楽しい事や悲しみ事など。。。

By: ★ジャハ・カノン☆

Disclaimer: It's been a few months, but I have obtained Digimon yet. Yeah yeah, I'll get on it.

Yeah, it certainly has been a while, hasn't it? Those who've stuck around if there are any of you- thank you. Thanks also the new readers. You know, thank you everybody. Why not?!

On with the show—

Chapter 14: 出来てしまった…　

It was possible…

Ominous feeling.

Those were the first two words that popped into Koushirou's head as he woke up that morning. It had to have something to do with Ken. He quickly got up, changed into his school uniform, grabbed his school bag, D-Terminal, and went out to the kitchen for breakfast.

It turns out that the middle school wasn't fond of the idea of the computer prodigy bringing his laptop each day as the elementary school was. Either way, Koushirou had set it up so he could access his important Digital World data on any computer with the right passwords and codes and his new school had a lot of computers to use. He could probably even access a lot of the information through the D-Terminal, but that device, being sort of the mainstream item for young people lately, not something fancy that Koushirou had obtained or anything he'd bothered to tinker with enough yet.

(A/N- I feel like the common perception that a lot of us have that the D-Terminal was something that only the Chosen children have is probably wrong. I think this because I can recall all of them having them in the VERY beginning of 02. There was no reference to them mysterious getting these devices from anywhere and I got the impression that they were supposed to be relatively common.)

Koushirou's suspicions felt confirmed when he walked all the way to school and even got to class without once spotting Ryou. The dimention traveler got into class about a half hour late and dropped into his seat. Of course, Ryou being Ryou and being able to make himself entirely unnoticable, no one aknowledged his tardiness. Koushirou shot Ryou a questioning look, which was returned with a strained smile before he turned his anxious attention to the clock.

Koushirou got out his D-Terminal and typed, hoping the teacher wouldn't notice. Of course, he's not Ryou, so he very possibly would be noticed.

Hey, what's going on? If it's important we could get out of class.

-Koushirou

Ryou's D-Terminal beeped loudy, not even somewhat silenced. No one flinched. Koushirou rolled his eyes, getting a confused glance from someone sitting near him.

It can wait until lunchtime. I'm not entirely sure we can do anything about it yet.

-Ryou

Anxiousness. For the next few hours there was PURE anxiousness.

Koushirou had never felt so relieved to hear the lunchbell. He got up and followed Ryou's lead out of the classroom to somewhere less populated. Once they got somewhere they could speak privately, Ryou spun around.

"It happened." He said. "Ken- I mean, the Digimon Kaiser has taken over the Digital World."

"The Digimon…. Kaiser?" Koushirou processed the information. Worries about Ken increased tenfold and memories of Osamu in his worst moods came back to him. What else? Worries about the digital world returned strongly.

Ryou took out his special digivice. "Of course, there was no way I could have found out by myself with my power being blocked. I found out from Gennai and some other otherworld sources."

"Gennai-san." Koushirou repeated dumbly, remembering his past months' attempts at communicating with him.

"Oh, by the way, here." Ryou pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket. "Gennai's contact information. He stuck it on my person during some point in our conversation a while ago, whether it was while he was telling me that giving the information would be impossible or while I was commenting on his hair is beyond me."

Despite the situation, Koushirou was kind of glad to have finally obtained the means to what would be his best source of information. He'd wanted that contact information since, well; he first met the strange old man three years ago and quickly learned of his tendency to appear and disappear on his own time.

"Anyway, down to business." Ryou said in a serious, low tone, "I need you to access your Digital World files to confirm this before we do anything else."

"Okay, I can just get to a computer." Koushirou began to walk towards the nearest computer room. He was surprised when Ryou's arm stopped him.

Ryou looked around anxiously before returning his attention to the confused prodigy. "We can't be too careful right now. You can access it on your D-Terminal, right?"

"Well, yes, I can, but the technology is weak and it'll quickly drain the battery." Koushirou said this even though he was certain Ryou already knew this.

Koushirou was startled when suddenly he received a message on his D-Terminal.

Izumi-sempai,

Could you come by the Elementary school computer room after school today? One of the computers is acting kind of funny. We found this strange filename called "dgate" and we think it might be some new virus.

TASUKETEEEEEEEEEE! X(

-Miyako

"Dgate?" Koushirou wondered outloud, "Do you think it's…."

Ryou was about to open his mouth to reply when his digivice beeped. He looked at it.

"No way…" he started.

"What?"

"Someone just got through a gate to the digital world." Ryou answered.

"Ken-kun?" asked Koushirou, worried.

"No, the chosen child of courage." Ryou replied, reading the signal.

"Taichi-san?" Koushirou asked, accidentally letting his voice get louder, "how?"

"It looks like he was summoned there by an SOS signal." Ryou frowned, "Although I don't think there's a lot he can do either."

Koushirou crossed his arms, "There must have been some reason why the SOS signal worked. Something that Taichi-san has to do there."

"Either way, we have our task and he has his." Ryou interupted Koushirou's thoughts. "We don't have a lot of lunchtime left, so you should eat quickly because we'll probably be busy once school gets out."

"But getting the data-" Koushirou started.

"We'll do that after school right before heading to the elementary school."

Koushirou nodded and got out his bentou (lunch box- except waaaaaay tastier than it's American equivalent).

"You didn't bring anything?" Koushirou asked.

"Actually, I was hoping your mom packed you extra again." Ryou replied, peeking at the contents.

Koushirou sighed, "Yeah, looks like it. I don't know why she does that though, she knows you can cook for yourself well enough."

"Your mother," Ryou stated pointedly, taking a moment to shallow the food he just put in his mouth, "would feed this whole starving world if she had the resources and energy. Maybe that would be possible if Mrs. Ichijouji helped out."

