The Hero Team!:
The sun had risen in the horizon on that Monday morning and Kaito, who was wearing a pair of silver goggles around his neck, a dark blue hooded jacket over red V-neck and a pair of green pants, was standing outside his house waiting for Shiro with BlackGuilmon by his side. The brunet had thinking about his encounter with Rei yesterday and how much the red head had changed from the last time he saw her.
'She still talks to me like she did back then but that cold look at her eyes. That's just so unlike her' Kaito thought with his hand on his chin.
"You look like someone who's in a deep problem" mused a voice from the brunet's left. Turning to see who was talking to him, he saw Shiro with a green fur scarf with cream colored stripes around his neck and wearing his high school uniform with a D-Tracker that had a green line on the side clipped onto the breast pocket. "Hey you're wearing goggles! I knew you'd wear them eventually!" the older boy cheered.
"Shut up Shiro" Kaito grumbled before turning around and leaving with his partner behind him.
"Kaito, are you sure it's a good idea to bring BlackGuilmon to school?" Shiro asks worried about how the school will reach to digimon wondering their hallways.
"As much as I trust my partner to not do anything bad at home, I want to make sure that he's okay so I had to bring him" Kaito explained to his friend. "And besides, your one to talk about not bringing a digimon to school, you have a Terriermon hiding in your backpack" he added with a smirk on his face.
"H-How did you?" Shiro stuttered, completely blown away while a green dog-bunny with cream stripes and a horn on his head jumps out of his backpack and sits on his head.
"We're busted aren't we Shiro?" Terriermon sighed from on top of the older boy's head.
"But how did you know Kaito?" the brunet asks his younger friend, completely dumbfounded by his ability to notice the digimon.
"Quite easy really, you have your D-Tracker clipped to your high school jacket and you have a fur scarf around your neck at late spring. If that doesn't scream D-Hunter, nothing will" Kaito said matter-the-factly.
"What are D-Trackers and D-Hunters?" Shiro asks, not being there when Rei explained to the young brunet about who they were.
"D-Trackers are what digimons called out digivices and D-Hunters are who we are" the younger answered just as the foursome arrive at the intersection.
"I see… Oh, looks like this is where we part" the older boy said, turning to go to his school. "Hey Kaito, do you think I can join you on a hunt after school?" he added while looking over his shoulder.
"Sure thing Shiro, but why?".
"Well I saw the destruction that happened after one of the hunts on the news yesterday and I'm afraid if my family was near one of those hunts, me and Terriermon won't be able to help them" Shiro explained with worry on his face.
"Don't worry about it Shiro, I'll help you get a lot of strong back up digimons and I'll help you get some digimon cards for you to boast Terriermon's power to protect your family" Kaito said as he puts a reassuring hand on his friend's shoulder.
"Thanks, man. Now let's hurry up and get to school before we're late" the older brunet reminded before leaving the intersection.
The younger nodded his head in agreement and quickly head to his school with BlackGuilmon following closely behind. Soon, the duo arrive at the front gates long before the starting bell rang and walked into the school yard to meet with Kaito's school friends.
"No way you're this good in this game! You must be cheating again!" accused the capped boy from several days ago, playing the same handheld device fighting against the same person.
"Who says I'm cheating you sore loser?!" called back the dark haired boy while Mai just shakes her head at the duo.
"I honestly wonder how Kaito could endure being with you two" the blond groaned at them.
"Did someone call my name?" mused a voice behind the girl. Mai turned around and smiled when she saw Kaito's face but it quickly turned to shock when she saw BlackGuilmon standing beside the brunet.
"Kaito, what is that?!" the blond exclaimed, pointing at the black saurian.
"Oh, his just a digimon called BlackGuilmon" Kaito waved off the issue while his partner waves at the girl in front of him.
"Wait, did you just say he's a digimon?" asks the capped brunet as the duo paused their game.
"Yep, my partner to be exact" the goggled boy said, showing everyone his D-Tracker that was clipped to his pants.
"Whoa, so you're a Tamer?" gasps the dark haired boy as the duo get off the bench they were sitting on to see the device better.
"I'm actually called a D-Hunter, I hunt down digimons that enter the Real World and fight them. If I defeat them, I can keep that digimon for me to use at another hunt as a backup digimon for BlackGuilmon" Kaito explained to them.
"Then that makes you like a Hunter from Xros Wars" the capped brunet pointed out.
"A bit, but I can also slash digimon cards into a card reader and use them to boast my digimon like in Tamers" Kaito said as he shows them the card reader on the side of the digivice.
"That's a really unique digivice, which means that you're a part of a special type of Digidestind like in the anime and a gogglehead to boot" the dark haired boy mused.
