"The Detectives Kamiya: Destined for Love," written by Freedom Fighter
Summary: Chief Matt Ishida has always been popular with the ladies. But as for the one he just met... well, she's quite the nutcase! She's so bent on getting him to marry her that she locks him in her basement! Tai and Kari try to rescue him... but will they have problems getting past her equally love-struck younger brother?
Two more Digidestined and one new Digimon makes its appearance in this third mini-series, pushing the total number of characters from the show who have appeared in this fic to 23. I think we've already gotten to the point where you're probably asking who has yet to make an appearance.
Anyway, you lucky fans will be the first to see a few new formatting changes that I'm doing for all of my fanfics over the next few weeks. Hope you enjoy it!
Let's get started with this new story!
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this fanfic.
Rating: R, contains profane language, violence, and implied sexual situations. Do not read this if you are too young or you are against reading fanfics that contain this type of stuff.
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Tokyo, Japan
"Stop! You Digimon thief!"
A small blue Digimon runs out of a bakery with a partially eaten loaf of bread in hand. A man with a chef's hat appears and tries to throw something at the Digimon to stop it. But the little creature is fast enough to elude capture, as he ducks into a nearby alley and through a secret passageway under the street that he used a lot in situations like this one.
The passageway is just big enough for him to squeeze through, though it seemed to be getting harder and harder these days because he had been gaining some weight lately.
"I better remember to start on my diet again tomorrow," the Digimon thought to himself.
Eventually, he reaches the end and is back above ground. He makes his way through the back alleys, which twist and turn all over the place. Unknown to him, the shadow of a feline follows him from a distance.
The Digimon turns a corner and finally reunites with his human partner... a 19 year old young man with brown hair just as tall and messy as Tai's was. He too is wearing a pair of goggles... an old pair of airplane ones, but nevertheless, they still fit snugly around his head. The man is wearing a gray short sleeve shirt and a pair of brown shorts, along with a pair of soccer shoes on his feet.
"Here you go, Davish!" the young Digimon squeals, handing what was left of the loaf of bread to the young man... which wasn't much.
"You could've left me some," Davis moaned, before brightening up. "At least my plan's working, Demiveemon."
Demiveemon, the Digimon, then gulps in fear before bracing for impact. Sure enough, Gatomon appears out of nowhere and pounces on him, sending both Digimon to the ground.
"Stealing crumbs again, Demiveemon?"
"Heh heh... come on Gatomon! Cut me a break once in awhile!"
As Gatomon continued to pin Demiveemon to the ground, Davis turns to sneak away, only to come face-to-face with 19 year old Kari Kamiya, in her police uniform.
"Kari!"
"Again, Davis? I was hoping that it would've been a real crook for once."
Kari pulls out a pair of handcuffs and points to the nearest wall. Davis knew what this meant. He was to walk up to the wall and stand right in front of it. He would raise his arms, Kari would search him for weapons and any other stolen goods, and then she'd pull his arms down to handcuff them.
And sure enough, the second Davis was against the wall, Kari started sliding her hands along the sides of his body to do her mandatory search.
"That's the third time this week," she commented as her hands wandered down from Davis's armpits to the side pockets of his shorts.
"Yeah," Davis began, "but I've also escaped you three times this week, too. So we're pretty even."
Kari yanks Davis's left arm down, causing him to let out a yelp of surprise. She obviously wasn't impressed with his joke. "Why are you stealing food anyway? I thought you made more than enough money with that noodle cart I see you wheeling around the business district everyday."
Davis didn't want Kari to catch onto his ploy, so he lied. "I make some money, but not enough to live off of."
Kari sighed and shook her head as she pulled his right arm down to handcuff his right wrist. "At this rate, you won't have any money at all, seeing as your sister is always bailing you out."
Kari pulls Davis by the arms, away from the wall and out of the alley. Without looking, Kari knew that Gatomon was following behind her, with her smaller set of handcuffs around Demiveemon's wrists.
At the end of the alley, Tai and Agumon pull up in a squad car and get out. Tai is also dressed in his police uniform. They both groan with disappointment when they see who Kari and Gatomon have with them.
"Them again?" Tai asked.
"I'm tired of arresting them!" Agumon exclaimed.
"Me too," Kari admitted. "Seems that Davis here has yet to learn his lesson."
Tai opens the back door and helps Kari and Gatomon get Davis and Demiveemon inside. Agumon then jumps in the back seat with them, to act as a guard. Tai heads for the driver's seat, while Kari hops in the passenger's side and Gatomon hops onto her lap.
The squad car then pulls away from the alley entrance and heads off towards the station.
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Episode 7 - "Destined for Love, Part 1" (06.06.02)
Once the group enters the police station, Agumon and Gatomon immediately head off to do some more training. Kari holds Davis at his wrists as they walk up to the front desk with Tai next to her and the handcuffed Demiveemon in front of him. As usual, Derek is waiting for them.
"This guy again?" he askes the duo, recognizing Davis.
"Yeah," Kari sighs, before pulling Davis away towards the jail cell area. "He's too stubborn to stay out of trouble, I'm afraid."
Demiveemon follows them without any objections. Tai waits at the front desk as Derek reaches behind him and pulls out a small form for him to fill out.
"I'll go get their file from the back," Derek told Tai, getting up.
"And I guess I'll fill this out and then go call his sister," Tai responded, taking the form from Derek.
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Kari led Davis and Demiveemon to the back of the station, where a small set of jail cells were set up. They were designed to hold criminals for minor offenses. Davis and Demiveemon were already used to the place, even if this was already their third time being here.
A small Hawkmon was currently on guard there. As soon as he sees Kari coming, he grabs one of the keys off of the rack behind him and flies to the cell door that the key opened. It was the second one closest to him.
"In here!" Hawkmon shouted, as Kari arrives at the desk, looking for him.
"Oh," Kari muttered before leading Davis and Demiveemon to the open cell. Once in front of the cell, Kari pulls out the keys to her handcuffs and unlocks them from Davis's wrists.
