Response to Keemew2's Review.

The reason I've decided ro respond to this was:

1. She's my favorite reviewer. High Fives! Sorry other reviewers I love you too.

2. She... or he (I'm not sure. I think it's a girl) brought up some good points. And

3. I want to explain a few things since I'm not going to have internet access for a year and I really wanted to reply to this. I'll probably add it on to the next chapter and delete this if I get another chapter done or when I come back.

First off: Yes, I know my sentence structure sucks big time. I'm sorry. I try. I'll try and read over it more carefully and look out for the things you mentioned. For some of the dialouge I did change it a tad bit to fix the ages. But the one you brought up was probably a mistake.

The point of not bringing up Yamaki's parents was because they didn't really have a place anywhere since almost every scene wasn't where royalty would be most of the time. I might throw another flashback or try what you suggested to show some things about them. I plan on bringing them up, but I'm not sure how to do it yet. Plus, I decided that a young prince thought it would be best not to make it blankly obvious that his best friend (probably his only friend) was a servant girl. It's kinda like having a teacher go to church with you. At school you call him or her Mrs. or Mr. whatever, and at church you call him or her by their first name... If you've known them long enough.

The reason I had Reika's parents udressing Yamaki so informally was because I wanted to show that it wasn't only Reika who had formed a close relationship with him but her family as well. In later chapters if I have them speaking to Yamaki in public, or even other servants outside the family, the would devanetly call him by his title.

About the festival dresses. I wasn't going to use kimonos at all in the begining. I had nice little girl dresses planned out and already written into the story. Then I decided to change the dresses (which the kimonos were based off of) into kimonos for kicks. Sorry, I like kimonos. I have two. Can't fit into one anymore though... I'm not getting rid of it! Sorry, getting off topic...

Lastly... Let me say "Wow! I DID NOT mean for the last flashback to be taken that way. I mean I guess that was what it looked like now that I think of it, but no. I just wanted to show that's where their relationship started. I'm very against pre-marital you-know-what. I really didn't mean to give off that vibe. I think I just got a tad bit carried away. Even while I was writting the last part I KNOW I was hinting at something, but I didn't intend for them to do anything. I not even sure if I want them to do anything yet. I'm tossing around the idea to either let them do their own thing, but definitly NOT as young as you thought! Or just have Yamaki make advancess and be brought down by Reika at the last minute. Which I would try to make humorous. After that insight I think I might go with the following... My mind keeps goin gin both directions.

Hoped that answered and/or cleared things up. Thanks for the critizicm, advise, and compliments! They were all (even the critizism) helpful and encouraging.

P.S.

I put Gennai in because I liked his character and I didn't see him that much. So, I just thought I'd throw him in as, of course, the wise elder.

For digimon being magical creatures... I like it! I haven't thought about it, but I like that reasoning! Good job!

The garden scene was my favorite too! It was also the funnist writing! Yamaki's such a spoild brat! Even when he's older!

I'm doing this on WordPad so I know there is probably a million mistakes on.