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Hey! It's been a while since I have written because of school work and what not but the Queen is back with a vengeance, I am ready to try out some new ideas including this one story that has been swimming around in my head. Unfortunately this story isn't a TakatoRuki fic for all of u TakatoRuki fan's but it is still good none the less. Besides if you want Takato and Rika read my other fic Tamers Reloaded. But I assure you that if you enjoyed that fic you'll like this one.

Queen Jay out.

Bold - Song lyrics

Italics- memories/flashbacks

'...' Thinking

" ..." Speaking

-...- telepathy

All tamers except for Ryo , are thirteen.

Ryo is fourteen.

Oh and by the way lets just pretend that Suzy ,Ai and Mako are the same age - seven.

Prologue

The sun rose over the jagged Tokyo landscape , draping the city in a blanket of a tinted yellow light. Students were exiting their classes chatting about the up coming weekend while others were worried about the up coming exams. Each of them seemed so happy and care free. He hated it.

A secluded raven haired teen marched down the halls of his school with his backpack slung over his back. He was adorned in a green blazer , white collared shirt , black tie , grey slacks, and brown shoes. The boy's hair was in a tousled short cut, but it was somewhat tamed by the gel that gave the locks their shine in the afternoon air. Jaden waltzed out of the school's court yard with his dark hazel eyes staring up at the collage colored sky , letting his mind wonder to a person whom he had not seen in quite some time. Holding up one hand he counted on his fingers and glared up at them with a childish curiosity that he had only shone to his closest friend.

" Let's see... one ... two..!.." Arching his eye brow a bit confused , he ventured into the subway mumbling the entire way. " Three months" He didn't know that it had been that long. Placing his I pod nano's ear buds into their respective places with his volume up to maximum blaring the song 'How to Save a Life' by the Fray. The young man let his mind lead him into his own world away from the reality that he craved to leave.

A young dark haired troublemaker dashes down the street s of his neighborhood , with a soda can in his left hand . The scruffy ten year old was wearing a pair of blue jeans, a red hooded sweatshirt , white sneakers , and a white cap twisted backwards on his head.

" Come back here Jaden Kazuma!"

An eccentric cashier was trucking behind the kid through the crowd but the young thief dipped and dodged the taller adults with ease losing the cashier in the mass crowd. The boy smirked impishly to himself as he made it to a back ally not knowing that he would soon run into something or rather ...someone.

"Ooofffff!!!!!"

He felt like he had just slammed heads with a truck. Holding rubbing the front of his forehead that now bore a bulging red spot. Squinting his eyes open the disoriented boy slowly began to regain his vision and composure. Glancing around his eyes landed on a girl at least a year younger than him. She wore a blue dress, red shoes, white frilly socks , a white t shirt, and had her shiny orange hair with light highlights tied in a high, spiky ponytail with a red ribbon. Her forehead an equally red spot along with other bruises on her entire body that appeared to be something other than the fall. The mischievous young boy automatically forgot what he was going to yell to the girl by her soft violet eyes.

" Are you OK ?" He asked with the stolen soda can completely forgotten. The dark haired boy surprisingly sprung to his feet and helped the slightly beaten girl up to her feet. She gave the boy a quick nod but before she could attempt a real response a group of older boys were running toward the young elementary schoolers.

" Well if it isn't the bastard baby." taunted the leader with his three accomplices snickering behind him. The gang's leader had dirty blond hair tied in a low ponytail with emerald eyes and wore a green private school uniform. From his British accent the troublemaker could tell he was from another side of town , the snobby part. " You want to cry for your papa , shitty."

The boy glared heatedly at the comment with his hands clench into fists but reluctantly held his tongue. Even though he was the best fighter in his neighborhood , the guys in front of the two were thirteen by their obviously pimple dotted faces. He stepped up in front of the violet eyed girl protectively.

" Leave her alone."

" Look Erich it seems here that the bastard baby has a little boyfriend." One of the preteens snickered to the leader , who had practically a pizza on his face from the numerous zits on his skin.

" Let's have some fun with him." The leader swung at the kid but before Jaden could react the one called Erich was laying out on the concrete with a bloody nose.

" My name is Rika!" the girl shouted proudly.

" No way!" the black haired boy could gap in amazement at what the girl now known as Rika had just done. ' She's almost as tough as me!'

" Get em !!!" Bellowed James as he scrambled off of the ground and attacked the two.

The gang of preteens were putting their all into the street scuffle but the kids were holding up their own pretty well. When Rika hit one guy Jaden would immediately follow up with a tackle of his own. The two of them made a pretty decent team. Unfortunately as a good team as the kids were the fourteen year olds' strength quickly over powered them. They were soon lying in the dirt , slowly inching backward to the ally's brick wall.

