Digimon Frontier: Taming the Darkness
Christmas Special
Author's Note:
Me: Hurray! We are on the Christmas special! The really late Christmas special!
Lunar: After reading through what you and your sister planned for it, I'm less than excited.
Me: Oh come on, Lunar! Don't be such a fun sucker!
Lunar: Don't bring Zoe into this!
Zoe: Hey!
Me: *sigh* Okay, is Tsukaimon back?
Petitmamon: Sort of. He refuses to do the disclaimer still because he had no lines in the last chapter.
Tsukaimon: I feel so left out!
Petitmamon: Yeah! Lunar and Dracomon are the only partners that are developed!
Me: Relax! You guys will get your moment eventually.
Shinya: Yeah, Yeah! Can we get on with the Christmas special! I want to get Zoe under the mistletoe!
Zoe: Tch. Like that'll ever happen.
Me: Okay... KOICHI!
Koichi: What?
Me: Do the disclaimer!
Koichi: I'm not even in the story yet!
Me: True… Koji! Do the disclaimer!
Koji: Fine. Pandamoniam doesn't own Digimon.
Me: Also, there might be some spoilers in here. I tried to keep them minimal, but that's kind of hard to do when it takes place like three or four months after the chapter before this. Also, due to a few things that happen in this chapter, once I get far enough into the story I'm going to put a little mention that this special took place before that chapter. Now I've got those that read this siked because they realized that what happens in here actually gets to happen.
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It was a chilly December in Shibuya. Snowflakes fell peacefully to the ground, covering it like a cold blanket. The snow shimmered brightly as the warm sun shone down upon it. It wasn't warm enough to melt it, however.
"Shinyou! Shinyou!" a peppy humanoid chirped as she jumped up and down on all fours on top of said boy's bed, "Shinyou! It snowed last night!"
"Neko, go back to sleep," he muttered in response before putting his pillow atop his head.
"It did?!" Tsukaimon shouted while flapping his wings so he was floating above his Tamer.
"Yeah! See, if Tsukaimon looks outside, he'll see it!" Neko exclaimed and clapped her hands.
"Neko, how do ya' know what snow is?" Petitmamon grumbled as she rubbed her eyes.
"Who doesn't know what snow is?" she giggled with a big smile. "Now come on, Shinyou! Neko wants to go play outside!"
"Why?"
"Because Neko and her friend used to play together in the snow every time it came around! Do you want Neko to be lonely?"
"No… ugh! I'll be right there…" Shinya sighed as he looked over to the clock. "Third day on Christmas break and I'm getting up at 7 o' clock!"
Neko snickered and leaped off of the bed. She then walked out of the room on all fours and down the stairs. A mischievous grin spread itself across her face as she stared at the pair of boots sitting next to the door.
Shinya, still grumbling to himself, came down the stairs a few minutes later to see Neko seated happily next to the door with a green and purple scarf around her neck. She smiled at him and he gave her a weaker one in return.
He then began putting his snow stuff on: A black jacket, black gloves, his surprisingly purple hat… And last, but not least, his boots. He put those on last like always. Only this time…
"Ahh! Cold! Cold! Cold!"
"Ha ha ha! Shinyou is funny!" Neko giggled as she watched the teen kick his boots off and shake off his now snow covered feet.
"Neko! What the heck!" he yelled at her. She continued laughing.
"Neko and her friend used to put snow in Kazemon's boots every time it snowed! She was continuing the tradition on you!"
"Oh really?" Shinya murmured while he shook out his boots, "Neko for the last time, you don't know Kazemon!"
"Sure Neko does! And she knows Agunimon, and Lobomon, and Kumamon, and-"
"Never mind; forget I said anything," The reddish brunette sighed after he finished emptying out his boots, "Ready to go outside?"
"Yeah!" the humanoid shouted as she jumped up to her feet, "Wait. Where are Tsukaimon and Petitmamon?"
"Right here!" Petitmamon exclaimed after leaping out of the closet wearing a pair of black ear muffs.
"Wait for me!" Tsukaimon added as he followed her with a green and red striped scarf around his neck.
"Okay! Are we getting Takuya and Dracomon?" Shinya asked while opening the door.
"Nah! They'll cramp our style!" his female partner yelled as she shot out the door.
"Yup!" Neko smiled while rocketing out after her.
Tsukaimon simply flew up on top of his partner's head and sat down. "Why do I get the feeling the only sane people here are you and me?"
"Probably because it's true."
And with that said, they went out after the girls.
Petitmamon was already attempting to make a snowman. Because of her size, all she had was a large lump of snow the same size as her body that she was trying to move. It wasn't budging.
Neko was nowhere in sight. Well, she was until she came sliding off the roof of Shinya's house on a trashcan lid. She fell off of it in midair and crash landed into a snow bank. She emerged seconds later laughing her head off.
"Neko! Keep that up and you'll break your neck!" Shinya scolded her. She merely giggled at him and attempted to climb back up the side of the house again.
"Petitmamon! You want some help?" Tsukaimon shouted enthusiastically while flying over to her side. She stabbed her staff into her snowball like you would a door jam and nodded.
"Shinyou! Look out!" Neko yelled as she lost her balance and fell towards him from atop the roof.
He turned to face her and found the girl crashing into him and flipping him through the snow. Shinya's eyes opened and he found Neko on top of him with a smile on her face.
"Thank you for breaking Neko's fall, Shinyou," she blushed and gave him a peck on the nose. Neko then jumped off of him and ran off to help with the building of the snowman. Shinya didn't move an inch as his face turned bright red.
A few seconds later, Petitmamon stumbled over to where Shinya was still laying at. She smirked and dropped the snowball she was holding on his face.
The Tamer brushed the snow off of his face and glared at the imp who had returned to snowman making with Neko and Tsukaimon. He balled up some snow in his hands and threw it at her.
It nailed her right on the bat marking atop her forehead. She turned her head toward him and smirked.
"Ya' wanna go, Shinya?" Petitmamon growled as she made a snowball up in her hands.
"Only if you're prepared to lose," Shinya replied competitively.
"Bring it on!"
Needless to say, a snowball fight broke out between the two. It eventually dragged in Neko and Tsukaimon near the end. Overall, Neko won.
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"I hate my life," Dracomon growled as he swept the kitchen. Ever since Mrs. Kanbara had found out about Takuya and Shinya's Digimon, she'd put them to work. Mainly Dracomon, though.
