Author's Note: Hey fellow Digimon fans, I'm back again once again with another chapter for Kari's New Friend. Took me long enough, eh? There are a few reasons for my delay, but the most prominent was that this was probably the hardest chapter to write so far. I struggled with it from the beginning to the end, but I think it turned out okay so I'll cross my fingers that you think the same. Oh, and I've been sick since last week. Kind of hard to be creative when you lay in bed in cold sweat and cough every 3 seconds.
Oh, and on a side note I have gone back and fixed a few typos in the first 3 chapters of this story while I was having trouble with this one. While I was at it, I took the liberty of adding a philosophical statement at the beginning of each chapter. For those of you who don't know, I am a very philosophical person and I just love those qoutes that you can tell have a deeper meaning than what's on the surface, and I can just sit and ponders those for hours on end. I picked 4 different qoutes from popular franchises and I am kind of curious to see if any of you guys can figure out where they come from? If you recognize any of them, please tell me in a review.
And of course to my honorable guest, the answer to your last review waits for you at the end of the chapter! Now, enjoy! :)
Disclaimer: Just the fact that there is a disclaimer here should be enough to tell you that I don't own Digimon.
"If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means that you have not learned from the mistake you made."
Chapter IV: Apology Accepted
As he stepped out of the car and closed the door behind him, Davis began to feel his nerves acting up. Looking up at the apartment building that he knew housed the Kamiya Residence, he couldn't help but wonder if maybe it would've been a better idea to just wait until tomorrow before confronting Kari and apologizing. When his mom had said that he would be spending the night at a friend's house while they took Jun to the hospital, he had thought that it was a great idea to try and knock out two birds with one stone, but now he began to question his own sanity for rushing to meet up with Kari again.
However, there was no turning back now as his family's car had already disappeared in the distance, so he steeled himself by taking a deep breath and entered the building. For every stair he climbed, he felt the pressure in his chest grown in intensity as his mind began to picture all the possible outcomes it could come up with. What if Kari didn't accept his apology? What if, as soon as he stepped inside the door at the Kamiya Residence, she walked right up to him and told him that she didn't ever want to see him again?
Coming to a stop outside the door that had the name surname "Kamiya" written on it, along with the given names Susumu, Yuuko, Taichi and Hikari, Davis shook his head and took a deep breath. No, he couldn't think like that. Kari wasn't the kind of person that would do that. It might be a little awkward at first, but eventually she would get over it. After all, even Jun usually forgave him when he had done something to upset her and Kari was a much nicer and sweeter girl in Davis' mind than Jun could ever be.
Swallowing nervously, he rang the doorbell and took a step back to wait for someone to open. While he waited, his eyes were inadvertedly drawn to Kari's name on the name sign. It felt strange that up until just 2 days ago, that name had meant nothing to him and now here he was, trembling more in nervousity than he usually did before a soccer game. Wait... trembling?!
'Why am I feeling so nervous? It's just Kari.' he thought as he clenched his hand to keep it from shaking as it hung by his side. However, despite it being "just Kari", he still felt his heartbeat pick up as he heard the soft footsteps that approached the door on the other side, letting him know exactly who would be the one to open the door.
And just as he thought, when the door swung open it revealed the young brown haired girl that had occupied his thoughts for the majority of the day (even if he would never admit it out loud). Unlike earlier that day when he had visited however, she displayed none of the surprised enthusiasm she had back then and instead just offered him a stiff "Hi", before stepping aside and motioning for him to enter.
Not wanting to have the impending coversation with Kari while standing on their doorstep, Davis was quick to comply. As the door clicked shut behind him, an awkward silence enveloped the two classmates while Davis reached down to untie his shoes. He could feel Kari's gaze on him, but he kept his gaze firmly focused on his sneakers, not wanting to look her in the eyes at the moment.
Kari couldn't quite describe what she felt while she was waiting for her friend to untie his shoes. A part of her was happy to see him again, even if she wished it had been under different circumstances, but another part of her wanted to just turn around and retreat to her room and leave him to his own devices. But regardless of what she really felt about him right now, she found that she couldn't tear her eyes away from him.
When her mom had told her and Tai that Davis was going to spend the night here, Kari had reacted with mixed feelings, still not sure how she was supposed to handle her situation or react to her new friend. Tai had told her to just try to act natural and see if Davis would come out and apologize on his own, but that was easier said than done.
"Oh, there you are. Welcome back, Davis!"
