AN: Alright so it's been forever since an update, I'm sorry but no one's reviewed or anything and I kinda forgot that I needed to write for this.

Disclaimer: I'm too poor to own Starbucks, not creative enough to own Digimon, and dear lord do you honestly think I'd be wasting my time writing if I owned Tokio Hotel?

Pairings: No name OCXIzumi, KoujiXTakuya, hints of KoujiXKouichiXTakuya

After their great adventure to the Digital World, and Kouichi's quick brush with death, the six warriors made a point to meet up at least once a week as a group. As it happened along with their weekly meeting it wasn't uncommon to for them to get together with the person they lived closest to so they could goof off and relive their times in the Digital World. Thus Kouji and Takuya were nearly inseparable in school together and totally blew away their opponents away with their teamwork on the soccer field, while Tomoki and Junpei made a point of always having a new trick to show off at their meetings. Kouichi and Izumi however were different.

Because Kouichi hadn't been there for the happier times in the Digital World Izumi never brought up their adventure and Kouichi never asked, they were in different class levels in school, and neither one of them played a sport they could bond over. For a long time the two simply met up just to sit together in the park and bond in their own strange way, until one day when Kouichi had decided that listening to music while he read outside with Izumi would be much more pleasant then listening to screaming children and nearby traffic. He hadn't noticed Izumi getting closer to him until she was nearly sitting in his lap staring at him with wide green eyes.

"Is that Monsoon?"

"Actually it's Durch Den Monsun."

"By Tokio Hotel?"

"Yeah."

After being tackled and having one of his earphones stolen Kouichi discovered that while listening to music while he read was very pleasant it was much more fun to dance to his music with Izumi while they sang; even if people did give them strange looks. From then on their meetings were full of laughs as they talked about their favorite band and their crazy antics; it was the start of their bond, one that grew from music to books, to cooking, to movies. Soon when the group would meet up it would be Kouichi and Izumi that would talk and laugh while the others tried to figure out who TH was and why the two were so interested in him/her.

When they were fourteen their bond took another huge step from common interests, to confidants. Attending the same high school was a real perk for the two as it allowed them to spend more time together and finally be on the same level in school, it also gave Izumi the chance to get Kouichi to talk to her crushes for her. Soon relationships became a common topic for the two, or at least Izumi's relationships did, Kouichi always seemed to shy away from the questions about his crushes. It was heading home with Izumi after one of their group meetings in which Kouichi had stayed with Kouji the night before that the warrior of darkness broke down and cried in his friend's arms about all the things he'd been feeling and how scared he was of disgusting his mother and brother. It was their secret for a time until Izumi insisted Kouichi talk to Kouji about it, somehow the results didn't surprise her, after all the twins were essentially the same person at the core so it seemed natural that if one was gay so was the other.

As it went high school progressed and everyone started to look at what they wanted to do with their lives Izumi had gotten sick of the way Kouji and Kouichi tiptoed around everyone when they talked about crushes and romance. So being the great best friend she was she decided that something must be done to cure her bestest friend and his twin of their dreaded singleness, Kouichi never really let go of the fact that she had spiked their drinks and tricked BOTH him and his brother into bed with Takuya, not that anything serious happened. After many awkward conversations the three boys had agreed to forget the whole ordeal and Kouichi had made Izumi swear never to do something so stupid again.

The summer of their fifteenth year, after Kouichi's horrific coffee addiction was put to rest, Izumi insisted that Kouichi come with her out to the country to visit her family with her. Kouji had protested but in the end even the great and powerful warrior of light didn't have the courage to stand up to Izumi's wrath. After their return Kouichi had been pissed off that his brother had not called to inform him of his getting together with Takuya, and while everyone knew the reason he was angry was because he hadn't been told about something so important Takuya flat out insisted that it was jealousy and had insisted he could defiantly handle both twins. The joke about the three dating never really died and sometimes even the twins had to question whether Takuya was really joking when he flirted with Kouichi.

It was no more than a year later when tragedy struck the Orimoto household. Izumi's father, a loud loving man with his daughter's beautiful blond hair and almost black eyes, had been sick for a long time and during the middle of their sixteenth year he'd taken a turn for the worst. Kouichi had over the years come to see the Italian man as a father after his own had treated him with a cold nature and thus he had been with Izumi at the man's bedside during his final hours, and had wept with her at his passing taking his final fatherly order to heart. Tomiko, Kouichi's mother, had opened her heart and home to Izumi and her mom having also grown to see them as family over time, it was with tears of pain and broken laughs of happy memories that the mothers and their children had rebuilt their lives but it was ok because the next family picture they took showed the four of them standing around the picture of the man they had all lost.

After Junpei graduated and left for collage the former legendary warriors encountered a serious problem, what were they going to do when they had to go their separate ways and couldn't meet weekly like they were used to? It took several fretful meetings and breakdowns before Tomoki finally smacked a dramatic Takuya and declared that they'd just have to space out their meetings a bit and settle for e-mail, phone calls, video messages, texts, and (in Kouichi's case) letters. Needless to say the elder members of the group had felt like idiots.

So they had spaced their meetings out to once a month and really everything was going well among the former warriors, until the time came to actually graduate then once more panic began to fill certain members of their group. Kouji and Takuya were both to attend the same college due to shared interest and similar fields of work, not to mention that after a strong three year relationship the two weren't going to let school separate them. Tomoki was still in high school and was fortunately still close to Junpei so their little duo was safe. The trouble was with Kouichi and Izumi.

Izumi had always loved cooking, both traditional food and foreign dishes and culture, while Kouichi loved writing and had over the years developed a fascination with foreign languages and the culture behind them. The two would often get together to watch all sorts of movies none of the others had ever heard of and it wasn't too uncommon for them to catch Kouichi reading a French or German novel as Izumi cooked a Swiss dish for them. However despite their shared fascination the schools they wanted to attend were approximately five hours apart, and for the two who were used to spending nearly every day together that was unacceptable.

Both looked desperately for a way to stay close together but they couldn't find a way to do so without one having to attend a lesser school then what they wanted, they didn't give up until the hour before they had to depart for their orientations. Kouichi had taken comfort in the fact that his twin and Takuya were no more than twenty minutes away just as Izumi had smiled when she saw that she was only a half hour from Junpei, but that still didn't stop the two from sending almost desperate e-mails to one another nor did it stop the six hour phone calls full of worry and sorrow. It had taken a great deal of effort on both Kouji and Junpei's part but after a few months the two were finally ok with being so far apart, proving with their childish antics at the meetings and during the summer that absence truly does make the heart grow fonder.

Now after years of friendship, joy, tragedy, and trust Izumi watched the young man she'd called brother so often and waited for his reaction, whether it be anger or joy. Izumi knew Kouichi better than almost anyone, Kouji being the only exception and even then while he knew his brother's mind better than her she knew his secrets, but she still didn't know how he would react and truth be told to that day he still surprised her. So it was needless to say that she was caught between worry, hilarity, and surprise when her dearest friend the child of darkness who had looked death in the face and come away grinning reacted like he did.

He fainted.