So here it is the next chapter

(Remember this was a adopted story alright.)

Credit goes to both Shara Raizel and animepotterfan for the first three chapters and idea.

Enjoy :)

Chapter 2: How We First Met

"He's in Tai's class, huh?" Kari asked Sora while they were walking home from school.

"Who?"

"Matt."

"Uh huh," Sora replied.

"How come you and Tai never talk about him?' Kari frowned.

"Well its like I said. Matt's a loner. He's nice, but it's just that we don't know him that well. In fact,"Sora frowned. "I don't think any of our classmates know him really well."

"Oh..."

After a few minutes of walking, Sora spotted someone at a corner.

"Hey Usui!" She waved at a handsome dark haired boy.

Sora and Kari walked over to join the boy.

"Hmm? Oh! Hey Sora. Where's Tai? I didn't see him in literature today," Usui asked.

"He caught the flu," Sora sighed gloomily.

"Yikes! Bad timing. Can he still make it to camp?" Usui asked again.

"I hope so," Sora smiled sadly until she spoted Kari looking curiously up at the boy. "Oh! Usui, This is Kari, Tai's lil' sister," Sora quickly introduced.

"Hi," Kari smiled shyly.

"So this is Tai's sister," Usui smiled back.

"You must be Usui Hatsu. Tai mentioned you a couple of times," Kari smiled.

Usui smiled widely before looking at his watch.

"Yikes! I need to go. Mom's gonna flip if I get home late again," He cried. He took off down the street, but paused to shout back at them with a mischievous smile. "Hey Sora! Tell your boyfriend that I hope he gets better!"

Sora blushed.

"Tai is NOT my boyfriend!" she cried angrily back but Usui was already long gone.

"C'mon Kari," She muttered furiously before taking off. They continued walking with Sora cursing under her breath but she eventually stopped for a stoplight at a junction. Stupid Usui. How could he say that Tai was her boyfriend? They were just really close friends. She'd known him since she was like, 5 years old…

~Flashback…~

Four-year-old Sora Takenouchi sat on the park bench glumly. There was no one around for her to play with and she'd gotten tired of playing in the sandbox fifteen minutes ago. There was no one but a few burly twelve-year-olds and a boy kicking a ball. Suddenly, she felt something hit her feet. The boy ran towards her to retrieve his ball.

"Sorry," the brown mop-haired boy apologized.

"It's OK," Sora sighed.

The boy cocked his head and asked, "What's the matter? You look sad."

"Nobody wants to play with me," Sora said sadly, almost in tears.

"I'll play with you," The boy smiled and took hold of Sora's hand.

"Really?" Sora looked at him with hopeful eyes.

"Sure!" The boy helped Sora up and took her to the place he had been playing. "Let's play some soccer!" The boy said, giving Sora the ball.

"What's soccer?" Sora asked, puzzeled.

"You don't know about soccer?" The boy asked, looking at her with incredulous eyes. "It's only the best game ever in the whole wide world! Come on! I'll teach you. I don't know much but all I know is that you kick the ball into a goal and if you get a red card you can't play and if you get a yellow card you get to kick."

Sora nodded. "I think I can play that," she thought.

"How do you get a yellow card?" She asked.

"…I don't know," the boy frowned and scratched his head thoughtfully.

"Oh..." Sora blinked before smiling. He was certainly an unusual boy.

"Come on! I'll teach you how to kick a penalty," He put the ball at his feet and kicked the ball. The ball rolled and stopped near her feet.

"Kick it!" The boy smiled encouragingly.

"Are you sure? I don't know how," She said doubtfully.

"It easy! Just kick it!" He smiled. "How can you say that if you've never tried before?"

"Okay," she said slowly, still doubtful.

Sora kicked the ball as hard as she could. The ball sailed smoothly across the park, over the boy's head and rolled to a stop at one of the delinquent's feet.

"Well, well, well. What do we have here?" the leader of the delinquents smirked at his cronies as he picked up the ball. His smirk turned into a grin when he saw Sora and the boy jogging towards them.

"Hey Mr, that's our ball!" Sora called out to the leader.

"Yeah!" The boy said angrily. "Give it back!"

"No way," the leader smirked, and his goons laughed.

Sora got so angry and upset that she kicked the twelve-year-old's shin. Hard.

"OW!" the delinquent howled in pain, dropping the ball in the process.

While the twelve-year-old's cronies gaped at the scene before them, the bushy-haired boy quickly grabbed Sora and scrambled up to the top of a high slide which was fortunately nearby.

