Chapter 6
"We're home." said Kim as she entered the house and beckoned Zoe to follow her.
"Welcome home." said coming to the front porch. "Well hello Zoe."
"Hello Mrs. K Kanbara." said Zoe slightly bowing down.
"Mom, where is aunt Yuriko?"
"She went for shopping as soon as Shinya came home." replied as she walked to the kitchen, Kim following her with Zoe.
"All my friends are coming over to do homework together." said Kim.
"Okay. How many?" asked .
"Well…um 11?" said Kim counting in her head.
"You sure made a lot of friends." smiled . "I better start making snacks."
Zoe was quite throughout the conversation standing beside Kim.
"Dear can you give this to Takuya?" asked as she handed over a glass of apple juice to Kim
"Sure, how is he?" asked Kim.
"He is fine after taking the long rest he needed." said . Zoe sighed in relief knowing her beloved is alright.
"My friends will be here in any minute now." said Kim. "I'll change and be back." With that said Zoe and Kim went to her room after Zoe left her bag in the living room. As soon as they entered the room Kim went to the desk to leave her bag and Zoe went to Takuya's bedside watching him sleep.
"He looks so peaceful in his sleep." said Zoe admiring Takuya.
"He sure does." replied Kim. She placed the apple juice near his bedside.
"Wow, I never remember Takuya's room being this clean." said Zoe looking around but stopped when her eyes spotted something on Kim's bed.
"You think he cleans it? No! He just makes a mess which I have to clean every single day." huffed Kim. Zoe just chuckled.
"Figures. Hey is that your stuffed animal?" asked Zoe pointing at the pink and brown bunny sitting on Kim's bed. "It's beautiful!"
"Thank you. She is…I mean it is my favorite." Kim smiled looking at her stuffed animal. Zoe would have sworn she saw the bunny smile. "Hey Z, don't you want to change your uniform?"
"Well… yeah. Since Takuya's mom and my mom are friends I have stayed here and had sleepovers when my parents went out. I didn't like to carry my things every time I come here so I just left some things here." said Zoe.
"Okay then what are we waiting for let's get out of this stupid uniform." said Kim. She saw Zoe push a bang of Takuya's hair out of his face and stare dreamily at him.
"You Love him, don't you?" she asked.
"Yes I do." said Zoe still staring dreamily not denying the truth.
"I knew it." said Kim making her way to the closet taking out her usual clothes. She turned around to see Zoe looking at her.
"Kim, I know that you love Koji."
"WHAT? I do not like that lone wolf!" yelled Kim blushing brightly. She saw the look on Zoe's face and gave in.
"How did you know?" Kim asked.
"Well… I just figured it out." said Zoe. "I knew it from the beginning but I doubted it because you and Takuya were really close. I dint know you were cousins and I am sorry…I was really jealous of you."
"That's okay even I could have felt like that if I was in your place." smiled Kim. Zoe also smiled getting up from the chair she had sat down on.
"Come on we better get changed bef-" Zoe was cut off by the doorbell "before the others get here…." She trailed off sighing.
"Come on" said Kim as she left the room taking her clothes along. Zoe looked at Takuya one more time before planting a kiss on his forehead. She followed Kim after she took her clothes from the closet in her room. (Zoe has her own room in the Kanbara residence)
Kim and Zoe went downstairs to find all their friends seated on the ground watching TV. Koichi and Takato were helping . Kaz was the first one to notice their presence and smiled.
"Hello girls. We were waiting for you." he said. The others turned around and greeted them as well.
"Let's get our homework over with." said Koji making most of them groan.
"Koji, it is so like you. Always direct to business." said Tk as she shook her head in disbelief.
"You have never changed since the day we met." said Tommy agreeing with Tk. Koji frowned and crossed his hands before turning away making the others laugh.
"So… how is Takuya?" asked Jeri changing the subject.
"He's fine." said Zoe with a big smile.
"Snacks' ready." said Koichi as he, Takato and came in each carrying a tray.
"We can start our homework after eating." said Takato who had heard the whole conversation.
"Food!" suddenly cried a voice. Everyone were confused and looked around the room for it's source. Tk and Dan were looking nervous as Dan held something inside his bag with Tk glaring at him.
"Hehehe it was just me." said Dan "Food!" everyone were quiet before Rika broke it.
"Typical, goggle head." she said and everyone except the goggle heads laughed.
"What do you mean by 'Typical, goggle head'?" asked Takato.
"Isn't it obvious that you guys love to eat." said Rika.
"So true." chorused the lone wolves and the girls.
"Hey!" yelled both the goggle head.
'Thank you so much Demiveemon' thought Dan.
"Momentai" said another voice (well you know who). Everyone looked at Henry as the voice came from his direction. Now the other three tamers looked disturbed.
"What? It was just me." said Henry. "Momentai, it means take it easy or don't worry."
"Yeah, Momentai!" cheered Jeri. With that said everyone ate their snacks and started with their H/w.
When Takato opened his bag, he saw gigimon's sad face. "What's wrong buddy?" he whispered so only gigimon can hear him.
"I am hungry, Takatomon." said gigimon in a sweet, innocent voice.
"Don't worry. I promise I will give you a lot of guilmon bread as soon as we get home."
"Really?" beamed gigimon. Takato nodded and smiled.
