-Eh, could this be any more late?-
"You like that Kokomon, Rokumon?" Minami asked hers and Kin's Digimon, who was stuffing out on Blueberry filled puff donut. The two Digimon nodded their head in delight, bouncing up and down the couch.
"Hey Minami, don't feed them a lot of that! It might make them sick or something… We need to feed them healthy food like carrots, just in case they get sick by those donuts," Kinnosuke said, walking in the living room, flipping on the big screen television.
"Aww, Kin-o-su-ke! Me and Rokumon wanna eat more!" Kokomon whined, chowing down another blueberry donut.
Kin glared a bit, "Why don't you guys just have some celery or something? That's sure not to hurt you or anything."
"But we want donuts!" Rokumon whimpered.
"No!" Kin yelled, irritated. Minami smiled.
"Come on Kin, let them have a bit of a break! I bet they have never tasted anything like this back from their world, right Rokumon?" Rokumon nodded again. Kinnosuke rolled his eyes, and smiled too.
"Okay, fine. But if you get sick, don't start bugging me!"
"Kinnosuke Kami!"
"Yeah, yeah, just kidding Minami!" Kin gave up and looked out the big window, liking the weather outside of Shinjuku, Japan. "Minami-chan, Kokomon, Rokumon…wanna go for a picnic?" Kinnosuke asked.
"Sure! It will be fun! When are we going?" Minami wondered.
"Err…why not now…"
"OKAY! Leeeet's go!" Minami exclaimed, going over to the closet and digging out a big basket, red and white blanket, and some more needed things. Kinnosuke went over to the refrigerator and the pantry, to get some food. Soon their basket was filled with jelly-filled donuts, two containers of rice and orange-glazed chicken, bottles of water and cans of sodas, sweet bread, and many more goodies to be imagined.
"Okay Rokumon and Kokomon, you have to hide inside the basket, just incase," Kin stated. Rokumon and Kokomon hopped over to the basket, and secured themselves inside. Kinnosuke went over to his bedroom to get his Digivice, then to Minami's room to get her Digivice. He put his inside his jacket, and handed Minami hers. They started walking down the path to the park. Minami took big steps, her full of happiness.
"So...Minami...how did that Tolon guy find out that you were a tamer?" Kin asked.
"Kin, it's Talon, and he found out, because...um, at school. I was getting out my notes, when my Digi-vice fell, and he saw. I quickly put it back so no one would see...but at recess, he came up to me and demanded to see my Digivice—He's weird!" Minami said.
"Oh...you know Mina, you should be more careful. You shouldn't have even brought your D2-arc, what were you thinking."
"Gomen nasai, Kinnosuke. And it's 'Minami', not 'Mina'. Kin, you're bad with names."
"Yeah, whatever," Kin replied.
"Kinnosuke, can I please get out of this basket?! Rokumon keeps fidgeting around!" Kokomon yelled from inside the basket.
"No way Kokomon! You're the one fidgeting' around!"
"Am not!"
"Is too!"
"Am not!"
"Is too!"
"Hey, knock it off. Just a couple of more minutes!" Kin said, sounding really irritated.
"Kin, c'mon..." Minami said.
"Yeah, yeah, okay. Kokomon, Rokumon.... Just try not to catch any attention okay?"
"Don't worry Kinnosuke, things are going great lately! Rokumon and Kokomon are nice, and they keep us company when grandma and grandpa are off for a long time!" Minami reassured.
"Yeah, I guess you're right." The two and their Digimon walked on in silence. They were about to turn in a corner, when....
*CRASH!*
"Oww!" Talon and Minami yelled, rubbing their injured heads.
"Huh?" Talon looked up to see—"MINAMI!?"
"TALON!?"
"What are you doing here?" They both said in unison, pointing at each other. Minami, lost at speech like Talon, was also relieved when someone stepped in.
"Hey! It's that girl I saw earlier today! Minami, is it?" Tanrei replied happily and greeted her.
