Part 29: Welcome Back!
The kids are now finally home after their adventure in the Digital World. Will they be able to survive life threatening hugs from their families... lol
Shin had just arrived at the Police Station and was talking with his
brother, introducing his girlfriend to him. They had also noticed
that the sky had lightened up
again and it didn't look too dark out.
"Hey, look," Mrs. Yagami pointed.
A gate was opening in front of everyone. They all ran outside
to see what the commotion was. A big bright light shined around the
area. When the light cleared, all
of the kids were back home in Odaiba...
"Aina, Aina," Aina's parents called out to her, strangling her with hugs, happy to see their only daughter safe and sound.
"Are you okay!" her mother asked, squeezing her even tighter.
"I'm okay," Aina said in a muffled voice from the hugs. "Really,
I'm okay."
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"Eiji-chan!" Mrs. Akihabara called out as she started hugging her daughter.
"I am so glad that you are back!"
"So am I, mom," the girl said, hugging her mother back.
The woman then stopped hugging Eiji and gave her a look.
"Don't ever leave me like that again!" she scolded.
"Mom, it wasn't my fault! I was just, taken..." the girl said,
explaining the entire story to her.
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Malissa saw Jou and ran up to him, practically squeezing him to death
from the big hug she was giving him.
"Malissa?" Jou questioned, surprised by the girl's show of affection.
"I'm so glad that you're all right," the girl said in English. "I was so worried about you!"
Whenever Malissa worried, she normally started to speak English. Jou was the only one who knew that about her.
"You were worried about me?" Jou asked in surprise, responding back in English. "I thought I'd never hear anyone say that."
"Of course I was, you're my friend!" .
"Sorry I missed dinner," Jou apologized.
"That's all you're worried about!" the girl asked in disbelief. "Jou, having you back is much more important than some old dinner!"
"Yo, bro," a voice called out.
"We thought you were never going to get back," another voice chimed in.
Jou looked over to see who had addressed him.
"Shin-niisan, Shuu-niisan? What are you two doing here?" he asked. "Shuu-niisan, you are supposed to be in Kyoto and Shin-niisan, you're supposed to be in Kaibara! Both places are far off."
"You thought we wouldn't come to see what was going on with you?" Shin asked, surprised Jou would think that they wouldn't show up. "We were worried about you."
"How cold do you think we are?" Shuu laughed.
"I'm just kidding guys," Jou said.
"Wow, this must be Jou-kun," a woman smiled. "He's kind of cute," she said, hugging on Shin, "just like his brother."
"This is Kitsune," Shin blushed.
"Pleased to meet you," Jou politely responded.
"Shin has told me a lot about you and Shuu-san, now I finally get to meet you."
"Wait," Jou said, remembering his schoolwork, "Malissa, do you have my research from the library?"
"That's our brother," Shuu laughed. "Always studying and worrying about school work."
All of the families glomped their children happily. Reporters then fled to the scene to get statements and interviews, but to nobody's surprise, no one believed them. While all of this was going on, Daisuke had isolated himself from the group and his family and started to walk home. Hikari was talking with Takeru and his mother, who gave Takeru his hat back, until she noticed Daisuke gloomily wandering off.
"Will you excuse me," Hikari said.
"Where are you going?" Takeru asked.
The girl pointed towards Daisuke.
"Remember I said I was going to figure out what was bothering him since I hate to see him upset?"
"Oh yeah, you did say that."
"Well, I'm going to find out what's wrong."
"Is something wrong with Daisuke-kun?" Ms. Takaishi asked. "I notice he hasn't been coming over as much lately."
"It's kind of hard to notice these things when you're never home," Takeru muttered under his breath.
"Did you say something Takeru?" Ms. Takaishi asked.
"No, sorry," Takeru said quickly.
"Well, erm, I'll be right back," Hikari said, feeling a bit uneasy due to the tension.
Hikari ran off to catch up with Daisuke...
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"I was so worried about you!" Mrs. Izumi said as she hugged
Koushirou tightly.
"Let's not suffocate him now," Mr. Izumi laughed.
Koushirou wasn't himself, he just shrugged as his mother hugged him.
"Are you feeling all right?" Mrs. Izumi asked, letting go of him.
Koushirou glanced over at Miyako who was talking with Ken. He then turned back to his parents.
"I couldn't be better," Koushirou said in a forced tone of happiness. "I just want to go home. I'm tired."
The young boy was not only thinking about Miyako, but also about that story about the deceased Chosen Child. He had so many questions that he himself couldn't answer. He was also thinking about Mimi and how she was so nice to him. He had almost forgotten what it was like to hang around her. He smiled to himself and for some reason, he couldn't wait to get home to send her a message and to figure out the gate thing so that he could see her again...
