Well, you've asked for it and reviewed for it and now it's here. Chapter 3, of The
Impression I get.
Notes and stuff like that:
I'm really sorry to everyone who likes this fic and reviewed it! I'm struggling with major
writer's block and it hasn't been pretty what with all the stuff I've been doing! So here's
chapter 3.
KEEP IN MIND!!!! Ken is a girl, so it will be "she said, she did, her hands" for Ken. For
Yolei, it will be things like "He said, his voice, masculine Yolei". Alright? I hate
confusing people, and I tend to do it often. I'm sorry! I am trying my best.
This story should be finished in 5 parts, so we're half way there. After this, I'll be
working on another Kenyako series. Not a sequel to this series though.
Thanks! Enjoy the fic! (hehe I like to drill stuff into your heads! That is why this will be
at the top of every chapter ^.^)
* * *
The Impression I get: Part 3
"Father- please! Try to understand here…"
"Ken, under different circumstances I would have understood this but this is ridiculous!"
Little did he know, Mr. Ichijouji was talking to the girl in question who was in his son's
body. Confusing, isn't it?
"I know what it looks like but-" Yolei was cut off.
"Your father is right, now Ken and Yolei, what in heaven's name do you think you're
doing?"
"Ken, I'm sorry, but I really don't know how to respond to this." Mr. Ichijouji's eyes
soften a bit as he surveyed the room. Everything was in its place, as always. Ken was so
organized, after all. The, usually grey, room was lit up by the colourfully clothed and
spirited girl his son had brought home for them to meet.
"Dad, I was just bored and Yolei was kind enough to let me paint her nails! I mean, she
was just trying to liven me up a bit. Plus, purple's her colour no?" Yolei had stood before
his friend's father and calmly spoke. He stressed the "Yolei" though, and fiddled with the
nail polish brush in his hand.
Yolei grinned quietly to himself at the thought of how this particular scene looked. There
son painting the nails of his friend. 'hmmhaha!' she giggled some more inside his head.
"Oh! Well, now I get it. I'm sorry I was so harsh on you son. I'm really sorry." Yolei
watched as Ken's father bowed slightly as did his mother before walking out the door,
closing it softly.
"Phew…." The feminine Ken sank onto her bed. "That was close."
"Yeah, close." Yolei said turning back to face Ken.
"Too close if you ask me. I really don't need nail polish you know." Ken said, shaking
her hands slightly.
Yolei just walked over to where their digimon were placed before they had to pretend to
be stuffed animals. "Don't shake your hands, you can mess up the expert job I did!"
Ken just rolled over as the in-training digimon came bounding onto the bed. Minomon
smiled at Ken sympathetically and Poromon hopped into Yolei's lap.
"It's so strange for you guys to be like this!" Minomon stated and Poromon nodded. The
pink digimon blinked a couple of times and noted the exasperated looks on their partners'
faces.
"Look, I'm pretty sure that this won't affect you permanently. It was only a weak
champion level digimon, so my guess is about a day or two more!"
Yolei groaned.
Ken shook her hands again.
"ugh…."
* * *
Davis crept low to the ground as he stalked through the apartment building. People
looked at him strangely since he was dressed in all black and was wielding a plastic ninja
sword.
"Heh Heh…" He stealthy made his way to the elevator doors and pressed the 'up' button.
A group of brightly coloured kids with stuffed animals walked up behind him.
"We don't know him! Really!" TK just sweat dropped as the doorman came in and told
them to leave.
"Nice plan, Davis." Cody said once they were outside and Davis was dressed in his
regular clothes.
"Well, it was worth a try! Now we just have to do plan X!!" Davis cheered and he
grinned at Kari's questioning face.
"Plan X? Why X?"
"Yeah, shouldn't it be 'B'?" Kari and TK asked.
"X sounds cooler, and it fits the insanity of the plan!" Cody twitched a bit a Davis'
answer.
"Davis, I don't want to do anything INSANE! I think I'll just go home. If Yolei wanted
to go to Ken's apartment who am I to spy on her?" Cody scooped up Upamon and turned
to leave.
"Fine, be like that Cody! You're too young to slink around properly anyway!" Davis
crossed his arms in a huff and turned away from the younger member of the team. Cody's
eyebrow twitched but he didn't stop walking.
"It's ok, Davis…"
"Yeah, if Cody doesn't want to do anything, he shouldn't have to!"
TK and Kari chimed in as they walked around the building to the side. Davis just
resumed being his carefree self and grabbed the fire escape ladder.
"You guys ready to find out what's up with Ken and Yolei?" He asked before going up.
He didn't want to pressure anyone, no matter how much it looked like he was.
"I just want to know what's wrong with Yolei. She was acting so strange and I'm
concerned. I'm in!" Kari grabbed the ladder too.
"I'm interested in what Ken yelled about earlier. You don't see that guy worked up too
often! So, I'll go too." TK went up the ladder as well.
