REVISED~! Ano…Gomen nasai minna-san x.x I know I messed up on some of your characters, especially Ree's…so I reread all your profiles and fixed it in a way that might everyone happy. Demo, Ree, your profile kind of confuses me, when you said she went back to her old self does that mean she likes boys' stuff and can be stubborn but also nice, or that she keeps herself away from others? And I wanna ask if Ryoko still lives in the Digiworld? x.o

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"Mom, I'm off to meet my friends!" Hikali called as she stuffed a few necessities in her bag and looked at her watch. "Gah, it's already 12:30! I'm gonna be late!"

"Alright, honey, be back before dinner!" her mother called back from the kitchen. The aroma of what was cooking filled the house and finally reached the doorway and into Hikali's backpack, causing her bag to stir.

Suddenly bolting out, was Gatomon, "Mmm…I smell Calimornia rolls!" Hikali turned her head and gasped and stretched her hands out to catch her laptop and CD player that Gatomon caused to fall out her bag when she hopped out and crawled near the kitchen.

Hikali let out a muffled laugh and tossed her amber hair back, "It's California rolls. Gatomon," she answered then gasped. "Mom'll see you, get back in!"

Gatomon snuffed the air and turned her head, walking back, "What? I'm hungry. Where do we have to go so early anyway, Kali?"

Hikali hoisted her bag above her shoulder and turned to the door, "To Ree's house, remember? Everyone's going there today for a Digidestine meeting about the last two Digidestines we have to find. Hop on, we're late as it is." She flashed a smile. "Searching for the Digidestines is going to be so fun!"

"I hope so," Gatomon hopped on her back, "hey, you think we could stop by Calimornia on the way and pick up their rolls?"

Hikali giggled and walked out, "Sure, Gatomon, sure…Hey, Garrod!"

Not to far from the road stood a messy-haired, blue-eyed boy wearing a white Chinese-like shirt and black pants. Garrod turned around and revealed a small-open gadget in his hands and a small penguin-like Digimon hanging on his arm. He nodded a greeting as Hikali ran up to him.

"Ohayo!" she beamed and they began walking. "Guess I'm not the only one who's late."

Garrod smiled, "Hai, lost track of time this morning."

"That's because you broke it," grinned Penmon, Garrod's partner and friend.

Hikali titled her head down and saw that Garrod was tinkering with his watch, "What are you doing with your alarm-clock?"

"Trying to fix it," replied Garrod and gritted his teeth as he jammed a metal piece in, causing the clock to cough out smoke on his face. Hikali, Gatomon, and Penmon laughed.

"You think that Garrod," Penmon grinned, dots of on his face.

Garrod grinned his smoked face and shrugged, "Guess I need more practice?"

"Is anyone home?" Takashi called as he, Jack, and Pixie walked into a huge mansion-like house.

It was an ample house, decorated with expensive-looking stuff and had a huge staircase spiraling up to the corridors that led to different kinds of rooms. The three and their Digimon sauntered in with curiosity and awe as they walked in a huge hallway.

Jack whistled as he put his hands in his jean pockets, "Ryoko here sure is livin la Vida riches."

Takashi gleamed in admiration, "Sugoi! It's like a huge maze or something. Maybe Ree's in—" his sentence got cut off by a familiar scream. Him and Jack turned their heads, "Pixie!?" Without hesitation, Takashi began running to the source of the sound with Jack right on his tail. They ran up the staircase and through the corridor and to a room of where they thought the sound came from, what they saw made their jaws drop wide open.

The room they went into was as big as the hallway and served as a lounging room. A few steps leading down to a group of sofas surrounding a quaint table filled with snacks, and two Digimon—a small cat with a crescent moon on its forehead, and a pink dog-like, black-horned, Digimon—and another Digimon, a fox-like type, sitting beside its blue-haired and purple-eyed tamer who turned her head to Jack and Takashi.

"It's about time you got here," she remarked and the Digimon and their tamers looked back at them.

