Okay, this ones a little bit shorter and more humor, some romance, and oh my god do my eyes deceive me is Minashigo-kun fitting in that well already… oh well… and sorry Erika but you remember this now don't you? Uh-huh… the day your lil' sis fought back… so there is Mimi-child bashing ahead… ok…
Man… this whole story turned out fairly short… not even 18,000 words, discluding author's notes… unlike some of other people who I know (*cough*Logan*cough*Haruka*cough*) who consider 200,000 short… oh well… here we go!
Disclaimer: No, I don't own digimon, or Aaron Carter and his songs, or Matt and his songs… which I may say is the only good thing about the guy… (sorry Emily)
Next person who calls me Jeri for the ending A/N on this gets killed…
Digimon, G2: Digidestiny is © 2001 Neo! Anime, USA
Reflection Reflected
By Lyra Kamiya
Chapter 6
Dance and Consequences
The next two weeks flew by quickly. Things were going fairly normal, well, normal for a bunch of kids with digimon. The only slightly peculiar thing that had happened was a new digivice signal, but since it faded in and out, no one had thought much of it. The havoc within the group that hadn't existed for 8 years, since Re'i was born, now began again with Meghan. And the havoc that hadn't occurred for over 20 years was happening again...
"You're actually going to wear a skirt?!"
"Well, I do have a date and I thought I'd surprise him, sis."
"But you?! In a skirt?! You'll give Aaron a heart attack!" Keli was extremely shocked that her sister was going to be caught anything but dead in a skirt.
"Please... he is not his uncle," Jennifer on the other hand thought it was fantastic that Lyra was actually going to act like a normal girl for once. Except that there was no way her hat was leaving her head this eon.
"Jen-ko! You're one to talk," was all Keli could reply.
*_*' ... Was quite literally Jennifer's response. What business does she have saying I'm one to talk just because I *was* after her little brother...
"Don't even think it, Jen-ko, 'cause he's mine!" Erika yelled from her location on the other end of the locker room.
"OW! Erika!!!"
"Oh, sorry KM..." Erika mumbled realizing she'd pulled Kylie Marie's hair in the midst of her yelling at Jennifer.
Kori did her classic look-up, sigh-and-adjust-her-glasses thing. This time, she actually spoke. "At least you guys actually have dates. Dad says I'm too young," she stated, pushing the frames back up her nose again.
"It's just as well. Who would you take anyway? Ben?" her sister asked.
"You mean Re'i?" Kori asked, blushing slightly, more out of the idea of her taking anyone to the dance than at the fact her sister thought she might like Re'i. "I don't really know..." she shrugged, before walking across the room and beginning to wash her glasses.
Erika took this opportunity to make yet another negative comment to the sister that she considered her slave. "Man... I don't know how they pass us off as related, cause they clearly mixed her up with someone else at the hospital. She messes with her glasses more than Keiji's mom. Me, I don't even have contacts, let alone glasses. And even with them, she still can't see that well if she likes the Hida kid."
Kori paused for a moment. Lyra, skirt and all, stood ready to pounce on Erika if Kori began to cry from the comment. Pajamon, Meomon, and Kokitsunemon quickly pushed in front of Samuimon to keep her from attacking her human's offender. Even Kawausomon appeared appalled at Erika. Kori calmly finished drying her lenses, placed them back on her face, and turned towards her sister. "At least I'm not completely blind," she grinned. "You wouldn't know a matching outfit if it bit you," she began walking out of the room. "Oh... and at least I'm not in love with goggle-boy the fourth."
Everyone stood dumbfounded. "Did... she..." Jennifer stuttered, "use... an... insult?"
"Alright Kori! Go Kori! Go Kori!" Lyra began chanting. The others, save Erika and Keli, joined in quickly.
"She insulted my little brother..." Keli stood in shock.
Jennifer stopped chanting momentarily. "So? I like him, but I don't care cause it was her first self-attained victory. Go Kori!" she re-began chanting.
"Kawausomon... I don't have that bad of fashion taste... do I?" Erika said shakily.
"Well..." ^_^' "Let's just say that you should see if KM has an extra sweater you can wear."
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Meanwhile, Doki had organized the guys into one corner of the boys' locker room. He was currently acting unto Minashigo much as his own father had to Ken. "Okay, listen up. this is gonna be Minashigo-kun's first major social event of his life, so we gotta support him during this. 'Lright? Any questions?"
"Yeah," Keiji and Jared said simultaneously, "who put you in charge?!" Keiji continued on his own, "I've got my own girl to be chasing after." Doki sweatdropped...
"He who has big mouth and little sense, had equally big trouble and even more little attention from girl who he is chasing," Aaron stated in a sage-like manner before bowing his head. "Takeru Takaishi, of Daisuke 'Bachelor-for-Life' Motomiya," he quoted. This caused Keiji to sneer, Minashigo to stand there with a blank look on his face, and the rest of the guys to fall on the floor laughing.
"Who're they…" Minashigo asked.
