OMG GUYS! GirlsLikeeBoys is writing an alternate story to this fic. It's a sequel to Digiomn Frontier Refreshed and it's a 'what if' story about what everything would be like if Takuya and the gang lost contact. If you haven't already checked it, totally do it, and review. It's AMAZING! :D

*Sigh* I'll admit. I've been neglecting you KouKei lovers out there. So I'm giving them some shit in this chapter. Yeah, yeah. You're welcome. :D

Oh, and ah have a new poll up! :D

UNBETAED CHAPTER! D:

Review replies to chapter 13 (Sorry, but they're gonna be short. I'm exhausted!):

D4RKWR173R5: I'm glad you liked that part. And I know, poor Tamotsu. D: Thanks for the review and I hope you like this chapter. (:

GirlsLikeeBoys: You know it's true mayne. :D And I know that you're in love with Izumi. It's so hard to watch you get your heart broken. Thanks for the review and I hope you like this chapter. :D

Caliboy: Poor Tamotsu. D: He's so sad. That's okay, and I hope you have fun. Thanks for the review, and I hope you like this chapter! :D

ThankfulMemories: Oh, he'll be back, I promise. (; They're actually not official yet, but they're talking. :D And I didn't want to completely one-up Tamotsu. xD Thanks for the review, and I hope you like this chapter! :D

Celestial Writer: Tamotsu's so sad. Poor thing. And Junpei's a douche bag. :D Izumi'll be a good girl, don't worry. :D Thanks for the review, and I hope you like this chapter! :D

Jennison Silverye: Actually I was right on time. It probably just seemed early because I'm usually late! :D I feel bad for Tamotsu too. D: And Tomoki's gonna be in this chapter too! Thanks for your review, and I hope you like this chapter. :D

Empyrea: I loved writing that part. Poor Tamotsu. D: Thanks for your review, and I hope you like this chapter! :D

So for my question this time, I'd like to know who your favorite male character in this story is. Thanks! :D

"Ayame, you shouldn't climb so high up!" Keiko called from the bottom of the large oak tree. "It's way too tall!"

"It's okay, Keiko!" the blonde called back, grinning down at her sister. "I'm very good at trees!"

"What exactly are we looking for?" Kouji asked, walking down the aisle with Keiko and surprising her out of her reverie.

"Um, anything that looks scary," Keiko replied. "Saburo and Akira are getting a comedy, so they said we could grab something too."

"Hn." Kouji looked at a disc case. "Rated R for nudity, sex, language, bloody violence and disturbing scenes of terror."

"Umm." Keiko walked over and pushed the case away, smiling up at him. "Too much."

He rolled his eyes. "What exactly is too much?"

"Well, if it's more of a softcore porno, it's kind of awkward to watch with Izumi around, right? I'm just looking out for you."

Wow. That was nice of her. "You're right."

She smiled and traveled down the aisle. "Actually, Keiji said he saw this one movie with Ayaka, and it was all girls."

Kouji raised an eyebrow.

"No girl-on-girl, though," she said quickly, her face going red.

Kouji smirked at the girl's expense. "Maybe you're hiding it from us. You're secretly a freak."

She sputtered, pointing accusingly at him. "No! You're the one who likes guys, apparently, remember?"

Kouji crossed his arms over his chest. "Not really, Keiko. I'm emotionally and sexually attracted to girls. Only sexually to guys."

"Why wouldn't you tell me?" Keiko asked, pouting. "I wouldn't have told anyone."

"I know." He sighed. "Thought you'd think I'm weird."

She gawked. "I live under the same roof as two gay guys, an ex-alcoholic and a perfectionist-workaholic. Do you really think I'd think you're weird?"

He smirked. "Guess not."

She smiled back at him and then picked up another movie. "The Descent. This was the one, I think. You wanna watch it?"

Kouji looked over her shoulder. "Sure."

She nodded and the two began to look around the aisles for Saburo and Akira. Kouji was surprised when Keiko grabbed his sleeve "Kouji?"

The raven looked down to the brunette. "Yeah?"

