Disclaimer: I don't own digimon at all except my ocs.
I still can't believe it. Only a few days had past, and I ended up becoming a part of Team Xros Heart. By Team Xros Heart, I meant the side of them involved in digimon hunting in the midst of searching for corrupted digimon as well as regain the pieces of my lost memories not their sports team side. I could never be able to catch up to them in that aspect. Though...I wonder, will I be able to find out the reason as to why I bear this Xros loader along with ending up in DigiQuartz?
Shwoosh! chuck!
I clicked my tongue in frustration. Lately, my concentration during archery practice has weakened. I haven't been getting close to the bull's eye.
"Ah..." I sighed to myself, lowering my long bow, "I'm getting too stiff lately."
Probably due to being on my guard most of the time. Soon the sound of footsteps entered the kyudo (Archery) dojo, I turned to find the captain of the archery team making his way toward me.
"Takemasa-senpai," I greeted the upperclassmen, giving him a forward bow. The captain of the archery team, Takemasa Naoki. He's the one who welcomed me into the team despite the fact of being one of the few girls in the club. At first you'd think he'd be a sickly person due to his pale skin tone, however his strong maturity as captain well defined. Helping others in their form and timing the of when to release the arrow.
"Hello Yukimura-san," He replied bearing a smile as he brushed away stray strands of raven hair away from his face, "Lately, you've been working a lot harder on your aims haven't you?"
I placed a hand against the back of my head while giving a small sigh, "Well, I think my train of focus was going off course..."
"You don't need to work too hard on yourself, Yukimura-san. Everyone needs to set limits on how far they can go."
Ahaha...there he goes...
Takemasa-senpai is a well-known worry wart out of all the captains of the sports clubs, its reflected in his brown orbs.
"Anyway, that should be enough practice for you today. Go change and take plenty of rest, Yukimura-san."
"Yes!" Then again, Takemasa-senpai can easily tell when someone needs a break.
As I rushed over to the dressing rooms for females, I checked my locker to find Lunamon's face blinking off the Xros Loader greeting me, "You're done?"
"Well, my upperclassmen told me to head back home now." I explained to the digimon while changing out of my uniform, and returning to my usual outfit, "We could probably meet up with Tagiru and the others."
Yeah, after the previous events...Tagiru dashed over to me this morning right after I put away my compact bow bag into the archery club room. He told me that calling him by his first name was alright, which I didn't mind...although he's probably the first boy I've ever called by first name without honorifics. Apparently, the other two were fine being called by their first name too since they weren't really used to being called by their sure-names.
"Akashi-san, good morning!" I greeted him this morning, but he shook his head at me. Stating this, while grin from ear to ear, "You can drop the formalities Azusa, after all we're partners!"
Partners, eh?
As I made my way over to the school entrance, I find Tagiru and Yuu exiting the school together along with Taiki-senpai.
"Tagiru-kun! Yuu-san! Senpai!" I called out, running after the three, "I just finished my club activities."
"Great! You wanna go with us to our classmate's house?" Tagiru offered. I sent him a look of curiosity, whereas Yuu-san added on, "One of our classmates, Tokio, hasn't been to class lately so we're delivering this printout to him."
"I see." Although, as we were heading towards Tokio's house...Taiki-senpai stopped for a moment to think before calling out to the boy leading us to Tokio's house, "Hey, Tagiru, is this Tokio a part of the robotics club?"
I sent a look to Taiki-senpai. Is he probably connecting a recent occurrence?
"Yeah...? Why do you say that?" Tagiru replied, raising a brow.
"Well, there are two kids in my class who didn't come to school either..." He continued, "And there are other 7th and 9th graders who were absent from today too."
I decided to question Taiki-senpai, "Were they all a part of the robotics club?"
The answer I received...was a nod. A feeling of uneasiness welled up inside me, "Do you guys think this might involve a digimon?"
"We did have an incident involving a Sagomon earlier," Yuu pointed out. It wasn't hard to connect the dots from the recent events, but Tagiru cheerfully announced, "We won't know until we get to Tokio's!"
Thus to Tokio-san's house it is!
Time Travel
Tokio-san already returned? This doesn't add up...
Apparently from what Tokio's mom stated, the said person was already home yet from what Tagiru and Yuu had said about Tokio being absent in class today doesn't seem to match at all.
"Psst..." Lunamon's attempted to get my attention as the guys went inside to see Tokio. I stayed outside to wait for them, "Azusa, something really doesn't feel right. More like, I think a corrupted digimon might be behind this."
