A/N: Thank you for reading this admittedly self-indulgent reposting of Summer Diaries.

The following chapter is chronologically third, but was posted fourth.

xxxxx

Sara

xxxxx

Just another boring school day in the life of me, one Sara Shinobu. What else is new?

Staring off out the window, I wearily sat and balanced a pencil over the bridge of my nose tuning out the Math teacher. I waited for the bell to ring and release me from being cooped up here. My mind wandered and I thought of Henry. I wonder what he's doing right now? I think he has English last period, so he's probably scribbling away in his notebook, trying to write his first novel or something.

My relationship with Henry Wong is kinda hard to classify. We're friends, and even though I like him a lot, he's always putting things like his social life on the back burner, so we haven't really gone past that 'just friends' level, no matter how much I might want to. I know he means well, but, c'mon... doesn't he realize he's going to regret it? Takato and Rika have been dating. Himura and Jeri are pretty much inseparable! He's the only Beast Tamer without a serious relationship.

Well, that's going to change.

The bell finally rang. Thank god! Summer break is here! Now's my chance to ask Henry!

I bolted out of the classroom before any of my classmates and rushed down the hallway. Collecting my breath, I stood by Henry's classroom door and waited as the stampede filed out, until Henry walked by and I threw myself right in front of him.

"Sara. Oh, hey, you must have dashed out in a hurry."

I smiled at his remark. "Well, it is the last day before summer break. Didn't anyone tell you?"

"I knew, but never paid too much attention to it."

"Yeah, I get it. How about that patrol the other night? Those jewel thieves didn't know what hit them."

"They sure didn't. I barely got enough sleep after that."

"You too, eh?" I folded my arms behind my head while holding my school bag. "So, doing anything today? Maybe we could..."

"Actually, I have to meet with Mr. Yamaki about the increase in strange activity in the city."

I knew it. Henry's got a part-time job at Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, but he's been letting his work consume most of his leisure time. I'm not letting him stand me up this time.

"Say, Henry. Why don't you take me to where you work?"

"Take you where I work?" Henry shot a somewhat befuddled look at me. It's almost like he wasn't expecting me to inquire his after school job. This is really the first time I've ever bothered to ask him to show me where he spends his time away from home and school. "I didn't think you'd be interested in stuff like that."

"Are you kidding?" I blinked in befuddlement, nearly dropping my school bag. He couldn't be this thick, could he? "I'd love to see what it is you do! That is, if your dad and Mr. Yamaki don't mind..."

"I'm sure it'll be fine. They already know about you," Henry flat out said. "Perhaps you could give them a demonstration of your intangibility."

"Are you sure they won't like... you know... probe me?" What a stupid question. No, it's definitely way beyond stupid. Calling it stupid would be a huge understatement.

Shut up. I'm ok. I just need to calm down. I'm not going to get experimented on. I'm seeing people Henry trusts. So, I should trust them, too. They're part of the freaking government. I mean, where's the wrong in that?

"Sara," Henry chuckled slightly as he placed his hands on my shoulders. I felt an aura of reassurance from him, which put me at extreme ease. "That's just silly. I mean, really? Probe you? Where did you get that notion?"

"No-Nothing, but I just wanted to make sure they're ok with me visiting unannounced."

"I'll call ahead and let them know, but as long as you stick with me, you'll be fine. Mr. Yamaki and his crew have seen a lot of stuff stranger than a girl who can phase through walls."

"Right, I get it," I nodded and faced him with a genuine smile. "Then, it's a date."

"A d-d-date?"

"Yeah, why not? I mean, if we can't go to a movie or eat out somewhere why not just hang out where you work?"

"You won't get bored sitting in a lab while I assist my dad's friends?"

I giggled, clasping my arms around Henry's right arm. "Nah! I could hang out in a lab all day! I'm a total geek girl!"

"Then explain why I have to help you with your Math homework," he quipped, jabbing those words right into me like a knife going through an open wound.

Ouch. Ok, I admit my love for science, but I totally bad at Math. I'm great with algebra, even a little bit of calculus, but I'm terrible at simple arithmetic. Give me stuff with x-y-z, and I can solve it, no problem. Once it starts becoming 1-2-3, that's when it all starts to fall apart.

Anyway, that's not the only reason I hate Math class.

"If they wanted me to learn in that class, they shouldn't have made it the last one of the day! That further justifies my hate for that class!" I nearly snapped before stopping myself. "Sorry, I didn't mean to yell!"