"Oh well, keep sweeping," Takuya responded while he munched on his cereal. His partner glared at him momentarily, then continued his tedious work.
"I just can't see why you won't help me!" the turquoise dragon grumbled with another sweep of the broom.
"Simple. I have to clean my room after I finish eating, so I can't help you," his Tamer sighed as he picked up his bowl and put it in the sink.
"Put that in the dishwasher!" Dracomon roared and threw down his broom, "If you don't, I'll have to clean it!"
"Okay, okay! Sheesh!" Takuya spat back at the dragon after moving his dish.
"Takuya!"
"Yes mom?"
"Did you clean your room yet?"
"No, I'm going to right now!"
"Alright! Remember, your friend Zoe will be here in twenty minutes with Vicki!"
"Already? Wow, I better get to work!"
"That's right Takuya! Work!" Dracomon added with a smirk as he leaned on the broom handle. Takuya then walked by him and kicked the broom stick over, causing the dragon to fall flat on his face.
"You'll pay for that one way or another!" the Digimon shouted while shaking his small fist at him.
"I'm sure I will!" his Tamer yelled back with a laugh.
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"Let's see… This goes here and this goes here," Takuya muttered as he placed random objects in even more random locations.
He then shoved a large pile of dirty clothes underneath his bed and pulled everything that was underneath it before out. The teen followed this by taking the stuff he had removed and put it in his closet.
"There! That looks acceptable! Sort of…" he thought aloud while he overviewed his room.
"Something's off…" the Tamer mumbled until his eyes stopped on his bed.
"That's it! I didn't make my bed!" Takuya exclaimed as he ran up to it.
"Hey Takuya!" Dracomon yelled up to his Tamer with a bit of mockery in his voice.
"What, Dracomon?" the said teen practically growled to his partner.
"You're girlfriend's here!" the dragon Digimon snickered as Takuya blushed faintly.
"Zoe is not my girlfriend!" Takuya yelled back, then ran down the stairs to go face the annoying Digimon.
He reached the bottom of the stairs, and was caught off guard when the broomstick to the broom Dracomon was using came across the bottom of the staircase. His foot was caught under it and he landed flat on his face.
"So much pain…" the Tamer moaned as Dracomon stood over him laughing.
"I told you that you would pay for what you did to me one way or another," the dragon smirked while Takuya rolled his eyes.
"This actually isn't that humiliating. I'm used to falling down the stairs," he smirked back. Dracomon only grinned and patted the yellow puff ball that had just arrived on the head.
"Wait, Lunar?" Takuya shouted, shocked. "Then that means…"
"Takuya?"
"Ehe he he…" the teen tittered quietly as he looked up at the girl that had just walked into the room, "Hi, Zoe…"
"Takuya, why are you laying on the floor?" Zoe sighed while Lunar climbed back up on her shoulder.
"It's a long story… One that involves Dracomon being a slave to my mother, and me knocking him over for being a smart aleck," Takuya muttered as he got back up on his feet.
"Okay…"
"So, where's Vicki?" Dracomon smiled politely.
"Oh, she's playing outside with Shinya and Neko," the blonde smiled back, then added, "Maybe you could take a short break and join them."
"What! No, Z! He can't do that!" Takuya exclaimed while Dracomon scowled at him, "That wouldn't be right!"
"And just why is that, Takuya Kanbara!" Zoe glared at him. Great, now there are two against him.
"Because… umm…"
"I'm waiting!"
"Yeah Takuya! She's waiting!"
"Hold on! I'll give you a reason, just let me think!"
"I don't think he has any, Mommamon."
"I think so too, Lunar."
Takuya paused for a moment to think. Well, one reason was that Dracomon was too nosy for his own good. That was an issue because he was going to attempt to claim Zoe as his own.
Then there was the fact that they had a healthy rivalry going on between them like he had with Koji. That was a problem too, because Dracomon could embarrass him in front of Zoe, and then there would be no chance for said attempt.
Then, a good idea struck him. No, really. Yes! It was perfect!
"Hey, Lunar," he smiled.
"Yeah, Papamon?" she giggled with wide eyes.
"Would you like to sing Dracomon your special Tamers song?" Takuya grinned mischievously.
"Okay!" she yelled and leaped onto the dragon's head, who appeared to be greatly afraid.
"No Lunar, I-I'd rather not hear it," Dracomon smiled nervously.
"Oooooh!" the fox began.
"Oh snap!" he screamed and took off running with Lunar clinging to his horns.
Takuya laughed at the dragon's misfortune, while Zoe just sighed. The boy then smirked at her and began dragging her towards the door.
"Takuya, what are you doing!" the blonde complained as he towed her along.
"As soon as Lunar is done torturing Dracomon, we're going to have a snowball fight!"
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"Here are the rules!" Takuya yelled as he trudged in front of the group of teens and Digimon drill sergeant style, "It's girls against boys, and you can use Digimon cards on your partner Digimon!"
"Question, Takuya," Neko mewed while waving at him.
"Yes?"
"Is there anything we can't do?"
"Why certainly!" he shouted back and raised one of his fingers, "There are no alliances with the other team, and you can't go to any houses at all once the game has started!"
"Wait, so we can go back to our houses?" Vicki butted in with a confused tone.
"Yup! You get ten minutes for collecting supplies and building a fort!"
Vicki gave him a devious smirk and whispered something to Lopmon, who was seated on her shoulder. The Lopping Monster nodded in reply and jumped off of her Tamer's shoulder, running in the direction of Koji's house.
"Any more questions?"
"Yeah. What the heck are you guys doing!" Koji yelled as he ran past Lopmon and over to Takuya.
"Oh, I forgot you were coming…" Takuya smiled nervously while the bandanna wearing teen glared at him.
"What, do you think I would let Vicki come here alone?" the navy haired teen growled. The brunette shook his head slowly.
"L-look, Koji, I'll explain to you what's going on once we start, okay?
"Sure thing, Taki," Koji sneered the other teen's nickname and clunked to the side Shinya, Dracomon, and Tsukaimon had already arrived at.
Terriermon snickered a bit and jumped off of his Tamer's shoulder. "Momentai, Koji! We'll beat the girls no matter what they throw at us!"
"Sure. And when whatever we're doing is done, I'm going to whitewash Takuya for not telling me what we're doing," his Tamer smiled back at the rabbit Digimon.
