Another short and sad chappy coming up! So if you're overly emotional, you should get a box of tissue ready. But if chapter 2 didn't make you cry, you probably won't be crying in this chapter either. I suck at writing sad stories… my 'hyper-ness' always gets the better of me and it turns out more as a parody than a tragedy. I'm blabbering again… forget it, on with the story! Kouji! Izumi!

Kouji: 'sigh' Izumi Minamoto does not own Digimon Frontier… why can't you say this line yourself?

Me: Because…

Kouji: Because…?

Me: I can't bring myself to say it! It's too horrifying!

Kouji: 'sweatdrops' are you serious?

Me: Yup :D!

Izumi: Anyways, please read and review!

Chapter 5

Izumi's POV

I squinted as the sunlight shone into my still sleepy eyes. I sat up from my makeshift bed, Kouji still in my left arm as I brought my right hand up to rub my eyes. After adjusting to the light, I looked down at Kouji to see if he was awake. Then, almost as if he could read my mind, I heard him say

'Ohayo, Izumi-chan'. I blushed, he added –chan to the end of my name again. Yay! Somehow, my name sounds good when he's the one saying it. I quickly snapped out of my thoughts, realizing that I had not answered him yet, opening my mouth to reply nervously.

"Ohayo gozaimasu Kouji-kun. I have a question…" I continued, slightly unsure of how I should state my next sentence.

"What is it?" I heard him ask gently.

"Should I tell the others that I could now hear you telepathically? That sounded funny…" I drifted off, my right hand on my chin while trying to think of another way to rephrase it.

He laughed, "Would you like to tell them? Or would you rather surprise them?" he asked me as we both tried to imagine the gang's reaction if we were to surprise them.

"Nah. A surprise would take too long." We both said at the same time. I stared at Kouji's egg and then we both burst out laughing at the same time. Takuya and Junpei were right. We were getting a lot closer over the past few days. From plainly guessing what the other was thinking, to actually hearing each other in our minds.

We stopped laughing and I took this chance to look up from my spot on the floor to see if the others were awake. Junpei, Takuya, Tomoki, Bokomon, Neemon and Patamon were all still sleeping soundly while Kouichi was up and cooking a few meat apples.

"Ohayo Kouichi." I said, walking over to him with Kouji in my arms.

"Ohayo gozaimasu Izumi, Kouji." He replied, looking up from his cooking and giving us a smile.

"Kouji says Ohayo to you as well." I told him, answering for Kouji. Talking for two people is actually rather annoying.

Tomoki, Bokomon, Neemon and Patamon woke up soon after we were up as Kouichi nearly finished cooking. The meat apples gave off a delicious aroma, causing Junpei and Takuya to jump up shouting "FOOD!" at the same time. We laughed at their behavior as they both blushed lightly in embarrassment. We finished eating soon afterwards, continuing on our journey once more.

20 days later

We were walking along a small path in the forest when Kouji's egg began shaking in my arms. My eyes widened as it glowed a bright light and floated upwards. I covered my eyes as a bright flash came from his egg. When I opened my eyes again, I felt my eyes water as I cried out in joy. Kouji's egg hatched! And there stood Kouji, in the flesh, right in front of me, as if nothing had happened at all!

"Hey Izumi-chan. I'm back" said Kouji, in his usual and totally casual voice, a smirk forming at the edge of his lips.

"…" I couldn't reply. I was at a lost for words, I was just too happy to think of anything. So instead of replying, I did the next best thing. I jumped at him, giving him a huge bear hug. He blushed a dark shade of red but wrapped his arms around me anyways.

"Izumi, the others are watching!" he whispered to me, still blushing wildly. My eyes widened as I realized this and quickly jumped a foot back, blushing.

"What happened to Izumi-chan?" I asked, giving him a small pout. He laughed.

"Okay, Izumi-chan, have you kept my bandana?" he asked, still smiling.

"Of course!" I replied, pulling it out of my pocket along with his D-tector. "Welcome back. Kouji-kun." I said happily, handing back his bandana.

Holding onto his D-Tector, I waited until he had put his bandana back on, but just when I was about to hand him his D-tector, I felt something whip at my hand, causing me to drop the digivice immediately.

My hand shot back, looking to my left, I saw Kimeramon. Takuya and the others had already pulled out their D-tectors, readying for the attack. But just when we were about to digivolved, Kimeramon quickly launched an attack at Kouji.

'NO!' I thought, my mind racing, 'I can't let Kouji turn into a digi-egg again!' I jumped at Kouji in a futile attempt to get him out of the way.

Kouji's POV

I quickly reached down to pick up my D-Tector when I saw Kimeramon launching an attack at me. I froze, my mind panicking on whether I should just run or that I should get my D-tector and then run. D-tector first. I quickly dived for it, a wave of relief washed over me as it came into my hand, but my relief quickly dissipated, my eyes widening as the attack came straight at me, not leaving me enough time to escape.

I closed my eyes and braced myself for the pain once more, but it never came, instead, I felt myself being pushed out of the way. My eyes shot open as I saw Izumi in my place, the attack hitting her head-on.

"NO!" I screamed as Izumi's fractal code appeared around her and Kimeramon scanned it. In her place left her fuchsia hat, her D-tector and a violet digi-egg.

Ahh! A pathetic cliffy! Won't chapter 6 be totally predictable? I wanted to continue the next part in the same chapter but I have Japanese class in like 5 minutes. So I'll post this for now and I'll post the next chapter in a few hours!

Sorry Kouji's Girl, but I have more votes for 'B'. I hope you'll enjoy this just as much though!

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