Deep in Thought (open)

After a rather crazy time at the mall, Tasha made it over to Miyashita Park. Actually, it was more by accident. She was supposed to be going over to a museum to do research for her weekend homework. She grunted to herself a bit. Now she was regretting not taking her dad seriously about learning Japanese. She sighed a bit, thinking that at least she was in a nice park. From inside of her purse, her Tanemon, Pedra, could smell the fresh flowers scattered around the park. She poked her head out of the purse a bit, gazing at the entire natural flora of the park.

“Wow! This place is great, Tasha. Why didn’t we come here sooner? Look at all of the pretty flowers.”

Tasha noticed Pedra and quickly pushed her back in the purse. “Hey! I told you not be peeking from there. I don’t want anyone to see you.”

Pedra tried pushing up from Tasha’s hand. “Aw come on. I hate being in that purse. There’s so much sunshine and flowers over there. I wanna run around just a little.”

Tasha growled a bit. If she didn’t do something, her digimon would never shut up. After thinking for a bit, she smiled over at her.

“Okay okay. If you can be quiet and let me finish just one more errand, then I let you play in the park all you want,” said the young girl.

Pedra stopped struggling and gazed up at Tasha. “Reeally? You promise?”

“Yes yes. Will you just shut up and stay in the purse?”

Pedra giggled and ducked down into the purse. “Yay. Okay. I’ll just enjoy finding something to eat in here.”

Tasha glared and shook her purse. “You better not think about it, you little nasty.”

Tasha sighed with relief. She finally took care of one problem. Now she just has to find that museum to finish her homework. Of course, almost of the signs are in Japanese, making it much more difficult to find it. Her only choice (besides walking around randomly in Shibuya and sweating a lot) is to find someone in this park and ask for direction. After taking a look around, she didn’t really see anyone. Then she noticed a boy with blonde hair. It looks like he was about the same age as her. Best of all, it looks like he’s American. Finally, she doesn’t need to use her translation book to talk to someone for once. She couldn’t help smiling and giggling.

She approached the boy, smiling over to him. “Excuse me? Think you can help me find the museum around here? Uh…You can speak English, right?” she asked him.

It seems like it was finally Tasha’s lucky day. This boy was already on his way over to the museum. All she has to do is follow him over there, finish her homework, and get on with her weekend. Of course, there is that promise she made to Pedra to play in the park for as long as she wants. She figured that she could duck out and leave her there. It does sound so tempting. Then the boy was asking her for a favor. She sort of didn’t expect to have to do a favor for someone she was only asking for directions. She might as well hear him out.

He pulled out a pocket watch and asked if she can help him find out more about it. She took a closer look at the watch. It looks like one of the watches that her dad occasionally collects, but she thought it was weird that a watch like that would be in a park and wonder who it belongs to. She thought a bit about helping. Maybe as long as it doesn’t take too long, she might as well try to help him out.

Meanwhile from inside the purse, Pedra was starting to get hungry again. She looked everywhere inside this purse, but couldn’t find the crackers that Tasha said that were there. She took another look at the translation book that she took a few nibbles on earlier. She was sure that her tamer wouldn’t notice her taking a few more bites. Soon, Tasha was hearing some soft chewing sounds coming from her purse. She knew exactly what that annoying digimon was doing. To get back at her, the young girl shook the purse, rattling Pedra inside and stopping her from eating the pages of the book. She looked back at the boy again.

“Sure. I got some time to kill,” she said to him. “The name’s Natasha, but everyone calls me Tasha. By the way, why do you think you would find out more about a pocket watch in a museum anyway?”

The young girl was relieved to finally be able to go to this museum and finish her homework. It stinks that she now has to make two promises. Why does she have to be such a nice person? Still, she thought Kevin’s favor was a little weird. Why would a kid care so much about an old pocket watch? Maybe he was crazy watch enthusiast or something. If he wanted to find out who the watch belong to, he could have just left it in the lost and found. She supposed that she can ask them about those things later. She just wanted to get her research done as soon as possible. She turned to the direction that Kevin is pointing and walked over to the museum.

“Alright then. Let’s go then, Kevin. We got no time to waste.” She told him, eager to get this over with.

Pedra growled a bit, not appreciating being shaken inside the purse like that. All she wanted to do was get something to eat. All this time, she could have sworn that she heard another voice outside. Tasha must be talking with a boy. She wanted to peek her head out of the purse and see what they were talking about, but Tasha was keeping the bag closed. It wasn’t fair. How come Pedra can’t talk with the nice boy too? She tried to squirm around the bag, hoping to get her tamer’s attention.

As Tasha was walking over to the direction of the museum, she heard Kevin asked why she wanted to go as well. She looked over at him.

“Oh, I’m just doing research for a homework assignment at school. Something about learning the history of Japan…at least that was as much as I can make out anyway.” She told him. At least she had a more normal reason for going than he does.

