Only You... (君だけを…)
by deina-kun
Disclaimer: Characters are the creation of Akiyoshi Hongo.
Chapter 1
"Where... am I?" a honey brown haired girl blinked in confusion as she stood in the middle of a forest. The surrounding seemed so strange to her, but she felt nostalgia tugging at her heartstrings as she looked at the lush forest around her. "I don't even know where I was before I got here."
Above her was a picturesque sky blue. A soft cool breeze enveloped her, making the grass sway gently with its high pitched howl. She was beginning to fall into a daydream with the entrancing environment, but a loud roar pulled her away from the trance, sending familiar shivers up her spine. She shifted her eyes warily to find nothing before her. Twigs snapped behind her. The sound of breaking branches followed it, and she felt the nauseating paranoia fill her up as she trembled and turned to look behind her.
A large red beetle looking monster towered above her and let out a roar as its pincers opened and closed. She froze for a moment, but its first step snapped her back to her senses and she made a break for it. "I come to a place I've never been to and now I'm being chased by a big giant beetle!"
As the adrenaline rushed through her, she could feel her stamina giving in and her legs growing weak. Her build was thin and slender, but her strength wasn't enough to keep her running for long. Everything around her seemed to grow dizzy and the roaring of the monster chasing after her began to get warped as every step she took faltered and grew unsteady.
Before she knew it, she opened her eyes to find herself sitting down inside what seemed to be the inside of a metal rocket. "What in the world..." A numbing sensation filled her legs as she tried to stand up, but she fell over and ended up sprawled across the dirt ground in the forest. The metal interior no longer surrounded her.
"Nani shite iru?" a voice above here asked.
"Hehh...SUTORAIPU PANTSU. PINKU da!" he sneered as a mischievous smile spread across his lips.
Her cheeks blushed a deep red as she hear those words and she quickly stood up, patting her skirt down in embarassment. The tint in her cheeks could have matched those on the striped print under her skirt. "You pervert!"
"Cheh. Omae no sei," he turned his back to her and playfully put all of the blame on her.
"You shouldn't have been looking then!!" her cheeks burned at the rude guy's words, his actions, his pride. She opened her mouth to say more, but he turned his head to look at her. His eyes were cold and her voice trailed off as she made her realization, "You're... speaking in Japanese."
"Yeah." he quickly responded in his language.
She clenched her hand and continued the conversation in Japanese, "What is with your rude attitude?"
"I only responded to you--" he reasoned back.
"--In the rudest way!"
"Shh." his eyes narrowed. A tense silence fell between them. "Did you hear something?"
She bit her lip at the shock of being cut off in mid-conversation. "Forget it! If you won't even listen to what I'm trying to say, then I won't answer you!"
"Wait!" he turned around to see her hastily walking into the forest. "Don't go out there, it's dangerous!"
A few seconds later, she came running back in a panic and fell to her knees. Seeing her in such a pathetic state, he responded with brushing his hand up to his hair and tugging at it in frustration. "What're you going on about!?"
"There's a.. m-m-monster! It's back!!" she shrieked in between stammering. A loud roar from behind them sent her hands flying to her ears in an attempt to flush out the terrible sound.
"You've got to be kidding me!" the boy groaned as a shadow appeared above them. The red monster thrashed its way through the trees and made its horrifying presence known.
"Kuwagamon... That thing's not supposed to be out here." he took the girl's hand and pulled her along with him. "You! Get on your feet!!"
His forceful tug at her arm got her to her feet and they started running through the forest with the Kuwagamon instinctively giving chase, thrashing through the trees as it flew after them, but the girl could feel her strength slowing her running as her legs began to numb again and her footing wavered. The boy looked back at her as he noticed the added weight while he ran. He gave her hand another tug, but to no success. Her foot caught a branch and she fell to a helpless mess in the floor.