"Oh… sorry," Re'i explained, "Takeru is TK, Dani's dad. Daisuke is Davis, our soccer 'coach', though we normally ignore him." Re'i looked to make sure no one would hear him, "Keiji acts like him sometimes… he is in absolute love with Kylie Marie, and Daisuke was like that about Dani's mom," he whispered then grinned. Those who heard him stared in absolute disbelief… this was Re'i… Ben… Cody's kid, for goodness sakes! He didn't say stuff like that, let alone anything, often.
"Re'i… are you feeling alright?" Yoroimon asked from the counter. He was given a glare previously thought only to belong to Cody as a response. "I'm guessing that's a yes…"
"Chad? Chad? Chaaaaaad?" Conamon hopped around his bench frantically trying to get his attention. "I'm hungry! You hear me? HUN-GA-RY! Grrrrrrrrrr…"
"Here…" Chad glanced up and pulled some jerky from his bag. "Have this…"
"If I didn't know better I'd say you were treating me like a dog," she whined.
"Well, until I can get some cake and stuff from the party… it'll have to do. I'm stuck with nothing but jerky to eat too."
"Okay."
Jared walked over and sat beside them, watching Conamon attempt to hold a strip of the jerky in her paw and eat it at the same time. She finally decided to lay down to do so. "Yo, as long as your phones are off anyway, thought I'd attempt a conversation with you." He sweatdropped as he watched Conamon come back for her 3rd slice of jerky, "I guess her eating habits explain why she's the only one who is almost always at rookie level… thought you were gonna leave her at home? Even if she is a digimon, she's still a girl and this is the guys' room. Oh well…"
"Mom doesn't approve of having a talking dog left at home… alone, and Conamon would have been mad if everyone had come but her. I thought you wanted to talk to me… she's not exactly my favorite subject…"
"Yeah, well, what I wanted to ask is what you think of him," he motioned to Minashigo, who was leaning against the corner with Nazomon at his side. "I know we've had newies before, but they've always been one of our group anyway. Minashigo… he's got no family, no history, no nothing, except Nazomon."
"Well," Chad shrugged, "he's a pretty good start… he can turn into Wanimon… and he's *not* exactly anyone I'd want to meet in a dark alley… Maybe he can make it around here. You know, we *all* are lucky, and have a good start in the friends area… Conamon gets annoying, but I can't remember what life was like without her now… and without her -- as Kanshumon -- I might not have a life to live right now…"
"Yeah…" Jared smiled as he looked down at the little blob named Hitomon who was nibbling at his own jerky strip.
"He shoots, he scores!"
"No-way, iie! That was soo double dribbling."
Chad sighed hard, and Jared expressed the same thought, "Though I think we'd be better off without having Aaron *and* Ausimon… It was okay when they were younger, but now that Aaron is 17… it ain't gonna be pretty."
Chad sweatdropped as he heard a locker door get slammed against. "I can appreciate that… when he was younger and smaller he didn't hurt the lockers so much."
"Chad… Ausimon bounced off it… not Aaron." They both sighed. Re'i and Keiji sat down beside them, with the same expression on their faces.
"Pass it here, Aaron!"
"That wasn't Ausimon's voice," Keiji said in a shocked way.
"Got it!" Dani yelled. "Here, catch!"
"Intercepted," called a slightly muffled voice.
"I don't think that's a basketball term."
The group on the bench spun (or bounced) around, only to see to see that the middle section of the locker room had been transformed into a mini basketball court, with two trashcans on either set of lockers for baskets. It was human against digimon, with the digimon's hoop considerably lower… and the game was…
"3-on-3!" Yoroimon stared in awe, as did everyone else (except Conamon who was too interested in the last of the jerky to care). Sure enough, it was Guinamon, Ausimon, and Nazomon against Doki, Aaron, and…
"Minashigo, over here!!!"
The rest of the boys stared as their new friend instead pivoted and made a perfect shot into the basket. "That's it…" Chad complained, shoving a bench across the room and throwing a trashcan onto the counter, Full court! 5-on-5… In-trainings can ref, and Conamon… you can eat." He tossed her another pack of jerky, which she pulled open with her claws, then managed to pick up a piece with her paw and eat it.
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"…Come get it! People all around ya gotta…"
The dance was going smoothly… Yamato's band was going to play later, but for now Ken was acting as a DJ. "Erika!" Jared yelled and almost ran away, but then he realized something different. "Hey… your outfit's actually pretty cool tonight. Wait a minute…" he spun around three different ways, puzzled. "Where's Jen-ko? She's usually attacking me by the time you've been near me this long…"
"Over *there*," she said snidely, "teaching Minashi-chan how to dance." He looked over and was immediately shocked to see Jennifer and Minashigo happily dancing to the song.
"Looks like he didn't need our help…" he laughed. Jennifer glanced over, acknowledged both him and Erika, smiled, then went back to dancing.
"What?"
"Oh, nothing… just laughing at something Dani said earlier. Hey… he's pretty good."
"Yeah, *they* are," she shrugged.
"Bet we can top 'em," Jared grinned and grabbed her wrist, pulling her onto the dance floor.
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"Your little brother appears to be having fun," Aaron smirked at Lyra's wide eyed look when she saw him willingly decide to dance with Erika.