Eventually, she made it over to the museum at long last. It was a very large building with lots of people flooding inside. She was wondering if she was at the right place. She can see that part of the sign does say museum in English. She was so relieved that she finally found the place. She couldn’t believe that she missed something so obvious, but she doesn’t matter now.

As she stepped inside the museum, Tasha went over to the front desk and the receptionist gave her a pamphlet with all of the exhibits. Thankfully, it was in English, so finishing her homework wasn’t going to be so bad. Just then, her purse was shaking even more. Most likely Pedra wanted something. This kept annoying Tasha,so she would have to deal with it. She looked over at Kevin.
“Hey, Kevin. I have to take care of something. Be right back.” She quickly walked away from him, hiding behind one the nearby pillars.

Tasha opened her purse, letting the Tanemon peek her head out a bit.

“WHAT do you want?” She angrily whispered to her digimon.

“I’m hungry…and I couldn’t find the crackers.” Pedra said to her.

“Just stop moving around in there, girl.” Said Tasha.

“Then feed me already. Your book is looking pretty tasty right now.” Said Pedra.

Tasha growled a bit. “…Alright alright. Fine. Just stop moving already.”

Tasha pushed Pedra back into the purse and looked at the pamphlet. She can see that there was a gift shop close by from here. They should have some snacks to keep that pest quiet. She moved away from the pillar and went over to Kevin again.

“Say, Kevin. Why don’t we stop at the gift shop first? I’m kinda hungry and could use a snack.” She asked the boy.

Tasha couldn’t help but giggle to herself a bit. It seems that Kevin and his stomach agrees with the plan to get some snacks at the gift shop. It was nice to see Kevin laughing like that. She only just met him today, but she wouldn’t mind hanging out with him more in the future.

“I know right? Come on, boy let’s go.” She grabbed his arm and started to make her way for the gift shop.

According to the pamphlet, the gift shop wasn’t too far from the entrance to the museum. When she got there, there were plenty of souvenirs, calendars, and other merchandise that one can buy. At one corner of the shop, there were snacks and drinks, mostly stuff that can be found in a convenience store. Tasha let go of Kevin’s arm and went over to the snack area. As she was looking over her selections, she wondered what kind of food Pedra, or any digimon for that matter, would eat. She looked more like a living plant creature thing, so maybe she eats plant food? She basically gave up and grabbed two chocolate granola bars. She took them and paid for them at the counter (thankfully without any trouble).

Meanwhile, Pedra was getting bored and hungry, mostly hungry. She wondered how long this errand was going to take. She just wanted to go over to that nice, sunny park and play with the flowers there. She can feel her stomach growl a bit. When is Tasha going to give her something to eat anyway? There was no way the Tanemon was ever going to forget everything her tamer done to her. Soon, Tasha opened and put one of the chocolate granola bars in her purse, giving it to Pedra. The In-Training digimon looked at it curiously for a bit, sniffing it before she took a few bites. This tasted really good to her and she started munching on it. Tasha opened up her bar and starting eating it. She went over to Kevin as he was getting his snack.

“Hey, so Kev, what brings you to Japan?” she asked him. It wasn’t every day that she can actually talk to someone she doesn’t have to bring out a book and translate every word for.

Tasha leaned against the wall as she was listening to Kevin’s story about him living in Japan as she finished off the last of her chocolate granola bar. It seems like he lived here longer than she had. His mother is even a head doctor at a hospital. The young girl had to admit that it was pretty cool.

“Oh really? That’s cool, Kev. I guess I know who to talk to if I ever get sick.” She told him after he was done with his story.

She noticed that Kevin was asking questions about her purse. This made a touch nervous. How was she going to explain that she had a weird plant monster thing in her purse currently eating the other granola bar? He would think that she was a freak and wouldn’t want to hang with her anymore. Well, as long as Pedra keeps quiet and not move around so much, maybe he wouldn’t notice anything. Still, she would need to tell Kevin something, She couldn’t help but laugh a bit at him joking around with her. She had no idea he would be such a funny guy.

“Heh, well the place that come from is California. We just moved here about a week ago because of my dad’s new job. He’s some big shot at company firm or whatever.”

As Tasha told her this, she wished that she asked her dad more about his job. “Oh…and I wasn’t feeding my purse. It’s not like I have any creatures inside of it or something.” She rubbed the back of her neck, giggling nervously.

And to make matters worse, after Pedra finished her bar, she gave off a satisfying belch. This can be heard from outside the purse. Once Tasha caught wind of that sound, she thought quick and pretended to belch and hope that Kevin would believe that the belch was coming from her. “Heheh. Oh excuse me. That was one good granola bar.” She said, patting her stomach a bit.

She grabbed his arm again. “Ookay. That’s enough for a break. Let’s get on to our research, shall we.”

Suddenly, the Tanemon’s head popped out of her purse, forgetting that her tamer was talking with someone. “Hey, Tasha. That bar thingy was good. Can I have ano--” Tasha quickly pushed Pedra’s head back into the purse. She just hoped beyond hope that Kevin didn’t see or hear any of that.