Still in flashback of Thursday…

Kari and Gatomon were walking home from Davis's soccer game when Kari's digivice began to emit beeping noices. The pair stopped in their tracks and exchanged glances- it could only mean problems in the digiworld.

"What do you think Gatomon? Are you up to it tonight?" Kari asked Gatomon.

"I hope you're just kidding, come on, let's go!" she replied enthusiastically. Gatomon leaped into Kari's arms and they rushed back to the school they had just left.

Minutes later, the two rushed into the school's computer lab where Davis, Veemon, Cody, and Armadillomon were already standing. Cody was logging onto the computer, preparing to open a portal into the digital world when Davis said, still in his lightly stained soccer jersey, "Great Kari's here, now we can go."

"We should wait a little bit longer for Ken, Yolei, and T.K.," said Cody, in his always calm voice.

"I say we go now and if they got the message then they can meet up with us later," said a typically impatient Davis.

"Whatever Davis, let's just go before we're too late," Gatomon said, rolling her eyes.

"Alright," said Cody, "I guess Gatomon's right, I don't know if we can wait any longer. Here we go…" He held his D3 up to the computer screen and a flash of bright light engulfed the six of them.

Their landing in the digiworld wasn't as smooth as normal being that they emerged directly on top of where Yolei, Hawkmon, Ken, Wormmon, T.K., and Patamon were standing. The five kids and their digimon fell in a surprised heap on the ground, and it took them several minutes to work themselves free of each other.

"Geez, what took you guys so long," said Patamon sarcastically.

"We had to wait for Kari," said Davis, pretending to be annoyed.

"Anyways," interrupted Yolei, "we've got work to do. The D3s went off so that must mean that there's a disturbance somewhere around here. So let's split up into groups of two and see if we can find out what's going on."

"Yolei that won't work," said Ken, "what happens if whatever is making the disturbance takes more than two people to deal with?"

"Ken, it'll work, trust me," said Yolei, rather threateningly. "When one group finds the problem, they can either take care of it or run and find the rest of us." The other five looked at each other skeptically, but none were feeling brave enough to argue with Yolei. "Okay," Yolei continued, "T.K. and Kari go that way," she pointed off the left, "Davis and Cody go that way," she pointed at 120, "and Ken and I will go that way," as she pointed 120 in the other direction.

Davis looked thoroughly annoyed but Cody gripped his arm and led him off into the forest. Yolei smiled sweetly at Ken and they too went off in their assigned direction. T.K. turned to look at Kari and saw that Patamon, Gatomon, and her were already heading into the trees.

"Hey! Wait up!" he yelled as he ran to catch up to them.

"Sorry T.K.," Kari said as he reached her. "Now let's get going." They walked for a while in silence, Gatomon leaping through the shrubbery ahead of them, Patamon flying overhead.

Kari eventually turned to T.K., "I hope Yolei's right," she said, "I mean, if this turns out to be something too dangerous then we're going to need the other's help and you never really know with the digital world." She knew she was babbling and blushed.

T.K. felt suddenly awkward, his conversation with Yolei replaying over and over in his mind. He knew he should say something, but he was suddenly unsure of what to say, although he couldn't remember ever having this problem around Kari before. In desperation he said the first thing that was on his mind, "So…umm…Yolei and I had an interesting conversation today."

Kari tensed, "Oh…really…what about?"

"Well, she's worried about you. She says that you've been acting a little unusually." T.K. paused for Kari's reply to this, but she appeared to be thinking about something else. Eager for her attention he went on, "so is everything alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine T.K. A little annoyed with Yolei, but not entirely surprised. She didn't say anything else did she?"

Kari noticed that he looked sort of uncomfortable now but he said, "Well, she thinks that the reason you've been out of it has something to do with the dance."

Suddenly Kari felt unbelievably angry with Yolei, "she said that?" she asked T.K.

"Yeah," he replied. Whatever discomfort he had been feeling earlier was now magnified as Kari stopped walking and refused to meet his eye. "It's no big deal, you don't have to talk about it if you don't want to, I know it's none of my business."

Kari didn't look at him, just turned and walked away to where Gatomon and Patamon were waiting for them.

"Kari wait!" T.K. yelled after her. "I didn't mean to upset you, I just…" he gave up.

"Don't worry about it T.K. I'm not upset; I just didn't realize that I've been acting unusually. I'm sorry if I worried you like I did Yolei."

T.K. nodded in response, as it was about all that he could manage through his confusion and uneasiness. They continued walking, their purpose for being in the digiworld forgotten.

"So, Kari," T.K. said after a while, "to change the subject. I think I'm going to go to the dance on Saturday."

"Oh, that's great I'm sure you'll have fun," Kari said almost disinterestedly.

"Yeah, I was wondering…I know it's a little bit late, but….did you want to go with me…to the dance…this Saturday?"

"She told you to ask me didn't she? Or did she threaten?"

"Uh…" T.K. stammered, noticing the very Yolei-like look in her face, "you mean Yolei? Well…she kind of hinted…but she didn't threaten me if that's what you mean…"

"I knew it! Look T.K., don't worry about it. I don't know what she told you, but Yolei…"

T.K. didn't know what she was going to say about Yolei because at that moment Davis and Cody appeared ahead of them.

"It's getting late, we should probably be heading back now. Obviously whatever was making a disturbance is long gone now," said Davis.

"Yeah, and Davis really needs a shower," said Cody, as Kari and T.K. laughed.

They waited shortly for Yolei and Ken to return before opening the portal back home. Before they knew it they were back in the dark computer lab. Quietly, the snuck out of the school and made their way home. T.K. tried to catch up to Kari and Yolei, but they were too far ahead of him.

Silently he watched as Yolei turned into her apartment building and Kari waved goodnight to her. This was his chance to apologize to her, he knew, but he couldn't make his legs move faster. So, sadly, he watched as she and Gatomon kept walking into the night.

T.K. tried, but he couldn't fall asleep. Every time he felt sleep close in he regretted his conversation with Kari once more and thought about the billions of other things he could have said to her instead. Just as he finally managed to keep his unruly thoughts at bay, Gatomon burst into his room shouting his name, pulling him out of the slight state of sleep he had reached.