"A Kiss to Wake you…Totally Clichéd, But it Works"

I was writing this before, unsure of what pairing to make this, but I finally decided on making it a Daichi or Taisuke pairing, dedicated to Kyogami who asked for it. I hope everyone else likes it.

It's been a year since the Digidestinds had defeated MaloMyotismon and stopped Diaboramon and everyone seemed to have split up and is doing their own things at the moment.

Joe was at Tokyo University working to become a doctor, Yolei was with Ken, Tai was in America taking up a soccer program there, Matt was dating Sora and they were both touring with his band across the country, Mimi was back in Odaiba and was dating Izzy, Cody was busy with his kendo and Daisuke was just depressed because no one seemed to be able to spare a second of their time to spend with her.

She hasn't spoken with anyone at all in a while because whenever they make plans to do something with her, like go to the Digital World, they would cancel at the last minute.

Not only was Daisuke upset about it, but so was Veemon.

He wasn't able to spend any time with any of his fellow digimon friends because their human partners couldn't let them roam around on their own.

Not only that, but the two had just been walking in the park and were shocked to see TK and Kari on a double date with Patamon and Gatomon.

Veemon was heartbroken because he had strong feelings for the white cat and he turned away from the scene, running as fast as his legs could carry him.

Daisuke had gone after her dragon and was mad at her so called friends for not telling her that they were dating and also for letting her partner become heartbroken like this.

"Veemon, wait up!" she called him as they ran to the street.

Veemon was running blindly, his tears obscuring his view as he ran.

He was in the middle of the street now and wasn't even paying attention as a car was rapidly coming towards him.

Dai, who could see it, quickened her pace, her heart in her throat and fear gripping her as she ran.

"Veemon!" she yelled.

The dragon stopped and looked over at her and then he heard the screech of tires.

He looked over and saw the car and he was soon paralyzed with fear and couldn't move his body no matter how much he tried to force himself to do so.

He then gasped when he felt warm hands push him out of the way.

He rolled over out of the way and landed on the side of the road in a heap as he heard the yelling and sounds of panic that had erupted around everyone.

Veemon pushed himself up and then opened his eyes to look over to where the car was and saw that it was parked and a man was throwing open the door, running out to the front of his car.

"Someone call 911 quick!" he yelled.

People were all gathering around the front of the car to see what the problem was.

"Dai?" Veemon called as he forced himself up painfully, looking around for his partner.

He could sense her presence and could also smell her normal scent of raspberry and chocolate, but right now her scent seemed to be covered up by something else, almost as if it were being blocked out by another metallic, saltier scent.

He followed the scent and found himself being led over to where all the people were gathered and he looked through the crowd and gasped when he saw the most horrifying scent in his entire life.

Dai unmoving on the cold hard ground lying in a puddle of her own blood.

"DAI!" he yelled.

Veemon watched as the paramedics came and hooked his human up to different machines and then placed her on a stretcher and then put her in the white van to take her to the hospital.

Veemon snuck in on the van and stayed hidden as the van took his human to the hospital and he prayed to whoever was listening to him that she would survive this.

He continued to hide as the doctors all gathered around the burgundy haired girl and began checking her, using terms he was unfamiliar with.

They brought her into a surgery room and he waited outside, hiding behind a plant and just cried.

It was all his fault that Dai was in the hospital.

She had risked her life to save his, pushed him out of the way so he didn't get hit by that stupid car, but he didn't even move when he should have and now look what happened!

If Dai died then he would never be able to forgive himself.

Hours passed, dragging on for what seemed like an eternity as he waited.

He saw the Motomiyas rush into the hospital and watched regretfully as Dai's mother broke down crying and actually fell to the floor, releasing sobs that made her entire body shake like she was in physical pain.

As soon as the Motomiyas were allowed to see Dai, they all rushed in and were horrified at the sight of their daughter and sister hooked up to the heart monitor, her head wrapped up in gauze, her left arm in a cast, her right ankle was permanently damaged and she would never be able to play soccer ever again or walk properly.

To add to the horrible situation, Dai was also in a coma and there was no telling when she would wake up.

The Motomiyas stayed by her side until they all fell asleep and Veemon then snuck out of his hiding place and snuggled under the covers with his partner, listening to her steady heartbeat.

"Dai, I'm sorry. I wash supposed to protect you, but you where da one protectin' me. I promise that when you wake up I'll never ever let anything bad happen to ya again." He swore.

He then fell sleep in her arms and decided that he wouldn't part from her no matter what.

He was going to stay there until she woke up and he was going to be by her side to help her with her handicap.

(Three months later…)

These last few months were the hardest that Veemon had ever lived through.

Dai was still in a coma and didn't seem to be waking up soon.

