Part 6: The Pink-Haired Girl and the Blue-Haired Boy's Identities Revealed!
"Oh, Izumi-senpai," Miyako called in concern. "Are you all right?"
"Yeah, I'm okay," Koushirou said while rubbing his head, the pink-haired girl still on him, "but who is this girl?"
A tall, blue-haired boy wearing a blue uniform jacket, a white dress shirt, and a pair of off-white pants, ran in behind her saying, "Wait up!" After reaching the classroom, the blue-haired boy noticed the pink-haired girl pinning down Izzy.
"You just couldn't wait to see Koushirou, huh," the blue-haired boy laughed. "I didn't even know that he was going to be here."
"Kido-san!"
"Iori-kun, you're more polite than what Koushirou was when we first met him, but you can just call me Jyou."
Jyou helped the girl up and she stood up, brushing herself off and putting her hair back into place. She gave Jyou a quick hug and a "thanks" for helping her up. She then extended her hand to Koushirou and helped him up and smiled sweetly. Koushirou stared with wide eyes in surprise.
"Mimi-san, is-is that you?!" the redhead asked in disbelief. "What are you doing here!?"
Izzy hadn't seen Mimi like Takeru and his friends had so he didn't know of her change in wardrobe, hair, etc. Well, for one, he was used of her tannish-blondish hair instead of it being a pinkish, strawberry blondish color.
"Oh, Koushirou," Mimi smiled. "Hi, I haven't seen you in such a long time!" She then giggled a bit. "I can actually talk to you face to face now without having to look down."
Koushirou gave the girl a small look of annoyance. He knew that he wasn't the tallest boy in the world, but she didn't have to remind him of it.
Three years earlier when they had really first met - even though they had the same class, they didn't really associate with one another until their adventure in the Digital World and only knew of each other - Izzy was very short compared to her. He was barely taller than TK and Kari, Kari being taller than TK, and they were both eight back then.
Koushirou then started to lighten up and remembered that this was Mimi, someone you just couldn't get annoyed with or get mad at and stay annoyed or mad at. No matter where she went or whom she met, she seemed to have that effect on them and they act all nice around her.
"Sorry for running into you like that," Mimi apologized. "I was just in a real hurry."
"Hurry isn't the word! You were sprinting like you were participating for a triathlon or something!" Jyou whistled.
Tachikawa Mimi, who is 13 years old, is also another Chosen Child from three years earlier. She moved to America and kept in touch with her old friends in Odaiba through phone and e-mail. She visited once before and met Iori, Daisuke, and Miyako, whom of which idolized her, but was a bit envious over her having such good looks and that almost all the boys thought she was pretty.
Kido Jyou is also another Chosen from three years earlier. He's 15 years old and is always studying and is in his last year of Junior High. His dream is to become a doctor.
"What are you doing here in Odaiba?" Hikari asked.
"Yeah, I thought that you were supposed to be back in New York, in America," Miyako added.
"Why are the both of you here, actually?" Takeru asked.
"Yeah, what's going on?" Daisuke queried.
"I don't know why," Jyou started as he took out his Digivice, which was an older model compared to the newer Chosen Children's, "but something is wrong with Gomamon."
"Yeah, I have the same feeling about Palmon. I'm here on vacation. I was going to tell you all, but I hadn't gotten around to it yet," Mimi bashfully responded. "The only person that knows I'm here is Sora. I called her when I arrived her last night."
"You could've sent me an e-mail!" Koushirou said, getting a bit hysterical. "We always send each other e-mail! I mean, I haven't seen you in such a long time. You look so…so different now!"
"Chill out, Koushirou," Mimi said, smiling sweetly like she always does. She then gave him a playful wink and said, "Maybe I was trying to surprise you."
"An e-mail still would've been nice," Koushirou muttered under his breath.
"Now, I was relaxing, taking a nice hot soothing bath, just like when we were in that mansion created by Devimon before we all got split up---"
"Oh yeah, I remember that. You ended finding Tentomon and me in that old ruin."
"Yeah, and you ignored me the entire time and if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have gotten lost in that giant maze and almost killed by Kentarumon (Centarumon)!" Mimi argued, causing Koushirou to cower down some.
"Um…sorry?" Koushirou apologized with a nervous sweat drop. He then tried his best to change the subject abruptly. "Well, um, at least we got back in time to fight Devimon!"
"That's true, and we saw cute little Patamon evolve to Angemon for the first time," Mimi smiled, patting Patamon on the head.
"That was one tough battle," Koushirou recalled.
"Who's Devimon?" Daisuke asked.
"Another Digimon I never want to remember or encounter again!" Takeru darkly muttered, the same look he had just that previous day when he was ready to literally kill Puppetmon, which Iori noticed.
"Don't tell me that this Digimon was trying to kill you too!" Miyako said in surprise.
