How did you all like Keisuke? I admit it, he is a mirror image of me, only a male, Japanese version of it. lol Clumsy, forgetful, and not able to do what I want to do career wise, but that's not my parents' fault, oh, and I don't have any siblings like Keisuke. I'm an only child.
Oh, just to let you all know, the names I am using for these siblings, parents, etc., have all been original names so far. Miyako's three sibs are named Mantarou, Momoe, and Chizuru; Koushirou's parents are named Yoshie & Masami; Taich's parents for the beginning of this part, Sora's father, Mimi's parents, etc. It's everyone else that's being made up as I go along, which includes Koushirou's biological parents.
Oh, a reminder, anything with a "*" by it means there is some kind of
a note about it at the end of the part. I would link it, but
seems like ff.net doesn't allow me to anymore. :Shrugs: Now as always,
I do not own any of these characters or places associated with the game,
manga, show, etc.
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Mimi finally told Miyako and Sora what had happened with her "attacker" and about everything else that had been going on dealing with Koushirou, minus the part about her hugging and kissing him of course. They were both surprised to find that Koushirou was adopted and had kept in that secret for so long. But as Sora had pointed out, it never came up in conversation for him to even bother mentioning it.
After all of their serious discussions, Miyako started to grill Mimi about the dinner thing with Koushirou. She wanted to know what was going on with those two, but Mimi, with a nervous blush, assured her that it was nothing.
It was now the next day and everyone was getting ready for school. Taichi had tried calling Sora the previous night to ask what it is he has been trying to ask her for a long while now, but chickened out completely. He was just going to talk casually with Sora, but when Taichi called, her mother told him Sora wasn't home. Both Sora and Miyako stayed over night at Mimi's. Mrs. Takenouchi failed to mention that to Taichi when he called, her being over at Mimi's or her staying the night, which didn't bother him too much since he was too chicken to ask Sora his question anyway, yet it still bothered him because he couldn't talk with Sora. The poor boy is so mixed up. ^^
We now join the Yagami family at breakfast...
Mrs. Yagami was in the kitchen frying some eggs and making toast for Hikari and Taichi who were arguing over who gets the bathroom first, while Mr. Yagami sat down at the table to smoke a cigarette.
"Oh no, not again!" Mrs. Yagami sighed as she flipped the eggs over. "Those two always argue over the bathroom!"
"Seems they would have learned to get along by now," Mr. Yagami said while lighting up.
"Susumo," Mrs. Yagami asked, hand on hip, "must you smoke every morning?"
"Yuuko, you know it helps to relieve me of my stress before heading off for work."
"I don't sit around smoking before I go out for the day," she said, pouring out a couple of glasses of juice. "What stress could you possibly have this early in the morning?"
Mr. Yagami took a puff of his cigarette and smiled at his wife.
"For one, listening to our children arguing over the bathroom again."
"I know you can think of something better than that!" the woman smiled.
"Okay," he smirked, trying to come up with a better excuse. "How about this. Ever since you stopped me from having a beer in the morning."
*"That's because you don't know how to drink just one! You don't know how weird you act when you are drunk and it doesn't take much for you to get drunk! Unfortunately, the kids and I do know how you act when you are drunk!" The woman handed her husband a cup of juice. She then called out, "Kids, breakfast is ready!"
Taichi and Hikari walked in and took their seats.
"Hey kids," their father greeted.
*"Ohayou, otousan, kaasan," both Hikari and Taichi greeted back.
Mrs. Yagami set down a plate for the both of them and a glass of juice, both thanking her of course. Hikari ate her breakfast the way she would usually, but Taichi wasn't. He seemed a bit depressed.
"Is something wrong, son?" Mr. Yagami asked as he put out his cigarette. "You barely touched your food."
"Yeah, you are up and ready for school earlier than usual too," Mrs. Yagami sain in concern. "You're actually on time!" The woman started to feel Taichi's forehead. "You aren't getting sick now, are you?"
