A/N: This turned out to be more Takuri (TakatoXJyuri) than I intended 0.o
actually I kinda withdrew from the story that I had in my head as I was
writing...I guess my hands started writing by themselves...again...but I
stuck mainly to the original plot. Turuiemon is actually Shuichun's
digimon's champion form...I found this out much later than when I thought
this up, and since I couldn't find anyone else to fit the role...he stayed.
^_^
Disclaimer: I don't own digimon or it's characters, they belong to Akiyoshi Hongo and Toei Animation.
Bunny Man
The bell rang.
All the kids herded into the school, and the students of Isaji-san sat in their seats.
"Konichiiwa." She said.
"Isaji-san konichiiwa!" the class chorused.
"Everyone take out your writing assignment." She said calmly.
Rustling papers were heard as everyone searched their book bags.
"Alright, will someone volunteer to read what they wrote about what they did last weekend?" She asked in almost a pleading manner.
Everyone sat there.
"Come on, don't make me choose…" She said.
Still no one volunteered.
"Okay then," She looked around the classroom, "Hirokazu, will you please come up and read your essay?" She said.
"Me?? Why me??" Hirokazu complained while everyone snickered. He got up with his paper and went to the front of the class, muttering how Isaji-san singled him out.
"Ok then ladies and gentlemen!" He started with a totally different attitude. He looked at his paper and cleared his throat.
"This weekend I…slept, tortured that fat ugly cat at the end of the block, and ate a sandwich. The end." He finished. Then bowed and walked back to his seat.
"Shioda, that wasn't acceptable." Isaji-san closed her eyes and rubbed her forehead.
"Hey I wrote something didn't I??" Hirokazu countered helplessly.
The class laughed.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
It was time for P.E. and the students, dressed in their uniforms, went outside to the blacktop.
"Alright as I promised, we get to play a sport today." Isaji-san told them with a smile.
The class cheered.
"But…" The class shut up, "first you have to run the track." She said.
The class groaned.
"Yes yes I know, but you may walk if you want…just remember that will cut into your playing time." She warned, and then blew her whistle.
The class headed to the track. The boys ran while the girls walked and talked, despite Isaji-san's warning.
Jyuri walked with her friends talking about something they started giggling about for some reason.
A couple boys ran by and shouted for them to move it so they can play a game. So the girls jogged a little still talking.
Jyuri tripped on a rock and her shoe went flying behind her as she fell to her hands and knees. The other girls looked back at her.
"Are you ok, Jyuri-chan?" One said.
"Yeah I'm fine..." she looked back at her shoe, "you guys go ahead, I'll get my shoe." she told them and got up heading for the shoe. The other girls continued on as instructed.
Jyuri slipped her shoe back on and retied it so it wouldn't come off again.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
A mist headed toward the school. It glided over the building and over to the blacktop. Then stopped over Jyuri.
She looked up as it slowly descended to the ground, engulfing her. It was so bright she couldn't see, and so thick it seemed like she was trapped.
She squinted and looked around. A figure started to appear...
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Hey where did the fog come from?" Said a kid.
Takato looked over and saw the cloud of fog around the other side of the track.
"Oh no..." he groaned.
"There was no report of fog coming today..." Isaji-san commented.
Suddenly a scream was heard from inside it.
Everyone gasped.
"Jyuri??" Takato said.
"Yep that's her all right." Hirokazu confirmed.
Takato looked at the group of girls and saw that she wasn't with them.
He ran across the blacktop to the fog.
"Hey dude wait!" Hirokazu said.
"Takato get back here!" Isaji-san ordered.
Takato kept on going and was soon in the fog.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Guilmon sniffed the air and started growling. Takato needs me! He thought, and ran out of the stone building in the park.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Takato couldn't see very well without his goggles. He shielded his eyes with his arms and squinted, looking around for Jyuri.
"Jyuri!" He called.
"Takato!" She answered.
He looked in the direction of the sound and saw her, then started walking toward her.
Something suddenly jumped in front of Jyuri, so fast Takato jumped back.
"Who are you?" Takato said to the digimon.
The digimon stood back into a more relaxed stance from his previous defensive one.
"Turuiemon. What are you doing here?" The digimon said.
"What am I doing here??" Takato shouted, then walked around Turuiemon toward Jyuri who waited patiently for him.
Turuiemon jumped back in his way.
"Hey!" Takato said making a fist. "What is wrong let her go," he said.
"Why should I?" Turuiemon argued.
"What do you want with her?" Takato asked.
Turuiemon looked at her.
"She is a human isn't she?" Turuiemon asked rhetorically.