The boy nodded, his harsh expression softening.
"But thanks to Patamon, he evolved and saved my life…but in the process, lost his own."
"Don't worry about that, Takeru. I was reborn and you took good care of me when I was in that Digitama (Digiegg)."
"Thanks again, buddy," Takeru said while hugging his flying companion.
"Sure thing, Takeru!"
"Seems that you would have a big fear of Digimon with the bad experiences you've had."
Takeru shrugged at Iori's comment while Mimi continued with her story.
"Like I was saying, while I was taking my nice hot bath at the hotel, I got this strange feeling that something was wrong," Mimi continued. "My Digivice then started to blink."
"I was on my home to study…"
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RP: Man, when isn't he! Joe needs to be in the show more!!!
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"…when I had the feeling that something was wrong. My Digivice
started blinking like it did when Gomamon was in trouble before.
"On my way here, I ran into Mimi-kun and we both came here together." He then gave a shy smile. "I didn't mind bumping into her, though. I haven't seen her in a long time."
"That's weird about your Digivices blinking," Takeru stated. "We haven't received any distress signals, or messages, or anything like that."
Before anyone could comment, a frown appeared on Izzy's face. He too now sensed something was wrong, just like Mimi and Jyou had. He then dug through his pants pocket and took out his Digivice. He noticed that it was blinking.
"Oh no! Tentomon! Something is wrong! I know it!"
"Hey guys, look," Miyako called, motioning for them to join her. While Mimi and Jyou were telling their stories, she decided to check out the different areas that they could go to in the Digital World.
Everyone gathered round to see what Miyako had discovered while looking at the map of the Digital World on the computer.
"There are two Dark Towers here in this area," the female computer whiz pointed.
"It looks like a desert or something," Hikari noted.
"My Palmon wouldn't be in the desert! She would be in a woodsy or forest-like area, protecting it."
"Neither would Gomamon. He would be someplace cold or either around a body of water."
"There's not telling where Tentomon may be," Koushirou muttered. "He just hasn't been himself lately."
He thought back to when he had last seen him and how Tentomon was obsessing over a tree, which was his tree house, and warned them not to go near it.
"Well, what are we doing sitting around here blabbing for!" exclaimed an energetic Daisuke. "Let's get going!"
'I don't think this is such a good idea. What if two Dark Towers make it so that even our Digimon can't evolve?'
"Are you okay, Iori?" Miyako asked, noticing the pondering look that Iori was now wearing.
"Oh, I was just wondering about the two Dark Towers. If there are two---"
"Enough talking, let's go!" Daisuke urged, holding his D-3 up to the computer screen. "Digital Gate open!"
"Ignored again," the young martial artist sighed.
A bright light shone out from the screen and the five kids and their Digimon, along with three extra friends, entered the gate that led to the Digital World. Time they went through the gate, a handsome, blonde-haired boy, a girl wearing a white tennis uniform, and a boy with dark brown hair ran into the classroom.
"Oh no!" the boy with the dark brown hair groaned.
"They're gone!" the girl frowned.
"We're too late!" the blonde sighed.
"It's all my fault that we missed them!" the brown-haired boy said, shame in his voice. "I'm sorry Sora, Yamato…"
"It's not your fault, Taichi, that you got a detention," Sora said, hoping to calm him down some.
Takenouchi Sora was the girl that Hikari and Daisuke mentioned earlier. She's 14 and was a Chosen three years earlier as well. She and Taichi have been friends for a long time and played Soccer a lot when they were younger. Now she plays tennis.
"Only irresponsible people get detentions," Yamato muttered in annoyance.
"You were there too!" Taichi argued.
"That's because almost the entire eighth grade class had to serve it for somebody's immature practical joke! I don't even have the same class as you and I got a detention just because I have her as an instructor too!" He then glared at the now goggle-less boy, his arms folded. "Because of you, Sora and me were stuck with detentions! I had to blow off a band practice because of you!"
"I missed Tennis practice today, oh well," Sora gloomily sighed. "Well, at least Koushirou-kun is a grade under us and didn't have to worry about serving a detention since he doesn't have the same class and instructor as we do."
"Well, I didn't think I was going to get caught putting that lizard in our boring Science Teacher's desk, and I didn't think she would've given us all detentions for something I did!"
"It doesn't matter," Sora said, wanting to get off of the subject. "Let's just hope Piyomon (Biyomon), Agumon, Gabumon, and the other Digimon are okay."
"I hope whatever is wrong with our Digimon, that Takeru and the others can handle it," Taichi said, still wishing he could go to the Digital World. He really hated the fact that he and the other older members of the group couldn't go unless with one of the younger, newer kids of the group since they all had D-3s.
"I guess we could wait around for them," Yamato suggested.
"Wish we could've gone along with them…"
"Don't worry, Sora," replied a confident Taichi, "we'll just wait around for them here until they get back, or better yet, how about we go get Mimi?"
