Hehe… I know I said I'd update more quickly if I got more reviews, and I only got 3 reviews… 2 of them being the same… but I'll update anyways :D! But please, next time people, READ AND REVIEW :P!

Here comes the disclaimer again… Kouji, Izumi… for the millionth time… your lines please!

Kouji: this is getting annoying. Say it yourself.

Izumi: Kouji's right, why can't you say it?

Me: Haven't we been through this? It's much too horrifying for me to say!

Kouji & Izumi: 'sweatdrops' all right, we'll say it.

Kouji: Izumi Minamoto does not own Digimon.

Izumi: And please R&R people!

Me: Yay! Now on with the story!

Last Time…

Kouji's POV

Is it just I, or did Izumi just flash pink? Why would she blush? My eyes widened. Did she hear my thoughts? I thought she was asleep! I looked down at her to see if she was indeed flashing pink. Nothing. Perhaps it was just my imagination…

Chapter 7

The next day

Kouji's POV

I opened my eyes to the sound of Kouichi's voice calling my name. Sitting up, I heard Izumi say 'Ouch' as her egg rolled off me and landed on the floor.

"Sorry." I replied, blushing a bit in embarrassment. "I forgot you were on my lap."

'Well thanks a lot Mr. Inconsiderate! A new way of waking up in the morning… but I'm sure I don't want to try that again.' She said, humor and sarcasm hinting in her voice. I smirked, but didn't say anything.

Picking her up, I walked back over to the small fire where Kouichi was once again making us breakfast. Bokomon, Patamon and Tomoki were up and trying to wake Takuya, Junpei and Neemon. I sweatdropped.

'Why do we even travel with these three pigs?' I heard Izumi say. Without answering her question, I walked towards Neemon. Izumi flashed green in annoyance as we neared him and a huge rock lifted off the ground, hitting the sleeping digimon straight in the face. This caused him to sit up and stare at us as Tomoki, Izumi and Kouichi began laughing at him.

Now to wake Junpei and Takuya, I thought, walking towards Tomoki. Bending down and whispering something to him, he grinned and walked over to Junpei. Walking over to Takuya, I mouthed the words 'on the count of three' to Tomoki. He nodded. 1, 2, 3!

"BREAKFAST!" Tomoki and I both said loudly into their ears, causing both of them to jump up, scream food and make a mad dash towards the campfire. I smirked. Now that that was over with, we can all get on with our little journey…

After breakfast

Takuya's POV

"So… what should we do today? Walk around as usual? Or would little Kouji prefer to sit and chat with his new girlfriend?" I grinned, looking at Kouji. He flushed and turned around with an 'hmph', and ignored me.

"Aw, little Kouji's embarrassed!" I continued, not having the control to stop myself. I'm guessing Izumi had read Kouji's thoughts like before, because a huge stick flew up to me and whacked me in the head.

"Izumi's protecting Kouji now? Role reversal! Now that's not very masculine of you Kouji!" I said again, posing like a girl as if to prove my point.

"Aw, now I've got a twin sister!" Kouichi said, smiling as he continued my verbal assault on our two friends. Kouji fumed. Getting up, he looked like he was about to kill Kouichi and I. We both backed away, raising our hands in surrender.

"Okay, okay! I'm sorry!" I cried, taking a few more steps back. He smirked and hit me anyway before turning around and walking away.

"But you still didn't answer me yet! What should we do today?" I asked, smiling from ear to ear. He glared at me but didn't say anything.

"Don't glare at me! I didn't even tease you yet!" I whined, but shut up immediately as he once again shot me another death glare.

"We should walk around. Staying here would just be like waiting for other digimon to attack us. Now we wouldn't want to carry another digi-egg in the worst case would we?" Kouichi asked, staring at Izumi and Kouji as he said his last statement. At this, Kouji turned away from me and gave him a glare before walking off.

"So what are we waiting for? Let's go already." He said, annoyance evident in his tone. But unless I was wrong, I could've sworn that I had heard a small hint of amusement in there…

Kouji's POV

The days following were about the same, Takuya teasing, Kouichi occasionally joining in on the teasing, Junpei fuming and all of us becoming entertainment for Tomoki, Bokomon, Neemon and Patamon. I had become accustomed to the teasing and insulting at this point. All sense of annoyance has been replaced with a sense of amusement at Takuya's pathetic attempts to annoy me. It was about the 19th day since Izumi had turned into a digi-tama so her egg would be hatching soon. Izumi's egg sat in my left arm as my right hand reached into my pocket, feeling her hat and D-tector there, I smiled. She would be back to her normal self soon.