"Yeah so?" Takato said impatiently.
"And humans have the power to make digimon evolve without the aid of data, correct?" Turuiemon continued.
"Yes...well..." Takato looked down, beginning to get the picture, "but she can't help you evolve!" He said snapping his head back up.
"Why not?" Turuiemon asked.
"Because she's not a tamer." He said.
Jyuri watched them quietly, eyeing the sharp blades on Turuiemon's arms nervously.
"Takato!" Guilmon said, running into the fog.
"Guilmon!" Takato said, "what are you doing here what if someone saw you??" he said.
"No one saw me." Guilmon said.
Takato sighed.
Guilmon looked at Turuiemon and growled.
"Let Jyuri go!" He said, noticing that Turuiemon was keeping her in place.
"No." Turuiemon said simply.
Guilmon growled again and blasted a fireball at Turuiemon. Turuiemon slashed it with his blades and it disappeared.
He rushed up and knocked Guilmon in the head sending him flying backwards and landing roughly on the ground.
"Guilmon!" Takato shouted.
Suddenly a glowing light appeared in front of him. The light faded and Takato's D-Arc dropped into his hands. Hey how did this get here? He wondered to himself.
"What is that??" Turuiemon asked.
"Um...nothing." Takato put it behind his back and got a cheesy smile on his face.
"Let me see it!" he demanded.
"No!" Takato shouted.
"NOW!!" Turuiemon said angrily.
"Takato..." Jyuri stepped forward.
Turuiemon sensed her motion, and whipped his arm out in front of her to keep her from passing him...unfortunatly; the blades on his arms slashed one of Jyuri's legs.
She cried out and fell back.
Turuiemon looked back at her obviously surprised.
"Jyuri!" Takato yelled.
Guilmon got back up and fired another fireball at Turuiemon. Turuiemon was preoccupied with what he had done to defend himself, and got hit head on by it. He fell next to Jyuri, who was holding her leg trying to stop the bleeding.
Takato ran up to her and took her by the arm.
"Come on lets go." He said, helping her to her feet.
Turuiemon got out of his daze and saw Takato taking away his potential tamer. He tripped Takato and got up quickly, grabbing Jyuri and running back a ways.
"Hey just leave her alone! You already hurt her how do you think you can be her partner??" Takato yelled angrily.
Turuiemon scowled and looked at Jyuri.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to do that." He said to Jyuri politely.
Jyuri looked at him confused.
Guilmon ran at Turuiemon and plowed into him while he was still looking at Jyuri. Turuiemon had been carrying Jyuri, and she fell the ground after Guilmon knocked him back.
Takato ran up to Jyuri again and helped her up.
"Are you ok?" he said, looking at the cut on Jyuri's upper leg.
"Uh huh..." she said, looking at Turuiemon and Guilmon fighting.
Guilmon bit Turuiemon's leg and swung him around. Turuiemon whacked Guilmon with the blunt part of his blade, but Guilmon didn't let go. So he whacked him with the sharp part of his blade. Guilmon roared (his little barely a roar, roar ^_^) and jumped back in pain.
"Guilmon!!" Takato said, as he saw data flooding out of Guilmon.
Guilmon fell to his knees, then onto his stomach.
Takato had tears in his eyes, as well as Jyuri.
Takato ran up to Guilmon and tried to plug up the hole in his back with his hand.
"Guilmon don't move..." he said quietly.
"No... problem there..." Guilmon answered weakly.
Takato looked at his D-Arc, he didn't have any cards with him...so what could he do? He leaned on Guilmon and started all out crying.
"Guilmon don't go..." He said.
Takato's D-Arc lit up. Takato looked at it. Then Guilmon started glowing. Takato backed away holding his D-Arc, as Guilmon grew...smaller??
"Guilmon..." Takato said.
The light faded and left a little digimon that resembled a Tokomon with Guilmon's features.
"What the...?" Takato said, and then held his D-Arc up to the little digimon.
The D-Arc took a minute, but eventually data came up.
"Gigimon, the In-Training stage of Guilmon??" Takato said astonished. "But I never made up an In-Training stage for Guilmon..." He looked at the little unconscious Gigimon and smiled. "Well...at least he's...alive..." Takato picked up Gigimon in his arms. Then looked at Turuiemon angrily, who just stood there.
"Takato...lets just go." Jyuri said.
Takato walked over beside Jyuri. She smiled at him; he tried to smile back but only managed a weak grin.
"Wait," Turuiemon said. Takato and Jyuri looked at him. "I...I shall go..." He said. His data started to dissipate.
Jyuri's eyes opened wide.
"No what are you doing??" She said.