"Urgh, not you too Kai. I already have Shiro constantly calling me that, now I have you calling me that too" the goggled brunet groaned in misery.
"But you have everything a gogglehead has, so why shouldn't we call you one?" the capped brunet pointed out to his friend.
"Even you, Touma? I swear if you guys keep this up, I will slash my WarGreymon's Gaia Force card into my D-Tracker and order BlackGuilmon to blow you two into absolute nothingness!" Kaito growled in a threating manner.
"We surrender; we won't call you a gogglehead" both Kai and Touma said in unison as they raised their hands in defeat.
"Come on you boys, class will start soon and I don't want to be late" Mai sighed after listening to the entire conversation at the sidelines.
The three boys nodded in silent agreement and head to their classroom while BlackGuilmon played around the schoolyard.
After school had ended, the group of humans and digimon were walking together to the intersection where the normally met with Shiro and Sakura. When they arrived, they saw the teenage brunet girl playing with Terriermon in her arms while the boy next to her was laughing about something.
"Hey there sis, Shiro" Kaito greeted the other group with a smile on his face.
"Hey Kaito, you ready to go hunt some digimon?" Shiro asks, sounding a little anxious.
"Of course I am, Shiro but you have to wait until your D-Tracker starts beeping. That's how you know if a digimon had come to the Real World" the younger boy explained just before both devices started beeping. "Speak of the devil" he groaned as the duo with their digimons runs off to find the new digimon.
They soon arrive at the location their compasses were leading them and saw a man wearing a wizard's cloak and hat and a sun staff shooting lightning at the nearby buildings.
"Okay Shiro, since you're a new guy at the hunting thing. I'll give you the basics" Kaito said as the group takes cover behind a wall. "Remember to always scan any digimon you come across by pressing this button" he said, pressing the button to pull out a scanner.
"Okay, so this guy is a Wizarmon. An adult level and really good at using all kinds of attacks" Shiro reads the information.
"I'm sure you don't have a Digimon card deck with you, so I'm giving you my deck for this battle" the younger brunet said as he gives half his deck to his friend.
"Thanks, now let's see what cards I can use" the older mused, shuffling through the cards in his hand. "This would do" he said as he takes out an IceDevimon card.
"Shiro, you need to know that any bonuses the cards give to you digimon isn't permanent and can wear out at any given moment. Meaning you have to be careful at when you want to slash a card, okay?".
"Got it. Terriermon?" Shiro called out to his partner. The dog-bunny on his shoulder nodded to signal he was ready. The brunet slash the card through the reader as Terriermon jumps out of the cover and flaps his ears like a pair of wings, creating gusts of freezing cold air at his opponent.
Wizarmon barely could react as his body slowly turned in a block of ice. "He can't fight back, now hit him with the strongest attack you can make!" Shiro ordered, slashing a Power Boost card for extra damage. Terriermon spins as fast as he can while charging at the digimon in front of him but jumps back at the last minute to avoid collision while the momentum of the attack continued onwards in the form a mini tornado.
The block of ice shatters from the attack and Wizarmon was now kneeling down on one knee, barely able to keep his form. "Now use your D-Tracker to capture him!" Kaito instructed to his older friend and with a press of a button the wizard digimon was gone from sight.
"So this is what it feels like to go on a hunt" Shiro mumbled as he looks at his digivice with a glint of excitement and awe in his eyes.
"Yep, now how about we go celebrate at my house?" the younger brunet offered sincerely.
"I don't know…" the other boy trailed off before noticing the pleading puppy eyes his partner was giving him. "Sure, why not?" he finally agreed, much to Terriermon's relief and picks up the dog-bunny into his arms.
"Hey Shiro, what was with that weird look Terriermon was giving you just now?" Kaito asks after a while into their walk to the Kiora residents.
"Ever since I brought Terriermon back home, my little sister Mairi has been playing all kinds of weird girly games with him" Shiro explained as his partner shivers from the memories of playing with the young girl.
"And I guess he would rather be at my house than at yours because of that, right? Man, you know what you sound like? Jenrya Lee" the younger brunet laughed just as the group was about to reach his house.
"Well I hope my little sister doesn't get a Lopmon for a partner. When I saw his sister got her partner, I felt sorry for the guy" the older brunet groaned at the thought of his younger sister becoming a D-Hunter.
Unbeknownst to the talking duo, a raven teenage boy wearing the same uniform as Shiro with a high school hat on his head that was concealing his face was leaning against a store wall while watching the group very carefully. "So those two are D-Hunters too? This competition just got a little more interesting" he said before pushing off the wall and walks down a street, away from the others.