2: Another Day, Another Dare...

The soccer match was almost over when the cheerleader appeared.

Taichi was so involved in the game that he might not have even noticed, had one of his team mates not run over to him during a break in play to point the new arrival out.

"Do you know her?" He was asked. "She's chanting your name." The wild-haired boy looked over to the sidelines to regard the cheerleader. She was wearing an outfit that looked quite familiar to him but she had long, blonde hair and he couldn't think of anyone he knew with hair like that. She was jumping around, waving pompoms and, as his friend had said, was shouting "Taichi! Taichi!" over and over.

"No idea – is she cute?"

"Haven't been close enough to see properly, sorry," his team mate ran off again to chase the ball before he could get any more information.

When the final whistle went Taichi got his chance to say hello.

Running a hand through his bushy brown hair, he sauntered over in his coolest manner.

"Hey there," he greeted the cheerleader - who seemed to be trying to leave rather suddenly – smoothly. "So, you're a fan, eh?" The cheerleader seemed to be very shy as she hid her face under her long hair. "Hey, don't be shy, I'm flattered that you came to cheer me on – I'll even dedicate that last goal to yo-"

He froze in horror as the cheerleader removed her – no, his! - wig.

"Takeru?!"

"Surprise!" The blonde responded sheepishly.

"Hee hee," Mimi chuckled to herself as she snapped another picture on her phone from her vantage point on the other side of the soccer pitch. "Oh Takeru, you are crazy!"

Her amusement was short-lived however, as a very familiar voice caused her to cringe.

"I take it you have something to do with my brother's choice of outfit, Tachikawa?" Mimi turned to flash her very best smile at Yamato.

"Yamato! I didn't expect to see you here, Takeru said you had band practice," she remarked, trying to act casual but failing miserably.

"You want to tell me what's going on?"

"Errm, well, I may have dared Takeru to wear my cheerleader outfit and cheer for Taichi…"

"For what?"

"I have to bake him a cake." Yamato shook his head in disbelief.

"He did that just to get a cake? It better be the best cake he's ever tasted."

"Oh, don't you worry, it will be," Mimi declared, folding her arms over her chest. "It will be made by yours truly, after all!"

Takeru's reward for completing the dare was presented to him at Koushiro's office the next morning. What he hadn't expected was the decoration on Mimi's cake – a photograph of him in the cheerleader outfit, mid-jump and pompoms over his head, with the words 'You Did It!' iced beautifully below.

"Wow, you really took that dare seriously…" Hikari teased as she regarded the picture and nudged the blonde in the ribs, whilst looking over at her brother, who was trying his best to not think about the previous day.

"Thanks, Mimi, it looks delicious," Takeru complimented as she handed him a slice.

"No, problem, you earned it!" The girl winked at him as she cut up the cake for everyone else to share.

"I'm not sure I'm happy about you getting involved in dares with Mimi," Yamato remarked to his brother.

"It got you cake, didn't it?" Takeru replied.

"I guess, but I still don't think I like Mimi having influence over you."

"You're just still hurting from finding out 'Mimi and Yamato Day' wasn't a real thing," Takeru shot back so quickly that Yamato almost choked on the piece of cake he had just put in his mouth.

"Whatever," he mumbled, his cheeks turning red.