Cruel Fate Chapter 2-Hidden Truth By Area99

Disclaimer-I don't own digimon.

NOTE: Maybe some of you were confused by the fact that Mimi might be Sora and Sora might be Mimi. Basically Mimi still carries her brown hair, brown eyes. It's just that, in the story, her name was originally Sora Tachikawa but her name tag was switched into Mimi Ishida and vice versa.

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Yamato was opening the windows in the art room when two girls came in.

"Excuse me, but I need your help." One of the girls with amber hair said. "Did you paint the painting that's posted on the art class message board? Cause I really like it."

"So what." Yamato turned around.

"I want to have an art piece in the up coming Art Gallery, so I want you to help me paint something."

"Hey, this is the first time we've met right?" He said with his eyes gleaming with annoyance.

"Ummm.yah." She answered in soft whisper with her head down low.

"So do you expect me to help you?" Then he sat down in front of his painting. "And I'm really busy this week so I'm sorry I can't help you."

The girl glared at the back of his head then ran off.

"Hey, Sora." Her friend called out to her. "Wait up!" She quickly followed where he friend had run off to.

-----In Mimi's classroom----

"Now let's talk about the Art Competition that's going to be held next month." The teacher said. "The class has chosen both Mimi and Sora to be the representatives of this competition."

Both Sora and Mimi grinned at this.

"But I personally think that Mimi should go to this competition." The teacher added.

Sora lost the smile on her face.

"Because Mimi had already been to this art competition during the first semester and Mimi's brother can also help her with her painting." Mimi frowned at this remark. "So, Sora can you let Mimi be the representative this time?"

"Okay." But in her heart, she wasn't satisfied with the outcome of the vote and teacher's decision.

"All of you should go to the art room now to prepare for third periods art class." The teacher said.

----During art class-----

"Wow Mimi, your water painting is really nice." Mimi's best friend, Unika, praised.

"Thanks." Mimi held her painting in the air, and said. "I'm calling this Morning Daisies."

"That's really nice Mimi." One of her classmates said. Then a bunch of girls started crowding Mimi's table, complementing how pretty her drawing was.

Sora's eyes gleamed with jealousy.

It was break time and everyone was leaving the room. After the girls had left Mimi's table, she said. "I'll leave it here for it to dry." Then walked out of the joining the rest of the girls.

Sora watched as Mimi left the room and went in herself.

----Later-----

Yamato was walking down the hallway to go to his next class when he heard a faint sobbing sound. He can tell that the sound was somewhat familiar, he heard this when he had accidentally ripped Mimi's teddy bear.

"Oh no." He mumbled as ran towards the source of the faint sound.

Then he found Mimi sitting in a corner of the art room with her head buried in her arms. He walked to her and patted her head.

"Hey." He said softly.

"Hel-sniff.llo" She managed to say.

"What happened?" He sat down next to her.

Mimi didn't answer him but instead showed him her painting. It was torn into shreds.

"Who did this!?" His voice filled with fury.

"I-I..sniff..dun-no."

"Well it's okay." Yamato gave her a hug. "I'll help up paint another one."

"No-no, don't!" Mimi refused.

"Why not?" Yamato asked, puzzled.

"Sniff..Be-ecause, I..wa..nt to p-paint this o-ne..sniff myself."

"Okay, if that's what you want." He grinned, really impressed that his sister had grown up and didn't need his help to do everything. "Anyway, you should go to your class now."

Yamato got up to his feet and helped Mimi stand up.

"Don't cry anymore okay?" Yamato said, looking into her brown eyes.

"Okay." She smiled and then ran off. "Thank you!"

"The one who's responsible for this will pay." Yamato promised himself.

----After school---

"Hey, Unika." Yamato waved and ran towards where Unika was standing.

"Hi." Unika said.

"What are you doing here?" Yamato asked.

"Your sister's in the washroom." She pointed with her finger.

"Oh. I want to ask you something."

"Yah, go ahead." Mimi came out of the washroom and was about to greet her brother when he asked something she didn't expect.

"Do you know who ruined Mimi's picture?"

"Umm. I'm not sure but I think it's Sora-mph." Unika's mouth was covered by Mimi's hand.

"Shut up Uni!" Mimi glared.

Yamato turned his head and spotted Sora down the road.

"You and your big mouth."

"Well, he doesn't know who's Sora anyway." Uni looked up and saw Yamato walking towards Sora.

"Oh crap! He knows who she is."