Sora whimpered when she reached the top of the slide.

'We're so high up,' she desperately thought. 'It's so rusty too.'

"What if the slide breaks?" She whimpered.

"Don't worry, this slide is pretty strong," the boy smiled.

Sora gulped in spite of the boy's words.

The leader swore and began giving orders to his cronies. The three pre-teens began shaking the rusty slide.

Sora gasped when the structure started to wobble. Now she was really scared. The bolts holding the slide together started rattling.

"What are we gonna do?" She nearly sobbed.

"Don't worry," the boy said soothingly. The bolts rattled and Sora tightly closed her eyes.

"Ahhh!"

Sora's eyes snapped opened in time to see the boy falling out from the slide and land with a thump on the hard grassy ground, doubling over in pain and screaming in agony. The delinquents, wide eyed with shock, carefully took a few steps back. They'd just wanted to scare the kids. Not hurt them.

"C'mon," The leader muttered and all three of them fled.

"Are they gone?" The boy coughed.

"They are. Are you ok?" Sora whiped at the tears that had started streaming down her face.

The boy attempted a smile.

"I faked the screaming but I don't think I can stand," the boy groaned.

Sora looked around wildly and fortunately spotted a teenager nearby walking her dog whilst whistling a tune. Sora ran toward the teen, praying in her heart that she had a phone or something.

"Please, help! Help!" She shouted breathlessly when she was a few feet away from the teen.

"What is it?" The teen asked urgently, hearing the panic in Sora's voice.

"My friend's hurt. Please help him!" Sora begged and tugged at the sleeve of the teen's shirt, tears streaming down her dirty face.

"Come on," the teen took out her phone and let Sora lead the way back to the brown haired boy.

~The Next Day~

"Mommy, are you sure it's ok?" Sora frowned. She was standing in front of a door in the hospital, one hand holding a small bouquet and a small box of chocolates in the other.

"Yes dear," Mrs Takenouchi smiled kindly.

Sora smiled. "Thanks momma!"

She gave her mother a fleeting hug before she knocked nervously on the door. No answer. She opened the door slowly and saw the browned haired boy pointing at an ABC book and talking to a small baby girl with a whistle in her mouth.

"P is for pencil, Q is for queen, R is for..." he was saying.

"Rose," Sora finished quietly.

The boy and the baby girl looked up.

"Hey! It's you!" The boy smiled gleefully.

"Hi," Sora said shyly. "How're you feeling?"

She noticed that his arm was firmly wrapped up.

"I'm fine," he said, holding his arm. Suddenly he blushed. "Hey...I forgot to ask you the other day… what's your name?"

"Oh," she blushed as well. "I'm Sora, Sora takenouchi."

The boy smiled, "Hi Sora! I'm Taichi Kamiya, but you can just call me Tai. This is my little sister, Hikari. You can call her Kari."

"Hi Kari," she smiled shyly.

The small girl gave a small blow on the whistle and waved her small fists. Sora laughed slightly.

"Dear?" Mrs Takenouchi opened the door. "It's getting late, you can visit again tomorrow."

"Bye Sora," Tai smiled.

"Bye-bye," Sora said, "Oh! These are for you."

She put the flowers on the side-table and put the chocolate in Tai's hand. Tai beamed.

"Thank you," He grinned.

Sora smiled and walked across the room to the door. She closed it behind her slowly so that it wouldn't bang shut. They walked for awhile and Sora's mother saw a brown-haired lady with a ponytail.

"Toshiko? Is that you?" the lady gasped.

"Yuuko? It's been such a long time," Sora's mother smiled.

The lady laughed.

"How's Susumu?" Toshiko asked.

"Same as usual," Miss Yuuko shrugged.

"I'd love to catch, but I have to get going. Say hi to Susumu for me," Sora's mother smiled sadly.

The lady nodded and walked away.

"Mommy, do you that lady?" Sora asked, surprised.

"Yes, that's my college roommate," Mrs Takenouchi smiled as she remembered the good old days. "She's also our neighbour."

"Really?" Sora's eyes went wide.

"Yup. Her maiden name was Yuuko Tachibana, but now she's Yuuko Kamiya," her mother explained.

Something clicked inside Sora's head.

"Hey mom! I just remembered something. The boy's name is Tai Kamiya!" She gasped. "So does that mean that it was his mommy we were talking to?"

"I suppose so," Miwako smiled.

