Why do you like me?

By Mimi Ishida

Summary : Mimi and Matt had disliked each other at first sight. But what happens if their souls switched? Is there something more deep inside? A mimato and taiora.


School had finally ended and Mimi was keeping her books in her locker to lighten her bag. Placing her biology assignment and textbook in her bag, she shut her locker and slung her bag over her shoulder.

"Mimi!" someone called her.

Turning around, Mimi saw Kari walking towards her wearing a very tired expression, clutching her books in her hand.

"Hey Kari," Mimi greeted. "If it's something about Tai and Sora, zip it!"

Kari sighed, "Mimi, you gotta help them get back together again!"

"Me?" asked Mimi ridiculously. "I've help them about a dozen times and I'm always the person who's caught in the middleSora!"

Mimi turned to her right and called out to Sora as she walked towards her and Kari with reluctance.

"Mimi!"

Mimi gasped and bit her lips as she saw Tai calling and walking towards from her left, this was not a good time. Suddenly Sora and Tai turned to each other and glared daggers.

"Excuse me, Tai Kamiya!" Sora almost shouted. "Mimi who happens to be my best friend, called out to me first!"

"Sorry for stealing your best friend!" Tai yelled as Kari buried her face in her hands in embarrassment. They had attracted a lot of unwanted attention. "Mimi is my friend too and I was just about to ask her to go watch a movie with me and the rest of the gang!"

Sora gasped and shouted, "No way! I was going to ask her first!"

"Please stop fighting over me!" Mimi screamed. "I hate to my caught in the middle all the time you two fight! I'm not going anywhere until you two clear things up!"

There was an awkward pause.

"She started it . . ." mumbled Tai.

"That's it!" Mimi fumed. "I'm tired of it! When you two can finally act your age, you can come find me."

With that, Mimi stormed away from the scene, face flushed, teeth gritted and hands balled into fists. She have had enough of those two fighting over her or some other little stuff. WhenMimi arrived home, she acknowledged that her mother was not in. She lived with her mother. Her father had died in a car crash two years ago.Mimi went into the kitchen to get a drink and found a can of coke. With that, she went up to her room.

She switched on her laptop and changed into a tank top and a pair of shorts while waited for it to start.

"You got mail, you got mail," sounded her laptop. Mimi quickly sat down on her swivel chair and checked her email, while gulping down her coke. Two of them were junk mails and the other five were chain messages, what a bore.

"Aww... nobody's online..." whined Mimi as she checked her contact list. "Boring! I guess I'll do my bio assignment which is not due for another week!"

Just as she was about to switch off her laptop, it sounded, "Cool Prince is now online".

A grin broke out on Mimi's face. 'Cool Prince' is a guy whom she liked very much. He had never revealed who he is. He's a very kind, romantic and funny person. Let's just say he was Mimi's 'Cool Prince'. He always cheered her up and helped herwithher studies. Mimi doubt that he went to the same school as her because there was no one in school that fit 'Cool Prince'.

Mimi read the message that 'Cool Prince' had sent her. "Hi Cinderella."

Cinderella was Mimi's screen name.

"Hi Cool Prince," muttered Mimi, typing out the words. "I've just returned from an evil place called school."

She waited for his reply. "Same here, and define evil."

Mimi typed out, "Evil as in your best friends are fighting and a guy acting like a jerk!"

Before she could read his reply, a screen appeared and she could see Yolie and Sora.

"Mimi this is an emergency!" Yolei shouted, her facing almost touching the computer screen. "We need your help! The Digital World is in trouble! We can't reach the guys! We've sent Kari over to you so you can open the portal!"

"Don't worry! You two go ahead, Kari and I will be fine!" Mimi reassured them as the door bell rang. "Kari's here, I'll meet you at the Digital World!"

Yolei noddedwith determinationand disappeared from the screen. The portal appeared immediately. Mimi quickly got the door and led Kari and Gatomon to her bedroom.

"Ready Mimi?" Kari asked as she held out her pink digivice. Mimi eyes flashed jealously but she nodded curtly as she too, held out her digivie, facing her laptop. "All right, DigiPort open!"

Mimi felt herself being sucked into her own laptop and she fell hard on the ground.

"Are you ok Mimi?" a voice asked as Mimi rubbed her back.

"Palmon!" was her immediate respond when she saw her digimon. Mimi and Palmon embraced into a hug in an instance. "I miss you so much Palmon!"

Yolei, Sora, Hawkmon and Biyomon ran over to them.

