Author's Note: I don't own any songs especially Digimon, if I did, I would've made it a Taiora, Mimato and Takari and happy ever after.

Oh Tachikawa!

Chapter 11: Conversions

As the last day of retreat, the class however was forced to rest for the night.

They were all in their nightgowns and jammies, with their jackets.
"I'm excited. What do you think we're going to do?" Sora asked. Mimi sighed. "I guess, we'll be up awake tonight." Mimi said.
"Do you like our retreat?" Mimi asked. Sora looked a little nervous.
"I think this retreat's the greatest thing that ever happened to me." Sora said with a smile.

"This retreat just gives me second thoughts." Mimi said with a sigh. "Mimi, you cheater!" Sora accused. Mimi looked at her with shock.

"What did I do?" Mimi asked. Sora glared at her.
"I thought you only brought your nightgowns, but why're you wearing a PJ?" Sora asked. Mimi sweat dropped. "Mom must've packed it." She said. Sora snorted.

"Well, you do have extra PJs in there, right?" Sora asked. Mimi nodded.

"Well, at least you have done one good thing for today." Sora said, looking for Mimi's PJs.

Mimi got up and went outside. How she loved the rural breeze, unlike Tokyo, it was polluted. She snugged herself with her jacket and took a walk to the garden. The mountains and trees scenery was perfect, so beautiful. She smiled at sight.

She sat at the open nipa hut again, smiling. Yamato. At thought of him and her having this deep conversation at the past few days, she become to know him better, that, he may be a jerk, but he's always there for me. I mean for us.

For the past few months they have cherished, all this little fairy tale will end in a toga and a diploma.

She jerked suddenly, when a pair of hands covered her eyes. "Not really funny. Whoever you are, stop it; you're giving me the heebie-jeebies. It's in the dark, don't even try me." She said nervously, hoping it isn't a ghost or a monster.

"Hello my hime!" a familiar voice said, taking seat beside her.

It was Yamato. She blushed furiously and glared at him. Did he call me, hime?

She turned her back away. He looked at her top to bottom. He was in his PJs and with a jacket, and it was all black. Aww man! I thought she was wearing a nightgown!

"I thought you only brought your nightgowns." Yamato commented, she turned around to him.

"But you still look hot in you pajamas, hime!" he said cheerfully. She flushed again. "Stop calling me hime!" she said doubtfully. He cocked a brow.

"Don't you want to be my princess?" he asked sadly. She sighed and turned around, not to face him. Man…what'a happening to me? I feel so, so uncomfortable with him, I usually act cool with him, not like one of his fan girls!

"Anyway, my hime, it's time to go conference room!" Yamato said, pulling her hand. She looked at his and her hand linked. His grip was tight, not letting her go. She made a tiny smile.

Yamato however looked down. I'm just trying to make her hate me more, but I can't help it to be with her.

As they reached the conference room, Mimi sat beside Yamato, with a box of tissue. Sora and Tai are at the back, in their own world. Mimi looked at them on how sweet they were. Sora and Tai…that's so interesting. They're destined. He saw her awe to the not-so-oficial couple, he breathed heavily.

Is she jealous because Tai's with Sora? He ingored them and played with his fingers. "Man, Tai's always getting Sora!" he said in a jealous tone, trying to make Mimi jealous and she did.

As soon as night falls deeper, the more the room filled.

The facilitator was there, a tall, dark haired beautiful woman about her age in 26, Ms. Nanami Kisha.

Yamato grinned. "So hime, farewell, for I have found another shoujo in my life!" Yamato joked, Mimi giggled.

"Kidding. You're the only hime for me." He said sweetly. She breathed deeply and blushed.

"Okay, let's start." Ms. Kisha said, walking to the middle.

"Since this is the last night you will sleep here in the retreat house, I would all like you to open up yourselves in one problem that affects you most." Ms. Kisha said.

"Family." She added.

"so, who here has one of their parents' is dead?" Ms. Kisha asked.

Two people raised their hands, they were Tahome and Raia. They look really depresssed.

"Okay, so whose parents are divorced?"Ms. Kisha asked once again.

About ten people raised their hands, including Maui, Yamato, Mimi and Aya.

