Digimuff: Hi, I received a review today from SickFreak1988 basically telling me to hurry it up, and as I had finished the important things for the day I just started, and here it is, sorry for the wait. again this chapter will not contain a LEMON. Just so you know I have decided to make Takato sixteen but just a month away from seventeen, Renamon is 5`6 and Takato 6`2 [is that a little too short? If it is tell me and I will change it]
Note: 10 june 2010: i`m thinking of extending the first two chapters over a longer period, advice would be really helpful if possible
The year the world changed, Day 4: by digimuff
The four of them, human and digimon, sat around the breakfast table the next morning staring at the egg in renamons arms, the colours matched its parents perfectly. Renamon looked a little tired as she leaned against Takato`s shoulder, her eyes half closed. Renamon had not expected the egg, she, unlike the two humans and guilmon, knew that all female digimon produced eggs, but never had the thought that it could happen with Takato.
But she did not regret doing what they had done, in fact, she was happy that the egg in her arms contained the child of Takato Matsuki, no matter how impossible it seemed.
Guilmon stared at the egg with childlike wonder, years before Takato had gone through the painstaking process of explaining the concept of family, though up until his encounter with rika he had remained ignorant as to the way that children were conceived, but as he stared at the egg that he had been told held a baby created by Renamon and his tamer, Takato, the only question that really mattered to him was "Am I an uncle?"
Takato accepted Renamons small weight on his shoulder happily, and looped an arm around the vixen's waist. He was happy, and he was scared, scared not because of the fact that he, Takato Matsuki, had created a new life with Renamon, that made him happy, but because of the simple reason that he had no clue how to be a father. Despite that, as he looked down at Renamon and the egg, he couldn't help but look forward to the chance to learn.
Rika however was torn between intrigue and terror as she looked at the egg, for Takato and rika the worst was over, the general shock of Renamon laying the egg was as bad as it would get apart from his parents surprise, but they would take it well, but if she was pregnant, she would have to go through telling her family, nine months of getting bigger until the point where she could hide it from no one, her mother was a model, people would see and cameras would be at the door before she knew it.
And then there would be labour… enough said. After breakfast it was decided that Takato and Renamon would visit Henry`s house to speak to his father, one of the monster makers, Janyu Wong, he would be able to help them and tell them what to do.
The boy and the vixen left after washing the breakfast dishes and took the bus to Henry`s part of town. On the bus they received curios glances from the other passengers, although digimon were now well known it was not often one saw a sixteen year old boy embracing a smaller vixen with an odd egg.
When the bus stopped and the two got off, a large man with a look in his eyes that showed the amount of drugs he was hyped up on, saw the interaction between the two of them and Renamon rubbing her cheek against Takato`s shoulder. "THAT'S DISGUSTING!" he yelled in Japanese but with a strong European accent and attempted to smack Renamon. He missed and his fingertips brushed the egg.
Takato stepped in front of her with a furious look in his eyes, but before he could do anything the man was on the floor whimpering and clutching his bruised stomach and coughing up blood. Renamon had transferred the egg into the protective hold of her tail before delivering a punch to the man`s gut strong enough to knock out a Tyranamon, but for the man`s muscle mass he would have been dead. Takato calmed down a little seeing the broken man on the floor and had the sense of mind to phone for an ambulance on his cell.
The two of them walked the rest of the way to Henry`s house, Renamon looked alert and ready to kill as the seemed to be looking everywhere at once. Takato calmed her by putting his arm around her and his hand on the shell of the egg that was again in her arms. Once Renamon calmed she was surprised at herself but attributed her actions to a mothering instinct to protect the child, it pleased her that Takato seemed to be the same; he had never become angry that fast in his life.
The odd couple arrived at the apartment building and went automatically to the right room, over the years all of the tamers had a feel for each others homes, except for ryo who Takato had not seen in a year though this did not disappoint him. Henry opened the door when they arrived and was pleased to see them "Hey guys, what's up?"
Takato smiled "Hey Henry, we`re actually here to see your dad, is he here?" Henry shook his head "No, but he`ll be back soon, come in and wait" they did so and made themselves at home. It was then that Henry noticed the football sized egg in Renamon`s arms. When he saw the egg his eyes widened in surprise, recognising the striped egg from the many episodes of Digimon that showed the primary village.
