You know the drill. I'll introduce the hammer and screwdriver in the next chapter if they find the time in their busy schedules to RSVP. Jerks...

Most people who fall asleep with their girlfriend expect to wake up to a beautiful sight in the morning.

Most people expect to wake up with a familiar shade of hair color as the first thing they see.

Most people expect to wake up to the wondrously familiar scent of the one they care about the most.

They do not expect to wake up to muffled laughter.

They do not expect to have to search around for said wonderful girlfriend.

And they most certainly do NOT expect to wake up to a shout of "FIRE!" followed by freezing streams of liquid straight to the face.

Most people are not Ken Ichijouji.

Said teen prodigy thrashed around in his girlfriend's bed in a flurry of confusion and anger as Yolei and her brothers drenched the poor teen with high-powered water guns.

"WOULD YOU KNOCK THAT OFF?" Ken screamed as he hefted a blanket over himself as a makeshift shield.

Despite his protests, he remained under fire. Yolei's insane cackling could be clearly heard above her brothers. After a few more seconds of intense drenching, she held her hand up as a signal to said siblings.

"Alright, guys." She said. "I think he might be awake by now."

The guns stopped firing, allowing Ken to drop the soaked blanket to the bed. He eyed the four incredulously, shivering slightly from the cold shower.

"Woman," he growled. "Why the blue hell would you do something like that?"

"Well," Yolei answered unfazed. She held up a hand to count off her reasons. "First, we needed to test out the water guns. They're brand new and needed to try them out on something. Second, I thought you might appreciate the shower. You're welcome, by the way." Ken growled again. "And thirdly, I thought we could go out this morning."

Ken's eyes narrowed slightly. "So you're telling me I'm a dirty target that was forcibly awakened at...what time is it anyway?"

"6:30 AM."

Ken froze for a moment. "I'm going back to sleep." He said as he dropped his face into his water-logged pillow.

Yolei ushered her brothers out of the room, citing the need to "let her man have his way for now." Once they were gone, Ken attempted to fall asleep again. He would've succeeded if it weren't for the fact that a set of probing fingers ran their way through his hair.

"Ken..." Yolei cooed, making an effort not to touch her new waterbed. "Wake up. Please?"

"No." Ken said through the pillow. "Let me sleep."

"Tonight, when you go to bed for the night."

"I promise you, if you don't let me sleep, you will regret it."

"Oh really?" Yolei challenged, continuing to feel up Ken's hair. "And how do you plan to make me regret it?"

Ken suddenly grabbed Yolei's wrist, catching the lavender-haired girl by surprise. He then yanked her toward him, which forced her to fall onto the bed. Yolei shrieked at the feeling of wet sheets soaking her pajamas. Her situation wasn't made much better when her once-evil boyfriend began quickly running his fingertips along her abdomen, forcing the hardest fit of laughter he could get out of her.

"ST-ST-OP IT!" She screamed through her laughs.

"Nope," Ken said as he smiled wickedly. He continued his tickle attack, not allowing Yolei a chance to breathe.

"I'M GONNA WET MYSELF!" Yolei screamed again. Ken ceased his torture so that Yolei could both catch her much needed breath and to maintain her bladder control.

"You can't," he answered. "You're already wet."

"And what...exactly...is that supposed to mean?" Yolei asked between pants.

"Your pajamas are soaked because you're laying on a bed you and your brothers soaked with water guns in an attempt to wake me up rather unceremoniously."

Yolei rolled her eyes. "You're not good with innuendos, are you?"

"I never was good with foreign languages." Ken joked. He leaned over to catch her lips in a quick kiss.

"So then, why do you want me up so early?"

"I told you. I want to go out this morning."

"Where?"

"For a run. You're supposed to stay in shape, you know."

Ken looked confused. "Why do you want to go running?"

"You're not listening, Ken." Yolei chided. "You..." She was cut off by a finger Ken placed on her lips.

"I asked why you want to go running. I don't mind a going for a jog, but I don't see why you'd want to go."

Yolei raised an eyebrow. "Is there a problem with me wanting to join my awesome boyfriend for a morning run?"

"No, but..."

"Then that settles it. Get up." She commanded, climbing off of her bed. "We need to get dressed and I need to get this stuff into the washer."

Ken rolled off the bed after her. "What am I supposed to wear? I don't have any clean running clothes."

Yolei walked over to her closet and threw the doors open. "Don't worry. I've got some clothes here you can wear." She shuffled through the items in her closet as she searched for some clothes.

