Ok so, about this part. This is happening at the same time as part three if you can't figure that out after reading but I wanted to mention that now so no one got confused through this. Actually, all of the parts are happening at the same time.
[Rin's P.O.V]
My thoughts were hazy but over bearing. My head was starting to hurt due to all of the thoughts yet my thoughts weren't clear and I couldn't think clearly.
"Rin." I opened my eyes and looked at him.
His blonde hair was messy and his blue eyes were colored with worry. His voice was gentle and he seemed hesitant to speak as if he was afraid to hurt me. His partner stood back by the doorframe watching us. He had come through a few days ago.
"You need to eat." He wanted to say something else, I could tell from how he had opened and closed his mouth as if he was going to speak before saying that.
I shook my head slightly. I wasn't hungry and even if I was I wouldn't be able to keep it down. My stomach didn't feel very good. I didn't feel very good overall.
"You have to eat Rin." I pulled my legs tighter to my chest.
I flinched and loosened my grip rather quickly. Daemon had done a number on me the other day. My knees were skinned, half raw so they hurt. I had a few cuts and I had a minor burn. My arm was cut pretty badly from when Daemon grabbed me too.
"Talk to me Rin." I shook my head.
"Rin, don't isolate yourself. Don't shut me out please." I tightened my hands into fists, it hurt slightly but I didn't unfurl my fists.
"Matt, maybe she needs time to think." Matt sighed and looked back to his partner.
"Gabumon, she's been like this since last night." I knew Matt cared but I just couldn't talk.
"Daemon almost chocked her so maybe she can't talk." At that Matt looked at me.
"Rin?" I bit my lip when I felt tears sting at my eyes.
"I'm crowding you again aren't I? Sorry, I should've learned that back then." Matt's voice as low and he sounded defeated.
He stood from kneeling beside the bed that I sat on, it was his bed. My uncle was out on a work trip so he wasn't around. I was glad that there was one less person that would worry over me.
"I'm going to make dinner; if you get hungry come out, if you need anything come out or just call." He hesitated to turn around while his partner left.
He turned around and started to leave his room. As he walked away something cracked slightly. I didn't want to be left alone. Before he left his room I got up and caught up to him. I wrapped my arms around him and rested my forehead on his back.
"I'm scared." I whispered it.
"Why are you scared?" He spoke quietly.
"I don't know." I felt afraid but I wasn't sure why.
Daemon was after my life. My father was a sociopath who wanted to kill me. My father killed my mother. I was caught up in something that I didn't even know about or understand. There were so many reasons to be scared but none of them seemed to fit. Was it a combination of them or was it because I was used to my father abusing me?
"I don't know what to think anymore. I don't understand what's going on anymore." What was the truth and what was a lie?
"My father, did he really kill my mom?" I didn't know what to think; a part of me believed it but at the same time I didn't believe it.
"No one wanted to tell you." I tightened my grip on his shirt that I had clutched in my hands.
"You knew?" He sighed and placed a hand over one of mine.
"I wanted to tell you Rin but I didn't know how to. I was scared back then." I was surprised by that.
"What do you mean by that?" He sighed once again, his grip on my hand tightened.
"Your mom, she had the so called accident when I stayed over." A part of me was mad because he didn't tell me but another was trying to make me think deeper about his words but thinking only made my head hurt worse.
"What's for dinner?" I wanted a change of subject; I didn't want to think about it anymore.
I don't want to think about it anymore. I didn't want to face any of the thoughts that were starting to appear in my mind. These thoughts were so clear compared to everything else. I knew I had to face the truth but it wasn't something I was ready to accept or face.
"Don't know, I have to see what I have. We could order out if you want." I bit my lip.
It was all true. Everything I had read was true. I had to come to terms with it. I had to accept it and find the strength to keep moving. I can't stop no matter how much I want to stay hidden away from the world. I had to play my part.
"Matt, you know I love you right?" We were as close as siblings, he was all I had after my mother died and my father started to abuse me.
"Yeah, I know you'll leave at some point too." He knew already.
"Despite stumbling into it and being forced into it you still feel responsible." A small smile found its way to my face; he knew me the best out of everyone I know.
