Notes: in the end of the chapter.

PART 8: AU REVOIR

Three years has passed after Belial Vamdemon last battle, and two after Diablomon's counterattack. Now the Chosen were older and some of them following their own paths, but Taichiwas still unsure about what to do.

"Hey, don't forget to write what career do you want, Yagami."

Taichi nodded, and left the room with the other students. He knew that he had no idea what to write, what to be and how to act like an adult. Because he's almost one, and he had to grow up someday.

His best friend wasn't there though, but Yamato was. He was talking to Sora. Oh, that's not a good time to rant with a friend… Perhaps chat with someone who understands him…

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"Hey, senpai!"

Taichi glanced and saw someone at the door of his room. Wait, why was Daisuke there?! Ah right, Hikari had invited him.

"Are you okay?" - Daisuke frowned - "If you want to be alone I'm–"
"No wait, Dai. Please come in."

Daisuke entered in the room and sat on the bed, watching Taichi doing his homework on his desk. By what Daisuke could understand from there, it was English questions. And whoa, Taichi's English skills had improved a lot since the last time he had read Taichi's answers.

"Do you miss them too? Or am I the only one who can't… Deal with it?" - that question made the boy blink. Oh, Taichi was sad because of Agumon?

"Yeah, I miss them. I'm sorry for that…" - Dai sighed.
"It's not your fault… They can't live in this world" - Taichi stopped answering the English questions to look at Daisuke.

"Not my fault… But I had the power to open the gate" - he muttered - "Our D-3 could open the gate… Now we can't…"

"It's okay, It's not like the gate will not open again anymore, you know?" - Taichi smiled, but inside he felt like he wasn't trying to cheer Daisuke up, but himself - "We will see Agumon, V-mon and the others someday."

"Middle School is terrible!" - Daisuke lied on the bed - "Man, I feel like my classmates hate me! Except for Hikari-chan and Takeru and Miyako, but Miyako is from another grade."

"Yeah I felt the same… But I had Sora and Yamato."

"So, what did you do?" - he sat on the bed again - "I feel like you could give me some help! I want to be cool for the girls too!"

"G-girls?A-ah I just kept being myself and that's all. It worked, I had a few friends–"

"Yamato-san said the same, and that he made a band with his friends" - Dai smiled - "Ah, and… And I want to spend more time with you two! It's fun, and I'm still your kouhai right?"

"Sure, but could you please let me finish my homework? Ah, and thanks for listening to me and my… Hm… Current problem."

The goggle boy smiled, then got up. He approached Taichi and pointed at the goggles on his neck - "They're the meaning of Courage and Friendship, right? The 'Good friends' sign, right? I promise you, if I open the gate again, I'll make sure to tell you first!"

"Thanks, Daisuke. I'm glad that I've met you."

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"Why did you call me?!" - Yamato was crossing his arms and waiting for someone. In front of him, it was Daisuke on the phone, talking with someone - "Daisuke!"

"Ah, wait!" - the other whispered to Yamato, then returned to the phone - "No, I'm fine, mom. Just meeting Yamato-san and Taichi-san. What? They're my seniors and my friends, come on…! No, we weren't going to do something dangerous, we're just in the park."

"What's going on?" - Taichi appeared from the right and stopped in front Yamato - "Did Daisuke open the gate? Are we going to–"

"No idea" - Yamato shrugged. Then he heard Daisuke hanging up the cellphone - "And now you can ask him because his mother finally hang up."

"Okay, I…" - Daisuke turned back to Yamato and Taichi - "No, Miyako couldn't open the gate. Sorry, but… I think we should spend time together, like the good old days."

"So that's why you called us here?!" - said both, but Yamato's tone was angrier than Taichi's, who seemed to be confused.

"Yeah. Sorry?" - he apologized with puppy eyes. That technique had always worked on the others, so why it will not work with these two? And that made Yamato glance at Taichi, who gave him an expressionless gaze, then the older ones shrugged - "Ah, thank you! See, we could talk about that time we went spent together, and don't forget about our other friends."

He meant Agumon, Gabumon and the other Chosen and their partners. And the worldwide Chosen they had met before. But mostly Agumon, Gabumonan V-mon.