'Darn! I really wanted TK to chicken out this time. Oh well, the more spies the better the
job is done and I REALLY wanna know what's up!' Davis thought while they spent a
good half an hour searching for the correct apartment window.
Kari, TK, and Davis were all squished together tightly because of the lack of room on the
small fire escape platform. So far, Ken and Yolei were just sitting around looking
exasperated. They almost got caught when TK's hat was spotted and they had to crouch
down into an even more uncomfortable position. They got the fright of their lives when
they were trying to eavesdrop but being unsuccessful with the window closed. Davis had
gotten bored and opened a bag of chips that he had in his bag. The scent was a strong
barbeque flavour and caused the three of them to sneeze loudly. 'Ken' who was actually
Yolei, had gotten suspicious and opened to window right above the trio which caused
them to shrink lower and press themselves against the brick of the building. Luckily,
'Ken' left the windowsill after not seeing anything and now the trio cheered silently that
the window was left open.
'Yessss!!' Davis celebrated as he, TK and Kari untangled themselves again.
The three of them leaned close to the window frame with their ears perked, ready for
information.
* * *
"Soooo…"
"Uh huh…."
"Maybe we could…?"
"Uh huh…."
"What about we….?"
"Right…. Uh huh."
"Slam!" A pillow went straight across the back of 'Yolei's' head.
"Owww! Why in the world did you do that, Yolei??!"
"You weren't listening." The former purple haired girl turned boy huffed.
"Well," Ken said pointedly eyeing the boy on her chair from her spot on the bed, "I think
it would be obvious that I have a lot on my mind about this whole thing. What do you
propose I do, exactly? Go to your home?! If you didn't notice, I have no idea what to do."
"You're the genius…" mumbled Yolei as he tapped his fingers on the desk impatiently.
"I don't see why not. I made myself home right here. You can do the same."
"It doesn't work like that. I don't want to have to be put in that situation when I don't
have to."
Outside the trio whispered to each other. " He hit Yolei with a pillow! Ahhaaa!!! Hey but
what does he mean by 'I made myself home right here. You can do the same.'" Davis'
eyes widened at what he repeated, " Do you think he's asking Yolei to LIVE with him?!"
"Shhhhhhsssh!!!" was the only reply he got. So he turned back to watch more.
Yolei sighed a heavy sigh and fingered the purple nail polish bottle. "Can I do your nails
again?"
"WHAT!?" Came a husky and small squeak from the window but the two inside didn't
hear it.
"No way. I am not holding still for you to do THAT again. It won't solve your
problems."
"Yes it will."
"NO."
"aw…." Yolei sighed dejectedly again and got up from his seat on the chair. He made his
way over to the bed where Ken was lying. He sat down by Ken's purple sock covered
feet and smiled.
"I'm gonna do the toenails now!"
"NO!!" Ken scrambled into a sitting position and away from Yolei. "Look! Stop being
silly for a moment." When Ken saw the stupid grin on his former face didn't fade she
sighed. "Please?"
"Was that so hard?"
"At any rate, to stop confusing ourselves and to make sure slip ups in public don't happen
again," she looked Yolei straight into the eye, "Call me Yolei. I guess I don't have a
problem with it, it's a bit unique and odd and…" The frowning companion near her feet
told her to stop that train of thought, " I'll call you Ken."
"Ok, if it helps any! I'm not confused by it, I dunno but I think your brain cells are
starting to rub off on me!"
Ken rolled her eyes, "Well I don't know ab- WHAT!?" Yolei had grabbed Ken's legs and
pulled off the purple socks covering her feet.
"No! Not the nail polish again!!!" Ken kicked out, immediately regretting the reaction it
caused.
Yolei held his leg, his shin burned at the kick Ken gave. " I guess… I needed that…"
"Woah! She kicked Ken in the shin!!" Davis whispered to Kari, who happened to be right
next to him.
"Yeah," she nodded vigorously, "but I'm still getting over the fact that Ken likes to paint
Yolei's nails!!" She looked over to TK who just looked too stunned to comment.
"I'm sorry…"
"No, it's ok. It must be that body's hormones or something! I always used to do that. I
think being a guy makes me calmer. Or maybe it's just being you…" Yolei added the last
part silently.
Ken nodded in agreement and then noticed the awkward position they were in. "Uh…"
She dumbly pointed at where Yolei's hands were on her thighs.
"Oh! I'm sorry!" Yolei gave off a small chuckle that sounded wonderfully happy in
Ken's voice, but didn't let go. "I didn't know I wasn't allowed to do this." He added
seriously opening his blue eyes.
"It's embarrassing me though, so could you…" Yolei let go. "Thanks." Said Ken
sheepishly as she swung her legs over the side of her bed.
Silence.
"They're so peaceful looking."
Ken looked over to Yolei who gestured at the digimon. "It's just that sometimes I envy
the way life is so simple for them." Yolei laughed again and smiled in the direction of
Poromon. "They don't have to worry about human things, like family, feelings," He
turned and smiled at Ken, "homework."
