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New story from me Jellotto. I've wanted to do a Tai and Kari story for a while but couldn't think of a good idea. I like this one quite a bit so I ran with it.
This one is dedicated to all the adventures my sister and I have had together. (Though they've never been quite as exciting as this.)
I don't own digimon
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Tai frowned as he looked at the house in front of him. He checked the address on the sheet of paper in his hand. Unfortunately he had the right address. He looked over to his sister. She had a similar look to his on her face.
"So this is where crazy Eiji and Edna lived?" Kari asked.
"Yeah, I guess so," Tai replied, "We never really visited them though."
"Did we even ever meet them?" Kari asked.
"Maybe once at one of our family reunions. But that was a long time ago." Tai answered.
"So remind me again why we're here?"
"I guess Uncle Eiji willed us this place. So we're here to check it out to see what to do with it."
"That's weird that he'd will it to us."
"Well, Uncle Eiji always was a little off."
Tai took another look at the house. It looked like one of those houses no one lives in, pretty overgrown, and falling apart. It was only one story and looked like it might be a little bigger than the apartment the Kamiya's had in Japan.
"I suppose we should take a look inside." Tai said reluctantly.
Both of them grabbed their suitcase and headed for the house. Tai used the key he'd gotten in the mail from Uncle Eiji posthumously. Tai opened the door. The inside of the house wasn't much to look at but it was better than the outside, not that that was saying much. There were two bedrooms, a kitchen, a bathroom, and a little living room. The walls were painted a dull yellow that looked like it had been faded because it was very old.
"Eww! It smells so musty in here." Kari complained.
"Yeah, it really does."
Kari plopped down on the couch.
"Boy, I'm still pretty tired from that flight." She said.
"Well it was over twelve hours." Said Tai, "It takes a long time to get from Japan to California. Why didn't you sleep?"
"I did, but I never get that good of sleep on the plane. I always wake up because my neck hurts."
"I know what you mean. At least you didn't have to sit next to that fat guy. I had no room!"
"You got me on that one. I wonder if this TV works. Where's the remote?"
"You mean this thing?"
Tai held up a controller attached to the TV by what looked like a phone cord.
"I guess so…" sighed Kari.
Tai threw her the "remote" and Kari turned on the TV.
"Hmmm, static, static, colored static, C-Span…." Kari said, noting what she saw on the TV, "Well that's pretty useless."
"Pretty much." Tai agreed.
Suddenly Kari screamed. Tai turned to see what was the matter. Kari was on her feet flapping her arms. Tai saw a large roach come off her and fall on the floor. Quickly he stomped on it with his feet, making an audible crunch.
"Eww…" said Tai looking at the bug guts under his shoe.
"That was so gross!" exclaimed Kari, "Do we really have to stay here, Tai?"
"Yeah, unless you have money to stay in a hotel." Tai answered, "It'll only be for a few days then we'll meet up with the rest of the digidestined down in San Francisco."
"Why can't we go now?" whined Kari.
"Because they're not getting in till Saturday. Then we'll stay with some of Mimi's family."
"Fine." Said Kari crossing her arms.
"Besides we don't have to stay here all day. We could go out around town or something."
"I don't know how much there is to do in 'Scrumptail', California."
"Well we don't have to stay in this town, we could go to the beach. It's only like an hour or so I think."
"Kay anywhere but here would be good I think."
"You're probably right. It looks like no one's lived here for years…" said Tai as the knob for the air conditioner broke off in his hand.
"What do you think we should do with this place?" asked Kari, "It is ours…"
"I don't know. We could fix it up some and use it sometimes in the summer. But I think we should probably just sell it. It seems like it'd be a lot of work to fix it up," Answered Tai, "Besides we don't really come to this part of California that often."
"Yeah, but who do you think would by this place?"
"I don't know but real estate's pretty expensive here. So maybe this place would sell pretty well for a good profit too."
"I still don't see who would want this place."
