no okay wait one more before I sink back into work:

Taichi gets a part time job at one of those upscale restaurants like one where the waitstaff wear the lil' black vests or something to pay for his keep during college and it's near closing so his co-workers tell him it's fine to sit in one of the back booths and eat then start on rolling the napkins for the next day and he's enjoying his meal--like mid-bite into a sandwich or something-- when this completely distraught looking red head just beelines it to his table and falls into the booth across from him and is all like, "Look I'm really sorry Mimi put you up to this. I'm sure you're very nice and will find somebody unparalleled but I'm not interested in anything serious right now." And Taichi, who has no fucking clue who Mimi is or what is happening just kind of foot-in-mouth asks, "So are you looking for something not serious?" And the red head goes pale and storms out and then like a couple days later comes back and apologizes to Taichi because he thought he was one of the blind dates his friend Mimi has been setting him up on lately and Taichi's just like, Nah it's fine this whole thing is hilarious and then finds out Koushirou is in his school maybe idk but they fall in love

I have thought about this entirely too in depth now and maybe they do go to the same college but Taichi actually learns his name because his friend, Sora, who generally works as the hostess calls him by name whenever he comes in and Taichi starts to realize he's quite the regular. Except Koushirou never eats anything. He pretty much just comes in, sits down with someone, and leaves. One day he's actually sitting by himself and Taichi's like, "sooo how's the not serious business going?" And Koushirou's sheepishly like, "Booming." And explains further that Mimi tries to set him up regularly and always uses the same places since her family owns a bunch of businesses in the area so she can like. Waive their meal or coffee or whatever to diffuse the situation and Taichi's like huh okay. Also Koushirou explains that the reason he assumed Taichi was the date was because he fit the description to a tee like startlingly so (because Mimi tried to set Koushirou up with Daisuke lmao) Taichi's like, "Why do you keep showing up though?" Which flabbergasts Koushirou because of course??? He'd show up??? It's not like he has their numbers to decline and tell them he's not coming--it's only polite??? Taichi finds this whole thing kind of a riot because yeah. Right of course. People go on like several dates a week just to decline them because that's /polite/.

Inevitably one of the dates gets a little annoyed maybe because Koushirou was late from school or work or something and just came in to say no thanks??? Fuck that. It's probably not a huge scene or anything but like just enough that Koushirou looks so stricken that it riles up Taichi's instincts to Do Something and since he's already filling up water glasses he just. Dumps the whole pitcher of ice water over their heads and gets fired on the spot. Mimi thinks it's the funniest thing ever and gets him his job back, probably.

That’s basically what happens when you grow up with both Digimon and Sailor Moon and find way too many potential Sailor Moon scenarios you could draw your Digimon OTP in - especially after having watched “Promise Of The Rose” approximately a million times. (Btw: Hikari, Takeru and Iori are actually looking at flowers, whereas Mimi, Miyako and Daisuke just… Happened to draw everyone’s attention to them. But don’t worry, Sora - who was actually the one who taught Koushirou the meaning of forget-me-nots in the first place - will take care of that eventually, so their friends can have their privacy.)

Edit: They couldn’t completely ignore the noise increase in the back after all.

Taichi accidentally finding out Koushirou has a crush on someone and keeps fishing for information and finally a very flustered Koushirou caves and says something that’s like the absolute highest praise and Taichi’s just like, “Oh haha. They sound really great :)” but internally is just all, “So it’s not me :(”

Anyway, Lala, you need to stop making Taichi suffer, it really isn’t good for my health.

It isn’t even farfetched to assume that Yuuko Yagami has basically accepted Koushirou as part of her family pretty early on if “Our War Game” gives any indication as to why he felt so comfortable in the Yagami household. He’d grow continuously more open towards the entire family and Yuuko, Hikari and him regularly end up cooking together when Koushirou didn’t wait for Taichi to finish football practice (let them be about 18/17 here, so Taichi would move out for university next year - and Yuuko just wants to keep her son and son-in-law at her home for as much as possible). The Yagami women also like to occasionally tease them about them being late bloomers, but they wholeheartedly support them and Yuuko will never grow tired of telling Koushirou (embarrassing/endearing) stories about Taichi’s childhood. Knowing that Taichi had always been open and accepting towards him from day 1 (ESPECIALLY in the novels), it shouldn’t be a surprise to hear that he was all over him even back then, even if he didn’t realize it until much later.