Davis was puzzled when Ken had asked him to take him to the digital world. He figured that that would be one of the last places Ken would have wanted to go.

However, Davis completely understood what Ken was doing shortly after they arrived at the digital world.

"Ken!" whined Davis. "Where are we going?"

Ken couldn't help but smirk a bit at Davis, yet frowned slightly when he remembered the conversation they had had earlier.

"Don't worry Davis, you'll find out eventually" replied Ken calmly.

"But I don't want to wait, man! Come on!" Davis continued to complain.

Ken could only shake his head. Veemon bounced around at their feet, trying to tell them knock-knock jokes. Finally, Davis had had enough of them.

"What is with you and knock-knock jokes Veemon?" cried Davis. Veemon only blinked up at him, his red eyes large.

"Because they're funny!" the mon retaliated.

Ken, who was in the lead, ignored them. There was only one thing on his mind, and that was getting to their destination.

After about an hour of walking, they finally arrived. They had been in a normal looking forest, when it suddenly cut off into a large town. But everything looked

as though it came from right out of a nursery. Playing blocks, and toys swinging on tree branches. And when they finally started walking inside the town,

Davis noticed that the ground was as soft as a pillow.

"Where are we?" asked Davis.

"Primary Village" spoke a new voice. The three of them looked ahead of them to see a small red digimon. He was currenlty siitng on his two hind legs and had

purple spkies on his back. His big blues eyes filled with wisdom.

"That's Elecmon, he's a special digimon, who watches over all of the new digi eggs here at Primary Village."

"Huh?" was all Davis could say.

Ken walked up a few steps closer to Elecmon and gave a small bow. "Pleasure to meet you, Elecmon. I'm Ken Ichijouji. I mean no harm, I promise. I only came

here to find my partner. I've lost him you see..."

"There's no need to explain, I know. But I must tell you, it takes a lot of courage, and even a little bit of stupidity, for you to come back here. Especially after what

all you've done Ken." explained Elecmon.

Ken was near tears at this, yet his it well. "I am truly sorry for all of the damage I have caused. I hope I didn't cause too much trouble here at Primary Village" spoke

Ken, true honesty evident in his voice. Elecmon smiled.

Davis blinked, when he realized that they were talking about when Ken was still the Digimon Emperor.

"Please, I just want to find him..." ken nearly whimpered.

Elecmon continued to smile as he led the way.

Ken, Davis, and Veemon all followed Elecmon until they came upon an area full of nothing but digi eggs.

"Wow! What are these things!" asked Davis in amazement.

"These are Digi eggs Davis! This is where me and all other digimon come from" answered a hyperactive Veemon as he examnined a blue and purple strpied egg.

Davis smiled.

Ken on the other hand was loking quite downcast as he looked through all the eggs. Davis looked up from the digi egg he was looking at in time to see Ken wiping

away a stray tear. davis was next to Ken in a heartbeat.

"What's the matter Ken?" demanded Davis softly. Ken shook his head.

"It's nothing" snapped Ken.

"Nothing? You don't cry when it's nothing Ken. Come on, you can tell me!" urged Davis.

Ken only shook his head once more as he wiped another tear away. Elecmon seemed to have disapeared. They all assumed he had better things to do than to

waste time sitting around with them, such as take care of the new digimon.

Ken sniffed, and davis could tell it was getting harder and harder for him to keep everything inside.

Davis bit his lip. It was so hard not to hug or kiss him. Make his stop crying, take his worries away. Maybe he could...

Davis stepped close to Ken, who was oblivious to their sudden closeness, and gently grabbed Ken by the chin, forcing ken to look up at him. Ken's eyes were wide

and filled with tears. "Come on" whispered Davis. Ken just shook his head once more, but this time, it was to get out of Davis' grip.

Stepping over next to a white digi egg with pink hearts on it, Ken stood there silenlty thinking.

"Davis...This is going to be hard for me you know..." he paused. Davis looked at Ken worriedly. "When you told me...I was caught off guard. That was the last

thing I was expecting. I would never have thought you would do something like that...but you did..."But just so you know...I don't hate you..."

Davis visibly relaxed at these words. "However" Ken conitnued. "I will never be able to return your feelings...at least...I don't think so."

Davis nodded. "I know Ken. That's why I wasn't sure if I should tell you or not. You see, I was afraid that this might happen, only that you wopuld take it even worse.

You are taking it a lot better than what I thought, and I'm glad, but I am aware that this will make things hard. But, if you just trust me, you can start getting to know me

and my friends, and you can become a digidestined."

Ken looked at his sharply in surprise. "Me? A digidestined?"

"Yeah! We're all just one big happy family! Literally!" spoke davis gleefully.

"I don't know...Perhaps I could do that...I've never really had a friend before..."

Before either of them could make any other movement, a bright pink glow filled the air around them. ken looked down to see that the little digi egg he had been

standing in front of had started to glow a bright light pink. Kneeling, ken was surprised when the egg hatched, and a little borwn basenet formed around the newly hatched

digimon. Once the light dispersed, Ken was able to look down and see that a little pink disk was flying in the air in front of him and the digimon. It had a small little symbol

on it. It was the Crest of Kindness. It floated down into Ken's now outstretched hand and fell into his white palm.

"It's your crest Ken! See I told you you were one of us!" cried Davis from behind him.

