Tome of Time and Night
Disclaimer: If I had the rights to either would I really write a fic with them, since I do not have the rights to either Digimon nor Nanoha do not sue.
Chapter 11
"How did you get grounded again?" Vita asked grinning at Ken.
"I said it several times Neko-Chan!" Ken growled at her.
"But not in front of all of us." Vita countered still grinning.
"I want to know why your mom is angry at you." Fate asked, hoping that this isn't a case like hers.
"Fine, I told my mom I was going to the library for two hours. I came home five hours late and with a ding on the wheelchair. Then she saw the stuffed animal that was in the basket and asked where I got it from. I told her that I made it. That's why I am grounded." Ken sighed out hoping that nothing else would go wrong.
"I thought you were out of your wheelchair?" Nanoha asked since magic got him out of it.
"My mom thought I was sick remember. I took it so mom didn't freak more." Ken said his friends looked less worried for him.
"I am still thinking of letting you teach Shamal how to cook again." Hayate stated trying to look haughty.
"You said that I would never go through that torture again!" Ken yelled out making the other girls save Vita look confused.
"Last time Ken taught Shamal how to cook so that she doesn't burn or undercook things, uh, went bad as she was scatterbrained and when it came to test her new cooking skills… Well, Ken got lucky and puked most of it before going to the hospital for food poisoning." Vita told the girls.
"You got grounded before your birthday!" Hayate was yelling at Ken.
"Mom was smothering me thinking that I had a cold when I sneezed once! I had to get of the there! I didn't mean to stay out so long." Ken yelled back.
"This actually sounds bad. Are they going to break up?" Arisa asked Vita who blanched.
"Um, Ken and Hayate are not going out. They're best friends; that's all." Vita said quickly getting color back on her face.
"But they are so close. I thought that they are together." Suzuka said putting her hand to her mouth as if it was a surprise that they weren't together.
"How are we going to celebrate your birthday now?" Hayate asked angrily.
"My birthday is the end of the grounding. We can still do our normal birthday stuff." Ken replied calmer than he was, why was Hayate making such a deal of this.
Soon it was Golden Week and it is after Ken's birthday, which had a three day sleepover which was a tradition that started on Hayate's birthday two years ago.
With the other Chosen… Start of Golden Week…
"We have to do something that isn't just destroying those towers in the Digital World!" Hikari stated as the group was getting ready to go into the Digital World.
"But we have to free all those Digimon still being controlled by that kid." Daisuke countered really wanting to help his friend's friends.
""Actually Hikari's right, we do need a break and…" Takeru said just as someone entered Koushiro's room.
"Hi Koushiro!" a high pitched voice called out.
"Mimi!" Koushiro said going to the new person. This person is a girl taller than Koushiro, pink hair with stars, brown eyes, wearing a t-shirt that fit perfectly on her slim body and a skirt that was a little high.
"I came back to Japan for my cousin's wedding and I thought to say high to you, but what's this?" Mimi said giving an eye smile while smiling and then she noticed the others with Digimon.
"Just trying to figure out what else we can do in the Digital World besides fixing it." Hikari stated making Daisuke and Miyako freak out. "Relax, she's just like us."
"Yup with a Digivice of my own. Why not a picnic?" Mimi asked while showing her Digivice.
"Hey then we could invite Ken as well." Daisuke exclaimed happily.
"Yah but how? He said that he lives in Uminari City." Takeru asked glad that they are most likely going to do something different.
"Why not go there and find him? There is bound to be people that know who we are talking about." Miyako stated wanting to have a look at where Ken lives.
"Here let me find a train for you guys to go to Uminari City. If you do not find him, use the messaging system in the D-Terminal and use the Digivice location beacon. If not then, come home and do the picnic tomorrow." Koushiro stated as he pulled up files on the schedules for the trains. "Ummm, one leaves soon at the closest station."
Once everyone heard that they left at a hurry, including Mimi.
"Mimi, why are you coming along?" Hikari asked as they ran to the station.
"Well, except for Jou everyone but me has met this kid." Mimi stated cheerfully.
"That's because he sent that he was grounded after he met Yamato." Takeru stated as he remembered that message.
"Grounded really? Well at least we know that his parents really care for him, from what I heard from Koushiro he was gone for hours in the Digital World and couldn't call his parents or anything." Mimi said giving a grin as she stated this observation.
"I never thought of it like that." Miyako stated looking amazed at the thought that parents grounding you were a sign that they cared.
"Sometimes I wish that mine did." Daisuke muttered under his breath.
Once on the train the group realized something, Uminari was broke up like Tokyo. Well they have several means to find him they hoped.
Uminari City…
"Wow, this city is so pretty!" Miyako exclaimed in wonder.
"How are we going to find anyone here?" Daisuke asked them as he realized that the search is going to be hard.
"I could creep people out enough to find answers." Hikari stated jokingly.
