It was dark around here and so cold.

Light: 4

I slowly opened my eyes and saw nothing but the dark. I turned my head around only to meet to black sight.

The only thing I saw was my own body, wearing the white short-sleeves, a pocket on the right chest shirt, blue jean and sport shoes. I looked at my feet, up to my legs, my stomach, my chest and my hands. It's good to know that I didn't disappear in this darkness. Eventually I look up.

There was no sign of living, no light, no sound or even the ground I stood. It seemed like I was floating on the air. I started to panic. Really had no idea where I was. There might be something a bit far ahead of me, I thought then began to walk even though I didn't see the road. I kept walking.

I must be worried, yeah I know I should. But why wasn't I? First of all, there was nothing here. Second I didn't know where I was. And third I was completely all alone!

Besides, I didn't have any feeling. How far I walked, I didn't feel tired. Like I walked in a dream…yes! That's it! A dream! It answered all questions. My brain must have played a joke on me when I didn't realize earlier. Suddenly I stopped. Believed myself I'd heard something. Yeah I really did! Right in front of me, something's moving and it was a ball.

A ball? I frowned. What was it doing here? No no…it's not right. Why was it here, in my dream after all?

The ball'd rolled steadily on its side, further and further as if it was trying to keep the distant. I ran after, tried to pick it up but I couldn't.

It stopped as it hit lightly on a little boy's legs. Wait a sec...a little boy? I couldn't see his face. He stared at it while it'd continued to roll again. This time was slower and the boy followed. I was stunned, but shook my head quickly and followed as well.

As I walked in silence, the boy's giggling, trying to reach the ball. He looked so happy and innocent, like Takeru and Hikari when they were younger. I smiled a little at the screen.

'I got you.' said the boy happily. He kneed down, two hands grabbed on the ball to stop its movement.

Immediately there came a sound, the loudest one, with a large, white light, flashed into my eyes and straightened to the boy who was only 2-3 steps in front of me.

'WATCH OUT!'

I heard myself screamed and before I realized anything else, I reached out my hand to the boy. I didn't like it, I meant that light. Whatever it was here for, it seemed not for a good thing. But the boy disappeared before my hand was about to catch him.

The time passed slower and slower as if it meant to stop. The light now dashed right to me. I was stunned again. My legs couldn't move. Wonder why, I looked down to see the several unknown-where-it-came-from transparent hands grabbed them tightly, transfixed me. I gaped, my eyes widened. What the hell's going on?

The next thing I knew was that the light's eating me, washing away all my body, my emotion, my feeling in all of a sudden. It's gone, with those hands. Leaving me felt numbed. My body's dead, but my mind wasn't. It filled with hurts…and pains I'd never felt in my entire life. I fell standing, landed my back to the ground. But there's no ground anymore. My back didn't touch anything; in fact I was drowning into the darkness, the really deep one.

I didn't know when it's going to end. I hurtfully closed my eyes; my thought's lost as I sank through the darkness deeper…

Deeper…

"Seriously, Yagami-san, your son is still unconscious. His head was hit hard. This causes his brain had some blood gathered around the back part of the skull. It's definitely dangerous. He's already had an operation, that's all we could do. And he's got his legs broken, his knees injured badly, this is not good. Then his stomach bled, internal bruising, must I say. We had to cut the dead-celled intestines off. Luckily no more harm. Now we can only wait to see if there's a sign from him. We will remove him to a private room since he has to stay here and be watched under the special supervision…"

The surgeon recounted long and might be longer, but only a few words echoing in my ears like…blood gathered…brain…legs broken…internal bruising and they made me to no end.

Everyone had stood and listened to him like dead woods. From the detail the situation had gone worse and worse. I could barely felt Chibimon clung my leg, calling my name to get my attention. I looked down at him, emotionlessly picked him up.

"Ken-chan?"

"I'm ok, Wormon. Don't worry." Said Ken to the very worried-looking Wormon. I stared at them and noticed that Ken's speeh didn't convince Wormon and himself at all, I must add, I didn't believe it either 'cause Ken looked as pale as he's going to faint right now and hugged Wormon even tighter. His eyes dulled in shock. His body shivered lightly uncontrollable.

