Longest Novel: Fall of the Republic

by morgan kingsley

In 2018, nearly twenty years after he sold his honor and integrity to a media company for cheap money and entertainment for kids, a middle aged author decided that he wanted to make one final book in his career that would tell the truth of the adventure he had when he was young. An au of seasons 1-4 that takes place in the united. Also the world will be in dark danger.

26. The Dance

Chapter 25: The Dance

As Kazu was home, he heard his door knocked on. He knew he needed to stop what he was doing. He opened his window and he was hiding the fact that he was both smoking and drinking. If it was his parents, they would be pissed a thirteen year old was into that stuff. If it was Peggy, she would break up with him. So he put out the cigarette and then threw the shot glass under his bed after the window was open. There was just something about this that made him feel like he was going to be in a lot of trouble soon.

Kazu opened his bedroom door and when he had opened his bedroom door, he saw Peggy and he was hoping that he was not going to get caught with the smell. The window being open was not really a suspicion of Peggy mainly because this was the first time that she had been in his room, so she was not really used to how his room was like on a daily basis. But when she started to look around more and get to the office more often, then she would study the way the room was in a deeper context. But she would give him the benefit of a doubt this time.

"Are you going to go to the school dance coming up?" Peggy asked and Kazu nodded. He really liked the idea of going on the school dance with her, and Peggy was happy. She hugged Kazu and this was when he was really worried that she would know what he had done from the smell alone and he was just hoping that the window was going to keep off the smell a little bit. He didn't want to give up his habit just for her but at the same time he didn't want to lose Peggy.

"That is great. I was really worried that you would tell me no. But I think that maybe we should talk about what we plan on wearing for the dance." Peggy said and Kazu never thought about what he was going to wear for the dance. He didn't really care about the dance all that much. Kazu just wanted to have a good time and he wanted to not have him and Peggy break up for him smoking or anything like that. Kazu was going to give this up very soon and he sat down on his bed.

"I never really thought about it. Honestly I don't really give a shit about that stuff. I think we can just go in there casually like we normally do and not really worry about what ever everybody else is worried about. Just don't worry about the others." Kazu told Peggy as was hoping can feel that same way. He really did care and he was hoping she wouldn't be so worried over the tiny things that honestly did not matter all that much in the long run. Peggy didn't really agree with him there.

"I think that you need to get a good outfit going on. I mean I wouldn't mind personally if you are not too professional, but everybody else might be looking at you a little bit more critically than I am." Peggy said and Kazu considered that. But then again, if it was just other people who would be judging, then why the hell would he care. It is not like he is going on a date with them. If he was going on a date with them, he would care a bit more. But Peggy herself admitted she did not really care all that much here.

"But Peggy, if you yourself don't really seem to mind what I am doing so much, then you do not need to remind me what they might be thinking. They probably will just be too focused on dancing and enjoying their date that they probably won't even notice my weaker outfit during the dance." Kazu said and then he was wanting this conversation to end and Peggy seemed to kind of pick up on how annoyed he was getting with this conversation. But she decided that she wanted to say one final thing before the conversation would be dropped forever.

"Please, for my sake, can you just do it for me? I know that you personally don't really care all that much, but I do and I want you to do it for my sake. Just one time please. Next time we go to the dance or something, then you can wear whatever you want and dress the way that you desire." Peggy said and then Kazu sighed. As much as it was pissing him off to be having this conversation with her for some strange reason even he could not comprehend all that much, he decided that maybe Peggy was right.

"Fine, I will do it just this once. Don't expect me to be doing this very often. I know that you want me to do it, and while I am not really agreeing with it, I don't want to cause any conflicts here and I will just do it because you want me to." Kazu decided as Peggy smiled and Kazu looked away. All in all, he was just hoping that he would not get his smoking material caught. That was another thing that was really putting his mind set off. He was not really wanting that to change everything, but he knew that it would if he was not careful enough.

"Thank you for agreeing with me. I know that you are not really all that excited to just do stuff like this, but the fact that you are doing this for me makes me feel a lot better inside." Peggy said as Kazu remained silent. He was wondering what was going on with Peggy to make her care so much about some stupid dress up and he was trying to figure out why this was even pissing him off so much himself. Honestly, despite the fact that it was just how he was, it was just the way that he had felt about it.

