The girl remained silent as she turned to another one. The picture was of the digidestined at the Zans ski slope in Shibuya. All the digidestined were clumped together holding their digimon. T.K. had one arm wrapped around Kari and the other wrapped around Yolei. Yolei and Kari were giving the peace sign with opposite hands. Patamon sat atop T.K.'s head, smiling.
Matt, Tai, and Sora stood right behind them. To Kari's right, Davis and Ken had their arms around each other. Cody stood in front of them. On Yolei's left stood Izzy, Mimi, and Joe. The girl pointed to each person moving her hand from left to right across the front row and then to the back row, ...Mimi...Joe...Matt...Tai...Sora..."
"I remember that," Kari breathed. "Last year, we all went to the Zans ski slope in Shibuya and went snowboarding." The girl nodded.
"My name is..."
Flashback
"T.K. what's your favorite name?" Kari asked.
"My favorite name for a girl is..." T.K. began.
End Flashback
Kari interrupted, "Tina. You're name is Tina."
The girl nodded surprised. "H-How did you know?" she stammered.
Kari responded, "It was T.K.'s favorite name for a girl. Mine was Satsuki. You're full name... It's Tina Satisuki Takaishi." Tina nodded astounded.
"I have a brother," Tina said.
"Named Tom Kei Takaishi," Kari said smiling, "I remember that T.K. always wanted someone he could call TKT."
"But you guys never called him Tom. It was always Kei," Tina said.
Kari interrupted her, "What do you mean came back?"
Tina's face darkened, "You and dad left me and Kei to fend for ourselves. You left us with Uncle Tai and Aunt Sora!"
"Why would I do that?" Kari exclaimed.
"Because you were being selfish! You acted like you were the only one who missed dad and when he came for you, you didn't put up a fight. You didn't care about us. Because if you cared about us you would have fought to stay alive to stay with me and Kei," Tina exploded.
Kari furrowed her brow in confusion. "Wait a minute. When who came for me?"
"The man who killed everyone else too! Including Uncle Tai, Auntie Sora, Uncle Matt, Joe, Mimi, Izzy, Mimi, and the others!" Tina yelled.
"But I...I don't understand," Kari stammered.
"You can't let it happen again!" You can't," Tina begged.
Matt looked at the scoreboard. It was half time and T.K.'s team was down by 10 points.
"T.K. isn't playing as hard as he normally does," Matt noted. Izzy nodded.
"But then again, can you blame him. I mean his best friend is missing," Mimi said. The group had a stack of multicolored papers each bearing Kari's name, photo, area, day, and time she was last seen and the phone number that was requested to be called if she was found.
Tai nodded sadly. "Yeah." The group had been somewhat melancholy since Kari had disappeared. T.K. had stopped eating completely. Matt had to encourage him to eat and even then, he only ate a bite or two. He went through vigorous exercising programs which involved early hour long sprints and plenty of sports. Sadly, Matt had reported to the group the T.K. had thrown up again earlier that morning.
"But guys," Sora started in an attempt to cheer the group up, "she'll turn up sooner or later. She'll have too."
Meanwhile, T.K. stood at the bench listening to the coach. "Takaishi, whatever else is on your mind, you better forget about it right now and devote yourself to the game!"
"Yes sir," T.K. said heavily.
"Good, Takaishi, you and Ikeda are bringing down the ball," the coach instructed. "Let's go!"
T.K. and Ikeda took their positions as did the rest of the team. Still depressed, T.K. caught the ball and brought it down the court. He looked lazily to his right and his heart gave a jump start when he saw Kari running next to him laughing. His eyes widened in shock.
"T.K. don't give up. You're the best basketball player I know. Don't give up. You have friends who love you. Don't get depressed, give it your all..." She faded away.
"T.K. watch out!" Ikeda exclaimed. T.K. snapped back to reality, just in time to dodge the oncoming defense. He stepped in and shot. Score!
Suddenly, T.K. felt rejuvenated. When the next team passed in the ball, T.K. intercepted it. In no time, T.K.'s team was back in the lead.
After the game, T.K. was bent over gathering his things when he saw Kari once again sitting next to his stuff. Kari smiled, "I knew I could count on you. Don't be depressed. I'll come back. Don't give up hope..." Once again, she faded away, leaving her voice ringing in his head.
"T.K.!" He turned around. Matt ran up to him. "Well, we're going to go hang up some more posters and then get some ice cream. Um, we weren't sure if you wanted to come along or not."
T.K. smiled wearily at him. "Actually, I'm kind of tired. I think I'll just walk home."
"I'll walk with you," Matt said lifting T.K.'s sports bag.
"You don't have too. I'll be fine," T.K. said smiling as he took his bag from Matt. "Go ahead and go with the others."
