"The Blue Light"

Here is the first chapter. Things will be different here as you will see, very different. Please enjoy and review!

It was an ordinary day for 13 year old Dai Motomiya.

She got up, fought with her sister over the shower, got dressed, tried her best to ignore her parents as she got her breakfast, brushed her teeth and then ran out the door as fast as she could to get to school.

Dai didn't get along with her parents too well because they were very hard on her because of the way she acted in class and how poor her grades were.

It wasn't really her fault after all.

She had been tested by her family doctor when she was younger and was found to have dyslexia along with a mild case of ADHD and because of this, her parents always pushed her hard to excel, but this just caused her more stress and she wound up running away before she could say something that would get her in trouble.

It wasn't fair that her older sister Jun was never pushed like she was and was viewed as the perfect one.

Dai's two saving graces' to help her from not going insane were soccer and her two only friends Tai Kamiya and his younger sister Kari.

The mahogany haired girl made it to her middle school to see that the boys on her soccer team were already on the field playing, one of them with black hair spotting her and stopped the game.

"Motomiya, hurry up!" he called waving her over.

"Coming!" She called.

She then threw off her blue sweater and placed it along with her backpack down with the piles of bags and sweaters the boys had placed down.

Running over to the field in her black tank top, jean shorts and blue sneakers, Dai joined in on the game and started running circles around the other team.

Tai was the captain of the high school team and he had taught her everything she knew, so it was no wonder she was better than them.

As she went to block the ball from getting passed to another boy on the other team, it went higher than it was supposed to and a boy with blonde hair jumped up to catch it.

"Hey, nice catch." Dai said as she walked over to the boy who looked to be her age.

"Thanks. You had some pretty sweet moves out there." He smiled as he tossed the ball back to her.

Chocolate eyes blinked at him, then Dai looked back over to the field when her name was called and she kicked the ball to one of her teammates and went back to joining the game.

(Later…)

The bell had rang for home room so everyone hurried off to their classes, Dai walking into the room and spotted an empty row next to a row where a brunette dressed in pink was placing her red backpack on the floor under her chosen desk.

Smiling, Dai walked over and sat in the row beside her.

"Hey Kari. Looks like we're in the same class again this year. Talk about luck." She grinned.

Kari Kamiya turned to the other girl with a polite smile.

"I wouldn't call that luck." She sang.

Dai felt a small pang of hurt at that, but just ignored it as she paid attention to her friend.

"Did you hear if we're getting a new student?" she asked.

"No, why is that?" Kari asked tiling her head.

"Because I think I saw him. He was watching me play soccer. It would be cool to have a new teammate. Hopefully he can actually keep up with me." Dai said eagerly.

Kari sighed at this since she knew how competitive her friend could be when she had her moments.

Just then, the teacher walked into the room, the black haired man standing at his desk as he pulled some papers out of his briefcase.

"I'm Mr. Hamasaki, I'll be your teacher. And I'd like you all to welcome a new student." he said.

The sliding doors then opened making Dai lightly gasp as she saw the blonde haired, azure eyed boy dressed in yellow and green from earlier.

As Hamasaki wrote the name 'Takeru Takaishi' on the board, the boy smiled at the room and bowed his head.

"It's nice to meet you. I'm TK." he said bowing his head.

"Please take the seat beside the girl with the camera around her neck." Hamasaki said.

TK nodded as he eagerly walked over to where Kari was and sat down next to her, the both of them smiling at each other as if they had known the other for their entire life.

"Together again." TK said to her.

"Just like old times." Kari said back.

This made Dai look over at them in hurt that Kari had known this guy but never even told her about him, but she once again set it to the back of her mind.

"Our teacher kind of looks like Ogremon." TK joked making Kari laugh as Dai looked down sadly.

All through the day Dai had tried to approach Kari and TK to talk to them, but they were pulled away by swarms of other people.

She tried to sit with them at lunch, but the table the two were sitting at was filled with other kids that Dai didn't know too well, so she just walked off to go sit with her soccer team who were joking around and she joined in with them.

When the end of the day came, Dai was frustrated and just gave up on trying to get their attention, so she decided to just head home and would talk to Kari later on.

After all, the Motomiyas and Kamiyas lived in the same building and were even neighbors so she would see the pink loving girl then.

As she was walking to the entrance, she didn't notice that TK had spotted her and poked at Kari making her look over.

"Who is that girl?" he asked.

"Huh? Oh, that's Daisuke." Kari said.

"Is she friends with you?" he asked.

"You can say that. Tai taught her how to play soccer when she was younger and even babysat her a few times, so we hung out a few times." She said.

TK frowned at how nonchalant she sounded as he watched the mahogany haired girl walk for the door to head home.

"Why didn't you introduce us?" TK asked.

"Because I haven't seen her all day." Kari said making TK give her a look.

"You're kidding right? She's been trying to talk to us all day, but you were too busy pulling me around to meet other people." He pointed out.

Kari blinked in confusion at that.

"Hey!" someone called.

The duo looked over to see a lavender haired girl named Yolei Inoue running over to them with a note in her hands.

"Oh, hi Yolei." TK greeted the upper classmen.

You're Kari Kamiya, aren't you?" Yolei asked.

"Yeah, that's right. Why do you ask?" Kari asked.

"Well, are you related to Tai? Cause he sent this e-mail." Yolei said holding up a note that said 'Come to the Digital World. The digimon need our help.'

