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4. Some phone call.
"You've got to let them go! And all of them too, it's the only way to save the real world!" Yamaki told Jen's dad a bit too fiercely.
"Shiuchon is only a kid, I won't let her even if Jenrya does, and I definately won't let him either!" He said coldly.
"They have-"
"They don't have to! Can't you find some other way?"
"...If I could, I would've." Yamaki said regretfully.
"Then why can't you?"
This exciting piece of news was going around the tamers' circle. Juri even managed to contact Ai and Mako, and apparently, they encountered it too.
Kenta saw Shellmon on his digivice when he went to Hirokazu again that day and started banging the door since he could actually hear Hirokazu's snores. And then...his digivice just lighted up.
Jen and Shiuchon both saw their digivice react at the same time, they were both showing Gizamon.
Though, some were worried about their digimon, such as Ruki. She wondered if Renamon might be fighting those digimon.
That day, they were meeting and the hideout again, and naturally checked the portal. It's a habit, of course.
"Did you realise all these digimon are water digimon?" Jen asked.
"Yes...and they aren't very strong, none of them is an kyuukyokutai." Kenta said.
"Kanzentai are strong too." Ruki pointed out, and then started arguing with Kenta about perfect levels are strong too. Hirokazu joined in.
"Ne," Ryou whispered. "Does she always argue like this?"
"As long as we know she hasn't argued with anyone since she argued with you when we were sending messages to the Digital World..." Jen said, shaking his head.
"How do you know she argued with me?" Ryou asked, surprised. He didn't tell anyone or he'll be loosing his cool...like now.
"Oh, eh...hehe...you see..." Takato stuttered, scratching his head.
(Flashback starts)
"We'll stay together
Forever and ever..." Ruki was humming to 'Yuuhi no Takusoku' happily...
"Jen," Takato said to Jen behind the tree. "When does Ruki ever sing?"
"When does she ever sing THOSE songs?" Jen replied. "I don't know either, but she's probably just humming..."
Ruki's headphones gets pulled off.
"W-What's your problem?" Ruki stammered.
"Yo, Ruki." Said Ryou, looking cool.
"R-Ryou? What are you doing here?" She said, shocked.
"I'm heure for a Digimon Card Tournament exhibition. You're not coming to them anymore."
"I've already graduated."
He chuckled. "Well, I guess it can't be helped since you're a girl."
"That has nothing to do with it!"
Takato and Jen cringes behind the tree. "Sorry, sorry. You were always strong in stuff that didn't concern gender anyway."
"Did you just show up in front of me so you could prattle about old times?"
"I see you haven't changed. We haven't seen each other in so long. It won't hurt to be pleasant once in awhile."
She sighed. "You're the one who hasn't changed." And giggled.
"I got a text message from Jen on my cell." He said in an explain-ish way.
"Did he just have to involve me..." Jen muttered.
"Eh?"
"I just finished recording my message at Jen's place." He said. "...I heard from him that you were against sending a message to Renamon."
"What does it matter? Just go ahead and send them, it has nothing to do with me."
"But..."
"Yeah...hehe, he won't even send his message without Ruki." Takato joked and laughed. "Come on, we don't want Ruki to catch us listening to their private conversation..." They got up and ran away.
(Flashback ends)
Ryou stayed there, looking a bit shocked. Takato eavesdropping? And Jenrya Lee? They seem to be the good kind...but it's not like people don't eavesdrop...they can just pass by accident and listen for a bit...but...
"Don't be angry with us please...it was an accident..." Takato said guiltily, measuring Ryou's expression.
"Eh...Shinpai shinaide, Kamaimasen." He said, recovering cooly. But in reality, he was really glad they didn't hear the next part of the conversation.
None of them realised the argument ended, and Shiuchon was tugging at Jen's sleeve.
"So, have you finished pratteling about the past?" Ruki said, with her arms folded looking as cool as Ryou.
"Have you finished your little argument then?" Ryou asked, trying to look cooler.
"Ah." Ruki said, looking even cooler.
"Who won?"
"Atashi."
"Hai, hai...the Digimon Queen always beats us." Hirokazu huffed.
"Technichally AND originally." Kenta muffed.
They mimed being her servents, arms out in front, bowing. "Banzai, banzai, banzai." They said with no enthusiasm at all.
Ruki smirked, but before she could really enjoy the moment, her phone rang. It is not hers to be technichal and original, her grandmother's more like. She just keeps it.
She listened for a while, and gave the phone to Takato.
"Boku?" He took the phone and pressed it to his ear. "Moshimoshi? ...Yamaki-san!"
"Yamaki-san?" The rest started discussing.
"Oh...Hai, wakarimashita, hai, hai, unn, hai." He said. "NANI!" This startled them, everybody else looked at him.
"Hai! Mochiron! Iie! Hai! Iie! Hai! Boku iku!" He said, rushing and hang up, hands shaking and dialing another number quickly.
"What did he say?" Ruki asked.
"The Digital World is in danger, He said, and Hirokazu, Kenta and Shiuchon gasped animatedly.
"Then what are you doing!" Ruki said even more animatedly.
"Call your parents first! Yamaki-san doesn't have a choice but to send us-" He accidently pressed the delete button on Ruki's phone, and that moment it rang again.
"Moshimoshi!" He answered without thinking. "Yamaki-san? Oh...eh? ...Huh...hai..." He hung up, looking dumbstruck.
"What did he say!" Everyone asked him.
"He said we are not needed anymore."
"He can't just say that!" Ruki shouted.
"Ruki, ochitsuite." Jen assured her. "It's best if we don't go anyway, imagine what trouble Yamaki-san will be in if later then our parents find out."
"Uh Ruki, Ochitsuite." Hirokazu and Kenta said together, and muttered about something that Digimon Queen-sama needs to grow up more.
"Eh!" And they blocked their ears, acting childish.