Title – Flames of Freedom

Rated – M

Couple –Tai/Kagome/Matt - Of course, she'll only end up with one of them. ;P

Genre – Romance/Adventure

Summary – She had been lost in this world for...well...she didn't know how long, she just knew that when she was a child...she lost her cousin Sora...getting to this world. An accident, and now...here she was. Kagome Higurashi... she was 7 when she lost Sora...she was 7 when she was transported to this...world. Now...she wasn't sure how old she was, no way of telling the time, day or year in her world, however, she guessed around 9 or 10, but she hoped that soon, someone...would save her.

Key – Key

Flashback Flashback

"Speaking"

'Thinking'

NOTE - ……….I'm re-watching Digimon……….that's all.

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The Start of the Adventure

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"Wouldn't the smart thing to do be to head back to where we were?" Joe asked.

Kagome turned her head to Joe who stood by Izzy and TK who was watching Izzy try and fix his laptop. "First of all, you were all sent to different places, not one place. If it was one place, then maybe you could blame a...teleportation something or other. Second...Izzy, give up. The chances of that laptop even turning on...is slim to none. We should however move to another place."

"Why is that?" Izzy asked, placing his laptop back in his bag.

"Well, it's just a suggestion; of course my suggestion might have something to do with that..." she pointed at a large and hungry rhino like Digimon. "...and that." She pointed to the other side of their little campsite where another rhino like Digimon stood. Both hadn't noticed them yet, but Kagome preferred to avoid that confrontation.

"What are those!?"

"Calm yourself Tai; you'll get them riled up." Kagome told the boy. Tai was standing next to Matt, both of which had been trying to come up with a plan to get them home...both were like two magnets pushing the other away.

"Those are Monochromon."

"They are normally passive in comparison to many other Digimon. Laid back and such...however, it is wise to tread carefully when they are hungry." Kagome watched as Kilamon jumped from her arms.

"Kilamon, where are you going?" The group turned to see the cat Digimon running up to the Rhino Digimon on their left.

"Do you really want them fighting, Nya?"

"Well, no...Go ahead and set that one on a different path; Biyomon..."

"I got it!" Biyomon flew off to the other and played fly with the Monochromon, both turning to follow the newest form of annoyance.

"We should go before they decide to come back."

Kagome nodded in agreement with Matt. She frowned and looked around. "Have you guys seen Renamon?"

"Your awareness is deficient Kagome." Kagome jumped and turned to see Renamon behind her.

"I swear you weren't there when I looked a second ago."

"No...I wasn't. I was above you, in the tree; putting that aside, shall we be on our way."

"Yeah," Kagome followed after the others, something about this direction however had her neck hairs standing on end.

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Kagome had been listening to Mimi complain about her aching feet since they left. Her head was pounding and all she wanted was for the silence she had grown used to, to return.

"I don't walk this much unless I'm at the mall, and as you can see, we're nowhere near one."

"Mimi, stop whining."

"Yes, please." Kagome nodded, leaning against a tree as she sat on the ground. TK sat down beside her and they watched Mimi mope.

"No! My feet hurt!"

"Then sit down. We will rest for a few minutes before continuing. I have to agree though. With Mimi, you guys have been walking since we got up this morning. I don't really mind, but you are doing more walking in one day then I usually do in three days." Kagome said, stretching her legs out in front of her before stretching her hands to her feet.

"You did that this morning Kagome." TK pointed out.

"Well, you can pull a muscle, strain yourself or wear yourself out if you don't stretch periodically. At least, that's what Renamon told me."

Renamon was looking out at something from the top of the tree.

"The sun will be setting soon too." Kagome pointed out.

"Wait, I detect water! Stay here while I check it out!" Kagome watched as Tentamon flew up to the top of the tree where Renamon stood. Renamon glanced down at her before taking off. The others looked around for where he could have gone, but she didn't, merely closed her eyes and stood, opening them seconds later.

"Shall we TK?" He looked confused but took her hand.