"So, anyone who's one of their parents never seen or heard about him/her again?" Ms. Kisha asked.

Six people raised their hands.

They were all silenced.

Mimi looked at the window.

"Well, I guess all of us has family problems." Ms, Kisha said, wiping a tear in her eye. Mimi started to tear up. All eyes were on hers. Yamato as well. "Ssshh…its okay." He whispered to her ear, rubbing her back.

"Well, when I was born, at the same time I never saw my dad, not even in a photo." Ms. Kisha said.

"Whenever I get an award, my mom was the only person to be there for me, we live here in Sapporo." She said, looking down to the floor. "And sometimes, I plan for revenge, I even thought, my dad doesn't love me."

She looked at the window. "Heh. Not just that, when my mom got sick, I need to stop high school so we can pay for her medicine." She said, chuckling softly.
"I even have to work as a dishwasher on a restaurant. But thank God we were able to pay and I was back in high school." She said. Yamato simply sighed. "Anyway, in college, I have to go to Yokohama to continue my studies there. I live in my auntie's and my cousins always bully me in school. I need to do all the house chores and I also need to work to pay for the tuition fees."

"and there when I grauduated at college, I was valedictorian. I saw one of my friends, being with her happy family. While I was alone, no one has been there for me, my mom wasn't there, also."She said.

"and when I came back in Sapporo, I saw there, a man standing on front of me. My dad." She said, wiping a tear. Mimi was crying so hard.

"There, I cried and cried, and asked him, why did you leave us? He replied, he doesn't know that I am his daughter." Ms. Kisha said, she saw Mimi tearing up, she smiled weakly and whispered to Yamato, "comfort her, I know you like her." Yamato blushed furiously, Ms. Kisha just smiled.

He approached to Mimi more, just to make himself close to her. He wiped her tears away with his fingers. Mimi smiled weakly at him and mouthed a thank you.

"Then he said, are you okay? And finalized he'll never leave me again." Ms. Kisha ended her tearjerker. Sora, Mimi, Aya, Maui, Erika, Nina, all of the girls were crying, while the boys were silent, just quiet. The room was dark and if you were crying as Mimi, you can't see clearly.

Ms. Kisha looked at them for a while. "So, if you ever thought that your parents hate you, they would've abandoned you, they woul've stopped you from learning, and you wou'ld've been unexisted in the world. If you feel so hurt right now, remember that you are wrong, your parents love you so much. If they left you, don't sob, understand them, it's hard for them to leave you." Ms. Kisha said.

The room was filled with muffles and tears, Yamato tried not to shed even a single tear, but knowing he was so far away from TK and his mom, he couldn't help himself.

"Yamato," a soft feminine voice said. "Yeah?"

"Do you want some?" she asked, with her hands, the tissue box. He took some and thanked.

"Also it comes to your enemies. Your rivals in your class. If you think they hate you so much and they don't even care for you, well, again your wrong. Guys, if you're trying to ask a girl out, and she rejects you, don't feel bad, cause she doesn't want to show that she likes you. Graduating students. It maybe the last you could ever see them again." Ms. Kisha adviced.

Sora leaned on Tai; Tai couldn't help sobbing because of Sora.

"So, I want you all to stand up."

They stood up, Mimi stood slowly, and her vision was too blurred. "I want you all to take the hand beside you." Ms. Kisha said. Mimi was about to take Yamato's but he held her hand first. "I will give you 45 minutes, to confess everything about the person you're holding." Ms. Kisha said and left them.

Mimi looked at Yamato. "I'll go first." She said. He nodded. Their hands were still linked.

"Yamato, I'm sorry for the wrong things I've done to you. If you think I really hate you, I don't. Also I want to thank you," she broke off and started to sob.

"I-I also w-ant to t-thank you, b-because even if I treat you so badly, you're always there for me. You help me a lot." She said, sobbing more.

"Yamato, t-thank you for everything. You know, even if I always act like I hate you, don't feel bad, because I can never hate a friend. Yamato, if we're apart, don't forget me." She said as several tears came down from her eyes.
She wrapped her arms around him and sobbed on his chest. "I-I'm sorry." She apologized softly. He hugged her back. Her words touched him.