"You're at least getting good grades, right?"

"Sure, but that's because I don't want to have to take it again."

Henry sighed. "Anyway, we're about to head out to where I work. Are you sure you want to go?"

"Of course! This is our date, Henry Wong," I smiled, holding tightly on Henry's arm.

I heard Henry chuckle a bit as we walked outside.

I forgot to mention we go to school together with Takato, Rika, Himura, Jeri, Phillipe, Kazu, Kenta, and Kiyoko in Shinjuku Public High School. Hayata attends this school, too, and I normally hang with him when I'm not with Henry. Since spring, these past few months have been kinda 'eh' academic wise, but I still do well enough to pass my classes. I'm just thrilled to see Henry and his friends every day. That's what means more to me.

Even though Henry and I aren't in the same class, we still see each other when the group gets together for lunch on the rooftop and discuss geeky stuff. Although one day last week we got there a little late, and I didn't find out that Kazu had planned a group date to Akihabara until the following Monday. I guess since Henry and I aren't officially a couple, they didn't think to invite us.

I hate the fact that we weren't there to lend a hand when that behemoth attacked, but Henry and I still get plenty of hero action patrolling the city a few nights each week. I think Takato and the others know we've been together taking care of the criminals at night. Rika and Jeri would often ask me during lunch how our nightly out-on-the-town sprees turned out. Since we're all heroes here, we pass along info that covers weird activities. We use our powers to suppress criminal and wild Digimon activities.

That's just how we super-powered heroes roll. We watch each other's backs.

As we passed through the front school entrance, we turned to find Takato, Rika, Himura, and Jeri hanging out near benches. They noticed us walking together and caught on me with my arms around Henry.

"Hey, Henry! Sara!" Takato called out, waving to us. "Heading out somewhere?"

"Yeah, I've got to go to work right away," Henry replied.

Jeri smiled, noting how close I've become to Henry. "Are you going, too, Sara?"

"Yeah, this is gonna be our first date."

"Well, have fun you two," Himura chuckled.

"Make sure not to interfere too much with his work, Sara," Rika stated.

I shook my head. "Trust me. I'll be probably helping him if anything."

"Oh shoot, I forgot my History book," Henry said, checking through his school bag. "I must've forgotten it in my desk."

"I'll go and get it!" I said as I turned and nearly took off before Henry called to me.

"You don't have to..."

"It's cool! I'll be back!" I hollered before bolting right back into the school. As I hurried through a crowd, I found Room 2-A and slipped into the room. Hurrying over to Henry's desk, I found his history book lying on the floor. "Heh, silly. It just slipped out of your bag." I picked the book up and headed out the door. I looked between the hallways and saw no student passing along by. "Yes, perfect timing." With that, I phased through the wall using my power and made it outside. "Henry!" I called over to himas he said goodbye to the others before they left the school grounds.

"Thanks for picking it up," Henry smiled as I gave him the book. His smile slightly faded as he stared at me closely. "You didn't use your power to slip by, did you?"

"Uh... maybe, why?" I inquired.

"Did anyone notice?"

"No, but it's sort of fun doing this stuff behind people's backs," I snickered whilst accompanying Henry toward the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building. I have to admit I kinda feel nervous. I've never been in a government-owned building. I hope Henry means what he said and it's a safe environment. "Henry, do you have any plans during the break? There's the O-Bon Festival next month."

"I know. Well, besides my part-time job, I do have homework."

"Me, too. I plan to get that out of the way before anything else. But, I was wondering..."

"Yeah?"

I turned and stood in front of him, barricading him from walking forward.

"Well, I just thought that we could hang out together a bit more"

"Well, going to where I work is a good start. And we still have our vigilante excursions..."

"Yes, but I'm referring to fun places, like the festival."

"You want to go to the festival?"

"Oh, Henry, I thought you'd never ask! I'd love to!"

Henry scratched the bridge of his nose. "Um... that wasn't exactly..."

"I'll be sure to wear my cutest yukata!"

Henry sighed, smiling slightly "I look forward to seeing it."

"Then, it's on?"

"Sure thing, Sara."

Giggling with excitement, I once again threw my arms around Henry's right arm. "Awesome! We're going to have a great time!"

I kinda felt bad for shanghaiing him into asking me, but it's for his own good! He needs to let loose and have a little fun every once and a while. And who knows? Maybe it'll be the night I get my first kiss from him. I hope.

"Oooo, are the two lovebirds going on a date?"

