*Here's part 5...only 1 more part to go and you're finished!! Hope you like it so far and don't forget to review. ^_^ Your comments are highly appreciated. I do not own this stuff, Toei and a bunch of other people do. :~p*

Part 5: It's Party Time!

It was now Saturday and everyone was on his or her way to the hotel for Mimi's costume party...

"You sure do look nice, Michael," Mimi complimented the boy. "You sure do make one, nice handsome Prince."

"And you look beautiful in that costume of yours too."

"Thanks, I had it specially made before I left home."

"What exactly are you anyway?" Michael queried. "You like a plant or something."

"I'm a Rosemon."

"Rosemon?"

"I found out from Izzy that after Lilimon, that she would evolve to Rosemon, and this is what she looks like according to that Digimon Encyclopedia Program that Gennai gave to Izzy," Mimi explained. "That's why I have so many roses decorated in my hair."

"And what's with that vine looking thing."

"It's a vined whip."

Michael just stood there and stared at Mimi's outfit, as if he were in some kind of a trance...

"You look really pretty..."

"Don't make me use this whip on you to calm you down," Mimi laughed. "Now stop staring and drooling."

"I can't help it if I like what I see," Michael grinned.

"Quiet you, wait until after my party to admire me," Mimi winked.

"Couldn't we just cancel the party!"

"No way!!"

"This is cruel and unusual punishment!" Michael cried.

"Will power, my friend," Mimi smiled wickedly. "Anyway, I wanted to thank you for your excellent work." She gave Michael a quick peck on the cheek.

"You could cancel the party and we could have our own little party if you really want to thank me," Michael slyly responded with a laugh. Mimi playfully hit him. "Just kidding, Meems. Now what work are you talking about?"

"You know, helping me out with my plan."

"Oh, that. No problem."

"You were very convincing," she giggled.

"That's only because you told me the majority of the stuff to put in it."

"That's true…"

"I sure hope you know what you're doing."

"I'm positive that I'm right about them! It's way too obvious!"

"I guess, but then again, I wouldn't know…you would. You seem to have that gift of being able to read people."

The young rose-haired girl smiled.

"Hey, look at the time," Michael pointed towards the clock. "The party guests should be getting here pretty soon."

"Now where are Yamato and his band…"

As if on cue, Yamato walked in, along with the rest of his pals, with their music equipment. All of them were dressed as werewolves...

"Matt, you and your band made it!!" Mimi squealed delightedly.

"The Teenage Werewolves, very creative," Michael complimented, noticing their costumes.

The boys saw Mimi and just stared at her the same way Michael had...

"Not you too," Mimi sighed, shaking her head.

Akira rushed up to Mimi and grabbed her hand, trying out some pathetic pick up lines.

"You look extremely radiant this lovely day and if I were in control of the days, I would make one just for your beauty, and---" Akira could barely get out since he was knocked down by Yutaka.

"I noticed your radiance and beauty way before he did!"

Akira got mad and pushed Yutaka out of the way and the two started to argue. While the two argued, Yamato cut in.

"Forget those two, I've known you longer and you look very pretty, and you've always been a nice and caring person…" he stopped beating around the bush and got straight to the point, "…so, how's about hanging out with me some time…"

Akira and Yutaka tackled Matt, after overhearing him with Mimi.

"No fair!" Yutaka shouted. "I saw her first!!"

"No way, I did!" Akira insisted.

"The both of you are wrong! I've known her longest and she would be more interested in me than you two!!" Yamato argued.

"Oh yeah!!" Akira bickered.

"Yeah!!" Yamato shouted back.

"I'm the most handsome!" Yutaka quarreled.

"Only you would think so!" Akira disputed.

"Everyone knows I'm the handsome one!" Yamato yelled at the two. "Who do you think attracts all the girls to our concerts!"

All of a sudden, a bunch of fan girls come from out of nowhere chanting, "Takashi...Takashi...Takashi..."

"What do they know," Akira muttered.

"Mimi's better off with me!!" Yamato told the two, ignoring the fan girls. "There's just a ring to it."

"Give someone else a chance, Ishida!" Yutaka argued.

"Both of you bug off!" Akira yelled.

While the three continued to argue and fight, Takashi walked up to Mimi and Michael who were sweat dropping from the scene of the three boys arguing and fighting.

