Author's Note: I am so sorry for the lackof updates! All the reviews I've gotten have made me feel guilty about not updating in such a long time. I have had midyears and those ran right into finals (11 page paper midyear for english and a 9 page on for the final and that's just one subject!) I had planned ona February break update but I didn't get around to it since I was sick almost all of vacation (and midyears!). Now I did not go away so here is the update I have worked for two days on. I hope the wait was worth it! Ipresent chapter 17 of CotL!

Disclaimer: It's called a disclaimer right...that means I can't own digimon, Fruits Basket, Cardcaptor Sakura, Harry Potter, or anything else that people make money off of!

Children of the Legend

Chapter 17- Clues, Lies, and Surprises

Joe had just finished his shift at the hospital. It had been an odd day to say the least. First an unconscious boy came in that looked perfectly fine, then he awoke and his brother had a crest!

Joe's mind was swimming. It was a good thing that the gang was getting together tonight so that he might be able to share this information with each other. Izzy would be happy that they had found at least one crest, but that still left eight.

At this thought Joe's cell phone started going off. "Hello. This is Joe," he said into the phone.

"Guess what Joe! We've got a crest!" an ecstatic voice said from the phone causing him to pull the phone away from ear. "We got Mimi's from some girl that Kari has as a student come over now!"

That was it then he heard it click. 'Izzy was to hyper already,' Joe thought to himself. 'Imagine what another crest will do to him.'

Joe stated toward Izzy's for what was going to be a long night.

Takuya was walking home alone. He had left the others at a crossing a couple blocks back. Usually he walked most of the way with Koji, but he was obviously still at the hospital with his brother. The good news though was that Koichi was being kept overnight, and if the doctors found no problems he would be released the next day!

Takuya was deep in thought about Duskmon. How was it that he was back, yet Koichi was alright? Koichi had assured everyone that he still had his spirits and could strongly feel them.

Takuya reached into his pocket where he had the orange necklace from when he got his spirit and realized that the pink one somehow got there as well. Takuya did not think he brought it with him, but in the confusion with Koichi he might have on accident He wondered if the necklaces had anything to do with the return of Duskmon. As he was musing Takuya ran into what felt like a brick wall and feel to the ground. The necklace falling from his hand as Takuya broke his fall.

"Sorry, I wasn't paying attention," Takuya said pushing himself off the ground.

"No problem," a voice replied.

Takuya looked up and saw the face of the man with the chocolate hair. He had a goofy grin and everything that Koji used to complain Takuya had, excluding the goggles. Takuya briefly remembered seeing him at the hospital with the blue haired doctor that had been watching Koichi. There was no mistaken unless the guy had a long lost twin. Although, Takuya knew that this was also always a possibility considering Koji and Koichi's position.

"Are you okay?" the man asked with a cocky look of concern

"Yeah, I'm fine buddy," Takuya replied inserting the familiar 'buddy' to someone who was older and a complete stranger.

The man took his face off Takuya for a moment and looked at the ground, then stooped down picking up the necklace from the ground that Takuya dropped. The man looked at the charm for a moment with what almost seemed like a surprised look of recognition.

He looked up at Takuya and asked, "Do you mind if I hold onto this?"

Takuya was not sure what to think. A complete stranger was asking for the necklace that had come with his spirit. There had to be something special about it, but there was something about this guy. Something he liked and something that made Takuya feel that there was a connection between the two of them.

"Okay," Takuya said feeling that there was just someway that he could trust this man. "On one condition, you tell me your name and address so that I can get it back?"

"Sure," a large goofy grin spreading across the man's face. "Taichi Kamiya, friends call me Tai. I'm in the area. Tell you what meet me back here in a week or so and I'll give it back to you, k"

Again Takuya had the feeling that he could trust this man, Tai was his name right. Takuya knew that Koji would have a fit over this, considering the guy was to stubborn and suspicious for his own good, in Takuya's opinion anyways. He just would not tell the others what he had done.

"Fine," Takuya said, "'sides I have another one."

"Really!" the Tai said now looking like he would explode out of his shoes.

"Um yeah," Takuya said not really sure how else to reply.

"Can I see it!" he said just as excited as before.

Takuya did not reply and took the other necklace out of his pocket. This one, unlike the other which was orange with a sun design, was pink with a heart engraved into it.

"Can I use this one too," Tai replied.

Takuya felt the same feeling as last time. He felt he could trust the man.

"Alright but same thing goes for this one," Takuya said while nodding. "By the way name's Takuya Kanbara."

Takuya then handed over the other necklace to the chocolate haired man.

"I'll remember that," Tai said turning away.

Takuya continued on his way home thinking for some reason it would be okay to trust this complete stranger even though they had nothing in common. He was very wrong about that.

Tai could not believe his luck. He had gotten two crests off one kid, and the kid trusted him. That just meant that he had to return the crests on time.

It was the two minute walk to Izzy's new house that seemed like two hours to him. Tai ran the last few seconds to the front door and burst through it, knowing that it would have been left open for the stragglers of their little group that had grown during the years.

"Tai, late as usual I see," a blonde man joked while sitting on the couch.

