--- Flashback ---

"Well, my life has been the same as always... Nothing much has happened for the last few weeks or months... Nothing; none..." Jenrya trailed off his sentence. Jenrya's face started to dim again. Ryo felt sorry for his younger friend.

'He needs cheering up' thought Ryo, 'but what can I do?'

--- End of Flashback ---

"Hey Jen-kun… The food is absolutely awesome; just as you said it would be", Ryo said which snapped Jenrya out of his temporary trance. Jenrya smiled and nodded. He then started to finish his pasta dish. Ryo sighed. He was glad the younger tamer came back to his senses but something was bothering Jenrya and he'd like to decipher the cause.

"Hey! You ordered ice-cream too? Cool!" Jenrya said as the waitress took away their empty plates and replaced the void on their table each with a bowl of Ben n Jerry's Cookie Dough ice-cream topped with chocolate syrup topping and a sprinkle of white chocolate chips. Ryo smiled.

"Only the best for my tour guide!" Jenrya started to devour his ice-cream like a baby happily eating his candy. Ryo on the other hand had something up his sleeves. 'Now's my chance to tease the guy…'

Ryo slowly scooped his ice-cream and licked it slowly with his tongue, carefully sneaking some glimpse on Jenrya who suddenly froze in his wake. Ryo got what he wanted. Jenrya was struck dump and gaped at the older tamer who was seductively licking the ice-cream and spoon.

'How I wish I was that lucky spoon… What the heck! Snap yourself out of it Jenrya!'

"Hey Jen-kun… Do I have something on my face?" Ryo asked pretending to be confused. Jenrya shook his head hard and apologized.

"No, no… Your face is perfect… Urm, I mean… There's nothing on your face…. I was just staring… No, I mean I was just wandering how much longer it would take for you to finish that up eating it slowly like that since we still have much grounds to cover…" Jenrya replied. He huffed; partly surprised how much he slipped up on his sentences, partly amazed that he could say something so long in one breath and partly amazed that he could come up with something so quickly after his mind went idle on him.

'Good save…' Ryo thought as he started to pick up the pace of finishing his bowl of ice-cream.

The day went by quickly as Ryo and Jenrya cruised around West Shinjuku touring the city from its shopping malls, its various shops, its parks and so on. Soon, dawn was approaching and Jenrya suggested that he should get back before night falls as his mother might call to check on him. Ryo drove up to the apartment building where the Lee residence was.

"Hey, I had a great day today… It was fun spending it with you and might I add that you're such an awesome tour guide! You should make it a part time job, just for fun…" Ryo said. Jenrya laughed. He never thought himself as someone that wants to hang around too many people, let alone people that he didn't know. He knew Ryo just needed something nice to say…

"No worries. It the least I could do after you drove me around all day as well as treating me to lunch…" Jenrya replied. "I guess I better be getting home now…"

"You could stay here in the car with me all night long if that's what you want to do… I know I'm irresistible…" Ryo said. Jenrya couldn't help but laugh.

"What are you trying to do; make a move on me?" Jenrya joked. Ryo joined in the laughter.

"Well, I thought it would have worked but I guess I'm not that irresistible, am I?" Ryo added.

"Don't worry Akiyama; you're a hottie… But that doesn't mean anything…" Jenrya said as he stuck out his tongue and closed the door in front of him. Ryo pressed a button letting the window on the passenger side to slide down.

"You could have at least given me a peck on the cheek or something after all that…" Ryo joked. Jenrya turned around and made his way towards his apartment building giving a backhand wave to Ryo; grateful that he turned at the right time to hide his obvious blush from the comment Ryo just made.

'What a kidder that Ryo… How I wish those words were true… Damn, there I go again… Jenrya, he's a friend. Repeat that to yourself. He is a friend; nothing more, nothing less…' Jenrya thought as he walked to the lift, entered it and made his way up towards his apartment.

"I wonder what he thought of all my hitting on him like that… Well… at least I tried…" Ryo said to himself as he closed the window to the passenger's seat and drove off towards his apartment.

--- Lee's Residence ---

Jenrya walked into the apartment and saw that the phone was ringing. He picked it up knowing that it was his mother calling from Kyoto from the caller id that was displayed on the phone's video screen. Momentarily, his mum's image appeared in front of him.

"Hey mum…"

"Jenrya… how was your day? I hope you ate well and took care of yourself…"

"Yeah mum, don't worry… I had lunch outside instead of ordering in… And don't worry, I'll probably order in for dinner in about an hour's time since I'm still not too hungry…"

"Well… I don't want you to starve without me around now… What would the neighbours say if they knew we were to leave you home alone without…" Jenrya cut his mum's sentence short.

"Don't worry mum, I'll be fine… I'm a big boy already and you know you can trust me well enough…"

"I do sweetie… But it's not that easy for me not to worry…"

"I know… that's what mums do best, don't they?" Mrs Lee smiled at the statement her son just made.

