Hot Mimmick (Hotto Mimikku)

by: sakuramimato (sakuramimato@hotmail.com)

Story Adaptation: Aihara Miki 'Hot Gimmick'

Characters: Akiyoshi Hongo 'Digimon: Digital Monsters'

*A/N: Silly me, I forgot to add that Taichi's hair is a little shorter now and not as big and cool as it used to be. T_T You'll understand the character arrangement later on since.. wouldn't it be more acceptable to have Yamato-kun as the model? Nehh.. I should've made Taichi the top soccer player in the nation. ^^; Edit edit!

** Solely FANwork.

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Chapter 02

"Hey, have you heard?! About the transfer student in class A?"

"I did!!"

"The boy who's the top soccer player in the nation!! I heard he was really cute!"

"Yagami Taichi-kun 3"

Word had already gotten around campus at Odaiba High School about the new soccer legend on campus. Girls around campus were already cutting class and making false attendances in class A just to get a glimpse of Taichi. Taichi sat, amusing the many girls gathered around his table. Mimi, on the other hand, was sitting away to the side, looking into sports magazines that Taichi had made the cover on as girls looked over her shoulder to read the article about the new "transfer student".

"..and he's also in magazines like 'Men's Cute,' he's really popular! Even though he's a soccer player, he's also modeled in a lot of other magazines!"

"Wow, it's true.. Onii-chan buys this magazine." Mimi spoke quietly to herself (A/N: sports magazines, not 'Men's Cute'!!)

"We're too lucky that he's in the same class. It's true that he's really even more cool-looking in person than he is on TV or on a magazine cover! (He has such long legs..)" another girl looking over some of the magazines Mimi had brought added. She continually glanced over at Taichi and the group of girls and sighed hopelessly at the "competition" that was around for Taichi. "But it's no good, huh? Shiina-san and the others are attached to him and I can't get near him.. It's the Gal Army of our class! (They're scary!)" (A/N: Gals are Japanese girls who dye their hair bleach blonde and tan themselves dark. A cool thing to do in Japan since it costs thousands of dollars.)

Mimi looked up from the magazines to confirm her classmates' observation. Taichi seemed to be enjoying his talk with the Gals, but shortly after she passed a glance at him, he looked up at her, causing her heart to skip a beat. 'N-Nani??' Taichi gave Mimi a wave and a sweet smile to accompany it, making half the girls wonder who he had his eyes on.

"What, no way, what's going on?! He waved this way, why'd he do that?!" the girls around Mimi were squealing anxiously wondering if his wave meant anything for them, unaware that the entire class saw what had happened, letting a slightly prolonged "Ooo," linger in the class.

"Excuse me," Taichi whispered to the girls around him as the clatter of his chair being pushed back broke through the noise the class was making. "Mimi! We're in the same class!"

Hearing her words being called out by him, she froze as she was beginning to get out of her seat to put the magazines away. Side talk from the students in the class could be heard, with the Gals' comments sticking to her mind, "He calls her by just her first name?!" (A/N: Japanese boys usually address girls with their last name. Addressing a girl by their first name implies a close relationship.)

"I decided on this school because you and Izumi were here, but I didn't think we'd be able to be in the same class." Taichi had managed his way across the room to the escaping Mimi, catching up to her before she reached the door. Compared to the petite school idol, he craned over her handsomely with his hands stuffed in his pockets. Disregarding her reluctant actions, he smiled. "How lucky!"

Hearing Izumi's name, the guys involved themselves in chatter, as well. "Izumi? Who's that?"

"Could it really be.." the guys turned their heads.

"Aha! It's Koushirou, I think he had a name like that.."

Izumi saw the popular guys over his laptop and hid his face, lowering in his seat after hearing them talk about him.

"H-He's an acquaintance from elementary school." Mimi broke in as the crowds that had gathered around both of them combined, barricading the two in front of the chalkboard. Waving her hands about, she added to their knowledge, trying to convince them that they had misunderstood. "Our homes are in a company apa.. in the same neighborhood!! The three of us! Isn't that right, that's all there is to it, right Yagami-kun!?" Looking up at Taichi, she gave him a smile to assure the crowd that she spoke of the truth, but Taichi saw through, giving her a blank stare that she didn't catch since she smiled with her eyes shut. "In second grade Yagami-kun moved and had to transfer schools."

