Digimon
The School Dance
Summary: Ken has a school dance coming up. So he asks Kari to go with him.
Chapter 1
Summary: Ken learns there's a school.
Ken had just wrapped up soccer practice. He had planned to meet the other digidestined in the digital world afterwards.
"And remember school dance is in two weeks. So show up looking your best and if there is someone special you want to bring along feel free to." The coach said to the team. Ken froze. School? Dance? Girl? Great who would I take? Ken thought to himself. He's been to dances before but never had a date with him. Knowing his mom, she'd probably set him up on a date and make him go. He went back to the locker room to get changed. Inside his locker his d-terminal was beeping. Ken opened his locker and quickly and grabbed it. He opened it to find an email from Kari.
Are you still coming to the digital world today? -Kari. Ken smiled and quickly answered back.
Yes, just finishing practice -Ken. Ken smiled and quickly grabbed his clean clothes. Ken quickly changed back into his school uniform. Ken grabbed his stuff and was ready to leave when he was stopped.
"Hey." A boy said stopping Ken.
"Alex." Ken said.
"Here you'll need these." Alex said waving two cards in Ken's face.
"What are these?" Ken said taking them.
"One's for you and the second is for who ever you take. They're invitations." Alex said.
"Date?" Ken asked.
"Well yeah, there must be a girl you want to take to this. If not, I'm sure we can find you one." Alex said.
"Right." Ken said not really sure on who he would take.
"So you want to do something?" Alex asked Ken.
"Can't, I'm meeting up with some friends and I'm already lat as it is." Ken said.
"Want a lift to their house?" Alex asked.
"I'll be fine, besides they live in Odaiba." Ken said.
"Odaiba why there?" Alex asked.
"Um I have family there and met some kids there through playing soccer." Ken lied quickly. Well partly lied. He did meet Davis through soccer and the others through Davis. He just left out the part of being a digidestine.
"No worries some other time." Alex said. Ken nodded. He quickly left and ran back home.
"Wormmon wake up." Ken said running into his room. Wormmon was asleep in Ken's bed waiting for his partner to return home. Wormmon opened his eyes. He looked down to see his partner at his computer.
"Come on we're already late." Ken said.
"Coming." Wormmon said as he crawled down the ladder. He noticed something sticking out of Ken's pocket while he was waiting for the gate.
"What's in your pocket?" Wormmon asked.
"They're invitations to a school formal." Ken said.
"Are you going to take someone?" Wormmon asked.
"Not sure." Ken said.
"Are you going to ask Kari?" Wormmon asked.
"Not sure never really had time to think on who to ask." Ken said.
"I think you should ask Kari." Wormmon said.
"Why is that?" Ken asked.
"Cause you have a crush on her, and this is the perfect time to tell her." Wormmon said. It was true Ken did start liking her since their defeat of MaloMyotismon. After their final battle, he was worried the others wouldn't hang out with him anymore, but Kari reassured him that their friendship would never fade. And she was right, they made sure to include him in their outings and spend time with him. The two were alike. Both kept their feelings bottle up inside. Both were affected by the powers of darkness. Both have been to the dark ocean, once together. Ever since then, he kept a close eye her especially around anything involving the powers of darkness. It had what brought the two together. They've hung out to talk about the dark ocean and that was it. Maybe Wormmon was right this would be a good chance to get to know her better.
"Ken? Ken." Wormmon said poking his partner.
"What? Sorry buddy was deep in thought." Ken said.
"I said are you going to ask Kari?" Wormmon said.
"Not sure, what if she says no." Ken said.
"Just ask and see what she says." Wormmon said.
"What about TK and Davis?" Ken asked.
"What bout them?" Wormmon asked.
"They like her too. hat if she likes one of them." Ken said.
"Then go as friends and don't make it a date." Wormmon said.
"I guess I could do that." Ken said.
"Then do it." Wormmon said.
"If I can get her alone, I will." Ken said. Wormmon nodded.
