Disclaimer:
I do not own Digimon. If I did, I would have been a character in season three, and my character would have gotten with Henry, lol.
Author's Note(s):
This is my first ever fan fic. So go ahead and flame me if my writing is bad, but don't flame me for the coupling I choose. Please feel free to review and tell me what I need to work on. If you see any spelling errors, bad grammar usage, if something doesn't make sense, my story is too much of a cliche, I'm going way off character, or anything wrong, please tell me.
Things you should know before reading:
Takato, Jeri, Kenta, Kazu, Rika, and Henry are 17. Ai and Suzie are 11. Ryo is 19, and Mako is 10. I'm also using the Japanese school schedule where students have school six times a week, where on Saturdays they only school for half the day.
Giving it a Chance
Chapter 1: Intro
"So, how is he doing?" asked a girl who had shoulder length reddish-orange hair.
"I'm sorry to say this, but he only has a few more hours to live. The cancer has spread through out the lungs, and there's nothing we can do to stop it," said the doctor in a calm voice.
"I understand," responded the girl as she looked away from the doctor, and into the hospital room where a boy with blue sapphire eyes and short brown hair was staying in.
"If you like, we can send in a priest," said the doctor.
"Can I have some time alone with him first?" asked the girl, who was still staring into the hospital room.
"Ok. If you need anything, just ask the nurses," replied the doctor.
The doctor left, leaving the reddish-orange hair girl alone in the hallway. The girl then slowly walked into the hospital room, and sat down in a chair next to the bed where the blue-eyed boy with short brown hair was lying in. The girl took her right hand from her lap, over to the forehead of the boy, and gentle moved the two tufts of brown hair on his forehead over to the side of the boy's face. This motion woke up the boy.
"Hey, how ya doing?" whispered the boy.
"Not so good," said the girl, tears starting to develop in her eyes.
The boy saw the tears form in the girl's beautiful eyes, "It must be that bad."
"The doctor said... that the cancer... has spread throughout your lungs," said the girl, choking after some of the words. She tried to keep her tears from flowing out of her eyes, but failed.
"Don't cry," said the boy as he giggled.
"This is serious! You only have a few hours to live and you're laughing!!!" the girl shouted at the boy with anger.
"I know it's serious. It's just... well, it's because I thought you would be the last person to care about weather or not I live," said the boy in a low voice.
This statement touched the girl.
"Maybe it's because... I've been fighting my true feelings for you," the girl looked away from the boy. "Truth is... I really love you. I've always loved you, and I... I just didn't want to admit it. I love you R-" the red-orange hair girl was cut off with a kiss from the boy.
Rumiko, the mother of Rika, was watching all of this and started to cry. 'Finally, you told him your true feelings. How sweet!' Rumiko thought to herself, reaching for some Kleenex from a near by tissue box to wipe away her tears.
Rika looked over at her mom. "Mom, are you ok?" asked Rika as she grabbed an energy drink from the refrigerator.
Rumiko looked away from the television, and looked over at her daughter who had her auburn long hair in her usual high ponytail style. "I am," replied Rumiko as she wiped her tears away.
"Then, why are you crying?" asked Rika with a confuse look on her face.
"Because Kairi finally told Riku that she loves him," Rumiko started to cry again after she said this.
Rika looked over at the television, and saw a red-orange hair girl engaged in a deep passionate kiss with a boy with short brown hair, who all of a sudden backed away from the kiss and started to cough. Then the show went into a commercial.
"Now he's going to die," said Rumiko, grabbing some more Kleenex from the tissue box.
"Don't you have a photo shoot or anything better to do then just watch stupid soap operas?" asked Rika taking a sip of her energy drink.
"My photo shoot was cancelled today, and soap operas aren't stupid," responded Rumiko.
"Soap operas are stupid. It's just full of stupid love triangles which never get resolve, only get more complicated, and it's full of sappy romance," replied Rika, taking another sip of her drink.
"You only think it's sappy because you haven't been in love yet. Once you fall in love, you'll be into these sappy things," said Rumiko looking at her daughter with a small smile.
"Well, that's not going to happen to me. I told Renamon that if I ever become like that, to kill me on the spot," said Rika in a serious tone.
Rumiko looked at her daughter in shock.
"I was just kidding mom," said Rika after seeing the look on her mom's face.
