Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon

This is a Prologue...

"Are you okay?" asks a little redhead boy, he wore only a white tee-shirt and orange shorts as he crouched down to a young girl with long-brown hair on the ground. She wore a white tee-shirt with a flower in the middle, and a pink dress.

She had tears in her eyes, bawling, "No, I'm not okay,"

The little redhead sat down in the grass with the girl, asking, "Why?"

The girl swallowed trying to speak, but ended up choking on her tears, "Well, there were-were these guys, and-and they-they hit me…"

"They hit you?" the little boy gawked.

"No… I-I mean they did, but with a soccer ball…" the girl sniffled, "But… not just that, they-they made fun of me…"

"What? Why?" The little boy asked worriedly.

The girl cried, "Because my hat's bigger than my head!" than the girl buried her face in her hands, wailing and sobbing on the ground.

The little boy looked next to her to find a pink cowboy hat, finding the hat to truly be bigger than her head. And consoling her, he said, "Where are these rapscallions?"

She faintly pointed to two older guys playing soccer with each other. Then the little boy, with his charcoal eyes' squinted, stormed up to the closest one, a guy with brown-skin a big hair, and futilely attempted to punch him in the chest. The big-haired boy didn't seem fazed, and in retaliation punched the redhead boy square in the face and yelled, "What's your problem?"

"You harmed her!" the redhead shouted back, rubbing his face with one hand, and pointing to the girl crying with the other, he demanded, "Apologize Immediately!"

Then a blonde boy ran up to the two, claiming, "Well she was in our way!"

The redhead in frustration screamed back, "You shouldn't have jeered at her then!"

The big-haired boy responded by pushing the redhead boy down to the ground, the blonde one stopped the big-haired kid from beating up the redheaded boy anymore, telling him, "Let's go Tai. It isn't worth it,"

And the two boys walked away with their soccer ball, leaving the redhead on the ground. The girl with brown hair saw how the redhead stood up for her. And crawled up to him, "Are you okay?" she asked.

The redhead rubbed his face a little bit, telling her, "Yeah, just a little sore that's all,"

She embraced the redhead, asking, "Thanks for standing up for me, it was very brave,"

The redhead's face became as red as his hair, as he squeaked out, "It was no problem!"

The brow-haired girl looked concerned at the redhead, "Your face is getting all red, are you sure you're okay?"

The redhead assured her, "Yes, yes, I'm okay,"

Then the girl told the redhead, "My name's Mimi, what's yours?"

The redhead quietly muttered, "Koushiro…"

But Mimi didn't hear him correctly, "Koushi?"

Koushiro tried to tell her no, but before he could Mimi offered, "Koushi, my mommy is taking me to the wading pool, you want to come?"

"Where is it?" Koushiro asked, still blushing.

"It's still in the park, right there," Mimi pointed to a shallow pool, with some fake rock formations and a fountain in the middle.

"Um, okay," Koushiro whispered, and then Mimi grabbed his hand and joyfully said, "Then come on!" while leading him to the wading pool.

An hour later…

"No, Koushi," Mimi admonished him, "it's supposed to stand up nice and tall, like this," they were both in the sand pit, conveniently located next to the wading pool. Koushiro and Mimi were pretending they were on the beach, making sand castles.

Koushiro took on the name 'Koushi', at first he found it a bit irritating being called that, but now he just viewed it as a nickname.

"Oh, okay…," Koushi muttered, rearranging his sand caste to be nice and tall just like Mimi's. Then Mimi ran off saying, "Be right back,"

Koushi then decided to merge the two tall castles together, leaving a small indent in between the two tall castles, Mimi ran back, cradling a pink daisy and a crimson leaf in her hands. She held it out in front of Koushi, he gazed in curiosity for a little bit, until Mimi placed it in the pit, next to each other.

Koushi curiously asked, "What are those for?"

