Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon: Digital Monsters or summer camp. All I own is the camp counselor, Eishi, and the idea of whatever is inside Sora's notebook.
A/N: Thanks for the reviews!!!! I've been so busy during the last couple of months. My main and most overused excuse for not being able to work on this chapter sooner is S-C-H-O-O-L and S-C-H-O-O-L-W-O-R-K. So, I hope you all forgive me. I know lots of you out there are dealing with the disease, too. ^_^ Sorato rocks and rules and R&R please!

Tell Me

"What? Mud crawling?!?!" Mimi yelled, frowning at Counselor Eishi. Sora looked over their way, as she put on her purple-and-blue helmet over her head. She watched the old man nod, as if he didn't even know Mimi was screaming.

"Oh, come on, Meems, it's not so bad," said Taichi, giving the brunette girl one of his famous goofy grins.

"You," Mimi pointed at Tai, "think it's not so bad because you've been in the mud, like, forever!"

"Hey, hey... no pointing...," Taichi responded innocently, stepping away from the furious Mimi, "I haven't been in the mud forever."

Ishida Yamato stood next to his younger brother Takaishi Takeru. "They're at it again," Takeru told Yamato, who sighed.

"Isn't mud crawling, well, a little too filthy?" Hikari, Taichi's little sister, spoke up. "Onii-san, can't I just stay with Mimi here?"

Taichi looked over at Hikari, and glared at her. "No! You have to learn to be brave!" he said, crossing his arms over his chest, while Sora raised an eyebrow at his strictness. Not that it was strange of him or anything.

"Oh, hey Sora. I have something for you."

Sora turned around to face Yamato's deep, blue, mysterious eyes looking back at her. For a second, she thought she was going to faint right there. "Huh?" she blurted out. Matt revealed an appealing blue notebook that, for some odd reason, reminded Sora of his eyes. As he showed off his notebook he had been hiding in his hands behind him, Yamato sang a "ta-ta!" followed by a "voila!". Sora thought he didn't hear her well, so she repeated, "Huh?"

Yamato sighed. "It's my diary. You can read it," he said and handed it to Sora.

Sora looked back, then to her sides, before saying, "What? It's your diary--isn't it supposed to be, you know, confidential?"

"But I trust you, Sora," Matt responded, "Come on, read it."

Sora raised her eyebrows. "That's really nice of you... but... oh, what the heck," she blurted out and took the diary from him. She stuck her tongue out, anxious about Matt's diary. But what she found in there was not exactly satisfying.

Dear Sora,
I think that Sora is hiding something from me. Because you know, Sora, that Sora is our friend and I thought that she trusted all of us. Sora, what do you think I should do? I feel like Sora is keeping something from all of us DigiDestined. What do you think, Sora? I'm starting to think that Sora doesn't want to be our friend anymore, Sora.
~Yama

"What?" Sora asked, making sure he knew that the entry didn't even make the least bit of sense to her. "You started this... last night? I am your friend, and I said I do trust you."

Yamato's face, immediately, dropped. "But why don't you tell me... you know," he inquired, "stuff?"

"What do you mean I don't tell you stuff? I tell you and the others everything!" Sora argued. She didn't like the fact that Matt was starting to act all greedy. What did he want from her? Why was he being such a jerk?

"You guys! I'm not going without you," Mimi ran over towards both Matt and Sora, her hands on her hips. She stood right next to them, thinking they weren't going crawlin' either. "You can't make me go mud crawling!"

"What? We're going already?" Yamato asked, then started running towards Tai and the others, who were all waiting for them... especially Mimi. "Wait for me!" called Sora, about to run. Mimi held her arm before she could leave. "Sora, don't leave me!"

"Mimi, come on. Don't you think this could be an experience for you?" Sora asked, smiling.

"Yeah, sure, an experience for my clothes alright!" whined Mimi, not letting go of Sora's arm. Mimi or no Mimi, Sora struggled to break free. "Mimi! Let go of me already!"

"No!" Mimi shouted, her voice shaking, "Stay with me!"

"Come on, Sora!" Taichi yelled from afar. "Mimi! We're all waiting for you guys!"

"Sorry, Meems," said Sora, dragging Mimi with her, since she wouldn't let go of her arm anyway. "You're coming with us."

Mimi frowned at the ground, mumbling something under her breath.

***

"All right, rookies--"

"Hey! Don't you mess with me and everyone else. We're not rookies, we're champions!" Taichi argued with Mr. Eishi as he gave instructions for the mud crawling assignment.

