Raised by Digimon chapter one redone
I looked back on the first few chapters that i have written in this story and believe that i could have done them better so i will be re writing some of the chapters that i have posted. I also want to apologize for any gramar mistakes as well as spelling mistakes, my reasons ar at the end of the chapter. now thats out of the way i hope you enjoy this redo of chaper one prologue one. i do not own Digimon.
It was a cold night in shinjuku all was silent. The sky black the only light that was given was from the full moon and the what seemed to be million of twinkling stars in the night sky. All seemed calm that night nothing was wrong. All the buildings in the area had their lights off except for one and it was a somewhat normal looking house. There is a sign hanging from the window, written on it is 'matsuki bakery'. It was a relatively normal building everyone new about it and about the people living there. The husband and wife were wonderful people always had a smile on there faces, they had a lovely child as well. takehiro matsuki and his wife yoshie matsuki were well known in the community there bakery was well known for its fresh baked goods and the homey feel that they gave out. Sadly the bakery lost this when both takehiro and yoshie were hit by a drunk driver on their way home from the city, their son, takato was only two at the time. Soon his aunt and uncle from his yoshie's side of the family came and took over the bakery. And this was were it went down hill. The baked goods were great but they seemed to exude an aura of distaste which lead to a lot of the customers to change bakeries.
The aunt and uncle were always warm and welcoming, so no one thought much about it but once they closed the bakery for the night they became the like monsters that children fear under their bed. They were cold hearted toward their nephew, always ordering him around, having him do all the cleaning around the house at the age of four, if not done by the designated time he'd be sent to his room after being hit by the belt without food and no cream on the injuries put on his back leaving many scars. Like tonight but takato was punished more due to being late home. Rightnow the young boy was hiding under his bed the one place where he feels truly safe, crying his little eyes out from the pain and the ever present depression caused by his aunt and uncle and the bullies of his class. He looks back on what has happened this past day.
*flashback*
Takato's morning was normal, he woke up at four and began cleaning the bakery, and preparing the dough for the bread and pastries. He then showered quickly before dressing himself in a black t-shirt and then putting on a long sleeved blue coloured hoodie, he then puts on a pair of grey shorts, and finally heads back downstairs, stealing a few day old bagels, knowing his aunt and uncle were still asleep, and stashes them away into his schoolbag. Takato then slips off his slippers and ties on his green and white sneakers. He takes a look at the clock and sees that it is only 5:30 a.m which means he has another 2 and a half hours to kill before he has to be at school. He runs back up to his room after putting his slippers back on, and picking up his drawing notebook, drawing pencils, and 20,000 yen from his piggy bank before hiding it away under one of the loose floorboards under his bed. After doing so he quickly and quietly heads back downstairs and slips on his sneakers before leaving the house through the backdoor.
Making sure to lock the door using his spare key takato heads to the small park near his home and heads toward the strange dome structure filled with holes, no one comes to the park anymore so it's his perfect sanctuary to hide out and draw. He draws what he loves and that is the digimon cartoon, he loves digimon and like any other kid collects the cards, but makes sure he hides this from his aunt and uncle as well as the school bullies. The bullies usually steal his cards if they ever see him with them, while his aunt and uncle would either tear them up right in front of him or throw them into the fire and laugh at him for crying over some "silly cards". So he hides them here. He loves virus types for no real reason just feels like he has more in common to the virus types then the other types. He even entered a few small time card tournaments without his family's or bullies knowing, usually hiding behind a half face mask. The mask is black and red outlining it. He won all of them due to his strategy and was invited to compete in the world championships of the game, but declined them knowing that it would reveal him and his hobby to everyone. He still competes, in both regular, national, and international. every time he wins he gets some prize money, which he saves up for food, his drawing supplies, more cards, and other things that he needs.
Today takato started drawing a barren field of grass with a huge tree in the background then began to add a bunch of in-training digimon like koromon, tsunomon, dorimons, moonmons, etc etc. he did this for the next hour eating one of the bagels he packed from earlier, he finished the last koromon and began to colour the drawing. What many people didn't know was that young takato was a true artist when he drew. Takato was also very intelligent the number one student in his class academically wise. He was also very silent and shy during class, this was the one reason why the bullies pick on him, and they make sure he has no friends as well, they soon turned the entire class on him. After he coloured the picture he then put the drawing book and the pencils regular and colored back into their respective cases and began packing them into his schoolbag, he also packed his deck of digimon cards, hearing that after school today there will be a tournament at the store near his school. After he finishes packing his stuff away, takato leaves the dome structure and heads to school.
