Hey everyone. This is the most hintiest Koumi/Mishirou related stuff for this entire fic! It's pretty much mutual between the both of them, but it may not turn out the way some of you are expecting it to. I even surprised myself with this! Just read on to find out what I mean. There is also another coupling in here which also surprised me since I'm not a big fan of the pairing. It's okay, but I find other couplings including the two more interesting and stuff. Now, as always, I do not own any of the characters and/or places associated with the game, manga, show, etc., and don't forget to comment. ^_^

Also, the singers and groups mentioned in this part are actual singers and/or groups in Japan. Oh, and what really inspired me to write this part, the stuff dealing with Mimi and Koushirou anyway, was listening to the song Never End by Namie Amuro which I love to death! I really appreciate DavidAP, to whom this part is dedicated to, for sending me that song. I would like to thank him for sending that song to me! Arigatou gozaimasu, Davy-kun!! :Gives him a big hug: Thank you so much for this song!! It's so pretty and to those who actually like JPop/JRock or Japanese music in general, I really recommend this song to you. It's so good! And the lyrics fit this part imho, well a small portion of it to me. Sorry for rambling, but I can't not like this song! ^_^

Something else, the rest of this fic is going to have "time gaps" in between or flashbacks. Like this part of this fic takes place in July, but flashes back to April and before you all flame me, the true fans that is, for this part in general, you'll get a better explanation, I hope, as for why things turned out the way that they did in the next part. ^^

Well, anyway, on with the story, and thanks again DavidAP. I hope you enjoy this angst-influenced part. ^_^
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Part 28: Never End...

It was a nice July night in the city of Odaiba and we now see an Odaiba Junior High Senior typing away on his computer. This person was the still 14-year-old Izumi Koushirou along with his faithful Digimon companion, Tentomon, who was currently sleeping. He was doing a bit of research for Professor Nagare and Professor Boshi as of the moment. He had been doing that quite a bit lately with his free time. He had also been spending more time at home and helping out his now, five month pregnant mother as much as he possibly could.

Right now, he was a bit preoccupied with all that had happened over the past few weeks and thinking back to that past April when the Cherry Blossom Festival had taken place. Since they were in Odaiba, the Cherry Blossom Viewing always took place during the earlier part of April, but depending on which part of Japan one lived, the blossoming could last up until May.

The boy stopped typing on his computer and stared out of his window with a sigh, thinking back to a day that had remained with him for a good while now. The night that things changed between him and Mimi...

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It had been a few weeks since the Senior Dance that Yamato had taken Mimi to. Nothing changed much after that. Yamato did find every excuse possible to hang out with Mimi, even though Mimi never seemed too interested in hanging with Yamato, not in the romantic sense anyway. She still treated him as a friend. Koushirou, on the other hand, didn't know what to make of it. Yamato and Mimi had been hanging out a lot more lately, just the two of them, and Koushirou had finally accepted the fact that he had gotten a crush on Mimi ever since they were paired up to work on that project. Koushirou enjoyed spending all of his free time with Mimi. The more he hanged out with Mimi, the more he didn't sit in front of his computer since he had something to actually do.

One thing that didn't change at all was Mimi's boy problem in general. They still bothered her since they knew her and Yamato weren't a couple and everyone knew that she wasn't dating Koushirou, so that left her open for guys to ask her out. Time and time again, Mimi would nicely explain how she wasn't interested, but they never seemed to get the idea or take the hint. Persistence wasn't too becoming to her when it came to boys constantly hounding her for a date. Mimi's friends, Sora and the others included, could literally tell that she was growing annoyed by this, but there wasn't much they could do to help.

Right now, Koushirou was on his way to the park to meet up with Mimi, and the others, for the Cherry Blossom Festival that was being held that particular night. Sure it was occuring a bit later this year, the actual festival--it was during the latter half of April instead of the usual beginning when the actual blossoming and viewing was--but he did promise to go and he didn't really mind. He knew how Mimi liked stuff like that; besides, it is a well-known Japanese tradition and one of the more pleasant ones and going to the festival was usually fun, with all of the games and all.

This year, there was going to be a concert held in the park to help celebrate. There were going to be local bands playing there as well, and Yamato's was one of them. One thing Koushirou didn't have to worry about that night was Yamato hanging around and trying his best to get Mimi's attention. One person to perform at the concert was the famous singer, Namie Amuro. She was going to perform some older songs of hers as well as her latest works. Mimi was really looking forward to it since she enjoyed her music.

