Bare with me please, this is my first ever Digimon story. I have written for other stories, so this will be intersting. I do not for sure know if this has been done with this pairing or not, so if I used somebody elses idea, I am apologizing now. Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon! I wish I did though.
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Rika Nonaka bit her nails as the clock was running out. Shinjuku was down by two points and the Tokyo Warriors was taking the lead. Takuya was dribbling the ball while Ryo was doing his best to get open as Henry jumped up and down to block the other opponents. Takuya glanced back and forth and saw Ryo was finally open, with six seconds on the clock remaining. Without thinking, he threw the ball over to Ryo, letting the other team's guard down.
Ryo took one quick glance at the stands, sending a wink towards his favorite girl in the world, Rika Nonaka. He focused his attention back on the score board. All of the heat was on him, and the stands were getting louder as the time was running out. He closed his eyes and took one shot, the shot that would determine the game... The ball swished through the basket, leaving the Shinjuku fans screaming and cheering.
The cheerleaders, students, and fans ran out onto the basketball court.
"Ryo, Ryo, Ryo." Henry and the team cheered, before placing him on their shoulders. Ryo smiled and laughed along with his teamates. He glanced above the crowd and noticed Rika standing off to the side, waiting impatiently like she always does after the games. A grin escaped from his lips.
There was a different look placed upon her face though, he couldn't quite placed it. He wasn't for sure if he had even seen it before. He thought to himself for a few seconds, over the loud crowd. He tried to anyways.
His teammates placed him back on the crowd and chanted his name. This meant they were going to Tournaments.
Takuya gave off a loose goofy grin, "Tournaments my man!" He and Henry high-fived Ryo, congraluating him to the winning three-point shot he previously made. Ryo chatted quickly before darting off to find his girlfriend. He enjoyed all of the supporters but his main concern was seeing his girlfriend at this moment.
He shuffled around the mobs of people and made his way to the corner where Rika was standing by herself. Before he got over there, his coach pulled him aside. "Ryo, this is Mitsuo Yamaki. He is the basketball coach from Tokyo University. He is impressed with your teamwork and has been watching you for some time now. He would like to have a word with you."
Ryo wanted to roll his eyes but the excitement was to big for him. He had been looking into playing basketball at Tokyo University since he was a little boy. His mother, before she passed away, graduated from Tokyo.
"Hello, I am Ryo Akiyama. Nice to meet you Mr. Yamaki." Ryo held out his hand and warmly greeted with the man who was dressed in a pair of slacks and a Tokyo jacket. He looked rather casual to be the star head coach for a basketball team of a major university.
Mr. Yamaki looked the boy up and down and smiled. He would make a great improvement to the team. "Please son, come over here with me. We need to talk." Ryo followed the man, shooting a glance over at Rika, letting her know it would be awhile. He was fidigiting with excitement.
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Alice McCoy, the daughter of the professor Rob McCoy who teaches at Palo Alto University, stood beside her bestfriend Rika. She was just as excited as the boys about them winning the game. This meant that the they had a fair chance in the tournament games that would begin in the following week.
"Henry is going to be in such a good mood tonight. I really thought that they were going to lose the game. Luckily for Ryo, he is lucky." Alice started to talk about the game. She was going on before she noticed a change in Rika's attitude. Normally she would throw in a few comments or discuss the game, but tonight there was something off with her. She was not saying much and she looked scared.
"Rika?" Alice spoke up, shaking Rika out of her thoughts.
Rika looked up and placed a small smile on her face. "Oh yeah, sorry. I am glad they won too. Now if only the guys would hurry up. I am hungry."
Alice smiled, "There, that is the Rika I know. Complaing because she is hungry."
Rika nodded her head and laughed nervously.
Rika jumped when she felt a pair of arms wrap around her waste. "Hey Wildcat, sorry it took so long. I am sure you are hungry." Ryo laughed as he planted a kiss on his girlfriend's cheek. He overheard their conversation about being hungry.
"It's about time. You know you take a long time for a pretty boy." Rika grinned and poked his chest.
Henry and Takuya made their way out of the locker room. Fresh water rolling down their foreheads from their damp mobs of hair. Their bags were draped over their shoulders and they looked exhausted. "Guess who has a full ride to Tokyo University for basketball next year." Henry coed, patting Ryo's back.
Rika's eyes widened and she grinned as she and Alice looked at Ryo. He smiled widely as Henry and Takuya sang, "Ryo does."
Ryo smiled and tried not to act to excited about it. If anyone saw him though, they would think he just left a candy shop. "That is awesome, congratulations." Rika said through her teeth. She felt herself getting sick and suddenly everything felt dizzy.
"Rika are you okay?" Ryo asked after Rika stumbled backwards a bit, almost losing her balance.
