Lunch and Band Practice
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(Word following Japanese text) ... translation
((Psst..))... I'm talking to you..
"Thank Kami! Those classes were beyond boring!" Mishaya walked out of the building, holding her lunch from the apartment that served as her home for the moment.
Diego agreed. "Yatta (Yeah). I swear every class was a review of my life history in school!" He settled under a large sakura tree, next to Mishaya.
Hitori, Taiji, and Kajoro cautiously sat in front of the two, forming something like a half-circle no more than5-6 feet away. Hitori frowned as he heard rustling in the tree above. What the heck is that? He looked up. Seconds later, the boy's eyes widened and he scooted back some. The others looked at him strangely, and pointing to the tree was his only response. They apparently didn't get it so he looked at Diego and exclaimed, "Heads up man!"
Diego still didn't understand. "Nani (What)?"
THUD
"ITAI (OW/OUCH)"
Diego looked to the spot he had scrambled away from at the last minute. A pile of blue lay there. He stared at the heap blankly.
Mishaya prodded it. "Oi (Hey)...you okay?"
The blue form stood and brushed itself off. "Hai (Yes). But I was planning to use my partner to break my fall."
Diego laughed. "Not today."
The digimon glared at his partner and swung his spiked tail at him, hitting him with the spikeless underside of it.
Diego fell over. He grumbled as he sat up. "What was that for?"
The blue digimon smiled at his partner. "What do you guys call it? Payback?"
The others laughed as Diego sat there glaring at his partner. "Haha. Funny. So where's your partner-in-crime anyway?"
A white and blue being gracefully jumped down from the sakura tree.
"Would that be me?"
The figure was a female digimon. She had a lithe and stealthy form, like Renamon's. She had a cat-shaped face and white fur. Pale blue marked the tips of her ears, tail, under her paws and feet, over her stomach and a streak was under both of her eyes. The digimon's eyes were so black they looked violet. Currently, the dark orbs were examining razor sharp claws.
Mishaya hugged the tall digimon. "Kelsamon!"
The blue digimon snickered at Kelsamon's awkward position until he, too, was caught. Diego grasped his partner in a hug as well. Finally, some other source of comfortable familiarity. "Where have you been Vee-Eldramon?" The hug was a very amusing thing to witness, if you took Vee-Eldramon's physical description into account. He was tall and lithe, like Kelsamon, but he was a dragon digimon so there were differences. He was blue and white as his alternate rookie form, Veemon, was, but the horn was gone. He had a long, but not bulky, tail that was lined with spikes. The underside, however, was smooth with no spikes at all. He alsohad sharp claws and a separate streak of translucent white under each eye. His eyes were a sharp ruby color.
The two Chosen released their digimon. It was fine for them to be out, as the sakura tree was far from the cafeteria and the courtyard. Both areas could be considered a 'no digimon' zone because that was where just about everyone went to eat, provided that it didn't rain. However, for the few willing to sit in the rain, there were tables around. These tables were covered by those umbrellas often used and seen as parasols to block the sun. With a simple pull on a string, flaps would fall from the top, creating a makeshift tent for those inside of it. Some of the flaps were transparent, making for a perfect view of the weather. But back to our group's location - they were off to the far side of the courtyard, even going as far as to sit on the opposite side of the sakura tree. They didn't really want anyone to see them, much less their partners out here..
Kajoro paled a bit in worry. "We've got trouble..."
Hitori and Taiji looked to where Kajoro was and gulped quietly. "Uh oh, you guys gotta go. We got 'clueless crew' at 8 o'clock."
Kelsamon idley wondered why they were talking about the time as she and Vee-Eldramon headed for the tree. Her progress was halted, as was Vee-Eldramon's it seemed. Diego and Mishaya shook their heads, refusing to shift out of the way. Diego folded his arms.
"No way. You're staying. They don't recognize you two anyway. Their digimon are in their knapsacks and you know it. You sit and eat with us." He was using that no-nonsense tone that left no room for anyone to argue against him. Not that anyone cared enough to try. The two rookies had no problems with that and ravaged through their partners' lunches.
((That's right. They're rookies.))
Far off, in the cafeteria...and a number of minutes ago...
"Hello? Earth to Hikari and TK." Taichi waved his hand in front of said Chosens' faces.
The older digidestined and Ken were trying to get TK, Hikari, and Miyako to come back to reality. They seemed dazed and lost in their own little worlds.
Yamato arched an eyebrow at his younger brother. "TK? TK?" He snapped his fingers. "TK?" Nothing. He sighed.