Not only that, but none of the Digidestinds had even bothered coming to come see her, like they didn't even care that their friend was almost killed and that made him furious.

Veemon was sitting on the edge of the bed watching her peaceful face, unsure of what to do or say.

He just sat there and watched her and sometimes even talked to her, trying to see if that helped wake her up.

Her parents did that too, hoping that it comforted her in the darkness and would make her feel safe.

He heard panting and turned to see Tai run into the room, sweat and pain on his face as he looked into the room and saw his kohai on the bed.

"It's true." He said defeated.

Behind him, Matt and Sora appeared and they were both terrified by what they saw.

"Oh no." the blonde said.

"Poor Daisuke." The teenage girl gasped with tears in her cinnamon eyes as she held her hands up to her mouth.

Veemon glared at them all as they walked over to the bed and he stood up, holding his arms out protectively in front of his human, making them all stop.

"Stay away from her!" he said to them.

"Veemon, what are you doing?" Matt asked as he gave the dragon a shocked look that was also filled with annoyance.

"I don't want you people anywhere near her. Do ya have any idea how long it's been since she was in the accident? Three months and no one came to see her. No one!" he said angered.

Tai, Matt and Sora were surprised by that information.

No one had even bothered to come check up on Dai?

How could that be?

Sora walked over to the dragon as he bared his small fangs at her, warning her to back off.

"Veemon, please. We didn't know. We just got back home. If we had known any sooner, we would have come to check on her." The child of Love pleaded with the protective dragon.

Veemon was listening to her words and he believed her, he could hear the sincerity in her voice and see it in her eyes, but it still didn't make him relax.

"Look, I just got home with them and called everyone to see how they've been." Tai said making Veemon's red eyes glance over at him.

"When I called Dai's place, I was horrified when her dad told me that she was in an accident. I also didn't know why Kari didn't tell me." Tai said.

Veemon backed down and let Sora go over to look at the younger girl.

She looked so peaceful that it was sad to think that she was lost in the darkness than actually sleeping.

Sora smiled softy as she gently brushed some of the spikey burgundy bangs back from her face.

"…They canceled on us again, so we went out to the park for a walk. When we got there, we saw Gatomon, Patamon, TK and Kari all out on a double date." She heard Veemon say and she turned her attention to them.

"Well, yeah, they've been going out for four months now." Matt said confused.

"We didn't know that!" Veemon said frustrated.

"Anyway, I was really upset and I ran away and I wasn't lookin' where I was goin' and then there was a car and…I think ya can figure out where I'm goin' with this." The little blue dragon said with tears in his eyes.

"She saved you." Matt said.

Veemon sniffled and rubbed at his eyes.

"We've been so lonely and no one was payin' attention to us. It really hurt. An' no one came to see Dai at all." The digimon said.

Tai and Matt were both angered at this news, especially at their own younger siblings and Ken.

It was completely out of character for them and it made the two older boys wonder what was going on ever since they have been gone.

Sora kept quiet as she listened to what Veemon said, but she was also frowning as she ran her fingers through Dai's pretty burgundy hair that seemed to glow purple in the darkness of the room.

"Who are you people?" a female voice asked making the three Digidestinds turn around to see a woman dressed in a light green nurse outfit and she looked to be in her fifties with her long silver hair pulled up into a bun, her gentle green eyes and kind face that was creased with wrinkles.

Veemon assumed the stuffed animal pose, knowing the woman very well since she was always around to look after his human.

"We're friends of Dai's. We just came back into town and heard what happened and came to check up on her." Tai said.

The old woman nodded as she looked at the three young adults and saw the genuine worry they felt for the girl lying in the bed.

"I'm Taichi Kamiya."

"My name's Yamato Ishida." Matt said.

"And I'm Sora Takanouchi."

"It's nice to see some of Daisuke's friends have finally come to visit her. The poor dear. I don't think I would have the heart to tell her that. It would break her heart. It's bad enough that her leg is permanently damaged." The old woman said making the three freeze in shock as they looked at the wrapped up leg.

Oh, all hell will break lose when she finally does wake up and hears about this.

Soccer is her life, a very precious part of her and it would kill her when she finds out she'll never be able to play again.

"Oh, but where are my manners? I'm Kaede Matsuda, the nurse for this floor." The woman said with a smile.

"It's nice to meet you Ms. Matsuda." Sora greeted with a smile, fighting off the tears in her eyes when she thought of Dai's reaction to her leg.

"Please, call me Kaede. I'll leave you three alone with her then. Who knows, maybe she'll wake up for you." The woman said with a smile as she turned and left them.

The three shared knowing looks and then they all sat around the bed and just talked to Dai, urging her to wake up.

Unknown to them, the child of Miracles was able to hear everything that was going on around her.