~End of flashback~

Tai had to start wearing a black brace on his arm after that incident, but even after the brace was no longer needed, Tai had started wearing an armband in it's place. Shortly after the incident, Tai and Sora became inseparable. They went to the playground everyday to play soccer. Sometimes Tai brought Kari with him. As they began their schooling, they became closer than ever to the point that Sora and Tai's moms secretly began to think that they were bound to become a couple someday.

"Sora, it's a green light,"Kari said to snap the older girl out of her thoughts.

"Oh, right," the older girl laughed, taking Kari's hand and walked across the zebra crossing towards their apartment complex.

The next day Tai was feeling better and was able to go to school. The rest of the week passed by rather quickly and without incident until Friday evening. It was the night before the day that marked the beginning of the summer holidays and in the Kamiya household Tai and Kari were getting ready for a perfectly normal summer... right?

"OK Kari, let's do a check," Tai told his little sister.

"Right," Kari smiled eagerly.

"Let's see…" Tai mused, going through a mental checklist. "Emergency rations?"

"Check!" Kari chirped.

"Hmm... Zoe?" Tai snickered, referring to the teddy bear that he had given Kari when she was three years old.

"Tai!" Kari laughed, elbowing her brother.

Tai laughed too but he suddenly started to cough. Kari ignored this simply because it was a normal occurrence, but this time the coughing didn't stop. Tai kept coughing into his hand for a good five minutes. When he finally stopped he was breathing hard, trying to force needed air into his lungs.

"Tai?" Kari whispered fearfully when he didn't regain his breath after a minute.

Tai was gasping and wheezing, his face pale and flushed at the same time. He gave a pitiful cough and saliva started running from his mouth. He couldn't breath now and his face was turning blue as he clutched at his chest.

"MOM!" Kari screamed. "Tai's having an attack!"

There was the sound of something crashing to the floor in the other room as Mrs. Kamiya dropped whatever it was she was doing and charged into the room with Tai's inhaler in hand. She dropped to Tai's side and guided the inhaler into her son's mouth before she pressed the release button in time with his next attempt to draw air into his lungs. Tai coughed, gasping at the end, but clutched at the inhaler in his Mom's hand to press the button again as he took another breath. They proceeded to do this a couple more times until Tai was breathing on his own again, his air passages now cleared.

Tai just seemed to melt into his mother's arms as the effects of the attack sapped what remained of his energy.

"Susumu, take Tai while I go get the car," Yuuko Kamiya quietly told her husband who had been watching quietly from the doorway.

Susumu Kamiya only nodded as he moving further into the room to take his son from his wife. Kari remained where she was sitting, trembling as she watched her dad lift Tai effortlessly in his arms while her mom headed out the door, grabbing things as she got ready to leave the apartment. Tai had just had a major asthma attack. It had been a while since he'd had one that severe.

"Kari, Mommy and I are going to take Tai to the hospital so that the doctors can check on him ok, sweetie?" Susumu smiled sadly as he eyed his daughter.

"Can you be a big girl and watch the apartment for us?"

Kari nodded.

"…He's going to be alright, isn't he Daddy?" Kari asked, tears in her eyes. "Tai's going to be better in the morning and go with me to camp… isn't he?"

"…I'm sorry Kari," he father sighed. "I don't think that Tai's in any condition to go to camp this year. You can still go with Sora tomorrow. Your mom and I'll call Sora's mom after we get Tai to the hospital. She can give you a ride to the bus tomorrow."

"…'Kay," Kari sniffed as she watched her dad take Tai away, knowing that he was right.

It didn't really hit Kari until she heard the door to the apartment shut behind her Dad. …Tai wasn't going to go to camp this year. Kari would have to attend her first summer camp without him. How had things gone so wrong? Nothing seemed to have set Tai off to have such a severe attack! No matter how much

Kari thought about things, she couldn't think of what had aggravate his asthma. All he had done was laugh… Was that it? Was the laugh what had started the attack? If so then-!

Kari felt tears rushing to her eyes. She had caused Tai's attack. She'd made him laugh. It was because of her that Tai wasn't going to come with her and Sora to camp… No. She couldn't think like that. She knew deep down that it wasn't her fault… but what other explanation was there? This question plagued Kari the rest of the night as she fell asleep and even during the quiet car ride with Sora and Mrs. Takenouchi the next morning to the school where the camp buses were waiting to load the other eager campers.

The second chapter done, I feel you Tai, having asthma sucks, considering I have it.

Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter because I sure did when I read it ^^

Special thanks to Shara Raizel and animepotterfan for the story :)

The next chapter is on it's way.