AN: And this is what remains of the chapters remaining from AO3 that weren't already on fanfiction just yet. I'll be sure to update both here and AO3's versions whenever I can, but key thing to note here; I have a personal bias towards the AO3 version due to the fact I need to make sure the uncut scenes function more there than the simple lack of them. It's a lot harder than you'd think when it comes to the former considering the type of story this is, even when you consider the lack of the uncut scenes in this version.
Digimon Re: Adventure Chapter 3:
As Yamato was walking home with Gabumon in tow, he was rather quiet aside from the yawning from his Partner Digimon.
"Yamato… Why are we heading this way? Home's the other way…" Gabumon asked, as Yamato stopped to look over towards the other side of the street; seeing a flower shop as he did, he walked across the street with Gabumon behind him trying to keep himself awake. Walking inside without a care if anyone saw Gabumon or not, he caught the attention of the store owner just beginning to open shop.
"Oh, Yamato? What are you doing here at this hour?" The store owner asked, as Yamato shrugged.
"I was hoping to get a hold of some flowers for a gift for someone." Yamato answered honestly, as the store owner nodded.
"Alright then, what could I get you?" She asked, as Yamato looked over towards a bunch of purple, seven petal tipped flowers labeled "Lilacs" on the table they were on. Walking over towards them, Yamato didn't speak much else to make his intended gift clearer.
"Alright then, I don't see any harm in letting you have a bundle of these. Truth be told, I'm even willing to let you have these ones for free." The store owner said, as Yamato walked over to her to hand her a "few" amount of yen to pay for the flowers. The woman blinked, before looking at the amount Yamato had given her.
"¥800,000…?! Y-Yamato… I couldn't honestly take this… I mean, I understand you care a lot for my daughter and all, but this feels too much for me to accept…" She spoke to Yamato, as Yamato sighed.
"It's for her medical bills." Yamato said, simply as the woman stuttered a bit.
"Y-Yamato… Sora would feel guilty if she knew I accepted this…" The woman said to Yamato, as Yamato sighed.
"I worry about her just as much as you; her current health concerns me, I want her to feel better, I feel bad you're alone with expensive medical bills to pay, so I wanted to be selfless towards both you and her about how I'm going to make her morning better. Alright?" Yamato pointed out, as the woman moved to carefully wrap the lilacs for Yamato to carry with him as a gift for someone both of them knew.
As Yamato quietly said his thanks to the older woman, he was handed the bag of lilac as he and Gabumon walked out of the store; the sun was beginning to rise, and Yamato looked down at Gabumon with a reassuring glance as he briefly grabbed hold of digivice from his pocket. As Gabumon glowed an immense light and transformed into Garurumon, Yamato was quick to get on his back as Garurumon jumped up onto a building's roof and began to run along them towards their destination.
Taichi, walking in the early morning along the road up ahead, yawned as today was already beginning to exhaust him a lot.
"Tired?" Agumon asked, as Taichi nodded with a groan.
"Aye… I mean talk about a crazy night last night; waking up in the middle of a nightmare about a girl being chased down by a monstrous version of me, walking outside to my dad's grave to pay respect, next thing I know a completely unrelated girl who sees my sister lures me into sex, and then Koushirou makes it clear before I head to bed that Digimon are appearing in larger numbers at stronger levels than ever before." Taichi spoke and sighed with exhaustion.
As Taichi's phone went off, though, he was quick to grab it and check the text message on it; it was from Mimi, though oddly more mundane if anything.
'I saw your status was online, could you head to the address attached and meet up with a close friend of mine? I'm attending class today so I can't meet up with him to see if my other friend is feeling better yet.'
As Mimi's text message ended, Taichi looked at the address attached as his eyes widened.
"Oh fuck…" Taichi spoke up, as he rushed up ahead as Agumon blinked in surprise, before suddenly rushing after him.
"Wait for me!" Agumon yelled, as the duo was caught up to by the passing Yamato and Garurumon.
"Huh? Who's he?" Yamato asked as he steered Garurumon to a halt. As Garurumon watched and blinked, he gasped a little bit.