"I'm fine, mom!" the boy said with a forced smile. "You worry too much."
"Did you ever talk with Sora-san?" Hikari asked as she drank down her juice.
He shook his head.
"I got off the phone for nothing then?!"
"She wasn't home when I tried to call her last night," Taichi explained. "It's not my fault."
The family continued to eat their breakfast, until they heard a knock at the front door. Hikari got up quickly.
"I'll get it," the girl said as she rushed to answer it.
Hikari got up and answered the door. It was Daisuke and the song *Adventure Heart started to play.
Everyone starts to look around in confusion.
"Hey, where is that music coming from?" Hikari asked.
"I don't know," Daisuke said as he started to bop his head to the tune, "but I like it!"
"Wow!" Hikari exclaimed as she looked down at her watch. "You're right on time!"
"Yeah, I decided to actually use my alarm clock for a change!"
Mr. & Mrs. Yagami laughed a bit at Daisuke's statement. They found it cute. Taichi just sat there and played with his now cold breakfast.
"What brings you by, Daisuke?" Mrs. Yagami asked as she walked up to the door.
"I'm going to walk Hikari-chan to school today!"
"Yeah, we are going to meet up with both Iori-kun and Takeru-kun when we get there, probably," Hikari said while getting her backpack. "We are trying to think of what we can do for our Spring Break. We already took our class trip to Kyoto which was really fun."
"Yeah, now I know why Miyako liked it so much," Daisuke nodded.
"I'm sure that Iori-kun will like it too when he gets the chance to go with his class in a couple of years."
"Kyoto has a lot of legend and history behind it. You can learn a lot about our history by going to Kyoto," Mr. Yagami said. "When I was in school, us last year Elementary students took our trip to Nara instead of Kyoto. Either way, both places are loaded with history."
"That's nice, dad, but we have to get going. We don't want to be late."
The girl stepped into her shoes, ready to leave.
"You know, Daisuke-kun, you can walk me to school every morning if you'd like, that is if you can actually be on time!"
"I don't mind since it is on my way anyway! Besides, it's fun walking to school. It's better than riding the boring old city bus."
The two kids left and headed on to school. Mrs. Yagami noticed that Taichi still hadn't eaten much.
"Honey, if you want, you can stay home today."
"He can't, Yuuko," Mr. Yagami informed her. *"Remember their school district is trying out these new exam schedules for all of the Junior High Schools to see if it is better to give finals at this time of the year or either in July before their summer break."
"That's right..."
"Hikari and her other friends are lucky."
"Elementary schools don't have testing anyway. I still wish Taichi could stay home from school today."
"I am fine, you guys."
"I'm not so sure," Mrs. Yagami told him. "What parts have you taken already?"
"All of them, except for Japanese and Science. This is the last day anyway. These kinds of tests only last three days." Taichi stood up and finished up the rest of his juice. "I better get going, I don't want to be late."
The boy grabbed his uniform jacket and ran out the door, still wondering why Sora had been so busy lately. He was starting to get the impression that she was avoiding him...
"I still think that it is too much pressure on the students, all of this testing," Mr. Yagami said after Taichi had left. "I mean, they are carrying on like a normal school week! They are going a full day, having regular classes, and still have to take these tests. Normally, regular classes are cancelled for exams. It is worse enough they had to take them this past July."
"At least they don't count at a major part of their grade."
"They don't?" he asked.
"Well, the students don't know that," Mrs. Yagami informed him. "If they did, they probably wouldn't take these tests too seriously. Don't you think?"
"Good point, but I still think it is stressful enough on the seniors who were worrying about High School entrance exams and wondering if they got accepted or not and then their own graduating ceremonies."
"They are really just tests to see how much they know, only this test won't count as much. I think they get a bit of extra credit, nothing major. It was bad that they just sprung this on them. Normally school activities are cancelled a week before the exams so that one could concentrate on studying for their tests, not the week of the exams."