"Only you could joke about something you really can." Daisuke deadpanned since for a while he thought Hikari was a ghost, until he met Taichi.
"It's not that creepy once you get used to it." Takeru stated making Hikari glare at him. "Um, Hikari I've gotten used to it when we were going all over Odaiba looking for you."
"Well, standing here won't help us find our friend." Mimi stated as she started walking off.
"Wasn't Ken in a hospital? Wouldn't he live close or near one?" Takeru asked thinking on the facts that Ken was still half-way bound to the wheelchair.
"Or, he lives close to a bus stop that goes to a hospital." Miyako thought out since some busses are handicapped assessable.
"Um, since I never met him what does he look like?" Mimi asked losing her smile and starting to look introspective.
"Purple eyes and hair. He somehow changes what he wears in the Digital World. First he was in a light purple kimono, next it was light tee shirt…" Takeru started to say.
"He looked like Bart from the Final Frontier series." Daisuke stated knowing where Ken got the look. (Final Fantasy 5 Character Bartz also not mine)
"And the one he was grounded from he was wearing something weird." Takeru continued as if Daisuke hadn't interrupted him.
"He was wearing Dante's outfit for Demon's Cry." Daisuke again stated since Ken seems to like games a lot. "He's the hero character of that game, maybe Ken likes video games." (Again I DO NOT OWN Devil May Cry the very first game or Dante.)
"Well we can split up and cover more ground." Mimi started to say.
"That's a great idea, but who goes where?" Miyako stated happily thinking that she could find him first.
"I can take the medical district. My aunt works there and she said that if I stop in town I have to say hi to her." Takeru said as he knows where the hospital that his aunt works at.
"I'll take the middle!" Mimi stated as she ran to a bus sign.
"I'll take the parks." Daisuke stated just so that he can stay active.
"I'll take the shopping, what he might be shopping to get ideas on what he wears in the Digital World." Miyako stated when the others stared at her.
"Dang it, I guess I can take the rest." Hikari stated in dismay since she didn't get anywhere she likes.
Okay let's get along with the story… Takeru's side first…
Takeru made it to the Uminari University Hospital. He talked to a nurse to see if his aunt was there in the first place, and when he found out that she was he was glad. Now he didn't have to go and take several buses to get to his aunt's house.
"Aunt Sachie?" Takeru asked as he knocked on her office door.
"Takeru? You're lucky that I didn't have a patient right now." Dr Ishida said as she opened the door.
"You did say that if I came to this town I had to say hi to you. You deal with paralyzed patients' right?" Takeru asked making his aunt narrow her golden eyes at him.
"Why do you want to know?" she countered.
"Well, I made friends with a kid over a… an internet game and his name is Ken and he said that his hair was purple and his eyes were the same color as well and that he lived here. I was wondering if it was the same kid that was in the newspaper two years ago." Takeru said covering up as much as he could.
"You know that I cannot answer that question if he is one of my patients. But he is one of the friends of one of my other patients." Sachie said covering the files slightly as the kid he was talking about was those files.
"He is?" Takeru asked surprised and then not so if he is a patient of his aunt's.
"We found him here on Christmas morning in the same bed as that patient, because he was afraid that she was going to die. Odds were that she would have." Sachie said looking slightly upset since she was worried then.
"He's friends with a girl and he snuck into a hospital?" Takeru asked stunned.
"Yup, you got what you wanted. Most likely he is out with his friends." Sachie said knowing that she gave out just enough information without giving away anything.
Beep-beep came from Takeru's pocket. Takeru looked at the screen and sighed.
"Takeru, what was that?" Sachie asked since he sighed.
"This is a messaging system from the game, someone else found him." Takeru sighed out, "Where is this place?"
With Daisuke…
'Two parks and three busses. Let's hope that he is in this park.' Daisuke thought as he got off the bus.
He started walking into this wooded park and heard someone calling out to him.
"Huh?" Daisuke asked looking around.
"Huh, don't go inside that part of the park. It's haunted by a very creepy ghost." A person told Daisuke.
"A haunted park? Do you know the story?" Daisuke asked thinking it might be a Digimon left over from three years ago or Ken's partner.
"Nobody knows why this girl haunts here, one person said that her lover moved to Uminari City and that she followed by going to a forest that resembled her old home." The person stated.
"The ghost is a girl?" Daisuke asked thinking that it might be Hikari. "How long is this park haunted?"
"At least two years, why?" the person asked.
"I was curious, one of my friends walks like a ghost but isn't." Daisuke joked hoping that the person would go away so that he could check anyways.
"She disappears right in front of you." The person said as he walked away.
"Okay, not alive person… I am not going in there." Daisuke stated as he looked at the friendly looking wooded park. Then a beep from his terminal alerted him that he had a message.
With Miyako…
"So not like home." Miyako sighed as she exited another store. "Where could he be?"