"Umm. I just… I wanted to let you know that you're… too good for that drinking and hooking up thing. I just thought you should know that. That I'm glad you stopped, I mean." She blushed and pulled her hand away. "I don't think I ever told you that."

He gave her a genuine smile. Not one of his half smirks, but an actual smile. "Thank you Keiko. Really."

She smiled back and pushed her face into his jacket. "You're welcome." She moved away. "C'mon. Let's go find Saburo and Akira."

He nodded. "Right."

"We're back!" Keiko called, Kouji behind her as the two came into Keiko's living room, where Izumi and Kouichi were waiting, Mister Boots laying on the back of the couch, purring. "And we got our movie!"

"I just took my medicine," Izumi said softly. "So hopefully my teeth won't hurt at all through the movie."

"Hey, where's Salamon and Lopmon?" Kouichi asked as Keiko took a seat next to him and Kouji got on her other side.

"They're both upstairs. Neither feels very well. Weird, huh?" the brunette shrugged lightly.

"Yeah, that is pretty odd," Kouichi murmured.

"Oh, hey, do any of you want some popcorn or something?" Keiko asked, standing up. "I was gonna grab some soda and Izumi's ice anyway."

"Could I have a soda please?" Kouichi asked.

"I'm good," Kouji muttered, standing and heading to Keiko's DVD player, used to it by this point.

"Just the ice," Izumi murmured, pulling the blanket closer to her. "God, Keiko. Your house is always so cold."

"I'll grab some blankets too," the brunette said, walking out of the room. "Be right back."

Kouji sat back on the couch, leaving a space between Kouichi and himself for Keiko. He'd wanted to sit next to Izumi, but she was leaning against the arm of the couch, and Kouichi was next to her. Oh well. He'd have other opportunities, right?

"What movie did you guys end up getting?" Kouichi asked curiously.

"The Descent. It's about some chicks who get trapped in an underground cave."

"Ooh." Izumi shivered. "Creepy. Kind of reminds me of the cave me, Takuya, Tomoki, Junpei and Keiko were trapped inside of during the Digital World."

"I remember hearing about that," Kouji said. "Tomoki was very animated when he told us about that."

Kouichi smiled reminiscently. "Tomoki…"

"We really screwed up, didn't we?" Izumi asked softly. "We're supposed to be his friends, and…" She sighed. "If only Takuya were here. He'd know what to do."

For some reason, that stung Kouji. Why wasn't he good enough to fix it?

Oh, right. Because he hadn't yet.

"Alright, I've got everything!" Keiko exclaimed, smiling happily as she somehow dragged a blanket, a bowl of milk, two sodas, an icepack, a cup of jello and a big bowl of popcorn into the room. She paused when she saw the look on her friends' faces. "Hey, you guys okay?

Kouji cleared his throat and stood up, moving across the room and taking some things from Keiko. "It's nothing."

Keiko smiled lightly at the raven. "Thanks."

"Hn."

"I'm not sure if you're feeling up to eating yet, but I got you some jello in case you want it." She pulled her cat off of the back of the couch, setting her on the ground. "And I got you some milk, Mister Boots."

The cat mewed happily and rubbed against Keiko's legs, immediately lapping at the milk when Keiko put it on the floor.

"Mister Boots is so cute and well-behaved," Izumi said smiling. "You're lucky to have a cat that listens."

~She only listens because once upon a time, she was Ayame's cat.~

"Thank you," Keiko said, her smile becoming strained. "Ready to watch the movie guys?"

Kouichi looked suspiciously at the brunette. ~Wow. She completely shut down after that comment. Wonder what's up.~

The brunette plopped down between the twins and picked up the remote to the lights, turning them off and pulling the blanket over them. Kouji hit the play button.

Tomoki had never denied a girl before.

Well, scratch that. Yeah, he had denied a few girls.

But Tomoki had never denied a girl who was one of his best friends.

Chiaki was leaned in, her eyes half-lidded, and Tomoki suddenly realized that she was truly beautiful, grown up, and no longer the same little girl that he'd met in the Digital World for the first time.