"Is that…?" the two nodded and Henry gaped "Where the hell did you find that!" the two glanced at each other and something passed between them, Takato said "We didn't find it… it`s Renamon`s" Henry stared at them "Renamons…? You mean…?" they nodded "Is there a father?" he asked, they nodded again, and then he asked the most important question "Who…? Not terriermon, Guilmon…?" Takato shook his head "Me" he said simply. Henry collapsed.
"Guilmon, could you wait here for a while, I have to go get something" rika patted the digimon on the head, giving him a nervous smile. He grinned back "Sure, but are you ok?" she nodded "I'm fine guilmon, I just need to know something, wait here, and try not to eat Takato out of house and home"
Thirty minuets later Rika walked into a pharmacy in shibuya, she had deliberately come further from home to avoid meeting anyone who may recognise her or who she met everyday, she wouldn't be able to handle it if someone told her grandma or mother that she was buying a pregnancy test[1], especially with that woman in the house. She walked along the isles trying not to be noticed and chose a test which looked reliable; she now regretted not listening to her mothers lectures on this subject.
She put the test on the counter and handed over the six pounds that it said on the label, trying not to make eye contact. The woman behind the counter shook her head as she scanned the barcode and handed the test over without a word, scooping the money into the till and departed to the back room where she began arranging the prescription drugs.
Rika gritted her teeth in annoyance and left to catch the train back to Shinjuku.
When Janyu Wong arrived home he found his son, Takato and Renamon talking at the table around the egg. He looked at the egg curiously "Hey guys, what's with the egg, Easter already?" The group smiled and Henry shook his head "No, dad, It`s a digiegg…" Janyu froze "What…"
Takato spoke next "It's a baby digimon" Janyu`s eyes widened and he move forward to pick up the egg which lay in the middle of the table, but his hand was stopped by Renamon`s crushing grip, she looked him coldly in the eye and Janyu saw that Takato seemed to be on edge too "What's going on" he said looking at his son who had jumped to his feet.
"Don't touch the egg dad!" he yelped and rubbed the sore spot on his head that marked his own stupidity, he gestured at the egg and how Renamon guarded it "It`s renamons egg, she`s the mother" Janyu looked at the vixen in surprise and retracted his hand understanding fully what his son meant.
"All these years and I never asked about digimon reproduction, how?" the boys blushed Renamon suddenly found the floor very interesting. Janyu coughed "Oh, right, sorry, I`ll just assume it`s the same way as humans?" their reactions proved that he was right.
His next question was of course who, and like father like son the answer floored the man for several minuets. He recovers rather more quickly than his son, and immediately afterwards asked permission to get a closer look at the egg, and if it was possible to run a few tests.
Renamon reluctantly allowed Janyu to do his thing all the time watching with a sharp eye along with Takato, when he had examined every inch of the egg noticing that it was unnaturally smooth with no obvious flaws. Once he was done Janyu took the egg into his study and asked the parents if they would allow him to connect the egg to his scanner, once he had explained what it would do they both nodded in acceptance though both seemed a little worried.
Takato looked at the machine warily, it was the same one that had been used to install the juggernaut into Terriermon's programming years ago, the same wires that terriermon claimed to had tickled were now attached to his and Renamon`s egg and he couldn't help but remember how they had trusted the man, only for him to cause the loss of their digimon for an entire year.
It had been long forgiven, but not entirely forgotten.
Janyu whistled "This is amazing, I can only read about 50% of the eggs content which means that it`s only 50% data, the rest must be DNA!" He seemed exited and the interest showed on the faces of the others in the room "It also seems that the patterns of the data aren't fixed, their constantly changing, as if they aren't sure what to be…"
This set everyone thinking, it was obviously trying to find some sort of compromise between human and Digimon, the question was… what would it come up with?
Rika closed the door firmly behind her and braced herself for guilmons excitable welcome. To her credit she managed to stay on her feet. She smiled and gently pushed his heavy bulk off of her and scratched him behind the ear "Hey guilmon"
He grinned at her, for someone who didn't know him it was a terrifying sight "Hey Rika!" She smiled again and hung up her jacket "Listen, why don't you go eat gogglehead out of house and home, I've got something I need to do upstairs K?"
Guilmon gave a happy nod and ran off to scarf away the bakery`s potential profits. With the loveable idiot gone rika once again had to fight off the nerves as she ascended the stairs to the bathroom. Once there she quietly shut the door and opened the box.
