"You keep looking at everything as if it's new. You look at Mom and Dad as if they don't belong anymore. The worst part is that you don't treat me the same either as if I shouldn't exist." Mimi cried to her sister. "It's not you who shouldn't exist, Mimi... it's me. You shouldn't have a twin sister." Mina replied. The story of a girl whose past life memories reawaken and a show her past self loved becomes her current life.
LIKE A BUTTERFLY
For most of the DigiDestined, they would say their first digital adventure began when the snow fell during summer camp. But for Tai, Kari, Mimi, and I? It truly started four years ago on what had seemed like any other typical night.
But maybe I'm getting ahead of myself.
My name is Minami Tachikawa, Mina for short, and my younger twin sister by fifteen minutes and three seconds is Mimi Tachikawa.
Before that, though... I was someone else from a different earth. Or I at least had her memories. I hadn't known straight away that I had possibly reincarnated, or that I was in a world where the story of the original Digimon television show was reality. I was just a normal little girl rolling around on my bedroom floor with my younger sister in a wrestling match over who got to cuddle with our new stuffed animal when the computer in the room across the hallway started acting strangely.
"Ow, Mimi, stop pulling my hair! It's my turn to have Hello Kitty on my bed!" Mina shouted in her sister's face, as both of their hands were in each other's hair. You would think their parents would have heard them fighting at one o'clock in the morning, but their parents always slept like logs.
To her sister's displeasure, Mimi wasn't paying attention to Mina anymore. Instead, she was staring past their pink door into the hallways, her eyes lit up with wonder.
Mimi wiggled out of her sister's grasp and took off into the hallway and towards the computer room, forgetting about what they had just been fighting about. Mina huffed, stood up, and gave chase, only slowing down as she caught up to her sister, who was staring at the computer. She looked over her sister's shoulder to see what was so important to give up their fight and quietly gasped at what she saw.
The computer had a lot of strange letters and symbols running across its screen in a deep red color. They moved so fast she couldn't see if any of them were familiar to her. The two girls stood there mesmerized at what they were seeing for an unknown amount of time, too transfixed by what was happening on the computer screen. Suddenly, the letters and symbols came out of its screen, forming the letters into an egg shape until finally a giant white egg with blue spots shaped like butterflies toppled out of it and landed on the floor in front of the two sisters. The computer turned off as soon as the egg hit the floor, leaving the two sisters in the darkened room with the odd egg, their only light coming from their bedroom.
"Do computers normally lay eggs?" Mimi asked, her voice filled with confusion.
"I don't think so," Mina replied. She felt compelled to grab the egg, so she did just that, feeling happiness fill her as she touched the warm shell. Mina turned to Mimi with a huge grin and declared, "Since our computer gave us this egg it's our job to be its mommies and raise it!" Mina then grabbed Mimi's hand to lead her back to their bedroom, careful with the egg in her other arm.
Mimi giggled sleepily and followed, happy to hear that they were going to keep the egg. "But what kind of egg-" She paused for a second to yawn, her eyes drooping slightly. "-is it?"
Mina yawned as well and shrugged. "I don't know, but we should go to bed before Mom and Dad find out we haven't been sleeping." Mimi nodded in approval as they reached Mimi's bed. Mina let go of her hand and gently set the beautiful egg down on it before heading toward the light switch. After turning off the lights, Mina gently hopped into Mimi's bed next to her with their egg in between them.
"Why are you on my bed?" Mimi asked in confusion.
"Teacher said that fighting around babies is bad so...," Mina trailed off and shrugged her shoulder than grabbed the egg and laid it down in between them. As Mina pulled up the light-pink comforter, Mimi smiled sleepily and nodded in understanding.
"Goodnight Mimi," Mina whispered, leaning carefully over the egg to kiss her sister on the forehead.
Mimi gave her sister another confused look before shrugging and kissed her sister's forehead too before Mina went back to her side of the bed. "Goodnight sis."
Mina and Mimi both fell asleep as soon as their heads hit their pillows, arms wrapped around their new friend.
The next day, after a late breakfast, Mina and Mimi had brought out their egg from their bedroom to play with them in the living room. For now, they had decided not to show their parents the egg because they weren't sure if they would be allowed to keep it. Luckily for them, their parents had left an hour ago for a dinner party for their father's work and wouldn't be back until later that night. Mina couldn't understand why they had to go to a dinner party so early, but she thought it must be related to her father's position in their family's company. He is the Vice President of Tachikawa Heavy Industries.
"Hm," Mimi hummed to herself absentmindedly as she held up two dresses in front of the egg. "I can't decide which color I like on her more." She turned away from the egg sitting on the floor towards her sister and held the dresses up towards her. "What do you think, Mina, pink or yellow?"
Mina, who was sitting on the living room couch, looked up from her Game Boy and replied, "We don't even know what it will hatch into, let alone what gender it is. For all we know, it's an alien."
Mimi dropped the dresses and picked up the egg with a contemplative look on her face. "Do you really think it's an alien?"
Mina's face scrunched up in contemplation for a second before she went back to playing her video game with a lazy shrug.
"Mina, I'm serious!" Mimi whined in annoyance at her sister's lackluster reply and put one hand on her hip.
Mina paused her game and looked up at her sister.
Mimi sighed in exasperation, "If it is an alien, this could be the discovery of a lifetime! We could be famous!" She exclaimed. "Think of all the parties we'd get invited to," Mimi continued and squealed with excitement at the thought. She then did a silly dance around the room with the egg, her eyes twinkling with delight. But Mimi's dancing ended just as quickly as it had begun when the egg she was holding began shaking erratically in her hands.
"What's going on?" Mimi asked in confusion as she struggled to hold on to the egg. "The egg's shaking like crazy,"
Game forgotten, Mina got off the couch and rushed to Mimi's side. She reached out to help her sister hold the egg and when she touched one of the butterfly-shaped spots on it; it cracked. The crack spread out horizontally until it spanned the whole circumference of the egg, and out popped a creature she had never seen before. It jumped out of their hands and onto the floor, leaving behind the bottom of the shell, the top still sitting on its head like a hat.
As it hopped around the room happily, Mina quietly said, "I don't think that's an alien."
"Eh?" Mimi exclaimed in confusion. "It looks like a dandelion! Aliens aren't supposed to look like dandelions!"
"Maybe it's a yokai?" Mina replied with a shrug and walked towards the plant-like creature and got on her hands and knees.
Mimi put the other half of the eggshell down and walked over to her sister to peer over her shoulder.
"It's so cute," Mina whispered, hoping not to scare the small creature. She slowly reached out to pet it and just before she touched it, it jumped back from her. The twins watched in confusion as it shivered.
"What is it-" Mimi asked but got interrupted when the critter sprayed them both with some of its yellow hair.
Mina and Mimi were left trying to wipe the hairs from their faces as it dashed under the couch.
"Blegh I got some in my mouth! Why'd you go and scare it?" Mimi cried out.
"Me? I didn't scare it! You're the one that scared it when you spoke too loudly!" Mina turned and shouted back.
"Did not!" Mimi shouted louder.
"Did too!" Mina replied.
Before Mimi could reply there was a small sound from under the couch and more hair came out from under it, landing on the floor and their slippers.
Mina's anger deflated with a sigh and said "We should clean all of this up before Mom and Dad come home."
"But we need to get our baby out from under the couch." Mimi said with a thoughtful look."
AN: Shouldn't have posted this chapter but I am too excited to keep it hidden any longer.