Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon... nor Children's Day, for obvious reasons. This is a fanfic, after all.

A/N: Yet again one of my sillier ideas... I think it's amusing. Anyway, for background stuff, in Japan during the spring there's a week called Golden Week because of a huge week of continued holidays (Emperor's Birthday, Children's Day, that kind of thing). The second Digimon movie (Bokura no War Game, 2nd part of American movie) took place during Golden Week... at least, I think it did.

Note, I go by the canon pairings (Except Takari... I like that one a little too much). So, since Matt and Sora DO get together in the show, that's how I write it... but it's more of an accepted thing rather than them getting all smoochy with each other. Besides, they're at odds in this story (for obvious reasons once you read it), and it's by no means a romance fic anyway.

The poor guys... you have to feel sorry for them. Otherwise, girl power!

I'm kidding. Just enjoy the entire conflict that will spread into something highly amusing.

Boys vs. Girls

The Dispute, and the Beginning of the Insanity

It was a beautiful day in the Digiworld, with a few random digimon bursting out into song while otherwise enjoying themselves.

It was also a week before Children's Day, and all twelve of the first Japanese Digidestined were calmly lounging around on a sunny hill of sweet smelling grass, watching the sky and looking at the clouds, while the digimon ran around playing games with each other. The Digidestined would have joined in, but they'd already played three games of soccer and were relatively tired from it.

Now, they all watched the clouds while reminiscing about past days.

"I remember back during our first adventure...we never had time to sit back and look at the sky," Sora noted, as she delicately traced the outline of one of the clouds with a finger in the air.

Joe nodded, grinning. "Yeah...it was always running away from some huge digimon or otherwise saving the world. For nearly six months."

Tai shrugged. "You'd think we'd have time some time during that entire period..."

"The life of a Digidestined is never easy," Davis sighed, laying on his back on the soft grass, blankly staring into the sky. "It's always fight this or rescue her or stop random evil from destroying the world. Though you gotta' admit, there are a lot of advantages to being one." He grinned down over to where the digimon were all playing together.

The others sighed in happiness, lounging about on the grassy hillside.

Memories rose up in the minds of everyone, as they remembered many days worth of adventures and experiences.

"You know," Yolei suddenly piped up, glancing at the first eight Digidestined, "I've always wondered how you managed to survive with each other for all that time."

At once, Tai and Matt looked at each other and winced. The others stiffened uncomfortably for a few moments, before letting their bodies relax again.

"That's a good speculation," Izzy commented wryly.

Yolei decided not to continue the conversation.

However, at that moment, Sora and Mimi glanced at the boys. Then back at each other. "Somehow we stayed sane even with all the guys," Sora commented.

Tai blinked back, indignant. "Hey, what's that supposed to mean!"

Mimi sat up and turned towards the boy. "It means that Sora and I were able to deal with being the only girls in the group for a while. At least until Kari joined."

Tai nodded, grinning slightly in understanding. "Ah, I get it. I used to only think of you as the girl in the group though."

At that, Sora shot up and glared at him. "And now, what is that supposed to mean?" she demanded almost playfully. "I wasn't a girl when I was eleven?"

Tai immediately realized his mistake. "No, that's not what I meant!" he shouted, trying to undo his slip of mouth. "You were just... like... a team member, one of the guys!"

Beside him, Matt winced, knowing that Tai had just said the wrong thing to placate such a girl like Sora.

"And so now I'm a guy?" Sora asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Huh? No, you're a girl! I'm just saying that because you were a tomboy plus such a great team member, I always thought of you as one of the guys!" Tai tried to explain himself.

Matt winced again. Whatever was about to happen would not be pretty. While the others did not understand the dangers of calling a girl a guy, he, having not only dated Sora but having also had many female fans as a singer, was a little more aware of such matters than the other Digidestined.

At this point, now Mimi sat up as well and glared at Tai. "And does this mean that I wasn't a team member?"

Tai gulped, realizing that he had somehow gotten himself into even more trouble than before. "No, of course you're a team member, just you were a lot more girly than Sora at the time, that's all!"

Mimi crossed her arms. "So what if I like pink?" Her hair had once again been dyed.

