By: Kyra
The young child stirred in his sleep. It was a chilly night, but a heavy warm blanket softened the feel of the light breeze that came through his window. The window had been left open accidentally, after a long night of working.

An especially hard wind blew through, jerking the child awake. He sat up slightly, and blinked. Noticing the window, he slowly lifted his blanket and walked over to it. But as he reached it, he did not close it. He simply stared out of the window into the soft night sky, wondering if both worlds were safe.

Was the Digi-world safe? It was hard to know, not being able to go there. How were the Digimon doing? All of his friends, Leomon, Meramon, and Centarumon? Were they okay, now that the Digi-destines had gone through the gate to the real world to find the eighth child? It was hard to decipher this, because the child couldn’t talk to them. He couldn’t ask them if everything was all right.

The boy sighed, and sat at his desk. The sound of the chair moving awoke another creature, who was sleeping by the foot of the bed. As quiet as the child had tried to be, the keen ears of this creature were not to be underestimated.

“What is wrong?” Tentomon asked, walking towards the desk, “Any specific reason why you are awake at three a.m.?”

Izzy nodded, “I was woken up by the wind.” he said, gesturing towards the window.

“Then why don’t you close the window and go to sleep?”

Izzy turned, and looked at Tentomon, “Do you ever wonder if the Digi-world is safe?” he asked, changing the subject.

Tentomon was taken by surprise at at that question. He had known that Izzy was a deep thinker, but he hadn’t known that Izzy was worried about the Digi-world like he was.

“Yes.” Tentomon said slowly, “I wonder when we are going backs, like you humans were wondering in the Digi-world.”

“But why don’t you tell us,” Izzy asked, raising an eyebrow, “We know how you feel, or something like it.”

“I suppose that....well, I guess that maybe I thought...” Tentomon stuttered, shooting a nervous glance at Izzy.

“That I would be insulted if you were really eager to go back?” Izzy guessed.

Tentomon sighed, and nodded slightly. To his surprise, Izzy laughed softly.

“Tenotmon, whenever any of us complain about the Digi-world, were you Digimon insulted?” he asked, giving Tentomon a skeptical look.

“Well, no, of course not, but---”

“Then what makes you think that we would feel any different?” Izzy asked, his smile fading slightly, “Look Tentomon. Frankly, seeing so many problems that we have here, the Digi-world is paradise.”

Tentomon glanced at Izzy. His face suddenly held an expression that Tentomon had seen to much of lately. It was an expression of sadness and loneliness. This was what Tentomon didn’t like about this world. For some reason, it seemed to make Izzy upset.

“Yes, I suppose.” Tentomon said, watching Izzy closely. Izzy snapped out of what had happened, and grinned slightly, as if to cover up the expression that was there just seconds before.

“Yeah,” he said, yawning, “You’re right Tentomon, I should go to sleep. You should go back to sleep too, I’m sorry for waking you up.”

“It’s okay,” Tentomon said as Izzy shut the window. Then he climbed into his bed and curled up under the covers.

Tentomon shuffled over to where he had slept and sat there. But he did not go to sleep.

What was bothering Izzy so much? And why wouldn’t Izzy tell him? Tentomon had spoken with Palmon and Agumon, and they said that their human partners always told them what was making them upset.

So why was Izzy keeping a secret like that? It was obvious that it was upsetting him, and that made Tentomon feel bad. Was it something that he had done?

Sighing, Tentomon glanced up. The soft light from the window shone through the room. He moved over a bit to be able to see through the window, noticing a few of the bright ‘electrical’ lights from this world.

Tentomon looked down again, trying to sleep. He had turned away from the window, which was once open, and now was closed.

*~A/N~ Okay, for those of you who have read this and are gong ‘huh?’ at the last part, what I’m trying to say is that Izzy is hiding something (closed window) and Tentomon wants him to share his secret (open window)

And c’mon, everyone knows what Izzy is hiding, right? Or have they been under a Digi-rock for the past month? If you don’t know, I pity you. C-ya latyr!*