The others were pretty busy to go along. Miyako really wanted to go. Namie Amuro was one of her favorite singers as well as idols like Utada Hikaru (Hikki), Maeda Ai (AiM), the female JPop group Dream, Kuraki Mai, Hamasaki Ayumi, and the foreign Korean singer, BoA who was not only fluent in one language, but three: Korean, Japanese, and English!

Unfortunately, the now 14-year-old girl had to watch her parents' store since they had to attend to some business out of town for the entire day and neither one of them had returned yet and both of her sisters were busy. Momoe was still away on her Senior Class Graduation Trip to Europe and Chizuru, as well as Jou, Sora and Taichi, had lots of school work that needed to get done since they were now first and second year High-School students, and of course her brother, Mantarou, wasn't available since he was still in college.

Surprisingly, Yamato had a late band rehersal earlier that afternoon and had been practicing during all of it since they had to perform that night, so that just left her and Koushirou. The younger kids were attending the festival too, but she hadn't seen them yet. Mimi really didn't mind since she enjoyed spending time with Koushirou. A lot more than even she ever admitted. He was always on her mind, way more than Yamato has or probably ever will be.

The girl had told Koushirou to meet her in front of the ticket booth and that they would go towards the stage. She had special permission to go up there because of her Uncle and because of Yamato since his band was performing there. In order to attend this particular festival, the concert part anyway, you needed to have purchased a ticket to attend and the money from the ticket sales would go to needy families and orphanages. This was more of a Charity Concert than an actual festival.

"I wonder where Koushirou and the others are."

Right at that moment, Koushirou walked up along with a few Chosen friends of theirs. He had run into Daisuke, Ken, Hikari, Takeru, and Iori on his way in.

The girl waved to the group and ran up to them. Mimi was wearing a pink kimono that her mother, who was visiting Japan along with her father for that week, had bought her for the occasion and with her hair tied back into a single pony tail with some of her hair down on the sides. Pretty much the way she wore it when she was a younger, only in a more teenage looking fashion. It wasn't really mandatory to dress up, but Mimi always enjoyed dressing up for such an occasion. She enjoyed festivals a lot. Even though the concert was something new, there was still the traditional stuff afterwards. Hikari was also dressed in a kimono. Her kimono was a bright yellowish color.

"You all finally got here!"

"Too bad my brother couldn't come along," Hikari sighed sadly. "Oniichan is busy studying and doing school work along with Sora-san. Both were upset that they couldn't come to the festival and the concert, but they didn't mind staying back to study together. They just said that it'll be an unsupervised date. The two have been dating for only a few weeks now. I'm glad that my brother is happy," she smiled. "I'm sure that both oniichan and Sora-san'll be happy since they won't have to worry about mom and dad bugging them since they are coming to the festival too, but they aren't coming until after the stuff dealing with the concert."

"Nothing wrong with that, but I hope the two of them don't work too hard," Mimi said.

"It's senpai you have to worry about!" Daisuke laughed.

"Yeah," Ken laughed along, "Kido studies 24/7!"

The place was still a bit empty since the concert didn't start for another half hour. They just wanted to get there early so that they all could meet up with one another. They also wanted to get there early so that they could talk with Yamato, if the chance ever came up, to wish him and his band good luck.

"I hope my brother decides to take a break."

The boy seemed a bit nervous after saying that. It sounded as if whatever it was he wanted to discuss with his brother was quite important.

"Takeru-san, what is the matter?" Iori asked.

"Nothing," he assured the younger boy. "I just wanted to talk with my brother right before the concert."

"It's a real shame that Miyako-san couldn't come," Ken said.

"I know, she really likes the singers and groups that are going to be performing tonight," Hikari said. "Too bad she had to watch the store."

"Oye, minna-san!" they heard a voice call loudly to them.

The group turned to see a familiar glasses-wearing girl running up towards them.

"Miyako-kun," Koushirou said, identifying the person running towards them.

The girl ran up to the group wearing a lavendar colored kimono. As a matter of fact, the entire group was dressed up in kimonos, minus Koushirou who could no longer fit in his and hadn't thought about getting another one until right before he left his home to attend the festival. Daisuke was wearing a blue kimono, Iori was wearing a beige one, Ken was wearing a grey one, and Takeru was wearing a green one.