"But then we can't just willingly head over to DigiQuartz without Tagiru-kun and the others," I uttered back to the digimon in my Xros loader. As I waited for the trio to return, I soon felt a chill ran down my spine. A sensation of someone watching me. I shifted my gaze to see if there was someone. Only to find the barren streets of the neighborhood.
Before I could even give a sigh of relief, a certain happy-go-lucky boy slammed a hand against my shoulder causing me to yelp in surprise,"Ngah!"
"Woah!" Tagiru in turn sent me a bewildered look of confusion as well as the Yuu and Taiki-senpai, "What's gotten into you Azusa?"
"..." I silently sighed in relief seeing that it was them instead of some unknown stranger, "I-It's nothing."
However as I asked Tagiru on what happened to Tokio, I never took notice of Yuu eyeing me in particular.
He couldn't help it, out of all the people in school...it had to be Yukimura Azusa. She wasn't a well known person among their class due to her originating from another, but she was indeed known for her outstanding diligence in the archery club despite being a girl. The same girl wasn't as talkative or attempting to shove her way into his face like some of the girls in class. Not to be rude or anything, however Yuu did indeed found it strange for someone like her to be a digimon hunter. Yuu remembered what he said to Taiki a few days ago.
"Taiki-san, do you think its right of us to allow Yukimura-san to join us?" He asked the former lead general staring at the sky from the rooftop of the school, "I mean we still haven't even figured out the reason as to why she happened to be at DigiQuartz the same time Tagiru entered."
"Tagiru doesn't seem to mind, plus..." Taiki focused his gaze toward Yuu, after staring at the scenery, "I can't turn my back on someone like her, and...Shoutmon and Lunamon get the feeling that Azusa's missing memories of how she got a Xros loader may also be one of the clues relating to the corrupted digimon kidnappings."
"Taiki-san..." Yuu uttered under his breath as he followed after them. To the gate of DigiQuartz, opened by Tokio's computer.
DigiQuartz
"Here? Shouldn't we have arrived in the DigiQuartz parallel of Tokio's room?" Taiki-senpai sounded surprised by the area. From what Lunamon had told me at home, DigiQuartz is like a digitalized ground for digimon bearing a parallel image to the human world. DigiQuartz in general is an area in which time isn't as affected, but can lead to dangerous situations if corrupted digimon aren't hunted down for their involvement in the real world. Like how Sagomon, Tagiru's recently caught digimon, affected the DigiQuartz of the school's swimming pool and ended creating a gate in order to capture students for negative energy.
"This means that some digimon can bring humans to a specific place in DigiQuartz..." Yuu noted.
"Then how in the world are we going to find Tokio?!" Tagiru sputtered for a moment until Gumdramon spoke, "Tagiru, reload me!"
"Okay! Reload: Gumdramon!" The purple dragon digimon hopped about declaring, "Yes, it is I! The Digital World's number one wild child! Gumdramon-sama is here!"
"Who are you calling the Digital World's number one?"
Gumdramon gulped.
"And what's with Gumdramon-sama? You're not even close to the King Shoutmon's level!"
Taiki-senpai and I gave a laugh as we both reloaded our digimon.
"Reload: Shoutmon!"
"Reload: Lunamon!"
The two digimon sent a look to Gumdramon who did mashed his words in a hurry, "Geh! Your majesty!"
"Let's try this again...who's number one?"
"You've got a lot to learn before you can even say that Gumdramon." Lunamon added, only to receive a huff from the wild child.
I giggled watching their interaction.
It was like watching three friends having a competition on whose the best.
"We're going to need our digimon from this point on," Taiki-senpai
"Can you pin point his smell, Gumdramon?" Shoutmon asked the the other dragon type digimon.
"Leave it to me!" Gumdramon began sniffing around, and soon pointed toward the left, "This way!"
Following after the purple digimon, we soon found ourselves heading toward a giant shed surrounded by multiple piles of scrap you'd normally find at a junkyard. Though, there was a person heading inside the building.
"Thats...Tokio!" Yuu pointed out in hushed manner while hiding behind one of the piles. As Tagiru and Taiki-senpai went on ahead, Yuu raised his arm to stop me from going after them.
I raised my head, bearing a face of bewilderment, "What's the meaning of this, Yuu-san?"
"It's dangerous for you to get involved in this," Yuu explained, "Also, we don't what we're up against or the digimon that's involved in this time's events."
