Story: Date

Category: Digimon

Pairing: Ami/Arata past Arata/Marippe

Rating: T

Summary: Nokia likes to imagine herself as a matchmaker, thanks to some well-time words, she got Yuuko and Fei together. They were easy. She didn't have to worry about herself because Yasu was her boyfriend, Sakura finally got with Ryota. Yuugo was more focused on his therapy, so that just leaves Ami and Arata. Her toughest assignment.

Author's Note: This story is dedicated to the fanfiction user Samrit for being the amazing reviewer on fanfiction for my Ami and Arata stories. I hope this matches up to your expectations.

Disclaimer: I do not owe any rights to the franchise.

~~Story Begins~~

Chapter 6 - Advice

Arata looked at Nokia who just arrived in Shinjuku, "You're late," he said.

"By two minutes, cut me some slack I called Yuuko over so I would have a witnessed for this occasion," Nokia said crossing her arms. "So, what does the almighty nerd need advice from me for?"

"Ami," Arata said.

"Oh? Are we starting to have feelings for our sweet Ami?"

"I can go ask someone else for advice," Arata said thinking that she was teasing him.

"No, I'm being serious," Nokia said. "It's not obvious. If I wasn't looking for the signs I need to look for to set Ami up with someone, I wouldn't have noticed."

"Why are you trying to set Ami up?"

"That's not important," Nokia said waving it off. Arata raised an eyebrow at that, "She has it bad for you, but she's good at hiding it. So I was just wondering if the feelings are mutual."

"Yes, I think I have had feelings for her for a while, but I guess my devotion to Marippe for two years and not wanting to feel like a failure in my first relationship blinded me from that."

"It seems like you've did some serious self-reflection already, why do you need advice from me?"

"I'm here," Yuuko greeted them coming from behind Nokia. "Did I miss anything?"

"Nope, Arata was just getting ready to tell me what is going on," Nokia explained.

"Some hospital called me at four this morning, told me to keep Ami talking, make sure she's still awake for a while. She says she has a severe concussion from helping taking down some international fugitive. I asked her about her nightmares-"

"Hold on! Hold on!" Nokia yelled. "Concession? International fugitive? Nightmares?"

"I'm sure it will be on the news or Ami will be willingly to talk about it," Arata said.

"So the brave hostage they are talking about on the news is Ami?" Yuuko asked.

"I assume so," Arata said with a shrug. "I haven't watched any TV yet today."

"That explains why that happened," Yuuko said offhandedly.

"Okay, so what about her nightmares?" Nokia asked.

"The details of the nightmares don't matter," Arata said. "I asked her some questions about them and -"

"Go to her? Talk it out," Nokia said.

"She's in New York City, plus I don't know what hospital," Arata said. "I've tried to message her and call her back but her digivice is unavailable."

"I can explain why that is," Yuuko said. "Her digivice is completely destroyed and it is impossible to recharge so-"

"She's unavailable until she gets a new digivice," Arata said.

"Hmmm...hmmm…" Nokia hummed in response. "So, what advice are you looking from me?"

"Huh?" Arata asked.

"I mean, I can tell you that everything will work out fine, but that won't do you any good right now. I can tell you not to worry, she's possibly an emotional wreck right now as well," Nokia said. "So what type of advice are you asking from me?"

"So what can I do when she returns -" Arata said running his hand through his hair, "- I don't know. I mean I usually know what to do but I don't with her."

Nokia and Yuuko looked at each other before looking back at Arata. "Live in the moment, you've been planning everything so many times. When you see Ami again, just let your heart decide on what to do. Not your mind."

"Thanks, but I am not like you so it might take a while," Arata said with a sigh. "If she is an emotional wreck like how you are say she is, what can I do to help calm her down?"

"I'm afraid I don't have an answer for that," Nokia said. "It will be alright."

"How do you know?"

"Duh, I know Ami. I've seen her at her weakest so hasn't Yuuko. Ami is stubborn." Nokia turned to look at Yuuko. "Didn't Ami go toe to toe against Suedo, said something that surprised him?"

"What?" Arata asked.

Yuuko nodded. "Yes. In fact, what she said took Suedo by surprise before he started crackling like a madman."

"Well, what did she say?" Arata asked.

" 'You wish to create a new world where sadness, destruction, grief don't exist? Than you wish to get rid of all the emotions in the world. Your world will be a life of grey and content, how can we experience the happiness in an action if we can't see the dark side of human nature,'" Yuuko said. "That is what Ami said to Suedo. He was stunned than he started laughing like a madman and responded back to Ami."

"What did he say?" Arata asked.

" 'I see it now, you would be a more suitable candidate to be an Eater, but I can't hurt you. You do resemble him quite a bit, the one of the few people I have considered as a friend,'" Yuuko said.

"That doesn't sound like either of them," Arata said before shaking his head. Her nightmares slowly making sense to him with this information.

"All we can do is wait until she returns," Nokia said.