"Yeah...it's me," Talon got up and helped Minami to her feet.
"It's good to bump into you again Minami! —Hey, is that food in the basket?" Tanrei asked, going over to the basket Kinnosuke was holding. Kin looked at Tanrei, wondering what was the girl up to. Tanrei started to search the basket for goodies, when something inside bit her. "Ow! Hey, what was that?" She exclaimed. Kin's eyes quickly wandered up and found themselves matching Minami's worried eyes, he watched in panic as Tanrei began to inspect the basket.
"Um—it's nothing! Eh...it may be the crabs we brought—yeah, crabs!" Kin chuckled nervously.
"Oh-kay...Do you guys have any sweet stuff in there?"
"Yeah, here you go!" Minami said, handing Tanrei a donut which Tanrei happily took and began to eat.
"Tanrei, you just ate minutes ago! Yeesh, is that all you think is about food!?" Kerry asked, taking the donut Minami was handing him.
"Yup, smure! Domups are the bwemps emer!" Tanrei said, her mouth full of donuts and talking like how people talk when their mouths are full of food.
"Here you go Talon!" Minami said happily offering Talon a donut.
"Uh, no thanks, um, I'm not hungry r-right now," He looked up at the sky, blushing.
"Huh...okay...I guess...." Minami ate the donut she was going to give to Talon.
"Hey, you know what, Talon and I didn't get to introduce ourselves. I'm Kerry. I guess you're name is Minami?" Kerry shook Minami's hand, then turned to Kinnosuke.
"I'm Kinnosuke, but you could just call me Kin," Kinnosuke said happily, shaking Kerry's hand.
"Hi Kinnosuke!" Tanrei went over to Kin, bumping Kerry out of the way, and shook his hand with stars in her eyes. "I'm Tanrei! It's very nice to meet you! You're sooo cool!" Tanrei said.
"Um...o-kay..." Kin said. Tanrei was still shaking Kin's hand, so Kerry had to go over to them and drag away Tanrei before she lets something stupid slip out of her mouth.
"Minami, what's up with that girl?" Kin whispered, still looking after Tanrei who was still being dragged away.
Minami smiled, and whispered back, "She thinks you're cool! Heh, like how all girls in your school think you're cool!"
"Huh?"
"Oh, don't worry about it Kin!"
"Tanrei, you need to be more serious at times, ya know?" Kerry said, sweat dropping.
"I dun wanna and it's not like anyone takes me seriously anyway—Hey, is that orange glazed chicken I smell?" Tanrei quickly pointed at the basket.
"Err...yeah. Minami and me were gonna eat it..." Kinnosuke started.
"Oh, okay! Well, we gotta go! We gotta go...um...find these people that we are...um...inviting to a party! Yeah! Party! C'mon guys, let's go!" Tanrei excused herself and grabbed Kerry's and Talon's arms, and dragged them away. Before they could make the third step, a loud, irritating noise started sounding.
"Not so fast children!"
"Huh?" All five of them looked up, to see a purple-looking bird Digimon, hovering above the park trees and getting ready to fire at random will.
"Who the hell are you!?" Talon yelled.
"Biruchimon! I saw that Digimon in my card deck before!" Kerry yelled, holding out his Digivice. "Boomon, digivolve!"
"You got it! Boomon, shinka...Semimon! Semimon shinka...Talesmon!"
"Crush that bird! Use Flaming Leaves!" Kerry yelled.
"Flaming Leaves!" Talesmon sent out a bunch of leaves on fire to Biruchimon, but Biruchimon just flapped it off.
"Pa-thetic!" Biruchimon bellowed a thunderous laugh.
"Agumon, get em'!" Talon held out his Digivice and Agumon digivolved into Greymon. Greymon attacked Biruchimon, but it was still not enough. Finally shaking her daze off Tanrei hurriedly scanned her surroundings and found the helpless Popimon trying to get in battle, Tanrei's hand felt around her pockets but showed no sign of her Digivice. She quickly threw her bag down and started rummaging through it when a thought struck her, oh no, my Digivice! It's—
"Gone! Popimon...how can you digivolve?! I can't find my Digivice!"