"At times like this, I am so glad I am no longer a child!" Mr. Yagami laughed. After he finished his drink, he stood up and gave his wife a quick hug. "Well, I better get going. It's getting late."
"Okay, see you later! I'll lock up."
****
The Izumi household...
Koushirou had already left for school. He had gotten into a terrible argument with his parents after he had gotten home that night and skipped breakfast that morning to avoid having to see them. Something that neither of them had ever faced. Koushirou normally got along with his parents very well; so well that other parents would comment on how well the Izumis got along together. It was the "perfect family" to some people. The perfect housewife/mother, the perfect working husband, and the perfect son who never got into any trouble.
Mr. & Mrs. Izumi got compliments all the time about how they had the perfect son and to them, it was pretty much true. They never really had any problems with Koushirou. He was very well behaved and really appreciated them. Too bad things hadn't been like that lately. The argument was pretty much over Koushirou's secrecy. The Izumis had also found out that Koushirou had lied about where he had been on Sunday...
"What are we going to do with that boy of ours?" Mr. Izumi sighed while sipping on a cup of tea.
"I don't know," Mrs. Izumi frowned. "He's just been so secretive lately. He didn't even tell us where he had been all afternoon and most of the evening yesterday after he came home and he missed breakfast this morning!"
"Where did we go wrong with him? He has no right not letting us know where he is going or where he has been!"
"It just upsets me that he lied to us!" Mrs. Izumi said while wiping away a few of her tears with a handkerchief. "He has never lied to us before!"
"Yeah."
"I want to know where he was on Sunday! I talked with Yuuko-san yesterday afternoon and we got on the subject of the children and all of the testing they are going through and I brought up how Koushirou talked about how him and the others studied over there all day Sunday. She then said that Taichi and Hikari as well as most of the other children were at a party and that she hadn't seen Koushirou in the longest time." The woman lowered her head. "I wonder if it is because of my pregnancy..."
"No! Stop thinking like that! It is not the pregnancy. He is just being very inconsiderate towards me as well as towards you! You should not blame your being pregnant for Koushirou's unusual, secretive, grumpy moods lately."
"But he was fine before we told him last week!" the woman said, crying more. "He has been acting weird ever since then!"
"No he hasn't. You are exaggerating. He has been acting strangely ever since about Saturday or Sunday."
"It is still close to when we told him were going to have a baby!"
The woman quieted down and cried a bit more. She then muttered, "Maybe I shouldn't have the baby if it'll make him happy again..."
Mr. Izumi looked at his wife in surprise from her statement. She wasn't truly serious, but she did wonder how Koushirou would react if she were to just walk up to him one day and say that she wasn't going to have a baby.
"Yoshie! How could you even consider such a thing!?! That baby is part mine too and I know that you really want this baby as well and as much as I do! Probably even more! You love children just as much as I do! Koushirou is the child of this home and we are the ones taking care of him. We make the rules and just because he may not fathom the idea of having a younger brother or sister, does not mean we have to change our ways for him! It is not supposed to be that way! Whatever we say, goes!"
"But..."
"Yoshie, I am afraid that we will have to," the man paused slightly, "ground him. His behaviour hasn't been all that acceptable lately. We should take a firmer hand with him."
"Oh, Masami, do we have to?" the woman asked, hoping for an alternate choice. "We've never had to ground him before. He has always been so well mannered and behaved."
"Yoshie, we don't have much of a choice. He has to learn that there are rules in this home that everyone has to follow, him included. He also should not lie to us like he has. After school today, we will both tell him that for the rest of the week, he is to come straight home from school unless he is doing school work. He has to learn to respect us! We have spoiled him. Since he is a teenager now, he probably thinks that he can get away with anything that he wants."
Mrs. Izumi nodded in agreement. She knew he was right, but she
still hated the idea of actually punishing Koushirou, just as her
husband, but then again, what parent doesn't dislike having to punish
their child?
