Omoidasu

-Remember-

Revelations and Meetings

"Look Mimi, I think you should know this…"
"Daisuke, wake up!"

He hates this. The one thing that Ken doesn't like early in the morning is that he has to wake his housemate too. Waking Daisuke is like waking a wild bear from hibernation. It was hard, a waste of time, and totally risky but being Ken's current position in society, he has to do it every bloody morning.

"No! I will protect the princess of soup bowls! Go, Veemon!"

…

He was twitching, badly. What did he do to deserve this kind of treatment? Ken was starving, he was sleepy, he was sweating, and he needed to do his morning visit to the bathroom now. But unfortunately, the darn door was locked and Daisuke was the one who know where the key is. Furthermore, why in the hell did he ever agree that Daisuke should keep the bathroom key? For Pete's sake, he often can't even find his uniform in that jungle of a room of his so why—? Oh yeah, somehow, Daisuke made him agree (consists of the mahogany haired asking his permission in his sleep while recording it for evidence). Sometimes, Ken actually wondered how in the world he was alive right now after living with Motomiya Daisuke for 2 years.

Finally deciding that it was clearly useless to wake Daisuke up now, Ken made his way to the bathroom. He would get in that bloody lavatory even if he has to force his way in. After all, paying for the damage of the door is way better than him having any kind of disease.

"Where is that darned thing!"

This is truly humiliating. Even though no one is there to witness her current distress, Ruki is still very ashamed of her pathetic state. She just remembered to ask Yamato where he lived so now; she is stuck in the middle of nowhere, without knowing anybody, and her cute rock star cousin has no idea where she is! The only solution? Find a directory. Simple as that, but not for her. Apparently, she has lost the blasted compilation of papers. She had already asked someone to bring one of the directories up to her room last night and someone did but because of her sudden breakdown, Ruki forgot where she placed the large book.

"C'est connerie! Where is it!"

Of course she wasn't really taught to swear to she did the next best thing: swear in a different language! It would be far too dangerous if people heard her, the supermodel's daughter, to use such vulgar language. And that's why she should thank her mother for forcing her to go to a school that requires to know more than 2 languages.

Giving up her search, Ruki walked over to the large window that overlooked the city of Odaiba. The city is beautiful and all but frankly, there's nothing special about this place so why… why did she come here out of all the other places in Japan? Her mom's rich so she could clearly afford staying in a hotel for a couple of months, or even a year if she decided not to come back to West Shinjuku for a while and study somewhere else. Why not Yokohama or Osaka or even Kyoto instead of here, which is so close to her home? There must be another reason except wanting to see her two cousin after 4 years. Well whatever it is, Ruki doesn't care anymore. She has spent a good 2 hours sitting like a zombie while the directory she's been looking for has yet to be found. Letting gravity take control over her body, she suddenly felt great pain at the back of her head.

And there was complete silence around her room as she stared at the inanimate object that her head had landed on. It's the directory. The thing that she has wasted her time on and the reason why her room has been practically turned upside-down .

"Shit."

"YAGAMI TAICHI, GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE NOW!" And he was out.

Flashback on 3 hours ago, Mimi and Michael came to the Yagami residence as arranged. Mr. and Mrs. Yagami decided to go out for the whole day, letting their children have the house for themselves (after making Taichi promise 20 times that he would not burn the kitchen like he did last time). Of course everything seems to go well, until Taichi got bored playing Tekken with Michael (since he lost every round) and decided to help in the kitchen.

Unfortunately, Taichi and cooking doesn't go any better than Takeru and tomatoes. The older Yagami admitted a long time ago that he cannot cook and that's why when Michael entered the kitchen not long after, it was like disaster struck. A big pot of what seems to be mud was spilling over the stove, a fairly large bowl containing cake-like mixture with whole eggs in the middle of it was at the edge of the countertop and threatening to fall. And let's not forget the state of the whole kitchen. It seems that snow came early in this residence since everything was covered in white, powder mixture that Michael guessed was flour. He also couldn't take his eyes off 2 feminine figures that are also covered in white. The shorted one has sticky yellow stuff all over her body, and the other one has eggs splattered all over her hair. Michael was amused. Yagami-san did the impossible.

He created an alternative dimension full of white in just 2 minutes.

And speaking of Yagami-san… he was hiding under a table and just recently stood up. The American would really hate to be in his position right now.

So after what seemed like forever, the bowl that was dangling at the edge finally fell and all hell broke loose.

"I can't believe you."

So after telling Yamato to pick her up and apologizing to the girl at the front desk of the hotel for the mess she did to her room, Ruki was finally able to see her older cousin. That is until he started to lecture her and it went like this:

"Why didn't you call me?"