"Hi everyone!" Miyako smiled.

"Great, you made it!" Takeru said happily.

"My mom and dad came back finally! Dad is watching the store now, so I hurried down here as fast as I could! I just couldn't miss out on this concert! It's so cool that Nishimura-san got tickets for all of the closest and bestest friends of Mimi-oneesama!"

"Yeah, but don't let Yuko-chan, Chinatsu-chan, or Ayame-chan hear you say something like that."

"They didn't know about the tickets?" Miyako asked.

The girl shook her head.

"Oh, so I won't tell then."

"How about we all go get seats now," Iori suggested. "I would rather be in the front where I can see the best."

"Sure. These tickets are good for close up seats anyway, and the passes are for backstage," Mimi smiled.

"Iori-kun, Iori-kun!"

The boy turned at the mentioning of his name to see a girl about his age. She was wearing a light blue kimono and wore a messy pony tail.

"Eiji-san!?!"

"Hi Iori-kun," the girl smiled at him. "I didn't know you were into concerts!"

"I am really here for the actual festival, but since I was invited to go to the concert as well, I decided to attend."

"Oh, well can I join you and your friends?"

"What about your family?" Iori asked. "I am sure you came along with them."

The girl "hmmphed" and crossed her arms in annoyance.

"Yeah right!" she scoffed. "I have a ticket for the worst seat here, right in the back! My mom is too busy with my stepbrothers and my stepfather to stay. She just dropped me off and said 'have a good time.' She always does things like that! That is why I stay over at my cousin's so much, but he's busy tonight studying."

"I am sure that it is okay for you stay with us," he told his friend. "Is it, Mimi-san?"

"Sure. We have a couple of extra tickets and passes anyway since Jou-senpai, Taichi-san, and Sora-san didn't show up. I still have their tickets since they knew ahead of time that they weren't going to be able to make it. They gave them back to me a while ago." She then wondered out aloud, "I wonder how Yamato-san and the others were able to get out of studying to perform tonight?" She then shook her head. "Never mind that, here you go, Eiji-chan."

She handed the younger girl the ticket and pass who accepted them gratefully.

"Arigatou gozaimasu, Mimi-san," the girl bowed.

*"Dou itashimashite," she smiled to her.

More and more people started to arrive and started to take their seats. They all sat in the front row, the best seats in the house. Miyako sat beside Koushirou and beside him, sat Mimi, then Daisuke, then Iori, then Eiji, then Hikari, and then Takeru. Ken took the free seat beside Miyako.

During the wait for the concert to begin, Takeru grabbed his pass and went backstage. He really had something important to say to his brother. A short while later, the boy returned smiling a bit.

"Where did you run off to?" Hikari whispered.

He smiled nervously and whispered back, "You'll see. I have a surprise for you."

"A surprise?"

The boy nodded as the lights went down and everyone turned their attention towards the stage as the show began. Everyone enjoyed the show a lot, especially Miyako who loved JPop in general.

The next band to perform was a JRock band that all of the girls loved. An all-boy JRock group who went by the name, GLAY. Daisuke shook his head. He didn't get what girls saw in them, his sister and her friends included, but he knew better than to say that around a rabid GLAY fan. He learned his lesson when he bad-mouthed the group in front of his sister a couple of years earlier. His headache lasted for quite a while from the punch she gave him.

During the entire concert, Koushirou didn't pay attention to any of the performances onstage; not entirely anyway. His focus was on Mimi. Lately, he had been catching himself staring at her as if he had no control over it. Luckily for him, he always caught himself and stopped himself from staring too much to avoid being noticed by her or anyone else.

"Keep yourself together, Izumi!" he told himself. "I have got to stop staring at her like that! That is not prodigious at all, let alone normal! She, as well as others, might think I am some kind of a fool or something."

The next group to perform onstage were the amateur groups. They were all good, but everyone who knew of them, were waiting for Yamato and the Teen-Age Wolves! When they got onstage, they got just as much of an applause as the professionals.

"The surprise is coming up for you," Takeru whispered quickly to Hikari.

The girl smiled. She always liked surprises, especially those from good friends.

After Yamato's group performed most of their songs, Yamato got onto the microphone to make an announcement.

"Thank you everyone! Now, we have one more song for you tonight and it's an original song written by someone I know quite well and this song is a surprise for a very special friend of his..".

Yamato then looked down into the audience and winked at his brother and gave him a thumbs up. Takeru smiled and nodded to him.