I gritted my teeth while holding my ground, "Even so...! I have a job as a hunter!"
"What can someone who can't even remember the reason as to why the became one in the first place do?!"
Lunamon kept watching the two of us bicker on and on until, I finally snapped.
Shoving Yuu out of my way as I huffed under my breath marching ahead, "Says the person without a digimon!"
Lunamon thus gasped, taking notice of Yuu's shocked face forming into a pained expression as he gripped his yellow xros loader.
"W-Wait, Azusa!" Lunamon tried to stop her partner, only to turn back to Yuu, "I-I'm sorry...I still haven't told her about what happened to-"
Yuu, preventing himself to show anymore pain toward the digimon left, shaking his head before trailing after the others. The digimon in turn hope this conversation won't strain anything important.
"Th-There's a huge digimon!" Gumdramon and Tagiru sputtered out while warily pointing at the suppose monster. Although upon closer inspection, the digimon resembled more of giant robot being put together by the brainwashed students of the robotics club.
"Sh!" Lunamon and I shushed the two reminding them that we're incognito as of now. The two slapped clasped their hands against their mouths, preventing themselves from speaking any further.
As we listened in, another being arrived. Revealing to be a machine/wooden-like digimon. Taiki-senpai immediately sputtered the name of the said digimon, "P-Pinocchimon?!"
From the sound of his voice, it seems that this digimon was a friend. I glanced back over to Lunamon, who nodded in turn. Pinocchimon has been corrupted by the robotics club's negativity. We have no clue of what's the source, but the only choice we have is to get them to safety.
"Tagiru!" Lifting my head, I deadpanned seeing the brash boy charge inside the factory together with his partnered digimon as well as Taiki-senpai and Shoutmon.
I guess Tagiru constantly charges into any situation without thinking...
"Pinocchimon, an ultimate level puppet digimon...the King said that they met Pinocchimon during their journey." Lunamon explained, "Though, to think Pinocchimon would succumb to the negativity of those humans there. They must have experienced pressure or some kind of pain which led to the current Pinocchimon."
"Pressure...?" So that means the whole robotics club was undergoing some kind of emotional pressure at school. I quietly glanced over to Yuu, who in turn sent a look to me.
No use...if I ask him the conversation will end up turning into an argument, and now isn't the time for one!
But if we had some sort of clue as to how those members were pressured, we might be able to snap them out of being controlled as well as getting them to safety.
An explosion sounded from inside the factory, returning my gaze...I find Shoutmon and Pinocchimon fighting each other.
"Now's the chance!" Yuu pointed out. I nodded in turn following after him with Lunamon behind us.
"Come on, everyone! Let's get out of here while there's still time!" Yuu and I tried to get the students' attention only to receive a demanding statement from Tokio, "No!"
Right then and there, I could see it in Tokio's eyes. They looked as if someone was clouding his mind as he spewed out, "Our dream is to finish building this robot and win the tournament!"
Dream...Tournament...
I gasped in realization of what Tokio meant, "They're talking about the robotics tournament coming up this weekend!"
This time, I grabbed onto Tokio's arm hoping to get through him, "Look Tokio-kun, I know that its your's and the club's dream to win...but is creating a giant robot really necessary to defeat your competitors; better yet winning the competition?!"
"Yukimura-san..." Yuu watched as I attempted to snap the robotics club members out of their delusion.
"Plus, that Pinocchimon is manipulating you guys into making this digimon for himself! He's not going to-" Tokio shoved me away. Causing me to back up into Yuu, "Tokio-"
"Shut up!" Frustration grew on his face, "We're going to win with this robot!"
A frown formed against my lips, "It's no use...I can't snap them out."
Lunamon's ear perked up, "Then the only way to absolve their control is to snap Pinocchimon out of it!"
Yuu and I agreed to what the digimon added, only to hear the sound of laughter coming from Pinocchimon.
"Now everyone! It isn't finished yet, but let's see what this robot can do!"
"Stop!" It was no use, the controlled students didn't stop no matter what Yuu and I did. Hopping onto the head of the robot, Pinocchimon thus commanded, "Go, GigaBreakdramon!"
"C'mon!" Trying to pull them away is even difficult, how deep in control are they?! Though it's too late, the blast erupted enveloping everyone within it's surroundings causing us to be forced out of the way.
"Ah!" Losing my grip, I found myself flying over towards the pile of junk we came across earlier.
