I just want to say how much I want to apologize to anyone who has read this fanfic, and
everyone who has taken the time to review. I'm not much of a writer, but you guys still
like my fanfic and that really makes me happy but also sad.
I'm so sad that I never finished this and left it for so long. You guys deserve more than
that, so I've decided to continue and COMPLETE this, this *thing*!! And I WILL do it
too! Special thanks go to Lainey who really helped me to get back on track.
o.o You know what? This is gonna be LONGER than 5 chapters now, since I want to
make it up to everyone who was so kind enough to take the time and give my fic a
glance. I've become a much better writer, I think, so the fanfic should seem a lot
smoother and easier to read. Hopefully! ^^
Kenyako fans wanted more of this Ken and Miyako body switch fic, so that's what
they're gonna get!!!!
- GLAY
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The Impression I Get: part 4
Ken was sleeping peacefully in the top bunk of his bed in his quiet bedroom. Minomon
was resting quietly at the foot of the bed and there wasn't a sound in the house. It was so
peaceful; Ken couldn't believe the things that had happened the day before. A bird
chirped delightfully outside his open window.
In fact, it was so serene and calm, that Ken just found it outright ridiculous that such a
thing as switching bodies could happen. So, chuckling to himself, for thinking of
something so unbelievably silly, he sat up.
He climbed down the small ladder on the bunk bed and walked right on over to the mirror
without a second thought. 'There. I'll look into this mirror and see me; a nice blue-haired
BOY who is a Digidestined… Not an emperor.' Determined to prove the farce of the
'dream' about being in Yolei Inoue's body, Ken looked.
"Hi. I don't know about you, Ken, but you've got one of the most messed up minds I've
ever seen. Clean up your act!"
"AHHHH!!!!!" Ken screamed like a banshee and jumped back from the mirror as an
almost ghost-like pale Yolei stepped out of his mirror that was no longer than 2 feet.
"Man, are you that surprised to see me? Wait'll you take a shower. Yikes! I'll have to do
that too, won't I?"
"What??! But.. but I thought that it was all a dream! I'm a boy! A BOY! This isn't real!"
Yolei frowned slightly and picked up a book on Ken's table, tossing it to him, which he
caught. His face was horrified. "Real enough for ya? Geeze, by the way you're going on
about it, someone will think you're Pinocchio up here or something. Lighten up, Ken! We
all have gender issues sometime or another."
"WHAT?!" He stumbled back, hitting the bedpost and knocking poor Minomon off the
bed. When his little Digimon partner didn't move, he ran to his side.
"oh my gosh... Minomon, speak to me! Minomon!" He started to feel the salty tears
gather behind his eyes. A vein popped on Yolei's right temple and she twitched.
"Pow!" Yolei kicked the little Minomon right from Ken's grasp.
"YOLEI!" Ken yelled in anger, and in surprise that the usually loving girl would do
something so horrible. "What have you done!?"
"Don't cry anymore, it's not good. Couldn't you tell that was just a stuffed toy? Geeze...
And I thought Davis was dense. Minomon isn't here, he's at your house."
Ken blinked and looked around in extreme confusion noticing the scenery had changed to
what appeared to be Yolei's bedroom.
"How'd we get here?"
"Nevermind. Now remember what I told you. You only have a day to do it!"
"What?"
Yolei smacked her head, and then thought it wise to smack Ken's too.
"Ow! Hey! Yolei, what is going on here?"
"Clean up your act!" she paused and grinned evilly, "or I'll mess you up!" she said
holding a balled up fist in front of her friend's face.
Ken didn't know what to make of all this. All the weird conversations, the real stuffed toy
Minomon, Yolei... He blanched. "You're gonna beat me up if I don't clean something??"
He asked while sweat dropping.
"You dope! Not just something! Yourself!"
"I'm pretty clean."
"Idiot!!" She yelled taking a swing at him. He lightly backed away and smirked a bit.
"Look at the facts here, Yolei. I'm a boy and you're a girl. I'm more athletic than you and
have more upper body strength. I also-"
"Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah! Again with that girl and boy stuff. You really DO have
gender issues. No wonder!"
Ken frowned and a few loose locks of his hair fell into his eyes and he took another step
away. "What do you mean by that?"
"I dunno, Ken, maybe you should stop wearing tight clothes and growing your hair long.
Then we'll talk about that." She inwardly grinned.
Ken stared at her like a nuclear bomb had blown off her head. Like the whole ocean fell
right on top of them and he was watching her slowly drown. Like--!!
"Are you implying that you think I'm GAY?!?!!"
Her fists unclenched and her eyes went wide, she immediately looked very innocent.
"You mean, you AREN'T?"