We turned our view toward the creature sitting atop the brick wall on our right. Yep, it was Henry's cute but chatty tag team partner Terriermon. Terriermon chuckled as he jumped right off the wall and landed right into my arms. I hugged the little guy and handed him to Henry.

"What's new, little guy?" I asked the floppy-eared prankster.

"Eating, sleeping, and waiting on ya'll!" Terriermon added with a smirk. "Eh? What's this about a date, you two?" He winked, though mostly directed it toward Henry. "I always knew you two had a thing for each other, but now Henry says it's ok to start dating?"

"Terriermon..." Henry mumbled as I leaned my head against his shoulder. "We're just taking this one step at a time."

I chortled. "Sure we are."

Terriermon snickered, lightly elbowing Henry's side. I watched Terriermon tilt his head and whisper into Henry's right ear. "Good move, Romeo. Just make sure to use protection..."

Upon hearing this from the rabbit's mouth, Henry and I blushed whilst turning away from each other. I watched Henry shove Terriermon into his backpack, perhaps a little roughly, while reaching a pedestrian walkway. While I think Terriermon is a cute little guy, he sure likes to run his mouth, and sometimes I wonder where he gets all these perverted ideas. .

After a short walk from the school, we reached the government building. Since Henry had called ahead, there was already a visitor's badge with my name on it waiting at the front desk. Before we headed to the lab where he works, Henry took me to see Mitsuo Yamaki and his team since he was asked to attend a meeting. Upon entering some board room, I saw a man with short blonde hair wearing a suit and shades sitting in a chair. Sitting by his side was an attractive woman with long red hair.

"Director Yamaki,," Henry addressed to the blonde man, who apparently is the head of this government facility. "I called for this meeting to learn of the current status of the Digital World. There's been a few recent Wild Ones who've bio-emerged into our world. My friends and I have been taking sending them back via the portal under Guilmon's former den. Among other things we've also kept the level of criminal activity to a minimum."

"And this girl is?" The redhead woman, Riley, shifted her view toward my direction.

"She's a half-Rajita chimera and has the special ability called phase modulation," I heard Henry explain to Yamaki and Riley. Judging by the way they're sitting together, these two definitely look like an item. Eh, or perhaps it's just me.

Yamaki stood up from his seat and motioned over to me. "Would you care to demonstrate, miss?"

"Sara Shinobu," I said, properly introducing myself. "I've been Henry and Terriermon's partner against the recent wild Digimon."

"Good to know."

With that, I dropped my school bag and walked toward the wall. I phased my arm through the wall, giving a full-on demonstration for them. I noticed Yamaki was unfazed by my power, but Riley was slightly taken aback. I withdrew my arm from the wall while taking a few steps back, inching closer to Henry's side. Yamaki curiously stared toward me and removed his shades, revealing the most gorgeous pair of eyes I've seen in a guy.

"We're glad to know you've been cooperating with the Tamers, Sara," he addressed. "Has subduing these Wild Ones been any difficult?"

"Sort of, but I always have back-up."

Henry interjected. "This is where you tell me how these Digimon have managed to slip through." Henry tends to get a bit forceful when he's serious. It's kinda hot.

"While it's still common for Digimon to slip through our world, we've done our part in subduing and sending them back to their world."

"Yes, but there's been a surprisingly increasing number of incidents," I heard Henry ramble on.

It wasn't long ago when I was just a little girl when I lost my parents during the attack by the pig Deva, Vikaralamon. It only took one Digimon's actions to alter my life completely. It wasn't long after when I was thrown into an orphanage with my fellow future Chimeras Larry Stonebagel and Hayata Harusame. Those events eventually led to our capture and conversion into half-Rajita experiments after Kuiiza injected a serum, which mutated our genetic patterns. Coupled with intangibility, I've gained superhuman strength, stamina, and an extended longevity, allowing me and my friends to possibly outlive normal humans by another few thousand years. I might not even age for a long time, which quite honestly scares me.

Sad part is, I could still be alive and kicking while Henry and these people are long gone.

But, I'd rather not think of what the future will entail for our fates.

All I know is that Deva was the catalyst that led me to becoming a Chimera.

And here I am preventing wild Digimon from destroying the lives of others. My powers have allowed me to protect others in order to prevent them from ending up like me.

I listened to Henry adjourn the meeting as I noticed a middle-aged man and a short blond-haired lady in a lab coat walking inside the board room.

"Dad! Ms. Talley!" Henry called to the man and the young woman.