But for Tomoki, Chiaki wasn't Michiko, and if Chiaki wasn't Michiko, she just wasn't right.

For some reason, though, he didn't stop her. He just shut his eyes and let her lips press against his.

He had a feeling that things would be worse if he pushed the girl away the second she began to lean forward. He would let her kiss him. But afterwards, he would have to tell her that he didn't like her the way she liked him, as hard as it sounded.

Chiaki pulled away after what couldn't have been more than five seconds. Her cheeks turned pink. "I really like you, Tomoki."

He stared, remembering what Michiko had said to him when 'Takashi' and 'Momoe' had finally decided to meet.

"Michiko? What're you doing here?"

The auburn haired girl had smiled at him. "This probably sounds really dumb, but I'm supposed to meet a man I met online here."

Tomoki's stomach dropped. "You… Momoe?"

She stared, her eyes going wide. "T-Takashi?"

He laughed nervously. "I guess it did end up working out. You're only two years older, instead of ten."

"B-But I-I…" She opened her mouth, then shut it, looking sick. "You're… a kid."

He blinked. "What?"

"I can't date a kid." She ran a hand through her hair. "I mean, you're still eleven years old… I-I…"

"But you were willing to try to get a twenty two year old man to date you," Tomoki said. "And now you're freaked out that it's a twelve year old?"

"There's… there's a big difference between a fifteen year old girl and a twelve year old boy, Tomoki… I'm sorry."

"I really like you, Michiko."

"I know…" She looked upset. "I'm sorry."

Those words that Chiaki had said, and the way she'd said them… ~I was her at one point. And now I'm going to make her go through the same thing.~

Tomoki thought of something. If he'd never had his experience with Michiko, would he like Chiaki? Hell, he knew that if he'd never had his experience with Michiko, he'd at least give the girl a chance. He'd at least try.

He would at least try, unlike Michiko.

Chiaki looked like a nervous wreck, and Tomoki was positive that only a year ago, he'd looked the same way.

He knew Chiaki very well. The brunette had taken him under her wing, caring for him after Michiko had broken his heart. She'd comforted him when nobody else would.

So he would try, for her sake.

He would try, because if anybody deserved to be loved, it was Chiaki.

Tomoki gently put his hand on the back of her neck, pulling her closer to him and kissing her again, and the girl clutched at his sides, not surprising him. She obviously wasn't very experienced. Not saying he was, though.

But he was more mature than the other boys his age, so he at least had an idea of what to do.

He pulled away from the kiss, and he guided her head forward to rest on his shoulder. She was practically in his lap by now. "I like you too, Chiaki."

And it wasn't a lie.

Because if he tried as hard as he possibly could and pushed away every feeling he'd ever had for Michiko, he knew that kiss would've been sweeter than candy.

Kouji was absolutely stunned at the gore, horror and craziness of the movie they were watching. Izumi actually seemed to be intrigued in it, a sort of half smile on her face. Kouichi had a twisted look on his face, not really knowing how to react to what they were witnessing. Keiko's jaw had dropped long ago, the poor brunette would cover her eyes for half of the movie.

Kouji wasn't normally one to be afraid of movies, especially crazy ones like these where super powered spider monkey creatures would attack and kill, but this actually had him genuinely freaked out. Enough to wish he could leap across the couch and take refuge on his brother's lap.

Suddenly, one of the super powered spider monkey creatures popped out, and everybody on the couch jumped. Izumi gasped and accidentally kicked Kouichi in the thigh. The older twin jumped so much that the popcorn bowl in his hands sprayed it's contents all over the couch. Keiko had yelped and covered her eyes with shaking hands. Kouji, who had attempted to reach across and grab Keiko's arm, lacking anything else to do, missed completely and grabbed a handful of breast, causing the girl to shriek.

Then there was silence. Izumi turned, surprised at the second shriek, as Kouichi did, and they both stared at Kouji's hand. Keiko pulled her hands away from her eyes and slowly looked down, staring at the hand for several seconds, then staring up at Kouji. She worked her mouth, but then shut it, her face becoming the brightest shade of red that any of her friends had ever seen, and that was saying a lot, since Keiko got embarrassed a lot.

