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Intro
The perfect teenager: Taichi Kamiya's little sister.
The most popular boy in school: Hikari Kamiya's older brother.
Either one realizes one important thing: People need to like you for who you are. You shouldn't have to work for their friendship. Tai thinks that he has to be popular to have friends. Kari thinks she has to be perfect to earn her parents' love. Gennai sees that there is only one way to fix this: they must live their lives in each other's bodies until they can realize that people like them for who they are. Thus our story begins….
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A light encircled Taichi and Hikari. Soon, as the light faded, Gennai smiled.
"What?!" Tai screamed.
Gennai struggled to hold back his laughter.
"Nothing happened!" Tai yelled.
Gennai sat stunned.
"What did you say?" Gennai asked.
"I said, nothing happened, ya old geezer! Now if you'll please let me get away from my dorky little sister, I can get back home and be popular again." Tai said.
Agumon ran forward. He leapt up and glomped Tai's legs.
"But Tai…" Agumon yelled.
Tai kicked the small orange Digimon off.
"Get away from me! What if my friends see?!" Tai asked angrily.
"Now, Tai, you know your friends can't follow you here!" Kari said.
"She's got a point there." Gatomon said. She was sitting up in the tree branches, on the same branch the Gennai was standing on.
"Shhh." Gennai said.
"I don't care! Just leave me alone!!" Tai said.
The boy stormed off.
"Wait, Tai! Please just wait for a second!" Kari screamed as she ran off after her brother.
"Are you sure this'll work? I mean, you are pretty old and you may be getting a little rusty…" Gatomon said.
"Don't worry, my younger friend. It'll hit them in the morning." Gennai said.
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Kari woke up early the next morning. She knew that she had to walk to school. She walked over to the dresser to get out a pair of clothes. She was glad now that Tai was in another room. Kari opened the drawer…and screamed. For there, in front of her, lay not her clothes, but Tai's. She darted out of the room, and, rounding the corner, ran smack into the closet door. Tai's room was at the end of the hall. Tai emerged from Kari's room, awakened by the scream, and, turning, tripped over the phone stand. They both turned to opposite direction, just to see a mirror image of themselves. Tai screamed. Kari screamed. Tai froze. He screamed again.
"Oh, no!" Tai said, his voice now Kari's.
"I know! I'm you and you're me!" Kari said.
"No! That's not it! I sound like a girl!!" Tai said.
"This is theologically impossible!" Kari said.
"How many times do I have to tell you, Kari! Don't use words that I can't understand!" Tai said.
"Yeah, well that's the least of our worries right now!" Kari said. "We have to go to school like this!"
Tai stopped trying to sound like a girl and faced Kari.
"What do you mean by 'we'll have to go to school like this'?" Tai asked.
Kari sighed. "Mom and dad are out of town, and I guarantee the school board won't believe that we're both sick. They may believe that I'm sick, but definitely not you."
"But you see, I can get out of school until we're back to normal." Tai said. "Because I'm in your body."
"That would be a good plan, Tai, but we don't even know when we're going to get back to normal." Kari said.
"Well, I guess we could go to school like this, but we have to act like ourselves…er…each other." Tai said.
"Okay. Deal." Kari said. "But…uh…how do we get to school?"
"You'll drive my…no. Wait. We'll both walk to school." Tai said. "There is now way I trust you enough to drive my car."
"Well, we can't go to school looking like this." Kari said. "Let's at least go get ready."
"Okay, fine." Tai said. "But if I find one hair out of place, I'll kill you!"
The two turned and walked back into the rooms that they came out of.
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Kari walked over to the mirror.
"There is no way that I can go through school all day today with my hair sticking up like this." she said, referring to Tai's hair.
She reached into the cabinet full of gel. Kari was in the bathroom first today. She had won the game of rock-paper-scissors. She took a deep breath and sighed.
"Well," she said. "Here goes nothing."
Kari slowly but surely slicked down Tai's hair.
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Tai reached into Kari's drawers. He pulled out a bra.
"Now, I know girls wear these, but…" Tai lifted it to eye level. "How do I put it on?"
Tai worked for a good 10 minutes, and finally managed to get it on. He then pulled out a cheerleader shirt that his ex girlfriend had given to Kari and pulled it on. He threw on a pair of jean shorts and. Looking in the mirror he smiled.
"If I have to be a girl, I'm going to be a good-looking one." he said. "Thank God I wear uniforms, because that girl has absolutely no sense of style."
Tai picked through the rest of Kari's clothes and frowned.
"That's it! I'm so going on a shopping spree today." he said, pulling all of Kari's clothes out of the drawer. He put them in a box marked "Salvation Army". "This is for your own good, Kari."
After finishing, he pulled her shoulder-length hair up into a ponytail.
"There. Perfect." Tai said.
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Tai walked into the hall, just in time to see Kari walk out of the bathroom. Tai took one look at Kari and screamed.
"Oh…My…God!!! What…Have…You…Done…To…My…HAIR!!!" Tai pointed and passed out.
"I…uh…just slicked it down." Kari said, noting that Tai was now unconscious. "Now, how am I going to get him to school?"
Kari sighed. Finally it dawned on her. She ran into the kitchen and grabbed some ice. She hefted him up and dropped it down his…er…her underwear. Tai leapt up, screaming.
"Getitoutgetitoutgetitout!!!!" Tai screamed.
Finally, he managed to get the ice out. Then, he sighed and sat down.
"We've gotta get to school." Kari said.
"Yeah. We might as well get going." Tai said.
Then, the two walked to the door and, taking a deep breath, walked out, prepared for a school day in the life of the opposite sex.
