Chapter three
"I myself come from a time later than any of you. You, and your friends, are considered heroes where I come from, idols even. I figured out that something evil is coming upon this world and that the organization I belong to, called 'the Order of Digi-warriors' wouldn't be able to stop it. That's why I had to call you. I looked at the data base regarding digi-destined and chose the eleven I thought would be best for the job. Ten of whom I brought here, meaning you, and I'm sorry for some of the ways you were brought here, but I did what I had to do, it was urgent to bring you here. The remaining one, Hikari Yagami, was left behind in the real world". At this point the girl's tone became very pessimistic, very morbid, she lowered her head as she added: "She will unite the others and lead the rebellion in case we will fail here"
"That's my Hikari!" Takeru commented as he heard that.
"You're right" replied the girl to Takeru, who was surprised to find she heard him. "She will proof herself as an asset on a number of occasions. But there will be plenty of time for Digi-Destined history later" she said as she realized she is straying from the matter at hand.
"Questions so far?"
One of the ten replied "just one, ShuiChon?"
Neither the question nor the identity of the asker surprised her: "you were always clever big brother, and yes, you are right. No point in hiding it any longer, I am Jenrya's younger sister, if you haven't met him yet you soon will, but the time for introduction is, as I said, later"
"I-" she continued her speech "-am what you call a Digi-Warrior, and for a short while so are you. The job doesn't drastically differ from what you all did here. However, like the tamers we are able to use modify cards, and though we can't turn into Digimon like the "frontier-ers", as we call them, we can mimic several digimon attacks and thus help our own digimon in battle. In short, you have a lot to learn and little time to earn it. If you will check your pockets you will find a digi-tool and a case of modify cards, these will be your second best friends for as long as you stay here, I promise you.
Right now you are not even close to be ready to tackle this new evil, each of you has personal issues which, currently, keeps him from focusing on the mission. Thus, I suggest we will all introduce ourselves and later we will go to sleep. Your rooms are ready, but there's one last bed-time story you should hear before you can go to sleep.
Normally, I wouldn't dream about sharing future information, but I have a special permission for this one. So hear goes: at a certain time, during your future, the real world will be invaded by a group of seven Digimon, some of them you fought before, but together, the seven will have incredible power. As a part of their brilliant plan, and it was brilliant, they hacked into the Digi-destined data-base. I know, none of you were even aware that such a data base exists. But the military, being the military, kept huge amount of information about every Digi-destined the minute they figure out just what a Digi-destined is. The information was kept on computers, which made it very easy for the seven Digimon to access it. Having all that information they began to hunt us down, recognizing us according to our appearance. With us gone, the world could have easily fallen to there hands. After the first few were caught, the rest of us did what we could to change our appearance and plan a counter strike. I, among other things, dyed my hair brown. Going on, the vary fact that I stand here before you means their plan failed, and it's that event that lead to the establishment of the order of Digi-warriors. We now refer to that event by the name "the demon days". The reason is that Daemon was the first among the seven to attack. A soldier who Witnessed the attack sent an argent massage to his superiors. He was in such a hurry that he misspelled 'Daemon' and wrote "Demon", it was only one of five misspelled words. Consequently, the soldier who received the massage, who also happened to be a fan of 'The Gorillas' named the military's operation designed to counter that attack, "the demon days". The reason I'm telling you this is that it will all be relevant to our mission here. And needless to say, it will be of great help for you to remember what I said when you will have to confront 'the demon days'."
"Now that we're done with that, I suggest you'll all get a good night sleep. By the way, the room in which you'll sleep and whoever will spend the night with you is anything but random, so no switching, use the opportunity to solve whatever needs to be solved.
The division was as follows:
Jenrya was sleeping with Ryo so that they could discuss the beginning of their relationship. As Sui-chon expected, they talked, rather than slept, the entire night.
Iory shared a room with Koshiro; the two quickly became friends, having shared many similar personality traits despite seemingly being very different from each other. Takeru was in the same room, though he couldn't help but feeling left out in the conversation between the two. He hardly spent any time in that room as he preferred to take a walk outside, thinking about his brother.
Takuya spend the night with Yamato, Sui-Chon hoped that way they could comfort each other. Takuya had shortly before came out to his friend, who accepted him but didn't share his romantic interest, and Yamato, who had a relationship also came out to his brother. Unfortunately it seems the door of that closet was closed at that time, which made coming out something Yamato regret he did.
