A/N: Greetings and welcome all to the re-write of bitter rivals! So much time had passed since I have first started this story and many things have happened and I felt that the old story wasn't as good as it could be so here I am with a new and hopefully improved version of this story! Please feel free to click the lovely review button below and leave a comment or even critisim I do take it all anything that can help me, now please enjoy! og and I do not own digimon, only the characters that I have created! Cheers!

Bitter Rivals – Chapter One – First Meeting

She sat alone in the dark, locked up in her bedroom the only sound was the clacking of keys as she furiously typed away on the computer. This is how it always was every moment she could get she would spend it here, alone and hidden away from socialization, it was how she preferred.

Golden hair tumbled over her shoulders, bouncing ever so slightly as her head was bowed as she continued her barrage of typing and hard emerald eyes reflected at her through the screen. She was not in the best of moods today. All her friends could talk about was 'ken Ichijouji, ken, ken, ken, how great he was, how smart he was, how they all wanted to be with him, go on dates with him how it would make them famous. Even the boys would all talk about how they would like to take ken on in a soccer match just to prove themselves even if they lost to him they would still get to say 'I faced off with Ken Ichijouji'.

She snorted at the thought and brought a hand down, banging it roughly on the desk, causing a small glass ornament to topple off the side of the desk and fall to the floor before cracking and falling into pieces.

She sighed and quickly swept up the glass, tossing it into the trash. How could someone get to her this bad, it was becoming rather unnerving, she did not like the idea of a rival, nor the fact that everyone thought he was better than her. Just because he was so open with his intelligence and showing off by entering competitions and making all these fancy computer programs to show. She easily could have done the same, her eyes glanced over the computer code she had typed out, she was working on a computer program herself and it easily could be just as good, even better than one of Ken's.

She turned quickly as the door creaked open and light illuminated the darkness, making the girl squint. "Could you please knock next time?" she muttered to the one whom had barged in, her mother.

"I'm sorry Syelle dear," her mother had replied, "I just wanted to tell you that dinner was ready."

"Thanks," Syelle responded, "but I'm actually not hungry right now, I'll eat later."

Her mother nodded, closing the door behind her, encasing the room in its welcoming darkness once again.

Shaking her golden head "I need a break," she murmured as she rose to her feet and slipped out the door, padding down the hallway, "I'm going for a walk," she called out, opening the front door and closing it before she could even get a response.

It was not very often that she would go out, unless it was to play soccer or go to school and such, but right now she needed to clear her head, too many thoughts plaguing her mind.

She walked a fair distance, not even realizing it; she paused as she heard cheering in the distance and picked up her pace wanting to see what the commotion was. She halted as she glanced over the soccer field, a game was going on it seemed. She watched people whoop and cheer, looked like they were playing for fun, nothing serious as there wasn't too many people there other than the players and no coaches. She sighed digging a hole with her foot in the ground, she hadn't played soccer in quite some time; she spent more time pent up in the bedroom than anything and it was more difficult for her to fit in as she played on a boys' team rather than the girls. She lifted her head as she heard someone yell loudly.

"HEADS UP!" the male's voice called out.

Syelle turned in the direction of the voice and put her hands out catching the ball quickly in her hands. She gave it a swift kick back in the direction of the boys.

"Hey! What a great catch!" A boy called out running over to her.

"Um, Thanks," she gave him a meek smile

"Good kick too," he chuckled, "would you like to come join us? You can watch, we are having a great time, we even have ken playing with us, this is one of the rare times he actually comes and does anything with us, and he's normally too busy."

"You mean Ken as in Ichijouji Ken?" She perked up.

"Yeah," he nodded to her, looking her over, noting her long slender legs that led to a slim curvy body, she also had the look of athleticism, and it was quite impressive to him, he figured that she was one of his many fan girls from the tone of her voice.

'humph watch, why would I want to watch, I'd rather be playing and beat ken down, show him who's the better player' she thought giving him a small smile and a flirtatious look, oh yes she had seen him checking her out, "just watch? Are you sure you don't need another player? I'm very capable of playing with the boys."

He turned to look at the field of players, "well we can go ask them if you can join, I wouldn't want to upset them after all. What's your name by the way?" he asked.

"It's Syelle, and I would like that, it's been quite some time since I've been able to play some soccer, I'm normally very busy with my studies," she gave a small smile as she turned to walk with him towards the group.

"Well I'm John," he took her hand and shook it lightly before calling out, "Hey guys, we have someone that wants to play with us, what do you guys say?"

Everyone turned to look to see the person who wanted to join and as if on cue they all stared and starting drooling over her.

"Are you sure she would be capable of playing with the boys?" one called out, "she is a girl after all and we boys can be a little rough when playing, wouldn't want her to get hurt."

Syelle smiled curtly as she stepped to the center of the field, her eyes scanned and paused as she looked at the one and only Ken, "I'm not surprised none of you know who I am as I don't get the chance to play soccer like I used to, but I happen to play for a boys team!" she dragged out and spoke loudly to make sure it sunk in.

Ken glanced up as he heard her say that, there was only one girl who had ever played on a boys team, he never had the luxury of playing her as she was always absent from games, he had heard she was good, he wanted to put that to the test if this was whom he thought. He walked over to the group and his indigo eyes found her emerald ones, "tell me," he spoke up to ensure everyone would hear, "you play on a boys team? You wouldn't happen to be Syelle would you?"

