Hello guys and girls! I'm back with a new chapter!
Thank you for the reviews… Just to make this clear, Izumi wears a wig… She did not cut her hair… Will Kouji tell Izumi? You'll have to keep reading!
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon! Oh no… NEVER… Sigh…
In the previous chapter: Two days to sports day
Kouji faced the blonde beside him. "Hey, you ok?"
"Y-yes. I think—"Izumi wasn't able to finish his sentence for she was now falling.
Kouji caught her and felt something that shouldn't be there. "What the hell!"
The two of them were now on the floor. Izumi's head rested in his chest.
"Did I just feel…erm…? " Kouji said to himself. He accidentally 'felt' Izumi's chest when she was falling. He laid her down on the floor. "Please no… Please…" He said as he looked at Izumi. He slowly touched her chest and when he felt something soft, he immediately shoved his hand away. "S(bleep)T! He's a she!"
He stared at Izumi. "Why! ARGH! Why does it have to be me! Why can't it be Takuya, Junpei or Kouichi who could've found this out?" Kouji said.
"WHAT IN THE WORLD WILL I DO NOW?"………………………………………………
'Mizui's a girl. I knew something was up. He… err… she have this characteristic that says 'I'm a girl'. What should I do? Should I tell the principal about this? If I do, what will happen to her? I don't want her to get punished. Maybe she has a good reason. Ok, for now, I'll keep it as a secret. But I wonder, why would she do it?'
With those thoughts in mind, he fell asleep, his head on the bed where Izumi was sleeping.
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A Private School
Chapter 7 A Break from Training and the Girl's Dorm
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Izumi opened her eyes and looked to her left. She stared at the figure beside her. 'K-KOUJI! My goodness!! What is this? What In the world am I doing in Kouji's room with him beside me? Be calm Izumi. Be calm. Breathe. Ok. First of all, did he find out about my secret? Oh heck no! That just can't happen! And what is he doing beside me? Technically just his head but still! Well, if I wasn't a boy right now, this would be nice… Wait… I didn't just… ARGH… What is happening to me?' she thought.
"Mph..." Kouji gave a slight moan which interrupted Izumi's thoughts.
She stared at the navy blue haired boy beside him.
He smiled. Izumi stared at him. 'He's actually smiling?!'
"YAWN… Morning." He said as Izumi wore her fake smile. "Good Morning Kouji."
"So… um, what happened, Kouji?" Izumi asked. 'Please tell me you didn't find out anything…'
Kouji paused for a while and recalled the past events that had happened. His eyes grew wide. "Darn!"
He just remembered. 'How could've I been stupid! ARGH... He's a girl! I- I can't believe I could forget something like that! No, Kouji. You have to calm down first. She must have a reason for doing this, right? Yes, Yes. That's right! She has a good reason, although I don't know what. Ok, so I'm not going to tell. ARGH. I hope I'm doing the right thing. Ok, the little cross dresser is safe for now.'
"Eh? K-kouji? W-what's wrong?" Izumi said nervously.
Kouji snapped out from his trance and looked at the cross dresser in front of him. "Nothing's wrong, uh, Mizui. You sort of, uh, fell unconscious yesterday."
"I-is that all?" Izumi said.
"Yeah. You know, because of the chasing we've been through."
"Oh, Yeah." Izumi said then smiled but deep down she wanted to just disappear. 'Does he know my secret?' She thought to herself.
Kouji looked at the blonde's smiling face, the smiling face that he despised.
"Thanks, K-"
She was cut off by a sudden knocking.
KNOCK KNOCK… no, more like BANG BANG BANG BANG…
Kouji glared at the door. 'Who ever is knocking at that door is going to-"
"KKKKKKKKKKKKKKOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUJJJJJJJJJJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII! OOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEENNNNN UUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPP!"
Kouji and Izumi sweat dropped. "Takuya." They said in unison.
Kouji stood up to open the door.
"KKKKKOOOOOOOOOOOJJJJJJJJJIIIIIIIII! MMMMMMMAAAANNNNNNNN! OPPPPPPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNN UUUUUUUUUPPPPPP!"
Kouji's eye was now twitching. He opened the door and came face to face with a hyper Takuya and sleepy Kouichi.
"YAWN. Morning, Kouji." Kouichi greeted.
"Yo." Kouji said.
"Wazzup?" Kouichi said.
"Nothing much."
"STOP WITH THE GREETINGS ALREADY!"
Kouji rolled his eyes. "Good morning to you too, Takuya. What in the world do you want?"
"KOUJI!"
"…"
"KOUJI!"
"…"
"KKKKKKKKOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUJJJJJIIIIIIIII!"
"TAKUYA! What DO YOU want, darn it!"
"Sorry. I got carried away with the name stuff." Takuya said.
Izumi who was still unnoticed laughed at the scene she had just seen.
