A boy of about fourteen was walking out of his classes. He has silky dark brown hair the color of Chesnutt with dirty blond highlights throughout his hair. The boy has on a pitch black shirt with the symbol for protection on it in a dark grey. He has a dark grey sleeveless over jacket on top of the shirt. He also wears dark blue pants with shiny silver chains that connect to the belt loops on the dark pants. He has on dark blue fingerless gloves with red lining the outside edges. He has on black shoes with dark red lining.
The boy walks down the hallway with a small frown as his friends slowly form around him. He had seen a girl he could have sworn he's seen before. He couldn't place where, but he could swear he's seen her. He held on tightly to his book. It was a book that went in depth into war strategies. The book was worn from years of reading and handling.
He had been reading this book ever since it had been given to him when he was six. The book, named Ender's Shadow, was given to him by a girl called Samiko "Sam" Holland. The thought of her is a harsh dagger to the chest because he hasn't seen her since her father died.
The boy's mother had explained about a year ago that Sam was adopted, and Mr. Holland was not her birth father. It didn't change anything, they were still friends. The fact was that his family was a complicated subject as well.
The only problem was that after Mr. Holland's death, his family had moved to West Shinjuku. He may have been in a different and new area, but the boy had vowed to never forget his first friend.
"Hey Ryan, are you alright?" A boy who was walking beside Ryan looking at the other worriedly. The boys name is Ryo Akiyama. Ryo didn't know what his friend felt like or who he knew before they met, but Ryo knew how much it affected the other boy for his family and first friend to be gone. Granted, Ryo doesn't know what happened to Ryan's friend, but he guessses it was just as bad as Ryan. Ryo has dark brown hair that is almost black and chocolate brown eyes. He wears a dark grey shirt, the sleeves and bottom have torn edges, with a pair of fading black jeans. He has on a pair of black fingerless gloves that are faded from being worn. He wears a red bandana around his neck. His shoes are white with red edging.
The boy quickly snapped out of his thoughts, "Yeah Ryo, I'm fine thanks for asking," As if to prove his answer, he gave an award winning smile that had everyone rolling their eyes.
"Never doubt him Ryo, he'll pull a surprise out of his ass," a boy named Kazu Shioda states with a smirk Ryan's way. Kazu is a boy with light brown hair and dark grey eyes. He wears a black shirt with light grey jeans. He has a light blue headband on as well as light blue wrist braces. He has on dark grey mixed with light grey sneakers.
The dark haired boy rolled his eyes at Kazu, but grew more alert as he heard voices up ahead.
There's six of us sitting together on a Trailmon when a suggestion is made.
"How about while we have a peaceful night, we tell each other a little about ourselves. I can hope that being in this dark and dreary place isn't going to attract more enemies," The boy, known as Takuya Kanbara, has my dark brown hair and hazel brown eyes. He wears a pair of red and black square goggles over an olive green baseball cap that's worn backwards. The goggles have a red rim with a black strap and black frames. Takuya also has on a yellow undershirt that has a black circular symbol with an unbuttoned dark red, long sleeve collared shirt. He wears a pair of Capri, coal black khakis with a pair of light grey sneakers. He also has on a pair of dark green gloves.
I don't know how to feel with what he just proclaimed. I mean I know he doesn't know anything really about me, other than the fact that I'm his twin sister, but do I want to go saying anything about what I've been through?
Takuya started and said some interesting things about his past. He talked about this one time when he went to camp and it started snowing. I remember that year perfectly, I didn't want to go to camp but my adopted family made me. I'm still not happy that they did either.
Takuya turned to me and tapped my shoulder. "Are you okay?" He looks at me with a concerned face and I can't help but nod. No I'm not okay, hell I'm never okay, but will I tell anyone that? No!
He looks doubtful, but leaves it be.
I guess I'll go next. It's not going to hurt. I think to myself before speaking up. "I remember this time when I was about ten years old, my older brother Tai decided he was going to take me, and have the two of us just have a day together. He went above and beyond to find things we'd both enjoy doing. He spent so much money on me that I-well I don't understand why he did it."
"Why do you say that? He obviously did it because he cares about you," Zoe, a girl with blond hair and blue eyes states. She has a blue and white shirt under a dark purple jacket with a light purple skirt. She has on purple sneakers.