"Okay, we're starting!" Takuya shouted and ran over to the boy's side.
"What are we doing?" Koji said calmly to the brunette while cracking his knuckles.
The teen gulped and quickly said, "Snowball fight, boy's against girls, go get supplies at your house in under ten minutes."
"Okay, mister bossy-pants," Terriermon laughed and started running in the direction Lopmon had already gone.
"Now we can start on the fort!" Dracomon exclaimed, then threw a snowball that hit Takuya in the face.
"What was that for!?"
"That was for encouraging Lunar to sing her special Tamers song!"
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"What's a fort?" Neko shouted absentmindedly as she watched Lunar and Petitmamon begin to roll snow balls into the shape of a wall.
"A fort is what we duck behind while the boys through snowballs at us," Lunar replied while she jumped up on a low tree branch and started collecting snow from the branches.
"Oh… Can I help!" she exclaimed with her eyes sparkling anime style.
"Zoe already told ya' ta' help!" Petitmamon growled and began patting down the snow with her staff.
"Okee doke!" Neko giggled and punched a tree. Unfortunately, that was the tree Lunar was in…
"Ahh! Cold! Cold! Cold!" the fox screamed as an avalanche of snow collapsed from the topmost branches and into her.
"Oopsie…" the humanoid gulped with wide eyes. Lunar's head shot out of the snow and she shook her head a few times.
"That's alright, Neko! A little snow can't keep down someone as awesome as me!" Lunar yelled as she erupted from the snow, "Besides, this ought to be enough snow to finish the fort!"
"Yay!" Neko shouted and waved her arms, "We're gonna wi-in! We're gonna wi-in!"
"I wonder how Lopmon is doing…" the Fox Monster sighed while she stared at the celebrating teen.
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"Terriermon! I had this first!" the Lopping Monster growled through her gritted teeth as she and her brother fought over a gallon of water in a milk jug.
"Yeah! Well Takuya told me to get supplies and you are preventing me from getting them!" Terriermon argued, causing Lopmon to rip the item from his hands and whack him on the head with it.
"Get your own supplies!" she yelled back, then ran over to the sled she had started to fill with 'supplies' and set it gently inside of it.
"Maybe I will!" the cream rabbit Digimon shouted, then glanced up at the clock. Three… Two… One… Time's up!
"Or not…"
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"Vicki! I got everything you told me to get!" Lopmon exclaimed as she ran up to her Tamer pulling her sled behind her.
"Great. Put them in the… uh…" Vicki stared wide-eyed at the fort that Lunar, Petitmamon, and Neko had made.
"How'd we do!" Lunar yelled from the top of the castle-like fort, "It's almost life-sized, right?"
"Lunar… That's epic!" the brunette shouted with her eyes sparkling, "I can't believe you three made that in ten minutes!"
"Yeah, it isn't nearly as good as what Dracomon and Tsukaimon did!" Neko smiled, then pointed at the other fort, which was similar to theirs, but it was bigger and had trees all over it for armor.
"Wow. And I thought Dracomon was incompetent," Zoe gaped as Dracomon and Tsukaimon stuck their tongues out at them.
"Relax! We've got this!" Lunar smirked and cracked her knuckles. Neko nodded in agreement.
"Lunar, you do realize that we're not going to beat them up, right?" Vicki sighed while she walked up the snow steps to where Lunar was perched.
"If we hit them with ice balls hard enough, would that count as pw3ning them?" the silver fox asked and cocked her head.
"Lunar, no text talking," Zoe groaned and whacked her on the head.
"Fine."
"So, how do we 'snowball fight'?" Neko mewed while staring blankly at the other girls, who fell over anime style.
"You have got to be kidding me!" Lunar growled and threw a snowball at Neko, "You just had a snowball fight with Shinya a few minutes ago!"
"Oh. That was snowball fight?" the humanoid giggled and kicked snow up at the fox.
"Yeah…"
"Are you guys ready over there?!" Takuya yelled from the boy's fort.
"Yes, Taki!" Zoe shouted back. Lunar made bunny ears with two of her fingers behind her Tamer's head.
"Alright! Then we're starting in… Three! Two! On-" The gogglehead's sentence was cut off when Lunar threw a snowball at him that nailed him in the face.
"Lunar waits for no one!" the Fox Monster exclaimed while doing a peace sign, then threw another snowball…
…Which hit Dracomon while he was carrying an entire arm load of snowballs. He then proceeded to fall off the side of the snow castle and land in a snowdrift.
"This means war!" the dragon screamed while shaking his fist at Lunar.
"Jokes on you!" Petitmamon snickered as she used her wand to hold up about twenty snowballs, "The war already started!"
Needless to say, she dropped all of them on Dracomon.
"Ah! You… you… You Raremon faced freak!" the turquoise dragon roared while he cleaned himself off, "I'm going to rip you to shreds!"
"Now, now," Lopmon smiled nervously, "I want a clean fight with no-" She was interrupted when her brother hit her with a snowball.
"That's it! All rules are out of the window!" the rabbit hollered and, using her ears as a slingshot, launched a snowball that hit her brother in the same place he hit her.
"Oh goodie! Neko wants to play!" the young humanoid giggled and began putting snow in a bucket that was filled with water. She waited a moment after filling it and flipped it over like you would when making sand castles. The result was a pile of slush that she began to mold into spherical shapes.
"Hey Shinyou!" she sniggered as the boy turned to face her, "Catch!" She then chucked one of the now frozen slush-balls at the reddish brunette, which whacked him on his head.
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"Ouch! Hey! That wasn't a snowball!" Shinya exclaimed while rubbing the side of his head, "Takuya! The girls are using ice-balls!"
"Live with it! We made no rule against it!" his brother replied and used Dracomon as a shield, "Besides, Neko probably doesn't know any better."
"How'd you know it was Neko?"
"Because she already hit me and Koji with one."
Tsukaimon snickered at the teen's comment. That was, until he was hit by one of Neko's ice-balls himself.
"Takuya, can you illegalize ice-balls?" Dracomon moaned and pulled said item from one of his horns, "I may wake up in the middle of the night in fear of being nailed by one."
"Sorry, I dare not change the rules in fear of Zoe's wrath," the dragon's Tamer responded and ducked again.
"Oh yeah, because my wrath means nothing to you!" the dragon roared and punched his Tamer on the head, "That was a warning hit!"
