AN- Tada! A brand new spanking chapter, complete with pictures! (get to that later) It looks like there are gonna be around 11 chapters for this one, so we are a fourth of the way done! YES! Thank you for all of the reviews so far. They inspire me to write even after I'm tired from writing eight page papers and studying way too much. Thanks again.

Now, for the picture thing. I realize that the relationships among people are kind of confusing, so there is a picture I drew to help sort it out (The link is in my profile). Tai makes one of his own and explains it toward the end of the chapter, so use his explanation and the picture to get things straight. If you are still confused, just ask me the questions in a review, and I'll get them answered.

Enjoy the chapter!

Full of Surprises

Sora was on a role with her ranting. "Fighting after you just got over that fever? I had to drag you back from soccer practice all by myself because you passed out! And you could have gotten expelled, or hurt, you could have really hurt Ishida or Miyako...and fighting a girl?"

Davis interrupted her. "Miyako Inoue attacked us, not the other way around. Besides, she looks enough like a man for her to count as one."

Sora rolled her eyes, but didn't argue. Izzy grinned. The group stopped at a bunch of lockers and looked at Tai expectantly.

He realized that this must be his locker. Panicking, Tai blurted out stupidly, "I...can't remember my combo..."

Sora rolled her eyes again, but turned the lock for him. Obviously in this world Tai forgot his locker combination a lot, or just never bothered to learn it in the first place.

"What a moron..." Tai muttered.

Everyone looked at him oddly. Tai shook his head and said, "Not you guys, I meant the other me."

Silence reigned.

"Uh, I mean...me. You know, when I act stupid, it's like I'm another person!" Tai laughed nervously and knocked his fist on his head.

"Like now?" Sora asked dryly. She handed Tai his books and shut the locker, and asked Izzy about fixing her computer after school. Tai sighed in relief, thankful that Sora had changed the subject for him.

Tai started, remembering what Kari had told him before he left. "Hey, Davis? Could you pick up Kari's homework for her?"

"Sure, no problem." Davis looked saddened. "Sick again, huh?"

Tai nodded mutely, realizing that his stupid wish had caused Kari to have to deal with this again. He could never stop hurting her like this, could he? He took her to the digital world, and she got sick, and they don't go to the digital world, and she's still sick. At least the first way she got better afterwards...but Tai had ruined that now, hadn't he?

Davis noticed the darkening look on Tai's face, and patted him on the back. "She'll be fine. She always gets better, right?"

Tai nodded, not knowing if it was really true in this world, but took Davis' word for it. Tai spaced out as his friends chatted around him. It seemed so surreal to see the effects of his wish. Here, three of his friends were acting the exact same as in his world, but then the other half were either fighting him, indifferent to him, or...missing?

'Who am I missing?' Tai pondered. 'There's Ken, which shouldn't be hard if we still play soccer together. And...Joe? Oh, man! How am I supposed to find a college student whom I've never met before, supposedly. And Mimi... is in America!'

Izzy peered at Tai worriedly. "Taichi? You look like you can't breathe..."

"Oh, I can breathe, but I think I am having a brain aneurysm..." Tai explained.

"Thinking too much again? Tsk, tsk, Tai. You know that you can't go from zero to 60 too fast," Sora commented lightly.

Tai looked annoyed, but was considering her nicely in his head. Sora never acted so friendly towards him anymore, not like she used to. This Sora reminded him of his old childhood friend.

A bell wrung, signaling the start of classes. The group went their separate ways, Sora taking him to class, which he was once again thankful for. This wish had a lot of complications that he hadn't been prepared for.

'Why do these things always happen to me?'

After finishing his morning classes, which luckily were in the same place material wise as in the other world, Tai and Sora met up with Davis for lunch.

"Where's Izzy?" Tai asked.

"Izzy?" Davis looked confused.

"Yeah, Izzy. Koushirou?"

Davis nodded in realization. Sora frowned. "You haven't called him Izzy in a long time. You stopped because he said he didn't like the nickname, remember? Why the sudden change?"

Tai blushed at this mistake. "I just slipped up, I guess."