"Why should he have cared about me when I'd only been with his family for a little over two years? Especially when I never treated him nicely. I never let him get close, so why did he do it?" I ask in confusion, desperation showing in my eyes.
"Because he knew you needed time, but that you also needed to be given the chance to open up," Koji, a boy with blue-black hair, says with what looks like empathy in his eyes.
"Why didn't you tell us that you had more friends?"
A fateful question that strikes through the air and snaps the dark haired female of the group out of her thoughts. The group of seven digidestined walk to the park to talk the situation over. The seven digidestined go by Samiko "Sam" Kamiya, Hikari "Kari" Kamiya, Takeru "TK" Takashi, Daisuke "Davis" Motomiya, Ken Ichijouji, Lori "Cody" Hida, and Miyako "Yolei" Inoue.
The youngest known as Cody has ear length light brown hair and dark green eyes. He wears a light gold shirt with a dark grey zip up jacket over top. He has light grey jeans and black and yellow sneakers. The boy also has on black wrist braces.
"I only met them one or two times before mom and dad caught me taking the train. After that I was only able to contact them through the phone. I never thought it useful to say anything about them, and I never knew they were going to be moving," the child of Determination states while staring straight ahead.
"Not that I'm saying you shouldn't have had any other friends, but I wish you would have mentioned them. And also, I didn't know you had a twin brother. That should have been something to give a heads up on," Yolei says looking at Sam with a frown. Yolei is dressed in the typical green high school uniform. Her hair is dyed a light purple color, and her eyes are a caramel brown.
"I met him three years ago and wasn't able to see him but once or twice before I couldn't. There was no point in saying anything if I may not have been able to see him anytime soon," her voice had an angered tone to it.
Everyone noticed this and decided to back off. She has a habit of being sensitive to certain things.
"What did your parents have against the trains? They're not any more dangerous than a car," Ken added questionably.
"They felt that the fast pace could go out of control, and end up off the track. They had read once that a conductor had lost control of the train, and wasn't able to regain the control back. He killed everyone on the train, including himself,"
The group of younger digidestined reached Odaiba park. The park was full of preteens just out of school. The most eye catching was swing set that had a boy with black hair sitting on the swing while a blond haired boy stood on the back. The boy sitting was getting the swing started while the other smiled like a maniac. Both boys were around the age of eight.
"Sam!"
Said female looked in the direction of where her name was called, and saw two boys around the age of twelve running towards her. She smiled brightly and ran to greet them.
One was Shinya Kanbara who has dark brown hair with some natural lighter brown highlights and hazel brown eyes. The boy was wearing a red and black plaid shirt with a black sleeveless jacket over top. He also has a pair of black jeans and blue and black shoes. He also sports a pair of black gloves.
The other was Tomoki "Tommy" Himi. He has medium brown hair that curls around his ears with blue eyes. He was dressed in a white t-shirt with the the warrior symbol for ice in a dark green. He has on dark grey jeans and grey and green sneakers. He switched his large orange hat for a smaller dark green baseball cap.
The three met each other halfway. "Shinya Kanbara. If my eyes aren't deceiving me; then you've grown a bit from your ninth birthday. I can't forget our strong little Tommy Himi either. Man, you've grown more than Shinya!"
"Well, if I knew any better; then, I would say this was the girl who kept the team together with Z."
The dark haired brunet whirls around and tackles the male wearing a green high school uniform with black and light blue sneakers. The boy has spiky light brown hair and dark brown eyes. The boy is known as Junpei "JP" Shibayama.
"Long time no see, JP. Must I say that it's nice to see that you have lost weight," JP rolls his eyes at Sam, "Also, green is not a good color on you. You should stay with blue."
The other digidestined were fidgeting behind her. She turned to them and gave introductions to everyone who needed them. All that happened before Zoe, Koji, Koichi, and Takuya walked up behind them.
"What's going on?" Takuya asked loudly, putting his hands behind his head and on his neck.
The boys of each group were the ones to jump. The girls looked at each other and rolled their eyes.
"I can see we're going to get along just fine," Zoe says as she walks off to a bench with Kari and Yolei.
"So I know we all just met and all, but how about we get to know each other?" Koichi states with a comforting smile.
Ken smiles back and agrees for everyone. The group of eleven walks over to an open clearing with trees. The group can see everyone in the park while they talk.
"What do the symbols on your shirts mean?" Koji asks slightly suspicious.