"Well in that case, I'll give you a payback hit!" Takuya shot back and shoved Dracomon face first into the snow.
"Why you little-"
"You little what?"
"That is it, Takuya! If you wanna go, then we'll go!"
And with that, they began fighting dust cloud anime style while the other boys sweat-dropped.
"How did those two ever become partners?" Koji sighed as he rummaged through his cards.
"Alike personalities, I guess," Tsukaimon muttered from atop his Tamer's head.
"Well, then I guess my brother is finding out how annoying he is first hand," Shinya added, then was hit in the side of the head with a snowball. "And the snowballs are still hitting me…"
"Relax, Shinya. If your brother has taught me anything, it's to think of a backup plan," the black haired teen smirked once he had found the card he had been looking for.
"Alright, Terriermon," he looked over to his partner, "Ready?"
"You betcha, Koji!" the cream rabbit shouted enthusiastically, then jumped up onto the wall of their fort.
"Then let's do it. Card Slash!" Koji grinned as he ripped the card through the slot, "High-speed Plugin B!"
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Intermission. Yes, that was another card from the Japanese Tamers.
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"Looks like you've surrendered, Koji!" Vicki smirked while tossing a snowball up and down in her hand.
"On the contrary, Vicks, I am far from giving up." Koji then stuck out his tongue at them with his partner mimicking his actions.
"Alright then, you asked for it!" his girlfriend replied, then threw a snowball at him.
"Terriermon?" he grinned. The rabbit nodded and opened his mouth.
"Blazing Fire!" Terriermon exclaimed while launching a small green flame from his mouth that collided with the snowball, melting it down to nothing more than a drizzle of water.
"Tch. So what you blocked that one? If we all throw them at once, then there's no way you can melt them all at once. " Vicki grinned that sadistic grin of her's.
"Yeah! Yeah! Neko wants to try!" the humanoid giggled and held up an ice-ball. Shinya shivered and ducked down behind the wall in response.
"Fire at will, ladies!" Koji taunted while shooting the girls a flirty smiled.
Almost as if on cue, both of the Kanbara brothers yelled, "Back off, Koji!" then got back to cowering and fighting.
"You both need to shut up. I am trying to tease the girls here!" the bandanna wearing teen shouted back.
"Attack!" Lunar shouted randomly and began hurling ice-balls at them at very high speeds.
"Terriermon. Please show the girls why they stand no chance against us," Koji smiled confidently while motioning for his partner to attack.
"Right, Koji. Blazing Fire! Blazing Fire! Blazing Fire!" Due to the card that Koji had used earlier, Terriermon was able to move quickly and could recharge his attack fast enough to block every single one of the snowballs.
"WHAT!? HOW DID NONE OF MY EPIC THROWS HIT YOU!" Lunar screamed and stomped on the ground over and over again. Unfortunately, the ground was made of snow… You can probably figure out what happened on your own…
If you can't, Lunar's stomping caused a hole to form underneath her and basically brought down the entire fort. Unfortunately, Takuya and Dracomon's fighting also caused the boy's fort to collapse.
"Takuya! Dracomon! /Lunar!" both groups exclaimed in unison.
"You bozo!" Koji yelled and picked up Takuya by his shirt collar.
"Idiot!" Tsukaimon spat in Dracomon's face.
"Yay! Yay! Snow! Snow!" Neko cheered and tossed pieces of the ex-fort snow into the air. Everyone sweat-dropped at her childishness.
"Petit Nightmare!"
A large beam of dark energy shot seemingly out of nowhere and nailed Dracomon in the chest, effectively knocking him out. Petitmamon snickered at the boys' surprised faces and threw a snowball at the dragon, just to make sure he was out. He was.
"Suckers!" the female imp laughed and made a loser sign at them.
"Where?" Tsukaimon shouted and looked around rapidly.
"Look around and you'll find them!" Lunar replied and threw some more snowballs at them.
"Tsukaimon."
"Yes, Shinya?"
"We're the suckers… Shut up."
"Since when were we ca- Ohh…"
"Focus, guys!" Takuya yelled and stared down at Dracomon, "We have a large problem here!"
"What's that?" Shinya smiled at his brother, who face-palmed in response.
"They knocked Dracomon out," the brunette deadpanned and pointed at the dragon.
"No problem!" Koji grinned, "The girls are trying to rebuild their fort, so we can use this meat-sack as a weapon."
"How so?" Tsukaimon asked with his head cocked, "It's not like we could make him into a snowball."
"Or could we?" the black haired teen replied and began packing snow onto the dragon.
"Great idea, Koji! I'm glad I thought of it!" Takuya exclaimed, only to be whacked on the head by Koji. "Heh. Can't you take a little joke?"
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"How's this?" Neko smiled and began juggling ice-balls in her hands.
"Ha! You can only do four at once?" Lunar laughed as she also started juggling ice-balls, "I can do five!"
"Girls, girls, you're both pretty, now help rebuild the fort!" Lopmon shouted at them, causing them to drop all of their ice-balls.
So far, they had a small mound of snow flattened out into the shape of a wall, and that was it. Lunar stared shamefully at it, and Neko laughed at it. This time, she actually thought that the fort was pathetic.
"How's it look, Lunar?" Zoe smiled hopefully up to her partner.
"It looks crummy, shameful, and like Takuya's room when you aren't there," she replied while narrowing her eyes.
"That bad, huh?" Vicki tittered while staring at the pile of snow, "I guess we have our work cut out for us then."
"Not as much as we're going to…" Lunar huffed under her breath.
"Why do you say that?" Lopmon asked while she patted down snow.
"Well, because the boys are about to throw Dracomon at us."
"WHAT?!"
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"Alright. Takuya, you grab Dracomon's arms and I'll get his tail," Koji instructed as he grasped Dracomon's huge tail.
"His arms are sticking out? Oh, there they are," Takuya snickered once he found said appendages.
"Okay, on the count of three. One. Two. Three. And throw him!"
The turquoise dragon was unfortunate enough to be packed into a huge ball of snow that made it so that only his tail, head, and arms stuck out. He was about two feet off the ground the entire time he was air-born. Sadly, he hit the girls' fort that they had just finished rebuilding.
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THUD!
CRASH!
"You creeps!" Zoe yelled at the boys after Dracomon had crash landed, "I'm going to kill you!"