"Don't worry, I'm just returning to my world...I am obviously not cut out for this one." He said, as his data completely disappeared.
Jyuri looked down.
"Come on Jyuri." Takato said, as the fog began to disappear.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Well Jyuri you seemed to have had quite an accident." The school nurse said.
Jyuri looked down. She went to the nurse's office after she and Takato returned to the class. She still had her P.E. uniform on.
"But something is bothering me..." the nurse said.
"Wha..what?" Jyuri said.
"You say you got that cut from tripping on a rock?" the nurse questioned.
"Yes..." Jyuri said hesitantly.
"It's strange because that is a clean cut right across your leg. You must have fallen in a very weird way to get a cut like that from a rock," the nurse said, obviously not believing Jyuri's story.
"Well..." Jyuri said slowly.
"Oh Jyuri, I wish you would tell me what really happened." The nurse said, putting some sterilizer on Jyuri's cut.
Jyuri looked away and flinched the sting from the sterilizer.
"I know things have been rough for you...but still, someone should know what happened." The nurse continued.
"I'm sorry, I would tell you...but I can't." Jyuri said.
The nurse looked at her.
"Why can't you?" The nurse asked.
"It doesn't matter, you wouldn't believe me anyway." Jyuri answered with a sigh.
"Try me." The nurse said.
Jyuri shook her head.
"Please tell me what happened Jyuri." The nurse said again.
Jyuri looked at her.
"Well, a bunny man did it." Jyuri said.
"Excuse me?"
"A bunny man...well not a bunny man exactly, but a bunny man is about as accurate as I can get." Jyuri said, forgetting that she wasn't supposed to say anything about the digimon.
"A...bunny man? Cut your leg?" The nurse said oddly.
"Yes, but it was an accident he didn't mean to." Jyuri said.
The nurse looked at her blankly.
"And what happened to this bunny man?" The nurse said crossing her arms.
"He...left..." Jyuri said looking down.
"Okay..." the nurse said, picking up the phone. She dialed a number and waited for someone to answer.
"Hello Katou-san? This is the nurse's office at your daughter's school. She got hurt and may be suffering from heat exhaustion." She said.
The person on the other line talked.
"Well she says a bunny man cut her leg then left." The nurse said.
The man on the other line said something else.
"Yes I think you should come pick her up and take her home, she may need some rest." The nurse said, eyeing the embarrassed Jyuri.
"Alright then, bye." The nurse said and hung up the phone.
"Well Jyuri, your father is coming to pick you up. Get some rest today ok?" The nurse said.
"I told you you wouldn't believe me. But it did really happen." Jyuri said quietly.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
The bell rang as it did that morning, except now it was afternoon, and school was over!
The kids rushed out of the building noisily.
Takato, Hirokazu, and Kenta were walking down the halls.
"So it was a digimon?" Kenta asked.
"Yeah..." Takato said.
"And he almost destroyed Guilmon??" Hirokazu said.
"Yes..." Takato answered.
"And he hurt Jyuri??" Kenta said.
"Uh huh..." Takato answered, getting annoyed.
"Then just left back to the Digital World??" Hirokazu almost shouted.
"YES!!" Takato shouted.
Hirokazu and Kenta looked at him astounded.
"I'm sorry, I guess I'm still a little anxious about Guilmon and Jyuri." Takato said quietly.
"It's ok, he's annoying anyhow." Hirokazu said motioning at Kenta.
"I'm annoying?? What about you visor head!" Kenta countered.
They started arguing, and when they passed the nurse's office Takato stopped and went inside. Hirokazu and Kenta were too busy yelling at each other to notice and they just kept going.
Takato peeked around a curtain at the nurse who was sitting at her desk writing something.
"Um..." Takato started.
The nurse swerved around in her chair quickly.
"What is it?"
"Is... uh...is Jyuri okay?" Takato asked.
"Jyuri? I sent her home..." the nurse sighed, "She started talking about a bunny man and..."
"What?? She told you about him??" Takato yelled.
The nurse looked at him.
Takato blushed a little smiling, angry with himself for slipping.
"You mean to say there was a bunny man?" The nurse said.
Takato thought a moment. He was stuck between a rock and a hard place. If he confirmed Jyuri's story, then police might start investigating and find out about Guilmon. If he doesn't, everyone will think Jyuri is crazy and he will feel guilty for the rest of his life.
"Well?" the nurse said.
"I...uh...that is...yes." He said.
"Yes? There was a bunny man??" the nurse asked.
"Yes...he cut Jyuri's leg." Takato said looking at his feet.
"Okay then...you should get home," the nurse told Takato.
