Author's Notes: It's not much of an epilogue. I'm just pretty much tying up loose ends. It's also the shortest of the five chapters, at less than 1000 words.
Thanks to those who reviewed last chapter: PrincessJaded, Lord Pata, Potgenie, emotionless-robot, and SugarSpiral, who threatened to gut me if I didn't write the epilogue. I'm glad I live across the ocean.
Time Apart Changes Things
Chapter 5: Epilogue
Kari rested her head against Davis. "You call this a date?" she asked.
Davis scratched his head. "Well, I figured that dinner and movies sounds a little clichéd, so…"
"So you decided to have a date in a tree. You do realize that if anyone sees this, they'll be singing the K-I-S-S-I-N-G song for a very long time."
"I guess I haven't thought about that."
"And you realize that there's no food up here."
"Don't worry, Kari, I have a…um…crushed bag of potato chips and a…um…crushed bar of chocolate."
"Ah."
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"Davis"
"Hm?"
"How do you suppose we get down?"
"I have to admit," said Yolei. "You and TK actually did something."
Ken coughed. "Actually, it was Gatomon who did everything. She quite literally beat the sense back into Kari."
"Who knew," added TK. "I never thought I'd see the day when Gatomon had to do that."
"What happened afterwards?" asked Yolei.
"Well, Gatomon apologized about three hundred times, and they didn't make eye contact for about a week, but then they suddenly went out for ice cream and everything was fixed."
"And Tai? What happened to him?"
"He got a haircut."
"WHAAAAAAAT????"
"He got a haircut."
Yolei fell to the ground, laughing. TK and Ken both thought about for a second, then joined Yolei. Wiping the tears from his eyes, TK attempted to get back up.
"At least there was no lasting damage, then."
Tai sat glumly in front of a mirror. "Why? O divine justice, where hast thou been? Why hast thou betrayed me?" he moaned.
Agumon snorted. "Tai, stop whining and stop composing bad poetry. It's your fault!"
"I looked to the east, and could not find thee. I searched to the west, but alas, thou hast fled from me. O divine justice, why?"
"Tai! Shut up!"
"O unholy fire, thou hast seared me! Ah! Cruel, cruel fate. Mine wretched soul!"
"Gatomon, do you have any good ideas?" asked Agumon. "Tai's starting to get a little annoying."
"I looked for justice, but was met by fire. I looked for mercy, but was scorched."
Gatomon nodded. " I think I'd prefer Kari's ranting to this. This is…barbaric"
"O cruel world! Thou that showst no mercy to mine poor body. Thy blades have pierced me!"
"Ah, what the heck" LIGHTNING PAW!
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"That worked," said Agumon.
"After Kari, I vowed that I would never do that again, but Tai just crossed the line!"
"By the way", said Agumon. "I never got to ask you: what were you and Veemon planning?
"Planning?" asked Gatomon.
"Yeah," said Agumon. "You and Veemon disappeared for a while. Weren't you making a grand plan to get Kari and Davis to stop fighting?"
Gatomon stared at him. "Who told you that? We just got too annoyed and went for a coffee together!"
"Oh."
"Seriously! You guys give us too much credit."
"That was what Wormon said, anyway. And Wormon heard from TK and Ken."
"Well, they're wrong."
"Oh."
"Yeah."
"What about Tai?"
"He'll get used to his new hair style."
And indeed he did. Twenty years later, Taichi Kamiya, United Nations diplomat to the Digital World was still wearing the same hair style. The legacy of the "bush" however was carried on by his son, Taichi Kamiya Junior.
"You know, Kari…"
"What, Davis? Have you found a way off this tree yet?"
"No, but I just realized something."
"Hm?"
"Gatomon's going to kill us."
"Why?"
"Because…"
"Because…?"
"We only did the make up part. We never got to the kiss part."
"I think we can remedy that."
"Now?"
"Why not, Davis? You've been waiting for this moment since fifth grade."
"Really? Has if been that long?"
"Do you want to die or not?"
"I think I prefer living. Especially since 'death by Gatomon' doesn't sound like a very manly way to die."
"Did you just insult my digimon?"
"Ah…nope!"
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"Davish and Kari sitting in a tree, K-I-SH-SH-I-N-G…"
"VEEMON!!!"
"Oopsh!"
End
Author's Notes: That's it! Hope you enjoyed my story. Anyone with a challenge can PM me (I found that I don't like thinking up of plots).