Silence but soon…the squeaking noise of bats. Millions of them, in a group, ready to tear flesh apart. Gatomon shut her eyes quickly; afraid to know what's next for her and her young partner. Soon, seconds later, there was another sound; a swift sound, like a body quickly moving and that same body being hit. After that noise comes a slight grunt from the body, and there is no pain for Gatomon or Kari. Gatomon is afraid to open her eyes, open and see who it was that caused this sacrifice. She does so anyway, only to be scared that she had done so. Because there in front of her, is the one she loved and cared for and got love and care in return. She opens her mouth, she wants to scream his name yet she is too surprised to do so. Soon that body of her beloved falls and she hurries to his side. Last few words are said, the floor is covered in his blood and his eyes are barely open. His voice has a quiver sound to it and he tries his best to talk and breathe at the same time. "Arigatou." The last word and he is gone. Why couldn't she have said "you're welcome" back or even more important "I love you"? Soon that evil, the darkness, the one who took her loved one away from her…his shadow is above her and Kari…laughing evilly.

Gatomon shot up quickly, tears and sweat falling from her face and she was breathing heavily. It was only a bad dream. She looked over to the side, and there he is, her beloved one lying down next to her, sleeping peacefully. Gatomon picks up her paw slowly, wanting to touch his face and now he's there. Why did she suddenly get these odd feelings that if she would touch him…there would be nothing there? Her stomach lurched and she retrieved her paw and moved it to her mouth. Not like that would stop anything from making its way up. Now the bed sheets were stained. And the nauseating sound had awoken Wizardmon.

"Oh Gatomon…" Wizardmon sighed.

"I'm sorry," she said moaning.

"It's alright, I'll go wash it," he said, getting up slowly from being slightly sleepy.

"N-no…W-wizardmon…wait," Gatomon said, her voice quivering.

Wizardmon looked over at her, "Are you alright? You look very sick."

Gatomon looked down, "I don't know. I…I had a bad dream."

Wizardmon smiled and put his hand on her head and rubbed it, "Well you better not get sick on me then, some say bad dreams lead to illnesses. Anyway, we were going to the birth training tomorrow and I'm ready for it."

Gatomon smiled, "Yes, I'll be fine."

"What was the dream anyway?"

Gatomon looked to the side, "N-nothing."

"Don't make me have to read your mind."

"Please don't," Gatomon said, tears already invading her vision, "It was more of a memory than a dream, a very bad and scary memory too."

Wizardmon blinked, why was she suddenly crying? Well he knew it would be best not to read her mind then. He then scooped up the blanket, slightly disgusted, and headed for the laundry room.

Gatomon looked down at the blanket-less bed, a chill ran down her spine and not because it was suddenly cold or she was feeling slightly ill…but because she was fearing something. She was starting to fear that she would loose the one she loved a lot and this time…there was no returning.

"Are you feeling better this morning, Gatomon?" Wizardmon asked that morning.

Gatomon nodded, "Much better. I think it was something I ate last night, all of it made its way back…"

Wizardmon laughed, "Well it's good that you're better."

"Oh, did Tai ever agree to coming with?" Gatomon asked.

Wizardmon nodded, "Yeah…well sort of."

Gatomon looked at him in a questioning way.

"Well it's more like…he was forced to agree."

Gatomon giggled and rolled her eyes, "Sora…"

"What do you two want for breakfast?" Kari asked.

Gatomon shook her head, "I don't really want anything."

Wizardmon looked over at her, "I thought you said you're feeling better?"

"Yeah, well I'm just afraid to eat something right now. It's alright; we can get something to eat later if I get hungry."

"O-okay," Wizardmon said, seeming slightly concerned. He was hoping she wasn't coming down with something. He shrugged his shoulders and then yawned.

Kari noticed and laughed, "Has Gatomon been keeping you up late again?"

"Sort of," Wizardmon said, still kind of sleepy.

"You need to be careful Gatomon, if he doesn't get much sleep it could get him sick. Definitely since it's close to winter and colds can come up."

