The Shuffle

 

Chapter Four - Adjustment Troubles

 

Digimon belongs to Toei Animation, Akiyoshi Hongo, Bandai, Saban, Fox Kids, and

so on. They are used without permission or the intent of profit.

 

Reminder, I will be referring to the characters per the body they are in. For

example, if Mimi in Ken's body thinks about Daisuke in Mimi's body, then Mimi

thoughts will regard that body in the masculine possessiveness, that Tachikawa's

body is HIS real body since Mimi is currently male and will be referred to as

such. When Hikari, in Jyou's body, is talking she will be referred to as Jyou.

The only exception is dialogue where the characters are the ones to refer to

each other.

 

For your information, the character, Kasumi, is sort of a new character. I am

basing who she is from a cameo character from the fourth digimon movie.

 

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Excerpt from Takaishi Takeru's The Shuffle:

 

After the first night, we all woke up hoping that the previous day had been a

nightmare. However, the nightmare of reality was still on us. Piemon had

switched our bodies, and we had to quickly adjust to our new situations so that

we could fight the demon clown and make him changes us back.

 

All of us are had certain initial problems adjusting to our new bodies, Hikari

and Jyou most of all. Hikari had to deal with Jyou's older body causing her to

do something she would've never done, while Jyou's problems stemmed more from

his mother than the actual change.

 

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'Damn. This wasn't a nightmare,' was Jyou's first thoughts when he woke up. He

hoped that everything that happened yesterday was simply a dream and he would've

woken up as his true self, Hikari. No such luck.

 

Jyou groggily climb out of the lower bunk. He didn't remember having any

problems like this getting up, but that was probably something to do with this

body.

 

Jyou grumbled about the odd sensation coming from his... penis. It kind of felt

familiar to what happened last night-- DON'T THINK ABOUT THAT!

 

Jyou shook his head fiercely and realized he had to go the bathroom. He knocked

on the door to see if anyone was in there.

 

"Is that you, Hikari?" Sora questioned from inside the bathroom.

 

"Yeah, Taichi, I'll wait," Jyou replied. Hopefully the wait won't be TOO long.

 

"Um, I think I need your help," Sora called out.

 

"What kind of help?" Jyou asked.

 

"I, er, well, just come in here," Sora replied.

 

"I'd rather not...." Jyou hesitated. "Can't you tell me what's wrong?"

 

"Just get in here," Sora snapped.

 

Jyou's hand shook as he opened the door. The sight of Sora sitting on the toilet

with her pants around her ankles would've given him an erection if the need to

take a piss hadn't already given him one. Jyou swallowed hard. "You're not...

bleeding, are you?"

 

"Huh?" Sora blinked. "No. I'm having trouble... going. I need your help."

 

Jyou looked confused and surprised. "What do you expect me to do?"

 

"Tickle me," Sora replied simply.

 

"Tickle you?" Jyou questioned.

 

Sora raised both arms. "Yeah. Sora is VERY ticklish at the sides of her ribs.

One time she laughed so hard, she peed. Then she punched me in the face."

 

"I see." Jyou clamped his eyes shut, and tried to control certain urges. He told

himself that this was his brother, not Sora, and that he was truly a girl and

not a guy named Jyou. Shoving a dick into her was the LAST thing he wanted to

do. However, his body was telling him otherwise. Jyou steeled himself for the

task and started tickling Sora for all he was worth.

 

Despite asking for it, Sora still tried to fight the urge to laugh. However,

laughter ripped from her lips. The onslaught of merriment lasted for a minute

before the welcoming feeling of piss leaving her body sent a shiver through her.

 

 

"That...s... e...nough," Sora tried to say.

 

"Huh? Oh, right. Now please hurry up," Jyou requested and ran out of the

bathroom.

 

Sora shook her head. Jyou must REALLY have to go having a bulge that big in his

pants.

 

Jyou whimpered as his body wanted to do things that he didn't want to do. Is

this how all guys feel? If it was, then he would have a lot more respect for

them for not screwing every girl they meet.

 

Sora exited the bathroom a minute later. "All yours."

 

Jyou immediately rushed into the bathroom and pulled down his pants and

underwear and sat down. He almost noticed too late that he needed to push his

cock to point into the toilet, but when he tried it was too erect to point far

enough down. He remembered that guys usually do this standing, so he quickly got

up and tried to aim for the toilet. However, having never done this before, he

proceeded to piss on the back of the toilet seat cover.

