There was an immense hot weather at the digital world, due to the group crossing what it seem like a desert. Slowly, the darkness in that place was lifting, making possible to see better around.

Looking for a place where to sit, they saw smoke at the distance, so the teenagers ran to that place to see what the problem was. It turns out that it was a tsunomon village. They found over 15 tsunomon, hiding from evil or attacks that may come.

That name made a sound in Tadashi's head, and he reflexively turn to see gabumon by his side.

"You were a tsunomon once, right?- he said smiling at the memory.

"Yeah" answer the blue digimon smiling back.

"So, guys, what happened? I see some of your houses were destroyed" Kosuke said looking around with a feeling of pity.

"It was ogremon. He came and destroyed, we just hide while we could!" a little tsunomon said sadly.

"Ogremon is with that evil digimon behind this disaster?" Hana stepped forward.

The tsunomon nodded. "We guess so"

"I'm sick of seeing this disaster with my own eyes and not being able to do anything" Tadashi clenched his jaw secretively.

Haruko noticed him in silence and just looked away, thinking, and paying attention to the situation. His brother can be a little temperamental sometimes, although he's a sweet, polite boy.

"Alright, we're going to help you fix those huts that are ruined, are you okay with it?" Nobu said smiling down to the little digimon, which accepted very gladly and jumping with happiness.

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"It's still hot in this place" Nobu fanned herself with her hat.

"It's because we're still near of the dessert, Nobu" hawkmon told her.

"Yeah, you think so?" she said looking back, remembering the heat in there.

Suddenly, walking around, she found a soda vending machine. Nobu's hazel eyes shone brighter than ever and went to the machine to get something to drink.

"As it's excpected of the digital world!" she said pulling out her soda. "Since this world and ours are connected, is not weird that there are human stuff around here"

Hawkmon nodded while he watched her swallowing the drink.

She smiled down at the bird digimon with a modest smile. "I didn't know that, Hana told me all of that"

Hawkmon thought that the girl who was standing tall in front of him, although she was very big now, pretty and tall, she was still modest after all. She changed a bit during the time that he didn't saw her, but comparing her heart now from when she was little, it hadn't change much.

A smile appeared in hawkmon's face.

"Let's go, Nobu, we shouldn't separate from the rest"

"Yes, let's go" she said cheerfully and followed hawkmon.

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"Hey, you guys need help?" Hiroki and agumon approached Aoi and palmon who were with a rope trying to put sticks together for the frame of the hut.

"Thank you guys" palmon said brightly, while Aoi didn't say a word.

"Are you ok, Aoi?" The brown haired boy said.

"Ah, sorry, I wasn't listen you guys" he said, still not looking at the boy who was in front of him.

"What were you thinking about?"

"Uhm… nothing, home, I guess. Putting courage together for when we have to fight against that digimon" he said dryly.

They remained silent for a while. Hiroki thought that maybe everyone felt the same way Aoi did. He haven't thought about that, he hadn't, because he saw everyone beside him and felt secure, safe. Especially Kosuke, Hiroki knew he can trust him no matter what. And, of course his cousin Yuki.

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Camping with the tsunomon wasn't that bad. Tadashi was content with the work they did in the village; they were able to live there at least, it's their home after all.

Haruko observed his brother, always observing him. When he was little, he was always obnoxious to what was happening around him, he wouldn't notice if someone took his candy off his hand because his head was in the clouds.

Now that he grew, he pays attention to everything, the good, the bad things, even to his parents. Unlike Haruko, who her parents were always calling her attention for being bad mouthed or rebellious, Tadashi always was a good boy. With the time, he got a little temperamental or moody, but only when he's pushed to a point.

There was still day light, and everyone was resting, it was still hot though.

"Hey, how about we play a game?" said Kosuke lifting his hand.

"What are we? Eight years old?" Kiyomi said to him, looking at him with a face, which Kosuke returned.

"Besides, what kind of game?" Hana asked.

"I don't know… truth or dare?" he shrugged.

"Are you kidding me?" the redhead shot.

A silence filled the space where the teenagers were, until a voice was heard.

"I'll play" the older brown haired boy said with a smile.

Everyone looked at Yuki with surprised faces, and then looked at each other. The silence was gone, and everyone started agreeing to play, smiling.

Kosuke wondered what Yuki has that makes that group stick together while he looked at the boy sit beside him.

"Alright, who starts?" Yuuta said.

"Aoi, truth or dare?" Hana shot at the distracted boy.

Aoi thought for a minute, looked at palmon beside him giggling, and answered.

"Truth" he smirked. He was sincere to the bone after all, it was not a problem.

"Okay, you asked for it… let's see…" the red head rubbed his hair thinking and Aoi looked at her curiously with brows frowned.

Suddenly, Hana's face lit up. "Alright, tell us the truth, are you happy to see palmon again? Or it annoys you?" she winked at palmon.