Yamato counted off as the band began to play and Yamato started to sing the lyrics. The name of the song was *Focus and Takeru had written it. He had been hanging out with his brother and his band for a good while now, and they helped him get a tune to it so that his brother could sing the words to it. Takeru always felt that his brother had a better voice than him singing wise and didn't even want to attempt singing it.

Everyone listened to the beautifully written song and Hikari blushed a bit. No one else knew that the song was for her since Takeru obviously hadn't mentioned it to anyone else. She understood the meaning of the song and looked over at Takeru who smiled nervously at her. He then mouthed out to her, "Kimi no kokoro no fookasu dare ni?"

The girl mouthed out to Takeru, with a blush, "Kimi wa boku no kokoro no chuushin."

She just couldn't help it. Takeru had done something very sweet for her and it was drawing her to him once again. Actually, she had started getting drawn to him again anyway, but the song just helped it along. She thought it was cute that Takeru went through the trouble to admit how he felt about her the way that he had.

Mimi and Miyako got starry eyed looks and said that the song was cute, meaning wise and all. Koushirou and the others just clapped as others in the audience did. They thought it was a nice song, but they weren't the mushy-romantic types either...

After the concert, everyone left for the festival to play the games and enjoy the sites. Takeru and Hikari decided to hang out by themselves to talk for a bit. Daisuke just shrugged at this and hurried to go play the games. Eiji dragged Iori along with her to play games along with Daisuke, even though Iori wasn't much of a game person, but he did like the challenge.

All that was left now, were Ken, Miyako, and Koushirou. Yamato had asked Mimi to meet with him after the show, which she did. She had her pass, so it was okay for her to go. The others were planning on going later to meet the stars from the show, but the stars, of course, had to rest and make themselves presentable for their fans.

"Why don't we go play some Festival Games and then have some snacks and then meet back in time for the big parade!" Miyako exclaimed, anxious to get started.

"Sure, sounds like fun to me," Ken agreed.

The redhead shook his head.

"No thanks. I'm going to wait around for Mimi-san. You guys go on ahead and we will catch up with you."

Ken shrugged and said, "Okay." Miyako, on the other hand, wanted Koushirou to go along with them and really didn't feel like taking no for an answer.

"Aww, Izumi-senpai, can you please come with us?"

"How about telling me which booth you are planning on going to and then that way Yamato-san, Mimi-san, and I can meet you and Ichijouji-kun there."

"The goldfish one," Ken told him. He then smiled a bit. "How about I win one for you, Miyako-san?"

The girl laughed.

"I haven't seen anyone win that yet. I always lose myself. I can never scoop the goldfish up because the paper always tears."

"Who knows, maybe we will both have good luck this year and win it," Ken said with confidence.

"Maybe, let's go!"

The two ran off to the goldfish scooping booth, in hopes of winning a goldfish to take home, leaving Koushirou standing around waiting for Mimi and Yamato. Miyako didn't mind leaving him behind too much since he said that he was waiting for Yamato as well.

Koushirou, after Miyako and Ken had run off, didn't know why he had such a "dreaded" feeling about Mimi and Yamato, which is why he had volunteered to wait around for them.

A while later, Koushirou saw Mimi leaving from backstage. To him, she looked a bit confused and in deep thought, but he decided to greet her anyway.

"Hi, Mimi-san."

The girl walked by, totally ignoring Koushirou. She hadn't even realized that he had spoken to her since she was in such deep thought over what Yamato had discussed with her. The boy shrugged and tried again to get Mimi's attention by running up beside her.

"Mimi-san?"

The girl stopped walking and saw Koushirou staring at her, trying his best to get her attention.

"Oh, Koushirou...hi there."

Koushirou figured that something was wrong from the tone in her voice. She didn't sound as enthusiastic or happy as she did before she went to see Yamato.

"Is something wrong?"

The girl started to say something until a certain blonde-haired boy showed up.

"Are you ready to go play the festival games yet, Mimi?"

The girl turned and gave him a look which clearly meant to back off for a while. He got the hint and decided to leave.

"Oh, you're not finished yet. Well, I'll go back to the stage area and wait around for you there. How is that?"

The girl nodded and forced on a smile. Yamato walked off, leaving Koushirou and Mimi. It was a very pretty night and all of the stars were clearly visible, but there was lots of noise around due to the festival activities that were going on.