****
The school day went by like it would usually and it was now time for
everyone to go home. Mimi noticed something a bit different about
her usual group of close friends. They were all giving her looks
like they wanted her to tell them something. The look was the most
noticeable on Yuko, though. Mimi could only shrug to them though.
She had no idea what they could've wanted.
Mimi missed lunch with her usual group of friends and joined Koushirou in the computer lab. Surprisingly, talking with Koushirou more didn't bother her too much. It was better than hearing Yuko and Ayame's current boy report that she had no interest in what-so-ever or Chinatsu's obsession with Volleyball and sports in general, not that, that was a bother. Mimi knew that Chinatsu took her sports seriously, especially Volleyball, and hopes to go pro someday.
Mimi also enjoyed talking with Koushirou because of what happened that past Sunday. It still bothered her tremendously, just like it did Koushirou, both were just trying their best to hide it, but it never worked. They both ended up getting their feelings out, sort of, on the situation which sometimes involved Mimi crying a bit. It was a good way to relieve all of the tension that the both of them had been holding in, Koushirou especially, since, other than her, he hadn't talked to anyone about what had happened, but he still didn't say much. He was still holding everything in and Mimi was doing the majority of the talking. It was like he didn't want to show any emotion, something Koushirou had had a problem with as far back as Mimi and their other friends could remember. He always acted as if nothing ever bothered him and he would just allow himself to get preoccupied with something else, like the computer. Mimi talked with Sora and Miyako and that made her feel a lot better, but she still hadn't gotten over what had happened completely. No one really does...
On her way to the lab, she ran into her four admirers. All four them apologized to her and wanted to apologize to "Izumi" for the trouble they "caused yesterday." Mimi was glad for this and both her and Koushirou accepted their apologies. Mimi noticed that they were acting a bit differently too around the both of them; especially Yuuji and Misao. They were trying their best to impress her, while Ukyo and Seki did nothing of the sort. They just said bye to Koushirou and Mimi and left, leaving Yuuji and Misao to show off, by flexing their muscles and singing. Mimi shooed them away nicely, though, to continue talking with Koushirou.
Both Mimi and Koushirou had discussed their plans for that afternoon and they were now ready to head on to Tokyo U. They were waiting for the bus now at the bustop near their school...
Right now, Mimi was talking with her uncle on her cell phone...
"Ojisan...yes, I am still working on that school project, only we have to go to Tokyo University...I know I should be studying for those tests, but tomorrow is our last day and I am taking my English and Music part, my two easiest subjects...Why do I have to go?...Because Koushirou's parents graduated from there...Yeah, just like yesterday and the day before, I may be a bit late...Can you tell Aunt Sué for me...I tried but she hasn't gotten home yet with Isako and Ton...Okay, thanks...Love you, bye."
The girl put her cell phone back into her book bag. After yesterday with her aunt, she didn't want to upset or worry her or her uncle anymore so she decided that she should call and let them in on what was going on, although she still hadn't told them about Odaiba University and of her unfortunate mishap.
"I never thought that I would go to a college while still in Junior High," Mimi laughed.
"Yeah..." Koushirou said in a distant manner.
"What's wrong?" Mimi asked, noticing the tone in his voice.
"Nothing!" he snapped.
"Doesn't sound like nothing is wrong! You don't normally snap at people when nothing is wrong!" Mimi argued.
"Sorry! Okay?!?"
Mimi backed off and decided to leave him alone as the bus pulled up. The both of them got on and headed on to one of the most well known colleges in Japan, Tokyo University. A college that is also a good ways away from Odaiba in general. It took them almost 40 minutes to get there by bus due to a lot of traffic.
Koushirou was just cross because he thought of how upset he had gotten with his parents, although he was more upset at himself for getting upset with them. He really believed in the, "Never bite the hand that feeds you," logic. He then remembered the secret that they were keeping from him, which made him a bit sore at them. He was also very upset after his mother mentioned Sunday and wanting to know where he really was. That also made him upset having to actually think about what had happened that day. He still blamed himself for what happened, somewhat.
