Disclaimer- I do not own Digimon or the idea of Digimon I only own the characters I make up and this storyline. Digimon is copyrighted to Bandai, Toei, and of course it's Original Creator and anyone else who might hold the copyright for it.

A/N - No longer half a chapter!

Guest – Don't worry the review wasn't critical at all. Most of the things you mentioned such as the Kaiser and Takeru's reaction to Black War Greymon are actually connected to one root thing. Just how badly what happened between Devimon and Angemon affected Takeru. At least that's what I picked up from the show xD. As for Takeru's reaction to Yamato speaking about their mother I didn't remember that part :J. Hmmm maybe I need to re-watch 02 again just to be careful xD

Chapter Twenty-One How Others View Things

Takeru had not been sitting at his desk for very long when one of the other teachers came to talk to their homeroom teacher. By then his friends had returned to the classroom escorted by one of the Physical Education teachers which alerted him to something being wrong. He could see Miyako standing in the hall way along Iori and the rest of the Chosen Children. With the way his homeroom teacher kept glancing into the hall way he had a feeling the Star Siblings where there as well. Not for the first time he wondered if Trace and Luna ever hated all the attention they drew in Japan due to their appearances. If it was him he would have been annoyed by now, but then again sleep deprivation made one irritable...

When the teacher returned to the classroom he looked at his students and said, "I've just been informed that the rest of the classes will be canceled for today due to what has occurred," at which point he was interrupted by a couple of the students cheering but he spoke over them instead of waiting for them to finish, "However there will be classes tomorrow so be sure to show up tomorrow!" Takeru stood with the rest of his classmates and began to put his stuff up when the teacher spoke again, "Takaishi-kun I want you to stay behind, please."

Takeru stopped what he was doing and looked at his friends, who some of had worried looks, then shrugged as he sat down. Hikari and the others tried to stay back but the homeroom teacher shook his head and said, "Go on he'll be out in a bit." Slowly they left Hikari and Kohana casting a worried glance at Takeru and once everyone had left the classroom the teacher closed the doors then looked at the broken windows with a sigh. "We're going to have a lot of angry parents calling us tomorrow," the teacher said as he began to walk over to where Takeru sat pulling up a chair for him to sit on.

Takeru glanced at Tokamon, who was laying now on Takeru's desktop, then at his teacher. "Mr. Hamada am I in trouble?" he asked trying to figure out just why his teacher wanted to talk to him. It was the only reason he could come up with and with what had just happened he wouldn't be all that surprised though it would be unfair of the school if he was.

"Why would you be in trouble? It's not like what happened is your fault though Aiden may have some questions to answer when he shows up again and yes I recognized his Digimon even in their evolved form," Mr. Hamada told him shaking his head slightly. "No you're not in trouble Takeru not with us at least although several parents will no doubt be calling for the explosion of you and your friends because of what has occurred."

Takeru's eyes widened at that as he sat up straighter and said, "Why? We haven't done anything wrong! In fact we're the victims here!"

His teacher smiled sympathetically at him then sighed. "That won't matter to them Takeru. All they will see is a fight between evil Digimon and the Chosen Children and jump to the conclusion that their children were only put in harm's way because you and your friends attend this school," his teacher explained and Takeru sat there silent because in a way that was correct. The fight had occurred because they where here, mainly him, but it wasn't like they had broadcast that they wanted a fight it just happened. "I don't think you'll have anything to worry about though. The Head of the school was actually thrilled when so many of you decided to attend his school and he was wise enough to buy insurance to cover any damage that might occur with the Chosen Children attending here. He'll do what he can to make sure you and your friends aren't expelled, but I did want to warn you that it might happen and you may find some of the relationships with your classmates strained because of it. Not to mention a lot of parents will probably continue to protest once the Head declares his decision."