"Um, Koushirou, do you mind if we went someplace a bit quieter so that we can talk?"

The boy nodded. He had no idea what was bothering Mimi. Whatever it was, it sounded serious. The two walked off a little ways from where all of the festival activities were being held and went to a more secluded part of the park where lots of Sakura Trees were and had beautiful Cherry Blossoms on all of them.

"Wow, it sure is pretty out here," the girl said, feeling a bit nervous.

The girl looked up at the sky at all of the pretty stars.

"I bet that star is the North Star," she said with an uneasy laugh.

Koushirou smiled at her a bit. She was terrible at Astronomy, but decided to humor her anyway.

"You're close," he said.

All of a sudden, the two heard music playing. It was coming from the stage area.

"Another concert?" Koushirou asked.

"Amuro-sama has another performance coming up pretty soon and she is practicing some more," Mimi explained. "I think she is going to perform more of her older songs, stuff from going as far back as seven or eight years."

"Oh, that explains it then."

The boy noticed that Mimi seemed a bit uneasy.

"What's wrong?"

The girl decided to stop standing there and to let Koushirou know what was on her mind. Right when she was about to talk, Mimi recognized the song that Namie Amuro was now practicing. Her song, *Never End. Koushirou heard it too, but didn't pay much attention to it since his attention was moreso on Mimi, but she did and she felt that it was making things harder on her.

"Does whatever you have to say have to do with Yamato-san?"

She nodded slowly.

"Did he make you upset?" he asked in concern. "If so, I can try to talk to him and straighten things out. At least Yamato-san doesn't resort to violence like Taichi-san."

"No, no! He didn't do anything bad to me. I just wanted to tell you something about him." The girl tried her best not to cry. "It's really good news."

"Good news?"

The girl nodded slowly and forced on a smile, a half one, but still remained nervous.

"I, he, we are...on...well, you see...we are planning on seeing one another."

The girl sighed out in relief when she said that. She had finally gotten that off of her chest. Koushirou, on the other hand, was surprised to hear such a thing. He tried his best to remain calm, though. He really liked Mimi and the boy he had always been semi jealous of, had gotten her.

Yamato had asked Mimi, in not so many words, if they could become an official couple, but before Mimi could entirely, she told him that she would have to talk with Koushirou first. He shrugged, gave in to her wishes and she had gone off to find him. The thing is, Yamato had said stuff like this before, but this time he sounded as if he were pretty serious about it; wanting to get together. Singing the song that his brother had wrote, had helped convince him to ask. He told her that the way that his brother felt about Hikari was the exact same way he felt about her. Mimi hated to string him on the way that she was and pretty much agreed to it, but that wasn't her main reason for doing so.

"That's great, Mimi-san," Koushirou said, trying to hide his jealousy and the fact that the news had upset him tremendously. "I wish you and Yamato-san the best of luck."

The girl felt like crying. She really felt like she had "dumped" Koushirou even though the two were never officially together. She actually had a terrible crush on Koushirou since she had gotten closer to him over the past few weeks, but just like with Koushirou, for a while anyway, she wouldn't admit it to herself. She also wouldn't allow herself to like Koushirou in that way and was hoping that going out with Yamato would help, but that was only a part of her reason for agreeing to date Yamato which led to a bigger reason.

"That's all you have to say?" Mimi asked, her eyes starting to water. "I know there is more."

"No, not really," he shrugged, his eyes fixed on the ground. He then stuffed his hands into his jacket pockets. "You just wanted to share your good news and I can understand that."

The boy lifted up his head and noticed that Mimi was starting to shed tears, which caused him to panic a bit.

"Don't cry, Mimi-san!" the boy said, waving his hands around. "I didn't mean to upset you!"

The girl shook her head and wiped her tears away.

"No, you didn't upset me. I just hope that we can still be good friends."

The boy forced on a smile. The way he was acting was pretty much how he had in front of Tentomon when he asked him why he was so intent on finding out more about him and he thought back to his parents discussing his adoption.

"Sure we can!"

The boy hated lying to Mimi. He was sure that they could still be friends, but it's not going to change the fact that he now saw Mimi as more than a friend. He wanted to tell her that badly, but he just couldn't bring himself to do it. Sharing his feelings was one thing he still hadn't gotten used of doing and he still bottled all of them up pretty much. He just normally put everything in the back of his mind and would purposely get preoccupied with something else to get whatever is bothering him, off of his mind.

