A/N: Written for the Tale in Fragments Challenge, 10 prompts List 1, prompt #01 – happy, and for the Female Character Appreciation Competition (with Ruki), both on the Digimon Fanfiction Challenges Forum (link's in my profile). This will be a ten (or maybe more)-part mini chapter (mini as in under 800 words) fic. And some fluff for once.

Enjoy. :D

Picnic Day
1. Happy

It's been a while since Ruki's been able to laugh like this, sitting in the soft mat of grass with streams of data rolling lazily overhead. Calumon is scampering between the yellow weed flowers and her lap, and the scene is just so lighthearted and amusing she can't help but laugh.

Renamon laughs as well, chucking quietly under the shadow of the she stands under. It's been a while since she's been able to smile all. It's been a while even for Calumon, whose ears had been small and droopy for so long.

But that was before Takato had found the portal, before they could come and go to the Digital World as they pleased, and vice versa. Before they could just spend time together without having to fight for the world – because they hadn't had that chance before, torn away from each other before they could enjoy the peace they'd made.

They have it now though, and the shock and breathless joy has faded away into a more quiet happiness, where they can sit and enjoy the sun together, pick those yellow weed flowers and make flower crowns from them, and count the clouds.

The only thing that's missing is being able to share this joy with the rest of the world, but Ruki is grateful to have the chance: to have Renamon, to have been a Tamer and befriended Calumon – and to think she'd hated the little guy for being cute.

She knows her mum will enjoy this scene; the sun in the Digital world is simply an amassment of data producing light: it has nothing like UV radiation or the quality of tanning skin, so complexion and health aren't problems. The only environmental issue is the data storms that sometimes arise and streams that sometimes shoot them off to different areas, but they're almost pros at navigating that now; they can more than manage.

And Renamon can fight any Digimon that attacks them, if she has to. But neither of them want to have to; the peace they're enjoying is too sweet for them to want to break it. And they don't have to either; the entire world is peaceful now, after they saved it and themselves from the D-reaper. That unity had erased the desire to constantly fight for strength.

At least, for now it has. Things could change in the future, but there's no reason to think of that in the present. Calumon brings more flowers to Ruki, tumbling in her lap with them before running off for more, and Ruki continues her flower crown, knowing how lucky she is and simply enjoying the scene.