"But right now we need to go." Ken said opening the gate.
"Right." Wormmon said.
"Digiport open." Ken said pointing his digivice to the screen. The gate opened up, and the two were sucked through. They landed in the fields nearby where the others were. Davis and TK were playing soccer with he digimon and cody watching them. Yolei and Kari were busy preparing the food.
"Ken's on his way." Kari said looking at her d-terminal.
"Well he did say practice ran late again." Yolei said.
"I wonder why? They have been running late lately." Cody said joining the girls.
"Maybe the coach held him back." Kari said.
"Maybe." TK said.
"Cody, Yolei, Kari come play soccer with us." Davis said joining the team.
"Alright sure." Cody said.
"I guess so." Yolei said.
"No thanks Davis, I think I'll watch." Kari said.
"You sure?" Cody asked.
"If you want, you can get some firewood to make a fire." Yolei suggested. Kari nodded. Kari watched as the others went off to play soccer. Ken made it to the site and noticed Kari sitting alone.
"Hey sorry I'm late." Ken said walking up to her.
"You made it." Kari said.
"So did I miss anything?" Ken asked.
"Ken you made it." Davis said waving his arms. Ken smiled and waved back.
"Come join us." Davis said.
"No thanks, maybe later." Ken said then took a seat next to Kari.
"So what's up?" Ken asked.
"Not much." Kari said.
"Why aren't you playing with the others?" Ken asked.
"I didn't feel like it, besides Yolei asked if I would get firewood, so I minus well go do that." Kari said standing up.
"Can I tag along?" Ken asked.
"Sure." Kari said. Ken got up and the two walked off into the woods. I guess now is a good time to ask her. Or maybe I should see what she thinks of the others first. Ken thought.
"Kari what's up between you and TK?" Ken asked.
"We're just close friends." Kari answered.
"I noticed he's very protective of you and very close." Ken said.
"We were part of the first team of digidestines. So we got close. Not to mention our brothers are best friends so the four of us used to hang out a lot." Kari said.
"And you and Davis?" Ken asked.
"Davis and Tai played soccer together, so that's how we became friends." Kari said.
"So that explains those two always competing against each other." Ken said. Kari nodded.
"Would you ever date one of them?" Ken asked.
"I don't know, probably not." Kari answered. Perfect. Ken thought to himself.
"Why do you ask?" Kari asked.
"Just wanted to make sure before I asked you something." Ken said.
"Oh." Kari said. Ken remained quiet.
"I was wondering what you're doing a couple of Saturdays from now." Ken finally said hanging his head.
"Nothing that I know of." Kari said. Yes. Ken thought.
"I was hoping you could maybe want to go a school dance with me." Ken said nervously. This is it.
"Sure." Kari answered.
"Really?" Ken asked. Kari nodded.
"It'll be fun and something different from what I normally do." Kari said.
"What do you normally do?" Ken asked.
"Hang around, and watch TK and Davis compete for my attention." Kari said.
"Sounds like fun." Ken said.
"Sometimes it's annoying." Kari said.
"Well this dance will give you a nice break." Ken said. Kari nodded in agreement.
"I'll have to ask my parents if I can go, but I'm pretty sure I can." Kari said.
"Here you can take this." Ken said handing her an invitation. Kari took it and looked at it.
"Thanks." She said.
"Maybe we should grab some firewood and head back to the others." Ken suggested. Kari nodded. She put the invitation in her pocket. The two each grabbed a hand full of logs before heading back to the others. The game had finished by the two came back with the wood.
"There you guys are." TK said.
"Sorry we were busy talking." Ken said.
"It's ok, we weren't sure if anything happened to you guys." Cody said.
"Nope we were just talking." Ken said.
"That's cool." TK said. The boys began working on the fire. Yolei pulled Kari aside.
"So what did Ken ask you?" Yolei asked.
"He wanted to know what I thought of Davis and TK." Kari said.