Ken anime fell with his right leg twitching and his eyes shut. "ARG!"
The ghost-like Yolei smiled brightly and tapped her chin in a thoughtful pose while Ken
tried to recollect his composure. As soon as he was off of the ground he noticed her
pensive expression and grew very grave. 'What's she thinking...'
"You DO know that this changes everything, right?" She asked him while giving him a
sideways glance.
"Huh!"
Yolei slapped her head again. Then his.
"Ow!"
She went back into her thoughtful position and then started back for the mirror on the
wall. Ken ran behind her quickly, trying to catch up. Just what was going on? This was
even worse than the body-switching thing! Yolei turned her head to look over her
shoulder at him as she placed one hand into the mirror. It was like a metallic liquid, Ken
noticed.
"You're not gay, so it changes everything now."
"It doesn't change anything! I was never gay in the first place!" Ken shouted now, being a
bit angry. Not that being homosexual was a bad thing. Ken had just never thought about it
much since he was so young, but he had met people who were, actually. In fact he-
"Uh huh," Yolei nodded, cutting into Ken's thoughts and smiled warmly for his sake.
"'cause now," her voice got a weird tone in it, "you're gonna start feeling all different
about stuff." She winked. "Like Yolei."
"You mean physical attraction?"
Yolei fell down.
"Okay, so NOW you start being smart again!" She smiled a bit, taking her hand out of the
mirror. "So, I guess you're pretty mature about that sort of stuff, huh?"
Ken snorted indignantly, "Well, of course!"
Yolei's eyes narrowed and she crossed her arms, her weight being shifted to her left heel,
she gave him a smug look. "Prove it, Mr. Mature!"
And then suddenly, it all started to look like a dream to Ken. The hazy background, the
wispy locks of Yolei's pale hair, the melting mirror... This was all a dream! Confidence
filled him and he planted a small kiss on the dream girl's cheek in front of him.
"Satisfied?"
He cocked a smug eyebrow. So did she.
"Hmm... Alright, good enough for me," She turned and jumped through the mirror quite
quickly and he was left with a single thought in his mind. 'But was it good enough for
me...'
***
"NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!" Ken awoke with a start and screaming from the floor. No, she
hadn't fallen off the bunk bed in her room. Nor was she actually in her own room.
Ken sighed loudly in distaste when she realized she was back to being a 'SHE' and had a
huge crick in her back from sleeping on the floor for the whole night. On the floor in the
bedroom of Yolei Inoue.
She barely remembered getting to the Inoue apartment the night before. Something about
dinner, and a car drive, and had flopped down with a pillow and blanket on the floor, only
stopping to take off the over top that Yolei usually wore daily and nothing else. Why the
floor, one might ask. Well, Ken always thought of herself as the valiant type (some would
call it stubbornness for lack of a better word) and decided that sleeping in the young
Yolei's bed would be far too invading of a thing to do and took it upon herself to sleep on
the floor.
It wasn't that bad. Really!
Though, Ken had to be pulled up on the count of 3 by Yolei's cute pink-feathered
Digimon, Poromon, because the crick in her back just wanted to stay there so badly, and
Ken just didn't have the strength to get up. Exhausted, she was.
Recalling the very disturbing dream, more like nightmare to Ken anyway, she rubbed her
eyes tiredly.
'What the hell is up with my subconscious, anyway?!' Was all Ken thought before she
was hauled up and pushed into another room by Poromon.
"Time for a shower, Ken! You have to go to school!" The young bird chirped as it flew to
gather Yolei's textbooks and other things. Ken noticed how unorganized the grade six girl
probably was. She had her in-training Digimon doing chores for her! Unbelievable!
"..wait.. Shower?!" It hit her like a ton of bricks. '...Man, are you that surprised to see me?
Wait'll you take a shower...'
Ken weighed her options as she so 'bravely' closed her eyes, fingering the soft material of
Yolei's shirt nervously.
Ken's Mind. Thought Process no. 127 – Monday Morning
1. Take the Shower; meaning- Getting naked. (Not on Ken's list of favourite things to do)
2. Don't shower at all; meaning- Be a coward and smell. (Ken didn't like this either)
3. ...Damn!; meaning- There was no third option. (Ken thought this was the best choice
so far)
"...Damn!" Ken said as she paced around in the bathroom. She had a good amount of time
before school started (she couldn't sleep well that night anyway) so rational decisions
could be made. She just didn't know if she had any sanity left to make those decisions.
Oh, the horror of being in a bubbly teenage girl's body who knew some of your most
darkest secrets...