"Huh?" Mimi started running when she saw where Yamato was heading. "Yamato, come b-"

The tires of a truck screamed to stop.

"Oh my god! Mimi!" Unika screamed.

Yamato looked back and saw Mimi lying on the floor with her brown hair covering her face. "Mimi!"

-----At the hospital----

Mr. and Mrs. Ishida rushed towards Yamato who was sitting on the plastic chairs next to the operation room.

"How's your sister?" Mr. Ishida asked him with his hand on Yamato's shoulder.

"Where is she?" Mrs. Ishida added.

"It's all my fault." He said. "If I didn't run off, she wouldn't get hurt and she wouldn't be in the operation room. The doctor said she has some severe injuries and need to undergo a surgery. What should we do?" After he finished, he broke into tears.

Both of Yamato's parents didn't know what to say to comfort. Mrs. Ishida stepped forward and gave him a hug, "Hush now, Mimi's going to be fine." She kept brushing his hair with her hand. "You know Mimi's going to be upset if she knows that your crying because of her." Mrs. Ishida looked him in the eye.

"Okay." Yamato nodded.

---In the doctor's office---

Mr. Ishida was filling out the forms when he asked. "When can I see my daughter?"

"Oh, you don't need to worry. It won't take long. But now I need to ask you to donate some blood for your daughters operation."

Mrs. Ishida was about to say something when Mr. Ishida stopped her. "I'll do it."

"Your daughter carries a blood type of B."

Mr. and Mrs. Ishida looked shocked.

"Which one of you carries type B?" The doctor asked. "There's no way, both of us carry the blood type of O. She should be type O too." Mr. Ishida said.

"Are you sure?" The doctor checked his files. "We had examined her blood and confirmed that she's a type B carrier."

Mrs. Ishida looked worried.

"Maybe you two should go and check the type of your blood." The doctor suggested.

---A while later----

"Sorry for the delay but we've checked that both you and Mrs. Ishida carry the blood type O." A nursed said.

"What if both of us had blood type O, will we have a child that carries blood type B?" Mr. Ishida asked.

"Absolutely not."

Mrs. Ishida's legs grew weak and held onto her husband for support.

"Is there a chance that this is an accident?" Mr. Ishida questioned again, putting his arm around his wife.

"No, there's no chance."

"Thank you."

Both of Mimi's "parents" went out of the room.

"Dad, how was it?" Yamato came up to them. "Did anything bad happen to Mimi?"

"No, she's fine." Mr. Ishida answered.

Tears stung Mrs. Ishida's eyes but she held them back.

----In the car----

Mrs. Ishida was rubbing her temples with her finger, her eyes puffy and red.

Mr. Ishida parked the car on the side of the road. " Saki, we need to talk."

"I shouldn't have come back, what if Mimi woke up and I wasn't there for her?" She said, trying to avoid the subject Mr. Ishida was going to talk about. "I want to go back to the hospital."

"Can you get Mimi's clothes and bring it to the hospital?" She added.

"There's something I want to discuss with you."

"What do you want to discuss about? There's certainly nothing I want to talk about."

"We just examined our blood. Both of our blood types are confirmed as type O."

"So what?! It doesn't make a difference."

"The doctor said that Mimi's blood type is B."

"So! What does that have to do with our daughter?"

"I think..i think that Mimi might not be our true daughter." "Ahhh." Mrs. Ishida covered her ears with her hands, tears forming in her eyes. "Stop saying it!"

----In Mimi's hospital room---

"Mimi." Yamato gently took her hand in his. "When I see you lying in this bed, I just get really worried, afraid that you won't wake up anymore. I'm really scared. It's all my fault."

"Since you apologized, I'll forgive you." A sweet voice giggled.

Mimi opened her eyes.

"Hehe. Why do have to apologize when I'm asleep? Why don't you say sorry when I'm wide awake?" Mimi pumped her hand into the air. "Owww."

"Be careful, you shouldn't do that after you've been through a surgery."

"Was Mommy and Daddy worried?"

"Yah, of course! They went home to get your clothes. I think they'll be back by tomorrow morning."

"What about you?" Mimi grabbed a paper cup on the night table.

"I'll be here tonight." He said, pouring some water into the cup.

"No, I'm asking if you were worried about me." She took a sip from the cup.

"Nope." He lied.

Mimi frowned. "I'm really disappointed."

"I almost fainted." Her brother grinned.

"Okay, I'll forgive you then." She patted his blonde hair. .

--In Ishida's bedroom----

Mr. Ishida was lying on their bed, deep in thought.