"Yes! As always I am correct. It's a lake with fresh, clean water and a variety of tasty fish. It's―"

"...the perfect campsite, we get it. Now let's go. I want to go to bed soon." Everyone turned to see Kagome and TK already walking towards, pretty far ahead.

"Oh, right!" Tentamon flew down to them and they took off after the two.

"Wait up guys, don't run!" Mimi cried out, Palmon smiled sympathetically at her life partner.

Palmon walked behind with Mimi. "It isn't so bad Mimi, just a little farther."

"They have been saying that since we left those scary Digimon."

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"Finally, we can sit down." Kagome fell onto her back into the sand. Smiling, she mentally agreed with Mimi, though she kept her words to herself.

"Hey Kagome, Mimi, come play in the water with me!" TK smiled as he ran to the edge of the lake.

Mimi shook her head as she looked at her dress. "I think I'll just soak my feet."

"YAY! WE GET TO SWIM!" Gomamon said happily as he tried to reach the water, failing when Joe took hold of his tail.

"Gomamon, you better wait and make sure it's safe first!"

"We still need to find some food..." Tai pointed out.

"You have fun with that, I think I'll join TK and Gomamon in the water. Mimi, Renamon will be back with some of my clothes, if you want something different to wear. I can tell you now, walking in a dress is going to get real old, real fast."

"Clothes mean shopping center!"

"No, clothes mean that a few Digimon here just happen to be capable of creating and making clothing."

"Oh..."

"Kagome...! Come...on!" She laughed as TK tugged her arm, but followed after him anyways. Stopping at the edge, she pulled the cloak from around her waist off and tossed it aside; staying only knee high in the water, so not to get her clothes wet, where as TK didn't really care.

It was about thirty minutes later that Renamon returned, Mimi left to change into a pair of khaki's and a black shirt with her boots and hat still on.

"Icky, black and Khaki."

"Sorry, but the colors...though in an abundance here..." Kagome looked at the colorful trees. "They are still limited in clothing, and the Digimon who do make the colorful clothes...are rude and usually are mean. Besides, I like black."

"Hehe," TK splashed her and she splashed back.

"TK, you are going to get sick!" Matt called out to his brother. Kagome looked up at the darkening sky.

"Hey TK, your brother is right. It's also getting dark, which means it's going to get cold real soon. Let's dry you off. Hey Tai! See if you and Agumon can get a fire going!" She called out to the brunette.

"Yeah, right!" He turned to Agumon and went straight to it.

"Where will we sleep?" Mimi asked.

"Outside, it's nice out."

"But, I don't sleep on dirt."

"But TK needs to get dried. I don't want him to get sick." Matt told Kagome.

"Dirt isn't going to hurt you, Mimi, and TK's going to be fine." Kagome said, picking up her cloak, she sat down and called TK over to her; wrapping it around the shaking boy, he whispered a thank you and she smiled.

"The fire's started!" Tai called to them.

"TK, go and sit by the fire, not too close though, kay. Mimi, why don't you join him?"

"I think I will, it's starting to get cold, and my hands are freezing." Mimi followed after the smallest of the group.

"Kagome, I don't want TK sleeping outside, what if bugs―"

"We'll switch watch. I'll take the first watch, okay." She smiled at Matt, trying to ease him a bit. "Besides, the only bugs here are Insectoid Digimon. Like...Butterflymon or Hercules Kabuterimon...or for that matter, Tentamon. We will be fine."

"AH!"

"What's that!?"

"It looks like a Trolley Car!"

Kagome and Matt turned to see what Mimi, Izzy and TK were looking at. Joe and Tai ran up to them too to see what was going on.

"That...wasn't there...before." Kagome watched them walk up to the long Trolley.

"Let's check it out!" Tai said, running up to it.

"No..." Kagome stepped back, looking around till she spotted Renamon.

"It's safe...but...be careful. Something else seems off."

"Like the fact that the lights came on by themselves? This thing is completely empty!" Izzy said as he walked out of the Trolley Car.

