Houjun Ri: Can I say… SORRY!? I know I have not posted since like a year and six months or so. I am deeply sorry, but guess what? I AM going to finish this because I said so! I want it done by December or so. No it's this story is not coming to the end yet. Also I need to um … beta read the older chapters. I want to destroy it because the grammar is just … JUST SO BAD! Oh my gosh… well enjoy this! I'll try to update this monthly from now on or you'll see an update with in two weeks.

Disclaimer: I do not own this at all!

Chapter Nine

Koushiro blinked as he just stared at the door in front of him. Hikari had just slammed it right in front of his face.

But … why!?

He had done nothing to cause her to be angry at him. Hikari was not like Mimi, she was reasonable and thinks of her actions. He knew that she never tended to hurt peoples feelings, but what she had done a few moments ago had really hurt him. Not only hurt, but he began to feel worried. What had he done wrong this time? And to Hikari especially!

Just because it's your responsibility to take care of her doesn't mean you should treat her like that only…

Those words that Mimi had said to him began to hit him with a hammer. Had he really been treated her like a responsibility than a friend? Was that the reason she was mad at him? It was the second day that they had come to America, and everything was coming down on him! He glared at the door that was separating Hikari and himself. He decided to apologize, so he softly knocked on her door.

There was no response.

"Hikari-chan…I'm sorry if you're angry at me," he began. He bit his bottom lip, what else could he say?

"Umm… if you need to talk to anyone, I'm just a couple of rooms down the hall… Mimi and Wallace are downstairs watching horror movies…"

It was lame, but it was all he could say at this point. Starting tomorrow he would not treat her as a responsibility and treat her more of a friend that she is. Slowly he dragged himself to his room.

Meanwhile on the other side of the door, Hikari sat on the floor and her back was against the door. Her eyes were wide with shock and her hands cupped her face. Why had she done that? Why has she frozen and close the door in front of Koushiro? Why was her heart racing for the wrong guy? To sum it all up…

Just what the hell was going on with her.

She loved her boyfriend dearly, to the point she made a trip half around the world just for him. When she saw him her heart skipped every time he gave her that heartwarming smile of his. His blue eyes giving her a sense of happiness. She longed for his lips to claim hers, but would she be able to do it since she is now having second doubts?

No, she loved her boyfriend. There were no doubts in her relationship with Wallace.

But what was this feeling for the computer redhead? She was a bit angry when she saw Kazumi near Koushiro and acting so friendly towards him. She also did not like that little green monster inside of her yelling at her that she hated Kazumi for being near her dear friend.

Hikari sighed. "It's just a sudden feeling that I'm having today…"

She clutched her chest. "It'll go away tomorrow and I'll apologize to Koushiro properly… right now I just need to rest…"

Hikari slowly stood up and walked towards her bed. She sat down and felt the comfort that the bed was giving her. She laid down and closed her eyes.

"Everything will be fine…" she muttered. "Everything…"

Soon she fell into deep slumber and began to dream about her gorgeous American boyfriend.

--

Taichi sighed as he sat down on his chair and faced the family computer. He grabbed his mouse and began to click on the email icon. Finally a blank email document appeared. The problem was, how to get in contact with Koushiro before the week ends?

'It's worth a try…hell why not,' thought Taichi trying furiously on the keyboard.

He needed his sister back. Why? Well the sudden bad feeling he had at Iori's place was not a good one and he didn't like it one bit. Heck, call him an overprotective brother, but he deeply cared about his sister!

The typing stopped and he began to read his composed email.

'Yo Koushiro!

Hey, how is everything going in America? Is it hot over there where you guys are? Well, how did you guys arrive there? It better have gone smooth Izumi! Actually I was wondering if I should go over there and take a good look at the Wallace kid. Tell me … he's not flirting with her too much right? You didn't leave them alone right? Well reply back as soon as you can!

Take care,

Taichi

PS: Again … why is Mimi there?!

PSS: Tell Hikari that mom and dad miss her dearly. And yeah, I kinda do miss her brother some voice.'

Taichi nodded with approval and clicked the 'send' button. He would slowly catch a conversation with him and the give him a sneak attack by asking him if he would open a portal in his computer, so he will be able to reunite with his sister once and for all. Nodding at his plan, he smirked. All her needed to do was ask a favor from two of his best friends. Sora and Yamato.

Boy were are they in for it now.

--

Tap. Tap. Tap.

Click.

Tap. Tap. Tap.

It was all the noise that Koushiro's room was making. His onyx eyes were distant and foggy. His lips were formed into a frown, and all his fingers did was to type on the keyboard at his own super speed. His Pineapple computer was right in front of him, showing him screens of undefined text. He slowly raised his hand and scratched the back of his right ear. Then he continued typing once more.