She hopelessly buried her face into her arms and shuddered at the loud roaring shriek that filled the air. 'This is it, isn't it? I'm gonna be taken away for the monster to do horrible things to me..!'
A blinding blue light filled the area for a few moments and disappeared. Everything became silent. She winced, 'Am I dead?.. The monster must have killed me so fast that I didn't even feel any pain.'
A hand lightly rest on her shoulder and shook it in a sort of panic. "Hey, are you all right?"
She flinched at the touch and lifted her head to meet eye to eye with a pair of brilliant azure blue eyes. The afternoon sun shone above him through the trees and his silhouette lightly traced his figure above her. His hair seemed to glow in a regal gold. Unable to find any words, she shyly nodded as a tint of pink blushed her cheeks.
He reached his hand out to her. "Here, take my hand."
She stared at it for a few seconds, switching her attention from his outstretched arms to his honest eyes. As her hand was about to take hold of his, a bright shock of electricity exploded behind him and he quickly withdrew his hand, clutching at his other arm with an undeniable expression of pain in his eyes. His sleeve had been cut through and blood was gashed at the place where he had been hit by a ball of electricity. He winced at the pain and clutched the wounded arm tighter, "Run!"
"Are you all right?" she asked him, getting herself up to her feet and trying helplessly to help with his wounded arm.
He pulled his wounded arm away from her and faced the Kuwagamon that was struggling to ready itself for another attack, "Forget about it, just run!"
"No, I can't!" she cried, "You'll die if you stay here."
He groaned in frustration at her stubbornness, "I said run!"
"Forget it!" she ran in front of him and stretched her arms out to protect him.
'Shit.. I'm too weak. That freaking thing really messed me up.. This stupid girl..' he fell to his knees in defeat. "I said run, you idiot!!"
Kuwagamon cocked its head back and formed an orb of electricity in the middle of its pincers. The girl realized why he had desperately been telling her to run as the orb grew to its proper size. 'This was what caused the wound on his arm?!'
The pincers separated and the electricity orb flew at a blindly fast speed toward her. She froze and shut her eyes, knowing that it was too late to run. She closed her eyes shut and hoped that she'd wake up from a nightmare, 'Save me!'
A green light flooded the surrounding area and consumed everything around them. Just like the blue light, it vanished seconds later, leaving the two in disarray.
The boy knelt in disbelief as he stared at the back of the delicate figure who stood with her arms outstretched in front of him. 'That is..'
'Am I dead?' she hesitated with opening her eyes.
"Oi. Baka-onna." she winced at the familiar voice that cut through the darkness from her shut eyes. "Open your eyes."
She did, and it took her a few moments to adjust her eyesight. "Where'd.. the monster go?"
"Forget about that." he walked in front of her as the last few strands of data disappeared into the air. His hand still clutched at his wounded arm. "What are you doing out here? Do you realize now that this place isn't safe for baka-onnas like you to be wandering around in?"
"How could you just casually call someone baka-onna?!" she snarled. "Do you seriously think I would know what's going on when there are huge human killing monsters that are chasing after us?!"
"Cheh. Follow me." he shoved his hand into his pockets and began to walk. The bleeding had stopped.
"No!" he paused at her refusal. "You'll probably lead me to a trap or send me to a nest of that big red bug thing that almost killed us!"
"Are you stupid or something? If I was going to send you into a trap, I wouldn't have nearly gotten myself killed with that Kuwagamon that was just chasing us!" his eyes burned with anger, but he didn't turn to face her, not wanting to show her the look in his eyes. "Where do you think you'd go to find your way back to where you came from? You'll be the one sending yourself to the Kuwagamon rather than me."
She froze at the realization. 'Eh. He's right..'
A silence fell between them for a while. His eyes dropped to the ground where he last saw the Digimon, 'Kuwagamon aren't even supposed to appear here.' Remembering the girl, he turned to look at her and broke the tension, "If you hurt your legs, I'll carry you there."