"Susumu's son!" Garurumon spoke up, as the sounded of insectoid roars and screeches were heard as three, large, powerful insectoids flew through the air. Landing on the ground in front of Taichi and Agumon, stood an imposing, red colored stag beetle with black markings on its face.
"Agh! Agumon, it's time!" Taichi spoke up, grabbing his digivice as Agumon began to glow brightly.
"Agumon, Evo-!" Before he could fully finished, however, a large, green insectoid in the form of a massive praying mantis was about to attack the transforming Agumon; however, it was lunged upon by Garurumon and knocked into the river. Taichi stood in shock as to what he saw, just as Agumon was able to finish transformation unhindered.
"Grey- MEGA FLAME!" Greymon interrupted himself to blast the insectoid Digimon up ahead; the stag beetle dodged, forcing a large, yellow and black striped wasp to take the attack instead, before it lunged at Greymon with a poison tipped stinger.
"Kuwagamon, Snimon, Flymon; Insectoid Adult Levels." Taichi spoke as he scanned the three Digimon that were attacking, as Yamato jumped down from the roof of the building he was on and moved to tackle Taichi down onto the ground as Snimon's large, clawed arms almost bisected Taichi before his intervention.
"Be careful!" Yamato said, as he looked towards Garurumon engaging in a fight with Snimon to keep it off of the two human partners. Greymon, meanwhile, was launched back into Garurumon due to being stung in the chest by Flymon as he knocked Garurumon onto his back. Kuwagamon moved to jumped up and dive into the air against the two Adult Level Digimon, dealing massive damage to the two as Greymon was further crippled, but he refused to back down as he and Garurumon were back to back as they both had their human partners between them now.
"So then, if I may; who started what?" Greymon asked, as Garurumon groaned.
"My apologies for this; I was already evolved and it must've drawn their attention." Garurumon told Greymon, as Yamato looked over at the two, before looking at Taichi.
"Look, I'm sorry for this; I was getting flowers for my girlfriend, she's sick, and these insectoids must've noticed the scent." Yamato said, as Taichi shrugged it off.
"Look, I appreciate the apology, but we need to get these three out of here!" Taichi said regarding the three wild Digimon, only for a high pitch chuckling to be heard when a smaller, but more humanoid insectoid Digimon approached wearing a trench coat and hat to obscure its cockroach shaped body structure.
"Hello there boys, name's Gokimon; how might I be of service with my fellow insectoids?" Gokimon asked, as Taichi and Yamato blinked; both noticed how the much larger Adult Level Digimon dropped their attack stances and calmed, but Taichi and Yamato got suspicious.
"Who are you? Why are you here?" Taichi asked, as Gokimon chuckled a bit as Yamato gave the Digimon a glare.
"As I said, my boy; I am Gokimon; I'm the dealer in charge and I've heard from my big man that he's been paid to scout out guys like you but didn't get paid for his services. I was told about his complaints, so I headed here myself to investigate myself." Gokimon explained, as a familiar stomping came into view as Greymon turned and noticed Togemon entering the scene, but Mimi nowhere to be found.
"I heard from a birdie that you guys were in trouble." Togemon spoke up, as indeed a birdie; a very, very large, flaming bird, landed beside Togemon as its massive, orange, fiery wings folded up to its sides.
"Yamato, who are these insectoids?" Birdramon asked, as Yamato looked over towards Gokimon.
"Alright, boys, show's over. Can't risk a deal if none of us can pose a good fight in case something goes wrong." Gokimon spoke up, as he was interrupted by a loud, stomping sound on the ground was heard as a large, woolly Digimon in the form of Ikkakumon was shoved to the ground as was his unconscious partner. His partnered, slowly beginning to stir, looked rather tall and nicely dressed and had dark, almost blue hair.
"Jou!" Yamato yelled out, as Taichi looked up as his eyes widened; GrandisKuwagamon showed himself as his singular, monocular glare forced Snimon, Kuwagamon, and Flymon to flee the scene. Birdramon and Togemon both put up displays to try and ward off the Digimon away from Ikkakumon; moving to stand in GrandisKuwagamon's way as GrandisKuwagamon was silent.