"Hn," a small whisper was heard from a girl by the corner, Suki, who was too preoccupied writing something in her notepad to notice the newcomers. One word of advice with this girl is that when she finally talks, listen for it's actually important.

"We heard…a scream and—" Jack started and pointed at the air. Pixie, who was sitting comfortably by the table grinned coyly.

"Oh, that was me," she said. "Gomen, I was just eh, taken surprised by this room—it's so sugoi!" she exclaimed.

Ryoko motioned her hand towards a couch, "Sit down, guys, and have some food." She barely stated.

"Don't mind if we do," cut in someone from behind Jack and Takashi. In came Kerry, Hikali, and Garrod with Spicmon, Gatomon, and Penmon. They all settled down and took their seats around the table.

"Looks like everyone's here," Pixie said looking around. "Wait, 1, 4, 6…we're missing one."

"Two, actually," Garrod said. "Ano…Talon—"

"Talon?"

Garrod nodded, "Hai, Talon. Someone I met taking kendo classes, he takes Ninjitsu but I see him sometimes…Well, main point is he's a tamer too, he has an Agumon and a Digivice. Talon might be a bit too weird and mean sometimes but he's still a good friend and I think you guys might really like him. I invited him to come today too, so all we need to find now are the two remaining tamers."

"Great!" everyone exclaimed in unison.

Takashi chomped down his sandwich, "Okay, so all we need now is Tanrei-chan—where is she anyway? Not like oddball to be late."

"Tanrei, do ya really hafta play so sad songs?" the white fluff-ball, red-footed Popimon asked.

They were walking out of the park and onto the busy streets now, aware of how late they are but were in no hurry. Tanrei looked up on her head.

"G-gomen," she giggled. "Happy songs you want, and happy songs you'll get. Just get back in my bag now since people might see you!"

Popimon waited until the sweet sounds of Tanrei's wooden flute rang in its ears before sinking back down in her black bag. Tanrei smiled and kept playing as she sidled among the busy streets, she heaved a sigh and stopped playing.

"Mmm…I'm hungry," she whined to herself. "I know I'm late but I'm too tired to go—Omigosh!!" she shrieked and caused a few weird looks on her. Tanrei didn't care, she was now busy drooling over a glass window separating her from a buffet of deserts.

"I hope this isn't a dream," Tanrei bit her bottom lip and squealed to herself. "Chocolate rolls, Carrot muffins, Cherry-filled sugar donuts, cookies n' cream ice cream with kimchi and mint drops!—Chocolate rice balls!! Gomen, guys, but Tanrei's going to be a bit later than usual today…" she said and trailed off on her roller blades.

"I don't get it," Pixie sighed and smacked her head. "Why do we have these things again?" she asked and held up her pink D2.

"They're tools to help our Digimon Digivolve, get stronger, and better defense stuff. Guess playing the game a lot finally paid off," replied Jack. "But why us…Scalemon, got any ideas? Anyone of you guys?" he said and tossed a look at the Digimon partners.

Scalemon shrugged, "We have no clue."

Kerry cut in, "How could you not?" he said skeptically. "Spicmon, you couldn't have just come here by miracle and then have no idea why you're here!"

Spicmon snuffed and bounced around, "Well, we Digimon aren't just pure data. When we're born, we are already assigned a destiny which we just know and fulfill. That's what are attacks are for, to protect the tamers we are destined to be with and anything that we need to fulfill our assignment."

"You make it sound so strict!" exclaimed Gatomon and waved her arms around. "We're also here to have fun! Sure we're destined to be with Hikali and the rest but there has to be more than protecting them and saving the world and junk."

"She's right," said Hikali. "I mean, I believe she is. Gatomon, what happens when we do find the remaining Digidestines? Do we even know their names?"

"That's where Talon comes in," Garrod answered. "He knows his way around everywhere here, knows practically everyone and has some connections. So he's a good help to start looking. As for your first question—Penmon?"

