We opened the door to a dark messy room, the smell of it hit me, "Oh man! Takeshi! What is that rancid smell?" I asked as I plugged my nose and turned away. But my eye caught his computer screen… My eyes shot open in shock. A strange ominous feeling shot up my back… The screen was just staring at me:

Sender: K0rSav10r

Attachment: Tsunafriend.exe

"Are you okay?" Takeshi asked, "Your face is blue…"

I stood their in disbelief, I was unsure of what to think, but I suddenly snapped back into reality… "Whatever you do, don't download that attachment!" I shouted as loud as I can.

Takeshi laughed and asked "Do you think I'm that stupid?" And I sighed in relief for a second… He continued "To tell you about something this big before I acted on it!" Takeshi busted out laughing and I was shaking with fear, as I slowly looked at his bed… It was an egg. Just like with me years ago.

I turned to Takeshi and violently shook him, "You have to destroy that!" I screamed as a tear was caught up in my eye. "It will bring you nothing but misery and pain!" I continued as Takeshi looked on at me in concern. He was about to open his mouth but then the sound of cracking interrupted him, I looked back at the egg.

"Takeshi… What have you done?" I whispered.

We looked on and out came a black spike. As soon as we saw it we screamed in fear. But we weren't expecting the rest of what came out… It was small and brown, come to think of it Koromon wasn't all that scary either. It looked at Takeshi and Takeshi stared back a little freak out. Takeshi asked me, "Do you know anything ab-"

Suddenly the thing jumped on him and screamed "Finally!!! A human friend!"

I could see the freaked out look on Takeshi's face as this brown furry ball jumped on his chest laughing. His head slowly turned towards me and our eyes linked. He pointed at the thing and asked me, "What-is… this t-th-thing?"

"Tsunamon!" It shouted cheerfully as Takeshi let out a few nervous chuckles. He hesitantly picked it up and placed it on his bed. He stared at it, eye to eye and said "I have a serious question for you Tsunamon…"

I stared on in awe, as Takeshi got eye to eye with it and asked, "You're not going to eat us?"

I slapped my fore head… I screamed at the top of my lungs, "OF COURSE HE SIN'T GOING TO EAY US YOU MORON!!! HE'S LIKE 2 POUNDS!!! WHAT YOU SHOULD BE CAREFUL OF HIS TENDANCIES TO SET THINGS ON FIRE!!!"

Tsunamon laughed said, "You humans are a lot of fun! I like the both of you!" He hopped onto Takeshi's shoulder with one big leap and continued, "I am actually here to protect you, Takeshi!"

Protect? What does that mean? And protect from what exactly? The thoughts were all just running around in my head. I didn't know what to make of this… Why was this monster here? And why was he protecting Takeshi? Is there something that he needs to be protected from? And I got the e-mail too, do I need to be protected from the same thing? Suddenly I snapped back into the conversation.

"Like I said, I just awoke today knowing I have to protect you! It's my destiny!" Tsunamon said passionately. An hour had passed and we had discussed many subjects. He told us he was something called a Digimon, a digital life form from a world that is data based and he told about his home world… But certain things were still unclear, like Takeshi brought up the person who sent us this things was K0rSav10r… Savior… More allusions to saving… We were sitting at the dinner table in a dimly lit room. Takeshi looked over at me and asked, "So you seemed to freak out a lot when you saw that e-mail… And when you saw the egg, that was just plain off the charts."

I stared away from Takeshi and down at the cup of steaming tea below me. For some reason the words wouldn't form, I had no idea why. I got up from the chair and looked at the sun setting. The skyline was orange, just like that day years ago. I turned back at Takeshi who was awaiting an answer. He had somewhat of a sympathetic look in his eyes, like he knew something was off, and he gave me a reassuring smile. He got up from the table and said, "I understand if it's a tough subject for you to talk about… Seeing your reaction back there, I should have known better than to pry into your past, I'm sorry…"

I shook my head and replied, "No, I'll tell you the whole story one day, it is just hard for me to talk about it in detail. I will just put it shortly though… A Digimon is what lead to me being in that hellhole for years… And to be honest…" My fist was shaking and my fingernails were buried into my skin and I clenched my teeth, I continued, "I got the same e-mail earlier today like the one first one that gave me a Digimon!"

"What was his name?" Takeshi asked sternly.

I looked down and whispered, "Koromon… His name was Koromon."

Tsunamon interrupted, "Can I meet him? I mean you said you got that same e-mail, right? He is there waiting for you!"

Tsunamon was too naïve to understand, so I couldn't be angry at him… But living from pill to pill, shock to shock, and in a garden abusive moments and insults is nothing you would never forget about and never forgive. I looked over at a shelf and looked at Takeshi's family pictures. I started to think of my family, and the strangest thing happened. I couldn't remember my mother or father's faces. And something in a picture caught my eye. A picture of Takeshi, he looked about eight years old and there was another boy. He was younger than Takeshi, and they looked a lot alike. He was in a few pictures… I think he was his brother, but I was curious. I asked, "Takeshi, who is the boy in these pictures?"

He walked up to me and placed a hand on my shoulder, his face looked like stone as he whispered, "You have your painful memories… I have mine…"

I nodded in agreement as I did know there are some things that are can't be brought out into the open too easily. I told Takeshi, "I think it's time for me to go… I have to make that decision to either download the file nor not…"

Takeshi responded, "You know, I kind of hope you do decide to download it!" He then smiled and Tsunamon jumped on his shoulder. The both laughed together. It reminded me of the times when Koromon and I used to play in the backyard. Maybe I want him back…

The walk home was therapeutic in a sense, on the way I passed an arcade, and in there was that kid who saved me in school. He was playing another kid in a fighting game. I looked as if there was a line behind the other kid, like they were stepping up to face the champ. I stared at the screen, the kid I knew was dominating. It wasn't even a challenge… As I went to open the door to the arcade I heard a girl's voice say, "And here I thought you were a man! Turns out your just another boy…"

I turned my head and there was the pretty girl again. My hear skipped as I saw her, think of an excuse… Think of an excuse… "I… I'm cleaning the glass… I work here…" I nervously said.

She giggled and replied, "So you clean with your hands? So I guess you burned off your fingerprints?"

I chuckled and scratched the back of my head, "I am not one for pain!"

She took a few steps closer and extended her hand. "I never go to introduce myself formally! My name is Aimi Sasaki!"

We shook and I told her my name, she smiled and said, "You wanna go into the arcade?"

I froze and tensed up… Was she asking me on a date? Oh crap, oh crap, oh CRAP! I started sweating and tripping over myself, as I said "I ugh… I-I-I-I g-g-g-gotta GO!"

I ran off as quickly as possible… So that was my introduction to Aimi, and in the end it looked like I was scared of her murdering me than me murdering her. It's an improvement over the usual situations. I'll take looking like a moron over looking like a killer any day! I got to my home and I saw a note on my room door. It was from my stepmother. It read:

Kyle,

Your father and I went out food shopping, we'll be back at 8 for dinner, I am sorry I'm running so late! I also want to apologize because I think I broke your computer… I sure hope your tech savvy!

Ma

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