He just had a lot on him currently and he just blew up, just like he had at Ms. Anje at Odaiba University, only he didn't say anything disrespectful, mainly because he didn't hate them. He may dislike the things that they do, like keeping his adoption a secret from him, but he doesn't dislike them. As a matter of fact, he loved them very much and really did appreciate everything that they did for him. He was just acting like a moody teen, they thought, when it was really from all of the tension that was building up in Koushirou. He just had to find a way to release it, and unfortunately, it was on his parents.
Mimi noticed that Koushirou had gotten a lot quieter during their ride. As the ride went on, Koushirou was still pretty alert and knew exactly when and where to get off.
"Here we are, Tokyo U," Koushirou announced as if nothing had been wrong.
"Wow, this place is huge too!"
"Let's try not to get lost this time."
"Right!"
The two entered the school, making sure not to get themselves lost. Koushirou had printed out a map of the school before leaving the computer lab earlier. He was looking for the school library this time. Too bad he misread the map and got lost anyway.
They asked a student that was just walking by where it was, and she told them where to go. When they entered the library, they stared and looked around in amazement. The place was really exquisite and seemed to hold every book known to man. Even Mimi thought the library was impressive and she wasn't much of a reader, except for when it came to Teen Magazines or catalogs. She only went to the library whenever she had a school project to work on.
"Where do we start looking," Mimi asked, still looking in amazement at the giant library.
"I figured that we can look up the news article here and find an old school annual or yearbook."
"Okay, but where do we start looking for a year book?"
"I don't know, but I am going to look for that news article."
"I'll come along with you. I'm curious about this article too."
The two walked up to the librarian. It was a nice old lady who had a very nice smile. Koushirou explained to her about wanting to use the Microfilm Projector to look up an old news article. Luckily, they had articles dating back to 1990. They had ones older than that as well. As for the yearbooks, the librarian didn't have access to them since they were all locked away and she didn't have the key on her. The only way she could get them was if one of the teachers or students on the yearbook or journalism staff were to show up since they always had access to such things.
"Let's go through these," Koushirou said, his arms filled with lots of microfilm reels. "I'm sure we are bound to find the article."
"Hey, wait. Didn't Mitsuishi-san say that it happened in April of 1990?" Mimi asked as the two headed towards the Microfilm Projector.
"Yeah, why?" he asked while loading up the film.
"Um, we could just narrow down your search by just looking up articles from April of 1990 and it will be a lot quicker."
"I was thinking about doing that too, but without the actual article name, this is all we have to go on," Koushirou told her. "Besides, these are all of the articles for April of 1990."
"Oh, that's quite a bit."
"We are going to be here for a while," Koushirou sighed as he started to go through the film.
Those were the words Mimi didn't want to hear. She just knew that she was going to get bored.
While Koushirou was looking around for that article, Mimi got back up and asked the librarian if anyone had shown up yet that could get her access to the yearbooks. She figured that it would be a lot easier to find someone's photo in a year book than for an article. The librarian shook her head. Before Mimi could respond, someone walked up holding a large pile of books. Mimi couldn't even see the person since the person was holding so many books.
"Did somebody say they needed to get to the yearbooks and the annuals, Toshokan-san?" the voice from behind the large stack of books asked.
"Yeah, this girl needs some yearbooks for something her and her friend are working on."
After the boy put set the large stack of books on the counter, he got a better look at the girl and smiled at her.
"Mimi-kun?"
"Shuu-san?" Mimi asked, getting a better look at the boy.
It was the soon to be 22-year-old Kido brother, Shuu. Jou's older brother who took up studying Japanese Folklore instead of medical sciences to become a doctor, like his older soon to be *26-year-old, brother Shin.
