"JEN!" screamed the yellow fox as he plummeted down, down, down...
I felt a wave of sickness go through my whole body. I had just killed...just killed my...
"And you, what's your name?"
"Kiiroishi Lee!"
"Kiiroishi Lee...isn't your father one of the men working on the Digital Rights project? Jenrya Lee?"
"Yeah, that's my dad!"
My first day of kindergarten, when I had been introducing myself to the teacher...
"Now listen, I want you to clean up your room." dad scolded me.
"But dad..." I protested.
He winked at me. "We'll go get ice cream after you're done. But tell don't mom, okay?"
"Okay!"
I felt myself freeze. I had just killed my own father...
"DAD!" I screamed as the memories came flooding back to me.
I had to do something! Anything! He couldn't die because of me!
The window was open. That was my only chance. I hurtled to it and threw myself out.
I groaned in pain as I forced my eyes open. I needed to be able to see him. He was falling at a very high speed. In just a few seconds, I'd lose my chance. I cleared my brain of anything else except what I needed to do.
Then I closed my eyes and felt myself disappear.
Everyone stood transfixed at the events that had just occurred. Kiiroishi had just attacked Jenrya, causing him to fall out of the Hypnos building to what would be his certain death...but then he had leapt out of the building and teleported the two of them away to somewhere.
Takato was the first to speak, his tone of voice indicating his disbelief.
"I wasn't aware he could teleport..." said the brunette.
Ruki nodded in agreement, and faced Growlmon and Gargomon.
"You two had better go head out to the old hideout until you de-digivolve." she told them. Growlmon began to head off in that direction, but Gargomon stayed behind.
"No, Ruki." he said to the redhead. "I'm not staying behind. We have to find out where Jen is!" he said.
Ruki looked towards the large digimon, and was suddenly reminded of that time he had nearly killed her with his bullets. Nevertheless, she still spoke.
"Yeah, but you're not going to be much help in this form. Too many people are going to notice a huge pants-wearing, gun-toting rabbit!" she told the large digimon.
Gargomon frowned. "I guess you're right." he muttered. "Just try to contact me when you need me."
Ruki frowned. How was she going to do that? Then she got a brilliant idea.
"Gargomon, is there a phone at Jenrya's house?" she asked him. He nodded.
"Look...I'll give you our number, and you call us when you de-digivolve." Ruki drew a small pocketbook out of her front pocket, took out a pen and tore out a page and scribbled something on it, then handed it to Gargomon.
The huge digimon took it. "I'll go head to Jenrya's with Growlmon instead, then." he reported.
Ruki nodded in agreement. "All right."
Ruki fidgeted. She really didn't exactly feel safe with Gargomon....
Gargomon laughed. "Moumontai."
Where was I? Was I still even in Japan? I looked around. I seemed to be in someone's house. Not mine, but this place was very familiar.
Dad was next to me, unconscious and bleeding badly --- probably from having smashed so hard into the glass, and he was also decorated with quite a few burn marks. A new wave of fresh guilt swept through me.
Then I heard a young woman scream. "Brother! Dad, Dad, come quick!"
Her hair was long and a sort of reddish-brown color, with eyes to match.
Of course...I must be at grandpa's. He came rushing out of the door, and picked my dad up. He turned to the woman.
"Shuchion, call the doctor. He's running out of time." he told her.
"I'll go and at least try to get some of this bleeding to stop." he muttered. Then he turned to me, and his eyes widened in suprise, taking in the change in my apperance, then his expression softened.
"You look tired, Kiiroishi. There's a free bedroom upstairs if you'd like to take a nap. Don't worry, you dad will pull through."
I hope he's right, I thought as I trudged upstairs.
Yet, I couldn't shake off the feeling someone was watching me again...