Gatomon eye's widened. What if…he would get gravely ill? It would be my fault.

"Gatomon are you alright? I really didn't mean it," Kari said, noticing that she seemed rather pale for a white cat when she had said those things.

Gatomon shook her head, "I-it's nothing. My stomach kind of hurts, that baby keeps head butting."

"Oh…ok," Kari said smiling and laughing somewhat.

"Must I go?" Tai whined.

Sora put her hands on her hips, "Do you love me or not?"

"Of course, more than anything," Tai said.

"Then do this with me," Sora answered.

Tai sighed.

Gatomon laughed and Wizardmon just stood there with a smile.

"Alright, fine I'll just drive too!" Tai said with sarcasm, noticing that the four of them were standing there in front of his care.

Sora smiled, as if saying "I always get my way with him". Gatomon laughed.

"Digimon that way," Said the woman at the front and pointed left and then pointed right, "humans that way."

Tai and Sora looked at the two digi lovers and shrugged.

"Well, we'll see you in two hours then," Sora said and went right, along with Tai.

"Same to you," Gatomon said and she and Wizardmon went left.

"Joe!? You do the Digimon birth training!?" Gatomon blurted out, getting others looking over to her.

Joe looked up at her from his note pad, "Huh? Oh…no, my friend Jean Simmons does…I just observe and make sure she's doing well. She's new here, so," he said changing his tone of voice to be louder so that the others could listen and pay attention, "I hope you all pay her good respect."

And with that, Jean walked in along with a Swanmon following her.

"Hello," she said and bowed, with her partner bowing too, "I am Doctor Simmons and this is my partner…Swanmon. You gals might find her familiar because she wrote the book and Digimon pregnancy."

The female Digimon in the room whispered to their lovers or to each other.

Swanmon smiled and bowed again, "I hope that you all enjoyed it. I try my best at these things, definitely for a Digimon. I too am a mother, I have quiet the few little ducklings but their all home with the dad right now. As for now, you all will be experiencing parenthood soon and normally those who come here…it's their first time. So I will say one thing…it's painful but then you will forget it quickly as you see the child's face, because you know you are gifted."

The female Digimon all smiled and nodded, along with Jean and Joe. Swanmon turned her attention to Gatomon and Wizardmon.

"You two…seem familiar to me, at least the Gatomon mostly," she said.

Gatomon smiled and looked over to Joe to let him explain.

Joe cleared his throat, "Uh…Swanmon I told you about her, she's one of the digidestined Digimon. Partner of Kari Kamiya, holder of the crest of light."

"Ah yes! Now I remember, and he told me the story of you also Wizardmon," Swanmon said, grabbing the wizard's attention and having others look at him, making the shy wizard blush from all the attention.

"Sad story, but you are a true hero to all of us."

Although most of the Digimon in there didn't know what happened, they clapped anyway.

Gatomon smiled brightly…but quickly frowned. Why is it so suddenly…that that same memory keeps coming back. Everyone is talking about it and everything.

"Now, let's begin," Jean said, grabbing Gatomon's attention from her thoughts so she could pay attention.

Soon both groups, humans and Digimon, were going through breathing exercises and positions. They also did yoga, which relaxed Gatomon a lot.

"Ow! Sora not so tight! That's my hand!" Tai yelled. They were "playing pretend" if the real thing were happening.

"What? It's practice right? So I'm doing it right," Sora said, smiling as she noticed the woman who was giving out instructions smiling back at her and nodding.

"Still! Can't we wait till the real thing does happen!? You're breaking my hand over here."

"Ok, ok, you cry too much," Sora said letting go and noticing the pouting Tai, and smiled, "But that's why I love you." She placed a kiss on his lips and received a smile from him.

"Gatomon…your claws," Wizardmon said quietly, wincing somewhat.

Gatomon let go of his hand, "Sorry, I got carried away."

"No, it's alright…we're practicing anyway so you're doing well, I just…wanted to let you know not too hard."

