Princess Diaries

Chapter 4:

Disclaimer: Digimon and company is not mine to take. I can borrow them, torture them with sour cheese but I have no right to call them my own. *Looks at guards who were holding chains and guns and swallows nervously* Uh…yeah, definitely not mine!!!

"We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly…"

"What is she like?" was the first question Koshiro asked.

Sora looked up from her English notebook to glance at Koshiro who was seated in front of her. They were in the cafeteria, which was noisier than usual as jocks tried to impress Mimi and airy cheerleaders asked questions about the kinds of clothes she has, their brands and the price tags. Mimi looked a bit stiff and uncomfortable, surrounded by all these fashion-slaves and muscle heads. Darien, who could be easily spotted because he was at least a head taller than these high school students, was leaning against the soda machine, keeping a keen eye on his ward.

"She? What are you talking about, Koshiro?" Sora asked. She was trying to study in the middle of lunch for her big English test because last night Taichi had…interrupted her study time.

Koshiro took a bite at his sandwich. "You know, that princess who's now your classmate and seatmate?"

Sora shrugged. "How should I know, I don't know her." She glanced over her shoulder at the table where Mimi was being showered with attention then looked back at Koshiro. "If you ask me, I think that princess is just as superficial as the people she's with." Then she went back to her notebook, tuning out the sounds of lunch.

"I don't know," Koshiro mumbled, looking at the princess speculatively, "She doesn't seem to enjoy Toru's lavish attention."

"Who does?" It was Taichi who spoke, carrying a tray of milk shake and hamburger with Yamato on tow then plopped down beside Sora. "Whoever enjoys that jock's attention is sick."

Yamato sat beside Koshiro, in front of Taichi. "Let me inform you, Taichi, that you're a jock as well. You play soccer, don't you?"

Taichi hmphed. "Yeah, I do but at least I'm a jock who has brain cells."

"Suuuuure, you do" Jyou said in a patronizing voice. He sat down on the other side of Sora and placed his bookbag on top of the table.

"And where did you come from, Jyou?" Taichi asked, irritated.

Jyou arched a brow. "From the library." Then he heaved a heavy sigh. "Taiho gave us a really long assignment. God, he's a pain in the you-know-what."

Another blond, who looked somewhat like Yamato arrived and sat on the other side of Koshiro. He looked tired. "Join the club, Jyou. Taiho just gave as a surprise pop quiz about the theories of Einstein, which I didn't study for."

Yamato looked at his younger brother, Takeru. "But I though your science teacher was Hakami." Takeru nodded. "Yeah, but Hakami's on a special leave of absence or something and Taiho's our substitute."

"Isn't Taiho-sensei's the cousin of Masaaki-sensei?" Sora asked, turning a page of her notebook and looking up for a second. Taichi had his arm around her shoulders and even though his fingers played with her red hair and distracted her from time to time, Sora didn't complain. In fact, she had a slight smile on her face.

"He is, which explains why he's such a pain as well." Taichi grinned. A finger curled around a red lock and tugged on it gently. "The same blood runs in their veins. Their crossness must be hereditary."

Jyou opened his bookbag and took out his lunch, which slipped conveniently in the slim bag. It was a homemade tuna sandwich. "So, I heard that your Math was quite…interesting," he commented as he bit at one side.

"Not really," Sora distractedly mumbled as she tried to shrug away Taichi's arm, which was starting to annoy her. "Tai! Get off, I have to study or I'll fail the exam!"

Taichi sighed. "Well, you could have studied last night!"

Sora gave him an indignant look. "I was trying to but you kept on calling! Now get off or I will personally dismantle your arm from my shoulder!"

The soccer captain held up his hands in surrender and slid his arm from Sora's shoulder so that she could study more. The others watched this exchange with amusement. The two were always arguing about something but no one doubted their feelings for one another.

Jyou continued. "Anyway, what was the princess like?"

"She was okay, I guess" Yamato shrugged indifferently, not really caring about the princess. She was just one of his fans anyway, he could see it clearly on her face.

Jyou looked behind him to where Mimi sat and studied her. "She's quite pretty." Koshiro nodded in agreement.

Taichi grinned slyly. "Oh? Do Jyou and Koshiro have a royal crush? Hahahaha – hey wait!" he suddenly looked around their table, then held his gaze on Takeru.

"Where's Hikari?" he asked.

"Somewhere with Daisuke, I guess" Takeru answered.

Taichi looked at him with a mischievous glint in his brown eyes. "Oh? And that doesn't bother you at all? Hikari…and Daisuke together?"

"And it doesn't bother you, Tai?" Yamato countered back, throwing his words back at him. Hey, a brother has got to stick for his brother.

Taichi looked alarmed as he understood his own words and immediately stood up, muttering some excuse that he's going to break Daisuke's arm if he hurts his younger sis or something. When he left, the others broke into amused laughter.

*

"It's really okay, Daisuke-kun," Hikari said with a hint of annoyance in her voice, "I can carry my own stuff."

Daisuke was getting on her nerves. Sure, it was nice to have someone fuss over her  - but Tai did that already – but really, it was too much. She can carry one, measly book, for crying out loud!

But Daisuke didn't get the hint. "Iie, Hikari-sama! You will get tired holding your English book all the way to the cafeteria!" He held out his hand to receive the book. The hall wasn't very crowded and few students were there, taking out their notebooks and books from their respective lockers.

Hikari refused to give him her book. "Daisuke-kun, you are being too much! I can carry one book. One book." She held it up with two fingers, to prove her point. But Daisuke, smitten with this cute girl who was the little sister of his idol, Kamiya Taichi, didn't seem to get it.

"But Hikari-sama, what kind of servant would I be if I let you carry heavy stuff all day?"