"Very funny Matt," Tai said taking off his shoes and jacket to reveal his white dress shirt from work which had become untucked.

Matt heard Izzy coming down the stairs and Tai then got out of his way. In Izzy's hand was a crest but not the one he had mentioned earlier. It looked like a blue one, and there was only one blue one that Tai could think of…Matt's!

"Matt! Look what Joe's found!" Izzy said while shoving the crest under Matt's nose so that he could not distinguish it even if he wanted to.

Matt quickly pushed Izzy away just enough so he could figure out what Izzy was so hyped up about. As soon as he saw what Izzy was holding, he grabbed it out of Izzy's hand.

"I though you'd be happy," Izzy said while patting himself on the back.

Matt however, was looking closely at the crest. It was as if he was examining it for any kind of imperfection.

Izzy seemed to have read his mind and said, "Don't worry this is the copy." While saying this he pulled an identical crest of friendship out of his pocket.

"I believe you," was the cool reply Izzy was given. Tai however knew that Matt was very excited to see the crest.

Izzy all of a sudden took the leadership role calling everyone into the living room.

Tai could tell right away that not everyone was present. He saw Izzy of course, Mimi, Joe, his sister Kari and T.K. was with her, Cody, and of course his wife Sora (who he gave a peck to as the took their seats next to each other).

"Alright we now have two crests: friendship and Sincerity. All thanks to Mimi and Joe. Therefore that means we only have seven more to have them all…" Izzy looked annoyed realizing that Tai was just waiting to interrupt him. He was rocking back and forth and Izzy secretly thought that Tai was one of those kids that were never diagnosed with ADHD. "What is it Tai?"

"You mean we only have to find five since…tah dah!" Tai said taking the two crests out of his pocket.

Sora was so excited she jumped on top of her husband, gave him a passionate kiss, and placed the crest around her neck. Izzy could not have been happier with two more discovered, and Matt silently thought that it would have to be Tai who found both Courage and Love. That would only make his ego worse.

Izzy took the two crests with reluctance from the owners and disappeared for a few minutes before returning with identical copies.

"I am assuming you got these from someone so when you see the kid again you give that child these," Izzy said giving Tai the copies.

Tai pocketing the copies said, "I got them off a kid I ran into on the streets. His name was Takuya Kanbara and…"

"Really?" Kari interrupted. The pretty schoolteacher, always quiet and considerate of others, never interrupted anyone unless it was of utmost importance.

Tai just looked at her. "Yeah, why?"

"He's one of my students and good friends with Zoe Orimoto, the girl who had Mimi's crest," Kari said while still deep in thought.

"Joe," Izzy said now curious, "what was the name of the boy you found with Matt's crest?"

Joe seemed taken aback by the question at first and had to pause for a moment. "Well, I'm not completely sure. He was there visiting one of my patients, Kimura Koichi. They were easily brothers so I'm assuming the last name is the same. His first name was Koji though."

"Does that name sound familiar Kari? Koji Kimura?" Izzy asked the chestnut haired woman.

"No. I have a Koji Minamoto in my class though, and I know that his parents are divorced. Therefore I'd say they are the same boy," Kari replied quietly.

"I'd agree with Kari." the ever quiet Cody replied, "Koji Minamoto is one of my Kendo students and if I'd have to describe him, he's a younger version of Matt."

"That must mean all the kids who have the crests now know each other right! Kari, this trio, how many more hang out in their little group?" Izzy asked trying to contain his excitement and also prevent Matt and Tai from starting one of their friendly squabbles.

"They hang out together a lot, but they also have their own circle of friends that the others aren't involved in. As far as I know it's just the three of them. Sorry I couldn't be more of a help," Kari said sheepishly.

"That's alright Kari," T.K. said soothingly to his wife. "We've already got close to half of them and this will help."

"Right, it's getting late so let's figure out what to do next time and I'll e-mail the others about what happened," Izzy said getting up and yawning.

The group had already been in their so called 'meeting' for over an hour and everyone had work tomorrow so slowly the digidestined filed through the door after another interesting day.

"My minion, go terrorize the city. However, I want you to target those you feel will present a threat is that clear," a deep menacing voice said to a dark figure which glowed brightly for a few moments then died.

The figure shook its head and disappeared in a cloud of dark smoke.

Zoe was on her way home from Tommy's since his parents had gone out and his brother was now at college. She was thoroughly enjoying herself and looking forward to making a pasta dish when she got home. Out of the corner of her eye Zoe thought she saw something. It was dressed in blue and rather short. Zoe blinked and it was gone.

She continued home slightly unnerved and entered a dark street with few people on it. A woman pushed by her and Zoe got annoyed.

"You could at least say sorry you know!" Zoe said and continued on her way.

She only made it a few paces when the woman replied, "Ya' think ya' can talk ta me like that suga!"

Zoe froze in place and slowly turned around unfortunatelyrecognizing the voice…

To be continued…

Again I apologize for the lack of reviews and the pathetically short chapter. After such a long time without an update you probably expected 33 pages instead of a pitiful 5 but I wanted to get sometihng up. Here it is my pathetically short chapter. If you can find it in your heart, please review!