 

Jyou sagged. "At least I didn't have a problem going." He then blushed in

embarrassment hearing Sora laughing outside the door.

 

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When Hikari awoke she noticed three things. One, she was still a girl. Two, that

somehow she was already rather awake and didn't feel very tired. Three, she had

a killer cramp in her side.

 

Hikari sighed as she carefully climbed out of bed. Today would be hell if her

mother had it her way. Oh, her mother meant well, but clothes shopping was the

LAST thing she wanted to do. She quickly got dressed and grabbed one of her

textbooks. Maybe she could hide out at the library or something.

 

Hikari tried to sneak out the front door, but found herself yanked by her

collar. "ACK!!"

 

"Where do you think you're going, young lady?" Mrs. Kido questioned.

 

Hikari fidgeted trying to think of something.

 

"You know we're going shopping today," Mrs. Kido stated.

 

"Yeah, but I'm a guy, Mom. I don't need to get any clothes," Hikari replied.

 

Mrs. Kido looked over the young girl, thankful she had chosen a loose pink

T-shirt and blue jeans to wear. Better than most of the stuff her new daughter

had borrowed. "Now, Juri, while-"

 

"JURI?!" Hikari screeched.

 

Mrs. Kido scowled. "Yes, Juri. And don't take that tone with me," she scolded.

"Your name will be Juri until you change back. IF you change back. I certainly

wouldn't use a boy's name for my daughter. Now we're going to have to get you

more appropriate clothes for a young lady, like you."

 

"No dresses!" Hikari protested.

 

"Of course dresses. That's what ladies should wear," Mrs. Kido stated firmly.

"I'll hold off on a kimono or two until after we know if this is permanent or

not."

 

Hikari's eyes widen. "What? You've never said anything like that about my

friends or Kasumi?"

 

"Why would I? Those are girls you sleep with, not marry," Mrs. Kido replied.

 

"I'm DATING Kasumi, Mom. I hope to marry her someday," Hikari retorted.

 

Mrs. Kido looked horrified. "Dear, she's not the type that would make a good

housewife. That's all I have to say about her. Now let's go shopping."

 

"B-b-b-but MOM?!" Hikari cried out as her mother dragged her away.

 

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Jyou wandered the streets of Odaiba aimlessly. His thoughts going in several

directions at one: Wondering how the other Chosen and himself could force Piemon

to change them back to their true bodies. Questioning what would happen if he

would never be able to return to being Hikari. And trying to figure out why he

masturbated in the shower last night.

 

Jyou clenched his eyes tight for the countless time that morning. Why did he

play with himself? He was pretty sure Taichi hadn't played around with Sora's

body. But why did he? Why did he get so aroused at seeing Sora's privates for

that matter? It was almost like his body had taken control of his actions. Maybe

guys really do think with their dicks.

 

Even now Jyou felt an urge to play with himself. To relieve a tension he had

never felt as a girl. Well, that wasn't true. There were fleeting moments he had

felt like that, like seeing Daisuke and Takeru coming out of the public swimming

pool and their swim trunks were clinging a bit too much. However, that tension

was near constant in this body. Just why did he feel like this?

 

Jyou was sure there was a medical reason somewhere in his brain, but he couldn't

access any of the real Jyou's memories yet.

 

Jyou vaguely heard the sound of bicycle bell ringing behind him and some girl

calling out something, but he wasn't paying attention. That wasn't until the

girl on the bike rode directly in front of him and stopped.

 

"Earth to JYOU!" she called out to his face.

 

"Huh?" Jyou responded. He looked over the brown-haired girl, who was wearing

glasses, a yellow shirt, and a ridiculously short pink skirt for bike riding.

Anyone the girl was riding toward could probably she her panties.

 

"What's with you? Didn't you hear me trying to get your attention?" the girl

asked.

 

Jyou scratched the back of his head. "Sorry, my mind is somewhere else at the

moment." He almost wanted to laugh at how literal that was.

 

The girl got off her bike and loosely hugged him while pouting. "Now, care to

tell me what happened to the party last night? I was all ready to go, and then

you emailed me saying it was canceled and that you couldn't do anything."

 

Jyou jumped away, not at all liking his body's reaction to that. "Who are you?"

 

The girl looked at Jyou as if he came from another planet, not counting the

Digital World. "Who am I?! You've only been dating me since you stole my bike to

help your friends fight Diablomon."