Her eyes went wide for a moment before it kicked in that he would have heard of her, her team had played his a few times but she hadn't been able to make any of the games. She saw all the boys gasp at the fact that Ken seemed to know her name and that it appeared to be true, she did indeed play with boys. "Why yes I am," she held out a hand, "you must be the notorious Ken Ichijouji."

"Indeed," he nodded and lightly grasped her hand before releasing it quickly, "I think we should let her play, your side can have her," he hid a smirk that wanted to surface 'I'll show her who is the best soccer player' he thought.

Syelle held back the frown that wanted to surface, pawn her off to the opposite side without a second thought will he, oh he will suffer dearly for this, and she will show him.

The boys just murmured in agreement, whatever Ken wanted, he got, they all started to line up to begin play, "let's go time is running out," one had spoken up.

"Wait!" Syelle called out and motioned with a hand, "whoever's on my team come here now," she had a fire in her eyes.

They all sighed before reluctantly making their way over to where she was standing. She placed her hands on her hips angered at how they were treating her, she even heard one of them whispering to john at why he invited her here in the first place there was no way she would be able to keep up with the game.

"look I have a plan," she spoke quietly so only the circle of her team would hear and rattled off her game plan to them, a few of them looking shocked at the plan she came up with. Looks like she wouldn't be so hindering to this game after all, a smirk graced her face as they split and made their way to center field.

"I will be kicking off," she spoke her eyes on Ken, as she took her place and he was now in front of her, it was obvious he would kick off for his side.

"As I will," he confirmed her suspicions. He looked her over, she was definitely different than the other girls, she stood firm and she didn't seem to be phased at all by his looks 'this could be interesting, for once a girl is not swooning over me, but she will be no match for me, I am perfection after all!'

They both turned to look at the boy who stood in the middle, a foot holding the ball in place, he them took a step back raising a hand to the air, "GO!" he yelled.

Ken was quick, but Syelle was one step ahead of him, just barely, she had managed to slip the ball past him with a quick kick, she held the ball under her foot with a smirk before turning quickly dodging a player from Ken's side and passing it off to another teammate. She then ran ahead and motioned for the ball to be passed to her, they complied and she received the ball once more. She kept the ball with her as she weaved and danced around the boys. Her eyes darted back and forth and she caught Ken in her sight coming for her, she needed to act fast. She motioned quickly and passed to the first person near her barely dodging a player that had slid in attempt to take the ball. She ran ahead once more, she needed to get close to the goal or this wouldn't go down well but Ken was on her heels. She took a moment to think as she got to the point where she needed to be and skidded to a halt, "pass now!" she yelled and it was once again passed to her, she quickly picked up the ball and gave it a kick into the air before bouncing it off her head roughly towards the net. A surprised yell left her lips as ken had dived to attempt to take the ball from her and she went tumbling to the ground, but her goal was accomplished as she heard a swish as the ball hit the net.

Everyone gasped, thinking that she may be hurt, she went down pretty hard. She pulled herself off the ground and brushed herself off, "wow," she looked to Ken, "that was close, but you missed I got the goal," she chuckled and walked back over, "I'm fine," she waved a hand to all of them and they breathed a sigh of relief before cheering at her goal.

The game continued onwards for a good hour at least, it was a battle between the best of the best. She made many good plays but Ken always seemed to counter with plays of his own and in the end it was pretty close, the game was currently tied and Syelle was in possession of the ball. She was maneuvering around all the players, she needed this goal she had to win, she had to show Ken she was the better player, she was sick of everyone saying how good Ken was. She danced around a player and he fell to the ground with a thud as she continued onward the goal was in sight, she popped the ball up into the air very lightly just to get it over the player that had slid in to intercept her. She made off with the ball once more, passing it off once before running ahead and when she reached her target, he kicked the ball in her direction and she slid hard into the ball making it soar into the net, and the goalie diving to catch it but missing.

Ken couldn't believe it as he watched the other side cheer and run towards Syelle to embrace her, he lost to a girl, and he never lost!

"We won!" john cheered, "We beat Ken for once! Thanks to you of course."

Syelle shook her head and chuckled softly of course they won, she never lost "It was only by one point, nothing major, but great game!" she turned to Ken and held out her hand once more to him.

Ken stared at her, "yeah great," he muttered but this time he did not take her hand he just turned and walked away, he wasn't in a pleasant mood, he never lost no one was supposed to be better than him at anything, he was perfect after all.

"Hey!" she called out and ran up to him, "you go to Tamachi high right?"

He stopped and nodded slowly, "yes, why?"

This was her time, she was finally coming out into the open, soon everyone would know of her intelligence and maybe they would talk of ken less, "because my parents are transferring me there, the courses I'm currently in are too easy, so they figured Tamachi would have that challenge I need, they placed me in all the advanced courses, I'm assuming you're in them."

"All of them," he paused and turned to look directly at her, "you know most struggle in these classes, the majority are barely making a passing grade in these classes, so you better be prepared," his tone came out harsher than he had intended.

A small smirk pulled at her lips, "I will be, I look forward to it and seeing you at school," she turned and waved a hand in his direction, "see you at school tomorrow ken," a soft chuckle leaving her lips as she walked away not even bothering to listen to ken's response, 'now he'll have to deal with me in classes competing for the tops scores! At least I will have the digital world to wind down after a stressful day.'

She took out an aqua coloured device and ran a finger lovingly across it. It was called a D-3 which allowed her to travel back and forth between here and a world called the digital world where creatures called digimon resided. It was her cool down place when she had a stressful day and needed to calm down. It was wonderful and beautiful and perhaps one day… it would be hers.