' Great!' Jaden non stirring kept on his opponent bracing for the worst until there was an echo of a powerful voice bouncing through the ally.

Rika peeked behind the bullies to see her father standing dauntlessly with his dark violet eyes gleaming in the sunlight.

" Papa!!!!" Rika cried gleefully as she turned her attention back to Erich and his gang. " You're gonna get it now!"

" Are you and your friend OK Rika?"

She nodded happily with a large grin plastered over her face.

" Good." the young father's loving gaze soon turned deadly as he glowered at the group of children in front of him. "Now. As for you I suggest you stay away from these two unless ," he rolled up his shirt sleeves revealing a well chiseled lean arms with hands that looked like they had been through many street battles. " You would rather fight me, that is."

The man stated his words with a calm yet inflamed tone that bewitched the young Jaden , he had never heard anyone sound like that. Clarity. Calm . Determined. Impassioned. This man before him was amazing.

" Let's get out of here."

The gang scurried off to the nearest back only to find boy at the dead end ,the same age as them glaring at them from the top of a make shift fencing created from wood. He bore a menacing grin over his handsome features wearing the same green blazers that they did. He had similar features to the child called Jaden, only difference was that he had brown hair instead of black and had a stoic demeanor unlike the trouble making one that the young Jaden had.

" Hey boys..." Crackling his knuckles the teen hopped off of the fencing to finish what the young father started.

Back with Rika and Jaden the two of them were saying their goodbyes. Bending down on Jaden's level Rika's powerful father grinned warmly at him with an out reached hand. " You are a strong young man. Thank you for helping my daughter." Taking the large hand in his own smaller one the young boy could only stutter a small 'your welcome'.

" So what's your name ? Introduce yourself to my daughter and I."

" oh..uh...my name's Kazuma Jaden I mean...Ja-" but before the boy could correct himself the girl before introduced herself.

" Nonaka Rika." she replied playing along with her new found friend and the two shook hands.

Sighing to himself the now fourteen year old Jaden glanced up at the neon letters on the train's location. The train had taken a while to reach his neighborhood so it was now evening instead of afternoon. But Jaden was just satisfied that he had finally arrived on his side of town. Waltzing through the crowded streets , the young fighter had made it to the towering apartment building and lazily took the elevator up to the apartment he shared with his guardian.

"Hey bro! Took you long enough."

Who turned out also to be his older brother Zane. The other street brawler had a rock band and did not have as much time as he would like so Jaden had taken his place in the so called street hierarchy at the age of twelve. He was already in his senior year of college where Jaden was in his freshman year of high school. Even though Jaden was a street fighter he was very intelligent and that is what made him rise up in the ranks to be able to skip eighth grade. He had gotten that from his mother or that's what Zane had told him. But the martial artist wasn't the cocky type so he attempted to keep to himself most of the time.

" Whatever..." he mumbled as he sauntered into the back hallway and into his room. It had all the basics of course, Tv , computer desk etc., along with a deck that over looked the city. After a long shower ,the young teen plopped onto his bed inadvertently listening to his brother having sex with his girlfriend in the next room. He hated that. The only reason that Zane even had the numerous girls over was because the idiot was too cheap to get a hotel room.

'Why does he always have to bring his sluts home?!' Jaden fumed.

Glancing over at his dresser that was within arms length behind him , Jaden reached into one of the smaller drawers revealing a black D- Arc outlined in platinum. Holding the item above his head , tightly closing his eyes focusing only on the rain pounding against his screen door. He detested it here. All he wanted was to see her again. Even though it had only been three months since the two had communicated it felt longer. He had not even seen her in person for two years.

' I wonder what she looks like now.'

Yes he's seen her in pictures that she had sent him but they were only from photo shoots that her mom had forced her to take. Jaden wanted to see the real Rika not the cold hearted girl that she had made others to believe but the young woman inside that he knew was under all of that bravado. Blushing to himself the fighter hurriedly pushed out the thoughts that came to him. With the combination of the 'noises' that were emanating from the room beside and his thoughts of his friend Jaden blamed his urges on hormones. Pulling the covers over his head in frustration desperately tried to force the thoughts from his mind but unfortunately that wasn't going to happen anytime soon.

' I am so GLAD that we are leaving tomorrow!!!!!!!'

With that last thought Jaden drifted to sleep, welcoming the darkness that consumed him as well as the subconscious thoughts that he figured that he could no longer ignore enter his dreams.

Well what do you think? Please REVIEW!!!!!!! I will take all criticisms. Queen Jay out.