As usual, I should have frowned and worried. Though we're all friends, Ken wasn't very close to Taichi-san but me and the younger digidestineds. I understood that if one of your friend's got hurt, you'd be sad. But this time it's more than sadness, his eyes showed me that. I was about to ask him myself but there's something stopping me, my mouth hung open, no sounds came out, that thing told me that it was reasonably understanding of his behavior. Mine was not better than his anyway.

"Yagami-san may we talk to you for a moment?"

I was snapped out of my thought by anxious sentence. That time I noticed everyone stared, in their own position, at a well-suited man with glasses, looked rather old around 50, one hand holding a briefcase. The other man, actually much much fatter and also wearing a suit, around 45, looked annoyed and disgusted for some reason. I swore I would never like him.

"I'm Hiroshima Tochiaki, a counsel of Honda Kabao-san." He introduced himself first then mentioned the fat man behind him.

"Yagami-san, Honda-san wants to talk about the expense of the accident of your son. I think we can come to an agreement." The Hiroshima man adjusted his glasses with a hard explanatory movement. It hit me what he wanted to talk about.

"You are the one who crashed him, aren't you?"

That's it! Just like my thought. But hey! Wait a minute. It's not my voice who spoke. I turned, as well as everyone, to the owner of the voice, Miyako? She squeezed Poromon and he seemed so hurt by that. Shocked!-I didn't think that anyone would say that out loud-even if it's…well…maybe true or just a guess. Taking a second to recover from the shock, we looked back to the two men in the same rage.

"Well, not exactly. It's his son." Hiroshima adjusted his glasses again, more tensely.

"Then where is he? Isn't he supposed to come and at least apologize?" Yamato-san hissed, showing disgust carelessly on his face.

"Well…you see…he…" for the hell of shit, what did he mean? Seeing Honda's son? We didn't! Hiroshima was more uncomfortable. He took a handkerchief to clean the sweat on his face and was about to say more but was cut off by his boss.

"What's your business boy? He can be where he wants. And he needs not to come since we've come here already." He was really obnoxious. Now he gave us an 'I-waste-my-time-to-come-to-talk-so-just-get-this-finished-then-I-can-go-out-to-do-something-better' look. His assistant tried to talk again but the ugly man was louder to cover his speech. "I do not have much time for this, you know. Say. How much do you want?"

We all were stunned at once by his irresponsible word. He didn't stop there. He pressed Yagami-san to say something quick.

"Honda-san we shouldn't…"

"What's the big deal? I can give you as much as you want. Just make it covered. I need to go." The sound of gnashing teeth in anger was on the background. I felt my face hot. This shit in front of me sounded like he cared about Taichi-san's life less than his money and his business…how heartless he was! Since his son caused the accident occurrence himself.

As silent as it could have been, Taichi-san's dad slowly let go of his wife and daughter, walked to the disgusting man. When he was sure the man staring at him, he held his finger up.

"Oh, is it what you want? A million?" he said happily, turned to his counsel. "Alright, Hiroshima! Give me the check."

Hiroshima man did what he was ordered, his hand shaking. The boss took and signed hurriedly, then stuck it out to Yagami-san.

"Are you sure it's enough?" his smile was distorted, suited his repulsive face. I could hear our digimon, especially Chibimon in my arms, purred.

"Of course it is." Yagami-san answered and took the check. I looked at him, questioned and startled. I knew he couldn't see, but I wanted to know what's on his mind.

Next moment He stunned everyone by ripping the little paper without taking a glance at it. We gaped in shock.

"Wha…what the hell do you think you're doing?" Honda cried out. I supposed he believed no one would ever reject his money…or rather never believed that Yagami-san would actually tear the check up in pieces…well, neither did I. He tried to cup the paper's pieces. It didn't work.

To reply the question, Yagami-san pointed his stilled finger at the hall way, which meant the exit. His eyes filled with anger and abhorrence.

"I suggest you leave. Now, and that would be veritably enough. I don't want to see your face ever again." – So clear and sharp.

"wha…what…?" Honda man's getting nervous, his voice shaking. "If you thought that fake behave of yours would get me give you more, you thought wrong!"

That's too much. Yagami-san now grabbed Honda by his collar, ready to punch on the other man's face. The women screamed at once. Ishida-san hurriedly ran, tried to hold Yagami san back and take them apart, but Yagami-san refused to liberate the man.

