| Disclaimer: I don't own digimon, if I did I wouldn't be posting stories on fan fiction sites they'd be on TV! Note: It's been 4 years since the digiworld and Takeru's mother has die. He moved to America with his grandmother where he started to hang out with the wrong kind of kids and get in trouble a lot. Knowing something was wrong his grandmother sent him back to Japan with his father where he began to get a lot a better. Holding Strong It was taking over again. I could feel it. No not now, not again I thought. I made my way to the cabinet. If I could only get my medicine I'd be all right. I clutched the cabinet handle with all my strength. Come on Sora, come on! Hold strong Sora I told myself. Two seconds was all I needed, only two seconds! But I didn't get but one second. My hand slipped from the handle and the whole world went black. ~ I pulled my book bag over my shoulder and walked out the door. "You know I'm old enough to take care of myself," I told my father. He only smiled. He knew the routine. I would complain about being "babysat" to keep up my tough guy reputation but he knew I loved my time with Sora. I guess in a way she had saved me. When I moved back to Japan I was a really bad kid. I didn't really mean to, it was just that I missed my mom so much and I was just so sad. I didn't see the point of obeying rules or even going on. When I saw Sora she really understood me and listened. She was a lot like my mom and that helped me out. I got into the car with a faked sigh. We reached Sora's apartment at 5:00. "Okay Takeru, I'll be back at 8." My father said before driving away. I looked up at Sora's door expecting her to be there with a big smile like always but to my surprise, she wasn't. I walked to her door and knocked on it. No answer. Now I was getting scared. I twisted the doorknob, it was unlocked. "Sora?" I yelled as I walked threw the apartment. No sign of her. When I reached the kitchen I felt my shoe bang into something soft. I looked down only to see Sora's still body. ~ "SORRAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!" My eyes opened to see a fear struck Takeru shaking me. "Takeruuh" I said softly searching for something to say. "Sora what happened?" He said wiping the tears from his eyes. "Nothing, um I just bumped my head.." I cringed as talked.. I hated lying to him but I hated it more to seem him worried. He'd been threw so much already he didn't need any more troubles. "Here let me help you up" Takeru said. I took hold of his hand just as the disease took hold of me. "Hold on Takeru" I said as I slowly got up. Hold strong Sora, don't let him see you fall I thought to myself as things began to darken. I felt myself slump back down and I heard Takeru scream. ~ "Sora suffers from a deadly disease" Mrs.Takenouchi said softly. "Why didn't she tell me!? I could have helped!" I cried. "She didn't want to worry you anymore than you already have to Takeru" She replied with a smile. Sometimes Sora was so stupid. If she had told me I could have helped! She had been trying to get her medication when she collapsed if she had told me I could have gotten it for her! Sora couldn't die, she just couldn't! Sora had helped me find my place. I'd be lost without her. Without knowing it I began to cry. Sora meant so much to me. "It's alright Takeru," Sora's mother said gently. "Sora's awake now, if you want to see her." I nodded and walked into Sora's room. She was talking to the other patient in the room, smiling. "Oh hello Takeru!" Sora said with a smile as if nothing had happened! "Oh don't give me that! Why didn't you tell me Sora!" I said holding back tears. "Oh Takeru I'm so sorry I just didn't want you to worry about me. You don't need anymore troubles in your life!" Sora cried. I couldn't hold it any longer. With tears in my eyes I ran to Sora and gave her a hug. "Oh Sora! I don't want you to die!" I said. "Shh.. it's going be all right Takeru," she replied holding me tighter. I stayed in Sora's arms with her gently rocking me until my father came. I said goodbye to Sora and walked silently to the car and then silently into my bed. "Takeru," my father said softly "Why don't you call Yamato?" I nodded my head and picked up the phone. Yamato was in America visiting Grandmother and going site seeing. He was out when I called so I left a message. "Takeru, I don't know if you're ready for this but I think you need to know." My father said after I hung up the phone. I nodded my head. What was it now? "The doctors said that Sora is reaching the last stage of the disease and thatshe only has a few more days to live.." I nodded again, showing no emotion. In all the movies the got a lest 3 months to live.. a few days.. I only get a few days left with Sora? It wasn't fair it just wasn't fair! "Takeru.." my father started "I'd better get to bed dad.." I said quitley. He nodded the same emotionless nod I had and left. That night I cried myself to sleep. ~ She gave me a hug before she left. "Thank you Sora, you've taught me to smile again," she said from her wheel chair. "Good luck, Jamie and keep smiling" I replied. Jamie had been so sad when I first saw her I was so glad she was smiling now. She was dying of a very painful illness and had lost all hope. I talked to her and laughed with her and told her stories. She was so nice and I felt so bad for her. It was great she was smiling now. If only I could smile a little more now, I thought. I was so scared. The doctors had told me that I only have a few days left. At least I still had hope left. I smiled. As my hope walked in. "Hello Takeru" I said as he walked in. ~ It was weird talking to Sora when I knew she was going to die soon. I wanted to say everything all at once to relive all our happy memories. We talked about our times together in the real world and about our times in the digiworld. "I was telling the truth when I said when you were around I didn't miss my mom so much and it's still true," "Oh T.K." she whispered under her tears, "Sing me a song?" I laughed and wiped away my tears. When we were in the digiworld I would always miss my mom to much to sleep so I would ask Sora to sing me a song. "You're my sunshine, my only sunshine you make me happy when times are gray.." I sang. It was the same song she use to sing me. As I sang Sora closed her eyes and the beeping on her monitor slowed. "Hold strong T.K. hold strong," she whispered right before the monitor stopped. I squeezed her hand tightly once more. Even though she was gone I knew in way she'd always be with me. I put Sora's hand down on the bed. "I'll hold strong for you Sora," I whispered. |