Ken cracked a smile at the joke and looked over at Minomon. The two small digimon had
been taking a nap after the big meal they had.
Kari sighed quietly, smiling at the two. "Care to tell us what's so fine and dandy?" Davis
asked after noticing her suddenly become relaxed. "Oh, I just thing they look sweet
together." TK rolled his eyes. "Kari you say that about every girl and boy who are
together! You're such a romantic." Davis smiled and looked back at Ken and Yolei.
"Well, I guess I'm missing something but if Kari says they look good together than they
look good together."
TK leaned closer to the window frame again. He was suspicious. Things didn't add up
and there were far too many gaps in the whole story to even jump to the conclusion that
Ken and Yolei were definitely an item. He shook his head, "I just don't know."
"Don't know what, TM?" Davis inquired as he pushed down his spiked hair so that they
wouldn't be seen.
"I don't think we should jump to any conclusions, that's all. Nothing seems to be regular.
What type of boyfriend would paint their girlfriend's toenails for fun?? It just doesn't
look right to me, I mean, we never did hear what they were talking about before Ken
opened the window." TK replied while he gathered up his bag.
"Speaking of an 'Open Window' be quiet!!" hushed Kari pushing Davis and TK's heads
down. "It's bad enough that we're spying on them, but if we get caught they'll never
forgive us!"
"Ok, Kari. I guess we can leave them be now." Kari nodded at Davis and they all quietly
made their way down to the ground.
Ken leaned back against the soft sheets on her bed. Things were at least not chaotic, and
Yolei was being good natured about everything that happened. That was really great of
Yolei, she thought. He was making the best of the situation and trying to be the same as
always. Ken thought back to when Yolei had laughed. It sounded wonderful, happy,
marvellous, and brilliant even. That sound, it came from deep down, and it lifted Ken's
spirits right then and there.
"Do something for me…?" Ken ventured, sitting up again and watching Yolei finish
painting her toenails. Ken mentally kicked herself for being in a such a weak state.
"Hmm… what?"
"Laugh."
Yolei face faulted. "Wha??"
"I like to hear it. I guess it's new to me and I like the sound. I don't laugh very much
normally." Ken said uneasily, the scent of nail polish reaching her nose. She crumpled
her nose a bit at the smell. Yolei let out a low and soft chuckle at the sight. Ken's head
immediately shot up at the sound and she smiled.
"Whoops," Yolei chuckled again, "I can't help it!" He smiled. "And I wanted to hold out
on laughing too…"
" For blackmail?"
"Something like that!" Yolei laughed again and it sent a tremor through Ken's new body.
She grinned widely. "I never knew I sounded like that."
"Yeah…" Yolei agreed, screwing the lid tightly back onto the nail polish bottle. "You
have a really great laugh." He looked up and smiled warmly.
Something went off in Ken's cheeks causing her eyes to widen in surprise. 'Am I
blushing??? From hearing my own voice laugh?! No…can't be… blame it on these
stupid female hormones. Besides, I know I'm good-looking and I have a great smile
and… What??? No!! I am not a girl!'
A knock at the bedroom door stopped Ken's rapid thoughts and Yolei looked up as well.
"Come in!" He hollered and gave Ken a thumb up before Mrs. Ichijouji came into the
room.
"Ken dear-Oh! I see your friend is still here?" Yolei nodded carefully keeping a keen eye
on Ken.
"Well, I wanted to ask you something." Yolei said hesitantly and Mrs. Ichijouji looked
his way again. "Yes Ken?"
A slow nod from Ken, and Yolei pressed on, "I was wondering if she could... stay for
dinner?" The two teens looked on as Mrs. Ichijouji's face brightened considerably and
her hands immediately clasped together in a joyful expression.
"Of course! Oh I'll make more rice, and get out the good plates and oh… I have to do
that.." And Mrs. Ichijouji walked out of the room elated that Ken's friend (who was a
girl!) was going to stay for dinner.
Ken smiled inside her head. So far, this was going pretty all right. Before the switch, he
had never had friends over, let alone this late and staying for dinner! He wouldn't have
even let them come into his room. But now… now she was hearing herself laugh, and
seeing herself smile and having a friend over for dinner, making her mother very happy.
The only bad about this whole thing was, that Ken wanted to experience that all for
himself, instead of seeing Yolei do it.
"Come on!" Yolei said excitedly to Ken, jerking her out of thought. "This is sooo cool!
Now I get to have dinner at your house? This rules! No more fighting at the dinner table
with my sisters and bro!"
"Hey, should I call them and tell them that I'm staying for dinner too?"
"Oh yeah!"
"Here." Ken gave Yolei her cellphone and he immediately dialled up his house and
handed it back to Ken.
"Ring! Ring! Rin- Hello?"
"Hi, this is Yolei!" Ken said in a chipper voice to the other person on the phone. Before
she had spoken to Yolei's sister, and that had gone over well, but this was someone new.