"Sorry for not telling you about Baalmon." I should've told him years ago but I didn't know how to so I kept Baalmon a secret.
"Don't worry about that." I closed my eyes and I realized that my tears had stopped.
"Just promise me that once it's all over that you'll come back." I nodded.
There was no need for words because actions spoke louder than words; I hugged him tighter after he turned around to face me. It was nice that despite everything I had someone. I had someone that I knew loved me. Matt was all the family that I had left that understood me. There was his father, my uncle, but I was never that close with him because my father kept me away from him. There was also T.K. but that was pretty messed up because it was hard for me to realize the difference between him and Takeru, they were completely different but it was hard to realize that they weren't the same people since they looked exactly alike and sound alike, their personalities was the difference between the two.
"I have nowhere else to go Matt." There was nowhere else that I could go even if I wanted to.
"You might find somewhere to go though." Even if he said that I doubt that.
I tightened my grip on his shirt. I wasn't sure if I would ever find a place to belong. Every time that I thought I found a place to belong something has always happened and I lost that place. The only place that has remained the same over time was the fact that Matt treated me like his sister, I could always turn to him and he has always accepted me.
"Even if I do I'll still come back." It was true so even if I doubted the fact that I would ever find somewhere to go I would come back even if I did, if only to tell him so he wouldn't worry.
"I have to tell you Rin, I can't keep it locked away more." His words were soft and I just knew that he was going back to the last topic.
"I saw it Rin, that's why I stopped liking your father. I saw him attack her that night; he doesn't know that I saw him." I opened my eyes surprised by what he had admitted.
"I was scared that if I told you he would do something to you or me." He saw my mother get attacked by my father, he saw whatever my father did to my mother and it explained why he was scared, it was six almost seven years ago so he was either ten or almost ten.
"Someone should've told you back then or I should've done something, I saw the bruises and no matter how much I denied it something just told me he hurt you." I couldn't even find it within me to be angry at him, if I was going to be the anger had died when I felt something wet drop onto my head.
"I'm sorry Rin. You suffered alone for so long and no one ever did anything to help you." I closed my eyes slowly.
It wasn't like Matt to break down like this but I guess he's probably held all of this in for a while. He was good at locking things up and hiding things but even the strongest person would lose eventually. The strongest person can also be the weakest, there was more than just physical strength involved in being strong. If someone is only physically strong they can be attacked emotionally or mentally. Not to mention having others to relay on could also be considered a type of strength as well because you aren't alone, with people to relay on it's not just your strength that is being used.
"Hey, I'm standing here aren't I?" I tried to act brave for him.
I didn't want him to feel guilty for something he couldn't have changed. I wish it hadn't happened, perhaps in some way I might've deserved what happened but it wasn't his fault. I knew what was going on and just like he could've done something I could've done something. Even if it might've gotten me killed then at least I would've been free. I squeezed my eyes shut a bit tighter. Stop thinking like that. Right after the attack I had spilled everything out, my thoughts included. He was gentle about it but I knew he had been angry when he found out how much I had thought of things like that.
"You might be here but you have scars, some might not be visible but they're there." Was it worth acting brave for him when he could probably see through it?
"I don't understand how you were so broken that day but you act almost as if it hadn't happened." He held me just a bit tighter but not that tight, as if he was afraid that he would hurt me.
"I accepted it I guess. What happened is what happened, I can't change the past so I have to live with it." I had heard stories of how it took forever for people to get over abuse and how some never got over with it.
"I don't know exactly myself but even if I refused to accept it or wished to change it I can't." I shut down for the past few days and had been all about been dead to the world but I couldn't do that.
"I still feel small and insignificant, I still feel like I don't belong. I'm afraid to trust people and afraid to let people in. I want to shut the world away and just hide away from everything." There was a very dull ache in my heart but I was so used to it that it was just that, just a dull ache.
"I still feel like if I died right here right now no one would miss me. I doubt those facts will change any time soon or change all that much." I might as well be truthful to him after all he was the only person I trusted that I would let down my defenses for because I knew he wouldn't hurt me, he's proven that many times over the years.