Takeru looked at Tokamon for a moment before he looked at Mr. Hamada. "That isn't all that you want to say is it? You wouldn't have told my friends to leave if that was it because they should have heard this as well," Takeru said though it wasn't really a question more of a truthful statement and Mr. Hamada nodded.

"I wanted to ask if you know how many days you are allowed to be absent before you are automatically held back for the year?"

Now that was a weird question for him to ask as far as Takeru was concerned. Of course he knew this because it was something important to know thanks to being a Chosen Child who might have to miss a school due to Digimon related things. "According to the school book if a student is absent for one hundred days that are not excused by a doctor they will be held back for the year," Takeru answered wondering why he was being asked this. All of his absences had already been excused by doctors at the hospital and even if they hadn't he wasn't anywhere near one hundred days yet so he had nothing to worry about.

His teacher nodded before he slowly stood and said, "Good keep that in mind Takeru as you continue to deal with what is going on especially if it continues to escalate like it has so far. Remember tests and such things can always be made up if need be while other things cannot be undone."

Takeru starred at his teacher wondering if he was understanding him correctly. Was he really hinting at him to skip school if things got to dangerous? It was true that technically he could skip school until summer started and still not hit the one hundred days, but Takeru doubted he was telling him to skip school for the rest of the semester. Even if he was Takeru knew his mother wouldn't let him unless it really did mean life or death for him or someone else, but the occasional day if things got to bad couldn't hurt. He just wished his teacher had told him this sooner then he probably wouldn't have shown up today and had just let Tokamon rest the entire day.

He stood up then told his teacher, "I'll keep it in mind."

"Good that's all I ask. Now I was supposed to be in here telling you how dangerous it is to have your Digimon fight on school grounds, but I don't really see the point in that since it was in self defense. Just next time could you try to lure them away from the school?" he asked the question directed at Tokamon not Takeru.

"I'll try," Tokamon told him and Mr. Hamada nodded.

"Good. Well you are free to go now though I know Mr. Sato was going to speak with your friends practicality the ones that don't attend this school though I have no idea just what he'll say to them. Hopefully he is smart enough not to ban them from the school grounds that would just complicate matters," Mr. Hamada said as he began to walk towards the back door Takeru following him after he had slung his bag of his shoulder and had picked Tokamon up. When the door opened he could hear someone arguing in the classroom next door. He also noticed that Daisuke, Ken, Miyako, Hikari, and Kohana where standing near the door with their Digimon trying not to appear that they had been listening though it was obvious they had been.

"Does Mr. Sato have the others in there?" Takeru asked as he walked over to join them while Mr. Hamada went for the classrooms other door to go inside. Notably it was not the one his friends where closest to. The arguing was amplified for a moment before he closed the door behind him to where every could hear clearly for a moment. From what Takeru could tell it was Taichi speaking right now.

"All, but Iori who he sent back to his school promising to call them later and inform them of what has happened here. Doubt it'll do him any good if he's going to try and cause him trouble since they had to deal with this last year They know better than anyone there is really nothing that we can do about it," Daisuke told him as he leaned against the door again to listen.

"Any idea what they're talking about?" Takeru asked them as he stayed where he was. He had seen enough shows to know what could happen if the door was suddenly opened and he didn't feel like doing something that would seriously get him into trouble.

"Right now? No, but at first he was chewing Trace and Luna out for their appearance even though they are technically legal adults. Lee stopped him when he suddenly started crying and I have a feeling he was faking it," Hikari told him as she looked at him. "What about you? What did Mr. Hamada want to talk to you about?"

"He wanted to warn me that with what is going on there is probably going to be several calls to the school demanding we be expelled because we are putting their kids at risk. He also wanted to make sure I knew just how many unexcused absences I could have before I was held back for the year."

His friends looked at each other when he mentioned the calls. "They won't do it will they?" Ken asked him.

"He told me the Headmaster will do his best to keep it from happening. Apparently he already knew something like this could happen when we all came to this school."

