BLJ: Once again thank you for your reviews. I will try and bring you a new chapter every 3 days and if I fail to do so, it is because I am away from a computer. Now for the couplings...of course Michi will not be changed cause well that is my favorite couple. Kari X Takeru (T.K), Miyako X Ken (might play along with that), as for Sora well she might end up with Yamato or Jyou (guess you'll just have to wait until the end). I feel bad for Koushiro since he is one of my favorite characters besides Tai and Mimi...perhaps I shall try something new in this story. cackles In one of the reviews I was asked if there would be a love traingle and let's just say that you may be able to find more than one triangle forming...and I'll just shut up.

Disclaimer: Yet again I do not own digimon and though I was very tempted to steal it I know that stealing is not only wrong but I could then face lawsuits against me. Oh well might as well try and inherit the series again...
Sighing Mimi let herself fall onto her nice comfy bed. She closed her eyes for a few seconds before opening them once more to stare at her ceiling. Her sewing lesson was over for the day, and she was thankful for today she had managed to stab herself five times with the needle. She sighed as her mind began to wonder away.

[flashback]

The young brunette just stared at the boy or more so man. He was so-so, ah words couldn't describe it at the moment. Her eyes surveyed his quite messy hair and taste of clothes as well as that smile he flashed at the girl he talked with.

Her ears could pick up the sound of a voice. A voice she had drowned away for a mere second of daydreaming. A voice that soon brought her back to reality. Bringing her out of her short fantasy. Yet as she heard what the voice said she couldn't help but to let her eyes dart back to the man.

[end of flashback]

Immediatly Mimi sat up ending that memory of her morning. Why was she thinking back to that time of her day? Now that she thought about it why had she even thought to lay eyes on the boy? Well she hadn't known the boy to be a Yagami, but still it didn't seem right. It didn't make sense. If the tan boy hadn't been a Yagami, then would she have gone up to talk to him?

Enough! She didn't want to think about it anymore. She would much more rather think about her meeting with Prince Ishida, or Yamato as he had told her to call him. It had been nice of him to offer her and Miyako assistance to the manor. She smiled in wondering whether he told everyone to address him by first name basis.

Her thoughts about the young prince were however intruded upon by her mind wandering back to Taichi when she had seen him as she exited the bakery. She had smiled at him! Just why had she smiled at him? She knew by that time that he was indeed part of the Yagami family, and yet she smiled!

But alas! She had glared at him after remembering a short time they had met before. Still why had she smiled in the first place? Angry and confused at her aimless mind, the young brunette stood up and left her room. Perhaps if she went down to find Miyako her mind would be too occupied to think about anything else.
The doors to the royal stables were soon closed as Yamato and his men dismounted their steeds. After a few words the young prince dismissed the three knights and headed down to the castle's grand room. He ran a hand through his blond hair being a tad tired from the short trip to a neighboring kingdom he had just come from.

"Your Highness!" came a voice from behind him. He turned around to see a blue haired boy run down the stone stairs in quite a hurry. No doubt his advisor Jyou Kido. He seemed to be carrying a few documents having probably come on of the king's office.

"Ah, Jyou. What can I do for you?" he asked as the boy soon stood before him.

"Your Highness we were expecting you back by yesturday evening. The king and queen were a bit worried at your delay," he said.

"Oh well King Da Salle did insist we stay for their dinner," Yamato replied.

"So all is all right in terms of the treaty?" Jyou asked curious.

"Indeed. Infact I do believe that he was actually relieved by it," he added.

"Your father shall be glad to hear this. I shall go on and inform him," the advisor said and turned around, but stopped and looked back at the prince. "By the way Prince Takaishi arrived just last night."

"Oh?" Yamato asked surprised his little brother's visit came earlier than planned. Of course he anticipated to talk to Takeru not having done so in quite awhile. Both were from the same parents, but they had seperated upon divorce. And Takeru not wanting to leave his mother alone had decieded to live with her back at her family, therefore changed his last name. Yamato however being the oldest making him crowned prince had his duties to stay with his father after he remarried. Wanting the family name to reign their kingdom for years he of course kept his royal last name.

Jyou nodded,"If I'm correct he is out at the garden taking a stroll."

"Well then I shall head there. Thank you for informing me," he said.

"Well it is my job your Highness."

"Please we've known each other for years. I believe you can just call me Yamato," he said.

Jyou smiled having been told this before. He nodded and turned around headed back up the stairs. He never felt comfortable calling the prince by first name thinking it to be rude no matter how many years they had known each other.
"Your silence is immense," Taichi said as he and Koushiro walked down the town's streets.

"Why say anything when you'll take offense and ruin my invention more?" The red head replied a bit angry as he carried the remains of his wooden box. Taichi ignored the comment and just continued walking. Koushiro sighed,"Let's just hope Daisuke has any extra wood lying around. Noone else seems to want to spare some."

"You and your inventions," Taichi muttered under his breath not aware that his friend had heard.

"Well we wouldn't be on this quest for broken wood if someone just controlled himself and did not ruin my box," he said.

"Well maybe if you didn't say more than needed you still would have your precious trap," he replied.

Koushiro didn't reply as they soon entered the old blacksmith shop where their friend Daisuke Motomiya stayed at helping the drunk real blacksmith. Though appearntly he wasn't much help as he was sleeping on the job himself. Taichi smirked and looked at the inventor who also had an evil smirk.

Taichi looked around and grabbed a bucket of water. Koushiro smiled and mouthed off,"On the count of three...one...two...three! Rise and shine sleepy head!" He ended up shouting as the water splashed against the fifteen year old boy who immedialty shot open his eyes.

