Litanya: I'm sorry if this is a little late, I can't remember when I said that I would update. Thanks to everyone who has reviewed: I'm sure that this fic won't be going too much longer. I personally don't like this one much anymore… it has turned out to be too different from what I originally had in mind. Anyway, here's the fic! I do not own Digimon.

Worlds Apart

Chapter 6

Two weeks had passed since T.K had shown Kari around the school, and barely a minute had passed by without him thinking about, talking to, or being with her. Whenever he was alone he would ponder about whether or not she was thinking about him. When he was talking to her on the phone, he wished that he was with her. When he was talking to her in person, he found it hard to keep from staring at her. And it was driving him crazy. He had felt this way for his Kari, the one that he was still in love with, the one that he missed every single second… except for when he was with the new Kari. He felt as though his heart was trying to tell him one thing, but his head was refusing to listen. He lay on the couch, trying to get his mind off the subject of Kari, when his older brother entered the room.

"Hey T.K, is there something wrong? You've been moping around for the past few days. Is there something I can help you with?" he sat on the armchair next to the couch and T.K felt as though he were at a psychiatrist's office.

"Nothing is wrong really… it's just that I can't stop thinking about something no matter how hard I try and it is starting to get annoying. Well… what I'm thinking about isn't annoying, but it's irritating me that I cannot stop thinking… oh, I don't know! I'm confused about it and I can't understand myself… if you know what I mean," T.K had no idea what he was trying to say, but Matt just smiled and raised an eyebrow.

"Why don't you just admit it to yourself that you have fallen in love with the new Kari? You are trying to hold onto your feelings for the old Kari and in the process you are ignoring what you feel for the new Kari, at the expense of your happiness and a loss of sleep," T.K's jaw dropped. Matt was actually making sense.

"How do you know all of this?" Matt sighed.

"I've been going through something similar myself. I want to keep on believing that I love Sora but… I can't stop thinking about someone else. And then whenever I see Sora with Tai it just makes sense. However much I like Sora as a friend, and as much as I do not want to hurt her, I know that I have to break up with her otherwise we will both miss our chances for happiness." T.K was surprised. He had just told Kari that he thought that Matt wouldn't be there if it wasn't for Sora, and yet here was his brother, saying that they were just friends pretending to be in love. It was like someone had taken T.K's world and had turned back the clock, back to before Sora and Tai were dating and before he had gotten the courage to ask Kari out. It was so confusing. And for some reason T.K knew that the new Kari and Tai knew exactly what was going on.

"I'm going to go and find Kari," T.K stood, not knowing what to say to his brother. Matt nodded.

"I suppose that I should go and find Sora, but I just don't know what to say. I'll go find her later. Have fun with Kari!" he called as T.K left the apartment. Once his brother had left, he sank back into the chair. What he had told T.K was all true. There was a girl called Melissa that he just could not stop thinking about, and he felt bad. He felt as though he was cheating on Sora when he hadn't really done anything. He knew that he would have to break up with her as soon as possible, but he did not know what to say. He sighed and tried to find the words in his head that he knew would be hard to say aloud.

Tai and Sora had just gotten out of class. Tai yawned as they walked along the garden, and Sora had a far-away expression on her face.

"Okay, what's wrong? You look as though you haven't slept in a few days. Spill; what's wrong?" she blinked and shook her head slightly, as though she was clearing her head.

"I've just been having a few little problems lately; it's nothing to worry about. Anyway, you have to get to soccer training," Tai had easily made it into the team. He had not even had to use his special move in the try-outs and yet he had easily been the best there.

"Training was cancelled today. The coach can't make it and the science students have an important test or something. Anyway, you know the saying. Troubles are halved when you share them with someone. So tell me, what's wrong? I won't let you go until you tell me," she sighed and sat down on the grass at the side of the path. Tai followed, dumping his books next to him.

"You know that I dated Tai, don't you?" he nodded and she continued, "Well, I broke up with him to date Matt. I told him that at the time, and he seemed okay about it. He continued to be my best friend, but I was going out with Matt. He disappeared a few days later. I have felt so guilty ever since. I just want to know if Tai was really upset about me breaking up with him for Matt, or if what he told me was true. I don't think that I can stop blaming myself until I find out." Tai was silent for a moment, thinking of what to reply.