"Yes thank you." he said, and left.
After he was gone, the nurse picked up the phone and called Jyuri's father again.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Jyuri's father was talking to her at the dining room table, trying to figure out what was wrong. The phone rang.
He got up and answered it.
"Yes?.... Who did?..... What are you saying that a bunny man might have actually attacked Jyuri??..."
Jyuri looked up.
"Okay thank you.... good bye." He hung up the phone.
Jyuri's father sat back down at the table next to Jyuri.
"That was the school nurse. She said one of your classmates came in and said that he saw a bunny man too," her father said.
"What?" Jyuri asked, "So do you believe me then?" She asked.
"Well...not exactly. There may have been a man in a bunny suit, or someone that really likes bunnies...in any case, if someone hurt you I'm going to have to report it to the police." He answered her.
"No don't." Jyuri said.
"Why not?" her father asked.
"Because it won't do any good." She answered.
Her father looked at her, worried if she was really all right.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Takato took Gigimon home; he was small enough to hide this time. He took of his shoes and ran up the stairs, leaving his mother asking what the heck he was holding.
"Ok Gigimon, I'll get you something to eat okay?" Takato told him happily.
"HUNGRY!! HUNGRY!!" Gigimon said impatiently.
"I know! I know! I'll be right back with more food that you could ever eat in a lifetime!" Takato ran down the stairs.
Gigimon looked in the reflection of the window. Boy I'm small! He thought.
Soon Gigimon was stuffing his face, while Takato sat there watching him. He was wondering how he devolved like that.
Perhaps it was the only way to keep him from being deleted? How come his D- Arc had data on Gigimon when Takato hadn't even made him up?? Would Ruki and Lee's D-Arc's have info on him too? They didn't have info on Guilmon...how could they, or he, have info on a digimon that is below any level in the card game??
"Takato!" came a voice from downstairs.
"Yeah??" Takato yelled back.
"Come down here!" The voice of his mother said.
"Okay!" Takato got up and opened the door. "Gigimon, don't go anywhere okay?" He shut the door behind him and ran downstairs. "What is it mom?" He asked her at the bottom of the stairs.
"We are almost out of flour can you please of to the store and get some?" She asked.
Takato looked upstairs...
"Takato?" She said.
"Okay." He answered. She gave him some money and he left out the door.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Evening was setting in, and Takato headed home. He was pulling a loaded wagon of flour.
Takato stopped a minute to take a breather. He looked to his side and noticed he was in front of Jyuri's house. It wouldn't hurt to see how she was doing...if she was already sent off the loony bin.
He walked up the steps and rang the doorbell.
Jyuri's father answered.
"Yes?" He asked.
"Hi I'm Takato from Jyuri's school. She got hurt today and I wondered how she was doing?" Takato said.
"Hm... Are you the boy who said there was a bunny man?" He asked.
Takato blushed and got a huge sweat drop on his face.
"Yes...sir." he said.
"Will you come inside? I need to talk to you and Jyuri together." He said.
"Okay." Takato said, and went inside.
Jyuri was sitting on the couch rather depressed when Takato walked in with her father.
She looked over at them.
"Takato!" She exclaimed and jumped up from the couch.
"Uh...hey Jyuri.." Takato said smiling.
The three of them sat down at the dining room table.
"So? Your name is Takato?" Jyuri's father asked.
"Yes sir." Takato said.
"So what happened with this bunny man?" He asked.
Suddenly the phone rang.
Jyuri's father got up and answered it.
"Oh yes hello..." He covered the mouthpiece. "I'll be right back." He told Jyuri and Takato, and then went into another room with the phone.
"I'm sorry Takato." Jyuri said.
"Sorry? What do you mean?" Takato asked.
"I'm sorry I told, I'm sorry I caused trouble for you and Guilmon...and I wouldn't blame you if you never talked to me again!" She said, tearing up.
"What are you talking about??" Takato asked.
Jyuri looked at him.
"It's not your fault." He said to her.
"Your...not mad at me?" She said, wiping her eyes.
"Mad? Of course I'm not mad!" Takato reassured her.
"Why did you do it?" Jyuri asked.
"Do what?" Takato said.
"Why did you tell the nurse that I was telling the truth?" She asked again.
"Well...because you were...and it wouldn't be fair for you to be all on your own about it when I was there too." He answered.
Jyuri smiled.
"Thank you." She said.
Takato smiled back.
"Jyuri, I could never be that mad at you. I never have and never will." He said.
Jyuri got up and hugged Takato.
Takato blushed and was a bit surprised.
She pulled away.
"I wish I could be like you Takato." She told him.