"I know by now you've acted for a long time Rin." It was a harsh truth that I don't think some people could accept but Matt sounded like he had come to accept that.
"How long have you acted like everything was fine?" That was a hard question.
"Five maybe five and a half years, I don't know. It didn't take long for my father to turn on me after my mother died." Back then it was easier to avoid him.
"I used to spend a lot of time with Ken and it kept me away for long periods of time but then his brother died, when Sam died he changed and we drifted." I never told Ken about some of the things that happened during that time.
Something had changed in him during that. I blamed it on his brother's death but now I know the reason why his character changed so drastically and so suddenly. More often than not he had hurled mean words at me and at time made me feel so small. Originally we were tied in grades then suddenly he stopped studying with me and he just grew in leaps and bounds leaving me behind. It was around that time when I stopped caring as much about school. I paid little attention but I still managed good grades somehow yet they were never as high as they had been.
"Why didn't you ever say anything or come over for more visits?" I shrugged slightly.
He pulled back and before I could even get a look at his face he had turned around. I smiled ever so slightly, he didn't want me to see that had cried even though I knew had. He was strange at times but he thought he had to be strong all of the time. Then again the same could be said for me. I kept everything bottled up and hidden away from people because I was afraid of what would happen.
"I was afraid, he was my dad and I was scared what would happen if I was taken away. Would I lose the few friends I had? Would I be blamed for what happened to me? He always said it was my fault and I believed him for a long time. After all he hadn't hurt me then he did, for a long time I thought everything was my fault." He looked at me over his shoulder after swiping his arm over his eyes.
"It was never you fault." I gave him a small almost forced smile.
"I know that now." He smiled hearing that, he looked a bit relieved.
"No one should hurt you like that Rin. No one should hurt you to feel good." He didn't have to tell me that.
"I know so you don't have to tell me that. I might've needed to hear that in past but not now." Maybe it was because my mom always taught me to look for the positive in the negatives that I managed to recover so quickly.
No, I was still recovering but I didn't feel as broken as I had the day I had found out about my mother having been murdered by my father. Maybe the fact that I learned how to ease my pain by myself helped it. I wasn't sure exactly. Looking at the positives from the abuse I knew that despite the pain and the scars it has left I would be stronger. I could withstand harsh words and people bad mouthing me. I could tolerate pain as well.
"How is it that you pretended not to know anything about Digimon or the Digital World when you arrived with Ken that day?" I scratched my cheek and gave a nervous laugh.
"Well, I wanted to help Ken and I didn't want to go home. I thought maybe if I pretended not to know you guys would let me stay and I could be of use. That I would get to stay here until everything was settled." I could've just asked to stay with Matt and he probably would've let me stay.
"I would've let you stay even if you hadn't helped us." I looked to the floor.
"I guess I felt like I had to earn the right to stay, that I had to do something to stay. You guys wouldn't have known but I would've owed you guys for keeping me here away from him so I wanted to help in some kind of way." I wasn't able to just relay on people without doing anything in return for them, I felt like I had to earn the right to relay on people.
"You should be able to receive help without having to always have to do something in return." I shrugged.
"I don't know about that, my way of thinking about it might be incorrect but someone helps you I think you should do something in return unless they say that they don't want anything in return, maybe." He seemed to think before sighing.
"I don't know about you but it's hard to think on an empty stomach." I chose not to tell him that my father barely fed me usually so I was used to being hungry, I would usually only eat when I went to school.
"So, what's for dinner?" I asked it as we left his room, he shoulders fell.
"Food." I was careful as I crossed my arms.
"What kind of food?" I followed him into the kitchen, his partner was watching us.
"The kind that you eat." I tilted my head.
"Not the kind that eats you?" He pointed at me without looking from the fridge.
"That was one time!" He had a cooking accident and the food looked like it could move, I swear it did move actually.
"Uh huh, what about your zombie curry?" He paused and I saw the tips of his ears turn red; the rest of his face was hidden by the fridge door.
"S-shut up, if you don't like my food you don't have to eat or you can order out." I laughed slightly and I heard his partner laugh as well.
"Why are you laughing with her Gabumon!" He picked his head up and I saw the red that stained his cheeks that only made me laugh a bit harder.