Upon entering the classroom he is greeted by his homeroom teacher akihiko, "morning takato, your here early, you can leave your bag here and head over to the library if you'd like, don't worry i'll keep it with me and make sure its safe until you come back." akihiko was his favorite teacher since he was was the one to first react against the bullies, which lead to the other teachers to help against the bullies but since he was the first he became his favorite, he always kept his promise to him. Takato smiles and nods handing his sensei his bookbag, after pulling at 3 notebooks, and ran off towards the library. Takato spent the next half an hour finishing up his homework before returning back to his homeroom class just before the first bell.
"Welcome back takato,and here is your bag, i would also like it if you sat in the desk near the front of the class near my desk." akihiko sensei said to takato, luckily no one was in the classroom yet, takato nodded and thanked his sensei for keeping an eye on his bag for him. Five minutes later the classroom filled up with other 4-5 year old students.
*6 ½ hours later*
Ring...ring...ring...ring, that was the final bell of the day, signifying the end of school. Takato was the first one out of school, he headed towards the toy shop nearby. the store was where nearly everyone from his school bought the digimon cards, and lucky for him his bullies were being held back for detention for starting a one sided food fight with him, well it was them throwing food at him, while he either ran or hid behind or in one of the classrooms, his english teacher mrs. niijima caught the bullies just as one of them threw a rice ball at takato's head. Needless to say they would be cleaning up both their homeroom and hallway that they decided to throw their food.
Upon entering the store takato was greeted by the digimon theme song (you know the one) and upon hearing this caused takato to smile. the reason why is because whenever they played this song it meant a tournament was being set up and the children still had time to sign up for the tournament, so takato pulled out his mask and put it on as well as pull up his hoddy so no one from school would recognise him. He then entered under his alias Katomon, everyone could put down a fake name so no-one would know who they were. But since everyone knew everyone here they used their names except for him. Now he just waited silently in the background doing a double check over his deck. Soon a voice was heard.
" welcome everyone to the digimon trading card game tournament we have a lucky guest with us today we have the digimon king (no its not ryo it was the one before him) he will be battling against todays winner. Now let's get this tournament started." takato was then moved towards one of the tables, facing of against ryuji fujimoto from the class next door.
"Everyone Ready, then begin." they began to draw their cards.
*timeskip 2 hours later*
"Congratulations everyone for participating today, and a big congratulations to katomon, for not only winning first place but defeating the current digimon king yusuke higashi." the owner said handing takato a small trophy and ¥35,000 prize money, he also received a few newly released packs for the card game.
"it was a pleasure battling you, i hope that we will face of in the coming tournament." yusuke said holding out his hand for takato to shake.
Takato nodded shaking the offered hand "i would like that as well." he said towards yusuke, in a whisper like tone so that only he and yusuke would hear.
Takato then left 5 minutes later after having his photograph taken with yusuke, and headed back to his hideout in the abandoned park. Takato then placed his deck into his card box, and the trophy, picture, and his prize money into the other box, not wanting to risk the money or his cards being stolen/ taken by his bullies or by his aunt and uncle. After doing so takato heads back home, not knowing what was going to happen to him, or of the hidden figure hiding in the trees watching over him.
About a half an hour into his journey home, he is suddenly hit in the back of the head by a rock, this nearly caused him to lose his balance and have his face meet the concrete sidewalk. Turning around takato suddenly paled seeing his bullies and a few of the older years came along to join in the beatdown.
"Look who it is guys, it's our friend takato, hey wanna play a game of tag" one of the bullies says, with a smirk plastered on his face.
Takato did the only thing anyone with a brain or basic survival instincts, he ran for dear life. "After him." the head bully shouted, and soon the hunt began.
Takato began running around the entire area going through alleyways, dashing into huge crowds of people, doing so caused a majority of the younger and few of the older bullies to lose interest in chasing him or they became too tired to continue. Takato was sure that the others would give up soon as well, that would have been the case if he hadn't cornered him into going into the main began running more erratically because right now he noticed that he just entered the bullies main territory. After entering the more forest-y part of the park, trying to use the many trees to escape the remaining bullies. After about five minutes takato tripped on one of the many tree roots on the path. Takato tried to get back up but was quickly punched in the back of the head by one of the bullies.
"Well, well, well, looks like we got you takato." said the bully that punched him in the back of the head. Takato tried to crawl away, only to be kicked in his side by the same bully.
"Aw look at little takato, why are you trying to get away, were friends aren't we, and guess what your -" takato was suddenly punched in the face, more correctly on his nose causing it to bleed. "-it" and soon takato was surrounded by the rest of the bullies, who began to rain down on his body with punches and kicks.