"Gokimon, are these humans troubling you? I already told you I'm not finishing what Devimon started." GrandisKuwagamon spoke, as Gokimon groaned.
"Forget Devimon, how's about a favor; you pick and choose which of these idiots you want to fight, give them an Evolution Disk, and then we'll be on our way after a brief test of their power." Gokimon spoke, as GrandisKuwagamon blinked, before pushing his way through Birdramon and Togemon to get Ikkakumon to move.
"Get up!" GrandisKuwagamon yelled at Ikkakumon and Jou, as Jou was helped onto his feet by Yamato and Taichi and woken up, all the while Jou woke up to realize how seriously in trouble he was in due to these Digimon.
"Ikkakumon, are you alright?!" Jou asked, as Ikkakumon slowly stirred as he looked over towards Jou.
"Jou… I'm fine… Just take it easy; let one of the others fight for us." Ikkakumon spoke, "GrandisKuwagamon won't harm us further if we don't force ourselves to get involved…" Ikkakumon spoke, as he degenerated down in form into a small, white seal with massive arms and front claws, and reddish hair. Jou moved to grab him and carry him out of the way as GrandisKuwagamon looked over towards the four fights currently available.
"Hmm… Tempting… On one hand, the one with Greymon is experienced beyond normal, but he's not ready for Perfection; the Togemon is ready for Perfection, but her Chosen is not present on the scene." GrandisKuwagamon began speaking, all the while Yamato and Taichi both glared at both him and Gokimon, but thankfully it looked like GrandisKuwagamon was bored from this scene.
"Gokimon, we're leaving; these are not the ones I desire to fight. Let them pass." GrandisKuwagamon said as his body began to convert into molecules, as Gokimon chuckled a bit as his body did the same.
"Just be lucky you guys; this could've ended messily…" Gokimon spoke before he vanished. Taichi nearly passed out onto the ground as he was beginning to feel exhausted, as Greymon and Garurumon degenerated to Agumon and Gabumon respectively, with Togemon degenerating to Palmon.
Meanwhile, Koushirou arrived on the scene as he landed with Tentomon's Adult Level form, Kabuterimon, on the ground next to everyone.
"… How's about I just give everyone a lift to Sora's since that's where almost all of us are meeting up today, alright?" Koushirou offered, as Palmon nodded.
"Hey, aren't you Koushirou? Mimi's been mentioning a guy of your looks before, she said she had been interested in meeting you." Palmon asked, as Hikari and Gatomon jumped off of Kabuterimon's back.
"Hey, Palmon, where's Mimi?" Hikari asked, as Gatomon looked around at everyone here.
"Mimi's told me about some of you guys; she's concerned about you guys due to her busy schedule during daylight hours." Gatomon asked, as Jou looked around and sighed a bit.
"… Could we please get to Sora's in a hurry so the waking townsfolk don't panic at your rhinoceros beetle there?" Jou asked as he still felt rather uneasy due to how badly GrandisKuwagamon shook him up. Taichi, looking at Yamato, nodded to each other as everyone grabbed their Digimon and got onto Kabuterimon's back, with Kabuterimon flying off towards Sora's house to after the area was clear.
After a mere few minutes of flying, Jou was asking for Koushirou to have Kabuterimon slow down a little, all the while Yamato was yelling directions over the highly audible wing beats of Kabuterimon towards Koushirou. As Kabuterimon eventually landed out more into the more suburban parts of the city, Kabuterimon landed in Sora's back yard as the six Digimon partners and five humans accompanying them got off of Kabuterimon's back as Kabuterimon degenerated to Tentomon.
"Alright, guys, just try and keep distance from her, alright? Try not to panic her too much." Yamato said as he walked up towards the back door, as he knocked to get an answer from anybody inside. With the door unlocking, surprisingly enough, Mimi was the one to answer.