Miyako came back to reality, daydreaming about marrying Ken again. "Oro (Huh)?" She saw Yamato trying to get to TK. It was too easy to resist. Heh heh. I got it. "Hey TK. Diego is checking out your girlfriend."
The desired effect was received. "What? Where is he!" TK looked in every direction, wanting to catch the other boy red-handed. A few seconds later, the blond realized that he had been tricked.
Yamato blinked as his brother looked around wildly for someone who wasn't there. "Calm down bro'. Whoever you're looking for, isn't here. Welcome back to the land of us non-daydreaming people. Imagining your wedding kiddo?"
TK blushed furiously and glared slightly at his still-out-of-it girlfriend. Taking a page right out of Miyako's 'play book', he whispered in her ear,"Mishaya is looking at me awfully funny." Also grabbing the bait, blindly too, Hikari jerked up straight and looked around glaring. She turned her glare to her boyfriend, who was currently trying to keep a straight face and failing.
TK snickered. "Who were you looking for?"
Hikari smacked TK upside his head. "Not funny!"
TK winced. "Ow! I didn't know you'd get so jealous about it!"
This earned him another smack to the head and Hikari going outside. "I'm eating by the sakura tree. Hmph."
TK went after his girlfriend. "Oh come on Hikari!"
Yamato shook his head and Taichi sighed. "Better make sure this doesn't turn out ugly. Jealousy is such a powerful thing."
"Screw that, I just want to watch." Yamato rolled his eyes as the others snickered a bit. Both followed their siblings outside.
Miyako got up and Ken stared at her. "Where are you going?"
Miyako smiled mischievously. "I just wanna see what happens," she said, basically repeating Taichi's earlier words. And she left. Not caring to watch, but not wanting to be left behind either, Ken sighed to himself and followed her and the others.
Catching up in time...
Diego and Mishaya sat down as the group approached. Cue the blocked fleeing of their digimon partners.
Ah, back to the present...
'Kari and TK continued to argue. TK didn't get what the big deal was. "Why are you so mad?"
"Why is it so funny to you?" I can't believe he did that!
I was only joking, Kami! "Why are you so serious?"
"Because you're so childish!"
"I'm not acting like a child here."
"Oh?"
Both glared at each other, silently willing the other to give in and apologize. That obviously wasn't going to be happening.
"Trouble in paradise?" Diego sat against the tree, looking too cool.
"Yeah. I'm amazed you two actually found a reason to fight. What ever could havehappened?" Mishaya ate a bit of her sandwich. Or rather the air, because the sandwich was gone. "Hey!" She got up started to wrestle with her digimon. Which was quite pointless when you think about it. Taiji, Hitori, and Kajoro laughed and made a prospect of betting on who would win.
"What is this!"
All fun and games stopped at Hikari's rather loud cry. Gatomon popped out of her knapsack, on guard and ready to fight. Feline eyes fell onwhat she deemed as the threatand pounced on Kelsamon. Kelsamon moved at the last minute, watching Gatomon curiously as she got up from her miss.
Kami, that girl sure can yell. Diego removed his hands from his ears and gave a lopsided smile. "What's wrong?"
"What's wrong? I'll tell you what's wrong! That!" Hikari pointed to Kelsamon. The cat/fox digimon just stared back and sidestepped Gatomon again. "Who's digimon is that?"
"'It' is a Kelsamon and she is Kyoko's partner. Jeez, you act like you've never seen her digimon before. ... Okay, well judging from the look on your face, I guess you haven't, or don't remember at least. Why don't you ask your boyfriend over there?" Mishaya pointed over to none-too-comfortable-lookingbearer of Hope. "I'm sure he has a better memory than you do. Right TK?" I just lost my appetite. Mishaya picked up her bag and left. Taiji and Hitori sighed and Diego waved them off to go after her.
Kajoro gave Diego a level look. Diego nodded and waved him off as well. "Well, I believe that's enough excitement." For right now anyway. He proceeded to go, but Taichi grabbed his arm and dragged him back as he approached. Diego heard sighs and looked behind Taichi to see an oblivious Yamato pulling back an unhappy Mishaya. The sighs came from Taiji, Hitori, and Kajoro. All three had their hands to their foreheads and were shaking their heads. The same thought echoed through their heads. We're going to die a humorously sad death today...and it's only lunch of our first day.
"What. Do. You. Want?" Mishaya was fuming and Yamato released her.
"I want answers. What just happened and who are they?"Yamato pointed to the two digimon.
"It's none if your business really. It's not my fault that you don't recognize them...or remember them."
Taichi shot him a questioning glance. "What are you talking about Diego?"
"The digimon are Vee-Eldramon and Kelsamon. Vee-Eldramon is Daisuke's partner and Kelsamon is Kyoko's partner."
