Whoa, I didn't really expect people to like my story that much.. Thanks! In this part there's actually Digimon in it, and so not to delay you any further from reading, enjoy the fic!
Disclaimer: Me don't own Digimon. No one come sueing.
Notes: 'thoughts'
"talking"
FAMILIAR
by Hitora
Part Three
Gennai's Gifts
"WE'RE HOME!" Kari called out into the apartment, followed by Tai and Matt.
"Well, welcome home!"
"Huh?"
Kari looked up and saw a short, elderly old man sitting at the table in front of the kitchen. His eyes were wrinkled together and only appeared as slits on his aged face. He had a small white ponytail on top of his head with the rest of his head being bald. He had a large white moustashe that formed into points at the ends and he wore it well under a friendly smile. He had on a very stylish black suit.
"Gennai!" she said delighted. Gennai was an old friend of the family and came by for visits once and awhile. He was a kind man with a funny voice and was sort of like a grandpa to Kari and Tai. She ran over to him and gave an enthusiastic hug around the old man's neck. "How are you Gennai?"
"I'm fine my sweet Kari!" he said.
"Hey Gennai!" Tai greeted him with a wave rather than a hug.
"Ah, Tai, Matt, glad you're both here." he said.
"And why's that?" Matt asked curiously.
"Because I have something for all of you!" Gennai said excited, bringing up a paper bag from behind him.
"Presents Gennai?!" Kari asked excited.
"In a way, all right. I choose each one specially for each of you." With saying that he reached into his bag and began to pull out his special gifts for them.
"You have got to kidding me..." Tai replied. He looked down at what the old man gave him. It was a stuffed animal. It was a weird looking thing. It was light pink, round creature with no arms or legs, or body for that matter. It was more like a round pink head with two paper strip-like antenna out of it. It had two round, cute red eyes and the appearence of teeth coming out over its mouth. Around it's well, 'neck' was a black lace that held a strange blue and grey device with a small rectangular blue-green screen in its center. "What's this?"
Matt was surprised he even got a gift, but even more surprised (and a little confused) at what the gift was. Like Tai's it was a creature with only a head. It had two red eyes and brown fur. Out of the top of his head came a curving black horn. It also had the same gray and blue device on a black string around its neck. "Okayy....."
Kari's gift was the biggest of the three. It looked sort of like a round, cute piglet with two bat wing-like ears coming out of its head. It was a light brown color with a white-peachish color coming up half its body. It also had some round adorable blue eyes. Around its neck was a different gadget with a small rectangular black screen on a hand held shape that was black, grey, and pink. "How cute!" Kari exclaimed as she hugged it.
"Hey, old man, what are these things?" Tai asked looking down on it doubtfully.
"His name's Gennai Tai!" Kari reminded.
"Uh, Gennai what are these things anyway?" he asked.
"Hmph, hm, these creatures are called Digimon. They specially belong to you three." Gennai replied with a smile. "The one you got there Tai is called Koromon. Matt, yours' is Tsunomon and Kari, yours' is called Patamon."
"Koromon?" Tai repeated looking at the stange creature in his hands.
"Tsunomon," Matt repeated with mystery. 'Why does this creature have a strange feeling around it?' he wondered.
"Patamon... Hmm, it's cute!" she said.
Gennai smiled sastisfied at his work. "Well, I better get going." he said rising out of his chari. Carefully bringing his hands behind his back, he walked over towards the door. Tai's mother followed him to the exit. As she opened the door for him she looked up towards the three who were watching him leave. "And what do we say to Mr.Gennai for his generous gifts?" she called to them, warning them of their manners.
"Thank you Gennai!" they all said simutaneously. (Kari said hers more gratefully than Tai and Matt)
"Your welcome! I hope you like your gifts!" Gennai called. "Good day Mrs. Kamiya," he said turning to Tai and Kari's mom. "Thank you again for having me."
"Thanks for coming by! Have a good day Mr. Gennai." she replied. With a final bow, the old man toke his leave.
"What was Gennai thinking?" Tai said looking into the funny face of the stuffed Koromon. "Man, how old does he think we are? Ten? Yep, I believe that old guy's finally going senile."
Tai's mom had decided to go to her friend's house for an errand. Matt and Tai had decided to study at the table that stood between the kitchen and living room. They had placed their stuffed animals in the center of the table and their books in front of where they sat.
