Well, this is one for the record ^^*, a TK/Mimi/Matt. Since I haven't seen a Takimi for a
while, but I still want to write a Mimato...this idea kinda came out. Really strange, I
know...^_^;; but anywayz.. this isn't the kind of stuff I usually write..
The story's kind of written out in a confusing way, so I'll explain it. The first part of the
first flashback takes place during 'Ikkakumon's Harpoon Torpeodo' in 01. The second part
of the first flashback doesn't really take place during a certain episode, but during 01,
also. The second flashback takes place during 'Family Picnic' in 02. And the rest of the
story takes place pretty much in 02 also, around the time when Agumon's captured.
Well, enjoy, and please review, kk? 99% of this part is in TK's POV.
UNTOUCHABLE
PROLOGUE
******Flashback******
An eight year old TK opened his eyes and yawned, sitting up in the cave. It was the
middle of the night, and the other 6 kids were fast asleep, all exhausted after the big
argument that had taken place that evening between his older brother Yamato and the
group's leader by mutual agreement, Taichi. TK blinked in the direction of the dying fire
just outside the cave's mouth. Why am I awake now? he wondered silently. Matt will be
mad if he catches me up.
But the boy couldn't sleep, so he headed out of the cave and sat next to the fire, staring
into the orange flames. Then he glanced up at the huge mountain and forest around it,
the mountain that the others had been debating to climb or not. He shuddered, thinking
of the scary monsters that might be lurking out in the forest. It definetly wasn't safe to
be out here alone. As if it wasn't bad enough when he and his parents and brother used
to go camping and TK would be afraid of bears and maybe wolves in the forests, now
they were stuck in another strange place where he had to worry about monsters, too.
Then he thought of Patamon, and felt a little better.
A yawn came from the cave, and TK turned around as Mimi strolled out sleepily. She
rubbed her eyes and blinked at him in confusion. "TK?" she asked questioningly. "What
are you doing out here? Isn't Joe the one who's keeping watch tonight?"
"Yeah," said TK. "But he isn't here, I haven't seen him. I just came out a few minutes
ago."
"Oh." Mimi walked over to the fire and sat down near him. After a moment, she reached
behind her, picked up a stick, and began poking the fire with it, somewhat bringing it
back to life. TK just sat, watching the girl he had a crush on with a look of admiration.
His first crush. He'd heard somewhere that a first crush was really special, and it felt
that way too. Mimi was special, to him anyways. She was the first girl he'd met that
made him totally forget the 'girls have icky cooties' rule. He decided that SHE didn't have
cooties. Nobody who was that cute and that much fun to play with could have them.
Mimi threw away the stick and leaned back, staring up at the starry navy-blue sky.
"Mimi?" TK asked, lying on his back and looking up as well. "Do you ever miss home, and
your mom and dad? Do you think we'll ever go back?"
Mimi didn't say anything for a moment. "Yeah," she said. "I really miss Mommy and Daddy
a lot..." she broke off, leaving the latter question unanswered. TK glanced at her, she
was wearing the same look she had before, when they'd been eating eggs and talking
about home. "Mimi, it's ok," he said in an effort to cheer her up. "We'll get back home
again, I know we will." He didn't know why he felt so sure about it, but he believed that
Matt would take care of him and they would all go home soon.
Mimi gave him a tiny smile, her eyes showing her gratitude. She then jumped to her feet
and helped TK to his. "Well, we'd better get back inside. It's getting cold out, and if Joe
comes back and sees us, he'll probably tattle tomorrow." The 2 of them went back inside
the cave. As TK lay down next to Matt and Patamon and Gabumon again, he could see
Mimi lying down between Sora and Palmon. The night bcame silent again, but still TK
couldn't sleep. He lay facing the ceiling, his thoughts wandering around a certain girl with
a big pink hat.
After a while, TK crawled over to where Mimi was. She was already sleeping, and after
a moment's hesitation, staring at her, TK leaned over and gave her a little kiss on the
cheek. The first kiss he'd ever given a girl, other than his mom. He crawled back over to
Matt, lying down again. He felt...warm, and light, and a little funny, but he liked it. For
some reason, it was a lot easier to go to sleep afterwards, as long as he held onto that
feeling.
