Hello everyone. Sorry I haven't updated recently, but I'm grounded. Yes, grounded. I don't expect me to be able to update at lest till summer vacation!! Poor me!!!

Anyway, here is the rest of the story!

Special thanks to:

Butterfly-fire: Is Hope's Battle one of your stories? Never mind, I'll find out my self and try to read it too, ok? And I know that you didn't want me to ask, but I will. Why did you change your name from Riskomon? Sorry, just had to ask. Oh, I haven't thought of couples except for hints of Ken/Yolie and Takeru/Hikari. Hmm, I'll have to think about that. Anyway, thanks for reviewing again!

musicstarlover: I'm soooo glad that you like this story! Sorry about chapter 6, but here is the rest of it! Enjoy!

Vincent: Trust me, I'll try to update sooner, but with the end of school coming up and stuff, I'm really swamped. I know that that is no excuse, but that's the best I can do, lol. Hope that you like the rest of the real chapter 6!

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Chapter: 6

It was a quarter after eleven as Yolie, Poromon, Cody, Upamon, Davis, DemiVeemon, Hikari, and Gatomon met at the park the next morning.

"They should've been here fifteen minuets agooo!" complained Yolie.

"Yolie! Calm down! I'm sure they're all right and have a reasonable explanation for all this, " Poromon interrupted, trying to calm his partner down.

"They should've been here! They are the two of the most responsible Digidestined as the team!"

"There she goes again," Davis whispered to the others.

"All of thish wailing ish giving me a headache!" wailed DemiVeemon.

"She's giving you a headache? Try having cat ears, then talk to me," commented Gatomon.

"I say fifteen more minuets, then we try to find them," suggested Cody timidly from behind Hikari with Upamon behind him.

"Great idea, Cody," praised Hikari.

"Where are those two?!!" yelled Yolie. Everyone just sweatdroped.

Fifteen minuets come and go and still no Ken, Wormon, Takeru, or Patamon.

"Alright! Now the hunt begins!" said one ticked off Yolie.

"The question is, where to look," Hikari commented.

"Well, I remember Patamon telling me that he and TK were going to spend the night at Ken's place," said Gatomon.

"Allllright! To Ken's place it is," yelled Yolie, still ticked off.

'Dingggg, dongggg' the chimes of the Ichijoji door bell rang as they got there twenty minuets later. "Hello? Oh, hi kids."

"Hi, Mr. Ichikoh," they all chimed, except Yolie.

"Ya, hi. Are Ken and TK here still?"

"Why, yes. They're still asleep I believe."

"They're what?!!" Yolie screamed through her teeth. "Excuse me please, but may I go wake them up?"

"Umm. Sure I guess," said a bewildered Mr. Ichijogi as he looked at the others with a silent question.

They all just sweatdroped. "They were supposed to meet as at the park about an hour ago and Miss Hot Head over there got mad when they didn't show," explained Davis.

"I see. Well, anyway, come on in. according to the look on her face, this is a show I beg you don't want to miss."

Everyone just smiled innocently and said, "Yup."

Yolie was already in Ken's room, devising a plan to wake them. Ken was on his back with his arms under his head and ankles crossed. Takeru was in the same position except on his stomach. The thing that almost made Yolie run back out was that they were naked from the waist up. She was looking over the two when something caught here eye on Takeru's left shoulder that was facing her. 'Sense when did TK have the symbol of Hope on his shoulder?' by this time, the other had already come into the room. At first, Hikari just smiled at the Digimon sleeping on their partners, Wormon in the crook of Ken's elbow and Patamon in the arch of Takeru's back. She then saw the partially nude boys and started to turn around, red in the face. Unfortunately, Yolie grabbed her and pointed to Takeru. "Has he always had that symbol?" she asked just below a whisper.

"What symbol?" Hikari, Gatomon, Davis, and DemiVeemon asked. Yolie pointed to Takeru again.

"There. On his left shoulder."

"I've never seen it before," commented Davis.

"Well let's wake them up and find out," suggested Gatomon.

"Allow me," Hikari said as she dug into her bag and pulled out a whistle.

As soon as she blew it, Ken and Wormon promptly woke up. "Ahhhhhh! We're up, we're up, we're up!"

