Author's Notes: I don not own Digimon, it isn't mine.
A Different Destiny, Chapter 8
Mimi walked through a field of pink flowers that had just seemed to pop up from in front of her and found a rock the shape of a tear drop.
"This rock looks exactly like my crest," Mimi told Palmon as she studied first the rock and then the green tag around her neck, "I think that I'll sit here to do this." Palmon nodded and started to pick some flowers a few meters away from her partner. Mimi sat down carefully on the rock after making sure that it wasn't too dirty and placed her bag beside her.
'I don't know why I have to go through with this 'finding yourself' thing. I'm always sincere and honest to myself especially. I don't have anything that I'm hiding from myself . . . Wait; does this mean that I have to say things that I'm hiding from other people? Sora did say that we had to tell the people we have to tell things. But how do I tell Joe how I feel about him? I'm twelve for God's sake, how can I tell him that I'm in love with him? I didn't think that it was possible to fall in love when you're twelve . . . but I can't tell him. He'd just laugh at me and say that his secret was that he hated my guts. I can't tell him, he'll just reject me,' Mimi repeated this over and over in her mind, believing that it was the truth. Palmon could see that Mimi was having difficulty with something, so she stopped gathering flowers and went over to her.
"Mimi, what's wrong? It's important that you find all of the secrets that you hold out from where you are hiding them, otherwise you'll explode sometime. I have a feeling that you are afraid that somebody will reject what you want to tell them, but I know that he won't. Joe is a nice guy and he cares for you a lot, I can see that. He won't reject you, so stop worrying about it and tell him!" Mimi stared at her digimon partner in shock.
"How did you know that was what I was worrying about? Is it that obvious?" Palmon quickly shook her head.
"No Mimi, it's just that I know you. I could see that you were worrying about a guy and I knew that it wouldn't be Matt and it definitely wouldn't be Tai as you didn't seem to like him very much. Izzy is also out of the question as you hate computers and T.K is out too because he is too young. So naturally Joe had to be the one that you were thinking of. It was easy," Palmon shrugged and walked away to continue her flower picking. Mimi grabbed her bag and stood, stopping Palmon in her tracks.
"Come on then Palmon, we're going to go and find Joe. You're right and even if you are incorrect about Joe rejecting me, then I can always get over it. . . eventually," they began walking in the direction that Mimi just knew that Joe was in and they hoped that everything would turn out alright.
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Kari walked as far away from the castle as she dared to go and stopped at the edge of a rainforest. She didn't go inside as she wanted to stay in the light of the sunshine, but she sat at the edge of it, staring at the lush green trees and plants that grew there. She knew her secret already because she trusted her heart, but she didn't know if it was for real.
'I can't be in love with T.K; it must be a crush or something. I'm only eight years old; I don't think it's possible to fall in love this early. But I suppose T.K is cute and I really care about him. I think that he's about as important to me as Tai is, and Tai's my brother and I love him! Well. . . I don't know what's going on with this, it's too big for me to think about,' she watched as Salamon jumped up into one of the trees that was on the outside of the forest and watched the bird that flew out from the branches.
"What are you looking at Kari? Aren't you supposed to be thinking and searching your heart for secrets?" Kari looked back at the ground, sighing as she did so.
"Do you know anything about love Salamon?" the little puppy-like digimon looked at Kari with her big blue eyes as if Kari were stupid or something.
"Of course I do Kari. It's that emotion that humans have that shows that they care for each other a lot. It's kind of silly if you ask me because everyone cares for each other anyway. I can tell from a mile away that you love T.K, and that is if I was blindfolded," Salamon jumped down from the tree and then jumped straight into another, again frightening the same bird that had flown there before. Kari sighed again before she made up her mind.
"Come on Salamon, we're going to find T.K. I have to tell him that I love him," she called to the digimon who was finding delight in torturing the poor bird, "Although he might not feel the same about me. He's probably going to head back to the barrier, so we'll catch him there." The partners started to head back to where they had left all of the others before, wondering why they had walked so far in the first place.