"Azusa!" Lunamon, using the blast as her catapult, attempted her best to break my fall using what strength she had to catch me. Only to have someone else catch the both of us in the midst of the blast, "Yukimura-san! Lunamon! Are you two alright?!"
Still kind of mad at Yuu, I didn't respond back. However within my blurred field of vision I spotted three shadows arriving. W-Who are they? Are they allies...or enemies?
Snapping out of daze, I find Gumdramon changing or probably this is what Taiki was talking about. Digivolving.
"Go, Arresterdramon!" Charging toward battle, the large purple dragon sent a flurry of punches toward the robotic machine as well as landing a sharp attack with it's blade-like tail. However the attacks weren't as effective against the robot.
"Lunamon!" I called out to the rabbit-eared digimon getting up beside me, "Do you think you're ready to fight?"
"Yes!" Lunamon concentrated in forming a water sphere on her antennae firing at high speed, "Tear shot!"
At first I thought it would at least create a dent however it barely made a scratch, thus Lunamon did another attack, "Lop-ear Ripple!"
A vortex of bubbles swirled, trying to swallow the ginormous creature. Instead it was brushed away by the mechanical arms forcing the vortex to aim at Arresterdramon.
"Woah!" Arresterdramon screeched dodging the bubbles of doom, "Watch where you're aiming Lunamon!"
"Then don't get in my way!" Lunamon yelled in return as she clawed at the machine. The two digimons continued attacking in intervals, but in the end neither of the two's attacks worked.
I headed over to Tagiru, who had his eyes bulging in a panic, "None of our attacks are working!"
"But we have to keep trying!" I added. I didn't want to give up, there's gotta be a way to stop Pinocchimon and GigaBreakdramon. The other way was to attack Pinocchimon, but I can't hurt Taiki-senpai's friend...thus we have to stop GigaBreakdramon at the most.
Pinocchimon chuckled in amusement to our failed attempts, "Before I become the strongest in the world, I'll crush you guys! GigaBreakdramon, counterattack!"
My eyes widened in alarm seeing the robot beginning to send faster attacks, quickly I alerted Lunamon and Arresterdramon, "Look out!"
As the two digimon dodge the attacks, Lunamon made a misstep in the process.
"Oh no!" Lunamon cringed as she saw a metallic arm aiming directly to her.
"Lunamon!" Arresterdramon, in frantic manner, covered for her. Taking the blow instead of Lunamon. Lunamon flinched seeing Arresterdramon in front of her, "You idiot! Don't protect me! Focus on the target!"
"And let one of my friends get hurt?! Not a chance!"
"Arresterdramon..." Lunamon soon found herself on Arresterdramon's back to make it easier for the both of them, though Pinocchimon began sending out drills at the two of them. Forcing Arresterdramon to dodge the multiple amounts of drills aimed toward them. Arresterdramon sent a punch while Lunamon sent a claw attack to the robotic creature only to cause the both of them to slam down to the ground due to a counterattack.
Both Tagiru and I ran over to our respective digimon partners.
"Lunamon, are you alright?!" I pulled the digimon into my arms.
"I-I'm fine, Azusa." She opened to reveal her pink-colored eyes, "He's too strong. Even for a rookie digimon like me, I don't stand a chance..."
Lunamon gripped her claws into a fist-like manner, as frustration shown on her face, "If only I can digivolve like the King and Gumdramon."
That's right, compared to Taiki and Tagiru...I haven't even been able to digivolve Lunamon yet. I hugged Lunamon close, "Don't worry, Lunamon! If Tagiru-kun and Arresterdramon haven't given up-"
I pointed out to Lunamon as the said two got up from their place, sending a determined smile toward the both of us.
"Then we can't give up either!"
Lunamon's expression at first was completely filled with surprise, only to change into one cheerful smile. In unison, the four of us proclaimed, "We'll hunt this guy down!"
All of a sudden, a bullet-filled blast was sent to the GigaBreakdramon. A voice further yet close by spoke in amazement, "To think we would find such an amazing digimon in a place like this..."
Peering through the remnant dust particles from the blast, I spied three people standing side by side with digimon. Resembling the three figures I saw earlier in the midst of the confusion. A girl dress in pink and pig-tails galore stood next to a digimon holding tightly onto a colorful set of balloons. A boy bearing a hat and sweatshirt had a digimon eyes on head to hands. While the one in the center, unassumingly the leader of the group had silver-colored hair. The digimon standing next to him almost seemed human if it weren't for the wings and beast mask it had. They all seemed to be the same age as Tagiru, Yuu, and I. However the announcement of them hurting Pinocchimon had me boil in anger.