"Tanrei! How could you loose something like that?!" scolded Popimon, the smile it always carried now vanished as the mood to win played onto it.
"I-I don't know!" Tanrei said.
"Lose something, Tanrei?" Tanrei glanced up and swiftly caught the Digivice thrown to her by Talon. She shot him a clueless look but silently thanked him by nodding her head, before calling onto Popimon.
"You got it, Tanrei!" Popimon digivolved three times to reach its champion level and joined forces with the other two.
"Kin...I knew that Talon was a tamer, but I didn't know that the two...they're also tamers!" Minami exclaimed. "Yeah...Now it's our turn! Kokomon, digivolve!" Kokomon digivolved and joined the battle.
"Wing Strike!" Biruchimon yelled, sending a windblast towards the Digimon and their tamers, their cries of agony heard could be heard throughout the whole park.
"Ungh...Rokumon...we have to do something! Digivolve Rokumon..." Minami said, her voice weak with exhaustion.
"Okay Minami...Rokumon shinka...Petalmon! Petalmon shinka...Botanimon! Boomerang Leaf!" Botanimon took a shot at Biruchimon, and it did little damage to it.
"Guys..." everybody turned to face Talon, "We should hit that overgrown purple bird with full force! Why don't we join our Digimons' powers together, that way they can finally defeat that thing!"
"You got it Talon! Talesmon, go!" Kerry yelled.
"You too, Shinnamon!" Tanrei commanded her digimon.
"Umimon!"
"Already on it Kinnosuke!"
"Botanimon, get that purple-hairy-bird!"
"Gladly Minami!"
"Greymon, take a nice shot at that...thing!" Talon yelled. "Let's go!" with that last word said a great light emerged from the group of Digimon; Leaf Buster, Celestial Flame, Angel's Blue Wind, Boomerang Leaf, and Nova Blast, all five digimon attacked Biruchimon with full force, de-digivolving after the giant bird digimon got destroyed once and for all.
"Rokumon! Are you okay?" Minami went over to her digimon to see if she was okay.
"Never been better!" Minami smiled, taking Rokumon in her arms and hugging her. Tanrei got Casimon in her own and walked over to Minami.
"You and Kinnosuke....are tamers..." Minami got up and nodded, walking towards Kinnosuke.
"Yup. Shocking isn't it?" Kinnosuke said.
"KINNOSUKE! WOW! This means I get to hang out with someone so cool!" Tanrei beamed in Kin's face.
"Uh...I guess..." Kinnosuke looked at the girl as he cocked a brow.
"Guess the secret's out, huh, Talon?" Minami said, walking over to his side.
"Yup," Talon sighed, "Now that, um, it's out, we could introduce you and Kinnosuke to the other tamers," Minami nodded. She looked over to where Tanrei and the others were.
"Hey, how about if you, Tanrei, and Kerry and the rest of the tamers come to me and Kin's house, and have some kind of a celebration or something?" Minami asked. Suddenly, Tanrei popped up in front of
Minami, still starry-eyed.
"Really?! Sugoi! Plenty of food tomorrow for me! Yay!" Tanrei started jumping around the place, the others sweat-dropping.
"Yeah, we'll do that," Kerry said, "Minami, Kinnosuke, why don't you guys go back to your house and get everything ready for tomorrow. The three of us will go get the others, okay?" Kerry said. All of them went walking away.
"Oh...kay..." Kinnosuke looked after them, until they were out of sight.
"Aww, Kin, what about our picnic?" Minami complained.
"Eh, I think it's been delayed enough—let's go to the park now!" The two went running to Shinjuku park, along with their two Digimon.
"Kinnosuke, hurry up! All of them are going to be here in about....ten minutes!" Minami said hurriedly, checking her appearance in front of the mirror, tucking in runaway strands from her odangos.