But ken hadn't heard him. Tears were running freely down Ken's cheeks as he looked at the digimon in front of him.

"Hi Ken. I'm Leafmon. The baby form of Wormmon" it introduced itself. It was small a light green, with a little leaf over top of its head. Ken smiled through his tears as

he lifted Leafmon up and into his hands.

"Ummm...Have the two of you met...?" asked Davis stupidly.

Veemon pulled on Davis' pants, making him look down. Vemmon only shook his head, telling Davis not to talk.

"I though I'd never see you again!" whispered Ken as he hugged Leafmon. "I'm so sorry! Will you ever forgive me!"

Leafmon was now in tears himself. "Of course Ken!" The two friends giggled.

Leafmon was currently bouncing in Ken's arms happily as the four of them now walked silently back home. Ken hadn't spoken a word to Davis since Leafmon had

hatched, acting as though Davis was no where in site. Davis had tried to start several conversations with him, but they had fallen on deaf ears.

"What is the matter with you Ken?" deamdned davis at last. ken stopped in his tracks and looked back at Davis.

"What are you talking about?" ken asked simply.

"What am I talking about? Ken! You've completely ignored me like, this whole time! Ever since you got Leafmon back, you've been acting as though I'm not here!"

Ken just stared at Davis blankly, as though his friend had just spoken a different language. Then, without warning, Ken completely changed the subject, acting as

though everything was just normal.

"So when are you going to let me meet your friends Davis? You said I could. Yolei seems really nice. Though I've only watched her through my screens, she was

always wanting to tear my head off, she seems like a really nice girl.And I'd really like to meet her, Same with TK. He seems nice, and Cody seems-" Ken babbled.

Davis was shocked. Not by his sudden outburst, but by what he said.

"You...watched us?" asked Davis incrediously.

Ken stopped babbling immedialty and blushed. "Well sure. How else do you think I always knew where you guys were at?"

"Well-" That one stumped him. He seriously didn't know, and by the innocent look Ken was giving him, Davis could tell that it was pretty obvious Ken hadn't been

planning on letting them know about that little detail. "So...You heard all that we said?"

"Not all of it, but most of it.." Ken smirked. "And you really need to learn how to flirt better. And to get a clue. It was so obvious Kari was never interested in you."

Davis would have decked Ken right there and then had he not loved him, but he also noticed that...Ken was teasing him.

Ken continued to smirk as he went on. "It was hilarious to sit at my screens and watch you fail at getting Kari's attention."

Davis shook his head, aggrevated. "Great, I'm in love with an insane genius who used to watch us for pleasure." he muttered darkly.

Ken frowned. "Watch it Davis! I'll have you know that I didn't watch any of you for pleasure and harrasment, I watched you to find out all of your weaknesses."

Davis frowned at this. "I did this, so I could defeat you...I didn't do anything for fun as the Kaiser. I did everything for real."

"But why? Why did you become the Emperor Ken?" Davis couldn't help but ask. Ken shrugged sincerly.

"I honestly don't know. I suppose you could say I just have issues..." mumbled Ken, mainly to himself, but Davis had still been able to hear him.

"You don't have issues Ken!" shrieked little Leafmon in Ken's arms.

"Do you even know what 'issues' are?" asked Ken with a small smile.

"No, but I'm sure you don't have them!" retorted Leafmon. Ken couldn't help but chuckle at his words.

Davis was silent, to Ken's surprise, and for the first time, ken felt as though he should fill in that silence, so he bgean to babble again.

"So, like I was saying, I like Yolei. She seems really nice. Do you know if maybe...she has...a boyfriend...cause I was thinking that maybe if I met her ...

and we had a lot in common...that maybe we could... go-"

"DON'T YOU DARE FINISH THAT SENTNCE KEN!" Davis screamed at him.

Ken's eyes went wide in shock as he stood frozen to the ground. Davis was glaring daggers at ken's back.

"Take it back..." hissed Davis, as though Ken had called him something fierce.

"What?" asked Ken, bewildered.

"Take it back!" Davis hissed louder. Ken dropped Leafmon, who scurried over to Veemon several feet away, not wanting to be in the middle of things.

"What? That I like Yolei?"

"Yes!"

"Well, why should I? It's the truth!" argued Ken, turning to face Davis.

"Because I love you!" retorted Davis.

"But I don't love you!" Ken was now the one who was screaming. Davis shut his mouth, taking a step back. "Listen Davis. I told you, you are

making this very hard for me-"

"And this isn't hard for me? It isn't hard to hear you talk about Yolei like that? When all I want is for you to love me and only me?"

Ken couldn't help but blush at this. He had to admit, this was quite embarrassing for him to talk to Davis like this, especially considering that they had just

recently been sworn enemies. It was very hard for Ken to adjust to the fact that he was saying all of this to another guy, and it was really beggining to creep

Ken out.

"Davis...Please...Why can't you just accept the fact that...I'm just not like that..." whispered Ken, suddenly feeling sorry for his friend.

Davis gave Ken an almost pleading look, but Ken only shook his head as a responce. Sighing, Davis picked up Veemon and held out his digivice up to the

television that had suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Ken watched as ken was sucked into it, taking him home. Several minutes later, Ken scooped up

Leafmon into his arms and held out his black digivice to the screen, and was sucked into the screen and back home.