"But your arm's hurt." her cheeks flushed red and stubbornly took a step back. 'What if he does something perverted to me, now that he knows the kind of underwear I have on!'
"Suit yourself." he turned his back to her and started heading toward where the direction of the setting sun.
Not wanting to be left behind, she swallowed her pride and started following after him. They walked through the forest in an awkward silence for what seemed like ages. The scenery didn't seem like it was going to change any time soon, so the girl opened her mouth to start up a conversation, but a voice called out not too far away from where they were heading toward.
"Yamato-chan?"
The boy paused in his tracks as an orange-haired girl popped her head through the shrubbery. "S-Sora... What are you doing outside of the house?"
"I came looking for you," she smiled warmly to him, "I was getting worried since you hadn't come home yet."
"Ah.. who's she?" she continued, noticing that the blonde-haired boy wasn't alone, and gave a smile to the seemingly frightened newcomer. She turned her attention back to the boy. "Is she the one you've been searching for?"
A frown quickly spread across her face and he turned his eyes to the ground to hide the red that creeped its way across his cheeks. "There's no way that this baka-onna could be the one."
"Why you..."
The orange-haired girl giggled and quickly interrupted, "I'm Takenouchi Sora. Nice to meet you."
Sora piqued her interest and the girl looked at her in awe, 'Wahh.. She's so pretty. I'm kind of jealous. Even that rude boy is being looked after by such a nice person like her. It kind of doesn't fit the picture.'
"And you are?" she was pulled out of her wandering thoughts and came face to face with Sora's eager eyes.
"Ah. Tachikawa.. Mimi." she hesitated and bowed down in embarassment, "Nice to meet you, too."
'Mimi..?' he felt a sense of nostalgia at the sound of the name, "Oi, PANTSU-onna."
"Hm?" Mimi looked up but felt a vein pulse in her head as she realized what he called her. "Why don't you call me by my real name?!"
"Ah. Never mind." he turned away. 'Why did I try to get her attention?..'
"Mimi-chan, come join us for dinner." Sora gestured for her to follow. "Come, come."
He spoke before Mimi left his sight, "Ne, baka-onna."
She paused and bit her lip. "That again..."
"If you ever run into any strange people or if anything should happen to you," he paused, but kept his focus directly at her, although she didn't waver to look back at him, "search for me."
She turned her head to look at him. Their eyes stayed fixed on one another's for a few moments; her cold brown eyes to his determined blue eyes.
"Mimi-chan?" their stare broke and Mimi turned her head to the direction of Sora's voice.
"Yes, I'm coming!"
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'House?!' Mimi's mouth gaped wide open as her eyes glanced in every direction. It was unmistakeable. 'This is a mansion!!'
She stood in the middle of a large living room and gazed in awe at how large it was. A chimney stood in the middle of the wall facing where the sun set and glass doors to either side of the chimney led to a large balcony outside which stood over the entrance of the mansion.
"Hey, you." Yamato took a seated himself on the sofa and placed a cup of tea on the coffee table in front of him. "Just make sure you don't break anything."
Mimi turned her head to glare at him, but he preoccupied himself with taking a sip of tea and letting out a large sigh of relief. She felt her sanity snap at his nonchalant and laid back attitude which was much different from the one she met outside in the forest. His mouth was still as rotten.
Yamato finally noticed her fixed glare on him and he cocked an eyebrow, "What are you looking at?"
"Nothing." she replied stubbornly and turned her head to mutter curses at him. She pictured him in her mind with flames behind him as he laughed crudely, wearing the black uniform he wore. "Demon Prince."
"I heard that," he said loudly in a droll voice. He took another sip of tea. "Why did that green light come out of you?"
Mimi blinked in confusion. "Green light?"