"Hey, you try cooking all the food! Hey! Rokumon, get away from that!" Kinnosuke said. His eyes were looking around everywhere, trying to keep track of all the things he was cooking.
"Ah! Gomen nasai, Kinnosuke! I'm just a little hungry..." (A/N Gee, this fic sure does involve a lot of food! ^o^())
"Ack…. It's all right. Hey Mina, would'ya mind getting me that spatula right there?"
"Sure Kin...and it's Minami." Minami handed Kin the spatula he was pointing at. All the food cooked so far by Kinnosuke, with a little bit of Minami's help, were: Steamed rice, chow mein, orange glazed chicken, sushi, takoyaki, fried fish, beef-broccoli stew, pan bread. And if that isn't enough—sashimi, al-ready prepared seaweed, white cake with white frosting, strawberries, and a bit of sprinkles, Beef Sukiyaki, Chocolate-covered rice balls, Miso Soup, and finally, Teriyaki Salmon. Yes, it may seem Kinnosuke's gone a bit food-crazy but they are serving for twelve children! Green tea and raspberry tea was probably the only thing Minami did herself. Right now, Kinnosuke was cooking the sashimi, and the takoyaki, but he was almost done. Minami looked over the things Kinnosuke was cooking, a knock suddenly interrupting her sight for the delicious-looking food.
Minami went and opened the two-door entrance, seeing all the ten digidestined there...she was quite shocked. There was so many of them! "Konnichiwa...minna...please, come in." All of them went in, including their Digimon and put slippers on. At one sniff of the air, Tanrei started floating towards the kitchen. (Not literally floating...) Kinnosuke turned around to find Tanrei looking at the food that was already done.
"Uh...konnichiwa, Tennotsukai-san...Hungry, huh?" Kinnosuke asked. He put the rest of the food in a nice plate, seeing Tanrei drool over the food. "Guess so," Kinnosuke chuckled, getting out some plates and bowls. "So, which one do ya wanna eat?"
"Huh? Eat! Really! I'll take a little portion of each please! Mmm....They all look so good!" Tanrei giddily jumped in delight.
"Heh, thanks."
"Nani?" Tanrei said, putting in a takoyaki in her mouth.
"Well I cooked it...so, it's like giving me a compliment, you know?" Kin said smiling.
"Oh.... Well, thanks for the food then!"
"You're welcome."
"Tanrei! Don't be so rude, going around somewhere in another person's house and all! Such bad manners!" Kerry came walking in, along with the other digidestineds and their Digimon. Talon walked over the counter with Agumon beside him they suddenly couldn't help but have their mouths water at the huge platter of fried fish. (It was said that Talon and Agumon have a great liking in fish, right?)
"Uh, is it—" Talon cleared his throat. "Is that plate of fish for us?" Mostly everyone turned to question the random question asked by Talon himself, Tanrei peeked at what both tamer and Digimon were staring at and nodded giddily.
"Talon, not you too!" Kerry threw up his arms as everyone watched in amusement while the three practically threw pieces of the fish in their mouths.
"Gomen nasai, Kerry! I'm hungry, and why are you getting mad at me for Talon's eating too!" Kerry sighed.
"Tanrei, you're *always* hungry. Eh," the food laid for the taking made Kerry's mouth water, "Might as well dig in myself!" Kerry got all the utensils needed for all the digidestineds to eat, and they just all started getting food. After serving themselves, they sat in the big table, and started munching away.
"Gosh Minami, this food is very good!" Hikali remarked, taking a bite of her seaweed.
"Oh, don't thank me Hikali, thank Kinnosuke!" Minami said.
"Oh, arigatou gozaimasu, Kinnosuke!"
"Do itashimashite..." Kin smiled. He was very happy and flattered that they liked his cooking. Kinnosuke went back to eating. Minami suddenly looked up, and started a conversation.
