Author's Note: Before anybody says "they did it right the first time. They don't need you" either give it a chance, or go away! I don't want your opinion if you're going to say that and be mean about it. I've heard it plenty of times before and it's still my opinion that the ending ot season two SUCKED! There, I said it. Now if you don't like that opinion I suggest you leave. This fanfic is starting after the Blackwargreymon part of Season two. I'm writing this fanfic with my friend Kayhera. We're trying really hard to make this as realistic as possible and make our Digidestined as useful as possible as well. Also, Kayhera would like me to point out that Taru's digimon was not copied characteristically from the actual season. She made up all the characteristics about the digimon all by herself. Also my character's Digimon is based on a Digimon from the Tv show (not going to give it away) but a bit of the characteristics have changed a tad bit. Dying and coming back to life can do that to you, so I think it's realistic... Also, Taru's dad is referred to as "Minamoto-san". "-san" is basically the japanese version of "mr" or "mrs". Kayhera was having troubles figuring out what to call the dad so I let her call him by "san". I thought it sounded cool anyways, so if it annoys you, take it up with Kayhera...
Disclaimer: Er... own digimon? You've got to be kidding! If I did then I would be actually fixing the ending of season two... not writing a fanfic about it... But I do own Ami Nakahara! But Kayhera owns Hotaru "Taru" Minamoto. Okay, the last name is Koji's from Season four... I couldn't talk her into using another one that sounded familiar that I can't remember now... so I caved and let her use that one. I'm sure Koji won't mind since he's not in Season Two.
At first it had been kind of funny how little Hotaru "Taru" Minamoto knew of computers though she was insistent to learn how to use the Internet so she could study. For a nerd she hardly ever played around with electronics afraid to break them… or something. The only thing really nerdy about her was her excellent math skills and she went to the same school as boy genius, Ken Ichijouji. Then there was the cooking and cleaning. How could anybody find it enjoyable? Every time Ami Nakahara called it seemed like Taru was folding clothes.
The real annoyance at first when Taru had asked to be taught how to use the computer had been that Ami didn't live near by. She lived on the other side of Odaiba so had to ride the Subway there. When she had arrived Taru had changed out of her school uniform into her usual tomboy out fit with her baggy pants, purple shirt, purple bandanna and wrist bands. She rushed over to open the door but soon disappeared and came back with cookies. Ami had already started on the computer. After a while Taru's incompetence was just annoying.
"Oops!" cried Taru. "What I do?"
Ami, who had been leaning back in the chair staring at the ceiling with her hands behind her head, raised her eyebrows but didn't look at the girl.
"You pressed the power button," she yawned. The younger girl moaned and quickly turned the computer on. Then she stood up.
"I've got to start laundry," she said distractedly.
"Wha – " started Ami, sitting up straight.
But Taru had already left the room. Ami rolled her eyes and returned to the computer which had finally loaded up again. An icon flashed at the bottom and, distractedly, she clicked on it. A funny looking window opened up with this red light to the side. Ami blinked at it and moved closer to the computer screen. She could hear Taru moving around in the other room but the girl didn't sound like she was coming back right this instant. Suddenly the light turned green. Ami cried out and pushed herself backwards and out of the chair. She sat on the ground for a minute squinting in pain. When she looked up the screen went completely white and two bright lights came flying out: one toward her and the other out of the room. She heard Taru scream slightly but was too busy looking at the strange thing that had come out of the computer.
"What the…" started Taru, standing in the door way leaning on the frame and breathing heavily. "What is this?" she cried, holding out a strange yellow device.
"Well…" said Ami, looking down at an identical orange one in her own hands. "Hey! How come I got an orange one? I hate orange? It so doesn't go with my outfits!"
Taru snapped her fingers. "Hello! Focus!"
"Hmmmm…" said Ami, blinking and looking up. "Oh yeah!" She looked back at the device. It was almost egg shaped with an antennae, a few buttons and a very small screen. She tried looking for a speaker or something but there wasn't one. "It isn't a cell phone, I'll tell you that!"
"I know what it isn't!" snapped Taru. "Where did it come from?"
"The computer…" muttered Ami, standing up stiffly and walking back to the monitor. The funny window was still open. "Hey, do you know what this is?"
"Of course not! I know nothing about computers, you know that!" cried Taru. "But how could these things come from the computer? That's impossible!"
