The Foreign Tamer
Written by: Daigo Himura
Konnicihiwa, minna! Daigo here and this is my first fic ever! I've always wanted to write a fic about Digimon and other anime, but I just haven't had the time to do it. With diploma and everything, who can blame me? Well, this fic is a Rukato (Ruki & Takato), and the events that happen in this fic revolves 8 years after the D-Reaper incident (hey, I'm grown up, so I want the Tamers to be at my age also. Don't sue me! It's a fic right? And I'll be using their original names, and I call their name by how the Japanese would: family name first, then their own name. I like it better with their original names).
PS: Forgive me if the story is a bit boring... but this is my first time writing a fanfic... so please review. And also, there are some use of mild words.
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon Tamers or any of the merchandise that are sold with the name Digimon Tamers. I do, however, own Daigo Himura and also his Digimon, Red Agumon. Enjoy!
Life has been very peaceful for the Tamers, for they have in peace for over 8 years after the D-Reaper incident. Matsuda Takato, the leader of the Tamers now studies in one of Shinjuku's renowned college (I dunno if there is any such college), while at the same time helping his parents manage the bakery (they also sell Guilmon bread there, n it's a hit!).
Makino Ruki, the famous Digimon Queen of Digimon Card Battles still lives with her mother, Makino Rumiko and grandmother, Sata Heiko. (Is this correct?) Ruki and her mother are in good terms now, even though her mother still tries to smother her by asking Ruki to wear a dress (she still says that Ruki looks lovely in it, and Ruki...well, we know our Ruki). She also studies at the same university as Takato, but in a different class.
Lee Jenrya, the "brains" (or brainiac as Ruki calls him) of the team, now works as a computer software and program designer in his own company. The company is a joint venture company with Hypnos. Jen, his father Jannryu (is it the way to spell his name?) and Yamaki are partners in this joint venture. Jen designs software and program that is used to protect computers from viruses and digital damage.
Katou Juri, the sweet girl with the sock puppet, now also studies together with Takato and Ruki in the same university. The weird thing is that both Takato and Juri are in the same class. They always do things like studying and going to class together. When we say that they both do things together, people around them might say that they both are together as a couple. Well, the other students say that also. Don't they? In Takato's and Juri's case, it isn't. They are the best of friends, although Ruki sometimes tend to be a little bit jealous around them. And now, she hasn't used her sock puppet anymore, because she thinks that people might think she's still a silly little girl with that puppet.
The famous duo, Hirokazu and Kenta now manage a shop that sells Digimon battle cards. And guess what? Ruki and Takato are their regular customers. I mean, why shouldn't they be? They all have been through a lot of things together, so it's natural that both Ruki and Takato become regular customers of Hirokazu's and Kenta's shop. (Ruki still beat the crap out of Hirokazu and Kenta because of their clumsiness and stupidity)
As for Akiyama Ryou, the famous Digimon King, he is now a traveler, going around the world searching for something new. In short, he has become a traveling archeologist (don't blame me. I tried to make Ryou into something good and this is as good as I can make him. From what I've heard from other fics, and I'm not condemning their work, says a lot of bad things about Ryou. So, I made him a bit better than those). And, he also learned to stay away from Ruki's bad side.
You might all be wondering about the Tamer's Digimon. Well, for them, life couldn't be any better. After the D-Reaper incident, the people of the Real World has finally accepted their existence, although sometimes they still got a little scared whenever the Tamers evolve their Digimon, or in Guilmon's case, his appearance. Guilmon lives in a small house that Takato and his friends (including Ruki) made, which is located near the Matsuda bakery. Renamon stays with Ruki, but for some unknown reason, she still likes to stay hidden among the shadows, and she now likes to spend more of her time with Guilmon. Terriormon and Lopmon both stay with Jen and Shuichon. Impmon stays with his Tamers, Ai and Mako. Leomon, who was revived by a miracle a year after the great incident, stays loyal around Juri. As for Guardromon and MarineAngemon, they both help with Hirokazu and Kenta at the shop.