"Have you ever watched a soap opera?" asked Rumiko.
"Nope," replied Rika as she finished up her energy drink.
"Why don't you watch this soap opera with me? You might actually like it," said Rumiko.
"I would, but all that sappiness is going to make me throw up. I had a good lunch today, and I prefer that it stay in my stomach. Anyway, it's first Saturday of the month; and I'm still pissed at you," explained Rika while crossing her arms.
"You don't have to go if you don't want to," said Rumiko.
Rika let out a sigh. "No matter how much I don't want to go, I rather go then let the ticket go to waste." This response from Rika surprised her mom.
"You've decided to go? That's great! If you need help finding a date, I can help you!" said Rumiko in excitement.
"I already know who to ask," said Rika with a mischievous smile.
"You do? Well, who are you going to ask?" asked Rumiko impatiently.
"Jeri!" Rika knew that her mother wasn't expecting that answer.
"Oh," said Rumiko in disappointment, expecting Rika to ask a guy instead of a girl to the dance.
"It'll be a girls night out type of thing. I'm going to ask her today," explained Rika.
"Oh, ok."
"And I better leave now or I'll be late!" said Rika when she saw what time it was from a clock in the kitchen.
"Take care, and tell everyone I said hi!" said Rumiko.
"Kay mom!" said Rika as she left the kitchen. Rika then went into another room in the traditional Japanese style house where her grandmother was in.
"Granny chat again grandma?" Rika asked her grandmother as she entered the room. Rika looked at the computer screen to see that her grandma was indeed on a granny chat room, "Have you ever met any of those people from that chat room? They can be serial killers looking for their next victim," Rika said teasingly.
Rika's grandmother looked over her shoulder and at her granddaughter, "I'm aware of that," she said with a smile.
"I'm going out grandma. I'll be back later. First Saturday of the month," explained Rika.
"Maybe I should walk you to the park. There can be some kidnappers out there looking for a young teenage woman to snatch."
"Don't worry grandma, Renamon will beat them up for me," replied Rika.
"So if I meet someone from this chat room, and they turn out to be a serial killer, Renamon would beat them up for me too, right?" Rika's grandmother asked.
"I won't let her cause I would beat them up myself," said Rika with a smile.
"Take care Rika!" said Rika's grandmother with a small laugh as she reverted her attention back to the computer screen. Rika left the house and walked towards the park.
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It was a bright, sunny, warm spring day in West Shiinjuku, with no cloud in site.
"That's all I have. I can't think of anything else to write. How about you?" asked Suzie who was showing her essay to Ai.
"All I have is; it was a dark and stormy night, and I don't know what to write after that. I got struck with writer's block too," replied Ai.
"This descriptive essay is going to be a lot harder than I thought it was going to be," said Suzie, while saving her descriptive essay on the computer before closing the document.
"Does your brother have a descriptive essay?" asked Ai.
"I don't think so. I don't think he ever had to do a descriptive essay for school," replied Suzie.
"Henry had different teachers from Takato and the rest of them, right?"
"Yes, why?"
"Maybe Takato and the rest of them had to do a descriptive essay for their teachers?"
"Maybe, but do you think they would still have it? I wouldn't. I usually throw away my schoolwork after the school year ends," said Suzie as she looked over at Ai.
Ai shrugged her shoulders, "I don't know, but it doesn't hurt to ask."
"True, lets ask them when we go to the meeting today," said Suzie as she looked at a clock in the study room of her family's apartment. "We better go. The meeting is going to start in fifth teen minutes."
Ai looked at the time, "Wow, I didn't notice the time."
Suzie and Ai left the study room and went into Rinchi's, the oldest brother of Suzie, room where Mako was playing a video game.
"Let's go Mako," said Ai.
"Ok," replied Mako, who got up and turned off the PlayStation 2 and the television.
Suzie, Ai, and Mako approached the door to leave, but right before Suzie touched the doorknob, the door open. Suzie, Ai, and Mako jumped back surprised.
"Henry? What are you doing here? You usually go straight to the meeting with Takato, Jeri, Kenta, and Kazu after school," asked Suzie giving her brother a confused look.