She was trapped in her own mind, in a world where it was bright, sunny and warm with fields filled with flowers of all different kinds and she was sitting on a porch swing that was on a porch of a nice wooden cabin that had two stories.

She would just sit on her swing and would just sway as she listened to the peace that was around her.

Other times, when some people were in the room with her, talking, she would listen to them.

When she heard Tai's voice, she was excited and shocked.

Then when Sora and Matt came, she felt truly happy that some of her friends had at last come to see her, to check up on her, but she still had to wonder why the others hadn't come to see her.

Dai sighed as she got up from her swing and walked off of the porch, dressed in nothing but a sun dress that had a ruffled skirt that reached her knees and was a very light blue color that brought out her caramel skin.

She just started twirling around in the fields, dancing as the winds picked up and blew gently around her.

She really didn't mind being trapped in her mind, it was better than having to deal with all the drama she was going to put up with when she wakes up, but it was also unfair to Veemon and her family who were all worried sick about her.

Dai herself didn't know why she wasn't waking up, it was a total mystery to her.

Whatever, she'll wake her when the time was right, but she hoped it was soon.

A few more days had gone by and the three older Digidestinds had been taking turns with the Motomiyas in watching over Dai.

Sora had called Mimi and asked if she knew anything about her accident and the other girl was worried sick when she heard about it.

Mimi wasn't close with Dai, but she had spent some time with her before like when they went on that picnic in the Digital World, when the younger came to New York to spend the summer with her and Willis and when she was in New York during Christmas time to send the digimon back to the Digital World and had seen how sweet the girl was and the great potential she carried, so Mimi said she was coming back to Odaiba with Palmon to see Dai.

Tai and Matt finally confronted their younger siblings, who were both shocked to hear about what happened, but when Ken heard about it, he rushed over to the hospital and broke down at the sight.

He was terrified because he had already lost one person in his life that he loved because of a car accident and he didn't want it to happen again.

He walked over to the bed and gently took one of her hands in his.

"Dai, come on. You have to wake up. I'm sorry I wasn't here for you and I don't deserve to be asking you this, but please come back. I need you, Veemon needs you. We all need you, so you need to wake up. Please, listen to me. You need to wake up." Ken said desperately with tears falling from his eyes that were red from sobbing so hard.

Veemon and Wormmon sat back as they watched their two humans, hoping that Ken was the one that was able to wake her up.

Tai was watching from the door way as Kari and the others stood behind him, guilt and shame clearly written on their faces as they saw their friend.

Hours had gone by with the Digidestinds all apologizing to Dai, wishing her to wake up so that they could see her and help her with her permanent limp.

After everyone left, Tai had stayed behind and took a seat next to the girl's bed, noticing that her face had changed a bit.

Her lips were pulled up a bit at the left corner, looking like she was giving a small lopsided grin and that made the child of Courage smile himself as he took her smaller hand in his.

"You can tell that we're here, can't you, Dai?" he asked gently rubbing his thumb over her knuckles.

Dai, who was still trapped in her inner world in her mind, looked up to the fake sky as she heard Tai talk to her, listening intently to his voice.

"You have to wake up, Dai. Everyone misses you, especially Veemon and…well…me." Tai said with a faint blush making Dai gasp in shock as she stood up from her place on the porch swing.

The older Digidestind ran a hand through his hair as the other still held the female leader's hand and he smiled, deciding that he might as well get his feelings off his chest.

"I've always admired you, Dai. When I first saw you when you were a little girl, I was amazed by how brave you were to try and join in on us older kids' games and how honest you were. You always told people what you thought, not even caring what others might think. You grew up into an amazing person and I was so proud of you when you became a Digidestind and you even inherited my Crest! I thought the feelings I had for you were those a brother would have for a sister, but then I soon realized that…that wasn't it. It was more than that." Tai said making Dai bite her thumb nail as she waited impatiently for him to finish what he was saying.

Tai took in a deep breath, calming his nerves and gathering his courage.

He didn't know why he was having such a hard time saying it to her; after all, she was unconscious.

But he knew deep down that she could hear him and understood everything that he was saying.

It must be the fear of rejection that was keeping him from admitting his feelings to her, after all, Sora had turned him down because she had fallen for Matt, but that was also because he had waited too long to make a move.

Maybe Dai would also give up waiting on him and go for someone else, like Willis.

After all, they did seem close and girls always go for the sensitive blondes with deep blue eyes.

Meanwhile, Dai was still standing on her porch, her hands in fists as she waited for him to say what he wanted.

"Oh my God! Just spit it out already!" she yelled in her frustration.

The wild haired brunette gasped as he looked at the face of the child of Miracles, startled because he had thought he had just heard her voice ringing in his mind.

Her face now looked disturbed, her eyes were moving from under her eyelids as her fingers seemed to twitch.

