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PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE BEGINNING!
AN: To be honest, I haven't though very much ahead, though I have a vague idea of how I want things to go. Now, this chapter is going to be quite like the episode "Home Away From Home", I think is the title, where Tai and Koromon get sucked into the dimensional rift and are transported back to Earth on the same day they were taken to the Digital World. There won't be many changes here, but I'm doing what I can. In any case, the real changes won't be seen/read until the next chapters or so.
Oh, and I'll be using the English names since, for one, that's the one I'm the most acquainted with, though I watched both the subbed and dubbed versions.
Matt, Tai, Mimi, Sora, Kagome: 12 (Kagome's a few months younger than Tai and the rest)
Izzy: 11
Joe: 13
Kari, T.K: 7
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-The Ninth Child-
xX-The Partner-Xx
-Nine Years Later-
Kagome smiled at her snoozing little sister as she sat at her desk, finishing up her summer homework.
The~Ninth~Child
Seven-year-old Kari Kamiya had short hair that was a pale-copper-brown hue in a boy-cut style, her skin was a shade darker than Kagome's, and behind closed eyelids were a pair of soft brown eyes.
She was currently in her orange flannel pajamas and tucked tightly under her covers in the bed she shared with her sister; her brother having the single bed off to the side.
The~Ninth~Child
It had been nine years since the Kamiyas first brought Kagome home, and she had changed quite a bit from the shy and adorable three-year-old she had been.
The~Ninth~Child
Kagome's raven-hued hair had grown out to her waist with a bluish tint among the dark length with her bangs splayed across her forehead and two long strips hanging to frame her heart-shaped face, though it was currently up in a messy bun. Her skin was pale though not sickly so, and her eye hadn't changed from their icy-blue hue. As expected of any growing child, she'd also grown in height, though her height only reached up to the tips of her brother's ears.
Currently, she was wearing a pair of dark-blue pajama pants with little white moons scattered over the fabric with a light-blue tank top.
The~Ninth~Child
Kagome suddenly stopped writing and narrowed her eyes. The raven-haired girl turned toward the closed door of the room that she and her two siblings shared and listened carefully.
There was a barely audible click and a muffled creak of the front door opening.
'Who could it be?' Kagome thought, eyes still narrowed. 'Mama and Papa went away to Grandmama's and Tai's away at camp, so who's in our house right now?'
The twelve-year old crept closer to the door and gently pressed her ear against it, to avoid making any noise, for fear of waking her little sister up. She heard two voices, but couldn't make out what was being said, though one seemed familiar and the other not as much.
'That couldn't be…' Kagome thought suspiciously. It wasn't until she heard a familiar shout that the girl jumped and landed hard on the floor, waking her sister.
"Kagome?" Kari asked slowly, rubbing her eyes. "What's going on?"
"I really don't know," Kagome shook her head. "But I think I know who's responsible…" She got up off of the floor and opened the door, Kari right behind her, to see Tai in the kitchen with what looked like a pale-pink sweet bun with wavy ears, red eyes, and small teeth poking out of its mouth.
Koromon...
The strange name popped into Kagome's mind as she looked at the pink creature.
"Tai?" Kari asked confusedly.
"Kari? Kagome?" the brown-haired preteen asked. "What are you doing home all alone? Didn't you go with Mom and Dad?"
Kari shook her head while Kagome answered. "I stayed to take care of Kari, remember? She and I were supposed to go with you to camp, but because Kari got sick, she couldn't go and I didn't because I wanted to watch over her."
It was then that both girls turned to the pink creature.
"Hi Koromon," Kari said.
"Hell Koromon," Kagome smiled gently.
"What the—" Tai sputtered for a moment. "How did you two know his name?"
Kari and Kagome looked at each other before turning back to their older brother with a shrug. "We don't know. I guess we just knew," Kagome replied.
"Maybe they know me 'cause they're smarter than you!" Koromon commented slyly.
'Looks like we've got a cheeky one on our hands…' Kagome sighed as she watched Tai practically smother the poor thing.
"It feels like I've met him before," Kari answered.
"That's why we're not freaking out right now," Kagome added dryly.
"But that can't be right," Tai shook his head. "This is the first time he's even been out of the Digital World!"
Kari looked up at Tai curiously. "Maybe that's where we met."
"But you've never been to the Digital World, neither of you have," Tai spoke. "I think?" he added as an afterthought.
It was moments later that Tai and Kagome were watching Koromon play a hand-clapping (or in Koromon's case, ear-clapping) game together.