"Henry, good to see you here," I noticed Henry's father advance towards us, turning to notice me. "Oh, Sara. How are you doing?"

"Just great, Mr. Wong!" I greeted him with a perky smile, pulling Henry by his arm. "I insisted Henry to bring me here to see his work!"

Janyuu gave a cordial laugh. "Ok, but don't distract him too much. You see my son can be really devoted to his work."

"Tell me about it. He's like that when he's focused on our studies," I shared a laugh, causing Henry to blush and turn away. "Don't be so humble, Henry. That's one of your best qualities. Dedication is what I admire most about you." And I really meant it.

"She's right," Janyuu added. "You two have been hitting those books with those study groups."

"Sure we have," I added, grinning from ear to ear. "Henry is my brain boy."

I heard Henry chuckle awkwardly as the blond woman walked up to us.

"You must be the intangible girl!" Talley gasped, pulling me aside as she shook my hand. "You've got to show me your really cool ability! Oh..." I saw her draw out a cell and attempt to film me. I blinked and gawked at the lady, taken aback by her request. "Ok ready! Now show me!"

"Uhhh..." I was speechless by her request. Should I strike a pose or something? Oh, what the hell! "How's this?" I put my hand through the wall, drawing an ecstatic reaction from the giddy lady, who filmed the whole thing. Sheesh, I just hope she doesn't post this up online on YouTube or something. That'll surely attract a lot of attention and that's the last thing I want. Goodbye privacy, hello unwanted fame. Sara Shinobu the Intangible Girl is gonna become the Internet's latest fad craze!

It wasn't long as Riley called out to everyone, drawing our attention forward.

"Sir, we've got a situation!" The redhead announced. "Our tracers have pinpointed a few beacons scattered around the city!"

"More Wild Ones breaching our side?" Yamaki asked, gritting his teeth. He turned toward me and Henry. "You two, follow us!"

I nodded in conjunction with Henry. "Right!" Right on cue, Terriermon popped his head out of Henry's bag and chimed in.

"Fun time!"

I feel there's something more to these recent events than we're probably unaware about. It's just my intuition, but it usually never steers me wrong. We filed out of the room and followed the Hypnos group into their secret observatory room. Wow, I was astounded by what I saw. My eyes surveyed the whole room. A giant screen displayed a detailed map of Tokyo and a grid visual of Shinjuku district. I noticed glowing red beacons flashing on the screen, indicating sightings of what Riley described as 'breaches.'

"These readings are subtle, sir. They're not typical bio-emergences," Riley confirmed as I spotted the redhead and her blond partner stationed in tall platform chairs.

Talley affirmed, gasping. "And they're moving fast!"

Yamaki immediately turned and faced us. "Henry, Sara, Terriermon, would you do us a favor and go track these abnormalities?"

"Sure thing," Henry said as he nodded to me.

I smirked. "No problem.

"Leave it to us, chief!" Terriermon chirped.

"Be careful you three," Janyuu stated, facing us as he wished nothing more than our safe return.

It's time to go to work! Time to show these invaders what we're made of!

By the time we scoured through the city, we came across nothing. We even arrived at each designated location where the beacons confirmed these 'anomalies.' Still, we had no luck. These things must have known we were coming after them.

The question is: how?

After an hour or so of searching, I suggested stopping by Shinjuku Central Park to search. We scanned through the park and came up short in our search. We walked over near the lake as I knelt down on the grass. Henry knelt beside me, putting hand behind my back.

"Tired?" He asked.

Me tired? Ha. "You think a Chimera tires so easily?"

"Well, heh, no. Good point," he said, scratching his head and chuckling awkwardly. He sat next to me as Terriermon hopped over and landed atop his Tamer's head. "Whoa, Terriermon! Watch it!"

"Whoops, my bad! Didn't mean to mess up your 'do!"

"That's the least of my concerns."

I giggled as the little guy gazed toward the late afternoon skies. "It's a beautiful view, isn't it?" I addressed the dynamic duo, who turned and greeted me with smiles. Folding my arms around my legs, I let out a deep and relaxed sigh. "This is just the kind of date I've wanted."

"But, our date got cut short."

"That's not how I see it, Henry," I answered, nodding dismissively to him. "I had a fun time meeting with the people you work with and I had fun trying to find those anomalies, whatever they were."

Henry nodded, turning his head and shifted his view toward the lake. "Well, I'm glad you had a good time. I'll make it up to you."