"Our middle school probably warned him when they saw what school we were aiming for," Miyako told them. "Still why did he want you to know about the unexcused absence?"

"I think he might have been trying to tell me if it is safer for me to stay home some days then to do it," Takeru told her.

"But he's a teacher!" Daisuke shouted only to be shushed by everyone in the group hoping he wouldn't draw Mr. Sato's attention to them. "Why would he tell you something like that?" he added making sure to keep his voice down.

"Don't know. I could have misunderstood him as well."

"He also wants us to try and draw the fights away from the school from now on," Tokamon added as he looked at the Digimon mainly.

"We can try but we can't guarantee anything," Plotmon told him having devolved to her Child Stage after the fighting was done. She wasn't the only one who had gone down a level either. Tsumon had gone down to his Baby 2 stage Komon, a small white Digimon that stood on two legs. He still had the soft feathery wings on his back and you could see his large lavender eyes, but the rest of him was covered by the hooded white robe he wore with extra long sleeves to where you only saw his little hands if he was reaching for something higher then himself. From what he knew of Komon never took the hood off. Takeru had a feeling Agumon had gone down to Koromon which meant they no longer had any Digimon that could evolve to Ultimate.

"I know if there are anymore attacks like today we won't be able to but I told him we'll do our best," Tokamon said as he continued to speak to the other Digimon and they all nodded in agreement.

"Are you actually hearing anything, Daisuke?" Hikari asked turning her attention to him.

"Taichi is telling Mr. Sato off. Apparently he seems to think things wouldn't have gotten so bad if Taichi and the others hadn't shown up. Mr. Hamada is siding with us and is even going as far to say there would have been actual student injuries if it wasn't for their help."

"I knew he was dense but does he really think Taichi and the others escalated the fighting?" Miyako questioned then shook her head slightly.

They stood there for a bit longer then Daisuke backed off the door right before it was slid open by Taichi. He didn't look very happy and Takeru had been right about Koromon since Taichi was carrying him. He looked at all the younger teenagers standing there before his eyes settled onto Takeru. "Hey Takeru tell me something. How long would it take your mother to write an article about how this school doesn't seem to care about the safety of one if not all of their students?" Takeru starred at him in confusion as Mr. Sato rushed over to Taichi.

"Now wait just a minute his mother can't publish something like that!" Mr. Sato shouted as Taichi turned to face him.

"Why not? It wouldn't be lying since you seem to care more about the school itself then it's students after all. I mean that is why your are banning us from the school grounds isn't it? To keep us from causing more damage even if it means leaving the students to defend themselves from attacks which we all know how well that will work out since most of them can't even evolve to their Adult stage yet. Sure you have three Digimon here that normally could evolve to Ultimate and fight for themselves, but that won't stop a large group from overpowering them which has obviously happened or they wouldn't be like this," Taichi said as he pointed to Tokamon, Plotmon, Chibimon, and Minomon while the others figured out what Taichi was aiming at.

Trace walked up to them then hands crossed over his chest. "Don't worry he doesn't control the area's around the school or the sky above it so we can just stand outside of the school while the fighting is going on, but I'll make sure everyone knows just why we're out there," Trace said as he glared at Mr. Sato just as angry as Taichi was at this point and he wasn't the only one either. Everyone, human and Digimon alike, that had been taken into the classroom was glaring at Mr. Sato.

"I think my mom would be very interested in it. In fact, I bet my dad would be as well," Takeru said as he began to reach for his cell phone.

"Wait a minute!" Mr. Sato suddenly said before Takeru could even reach it. "You are allowed on school grounds in the event of a Digimon attack but that is it!" he shouted looking at Taichi and Trace. "However, you are to leave once it is over are we clear?" he asked the two.

"Perfectly," Taichi said then walked out of the classroom as the younger Chosen Children moved out of his way so he and the others could leave. Takeru looked at his friends then quickly followed after them and he wasn't the only one.