"Actually, I'd rather that you would be like yourself." He said, still blushing.
Jyuri's father came back into the room.
"Alright now about the bunny man…" He said.
Takato and Jyuri looked at each other, then smiled nervously at Katou-san.
Disclaimer: I don't own digimon or it's characters, they belong to Akiyoshi Hongo and Toei Animation.
Bunny Man
The bell rang.
All the kids herded into the school, and the students of Isaji-san sat in their seats.
"Konichiiwa." She said.
"Isaji-san konichiiwa!" the class chorused.
"Everyone take out your writing assignment." She said calmly.
Rustling papers were heard as everyone searched their book bags.
"Alright, will someone volunteer to read what they wrote about what they did last weekend?" She asked in almost a pleading manner.
Everyone sat there.
"Come on, don't make me choose…" She said.
Still no one volunteered.
"Okay then," She looked around the classroom, "Hirokazu, will you please come up and read your essay?" She said.
"Me?? Why me??" Hirokazu complained while everyone snickered. He got up with his paper and went to the front of the class, muttering how Isaji-san singled him out.
"Ok then ladies and gentlemen!" He started with a totally different attitude. He looked at his paper and cleared his throat.
"This weekend I…slept, tortured that fat ugly cat at the end of the block, and ate a sandwich. The end." He finished. Then bowed and walked back to his seat.
"Shioda, that wasn't acceptable." Isaji-san closed her eyes and rubbed her forehead.
"Hey I wrote something didn't I??" Hirokazu countered helplessly.
The class laughed.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
It was time for P.E. and the students, dressed in their uniforms, went outside to the blacktop.
"Alright as I promised, we get to play a sport today." Isaji-san told them with a smile.
The class cheered.
"But…" The class shut up, "first you have to run the track." She said.
The class groaned.
"Yes yes I know, but you may walk if you want…just remember that will cut into your playing time." She warned, and then blew her whistle.
The class headed to the track. The boys ran while the girls walked and talked, despite Isaji-san's warning.
Jyuri walked with her friends talking about something they started giggling about for some reason.
A couple boys ran by and shouted for them to move it so they can play a game. So the girls jogged a little still talking.
Jyuri tripped on a rock and her shoe went flying behind her as she fell to her hands and knees. The other girls looked back at her.
"Are you ok, Jyuri-chan?" One said.
"Yeah I'm fine..." she looked back at her shoe, "you guys go ahead, I'll get my shoe." she told them and got up heading for the shoe. The other girls continued on as instructed.
Jyuri slipped her shoe back on and retied it so it wouldn't come off again.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
A mist headed toward the school. It glided over the building and over to the blacktop. Then stopped over Jyuri.
She looked up as it slowly descended to the ground, engulfing her. It was so bright she couldn't see, and so thick it seemed like she was trapped.
She squinted and looked around. A figure started to appear...
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Hey where did the fog come from?" Said a kid.
Takato looked over and saw the cloud of fog around the other side of the track.
"Oh no..." he groaned.
"There was no report of fog coming today..." Isaji-san commented.
Suddenly a scream was heard from inside it.
Everyone gasped.
"Jyuri??" Takato said.
"Yep that's her all right." Hirokazu confirmed.
Takato looked at the group of girls and saw that she wasn't with them.
He ran across the blacktop to the fog.
"Hey dude wait!" Hirokazu said.
"Takato get back here!" Isaji-san ordered.
Takato kept on going and was soon in the fog.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Guilmon sniffed the air and started growling. Takato needs me! He thought, and ran out of the stone building in the park.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Takato couldn't see very well without his goggles. He shielded his eyes with his arms and squinted, looking around for Jyuri.
"Jyuri!" He called.
"Takato!" She answered.
He looked in the direction of the sound and saw her, then started walking toward her.
Something suddenly jumped in front of Jyuri, so fast Takato jumped back.
"Who are you?" Takato said to the digimon.
The digimon stood back into a more relaxed stance from his previous defensive one.
"Turuiemon. What are you doing here?" The digimon said.
"What am I doing here??" Takato shouted, then walked around Turuiemon toward Jyuri who waited patiently for him.
Turuiemon jumped back in his way.
"Hey!" Takato said making a fist. "What is wrong let her go," he said.
"Why should I?" Turuiemon argued.
"What do you want with her?" Takato asked.
Turuiemon looked at her.
"She is a human isn't she?" Turuiemon asked rhetorically.
"Yeah so?" Takato said impatiently.
"And humans have the power to make digimon evolve without the aid of data, correct?" Turuiemon continued.
"Yes...well..." Takato looked down, beginning to get the picture, "but she can't help you evolve!" He said snapping his head back up.