Okay, that is for the introduction. So, now we move on to the story.
It is a sunny Monday morning. Everything is peaceful here in Shinjuku, the birds singing happily, the people hassling around to go to work either by commuter or car, the shop owners getting ready to open their shop and many other peaceful things. In other words, everything's going ok. Until…
"ROYAL SABER!!!"
"HUARGH!!!"
"AHHHHHH!!!!! I'M LATE!!!!"
22 year old Matsuda Takato screamed as he woke from his sleep. Obviously, the Dukemon VS D-Reaper clock has done its work of waking him up.
Flashback of how the clock works
The time now shows 5.25am on the display of the Dukemon VS D-Reaper clock. Takato set the alarm clock for 5.30, so that he can wake up early and get ready to go to the college. He also set its snooze function to be activated every 10 minutes. As the clock display hits 5.30am, the Dukemon image inside the digital clock rears up his standard Royal Saber attack against the D-Reaper.
"ROYAL SABER!!!"
The attack hits the D-Reaper and this causes it to scream in agony of defeat. The scream is the thing that is supposed to wake Takato up, but did he wake up?
"Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…………."
He still sleeps after all that… but that will change an hour later.
End of flashback
Takato quickly scrambles into his bathroom, doing what normal teenagers do: brushing his teeth, taking his shower, and doing what he thinks are important to be done. After that, he scrambles to his closet, and dresses himself. When he was younger, he wears a blue-hooded sweater, short grey pants, and green sneakers. Now he sports brand new attire. He now wears a white round-neck t-shirt, normal length blue jeans, and a dark green jacket, and the gloves that bikers like to wear, but not in leather (his attire looks like what Kusanagi Kyo wears in the King Of Fighters 2003 tournament. This costume color is the default color of Kyo's attire. I'll upload the image of this Takato into Flamegaruru's website, and I'll try to color it neatly). He still wears goggle, but this one is of another design. This goggle still retains the same color, but the design is rectangular. (Don't ask me why, I think he looks cooler with a rectangular shaped goggle) He now wears dark-brown colored Nike sneakers (not those big ones that the NHL players wear, it's the one that normal street kids wear).
After dressing himself, he grabs his bag and rushes out of his room to go to college. He manages to run to the houses' kitchen and grab a piece of bread and stuffs it into his mouth. But not before he gives his regards his mom a good morning kiss, and after that he zooms out of the kitchen and out of his house. His mom manages to say goodbye to him, although Takato has left the kitchen and out of the house in a trail of heavy smoke (anime style rules!). Outside, for some reason, Takato stops in front of his Digimon's home to check up on him. When he reaches the front door of the house, he feels that everything is OK, and just to be sure, he goes in and checks up upon Guilmon. The house is still not lit up properly because of the lack of lighting during the time Takato opens the door. In the house, Takato sees that Guilmon is sleeping soundly. He smiles upon seeing this, but after his eyes adjust to the darkness of the room, he discovers something that will shock both himself and Ruki.
"AHHHHH!!!! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TWO DOING? AS IN SLEEPING TOGETHER???!!!"
Hearing this loud comment at this time of the day can make anyone that is in a deep sleep wake up, even for Guilmon. And it also meant that the other person or a Digimon that was sleeping beside Guilmon to wake up.
"Um? What's the matter Takato? Why did you wake Guilmon from his sleep?" Guilmon asks childishly, even though he has matured over the last 8 years.
"W… why is s… she s… s… sleeping together with you?!" Takato was struggling not to faint at the moment.
"She? Oh, you mean Renamon? She's been sleeping here together with me for the last 2 months" Guilmon answers him.
"Renamon? Together for 2 months? Wha… what do you mean?" Takato still can't face it yet… his face went from fresh to dead pale…
"He means that I have feelings for your partner…" Renamon answers to the trembling Takato. Takato looks at Guilmon and he nods his head with a smile while Renamon wraps her gloved hands around Guilmon's body lovingly. He was trying his best to comprehend on what Guilmon and Renamon has said to him just now, but after taking a glance of the Tamers clock on the wall (which happens to be on the wall beside Renamon), again he panicked, big time.