Mimi didn't know Shuu too well, not like she did Shin. For one, when she had first met Shin, it was when they came back from the Digital World and Vamdemon was searching for the Eighth Child. Shuu wasn't around because he was away on a Summer Class Trip and even after everything dealing with the Digital World and that three years when nothing was going wrong dealing with the Digital World--other than the stuff with Diablomon--before Daisuke, Miyako, and Iori became Chosens, Shuu still stayed away from home a lot compared to Shin. I guess you could call Shuu the "independent" brother of the three.
Now-a-days, it was rare seeing him at all. He was still a student at Tokyo U and he was still studying Japanese Folklore and traveling a lot on special assignments, like the time Miyako met him while on her class trip to Kyoto a couple of years earlier.
"Hey there, what are you doing here?"
"Koushirou and me are working on a project and I need a yearbook. Are you on the yearbook or journalism staff?"
"Nope, I am afraid not."
"Aww..."
"But Takenouchi-hakase can. He is head of the Journalism department."
" Cool! Can we go see him?"
"Sure, just let me drop these books off first," he told her. "Here you go, ma'am."
"My, you had a lot of books this week," the woman smiled.
"Yeah, I was just brushing up on the different legends and stories told in other parts of Japan and also legends and folklore from the Western Hemisphere."
"Like in America?"
"Yep," he said with a nod. "Some of the legends told in North America are quite interesting as well, but South America is even more interesting. I should look into more of them sometime."
After he put the books away, Mimi left along with him to meet up with Professor Takenouchi.
"Hey, how is Jou doing? I haven't talked to him in a while."
"I am afraid that I really haven't either. He is always studying."
"Just like Shin-niisan," he laughed. "When we were kids, he was always studying. What got me was how he always went to cram school to further his knowledge. He was serious about becoming a doctor, like dad wanted. I was too, but I didn't go to those extra classes and such like he or Jou did. I was never much of a school person."
"You know, I did see Jou-senpai a few nights ago. We all went to a karaoke bar."
"I never knew Jou liked to sing."
"Neither did we." She smiled. "He totally surprised us when he sang along with the others. He sang very well."
It didn't take them long, but they finally arrived at Takenouchi's office. He was talking with another person, so they decided to wait until he was finished.
"C'mon, Haruhiko!" they heard a man say. "You should relax some."
"No, I can't go with you and the guys on that trip," Professor Takenouchi said while sorting through some papers.
"But you and Kido were going on another one of your trips to do some research and you two were going to Nara this time, so why can't you come with us to England next week."
"Nara is one thing, at least I am still in Japan, but going to England for some sports event is another. If I went to England, I would not be able to get back in time to see my daughter's graduating ceremonies from Odaiba Junior High. That is more important to me right now. I rarely see her as it is now due to work and my constant traveling. I could never forgive myself for taking such a trip that wasn't work related unless I took my daughter along."
"Okay, but you are going to be sorry that you are going to be missing out."
"Then I will be sorry."
The man walked out of the office, who was a another teacher of the school, and greeted Shuu and Mimi who politely greeted him back. After he left, both Shuu and Mimi walked into Takenouchi's office who was looking over some notes. When he heard them walk in, he looked up from his notes.
"Ahh, Shuu, hello there." The man then noticed the girl standing beside him. "Mimi?"
"Hello, Mr. Takenouchi."
"Hi there!" the man greeted, standing up. "What brings you to Tokyo U?"
Takenouchi Haruhiko, Sora's middle-aged father, was a professor of Japanese Folklore at Tokyo University. Because of his lectures, Shuu transferred to learning about Folklore since it had interested him a lot, even if his father did disapprove of him doing so since he wanted all three of his sons to become medical doctors since it was a tradition of the Kido family dating back to the Edo period. So far, two out of the three were still interested in getting into the medical field. Shuu was one of Takenouchi's best students, which is pretty much why he allowed Shuu to accompany him on his trips.
"I need a yearbook or an annual from 1985. Our class is working on this project on our parents and we have to get information on them, so me and Koushirou are here because of his parents. His parents graduated from here in 1985."
"Sure, I don't mind helping," Mr. Takenouchi said. "So the Izumis went to school here? I never knew that."