She sighed "I guess this is it…" pricking her finger with a needle, she let the crimson liquid fall onto the sheet.
"No..."
Janyu carefully examined the 3-D computer generated model of Takato's DNA on the screen of one of his many computers. Renamon on her back on the table, an array of censors connected to her body, scanning her data, the results showed on the screen beside the DNA model.
Takato himself sat beside Renamon on a chair, holding a wad of cotton wool to his arm "So what do you think?" he asked, Janyu had a look of utter amazement on his face... he didn't seem to hear.
"MR. Wong?" Takato asked. Janyu blinked and looked at the boy "I think I figured out how this was possible...?"
"How?" Renamon asked curiosity on her vixen features. The blue haired man straightened and ran a hand through his hair "Takato has trace amounts of some substance in his DNA with the human test software cant register, the same goes for Renamon... but when I ran the tests together,I realised that what Takato had in his system was data! And for Renamon DNA...! I can only assume that it`s a side effect of the Bio-Merge process..."
"So we could only do it because we both bio-merged with our partners?" Takato clarified looking at the egg in Renamon`s hands.
"Exactly..." he sat down and rubbed his chin "I want you to come to Hypnos in a week's time, we will have proper equipment and we would like to have the two of you and the egg under observance. You will also need proper protection, the anti-digimon fanatics would be in uproar if they found out and would try to kill you"
Renamon nodded "Yes, we had a run in with one on the way here... he saw me kiss Takato and tried to hit us but touched the egg... I doubt he retained his ability to procreate... or move for that matter" she added the last part a little sheepishly. Janyu shook his head in exasperation "And that will be all over the internet before tomorrow, someone may even realise the significance of the egg... you said Rika was also... intimate with Guilmon?"
The two nodded.
"Then I need to see her to... or rather, I need to take her to Hypnos, human biology isn't exactly my forte"
They both agreed and said there goodbyes to Janyu and his son before leaving for home to speak with Rika.
When the couple entered the bakery, again through the side door, they found their redhead target sitting at the kitchen table seemingly transfixed by something in her hand. Guilmon stood beside her, a puzzled look on his face as he tried to get her attention. Curios, Takato peaked over her shoulder and gaped. Renamon peaked over the opposite shoulder and snickered.
Moments later their shared enjoyment of Rika`s situation was ended when the punched them both upside the head, knocking them to the ground.
Needless to say Guilmon was even more confused
Once the embarrassing job of explaining the situation to Guilmon was done, said reptilian digimon was impossibly exited, bouncing up and down at the thought of not only being an uncle but a father as well. With the newly lightened mood even the previously mortified Rika cheered up.
"I guess... it might not be so bad...
That night it was decided that they would again sleep together. With the egg wrapped in her tail between them Renamon snuggled into Takato's chest as he pulled the sheet over them. In the other room they heard Rika cry out as an exhausted Guilmon collapsed onto her.
Takato chuckled "Poor Rika, I'm glad you're so light" Renamon grinned slyly "You do know you're not exactly light as a feather right? If I wasn't digital I'd be crushed too!" Takato laughed and wrapped his arms around the vixen.
"Nice, goodnight Rena-Chan"
She blinked at him in surprise before smiling "Goodnight, Takato-Koi"
Digimuff: well, there you go then, sorry for the sappy ending [Chan is the honorific for girlfriend and I believe Koi is beloved]
[1]can I just say that I'm not a doctor nor have I had any training or suchlike on certain technicalities [I usually try to tune out when the conversation turns to periods and suchlike, it makes me uncomfortable, doesn't it you?] so I don't know how long it takes for pregnancy to show up on a test so if I have it wrong I beg for forgiveness, I also lack the knowledge of what the opposite sex actually does with the test but I watched Godzilla and the doctor guy figured out that it was pregnant by a blood sample so that's how I did it, ok?
[2]It is also my understanding that 100yen is £1.50 and £6.00 seemed the right price [another thing I have no clue about] so that's 400yen, but then I saw a film where someone bought an ice-cream for 500 yen and there`s no way that an ice-cream costs the same as a pregnancy test, I have no clue about ryo and actually thought that was the word for dragon, so forgive me for using pounds in this and if you know the right price and exchange rate please tell me
And finally, yes I know the Japanese probably don't celebrate Easter but I couldn't resist
Please review!
Note: 10 june 2010: i`m thinking of extending the first two chapters over a longer period, advice would be really helpful if possible