"I'm glad to get those off!" Davis exclaimed as Kari lightly pushed him into the cell. "So, what're you guys serving for dinner?"
"Knock it off, Davis! You're lucky that we didn't take you to the city jail. This is your third offense, after all."
"Third offense?" Hawkmon looked up at Kari with interest. "This is the third time they've been here?"
"Yes, and I'm getting tired of it."
"Shit, she's getting tired of it!" Davis cursed under his breath. "I'm just lucky that this is the last time I need to do this for Jun. Then I can go back to flirting with her the old-fashioned way."
Kari then glances down at Demiveemon, remembering that Gatomon had handcuffed him.
"I forgot that Gatomon has the keys to that set."
Kari reaches up into her hair to pull a hairpin out, but Hawkmon beats her to it... by pulling the feather off of his headband and sticking the thin end into the keyhole of the handcuffs. In seconds, the handcuffs become unlocked. Hawkmon takes them off and pushes Demiveemon inside the cell.
"Hey!" Demiveemon shouts. "Watch it!"
"That feather sure comes in handy," Kari noted as Hawkmon closed and locked the cell door before finally putting his feather back on his headband.
"I always tell my friends that," Hawkmon began, "but they never listen to me."
"I think you'll fit in fine here."
Hawkmon takes a seat back at his desk and waves goodbye to Kari, who walks back into the main part of the station to head back to her office.
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As Kari reaches for the doorknob to her office door, she spots Tai still at the front desk, filling out paperwork. She enters the office, trying to get some work down of her own. There were a few case files on her desk that needed to be taken care of.
Sitting down at her desk, she grabs one of the folders and opens it. She then turns to her computer, spotting the pink Hello Kitty screensaver on her screen.
"Bye Kitty," she says as she reaches for the mouse and shakes it, making the screensaver disappear and her desktop appear. She then clicks on the icon for her word processor. It opens to a blank document. On the first line, she types the case number, as it appears on the top of the first sheet in the folder.
"#104080199DA02 - file started on April 24, 2002," she said aloud as it appeared on the screen.
Kari then turns her attention in full back to the folder, as she begins reading the details of the case. At first, her eyes dart from one side to the other, quickly scanning the document. But as she continues to read, her eye speed slows down and the smile on her face turns into a frown.
"This case... it's repeating exactly what happened ten years ago!"
Suddenly, Kari's mind began to flood with memories of her mother's murder. She then tries to process the information she just read on the paper.
"Could it be just a coincidence?" she asked herself frightfully. "Or is there a connection?"
Unable to bear the thought of remembering that dark day, Kari closes the file and quickly tosses it on the floor. It slides until it's right in front of the door. And at that very moment, Tai opens the door and enters.
"I called Jun and she should be here to pick up Davis and Demiveemon in half an hour," he told her, pointing back out the door. "I swear, that kid needs to learn to stay out of the trouble." Tai then sighs in relief. "What makes matters worse is that he looks almost like me."
Kari gets up out of her seat and walks towards Tai.
"Kari, that was a joke. You were supposed to laugh. It's true! Just look at him!"
Only now does Tai notice the folder on the floor. He bends down to pick it up, as Kari walks past him. He opens it to read the contents. But after a minute or two, he too feels reminisicent of his mother's death.
"Kari..."
He turns around to talk to Kari about it, but she's already left the room.
"Poor girl. It might've reminded her about how gruesomely our mom died." He then began to look over that top page again. "But now I see why. The similiarities are unbelievable! It's like whoever did this either knew or modeled off of our mom's murder. But how?"
Tai walked over to his desk and pulls out his chair from under it. He sits down on it as he flips through page after page in the folder, scanning everything in it.
"The gang wars... the fighting... the running away... the errant gunshot... it's all the same! Only this time, there were a lot more witnesses. Not to mention that the police caught everyone involved except for the gunman himself."
Tai reached the last few pages, which were a few pictures of the murder scene itself. But they were all of locations where blood had either been left by the victim's body or by the suspects themselves.
"I wonder where the pictures of the victim are," Tai thought aloud.
"They're right here."
Tai yelps in surprise and nearly falls out of his seat as he notices who had entered the room so quietly. It was Derek, standing at attention right in front of his desk.
"Don't scare me like that!" Tai exclaimed. "And stop standing there as if I'm your superior, because I'm not!"
"You are ranked higher than I am," Derek remarked as he relaxed and produced four photographs from his left shirt pocket. "We just got these from the main station. They're pictures of the victim of that shooting mentioned in that folder of yours."
"Gimme those!" Tai shouted as he snatched the pictures from Derek. He began looking at them, one by one. But once again, the photos were anything but pretty.
"Pretty gruesome, huh?" Derek asked, as if he was reading Tai's mind.
"Despite how similar this seems to how my mother was murdered ten years ago, this woman looks like she was shot more than just once."
Derek nods solemnly. "I'm not sure of the exact number, but it was at least half a dozen. Probably more. We won't know for sure until we get an official report from the morgue."
"But that means that the bullets that hit her weren't all from one person."
"A lot of witnesses say that she stepped right into the crossfire. Most of the shots came from the one guy that's still loose, but we've had reports that several people saw someone from the opposite gang fire a shot or two at her. Though none of the five that were arrested last night will admit to what truly happen."
After a brief moment of silence, Tai pulls open one of his desk drawers and takes out an old picture of his parents, himself, and Kari from a long time ago. They were standing in front of Tokyo Tower, as a number of other tourists can be seen in the background. Tai smiles as he slowly places the photo on his desk and then slides it towards Derek so he can see it. Derek turns the picture so he can see it rightside up, then picks it up to examine it.
"The woman in this picture is your mom?"
Tai nods. "This was the last picture we had together as a family. It was about two months before she was killed... in a similar manner as the woman in this case."
"But you two were just kids back then, right?"
"This was ten years ago. I was twelve at the time. Kari had just turned nine. It was part of our 'day out on the town' vacation that year."
"Wow. No wonder you and Kari seemed so upset over this case."