"I know what you mean. What do you say we get out of here? The smell is starting to bug me."
"All right let's go."
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When Tai and Kari reached downtown which consisted of about 5 or so buildings clumped together. There was a grocery store, a restaurant, what looked like a town hall, a library/bookstore, and an ice cream parlor.
"Look Kari it looks like an old time ice cream shop." Exclaimed Tai pointing.
"Yeah, wanna get some." Asked Kari.
"Yeah, I do, it's really hot here." answered Tai holding up his hand to block the sun.
The ice cream shop had four ice cream flavors: vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, and chocolate chip. Tai got chocolate and Kari got strawberry. They sat at a little booth by the window.
"I was going to play something on the jukebox over there but there's nothing there past the 50's I think." Said Tai returning to his seat.
"That figures." Said Kari. Kari noticed the worker at the ice cream counter looking at them. She looked over and he turned away.
"Tai have you noticed something?" Kari asked, "A lot of people in this town have been staring at us. That old couple we passed on the way here, the lady pointed at us and whispered to her husband. It's kind of weirding me out."
"I wouldn't worry," said Tai in his usual confident manner, "It's probably just a small town thing. I'd imagine they don't see new people that often."
"All the same I'm not sure I like it. It gives me a bad feeling."
"Tai looked around the ice cream parlor to see if she was right. As he started to he saw quite a few stares change direction. Though he couldn't be sure all of their gazes had been directed at them in the first place. Though there was one person Tai took particular notice of.
"Hey you see that girl over there?" Tai asked Kari pointing to a girl with straight red hair sitting by herself at a table.
"Yeah, why?" Kari asked suspicious of Tai's intentions.
"She's kinda cute. I'm gonna go talk to her." Said Tai.
"Tai! I thought you're with Sora!" objected Kari.
"I am. I'm just going to say hi."
"In that case I'd better come with you."
"No wait look she's coming over here," said Tai checking his hair. Hikari sighed as Tai grabbed a mint out of his pocket.
"Hi there!" said Tai.
"Hi," said the girl, "Who are you guys?"
"I'm Taichi and this is my sister Hikari. You can call us Tai and Kari though." Said Tai.
"Oh Tai and Kari, you must be Eiji's nephew and niece." Said the girl.
"Yeah how'd you know?" asked Tai.
"This is a small town you know everything about just about everybody," She answered, "I'm actually kind of glad to meet you. There are not a lot of teenagers in this town."
She shook Kari and Tai's hands.
"I'm Nicole by the way. Welcome to Scrumptail. Why don't I show you around town? Though to be honest there isn't a lot to show you." Said Nicole.
Nicole explained the other four buildings around the ice cream parlour. All of the buildings were built around the 50's and had had little renovations since then. People around the town didn't really see the need for improvement. Nicole explained that most people that lived in the town were over forty. Most of the kids left the town when they got the chance. She herself was adopted.
"And this is the library. But they also sell books here." said Nicole.
"What are all these books?' asked Kari looking in the window, "There's a lot of them."
"That's 'The Legend of Cacodae'," answered Nicole, "A man brought it here a while back. It's really popular here in town. I can't say that for anywhere else because I really haven't left town that often."
"I've never heard of it." Said Kari, "I'll take a look at it though. I like reading. Can I check it out?"
"You'll need a library card. Tell you what I'll check it out for you." Said Nicole.
Inside the library, Tai and Kari, received a few more stares from the townsfolk. But it was starting to bother them less.
"Why are you checking this out?" asked the librarian, "Don't you already have a copy?"
"Yes," answered Nicole, "But my friends wanted to check this out."
"And who are your friends, dear?" asked the librarian.
"I'm Kari and this is my brother Tai." Kari answered.
"Oh, you must be Eiji's nephew and niece." Said the librarian.
"Wow everyone really does know everything about everyone in this town." Remarked Tai.
"Told you." Said Nicole.