"Well, it's a nice gesture right Tai?" Matt reminded. "It's sort of cool-looking in a weird sort of way." he said with a descending doubtful tone. "I wonder what these things around their necks are.." Matt lowered down to examine the gray devices.
"I don't know man," Tai began to do the same. He pressed on one of the buttons that was set at the device's side. It beeped and the rectangular screen flipped to another one. "Hey a clock, and its at the right time too." Tai said impressed glancing over at the round clock that hung on the nearby wall. "Well, it has at least one use."
"Yeah, and if someone in my family had a baby or there's a kid's birthday I'm all set with a gift." Matt remarked. Both of them chuckled a little. But Matt's expression shortly turned serious again. He began to stare blankly at the device as it laid in the palm of his hand. "Tai, don't these things feel a little weird?" Matt asked his friend. "Like we should know what they're suppose to be?"
"Huh?" Tai replied confused. "I don't know about you Matt, but other than being a clock, I have no idea what these things are!"
"Hmph. Yeah. Me either."
"Patamon, Patamon," Kari said looking at the four legged creature standing in front of her as she laid on her bed. "Hmm.. I don't usually get stuff animals, but you can be considered my exception. I don't know why, but you feel pretty special." Kari admitted. "You are so cute after all." she said with a big smile. "Huh?" Kari looked closely and noticed that its face began to turn all red. "Wha? Are you one of those color changing toys Patamon!?" she asked giggling. "I wonder how that works," she lifted it up and to look eye to eye to the strange device. It looked too large to an accessory to the toy and it looked as if it could be removed. "Hmm..?" She set the Patamon in her lap and began to finger with the device, trying to find a way to free the device. "Now, let's see...almost there."
Beads of sweat began to form on Patamon's face and its cheeks began to puff out. Suddenly, it couldn't take it anymore. "Hahahaha! I-I can't take it anymore! That tickles!"
"Eh? AAAAHHHHHHHH!"
Kari leapt up out of her bed and fell to the floor. She quickly recovered and crawled backwards until her back rested on the wall of her room. "Wha-What are you?!"
Matt and Tai shot up from the sudden scream that disrupted the once silent room.
"Hey, didn't that come from Kari's room?" Matt asked.
"Kari," Eyes locked on Kari's door in a worried stare, Tai burst up from his chair; causing it to fall back. "KARRIII!" he called rushing to her room. Matt quickly pursued. Tai snatched up the door knob and flung open the door.
"Huh? Gah!" Kari felt the support behind her suddenly disappear and fell back landing to the floor. She looked up to see she laid at Tai's feet.
"Kari! What is it?!" Tai asked hysterically.
"Uh, um," Kari was lost for words to explain her stuffed animals just laughed out loud at her. She climbed back to her feet to stand before him. She whipped her head back to Patamon. It just laid motionless on its side, still on her bed. She looked back to Tai still wide-eyed from the shock. Then, she noticed Matt standing behind him. 'Matt,' she realized.
"What happened Kari?" he asked.
'Oh no, if I tell them what happened Matt will think I'm crazy and Tai will never let me hear the end of it!' she thought worried. "Uh,um, I-I thought I saw something outside the window!" she declared lying.
"Really?" Tai asked with a suspicious look.
"Uh, yeah! But it was probably just my imagination! Sorry to worry both of you! Bye now!" After her hasty explanation she quickly shut her door, leaving a confused Matt and Tai standing in the hallway.
"Man, my sister's losing it." Tai said annoyed. "What's the bid idea freaking me out anyway?!" he screamed while waving his arms in frustation.
"Hmph, you're just the big brother of the year aren't ya?" Matt teased.
"Shut up man," Tai said irritated. "Huh?" he turned around to head back to studying only to see his Koromon at his feet before him. "What the?" He knelt down and picked it up between his hands. "How in the heck did this get over here?"
Matt followed his best friend's gaze to see his Tsunomon lying on the floor behind him as well. Dumbfounded, he knelt over and lifted it off the ground too. "Did you drag these with you as you ran Tai?" he asked.
"No, did you?"
"No. That's weird."
"Heh, you think maybe they felt lonely and followed us?!" Tai asked jokenly.
"Hmph, yeah right."
Kari panted heavily with her back to the door, still trying to recover from the intense moments of nearly having a heart attack and lieing to her brother and Matt . "Whew," she sighed relieved knowing it was over.
"That was close!" a squeaky voice declared. She looked up to see her Patamon flapping its bat ears and hovering in front of her face.
