A/N: For all Takari-lovers (I count myself to them) I will continue the Planewalker-Story as soon as my weird Takimi-mood is over. I cannot believe this that I really write a Takimi…But somehow I like this weird idea…Again greetings to Robster80…
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Disclaimer: I don't own the characters, the series and the main-plot of Digimon, I wished I would but I don't. I don't earn any money or anything else for writing such stories, I do it for fun and experience.
Traffic here in Odaiba is still the hell like I'm used to, I know why I usually prefer the subway. The Yagami's still live in the same area than before, although they moved in another house with bigger apartments. Catherine explained that Taichi and she live in the same building but about three stairs below in a smaller apartment although they are used to eat with the Yagami's. It's nearly the same with Mimi, me and my mom, we also live in the same building, but my mom is used to eat with us especially because Mimi and I are great cooks (especially Mimi). Mimi learned it just for fun and I for my own health… We had too much TV-dinners (I cannot see these anymore). Mimi's specialties are German and Italian food while mine are Japanese and Indian. (BTW. Yamato is a master of American food although he also cooks several spicy meals of other cultures… He really likes spicy food…) Before leaving the car I check the special present for Hikari, I prepared before flying here.
We decide to surprise 'little' Hikari and send first Catherine with Palmon and Patamon on her arms while Mimi and I hide around the corner. Let's hope that she's really surprised. Now it's the moment of facing reality… Catherine opens the door (she has a key since they nearly live there…) and enters the apartment.
"Hikari, Tailmon, You've got guests which are really anxious…"
"Who are these ? I don't really feel like having guests…" a sad voice replied… (Oh boy, she must really suffer… I hope we can lighten her a bit…)
"Best, You see them by Yourself…" At that moment Tailmon appears…
"PALMON, PATAMON, what are You doing here ???" I've never seen Tailmon such excited… (not even after a sugar-shock)
"Hello Tailmon, we thought it's a good time for a visit since we are here for the Reunion tomorrow… Thanks to DW-Datalines we arrived several hours ago here…" This was the moment Hikari entered… (Oh boy she looks really bad like her voice – I don't mean ugly or something else like this – she really looks down) Her face lightened up a little after seeing our two digimon.
"Hello Patamon, Palmon, how much time has passed, 6 years ? I missed You so much… But where are Your partners ?" That's our keyword to enter…
"Right here… Hello Hikari, it were really six years since I left. Sorry that we haven't been here earlier, we were too busy…" We give 'little' Hikari a big hug.
"Hi Hikari, it's now seven years since my last visit here, sorry for leaving so long but every time I tried to visit You something happened. Oh boy, not again, can You tell me where is here a toilet ? I need it really fast…"
"Tailmon, please show her the way, it's much easier than trying to explain it. We'll wait in the living room…"
While we entered the living-room I see Taichi sitting on the Couch with Catherine on his lap (I wonder…) but I don't see Hikari's and Taichi's parents (I wonder where they are…). We sit down on the couch.
"So Takeru, tell me what happened the last six years ? And don't tell me that nothing happened… I have the feeling that You can tell very much…"
"Okkay, before You struggle me, I'm studying now journalism with Mimi. I also write novels, of which one is a best-seller in the US, the Japanese version will be published in several weeks, also a reason for visiting here, PR, talking with the local publisher and so on… By the way, I've got a special copy especially for You, but You have to promise not showing anyone else since the publishing-day." I said while giving her the special copy of my book. I prepared it especially for her.
"By the way, Taichi, You should perhaps read it too after Hikari finishing it, I think You'd like the main character…" At this moment Mimi enters the living-room.
"So, how comes that You two seem like a couple ? And don't tell me that You are only friends, I know that there's more…"
"Meems, You'll cook the next days, I was right, she's smarter than the rest of our gang altogether…" I said to my fiancée, noticing that Taichi looks very curious (I think Catherine hasn't told him…)
"Even Koushiro didn't notice this, they needed many hints to recognize it, and it was Daisuke who noticed first. We're more than a couple, we'll marry in about two months and we want You as my maid of honor."
