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Joe and Mimi (Hikari's pov)
When I came back to the apartment from shopping for soy-milk, I surprised to find my brother in such high-spirits, doing things he wouldn't normally do; like for instance, he helped out Mom in the kitchen and cleaned the living room. I walked passed him with an inquiring look upon my face. Taichi was on all fours behind the couch stopped dusting the floor, smiled a genuine smile that I had never seen before when my brother was doing chores.
I pushed the chestnut hair from my face, tucking it behind my ear as I stopped next to the table and sat the milk down where Miko was grooming himself, I cocked my head to the side wondering why Miko was up on the table, when I looked at my mother who was busy washing the dishes. "Mama, why is Miko-san on the table?" I wondered entering the kitchen.
"I'm not sure Hikari," She replied, setting a wet dish into the dish-rack with a wondering look on her face. I turned around to gaze into the living room finding my brother looking over his shoulder with a surprised look on his face, obviously looking as he had been caught out or something.
I arched my eyebrow and Taichi quickly turned his gazed toward his hand that was across the floor with a rag attached to his hand. I pouted my lips and narrowed my eyes in suspicion as I opened the cabinet door above the counter, reaching in to get a bowl, I picked out my favorite pink embroidered bowl and headed for the table, I made sure I didn't hit Taichi's ass on the way out of the kitchen.
Miko looked up at with his hazel brown eyes that began to sparkle, I began to get the feeling that my brother fed Miko more than eggs and bacon. I sat the bowl down, Tai got up, going into the kitchen he returned to a box of cheerios handing them to me, I took the box from his offering hand hesitantly, I opened it slowly and poured the round contents inside into the bowl before I poured in the milk.
My gaze shifted from my bowl to my brother when discovered he was no longer standing in the space he occupied, I scratched my head as I rose from the chair to get a spoon when Taichi came racing out of the kitchen with a nervous smile holding a spoon at the end. "Here ya' go Kari, no need to get up!" He said sheepishly, pushing me back into my chair.
Miko meowed to Taichi when I took the spoon out of his grasp, I shoved into the bowl of cereal before I noticed Miko chowing down on my breakfast. I almost swallowed the spoon when I caught the cat enjoying my food. "AH! Miko!" I cried swatting him away from the bowl, Miko hissed at me and leaped onto Taichi's head.
I glared daggers toward my brother his shrunk back and rushed toward out room, careful not to knock Miko off from the top his head, though knowing Miko his nails were probably embedded into my niisan's scalp, which at the moment served him right. "Hikari, is everything alright?" My Mom's head poked into the living room with a questioning look on her face.
I nodded sheepishly, before glancing at my brother and I's bedroom door, I sighed continuing to eat my breakfast; when was brother going to stop feeding Miko human food? Once I was done eating, I quickly sat my bowl into the soapy waters inside the sink, changing out of clothes from yesterday, heading out to meet Joe, Mimi, and Izzy, though not before I told my mother.
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I met Joe and the others at the Odiaba mall center, Mimi, who had just returned from her trip with her parents to Hawaii, favorite place to go and shop or hang out. Joe finished the last of his summer school and Izzy took the came to get away from his new computer and spend time with the tree of us. We walked around, promising that wouldn't go into any place that were our favorite places to go, because if we did, we'd totally forget that the rest of us were waiting to continue their venture through the huge mall.
I almost felt bad for Izzy, when we passed a computer store, he practically broke down in tears as Joe and I pulled him along by his short-sleeved blue dress shirt, with a yellow/green striped shirt underneath it, along with this he wore a pair of faded jeans and his famous worn out purple/black sneakers.
Mimi for once was wearing something that wasn't pink or her new favorite color; white. She had her hair in two ponytails with green ribbons holding them in place, a spaghetti strap tank-top, along with rubie choker, and tan colored cargo pants, the outfit made her appear to be a tomboy sorta.
Joe on the other hand, was wearing a smaller pair of glasses he got for his birthday from his brother Jim, a long-sleeved blue trainer, with a black and white stripped shirt underneath, gray-colored pants, and black boots.