And nobody ever found out about what had happened that night, not even Mimi. TK had
the biggest crush on her through most of their time in the Digiworld, they all knew it. TK
would talk to Matt about it, but he would just brush it off as "a kiddie crush", feeling sure
that it would blow over. And though Mimi knew about it, she didn't treat him any
differently than before. The 2 were close, she was TK's best friend in the Digiworld. They
were both the most childish members of the group, so he understood her really well, and
vice versa. They became good playmates, playing while the others figured out what to
do. TK would always stick up for her, because sometimes he felt that he had to look out
for her, and other times she would play big sister to him. All the while, TK still had the
crush on her, although sometimes he forgot that he did, when they were playing. He
would also try to get Mimi and Matt close, since Matt was his big brother and Mimi felt
like his sister, or favourite cousin. Like the time when he'd asked Mimi to come with
him and Matt when they'd split up in the factory, and when he'd begged her to stay just
a little longer when everyone had gone to look for Sora and Tai in the desert. It was fun,
playing matchmaker, though he was never really sure if it worked. Matt made fun of Mimi,
but it was easy to see that he was joking. Mimi would just act annoyed or miffed. Well,
it seemed that they became friends, though they wouldn't always show it when they
were with the others. It was as if TK had realized that he didn't have much chance with
Mimi because she was older, but he thought that getting Matt and Mimi together would
be almost as good, so then he'd be able to be near her even more.
As the time in the digital world wore on, TK also got to know Sora, the other girl in the
group, and he liked her too, because she was so responsible and took care of all of them,
but not in the same way he liked Mimi. Sora was like the group's mother, but that was
just it, it would always be clear that she was older than TK when she took care of him.
Mimi was the only one who didn't treat him like a kid, since she was almost just like
him, in some cases, even younger. TK matured way before she did.
Then Sora and Mimi started becoming best friends. It hurt TK for awhile, because Mimi
had been his best friend, but then Kari came along, and he just seemed to forget.
Everyone thought it seemed so right about TK and Kari. They were both the same age,
the youngest members in the group, their digimon were the same type and their names,
Angemon and Angewomon, even went together. It seemed like fate. TK and Kari got
very close, and the others all thought it was really cute (with the occasional complaint
from Matt or Tai). Though TK and Mimi still remained close, it wasn't exactly the same.
******Flashback Ends******
An eleven year old TK leaned against his bed, shooting his basketball into a hoop on the
opposite wall, his mind in a turmoil.
Mimi had moved to America months before. He'd been sad, and he missed her, but only
in a friendly way, his crush on her had (seemingly) disappeared years ago, halfway
through the digital adventure. He liked Kari now, even though he had to fight Davis
Motomiya for her. Kari seemed to be enjoying the attention, flattered that 2 guys were
both in love with her, but she seemed to be leaning toward TK. It was just a special
something that he felt around her.
He hadn't even thought of a crush on Mimi, she'd just been like his big sister, even after
the Digiworld.
He thought he was long over that childish puppy love.
Until he saw her again.
His mind once again flashed back to that Saturday a couple of weeks ago, when Mimi had
shown up and come to the Digiworld with himself, Kari, Davis and the other new DD's. He
and Kari had been so amazed to see her, for the first time in months. They hadn't even
recognized her, until she'd spoken. And TK could tell that she hadn't recognized them,
either.
It had been great to see that even though she looked and seemed so different in some
ways, she was still the same girl she'd always been. TK was beginning to think she never
would change. The new digidestined seemed entranced by her as well. In any case, Yolei
was, and so was Davis, TK suspected. It had looked that way for sure...
******Flashback******
The 6 kids (Mimi included), and their digimon (Palmon NOT included) sat around the picnic
blanket, laughing and giggling and talking. TK and Cody were discussing something about
Ken's control spires, Davis and Veemon seemed to be having some sort of eating contest,
and Mimi, Gatomon, and Kari were talking about past times in the digiworld, what they
were up to lately, and what the others were up to lately.
"Hawkmon, wait up!" Yolei cried, chasing after her digimon as he chased after a piece of
sushi. Mimi glanced in the direction of the way they had left with a worried look on her
face.
"What's wrong Mimi?" TK asked her, looking at her in concern. She turned to him with her
same carefree smile. "Well, I'm a little worried about Yolei and Hawkmon being alone in
the digital world, I don't think it's safe. I'm gonna go look for them, k?" She got up.