Both Kari and Davis almost jumped out of their skins in suprise upon hearing the voice, neither having noticed Kari's mom when she rounded the corner. As she looked up to find her mom smiling towards them, Kari was reminded that her parents still weren't aware that she and Davis hadn't parted on a positive note earlier that day. And if she was to be honest, she would prefer for it to stay that way.
"I was just about to show him to the guestroom." she said, trying to appear as natural as possible. "Where did Tai go, by the way?"
"He's just about to hop in the shower. I told him to do it before dinner, but as usual he didn't listen." her mom answered with sigh and a disappointed shake of her head, before she turned back to their guest and her face lit up again. "Anyway, make yourself at home, Davis. And I'm sorry to hear about Jun, but I'm sure she will be fine."
Davis just nodded in response, still not having found his voice since coming face to face with Kari again. He had just realized that he still hadn't come up with a good way to apologize and now that he was here, time was starting to run out. The mention that Kari's brother was also home this time did nothing to put him at ease. Since the two Kamiya siblings shared a room, they were bound to cross paths and something told Davis that the older boy wouldn't be too happy with him if he upset Kari any further.
Thankfully, Mrs Kamiya seemed to pick up on the fact that Davis wasn't in a very sociable mood at the moment and decided to leave them alone, figuring that he was still a little shaken after what had happened to his family while in town. Knowing that her daughter would take good care of her friend, Yuuko left the two children alone and returned to the living room, where she joined her husband in front of the television.
By this point, Davis had finally gotten rid of his shoes and stood up again. For a few seconds, the two classmates just stared at each other, neither knowing exactly what to say. Eventually, Kari began to feel uncomfortable standing in the entrance hall and swiftly turned around to show him the way to the guestroom.
"Uhm, this way." she said awkwardly, motioning with her hand for him to follow her.
Even though she was torn on what she felt about seeing Davis again so soon, one thing she knew for certain: she did not like to have this tension between them. As she showed him to the room where he was going to spend the night, Kari felt like she was guiding a stranger, rather than one of her friends. On the plus side, she could tell that Davis also felt awkward about their situation, so she held out hope that he had realized that he had done something wrong and that he would apologize once they were alone.
Davis for his part felt his grip on the strip to his backpack slip in his sweaty palm as he feverishly tried to come up with a good way to apologize to his friend. It was obvious from Kari's stiff behavior towards him that he had been correct in assuming that she was upset with him for leaving her earlier that day, but that did little to help him figure something out.
"Just try to talk to Hikari again and apologize to her." Jun's words from their conversation earlier came floating back to him. She had made it sound so simple when she had said it. Maybe he was just overthinking this?
Click!
The sound of the door clicking shut behind them broke Davis out of his thoughts. They were in the computer room, which Kari had referred to as her dad's "office" when she had shown him around the apartment earlier that day. It was a simple room with a large window in the corner that was furthest away from the door and it held 2 long tables that intersected each other in that same corner, with a computer screen on one of the tables and several books and papers strewn in a mess across the other. One of the walls was covered a large bookshelf and a couch that was currently prepared with bedsheets and a pillow and blanket adorned the other wall.
For a moment, the two 9 year olds lingered by the door until eventually, Davis took a deep breath and went over to drop his backpack by the couch. Swallowing to try and ease the pressure on his windpipe, he then turned back to face Kari, who was still standing by the door and was watching him with an indecisive look in her eyes. As their eyes met briefly, Davis found that even if he had wanted to he wouldn't have been able to give his friend a practiced apology-speech. The only thing he could do was tell her was the truth; that he hadn't meant to hurt her and that he was sorry.
"H-hey, Kari?" he croaked out, feeling the pressure on his windpipe intensify. "Errhm... look, I'm sorry if maybe..."
However, he broke himself off and shook his head. That just sounded like an excuse! Why was it so hard to just tell her that he was sorry?! There should be no maybes and no buts! Taking a deep breath, Davis clenched his fists and resolved to just get it over with. It wouldn't matter how nicely he said it, because it wouldn't change the fact that he had screwed up and Kari had been hurt as a result.
"What I am trying to say is: I'm sorry about leaving you earlier today." he said, feeling the pressure on his windpipe ease a little after getting that off his chest. "I didn't really consider how it might make you feel when I just decided to leave like that and I'm sorry if I... no, that I hurt you. I-if you would just give me another chance, I promise to try to become a better friend and not make mistakes like that."