Izumi Koushiro was distracting himself with his computer until a sudden 'You got mail' cute voice from his computer interrupted him. Blinking slightly, he dragged his mouse to the email icon and clicked on it. Soon an email from Taichi took over his computer screen. His eyes scanned the message and he smiled.

'Taichi you overprotective idiot…' he thought as he began to wonder what to type to his dear friend. His head moved slightly to the left and stared at the wall that would perhaps blocked the view to Hikari's room that she was staying at. He frowned, if he was going to tell Taichi the whole truth, then why would he feel worried?

Koushiro began to wonder. 'What to say to him….'

How he hated being a chaperone? How he was mean to his little sister by just thinking of her as a responsibility rather than a true friend? How he had left Wallace and her alone today at the pool while his slithering hands got to her waist?

Maybe he wouldn't put the last choice of words. He didn't want to get punched by Taichi ever again…

He closed his eyes and leaned back. What to say to the overprotective Yagami?

'Taichi really cares about his little sister. I wouldn't know how he's feeling right now. If I had a cute little sister like Hikari would I also be overprotective?' he mused as he was still leaning back from his chair. 'How does Hikari-- whoa wait … cute?'

He stopped leaning back and was now in a sitting straight posture. His lips and eyes twitched with slight discomfort at the thought. Since when did he ever call Yagami Hikari cute?

Yagami Hikari was always by her brothers side constantly when they were younger. It looked like a nice sibling relationship to Koushiro. He always knew that she had brown hair and chocolate milk eyes. She was best friends with TakaishiTakeru, Yamato's younger brother. Her digimon partner was Tailmon and her crest was Light. She was always helped the digimon and people whenever they needed the help. She's a very kind girl.

But just what made her cute?

Ever since the great battle of Apocalymon, he had babysat Hikari a few times whenever Taichi had soccer practice or when their mother would call him and ask him to baby-sit her until Taichi came back from practice. He always taught her how to use the computer much more properly than her brother ever uses it. They used to play video games and laugh at whoever lost. However, he never really saw her as a good friend, just as Taichi's little sister or his responsibility for awhile.

Thonk.

Koushiro's forehead met the wooden desk. Even from way back before, he always considered Hikari as a responsibility or Taichi's sister. He never treated her like a true friend she is. It wasn't his fault really, he was too busy figuring out about the mysteries of the Digital World. He let out a miserable sigh. 'I really need to hang out with people more often to get used to the social thing…'

When Taichi left the elementary school about two years ago. Koushiro always walked Hikari to the High School that Taichi attended, but he never really made a good long decent conversation with her really. All he asked was 'how was class for you today?' and 'see you tomorrow' whenever he dropped her at Taichi's school.

But when…when did he start noticing Yagami Hikari? He had (more or less) never acknowledged her presence when she was younger, except the one time when she fell ill and Taichi had punch the lights out of him that day back in the Digital World.

He knew that it didn't start when he graduated from elementary school. They had rarely talked to each other at all. He was busy, once again, figuring things out about the problems in the Digital World and the new digidestines. Probably the only time he took careful notice was when they went to Hong Kong to send the digimon back to the Digital World. He had to be careful about those sneaky Chinese trio siblings that were flirting with young Hikari. This time he didn't really see her as a responsibility, he just didn't want those siblings flirting with her too much. Finally after the battle she had with MaloMyotismon, she began to let her hair grow a little and become a bit more friendly to Koushiro and the rest of the older digidestines.

She really was a cute girl besides looks. She deeply cared about her friends and wanted to learn more about the Digital World with Koushiro along with Ken who was also becoming curious.

Koushiro sighed. "I really did treat Hikari-chan bad…what a horrible person I am…"

Looking and rereading the email, Koushiro began to respond back. He had mentioned about how they came here, took a ride from a strange truck driver, and how he had left Hikari alone with Wallace once. He didn't mention the fact that she was feeling a bit ill at this time. He also asked why he even wanted to come now in the first place? He also typed about Mimi being (more or less) a big help to him with taking care of Hikari.

Once rereading his response, he clicked the 'send' button. He glanced back at his clock and decided he should go to sleep since it was already ten at night. Shutting down his computer and closing it, he walked to his bed and laid there. Tomorrow would probably be a better day for him.

--

"Yeeey! We're going shopping!" cried Mimi with delight as she hugged the poor bunny digimon to death.

"I-I'm dying!" it cried out loud, trying to struggle from Mimi's grasp. Of course the girl paid no attention to the digimon.

Koushiro ignored his friend and continued eating the delicious pancake that Wallace had made. Who knew the boy could cook?