"They sure are young looking to have graduated from here in 1985," Shuu said.
Mimi thought for a moment. She wondered if the Izumis were younger than Koushirou's biological parents.
"Mimi, how is Sora doing? I haven't seen her in so long because of all of this work of mine."
"She is doing great! I see and talk to her all the time. She is really looking forward to her senior graduation activities that are coming up and she is happy because she got accepted into Odaiba High. I know I would be excited too! I can't wait until I graduate!"
"That's good. I hope I can get the time off to go to all of her ceremonies. She has a sports one to attend also." The man started to go through his pocket. "Oh, yeah, you wanted the year books, here you go..."
Mr. Takenouchi gave Shuu his key so that he could get the yearbooks for Mimi. When they got back to the library, Mimi saw that Koushirou was still trying to find the article about his parents' deaths. She got the yearbooks dating from 1980-1985 and looked through them. Shuu offered to help her look, but she told him that she would be fine, so he left and went to talk with Professor Takenouchi about the upcoming trip to Nara.
*Mimi looked through all of the books through the class activities and found a lot about Koushirou's father. He played on the Soccer team as the goalie, he was in the Debate Club, and he was also in the Computer Club. He was in a fraternity as well. Mimi saw that Mr. Fukami was very popular. She also noticed that he was a handsome man.
He had dark brown hair, an average height, plain, dark eyes, and average looking in weight. Mimi was trying to see what of him reminded her of Koushirou. So far, Koushirou's current hair length and his dark, plain eyes, reminded her of Mr. Fukami. Koushirou's current height also reminded her of Mr. Fukami from the photos she was seeing of him. The fact that he was in the Computer Club also reminded her of Koushirou. The only thing that didn't match with the two was Mr. Fukami's popularity. Koushirou was nowhere near popular. People just knew of him.
When Mimi got up to 1985, she saw that there were two top students of that graduating class listed, Fukami Hiroaki and Misayoshi Miki. There was a photo of Mr. Fukami, but there was no photo available for Ms. Misayoshi. It was pretty odd. There wasn't one single photo of her for any of the yearbooks.
"Maybe she hated taking photos," Mimi muttered.
The girl got up and decided to show Koushirou what she had found, which was a lot more interesting than looking through newspaper articles. She enjoyed looking at how strangely everyone dressed back in those days.
When she got over to where he was, he had just found the article he was looking for. He, somehow, obtained a copy of the article for his own personal use. He decided to read over it entirely later. He didn't want to depress himself any. He was pretty pleased with Mimi's work and thanked her. They got all of the information they needed from the yearbooks and left Tokyo U, not having any problems.
Koushirou offered to take Mimi out to dinner again, so Mimi accepted the offer. The thing that surprised her, though, was that the place Koushirou decided to go to was a bit fancier than the pizza parlor. Koushirou was in the mood for Chinese, so he says. Chinese was one of Mimi's favorites, next to Italian; pizza is Italian ya know! For some odd reason, Koushirou just couldn't explain why he wanted to do nice things for Mimi or take her to nice places. He just wanted to.
After their dinner, they both headed home. The last place on their
list was Odaiba Elementary. The closest of all of the places they
had to go. They decided to go by afterschool the next day.
****
Mimi, who had just gotten off of the phone with Sora, was now sitting
in the tub, taking a bath, thinking about how nice Koushirou had been to
her lately and how grateful she was that this project was almost over.
"This is so nice and relaxing."
She sank down deeper into the bubble filled tub, feeling truly relaxed.
"I am so glad we are almost finished with all of this! I hope he appreicates what I am doing for him!" She then sighed, still trying to figure out they way he had been acting lately. "He offered to take me out to dinner again. I wonder why..."
After her bath, she got up, dried off, and headed on to bed. She
just couldn't wait for the week to end...
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Note 1: Hey everyone. It is true, the Yagami father does drink. As a matter of fact, they cut a scene out of the dub movie, the first part of the movie with seven-year-old Taichi and four-year-old Hikari, when he came home drunk, trying to get into Taichi's room.
