Chapter 1
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon or anything associated with it. That honor belongs to Toei Animation, Saban, and Fox. I'm just a fan who needs an outlet, so please don't sue me. I'm just a poor college girl, you won't get much.

Note: This one takes place about a day after Chapter One. And for clarification, this is after the big split, so there are three groups of Digidestined: Tai, Sora, Kari, T.K, and Izzy; Mimi and Joe; and Matt all by himself.

Chapter Two:

Izzy yawned and poked at the fire with a long stick. Izzy hated having the last watch. It meant being woken out of sound sleep and having to sit there pinching himself so he wouldn't go back there. He contemplated poking Tentomon, who was fast asleep beside him, and snoring loudly, but decided against it.
He looked over at the others, sleeping away from the fire. Tai, Sora, Kari, T.K., Agumon, Biyomon, Gatomon, Patamon. They all were fast asleep. Izzy wished he could be asleep.
The sound of a twig snapping roused him out of his sleepy stupor. He grabbed his fire-poking stick and jumped up. He spottrd a shadow behind a rock. "Who's out there?" he demanded. "You come out from behind that rock, or..."
The shadow stood up from behind the rock. In the faint edge of the firelight, Izzy saw a girl, nearly as short as he was. "Oh, don't hurt me," she said. "I just saw your fire and..."
Izzy dropped the stick. "Where did you come from?" he asked.
The girl waved her hand absently. "Out there," she replied. She stopped, as though an idea had suddenly occured to her. "You're one of the digidestined, I just know it! What's your name?"
"Why, I'm Izzy. Who told you about the digidestined?"
"Well, Gennai of course."
"How do you know Gennai?" Izzy asked her.
"Well, he's my father," she answered.
"Well, how can that be?" Izzy asked, perplexed.
"It's a long story, and I don't want to bore you," she said.
"I've got the rest of the night," Izzy stated, heading back toward the fire. "Come on over, sit down and tell me about it....um....what's your name?"
"Annira," she said, stepping fully into the firelight.
Izzy was a little awestruck by the sight of the girl up close. The light of the fire set off the red in her hair, and her blue eyes were almost black in the relative darkness. Izzy just stood there, gawking for a moment, before she went on.
"But I hope you'll call me Anni."
"Anni." Izzy repeated the name. "Anni. Tell me your story, Anni."
"Well," Anni started. "I don't know where it is that I came from. No one knows. But somehow I wound up as a tiny baby in a Koromon Village. The poor Koromon tried their best, but they didn't know what to do with me.
"Then one day, Gennai -- he was younger then -- came by and stopped in the village. They asked him to help them with the baby, because I sure wasn't happy, and I was screaming rather loudly. But when Gennai picked me up, I guess I stopped, and was quiet.
"The Koromon convinced Gennai to take me home, since he was obviously so good with me. And so I went home with Gennai, and he raised me as his own daughter. He may be a little scatterbrained at times, but he's a great dad.
"When Machinedramon destroyed our home, we had to split up. My instructions were to find the digidestined...and that's you.
"The Dark Masters aren't too happy about having me running about. I've already run a stint as Puppetmon's playmate..."
"Puppetmon has been destroyed," Izzy informed her.
"Really? I'd hoped that was true. I mean, when I sent Matt to find you..."
"You've seen Matt?" Izzy asked her.
Anni nodded. "He saved me from Puppetmon once before...And when we heard the fighting... I told him to go and find you, to help you.
"He did," Izzy sighed. "But then he left again."
"I'd hoped he would stay," Anni said wistfully.
"What about you, Anni?" Izzy asked her. "Are you going to stay?"
Anni shook her head. "I'm not sure I can. I know I was supposed to find you, but I've been so much trouble already...No, I can't stay."
"But..."
"Don't argue with me, Izzy, I know what I'm talking about. You can't defeat the Dark Masters if you have to worry about extra baggage like me. I'm leaving and that," she yawned, "is that."
"At least, finish out the night here. Get some sleep," Izzy coaxed her.
"All right," Anni agreed, lying down on the ground and trying to get comfortable.

Kari felt a stirring beside her and woke up. Gatomon had gotten up and wandered over to where Izzy and Tentomon were standing guard.
"Relax, it's only me," she head the cat announce.
Sufficiently awake now, Kari got up and followed Gatomon. "Gatomon, where did you go?" she asked.
"I'm sorry, Kari," Gatomon said. "Did I wake you when I got up?"
Kari didn't notice the figure lying on the other side of the fire until she stirred, opened her eyes, and sat up.
"Hi!" Kari said, as friendly as ever.
"Who's the girl?" Gatomon asked.
"Izzy?" the girl asked shakily.
"Anni, these are some of my friends. This is Kari Kamiya and her partner Gatomon. Guys, this is Anni. She's Gennai's daughter."
"You're away from your family too?" Kari said sympathetically. "Do you miss your dad? I miss my mom and dad a lot."

Kari curled up on the ground. Gatomon was asleep, and Tentomon was still snoring. Anni and Izzy were talking, so Kari just closed her eyes and listened to them talk.
"Are you sure you won't stay?" Izzy asked for the fifteenth time.
"I..." Anni started. "Look at you," she finally said. "You can barely keep your eyes open. Why don't you get some sleep. I'll keep watch, and I'll still be here in the morning."
It got very quiet as Izzy fell asleep, and Anni remained awake, staring into the fire.
Suddenly, Kari heard Anni gasp. Kari opened her eyes and saw Piedmon standing behind Anni with a hand over her mouth.
"Not a word, or I'll kill them all where they sleep, is that understood?" the clown said.
Kari snapped her eyes shut and listened.
"Now listen up. You're ruining my little show here with the Digidestined. If you keep this up, they'll all get back together, and we simply can't have that, now can we?." He paused. "But how best to remove you from the picture? If you just disappear, the computer wizard would band the rest of them together to look for you."
It was quiet for a moment, and then Piedmon snapped his fingers. "Of course. Now you listen to me. You're going to leave the boy a note. You had to leave. It's too dangerous...whatever. Just not a word of anyone making you leave. And then you are going to leave. And never come near these children again."
"And why would I do that?" Anni's voice was quiet, but firm.
"Because if you don't, I'm going to make you watch me destroy these digi-destined one by one, starting with him. And then the little girl over there...and you get the idea. The only reason I don't kill you now is because I don't want to attract any more attention from your father at this point in my little game. You should consider yourself lucky. But don't push that luck. I'm letting you go, but if I ever find you near the digidestined again, I'll make sure you watch me destroy everything you love before I give you your own painful death."
And with that, he was gone.
Kari opened her eyes and saw Anni kneeling down and carefully placing a piece of paper in Izzy's hand, carefully folding his fingers around it. Wiping the tears off her face with one hand, she reached out and brushed a few red hairs off Izzy's forehead, then bent down and kissed him once on the lips. The sleeping boy stirred, but didn't wake.
"Anni?" Kari asked.
"I'm sorry Kari," was all that Anni said, before turning her back on Kari and walking away.

End Chapter Two