A/N: Another somewhat long chapter, I think they might start get longer and longer.

"Oh god damnit, that damn scientist gives us a whole bunch of crap but only three fans," Tailmon said as she plugged in that third fan and stood in front of it. She smiled and shut her eyes as the flowing air pushed her ears and hair back.

It was a hot morning already; she couldn't imagine what it would be like during the day. She was surprised to wake up feeling more warm than usual, at first she figured it was Wizarmon holding her or something, which he was, so she pushed him aside. But she got up and walked to a window, stuck her hand out and felt the moist air. Japan's been hot before, but not this much and not that early in the morning. She began to wonder if being a Digimon and cat affected the way she felt temperatures.

She sighed and stood up to face Wizarmon standing behind her, he had finished his breakfast and was ready to head to work.

"I can't believe you're still wearing your usual clothes to work, first off the fabric of your jacket is thick and then it's black, can you imagine how hot you'll be?" Tailmon said, putting her hands on her hips.

He shrugged, smiled at her and put his hat on his head, "I'm just used to it. Heh, but I guess from this weather there won't be any new crimes. Who would want to?"
"So, what're you saying?"

"Expect me home a bit early, we've almost solved one case and there's no other ones in line."

Tailmon smiled at him, "Ok, what do you want to do."

Wizarmon was going to leave, but stopped and leaned against the doorway looking up at the ceiling, "Well…what's best to do on a hot day?"

Tailmon grinned, "Keep yourself cool, with water. Let's go to the beach!"

Wizarmon looked at her with a smile, "Sure. Well, bye." He waved at her and turned, leaving toward his car. She watched him leave, then closed the door behind her and leaned against the door with a happy sigh. She felt that she was becoming more and more close to him every day. It was only a couple weeks ago that she had admitted her love to him, and now the two seemed to act as if they've been in love for years. Tailmon smiled and nodded to herself, approving of the thought of another fun day with the one she loved and slipped up into her room. She ignored doing dishes or even catching a usual television show she watched around that time, instead she wanted to read a certain…book. She barely got time to read it because she was either busy with other things or didn't want Wizarmon seeing what she was reading. He definitely wouldn't be happy if he were to figure out she received it from Ryouichi. She had to admit, she found the book rather…interesting. But that wasn't the reason that she read it, she was really missing life as a Digimon. She had to become one again and return to Hikari, whom she missed so much. She wasn't sure how Wizarmon felt about being human, but she was pretty sure he preferred life as a Digimon too.

She opened the book to where she book marked it and read for a few hours till she decided to go downstairs and clean up a bit. As she washed the dishes she hummed a tune to herself, a happy tune that would tell anyone she was excited about what she was going to do that day. She had a mini fan running next to her; she closed her eyes after washing a plate and tilted her head back to enjoy the flowing air again. It was then that she suddenly decided, that tonight was the night she showed him the book and maybe they'll make a decision.

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Just as Wizarmon had suspected, he returned home around three which would probably be the hottest time of the day. He fanned himself with his hat once he was home and sighed," Ok I admit it, Tailmon you were right." He heard a laugh come from the kitchen as Tailmon walked over to him, not wearing what she usually did. Well normally she'd wear either the suit the scientist first gave her, or she wore a thin, loose white shirt and an apron when she cleaned, cooked, etc. But this time, she wore a thin strapped tank top and he could see purple straps showing underneath that he guessed was the bathing suit, and she of course didn't wear her usual jeans but a pair of white shorts too. She smiled, seeing that he seemed to be gawking at her, and turned back to the kitchen, in which she was preparing snacks for the beach, but as she turned she twitched her tail. She could tell that he was still out in the doorway so she told him he'd better get ready or else she'd leave without him. He nodded, although knowing that she didn't see it, and headed upstairs. She could hear him walking up because he forgot to remove his shoes so she could hear the leather meeting the wood every step until he was upstairs.