'Wow Kouji-kun! You've actually counted how many days it's been since I turned into a dig-egg? I lost count after the third day!' I heard Izumi telling me.

'Has little Izumi forgotten how to count?' I teased; Takuya was starting to rub off on me. Smirking, I continued walking behind the rest of the group. Although I couldn't see her, I could tell that she was pouting.

We had come upon this unusually warm land and we were currently walking on a path along the side of a beach, a comforting ocean breeze blowing across the area.

"Hey! Let's go for a swim!" Takuya shouted suddenly.

"Yeah! Let's go!" continued Tomoki.

"Have we forgotten what happened last time we went swimming? Our D-tectors were stolen! And Izumi's not going to be able to save us this time." I reminded them.

'Hey! It's not my fault I'm a digi-egg right now!' Izumi whined. I didn't get a chance to answer her as Takuya continued.

"Alright then Kouji, why don't you watch our D-tectors while we go swimming?" Takuya stated more than he asked.

"And why should I?" I asked again, raising a brow. "Well, you have to watch Izumi anyway right? So you can watch our stuff!" said Takuya, giving me his lopsided grin.

"Fine." I agreed. "But only for a while." I added, sitting down with Izumi in my lap as the others dropped their D-tectors beside me, stripped off their shirts and jumped into the water.

'I'm sorry Kouji.' I heard Izumi say.

'What? Why?' I asked, staring at her digi-egg. She flashed orange in disappointment.

'It's my fault you can't go swimming.' She continued in a sad tone.

'It's not your fault. I wouldn't have gone swimming even if you weren't a digi-egg.' I told her.

'Why not?' she asked with curiosity evident in her voice.

'You wouldn't be able to swim with us even if you were back to normal. You don't have anything to swim in unless you swam with all your clothes on, but we wouldn't want you to catch a cold now would we?' I started, 'In other words, I would've sat here with you anyways.' I continued, slightly blushing in embarrassment. She flashed pink.

'Thank you Kou-kun. That's really sweet of you.' She whispered. We both blushed but didn't say anything.

We continued to sit there, occasionally talking telepathically. There were a few moments where there was nothing but absolute silence, but it wasn't an uncomfortable feeling. We talked about our lives back in the real world and how our families and friends were.

We sat there, talking and enjoying each other's company for an hour or so before Takuya and the others finally came back up ashore. It took a while for the four guys to finally dry themselves off and get dressed. By the time they were done, the sun had begun setting, so we decided to find some food and just set up camp for the night.

Dinner went by uneventfully and Tomoki and the others were soon asleep. Junpei was taking the first shift tonight.

I sat up in a tree this time, leaning against the trunk and letting one leg dangle off the side as I wrapped one arm tightly around Izumi's egg, being careful not to drop her. One more night… and Izumi will be back to normal…

So how was the chapter? I kind of jumped through the whole dinner process because I was too lazy to describe it. The constant teasing is getting a little old, ne?

Oh yea, and a few people asked me what telepathy and digi-tama meant. So here's the definition.

Telepathy: It is a way of communicating through ways other than talking, hand gesturing and any other visible form. Telepathy is often considered as a way of communicating through the mind or just reading other people's thoughts. Like a fish! I think… I heard somewhere that fish communicated telepathically, but I'm not sure. So in this fic, telepathy would be where Kouji and Izumi are talking by sending each other thoughts instead of saying it out loud.

Digi-tama or Digitama: Japanese word for digi-egg. 'Digi', you people should understand as short for digital. And 'tama' in this case is short for 'tamago' meaning egg.

Thanks for the reviews, FULLMETAL and FULLMETALSLILSIS! I appreciate it :D!

Okay people, here comes the questions again! What should happen in the next chappy?

a) Drag the next two days for some more teasing

b) Jump to the 20th day, let Izumi's egg hatch, have Kouji admit his love for her and let them live happily ever after and all that stuff...

c) Let ANOTHER person turn into a digi-egg! But that would be annoying wouldn't it?

d) Don't let Izumi's egg hatch after the 20th day, let Kouji be worried, and then have her egg hatch just when he starts freaking out. Then have him be all relieved and admit his love for her

e) Let Izumi's egg hatch, but don't let the story end yet, let one of them get sick or something and then MORE FLUFF!

f) Anything you think should happen in the next chapter. Let me know in your reviews!

So once again PLEASE READ & REVIEW!