"W-what w-as that for!" The boy shivered standing up.

"Well now we can't have our blacksmith sleeping on the job, eh?" Taichi said. Daisuke just muttered under his breath rinsing his shirt from the extra water it had absorbed. It was harsh reality to be waken up by his role model. He glanced over at the bushy haired boy who was laughing along with the red head.

"I suppose there is a purpose for you two visiting?" Daisuke asked.

"You mean besides the laugh?" Taichi joked.

"Actually yes. We were wonderng if you had any spare wood that you well could spare to us," Koushiro spoke getting right to the point.

"Sure I do, but you really don't expect me to lend it to you after the rude awakening do you?" he asked.

Koushiro was about to speak, but Taichi interupted him, "Let me handle this. Daisuke, my dear, dear, dearest friend of all. If you give my other dear friend the wood I shall talk to my sister about taking a walk with you one day."

"Really?" the boy asked in happiness. Tai nodded knowing that the young boy had a crush on his little sister, Hikari. Though he had never been too sure if Hikari even payed attention to Daisuke let alone felt the same way about him. "Well in that case, come along the extrra scraps we might have are out in the back," he said signaling for the two to follow him.

Koushiro smiled,"Great! This shall be more than enough incase someone deciedes to break my trap." Tai cast him a look of 'Listen I know I broke the box can we just drop it before he asks annything'. Too late Daisuke was clearly paying attention to the inventor.

"Well who destroyed it?" he asked.

"You're looking at the man himself," he replied nodding at Tai.

"Well why?" Daisuke asked.

"Because he was defensive over a simple matter," Koushiro replied ignoring Tai's look.

"What was he defensive about?" he asked.

"Izumi..." Taichi muttered warning him. He always used his last name when annoyed or angry.

"Well I simply said he thought this girl was beautiful and perhaps liked her," Koushiro went on.

"Oh? What girl?" Daisuke asked becomming intrested.

"Well," Koushiro began with the whole story. Taichi just threw his hands in the air and let himself fall on a hay stack. Groaning as he did, not wanting to hear any of it.
"Yamato!" exclaimed a blond boy upon seeing the prince enter the royal gardens.

"Takeru! How nice to see you again," the older blond greeted his brother and gave him a hug. "I thought you weren't due until a week at least."

Takeru laughed,"Yes well I happened to push some things aside and came her last night."

"Well I am glad afterall it has been a while," Yamato said.

Takeru nodded agreeing,"So what have you been up to? Father did say you were supposed to be here yesturday."

"Oh I was over at the Da Salle Kingdom hoping to continue our peace treaty with their king. He invited my knights and myself to stay a tad longer and then this morning we got held up by helping these two maidens," he replied.

"Would I know them?"

"Well one of them was a maid. The other was Sir Takchikawa's daughter, Mimi. You do remember her from the banquets do you not?" he asked.

"I believe so," he smiled. "And as always you must help out the ladies in distress."

"If something was to happen to them I wouldn't be able to live with that," he explained.

His brother just smiled, but nodded. Yamato didn't need to explain anything for his actions. "Speaking the Takchikawas, how is their fued with the Yagami family?" he asked having known about their hate for each other.

The crowned prince sighed and sat down on one of the stone benches. He looked up at his brother, "None of their disagreements have gone to the streets which I thank god for. If there is anything that father and I hate to do is deal with their personal issues."

"Well then it is good that they have been silent," Takeru replied.

"So it would be seem, but something tells me all their silence will eventually lead to something. Something that we would not want to imagine," he said.
"Ah, quite the rebel of the family?" Daisuke teased Tai elbowing him slightly after having heard the story.

"I am not. Can we just drop the matter already?" Taichi asked getting quite annoyed by his two friends. Perhaps he was regreting ever becomming friends with those with lower class.

"Wanting us to forget and denial. Yep he likes this girl," Daisuke whispered to Koushiro whom nodded in agreement. Taichi just crossed his arms not wanting to say anything else.

That's when Koushiro got an idea. "Face it Taichi the only way we will stop teasing you is if you actually prove that you don't like Mimi."

"That is absurb! How will I be able to prove such a thing that is not even true?" he asked.

"Yes how can he?" Daisuke asked himself being a bit confused.

"Simple," Koushiro began. "Honestly am I the only smart one to think of this? Nevermind do not answer that. What I propose is that we pay a little visit to the Takchikawa manor and see her."

"Oh great idea Koushiro, except for the fact that how we might get in there and what is even the point?" Taichi pointed out.

Koushiro sighed and looked at Daisuke noticing how he too was intrested in the plan. "Listen good. Almost every manor is off to itself and near the woods. We merely enter their property through the woods, and once we are there...well we will see your reaction when you see her."

Taichi frowned,"Reaction? What do you want me to drool or something?"

"It's not like he has not done that before," Daisuke commented earning him a glare from the bushy haired boy.

"Trust me Taichi if not drooling then how you feel afterwards. Take for instance after this morning at the market you were all down, and then told me the story of your little problem," Koushiro said.

"For the last time I do not have a problem!" he exclaimed.

"Well there is only one way we will believe you,"Daisuke said. The red haired boy nodding. Tai looked at both of them and sighed muttering what seemed like a 'fine'.

"Excellent! Now listen up, we will strike at night during supper---" the inventor began only to be interupted by Taichi.

"How will we---"

"Will you let me finish before asking any further questions?" he asked. after getting a nod he continued on...
BLJ: hopes for more reviews By the way Hikari will be presented in the next chapter.