"If you say so," Mr. Izumi said. "Let's go home, son."
Koushirou walked away with his parents, not too upset over the
fact that Ken and Miyako were hitting it off, and they caught a taxi home...
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Miyako and Ken were off by themselves talking with one another.
Their families were waiting around for them though. They both had
finally admitted to one another about how they truly felt.
"You mean you like me?" Ken asked in surprise.
"Yeah," Miyako bashfully nodded.
"But what about Izumi? I thought you liked him. Well, I always thought you did since you always hanged around with him."
"He took too long," Miyako said with a sigh. "I waited, and waited,
and waited, but he never noticed and always treated me like a friend or
like the younger sister he never had," she frowned. "He never showed
he had any interest in me other than a friendship. I admit I was
drawn to him, but my crush on him wore off. Even now he still
sees me as a friend."
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RP: His loss, he should've been more obvious about it. :~p
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"So, do you want to go out some time?" Ken asked, turning a bit red
in the face from nervousness.
"I would love to."
"How about sometime this weekend?"
"Sure!"
The girl noticed her folks urging her to leave. They had finally finished talking with the reporters.
"It looks like I have to go and you have a long way to go to get back home," Miyako said.
"All right, see you tomorrow in school," Ken said. "That is if we aren't too busy," he said with a laugh.
The girl nodded and gave Ken a quick hug and a kiss on the cheek and
ran off towards her folks who took off in a taxi along with Mrs. Hida.
Iori said he was going to go home with Takeru and Ms. Takaishi since he
wanted to tell Eiji "good bye."
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"Daisuke-kun! Hey, Daisuke-kun," Hikari called.
Daisuke looked back to see Hikari running towards him, but he didn't bother to stop walking, at first, but he knew that would've been rude so he stopped.
"Hey, where are you running off to?" Hikari asked, trying to catch her breath. "Your place is kind of far off from here to be walking."
Daisuke shrugged and stuffed his hands into his pockets.
"Isn't it pretty out tonight?" Hikari asked trying to make conversation.
He shrugged again and muttered, "I guess so."
"Daisuke-kun, is something bothering you?"
"Why would you care?" Daisuke unintentionally snapped at her.
Hikari stared at her friend in surprise. She wasn't expecting him to speak so harshly to her.
"I'm-I'm sorry..." the girl apologized.
She got quiet for a while, still staring at the sour Daisuke. She then finally spoke up.
"Do you...hate me, Daisuke-kun?" Hikari asked slowly.
The boy looked at her in surprise and didn't say anything.
"Well, do you?"
"No, I don't hate you," he stated plainly. "I don't hate anybody."
"Then why have you been so mean to me lately? You avoid me constantly and you don't talk with me after our home games. It's almost like I don't exist to you anymore!"
"It's nothing, really," the boy said. "Why not go and talk to TGIF. You would probably rather be doing that anyway."
Hikari was surprised that Daisuke had messed up Takeru's name. It had been years since he'd purposely done that.
"I'm not worried about Takeru-kun, I'm worried about you," Hikari told him. "Takeru-kun is not isolating himself from me or anyone else like you are! I want to know what's wrong!"
"Why?" Daisuke asked plainly.
"Because you are my friend and I hate to see any of my friends upset!" Hikari said, surprised at how stubborn Daisuke was being.
The boy sighed.
"Wouldn't you rather be with Takeru right now?" Daisuke asked, trying his best to avoid the subject.
"Will you leave him out of this! I'm hanging out with him later on to go catch an early movie, but I don't think I'm going to g--"
"Well, you better hurry up and join him," Daisuke replied sarcasticly, interrupting her.
Hikari felt like crying. Seeing Daisuke like this was quite painful to her. "Why are you acting like this!?!"
"If you can't figure it out by now then why should I tell you!"
The girl shrugged and shook her head. She had no idea what the boy was talking about.
"When's the last time we've gone to a movie together, just the two of us!?! When was the last time you've come to one of my games and cheered for me!?! When's the last time you've talked to me without Takeru around!?! Do you know Hikari-chan? Can you actually remember that far back!?!"
The girl finally figured out what was bothering the young dark-haired boy. Since Takeru had been around, she'd been inadvertently ignoring him.
"I'm...I'm sorry. I had no idea."
"Well, now you do," he sighed. "Now if you'll excuse me..."
The boy started to walk off again, but Hikari stopped him by holding the taller boy's right shoulder.
"Daisuke-kun, wait. I didn't mean to ignore you. I didn't even realize that I was."
"It's not your fault," Daisuke said. "You have TI to hang out with."
"I know you hate Takeru-kun, but--"
"You don't even know me anymore!" Daisuke interrupted, scoffing at her comment. "If you did, you'd know that I don't hate anyone!! Never have, never will, Takeru included. He's a great friend."
