Fleeting Hope

Chapter 5

"Well, come on," Miyako whined, "what does it say?"

Takeru shook his head, "I'm opening it as fast as I can." He took a moment to skim over the message before relaying what it said to everyone else.

"You've got me on the edge of my seat, Takeru," Daisuke groaned, yanking the D-terminal from the other's grasp, "Gennai wants to meet us, well Takeru, at his house."

Hawkmon was the first to speak up, "and where exactly is his house?"

"Look up!" Patamon giggled, causing all of the chosen children to whip their heads up towards the sky.

"Not this again," Takeru chuckled at a spotlight similar to the one Gennai had used during his first adventure to guide the kids to him.

Miyako ran forward before turning around to look at her friends, "well, what are we waiting for? Roll out!"

The other three chosen children ran after her with their Digimon in tow. All of them except Takeru had a calm aura surrounding them. The boy in question couldn't help but acknowledge the pit of anxiety in his stomach. He wondered if Hikari was right and if all of his issues had to do with the Digital World. Why else would Gennai have reached out to him specifically? Or, even worse, something else was happening that would only add to his current worries.

Before he could continue spiraling even further, Hikari bumped his shoulder with hers. He hadn't realized he had stopped walking and the two had been left behind.

"We're going to get answers," Hikari sounded confident, there was honestly a strange lack of uncertainty in her eyes.

Takeru chuckled, "I feel as though we've switch roles somehow."

Letting out a sigh at her smile he added, "but yeah, you're right, no matter what."

Out of the trees Daisuke came running, panting as he skidded to a stop in front of the two, "what are you guys doing, don't you know we have places to be."

"Sorry Daisuke, I don't think you want to know," Takeru teased before laughing at the boy's look of shock.

"Hikari is this true," Daisuke cried, turning to her for consolation.

Hikari giggled, "don't we have somewhere to be?" and then she disappeared in the direction Daisuke had just come from.

"Well, I'm not going to be last," Takeru smiled before taking off after her.

"Guys, come on."

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"Welcome... uh... everyone," Gennai said to the group, not expecting so many people to show up, but he also knew he should've known these kids did absolutely everything together.

Daisuke stepped forward, "So what issues are happening in the Digital World? And why'd you tell Takeru and not Koushiro, unless you did tell Koushiro... I guess we wouldn't know if you did. The point still stands." The boy began rambling on and on, Takeru wondered how he hadn't passed out from not breathing for so long.

"This is more about Takeru than the Digital World as I'm sure you know," Gennai explained as two shocked faces whipped in Takeru's direction.

"What does he mean by that?" Miyako asked. She adjusted her glasses a bit, presumably to get a better look at the boy as she skeptically scanned him up and down.

Takeru hesitated for a moment, glancing out the window of Gennai's house back in the direction they had come from, back to that place. Patamon easily snapped him out of his thoughts, "The'yre your friends. You can tell them Takeru." The small Digimon had way too much worry for his size swimming in his eyes and for a moment Miyako felt guilty for being so direct.