There're only two reactions, Taichi faints and Tailmon hanging upside down at the ceiling. Only Hikari doesn't seem surprised. (I remember she knows about my first crush… And it was her who noticed that I was in love with someone else although I didn't notice at that time.)
"You knew it, didn't You ? You knew that I was the whole time since our first adventure in the DW in love with her."
"Not exactly, I knew that Your heart belongs to someone else, I realized it at our first and last kiss at the same time I realized that we didn't match. That it was Mimi I realized later, remembering Your behavior towards Mimi. I only knew that You had a thing for her, but not how deep Your love was. Now I know…"
"So, do You want to be the maid of honor ? We'd be proud if You say yes…"
"I don't know… I'll tell You later…"
"Hikari, You know Mimi never accepts a no, she even made Koushiro leaving his pineapple and that's nearly impossible… And don't worry about the tickets, we planned to give all DD free. Only the digimon have to travel by DW-Datalines and don't worry how much it costs, money isn't a real problem now…" I said with a smirk on my face…
"Hikari, You have enough time to think about it, we'll leave in about a month home, since then we have free time here except several dates with local press and publishers Takeru has about his novels."
"Think about it… But now we should resurrect Your brother and then scrape Tailmon from the ceiling, this position cannot be healthy even for a cat-like digimon."
With this sentence Hikari, Mimi, Catherine and I take care of Taichi while our digimon try to get Tailmon back to the ground. It nearly takes 10 minutes to bring them back to reality.
"You two, engaged ? Wow, that are really news. I ever thought that You and Koushiro or You and Jyou would be a couple, but never You two…"
"For the records, I had dates with Jyou and Koushiro, Jyou wasn't my style, he was too solemn and too focused on his education. And the date with Koushiro was more like a date between his pineapple and him. He's a nice guy with several interesting secrets, but a computer-geek isn't really my style. I also don't forget my date with Michael, but being too much like his dad, he only tried to impress me… Do You want to know our whole story ?"
"Why not, it'll be better than watching 'Titanic 2 ½ - Leonardo Di'Caprio dies more and longer' on Video…"
"Taichi, that wasn't nice… I don't make fun about Your love-life. I remember too much Christmas 2002 after Sora admitting her love to Yamato, I was nearly unable to get some rest… Oops, told too much… ;)" Hikari said with an evil smirk… (Never, never make Hikari angry… she can be more evil than Devimon)
"Okay, I begin. I remember how I first lost my heart to Takeru in the DW, he was the first boy who understood me, many tried to understand me but Takeru was the only one who did, he was/is my first crush like I was/am his, but I thought that the difference of two years would be an obstacle and I also thought that it was only puppy-love. Back in our world after our first adventure I began to miss everyone especially Takeru, at this time I started to hang out with Yamato, I really didn't understand why, now I know that I only hung out with him because he reminded me of Takeru. But then my parents and I had to move to the US because my dad lost his old here but was offered a new there. We never had a real choice… At this time I thought that my relation with Takeru would never be…"
"At the first moment I saw Mimi I fell for her although I never really noticed, I saw a beautiful princess, a diva, an angle, my angle. But she was also the only one who treated me as if I was on the same level than her, I wasn't for her the little kid who needed supervision, she treated me as friend. This was the second thing why I fell for her. She also was the first girl who wasn't icky. There was only one other girl who I liked, Hikari, but it was somehow different, I liked her like a brother a sister but nothing romantic. While continuing our first adventure my feelings grew but I didn't realize it as love, I only thought of friendship, hey I was only eight… After our first adventure I had to go back to my mom at Kawada. At that time I missed everyone of our team, especially Meems. Hearing about her departure out of Japan I got depressed. This was the reason why my mom accepted at this time the new job here, so that I could be reunited with my friends and my brother. It helped a lot. Also the rivalry with Daisuke, at that time I really thought that I was in love with Hikari, but I misunderstood my heart, it was love, but not between lovers, more like between siblings. That time I really oversaw my feeling towards Mimi, I was too focused on Daisuke and his jealousy. The end of this story was that Hikari and I got on our first and last date with our first and last kiss and me leaving with a really confused heart. Nearly at the same time my mom lost her job, we never told anyone about it, and we tried to find a new one. Perhaps You remember seeing me worried and tired every morning…"