Takuya rolled on his bed and opened his eyes blinking to adjust to the intensity of light. He stared at the ceiling for sometime before getting off his bed stretching.
"Whoa, I feel so good." he said "Finally the fever is gone!" He saw the apple juice next to his bed and wondered 'who bought it here? Maybe it was mom or Aunt Keiko, yeah' He drank the juice and decided to take the empty glass to the kitchen. He went to the kitchen and found washing some dishes.
"Aunt Keiko, where is mom? Shinya and Kim could have returned by now." he asked handing over the empty glass.
"Takuya, how are you feeling now?"asked still washing the dishes
"Much better. I think I needed that rest."
"You sure did. You have been really pushing yourself studying, practicing soccer, helping out other teams the list just goes on. You remind me of Uncle Taiki. Even heroes need to rest sometime." she said wiping her hand on a towel. "Yuriko and Shinya went for shopping." she continued.
"What about Jen?"
"She is also with them. Oh, by the way Kim and the rest of your friends are doing their homework in the living room."
"Mm, are all my friends here?"
"Yes, you can join them and finish your homework. Kim bought them." Takuya groaned, he hated doing his h/w. chuckled.
Takuya went to the living room and was surprised that indeed all is friends were there doing their h/w sincerely.
"Hey guys!" he greeted. "Nice of you all to stop by" Everyone looked up from their homework and smiled at him.
"You're awake" stated Kim.
"So how are you feeling now?" asked Kaz.
"Much better"
"Soccer practice was boring without you" Takuya humped in reply. He opened his mouth to say something but stopped when…
"Are you going to join us or what?" asked Koji throwing Takuya's homework in his face making him stumble and fall.
"KOJI!" yelled everyone. Kaz and Dan went to help Takuya up.
"That was rude!" scolded his brother.
"Yeah tell me about it" he said coolly.
"That was not the way greet him, he just recovered!" yelled Tk
"Yeah!" agreed Zoe and Jeri.
"Man that guy is worse than me" mumbled Rika.
"Did you say something Rika?" Henry asked her.
"No "she simply replied.
Kim walked over to Koji at the same time Tommy walked over to Takuya.
"Takuya are you alright?" he asked seeing him rubbing his head with Kaz and Dan supporting him.
"Yeah" he said painfully. "I think I hit my head on the wall when I fell." he flinched when his hand fell onthe sore spot.
"Are you sure, you're alright?" asked Dan.
"Yup, it's not something new" he said standing straight and going into the living room. (He was near the doorframe before he fell) He was just in time to see Kim smack Koji over his head.
"Ouch! What was that for!?" he yelled.
"1. For making my cousin fall and 2. Only I have the right to insult or order him around" She said in matter -of -fact voice.
"Guys leave the poor Koji alone." said Takuya stifling a laugh when Koji protested. "And who gave you the right to insult and order me huh?" he asked looking at Kim.
"Well, me." she said in the same tone she used before.
"Right, let's get our homework over with and enjoy." Takuya said and sat next to Zoe missing the faint blush on her face.
After an hour or so the gang had finished their homework.
"Man that was a lot of work" said Takuya.
"Tell me about it" said Dan and Takato in unison.
"Since we finished our homework, we can do something else." said Koichi.
"How about watching TV? I am too tired to play." said Zoe.
"I agree with her, my legs are paining after sitting in the same position" said Jeri, the other girls nodded in agreement and stretched their legs, lightly massaging it.
"I don't know how watching TV helps to make the pain go away but I don't want to play either." said Kaz with everyone agreeing.
"Okay, what do we watch?" asked Takuya taking the remote and switching the TV on.
"How about-" started Takato but was interrupted,
"We are home" said Shinya coming to the living room carrying a sleeping Jen. He saw the others and smiled "Hey everyone." he greeted.
"Hey Shinya" they greeted back. Shinya looked around the room before his eyes fell on Kaz.
"Hey Kaz dint Yuki come with you?" he asked. Takuya walked over to him and took Jen into his arms.
"No, I dint go to visit my aunt's today."Kaz answered.
'Oh'
"Well Shinya, What were you shopping for so long?" asked Takuya shifting Jen to make her comfortable in his arms.
"Mm we shopped for clothes, groceries yep that's it."
"That took you guys so long?" Takuya wondered. At that moment Mrs. Kanbara entered the room.
"Hello kids!" She greeted. They greeted back.
"Takuya, How are you?" she asked checking his forehead.
"I am fine mom. But seriously what were you doing in the shop for so long?"
"Just shopping" she answered. "By the way, I bought you new clothes. You should try them on, here." she gave him a bag and took Jen in her arms.
"Right now?"
"Yes"
"Okay" he said and headed to his room.
"You guys had something to eat?" asked the kids who nodded in reply.
"Okay have fun" she said leaving the room. After few minutes Takuya came back wearing a white t-shirt with an orange fire design under a bright red leather jacket, black skinny jean and black gloves.
"Guys how do I look?" he asked embarrassed.
"You look cute" the girls chorused making Takuya blush which in turn made them giggle. The other boys glared at the girl they loved making Henry, Tommy and Kaz laugh (they dint find love yet). Just then Shinya came into the room holding out a deck of cards for everyone to see.
"Takuya! Look what mom got me." he handed over the deck to Takuya and said "Digimon Cards!"
A/N: That's all for this chapter. Cliffy, isn't it? Review if you want to continue reading.
