Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ It's My Game ❯ The Missing ( Chapter 6 )

The boy with black hair paced the floor in the castle.

"Why do we have to do this? We could just get rid of them all and keep what we want." He shouted at the girl with him.

She was about the same height as him with the same dark black hair. Her eyes were dark and held an ice cold stare.

"Brother dear, you're just going to have to wait. They won't win, we both know that. Besides this is far more amusing watching them suffer" she said. "I need some form of entertainment in my life. This place is always so boring!"

He continued to pace. "Well when they don't win, what are we going to do with the rest of them? I don't want them all running around here trapped forever!"

His sister laughed "What makes you think that all of them are going to survive their nightmares? We will just dispose of the rest."

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Kari and Miyako were walking though the forest they had been placed in. Kari was getting sweaty and tired. She was ready for a break.

"Hey Miyako, can we sit down for a minute?" Kari asked.

Miyako took one look at Kari's pale face "Sit down! Sit down woman before you kill yourself!"

Kari laughed "I'm fine. I think, just a little tired is all"

Miyako looked concerned "Kari you look like death. When was the last time you ate something?"

"Well I only really had breakfast yesterday" Kari said. At the mention of eating her stomach growled with hunger.

"Why on earth didn't you say something?" Miyako shouted. Miyako reached into her bag and grabbed a box of Pocky and passed it to Kari.

"Here eat up" Miyako instructed.

Kari reached for the box hungrily and opened it. Taking out a pouch she ripped it open and grabbed three sticks of the chocolate covered biscuits and shoved them in her mouth.

"Miyako, you are a lifesaver!" Kari smiled.

"If Daisuke or TK knew you hadn't eaten at all they'd kill you!" Miyako said.

"It's not that I meant to. It's just that I got so busy after I left the house yesterday that I didn't really have time to eat. And you know when you don't think about it you just don't get hungry? When I got home yesterday it was so late that I didn't have time to eat and then Tai and I had to sneak out of the apartment… Besides this is why we don't tell Daisuke and especially not TK about this okay?" Kari smiled at Miyako.

Miyako kept searching thorough her bag until she finally found what she was looking for. She pulled out a bottle of Poccari Sweat.

"Here drink this too. It's good for you because it has all of the electrolytes that your body looses in sweating." Miyako smiled.

"Thank you so much… I really need this. I keep feeling weaker and weaker with every step." Kari took a long drink from the bottle that Miyako had handed her.

"You're really lucky Kari. TK's a great guy and you're so lucky to be going out with him. And not only that you have Daisuke chasing you too!" Miyako said sitting herself beside Kari, "I wish I had someone that loved me."

Kari frowned, " Miyako we all love you! You're special to each one of us in the group!"

"That's not what I mean. I wish I had a boyfriend, like you Kari! Boy's just flock to you!" Miyako sighed.

"Daisuke only likes me because of my brother. I think he's just using me to get closer to Tai!" Kari laughed.

Miyako laughed "Well that may be true. We never know about that one. He's quite and odd duck if you ask me!"

Kari laughed along with her. "Things with TK and me just worked out. We had been friends for a long time before we ever started going out. Don't worry, I'm sure your time will come."

Miyako smiled "It's just. I don't think that Ken will ever notice me. I mean we are friends but I want to be more!"

Kari stared blankly at Miyako. Something about what she just said made her think. Something… something was wrong.

"KEN!" Kari suddenly shouted.

"AHHH! Where? Where? Is he in ear shot?" Miyako turned a bright shade of pink.

Kari burst out laughing at Miyako "No, he's not here! It's the exact opposite! He wasn't there when we met at the fountain. He never got put into the game! He wasn't even there when we got our letters!" Kari's expression turned serious "Something is not right here."

Miyako had the same serious expression "I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed. I mean I had reason to notice that he wasn't there but he IS a Chosen Child. He should be here too. I asked Matt when we got to the fountain and he said that he still couldn't get a hold of him. I'm starting to wonder what happened to him. He didn't say that he was going away or anything did he?"

Kari shook her head "Not that I heard. He said he was going home after ice cream that night after the game. No one could reach him then either…. I don't like the sound of this…"

Kari and Miyako just stared at each other.

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They walked in silence for hours. It was quite boring for the both of them but they kept to their earlier agreement not to talk. Tai started singing in his head `I am slowly going crazy 1,2,3,4,5,6 switch' and then continuing on from there. Kai had `The Meaning of Love' by Depeche Mode running through her head and she couldn't get it out. It was taking all of her energy to stay sane with all that eighty's cheese pop running though her head. Finally Kai couldn't stand it any longer.

"Look Tai, I think we got off to a wrong start. Can we try to maybe put some of it behind us and try to start over again?" Kai blurted out before she had time to rethink what she had said. As soon as she said it she wished she hadn't. With the way things had started between them, she was sure that he wouldn't be able to put it behind him. But she couldn't stand the silence any longer. She had to try. She looked over at him.

Tai looked over at her. She looked almost sincere but he still didn't trust her.

"We can try" He replied. It wasn't his ideal situation but it was better than singing that song for the fifty billionth time in his head. Anything was better than that.