"Yeah, yeah. So what is it?"
"MIZUI! MIZUI! HE'S MISSING!" Takuya said as he pulled on to Kouji's shirt.
Kouji glared. "Will you calm down? Mizui is here with me."
"REALLY?! Wait! What is he doing here," he said then pointed at Kouji. "with YOU!"
"Calm down." Kouji said but was pushed aside by Takuya.
"MIIIIIIIIIZZZZUUUUUUUUIIIIIII!" He said then ran towards Mizui.
"Morning, Takuya!" She said.
Takuya hugged her tightly. "Mizui! I was so worried about you."
"D-don't worry. I'm fine." She said. 'This is ironic. If I was a girl now, then it would look at least a bit normal but this is just not right.' She thought as she sweat dropped.
Kouichi yawned. It's as if he wasn't seeing the hugging scene of Izumi and Takuya.
Kouji on the other hand was beginning to get really annoyed. He went closer to the two figures and pulled Takuya away. "That's enough." He said irritably.
"What?" Takuya said. "I was so worried."
Kouji smirked. 'Why did I do that? Hell, was I feeling jealousy? NO! NO YOU'RE NOT FEELING THAT KOUJI! I think I'm losing it.' he thought.
"Sorry to make you worry. But, really, I'm fine Takuya." Izumi said as she smiled.
Takuya sighed. "If you say so."
Kouichi yawned. "C'mon, let's go back to our room Mizui."
Izumi looked at the still sleepy, Kouichi and smiled.
"There's still time to sleep." Kouichi said. "After all, it is 5:30 in the morning."
"Alright, alright." Izumi said. "Let's go."
Kouichi waved goodbye and left the room.
"See you guys later!" Izumi said with a smile.
Kouji smirked. "Yeah."
Takuya went closer to Izumi and held her hand. "Take care of yourself."
Izumi blushed a little while Kouji watched the two with disgust. 'Is he falling for a guy now? Well, technically Mizui's not a guy but how could Takuya fall for her when he doesn't know she's a girl!' he thought. 'Stupid Takuya.'
"Uhm… Y-yeah. T-thanks." Izumi said then left.
She closed the door behind her and sighed. "No way. This can't be happening. Oh, Takuya."
-9:30 am-
The gang, meaning Izumi, Kouji, Kouichi, Takuya, Tomoki and Junpei, were all in their favorite hang out place. They were in a field near their school.
They were all under a tree to have some shade from the sun. Izumi was talking to Tomoki. Kouichi was reading a book. Junpei was showing card tricks to Takuya, and Kouji, well, he's seated on a branch of a tree. And guess what he's doing. Yap, he's watching a certain cross-dresser.
"Oh!" Izumi suddenly said.
Everyone turned their attention to her.
"What's wrong, Mizui?" Takuya asked.
"I just remembered, aren't we supposed to be having training?"
Kouichi placed his book beside him. "Don't worry. There's no training today."
"And why is that?"
"You see, Mizui-niichan, today is rest day. Since tomorrow is the sports day." Tomoki said.
Junpei fixed his cards, "The teachers want us to have enough energy for tomorrow."
Izumi nodded. "I see."
"I'm bored, though." Tomoki said.
Izumi laughed. "I know! why don't we walk around?"
"Where?" Kouji said. "We can't go too far from the school since it's a school day."
"I noticed there was another building beside our school." Izumi said.
"It's the Seirin High Girls." Junpei said.
"And beside our dorm is the girls' dorm." Kouichi said.
Junpei grinned and said eagerly, "Want to go there?"
Izumi sweat dropped at her friend's eagerness. "Uh… Sure…"
"Well, then! Let's go!" Takuya said then grabbed Izumi's hand.
Kouji glared at Takuya, "Idiot." And jumped from the tree he was seating at.
'ARGH. Take your hands off her, Takuya.' He thought without realizing it. He was getting ready to brush Takuya's hand off Izumi when,
"TAKUYA!" Junpei said. "I'm missing a card! Do you have it?"
Still Takuya didn't let go. "No I don't."
Junpei dragged Takuya to where they were a while ago. "Then you'll have to help me look for it!"
"But, but…" Takuya said as Kouji sighed.
"You guys go ahead with out us." Junpei said. "We'll follow."
"Alright." Kouichi said.
Tomoki and Izumi walked ahead of Kouji and Kouichi.
"Hey, Kouji." Kouichi said.
"Yeah?" Kouji said.
"It's about Takuya. Don't you think he has feelings for Mizui?"
Kouji looked at Kouichi and shrugged.
"And YOU seem to care about him too."
Kouji stopped walking. "WHAT?!"
Izumi and Tomoki looked at him.
"What's wrong, Kouji?" Izumi asked.
Kouji looked at Izumi. "Nothing. Kouichi and I were just talking."
He gave Kouichi a 'shut up' look.
