Well, I lied about Birdsong being a one-shot, because there really isn't enough about the Pri-Yuki girls, even though they're great characters. xD So, here we go with the second one! For anyone who doesn't already know, Rika Aida is only in the manga – she's the girl who decides to help break into the student council room, and is the only one with Motoko when they run into Yuki in the school library, leading to Motoko's little self-hatred speech and transgression with Yuki. x3

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Rika Aida had always liked mysteries.

Even as a little girl, she had made up extravagant stories about murders and thefts, and as the star private eye, she always saved the day. She'd solved a dozen murders, arrested a hundred criminals, saved thousands of precious jewels! Her parents had looked on with bemused interest, letting her play her games as long as she was out of their hair. It hadn't taken long before she decided that she was really going to solve crime as an adult, and she needed to start collecting the skills for it now.

The first step to that was learning to pick locks. No self-respecting detective was stopped by a locked door! She'd started out small, picking the lock on her diary with a hair pin. That in itself had taken her weeks to master completely, until she could get it open within five seconds of work. She'd considered telling her parents of her achievement, but stopped – wouldn't it be better to show them when she could do something really impressive, like open the front door of the house? Yes, that would be the time when she would tell her parents of her new-found talent – when she could do something really impressive.

However, as the years went by, and Rika grew, the desire to let her parents know about her skill faded. They wouldn't approve of it; she knew that now. And if she really wanted to continue on with her dreams and her talents, it would be best if she just kept it all to herself…wouldn't it?

More and more time had passed, and Rika had finally made it to high school. Those were the days in which her lock-picking skills really took off by leaps and bounds, as she stayed after school most days (always under the premise of a club meeting) and practiced opening its many doors. By the end of that year, she was able to unlock them all in fewer than seven seconds, but still only one other girl knew – Motoko Minagawa. Motoko was awed by the gift, and Rika wished she could show more people…but if a teacher knew that she could break into their office anytime she liked, trouble was sure to come.

And then Yuki Sohma had entered high school.

She, like so many other girls at Kaibara High, had fallen for the first-year on sight. She didn't spout poetry about his eyes, or try to spend as much time as possible around him, but she did promise herself one thing: whenever Yuki needed it, whenever Yuki's high school experience was in danger, she would be there to save him. So naturally, when Motoko had decided to start the Prince Yuki fan club, Rika had been one of its premier members, although she stayed in the shadows of the club, choosing not to become an officer. Instead, she went to meetings, and occasionally helped plan various things – the failed trip to Saki Hanajima's house, countless other incidents – but unlike the more rambunctious members of the club, didn't go after the Prince aggressively.

But still…the moments she did spend with him were worth far more than her silly detective dreams.