Chapter 2
A Past Revealed
They had been riding for about an hour, since Jun wasn't used to this sort of thing she was starting to feel a little queezy.
"Matt, think we can stop and rest for a bit, I'm not feeling so good." Jun grabbed her mouth like she was about to throw up.
"Garurumon, stop!" Garurumon stopped almost instantly. But because he stopped so quickly, Jun was thrown off. She landed face first in the ground a few feet away from Matt and Garurumon.
"Jun you ok?" Matt reached out his hand to help her up.
"I'm ok, though instead of feeling nausious, now I have a huge headache." She took Matt's hand and slowly got to her feet. Just then Ken and Wormmon made their way to the others.
"What's going on, why did we stop?"
"Jun needed to rest, guess she's not used to traveling like that yet." Matt replied. "Well Garurumon and I are going to take watch, Ken, could you and Wormmon keep an eye on Jun.?"
"Yeah"
"Ok. Jun, email me with your D-Terminal when you think you can go on." With that Matt hopped back on Garurummon and they went off to take watch. Jun walked over to where Ken and Wormmon were sitting.
"Um, excuse me aren't you. . " She started to say but Ken cut her off.
"Yes, Ken Ichijouji, and yes I was the Digimon Emperor, so I won't blame you if you don't trust me." Ken burried his face in his arms.
"Um, well I was going to ask if you were realted to Sam Ichijouji." She said weakly. It was always painful to think about Sam, even though Ken no longer felt responsible for his death, he still got depressed at even the mention of his brother's name.
"He. . .was my brother." Ken felt a tear run down his cheek.
"I thought so. I knew him."
"What?!"
"Yeah. He and I were very close, he didn't really have alot of friends, close friends I mean." Jun sighed. "I first met him about 7 years ago. We went to the same school, I still remember that day."
*FLASHBACK Jun's POV*
I was on my way home when I saw a bunch of boys gathered around a smaller boy. They were in a circle kicking him back and fourth between them. I just rushed in and threw myself on him kind of like a shield. The bullies knew not to hit a girl, so they took off. After they were gone he just sat there crying, I felt so bad for him.
"You ok?"
"I. .I'm ok." He said, drying his eyes.
"Why would they do that to a nice boy like you.?"
"I don't know." He still looked so sad. I just wanted to give him a hug.
"What about your friends, wouldn't they be able to help?"
"I, um, I don't have any friends. He started to cry again. I got closer to him and handed him a tissue.
"I'll be your friend." I said with a smile and reached out to help him up.
"You will?" He said, and for the first time I saw him smile. Well as much as someone can smile after being beat up. "I'm Osamu, my parents just call me Sam."
That was how it all started. We were inseprable from that moment on. A few years went by and we grew. Though we spent alot of time together, he still found the time to study alot and become smarter. By the time he got to be your age he was a real genius. Everything was great, but that year it started to fall apart.
"Hey Jun can we talk?" We were walking ot his apartment. Something was different that day, he almost had the same look of sadness that I saw the first time I saw him.
"Aren't we talking now?" I thought a little joke would perk him up. It did but only for a second.
"You know what I mean silly girl." So we sat down on a park bench. "Jun, um, I . . ." He seemed very servous.
"What is it Sam, you know you can tell me anything."
"I don't. .think we'll be able to go on like this." I could see he was very sad, even though he tried to hide it I could just tell with him.
"What do you mean Sam?" I was confused.
"My parents are moving. I can't see you anymore." With that my world fell apart. Sam meant so much to me, more than I realized.
"What? No! You can't leave me." I started to cry.
"Oh Jun." This time he handed me a tissue. "I don't want to go, but I have to." Even he was starting to tear up at that point.
"But Sam, what will I do without you, you just can't go. Please Sam I love you." Did I just say that. I held my breath in embarasement. My face was probably turning many shades of red. I can't believe I just said that.
"What. . did you say?" I went over the events of the last minute in my head. And I realized something, I had meant what I said, I really did love him.