"Look!" he hissed. "I don't want your dirty money!" His eyes reddened. "It's you! You thought wrong!" he swung his fists so that Honda man could see the operation room's closed doors. "Look what your son has done! My son's injured! And still unconscious! The doctors don't guarantee if he can be back to normal again! How do you think you can do to bring my son back alive? Do you really believe your money can fix everything?"

"AHH!…let me go!…" Honda begged. I was so satisfied with Hikari's dad's action. That man deserved it!

"Yagami-san, calm down. This doesn't help." Ishida-san tried again. This time Yagami-san let Honda man go, his eyes still filled in anger, looked down at the Honda who was now on his butt, muttered something like 'shit'. Hikari and her mother walked to him, both grabbed his sleeves by each side, smiling. They were so proud of him.

"You-you're going to pay for this!" Honda said loudly with his tremulous voice, backing away as his hands could make him. "Don't ever think I will let you do this to me without paying back! I swear! I will call … "

Oh…tell me how someone could be much stupider than Sukamon and Chumon…did he think he could scare people when he's acting like a worm? I made a dirty face.

"Honda-san, please calm down a little." Hiroshima, again, begged, helping his boss to lift up on feet. Guessed his bugging didn't get though the man reddened ears 'cause he's pointing at Yagami-san shaking angrily, embarrassed himself even more.

Now Hikari-chan and her mother tried their hardest to push Yagami-san back as Honda still spilled his shit out, making everyone's concerned about what would happen next.

Before the situation got worse, Ishida-san spoke up.

"Honda Kabao, the manager of the AHC company, the big one, isn't it?"

Honda stopped dead, looked at Ishida-san for the first moment as if he wasn't there at the first place, very confused.

"Who are you?" might as well his true question was 'how did you know me?'

"Well, I'm Ishida Masaharu. My sons are friends of Yagami-san's son here. And if you might wonder…I'm working for the Fuji TV station." He was so calmed.

Then the man's face turned pale, eyes wired, mouth shut. Bet he's trying to gain his brain to say words back, but all came out of his mouth was-- "so?"

I held my breath. Yamato-san narrowed his eyes. The others still looked worried.

"So I know a lot of things for writing news, you know, I can announce to all people around Japan what happened here—or to people around the world if you prefer as well. What would people think if they know that a son of the one succeeded company's manager drove though town to town- without license and also under age to drive - must I add, crashed a boy, didn't bother to bring him to hospital, asked his father to cover up for him by paying the boy's family some huge money to stay shut, which his father is willing to do so? I do not think they will appreciate to hear. The worst thing is what if they gave away your credit? Do you want to let that occur?"

Honda's face turned ever paler, like something big stuck in his throat then he looked very furious because of unable to find things to snap Ishida-san, surely he didn't want that to happen. He turned to his assistance victim.

"We are out! Come!" shout Honda. He walked to the exit hurriedly without looking back at us. Hiroshima Tochiaki, however, turned to Yagami-san, holding a card.

"This is my number. I see you don't want any money, but your son is certainly in our responsibility. Please call." He handed it politely. Yagami-san paused, then accepted it. Then Hiroshima walked off after his awful boss.

When two men were out of sight, we all cheered.

"Ha Ha Ha! Did you see his face?" Miyako snorted.

"Well, he deserved it!" I grunted.

"I can't believe him! He's such rude." Sora said.

Everyone was gathering in a group. Yamato-san walked to his dad, nodded to him. In return, Ishida-san seemed to understand what he meant. He patted Yamato-san's back.

"Dad?"

I looked at Hikari-chan, who watched her dad worriedly. Yagami-san said nothing but dragged his wife and daughter into a big, tight hug. Correct me if I was wrong, did I just see a single tear sliding down from his eye? No one dared to make sound.

The operation room's doors opened again, broke the horrible silence by a sound of a being dragged bed, which, I assumed, having something quite heave on, mixed some footsteps of doctors and nurses.

Widened eyes, I stared at the bed passing us, carrying a creature.

Eyes closed, arms linked up with several vessel blood? salted water? Some more liquid I could not describe, mouth covered with oxygen lid - whatever they're called, head banded with white bandage, no longer his usually wide browned hair, body laid under green blanket, also wearing a green shirt of hospital, the machines around him showing signs of his heartbeat, his blood pressure, his breathing which seemed steady enough except that they were low in my opinion though I didn't know how to read them.