"I just hope that things go nicely. I really want this dance to be good." Kazu said and he shared the same exact fear that Peggy was having on that account. She did not want something to come up and ruin everything in the end. She was thinking that it was so great that Kazu was not smoking anymore or anything like that. Just thinking about the idea of him still smoking honestly pisses her off and if she found out that he was still doing this, then she would have thought that he was just betraying her for that stuff.

"I guess that we will see how things go soon. I just hope that nothing happens soon that makes me start to wonder what our relationship really is like." Peggy said and then Kazu wrapped his arms around her shoulder and he was using his left hand to sort of move it in a way that showed he was embracing the entire idea of adventure at once. "If you were still into that stuff we were talking about earlier, than I would be very ashamed of you and I think that we would possibly have to end the things off here."

"Don't worry about it all that much Peggy. I have placed all of that stuff behind me. There is no reason for you to think that I am still into that." Kazu felt so good that he was able to make her believe in his lie about it and that he could get away with it for just a little bit longer. He wanted to get as much in before the whole battle between the two would have to come up with that stuff.

"I hope that you are telling the truth." Peggy said and then Kazu nodded and that was when he was hoping that if she found out the truth about him lying, then everything would just get even worse than it already was before. He was thinking that not only would she cut ties with him but then maybe even the other members of the group as well. He did not want that to happen. He did not want to lose the friendship he had with Takato and Kenta for something like that.

But before they could think about that for too much longer, Kazu and Peggy looked at each other for a moment. Kazu placed his hands behind his head and he was starting to really run out of material of what to talk about. He knew that they needed something that they could have in common with or else they were going to be going all over the place with this petty back and fourth dialogue. Kazu was thinking about kissing her, but at the same time he knew that it would be really fast. So he decided that he would just keep it to himself for the time being.

As things during the last few days were finally sort of becoming the norm for the group and what people in the group had been all but used to now, it was still a bit strange for there to be digimon running around and all of that stuff. Takato was thinking about what it would be like to go on the dance with Jeri. He really wanted to go on the dance with Jeri, and he was hoping that she even felt half of the way that he felt, which while he knew was probably not the case, he wanted it to be that way.

Takato was staring outside his bedroom window, wondering what exactly it would be like to ask Jeri out on the dance, and he was thinking about how great it would be if Kazu, Kenta and him all had a date for the dance. Takato had no idea about the whole Kenta thing, so he was forced to assume that the only one who had a date was actually Kazu, which at the time was actually a pretty reasonable thing to assume, and a little bit sad for Takato to assume since that meant that Kazu was the only one out of them that had any form of life in any way.

It was getting late at night, but at the same time he wanted to go out and just hang around for a bit. He decided that he was going to sneak out for the night. So with that, Takato opened up his bedroom window and then he walked out of it and closed the window to his room. He was really hoping that neither one of his parents really knew about what he was doing, since this would get him in a huge load of trouble if they knew what he had been doing. But then again, this was just his first time doing it and he doubted that anybody really would care all that much.

He walked down the fire escape as quiet as possible and him doing this was making people outside looking around and seeing what he was doing and they were wondering what the problem with him was, but they decided not to tell anybody since they figured that it was probably none of their business and despite how random what Takato was doing, due to him only being thirteen more than the act itself they decided that since it was none of their business, they would just let him get away with it and not tell his parents about it for the sake of all three of them.

Soon enough, Takato was now on the street and he was ready to walk down the street and go on and ask Jeri for the dance. He could not really believe the fact that he was doing this so late at night, but he thought that Jeri would not really care all that much. Or not enough to get him in trouble, and even if she did not want to go on the dance with him, they could still be able to hang around for a bit and that would be a great thing for him that night.

As he was walking around at night, he was thinking about the cars that he was willing to drive around when he was old enough. He thought about the digimon of the world and what things would be like in the future when they might be in society a little bit more and they have been more accepted. That was what he was hoping would be the case at the very least. The idea of digimon not being accepted into society was a little bit of a sad thought for him honestly.