"Why are you back from camp anyway?" Kagome asked, hands on her hips. "I'm pretty sure it wasn't cancelled or Mama and Papa would've said something to me or I might've gotten a phone call, but there's been nothing so far."
But her older brother by a few months said nothing, continuously shifting his gazed from Koromon to Kari to her and then back again to repeat the cycle.
"Tai," Kagome said slowly as she felt a hand on her forehead, "what are you doing?" She watched as the brown-haired boy's hand also went to their little sister's forehead.
"We're not sick," Kari told Tai, "and even if we haven't been to the Digital World, I'm pretty sure you have. Where else would you get a Koromon?"
"The toy store?" Tai said, or rather asked.
"Yeah right," Kagome said dryly.
"You do know," Tai looked at his sisters. "I'd better see if the others made it home, too."
The two girls and Digimon watched as the preteen made his way to the phone and called up his friends' residences, only to find that none but he had returned home. They watched as the boy was silent for a few moments before taking out a small device from his pocket and stared at the it.
"Tai?" Kagome put a hand on her brother's shoulder, snapping him out of his daze.
"Yeah?" her brother answered.
"If you're hungry, Mama let some leftovers in the fridge," Kagome told him, "or if you want, I can make us all something to eat."
Tai shook his head. "Why don't I make us all a healthy breakfast instead?"
Kagome and Kari stared at the preteen in disbelief. "You? Cook? That's like asking for a disaster to happen! Don't you remember when you attempted to make a simple cup of ramen? The microwave BURST INTO FLAMES! And I still don't know how you managed that!"
"Oh c'mon, Kagome," Tai laughed nervously. "Give me a chance here, I promise I've gotten better!"
Kagome looked at her older brother with narrowed eyes before giving a sharp nod. "Fine, but if I even SMELL a hint of ANYTHING, you're not allowed near anything in the kitchen but the refrigerator and pantry! Is that clear?"
"Yeah yeah, I got ya," Tai waved off his sister's warning as he made his way around the kitchen, gathering whatever ingredients and utensils needed.
Meanwhile, Kagome, Kari, and Koromon were sitting in the living room, playing a guessing game. Had Kagome had her way, she would've stayed in the kitchen to watch Tai had Kari and Koromon not begged her to come with them, paired with the infamous puppy-dog eyes.
"Breakfast is served!" Tai announced as he placed three plates with harmless looking rice omelets on each one, one larger than the other two for Kagome and Kari to share.
(AN: Now the reason I had Tai make a large one for Kagome and Kari was because I remember in the anime that she took no more than a bite or two before handing the rest over to the two gluttons. Plus, I know that when recovering from any kind of sickness, a person needs to slowly eat in small portions and light foods before moving onto larger portions and heavier things to ease the stomach back into a sense of normalcy. At least that was how it had been for me and a few of my relatives when I/we was/were younger.)
"Thank you for this food," the three humans and one digimon right before Tai and Koromon wasted no time in digging into the food.
'They're made for each other…' Kagome sweat-dropped at the scene before eyeing the piece of food warily, poking it with a fork. 'It looks harmless enough…'
Where the raven-haired sibling was wary of eating the food Tai had made, Kari had no qualms about digging into the food, though she'd started out with a small bite. "Hey! This is great!" her eyes widened, taking another bite, a little bigger this time.
Surprised at her little sister's reaction to what she'd deemed a hazard to their health and looked down at the rice omelet once more, this time, actually taking a small bite.
Icy-blue eyes widened when she tasted a burst of flavour instead of the burnt, charred taste that was usually associated with anything her brother cooked. "She's right, this is good!" She looked up at her brother. "How did you learn to cook like this?"
Tai looked up from his plate and swallowed his bite before answering. "A friend of mine from camp, Matt; he showed us all how to cook since he's done it the most and being the in the Digital World, we needed to know since there weren't any convenience stores or anything like that there."
"How did you get to the Digital World, anyway?" Kari asked, bother and her sister staring at their older brother.
Tai stopped eating and put his plate down at the question. "Well…" And with that, the eldest of the Kamiyas began to tell the tale of how he and his new friends had been sucked into the Digital World and how they'd faced one enemy after another trying to save that world.
"And the next thing we know, Koromon and I are standing in that park Mom and Dad used to take us to," Tai finished. He blinked at the jaw-dropped expressions of his sisters. "Uh guys?"
"We leave you alone for not even a day and look at how much trouble you got yourself into!" Kagome shook her head.