5 minutes into the beatdown takato was nearing unconsciousness, having only one thought 'please, someone, anyone help me-' takato's vision soon turned black. Takato slipped into unconsciousness after one of the bullies hit him in the back of the head rather harshly.
Soon the bullies began to laugh at takato's unconscious form, finding it funny at how easy it was to do so. One of the bullies then took takatos bag and began rummaging through it. Then pulling out his drawing book and the leftover yen he had left from earlier.
"Looks like our friend here was kind enough to give us money for some candy, thanks buddy" the older bully said casually while counting out the yen he received/stole from the boy.
Soon a strong gust of wind assaulted the bullies forcing them onto the ground, soon there was a harsh growling sound coming from all directions. This caused the bullies to shake in fear seeing as the growling was getting louder and louder. And soon red eyes could be seen from the shadows of the trees. Then another pair of gleaming red eyes appeared then another, and another, and another. And soon gleamin red eyes surrounded them and the growling turned more menacing. The bullies were shaking like leaves, few of them losing control of their bowels. "leave….NOW" a voice snarled out at the bullies.
Not needing to be told twice the bullies instantly stood up and began running, and screaming about monsters or demons and whatnot after them.
The eyes soon disappeared after all the bullies left, only leaving one pair of gleaming red eyes. The eyes softened at takato's unconscious form. The being then jumped down from the tree and moved takato's body so that it was sitting up leaning back onto a tree trunk. He figure then grabbed takato's bag and began to repack everything into it, noticing that the bullies still had takatos drawing book. The figure snarled before making plans to steal it back. The figure then placed takato's next to him. The figure then stared at takato softly before moving one of its paws, and began to gently ruffle the bows chestnut brown coloured hair.
The figure then escaped back into the trees and began to swiftly move through them 'soon, takato, soon I will get you away from here, just hold in there for a little longer' the figure said mentally as it began to search out for takatos bullies.
*timeskip 1 hour 45 minutes*
The figure returned back to where takato's unconscious form lay, just in time to watch as he began to wake up.
"Ah.." takato said as his entire body flinched from the pain he felt, his eyes still forcefully shut do to the pain, the figure took this opportunity to place takato's drawing book near the boys bag.
Takato kept still for another 3 minutes or so waiting for the pain to become a little more bearable, once it did takato opened his crimson eyes and looked around wondering where he was, until the memories of what happened before came back. He then notice it was dark out, palling again seeing that it is night time, takato then picked up his drawing book, and packed it away into his school bag not caring about how it got out of his bag, and began to run out of the park, ignoring the sharp pains from his stomach and his legs. Takato doesn't notice the shadowy figure following his every move.
'Im late, Im late, Im late, Im late,Im late' takato thought the same thing over and over again in his head, fearing what hs uncle and aunt will do to him when he gets back home. The figure following him grows concerned over takatos current actions.
Takto continued to run back to his home, only stopping once to catch his breath. He looked up noticing that it was getting darker and darker, takato began using the back alley shortcuts that he knew to get home quicker.
Takto finally made it back to his house/bakery in 2 minutes flat from using the back alleys. takato silently walks to the back of the bakery, making sure to keep himself low so he doesn't get seen from the many windows. Takato is now behind his home, he then places his key into the door and slowly turns it.
After hearing a soft click, signifying the door being unlocked, takato slowly opened the door so to not notify his guardians of his return. But today wasn't his day, the door was forcefully pulled open by his uncle who was glaring darkly down out him. His uncle then grabbed him by his hair forcefully pulling him into the house, then using the momentum of the pull to throw takato at the nearby lamp table. Takato's uncle soon closed the door and turned back around glaring down at his nephew's squirming form.
" so do you mind telling me where the hell you've been for the past few hours cause i highly doubt it was at school." takato's uncle growls out, takato's only reply was a scared and in pained whimper. His uncle then forcefully grabbed his hair again and forced takato to look at him.
" that wasn't thee answer to the question i asked, now i'll ask again where the hell have you been you, you better have not told anyone about this or else you will be staying in the basement for the snarls at takato, causing the boy to yelp and whimper in both pain at his hair being forcibly grabbed by his hair and in fear of going into the basement.
"N-n-n-no s-sir, i-i w-w-wouldn't do that, i was on my way b-b-back from sc-school when some of the bullies attack-" that's all takato got to say before being punched in the stomach.