"I said I love you Sam." I said it again, this time without that ackward feeling. "You mean so much to me I don't ever want to lose you." On that note I started to cry again.
"Jun?" He took my hand and with his other hand guided my face so I was looking at him. "I. .I love you too." I wasn't as surprised as I thought I would be, looking back I could see how a childhood friendship could turn into love. I was about to speak when he fut his index finger t my lips, and then . .he kissed me. Not a real passionate kiss like the older kids do, just a kiss on the lips. But even so it just felt so good.
"Lets make a promise." He said after breaking the kiss. "No matter what happens we'll stay in touch, and one day I will come back to you." With those words I felt so much better.
"It's a promise." I said as I went to kiss him. I walked him home and he gave me the number of his new apartment across the city so we could stay in touch. A week later your family moved, and that was the last time I saw him. A couple of weeks went by. I thought I would give him a little time to adjust to his new home. That day I decided to call him.
"Hello?" Came a small voice.
"Hi, is that you Ken?"
"That's me."
"Can I speak to Sam?"
"Um. . ." He paused then I could faintly hear him say. "Momma where's Sam, a girl wants to talk to him." And then I heard crying. Your mom picked up and told me what had happened. Sam was hit by a car and killed. I felt my heart sink. My oldest friend and love was gone. He couldn't keep his promise. I was never able to get close to a boy after that. Sure I could flirt with them endlessly, but I could never get as close to them like I did with Sam. I started to get carried away with my flirting, kind of like with Matt.
*End Flashback Normal POV*
"I guess that's why instead of making an honest effort to get to know Matt I usually just end up acting like an idiot around him." Jun said while wiping a tear from her eye. "I was afraid of losing him like I did Sam if I got close to him."
"I guess Sam meant alot ot both of us." Ken said.
"What do you mean?"
"Well after that I wasn't the same, I started to be like him to give my parents their son back. But it left a darkness inside of me. A darkness that eventually turned me into the Digimon Emperor." Ken started to cringe as many un pleasant memories started to surface, in particular the memory of losing Wormmon. "It cost me everything, even my best friend." He said motioning to Wormmon.
"Cheer up Ken." The little Digimon said. "That's behind us now. What's important is what you're doing now. And you didn't lose me after all."
"You're right, sorry Wormmon all this talk about the past just made me remember what a jerk I was before. I'm ok." He smiled at his digimon partner.
"Now that's what I like to hear, so when's lunch?" Wormmon said with stars in his eyes. Both Jun and Ken sweatdropped.
"Are all digimon always that hungry?" Jun asked.
"You have no idea." Ken said with a chuckle. Just then Matt and Gabumon returned. Gabumon dedigivolved due to a lack of food.
"Hey Jun, you feeling better.?" Matt said as he approached the two humans and one digimon.
"Yeah, much better. I also had to get some things off my chest too." Jun had started to smile again.
"I see. Well Primary Village is just north of here, we should probably get going." Matt said, but Gabumon had other plans.
"Before we do that, hey Wormmon, mind if I have some of that.?"
"Be my guest" All the human's sweatdropped.
"Are they always like this?" Jun asked.
"Nah, sometimes they're even worse, you should see them in the real world." Matt said.
"Yeah, you'd never think a small in-training digimon could have such a big appetite. Rule #1, never come between a digimon and a meal." Ken laughed. Half an hour passed and now that the digimon were full it was time to leave.
Wormmon digivolve to. . .STINGMON!!!
Gabumon digivolve to. . .GARURUMON!!!
"We should stick together this time Ken." Matt said as he hopped on his now larger friend.
"Ok, ready to go Stingmon?"
"I was hatched ready."
"Come on Jun." Matt reached a hand down to help her up. Jun was still a little unsure.
"Don't worry Jun I won't go as fast this time. Promise." Garurumon said as he nudged Jun with the side of his head.
"Ok Lets go." They rode North for about fifteen minutes, they were about a mile from the Primary village when. ..