Derek slowly hands the picture back to Tai, who calmly takes it and returns it to the drawer. Tai closes the drawer and then gets out of his seat. He motions as if he's about to walk out the door.
"Where are you going?" Derek asked curiously. "You're not off until seven, right?"
"I'd better find Kari before she relapses. Anytime she's reminded of our mother's murder, there's one place she always goes to to calm her nerves."
"Where's that?"
Tai opens the door to his office and walks out, not answering Derek's question.
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As Tai exits the station, he looks around the parking lot for his Toyota Camry. When he can't find it, he realizes the obvious.
"Kari took the car," he sighs. He then pulls out his keyring and looks for the key for the squad car he and Kari usually use. He heads for the side of the building, where all of the squad cars are parked. "I really need to buy her a car before she gets her full license next week."
Tai gets into the squad car, starts it, and drives off. As the car disappears from sight, another pulls into the parking lot. This one is a brown Mazda 626. The driver pulls into a parking spot and turns off the engine. Inside the car, a woman applies the finishing touches to her makeup. The last thing she does is take out some cherry red lipstick and apply it to her lips. She then smiles evilly as she focuses the rear mirror so that her eyes are now visible.
"Today, Matt Ishida will become the personal property of one Jun Motimiya!"
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Inside the office of Chief Detective Matt Ishida, he is hard at work completing a very important assignment.
"Ishida on the 18th green," he says to himself, barely loud enough to hear. "He needs to make this putt to win the tournament."
Matt sweats profusely as he holds the putter he has in hand just to the side of a golf ball that was lying perfectly still on the carpet. About ten feet away was a styrofoam cup, with the open end facing Matt.
"Ishida takes a few practice swings to make sure he uses the right amount of force," he states as he simultaneously does it. "He looks like he's ready, as the putter is now behind the ball. This is for all the marbles."
Matt pulls the putter back slightly and then brings it back, connecting with the ball. The ball rolls towards the cup... and stops a few inches short.
"The hell?" Matt blinks in disbelief as he walks over and picks the ball up from the carpet floor. He starts yelling at it. "I hit you just right this time! Why didn't you go into the stupid cup?"
Just then, someone knocks on the door. Matt tosses his putter aside and straightens his uniform up.
"You can come in."
The door opens suddenly as 24 year old Jun Motimiya runs in and immediately clamps Matt in a big hug.
"Matt, it's me! You remember my name, right?"
"Jun Motimiya, Davis's big sister."
"That's right! You're as intelligent as I remember!"
"Jun, why are you in here? You know your supposed to stop at the front desk to pay for your brother's bail."
"Did you forget, silly? Tonight's our date!"
"Wha?" he asked in surprise as he gave Jun the once over. She was wearing a form fitting red dress with matching high heels. She also had a brown purse with her. The outfit didn't really look good on Jun, but she didn't seem to mind.
"Check your calendar! You said you wrote it down!"
Matt runs to his desk and looks at his calendar.
"Last night, the 24th, I had a date with Mai. Tomorrow, the 26th, I'm supposed to go out with Musashi. But today, the 25th... I don't have you on my schedule."
"That's okay," Jun said happily, reaching into her purse and pulling out her own personal planner. "It's right here!"
Matt looks at the planner, which is open to today's date. In the center of the page, written in red ink and circled with blue ink, are the words 'Date with Matt Ishida, 6 p.m.'
"Let's get my brother and get to my house! I've got a scrumptious dinner ready for you to eat!"
"I'm still on duty until eight..."
"So? You're the chief! You're allowed to excuse yourself once in awhile!"
"That's not the point! I'm not dressed for the occasion!"
"Your uniform's fine. Besides, we're going to my house, not a fancy restaurant!"
Jun drags Matt out of the room and towards the front of the station, where her brother Davis is filling out paperwork.
"Jun, this needs your signature."
"Sure thing, little bro!"
Jun grabs the pen from Davis and signs his release form.
"There! All done! Can we go now?"
"What about Demiveemon?"
"Huh? Oh, your Digimon."
Jun reaches into her purse and plops 300 yen onto the desk.
"That should take care of it!"
"You still have to fill out his paperwork too."
"You mean you haven't done it yet? I swear Davis, sometimes you're so slow."
"You're supposed to be filling it out anyway, not me!"
"He's right, you know."
Davis turns to Matt, who was still in the clutches of Jun's arms.
"But I can't let go of you for one single second! Otherwise, I risk the chance of another woman walking in and pulling you away from me!"
"God forbid," Matt muttered under his breath.
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Meanwhile, four blocks away at the South Odaiba Firing Range, Tai walks up to the front desk, where the clerk shakes nervously while looking at him.
"What's up with you?"
"That woman in there's scaring off all of my customers! She asked for a small handgun and at least a hundred and fifty bullets. She's firing like crazy!"
"Gee. I didn't think she'd need that much relief."
"She's a cop, right? Your partner, I take it."
"Not only my partner... she's my little sister."
This made the clerk even more scared. "What you do to her, pal? Force her to break up with her boyfriend?"
"I wish it were only that simple." He then turns the clerk. "I'll handle this. Don't let anyway in until we come out."
"Anything to get that crazy chick out of here!"
Tai starts to walk towards the firing range, but the clerk whistles at him. Tai turns and sees that he has a pair of large headphones. He tosses it over to him.
"You're going to need it," he told him with an uneasy smile.
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Tai enters the firing range area, putting on his headphones as soon as he hears the sound of a gun firing off continuously filling the air. About halfway down, he sees Kari, with some protective goggles over her eyes, in the process of firing at a stationary target about twenty-five feet away. After a few seconds, the gun begins to click empty. Kari opens the barrel and reaches into a box on the windowsill in front of her to reload.
"Kari!" Tai shouted.
"What is it?" Kari yelled back as she continued to load her gun.
"I know you're upset, but firing off a handgun like a madman isn't going to get you anywhere!"
Kari finishes loading the gun. She closes the barrel and pulls back the hammer to load it.
"Maybe not, but it'll bring some peace to my mind!"