"Yeah, just because someone likes stuff that' girly doesn't mean you have to stereotype them!" Yolei interjected, joining the argument.

Davis snickered. "What, like you and – MMMPPH!"

TK had wisely grabbed Davis and covered his mouth with a hand. He grinned apologetically at Yolei.

Yolei turned to the struggling Davis and glared. "Be glad that TK at least has sense. Otherwise you would be in hot water right now."

As TK let go of the goggle headed boy, Tai sighed, lying back down and mumbling to himself. "Sheesh, what is it with the girls today..." Then he got a strange idea in his head. "Wait, is it that time of..."

Unfortunately for Tai, the girls heard him. Before he could finish his thought, Kari stood up, walked over, and did the honors by smacking her older brother upside the head.

All the boys dropped their jaws in shock. "Kari, is something up?" Ken asked cautiously.

Kari shrugged. "I thought I would spare Tai from what the other girls might have done to him."

"By smacking me!" Tai moaned, rubbing his head. The other older guys around him patted his shoulders in sympathy.

Izzy took the moment to whisper into Tai's ear. "Maybe it would be prudent to stay silent from now on..."

Tai nodded vigorously. "Yeah."

Unfortunately, the dispute had begun. Davis sat up to take Tai's place. "Man, you guys are vicious," he commented.

Yolei in turn crawled over and whapped him on the head.

Davis rubbed the now sore spot. "See?" He glared at Yolei. "Violent, aren't we?"

"I was provoked!"

Kari came back over to where TK was, glancing at him in a playful yet suspicious manner. In return, TK shrugged, grinning with his eyes flickering over to the other girls in a slightly worried manner. Kari raised both eyebrows and nodded in understanding.

Ken stood and attempted to come between Davis and Yolei, who were both seething at each other. "Okay, the point has been made, females and males have always been different both physically and psychologically, so let's just settle with that and stay peaceful, shall we?" he brought his hands together, smiling hopefully for what appeared to be a plead for an end to the conflict.

Davis and Yolei just blinked, glared at each other, and then looked away in what seemed to be a wordless truce.

As most of the boys sighed, Cody suddenly piped up in a curious voice, "What did you mean Ken, physically and psychologically?"

At that, Ken suddenly froze up and glanced at Yolei, who seemed to have also stopped in place as well. She gave him a look that seemed to have "Don't push it, he's young," written all over her face. Another glance at Yolei and then at the other girls, plus thinking about what Cody had just said made Ken turn bright red at what he might otherwise have to tell the younger boy.

Matt grinned and crossed his arms. "Well look at that, one of the younger Digidestined has a pretty mature mind." Some of the elder boys snickered slightly at this.

Ken just buried his head in his hands and moaned out of frustration. "Matt, please shut up."

Sora raised an eyebrow. "And what does this say about the rest of the male population?" she asked in an almost sickeningly sweet voice.

Mimi shook her head, sighing as she glanced at the other boys. "Boys," she muttered, making a 'tut tut' sound with her tongue.

Sora caught her friend's eye, and nodded agreement. "Teenage boys," she added.

Izzy lifted an eyebrow and glared out of indignation. "Well excuse us for being teenagers. And Ken's probably just the eldest minded of the younger group."

"And who's youngest?" Yolei suddenly interjected, giving an evil eye to Davis with a smirking grin.

"Hey!" he retorted.

Yolei shrugged. "Well, there is the whole growing up bit that happens differently for girls and boys."

TK finally groaned and stood up completely, putting his hands on his hips. "Okay, is this turning into a debate about the difference in girls and boys or the difference in ages?

Cody, who was mostly not involved in the entire discussion, tilted his head to one side as he released a spectator's view on the entire thing. "Well, it seemed gender based..." he commented.

Joe, also sitting up a little straighter and fixing his glasses slightly, looked over to Cody and sighed. "Fortunately, you don't have to worry about half of this stuff quite yet..."

Cody shrugged. "I'm just wondering where all of this hostility came from."

Kari, still over by TK, only answered in a tired voice, "I'm not sure either, actually."

Suddenly, Tai sat up straight and opened his mouth to say something. Then remembering how the girls had retaliated at him earlier, he promptly shut it and tapped Matt on the shoulder. The blond lightly rolled his eyes and leaned over to Tai. "What?" he asked in a low voice.