"Matt, Stop!" Garurumon came to a halt, and Matt turned to face Jun.
"Sick again?"
"No there's a beep on my. . .um. . ."
"Digivice?" Matt knew she was knew at this.
"Yeah what's it mean." She handed the Digivice to Matt who then handed it to Ken.
"A reading. Due east of here." He said as he pointed to the east.
"What is it?" Matt asked.
"Maybe a digiegg like the others found?" Ken suggested.
"Well it's worth a look." Jun said. So the group took off to the east and stopped at the location on the digivice.
"I don't get it there's nothing here." Stingmon said looking around.
"Hey what's this?" Jun asked pointing to where she was standing.
"What's what I don't see anything. . .WHOA!" Matt looked at the ground Jun was standing on. It looked a little off color from the rest of the grass, and the grass formed a pattern. It almost looked like the crest of Reliability, but instead of a cross it was a spiral with the corners of a square on the outside.
"Could it be a crest?" Ken asked looking over the design.
"You got me. WHOA!" Juns digivice started to glowand so did the ground under her. The grass pattern was now glowing with a reddish tone to it.
"It's definitely a crest." Matt said remembering how he and the first 8 had found theirs. A beam of light shot from the pattern and right into Jun's hand, when the light faded a crest was where the light had been in her hand.
"So this is a crest." Jun said with wonder. Suddenly the ground from under her dissapeared. Jun was falling. "Matt, Ken HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!" She screamed as she continued to fall.
"JUN!!!!!!!!" Matt yelled as he reached his hand down, but she had already fallen.
Is Jun alright, what is the meaning behind her crest, and now that she has it where is her digimon?
Auhor's Notes. Okay so I forgot the battles for this part, I thought it would be a better idea to make up a past for Jun, something that shows a good side of her not really seen on the show. Maybe I could even make the readers like her, well at least for this fic anyway. This marks another first for me, my first cliffhangar ending. More to come, and there will be battles in the next part I promise.
A Past Revealed
They had been riding for about an hour, since Jun wasn't used to this sort of thing she was starting to feel a little queezy.
"Matt, think we can stop and rest for a bit, I'm not feeling so good." Jun grabbed her mouth like she was about to throw up.
"Garurumon, stop!" Garurumon stopped almost instantly. But because he stopped so quickly, Jun was thrown off. She landed face first in the ground a few feet away from Matt and Garurumon.
"Jun you ok?" Matt reached out his hand to help her up.
"I'm ok, though instead of feeling nausious, now I have a huge headache." She took Matt's hand and slowly got to her feet. Just then Ken and Wormmon made their way to the others.
"What's going on, why did we stop?"
"Jun needed to rest, guess she's not used to traveling like that yet." Matt replied. "Well Garurumon and I are going to take watch, Ken, could you and Wormmon keep an eye on Jun.?"
"Yeah"
"Ok. Jun, email me with your D-Terminal when you think you can go on." With that Matt hopped back on Garurummon and they went off to take watch. Jun walked over to where Ken and Wormmon were sitting.
"Um, excuse me aren't you. . " She started to say but Ken cut her off.
"Yes, Ken Ichijouji, and yes I was the Digimon Emperor, so I won't blame you if you don't trust me." Ken burried his face in his arms.
"Um, well I was going to ask if you were realted to Sam Ichijouji." She said weakly. It was always painful to think about Sam, even though Ken no longer felt responsible for his death, he still got depressed at even the mention of his brother's name.
"He. . .was my brother." Ken felt a tear run down his cheek.
"I thought so. I knew him."
"What?!"
"Yeah. He and I were very close, he didn't really have alot of friends, close friends I mean." Jun sighed. "I first met him about 7 years ago. We went to the same school, I still remember that day."
*FLASHBACK Jun's POV*
I was on my way home when I saw a bunch of boys gathered around a smaller boy. They were in a circle kicking him back and fourth between them. I just rushed in and threw myself on him kind of like a shield. The bullies knew not to hit a girl, so they took off. After they were gone he just sat there crying, I felt so bad for him.