"Aw your blushing Matt." I stuck my tongue out at him.
"Rin!" I squealed and I ran from him.
As I ran I laughed. Everything from earlier on a few days ago slipped away and it was like we were young again, it was like the time when my mother was still alive. He chased me around the living room and through rooms that he questioned how I got out of without getting caught. The game of chase stopped when he tripped and brought me down with him since he was tall enough and he grabbed my arm. I was still laughing and he groaned; I had landed on his back.
"You two really are like siblings." I looked to Gabumon and smiled.
"I wouldn't want it any other way." I squealed slightly when Matt managed to get me off his back and had me trapped under him, he also wore a smirk.
"Payback time." My eyes before I started to laugh, he tickled my sides and tried to get him to stop.
"M-Matt s-stop!" Very few people got to see this side of him.
"Well, this isn't something I ever expected to see." Matt stopped and we both looked.
Gabumon was laughing slightly and Izzy stood behind him. That brat opened the door for Izzy! Matt quickly moved and he stood up. His cheeks were tinted red again and even if I laughed slightly he still offered me a hand up which I took. He pulled me up and Izzy was still laughing slightly.
"Stop laughing!" Izzy shut up when Matt snapped at him.
Matt went to the kitchen grumbling and started to pull things out of the fridge. I looked to Gabumon and he stopped laughing. I took a step towards him and then he turned and I started to chase him but I caught him and I grabbed his fur.
"No, not my fur!" I tilted my head.
"Your fur can come off?" He looked at me and his eyes widened.
"You didn't know?" I grinned.
"Nope."
"Matt, Izzy help me!" I heard Matt snort.
"Nah I'm good." Gabumon tried to get out of my grip.
"Come on Rin, I have some information about what's going on." I let Gabumon go and he fell flat on his face.
"I know stuff too." I crossed my legs and sat on the floor, I smiled up at Izzy and he blinked.
"Her attitude had changed." Matt laughed slightly.
"Not that much, she's back to what she was like before that stuff." Even when I was reminded it only dampened my mood slightly.
"Once I'm in a good mood it's kind of hard to kill my good moods." Plus I was trying really hard to forget about what happened or at least look for more positives than negatives.
"Well it's good to see you're doing good Rin." He sat down and then looked at Matt.
"Can I stay for dinner?" Matt stopped for a moment before looking at Izzy.
"You tell no one what you saw." Izzy nodded.
"Deal." I knew then and I smiled.
"You're parents went out didn't they?" Izzy was smart and all but he couldn't cook to save his life.
"M-maybe." I shrugged.
"So anyways, what did you find out?" It was good to get all possible information since unlike the others I would be the most obvious target since my partner didn't stick around me twenty-four/seven and I couldn't protect myself.
"Well for starters, there are eight DigiDestineds who are supposed to fight this battle but obviously there could be more as allies but only eight are technically spoken off." I nodded, so there were eight others, I already knew that though.
"I know Kari and those three are four of the eight." He nodded and crossed his arms.
"Kari, Koji Minamoto, Koichi Kimura, and Takuya Kanbara are four of the eight along with you obviously." I nodded, it was good to know the others name so they couldn't just claim to be one of them without really being one.
"Then there is also Spark and Leo Gallant." Hm, siblings then which means that they're going to first act to protect each other more than likely.
"Lastly Daisuke Motomiya, not the Davis that you met that is one of us." I frowned because I knew who he meant.
"The boy who teased Kari, he messed with me a little bit when I ran into the parallel version of myself." He nodded and I saw him hesitate.
"What aren't you saying Izzy?" Izzy looked to Gabumon before looking at the ground.
"Leo Gallant, he apparently died a few days ago." My eyes widened hearing that.
"He must've been Order then." That threw Izzy off and made both Gabumon and Matt look at me.
"What are you talking about?" I looked at Matt.
"When I went missing I was somewhere else, a different world. I got access to some place that apparently was only a thing of legend and I learned the legend or prophecy, whatever you wanna call it, that went with this war." Matt blinked and looked like he couldn't believe what I had just said.
"You're kidding me; you already know some of this stuff?" I looked to Izzy and nodded.