"Oh hey Yolei. What do you want, and where ARE you anyway?" Ken gulped nervously.
This person seemed mighty grumpy.
A soft laugh from behind Ken made her look back at Yolei. "That's my brother. Yell at
him. I like doing that." He whispered causing Ken to smile.
"I'm calling from Ken Ichijouji's house. I'm gonna stay for dinner."
"And, WHY are you doing that? Oh wait, isn't that your BOYFRIEND? Ahahah!! The
one you were sooooo caught up on when you were thinking about forgiving him for
something? THAT guy? So what now? He's finally going to dump you over dinner?"
Something snapped in the back of Ken's head.
"NOOOOO!!! That is NOT why I'm staying over! I just CALLED to let you know!
Excuse me for being polite, unlike SOMEONE!!!!"
"Well, geeze sis, don't have a heart attack. Okay. Seeya later."
"Click." The other person hung up and a twitching Ken pressed the 'End' button on her
cellphone.
'Incredible! Either Ken is learning to be more expressive because of me, or my brother is
the biggest jerk ever and even Ken could blow up at him.' Yolei mused in his head
happily while Ken stopped fuming. 'Nah, probably just my bro being a jerk. Serves him
right!'
"I couldn't have yelled at him better myself! Now come on, and let's have dinner!"
Yolei held out his hand expectantly. He didn't have to wait long when Ken's hand landed
in his own.
"Yeah, I'm hungry. Come on."
Half way out of Ken's room, she noticed that something was clasped onto her usually
bare hand. Looking down she noticed Yolei's hand over hers. 'EH? When did I do that?!'
She shook her mauve-locked head. 'I'm not cautious enough in this body. Usually, I'm
all locked up. Now I'm freely touching people.' Ken let go on Yolei's hand quickly. The
short minute of contact lost.
They arrived at the dinner table with Ken's parents ready to eat. Sitting down in their
respective seats, Ken's mother started to dish out the food. Yolei was in heaven! This
stuff was so much better than the plain and usual their family ate from the Ai Mart. Sure,
it was cool to be able to take snacks and stuff like that when you needed it, but she did
have to pay and most of the time her parents were so busy with managing the store, that
she and her siblings ate the already prepared meals. TV dinners. He cringed and earned a
warning glance from Ken.
"So," Mr. Ichijouji said while he put down his chopsticks, "How did you two meet? I'm
interesting in how you became such good friends!"
The two teens looked at each other and a bead of sweat trickled slowly down Ken's
forehead as she grinned sheepishly. Yolei thought it was best to answer this question.
"We met at one of my soccer games. She was cheering loudly for me! Even though she
goes Odaiba," He added quickly, seeing the question rise in Mr. Ichijouji's eyes. "I just
had to meet her!"
"Ohhh! That's so sweet!" Mrs. Ichijouji said, integrating herself into the conversation.
"I told ya, Tiger! Beating the girls off with sticks!" Her husband exclaimed while he
toasted to the rest of them.
A blushing Ken sank lower into her chair, trying to get away from the remarks of his
parents.
"Yolei! Why are you hiding? You know I wouldn't beat you with a stick!" Yolei said
jokingly along with Ken's parents. Mrs. Ichijouji broke out into a fit of giggles. Yolei's
grin only grew wider.
"Anyway, I went and talked to her after the game and a few meetings later, we were like
the best of buds!"
"I'm so happy for you, son. Yolei, you're a wonderful young girl, putting up with Ken
like this." Mr. Ichijouji smiled as he set down his glass.
"Uh huh! Ken's never had a girl over before and knowing that you two are great friends
makes me so happy, you wouldn't believe!" Tears sprung to Ken's mother's eyes and she
wiped them away with a napkin. "Now. Who wants dessert!"
"I do, mom! Here, I'll come help you and get some for Yolei too. Ok?" Yolei said
jumping right out of his seat and over to Mrs. Ichijouji's side.
Ken just weakly nodded in confirmation and Mrs. Ichijouji took her 'son's' strong
shoulder and led him into the kitchen.
'I've never seen mother and father so happy and energetic like that before. Why, I
haven't even seen myself like that before! They're really happy like that… with a Ken
who helps out and cracks jokes… Is that what I should be like? Like Yolei?' Ken looked
up from her plate upon hearing the laughter from the kitchen. 'I guess I'll just have to
learn. I am Yolei for a few days after all! How hard could it be?'
"Ice creaaaam!!" Yolei shouted and a bowl of chocolate flavoured ice cream appeared in
front of Ken.
"Thanks, Ken."
Yolei's eyes seemed to sparkle. "You're welcome, Yolei."
* * *
Hey everyone! I am sooooooo sorry about not coming out with this chapter sooner! As I
said before, major writer's block! Now that I'm back into the swing of writing this fic, it
should go along a lot faster. I think this has been the best chapter so far because I've
finally become comfortable with writing the body-switch conflict!