Takato was wanting to live in a place that was several hundred feet long instead of some poor ass apartment room where his room was over half of the apartment. He was glad that he was given such a big space, but at the same time, he knew that it was becoming a huge problem for the operations of his family. It was not really all that big of a deal, but still there was something to it that made him feel a little bit bad for it.

Soon enough, Takato reached Jeri's house and he knocked on the door a couple of times. He was hoping that she would just answer right away and not make him be wasting his time any more. He got his wish soon enough when she just opened the house door and looked at him with horror in her eyes like she could not really fathom what he was actually doing. Takato did not really pick up on the cue, despite him being a progressively more social person lately.

"Hey Jeri, sorry for doing this so suddenly in the middle of the night, but I was thinking about it and if I didn't ask you then, then I would lose my mind and I would probably never have the balls to go on and ask you again. But will you be willing to go on the school dance with me?" Takato asked and that was when Jeri stopped what she was going to say mid sentence and she looked directly at Takato as if he was sort of falling from the fucking sky onto her lap.

"Yeah sure, I will be willing to go to the dance with you. I would be wanting to this to just sort of be a one night thing that we can really sort of take advantage of being just a one time thing." Jeri said and then when she had said that, Takakto felt a little sad and he was really wishing that she didn't say that, but at the same time he really could see her point of view and then he nodded. That was when the two of them sat down on the ground and they were just willing to talk to each other normally for a little bit longer and not really give a shit what was going on outside in the real world.

"So Jeri, what do you think of all of the digimon?" Takato asked and he was hoping that he was going to get a good answer from her that didn't involve her saying that she hated all of this and that she wanted none of the digimon to be in the whole thing. He had no idea why, but he was scared out of his mind that this was going to be her answer and that Takato would not even be able to defend himself and say that she was wrong for feeling that way. Since she had a very valid way of looking at it if that was what her answer would be. But he was very lucky that this was not really the answer.

"I really love them all so far. I thought that digimon was just some stupid card game back then." Jeri said and then when Jeri said that, Takato felt inside that he really could not blame her for feeling that way. After all, it was just a card game and she had never played it before. It was hard not to find something that you give zero shits about to be a little bit dumb.

"But seeing them for myself and how they are all, almost like they are people of their own, I am starting to think that maybe I was wrong." Jeri said as Takato looked at in the distance and they were looking at the empire state building, and just how great it had looked in the night time. But before he could enjoy his moment for too much there was a loud voice that called out to them that made them stop what they were doing.

"Jeri, you need to get home for the night. We are starting to get worried about you." Her father said and then Jeri nodded and before her father noticed that Takato was there he stood up and was starting to head out. Deep down inside, Jeri was glad that Takato was heading home. It was not that she didn't like him there. Having him there was a relatively good thing, but at the same time she did not want to get in trouble and she did not want to get Takato in trouble as well.

"See you at the dance!" Takato yelled just loud enough for her to hear but he was going out of his way to make sure that nobody else would hear it by being a little bit quiet about it. Then he started to head off and he was really happy that she had said yes to his offer. His offer was something that he had been building up all of this time, and her saying yes was just the one thing that he really needed in life. He figured that there was no better or more important thing for him to do besides just head on home since he did not want to increase the chances of him getting in trouble even more than he was probably getting himself into just by doing this encounter with Jeri.

As that was happening, Henry was thinking about the girl that he was starting to get in some form of a relationship with. He was really unsure how he was able to get one out of all people, since he was sort of worried that people would just make fun of him for being a little bit of a nerdy guy. Maybe he knew that he could not fully get away with it and that was why he was worried about how people would handle him as a result of this. But he was standing up and looking outside the window in the exact same way that Takato was when he had started to get the balls to ask Jeri out.

Henry and this girl agreed to go to the dance, and Henry thought that perhaps him going to the dance with her would sort of raise the social status of him just a little bit. He wasn't too much of a care freak on the whole social status thing, but he always did look at it as a possible nice side award if he really got himself into it.