"Says who?" Takuya laughed back, ticking the blonde off even more.
Neko narrowed her eyes in frustration and grabbed ahold of Dracomon's tail. She then draped it over her shoulder and yanked it down as fast as she could, effectively launching the dragon back to his rightful side.
Dracomon soared over the guys and hit a tree, causing the tree to shake hysterically and drop all of the snow in it. The snow avalanched onto the guys, except Terriermon because his card was still in use, and the vibrating Dracomon flopped on top of the pile.
"Bulls-eye!" Neko giggled and clapped her hands.
"Do you give up now?" Vicki shouted over to them.
"Never!" Koji yelled back and leaped up to his feet, "As long as Terriermon is here, we still stand!"
"Koji Minamoto, you never change!" his girlfriend growled and threw a snowball at him which Terriermon promptly blocked.
"Ha! Ha! Suckers!" Shinya laughed. Well, until some left over snow on the branch above him fell off and landed on his head.
"Do you surrender now?" Koji smirked only to be bombarded by snowballs. Terriermon blocked them as fast as he could, which was actually all of them.
"Alright, Lopmon! Finish this!" Vicki shouted and pointed at Koji.
"Yes, ma'am! Blazing Ice!" Lopmon opened her mouth a fired a current of freezing cold brine at Koji and Terriermon. Due to it being water before it hit them, Terriermon was unable to block the attack. Therefore, the two boys were frozen solid inside of blocks of ice.
"We win!" Lunar cheered as the other boys started to laugh at Koji.
"That was fun!" Neko cheered and ran over to Shinya, who she yanked out of the snow, "Now what do we get to do?"
"I don't know… Why don't you go play with the other girls while I think of something…" Shinya sighed and patted the humanoid on the head who smiled and darted off toward the other girls.
"I think she likes you," Takuya beamed as he walked over to Shinya, who blushed and shook his head.
"Nah! She doesn't like me! We're just friends! You know that!" his brother panicked while his brother laughed at him.
"I didn't say you two were going out or anything! I just mentioned the fact that everyone knows Neko has a crush on you."
"She does not!"
"Sure she does. Have you tried asking her?"
"Why would she tell me something personal like that?"
"Shinya, I asked her why she was afraid of the dark and she gave an extremely detailed description that gave me nightmares for a week. If she can talk freely about her fears, she can talk freely about anything."
"Who ya' talking 'bout!" Neko whispered as she popped up randomly between the two of them.
"AHH!" the Kanbara brothers screamed and jumped back at least five feet.
"Neko! Uh… hi!" Shinya smiled while Neko stared at him awkwardly.
"The girls said that they were going to have a booooring girl talk so I decided that I didn't want to play with them," the teen responded with a naïve smile.
"Well, maybe you can make it a fun girl talk…?" the reddish brunette unsurely whimpered.
"Okay!" Neko chirped and ran off again. The two boys let out a sigh of relief and started walking back to their house.
"I just have to say, Shinya, she sure is a handful…"
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Koji shivered in the blanket Vicki had put around him. They had moved him next to the radiator so that he could thaw out. Once he had thawed out, Vicki had given him and Terriermon cups of hot chocolate.
"How are you feeling, Koji-kins?" the brunette smiled and gave him a peck on the cheek.
"I-I'm really c-c-c-cold," he stuttered as his teeth chattered wildly.
"I'm sorry I froze you," Vicki sighed and gave him a hug.
"I'm s-s-s-sorry that I ag-g-g-grav-v-v-vated you," Koji shuddered and leaned up against her for warmth.
"Hey! Don't I get any attention!" Terriermon protested as an anime vein popped out of his forehead.
"You're already toasty warm," Vicki pointed out and patted him on the head, "Koji is freezing still."
"I guess…" the cream rabbit sighed and jumped off of the couch, "I'm going to get some shut eye so that I can catch Santa if he dares to show up tonight."
"Yeah! No creepy stalker guy is coming to this house tonight!" Dracomon growled and sat down in front of the Christmas tree that Vicki had insisted on having.
"Santa? Where?" Neko blurted while leaping out of the pile of blankets she had been hiding under, "Neko's friend says that Santa Claws is a cat's best friend!"
"Neko, it's Santa Claus not Claws," Vicki sighed, "Your friend probably made that up."
"Why would she do that?" the humanoid mewed in confusion, "Neko's friend doesn't lie. Well, she didn't, anyways…"
"Hey Vicki!" Zoe yelled from another room, "Can I get some help in here?"
"Sure thing, Z," the teen replied and stood up. "Sorry, Koji, Zoe needs my help."
"Alright, go have a ball," Koji groaned and laid down, "I'll try to conserve heat."
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"Okay, Zoe, what do you want?" Vicki grumbled and walked into the room.
"I need some advice about decoration placement," the blonde answered and held up two small plants. Vicki smirked the second she saw what these plants were.
"Ah. I see you are trying out the ancient art of mistletoe." She then struck a fake karate pose and broke out in laughter.
Zoe blushed and lowered her head with a faint smile on her face. "Well, I guess I'm honoring your American traditions."
"Ha! That's a riot!" Vicki broke out in laughter and took the plant from her friend. "Look. I'm messing with you. Just remember this one rule. Every time it's used, you have to take a berry off of it. Once all the berries are gone, then it no longer counts."
"So basically, don't use it all in one go?" Zoe giggled. Vicki nodded in agreement.
"Back on topic; where should I put it at?"
"Trying to get a certain Kanbara under the mistletoe?" the brunette snickered and held the plant she had taken above her friend's head.
Just about that time, Neko came soaring across the room and collided with Zoe, effectively knocking her over. The cat girl hissed and changed into her form in which she had fangs and white fur.
"Neko! What's your problem!" Zoe shouted and attempted to push the cat off.
"Don't touch my Kanbara!" Neko hissed and jumped off of the blonde.
"Wait. You mean Shinya?" the teen asked and ducked as Neko swiped at her.
"Yes! Shinyou!" she growled and lowered her head.
"I was talking about Takuya!"
"Oh. That makes more sense," Neko chirped and sat down.
"That's it? No arguments?" Vicki complained and put down her phone she had been recording the fight on.
"Nope. If Neko's friend says that they meant someone else, then they meant someone else," the humanoid smiled. The other two kids deadpanned.
"So if I told you… That… Shinya wanted to kiss you-" the brunette ventured only to see Neko starting to back away.
