Lupine Laser: Hi again! I'm going to have my examinations soon so I won't be as frequent online as before, which means I will be updating my stories slower. Sorry if there is a long wait, but I haven't abandoned my stories! I'm hoping for more reviews for this story as compared to my previous story, The Return to the Digital World, because I spent more effort and time in writing each chapter for this story as I added in much more details and made each chapter longer. So, please read and review! CLICK THAT [REVIEW] BUTTON!

kojiluvr- Aah I just wanted to tease Kouji a little. Hehehe.

Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon. I never will.

The Legend of the Spirits

Chapter 3: Harder than it Looks

T.K.'s POV

It was once again a Tuesday and everyone had gathered at Matt's house to discuss about what they had already knew since Matt was usually alone at home so his house had the most space. Izzy had called the others except for Ken and Yolei and everyone had to translate thirty pages of the book. In total, three hundred pages of the book, which was almost the whole book, was already translated. Izzy had said that the book was not complete so they did not have the full picture.

T.K. had translated the part where there were many mentions of darkness. In that thirty pages, there were some mentions of five or six Digi-destined children. Kari, who had translated the front, said that there were mentions of four and then five Digi-destined children. Izzy was in-charge of the last part of the existing book and said that there were mentions of six children. In other words, there should be at least four Digi-destined children and at most six.

The others said that the book mentioned 'Legendary Warriors', Digimons that were one of a kind only. These Legendary Warriors had their own elements, Fire, Light, Wind, Thunder, Ice, Darkness, Water, Steel, Earth and Wood. "Could some of these Legendary Warriors be the DIgimon partners of these Digi-destined?" T.K. asked. Everyone else shrugged. It was not easy to have a Digimon partner that was Legendary.

Ken suddenly spoke up, "Oh yeah. Yesterday, when Yolei was at my house, we came across this newspaper article." Ken took out the piece of paper which he had printed the article on and passed it around the group.

"I remember this! That dragon thing could be a Digimon!" Mimi exclaimed.

Yolei explained seriously, "Not only that. If you take a very close look near the base of the dragon, you can see a humanoid figure that certainly cannot be a human. The colours and shadows are too blur for me tell which Digimon that is."

"So in conclusion, these Digi-destined were chosen two years ago. However, the weird thing was that there were no missing reports of any children. When a Digital World is saved, wouldn't the time and space warp between our world and that world be the same?" Ken asked.

"Yes, but that may not be the case in that world. Remember, anything can happen in the Digital World. Ken, Yolei, do you have any idea as to how old these Digi-destined are?" Izzy asked.

Ken shook his head in disappointment. Joe suddenly asked, "Wasn't there a big complain to the phone companies that same day that someone tried to spam call all the children aged between ten to thirteen? Some said that the message was to go to the Shibuya train station at six or so, if I remember clearly. So that means, the Digi-destined children had to be living in Shibuya and are now between twelve and fifteen!"

Cody then said, "If I remember clearly, the message was sent to all the children in Tokyo, so not all of them would be living in Shibuya. However, they had to live near enough so that they can arrive at Shibuya quickly." Most of the rest agreed.

T.K. asked, "Kari, do you know anyone in your classes with a weird 'friendship' like Tai and Matt? I mean, those two are opposites!" Matt and Tai both shot him a glare.

Kari laughed at that and answered, "Now that you mentioned it, there was this new girl called Zoe Orimoto in my class and she was surprisingly good friends with another student in my class, Kouji Minamoto. She said that they had met two years ago... Makes any sense?"

"Hey! Kouji is one of my Kendo students! About two years ago, his skills at Kendo were suddenly better! I had asked him if he had started practising more but he just shrugged. He's one of my best Kendo students!" Cody piped up.

"Kari, Cody, since you two know 'Kouji' so well, go talk to him!" Davis said.

Kari shook her head. "It's not so simple. As far as I know Kouji, he has a tendency to hide his true feelings from other people and he hides it well. Furthermore, he is the best liar I have met so far. He's a very introverted person too." Cody nodded his head.

Matt asked, "Then can you at least spy on him and his friend Zoe? They can't escape school, so Kari can spy on them. What do you say?" Kari shrugged and nodded. Izzy clapped his hands together congratulated everyone. They finally had a clue to who one of the Digi-destined was.

Kari's POV

Another Wednesday's school had started. Every time she had the chance, Kari would glance at Kouji to see what he was doing. He was acting normal as if nothing had happened or was going to happen. Zoe was doing the same too. So far in the three days, she had coped well with her studies and seemed to be a cheerful young girl.

When Kari dismissed the class, she held Kouji back for a while and told him that this talk would take quite a while so he asked Zoe to go to recess first. Kouji did not seem to mind staying back as they walked through the many corridors of the school to the counseling room. Unlike other students who would panic, Kouji was calm and walked along leisurely.

The counseling room was about one-quarter the size of a normal classroom. The walls were painted an off-white shade and there were comfortable sofas and cushions in the room. Kari took a seat and gestured for Kouji to take a seat opposite her.

'This is going to be hard. Should I be direct or indirect? What if Kouji isn't a Digi-destined? Yes. I'm going to ask him indirectly,' Kari thought. "Kouji, I just wanted to know you a little better. Zoe looked like the first friend you have since as long as I knew you."

"She's one of the first. I only have a few friends," Kouji replied.

"So... How did you meet her two years ago?" Kari persisted. Kouji was not giving elaborated answers and that was hard. If Kari asked too many questions, Kouji will find it suspicious.

"We met at the Shibuya train station. She was with friends so we got along fairly well," Kouji said.

"You have other friends? Who are they and where do they live?" Kari asked curiously.

"Takuya lives in Jiyugaoka with Tommy, Zoe lives here in Odaiba, JP and my twin brother Kouichi lives in Shibuya," Kouji replied. '1... 2... 3... 4... 5 and with Kouji, that's six people! Could they all be the Digi-destined? I think I should start being direct,' Kari decided.

"Okay. I want to ask if you had seen the 'dragon-like monster' at the Shibuya station two years ago," Kari said.

A moment of recognition flashed through Kouji's features but he hid them immediately and he was back to his neutral face the next second. "No, I was not there. I only saw the news on television," Kouji replied calmly. Of course, Kari now knew that Kouji knew something more than just the news. Kari nodded and dismissed Kouji. 'At least I got something out of Kouji. I better tell Izzy,' Kari thought as the took out her handphone to text the red-haired Digi-destined.

Cody's POV

Cody taught Kendo on Wednesdays. Cody had six pupils in a class and he would pair them up to spar. Of course, he put the strongest with the strongest so that it would be fair. He had learnt many techniques from his late grandfather. He used them often, well, except for drinking prune juice, which he was sure that his students would find weird. The class was only an hour long so it went by quickly.

While Kouji was packing up and was going to leave, Cody stopped him and told him that he wanted to talk to Kouji privately. "Some of my friends are conducting this research about the major power shortage in Shibuya two years ago. Do you have any information about it?" Cody asked. That was not a very good start but he hoped that Kouji would give him a good answer but that was quite impossible for a person like Kouji.

"You must be friends with Miss Kamiya, my school English teacher. She had asked me the same question but as I told her, I do not have any information for you. Sorry," Kouji replied cooly and slung his bag over one shoulder. He turned around and walked off, clearly irritated with that question that he was asked twice in a day. 'I should have known that Kari would ask him first!' Cody mentally scolded himself. He hoped that Kari could extract at least some information from Kouji. Now, it was up to her to spy on Kouji. The others did not know Kouji and Cody was out of the question after this encounter. Kari was the only one left who could gain some information about him.

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