A/N: Eh...let's see. What am I doing? Oh, author's note. Okay, um, this fic is going to be (hopefully) three chapters long, one for the meeting, one for the preparations, and one for the party (hopefully I don't end up spanning the party over more chapters). The pairings for this fic, since I couldn't fit them into the summary, are as follows: Taishiro, Yamasuke, Jyouken, Takari, and Mimiyako. Sora and Iori are happily both single. R/R please...

Disclaimer: Don't own Digimon, the characters, or any of the songs the boys sing. They sing (by order of appearance): "Without Me" by Eminem, "Wait and Bleed" by Slipknot, and "Digital Bath" by Deftones.

The Meeting

"Now this looks like a job for me, so everybody, just follow me-"

Jyou covered his ears with his hands as Taichi sang the song at the top of his lungs while bouncing up and down on his bed.

"Kou, can you please shut your boyfriend up?"

"No can do. Taichi does what Taichi wants."

The redhead was obviously enjoying Taichi's singing, if that was even possible. Jyou groaned and moved to pull the pillow over his head.

"Yamato, will you please hurt your friend-"

"I felt the hate rise up in me, kneel down to clear the stone of leaves, I wander out where you can't see, inside my shell I wait and bleed-"

Jyou watched as the blonde bounced on the bed beside the brunette and groaned in defeat, falling back down onto the floor. Koushiro laughed.

"You are such a drama queen."

"Yamato can at least sing. Taichi, on the other hand-"

"Yeeees?" Jyou noted with caution the creepy look on Koushiro's face as he asked this, and decided not to talk further. Koushiro was generally a nice person, but if you talked bad about either his laptop or his boyfriend, well...let's not get into that. I'm assuming you want to sleep tonight.

"Nothing."

The door to Taichi's room burst open just then. "Hello, people!"

"Hello, Daisuke," they all chimed as the spiky-haired boy plopped onto the bed beside his blonde boyfriend.

"Hey, Yama-chan!" he said, kissing him square on the lips.

"Hey, Dai-chan," he replied, smiling. "Join us as we sing."

"Okay!"

"NO!!!"

"You move, like I want to..." they began. Jyou recognized the song and for once listened to them, since they didn't sound that bad and the song rocked anyways.

"To see...like your eyes do..."

"We are downstairs where no one can see," Jyou answered. The other three smiled and sang with him.

"New life break away," they all sang, and then stood up as they sang out on the chorus.

"Tonight, I feel like more. Tonight, I..." Yamato pretended to strum a guitar as they all calmed down again and listened to the beat in their heads.

"All hail the Deftones," Koushiro said happily.

They all murmured agreements. Daisuke laid himself over his boyfriend's lap, playing with his blonde locks of hair.

"Dai-chan, have you seen my brother or anyone else today?"

"Yeah, I saw Takeru and Hikari today. Or rather, I walked in on them making out on Takeru's couch when I went to remind them about the party thing tomorrow. Oh, and I talked to Miyako on the phone. She and Mimi were out at the mall and they were going to swing by when they were finished and had taken their stuff home and got ready."

"No one else?"

"Let me think...nope."

"I saw Sora today," Koushiro said thoughtfully. "I stopped by her mom's flower shop to make sure she hadn't forgotten about today, and she was there and told me she hadn't, but thanks anyway."

"Alright, then. Who else is there? Jyou, have you talked to your boyfriend today?"

Jyou was just about to answer when his cell phone rang. "Hold on." He answered it. "Kido Jyou here, who is this?"

He listened for a while, and then suddenly looked very tired. "Yes, Mrs. Ichijouji, I'll be right over. Yes, I'll be able to get him to come down. Don't worry, it's happened before. Okay, goodbye. Sorry to cause you all worry."

He hung up and then rose to his feet, turning to the confused faces of his friends.

"Ken's sitting on the edge of the roof of that twenty-story building downtown again and he's refused to come down until I fork over those twenty bucks and that fountain pen I owe him. I'll be right back, with Ken, in a while. See you all."

He left the room and sped down the stairs of the apartment, running towards the building his boyfriend was waiting on. The others, back in Taichi's room, all shook their heads in amusement.

"They have got to be the oddest couple I've ever known," Yamato said in wonderment. "Jyou and Ken...haha."

"Who would have thought?" Taichi asked in agreement.

"Well, you and Koushiro getting together was somewhat of a shock to me," Yamato admitted.

Koushiro laughed. "Hell, it was a shock to me too."

"And you cursing," Taichi said, shaking his head and grinning. "My poor Kou-chan, I've influenced you. You've been around Yamato, Dai, and me for far too long."

"It's not my fault we go on so many double dates," Koushiro responded, shrugging. "Cursing seems to be a hobby for you three."

"You say it like it's a fucking bad thing," responded Dai smartly, smirking. They all laughed.

The door opened again, and in walked Yamato Ishida the second and the girl that was surgically attached to her camera.

"Okay now, guys, let's watch our language from now on. Girl in the room." Taichi pointed at his sister as if to emphasize her point, and Hikari rolled her eyes and sat next to Takeru on the floor of the room.

"It wouldn't be anything I hadn't heard before. My ears, sadly, aren't virgin. I live with you, remember?"