"Here we go!" She exclaimed upon finding her bounty. Whirling around, she held out the clothes she'd found for Ken to see. Ken paled at the sight. In a horrible mash of colors that looked like someone failed a tie-dye class, Yolei held a pair of biking shorts Ken was sure would never fit on him and the smallest muscle shirt he'd ever seen.

"Two words, Yolei." Ken said plainly. "Hell. No."

Yolei frowned. "Why not?"

"Because it looks like a unicorn threw up on a set of kid's clothes and convinced you to hide it in your closet. I'm not wearing that."

"Fine," Yolei huffed. She turned back to her closet and dug through it again. Finding another set of clothes, she turned and unceremoniously threw them at Ken. "Wear those."

Ken examined the stuff closely. A gray muscle shirt and gray (proper size, mind you) shorts. He smiled.

"You have no appreciation for color, you know that?" Yolei asked as she pulled out a set of clothes for herself.

"I know. You wanna go first, or should I?"

Yolei raised her eyebrows. "Why not both?" She asked with a lustful grin.

"Because your parents wouldn't approve and your brother would throw me out the window after stabbing me repeatedly and pouring salt all over my body."

"Fine. Ladies first." With that, Yolei left her room and made her way toward the bathroom. Ken smiled to himself as he dropped down to sit on the floor.

I've got an insane girlfriend, he thought to himself. And I'm lucky to have her.

An hour later, both teens found themselves outside of convenience store at the bottom of the apartment complex, engaged in various stretching activities.

"So," Ken said mid-stretch. "Think you can keep up with me?"

"As I recall, you have a hard time keeping up with me."

"I meant running."

"Oh. Sure."

"Alright then." Ken said before darting off, leaving a shocked Yolei behind. "See you later!" He shouted behind him in amusement.

"GET BACK HERE, JACKASS!" She screamed as she ran after him.


A distinctly annoying buzzing sound permeated the silence that once filled the room of the Digdestined of Light. Kari tiredly groped around, searching for the offending piece of furniture that disturbed her wondrous night of sleep. Once she found the alarm clock in question, she proceeded to, in no graceful manner, yank the clock off of her and heave it to the opposite end of the room. The clock made contact with the wall, shattering from the force in which it was thrown. Gatomon, who always shared the bed with her human partner, groaned from the noise created.

"I'm not cleaning that up," she said.

Kari groaned herself. "Convince Tai to do it."

"And how am I supposed to do that?"

"Get creative." Kari attempted to go back to sleep, but something made it difficult to do so.

Something heavy.

And warm.

And whatever it was, it was making her neck feel all tingly.

She buried her face in her pillow and groaned again, as whatever was attacking her neck was doing a very good job of making her feel good. She had a good guess as to what it was. Or rather, who.

"T.K..." she said, though muffled by the pillow.

"Yes?" her attacker said.

"Stop it. I'm trying to go to sleep."

"If that were the case," T.K. mused. "You wouldn't have set your alarm clock to wake you, and by extension the rest of the house, up at 6:30 in the morning."

Kari rolled over to face her boyfriend. "Shut up."

T.K. only grinned before his lips assaulted her neck again.

"Seriously, T.K.," Kari strained under the treatment. "You've got to stop..."

"Why?" He asked as his voice lowered to a husky tone.

"Will a frying pan over the head be convincing enough?" A third voice interjected. The two teens looked to find Tai standing in the doorway with said frying pan in hand and the most evil look on his face. Kari and T.K. turned red as smoke began billowing out of Tai's ears.

"Morning, Tai." T.K. said, a sheepish grin on his face.

"Get. Off. My. Sister." Tai growled.

"Fine." T.K. climbed off the bed. "But once Kari steps out that front door, she'll be in my evil clutches." With that, T.K. began the best evil laugh he could muster. Tai slowly raised the pan, intending to bash his sister's boyfriend in the head.

"I'm gonna kill you!"

He never got the chance to swing. Instead, a ball of white fur with yellow gloves leaped from Kari's bed to a shout of "SHUT UP!" Gatomon landed squarely on Tai's face and began scratching away at his face. In response, Tai screamed in pain and stumbled backwards. Kari and T.K. watched in amusement as Tai disappeared from the doorway, cringing when a high-pitched "Hey!" and a huge thud sounded from the living room.

"Poor Agumon," Kari mused. "Having to put up with Tai."