"Why not?" Turuiemon asked.
"Because she's not a tamer." He said.
Jyuri watched them quietly, eyeing the sharp blades on Turuiemon's arms nervously.
"Takato!" Guilmon said, running into the fog.
"Guilmon!" Takato said, "what are you doing here what if someone saw you??" he said.
"No one saw me." Guilmon said.
Takato sighed.
Guilmon looked at Turuiemon and growled.
"Let Jyuri go!" He said, noticing that Turuiemon was keeping her in place.
"No." Turuiemon said simply.
Guilmon growled again and blasted a fireball at Turuiemon. Turuiemon slashed it with his blades and it disappeared.
He rushed up and knocked Guilmon in the head sending him flying backwards and landing roughly on the ground.
"Guilmon!" Takato shouted.
Suddenly a glowing light appeared in front of him. The light faded and Takato's D-Arc dropped into his hands. Hey how did this get here? He wondered to himself.
"What is that??" Turuiemon asked.
"Um...nothing." Takato put it behind his back and got a cheesy smile on his face.
"Let me see it!" he demanded.
"No!" Takato shouted.
"NOW!!" Turuiemon said angrily.
"Takato..." Jyuri stepped forward.
Turuiemon sensed her motion, and whipped his arm out in front of her to keep her from passing him...unfortunatly; the blades on his arms slashed one of Jyuri's legs.
She cried out and fell back.
Turuiemon looked back at her obviously surprised.
"Jyuri!" Takato yelled.
Guilmon got back up and fired another fireball at Turuiemon. Turuiemon was preoccupied with what he had done to defend himself, and got hit head on by it. He fell next to Jyuri, who was holding her leg trying to stop the bleeding.
Takato ran up to her and took her by the arm.
"Come on lets go." He said, helping her to her feet.
Turuiemon got out of his daze and saw Takato taking away his potential tamer. He tripped Takato and got up quickly, grabbing Jyuri and running back a ways.
"Hey just leave her alone! You already hurt her how do you think you can be her partner??" Takato yelled angrily.
Turuiemon scowled and looked at Jyuri.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to do that." He said to Jyuri politely.
Jyuri looked at him confused.
Guilmon ran at Turuiemon and plowed into him while he was still looking at Jyuri. Turuiemon had been carrying Jyuri, and she fell the ground after Guilmon knocked him back.
Takato ran up to Jyuri again and helped her up.
"Are you ok?" he said, looking at the cut on Jyuri's upper leg.
"Uh huh..." she said, looking at Turuiemon and Guilmon fighting.
Guilmon bit Turuiemon's leg and swung him around. Turuiemon whacked Guilmon with the blunt part of his blade, but Guilmon didn't let go. So he whacked him with the sharp part of his blade. Guilmon roared (his little barely a roar, roar ^_^) and jumped back in pain.
"Guilmon!!" Takato said, as he saw data flooding out of Guilmon.
Guilmon fell to his knees, then onto his stomach.
Takato had tears in his eyes, as well as Jyuri.
Takato ran up to Guilmon and tried to plug up the hole in his back with his hand.
"Guilmon don't move..." he said quietly.
"No... problem there..." Guilmon answered weakly.
Takato looked at his D-Arc, he didn't have any cards with him...so what could he do? He leaned on Guilmon and started all out crying.
"Guilmon don't go..." He said.
Takato's D-Arc lit up. Takato looked at it. Then Guilmon started glowing. Takato backed away holding his D-Arc, as Guilmon grew...smaller??
"Guilmon..." Takato said.
The light faded and left a little digimon that resembled a Tokomon with Guilmon's features.
"What the...?" Takato said, and then held his D-Arc up to the little digimon.
The D-Arc took a minute, but eventually data came up.
"Gigimon, the In-Training stage of Guilmon??" Takato said astonished. "But I never made up an In-Training stage for Guilmon..." He looked at the little unconscious Gigimon and smiled. "Well...at least he's...alive..." Takato picked up Gigimon in his arms. Then looked at Turuiemon angrily, who just stood there.
"Takato...lets just go." Jyuri said.
Takato walked over beside Jyuri. She smiled at him; he tried to smile back but only managed a weak grin.
"Wait," Turuiemon said. Takato and Jyuri looked at him. "I...I shall go..." He said. His data started to dissipate.
Jyuri's eyes opened wide.
"No what are you doing??" She said.
"Don't worry, I'm just returning to my world...I am obviously not cut out for this one." He said, as his data completely disappeared.
Jyuri looked down.
"Come on Jyuri." Takato said, as the fog began to disappear.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Well Jyuri you seemed to have had quite an accident." The school nurse said.