Penmon chewed on a cookie, "Erm, I'm not really sure—no one is. When we gather everyone, something's just has to happen, why else would you guys be tamers?"

Takashi stood up, "First of all, we need a leader here—and I nominate myself," He grinned.

"Pff, right Hyska," Ryoko said stubbornly trying to pick a fight, "I think I should be the leader here, I have the strongest Digimon."

"Says who?" Takashi retorted and Ryoko stood up to face him.

"Me."

"Wanna bet? Battle, right here, right now," Takashi proposed.

"Are you saying just because I'm a girl I can't fight? Prepare to lose," Ryoko replied when Jack cut in.

"As much as entertaining your feud is," he said sarcastically, "we need a leader who's not always to start trouble. Now, let's put that off for a while and discuss about the two remaining Digidestines; we don't even know if they live here in Tokyo, better yet if they're even kids!"

"Jack's right," Hikali said. "But we shouldn't talk about any Digi business until the others arrive."

Takashi and Ryoko sat back down, "If they do arrive!"

"Oh yeah!" Tanrei gleamed happily as she bladed out of the bakery, eagle-armed with brown bags of goodies. From chocolate-chip cookies to Hawaiian bars, Tanrei has it all—and mostly in her mouth. She began strolling along the streets and also received a few odd looks on her as she completely stuffed her face in the bags of food.

Popimon scooted out of her bag, "Mmm…I smell nummy stuff." S/he looked at Tanrei. "Tanrei-chan! What are you doing!?"

"Nani?" Tanrei let go of a donut, "Popimon, try this!" she said and thrust a cookie in Popimon's mouth. Tanrei giggled, "Stop eating so much, Popi, we're late as it is!" with that, Tanrei bolted down and streaked across the streets, Popimon clinging as tight on her white shirt.

"The guys are gonna kill me!" Tanrei said to herself when bumping into someone, causing them both to fall down.

"Oh, gomen," they both said in unison. Looking up Tanrei found herself looking at girl about her age, she had black hair like hers and hazel round eyes, she wore a yellow Chinese vest and matching pants that went well with her red and yellow shoes. "Hi."

"I'm so sorry, I'm just so clumsy at times," Tanrei apologized and helped the girl pick up her CD player and laptop. "Oh, I hope I didn't ruin them."

"No, you didn't," replied the girl as she handed Tanrei back her food when she caught sight of them. "Oh my, Chocolate-covered rice balls! I love these stuff!"

Tanrei giggled, "Me too. Care to have some?" the girl nodded gleefully and they laughed sharing their food and such. "By the way, I'm Tanrei."

"Minami," she replied and held her hand out. "Hey, roller blades, sugoi! It's nice to meet you, Tanrei, but I'm afraid I must go since my cousin's been expecting me home for a while now." she said and began backing away. "Sarabada!"

"Bye!" Tanrei waved. "Nice meeting you!" she began to turn away and smiled to herself. "She seemed nice—gah, I'm late!"

Tanrei and Popimon finally made it to an empty alleyway and were slowly blading through the muddy grounds. "Tanrei," Popimon said, "I thought we were going to Ryoko's house."

"We are. I'm just taking a shortcut," Tanrei replied. "I think…" she looked back in front and halted when she caught sight of the four large men waiting just at the end of the alley. They wore gangster-like clothing and had the most ugliest faces you'll see.

Popimon shrank back as Tanrei took her steps backwards, "Ano, hey fellas! What's going on…?" she sweat dropped. She began backing away, "Is this your place here or something? Oh-Kay…I'm sure you guys have plenty of exercising to do considering how fat you are—I mean, looks aren't everything—no, wait—"

"Better shut your mouth, Tanrei," Popimon whispered.

"But they're just gross!" Tanrei said to Popimon then quickly covered her mouth.

"What did you say?" one of the men said in anger.

"Me, say? Nothing," Tanrei grinned. "Hey, would you look at the time I have to get going but you guys can have the pastries—or maybe I should just take a couple off your hands since calories and sugar can be bad for—I'm just gonna shut up and leave now, bye!" she said but was suddenly held back by her bag.