"Did he really try to ban you guys from the school ground?" Daisuke asked when they had caught up with them outside of the school gates after the younger Chosen Children had switched their shoes. Takeru noticed that the three Star siblings where off talking to themselves and he couldn't help but wonder why hadn't the other two sisters shown up during the battle.

Taichi, who had been talking to Sora until Daisuke interrupted, turned to look at the younger Chosen Children. "Yeah he was. He seemed to think that a lot less damage would have happened if we hadn't shown up," Taichi told him then glanced at Sora. "He seemed pretty intent on getting Iori in trouble as well."

"The middle school won't do anything. They've had Chosen Children in that school since Jou was in seventh grade. The problem is with this one Miyako is the first Chosen Children to attend it. It probably would have been worse if all of you had spread out like we had done though," Sora told them. Since none of them in the group wanted jobs that required the best college's in Tokyo they had chosen a high school that was more relaxed while the older ones had chosen schools that fit their career choices better. They also all knew there was a chance that Iori might not follow them when he entered high school, but by then Miyako would have graduated and the rest would all be seniors.

"We might have made matters worse by our appearance..." Trace said as he walked over to them his siblings following him. He then glanced at his sister and said, "We were lucky he couldn't see my piercings, but he was in the middle of accusing us of wearing contacts when Lee started crying which kind of backfired because then he started accusing us of keeping a minor out of school."

"We've also decided that we'll probably get rid of the highlights. They are causing more trouble then their worth and its not like we can't just put them back if we decide to," she told them as she looked at the younger group.

"Still to try and ban you guys from the school grounds seems kind of harsh," Hikari told them and Trace shrugged.

"In all honesty I was surprised your middle school didn't try the same thing when they first saw me and they saw my piercings so I'm not surprised they tried to get rid of Lu and me, but your brother and the rest? Hell that idiot was even saying he'd ban Lee!"

"Well we managed to convince him not to this time at least but I wouldn't put it past him to try again," Taichi said shaking his head slightly. "You might want to tell your mom and dad just in case we do have to go through with that bluff of mine," he added looking at Takeru who nodded.

"Right, well, now that this is all said and done I'm going to go see what kept my older and kid sister from all the fun. I would have loved to see Krista tear into him," Trace said as he turned to leave.

"Where the two of them supposed to show up?" Takeru asked him causing Trace to look at him.

"They were. Kris sent us ahead on Kusarimon though in all honesty she should have came with us instead of Lee since her Digimon is a Perfect level Digimon though I've never seen him actually fight before. Anyway she was going to follow us in the rental car with Lexi, but as you know she never showed. None of us have any missed calls or anything from her which isn't like her at all," Trace told them as he pulled his cell phone out to check it again.

"Could something have happened to them?" Taichi asked him wondering if things were just getting worse for them.

"I don't know. Neither one of them have really been using their abilities if they can help it because since Krista helped Takeru out both of them have been getting really bizarre results," Luna said as she glanced in the direction their hotel was.

"Like what?" Ken asked wondering just what they would consider bizarre for those two.

Trace and Luna looked at each other for a moment then Luna suddenly turned to her younger brother and said, "Lee let's go get our Digimon something to eat while Trace talks to them." She then began to lead her brother away who had a very confused look on his face. He wanted to hear just what his two sisters had seen.

Trace waited for him to get far enough that neither Lee or Bearmon could hear him before he answered, "I'll use what happened today as an example. Lexi looked ahead earlier this morning because we were planning on doing something this afternoon and didn't want to leave if there was a chance of something happening. From what Lexi told us nothing was supposed to happen today. You guys went to school then home that was it. We were about ready to leave when we got the text message from Takeru telling us differently and Lexi still couldn't see an attack. As far as her ability was concerned it was still supposed to be a normal day."

"Couldn't she have just hit the limit of her ability?" Taichi asked remembering when Krista had said she could only see certain things.