"I might have stumbled into this by accident but I know that since I can't protect myself and my partner isn't always around so the only way to defend myself is to know my enemy." I would need to know what to expect and what they were capable of if I wanted to survive.
"So you know the prophecy of this battle and it actually foretold someone's death?" I looked at Gabumon, I sighed but nodded.
"Sadly, I wish I had learned beforehand and maybe I could've tried to find a way where he wouldn't have had to have died." He had a sister, he left someone behind.
"A prophecy has to happen for something to be done." I glared at Izzy and he flinched.
"Fate and destiny are chosen by us, we walk the path we choose. Our lives aren't predetermined by something like fate or destiny." If I hadn't hated the two before I hated them now.
"Also don't talk about prophecies when the only one you've lived out dealt with Tai and Matt getting shot with an arrow and you guys living happily ever after defeating VenomMyotismon." Izzy gulped.
"Why do you sound so bitter suddenly?" I crossed my arms.
"That stupid prophecy spoke about me being abused." It wasn't fair in my mind, why did the supposedly 'Chosen Ones' have to suffer?
"The eight it spoke of all suffered some kind of pain; I don't understand why we all had to suffer. What would they have done if we got angry and we chose to instead side with the Demon Lords and tried to get rid of anything and everything that had caused us to suffer?" It could've gone either way.
"I guess the worlds probably would've burned." Matt's sounded angry and if I didn't know him better I wouldn't have caught the joke.
"That's not funny Matt." I glanced at Matt just in time to see him shrug his shoulders.
"Why Rin's right, if they want people to save the worlds why do they have to suffer and then be expected to save people who probably have only hurt and used them?" They looked at me, even though Izzy had been the one who had spoken, and I looked down because the necklace that I wore let off a glow.
I was surprised that it glowed. I pulled it out from under my shirt and I saw Izzy's eyes go wide and Gabumon came closer to look at it. Baalmon had given it to me back when I was five years old; I first met Baalmon when I was four years old. He saved me from getting attacked by some monster, it was a Digimon but I didn't know what Digimon were back then. The symbol that was carved into it was rather interesting. It looked like a small section of chain links but it had a diamond in the center.
"Where did you get that?" I looked at Matt.
"Baalmon gave it to me when I was five, he told me not to let anyone see it. I can trust you three so you get to see it not only because it started to glow." I looked back at it.
I haven't ever seen it glow like this before. It glowed when I bumped into the Digimon Ghost and when I helped him talk to his friend. I wasn't exactly sure how it works or anything. I wasn't even sure what it was since Baalmon hadn't explained what it was. He said it was better if I didn't know what it was then again back then I wasn't a very good actor.
"What are you the DigiDestined of Rin?" I tilted my head and I tried to remember what Baalmon told me years ago.
"I don't remember right now, he only told me once." The glow that it let off was a pale yellow close to white.
"That's a Crest Rin, it represents whatever trait you are and it also usually helps you help your partner Digivolve." Baalmon never needed help Digivolving though.
"Really? Baalmon never had an issue with Digivolving though and it doesn't seem like he needs help from me to Digivolve." Baalmon was strong after all; it wasn't a surprise that he didn't require my help.
"Ah, Matt can you go down stairs for me? I left my bike downstairs and my bag is with it on the handle bars." From how Izzy flinched back I could tell that Matt shot him a look.
"Why should I go downstairs and grab something of yours?" Izzy scratched his cheek.
"Well you see, I bumped into Ken on my way from Tamachi since I had gone there to check on something and when he heard I was coming to visit he asked me to bring some of Rin's stuff. I meant to bring it up with me but Gabumon had waved me up so I left it down stairs thinking something was wrong." I smiled hearing that.
He must've gotten my text about needing the bag that I kept packed and hidden under bed! The bag had extra clothes and different things that I might need since I had thought about running away once or twice. I had thought about just leaving with Baalmon one time. I stood up and I went towards the door but my arm was grabbed.
"Hate to be like this but you're not going out alone." I sighed and looked at Matt.
"But it's just down stairs; nothing could happen within that short walk." He shook his head.
"I said alone, I'll go down and you can come with." I sighed but I would take it.