"ARGH!!! CHIKOKU DA!!! SEE YOU GUYS LATER!!!" with that Takato left the two lovers with a dust a smoke. (Takato does scream a lot in this fic, ne?)
"I take it that he faired well, don't you think so Renamon?" Guilmon turns towards his love.
"A bit, I might say… but I don't know of Ruki though…" Renamon looks away from his gaze, which Guilmon noticed. There was a hint of worry in her eyes…
"I know, she might be angry at you first… but after a few days, she'll be able to take the news…" he tries his best to comfort the one that he loves so much.
"Yes, you're right Guilmon. I was worried too much…" she smiled back at him, giving him the most sincere smile a Digimon could ever give.
Takato was so caught up running to his college that he didn't notice that he had passed Katou Juri at the front gates. She and Ruki were walking together to college. Ruki gave a loud sigh, seeing her best goggle head friend running to class at blinding speed, yet able to dodge other people and bystanders.
"Takato? Ohayo gozai..." Juri didn't have time to finish the sentence as Takato had already gone inside the college. "I guess he woke up late, again…" she said to herself with a smile on her face. Ruki herself was trying her best to hide a laugh, but failed miserably. With that, she and Ruki went to the lockers place to meet Takato.
As he arrived, Takato looked at the clock that was on the wall of the locker place. "7.00am… I (huff) made it… (huff) just in... (huff) time" with that he opens his locker and pulls out the things that he wants to bring to class and puts his bag inside it. Looking at the lockers door, he notices the picture of the Tamers together a couple of years ago. He smiled upon looking at the picture.
"Never imagined life right now would be like this… Katou-san has lost the sock-puppet, Hirokazu and Kenta, although still a bit stupid but now they are quite well-known in the town… Jen… never thought he would open his own company, and with Yamaki-san backing him up for that matter. For the small Tamers, well... they're doing pretty good… Ruki…." He stops him mumbling as he mentions Ruki's name. He doesn't know how the Digimon Queen affected him so much. So much so that every time someone, even Juri mentions about him liking Ruki, he blushes like hell and still denies it. Of course, this all happens out of Ruki's ear sight.
"Ruki… if only you knew…"
"Knew what, Takato?" asked Ruki, when her name was mentioned.
"ARGH! RUKI!!! YOU SCARED THE HELL OUTTA ME!!!" Takato screamed as Ruki puts her hand on his shoulder, making him jump 2 feet in the air. This caught the attention of passing students and lecturers, and this made Takato blush like mad because of embarrassment. Ruki gave him a confused look, because normally Takato would not jump that easily… even if he was on his guard against an evil Digimon.
"What's wrong with you today Takato? You don't jump this easily… is something bothering you?" Ruki asks him with the sincerity of a true friend.
"I have a news that will make both of our lives a lot more complicated than it already has… and before you say it, Katou-san, yes I did wake up late… again…" he holds his hands up in front of Juri, as if he has answered all of his friends questions.
"What? How'd you know? I haven't even asked you, or mentioned it to you…" Juri said to Takato. "Dunno, I just guessed it… ah hahahah!" Takato grins while scratching his head, plus a big sweat drop forming on his head. Juri and Ruki looked at each other, and then looked at him with a confused look.
"Well, we better stop our blabbering here and continue it in class, because we're gonna be late if we don't hurry it up!" The three friends walked together to class, although they will go to separate class later on.
"Takato?"
"Hai? What is it Ruki?"
"You mentioned to me last week, an internet friend of your from another country is coming here right?" Ruki asks him, turning her head to look at him, while secretly in her heart, she admires on how he has matured over the last battle that was 8 years ago.