 

Jyou's eyes widened. "Jyou stole your bike?! He's dating you?!"

 

The girl crossed her arms. "What going on? Are you even Jyou?"

 

Jyou shook his head. "Um, no. I'm one of his friends. We've had our bodies

switched by Piemon."

 

"Piemon?" The girl paused in thought. "The same guy who's supposed to be in that

gate thing Holy Angemon made?"

 

Jyou nodded. "So Jyou told you all about this. Um, what's your name?"

 

"Kasumi," the girl replied. "What's yours?"

 

"Hikari," Jyou nervously answered.

 

"Hikari?" Kasumi questioned. "And he's in your body?"

 

Jyou nodded sheepishly.

 

Kasumi tried to keep herself from laughing, but failed miserably after only one

second. "You mean he's now a twelve year old girl?"

 

"Thirteen," Jyou corrected.

 

"Right, sorry," Kasumi snickered. "Oh, he's got to be HATING this."

 

"It's not a picnic for me either," Jyou replied.

 

"I do NOT want to imagine what it's like," Kasumi replied. "Sorry about hugging

you."

 

"It's all right. Just don't do that again," Jyou replied.

 

Kasumi smirked. "You know, Jyou says the same thing when I hug him in public.

So, do you know how long this switch will last?"

 

"Hopefully only a couple weeks, but we'll have to get Piemon to change us back,

and that's not going to be an easy task," Jyou answered.

 

Kasumi frowned. "You mean this might be permanent?"

 

Jyou nodded. "I'm afraid so."

 

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"My, you look beautiful," Mrs. Kido said gleefully.

 

"Yes. It looks made for you," the salesman added, pinching at parts of the dress

to make it look like it fit her better than it does.

 

'This looks ugly,' Hikari wanted to reply. It was a long blue dress with

pointless yellow ribbons sewed in odd places. She wanted to know how she gained

weight since yesterday or why she was even concerned about how she looked.

 

"Will you take it?" the salesmen asked.

 

"I'll take almost any dress but this one," Hikari replied.

 

Mrs. Kido smiled. "That's a promise then. I want to look at that one." She

pointed at a plain pink dress.

 

The salesmen sagged.

 

Hikari scowled. Her mother had just played her for a fool. She had just

obligated herself to get some dresses. No wonder her mother had chosen one this

ugly for her to wear first.

 

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"You know, I'm surprised Jyou never told us about you," Jyou commented.

 

"This is Jyou you're talking about," Kasumi returned, while walking with

bicycle. "If it wasn't for Gomamon, all I'd know about digimon is the battle

with Diablomon."

 

"Right." Jyou frowned. He wanted some way to get Kasumi to leave. Every second

they were together, the more he wanted to do... inappropriate things with her.

However, he didn't want to be rude to her either.

 

"Do you have any boyfriends?" Kasumi questioned.

 

"Well, a few guy friends, but no real boyfriend," Jyou replied nervously.

 

"Any that you hope to be a boyfriend?" Kasumi pressed.

 

"I'm not sure. Daisuke's fun to be around, but there are times he gets on my

nerves and won't leave me alone. Takeru is a close friend. Sometimes I want more

from him, and other times we're just too comfortable with each other," Jyou

answered.

 

"Too comfortable?" Kasumi questioned.

 

"Well, there are times when hanging out with Takeru feels like I'm with my

brother. Like it would be wrong to do anything with him," Jyou explained.

 

"What if he wanted more?" Kasumi asked.

 

"I... don't know. I'd want to say yes, but I'm afraid I might end up losing his

friendship if something went wrong," Jyou replied.

 

"Ah, yes. That old problem of not knowing where to draw the line between friends

and lovers." Kasumi nodded to herself. "Glad I haven't had to deal with that

problem."

 

Jyou suddenly stopped and stared at someone who just exited a clothing store.

 

Kasumi noticed and followed Jyou's eyes. "Jyou?!" she squeaked.

 

Hikari turned, wearing a pink frilly dress, and stared in horror. "K-K-Kasumi?!"

 

Kasumi snickered at first, and then nearly burst her gut laughing. "Oh, you're

so cute Jyou!"

 

Mrs. Kido walked out of the clothing store, frowning at Kasumi and said, "I see

you've already found out about this."

 

"Yeah." Kasumi nodded, trying to control her laughter.

 

Jyou was still staring. "Well, you sure do look cute, Jyou."

