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August 15th: Fluff

Summary: Their weekends away helping other Chosen Children are becoming routine.

Rating: K

Words: 1000 approx.

Just Another Day

Sora turned down the next street, her digivice held out in front of her. She sighed, wishing there was a way they could amplify the signal in their world.

"Sora!"

She looked up just as Piyomon flew to the ground in front of her. Her partner seemed to be in a surprisingly good mood considering they had been searching all day for a missing child. Sora grabbed the chance to retrieve the bottle of water from her backpack and took a swig.

"Sora, I think I found her."

Sora handed the drink to Piyomon with a smile. "Where?"

The two moved in the direction Piyomon said she had spotted the young child. Sure enough, when they approached the spot Piyomon mentioned, Sora's digivice began to react. Following the signal, she and Piyomon walked into a clearing where a young girl was sitting, curled in on herself. There was a digimon in her arms.

Sora exchanged her phone for the water bottle so that Piyomon could call Yamato. She crouched down behind the young girl, who couldn't have been older than six or seven.

"Excuse me, but are you Yuka?"

The girl, having not heard Sora's approach, whirled around and tightly held her partner to her chest.

"Don't take her away!"

Sora looked at the girl who had tears in her eyes. Her expression softened.

"We're not here to take her away. We just wanted to talk to you."

"We?"

As if on cue, Yamato walked in behind her with Gabumon and Piyomon. He looked out of breath, but also relieved. Of course, Yuka's attention was focused primarily on the two digimon.

"You have partners too."

Yamato stayed where he was, but the two digimon stepped forward. Loosening the tight grip on her digimon, Yuka used her free hand to touch Gabumon's fur. As he let her pet him, a smile bloomed on her face.

"I didn't know there were others."

"There are kids like you all over the World," Sora explained.

Yuka took her hand back and wrapped it around her digimon, her smile fading. "Mum said that I can't keep her cause she's dangerous."

"Your mother is right that they can be," said Yamato. "However, if you take care of your partner properly, she won't hurt anyone unless you're in danger."

"That's why we're here," Sora said as she stood. "We'll tell your mother about digimon so she won't fear your friend as much."

"She was very worried when she found you were missing," Piyomon added. "She obviously wants the best for you."

Yuka looked between the four of them and nodded, holding out her hand for Sora to take. The group slowly walked back to Yuka's house. Gabumon and Piyomon said their goodbyes (Yuka gave them both a big hug as thanks) and waited somewhere safe while the three humans carried on with Yuka's partner.

"Yuka!"

A woman, who had been standing with a police officer, came running over and crouched down to pull the little girl into her arms. Tears fell down her cheeks as she said over and over how worried she was.

"Are you two the ones who found her?"

Yamato and Sora turned towards the police officer and nodded.

"We were just passing through when we heard her. Yuka was hiding in the nearby park, so it's hardly a surprise no one had found her."

The police officer nodded, seemingly satisfied. He had words with the mother before taking his leave.

"Thank you for finding my daughter."

"It wasn't a problem, but if you don't mind we would like to talk to you about something important…"

The night bus was becoming a regular place for Yamato and Sora to catch up on their sleep. While their partners lay across them, Sora had pushed up the armrest separating them so that she could lean her head against Yamato's shoulder. Yamato took her hand in his.

"That could have been worse."

The conversations with concerned parents were never easy, especially not when their only experience of digimon were the ones destroying Tokyo or some other important place. Yuka's mother had been more accepting when Sora had given her contact details as well as Koushiro's. She had also promised to inform her of any other new Chosen in the area.

Too tired to speak, Sora just nodded into his shoulder. Yamato let go of her hand and wrapped his arm around her waist, pulling her closer to him.

"I think we need a break next weekend. I'm not sure how I'm going to get through this school week."

Sora laid her arm across his chest, hoping everyone else on the bus was too busy trying to sleep to be bothered by their intimacy. She opened her eyes and looked up at him with a tired smile.

"I think Daisuke and Takeru said they were keen to go sometime."

Yamato chuckled. "How long do you think it would take them to get into an argument?"

Sora raised an eyebrow. "They certainly get along better than you and Taichi did at the start."

He smiled and kissed her forehead. "Point taken."

"They'd probably enjoy it more than fighting digimon."

"Hmm, I think Taichi wanted to get a few of the newer Chosen more involved. After all, we can't travel across Japan every time there's an incident."

Sora looked away and began absently drawing circles on his chest.

"We'd still have to monitor them to start, but I suppose the hard work initially would make things easier in the long run," Sora agreed.

"Mimi's coming back soon. She'll be good at winning people over and it will be easier if the three of us could rotate."

Sora merely nodded. There were plenty of reasons she was looking forward to Mimi's return.

As the lights on the bus dimmed further, Sora found herself drifting into sleep. They had school tomorrow, but despite their hectic lives, Sora was glad that she and Yamato could still spend a quiet (if not so private) moment together.

Thank you for reading! Sigh, this prompt gave me the opposite problem to "Alternative Universe" in that when someone tells me to write fluff (or angst or smut, etc.) I somehow can't think of anything. Give me a generic topic or a random word rather than a fic type any day. Hopefully this was a little fluffy at least as everything else I tried to come up with made them seem really OOC to me. Apologies for any errors. This was written quite late, so I've only had a couple of sleep-deprived read-throughs.

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