"What?" Aoi thought she was going to ask something else, that was… a relief?.

"Heh" he grinned, looking at palmon by his side. "I've never been more excited to see an old friend. Palmon, I can't find the words to tell you what you mean to me" the blonde said, and hugged tightly his partner.

While everyone made sounds of tenderness, Hana spoke again.

"Is that what you say to all the girls?" she smirked playfully.

"Never. Palmon is my only one" he said putting palmon closer.

After that, laughter could be heard in the round that was made.

"Alright, alright, Yuki, truth or dare?" Kosuke wiggled his brows looking at the boy.

"Hm…" he smiled "truth"

"Okay, let's get real, there's boys and girls here, who are you attracted to?" he said motioning with his hands to the group.

Yuki just observed to everyone sitting there, some of them giggling, some with curious faces, others just smiling, waiting for the response, and others chit-chatting with their digimon partners.

"Uhm, truth is… I see all of you like my friends and brothers and sisters"

Kosuke's face dropped.

"However, I think Kiyomi is cute" he shrugged smiling.

"I wasn't expecting that" Hana said calmly, resting her hands in the floor smiling. She spoke with a tone of discovery, like she found out something.

"Me neither" Kiyomi blushed a little.

"Tadashi, truth or dare" Kiyoshi spoke.

"Dare" his eyes lit up.

"Okay… let's see. I dare you to go to the forest over there"

"That's it?" he said getting up.

"You can take gabumon with you If you want, remember that is dangerous. Just go, check around and come back in half hour. If you're not back, we're coming to get you, got it?" the blonde explain, while Yuki shook his head.

Tadashi glanced at Haruko who was still sitting there.

"Don't worry! There's still day light, you'll be fine. Remember that if you don't come back in a while, we're going" she smiled at her little brother.

The orange haired boy walked away with gabumon by his side, leading to a forest near the village.

"What are we supposed to do her-AAAAAAAH!"

Tadashi didn't even finish talking he fell in a hole that was in the ground. When he woke up and realized that he fell, he started to call for gabumon, but he wasn't by his side. Neither his older sister Haruko to watch over him or calm him.

"Alone… huh" he thought.

He stared walking in the cave that was there, creaming or calling someone once in a while to see if someone or a digimon answered him. But no one did. First, he got angry, with Kiyoshi for daring him to do this, then with himself for falling in the hole. Then he got worried, all the 'what if's passed through his mind. And at by last, sadness invaded his body.

Gabumon was staring at the hole already with tears in his eyes calling for Tadashi, but there was no response.

He needed gabumon. Why wasn't gabumon with him? He never felt so alone, even being by himself his character showed. Even being completely alone his emotions still showed like someone was watching, why?. His bad temper won't do for him this time, he had to calm himself, and think.

"Damn it…"

"GABUMON!"

Just when he was about to go looking for someone, he heard Tadashi's voice, that was enough to made gabumon evolve to garurumon. He jumped into the hole, finally reuniting with his partner.

"Garurumon!" he hugged his friend, almost crying, and his voice cracking.

"Are you alright, Tadashi?"

"Of course now that you're with me. Man, I've never felt so alone in my entire life. Promise me you'll never leave my side"

"I promise I'll always accompany you, we're partners and friends" garurumon said with a warm tone.

"My temper is very bad, really" he chuckled. "Even being alone, I wasn't able to be calm and think. I hadn't realized that I have that problem, but it's my problem, it doesn't involve you, Haruko or the other guys" he closed his eyes remembering the moment that he just went through.

"Tadashi, don't worry about that, we all care about you and we like you for who you are. Even if you don't like yourself, I'll always be here with you"

"Thank you, garurumon" the boy said, smiling gratefully, touching softly garurumon's fur.

Garurumon ultra-evolve. Wergarurumon.

"Wergarurumon?" Tadashi took his hands out of his eyes to see a big werewolf standing in front of him, ready to take both of them out of that dark hole.

"Should we go? It's been a while…" Haruko was getting worried and looked nervously at the forest for a sign that her brother was coming back.

She relaxed and smiled when she saw two people coming back.

"Two people?" Haruko didn't recognize wergarurumon, until they were closer and closer for they to be there with the group again.

"That's gabumon? You're kidding right?" Hiroki pointed to wergarurumon.

"That's right" Tadashi flashed a big grin to him, proudly.

"But, are you alright? What happened?" Haruko couldn't stop looking at the boy for a sign of harm.

"I'm fine, mom, thank you" the younger boy said to her, joking, of course.

"Wow, wergarurumon is so cool…" said Kosuke in a low voice.

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After all, they had to keep going, and so they did, they left tsunomon village to keep looking for lost data and digimon they could meet and help if they needed to.

I'm so, very sorry for the wait! studies, yada yada, no time. I apologize, really.

I hope you're enjoying the story until here :) leave comments/thoughts if you have, and since now, please forgive my misspellings xD english is not my first lenguage.