Warnings: non-sexual mention of nudity

Chapter Two - Somewhat Non-Committal

Within an hour after arriving, the vet was gone. They had given advice and a quick call to a supply store, as well as shots. Checking insurances had revealed that Mimi's family had pet insurance. Who would have thought?

Again, the rabbit remained placid, well focused and obedient. The only real moment of panic had been getting them to hold still for the needles. That had only worked when Mimi had given the rabbit a nice scratching behind the ears. When it was over, said rabbit still jumped off of the table and onto the nearest chair, looking at them with what Mimi could only identify as betrayal. How rude. She wasn't going to take that from a bunny rabbit.

"Oh come on," she said, hands on her hips. Palmon was staring eagerly at the small creature, despite using her human as a shield because that was a rabbit and rabbits (and rabbit digimon) loved their greens. "We didn't know if you were going to run away. We had to hold you. You didn't have to try and bite Palmon." (who the vet somehow hadn't noticed!)

the large purple eyes only looked at her more thoroughly, unamused. Koushiro managed to hide a smile. "I don't believe she agrees with you," Koushiro supplied.

"That's a girl?" Mimi frowned. "I guess I wasn't looking very hard..."

Koushiro bit his lip. "The veterinarian told me if it's any consolation." It wasn't exactly difficult to figure out the gender of a rabbit, but there were more important things to worry about. "Mimi-san, if you could keep her still again..."

Mimi nodded cheerfully and went back to scratching behind the ears. The rabbit didn't move at all this time, only regarded Koushiro with half-lidded eyes. Koushiro gave his laptop a quick scan before setting to work. He turned the screen to face the rabbit just as it started to shine. They both saw the beady eyes widen before the rabbit disappeared inside of it.

"Uhm... what's going to happen if she's an ordinary rabbit?" Mimi ventured to ask, eyebrow quirked.

Koushiro winced. "She wouldn't have been sucked in like that if she was."

"Oh."

"Was that really necessary?"

Koushiro answered without thinking. "Yes. There aren't exactly stray rabbits left to wander the streets of Tokyo..." He looked at the screen then to the large monitor on the nearest wall. Their usual cyberspace wasn't empty, but there wasn't a rabbit in there either.

A young woman was sprawled on the floor. Her purple eyes were narrow and looking right at them, hair falling down past her shoulders and over-

Koushiro immediately looked away, face burning. Mimi almost did but covered her eyes instead. "You're naked!" she shrieked. Not that she was a bad thing to look at... quite the opposite actually. It did, however, make the bandages they had left on her hind legs and left arm much more pronounced, among other things. And very loose, nearly falling off. They had just tied those.

The young woman blinked at them, one floppy purple ear twitching on the sides of her head. "Rabbits don't wear clothes," she pointed out. "What did you expect?"

She... had a point. Still. "Change that!" Mimi demanded. "You've got to be freezing!"

The woman stared at her. "I won't have them when I turn back, more than likely... but all right." She snapped her fingers and her body was covered in a black tank top and purple skirt. "Is that better?"

Mimi let out a harumph. "Much."

Palmon looked between them. "Mimi... I don't wear clothes either."

"Yes but you have modesty Palmon and you can," Mimi reminded her, wagging her finger. "And she looks human right now. It's rude in most societies to walk around without clothes."

"Oh."

Koushiro slowly opened his eyes again. "You manipulated my data space just now..." His embarrassment was quickly being replaced with fascination. "Despite all of my security..." He looked between the woman and Mimi. "How did you do that?"

The woman frowned. "She asked me to wear clothes, so I did so using the data around me."

"I see... what." Koushiro gaped outright. "You did it because she asked you to?"

"Yes. And because there is a draft in here."

Koushiro looked at Mimi, who didn't look much better about the whole situation. He was just going to ignore the comment about the draft. The system wasn't built to have drafts and no one else had complained. "I don't understand. What kind of Digimon are you?"

The girl shrugged again. "It's complicated. You could consider me an entity akin to a god if you would like. And I owe Mimi-san a debt. If wearing clothes will allow me to fulfill the debt, then I will do so. I owe you one similar, but lesser, as she chose to help first."

For a moment, Koushiro could remember the last time someone had been indebted to Mimi and related to the Digital World. Even if he had only been told about it, he couldn't say whether she was still in that state or not.

Lucky for them, Mimi looked just as baffled as he felt. "What? I just picked you up!"

She received a raised eyebrow and a chuckle. "Yes, you did. In the middle of the rain, while in a bad mood. I could smell it all over you. You could have ignored me and you did not. As is, you both took me in. I wish to repay you both." Her eyes flickered to Palmon. "Alas, the most convenient way has been taken up. So I will look for another way."

Mimi, to Koushiro's surprise, actually pouted. "You could just ask!"

"You would come up with something quick and easy to get out of it," the young woman responded, utterly bland. "Most humans do. I can't blame them. Either something quick and easy or something with long reaching consequences they aren't prepared for."

"And how are you so sure of that?" Palmon ventured to ask.

The purple eyes rested on them both, glowing with amusement. "Well, I was human once." She yawned. "Don't worry, young Chosen Children. I have no reason to deceive or betray you. Give you all the answers? Unfortunately, I cannot."

"Lies of omission are still lies," Mimi said in a prim little voice.

The young woman grinned. "Then I swear I will not lead you astray, Mimi-san. For starters, I will even tell you my name. My name is Sayo and to the Digital World, I am the Goddess of the Moon."

"And you have done a great thing indeed, sweet Chosen Child."