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Takeru/Daisuke/Hikari- Junior High (Middle School) students

Koushiro/Mimi/Jun/Momoe- sophomores

Yamato/Sora/Taichi- juniors


First Period, School just started a few days after Mimi moved to Japan…

It was sunny out and the birds were chirping. Another wonderful day to attend Odaiba High School. In fact, the PE teacher thought it was so nice, that they should have Phys. Ed outside. He led his first period class of sophomores out.

However, it turned out, that the Odaiba Junior High School PE teacher thought it was a nice day out too, and she brought out her PE class to play in the field. But instead of fighting for turf, they agreed to simply have one big match of soccer; the teams will be evenly mixed, so it'll be fair for the Junior High School Students.

Before the PE teachers could select the team captains, a new girl walked out to the field wearing the green and white PE uniform for class. Handing a slip to the teacher, she tied her long-pink hair into a slender ponytail. The High School PE teacher announced to the mixed class, "Students! This is Mimi Tachikawa, now give her an Odaiba HS cheer!"

The class, dully said, "Odaiba, Odaiba, Yay Odaiba," the PE teacher was not amused, and ordered the students, "Speak up! Or I'll make you run 3 laps!"

The mixed class, now with an incentive to have school spirit, shouted at the top of their longs, "ODAIBA, ODAIBA, GO ODAIBA!" the PE teacher was satisfied and then asked the class to introduce themselves.

But apparently, Mimi knew half of the class, and decided to describe the people she knew with vivid detail, including an auburn-haired junior high school (middle school) girl called Hikari, a fuzzy-haired junior high school boy with goggles named Daisuke, a blonde junior high school boy who wore a hat all the time called Takeru, and a redhead, pale-skinned sophomore called Koushiro. As a matter of fact, they all knew each other very well, thanks to the adventures into the Digital World that they had together.

The PE teacher was surprised to find Mimi knowing most of the class's students. But Mimi simply explained that she was born and raised in Odaiba for most of her childhood, and that she moved to New York, for undisclosed reasons, a few years ago. Her family decided to move back here and catch up on old friends.

The PE teacher nodded, "Well, now that introductions have been made, it's time to play soccer!" then an uproar of cheering came from Daisuke and the more athletically-built students, while students like Koushiro remained reserved and quiet. Mimi giggled a little, finding the contrast in students entertaining. The PE teacher told his students, "Well, since Mimi knows half of the class already, she should be captain, now, who would want to be the other one?"

Daisuke's hand was the first to shoot up, so the teacher called him. The teacher then directed the two captains to take turns picking team members.

Daisuke and Mimi played rock-paper-scissors; Mimi won, so she picked Takeru. Daisuke went, and acting on his crush, chose Hikari. Mimi was about to pick Koushiro, but Takeru insisted they pick one of the athletes to win. Daisuke picked another one.

Mimi, again tried to point at Koushiro, but this time, a holler came from the class, and then a hand shot up from the crowd, "Hey Mimi!" it was Momoe, a friend back from the 4th grade, how could she forget her? So Mimi picked Momoe, a sophomore with short light-brown hair, she was also Miyako's sister, and weirdly enough they both wore glasses. Daisuke was desperate to win, so he picked another decent soccer player.

Mimi, again, intending to pick Koushiro, was informed by Momoe, "Pick Jun! We can be 'B.F.F.s' again just like old times!" so Mimi picked Jun instead, Daisuke's older sister, who had violet-colored hair, and a scary crush Yamato, she's also a sophomore girl. Jun skipped out to Mimi, and tightly hugged her, whispering, "Thanks for picking me; I knew you kept your word, when you told me we would be Best Friends Forever!"

Daisuke, finding that only the nerds and deadbeats remained, decided to pick Koushiro for the soccer match. After that, Mimi just tried to pick the one that seemed the most energetic. The teams were finally made, but the Digidestined group was split up: with Daisuke, Hikari, and Koushiro wearing the red jerseys, while Mimi and Takeru, along with the rest of the 'B.F.F.s', wore the blue jerseys.

And the match was on! Daisuke stole the ball from Takeru, dashed for the goal, and managed to skillfully kick the ball out of Jun's reach, GOAL!

Red Team: 1 Blue Team: 0

Takeru held possession of the ball, passed it to Mimi, who passed it to Miyako's elder sister, Momoe. But she shrieked as the ball approached her, and let the ball pass her. Hikari stole the ball, passing it to Koushiro, but he was reluctant to have all the attention bestowed upon him, so Takeru stole the ball, and GOAL!

Red Team: 1 Blue Team: 1

Red Team…

"Izzy!" Daisuke criticized, "You got to go for the ball man! You're a high-schooler you're supposed to be better than junior high students!"