Kai smiled and stopped walking. Sticking out her hand she said "Kagayaku GaSaku. Nice to meet you. You can call me Kai, all my friends do."

Tai took her hand "Taichi Kamiya" he replied shaking her hand "My friends call me Tai"

They continued to walk.

Since things were going so well Kai decided it was time to try to make amends with Tai about the game. She really hadn't meant to kick him and she had to try to make him believe it even if he didn't want to. Maybe since it was now a few days since the game he would be willing to listen better than right after the fact.

"Look, I'm sorry about the soccer game. I didn't really mean to hit you with my cleat. It was an accident. I believe in fair play as much as you may not think I do. I was very impressed by how determined you were to continue playing. You take you're game seriously. That's what makes you stand out as the best captain Odaiba has ever had. Other schools talk about you Taichi Kamiya, even the private schools. I don't think you have to worry at all about keeping the Capitan position. Odaiba would be crazy to not let you have it again. Though, I was really worried about you playing with your leg injured! What if you made it worse? You know playing injured can lead to more serious injuries which may make you sit the game out forever." Kai smiled as they walked. She knew she was blabbing on but she couldn't help it. Kai tended to blab a lot.

Tai was stunned. This was a completely different girl than he had thought she was. Maybe he had been wrong about her. Even though that may be, she was still a strange one. Only two hours ago she had just been attacking him and now they were talking civilly to each other, almost friendly even.

"Uh, my leg is fine thanks. I'm surprised there is so much talk about me though. How do you know about the private schools? You're public!" Tai said. Even if Kai seemed to be nice now, he was sure that she didn't have any friends in the private schools. No one would be crazy enough to hang out with her!

Kai laughed "I used to be in private school. I went to Teine."

Tai stopped walking again "T… Te… Teine?" He couldn't believe it. Teine was an all girl private school, best in the city as well as the most expensive. You paid a small fortune just to attend.

"Well, my dad is a very good business man. My twin and I were enrolled in Teine and my older brother goes to Sassho. Teine was too snobby for me though. Also their soccer club didn't compete. I finally got fed up with it that I demanded to go to a public school. My dad just about died. His daughter, attending a public school was unthinkable" Kai rolled her eyes. "My sister is still at Teine but I'm at Nishi, as you could tell because I was playing against you the other day."

"But you could've gotten into any university out of Teine! You gave all that up! Why?" Tai couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"I don't care about which school is better than which or if I go to a big name University or not. I want to play soccer!" Kai laughed. "School doesn't mean much to me. I mean I study and stuff but I don't feel the need to be top of the class. I do on the other hand feel the need to be captain of the soccer team, which I am very happy that I pulled off. My friend Meg, the one with red hair earlier is the one that helps out in the mark department. If I didn't study with her, I'd probably still be back in grade 4."

Tai laughed too "Yeah, I'm not one for top of the class either, but I do have to keep my grades up because of soccer club. That's where Izzy falls into place, he helps me study!"

"So you have a sister right? Any other siblings?" Kai asked.

"Nope it's just Kari, Mum, Dad and I" Tai said "Kari is a couple of years younger than me. She's dating my best friends little brother. They're kind of cute together and they were totally made for each other. I can see TK and Kari staying together for a while. My mum stays at home and my dad works. He's around in the evenings sometimes. Mostly see him on weekends. Oh yeah we have a cat if you count that as a member of the family. Probably the most spoiled of us all! Sometimes I think that cat gets more love than me."

"Well, it probably leaves less hair around the house than you do!" Kai winked at him.

Tai laughed. Her hair comment didn't seem to bother him and he punched her playfully on the shoulder "I resent that!"

Kai smiled "Sounds nice... I wish I had a normal family. Both my mum and dad work. My dad owns a major company and my mum works in the company too. I think she's his secretary or something. That's actually how they met, though work. Seems that their work keeps their love alive to this day. They never really seem to be home at all. While we were growing up we had babysitters. Once Scott was 15, that's my brother, they stopped getting babysitters for us. Hana and I are always having to do all the cooking and cleaning around the house when we stopped having babysitters. Mostly our parents just pay for our school, food and clothes. We get a good allowance too. Only time my dad ever really seemed interested in my life was when I wanted to go public or anytime I get in fights in school and the teachers call home. `You're not a very good representative of our family Kagayaku!' he's always telling me." Kai muttered and kicked the ground.

Tai was shocked at how rough her family life seemed to be. Maybe that's why she acted the way she did, for attention.

She continued to talk "Scott was the boy you saw us with earlier. Hana's my twin though we look nothing like it. She's a bit quieter and she has long brown hair and brown eyes. She's not into sports or anything like I am. But we've been best friends our whole lives. Scott looks more like my twin. People used to get us all mixed up. Hana's a little shorter then me so when we would meet our parents friends at business functions at our home, people would always think that Scott and I were the twins and Hana was our angelic little sister." Kai said, smiling while thinking of her siblings.

Tai looked at her. She must have had a hard time growing up without her parents around. Tai was about to say something when Kai spoke again.

"Real sob story aren't I?" she laughed "Oh well, I wonder what everyone else is up to"

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