.Boys and Girls.

Taichi's never thought it was odd that his best friend was a girl. Other ten year old boys would make jokes and other ten year old girls would giggle, but the two would shrug it off. Taichi's never really considered Sora a girl anyway. Sora liked soccer and fishing and other sports. Sora liked strawberry popsicles. She didn't do things like gossip about boys or play with dolls or wear pretty shoes too painful to adventure in. She was Sora.

Even when she first came over his house and his mother squealed about her son having a little girlfriend, Sora didn't become weird and start planning weddings. She simply laughed and told his mother that she was wrong. Sora was his soccer buddy, his confidante, his best friend- even if she was a girl.

Of course that was before she met Hikari.

Not that he didn't love his little sister to death and not that he didn't want his best friend to like her, but they seemed to hit it off a little too well. The instant Hikari whispered something into Sora's ear they both zoomed off to the bathroom, leaving Taichi bewildered and his mother in tears ("But she gets along so well with the family!"). Minutes later Sora and Hikari returned with handfuls of ribbons and brushes and an evil gleam in their eyes. Taichi ran for his life.

Ten braids and three cans of hairspray later, Taichi found himself at the computer lab at school. It was summer and he was safe from prying eyes here- or so he thought.

"What are you doing here?"

"Hiding. You?"

"Playing computer soccer."

"...Can I play?"

The red head glanced back at him, blinked once, then nodded, "Sure."

Although Sora was still his best friend, Taichi was glad to have met Koushirou.

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A/N: T'was the product of someone mentioning how Sora and Hikari could have met before the Digital world and how Taichi, Sora, and Koushirou all knew each other from the soccer club. I've begun to like adding random references from my other fics into recent Digimon stories. It still amuses me.