"I think it's cool," Davis said. "Why doesn't he like it?"

Izzy, or Koushirou, appeared out of a hallway and Sora turned to Davis and gave him a silent 'don't you dare bring this up to him' look. He waved to them and motioned for someone else to follow him.

Tai felt a huge wave of relief wash over him when two people walked towards him with Koushirou. Not wanting to make the same mistake as earlier, Tai decided to listen to what everyone else called them first.

Koushirou cleared his throat and said in a formal sort of voice, "You guys should remember Ken Ichijouji from your soccer experiences. He's in my advanced computer class with me. And this is Jyou Kido, who is a college student. These are my friends Taichi Yagami, Sora Takenouchi and Daisuke Motomiya."

Everyone greeted each other happily. Sora asked Jyou, "So, are you here visiting Ken?"

Jyou shook his head. "I am, in a way, but not really. I actually am here to do a field study for a sociology class. I'm not sure what my thesis is going to be yet, but I figured high school has a lot of interactions, so I should start here. I knew Osamu, Ken's brother, because we graduated together. Ken is letting me follow him around."

Ken nodded, smiling at the group. Tai was floored. Ken's brother had graduated with Jyou? But he had died... Tai marveled at this realization. He had been expecting the Kaiser-Ken, based on his luck so far, but Ken seemed normal, not laid down by the guilt of his brother's death.

"Why don't you two hang out with us for the next few days?" Tai asked, with inspiration suddenly hitting him. "I bet that we could help you with your assignment Jyou."

Jyou nodded, looking relieved. "Thanks. I actually don't know how I'm gonna do this. I'm not that great of a student. I couldn't even read my map of the school earlier."

"It was just upside down, Jyou," Ken said in a patient voice.

"I know, but still..."

The group found a place outdoors to eat their lunches under a tree. Everything was peaceful, but Tai noticed that unusual amount of girls were gathering together, all whispering excitedly.

"She's coming out here today!"

"They usual never eat around us, they always sit in that special classroom where no one else is allowed."

"I can't believe it!"

Tai watched the girls with an arched brow. The rest looked interested, but not surprised. Jyou, however, looked just as confused as Tai.

"What's going on here? Is a movie star coming or something?" he asked, as now boys were joining the throng of girls.

"No, even better," Ken explained.

Suddenly, the door to the school swung open and a group of four girls walked out. Tai recognized one of them as the girl Matt had tripped earlier this morning. Davis made a face as the second girl became visible, and Tai realized that it was his sister, Jun. The next girl had long blonde hair and hard, brown eyes, and would have been beautiful if she wasn't staring at the crowd of students like they were bugs. The final girl emerged, and the crowd sighed in admiration.

Her light brown hair was long and straight, curling slightly at the ends. She had it pulled back into a half ponytail with a few strands framing her face. Otherwise, she was dressed just like every other student, same uniform, no make up, no jewelry. But somehow, she was just...beautiful.

Maybe it was her calm face. She didn't look annoyed or ditzy like her other friends, but just...blank. Like she was observing everything with no emotion. Instead of making her seem dull or stupid, it somehow added to her beauty.

She wordlessly followed her friends through the courtyard, as the crowd just watched. Suddenly, coming to their senses, they all started shouting at once.

"Hi! Hi! HI!"

"You are so pretty today!"

A group of girls were in hysterics, shouting out, "Tachikawa-sama! You are our goddess! Tachikawa-sama!"

The girl blinked when she heard this, but no emotion passed over her face. Her blonde friend rolled her eyes and continued to lead them through the courtyard. Davis nudged Tai in the side and gave a look that said 'watch this'.

"Tachikawa-sama! Tachikawa-sama!" he called out in a girly falsetto. Everyone around him snorted in laughter. "Why do you hang out with an ugly troll like Jun?"

The group of girls turned as Jun stomped up to Davis and grabbed him by the collar. "You little twerp! I'm going to-" Jun threatened violently.

A hand touched Jun's arm, and she let go of Davis, turning to see Mimi. She gave a small, amused smile that vanished quickly.

"He was just teasing, Jun. There is no need to get so angry," Mimi explained in a soft voice.

