Daisuke glared up at the gray stormy clouds that were threatening to rain any second. They suited his mood, the boiling rage inside of him. He kicked a fairly large rock out of his path, wishing he had some way to vent his anger.

A face instantly popped up in his mind, nope, he wouldn't mind using that particular face as a punching bag at all.

"Wait up!" A feminine voice called out from behind him, surprising him because he didn't recognize the voice. He turned and saw a pretty girl with pink hair running up to him. "It's Daisuke, right?"

"Yeah, and your Mimi." It wasn't a question, she was a pink goddess, and of course he knew her name.

"Right in one," she giggled, her voice sending chills up Daisuke's spine. "So how's it going?"

"Not to good," he sighed.

"What happened!" Mimi cried out as she got a good look at his face. She reached out and brushed the bruise with her fingertips, as gently as she could, but Daisuke still winced and had to keep himself from pulling back.

"I was hit," he told her sullenly.

"I can tell that. Why? By who?"

"TK"

"Takeru? He hit you? What happened?"

Daisuke couldn't help but grin. What happened, not what did you do. He liked Mimi better already.

"He made Miyako cry when he told her what was up. It had to be done, but he could have done it nicer, so I told him off. So he hauled off and hit me."

"He shouldn't have done that."

"He was having a bad day," Daisuke grudgingly allowed.

"That doesn't give him any excuse for hitting you," Mimi said firmly. Daisuke's grin widened, it felt good to have someone on his side for once.

"Matt ran away last week when he was supposed to be staying with his mom and she's taking it out on TK. So I really don't blame him." Now that he wasn't busy defending himself he could see why TK had hit him.

"Still," Mimi said frowning, and then she paused, giving up the argument. "Does he know where Matt went?"

"I don't think so. Tai does, but that's about it."

"Come on, I can get you some ice at my hotel."

"Thanks," Daisuke said as he began following the cute girl. He laughed when he saw her shiver at seeing some lightening snake across the sky.

"It's awful out here," she complained hugging herself. "I hope we get in before it starts to rain."

"Its not too bad," he said, but jumped about a foot high when some thunder crashed.

"Come on," she said tugging on his arm to encourage him to go faster. In the hotel lobby Mimi asked the receptionist to send up some ice before dragging Daisuke up to her room. He was pushed onto the bed and told to sit while she found a towel.

Just as Mimi emerged from the bathroom a knock sounded on the door and the busboy was there with the ice. Mimi took it with a small smile for the cute busboy and wrapped it in the towel.

"It's raining," she commented as she handed him the make shift ice pack. Daisuke gingerly held the ice to his eye and turned to see with his remaining sight that it was raining cats and dogs out there, simply pounding at the window.

"Good thing we got in when we did or we'd be stuck in that," Daisuke said to fill the silence. It wasn't that the silence made him uncomfortable but he wanted to hear Mimi's melodic voice again. "How long have you been back?"

"Since yesterday. I was visiting with Sora before I spotted you."

"How long are you staying?" It was hard to keep the eager quality out of his voice.

"I'm not entirely sure. I might stay."

"You mean move here? For good?" Now he defiantly sounded eager.

"I have this job interview tomorrow, and if it goes well I'll be moving here."

"That's great Mimi! What's the job?"

"Sales representative." Daisuke's mind went at that, but he grinned and nodded anyway.

"Sounds great."

"I certainly think so."

"Should you have some more interviews, just in case this one doesn't work out. That way you wouldn't have blown an entire trip here."

"I should get the position here. It's more of a transfer within the same company, they just need to meet me before making any definitive decisions."

"Oh, OK then. I hope you get the job though. It'd suck in you had to leave again." Daisuke blushed when he realized what he had just said.

"I'd like to stay here too. Especially since there aren't any boys as cute as you are back home," Mimi said making him blush even harder. He looked so cute when he blushed. "Leave that on you eye," she admonished.

Mimi sat next to him on the bed and guided his hand and the ice pack back up to his eye. Then she let both their hands drop and lent closer to him, but they bonked heads as they both jumped at the thunder rumbling through the skies.

"Hm, maybe that was a message. Are you dating anyone?" He shook his head. "OK then."

Mimi lent forward again and kissed him, just the barest brushing of lips. "Would you like to?" He nodded, his eyes slipping shut on their own accord. She was still close enough he could feel her breath on his face. She kissed him again, this time deepening it and they stayed that way, not hearing the dull roar of the rain pounding at the window any more.