A/N: Eighth chapter here! This one is more-or-less for the Hiyako pairing, but it mostly has all of them seeing each other at the restaurant. They all come out with their relationships and talk a bit. Mostly just a little rest from having to concentrate on two characters. Let me stick in a lil' shout out to Ghost Dancer, who made me want to write this chapter this soon. Hi, Ghost Dancer! ^-~ R/R please!
Albino Pythons And The Meet-up At The Restaurant
Hikari smiled as she watched her purple-haired friend look through the cages lining the side of the path. She kept grabbing her brunette friend's wrist and pointing at an animal, saying the name, and followed by a squeal ("Alligator-oooooh!"). She laughed as she was again grabbed and showed an animal.
"Look, Kari! Snakes-oooh!"
"Yeah. I like the albino python, myself."
"The yellow one's pretty, too."
Hikari laughed again and didn't bother commenting on that, not wanting to embarrass her friend. "Yes, it is, isn't it?"
They walked on down the row of cages. Suddenly, her stomach grumbled. "Hey, Miyako, what time is it?"
Miyako looked at her watch. "Almost three."
"No wonder I'm starved! Let's go to the zoo restaurant to get something to eat."
"I'm hungry, too. Okay, let's go!"
They linked arms and walked to the restaurant, which luckily wasn't too far away. They got there in two minutes and were glad to see the lack of a long line there. They stood in line for only five minutes before they were able to order, and then they took their number and searched for a seat.
"Hey, look! Apparently, we weren't the only ones that were hungry. There's Tai, Matt, Mimi, and Sora!"
They quickly waved at their friends, who waved back, and made their way to the booth. They slid in, glad that their friends had chosen the long, along-the-wall booth.
"Hey, how have you guys been?"
"Good. We checked out the ducks and flamingoes and...*walruses*," Tai said, emphasizing on the walruses.
Matt blushed slightly and pinched Tai's arm. Kari and Miyako didn't catch it though, and Sora and Mimi stifled their giggles. "So, you two make any new...discoveries?" Mimi asked, interested.
Kari raised an eyebrow. "Uh, no. Were we supposed to?"
The rest of them all looked somewhere else and tapped their fingers on the table. "No, no, just wondering."
The girls looked at each other, now raising both their eyebrows. Then, they shrugged and turned to their friends again. "So, did you all make any new discoveries?"
The four older ones blushed and stammered, and then Tai cleared his throat. "Yes, as a matter of fact, we did."
Sora nodded. "We found our soul mates."
"Wow," Hikari said, eyes wide. "That's a big discovery."
Sora nodded yet again, happily hugging Mimi's arm. "It was a very pleasant discover, too."
The girls giggled, and the boys both looked more than a little embarrassed. "So, who are your soul mates?" Miyako pressed.
Matt suddenly looked determined. "Tai's my soul mate and Sora and Mimi are soul mates."
The four older Digidestined froze, waiting for the response. Hikari clasped her hands together and squealed, and Miyako's jaw dropped open, though in a smile.
"Wow. That's...great!" Miyako said, clapping for no real reason.
Mimi nodded happily. "This has been the best zoo trip of our lives!" she yelled, throwing her arms into the air. Luckily, no one turned around to stare, the four older Digidestined having been there awhile already.
Miyako turned to Hikari, eyes shining. "Maybe we'll find our soul mates on this trip also!"
Hikari suddenly blushed and stared at her, rubbing her arm. "Yeah."
Miyako stared back at her and also blushed slightly. "Yeah," she agreed.
No one knew what happened in the next instant. All they knew was that nothing really had to happen. The truth was revealed in a look and everyone missed the second it happened. The moment was something that didn't really matter, yet Hikari and Miyako would remember it for the rest of their lives.
They suddenly hugged each other tightly, a tear slipping down Hikari's cheek. The four older ones politely talked to each other to give the younger ones privacy.
"Hikari, I-"
"I know. I felt it too."
They pulled away, smiling brilliantly. "You did?" Miyako asked eagerly.
Hikari nodded.
"So, we're-"
Another nod.
They giggled and hugged each other tightly. Just then, the door flew open and what couldn't be mistaken as Daisuke and Ken stormed to their table. The six stared at them, two wiping tears from their eyes, four with a knowing smirk plastered on their faces.
"Ken and I just got together as a couple and it was so pretty and anyone that has a problem with that should go-"
"Daisuke, we think it's wonderful. But really, I think there's some people halfway around the world in America whose attention you didn't capture."
Ken blushed as he noticed that everyone in the restaurant had turned to look at them, some with disgust on their faces, and some with happy smiles and encouraging thumbs-up signs. Tai recognized the face of the lady from the caves among the crowd, and he waved at her. She waved back, smiling.
"Um, who made Hikari cry, so I can beat the crap out of them?" Daisuke asked, eyeing his friend and glaring at the rest of them.
"Oh, no, Dai. I sort of made myself cry," Hikari said, smiling.
"Why?" he asked, truly concerned. They slid into the booth besides the others.
"Because Miyako and I just had a moment of truth thing and found out we're soul mates like the rest of them."
Ken gaped at the others. "Like the rest of them?"
They all giggled. "Yes, my predictions are coming true," Sora responded. "Tai and Matt, me and Mimi, Kari and Miyako, you and Ken..." she trailed off, not wanting to mention the remaining two couples, who might not have gotten together yet.
"And?" Tai pressed.
Sora smirked. "I can't tell. That will be revealed soon enough, don't you worry."
The other seven face-faulted and fell over in their seats. "Not even me?" Mimi pleaded, using her puppy-dog-look on her love.
"No, not even you, Meems," Sora said, laughing. "But I'll make up for that later."
"Monkey wrestle," Daisuke and Ken chimed, and they both collapsed, laughing.
The others stared at them awhile, shaking their heads in wonderment.
"I'm not even going to ask," Matt muttered.
Hikari and Miyako giggled and stared at each other lovingly, leaning forward to share their first kiss together as a couple. Just as they were progressing to a nearly full-on make-out session, the others cleared their throats loudly and they broke apart, faces bright red.
"Ew, gross! Watching my sister make out with her new girlfriend so wasn't on my to-do list for today," Tai said, smirking.
Kari glared at him. "Like you and Matt weren't before we got here?"
"Um, well, you weren't here to watch us so it doesn't count!"
"But we were. We had to suffer through it," Mimi pointed out.
"You guys were going at it, too!" Matt retorted.
"Can we talk about something else, please?" Sora muttered into her hands.
"Yeah, like what an amazing couple Yama-chan and I make," Tai said, grinning proudly. They all groaned.
"Shut up, Tai."
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A/N: And there you go. In the next chapter, the other two pairs wander in and they all decide to leave early so they can have an afternoon of going out on the town and having fun. Will the others get together in the restaurant or somewhere else? What will they think of everyone else being paired up? R/R please, if you want that chapter out soon. Bye byes!