Mimi happily informed him, "It's the King and Queen," then she waved her hand out to the sand pit and the wading pool telling Koushi, "And this is their Kingdom,"

Koushi asked, "What are their names,"

Mimi cheerfully announced to the park, "Queen Mimi and King Koushi!"

Koushi blushed furiously again at the mention of his name with Mimi's in the same sentence, Mimi realized, "You're getting red again! Are you sure that mean boy didn't hurt you?"

Before Koushi could respond, however, a beach ball abruptly collided with the sand castle, mostly with the center, 'throne room' part of the castle, crushing the flower and shattering the leaf into small pieces. Then a ginger-haired girl ran over, yelling, "Sorry!"

Mimi stared at the crushed representations of Mimi and Koushi, and quietly sobbed as the ginger-haired girl asked, "Are you okay?" While picking up the beach ball that rolled off to the side. But Mimi broke down in tears, while the girl, nervously apologized, "Sorry I crushed your sand castle… is there anything I can do?"

But the big-haired, Tai, came along and coldly told the girl, "Don't bother with these two, Sora, especially that redheaded dork right over there,"

Mimi yelled back while in tears, "Leave Koushi alone!"

Tai teasingly said, "Ooh, why are you protecting him now? Are you guys married or something?"

Mimi screamed, "Leave our Kingdom now!"

Sora pulled on Tai's blue shirt, "Come on Tai, leave them alone,"

Tai pouted a little, as Sora dragged him away from the sand pit, and back into the wading pool to play whatever they were with a beach ball.

Koushi asked, "Are you okay?"

Mimi yelled, "No! Our castle is crushed!"

"It's okay, I mean it's just a castle we can build another one,"

Mimi shook her entire body, her long hair whipping the air, sobbing, "But Queen Mimi and King Koushi are gone!"

"We could be the Queen and King this time,"

Mimi suddenly stopped moving, and with glistening eyes asked, "Really?"

Koushi with a big smile said, "Yeah!"

But Mimi informed Koushi, "Okay, but if we're going to be Queen and King, we have to kiss,"

Koushi curiously asked, "Kiss? Isn't that how you make babies?"

Mimi shook her head, "No, Koushi, I saw somewhere that if a Queen and King become that, they have to be married, so they kiss to prove that,"

Koushi still bemused asked innocently, "Um, but how do you kiss?"

Mimi looked Koushi dead in the face, and placed her hand under his chin, lightly pulling him in. As their lips were about to touch, Mimi whispered, "Like this," and then their lips met.

Koushi was a bit nervous at first, getting all stiff, but when his lips met hers; he stopped worrying and relaxed as they kissed over the ruins of their palace, self-anointing themselves as Queen Mimi and King Koushi of the sand pit and wading pool.

"MIMI!" a woman yelled, just as she pulled Mimi's lips away from Koushi's. Before anyone knew it, Mimi was pulled away from Koushi and out into the parking lot, the woman, obviously her mother, scolded her, "If there's one thing you need to know, it's that you shouldn't hang around boys, or you'll end up just like them!"

Mimi tried to argue, "But Mom!"

Her mother, opening their van's door, continued to scold her, "Don't 'but' me, Mimi! What you did was totally inappropriate; do you know the diseases you could get from kissing?"

Mimi shook her head, as she was picked up and placed in her booster seat in the back of the van. Her mother continued, "Well you can get the Kissing Disease and DIE," her mother put emphasis on 'die' then exaggerated to prove her point, "Your throat will get so sore that you'll can't even speak! And your mouth and eyes will turn this icky yellow color, you'll be HIDEOUS,"

Mimi recoiled in fear, and then her mother put her hands to her hips saying, "So don't go around kissing some goons off the street," then she got right into Mimi's face, "OR ELSE,"

But just at that moment, Koushi came running out to the parking lot, yelling, "Mimi!" while waving her pink cowboy hat in his hand. When he arrived, he panted, "Mimi, you forgot this!" and handed to her the pink cowboy hat that Tai laughed at her for wearing.