"Please forgive their behavior," Takashi responded shyly while bowing politely. Takashi was the most polite, and the quietist, of the group. "You just look very nice, Miss Mimi, and it's making them act this way."

"Thank you," Mimi smiled at Takashi. She then shouted to the three bickering boys, "STOP FIGHTING!! I'm already taken! Have you forgotten that I'm dating Michael!! Besides, you guys have to set up and play!"

"It would be my pleasure," Akira responded love stricken; ignoring all that was said by her about Michael.

"I bet I could get the equipment up faster than you!" Yutaka challenged Akira.

"No way!!"

The bickering boys went to the stage that Michael pointed to, Takashi following a short ways behind them. Mimi shook her head at their behavior.

"If the boys are going to act like this, I should probably go and change."

"Nah, don't change. You don't have the time to since the other guests are arriving."

Sure enough, Michael was right. The place was becoming more and more packed by the second. Mimi and Michael greeted each and every person who came in. Mimi laughed slightly when she saw Jou.

"Jou?"

"Hey Mimi, nice," he started to stare, "costume."

"Don't say anything else if you value your life," Mimi threatened jokingly. "Now why are you dressed like that?"

Jou shook off his thoughts on Mimi and responded, "Oh, I'm dressed as a doctor."

"I can see that, but where's your mask?"

"Right here."

The young doctor-in-training pulled out a mask and put it on. It was a doctor's mask.

"Very creative," Mimi smiled. "Leave it up to you to stick to something nice and practical."

The next person to arrive of Mimi's Digidestined friends was Iori. Mimi smiled at him. He stared at Mimi, but stopped quickly before she noticed and he didn't want Michael to pound him for getting, well for him, different thoughts about Mimi - very different thoughts.

"Hi Iori!" Michael greeted.

"Wow, I like your costume!" Mimi complimented.

"You really like it? My mother altered it."

"You look exactly like Wizarmon, minus the hair thing, of course," Mimi said. "The hair color isn't quite right, but it's still a great costume."

"It's very original, I'd say," Michael said.

"You really think so?"

"Yeah," Michael told him. "You're the second Digimon to show up at the party, Mimi being the first."

The next person to show up was the inseparable trio, Takeru, Daisuke, and Ken. They made a scene, though. They came in and all shouted, taking out swords, and putting them up in the air, "All for one, and one for all!!"

Everyone clapped for them. They were dressed as the Three Musketeers and had black eye masks.

"Takaishi, you came up with a really good idea," Ken complimented.

"Thanks."

"Now," Daisuke held up his sword, "as the Three Musketeers, let us go and raid the snack table!! All of the snacks are for one, and that one is going to be me!!"

The two laughed at their friend and went over to the snack table along with Daisuke.

The next person to come in was Taichi along with Sora and Hikari. Taichi was dressed as Dracula and Sora was dressed as a Fairy Princess wearing a pink eye mask.

*A/N: Don't you think that Tai and Matt would look cool as vampires?*

Taichi held his cape in front of his face and forced out a bad, Transylvanian accent, and said, "Blah, blah, blah, I vwant to vite your neck!!"

"This is the fifth vampire we've seen tonight," Michael said.

"Where's your mask, Tai?" Mimi asked.

"Well…um…" was all Taichi could manage to say since he was staring at Mimi's revealing outfit.

Sora smacked Taichi in the back of the head to get him back to his senses. "Cool it Romeo." She then pulled on his arm. "Let's go." She then turned her attention to Mimi. "He decided not to wear one."

"That's okay. With his hair, it's obvious who he is whether he would've worn a mask or not."

Sora, Michael, and Kari started to laugh.

"Kari, I like your costume," Michael complimented.

"It really suits her," Mimi nodded.

"Thank you."

Kari was dressed as an Angel, only the costume looked more, Angewomon-ish...
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TK got a glimpse of Kari and groaned...

"What's wrong?" Daisuke asked.

"Kari just got here."

Daisuke took a look and stared admiringly at his crush, but then, so was TK, who also had a big crush on Kari.

"I knew I should've dressed as Angemon," sighed Takeru dreamily.

"I should've dressed as HolyAngemon," responded Daisuke distantly.

Ken shook his head and went off to party. The band had already started playing.
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The next person to show up was Miyako. Mimi greeted her, but didn't call her by name.