'She didn't see it?' his eyebrow raised as she stared at her in disbelief. 'There has to be a reason why. That light couldn't have just randomly come out of nowhere and sent the Kuwagamon to oblivion. Either she's being watched over by some kind of DigiAngel, which I doubt, or--'
"Hey!!" Yamato blinked to find the girl fiddling with something around her neck. A look of impatience was spreading across her face as she continued, "Have you been listening to a word I said?"
"No," he put the cup onto the table, "I was thinking of something, sorr--"
Tears began to force their way out of her eyes and she quickly brushed them away in embarassment. She took a step back and muttered almost inaudibly before she turned to make a break for leaving the mansion. "Ahou!"
As she slammed the door leading out the living room, Yamato stood up on impulse, but accidentally knocked the coffee table hard enough for the tea cup to spill some of the tea onto his pants. He cursed his luck, but decided to ignore it and chased after her, confused and frustrated, "What did I do to her now?!"
Sora walked in with a tray of cakes, but the living room was empty. "Yamato-chan?"
Mimi ended up retiring to a garden of flowers. She fell to her knees and then sat onto the grassy area as she attempted to wipe away the tear stained look off of her face. "I don't know why I started to cry."
"What's this?" an unfamiliar yet gentle voice called out, "Are you lost?"
Turning toward where the voice came from, Mimi could only stammer a white lie, "Ahh, no, not really!"
'He's like a prince.' she gazed in awe as he chuckled and called her interesting. He was dressed in a white school uniform and his dark blue hair barely fell of his shoulders.
"Are you a student here?" he continued asking interestedly. Closing the book he seemed to be reading, he slowly took a few steps toward her. "I don't think I've ever seen you before."
'His uniform is like that boy's,' images of the rude boy flooded her mind and she shook her head to get rid of them. She felt stupid not being able to give a decent response, "Student? Ahh.. dunno.."
He stopped in front of her and smiled. The setting sun reflecting off her her necklace caught his attention.
"For you," he extended his hand to her, and offered a red rose with it, "Hime-chan."
Mimi blushed at the gesture and felt herself being subconsciously pulled toward his gesture. She almost could have taken the rose into her hands when a loud voice called out.
"Oi! Baka-onna, where--" Yamato jumped over a low brush with twigs and leaves stuck in his hair. His eyes narrowed to find that the girl wasn't alone. "Kido."
Yamato took a few steps forward, "Kido-san, what are you doing out here?"
"She looked scared; I couldn't just leave her behind. You make it seem like I'm about to do something horrible to this cute girl." he laughed heartily at the joke, "Or are you jealous, Ishida-san?"
"Not in your life." Yamato turned his head away from Joe and accidentally let his eyes fall on Mimi who hadn't said a word between the two boys, "Come back to the house. Dinner should be ready."
She stared at him stubbornly but quickly glanced away. "Yada.. kotta."
"Otome shouldn't take the kind of tone," Joe moralized with a gentle tone. He took her hand and placed the rose in it, "Ne, Hime-chan. Let's meet again?"
With a quick wave of good-bye, he walked away. The girl sighed out the emotions that seemed to be overflowing inside of her. 'He must be a prince!'
"Hey, come on," Yamato mumbled, "back to the house."
She refused, "I won't."
"Then where do you think you'll stay for the night?" he clenched his fist, but softened his tone when he spoke again, "You know how dangerous it was when you were being chased by that Digimon."
"But.." she hesitated.
"You're hungry, aren't you?" he was right.
'Ah..' she felt herself giving into his pleads, 'Zurui..'
"Let's go." he led the way and walked in the direction of the setting sun. All she could do was silently follow the silhouette of his body. She walked behind him, trailing his shadow keeping the distance far enough between her and the boy so that she didn't step on his shadow on the ground.
After about five minutes of walking she broke the silence, "Are you.. okay?"
"I'll be fine." he assured her, trying to hide his strained breathing.
"But you're breathing really hard and sweating a lot. Are you sure you're not pushing yourself too hard?"