"I'm glad you are taking this well. I thought that you would end up hating me."

"I wouldn't hate you and why wouldn't I take your news well? Sure you are now officially the girlfriend of the most popular boy in the city who could get with any girl that he chooses, but I'm okay with it."

The boy stopped after he made his sarcastic remark. It was unintentional, though. Mimi frowned.

"Gomen," he apologized. "I guess I'm just surprised. I didn't think you were the type that would go for guys like that."

"Yeah, I know, but never mind that. I just want us to still be friends."

The girl grabbed both of Koushirou's hands, her eyes flooded with silent tears.

"I don't want our friendship to ever end, Koushirou. Promise me that!"

The boy looked into Mimi's eyes and nodded.

"I promise...our friendship will never end..."

The two then did something that surprised the both of them; they kissed. The Sakura petals blew from the Cherry Blossom trees all around them. For both, this was their first "real" kiss.

It was a long and passionate kiss the two shared. One that Mimi would consider meaningful.

After the two broke, both blushed furiously, Koushirou more so. He couldn't quite explain what came over him for him to do such a thing. Mimi was surprised as well, but was "glad" that it happened, sort of. It had been building up for quite a while and it probably would've ended up happening sooner or later anyway.

The girl started to back away from Koushirou, mixed emotions running through her mind. She liked Koushirou, shared a passionate kiss with him, loved every moment of it and would've loved sharing another kiss with Koushirou, and yet, she was still going to Yamato.

"What...just happened…"

"I-I don't know!" Mimi stammered. "It-it-it just happened."

Neither one could say much of anything and just stood there, listening to the beautiful song that Amuro was singing. She was just about to finish up, Never End. This brought more tears to the young girl's eyes. The song was so beautiful, yet terribly sad to her since the song, to her, was pretty much a "break up" song.

The girl mouthed out, "I'm sorry," to her friend and ran off. She didn't understand what had happened. She couldn't like him; she wouldn't let herself like him in that way! It wasn't meant to be.

He watched her run off. Her running off left him more puzzled than what he was before. What did it mean? Did she hate him? Why did she feel the need to share such news with him in the first place? Why did they kiss? Why didn't they stop? Why didn't Mimi stop? Why didn't he stop? These questions wracked the brain of the young computer genius for the rest of the night after Mimi had run off.

He never did join up with Miyako and the others for the rest of the Festival and the parade. He wasn't up to it and he had a lot on his mind for right now. He was upset, jealous, envious, and content all at the same time.

Upset, because of Mimi's decision to date Yamato, jealous and envious because Yamato was now Mimi's boyfriend, but content because he had gotten a real kiss out of Mimi and it seemed meaningful to him. He was still mixed up, though. Why would Mimi give him such a kiss, just to run back to Yamato?

He stuck his hands into his pockets and walked home, sighing over the entire thing. He just didn't get it. What did Mimi want and what did she see in Yamato?

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He just sighed over the whole situation and went back to his research. The two remained good friends, as promised, but it still was awkward for him. He never let anyone get that impression, but it was.

It was awkward because he still liked Mimi a lot, and he now knew that she didn't like him since she did choose to go with Yamato over him, even though he never made any attempt to; just secretly desired to. This is the way he saw it and the way he assumed it. It still didn't compute to him.

"Koushirou-han, Koushirou-han!"

The boy lifted his head up to see Tentomon flying in front of him, trying to get his attention.

"Oh, Tentomon. I'm sorry. I was just preoccupied with this research for Nagare-hakase and Boshi-hakase."

The bug shook his head. He figured that something else was the matter with his friend.

"Is something wrong, Koushirou-han?"

"No, everything is fine."

"But I have been trying to get your attention for almost five minutes now. You were spaced out!"

"I told you, it's the research."

"Couldn't we go hang out with the others?" Tentomon asked. "It's boring just doing research. It would be nice to see the rest of your friends and the other Digimon. It's a very nice night out, Koushirou-han."

"That's nice, but I would rather stay here and study these Star Charts."

"If you insist," Tentomon sighed, giving up on his friend, "but I still would rather see the others."

Right at that moment, an icon started to blink on Koushirou's screen.

"You have mail," Tentomon told him.

The boy nodded and clicked the icon. Tentomon read the e-mail address and identified the sender.

"It's from Mimi-han."

Koushirou just shrugged and went back to his research.