Rika nodded her head and bit her lip. "I'm not feeling very well, I think I am just going to go home. You guys go ahead and have a fun night."
Ryo raised his eyebrows and was rather questioning his girlfriend. He knew her well, and there was something else wrong then her just not feeling good. He couldn't pick up on it though. By the looks of how she was acting, she wanted to talk about it. "You guys go ahead, i'll catch up later. I am going to take Rika home, then i'll be over later."
Henry watched Rika walk with Ryo, the two keeping a fair amount of distance between each other. "So what do you think is up?" Henry spoke up as soon as they walked away. He knew his two bestfriends, and something was definitely not right. There was something wrong with Rika and Ryo was not the only one who noticed. Henry and Alice picked up on it as well.
Jerri appeared with two bags of popcorn and handed one to Henry and Takuya, "here you guys go. Man working concession stand blows." The girl blew her bangs out of her face but still had a smile plastered on her face. Sometimes, she was just to bubbly.
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Ryo drove home, his eyes on the wheel as Rika didn't dare move nor say anything. She kept her blue coloured eyes focused on the snowy road ahead of her. Ryo turned left and stopped at the stop sign before turning right towards her house. He pulled into the driveway and turned off his lights. The way Rika sat there in her seat, her eyes filled with uneasiness and concern, it was staring to worry him.
Before Ryo could ask what was wrong, Rika spoke up first. "So how excited are you for your career at Tokyo University next fall?"
After a slight hint of confusion Ryo grinned from ear to ear. He had been hoping for this offer for awhile now and now that it finally came, nothing was going to be able to bring his mojo down. Not even the snow storm that was coming his way. "I am so excited Rika. Coach says I better take this spot, and once my father comes home next weekend from his business trip he will be so proud of me. I know my mother would be too. I have been wanting this since I was little."
Rika faked a smile on her face. She was not expecting what he had told her tonight, if anything, she was expecting to tell him what was on her mind and what was really bothering her.
"This is my dream Rika." Ryo grinned and grabbed her cold fingers. The smile was getting bigger and bigger on his face, "And you can come too. I know they have accepted you there. This is awesome, we can go to college together and study abroad. And the absolute best part is, I know you will come to my games and route me on just like now. That means a lot to me."
The feeling knowing that her future was already planned out, regardless of them going to college or not together was making her nauseous. Ryo's dreams were coming true, they were really coming true. The worst part of it was, if she knew she stayed, she would be crushing them and ruining his life. That was the last thing she would ever want to happen.
Rika looked away, watching the tiny snowflakes fall out the window. If it was true, what the scientists said that there was no snowflake alike, then maybe she and Ryo weren't so much alike.
Ryo frowned, noticing the excitement drift away from his girlfriend. "Rika, is something wrong? I mean if you don't want to me to take the basketball scholarship I'll turn it down. It isn't worth losing you." He always had a way with words. Rika never hated his words more than anything at that point in time.
She turned to look at him, locking blue with brown eyes, "Ryo, no I am happy for you. It is what you have always wanted, but I need to tell you something. I am leaving, tomorrow morning. I have to go." She placed her left hand on the passenger door handle.
Ryo frowned, giving her a weird look. He let out a let a nervous laugh. Where was she going? On a modeling trip or what. Why was she being so distant. "Well that is fine, we can talk more when you get back. That's all right Wildcat, no need to get upset about that."
Tears were forming in the seventeen year old girls eyes. She never cried, never. Not since her father left when she was a young child. She swore she hated him, but at this moment, she was thankful he was going to be in her future. She couldn't ruin Ryo's future, she would never allow that to happen. He had so much going for himself.
"Ryo, I am leaving. I am leaving for good. Don't you understand that? I have to go. I need to go. Have fun and good luck for your games, but I don't see you in my future. You have your own future to live up to. I won't allow myself to ruin that for you." She choked her words out as she swung the Jeep door open.
Ryo's eyes became big. Where was she getting all of this stuff from? "Rika what are you talking about? You aren't ruining my future. Why are you leaving? Why are you leaving me? Leaving us?"
The tears filled her eyes and she couldn't talk anymore. It took her everything to say what she had to say, "I have to go. Don't let me hold you back. Trust me." She closed the door on him and ran up to the stairs of her house. She didn't even look back to watch him leave or see if he was following her. All she knew was that she needed to leave and the only person she could turn to now was the person who left her a long time ago. She never knew that she would ever be running away from her problems until now.
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Rika closed her eyes, swallowed her saliva and headed towards the terminal. She had nothing left to say except for the goodbye to her mother and her grandmother. "Goodbye Japan, hello America."
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Thank you everyone for reading this chapter. I know a lot of it didn't make sense, but it will as I update more. I hope you all enjoy it and please review(: only if you want to though. Imput means a lot to me.
