Disclaimer: I don't own digimon unfortunately:P

Chapter 2: A Quiet Time All To Ourselves

Kouichi slept until 9.30, by which time Kouji and Takuya had already left, and were sitting in the park.

When he saw the time, Kouichi slowly got up, grabbed some clothes and went to have a shower, to wake him up. After his shower, he headed downstairs to grab some breakfast, and contemplate about what to do today.

As Kouichi finished breakfast, he heard the doorbell, and realized that he had forgotten that he'd invited Izumi over the previous day, while Kouji and Takuya were making their plans for the day.

Kouichi went to the door to let Izumi in, and found that she wasn't alone, to his dismay. Tomoki and Junpei were with her, grinning, and Izumi gave Kouichi an apologetic glimpse as she walked past, and whispered "sorry" in his ear.

"Hey Kouichi, I hope you don't mind, but we saw Izumi and she told us that she was coming to see you, and we decided to tag along, coz we haven't seen you or Kouji in ages." Junpei said, with Tomoki grinning and nodding beside him.

"Uh…yea…sure guys, come in." Kouichi stammered, standing aside to let them in.

Kouichi followed them through to the lounge room, where they had all made themselves comfortable.

"So, what were you two guys planning on doing today?" Junpei asked of Kouichi and Izumi, who both started to blush and find interesting things to look at on the floor.

"Well, we, uh, had planned on, uh, going for a walk through the, uh, woods" Kouichi said, thinking of the one place Junpei would never go, because he was afraid of the woods, after one particular sleepover when they were telling ghost stories and Junpei heard about a 'murderer' living in the woods, which, I might add, made him spend the rest of the night awake, staying up just in case the murderer decided to pay them a visit.

"Oh, well, umm, me and Tomoki should head off then, we don't really want to intrude or anything, do we, Tomoki?" Junpei said nervously, thinking about the 'murderer' living in the woods.

Kouichi hid a quick grin at this, hearing that Junpei was afraid of the woods that he had once loved to play in as a young boy, was quite funny to the rest of the group.

"Aww, but Junpei, you said we were going to spend the day with Kouichi and Izumi" Tomoki pouted.

"Yea, but that's before they said they were going into the woods" Junpei muttered, just loud enough that Kouichi heard, who quickly suppressed his grin, but the other two didn't seem to hear it.

Junpei grabbed Tomoki's hand and practically dragged him out of the Minamoto house.

As soon as they were gone, Kouichi burst out laughing, and Izumi, quickly figuring out why Kouichi was laughing, soon joined in.

"So, are we really going for a walk in the woods?" Izumi asked Kouichi, after they both managed to calm down and stop laughing.

"Yea, if you want to, its actually really nice in there this time of year, and I haven't heard from the murderer in a while, so I think he went on a vacation somewhere" Kouichi replied, laughing again.

So they walked out the back, only to be greeted by Wolf, Kouji's German Shepherd, who wanted to go with them. So Kouichi went back inside to get his lead and clipped it onto Wolf's collar. Then they walked out the back gate, and followed the path into the woods.

They walked in silence for a while, until they reached a little clearing, where they sat down and let Wolf off the lead to play, Kouichi knowing that Wolf would come (hopefully) when called, since Kouji taught him to obey his brother's commands.

Kouichi chuckled, remembering.

Izumi gave him a strange look, and asked "What are you thinking about, 'Ichi-chan?"

Kouichi blushed slightly at the nickname Izumi had given him, then, recovering slightly, said "I was just remembering when Kouji and I were teaching Wolf to obey me, the first time I ever commanded him to do anything, I told him to come, and he ran straight at me, and jumped on me, knocking me to the ground. That was one of the rare times that Kouji was actually laughing, like, real laughing, not faking it or forcing it, he was practically crying from laughing so much and he couldn't catch his breath for a while to tell Wolf to get off of me."

They both laughed at the memory, then realized the sun had moved and they were now in the sun.

They stood up to head back, but then realized Wolf wasn't there.

"Crap. If Kouji finds out I lost Wolf, he'll kill me for sure," Kouichi muttered, loud enough for Izumi to hear, as he started looking for the Shepherd.

"Well, weren't you saying before that you and Kouji were teaching Wolf to obey you? Why don't you just call him?" Izumi asked, smiling at Kouichi's worried expression as he searched for the dog, Wow, he looks really cute when he's worried!

"Wolf! Come here boy! Wolf!" Kouichi yelled, then whistled for the dog, just as Kouji showed him to.

He sighed with relief as he saw Wolf running towards them in leaps and bounds, obviously having fun and enjoying himself.

Kouichi told him to sit, before the dog came too close and had a chance to jump up on him. Wolf sat obediently for a sec, just long enough for Kouichi to walk up to him and clip the lead back on, then he jumped up at Kouichi, trying to lick his face.

"Down! Get down you mangy mutt!" Kouichi grumbled at Wolf, who just looked at him, wagged his tail, and then tried to run off.

"C'mon, 'Ichi-chan, lets head back," Izumi said, with a smile on her face.

"Uh, 'Zumi-chan, wait a sec, I've, uh, got something to tell you." Kouichi figured it was about time he told her; no one was around to listen in on them anyway.

"Yes? What is it 'Ichi-chan?" Kouichi had to look away from her eyes as she questioned him.

"Well, I, uh, Izumi, I, umm, I….."


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Don'tcha just LOVE cliffhangers!

Sorry to just leave it there, well, actually, I'm not that sorry, but anyways!

Sorry, I forgot to put a disclaimer on the previous chapter, but just so you all know, I'm poor, so obviously I don't own digimon, coz if I did, there would be lots of Takouji fluff in it, and plus, I'd be rich!

R & R please!