"Takato gave me a box of bread for our family, and I just wanted to drop it off here before the meeting starts because Guilmon will eat it all up when he sees or smells the bread," said Henry looking at his little sister who had her short mauve hair in her usual high pigtails, and then looked over to Ai and Mako, "What are you three doing here?"
"Ai and I were just working on our descriptive essay on the computer, because the computer lab at school was closed today," replied Suzie looking up at her blue haired brother.
"Can I have some bread?" asked Mako as he rubbed his grumbling stomach.
"Sure, it's Guilmon bread," replied Henry as he opens the box for Mako, "Do you want some Ai, Suzie?"
"No thank you," replied Ai and Suzie in unison.
After Mako took a piece of Guilmon bread out of the box, Henry walked over to the kitchen and dropped off the box of bread on the kitchen counter and then walked back to the three youngest tamers, "Ready to go?"
"Yes," all three said.
"I'll race you!" said Mako as he ran out of the apartment.
"Hey, that's no fair! You got a head start!" yelled Ai, running after her brother.
"Wait for me!" said Suzie, taking off after them.
Henry locked the door of the apartment and took off after them as well.
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The brown haired girl ran after the boy with brown hair. When she finally caught up to him, she tagged him.
"Tag, you're it!" said Jeri out of breath.
"Aw nuts!" said Takato, bending down with his hands on his knees, gasping for air, "You run... very fast.... Jeri... I think you... should try out for track." Hearing no response from Jeri, Takato looked up and saw no sign of her. Once Takato caught his breathe, he went around the playground looking for Kenta, Kazu, or Jeri to tag. After a few seconds of searching, he saw Kazu's visor peeking out from behind a tree. Takato walked slowly to the tree, and when Takato jumped behind the tree to tag Kazu, all he found was Kazu's visor hanging on the tree. 'Wow, that was very clever of Kazu,' Takato thought to himself. Takato heard some laughing coming from behind another tree, so he went over to the other tree and saw Kazu laughing, "Tag, you're it!"
"You should have seen the look on your face when you found my visor!" said Kazu laughing, "It was priceless!"
Takato's D-ark went off.
"There's a Digimon near by?" said Kazu, surprised.
"No, it's just the alarm," said Takato as he looked at the time on his D-ark, "We should go to Guilmon's hide out now because it's time for our meeting."
"The D-ark has an alarm?" asked Kazu.
"Yea, you can set it when you go to the time setting of the D-ark," explained Takato.
"I never knew that," said Kazu as he took out his own D-ark to examine it.
Jeri and Kenta, hearing Takato's D-ark go off, came out of their hiding places and walked over to Takato and Kazu.
"Hey guys, did you know that the D-ark has an alarm?" Kazu asked Jeri and Kenta.
"Yea," replied Kenta, giving Kazu a weird look, "You had that D-ark for about four years now, and you just found out about the alarm today?"
"Why didn't you tell me man?" Kazu asked Kenta.
"I thought you knew."
"What are Tweedledee and Tweedledum talking about?" asked Rika as she walked up to the group.
"Who are you calling Tweedledee and Tweedledum?" Kazu and Kenta both yelled at Rika.
"Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to call you two that," replied Rika.
"Apology accepted," Kazu said with a smile.
"I actually meant to call you two Dumb and Dumber," said Rika with a smirk.
"Hey!" said Kenta, catching the insult Rika just said.
"Kazu just found out that the D-arks have an alarm," Takato answered, hoping to put an end to the insults before it got out of hand.
"And I just found out it tells time too," said Kazu in embarrassment.
"I knew that the D-arks had a clock and an alarm for a long time, because that's the only thing I can use my D-ark for," said Jeri, starting to feel a little depressed.
Everyone looked at Jeri, not knowing what to say to her.
"We better go. Henry, Suzie, Ai, Mako, and or Ryo might be waiting for us," said Takato, breaking the awkward silence.
The five tamers started walking to Guilmon's hideout. Takato held Jeri's hand as they walked side by side with each other behind Kazu, Kenta, and Rika.
"Are you ok?" Takato whispered to Jeri.
"I am. Just missing Leomon again, but I'll be fine," said Jeri as she gave Takato a kiss on the cheek.
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A/N: I got the names, and only the names, Riku and Kairi from the PS2 game Kingdom Hearts, which is why the names don't match with the character descriptions of the characters from game. I was too lazy to create my own names.