Prologue:
In a hospital room at the city of Odaiba, lays a young burgundy haired woman in a hospital gown holding a baby girl in her arms.
She was cradling her baby to sleep while humming a lullaby.
The woman was too busy tending to her baby that she did not notice a man dress head to toe in black clothes, with the exception of a red scarf wrapped around his face, enter her room.
Upon entering, the man leans against the wall next to the door and stares at the young mother and her child with his soul-piercing crimson colored eyes.
"She's beautiful. You're quite lucky to have her, Mai" said the man in black in a deep manly voice that had a slight growl even though it was muffle by his scarf.
"I am… What brings you here?" said Mai, as she looks up at the man with a sweet smile on her face like she had a very close relationship to the man.
"I'm here because someone we both know quite well is looking for you".
"I know my husband hasn't come to visit me a lot because he is always working, but he didn't have to send you just to check on me" she said as she went back to cradling her baby.
"I'm not referring to Junpei, Mai. I'm referring to him" said the man, as he cross his arms in front of his chest.
Mai jumped slightly when she heard the man said 'him'. The mentioning of the word had brought her back to a horrible moment from her past.
"Oh… him…" said Mai as she looks away with a downcast look.
The man, who notice the tone of her voice and the expression she had, could tell what was going through her head. The hard, serious look he had in his eyes, turn into a look of sympathy as he continue to stare at the duo.
"I'm sorry about bringing that up Mai… But I have to know… Is that's his daughter?".
"Y-Yes, she is… D-Does he know he h-has a d-daughter?" she asks, as she looks back at the man with worry written on her features.
"No… That's one of the reasons I came here".
"D-Don't tell him! Please don't tell him about her! I don't want her to be a part of that life!" said Mai with tears in her eyes.
The man stared at her for a while, before sighing and said "I know I should tell him about her since he has the right to know if he has a child and I don't like to lie to people, even to him… But you're one of my oldest and closest friends… So I'm not going to tell him about her".
Upon hearing those words, Mai could not help but smile as she holds her baby closer.
"T-Thank you" she said with a sigh of relief.
The man, who could feel the relief coming from the young mother, could not help but smile behind the scarf he was wearing.
He pushes himself of the wall he was leaning on and walks to the happy duo.
The man stops as he was next to the pair and turns towards them before he asks "What's the girl's name?".
"Hmm…? Oh… Her name is Daisuke" said Mai, as she looks at the man next to her with tears still in her eyes.
"Daisuke Motomiya? What a beautiful name" said the man as he pull his scarf down that shows his 'unusual' array of teeth and kiss the baby's temple.
As he stands back up and pull the scarf back up to cover his face, he turns around and heads for the door.
"W-Wait! Before you go back, I want you to tell one more thing to him".
The man stops instantly and looks over his shoulder before asking "And what's that?".
"T-Tell him… that I'm d-dead… and h-he should forget about m-me".
He stood there for a moment. He knew lying to the person that they were talking about, about Mai's condition and the existents of his child was something that he should not do being a person who does not like lying but he can understand why Mai wanted him to lie about this information.
"Hmm… I will. Goodbye Mai, it was good seeing you again" the man said before walking out the door.
(8 years later)
The city of Odaiba is being attack by creatures call digimons that were being led by a digimon called Myotismon.
The digimons are kidnapping the citizens of the city and are bringing them to the convention center. Among the citizens was the Motomiya family.
Once the citizens were brought to the convention center, the children were being separated from the adults and are sent to another section of the convention center.
After the digimon known as Bakemon has separated Daisuke and Jun Motomiya from the parents, their mother began panicking as she tries to get her daughters back.
Her husband, Junpei Motomiya, was trying his best to calm her down but was failing horribly.
Mai Motomiya, who was in a state of panic, was continuing to try to get around her husband and save her daughters no matter what it takes.
Suddenly, someone from behind her places their hand on her shoulder and gave a firm but gentle squeeze.
Mai turned around and was about to scream at the person behind her, to let go of her so she could go save her daughters…
That was until she saw the familiar soul-piercing crimson eyes, which belong to, a tall man that was dress in black and wearing a red scarf.
"It's you" Mai gasp as she just stares at him, having forgotten about her daughters being in danger.
"You need to calm down Mai. Panicking won't help you" said the man in calm, relaxed manner, as he look at her in the eyes.
"Calm down!? How can I calm down when both my daughters were just taken away from me!?" she yelled as she tries to get out of the man's firm grip on her.
The man sigh, "Don't worry Mai. I'll save your daughters for you, but you need to calm down first. Can you do that?".
"Y-Yes… I-It's just… P-Please… S-Save them…" she trailed off as tears stream down her face.
"Don't worry, I will" said the man before disappearing into the crowd of captured people.
Meanwhile all the children were being brought to a cat like digimon known as Gatomon.
Gatomon was inspecting the children to determine if any of them were the 'Eight' child.
It was about to be Daisuke's turn to be inspected when a man wearing what looked like cliché vampire clothes walked out of a portal into the convention center.
The man, Myotismon, walks up next to Gatomon and stares at Daisuke.
Daisuke look at Myotismon and for a moment she felt a strange familiarity coming from him but she does not know what it is.
She was about to ask him why she felt that way towards him, when suddenly a bat like digimon known as DemiDevimon came and said he found the 'Eight' child.
Myotismon seemed disappointed for a moment, like he was about to do something before the bat digimon disturbed him, but he shook his head and ordered the digimon to put all the children, including Daisuke, to sleep before jumping through a portal with Gatomon and DemiDevimon.