"Lunamon stop their attack!"
"Yes!" Jumping high up into the air, Lunamon thus preformed one of her earlier attacks, "Lop-ear Ripple!"
A vortex of bubbles consumed the balloon attack directed to Pinocchimon.
"How could you!" I yelled at the three in turn, gripping tightly onto my xros loader, "Just for the sake of hunting GigaBreakdramon...you dare hurt Pinocchimon?!"
"So what? He's the one that's controlling the digimon we're hunting. It's common logic to get rid of the main controller out of the way, besides he's the enemy." The leader's words angered me.
"He's not an enemy! He's Taiki-senpai's and Shoutmon's friend!" I didn't know what burned within me, however the feeling started growing stronger and stronger as I continued to relentlessly protect Pinocchimon from getting hit by the enemies attacks using Lunamon's bubble vortex, "And friends...protect each other!"
As I screamed those words out of my head and mouth, a flash of light gleamed in the midst of my announcement.
"A-A light?!" A few gasps were heard as a ball of light pounced out of my xros loader, the digimon that hopped out of my xros loader forced Lunamon to return out of nowhere, "A-Azusa?! What's happening?!"
It was hard to tell, however from what the light did I saw it phase through Pinocchimon in turn. The puppet digimon gasped once the gold light phased through, halting Pinocchimon's actions causing him to lose balance from where he was standing. Plopping onto the hard ground beside the robotic digimon.
"Now's our chance! Astamon!" The humanoid digimon sent a flurry of bullets I tried to stop the attack by heading over to Pinocchimon, however the light that phased through Pinocchimon slammed right into me. Causing me to knock out in the mix.
The shouts of Tagiru and Arresterdramon heading my way was all I last heard. Although before completely knocking out, I sent a look toward the leader of the opposing group.
Tagiru
"A-A light?!" Taiki gasped in surprise to the orb jumping out of Azusa's xros loader, though Lunamon ended up being forced to return to her xros loader. Does that mean...the light is a digimon!?
"Awesome! Since when did Azusa capture a digimon!?" I exclaimed in surprise. However something didn't make sense. Azusa never used her xros loader until she met Lunamon, Gumdramon, and I. So...why is there another digimon within her xros loader?
Although, from here...the light may not show everything, but there's a shadow of a digimon. An unknown digimon.
"Arresterdramon..." I muttered to my partner.
"Yeah, Tagiru?"
"Do you know that digimon in that light?"
"...what are you talking about? There's no digimon!" Arresterdramon returned my response, "It's just a ball of light that flew out of Azusa's xros loader!"
I raised a brow toward him. But that's not right, there's a digimon literally inside that orb. I'm pretty sure I'm right.
Out of nowhere, once Azusa made an attempt to move by the time Ryouma and his partner digimon aimed to attack Pinocchimon...the light covered digimon pounced. Slamming into the girl, forcefully knocked the living lights out of her. Azusa's momentum fell leaving her to teeter toward the ground.
"Azusa!" Both Arresterdramon and I ran over to her immediately. Right before she fell face flat on the ground, Arresterdramon was able to stop her fall.
"Hey Azusa! Can you hear me?!" Shaking her arm a bit, Azusa didn't seem to react although I'm at least relieved that she's still breathing. "Um, Tagiru." Lunamon's voice of concern sounded from Azusa's xros loader, "What's happening out there? Is Azusa alright?"
"She's fine, Lunamon. She knocked out right after the light hit her." Arresterdramon reassured her, "The King and his partner is currently stopping the GigaBreakdramon alongside Pinocchimon."
"Pinocchimon?! D-Did he just return to his sense?!" Lunamon exclaimed in shock from the light blue xros loader.
"I think it had to do with the light that popped out of Azusa's xros loader. Somehow it was able to snap Pinocchimon back to his senses, but when the light returned to Azusa...it knocked her out in the process." I pointed out. This time I didn't add the fact of a digimon within the light, since it seemed that Arresterdramon couldn't identify the light as a digimon. Better yet, I wonder if Taiki-san or Yuu noticed?
Azusa
Azusa
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Azusa
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Please wake up.
Your new friends are calling for you.
W-Who are you...? An unfamiliar voice yet at the same time a nostalgic voice called me by my given name. And how do you know my name?
I wasn't returned a response. Instead I found myself hearing different voices.
"Azusa, can you hear me?" Groaning to the light shined at my face, I found myself seeing three faces.