"Oh yeah, I told you two that she was back, but I tried calling her before we left school to tell her that we were going to the Digital World, but she wasn't there."
"So that's what you were doing after detention," Taichi realized.
"We haven't seen her in so long," Yamato stated.
"Hikari told me she looks really different now."
"Maybe this time she'll stay long enough for someone to actually see her," Yamato said. "She just upped and left the last time."
"Well, her folks had to get back to America the last time, so that's why she couldn't stay too long," Sora explained.
Yamato dug through his uniform pocket and took out some money.
"How about we go out for a bite to eat, my treat. If we're lucky, maybe they'll have returned by the time we finish."
"Wow, your band must be doing very well!" Sora exclaimed.
"It sure is!"
"Yep, and I would know since I'm there for every single one of them!" they heard a female voice playfully giggle.
"Huh?" the three said in unison, looking around.
"Who's there?" Sora requested.
They turned to see who had spoken. Standing at the door of the computer lab was a maroon big-haired girl wearing a green uniform blouse and a dark red skirt. Yamato turned a deathly pale color in fear and Tai sweat dropped nervously. Sora could only shrug.
"NOT JUN!!" the two boys screamed.
"Who?"
The girl ran up to Yamato and clung herself to his arm.
"Hey there, Yamato-kun!" she smiled up at him.
Yamato screamed.
"I heard you mention something about going out to eat," Jun said, her
smile even bigger. "Do you remember our first date together?
It was so romantic!" The girl then thought for a moment and
said, "Well, I'm sure it would've been if we would've actually gotten the
chance to go."
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RP: For the original, Yamato and Jun never did go on their date together.
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"LET ME OUT OF HERE!! DIGI-GATE OPEN!! I BEG OF YOU…PLEASE
OPEN!!" Streaked tears started to pour down Yamato's face as he started
to bang on the keyboard. "OPEN, OPEN, OPEN!! IN THE NAME OF
ALL DIGIGODS, PLEASE OPEN!!!"
"You're silly. What's a Digi-gate, cutie?" Jun asked with a giggle. "Wait, I know, you want us to be alone and 'Digi-gate' is just your way of saying it. We can get alone right now if you want."
"AHHHH!!!!"
Taichi and Sora sweat dropped at the scene.
"So that's Motomiya Jun, Yamato's number one fan and the older sister of Daisuke-kun?" Sora asked Taichi in a whisper.
Tai nodded and grabbed Sora's arm and then Yamato's free arm leading the two out.
"We're not going out to eat," Taichi lied, "we have some other stuff to take care of."
"Like what?"
"Well, um, my cat is stuck in a tree in Odaiba!"
A loud "thumping" sound was then heard, since both Sora and Yamato face-faulted from Taichi's statement. Jun didn't even really care what he said, and kept on talking.
"Well, to be completely honest with you guys, I was looking for my brother. Mother wanted me to come here and fetch him since he seems to always be busy after school now, and we both know that it has nothing to do with club activities since he's only in the Soccer Club, and they aren't meeting this week," Jun seriously responded in a non fan-girlish manner, slight worry in her voice. "I've looked all over for him, have you seen him?"
"Nope, sorry, gotta go!" Yamato responded quickly, wanting Jun to hurry and go away. He had always hated the way Jun acted around him since she acted like such a fan-girl. He knew she was a good person, her concern over her brother showed that, but her constantly wanting to date him was somewhat annoying.
"How about I come along with you!" the big-haired girl smiled, once again going back to fan-girl mode. She then grabbed onto his arm again. "I'll surely like to go along with you and we could look for him together."
Matt frowned and sweat dropped.
"Please…help…me…" Yamato whimpered, the expression on his face priceless.
"We would take you along, but like I said," Taichi started, "we're going to be really busy…"
"…yeah, we have some…um…shopping to do for um…" Sora looked over at Taichi, hoping he could come up with some kind of an excuse, "…Taichi?"
"My, um, mother's birthday. YEAH…her birthday!"
"Yeah, that's right!" Sora nervously agreed.
"And we don't have the room for an extra person!" Taichi added on to the lie. "Sorry."
Sora gave Jun a quick bow and an uneasy, apologetic smile and said, "Sayonara."
All three of them ran off, Yamato a bit dazed, especially since he had to tear Jun off of his arm before running off.
"Thank you...thank you...thank you Taichi...Sora. How can I ever repay you!"
Sora and Tai got a mischievous look and said together, "Dinner at the most expensive restaurant in town."
Yamato nearly face-faulted.
"We're just kidding," Sora assured the boy with a small laugh. "Anywhere that you want."
"Yeah, as long as it keep our minds off of what's really bothering us."
The three walked off to find something to do for the next hour or two to keep their minds off of their Digimon friends, whom they thought were in terrible trouble...