He started to know this girl soon after the whole Terriermon incident. If Henry had to place an exact time at it, he would say it was perhaps twelve or so days later. He was heading home from school one day and he was just sort of enjoying the time that he was having with Terriermon as well as the great progress that he was making with Davis and the fact that soon enough, he was going to be done with that service. This was always something that made him happy to think about. He wanted to be liberated and the days that he was counting down until his full liberation was what was keeping him totally sane in the first place.

When he was getting close to reaching home, he found a girl that he thought was in school with him. Wondering if she was the same type of social out freak that Henry himself was, he walked up to her and he was hoping that perhaps he could get to know her a little bit better and perhaps they could become friends or something like that. It was a loose hope that he had, but it was still a hope nonetheless.

"Hey, are you heading home?" Henry started and the girl looked over at Henry wondering why he was talking to her. She had no fucking idea who this guy was and him randomly walking up to her was a little bit of a strange thing for her. But then again, she thought that perhaps there was no real harm to talking with him. After all, he looked like a harmless bloke. Which clearly showed that there was a massive change in the six weeks or so of service that Henry had given Davis, that he was almost not like the man that he used to be at all. Which was the exact goal that was given, and what was happening. "My name is Henry. I am in the fourth grade."

"My name is Amber. I think I saw you in school before. I haven't noticed you all that much before. I heard about you a couple of times, but that is it. Probably because I am in the fifth grade, a grade higher than you. I think that you might have just been a person in the hall way or you might have had a small hint of controversy around you. Nothing that I would know or honestly really care about. I mean, I barely even know you." By barely, the true word was nothing. The only thing that she knew about him was his fucking name.

"Well, if perhaps you want to hang out some time soon, I will be waiting at the front of the school and we can hang out that way." Henry said and then as he had said that, Amber considered it but she was not really too sure. Maybe she would have to see him in school a bit before she would make that choice.

"Maybe we can meet up during lunch some time. That way I will know what I really think of you. Nice to meet you Henry." Amber said and then she started to head off. Henry knew that this was the closest thing that he would get to a victory, so he decided to go with it and he began to finish the way home and not think about it all that much.

That was when his very short flash back ended, and Henry flopped down onto his bed and turned off the light. For some strange reason, he was really tired and he just needed to go on and get some real sleep. Not some half assed five hours a night, which was not so bad on short doses but doing it over and over and fucking over again was just a little bit too much even for him. As soon as he had closed his eyes and Terriermon got under the pillow, Henry was totally out and honestly had had preferred it that way. Something that he didn't have to force himself to do like he would have to do on most normal days.

As Henry was asleep, his parents were talking in the living room not even aware of the fact that he was trying to sleep. "Should we tell him? I mean, I don't really know if he will be ready to bare the news too well. I mean, this was something he never had to deal with back in the day." Henry's father said as he was touching his wives belly. He was really happy of the news and he was hoping it would be a girl to balance out, but at the same time he was just not really all that sure. After all, Henry had been the only kid for thirteen years. What would be the point in trying to change this now. As horrible as that may sound to try and act like this may have been a bad idea, but he was just trying to be real about it as well.

"We should tell him. It is just as much his business as it is ours to know that he is going to be a big brother. It is not really a matter of if we should tell him as much as when we should tell him. I doubt that we should do it soon. Maybe after his school dance when he is ready to settle down a bit and not play like a party animal." Henry's mother said and then both the parents thought about it. This was going to be a very long day when they did tell the guy.

"I think maybe after the dance might be a good time. After all, if we tell him any time differently, he would barely have any time to get ready for the kid. That might be even bigger damage than it would be if we just left it alone until the day that you go into labor." Henry's father said and that was when he was thinking that maybe he and his wife had some form of an agreement on it.

"I just hope that he takes it well. I know that he has never really expressed too big of an interest in having siblings, but at the same time he has never expressed total disdain for the idea either. Maybe we just need to let him know, and maybe he will be cool with having a sibling after all. You never really fucking know with Henry. He has so many mood swings and attitude changes that it is honestly impossible to keep on top of it all." His mother said and that was one thing that her husband can agree on. One moment Henry is a total asshole and if he were not their child, he would have been tempted to slap him up the face. Then on other moments, he is like the nicest person on the whole fucking world. It was strange.

"It's probably a matter of time honey. I am going to bed. Need to be at work early today." Henry's father said as he kissed his wife and went on to the bed room.