"Oh? Hi Matt; I was just helping Sora catch up on her studies and- Oh my…" Mimi was beginning to say, as she noticed how much company she and Sora would have over here. "Is this important?" Mimi asked, as Yamato nodded, with Taichi and Agumon walking up to the two, as Mimi gasped.
"Taii! How late did you stay up?! You look horrible!" Mimi asked out of concern, moving to grab hold onto Taichi as he nearly collapsed from severe fatigue, as she helped him inside. "Alright, everyone come on in, just one at a time, okay?" Mimi asked of Yamato and the others, as Yamato motioned for everyone to follow. Mimi, setting down Taichi on a couch for him to rest, as once everyone was inside, Yamato was took out the bundle of lilacs as he looked around for Sora.
"Is Sora in her room?" Yamato asked, as Mimi nodded, as Yamato looked towards Koushirou. "Alright, since you know what's going on, you explain to Mimi and everyone else not aware as to what's going on; I'll be back with Sora in a moment." Yamato spoke up, before walking through the house and walking up stairs to go and see Sora.
Walking up the flight as he approached her door, he knocked on it as Sora opened the door from inside. Sora, her face rather red as her eyes widen a little in surprise to seeing Yamato at her bedroom door, looked at him with a loving look.
"Come on in, please…" Sora said to Yamato, as Yamato nodded as Sora allowed him into her bedroom. Yamato held onto the lilacs as he waited on Sora's response, though Sora coughed first before she could properly respond.
"It's nice that you've given me flowers from my mother's shop, Yamato, it means a lot that you're paying her as much as you're wanting to see me get better…" Sora said as she moved to sit on her bed. Yamato, moving to sit beside her and setting the flowers into a vase to hold them within, moved to carefully, and calmly, rub Sora's back affectionately.
"Sora, you may want to prepare for listening to some information once we head downstairs; for one Mimi's still giving you lessons for your college while you're sick, and then of course… well… neither Gabumon nor Biyomon nor even Palmon are anywhere near alone among our group in terms of the Digimon entering our lives…" Yamato explained to Sora, as Sora looked over towards Yamato and nodded.
"Alright, I'll get ready for a meeting with whoever else is here; just make sure the place doesn't get dirty too much." Sora asked, as Yamato nodded.
"Alright, I was just wanting to check up on you in private to see if your health was any better." Yamato spoke up, as Sora sighed a bit.
"Unless my mom can earn up to ¥500,000 the shots I need to take within the next month can't be afforded and-" Sora spoke up, trying to explain until Yamato briefly took her nearest hand into his; his gaze softening up towards her immensely.
"I spent ¥800,000 on those flowers solely to ensure she'd have the money; it's a massive sum of money, I know, but… I couldn't live with the fact you'd get increasingly more sick if you couldn't afford those vaccines." Yamato spoke up, as Sora's eyes widened.
"Y-Yamato… you didn't have to… I understand your concern but… b-but…" Sora tried to argue against what Yamato had told her, but her mind right now just couldn't figure out how to put up any form of argument against him. Instead, she simply allowed herself to fall into his chest as her arms wrap around Yamato's neck as she slowly began to cry.
"You don't need to thank me if you believe I paid far more than I should…" Yamato said, as he gently moved to embrace Sora as he gently, and carefully, rubbed her back to sooth her tears; Yamato could tell, however, that Sora's crying wasn't because she wasn't happy about it; but rather she was too happy about what Yamato did for her own sake.
After a while, Yamato and Sora headed downstairs as he was prepared to listen to what Koushirou was explaining to everyone else. Yamato, meanwhile, got a text message on his phone as he did; the phone startling Sora briefly, Yamato looked at his phone and answered it.
"Takeru? What does he want at this early in the morning?" Yamato muttered to himself as he opened up the text to see what exactly it had to say.
'Hey, Yamato; I, uh, apologize if this is rather sudden and out of nowhere but, er, how do I begin to put this… for starters, within the last month since I called you, I now have a date it seems; just last night she called me back and confirmed she'll go out with me. It's joyous… but then there's what greeted me early in the morning before I sent this. Could you possibly come on over and help me investigate what this is?
It looks like an egg of some sort.'