Koushiro apologized, "Sorry, I'm just not that good at soccer…"

Blue Team…

Jun ran up to Mimi, and started to laugh at Koushiro, "Did you see that nerd? He didn't even try to go for the ball!"

Momoe ran up to Mimi as well, leaving the goal unguarded, "Yeah, I know, he looked so scared, like he was going to wet his pants!"

Jun nodded, and they both started to laugh, Mimi was hesitant, considering the fact that she was laughing at one of her friends, but they didn't really know that, so she tried to be fair, and laughed weakly when Koushiro wasn't looking.

The game continued, but really only Takeru and one or two deadbeats attempted to compete with the entire opposing team. The rest of the deadbeats either sat on the ground moping, or were talking with each other, ignoring the game entirely. Mimi and the rest of her 'B.F.F.s' just chatted away, "Hey, Mimi," Jun said, getting her attention.

"Yes?" Mimi asked.

"Where do you live now, not in that rundown apartment when you were 11, I hope?"

"No, no. Not that place, right now we live in a penthouse,"

Jun excitedly asked, "You mean, like a two-story apartment?"

"Yeah, my dad hit it big in the stock market, so we're living the life of luxury right now," Mimi bragged.

The two 'B.F.F.s' yelled in unison, "Awesome!"

Momoe exclaimed, "We should have a party!"

Jun agreed, "Yeah! A welcome-back party!"

Mimi was hesitant, however, thought out loud, "Well, it is doable, I mean my parents are off in Osaka right now for some business convention or something,"

"So can we have one?" the two 'B.F.F.s' exclaimed in unison.

Mimi unwillingly nodded, wishing not to disappoint her 'friends' on her first day back in Odaiba High School. And then Jun and Momoe started to talk about certain arrangements, the food that will be offered, the music, the decorations. Mimi let them deal with their own fantasies, and when they come up to her appealing for certain arrangements, she either nodded or shook her head, agreeing with the idea of this theme, and disagreeing on certain types of food. How empowered she felt! But Mimi entered their fantasies when it came to who should be invited…

Momoe advised, "Not junior high schoolers, they're weird,"

Jun agreed, "Yeah, and we HAVE to get some older kids in, they can bring the booze and stuff,"

Mimi reluctantly agreed again, and added in her own suggestions, "I guess so… hey we could invite Sora!"

Momoe yelled, "Right!" While Jun reluctantly added, "Yeah… I guess,"

"And Tai,"

"Right!"

"And Yamato,"

"DEFINETLEY!" Jun yelled, clasping her hands together while her eyes glistened at the mere mention of Yamato's name.

"And Koushiro,"

"NO!" Jun and Momoe shook their heads, disagreeing with the idea of Koushiro Izumi attending Mimi's welcome-back party.

"Why not?" Mimi asked.

Momoe pointed out to Koushiro, tying his shoe as he let Takeru kick the ball by, "Look at him! He's a dork! If he goes, everything will be all dorked up!"

Jun agreed, "Yeah! Trust us Mimi, don't invite that loser, you'll regret it!"

Mimi was unsure, this time she really didn't want to agree with them. Looking out, Mimi found the ball was near the Red Team's goal, her team was about to score a point, but Daisuke stole the ball from Takeru, passed it to Koushiro.

Koushiro recoiled, "Take it!" he yelled, lightly tapping the ball out of his foot's range, "I don't want the ball!"

Mimi sighed, "Oh, Izzy…" while she slapped her hand against her forehead.


Second Period just began…

"Okay, everyone, hand in your lab reports so I can grade'em and give'em back to you," the teacher said, clasping his hands together in order to get people's attention. The students, wearing their pukish-green suits/skirts and dull gray pants, proceeded to moan and groan as they start queue up in front of the teacher's desk.

"Very good, Yamato!" the teacher exclaimed, praising a light-skinned, blonde, blue-eyed student's lab report, "I've never seen students put pH graphs in such great detail and accuracy! And the calculations are absolutely accurate! One extra credit point!" then the teacher proceeded to make an example out of his work, revealing to the class, "These are supposed to be the type of graphs I see when you hand in your reports! These are the calculations: NICE, NEAT, ORDERLY in every way possible so I can assess your work properly!"

Yamato modestly announced, as if he just won an award, "It was nothing! It isn't as bad as it seemed either!"

The teacher nodded, carefully handing back his work to Yamato, as if the lab report was a blessing from some mysterious force.

