The Authoress's Most Sincere of Apologies

and the whatnots

O.M.G. I am so very sorry for what I've done to you all! Here I was, leaving you all in waiting, not updating my stories for the LONGEST time. I'm surprised I still received comments from a lot of you, wondering if I would update or something! I'm so sorry I haven't! I'm not quite sure I can.

As years passed, I continued writing and my style changed, and I realized that a lot of my stories had plot holes and parts irritated me. I wasn't sure I could continue them, and I highly doubt I will make my goal in finishing them and a new one by my high school graduation in May (so soon already, I can't believe it's been so long since I've updated!), but I can still try!

For you all, I've listed what I plan on doing with my unfinished fanfics. This list can also be seen in my profile area.

List of Updates

Insanity: Will be Continued. The ideas are currently in the process of organizing, and I started some sketches on what I plan on doing with it. I will indeed finish this.

Finding Love: I'm going to update this soon. I forgot where I had planned on going with this, but I plan on finishing it soon!

Don't Want to Be Here: I'm going to update this, I swear. YuGiOh drama is gonna get a hell of a lot funnier!

Rescuing Serena: I found a LOT of plot holes in this. I might rewrite it. If I don't, though, I might end up just writing a quick chapter or two to end it and be finished. I'm sorry, to fans of this, but I think it's going off the walls. I do like this, though, but if I end up finishing this, I might connect it with Insanity to see how it works.

Undying Passion: Gonna finish it, eventually.

And my Latest Project, Friends/Enemies 100: The Collection: In this, I'll have 100 fanfics centered around Taichi and Yamato (Taito, anyone?), and I'll get to posting them soon! They'll mainly be a set of one-shots, though I might write some with more than one chapter.

Well... now onto the new fic! So far, it's in its working stages, and I'm not sure where I want to take it, either, but if I work steadily enough, it'll be finished or something. I'm just hoping you like it. You'll need to know a few things for this fic, because it takes place in this futuristic universe.

Story Background

At the end of the Zero-Two series, the digidestined learned from Jennai that the digimon weren't fit to live in the human world for long. They found out that their digimon had lived in the human world for far too long, and would be be returned to their cycle of life and returning to Primary village. Not wanting to go through the loss, the digidestined decided to let their digimon stay in the digital world.

Now in the future, twenty years after they let their digimon return to their natural world, this fic takes place. The digidestined return constantly and spend time with their digimon, but now real life has become difficult to manage, balancing families, jobs, and social lives in the real world as well as their trips to the digital world.

Current scientific projects, such as Project DDM from Izumi Corporations, are working on a balance between atoms and data, in order to give digimon an easier time in the Human world, and vice versa, but that is all as of yet.

Title Credits

"Causeway to neverwhere" is a line in a song by Coheed and Cambria.

"Three Evils (Embodied in Love and Shadow)", In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, Equal Vision/Columbia Records, 2004.

Now that's really it, on with the fic!

Causeway to Neverwhere

Chapter One: Calls and Distractions

The living room phone rang, soon echoed by the phones in the kitchen, master bedroom, and back office. All of these sounds had startled both Miyako and the toddler on the ground next to her. Quickly, the woman bolted from her spot on the floor in the back bedroom and hurried to the nearest phone, in the kitchen. "Moshi moshi. Ichijouji Miyako desu," she answered calmly.

"Miya-chan, it's Mimi," the other voice spoke, sounding tired but excited. "How are you?"

"Just fine," Miyako replied, "a bit annoyed, but fine."

"Annoyed? With Sammy?" Mimi asked.

"Not with her, per se. She just cries so much, it's my fault I let her." She sighed softly, then spoke again. "And how--"

"That's not all, is it, Miya-chan?"

The younger one hesitated a moment, then sighed. "No. Ken was in another shoot-out."

Mimi almost dropped the phone, but before she was able to ask about it, a loud thud was heard, followed by the sound of crying on the other end. Quickly telling Mimi to hold on, Miyako set the phone down and rushed back into her daughter's room, to the small child sobbing on the carpeted floor. She picked up the girl and carried her to the kitchen, rocking and soothing her to hush a little before picking up the receiver again.

"Sorry about that," Miyako said. "Sammy started crying."