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T.K didn't really move very far from the shield at all, in fact he was only around the corner. He knew what he wanted to say and to whom he wanted to say it, but he had to wait for her to get back.
"What do you have to think about T.K?" Patamon asked him from his perch on top of T.K's hat as T.K sat down on a rock that he found had found near the shield. He would have stayed in the shield, but he didn't want Matt and Izzy to overhear his conversation with Kari.
"I don't have to think about anything. I know what I have to say and who I have to say it to. I just have to wait for her to get back. I know that she won't be long though," T.K was unperturbed about being so near to the darkness as his soul was always full of hope, which the darkness couldn't defeat easily, "I only hope that we can all tell all of our secrets in time. . ." He trailed off and the partners sat in silence, waiting for the return of the child of Light.
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Joe and Gomamon arrived back at the shield of Light to find Matt and Izzy sitting on two rocks, having a conversation. They both looked up as Joe arrived back and smiled.
"You're the first one to come back. Have you finished with this 'thing' that we have to do?" Matt asked him, glancing at Izzy out of the corner of his eye. The two of them had been having a 'chat' about the secrets that they had held in their hearts and they didn't really want to have Joe interrupt them.
"Uh, no actually I'm waiting for somebody. I'll wait over there though, so you two can keep up with your conversation," Joe was very embarrassed as he had walked in on their conversation without even thinking. He hadn't heard what they were talking about though as his mind had been filled with thoughts of Mimi.
"Whew, that was close! I didn't understand a thing that they were talking about, so I'm glad that we got out of there," Gomamon chatted as they went along. They stopped about ten meters away from the barrier and they sat down on a strange rock that seemed to come up out of nowhere.
"I didn't hear a word that they said, I wasn't concentrating," Joe told the digimon abstractedly, his thoughts still on the girl that he had fallen for, "But by the looks on their faces, I'm glad that I didn't." The pair fell silent, each inside their own thoughts. Gomamon was wishing that there was food nearby whilst Joe could only think of Mimi and he was wishing that she would hurry up and get there so he could tell her.
"Hey Joe, isn't that Mimi over there?" Gomamon used his paw to point into the distance, a little to the left of where they were sitting. Joe could see the outline of Mimi with her pink cowboy hat and bag. Palmon was walking with her, her long arms almost reaching the ground whilst she talked to Mimi.
"Yeah, it is," Joe found that he was trembling with nerves, but he ignored it, "O-okay Gomamon, lets go over there and uh, talk to her." Gomamon hid a smile at his partner's behavior. He had expected Joe to be nervous, but he was surprised that Joe was actually shaking. What amazed him the most though was that Joe was really going to go through with telling Mimi how he felt. Gomamon was very proud of the child of Reliability.
"Hey Mimi and Palmon come over here! I wouldn't go back to the barrier yet; Izzy and Matt are talking. I wanted to talk to you anyway!" Joe called, his voice shaking with nervous tension. Mimi and Palmon glanced at each other before changing their direction to go to Joe.
"Palmon, what if he wants to tell me that he hates me?" Mimi asked quietly, fear suddenly gripping her. She didn't want to be told that she was hated by the one person that she loved; she would rather die than be told that. Palmon just smiled at her reassuringly.
"Don't worry Mimi! I'm sure that he cares about you just as deeply as you care for him," Mimi smiled nervously, repeating Palmon's words in her head so she wouldn't just run in the other direction screaming. They approached Joe and Gomamon and Palmon noticed that the seal-like digimon was trying hard not to laugh. Palmon immediately knew that Joe was probably feeling the same way that Mimi was.
"Um. . . Hi Joe! What did you want to tell me?" Mimi managed to keep her voice from trembling, but she didn't know how she did it. Her voice just sounded like its usual cheery self. Joe was silent for a second, trying to put a sentence that would actually make sense. Their two digimon partners quietly walked away from the couple, so quietly that the two humans didn't notice that they were gone.