Taichi stuck his tongue out at her in response and slid his arms around Koushiro's neck. Hikari lifted her camera and took a picture of them. Koushiro blinked after the flash went off and shook his head in amazement. "It's gotten to the point where I don't even see you take the picture. You do it so fast that when I've seen the light and blinked, it's already back in place."

Hikari laughed. "I'll take that as a compliment, Kou."

"So when are the others coming?" Takeru asked, fixing his cap upon his head.

"That's what we're wondering," responded Jyou from under his pillow.

"So you *can* hear!" Taichi said, pointing at Jyou triumphantly.

Jyou removed his pillow, shook his head, and held his hands up, giving him a what-the-hells-wrong-with-you look. Koushiro chose to laugh and not glare at Jyou this time. Taichi laughed. "You're really funny, Jyou."

"I try not to be," Jyou muttered in response.

"Anyways," Yamato broke in, "we need to get a hold of everyone and tell them to get their asses over here already. We were supposed to start the meeting half an hour ago."

"Well, we're here, so let's just start without them," Takeru reasoned.

"Okay," Taichi began, in a very leader-like manner, "first order of business: location of the party."

"Mimi's house."

They all turned to look at Daisuke questioningly.

"It's huge!" he said, holding his arms out as if to emphasize the size of the house.

"Don't you think we should ask her first?" Yamato asked, hugging his boyfriend to his chest.

"Hmmm, good idea," Daisuke responded, nuzzling the blonde's neck.

Then Yamato pulled Daisuke onto the floor and everyone quickly turned their attention away from them to give them privacy. "So we need Mimi and Miyako here first and foremost, to discuss a party at Mimi's."

"Which brings us back to needing everyone here before we can start the meeting," Taichi sighed. As if on cue, the door burst open and Mimi and Miyako entered, followed by Jyou pulling Ken along behind him.

"Please never do that again, Ken. It's getting really annoying," Jyou nagged. The other bluenette mumbled an apology and went to a corner to sit and sulk awhile. Jyou sighed and sat next to him.

Then, Sora came into the room, quickly saying sorry for being late and diving onto the floor in between Mimi and Tai. Iori followed, calmly sitting on Jyou's other side and staring intently at the rest of the people in the room.

"Right, so is that everybody?" Taichi asked, his spirits brightened at so many people arriving. They all looked around and nodded as they each did a head count of everyone there. Twelve in all.

"Okay, so I was saying that we need to talk first about the location of the party. Daisuke suggested Mimi's house, because it's big, and besides, we won't have to clean up. Is that okay with you, Mimi?"

"Sure," the pink-haired girl responded, smiling, "that would be great! My parents won't mind at all, mostly because they won't be there all day tomorrow."

"That's perfect," said Taichi, clapping his hands once. "Yamato, Sora, and Miyako are in charge of food, am I correct?"

The people in question nodded their heads and said "yes", except for Yamato, who was still making out on the floor with Daisuke. He gave a thumbs-up sign to answer.

"Hikari, you're going to take pictures?"

"Yuh-huh."

"Grocery shoppers for the things we need are...Kou-chan, Jyou, and Iori."

"Right."

"Takeru, Daisuke, and I will be providing transportation."

More nods.

"And Ken's mom is bringing the cake."

"Yeah," mumbled Ken, just audible enough for Tai to hear.

"Ken, snap out of it. Despite what you believe, you are not dying."

"We're all dying, Tai. You're dying, I'm dying, we're all dying."

A few of the more optimistic people squirmed slightly at his attitude, but not much, since they were used to the goths in their group (i.e. Ken, Daisuke, Yamato, Iori, and a bit Koushiro.) Though they weren't as depressed as Ken always was, they did have quite the "weird" streak to them. (A/N: GO GOTHS! **waves black fingernails at fellow goths out there** Fuck y'all that disapprove. If you do, why're you reading this?).

"So we're all set for the party tomorrow?"

"Yeah, we're done. Can we go now?" asked a slightly disheveled Yamato.

Taichi held a finger up into the air. "I will see you all tomorrow. Now, off to prepare and do our different jobs."

"Yeah, yeah, see you all later," Daisuke waved and ran out of the room, followed closely by Yamato.

They all followed his example and filed out of the room, talking amongst themselves and discussing what they were going to do at the party.

Soon, all who were left were Taichi and Hikari. "That was pretty easy. We could have done that and gotten it over with a lot sooner if we just did it when we were together at school," Tai pondered.

Tai's mom walked in and smiled at them. "We're going to grandma's house because it's her birthday and we need to visit."

"How old is she?" Kari asked.

"I don't know, I stopped counting ten years ago," her mom answered, laughing.

"Well, how old was she ten years ago?" Taichi asked smartly. He shared a smile with his sister, and then his mom answered his question.

"She was fifty two."

They both turned to stare at their mother weirdly but she had already closed the door.

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A/N: Please tell me you all got that dumb end joke...I know it was lame, I just thought of it when I was at the dentist's and for some reason decided to use it in my fic. Anyways, this fic is for all you people that wanted more after Cabins ended. (Yes, I KNOW I have yet to post the last chapter, but hey, I thought of this and decided to start it already!) Like? Don't like? Review!