BLJ: Whoo three reviews! Alright so here I'll comment to your reviews.
Crescent-Wish-Forever- I understood your confusion about Mimi not knowing Taichi at first, but that was because she hadn't seen him in a long time. It was after she talked to Sora she remembered. sorry if it was a bit confusing.
BlueRag- Yep out of all the couples Michi is my favorite. Besides it's rare to find a fanfic with that couple lately. Anyhows thanks for the suggestions, originally I was also planning on having Sorato but I shall take into consideration the Jyoura too.
x1nfernal- Don't worry so far I've written other stories (not fan-fiction) but I have finished them. Besides I get angry with myself if I don't finish off an idea.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own digimon as I have explained before it is impossible for me to, considering all my efforts.
"You look a little bit down," Koushiro Izumi said upon seeing his fellow friend enter the small cottage. "What seems to be the problem this time?" he asked.
Taichi just shrugged and raised an eyebrow at what the red head was working on. "Another invention of yours?"
Koushiro nodded returning his eyes back to the small wooden box with holes in it and yarn hanging from all over it. "This my friend will serve as a trap to catch those rabbits from eating my mother's garden that way she won't have to waste an extra shilling on buying from the market," he said. Taichi merely nodded not wanting to comment on the boy's last so called invention. He didn't want to offend him, afterall Koushiro was quite smart and his most trusted friend.
The two of them may be from different social classes, Taichi being the eldest son of the Yagami family and Koushiro merely their cooks son, but then again friendship isn't based on status. It isn't based on bragging either which Tai found out that most other wealthy kids did. That was why he often hung out with what others would call, the common folk.
Grabbing a chair he sat. Koushiro looked up from his work. He saw Taichi looking at the floor as if he was really intrested in it. Decieding to ignore it he continued to fiddle with the yarn that was beginning to tangle around his hands. Once again he looked back up to see his friend now leaning back on the chair's hind legs and looking at the ceiling now with almost the same amount of fake intrest as the floor.
Returning to his work he told himself to ignore the bushy haired boy. If he wasn't going to say anything he wouldn't be the one to start the conversation. That's when he snapped as Tai (sometimes will shorten Taichi)sighed. "Will you quite it? I can't work in these depressing conditions! Out with it already!" Caught off gaurd Taichi lost balance of the chair and fell back onto the cold wooden floor. He quickly got up a bit startled by the inventor's sudden reaction. "Well are you going to say it or will I have to drag it out of you?" Koushiro asked a bit impatiently.
"Fine," Taichi began not wanting to know his reaction if he stayed silent. He paused however for a second. "See I was headed down here to pay a visit to you seeing as how your mother said you were concentrated on that invention when I stopped by the market to talk to Mr. Takenouchi's daughter, Sora---"
"Ah, so it is a girl problem," Koushiro interupted . "Well I'm not sure," he replied.
"Well Sora is a fine girl and if you talked to her I can't imagine the problem you have," he said.
"Yes but that's not the point," Taichi said.
"Well then what is?"
"I saw this other girl come out of the bakery---" he began only to be interupted once more.
"Ah, so you are caught between the two of them."
"No," he said.
"Well then what exactly is this problem of yours?" the boy asked quite confused.
"Will you just let me finish my story?" Taichi asked a bit agrivated at being interupted continuesly. The red haired boy merely nodded. "So as I was saying...this other girl came out and she was well really beautiful and seemed proper. She smiled at me and I smiled back, but then she suddenly glared at me and hurried off as soon as this other girl joined her."
"Rejection. I'm sure you are quite used to it by now," Koushiro joked.
"Izumi..." Taichi said.
"Fine, go ahead."
"Right well I stood there a couple of seconds wondering why she had glared and why I thought she looked somewhat familiar when it hit me. I had seen her before when I was younger," he said. Koushiro raised an eyebrow trying to understand where he was going. "And I remembered who she was. She is the daughter of Sir Takchikawa."
Koushiro raised both of his eyebrows,"And since when did you see her before? You are afterall forbidden to be near anyone in their family."
"Well I was by the river as usual and saw her. If I do recall she called me something that made me push her into the mud making her leave. Don't remember what it was though."
"And you wonder why she glared at you. No doubt she knew who you were and mistaked you for someone else at first," the boy said turning his attention back to his invention.
"You're not helping Koushiro," Taichi said.
"Well what do you want me to do? I don't even see the problem that you have with that story," he merely replied not glancing up.
Tai just sighed. "I don't know what i want you to do either. I don't even know why I'm bothered with this incident."
Koushiro stopped what he was doing and looked at his friend. A smile slowly crept on his face. The kind of smile that tells you he knew something he didn't. Tai looked up. "Izumi, boy, what are you thinking?" he asked a bit nervous by the smile.
"You appear to like this girl," he said.
"That's absurb!" Taichi yelled and stood up.
"You like her! You really like her!" Koushiro went on in a teasing matter.
"No I do not! I would never stoop as too low to like a Takchikawa," Taichi defended himself.
"Then why did you tell me this story?" he asked.
"I told you I don't know. I guess it was the glare that got to me," he merely replied.
"Riiight. Is that why you said she was beautiful?"