"Oh." Yolei said.
"Then he asked me to a school dance." Kari said.
"That sounds like fun." Yolei said.
"You ok with this?" Kari asked.
"Well yeah. I know I had a crush on Ken in the past, but for right now I'm ok with being his friends. Though it looks like you might be crushing on him." Yolei said.
"Well maybe. He's really nice and less annoying than TK or Davis right now." Kari said.
"Know what?" Yolei asked.
"What?" Kari asked.
"I think Ken likes you too." Yolei said.
"You think?" Kari asked.
"Well he asked you to this school dance." Yolei said. Kari nodded.
"Hey food's ready." TK said.
"Kay." Yolei said. Ken went over and sat next to Kari.
"Why does Ken get to sit with Kari?" Davis whined. Yolei walked over and covered his mouth with her hand.
"Ouch you bit me." She screamed.
"Ok you two break it up." TK said getting in the middle of them.
"Maybe I should go be with Davis." Ken said.
"You don't have to if you don't want to" Kari said. Ken nodded and remained seated next to Kari.
"You two sit down and eat." TK ordered. The two separated and everyone ate. Cody walked over and sat with Ken and Kari.
"Avoiding the drama?" Kari asked.
"Yep." Cody answered.
"That's fine with us." Ken said. The three sat in a small circle and started talking. When the picnic was over, everyone started cleaning up.
"So Ken coming home with us, or through your own gate?" TK asked.
"I'll come with you guys, my parents know I'm out." Ken said.
"Alright let's go home then." Cody said. The kids went back through the gate and landed, back in the computer lab at school.
"Well that never gets less painful." Yolei said.
"No kidding." TK said. Everyone slowly got up off the floor.
"Well today was fun. We should do it again." TK said as they walked out of the school and down the street. Everyone nodded in agreement.
"Maybe next time the older kids will come with us." Yolei said.
"I could ask Tai." Kari said.
"Alright you and TK can ask around with the older kids." Ken said.
"We're meeting up tomorrow so we'll ask then." Kari said.
"Hey I want to come?" Davis said.
"Aren't you busy tomorrow?" Cody asked.
"Well yeah…" Davis said.
"Skipping out on me?" Ken asked.
"No." Davis said slowly. Everyone stopped walking and laughed.
"You two talk with the others, then let us know what they say." Ken said.
"We will." Kari said.
"Well this our street. We'll see you guys later." Cody said.
"Bye guys see you later" Ken said. Davis, Kari and Ken were left alone as the other three ran down a different street.
"Well this is my street." Davis said leaving Ken and Kari alone.
"Want company back to the station?" Kari asked.
"Sure." Ken said. The two continued walking toward the station.
"So what's the school dance for?" Kari asked.
"Oh it's more for the soccer team." Ken said.
"That sounds like fun." Kari said.
"It should be or atlas that's what I've been told." Ken said.
"Have you gone to an event like this before?" Kari asked.
"Well yeah, this will be my first one bringing someone with me." Ken said.
"Why is that?" Kari asked.
"Not sure, maybe I was a jerk back then." Ken said. Kari giggled.
"Well you weren't quite yourself then, but at least you turned things around." Kari said.
"Thanks, I'm glad I turned things around too." Ken said.
"So why me?' Kari asked.
"Huh?" Ken asked.
"Why did you pick me? You could have asked Yolei." Kari said.
"Well yea, but I wanted to go with you." Ken said.
"Why?" Kari asked.
"Well the only thing we've talked about would be the dark ocean. I thought this would be a good chance to get to know each other better. And besides it's not fair that TK and Davis get spend time with you and I don't." Ken said.
"True, we never really hang out." Kari said.
"It'll be fun." Ken said. Kari nodded in agreement.
"Well here we are." Ken said. Kari nodded.
"Let me know when you get home?" Kari said. Ken nodded.
"I'll do the same thing." Kari said.
"Good." Ken said. Kari waved goodbye as Ken walked into the station. She waited for him to disappear then walked back home.
