Redvind: I feel sorry for this story...

Koromon: Me, too. With the lack of updating and anything...anyway, you know the disclaimer: this story has nothing to do with the original Digimon Adventure. Red borrows it without permission.

Light: 3

3 hours after the phone rang….

Maybe you could guess what had happened. Now here we were, waiting.

Yamato-san had leaned against the wall; his eyes closed, but looked up at the ceiling. Koushirou-san sat near him, bent his head down, staring at his hands on his lab. At the other edge of the bench sat Miyako, Hikari-chan and Sora-san. Hikari-chan, who sat in the middle, was soothed by Miyako, and Sora-san pushed her close, hugging her. Poromon was on Miyako's lab and Gatomon was on Hikari's. They kept telling Hikari that everything would be all right. Iori sat on the floor next to Miyako, pulled his legs up to his chest, hugging himself. He laid Upamon on his right. I sat on the floor, opposite of them, Chibimon on my lab. Ken stood next to me, hugging Wormom tightly.

I still couldn't believe this. A few hours before, we were laughing, having a good time. Then everything turned upside down. It felt like when you were on the summit of the hill, suddenly …suddenly the land was shattered and you fell off into the hold of the darkness. Don't know where you are, don't know what to do.

It affected us all, especially for Hikari. Taichi-san's her big brother and they're really close, the closest sibling I had ever known. They cared for each other, talked about everything even how stupid it was. They could sense when one another felt upset, no surprised that a bit after cheering up, everything was under the bridge. They did the sibling-stuff together, just like other siblings were supposed to; somehow I wondered how they managed their brother/sister relationship so strong. Unlike Jun and me, I hardly heard about their argument, but surely never saw.

Must admit that I adored them; their relationship's not only for themselves, it's much more enough to share with everybody. Just see the way they cared and made everything better, the way they smiled and the way they looked after for others. It's anything you wish that there might be people like them on the earth to befriend with, to care for and to be by their side. Because they're always there for another, I couldn't image what if one of them would have gone. It's hard to reckon, but one thing just for sure; something must be wrong.

That thing already had happen and it's such a hard thing to describe how we totally felt.

For the thing exactly wrong.

"Hikari….It's Taichi…he…"

Dead silence, the watch on the wall walked 'tik-tik-tik'. Sora's body shivered, nearly out of control. Yamato quickly ran to her, held her tight.

"Sora-san?"

Too long, quit this! Please.

And finally like eternality, Sora-san said with a shuddered tone.

"He's got a…a car clash. Now he's in ICU room in hospital!"

All of us were frozen at once.

ICU! Hospital! What a shit joke! But it didn't sound like…

"Wha… what are you talking about, Sora-san?" Miyako was the first who dared to speak. She looked up at Sora, still kneed down to help Hikari-chan pick up leaving glasses.

"Come on, it's not funny."

"I am not kidding!" Sora-san almost shouted. She clung both of her hand on Yamato's sleeves as if to borrow his support to standstill. "The man on the line a moment ago, was a police! He said the accident took place in downtown. He doesn't have much detail because he's got the order to take Taichi to hospital and contacted his family. Taichi's seriously injured and unconscious. Someone's sent his sport bag with the ambulance and it'd been long to find his personal card or his telephone number to call us!"

Sora-san's eyes slowly flooded with tears. Yamato bent her face to his chest. He's still shocked of what he had heard, eyes widened in disbelief but undeniable. None of us dared to make a sound—even digimons.

"Calm down, Sora…first we have to go to hospital. Where is it?" Yamato mumbled load enough for us to hear or the room was too quite then we could hear even if a pin dropped.. Having tried to make herself under control again, she answered the question.

"I will call taxis." Koushirou hurried out of Yagami's apartment as soon as he'd regained by the answer.

"I'm going to." Iori and Upamon followed him immediately.

"Hikari, can you contact your parents?" Yamato-san asked, turned to look at Hikari, who seemed too shock to acknowledge the situation.

