AUTHOR NOTE: I rewrote this chapter changing a few things that will make it easier for me to write the next chapters. Nothing major, you could really just not read the updated version it was kind of just for me and new readers to follow better. Anyways the next chapter should be up in a couple of hours after i finish with the changes.
Four days before Anniversary
Tai had just gotten home from one of the weirdest and best evening of his life. The digidestined was on cloud nine when he walked into his home so he didn't notice that his little sister there waiting for him.
"Tai? Earth to Tai?" Kari said waving a hand in front of her brother's face. "Don't bother; he's been like that since we left the park." Agumon said passing the dazed boy and walked into the Kamiya residence.
Tai had the goofiest love struck smile on his face almost dead to the world. "Tai, are you ok?" Kari asked a little concerned for her brother's mental stability. Again ignoring his sister Tai walked over to the couch and collapsed face up.
"I'm in love." He whispered to himself unaware of the three being looking at him in worry. "Tai are you sick?" Gatomon asked eyeing the boy.
"Hold on" Agumon said as he went to fetch a glass of cold water which he then proceeded to unceremoniously dump on Tai's face. That snapped him out of his daze. "What did you do that for?!"
"Because I had to snap you out of the love sick daze you were in!" Agumon shot back. "That doesn't mean that you get to dump water on me." Tai grumbled as he sat back down on the couch.
"So how was your date with TK?" Tai asked recognizing the girl's presence in the room for the first time since he walked in. "It was ok, but we cut it short when Izzy emailed me that you never made it to Matt's concert." Kari said.
"He said that no one had seen you since you ran into Sora and Matt back stage before hand so I left to find you and cheer you up. Though it seems like you don't need it." Kari said happy that her brother didn't take Matt and Soras relationship badly.
"Oh I was going to go but I got side tracked and then one thing lead to another. Sorry I worried you Kari." Tai said sheepishly.
"It's ok." Kari said smiling at her older brother. "So what did happen tonight before the concert?" Kari asked.
"I just walked in on them, I took off, bumped into someone then we started talking and we total forgot about the whole concert." Then a digimon battle occurred where she total won, and stole my heart. He informed his sister.
"Oh Tai, I'm sorry." Kari said feeling bad about how her brother had found out about his two best friends. Tai just shrugged it off getting off the couch and heading to the kitchen. "It doesn't matter. Any ways do you want anything to eat?" Tai asked
Kari shook her head in amusement at Tai's ability to get over things quickly sometimes it scared her just how bio polar he could be. "No thanks, I think I'm going to go to be though, good night Tai." She said.
Without sticking his head out of the refrigerator where he was currently looking for food he called out a good night at the younger girl. "Now where is that left over pizza?" he asked himself.
"Holy shit, how?!" Yori said staring at a digimon she thought she would never see again. "I don't know but it seems like the interference from the TV station that corrupted my data in the first place kept it from being lost."
"And since now there was tangible data to grab onto, it reformatted." Yori said finishing her partner's sentence. "Can you change back?" she asked.
"I don't know, but it's nice to have opposable thumbs again." The digimon said. "Sometimes I wonder about what goes through that head of yours Wizardmon." Yori said shaking her head.
"Same goes for you, now how do I change back, because Gatomon is the last person I want to face right now." Yori looked at him curiously.
"I thought you would love to see her again?" Yori asked. "I do, it just that I feel that it would be a mockery of their pain and I'm scared of what she'll do to me." Wizardmon said looking at the ground.
"Kind of why I can't go see my mom." Yori said letting out an audible sigh.
"Well let's get out of here before someone comes by. And knowing my luck it will just happen to be a chosen child." Yori said smiling as she got up followed by Wizardmon that took to floating a few feet off the ground to be about Yori's high.
"You like him don't you?" he teased causing the raven haired girl blush a bright red. "Shut up I don't tease you about you kitty mistress." Yori said raising her eyebrows at Wizardmon who almost fell to the floor out of shock.
A very noticeable red blush appeared on his face as he tried to deny it. "Th….that….uh…sh… is it that obvious." He finally admitted it defeated at his own game bowing his head in shame.
"Yup so now we're even. Come on let's go figure how to change you back." Once they were out of sight Wizardmon had tried de-digivolving on his own.