Ami ignored her as she clicked around trying to figure out what it was. It wasn't any program she had seen before and it didn't say it had a name. There wasn't any toolbars either, so she couldn't go to "Help" for information. She heard the girl come up behind her pressing buttons on the weird device. Though it was probably stupid, Ami didn't tell her to stop.
"You better not have broken my dad's computer…" muttered Taru, looking over Ami's shoulder.
Ami opened her mouth to say something but at that moment the weird devices beeped and the screen turned white again, glowing. The light got bright and brighter, filling the entire room until it seemed to fill Ami's entire body. It felt like she was being compressed and pressed through a tight tube. Then it was over and she was standing on a grassy floor with trees all around. She sighed in relief… then noticed her clothes. She was wearing a cute, baggy yellow shirt with a V-cut and orange cuffs. She was also wearing tight black jeans and a loose brown belt to which she clipped the weird device.
"Wait a minute!" said Taru in a high pitched voice. Ami looked at her and saw that she was wearing the same outfit. "Computers don't do this! Where are we?"
"No clue… but I got a spiffy outfit!" said Ami brightly, modeling for the girl, but Taru wasn't paying attention.
"There aren't any forests near by, and especially not any like this. Besides, how could we haven't gotten to one just like that if there had been one near by…" muttered Taru
"Enough!" said Ami, holding up a hand, looking away with her eyes closed. "Soon you'll start saying big words I don't understand. Let's just look for a way to get back from… where ever we are."
"Oh, I know! How about we find another computer," said Taru, suddenly looking very proud of herself, "and you can do whatever it is that you did back there and maybe, just maybe, we'll get back."
"Yeah… Will you believe me if I said I didn't do anything?" said Ami, scratching her head sheepishly. "The computer did it all on its own!"
The girl stared at her, blinking. She then sighed exasperatedly as if giving up trying to figure out how a computer did something all on its own. She pushed some of her semi-long brown hair out of her face and turned away. After a while Ami got annoyed at just standing around so she grabbed Taru by the arm and started dragging her aimlessly. For a minute Taru was completely stunned then she gave an impatient sound and pulled out of her grip. The two walked around for a good fifteen minutes or so (she couldn't be exact because she didn't have a watch) but it didn't feel like they were getting anywhere. Ami was just wishing the weird devices had a watch when they started beeping. Taru gave a screech in surprise and jumped half a foot in the air.
"Hey, there's a map on it now!" said Ami excitedly, unclipping the device and looking at it. "Wish it would shut up now… Okay, I got it, I got it! Come on, we should go. The sooner we get to where it wants us to go the sooner it'll shut up."
"But why did they start beeping like that? All on its own?" squeaked Taru, following after the older girl closely.
"Maybe it acts like a cell phone and it picked up on some sort of signal," shrugged Ami, veering off the path to follow the map.
"Oh, well in that case…" said Taru, sounding far more relieved. "Then that means there's got to be a cell phone tower. And where there is a cell phone tower there is more than likely a town where we can directions and help!"
"Yeah, sure, whatever…" muttered Ami.
The wandered about for a bit longer, the beeping starting to get increasingly more annoying. Finally they stumbled across a small village and the beeping instantly stopped, to Ami's relief. With an excited cry, Taru rushed forward, looking into each and every house trying to find somebody to help them out. Ami followed behind leisurely, looking around for something a bit more interesting than a bunch of houses. She was certain that the map had led them here for something more than just the houses. And by the look on Taru's disappointed face, there weren't any people here. Suddenly she gave a gasp.
"Ami! Over here! Come look at these!" cried Taru, motioning to the older women but slipping into the hut long before Ami caught up.
"That girl…" said Ami, shaking her head and feeling, not for the first time, as if she were looking after a younger sister. It was strange because she had always been the little sister but also enjoyable. Sometimes she wondered if Taru ever thought any similar ideas. She then shook her head clear and followed the younger girl inside.
"Have any idea what they are?" asked Taru, pointing at two eggs. One was purple with yellow poke a dots and the crest of loyalty of it. The other was striped white and orange also with a crest but this one of trust.
"They look like eggs," said Ami, putting her hands in her pockets and shrugging. "What got you so excited about them anyways?"
"Hmmmm?" said Taru, blinking up at her. "Well, they are very interesting. How many weird eggs have you seen in a funny place like this?"
"I get why any normal person would be fascinated," said Ami, rolling her eyes. "But just a few minutes ago… Oh whatever. I'm not saying they're not cool but we should get going. Won't your dad be home soon?"