"I'm still trying to deal with… Living a normal life without them around" - he murmured - "I've used to V-mon waking me up every day, to gather the others in the computer room, to open the gate and going to the Digital World, to fight bad guys… To see you and the others helping us to fight the Kaiser, Archnemon and Mummymon, Black War Greymon…"

"Let me guess, you're missing them" - Yamato sounded very rude.

"And don't you, Yamato?" - Taichi said, staring at Yamato with narrowed eyes.

"Of course I do! But… I can't let it stop me from living!"

"He's right" - Daisuke nodded - "But it's hard to me! I wished to be a Chosen since I saw you guys fighting Vamdemon!"

Ah, Taichi had forgotten that. That Daisuke had witnessed them fighting Venom Vamdemon and this had been the reason he had wanted to be a Chosen, and possibly the reason that he had no fear about Belial Vamdemon. The others had learned about that later, and they had understood why Daisuke tried to be stronger in front of them – Because he had admired the Chosen since his seven years old.

Yamato just patted Daisuke's hair, like if he was comforting the little guy. And he didn't say "I told you so" to Taichi. That's not something Yamato would do though.

"All of us are missing them, but they wouldn't like if we stop living" - he said, now giving a smile to Daisuke - "I'm sure they miss us too. They're waiting for the next time we can meet again. We mustn't stop believing."

"Yeah…" - Taichi whispered to himself - "Agumon is waiting for the next time the gate get opened to see us. He and the others."

"It must be hard to you, Daisuke" - Yamato continued - "But we suffered the same six years ago. We thought we wouldn't see them again, but the gate opened a few times so we had the hopes that one day we can go to the Digital World again. And it happened. We fought a new enemy with your help. Without you, we wouldn't beat Vamdemon."

"That's not true!" - Daisuke interrupted - "B-because… I'm not special, I'm… myself!"

"And that's what makes you stronger" - he chuckled - "Our hot blooded mini-Taichi who impressed all of us!"

Taichi was very pleased that now Yamato and Daisuke are talking and giggling that he remained silence, with a smile on his face. But that was what he wanted: At least Daisuke had stopped pairing him with Sora.

"Senpai?" - Daisuke called him.

"Uh, what?"

"You're smiling, that's good! You were sad yesterday."

"Was he?" - Yamato asked.

"Yeah, because of Agumon."

"B-but I'm feeling better today!" - he said - "How about going to eat something? Ramen anyone?"

"YAY, RAMEN WITH TAICHI-SENPAI!" - Daisuke hugged Yamato, who made the other blush a little.

"Hey, let me go! You're hugging the wrong senpai!" - growled Yamato.

"Daisuke, Yamato doesn't like hugs. Except if is Gabumon hugging him" - Taichi chuckled.

"TAICHI!" - Yamato shouted.

Taichi and Daisuke laughed, then they left the park.

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The skies were red and now he felt himself falling…
He couldn't feel his body when he hit the ground.

The goggles on his hair, the D-3 lying on the ground and far away from him.
His comrades falling… Their partners' screams…

Everything had become red… Then… black.

"T-Taichi…senpai…"

That was the last thing Daisuke thought about before passing out.

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A writer's thoughts:

This chapter... I wrote it In Jan of this year. I hated it. I wanted to write silly Daisuke interacting with Taichi and Yamato. And then I made this.
I added feels in the story.
And this chapter is me taking advantage of the angst feeling I was having from tri. The scene I've rewatched more the times weren't with the Adv kids. It was that one. And also the agents, because I'm in love with Daigo and Maki.

Now I'll let you wonder what will I do with this fic.
If it get updates before Daisuke's return in tri., this means I decided to transform it into a game of "let's see how far I will go from the actual plot of the next movies".
This game is fun, kids. I have a thread (that was dropped) where we all decided the others had their memories erased and the 02 kids weren't "Chosen". And pt 2 showed that their memories are still there! THEY KNOW WHO IS KEN ICHIJOUJI! All of them.
But would that guy be Ken? I'm calling him Schrodinger's Kaiser because he can be Kenchan but he also cannot be Ken.

I need answers, right now; ASAP.