She then turns and aims at the target once again and opens fire. She continues to fire until she uses up all of the bullets in her gun. After ten shots, the gun clicks to signify that it's empty.
"You're scaring all of the customers away!"
"As if I care!"
Kari then proceeds to open the barrel and reload her gun again. Tai runs over and grabs her hand to stop her before she can finish.
"I know that you miss mom alot, but there's nothing you can do about it now."
"I understand, but sometimes I feel... well, I feel like I could've done something about it."
"Like what? That was ten years ago! We were both still in grade school."
"Every time you say that, Tai... it doesn't feel as if it's a good enough excuse."
"Kari..."
"Dad could've done something. You could've done something. I... I..."
Kari then falls to her knees, as tears begin to fall from her eyes. Tai kneels down and grabs her by the shoulders.
"I agree with you. Maybe we could've done something. What that something is, well, I'm not sure. But we can't dwell on it every time we come across a case that seems eerily similar."
Kari continues to cry as she looks at the hand that her gun is in. She then slowly reaches down and places it on the ground. She then looks at it, wiping a tear from her eye as she does.
"I just wish that we could get back at the guy that fired the shot."
"I do too. But we agreed that revenge wasn't the answer. That's why we didn't want to be issued guns when we became detectives. Remember?"
"I know. Tai... it just hurts so much."
"We've got to be strong. One day, we'll find the guy and he'll get what's coming to him. In the meantime, you have to get over the fact that shooting him isn't going to bring our mother back."
"I know it won't, but sometimes my conscious tells me that I should do it anyway."
Tai smiles as he pulls the headphones away from Kari's ears and off of her head.
"You've fought the urge for a decade, Kari. You have to find the strength to continue to fight it. It won't go away until we bring the guy to justice, but you'll have to bear it."
"But can I?"
"I'm going through the same thing, too. We'll get through it together, no matter how long it takes!"
Kari reaches up and dries her eyes with the back of her hands. "Thank you, Tai."
She then wraps her arms around Tai's back and sobs into his shirt. Tai calmly rubs her back as her sister begins to cry.
"It's alright. Just let it all out. I'm here with you now."
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About half an hour later, the car holding Jun, Matt, Davis, and Demiveemon pulls up to the driveway of the Motimiya's house. It's a quaint little two- story brick house located in the suburbs of the city.
"Can we talk about this?" Matt asked Jun as she pulled him out of the car. "Why don't we just reschedule for a day when I don't feel so awkward about this?"
"Nonsense!" she exclaimed happily. "This is fine!"
The group starts to walk towards the front door, when Jun suddenly stops.
"I just remembered that we need a bottle of wine!"
"We don't need any," Matt protested.
"What's a romantic dinner without wine? We need it!" Jun then turns to her little brother. "Davis, would you please show Matt to the wine cellar?"
"Got it, sis!"
Davis started dragging Matt to the backyard. Jun whispers something to Demiveemon.
"Make sure Davis doesn't mess up."
Demiveemon nods and follows the duo to the cellar. Jun then rejoices with glee by jumping up and down.
"I've got him! I've got him! He'll have to marry me for sure! That's for sure!"
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In the backyard, Davis, Demiveemon, and Matt have arrived at the entrance to the cellar. A padlock is attached to the door. Davis finds the key in his pocket and unlocks the entrance. He then opens one of the doors and walks into the cellar.
"Watch your step!" Davis yells back as Matt reluctantly follows him down. The stairs into the cellar weren't that long, as after a few steps they both reached the bottom. Davis brushes his hands against the wall until he finds the switch to turn the lights on.
"Which one does she want?" Matt asked Davis.
"I think for romantic dinners, she goes for the 'Juan Don Perrier' wine. You go look for it that way, and I'll look for it on this side."
Davis points Matt towards the back of the cellar. Davis then walks off towards the far end. That is, before quickly turning around and waiting for Matt to get out of sight. Davis then quietly sneaks back up the stairs and out of the cellar.
"Davis..." Matt shouted. "I think I found it."
Matt walks back towards the aisle he had just came from. As he does, he can spot the cellar door beginning to close.
"Where are you going?" Matt yelled, beginning to run with the bottle of wine in hand. "I'm still down here!"
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Outside, Davis and Demiveemon close the cellar door. Demiveemon quickly puts the padlock backs in place and closes it, locking the entrance shut. As the two step back, the doors start bouncing up and down, as the sound of Matt banging on them can be heard.
"We got 'em Davish!" Demiveemon shouted excitedly.
"Let me out of here!" he shouted.
"Sorry Matt, but my sister doesn't want you going anywhere! You're stuck down there until she wants to let you out!"
"And when would that be, wiseguys? When I starve to death?"
"Oh, it's easy. Just agree to marry her."
"Marry her? What the..."
"If you don't want to, that's your loss. You'll be down there until you say yes."
"This is the first date and she already wants to marry me?"
"Yep. She's that attracted to you. Too bad I don't see what she sees in you."
"Tell that sister of yours that I'm not going to be forced to marry anyone. Especially her!"
"Your loss, buddy. Let's go, Demiveemon."
Demiveemon and Davis walk back towards the front door, leaving Matt stuck.
"Let me out! I order you to let me out!"
Matt continues to bang on the cellar door, but to no avail. He finally gives up and slumps down to the bottom of the steps. He sits there, wondering what to do now.
Next Episode Preview: Narrated by Kari...
In order to keep Davis from having Demiveemon robbing stores everyday, I've decided to spend the day with him to straighten him out. No, it's not a date. Don't lie! I know all of you out there were thinking that! I don't love him! I'm just concerned about him, okay? In the meantime, let's talk about someone who actually had a date. Matt and Davis's big sister, Jun. I wonder how that went. And how come Matt didn't show up for work today? I thought he had already spent up all of his vacation time this year.
Our next episode is "Destined for Love, Part 2." Remember, it's just a day out. It's not a date. Got it?
Comments, suggestions for future cases, and questions about the series are welcome and recommended! Please leave a review or e-mail me with them!