Mimi said, "But, I don't want it, it makes me look ugly,"

Koushi insisted, "No, I think you look good wearing it,"

Mimi's eyes brightened up, "Really?"

Koushi nodded with a warm smile on his face, and then asked, "Can we play again tomorrow?"

Mimi smiled and yelled, "Yeah! Then we can build a great big sand castle and a big throne room for us both to sit on!"

Koushi replied, "That'll be fun, I'll see you tomorrow!"

Mimi waved back to him, as he ran back to the park to look for his parents, she yelled, "Bye, Koushi!"

Then her mother slammed the door in Mimi's face after she waved goodbye, as her mother started up the van, she looked back, and coldly said, "I don't want you around that Koushi kid anymore, understand?"

Mimi innocently asked, "Does that mean that I won't build a sand castle with him tomorrow?"

Her mother simply shook her head with a stolid expression, and then drove away from the park. Mimi held tightly onto her pink hat, and looked out the window, to see the disappearing figure of Koushi.

Koushi waited for Mimi the next day, even started to build the sand castle for her. But by the end of the day, after all the ridiculing from Tai, the doubts from his parents, and all the waiting; she still never showed up. Leaving Koushi hurt and confused.

"Ladies and Gentleman, even though we have landed please remain in your seats with your seatbelts fastened. Thank You," the intercom boomed. Mimi forced her eyes open, to find that she was dreaming of the whole event. She rubbed her head, "Oh, it must've been the soda the attendant gave me that weird dream… but it seemed so real," She looked around, finding herself on the airplane she fell asleep on. Mimi thought, "Could it of been all real?" Looking out the window to her side, Mimi watched with amazement as the city of Tokyo rolled by.

Her mom tapped Mimi's shoulder as she gazed out the window, getting Mimi's attention, her mother smiled as she said, "Aren't you excited to move back to Japan, sweetie?"

Mimi nodded with excitement, her mom continued, "Are you sure you want to go to a public school dear? I mean, we do have the money to send you to a nice academy,"

Mimi reassured her, "It's okay mom; really, I want to go to a public school,"

Then right next to her mother, his father sipping a martini, teasingly saying, "You know what Satoe? I think Mimi just wants to show off the fortune we got at school. What with the driver, the Louis Vutton handbag, the Gucci clothing…"

Mimi laughed while lightly japing his father, "Daddy! You know it isn't that,"

Her father chuckled, "Might as well be," then just after he finished his drink he remembered, "Oh, Satoe, I forgot! We have that Asahi Shareholders' Meeting to go to in a week!"

Satoe, Mimi's mom, lightly slapped her husband, "YOU have to go, I don't…"

Mimi's dad pointed at his wife's triangular-like shaped brown-hair, "If you want to get your hair done properly, then you have to come with me to see the best-hairdresser in Japan,"

Satoe waved it off, "But do we have to go to Osaka in a week, Keisuke? We just moved here!"

Mimi's dad, Keisuke, insisted, "We have to go, I've been offered I big deal by some of the shareholders' there! If we want our fortune to last, we must be diligent! Besides, Mimi can come with us-"

Mimi suddenly interrupted, "No Daddy, I want to stay here,"

"Why?" Keisuke asked.

Mimi explained, "I waited for weeks just to get to Japan! Besides, I missed enough school as it is,"

Satoe said, "But we can't leave you home alone by yourself! What kind of parents would we be then?"

Mimi argued, "I'll be fine, the driver will watch me if I go out, there's state-of-the-art security systems in the penthouse, oh by the way, I'm SIXTEEN, I can handle myself,"

Satoe doubted, "I don't know, sixteen is still a long way from adulthood, Mimi,"

Keisuke assured Satoe, "She'll be fine. Mimi's got to learn one way or the other how to live on her own,"

Mimi smiled, "Thanks daddy!"

But Keisuke warned her, "No parties though, understand?"

Mimi nodded, her eyes glistening, "Yes daddy! Of course!"

To be continued…