Reviewing is ALWAYS welcomed! ^_~
Impression I get.
Notes and stuff like that:
I'm really sorry to everyone who likes this fic and reviewed it! I'm struggling with major
writer's block and it hasn't been pretty what with all the stuff I've been doing! So here's
chapter 3.
KEEP IN MIND!!!! Ken is a girl, so it will be "she said, she did, her hands" for Ken. For
Yolei, it will be things like "He said, his voice, masculine Yolei". Alright? I hate
confusing people, and I tend to do it often. I'm sorry! I am trying my best.
This story should be finished in 5 parts, so we're half way there. After this, I'll be
working on another Kenyako series. Not a sequel to this series though.
Thanks! Enjoy the fic! (hehe I like to drill stuff into your heads! That is why this will be
at the top of every chapter ^.^)
* * *
The Impression I get: Part 3
"Father- please! Try to understand here…"
"Ken, under different circumstances I would have understood this but this is ridiculous!"
Little did he know, Mr. Ichijouji was talking to the girl in question who was in his son's
body. Confusing, isn't it?
"I know what it looks like but-" Yolei was cut off.
"Your father is right, now Ken and Yolei, what in heaven's name do you think you're
doing?"
"Ken, I'm sorry, but I really don't know how to respond to this." Mr. Ichijouji's eyes
soften a bit as he surveyed the room. Everything was in its place, as always. Ken was so
organized, after all. The, usually grey, room was lit up by the colourfully clothed and
spirited girl his son had brought home for them to meet.
"Dad, I was just bored and Yolei was kind enough to let me paint her nails! I mean, she
was just trying to liven me up a bit. Plus, purple's her colour no?" Yolei had stood before
his friend's father and calmly spoke. He stressed the "Yolei" though, and fiddled with the
nail polish brush in his hand.
Yolei grinned quietly to himself at the thought of how this particular scene looked. There
son painting the nails of his friend. 'hmmhaha!' she giggled some more inside his head.
"Oh! Well, now I get it. I'm sorry I was so harsh on you son. I'm really sorry." Yolei
watched as Ken's father bowed slightly as did his mother before walking out the door,
closing it softly.
"Phew…." The feminine Ken sank onto her bed. "That was close."
"Yeah, close." Yolei said turning back to face Ken.
"Too close if you ask me. I really don't need nail polish you know." Ken said, shaking
her hands slightly.
Yolei just walked over to where their digimon were placed before they had to pretend to
be stuffed animals. "Don't shake your hands, you can mess up the expert job I did!"
Ken just rolled over as the in-training digimon came bounding onto the bed. Minomon
smiled at Ken sympathetically and Poromon hopped into Yolei's lap.
"It's so strange for you guys to be like this!" Minomon stated and Poromon nodded. The
pink digimon blinked a couple of times and noted the exasperated looks on their partners'
faces.
"Look, I'm pretty sure that this won't affect you permanently. It was only a weak
champion level digimon, so my guess is about a day or two more!"
Yolei groaned.
Ken shook her hands again.
"ugh…."
* * *
Davis crept low to the ground as he stalked through the apartment building. People
looked at him strangely since he was dressed in all black and was wielding a plastic ninja
sword.
"Heh Heh…" He stealthy made his way to the elevator doors and pressed the 'up' button.
A group of brightly coloured kids with stuffed animals walked up behind him.
"We don't know him! Really!" TK just sweat dropped as the doorman came in and told
them to leave.
"Nice plan, Davis." Cody said once they were outside and Davis was dressed in his
regular clothes.
"Well, it was worth a try! Now we just have to do plan X!!" Davis cheered and he
grinned at Kari's questioning face.
"Plan X? Why X?"
"Yeah, shouldn't it be 'B'?" Kari and TK asked.
"X sounds cooler, and it fits the insanity of the plan!" Cody twitched a bit a Davis'
answer.
"Davis, I don't want to do anything INSANE! I think I'll just go home. If Yolei wanted
to go to Ken's apartment who am I to spy on her?" Cody scooped up Upamon and turned
to leave.
"Fine, be like that Cody! You're too young to slink around properly anyway!" Davis
crossed his arms in a huff and turned away from the younger member of the team. Cody's
eyebrow twitched but he didn't stop walking.
"It's ok, Davis…"
"Yeah, if Cody doesn't want to do anything, he shouldn't have to!"
TK and Kari chimed in as they walked around the building to the side. Davis just
resumed being his carefree self and grabbed the fire escape ladder.
"You guys ready to find out what's up with Ken and Yolei?" He asked before going up.
He didn't want to pressure anyone, no matter how much it looked like he was.
"I just want to know what's wrong with Yolei. She was acting so strange and I'm
concerned. I'm in!" Kari grabbed the ladder too.
"I'm interested in what Ken yelled about earlier. You don't see that guy worked up too
often! So, I'll go too." TK went up the ladder as well.