"If Shinyou wanted to do that, Shinyou would tell Neko himself," Neko responded and narrowed her eyes.
"Alright. Bye Neko," Vicki smiled awkwardly.
"Bye Neko," Zoe added, the same level of awkwardness in her voice.
Neko grinned and padded out of the room. As soon as the coast was clear, both girls got devious smirks on their faces.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"We use this mistletoe for Cat Girl a Virus Boy?"
"Totally."
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"What is wrong with you three?" Takuya moaned as he stared at Dracomon, Terriermon, and Lunar, who had all picked up baseball bats and started walking around in front of the tree.
"The creepy stalker won't get to our pretty tree!" Terriermon exclaimed and waved the bat around in warning.
"Yeah! If he dares to lay a hand on our spruce-"Dracomon started, but Lunar finished.
"I will make him wish he had never set foot inside our snug little house!" the silver fox growled.
"Lunar, you don't live here," Takuya pointed out, making her immediately panic.
"Holy smokes! Mr. and Mrs. Orimoto are unprotected from Santie Clays! See ya!" And with that, she melted into the shadows and was probably half way there before they realized what was going on.
"No! Our left flank is destroyed!" Dracomon screamed and flailed his arms, "We're doomed!"
"Um… Dracomon? You do know that Santa Claus brings you tons of goodies, right?" his Tamer sighed. The two Digimon blinked and looked at each other.
They then proceeded to pick up Santa hats from who-knows-where, and placed them on their heads. The two threw their bats to the side and suddenly began singing Christmas carols in English.
"Dracomon," Takuya sighed and looked towards where Dracomon's bat had gone.
"Yes, oh Bringer of Good Tidings?"
"Dracomon, you just knocked a flower pot off of the table. Go clean it up."
"I hate you."
"I hate you too. Now get to work."
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"Shinyooooouuuu!"
"What, Neko!"
"Can you tell Neko a story?"
"A story?"
"Yeah! A really fun one!"
"Well… alright… Once upon a time, in a faraway kingdom…"
Takuya and Zoe snickered from outside of Shinya's room. They were headed for bed themselves, and had decided to pop in to see if Shinya was having difficulty putting Neko to bed. Surprising enough, he was handling it like he had been doing it for years.
"They're so cute!" Zoe gushed when Shinya reached a part he began to wrestle with her at.
"Yep! Do you know who they remind me of?" Takuya smiled with a slight blush on his face.
"No, who?" the blonde asked with a confused look in her eyes.
"Us," the ex-Warrior of Fire responded and looked away.
"Really?" she blushed and stared at her feet.
Well, it's now or never, Takuya thought to himself.
"Um… Y-yeah! Err… look, never mind what I said," the goggle-head responded uncomfortably, "I just… uh… wanted to ask you something, that's all."
"Okay, what is it?"
"Zoe, would you… uh… like to go on a date with me sometime?" the teen's face turned bright red and he rubbed the nape of his neck, "Unless you're busy then that's fine!"
"Sure, Taki," Zoe giggled, then gave him a peck on the cheek, "Why don't we figure this out tomorrow, though, seeing as it's pretty late."
"R-right. Tomorrow!"
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BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEE-
SLAM! CRASH! BANG!
"Ugh. What time is it?"
"Five in the morning! Get up sleepyhead!"
Shinya groaned and sat up while his partners and Neko jumped up and down excitedly on his bed. He had to admit, this was probably payback for all those times when he was younger, when sleep wasn't a priority, when he would get up at six and wake up Takuya and his parents.
"Wake up!" Tsukaimon shouted in his ear. Yep. He was awake now.
"Neko! This is cruel!" the teen yelled, only to be dragged out of bed by his arm.
"Shinyou is cruel!" she counteracted and continued lugging him out of his room and down the stairs.
"Okay! Neko got him!" the humanoid shouted once she reached the bottom of the stairs.
"Great! You sure missed a lot!" Lunar, who had returned overnight, giggled.
"Yeah! Takuya and Zoe kissed!" Terriermon butted in.
"Under mistletoe!" Lopmon added quickly. Shinya's eye twitched.
"Forget that!" Neko exclaimed and tossed her load to the floor, "Neko want presents!"
Warning: The following gifts exchanged are going to be incredibly stupid. Only a choice amount will make sense. Enjoy!
"Okay. Why don't we start with Zoe?" Takuya smiled and nudged his new girlfriend.
"What does that mean?" she asked, "Am I getting presents first, or am I giving mine out?"
"You're getting them!" he smiled and handed her a present box wrapped in newspaper.
"Nice wrapping paper, bro," Shinya snickered, earning a glare from his older brother. "So what exactly is in it?"
"A necklace! Takuya, it's bella!" Zoe smiled and gave him a hug. All the while, Takuya shot his brother a smug grin.
"How did you get it? You're broke."
"I know people."
"Yeah. And I can fly," Shinya smirked and flapped his arms.
"Whatever. Next gift for Z!"
Vicki handed Zoe a square, and very thin, box of some sort. Zoe unwrapped it and sweat-dropped at what it was.
"How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You calendar… Vicki, I don't have a cat,"Zoe said awkwardly. Vicki then pointed over towards Neko, who waved back in response.
"Oh. That makes more sense."
"I'll go next," Koji sighed and tossed Zoe a book, She caught it and read off the cover.
"How to Read By: Koji Minamoto" She blinked once she was done and stared at Koji.
"Since when do you write books?"
"Since always. Didn't you guys see my News interview? It was live," the bandanna clad teen smirked and then crossed his arms.
"Whatever, Koji… Okay, Neko is next…"
"Neko got you…" the girl started and dropped a box in front of Zoe.
"A dead fish?"
"Yea- huh? No. Neko got you a live fish." The cat then picked the fish up by its tail and stared at it. "Huh. It was alive when Neko put it in there."
"Eww…" Zoe moaned and pushed the box to the side.
"And now, it's my turn," Shinya smirked and dug around in his pocket, "Here it is! 8816 yen for you to blow on anything you want!"
"Wow! Thank you Shinya!"
Neko glared at Zoe momentarily, then smiled and clapped a few times. "It's Neko's turn! Give Neko presents!"
"I'll be right back!" Takuya panicked and ran off. Koji sighed and tossed Neko another book.