 

Hikari blushed and fidgeted.

 

"Until the two of you switch back, I ask you to call her Juri," Mrs. Kido

stated.

 

"Juri?" Jyou asked.

 

"Yes, a bit of a combination of Jyou and Hikari," Mrs. Kido replied. "And I'd

rather that you don't refer to yourself as Hikari while in that body. Someone

might think my son is... weird."

 

Hikari WANTED to say something about her thoughts concerning her mother, but

kept her mouth shut.

 

Jyou fidgeted. "Well, ah... I'll try." He looked over at his Hikari and asked,

"Can I talk to you privately for a moment?"

 

"Huh? Sure," Hikari replied.

 

"We'll be right back," Jyou commented ushering Hikari away. He didn't stop until

they were both in an alleyway to the side of a couple stores.

 

Hikari frowned sensing this was something big if the real Hikari went to this

extent to keep it private. "Is something wrong?" she asked.

 

"I... um... don't know." Jyou blushed. "I've been feeling... urges."

 

"Urges?" Hikari questioned.

 

Jyou's blush deepened. "You know URGES. To do inappropriate things, particular

with girls. I'm a girl, I liked guys before but now I don't get these sensation

when I look at guys."

 

"I see." Hikari nodded. "You haven't felt any urges that intense in this body."

She motioned toward herself.

 

"Right." Jyou nodded.

 

"It's not all that surprising. As a girl, you've only just gone through puberty.

However, male sexual peek is at eighteen. You're just having a hard time

controlling the natural impulses of my body since it's nearing the peek and

haven't had to deal with the higher hormone levels," Hikari explained.

 

Jyou let out a sigh of relief. "So this is normal."

 

"Perfectly." Hikari nodded. "Have you acted on any of your impulses?"

 

Jyou blushed fiercely and backed away. "Um, NO! Why would you think that?"

 

Hikari stared in shock. "What did you do?"

 

"I said I did nothing!" Jyou defended.

 

Hikari crossed her arms. "You know I'm an awful liar, and you can't lie well

either now."

 

Jyou flinched as if hit. "I... didn't mean to. It was your body. I couldn't

control myself."

 

"What did you do?" Hikari pressed.

 

"I... I... played with your _thing_." Jyou fell to his knees, and began to cry.

 

Hikari didn't know what to think. It was hard to imagine that the real Hikari

would do that. She wanted to blame herself for seeing this pain, wondering if

this could've been avoided if she had warned him about guy's sexual peek or if

she should've given permission before hand. She just didn't think this could've

happened. She sighed. "It's all right, Hikari. It's not your fault. It's just a

natural part of being a guy. If you need to, um, play again, go ahead. You have

my permission. Just don't have sex, all right?"

 

Jyou stared. "I'd never do that!"

 

Hikari nodded. "You don't have to feel guilty about this. I'm not upset at you."

 

"You sure?" Jyou questioned shakily. "I betrayed you. I abused your body."

 

"I've 'abused' my body countless times." Hikari tried to give him a reassuring

smile. "Don't worry about it."

 

"O-okay." Jyou shambled to his feet and wiped away his tears. He started to walk

away, but then stopped. "Um, Jyou, if you want to play in my body... go ahead."

He then ran away.

 

Hikari didn't know how to respond to that. She let out a little prayer that the

real Hikari would gain the crest of light or else Yagami would get none as

reliability had been betrayed.

 

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Night fell once again, and this time Jyou opted not to take a shower. He laid in

bed trying to cope with all the changes he had gone through. His restless mind

wouldn't let him get to sleep. He could only stare at the ceiling, knowing

Taichi was below him in Sora's body.

 

Jyou clenched his eyes tight. He had to avoid thinking about Sora. Jyou was

obviously attracted to her, but that was his brother in Sora's body. If he had

to think of someone, it had to be someone safe. Takeru and Daisuke came to mind,

but quickly left as they did nothing for his current state of mind. Then

thoughts of Kasumi came to mind, her slender arms wrapped around him, her going

to her tiptoes and kissing him on the lips.

 

Jyou didn't know when his hand had slipped into his pajamas, massaging his now

hardened manhood, but he guessed it didn't matter now. The real Jyou knew of his

problems, and had given him permission. He didn't like doing this, but it felt

too good to stop and didn't know how he could stop himself at this point.

 

Jyou went to work hand-jobbing himself, doing what he could to keep it quiet in

fear of waking Taichi.