The room that the children were in was being filled with a sleeping gas. Slowly the children were falling asleep, one by one. Daisuke was about to join them, when she suddenly felt a soft cloth covering her nose and mouth. She looks up to see a man wearing all black with piercing crimson eyes was in front of her. Daisuke then notice that the cloth was one end of the scarf the man was wearing.
The man looks at Daisuke in the eyes and asks "Are you okay Daisuke?".
Daisuke just stares at the man and nods, dumbfounded by what the man did.
"Good. Take my hand. I'm taking you and your sister out of here" he said, as he extended his hand to her.
Daisuke snapped out of her stupor and took his hand.
The man smile behind his scarf and in one swiftly looped Daisuke under his arm before running off to grab Jun that was also about to fall asleep from the gas.
The man in black runs out of the room with Daisuke still looped under his arm and Jun on his back, with her arms wrapped around his neck. But their escape didn't come unnoticed, as a few Bakemon started chasing after them. Thinking quickly, the man kicked a nearby dustbin and it fly right by the ghost digimon.
"Well that didn't work" said Daisuke, not noticing the man smirk in his scarf.
"Pathetic human! Even an Fresh-level is more accurate than you!" said one of the Bakemon, as they get closer to the trio.
"Humph… I wasn't aiming for you. Look behind you, you floating rags" the man taunted as he points at the area behind the Bakemon with his free hand.
"Huh?" the Bakemon said as the turn around, just in time to see the scaffolding that was falling on top of them.
After their quick escape from the Bakemon, the man brought the girls to were their parents where.
Upon their arrival, the Motomiya girls are both greet by their parents in the form of bone crushing hugs. A moment later, Junpei Motomiya let go of his daughter Jun, but his wife continues her death grip on Daisuke.
"M-Mom, I c-can't breathe" gasp Daisuke struggling to get out of her mother's grip.
"Oh! Sorry Daisuke" said Mai as she pulls back and stands up to look at the man in black.
"Thank you for saving them".
"It's nothing Mai. I'm more than happy to help to your family" said the man before turning to leave.
As he was about to leave, he suddenly felt something heavy weighting down on his leg.
Looking down, the man could not help but smile because the mysterious weight happens to be Daisuke.
She was hugging his leg while staring at him with a cute look on her face.
"Thank you mister" Daisuke said very cutely.
The man chuckle at this and said "You're welcome Daisuke".
(3 years later)
Daisuke was lying on her bed holding her stomach while groaning in pain. Next to her, was her mother with a worry look on her face as she tries to figure out what is wrong with her daughter.
Suddenly there was a knock at the front door and Jun, not wanting her mother to leave Daisuke side, went to answer the door.
When she opens it, she was greeted with the familiar sight of the man in black with his usual red scarf.
"Hello Jun. Is your mother home?" he ask in his usual calm voice with his hands in his pockets.
"Yeah she is. Come in" she said with a smile on her face as she moves to the side to let the man in.
"Mom, your friend is here!" Jun yelled as she closes the front door.
"Friend? Which friend, Jun?" her mother asks as she sticks her head out into the hallway.
"Hello Mai, how are you?" the man asks as he walk to Daisuke's room's doorframe to greet her.
"Oh it's you! This is unexpected. What are you doing here?" she gasps truly not expecting her mysterious friend to come to her house.
"I came to see how you and your family are doing since what happen at the convention center" he said as he looks around the hallway he was standing in.
"Oh… Well most of us are fine but… Daisuke is currently having weird stomach pains lately and I have no idea why" said Mai with a sad look.
"Hmm… weird stomach pains, huh?… Here…" said the man as he pulls out a bottle full of strange blood-red crystal-like pills out of the inside pocket from his black jacket and gives them to Mai.
"What is this?" she asks as she takes the bottle from the man and inspects them.
"It's called Angel's Tears. It should stop the pain she is feeling right now… but it won't stop what's causing her to be like this".
"What do you mean 'What's causing her to be like this'? Y-You don't mean that…" Mai trailed off think about the worst.
"Unfortunately… Yes. You can't hide her from the truth forever Mai. What she is experiencing now is the first of many that will come in the near future" the man said sympathetically as he looks at the girl in the room.
"No…" gasp Mai as she hugs the man and cry on his shoulder.
The man sympathies Mai, because he knew that she understood what he just told her meant and she was afraid of it. He sigh as he rubs Mai's back soothingly and said "Don't worry Mai… I'll stay here and help you take care of Daisuke… If that's what you want me to do?".
Upon hearing this, Mai sobs were starting to lessen, as she continues to hug her friend almost like she was afraid that he would leave her to fight her problems alone if she let go. "T-That would w-will be g-great" she said in between sobs.
"Very well, now I think you should get that medicine to Daisuke, don't you?" he said, reminding the mother that her daughter is still in pain.
"Oh! That right, I almost forgot!" Mai yelped as she went to tend to her daughter.
"You never change" the man mused before shaking his head and went to wait at the living room.
A moment later, Mai comes out of Daisuke's room and heads to the living room to talk to her friend.
When she gets there, she found her friend standing at the balcony staring off into the distance. She walks up next to her old friend and joins him at staring of into the distance.
"Daisuke's 'condition' will strike at random intervals. You're going to need a constant supply of Angle's Tears to help her through this. Here… I took the liberty of writing down my cellphone number for you" the man said suddenly as he gave Mai a piece of paper with numbers written on it.
"T-Thank you… I never expected for you to use cellphone" she said takes the paper and stuffs it into her pocket.
"It's useful when you're in an emergency. You should get one for both your daughters. Anyway, call me when Daisuke's medicine looks like it's about to finish that way I can come over and give you a refill, okay?" he said as he turns to face her.
"O-Okay, I will. Thanks" Mai said before accompanying her friend towards the front door.