Copyright Date: 6/6/02
Summary: Chief Matt Ishida has always been popular with the ladies. But as for the one he just met... well, she's quite the nutcase! She's so bent on getting him to marry her that she locks him in her basement! Tai and Kari try to rescue him... but will they have problems getting past her equally love-struck younger brother?
Two more Digidestined and one new Digimon makes its appearance in this third mini-series, pushing the total number of characters from the show who have appeared in this fic to 23. I think we've already gotten to the point where you're probably asking who has yet to make an appearance.
Anyway, you lucky fans will be the first to see a few new formatting changes that I'm doing for all of my fanfics over the next few weeks. Hope you enjoy it!
Let's get started with this new story!
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this fanfic.
Rating: R, contains profane language, violence, and implied sexual situations. Do not read this if you are too young or you are against reading fanfics that contain this type of stuff.
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Tokyo, Japan
"Stop! You Digimon thief!"
A small blue Digimon runs out of a bakery with a partially eaten loaf of bread in hand. A man with a chef's hat appears and tries to throw something at the Digimon to stop it. But the little creature is fast enough to elude capture, as he ducks into a nearby alley and through a secret passageway under the street that he used a lot in situations like this one.
The passageway is just big enough for him to squeeze through, though it seemed to be getting harder and harder these days because he had been gaining some weight lately.
"I better remember to start on my diet again tomorrow," the Digimon thought to himself.
Eventually, he reaches the end and is back above ground. He makes his way through the back alleys, which twist and turn all over the place. Unknown to him, the shadow of a feline follows him from a distance.
The Digimon turns a corner and finally reunites with his human partner... a 19 year old young man with brown hair just as tall and messy as Tai's was. He too is wearing a pair of goggles... an old pair of airplane ones, but nevertheless, they still fit snugly around his head. The man is wearing a gray short sleeve shirt and a pair of brown shorts, along with a pair of soccer shoes on his feet.
"Here you go, Davish!" the young Digimon squeals, handing what was left of the loaf of bread to the young man... which wasn't much.
"You could've left me some," Davis moaned, before brightening up. "At least my plan's working, Demiveemon."
Demiveemon, the Digimon, then gulps in fear before bracing for impact. Sure enough, Gatomon appears out of nowhere and pounces on him, sending both Digimon to the ground.
"Stealing crumbs again, Demiveemon?"
"Heh heh... come on Gatomon! Cut me a break once in awhile!"
As Gatomon continued to pin Demiveemon to the ground, Davis turns to sneak away, only to come face-to-face with 19 year old Kari Kamiya, in her police uniform.
"Kari!"
"Again, Davis? I was hoping that it would've been a real crook for once."
Kari pulls out a pair of handcuffs and points to the nearest wall. Davis knew what this meant. He was to walk up to the wall and stand right in front of it. He would raise his arms, Kari would search him for weapons and any other stolen goods, and then she'd pull his arms down to handcuff them.
And sure enough, the second Davis was against the wall, Kari started sliding her hands along the sides of his body to do her mandatory search.
"That's the third time this week," she commented as her hands wandered down from Davis's armpits to the side pockets of his shorts.
"Yeah," Davis began, "but I've also escaped you three times this week, too. So we're pretty even."
Kari yanks Davis's left arm down, causing him to let out a yelp of surprise. She obviously wasn't impressed with his joke. "Why are you stealing food anyway? I thought you made more than enough money with that noodle cart I see you wheeling around the business district everyday."
Davis didn't want Kari to catch onto his ploy, so he lied. "I make some money, but not enough to live off of."
Kari sighed and shook her head as she pulled his right arm down to handcuff his right wrist. "At this rate, you won't have any money at all, seeing as your sister is always bailing you out."
Kari pulls Davis by the arms, away from the wall and out of the alley. Without looking, Kari knew that Gatomon was following behind her, with her smaller set of handcuffs around Demiveemon's wrists.
At the end of the alley, Tai and Agumon pull up in a squad car and get out. Tai is also dressed in his police uniform. They both groan with disappointment when they see who Kari and Gatomon have with them.
"Them again?" Tai asked.
"I'm tired of arresting them!" Agumon exclaimed.
"Me too," Kari admitted. "Seems that Davis here has yet to learn his lesson."
Tai opens the back door and helps Kari and Gatomon get Davis and Demiveemon inside. Agumon then jumps in the back seat with them, to act as a guard. Tai heads for the driver's seat, while Kari hops in the passenger's side and Gatomon hops onto her lap.
The squad car then pulls away from the alley entrance and heads off towards the station.
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Episode 7 - "Destined for Love, Part 1" (06.06.02)
Once the group enters the police station, Agumon and Gatomon immediately head off to do some more training. Kari holds Davis at his wrists as they walk up to the front desk with Tai next to her and the handcuffed Demiveemon in front of him. As usual, Derek is waiting for them.
"This guy again?" he askes the duo, recognizing Davis.
"Yeah," Kari sighs, before pulling Davis away towards the jail cell area. "He's too stubborn to stay out of trouble, I'm afraid."
Demiveemon follows them without any objections. Tai waits at the front desk as Derek reaches behind him and pulls out a small form for him to fill out.
"I'll go get their file from the back," Derek told Tai, getting up.
"And I guess I'll fill this out and then go call his sister," Tai responded, taking the form from Derek.
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Kari led Davis and Demiveemon to the back of the station, where a small set of jail cells were set up. They were designed to hold criminals for minor offenses. Davis and Demiveemon were already used to the place, even if this was already their third time being here.
A small Hawkmon was currently on guard there. As soon as he sees Kari coming, he grabs one of the keys off of the rack behind him and flies to the cell door that the key opened. It was the second one closest to him.
"In here!" Hawkmon shouted, as Kari arrives at the desk, looking for him.
"Oh," Kari muttered before leading Davis and Demiveemon to the open cell. Once in front of the cell, Kari pulls out the keys to her handcuffs and unlocks them from Davis's wrists.