Taru waved her hand. "He won't be home for another hour or so. And if he did come home about now he'll think I went out to see a movie," said the girl, rolling her eyes. "Besides, don't you actually care about what's going on! See, there's two here. And they each have one of the colors of those weird devices. Which that would theoretically make this one mine…"
She reached out a hand and touched the one with the crest of loyalty on it. As she did so, Ami rushed forward to try and stop her. Her hand brushed the second egg and suddenly two columns of lights came down from the ceiling and landed on the eggs. Taru took a step back and Ami glared at her out of the corner of her eye. But her attention was on the strange lights when suddenly two figures jumped out. One landed elegantly in front of Ami while the other just knocked Taru to the ground and stood on top of her. The one on the ground looked like a large-smallish lion with some orange fur on its head, a gold collar with a large blue stone hanging off of it and large sky blue yes.
"What the…" started Ami, but stopped thinking it might be rude to say anything right now. The lion lifted a paw and licked it a couple of times before staring up at her expectantly. "Yes?"
There was a sound like somebody clearing their throat and the lion opened its mouth.
'What's it going to do? Roar at me?' thought Ami.
"My name is Leormon and I am your Digimon," said the lion.
"Come again?" said Ami immediately, blinking. Leormon started to open his mouth again but Ami continued. "Digi-whatsit?"
"Digimon. Digital Monsters. We're creatures that were created by digital bytes from your Internet that slowly took forms until we evolved into what we are now," explained Leormon, looking extremely patient. Or he just couldn't have any sort of expression, whichever…
"So we're in the internet?" said Ami slowly.
"No… Our world has taken on a physical form by now and – " started Leormon but Taru suddenly went "So what is this?"
She was staring up at the second Digimon in shock as it looked at her like a loveable dog that didn't realize it wasn't a puppy anymore. It was red with purple stripes, a feather like tail and what looked like bunny ears. He too had blue eyes.
"Oh, I'm Elecmon," said the Digimon, climbing off of Taru and standing on its hind legs.
"If you say so…" muttered Ami.
"Elecmon?" said Taru, sitting up a bit but still wearing a look of surprise. "Would that have anything to do with electricity?"
"Uh huh…" said the weird red and blue creature, sounding a little distracted. He—well, Taru wasn't sure if it was a boy or a girl but it sounded like a boy—lifted his head up and sniffed the air a few times, then put it down to the ground and wandered around while sniffing. Eventually he wandered over to Taru and stuffed his nose into her jeans pocket.
"Hey, get out of there!" cried Taru, trying to push Elecmon away. She eventually got him out of her pants pocket but the Digimon still managed to grab the candy bar she had, out of it.
"What is this?" asked Elecmon, looking up at Taru eagerly.
"Uh… a candy bar…" said Taru, scratching her head. "Can I have it back?"
"I've never heard of a candy bar before… but it sure smells good!" said Elecmon brightly.
"But what if you get sick from it?" said Taru worriedly. "Most animals can't eat chocolate… Hey, Ami, do you think a Digimon could get away with eating chocolate?"
"What makes you think I know?" cried Ami.
With a sigh Taru stood up, brushing the dust off her jeans and looking back down at Elecmon with raised eyebrows.
"Hey… I'll take this back," said Taru, grabbing the chocolate bar from Elecmon. He frowned but she said cheerfully, "Don't worry! I'll get you something to eat when we get home! There's lots of food there that I'm sure you'll be able to have!"
"Okay!" said Elecmon cheerfully. He was reminding her of a dog way too much.
"Wait… now you want to go home?" said Ami. "Will you make up your mind? You said your dad wouldn't care!"
"Ah, well…" said Taru sheepishly, "I just said that because I wanted to stay for a bit. The truth is he'd totally freak out and be worried sick about me…"
"I guess we're going home then…" muttered Ami, looking back down at her lion-like Digimon. He looked up and smiled at her pleasantly. With a shake of her head Ami walked out of the hut. Taru and the Digimon followed.
"So… which way is home?" asked Taru after walking around the village for a bit.
"Why are you asking me for? Do I look like the girl with all the answers?" snapped Ami.
"Hmm… Hey, Elecmon, do you know?" asked Taru sweetly.
"Well, the Digital World is home for me…" said Elecmon thoughtfully.
"Okay, but I mean the human world… You know, Earth! Japan! Odaiba!"
"Never heard of those…" mumbled Elecmon, shaking his head.
Taru sighed, and the group continued to wander around the village (they were all following Ami, but Ami was probably following someone else so they were mostly walking in circles). After five minutes they found the end of the village, and a minute after that Ami suddenly stopped walking.