"How to Buy Batteries By: Koji Minamoto." The humanoid blinked and looked over to Shinya, who shrugged in response.
"I got it!" Takuya yelled and ran back into the room. He then handed Neko a poorly wrapped gift and sat back down.
"It's a flashlight," Neko stated plainly and tossed it to the side without even opening it, "Neko knows you didn't buy anyone but Zoe presents."
"What! Pft! That is sooo not true!" the teen gulped nervously while everyone scowled at him.
"Next!" the cat-girl demanded and hissed at everyone. Shinya jumped and handed Neko an orange box. She literally shredded the box with her claws, and gaped at the item inside.
"Shinyou got me a Digimon!" she gasped and picked up a stuffed-animal red panda with yellow button eyes.
"Uh… yeah…" Her caretaker sweat-dropped and tried not to make eye contact with her.
"Okay, here's the pop I promised you," Vicki smiled and held out a two liter of Dr. Pepper™.
"Yay! Neko's favorite!" she cooed and hugged the bottle to her chest.
"Now what did Zoe get Neko?" the cat asked. Zoe sighed and passed Neko a packet of powdered punch.
She squealed, put down the soda, and snatched up the bag. "Zoe's mommy's famous punch!"
"Does Redda want to drink some of this with me?" she questioned her toy. It didn't reply. "Good! We'll have some with Shinyou later."
"Yay…" Shinya groaned. Neko gripped the red panda's tail and used it like a nunchuck to the boy's head.
"I knew I should have gotten her something with a smaller tail!"
"Kay! Neko thinks it's Shinyou's turn! Neko goes first!"
She giggled and shoved an envelope into the boy's face. He moaned and took it from her and opened it. A stack of Digimon cards tied together with a rubber band fell onto the ground. Shinya picked the pile up and stared with his eyes sparkling at them.
"Neko, are these…?"
"All 45 cards associated with the Legendary Warriors? Yup!"
"I… I LOVE YOU!" Shinya screamed and hugged Neko while crying anime tears.
"Okay. Neko loves Shinyou too. Give Shinyou his presents, guys."
"Wait. No! I didn't mean love-love… I meant… uh…" the reddish brunette turned bright red and stared at his feet.
"Alright, I think that it is important to give you this while you're happy," Takuya grinned to his brother and handed him a poorly drawn Christmas card. Shinya sighed and opened it. A penny was taped to the inside, with the words 'Marry Christmas' on the inside. (Pretend Vicki taught them some English, okay?)
"Takuya?"
"First, why did you only give me a penny, which isn't even accepted here?"
"I was broke?"
"I'm sure you were, mister 'I have over 300000 yen going towards a monster truck'."
"Second, you used the wrong word. It's 'M-E-R-R-Y' not 'M-A-R-R-Y'."
"Oh. I must have been thinking about Zoe when I made that…"
"Moving on! Koji, why don't you go next?"
"Whatever."
Koji then threw yet another book over to Shinya. He caught it and, like everyone else, read the cover aloud.
"How to Date a Cat By: Koji Minamoto," he blushed again and glowered at Koji. "She's not my girlfriend!"
"I'm not saying she is," the raven haired teen replied. Shinya turned an even darker shade of red and shook his head a few times.
"Right. So, who wants to go next?" Shinya smiled and looked around. No one replied.
"What? No one?"
"Actually, we… uh… piggybacked on Neko's present," Vicki grinned sheepishly, "Zoe and I thought that was sufficient."
"Oh…"
"Cheer up! You got 45 cards you can use on Petitmamon, Tsukaimon, and Neko!" Zoe added. Shinya then pointed out that technically Neko could have cards used on her by everyone in the group.
"You know what, I think we should do Takuya next," the teen though out loud. His brother gulped at the suggestion.
"Nah! We can do Koji and Vicki first if you want!" he shouted and held his arms out in from of him.
"But I want to give you your present, dear brother," Shinya smiled almost demonically and handed his brother a present, "Now open it."
"Okay," Takuya squeaked and open the box. A boxing glove then shot out of it and nailed the brunette in the face, effectively giving him a black eye. Immediately, everyone broke out in laughter.
"Man! Now I know what to get you!" Koji exclaimed and placed a book on Takuya's stomach while he was lying on his back. "It's a book on how to tell if a box is a punch-box!"
"Thanks," the teen rasped in response.
"Alright, Taki, ready for your present?" Zoe smiled as she leaned over Takuya.
"Ready as I'll ever be."
"Okay." She then gave him a kiss on the lips and sat back up. Takuya gave her a goofy grin and shot up straight. Shinya glared at his brother the entire time.
"Man I love being your boyfriend," he laughed and put his arm around her, "It's just a shame that the author is going to skip waaaay back in the story after this chapter."
Takuya!
"Sorry…"
"Moving on…" Petitmamon grumbled. Everyone jumped at the Digimon's sudden appearance.
"When did you guys get here?" Shinya asked his partner, who shrugged back.
"Who cares? Continue with the gifts!" Dracomon snickered, mainly about Takuya's black eye.
"Okay!" Neko smiled and dropped a battery into Takuya's lap, "Shinyou just taught me the concept of batteries and talking like you people do." She paused a moment, then added, "Plus, this is revenge for giving Neko – me a flashlight."
"Hilarious!" Dracomon screamed.
"You spelled my name 'T-I-K-O-O-Y-A-H?' Never mind, I don't want to know…"
"And Vicki, what did you get me?" Takuya whimpered in fear.
"I got you this!" Vicki shouted and attempted to smother Takuya with a pillow, "Because I've always wanted to do this to someone stupid!"
"Can't argue with you there," Zoe commented without moving an inch, "Now why don't we give Koji his presents?"
"Sure, then we can get back to smothering Takuya," the glasses wearing girl grinned mischievously.
"Yeah!" Terriermon grinned, "And we can give you guys your presents!"
"Alright, bring me your presents," Koji growled in a demanding tone.
"Okay, Koji. I got you a present," Shinya sniggered and tossed him a book. He caught it and read it aloud.
"How to Date Bi-polar Women By: Koji Minamoto?" He stared at it for a moment in confusion, the said to Shinya, "If you want to insult my girlfriend, say it to her face."
"I would rather not…" the boy laughed nervously as Vicki cracked her knuckles, "She's quite terrifying, but not as much as you are."
"Excellent. What did you get me, Takuya?"
"I got you nothing. Ha!"