"Well, uh. . . I just wanted to say . . . um. . . Well, I uh. . ." Mimi held her breath as Joe struggled with his sentence. She didn't know what to expect, but then Joe finished his sentence, "IloveyouMimiandIjustwantedyoutoknowthat."
"What was that Joe? You were talking so fast that I didn't understand," Joe swallowed and tried to make himself slow down as he spoke.
"I-I love you Mimi and I just wanted you to know that," his voice shook as he said this, but he managed to say it at a pace that she could understand. He looked at the ground as soon as he had said it, not wanting to see her reaction. Mimi was stunned. She hadn't really expected him to have said that, but as soon as he did her face lit up with a huge smile.
"Really? I have a confession to make too. I-I was going to come and talk to you because I found that-that I love you and I wanted you to know that too," Joe's head snapped up at her unexpected response to his speech. Mimi was smiling now and as the two realised that their feelings were shared by the other they drew in closer and closer and they finally met in a passionate kiss that they had each wanted to share for a while.
"Well, I guess that they're happy," Palmon remarked to Gomamon, peeking out from behind the rock they were behind, "They both have found true happiness."
"Well, since Joe was a nervous wreck until he told Mimi how he felt, I'm just glad that he didn't faint," the two digimon shared a quiet laugh and then they continued spying on their human partners.
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Kari walked back to the shield and saw that Matt and Izzy were deep in conversation and so she went for a walk, knowing that she would bump into T.K. She didn't know how she knew that she would, but somehow her feet led her to the boy. Patamon was sitting on his head and T.K had his back to her. She crept up quietly behind him, but she jumped when he spoke.
"Hey Kari, what's up?" he turned to look at her and Kari felt her heart skip a beat. Salamon whispered something to Patamon and the two digimon left their partners and climbed in the trees instead.
"The sky is up T.K," they both laughed at this joke and then they fell silent for a second, each blushing as they found that they were alone with each other, "T.K, can I ask you something?" He nodded, knowing what she was going to ask and knowing what he was going to answer.
"Yeah, of course you can Kari," the young girl hesitated for a moment after his reply before she asked him.
"Do you know what 'Love' is supposed to be T.K? Like what you are supposed to feel?" Kari looked at the ground before she went on, "I mean, I love my family and my friends, but what about the other type of love?" T.K smiled as he answered, wondering what her reaction would be.
"I know what it is. It's a funny feeling that you get in your heart whenever the one that you love is near. You always feel happy when you think of the person that you love and you just feel good overall whenever you think of them. I know all of this because I-I'm in love with you Kari," the girl was silent for a second, letting all of these thoughts sink in. T.K waited patiently, knowing that it would take a while for her to answer.
"I-I feel that way about you T.K. I know that I love you," she gave him a kiss on the cheek and they both blushed.
"Come on Kari, we'd better go back to the barrier now," he grabbed her hand and they walked back to where Matt and Izzy were waiting. The two had stopped talking now and were sitting close to each other, looking at something on Izzy's computer. Mimi and Joe followed the eight year olds soon after, walking together but not talking. They were both smiling and Kari had the feeling that something had happened between them too.
"Is everyone here now?" Matt asked, getting to his feet. They looked around the group, but there seemed to be someone missing.
"No, Sora's not here," Mimi told them after scanning the group for her auburn-haired friend, "She's probably just going to be another few minutes. She'll be back soon." They all nodded and split into the pairs that they had been in before, talking quietly between themselves, waiting for the digidestined of love to return.
End of Chapter
This is a short chapter I know, but tomorrow I have to go back to school and I just don't feel like writing very much tonight, I'll try and update again tomorrow, but I don't know. You know the drill, review and I'll write another chapter A.S.A.P! Thank you for reading this far! I tried to put romance in this chapter, but I'm hopeless at writing it! Anyway, I'll write again soon!