And lastly me, a pink bandana on my head, one of Taichi's old hunter-green T-shirts that he grew out of recently, kaki-Capri's, and thick soled sandals, and to top it all off, my brother's black wrist band. Not too snazzy if I do say so myself.
"You guys hungry?" Joe asked, placing a hand on his stomach. "I haven't eaten anything since yesterday." Izzy nodded solemnly, probably wishing he had his laptop computer with him right now. Mimi seconded the idea with a giggle clasping her hands together and licking her lips. "A cheeseburger and fries sound good to me!" She exclaimed happily.
I nodded with a smirk. "Yeah, I'm in," I chirped. Joe raised his hand and balled it into a fist. "Then it's settled, to the food court we go!" He cried running off, we followed after him with hasty feet envisioning cheeseburgers and fries, with a soda on the side. Once we were at the food curt, Mimi and I sat down at one of the tables, while Joe and Izzy when to order our lunch.
Mimi turned her gaze from Joe toward me with a sincere smile, I cocked my head to the side in question. "So, Kari how were you, while I was in Hawaii? Anything exciting happen while I as gone?" She asked me, placing the back of her hand underneath her chin. I looked up with a wondering look on my face, trying to figure out how to explain to her how things had been around in Tokyo.
I explained her the long chain of events, starting from my friend Xiyao Ling's birthday, to the battle my brother, Izzy and Yamato had on the Internet against the digimon Diaboromon, then when Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon merged together to become... "Omnimon? No, way!" Mimi cried, with both hands on the table, her expression was total surprise.
"Your joking!" Mimi cried. I shook my head as Joe and Izzy came toward us managing to balance four trays of Cheeseburgers, fries and soda as they walked, Joe sat beside Mimi, and Izzy sat beside me with an exasperated sigh, picking up his soda. "No, it's true," I continued, as I bit into my burger. "Taichi told me so. He actually went into the computer!" I stopped to swallow, pondering on how he had done that exactly.
"It's kinda weird," Joe spoke up suddenly. We all looked at him in question. "I mean, weirder things have happened, like warp digivoling, but what exactly how did Taichi manage to enter the Internet?" He placed his thumb on his chin pondering hard. Mimi said nothing, she chewed on two fries, before taking a quick sip of her soda. Izzy's eyebrows were knitted together, his face expression gave me the idea that he was angry or upset about something; though I shoulda know that the expression was his thinking face.
"Maybe I can get a hold of Gennai, and see if he can explain to us, how Taichi and Yamato entered the net," Izzy spoke his voice slightly muffled by his hand that covered his mouth. "Really?" Mimi said setting her burger on the paper that it came wrapped in. Izzy looked up from his pondering state and nodded with a smile, Joe sighed. "That's great Izzy!" He exclaimed balling his hand into a fist. "I won't have to think about, until my brain fries!" Mimi giggled sounding like Alvin the chipmunk and pinched Joe's cheek.
"I won't have my boyfriend doing that!" She cooed, letting go of his cheek and then gave him a peck on the cheek. Izzy's mouth almost hit the table, while I just smiled at the two. It was about time they hooked up, Mimi had been asking me silly questions about this girl, who liked this boy, but couldn't come out and just tell him this, because she was afraid the boy wouldn't like her back. I could tell she was referring to Joe Kido, because she spent the most time with him and Joe acted funny around her a year after we had returned from the digital world. "They're a couple?" Izzy asked, dumbfounded, glancing at me. I nodded quickly. Izzy regained his cool calm-in-controll face and returned to his lunch. I began to remember when I fist found out about her crush on Joe.
[flashback]:
It was a year after we returned from the digital world, Sora had suggested that we all go to the beach and enjoy the warm breeze and the slightly cool sand before it got any hotter, and none of us wanted to go. We all agreed, except Joe, Izzy, Taichi, and Yamato; because (1): Joe had to study for a big test, (2): Izzy had to upgrade his old computer,
and (3): Matt and Taichi didn't like showing off their bare bodies in public areas because, one time when they were in the local swimming pool at the park, all the girls automatically flocked over toward them and started touched their arms, hair, and chests, as if they were new clothes. Sora, Mimi, and I, being the only girls in the group had to ward them off the two frightened boys, who hid behind us, shaking like leaves. We calmed them down and left immediately afterwards. Takeru, was a bit angry at his brother.