"Ok," said Kari. They watched as she ran into the forest. As soon as she was out of
earshot, Davis turned to TK with an annoyed frown. "Ok, TN, spill it. How do you know
Mimi so well?" He had seen the way that, within moments of landing in the Digiworld, TK
had immediately jumped to hug her tightly, as Kari followed suit, and Mimi threw her arms
around both of them.
TK just stared at him. This sounds way too familiar, he thought. Oh no, not her too.
"Well Davis, she's my big sister," he told him. Davis's eyes bulged and his jaw hit the
ground. "WHAT?!" he cried in shock. "You guys don't look a thing alike!"
TK sweatdropped, as Kari, Gatomon, and Patamon collapsed in laughter. "Davis, I didn't
mean that literally."
"He meant that Mimi is LIKE a big sister to the 2 of us," Kari explained, after getting
herself under control. "In the digiworld when we were younger, she seemed like a big
sister to us, her and Sora."
Davis narrowed his eyes at TK. "Oh yeah? I didn't see you greet Sora like that," he
complained. TK looked down. "Well, Mimi moved to America, I-we missed her," he pointed
out. "And also, she and I, well, were kinda close..."
Kari blinked at Davis, then turned to Cody. "You think he..?" Cody began. Kari nodded.
"I'm willing to bet on it. Poor Mimi, she doesn't know what's coming."
"I've never felt more sorry for anyone," muttered Gatomon.
Davis went a little farther from the others, looking sort of mad. Veemon followed him.
"What's the matter Davis?" he wanted to know.
"It's not fair," Davis muttered. "TK gets Kari, and now he gets Mimi too?"
"You like both of them now?" Veemon enquired. Davis silenced himself for a moment.
"Yeah, Mimi is really pretty..."
TK glanced at the 2 of them, then he and Kari smirked at each other. All he could think
was, here we go again....
******Flashback Ends******
Davis had only mentioned Mimi once or twice, to Sora (it seemed he somehow found out
that she was Mimi's best friend) since then. But Mimi had been on TK's mind a lot since
then. Not exactly ALL the time, but he thought of her at little moments, like when he
was playing basketball on the school's team, and he remembered her saying that he was
so tall now that when she first saw him, she could've sworn it was Matt. He was the
same height as her.
But it was obvious that she was much older, than him, and than the childish teenybopper
she'd been before she'd left. TK couldn't get over the change in her. She was a lot more
sophisticated (probably compliments of New York). He loved her new look, though it had
not come as that much of a surprise to him, since she had sent the group a picture of
herself before. Her dyed hair looked so natural on her, which was strange because on
anyone else, it would've looked retarded. But for her, it had MIMI written all over it.
She was much more poised and confident and especially mature. But she was so sweet,
and caring.
One of the biggest things TK admired about her now was that she had found her faults
and realized her mistakes and bad points, and done her best to try to fix them, but she
still hadn't lost her personality, which was what everyone seemed to like about her. She's
definetly come a long way, he thought.
TK threw the ball through the hoop again, his mind in a huge jumble. Which brought him
back to his feelings. He thought he might have his childhood crush on her again, the only
thing was, it was so much more stronger than it had been when he was 8. It sort of
scared him a little.
I shouldn't think like this, TK told himself, squeezing his eyes shut, trying to ward off the
thoughts. I still have about as much chance as I had with her 3 years ago.
Maybe even less, he thought, thinking about the time he and Kari had told the others
about Mimi's super-short visit, as Yolei had kept going on and on about how great and
cool and amazing she was, and how she wanted to be just like her. He had seen the
strange hidden look in Matt's eyes when they talked about her.
TK shot the ball into the net yet again. Well, in the end, I did what I'd wanted to do,
kind of, he said silently. I'm sure she and Matt will get together soon, probably.
Now just one more question: Why did it his heart feel like it was being twisted into a
pretzel, just at the thought of it?
Don't worry, this isn't the end. I know it's not all that good, it's just a bunch of flashbacks
and thinking and stuff, and there isn't much dialogue, but this is just the prologue, the
real part'll be better. I don't usually write prologues to my stories, but I couldn't decide,
so I want you guys to choose. What should it be: Takimi or Mimato? It's your choice.