Trace shook his head. "No the limit of her ability is that she can't see the surrounding area of the people she's watching. Kind of the reason she has that stupid idea that she can't do anything to help anyone despite seeing it so she should have saw something would have happened today," Trace told them.

"Then what about Krista?" Takeru asked him.

"Her's is the really confusing part. As she said she can see seven days down someone's destiny line. The truth is she reads it in a book and her ability is to not only make seven days in advance appear but to read the words in the book because no one else can read it. Not that long ago she was reading your book, Takeru, to make sure everything was going as it should. Except when she read it her ability seemed to reverse itself. Instead of seeing seven days in advance now she see's seven days into the past which really doesn't do us any good," Trace told him and sighed. "Krista thought the two of them had just been using their ability to much which can cause such things to happen, but now I'm not so sure."

"What do you think is happening now?" Hikari asked him.

"I think someone might have somehow changed their ability or just stole it and what they're seeing is side effects of it happening..."

-X-

Minervamon slowly walked through Kitsumon's new base in the Digital World, this time it was some abandoned English Mansion, supporting Aiden as they walked towards the room he used while he was here. His two Digimon walked behind them neither one of them happy that Minervamon was the one helping him, but they where to short to support him at this stage. Thanks to Kitsumon pushing him so hard the red headed teen was running a high fever and if it wasn't for Minervamon he wouldn't even be standing right now.

"Don't worry Aiden I'll make sure you get better!" Minervamon promised as she stopped so Black Agumon could open the door to the room. Once he had and had moved out of the way she helped Aiden into the room and over to the bed where he sat down.

"If that damn fox comes in here again kill him," Aiden groaned as he flopped back onto the bed. Black Agumon and Black Gabumon looked at each other while Minervamon giggled thinking Aiden was joking. His two Digimon weren't quiet so sure on that one. Aiden groaned again when he realized he still had his shoes on so he sat back up to remove them throwing them across the room once he got them off. Then he laid back down on the bed moving around until he could crawl under the covers.

"Do you want something to eat?" Mineveramon asked as she sat in the only real chair in the room. The two other Digimon went for the bean bags that where in the room just for them and sat down.

"No Minervamon I'm afraid that if I ate anything it'll come back up. Besides I know you can't cook," he told her as he pulled one of the pillows on the bed over to him to use as a body pillow.

"Who said I'd make it? I'd just go get take out at one of the Digimon restaurants on the content. I don't wanna poison ya," she told him.

"Still don't want it," he mumbled.

"Okay then!" she said standing up. "I'll go see what I can get for you in medicine instead!"

"I'd appreciate it..." Aiden said as he closed his eyes intending to be asleep before she came back. Minervamon didn't say anything else after that instead she left the room carefully closing the door behind her.

"Did you really mean what you said about killing Kitsumon?" Black Agumon asked him.

Aiden opened his eyes for a moment to look at his Digimon then closed them again. "Mostly I was... I'm afraid if he forces us to fight again like he did today I'll either lose the two of you or end up in the hospital," he told them then sighed. "Just make sure I'm not woken up until later this evening at least..."

"Alright," Black Gabumon told him as he moved his bean bag closer to the door then sat back down again. Minervamon would be easy to get rid of the problem would be Kitsumon if he came. Still he'd fight him if he had to and alone if Black Agumon didn't want to help him, but he had a feeling that he would.

Takeru had wanted to go with Trace when he left in order to see if Krista and Lexi where really alright. However, Trace had blatantly pointed out to him that taking Takeru and Tokamon with him would be a bit counter productive if they where in trouble because Tokamon currently could not even fight. Takeru had reluctantly agreed with him and had just gone home by himself afterwords since none of the other Digimon who could evolve to Ultimate where capable of fight as well. It had caused a bit of an argument between him and his friends which had not surprised him very much. However, Takeru had been determined to win it because like it or not there really was nothing the others could do for him at the moment besides maybe make themselves his shield and that was something he would not let them do. He would give himself up before he let that happen.