'Not that dark,' Ken reminded herself as she leaned against the bathroom's counter. There
were bottles of imitation flower-scented substances and such. Unlabeled, too, so Ken
didn't really want to touch any of them. She rapped her knuckles on the counter top near
the sink in annoyance. 'I was just being controlled by evil beings for most of my life and
have now only come out it.' "Huh." He said sarcastically and walked out of the bathroom.
"Poromon!!"
The small Digimon looked up from what it was doing and blinked. "Yes, Ken?" The tall
boy turned girl leaned against the doorframe of the bathroom and furrowed her eyebrows
in embarrassment. "Well... I need your help with this shower thing."
"Oh, alright."
Ken immediately felt better. Digimon and their partners were very close. She was sure
Poromon could handle undressing Yolei.
As quickly as the thought left Ken's mind, Poromon had flown into the shower, turned it
on to a nice warm temperature, and flown back out. Ken did a double take.
"Uh..."
"What?"
Ken scratched her shoulder slightly. "Well, that's not what I meant..."
"Oh, it's not? Don't you know how to take a shower?"
"YES!"
"Then what is it?"
Ken was sweating now. This was more problematic then she thought it would be.
Couldn't Poromon catch on?? She really didn't want to explain! Oh, it was so
embarrassing! What if anyone ever found out about this? What if the others found out
about this?! He'd never live it down, let alone be truly accepted and all!
These thoughts drifted to what Yolei was doing. Ken seriously hoped he didn't do
anything to her body. If Ken ever found out... Well, actually she didn't want to find out, if
he did. Anyway, what was she going to do? Time was running out and she couldn--!!
The next thing she knew, she was sprawled on the tiles of the bathroom's floor and the
door was locked. "Hey! What's the big idea?!"
"Sorry, Ken," a small muffled voice came from behind the door. Poromon. "But if you
don't get showered now, then you'll never get to school on time."
Ken grumbled and stood up. "You didn't have to push me..."
"I thought all humans could deal with this body-stuff. Besides, I'm technically male too,
and Yolei wouldn't even let me near her when she was in the bathroom. And then there
was that time when she was putting on clothes. She calls it 'I'm CHANGING you stuffy
bird!! Get out!'" Poromon said a bit annoyed as he quoted his partner. "At first I thought
it was some kind of Digivolving transformation or something and wanted to see, but you
know Yolei! So, anyway, just shower!!"
When Ken didn't hear Poromon anymore she sighed. The steam was starting to fill the
room now and it created a soporific effect on the poor kid. Dazed, confused, and irritated,
Ken ended up taking the shower...
***
"Mmmm...more..." Yolei shifted in the bed. "more...mmmm... oh!..." he rolled over
again, nearly squashing Minomon, who didn't get a wink of sleep, by the way,
considering Ken's friend Yolei talked, snored, and rolled around so much in his sleep it
was driving the small Digimon mad!
'I wish I went with Ken... if only his mother didn't expect me to be his favourite stuffed
toy and came in here everyday...'
"Mmmm yeah..."
"Aw! Yolei, please wake up, you have to go to Ken's school!"
"More..."
"Wake up!"
"More ice cream...cream..."
"Please!"
"Eh?!" Yolei was jerked awake and sat up in Ken's bed.
"Wha??" She questioned as she looked around the unfamiliar room in a sleep-induced
daze. "What the…"
"Yolei!" Minomon sighed in relief that the girl turned boy was up and could finally leave
him in peace. It was a good thing he had a cocoon shell… thing… or he would have been
stuck to Yolei's back until he got scrubbed off in the shower!
Yolei blinked his now blue eyes. "Mino-ooooOOHHH!" Realization dawned on him and
suddenly he snapped his fingers, right in poor Minomon's ear, and jumped up.
"BANG!"
And hit the ceiling with his face.
"Auuuuugggghhhh…" Yolei was lying on his back with big "X" eyes as white ceiling
dust flew down on his face.
Then, to top it off, Minomon thought it might be fun to push Yolei off the bed.
"THUMP!" Minomon jumped over to the edge of the bed and called down.
"Get ready for school!!"
"ARG!! Pssh! Blech! Yuuuuuuucccckkkyyyyyy!!!!!" The girl turned boy started spitting
out dust like there was now tomorrow.
Mrs. Ichijouji ran into her son's room to find "him" laying face first on the floor. "Oh
dear! Ken, are you alright?" She cautiously peered at her son before nudging the corpse-
like body with her foot.
Yolei lifted just his head off the floor to look at Ken's mom. His face was completely
white from the ceiling dust and had a huge bump on it. Well, it was 6:47 in the morning,
so Yolei could hardly be the picture of beauty!
"Ooooh!! My poor baby!"
"Zzzaaahhh, Mrs-um, Mom, it's okay." Yolei was extremely sleepy and tired still, but
decided it was best not to say this.