"We can worry about that later, I'm hungry!" Mimi cried.

"I forgot, you guys haven't eaten yet."

"And you have?" Matt asked Kagome.

"Well, no...but I'm used to doing long exercises without food, so it's no wonder I'm not hungry."

The Digimon went around picking berries. Gomamon warded the fish off and away from Izzy who was trying to catch them. TK stood, now dry, next to him watching. Kagome was sitting above them in a tree keeping watch of the sky.

"...Izzy..."

"Huh?" He looked up and to Kagome; her eyes were glazed over a bit.

"Do you know...anything else about Sora or my family? Are they still there, or did they move?"

"...I only know what I read on my laptops Data source. Your family...they supposedly moved away after six months of failed searches for you. I don't know what happened to Sora's family, you'll have to ask Tai. Sorry, that's all I know."

"...I see, so...when I...if I get home...they won't be there."

"..."

"Izzy, you got one!" TK broke the silence as the stick fishing pole was being pulled.

"Ah!"

Kagome felt a weight on her shoulder. "Hey Biyomon, are the two Monochromon's safely home?"

"Mine is, Nya!" Kagome looked to her left where Kilamon was latched onto the bark of the tree she sat in. Her claws dug deep into the tree, holding her there.

"Yes, mine too is safe at home."

"That's good. Though, it took you longer then I had anticipated."

"Well, we had to search you and the others out, but we also came across an injured Bearmon. Kilamon brought him with us, but..." Biyomon looked behind her and towards the campfire where Mimi sat hugging the small and injured baby bear Digimon.

"Oh my," Izzy said; he had been listening too and had curiously looked.

"Mimi! Could you put the injured Bearmon down...before...he tries taking your head off with a bear fist attack or something?"

"Ah!" Mimi quickly placed the wounded Digimon down and watched him walk cutely towards Kagome who was now on both her knees.

"TK, could you be a sweetheart and get me my cloak?"

"Yeah, sure!" TK ran off towards the fire, grabbing the warm cloak and bringing it to her. "What are you going to do with it?" TK, Izzy and Matt gathered around her.

"I'm going to rip it at the edges and make a sling for the Bearmon's broken arm."

"Now, what happened to you?"

Bearmon blushed, watching as she did as she said, ripping the fabric. "Hehe, it was nothin'; I was getting a batch of berries and slipped. That's all."

"You need to be careful, where is Grizzmon? If I am correct, Grizzmon watches over the Bearmon in the northeastern areas."

"Yes, she is in labor."

"Oh, will she―"

"Be okay? Yes, she is doing great. I was getting berries for her."

"I see, Biyomon, could you..."

"Alright. I'll take you back Bearmon, and get some of those Berries too."

"Thank you." Kagome smiled as she tied the sling around Bearmon's neck.

"You are welcome; keep this on for about a week. Don't put too much strain on it." She waved goodbye to the Digimon and felt someone tug at her shirt.

"What's wrong TK?"

"Where did you learn that?"

"Six years old, fell from my bedroom window, second floor."

Matt cringed, "Ouch...how did you manage that?"

"...I don't remember." She laughed a bit, then turned and walked away from the group with Kilamon on her shoulder. "TK, come eat, you should be getting to bed soon."

"Kay!"

"He listens to Kagome, more then he does you." Izzy commented as TK ran up to Kagome who sat next to the younger boy, smiling and laughing with Mimi who relayed a story of her own misfortune in the past.

"Humph."

"That's nothing new, TK listens to me more the Matt too." Tai said smugly, Izzy recoiled at the fight he new would come from that remark. Sneaking off to sit with the girls, he took hold of Joe's shirt and pulled him off in the same direction.

"Trust me Joe; you don't want to be near them right now."

"Huh, why not?"

"Don't ask." Izzy said, before sitting with the girls and TK. Joe joined them, unaware of the fight that had ensued when they had left.

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Me: Hope everyone enjoyed! Not much action, but the next chapter will have a lot! ^_^''