All Takeru and Patamon did was mumble in their sleep and Takeru saying, "Just five more minuets, Kari."

"It's me, Dimwit!" Yolie screamed.

"We're up!" the duo of Hope exclaimed.

"First off, what with the 'five more minuets Kari'?"

TK and Patamon looked over at Kari and Gatomon who were almost on their knees laughing along with the others and just simply rolled their eyes. "Because that's how Kari used to wake us up back in the Digital World," they chimed.

"I see," said a disappointed Yolie.

"Gee, you guys. Thanks for barging into my room with an army whistle in our ears as a wakeup call," Ken remarked sarcastically.

"Well, gee. Sorry, Ken. We wouldn't have if you two had met us on time!"

"What are you talking about, Yolie? It's just…"

"Helllooo? Ken?" Takeru asked as he waved his hand in front of his friend's face.

"It's almost noon, Takeru."

"Didn't you set the alarm?"

"No."

They both looked at each other and fell back saying, "We're sorry!"

After everyone had left to let them get dressed, Takeru told Ken about his new dream. "You want to know something, Ken?"

"What?"

"I found out what it is like to sleep again. That is, after Genni talked to me. No pain this time, thankfully."

"Oh? What did he tell you this time?"

"He told me that I could get some answers after dark when ever I like. The catch is that Patamon, Wormon, and you are the only ones to know or find out about this."

"Sounds interesting. What are you going to do? Accept the invitation?"

"Yep. He gave me directions to get to his place. I was thinking on going day after tomorrow. Mom has an out-of-town scoop she was assigned to. I'll go around midnight."

"Midnight?"

"Ya. Everyone, even Izzy, will be in bed by then. I was hoping that you could spend the night and come with."

"It's a school night you know, but I don't see why not. I'm sure that once Mom and Dad know that you'll be alone, they won't mind."

"Thanks, Ken. I owe you one."

"Don't worry, I'm keeping track. Let's see, one, two, three…" Takeru lightly bopped him on the head as they made their way down the hall to find everyone laughing.

"Then they scream and throw themselves back into the couch as it falls over with them," Mr. Ichijogi is saying as they enter the room.

"Gee, Dad. Thanks for telling them our life story," Ken commented sarcastically again.

"You're quite welcome, Ken. Would you like to see the pictures we took of them upside down?" A chorus of 'Ya's and 'Let's see's filled the room. A 'Dad!' came from Ken and nothing from Takeru as he softly smiled at his friend's predicament.

Once everyone had finished teasing the four, they me up with the rest of the group. "There you guys are! You were supposed to meet us here half an hour ago!" exclaimed an impatient Tai.

"Sorry, Tai. We had to wake Digi-dee and Digi-dum first," said a still ticked off Yolie as she gestured toward Ken and Takeru.

"You what? But you two are the morning people," inquired Sora.

"We forgot to set the alarm," they chimed.

"At lest we didn't get in trouble."

"Is that a fact, Patamon? Wait 'till we get home," said Takeru blandly.

Patamon gulped and flied behind Matt who just chuckled. "Why don't we get some lunch first?"

"That sounds good to me. I haven't eaten breakfast yet and I get cramps when I don't eat," said Joe, backing Matt up on his idea.

"We know, we know," the original group said as they started to walk towards the nearest pizza place. The entire original group had participated in telling Joe that 'they knew' except Takeru. He was busy trying to think of what he was gong to say when the others brought him up in their future conversation.

Everyone had gotten two pieces of pizza and a soda to eat and drink at the park. The conversations going around the group was just small talk as Takeru tuned everyone out. He was jogged back to reality though when Sora asked, "So, have any good adventures in the Digital World lately you guys?"

The new group suddenly became very silent as they looked at Takeru. Takeru just pretended to ignore their glares and Sora's question as he lay back in the grass, arms behind his head. "Ookey. What happened?" asked Matt.

"Well, sense TC doesn't seem to want to talk, I will," exclaimed Davis. He then proceeded to tell what happened the other day after school.

At the end, Matt was next to Takeru checking him over. "Are you sure you're alright? Maybe you should go home and rest little bro."