'Darn! I really wanted TK to chicken out this time. Oh well, the more spies the better the
job is done and I REALLY wanna know what's up!' Davis thought while they spent a
good half an hour searching for the correct apartment window.
Kari, TK, and Davis were all squished together tightly because of the lack of room on the
small fire escape platform. So far, Ken and Yolei were just sitting around looking
exasperated. They almost got caught when TK's hat was spotted and they had to crouch
down into an even more uncomfortable position. They got the fright of their lives when
they were trying to eavesdrop but being unsuccessful with the window closed. Davis had
gotten bored and opened a bag of chips that he had in his bag. The scent was a strong
barbeque flavour and caused the three of them to sneeze loudly. 'Ken' who was actually
Yolei, had gotten suspicious and opened to window right above the trio which caused
them to shrink lower and press themselves against the brick of the building. Luckily,
'Ken' left the windowsill after not seeing anything and now the trio cheered silently that
the window was left open.
'Yessss!!' Davis celebrated as he, TK and Kari untangled themselves again.
The three of them leaned close to the window frame with their ears perked, ready for
information.
* * *
"Soooo…"
"Uh huh…."
"Maybe we could…?"
"Uh huh…."
"What about we….?"
"Right…. Uh huh."
"Slam!" A pillow went straight across the back of 'Yolei's' head.
"Owww! Why in the world did you do that, Yolei??!"
"You weren't listening." The former purple haired girl turned boy huffed.
"Well," Ken said pointedly eyeing the boy on her chair from her spot on the bed, "I think
it would be obvious that I have a lot on my mind about this whole thing. What do you
propose I do, exactly? Go to your home?! If you didn't notice, I have no idea what to do."
"You're the genius…" mumbled Yolei as he tapped his fingers on the desk impatiently.
"I don't see why not. I made myself home right here. You can do the same."
"It doesn't work like that. I don't want to have to be put in that situation when I don't
have to."
Outside the trio whispered to each other. " He hit Yolei with a pillow! Ahhaaa!!! Hey but
what does he mean by 'I made myself home right here. You can do the same.'" Davis'
eyes widened at what he repeated, " Do you think he's asking Yolei to LIVE with him?!"
"Shhhhhhsssh!!!" was the only reply he got. So he turned back to watch more.
Yolei sighed a heavy sigh and fingered the purple nail polish bottle. "Can I do your nails
again?"
"WHAT!?" Came a husky and small squeak from the window but the two inside didn't
hear it.
"No way. I am not holding still for you to do THAT again. It won't solve your
problems."
"Yes it will."
"NO."
"aw…." Yolei sighed dejectedly again and got up from his seat on the chair. He made his
way over to the bed where Ken was lying. He sat down by Ken's purple sock covered
feet and smiled.
"I'm gonna do the toenails now!"
"NO!!" Ken scrambled into a sitting position and away from Yolei. "Look! Stop being
silly for a moment." When Ken saw the stupid grin on his former face didn't fade she
sighed. "Please?"
"Was that so hard?"
"At any rate, to stop confusing ourselves and to make sure slip ups in public don't happen
again," she looked Yolei straight into the eye, "Call me Yolei. I guess I don't have a
problem with it, it's a bit unique and odd and…" The frowning companion near her feet
told her to stop that train of thought, " I'll call you Ken."
"Ok, if it helps any! I'm not confused by it, I dunno but I think your brain cells are
starting to rub off on me!"
Ken rolled her eyes, "Well I don't know ab- WHAT!?" Yolei had grabbed Ken's legs and
pulled off the purple socks covering her feet.
"No! Not the nail polish again!!!" Ken kicked out, immediately regretting the reaction it
caused.
Yolei held his leg, his shin burned at the kick Ken gave. " I guess… I needed that…"
"Woah! She kicked Ken in the shin!!" Davis whispered to Kari, who happened to be right
next to him.
"Yeah," she nodded vigorously, "but I'm still getting over the fact that Ken likes to paint
Yolei's nails!!" She looked over to TK who just looked too stunned to comment.
"I'm sorry…"
"No, it's ok. It must be that body's hormones or something! I always used to do that. I
think being a guy makes me calmer. Or maybe it's just being you…" Yolei added the last
part silently.
Ken nodded in agreement and then noticed the awkward position they were in. "Uh…"
She dumbly pointed at where Yolei's hands were on her thighs.
"Oh! I'm sorry!" Yolei gave off a small chuckle that sounded wonderfully happy in
Ken's voice, but didn't let go. "I didn't know I wasn't allowed to do this." He added
seriously opening his blue eyes.
"It's embarrassing me though, so could you…" Yolei let go. "Thanks." Said Ken
sheepishly as she swung her legs over the side of her bed.
Silence.
"They're so peaceful looking."
Ken looked over to Yolei who gestured at the digimon. "It's just that sometimes I envy
the way life is so simple for them." Yolei laughed again and smiled in the direction of
Poromon. "They don't have to worry about human things, like family, feelings," He
turned and smiled at Ken, "homework."