"Eh? Where?" The girls grew even more jealous hearing Mimi drone on about the past and became interested in where Taichi had moved off to.

"Around the eastern part of Tokyo, near China." Mimi replied, taking little notice of the Gals' jealous stares.

[Taichi (or, I should say, Yagami-san) is really going to move this weekend, but it's already the hot topic of the apartments.]

"The Yagamis.. they got divorced and the husband moved abroad, didn't they?"

"Eh? then it's just father and son coming back here together?"

"Actually, the word is he's gotten remarried."

"Hey! Mimi-chan, you've already met Taichi-kun at school right? That must be nice, how great~! your childhood friend is a model!" Miyako asked, quickly walking up to her friend as they were getting ready to walk to their schools.

"Good morning, ladies." sfx: whiplash

"Good morning, Ishida-san!!" Mimi replied, giving the woman a bow.

"Miyako-san, could I have a word?" Ishida-san requested, putting her hands at her waist with a soul-shattering glare in her eyes. Miyako quickly abided, slightly reluctant at the request. "The other day, at that park over there, you were on your way home from school, and yet there are some people who say that they saw you there for many hours with two male students."

Miyako's eyes widened after hearing the words. Her shock could be seen all over her face as she lifted a finger up to her mouth as a means to distract herself from doing anything foolish. 'Dammit. Can't anyone get some privacy around here? Besides, it was three guys!'

"You're only in junior high, so please refrain from the kind of behavior that might invite such shameful misunderstandings." Ishida-san continued, taking up a mighty air as she turned to leave. "Really... what sort of education are you receiving?"

"Shit.. Isshi (a rude nickname for Ishida-san) is so annoying!" Miyako complained as thr group of housewives left, hailing the ground that Ishida-san walked on.

Mimi sighed at Miyako's carelessness and decided to make a point go through her thick skull. "Be careful. See how something that small thing can cause this much uproar? If something like that pregnancy affair got exposed.."

"What? But nobody knows about that, right? It's a secret between me and you, Mimi-chan~!"

[flashback]

"Isn't she a junior high school kid?"

"Your friend, I mean."

"It's crazy, that sort of thing is springing up everywhere, huh?"

[end flashback]

"Well, at least it turned out to be nothing in the end." Miyako continued, breathing out a sigh of relief and putting on a face of innocence. "While you were out buying the test I got my period; I was so relieved."

'"I'll keep quiet for you, but you'll have to be my slave."' Mimi lowered her head, replaying Yamato's voice in her head. 'That's right. I have to correct that (before Miyako-chan finds out).' the scene at the stairwell returned to her as she cringed, feeling herself wrapping her arm over her chest as she recalled the incident. 'What does he mean, 'slave?' Yamato Ishida, you jerk. How dare he touch my chest so calmly! If Taichi hadn't rescued me then..'

[flashback]

"I'm home, Mimi."

[end flashback]

sfx: doki (heartbeat)

Mimi placed a hand over where her heart would be and gazed blankly as she pictured Taichi's gentle smile.

"Oh, Yamato-kun!" the name quickly pulled Mimi out of her fantasy as her eyes widened seeing the intimidating slave master of hers walking through the apartment grounds with Izumi trailing by his side. Miyako earnestly smiled at the guy, "Good morning-! It's been ages! Why are you still here? Your school is so far away, won't you be late to To-On* now?!" (A/N: To-On is the nickname for Tokyo Ongaku or Tokyo Music, though Yamato attends the arts academy, so Miyako made a direct specification calling it Tokyo Music Academy.)

"Oh, you know, it's because Yama-kun's school has optional classes from the second semester on. From now on he says it's fine if he leaves later than usual." Izumi answered. Yamato stood as Izumi answered the question for him, giving Mimi a suspicious smile that Miyako mistook as a smile for her. Mimi stepped back, shocked at his unexpressive glare, though his lips smiled.