There, he had said it. Suddenly feeling very tired, Davis sat down on the edge of his couch and looked away. A stinging cold began to spread through his chest as he awaited Kari's response, hoping that she would accept his apology. Despite only having known her for 2 days, Davis genuiely didn't want to lose Kari's friendship. He still thought that she was a bit... different, but that wasn't a bad thing to him anymore.
Over by the door, Kari lowered her head so her bangs fell forward and covered the upper part of her face from view. She felt her lower lip tremble as Davis' words slowly began to sink in and eventually, her lips were drawn out into a smile, even as her eyes began to water again. Hearing his sincere apology and realizing that Davis truly wanted to be her friend filled Kari with a warmth and happiness that was unlike anything she had ever felt before, even in the presence of her big brother.
"When you just left me like that, I was really upset at first. A part of me just wanted things to go back to the way they were before and forget that these last two days ever happened." she spoke softly as she began to make her way over towards the couch where her friend was seated. "But after Tai talked to me about it, I realized that the reason I was so upset was because I didn't want us to go back to being strangers."
As she came to a stop in front of her friend, Kari's smile faltered ever so slightly as she thought back to her conversation with Tai. Looking down at the auburn haired boy, who still hadn't raised his head again, Kari felt that strange possessive feeling from when Tai had suggested that Davis wasn't worthy to be her friend return.
"Don't feel sorry Kari. Wanting to have friends is nothing to be ashamed of. It's only natural."
And she wanted Davis to be her friend, even if their friendship had taken a little dive after what happened earlier that afternoon. It was because she wanted him as her friend that she had gotten upset to begin with and now that he had apologized of his own accord she knew that he also valued their friendship, just like she did.
"I'll forgive you." she said, clasping her hands behind her back. "As long as you promise me that we will always be friends."
As Kari's words hit home, Davis felt as if a huge weight had just been lifted from his shoulders and the strange knot he had felt in his chest slowly began to disappear. He wanted to stand up and shout out his relief to the world, but all he managed to do was let out a nervous hiccup as the pressure he had felt ever since leaving Kari that afternoon slowly left his system.
"I promise, I will be the best friend possible!"
A comfortable silence settled over the two friends following Davis' statement, similar to the one that had hung in the air two days ago when they had first began to view the other in a different light. Davis had a hard time believing that it had only been just yesterday that he had found Kari struggling with her illness in the street and helped her home. So much had happened in these last two days, he felt like at least a week must've passed since he got to know Kari better.
Kari was having similar thoughts, over where she was standing with her hands still clasped behind her back. Had it really only been just yesterday that she had told Davis about the Digital World? Somehow, it felt like he had always known about it, like he had always been that one special friend to her with whom she could share her experiences with the parallell world. Oh, and speaking of the Digiworld...
"Oh, that's right!" she exclaimed as she was reminded that Davis actually had never met a Digimon before. "Davis, come on! There is someone I'd like you to meet!"
With that, she reached down and grabbed her friend's hand and pulled him to his feet. Davis frowned but didn't question her as the two of them left the computer room and made their way to Kari's room, only stopping briefly to say "Hi" to Kari's dad, who was seated in front of the TV along with his wife. As they passed the bathroom, the sound of splashing water could be heard from the shower, along with...
'Oh boy.' Davis thought, suddenly feeling very uncomfortable. 'I never thought I would hear Taichi of all people sing in the shower.'
While he didn't know Taichi very well, they had crossed paths on the soccer field in the park more than once and even then, the older boy's reputation had proceeded him. Taichi was 3 years older than him, and he was both the team captain and the star striker of Odaiba's soccer team, even though he generally played with boys who were a year older than himself. All the boys in Davis' team, himself included, looked up to him and wanted to be like him one day. To hear his role model's voice crack as he was singing to himself in the shower was... unsettling.
"Uhm... does Taichi always do that?" he asked awkwardly, pointing with his free hand towards the closed bathroom door, from which a very hoarse singing voice emanated.
"Huh? Oh." Kari said as she slowed down to try and comprehend what Davis was asking. Since she was used to her brother and all his little quirks, she hadn't really thought anything of it but once she realized what was causing her friend's discomfort, she couldn't help but giggle. "Yup, every time."
Davis shuddered involuntarily, causing Kari's amused giggles to increase. He was just... never going to be able to look at Taichi the same way ever again. Suddenly feeling very eager to meet whoever Kari wanted him to meet, he was just about to suggest they moved on so he could try to erase Taichi's hoarse voice from his memory...
... when suddenly, the lights in the apartment went out.