"Tai!" Koromon suddenly shouted. "Look!"
The three humans of the group turned to look at the television, not quite remembering when it was even turned on. But it was what was being shown that caught Tai's attention.
"What's—AH!" Tai exclaimed. "What's Meramon doing here?"
"And look!" Koromon pointed out. "There's Seadramon and Frigimon!"
'Mysterious weather conditions around the world?' Kagome narrowed her eyes at the screen, watching as strange creatures on the screen vanish and appear at random intervals in different places.
"But what are these Digimon doing here in the human world?" Tai asked. "It shouldn't even be possible since Koromon and I were sent back by mistake!"
"Finally someone else can see them," Kari commented. "Kagome and I tried telling Mama and Daddy about them, but they just thought that we watch too many cartoons."
"What?" Koromon looked at the two girls. "You mean you can see those Digimon, too?"
Kagome nodded in answer this time. "They just up and appeared this morning after you left. Like Kari said, we tried telling Mama and Papa, but neither of them believed us. And before you ask, no we don't know if anyone else can see them."
Suddenly, the television screen went black, signaling a power outage.
"Uh-oh," Kari whispered, holding Koromon in her arms and nudging closer to Kagome. "What's going on?"
"Don't know, Kari," Kagome muttered. "But I think it might have something to do with Tai." She watched as he took out a small white device with pale-blue accents out of his pocket, the screen glowing a bright aqua.
"My digivice activated itself?" Tai murmured under his breath. "Just what is going on?"
It was then that the girls heard a strange noise from behind them. They turned around to find the computer suddenly turned on, but instead of the usual photo of their family that graced their desktop, the screen was filled with multicoloured static.
Kagome narrowed her eyes, trying to see just whatever it was that the computer was trying to send through. Kari's eyes widened when the static cleared enough to reveal a young male with auburn hair.
"Tai!" Kari cried out. "It's a boy! He's on the computer!"
"A boy?" Tai muttered, though he didn't take his eyes off of his digivice.
"Can you—hear—danger!" the boy on the screen said loudly.
"That's Izzy!" Tai's head snapped up when he heard the familiar voice. He rushed to the computer and grabbed the monitor. "Izzy! What's going on? Where are you? What happened after I left?"
"Where—you—don't—come back!" Izzy told Tai.
"What are you talking about?" Tai urged. "I can't leave you guys there! I have to come back!"
"Digimon—chaos!" Izzy's voice blipped in and out.
"Wait!" Tai shouted. "I need your help! There's something weird going on over—"
"Better—where—are! Don't—back!" Izzy's voice said before his image disappeared completely from the monitor.
"Izzy!" Tai cried out as the image of his intelligent friend faded in a flurry of multicoloured static.
Silence reigned for a few moments.
"What are we going to do now, Tai?" Koromon asked quietly.
"I don't know, Koromon," Tai answered softly. "I just don't know. Two worlds are in danger, and while I'm here safe at home, they're probably fighting for their lives! And I can't do a thing about it! I should just quit now while I have the chance…"
Kagome's eyes hardened as she stalked up to her brother. Turning the boy around to face her, the raven-haired girl raised her hand and brought it down quickly.
CRACK!
The sound echoed through the room, followed by Koromon and Kari's gasps of surprise.
"Tai!" the two called out worriedly.
"Kagome?" Tai said slowly, caressing the slowly reddening cheek. 'She…hit me? Why did she hit me?'
"I sincerely hope you weren't being serious about quitting, Tai, because that's not the big brother Kari and I know," Kagome all but growled at her brother.
"But—" The preteen tried protesting.
"No buts," Kagome cut him off. "Every time there was some kind of problem, you'd always find a way to fix things. So why is now so different? Because you don't know how to get back to your friends? Because you don't know how to use that 'digivice'? Well, newsflash, Tai, but you rarely, if ever, go in with a plan. You usually rush in with the belief that everything'll be all right."
Kari and Koromon kept quiet as they watched the elder siblings. As surprised as they were at first about Kagome's actions, they understood why she'd done it when she began speaking.
Koromon had nearly jumped Kagome when her hand was brought down against Tai's cheek. 'He needs to hear this,' the pink digimon thought. 'It's for the best.'
Icy-blue eyes softened as she rubbed the pain away from her brother cheek. "No matter how bad a situation could be, you've always managed to get through by believing that you could. So why should now be any different? Where's the confident and courageous big brother that's always been there for his little sisters?"