"I… I must have been living in a parallel universe to your Tai. When I was younger I was best friends with a girl and then we started dating and we were really close. Then, about four years ago, she broke up with me because she thought that she was in love with my best friend. Now, I don't know about your Tai, but it really hurt me when that happened. I pretended that it didn't matter; I had to keep my pride, but it really did hurt. I would say that your Tai was just pretending not to care too. I don't know if that helps you or not, but that's my experience," she could see from his eyes that he had been very hurt, but yet she could not stop herself from finding out more about him.

"That is freaky. You are so much like my Tai that it is scary. What were your best friends' names?"

"If I told you that, you wouldn't believe in parallel universes anymore. Let's just say that she was a lot like you, and funnily enough, he was a lot like Matt. It's creepy how similar the situations are. Anyway, you shouldn't feel guilty about what happened. Even if you had still been going out with Tai he probably would have been taken. You're happy with Matt now and I'm sure that Tai has accepted that, wherever he is," Sora was silent for a few moments, unsure of what to reply. Tai saw that something wasn't right, but he didn't say anything so that she could sort out her thoughts.

"…I'm not altogether sure that I am happy with Matt anymore," she whispered, almost to herself. Hope rose in Tai's chest, but he refused to listen to it. He wanted Sora to be happy, and he did not care if it was with Matt or if it was with him. Her happiness was all that counted. He continued to keep silent, knowing that she would go on, "He is always late for our dates. I know that that sounds stupid, but whenever Tai was late it was because he was a naturally late person. When Matt's late… it's because he was at band practice and forgot the time, or because he forgot that we had even planned a date. I guess that I just wanted to tell myself that I made the right decision when I decided to go out with Matt that I told myself that it didn't matter. I kept on telling myself that as long as I loved Matt and he loved me it would be okay, but I know deep down inside that I don't even love Matt. He is only a close friend. I think that I got confused. Tai had always been my best friend and I had always felt the same for him the entire time. That was when Matt came along. I started to have feelings for Matt which were different to what I felt with Tai. Because Tai had been my best friend for so long, I just assumed that I was in love with Matt and just friends with Tai, when it should have been the other way around. I'm such an idiot." She didn't know why she was telling him this, but it just felt so good to be out in the open.

"Hey, it's not your fault. You cannot be blamed for mistaking the differences between love and friendship. It is a very fine line to cross after all," she didn't look too comforted.

"Have you heard of the digidestined?" Tai was taken by surprise for a second.

"Yeah, they were that group of kids that went to that other world and saved us all, weren't they?"

"Yes. Tai, Matt and I were all digidestined, along with Kari, T.K and the others. We had things called crests, which showed the traits that we were supposed to hold more than the others. For example, Tai held the crest of courage. This meant that the trait he held the most was courage and he truly knew what it meant. My crest is of love. I am supposed to be able to differentiate between the feelings of love and friendship. I could easily tell that T.K and Kari were in love, and I could see that Ken and Yolie were supposed to be together as well. But I couldn't even tell that I was in love with Tai and not Matt. That tells me that my crest should be of stupidity, not love," she was fingering a long chain that hung around her neck. Tai knew that it held a locket, which had the symbol of her crest engraved on it. He had given the locket to her as a present for her fourteenth birthday.

"Well… you know what they say about psychics, right? That they can never predict their own future? Maybe the same thing applies to you. I know that Matt has had a lot of trouble with friendships before," if she had noticed his slip, she didn't acknowledge it. Technically he wouldn't know that Matt held the crest of friendship, but she hadn't picked up on it anyway.

"I guess… but it sucks all the same. Anyway, I shouldn't be complaining to you. I have to be going now anyway. I promised my mother that I would work in the shop for a while. I'll see you tomorrow," she jumped quickly to her feet and began to walk away. Why had she just spilt her guts out to someone she had known for only a little over two weeks? Even Mimi wasn't aware of the problems that she was having, and she and Mimi had become very close over the years. So why would she tell this new Tai? And why was his life so similar to her Tai's life? It was almost as though God had sent this new Tai to save her from her life of misery, to show her that Matt wasn't the one for her. But she now knew that she wanted to be with Tai. It was too late to be with her Tai, but what about this new Tai? Was she supposed to fall in love with him? She wasn't sure what she was supposed to do, but something told her that it didn't really matter. She knew that something was going to happen soon, and it was going to change her entire life.

Kari, Avi and Pohe were playing cards on the kitchen table, enjoying their Saturday off school. Kari and Avi had piles of homework to do, but as they weren't really going to attend the school for very long, they had both decided not to do it. Well… Kari had decided that it would be a good excuse to have T.K over if she was failing a subject. So the three 'siblings' had decided to play cards whilst Tai was at uni.