"I'm glad to get those off!" Davis exclaimed as Kari lightly pushed him into the cell. "So, what're you guys serving for dinner?"
"Knock it off, Davis! You're lucky that we didn't take you to the city jail. This is your third offense, after all."
"Third offense?" Hawkmon looked up at Kari with interest. "This is the third time they've been here?"
"Yes, and I'm getting tired of it."
"Shit, she's getting tired of it!" Davis cursed under his breath. "I'm just lucky that this is the last time I need to do this for Jun. Then I can go back to flirting with her the old-fashioned way."
Kari then glances down at Demiveemon, remembering that Gatomon had handcuffed him.
"I forgot that Gatomon has the keys to that set."
Kari reaches up into her hair to pull a hairpin out, but Hawkmon beats her to it... by pulling the feather off of his headband and sticking the thin end into the keyhole of the handcuffs. In seconds, the handcuffs become unlocked. Hawkmon takes them off and pushes Demiveemon inside the cell.
"Hey!" Demiveemon shouts. "Watch it!"
"That feather sure comes in handy," Kari noted as Hawkmon closed and locked the cell door before finally putting his feather back on his headband.
"I always tell my friends that," Hawkmon began, "but they never listen to me."
"I think you'll fit in fine here."
Hawkmon takes a seat back at his desk and waves goodbye to Kari, who walks back into the main part of the station to head back to her office.
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As Kari reaches for the doorknob to her office door, she spots Tai still at the front desk, filling out paperwork. She enters the office, trying to get some work down of her own. There were a few case files on her desk that needed to be taken care of.
Sitting down at her desk, she grabs one of the folders and opens it. She then turns to her computer, spotting the pink Hello Kitty screensaver on her screen.
"Bye Kitty," she says as she reaches for the mouse and shakes it, making the screensaver disappear and her desktop appear. She then clicks on the icon for her word processor. It opens to a blank document. On the first line, she types the case number, as it appears on the top of the first sheet in the folder.
"#104080199DA02 - file started on April 24, 2002," she said aloud as it appeared on the screen.
Kari then turns her attention in full back to the folder, as she begins reading the details of the case. At first, her eyes dart from one side to the other, quickly scanning the document. But as she continues to read, her eye speed slows down and the smile on her face turns into a frown.
"This case... it's repeating exactly what happened ten years ago!"
Suddenly, Kari's mind began to flood with memories of her mother's murder. She then tries to process the information she just read on the paper.
"Could it be just a coincidence?" she asked herself frightfully. "Or is there a connection?"
Unable to bear the thought of remembering that dark day, Kari closes the file and quickly tosses it on the floor. It slides until it's right in front of the door. And at that very moment, Tai opens the door and enters.
"I called Jun and she should be here to pick up Davis and Demiveemon in half an hour," he told her, pointing back out the door. "I swear, that kid needs to learn to stay out of the trouble." Tai then sighs in relief. "What makes matters worse is that he looks almost like me."
Kari gets up out of her seat and walks towards Tai.
"Kari, that was a joke. You were supposed to laugh. It's true! Just look at him!"
Only now does Tai notice the folder on the floor. He bends down to pick it up, as Kari walks past him. He opens it to read the contents. But after a minute or two, he too feels reminisicent of his mother's death.
"Kari..."
He turns around to talk to Kari about it, but she's already left the room.
"Poor girl. It might've reminded her about how gruesomely our mom died." He then began to look over that top page again. "But now I see why. The similiarities are unbelievable! It's like whoever did this either knew or modeled off of our mom's murder. But how?"
Tai walked over to his desk and pulls out his chair from under it. He sits down on it as he flips through page after page in the folder, scanning everything in it.
"The gang wars... the fighting... the running away... the errant gunshot... it's all the same! Only this time, there were a lot more witnesses. Not to mention that the police caught everyone involved except for the gunman himself."
Tai reached the last few pages, which were a few pictures of the murder scene itself. But they were all of locations where blood had either been left by the victim's body or by the suspects themselves.
"I wonder where the pictures of the victim are," Tai thought aloud.
"They're right here."
Tai yelps in surprise and nearly falls out of his seat as he notices who had entered the room so quietly. It was Derek, standing at attention right in front of his desk.
"Don't scare me like that!" Tai exclaimed. "And stop standing there as if I'm your superior, because I'm not!"
"You are ranked higher than I am," Derek remarked as he relaxed and produced four photographs from his left shirt pocket. "We just got these from the main station. They're pictures of the victim of that shooting mentioned in that folder of yours."
"Gimme those!" Tai shouted as he snatched the pictures from Derek. He began looking at them, one by one. But once again, the photos were anything but pretty.
"Pretty gruesome, huh?" Derek asked, as if he was reading Tai's mind.
"Despite how similar this seems to how my mother was murdered ten years ago, this woman looks like she was shot more than just once."
Derek nods solemnly. "I'm not sure of the exact number, but it was at least half a dozen. Probably more. We won't know for sure until we get an official report from the morgue."
"But that means that the bullets that hit her weren't all from one person."
"A lot of witnesses say that she stepped right into the crossfire. Most of the shots came from the one guy that's still loose, but we've had reports that several people saw someone from the opposite gang fire a shot or two at her. Though none of the five that were arrested last night will admit to what truly happen."
After a brief moment of silence, Tai pulls open one of his desk drawers and takes out an old picture of his parents, himself, and Kari from a long time ago. They were standing in front of Tokyo Tower, as a number of other tourists can be seen in the background. Tai smiles as he slowly places the photo on his desk and then slides it towards Derek so he can see it. Derek turns the picture so he can see it rightside up, then picks it up to examine it.
"The woman in this picture is your mom?"
Tai nods. "This was the last picture we had together as a family. It was about two months before she was killed... in a similar manner as the woman in this case."
"But you two were just kids back then, right?"
"This was ten years ago. I was twelve at the time. Kari had just turned nine. It was part of our 'day out on the town' vacation that year."
"Wow. No wonder you and Kari seemed so upset over this case."