A Different Destiny, Chapter 8
Mimi walked through a field of pink flowers that had just seemed to pop up from in front of her and found a rock the shape of a tear drop.
"This rock looks exactly like my crest," Mimi told Palmon as she studied first the rock and then the green tag around her neck, "I think that I'll sit here to do this." Palmon nodded and started to pick some flowers a few meters away from her partner. Mimi sat down carefully on the rock after making sure that it wasn't too dirty and placed her bag beside her.
'I don't know why I have to go through with this 'finding yourself' thing. I'm always sincere and honest to myself especially. I don't have anything that I'm hiding from myself . . . Wait; does this mean that I have to say things that I'm hiding from other people? Sora did say that we had to tell the people we have to tell things. But how do I tell Joe how I feel about him? I'm twelve for God's sake, how can I tell him that I'm in love with him? I didn't think that it was possible to fall in love when you're twelve . . . but I can't tell him. He'd just laugh at me and say that his secret was that he hated my guts. I can't tell him, he'll just reject me,' Mimi repeated this over and over in her mind, believing that it was the truth. Palmon could see that Mimi was having difficulty with something, so she stopped gathering flowers and went over to her.
"Mimi, what's wrong? It's important that you find all of the secrets that you hold out from where you are hiding them, otherwise you'll explode sometime. I have a feeling that you are afraid that somebody will reject what you want to tell them, but I know that he won't. Joe is a nice guy and he cares for you a lot, I can see that. He won't reject you, so stop worrying about it and tell him!" Mimi stared at her digimon partner in shock.
"How did you know that was what I was worrying about? Is it that obvious?" Palmon quickly shook her head.
"No Mimi, it's just that I know you. I could see that you were worrying about a guy and I knew that it wouldn't be Matt and it definitely wouldn't be Tai as you didn't seem to like him very much. Izzy is also out of the question as you hate computers and T.K is out too because he is too young. So naturally Joe had to be the one that you were thinking of. It was easy," Palmon shrugged and walked away to continue her flower picking. Mimi grabbed her bag and stood, stopping Palmon in her tracks.
"Come on then Palmon, we're going to go and find Joe. You're right and even if you are incorrect about Joe rejecting me, then I can always get over it. . . eventually," they began walking in the direction that Mimi just knew that Joe was in and they hoped that everything would turn out alright.
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Kari walked as far away from the castle as she dared to go and stopped at the edge of a rainforest. She didn't go inside as she wanted to stay in the light of the sunshine, but she sat at the edge of it, staring at the lush green trees and plants that grew there. She knew her secret already because she trusted her heart, but she didn't know if it was for real.
'I can't be in love with T.K; it must be a crush or something. I'm only eight years old; I don't think it's possible to fall in love this early. But I suppose T.K is cute and I really care about him. I think that he's about as important to me as Tai is, and Tai's my brother and I love him! Well. . . I don't know what's going on with this, it's too big for me to think about,' she watched as Salamon jumped up into one of the trees that was on the outside of the forest and watched the bird that flew out from the branches.
"What are you looking at Kari? Aren't you supposed to be thinking and searching your heart for secrets?" Kari looked back at the ground, sighing as she did so.
"Do you know anything about love Salamon?" the little puppy-like digimon looked at Kari with her big blue eyes as if Kari were stupid or something.
"Of course I do Kari. It's that emotion that humans have that shows that they care for each other a lot. It's kind of silly if you ask me because everyone cares for each other anyway. I can tell from a mile away that you love T.K, and that is if I was blindfolded," Salamon jumped down from the tree and then jumped straight into another, again frightening the same bird that had flown there before. Kari sighed again before she made up her mind.
"Come on Salamon, we're going to find T.K. I have to tell him that I love him," she called to the digimon who was finding delight in torturing the poor bird, "Although he might not feel the same about me. He's probably going to head back to the barrier, so we'll catch him there." The partners started to head back to where they had left all of the others before, wondering why they had walked so far in the first place.