"Alright," Gatomon said smiling and taking his hand again.

"They're so cute together," said a female Elecmon, "Why aren't you and I like this?"

"I don't know, why are you asking me!?" the male Elecmon asked, rolling his eyes.

"Ever wonder though…?" the female Elecmon asked.

The male Elecmon looked at her, as if asking "um…like what?"

"Ever wonder the story between those two. It's very rare for two different Digimon to breed."

"True…let's ask them."

The two got up and walked over to Wizardmon and Gatomon.

"Hey, sorry that we're nosy like this, but …you know what Swanmon said…what did she mean? What happened between you two?"

Gatomon's ears went down; she really didn't want to repeat any of this. Wizardmon read her mind, "It's really nothing very happy. And Gatomon hasn't been well lately, I don't think it's best that we repeat this."

Gatomon looked up at him, he looked back down and winked, she smiled back.

"Oh…alright I understand," the female Elecmon said and looked over at her lover and the two nodded and returned to their places.

"Hey! Wizardmon! Gatomon! Over here!" Tai yelled from outside as the two walked out of the building. The two noticed him and went to him.

"How was it?" Sora asked Gatomon.

Gatomon smiled, "It prepared me well."

Sora smiled, "Same here seems exciting and scary at the same time."

"For me…scary and …hand breakable," Tai said, turning his attention to his hurting hand.

"It was a lot of help," Wizardmon said.

Gatomon looked up at him, and back at the floor, "Thank you for that, Wizardmon."

He looked down at her as she looked back up, "Thank you for not mentioning our past."

Wizardmon smiled, "No problem."

Sora and Tai had no idea what was going on, but only shrugged it off and the four of them returned home.

"Hey everyone!" Kari said, welcoming the four home. They had agreed that the four of them would go home, that way Tai and Sora could have some time away from studying and just hang with their family.

"Hey…" Tai said looking outside, "It's snowing again. What do you say? Snowball fight?"

Kari rolled her eyes, "Sure, let's the balls of snow at two females that are holding children within them…you really are stupid sometimes."

"Fine then…you, me and the wiz will go," Tai said smirking.

Kari shook her head, "No, I'm busy cooking dinner since mom and dad are out."

"Fine, me and wiz will," Tai said.

Wizardmon didn't say anything.

"What do you say, eh?" Tai said nudging him with his elbow, "It'll be a lot of fun, Wizzie."

"Stop calling him that!" Gatomon blurted out, her ears back and her white teeth showing.

"Sheesh Gatomon…what's your problem?" Tai asked.

"You know, Tai, you shouldn't disrespect Wizardmon like that," Sora said.

"I wasn't!"

"You sure were, calling him names like that."

"I wasn't! I was just…saying his name in a more slang."

Sora shook her head, "That's very disrespectful, definitely to a person like Wizardmon."

"Well he doesn't mind! He's not saying anything about it!" Tai said, soon he was yelling.

"It could be pretty obvious that he does mind, you know he's not the type that would yell back at you to stop doing things like that. He just ignores you," Kari said, getting into their conversation.

"What's wrong with all of you!?" Tai said, yelling and walked out of the house and went outside.

The girls all sighed, leaving Wizardmon rather confused.

"U-um…" he started, grabbing their attention, "It's not like I hate being called it, but I don't like it either. It doesn't mean you shouldn't yell at him, I think he's rather stressed too."
Sora and Gatomon looked down at their feet, and Kari just turned her attention back to her food…all three had a frown on their face.

"I'm going to go and talk to him," Wizardmon said and got up and headed for the door.

Hours later, the two returned …wet and cold.

"Where were you!?" Kari asked, her and the other two girls were already at the dinner table eating.

"We wanted to get you…but we couldn't find you!"

"Sorry," Tai said laughing, "We sort of…got into a very odd argument and soon it became a snowball fight and he was flying around a lot…so who knows where we went."

Wizardmon was only smiling, "I must admit, I have had that much fun in ages."