One of the men, snickered, "My, my, aren't you a pretty face, girlie?" he said. "Annoying—really annoying, but pretty."

"Uh-uh-uh," he said. "Pretty girl mine—Ow!"

Tanrei had bitten his hand and began screaming, "Let go of me, anata Haiji! Help!! Someone—" the man quickly shut her mouth as she squirmed in his grasp. Popimon…Tanrei thought, Popimon digivovle.

Popimon was indeed listening from the girls' bag and jumped out, causing the men to jump and let go of Tanrei who automatically fell to her knees. "Leave her alone, you big bullies!" Popimon courageously said. "Touch her and you shall face the wrath of Miyumon!"

"What the hell is that!" they yelled and began closing in on the small creature, cornering it. "Is this some kind of machine? Let's take it apart!"

"Stop, Popimon!" Tanrei yelled, her eyes in fury. She grabbed her bag from the ground and reached in for her Digivice when the seeming leader of the group picked her up by her arm, causing her to drop the Digivice in the mud. "Ow, that hurts," she winced and shoved her foot onto the guys' stomach and then dropped to the ground. "Why don't you guys bug off!"

"Feisty, I like that," the man smirked as he stood up. "Why not I take you home and have a little fun, eh? Or do you want your little toy here to get hurt?" The man leaned down when a rock hit his head, "Ey! Who threw that!?"

"Didn't you hear her? She said leave her alone," they all looked up to a fence. There stood a boy probably at the age of fifteen, he was all black; black hair, black clothing, black shoes. The only thing different about him was the red, Japanese symbol on the left side of his neck—fire.

Who, what's going on? Wait, where's Popi? Tanrei asked herself. The man who held her, held on tighter and wringed her around, "Show yourself, stop standing against the light you're hurting my eyes!"

"Hn," the boy jumped down onto the floor and revealed his face, glaring at the four men.

"Talon!" the man exclaimed and grinned coyly, "I see you're back—of course, you never left but, you're here! What's up, my boy?"

"Don't call me that," Talon spat, "I'm no one's boy, got it? Now, didn't you hear this girl? Leave her alone."

Tanrei winced when the man grasped her arm again, "She's mine, punk, get lost kid this is my territory you're in!"

The boy called Talon grinned, "Didn't your mother teach you manners. Agumon."

An Agumon walked in, out of the blue, and waved to Tanrei, "Hi there, neighbor!" he greeted.

Talon swiftly took out his Digivice and glanced at Agumon, "Let's do it—Digi-volution, activate!" with that last word a beam of light surrounded Agumon and filled the whole alley, blinding mostly everyone. As the light disappeared Agumon was gone, and in his place was an even bigger dinosaur-looking Digimon wearing a metal helmet on his head. Greymon.

The leader of the gang shrank with the others, "W-what the heck are these things…! I swear you people are aliens!" and that was his last word before running away with his gang running at his tail. Tanrei and the others stared at that direction for a while as the men disappeared, Popimon watching from the inside of Tanrei's duffel bag.

"Aliens, how rude," Greymon said and crossed his arms as he began to De-Digi-volve.

"Daijibou?" Talon asked and looked weirdly at Tanrei.

Tanrei turned back and blushed in total humiliation at what just happened, "H-hai! I'm fine…Thanks."

"Anytime."

Tanrei grabbed her bag but didn't know or notice that Popimon was already in it. She gasped and pointed at Talon, "Wait!"

Talon stepped back, "Nani?" he cowered fearing she was now going to spill that he was a tamer, not knowing she was too.

"If he called you his boy…and they said you were back…then that means," Tanrei pointed at Talon and shrieked. "Ack, get away from me!"

Talon almost fell back, "W-what?"