"So, tell me all about you guy's selves...Let's start with you!" She pointed to Jack, who looked up, some noodles hanging from his mouth. He quickly wiped his chin as everyone turned to glance at him.
"Oh, I'm Jack Hyska. I…am fifteen and the leader of this group. And that's my buddy there, Scalemon," He went back to eating. Minami looked over to Pixie, who noticed that Minami was looking at her.
"Um...This is Kakumon! And I'm Pixie Sugienna, and I'm fourteen! I also love this food your cousin made!" she slightly giggled nervously when the chef himself smiled a thanks to her.
"Suki Nariyasa, fourteen," Suki said before taking a sip of her tea, she glanced at the cat-like Digimon beside her. "And that's my partner, Duskarmon."
Kerry cleared his throat, "You already know me, Kerry Moniko, but that's my partner over there, Semimon."
"Hey, I'm Garrod," the boy with wild black hair exclaimed when, out of the blue, a penguin-looking creature made its way on top of Garrod's head. He chuckled, "And this is Penmon." As Kin was examining the funny-looking Digimon Tentomon suddenly popped in his view.
"I'm the smart and wise Tentomon! Tashi's digimon!"
"It's Takashi, Tentomon!" Takashi glared and, by using a free hand, he pushed Tentomon down to the ground beside him before facing Kin. "Sorry about that," he then glanced over Hikali to cut it.
Hikali smiled and held out her hand, "Hi! I'm Hikali, I do hope you'll be cooking for us the rest of the journey, your cooking actually tops my Mom's!" she exclaimed then picked up Gatomon. "And this is Gatomon, here—she loves it, too."
Ryoko cleared her throat, "Ryoko Ichiro, but you could call me Ree and only that," she said and continued eating. "And that's Cashmon over there," Minami's eyes averted towards Tanrei and Casimon, Tanrei glanced up as if she knew someone was looking at her, and they both smiled before Minami turned to speak to Talon.
"Don't even go there Kimura...you know exactly what my name is, and how old I am," Minami widened her eyes in surprise, sweat-dropping.
"Uh.... Okay Talon...."
"Whatever."
"You know who I am Minami!" Agumon suddenly said. Minami smiled.
"Of course! Who could forget a digimon like you!" Agumon blushed.
"Aww, thanks Minami!"
"Well, let me introduce myself! My name is Kimura Jing Minami! I am thirteen years old, and Kinnosuke there is my cousin! Oh, and this is my digimon, Rokumon!"
"It's nice to meet you all!" Rokumon said happily.
"My name is Kami Jiang Kinnosuke, but you can call me Kin! I'm fifteen years old, and I'm Minami's cousin. I take care of her since our grandparents are on constant vacations."
"How can you guys take care of yourself like this...not to mention, how do you pay the bills?!" Pixie asked.
"Um, grandparents. They send us a lot of money every month, plus, I have a part time job at the convenient store. "
"Awesome," Pixie suddenly said.
"Wow, that was sure a good dinner! I'm too full right now though...." Takashi said, leaning back on the couch and gritting his teeth. The gang all settled into the spacious living room after their wonderful meal, but before they could have enjoyed each other's company Jack spoke up.
"Let's get down to business—Team, right now, we have to figure out a way to get to the digital world!" Jack clapped his hands and stood up, everyone groaned and began complaining. "Oh, c'mon, we're going to have to talk about this sometime."
"What makes you say that, Jack?" Hikali asked, looking at his direction.
Jack replied with no hesitation, "Well, we *are* digidestineds aren't we? So that means, we're destined to go to the Digital World! This might sound a bit stupid but, it feels like it's waiting for us—well, something there is waiting for us. Isn't that right, Scalemon?"
"Nice point, but how do you think we're gonna get there, huh point Dexter?" Talon said.
"Um...uh...well, to think of it, I don't really know. Maybe I should've thought farther than I did...." Jack sat back down, and sighed.
"Exactly."
"Oh c'mon Talon, have a little more imagination than that, will you?" Tanrei encouraged, making Talon glare at her.
