Disclaimer: Don't own digimon, but I do own Pyromon and Fringemon, unless they are real digimon.

Friendship or Love

Chapter 1 Reflecting With Kari

T.K Takaishi is my best friend. Nothing more; so why is it that I feel my heart racing every time he enters the room? It can't be platonic feelings. This is too much for me to think about now. Even if I did like T.K, he probably wouldn't like me back. Would he?

Bright rays of light poured into a light pink and white room. A slender teenage girl sat up in her bed.

"It's already morning?" She asked herself. Sleepily, she got up and got ready for school. A small tanned hand reached for a silver green brush. The young girl ran the brush through her shoulder length chocolate brown hair. Then she walked into the bathroom to wash the sleep out of her eyes.

"Tai? You up yet?" She yelled in the direction of her brother's room. She heard an incoherent reply. Grinning to herself, she strolled out of her room. She turned a corner and didn't see a tall, slim girl and they collided.

"Sora?"

"Kari?" They said in unison.

"It's so good to see you." Sora leaned over to hug Kari.

"You too." They heard footsteps approaching and simultaneously turned to see a tall boy with boofy chocolate brown hair, similar to Kari's.

"Hey Sora, let's go. Bye Kari!" Tai grabbed Sora's hand and pulled her up. Sora turned around to wave good bye to Kari.

"Ow. I'm gonna be late." Kari mumbled to herself. Kari was a bit of a perfectionist. She liked things nice, neat and prompt. She got up and dusted off her skirt and then headed downstairs to walk to school.

"Hey Kari!" A blonde teenage boy approached Kari.

"Hey T.K." There I go again. My heart's beating so fast.

"Is everything okay?" T.K interrupted her thoughts. Kari nodded her head so that she wouldn't have to talk. There were moments when she felt like rattling on about nothing and there were times when she felt like just walking in silence with T.K at her side. This was one of those moments. T.K knew when she didn't want to talk. He knew everything about her; the saddest, the happiest and the worst. The problem was that he was oblivious to her problem now. Time passed quickly and they arrived at school.

"Hey Kari and T.K!" a girl with lavender long hair called. Standing beside her were two boy; almost opposite. One boy had short light brown and was a little on the short side. His face was always serious, but there were moments when his face cracked different emotions.

The other boy had maroon spiky hair. He was bouncing a soccer ball on his knee and appeared to be athletic. His face was childish, but it meant he didn't have to be as serious as the other boy.

"Hey Yolei!" Kari called back, "Hi Cody and Davis." Davis nodded his head at them making his maroon hair bounce as well, "Hey Kari…T.J."

The whole day was boring for Kari. The only thing, keeping her sane was T.K. Her teachers were extremely boring and it didn't help that she got homework from all of her subjects. Kari was sure that time was moving especially slow just for her.

During her last period, she was glad when her teacher finally decided to give out their homework because it meant that the bell would ring soon. She hurriedly copied down the homework and waited anxiously for the bell.

A few moments later, the bell rang signaling the end of the day. Kari walked in silence with T.K to the computer room.

"Why are you so quiet?" T.K asked.

"Huh?" Kari glanced up.

"Normally you would tell some lame joke right now, but today you're awfully quiet." T.K's face had concern written all over it, almost hiding a teasing smile.

"It's nothing. Don't worry." Kari pasted a smile on her face and they walked into the computer room.

"Alright! I got the digiport open." Yolei exclaimed happily. Kari gave Yolei a questioning look.

"What?" Yolei turned to her.

"You always get the digiport open." Kari answered. A tall boy with navy short hair stood silently behind.

"Ken, why are you always so quiet?" Yolei asked bluntly.

"I just feel like it." He said softly.

"Hurry up! Let's get going." Davis complained.

"We have to wait for Cody." Kari gave Davis a look.

"Yeah I think waiting is the most important part." Davis said brightly.

"Of what?" T.K asked.

"Nothing T.A." Davis said annoyed.

"Hey! Sorry I'm late; I had to stay back after class." Cody rushed into the room.

"Never mind, let's just get going." Yolei said, impatiently, "Digiport open!" A moment later they all flew into the computer.

"Why is that whenever we go to the digiworld, we always fall?" Davis complained. The others shrugged. Suddenly their digimon appeared and greeted their partner.

"I haven't seen you in so long!" Kari exclaimed happily.

"Your hair! It's long!" Gatomon commented. Kari blushed and played with a strand of her hair.

"Come on we have to fix up this section!" Davis yelled.

All afternoon they worked hard cleaning up burnt down digimon villages and fought the evil Pyromon that tried to attack the villages. After they finally were able to ward off the fire digimon, the digidestined quickly finished helping the smaller Fringemon rebuild the houses.

"Hey guys! Can we go home now?" Yolei whined, "not that I don't want to spend time with you, Hawkmon…" She added sheepishly. The digimon glanced up at their partners. All of them were tired. The other digidestined nodded in agreement before running for a TV set.

"Let's go T.K; I think Tai will kill me if I'm not home soon." Kari grabbed T.K's big hand and pulled him with her out of the computer room.

"I never get a chance to walk Kari home." Davis complained.

"But Davis, you don't live near her." Cody pointed out.

"I know that." Davis grumbled. He stuck his hands in his pocket and stared at the floor.

"What are we still doing here? Let's go home." Yolei grabbed both boys by their sleeves and dragged them out of the room. Ken left shortly after them.

The sky had a beautiful pattern of many different colours splashed onto a canvas. Many rich reds, warm yellows and some faint light purples. The best part of it all was T.K was right beside me. I was in true bliss.

"It's all so beautiful." I commented happily.

"Not as beautiful as you." T.K said sweetly. I turned to him in surprise. He leaned towards me and our lips met. We stood together in our own world.

It was Saturday. Kari leaned on her side and thought about her dream.

"That is so weird. Why did I dream about T.K kissing me?" She asked herself. She shrugged it off and climbed out of her bed to start the new day. Dressed in her sweet attire, Kari walked downstairs to have a quick breakfast.

"Mum I'm going to the park!" Kari called and ran out the door. She enjoyed walking by herself. She couldn't explain the pleasure there was in feeling the warmth of the sun against her back and the feeling of solitude. Kari climbed her favourite tree. Just sitting against the tree, she reflected on her thoughts.

"Things between T.K and I are different. I feel almost nervous around him. Why?" Kari sighed. Normally sitting in the park and thinking about her problems usually helped her, but today was different T.K was a much bigger problem.

"I wish I could figure this out." Kari whispered to herself. Her head hurt from thinking too much.

Author's Note: I changed it a little so Kari and T.K live next door to each other and they've known each other all of their lives. I'm sorry if you don't like this and I'll be happy if you review.