Tanrei glared, "Don't think I know what you're up to, mister, you probably sent those goons after me too, didn't you!? Well, I'm not sure if you saw but I did manage to fight and scare them off, you know! I've been learning martial arts since I was five—well, I did learn it when I was five but stopped, but that's not the point, I was about to defeat your gang when you showed up! how stupid do you think I am?"  (*sighs* Oh, stupid Tanrei…o_o;)

"What are you talking about, lady?" Talon asked.

"Ha! I knew it, you are their leader!" Tanrei said.

Talon arched a brow, "No, I'm not! Where did you get that—" he didn't get to finish his sentence then for Tanrei threw a piece of cake on his face. Talon wiped it off and glared at her, "What was that for?"

"I'm on to you, Tal-on," she said and picked up her food and began chucking them at Talon, Agumon running away to hide. "Ha, take that!"

"Ey, what's the big idea, Agumon!" Talon exclaimed. "Stop that!" he looked up again to meet another cake at his face, I swear I'm gonna kill her…he thought as the cake slid down his face, and the girl was gone. "What…Agumon?" Agumon crawled out of his spot and looked at Talon, "Where'd she go?"

Talon and Agumon stared at the girls' direction with quizzical looks on their faces, "What's up with that girl?" Agumon asked.

"I, don't know," Talon sighed. "Gotta hand it to her, she sure is something…something weird. C'mon, Agumon we're—Agumon, what are you doing?"

"I saw her drop this," Agumon replied and picked up an object in the mud. "Hey, it's a Digivice!"

"What?" Talon asked in surprise.

"Kin, sorry I'm late I just got carried away," Minami called as she entered their house. She walked into the living room where two Digimon were busy playing and cheering themselves on TV. Minami giggled, "You guys are still playing that, Rokumon, Kokomon?"

"Minami, come in here for a sec!" Kinnosuke called from his room.

"Hai?" Minami walked in and sat by her cousin.

Kinnosuke closed her door so that the Digimon playing Nintendo in the living room didn't hear. He turned to Minami, "Not to sound like your teacher or anything but, we can't keep Kokomon and Rokumon here forever. They're Digimon and as much as I like them, we're just kids we can't take care of them!"

Minami frowned, "We take care of ourselves without anyone's help. Onegai, Kin, I love Rokumon! I can't throw her out on the street. I'm a tamer, her tamer, and the same goes for you and Kokomon. Kokomon and Rokumon had to be sent to us with a purpose, and we can't just be the only ones, right? We're destined to be partners, and friends with them."

Kinnosuke smiled and patted her head, "Yeah, we are, aren't we?" Kinnosuke heaved a sigh and gazed out the window. "Seems like I've known Kokomon forever, and I guess you feel the same way about Rokumon too, ne. But why were we chosen as tamers? What about that kid Talon, from your school?"

"Don't worry," Minami smiled. "He's not going to tell anyone, he's a tamer too if you forgot. Maybe he has the answer to your questions."

Kinnosuke smirked, "Since when did you become so smart?"

Minami grinned sheepishly, "Since I smelled the rice cooking in the kitchen."

"Where is she?!" Hikali said as she paced back and forth the room. "She's—half an hour late!"

"This isn't like Tanrei, she'd give us a heads up if she's gonna be this late, right?" Garrod said. "Think something happened to her?"

Tentomon cut in, "Maybe we should search for her instead of the two Digidestines?"

"Maybe," Jack said and turned to the corner, "what do you think, Talon?"

"Don't know, don't care," Talon coolly replied. "Why do you wanna know what I think, anyway?"

"Because you're part of the team, duh," Jack grinned, Talon blinked in total confusion and then turned away.

"Whatever," he muttered.

"Look, if she doesn't come anytime soon I'll kill her," Kerry grunted. "Or at least starve her!"

"Don't joke like that," Garrod said. "I'm sure Tanrei will come, she wouldn't let us down, nei?"

"Ryoko? Is anyone here?" called a familiar voice downstairs.

"Up here!" Pixie called back and turned to Garrod, "See? Told ya she'd come."

"Shut up, pinkie," retorted Kerry and slinked back in exhaustion.

"Don't call her that," Takashi warned.