His wife sat down and started to think about what it was going to be like having a second child so much later in the equation. She had nothing against it in the least, but she would be blind to say that it won't be a fight every single day like it already was with Henry in the first place.

When the dance was starting up, Takato and Jeri were the first of our brave heroes to show up there. Takato had been pretty excited for the dance since he knew if she was coming with him or not. He thought that this thing could seal the two of them as this big item, and that being at this dance was going to be the best thing in the world for the two of them. So when Jeri showed up and she was having a look on her face that looked like she was ready to get right into it, Takato decided that he didn't want to keep her waiting at all. He grabbed her hand and led her down the path way to the center of the dance room. As they were together, Takato wrapped his arms around her and was thinking of what to say.

"So Takato, how good are you at dancing? I mean, like truly. Not like in the way that you just move your arms around for a bit and call that good dancing..." Jeri said and then Takato was tempted to laugh a little at that one. He was sort of a victim of that after all, and Jeri really did sort of have him in a corner there. But he never really was sure if he could live up to what she would have wanted.

"I guess good enough for me. I don't know if you would really dig it though." Takato said and he felt like he was being a little insane by saying digging it. Like really, was that the best thing he could do to get her excited to be with him. But he didn't really think that he needed to fully recoil from that, just yet. It wasn't like he said she was a ugly pig or anything like that.

"I am just glad that you asked me to do this. I would have not gone to the dance if nobody was asking me, and I was worried that nobody really liked me in that regard at all. This does make me feel a lot better about myself. Thank you for that." Jeri said and then Takato could feel the huge blush coming down his throat, and he was wondering if there was a way that he could cover this up and make it look like he was at least somewhat under cool and collected.

"I really think you might be selling yourself short. You need to give yourself more credit than you are Jeri. There are a lot of people who think that you are a talented, funny girl." Takato said and he knew he was talking about himself when he he said that, but he felt that there might be other people who felt that way, and he wanted to make sure that she felt special and not like she was just the other kid on the block like she was selling herself out to be. "One of these days, if you decide to do some comedy, you are going to make some really great material that will make people really love you and the work that you do." Takato said and he also meant every single word of that statement.

"Thank you Takato for saying that. It does make me feel like there is nothing to be too afraid of. I really respect that about you. It seems in our short friendship so far, you have really gone out of your way to show me the good parts of myself that makes me think of what I am truly worth. I think that is why Kazu and Kenta are friends with you. You never seem to not see the good in something." Jeri said and then Takato nodded. While he was sort of doing it to get her love, he was also doing it because he genuinely felt that way about this great classmate of his.

"I think that this friendship should last a long time. I don't want to lose it. I don't want anything to get in the way of our friendship. I feel like going to this dance with you will help make it even stronger, and that makes me really glad." Takato continued and he could not get over how sappy this sounded, but at the same time, he knew he was probably holding up better than Kenta was with Rika. Jesus christ, how did Kenta manage to get Rika of all people to like him? There must be something about pick up lines that Kenta knew that Takato did not.

"I would not really worry to much about it. I doubt that anything will really get in the way of it. After all, you do treat Guilmon well and that was one of the things I was worried that you were just going to sort of throw away and not really bother to do." Jeri said and Takato could sort of see where she was coming from from there. Although there was no real reason for Takato to basically not treat Guilmon well. But he was wondering if perhaps Jeri needed to just get to know Guilmon better. After all, Guilmon really liked her so it was not feeling like too terrible of an idea.

"So Jeri... when tonight is over with and all of this is done with, and the dance is gone, do you think that anything between the two of us will remain in any way the same?" Takato asked and he was wanting the honest answer from Jeri and not one that would make him feel better.

"Yeah, I think that things will mostly be the same as before. Although I do think that there might be a little bit more of a spark between us, but that is the most that I will really see it being different, for now at least." Jeri said and then Takato nodded, not really too sure where to go with that one.

Takato and Jeri just enjoyed the rest of the slow song, and they decided not to talk for the rest of the song and just to take it very slowly and had both agreed that this was the best way to take it, since it would not require too much more effort to try and act like they were destined love birds. Well, that was their silent agreement more than a vocal one to be fair. But as the song was going on, Takato was actually thinking more and more about how great it was for Jeri to like him and how great it was that they were starting to unite a bit more on tiny things such as this.