"I say that you should just go for it and kiss him," Avi told her 'twin' fearlessly, picking a card from Pohe's pile and grimacing. They were playing Bloody Mary, a game where they had to match the pairs by taking cards from other people, until the only card left was the Queen. The person who ended up with that card lost and was punished by getting hit on the back of the hand by the cards a certain number of times.

"I agree with Avi. He doesn't have a girlfriend, so you won't be accused of boyfriend stealing, and he is obviously smitten with you. If you would just kiss him and get it over with, you can tell him the truth and so you won't have to keep on making up lies. This would mean that you will succeed in your mission and you would be happier. All it takes is one little kiss. It's not like you haven't kissed him before anyway," Kari blushed. Pohe just laughed and took a card. Kari was about to reply when there was a knock on the door.

"I'll bet you anything that that is T.K. Come on Pohe, let's continue this game upstairs," Avi and Pohe grabbed all of the cards and raced upstairs, leaving Kari alone to answer the door. Unbeknownst to Kari however, was the fact that Avi and Pohe were hiding around the corner, spying on her every move. Kari opened the door to find that Avi had been right. It was T.K at the door.

"Hi, how are you?" she asked as she let him in the house, still thinking about whether she should take Avi and Pohe's advice or not. T.K seemed to be a little distracted too, so he didn't notice that she wasn't really concentrating too much on what she was saying. He could not help staring at her. He finally managed to pull his eyes off her face after about five seconds and realised that he was supposed to answer her. Avi and Pohe were desperately trying not to giggle as they watched the scene unfold, but they had to stuff their hands in their mouths to make sure.

"I'm good thanks, how are you?" the conversation was simple, but she couldn't help smiling.

"Yeah, good thanks. I am so glad that we don't have to go to school. I enjoy the social part of it of course, but the work is just so boring. Tai still had to go to uni today though, so I got to laugh at him," she was staring at him out of the corner of her eye, but he was too busy staring at her to notice.

"Watch this," Pohe whispered to Avi, "The people of Malorin don't have powers for nothing." Before Avi could ask him what he meant, he closed his eyes and concentrated. Avi could see a dark purple, almost black aura surrounding him and she knew he was about to use magic. She could also use magic, but her powers were more for healing people than manipulating them.

'Kiss her,' T.K jumped a mile as he heard his subconscious voice tell him to do the very thing that he had gone over there to do. It seemed that he must be taking too long.

"Uh Kari… umm…" but before he could finish his sentence, she had crossed the room, grabbed him kissed him for all she was worth…

And in the corner Avi and Pohe were almost crying with laughter.

Matt was early for once. That was the first thing that she noticed. The second thing she saw was that he was nervous. He was pacing back and forth, muttering things under his breath. She grew a little scared at this. Firstly, he was never early and secondly, he was usually the dictionary definition of cool. She had been surprised once when she had looked up the word 'cool' in the thesaurus and there had been no picture of him, or mention of his name. And here he was, pacing nervously around, muttering to himself.

'Oh no… we've been dating for a long time. What if… what if he wants to propose to me? I can't… what if… I don't know. What am I supposed to do?' it took her all of her courage to walk up to him at that moment. She wanted nothing more than to wake up at that moment and find that it was all a dream.

"Sora…" Matt trailed off and she found herself feeling relieved. His tone of voice had revealed that he was not about to propose.

"You want to break up?" she suggested, suddenly feeling happier. He was confused.

"How did you know?" he asked, wondering if T.K had told her. She smiled.

"I just guessed. I was going to break up with you sometime soon anyway, but I have no idea when. I had a feeling that we were both staying in this relationship only because we were afraid of hurting each other. But earlier today I realised that we are really nothing but friends. That was along the lines of what you were going to say, right?" he nodded, a small smile on his face.

"I'm glad that you understand. I was really worried that I would upset you, so I held it off for a few days. I guess that having this new Tai around has made us both realise a few things."

"Yeah… did you know that he went through a situation a lot like the one Tai went through before he disappeared? His girlfriend broke up with him so that she could go out with his best friend. I learnt that today. It's scary how much they are alike, isn't it?" Matt could see that Sora was falling in love with this new Tai, if she had not already fallen for him. It was just like the situation with T.K. Matt figured that he could see what was happening because he knew what friendship was all about, and what T.K had with the new Kari and what Sora had with the new Tai was definitely not friendship.