"Yeah… wonder how much she paid him?"
"Oh… he just can't stand the competition and is trying to show Jen-ko what she's missing."
"You wanna show him what else she's missing? I bet it'd be fun to have two sets of us making her jealous."
"I'll take that bet… 15 bucks sound good to you?"
"Shazuka Goma-chan," Lyra laughed, then kissed his cheek and pulled him onto the floor alongside the others.
Aaron was also quite obsessed with this particular song because it was by a fellow kid named Aaron. He, Lyra, and Keli had all come towards the front of their larger group and were enjoying leading them through the song. He walked in front of everyone else and sang along with the verse, "Life's lookin' good with only 10 seconds left…" he paused as the father on the CD screamed his name, "Aaron!" "Grounded," he said, crossing his arms in an attempt to look cool that the twins quickly ended by shoving him over. "Hey… you two…" the twins grinned in response.
"People all around, ya gotta…"
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"Hi, Kori," Re'i smiled. "Why ya sitting here by yourself?"
"Oh… I'm a bit tired, that's all…" she responded with a sigh.
"Hmm… Hey, Minashigo's doing pretty good out there, don't you think?"
"Yeah, I guess he is… There's one thing that bugs me though… His eyes, did you take a good look at them?"
"Uh, no, why?"
"Maybe it's nothing, Re'i-kun, but, it just seems to me… well, it's obvious that one of his eyes is blue and the other's green, but it also seems to me that the green one fades…" she said barely above a whisper.
"Fades?"
"Yeah, it turns white. They say eyes are the window to the soul, and if that's true, then maybe… his soul is lost…"
"That's a good assumption. Hey, since when were you the mystical type?" Re'i looked puzzled.
"Since I needed something to do lately… Erika hasn't been making me be her slave lately… she's to busy trying to figure out how having two slaves would work."
"Two?"
"I'm gonna have a little brother…"
"Oh… you know what, the way you described Minashigo's eyes… I think I've seen some like that before…"
"Yeah, I know where… Tim. Tim Stevenson, the son that Willis adopted. And you know what?" Re'i shook his head. "They're both orphans. Orphans with no past."
"Oh… weird…" he glanced at Kori, who shook her head in agreement and sighed.
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"Yo, Niru! Wait up!" KM called as she saw her walking away from the snack table. "man… your dad's a good DJ, Niru-ko."
"Thanks… even though he's not doing much now… the bands gonna be up in a song or two, so now the program that he and the Izumis wrote is doing the DJ-ing."
"Oh… well, its not like I'm gonna go compliment Keiji on a job well done by his parents, so no only is your dad a good DJ… he can program too!"
"Why don't you give Keiji a break…" KM gave her a disgusted look at that point. "No… not leave him alone, just… let him have a little fun. Dance with him or something, even if just once, then you can ditch him forever."
"Niru-ko… how much did he pay you to say that?"
"Thirty 'cause I kept insisting I wouldn't do that to a friend. He forgot an extra 10 to keep me from telling you. I'll give you half to go through with it."
"Nah… just give me 5 so I can buy some extra pizza…"
"Alright everyone! It's time to turn this party up!"
KM froze as she heard her dad come on stage, knowing what his first song would be. "Later… now… I'll go ahead and dance with him." With that she headed for the corner of the gym that Keiji had retreated to after giving up on KM and retrieving a slice of pizza. "Alright, Koushiro… on your feet."
"Wha-what the…?"
"I'll dance with you. But only for this song," she grinned. 'Turn Around' was not exactly a truly romantic song, so Keiji Wouldn't over react *too* much.
Keiji dropped his palm top and stood up, following her like a lost sheep onto the dance floor. The first notes of the song were hit and… "Oh no!" Kylie Marie winced as not the start of the song that she expected to hear played, but instead…
"Gokigen na chou ni natte.."
Or something similar to that… she couldn't always understand her dad's lyrics, but she knew this song. "No… Koushiro, we're gonna have to dance later."
"But Ari-Ari-chan," he whined, calling her by her Japanese nickname, "You promised."
"OK, ok, fine," she growled and walked out to the area where her friends were all dancing. Doki and Niru jumped in beside them.
"Told you ya should…" Niru grinned to KM before Doki grabbed her by the arm and spun her around. Keli soon dragged Chad onto the dance floor… and Kori sat quietly beside Re'i, watching all of them dance and smiling for the first time in forever. So what if it wasn't anywhere near a slow song… be they best friends, boyfriends, or both everyone was happily dancing but at last not alone. The parents who were on stage smiled as they watched their "reflections" dance… as the song says, it's Digidestiny…
And you might just be a mirror…
But a reflection can be a second chance…
The end….
For now…
In loving memory of Debbie H. May your memory live on, and hope that I may be your second chance at life… Mom.
I dedicate this to my long departed mother Deborah… Although I live my life as Lyra, daughter of Sora and Tai, I must recognize reality, and I shall never forget her, and always love her, though I knew her for but two years of my life.
I live on mostly for my mother… for I feel I am and must be, her…
Reflection Reflected