"Anyway, why did you have your alarm clock set to wake you up this early?"

Kari slid out of bed, dragging herself over to her closet. "Well, I thought we could go out for the day."

T.K. smiled. "Really? That'd be nice."

"Good." She dug through her closet in search of the proper attire. "Because I plan on going to a place I like to consider nice."

"Which would be...?"

"A park."

"Nice indeed."

Kari pulled out a pair of outfits that caused T.K. to raise an eyebrow. Not in a way he preferred, though.

"You plan on going out in an outfit meant for visiting a gym?"

"Yep. And you're going to get dressed like this too."

"Why?"

"We're running there."

T.K. could feel his face fall hard. "I was hoping to take today off. Since, you know, today's my day off."

"Nope. I'm going to make sure you're not slacking off in your workouts, and that means that I'm going to be holding your hand whenever I get the chance."

"I can't exercise every day, you know. It's not healthy and I'd be risking injury."

Kari rolled her eyes. "I know that. That's why we're just running today. You can take the day after tomorrow off." With that, she tossed an outfit to T.K. "Now go get dressed." T.K. groaned as he dragged himself to the bathroom.

An hour later, Yuuko and Tai watched on the sidewalk in front of the apartment complex that the Kamiya family resided as Kari and T.K did some warm up stretches.

"You will be careful, right?" Yuuko nervously asked. She wasn't too thrilled about her daughter running about the city, even if her boyfriend was going with her.

"Of course, Mom." Kari said as she bounced up and down on the balls of her feet. "I'm going to be perfectly careful. T.K's going because he needs a good run and to make sure, for your sanity, that I don't do anything stupid."

"Hey," T.K. said as he thumbed toward a solid colored van with the word "CANDY" scrawled on the side. "Go for it. Looks legit."

"Hmm..." Kari looked as if she were seriously mulling over the notion. Yuuko nearly fainted, causing Kari and T.K. chuckled.

"Don't do that to me!" She cried out at the two teens.

"Sorry, Mrs. Kamiya." T.K. said. "I couldn't help it."

Yuuko pinched the bridge of her nose, wondering if it was a good idea to let her daughter roam around Tokyo. "Just...be careful."

"We will." Kari chirped. She turned to her boyfriend. "You ready?"

"Sure. Let's go." With that, T.K. ran off, leaving Kari behind.

"Hey!" She shouted, running after him. "Bye Mom!"

Tai and Yuuko watched as the two teens ran off. Yuuko smiled slightly as she started making her way back the apartment. Tai followed, face scrunched in thought.

"Should I follow them?" He asked in all seriousness.

"No. They'll be fine."

"Something feels off, though. I'd better make sure."

"What's this?" Yuuko feigned shock. "You're worried about Kari and T.K.?"

"Yeah, it happens." Tai stuck out his tongue. "I'm going to borrow the car. I'll be back later."

"Fine, but I know nothing about this."

Tai nodded as Yuuko handed him a set of car keys. As he made his way toward the family car, Tai pulled out his D-Terminal to type up an email.

'Hey. I need you to come out with me.'

He sent off the email and climbed into the car. He had just enough time to slide the key into the ignition before his D-Terminal beeped, signaling an incoming message.

'Dude. First, I'm straight. Second, there are better ways to ask someone out on a date. You should know this, man. You taught ME that.'

Tai rolled his eyes as he came up with his response.

'I need you to help me follow Kari and T.K. I'm worried something might happen.'

Tai started the car, making his way toward the restaurant where he knew his contact would be working. A new email came in.

'You know where to find me.'

Minutes later, Tai pulled up to the fast food restaurant in question. Davis Motomiya walked out of the restaurant's front door and up to the car. Tai rolled down the window to let Davis talk to him.

"Dude," he said as he leaned into the window. "It's Kari and T.K. How bad do you think things could get? If you're worried about the two hooking up..."

"It's not that." Tai interrupted. "They went out on a run a few minutes ago. I get the feeling something bad might happen."

Davis sighed, considering his options. A moment later, he came to a decision.

"I'll go see if I can take today off." He said as he walked back into the restaurant. Tai waited patiently as minutes passed. Before too long, Davis made his way out of the restaurant and climbed into the passenger seat.

"Whenever you're ready." Davis said as he buckled in. "Do you know where they're going?"

Tai nodded as he pressed his foot down on the gas pedal, causing the car to lurch forward. Both young men secretly hoped Tai's gut instincts were wrong for once.