"Well we've all been sort of expecting you after your uncle died. We heard he willed his house to you. I think he cared about you quite a bit." Said the librarian.
"Really? Because we hardly ever saw him." Said Tai.
"Oh yes. He told us quite a bit about you." Said the librarian, "All right here's your book. Enjoy!"
The three left to return to Tai and Kari's temporary residence. Nicole told them various things about the people who lived in the houses they passed, and asked them about the outside world.
"So everyone has cell phones?" Nicole asked, "There might be one phone in this whole town and I'm not sure it works."
"Yeah, I have right now," Tai said pulling out his phone, "Hmm no service. I guess we're pretty remote."
"Well here's our stop." said Kari as they reached the doorstep of Uncle Eiji's old house.
"Hey, do you think I could come in? I've never really been inside it before." Asked Nicole.
"I guess so, but I don't know why you would want to," said Tai, "There really is not much to see."
"Well let me see it anyway." Said Nicole.
Nicole went into the house first looking around like it was all very interesting.
"You can look around, I'm getting a drink of water." Said Tai.
"And I'm going to try and use this bathroom." Said Kari.
Tai returned from the kitchen and looked around for Nicole. He found her in his room looking through his suitcase. When she saw him she dropped what she was holding and stood up. Embarrassed, her hands were behind her back.
"I'm sorry. I'm just curious about the outside world." She said blushing.
"It's alright. Just ask next time." Said Tai.
"Okay, can I look at your stuff?" she asked.
"Sure." Said Tai.
Nicole went back to looking through Tai's things. She raised up one object of particular interest to her.
"What's this?" she asked.
It was Tai's digivice. Tai realized it might not have been a good idea to let her look through his stuff. But Tai had never been one for thinking ahead.
"That's uh… just some game device." Said Tai thinking on his feet.
"Really what game?" she asked pressing buttons on his digivice.
"Uh… Just some dumb monster game. It doesn't work anymore it broke on the plane." Said Tai.
"Oh alright," said Nicole putting the digivice down, "Well I'd better be going. It was nice to meet you."
"Same here, bye." Said Tai as Nicole left.
"Hey where'd Nicole go?" asked Kari coming out of the bathroom.
"She had to leave." Said Tai.
"By the way the toilet doesn't work." Said Kari.
Tai just groaned.
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That night Tai's sleep was interrupted when he heard footsteps outside his door. He sat up for a second and grabbed the heaviest thing he could reach. In this case it was a metal vase. The door of his room opened. Tai raised the vase over his head ready to strike. A figure walked through the door and Tai threw the vase at it.
"Ow!" said a familiar voice.
Tai reached for the lamp on the nightstand and turned it on. It was only Kari.
"Oh sorry," Tai apologized, "Why'd you come in here?"
"That room I'm staying in is really scary. And I thought I heard something outside." Said Kari sounding frightened.
Tai sighed, he knew what was coming next.
"Tai could I please sleep in here?" begged Kari.
"No, Kari." Answered Tai, "Go back to your room."
"Please, Tai? I'm going to keep bugging you if you don't." said Kari.
"Uhhh… Fine." Groaned Tai, "Just don't get on my side of the bed."
"Thanks Tai you're the best!" said Kari climbing into Tai's bed, "You won't even know I'm here."
"Yeah right." Said Tai.
"Why couldn't Kari have the crest of courage?" Thought Tai as he was confined to having only half the bed.
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Somewhere in the woods two figures met. They both wore a cloak and hood.
"So are they the ones? The ones we're looking for?" asked one figure.
"Yes, I saw one of those devices you were telling me about in their suitcase." Said the other figure.
"You've done well my servant." Said the first figure.
The second figure took off her hood and let her red hair fall over her cloak.
"Thank you master." She said.
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Well what do think so far? I'd really like to know and I'm not telepathic, so leave me a review!
I might not update this for a little as I'm still writing two other stories. So we'll see when I get to this one.
Thanks for reading! Please review!
