21Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon or Sekirei
Author's Note: I have to confess I like writing filler chapters instead of event chapters when I'm following a cannon storyline in my fanfic. This is especially true when I work on a crossover story. Granted, to keep different character from different franchise is tricky, but it's fun to speculate how one character from franchise A would interact with a character from franchise B if they exist in one continuity.
There will still be a couple of chapters till this story get into Tsukiumi's introduction. In the mean time... I hope everyone who's been reading the story can have some fun with Uzume in Digital World.
Morning light shines on Seo's face. The gruff Ashikabi lets out a grumble sound as he rolls sideways to sleep a bit longer. He bumps his face into a pair of round shape goggles but the college slacker pays no heed. The door suddenly bursts open. Sistermon Noir almost blows out the hinge when she kicks Seo's door using all her force. The puppet Digimon happily runs beside her Digidestined and violently shakes his arm while starting one of her usual mad ramble. "Hiya Seo the sun is up early worm catches the bird what's for breakfast is it a lots of sugar the sun is praised but sugar is life…"
"Let me sleep…damn cat…" The slacker let out a disgruntled sigh as he rolls to a facedown position. Sistermon Noir pokes the back of her human partner's head with her gun couple of times before scratching her cheek with a curious look.
The puppet Digimon suddenly points her index finger up. She holster both her guns back, and extend out her arm to form a Y posture before launching herself as high as the ceiling and coming down to Seo's back. "Sparkle~ sparkle~ sparkle~ praise the sun in all her burniness~"
Hikari and Hibiki both hear a scream. It is best described as the sound a pig makes when it's getting violently butchered. They both let out a shrug before resuming their morning activities.
"MONKEEEEEEEYYYYYYYY~ FUDGGGGGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEE~"
Uzume lies on the roof of the Izumo Inn, basking in brilliant sunlight in all its glory. She loves a day where she can simply lazy around like that. In fact, the only things that'll make this day better is for her Ashikabi Chiho to miraculously gets better, and spend the time together with her.
Trying to take her mind off sad things like Chiho's illness, Uzume sits up and watches Daisuke, Flamedramon having a stand off with Musabi. Their land lady Miya suggested them spar together, instead of spar with her. No doubt a diversion tactic, but hey, it works.
Daisuke lowers his body with his partner Flamedramon. A short distance ahead stands Musabi in her athletic shorts. Daisuke gives a glance at his left and sees both Miya and Ku watch the three prepare their morning spar in the yard.
"If you don't put all your attention into the fight, you'll ends up get knock out the spar first Daisuke." Uzume hears Miya's voice as she jokingly mock Daisuke. "You are the weakest after all."
"That may be the case, but have you forgotten Miya?" Daisuke let out a laugh as he boasts with a fake arrogant tone. "I'm the man who calls down miracles."
"That title lost its appeal after you 365th straight lose to me." Musabi seem to be impressed as they regard the Digidestined of Miracle with sparks in their eyes.
"Musabi thinks it's a cool title, Daisuke must have done lots of great feats to earn it!" Musabi gives Daisuke a respectful bow before resumes her fighting stance. "But Musabi will also do her best! Here she comes!"
Musabi breaks into a dash and charges at Daisuke. Flamedramon side step and intercept the Sekirei as she throws a punch. Musabi's fist meet the blunt center of Flamedramon's claw and loud clunk sound echoes in Izumo's yard as the both takes a step back.
"…Chance!" Before Musabi recovers from her tumble Daisuke charges in and lowers his body. He delivers a low sweep kick to knock Musabi off her feet. The Sekirei flips back and does a hand stand. Flamedramon steps in right after Daisuke to swipes at Musabi. Using her arms Musabi dodges by launching herself into sky.
They seem to return to their previous stance: Daisuke and Flamedramon stand side by side, while Musabi is a few meters away from them.
"Daisuke, your movement is too wild. Power moves are strong when they connect your opponents. But if your opponent dodges them you'll just leave yourself wide open to attack. Try to use quicker and less powerful moves when you can."