"Matt, I'm fine. It wasn't life threatening," Takeru said with a stoic tone and face.

Matt almost backed up at Takeru's cold look. "No, TK. You're not fine. Some evil Digimon is after you and you say that you're fine. Now that doesn't make sense. Why did Davis have to be the one to tell us and not you? You could've come to us…"

"I already tried," Takeru interrupted still in his stoic face.

"You what!? You've never come to us about this!!"

"Yes he has, Matt," interrupted Davis.

"Oh!? When?!"

"A year ago," Davis answered.

"But that was a year ago! I'm talking about now!" Matt exclaimed, starting to get angry.

"Davis, how would you know that what happened yesterday is connected to last year?" inquired Takeru.

"That's around the time you started having those strange nightmares. That's also when you started changing. That look you gave me when Matt asked why you hadn't come to one of us about this answered it."

"What are you implying, Davis?" asked Izzy.

"I can answer that," interrupted Hikari. "TK woke up from a nightmare. He has been having almost the same nightmare for the past year. When if first started, he went to Izzy about it."

"That's right!" Izzy exclaimed, now remembering. "You started having those nightmares about the Digital World, a cliff, and a man! But I don't understand how that is connected with your change and now," he said talking directly at Takeru.

Everyone was looking at Takeru who pretended to ignore them. Yolie saw that Takeru had his hand over his left shoulder. "TK, I want to see your shoulder, now," she demanded.

"Why do you want to see my shoulder?"

"I just do. I saw something like a tattoo of your crest of Hope on it."

"What?!" is all that the original group exclaimed in surprise.

"TK!? With a tattoo!?" Matt said slowly.

"That's absurd! Takeru would never pierce his body like that!" Izzy practically yelled.

"TK, please tell us that what Yolie saw and said is false," pleaded Sora.

"It's false," Takeru assured her. His tight shoulders, however, dropped in defeat. He couldn't lie to his friends, his family. "But what she saw isn't."

Everyone just looked at him. Ken, who was sitting beside Takeru, whispered out of the corner of his mouth, "Are you going to tell them everything?"

Takeru answered, "No. If they're flipping out over a so called tattoo, I don't even what to know what they'll do if they know the truth behind it."

Tai, who had been silent, the whole time, said slowly, "Takeru, Kari has already informed me on this. I was hoping that you would come to us instead of us coming to you. However, sense that has not happened, I expect you to tell us the true story behind all of this, everything." He looked over beside the preteen blond to his older brought and shared glares with each other. Tai nodded his head as if agreeing to something and said, "When you are ready to talk, come to us. We'll listen."

"I'm not ready to talk. I don't even know what's going on myself. But for your information, this," he turned his left shoulder toward the group and lifted his T-shirt sleeve," isn't a tattoo. I woke up with it yesterday as a matter of fact."

Yolie was stunned. "I'm sorry, TK. It looked like one."

"Don't worry about it. It looks like a tattoo to me to. That was a tongue twister!" Takeru joked as he put his sleeve down. He was net with a couple of chuckles. 'Only a couple? That should change after this.' "I wonder what Mom will do when she finds out." Matt instantly fell back laughing along with a slightly chuckling Ken who remained sitting. "It's bad enough on her with finding out her eight-year-old son traveled through two worlds, almost got killed on various occasions, and had to do it all again four years later." At this point, most of the original group were in full-blown laughing fits while the rest, like Cody and Davis, tried to hold it back but didn't succeed. "But a tattoo! She'll go absolutely nuts! Should we reserve a padded room for her or something, Matt?" he joked, trying to make his voice sound childish and innocent. All of the Digidestined and Digimon at this point were all laughing after that. Takeru couldn't help it as he too started to laugh. 'This didn't turn out as bad as I thought. Even Ken almost flipped when he heard.' *sigh* 'Well, I've got something good to look forward to tomorrow though. Tomorrow is my 13th birthday. As much as I can't wait for tomorrow, I still can't get this feeling that something bad is going to happen. Strange, I just don't know why.'

Boy was he right about his birthday not going smoothly.

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Phew! That too me over 2 hours to finish! I hope that you all enjoyed and will review. It will make me so happy!! Later!