(Yuto POV)
Oh man I'm running so late! It's Saturday night and I'm late to get ready to go see Kari! I was running to the restaurant I promised to meet her at and oh boy she's probably gonna be so mad! My hair's soaking wet still, my shirt's a mess, I don't even remember if I put my Digivice in my pocket! But next thing I knew, I ran into someone...I gotta stop doing that.
"I'm so sorry dude!"
"Nah don't worry about it-Yuto?"
"Davis?" No way, Davis Motomiya? This joker? "What's up man?"
"Nothing much, where you headed in such a rush?"
"I'm going to meet someone, and I'm running so late! Sorry dude I'll see you later!" I ran past Davis but I did notice something while I ran away: there was a small blue dragon near him...don't tell me HE'S one too?!
"Kari? I'm so sorry I'm late." I walked into the restaurant to see Kari wearing a light pink top with white pants waiting by the door fixing her amazing brown hair...she really looked beautiful today.
"Actually you're early." I looked at my phone hearing her say that and I saw it was 7:50 not 8...WOW I was in such a rush for almost nothing.
"Wow and to think I came running, literally." I said sighing waiting for our table to be ready. I used my phone screen as a mirror and I tried fixing my hair by pushing it up with my hand. But no dice. But for some reason Kari decided to do it herself and fix it for me.
"There, now you look handsome."
"NOW? Wow I'm offended, so I'm ugly every other day of the week? I'm hurt Kamiya, that really hurt." I said jokingly walking out the door before walking back in watching Kari laugh...she really has a nice smile and laugh.
"Excuse me your table is ready."
(Kari POV)
We ordered our food and our drinks arrived and I was telling Yuto the story of a few days ago. He almost choked on his drink when I told him what happened to Tai and Sora making him laugh.
"Waitwaitwait, your brother and his best friend kissed and he was there like a statue for half an hour after they did?! That's insane." He buried his face in his hand laughing while I continued telling him the aftermath.
"Yeah, then I called her and oh my god she was so embarrassed."
"What happened between them anyway that made it so shocking?" Yuto asked taking another sip of his soda while I began to think back.
"Well...they've known each other for A LOOOONG TIME. One time Tai accidentally insulted her and that took a long time to apologize. Then after our first adventure in the Digital World he got her a nice little hairpin for her birthday and she got offended thinking it was something about her hair. Then he said why would it matter if she always hides it under the hats she used to wear and then he wrote an apology email to her since she was ignoring him the whole time. She forgave him after that but he wasn't going to send it."
"Wait then how did she get it if he wasn't going to send it?" I took a sip of my lemonade moving my eyes away from him as he asked that question. "You didn't...no way you're so evil." He began to laugh slapping his knee when he figured out why I didn't give him an answer.
"Hey! If I didn't do it then who would?!"
"Then what else? That seems like too big a margin in between for them to feel so awkward like that."
"Yeah well during my second Adventure to the Digital World a few years ago, she got some feelings for a friend of ours Matt and they started dating I'd say around the end of the school year two years ago. They would've been two years on their graduation day but he cheated on her at one of his concerts. So she dumped him and Tai was there for her the whole time." I said telling him what happened between Sora and Matt and his attitude went from happy and curious to disgusted.
"Wait he cheated?"
"Yeah what's wrong?"
"I hate cheaters."
"You've been cheated on before?"
"Both my past girlfriends." He said raising two fingers sighing. Wow why would anybody cheat on him, he's absolutely amazing...wait I never said that!
"How about we move past the whole relationship thing: how's Dorumon?"
"He's just fine, he's chilling at home after we got some new information a few days ago and it's...it's not good..." Our food arrived and we started eating while Yuto took a pause in his sentence...is he okay? "...Kari you need to do me a favor and tell the other Digidestined something important, it's literally life or death if you don't tell them."
"What is it?"
"When you dropped me off at my house a few days ago, we had a visitor. It was a little Digimon known as Hackmon and it turned out that he's a Royal Knight, Jesmon."
"Jesmon? What about him?"
"The remaining Royal Knights are coming back, and he doesn't think they're going to be the good guys anymore...and what's worse is that he told us the complete opposite of what Deckerdramon said. Alphamon and Omnimon have to fight, otherwise we won't stand a chance when they do." Is he kidding right now? Just a couple of days ago he was upset that he might lose Dorumon and now he's telling me they have to fight when Deckerdramon said not to.
"What does the two of them fighting have to do with the other?! One doesn't coincide with the other."
"Hackmon promised they would be fine, but think about what happened between your brother and Sora. That came from tension and the more tension there is the worse it could be in a battle against eight Mega-levels. I think what Hackmon meant was that the two of them need to get it out of their systems, I don't know how he'll do it but I'm sure he can think of something to keep Dorumon and Omnimon alright." I trust Yuto but can Jesmon really stop this? If Yuto trusts him then I'm pretty sure I can too.