Jun just nodded dumbly and looked in awe at Mimi. Jun mumbled an apology at Davis, and Mimi just stood there, emotionless again. Tai just stared, not believing that his bubbly, talkative Mimi was the same girl as this reserved, stoic Tachikawa. She felt his gaze, and turned to him. Tai blushed for being caught staring, but then Mimi gave him a small, friendly smile, before blanking her face again and walking back to the other two girls with Jun.

"That was weird..." Tai mumbled, watching them go.

"Yeah, Jun gets that reaction where ever she goes. She's just that strange..." Davis said, mistaking Tai's comment. Sora and Ken laughed with Davis, Koushirou smiled but went back to work on his laptop, and Jyou was furiously taking notes on what just happened.

Tai sighed to himself, and started working on a plan.

"Er, Tai? What exactly are you doing?" Kari asked as she walked into his room. Tai was surrounded by paper and was scribbling notes furiously.

Tai looked up after finishing something, and motioned for Kari to sit on his bed. She did so, tucking her feet under her and hugging a pillow. Miko walked in and sat on the bed next to Kari, purring.

Tai walked over to a marker board on his wall and pulled out three pens. He drew one stick figure in the middle. "This is me," Tai explained.

"Wow, way to go into the artistic details there, buddy," Kari teased.

Tai just continued, drawing a group of four stick figures above his head. "This is you, Davis, Sora and Iz-I mean Koushirou. You guys are my friends," Tai said, using a blue marker making an arrow between the groups. He drew another group of three to the left. "This is Miyako, Iori and Takeru. They are pretty much friendly to us, except for Miyako to me and Davis." Tai used yellow for friendly, and a gray marker for dislikes. "They are friendly to Yamato, and Takeru and Yamato are close. I'm pretty sure Yamato isn't exactly harboring nice feelings about me, though," Tai concluded drawing more arrows.

Kari just nodded, and the cat watched Tai in interest.

He drew a group of two off the side on the right. "Jyou and Ken are friendly with us, but I don't know how they feel about others." He made his yellow arrows. "Which leaves Mimi..." He trailed off, drawing her in the bottom right corner. He stood there, not knowing how to connect her.

"Who?" Kari asked.

"Mimi. Mimi?" Tai repeated, and Kari just shook her head. "God damn it! Why can't you people stick to one name and keep it! Mimi, Kari, Mimi Tachikawa!"

"Oh, I see. No one calls her Mimi, its always Tachikawa, or Tachikawa-sama. Everyone likes Tachikawa," Kari added in, trying to be helpful.

"Yeah, but no one is really friends with her except for that little group with Jun in it."

Kari shook her head. "I don't think they are even really friends with her. They call her Tachikawa like everyone else, and I never actually see them talk much. It's just like she follows them because she doesn't have anywhere else to go, and they let her come because they like the attention she gets."

Tai nodded, and examined his board again.

"Why are you even doing this?" Kari asked.

"We all need to become friends, and if I use the right connections, it shouldn't be too hard."

Kari blinked in confusion. "Why do you want to be friends with these specific people?"

Tai just shook his head. "Just trust that I know what I am doing."

Kari smiled happily. "I trust you more than anything in the world."

Tai looked guiltily at his hands, remembering that she was sick once again because of him. "Maybe you shouldn't after all..."

Kari came up and gave him an comforting hug. "I know you, Tai, and once you got a plan in your head, it would be hard to stop you from getting it done."

Tai smiled down at his sister, happy, and when she left, he started working on his plan further.

AN- Confusing? I thought so. I explain things more in detail as we go along, so hopefully things get better then. I usually put up update info and other miscellaneous junk in my profile, so look there if you want.

Thanks to these reviewers!-

Fruitloop Trooper

Lord of swords and waffles

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Miranda- Tai was just assuming that Mimi helped Sora, but she didn't. I hope this chapter made things clearer.

Vigatus- That made me laugh so hard...

KoumiLoccness

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Benign)User- Yeah! I'm so glad you realized that they were friends before the digital world. It wasn't just a strange coincidence, I did my studying before writing this.

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