"So da! Last night he called me, saying that he was already arrived at Tokyo International Airport. He'll stay at my house, since he only knows me…" he stops short of his sentence after receiving a death-glare from his secret love. "Um… since he knows only us…" he gulped at it, and after that Ruki releases the glare, and laughing at him. "Why'd you laugh at me? What did I do funny?"
"Oh Takato! You know better than anyone that I would never give that glare to you, even though sometimes you DO piss me off… I was just joking" she gives him a wink, making him blush.
"Ne Ruki, if I had known better, I would say that you two look like a couple having a nice conversation" Juri smiled brightly at the two of her friends. Both Takato and Ruki blush at her statement.
"What? Me and Takato? As a couple? You must be joking! He's my best friend, aside from you and… argh! Forget it! I'm going to class. Ja ne, Juri!" with that she left a smiling Juri, and a very broken-hearted Takato behind.
"Yappari… I knew that she doesn't like me…" he turns to go to his class sadly…
"Come on now Takato… you know she doesn't really mean it that way… girls are like that" Juri tries her best to comfort her friend. "I hope so, Katou-san… I hope so…." With that, they both head to their class. Ruki was on her way to class too, but something else was bugging her mind. That something was totally bugging her that she didn't take notice of the person that was walking in front of her.
"Juri really embarrassed me this time… ok, I know that I like Takato a lot, well... not like, I love him. But that doesn't mean that she can say it out loud in front of others, and in front of him for that matt… UMPH!"
Her occupied mind didn't have time to react as she bumped into someone else. Obviously, both Ruki and the person that she bumped into weren't looking where they were going, and landed hard on their back.
"Ittai! What the hell hit me?!"
"Ah! Gomen, gomen! Daijobu desu ka?" The person asked politely.
She looked up from her fallen position towards the person who had just collided with her. A teenager, around her age was helping her picking up her fallen books that she was carrying. A handsome looking guy was picking up her books. He has straight hair that is combed in the middle (he looks like Shinomori Aoshi) and when Ruki tries to get more details of the person, she notices that he has a vertical scar on his left eye. He sports a red jacket worn over a white round-neck t-shirt with an Autobot symbol on it, black jeans, a pair of gloves similar to Takato, and finally wearing a pair of black Adidas Sparco driver's shoes (I like those shoes very much. You know, those shoes that F-1 and rally drivers wear?). Another thing that she noticed about the teen was that there was a samurai sword that was on his belt.
"Uh… umm… I'm okay… just a bit shaken…" She stammered when the guy asked her. By this time, that person has already picked up everything that Ruki dropped and was holding it under his left arm.
"Can you stand?" He offered her his free hand to help her up. Ruki took his hand and with his help, she got up back on her feet.
"Arigatou... um, may I know your name?'Coz how can I thank someone who I don't even know his name is?" She asked him while dusting off the dust that she picked up when she fell down.
"Ah! Gomen gomen. Boku no namae wa Himura desu. Himura Daigo. You can call me Daigo-kun, Makino-san." He replied with a smile, knowing that Ruki will be surprised that he already knows her name.
"EH? How'd you know my name? AH!!! Masaka...?" Ruki's mouth was wide open, knowing what he was going to answer.
"Sou... you're guess is correct, Makino-san. I'm Takato's friend."
With the discovery of Takato's Internet friend, Ruki was so dumbfounded she couldn't move from her spot.
Who is this Takato's friend by the name of Himura Daigo? What adventure will lie ahead for our tamers? All will be revealed in the next episode of Digimon Tamer: The Foreign Tamer.
Notes: here are the translations for the Japanese words that I have used inside this fic.
Chikoku da (root word is chikoku) I'm late
Ohayo good morning
Ne kind of like saying hey, but more polite
Hai yes
Ja ne see you later
Yappari I thought so
Ittai it hurts
Gomen I'm sorry
Daijobu desu ka are you alright/ ok
Arigatou thank you
Boku no namae wa my name is
Masaka it can't be
Sou yes (sou and hai can be used in the same manner, because they have the same meaning)