Kaitoumiko: Thank you for everyone's continued support. I have been very, very bad. And er...thank you all for your interesting um…reviews….keep it nice ne?

Yamato: To think you had this chapter written out three months ago…

Kaitoumiko: Someone was giving me a hard time with the last chapter…couldn't continue without that one small scene…and still you cut it short…

Yamato: There was no plot development; there was no need for that stupid chapter.

Daisuke: More importantly, there will be Daiken and less important -vague- Takori in this chapter. We have taken over as the protagonists!

Taichi: And on that note, she doesn't own Digimon or Alice in Wonderland.

Ken: Enjoy.

Yamato in Wonderland

Of losing bets and misconceptions

"Can you see anything?"

"No." bemoaned Miyako, she waved her hand at the girl to silence her. "Shh, they're talking."

The girls pressed their ears closer to the door, careful not to open it further, seeing as it had been left slightly ajar. They had become bored with Koushirou, seeing as he had locked himself up in the palace library to do whatever it was he did on his laptop and were wandering around looking for the King and Queen of Hearts when they saw Daisuke and Ken run by, the prior chasing the latter—

Which brings us to the situation at hand…

"I've been trying to tell you for the longest time, but no one ever lets me tell you."

"D-Dai—"

"And every time I get a chance, I lose the gall to tell you."

The girls turned to each other and gagged at the sheer sappiness.

"Don't you see Ken-chan? I love you."

Miyako shot Sora a perplexed and worried glance. "Since when did Dai become overdramatic?"

Sora shook her head in incomprehension. "At least this means we win." Then they heard heart wrenching sobs.

"Is Dai crying?" demanded Sora.

Miyako attempted to look through the crack in the door but to no avail. "I can't see."

"Don't cry." It was Daisuke. The two girls relaxed and turned to each other again, that meant Ken was crying.

"Why is Ken crying?"insisted the baffled brunette.

"How the hell should I know." She bit her lower lip in frustration.

"I take it back. Ken-chan"

"What?" they exclaimed in unison, a bit too loudly but left unnoticed by the duo.

"Why is he taking it back, Sora?"

Her partner in crime looked at her blankly. "I don't know…" Their calculations were never off. Why was it that this had derailed so badly?

"Ken-chan?"

A few minutes passed, but they heard nothing but Ken's soft wails.

"Still out of range." Miyako stated, anticipating the question. "I think they are holding each other…"

She would have continued to say that they were on the bed—at least by her deductions—when the door suddenly opened.

They looked up sheepishly to find a devious hatter staring back at them. "Overdramatic?" Daisuke smirk widened. "Miya, weren't you the one who suggested I go shoujo and have Ken melt in my arms?"

"Well, I…"

Ken giggled from his seat on the bed. "And wasn't it you who said I should cry and throw myself on him?"

"Cry not sob." defended Sora.

Miyako blinked, suddenly becoming angry. "Wait you mean to tell us, this was all staged?" She stood up abruptly to leer at Daisuke, nearly knocking Sora over in the process. The brunette straightened herself and leaned irritably on the doorsill.

The two boys burst out laughing. "You betcha." exclaimed Daisuke.

The girls were beside themselves. "How—"

"Could it have possibly slipped by you, Miya?" smirked Daisuke.

"It's impossible for the both of you to keep an eye on everyone." stated Ken. "So when I was away on 'business' I was actually at Dai-chan's house."

"So Takeru and Iori already know?" seethed Miyako.

"Nope." said the hatter. "Ken-chan would leave in the morning and come back awhile later."

"That makes no sense." Sora muttered distantly.

"It's not supposed to." Ken replied. "But you never did find out what my job was did you?"

The girls shook their heads.

"You'd only run around in circles," Miyako smiled awkwardly. "So we got bored of chasing you and went on to more amusing things."

"Wait a minute." Sora frowned. "So who's living at your house Ken?"

"No one. I'm always with Daisuke. Why?"

"The light is always on in your room."

Ken's eyebrows furrowed. "Aren't you two supposed to know? What happened to 'we know all that happens in the land'"

Miyako looked like she was about to pull her hair out. Then again,the murderous glint in her eyes could have easily alluded to her desire todismember the two boys in front of her with her bare hands, in a pleasantly horrific fashion.You really never knew what Miyako would do when she was angry.

"Calm down Miya," soothed Sora cautiously.

"We accept defeat for now but you will see." fumed Miyako, as she took Sora's hand and stormed out of the overly purple room.

They turned to look at each other silently.The boys could almost swear that she was foaming at the mouth.

"That went well."

"You think?" the white rabbit stood, smoothing the wrinkles from his coat.

"Wanna go talk to Hikari?"

"Sure."

So with that they left to go join Hikari in the rose garden, closing the door with a soft swift click.

"Somehow that was disappointing."

"What was?" Ken looked at him distractedly.

"The whole Miya and Sora thing." He said opening the heavy doors leading to the rose garden.

"I suppose it was somewhat anti-climatic." They had been awaiting the day they could openly tell the crazy lot that they had finally confessed their feeling to one and other…but somehow it didn't happen quite the way they had planned.

"We can always tell Takeru and Iori…" The rabbit proposed, pointing out the hare and mouse that were lounging beneath the shade of a tall rose bush.

"Why do you even bother anymore?" asked the March hare.

Hikari sighed exasperatedly. "Because the Queen of Hearts wants them all pink."

"I thought you'd be done by now." asserted Daisuke, coming to a halt in front of Hikari.

The trump card turned to look at him snappily, pushing her hair from her face. "They all turn white by tomorrow, to top it off; she wants the castle pink too."

