This is my first fic, so please go easy on me guys haha.

To begin with it, you must know that it takes place 4 years after the defeat of MaloMyotismon, also, this is a Tai's P.O.V., some of you may not like this, but I decided it would be better. Needless to say, the "25 years later" thing never happened.

Disclaimer: Guess what? I don't own Digimon, big surprise huh? Now that I've stated the obvious, on with the story, take over Tai!

It was December 23rd, and all of us in the Yagami family were having dinner at home.

"Well I don't care what you say Kari, I'm just not okay with you going to Paris with an Ishida." Kari was going with TK and his french family to Paris for Christmas, and I wasn't at all cool with it, I mean, she was already 15 years old, and she was going with a boy all by themselves, everyone knows what that means. And much more less if it was TK, Matt's brother.

"She has our permission Tai, so what you have to say doesn't really matter." my father stated.

"Oh please, Mom, Dad, are you really that clueless?"

"You know Tai, just because you can't be with the one you love doesn't mean that the rest of us can't!" Kari shouted, she gasped and covered her mouth when she realised what she just said, but it was too late, the damage was done.

I got up, grabbed my jacket, stormed out of the appartment and slammed the door. As I was going down the stairs, I started thinking of where I should go, I decided that I would go where I always went at night, the bar. So I lit up a cigarette and started walking to the bar. God, December 23rd was nothing but bad news to me.

Okay, I'm sure that you are asking yourselves a lot of questions now: "Why did he storm out like that?", "He's going to a bar?", "Tai? Smoking?", "What the hell happened here?".

Well,to answer these questions, we have to wind our clocks back to 4 years ago. December 23, 2002. The day that my heart got shattered into hundreds of pieces. As some of you might know, this is the day that Digimon made it into the Earth and ruined Matt's concert, to me, all of that was irrelevant, that day Sora Takenouchi, the girl I loved and still love to this day rejected me to start a relationship with Yamato Ishida. It's hilarious, nobody knows this about me, but yes, me, Taichi Yagami, digidestined of courage,am the coward number one when it comes to girls, especially Sora. Someday I realised that I was in love with her, but come to think of it, I think that these feelings started in our first adventure in the Digital World. Sora had always been my best friend, but as we started growing up, you know, when she started to be a woman, I started finding her really attractive. Thanks to Agumon, I made my mind and finally decided to ask her out to Matt's concert. When I found out that she was going with him I was completely destroyed, and it was a big surprise, I couldn't believe it, neither the fact that they were still going out.

After months of crying and desperation, I decided that I would get over it and tried going out with other girls, boy was I wrong, all these relationships were complete disasters, I broke up with everyone of them because I wasn't happy, to this day, the only reasonable explanation that I could find was that they were not Sora.

I just gave up on girls, completely forgot about them and put all my heart and soul in my dream: soccer. I always wanted to be a professional soccer player,it was my dream, I love this sport, it's so... awesome. I was the captain of my team and led everyone of us to the finals of the city. All of us were really enthusiastic about this, after playing the best games of our lives we made it to the grand finale.

The final was on December 23rd ,2003. The day that was supposed to be one of the greatest days of my life ended up being the worst. That day I suffered a brutal tackle, the result was a broken ankle. It wasn't supposed to be a big deal, just a couple of months of rest and back to the field,but it wasn't that simple. All the doctors told me the same thing, my ankle was sprained so many times that it was just riuned forever. In other words, my dream of becoming a professional soccer player had vanished, my life had no meaning at all. My friends tried to support me, but I was so pissed... this days my relationship with the digidestined was practically nule. Joe was always studying, Mimi was in America, I just avoided Sora because she was always with Matt...Matt and I just hated each other. My reasons were that she stole away Sora from me and got into big arguments more than often, he was such an asshole all the time, so the result was that both of us were rivals. The only digidestined that I'd see often were Kari (for obvious reasons,duh), Izzy, Davis and to my dislike, TK. I was never really in touch with Yolei, Cody and most important support was Agumon, he was always there and was definetly my bes bud, the poor thing had to deal with my broken heart, my vanished dreams and the terrible behaviour that this things made me have.

After all these events, I started to hangout with the most terrible teenagers that you could imagine, we would always go out to steal things, smash cars...anything that we considered fun and was illegal. This were the days that I started smoking, I wasn't a sports guy anymore, so it didn't matter.

