"Look I told you, I'm fine." Gaomon growled reaching for the packed up tents.
"Dislocating you're shoulder and ripping you're foot burns open is not fine!" Hissed Gatomon blocking his hand.
It was the day after the battle with the bandits and Gatomon was furious that that neither Renamon nor Gaomon were listening to her. First it took her three hours to persuade Renamon to stop so she could treat her wounds. It turned out she had a broken her arm when Ogremon hit her with his club. Gatomon had to make a splint and Renamon was still refusing to take any medicine, but she was used to that from Renamon.
Gaomon on the other hand was a whole different story. First it took nearly ten minutes to get his shoulder to pop back into place and he kept squirming when she was stitching his foot shut. But what really made her angry was that he still wanted to carry everything even though his shoulder was stiff and he could tear his stitches open.
"Gatomon's right Gaomon, leave the tents to Agumon you can carry the food." Renamon said. "Now hurry up so we can leave."
"Fine." Gaomon growled grabbing the food bag and swinging it over his left shoulder he groaned when the weight pressed down on his shoulder.
"Why do you push yourself all it's doing is hurting you." Gatomon growled seeing him wince when he tried to step forward.
"I'm fine, I can handle this." Gaomon groaned.
"That's such a lie!" Gatomon hissed.
"Yeah well it's my choice not yours." Gaomon growled limping away.
"Why is he so difficult?" Gatomon hissed. Just then she felt a large weight on her head. She looked up to see Monmon sitting on her.
"Maybe he's doing this to prove something." Monmon said.
"What could he have to prove?" Gatomon asked.
"Maybe it's more about the who than the what." Monmon mused.
"You mean Renamon?"
"I'm thinking more personal than that."
"Why would he be trying to prove something to him self?"
"Just because I said personal doesn't mean I meant him." Monmon said jumping onto a tree branch and lying down.
"I hate it when he does that, it makes no sense." Gatomon groaned.
After another two days of traveling a town was finally in sight. It was a good thing too because they only had enough food for dinner, and they were all out of medicine since Gatomon had to keep using it all on Gaomon the klutz. She just didn't understand how he could be so clumsy.
"Hey Gatomon what are you starring at?" Agumon asked. Agumon was back to carrying the food bag because Gaomon said it was too light for him, so he took back the tents against Gatomon's best efforts to stop him.
"I was just thinking." Gatomon said.
"Was it about Gaomon again?" Agumon asked. "About how he's so stubborn I mean."
"Yeah I can't believe he won't listen." Gatomon sighed. "I also can't believe that I've had to use more medicine on him in two weeks than I've had to use on any of us in a whole month."
"Well he is a pretty big klutz." Agumon said.
"Let's just hope that we won't have to take him to the hospital because of that fact." Gatomon sighed.
"Yeah especially since we have almost no money." Agumon said.
"That would be a problem." Gatomon said remembering that Renamon wouldn't let Gaomon keep the money he got from Ogremon. Gaomon was furious about that but Renamon never stole money or took money from the dead. She would always say stealing money was wrong, and that taking from the dead was bad luck.
"Okay, we'll camp here for the night." Renamon said sitting on a rock. "Tomorrow we'll reach the town."
"Finally." Gaomon groaned dropping the tents.
"I told you, you shouldn't be carrying the tents." Gatomon said.
"And I told you, I still will." Gaomon growled.
"Let's not start this argument up again." Renamon sighed. "Gaomon's going to carry the tents whether you like it or not, so just leave it alone."
"Fine." Gatomon huffed.
It was around noon the next day when the Wanderers reached the town. It was actually quite a large town, but Gatomon had seen bigger only the richest houses were made of brick, the rest were made of wood.
Even from the entrance Gatomon could see that it was going to be hard to get around since everywhere she looked there were crowds of digimon.
"This place looks busy." Agumon said.
"Wow I've never seen so many digimon in one place before!" Gaomon exclaimed awed by the large marketplace.
"Then obviously you've never been to the capital before." Gatomon said. Wait why did I say that, they can't know I've been to the capital.
"What was that?" Agumon asked not paying attention.
"Never mind, it was nothing." Gatomon said relieved that nobody was listening.
"Okay enough chit-chat, we used up all our food last night and we need money, so let's go find some jobs." Renamon announced walking off into one of the crowds.
"See ya guys, I'm gonna go find something to eat." Monmon said jumping onto the head of somebody in the crowd.
"Yeah I've gotta go do something." Gaomon said running off down a side road.
What could he be up to? Gatomon wondered watching him leave.
"I'll see you later." Agumon said walking into a store marked butchers.
"Expect Agumon to think about his stomach." Gatomon sighed
Gatomon had found a job pretty quickly as a medical assistant to the town's only clinic. She had already been working for about five hours and the clinic would be closing soon.
At the moment she was filling paperwork when. "Nurse could you please bring me some gauze." A voice called from one of the exam rooms.
"I'm not a nurse, in fact I probably know more about medicine than you." Gatomon wanted to say but instead she just said. "Yes doctor." She sat aside the paper work and pulled some gauze out of a drawer.
When Gatomon entered the room she was surprised to see a gaomon sitting on the exam table.
"Hey Gatomon, I was looking for you." The gaomon said waving a bloodstained and gloveless hand.
"Do I know you?" Gatomon asked. This gaomon looked a lot like the gaomon she knew except that this one was wearing glasses that just sat on the bridge of his nose.
"Oh come on Gatomon it's me." The gaomon said looking a little offended.
"Since when did you wear glasses?" Gatomon asked.
"What, do they look bad?" Gaomon asked.
"No no, they actually make you look quite handsome." Gatomon said hoping he'd catch the hinting in her voice.
"Really, do you think Renamon will like them?" Gaomon asked looking excited. Obviously he hadn't.
"Excuse me nurse, would you like to finish with the patient so I can go home?" The doctor asked from the corner of the room.
"Oh yes I can do that." Gatomon said just remembering she was working. "So how'd you hurt yourself anyway?" She asked Gaomon.
"It was while I was working, but it only really started to bleed after I tripped and pushed the glass deeper into my hand. My glove is totally ruined." Gaomon said holding up his left glove, which looked to have at least ten different holes in it, the biggest being the one in the middle.
"Why didn't you come here right after it happened?" Gatomon asked as she started to wrap the gauze around his hand.
"Look can we talk about this over dinner?" Gaomon asked. "I haven't eaten all day."
"Fine, but I expect a full explanation later." Gatomon grumbled trying to hide her excitement at the thought of Gaomon asking her out.
"Great!" Gaomon exclaimed jumping off the table and ruining Gatomon's wrapping job. "I saw this place that looked really popular on the way here."
"We'll go after I finish patching you up." Gatomon growled as she started re-wrapping Gaomon's hand.