"Maybe you have to paint all the roses in one day." suggested Ken. "Like a spell or something."

"Excellent idea Ken-chan."

Daisuke whirled around angrily "I don't care who you are, I'm the only who gets to call him Ken-chan."

Mimi ignored Daisuke completely, pushing him aside. "Hikari-chan, I command you to paint all the roses by tonight."

"Mimi, that's impossible, I can hardly do half in a day." In reality, she was only able to paint a fourth if at all completely, but had given that up a long time ago. Instead, she had started to paint the roses haphazardly skipping the hidden ones and skimming through the others.

The Queen of Hearts fanned herself irritably "Then off with your head!" She turned to leer at Daisuke, "Off with yours too."

"Now, now dear, you really don't want to do that do you?" the King of Hearts tugged on her arm pleadingly. He was the type of person who tended to blend in so pathetically with the background that one would hardly ever notice he was beside them unless he uttered a word. "You won't have anyone to paint your roses anymore if…"

"I can do whatever I please." She pointed to the crown. "So do as I say."

Takeru brought out his tea kettle once more and poured himself and Iori a cup of tea. The hare seemed to have the uncanny talent of having a tea set with him at all times.

"You know," the hare stated off-handedly, "even if the five of us did it, we still would be about four people short."

Dormouse put his tea cup down, "And somehow I doubt Taichi would even bother helping your cause…"

"Or Koushirou for that matter…" added Ken.

Mimi fumed. "Then I'll take all your heads!"

"But then you'll be lonely." Daisuke pointed out.

The argument continued heatedly, for quite some time, and would have kept on going had Miyako and Sora not arrived running down the path at full speed, flushed and what seemed like not even breathing. Suddenly everyone lost interest in bickering back and forth, waiting patiently until the two girls finally caught their breath.

"We almost forgot to tell you all, since we got sidetracked with Daisuke and Ken." huffed Miyako.

"Which by the way, they are now a couple so we win." added Sora.

Daisuke's jaw dropped. "We were supposed to tell them jerks."

Takeru and Iori didn't seem surprised. "We figured as much." statedthe mousenonchalantly.

"You don't understand this happened a long time ago." explained Miyako with a wave of her hand.

"Wait." Takeru—now interested, threw his tea cup over his shoulder. "Exactly how long ago was it."

"No littering in my garden." demanded Mimi. But was thoroughly ignored, something she was not quite used to. However, the mad tea bunch had a habit of throwing their tea essentials about wherever they went. If that was any consolation to her.

Daisuke grinned cheerfully, "Actually it was after the drugged tea thing—" The poor hatter was left mouth agape, and unable to finish his story as he was as usual, interrupted.

"You've got to be kidding me." Miyako seethed. "That was like half a year ago!"

"Guess that means we win," drawled a smug Takeru.

"Win what?" inquired Mimi.

"Takeru and Miyako bet that if Daisuke were to finally confess that she would be there. Although Takeru said that it was pointless, and Ken would wither away before Daisuke ever got up the courage to ask to begin with." Iori took a breath and continued, "So, Takeru and I made it our mission to stop Daisuke from ever telling Ken, while Miyako and Sora tried to convince him to tell him."

"That has to be the stupidest thing I have ever heard," commented Jyou, carefully picking up the porcelain shards that now littered the garden. "I don't even really see the point to it."

"Anyway," Miyako continued, "If we lost, we had to stop trying to see Takeru deflower Iori."

Takeru frowned, and grumbled something about perverts but it was too soft for anyone but Iori to hear. The hare cleared his throat and tried again, "If we lost, we would have to join Miyako and Sora on their 'Get Jyou and Koushirou to realize each other's feelings' campaign."

Jyou was outraged. "How many times do I have to tell you I don't like Koushirou! I like Mimi! Isn't it obvious the King and Queen of Hearts?"

"He says this, but he has yet to touch me" sighed Mimi dramatically, though perhaps it was normal for her, seeing as she was always dramatic.

"You like to sleep in separate rooms!"

Mimi ignored this comment, looking up at the sky woefully.

"You talk to Koushirou more than you do her." retorted Sora.

Jyou glared at them, "Because I can actually talk to him about something other than listening to complaints about white roses and purple castles."

"It really is more of a lavender color." mused Mimi drumming her fingers over an indignant pout.

The King of Hearts was about to explode, when Daisuke interrupted him. "You ran all the way back to tell us that?"

"Oh, that's right." Miyako straightened her glasses, allowing the sun to reflect an ominous gleam off of them. "We found out who has been living at your house Ken."

Ken smiled, "Is that so? It wouldn't happen to be a tall lanky cat with bushy chestnut hair would it?"

"You knew!" They exclaimed in unison.

"Serves you right" Daisuke teased.

"He also screwed Blondie on your couch and bed." She said sticking her tongue out at him.

Ken turned white.

"I dunno Miya," interjected Sora, "We only saw the hot and steamy sex they had on the couch, who knows what they ended up doing in his bed..."

"Uh…Ken-chan? Breathe…." Daisuke shook Ken gently trying to coax him out of his 'must kill Taichi' frame of mind.

A satisfied smirk found its way onto Miyako's face.

Revenge had never tasted so sweet.

To be continued…

Yamato: There are inconsistencies in the plot, dimwit.

Kaitoumiko: -smiles confidently- No there aren't. It will all be revealed in the final chapter! Which may or may not be the next one… It will all come together then, if the reader's haven't already figured it out…

Yamato: Is this a sorry attempt to cover plot holes?

Kaitoumiko: -pout- You give me so little credit! Hey where did Dai and Ken go?

Taichi: You don't want to know… Review please!