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'Ow, Joe!' I hissed as he pulled a bandage tight. He just chuckled. We were in his bedroom so he could bandage me up, the others and Izzy were in the living room waiting for us. 'That Emperor really did a number on your back.' He noted cutting the bandage.
'Yeah.' I agreed trying to hide how much it hurt. Joe pulled my top back down
'There your all done, be careful when your in the Digital World okay. If I thought you would listen I would tell you not to go but you won't.' Joe told me. I nodded and smiled at him.
'Thanks. Let's join the…' I was interrupted by the sounds of yelling coming from the living room. Joe and me ran out of the room quickly. I don't know just what I expected to find in the living room but it wasn't Davis and Tai yelling with Kari trying to calm them down.
'She's one of us Tai! Yeah she made a mistake but she's still on MY team.' Davis shouted. Tai looked like he was about to hit Davis.
'She joined Ken, she's our enemy.' Tai said sounding unreasonable.
'Look Tai I'm not saying she made the right choice but she just found out that she'd lost her friend because you betrayed him. How would you react in that situation?' Davis countered.
'Tai please, stop this.' Kari pleaded. I noticed her eyes flicker to me in worry. Cody slipped over and stood in front of me.
'Davis either kick her out or hand in your Digivice.' Tai warned. There was silence in the room.
'Tai, that's not your decision. I was chosen to be a Digidestined just like you, and Sakura. Your not in charge anymore now let me handle my team.' Davis said coldly.
'Tai you need to leave.' Joe said suddenly drawing everyone's attention to us. Tai glared at me.
'How dare you come back pretending that you're good?' Tai hissed furiously. I ignored him and looked at Matt.
'I'm surprised you're on his side.' I noted. Matt winced slightly at the accusation.
'I'm with Sora. She's mad about Biyomon but, well I think you should talk with her.' Matt noted. I nodded.
'Hey, shouldn't you be running back to your dear Ken?' Tai mocked.
'Tai leave!' Joe yelled losing his temper. Tai looked at him surprised before marching out the door. I sighed and looked at everyone. Matt made his apologises before running after Tai. Then all eyes were on me.
'Are you okay Sakura?' Davis asked as Joe pushed me into the armchair. Davis and Yolei sat on the sofa while Kari said she was going to try and calm her brother down which meant TK was going with her. Cody sat on the floor next to me while Joe and Izzy took the other sofa.
'I'm fine, just sore.' I told them. Cody smiled up at me.
'Good, I can't believe that he did that.' Cody noted. I frowned and looked at Izzy.
'The Dark Spore's getting stronger.' I told him. There was a troubled silence in the room.
'Stronger how, I'm guessing this assumption comes from the fact he attacked you.' Izzy noted. I took a breath getting ready to explain.
'The Emperor is evil but Ken still had some influence as we saw when he remembered Davis. Now that seems to have been getting weaker which leads me to believe the spore is gaining strength. Also, I think I have one in me but it's not working.' I admitted.
'What!' Davis exclaimed.
'Big sis!' Cody asked worried. Joe and Izzy exchanged glances.
'It's definitely not working?' Izzy confirmed looking at me. I nodded.
'Yes.' I said before I filled them in on the dark ocean. Izzy looked concerned.
'Sakura, we need to figure this out and I feel the best place to start would be by scanning the spore's data. I can use the Digivice to do that.' Izzy noted. I nodded and held out my hand.
'It's the biggest scar.' I told him. He nodded and held his Digivice over it after opening his laptop. It beeped and he looked at the data.
'Well it's definitely not working but it could take a while before I figure out why and how we can stop Ken's.' Izzy said bleakly. I sighed and smiled.
'Thanks, I know you can figure it out.' I told him. He smiled back.
'I'm going to head home, my computer their well work better for this.' Izzy noted before heading out.
'Sakura, you can stay at my house tonight.' Davis told me.
'Yeah if you can stand the mess.' DemiVeemon put in. I chuckled.
'It's fine, thank you.' I told him. Just then we heard a phone go off.
'Oh that's mine.' Cody realised picking it up. He answered it. 'Hi mum…Sorry Sakura got hurt so we went to Joe's…Today and she's fine just a bit bruised…How did you…WHAT…Okay, I'll ask her…I'll invite her to dinner too…see you.' Cody hung up and looked at me.
'What was that about?' Davis asked after a moment. Cody took a breath.
'My mum figured out that your father abused you and invited you to live with us because she's worried about you and she also invited you to dinner even if you turn down the first invite.' He rushed out. It took a second for that to seep into my brain.
'Ah, I, what!' I asked shocked. Davis looked at Cody and me.
'Cody, try that again slower with detail.' Joe suggested. Cody nodded.
'Well, my mum really likes Sakura. She thinks she really responsible and polite. However she started to suspect that something was wrong and I think when I told her you got hurt it clicked. She wants you to live with us but she said she wouldn't force you to tell the police; she just wants you safe. Oh and your invited to dinner whether you accept the invite or not.' Cody explained. I gulped.
'Cody I…' I started to turn it down but as I should of guessed Davis interrupted me.