Jyuri looked down. She went to the nurse's office after she and Takato returned to the class. She still had her P.E. uniform on.
"But something is bothering me..." the nurse said.
"Wha..what?" Jyuri said.
"You say you got that cut from tripping on a rock?" the nurse questioned.
"Yes..." Jyuri said hesitantly.
"It's strange because that is a clean cut right across your leg. You must have fallen in a very weird way to get a cut like that from a rock," the nurse said, obviously not believing Jyuri's story.
"Well..." Jyuri said slowly.
"Oh Jyuri, I wish you would tell me what really happened." The nurse said, putting some sterilizer on Jyuri's cut.
Jyuri looked away and flinched the sting from the sterilizer.
"I know things have been rough for you...but still, someone should know what happened." The nurse continued.
"I'm sorry, I would tell you...but I can't." Jyuri said.
The nurse looked at her.
"Why can't you?" The nurse asked.
"It doesn't matter, you wouldn't believe me anyway." Jyuri answered with a sigh.
"Try me." The nurse said.
Jyuri shook her head.
"Please tell me what happened Jyuri." The nurse said again.
Jyuri looked at her.
"Well, a bunny man did it." Jyuri said.
"Excuse me?"
"A bunny man...well not a bunny man exactly, but a bunny man is about as accurate as I can get." Jyuri said, forgetting that she wasn't supposed to say anything about the digimon.
"A...bunny man? Cut your leg?" The nurse said oddly.
"Yes, but it was an accident he didn't mean to." Jyuri said.
The nurse looked at her blankly.
"And what happened to this bunny man?" The nurse said crossing her arms.
"He...left..." Jyuri said looking down.
"Okay..." the nurse said, picking up the phone. She dialed a number and waited for someone to answer.
"Hello Katou-san? This is the nurse's office at your daughter's school. She got hurt and may be suffering from heat exhaustion." She said.
The person on the other line talked.
"Well she says a bunny man cut her leg then left." The nurse said.
The man on the other line said something else.
"Yes I think you should come pick her up and take her home, she may need some rest." The nurse said, eyeing the embarrassed Jyuri.
"Alright then, bye." The nurse said and hung up the phone.
"Well Jyuri, your father is coming to pick you up. Get some rest today ok?" The nurse said.
"I told you you wouldn't believe me. But it did really happen." Jyuri said quietly.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
The bell rang as it did that morning, except now it was afternoon, and school was over!
The kids rushed out of the building noisily.
Takato, Hirokazu, and Kenta were walking down the halls.
"So it was a digimon?" Kenta asked.
"Yeah..." Takato said.
"And he almost destroyed Guilmon??" Hirokazu said.
"Yes..." Takato answered.
"And he hurt Jyuri??" Kenta said.
"Uh huh..." Takato answered, getting annoyed.
"Then just left back to the Digital World??" Hirokazu almost shouted.
"YES!!" Takato shouted.
Hirokazu and Kenta looked at him astounded.
"I'm sorry, I guess I'm still a little anxious about Guilmon and Jyuri." Takato said quietly.
"It's ok, he's annoying anyhow." Hirokazu said motioning at Kenta.
"I'm annoying?? What about you visor head!" Kenta countered.
They started arguing, and when they passed the nurse's office Takato stopped and went inside. Hirokazu and Kenta were too busy yelling at each other to notice and they just kept going.
Takato peeked around a curtain at the nurse who was sitting at her desk writing something.
"Um..." Takato started.
The nurse swerved around in her chair quickly.
"What is it?"
"Is... uh...is Jyuri okay?" Takato asked.
"Jyuri? I sent her home..." the nurse sighed, "She started talking about a bunny man and..."
"What?? She told you about him??" Takato yelled.
The nurse looked at him.
Takato blushed a little smiling, angry with himself for slipping.
"You mean to say there was a bunny man?" The nurse said.
Takato thought a moment. He was stuck between a rock and a hard place. If he confirmed Jyuri's story, then police might start investigating and find out about Guilmon. If he doesn't, everyone will think Jyuri is crazy and he will feel guilty for the rest of his life.
"Well?" the nurse said.
"I...uh...that is...yes." He said.
"Yes? There was a bunny man??" the nurse asked.
"Yes...he cut Jyuri's leg." Takato said looking at his feet.
"Okay then...you should get home," the nurse told Takato.
"Yes thank you." he said, and left.
After he was gone, the nurse picked up the phone and called Jyuri's father again.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Jyuri's father was talking to her at the dining room table, trying to figure out what was wrong. The phone rang.