Tai sighed and whispered into Matt's ear.

Matt paused for a moment, before a look of mild revelation drew across his face. "You have a really good point," he commented. Then he turned to the others. "Tai wants me to tell you that he thinks that it's kind of interesting how the girls get their own holiday and the boys share theirs with the girls. Actually," he stopped, putting a hand to his chin, "It's almost weird how Children's Day used to be Boy's Day..."

Mimi glared. "You know they don't even have those holidays in America," she pointed out, glaring at Matt.

Matt just shrugged. "I'm just saying what Tai wanted me to and then adding my own opinions..."

"But he has a point," Izzy continued, leaning forward to rest on his stomach while he lifted his head towards the others. "If you divide the Children's Day in half, and know that there's a Girl's Day, technically the girls receive one and a half days worth of celebration and the boys receive one half. The girls have three times as much recognition."

Yolei, who had begun crawling over when Izzy began his little speech, whapped the boy on the head and gave him a hearty glare when he blinked in shock. "Serves you right for your little righteous speech on gender equality," she answered.

"That's not what I was saying! I'm just being logical!"

"And that logic has opened up even more arguing," Mimi answered, glaring. "Well, I'll be with Yolei and be logical then! These holidays can be like... celebrations to make up for the women's problems in the past!"

Izzy stared at Mimi. "What has America done to you?"

She stomped her foot. "UGH!"

Sora also stood, an angry look in her eyes as she crossed her arms. "That does it, I now declare that the girls should wage war."

"Yeah!"

Both Mimi and Yolei joined Sora as they joined together to give the boys suspicious glares, making a very formidable trio. In the meantime, the boys stared surprised as the three competitive girls seemed to exert an aura of anger and strife.

Then they suddenly turned to Kari, who had not moved. "Well Kari?" Yolei asked impatiently, tapping her foot.

Kari uneasily glanced at the boys ("Don't do it Kari, don't do it!" Davis mouthed at her), and she finally gave them all an apologetic look as she stood to join the other three girls.

The boys sat in shock, not sure what to do in order to fix the entire problem. After a few moments of silence, where the girls stood with a defying presence over the group, TK finally stood and stated, "All right, we accept your challenge."

The other boys goggled at him. "What, are you crazy?" Davis shouted. "I thought you were the nonviolent one!"

The others nodded the equally shared sentiment, except for Cody and Matt who knew a little better.

TK shook his head and rolled his eyes. "No, we're not going to fight or anything, just something like a series of contests. Then we can finish up this argument relatively peacefully and be done with it."

Kari suddenly widened her eyes as she realized what TK was trying push forward. She made her way to the forefront of the girl's group, and with an almost mock serious look on her face, made eye contact with her friend. "Series of contests?"

"Yeah," he answered. The two of them entered a quick debate.

"How about rounds of them?"

"Three sound good?"

"Which bouts?"

"Does a skit seem okay?"

"Skit and... music performance?"

"Nothing too competitive."

"No relay races."

"Or costume contests."

"How about acting?"

"Like the skit thing from earlier?"

"...maybe..."

"Or how about poetry reading?"

"That always works."

"A talent show of sorts."

"All right. Skit, music performance, talent show."

"Let's have music performance last though."

"Sounds fine."

"Who judges?"

"Let's ask the digimon."

"Any time limit for preparation?"

At that, both TK and Kari turned back to the group and gave them inquisitive looks.

Tai finally spoke up again, deciding to break his silence. "Children's Day."

Everyone else blinked. "What?"

Tai gave everyone a focused stare "Children's Day. This is Golden Week, so we'll have time to prepare. No one's really going anywhere, the Digiworld is at peace, we don't have school, and part of this argument was over Children's Day anyway. The entire thing gives us something to do anyway. We'll find a place to borrow a stage, and we can use that. Noon sound good for a start of rounds?"

The group nodded in unison, agreeing on the idea. TK and Kari gave each other hi-fives, congratulating each other on their idea to solve the entire problem.

Matt shook his head sadly, wondering what the group had come to. "Well, at least our Golden Week will be more interesting then usual..."

The challenges had begun.