Chapter 8

"What's wrong with him?" asked his mother reverently. She was wringing her hands together.

Ken was currently asleep, heaving in and out deep breaths. His eyes were shut tightly in pain. His one hand clutching his pajama shirt over his chest.

The doctor looked over at Mrs. Ichijouji, trying to show some hope in his eyes. He ran a hand through his short brown hair and sighed.

"There doesn't seem to be any signs of the cancer left, he has no signs for it. I believe this is just the after effects. I'll look over his papers and files and we'll just keep an eye on him alright?" said the doctor.

Mr. and Mrs. Ichijouji both nodded, not entirely convinced.

They watched as the doctor left and once he did, they looked over Ken one last time. His mother gave him a kiss on the forehead while his father squeezed his hand before they left the room.

There was silence for several minutes in the room until a ruffle of sheets could be heard.

Wormmon poked his head out of the blankets to make sure the coast was clear. He then looked up at worriedly.

He scrambled up towards Ken's face and slowly tried to wake his ill partner.

"Ken..." he whimpered. "Ken...please wake up..."

Ken groaned and his eyes slit open. "W-Wormmon?"

"I'm here Ken. And the doctor person was here. He said that you don't seem to have any signs of that cancer stuff. He says this is just some of the after effects and that they'll keep an eye on you" reported the worm.

Ken nodded, half asleep. "Call Yolei on my D-3. Tell her I'm not feeling well and that I'd like her to come over and cheer me up. Okay?"

Wormmon nodded, and being the obedient digimon that he was, he went right to it. He jumped off the bed, and up onto Ken's desktop, where he found Ken's D-3 underneath his digivice.

He opened it up after taking the digivice off it and started typing the best way he could. Ken had started teaching him how to spell, but he still wasn't all that great.

'Yolei, pleese come as soon as posible. Ken is sic. He wants u to cheer him up. he mises u. - Wormmon

Wormmon sent the message, praying Yolei would get it and understand the message.

Yolei stretched and yawned as she walked into her room. She looked over at her bed and found Poromon gobbling up a small bag of chocolate she had hidden from her sisters earlier that morning.

"Hey!" cried Yolei. Poromon looked up, chocolate all over his face.

"What?" asked the little bird digimon innocently.

"That was MY chocolate!" cried Yolei, with that she went for Poromon and attacked him by grabbed him and holding him close, giving him a squeeze.

"I'm sorry Yolei!" cried Poromon in distress.

"Sorry? Why are you sorry? I was just teaching you a lesson for not sharing it with me!" laughed Yolei.

Poromon giggled and the two of them continued eating the chocolate. That was when Yolei heard a beep.

She looked around the room, trying to find the source of where the beep was coming from and found that it was her D-terminal. She got up from her bed and reached for it. She opened it up and there it said she had a text message...from Wormmon?

She opened up the file and read the message. Yolei kept herself from gasping, not wanting to worry Poromon, who was still gobbling away on the chocolate.

Ken was ill. Oh poor Ken. She smiled though. He wanted her to cheer him up. He missed her. How sweet.

"Poromon, you can have the rest of that chocolate" said Yolei, standing.

"I can?"

"Yeah, I'll be back later. I'm going over to Ken's."

The doorbell rang at the Ichijouji house and Mrs. Ichijouji went to answer it.

Yolei stood happily on the side of the door, a container filled with hot noodle soup, vegetables and rice in her hands.

"Hello Mrs. Ichijouji!" greeted Yolei happily. Mrs. Ichijouji only looked at her, not knowing what there was to be so cheerful about. "I brought Ken some food and came here to cheer him up!"

Mrs. Ichijouji tiredly nodded and let Yolei in. She hadn't slept in days for all the worrying over Ken.

Yolei knew where she was going. She headed straight to ken's room at the end of the hall and knocked.

"No more medicine!" came the of Ken. He sounded exhausted and furious at the same time. Yolei let herself in.

"Ken? It's me Yolei...I don't have any medicine with me" she called into the darkened room.

Ken shifted in his bed so that he was facing Yolei. he smiled. His face was flushed with a slight fever and was covered in a thin layer of sweat. He sat up on at least twenty pillows that were all over his bed and made room for Yolei to come up.

Setting the food up on the bed, Yolei climbed up and made herself comfortable. "I got Wormmon's message. You missed me huh?"

Ken nodded. "Yeah" his said, his voice croaking. "Its not contagious, what I have, otherwise I wouldn't have invited you here."

Yolei only smiled as she started to open the container of food. "Well, I brought your favorite rice, and some chicken noodle soup to have. And also some steamed vegetables. I know you don't really like them that much, but I kinda brought em' for me" she said sweat dropping. Ken laughed a bit and started digging into his small bowl of soup.

The two talked, or Yolei did anyways. Wormmon munched on some veggies and had a few rice balls. Ken ate his soup, which soothed his aching throat and chest. Yolei made him smile and laugh, something he hadn't done in a while. It gave him strength and his head became less dizzy and dazed. His nose cleared and was soon runny from the soup.

After returning with some tissues, Yolei asked, "So ken, when do you think you'll get better?"

"The doctor doesn't really know what's wrong with me, but he said this is probably just some aftereffects. Due to the cancer my body wasn't fighting off as many infections and colds as it should have, making me get sick" replied Ken. Yolei nodded.

"Well, I just wanted to stop by and give you this, visit you, and cheep you up" said Yolei.

"Thanks Yolei" whispered Ken. He gave her a kiss on the cheek. "I am feeling a whole lot better."