'Cody that's awesome! Your Mum is the best. Sakura just think, you'll be safe now.' He said happily. I looked at him and back to Cody. He had a hopeful look.
'Please Sakura, we want you to be safe.' He noted. I held it together for a minute before I broke down and hugged him.
'Thank you.' I chocked out round my tears.
'Mrs Hida, really you don't need to spend money on me.' I protested. It was my second day living with Cody's family and she had dragged me shopping. So far I already had four tops, two pairs of jeans, a skirt, some trousers, shoes and trainers. Now she was dragging me into another shop.
'Don't be silly, consider this me paying you for looking after Cody.' She told me picking up a coat and checking the size. 'Oh and call me Mira.' She added deciding the coat was the right size.
'Thank you Mira.' I said after a moment. She smiled at me.
'It's fine.' She assured me.
'Sakura.' I felt my eyes widen as I came face to face with Sora and Matt. He gulped and looked between us. I took a breath to start talking but Sora beat me to it.
'I'm glad your back safe and sound. My pink friend told me to say she was sorry. I'm sure Tai will come around.' She said quickly before leaving the store. Matt smiled.
'Good to have you back, we missed you.' Matt told me before going after Sora. I nodded and waved at them.
'Friends of yours?' Mira asked. I nodded looking at her.
'Matt is TK's older brother. I meet him a while back at summer camp and became friends with them and some others.' I wasn't lying to be fair. I was just leaving out the Digimon thing. She nodded.
'Well I think that's enough clothes for now. Let's get some lunch.' She said cheerily. I smiled.
'Thanks. That would be great.' I admitted. She rolled her eyes.
'How is it that both of you are the most well mannered kids anyone would have the pleasure of meeting?' She asked aspirated. I laughed and she joined me after a moment.
'What do you mean Cody almost drowned!' I yelled furiously at the group who'd just returned from the Digital World. Yolei had imminently given me a hello and said how they'd almost drowned in an underwater tower but Cody had saved them by fetching Joe and nearly drowned in the process. Cody rushed forward and smiled and tried to calm me down.
'Relax sis, she's exaggerating. They all pushed me into the escape pod and made me leave and fetch help so I'd be safe. I'd have gotten you but it was underwater so we needed Joe.' He said pleading slightly. I took a breath and nodded.
'Cody you did really well today, you managed to save everyone and you did it alone which must of taken some real courage.' I tensed when Tai entered the room but he walked right past me and looked at Cody. Cody closed his eyes and took a breath before coming to me snubbing Tai. He looked at me.
'Armadillomon got a new armour Digivolve, he turns into a submarine.' Cody told me smiling slightly. I smiled back and knelt slightly.
'That's great Cody, Crest of Reliability right?' I noted. Tai looked furious.
'Cody you should pay attention when your leader is talking to you.' Tai said coldly. Cody didn't even glance back as he filled me in on the adventure. I heard Davis shouting something at Tai who shouted back only for Yolei to defend Davis and that all kind of disintegrated. Cody had to stop talking due to the fact we couldn't hear each other.
'Tai that's enough!' Kari yelled suddenly. Everyone turned to look at her. Kari was furious; anyone could see that. TK stepped away subtly shaking his head.
'What do you mean Kari? I'm just trying to remind Davis who's the true the leader here.' Tai said like he was being reasonable. I don't think any of us could contain our shock when a loud slap echoed round the room. Tai just stood there like he wasn't sure what just happened, his tentative hand touching his cheek.
'Tai I've had enough of this! I want us all together like we're meant to be! No feuds, no sides, just friends working together to save the digital world! I'm not saying that we won't have disagreements but this is ridiculous. Tai you need to face the fact that Davis is the leader of the new Digidestined and Davis you need to accept that we need to coordinate with the older Digidestined and that means my brother.' Kari yelled her anger boiling over. Tai looked down in shame.
'I'm sorry. I guess your right. Davis, can you new guys forgive me?' Tai asked a small apologetic smile on his face.
'I'm not the one you should be asking, I was always protecting my friends.' Davis hinted glancing at me. Tai looked at me.
'He's right, I'm sorry Sakura.' He said sadly.
'You were trying to protect Kari and the others, I understand Tai.' I told him letting him know he was forgiven. Kari was right; we needed to be united against the Digimon Emperor and any other dangers the digital world processed.
'Sis, we should head home before it gets late. Mum's gonna start to worry at this rate.' Cody noted looking at the clock. I nodded seeing the time.
'Oh, your staying at Cody's tonight?' Tai asked sounding surprised.
'Actually his mum asked me to live with them. I said yes.' I filled him smiling.
'No way, that's great Sakura!' He said honestly the old Tai grin appearing on his face.
'Yeah, it's nice sleeping in the same bed every night.' I agreed. I was surprised when everyone looked sad.
'You shouldn't know the difference.' Davis muttered angrily. I smiled realising why they were sad.
'But I do and that's not going to change. What's changed is theirs people who care about it.' I told them. The whole new team tackled me in a group hug; they were my friends, my family that was what I had gained by being a Digidestined.
The Digidestined are reunited but will the peace last, and what of the Digimon Emperor? Find out in the next TPOK!