Now, back at his apartment, Takeru had one large headache ad was not in a good moot at all as he sat at the dinning table waiting for his mother to come home. His homework was spread out on the table before him, what little he had gotten that was, but he could not bring himself to focus on it. "Tokamon what should we do now?" he asked Tokamon as he rested his chin on the table and looked at the small Digimon who sat on top of it. Technically he was sitting on top of a pillow from the couch that was on the table, but still he was on top of the table.

"What do you mean?" Tokamon asked him a bit confused at the moment since the question had come out of nowhere. This was the first time Takeru had even spoken since the two of them had left the school area. Tokamon had remained silent because he was able to tell that Takeru was already in a foul mood thanks to what had happened today. He had not wanted to set Takeru off if he could help it even if it might end up with him being happier later thanks to being able to vent. Tokamon did not like it when the two of them fought it just wasn't fun at all.

"If we are attacked again? None of the higher level Digimon can fight right now and the others can't chance fighting against Kitsumon," Takeru said as he sat back up because he was about to fall asleep in the position he was in. Not counting the obvious reason that was a bad idea Takeru knew if he fell asleep at the table crouched over like he had been he would wake up very sore. Though it probably would be a perfect ending for the day the way it was going so far!

Tokamon starred at him like he had grown horns or something and answered, "Simple we run!" The way Tokamon had said it had a tone as if Takeru had asked a stupid question and maybe he had in a way... Still things where not that simple.

"We can't keep running Tokamon and as it is I'll be lucky to even be able to run for five minutes," Takeru reminded Tokamon pointing to the general area of his chest. When he had gotten home he had taken the uniform jacket and shirt off to where he was just sitting at the table in an undershirt, the uniform pants, and the brace the hospital had given him on over the shirt. With this it was kind of hard to forget Takeru had the bruised ribs, but still Takeru pointed it out in case Tokamon had managed to forget somehow.

"Then we hide," Tokamon told him as he continued to look at Takeru wondering just what had gotten into his friend. This was not like Takeru at all. After all he had gotten the Crest of Hope for a good reason! Takeru just sighed not wanting to point out that with Kitsumon it would probably be impossible to hid. Instead he just stood up to find something to deal with this headache of his. Tokamon watched him as he went taking note he had not agreed with him though he hadn't disagreed either. "Takeru what's wrong?" Tokamon asked his friend as he hopped off the table and followed after Takeru.

Takeru paused in what he was doing to look at Tokamon. "I'm just tired Tokamon. I'm tired of all the fighting, not being able to sleep and this emotional roller coaster I seem to be on," he told him pinching the bridge of his nose hoping to relieve some of the pain from the headache. It did not work. "Most of all I'm tired of this headache!" he snapped directing the snap at himself as he turned to find the medicine. As he pulled the bottle of medicine out of the cabinet he felt Tokamon lean against his leg. Tokamon didn't say anything he just stayed there like that. Takeru quickly took the medicine then carefully bent down to pick Tokamon up and hugged him tightly as he straightened.

Don't break he told himself as he carried Tokamon into the living room and sat down setting Tokamon down in his lap. You. Cannot. Break. Not right now, he told himself as he tried to get comfortable, but just when could he then? He felt like he was walking on a very thine line emotionally wise right now. To far one way and he was going to break down crying. The other way would probably lead him to a shouting match that no one deserved. Of course there was a third option that Takeru refused to even consider; he could just give up. As far as he was concerned that was something he could never do...

