A day at the mall! (Open)(Remake)

Do you know what was wonderful about the Digital World? It was in ways an escape from the doldrums of real life, even if Haru had since learned to find a greater value appreciating all of the little things human life offered.

Now, college work was not one of them.

The black-haired girl was busy sitting at one of the tables in the food court of the mall, fervorously writing on her laptop in a word document the third or so draft of her essay for world history, cursing silently to herself for having not planned her time these days as well as she should have. Digital World stuff was fun and all, but she had responsibilities as a person she couldn't shirk on.

Close by her table was her D-3, on the screen a small dot-art creature pacing on the screen impatiently as the device suddenly shook.



Haru just seemed to sigh, picking up the device and pressing a button... a 4-bit rendition of a piece of meat falling on the screen by the dot-art Meicrackmon Vicious Mode. The way her partner just seemed to turn at the meat, then away with touching it just further annoyed the gogglehead. "We're not doing anything right now, Tawna... I'm doing human stuff." she scolded the Digivice, it's buzzing increasing slightly as the girl rolled her eyes.

Man, why couldn't Tawna just be like all cats and just sit around and sleep all day? Would have been way easier too... No way in hell was she setting loose that beast here in the mall anytime soon. 

Haru had almost not noticed the young, blonde man's presence (half-distracted by her work and her partner's insistence at setting her Digivice on vibrate) of Tawna had not just now flung herself and all of her 4-bit glory inside Haru's Digivice off the table, forcing Haru to pick it back up.

"Yes, I know he has a Digivice. Don't gotta throw yourself off the table." she managed to somewhat grumpily tell the orange-grip D-3 as she puts it back on the table. Sighing to herself, she closes her laptop for now as she glances at the tall, young man. Another tamer, which while certainly nice to see... it did leave unpleasant questions in her mouth. Just how many people here in Shibuya were Digidestined to begin with? "Sorry, my friend here tends to go kinda nuts whenever we even see someone else with... well, monsters of thd digital variety if ya catch my drift."

Even when she was purposefully keeping her distance from this second life of hers, it seems to have a way of creeping back towards her. The girl leaned slightly in her seat as she at least gave a gentle smile to the newcomer as she opened back up her laptop. "You can sit down if you'd like; I'm just doing some college work, but I can chat."

Haru slightly shrugged at the response, figuring the V-Pet functionality was kinda rare to see in-use. As far as she knew, not every Digivice had it even as a functionality. "It's pretty useful since she tends to be the type to roam if I'm not constantly watching her. Last time she got out, she stole an entire box of like candy and snacks from a delivery truck. Man, you'd wonder how an eight-foot something cat woman could be able to sneakily around in a city like this..." she ended up rambling for a moment, before realizing she was getting off-topic. "Sorry, I'm getting a lil' sidetracked. I had to get the V-Pet functionality installed back at the Digital World. Kinda costed a bit of a penny, but it was worth it I think."

She scooched her stuff off to the side to give the guy some room. "Nawww, is good. I think people like us tend to just kinda get magnetically drawn to eachother. It's probably just some fate bullshit, no biggie." she casually commented, offering a bit of a reassuring smile. "My name's Haru by the way. My partner here is named Tawna, but obviously she can't really say hi right now. Nor would she really. Kinda not the friendly sort to be honest."

From the girl's bathroom there was strange electrifying sound like something was teared open and a brief light. It happened so fast and briefly that most of the few witnesses simply shrugged and convinced themselves that it was nothing. Maybe a light bulb was dying or something like that? Yeah that's probably what was going on in there. A flush could be heard and a minute later a girl named Katsura was walking out, in her arms she was carrying Nyao the blackgatomon. Wait where did she come from? Nobody saw her walk inside in the first place, oh well she probably did when nobody was watching.
"Just some essentials, then back to Calysta for school. Right Nyao?" Katsura muttered, since Nyao was currently pretending to be a plush everyone witnessing Katsura just assumed she was crazy and perhaps talking to herself. Just as Katsura was about to do her business, she noticed a familiar face. Haru, who was rambling about a v-pet or something. Not wanting to be impolite let alone interrupting Katsura managed to silently walk right behind the boy she was with and was now staring at Haru.

"Oh! Right! Koromon, you're gonna have to stay perfectly still," Adrian subtly whispered to the pink ball Digimon sitting on the table. "And get off of her laptop."

"Aye aye, Captain," Koromon whispered, using his right ear to salute Adrian. He softly hopped off of Haru's laptop and stood perfectly still, like Adrian had asked. "...I'm hungry."

"Didn't you eat, like, an hour ago?"

"Yeah, a whole hour! C'mon, I'm starving!"

Adrian sighs and turns towards Haru. "I swear, this Digimon is nothing but a stomach with a mouth... are all Digimon like him?"

Haru lightly did sigh in relation to food. "Yeesh, yeah. I feel like all Digimon are united by a universal love for food or something. My partner has a tendency to... prey on the local fauna. There's a reason why birds have stopped popping up around my neighborhood."

Seemed Katsura was not as previously detached from the human world as Haru previously thought, though bringing up Golden Week did least excite Haru some. "Same! Though I kinda have to cram for my college class... Kinda regret goofing off recently." Haru ended up commenting about Golden Week. While most certainly a week to look forward to, she had important business to handle first. Her Digivice buzzed slightly with Katsura's presense, Haru giving a very light smirk. "I guess that's Tawna saying hello. She's too fidgety to ya know, be actually out." she eneded up commenting, glancing at Adrian.

"He is one yeah, though don't think I've gotten his name yet. Should... should we go move somewhere more private?" she ended up commenting, realizing that it may be easier to chat somewhere more private. She could probably afford to chat for a bit, even with the urgency of her paper looming over her. She turned to Adrian, packing her laptop away in her bag while grabbing her D-3. "She's a friend. Same as you and me."

Now that Katsura was a part of the group she could join the conversation about digimon's apparent obsession with food.
"I don't understand what you mean, really. When I lived in the digital world and the streets I tried giving her all my food only for Nyao to make me eat."
Katsura giggled, she was completely oblivious to the dark nature of what she just said. She went as far as keeping up her gentle smile.
"Even now when we're eating she keeps pushing me to eat as if a slice of bread wasn't enough nutrition for a meal. It's a bit annoying sometimes, you know?"
Katsura then listened to Adrian's questions it was still obvious that Katsura had no idea what kind of conversation topics were appropriate.
"Oh it's over a year since Nyao came into my life... I guess, when you spend too much time in the digital world your sense of time gets screwed up."
Haru might remember that "a year" coincidently was the same time range Katsura used to measure her time living in the digital world. But that's probably nothing, right? Katsura turned back to Haru, whose digidevice was acting up. Apparently her digimon was in there.
"How did you get him inside your digidevice?"
Then it was back to complaining over hunger, Katsura reached down in her bag pack and found her bento. From that she found a homemade riceball which she offered Koromon.
"Don't be too hash on him it takes time to learn those arts. The golden week is a week with so many holidays you get the whole week off. Then I can stay in the digital world for a month, I think"