Oh, here is another tidbit of information for you. The first part
of the movie where everyone lived in Hikarigaoka (Heighton View Terrace),
takes place in 1995 and Hikari
rarely spoke for it. She was
a late talker, I suppose, that's what her whistle was for.
***
Note 2: The phrase "Ohayou, otousan, kaasan," pretty much means, "Good
morning, father, mother..." I notice that the Yagami kids call them that,
even though the full word for mother is, "okaasan," for those of you who
don't know, but both Hikari and Taichi uses "kaasan." Guess you could
say the same thing for Takeru and Hikari with their brothers. Hikari
uses, "oniichan" with Taichi, and Takeru uses "oniichan" when he was his
01 age, but uses "niisan" when addressing Yamato when he is older.
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Note 3: Adventure Heart is the name of Daisuke's instrumental theme.
There are two versions of it. I just prefer the first version, Adventure
Heart~Daisuke no theme~ to the second, Adventure Heart~Daisuke no
theme~ #2 because it is faster. It's a favorite of mine.
I like everyone's instrumental themes, actually, although I never cared for Blue Faith~Jou no theme~, even though I did like the way it was played in the ep where the kids were hitch hiking to get home to Odaiba from Shinjuku. It was in the station when Gomamon grabbed that, whatever it was, from that lady and Joe screamed here, "Bad dog!" and ran off. I noticed it playing in the background, only it sounded like it was a piano like theme. I wonder if anyone else who has seen the original ep that is music oriented like me, has ever noticed that...
Another theme I never cared for was Little Brightness~Takeru no theme~,
his first season instrumental, even though it is pretty cute. BTW,
the older kids don't have instrumentals for the second season, only Takeru
and Hikari do from the old group.
***
Note 4: Here is some information for everyone. The Japanese School
year is a bit different, which has already been pointed out and mentioned.
They go all year around, April - March.
The Japanese school year is also broken up into three quarters:
April - July
September - December
January - March
Even though the Japanese school year ends towards the last couple of weeks in March, they do not have their Final exams until the July before their Summer break, even though after their break, they're coming back and are in the same grade. Where as for us, when we take our Final exams, it's normally right before the school year ends, which allows us to go to the next grade. During the rest of the year, they take "End-of-term" exams. They take their Midterms in May and then their Finals that upcoming July. I couldn't handle that! >_
Apparently, the End-of-term exams and the Midterms are more important
and has more of a bearing than the actual Final exam. The reason
for this is because the results of End-of-term and Midterm exams let's
one know what grade they are getting for that particular class for that
particular term. For the older Junior High students, it helps them
to decide what High Schools they want to try to get into, basing their
grades on what they got for their Midterms and End-of-term exams.
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Note 5: I have no idea what Shin's age is; I just decided to
make him four years older than Shuu. I heard that he was five years
older than Shuu and ten years older than Jou, but I am not so sure.
I just know that he is the oldest of the three Kido brothers.
I do know for a fact that Shuu is five years older than Jou, though. The only reason I can keep up with Shuu's age is because of my own age and since I can keep up with Shuu's age, it makes it even easier to keep up with Jun's since she is three years younger than him, which makes it easy for me to keep up with Yamato, Sora, and Taichi's ages since all three of them are the same age and they are three years younger than her, and so forth. lol
Oh, something else. I am not sure if Shuu uses "hakase" with Mr. Takenouchi or not. I never noticed. I am only assuming since he is a professor and all that he would. The honorific -hakase, means doctor, but not necessarily a medical doctor. It can be used for teachers too meaning "professor." ^^
Something else, that stuff about the Edo period and the Kidos being
doctors dating back that far is true.
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Note 6: Sorry everyone. I have no idea if four year colleges
have year books or not. I have never been to one so I am improvising
and making up everything as I go along. :-p So, if they don't, just
go along with it. ^^'
