Litanya: Hi! Firstly I would like to thank everyone who has reviewed this fic: Fruitloop Trooper, Andrain John, Kay, judyclever, Janay, anon, dragonninja142000 and Agumon 2005. I appreciate the reviews very much. In response to Andrain John' review, I had no idea that there were rules for a dimensional rift, so in this universe, they do not exist. The elders know what they are doing… trust me. The Elders may have some ability to see into the future… Anyway, I do not own Digimon, and I apologise if I have broken any rules about inter-dimensional travel.

Worlds Apart

Chapter 4

"Sora does like to make friends at uni. Anyway, let's go meet her and then we can finally get all of these introductions over with," everyone shrugged at his attempt at humour and followed him to greet the two new arrivals, "Hey Sora, who's your new friend?" The auburn haired girl stopped as the others came to her and finished off what she was saying to her companion.

"…and that's why tennis is much better than soccer. Hey guys, what's up?" she had finally noticed that her friends were approaching them. She had been so engaged in the conversation with Tai that she had not noticed anything else. She had not had such a heated discussion about the finer points of tennis and soccer since Tai had left. It made her feel strange. This Tai was so similar to the Tai that she had grown up with and she felt her heart warming to him. As soon as she had seen him she had known that he would become special to her, but she never thought that he would almost replace her ex-boyfriend/best friend.

"Tai, I need to talk to you about something," Pohe told him, reverting back to his native tongue. The elder boy frowned before shrugging.

"Is it urgent or can it wait until we get home?" Sora and the others watched as the two conversed in that foreign tongue, a little mesmerized by the rolling rhythm and softness of the language.

"It can wait. But you did forget to get Kari to enroll in school as well. She is only eighteen remember," Tai hit the top of his head, as if that would erase his mistake.

"Darn, I forgot about that. It'll have to wait until tomorrow," he turned to Kari and reverted back to Japanese, "You forgot to enroll in school Kari. Why didn't you remind me that you still need to go?" Sora was confused. Although Tai had told her that he had siblings, she hadn't really expected them to be with her friends.

"I take it that this is your sister? And this is your brother?" she asked Tai, finally grabbing his attention. He nodded.

"Pohe, Kari, this is Sora. She takes the same class as me at uni," Kari smiled at Sora, genuinely pleased to see her again. She had always liked the auburn-haired girl.

"Now everyone is finally introduced and…"

"KARIII! I love this place!" Avi made her dramatic entrance at this point in time. She was running towards them with her arms out wide and a huge smile on her face. T.K turned to Kari, a puzzled expression on his face.

"Uh… do you know her?" Kari hid her face in her hands for a second.

"That is my twin sister Avi. She's a little… crazy. She loves sugar and when she has even the tiniest bit…" she gestured to where her 'sister' was jumping up and down, telling Pohe what she had seen on her brief journey around the city. T.K laughed.

"I guess that proves the theory that twins are not identical in personality. I overheard your brother asking you why you weren't enrolled at school yet. If you want, I can take you down there tomorrow morning because I have to go there and check my timetable. School starts again the day after tomorrow," she brightened. This was the kind of thing that she was looking for.

"That would be great! Sometimes schools can be so confusing, with millions of rooms and I often get lost. It would be great if you could show me where to go. Tai is about as good at finding rooms as a monkey and Avi isn't much better," T.K smiled and she noticed that even his eyes were smiling. When she had first arrived, his eyes had been dull, lifeless. She smiled to herself as she realised that he had missed her. That would make her job easier. Tai, on the other hand, knew that his job was going to be much harder.

"Sora, our plans for tonight are still on, aren't they?" Matt asked his girlfriend casually, trying to remember what their exact plans were. She sighed and rolled her eyes.

"Yes, of course they are! That is, unless you want to dump me or something," she joked, watching his expression. Tai sighed inwardly, but didn't let his disappointment show on the outside. He had hoped that Sora and Matt had broken up by now, so that it would make his job easier, but they had been going out for three years. This did not look promising.

