"Heheheheh, hey, wait for me!"
"Calu! Calu! Can't catch me! Can't catch me!"
Calumon giggled as Guilmon was running after him, doing several loops in mid-air.
When they saw two of their human friends coming out of the school building, Calumon glided down on a bench and retracted his big ears, while Guilmon ran up to his Tamer.
"Takato... your Mom told me to tell you that Kai told her to tell you..."
"Aaah, slow down there, Guilmon," Takato chuckled. "You're giving me a headache. Now, what was that with my cousin?"
"Well, your Mom told me to tell you..."
Jeri giggled.
"Yeah, yeah, but exactly WHAT did she tell you to tell me that Kai wanted her to tell me?"
"Oh, um..." the dinosaur scratched his big head. "I forgot."
The only one not to face-fault was Calumon.
"Guilmon..." Takato groaned.
"Oh, now I remember," Guilmon said. "She said that you should come home because he came for a surprise visit."
"What?" the goggle-wearing boy whined. "B-but I promised that I would go to the ice cream parlor today, with Jeri, Rika and..."
"Aw, we'll be all right," Jeri said. "How many times does your cousin come from Okinawa? I'll tell the others you're not coming, I think they'll understand."
"Um, okay, thanks, Jeri! Guilmon... you wanna come along or would you prefer to go and eat some ice cream?"
Guilmon thought about it. Kai's cousin was fun to hang out with, but, on the other hand, he loooved ice cream. So, what was a dinosaur Digimon to do?
"I can't decide..." he groaned.
"Oh Guilmon... fine, then I'll decide for you. You'll come along with me."
"Oh... okay!"
Jeri had to giggle. "Takato, you and Guilmon always get along with each other so well..."
"I suppose..." the boy sighed. "Oh well... gotta go. Oh, and tell Rika and Henry I'm sorry, okay? Bye!"
And when Takato and his Digimon partner ran off, Jeri looked after them while scratching her head. "Henry...? Who's he talking about?"
She shrugged, then turned around to face Calumon. "Oh Caluuumonnn..."
The cute little guy tilted his head. "Calu?"
Jeri grinned. "As the personified power of Digivolution, could you pleeaaaase do me a favor?"
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Back at home, Takato quickly greeted his parents while running past the bakery room and headed upwards.
In his room, he was greeted by Kai, who was sitting on his cousin's bed while reading a comic. "Hey Takato!"
Takato grinned. "Hi Kai! So, what's the occasion? I mean, it's quite a journey from Okinawa, isn't it? Don't you have school?"
Kai put away the comic. "Well, actually, school got cancelled this week because our principal's sick... and they could find no replacement."
Takato scratched his head. "Kinda unusual, don't you think?"
His cousin shrugged. "Yeah, but I guess I can live with it." He grinned. "So, what were you up to today?"
"Well, originally, I was going to meet my friends..."
Kai's face grew worried. "Oh... did I interfere in something? Man, I'm sorry... if I knew..."
Takato waved it aside. "Ah, it's okay. I mean, how often do I get a visit from my cousin?"
Just then, Guilmon came into the room, his arms full with bread. Kai smiled at him. "Hey, Guilmon! What's up!"
"Hi, Kai! Takatomon, your Mom said these are for us."
"Heh, nice!" Kai said while taking one. "You know, it's gotta be nice if your parents own a bakery..."
Guilmon stuffed two breads at once into his broad muzzle. "Hey Takato..." he mumbled. "Show him the game you've played yesterday."
Kai was intrigued. "A new game?"
Takato nodded. "Yeah, here, I'll show you." He started his computer as well as the game 'RPG Reality'.
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Kai was impressed. "Wow... now that's an amazing game."
Takato nodded. "Yeah, I know... isn't it cool?" He called up the profiles of his characters. "Here, look at this... I based my characters upon Jeri, Rika and..." He chuckled. "A female Henry."
"All your friends, huh?" Kai asked. "They can turn into Digimon in the game?"
"Well, yeah, because one of their parents is a Digimon each. That's a good explanation, is it?"
"But... how do you explain the fact that their siblings aren't like them at all?"
"Oh..." Takato scratched his head. "I didn't think of that..."
"Lemme try something..."
"H-hey..." Takato protested as Kai pushed him aside and put some information into the game himself.
He grinned and nodded. "Now you got a real backstory about those Hybrids... For a long time, Digimon have been living in the real world and interacted with humans regularly... even so much that the more humanoid ones were able to cross-breed with humans. And while your friends may be the kids of a married human-Digimon couple, the Digi-gene doesn't always show in all children. It might even skip a generation. And that means there could always be some children with the ability of becoming Hybrids, even though their parents aren't Digimon at all."
"A clever way to tell it..." Takato said. "Kai, you're a genius."
"Aw, c'mon... you're embarrassing me!"
Little did the two cousins know just how big of an influence Kai's little input had made on the city of Tokyo...
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"Calu! Impmon! Wait up!"
Impmon, who was just busy leaping from tree to tree, turned around. "Oh, it's you..." he muttered when seeing the floating bundle of energy that was Calumon. "Whaddya want?"
Calumon smiled. "Takato is with his cousin and home, and Jeri is meeting Rika and Harmony... so I wondered, do you want to play? Tag maybe?"
"Tag?" Impmon grumbled. "I'm way too mature for that kind of game... And wouldn't we need more players for that?"
"Calu!" his floating friend nodded. "That's why I asked Mako and Ai."
"Hi, Impmon!" a white, winged Digi-toddler with tiny pigtails exclaimed as she hovered near Calumon.
"Let's play," her dark-skinned brother with the forked tail demanded in excitement.
Impmon groaned. He could never refuse a request from the little Hybrid twins... After all, they were his Tamers. "All right, all right... Who's gonna be it?"
The Cupimon, TinyDevimon and Calumon grinned with wide faces. "YOU!!"
"I figured as much..." Impmon sighed.
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