Miyako groaned after hearing Izumi pipe in, resorting to hitting the poor boy with her school bag. "I'm asking Yamato-kun."

"Augh," Izumi flinched at the pain and retreated from Miyako's barbaric actions.

"I'm not asking you!" she continued, pulling her school bag back and pulling it over her shoulder. "What's wrong with you anyway?! You're that old and all you do is play on your stupid computer! Geek!"

"Aa! I'm sorry!!" Izumi apologized, trying to shield himself from Miyako's pummeling.

'Agh, don't leave me alone with him!!' Mimi screamed in her mind as she watched her friend leave her side.

"Slave." the voice whispered as he walked behind her, petrifying the defenseless girl. "Don't you forget it."

Frozen, Mimi took a couple of seconds to recollect her thoughts, remembering Miyako admit that she had gone to the drugstore for Miyako's sake in error. "W-Wait a second, I need to correct something about that--!"

"Izumi!" Yamato called, walking away from Mimi as he gave her another of his deceitful smiles.

Mimi stood with her mouth agape, wanting to throw a boulder at the horrible man that was retreating when a sigh caught her attention. "He's so hot, Yamato-kun.. He might be nice after all, Mimi-chan."

"Excuse me?!" she screamed hearing those words.

The two watched Yamato and Izumi walking away, noticing the few housewives and other female students say "Ohayougozaimasu," to them while Yamato replied with a brief "Ohayou."

Miyako continued droning about Yamato as she swooned over her every description of him. "He's tall and on top of that he's the lead singer of his band and the hottest bass guitar player in all of Japan! Having him for a boyfriend, now that's something to boast about. He does look a little too serious with that frown and doesn't have quite enough of the traits that'd make him seem like a nice person, but--"

'A nice person?!' Mimi thought, 'In what way?!'

"--but I'm fine with that. It's decided. I'm going after him!" Miyako proclaimed, giving Mimi a peace sign for victory.

"What?! Are you serious?!" Mimi asked, wondering what Miyako could possibly have wanted with a guy like him. (She didn't pay much attention to her friend's talk.) Confronting her friend, she pulled their faces close together. "What are you saying!! You have a boyfriend.. many of them in fact!"

"I'll break up with those guys." Miyako replied, giving a smile as if the action wouldn't do much. "Well, I do have a handicap cause I'm in junior high, but I won't lose to high school girls in substance." she looked down at her chest and tugged at her shirt, noticing that it pulled right back up. She giggled, "all right then, I'll do it! Cheer me on, Mimi-chan. I'm off!"

"Hey wait a second!" Mimi called out to her departing friend.

[flashback]

"..seems really thick-headed."

[end flashback]

'Damn you, Ishida!' Mimi thought, cringing at his words and recalling his expressionless face. 'This is bad! I have to restore Miyako's honor.. ah, what should I do?' kneeling one knee to the ground, she sighed in despair as she tugged at her chestnut locks of hair, 'No wait! I have to oppose her choice!! A guy like that..'

"Yama-kun." Izumi addressed him as they continued walking on their way. A slightly serious tone lingered in his voice, though he was concerned for his friend. "You said something to Tachikawa back there, didn't you. You shouldn't tease her like that. She seems scared of you as it is."

"'Tachikawa, Tachikawa.' What's up with you? Are you in love with her?" Yamato scoffed, pulling his hands up behind his head and holding his school bag as he rocked his head back, supported by his hands. He closed his eyes and continued walking to let the insult sink into his friend's mind.

"N-No, no way, I wouldn't! Tachikawa's actually secretly popular among the guys at our school." Izumi stopped, shaking his head violently and waving his hands before him. Yamato stopped for a second and looked at him out of the corner of his eyes. "A lot of the guys think she's very beautiful and talented, though she denies it all the time.

"Is that so. Well give it up. She's probably playing the field." Yamato coldly replied, resuming the walk after seeing his friend blush a deep red. 'After all, they're the pregnancy test friends.'

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A/N: Sorry, I couldn't finish all of chapter two with the time cramp and all (besides, I have two other fanfics to follow up on, as well). I hope you enjoyed this chapter much like the quick reviews that I've been receiving from the first one. ^_^