He came back down, wearing a loose white shirt and loose, dark and almost black shorts that were pretty long and went down to the knees. Of course he was wearing his swim trunks underneath. He walked into the kitchen and held up some towels, "Thought I should get some so you wouldn't have to run upstairs to get them."
"Well…there's still something else I need to get, but thanks anyway," she said, packing up the last bit of food, giving him a quick smile and rushed up the stairs. She knew it probably wasn't a smart idea, but she grabbed the book. She pulled it out of the drawer of her night stand, which could only open by a key, and stared at it. She put it back in and slammed the drawer shut and sat the bed with a huff.

Can I get any more stupid! When am I going to read it!? Like he'll go out in the water anyway? Even if he does, he won't want to go alone!

She looked around the room, now she needed to find something that she had supposedly "forgotten to pack up". She found a brush and grabbed it, and went downstairs. As she got at the foot of the stairs she saw Wizarmon waiting for her at the door, with one bag hanging over his shoulder and another at his feet. He smiled at her, giving her a look that asked "get what you needed?" She nodded and waved the brush in her hand. He raised an eyebrow, and she cocked her head to the side. Wizarmon shook his head, thinking why he wasn't talking.

"Tailmon…I thought you don't care about obsessing over your hair."

Tailmon shrugged, "I don't know….I guess I should get it because…………well salt water does things to your hair."

"But Tailmo-"

"Shush," she said, grabbing his cheeks and pushed them together so that his lips were puckering, "Anyway, you probably need it more than I do."

"Ok," he sputtered, Tailmon then let go, wiping spit off her face, and he rubbed his cheeks muttering an "ow".

"Oh it wasn't that bad," she said as she picked up the bag on the floor and slipped flip-flops on, then turned the door knob and looked at him with a smile. The two leaned forward and kissed, then left.

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The two found a perfect spot, laid out towels and rented an umbrella for shade. Once everything was settled the two sat on their separate towels, with clothes already removed and bathing suits showing, and stared out into the ocean. They watched lovers, families, etc. play in the water. Tailmon sighed as she watched a father and his daughter build a sand castle. She thought to herself many times when it came to having a child, she was only doing it for selfish reasons. Well she would debate on that though, because he mostly did it for Hikari. But what was she to do? If the experiment worked how was she going to raise a hybrid child as a Digimon? The only choice that came to her mind was….abortion. She heaved her shoulders and looked down at the sand, keeping a frown on her face. Wizarmon was looking opposite from her; he was looking out at random seashells in the sand and had a sudden urge to collect them for the hell of it. He suddenly got an idea as he looked over at the same father and daughter making a sand castle.

"Hey Tailmon let's- what's wrong?" He said as he looked over seeing her depressed look.

She looked up at him and quickly changed the frown to a smile, "What do you mean? Nothing's wrong silly. Anyway what did you want to say?"

"I just…saw that guy over there with his child making the sand castle and thought maybe we can do one too," he said, shrugging his shoulders.

Tailmon looked at him with an eyebrow raised, "Wizarmon…you're an adult, you don't do things like that anymore. Unless you're doing it with a……kid."

Wizarmon stared at her, wondering what was with the sudden pause. He noticed her stare off and frown again, he then picked up a hand, brought it to her shoulder opposite from him and pulled her close to him, almost into an embrace.

"I don't know what's wrong and I doubt you'll tell me since you're so stubborn, but whatever it is I'll be there to help you."

Tailmon smiled and brought and arm up to put it on his shoulder, making it look more like an embrace. She looked up at him to see him smiling down at her. She lifted her head up and gave him a quick peck on the lips, then moved away from him and stretched.

"Alright," she said, stretching a bit more then looked over at him, "We didn't come here to just stare at the water. Let's get in!"

"Uh…yeah…about that…"

"Oh come on! I know that part with Vamdemon seemed a bit traumatizing, but this time I'll be there and you're not going to be actually dropped in the water. You need to learn to swim anyway big boy."
"Yeah but Tailmon-"

"No…no 'buts', now come on!" She said, and grabbed him by the hand as she stood up. She pulled hard and managed to get him to his feet. That didn't mean it was going to be easy to drag him. He smirked at her, seeing how hard she tried and couldn't get him to budge.