"That's what you get for being so weak, i cant believe we have to take care of you, your just a disappointment" his uncle then punched him in the gut hard causing him to gasp out in pain. "you should've just died along with my sister and her sorry excuse of a husband" soon takato's uncle began to rain down multiple hard punches to his body, giving him a black eye, some bruised ribs, and multiple bruises, adding onto the ones he received from his earlier attack.
Takatos uncle then began to drag takato up the stairs, making sure to accidentally have his nephew hit his head on the steps. They soon reached takato's bedroom, his uncle opened the door to the bedroom and threw takato inside.
"I better not hear a peep coming from this room tonight or else you'll be going and staying in the basement for the next 2 weeks." his uncle snarled before slamming takato's bedroom door closed, locking it from the outside. Takato then crawled under his bed (it's the same one form the show) curling up on the many pillows he has underneath, and begins to cry his heart out from the pain he received, the sadness or his dead parents, and of the loneliness of it all. He soon passes out from all the crying.
*flashback over*
*2:00 a.m, Takatos bedroom*
Takato had just woken up from his crying induced sleep, but refused to move himself from the safety from under the bed. He still feared that his aunt and uncle were still awake, not wanting to give them any reason to bring him into the basement.
The basement was used for his more severe punishments. They would lock him up down there, giving him less than the bare essentials for him to live off of, like a stale piece of bread and a small glass half filled with water. His uncle would then come at night and begin to dish out his punishment which would range from being used as a human punching bag, being whipped with his uncles belt, and many more. They would call him in sick so the school would not question his absence.
Takato then froze as he heard his sliding door open and then footsteps. Takato did the one thing anyone his age would do, he hid himself in the pile of pillows and blanket. Takato noticed the little hole in his pillow fortress, he decides to use it as a peep hole. Looking out through it he only describe the figure as tall and skinny, but the figures eyes were the most prominent, the figures eyes were a deep red bur in the dark they seemed to glow like a neon light. Takato just watched as the figures head moved from side to side as if searching for something. Takato blinks, and once he re-opens his eyes the figure has disappeared, like the figure was never there.
Suddenly the lights in his room flashed on, brightening the entire room as well as cause the underside of the bed to be more visible. Takato froze as soon as the light turned on, and made sure that he kept his breathing low so that the intruding figure wouldn't find him so quickly, though like the entire day luck was not on his side. The figure came back into takatos peephole sight, though takato could see it better, the being was still tall and lean, but the one thing that shocked takato was that the being was covered in black and snow white fur with a few hints of purple in it. The being had short black claws, three on each feet and each hand. Their was what appeared to be a fox tail swishing back and forth behind the figures body, the tail was swishing in a weird calming way. The figures head was shaped in a vulpine like way.
The being bent down and slowly entered takato's safe haven, well the one inside his room. Takato was too shocked to move but when he noticed the creatures paw like hand reaching out towards him he whimpered and began to move as far back as he possibly could. The creature heard and seeing the young boys reaction caused it to freeze for a second before pulling its arm back. Takato didn't notice this as he was curling in on himself with his head in behind his knees, forcing his eyes shut, and began silently begging the creature to not hurt him. The beings red eyes revealed many emotions, anger, hatred, and disgust towards the monsters that would do this to a young child. The other emotions were that of regret, regret for not being-no not doing anything sooner, kindness, loving, and many more.
The being then moved slightly closer to the curled up little boy, but made no move to reach out and grab him, yet anyway. "No need to be afraid little one, i promise i won't hurt you" the being said in a soft and affectionate tone. Takato stops mumbling but doesn't uncurl from his balled up form, a good sign the being mentally says. "I'm going to come closer to you, don't worry i already promised i wouldn't hurt you, and i never break a promise." the creature says, and begins to slowly move closer to takato, who still remains curled up. The creature is now only an arm-stretch away from takato, the creature then sits in a traditional japanese position."Little one please uncurl yourself i wish to speak with you." the creature says, only to receive no answer, the creature asks again but in the same tone as it did earlier, but still got nothing. The creature then moves both of its arms toward takato, and grab him. The creature then pulls the curled up boy into its lap, ignoring the startled yelp. The creature begins to slowly and soothingly rub takato's head as well as gently rock him back and forth, the creature continued to do this until takato stopped shaking.
"Shhh shhh, it's alright little one, nothing is going to happen i promise you that, but i need you to uncurl yourself so that i can speak with you." the creature said softly, this time takato did begin to uncurl himself, but slowly still unsure of the creatures true intentions. Takatos head came out from behind his legs and slowly opens his eyes, he sees the creatures head but mostly stares at its red eyes. He then notices the gentle smile on its face.