"No luck." He said frustrated by his inability to do something so simple. "Well here let me try this." Yori said pulling out a card from her deck. Digimodify, Level Down! Activate! Wizardmon dedigivolved to Kudamon. "JEs!!! Success one for me!" Yori said giving Kudamon the V for victory sign.
"Swell, now let's go before they send a search party, because I'm sure lover boy will." Kudamon said jumping onto Yori's shoulder.
"Well aren't you calm for what just happened." Yori said. "We fixed it, I'm tiered. We'll figure it out tomorrow." Kudamon said as he nestled into her jacket closing his eyes. "Fine let's go."
After about a fifteen minute walk the pair walked up a familiar flight of stairs and towards a Tai's apartment. Knocking on the door Yori waited for Tai to get the door, only for Kari to answer it. "Oh hello, how can I help you?"
Kari looked at the stranger that had knocked; she looked to be about Tai's age and was very pretty. She had dark black hair that was pulled back into a pony tail with a few bangs hanging on the side framing her face. Her deep emerald eyes almost seemed to see to your soul and contrasted her light colored skin.
She wore a pair of khaki cargo pants that were held up with a black leather belt, a black t-shirt that showed just how well developed the girl was underneath a white jacket. And what appeared to be a black messenger bag slanted over the girls left shoulder. What got Kari's attention the most was this aura of power that the girl carried kind of like Tai when he got serious or Davis.
"Hi you must be Kari, is Tai home?" the girl asked snapping the child of light from her thoughts about the stranger.
"Um sure can I ask who's asking?" Kari asked. "I'm sorry how rude of me, my names Yori." The girl said taking her left hand out of her jacked pocket that was covered in a black fingerless glove.
"Kari, but you already knew that." She said laughing a little. "Would you like to come inside?" Kari asked already taking a liking to the girl. "If you don't mind."
"Not at all come on in while I get Tai." Kari said letting Yori in. Gatomon had seen the girl from the door way feeling a little on edge about her. She just couldn't get this feeling that she had already meet her before.
Once the door was closed behind them Kari ran off to the direction of her room, leaving Gatomon and Yori in the all purpose room. "Why hello, how are you today?" Yori asked the catlike digimon.
Playing the part of a house pet Gatomon walked over Yori hoping to get some more information about her through observation. "You're so pretty, and your coat is so soft." Yori said petting Gatomon.
The second that Yori moved a little bit causing a small gust of wind from inside her jacket Gatomon got a whiff of the unmistakable smell of a digimon. Unconsciously tensing at the possibility of an enemy Gatomon startled Yori.
"What's a matter?" Yori asked innocently as Gatomon walked away towards the room. "What got into her." Yori wondered as Tai came out almost beaming.
"You're back, I was about to go look for you." He joked as he pulled Yori into an embrace kissing her forehead causing her giggle.
"Sorry, it's just that I had to talk to Kudamon about what we're going to do about finding my other traveling partner." Yori said.
"There was someone else with you?" Tai asked letting go of Yori so that the two could talk on the couch more comfortably. "Yup, and we decided to check the digital world first thing tomorrow, if you could take us there." Yori asked yawning.
"Sure, you can stay in my parent's room for now." Tai said. "I don't know what you want to do about telling the other digidestined. Maybe we could get Izzy to help you find your way back?" Tai suggested looking at Yori.
The raven haired girl smiled at Tai's attempts to help. "For now let's keep it between us. If it comes to it we'll as Izzy for help. This is one of those the less people know the better." She said looking serous.
"Ok, then in that case we should wait for Kari to fall asleep before I show you to my parent's room." Tai said getting up from the couch "Be right back." He said heading back into the room that he was previously in. "She smelled you, I told you." Yori said talking to her jacket.
At the comment Kudamons head popped out of a hidden pocket inside the jacket. "Well it was worth a try." He said as he crawled out of the jacket and onto her lap.
Kari came out of the room caring Gatomon trying to investigate more about the strange girl when she noticed the ferret sized digimon on Yori's lap. "Hey Kari, how have you been?" Yori asked trying to make casual talk with the younger girl.
Caught off guard as she was too focused on the digimon Kari stumbled for a few seconds before replying. "Uh fine, sorry to ask but is that?"