"Flamedramon, you have claws on your gauntlet, don't be afraid to use your advantage every chance you got or otherwise they become liabilities. Sometimes wounding your opponent is a good way to make them have trepidation to attack you further which allows you to prevent further bloodshed."
"Musabi, you rely too much on your strength and have too much unnecessary movement. You'll end up tire yourself very quickly if all you do are throwing strong punch and kicks every time and they become too predictable to your opponent. Try to master your movement a little, and start with a series of quick attack before going all out."
"Good morning Miya-San, you are giving pointers to everyone? And how are you Ku?" Minato's voice from the door way breaks the stand off between the Digidestined/Digimon and the Sekirei.
"Minato-Sama~" Hearing her Ashikabi's voice, Musabi runs into Izumo Inn and Uzume hears a loud crashing sound. No doubt she tackles her Ashikabi right into the floor again. Uzume can hear a nervous chuckle from Minato. "Musabi is sparring with Daisuke and Veemon, they are very strong!"
Uzume does a flip on the roof and jumps on the tree in front of her so she can get a better look at what's happening inside. She sees Musabi still tangled on top of Minato as the two times repeater rubs his own hair with his hand. Uzume smiles at the gesture when Minato gets nervous. She then turns to look at Daisuke who has his usual boyish grin on his face.
Uzume has to admit both Minato and Daisuke have their own kind of charm. If she's not already chosen Chiho as her Ashikabi, she might have settled with either of them… Then she let out a sigh as she remembers Daisuke's refusal to become an Ashikabi.
She let out a soft snicker. Remembering how Homura blow his cover of being a normal human named Kagari when he reacted to Daisuke… only to get turn down by the Digidestined of Miracle. That has to be the most embarrassing moment in Homura's life.
Uzume shakes violently and rubs her stomach as she tries to conceal her laughter. She remembers Daisuke's first reaction to Homura trying to kiss him: Sorry dude, I don't swing that way.
"Ha, ha… You are as energetic as always Musabi." Minato turns to regard Ku, who has a scared teary eye expression on her face. "I think you are scaring Ku."
"She has been like this when she is watching her spar with Daisuke and Flamedramon." Miya gently runs her hand through Ku's hair. The green girl lets out a satisfied sound and calms down a little.
"Is that so? Do you want to go watch some cartoon on my TV then?" Minato gets up from the floor and knees down in front of Ku. She looks into Minato's eyes and then starts to nod her head.
"Cartoon is good, but you have to understand one thing Minato boy: kids like to be scared a little from time to time. That's one way to let them learn the world around them." Daisuke walks to Minato with one of his usual wide grin on his face. "Isn't that right? Miss Ku?"
Ku turns toward Daisuke with a curious expression on her face. She blinks her eyes rapidly while pointing her index finger at her chin. It's like she's trying to understand what Daisuke means by 'learn the world'. The green girl eventually nods her head.
"Is that so… Kinds of reminds me about Yukari when she likes to watch a horror movie with me when she's young… although I usually end up more scared than her…" Minato lets out another nervous chuckle as he gets up from the floor. "Anyways, I need to go to work again. You guys have fun at home ok?"
"Musabi can work too! Like Seo-San's twins. Musabi likes their uniform; they look very cute in them…"
"NO! I mean… I appreciate the thought Musabi, but somebody needs to stay home and look after our belongings. And someone needs to take care of Ku." Minato's face suddenly turns blue at Musabi's suggestion. He looks at Musabi and then at Ku who curiously tilt her head and tries to understand what's the argument about.
"OK! Musabi will do that Minato-Sama!" The Sekirei pumps her fist skyward looking determined. "Please do your best Minato-Sama."
"And don't forget the box lunch I prepared for you…" Daisuke is going to say something but Miya interrupt him with a warm smile. "…Daisuke …would you kindly not say what you are going to say and go hide in a bush?"