Kouji's jaw dropped the second he grabbed it. He'd honestly been reaching for her arm, but the second he tried, she'd covered her eyes, which put him right in the line to grab something he'd never imagined grabbing on the brunette.

After what felt like a century of staring, Kouji had laughed weakly, his face turning red. "Uh, you sure you're only a 34B? It feels kinda big. Heh."

Izumi began laughing before whimpering and grabbing her jaw. "Oh God. It hurts to laugh."

Kouichi reached over and gently disengaged Kouji's hand from Keiko's chest, depositing it on his lap. "There we go," he said awkwardly.

Keiko slowly directed her attention to Kouji's face. He was obviously humiliated. So she broke the ice. "I guess I've just been eating a lot of noodles," she said, smiling nervously at her own lame joke.

Izumi cackled, then muttered an "Ouch".

Kouichi and Kouji laughed too, Kouichi because he actually found the joke funny, and Kouji, because he was absolutely relieved that Keiko wasn't attempting to humiliate him even more.

They all went back to watching the movie, the awkwardness completely blown away.

"So pretty," Junpei murmured against Michiko's lips, his hand moving lower down her back until it reached one of her soft cheeks.

Michiko shifted and ran her hands up his stomach, marveling at the fact that years ago, it would've been soft and flabby to the touch, but now it was hard as a rock, abs visibly protruding from the skin.

Junpei pulled her closer, his other hand joining it's twin on her bottom. "I had this weird dream last night."

"What was it about?" she asked, sitting on his lap.

He shrugged. Michiko had noticed that he'd looked down all day. "I had a dream about Takuya." He paused and looked up at his girlfriend.

She looked a little bit surprised, but he could tell she was ready to listen.

So he went on. "He was telling me something… I wasn't really paying attention, because I was so shocked that he was even there. I remember him saying though, that he was proud."

Michiko was shocked to find that his eyes had begun to fill up with tears. She didn't speak.

"He told me that he knew I was going to be okay." He sniffled. "I don't know why it's got me so bothered. I mean, I never cry. I haven't cried since the Digital World…" A tear dripped down his face. "God…"

Michiko wrapped her arms around him, holding him while he cried silently into her shoulder. His arms wound around her waist, and he found that he couldn't get enough of her, and he was just so happy that he had her that…

That-

"I love you so much Michiko," he said shakily, holding onto her tighter.

Her eyes went wide upon hearing this and she felt her heart flutter. "I love you too, Junpei."

He continued crying.

"Ayame, you shouldn't be so high in that tree! Please come down! I'm afraid that you'll-"

Crack.

She was suddenly being shaken awake.

"Hey, you're drooling on me," Kouji muttered groggily, stretching.

Keiko pushed herself up into a sitting position, blinking and looking around the room. "Wha…?" She brushed at her mouth self-consciously.

"The second movie was a total bore," Kouji said, rubbing his eye. "We all fell asleep. It's like, one in the morning."

"Are your parents gonna get mad?" she asked tiredly, leaning back against the couch and pulling the blanket close to her.

"I'm with my mom this weekend. And she's working an all-nighter at the hospital. She won't even be home until five o'clock in the evening tomorrow."

"You and Kouichi can spend the night. You can have the guest room down the hall."

He nodded and rubbed his eye. "Come on, wake up. Help me clean up." He shook her arm. "Why're you so tired all the time?"

She cracked an eye open. "What do you mean? You all fell asleep too." She motioned to Kouichi and Izumi, the latter resting her head on the armrest and laying down and the former leaning his head on her hip.

"You fall asleep all the time in class. You're always tired." He crossed his arms over his chest. "As your friend, I have the right to worry."

She smiled sleepily. "Friends. You're so precious, Kouji."

He scoffed and rolled his eyes. "Whatever. Just wake up. I need your help getting these two up to bed."

"Why couldn't you have woken Kouichi or your lover up?" she murmured, rubbing her eyes and leaning forward, trying to keep her eyes open.