"I pick you up at seven, right?" Sora rolled her eyes.

"No, the movie starts at seven. You pick me up at six-thirty. You forgot the details again, didn't you?" although she pretended that it was all a joke, Sora did feel offended that he had forgotten the details of their date… again. It wasn't the first time he had done this. But in a way, she found that she didn't care. She felt as though dates with Matt were just routine. They would go out to a movie, then eat dinner, then go home. They were fun, but she felt as though something were missing. When she had dated Tai on the other hand… she had never known what they were going to do on a date. The activities had varied from playing soccer to having dinner at a fancy restaurant (at which they had been thrown out of for having a mini food fight.) But she pushed these thoughts away and instead crossed over to him and put her head on his shoulder, tired with all of these confusing thoughts. Tai saw her move and saw it as a sign that Sora was in love with Matt. It hurt, but he knew that he could do nothing about it. If she wanted to be with Matt, it was her choice and he would abide by it. But he was also not going to give up after only a few hours with her. He quickly turned to Izzy, eager to find a way out of there for the moment.

"Hey… Izzy is it? Could you please tell me the time? I forgot my watch."

"It's almost 5," this was Tai's chance and he took it gratefully.

"Eep! I have to get to the bookstore before it closes! Avi, Kari, Pohe follow me. I need to make sure you all have your books for school and I need to pick up something for uni. It was nice meeting all of you guys. Sora, our lecture's at 10 tomorrow?" he hesitated on asking her again, but he wanted to make sure it was then. She just laughed.

"For the tenth time today, yes," Tai just grinned a little sheepishly.

"Sorry, I have a bad memory at times. Anyway, I'll see you guys tomorrow. Come on gang!" and he almost dragged his 'siblings' away as fast as he could.

"Hey Tai, what's the rush? I was having a nice conversation with T.K!" Kari complained as they finally slowed down a little, "Why'd you suddenly talk about school and books and rush off?" Avi and Pohe were chatting merrily behind them and so Tai decided to tell her the truth. He would tell Pohe later, but he didn't know Avi very well at all.

"I just got a little uncomfortable around Sora and Matt. They've been dating for three years now and it doesn't look like they're going to break up either. I mean, he forgot the details of their date and she still just laughed it off. If I ever forgot about a date, she'd kill me. Argh… at least T.K seems to be very interested in you. Maybe one of us will be able to get an advantage out of this," Kari felt bad. Whilst her hopes were rising, Tai's seemed to have fallen to rock bottom.

"You're not giving up on her, are you? We still have two months you know," he grinned.

"Of course I'm not giving up yet! I just said that she seems to be head-over-heels in love with Matt, but sometimes looks can be deceiving. Now, I have to get a few books for uni. Tomorrow is a new day after all."

Kari groaned as her alarm clock went off. She reached out with her left hand and tried desperately to turn it off so that the annoying beeping would stop. She knew that she had to get up to meet T.K, but a little more sleep would be nice. She could skip breakfast… she hit the alarm off and was about to snuggle back up to get to sleep when she heard a loud banging sound, followed by a few swear words in Malorinen and another few in Japanese. She sighed and reluctantly hopped out of bed to see what had happened to her brother. She grabbed her things for a shower as she left her room and almost tripped over her brother as she left her room.

"What did you do this time Tai?" she asked, seeing that he was desperately trying to gather up a small pile of crystals. He looked up for a second; saw that she was heading for the bathroom before shrugging and continuing to gather his pile.

"I tripped and sent these flying. It's not very important, but these crystals are supposed to help my illusions somehow. I haven't damaged them or my illusions, but I like to have them all on me most of the time. Anyway, you need to get going or you're going to be late. I'll make us some breakfast. You just make sure that you're ready and that Avi and Pohe are awake too. Pohe should be up by now because he usually has training at this time in a morning, but I know what Avi can be like," and then he stood up, taking his little pile of crystals into his right hand, and walked away.