Once the slow song was over with, Takato and Jeri sat down on a couple of chairs and just looked at each other. "I don't want to get into any of the crazy all out dancing. That is not my style. I know that many people like to dance like that, and I can sort of see the appeal to it, but I guess that maybe I am not really one of those types of dudes. I hope that this doesn't really bother you though..." Takato said and then after he had said that, Jeri shook her head. There was nothing to really be bothered by over that. He wasn't an extreme dancer, and there was nothing wrong with that in any way.

"Honestly, I am not really much of a dancer either. I enjoy it, but only when I do it with myself. I don't like to do any of the dance room stuff. I like to do it in a spot where I am the only one who knows what I am doing and nobody will be able to make fun of me or judge me for it." Jeri said and then after she said that, Takato nodded as he understand that idea.

"You don't have to worry about how you dance when you are around me Jeri. Just remember that. If people don't like it, then fuck them. They need to stop judging so hard and look at themselves and see if they are really any better. Chances are that they are probably not. I mean, look at this. It's not really dancing. It's just random moves and people acting like they are the hot shit." Takato said and Jeri smiled at him trying to make her feel better.

It was true, many of the people who were dancing were just moving around and acting like donkeys and looked like they were just trying to be the most popular kid at school for one or two minutes. It was all just a huge popularity contest, nothing more, nothing less. No matter how much people tried to act like it wasn't, it simply was and they just didn't want to openly admit that they only cared about being popular, a thing many people only care about.

As Henry was talking to his date, Amber, he was wondering how well she would like him after this whole dance, or if she was going to think that it was a huge mistake trying to get to know him after all. Henry knew that he just had to take things slowly and if he didn't try to over flow stuff at her, then maybe she and him could actually be able to pull this thing off after all. "So Amber, is this the first time that somebody has gone on a dance with you to something at school?" Henry asked, and he was hoping that she would say yes to sort of give Henry a little bit of a distinction, but at the same time, if she said no, then that would mean that nobody would have liked her before hand, and that would have sucked.

"I went on a slow dance with somebody before, but it was not as a date, and the whole thing felt like it had never happened after the song was over. I think that the person probably forgot that they had ever danced with me. After all, I don't really blame them, I barely even remember the dance that I had with them, or who the person looks like. They just seem to be some sort of name less face." Amber said and Henry was thinking it would be crazy if he was the guy, but at the same time he just knew that it wasn't, so he was not even going to try and get that idea in his head, since he had never had a slow dance with anybody before.

"I never slow danced before. I think that nobody really likes or cares for me. I know that sounds sort of sad, but I have never really been able to get a person to accept me." Henry said and then he was thinking that the whole Davis thing was so long ago that he could not really even use that as the excuse as to why nobody really liked him or anything like that.

"Well, have you thought that maybe it is because you have not gone out to see them before and that you have remained a little bit too far to yourself for them to ever really get a chance to decide if they liked you or not." Amber said and then Henry shook his head. There was no way for him to really feel that way. After all, this dance was making up for it all.

"I really am enjoying the dance so far Amber, and I would not really worry about anything on that level at all. Just enjoy the slow ride, as I am doing right now." Henry said and then when Henry had said that, Amber nodded and then they started to dance for the rest of the song, and then it was as if nobody was even around to notice or care how they were the ones that enjoyed the moment so well.

As Amber and Henry were just enjoying the dance, Henry was having some thoughts on the back of his mind. Such as the fact that he really could not help but wonder how Davis would feel if he learned about the fact that Henry had a good time at a school dance with one of his class mates. He had no idea why he cared what Davis of all people would think, but it was probably due to the fact that Davis did sort of help him down the right path and he needed to sort of really thank Davis for that, even if it was sort of too late for it. Henry never really did thank Davis for what he did to help set him down the right path, and thinking more and more on that was sort of making Henry feel like he still was not all that great of a guy after all, and that he still had a while to go before he was fully a changed man.