"What is it?" asked Taru.
"I think I see some kids our age over there," said Ami, slowly pointing towards the right. It took a moment, but then Taru saw what looked like a small television in the middle of nowhere. And these groups of kids were standing in front of it and suddenly a bright light came out of it and… then the kids were gone.
"Maybe I should get my eyes checked…" muttered Ami.
"I think I'm seeing it too…" said Taru, rubbing her eyes a bit and blinking.
The two girls didn't do anything but gawk until after a girl with short brown hair and a cute pink outfit and a white cat-like creature that might possibly have been a Digimon got "pulled in" by the bright light.
"Well," said Taru, looking back at Ami, "what do you think of that?"
"I don't know… Did those guys have Digimon too? I could have sworn I saw something with them…" muttered Ami. Then she glanced up and noticed Taru was no longer there. Looking around, she spotted the eleven year old walking towards the television and the spot where the group of kids had been before they went into it…
"Hey, come back here!" cried Ami, running after her. "What are you doing!"
"Well," said Taru, who was walking slowly towards the television set and not turning around, "they were human, and even had Digimon with them, right? They were able to go through…" Then she stopped, turned around, and with a small smile said, "We don't have any other leads and they looked happy enough—not frightened or anything like that—so why not give it a try? If it doesn't work we can always find another TV and see what happens!"
"How about not," said Ami, shaking her head. "I didn't have 'get sucked in by strange TV and die' on my list of things to do today."
"You didn't have 'Go to the Digimon World and meet a new friend' on your list either…" muttered Taru.
"How about you check it out, Miss I'm-Going-To-Risk-My-Life, and let me know how it works!" snapped Ami.
Taru blinked a few times. "Oh…" she said, looking down and twirling the tie that held her bandana on with her finger a few times before turning around and going towards where the group of kids had been. Confounded by the situation, Elecmon looked back and forth from Ami to Taru before giving up on understanding the situation and following Taru. With a weary sigh Ami followed as well, Leormon right behind her.
With a hesitant deep breath Taru stood in front of the television, waiting for something to happen. She even put a hand out in front of her, slowly, reaching towards the screen. Her hand was touching the screen but nothing was happening.
"Maybe you could use your Digi-vise!" said Elecmon cheerfully.
"Huh?" said Taru, looking down. "Oh… This thing?" she said, pulling out the weird shaped thing that reminded her a lot of a cell phone. Feeling a little weird, she held it out to the television screen, and a second later all she saw was a bright light, and…
"Oof!"
Rubbing her backside and wincing slightly, Taru looked around. It looked like she was in the extra storage room where the computer was again. Elecmon was there too, and a few seconds later Ami (back in her school uniform) and her Digimon landed in a heap a few feet away.
"Ow… Oh, we're home, we're home!" cried Ami excitedly, jumping up.
"What is all this stuff?" asked Elecmon curiously, looking around quickly so he could look at everything at once.
"Um…" blinked Taru. "Oh… That's a computer! And that's a bookshelf… with books in it! And… that's a bunch of boxes! That's about it…"
Suddenly a ringing noise filled the room. The two girls blinked at each other for a few seconds before Ami's eyes widened and with a small "Oh!" she pulled a cell phone out of her pocket and flipped it open. "Hello?"
Taru played around with the tie to her bandana as she vaguely heard Ami's "conversation."
"Oh, hi Mom… Nope, nothing much, just—er—helping Hotaru out with the computer… Uh huh… Um, okay… Yeah, that's fine…"
How vague… thought Taru dully in her head, still playing around with the bandana tie has she sat down on one of the cardboard boxes that were piled up on one side of the room. She was surprised when Elecmon hopped up and sat down in her lap, blinking up at her innocently. Taru smiled back at him, wondering what she was going to do with him. Most people say they have a pet dog or a cat; how would Taru explain to people about Elecmon?
That is, if I actually talked to people… thought Taru, sighing a bit.
"Hi," said Ami, interrupting the other girl's thoughts. Ami closed the phone and put it back in her pocket as she said, "Um… my mother wants me to go home and help with dinner… So I'll see you soon?"
"Sure!" cried Taru, jumping up and standing up straight, while picking up Elecmon and holding him so he wouldn't fall down.
"You don't have to walk me to the door every time I leave…" muttered Ami as she grabbed her bag and headed toward the front door, Leormon at her side.
"But…" started Taru, though even she didn't know what she would say after that.