"You sure, honey? What on Earth happened to you?" She asked while dusting some
excess dust from her son's shoulders. She looked at it strangely before looking 'Ken' in
the face again.
"Ehehehehe! Just hit my head!" Mrs. Ichijouji's face started to crease into a horror
stricken expression but Yolei laughed and put her hands behind his back, pulling into her
standard 'I'm innocent and love you Momma!' look before speaking again.
"I'm fiiiine, Momma. Don't worry about me!"
Mrs. Ichijouji blinked and then took a very slow step backwards towards the doorway.
The way Ken looked was, well, very cute, if not extremely alarming considering 'his'
chalk white face and all. But the way he had spoken to her! Oh! It was as if her little
*baby* had come back!
The dam broke when Yolei, being the cute girl she was inside (and of course, having
forgot she was indeed a boy now), raised her arms in a gesture that said 'Hug me!"
Tears of motherly happiness sprung to Mrs. Ichijouji's eyes as she stepped into 'Ken's'
embrace, hugging him tightly. "I love you, Ken!"
At the moment Mrs. Ichijouji said that name so sharply, Yolei's sleepy disposition
dissolved into a lazy shock. The girl turned boy stared at the wall blankly, thoughts
swirling through his mind. Mrs. Ichijouji, who noticed how 'Ken' had tensed up, stopped
rubbing his back and pulled back a little.
She smiled.
"I know you still aren't comfortable with touching, but I'm so thrilled that you're
working on it! Just don't feel as though I want you to change your ways. You just be
you." She wiped a tear away.
Yolei, who had been listening stonily, tore her eyes away from the sunny white wall to
gaze up at Ken's tall mother.
"I love you so much, Ken. Remember, I always love *you*. Forever."
"I love you too."
Mrs. Ichijouji sighed in happiness and gave him another small squeeze before letting go.
"You'd better hurry up Ken, or you'll be late for school. I'm sorry I can't drive you
today. I left the money on the hallway table for your lunch and a little extra for maybe
something else." She winked happily at her only son and walked out the door.
Yolei let out a huge breath of air she had been holding in, and rolled out the kinks in his
neck.
"Wow!" A squeaky voice said loudly almost in Yolei's ear.
"WAH!" Eyes, wide, Yolei turned to see Minomon floating beside his head. "Geeze, you
scared me!"
"Sorry." Minomon smiled cutely and bounced over to the desk and sat down. This way
he'd be able to view his partner's friend.
"But I just can't believe it!"
"What is it?" Yolei asked idly while looking into the mirror and trying to straighten
himself up.
"How you managed to make Ken's mom act like that. She looked so happy when you
hugged her!"
'She did look happy…' Yolei thought while staring into the mirror. 'And I said I loved
her as well. Does that make me wrong?' He stared harder at the mirror, almost wishing
that he had his glasses so a glare of a light could stop the hardness in his gaze. 'Am I
wrong to say I love someone who can love their family so much? I admire that too much
not to.'
Smiling, he turned to look at Minomon. "I didn't make her happy, Minomon! Ken did!"
"Oh!" The little digimon smacked his tiny head. "That's right, you were pretending to be
Ken."
"Was I okay?" Yolei asked, not bothering to correct the digimon. That he, in fact,
*wasn't* pretending. That he had forgotten and almost messed up.
"Yeah, you were!" Minomon said, eyes shining. "Ken isn't even that good at being Ken
anymore."
Startled at the statement and its implications, Yolei turned around and just grinned, then
opened the closet. "Well, get ready for a whole new Ken, Minomon. A whole new, sleak,
and…" He looked at the digimon over his shoulder with a sly expression on Ken's face.
"Dare I say "sexy"?" Yolei giggled girlishly, a habit that was going to be extremely hard
to break out of and tore through the closet like lightning.
"LOOK OUT WORLD! I'M KEN ICHIJOUJI!"
* * *
Okay, I know that was just 2 big scenes, but they were needed. ^^ And, well, sheesh, I
wonder what will happen to Ken and Yolei now?!? You'll find out *SOON*, in chapter
5! (I promise!! If people still like this fic then I'll start cranking new chapters out as fast
as I can!)
Oh, and in chapter 3 I said I would be writing another Kenyako story after this.. I may or
may not still do that since it's so long. BUT, I have found the most inspiring song to
listen to, and I can't HELP but want to write, it.. So, if I play my cards right, you guys
may see "During Japan" a Kenyako fanfic, sometime soon after I finish this story. I'll
keep my fingers crossed!
Eek, I just noticed I haven't been putting the disclaimer.. LOL, well, okay, I don't own
the characters from Digimon ALL THROUGH THIS WHOLE FANFIC! NOT MINE!