"I forgot."

"What do you mean you forgot? You could've at least told me when you will be arriving!"

"I wanted to but… I forgot to ask for you number…"

"I still can't believe you can forget such a think like that! Takeru and I have no idea that you're already here for 2 days now."

"I know! But I'm in such a hurry to leave that I forgot to call you. And it took me forever to find the directory in my room so… …… I'm sorry Yama-nii-san."

…

"Are you mad?"

"No."

And that's when the stoplight turned red. Never once had there been such an uncomfortable silence between the two since they are practically siblings. When Ruki told Yamato where she was, he began to rant on and on and on about… she forgot since she wasn't really listening. That's the problem with the two of them. Although they're really close, there are still some flaws like Yamato being too overprotective and she being too stubborn and forgetful about important things. And that is why she wished that Takeru was here with them right now but alas, Yamato said that he wasn't able to come since he still have some important things to do.

"Ri-chan!"

Yamato blinked as he entered their apartment while carrying his cousin's luggage. His younger brother was hugging the girl like there's no tomorrow. Yes, he did admit that he was happy that she was back but after Ruki's irresponsible behavior, he can't just show it now. But after knowing each other for a long time, Ruki probably knows that he feels the same way as Takeru right now. No words are needed.

"Gaki! You'll be sharing the room with Takeru for a while since I still need to clean the extra one. I don't think you'd want to sleep in a room where there are probably roaches hanging around do you?" Taking her glare as an approval, he dropped her bags inside Takeru's room. He used to call her a brat when they were still kids but he stopped since Ruki almost gave him a nasty bruise the last time he said it. So what made him call her that now? Just for the heck of it and besides, she was too busy with Takeru to even hear him.

The younger blonde walked over to him, handing his finished song. It took longer than expected to finally complete it since Hikari called in the middle of his work. But Takeru being Takeru, dismissed the piece of paper carelessly and decided to talk to his best friend for a good hour or so (although it was still a miracle on how he managed to find the paper inside their messy living room). "By the way onii-chan, Hikari called. They wanted us to meet at her house tonight for dinner and I don't think she takes no for an answer this time."

Nodding to his younger brother, he wondered what's the reason of the sudden meeting. It's not like its Hikari's hobby to cook and it's definitely not Taichi's (he'd rather starve to death than eat one of Taichi's cooking) so it must be fairly important for them to invite all of the digidestineds. Yamato then turned to their other companion, who was lying on the couch, and asked if she wanted to come. It would be a great opportunity for her to meet the junior digidestineds since she already met the seniors a few years back. And Hikari and Sora did like his cousin so maybe they would like to see her again. He just hoped that Daisuke wouldn't get too close to Ruki—well, it's not like Ruki will let him but whatever… the readers get the drift anyway.

Looking up from her comfortable position, Ruki stared at the rock star for quite a long time before mumbling a "Do I have to?" to him. When he nodded, Ruki slumped, defeated. "Fine."

"Let's go! We're gonna be late!"

"Wait. Takeru, can you and Ruki just walk there? It's really close by anyway. I just need to pick up Sora." And this caught the young girl's attention. Why did he have to go and get his friend? Unless… "Yamato! Is Sora… your girlfriend?"

"I don't think it's my place to tell you the news but I think it would be worse if they were the ones to break it to you…"

"What is it Tai-kun? Just tell me! And whatever it is, I'm sure I'll be fine."

Taichi looked away while muttering something that is totally out of Mimi's hearing range. She gently touched the brunette's arm, letting him know that she can and will take whatever he has to tell her. At the moment they stared at each other's eyes, Mimi saw something flash… and Yagami Taichi pulled the girl into his arms and whispered the announcement that caused his heart to break 2 years ago…

"Look Ri-chan, I'm sorry that I didn't tell you. I guessed it just slipped out of my mind! Hehehe…" When Takeru received no answer, he turned to look at the girl and found that she was just looking straight ahead. Her face was straight, no emotion whatsoever. He knew she wouldn't take this lightly, especially after being phone pals with Mimi for years. Mostly all of them knew how Mimi felt for his brother and he's pretty darn sure that Sora knows so how…

He shook his head. This was his brother's problem so he shouldn't get too much involved. Besides, he's been taught that people can't help on whom they fall for so he couldn't really blame Sora. He just felt sorry for Mimi right now. When they were in the Digital World, he treated Mimi like his older sister and cares for her so much. Takeru hopes she was all right.

Mimi was regretting it. Just by Taichi's actions and the sound of his voice, she knew that this was definitely good news. But there was no turning back now. If Taichi didn't tell her, then she would probably be restless all night thinking about it.