He stared in awe as it went on, feeling hope swell his chest as he watched.

"Dai? Come on, wake up. Listen to me. I know you can hear me now, so listen very carefully to me. I need you to wake, please. Who cares about you having a bad leg now, you'll still be you no matter what, the same old Dai that everyone loves. So just wake up. Come on!" he urged her as he saw her nose scrunch up.

Dai watched as her inner world seemed to be fading out of existence and she quickly located a beam of orange light that was shining through the darkness that was enveloping her.

She ran towards it, happy that she would finally be leaving her mind scape.

She held her hand out and then stepped into the light, feeling the warmth that came from it and also the love that was inside of it.

Tai was now leaning over the girl as her body gave a bit more twitches and he then decided to just go for it and see what would happen, hoping for the best.

He leaned down and placed his lips down on her cold ones that were quickly regaining their warmth and the clamminess became smooth like silk.

Dai's eyes fluttered open and she felt a foggy haze slowly seep away as she felt arms circling around her body and a pair of slightly chapped lips on her own.

Her body stilled in shock as her eyes shot open in shock, but she was thrilled to see two brown eyes looking down into her own with a question in them.

Her eyes closed again as she threw her arms around Tai's neck and pulled him in closer to her if that were possible.

Tai was relieved as he got on the bed with her, holding her to him as they kissed and Veemon chose that moment to wake up from his nap and smiled brightly with tears flowing down his face in happiness.

"DAI!" he cried as he jumped on the two children of Courage, making them pull away as the dragon nuzzled into the girl's chest.

"Hey, easy there, Veemon. I'm OK, there's no need to worry." She said as she hugged him to her as he cried.

"But it's my fault. You never would have gotten hurt if it weren't for me. And your leg! I'm so so sorry, Dai!" he cried.

She bent down and kissed his head as she held him tighter, happy to be able to feel him.

"It's OK, I forgive you." She said as she smiled gently.

Tai watched them, then looked up as he heard a knock at the door and a tall blonde rock star walked into the room.

"Hey, Tai, what's up with all the noise? You're gonna make the nurses mad." Matt said, but he stopped dead in his tracks when he saw the burgundy haired girl wide awake on the bed.

"Hey, Yamato-sempai! What took ya so long?" the girl teasingly asked.

"Daisuke, you little brat!" Matt said playfully as he snapped out of his shock and rushed over to her, wrapping one of his arms around the girl and brought her to his chest in a hug.

"You have any idea how worried I was?" he asked her as he ruffled her hair.

"Not as much as Taichi-sempai." She chirped making the mentioned brunette flush as he then helped Matt squeeze her between them.

"Wanna repeat that, Dai?" he asked.

"Hey, hey, HEY! I need air here!" the blue dragon yelped.

"What is going on in here?" Sora asked with a frown and disapproval clear in her voice as she walked into the room, ready to tear the two boys out.

"This is a hospital, show some respect." She scolded as she stood there with her hands on her hips, then she dropped her motherly stance to see what had gotten the boys so riled up.

She looked at the burgundy haired girl and blue dragon being squeezed to death and then she quickly ran over and pushed the boys away and gathered the girl into her arms, hugging her in a gentle embrace.

"Oh, Dai! I was so worried about you." The child of Love said with tears in her eyes as she hugged the girl.

Dai giggled as she returned the hug with the older girl.

"I'm fine, really. OK, maybe not physically, but I'm still fine. Don't worry so much about me." She said.

"Sorry Dai, but after what just happened, we're spoiling you with our love and affection, so you better get used to it." Tai said as Sora let the girl go so he could pull her into his chest and Dai cuddled up to him.

"Yeah, by the end of the week, you'll be beating us with a broom to make us leave you alone." The child of Friendship joked.

"Nah, I could never get sick of you guys." Dai said as she held her arms out and the three humans and one digimon all reached over and joined in on the group hug.

News of Dai's recovery spread like wild fire the next day and everyone filed into the room, happy to see her.

The Digidestinds all apologized for ignoring her lately and she forgave them all and she soon learned that Matt had been right.

It was only four days and she was getting sick of her friends being around her twenty four seven, pretty much waiting on her hand and foot.

The only person who she didn't mind being around her was Tai since they spent most of their time kissing and cuddling up to each other as they watched something on TV and just talked.

Dai also got used to walking with her limp, hating the fact that she had to use a crutch for a while until she was strong enough to just use a cane, but the doctors let her get a wheel chair to use if she got too tired and she let the digimon play with it whenever they wanted.

Even though the child of miracles couldn't play soccer, that didn't stop her from going to games and helping the coach give her former teammates some pointers and watch them win their games.

All of this was done with Tai at her side, letting her do things on her own, but always there to catch her when she fell.

The end!