"Taiki-senpai...Tagiru-kun...Yuu-san..." I mumbled before taking in my surroundings. We were back in the real world, or practically back at the real world. Only to find myself lying on an unfamiliar couch, "What happened?"
Tagiru sent me a grin along with a thumbs up, "We hunted that huge digimon!"
I blinked in surprise hearing Tagiru announce such, "The robot?"
He nodded. As I continued to add, "You mean that robot Tokio and the others made in the digital world?"
When he continued to brim in happiness, I sent him a flabbergasted expression of surprise, "Then what about those three hunters? What happened to them?"
"They left right after GigaBreakdramon lost control due to it being incomplete. We were able to stop it thanks to Pinocchimon's help." Taiki this time explained to me in detail of what took place during the battle. Apparently whatever came out of my xros loader...it was able to purify Pinocchimon's control, and from what Taiki and Yuu asked from Pinocchimon about the light. The puppet digimon had described the light as a welcoming presence. As if it gradually lifted the burden and negativity clouding away his sanity.
"Do you have any idea of what this light is, Azusa?" Yuu, having the nerve to ask me ignoring our earlier argument, questioned. I only shook my head in disappointment, "No, nothing comes to mind at all."
"I see." Taiki turned away for a bit, but remembered something, "Oh, and I believe Tokio has something to say to you."
I didn't notice until now, Tokio flinched the minute my eyes trailed over to his form the minute he returned to the living room.
"I-I'm sorry." Was the first words that spilled from Tokio's mouth, he continued to apologize for his brash behavior. Especially when I tried to point out the truth to him despite the events leading to now.
"If I had listened to you..." His face was pain stricken, in return I simply smiled to the bespectacled apologetic person.
"It's okay. After all, you as well as the others in the robotics clubs haven't given the tournament up yet." Tokio's eyes gleamed hearing my words.
The case of the missing robotics club members ended. Though in the end, none of my memories returned to me. However the arrival of opposing hunters never the less raise my blood pressure, but the mystery of the light that purified Pinocchimon's corruption hasn't been solved.
Better yet, this means its gonna take a while before I even receive a single clue as to how I got a xros loader.
The Next Day
I was jogging home from early morning practice during this Saturday. However in the midst of my jog, I ran into a familiar silver-haired boy no older than Tagiru, Yuu, and I. My eyes narrowed, as he made his way toward me. Once the boy stopped a few feet away, he gave a small smile.
"Our introductions at first were cut short since the GigaBreakdramon incident. My name is Mogami Ryoma, a digimon hunter like you," He attempted to offer a hand towards me. I stared at it for a moment, skeptical of his motives.
After all he just attacked one of Taiki-senpai's friend, Pinocchimon!
I slapped the hand away, sending a glare toward the hunter, "I'm sorry, but don't think I'll easily forgive someone who hurt my upperclassmen's friends."
He gave a frown, before giving a nonchalant expression. Giving a short huff, I hauled my compound bow case while passing Ryoma. I needed to get these home, but before I could leave. Ryoma called out to me, "You could at least give me your name."
Without budging to meet his eyes, I stated my name to the silver-haired boy, "My name is Azusa, Yukimura Azusa."
It wasn't pleasant. Meeting Mogami Ryoma out of nowhere.
It felt creepy...especially that fake smile of his.
Shaking the worries aside, I headed straight for home.
"Yukimura...Azusa, huh?" Ryoma mumbled my name, "It's been awhile since we've met, and yet you've simply forgotten our time."
Pulling out a picture, showed the same Azusa hugging Ryoma from behind. Her head sitting at his shoulder as Ryoma attempted to take a picture using his phone.
"Our time as partners."
Next Chapter Sneak-a-Peak
"Why do you keep following me?" I grimaced in annoyance. Ever since I gave Mogami Ryoma a rude introduction, he's been meeting up with me after my club activities, "It's not like our groups get along anyway."
"You would've wanted that...after all it's just like you to have a group alliance than being a soloist." My steps halt in turn to Ryoma's response. I uttered a question to him, "What do you mean?"
A small smirk formed against his face, "What I'm trying to say is that..."
I soon found myself closer to Ryoma, who's height stared down at me, "That you and I used to work together as partners during your missing memories."
HAH?! This jerk of a hunter was my partner?!
"That's ridiculous...you and me working together? There's no way I'd be working with someone who thinks hunting digimon is a mere game and not even care once for their feelings!"
"If only you-"
Remembered.