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Chapter 11: Pure Children



"Kiku! Wait!"

Mr. and Mrs. Tanaka followed Kiku into her room so that she couldn't open the portal to the Digital World right away. Instead, the teenager threw herself on her bed and began to cry into her pillow. Mrs. Tanaka walked over and sat next to her daughter.

"Kiku, what happened?"

What Kiku said was impossible to understand. Her words were smothered and altered by the pillow and the tears streaming down her face. Mrs. Tanaka motioned for her husband to leave, since she figured that it was a "girl thing" that was wrong with Kiku and her daughter wouldn't want a man in the room.

After putting up with her mother's coos and "poor baby"s, Kiku sat up and looked at her mother.

"Mom, I'm fine. Can you please leave me along now?"

"Well, of course I can, Kiku, but is that what you really want?" Mrs. Tanaka asked.

"Yeah Mom. Go now, please."

Without another word or an argument, Mrs. Tanaka left her daughter and went back into the living room. Kiku sighed and walked over to the computer. She decided that before she left, it was a good idea to write someone an e-mail so that they could tell her parents where she was.

Kiku scrolled down her address book and found what she was looking for. She clicked on the name "Yamagi, Hikari."

To: Child_of_Light

From: Soccer_chik99

Subject: Good Bye

Hikari–

I'm running away to the Digital World. Nothing anyone says will ever bring me back, so please tell my mother and father where I am, so that they don't worry. Don't tell them that I'm in the Digital World, because they won't believe that, just make something up. As long as they know I'm safe, okay? Tell your brother that it was fun while it lasted . . . Though nothing really happened . . . And thank Takeru for including me with you guys.

Thanks Hikari, you're a life saver.

–Kiku

Kiku shut down the internet, then pulled up the portal. Her necklace began to glow, and she was pulled through, into the Digital World.

~Meanwhile~

"Hikari, why can you go through the door, and Koushiro gets stuck?" Sora asked.

Hikari had walked back and forth through the door for about ten minutes now, while Koushiro's hand was very much stuck in it. She giggled a little each time, for she claimed it tickled.

"Takeru can walk through too," Hikari assured, passing through the door again.

When Hikari came back into the apartment, Taichi grabbed her to stop her from doing it again.

"Why can you, Takeru, and Kiku walk through the door and we can't?" he asked.

"For the same reason you can't see us when we come to these things," Hikari replied, backing up into the door so she passed through. Taichi's hands hit the door, and did nothing else. He couldn't even get a hand through.

"But why's that?" Taichi demanded of the door.

Takeru walked over to the others.

"Because we're pure. Yamato's apartment has some link with some other world, because every time we come here, Hikari and I are invisible to your eyes. Plus, we can walk through doors," he answered.

Hikari walked back through.

"And Kiku's just like us," she said. "She's pure, so when she came here, everyone missed her. They didn't even notice her walk through the open door with Taichi. It's because you are the ones who bring shame upon the Digi-destined."

Koushiro frowned at Hikari.

"You just sounded like Gennai," he said, laughing a little, so his frown was quickly turned into a smile; Koushiro isn't good at frowning.

"But it's true," Takeru assured. "If you guys had just stayed pure, then none of this would have happened!"

Hikari's D-Terminal began to beep in her pocket. She grinned.

"Koushiro! You really did hook up my D-Terminal to my e-mail account!" she exclaimed.

Everyone crowded around Hikari as she opened the e-mail. Her face became grave.

"Kiku is running away . . . "