Regardless of this, they followed along reluctantly but had a good time. Taichi and Yamato tried their hand at surfing, thanks to some surfers who were bored out their heads and wanted something to do. They did all right but they whipped out one too many times to be beginner surfers, Sora and Mimi played with the freezbie, Joe and Izzy stayed under the umbrella discussing Joe's studies on the human immune system (ick), Takeru and I played in the sand making sandcastles, and lastly Tai lost his boxers in the water, after a huge wipe out and those to spent all day looking for them.
Takeru had left me due to the beck of his brother, the two-second oldest boys of the group needed help with finding Taich's boxers. "Be back soon, TK!" I cried waving to him. Takeru glanced behind him and gave me his silliest smile and ran off into the ocean. I sighed staring down at our sandcastle, admiring it's perfection, when Mimi tapped me on the shoulder, I looked at the brown haired girl in question with a smile.
"What's up Mimi?" I asked, as she sat down beside me. Mimi sighed with her shoulders hunched and her hands balled into fists, placed firmly on her lap, worry shadowed her expression. "I have something to ask you, Kari," She said quietly, but loud enough for me to hear her. I scooted closer to her with a worried look on my face also. "What is it?" I said, placing my hand on her shoulder. Mimi sighed, her eyebrows were furrowed and her eyes clearly showed how upset she was. Mimi began to tell me what was wrong.
"There's this girl, one of my friends,"
"Hu-uh."
"Who likes, this boy,"
"Yeah?"
"And she wants to tell the boy...,"
"MM-hmmm?"
"But she doesn't know how to...,"
"Anddddd....?"
"And, she's afraid if she tells him, he won't like her back. What should I--- mean, she do?"
I placed my index finger on my chin, gazing upward, when a beach ball came rolling over my sand castle. Mimi gasped, while I tried to remain calm, looking down at the destroyed masterpiece, I almost broke down and cried, but I was going to stay strong and ... just be angry at whomever this beach ball belonged to. "Ah, Gomen Hikari-san!" Joe cried picking up the ball.
I suddenly wasn't so mad anymore, I looked up at Joe with teary eyes but nodded. "It's okay Joe, It would've had to be destroyed anyway. By either me or the tide," I said bow with a small smile. Joe looked upset still, but bowed. "Still, sorry," He turned to Mimi who gasped and blushed. Joe looked down at his feet for a minute then back up at Mimi who was looking the other way. "Ja ne, Mimi," He said quickly before leaving. "Ja ne, Joe," Mimi responded. Joe nodded and Mimi watched him run off toward Izzy who was waving to him.
I cleared my throat, getting Mimi's attention. "So about your friend," I said quickly. Mimi popped out of her trance and looked back at me. "Oh yeah! Gomen Kari," She said putting her hand behind her head. "So what should she do?"
"Well, I think your friend should take the risk and tell him," I said happily. Mimi blinked confused. "If this guy, doesn't see what a great gal your friend is Mimi, then it's his loss. You should tell her that Meems." I said patting her hand. Mimi looked confused for another moment, then smiled proudly. "Yah, your right! Thanks for the advice Kair, your a true friend!" She said before climbing back onto her feet and running off. "Anytime," I said, before I heard my brother cry. "Kari, I found my boxers, whoopee!!" I can see why, Sora nicknamed him "Stupid-Tai."
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I returned to the real world from my thoughts and, noticed that everyone was staring at me weirdly. I looked at Izzy, then to Mimi and Joe. "You spaced out on us." Mimi said slowly. "Oh," I said picking up my burger. "Sorry about that you guys." They all forgave me, and we continued our conversations.
tbc*
R/R. A/N: I had let Taichi get some attention, I mean if he's on the soccer time, he has to at least get some attention from the ladies. Sakura123~