She got a message and she sighed; she wasn't the first to find him.
With Hikari…
Hikari grumbled a bit as she passed a restaurant that had people exiting and was looking surprised to only hear her voice.
"Was that Hayate?" an older version of Suzuka asked Kyouya.
"She didn't look right. Maybe she has more family than those three." Kyouya said looking at the back of Hikari.
"Why didn't I say that I was going with Takeru?!" Hikari shouted in exasperation.
With Mimi…
Mimi asked around for places that kids will gather at near the center of town. When she kept hearing about a café she asked where and got the answer.
She started walking towards the café that people was telling her was a great meeting spot. She soon noticed that there are more people flocking to the spot.
'Maybe my hunch is right and this kid is with a lot of people.' Mimi thought to herself as she continued to walk towards the busy café.
She was stunned to see two purple haired children at the café, but one was wearing a dress helping out the busy café the other was being talked to by a brown haired girl. She then noticed both purple haired children had purple eyes, and that one is a girl and the other is a guy. She walked up behind the boy that was being talked to by the brown haired girl.
"But Nanoha, I don't want to work. Remember what happened last time?" the boy said in response to something the girl said that Mimi didn't hear.
"I didn't say kitchen I said help serve. Look everyone else is helping." Nanoha said pointing out several people.
"I can't remember." The boy said sounding exasperated.
"Are you Ken-kun?" Mimi asked right as she heard that he couldn't help.
"Eh?" Both kids asked at the same time.
"Purple hair and eyes, a boy, and part of a beta game?" Mimi asked hoping that this boy is Ken.
"Who are you and how do you know my name?" Ken asked worried about how an older person knew of him and wondering about the game part.
"I'm part of the game, see." Mimi stated pulling out her D-Terminal showing Ken. "We normally put a little description of ourselves and I changed my hair color to pink. My name is Tachikawa Mimi."
"Well, why are you here?" Ken asked curiously.
"Um, the others wanted to do a picnic and wanted to invite you while finding more about you since the rest live close to each other." Mimi stated putting her finger next her mouth in a thinking pose.
"You could have sent a message and I would have told you where to meet me." Ken told Mimi who seemed to be looking at all the food that was around them as well as the D-Terminal.
"But that wouldn't be as fun as looking for you." Mimi stated cheerfully then she stiffened when Hayate passed her and she looked at the silent walking girl.
"But Ken with the café being so busy your friends from this game could help out." Nanoha stated bringing back the attention to her trying her dreaded moe look.
"Nanoha… They said a picnic not working." Ken stated without looking, he learned not to when she starts begging.
"Um… we don't have any food for the picnic maybe if I buy something won't that count as helping?" Mimi asked breaking Nanoha's moe look.
"I guess." Nanoha stated not at all upset that her moe look failed and she handed Mimi a menu.
Mimi ordered quite a bit and pulled out her wallet to pay for the food.
"Ack I forgot that I only had Dollars not Yen!" Mimi exclaimed when she saw the US currency rather than the Japanese currency.
"Let's see." Shiro said while coming up to the group as he heard the commotion of someone not having Yen. "Here is the price in Dollars."
"Thank you." Mimi stated with relief as she paid in full.
Takeru arrived by bus not soon after the food was being bagged up.
"So where are we going to go?" Takeru asked trying not to look puzzled at why there was so much food.
"To a park where people think it is haunted." Ken stated since he stashed a laptop there.
"I sent where just a few seconds ago. Daisuke was already there, he said that he will wait for us. Hikari said that she will head straight there. Miyako said that since she was near here she is coming as soon as she can. So we are just waiting for Miyako." Mimi stated with her ever present grin.
"Ah, alright." Takeru said slightly tired then he looked oddly at Ken, "So you sneaked into a hospital a few years back?"
"Yeah, but how… you talked to Doctor Ishida didn't you?" Ken said narrowing his eyes at Takeru.
"I had to say hi to my aunt." Takeru stated trying to look innocent.
"And ask about me?" Ken asked as he sighed. "Well, never mind, yes she is my doctor as well as my friends."
"She couldn't say that she was your doctor, but did say that you were found in the same bed as your sick friend on Christmas day." Takeru said trying to calm down the slightly angry Ken.
"I can remember her shriek when she found me there." Ken said while smiling at the memory that happened after being magiced back after being questioned by Lindy.
|Ken what is going on?| He heard Hayate ask him telepathically.
|Just some more friends that I made when I joined a game, only one have to be invited to join. They only wanted to meet me in person because they met the others as they lived next to each other. Call off Zaffy please. I see him.| Ken thought back to his long time friend.
Right then Miyako came running up out of breath.
A/n: A picnic... getting lost in Uminari... Dr Ishida really is related to the Chosen... Shiro knowing the exchange rate for Dollar to Yen... and a haunted park nothing can go wrong right?