"But," Matt protested.
"Go Matt. I'll be fine. You shouldn't worry about me so much," T.K. replied. Matt slowly went back to the others casting worried glances over his shoulder as he joined the others and they left the gym.
T.K. walked out of the building slowly and somewhat tired. As he passed the huge ferris wheel, he heard the familiar laughing again. He turned around and saw Kari leaning against the fence around the ride.
"T.K., snowboarding was so much fun T.K. Thanks," Kari said. And once again she faded away.
When he got home, he removed his shoes, and dragged his stuff to his room where he dropped it on the floor and flopped on his bed.
"T.K. are you okay?" he heard a voice.
He looked up and saw Kari sitting in his desk chair. "Yeah I'm okay, I'm just tired."
"You did play very hard in your game today," she said.
"Thanks," he said.
"T.K.," she stood up.
"Yeah?" T.K. asked.
"Please don't worry about me," Kari said. "And please don't separate yourself from your friends. They care and worry about you just like I do. Now, you should go to sleep, you're probably tired. Try to get a good night's rest." And slowly she faded out of his room.
"Wait!" T.K. exclaimed. "Kari come back!" Slowly, he slipped into the waiting darkness.
T.K.'s mother stepped worriedly away from the door. Her son was starting to hear voices. Maybe the disappearance of Kari was a bit to much for him after he made that mistake.
T.K. ran out of his room into the hall.
"T.K. what is it?" his mother asked.
"The phone rang, I'll get it," he said. He picked it up.
"The phone hasn't rung at all," his mother thought.
"Hello? Hi Kari. What's up? I haven't. I promise you. Yeah, things are better now. Thanks," T.K. said and with that he hung up the phone.
"Mom, Kari is coming over," he told her and disappeared back into his room.
"Kari?" his mother thought. "She's been missing for days. I hope this mishap hasn't taken too big of a toll on T.K. Kari can't be coming over. Maybe I should take him to a psychiatrist. I think his mental stability might be a bit shaky after everything that's happened."
A few minutes later, T.K. ran to the door and opened it. "Hi Kari," he said. And after a few seconds he disappeared back into his room.
"I should definitely go talk to Tatsuki about this," she decided. She picked up her purse and knocked on T.K.'s door.
"Yes?" came his voice.
"Honey, I'm going to go see your father. I'll be back in a few hours," she told him.
"Okay mom," he called. "See you later." And with that she put on her shoes and walked out of the apartment.
T.K. lay on his bed after both his mother and Kari had left. He stood up and decided he would go over to Tai's house and ask her to come take a jog with him. He stood up and walked over to his closet. He rummaged threw it until he found some suitable running clothes and put them on. As he left his room, he caught sight of himself in the mirror.
Or at least what should have been him. Kari was instead staring back at him. She giggled, "Going out for a jog I see T.K. I'll join you. I'll meet you by the reflective pond in the park."
"Okay," he replied. He ran out of the apartment and down to the park. As he sat by the reflective pool he looked into it and saw Kari was looking at him once again.
"Hi," she said.
"Hey," he replied. He looked up beside him and there she stood looking down at him. "Are you ready to go jogging now?" he asked. She nodded.
A week later, T.K. sat on his bed. Kari was once again sitting at his desk. "Are you serious T.K.?" she asked. She began to laugh with him. "Well," she stood up. "I've got to go. Thanks for having me over. Bye." And again, she faded away. T.K. sat and pondered about the situation. Lately Kari had been begging for help. But she wouldn't tell him what the problem was.
Later that night, when T.K. lay down to go to sleep, he whispered a goodnight to his friends and Kari.
"Help me! Help me please! T.K., please help me. Please!" T.K.'s eyes shot open. He looked at his wall. The words T.K. HELP ME PLEASE! were being written across his wall. Suddenly he saw her appear in the middle of his room.
"Help me T.K.! Please help me! PLEASE!" she begged. He rolled out of bed onto the floor. Quickly stumbling over to his closet, he pulled on shorts and a shirt. They ran out into the hall where he quickly put on his shoes.
She pushed out the door. He ran after her. She ran and then suddenly, she stopped and was lifted off the ground. He slid to a stop right underneath her. A beam blasted from the sky, lifting him slowly off the ground.
"Huh?" he asked. "What's happening? Help!" Slowly he was lifted into the sky and out of sight.
Hahahaha! A cliffhanger of sorts. I hope this chapter made sense. Please review. The faster you review, the faster the next chapter will come out. Oh yeah, miaow227, I am so upset. How come you got 4 weeks off and I only got 1 and a 1/2. No way! I can't believe this! Anyway you guys, please review.
Later.
ebacusta .
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