"I also forgot, I never go the chance to say thank you, back at the Digiworld, when Tai was yelling at me. You defended me. Thank you." She said.

"Mimi, first of all, I'm sorry if I'm always the pain in the neck." He started.

"Thank you. Sometimes even if I treat you like my own, you never feel awkward about it." He said as she felt her grip tighter. I treat you like my own…Those words made her cry more.

"I can't say much to you now. There are other things I want to say to you, but I guess this isn't the right time." He said. She sobbed more.

"Yamato, I love you." She whispered, but he didn't hear anything.

"But forever as always, infinity, or other words that are synonyms of forever, I love you." He said, the last part was hardly heard. She hasn't heard the last part and didn't bother to ask for repeat, she knows that, they aren't as bad as the others.

Ms. Kisha was walking towards the conference room, but didn't bother, when she saw Yamato and Mimi. She smiled.

Mimi didn't want to break the hug at all. She knows that, next year, she can't hug him longer. He pecked her head, so she wouldn't notice it. But to bad Mimi did, but she didn't bother. She was smiling.

Sora and Tai were still not finished.
"Taichi," Tai alerted, and tears were in his eyes. He smiled. Sora was the only one who could call him his full name.

"For the years we've shared, since childhood, I never got to say sorry." She said. He smiled weakily. Sora wept her tears.
"Taichi, I'm sorry, sometimes I forget our code of friendship. We had been friends like forever. I'm thanking you for everything. You've been always a good help, ever since the time I was kidnapped by a Digimon; you didn't give up looking for me. I never got to say thank you to that too." She said, and after a while. She hugged him.

"Sor, I want to say sorry, sometimes I break our code. I wasn't always there for you. I wasn't always been the tissue you can wipe your tears. I have another confession I want to make, but it seems we're better off as this." He said, hugging her back.

She smiled. She knows what he was thinking; she didn't bother to be his girl.

Ms. Kisha started to walk, she almost forgot that the 45 minutes are over; she just lost with her gaze from Yamato and Mimi.
"Okay, time's up!" Ms. Kisha said. Mimi let go of Yamato.

Mimi sat down, Yamato was still standing staring deeply at her. He noticed Ms. Kisha looking at him. He looked at her and she just smiled. He blushed and sat down.

"Okay, the principal gave letters to your parents. And this is their reply to you." Ms. Kisha said, giving their letters from their parents. Mimi sobbed more, when she saw the envelope, with gold ink written, "Mr. Tachikawa." Her dad. She also has a letter from her mom. They were separate.

Yamato had two also. From his mom and dad.

"You will all read the letters at the same time. Time starts now." Ms. Kisha said. Mimi opened the letter from her dad first and read.

-Dear my sweety Mimi,

You grew up so fast. I can't believe you're graduating from college. Time flies fast, does it? I know you're feeling bad about me leaving you and your mom there in Japan, but there are things my mom can't agree with. I love you Mimi, don't ever forget. Studies first, okay? No boyfriends first, okay? Wait for the time you can, you don't want to have the same mistake me and your mom made, right? I love you sweety, if you need something call me. I love you. Ever since you were a child, I love you from the start. There will be a time that me and your mom aren't existing here in the world, there are times you need to face all by yourself. Have faith. I love you so much.

PS: Your mom has told me everything about the guy, Ishida, or whatever his name is, I think he loves you, really. I know I told you no boyfriends first, yeah. But don't let him go!

Love, your dad.

As she read, she sobbed more. The personal note from her dad made her think about Yamato. She looked at him, reading the letters from his parents. She could tell he wanted to cry. She pulled him to a hug, which made him shocked.

"Go on, it's okay to cry." She said, she was also crying. He buried his head in her hair. She was quite tickled; his spiky hair was tickling her neck.

"I never wanted to bother you, my hime, but I feel so alone when I'm far from TK." Yamato told her, as few tears dropped and splashed on her shoulder.

She sobbed more and more, until there were no more tears to shed.

Her dad just left few days ago, he and her mom got an argument.

Chapter 11: Conversions

FIN.

I hope u all lyked this angsty chapter. Too bad Yama-kun and Mi-chan are too deaf to hear them say, I love you! Heh, but now we know that they both like each other! I'll be updating soon.

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