That's impossible. Daisuke's partner is Veemon and he doesn't have a form like that. "You don't have to lie. If you don't want to say, then just don't." Miyako walked over followed by a more cautious Ken.
Diego sighed, raking a hand through his spiked hair. Prove it, prove it, prove it. How to prove it.. "Look. I'll show you later, okay? We can..."
Mishaya finished for him. "...go to the Digital World."
Daisuke nodded in agreement, mentally thanking the girl for the save. "Yeah, that'll work. After school, let's go and we'll prove it if it means so much to you."
Taichi and Yamato seemed satisfied and dropped the subject.
Miyako inched over to Diego. "So Diego...how do you like Japan?"
Refrain from inching away, Refrain from inching away... Diego shrugged. "Seems okay, but I should've brought Daisuke with me. I wish he'd told me that his partner was so much trouble though. Greedy little digimon...for a rookie."
Ken peered closely at the two digimon. Vee-Eldramon was tempted to poke him in his side with his tail, but thought better of it and didn't. Kelsamon stared back for a moment, until she had to jump back from Gatomon's claws. The cat-fox digimon gave Gatomon a bored look. "Why are you trying to attack me? You've failed to hit me repeatedly now." And it's getting a tad annoying, she added mentally.
How did she end up here? How did she survive? Gatomon huffed and jumped at her again. Kelsamon back-flipped onto a tree branch. Gatomon glared icily. "Don't you dare toy with me. I know you remember."
Kelsamon blinked. "Remember what?"
How dare she play with me like this! Gatomon gaped, hissing angrily seconds later. "How can you do that?"
"Do what?"
"Just lie to my face like that?"
"Oro (Huh)?"
"I said don't toy with me!" She charged again.
Kelsamon's eyes began to glow. "Mesmerized Chaos!"
Gatomon froze in mid-air and dropped to the ground. Hikari ran over to her fallen partner. "Gatomon? Gatomon!" Hikari's head snapped up and she glared at Mishaya, the same way Gatomon glared at Kelsamon. "What is wrong withyour digimon?"
Mishaya shrugged and frowned. "Her name is Kelsamon and she's Kyoko's partner, not mine. And besides, your digimon attacked her first, repeatedly at that. That was self-defense and your digimon isn't even hurt." What a brat.
Hikari studied the bundle in her arms and, sure enough, Mishaya was right. There wasn't a mark on Gatomon.
Ken examined the cat digimon. "Judging from her even breathing...I'd say she's sleeping."
Hikari shook Gatomon and she shifted a bit, but didn't wake up.
Diego was looking at his watch and motioned for Taiji, Hitori, and Kajoro to make a run for it. The three boys crept behind the other Chosen and grabbed their lunches. Then they were gone. They stopped, though, deciding to wait for Diego and Mishaya at the door by the cafeteria entrance. Kelsamon walked over to Mishaya's pack and pulled out something.
Hikari tried again with no response. Gatomon began to snore softly.
Kelsamon walked over and shadowed Hikari and her sleeping digimon.
Hikari looked up and tried, once more, to wake up her partner. "What did you do to her?"
Kelsamon rolled her eyes, which looked funny from Mishaya's point of view, so she snickered a little. This earned her a sharp glance that she returned with an indifferent shrug. "You partner is merely sleeping child. What did I do? I used my 'Mesmerized Chaos'. That just putsmy opponents in a deep sleep. She won't wake up unless disturbed. Your soft shakes won't do anything aren't enough to do the trick though."
Hikari sighed in frustration. Who does this digimon think she is? Just like her partner was...ugh. The Child of Light decided that she didn't like Mishaya. What am I talking about? I didn't like her to begin with. I suppose that just means I dislike her even more than before. "What will?"
Humans make these things so much easier. "Something like this." Kelsamon pulled the object that she took form Mishaya's pack out. It was a bottle of water. With an almost-evil smirk, she poured the contents all over Gatomon. The desired effects were obtained. Gatomon woke up with a start, and after identifying the source of her 'wake up call', she became alarmed and angry. Once again, the cat digimon tried to hit Kelsamon, but was unsuccessful. Miyako and Ken looked around to see that Vee-Eldramon had gone too. Hikari and Takeru saw that Diego and Mishaya had also disappeared. Taichi and Yamato noticed the disappearance of the three boys.
Well this turned out to be more interesting than I thought it would... Taichi shook his head and sighed. "I guess we'll have to wait until after school." The rest nodded and headed back, praying that nobody had noticed the confrontation and the digimon. They (digimon) were only somewhat accepted in the world right now and were especially scarce around Japan for some reason.
