Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Wolf ❯ Chapter 8 ( Chapter 8 )

Chapter 8:

6 people were crammed in one hospital room despite all the nurses attempting to kick them out. They ignored the nurses and stared at their best friend hoping he would soon wake up. They held their breath as the man began to twitch slightly under the covers.

Tai groaned and tried to sit up. He gasped and his eyes shot open as he felt the pain come back to him. He quickly laid back down and caught his breath before opening his eyes to look around the room. He smiled as he saw his friends standing around the room.

Hikari was by his side in an instant. "Are you okay big brother? We were all so worried."

It took Tai awhile to find his voice, and when he did it came out broken and scratchy. "Yeah, I think I am okay. How long have y'all been waiting?"

"Not too long" Sora answered vaguely.

"Yeah, only about 5 hours or so" Mimi said sarcastically.

Everyone was laughing when a new voice entered the scene. "Alright, alright. Doctor coming through, and no upsetting the patient. The nurses are already having fits about how many people there are in here."

Tai looked at the doctor. He seemed familiar. Sora noticed his stare. "Oh by the way Tai, Joe is your doctor!"

"Joe?" Tai asked astonished.

Joe grinned. "Yep, and its great to see you awake. While you were asleep everyone here has been catching up."

Joe continued to talk while he checked on Tai.

"Well doc, what's wrong with me anyway?" Tai asked.

"You have a lot of internal bruising, a broken rib, but nothing too major besides the rib. I think your hair protected your brain from any damage it could have gotten." Joe and everyone else laughed lightly at the joke, but Tai was in thought as he remembered what happened over the past couple of days.

Day one he was kidnapped. Day two reunited with his best friend, and eventually even re-met Sora. Day three he had seen, and heard, Matt's troubles, and fought with him that night. Day four he was kidnapped by a rival gang and beaten bloody. It could have been worse though, because the night is always worse punishment than the day. Today was day five. Too much had happened this past week, and it had happened too fast.

He suddenly remembered the fight that had happened last night. It was all his fault. All of those deaths were his fault. Or were they dead? Tai brightened with this thought. He needed to know

"Hey guys?" Everyone stopped their joking and turned to Tai. Tai gulped and tried to find the right words to continue. "How...What....Who died yesterday?"

Everyone's cheery mood instantly vanished. They didn't want to tell Tai, but he had a right to know.

Daisuke answered. "Mostly the other gang, so don't worry."

"but I saw both Kojo and Takeru on the ground" Tai whispered softly. Tears were welling up in his eyes at the thought.

"Takeru is just fine! He is in another part of the hospital with minor injuries. He just got knocked out yesterday." Daisuke said brightly. Tai cheered up slightly at this thought, but Daisuke hadn't answered for Kojo yet.

"What happened to Kojo?" Tai asked.

Daisuke faltered, but finally found his breath again, and answered. "Raven tried to shoot Matt, but Kojo jumped in front of him and took the bullet. Matt killed Raven for it, too. " He said quietly, almost a whisper.

Tears started to run down Tai's face, but he had to know one more thing. "Then where's Matt?"

Daisuke's face paled, but no body else could answer at all, so he had to tell Tai. "Tai, Matt is a wanted man. He has many, many warrants on his head, and many people want him dead." Daisuke tried to end it there, but that wasn't the answer Tai wanted, so he once again had to continue. "He was taken to jail. It's probably going to be a life sentence for him too." At the thought, both Daisuke and Taichi started to cry slightly.

There was suddenly a bunch of loud yelling right outside the door, and everyone turned to see nurses scrambling up and down the hall.

"What's wrong with them?" Kari asked.

"I don't know, but I am going to find out." Joe walked out the door and grabbed a nurse for questioning.

The group could hear the nurse mumbling something, but they were too far off to understand her. Joe nodded a couple times, and finally let the nurse go. With a sigh of relief the said lady turned and briskly walked off.

"Well, you will never guess what happened." Joe smiled slightly.

"What?" Everyone said at the same time.

"The police have showed up...."Joe began, but he was cut off by Daisuke.