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T.K didn't really move very far from the shield at all, in fact he was only around the corner. He knew what he wanted to say and to whom he wanted to say it, but he had to wait for her to get back.
"What do you have to think about T.K?" Patamon asked him from his perch on top of T.K's hat as T.K sat down on a rock that he found had found near the shield. He would have stayed in the shield, but he didn't want Matt and Izzy to overhear his conversation with Kari.
"I don't have to think about anything. I know what I have to say and who I have to say it to. I just have to wait for her to get back. I know that she won't be long though," T.K was unperturbed about being so near to the darkness as his soul was always full of hope, which the darkness couldn't defeat easily, "I only hope that we can all tell all of our secrets in time. . ." He trailed off and the partners sat in silence, waiting for the return of the child of Light.
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Joe and Gomamon arrived back at the shield of Light to find Matt and Izzy sitting on two rocks, having a conversation. They both looked up as Joe arrived back and smiled.
"You're the first one to come back. Have you finished with this 'thing' that we have to do?" Matt asked him, glancing at Izzy out of the corner of his eye. The two of them had been having a 'chat' about the secrets that they had held in their hearts and they didn't really want to have Joe interrupt them.
"Uh, no actually I'm waiting for somebody. I'll wait over there though, so you two can keep up with your conversation," Joe was very embarrassed as he had walked in on their conversation without even thinking. He hadn't heard what they were talking about though as his mind had been filled with thoughts of Mimi.
"Whew, that was close! I didn't understand a thing that they were talking about, so I'm glad that we got out of there," Gomamon chatted as they went along. They stopped about ten meters away from the barrier and they sat down on a strange rock that seemed to come up out of nowhere.
"I didn't hear a word that they said, I wasn't concentrating," Joe told the digimon abstractedly, his thoughts still on the girl that he had fallen for, "But by the looks on their faces, I'm glad that I didn't." The pair fell silent, each inside their own thoughts. Gomamon was wishing that there was food nearby whilst Joe could only think of Mimi and he was wishing that she would hurry up and get there so he could tell her.
"Hey Joe, isn't that Mimi over there?" Gomamon used his paw to point into the distance, a little to the left of where they were sitting. Joe could see the outline of Mimi with her pink cowboy hat and bag. Palmon was walking with her, her long arms almost reaching the ground whilst she talked to Mimi.
"Yeah, it is," Joe found that he was trembling with nerves, but he ignored it, "O-okay Gomamon, lets go over there and uh, talk to her." Gomamon hid a smile at his partner's behavior. He had expected Joe to be nervous, but he was surprised that Joe was actually shaking. What amazed him the most though was that Joe was really going to go through with telling Mimi how he felt. Gomamon was very proud of the child of Reliability.
"Hey Mimi and Palmon come over here! I wouldn't go back to the barrier yet; Izzy and Matt are talking. I wanted to talk to you anyway!" Joe called, his voice shaking with nervous tension. Mimi and Palmon glanced at each other before changing their direction to go to Joe.
"Palmon, what if he wants to tell me that he hates me?" Mimi asked quietly, fear suddenly gripping her. She didn't want to be told that she was hated by the one person that she loved; she would rather die than be told that. Palmon just smiled at her reassuringly.
"Don't worry Mimi! I'm sure that he cares about you just as deeply as you care for him," Mimi smiled nervously, repeating Palmon's words in her head so she wouldn't just run in the other direction screaming. They approached Joe and Gomamon and Palmon noticed that the seal-like digimon was trying hard not to laugh. Palmon immediately knew that Joe was probably feeling the same way that Mimi was.
"Um. . . Hi Joe! What did you want to tell me?" Mimi managed to keep her voice from trembling, but she didn't know how she did it. Her voice just sounded like its usual cheery self. Joe was silent for a second, trying to put a sentence that would actually make sense. Their two digimon partners quietly walked away from the couple, so quietly that the two humans didn't notice that they were gone.