Hikari gave a small smile to Mimi and began to pity the poor digimon, who had just been grabbed as a victim. Her eyes then slowly averted to the redhead computer genius who was interested in his pancakes. A small blush appeared in her face, realizing this she immediately shook her head. Her small blush was gone, and her boyfriend now placed himself next to her.

"Like the pancakes Izzy?" asked Wallace, his lips forming a grin. Hikari tilted her head, since when was Koushiro known as 'Izzy'?

Koushiro snapped his attention to the blond. "Huh? Oh yeah, well I never knew you could cook."

This made the blond boy laugh. "You never really asked."

Koushiro sweat dropped. "Point taken."

Mimi frowned. "Helloooo? Isn't anyone excited that we're going shopping?!"

Terriormon was finally out of the grasp of the strong Tachikawa. The small digimon ran to his partner and cried on his lap. "You don't love me at all do you!? Whaaa!"

Wallace patted his digimon, while Mimi ignored the scene. Hikari and Koushiro sweat dropped as Mimi was now looking rather dreamy and muttering about cute dresses while she was ignoring the poor digimons accusations of her.

"Well when are we--" Mimi was rudely interrupted by the phone. Wallace quickly left Hikari's side and left her with a crying Terriormon.

"How ruuude," muttered Mimi glancing at the phone that had rudely interrupted her.

Hikari smiled at Mimi, she was very glad that the older girl was here with her. It made thing feel a bit at ease. Turning her attention to Koushiro, who had finished his pancakes, she wondered if the boy was still mad at her. She wouldn't blame him. Yesterday she was very rude to him and shutting the door right in front of him showed no respect. What kind of person was she turning to?

"Ah; Hikari-chan," piped Koushiro grabbing her full attention.

"Eh?" she took a glance at the redhead genius.

"Your brother emailed me last night," he announced. This caused Mimi to pay her attention to Koushiro as well. "He said that your mom and dad miss you a lot. Taichi also misses you too."

Hikari grumbled. "I've just been away for two days and they're already missing me like I was gone for years…"

Koushiro chuckled at the younger girl in front of him. It was good that she was being her usual self and was not angry at him. His eyes then moved to Mimi, who looked interested for some reason. "What?"

"What did you tell Taichi-san?" Mimi asked curiosity filling her brain.

"Oh, just how Hikari and I came to America smoothly and everything seems to being going alright."

"Ah…"

At this point Wallace had come inside the kitchen and smiled at them brightly. "We should go to the mall now. Kazumi said she'll meet us there in the afternoon to watch a movie."

The two girls in the room frowned. Mimi of course spoke up. "Why is she coming?"

Wallace walked up to Koushiro and nudged his shoulders. "Because of this guy."

Koushiro blinked his eyes. "What?"

"Figures…" muttered the two unpleasant girls.

--

Taichi had been sleeping on the keyboard for a few hours. He had sent an email to Koushiro long ago and was waiting for his reply. Of course one of his eye lids slowly opened up as he heard the door bell ring. He woke up and rubbed his eyes. He noticed the new email that he had received long ago. He clicked it and began to read it.

He reread it again and again.

"Oh he's inside the study room, he's been there for the whole day yesterday!" announced his mom from the living room.

Taichi of course was not paying attention. His eyes were glued to the monitor.

'I'm sorry Taichi-san, but I did leave Hikari-chan and Wallace alone yesterday for a couple of hours. I'm sure everything went okay with them, since they seemed to be alright, Hikari-chan was unharmed.'

Those words kept repeating over and over again inside his brain. Of course some of the words were left out. So all he could see was:

Hikari-chan and Wallace alone.

Alone.

Alone..

Alone

Finally the overprotective personality took over, he snapped, and grabbed his wild hair, attempting to rip it all off. He screamed.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU KOUSHIRO! YOU LET HIKARI ALONE WITH WALLACE?!"

"Hikari's in America?" said an unknown voice coming from Taichi's bedroom door.

Taichi stopped yanking his hair and immediately turned around. His eyes were twitching from the nervousness his body was giving him. How could he be so careless and scream like a mad man like his father, who by the way has not returned back from his journey. Now how could he lie to the person right in front of him?

Yagami Taichi was busted.

Meanwhile in her peaceful bedroom, Yagami Yuuko sat on her bed and sighed as she heard her dear son scream. It was something on the lines of:

Koushiro alone with Hikari.

Or something like that. She didn't really know why her boys were so overprotective. "I swear my son has a sister complex."

She grabbed a book near her and opened the book. "He really needs to start dating. It's probably that hair of his. I'll cut it off once Hikari comes home. Ahh… maybe I'll make it a surprise."