"Because once he gets sleeping, he won't wake up for anything. And Izumi's so drugged up she probably wouldn't be able to carry you up the stairs."

"You should've woken up and carried all three of us up."

"I'm your guest," he muttered. "Now come on."

She groaned and got off the couch, stumbling. "I'm so tired," she murmured pathetically.

"I know, me too."

"We can't wake Naoki or Aya up. Will you help me carry these dishes downstairs?"

He nodded.

It took only one trip and the two were quiet enough to not wake anybody up. Thankfully.

"Okay, I'll get Izumi, you get Kouichi. You guys'll be staying in the guestroom across the hall from Izumi's," Keiko said, hoisting Izumi onto her back.

"Alright." Kouji managed to get his brother, who was pretty much deadweight, onto his back.

"Thanks for letting us stay, Keiko," Kouji had muttered when the two met back up in the hall after depositing the other two in their beds.

"No problem. Breakfast'll be served at nine. Because we always need 'structure' in this house," Keiko said, rolling her eyes.

"Aya's rule or Naoki's? It's definitely not Keiji's."

The brunette sighed. "We've always had breakfast at nine. It's like, a rule."

Kouji nodded. "Right. See you at nine."

"You don't have to wake up," she said. "Only if you want."

"I've had Ayaka's pancakes," he said, smirking. "So I'll be there."

She smiled. "Cool. Goodnight."

"G'night, Keiko."

"It's just a bump, Keiko. It's really fine. See?" Ayame smiled.

Keiko nodded, still shaking. "O-Okay. Only if you're sure."

"I'm positive." She grinned brightly. "I'm just gonna sit here for a second, okay?"

"I'll stay with you."

When Kouji came downstairs at nine fifteen, he was surprised to see Izumi sitting at the table, staring at a bowl of jello, Kouichi next to the blonde, finishing off a plate of pancakes, and Keiko, slumped over the table, her face in her arms. Keiji was sipping at coffee, watching the Saturday morning cartoons with Saburo and Akira. Naoki and Aya were reading the paper.

Ayaka set a plate of pancakes in front of her. "Late night, doll?"

Keiko looked up and smiled. "Not really. I just have these weird dreams."

"'Bout what?" Keiji asked, his eyes not leaving the television.

Kouji slid into a seat between Keiko and Aya, the latter of whom smiled at him.

She shrugged. "I don't really remember them."

"Kouji, would you like blueberry or chocolate chip pancakes?" Ayaka asked, swatting Keiji's hand away when it wandered up her thigh.

"I'll have blueberry please," Kouji murmured.

Izumi slapped a hand over her mouth and ran out of the room.

The younger raven twin looked alarmed. "Is she okay?"

"She gets sick after she takes her medicine. The anesthesia's still in her system," Keiko explained, sipping her orange juice.

"Oh," Kouji said lamely, sinking down into his seat.

"Don't worry lover boy, she's gonna be fine," Keiji muttered, his eyes still glued to Bugs Bunny tricking Elmer Fudd.

Kouji's eyes widened. "What?"

"It's obvious that you like her," the dark haired man said, smiling when Elmer Fudd shot himself in the face. "I know fucking everything, remember?"

"Language, Keiji," Aya chastised softly.

"Shut up," he replied casually, causing Naoki to glare. "But what really pisses me off, is that you never told me that you and Kouichi aren't twins. What's up with that?"

Kouji blinked. "I thought you knew."

He narrowed his eyes, actually turning to look at the raven. "I didn't. You hid it well."

"Just ignore him, he's crazy," Ayaka said setting a plate in front of Kouji.

"Crazy in love with you," Keiji said, grinning and patting his girlfriend's butt lightly.

Keiko sighed. "God Keiji, you're so lame."

He stuck his tongue out at his sister. "Obviously I'm not if I landed a hottie like Ayaka."

Kouji smirked when Ayaka smacked the back of his head. Interesting family.

The end! :D

Ahh. So it's five in the morning again. WTF.

Good night. Er, good morning. Dx