Hello! And sorry for the late update, but school has been torture. I hope you guys aren't too mad at me. Hope you like this chapter. Sorry if it's bad, my head hurts a bit, but I thought that I should post a new chapter. I'll try to post another one during the weekend. Please review the sooner you review the sooner I update. Thanks to digi-writer1392, clockwise123456, and takari fan100. Now on with the story!

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Chapter Five

After they were together again Rei, Kouji, Takuya, and Tomoki started trying to figure out where they were. They were in some type of toy town. They walked around and Tomoki kept getting distracted by the toys. Kouji and Takuya kept arguing because of Tomoki. Kouji thought that he should grow up and stop acting like a little kid while Takuya defended Tomoki.

After a while they ran into Monzaemon. They had to run away when he said that he wanted to play wrestling with them. After a while they ran into him again, but he was different. He attacked the guys and took Tomoki away.

"I knew we should have gone on alone, Rei." Kouji said.

"This will only hold us back."

Takuya was angered by Kouji's lack of care for Tomoki.

"How can you say that!?! You must be the most selfish kid in the world, in two worlds! Don't you understand that Tomoki is just a little kid. He must be scared and it's our job as the older ones to take care of him. Don't you have any little brothers or sisters like him?"

"I don't have any. I'm alone." Kouji looked down.

"I'm an only child so I don't know anything about how to take care of anyone."

"Kouji-kun, that's not true. You've been taking care of me so I know that you are very good at caring for others."

"Rei's right. Imagine how you would feel if she was the one that Monzaemon had taken."

Kouji knew that he would feel terrible for he had already felt that way when she was taken away by Grumblemon. He had been worried about her. He could picture her alone and scared. That was how Tomoki must feel. That thought made him realize that Takuya was right they had to save Tomoki. He ran off on the direction that Monzaemon had gone in and the others followed.

Soon they came upon a lavender castle. They fought the Toyagunimon that guarded the town and went into the castle to save Tomoki. They reached the room where he was being kept and heard some screaming coming from inside. They burst into the room and found Tomoki playing video games with Monzaemon who was now back to normal. The Toyagunimon apologized for having fought against them while they were corrupted and gave them a plane ride back. They were reunited with the others and were soon on their way to the forest terminal again.

A day later while everyone else was sleeping Kouji received a message from Ophanimon.

"Your beast spirit awaits you, Kouji Minamoto, nut first you have some growing to do."

"What does she mean by that?"

Kouji turned to look at the others. They were all asleep. He looked at Rei and saw that she too was asleep. He wanted to go find his beast spirit, but he didn't want to take her with him. He didn't want her to be in anymore danger. He knew that if she stayed with the others that she would be safe.

He wrote a note and started to walk away, but before he could go too far he turned back around. He wrote another note and walked towards Rei. He placed it in her hand carefully so as to not wake her. He began to walk away once more.

"Kouji-kun?"

Kouji stopped, but didn't turn around. Rei saw the note and opened it. It read:

Rei, I'm sorry for leaving you, but I have to keep moving and I don't want to put you in danger. I don't know if I'll be able to protect you by myself and I think that it would be better if you stayed with the others. I'm sure that they will take care of you.

P.S. I promise I'll come back for you when I'm stronger.

Kouji

Rei looked up at him and he could see how hurt she was for it showed in her eyes.

"You wanted to leave."

"Rei, I'll come back for you, I promise. I'm sure you'll be fine with the others. They look nice."

"But I don't want to stay with them I wan to stay with you. Why don't you like me? If you didn't want me around anymore you could have just said so instead of trying to abandon me." She turned around and ran off into the dark forest.

Kouji ran after her. He felt terrible for having hurt Rei, but he didn't know that she would react like that. He never thought that she cared about him so much mostly because he wasn't used to being around people. He didn't know how to act around them and what to say. He hoped that she wasn't too upset.

He found her sitting beneath a tree. Her knees were drawn up to her chest and her arms were on top of them. Her face was buried in them. Kouji walked up to her and sat down next to her.

He sighed.

"Look, I'm sorry, but I didn't mean to hurt you, I guess I just don't know how to act around people. I've been alone for so long. I'm sorry, I just wanted to make sure that you were safe, after what happened with Grumblemon I'm not sure that I can protect you by myself."

She looked up at him.

"But, why didn't you just tell me?"

"Would you have stayed?"

She didn't answer.

Kouji stood up and stood in front of her. She looked up at him and saw that he was smiling. He stretched out his hand to her.

"Well, are you coming or not?"

She smiled and when she took his hand she knew that she didn't want to lose him and he knew that he would never leave her.

End Chapter Five

Hope you guys liked it and sorry for the shortness, but it was the best I could do. I'll try to post another chapter soon. Please review the sooner you review the sooner I'll update. Sayonara!