"Well, uh. . . I just wanted to say . . . um. . . Well, I uh. . ." Mimi held her breath as Joe struggled with his sentence. She didn't know what to expect, but then Joe finished his sentence, "IloveyouMimiandIjustwantedyoutoknowthat."
"What was that Joe? You were talking so fast that I didn't understand," Joe swallowed and tried to make himself slow down as he spoke.
"I-I love you Mimi and I just wanted you to know that," his voice shook as he said this, but he managed to say it at a pace that she could understand. He looked at the ground as soon as he had said it, not wanting to see her reaction. Mimi was stunned. She hadn't really expected him to have said that, but as soon as he did her face lit up with a huge smile.
"Really? I have a confession to make too. I-I was going to come and talk to you because I found that-that I love you and I wanted you to know that too," Joe's head snapped up at her unexpected response to his speech. Mimi was smiling now and as the two realised that their feelings were shared by the other they drew in closer and closer and they finally met in a passionate kiss that they had each wanted to share for a while.
"Well, I guess that they're happy," Palmon remarked to Gomamon, peeking out from behind the rock they were behind, "They both have found true happiness."
"Well, since Joe was a nervous wreck until he told Mimi how he felt, I'm just glad that he didn't faint," the two digimon shared a quiet laugh and then they continued spying on their human partners.
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Kari walked back to the shield and saw that Matt and Izzy were deep in conversation and so she went for a walk, knowing that she would bump into T.K. She didn't know how she knew that she would, but somehow her feet led her to the boy. Patamon was sitting on his head and T.K had his back to her. She crept up quietly behind him, but she jumped when he spoke.
"Hey Kari, what's up?" he turned to look at her and Kari felt her heart skip a beat. Salamon whispered something to Patamon and the two digimon left their partners and climbed in the trees instead.
"The sky is up T.K," they both laughed at this joke and then they fell silent for a second, each blushing as they found that they were alone with each other, "T.K, can I ask you something?" He nodded, knowing what she was going to ask and knowing what he was going to answer.
"Yeah, of course you can Kari," the young girl hesitated for a moment after his reply before she asked him.
"Do you know what 'Love' is supposed to be T.K? Like what you are supposed to feel?" Kari looked at the ground before she went on, "I mean, I love my family and my friends, but what about the other type of love?" T.K smiled as he answered, wondering what her reaction would be.
"I know what it is. It's a funny feeling that you get in your heart whenever the one that you love is near. You always feel happy when you think of the person that you love and you just feel good overall whenever you think of them. I know all of this because I-I'm in love with you Kari," the girl was silent for a second, letting all of these thoughts sink in. T.K waited patiently, knowing that it would take a while for her to answer.
"I-I feel that way about you T.K. I know that I love you," she gave him a kiss on the cheek and they both blushed.
"Come on Kari, we'd better go back to the barrier now," he grabbed her hand and they walked back to where Matt and Izzy were waiting. The two had stopped talking now and were sitting close to each other, looking at something on Izzy's computer. Mimi and Joe followed the eight year olds soon after, walking together but not talking. They were both smiling and Kari had the feeling that something had happened between them too.
"Is everyone here now?" Matt asked, getting to his feet. They looked around the group, but there seemed to be someone missing.
"No, Sora's not here," Mimi told them after scanning the group for her auburn-haired friend, "She's probably just going to be another few minutes. She'll be back soon." They all nodded and split into the pairs that they had been in before, talking quietly between themselves, waiting for the digidestined of love to return.
End of Chapter
This is a short chapter I know, but tomorrow I have to go back to school and I just don't feel like writing very much tonight, I'll try and update again tomorrow, but I don't know. You know the drill, review and I'll write another chapter A.S.A.P! Thank you for reading this far! I tried to put romance in this chapter, but I'm hopeless at writing it! Anyway, I'll write again soon!