"Why don't you just ask him out?" Sora almost had a heart attack. What did he mean?

"What!" she exclaimed.

"It is so obvious that the two of you were meant for each other. His name is Tai, he looks a little like Tai, he acts like Tai and you care for him the same as you do Tai. You should just ask him out and get it over and done with," Sora's face was bright red from blushing and Matt could only laugh.

"I don't know what you mean. I have to uh… go home now and think about it. I think that you should take your own advice anyway. Melissa won't be available for too long if you don't ask her," and she ran off before he could reply. She had a lot of thinking to do. As much as she hated to admit it, Matt had a point. Matt had caught on that she felt something for Tai. That meant that she wasn't hiding it as well as she thought that she was. She headed home in a sort of daze. She had a lot to think about, and something told her that she would have to decide soon.

When Tai arrived home he found an astonishing sight. Kari was sitting on T.K's lap, and the two of them were deep in conversation. They were so engrossed in each other that Tai managed to walk into the room, stare at them for a few seconds in disbelief, walk out of the room, enter it again, watch the couple for a few moments and then give up and go upstairs without the couple even noticing. Pohe was waiting for him at the top of the stairs, a huge smirk on his face.

"Have you seen the two lovebirds down there?" he asked Tai as they walked to Tai's room. Tai nodded.

"They didn't even notice I was there… what happened anyway? I thought that Kari was despairing that he would never think of her as more than a best friend or something… at least that was what she told me," Pohe grinned.

"She did think that. However, Avi and I made a suggestion to her. We told her to kiss him and see what happened. Well… to cut a long story short, he was about to kiss her when she surprised him and kissed him instead. They've been kissing and talking ever since. I think Kari may have told him the truth about her identity, but I'm not sure. Avi and I got bored of the kissing fest and played cards until Avi got bored and disappeared somewhere. How about you? Are you having any luck with Sora?" Tai sighed and flopped down onto his bed.

"Yes and no. She thinks that she is in love with me however; she doesn't know that I am me… if you know what I mean. She thinks she loves Tai Kamiya in other words. And she is still with Matt and very confused and I just don't think that this is all working. I just hope that I can get Sora because if not… then Kari won't be able to take T.K back with her. Wait… did you say that T.K and Kari have been kissing a lot? They haven't been doing anything more than that have they?" before Pohe could answer Tai had flown out of the room and was downstairs in a flash.

"Tai, when did you get home?" Kari asked innocently, quickly moving so that she was next to T.K instead of on his lap.

"I got home about ten minutes ago actually. You two were too wrapped up in each other that you didn't notice. T.K, can I have a word with you for a moment?" the blond gulped, gave Kari a small glance and then followed Tai into the kitchen.

"We didn't do anything, I swear!" the blond quickly asserted as soon as they entered the room. Tai laughed, amused by the scared look on T.K's face.

"I know that T.K. I just have to keep up the appearance of being the over-protective older brother," the younger boy visibly relaxed as he realised that Tai wasn't going to hurt him.

"Kari told me the truth about you guys. I know that you are Tai Kamiya and stuff… I just don't understand why you won't tell the others your true identity. Sora would dump my brother in an instant if she knew you were back," Tai shrugged.

"We don't know that for sure, and I'll know if she truly likes me for being me if I keep this identity. If she knew I was Tai Kamiya, then she might dump Matt just because she feels guilty for breaking up with me before. Anyway, you'd better be going back to your girlfriend now, otherwise she'll kill me. But remember; I will kill you if you hurt her," T.K nodded and quickly exited the room. Tai sighed and poured himself a glass of milk, hoping that it would help him sort everything out. If he told Sora that he was her Tai, then she might break up with Matt and go out with him. But how could he be sure that she wasn't doing it just to stop feeling guilty? He took a sip of his milk and grabbed a chocolate-chip cookie. Feeling a lot like a small toddler with his snack, he exited the kitchen and went to his room. He had to decide what he was to do, and quickly. It was almost harvest time, and if he wanted to keep Kari and T.K together, he had to make sure that he got Sora…

End of Chapter 6

Litanya: Okay, this is a weird chapter. Anyway, there will probably only be one or two more chapters left of this fic. I will try and write them ASAP, because it is school holidays and once they are over, I will have no time for writing long fics. A few one-shots maybe, as I can finish the ones on my computer, but not chaptered fics. Anyway, feel free to review if you wish and have a good day!