"Yes, we thought it was about the break-up. That was the main reason why we never asked, we thought of You with a broken heart…"
"Somehow it was good this way, I don't know how I would have reacted if someone has asked me about it and I don't want to imagine. After several weeks and nearly consuming all our spare we only had three options: First asking my dad for help, I think it was never a real option, my mom was too proud to ask him for help. Second living with my grand-parents in France, there was also an offer for a new job, not very good paid, but enough for living. The last option was moving to the US, there was also a job-offer with better conditions. I had to chose: 1. Continuing living here with fights every day, I am the child of hope, but I know what reality means… 2. Living with my grand-parents in France, seeing again my third crush, but without any knowledge of French language… 3. A new start in US, with contact to my cousin and perhaps finding my first crush… Can You believe that it took me about one week to choose the third option? At the end it was hope which made the decision, I hoped for finding Mimi to who we all lost contact at that time… At this moment I knew who owns my heart…"
"I figured it a bit earlier out, at the time Takeru was fighting about Hikari's heart. I had mixed emotions, I felt happy for him but also jealous. After hearing about them both having their first date I felt as if my world broke, I needed time to understand why I had such feelings. But then I received the last e-mail with the news of not being boy-/girlfriend. This was exactly the moment my confusion grew too strong and I decided to take a break and ignored everything. My parents were very worried about me, they wanted to understand why I reacted so strange, but the worst part was that I really didn't understand. It took nearly six months until one night I realized it, I was still in love with Takeru, I wanted to talk with him, but I lost all my addresses and phone-numbers due to a virus which deleted my whole computer two months earlier. I tried to ignore all my feelings and continue my life. It worked really fine until one day I was called to the principal without any reason. I was too confused why he called me to notice a smiling blonde boy waiting at the principal office. Then I heart him saying Hello Meems… I replied that only two persons were allowed to call me 'Meems' and both lived in Japan. An only I don't think so changed all my whole life…"
"Also mine, I remember my first day at the new school, I was extremely worried how it would be there, if I would find new friends and so on. My talk with the principal was interesting, he knew how it is to live in another culture, he was born in Germany, moved at the age of seven to Japan and at 13 to the US. He understood me very good and ordered someone who spoke Japanese for introducing me at the new school and tutoring me. At the moment I heart who he called I nearly fainted, if You never believed in fate after that You did… Seeing my expression he asked what happened and I told him that we were very good friends until she moved to the US. I was allowed to wait outside and surprise her. He had a fine sense of humor… I was sorry as he was killed two years later by a drunk driver…"
"Since our first day we got best friends and only few weeks later we both knew that we're in love. Lucky for us I was held back a year after moving to the US, I was too depressed and my grades weren't very good at that time. Takeru made it to advance a grade with my help, we graduated at the same time with very good grades and were both accepted for studying journalism university. At that time he wrote his now published novels, especially his best-seller with his mother's and my help."
"I never knew that my novels would be accepted so good, and after my first novel reaching the best-seller-level I thought of advancing our relationship, I bought the engagement-ring, btw I had help by Sora…"
"Nice story, perhaps You should write a novel about it, it'd be interesting…" I looked at my fiancée and she at me with an evil spark in her eyes before she grabbed in her handbag and pulled out my new novel…
"Too late, perhaps You'd like to read it… It'll be published in two months in the US and in about 6 here…" she said with an evil smirk…
At that moment Hikari couldn't hold back a laugh while Taichi looked at us with a "thank-you"-look, I think it was her first laugh since her fiancée's death…