"Actually, I had more to tell you Rin." I looked at Izzy and considered it.
"Fine, I can always go out later." I walked over and sat back down across from Izzy and Matt left.
"So why did you want to get rid of Matt?" Izzy glanced at Gabumon and gave a nervous laugh.
"Well, I wasn't so sure how to say it in front of him. Tai's gone missing, I had hoped to talk to him and get everyone together to talk about what I had found out. Ken couldn't come over here and we wouldn't have been able to go over there." I was surprised to hear that Tai was gone.
"What do you mean Tai's missing?" Gabumon was stunned but so was I.
"Agumon vanished too, he was at home according to his mother then he just vanished." I tilted my head slightly.
"Can't he open gates to the Digital World?" Izzy crossed his arms.
"That's what I thought too, all the gates are locked and our connection to the Digital World is also blocked. I brought it up to Hiro since it stumped me; he thinks that it's the doing of Amaya. She's a DigiDestined turned evil." I crossed my arms when I heard him mention Hiro.
"He's the guy who was really mean wasn't he?" Izzy snapped his fingers.
"That's right, he apologizes for that. He was being controlled by Daemon at the time; Daemon used him to make you leave so Daemon could attack you. He's actually rather nice." I didn't believe it completely but I didn't completely not believe it either.
"Fine, he'll get a second chance." How would we tell Matt that Tai's gone?
Those two are pretty close, it kind of reminds me of how brother's act. Despite trying to stick to himself Matt made friends who usually became more than just friends. Then again if I thought about what he represented it made sense after all Matt was the DigiDestined of Friendship.
"Do you think he was attacked?" Izzy shook his head.
"Hiro would've noticed if any of the Demon Lords or their lackeys came also sadly I doubt they would've targeted Tai sadly they probably would've come after you Rin." I didn't like it but I would rather it that way, at least I know that my friends weren't in danger because they'd come after me first.
"So Tai pulled a disappearing act?" Izzy nodded at my half question half statement.
"I even called his cell phone but I got no answer, well besides the gurgle of data which I assume deals with the Digital World somehow despite the gates having gotten locked." I wonder if Tai managed it, I could imagine Tai managing it somehow.
"Any chance he went to the Digital World but then got stuck there because the gate got locked before he came back?" I could see Tai managing to get stuck in the Digital World.
"You know, I could see Tai managing that somehow." Izzy massaged his temples.
"I don't think he went though, Gennai would've contacted me had Tai showed up there. I managed to open a small hole and maintain contact with Gennai." I nodded pretending that I knew who Gennai was.
"Gennai's a data person, kind of like an AI." I nodded and smile at Gabumon.
"Oh yeah, we never mentioned him to you before well at least we never explained him to you." I knew of Digimon but I've never been to our Digital World before so it was a bit bothersome when they mentioned things and assumed I just knew about it, it's usually Izzy that does that though.
"Why would Tai go missing though?" Izzy sounded stumped for once but I stopped when something flashed across my mind.
"Kari's fighting the Demon Lords." While I didn't know much about the Demon Lords I know they would do something underhanded like that.
If they wanted to get at Kari but didn't know how to attack her or wanted to just mess with her they might target someone close to her. Tai being her brother would be the perfect target for them. Then again he did mention that had they shown up or any of their lackeys showed up we would've known. There was no way that they could've abducted him without us knowing and having some kind of chance at trying to do something against them.
"Even so we would've known Rin, despite how much I want to think it's them too it couldn't be." If there was another explanation what would it be?
"I would say maybe he was kidnapped by humans but Agumon's with him so I doubt humans got him." Izzy nodded and I laughed slightly.
"What are you laughing at Rin?" I shook my head.
"I think they would've given Tai back if someone kidnapped him." Tai could be loud, annoying, and talkative.
"That's true Tai is a bit." Izzy stopped but then again we all kind of stopped.
Even though I wasn't one for sensing things I could sense it, for me to sense things it took things like Daemon for me to sense them usually. The fact that I could sense it gave me a bad feeling. There wasn't another Demon Lord here was there? No, the feel to the presence was a bit different. It felt a bit unstable and unrefined so if Daemon was anything to go by that wasn't a Demon Lord.