"We're ultimate!" Kido Jyou added. "We're mega!" Takeru shouted at last. Everyone cheered.

"Okay, megas, this is what you're going to be doing today," said the camp counselor, pointing towards the net over the disgusting, dirty mud underneath it. "Each of you is going to crawl under that net to the finishing end. If you're done, you go again. Understood?"

"Man, how long is that thing?" Yamato muttered to himself, staring open-mouthed at the seventy-or-so meter long of a net. "According to my visible eyesight, it tells me the exact length amount of sixty-five point five meters," Koushiro came in.

"What!?" Mimi yelled, "No way am I going in that thing."

"Looks like a challenge to me," said Sora, "I wonder what Tai has to say about this."

"Thanks, Sora. I've been doing this thing for, let's see, three years now, so pardon me if I make you look bad," Taichi stepped in. He raised his chin and walked towards the starting point. Bending down, he narrowed his eyes at the distance between himself and the finish line. In the blink of an eye, he was already halfway through the end of the net.

Mimi stared at Tai's clothes in complete disgust. "Isn't that what pigs do?" she asked.

"Definitely," Jyou said. He was no way in a million years getting his knees soaked in mud!

"Oh, come on, we've done it millions of times in the digital world," Matt told them, "Remember the fighting, the sacrificing, everything? I'd rather do this thing a million times instead of having to go through that pain once again."

Mimi looked down at the ground. "You're right...," she said. Jyou nodded, as did Hikari, Takeru, Koushiro and Sora. Mimi closed her eyes, then open them once again, taking a deep breath to relieve her filth fears. "All right, I'm going."

"Yeah, Mimi! That's the spirit!" Sora cheered, followed by Hikari and Takeru. This helped Mimi smile and go after Taichi, sort of like a pac-man version of Tai and Mimi. Everyone chuckled.

"Huh? Mimi, what are you doing?" Tai looked back, wondering how the heck Mimi made it all the way behind him. "Purity is taking over Courage!" shouted Mimi, pushing him aside, making it to the finish line first. What's up with her?, Taichi asked himself, raising his eyebrows at her velocity.

"Hello? Who's going next?" Mr. Eishi yelled in everyone else's faces, who were simply staring at Mimi. "She's seriously devoted to this," said Jyou. Everyone nodded in a complete silence.

"HELLO!? ANYBODY HOME?!?!?!" Eishi shouted once again, this time getting everyone's full attention. "Yes, Eishi-sensei, sir!" Koushiro shouted, standing up straight and saluting the counselor. Everyone looked at him in confusion. "Sorry, just practicing for my web-based military school," he told them as an excuse.

"Alright, Izumi. You're up," Eishi ordered. Koushiro gave him a pleading look, but got nothing in return. He walked towards the net, placing his knees and hands on the dirty, wet mud. Bending down, he began crawling slowly.

"Someone please follow Mr. Izumi," the camp counselor asked--more like stated. Hikari raised her hand, and began mud-crawling right behind Koushiro. It was better than having to do all the digimon sacrificing, like Yamato had said earlier. She had put a lot of thought into it.

"Kido? Why don't you go next?"

"Wha...? Me? Next?" Jyou stammered, looking down at his knees, then at the mud. Eishi nodded, pointing towards the starting line. Jyou nodded slowly, gulped, then proceeded to where he was supposed to start. Takeru followed along, leaving both Sora and Matt.

"Ishida, Takenouchi? Go," Mr. Eishi signaled, stepping out of the way.

"Ladies first," Yamato took a step right, letting Sora step forward. "No, you go first," Sora told him. Yamato shook his head.

"Fine, I'll go," said Sora, following Takeru. Matt placed his hands and knees on the mud, like Sora did, and began to follow her.

Not too long after, he felt something cold drop on his perfectly gelled hair. It wasn't mud. Then, the cool drop aimed toward his nose. Sora stopped crawling, then looked up. So did Matt. The sky looked ghastly.

"It's raining!" Sora yelled. They were only halfway through the finishing line when the rain became stronger, pouring the mix of hydrogen and oxygen towards their clothes and skin. Fortunately, both Koushiro and Hikari already made it to the end.

Takeru's hand slipped and fell face-first into the mud. "Takeru! Are you okay?" Sora asked, tapping his shoulder behind him. "What's wrong, lil' bro?" Matt asked from behind Sora.

Takeru got up and nodded. "I'll be all right," he said as he kept moving with hope. Sora stayed right behind him, making sure nothing happened to him, since he was one of the youngest in the group. She watched him shove the mud off his face.