"A digimon?" Yori said interrupting the child of light. Kari blushed at how forward she was being and at how foolish she must have sounded to the older girl. Not bothered by Kari in the slightest Yori smiled kindly at the younger girl. "Yes it is, his name is Kudamon, and that must be a Gatomon right?"
"Oh yes, this is Gatomon." Kari said finding her control of the conversation disappear not that she had any to begin with. Yori got up intending to shake hands with the partner digimon forgetting that her own was on her lap.
"Warn a mon next time you decide to get up." The ferret said as it curled up on the couch comfortably closing its eyes. "I figured that with me talking to Kari it would have been enough of a warning for you and don't be rude say hi mister."
Kudamon lifted his head opening his golden eyes he nodded at both Kari and Gatomon respectively. "Hello." And then put his head back down. "Sorry about that he's just really tiered." Yori said.
"He's so cute." Kari said dreamily. "Yeah but he sure can fight!" Agumon coming out of the room headed towards the kitchen. Yori ignored Agumons comment choosing instead to look at Gatomon. "You are one smart digimon." Yori said with a secretive smile on her face.
"Thanks." Gatomon said at the girls complement. "My name is Yori." She said extending her arm at Gatomon taking her hand the two shook hands. "It's nice to meet you Yori."
"Same here Gatomon. So it seems being chosen runs in the family." Yori said jokingly righting herself standing a few inches taller than Kari.
"It's a long story but yeah it does. So where do you know Tai from? I haven't seen you before." Kari asked wanting to know more about this new comer. "We met at the concert tonight, well before the concert anyways." Yori said.
"Ok so there is no food to eat here." Tai said coming out of the room with his hands behind his head "Unless you want to eat at your own risk with my moms recipes or we can go out and get something to eat."
Both girls turned to look at the older boy "I can't I have school tomorrow and so do you Tai." Kari said looking at her brother. "I really don't mind, I just moved here so I don't start for a while." Yori lied.
"Really, where will you be enrolled?" Kari asked excitedly. "I don't know yet, for all I know I could be home school again." Yori said dogging the question again.
"Oh. Any ways Tai don't stay out to late ok. Yori it was nice meeting you, good night." Kari said leaving the two older teens in the living room to discuss diner plans. "So what did you have in mind?" Yori asked.
Later that night Yori lay in the Kamiya's bed, after coming back from the late night sushi bar that Tai had taken her to, holding her stomach in pain. "Oh, that was not a wise choice." She whispered to herself resulting in Kudamon waking up.
"Are you alright?" he asked concerned by Yoris behavior. "Fine just my ribs hurt, I was moving around too much today." She said, falling into a peaceful yet painful sleep.
Two days later ---Two days before the Anniversary
"Looks like he isn't here either, Kudamon. Time to go to the next section." Yori said dejectedly looking at her partner.
It had been two days since Yori met Tai, the following morning the pair had taken off to the digital world trying to find Takato. Yori had decided that it would be best if nobody else knew about her being a tamer and not a digidestined so it was kept secret.
Since that morning both of them would go to the digital world searching for Takato or Ryo sector by sector using her D-arc while Kari was at school. Tai called in sick to help her out and keep her secret from the other digidestined and his sister, she didn't know that Yori stayed in her parents room.
Today Tai had told Kari that he was going to the digital world to play with Agumon after school since it was a Friday so that the pair could stay longer without raising suspicion.
"Any luck?" Tai asked walking up to Yori with Agumon behind him. "No, I think we should check the forest south of here before we head back." Yori said.
Nodding the two left followed by their respective digimon. "So, when are we going to tell the others about the tamers?" Tai asked.
"If I had it my way, never the fact that I'm here breaks so many laws of physics. Some laws that not even I could imagine existing. My job is simply to find my fellow tamers and then go to Azulongmon and see if he could send us back." Yori said seriously.
"So you think being here was a mistake." Tai asked looking kind of down. Today he had decided to wear a simple black t-shirt with a simple orange trim at the sleeves and at the bottom, with a pair of jeans and some black sneakers.
"No, things happen for a reason. The problem is that I don't think it is wise to stay here to long no matter how it pains me to leave." Yori said trying to hide her sadness at having to leave Tai.