Ken cracked a smile at the joke and looked over at Minomon. The two small digimon had
been taking a nap after the big meal they had.
Kari sighed quietly, smiling at the two. "Care to tell us what's so fine and dandy?" Davis
asked after noticing her suddenly become relaxed. "Oh, I just thing they look sweet
together." TK rolled his eyes. "Kari you say that about every girl and boy who are
together! You're such a romantic." Davis smiled and looked back at Ken and Yolei.
"Well, I guess I'm missing something but if Kari says they look good together than they
look good together."
TK leaned closer to the window frame again. He was suspicious. Things didn't add up
and there were far too many gaps in the whole story to even jump to the conclusion that
Ken and Yolei were definitely an item. He shook his head, "I just don't know."
"Don't know what, TM?" Davis inquired as he pushed down his spiked hair so that they
wouldn't be seen.
"I don't think we should jump to any conclusions, that's all. Nothing seems to be regular.
What type of boyfriend would paint their girlfriend's toenails for fun?? It just doesn't
look right to me, I mean, we never did hear what they were talking about before Ken
opened the window." TK replied while he gathered up his bag.
"Speaking of an 'Open Window' be quiet!!" hushed Kari pushing Davis and TK's heads
down. "It's bad enough that we're spying on them, but if we get caught they'll never
forgive us!"
"Ok, Kari. I guess we can leave them be now." Kari nodded at Davis and they all quietly
made their way down to the ground.
Ken leaned back against the soft sheets on her bed. Things were at least not chaotic, and
Yolei was being good natured about everything that happened. That was really great of
Yolei, she thought. He was making the best of the situation and trying to be the same as
always. Ken thought back to when Yolei had laughed. It sounded wonderful, happy,
marvellous, and brilliant even. That sound, it came from deep down, and it lifted Ken's
spirits right then and there.
"Do something for me…?" Ken ventured, sitting up again and watching Yolei finish
painting her toenails. Ken mentally kicked herself for being in a such a weak state.
"Hmm… what?"
"Laugh."
Yolei face faulted. "Wha??"
"I like to hear it. I guess it's new to me and I like the sound. I don't laugh very much
normally." Ken said uneasily, the scent of nail polish reaching her nose. She crumpled
her nose a bit at the smell. Yolei let out a low and soft chuckle at the sight. Ken's head
immediately shot up at the sound and she smiled.
"Whoops," Yolei chuckled again, "I can't help it!" He smiled. "And I wanted to hold out
on laughing too…"
" For blackmail?"
"Something like that!" Yolei laughed again and it sent a tremor through Ken's new body.
She grinned widely. "I never knew I sounded like that."
"Yeah…" Yolei agreed, screwing the lid tightly back onto the nail polish bottle. "You
have a really great laugh." He looked up and smiled warmly.
Something went off in Ken's cheeks causing her eyes to widen in surprise. 'Am I
blushing??? From hearing my own voice laugh?! No…can't be… blame it on these
stupid female hormones. Besides, I know I'm good-looking and I have a great smile
and… What??? No!! I am not a girl!'
A knock at the bedroom door stopped Ken's rapid thoughts and Yolei looked up as well.
"Come in!" He hollered and gave Ken a thumb up before Mrs. Ichijouji came into the
room.
"Ken dear-Oh! I see your friend is still here?" Yolei nodded carefully keeping a keen eye
on Ken.
"Well, I wanted to ask you something." Yolei said hesitantly and Mrs. Ichijouji looked
his way again. "Yes Ken?"
A slow nod from Ken, and Yolei pressed on, "I was wondering if she could... stay for
dinner?" The two teens looked on as Mrs. Ichijouji's face brightened considerably and
her hands immediately clasped together in a joyful expression.
"Of course! Oh I'll make more rice, and get out the good plates and oh… I have to do
that.." And Mrs. Ichijouji walked out of the room elated that Ken's friend (who was a
girl!) was going to stay for dinner.
Ken smiled inside her head. So far, this was going pretty all right. Before the switch, he
had never had friends over, let alone this late and staying for dinner! He wouldn't have
even let them come into his room. But now… now she was hearing herself laugh, and
seeing herself smile and having a friend over for dinner, making her mother very happy.
The only bad about this whole thing was, that Ken wanted to experience that all for
himself, instead of seeing Yolei do it.
"Come on!" Yolei said excitedly to Ken, jerking her out of thought. "This is sooo cool!
Now I get to have dinner at your house? This rules! No more fighting at the dinner table
with my sisters and bro!"
"Hey, should I call them and tell them that I'm staying for dinner too?"
"Oh yeah!"
"Here." Ken gave Yolei her cellphone and he immediately dialled up his house and
handed it back to Ken.
"Ring! Ring! Rin- Hello?"
"Hi, this is Yolei!" Ken said in a chipper voice to the other person on the phone. Before
she had spoken to Yolei's sister, and that had gone over well, but this was someone new.