"Urk! Okay, okay, this must be a dream. This must be a dream. That's it! I fell asleep right on my bed! Yes! This is all in my mind!" Kari said mumbling to herself.
"What's a dream?" it asked.
"All a dream! Urgh, why am I not waking up?!" she asked herself desperately.
"Don't be afraid Kari, I'm your friend!" Patamon said happily.
"What are you anyway?"
"I'm Patamon remember? I'm your Digimon!" it said. "I've been waiting so long for you!"
"For me? Wh-why me?" Kari asked back nervously.
"Because, we were meant to! You and I are going to be best friends! Right...?" he asked with hopeful eyes.
"Well," she said doubtful. "you are really nice and I don't think you meant to scare me..."
"I didn't! Honest!"
"Okay! Let's be friends!"
"Yay!" Patamon cried out with delight. He flew and dove right into Kari's arms with joy. "I'm sorry for scaring you!" he said.
"It's okay." Kari said forgiving him.
"Oh!" Patamon then lifted its paw up to her face. In its 'hand' was the device she tried to get off his neck.
"Thanks, this came with you didn't it? What is it?" she asked.
"All I know is that it's a called a D3 and that it belongs to you." Patamon said.
"Cool," She walked over to her bed and sat down onto her soft mattress. Patamon leapt out of her arms and sat before her.
"Uh, Kari who were those two guys who came to your door?" he asked.
"Hm? Oh, that's Tai and Matt." Kari said. "Tai's the brown-haired one, he's my older brother. And Matt is the other one. He's my brother's best friend and...the coolest guy alive." Kari said dreamily.
"Huh?" Patamon said.
"Oh, nothing!"
"Hmph,hm, so Gennai's beginning to put his plan into action, I should of expected as much. Trying to reunite the children old man?" a mysterious voice mocked from the dark shadows of a cold, dark place that was clearly undefinable.
"Mistress, what should we do about him?" another voice asked.
"He is of no concern. He's powerless against me, and he knows it. Besides, he has played his part, now everything else will come into place. Hmph, hm, hmm...It looks as if this little dream is about to enter the scene hm? Are you ready?"
"We're ready and waiting for your command Mistress!"
"Good. Just you wait Digidestined, I'm coming to destroy you...."
Disclaimer: Me don't own Digimon. No one come sueing.
Notes: 'thoughts'
"talking"
FAMILIAR
by Hitora
Part Three
Gennai's Gifts
"WE'RE HOME!" Kari called out into the apartment, followed by Tai and Matt.
"Well, welcome home!"
"Huh?"
Kari looked up and saw a short, elderly old man sitting at the table in front of the kitchen. His eyes were wrinkled together and only appeared as slits on his aged face. He had a small white ponytail on top of his head with the rest of his head being bald. He had a large white moustashe that formed into points at the ends and he wore it well under a friendly smile. He had on a very stylish black suit.
"Gennai!" she said delighted. Gennai was an old friend of the family and came by for visits once and awhile. He was a kind man with a funny voice and was sort of like a grandpa to Kari and Tai. She ran over to him and gave an enthusiastic hug around the old man's neck. "How are you Gennai?"
"I'm fine my sweet Kari!" he said.
"Hey Gennai!" Tai greeted him with a wave rather than a hug.
"Ah, Tai, Matt, glad you're both here." he said.
"And why's that?" Matt asked curiously.
"Because I have something for all of you!" Gennai said excited, bringing up a paper bag from behind him.
"Presents Gennai?!" Kari asked excited.
"In a way, all right. I choose each one specially for each of you." With saying that he reached into his bag and began to pull out his special gifts for them.
"You have got to kidding me..." Tai replied. He looked down at what the old man gave him. It was a stuffed animal. It was a weird looking thing. It was light pink, round creature with no arms or legs, or body for that matter. It was more like a round pink head with two paper strip-like antenna out of it. It had two round, cute red eyes and the appearence of teeth coming out over its mouth. Around it's well, 'neck' was a black lace that held a strange blue and grey device with a small rectangular blue-green screen in its center. "What's this?"
Matt was surprised he even got a gift, but even more surprised (and a little confused) at what the gift was. Like Tai's it was a creature with only a head. It had two red eyes and brown fur. Out of the top of his head came a curving black horn. It also had the same gray and blue device on a black string around its neck. "Okayy....."