"You ok?"
"I. .I'm ok." He said, drying his eyes.
"Why would they do that to a nice boy like you.?"
"I don't know." He still looked so sad. I just wanted to give him a hug.
"What about your friends, wouldn't they be able to help?"
"I, um, I don't have any friends. He started to cry again. I got closer to him and handed him a tissue.
"I'll be your friend." I said with a smile and reached out to help him up.
"You will?" He said, and for the first time I saw him smile. Well as much as someone can smile after being beat up. "I'm Osamu, my parents just call me Sam."
That was how it all started. We were inseprable from that moment on. A few years went by and we grew. Though we spent alot of time together, he still found the time to study alot and become smarter. By the time he got to be your age he was a real genius. Everything was great, but that year it started to fall apart.
"Hey Jun can we talk?" We were walking ot his apartment. Something was different that day, he almost had the same look of sadness that I saw the first time I saw him.
"Aren't we talking now?" I thought a little joke would perk him up. It did but only for a second.
"You know what I mean silly girl." So we sat down on a park bench. "Jun, um, I . . ." He seemed very servous.
"What is it Sam, you know you can tell me anything."
"I don't. .think we'll be able to go on like this." I could see he was very sad, even though he tried to hide it I could just tell with him.
"What do you mean Sam?" I was confused.
"My parents are moving. I can't see you anymore." With that my world fell apart. Sam meant so much to me, more than I realized.
"What? No! You can't leave me." I started to cry.
"Oh Jun." This time he handed me a tissue. "I don't want to go, but I have to." Even he was starting to tear up at that point.
"But Sam, what will I do without you, you just can't go. Please Sam I love you." Did I just say that. I held my breath in embarasement. My face was probably turning many shades of red. I can't believe I just said that.
"What. . did you say?" I went over the events of the last minute in my head. And I realized something, I had meant what I said, I really did love him.
"I said I love you Sam." I said it again, this time without that ackward feeling. "You mean so much to me I don't ever want to lose you." On that note I started to cry again.
"Jun?" He took my hand and with his other hand guided my face so I was looking at him. "I. .I love you too." I wasn't as surprised as I thought I would be, looking back I could see how a childhood friendship could turn into love. I was about to speak when he fut his index finger t my lips, and then . .he kissed me. Not a real passionate kiss like the older kids do, just a kiss on the lips. But even so it just felt so good.
"Lets make a promise." He said after breaking the kiss. "No matter what happens we'll stay in touch, and one day I will come back to you." With those words I felt so much better.
"It's a promise." I said as I went to kiss him. I walked him home and he gave me the number of his new apartment across the city so we could stay in touch. A week later your family moved, and that was the last time I saw him. A couple of weeks went by. I thought I would give him a little time to adjust to his new home. That day I decided to call him.
"Hello?" Came a small voice.
"Hi, is that you Ken?"
"That's me."
"Can I speak to Sam?"
"Um. . ." He paused then I could faintly hear him say. "Momma where's Sam, a girl wants to talk to him." And then I heard crying. Your mom picked up and told me what had happened. Sam was hit by a car and killed. I felt my heart sink. My oldest friend and love was gone. He couldn't keep his promise. I was never able to get close to a boy after that. Sure I could flirt with them endlessly, but I could never get as close to them like I did with Sam. I started to get carried away with my flirting, kind of like with Matt.
*End Flashback Normal POV*
"I guess that's why instead of making an honest effort to get to know Matt I usually just end up acting like an idiot around him." Jun said while wiping a tear from her eye. "I was afraid of losing him like I did Sam if I got close to him."
"I guess Sam meant alot ot both of us." Ken said.
"What do you mean?"