"You aren't my servant," Hikari cried in exasperation. Now she was really irritated. "And this book isn't at all heavy!"

Daisuke was about to open his mouth to argue, again, when a brown and pink blur brushed against him hastily, causing him to fall back.

"Daisuke-kun!"

After regaining his composure back quickly, Daisuke stood up and faced the rude person who knocked him down and was about to give him a piece of his mind when he caught sight of his attacker.

It was Mimi. And she looked alarmed about something.

"Oh god, I'm so sorry," Mimi apologized sincerely, her eyes darting behind the two as if she was expecting a monster to come after her any second.

Daisuke was speechless. He'd seen pictures of the princess, but never had he seen her up-close, and personal! She was very beautiful.

Thankfully, Hikari wasn't a boy who was testosterone driven and smiled reassuringly at Mimi. Although Hikari was also surprised, she quickly hid it away. "That's all right, Hime-sama, Daisuke forgives you." She then elbowed Daisuke-kun in the ribs, causing him to blink out of his thoughts. "Isn't that right, Daisuke-kun?"

"Ah…hai! Hai!"

Mimi smiled, but she still looked nervous. "Please, call me Mimi-chan. I so hate that title, hime-sama. Listen, do you know a place where I can hide away from someone?"

Both Hikari and Daisuke's eyes rounded.

"Oh, are you hiding from someone…Mimi-chan?" Hikari beamed at being the friend of a pretty and famous princess.

Mimi nodded, arranging her pink cowboy hat back on her head. It had fallen when she was running. "Yeah, I'm hiding from Toru-san. He is hell bent on being my guide and I don't I can bear another second seeing him flash that Adonis-like smile of his."

Hikari giggled. But Daisuke looked confused since he didn't know what Adonis was.

"There is a place, Mimi-chan. The auditorium," Daisuke suggested with a shy smile. He was still in love with his Hikari-sama, but he liked Mimi-chan too. She was nice.

Mimi looked reluctant. "The auditorium? Why there? I mean, if you want to elude a muscle head don't you want to go to the last place he won't ever go?"

"Exactly. Since he knows the library is the last place anyone would ever think of him going there and the first place you'd go into because you know it's the last place he will go look for you, he's bound to go there," Hikari explained, looking a little confused of her own words.

But Mimi seemed to grasp the concept of Hikari's words and nodded at the wisdom behind it. Daisuke, however, didn't.

"I don't get it."

"Never mind. The auditorium down one floor and you must take a left turn from the first corner you'll see. You won't miss the double doors that leads into the auditorium," Hikari said.

Mimi nodded and she looked very grateful and more relieved. "Arigatou gozaimasu! You've been such great help…uh; I believe I haven't asked for your names! I'm so ill-mannered!"

"I'm Hikari and he's Daisuke-kun."

Daisuke gave her another shy smile. "Don't you have a bodyguard, Mimi-chan?"

Mimi nodded. "But Darien-kun is so tall that Taro-san is bound to notice him so I told Darien-kun to go home ahead."

"And he obeyed you? Isn't a bodyguard supposed to guard his ward?" Hikari asked laughingly.

"Ah well, Darien-kun trusts me, I think." She then looked over her shoulder to make sure that Darien wasn't there.

"Well, thanks for your help, Hikari-chan, Dai-kun, I won't forget it! Ja!" Then with that, Mimi immediately turned around and rushed to the auditorium. The two waited until she disappeared out of their sight before resuming their walk towards the cafeteria.

Daisuke didn't argue with Hikari anymore about her books. Hikari was very grateful for that.

They saw two figures walking towards them. It was Taro and Taichi.

"Hey! Hikari, Daisuke!" Taichi called with a wave of his hand. Taro looked angry about something.

"Oni-chan!" Hikari said, surprised at seeing her brother. "Aren't you having your lunch?"

"Well, I was looking for you, and him too." He pointed at Daisuke along with a suspicious glare.

"Have you seen Mimi-sama?" Taro demanded without even a greeting.

"Um, no, Taro-san! Have you tried the library?" Daisuke suggested.

Taro brightened. "Oh yeah! Why didn't think of that?"

And as he came with no greeting, he went away with no goodbye.

"Sheesh, that guy needs a lesson in manners, wouldn't you agree?" Taichi shook his head then turned to the two. "Now, where have you been?"

Knowing that she could trust her brother, Hikari told Taichi about Mimi and her plan to avoid Taro at all cost.

*

Mimi slumped down onto a seat in the big, empty and deathly quiet auditorium. Her sigh or relief seemed so loud in the great room.

A smile was on her face as she relaxed in the silence. Her ears had been aching listening to all those social-climbing cheerleaders and jocks that had surrounded her. Mimi would have been happier to spend her lunch with her new seatmate, Sora and her friends. Not to mention Yamato.

He didn't seem to like her. Mimi wondered why since she hadn't done anything to him.

Maybe it was because he thought she was one of his gooey fans that would do anything for him. Mimi grew indignant. She will not do anything for that guy, even if he was Ishida Yamato!

But then, maybe Yamato was tired and sick of all the people who fawned over him. Mimi sure knew that she was sick of all the people who fussed over her.

Ah, anyway, she'd just relax for a while before going outside again.

Mimi closed her eyes and her body sank back deeper into the comfortable seat. Suddenly, Mimi felt very tired and sleepy.

A shadow fell over her.

Mimi's eyes snapped open in surprise and they widened, as she was more surprised at whom she saw.

Yamato looked down at her with his brooding-like azure eyes.

"Hello."

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Here you go! I'm so sorry for the delay in my update it's just that something called life is catching up ahead of me. Well, I hope you like this chapter! Please tell me what you think! I love all your reviews!!!