Tokamon felt as Takeru began to fidget and got off in time as the teen stood up to begin walking around as he tried to keep from falling asleep. Tokamon watched him wishing Takeru had let one of their friends come home with him to at least keep his mind distracted. He had a feeling, though, this was actually part of the reason Takeru had told them not to come in the first place. The small Digimon hopped off the couch and wandered over to the phone looking up at it. If he was Patamon he'd be able to use it to call someone thanks to speed dial being set up. He was actually part of the reason it was set up. Tokamon wanted Yamato to come over, but since he was still in the hospital Tokamon decided it would be best to call whoever he could get a hold of. He quickly ran towards Takeru's room wondering if Takeru's cell phone would be easier to reach then the house line was currently.

It was still in Takeru's bag where the teen had left it and since Tokamon could still hear Takeru pacing in the living room Tokamon began the task of getting it out without actually destroying it with his teeth. It took him a few tries and he might have added a mark or two to it, but once he got it out it was easy enough to flip it open. The really hard part was calling the right person. Takeru's cellphone had speed dial as will, but it was hard to press the right number. He ended up selecting Hikari's phone to call instead of Taichi's but at this point Tokamon was going to take what he got.

As the phone rang Tokamon quickly dragged it under Takeru's bed afraid how he would react right now if he heard Tokamon making this call. "Hello? Takeru?" Tokamon heard Hikari say just as he dove under the bed.

"Hikari it's Tokamon," he said once he had sat the cell phone done. He moved to where he was right in the middle of the bed. All that harder for Takeru to reach the phone if he did some how hear him since Tokamon knew that was what Takeru would go for if Takeru wasn't happy about this call.

"Tokamon? Is something wrong?" Hikari asked him. Tokamon glanced towards Takeru's open door. He could still see Takeru pacing back and forth from here so Tokamon knew Takeru hadn't heard him. Humans really did have poor hearing and in this case Tokamon was grateful for it! Now just how was he going to explain what was going on?

"Takeru isn't acting like himself," Tokamon began as thought it over carefully, "I think he may be close to his breaking point." At least that was what Tokamon believed to be going on. It was the only thing that could explain to him the way Takeru was currently acting.

"I'm on my way Tokamon," Hikari told him then she hung up. Tokamon starred at the cellphone for a moment hoping he did the right thing then he began the process of putting the phone back in the bag. He didn't get it in the exact same spot it was before but it was pretty close. Close enough that he doubted Takeru would even notice. Takeru was no longer pacing by the time Tokamon left the room. He was now sitting on the edge of the couch watching a news report about what had happened at the school. Tokamon walked into the living room and sat down by Takeru's feet in time to see a mother of one of the students appear on the television. It was quiet clear to the little Digimon that she was not at all happy about what had occurred there today.

"They're acting like we did this on purpose," Takeru said as he watched the mother speak. The volume on the television was a bit low, but neither one of them had a hard time hearing it.

"Who?" Tokamon asked as he looked up at Takeru.

Takeru sighed and leaned back against the couch. "The parents are. Not all of them mind you, but a good share of them they've talked to are," he answered and Tokamon could tell by the flat tone in Takeru's voice he was not at all happy about this. "Hamada-sensei was right they really are wanting us expelled from the school. Who can blame them though its our faults their kids where put in danger," Takeru said as he shut the television off and tossed the remote to the other side of the couch. He then leaned forward resting his elbows on his knees and his face in hid hands. "Maybe I should stay out of the school for the safety of the others," Takeru mumbled. "At least then I can say I kept someone safe during this entire mess!"

That caused Tokamon to stare at Takeru. At that point he was tempted to bite him on the leg if it would snap him out of whatever strange mood he was in but the small Digimon had a bad felling that would just back fire. Instead the small Digimon butted his head against Takeru's leg lightly causing Takeru to look at him. Much to Takeru's surprise Tokamon was actually glaring at him!" "Takeru are you a Digimon?" Tokamon asked him and Takeru shook his head confused. "A super hero?" Once again Takeru shook his head. "Do you have some type of special power that I don't know of?" Tokamon asked and with each question Takeru noticed the small Digimon's voice was showing more of his anger.