"What? I never said that."
"Well if I do recall, which I do you did."
"I did not," Taichi said recalling every word he had said. "I must have refered to someone else as beautiful." Koushiro merely smiled and nodded trying to supress a laugh. Tai glared at his friend. "I do not like her."
"Never said you did. I just said you did say she was beautiful," he replied and pretended to think for a moment."But I do suppose if you just said that you don't like her when I never accused you of liking her, then that must mean that you actually do like her."
"Do not!" Taichi almost yelled. "Beisdes you did say that it appears that I like her and," he paused,"Listen can we just drop the subject?"
"Very well." With that he went back to his work glancing up at Taichi who was tapping his fingers against his knees in a bit of frustration. His chin in his hand. "So how pretty was she?" he asked not being able to help himself.
Taichi looked up at him, and Koushiro laughed. "That's it!" he said and stood up.
"No my trap!" Koushiro began as he tried to take the box with holes away from Taichi.
"Why the hurry?" complained Miyako as she struggled to keep up to Mimi's pace. Afterall she was the one carrying most of the market sacks filled with food.
Slowing down Mimi apoligized,"Sorry Miyako. I guess I just couldn't stand to be in the same place with that good for nothing Yagami."
"Yes, but is that any reason to leave me with all the goods?" Miyako asked. Realizing what she meant Mimi took some of the heavy sacks to help her dear maid. "It's quite strange how one second you gaze out at the man and then you run out with absolute hate," she said finding it much easier to walk now.
Mimi didn't say anything. There was nothing to say. They stayed in silence for a while. Being near the outskirts of the town nothing much was hard except for the occasional bird. The Takchikawa manor was located of by itself near the woods like most other welathy homes who enjoyed their privacy. Sometimes Mimi regreted this for the what seemed like a long journey home when carrying back items from town.
No matter they would soon be home where they would drop of their groceries in the kitchen. Miyako would of course assist in preparing the day's meal while Mimi attended some of her daily lessons. Oh the lessons, how she hated them! What good would sewing do to her when she never even saw her own mother go near a needle or thread. She usually had all the servants do any sewing that had to be done.
But appearntly it was important for a young lady to learn how to do the common tasks. Was sewing a common task? Mimi didn't think so. Besides she did plently more like secretly help Miyako with many of the household jobs she had. Not that her parents had any problem with that, well her father didn't at least. Her mother on the other hand didn't believe it was right for her to be working with her own hands when help was all around her.
She sighed and looked at Miyako. "Remind me next time to accept Iori's help in bringing down a wagon." Miyako laughed knowing how tiring it was to walk back home. Iori Hida was the stable boy at the Takchikawa residence. He was quite nice and often offered his spare time to take the two girls to town with the spare wooden wagon. Just so the load of groceries wouldn't be much.
Mimi stopped as well as Miyako. "Do you hear that?" Mimi asked. Miyako nodded also having heard the nearing horse trots. They looked at each other wondering if they should be wary for a stranger. As far as they both were aware of, their manor was the only one out in that direction so whoever was comming must with no doubt be a traveler.
More horse trots were heard. No doubt whoever was comming was not alone. "What if it's a group of bandits?" Mimi asked.
"Do not worry I am sure it's just a merchant," she replied though she still didn't move. There was no time to hide by the near trees as the horses were soon seen with their riders. The two of them stood still before they realized who the strangers actually were.
"Your Highness!" Both immediatly exclaimed and dropped their sacks to bow down before Prince Ishida and his knights. The blond prince smiled at the two of them as he ordered his men to stop. Mimi and Miyako glanced up at hime and then at each other.
"May I or my knights assist you?" He spoke.
"Oh no. We wouldn't want to be a burden," Mimi replied on their behalf though in reality she wouldn't mind.
"By all means it would not be any bother. Afterall you two seem to have a long way to go am I right?" he asked.
"Thank you for your offer your Highness, but we only have a short whiles walk ahead of us. We are just going to the Takchikawa manor," Miyako said.
The prince studied the two of them and smiled,"Still if something was to happen in that short walk I wouldn't be able to have it in my mind that we could have accompanied you both." He paused, "Besides I might as well give your father a message from the king." He had obviously reconized Mimi.
"Your Highness really it is," Mimi began but was interupted by the prince.
"Now I will not take no for an answer," he said and turned to face the three other knights who were with him. "Tie their bags onto your horses." The knights nodded and did so as Prince Ishida also dismounted his white stallion to help the two girls onto the horses.
"Thank you, your Highness," Miyako said getting onto a grey stallion with one of the knights.
"It is not a problem," he replied with a warm smile as he helped Mimi onto his own stallion who also thanked him for his help. The four horses soon were turned around in the direction of the manor and started off.
Soon they entered through the grand gates of the property where once more the prince helped both Miyako and Mimi off the horses while his men gave them their sacks. "Before you run off please do give this to your father Miss," the blond spoke handing Mimi a rolled up parchment.
She nodded,"I will and thank you once again your Highness."
"Please just call me Yamato," he replied and smiled mounting back on his steed. She smiled back as he waved at them and soon started out of the property.
BLJ: And there's your chapter. I found it weak in some places so please do forgive me for that.