^^;;
everyone who has taken the time to review. I'm not much of a writer, but you guys still
like my fanfic and that really makes me happy but also sad.
I'm so sad that I never finished this and left it for so long. You guys deserve more than
that, so I've decided to continue and COMPLETE this, this *thing*!! And I WILL do it
too! Special thanks go to Lainey who really helped me to get back on track.
o.o You know what? This is gonna be LONGER than 5 chapters now, since I want to
make it up to everyone who was so kind enough to take the time and give my fic a
glance. I've become a much better writer, I think, so the fanfic should seem a lot
smoother and easier to read. Hopefully! ^^
Kenyako fans wanted more of this Ken and Miyako body switch fic, so that's what
they're gonna get!!!!
- GLAY
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The Impression I Get: part 4
Ken was sleeping peacefully in the top bunk of his bed in his quiet bedroom. Minomon
was resting quietly at the foot of the bed and there wasn't a sound in the house. It was so
peaceful; Ken couldn't believe the things that had happened the day before. A bird
chirped delightfully outside his open window.
In fact, it was so serene and calm, that Ken just found it outright ridiculous that such a
thing as switching bodies could happen. So, chuckling to himself, for thinking of
something so unbelievably silly, he sat up.
He climbed down the small ladder on the bunk bed and walked right on over to the mirror
without a second thought. 'There. I'll look into this mirror and see me; a nice blue-haired
BOY who is a Digidestined… Not an emperor.' Determined to prove the farce of the
'dream' about being in Yolei Inoue's body, Ken looked.
"Hi. I don't know about you, Ken, but you've got one of the most messed up minds I've
ever seen. Clean up your act!"
"AHHHH!!!!!" Ken screamed like a banshee and jumped back from the mirror as an
almost ghost-like pale Yolei stepped out of his mirror that was no longer than 2 feet.
"Man, are you that surprised to see me? Wait'll you take a shower. Yikes! I'll have to do
that too, won't I?"
"What??! But.. but I thought that it was all a dream! I'm a boy! A BOY! This isn't real!"
Yolei frowned slightly and picked up a book on Ken's table, tossing it to him, which he
caught. His face was horrified. "Real enough for ya? Geeze, by the way you're going on
about it, someone will think you're Pinocchio up here or something. Lighten up, Ken! We
all have gender issues sometime or another."
"WHAT?!" He stumbled back, hitting the bedpost and knocking poor Minomon off the
bed. When his little Digimon partner didn't move, he ran to his side.
"oh my gosh... Minomon, speak to me! Minomon!" He started to feel the salty tears
gather behind his eyes. A vein popped on Yolei's right temple and she twitched.
"Pow!" Yolei kicked the little Minomon right from Ken's grasp.
"YOLEI!" Ken yelled in anger, and in surprise that the usually loving girl would do
something so horrible. "What have you done!?"
"Don't cry anymore, it's not good. Couldn't you tell that was just a stuffed toy? Geeze...
And I thought Davis was dense. Minomon isn't here, he's at your house."
Ken blinked and looked around in extreme confusion noticing the scenery had changed to
what appeared to be Yolei's bedroom.
"How'd we get here?"
"Nevermind. Now remember what I told you. You only have a day to do it!"
"What?"
Yolei smacked her head, and then thought it wise to smack Ken's too.
"Ow! Hey! Yolei, what is going on here?"
"Clean up your act!" she paused and grinned evilly, "or I'll mess you up!" she said
holding a balled up fist in front of her friend's face.
Ken didn't know what to make of all this. All the weird conversations, the real stuffed toy
Minomon, Yolei... He blanched. "You're gonna beat me up if I don't clean something??"
He asked while sweat dropping.
"You dope! Not just something! Yourself!"
"I'm pretty clean."
"Idiot!!" She yelled taking a swing at him. He lightly backed away and smirked a bit.
"Look at the facts here, Yolei. I'm a boy and you're a girl. I'm more athletic than you and
have more upper body strength. I also-"
"Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah! Again with that girl and boy stuff. You really DO have
gender issues. No wonder!"
Ken frowned and a few loose locks of his hair fell into his eyes and he took another step
away. "What do you mean by that?"
"I dunno, Ken, maybe you should stop wearing tight clothes and growing your hair long.
Then we'll talk about that." She inwardly grinned.
Ken stared at her like a nuclear bomb had blown off her head. Like the whole ocean fell
right on top of them and he was watching her slowly drown. Like--!!
"Are you implying that you think I'm GAY?!?!!"
Her fists unclenched and her eyes went wide, she immediately looked very innocent.
"You mean, you AREN'T?"
Ken anime fell with his right leg twitching and his eyes shut. "ARG!"