Please review and tell me, okay? 7+ votes needed for me to write the next part and see
who won.
while, but I still want to write a Mimato...this idea kinda came out. Really strange, I
know...^_^;; but anywayz.. this isn't the kind of stuff I usually write..
The story's kind of written out in a confusing way, so I'll explain it. The first part of the
first flashback takes place during 'Ikkakumon's Harpoon Torpeodo' in 01. The second part
of the first flashback doesn't really take place during a certain episode, but during 01,
also. The second flashback takes place during 'Family Picnic' in 02. And the rest of the
story takes place pretty much in 02 also, around the time when Agumon's captured.
Well, enjoy, and please review, kk? 99% of this part is in TK's POV.
UNTOUCHABLE
PROLOGUE
******Flashback******
An eight year old TK opened his eyes and yawned, sitting up in the cave. It was the
middle of the night, and the other 6 kids were fast asleep, all exhausted after the big
argument that had taken place that evening between his older brother Yamato and the
group's leader by mutual agreement, Taichi. TK blinked in the direction of the dying fire
just outside the cave's mouth. Why am I awake now? he wondered silently. Matt will be
mad if he catches me up.
But the boy couldn't sleep, so he headed out of the cave and sat next to the fire, staring
into the orange flames. Then he glanced up at the huge mountain and forest around it,
the mountain that the others had been debating to climb or not. He shuddered, thinking
of the scary monsters that might be lurking out in the forest. It definetly wasn't safe to
be out here alone. As if it wasn't bad enough when he and his parents and brother used
to go camping and TK would be afraid of bears and maybe wolves in the forests, now
they were stuck in another strange place where he had to worry about monsters, too.
Then he thought of Patamon, and felt a little better.
A yawn came from the cave, and TK turned around as Mimi strolled out sleepily. She
rubbed her eyes and blinked at him in confusion. "TK?" she asked questioningly. "What
are you doing out here? Isn't Joe the one who's keeping watch tonight?"
"Yeah," said TK. "But he isn't here, I haven't seen him. I just came out a few minutes
ago."
"Oh." Mimi walked over to the fire and sat down near him. After a moment, she reached
behind her, picked up a stick, and began poking the fire with it, somewhat bringing it
back to life. TK just sat, watching the girl he had a crush on with a look of admiration.
His first crush. He'd heard somewhere that a first crush was really special, and it felt
that way too. Mimi was special, to him anyways. She was the first girl he'd met that
made him totally forget the 'girls have icky cooties' rule. He decided that SHE didn't have
cooties. Nobody who was that cute and that much fun to play with could have them.
Mimi threw away the stick and leaned back, staring up at the starry navy-blue sky.
"Mimi?" TK asked, lying on his back and looking up as well. "Do you ever miss home, and
your mom and dad? Do you think we'll ever go back?"
Mimi didn't say anything for a moment. "Yeah," she said. "I really miss Mommy and Daddy
a lot..." she broke off, leaving the latter question unanswered. TK glanced at her, she
was wearing the same look she had before, when they'd been eating eggs and talking
about home. "Mimi, it's ok," he said in an effort to cheer her up. "We'll get back home
again, I know we will." He didn't know why he felt so sure about it, but he believed that
Matt would take care of him and they would all go home soon.
Mimi gave him a tiny smile, her eyes showing her gratitude. She then jumped to her feet
and helped TK to his. "Well, we'd better get back inside. It's getting cold out, and if Joe
comes back and sees us, he'll probably tattle tomorrow." The 2 of them went back inside
the cave. As TK lay down next to Matt and Patamon and Gabumon again, he could see
Mimi lying down between Sora and Palmon. The night bcame silent again, but still TK
couldn't sleep. He lay facing the ceiling, his thoughts wandering around a certain girl with
a big pink hat.
After a while, TK crawled over to where Mimi was. She was already sleeping, and after
a moment's hesitation, staring at her, TK leaned over and gave her a little kiss on the
cheek. The first kiss he'd ever given a girl, other than his mom. He crawled back over to
Matt, lying down again. He felt...warm, and light, and a little funny, but he liked it. For
some reason, it was a lot easier to go to sleep afterwards, as long as he held onto that
feeling.