"Yes ma'am, right away ma'am…" Daisuke follows Miya's command and knees down behind a bush while drawing circles with his finger. He starts a low pitched chant that makes Minato sweat nervously. "I want Miya's hand made lunch too… why won't she give me one of her hand made lunch…"
The two time repeater decides to not say anything to add insult to injure and simply leave.
Flamedramon returns to his Veemon form. He runs to Daisuke's side and rubs his hand on Daisuke's arm to comfort him. "There, there… I'm sure Miya will give you a box lunch… eventually. Aren't we going to the Digital World today?"
"Thanks buddy, you always cheer me up." Daisuke pet Veemon on his head and stands up. "Well, I better get ready to go to Digital World then. I want to surprise Miyako at being on time after all… plus if I hurry back I can still make it for lunch shift with my noodle cart."
"Hiya Dai-Chan~" Uzume suddenly decide to lands in the yard as she jumps off the tree. She's always fascinated in Digital World from that Cartoon based on Daisuke's adventure when he was young. As a result, she decides to go to not pass this chance. "I'm coming with you!"
"Musabi and Ku want to go see Digital World too!" Both of Minato's Sekireis raise their hands into the air with anticipation and glistering stars in their eyes.
"Sorry… but maybe next time. I'm going to Digital Defence Force's HQ. That means Digidestined only." Daisuke gives all three girls an apologetic look.
"Oh… ok. Musabi shall look after Izumo Inn with land lady and Ku in that case." Musabi tilt her head in a bit disappointment but complies with Daisuke's request anyways.
Uzume on the other hand pouts her face, as she mumbles things with a low pitch voice to herself before hiding a mischievous smile from Daisuke. "Daisuke is such a wet blanket, never let me have any fun while he himself always does what he wants… No matter, I'll show him you don't mess around with No. 10 Uzume."
"Have fun while you are there." Miya gives Daisuke a smile as he pass over her with Veemon on his shoulder. Uzume follows Daisuke as she tip toes into Izumo Inn. When she turns the corner, she notices Miya giving her a curious look but doesn't try anything to stop her. Uzume can't help but gives herself a victory sign as she knows her plan will succeed now that Miya doesn't try to interfere.
Quickly but silently tailing Daisuke and Veemon, she sees them enter the dinning room. Daisuke setups up his smart phone on the table and take his D-3 and point toward the phone's screen.
"Digiport…"
"SNEAK HUG~" Uzume suddenly tackles Daisuke and throws her arms around his waist as he's opening the portal to Digital World through his smart phone. In a brilliant flash of light, she's draw into the Digital World together with Daisuke and Veemon.
In the primary village of Digital World, a portal terminal shaped like a Computer suddenly flashes a white color. Two large and a small figure gets throw out of the screen and lands in a small heap. Uzume is still clinging to Daisuke's back, as Veemon lands on Daisuke's head. The Digidestined of Miracle let out a frustrated groan. "It's been 8 years and still nobody fix the portal problem… why do we always land on a dog pile. And what the hell was that for Uzume."
"Ha, ha… sorry about that Dai-Chan…" Uzume pokes out her tongue at Daisuke while running her fist into her hair. She's definitely not sorry for her own action, but at the same time she's knows Daisuke won't give her any real punishment. He may look scary from time to time, but Uzume already figured him out that he's a big softie as long as you don't hurt his family and friend.
If he's truly scary he would already made Flamedramon roast her for calling him Dai-Chan all the time.
"Ok… you can come with me. I guess it's a good thing you did come since I'm going to talk with Taichi about Sekirei Plan today…"
Daisuke's sentence breaks off as Veemon seems to call for his attention. But Uzume stops paying attention to them. Right now she's focused on all the colour full eggs spawning across the field. For a moment Uzume wonders if they are Ostrich eggs, but they just stand perfectly on the ground pointing skyward and they aren't even in some kind of nest.