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Taichi groaned as he tenderly reached up and ran his hand across the back of his head, wincing slightly when he felt the sore bump from when he had hit his head against the wall. The bathroom laid in complete darkness and he couldn't even see his own hand in front of his face. Since their bathroom didn't have any windows, it relied completely on the lamps to keep it lit so when they had gone out with the power, Tai had naturally been startled and of course he had slipped on the wet floor.
Feeling his muscles ache from the fall, the leader of the Digidestined righted himself and slowly stood up again, careful not to make any hasty movements that could cause him to lose his balance again. As soon as he was standing straight again and had made sure that nothing was broken, he turned off the water and felt his way to where he had hung his towell before hopping into the shower.
"Tai? Are you alright in there?" his mother's worried voice came from the other side of the door. She had probably heard his cry when he lost his balance and fell.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Tai said as he dried his hair quickly and then drapped the towell around his waist so he could leave the complete darkness that was their bathroom. "I just fell when the power went out, but I'm okay. I've had worse."
As he said that last part, he thought back to his time in the Digital World with the other Digidestined and particularly their encounter with Shellmon on the beach on File Island. If he could survive being tossed around by a giant shellfish with a bad temper, he shouldn't complain about slipping on the floor in his bathroom.
He was just about to open the door when something caught his attention. His digivice, which was lying on the edge of the basin, had activated itself, lighting up the room in an ever so soft glow. Frowning, he reached out and grabbed it, immediately recognizing that it was the radar function that had been activated for some reason. He had used it quite frequently while he had been searching for his friends after they had split up in his absence. But why would it be triggered now? Back then, he had needed to activate it manually to use it, unless one of the others' digivices were nearby.
"And you're saying that Davis' claims that his sister, Jun Motomiya, have seen the Digimon on the news reports?" his conversation with his little sister about the topic came floating back to him. Slowly, the loose pieces began to drift together in Tai's mind, and his eyes widened as realization began to dawn on him.
When his mother had told him and Kari that Davis was going to spend the night here, his main focus had been to ease his sister's slight discomfort about the matter and help her come up with how she should treat her friend until he apologized. However... their mom had said that the reason Davis had to spend the night here was that his parents were going to take Jun to the hospital due to a mental shock from an encounter with the strange monsters had begun to appear around town. Coincidently, Matt had been in the middle of a fight against Myotismon when his digivice had picked up on an unidentified Digivice signal...
'No, it can't be...!" Tai thought as he felt all blood drain from his face. It couldn't be possible that by chance, the boy that Kari had begun to bond with recently just so happened to be the same boy that Tai and his friends had been looking for, could it? However, when he looked down on his Digivice again, he found that the reason it had activated itself was indeed that it had located another Digivice signal, an unidentified Digivice signal, in the direction of his and Kari's shared bedroom.
Suddenly, all the numbness from his fall was forgotten as Taichi hurriedly tied his towell hard enough around his waist that it wouldn't get loose when he moved and left the bathroom. He didn't dare believe it, but it strangely made sense. When Kari had told him that Jun Motomiya had been able to see the Digimon on the new reports, he had initially believed that she could've been the 8th digidestined, but it wasn't too far of a stretch for it to be Davis either.
As he made his way out into the hallway however, his thoughts were interrupted by the sound of someone knocking on their door. the sound made Taichi stop dead in his tracks and turn around to stare at the door, as the knocks grew louder. They weren't expecting any more visits this late in the evening. Something about this didn't seem right...
"Wonder who that could be at this time in the evening?" his mom said as she turned around the corner that led to the living room and moved to open the door.
Through the darkness that engulfed the hallway, Taichi saw the entire door shake from a particularly violent knock and his instincts kicked in and gave him a split second's warning. He grabbed his mom's shoulder as she passed him and pulled her back just as the door was knocked off its hinges and sent flying into the apartment, just barely missing the two Kamiyas by an inch. His mom screamed at the unexpected turn of events, attracting the attention of her husband who had remained seated in the living room but could now be heard moving to join his son and wife in the hallway.
In the doorway, three large ghost-like creatures floated in the air, their glowing red eyes leering at the mother and son standing a few feet inside the apartment. Their terrifying appearence did nothing to calm Tai's mom down, who began to tremble at the mere sight of the creatures that Tai recognized as Bakemon. The Ghost Digimon hovered in the doorway ominously for a few seconds before they entered the apartment and began to advance on Tai and his mom.
'You've got to be kidding me!' Tai thought angrily as he grabbed his mom's wrist and dragged her away from the doorway in a haste while holding on to the towell that was still tied around his waist as if his life depended on it. Out of all the times Myotismon could've made his move, of course it would be the one time of the day when Tai had absolutely no clothes on him.