"Mama..." Samantha whispered, her small hands reaching up for the receiver. Miyako didn't notice.

Mimi smiled slightly. "Cute, you gave her an American name. But you were telling me about the shoot-out," she added quietly.

Miyako sighed softly. "Yeah... he took a bullet to the breastplate, but shot the guy," she replied. "He was fine, but it just worries me. Why do guys like these dangerous things?"

"Because guys like doing crazy things," Mimi replied. "That's one thing I'm glad Koushi--" Her phone went dead.

"Strange..." Miyako murmured, looking at her phone. Though Samantha held it also, the little one hadn't pushed any buttons. Something had most likely happened at Mimi's. Probably the cat. She hung up the phone and looked at her daughter, who stared up at her with her dark eyes. She had her father's eyes. Miyako smiled slightly at the girl. "You're the cutest, know that?" she said, kissing her child's forehead gently.

The small one giggled, then reached up again, this time grabbing at her mother's hair. "Mama! Joos..."

"Does my baby want some juice?" Miyako asked, making her way to the refrigerator. She pulled out a sippy cup still half-full with apple juice and handed it to Samantha, who smiled and immediately took the spout into her mouth, drinking away happily.

The phone rang again.

"That's probably Mimi," Miyako guessed.

"Aunt Mimi!" Samantha said anxiously over her drink cup. "Wanna answuh!" By the third ring, Miyako had held the receiver to her ear and she got to answer. "Moshi moshi, Ichijohji S'mantha desu!" she said, her voice slow and cautious. She smiled brightly as she looked up at her mother with a bright smile, proud of her response.

"Oh, you're so bright!" Miyako praised, giving the girl another kiss on the forehead.

"Konnichiwa, Sammy-chan!" the voice on the other end spoke to the toddler.

"Aunt Mimi!" exclaimed Samantha happily. "Hi!"

"Hi, sweetheart, how are you?"

She giggled, then hurried to shove the phone back to Miyako. The woman took the phone from the girl's ear and held it to her own. "Hey, Mimi. Sammy went to finish her juice."

"Oh yes, juice over family. But yeah... cat chewed the wires again. I think I'm going to have Kou-kun tape those down..."

"You should just train the cat," Miyako said. "Like a child. A smack when something goes wrong." She then laughed, Samantha staring wildly. "Kidding, my lovelies." Gently, she planted another kiss on her daughter's forehead.

Mimi laughed dryly. "I'll think about that, if you reconsider your sense of humor." She had moved to speak again when she heard three sharp taps on the other line. "You sound busy," she commented.

Miyako sighed. "You should visit me, these phone conversations aren't going to last. Be right back." She set the phone on the counter and walked to the door, opening it. "Konnichi--waaaah!" She didn't return to the phone.

At the sound of the scream, followed by silence, Mimi knew something had happened. She set the phone down and hurried to her son's room, scooping the child into her arms. He had been taking his afternoon nap, curled up in his blue blanket, hugging his toy bunny tightly, but he stirred when he was fulled from his matress.

"Mommy?" he murmured sleepily.

"We're going out for a little bit, okay, Hiro-chan?" she said. She took him into the kitchen, letting him cling tiredly as she prepared two sippy-cups for him, throwing them into a diaper bag. Slipping on her flipflops, she grabbed her keys, locked her door, and hurried to her car.

By this point, her son was a bit concerned. He was still sleepy, but he watched her with a frown as she hooked him into his carseat. "Mommy, wha' 'appen?" he asked, stifling a yawn.

"We're going to see if Auntie Miya is alright, okay?" she answered. "It might take a little while, though, and I can see that my little soldier is still pretty sleepy."

Hiroshi nodded, then yawned again, closing his eyes. He was stil holding his toy, still wrapped in his blanket. As long as he didn't worry, it was going to be okay. Mimi hopped into the car and took off.

end of chapter one

Okay, that's all for chapter one. Please, read and review, and I hope you all enjoy!

Sorry it's a bit on the short side, it'll get longer as I add more that I write, kay?

Questions/Comments/Concerns/Flames/Whatnots, Please review or email, feel free!

Thanks, and have a good life...?

Darkie.

PS. '07, biznatch!