"I guess we have grown apart," Hikari said, staring down at the ground.
"I guess we have," Daisuke responded quietly.
"And it's all my fault," the girl said sadly.
The boy felt kind of bad. He wanted Hikari to feel bad for what she had done and he just knew that he would enjoy that, but for some odd reason, he wasn't.
"Look, no sweat Hikari-chan," Daisuke said in a semi cheery manner. "Don't be so hard on yourself."
"But it's true!" Hikari said. "It is my fault! I can't believe I could be so...so...so heartless!"
"Whoa," Daisuke said, waving his hands around. "Heartless is something that you are definitely not! You care about everybody. You always put others before yourself and all that other good stuff."
"I guess we should really catch up."
"I guess so."
"Okay, so how about this; Saturday, you and I hang out, no one else around," Hikari suggested. "Just the two of us, starting with the Tennis match of Sora-san and then ending with the show being performed by the Teen-Age Wolves. I hope Yamato-san and the band gets discovered. They have been practicing a lot."
The boy nodded. Even if the two weren't together as a couple, having her around as a friend was just as good. To be honest, that's what had been really bothering him, not because he could never get her to be his girlfriend. Sure it bugged him that Takeru probably had a better chance, but not as much as her ignoring him.
"Good, and to make the day even more special, we'll make it our own official day!" the girl exclaimed. "Every year on the 12th of this particular month, it's going to be the Friendship Day of Daisuke & Hikari! With this day, we will never take our friendship for granted again."
"Sure, I would like that," Daisuke said.
"Now, won't you come back with your family now?" Hikari asked, smiling sweetly like she always does. "I'm sure they would worry about you."
"I guess you're right. I really shouldn't worry them more than what I already have. My sister was even worried about me."
"Yes, I saw her. She hugged you more than your parents did."
"Only because she got to me first," Daisuke laughed.
The two started to head back.
"Thank you, Hikari-chan."
"For what?"
"For being a great friend!" the boy responded in his usual cheery manner.
The girl smiled. She was happy that Daisuke was back to his usual
cheery self...
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All of the other families were now heading home, or had already headed
home, with their kids. Ken took the subway back with his parents
to Tamachi and Shin and Shuu stayed at their old place along with Kitsune.
Malissa stayed over too and all of them got along very well. She
just left a message with her folks saying she was staying over at a friend's
house.
Eiji promised to call Iori when she got home and that was a phone call Iori was looking forward too. He felt that it was amazing that one trip to the Digital World could change him so much. His crush on Miyako seemed to vanish completely and he was now getting a crush on Eiji.
Koushirou was at home trying to figure out how to open a gate to the
Digital World. He had figured it out for himself, but now he was
trying to figure it out for Mimi. He then noticed on his computer,
which had a map of Mimi's area in America up, that there were two possible
spots he could use to open a gate up for her. He smiled ecstatically
as he figured all of this out. It was right at Mimi's house.
He then thought for a moment. Why bother when she could just use
the computer. She had a desktop and a *Pineapple Laptop like him.
She could use her laptop to go too and from the Digital World, all he had
to do was send the coordinates to her. He praised himself as he sent
her the information through e-mail.
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Gomamon: Everyone else was pretty much sleeping at this time.
Koushirou's the exception.
Tentomon: And Minus us Digimon that is.
Betamon: Quiet you two. Save that for the next part.
Palmon: (Groans) You mean there's more to this story?
Betamon: Yep, sure is.
Tailmon: Never a moment's rest I tell you!
Agumon: What more can she talk about?
Patamon: I don't know, but we're going to find out in the next part.
Gabumon: So keep on reading folks!
Hawkmon: The final part of this story is coming up next!
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Note 1: This is just a comment on the laptop thing. If you look at ep 40 of 02, Mimi has a pink Pineapple Laptop and she's the only other Chosen that seemed to have her own personal laptop, not counting Koushirou.
Koushirou and Mimi are also the only two out of the Chosen Children, for the original, that had their instrumental themes played for them: Digital Scratch~Koushirou no Theme~ and Sweet Innocent~Mimi no Theme~. Since it's been such a good while since I've seen it, I don't remember if it was the first version or the second version for Koushirou, I'm pretty sure it was the first version of Digital Scratch. For 01, I noticed that they only played the second version whenever Koushirou was doing something illegal with his computer. You know, like hacking into hospital databases. :~p For Mimi, it was the first version, which is a lot slower than the second version.
None of the other Chosens had theirs played during all of those world tour eps, which surprised me. I was wondering if there was going to be a pattern with the playing of the older Chosen Children's themes for each world tour ep that they were in, but it wasn't.
I know, all of that info is irrelevant, but I just thought I'd point it out anyway. ^^