"Then why don't we tell the others so they can help?" Tai asked again. "It would go a lot faster." shrugging his shoulders as he walked along Yori.
"True but only a D-Arc can find another D-Arc. Besides it goes back to having them involved, and I want to keep that to a minimal. Besides I don't want Izzy taking it apart. When Takato and I jumped into the portal we wanted to go to the digital world. Problem was the portal was different and second we got separated on the way here." Yori said the landscape slowly changing from grass lands into a jungle.
A small breeze blew past the four of them, Yori closed her eyes too enjoy the cool breeze. "So you have to find Takato and then find the person you were supposed to look for in the first place?" Tai asked.
"Correct, but the one thing that's bothering is that digital field from two days ago." Yori said thoughtfully before they could say something else a red blur broke out from the tree line and tackled Yori to the ground.
"I found you!" the attacked said in a childish nasally voice. "Wait up!" another voice called out from the woods followed by a boy bursting into the clearing seconds later. Noting that the digimon had stopped Takato stopped to catch his breath.
"Ow! Guilmon get off of me! God you're heavy, did you know that?" Yori said pushing off the rather large rookie. "Well that solves one problem." Yori said noticing Takato bent over trying to get some air.
"Is he…" "Yeah, Tai meet the leader of the tamers our very own goggle head, Takato." Yori said walking over to Takato and placing her hand on the exhausted boys shoulder. Straitening up Takato extended his arm to shake Tai's when the situation actually register in his mind.
"You….you…you're TAI!?" Takato exclaimed in shock. "And you're ok! Oh thank god!" Takato said breathing a sigh of relief. "So how long have you been in the digital world Takato?" Yori asked.
"Actually just a few minutes, and you?" he asked. "What kind of digimon are you?" Agumon said looking at the large red dinosaur.
"I'm Guilmon and that's Takatomon! Want to play?" Guilmon said sniffing the orange digimon causing the human half of the group to laugh. "Seriously I have never seen a digimon like this before." Tai said getting a good look at the digimon now.
"And you never will because I created him." Takato said proudly. "Really?! How did you do it?" Tai asked interested in the digimon before him.
"Well it was actually an accident, I didn't mean to it just happened." Takato began to tell the story when again he realized just who he was talking to. "Wait, how can you exist you're a cartoon?" Takato said.
"I swear Takato you have no tact. It's a long story that we can discuss on our way to Tai's house where we can have dinner because I am starving." Yori said shaking her head at the younger boy's antics.
"Um ok." Takato said a bit taken back by Yori's attitude toward the whole situation. "Yah food!" Guilmon yelled with Kudamon now on his head. "How do I get off this thing?!" he yelled trying to hold on for dear life. As his ride became a mechanical bull from a rode trying to get knock him off, unintentionally of course.
The group laughed at Kudamons predicament as they walked off toward the way Tai and Yori came to the nearest portal tiered of the long day and ready from some dinner and rest.
Once the group was out of earshot a small blue digimon with a white bell came out of a bush were it had been hiding, followed by a boy with spiky brown hair and eyes, and a girl with short purple hair and brown eyes.
"The coasts clear." The small digimon said looking over at the two teens that were hiding along with him.
"That was a close call." The boy said standing up and moving next to the digimon out into the clearing. The boy then turned to help the girl up.
"I thought you said that this was a safe place?" she said as she was pulled off the ground and out of the bush.
"It is! They don't come here anymore without telling the rest of us." He said helping the girl pull out some leaves out of her hair.
"Then what do you call that?" she shot back glaring daggers at the boy in mock anger.
"Well looks like Tai's got himself a new girl! And he didn't tell me? And who was that other guy? I'm tired of being out of the loop." He said as he started to march towards the direction that the others had walked off to.
"Shut up and get back mister, we aren't finished Davis." She said grabbing onto the fleece of the jacked pulling Davis back.
"Whoa! Of course Chizu-chan, you come first Tai can wait." Davis said with an impish smile on his face as he grabbed the girl's hand.
"Good, now where were we." Chizuru said as she began to kiss Davis on the cheek tenderly coaxing the boy back into the cover of the bushes and trees.