"If anything, you're making this job much harder for me." he snapped, but bit his lip after the words escaped his mouth, 'Shit, that was too mean.'
"What do you expect me to do? Keep walking forward while you're suffering?" she looked down at the grass, but his injured arm beneath his black sleeve caught her eye.
"Just continue to walk forward," he continued, "You shouldn't have to worry about anything else."
"And I can't just let someone who's in pain keep hurting themselves."
He stopped and turned to look at her, but the look of determination and stubborness she had in her eyes made it difficult for him to keep up his cold attitude. His eyes dropped to what she held in her hands and he quickly glanced away as the encounter with his senpai trying to seduce her made his stomach turn, "I told you, it's nothing."
"No.." she barely mumbled, "You didn't."
They walked on, but a few moments later, Yamato fell to his knees and grasped at his chest, loosening the tie around his neck.
"Hey.." she stood in confusion, clutching the rose in her hands, "You're such a stubborn guy.. What am I supposed to do in this kind of situation?.."
He chuckled. "I'm glad you're all right." the last words were barely audible to her.
Before she could ask what he said again, he looked back at her and strained a smile, then stood up. "Let's go."
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"Okaeri." Sora welcomed them with a warm smile.Yamato began to speak in his droll tone, taking off his shoes and switching to slippers before heading upstairs, "Tadai--"
"Ahh. Sora-chan, it's so great to see you!" Mimi beamed with joy as she felt like going over to give her a hug, but she shyed away in embarrassment. 'Silly, I'd probably scare her if I did that!'
"Are you hungry? I prepared the food with Digitamamon for all of us." Sora opened the door to the dining room, which Mimi happily entered.
"Waah!! This looks so delicious!" her mouth gaped at the spread that laid out before her. She quickly took a seat and took a pair of chopsticks in her hands, "Ittadakimasu!"
"Slow down, you pig." Yamato walked in, wiping a towel against his wet hair. He came back from taking a quick shower to keep the girls from wondering about his torn up appearance. "You'll make yourself sick. I might even get sick watching you eat before you do."
"But it so good! And I'm starving!" Mimi easily refused and beamed with delight as she took another piece of meat from the hot pot.
"You eat like it's delicious." Sora giggled as she took a sip of tea, "It's nice to watch."
Mimi blinked and blushed shyly, "Ah, does that make me look silly?"
"That's what you are, baka-onna." Yamato scoffed.
Her shy blush quickly changed into a fit of rage. "Why you..."
"You're transferring into our school starting tomorrow." he brought the bowl up to his face and slurped some of the soup.
"Huh?"
Sora smiled widely. "We're going to be in the same class!"
"Huh?"
Yamato eyed her over the bowl of soup he held up to his face. "What is it?"
"What grade are you guys in?" Mimi asked slowly with a slight quiver in her voice.
"Chuugoku ichinensei." Yamato stuffed a piece of meat in his mouth. They were first year junior high students in 7th grade.
Mimi's eyes widened. "HEHH!??"
"What?!" Yamato coughed and nearly choked on the meat because of her response.
"That means.." Mimi looked down in overexaggerated despair.
"Mimi-chan, your face is getting pale." Sora asked and looked at her in confusion. "Are you sick?"
Mimi quickly raised her head to announce the news. "You guys are a year older than me!"
"Meh. It's okay, you'll just enter as freshmen with us." Yamato replied coolly and took another sip of his soup.
His cool attitude didn't help to calm her down at all. "B-b-but.. I might not have learned all of the things you guys have learned!"
"Don't worry about it, they won't notice." he replied and took a sip of tea. Mimi forced a weak giggle, shocked at his apathetic stance.
Yamato glanced a look at her with a menacing mischief in his eyes, "Unless you're that stupid."
That was the last straw. She felt as if a vein popped and quickly clapped her hands together and nodded. "Gochisousama deshita."
"Mimi-chan, don't worry about the dishes." Sora assured her as Mimi was beginning to take some of the dishes with her as she stood up. "I'll take care of them for you."
