Bound: this chapter came fairly easy though i could just be saying that since i'm half-asleep

Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon. in furture chapters i will not be putting a disclaimer. i think by now we all know i don't own it.

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" Where's Kouji?" Kouichi echoed Takuya's question. Kouji's gone. He'd had that thought many times but saying it, saying it would make it real. Telling someone 'Kouji's gone' would mean he really was gone. He'd thought that he had been taking it pretty well but the brunt of the shock must just be hitting him. He could feel himself start to get shaking and dropped his head into his hand.

" Kouichi! Whats wrong?" Izumi didn't know what else to do, so she just rested her hand on his back. Kouichi was usually calm in front of people, and she didn't know how to comfort the boy. " You guys!" She hissed to the others, "Are you even going to try to help?" Junpei moved to Kouichi's ther side and put his hand on ther smaller guys shoulder.

"It'll be okay, Kouichi." The bigger boy felt awkward. Usually he used tricks to cheer people up but he had a feeling Izumi would get mad at him if he tried that now.

" Seriously, you're freaking me out."

"Takuya!"

" Sorry, well what do you want me to say?" They started to go back in forth and their voices drowned out the darker haired boy's.

" He's gone," Kouichi whispered. " He left me and Shibuya, and he isn't coming back." Junpei gave a start at these words. He was the only one paying attention to the boy right now and was suprised at what he heard. When he turned his head back to the boy he was zoning bad. It would be awhile before he was back to Earth. Ignoring the bickering teens in front of him, he stood up and grabbed Kouichi's arm.

" Up you go," he pulled him up. " You don't look so good, let's go to the infirmary." Kouichi was to spaced to do anything but nod and follow his friend along. When Izumi and Takuya finally quieted down they were suprised to find that the others were gone. Takuya looked dumbfounded, and Izumi looked pissed that Takuya had distracted her.

"Where...?

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Kouji sighed as the bell for lunch finally rang. He could see why the class had so little people. How many people do you know who go " Flower arrangements? Yipee!" He would take stick figures over that class any day. The first thing he did when he got out of class was look for his locker, he wasn't going to carry around a whole bunch of stuff he didn't need. Let's see...73...79...84...92. There it is.

" Hi, you're Ken's cousin right?" Kouji turned around to see the other less annoying friend. She looked over his shoulder to the piece of paper he was holding. " Oh, it looks like we're locker buddies. Here," she pushed him out of the way gently and opened the locker. "I'll clear some space for you."

As she moved her stuff to one part of the locker Kouji looked at the images on the door. There were a lot of group images of the Ken, his friends and another younger boy. She also had some pictures with an older group of kids that also included Takeru.

"All done," she turned around and smiled. "Oh, did you want to put something up?" She moved to make more room but was stopped by Kouji's voice.

"No," he thought of the latest group picture he had taken with his friends and brother. Back in Shibuya one had been in his locker but now it would just remind him more that he had been seperated. " No I'm good." He set the stuff he didn't need in the locker and shut the door.

" Let's go, the others are probably waiting for us."

" Sure..."

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Kouichi rolled over onto his side. He was in the school infirmary, the nurse hadn't wanted him to chance walking home so he had to wait until school was out and a friend could do it. He had been in there for awhile and felt somewhat better, not as exhausted. He let out a small groan as he thought. He'd had a breakdown in front of everyone. He didn't think it would be so hard to tell everyone. To come up with some excuse and say "Kouji's gone, but I'm sure he'll come back in a few months."

But would he? Their father hadn't known how long he was shipping Kouji off for. He hadn't thought about anything, not his other sons feelings, how his sons friends might react. He had immediately decided he couldn't deal with Kouji and then given him to some stranger Aunt who neither of them had met before. He rolled over again and let his hand fall off the bed to his bag.He rummaged for his phone and checked for mail.

Nothing. Kouichi spared a glance to the clock, still half and hour to go. Fingers moving quick will experience from late night messaging, he mailed his brother.

Kouji? How are you?

What else could he say? His brother had told him he would be fine, he couldn't tell him what had happened. And ' I miss you, come back' was not the first thing he wanted to tell Kouji. Maybe their dad was right, and some time away would help him. That didn't mean he had to like it.

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"...pages 147 and 148. Go ahead and work quietly together." Math. Kouji was okay with math, this could work for him.

" Let's work together?" A voice called lightly to Kouji.

The dark haired boy looked up to see a girl with light colored hair and glasses. Yolei. Darting his eyes around quickly he realized that no other of the few people he knew were in this class. He looked up at her again and gave a grim nod of his head. Atleast she looked smart. Kouji was okay with math, but that didn't mean he was good at it.

"So, Kouji how long are you going to live with our Ken?" Kouji was prepared to give a short answer to her question when he felt his cellphone go off. Silently of course.

" Just a second," he said reaching into his pocket.

" Mail? Oh don't worry I'll cover for you!" She nodded her head in agreement with her self.

Checking where the teacher was (at her desk ignoring the students) he flipped open his phone to see a message from his brother. Kouichi...he felt a slight pang of guilt followed by a longer one of longing. (AN: um not like that, twincest doesn't bother me but i don't think i could right it) He had yet to contact his brother, and since they had come back from the digital world they hadn't been apart for more than a few hours. It had been almost a full day since they had seen eachother and Kouji was starting to feel the effects too.

'Nii-san, I'm fine. It's not so bad up here.

He didn't want his brother to know how bad he missed him. Nor that even though he was here to stop, he had already added new marks to his collection. He closed his phone and replaced it in his pocket. Looking back at the teacher to make sure he hadn't got caught, he was starting to think she didn't really care what happened in class.

"Who was that?" The girl next to him asked. Her tone slightly dampened when she asked her next question, " Was it your girlfriend back home?" Just to see if it would get her to leave him alone he replied like he did.

" Yeah, she just wanted to say she misses me."

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Bound: End chapter four. Had to make Kouji be a little mean towards the end, Yolei kind of annoys me. I know I said last chapter that I was going to have Ken find out abou thte cutting but I changed my mind. Please tell me what you think of this chapter.

Next chapter(hopefully): A phone call, a visit and a shrink.