"Kami, that was close." Diego sighed in relief as they headed to their last class for the day. Way too close.
"Where are we going?" Hitori scratched his head. "I lost my schedule."
He smiled sheepishly as Mishaya sighed and everyone else sweatdropped. "Why am I not surprised? We have English, Gym, and free period."
Kajoro shrugged. "Okay, two classes and we go home."
Diego opened the door to English. "What about free period? In case you forgot, our dear math teacher gave a load of math reviewing homework."
Taiji agreed and pointed to a row of seats in the back. "Yeah. And we need to go ahead and do it here at school now anyway."
Mishaya threw him a questioning glance. "Why?"
Uh-oh... "Ummm, we have band practice."
Diego and Mishaya nearly fell over. "Band practice!" Mishaya quieted down when other students, their teacher not yet present, stared. "Ahem...band practice!" sherepeated in a much softer voice.
Diego hissed at them. "Are you crazy? We have to go to the Digital World and we need your help to pull it off."
"Why?"
For the love of.. "Because Hitori...if we go there, they can access America or any other country- with some work anyway. They might want to see our 'cousins'." Sacarstic emphasis was put on 'cousins'.
The three other boys nodded. "Ohhh."
Hitori shrugged. "So what are we supposed to do to help?"
Diego scratched under his chin. Is that the makings of a goatee? Sweet! "Hmmmm, they might ask to see them. All they need is the coordinates to a computer in our house. We can't say that we don't have a computer. Saying that all the available computers are broken is lame and they could just suggest using another computer in the area and walking from there. We can't exactly just say 'no' for no reason, it'll look suspicious."
Kajoro gave him a look. Hm, that sounds like...just about all our options. Great. "Well, there's all the reasons why we have to help, now all we need to know is how we're supposed to help.
"Decoys," they said simply.
Hitori didn't get it. "Oro (Huh)?"
Mishaya beamed. "Decoys! It'll work perfectly. If you guys pop in as a distraction, then we might be able to play it off as running out of time."
Diego nodded in agreeance. "Yatta (Yeah)! That should do it."
Hitori yawned. "So...obviously you two want nothing to do with the others for the day, but...there's one problem."
Diego raised an eyebrow. Now what? "And that is..."
"Band practice."
"We covered that already."
"No...we'll run into that blond guy's band."
Oro? "TK has a band?"
"No, it's the older one."
"Yamato?"
"I think so."
Twin groans could be heard. "Oh great."
Mishaya sighed."When is our practice then? Let me guess, right after theirs?" It would be just our luck...
"Basically. He might see you two."
Diego groaned again. Mishaya shook her head. Surprise, sur-freaking-prise. "Now what Diego? It's not as if we have enough problems as it is. Please, add to them."
"I just remembered that the others always watch Yamato and his band practice. All of them will be there. Well...except the obviously missing trio of Mimi, Jyou, and Koushiro."
Someone up there hates us, I just know it. "That's...just lovely."
"Well then, I guess it's safe to say that you two are officially screwed."
"Why thank you Kajoro, that makes us feel so much better."
"Glad to help Diego, glad to help."
Silence reigned over their whispers as class started. ((playing Jeopardy music ... Okay!)) As the class worked on their given assignment, Hitori asked,"When is this class over with?"
Diego looked at his watch. "I'd say we have 15 minutes left."
"Great. What was that lady talking about?"
"No idea."
"She's been going over a supposedly-critical grammar review."
"Boring."
"Everything in school bores you Hitori."
"I know that...except lunch and free period. Those are okay."
"Riiiiight."
"How long do we have?"
"It's been 5 minutes, Kajoro, since the last time you asked me that."
"Meaning?"
"Kami Kajoro, don't you have a watch? As a matter of fact, can't you read the one on the wall?"
"Umm..no."
A sigh. "We have 10 minutes."
"Amen to that."
"Nani?"
"Heard it on TV."
He would. "Figures."
RING
The group of five friends stood up, grabbing their things. "Okay, so are we going to free period or not?"
Diego shrugged. "Yeah, we've got time to kill."
"Lovely. Math homework galore, here we come."
Wait, the other guys.. "Think the others are in there?"
I hope not. "I doubt it Mishaya. They usually go home..don't they?" Of all the things for me to forget, aside from Ishida's band that is.
"Right then, let's go!" All five went to their respective lockers and entered the library and their free period of math homework, compliments of Mr. Kayashi, began.
K...that ended rather lamely. shrugs Next chapter, we drop in on the others and what they plan to do. Will we ever reach band practice? Will Yamato catch them? Read and review to find out!