Unexpectedly Sora let out a sneeze. "Bless you!" she heard Yamato shout from afar. "EISHI! WE'RE GETTING A COLD HERE!"

"Yes, I'm cold, how did you know?" Counselor Eishi responded, miscomprehending.

Matt groaned, still crawling, for that Eishi dude was no one to talk to. Who would want to talk to someone who didn't understand a single thing? Sora sneezed once again. She stopped crawling.

"Sora," Yamato called. His speed increased a little, just to reach her. "Are you okay?"

Sora rubbed her nose, looking at him, who had suddenly appeared right next to her. They were still far from the end. Both Jyou and Takeru were almost there. They had picked up their pace while Sora was slowing down. "I'm cold," she told Yamato.

Both were still in a crawling position, so Matt put his arm around her shoulders. "Is that better?" he asked, making sure she didn't get sick. Sora nodded. "Now, come on," Yamato urged.

But Sora wouldn't budge. She stayed there, lowering her body each second that passed, until her body soaked itself inside the ugly mud under the pouring rain. Eishi, still standing there, looked up at the sky, for he was wearing sunglasses. "Ah, sunrays, the best way to communicate with the sun," he told himself.

"Sora, if you don't move, you're going to get sick," Yamato told her, "Come on!"

Sora didn't say a word. She just laid there, her eyelids getting heavier by the minute. Matt noticed her nose and cheeks were already a reddish color, so he hugged her closer to him. "Guys! Can anyone remove this net thing?!" he yelled to the DigiDestined, "Sora's getting a cold!"

"Guys! Sora's getting a cold!" Tai yelled, trying to pull up the net. Mimi, Koushiro, and Hikari did the same. Takeru heard this, too, so he looked back at Sora, who was struggling to stay up. "Sora! Hold on!" he yelled, crawling faster along with Jyou.

"It's too hard!" Taichi shouted, trying his best to remove the freakin' old net. "ARGHH!!"

Mimi, Koushiro, and Hikari tried their best as well. When Takeru and Jyou came out of the net, they helped, too.

"No! What are you kids doing? You're all going to break your small muscles taking that thing down," Mr. Eishi told them. "That net is too freakin' old. It's been there for centuries. You can't take it off."

"If we try, we can," said Mimi. Hikari nodded.

"No, it's no use. It's also part of our tradition to leave it there. It is under law that you actually leave it there," he explained, "You see, that net has been for military training use since the first war against--"

"We don't want to hear it! We want to help our friend! Right, guys?" Taichi shouted. "YEAH!" Hikari, Takeru, Mimi, Koushiro, and Jyou yelled at the same time.

Eishi stayed speechless, blinking in confusion at the six kids. He was also too old to be able to tell were the other two were. "All right, I won't stop you."

Truthfully, they couldn't pull it up. It was too strong. But they kept trying.

"Sora, come on, we have to go, okay?" Yamato whispered. Weakly, Sora tried to move, but ended falling in the mud. Matt tried his best to keep her up. "Come on, Sora. You can do it. Just get up and keep crawling, okay?"

The sound of the word crawling made Sora moan. But she couldn't stand the coldness of the rain. She knew she had to get out sooner or later. No way she was going to put up with a whole hour under the pouring rain.

Sora sneezed once again. "Man, you're not feeling well at all," he told her after placing the back of his hand against her forehead. She moved closer towards him. "Yamato...," she whispered.

"Yeah, I'm here," Matt told her. Sora placed her hand on his back, smelling the naughty odor of mud as well as the scented gel on Yamato's hair. She hugged him.

"S-Sora... what are you doing?" he whispered. Sora closed her eyes, longing for the cozy warm feeling to be in Matt's strong, protective arms.

"Sora, come on. We have to go. I don't want you sick."

Sora wouldn't budge.

"Sora, move. Now! Sora, I don't want to have to push you away. Sora? Sora! Come on!" Yamato yelled. He didn't like the feeling. It's like Sora was going to die right in his arms.

"Argh! SORA!"

Still no motion from Sora. Matt sighed, and finally decided to carry her with him.

"You owe me one, Sora," he said, "It's not easy to carry you back."

A/N: So how did you like it? Oh, and one more thing, I needed you guys to tell me whether you prefer reading Jyoumi, Michi, or Koumi better. I'm thinking about getting Mimi involved in a relationship with one of these guys. I don't know... it might not even be a good idea. I just want to know what you guys think for now. Thanks! And please review. ^_^