T4L: Well as promised here is the first part of what the tamers are doing while Takato's in the digital world.

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T4L: Oh that's right Terriermon couldn't make it today. I think he said something about visiting somebody or something... Anyways hope you like this side story. Oh and this will mainly be in Rika and Henry's perspective, with a bit of Ryo's as well.

Disclaimer: I don't own digimon.

Digimon Tamers 2

Side story to The chosen Tamer: Digital Frontier

Tamers side

Chapter 1: Missing.

Rika stormed through the streets searching for two people who she fully intended to kill.

The first person was no longer on the same planet. But most people didn't know that.

The second was still on the planet and scared witless, as he was hiding from the girl who he knew was looking for him.

'When I find those two I'm going to kill them...! They were the ones who always said we were friends and should stick up for each other and not to lie to each other... But here they are lying to me...!' Rika thought with venom in her throat.

A streak of blue hair flew past Rika's line of vision across the street. She only knew one person with that colored hair.

"HENRY!" Rika shouted as she ran after him.

Henry turned his head as he was running. "...Hey Rika what's up? ...Did you find Takato yet?" Henry asked hoping she would be distracted by the question and stop chasing him.

Rika was infuriated by this question. "NO! But I did find out you're in league with him!" Rika shouted as she sped up towards Henry.

'Oh crap!' "What? No I was just helping him out. He didn't want to be killed by you..." Henry said as he continued to run.

"Like I would hurt him!" Rika yelled as she caught up with Henry and grabbed him by his neck. "Now tell me for real this time. Where is Takato?"

Henry looked at Rika. This was a question that was the only way out of this situation.

"I don't know..." Henry said looking her in the eyes. It wasn't a lie, Henry really had no idea where Takato was now. He could be still here just about to enter the digital world or he could be god knows where in the digital world.

Rika looked like she was going to explode. "What do you mean you don't know where he is!" Rika screamed.

"He... He said he needed time to himself." Henry said as he did some quick thinking. "Said something about a fight and that it really shook him up." Henry said still looking into her eyes. He was being completely honest Takato had told him about the fight between himself and Rika and how it had shaken him up. Takato also said he needed to be alone on this journey that he was going on.

Rika hearing this looked at Henry searching for any truth in what he had just said. After a while she could find no evidence that he was lying. "So... you were just being a good friend...?"

"Yeah..." Henry said still in Rika's grip.

Rika let go of Henry and hid her face from him. But that didn't stop Henry from seeing a few tiers falling from her eyes.

Rika was crying. She was disgusted with herself for doing it but yet she couldn't help it. She was sad that Takato was hurt from what happened the previous night, along with happy that he was because it meant he did care about still being her friend, but disappointed about him not wanting to see her or anyone else because of it.

"W-...well I should be getting home..." Rika said trying to suck up some of her tiers as she began to walk to her house.

'You really owe me big for this Takato...' Henry thought to himself as he too began to walk home.

*The next day 11: 15 A.M.*

Rika was still laying in bed as she heard her cell-phone ring.

'Who could that be...?' Rika thought as she reached her hand out of her bed and grabbed her cell-phone. She was shocked when she saw Takato's house phone number on the screen.

Rika let a small smile spread across her face as she flipped her phone opened and answered the call.

"Hello." Rika said once the phone was up to her face.

"Rika is this you?!" Came Mie Matsuki's panicky voice from the other end of the phone.

"Mrs. Matsuki?! Is that you? Why are you calling?" Rika asked in a state of confusion.

"Have you seen Takato in the last twenty-four hours?!" Mrs. Matsuki asked still panicked.

"What...? No why?! Is he okay?!" Rika asked worried now.

"Rika. Takato never came home last night... When me and my husband got home half the bread supply was gone along with Takato's back pack and cards..."

Rika almost dropped her phone. 'Takato's missing...?' "Do you think he ran away...?" Rika asked hoping to hear a confident No, but what she heard only made the pain that she was now feeling in her chest ache even more.

"That's exactly what we think he did." Came Mrs. Matsuki's voice. "But we have no idea why he would do such a thing."

Rika had a good idea of why he would, but she wasn't ready to tell Mrs. Matsuki about it yet... 'Takato left because of me... I shouldn't have pushed him so hard about that secret of his... Then we wouldn't of had that fight and Takato would still be here... I'm s-sorry Takato... If I hadn't let my jealousy get the better of me you wouldn't have had to runaway like this... But it's so hard some times... when I see the way you look at Jeri... I-...'

"Well if you see Takato bring him back home will you Rika?" Came Mrs. Matsuki's voice from the phone. Rika had forgotten all about Mrs. Matsuki during her thinking.