"What? No! They will take Takeru to jail!" Daisuke began to panic.

"Don't worry." Joe grabbed him by the shoulders, obviously alarmed at Daisuke's reaction to this news. "He got away. That is what everyone is panicking about."

Daisuke breathed a sigh of relief, and sank into a nearby chair.

Joe looked at him questioningly. "Has it never occurred to you to worry about what will happen to yourself when the police come in here? Weren't you a part of the same gang Yamato and Takeru were in?"

Daisuke sighed. "Yeah, but they always watched out for me. They never let me do anything that would result in jail. If anything came up they would somehow erase it off my permanent records." Daisuke looked like he was about to cry so Koushiro went to comfort him.

"Thank you. I will remember that when I drag you to jail." Came a voice from the doorway. Everyone looked up at the doorway to see a young man short black hair.

There were several varied reactions to his statement, but Joe was the fastest. Joe jerked the man inside the room and shut the door.

"You don't know what you are saying or who you are talking to." Joe hissed at him as he pinned him against the wall.

"Whose side are you on exactly?" The man demanded of Joe.

"Just realize who you are talking to or else you might do something you might regret."

A loud sigh interrupted the two men's conversation. "Someone explain what's going on?" Mimi sighed annoyed with all of the riddles.

Joe spoke, but didn't release his grip on the man. "Everyone I have another friend to introduce. Meet Ken."

The reactions were plain shock. Finally Tai summed it up for everyone. "Wow."

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Sounds like a good place to end it, but it isn't part of the plan, so we continue.

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"Wow."

"What?" Ken straightened himself up a bit as Joe let him go.

"I love these little reunions. Especially when someone is totally clueless" Joe grinned, but Ken didn't take it as lightly.

"Don't mess with me Joe." He growled, but then, "reunion?"

Ken looked at the people in the room. Faces slowly slid into place as he stared.

"Oh wow." Was all he said as he slid, back against the wall, down to the ground.

A few moments later, all harsh tones were forgotten as everyone began to reminisce.

Unfortunately Ken knew he had to interrupt this moment. "Guys I still need to talk to you about what happened." He said slowly. "This is really important to me."

"I am sorry Ken, but I can't betray anybody. Especially Matt or T K." Daisuke said.

"Well why not? You don't see them here do you? I am not after them! I am after the leaders of this gang!" Ken lost his patience quickly and went storming around the room.

"How dare you bring up the fact they aren't here. You have no idea what you just said!" Davis screamed at him.

"What's the big deal? They obviously don't care enough to be here, but since you still want to defend them, I won't arrest them."

"You idiot!" Daisuke screamed again. "Don't you get anything? Takeru can't be here because he is running from you! You wont arrest them you say? HA! Matt is already in jail!"

"Fine!" Ken looked like he was about to start screaming again, but instead took a deep breath, and got calm. "Davis look, all I need is the leaders of this gang. Why can't you tell me that?"

Daisuke looked thoughtful for a moment, and everyone waited for his response. They had all been silent as Ken and Davis been arguing.

"Well..." Daisuke began, searching for the right words.

"You can't tell him!" Tai screamed surprising everyone, including himself.

"WHY?" Ken demanded.

"Because I love him!" Tai and Daisuke screamed.

Those testimonies brought up another round of stunned silence, as Daisuke and Taichi silently established the fact that the weren't talking about the same person.

A phone ringing broke the silence, and Ken produced a small cell phone out of his pocket. "Hello?" Ken listened as someone on the other side told him something. He quickly ended the conversation telling the person on the other end to get their selves and someone else to the hospital soon.

Ken shoved the phone back into his pocket and glanced around the room. "I am sorry." He said sincerely. "I didn't understand before but now I do."

Taichi and Daisuke nodded showing their forgiveness.

Ken took a breath and continued. "Yolie and Cody are on their way here now. That was her on the phone by the way, and she told me some interesting news." He looked directly at Tai, "The leader that they caught has mysteriously disappeared. Yamato has escaped from prison."

TBC