She knees down besides a purple stripped egg and places her ear on the egg. Try as she might, she can't hear any sound within and she wonders if it's even fertilized.
Hmm… that's a pretty large egg. I wonder what the best way to cook it is. Fried or boiled… maybe I can take one home and ask Miya to make a huge omelette or egg cake with them…
"…and hands off with the Digieggs Uzume!" Uzume is startled by Daisuke's shouting. She turns around and sees Daisuke looking at her with a horrified expression. It's no doubt to her if she does try to eat this egg Daisuke will really get angry with her.
"Geez… you sound worse than our land lady now…" Uzume pout her face once again, but follows Daisuke and walk toward a man in the distance. The man seems to have long hair tied into a pony tail. He has a red cloak wrapped all around his body as he is sitting in the middle of a bunch of colourful small plush toy like creatures. A tall and white man clad in metal armour stand silent, but vigilantly beside the man like he's the man's swore protector.
As they step closer to the figure, Uzume starts to hear what he's mumbling about and the laughter of a small child.
"Who's a cute baby? Yes you are, yes you are…" As they draw closer to the man, Uzume start to realize he's currently rocking back and forth like he's holding a little baby.
"Aren't you supposed to be in school Motoyasu? Or better yet… if you decide to skip school shouldn't you be at Zhuqiaomon's castle?" The man named Motoyasu places a white blob like thing with eyes and mouth on the ground. He jumps up and spins around to see Daisuke who's calling him. He seems to be around same age as Minato with a pretty face decorated by soft features. The long haired man's brown eyes light up as he sees Daisuke smiling at him.
"AAANNNIIIKKKIII~" The man wearing what look like a medieval tunic underneath his red cloak dashes to Daisuke, gives Daisuke an enthusiastic bear hug and lifts him off his feet. "This Motoyasu really miss you!"
"Geez… I guess I miss your enthusiasm too." Daisuke gives Motoyasu a toothy grin although it looks a bit distorted from his pain. Uzume snickers together with Veemon at his weird looking face. "…But as I was saying… shouldn't you be at school?"
"This Motoyasu doesn't have class for another hour, so he decides to come to primary village and play with baby Digimons. Digimons are the world's fortune, at least the not evil ones." A chubby red bird suddenly flies out of Motoyasu's cloak and collide into Daisuke's face while chirping happily.
"Chi~" The little birdie drops down and rolls around on the ground, he flips his small wings up and down and takes off again. This time he successfully land on Daisuke's head and let out an even happier chirp. "…Chi!"
"Ah, Chibi-Chan loves Aniki too." Motoyasu pets the bird's neck with a smile. The bird chirp again and snuggles his head on Motoyasu's hand.
"What a cute little fellow. You look like a baby owl merged with a babe chick, what's your name little guy?" Uzume looks at the red bird while rubbing its head with her index finger. The little birdie let out another happy chirp.
"And what is the name of you beautiful Miss? Why… you simply look stunning." Motoyasu seems to suddenly notice the existence of Uzume. He takes her hand into both of his hands and asks her name in an enthusiastic tone. Uzume lets out a giggle but Daisuke just let out a frustrated growl at Motoyasu's behaviour.
"He, he… Thank you for your complement Mr. pretty face. I'm Uzume, but I'm afraid I'm already taken." Uzume shots Daisuke a glance, to which Daisuke raises an eyebrow.
Well… Mr. Pretty face sure is friendly. But Chiho is still the best; you know that right Dai-Chan?
Unfortunately for Daisuke, Motoyasu takes the glance the wrong way. He suddenly jumps back and bows down towards Uzume and Daisuke. "This Motoyasu is terribly sorry Miss Uzume. He didn't know you and honoured Aniki are in such a relationship. Come with me Andromon, Chibi-Chan, we must announce to the world this beautiful lady is honoured Aniki's girl so no one shall make the same mistake as this Motoyasu!"
