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Summary: TK has reflections of Mimi, prompting his predecessors to tell them of a hidden fact of four years ago. Takimi.

Sleepless Nights, Sleepwalking Sincerity

Chapter One: Can't Sleep

(Dream)

Seven kids with different monsters were sleeping on leaf-made beds, no blanket to keep them warm. Five boys and two girls were dozing. One was a brunette in a blue t-shirt, tan pants and bore goggles. By him was a small orange dinosaur. There was a redhead who was shorter than the brunette in an peachy button-down t-shirt and beige shorts. There was a pinkish mechanical ladybug that slept by him. A blue-haired boy was also snoozing to the calm sounds, while holding his glasses and wearing an Ivy League-styled wool shirt with grayish shorts. There was a redhead seal by that boy. Yeah, no kidding. That seal was a redhead. There were two blond boys who weren't really sleeping by each other. The older one was wearing a turtleneck sleeveless shirt, with blue jeans, while the younger was in a green t-shirt with white sleeves and a green hat with a blue jewel on it. Those two had creatures, themselves: a lizard with a wolf pelt hanging from the horn, and a winged orange piglet. One girl was a redhead in a blue helmet, yellow sleeveless shirt and blue jeans. Alongside was a pink bird with some blue feathered outlines. The last member was a blond/brunette mix, wearing a pink cowgirl ensemble, while a freaky plant-thing with a flower for hair or something slept beside her. The night looked as ordinary as any day. Suddenly, the cowgirl was coming out of her sleep...or so it appeared, as least. Her eyes, partially opened, had no appearance of consciousness. Her head was fixated on the small boy with the piglet. Unbeknown, even to her, she slouched over to the boy's bubble. What was going through her subconscious mind? Well, nothing really. Was she sleepwalking? Not that far of a trip. "TK..." she softly, sweetly whispered. She wasn't going to kill the little boy, was she? She knelt down to her knees, over the boy's body. Like a feather, she laid down, inches of space between their heads. "TK..." She lifted her head and mid-section, and leaned over the boy's face. Without realizing it, she gave the young boy a kiss on the lips...which she didn't want to separate from his.

(Reality)

A blond boy snapped awake, shooting his body from beneath the blanket. His rapid breathing showed panic from whatever that he was dreaming about. Quivers rattled the mattress almost off the bed frame. He snatched his face, stressed from the plagued his mind. As he struggled to get what he dreamed up, a stir caused him to look at a lump in his blanket. He unraveled the blanket, only to discover the piglet from his vision. "Geez, TK, you don't need to flip out every time you have a bad dream," it argued. TK? That was the same name that the kissing girl spoke out. Was he really going through a bad dream?

"Why do you think I'm having a bad dream?" TK softly protested. "I'm not even sure if it is a dream." Well, if it wasn't, then what would it be?

"TK, don't get so paranoid about it." Paranoid? TK shuffled out of bed, and entered a closet.

"Patamon, you should know that I've been able to work better with paranoia and superstition. Besides, the thing I should worry more about is Davis making irrational thoughts about getting into Kari's pants without Tai watching over her. He may be the leader, but I don't wanna give everything away on hindsight." Seriously, TK? Patamon stayed firm on the subject.

"So, what is it that you're dreaming about?" TK, coming out with a Gilligan's fishing cap, green long-sleeve shirt with yellow streaks from underarm to hip, and tan khakis, thought through his sequence of visions.

"I know it sounds silly, but I imagine that we're sleeping those four years ago, before we found out about Kari being a Digidestined. In the middle of the night, Mimi would wake up, or it would seem, and would sleepwalk into my bed. I've had moments in which she'd wrap her arms around me, sleep with me back-to-back, but this time, she..." He paused, not wanting to make Patamon think he wanted an affair with this Mimi. However, Patamon thought something bad happened to him.

"So it was a bad dream, after all? She suffocated you?" Wrong train of thought, piggy. Still, TK reclined to keep silent. He walked out of an apartment building door.

"TK, you're going early, again?" an older female noticed.

"Yeah, Mom," he answered. "If Kari or Davis stop by, tell them I've gone ahead."

"Okay, dear. Careful out there." With that, TK and Patamon got out of the complex, and on their way to their destination. They arrived at a school, where the two entered a room of computers. Was TK going to check his e-mail? He sat at a computer, and gone to work. That's when a screen popped up. It had an overview of a landscape, which showed no useful or useless activity.

"The digital world's in good shape. No distress signals." After a few minutes, he shut the computer off. The computer was off, but TK still had his head in his dream. That moment...Mimi giving TK a kiss. 'Why am I still thinking about her? Is it about her? Is she the reason my sleep has been hampered?' His train of thought was so dead-set on Mimi, concentration was deterred greatly. That's when doors slid open. That broke TK from his fogged-up head. He turned to a female with lavender hair in a scrunchy. She wore glasses and had a red bird by her side. She was in street clothes, so that didn't confuse anyone.

"Morning, TK," she greeted.

"Yolei. You startled me." Yolei wasn't too overtaken with his reply. TK was surprised to see his friend at school at this hour. "What are you doing here so early?" Yolei had a reason, but wondered about TK.

