Hey I'm back! Sorry this took so long to get out. I recently had a surgery, so it's giving me a little down time so i can update! Hope you like the second chapter of Life as We Know It. Oh, & remember the last episode of 02? Yeahh, well, pretend that didn't happen either, because I'm switching everyones jobs around and stuff so it fits the story better. Oh and one more thing! I tried to find the names of some Japaneese schools, but I couldn't find many, & had to make some up, so If you know any that would work with the story, please tell me!
disclaimer- I don't own Digimon.
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Tai and Sora quickly withdrew their hands from each others and stepped out, only to be blinded by camera flashes and spot lights. The two lines slowly split to form one huge line across the stage. All the students sat down in their seats as the principal began one of those long and boring speeches. Sora looked over at Tai, maybe two minutes into the speech, only to see his eyelids drooping and his head falling. She quickly elbowed him to get that clumsy boy to wake up. Startled, Tai jolted his head up and quickly fixed his hat, which had now fallen to the back corner of his head. Sora giggled, then returned her attention to the principal as he started reading names off. Time seemed to go so slowly, but eventually he finished the A's, and moved on to the B's, the C's, and finally got to the K's.
"Thank God." Tai murmered to himself after he heard his name called. His foot had fallen asleep, and he needed to get up. "See you in a bit Sora." He whispered as he walked away. The girl watched her best friend walk away. He had grown up so much. Well, at least on the outside. She remembered back to when they were in 5th grade togethor, the year they first got transported to the digital world. She remembered everything they had been through togethor. Sora made herself blush as she thought of the time Andromon threw her across the room, and Tai caught her, and then again when Tai rescued her from Datamon. He promised he wouldn't let her fall down that huge hole, and he kept his promise. However, what made her blush even more was when she remembered what T.K had told her afterward. Tai cried for her. Tai cried because he let Datamon get away with her, and he wasn't brave enough to help her. The truth was, Tai was brave. In the end, it was him who saved her, he was the bravest out of all of them.
'OK OK.' Sora thought to herself. 'Stop remembering things or else your gonna look like your choking or something because you're getting so red.'
"Sora Takenouchi." Sora looked up. Finally, her name was called. She stood, walked over to the podium and took her degree from the principals hands. People she knew in the audience clapped for her as she walked on the other side of the stage, and took a seat. She tried to find Tai, who was most likely asleep again, since Sore wasn't their to wake him up.
'Well, at least this won't take much longer.' Sora thought to herself. They were already on the V's, and there weren't many letters left to go through.
A little while later, Sora thought she had dozed off herself. All of the students had stood up and began walking off the stage, towards the crowd. Sora jumped, trying to see over everyones heads.
"MOM!" she shouted, hopeing that her mother would hear her over all the screaming people. "This is ridiculous!" Giving up on trying to get the womans attention, Sora simply pushed through everyone. The air in the audotorium was getting hot and muggy from all the people talking and running around. Breathing heavily, the girl finally reached her waiting mother.
"Sora! I'm so proud of you dear!" She embraced her daughter in a warm hug, and togethor, they walked outside.
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Mimi Tachikawa collapsed on the couch. What a long, tiring day it had been. She glanced at her new diploma hanging on the wall, as it slowly sunk in. She would be leaving for Tokyo to become a fashion designer. She'd be leaving her friends, her family, and her old life behind to hopefully make it in the real world.
"Erggggg." Mimi sat up. "I'm not ready for this. I wish things were like they used to be. I already miss the carefree days of highschool already, and hanging out with all my friends... My friends! I have to keep in touch with all of them! Especially since I'm going so far away." Mimi suddenly felt unsure about her decision to go to Tokyo. What if she didn't like it there? She couldn't just come home. She'd worked throughout highschool to get an internship there, and she couldn't just back out of it.
The girl scratched her head. "I wonder if anyone else is going through this."
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"AGH!" Matt chucked his pillow at the wall. "I can't believe I didn't get accepted!" The outraged rock-star stomped over to his desk and crumpled the piece of paper on it. "Yeah, well, who needs your stinkin' college!" Matt stuffed the paper into his over-flowing trash can and collapsed on his bed. What was he going to do now? The Kyoto College for the Arts (Crummy name, right? This would be one of the college names i had to make up, lol. Oh, and Music is classified under "the arts" right? I don't know lets just pretend it is D) had rejected him! He was going to go to college there so he'd be able to play in his band and actually be able to go to college at the same time. Now what was he going to do? There weren't many other music-based colleges nearby. Matt smirked for a second and turned around to face his computer. "That's it! The internet has the answer to everything!"
