~*^*~Laura Rider - Ice["Without the mask....where will you hide..? Can't find yourself...lost in your lies..." from "Everybody's Fool" by Evanescence]~*^*~
I sighed broodingly, as everybody went their separate ways in the town apparently constructed of oversized toys and filled with cradles holding out "fresh" digimon, young and waiting until they accept their fate that they must digivolve, from what Arwen told me out on the road. The light fluttered slightly, as the wind blew strands of my hair across my face. I noticed a tree...a tree, but no ordinary tree. It was either a large oak or sycamore, but its leaves...were of colors never-ending their cycle of the colors of the rainbow.

I guess I was meant to be alone all along.... I thought to mjyself, sitting down, and pulling my D-Sense out of my pocket. There were 12 or 13 dots scattered along the area, one dark blue dot just lying still(myself). Every other dot kept a far distance from mine, so I knew nobody actually cared. Sighing, I lied on my back, the soft grass blades rubbing against the edge of my shirt. Arwen was nearby, entertaining a few fresh digimon, not to far from me. The sky was its usual blue, as a few clouds drifted around, it was rather peaceful...yet soothing. But as this happened, my eyelids slowly, but smoothly closed shut....as I drifted out, falling to sleep.

~*~Laura's Dream(happening in the real world, but she was never there)~*~

I opened my eyes, looking down at my floating Digital World form, it was slightly see-through and misty, but I didn't know how. I pulled out one arm and stuck the other hand through it, it went right through, like a ghost through a mortal form. Gasping at realizing I was no longer alive, I looked at the people surrounding my figure lying in a coma on a hospital bed(Real-World Laura in coma), doctors....just quickly examining me.

"Did you get anybody to get to her once she wakes up?" The first asked, writing her down.

"No...her mother claimed she doesn't care for her, her father is deceased, her uncle in America is probably away, at church or something, her other uncle is deceased also, her aunt is probably away, and I guess there's nobody..."

"So we leave her for the dead?"

"I guess....unless we can get someone before we lose her."

Tears fell from my eyes as I heard the second statement. I knew my father was dead, my mother never did care, but I never knew I had an aunt.

Who is my aunt....? I asked, just plainly confused at this matter. The only siblings my mother had were two younger brothers, the younger was a Catholic married with three kids and never cared for me, but the older of the two uncles was dead...he had died about two years ago from AIDs. I drifted away, fading to mist in sorrowful, which awoke.

I awoke in startled pain, sweating coldly, but daintly. I sat up, using the edge of my left sleeve to dab the sweat from my forehead and glasses. That was probably the most confusing dream I had ever had.

"Arwen....I just had the strangest dream," I said quietly to my Digimon, who immediately pranced over.

"What was it like...?" She asked, her eyes widening, wanting to know.

"It's a little too hard to explain on my own...." I replied, looking down, "But I had learned I had an aunt..."

"It's the truth, Laura. You do have an aunt."

"Who?"

"Well, let's just put it this way," She said, about to tell a story about if I had an aunt or not, "The last humans in the Digital World were about 25 years ago, from what Orphanimon had mentioned when she told me this. The first of the ice deity was the girl at the temple who showed you how to use your D-Sense, Akira, who is Satoshi's mother and Haruka's aunt. But again, 3 years after the first time...there was another group of humans in the digital world, some of them the first 10. The new child of ice was Sen Kinomoto, who had never known she had a fraternal twin sister, who had went to an American family....for at the time of her birth, her Japanese-American parents lived in China."

"But, her sister....who is it...?" I asked, still not getting the point.

"But, when her son Kouji was born, but this something had come up three or four months after his birth: you. We had wanted orignally Kouji to have Ice, but when we realized a not-so-distant related girl, you, was born, we ended up choosing Kouji to gain the prowess of Light. The reason? Because we wanted to continue the tradition of female ice digidestined."

"Does that mean....my mother was the separated fraternal twin?"

She nodded, "Yes. If it freaks you out, I understand. It's quite scary when you realize your mother was related to somebody you have heard about, but never thought you had a relation to family-wise. But, since Sen is your aunt, that make Kouji....your cousin."