"Well after that I wasn't the same, I started to be like him to give my parents their son back. But it left a darkness inside of me. A darkness that eventually turned me into the Digimon Emperor." Ken started to cringe as many un pleasant memories started to surface, in particular the memory of losing Wormmon. "It cost me everything, even my best friend." He said motioning to Wormmon.
"Cheer up Ken." The little Digimon said. "That's behind us now. What's important is what you're doing now. And you didn't lose me after all."
"You're right, sorry Wormmon all this talk about the past just made me remember what a jerk I was before. I'm ok." He smiled at his digimon partner.
"Now that's what I like to hear, so when's lunch?" Wormmon said with stars in his eyes. Both Jun and Ken sweatdropped.
"Are all digimon always that hungry?" Jun asked.
"You have no idea." Ken said with a chuckle. Just then Matt and Gabumon returned. Gabumon dedigivolved due to a lack of food.
"Hey Jun, you feeling better.?" Matt said as he approached the two humans and one digimon.
"Yeah, much better. I also had to get some things off my chest too." Jun had started to smile again.
"I see. Well Primary Village is just north of here, we should probably get going." Matt said, but Gabumon had other plans.
"Before we do that, hey Wormmon, mind if I have some of that.?"
"Be my guest" All the human's sweatdropped.
"Are they always like this?" Jun asked.
"Nah, sometimes they're even worse, you should see them in the real world." Matt said.
"Yeah, you'd never think a small in-training digimon could have such a big appetite. Rule #1, never come between a digimon and a meal." Ken laughed. Half an hour passed and now that the digimon were full it was time to leave.
Wormmon digivolve to. . .STINGMON!!!
Gabumon digivolve to. . .GARURUMON!!!
"We should stick together this time Ken." Matt said as he hopped on his now larger friend.
"Ok, ready to go Stingmon?"
"I was hatched ready."
"Come on Jun." Matt reached a hand down to help her up. Jun was still a little unsure.
"Don't worry Jun I won't go as fast this time. Promise." Garurumon said as he nudged Jun with the side of his head.
"Ok Lets go." They rode North for about fifteen minutes, they were about a mile from the Primary village when. ..
"Matt, Stop!" Garurumon came to a halt, and Matt turned to face Jun.
"Sick again?"
"No there's a beep on my. . .um. . ."
"Digivice?" Matt knew she was knew at this.
"Yeah what's it mean." She handed the Digivice to Matt who then handed it to Ken.
"A reading. Due east of here." He said as he pointed to the east.
"What is it?" Matt asked.
"Maybe a digiegg like the others found?" Ken suggested.
"Well it's worth a look." Jun said. So the group took off to the east and stopped at the location on the digivice.
"I don't get it there's nothing here." Stingmon said looking around.
"Hey what's this?" Jun asked pointing to where she was standing.
"What's what I don't see anything. . .WHOA!" Matt looked at the ground Jun was standing on. It looked a little off color from the rest of the grass, and the grass formed a pattern. It almost looked like the crest of Reliability, but instead of a cross it was a spiral with the corners of a square on the outside.
"Could it be a crest?" Ken asked looking over the design.
"You got me. WHOA!" Juns digivice started to glowand so did the ground under her. The grass pattern was now glowing with a reddish tone to it.
"It's definitely a crest." Matt said remembering how he and the first 8 had found theirs. A beam of light shot from the pattern and right into Jun's hand, when the light faded a crest was where the light had been in her hand.
"So this is a crest." Jun said with wonder. Suddenly the ground from under her dissapeared. Jun was falling. "Matt, Ken HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!" She screamed as she continued to fall.
"JUN!!!!!!!!" Matt yelled as he reached his hand down, but she had already fallen.
Is Jun alright, what is the meaning behind her crest, and now that she has it where is her digimon?
Auhor's Notes. Okay so I forgot the battles for this part, I thought it would be a better idea to make up a past for Jun, something that shows a good side of her not really seen on the show. Maybe I could even make the readers like her, well at least for this fic anyway. This marks another first for me, my first cliffhangar ending. More to come, and there will be battles in the next part I promise.