Derek slowly hands the picture back to Tai, who calmly takes it and returns it to the drawer. Tai closes the drawer and then gets out of his seat. He motions as if he's about to walk out the door.
"Where are you going?" Derek asked curiously. "You're not off until seven, right?"
"I'd better find Kari before she relapses. Anytime she's reminded of our mother's murder, there's one place she always goes to to calm her nerves."
"Where's that?"
Tai opens the door to his office and walks out, not answering Derek's question.
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As Tai exits the station, he looks around the parking lot for his Toyota Camry. When he can't find it, he realizes the obvious.
"Kari took the car," he sighs. He then pulls out his keyring and looks for the key for the squad car he and Kari usually use. He heads for the side of the building, where all of the squad cars are parked. "I really need to buy her a car before she gets her full license next week."
Tai gets into the squad car, starts it, and drives off. As the car disappears from sight, another pulls into the parking lot. This one is a brown Mazda 626. The driver pulls into a parking spot and turns off the engine. Inside the car, a woman applies the finishing touches to her makeup. The last thing she does is take out some cherry red lipstick and apply it to her lips. She then smiles evilly as she focuses the rear mirror so that her eyes are now visible.
"Today, Matt Ishida will become the personal property of one Jun Motimiya!"
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Inside the office of Chief Detective Matt Ishida, he is hard at work completing a very important assignment.
"Ishida on the 18th green," he says to himself, barely loud enough to hear. "He needs to make this putt to win the tournament."
Matt sweats profusely as he holds the putter he has in hand just to the side of a golf ball that was lying perfectly still on the carpet. About ten feet away was a styrofoam cup, with the open end facing Matt.
"Ishida takes a few practice swings to make sure he uses the right amount of force," he states as he simultaneously does it. "He looks like he's ready, as the putter is now behind the ball. This is for all the marbles."
Matt pulls the putter back slightly and then brings it back, connecting with the ball. The ball rolls towards the cup... and stops a few inches short.
"The hell?" Matt blinks in disbelief as he walks over and picks the ball up from the carpet floor. He starts yelling at it. "I hit you just right this time! Why didn't you go into the stupid cup?"
Just then, someone knocks on the door. Matt tosses his putter aside and straightens his uniform up.
"You can come in."
The door opens suddenly as 24 year old Jun Motimiya runs in and immediately clamps Matt in a big hug.
"Matt, it's me! You remember my name, right?"
"Jun Motimiya, Davis's big sister."
"That's right! You're as intelligent as I remember!"
"Jun, why are you in here? You know your supposed to stop at the front desk to pay for your brother's bail."
"Did you forget, silly? Tonight's our date!"
"Wha?" he asked in surprise as he gave Jun the once over. She was wearing a form fitting red dress with matching high heels. She also had a brown purse with her. The outfit didn't really look good on Jun, but she didn't seem to mind.
"Check your calendar! You said you wrote it down!"
Matt runs to his desk and looks at his calendar.
"Last night, the 24th, I had a date with Mai. Tomorrow, the 26th, I'm supposed to go out with Musashi. But today, the 25th... I don't have you on my schedule."
"That's okay," Jun said happily, reaching into her purse and pulling out her own personal planner. "It's right here!"
Matt looks at the planner, which is open to today's date. In the center of the page, written in red ink and circled with blue ink, are the words 'Date with Matt Ishida, 6 p.m.'
"Let's get my brother and get to my house! I've got a scrumptious dinner ready for you to eat!"
"I'm still on duty until eight..."
"So? You're the chief! You're allowed to excuse yourself once in awhile!"
"That's not the point! I'm not dressed for the occasion!"
"Your uniform's fine. Besides, we're going to my house, not a fancy restaurant!"
Jun drags Matt out of the room and towards the front of the station, where her brother Davis is filling out paperwork.
"Jun, this needs your signature."
"Sure thing, little bro!"
Jun grabs the pen from Davis and signs his release form.
"There! All done! Can we go now?"
"What about Demiveemon?"
"Huh? Oh, your Digimon."
Jun reaches into her purse and plops 300 yen onto the desk.
"That should take care of it!"
"You still have to fill out his paperwork too."
"You mean you haven't done it yet? I swear Davis, sometimes you're so slow."
"You're supposed to be filling it out anyway, not me!"
"He's right, you know."
Davis turns to Matt, who was still in the clutches of Jun's arms.
"But I can't let go of you for one single second! Otherwise, I risk the chance of another woman walking in and pulling you away from me!"
"God forbid," Matt muttered under his breath.
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Meanwhile, four blocks away at the South Odaiba Firing Range, Tai walks up to the front desk, where the clerk shakes nervously while looking at him.
"What's up with you?"
"That woman in there's scaring off all of my customers! She asked for a small handgun and at least a hundred and fifty bullets. She's firing like crazy!"
"Gee. I didn't think she'd need that much relief."
"She's a cop, right? Your partner, I take it."
"Not only my partner... she's my little sister."
This made the clerk even more scared. "What you do to her, pal? Force her to break up with her boyfriend?"
"I wish it were only that simple." He then turns the clerk. "I'll handle this. Don't let anyway in until we come out."
"Anything to get that crazy chick out of here!"
Tai starts to walk towards the firing range, but the clerk whistles at him. Tai turns and sees that he has a pair of large headphones. He tosses it over to him.
"You're going to need it," he told him with an uneasy smile.
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Tai enters the firing range area, putting on his headphones as soon as he hears the sound of a gun firing off continuously filling the air. About halfway down, he sees Kari, with some protective goggles over her eyes, in the process of firing at a stationary target about twenty-five feet away. After a few seconds, the gun begins to click empty. Kari opens the barrel and reaches into a box on the windowsill in front of her to reload.
"Kari!" Tai shouted.
"What is it?" Kari yelled back as she continued to load her gun.
"I know you're upset, but firing off a handgun like a madman isn't going to get you anywhere!"
Kari finishes loading the gun. She closes the barrel and pulls back the hammer to load it.
"Maybe not, but it'll bring some peace to my mind!"