He got up and answered it.
"Yes?.... Who did?..... What are you saying that a bunny man might have actually attacked Jyuri??..."
Jyuri looked up.
"Okay thank you.... good bye." He hung up the phone.
Jyuri's father sat back down at the table next to Jyuri.
"That was the school nurse. She said one of your classmates came in and said that he saw a bunny man too," her father said.
"What?" Jyuri asked, "So do you believe me then?" She asked.
"Well...not exactly. There may have been a man in a bunny suit, or someone that really likes bunnies...in any case, if someone hurt you I'm going to have to report it to the police." He answered her.
"No don't." Jyuri said.
"Why not?" her father asked.
"Because it won't do any good." She answered.
Her father looked at her, worried if she was really all right.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Takato took Gigimon home; he was small enough to hide this time. He took of his shoes and ran up the stairs, leaving his mother asking what the heck he was holding.
"Ok Gigimon, I'll get you something to eat okay?" Takato told him happily.
"HUNGRY!! HUNGRY!!" Gigimon said impatiently.
"I know! I know! I'll be right back with more food that you could ever eat in a lifetime!" Takato ran down the stairs.
Gigimon looked in the reflection of the window. Boy I'm small! He thought.
Soon Gigimon was stuffing his face, while Takato sat there watching him. He was wondering how he devolved like that.
Perhaps it was the only way to keep him from being deleted? How come his D- Arc had data on Gigimon when Takato hadn't even made him up?? Would Ruki and Lee's D-Arc's have info on him too? They didn't have info on Guilmon...how could they, or he, have info on a digimon that is below any level in the card game??
"Takato!" came a voice from downstairs.
"Yeah??" Takato yelled back.
"Come down here!" The voice of his mother said.
"Okay!" Takato got up and opened the door. "Gigimon, don't go anywhere okay?" He shut the door behind him and ran downstairs. "What is it mom?" He asked her at the bottom of the stairs.
"We are almost out of flour can you please of to the store and get some?" She asked.
Takato looked upstairs...
"Takato?" She said.
"Okay." He answered. She gave him some money and he left out the door.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Evening was setting in, and Takato headed home. He was pulling a loaded wagon of flour.
Takato stopped a minute to take a breather. He looked to his side and noticed he was in front of Jyuri's house. It wouldn't hurt to see how she was doing...if she was already sent off the loony bin.
He walked up the steps and rang the doorbell.
Jyuri's father answered.
"Yes?" He asked.
"Hi I'm Takato from Jyuri's school. She got hurt today and I wondered how she was doing?" Takato said.
"Hm... Are you the boy who said there was a bunny man?" He asked.
Takato blushed and got a huge sweat drop on his face.
"Yes...sir." he said.
"Will you come inside? I need to talk to you and Jyuri together." He said.
"Okay." Takato said, and went inside.
Jyuri was sitting on the couch rather depressed when Takato walked in with her father.
She looked over at them.
"Takato!" She exclaimed and jumped up from the couch.
"Uh...hey Jyuri.." Takato said smiling.
The three of them sat down at the dining room table.
"So? Your name is Takato?" Jyuri's father asked.
"Yes sir." Takato said.
"So what happened with this bunny man?" He asked.
Suddenly the phone rang.
Jyuri's father got up and answered it.
"Oh yes hello..." He covered the mouthpiece. "I'll be right back." He told Jyuri and Takato, and then went into another room with the phone.
"I'm sorry Takato." Jyuri said.
"Sorry? What do you mean?" Takato asked.
"I'm sorry I told, I'm sorry I caused trouble for you and Guilmon...and I wouldn't blame you if you never talked to me again!" She said, tearing up.
"What are you talking about??" Takato asked.
Jyuri looked at him.
"It's not your fault." He said to her.
"Your...not mad at me?" She said, wiping her eyes.
"Mad? Of course I'm not mad!" Takato reassured her.
"Why did you do it?" Jyuri asked.
"Do what?" Takato said.
"Why did you tell the nurse that I was telling the truth?" She asked again.
"Well...because you were...and it wouldn't be fair for you to be all on your own about it when I was there too." He answered.
Jyuri smiled.
"Thank you." She said.
Takato smiled back.
"Jyuri, I could never be that mad at you. I never have and never will." He said.
Jyuri got up and hugged Takato.
Takato blushed and was a bit surprised.
She pulled away.
"I wish I could be like you Takato." She told him.
"Actually, I'd rather that you would be like yourself." He said, still blushing.
Jyuri's father came back into the room.
"Alright now about the bunny man…" He said.
Takato and Jyuri looked at each other, then smiled nervously at Katou-san.