"I'm home." Kari said as she entered the apartment.
"How was it?" Mr. Kamiya asked.
"It was fun, but I need to ask you and mom something." Kari said as she went into the kitchen.
"Sure what is it?" Mrs. Kamiya asked.
"Ken has a school dance in a couple of weeks, and he asked me if I could go with him, and I was wondering if I could." Kari said.
"Is this a date?" Mrs. Kamiya asked.
"No we're going as friends." Kari answered.
"Well I'm sure you two will have fun." Tai said sarcastically. Kari frowned.
"Tai's right it'll be fun for the two of you." Mrs. Kamiya said.
"Thanks, I'll let Ken know I can go with him." Kari said and disappeared into her room.
"Mom are you serious?" Tai asked.
"Yes. What's wrong with that?" Mrs. Kamiya said.
"It's Ken." Tai said.
"I know, he's a good person." Mrs. Kamiya said.
"But it's Ken." Tai said.
"You don't have to like him Tai, but he's a good friend of Kari's and I trust him." Mrs. Kamiya.
"But it's Ken." Tai said again.
"Tai enough." His mother said.
"Sorry." Tai said. meanwhile Kari was in her room emailing Ken on her d-terminal.
Kari: I made it home.
Ken: Same here.
Kari: I asked my parents, they say I can go.
Ken: Great, I haven't told my parents yet, but I will when they get home.
"Ken we're home." Ken's mother said.
ken: Which would be now, I guess.
Kari: Need to go?
Ken: Probably.
Kari: Should we tell TK and Davis about this?
Ken: I don't know I think we should. You can if you want too.
Kari: I'll see, you can if you want to.
Ken: I will if you don't.
Kari: Go ahead.
Ken: I will.
Kari: I'll let you go now.
Ken: Ok bye.
Kari: Bye.
Ken closed his d-terminal.
"Ken?" Mrs. Ichijouji said walking into his room.
"Hi mom." Ken said.
"How was your day?" She asked.
"It was good." Ken answered.
"What's that?" Mrs. Ichijoui asked seeing the invitation on his table.
"Um invitation to a school dance for the soccer team." Ken answered.
"Sounds like fun, you going?" Mrs. Ichijouji asked.
"Yeah, kind of have to. The whole team is going." Ken answered.
"So taking anyone? If not I can try to set you up with someone." Mrs. Ichijouji said.
"It's ok mom, you don't need to do that." Ken said.
"Oh honey did you hear, Ken is going to the dance is bringing date." Mrs. Ichijouji told her husband.
"That's great who are you taking?"' Mr. Ichijouji asked.
"Kari" Ken answered.
"Your friend Kari?" Mrs. Ichijouji asked. Ken nodded.
"I didn't know you like her like that." Mrs. Ichijouji said.
"I don't we're going as friends." Ken said,
"You know Ken, friends who go to a dance together can end up as a couple sometimes." Mr. Ichijouji said.
"We're just friends and that's it. Beside two other of my friends are already competing for her, and I don't need to be in that mess." Ken said.
"It's ok to like the same girl your friends like. And who knows maybe she'll pick you over them." Mrs. Ichijouji said. Ken didn't say anything. Instead he left the kitchen and returned to his room.
"Well that went well." Ken said closing the door behind him.
"What went well?" Wormon asked from Ken's bed.
"Nothing, just told my parents about the dance, and now they think I'll have a girlfriend." Ken said.
"Well you do like her like that." Wormmon said.
"No I don't." Ken said.
"Yes you do." Wormmon said.
"Do not." Ken said.
"Do too." Wormmon said.
"Worrmmon." Ken said.
"Sorry." Wormmon as he shrunk back a little.
"Don't worry it's ok. Let's just drop it" Ken said.
"Ok." Wormmon said.
Author' s notes;
~my first and probably only KenXKari story.
~Let's see how this goes.
~I do not own anything.