"Aren't you going to open your e-mail?"

"I shall check it later. I really ought to finish this."

"But she is your friend."

Koushirou grew slightly annoyed by his Digimon's statement and shouted at him.

"Don't you think I know that! Don't you think that I know that Mimi-san is my friend and that that's the way it will always be between us! I know that Tentomon! You don't have to remind me of it!"

The Digimon looked over at his paranoid friend, wondering what was bothering him. He didn't know about what had happened between him and Mimi that past April or of his crush on Mimi in general.

"Koushirou-han, are you feeling okay?" he asked in concern.

The boy shook his head. He was being a bit uptight.

"I'm sorry Tentomon, I'm fine. I guess I'm a bit tired. I've been sitting here the entire evening."

"But what about your e-mail? Are you mad with Mimi-han?"

"Of course not and just to prove it to you, I'll check her e-mail right now."

The boy clicked the icon and read the e-mail, Tentomon reading over his shoulder.

"Wow, Mimi-han has invited you to join her at the beach tomorrow. Are you going to go or are you going to spend your time at the Observatory again?"

Koushirou thought about this. Should he go or shouldn't he go, was the question.

"I suppose I'll go. It has been a while and I haven't really done anything since my summer break began."

"That's the spirit! It's about time you decided to go out and have some fun, Koushirou-han!"

"Yeah…fun…"

He sighed and stared at the computer screen. The only thing he was wondering, was if Mimi had invited just him, or was it another Chosen Children get together, but thinking about it, should it have really mattered? What he really liked was hanging around Mimi in general, Chosen friends around or not.

He decided that he should go regardless if Yamato was going to be there or not. He shouldn't act selfish over it. Yamato had won. The only thing that Koushirou hated about the entire situation, was the fact that he, himself, didn't even try. He should've told Mimi how he felt about her, even if that wasn't like him to do.

"Koushirou-han!"

"Yes Tentomon?"

"You should answer the e-mail back."

"Yeah, you're right."

The boy answered Mimi's e-mail and shut the computer down. He wasn't in the mood to do anymore research. Instead, he decided to sit and do some summer reading. This, of course, put Tentomon back to sleep. He wanted to go out and have fun, not sit around and read.

The only reason Koushirou did that was to be alone with his thoughts and Tentomon blabbing mostly about nothing wasn't going to help him anyway.

"If I would have told Mimi-san how I really felt, would I be the one in the place of Yamato-san now?" he asked himself.

The boy thought of that for the rest of the night and then finally drifted off into a deep slumber, dreaming of what could have been if he hadn't have been so shy and impassive when it came to his feelings for Mimi…
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Comments

Note 1: Dou itashimashite means, "You're welcome"
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Note 2: Focus is Takeru's 02 vocal theme. Now the thing with this song is that it can be interpreted in a couple of different ways. When I first heard it and saw the lyrics, I thought it was a song for Patamon or either Yamato because he was talking about wanting to protect someone who had once protected him, then with the line, "Is the focus of your heart on me," and the rest of the song pretty much, it sounds like a love song to someone he's known for a while and it sounds like it's definitely to some girl and he just wants an answer from her. Then there's another part of the song where it sounds like he could be talking about himself, about how he's grown up and how he's come a long way from being his eight year old self.

My interpretation is that it could've been some girl he knew before he moved to Odaiba, I've always thought of it that way, but for this, I'm going to say it's for Hikari since he did know her when he was young.

The line that Takeru asked to Hikari, which is a line from the actual song means, "Who is the focus of your heart on?" Her response was, "You are the focus of my heart."

Thanks goes out to riahchan for that one. I was close with the kimi wa boku no kokoro no chuushin, line, but I was still a little off. I'm still learning everyone. ^^

If you want the actual translation of the song, just go here:


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Note 3: The part of the song that really made me think of Koushirou and Mimi was this part right here:

I've got to keep living, even on tearful days
But I can't be strong, I've got to become strong
Time keeps mercilessly chipping away
I restrain my running heart and keep walking

The reason I think so is because of how this part turned out in reference to Koushirou and Mimi. Both have to do just that, don't ya think? I really wanted something "angsty" for this part and that just came to mind. ^^

To be completely honest, though, that part seems to fit Mimi more than Koushirou. This is just my interpretation though. ^^

Megchan has the romanization and translation of the song, so if you want the entire thing, just go there to see.