"Tai," Kari stepped up to grab one of her older brother's hands, "Kagome's right. Don't look so down; I know you'll figure out a way to get back to the Digital World and save your friends. So don't lose hope, 'kay?"
Tai looked at his sisters and Koromon, who gave him a look saying that he agreed with everything that had just been said. "'Kay," he smiled gently at his siblings.
"Good," Kagome smirked lightly. "Now go on; sit down and relax for a bit. If you're going to figure out an answer to your problems, the best way to do it is when you're calm. Now shoo!"
That said, Tai took Koromon and made his way into the room he shared with his sisters and laid down on his single bed with Koromon on his pillow beside his head.
The~Ninth~Child
"Did you really need to be so harsh with him?" Kari asked her older sister.
"Did it really seem a bit much?" Kagome winced as she took out a watermelon from the fridge.
"Maybe and maybe not," Kari shrugged. "It depends on who you ask."
"Hmm," Kagome hummed, slicing the large fruit into decent-sized slices for them all to snack on. "In answer to your question, as much as I hated doing that, Tai needed to wake up and smell the roses. He said his friends were in danger, but all he was doing was panicking and thinking about quitting the journey he was chosen for. I'll admit, the slap might have been a bit much, but he needed to snap out of his mood, and I guess I did just that, for however long it'll work."
The~Ninth~Child
"They're right," Tai sighed. "I need to calm down so I can figure out just what's going on and what I can do about it."
"Well," Koromon piped up. "We know that you and I traveled through a dimensional rift back into your world, where time didn't really pass at all. But it turns out that we were the only ones to make it here; everyone else is still back in the digital world."
"And we know that somehow, digimon are appearing in the human world, causing all sorts of weird stuff to happen," Tai added.
"But the question is: What are going to do about it?" Koromon asked.
"I honestly don't know," Tai replied. "It looks like the both of us along with Kagome and Kari are the only ones that can even see the digimon here in this world. But aside from the weather, nothing else seems to be happening."
The pink Digimon opened his mouth to speak when a loud ringing filled the air.
They listened as Kari picked up the phone.
"Hello?"
"Oh, hi, Mama!"
"Mhm. Mhm. Okay, I'll see you."
Tai quickly got up and quickly made his way to the phone. "Here, let me see it," he said as he gently took the phone from his younger sister and held it up to his ear.
"We might be home a little later than we thought," Airi Kamiya's voice filtered in from the receiver. "There's supposed to be a really big storm soon and the traffic coming into town'll be a bit heavy. Oh, and your grandparents wanted you, Tai, and Kagome to come and visit when you're all better. Kari? Kari, honey, is everything all right? Where's Kagome?"
"M-Mom?" Tai whispered into the receiver.
"What the—Tai?" Airi said in surprise.
However, before anymore could be said, Tai had placed to the receiver back where it was supposed to be, cutting the conversation to an end.
"Is something wrong?" Kagome asked, seeing the look on her brother's face. "What's going on?"
"I think I know what's happening," Tai said suddenly.
"What d'you mean?" Koromon asked.
"Somehow the troubles from the Digital World are falling through dimensions into our world," Tai answered. "I don't know how, but I'm guessing that's why we're having all this weird weather and why we're suddenly seeing Digimon appear here in this world."
"So what do we do?" Koromon asked.
"I don't think there's anything we can do—" Tai began.
"Don't make me smack you for being all pessimistic again," Kagome warned.
"At least not until I figure out how to use my digivice," Tai finished with a light glare at the raven-haired girl. "But until then, I guess we'll just have to stay here for now. You might like it here Koromon; there's all sorts of stuff to do and things to eat…"
Tai grunted as he rubbed a hand over his face in frustration. "Yeah right, who am I kidding? I'm stuck here while my friends are in trouble back in the Digital World! And I can't do a thing about it 'cause I don't know how to work this stupid piece of junk!" He held up the digivice with every intention of throwing it to the floor, when the ground began to shake, causing everything in the house to vibrate near violently with it.
"What the—" Kagome muttered, hugging Kari close to her.
"Earthquake!" Tai shouted as he ran to the balcony to check out if anything was happening outside. "Is it Seadramon again?"
It was then that a large spout of water erupted from the bay behind his apartment complex to reveal a large dinosaur-like creature.
"It's Tyrannomon! What's he doing here?" Tai shouted. He and Koromon watched as the large Digimon opened its mouth and launched a large fireball at a bridge miles away from their home. "Oh no…"
Tai rushed back into the house and started lacing up his sneakers once more.