The ghost-like Yolei smiled brightly and tapped her chin in a thoughtful pose while Ken
tried to recollect his composure. As soon as he was off of the ground he noticed her
pensive expression and grew very grave. 'What's she thinking...'
"You DO know that this changes everything, right?" She asked him while giving him a
sideways glance.
"Huh!"
Yolei slapped her head again. Then his.
"Ow!"
She went back into her thoughtful position and then started back for the mirror on the
wall. Ken ran behind her quickly, trying to catch up. Just what was going on? This was
even worse than the body-switching thing! Yolei turned her head to look over her
shoulder at him as she placed one hand into the mirror. It was like a metallic liquid, Ken
noticed.
"You're not gay, so it changes everything now."
"It doesn't change anything! I was never gay in the first place!" Ken shouted now, being a
bit angry. Not that being homosexual was a bad thing. Ken had just never thought about it
much since he was so young, but he had met people who were, actually. In fact he-
"Uh huh," Yolei nodded, cutting into Ken's thoughts and smiled warmly for his sake.
"'cause now," her voice got a weird tone in it, "you're gonna start feeling all different
about stuff." She winked. "Like Yolei."
"You mean physical attraction?"
Yolei fell down.
"Okay, so NOW you start being smart again!" She smiled a bit, taking her hand out of the
mirror. "So, I guess you're pretty mature about that sort of stuff, huh?"
Ken snorted indignantly, "Well, of course!"
Yolei's eyes narrowed and she crossed her arms, her weight being shifted to her left heel,
she gave him a smug look. "Prove it, Mr. Mature!"
And then suddenly, it all started to look like a dream to Ken. The hazy background, the
wispy locks of Yolei's pale hair, the melting mirror... This was all a dream! Confidence
filled him and he planted a small kiss on the dream girl's cheek in front of him.
"Satisfied?"
He cocked a smug eyebrow. So did she.
"Hmm... Alright, good enough for me," She turned and jumped through the mirror quite
quickly and he was left with a single thought in his mind. 'But was it good enough for
me...'
***
"NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!" Ken awoke with a start and screaming from the floor. No, she
hadn't fallen off the bunk bed in her room. Nor was she actually in her own room.
Ken sighed loudly in distaste when she realized she was back to being a 'SHE' and had a
huge crick in her back from sleeping on the floor for the whole night. On the floor in the
bedroom of Yolei Inoue.
She barely remembered getting to the Inoue apartment the night before. Something about
dinner, and a car drive, and had flopped down with a pillow and blanket on the floor, only
stopping to take off the over top that Yolei usually wore daily and nothing else. Why the
floor, one might ask. Well, Ken always thought of herself as the valiant type (some would
call it stubbornness for lack of a better word) and decided that sleeping in the young
Yolei's bed would be far too invading of a thing to do and took it upon herself to sleep on
the floor.
It wasn't that bad. Really!
Though, Ken had to be pulled up on the count of 3 by Yolei's cute pink-feathered
Digimon, Poromon, because the crick in her back just wanted to stay there so badly, and
Ken just didn't have the strength to get up. Exhausted, she was.
Recalling the very disturbing dream, more like nightmare to Ken anyway, she rubbed her
eyes tiredly.
'What the hell is up with my subconscious, anyway?!' Was all Ken thought before she
was hauled up and pushed into another room by Poromon.
"Time for a shower, Ken! You have to go to school!" The young bird chirped as it flew to
gather Yolei's textbooks and other things. Ken noticed how unorganized the grade six girl
probably was. She had her in-training Digimon doing chores for her! Unbelievable!
"..wait.. Shower?!" It hit her like a ton of bricks. '...Man, are you that surprised to see me?
Wait'll you take a shower...'
Ken weighed her options as she so 'bravely' closed her eyes, fingering the soft material of
Yolei's shirt nervously.
Ken's Mind. Thought Process no. 127 – Monday Morning
1. Take the Shower; meaning- Getting naked. (Not on Ken's list of favourite things to do)
2. Don't shower at all; meaning- Be a coward and smell. (Ken didn't like this either)
3. ...Damn!; meaning- There was no third option. (Ken thought this was the best choice
so far)
"...Damn!" Ken said as she paced around in the bathroom. She had a good amount of time
before school started (she couldn't sleep well that night anyway) so rational decisions
could be made. She just didn't know if she had any sanity left to make those decisions.
Oh, the horror of being in a bubbly teenage girl's body who knew some of your most
darkest secrets...
'Not that dark,' Ken reminded herself as she leaned against the bathroom's counter. There
were bottles of imitation flower-scented substances and such. Unlabeled, too, so Ken
didn't really want to touch any of them. She rapped her knuckles on the counter top near
the sink in annoyance. 'I was just being controlled by evil beings for most of my life and
have now only come out it.' "Huh." He said sarcastically and walked out of the bathroom.