"Acknowledge." "Chi~"
"Wait Motoyasu, she's not…" Before Daisuke can stop the long haired fop, he already combines with Andromon to form into Craniamon. The royal knight of spear scoops Chibi-Chan up into his hand and immediately takes off into the sky leaving Daisuke with a dumbfounded expression and Uzume laughing hysterically. "…my girl…"
"ATTENTION WORLD~ MISS UZUME IS HONOURED ANIKI – DAISUKE MOTOMIYA'S GIRLFRIEND~"
"Oh that's rich! Mr. Pretty face thought I'm your girlfriend~! Don't give me that dirty look Daisuke, I mean… I'll be your girlfriend, if you are a cute girl like Chiho~! Ha, ha…" Uzume hunches over from laughing so hard. Daisuke's annoyed look only add more fuel to her amusement.
"I'm so going to kill that idiot the next time I see him… now I know why Miyako used to despise me." Daisuke prostrates himself on the ground as Veemon rubs his arm up a down with a blank expression like he's saying he understands Daisuke's pain.
They continue their journey towards the center of File Island, eventually reaches the former base of Devimon. Now a modern looking building with many screens stands proudly on Infinite Mountain. Uzume looks up near the entrance, and seems to be awed at the structure. "That's headquarter of Digital Defence Force, aren't you coming in Uzume?"
"Well… it's safe to say I didn't know what to expect before coming to Digital World with you…" Uzume turns around and regard the ocean surrounding File Island. For as far as her eyes can see, there's nothing but endless blue which seems to blend in with the distant sky. "This look is so breath taking! We should bring all other residents of Izumo Inn here for a picnic or something!"
"That's not a bad idea. But it has to wait for now." Daisuke says with a smile on his face as he pushes through the door with Veemon perch on his shoulder. Uzume quickly follows after Daisuke, and gets even more surprised inside DDF building than outside by the look of her expression.
From the outside, the building looks not much larger than Izumo Inn other than it is about three floors tall. But once inside, Uzume finds herself inside a hall that's as large as a three floors theatre. And judging by the doors on varies floors and walls… it appears there are even more rooms inside this building.
"How…" Uzume is surprised at the size of the room inside the building. She runs out side the door and look at the building from outside again just to make sure there's nothing wrong with her perception. She goes back inside and confirms the room is indeed larger than the structure that contains it.
Uzume shakes her head and follows Daisuke to a receptionist. Behind the desk, an elf boy with green tunic and pointy hat is typing something into his screen. His look reminds Uzume of a certain famous Nintendo character.
Both Daisuke and Veemon wave their hand at the boy as Veemon greets him. "Hiya Dati!"
"Oh, it's nice to see you guys; commander Yagami is waiting for you two." The elf boy smiles as he looks at Daisuke and Veemon. He also sees Uzume looking in every direction with fascinated look on her face. "I'm guessing this is Miss Uzume Motoyasu was shouting about."
"Yes… but she's not my girlfriend. Motoyasu just jumped to conclusion…" Daisuke tries to explain but Uzume sees Dati has a rather sly smile on his face. Daisuke must realize he is making the situation even worse as he throws his hands upward. "…all right, think whatever you want! Not like my reputation was that good to begin with anyways."
"You need to give yourself more credit Daisuke. You were the Digidestined who defeated MaloMyotismon back in 02. By the way Miss Uzume, I'm Yuushamon. But all my friends call me Dati because I used to be Datirimon." The elf boy in green extends out his hand toward Uzume as she walks closer to Daisuke.
"Indeed I am, and… are you sure your name is not Link?" Uzume looks at Yuushamon up and down before asking her question. Yuushamon just let out a soft chuckle at this remark.
"You aren't the first one to use this joke Miss Uzume. But no, my name is Dati, not Link." He points toward the double door to the back of the room. "Just go through that door and you two will find commander Yagami… or you two can stay in this area for a little longer if you want to."