And nobody ever found out about what had happened that night, not even Mimi. TK had
the biggest crush on her through most of their time in the Digiworld, they all knew it. TK
would talk to Matt about it, but he would just brush it off as "a kiddie crush", feeling sure
that it would blow over. And though Mimi knew about it, she didn't treat him any
differently than before. The 2 were close, she was TK's best friend in the Digiworld. They
were both the most childish members of the group, so he understood her really well, and
vice versa. They became good playmates, playing while the others figured out what to
do. TK would always stick up for her, because sometimes he felt that he had to look out
for her, and other times she would play big sister to him. All the while, TK still had the
crush on her, although sometimes he forgot that he did, when they were playing. He
would also try to get Mimi and Matt close, since Matt was his big brother and Mimi felt
like his sister, or favourite cousin. Like the time when he'd asked Mimi to come with
him and Matt when they'd split up in the factory, and when he'd begged her to stay just
a little longer when everyone had gone to look for Sora and Tai in the desert. It was fun,
playing matchmaker, though he was never really sure if it worked. Matt made fun of Mimi,
but it was easy to see that he was joking. Mimi would just act annoyed or miffed. Well,
it seemed that they became friends, though they wouldn't always show it when they
were with the others. It was as if TK had realized that he didn't have much chance with
Mimi because she was older, but he thought that getting Matt and Mimi together would
be almost as good, so then he'd be able to be near her even more.
As the time in the digital world wore on, TK also got to know Sora, the other girl in the
group, and he liked her too, because she was so responsible and took care of all of them,
but not in the same way he liked Mimi. Sora was like the group's mother, but that was
just it, it would always be clear that she was older than TK when she took care of him.
Mimi was the only one who didn't treat him like a kid, since she was almost just like
him, in some cases, even younger. TK matured way before she did.
Then Sora and Mimi started becoming best friends. It hurt TK for awhile, because Mimi
had been his best friend, but then Kari came along, and he just seemed to forget.
Everyone thought it seemed so right about TK and Kari. They were both the same age,
the youngest members in the group, their digimon were the same type and their names,
Angemon and Angewomon, even went together. It seemed like fate. TK and Kari got
very close, and the others all thought it was really cute (with the occasional complaint
from Matt or Tai). Though TK and Mimi still remained close, it wasn't exactly the same.
******Flashback Ends******
An eleven year old TK leaned against his bed, shooting his basketball into a hoop on the
opposite wall, his mind in a turmoil.
Mimi had moved to America months before. He'd been sad, and he missed her, but only
in a friendly way, his crush on her had (seemingly) disappeared years ago, halfway
through the digital adventure. He liked Kari now, even though he had to fight Davis
Motomiya for her. Kari seemed to be enjoying the attention, flattered that 2 guys were
both in love with her, but she seemed to be leaning toward TK. It was just a special
something that he felt around her.
He hadn't even thought of a crush on Mimi, she'd just been like his big sister, even after
the Digiworld.
He thought he was long over that childish puppy love.
Until he saw her again.
His mind once again flashed back to that Saturday a couple of weeks ago, when Mimi had
shown up and come to the Digiworld with himself, Kari, Davis and the other new DD's. He
and Kari had been so amazed to see her, for the first time in months. They hadn't even
recognized her, until she'd spoken. And TK could tell that she hadn't recognized them,
either.
It had been great to see that even though she looked and seemed so different in some
ways, she was still the same girl she'd always been. TK was beginning to think she never
would change. The new digidestined seemed entranced by her as well. In any case, Yolei
was, and so was Davis, TK suspected. It had looked that way for sure...
******Flashback******
The 6 kids (Mimi included), and their digimon (Palmon NOT included) sat around the picnic
blanket, laughing and giggling and talking. TK and Cody were discussing something about
Ken's control spires, Davis and Veemon seemed to be having some sort of eating contest,
and Mimi, Gatomon, and Kari were talking about past times in the digiworld, what they
were up to lately, and what the others were up to lately.
"Hawkmon, wait up!" Yolei cried, chasing after her digimon as he chased after a piece of
sushi. Mimi glanced in the direction of the way they had left with a worried look on her
face.
"What's wrong Mimi?" TK asked her, looking at her in concern. She turned to him with her
same carefree smile. "Well, I'm a little worried about Yolei and Hawkmon being alone in
the digital world, I don't think it's safe. I'm gonna go look for them, k?" She got up.