I just didn't care about anything, if the wirld was cruel to me, I would be cruel to the world, it seemed fair to me.

Also, I started playing guitar. I know, this may seem wierd, but I had always liked rock music since I was a kid (where do you think that the long hair comes from?), Sora would always come to my house or I would go to hers and we would just spend listening to rock n' roll records for full evenings, that is before she started dating Matt. Anyways, rock n' roll and heavy metal were music genres that really clicked with this wild period of my life. I started playing guitar all day long and got really good at it. School? A waste of time.

But then again, another December 23rd shit happened again. Gennai told all of us that there was some problem with the barriers of the Digital World and the Real World and the digimon would have to get back. I lost Agumon again, my best bud was gone.

I was 16 years old, and I found something that could help me with my problems,or at least forget about tem for a while, alcohol. All of us in our gang started drinking and thought we were really cool for it. I also started putting together a hard rock band, I named it "The Jurassic Experience" in honour of Agumon, in fact, our logo was Greymon's head. Many said I was copying Matt for the music thing, but I just didn't care because I knew that this was not true, we played real rock n' roll, not like that jerk of Matt who sold his ass and played pop for brainless teenage girls. This just added more fuel to our rivalry and the truth was that he was winning in this competition of ours, his band was way more succesful and he had Sora.

The thing got even crazier, serious drugs were introduced to us when we were 17 years old. I tried cocaine and weed once, but I decided that I wouldn't go further tobacco and alcohol. But my friends did these drugs and the thing started to get dangerous. Another December 23rd one of my friends Susumu died of alcohol poisoning. The poor guy was alone and didn't have any family, so on 2005's Christmas he spent them drinking his ass off alone at home. He died. We should have taken this as a warning andcontrol ourselves,but we were so stupid... of course we didn't.

That leads us to this year, 2006. I didn't study anything but somehow I managed to pass and now I find myself in university studying to be a diplomat. I chose this career because one of the things that I really enjoy in life in traveling around the world, this is one of the reasons of my dreams, being a soccer star and a rock star. This year thing changed. I was still in love with Sora, but I avoided her as much as possible, the digidestined I kept in touch with were Izzy, Kari, Davis, TK (to my dislike, him and Kari started a relationship) and... Mimi. This is surprising isn't it? You see, Mimi got back to Japan the first months of 2006 and I don't know what happened to her in America, that sweet little girl was no more, she hung out with us. I would have random sex with lots of girls, but things got serious when I did Mimi. I just couldn't use her and drop her like a cigarette butt, so Kari convinced me to start a relationship with her, this wasn't a good idea, but stupid me didn't learn the lesson when I was 15 years old and tried it to see if I could forget Sora. So um... yeah, Mimi is my girlfriend here.

So,now that I've filled you in let's continue with this story, this December 23rd was different, my whole life would change, though I didn't know it. I was 18 years old now, so now I could drink legally, in other words, I could drink more. I was at the bar sipping my whiskey when some familiar voice called my name.

"Why am I not surprised that you're here Tai?" The voice belonged to Nicholas, the singer in my band. He was half american and I met him in a Van Halen concert in Tokyo. He was a cool guy, spoke perfect english because her mother was from California, and had an awesome voice, so he was perfect for my band.

"I can say the same for you man" Nicholas was a member of my gang, so he had a complicated life and drank heavily too. What united us so much was that he was dealing with a broken heart too.

"Well now that you're here,I have to tell you something" It's funny that I was the guitarist and he was the singer, though I was the leader of the band, when normally in most bands it was the opposite.

"Sure,what is it?"

"It's Naoki, he's on it again" Ah, drummers and drug problems are just a classic, Naoki was addicted to cocaine.

"Well you know what my opinion is, if he can't get his shit together he's fired." I concluded.

We spent the night drinking and talking about random stuff, like why girls have to be so complicated or that we really needed to play concerts sober. The case is that both of us got really hammered, the rest of the night is nothing but a blur to me, I remeber something of seeing Matt in the bar, insulting him and getting thrown out, after that I went back home, threw up in the bathroom and passed out.

So that's it for the first chapter, the real adventure starts on the next one, stay tuned!