"...Right I will... Bye..." Rika hung up her cell-phone and tossed it away from her as she began to cry again.

'Why did I have to let my jealousy get the best of me...? Why couldn't I have just let it go...?' Rika thought to herself as she cried.

'...Because if it's true that Takato is in love with another girl that means you can't have him...' A voice said in the back of Rika's mind.

'What do you mean...?' Rika asked the voice.

'I thought it was obvious. ...You love the boy, and you want to be with him, not to mention you want him to want to be with you...' Came the voice's response.

'Is that selfish of me...? To want the one I love to love me in return...' Rika asked the voice.

'To a certain point...' Was the voice's answer.

How exactly did Rika end up falling for Takato you may ask. Well before we continue I'll explain. When Rika first asked Takato to come to her house after he beat her and the digimon card game, she had just intended to see if he had somehow won by chance. The second time he went to her house it was because she had had fun and wanted to become better friends with him. By the eleventh time he came over to her house she was beginning to feel something warm and fussy in her chest whenever she was around him. And then finally after the seventeenth time he had came to her house she had fully recognized what she was feeling for him as love.

Now back to the story because I'm not the greatest at righting about love and relation-ships...

A cell-phone ringing brought Rika back to reality.

Rika got up and went over to where her cell-phone was laying and picked it up.

"H-hello" Rika said trying to stop crying.

"Rika it's me Ryo." Came Ryo Akiyama's voice from the other end of the phone.

"How did you get this number Ryo?" Rika asked with disgust.

"Henry gave it to me... Anyways me and the rest of the tamers are going to meet at the park to search for Takato. You wanna come?" Ryo asked.

"What do you think..." Rika asked sarcasticly.

"Yes...?" Ryo said unsure.

"Of course I'm going to come!" Rika screamed into the phone as she hung up.

*An hour later the tamers were all at the park*

"Alright as you know already Takato's gone missing. We're here to search the park for him since this is the place he's been hanging out lately. If any of you find him you are to take him back to his house." Ryo said to the others.

"Should we go in groups" Kenta asked.

"Yeah I call Ryo's group!" Kazu shouted.

"Fine me and Henry are the first group. Rika and Suzy are the second. Jeri, Kazu, and Kenta are the third. And Ai and Marko are the last. Any questions?" Ryo said.

"No fair...!" Kazu wined indignantly.

The rest of the tamers shook their heads.

"Alright then lets get started."

*With Ryo and Henry*

Ryo had dragged Henry to Guilmon's old shed to search for Takato.

But once they got there Henry was shocked to see Ryo head strait to the back of Guilmon's shed. What shocked Henry even more was the hole which still looked to be freshly dug behind it.

'So he was right it was in here...' Ryo thought to himself as he looked at Henry. 'Takato did say he might mention going back to the digital world to Henry... But what if he didn't...? Guess I should at least find out...' "So do you know what this means Henry? Because I sure do." Ryo said looking at the completely dug hole.

"You know about it?!" Henry said shocked. Takato hadn't mentioned telling Ryo about going to the digital world.

"Who do you think helped him dig this hole?" Ryo asked looking at Henry with a smirk on his face.

"He doesn't want the others to know about this." Henry said in a low voice.

"I know that. He told me back when I first approached him about going back." Ryo said calmly.

"So how do we hide this from them?" Henry asked.

"Well we can start off by putting the dirt back in the hole." Ryo said to Henry as he went and grabbed a shovel.

"Alright... I'm telling you Takato owes us BIG TIME." Henry said as he and Ryo shoveled the dirt back into the hole.

*With Kazu, Kenta, and Jeri*

Kazu, Kenta, and Jeri were currently looking for Takato near the kids playground part of the park.

"So what do you think made Chumly take off like this?" Kazu asked as they continued to search for any signs of Takato.

"I don't know..." Kenta said thinking about the question. "I mean this isn't at all like Takato..."

"It was her I know it..." Jeri mumbled under her breath as they all walked to another part of the park having finished looking in the playground area.

"Who are you talking about Jeri?" Kazu asked having heard Jeri's mumble.

"That boy stealing w-"

T4L: WHOA! Somebodies not Happy!

End of Chapter 1

T4L: Well that's the end of that. You've learned that Rika is secretly in love with Takato. That Jeri is also in love with Takato and is ticked at Rika and pretty sad that Takato's missing. And you've also learned that even though Ryo helped Takato find the portal, he had no idea when Takato was leaving. If you have any question feel free to ask me by PMing me or by review. Well until next time...