In my defense, Kenichi's suggestion was written by Roy.


Aunyailia
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“It’s getting late,” Kenichi sighed, leaning back in his chair. It was true. Seated from the café across the movie theatre, I could see the Digimon heading to their own homes and into dreamland. I sipped on my milkshake – or the Digital World substitute - as he checked his watch. “We have a long journey ahead of us tomorrow.”

I wasn’t sure exactly what he meant, but I hoped it meant we would soon put Primary Town behind us. I nodded absentmindedly.

“We could check in on Morrigan; her locator shows her in the temple.” Kenichi added, his D-Sense displaying a map with multi-colored dots all around the city.

“That’s… quite alright,” I vetoed. “Last time I went into a temple, bad things happened.” I absentmindedly rubbed my head from where I had been knocked unconscious. The memories were still fresh. “Besides, she’s a big girl. She can take care of herself.” I reminded him. Kenichi seemed to agree, and we went back to contemplating how to spend the rest of the night.

“We could just, you know, sit on a bench all night, making out.” Kenichi suggested shyly, at least, shyly for him. I was so surprised; I sent air back through my straw, causing my drink to spew out all over the table. “Sorry, I don’t know what I was thinking.” He immediately apologized.

“No, no it’s alright,” I quickly amended; glad to have clean-up duty to distract me from my deepening blush. “It just caught me by… surprise…” I quickly tried to work on damage control, to keep him from mentally kicking himself for days to come, but didn’t really succeed. “So…”

Then, both of our D-Senses went off, signaling an incoming call, and saving us from having to embarrass ourselves further.

“Sorry to interrupt you two, but I have a request” David’s head appeared in 3-d form above the device. “Laura said she had a feeling that Haruka was in trouble. Do you guys mind checking in on her?” I wondered which Laura to which he was referring, but then he added “And Kenichi it was the real Laura that told us this not the Yami. She told us after Rigiamon was able to perform surgery on her.”

My worst suspicions were confirmed, and I started to turn uncomfortably in my seat at the name. The letter came fluttering into my mind, along with the thoughts of how she hated me and how I had broken my promise to her.

“And Aunyailia, Laura’s going to be okay.” I could only smile thinly at that comment – at least she would live. But it was no matter, she still hated me. “Anyway, it’s up to you guys,” David finished, disappearing from the sky.
“Might as well.” I shrugged, breaking the silence, and standing up. Haruka wasn’t the ideal person I wanted to save – she, too, hated me. But maybe saving her life would make her open her mind a little. If so, it would be worth it.

“Shall we?” I asked, helping Kenichi out of the booth. He wrapped his arm around me, and we walked out of the café, and onto the boardwalk.