"This room looks so fun." Uzume looks around the area which is more like an anime convention for Otaku more than the command center of the most elite fighting force in Digital World. She is fascinated with all the human wearing creative and colourful clothing from medieval garb to futuristic costume. All the different type of Digimon ranging from cute to creepy looking doesn't hurt either. "But I can't wait to meet this Taichi fellow Daisuke loves to talk about!"
She runs off toward the back of the room, dodging all human and Digimon with blinding speed and agility.
If Uzume hasn't had her mind blow when she's in the reception area, her brain has certainly turned to paste at this point. Through the door, she ends up in an area which is best described as a half sphere glass dome in space. She can see stars almost in every direction she looks, and in the middle of the room there are two globes slowly rotating side by side. One has the geography of Earth; the other has a map Uzume doesn't recognize.
"Well… well… You manage to arrive early instead of late. That's new." Daisuke doesn't even need to turn his head to know whose voice this is from. "So I guess that's your new girlfriend Uzume? Aren't you a little too old to run around hitting on high school girls?"
Uzume turns around and realize Daisuke and Veemon enters into the room right after her.
"For your information Miyako, I'm forever eleven inside." Daisuke turns around to face lavender haired woman with glasses. "But to be serious for once… Uzume is not my girl. Motoyasu just jumped to conclusion. Now can everyone stop giving me that dirty look like I'm some pervy old geezer?"
"Sure he did, or why would you bring her to Digital World." A snort sound escapes Miyako's nose as she rolls her eyes. She stands up from her desk and walks to Uzume, who still feels a little dazed and overwhelmed at the beautiful surrounding. "Welcome to Hypnos Miss Uzume, this is the brain and heart of Digital Defence Force. I trust you enjoy the view?"
"This place is so huge inside, but it looks no larger than Izumo Inn I live in! How did you guys build this place?" Uzume turns to look at Miyako with curious look on her face.
"Well… the short answer is time and space is convoluted in Digital World, as for the longer answer…" She holds two boxes, one small and one big in front of Uzume. "Which box is bigger?"
"It's obviously this one." Uzume points her finger at the larger box, Miyako only smiles as she walks further, and place the larger box on her desk before returning back to her original position.
"Now they are the same size."
"But they are at different places now." Uzume tilt her head looking confused at Miyako's explanation.
"Exactly, the inside of this building reside on a different dimension in Digital World than outside. It's one of the many marvels of this world we discovered over the years."
Both Daisuke and Veemon raise their eyebrow at Miyako before turning towards her partner. The bird like Digimon just shrugs his shoulder. "Ken has been turning Miyako into a Dr. Who fan."
"I see… Well, it looks like he had more success with his wife than me." Daisuke shrugs at the bird with feather head band and walks up the stairs toward the structure with two globe floating above it.
Uzume sees a man wearing a gray set of suit standing in front of the structure and Daisuke suddenly looks like a cautious child when he approaches this man. Uzume doesn't think she ever seen Daisuke behave like this. Not even when Miya is angry at the jokester of Izumo Inn.
"I'm here as you requested, Taichi."
"Good to see you again, Daisuke." The man turns around to face Daisuke with a smile on his face. At first the man looks fairly unremarkable like a friendly middle aged man everywhere. But when Uzume start to inspect him closer she notices something. There seems to be a fire burning in the man's eyes. It is the same kind of fire that makes one feel safe, like the kind of fire that will burn strong no matter the hardship ahead.
At this point, Uzume knows this is the man Daisuke idolizes and constantly look up to like the older brother the Digidestined of Miracle never had. He is the leader of the first generation Digidestined, as well as the original Digidestined of Courage, Ambassador for the Digital World: Yagami, Taichi.
Minato opens the boxed lunch Miya prepared for him. He close both of his palms together into a praying position as he shows the gratitude towards his land lady. Minato takes his chop stick and ready to dig in as he hears his stomach growls…
Wait… that's not his stomach growling… Minato looks back and sees Seo looking at his box lunch again like the first day them meet. "Can I have one of your egg cake?"