"I'm thinking.that maybe someone made a mistake at the nursery when you had just given birth." "No, she's my daughter. Mimi's my only daughter." She said, tears welling up in her eyes. "Maybe it was their mistake, their lying. Mimi's my daughter. There's nothing wrong to it." Mrs. Ishida clutched onto the bed sheets.

"But what if..what if she really isn't our child.Saki."

Mrs. Ishida turned sideways to face the wall. "I don't know and I don't want to know. I don't want to listen to you anymore, just stop it, stop it please." She cried.

Mr. Ishida sighed.

---Later that night---

Mrs. Ishida was in Mimi's room. Picking the clothes she's going to bring to the hospital that day. Then she say a teddy bear Mimi love sleeping with at night.

She hugged it tightly as if it was going to disappear at any moment.

Flashback

Mrs. Ishida was helping Mimi to comb her hair when Mimi suddenly asked her a question.

"Mommy, why is my hair brown?" She asked innocently.

"Well because your born to have brown hair." Mrs. Ishida answered briefly, confused by her question.

"But you've got red hair (note: let's just say she does okay?) and so does grandma."

"I dunno Mimi." She sighed. "But it doesn't matter."

"Yes it does Mommy, it's as though you didn't give birth to me. I just wonder if I'm your real daughter sometimes." Mimi played with the ear of her teddy.

Mrs. Ishida was shocked at how a 10 year old can think of these stuff.

"Mimi, I'm sure you're my daughter okay?" She gave Mimi a reassuring hug. "Let's just don't talk about these things anymore. Okay?"

"Yup." Mimi was her hyper self again. "Oh Mommy I'm late. Hurry, I can't be late for Uni's birthday party!" Mimi tugged her sleeve.

"Oh yes. I forgot. Mimi go and get Unika's present on dinning table while I get the keys."

"Okay Mommy."

"I've never considered this before." She thought. "Is Mimi my real daughter?"

End flashback

Mr. Ishida looked though the half-opened door, knowing that he need to find out the truth and their real daughter.

---Next day---

Mr. Ishida went to the hospital in which Mimi was born in.

"Well two baby girls were born that day. One was Mimi Ishida, your daughter, and the other girl is Sora Tachikawa." The doctor looked through his papers. " Mrs. Tachikawa's daughter carries type O blood. Your daughter carries type B blood."

"Doctor.type O.so your saying."

"Yes, that's the information in my files." He said. "So if your daughter is a carrier of type B blood, maybe a mistake was made at the nursery."

Mr. Ishida's eyes grew wide and he leapt towards the doctor, grabbing his neck. You.."

"What are you doing?" The doctor was running out of air. "Nurse!"

"Mister, what are you doing, please let go." She grasped his hands. "Are you okay?" She asked the doctor.

"I'm fine."

It took a while for Mr. Ishida to calm down and then he started crying.

----After school---

Sora was heading home when she heard someone called out her name. She stopped walking.

"Sora!" A boy's voice yelled.

Sora's red eyes meet a pair of sky blue ones. "Oh, it's you."

"I'll help you paint the painting."

"Huh?"

"You said that you want me to paint something for you to present at the upcoming Art Gallery. I'll do it."

"Why?" She smirked, knowing that she had won.

"I thought you said you liked my drawing." He answered.

"Did Mimi ask you to do this?"

"I just have something to say. After I've finished your painting, you need to promise me that you'll never irritate and bully her anymore."

"What are you talking about!? I didn't bully her!" Her temper was flaring up.

"Just promise me you'll never bug her again! If you do, you'll regret it." He spat. "I'll do the painting for you is because of her, do you understand!?"

"Okay, but shouldn't you be begging me instead of lecturing me? Huh?" She raised her eyebrow. "If you bend down on your knees and beg me, I'll think about it."

Yamato dropped his bag and kneeled down.

Sora looked around nervously as if expecting someone to be watching this.

"Sora can you please don't bother Mimi again?" He looked up.

Sora didn't know what to say and then ran towards her home.

Beep beep.

He saw a familiar white car turn into the street.

"Isn't that Mom and Dad? What are they doing here?"

Yamato didn't know what to do except to follow them.

TBC

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That's it for this chapter. Whew that was long. Thanks for reading and please review and tell me what u think.

Next chapter: Questioning

Sorry I'm not going to give away the summary for the next chapter because I still not sure what'll be in it. Sorry

Anyway, find out next chapter. Bye Area99