"W-w-who are y-you?" takato stutters out still slightly afraid of the creature. The creature noticing this moves into a different sitting position, still having its back on the wall on the left-side under the bed, living one of its right leg flat and its left leg bending upwards making a makeshift backboard. She then repositions takato, using the pillows to keep takato comfortable lying down on his then places takato's head on its left leg and begins to gently rub his head. Takato unconsciously closes his eyes and leans into the hand/paw that's gently rubbing his head enjoying the affectionate feeling its giving him, soaking up as much as this feeling as he could. The creature smiles at this.
"To answer you question little one, my name is rena, i am a blkrenamon a digimon." the now named rena replies, takato re-opens his eyes which are slightly hazed over due to the affectionate rubbing of his head, but rena notices the slight awe in the eyes and slightly chuckles. "Yes little one, i am a digimon and no this is not a dream if it was a dream i highly doubt you could feel this." rena then proceeds to tickle takato on his stomach, causing the little boy to go into a fit of little giggles. She stops this after a minute letting takato catch his breath. After calming down takato looks up at rena smiling a small smile, but that's enough for rena to have her heart to skip a beat at his (takato's) cute expression. Rena's face then turns serious, but not to a degree that will scare takato.
"Little one i-i know what has happened to you today i saw it happen to you but couldn't do much to stop it for that i apologise for it, but i have something that might make you feel much, much better." Rna said quickly seeing the boys eyes widen,"you s-saw what h-ha-happened to me,w-why didnt y-you do a-anything" takato asks as tears begin to form in his eyes, rena's heartbreaks at how broken takato's voice sounds. "I wanted to i really did but i couldn't, since i wouldn't of been able to safely get you out of here, i am here to take you far far away from those things that you call aunt and uncle, and don't worry i already have a plan for the bullies to get what they deserve, same goes for your aunt and uncle. I only have one question do you want to come with me to your new home now." rena explains softly to takato, who just stares up at her. Silence reigns for the next few minutes, takato finally breaks it "y-y-you p-promise i w-w-won't have to see th-them again, e-ever?"
Rena nods "yes i promise, but we will have to leave now, i need you to pack a few clothes and whatever else you want to keep because once we leave we won't ever be coming back here." takato nods and they both come out from under the bed takato pulling out a camping backpack from his closet, and began to put in clothes. He gathered 2 tee-shirts one black with red trimming on the sleeves, the other is a red shirt with black trimming on the sleeves, 2 pairs of khaki shorts, he then grabbed some underwear socks and two hoodies. Takato then removed the clothes he had on, after rena said she would be waiting outside on his mini-balcony until he was full dressed. He then put on a plain white tee-shirt, and then a black hoodie with the hazard symbol on the back of it in red, he then puts on a pair of black sweatpants, he did this to make sure he blends into the darkness outside. He then pulls out a shoe box from underneath a pile of rejected clothes and takes out a seemingly new pair of shoes these were black with purple laces. After dressing up he then looks around his room for things he wants to bring with him, he takes all of the money from his piggy bang and stuffs it into one of the bags side pockets, he grabs all of his drawing supplies, his pencils, colouring pencils, pens, and 3 of his drawing notebook. As he did this he didn't notice how loud his footsteps were until it was to suddenly froze as he heard heavy stomping coming from the stairs, rena hearing this puts her ear on the door, she didn't need to do this as a booming voice came not 10 feet away from the door.
" i told you boy that if i heard a peep coming from your room that you would be spending the next 2 weeks in the basement! Maybe a few broken bones as well could set you straight." takato's uncle says loudly, after hearing
"We need to leave now takato, lets go before he gets through."rena states she then picks up takato as soon as he but the camping bag over his shoulders."w-wait can w-we s-s-stop somewhere n-nearby, p-please, i promise i'll be real quick" takato pleads to rena.
"Okay just tell me where to go after i'm going to be jumping on top of the buildings here so tell me which way you want me to go." rena says quickly as the banging on takato's ex-bedroom door was getting harsher, takato nods to rena. After getting the nod she jumps off of the small balcony and past 3 houses, but she heard the unmistakable sound of a door being broken through ad the angered shout of an infuriated human, and from the feeling of takatos grip on her neck, means that he heard it as well.
"Don't worry he will never ever be able to hurt you ever again, now please tell me where you want me to take you." rena asks takato then begins directing her towards his little park haven.
To be continued.
I hope you guys like this rewrite better than the original prologue one, i have lost contact with cj1116 so there were a few incorrect grammar and spelling in this chapter, these are not my strong point. I will also be rewriting a few of the chapters in this story so don't expect any new chapters for the next while but their will be one soon i promise. i hope you all had a very merry christmas and a happy new year.