"Oh hey Yolei. What do you want, and where ARE you anyway?" Ken gulped nervously.
This person seemed mighty grumpy.
A soft laugh from behind Ken made her look back at Yolei. "That's my brother. Yell at
him. I like doing that." He whispered causing Ken to smile.
"I'm calling from Ken Ichijouji's house. I'm gonna stay for dinner."
"And, WHY are you doing that? Oh wait, isn't that your BOYFRIEND? Ahahah!! The
one you were sooooo caught up on when you were thinking about forgiving him for
something? THAT guy? So what now? He's finally going to dump you over dinner?"
Something snapped in the back of Ken's head.
"NOOOOO!!! That is NOT why I'm staying over! I just CALLED to let you know!
Excuse me for being polite, unlike SOMEONE!!!!"
"Well, geeze sis, don't have a heart attack. Okay. Seeya later."
"Click." The other person hung up and a twitching Ken pressed the 'End' button on her
cellphone.
'Incredible! Either Ken is learning to be more expressive because of me, or my brother is
the biggest jerk ever and even Ken could blow up at him.' Yolei mused in his head
happily while Ken stopped fuming. 'Nah, probably just my bro being a jerk. Serves him
right!'
"I couldn't have yelled at him better myself! Now come on, and let's have dinner!"
Yolei held out his hand expectantly. He didn't have to wait long when Ken's hand landed
in his own.
"Yeah, I'm hungry. Come on."
Half way out of Ken's room, she noticed that something was clasped onto her usually
bare hand. Looking down she noticed Yolei's hand over hers. 'EH? When did I do that?!'
She shook her mauve-locked head. 'I'm not cautious enough in this body. Usually, I'm
all locked up. Now I'm freely touching people.' Ken let go on Yolei's hand quickly. The
short minute of contact lost.
They arrived at the dinner table with Ken's parents ready to eat. Sitting down in their
respective seats, Ken's mother started to dish out the food. Yolei was in heaven! This
stuff was so much better than the plain and usual their family ate from the Ai Mart. Sure,
it was cool to be able to take snacks and stuff like that when you needed it, but she did
have to pay and most of the time her parents were so busy with managing the store, that
she and her siblings ate the already prepared meals. TV dinners. He cringed and earned a
warning glance from Ken.
"So," Mr. Ichijouji said while he put down his chopsticks, "How did you two meet? I'm
interesting in how you became such good friends!"
The two teens looked at each other and a bead of sweat trickled slowly down Ken's
forehead as she grinned sheepishly. Yolei thought it was best to answer this question.
"We met at one of my soccer games. She was cheering loudly for me! Even though she
goes Odaiba," He added quickly, seeing the question rise in Mr. Ichijouji's eyes. "I just
had to meet her!"
"Ohhh! That's so sweet!" Mrs. Ichijouji said, integrating herself into the conversation.
"I told ya, Tiger! Beating the girls off with sticks!" Her husband exclaimed while he
toasted to the rest of them.
A blushing Ken sank lower into her chair, trying to get away from the remarks of his
parents.
"Yolei! Why are you hiding? You know I wouldn't beat you with a stick!" Yolei said
jokingly along with Ken's parents. Mrs. Ichijouji broke out into a fit of giggles. Yolei's
grin only grew wider.
"Anyway, I went and talked to her after the game and a few meetings later, we were like
the best of buds!"
"I'm so happy for you, son. Yolei, you're a wonderful young girl, putting up with Ken
like this." Mr. Ichijouji smiled as he set down his glass.
"Uh huh! Ken's never had a girl over before and knowing that you two are great friends
makes me so happy, you wouldn't believe!" Tears sprung to Ken's mother's eyes and she
wiped them away with a napkin. "Now. Who wants dessert!"
"I do, mom! Here, I'll come help you and get some for Yolei too. Ok?" Yolei said
jumping right out of his seat and over to Mrs. Ichijouji's side.
Ken just weakly nodded in confirmation and Mrs. Ichijouji took her 'son's' strong
shoulder and led him into the kitchen.
'I've never seen mother and father so happy and energetic like that before. Why, I
haven't even seen myself like that before! They're really happy like that… with a Ken
who helps out and cracks jokes… Is that what I should be like? Like Yolei?' Ken looked
up from her plate upon hearing the laughter from the kitchen. 'I guess I'll just have to
learn. I am Yolei for a few days after all! How hard could it be?'
"Ice creaaaam!!" Yolei shouted and a bowl of chocolate flavoured ice cream appeared in
front of Ken.
"Thanks, Ken."
Yolei's eyes seemed to sparkle. "You're welcome, Yolei."
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Hey everyone! I am sooooooo sorry about not coming out with this chapter sooner! As I
said before, major writer's block! Now that I'm back into the swing of writing this fic, it
should go along a lot faster. I think this has been the best chapter so far because I've
finally become comfortable with writing the body-switch conflict!
Reviewing is ALWAYS welcomed! ^_~