Nodding with an understanding, I just stood up and looked around, wondering if there was anybody I could tell this discovery to.

*Dun dun dunnnn.....* Yeah, I felt like causing huge drama...^^ Sen's gonna be pretty shocked when she learns she has a niece.

~*~Sen Kinomoto[The dawn of a new world is near....The dawn of a new truth is here.]~*~
I remembered that Ark had a speech to give tomorrow, and I planned on going. That is, if Kouji was out of a coma by then. I layed my head over my arms, folded on the bed near my son's head. I had remembered the last time I was like this, when Kouji was about a day old in the hospital, and I held him for the first time, which he was to stay for another day or two.

....Flashback....Sen is 22...
I sighed with relief, my head sweating after the moment of truth had come when I had to name the son I had. I wasn't even married, but my fiance, Kenji Hikazu, had already planned that the first kid would be of the last name Hikazu, I wouldn't change it even if he decided to leave me behind.

"I have no name in plan..." He replied, rather lazily, "What about you?"

"All I had planned for a son was Kouji....but I knew you had a rival of that name, hopefully you don't care." I said, rather nervous about what he said, my engagement ring's diamond flushed lightly.

He snorted angrily, "I knew you loved that bastard, didn't you?!? That's all you really want to do...raise our son to grow up and be like you, probably be gay, and piss me off, ending my family name once and for all?"

"But Kenji....That's not what I had in mind...." I snapped back, rather sadly, tears starting to build up in my eyes.

"Well, be that way! The engagement is over for good!" He shouted, hastily throwing off his own engagement ring, and it had landed right at my son's forehead. He cried in anxiety, as his father stormed off after the nurse told him to never come back, and probably go and register for anger management classes. I cried, trying to keep myself calm, before the nurse walked to my side.

"Are you okay, Ms. Kinomoto?" She asked, when I put the engagement ring of mine Kenji had left behind in her care.

"I'm fine....You can have the ring...." I replied, sadly gazing into my son's deep blue eyes. I felt sorry for my son, who would have no father, "I just can't believe he would leave me and his own child behind like that."

"It's what some men do..." She said, plaxing the ring at a stool away from me, "But anyway....do you have a first name for your son? Since he is going to be a Hikazu like his father, I guess the surname scandle is settled."

I thought about it, but still liked the only name I could think. He seemed to look like he would be an alright boy, but the name that caved into my head came to mind first, "Kouji. Hikazu, Kouji." She nodded slightly, and left the room for a moment. I was left here, with only my little Kouji, who at the time, clutched one of my fingers with a small hand, and looked up at me, somewhat nervous.

"It's alright, Kouji..." I told him softly, placing a hand on his head in remorse pain. I smiled slightly down at him...I would raise him well, because he was my son and mine only....for now, that is.

.....End Flashback....[/I]

I sighed at this thought, remembering all that had happened. My D-Scanner shone in the light, which was a keepsake ever since I was 15. Nobody but Kouji and any former digidestined had any clue about it. Putting it away as I heard footsteps approach the room, I looked to see Dr. Masomito once again, slightly sighing with news, by the sounds of it.

"Yes...? What is it...?" I asked, rather nervous.

"Well, Ms. Kinomoto, it seems for 14 years, you never knew you had a niece. The girl is Rider, Laura...and seems to be in a coma almost exactly like your son Kouji is. Since you knew you had a fraternal twin sister, you never knew you had a niece."

I placed my hands over my mouth and gasped, I had a niece? My fraternal twin sister, my parents told me about, but the niece opart I never knew about not one bit. I put my hands down back into my lap, nodding slightly, 'Who has custody of her?"

"It seems her two uncles aren't in Japan, her father is deceased and her mother doesn't care about her anymore. So...I guess once we work it out in court, hopefully you have her legal custody."

"If she has relations to me and/or Kouji, I promise I'll care for her, unlike my sister I never knew..." I replied, feeling rather sorry for this Laura girl. I wondered if I should tell Kouji if he had a cousin? Maybe, just maybe if he was in the Digital World too...Laura could tell him for me.