"What's the big emergency?" Henry questioned. He rushed into the park leading a large group of confused people. He continued until he was face to face with me. We stared into each other's eyes with extreme tension before a smile broke across my face.

"What did you bring the whole town with you or something?" I snickered.

Henry dropped the gaze then let out a deep sigh, "I was about to leave when Suzie began begging me to bring her. I didn't want to bring her but she told on me and then I had to bring her. Then as we are walking she calls Ali and Miko to meet up with us. As the four of us meet up we run into Kazu and Kenta in the plaza who then decide to follow us."

"Where's Rika?" I asked. I inched my neck up above all the people to look around but she was nowhere in sight.

"I don't know, I haven't seen her in years," Henry responded.

"Seriously? Well maybe I should call her..." I contemplated. Suddenly Jeri tugged on my shirt sleeve. I turned my head to look at her.

"I kinda called her last night and told her everything," Jeri admitted as she stared down at her feet.

I lightly touched her chin and moved her head up to look at me. I smiled at her; silently reassuring her that everything is okay. Her eyes got wider as a grin formed across her face.

"When did you two become a couple?" Henry smirked.

Jeri blushed but this time I didn't. I've cared about her for a long time and I'm not afraid to show how I feel anymore.

"I guess last night," I smiled as I softly gripped onto Jeri's hand.

"Can we hurry this up? I have a date!" Kazu randomly exclaimed.

All eyes turned to Kazu. His eyes opened wide in shock as his jaw dropped, "What? I can have a date."

"Yeah with Kenta," Rika smirked. She casually walked into the group like she had always been there.

Kazu began stomping his feet before jumping up and down as he yelled things such as, "I'm going out with a girl!" Or "Shut up, I don't like Kenta!"

Our attention quickly drifted off to other things, mine and Henry's being Rika.

"You took your sweet time getting here," Henry commented.

"Whatever," Rika replied as she rolled her eyes.

"Well now that everyone is here I may as well tell you," I began as I turned to face the group of unfocused teens and preteens.

"Everyone listen up," I announced, "Last night Jeri and I went for a walk in this park by the place where I used to hide Guilmon. We decided to check the portal and we saw that the portal has opened up again. If you don't believe that is a sign; Jeri also has a digi egg growing on her D-Power. I think we need to split up and patrol this area for digimon because if the portal's open then who knows what could have come through it."

"Good idea Google head but how do we split up?" Rika questioned.

"Me and Jeri take east, you and Henry go west, Kazu and Kenta go north, then Suzie, Ai and Miko go south," I problem solved.

"Of course the love birds will be together," Rika smirked as she glanced over at Kazu and Kenta.

"We are not a couple!" Kazu exclaimed as both he and Kenta's faces went bright red.

Suzie, Ali and Miko went off giggling in a southern direction. I'm not sure if it was a good idea to put them together. They won't do much patrolling but I don't think any of us feel like babysitting them.

Meanwhile Kazu and Kenta went towards the north while keeping a massive distance from each other. They may be the weirdest guys I have ever known...

"Are you sure Rika and Henry will be okay together?" Jeri whispered in my ear.

"I know they haven't seen each other in a while but this gives them a chance to catch up," I whispered back.

Rika strolled off ahead of Henry as she crossed her arms in front of her. Henry dug his hands into his pockets while casually walking behind her.

"At least we know we will be good together," Jeri giggled. She grabbed onto my arm and rested her head against my shoulder.

My face went bright red. I began to feel very hot and sweaty as we walked off together, alone.

Henry's POV

I increased my speed so that I was right beside Rika. She dropped her arms down from her warrior position as she fiercely stared at me. I quickly looked her over; torn jeans and muddy shoes, how typical. She was also somehow able to fit into her full heart shirt. Doesn't she ever change? Even her hair was still styled in the same spiky ponytail on top of her head.

"Some things never change," I commented out loud. My eyes drifted down to her shirt. How could she possibly still fit into that?

"What's that supposed to mean?" Rika argued as she folded her arms over her small chest.

"You're still wearing the same shirt," I replied as though it was obvious.

"Oh," Rika blushed.

I smirked at her, "Not that some other things haven't changed..."

Rika hit me in the arm then stated, "UH, Grow up."

I couldn't resist but say, "I did but when will you?"

"When did you become such an ass?" Rika barked. She sighed as she rolled her eyes.

I smiled knowing that I had just won a fight with the all mighty Rika the digimon queen, even if it was just verbally. Speaking of the digimon queen, where's the king.

"Where's Ryo?" I questioned now with a serious expression on my face.

"He's away on vacation with his parents. They are all freaked out that he is going to disappear into the digital world again so they won't let him out of their sight," Rika answered.

"So no boyfriend?" I confirmed.

"We are still dating."

"Oh."

"Why do you care?"

"I don't," I insisted but the redness of my face said otherwise.

"Moumantai," Rika smirked as she shoved her hands into her jean pockets.

"That's not your saying!" I yelled. Rika stared at me in shock. I couldn't believe I just yelled at her. I looked at her with forgiveness in my eyes but she just snubbed me.

I sighed. After hearing that phrase almost every day for so long, the past few years seemed empty without it. It was as though one of the pieces was missing in the puzzle of my life.

"I miss Renamon too," Rika commented as she softened up.

"I never said I missed Terriermon," I retorted.

"But I can tell by the look on your face that you do. You have even started sounding like him."

"I have not!" I stated, "Since when do you pay so much attention to other people."

"I'm not as selfish as I used to be when I was a kid. I've grown up a lot since I first met Renamon and I have continued growing up now that she is gone," Rika responded.

"We all have grown up a lot since the digimon entered then left our lives."

"Except for Kazu," Rika laughed.

I had entirely forgotten what Rika's laugh sounded like, not that I had heard it much in the first place. This time as she laughed, I made sure to take it all in. The sweet ring of delicate wind chimes combined with the bang of a hammer slamming into a rock. It was entirely her in a laugh.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Rika asked nervously.

"Sorry I must have zoned out," I quickly replied.

"I never knew you were a space case," Rika smirked.

"Hey even super geniuses like me zone out once in a while!" I laughed.

"Super genius? Yeah right! I'm bet I'm smarter than you," Rika joined in on the laughter.

When the sound came out of her mouth I couldn't help but love it. But as it went away I found myself yearning for it.

Out of all the time I had known Rika I never once thought of her the way I had just began to think of her. And as we walked I snuck at peek at her. Although she seemed to look the same on the outside, I began to realize she looked nothing like she used to. The geometric look of a child had been completely erased from her body. I was clear to my eyes that she was no longer just some little girl with a tough attitude. She was something more.

Rika just loves to mock Kazu lol. Anyway I was going to wait until Monday to update this story since it's pre-written and I wanted a set day to update but I couldn't resist updating because I loved writing this story so much! As you may have guess from this chapter I'm a Jenruki fan! (That's Rika+Henry if you don't know the couple names) I hope everyone is enjoying this story and I'm sure you all know how awesome it is when people review your story...*Hint, Hint*