"My brother needs us." Kari said as she ran off with TK and Yolei at her heels.

Meanwhile, Dai was walking home with her head bent as she let out a breath of despair.

Normally she would walk home with Kari and then the two girls would meet up with Tai Kamiya and Sora Takanouchi to walk home since the four lived in the same building, but now she was on her own as she stopped by the high school waiting for the teenagers to come swarming out.

She leaned against a tree that was in front of the gate, just thinking about how the day had gone and wondered why Kari hadn't bothered to introduce her friend to her.

Her foot was tapping since standing still while she tried to think made her a bit agitated.

"Man, what is up with this day? Could anything else go wrong?" she asked.

Just then, she caught something from the corner of her eye and she looked over to see a streak of baby blue light zooming over to where she was.

As she stood pressed against the tree, Dai thought the light would go right by her, but it made a turn and went right at her.

Gasping, she threw her arms up as the light went right into her hands as the lights faded and formed into something that felt like plastic.

Curious, she brought her hands down and opened her hands to reveal a white and blue device cupped between them.

"What is this thing?" she asked.

Just then, the bell rang making her jump and shove the new device into her pocket as she turned to see the teenagers walking out of the building, Sora walking out as she spoke with a tall blonde haired male.

This made Dai sigh as she turned to just walk off home alone since she thought that this meant she wouldn't be spending any time with her other two friends.

"So where did Izzy and Tai run off too?" Matt Ishida asked.

"I'm not sure." Sora said as she looked around.

She spotted a familiar head of mahogany hair and frowned when she saw the owner of the luscious hair seemed to be getting further away.

"Dai!" she called as she ran off.

Matt watched, then followed the orangette as they ran after what looked to be a 13 year old girl.

Dai turned and stopped when she heard her name being called and saw that it was Sora and the blonde boy who were running after her.

"Oh, hey, Sora." She greeted as she forced a smile.

"Hey, why didn't you wait?" Sora asked.

"Sorry, I just saw you with someone other than Tai and didn't wanna bug ya." Dai said sheepishly.

Matt looked between the two girls curiously since he hadn't heard of this girl before, but he had seen her a few times walking home with Tai, Sora and Kari last year.

Speaking of which, where were the Kamiya siblings?

"You didn't have to go home without me. Anyway, Matt this is Daisuke Motomiya. Dai, this is Yamato Ishida." Sora said.

"Hey." Matt said.

"Hi." Dai said.

An awkward silence went by them before it was broken.

"So where is Kari?" the azure eyed teenager asked.

"I don't know. I haven't seen her all day; she was too busy showing the new kid around the school and to all of her friends." Dai said with a sad look in her eyes that looked like she would tear up, but forced them away as she kept that smile in place.

Matt's eyes widened as he saw that look and felt sympathy for her since he knew what it was like to be avoided or ditched by someone.

"Did she introduce you to this kid?" Sora asked.

"Nope. I tried to talk to them all day, but there were too many people." Dai said with a short chuckle.

"Huh? That doesn't sound like Kari at all." Sora said feeling confused.

"Who was this new kid anyway?" Matt asked.

"Um, TJ…TA…His full name is Takeru Takaishi, but he said to call him something else that I can't remember." Dai said as she pouted slightly.

"TK?" Matt asked.

"That's it." she said.

"That's my little brother. He just started school today." The blonde said.

Why would Kari not introduce TK to Dai?

It just didn't make any sense at all.

He shook his head to clear the thought away and just placed a small smile on his face.

"Anyway, Tai isn't here today. He went home early, so how about I walk you two home?" Matt offered the two girls.

The two tanned girls looked surprised at this sudden offer, but Sora just smiled and nodded.

"Sounds great. Thanks Matt." She said.

"Um, yeah. That's real nice of ya." Dai said.

The trio then started down the street to get to their own apartment buildings, the 13 year old standing between the two 15 year olds.

"So how do you two know each other?" Matt asked.

"Oh, Tai was the one who introduced us. I saw him teaching her how to play soccer in the park about six years ago." Sora explained.

"Soccer, huh? You two must've had a lot in common." Matt said looking down at the girl who had her hand in her pocket clenching onto the device.

"Yeah, I used to go to all of his games and cheered him and Sora on." Dai said.

Sora chuckled as she thought back to the days the little girl would cheer at the top of her lungs for the two as they played soccer together before Sora had grown out of the sport and turned her attention to tennis.

Dai then had to go to the tennis matches to cheer on Sora, but when one of Tai's games wound up being on the same day as Sora's matches the girl didn't go to either because she didn't want them to feel like she was choosing sides, but she did buy them some chocolates to congratulate them.

"How did you meet them?" Dai asked snapping Sora out of her thoughts.

"We all met at summer camp four years ago." Matt said.

"Why didn't Tai or Kari ever tell me about you and TJ?" she asked.

"Me and TK you mean." He said as she blushed and muttered an apology.

"I'm not sure why. Sora, do you know?" he asked as the two looked over at the orangette.

"You got me. This is weird." She said.

That answer made the three of them frown in thought, but they just pushed it aside as they continued on their walk back to the apartment.

He waved them off before he turned and went home while the two girls went up to their own floors, Sora watching the younger girl go with a sad smile.

As the child of Love she worried over everyone she cared for and Dai was a very fragile girl who tried hard to be strong.

Shaking her head as the girl disappeared into the elevator, Sora walked into her apartment.

To be continued…