"Poromon!!"
The small Digimon looked up from what it was doing and blinked. "Yes, Ken?" The tall
boy turned girl leaned against the doorframe of the bathroom and furrowed her eyebrows
in embarrassment. "Well... I need your help with this shower thing."
"Oh, alright."
Ken immediately felt better. Digimon and their partners were very close. She was sure
Poromon could handle undressing Yolei.
As quickly as the thought left Ken's mind, Poromon had flown into the shower, turned it
on to a nice warm temperature, and flown back out. Ken did a double take.
"Uh..."
"What?"
Ken scratched her shoulder slightly. "Well, that's not what I meant..."
"Oh, it's not? Don't you know how to take a shower?"
"YES!"
"Then what is it?"
Ken was sweating now. This was more problematic then she thought it would be.
Couldn't Poromon catch on?? She really didn't want to explain! Oh, it was so
embarrassing! What if anyone ever found out about this? What if the others found out
about this?! He'd never live it down, let alone be truly accepted and all!
These thoughts drifted to what Yolei was doing. Ken seriously hoped he didn't do
anything to her body. If Ken ever found out... Well, actually she didn't want to find out, if
he did. Anyway, what was she going to do? Time was running out and she couldn--!!
The next thing she knew, she was sprawled on the tiles of the bathroom's floor and the
door was locked. "Hey! What's the big idea?!"
"Sorry, Ken," a small muffled voice came from behind the door. Poromon. "But if you
don't get showered now, then you'll never get to school on time."
Ken grumbled and stood up. "You didn't have to push me..."
"I thought all humans could deal with this body-stuff. Besides, I'm technically male too,
and Yolei wouldn't even let me near her when she was in the bathroom. And then there
was that time when she was putting on clothes. She calls it 'I'm CHANGING you stuffy
bird!! Get out!'" Poromon said a bit annoyed as he quoted his partner. "At first I thought
it was some kind of Digivolving transformation or something and wanted to see, but you
know Yolei! So, anyway, just shower!!"
When Ken didn't hear Poromon anymore she sighed. The steam was starting to fill the
room now and it created a soporific effect on the poor kid. Dazed, confused, and irritated,
Ken ended up taking the shower...
***
"Mmmm...more..." Yolei shifted in the bed. "more...mmmm... oh!..." he rolled over
again, nearly squashing Minomon, who didn't get a wink of sleep, by the way,
considering Ken's friend Yolei talked, snored, and rolled around so much in his sleep it
was driving the small Digimon mad!
'I wish I went with Ken... if only his mother didn't expect me to be his favourite stuffed
toy and came in here everyday...'
"Mmmm yeah..."
"Aw! Yolei, please wake up, you have to go to Ken's school!"
"More..."
"Wake up!"
"More ice cream...cream..."
"Please!"
"Eh?!" Yolei was jerked awake and sat up in Ken's bed.
"Wha??" She questioned as she looked around the unfamiliar room in a sleep-induced
daze. "What the…"
"Yolei!" Minomon sighed in relief that the girl turned boy was up and could finally leave
him in peace. It was a good thing he had a cocoon shell… thing… or he would have been
stuck to Yolei's back until he got scrubbed off in the shower!
Yolei blinked his now blue eyes. "Mino-ooooOOHHH!" Realization dawned on him and
suddenly he snapped his fingers, right in poor Minomon's ear, and jumped up.
"BANG!"
And hit the ceiling with his face.
"Auuuuugggghhhh…" Yolei was lying on his back with big "X" eyes as white ceiling
dust flew down on his face.
Then, to top it off, Minomon thought it might be fun to push Yolei off the bed.
"THUMP!" Minomon jumped over to the edge of the bed and called down.
"Get ready for school!!"
"ARG!! Pssh! Blech! Yuuuuuuucccckkkyyyyyy!!!!!" The girl turned boy started spitting
out dust like there was now tomorrow.
Mrs. Ichijouji ran into her son's room to find "him" laying face first on the floor. "Oh
dear! Ken, are you alright?" She cautiously peered at her son before nudging the corpse-
like body with her foot.
Yolei lifted just his head off the floor to look at Ken's mom. His face was completely
white from the ceiling dust and had a huge bump on it. Well, it was 6:47 in the morning,
so Yolei could hardly be the picture of beauty!
"Ooooh!! My poor baby!"
"Zzzaaahhh, Mrs-um, Mom, it's okay." Yolei was extremely sleepy and tired still, but
decided it was best not to say this.