"Tai what's going on?" Koromon asked. "What about Kagome and Kari?"
"They're going to stay here. We need to find that dimensional rift so we can get back to the Digital World," Tai said. He looked at his sisters. "Stay inside, whatever you do, okay?"
Kagome and Kari nodded, holding onto each other in case of another tremor. "Be careful, Tai," Kagome said as the preteen rushed out the door.
"Do you think he'll be all right?" Kari asked.
"You trust Tai, don't you?" Kagome asked.
Kari nodded.
"Then believe in him," Kagome told her sister. "That's the most we can even do right now. And besides, Koromon's with him." 'But even that won't stop me from worrying…'
"Come on," Kagome told her sister, "even if we can't go out there, we can always watch for any trouble from up here." She led Kari to the balcony where she placed the younger girl on a stool and they both watched the speck the assumed was Tai and Koromon go towards Tyrannomon.
Suddenly, the large dinosaur Digimon disappeared as though he was never there in the first place.
"He's gone," Kari gasped. "What's going on?"
"I don't—Over there!" Kagome pointed towards where another explosion sounded, revealing a large mole-like Digimon with a drill for a nose.
However, just like Tyrannomon had done before, this Digimon had also disappeared within a few seconds of its appearance.
"We have to find that dimensional riftso we can get back to the Digital World…"
Kagome remembered the words Tai had said as he ran out the door and also what he'd said of how he'd come back home. She looked to where the Digimon once were and put two and two together.
"They're drifting in and out of the dimensional rift," Kagome whispered in realization.
"What does that mean?" Kari asked, having heard her sister speak.
"Tai came home through a dimensional rift," Kagome explained. "It's that exact dimensional rift that's responsible for the Digimon appearing in our world. But, unlike Koromon who's perfectly fine, these Digimon are drifting between worlds. Think of it as a sort of limbo; they'll be in one world for a bit and then they'll go back to the other and it'll continue bouncing like that until the rift closes."
'Until the rift closes?' Kari thought. She suddenly ran off the balcony and into her room, grabbed a light cardigan and into a pair of slippers before she was out the door.
"Kari!" Kagome shouted as she slipped into a pair of slippers and ran out the door after her sister. "Kari wait!"
By the time Kagome had reached Kari, she found the young girl latched onto Tai, begging him to let her come to the Digital World with him.
"Kari…" Kagome whispered as she walked over to place her hands on the girl's shoulders.
"Ogremon!" Came Koromon's voice. "Tai, it's Ogremon!"
They all turned to see a large green figure looking like his namesake across the street, watching them with blank eyes.
"What's he doing?" Kagome asked. "He couldn't just be waiting for the light to change, could he?"
"Maybe when it does he'll disappear just like the rest," Tai suggested.
And so the quartet waited and watched.
The light turned green, however, Ogremon didn't disappear as Tyrannomon and Drimogemon had. Instead, the green Digimon flew at them, or more specifically, Koromon.
The pink Digimon had dodged him, however, sending Ogremon's spiked club slamming into the pavement beside the human trio, sending debris flying everywhere around them.
Tai grabbed his sisters and held them close to shield them from harm until the debris and dust had cleared. "Are you two okay?"
Kagome and Kari nodded before the raven-haired girl noticed something. "Where's Koromon? He was here just a moment ago!"
Quickly, the trio began turning their heads and eyes in all directions, trying to locate the little Digimon.
"He's up there!" Kari cried out. "He's trying to take on that big Digimon on his own!"
"Bubble Blow!" Koromon blew a shower of clear-pink bubbles at Ogremon, though it did nothing to harm or distract the larger Digimon.
"Koromon you need to digivolve!" Tai shouted up to his partner Digimon.
"I can't!" Koromon called back to them. "Not without the digivice!"
"The digivice isn't working!" Tai yelled. "You're going to need to digivolve without it!"
"I can't!" Koromon cried out before being slammed away by Ogremon's club. The Digimon let out a shout as he fell.
"Digivolve!" Tai shouted, louder than ever. This time, something must have happened because the digivice in Tai's hand started to glow a neon blue.
Koromon had started to glow a stunning white as he changed form. "Koromon digivolve to: Agumon!" And it seemed that not only did his appearance change, but his voice had as well.
Suddenly, above them about a mile in diameter, a large glowing hole opened up in the sky, sucking in the debris from Ogremon's attacks.