"Don't," I said, turning my whole body whilst casting a deep gaze into Henry's eyes. "You don't need to apologize for what happened. I..." Could this be it? I could finally get my first kiss before the O-Bon Festival! This is it!

Terriermon smiled deviously as he watched me lean toward Henry. This was exactly what he's been wanting to see: for me and Henry to finally kiss. And before we could lock lips, Henry's voice interrupted my train of thoughts as I returned to reality.

"...eh?" I blinked in befuddlement.

"Sara! Look up at the skies!"

"Huh?" What now? And I was so close! Scoffing deeply, I looked up and caught a peculiar scene, which drew my attention and made me forget about the first kiss attempt. What we saw were strange beams of light shooting across the skies. "Shooting stars?"

"Doubt it," Henry added. "They're moving a little too slow."

"Whoa, hey! They just vanished!" I immediately pointed toward the direction where the lights traveled. Their shimmering glow dimmed as they vanished completely. "Wh-What was the meaning behind this?"

Terriermon's curiosity piqued. "Hmmm, maybe a new type of shooting star?"

"Or maybe they're linked to those anomalies Yamaki and his crew picked up on," added the ever observant friend of mine. "C'mon, let's head back to Mr. Yamaki."

I grabbed his hand, which caught him by surprise. He turned as I pulled myself from the ground and wrapped an arm around his. My lips eased to a smile while leaning onto Henry, who at least acknowledged me with a genuine smirk. I closed my eyes and planted a kiss on his left check. He once again turned and gawked, completely taken aback by my surprise peck. I never would've imagined he'd be shy about a girl being this close to him.

"Are we ready, ya two lovebirds?" Terriermon poked himself between our brief romantic moment.

"Let's get moving," added Henry.

"SARA!" I overheard the familiar cries of my teammates. We turned our view toward our right side and saw a trio of young adults waving to me. I immediately acknowledge the trio, consisting of two guys and a girl. "Mika! Larry! Hayata!" I bolted toward them while leading Henry along.

"Oooo, you two on a date?" Mika winked at our direction. "And was that a peck on the cheek, Sara?"

"Uh, heh," I blushed, smiling. "We just happened to be in the park searching for some weird activities."

"More wild Digimon?" Hayata inquired.

Henry interjected, shaking his head in reply. "No, but we saw strange lights coasting over broad daylight."

"Interesting," Larry replied. "We saw them, too."

This is really getting peculiar. Just where do these lights align with the strange isolated accounts of bio-emerged Digimon? "Henry..." He turned and drew his cell, presumably to call Yamaki.

"We're going to look into this really carefully. I sure wouldn't mind you and your crew's help," he offered. "Are you guys up to scouring through the city again?"

"Sure. It beats sitting around at home," Mika said, attentively facing Larry and Hayata. "Well, boys?"

Both of them nodded in agreement.

"And this will be a great way for us to spend more time together," I said, snuggling against Henry's shoulder, which simulated chuckles from the others.

Henry blushed again, sighing. "Sara..."

"So, when's our next date?" I playfully razzed him, eliciting an amused reaction on his face.

xxxxx

LazerWulf's Commentary: The school scene in this chapter was originally set in an American-style high school, with different classrooms for different periods, and each student having his or her own unique schedule. Sara and Henry shared last period together, and so were able to meet up in a much different way than depicted here.

However, Japanese schools, as you may or may not know, are set up so that the students stay in the same classroom and the teachers move from room-to-room. Another little known fact is that in the second year of high school (equivalent to American 11th grade), classes start to split based on the students' desired field of study, either Liberal Arts or Technical Arts. Thus Henry, who wants to be a writer (Liberal Arts) would not be in the same class as Sara, who wants to be an Engineer (Technical Arts). Also, Sara's bad subject was originally English, but you wouldn't normally find a Tech-Arts student taking a History class (I don't think). You might find it ironic that someone who wants to be an Engineer would be so bad at math, but I actually stole that line about x-y-z and 1-2-3 from my dad, a bona fide NASA Engineer. He's a wiz at calculus and trigonometry, but can't perform simple arithmetic without the use of a calculator. Also, Henry's missing History book was originally a Physics, book, but, again, you wouldn't find a Lib-Arts student taking a hard science like Physics. (And no, I don't mean to imply that Physics is difficult, though for some it is. Just Google the term "hard science" if you don't understand my meaning.)

Well, as Forrest Gump says, "And that's all I have to say about that."