"What happened?" Kari asked as Mimi and Palmon stood up.

"A digimon is going on a rampage!" Yolei responded with urgency in her voice. "It's name is Machinedramon! It has escaped the DigiRealm!"

Mimi gasped. The DigiRealm also known as the Digimon cemetery, it iswhere the digimon goes if they could not be reborn again. There, they would be killed again and finally be buried. They could run but could not escape because there's nowhere escape. It is rumored that after the digimon drained out their energy from running, Phantomon would use his Shadow Scythe and the digimon would 'Rest In Peace'.

"But how could it escape?" Kari asked.

Yolei shrugged, "I don't know, but whatever it is, we have to get there, and fast!"

"Well Yolei?" asked Hawkmon.

"Hm!" Yolei nodded and said, "DigiArmor Energize!"

"Hawkmon, Armor Digivolve to...Halsemon: The Wings of Love!"

Kari turned to Gatomon and they both nodded, "DigiArmor Energize!"

"Gatomon, Armor digivolve to...Nefertimon: The Angel of Light!"

Yolei, Sora and Biyomon got on Halsemon while Kari, Mimi and Palmon hopped on Nefertimon. The two digimons took off and soared towards the sky. Mimi tightened her grip on Kari's shoulder and she could feel Palmon tightened her grip around her waist, as the cool air splattered on their faces.

"How far is the DigiRealm from here?" Mimi asked Kari.

"Not too far now," replied Kari. "Look! It's Machinedramon!"

They hovered over Machinedramon, he looked tiny from their view. He was firing his canons and destroying the land. Mimi's stomach gave a jolt; Nefertimon's head was suddenly pointing towards the ground. Kari was sliding towards her digimon, along its neck but did nothing, as though she had done it a couple of time (which she had). Mimi and Palmon slid forward too. Mimi closed her eyes as they neared the ground expecting a sudden impact, but Nefertimon touched down as lightly and gracefully, and Mimi slid off her mount feeling relieved.

Sora and Yolei landed a short way off and turned their attention to Machinedramon, rather than feeling relieved, as they both had flying digimons. The virus-typed digimon finally noticed that it had company and charged towards them.

"Rosetta Stone!" Nefertimon had thrown an attack on Machinedramon.

"Tempest Wing!" followed by Halsemon but it did little damaged to it.

Mimi and Sora looked at each other and nodded. "Biyomon!" "Palmon!"

"Biyomon digivolve to... Bidramon!"

"Palmon digivolve to... Togemon!"

Bidramon's wings glittered, "Meteor Wing!"

Togemon's red gloves glowed, "Light-Speed Jabbing!"

The attacks did little effect too and Machinedramon had fired his canons. The girls gasped in surprised by the sudden attack. The cannons were getting near and the had no time to escape. They shielded their faces and waited for it to come, but it never came. Greymon had used his Nova Flame and destroyed the canons. Close behind were Tai, Matt, T.K. and Davis with Garurumon, Pegasusmon and Raidramon. They began attacking.

"Nova Flame!"

"Howling Blaster!"

"Star Shower!"

"Blue Thunder!"

"All together now!" Tai commanded.

The four attacks combined together and hit Machinedramon so hard that it flew back a few feet before dissolving into thin air. The eight of them scrambled towards each other and cheered victoriously except for Sora.

"It is a good thing we were here to rescue the damsels in distress," said Tai loudly. "My middle name is 'big strong man'!"

"Then your first name must be 'I am not'," snapped Sora, eyes flickered dangerously. Mimi, Kari and Yolei glared at Tai and together with Sora stormed off towards the nearest DigiPort. They were downright mad.

"What did I do?" asked Tai innocently as he followed the girls. Matt, T.K. and Davis shook their heads and trailed behind Tai. "C'mon! Can't a guy save you?"

Mimi had blew up, "Listen here Kamiya!" She walked towards Tai, poking him on his chest with her index finger. The 'damsels in distress' thing was too much. "We're Digidestined too! We're here to save the Digital World just like you guys! Which does not include looking for a 'big strong man' to save you!"

Mimi heard Kari whispered to Sora about Tai being a jerk all the time. Tai caught them and said, "I know what you girls are always whispering about!"

Sora cocked her eyebrow, "Oh yeah, like what?"

"Er-" Tai looked around at the guys for support.

"Sugar and spice and everything nice?" Davis blurted out stupidly.

"That's what we're made of you moron!" Kari answered, shaking her head furiously. "Let's get out of here!"