 

"What are you doing?" Sora called out.

 

"Ugh, nothing!" Jyou chirped.

 

"The same 'nothing' that causes me to shake the bed?" Sora returned.

 

Jyou blushed deeply. "Ah... I... ah...."

 

"Did Jyou give you permission?" Sora asked.

 

There was a pause before Jyou replied, "This time."

 

"You did THAT before?" Sora questioned in disbelief.

 

"I can't help it with all his hormones!" Jyou defended. "I've never felt it like

this before."

 

Sora sighed loudly. "Just who are you fantasizing about anyway?"

 

"Jyou's girlfriend, Kasumi," Jyou reluctantly replied.

 

"Jyou has a girlfriend?" Sora questioned.

 

"Apparently," Jyou confirmed. "I think I got one of Jyou's memories."

 

"What do you mean?" Sora asked.

 

"Kasumi didn't kiss me when I met her today, but when I think of kissing her, it

feels like a memory and not like I'm imagining it," Jyou explained.

 

"I see." Sora paused for a moment. "Do you normally like girls?"

 

"Hell no!" Jyou shuddered. "It's just that Jyou's body reacts to girls, not

guys. Normally I'd think of Takeru or Daisuke."

 

"You've done that before?" Sora squeaked. "So which is better, as a girl or as a

guy?"

 

"Ack! TAICHI!" Jyou cried out. "Find out for yourself!"

 

Sora huffed. "I'd rather not. I don't want to do anything like that."

 

"You still love Sora, don't you?" Jyou questioned.

 

Sora opened and closed her mouth several times. "I'll answer you, if you tell me

who you like more, Daisuke or Takeru."

 

"My answer is, 'I don't know.' I'm only thirteen. I've got a lot of time before

I have to figure that out," Jyou retorted.

 

"Not a good answer," Sora returned.

 

"Whatever," Jyou huffed and rolled over. The urge to masturbate long gone.

 

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Hikari hated morning people, especially being one herself now. It wasn't natural

to be this awake this early in the day. She sighed as she made her way to the

bathroom. She pulled down the front of her pajamas and went to grab her phantom

manhood before remember she was a girl. She pulled the pajama bottoms and

panties down to her ankles and sat down. It seemed so strange to her to have to

sit down when all she had to do was pee. It may be natural for girls, but it

wasn't natural for her.

 

Finishing her duty, Hikari wiped her ass, careful not to touch herself

inappropriately. She then stood up and was about to pull up her clothes but

froze when she noticed something. Her panties were wet with blood.

 

"I'm bleeding?!" Hikari cried out in shock.

 

Mrs. Kido forced open the bathroom door after hearing that cry. "Oh, goodness,"

she said looking at the ruined pair of panties. "Your first period already. I

guess you were a bit too moody yesterday." She shrugged and then smiled

brightly. "Now I'll have to tell you all about being a girl." She paused for a

moment. "And get some red beans for dinner."

 

Hikari fell back onto the toilet and began to cry. She didn't want to deal with

this!

 

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Shin snickered at his little 'sister.' "Gee, Juri, you're awfully cute."

 

Hikari glared daggers as she sat on the couch wearing a lime green dress. "Leave

me alone."

 

"What's the problem? Maybe I can help?" Shin questioned with a joking tone.

 

"YOU can't help with this," Hikari shot back.

 

"Shin, leave Juri be," Mrs. Kido admonished before looking at her daughter. "You

sure you want pads?"

 

"Yes!" Hikari snapped. "I don't like that thing... there."

 

Shin blinked in confusion.

 

"Pads aren't as absorbent," Mrs. Kido stated. "You're more likely to get blood

on your panties."

 

"I don't care!" Hikari folded her arms. "I don't want to stick anything into

Hikari's vagina."

 

Shin looked sick as he realized what they were talking about.

 

"I could do it for you, like I did for your first one," Mrs. Kido suggested.

 

"ABSOLUTELY NOT!" Hikari cried out.

 

"Fine," Mrs. Kido huffed. "I'll get them. I'll be back soon."

 

Shuu entered the room. "What's going on?"

 

Shin quickly guided Shuu back out of the room. "You don't want to know, bro. You

just don't want to know."

 

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Hikari quickly grabbed the feminine pads as soon as her mother had returned and

dashed into the bathroom. She hiked up her dress and took off her panties. She

spread her legs as she and to found the string attached to the tampon. She gave

a quick pull and came up with only string.