"This isn't good." As Izzy stood up I grabbed his wrist, he looked at me.
"Rin?" I stared at him and I looked at him.
Izzy looked confused but he made a mistake. He looked the same and sounded the same but he wasn't the same. Same red hair and same black eyes but yet there was one difference.
"Gabumon, you should go check on Matt. Stay with me Izzy, I'm scared." He gave a nervous smile and besides that he did nothing.
Gabumon went to the door and fiddled with the door for a few moments. I continued to watch Izzy as he did, I could faintly hear Matt talking to someone on the other side of the door. Once Gabumon was outside I gripped Izzy's wrist just a little tighter and he bit his lip.
"Izzy can't sense Digimon." His eyes widened slightly.
"Izzy might be smart but he can't sense them, he had a program that could sense Digimon. That's how he knew not because he could sense Digimon or other things that gave off a feel of Digimon." I had spent enough time around Izzy the last couple of weeks to know something like that plus he had told me about his Digimon Radar, Gennai had given it to him a while back.
"You knew him for shortest time so how did you realize?" He spoke so soft I nearly didn't hear him; he was probably trying to keep Gabumon from hearing him.
"After being abused for years I learned how to read people, Izzy was interesting to talk to because he knew so much and despite pulling away I liked learning new things so I talked to him a lot. I learned enough about how he reacted to situations to know that your reaction didn't fit his reactions." He gave a soft laugh as he looked back to me.
"Can you keep it a secret? I'm not an enemy, I promise. I want to help, my sister is caught up in this and she doesn't know about it." I was surprised hearing that, Izzy didn't have a sister.
"Who's your sister?" He gave a sad smile.
"Nori, she wasn't mentioned but she's a friend of one of the players and she's been used a pawn since the beginning." If this wasn't Izzy then where was Izzy?
"The Izzy you know, he's sealed in the Digital World. He tried to talk to Gennai but he got trapped, I took the chance and slipped in. I am Izzy but I'm from a different World." I bit my lip not sure if I should trust him.
I already had trust issues and add on the fact that the Demon Lords and my own father were trying to kill me didn't help it any. I wasn't sure if he was telling the truth or if he was lying. How long had the Izzy I knew been trapped in the Digital World? When did this Izzy slip in? How long has he pretended to be the Izzy that we knew and trusted? Then again did I ever know the Izzy that Matt knew? I probably did since he said that the Izzy I knew was in the Digital World which meant I had met and started to trust the Izzy that Matt knows.
"Ow, my head hurts." He laughed slightly and bent down.
"Yeah, thinking too much about things like parallels and things related to it usually will do that to you." I was surprised that he ruffled my hair with the hand that I didn't hold.
"I don't know if I should trust you." I let go of his wrist.
"But I will, don't make me regret it." I wasn't sure why but something urged me to trust him.
"Izzy, anything you learned say anything about one of Kari's friends disappearing?" He stood up and placed a hand on his head when Matt suddenly asked the question.
"Out of her group only Leo Gallant disappeared, well he died so I guess you can count that as disappearing." I stood up and went to the door, he followed after me.
I was surprised though at what I saw. A boy, maybe a year older than me sat on the ground with his hands held up. He looked confused and a bit hesitant. He had surprising red eyes and his blonde hair was kind of messy. What he wore though was a bit confusing not to mention out of place. He had a black jacket that was zipped half way up and from what I could see a red shirt underneath of it and black pants along with arm warmers on his arms that were black but had a light yellow star on them. After looking at him for a second longer, aware of the fact that he was looking me over and being a bit self-conscious I looked away from him and to Matt. Matt looked uneasy and didn't seem to trust the red eyed boy.
Any questions? If I lost people, I'm sorry and just ask and I'll answer questions if it's not a spoiler for the story that is. Also, about Rin's flip I'm sorry, I don't know how to write a person in her situation so I'll say now she just kind of locked it away and is doing her best to fool herself into thinking that it doesn't hurt. She's, in lack of better words, she's numb to what happened currently and she is trying to focus on something else so she can shove it away and not think about it. Does that make any sense? Sorry if it just made any confusion worse.