Chapter 9:

Names

     Henry helped Impmon over to the others and said, hoping to calm Nabiki, who was panicking, "He's fine. His knee was just knocked out."

     Nabiki sighed in relief. "That's good." She sighed, standing.

     Impmon pushed Henry away and grabbed Nabiki by the front of her shirt and snapped, "What the h*** were you thinkin'?! You coulda been killed out there!"

     Nabiki flinched. "I was…just trying to help…" she said softly.

     "Well, next time, don't! I swear, your more trouble then your worth!" Nabiki looked about ready to cry.

     Everyone was silent. Impmon was the first to brake the silence. "…I…I…um…er…" everyone could tell he was trying to push two words past his ego.

     Nabiki shook her head and said, "I understand…thank you…"

     "Huh? What for?" Impmon was surprised.

     "For apologizing! And for saving me from Sam." She said sweetly, wipping her eyes with the back of her hand. Impmon sighed in relief. She then looked at Guilmon and Renamon and said, "And thank you both too." Renamon and Guilmon nodded.

     "Well! I think that went rather well! Lets go home!" Takato said. Everyone nodded.

     "But…what are we gonna call Impmon? I mean, he IS human now." Nabiki said, tapping her chin. Everyone stopped to think, although Impmon was protesting against changing his name.

     Terriermon suggested Spike, but Impmon was not going to named after a Cowboy Bebop character.

     Takato thought of Purple. Everyone sweat dropped at this and the teen shrugged. "Hey. Its all I could think of!" he said defensively.

     Rika and Renamon weren't about to pertisapate in naming Impmon, so they just watched and made comments about the stupid names everyone came up with.

     Finally, after Henry's 'Taochi' suggestion, Nabiki snapped her fingers. "I've got it!" she said happily.

     "What is it?" everyone asked. Impmon was still not thrilled about the names.

     "Burei!"

     "Burei? What's that mean?" Takato asked.

     "Burei means 'rude and impolite'. Just like Impmon!" she answered.

     "Yep. That's Impmon to the letter." Takato said, getting a glare from the Digimon. "Gomen…"

     "Well? What do you think, Impmon?" she asked.

     Impmon thought for several minutes. "Well," he shrugged. "Its better then your last suggestion."

     Nabiki sweat dropped. "Well! I thought Lina kinda fit you!" she protested.

     "It was a girl's name." Impmon said.

     "So?! You still act like her!"

     "I act nothing like a girl!"

     "You act like she does!"

     "Again, I don't act like a girl!"

     "I didn't say you did!" they did this for an hour while the Tamers watched them with multiple sweat drops. Terriermon whipped out a deck of cards from God-knows-where and that kept everyone, except Nabiki and 'Burei', busy until the two finally ran out of things to fight about.

     "Okay. Lets go home." Nabiki said as Terriermon packed up the cards.

     Once the cards were gathered up, they set off toward the Digital portal.

~~~~~~~~Later…

     Takato, Henry, Rika and Burei looked around. They were right where they needed to be, but there was no portal. The Tamers tried their D-Arcs, but nothing happened. "Oh crud…" Takato muttered.

To be continued…