Showing the sight, I swallowed hard, surely of Taichi-san.

"NII-CHAN!"

Everyone winced. Broken down terribly, Hikari-chan ran to her brother instantly before the others could even blink. She caught the hold of both the shirt and the blanket, tried to shake him…to wake him up, screaming and crying.

"NIICHAN! NIICHAN WAKE UP! NIICHAN YOU HEARD ME! WAKE UP! LOOK AT ME!…" she struggled violently, attempted to escape from Takeru and Miyako who tried hard to calm and get her off Taichi-san, Gatomon, Poromon and Patamon stood by closely. "NO! LET ME GO! LET ME…NIICHAN!"

"Hikari! Stop this!" Miyako said.

"NO! HE"S MY ONIICHAN! MY ONLY NIICHAN! I HAVE TO WAKE HIM! I HAVE TO..."

"Of course! That's why you have to stop! What if you happen to ruin something and Taichi-san gets worse? Hum? You want that?" Takeru reasoned her faithfully.

I saw Hikari-chan froze. Being aware that he was true; she quieted down, her head hung. Miyako and Takeru loosed their holds of her wrists, seeing her calm enough. Hikari slowly walked to Taichi-san again, this time she gently grabbed his hand, bowed her head to it. Tears made their ways out to her cheeks quietly. Yamato-san and Koushirou-san were also by the bed's side, stared at Taichi-san's face serenely. No tears no words. Others stood a little far away. I also heard Hikari's mother sobbing again behind me.

"Please wake up, nii-chan. You'll be all right." It came as a whisper.

I didn't realize that I had tears in my eyes, too, until a tear dropped off on Chibimon's head and he called me. I rubbed my eyes, embarrassed. Ken walked to me and clapped my shoulder, the other hand still held on Wormon. I felt so useless. I wished I could have done something to help. Taichi-san's my sampai, he taught me play soccer. I adored him. And he's my friend's brother. He'd helped us lots when we needed him. But now that he needed help, all I could do was standstill and watch. How helpful I was!

"Dai…Daisuke look!" Chibimon called me, wriggle in my arms. I looked up

And saw something moving out…

I was still sinking, on my back, didn't remember how long since it started. Every time I drowned deeper, it's like the pain was releasing me. In fact, I had begun to feel nothing, which was good for me this time. Maybe a bit deeper I was not hurt anymore.

A bit more and there would be no pain. Just a little more…

Deeper…

'NIICHAN'

What?

'WAKE UP! LOOK AT ME!'

Who's that? Why did you call me? Could you not just leave me in peace?

Deeper…

'NIICHAN'

Why did it sound so familiar? I knew this voice, right? Of course I knew it by heart. It's…a girl…called me niichan so she's my…imoto?

'Please'

I eventually half-opened my eyes. A cluster of lights was shining. Not like the one which hurt me. They're warm and beautiful…so beautiful. Like the stars.

I reached out to touch the nearest one. Didn't know how I reckoned but it was feeling sad terribly. Funny to say I stopped midair, unrealized. I touched the surface. I knew at once it's something so important to me. It's calling me…to come back. Other lights were doing the same, calling me, feeling as horrible. In a sudden I didn't want them to feel that way.

I made up my mind I would…come back to them…somehow.

I closed my eyes, gave in the need of rest while my heart remembered the promise of coming back

I promised.

What in the hand of god! I swore the time was paused in a moment. I didn't remember to breath. That thing was…it was

Taichi-san's hand! Moving!

"…nii-chan…" Hikari whispered, stunned and shocked ever more.

We all gaped, unbelieving our sight. His hand lingered on Hikari-chan's face as if it tried to sweep the tears. No one spoke. 2-3 seconds after the hand fell in slow-motion to its owner side.

I blinked. Was it a dream? He's still unconscious. He could not have moved. But

"Someone call Dr.Ayano! Hurry up!"

"Get him in his room! Come on! Everybody out of the way, please!" the bed was dragged out, so Hikari-chan had to let go of her grab, still stunned, followed by footsteps of running, someone shouting.

This was turmoil.

"What happened?"

"He raised his arm, Dr.Ayano. This way! "

"How? It's impossible! Did you check his brain wave?" and they'd gone.

The last thing I knew was that I was stiff there, watching the screen play by.