Fun? Now that I think about it…Wizardmon never seemed like the type who has "fun" like…snowball fights and such. Kari thought to herself.

Gatomon smiled and Sora got up quickly, "Oh my…you two could catch a cold! You should warm up quickly!"

Gatomon's heart skipped from the word "cold" soon she was up out of her chair and taking Wizardmon by the hand and taking him into the bathroom, drying him off and doing what she could to warm him up. She was treating him like a young child that couldn't be taken care of.

"Um…Gatomon…I can dry myself you know…" Wizardmon said, closing one eye as she roughly dried his arm.

Gatomon didn't say anything.

Wizardmon looked at her, he didn't dare read her mind…but he knew she was acting really weird lately. He opened his mouth, he was going to ask if she was alright, but then closed it again and just stayed quiet.

Gatomon noticed the way he was acting, she had a feeling he understood she was acting odd.

"I don't know Wizardmon…" Gatomon began, getting his attention, "I have these feelings…like…like I'm going to loose you again. I really don't want that, definitely since we will be parents again."

"Gatomon…nothing will happen," Wizardmon said.

"I know, but simple things like…colds and such things just…scare me."

Wizardmon lifted up her head, "Don't worry about me, you know I will be fine."

Gatomon moved her head and shook it, "But what if there were a Digimon who wanted to hurt me …like Myotismon did."

"If there would be a moment that you can't fight back, and the attack can kill, I WILL sacrifice myself again."

Gatomon was quiet, only tears fell.

Wizardmon put his hand on her back, "But chances of that are low, you have Kari and your friends there to protect you."

"But…there are many other ways that you could die. Wouldn't it be horrible though? Your daughter would one day ask who her father is because she would have never met him…"

"Gatomon…" Wizardmon tried to say but Gatomon kept talking.

"And for me to only answer that he had died…again."

"Gatomon…" Wizardmon said, trying to talk again but we interrupted.

"No Wizardmon! You need to stop doing this! Stop wasting your life over me!" Gatomon was yelling loudly now and tears running down her face, having the Sora, Tai, and Kari having their heads looking toward the bathroom door.

"NO Gatomon!" Wizardmon yelled, for the first time ever at her, he had his hands on her arms and held her.

"I would never! NEVER! Stand there and watch you die! If there would ever be a time my life must be 'wasted' for yours, than that is how it shall be. You are important, not only to me and to everyone else…but to your daughter."

Gatomon kept crying, mostly because she knew everything she was saying was wrong and that she was being yelled at, for the very first time, by the one she loved.

Wizardmon stopped and took a deep breath, feeling bad for having done what he just did. And so, he hugged her close, "I'm sorry."

"No…I'm sorry. I don't know what I'm thinking sometimes, it just…scares me sometimes that …small things can kill anyone. Even you. I don't want to loose you again."

"And you wont."

Gatomon looked up at him, with her sapphire eyes sparkling from the tears.

"Because you know I will always be there for you. And this time, I wont take forever long to return. I am a Digimon, and all Digimon return."

Gatomon hugged him back, "You're right."

Soon the room was quiet, and the three in the living room were really confused on what was going on.

"I'll go see…" Kari said and got up. But once she got up, the two Digimon were already walking toward them, having Kari sit back down.

"Don't worry…whatever you heard, just forget it," Wizardmon said, "Gatomon is just…not well."

Gatomon only nodded and the two went to bed.

"What WAS that all about?" Tai asked.

Sora shook her head, "You have yet to understand what love truly is."

Tai looked at Kari in a questioning way, who only shrugged.

That night, Gatomon tried her best to sleep without getting the same dream. But the thoughts still went through her head, for she had a feeling that she was being watched and when the time would come…someone would try to hurt her but her loved one would not allow it and in return would be hurt. Gatomon sighed and closed her eyes, telling herself to try to rest and not make herself sick over these things. She quickly smiled as she looked down at her stomach and rubbed it.

"You have a wonderful father, you're a lucky one," she said and fell asleep.