"I believe it was here." Davis said pushing them to the ground as the continued to make out on the floor. "How those two ever hooked up is beyond me." Veemon said to himself resuming his job of look out wondering the appearance of those two new kids meant for them.
The three teens fell out of the computer screen in Tai's room in a huge doggy pile. Tai's head was stuck in Yori's breast while the rest of him was on top of her. Takato was next with his legs near Yori's face, her arms on his butt, Kudamon was in Takatos sweater. How he got there not even I the author knows. Agumon was sandwiched between the two boys slowly turning blue from the lack of air. Standing on top of the human pretzel, like the cherry on top of a Sunday, stood a small red ball with Patamon type ears.
"Geez! Get off, my ribs hurt!" Yori yelled unable to relive the pain. After quickly separating themselves from the pile with most of their dignity in tack except for Tai whose face was redder than the small digimon on top of the previous pile.
"Where did Guilmon go?" Takato asked noting the absence of his digimon partner. Then the small red ball jumped up at Takato who caught it recognizing the small ball of energy.
"Guilmon? What happened to you?" Takato asked worriedly since the last time his partner looked like this was right before he left for the digital world.
"Nothing silly I just dedigivolved into Gigimon, Takatomon." The little ball of joy said nuzzling into his tamers chest lovingly.
"Aw, he's so cute! Even more so now being this small." Yori said going into girl mode. Tai shook his head at the scene.
"Look like Kari's not home yet so we have time to come up with a cover story for you. I don't know where you can stay its already hard hiding you from Kari." Tai said trying to think of how to cover for the tamers without raising suspicion.
"Don't worry about it. We can camp out in the digital world if we have to. Takato had the tents so problem solved. He's a friend of mine, no my cousin who I ran into today and he hooked up with us before we went to the digital world." Yori said having already thought of a lie to tell Kari.
One hour, a food fight, and dinner preparations later the three teens were ready to eat dinner comfortably along with their digimon. Just as Tai set the last dish on the table and was going to sit down the phone rang.
"Perfect timing." Tai grunted going to answer the phone regretfully leaving the food at the mercy of three hungry digimon.
"Kamiya residence," Tai answered "Whoa, whoa Izzy slow down I can't understand you….. …ok….Wait, what came out of your computer? Ok did you tell the others.......What time....ok we'll be there, bye." Releasing a frustrated sigh he hung up the phone.
"What did he want?" Yori asked following Tai as he made his way back to the table. "Looks like two more of your friends followed you here and as luck would have it fell out of Izzy's and TK computers."
"So much for keeping them out of the loop." Yori said pissed that their cover had been blown after all the trouble they went through. "Wait how did they get here?"
"Same as us I'd imagine." Takato said thinking about it. "Yeah but why the time difference?" Tai said thinking about Takatos response earlier.
"Guess Izzy can figure that one." Tai said.
"I guess but I need to find a way to talk to the rest of the tamers before this meeting." Yori said looking at Takato for any ideas. Tai was not paying attention as he was taking a bit out of some homemade bread courtesy of goggle head number three.
"God this is delicious." Tai muttered to himself. "Hey Tai what time is that meeting at?" Takato asked looking at the supposed anime character.
"In an hour, here since it's like the middle ground." Tai said. "Well shit, that sucks for us right now." Yori said to herself.
"Tai would you mind if Takato and I go out for a while. We should be back before the meeting starts." Yori asked. Tai just shrugged his shoulders. "Go ahead, but would you mind getting some snacks on your way back."
"Sure thing, what do you want me to bring back?" Yori asked stuffing her face with food just like one of the boys.
"Anything, food so the digimon can eat and we'll have groceries for tomorrow morning at the very least." Tai responded known just how much digimon could eat.
"Ok." Yori said once again digging into the food with just as much vigor as the digimon sitting next to her and Takato. Tai just shrugged his shoulders and followed the other teens example and began to eat.
If you bothered to read it just minor changes thats it. Any ways i apoligize i promised a new chapter for monday and its now friday. I had some test for my music education class and then i had writers block for chapters 12 and 13 so i had to go back a few chapters to fix it and find a way i liked based off what i had. Any ways 11 should be up in a few hours at the latest tomorrow morning. Sorry again.
JA NE!!!