Kouichi sighed.
"We're here!" Tomoki said.
They were now in front of Seirin High Girls.
"Wow." Izumi said. A lot of students were looking at them and giggling but the boys and Izumi didn't mind them much.
Kouichi just smiled at them. Tomoki blushed and Kouji glared.
"ORIMOTO?!" they heard high pitched voice.
They turned to where direction of the voice came from.
A girl with sea blue, long hair was looking straight at them. "IT IS YOU!" she said.
"You know her?" Kouichi asked.
Izumi's eyes widened. She quickly ran towards the girl.
"ORIMOTO Iz-" the girl was cut off by Izumi who suddenly placed her hand to cover the girl's mouth.
"Umi! Shh… Quiet." Izumi said and let her go.
"Izumi. It's really you? Oh my gosh! I missed you! Why did you cut your hair? GASP! And why in blazes are YOU wearing the BOY'S UNIFORM!"
Izumi sighed and smiled. "Umi. It's a long story. I'll tell it to you later. For now, go with me on this one."
They walked towards the three boys.
Kouji looked at the two figures nearing them and smiled. 'Her cover was almost blown. She got lucky.'
Kouichi and Tomoki were looking confused.
"Uh, guys. This is Hokaze Umi. Umi these are my friends, Tomoki, Kouichi and Kouji."
"It's very nice to meet you! You can call me Umi." Umi said.
"It's nice to meet you too, Umi-nechan. You can call me Tomoki." Tomoki said.
"…" Kouji just nodded.
Kouichi smiled. "It's a pleasure to meet you Umi. And you may call me Kouichi"
Umi blushed and nodded.
"So, how did you meet Mizui?" Kouichi asked.
"Mizui?" Umi said.
"OH! Umi and I are childhood friends. We're really, really close, Kouichi." Izumi said.
Kouichi nodded. "I see. Why didn't you tell us that you have a friend here?"
Izumi was now panicking. 'What's with all the questions?'
Kouji smiled.
'She's cute when she panics. Let's see how she gets through this one.' Kouji thought. 'Wait! Scratch that. I never thought she was cute! NEVER!'
Then a little voice inside of him said. 'But you just did. Stupid.'
'What the! She's not cute! She's just a girl who cross-dresses. SHE IS NOT CUTE!'
'Yeah right. Whatever you say.' The little voice said.
'SHUT UP! She is not cute!'
Umi finally understood who Mizui is and helped her friend. "You see, Kouichi, we haven't had contact for a while now."
Kouichi nodded. "Is that so? Then it's good that you've finally reunited with each other."
Izumi nodded full of nervousness. "Y-yeah… Hahaha."
"So, you guys want to hang out?" Kouichi said.
'ARGH. Kouichi. Don't do this! My cover's going to be blown like this. Umi doesn't know anything about Mizui yet. She might say something that will reveal my identity.' Izumi thought as she panicked.
Kouji looked at the panicking Izumi.
'You're looking at her AGAIN!' The little voice said.
'Hmph. What do you know?'
'You know. It's better if you take a picture. It'll definitely last longer, no matter how cliché that sounded.'
'Whatever. I better help the little cross dresser.'
'You mean MY cross dresser?' The little voice said.
'What do you mean YOURS? She is mine! I mean, nobody owns her!'
'Ha! I heard that!'
'You're annoying me.' Kouji said to the little voice.
'DUDE! That's my job! Anyway, go help her now.'
Kouji looked at Izumi and looked at Kouichi. "Nah, I don't think that's possible, Kouichi."
Tomoki looked at Kouji. "Why is that Kouji-niichan?"
"Didn't they say that they haven't been in touch?" Kouji said. "So, I guess it's just appropriate to let them CATCH UP on things." He added.
Kouichi and Tomoki nodded. "That does make sense."
"Well, Mizui, Umi, We'll see you later!" Kouichi said then walked away with Tomoki who was waving good bye.
Kouji looked Izumi in the eye. "Go and do your CATCHING UP." He said, emphasizing on the catching up, then left immediately.
Izumi stared at the now retreating Kouji. 'Why do I have a feeling he knows?'
"Izumi?" Umi asked as she placed a hand on Izumi's shoulder.
"Sorry, Umi. I was dozing off." Izumi said and smiled at her friend.
Umi nodded. "Let's walk and you can tell me everything."
An hour later…
Umi gasped. "So, that's what happened."
Izumi smiled. "Yeah. So, you'll keep my secret?"
"DEFINITELY, Izu- I mean, Mizui!" Umi nodded as she hugged Izumi.
"Thanks."
Just a few meters a way from Izumi and Umi, a brunette secretly watched them. "So, that's the guy everyone talks about." She said. "He really does look like a girl. Not only that, he…" she paused and thought for a while. "SHE hangs out with Kouji. I better do some investigating about this."
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END OF CHAPTER
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