She smirked back at him, "Oh, don't go thinking I've given up already."

She then took his other hand, now facing toward him, and him being so tall he actually blocked the sun from her view, and began to pull some more. He shifted a bit, but soon his feet were buried in the sand and it was impossible to move him unless she dug him out.

"Damnit Wizarmon don't be such a-"

"Akio, Aimi!"

Tailmon and Wizarmon almost jumped out of their skin, and not because of someone screaming their names…but it was because of that someone who was screaming their name. It was easy to tell by how improper he called them, and just the tone of his voice was easy to hear from many miles away. The two slowly turned their heads to see Ryouichi standing a few feet behind them, holding a black surf board in one arm and waving with the other. He looked almost like any teenager surfer, with light blue trunks and actually wore a shark tooth necklace.

"Quick," Wizarmon whispered to him, "Let's hurry and pack up and run, maybe he won't notice us."

"You idiot that's too late," Tailmon whispered back as Ryouichi walked over to them. He wore the usual grin as he always did and put his arm that he was waving with on his hip.

"How're you two today?" He said, with his eyes squeezed shut and smiling at them.

Tailmon and Wizarmon exchange glances, then looked back at Ryouichi both saying the same thing, at the same time, with the same tone, "um…fine."

Ryouichi opened an eye and looked at them, then laughed and smacked Wizarmon on the back rather hard. Which actually hurt with the fact his back was bare.

Ryouichi still laughed and he drowned out his scream of pain with his loud chuckling, "God you two make me laugh! I knew today was something special!"

He had his eyes shut, but as he finally opened them he saw Tailmon glaring at him and Wizarmon rubbing his back.

"Whoops…sorry," he said, grinning sheepishly; then rocked from heel to toe for a few seconds before thinking of something to say, because he felt uneasy with Tailmon still glaring at him.

"So…what're you up to?"

Tailmon smiled, "Good thing you're here actually. I was just about to get Wizarmon into the water," she then leaned forward and whispered into Ryouichi's ear, "he's kind of afraid of the water and doesn't know how to swim."

Ryoichi grinned, "Is that so…."

Wizarmon shot Tailmon a look, "Tail-Aimi! What'd you tell him?!"

She grinned and shut her eyes, put her hands behind her back and rocked on her heels and toes for a bit too, saying with a teasing tune, "Nooothiiiiing."

Suddenly Ryouichi rushed into Wizarmon, grabbing him like a professional wrestler turned around and ran backwards into the water, taking Wizarmon along with him.

Wizarmon shot out of the water gasping and quickly crawled back onto safe land, then turned to see Ryouichi pointing and laughing at him.

"Haha! You should've seen the look on his face!"

Wizarmon turned to see Tailmon laughing also, saying that she did see the look on his face.

"Some wife and partner you two are," Wizarmon said, getting up and dusting sand of his arms and legs. Just as he had finally dusted it all off, Ryouichi had snuck up behind him, grabbed him by the leg and dragged him back into the ocean. Tailmon rushed over to help prevent Wizarmon from getting out. Eventually they all fought in the ocean through the whole day, but of course soon to Wizarmon's relief they grew tired. They all sat at the shallow part of the ocean and laughed.

"I never knew splashing each other and trying to keep a certain someone in the water could tire me so much as it did. And I didn't even get to surf," Ryouichi said.

Tailmon smiled, "Sorry."

Ryouichi shook his head and waved his hand, "Nah, it's alright. I didn't see any good waves anyway. It wasn't windy enough today. So, have any fun Akio?"

Wizarmon smirked, "Sure I did. I love being forced under water…in which I'm afraid of."

Ryouichi grinned, having Wizarmon wonder if he ever catches his sarcasm, and stood up quickly, "Good! Now, I'm hungry. Who wants fries?"

"Neither, I made food. So we're eating it. You go eat your greasy fries," Tailmon said as she stood up and Wizarmon followed.