Kari's gift was the biggest of the three. It looked sort of like a round, cute piglet with two bat wing-like ears coming out of its head. It was a light brown color with a white-peachish color coming up half its body. It also had some round adorable blue eyes. Around its neck was a different gadget with a small rectangular black screen on a hand held shape that was black, grey, and pink. "How cute!" Kari exclaimed as she hugged it.
"Hey, old man, what are these things?" Tai asked looking down on it doubtfully.
"His name's Gennai Tai!" Kari reminded.
"Uh, Gennai what are these things anyway?" he asked.
"Hmph, hm, these creatures are called Digimon. They specially belong to you three." Gennai replied with a smile. "The one you got there Tai is called Koromon. Matt, yours' is Tsunomon and Kari, yours' is called Patamon."
"Koromon?" Tai repeated looking at the stange creature in his hands.
"Tsunomon," Matt repeated with mystery. 'Why does this creature have a strange feeling around it?' he wondered.
"Patamon... Hmm, it's cute!" she said.
Gennai smiled sastisfied at his work. "Well, I better get going." he said rising out of his chari. Carefully bringing his hands behind his back, he walked over towards the door. Tai's mother followed him to the exit. As she opened the door for him she looked up towards the three who were watching him leave. "And what do we say to Mr.Gennai for his generous gifts?" she called to them, warning them of their manners.
"Thank you Gennai!" they all said simutaneously. (Kari said hers more gratefully than Tai and Matt)
"Your welcome! I hope you like your gifts!" Gennai called. "Good day Mrs. Kamiya," he said turning to Tai and Kari's mom. "Thank you again for having me."
"Thanks for coming by! Have a good day Mr. Gennai." she replied. With a final bow, the old man toke his leave.
"What was Gennai thinking?" Tai said looking into the funny face of the stuffed Koromon. "Man, how old does he think we are? Ten? Yep, I believe that old guy's finally going senile."
Tai's mom had decided to go to her friend's house for an errand. Matt and Tai had decided to study at the table that stood between the kitchen and living room. They had placed their stuffed animals in the center of the table and their books in front of where they sat.
"Well, it's a nice gesture right Tai?" Matt reminded. "It's sort of cool-looking in a weird sort of way." he said with a descending doubtful tone. "I wonder what these things around their necks are.." Matt lowered down to examine the gray devices.
"I don't know man," Tai began to do the same. He pressed on one of the buttons that was set at the device's side. It beeped and the rectangular screen flipped to another one. "Hey a clock, and its at the right time too." Tai said impressed glancing over at the round clock that hung on the nearby wall. "Well, it has at least one use."
"Yeah, and if someone in my family had a baby or there's a kid's birthday I'm all set with a gift." Matt remarked. Both of them chuckled a little. But Matt's expression shortly turned serious again. He began to stare blankly at the device as it laid in the palm of his hand. "Tai, don't these things feel a little weird?" Matt asked his friend. "Like we should know what they're suppose to be?"
"Huh?" Tai replied confused. "I don't know about you Matt, but other than being a clock, I have no idea what these things are!"
"Hmph. Yeah. Me either."
"Patamon, Patamon," Kari said looking at the four legged creature standing in front of her as she laid on her bed. "Hmm.. I don't usually get stuff animals, but you can be considered my exception. I don't know why, but you feel pretty special." Kari admitted. "You are so cute after all." she said with a big smile. "Huh?" Kari looked closely and noticed that its face began to turn all red. "Wha? Are you one of those color changing toys Patamon!?" she asked giggling. "I wonder how that works," she lifted it up and to look eye to eye to the strange device. It looked too large to an accessory to the toy and it looked as if it could be removed. "Hmm..?" She set the Patamon in her lap and began to finger with the device, trying to find a way to free the device. "Now, let's see...almost there."
Beads of sweat began to form on Patamon's face and its cheeks began to puff out. Suddenly, it couldn't take it anymore. "Hahahaha! I-I can't take it anymore! That tickles!"
"Eh? AAAAHHHHHHHH!"
Kari leapt up out of her bed and fell to the floor. She quickly recovered and crawled backwards until her back rested on the wall of her room. "Wha-What are you?!"
Matt and Tai shot up from the sudden scream that disrupted the once silent room.
"Hey, didn't that come from Kari's room?" Matt asked.
"Kari," Eyes locked on Kari's door in a worried stare, Tai burst up from his chair; causing it to fall back. "KARRIII!" he called rushing to her room. Matt quickly pursued. Tai snatched up the door knob and flung open the door.