Kouji spend the night with Izumi. Ironically enough, everyone, except those two, knew they were in love.
Shuichon shared a room with Ruki, being the only girls aside from Izumi and having idolized Ruki from an early age.
Later that night, Sui-Chon got out and walked around a bit. She was the only one aware of what was to come and concern was eating her alive, not allowing her to sleep, things didn't look bright.
She wasn't at all surprised to find Takeru
"Couldn't sleep right?" she asked.
"No, I have a lot on my mind"
Sui-Chon decided she didn't have enough time to get him to open up. Thus, she answered "yeh, I know about your gay brother"
"W-what? How?" Takeru asked astonished.
"The digi-destined data base is more accurate and vast than you want to know, Mr. Shorts with drawings of kitties"
"What? How do you now about that? And besides, they were-"
"-a gift from Hikari" she interrupted before he could finish. "I told you, our data base is very vast, there's probably nothing about you I don't know, having studied it carefully for my, I mean our, mission"
"I see, and do you make it a habit to study about the underwear of all digi-destined?"
"No, just about the cute guys among them"
"You do know I have a girl friend right?"
"Relax; I have no interest in you beyond your help in saving two worlds. By the way, you do know you're a jerk right? How could you treat your brother like that?"
Takero preferred not to respond, he turned his back and walked away, he didn't feel like being lectured by a girl he met barely two hours ago. Besides, he was very conflicted about his brother: though he loved him very much, the kind of love that exists solely among brothers, what his brother told him was against everything he believed was right.
"Hold on!" she commanded him to stop "Fine, it's none of my busyness. But consider this: pretty soon it's gonna come down to a battle, more fierce and intense than any before. Think whatever you wish about your brother, but I need to know you will be able to fight along his side, that this won't disturb your team work"
Takeru listened and left without saying a word as soon as she finished. To anything but his content, she did have a point.
"Well, that went great" said Lopmon who popped out of nowhere.
"You're spending too much time with terriermon, his sarcasm is catching up to you" was the response she got.
As she had back to her room she found her older brother, which didn't surprise her. In all fairness, the girl came from the future and conducted a wide study regarding this specific time, only a few things could surprise her.
He gazed into the air with a glazed look in his eyes and a smile on his face. His expression changed quickly when he noticed her. "Sui-Chon, I have to ask, why did you put me in the same room, with Ryo?"
Sui-Chon knew what he really asked "dear brother, do you really not know? Or are you afraid you do?" seeing the tears that dropped from his eyes she added "you told me, or… will tell me. Either way, it's ok, I know" she paused when he hugged her. "Does dad know? How did he take it?"
"Brother, I'd love to tell you, I'd love to ease your fear, but I can't tell you about the future, not more than I must."
Jenrya hugged his sister and, showing his gratitude, his relief.
Back in his room, Jenrya told Ryo what previously happened. Ryo, who had a rare capacity for caring and empathy, listened carefully. When Jenrya finished he wrapped his hands around him and whispered: "I'm so happy for you".
"You know, I just love the way you hold me in your arms, I wish we could stay like that forever"
"Forever and a day, for as long as you want me to"
Jenrya did love the sound of that, he leaned close and softly placed a kiss on Ryo's lips. The two kept on talking until they fell asleep in each other's arms, at about four AM.
Meanwhile, inside their room, Yamato and Takuya began talking; Takuya had finally worked up the nerve to talk to his roommate.
"Yamato? That's your name right?"
"Yeh?" Yamato replied, turning his face to Takuya.
"You were one of those with the crests right? I heard you talking before"
"True, I had, have, the crest of friendship"
"Who needs it?" Takuya bluntly interrupted before Yamato could continue.
"Everyone needs it. Trust me; I know what being lonely is like"
"I know I know, but I mean, what if you want more and the other guy isn't interested?" upon realizing what he said he quickly corrected "I mean the other person, I mean girl"
Yamato had already caught up to what was going on, "You know, the girl, Sui-Chon, said we were all put together for a reason"
Takuya failed to understand what Yamato had meant; his confused answer was "So…?"
"So, I think you meant exactly what you said"
After the two put two and two together and figured out why they were put together, the conversation began flowing easily, they talked about everything from "say, what is it like to turn into a Digimon?" and "So, what do these crests do anyway?" to "don't worry, your brother will accept you, eventually" and "you gotta forget Kouji, being in love with someone straight will only cause you disappointment" They kept talking until morning came.
hope you liked it, as always, R&R is appriciated.