"At least you'll have ice cream right?" Ryouichi said, and Tailmon gave him a look, "Oh please! It'll be my treat!"

Tailmon sighed, "Fiiine."

Ryouichi jumped up, "Yes! Come on Akio, let's go get ice cream."

He then grabbed the caught off guard Wizarmon by the hand and ran off to the little shack that sold ice cream. Tailmon sighed and shook her head, hoping that one of them would think that she liked chocolate chip.

The two returned with just what she wanted, Wizarmon had vanilla, and Ryouichi had rocky road. In which most of it was all over his face already.

"God you're such a pig," Tailmon said as she sat and licked some of her ice cream, gracefully.

Ryouichi grunted, turning his back to her a bit and continued to eat his ice cream the way he liked to.

Wizarmon looked at her with a smile, "Like it? I kind of figured you would like it."

She giggled a bit, "See this is why I love you. You're so smart! This is my favorite kind." She then leaned forward and gave him a kiss as a reward.

"Oooh is that kissing I hear!?" Ryouichi said as he turned, with a chocolaty smile.

Wizarmon sighed, breaking the kiss and turned to him, "Nah we're just making smacking noises."

"Doesn't seem like it to me, so you've finally got more closer since…well since I last saw you together. Which was a couple weeks ago, which was with the ghost woman and such."

Wizarmon sighed, and ignored Ryouichi, finishing his ice cream.

Once they were finished they played a card game, Tailmon packed cards, and then chatted for a bit; then Ryouichi volunteered to be buried and have a sand castle built on, then some wind picked up so he went surfing and the two watched, laughing as he fell off a couple times. He came back, sitting next to them in the sand, being that he didn't bring a towel and they didn't have any extras. He looked at the two with a grin, ignoring the feeling of sand sticking to his wet body and a chilly wind blowing on him. They looked back at him, knowing he must've been up to something. And of course, he was, he had dragged along a bunch of seaweed and threw it at them. Tailmon was caught by surprise from the sudden green thing flying at her and screamed. Ryouichi laughed, pointing at them but soon had seaweed flying back at him and hit his face. So the three got into another childish fight again till it got late and the sun began to set. In seeing the setting sun, Ryouichi found it as the perfect opportunity for romance.
"Welllll," he said, getting up and grabbed his surf board, "It was fun hanging with you. I've got to get going. Gotta go meet Hideaki at the bar, bye guys! Have a…nice night." He then winked at Tailmon once she noticed him pausing and gave him a look as he said "nice night". She could tell he figured out that she read the book. It made her wonder if he could tell she was going to show Wizarmon the book too. He turned after the wink and left, not looking or turning back. Tailmon watched as he left, but Wizarmon looked out into the sun set. Tailmon sighed once Ryouichi was gone, and the two were sitting in silence. Much of the families were gone, and all was left were a few couples sitting and watching the sunset.

"You know…" Tailmon said, breaking the sudden silence, "We never did eat any of the things I made and packed."

"Oh…sorry, want to have some of it now?" Wizarmon asked.

She shook her head, "No, some of it probably isn't any good anyway. The only thing I want right now…is you."

Wizarmon looked at her, blushing somewhat, then placed his hand on top of hers. She looked up at him, then down at their hands and blushed even more than him. How was she going to lead this into something romantic and showing him a book that makes things even more romantic without sounding…well…just desperate! She started by leaning forward and kissing him, then laid her head on his shoulder and looked at the sunset.

"It's beautiful," she whispered. Wizarmon nodded in agreement, laying his head on hers and watched the beautiful sunset too. As the sun had finally set, everything around them became surprisingly cold compared to how it was later that day. So they decided to start getting ready to go. Tailmon watched Wizarmon as he rolled up his towel and smiled, she was definitely positive. Tonight was the night.

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"Wizarmon, when we get home…there's something I want to show you," Tailmon said as they were driving home. For some reason, the dark atmosphere outside and the slightly lit car just made things seem more romantic to her every minute. Although to Wizarmon it just seemed like another night, he looked over at her with a smile, "Sure, I can't wait to see it."