"You sure, honey? What on Earth happened to you?" She asked while dusting some
excess dust from her son's shoulders. She looked at it strangely before looking 'Ken' in
the face again.
"Ehehehehe! Just hit my head!" Mrs. Ichijouji's face started to crease into a horror
stricken expression but Yolei laughed and put her hands behind his back, pulling into her
standard 'I'm innocent and love you Momma!' look before speaking again.
"I'm fiiiine, Momma. Don't worry about me!"
Mrs. Ichijouji blinked and then took a very slow step backwards towards the doorway.
The way Ken looked was, well, very cute, if not extremely alarming considering 'his'
chalk white face and all. But the way he had spoken to her! Oh! It was as if her little
*baby* had come back!
The dam broke when Yolei, being the cute girl she was inside (and of course, having
forgot she was indeed a boy now), raised her arms in a gesture that said 'Hug me!"
Tears of motherly happiness sprung to Mrs. Ichijouji's eyes as she stepped into 'Ken's'
embrace, hugging him tightly. "I love you, Ken!"
At the moment Mrs. Ichijouji said that name so sharply, Yolei's sleepy disposition
dissolved into a lazy shock. The girl turned boy stared at the wall blankly, thoughts
swirling through his mind. Mrs. Ichijouji, who noticed how 'Ken' had tensed up, stopped
rubbing his back and pulled back a little.
She smiled.
"I know you still aren't comfortable with touching, but I'm so thrilled that you're
working on it! Just don't feel as though I want you to change your ways. You just be
you." She wiped a tear away.
Yolei, who had been listening stonily, tore her eyes away from the sunny white wall to
gaze up at Ken's tall mother.
"I love you so much, Ken. Remember, I always love *you*. Forever."
"I love you too."
Mrs. Ichijouji sighed in happiness and gave him another small squeeze before letting go.
"You'd better hurry up Ken, or you'll be late for school. I'm sorry I can't drive you
today. I left the money on the hallway table for your lunch and a little extra for maybe
something else." She winked happily at her only son and walked out the door.
Yolei let out a huge breath of air she had been holding in, and rolled out the kinks in his
neck.
"Wow!" A squeaky voice said loudly almost in Yolei's ear.
"WAH!" Eyes, wide, Yolei turned to see Minomon floating beside his head. "Geeze, you
scared me!"
"Sorry." Minomon smiled cutely and bounced over to the desk and sat down. This way
he'd be able to view his partner's friend.
"But I just can't believe it!"
"What is it?" Yolei asked idly while looking into the mirror and trying to straighten
himself up.
"How you managed to make Ken's mom act like that. She looked so happy when you
hugged her!"
'She did look happy…' Yolei thought while staring into the mirror. 'And I said I loved
her as well. Does that make me wrong?' He stared harder at the mirror, almost wishing
that he had his glasses so a glare of a light could stop the hardness in his gaze. 'Am I
wrong to say I love someone who can love their family so much? I admire that too much
not to.'
Smiling, he turned to look at Minomon. "I didn't make her happy, Minomon! Ken did!"
"Oh!" The little digimon smacked his tiny head. "That's right, you were pretending to be
Ken."
"Was I okay?" Yolei asked, not bothering to correct the digimon. That he, in fact,
*wasn't* pretending. That he had forgotten and almost messed up.
"Yeah, you were!" Minomon said, eyes shining. "Ken isn't even that good at being Ken
anymore."
Startled at the statement and its implications, Yolei turned around and just grinned, then
opened the closet. "Well, get ready for a whole new Ken, Minomon. A whole new, sleak,
and…" He looked at the digimon over his shoulder with a sly expression on Ken's face.
"Dare I say "sexy"?" Yolei giggled girlishly, a habit that was going to be extremely hard
to break out of and tore through the closet like lightning.
"LOOK OUT WORLD! I'M KEN ICHIJOUJI!"
* * *
Okay, I know that was just 2 big scenes, but they were needed. ^^ And, well, sheesh, I
wonder what will happen to Ken and Yolei now?!? You'll find out *SOON*, in chapter
5! (I promise!! If people still like this fic then I'll start cranking new chapters out as fast
as I can!)
Oh, and in chapter 3 I said I would be writing another Kenyako story after this.. I may or
may not still do that since it's so long. BUT, I have found the most inspiring song to
listen to, and I can't HELP but want to write, it.. So, if I play my cards right, you guys
may see "During Japan" a Kenyako fanfic, sometime soon after I finish this story. I'll
keep my fingers crossed!
Eek, I just noticed I haven't been putting the disclaimer.. LOL, well, okay, I don't own
the characters from Digimon ALL THROUGH THIS WHOLE FANFIC! NOT MINE!
^^;;