And then a big-haired, brown-skinned, brown eyed student with a show of courage proudly presented his lab report to the teacher. The chemistry teacher, in turn, commented, "You seem pretty sure of yourself, Mr. Yagami," as he inspected Taichi's report, the teacher mentioned, "remember the last lab report I got? With the coffee stains and grease spots on them?"

Taichi laughed a little, whilst nodding. Trying to cope with the teacher's comments, but this time Taichi was confident that he will receive the same amount of appraisal as Yamato, since they were lab partners this time; they had to share the same data, the same graphs, and the same calculations. In essence, Taichi gave the teacher an exact copy of Yamato's lab report! That was allowed too of course. But did the teacher exemplify Taichi's work? Did the teacher praise him for the well-done graphs? The neatly typed calculations on acid-base reactions? Of course not!

"Mr. Yagami, these graphs and calculations are inadequate for my standards," The teacher sighed, "Another 2 out of 5,"

Taichi surprised asked, "What? Why?"

The teacher pointed out, "You do realize by now that I don't accept abbreviations for labels, and you didn't even bother to label the calculations you made, how can I tell what you are calculating if you don't even tell me what the answer is?"

Taichi gawked, and stood there for awhile, trying to make sure this wasn't some joke. The teacher casually handed the report back to Taichi, saying, "Please sit down, Mr. Yagami. You are holding up the line,"

Taichi walked back in shame, back to his lab bench, where Yamato and a ginger-haired, athletic girl called Sora sat. When he sat down, and lightly banged his head against the surface. Sora giggled; Yamato asked, "He gave you a 2 again, didn't he?"

Taichi's response was a groan, with his forehead still in contact with the wooden surface of the lab bench. Yamato exploded his arms outward, gleefully yelling, "YES, THAT'S 1500 YEN* RIGHT THERE!"

Sora laughed, "You guys bet on that?"

Yamato bragged, "Yeah, Tai thought that if he copied my work, then the teacher will give him full points; but I knew…"

Taichi answered for him, his head sill face down, "Yeah… that the teacher just hates my guts,"

Taichi grimaced as he handed the bills to Yamato, who boasted of his score, "Either way, I'm 1500 YEN richer,"

The teacher at that very moment finished grading the last student's report, handing it back he yelled out, "Okay everyone! It's time to do these practice questions I put on the board for you," pointing to an innumerable amount of chemistry questions, then sat down and started to play Minesweeper on his computer.

Taichi reached for his textbook, dropped his hand on it, and reeled it in. Taichi still moped around from his blunder a little, after a while he proceeded to begrudgingly open the textbook and looked with dread attempted to answer the first question assigned.

Meanwhile, Yamato and Sora, shared a textbook, pretending to do their work, with pencils in hand, and scribbling random numbers on their papers. But Sora actually whispered, "What are you going to do with 1500 YEN?"

Yamato replied, "I don't know, probably combine it with my allowance and buy something for Mimi's welcome back party,"

"Oh yeah, were you invited?"

"Yeah, I was…by Jun… is the entire gang invited on top of other students?"

"I don't know, most of them I think, I heard that Mimi was still deciding on Izzy though,"

"Izzy?"

"Yeah, I heard that she's invited everyone else, even Jyou, but not Izzy?"

"Does Izzy know?"

"No, poor guy, he might be left out,"

"You'll think he'll really care?"

"Well I saw him today, hiding something in a plastic bag; my intuition tells me it's a present for Mimi,"

"How can you be so sure of that?"

"I just got this feeling; but either way, Mimi should invite him, after all those adventures they had together in the Digital World you'd think that'd earn him an invitation to her party,"

"Oh, well, let's hope Izzy'll be invited; speaking of gifts, what are you going to buy Mimi?"

"Oh, I don't know, something nice, maybe something pink… you wanna go shopping with me?"

Yamato's face went blank, unsure of what Sora meant, Sora continued, "I mean to help each other look for a present for Mimi,"

"Oh! Of course, yeah,"

Taichi interjected, still stuck on the same problem he started on, muttering to the two, "Hey guys, do you have the answer to the equilibrium problem?"

Yamato jokingly responded, "Depends, can you spare another 1500 YEN?"

Sora lightly punched Yamato in the arm, "No bribes," Sora warned, then went onto ask, "what problem is it Tai?"

Taichi pointed to an element, labeled 'Bi' that was included in the problem, and informed the two, "It's not figuring out the equilibrium I have trouble with… I just don't know what element this is called,"

Sora thought for a bit, tapping a finger to her lower lip, and then commented, "It looks like Bitch,"

Yamato gave her a face, while Taichi sarcastically said, "Wow, that helps A LOT,"


You don't have to get that Bi thing, just an antic a friend came up with. :P

… I hate chemistry class, never could understand what my teacher says…

To be continued…