With a slight shake of the head Ami said good-bye and left the apartment. Sighing again, Taru closed the door and slid down till her bottom hit the ground. She put Elecmon back on her lap and looked down at him thoughtfully. He just looked quizzically back.
"Oh yeah…" said Taru slowly, "I promised you something…"
"Yeah, you did…" said Elecmon, his face brightening.
"Let's see…" she muttered, going over to the refrigerator and peering at the contents inside. All that was in there were leftovers, milk, eggs, and the usual. Nothing that Taru was confident Elecmon would be able to eat. So she tried the pantry. Not much luck there either, except for some day old French bread.
"I guess bread would be okay…" muttered Taru, pulling it out and setting it down in front of the red and blue Digimon.
"It sure smells good!" said Elecmon, digging in.
"Okay…" said Taru vaguely. "I guess I should start on dinner… But I don't know what to make! I never know what to make… Maybe I should have asked Ami or something… but she always gets annoyed when I do that…"
Despite her worries Taru found something to cook in no time, mostly by asking for Elecmon's opinion and then going along with it—and Elecmon said yes to the first thing she suggested because he couldn't think of anything better to say, so it was a very quick process.
While she was cooking Taru tried to think of how to start a conversation, but how exactly do you do that with a Digimon? She didn't know whether to think of them as super-intelligent animals or very peculiar humans… or perhaps they were something totally different… Didn't Leormon say that Digimon stood for Digital Monsters? So… would that have anything to do with computers? It sure sounded like it, but Taru wasn't exactly the brightest with computers so she could be wrong… She sighed wearily, annoyed with her confusing thoughts.
"What's the matter?" asked Elecmon from below her, like he was a dog waiting for her to drop crumbs or something.
"You're really confusing, you know that?" snapped Taru, waving the spoon she was cooking with at him furiously while her other hand was on her hip.
"Whad I do? Whad I do!" cried Elecmon.
"Nothing…" said Taru, putting her hands to her sides. "I'm just confused by this whole thing. It's not like there's a book or something I could look it up from."
"Oh…" said Elecmon, sounding as though he understood. Then he walked over to the wooden spoon Taru had held at her side and tried to lick the sauce off it.
"Ha!" cried Taru, holding it up so he couldn't get it. "Fat chance you'll get any of this!"
"Humph…" muttered Elecmon, sitting down. "But you're world is a little weird too."
"Huh?" blinked Taru. "Oh, I guess Earth would be kinda weird for someone who's never been here before… but it seems to be pretty much like your world—geologically speaking. We have oceans, lakes, rivers, mountains, hills, valleys… I presume your planet would have the same thing?"
"Sounds so…" said Elecmon.
"And you're planet even has oxygen!" said Taru excitedly, clapping her hands together—the spoon was still in her hand and she completely forgot about cooking. "I haven't heard of one planet that had oxygen. Besides Mars… I think… Hey, do you even breath oxygen?"
Elecmon shrugged.
When the front door opened Taru jumped a bit, not expecting her dad to be home this soon. It seemed earlier than it was. But just when she was about to reply to her dad's usual greeting she suddenly realized Elecmon was still at her feet…
"Honey?" called Minamoto-san when Taru didn't reply.
"Um!" cried Taru nervously, putting the spoon on the counter and picking up Elecmon, putting a finger to her lips as if to say, "Be quiet!" Elecmon nodded his head with an almost-comical-serious expression on his face and, satisfied with the response, Taru held him behind her back and started creeping slowly towards the door to the living room as she called fretfully, "Uh, hi dad! I'm just… uh… in the kitchen! Yeah…"
She walked into the hallway and accidentally walked right in front of her dad. Thankfully, he shouldn't have been able to see Elecmon from where he was standing.
"Oh!" said Minamoto-san, widening his eyes with surprise. "Hello! I thought you were in the kitchen?" he added with a raised eyebrow.
"Um… About that…" said Taru, thinking of a good lie. Well, not really a lie, more like the very, very, very vague truth… that was sort of a lie, but not really… All right, a lie.
She hated lying to her dad.
"I just… Suddenly remembered something! And… I have to, like, check it out… immediately… So… if you excuse me…"
And then she sprinted to her room without another look back.
"What are we doing?" asked Elecmon from behind her. "Are we playing a game?"
"Shh!" cried Taru, raising Elecmon up to her face. "Look, I'd rather not have my dad find out about you… for the time being, at least… So… You can hide in my closet until I'm done with dinner!"
