Digimon: Family Matters
Izzy Izumi has always wondered what had happened to his birth parents. His question is answered when their killer returns intent on finishing the job that he had failed to complete 15 years ago.
Part 1
The rain battered down onto the ground as a hooded figure walked towards the ground level of the apartment building. The rain dribbled down the hood of the massive black jacket that was hiding the tall man from view. The man stopped as a flash of lightning lit the sky up in a brilliant bright light. He waited for five seconds for the roaring thunder to clash in the sky before continuing to walk towards the apartment building. He kept his face hiding as he passed a couple who were running from the apartment building to the other apartment building that was across the street. The teenagers laughing as they raced across the street and passing a Harley Davidson that was parked by the pavement of the apartment building. The two teenagers did not take notice of the massive axe that was strapped to the strangers back as he walked to one specific door of the apartment building. They no doubt thought that he was just dressing up for comic con. That was a cover that he would
The door that the hooded man was heading to was on the ground and facing towards the road where his bike was sitting. It was just a minute walk from the side of the road to the apartment building. Another second and the door of the apartment came into view. The blue door was just like the other doors in the ground floor. It was just the door to another apartment house on the ground floor holding a family.
The hooded man stopped when he was right in front of the door. He took a quick glance at the family name that was pinned to the wall beside the blue door. The name read Koushiro. A family that he knew too well, only for the amount that they had sacrificed so much for their country and for the world. Fifteen years ago they had suffered a great lose and they had gone into hiding. Fifteen years ago he had come to the old house with a child that was no more than seven days old who had lost everything and had not even released what he had lost.
The last time that he had seen this family was fifteen years ago. Fifteen years ago that had seen a family destroyed and a country shocked as to what had happened to one of their own in a war that no one knew was being raged. It had been his fault that the family was torn a part. He had not acted fast enough to stop the brute from killing the parents, at least he didn't know that they had sired a baby. That was enough to cause some smiles on that day.
At this very moment he was feeling so much dread for approaching the door of the apartment. The apartment that he had not seen in fifteen years. He really didn't want to be coming back with the news that the beast that had called their family was back and looking for finishing what he had started all those years ago. He had no choice in being sent here with Nightshade no longer on earth for the time being, and Julian was still on earth but he was doing his own mission half way across the world.
He stopped dead in front of the door. He could feel his blood turning to ice as he stared at the door and the doorbell that he needed to push to alert the house owners that he was outside. He stared at the door for a good extra seconds and he was sure that people were staring at him. Not many people would park a Harley Davidson and then walk up to a door where they done nothing but stare at the door.
Taken a deep breathe in and then out he pushed the doorbell button in his gloved his fingers. The bell chimed for a few seconds that gave him the idea to take a step back from the door. It didn't take long for the door to swing open and a face that had not been seen for fifteen years appeared.
Yoshie Izumi opened the door just as the hooded figure removed the hood and the helmet that was protecting his head from riding his motorbike. Her eyes widened as she got a good look of the sharp tusks that jutted out of his jaws like some deformed hog. She took a step back when the yellowed eyes of the Ghoul looked at her. Not with hunger or anger towards everything that makes her being human. No instead it was the eyes of an old friend.
"Edward?" she asked. Fear was building up in her stomach as she looked at the alien Ghoul who had saved Koushiro and brought him to them to be raised. She had trusted Edward all those years ago and she still trusted him, even to now. But seeing him without any warning from him or UNIT that he was coming was not a good sign. She may have retired fifteen years ago, but the skills that she had learned as an agent was still with her.
Yoshie narrowed her eyes as she looked right at Edward. He looked over his shoulder to make sure that no one was watching them. "What are you doing here?" she asked. She didn't ask it with hatred but she asked with so much concern that her voice cracked.
Edward looked back at her. "Leatherback is back Kae! I've been following him since London all the way to here! We need to get and your son out of here!" he explained to her.
"You better come in!" Kae said as she stepped to the side and allowed Edward to walk in. The Ghoul had disguised himself to look like a bicker. No doubt the leather protected him and hid him well from people who might wish to cause him harm. With a nod of his head Edward slowly walked into the apartment building. His heavy biker boots clamped against the wooden floor of the entrance of their house.
"Where is the child?" Edward asked as he looked around to face the former UNIT agent.
Yoshie looked away from Edward and towards her sons room with Edward following her glance towards the closed door. "He's not here Edward he's out with his friends!" Kae explained to the Ghoul. Her fears were getting worse with every passing second. She had seen the damage that Leatherback had done fifteen years ago. He had destroyed everything that made it easy to identify his victims it had only been that they had been next to their cars when they had been attacked by. There was also the DNA tests that the government had performed to tell who it was.
Yoshie remember that night to well. The letter that was sent in the post that had told her and Masami that Masami's cousin and his wife had been butchered by Leatherback and had left their five day old son alive. She had to be thankful to Edward and Julian in arriving when they did to save Izzy. They had then brought the scared Izzy to them as his only living blood relatives.
"He's out with friends in the park Edward! He's not alone and he is safe!" Yoshie said as she watched Edward bolt back towards the door. His long legs devoured the corridor as he made his way back to the front door. "Edward he is protect trust me!" Yoshie said as she watched in horror as Edward didn't bother to put on his hood or his helmet as he opened the door of their apartment to run out into the pouring rain.
"Honey who was that at the door?" Masami shouted from the kitchen where he was doing the dishes for the lunch meal.
"Leatherback is back!" she shouted back as she closed the door behind Edward. The sound of glass breaking on the ground from the kitchen only confirmed that this was their worst nightmare coming true. She could only pray that Edward got to the park in time and that Tentomon can protect their son.