*Never thought I'd actually enjoy writing a fic like this. ^_^ Well, I hope you all are enjoying it. I sure am. Kouyako is just SO adorable!! Oh, and stuff in single quotes mean thoughts. Well, as always, I do not own any of this stuff, etc.*

Part 3: Miyako's Costume!

It's now Friday, after school, and Mimi is hanging out with Miyako, trying to get part 2 of her plan into action...

"This sure is nice of you to help me shop, Mimi. It'll help to get me out of my depressed mood," Miyako told her friend while walking down the busy Odaiba street. 'I wonder where Izzy was today. He always eats lunch with me.'

"It's the least I could do since your invite got lost. We need to find you a costume for my party."

"I can't wait for it!!"

"Boy, you sound happy, what's so special about it?"

Miyako blushed slightly.

"C'mon, what is it!" Mimi urged.

"I will, but answer me this first…are there going to be a lot of people at your party?"

"Yep, quite a bit, now tell me!"

"Okay, well, last night, I got a letter! From a boy!! My brother found it in the mail slot!!"

"Sugoi, a love letter!" Mimi squealed.

"A secret admirer!" the girl continued. "In it, he says that he's always admired me from afar and that he couldn't wait to see me at your party! And it's obvious that it's from a boy because of the handwriting!"

"Wow, that could be from anyone. A lot of boys are going to be at my party, not only from America, but from here as well."

"It doesn't matter to me!" Miyako cried in excitement. "I'm just glad some boy is actually interested in me! Hmm, I wonder if I know him…"

"Does it matter? Having a secret admirer is so romantic!!"

"Yeah, I guess so," she smiled. 'But why does it feel so wrong? I feel as if I'm deceiving Izzy, even though we're just friends…'

"Well, let's get you a nice costume. Here's the costume shop."

The two girls walked in.

"Hmm, now how could we dress you," Mimi pondered. "We need something to make you look extravagant and I already have an idea! A beautiful princess!!"

"Me? Beautiful?" Miyako laughed with a scoff. "Yeah right."

"Quit it with that attitude, you are a beautiful girl!" Mimi argued. "Now, I say you'd look great as a Princess and I mean it!"

"Seeing as how I don't have many ideas, I guess I'd look okay as a princess."

"Good," Mimi smiled. "Let's dress you up like Cinderella."

"But Cinderella didn't wear a mask."

"Well this Cinderella is!"

Mimi led the young glasses wearing girl to a rack filled with different costumes. One dress caught her eye - a beautiful ice blue colored fairy tale looking princess type of gown.

"You like that one?"

"It's beautiful," Miyako responded breathlessly.

"The perfect dress for a princess!"

"This costume sure does look expensive."

"I'll help you pay for it. I got quite a bit of extra birthday money this year."

"No, I couldn't let you do that."

"I want to; besides, your secret admirer is somehow invited to my party and I want him to see how beautiful you are."

"But it's your party and your birthday," Miyako protested, "you shouldn't be spending money on your own guests' party wear."

"Hey, I want to," Mimi insisted. "Now we're taking that gown!"

Miyako looked at the price tag and heaved out a sigh of relief.

"It's not as expensive as I thought. It just looks as if it is. I can pay for this easily."

"That's nice; now, we have to find you the perfect pair of shoes."

"In the story of Cinderella," Miyako recalled, "she wore glass slippers."

"Then that's what we have to get you."

"Now I know that's way beyond my budget," Miyako sweat dropped. "I don't earn enough at the mart to buy something like that."

"Well, I'm buying them for you."

"Mimi, no…"

"Let's just call this an early b-day present from me to you. You're like my sister, and sisters help other sisters accessorize, especially when one of the sisters has a date to go on."

Miyako knew better than to argue with Mimi. She had to be one of the most unselfish people she knew.

"So, what do you say?"

"Okay Mimi," finally agreed, hesitantly, "I'll let you do it."

"Great, now how are we going to do your hair?"

"My hair?"

"If you're going to be a princess, you have to dress the part, and you have the perfect hair for it."

The tan haired girl thought for a moment.

"I know!! I'll fix your hair the way mine was when I was a princess in the Digital World, only yours will look much better and more fancy, of course!"

"You were a princess in the Digital World?"

"Yep, I sure was," Mimi nodded as she started to mess with Miyako's hair, trying to think of different ways to style it.

Mimi explained to Miyako how the Gekomon and Otamamon treated her like a princess since she had such a nice singing voice.

"Cool!"

"It wasn't all good. I let all of that attention go to my head and I really wasn't worthy to possess the Crest of Purity since I was acting so selfish. I even had Palmon, Jou, and Taichi thrown into the dungeon in the castle. Thank goodness Sora was around to talk some sense into me." She stopped messing with Miyako's hair and smiled. "Well, enough of my past, we have to finish accessorizing…c'mon!"

The two finished shopping and found a mask to go along with it too; a fancy mask that one normally wears over her eyes. The two then left the costume shop to get them a bite to eat at a nearby fast food place.

"Hey, Miyako," Mimi started while taking a bite out of her burger, "are you going to wear your glasses with your costume?"

"Yeah, why wouldn't I," the girl asked, munching on a fry.

"With that mask," Mimi sipped her drink, "it'll be kind of hard to."

"Oh yeah, I never thought of that," Miyako murmured.

"Well, not to worry," Mimi smiled. "I have two words for you, contact lenses!"

"Contacts? I don't wear those much. I have, but I've gotten so used of my glasses…"

"Well, you're going to have to wear your contacts for the party if you're wearing that mask."

"Do I have to wear a mask?"

"Yep, it's a mandatory rule of this party. Everyone has to wear a mask and you can't take it off until the unmasking."

"Okay, okay, I'll wear contact lenses so that I can wear my eye mask."

"Good, it's only for one time anyway," Mimi said, gulping down the last bit of her burger. She then wiped her hands off and stood up. "Well, I have to get going now. I'll talk to you later, Miyako. See you tomorrow night along with the others!"

"Okay, see you later, Mimi, and thanks."

"Sure thing, and remember, dress exactly the way we discussed. You'd look very cute like that and also, keep your costume a secret from everyone."

"How come?"

Mimi racked her brain as she tried her best to come up with something convincing enough for Miyako to believe.

"So that everyone can be surprised, of course," she responded on the spur of the moment. "Just do me this one favor, don't tell anyone what you're going to wear, not even Hikari-chan."

"Okay, if you say so," Miyako nodded, not really understanding what the big deal was.

"Sayonara!"

The young girl ran out of the restaurant and started to head on back to the hotel she was staying in to join Michael and the rest of their other friends.

Miyako remained there and finished up the remainder of her drink.

"I better be getting home myself. Maybe I'll give Izzy a call and ask him if he's going and what he's planning on wearing." The girl them remembered what Mimi had told her. "Oh yeah, that's right, Mimi said to keep my costume secret, so she must've meant that for everyone."

She got up and headed home with her new purchases...