 

"Damn it," Hikari cursed, tossing away the string. She then inserted her finger

into her vagina as she tried to pull out the cotton. She seized up as her

fingernail scraped against her sensitive flesh. After a couple minutes, she

finally was able to remove the tampon. She then read over the instructions on

the feminine pads and affixed it to her panties before putting them back on. It

felt odd with pad between her legs, but it was much more preferable to what she

had just gone through.

 

Hikari exited the bathroom and made her way to her room. Despite how intimately

she had touched herself, she didn't feel aroused. She wondered if it had been

because of her period or if it was simply because she was too focused on her

task. Either way, she still hadn't really 'abused' Hikari's body. She had yet to

feel aroused at all. Maybe that would change after her period was over.

 

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Piemon frowned looking down upon a large pyramid in the middle of a desert. "So

much for his so called intelligence. If he started his dark network again, those

Odaiba Chosen would be on him in heart beat." He shrugged. "Oh, well. Didn't

want him for his brains anyway."

 

Piemon floated to the ground and easily spotted the back door to the pyramid

despite it being covered by a hologram. He tapped his foot, not liking that the

hallways in this place weren't made for someone of his size. He snapped his

fingers and in a puff of smoke, he reformed himself. Now Piemon only stood

barely over a meter in height with oversized feet, head and body, and tiny arms

and legs.

 

Super-deformed chibi-Piemon's footsteps squeaked as he walked into the pyramid.

He casually walked through the place as if he had always lived there. Going

through secret passageways and electric firewalls with ease. Soon he found

himself right where he wanted to be.

 

In the center of the room was a Gazimon pounding away from the inside of a clear

cylinder. Then energy was fed into it and the Gazimon screamed in pain and began

to delete. "The king will be back!" warned the Gazimon before disappearing

completely.

 

"Interesting. He should've survived that setting," Nanomon muttered to himself.

"No matter. I'll just have the machine perfected for the next time he gets

reborn."

 

"Oh, darn. That was Etemon." Chibi-Piemon pouted. "I could've used him."

 

Nanomon jumped clear across the room, away from Piemon. "YOU?!"

 

"ME!" Chibi-Piemon grinned. "I have a business proposition for you. How would

like to get revenge on those Chosen, particularly Taichi and Sora?"

 

Nanomon raised an eyebrow at the offer, but his voice shook nervously with his

reply, "What would you have me do?"

 

"Two things!" Chibi-Piemon's hand enlarged as he raised two fingers. "First,

help me round up more playmates for the Chosen to play with. Second, I'll let

you help kill Taichi and Sora. Perform your duties well enough, and I'll make

you a Dark Master. What do you say?"

 

Nanomon hesitated, but quickly agreed when chibi-Piemon started to juggle some

swords.

 

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Author's Notes:

 

I'm not done with Jyou or Hikari just yet. Jyou will play a part in Sora's

upcoming chapter, not to mention the later group parts.

 

In the fourth Digimon movie, Diablomon Strikes Back, Jyou borrowed a bike from a

girl who was riding past him. She subsequently followed Jyou for the remainder

of the movie, only leaving him at the closing credits. She was never named,

however, the whole feel to their meeting was too much like how Satoshi met

Kasumi (Ash and Misty) of Pokemon fame to not do something with her. Which is in

part why I named the girl Kasumi... that and to have Jyou do the Dr. Tofu-like

stutter for her name.

 

Mrs. Kido's characterization: Take a stereotype, traditional mother, and blow it

out of Takahashi-styled proportions. Unlike Nodoka who emphasizes manliness,

Mrs. Kido stresses a rather narrow view of men's and women's role in the

Japanese home. To her girls should always wear dresses or a kimono, and never

work besides being a housewife. Kasumi wearing a short skirt while riding a bike

is enough for Mrs. Kido to deem her to be 'unfit' and even 'sluttish.' During

movie 4 she was wearing a short yellow skirt, in winter no less.

 

Red Beans and Rice is a traditional Japanese dish served when a girl has her

first period.

 

Jyou has two brothers, not one. In the first season, Shin was the one to help

them during the battle against Vamdemon (Myotismon). In Zero-Two, it's Shuu who

is Professor Takenouchi's student aid. You can briefly see both of them standing

next to each other in the final episodes when the families were at the Summer

Camp.

 

Thanks to Jeremy Mullin for pre-reading this.