With a sheepish grin she shoved Elecmon into her closet, slamming the doors shut and rushing back into the kitchen, ignoring Elecmon's many complaints about being shoved into a very small, tight space.
Back in the kitchen, Taru found Minamoto-san pilfering in the refrigerator for a beer, then, after opening it and taking a quick swig, peered into the pot of food cooking at the stove.
"Sure smells good…" he said, closing his eyes contently.
"Shoo, shoo!" cried Taru, waving a towel at her father and chasing him out of the kitchen.
"Alright, alright!" cried Minamoto-san, laughing as he rushed out of the room.
Taru sighed, leaning against the counter with her elbows and tossing the towel aside. Sheesh, Dad'll just eat all the food before I cook it if he's in the same room! I wouldn't be surprised if Elecmon did the same…
With all the excitement with Elecmon and the Digital World she completely forgot to turn on her music, which she frequently did while she cooked. Actually, she was quite caught up with the whole string of events that had happened that afternoon that she didn't realize this fact until she was about to set the table… But the food was ready, so what would be the point?
Taru wasn't at all surprised to see that Ichigo Wakahisa had shown up for dinner. Ichigo was their next-door neighbor and always seemed to randomly show up to the Minamoto's apartment. And whenever Taru had needed a baby sitter when she was a little kid Ichigo had always been the one to do the job. They always had fun doing cute things like coloring or baking cookies. Taru had always been better at the cooking than Ichigo, even at a young age.
Ichigo was a slim woman of average height, with short dark hair that was left either plain or in a ponytail depending on her mood. She worked at the library near the apartment building and was the only one who ever took the time to help Taru with her homework—no one else ever got her questions. She had glasses but sometimes wore contacts, depending on her mood. Ichigo had no children, but she had three cats.
"Oh, didn't I show up just in time?" said Ichigo as a greeting, piling her dishes with food and eating right away. "So how was your day?" she asked Taru between mouthfuls.
"Uh… great!" said Taru with a smile. "Ami helped me with the computer… sort of…"
"You got that old piece of junk to work?" said Minamoto-san. "Ha! Ami's quite the miracle worker."
"Well, I just got it to turn on…" said Taru sheepishly.
"Maybe I could figure it out one of these days…" muttered Ichigo.
It was just casual talk after that—mostly Minamoto-san and Ichigo doing all the talking with Taru listening and pointing things out once and a while. Talking and eating just made Taru forget all about Elecmon and everything else that happened that day… she seemed to be doing that a lot today. In fact, after everyone finished eating and had stacked all the dishes in the sink, Ichigo suggested they watch some television for a little bit. This was pretty much the Minamoto's after dinner ritual, before going their separate ways and sleeping. Well, Taru stayed up reading or studying and Minamoto-san had sleeping problems… what Ichigo did was a complete mystery, but perhaps she had fun playing with her three cats.
"Aww, do you think we have time to watch a movie?" asked Ichigo in the living room, flipping through the channels.
"It's only seven thirty," shrugged Taru's dad.
"I heard this one was good…" said Ichigo, setting the remote control on her lap and leaning back. "It's about this girl who works at a bakery and is visited by this man three times a week, and she starts falling in love with him but can't work up the courage to say anything about it. And it turns out that the guy loved her anyway…"
"Don't spoil the ending!" cried Taru.
"Ugh, not a chick-flick," moaned Minamoto-san. "You know how much I hate chick-flicks…"
"Watch it anyway!" snapped Ichigo, glaring dangerously.
"All right…" muttered Minamoto-san.
It was during a cat food commercial that Taru suddenly remembered Elecmon. What cats had to do with a blue and red creature hidden in her closet, Taru had no clue, but she better hurry back to her room or Elecmon would be very miserable. But at least this time she came up with a better "vague truth."
Standing up and stretching, she muttered something about being tired, and wandered over to the kitchen. The two adults didn't seem to care, and, after grabbing something to eat from the pantry, Taru rushed back to her room.
"So, so, sorry, Elecmon!" cried Taru, sliding the closet doors open. "I won't do this every night, don't worry—"
She stopped, seeing the Digimon curled up in a ball on top of her coat. Smiling, Taru kneeled down and set the food—some leftover dinner—in front of him. He did just what she expected him too; Elecmon opened one eye, blinked sleepily, and then with a cry for joy started eating to his hearts content.
"Have any nice dreams?" asked Taru.
"Huh?" blinked Elecmon.
"Never mind…" muttered Taru, shaking her head