Pure Essence: I'm back and better than ever! (Just kidding!) Sorry for not updating for such a long time. A lot of Tests came up so I was quite busy. This is the last chapter I'm giving credit to my cousin, Ssilence, since she only wrote up to this part. Thanks to everyone who reviewed!

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Disclaimer: I Don't own digimon and never will…… too bad!

"Mom!" She cried, struggling to wriggle free of the flight attendant's grasp.

A large wave came and dragged her mother under the water.

"Aki!" Izumi watched in horror as her father dove in after her mother.

"Mom!" She cried, feeling tears streamed down her already wet face. "Dad!"

She screamed their names over and over.

End of Flashback

"I guess it's all my fault." Izumi said bitterly. "It was my idea to go to Paris."

"Don't blame yourself," Kouji said sharply. "Things can happen. You can't prevent it sometimes."

"Yeah." Izumi said carelessly.

"Izumi." Kouji said suddenly. "Do you believe in Destiny?"

Izumi felt startled. She wasn't expecting this question. She paused for a while before answering, "I don't know. You guys were my first and only friends. You've all been my fire. With you guys, I feel like I can do anything." Her answer was off. But that was what she felt.

"I see." Kouji only said.

"Will you hate someone if they betray you?" Izumi asked him.

"You're talking about Takuya, aren't you?" Kouji said.

Izumi hated to be read like a book by him. But he was speaking the truth. She was hinting a conversation about Takuya.

"Yes I would." Kouji said finally. "What really happened?"

"Takuya and I had been dating for three years." Izumi began wearily. She stood up and sat on the empty bed. Her blonde hair caught every glint of the moonlight just as it had did with the sunlight.

"He cheated me." Izumi said coldly and bitterly. "He dated someone else behind my back."

Kouji said nothing.

"You know, back then in our adventures in the digital world, I had a crush on him. I admitted that I liked him. And when our parents allowed us to date, we dated each other." Izumi said. "I was happy, because I had someone closed to me. Someone who would stay by my side forever no matter what. I guess I was wrong, huh?"

Again he said nothing. He only sat there and stared at the figure sitting on his bed against the pale moonlight.

"What did I do to deserve all this? First mom and dad, and now Takuya." Izumi said angrily. She gripped the bedspread tightly with her hands, squeezing until she can squeeze no harder. "Why is the world so harsh on me?" She demanded.

Kouji merely stared on. Against the moonlight with her worn face and slumped body, Kouji then realized how fragile Izumi really was.

(A/N: This one is a short one again…. Probably the next ones are even shorter. Really depends on the time I have to write..., which is not very much so…….. it might take me longer to upload after this chapter. Again, Thanks to all the people who reviewed!)