Promise

(Kai)

I awoke with a start and rubbed my heavy eyes. I looked around me to find Koji, grinning an extremely bright smile and my friends around me, smiling at me also.

"Geez Kai, you shouldn't scare us like that fainting in the rain on a road like that!" JP laughed.

"We almost thought you were a goner!" Zoe exclaimed.

"Y-yeah." I answered softly, then as I realized what has happened I smiled. "Koji and Koichi…you're still here…so…."

"That's right!" Tommy grinned and held up a thumbs-up.

"That's awesome." I smiled and noticed the sun shining on my face. "What time is it?"

"11." Takuya answered.

I yawned. "Man, that tired me out. Wait. Have you guys been waiting here the whole time?" I noticed that all of their eyes were red and baggy. "Have you guys even gotten any sleep?"

"Nope. We stayed up the whole night!" Tommy giggled.

"Oh my god you guys…." I felt…weird…. I remembered my life in Hawaii when I never really had any friends as good as the ones I have now. They loved me a lot. I got choked up.

"You guys should go home and rest, I'm fine now." I replied, giving them all a healthy smile. They all smiled gratefully and left except for Koji.

I frowned as soon as they left the room and I confronted him; "You didn't tell them did you?"

"No." He answered, looking guilty. "They didn't even ask they were so worried about you. But they're going to ask eventually."

"They will…." I looked out the window and sighed. "They will understand though, their our friends. After all we've been through…I mean, Koichi once meant to kill us when he was Duskmon."

"Yeah but…I don't know, I just don't feel ready to tell them yet."

"Yet? So you will tell them?"

Koji sighed. "By looking at the way my—our lives work, I'm going to have to eventually. Myotismon and Lucimon are on our case. They're going to want to know everything about us to get us to turn on each other, and we're weakest when we're apart. When we're desperate for friendship."

"Koji…." I asked, squeezing his hand. "All I ask is that you promise to tell them if Myotismon and Lucimon ever start getting stronger."

Koji paused and stared out the window. "I promise." Then he smiled at me and squeezed my hand. "For now let's just forget about that and focus on Myotismon and Lucimon.

"Right." We should discuss it A-sap (A.S.A.P in Kai's verbal style), which would be later when all of you guys have had proper rest.

"Agreed."

He'd better agree. We couldn't have any more 'incidents' like this anymore. It was too risky. Myotismon and Lucimon are already extremely powerful, to have the 2 forces together is like fighting the world. Just we have to protect it.

Whew, done! OK. remember to read COMPETITIVE volume 3 of TEENAGE FRONTIER about school elections and how Zoe and JP are running against each other...for a different reason. The team also meets a strange girl that seems to be on the dark side...