"Well now, I'm glad everything's going well… We'll be heading home tomorrow ok. Owh, your grandma and grandpa sends their best regards and love. Take care dear… And don't stay up too late with your gizmo and gadgets…"

"Mum, it's called 'having fun'… But don't worry, I wouldn't want to worry you or you'd send the Japanese army knocking on our doors if something was to go wrong, won't you?"

"You've got that right mister. Bubbye now" Jenrya also waved goodbye to his mother. He knew she meant well but he felt a little overprotected by her sometimes. However, being able to stay home alone meant that she had lots of trust in him already which made him a little happier. Unlike his dad, his mum always has the quality to cheer him up…

Jenrya walked his way into the living room and slouched onto the couch. He didn't feel like going online at that very moment so instead, he grabbed the remote and turned on the T.V. Jenrya was struck dumb by what he saw… It was…

"Terriermon!"

"Jenrya! We finally broke through to you! Yay!"

"Through my T.V?"

"Well… At least we got through…"

"Thank god for television! Terriermon, tell me you're coming back here! Please… Life's very dull without you…"

"Aww Jen-kun. I didn't know you missed me that much… But I knew you'd miss me! Well, truthfully we are trying to get back to the real world ever since that incident. Well, you know… How we needed to go back to our world even though we thought we were stable enough to remain there…"

"Spare the story…"

"Well Jen-kun. I'd hate to ruin our little sweet reunion but I don't have much time left with this transmission. There's some sort of interference with the transmitting waves… Owh… please tell the other tamers that their digimons misses them so much!"

"Terriermon… Does it have to be this short… We haven't seen each other for so long…"

"Don't worry Jen-kun… We'll see each other soon… It's a promise!" Then the image of Terriermon on the T.V screen disappeared replaced by the night news. Jenrya didn't feel like watching T.V all of a sudden after that talk with Terriermon. He felt sad that he only had that few minutes to talk… He turned off the T.V and made his way towards his room, slumping onto his bed once he made it there.

"Terriermon…" then, Jenrya fell straight into a deep sleep.

--- Somewhere dark ---

Jenrya opened his eyes. Somehow he felt that he wasn't lying on his bed. He looked around and saw that he was somewhere dark. Everything around him was pitch-black except for what he could make out as neon green light gleaming softly somewhere near him. Then he realized that it was him glowing green. Upon the realization, the whole place lit up green and digital rings started to circle around him.

'This feels so familiar… As if I was biomerged with Terriermon in MegaGargomon…' Jenrya thought. Suddenly, screens upon screens started to materialize all around the place slowly dimming it down. These screens flashed anecdotes of Jenrya's life which he himself always had running through his mind; how he hit the kid in his neighbourhood when he was younger, how he lost Terriermon after the fight with D-reaper… All the thoughts that clogged up his mind were there, materialized in front of him. The place kept getting darker as time passes.

"What's going on around here? Where am I?" He asked out loud as all his thought materializing started to creep him out and made him become paranoid. Suddenly, he felt a sudden chill up his spine. He felt scared; alone, confused, vulnerable to anything that might jump him from the fragments of his bad memories…

"Jenrya… This is the state of your mind at the moment…" a deep voice channelled into him; telepathy.

"My mind?"

"Yes… Your mind is clogged up with anecdotes of your life that you somehow cannot let go off. Memories you wish to store as you felt that each and every little bad thing that had happened in your life was your fault…"

"But… But… It was my fault"

"No Jenrya… It wasn't your entire fault. Bad things happen… Sometimes you can control them, sometimes you can't. You can't blame yourself over things that you could have not controlled. You cannot keep blaming yourself on matter that has long passed and had been forgotten"

"What am I supposed to do?"

"You have a great mind Jenrya and your heart is connected to that mind. These two will be very essensial for your days ahead"

"I wish to clear my mind… "

"If you do… You should try to put an end to all this…"

"But how?"

"Clear your mind… Follow your heart…" With those last words vibrating inside of him, a few of the screen flashed images of Ryo smiling at him. Jenrya held out his arm towards the images but suddenly, all the screen exploded. Everything returned to how it was before; pitch-black. Suddenly, Jenrya realized that even he himself wasn't glowing green anymore. He then felt himself plunging downwards into a sea of nothingness.

"HELP! Help me…" Jenrya cried out as he felt his presence was fading into nothingness. Tears started to run down his cheeks. All he felt he needed right now was a figure to hold on to; a presence that could light up the darkness and save him from disappearing.

As he was about to give up hope, a hand grabbed his reaching arm and pulled him back from fading away. The person pulled him close and hugged him as he felt that they were soaring upwards. Jenrya opened his eyes and felt the soothing familiar presence. He saw himself wrapped in a purple glow alongside his saviour. The person; no, the angle had wings and mystical feathers glittered with each flap. Jenrya looked up into the face of his angel and saw that it was none other than Ryo. Jenrya felt happy… He closed back his eyes; he felt safe and he started to generate his green glow again.