"Why don't you come up with something, 'Ms. Little Smarty Pants'! We obviously don't have any clue where to look right now!" Talon remarked. Tanrei stuck her tongue out and moved farther away over beside the silenced Suki.
"Continuing on...Penmon, do you know how we can go to the Digital World?" Garrod glanced behind him, all eyes turned to the little creature who silently stroked its chin for a while before answering.
"It's just a hunch," he said, "for a Digimon like myself it's rather amusing that I can't find an solution but, maybe we have more to do here in your world before we can be sent there. But then, most likely there is a portal leading to the Digiworld that we have to find."
"I think you're right Penmon. We just have to find a portal somewhere, but where…," Cashmon said. Minami stood up...
"Ah! Hey, I think I have an idea! Since our Digivices are a similar thing to computers, maybe..." Minami went to her bedroom, then went back to the living room carrying a lap top computer. She took out her
digivice, and hooked it to the laptop. Instantly, the screen started to glow. Minami kept typing things in, until she found something.
"Aha! Here! Here's a map of the Shinjuku area, and I believe that red dot right there may represent the gateway to the portal!" Talon went over and examined the screen.
"That looks like...the Shinjuku Park!" Talon took control of the laptop, setting it on his lap. He typed up a couple of more things.
"Amazing! The Digivice has a database of information of all the Digimon there is! And since this Digivice is the one that's providing the information through the laptop, it must mean that this Digivice has all sorts of information about Digimon and the Digital World!"
"Talon, right now we need to start thinking of how we are going to tell our parents and guardians," Kakumon stated. Kinnosuke nodded in agreement.
"She's right. My grandparents are going to be coming here soon to visit, and what's going to happen if Minami and me are not here, then they'll start panicking. Besides...we have school and other stuff to deal with," Kinnosuke said.
"No problemo! We just leave a note to our parents, and just.... I guess ditch school!?" Pixie grinned nervously, Kerry slightly chuckled.
"It's not that easy, Pinkie. School is important to everybody here, and we can't just leave a note to our parents! What are we gonna say?
'Dear Mom and Dad,
I'm in the Digital World right now with eleven other kids and creatures from another world but hey, don't worry, I'll be back soon! Right after I save the world and all' … Ah, I don't think so," Kerry said.
"He's got a point there, Pixie, start thinking about what comes out of your mouth before you actually say it," Suki said.
"Humph. He thinks he's all that, but guess what—he's NOT!" Pixie remarked. Kerry glared.
"You're not all that either, Miss Pinkie! Quit jumping to conclusions before you think!" Pixie rolled her eyes and went to sit between Suki and Tanrei, too.
"Okay. So, the day after tomorrow, we meet at Shinjuku park. 1:00 p.m. sharp and not a moment later," Garrod said. "But right now, I have to get going, it's gonna take me a while to figure out exactly what I have to say to convince my parents! C'mon Penmon, let's go!" Garrod waved off and headed out the door. Penmon himself smiled widely and waved, thanking them for the delicious food and heading to catch up with his tamer.
"We better get going too. Takashi, Talon. Let's book it! Domo arigato, Minami, Kinnosuke, for the fine dinner," Kerry bowed his head respectively, and he took off with Talon and Agumon, Takashi and Tentomon, and Semimon.
"Same here," Jack finally said after a while, his Digimon by his side. Pixie stood up with him.
"Ah! I've got an idea! Hikali, Suki, Ryoko, Tanrei, Minami, would'ya like to come over to my house for a little while?" she graciously invited.
"Oh. Gomen nasai, Pixie, I'd love to but I gotta help clean up here," Minami said, setting down her laptop walking beside Kin.
Pixie nodded, "Oh. That's okay, it'd would've been great if you could come but I guess, some other time, then. How about the rest of you?" The all nodded their head in agreement, and said their good-byes to Minami and Kinnosuke. Kin then put a hand in his forehead and heaved a sigh, falling down the couch.
"Whatta day!"
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