Tanrei walked in all smiles, "Hey, guys, gomen nasai…I know how late I am and it won't happen again."

Everyone else smiled but Talon who wasn't paying attention, "It's okay, Tanrei. Just give us a heads up next time, we've already wasted an hour of looking for the last Digidestines. Now, before we figure what to do you have to meet someone."

Tanrei nodded gleefully and suddenly stopped when she caught sight of the young man at the corner of the room, it seemed like he caught sight of her too for he looked up and their wide eyes were locked on each other. Tanrei glared and gasped.

"It's you!" they said in unison.

"I don't believe this, are you some kind of stalker now too?!" Tanrei said as Popimon hopped on her head.

"Are you insane?" Talon retorted. "I'm the one who saved you, remember? And for the last time I ain't some gang leader or thief!" he complained and tossed her the Digivice she left behind.

Tanrei blinked and looked up, "Where'd you get this?"

Agumon smiled, "It was on the ground. I found it!"

Tanrei felt herself blushing in embarrassment, great, after seeing Greymon I couldn't even figure out that he was a tamer, "Oh. Arigatou, Agumon." She smiled sincerely and then glared at Talon. "I'm still mad at you."

"For what?" Talon said, "no, wait, I don't care if you are so just drop it. Is this the kind of people you're expecting me to work with? I'm leaving."

"Wait," a voice cut in. All were quite amused to find it was Suki who was talking, she put down her pen and spoke in a stern tone, "Look, whatever happened just forget about it, guys. We need to get order back here, so sit down." She looked at everyone in the room. "Sit." Automatically everyone sat down as ordered, including Talon and Tanrei who kept pushing each other on the couch. "Being that you're all to argumentative I want to say something now. First thing's first, Jack should be our new leader."

"What?" they all asked in shock, as well as Jack.

"Why me?" he asked.

Suki shrugged, "You seemed like that type. You took things in a positive manner and displayed good leadership skills. Don't think for a second I'm being nice here but that's just the way I see it."

Jack twitched and looked around the colorful bunch, Takashi cheered and gave Jack a noogy, "Alright, Jack! I knew you'd be a good leader—really I did!"

"Way to go, Jack," grinned Scalemon as he hopped on his tamers' head. "Let the party begin!" 

Jack blushed, "Well, I guess I agree—that is, if you all want me to be leader."

"Course, Jack!"

"You're perfect for the job!"

Ryoko shrugged and smiled anyway, "Hai, I guess I don't wanna be leader anyway, but being I'm turned down I'm expecting you to do twice as good as I would."

Pixie smiled and yelped, "What are we going to do now, Jack?"

Jack blushed sheepishly, "Ano…Gomen, I really don't know right now. Give me some time to think here…"

"Why not," Kerry started and stood up to get everyone's attention, "why not just divide the group into fours and search around for these two. I mean, we have the whole day and like—3 of us have laptops we could use and communicate with."

"Yeah," Hikali assured. "Let's do that?"

Jack smiled and nodded, "Okay then, pick our groups, Kerry."

Kerry blinked, "Me? Uh…," he shook his head and let out a grunt. "Just because you insisted. Okay, there's ten of us so—Jack, why don't you go with Ryoko, you guys take the parks. Hikali and Garrod, library. Suki you're gonna go with Pixie and," Kerry looked at Takashi and rolled his eyes nodding, "Takashi, you're going to the two malls…and, that leaves me with Lucy and Ricky."

"What?" the two exclaimed. "Me with him/er?! Hey, who are you calling Lucy/Ricky?"

Kerry slightly chuckled and shook their comments off. Jack clapped his hands, "Okay, so we're off. You guys can use your Digivices to contact us if you find them, and your laptops to well, you know, whatever they're for. We'll meet back at the Shinjuku park at dawn." They all nodded and walked out to their destinations. 

"Of course everyone gets to go to the mall, the park, and we're stuck here where? The library," pouted Hikali as her and Garrod walked in. "This is a discrim—mmf!"

