Taming Destiny
Rough Morning Start

The rest of the night was dreamless.

Sunlight shown through the window of Tai's room casting a golden light around the entire room. Agumon snored lightly beside Tai, yet for some reason, Tai felt as if he'd forgotten something. Tai gently moved Agumon's heavy claw from around his middle so he might sit up. Tai blinked a few times and looked around the room in an attempt at figuring out what he'd forgotten. After a few minutes, the events from yesterday came floating back.

"Ryo…" Tai's eyes blinked some more realizing Ryo wasn't in the room. "Was it a dream?"

One hand reached up for the top of the bottom bunk and Tai pulled himself up. Ken still slept in the top bunk with Wormmon meaning that part was in fact real. He walked over and opened the door to his room. The sound of Kari crying filtered into the room and he stepped out wondering what might have made her cry. His eyes widened upon seeing Ryo standing outside of the bathroom door, but Tai realized the sound of Kari crying came from the bathroom.

"Ryo?"

Ryo glanced up. The DigiTamer seemed tired. "If you're wondering what I said or did to upset her, nothing."

In the back of Tai's mind, he knew Ryo wouldn't do anything to hurt Kari, but he still found himself asking, "What happened?"

Ryo took a deep breath. "What happened? I doubt Kari would want me to go into details."

"Yeah, but…" Tai swallowed. His eyes darted around in hopes of finding Gatomon. The door to the patio was open and bedding from Kari's room hung over the balcony, but the cat-like Digimon stood on the patio tugging the bedding into a more secure position. "If Kari wet the bed…"

Gatomon turned and glared at him, but Ryo spoke in a tone which indicated the subject was not to his liking. A blush started appearing on his face. "Have Sora talk to Kari."

"What?"

"It's something moms are supposed to handle Tai!" Ryo's head darted away, but the blush on his cheeks deepened. A rather loud sob came from inside the bathroom and Gatomon hurried over to the door while Ryo looked at the door. The worried look on Ryo's face didn't make Tai feel any better about what was going on. Ryo turned towards the door slightly. "Kari. I'm sorry I yelled. I think Gatomon would like to come in."

The door clicked open and the cat Digimon slipped in. Tai took a deep breath. "I guess I'll start breakfast for all of us?"

Ryo shrugged. The blue eyes stared at the floor. "I'm not sure if they ever reported me missing, or if their report got mixed up with the missing person's report from the world, I was in. That was resolved. Sort of."

Tai glanced away knowing what Ryo meant by this. Tai started making eggs for everyone. The sound of a cupboard opening made him turn his head to see Ryo getting plates out from the cupboards for the table. Neither said anything regarding what happened. As such the only sound was the soft sobs which came from the bathroom.

Eventually, the door to the bathroom opened and Kari came out holding onto her Digimon tightly. She sat down at the table just in time for Agumon to stagger out of Tai's bedroom with Ken and Wormmon close behind. Ken sat down in one of the seats and glanced over at Kari. "Are you okay."

Kari took a deep breath and nodded her head. "I think so."

"So…" Ken glanced at the plate Ryo set on the table instead of looking at Ryo who now stood near the stove watching Tai cook. "Did they let you know Izzy senpai called last night."

"Izzy?" Kari wiped the tears away from one eye. "No. Tai didn't say anything."

Tai glanced over at Ryo who shoved his hands into his pockets and looked at the ground. For some reason, Ryo felt invisible despite now existing in the room. Tai brought his pan of eggs over to the table and set the hot pan down onto the table. Ken looked at the eggs in confusion. "Taichi senpai?"

"Nii-chan only knows how to make eggs."

Ryo let out a sound indicating something upset him, but Tai brushed the comment away. He instead sat down and placed some eggs onto his plate before letting the others take some. Out of the corner of his eye, he watched Ryo pick at his food before turning towards Kari. "You can't let the others know Ryo is here."

Kari's chocolate brown eyes blinked a couple of times while Gatomon glared at Tai.

"No. It's okay. I'm thinking I might go as well." Ryo took some eggs but poked at them.

Ken's eyes widened. "Are you sure? I mean…"

"Nii-chan…" Kari's words made Ryo flinch again. "Why is Izzy calling a meeting?"

Ryo's mouth opened, only to quickly clamp shut again. Tai let out a deep breath. "Davis got into it with someone calling themselves a DigiTamer."

Kari's mouth twisted slightly. "Doesn't that person mean DigiDestined?"

"No." Ryo poked his food. "He meant DigiTamer."

Tai gave Ryo a look, indicating he shouldn't say anything more lest Kari's became even more suspicious, and yet Ryo showing up like he had was definitely suspicious. "Nii-chan?"

"Yes."

"Do you know what happened to ka-chan?"

Tai froze. Agumon tugged at his sleeve, but Ryo quickly handed the Digimon his plate of eggs so Agumon could have more to eat. "I…"

"Do you think it ties into this DigiTamer stuff?"

"Maybe. Maybe not. You know Izzy's better at this kind of stuff than me." Tai noticed Ryo look at him knowingly and yet the look was ignored. A glance up at Kari told Tai she was far more worried about whatever bothered her the night before. "Hey. You know if you had a nightmare you could always come and see me, right?"

The color quickly drained from Kari's face. Tai didn't like how she looked at him in horror, or the way Gatomon glared at him murderously. A yelp escaped from his mouth when Ryo kicked him hard. He turned and glared at Ryo. "What?"

Ryo glared back with just as much intensity. Kari took a deep breath. "Please tell me the two of you aren't going to get into a fight or something? Seriously. You get into things with Ryo worse than you do Matt."