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Izzy Izumi was probably the least worried of all the digi-destined. He was going to possibly the best college in all of Japan! Well, that wasn't a suprise once he told all of his friends. Everyone kinda expected that Izzy would get into a good college. After all, he was Izzy. Izzy was like Superman, he could do anything! Well, anything computer-related, that is. The red haired boy turned on his old pineapple laptop.
"Ouch!" Izzy jumped back as he got shocked. "Stupid outlet." He complained as he rubbed his sore finger. "Great, a scar." Indeed, Izzy had gotten a little white scare down the side of his finger from the shock. "Ergggg."
Izzy turned back to his computer. He was going through a bunch of his old emails, you know, just for laughs. He still had a bunch of old emails from Gennai, and from his friends when the digi-world wasn't in peace. Izzy was able to calmly look back at them now, since the digi-world was safe, at last. He took a sip of the drink he was holding, and decided to take a look at the rest of the old things on his computer. He pulled open a map of the digital world and stared at it. There were little red dots across it, indicating the locations of the kid's digital partners. However, Izzy raised an eyebrow. Something wasn't quite right. All of the digimon were spread out, like they normally were, keeping watch across the digital world, even thought there really wasn't a reason to anymore. What made it weird though, was that all of the red dots were headed towards the middle of the island.
'Hmm.' Izzy pondered to himself. 'I wonder what's there.' His thoughts were soon interupted by the telephone ringing.
"Hello, Izumi residence."
"Izzy? It's Tai."
"Oh, hey Tai, whats up?"
"Uh, nothing really, I was just wondering, I'm trying to get everyone togethor before people start leaving. Do you think you could make it to my house and hang out with everyone one last time?
The words one last time hit Izzy as if he had just been hit by a truck. He was so caught up in getting ready for college, he hadn't put much thought into seeing his friends. This would be the one last time that...that everyone would be togethor. Izzy let a drop of sweat drip down his face and melt into his shirt before he picked up the phone and spoke into it.
"S..sure Tai. I'll deffinitly be there."
"Ok, awesome! Be here tomorrow, k? Sometime around 6 would be good, is that ok with you?"
"Yeah Tai, it's fine."
"OK, see ya then Izzy."
"See ya..." Izzy put the reciever down. "What the!" Izzy glanced down at his finger that got shocked moments ago. Izzy ran his opposite hand across his finger multiple times, as if he was trying to rub off his own skin. "It's... it's gone.." The white scar across Izzy's hand mysteriously... dissapeared.
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Down the block from Izzy's house, Kari Kamiya was getting ready for bed. It had been a long day for her, but even longer for the older kids. Tai was already collapsed on the couch. Kari didn't understand why he was so tired though, he slept through most of the ceremony. Kari giggled to herself. He looked so, well, so much like himself up on stage, his head back. She could hear him snoring all the way out in the audience. It was a wonder that the Principal didn't hear him. The girl slipped out of her outfit, and into some PJ's. As she started to brush her teeth, she heard her poor stomache growling.
"Hmmm, a midnight snack would really hit the spot." Kari tiptoed back out into the kitchen so she wouldn't wake her brother. She rummaged through her cabinent and managed to pull out some chips. Kari sat down at the table, trying to keep herself awake as she ate. She took one look at her brother, and couldn't help but laughing again. His head was on the floor, and his feet were over the backrest. How the heck did Tai manage to sleep in such a position? Kari put the chips away and stumbled into the bathroom to rebrush her teeth. However, when she got in there, all she could do was gasp. She was back in her dress!
"What the... how in the world? Maybe you're just tired Kari, yeah, that's it." The girl rubbed her eyes over and over again, just to make sure she was awake, but when her eyes regained focus, she was still in her dress!
"Maybe.. maybe you didn't get changed, maybe you j..just thought you did, Kari." She turned off the bathroom light, and went back into her bedroom to change once again. "It had to be your imagination,Kari."
The brunette girl slipped under her covers and tried to get to sleep, shoving the incident to the back of her mind. But really, what just happened?
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Meanwhile, something in the digital world, something that no one had seen or fought before, was planning something.
"This is it! Finally, it is finished! Prepare, digidestined, to fight the battle of cough for your lives!
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Well, I hope you liked the second chapter! More will be up soon! Please review! Thanks
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