"Huh? Gah!" Kari felt the support behind her suddenly disappear and fell back landing to the floor. She looked up to see she laid at Tai's feet.
"Kari! What is it?!" Tai asked hysterically.
"Uh, um," Kari was lost for words to explain her stuffed animals just laughed out loud at her. She climbed back to her feet to stand before him. She whipped her head back to Patamon. It just laid motionless on its side, still on her bed. She looked back to Tai still wide-eyed from the shock. Then, she noticed Matt standing behind him. 'Matt,' she realized.
"What happened Kari?" he asked.
'Oh no, if I tell them what happened Matt will think I'm crazy and Tai will never let me hear the end of it!' she thought worried. "Uh,um, I-I thought I saw something outside the window!" she declared lying.
"Really?" Tai asked with a suspicious look.
"Uh, yeah! But it was probably just my imagination! Sorry to worry both of you! Bye now!" After her hasty explanation she quickly shut her door, leaving a confused Matt and Tai standing in the hallway.
"Man, my sister's losing it." Tai said annoyed. "What's the bid idea freaking me out anyway?!" he screamed while waving his arms in frustation.
"Hmph, you're just the big brother of the year aren't ya?" Matt teased.
"Shut up man," Tai said irritated. "Huh?" he turned around to head back to studying only to see his Koromon at his feet before him. "What the?" He knelt down and picked it up between his hands. "How in the heck did this get over here?"
Matt followed his best friend's gaze to see his Tsunomon lying on the floor behind him as well. Dumbfounded, he knelt over and lifted it off the ground too. "Did you drag these with you as you ran Tai?" he asked.
"No, did you?"
"No. That's weird."
"Heh, you think maybe they felt lonely and followed us?!" Tai asked jokenly.
"Hmph, yeah right."
Kari panted heavily with her back to the door, still trying to recover from the intense moments of nearly having a heart attack and lieing to her brother and Matt . "Whew," she sighed relieved knowing it was over.
"That was close!" a squeaky voice declared. She looked up to see her Patamon flapping its bat ears and hovering in front of her face.
"Urk! Okay, okay, this must be a dream. This must be a dream. That's it! I fell asleep right on my bed! Yes! This is all in my mind!" Kari said mumbling to herself.
"What's a dream?" it asked.
"All a dream! Urgh, why am I not waking up?!" she asked herself desperately.
"Don't be afraid Kari, I'm your friend!" Patamon said happily.
"What are you anyway?"
"I'm Patamon remember? I'm your Digimon!" it said. "I've been waiting so long for you!"
"For me? Wh-why me?" Kari asked back nervously.
"Because, we were meant to! You and I are going to be best friends! Right...?" he asked with hopeful eyes.
"Well," she said doubtful. "you are really nice and I don't think you meant to scare me..."
"I didn't! Honest!"
"Okay! Let's be friends!"
"Yay!" Patamon cried out with delight. He flew and dove right into Kari's arms with joy. "I'm sorry for scaring you!" he said.
"It's okay." Kari said forgiving him.
"Oh!" Patamon then lifted its paw up to her face. In its 'hand' was the device she tried to get off his neck.
"Thanks, this came with you didn't it? What is it?" she asked.
"All I know is that it's a called a D3 and that it belongs to you." Patamon said.
"Cool," She walked over to her bed and sat down onto her soft mattress. Patamon leapt out of her arms and sat before her.
"Uh, Kari who were those two guys who came to your door?" he asked.
"Hm? Oh, that's Tai and Matt." Kari said. "Tai's the brown-haired one, he's my older brother. And Matt is the other one. He's my brother's best friend and...the coolest guy alive." Kari said dreamily.
"Huh?" Patamon said.
"Oh, nothing!"
"Hmph,hm, so Gennai's beginning to put his plan into action, I should of expected as much. Trying to reunite the children old man?" a mysterious voice mocked from the dark shadows of a cold, dark place that was clearly undefinable.
"Mistress, what should we do about him?" another voice asked.
"He is of no concern. He's powerless against me, and he knows it. Besides, he has played his part, now everything else will come into place. Hmph, hm, hmm...It looks as if this little dream is about to enter the scene hm? Are you ready?"
"We're ready and waiting for your command Mistress!"
"Good. Just you wait Digidestined, I'm coming to destroy you...."