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Chapter 2: Old friends
Fire: See ya
Earth: Bye
Wind: Good as gone
Wood: Guess I'll make like a tree and leaf
Ice: That was horrible but I have to go too
Light: See you in a few weeks
Lightning: What are you talking about, except Fire, we all live in a five mile radius of each other.
Darkness: You'll see
Steel: Since you're so knowledgeable you don't you tell us what's going on.
Water: Like the Ying-Yang twins said, you'll see.
I had been trying to figure out what Chiaki and the twins were planning for the past half-hour. It was pointless to try and figure it out. I knew something was going to happen, and now it would be a question of where and when. It beat the last time, when I found out something was going on by having a girl tell me we were on a date. I also knew it would all be Chiaki's doing, that girl was a piece of work. As much as I hated to admit it, our friendship most closely resembled Kari and TK's, but were they were similar, me and Chiaki were different.
Flashback
"If were going to win we need we need to work together," Takuya yelled at the brown haired girl.
"I know that, but you need to get your head out of your but and listen to what I'm saying. Brute force won't always work." She yelled right back.
Takuya sighed before continuing in a calmer voice, "I know that but in this case I think it will. Chiaki, I hate to play the experience card but this time I will."
"What experience card?!" Chiaki yelled before lowering her voice "Was taking that attack from Lithmon not enough experience. We've beaten three Demon Lords already, not counting Lucemon. And after-"
"Whoa, calm down, we need to both calm down." Takuya raised his is arms in surrender as he interrupted his companion, "why don't we start at the beginning and rethink this whole thing."
"Fine, but we're talking by the river." She said before walking towards the body of water. Takuya just stared at her retreating form. He had known she was really mad the second she lowered her voice. That was how it always worked he got loud and she got quiet. He went left, she went right. He rushed into things she planned, and somehow it always worked in the end.
End Flashback
I shook my head free of the memories. Chiaka would do what Chiaka did. She was a river eroding everything in her path, in the same way I was the fire that burned down anything that tried to stop me. That was the main reason we were each the leader of our own group. I glanced at the clock and sighed when I saw the time. I could stay up late, do my homework, and be tired tomorrow or I could just go to sleep. After several seconds of serious debate, I decided to sleep.
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The next day I was 'late' for school. The second I walked into the classroom I saw TK staring at me, wait, correction. He was staring at my goggles. Sometimes I wander why Tai didn't choose him to be leader. He practically was anyways the others don't listen to me the way they listen to him. If we need a plan they always look to him, not me. In a lot of ways it makes me a little disappointed, I don't want to be some figurehead, they should either listen to me or make him leader. Mocking him may not be the best way to handle it but I try to keep it light. He is one of my best friends after all. The worst of it all was that they don't even realize that they do it. They are my friends and most of it they see as harmless teasing. Most of it is but I still long to see the look on their faces if they knew what I knew.
"Hi Davis," Kari said in greeting as I took my seat, "Why were you late?"
Okay, rub back of head, check, blush slightly, check, I went through the motions before speaking sheepishly, "I oversleep." I looked to see if Kari and TK accepted my response and signed in relief when they did. I took a moment to just look at Kari. Having been thinking of Chiaki past few days, her opinion of his feeling Kari came to the forefront of his mind. We had been talking on the phone shortly after I had 'found out' about the Digiworld and learned about Kari being the bearer of the Crest of Light.
Flashback
"She's the what!" Giggles erupted form the phone.
"The Child of Light and don't see what's so funny."
"Weelllll… you know how I like to say you and Kouji would be the perfect couple if either of you were gay."
"Yes" he replied slowly.
"Warrior of Light, Child of Light, you starting to see the similarities."
"I do not see what that has to do with anything; I liked Kari before I knew about all that."
"So what, the irony of it all is still there. Fire is basically physical Light, and Light doesn't naturally exist without Fire to give it life."
"True but" I pause of effect before deepening my voice to continue, "There is no hope without light, and light can't shine without hope."
"Where the hell did that load of crap come from, and who the hell said it." I laughed at the serious tone mixed with her phrasing.
"Only every single one of the original digidestined after they found out about my crush on Kari. Apparently she and TK are destined to be together."
"Before I even address the destined subject, where do they get off calling themselves original. We're the originals, we-"
"Chaiki, I calm down, they don't exactly know about us, remember."
"Whatever, about that destiny stuff. It's. A. Load. Of. Crap. Got it. We create destiny, and I mean that all most literally. Remember that for the hell of it JP and Tommy lined a temple wall with ten random marks, and according to you eight of those signs have become symbols of virtue. If light and hope are meant to be together, TK can have Kouji."
End Flashback
Looking at TK I laugh at the thought of him and Kouji together.
"Why were you wearing different goggles yesterday?" My laughter stopped-
"Oh Yeah, you were wearing those old cracked ones." Along with my heart. Think, think, think, oh duh.
"I couldn't find the ones Tai gave me so I grabbed my old ones."
"Where were they?"
"Under my bed," the answer seemed to satisfy them and I breathed a sign of relief.
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After school I was off to Ken's for Veemon. I walk down the street with a grin on my face as I think of my partner. He was the only one outside the warriors who knew about my past. I hadn't even planed on telling him, then the MaloMyotismon battle happened. No one but Veemon knows how we got out of it. The others are still trying to figure out what my dream was when the true is I never had one. Agunimon had saved me. Before anything could happen he appeared and told me what was going on. Veemon was also present for this explanation. After the fight Veemon wanted answers and I gave them.
I approached Ken's house and walked right in. Ken was the one person one the team who I might someday tell my past too. He is the one who treats me as a leader. They problem with telling anyone basically comes down to the Spirit of Darkness. I couldn't be sure how they would take it. Darkness had always been a source of evil to them and good Darkness would be hard for them to understand. The Dark Ocean fiasco didn't help much.
I go into Ken's room and find Veemon and Wormmon asleep on the bed. I looked at the computer to see my digidestined best friend staring at the computer.
"Why are you just staring at the computer?"
"It's nothing, something just feels off."
"Like what Ken?"
"I don't know Davis. But like I said it's nothing."
"Okay, so how was Veemon them."
"Good, you left your digivice hear."
"Opps." He gave me back my digivice, and we talked until Veemon woke up. Then we headed to my house, there was no school tomorrow so I decided Ken could use some buddy time and had him sleep over.
AN: Thanks to Lord Pata, Von Karma Jr., Sightbent, Phillip Clark, Rubius, Zulaq, RedDragonforce 1, and SUNTAN 140 for reviewing.