Garrod kept his hand on her mouth, "Will you be more quiet? This is a library. Are you always this outspoken, you're gonna get us kicked out."

Hikali sighed, "Okay, okay…hey! Maybe they have Dragon-lance!"

"Shh!" the librarian from the corner hissed.

"Heh," Hikali and Garrod slowly marched around the aisles. "Do you think they have computers? I want to go visit some websites," Hikali said. "Garrod, Garrod? What are you doing?" Garrod had stopped beyond a fiction shelf and held a book in his hands, "Garrod?"

Garrod flipped the pages carefully and stared at it with admiration, "Misao reads these books."

"Your kendo teacher?"

"Yes," Garrod replied. "She loves reading—not to mention hitting me," Garrod said those last words more to himself in amusement. "My dad used to read these too…"

Hikali frowned, "Oh, I'm sorry…do you wanna talk about it?"

Garrod smiled and put the book back, "Thanks, Kali, but those Digidestines aren't going to look for themselves. C'mon!" he grinned awkwardly and dismissed the subject.

"Ker-ry!" Tanrei called. "Kerry!"

"Would you be quiet?" Talon smacked her head coolly and gently, causing Tanrei to stumble a bit on her roller blades.

"Gomen, hunger just makes me act weird," Tanrei moaned childishly and continued blading down the streets. "You're so hurtful."

Talon dug his hands in his pockets, "That ain't a word. Now could you stop saying his name?"

Tanrei glanced at Kerry who, let out a slight laugh, "I just wanted to ask something. You should be thankful I have a hard head for that smack would've made a huge bruise," she slightly mumbled.

"You shouldn't be so mean to girls, Talon," Agumon commented. "Tanrei's nice, isn't she?"

"Thank you," Tanrei smiled and turned to Kerry, "where are we going anyway, Kerry?"

Kerry kept quiet for a while as they walked down a steep hill, Tanrei clinging onto every pole once and a while. Kerry glanced up at the buildings where Semimon was leaping across the rooftops, taking out his Digivice seemed like the signal for Semimon to come down for he did.

Talon and Agumon watched Tanrei and Popimon desperately skating down the steep hill, a smile playing across his lips, Talon turned his head to Kerry who, was occupied at staring down the path with Semimon at his side.

"So," he started, "what's with you and Pixie?"

Kerry blinked and turned, "What about her?"

"You seemed pretty irritated at pairing her up with Suki and Taka—mostly Taka. Like her or something?"

"Pinkie? No way," Kerry replied. "No offense but I think Taka already likes her, poor soul…" he smirked to himself.

"Oh," Talon said and almost grinned, "which poor soul?"

Kerry let out a muffled laugh, "Yeah, really…You're alright, Koishikawa, you're alright."

Talon responded with a nod. Could he have made a newfound friend? (o_o) A faint smile spread across Semimon's lips as he listened to Kerry's conversation with the boy and perked up his ears when hearing a faint yelp, calming down seeing it was only Popimon.

"Some colorful bunch we have here," Semimon commented half to himself. Kerry and Talon nodded and Semimon sighed and darted down after the two.

"T-Tanrei, why you, being…so wobbly?" Popimon wiggled around Tanrei's head as both partners slid 'gracefully' down the hill after the others. "Whoa, I think I'm gonna lose that Hawaiian nut bar…" Popimon commented and grabbed its mouth.

"No, no, Popimon don't," Tanrei gulped when she was suddenly held by the scruff. She looked back and smiled, "Thanks, Semimon."

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^_^ Hope you liked it. Gomen ne if I made any characters look bad or anythen, complain and I'll change it o_o Kay? Hai, my character is pretty…what's the word—idiotic, mentally-challenged, weird…feel free to stop me -_-; That was just one of Tanrei's many odd sides. And I would've done more of when they're looking for Minami and Kin like, what Ryoko and Jack are doing and such but the chapter's long as it is…Hmm…well, review and out comes Chapter 3~! ^_^