"I'm glad you could make it! You look beautiful!!"

"Thank you, but I feel kind of strange wearing contacts and these glass slippers. What if they break while I dance?"

"They won't, I'm sure," Mimi smiled.

Miyako started to look around, Mimi noticed.

"What's wrong?"

She pulled Mimi aside so no one else could hear her.

"Did a guy dressed in a tux and a cape show up yet?"

"Tuxedo Kamen? Why would he show up here?" Mimi then laughed. "I don't think Sailor Moon is here anyplace for him to save."

"No, my secret admirer," Miyako whispered. "He's supposed to be dressed in a cape and a tuxedo."

"Not that I know of, but I'm sure he won't be hard to miss," she assured her friend. "Just have yourself a good time and remember, keep your identity secret when you do meet this secret admirer of yours. Wait until the unmasking to see who it is."

"Gotcha!" Miyako said, doing her victory pose. "Well, I have to go over to where the band is playing if you said no one's arrived dressed in a tux. He probably hasn't gotten here yet. That's where he said he wanted to meet me."

"Go ahead. I'm about to go and dance with Michael since the band has started playing, and I'm also planning on catching up with Sora and the others. I only hope that my American friends from my Foreign Language Club and other classes that was invited doesn't feel offended or anything since all of their songs are in Japanese." She then thought for a moment. "Nah, I warned them earlier about that, and they are in Japan, so what would they expect."

Miyako saw Mimi walk off towards Michael who started to dance. Miyako walked slowly towards the place where she was to meet her admirer. Lots of guys stared at Miyako as she walked by. Miyako blushed a bit from all of the boys staring at her. Mimi was right about the costume making her look pretty.
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Iori was sitting on the wall drinking some punch and eating some pizza. He was bored. He hadn't seen any of his regular Digidestined friends and when he did, they would take right off. He also didn't know the majority of the people who were invited, other than Mimi and Michael. It was also bad because he was the only 11 year old there; sure he was about to turn 12 that year, but he didn't even see any other 12 year olds he could associate with. This party was strictly for couples and teens.

"I should've stayed home," Iori muttered as he disposed of his paper cup.

All of a sudden, a young girl walked up to Iori...

"Excuse me, but is this seat taken?"

Iori looked up to see a girl dressed as a witch, about his size...maybe a bit shorter, but not by much.

Iori shook his head. "No, go right ahead."

"Thank you."

The girl sat down and sighed.

"What's wrong?"

"I don't know anyone here and I feel kind of alone since I am so young," she told the wizard. She then muttered barely, "I'm only here because of Mr. Kido and his wanting me to deliver a message to his brother for him…"

"Excuse me?"

"Never mind."

"Well, I know what you mean about feeling left out," Iori said, deciding not to meddle. "I feel a bit left out as well. It seems like this party is for teens and I'm still just 11."

"What a coincidence!" the girl exclaimed. "I'm 11 too, but I will be 12 later on this year."

"Wow, me too!"

The two then started to get into conversation and were starting not to feel so left out.

"Hey, you sure are an odd looking wizard."

"Yeah, well, I wanted to try something a bit different," the boy said with a nervous laugh and grin.

"That's cute."

The boy blushed a bit from nervousness.

"Hey, would you like to dance or something?"

"Sure," the girl nodded.

Iori led the girl to the dance floor and the two started to dance together...
****
"Wow, she's hot too!" Akira drooled noticing the "Cinderella-dressed" girl standing over where they were playing.

"Shut up and keep playing!" Yamato ordered, not wanting Akira's girl-craziness to mess up their song by his losing his concentration.

"Spoil sport…" the boy muttered as he went back to playing.

Miyako stood there, looking around, trying to see if Izzy had shown up - as well as her other friends, whom of which she did see - but she didn't see Izzy. At the same time, she was trying to spot her secret admirer. About 5 minutes later, a handsome boy that fit the description of Miyako's secret admirer walked up to her and said..."Cinderella?"

Miyako looked up to see the boy that fit her secret admirer's description.

"Prince Charming?" she responded with a nervous blush.

Izzy was staring at the girl; she looked beautiful to him. A part of him felt guilty for staring at this girl, while another part of him was glad that he had decided to come to the party to actually meet her.