And restless she became when Taichi finally found his voice to speak.

"Ishida… and Takenouchi… they're together."

"I can't believe you guys came here so early!"

Ken sighed. They did come here early, an hour early. But he can't really blame Daisuke for being so overexcited on seeing Hikari. Besides, even Miyako was a bit early than arranged. He averted his eyes to the bleach haired guy whom Miyako was talking to. If he didn't know better, he'd say that this guy was born to look like Yamato but of course, Michael was his friend and Ken would never say that to anyone. Some opinions needed to be kept by themselves.

"Hey, when are we going to eat?" And that was the reason he suddenly got a red hand mark on his right cheek. Mimi and Michael blinked at the scene but soon laughed along with the others. Miyako and Daisuke's little fights are really quite amusing and there wasn't a day in their lives that they got tired of it. Just count on the two of them to liven up the place.

"That was rude you brat!"

"Who you calling brat! And I was just asking anyway!"

"It's not nice to say Hey, when are we going to eat? That's just plain rude!"

"But it was only a question! You're the one who's being rude, slapping me like that!"

Mimi was still giggling when she tapped Taichi on the shoulder and asked if they were going to stop the two before it became bloody. The brunette just shrugged and told her that it was too entertaining to be interrupted. Mimi just nodded in response and looked around the room. There were pictures of the Yagami family all around the living room, catching every moment of growth of the Yagami siblings. It was nice having such a complete family like Hikari's. It's not like her family is separated or something, it's just she always wanted and older or even younger sibling but alas, she's an only child and the girl accepted that a long time ago. Mimi then glanced around the room, remembering every happy moment she's sharing with her friends. Michael was watching some Japanese show beside her, Tai was eating something at her other side, Hikari was smiling at the still arguing pair, and Ken was just sitting them, not at all bothered by the fighting beside him.

And as the clock ticked, this continued on until there was a knock on the door.

The child prodigy turned his attention to the hall while Hikari suddenly jumped up and opened the door, only to scream a name that was only familiar to 2 teenagers.

"Ruki!"

Everyone turned to the hall in confusion (including Miyako and Daisuke, who stopped their little fight) and saw a sweat dropping Takeru walk in the room and waved at them. That's when a mysterious face ran into the room and enveloped Mimi in a hug. "Mimi, I missed you so much!"

Numerous thoughts were running through the prodigy's head now. Who was the girl? And for a brief moment, when she decided to look around the room while still latched on Mimi, their eyes met. Purple. He liked that color. But their contact was broke when Takeru coughed and decided to introduce the new girl. The one that had orange hair with blonde streaks and shiny purple eyes.

"Guys this is Makino Ruki. She's my cousin and… yeah…" Figuring that Takeru was no good at introductions, Ruki stood up and was about to talk when two people came in. One was a tall blonde and the other has orange hair and was holding the man's arm. Ruki froze and stared at the couple before giving them a small smile. She needed to be happy for them since she was a relative but for her, this relationship was a big mistake. Many people are hurting because of it and one of her best friends included. She didn't need to look at Mimi's face to figure out what her friend was feeling right now.

"Hey."

That's all they can say. It's seems that everyone else in the room disappeared and only the three of them remained. She faced the facts already. That her hope of being Yamato's is gone, since he already has her best friend. She finally admitted that but Mimi was still hurting. She didn't expect that it would pain her this much, just seeing the two of them together. She wanted to cry right then and there but she can't and so, she gave them a look of happiness and pure joy to hide her pained one.

"I've heard. Congratulations."

It hurts.

Next Chapter: (has no idea what the title is yet)

A way of saying this is bullshit or something close to that in French.

Gah! I'm so sorry for letting this story rot for a while! It's just that after summer break, I forgot to post this chapter and went back home (while this chapter is still saved in a computer in another country) so I had to wait until I come back here again before posting once again. But why didn't I just write another chapter? Because I'm a very busy girl during school days --; But I hope that this chapter is worth the wait! If not then...I'm sorry ;;

About mimato: who knows? Right now, I'm crushing over lots of pairings, not only mimato. But since Mimi and Yamato ARE the main characters, then there's a great chance that they will end up together. Also, I won't give up on this story no matter how slow I update XD But I'll still try my best to update as often as I can (mostly on the breaks). And I'm sorry about changing scenes a lot. I'll try my best to reduce my changing scenes.

And even if I hate cliffhangers, I can't help but put them! It's like... so interesting XDD.

Well, I'll start working on the next chapter and will edit this so I can postthe title (once I think about what Chapter 4's going to be about) Until then, I'm out!

And thanks a bunch for the reviews. I really appreciate them.