"I should be asking you the same question." Her bird volunteered to voice the reasoning behind Yolei's visit.

"It was Yolei's turn to monitor the digital world," it beaked. "Your turn was suppose to be tomorrow." TK did the quick look, and probably cheated on Yolei. Apologetic, he felt ashamed for taking Yolei's turn.

"I did check and there's no malicious activity, if it saves you time," he admitted. "Sorry, Yolei, Hawkmon." Yolei sensed something in TK's speaking. He didn't sound energetic, or anything with too much motion.

"Is everything okay, TK?" she questioned. TK held his tongue, not willing to allow Yolei to be in fear of any sort of rebuttal. Patamon was not so tight-lip.

"It's those dreams of Mimi, he's been having for the past week," it informed. Yolei bit her lip in concern. What reason did she have for this reply?

"Why Mimi?" TK shrugged his shoulders, unsure on how to answer something of this matter. It wasn't like Yolei or the two winged creatures had an answer for themselves to let TK be clued in. "Did you have feelings for Mimi?" TK shrugged again. No sure way of replying. "Did she have feelings for you?" It was like Yolei wasn't getting the message. Finally, he snapped with a vicious verbal response.

"Look, I don't know!" he shouted. "How much more clear can I be?!" His shout frightened the female and the creatures to the bone. She had to have listened to him, now.

"TK..." TK almost immediately realized that his reaction was scaring her to retreat, if not death. He switched his behavior from anger to regret in seconds.

"Sorry." Hawkmon compiled TK's behavior as one who was touchy with a topic such as this.

"I'm surprised that Mimi seems to be on your mind, let alone for the past several days," it cawed. He wasn't assisting the matter at hand. Yolei had to put her bird in its place.

"You're not helping, Hawkmon," she murmured. She turned back to TK, wanting to know more about the unusual dreams. "Have you told Kari about this?" That one, TK felt he needed to answer.

"No, and I'm not sure if I want to," he arrogantly complied. "She doesn't appear in them, and that's possibly the reason why." Not really a good reason, Yolei had to be thinking. To her, TK was hiding the troubles from other friends who could help him. "Probably, because my dream takes place during the first adventure before Kari was found to be a Digidestined." Yolei had a clue. She slumped into a deep thought process. TK knew that she was an intelligent girl, but Hawkmon felt, as though, TK deserved to be blamed for this state of bewilderment.

"Good work, TK," it sighed. "You've put her mind over the edge with your dream." Could you really blame TK for this? That's when Yolei came up with an answer.

"It's about Mimi, right?" she opened. TK bobbed a nod. "Before Kari?" Another nod. "Have you had a chance to talk to Matt about this?" It was the 1,000 questions again.

"No, he's been busy with his band to talk," he denied.

"Try talking to Izzy or Joe, after school. They might know something about this." TK listened, believing that Yolei was onto something alright.

"I will. Sorry to trouble you like this." Relieved, Yolei accepted his apology as if cleansed of sins he may have commited.

"Hey, what are friends for?" Plenty from your expression. TK left the room, leaving Yolei with Patamon and Hawkmon. "I think Mimi's dreaming of him, at this moment." The two creatures rose eyebrows, not sure to get Yolei's sudden logic.

"Apparently, friends are to poke fun behind others' backs," Patamon belatedly answered her rhetorical question.

"Interesting enough that you waited for him to depart, before saying that," Hawkmon added with a shrug. Yolei felt that the backtalk was a bit outrageous.

"Hey, I heard that!" she snapped. Those two wanted her to hear their remarks. Hours passed as TK attended classes. Thoughts of the dream lingered in his head even as he tried his best to ignore the main details, if not the entirety. After school, he walked over to a coffee shop downtown, alone, and sat at a patio table. Was he waiting for someone?

"TK!" a male called out. TK heard and turned to where it came from. There was a blue-haired teen, with glasses, in a green school uniform that came by. Was this who TK was waiting for?

"Joe, thanks for meeting me," he greeted as Joe sat at the table. "Sorry about meeting you like this." Joe didn't seem to mind that setback.

"We're Digidestined. No reason to act sympathetic about meeting one another." TK was ready to get down to business. "So, you wanted to talk to me about something?"

"Yeah. It's about Mimi." Joe braced for what TK was bringing out. "I was having dreams that it was four years ago, even before Kari came to light. Each night for the past week, I dreamed that Mimi would somewhat wake up and sleepwalk over to my bed, and sleep with me, not Matt, not Tai...not even you. And just recently...I had her embrace a kiss onto my lips." Studying, Joe listened with intent to respond. When he heard the word "kiss," Joe smiled, like he knew a secret that he wanted to uncover.

"TK, my friend, you're not having a dream." He was asleep with he had this. How could his dreams not be dreams? "You see, you're reliving a vision from those four years ago." A vision of the past? Did...did this mean? "Mimi was, in fact, your first kiss." TK was distraught. This whole time, he was watching moments of his past with Mimi's subconscious comfort on his younger self. If this was true...

TO BE CONTINUED...