"HIKARI!" Gatomon yelled, brought her back to sense. Hikari-chan startled.

No… dad doesn't use mobile phone during his work and mom doesn't have one." replied Hikari with a tremulous voice.

What a hick! Why hadn't they had mobile phones while half of people on earth always use that item? Such a silly question playing in my head.

"Then… some of us must stay here and wait until they're back."

"I volunteer." said Takeru.

"Then I will call our parents and tell them where you are." said Jyou-sampai calmly.

"Thanks. We will leave it to you." Yamato-san grabbed his jacket and pushed Sora-san with him. "Come on guys! Hurry up."

I nodded, honestly I still couldn't come up with what had occurred, followed the rest of us to where Koushirou and Iori and taxis had been waiting for.

If it were another situation, I would have been dead bored, but this, I was dying to hoping for whatever-thing would happen.

I heard foot-steps upright to us, many hurriedly foot-steps and…

"Hikari!" no wonder, it was both Yagimi-san and Jyou-san and Takeru behind them. To our surprised, there was also Ishida-san, Yamato-san and Takeru's dad.

"Mom! Dad!" Hikari-chan suddenly stood up as she saw them running to her, reaching her hands to catch her mother.

"Hikari! Where's Taichi? How has he been? Is there any good sign? What did the doctor say?" Mrs.Yagami asked hastily and worriedly as if someone would interrupt her right away.

"Mom, calm down. We're in the hospital." Mr.Yagami tried, but failed as she turned to him with angry, flooded eyes. "Calm down? How am I supposed to calm down when my son is in ICU room, being hurt so badly by that accident? Tell me then! What if…what if…."

No longer be able to hold this on, she burst out crying on Hikari. Hugging her daughter tightly, she didn't care for anyone or anything but her eldest and only son, I believed. Mr.Yagami hugged them both as if to bear their feeling.

It made me think of my family; would they cry for me if I had an accident? Maybe, maybe not. However we're relative after all, right? Taichi's so lucky that he was born in a loving family and I really meant it.

"Dad, what are you doing here?"

My attention was paid to Yamato-san and his dad in front of me. I stood up and walked to them to listen to whatever-only-god-knows, Chibimon by my feet and Ken a bit behind.

"Takeru called me up and told me what has happened to Taichi. I'm quite sure this going to be worse."

"Why? What do you mean, Ishida-san?" I heard my voice slipped out of my mouth before I could stop it.

"You know, the journalists, also my station, have already smelled this. On the first floor there are many of them trying to write news. Since Taichi's one of the famous-teenage athletes, they can write this as a big one. They're asking some of the nurses and police in the lobby. What a mess!"

Could thing go any worse? Ishida-san sighed before continued telling again but was cut off as the doors behind us slowly opened. A dark-greened suit--a surgeon—if I was corrected-- walked out.

"Yagami-san?"

"We're here." said Mr.Yagami directing his eyes to the green figure.

"Well…I need to talk to you about your son…"

"Is he alright? Has he woken up, yet? Did he say anything?…" Mrs.Yagami shot many questions we wanted to know. I listened to him so intently, expecting for some good news.

"We did our best, but it was severe injured. I'm afraid that if he doesn't wake up, there's a chance that…"

"What? What's wrong with him?" Yamato-san asked instantly as if the surgeon wasn't telling fast enough.

"He might not be able to wake up anymore."

Silence, fear, crying, anger, hopeless, frozen…all of sudden covered us up. I didn't know I wanted to cry or not.

"Daisuke…" I heard Chibimon called out my name, sadden tone, but all I could do was standstill and frozen.

It was not what I had expected to hear. Not what we expected to hear!

"Yagami-san" said Ishida-san "The police need to talk to you."

I only heard Mrs.Yagami sobbing while the police had talked to them with Ishida-san by their side. Not sure there was anything I--we wanted to know. I stared at the shut doors.

There laid a creature of the first leader of digidestineds behind them.

So dark. So cold. Couldn't feel a thing….

"Where am I?"