"Ah, okay." Mimi smiled and gave another bow. She really didn't know where the kitchen was in the first place. The door to the hallway was her quick escape. "Thank you!"
Yamato took this moment to give thanks for the food and followed Mimi through the door she'd gone through. "Gochisousama."
'Eh?' Mimi turned around after hearing the sound of movement behind her.
Yamato draped the towel over his neck. "I'll take you to your room."
Mimi's eyes narrowed as he took the lead. 'Why does it seem like he's going to do something else other than take me to my room..? Is he a pervert?! What if he's one of those boys who likes to play with little girls?! A pedophile?!!'
She glared at him for a while; so long that he stopped at the bottom of the staircase at the end of the hall to call out to her and break her away from her delusions. "I'm not going to wait for you until night comes."
"Eheheh.." Mimi hesitantly trailed behind him and followed a few steps behind him going up the stairs. 'For some reason, this is kind of creepy.'
"This is you room." Yamato stopped and opened the door for her. "You can stay here for now."
'EH?!' Mimi's jaw dropped at the well furnished room. 'What is this? Some kind of hotel suite?!'
"The bathroom is down the hall, and mine is next to yours just in case something happens." he talked in a quick and informative tone, trying to make it seem like he was uninterested. "Just don't go waking me up if you have bad dreams or if you wet the bed."
Mimi's cheeks burned in embarassment. "I'm not a child!"
"But what I said earlier," his tone completely changed and he scratched the back of his head nervously with his hand. A bandage was wrapped around the top of his arm. "I meant it."
If anything should happen to you, search for me.
The afternoon sun had set, highlighting the shadows of the furnishings in the room with blue and pink from the twilight. Mimi's ears only isolated the light rustle of Yamato's fingers running through his hair. She bit her lip, "Ne."
"Hm?" the rustling stopped and he turned to look at her with his glistening blue eyes, wondering what more she had to say.
"Saki ni," she stared at him for a moment, fascinated with the brilliant color of his eyes aside from the shadows that danced around them, but she held back and bowed before him. "arigatou."
Author's Note: Please leave a review so that I can know how you think about the story and if I should continue or not!
Characters:
- Tachikawa Mimi: 11 years, Junior High School Year 1, 7th grade
- Ishida Yamato: 12 years, Junior High School Year 1, 7th grade, black uniform
- Takenouchi Sora: 12 years, Junior High School Year 1, 7th grade, black uniform
- Kido Joe: 1x years, white uniform
Translations:
Nani shite iru? -- "What are you doing?"
Hehh...SUTORAIPU PANTSU. PINKU da! -- "Hehh...striped panties. They're pink, too!"; He uses really informal language.
Omae no sei. -- "It's your fault."; Omae is also an informal/derogatory way of saying "You".
Baka-onna -- lit. stupid woman; "stupid girl" in Yamato's case.
PANTSU-onna -- lit. panties girl; "panties girl/girl with the panties" in Yamato's case.
Ahou -- moron, idiot, jerk, etc.
Hime -- princess
Yada.. kotta. -- "No way in hell."; Informal language.
Otome -- maiden
Zurui -- "That's unfair."
Senpai -- upperclassmen
Okaeri -- "Welcome home."; A common greeting in Japan that's said to a person who arrives home.
Tadaima -- "I'm home."; A common greeting in Japan said when you arrive home.
Ittadakimasu! -- "Let's eat!"; A common 'prayer'/saying given before eating a meal.
Chuugoku ichinensei. -- Junior high first year/7th grade. In Japan, school system is K-6 elementary, 7-9 junior high, 10-12 high school.
Gochisousama deshita. -- "Thank you for the meal."; A common 'prayer' given in thanks for a good meal.
Gochisousama. -- "Thanks for the meal."; More informal.
Saki ni arigatou. -- "Thank you for earlier."