Koushirou chuckled at the mental image. "It's true." He reflected on his adoptive parents' warmness and how they seem to have a knack for making their family open to anyone who needs one. Like he did, at one point.

Ryou noticed Koushirou was spacing out. He knew the redhead well enough to know what was going on in his head. "Well, you obviously don't appreciate your mother's cooking as much as I do since you haven't eaten anything yet, maybe I should be their son instead."

Koushirou broke out of his stupor. It took him a while to get used to this sort of humor from Ryou, but that sort of remark didn't bother him coming from the dimension hopper. "Over my dead body." he said with a sharp, yet playful glare.

"Whiiiiiich can be arranged if you don't eat anything." Ryou said, holding out the bentou. "But please, don't make me be an only child a second time. It's kind of tough with the whole dimension traveling thing."

"I'll see what I can do…" Koushirou replied, reaching over and grabbing an onigiri (rice ball).

The relaxed feeling they managed to have during this time faded as they finished the bentou and it was time to get back to class. Anxiousness, once again.

"I wonder what Taichi-san is doing right now in the digital world…" Koushirou said to Ryou silently as they approached their classroom.

Ryou shrugged and gave Koushirou a quick pat on the shoulder before going to his seat.

The final bell rang. Koushirou jumped out of his seat.

"Oh," he said, suddenly remembering something. "Hayashi-kun-"

"Hmm? Izumi-kun?" one of his classmates turned to him. Another member of the computer club.

"Can you tell everyone that I am sorry but I can't make it to today's meeting? I have some things to do and also the elementary school club asked me to come by and check out one of their computers." Koushirou explained, trying not to look like he wanted to fly out the door of the classroom NOW.

"Uhh… sure. Is there any way I could help with the elementary school computer thing?" Hayashi asked.

"No thank you, I got it under control." Koushirou responded with a wave of his hand. 'At least I hope I do.' he thought to himself.

Hayashi chuckled. "Just what we'd expect from our president. Oh! Who should run the meeting?"

Koushirou was eyeing the door. 'Why can't I act as calm as Ryou-kun does in these situations?' "Pass the responsibility to Kurosaki-sempai." It was really an obvious choice, Koushirou felt bad for taking his upperclassman's club president title just by, well, graduating from elementary school. He had taken in before in elementary school and probably would again in high school.

Hayashi nodded and left the room.

Koushirou took out his D-Terminal and began accessing his digital world data. "Let's go. What kind of data do you want?"

"Any sort of map that would show how much of the area was taken over." Ryou answered, falling in step with the redhead.

"Okay," it only took a few seconds, "got it. According to this key, the black regions are what's taken over."

Ryou looked at the screen and saw very little besides black. "Okay, I'm convinced then."

On the screen was an extremely pixelated map of the digital world. With the conquered areas colored black, it reminded Koushirou a little of the Risk games he had played many times with Osamu years ago.

The D-Terminal beeped weakly. "Aaah, the batteries are almost completely drained." Koushirou complained as he shut down the power consuming program. Just before the screen shut off completely, he saw that he had received a message from Taichi.

"You hurry to the elementary school, check that message, and that 'dgate' program." Ryou instructed. "I'm going to try to find the child of courage's portal access location."

Koushirou nodded and headed towards his old school. He was barely up the steps to the floor with the computer room when he ran into Miyako, who was so happy to see him that he wondered if she remembered that she had e-mailed him earlier asking him to come. He instantly recognized Takeru and Hikari and had a brief, yet polite, introduction to the younger boy who he hadn't met before.

((To describe what happened next would be monotonous as a mere review of season 02 episode 1 one fill in all of the necessary blanks. ;) ))

"Amor shinka, huh?" Ryou repeated as he thought about it. "Why do those hooded guys always leave the best parts out of things that they tell me." Annoyingly enough, he couldn't trace Taichi's access point at all.

Koushirou didn't ask what the reference to the hooded guys referred to because it had got him nowhere in the past. He figured that they would probably be the same hooded figures he had seen the image of when Hikari was possessed and he was taken along with the original team to find out how they were chosen. If these were the same hooded guys, they were most likely the same as Gennai. And if they were the same as Gennai, Koushirou could easily imagine them leaving out a few important details.

"I knew that new kids were going to be chosen, but I didn't know anything about that, or the new digivices." Ryou sat back on the bench, still thinking.

"They probably are different because they have to go up against Ken's morphed one." Koushirou theorized. "In any case, when things calm down just a little more, I'm going to see if I can borrow Miyako-kun's."

"Good idea," Ryou nodded, "it would be good to better understand what makes them tick."

"If I can open the gate, I'm going with them tomorrow." Koushirou said. He was a little excited.

"If you can figure out what's blocking my portals, it would be much appreciated." Ryou said with a sigh.

"Of course, I'm wondering about that, too. Anyway," Koushirou looked at his watch, "everyone should be here soon." The rest of the original team was due around this time. He had come early to this part to meet Ryou and fill him in. "Unless you want to make your grand appearance to them now, you should probably go."

Ryou looked at his digivice. He took see their unique signals coming closer. "Yeah. See you tomorrow." He waved before opening a portal and vanishing.

"Oi! Koushirou!"

"Konbanwa!"

"Hisashiburi!"

"….am I late?"

Koushirou smiled a little and waved as each of his former team members, minus one approached him. Thinking of them, Ken, the Digimon, and all of the other worlds he had been to with Ryou, he started the meeting, he wondered what will come in the future.

End Chapter 13

Too much time passed, I forgot the mini story. Buuut I got to keep this plotline moving, so I guess it's all for the best.