"Hi," he responded. He then nervously scratched his head and said, "I'm your date…I guess."

"And I'm yours," Miyako said with short, uneasy laugh.

The two started to dance together and talked while they danced. Izzy was really enjoying his dance with "Cinderella" and Miyako was enjoying dancing with her "Prince Charming"

As the night went on, people partied and had lots of fun. Some people decided to swim in the heated pool, but the majority decided to stay and dance. Izzy realized that this girl was amazing and that they had a lot in common...the same applied to Miyako when it came to him.
****
Back to Iori…

"You know, I have this feeling that I've met you before," the witch Iori had met up with earlier told him. She then thought, "His eyes even seem familiar to me…"

"You know, I feel the same way."

"Well, it isn't unmasking time yet, but my name is Jenny."

"That's a very pretty name," Iori said. For some odd reason, he was feeling attracted to her, even though her mask was covering her entire face.

"Thank you," the girl blushed from under the mask.
****
It was now close to midnight. Mimi ran up on stage and grabbed the microphone.

"Hi everyone! I hope you all are having fun!!"

"Yeah!!" everyone shouted to Mimi.

"Now, we're going to pick a random couple to have a spotlight dance and the choice is…" Mimi started as a drum roll was heard and a spotlight, which seemed to appear from out of nowhere, started to go around the large hall. It then landed on a couple. "…that couple right there!! The one dressed as Cinderella and her date!!"

The boy felt himself going crimson, Miyako as well. Everyone clapped for them.

"Well, um, Cinderella, what do we do?"

"I guess we, um, dance."

"Su-sure, why not."

After the couple was chosen, Michael told Yamato and the guys to play a nice slow-dance song. Cinderella and Tuxedo Prince Charming started to dance nervously. Izzy held the girl close to him as he danced; he felt a bit awkward since he had never really danced like that before, but it felt like the right thing to do. Miyako liked being close to this guy, even if it wasn't the boy she had always imagined herself with...
****
Over at the refreshment, snack table...

"Hey, Tai," Sora tugged on her date's arm who was currently looking over all of the foods to eat, "do you have any idea who those two are? That couple out there who had the spotlight dance?"

"I have no idea."

Right at that moment, Jou walked up.

"Hey, Dr. Kido!" Taichi said, patting his friend on the shoulder.

"Hey guys, nice party here."

Tai nodded as he stuffed his face with chips and soda and pizza.

"You know, I just noticed something," Sora said.

"What?" Jou asked, getting himself a cup of punch.

"I haven't seen Izzy since I've gotten here. I figured that everyone would've come."

"You know, I haven't seen Miyako either since I've been here," Taichi said, finally able to talk since his mouth wasn't filled with food.

"I guess he backed out," Jou muttered.

"What are you talking about?" Sora asked.

Jou explained to the two about Izzy's secret admirer and how the girl had wanted to meet him.

"I hope the girl that he was supposed to meet isn't too upset," Sora said as she helped herself to some of the refreshments.
****
After their dance, the two went off to a small corner to talk.

"I really enjoyed our dance together," Koushirou said, putting his hand behind his head like he always did whenever he was extremely nervous. He wasn't used of having such attention from a girl, nor was he used of having so much attention on himself since he had to dance under a spotlight.

"I did too," the girl responded back, even more nervous than Koushirou. "It was like a dream," she thought. "I didn't want it to end."

"Um…I think you look very pretty as well," he responded, unsure of himself. He was terrible when it came to girls since he had no experience with them.

"Well, you look pretty handsome, very handsome."

The two started to stare at each other. They then inched closer, and closer and finally kissed. The kiss was short though since it was their first and very unexpected since the two didn't supposedly know one another.

The two broke it though when they realized they were being watched. Miyako didn't care if they all had seen, she really enjoyed the kiss from her "Prince Charming," but she started to feel a bit guilty, yet happy at the same time. A boy had taken some type of notice to her. She was so happy she hugged on him. Koushirou hugged her back, it just felt right to him to do this - he didn't know why - but either way, he still felt somewhat guilty showing this strong affection towards this "mystery girl."

Michael smirked after seeing the two kiss one another and got on the microphone to make an announcement...

"Okay everyone...it's that time!! The clock has finally struck 12:00 and that means it's time to take off your masks!!"