The four girls stalked off again, with their digimons on their heels, leaving Tai and the others behind.

"They sure seem to be lack of the 'everything nice' part," Davis mumbled.

T.K. rolled his eyes and murmured, "It's either your brain seemed to be lack of oxygen or you have a brain the size of a pea!"


Kari let out an audible gasp, "What's that?" She pointed towards the woods where a bright light was shining. Gatomon, Palmon and Biyomon giggled while Hawkmon scowled.

"It's the tree of love..." said Biyomon dreamily as Palmon and Gatomon giggled louder.

Sora looked confusedly at her digimon's weird behavior, "Tree of what?"

Gatomon tugged at Kari's hand, "C'mon, we'll show you!"

Before Kari could do anything, Gatomon had dragged her towards the woods. Yolei blinked confusedly and followed them followed by Palmon, Biyomon, Mimi, Sora and Hawkmon. All of them gasped as they reached the 'Tree of Love'. It was giving alight pink glowand had red juicy apples growing on them. Beside it, a handsomely table stood with a bowl filled with clear blue water. A few fruit peelers lay around the bowl. Such odd things to be found in the middle of the woods.

"What you see here is the 'Tree of Love'. Pluckan apple, take a peeler and start peeling the apple's skin from top to bottom without breaking it," Palmon explained. "If you're done thoroughly, peel the apple skin with your hand and place it in that bowl and you'll get to see your soul mate."

"Wow!" Yolei's eyes shone as she pluck an apple and start peeling the skin carefully, trying not to break it. Mimi scowled.

Kari shook her head and murmured, "This is ridiculous."

Sora snickered, "You can say that again."

"C'mon! Try it!" Biyomon tried to convinced the three of them. The digimons pushed their partners towards the tree. The three girls finally agreed and pluck an apple each. Mimi took a peeler with her shaking hand. What if her soul mate was not somebody she had expected? Taking in a deep breath, she shrugged the thought away and started peeling.

"I'm done!" Yolei shouted and Mimi jumped. She watched Yolei placed the apple skin into the bowl and started to blush furiously, blocking Sora and Kari from looking into the bowl. Mimi looked down at her apple and her stomach dropped; she hadtore offthe apple's skin.

"Guys!" Mimi called out. "What happen if youtear offthe skin?"

Suddenly everybody hadfell silentand looking at their digimons for an answer. Gatomon and Biyomon fidgeted uncomfortably and glanced sideways at Palmon to give away the answer.

"Er-" said Palmon. She was finding Gatomon and Biyomon distracting.

"Yes?" Mimi prompted.

"Something strange will happen to you and your soul mate," Palmon mumbled.

Mimi raised her eyebrows, "Strange?"

Palmon shrugged. Mimi stood up, letting the apple and peeler dropped on the ground. "That's it, I'm going home! It's getting late! This is all rubbish!" Mimi announced, as though nothing had happened and walked off. Yolei, Sora and Kari looked ather worriedly.

"Then what about Ken's reflection I saw in the bowl?" asked Yolei without realising what she had said. Sora and Kari looked at Yolei with wide grins on their faces. "You didn't hear that!" shouted Yolei, blushing scarlet.


"Mom! I'm home!" Mimi called out as she peered into an empty kitchen. She must be asleep.

Mimi sighed and dragged herself up the stairs and into her bedroom. She flopped herself on her bed and switched on a lamp on the nightstand, where her clock radio and a picture frame came to view. She took the picture and stare at it. It's a picture of herself and her parents. They used to spend a lot time together. Now that her Dad had passed away, her mother had not been feeling well. Her father had left them a fortune but they did not spend the money.

Letting a lonely tear slid down her face, Mimi placed back the picture and fell asleep, forgetting to change into her night clothes.


As the sunlight streamed into the window, Mimi yawned and sat up.

Strange, she thought she had closed the windows. Shrugging, Mimi looked around and panicked. She jumped out of bed and darted her eyes around the bedroom.

This was not her room.

She was about to get out when she caught a glance of her reflection. Her hair was now blonde and short. Her chest was flat and she was wearing a baggy shirt and a pair of boxers. She let out long shrilly scream and tenblocks away, somebody did the same thing...


Haha! Cliffhanger and the plot thickens! If you haven't noticed, Mimi and Matt had switched souls! So now Mimi is in Matt's body and house, while Matt is in Mimi's body and house! Oh boy, how can Matt survive? Surrounded by pink everywhere! Find out next time! R&R!