"Vicks, please return to smothering him."
"Of course, Koji-kins!"
"What! No!"
Vicki continued to smother the poor boy, while the other kids presented Koji with gifts of unimportance. Finally, it was Vicki's turn.
"Here you go, Koji! I got you a new kendo stick since Terriermon broke yours!" Vicki smiled and handed Koji the stick. His eyes lit up like a kid in a candy store.
"Thanks! I love you so much!" he shouted, but instead of hugging her, he hugged the new stick.
"Okie doke!" Vicki laughed and sat down, "Everyone give me your good gifts before I beat you to a bloody pulp!" It was only scary because she was joyful while she said it.
"Right away, ma'am!" Shinya exclaimed and handed her a chocolate bar, "I-I know you like it, and I was broke after giving Zoe all that money!"
"Hmm…" the brunette began scrutinizing him for a moment. Sweat poured down his face until she grinned and stated, "Satisfactory. Try harder next time."
"Y-yes ma'am!"
"Takuya, your turn!" she turned and glared at him, "And you better give me something better than last year's frog!"
"I-it is! I learned my lesson, sensei!" he whimpered in fear, then shoved a red and gold box in her face. "I-it's your favorite colors and everything!"
"And inside it is…" she trailed off slightly and looked at the contents of the box. A devious grin spread across her face and she put the items on. A pair of boxing gloves.
"Let's test them out," Vicki smirked and began punching Tikooyah.
"First of all, spell my name right!"
Go get him Vicki.
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"Okay, back to my presents!" Vicki laughed as Zoe held a bag of ice to Takuya's newest black eye.
"Wow! Vicki has you all underneath her finger!" Neko exclaimed with a smile.
"Give the women her present so we don't die," Shinya responded. Neko giggled and kicked a box over the girl, who picked it up and opened it.
"I got you The Hobbit, because I know you always wanted to read it," the humanoid smiled, then added, "Look, Shinyou! Neko said a proper sentence!"
"Good girl. Now sit back down."
"Thank you, Neko!" Vicki grinned, then looked to Zoe. "What do I get, Z?"
"You get an I.O.U," Zoe replied, "I'll give it to you later."
"Kay. Koji, I want mine now," she beamed to the male, who stated his was on backorder.
"Okay. Now the partners can do theirs!"
"Hold on!" Shinya exclaimed and stomped over to her, "How come Koji, Zoe, and Neko can do whatever they want, but Takuya and I get beat up if we fail you?"
"Because the other failure, J.P, isn't here," she sighed, "Tommy isn't a failure because he's adorable. Don't get me wrong, J.P's pretty cool. I just think that you three are dopes."
"What about Koichi?"
"He's Koji's brother. Do the math."
"Okay! Present time!" Dracomon butted in and shoved a Santa hat onto Takuya's head, "Here's mine!"
"Really? A dumb old hat?" Takuya grumbled as he pulled it off.
"What'd you get me?" the dragon growled back. His Tamer laughed weakly while he placed the exact same item on the dragon's head.
"Not funny, Takuya. When you get a monster truck, I get to hit it with mine."
"Hah! You will never get a monster truck!"
"Idiots," Tsukaimon sighed and landed on Shinya's head, "Sis and I got you something good."
"What's that?" his Tamer smiled, "Sanity for everyone in this house?"
"I wish!" the hamster snorted. "Sis! Bring Shin the present!"
"Shin?"
"Just look at what we got you!" Petitmamon exclaimed and flew over her Tamer's head, "Neko! Look what we got Shinya!"
"What?" she yelled and shot over to them like a bullet. Shinya flinched at how fast she arrived.
"This!" the female imp snickered and held a piece of mistletoe over their heads, "Now make with the lip-locking!"
Shinya turned bright red the second his female partner said those words. They'd betrayed him! This was treason! Getting him to kiss a cat-girl just seemed-
He never thought those last words. Well, he couldn't even remember where he was going with his little rant. Neko had grabbed ahold of the front of his shirt and pulled him into a kiss. And he enjoyed every second of it.
"Merry Christmas, Shinyou!" she giggled once she was done. He didn't respond.
"Ha! I told you it would work!" Vicki yelled at Koji, "Pay up, mister!"
"Once we're back at my place. I don't want them to know how much money I lost to you…"
"Zoe! I got you the greatest present in the history of presents!" Lunar screamed, completely wrecking the mood. (As if Vicki and Koji's bet wasn't enough!)
"What?" Zoe's eyes were sparkling with anticipation now.
"A picture of me!" the silver Renamon exclaimed and shoved the picture in her Tamer's face, "Merry Christmas!"
"Takuya?"
"Yes, Shinya?"
"What happened?"
"Oh, Neko kissed you."
"You sure?"
"Yes. Everyone was watching."
"Even Zoe?"
"Even Zoe."
"Does she hate me now?"
"Shinya, Zoe and I are going on a date the day before school starts up again. The last thing she'll think about is that kiss."
"Okay…"
Shinya sat back down for a minute and began pondering so many things inside his skull. After all they had gone through, Neko was the last thing he had expected to be on his mind. Now, it was all so confusing.
Did she plan to do that? Was that only Vicki's plan? Do I… Do I…
He stopped himself right there. No. There is no possible way that I-
Shinya sighed and looked over at Neko, who had started putting Redda into winter clothes. She was adorable at times. Everyone knew that.
But was she really that other kind of adorable to him?
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SUCKERS! Now you all must wait until, at the very least, like twenty chapters go by to find out what the answer is! Muah ha ha ha ha!
Sorry… For some people, you're probably all confused about how I totally just rushed this couple. As a note, again, this is like 4 months after the chapter before this took place, so technically, I didn't rush this couple, I just skipped ahead and next chapter I'm skipping back.
I also have some good/bad news for everyone. They are finally dubbing Digimon Xros Wars! I already hate the new name for Taiki. Mikey. *shudders* Taiki's name is the only official new one; no other names, besides Shoutmon's which is still the same, were said in the trailer. You can watch the new trailer online by Googling 'Digimon Fusion', that's what they're calling it.
Anyways, remember to review this chapter! And don't get mad that I had to skip ahead! And that I didn't have Koichi, Tommy, or J.P in this chapter! I apologize for any confusion, so please please pleeeeeaaaaaase don't get mad.
Thanks!
Pandamoniam
P.S
This is over 9000 words long. Go me!