"Ok," said Kari. They watched as she ran into the forest. As soon as she was out of
earshot, Davis turned to TK with an annoyed frown. "Ok, TN, spill it. How do you know
Mimi so well?" He had seen the way that, within moments of landing in the Digiworld, TK
had immediately jumped to hug her tightly, as Kari followed suit, and Mimi threw her arms
around both of them.
TK just stared at him. This sounds way too familiar, he thought. Oh no, not her too.
"Well Davis, she's my big sister," he told him. Davis's eyes bulged and his jaw hit the
ground. "WHAT?!" he cried in shock. "You guys don't look a thing alike!"
TK sweatdropped, as Kari, Gatomon, and Patamon collapsed in laughter. "Davis, I didn't
mean that literally."
"He meant that Mimi is LIKE a big sister to the 2 of us," Kari explained, after getting
herself under control. "In the digiworld when we were younger, she seemed like a big
sister to us, her and Sora."
Davis narrowed his eyes at TK. "Oh yeah? I didn't see you greet Sora like that," he
complained. TK looked down. "Well, Mimi moved to America, I-we missed her," he pointed
out. "And also, she and I, well, were kinda close..."
Kari blinked at Davis, then turned to Cody. "You think he..?" Cody began. Kari nodded.
"I'm willing to bet on it. Poor Mimi, she doesn't know what's coming."
"I've never felt more sorry for anyone," muttered Gatomon.
Davis went a little farther from the others, looking sort of mad. Veemon followed him.
"What's the matter Davis?" he wanted to know.
"It's not fair," Davis muttered. "TK gets Kari, and now he gets Mimi too?"
"You like both of them now?" Veemon enquired. Davis silenced himself for a moment.
"Yeah, Mimi is really pretty..."
TK glanced at the 2 of them, then he and Kari smirked at each other. All he could think
was, here we go again....
******Flashback Ends******
Davis had only mentioned Mimi once or twice, to Sora (it seemed he somehow found out
that she was Mimi's best friend) since then. But Mimi had been on TK's mind a lot since
then. Not exactly ALL the time, but he thought of her at little moments, like when he
was playing basketball on the school's team, and he remembered her saying that he was
so tall now that when she first saw him, she could've sworn it was Matt. He was the
same height as her.
But it was obvious that she was much older, than him, and than the childish teenybopper
she'd been before she'd left. TK couldn't get over the change in her. She was a lot more
sophisticated (probably compliments of New York). He loved her new look, though it had
not come as that much of a surprise to him, since she had sent the group a picture of
herself before. Her dyed hair looked so natural on her, which was strange because on
anyone else, it would've looked retarded. But for her, it had MIMI written all over it.
She was much more poised and confident and especially mature. But she was so sweet,
and caring.
One of the biggest things TK admired about her now was that she had found her faults
and realized her mistakes and bad points, and done her best to try to fix them, but she
still hadn't lost her personality, which was what everyone seemed to like about her. She's
definetly come a long way, he thought.
TK threw the ball through the hoop again, his mind in a huge jumble. Which brought him
back to his feelings. He thought he might have his childhood crush on her again, the only
thing was, it was so much more stronger than it had been when he was 8. It sort of
scared him a little.
I shouldn't think like this, TK told himself, squeezing his eyes shut, trying to ward off the
thoughts. I still have about as much chance as I had with her 3 years ago.
Maybe even less, he thought, thinking about the time he and Kari had told the others
about Mimi's super-short visit, as Yolei had kept going on and on about how great and
cool and amazing she was, and how she wanted to be just like her. He had seen the
strange hidden look in Matt's eyes when they talked about her.
TK shot the ball into the net yet again. Well, in the end, I did what I'd wanted to do,
kind of, he said silently. I'm sure she and Matt will get together soon, probably.
Now just one more question: Why did it his heart feel like it was being twisted into a
pretzel, just at the thought of it?
Don't worry, this isn't the end. I know it's not all that good, it's just a bunch of flashbacks
and thinking and stuff, and there isn't much dialogue, but this is just the prologue, the
real part'll be better. I don't usually write prologues to my stories, but I couldn't decide,
so I want you guys to choose. What should it be: Takimi or Mimato? It's your choice.
Please review and tell me, okay? 7+ votes needed for me to write the next part and see
who won.