"Pepper Breath!" a shout came from the direction of Tai's and Kari's bedroom, shortly followed by a fireball that flew just above their heads from that direction and judging by the groan coming from somewhere behind them, Tai noted with satisfaction that his partner had hit his mark.
"Agumon!" he called in relief as his partner stepped out from the shadows, along with his sister and her new friend, the boy that had occupied Tai's thoughts just seconds before the attack, Davis Motomiya. They both looked pretty shocked by this unexpected turn of events, but to their credit neither of them had screamed or run back into Tai's and Kari's bedroom yet.
Upon seeing yet another unfamiliar creature, Yuuko's eyes widened and she took a step back in horror. This proved to be a mistake as a second later, she felt a cold hand wrap around her wrist, the one that her son was not holding on to. With a hard jerk, she was tossed backwards right into the arms of one of the creatures. As she felt the cold flesh of the creature's blue arms wrap around her, she let out a horrified scream.
Tai felt his heart skip a beat as he felt his mom's wrist slide out of his otherwise safe grip. A horrible cold spread through his chest as he turned around and found both of his parents being held by the Bakemon. Both of them struggled helplessly against the blue clawed hands that was dragging them towards the doorway, but it barely managed to slow down the Ghost Digimon.
"Davis, let me go! Mommy! Daddy!" he heard Kari's scared voice call from behind him and turned around to find his sister struggling against her friend's embrace, trying to break free from his grip. The boy himself looked shaken by this sudden turn of events, but more than anything he looked determined to not let go of Kari, as the brown haired girl desperately tried to free herself.
"Like hell I will!" Davis cried as he struggled to keep his hold on Kari. "You won't help anyone by being captured, Kari! Get a grip!"
Seeing that his sister was in safe hands, at least for the moment, Tai turned back towards the Bakemon that had invaded their home, while he silently praised Davis for keeping his cool. His grip on his digivice tightened and he grit his teeth in frustration as he frantically tried to come up with a way to get them out the this situation.
Bakemon was a Champion level digimon and while Agumon could probably hold them off for a time, he didn't have the firepower to take them all out and free his parents from captivity. However, he couldn't digivolve his partner to increase his power either. Their apartment was way to small to fit Greymon and considering they were on the second highest level of the building, all it would do was cause them to fall to their deaths.
"Kari! Tai!" his mother's cry interrupted his thoughts as she was dragged around the corner and out of sight. A second later, more Bakemon came swarming into the apartment. Gripping his digivice tightly in his hand, Tai was forced to make one of the hardest decisions he had ever made in his entire life. Digivolving was out of the question as long as they were hunreds of feet above ground and without Greymon, they had no chance of taking out the Bakemon that stood between them and his parents.
They would have to abandon them for the time being and come back later. While there was an extremely small possibility that they could sneak past the Bakemon while Agumon distracted them, Tai was not willing to risk the safety of his sister and her friend that recklessly, especially not when he didn't know how many other of Myotismon's goons could be waiting outside.
"Agumon!" he called as his partner walked up to stand beside him. "Can you hold them off for a few seconds? We're going to have to take the fire escape if we want to get out of here. We'll digivolve as soon as we reach the ground!"
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw his partner nodding at him, a serious look on the otherwise carefree dinosaur's face. With a heavy heart, Tai turned around and rushed over to where Davis was holding the still struggling Kari, who seemed to be almost hysteric by this point after having witnessed her parents being dragged off by the terrifying Ghost Digimon.
"Let me go!" she screamed at the top of her lungs, tears streaming down her face as she struggled helplessly against her physically stronger classmate. "I hate you, Davis! Let go of me!"
Tai couldn't help but wince as he watched his sister wiggle one of her hands free and hit Davis atop his head. At last, Davis lost his grip on his classmate as his hands flew to the spot on his head where Kari had hit him. The girl in question didn't waste any time in rushing in the direction where she had last seen her parents, but she didn't get more than a few steps before Tai blocked her path.
"Kari, calm down!" he said firmly as he reached out and grabbed his sister by her shoulders, stopping her dead in her tracks. "Davis is right, you won't help anyone by being captured! We need to fall back and regroup with the others!"
Hearing himself speak so matter-of-factly about the issue, Tai inwardly cringed at how cold he probably sounded to his sister, considering he had basically just told her that they needed to leave their parents behind. But it was the only way, the only plan he could think of that didn't involve taking unnescesary risks. If it had been anyone but Kari he had to protect, he might've been more open to taking the risk of trying to charge past the Bakemon, but as it was he found that he just couldn't do it.