"Alright then but are you really sure you want this to happen? Think about Dorumon..."
"I know...but Dorumon said it himself, if it's for the sake of the Digital World he'd do it."
We finished our dinner and we were walking back to my house. Again: he didn't have to it. But we were talking about what we were going to do when school starts in about a month. He was on the same boat as me since he didn't know what to do either. We walked upstairs and he got a call from his parents so we stopped so he could talk to them.
"Yeah mom, yeah don't worry I'll be home in about half an hour. I promise you I'll be there soon, yeah don't worry...no mom we didn't! Bye mom!" He hung up the phone turning beet red near the end there making me laugh.
"What did she ask?"
"Don't worry about it, it's just my mom being a mom." We kept walking until we reached the apartment door while I started to take out my keys. "I had a good time tonight, even though I almost died because of how much you made me laugh almost making me choke."
"Yeah well I had a fun time too...are you sure Dorumon wants this to happen?"
"Not right now but just tell the others what I told you...goodnight Kari."
"Goodnight Yuto." I reached out for a goodbye hug and he returned the hug but at that moment we heard the door open and the two of us turned to see my parents standing in the doorway smiling.
"Why hello you must be Yuto." Oh no...DAD started talking this could be bad.
"Um yes sir, Yuto Hojo." Hojo huh? So that's his last name.
"Well I'm Yuuko Kamiya, Kari's mother."
"I'm Susumu, Kari's old man." I was embarrassed watching my parents introduce themselves to Yuto and seeing them shake his hand. "Are you leaving now?"
"Um I was, I told my mom I'd be home in about half an hour."
"I see, well then give your mother a call and tell her you'll be a bit late. Come inside so we can get to know you better!" WAIT WHAT DID MOM JUST SAY?!
(Yuto POV)
Wow...this is...wow. I've been here for about twenty minutes and I feel like I'm getting interrogated by her parents.
"What are your parents name by the way?" Susumu asked as Yuuko handed me a glass of water.
"Oh my father's name is Eiji and my mother's name is similar to yours Mrs. Kamiya, but instead of Yuuko it's Yuuki."
"Yuuki? How nice."
"What do they do?"
"My dad's an accountant for an electronics company and my mom owns her own restaurant in downtown Tokyo."
"Ohhh that sounds cool, your mom owns a restaurant?"
"Yeah, it's a family restaurant that my grandparents started. My grandma and grandpa got too old so they left it to my mom." While I told them this, the Kamiyas' eyes started to light up...wow is it that surprising? "It's a pizzeria based off Italian recipes my grandpa learned in the sixties when he and my grandma lived there for a decade or so."
"Wow we should go there one day. Is it good?"
"Well I can't tell you that, I'd be biased."
"But really downtown? Your mom must get a lot of business."
"She does, she comes home late a lot but she does come back with food from the restaurant when she doesn't. And when it's a night when my dad and I are home with nothing made, she sends us some dinner with her sister who lives next door to us."
"It sounds like you have a very nice mother. So Yuto tell me honestly, do you like my daughter?" Yuuko asked making me sigh and think about it. Am I going to lie to her parents when she's sitting right there currently ripping a pillow apart with her teeth. Well I'm not gonna lie... "Do you like my daughter in any way?"
"Yes ma'am. I think your daughter's an amazing person and an incredible friend. But romantically...I'm not going to say yes but I'm not going to say no, we'll see how everything goes." I moved my eyes to the left to see her reaction to what I said. And wow, her face was absolutely red and the pillow was just out of her hands and mouth.
"Well that's nice to hear, it's getting pretty late now. Are you going to be leaving soon Yuto?" Susumu asked as I looked at my phone to see that it was almost 10.
"Yeah actually I should, thank you Mr. and Mrs. Kamiya."
"Bye Yuto!"
"We hope to see you again soon!" I walked out the door with Kari right behind me and we walked out the door with her closing it grabbing my arm.
"I-I-I'm so sorry about that! I didn't know they would-"
"Kari it's okay. Your parents were pretty cool."
"O-Oh. W-Well...goodnight. And by the way, I think the same about you." I smiled as she looked down trying to avoid eye contact with me.
"Hey Kari I wanna tell you something before I leave." She looked up confused and I lifted her head up slightly with my hands and moved my face closer to hers until our lips touched.
(Kari POV)
No way is he really...oh my god! I didn't know what to do so I wrapped my arms around his neck and returned the kiss for what seemed like forever until we broke apart.
"Goodnight Kari."
"Goodnight Yuto." We smiled at each other and gave each other one more peck until he walked away headed for the stairs. I opened the door and I saw my parents there smiling at me...THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL THEY SAW THAT.
"So should we start calling him our son-in-law?" THEY DID! AW MAN!