She then turns and aims at the target once again and opens fire. She continues to fire until she uses up all of the bullets in her gun. After ten shots, the gun clicks to signify that it's empty.
"You're scaring all of the customers away!"
"As if I care!"
Kari then proceeds to open the barrel and reload her gun again. Tai runs over and grabs her hand to stop her before she can finish.
"I know that you miss mom alot, but there's nothing you can do about it now."
"I understand, but sometimes I feel... well, I feel like I could've done something about it."
"Like what? That was ten years ago! We were both still in grade school."
"Every time you say that, Tai... it doesn't feel as if it's a good enough excuse."
"Kari..."
"Dad could've done something. You could've done something. I... I..."
Kari then falls to her knees, as tears begin to fall from her eyes. Tai kneels down and grabs her by the shoulders.
"I agree with you. Maybe we could've done something. What that something is, well, I'm not sure. But we can't dwell on it every time we come across a case that seems eerily similar."
Kari continues to cry as she looks at the hand that her gun is in. She then slowly reaches down and places it on the ground. She then looks at it, wiping a tear from her eye as she does.
"I just wish that we could get back at the guy that fired the shot."
"I do too. But we agreed that revenge wasn't the answer. That's why we didn't want to be issued guns when we became detectives. Remember?"
"I know. Tai... it just hurts so much."
"We've got to be strong. One day, we'll find the guy and he'll get what's coming to him. In the meantime, you have to get over the fact that shooting him isn't going to bring our mother back."
"I know it won't, but sometimes my conscious tells me that I should do it anyway."
Tai smiles as he pulls the headphones away from Kari's ears and off of her head.
"You've fought the urge for a decade, Kari. You have to find the strength to continue to fight it. It won't go away until we bring the guy to justice, but you'll have to bear it."
"But can I?"
"I'm going through the same thing, too. We'll get through it together, no matter how long it takes!"
Kari reaches up and dries her eyes with the back of her hands. "Thank you, Tai."
She then wraps her arms around Tai's back and sobs into his shirt. Tai calmly rubs her back as her sister begins to cry.
"It's alright. Just let it all out. I'm here with you now."
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About half an hour later, the car holding Jun, Matt, Davis, and Demiveemon pulls up to the driveway of the Motimiya's house. It's a quaint little two- story brick house located in the suburbs of the city.
"Can we talk about this?" Matt asked Jun as she pulled him out of the car. "Why don't we just reschedule for a day when I don't feel so awkward about this?"
"Nonsense!" she exclaimed happily. "This is fine!"
The group starts to walk towards the front door, when Jun suddenly stops.
"I just remembered that we need a bottle of wine!"
"We don't need any," Matt protested.
"What's a romantic dinner without wine? We need it!" Jun then turns to her little brother. "Davis, would you please show Matt to the wine cellar?"
"Got it, sis!"
Davis started dragging Matt to the backyard. Jun whispers something to Demiveemon.
"Make sure Davis doesn't mess up."
Demiveemon nods and follows the duo to the cellar. Jun then rejoices with glee by jumping up and down.
"I've got him! I've got him! He'll have to marry me for sure! That's for sure!"
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In the backyard, Davis, Demiveemon, and Matt have arrived at the entrance to the cellar. A padlock is attached to the door. Davis finds the key in his pocket and unlocks the entrance. He then opens one of the doors and walks into the cellar.
"Watch your step!" Davis yells back as Matt reluctantly follows him down. The stairs into the cellar weren't that long, as after a few steps they both reached the bottom. Davis brushes his hands against the wall until he finds the switch to turn the lights on.
"Which one does she want?" Matt asked Davis.
"I think for romantic dinners, she goes for the 'Juan Don Perrier' wine. You go look for it that way, and I'll look for it on this side."
Davis points Matt towards the back of the cellar. Davis then walks off towards the far end. That is, before quickly turning around and waiting for Matt to get out of sight. Davis then quietly sneaks back up the stairs and out of the cellar.
"Davis..." Matt shouted. "I think I found it."
Matt walks back towards the aisle he had just came from. As he does, he can spot the cellar door beginning to close.
"Where are you going?" Matt yelled, beginning to run with the bottle of wine in hand. "I'm still down here!"
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Outside, Davis and Demiveemon close the cellar door. Demiveemon quickly puts the padlock backs in place and closes it, locking the entrance shut. As the two step back, the doors start bouncing up and down, as the sound of Matt banging on them can be heard.
"We got 'em Davish!" Demiveemon shouted excitedly.
"Let me out of here!" he shouted.
"Sorry Matt, but my sister doesn't want you going anywhere! You're stuck down there until she wants to let you out!"
"And when would that be, wiseguys? When I starve to death?"
"Oh, it's easy. Just agree to marry her."
"Marry her? What the..."
"If you don't want to, that's your loss. You'll be down there until you say yes."
"This is the first date and she already wants to marry me?"
"Yep. She's that attracted to you. Too bad I don't see what she sees in you."
"Tell that sister of yours that I'm not going to be forced to marry anyone. Especially her!"
"Your loss, buddy. Let's go, Demiveemon."
Demiveemon and Davis walk back towards the front door, leaving Matt stuck.
"Let me out! I order you to let me out!"
Matt continues to bang on the cellar door, but to no avail. He finally gives up and slumps down to the bottom of the steps. He sits there, wondering what to do now.
Next Episode Preview: Narrated by Kari...
In order to keep Davis from having Demiveemon robbing stores everyday, I've decided to spend the day with him to straighten him out. No, it's not a date. Don't lie! I know all of you out there were thinking that! I don't love him! I'm just concerned about him, okay? In the meantime, let's talk about someone who actually had a date. Matt and Davis's big sister, Jun. I wonder how that went. And how come Matt didn't show up for work today? I thought he had already spent up all of his vacation time this year.
Our next episode is "Destined for Love, Part 2." Remember, it's just a day out. It's not a date. Got it?
Comments, suggestions for future cases, and questions about the series are welcome and recommended! Please leave a review or e-mail me with them!
Copyright Date: 6/6/02