"It's the dimensional rift!" Tai cried out. "It's sucking everything in like some oversized vacuum cleaner!"
Agumon landed atop a traffic signal and they all watched as Ogremon charged at Agumon from above. "Take him out!" Tai called out.
"Pepper Breath!" Agumon let out a ball of fire that shot straight into Ogremon, causing the large Digimon to lose his balance, sending him careening into the dimensional rift.
Tai sighed with relief, but that wasn't to last for log as he watched Agumon slowly being pulled up into the rift, his body fading with each second that passed.
"Agumon come back!" Tai cried out.
"I can't," Agumon said gently. "I'm needed back in my world. I'll never forget you!"
By this time, the rift had decreased into half the size it had been.
"Please take me with you, then!" Tai cried out. "Don't leave me here!" He took a step forward. "Agumon!"
"Please don't leave, Tai!" Kari said as she held onto Tai's hand.
"You know that I can't, Kari," Tai said, trying to make his sister see sense.
"Kari," Kagome spoke up, "Tai has a job to do in a place we can't go. We care about Tai, but Agumon and his friends need him more right now."
Kari looked up at her sister with tear-filled eyes. "I know, I'm sorry."
"Stay safe," Tai said as his body was raised into the air by the pull the dimensional rift had on his digivice. "I'll miss you!"
"Be careful," Kagome said, holding onto the rapidly slipping hand of her brother.
Eventually within seconds, Tai's hand slipped out from Kari and Kagome's grip completely.
"Don't forget about us!" Kari called out to their brother as he was pulled upwards, the rift closing when he was gone.
"He'll be back, right?" Kari asked.
"He will," Kagome nodded. "It might not be today or even tomorrow, but he'll be back." She looked down at her sister and took her hand. "Come on, let's go home."
They never noticed the pair of gold eyes watching as they headed for home.
"I've finally found you," the owner of said eyes said, his gaze trained on Kagome in particular.
-That Night-
Kagome walked out onto the balcony and leaned against the railing, watching the lights of the city flickering here and there, in and out.
She'd just tucked Kari into bed and decided to wait for their parents to get home before heading off to bed herself. 'I wonder if you got to the Digital World safely with Agumon, Tai…'
"Kagome?"
The girl in question jumped, startled, as she didn't expect nor recognize the voice that had spoken. She narrowed her eyes as she looked around warily. "Who wants to know?"
"I would, actually," the voice said from behind her.
Kagome turned slowly and screamed when she found a pair of gold eyes watching her from the shadows.
Or, at least, she would have screamed, had what seemed like a wispy body not wrapped around her head, covering her mouth, muffling what would have been the loud sound.
A small head bent down before her eyes. "Now, if I let you go, you won't scream again, will you?"
Kagome shook her head and watched in amazement as the wispy body loosened and the creature lay upon the balcony railing, looking at her curiously.
The~Ninth~Child
This being looked much like a ferret, though it wasn't quite that. The creature had white fur with lavender accents that resembled some form of writing, pointed ears with a gold hoop piercing in the left ear, and a pair of slender forelegs with magenta claws on its paws. The rest of its body however was another story. From the torso and beyond, the body stretched out to around two and a half feet in length with the end of its body resembling the end of a scarf or piece of cloth. Around his forelegs were a pair of thick gold bands about three inches in height with tiny etchings of symbols over the entirety of the, and a black and silverr collar rested around its neck, an inch or two below its muzzle.
The~Ninth~Child
"What are you?" Kagome asked softly.
"A Digimon," the creature stated. "My name is Kudamon; are you Kagome?"
Kagome nodded.
A small smile broke out on Kudamon's face. "Then I've finally found you!"
"You've found me?" Kagome repeated. "You were looking for me?"
Kudamon nodded. "For a long time, actually. And now that I've finally found you, it's time that you had these." He lifted his tail to show a small pouch dangling from it.
Kagome took the pouch and opened it to reveal a digivice exactly like Tai's and what looked like a gold necklace with a white carving sealed within it. "Why—"
"That is your digivice," Kudamon told her gesturing to the device, "and that is your tag and crest." He motioned to the necklace.
"Tag and crest?" Kagome asked, never hearing of that from Tai.
"The Crest of Compassion to be exact," Kudamon told her. "It belongs to you, as it always had."
"What do you mean?" Kagome asked.
"You are one of the DigiDestined, Kagome," Kudamon told her. "And I am your partner; it's a pleasure to finally meet you."
Ciao,
TsukiyoTenshi