"But Tai, what about mommy?!" Kari cried with a shaky voice. Even through the darkness of the blackout, Tai could see his sister's wide, horrified eyes staring back at him, as if she didn't want to believe what he had just suggested. She probably didn't. Who wanted to hear their big brother tell them to leave their parents to their fates at the hands of digital ghosts?
"We'll come back and save them once we know more about what's going on." he tried to explain to her, doing his best to keep his voice void of any emotion. "But before we can do that, we need to meet up with the others and asses the situation. Right now, there are too many Bakemon and too few of us. Agumon isn't strong enough to take them all out on his own!"
The sound of Agumon doing his best to hold off the Bakemon filled the apartment, as the two siblings locked gazes. Tai looked long and hard into his sister's eyes, trying to project more confidence to her than he actually felt. As he looked into her eyes, he could see that the emotional stress from the last few days was beginning to catch up to the poor girl.
Kari stared back at her brother with a rebelious glint in her eyes, but the longer their gazes remained locked, the more she felt herself relent. There was something about the way her brother spoke to her, something about the way he held himself and how steadfast his gaze was even under the pressure of this horrifying situation, that made her unable to go against him. He had a commanding air about himself, as if he had become used to this sort of situation and having to make hard decisions on the fly like this.
And that was just how it was. That was the kind of person that his experiences in the Digital World had sharpened him into. That was what the responsibility of being the leader of the digidestined had done to him. She had seen a glimpse of it earlier that afternoon, but now it finally began to dawn on Kari just how much her brother had changed because of the dangers he had faced.
Biting her lower lip, Kari felt herself tremble and she instantly broke eye contact with her brother and hugged her arms tightly around herself, suddenly feeling very cold and helpless. Things just kept happening one after another, and she didn't know how much more of this she could take. Everything around her was spinning and she began to feel dizzy from all the conflicting emotions that ran through her. Why did everything just have to happen at the same time?
Author's Note: Yeah, everything is happening at the same time and yet, I feel like I failed to do this chapter justice. I struggled with basically everything in this chapter, from Davis arrival at the Kamiya Residence to his apology, and then again when the Bakemon came knocking. Eventually, I decided to just portray the majority of the later chapter from Tai's point of view, since at that point both Davis and Kari's thoughts would basically have been just a jumbled mess of fear and confusion, not much for a writer to capitalize on.
I feel like if this story had been an actual anime, this would be counted as something of a "filler" chapter. Not a whole lot happened, but it wasn't a complete waste of time either. Anyway, there have been a lot of talk about if Davis is going to the Digital World with the others after the Myotismon Crisis or not, and though I know I promised some of you guys over PM that I would put up a poll for it I have decided against doing that. One good thing that came out of my trouble with writing the chapter was that I had a lot of time to think about where I want to take this in the future and what impact it would have on the sequel, and I have made my decision based on that. I won't spoil it for you, but I have made up my mind!
Anyway, I hope that you enjoyed the chapter, regardless of how short it was and the trouble I had writing it. If you did, I would appreciate if you would leave me a review to tell me what you thought about the chapter! On the subject of reviews, you guys managed to indeed SMASH the review goal I set at the end of last chapter! Thank you so much! It was really nice to sit down and read through all of your opinions! Now, I might regret this later but can we get past 100 reviews with this chapter? I leave that in your hands!
Now, to my honorable guest: I'm not sure if I agree that it was Yggdrasil that possessed her, because I haven't found any source material that states it or any Digimon material period that dates that far back that even mentions Yggdrasil, which makes me believe that it was something added later on in the franchise. The Digimon Wikia states that the being that possessed Kari is called "Homeostasis", but it doesn't explain much more about this entity than we learn in the show.
Yes, WereGarurumon is technically one of the "good guys", but you have to admit that he looks pretty intimidating. As for Kari, we don't know a lot about how her classmates view her, but when taking a look at her personality and the routines she seemed to follow in canon before Myotismon attacked, I'd say that she probably don't hang out a lot with her non-digidestined friends, and I decided to expand a little on why that was. We do know that she becomes quite popular with the boys later on in her teenage years from that scene when she delivers Taichi's lunch to him at his soccer practice in Adventure Tri (can't say that I blame the guys for trying to flex in front of her though).
Anyway, thanks for your review as usual and I look forward to reading what you have to say about this chapter! :)