'Tai always was weird in the mornings… why on Earth does he carry them around most of the time? Eh… I don't really care either way,' she banged on the door to Avi's room as she went past and she heard a muffled 'what?' coming from inside.

"You have to get up Avi… we're getting enrolled in school today, remember?" there was another groan and a bump before Kari decided to move on. She would be late herself if she didn't get moving. She quickly showered and within fifteen minutes she was eating breakfast with Tai and Pohe. Avi had emerged from her room, but Kari had no idea where her 'twin' had gone.

"Tai, are you going to sign those forms for me?" Pohe asked, trying to speak Japanese, but ending up mingling the languages. Tai swallowed his cereal and nodded.

"I have to otherwise you won't be allowed at school, but I have to rush off afterwards. And please remember that you're supposed to speak Japanese at school otherwise they'll call you 'the weird kid' or something like that. I know that you are weird and all, but they can be pretty cruel at high school here," Pohe just rolled his eyes and sighed, making Tai feel pretty old.

"I know Tai, I know. They'll probably think that I'm weird anyway though, so I don't really care. Shouldn't we be going if you're going to sign the papers and then get to uni? Oh, and to make sure we meet T.K too," Kari frowned and looked around the room.

"Where is Avi? She got up; I saw her leave her room, but I have no idea where she is," there was a small yelp from next to her.

"I'm right here Kari! Are you blind or something?" Tai, Pohe and Kari all jumped and looked at the chair where the voice had come from.

"Avi?" Pohe asked tentatively, looking at the chair.

"Yeah, why are you looking at me like that?" she obviously had no idea that she was invisible.

"Tai, did you happen to break one of those crystals or something when you dropped them?" Kari asked him, thinking that this could be a problem with his illusion system.

"Nope, I have them all and they are all intact. Wait a sec… I have a feeling that I may have changed the illusion in my sleep. I tend to do that sometimes," he closed his eyes and concentrated. Soon Avi popped back into sight, sitting completely ready on the chair next to Kari.

"What is wrong with you guys? You were all looking at me funny. Was I invisible or something?" Avi whined, feeling a little sulky at having to get up so early.

"Actually Avi, you were invisible. Anyway, Pohe's right. We have to leave now, so let's go!" Tai did not want to dwell on his mistake, so they made it to the school in record time, as Tai almost ran there. He just wanted to get to uni so that he could talk to Sora and forget about making Avi invisible.

"Kari, over here!" Tai smiled inwardly as he noticed that T.K was concentrating only on Kari. It was like he had almost forgotten about the rest of them.

"Hi T.K!" it seemed like the attraction wasn't only one-way, but Kari knew more about the situation. She was halfway to where T.K was standing before Tai even turned to face him.

"Hi guys," T.K finally managed to say before he turned back to Kari, "Are you ready to sign up?"

"Do you know what forms I need to sign because my uni class starts soon and I need to get there…? Sorry to try to get this over with, but…" he trailed off and shrugged as he realised how old he had just sounded. He didn't like it.

"Oh yeah, it'll only take a few minutes I think. This school isn't really interested in forms because then they have to read and classify more information. The office is this way," they followed him along some corridors and around a few classrooms before they finally arrived at the office. The enrolment process only took a few minutes and soon Tai was heading back out of the school, almost having to run because he was so late.

"Pohe and I are going to go and check out the shopping mall. We have been planning this since yesterday," Avi said innocently, smiling politely, "We'll see you later Kari." Pohe had opened his mouth to object, but realising what Avi was doing, he just nodded instead.

"Bye!" and they walked out of the school, leaving Kari all alone with T.K….

End of Chapter 4

Litanya: I'm so sorry that this is so late, I have been busy with school and writer's block and sheer laziness I'm afraid. I promise that the chapter will be out next week, probably next Monday or Tuesday Australian time… which would be Sunday or Monday American time I think… anyway, it doesn't matter. Everything will soon fall into place, things like why I didn't change their names and stuff. Anyway, review if you want and have a good night/evening/afternoon/morning!