"They symbolize a virtue that we have the most of. For me, that's kindness. Davis is symbolized by miracles. TK has the most of hope. Kari, the other female in our friend group has the most of light. Yolei and Cody haven't figured out what their virtue is yet," Ken says carefully.
Koji found the way that Ken seemed to form his words almost perfectly suspicious. It was almost like he was trying to form a different story.
Ken fidgeted under the narrowed gaze of Koji. The others noticed, and Sam elbowed the warrior of light who coughed and averted his gaze.
The others in the second generation looked on in consideration, while Cody talked animatedly to Shinya and Tommy. It was a first for all of them to see Cody act his age and not older.
"Sam, how was your first day of school?"
The group of eleven had different reactions to the question that was asked by a teenager with wild brown hair in a high school uniform. Shinya, Tommy, and Cody jumped in unison with each other. Davis and TK saw the three, looked at each other, and then smiled. Koji, Koichi, and Takuya all looked to see who was speaking. JP and Sam just shrugged to each other while the two gazed at their surroundings for any sign of danger. Lastly, Ken simply just kept staring at the two boys on the swings with a small smile.
"It was good, Tai," Sam smiled, "I met a few friends I haven't seen in three years, so that is a plus. What about you guys?"
"Tai, Sora, and I have almost all the same classes, but our teachers are strict. Tai doesn't seem to care though. He already has the homeroom teacher giving him a death glare," Yamato "Matt" Ishida smirks at his best friend. Matt wears the green high school uniform with black sneakers. He has vibrant blond hair and vivid azure eyes like his younger brother TK. The boy's parents are divorced; ensuing different last names.
"So I messed up the experiment! That's not something to throw a fit about!"
"It is when the experiment results in your beaker being broken. Those cost a crap ton of money Tai!" Sora states while rolling her eyes.
"It's not like I meant for that to happen! Sheesh," Tai scowls walking away from the other three.
"Wipe that scowl off your face; it doesn't suit you Tai," Kari says as her, Yolei, and Zoe walk up to everyone else.
At the other end of the park, another group of humans were sitting and talking. One girl with red hair however was watching the large group of digidestined, whether they all knew it or not. She saw what looked like a large five foot tall wolf-dog with a spotted blue and grey fur coat.
She knew the wolf-dog had to be a digimon. The thing she noticed though was that he was staying near the dark haired brunette with the black clothing. She started to see more digimon hid throughout the park trees all close to certain individuals of the group. However, none were as big as the wolf-dog was.
The auburn haired female noticed that the others in her team were also watching the other group. One of her friends was eyeing the dark haired female with pain filled eyes.
"Are you alright Ryan? You seem to be looking at that girl very intensely," the auburn haired girl, Rika Nonaka, states to the boy beside her.
The brown haired boy looks at Rika and shakes his head. "I knew her when we were kids."
The whole group stopped what they were talking about and looked at the boy. He saw them looking at him and continued talking, "We were good friends for a few years. I knew her before she was sent to the orphanage that second time. She told me this when we were five, her exact words, 'my birth family never wanted me. They're living a great life without me, so why should I intervene and ruin it?'"
"Why would she think that?" A girl with long medium brown hair and a light green dress asks.
"What was she supposed to think? That they threw her out, so if she comes crawling back to them that they'll just accept her with open arms!" Ryan exclaims heatedly. His voice was growing a rougher and darker tone to it. "Yes that's exactly what she was supposed to expect. That the people that decided they didn't even want her would just take her in away from the hell she was in!"
The brunettes figure is shaking hard, to a degree that he can't contain all his pent up anger.
I apologize for the long wait, but i will hopefully now be able to keep up with my stories a lot easier for the simple fact that I now have a new computer. Well, anyway I hope you liked the chapter. The information you get about Ryan at the end won't be all you get, but what is given is going to be subtle just like Sam's character. I'm sure a lot of you can figure out where I'm taking her backstory.
On another note i would like to do a poll to see how many of you like the idea of Sam with Yamato. I know it's a completely random pairing, but I feel that he could give Sam the comfort shes needing without revealing that he's a fluffball. Some of you may be confused on that. Well, it's like this, Sam needs someone to be there for her but she doesn't need nor want anyone that's going to be giving an all out emotion fit. shes made it so many years on her own without collapsing that she just needs someone level headed. So there's my reasoning. Please tell me what you think; I would really like to know.
As always, please R and R.