"No I don't Tokamon..." Takeru said as he looked away from Tokamon. "I'm nothing more then an every day normal human you know that..."

"Then why do you think you can protect someone from a Digimon like Kitsumon when I and the others can barely fight him off most of the time?" Tokamon asked and Takeru didn't answer him. "That is why we are here Takeru! To protect you and your friends!"

"Then why the hell do you even need me?" Takeru snapped and Tokamon just leaned against his leg again. If he could purr like Bithamon Tokamon probably would be since is seemed to calm Takeru down.

"Cause I can't do it with out you, Takeru! Other Digimon may be able to evolve on their own, but my purpose was and has always been to fight by your side as your friend! Without you Takeru I would be powerless and the Digital World would be an evil place no one would want to live in," Tokamon told him truthfully. Takeru looked at him then and he was about to say something when he heard the doorbell ring. He got up to answer it grabbing the school uniform shirt to pull on over his head Tokamon following after him.

When Takeru answered the door Tokamon was surprised to see Kohana was standing there. She had Komon with her the small Digimon standing by her side and Tokamon could see Hikari and Plotmon standing off to the side. Tokamon sat down where he stood wondering what was going to happen. In all honesty he should have known Kohana would come as well, but it had not occurred to him at the time he had called Hikari.

Takeru blinked wondering what the two where doing her noticing that Kohana was slightly nervous as she was messing with something behind her back. "Here," she told him holding out a rectangle shaped object wrapped in plastic. "I was going to give it to you after school today, but then..." she trailed off as Takeru unwrapped it.

Inside was a piece of what almost felt like card stock to him larger then normal sized piece of paper. On it was a drawing done in color pencils of him and Patamon in the center of it. Patamon was riding on his shoulder looking at what Takeru had cupped in his hand which was a single golden feather. In the background was Seraphimon standing as if he was protecting the two. The entire background had been colored black and right behind Takeru in the picture was the glowing symbol for the Crest of Hope. Takeru looked at Kohana.

"You looked like you where feeling down so I drew this in hopes it would cheer you up," she explained smiling slightly a slight dust of pink across her cheeks. "It was about the only thing I could think of that I could do for you."

Takeru looked at the picture again and smiled as he looked up at Kohana again. "Thank you," he told her and her smile grew.

Hikari stepped up then also smiling a bit. "Alright go put the picture up in your room, change out of your uniform and grab Tokamon. You are coming with us!" Hikari told him and he could tell by her stance and tone of voice that she would not take no as an answer. She would most likely drag him out of the house if she had to.

"Alright, alright give me a minute..." Takeru told them as he walked past Tokamon leaving the door open so they could come in if they wanted to. The two of them did staying at the entrance so they could close the door behind them, but didn't have to take their shoes off.

"He looked like he was about ready to cry when he opened the door," Kohana commented when Takeru closed his bedroom door.

Hikari sighed as she knelt down so she could look at Tokamon. "How bad is he?" she asked him. Tokamon shook his head and she smiled sadly. "That bad huh? You look like you wanna cry as well," she told the small Digimon patting him on the head.

"Where are we going?" Tokamon asked trying to change the subject for now. Hikari stood up taking the hint.

"First we are going to go see a movie just the six of us. In all honesty I would just let the four of you see it but..." Hikari began as Kohana began to make protesting gestures and Hikari grinned, "I got this sorta reaction out of her when I suggested it after you called. Knowing Kohana it's because she's afraid they may be attacked and wants me along just in case even if Plotmon can't right right now. Any way then we'll meet up with Daisuke and the other and go to a Karaoke some place. After that if there is still time we'll figure something out," Hikari told him and Tokamon nodded. Takeru soon came out to meet them. The girls and their Digimon went out the front door so Takeru could put his shoes on before he picked Tokamon up and went out to join them. He then locked the door behind him and sent a text message to his mother letting her know what was going on even though he wasn't quiet sure just what Hikari had planned.