"You seem to be sort of thinking about something..." Amber said when she picked up the facial cues that Henry had. Realizing this, Henry looked back at her and shook his head. This was his best way to try and get her to relax and not worry about it all that much. Besides, it really was none of her business how well put together or lack of being well put together Henry had been.

"It's nothing, really. Don't think about it too much." Henry said and then after he told her that, she just nodded slowly and she decided that she was just going to respect his wishes. Besides, he was right. It was really none of her business what was going on with him. She barely even knew the guy. She only went on this dance with him because she thought that they both needed something to do that night, and the idea of having a date at the dance seemed like a really good idea at the time.

With that, the silent dancing between the two returned to normal and they were going back to what they had really wanted in the first place, a casual dance where nothing else in the world mattered. After all, if they liked the dance and felt satisfied with it all, they could continue this stuff on later in a further relationship. There was no need to throw it all at each other as if they were declaring instant love. Which would have been totally asinine.

Eventually though, Henry and Amber had all but forgotten that mini conversation just a second ago and the song that was playing in the back ground was basically just drowning out that fear. Henry didn't think about Davis or Terriermon or any of the ideas that his parents were having on having a second kid, which he knew very well about and thought was a totally retarded idea. In the end though, Henry was just sort of letting himself remember that as long as things went smoothly, there would be no real problem.

As the dance was coming to a end, Henry and Amber decided that they would hang out more, but just take it outside and just roam around the city a little bit to just sort of enjoy the view. "Did you like the dance?" Henry asked Amber, hoping that the answer would be yes, but at the same time he was relatively sure that it would be. If it was going to be a no answer, then he would have wondered how much of that would have been his fault, if any of it would have been his fault. He was pretty sure that if she just flat out hated the dance, at least some of it would have been to blame on him, and he would have wanted, no needed, to know why that would have been the case.

"I enjoyed the hanging out with you part, and the fact that for four hours or so, nothing in the world mattered at all. That really made it feel even more special than it was already. Thank you for letting me come with you to the dance Henry. But as we are both probably expecting, I think that maybe this is where it will be ending for us..." Amber said and then Henry thought about that, which in a way she was right, and he was not even sure why he was trying to pretend that there could be a follow up. They had pretty much everything that they could have possibly wanted with each other at that dance, and there was no real reason to try and pursue something like this any further if there was no real genuine pay off that would have come out of it.

"Well, I guess that we could still be hanging out and stuff, just as friends and nothing else really. Maybe some time after school this week, we can go down to the park and hang out there for a while? I think that maybe it would be a cool place to hang." Henry said as Amber considered that.

"I guess nothing too wrong can come out of just enjoying some time at the park or something like that. I think that you could be onto something there Henry. How about we meet up after class on Tuesday or something and see where that takes us?" Amber asked, and Henry agreed to that offer, and he was so glad that she had just accepted him there. He was really thinking about how much he and her were already getting together perfectly.

Eventually though, Henry and Amber had to head off home and after they did so, Henry went to his house and that was when both of his parents were standing there waiting for him. "Henry, we need to tell you something." Henry's father said and the three of them sat down to have the news be given and broken to that Henry would become a older brother.

Kazu and Peggy were at the dance and they decided not to really do any dancing at all. Instead, they just resorted to just relaxing at the microphone stand and watch the others. They were sort of trying to find Takato and the others, but they decided that it was none of their business what was going on there. Despite the fact that they were just being way too casual for this for many peoples standards, they were the ones that had the most well done dress up. Kazu decided to actually take it seriously thanks to the way that Peggy was sort of hammering it down on him that he needed to really try to dress up well. "I can't believe that the school year is almost over, then we will be in eighth grade. Just seems kind of crazy to really let that sink in. It feels like just two weeks ago when we were starting the year. Feels like it went by at mach speed." Kazu looked at Peggy and smiled and he had no idea how sad it was for him to say something like that, to say that they were moving on to the eighth grade. he had no idea how dangerously close to un true that was for him, and how genuinely untrue it was for others in the group.

"Well people are right, every does go by faster than the previous one, at least in a mental idea. I mean, it doesn't really matter. Everybody no matter what the case is has the same exact amount of time every single year. It is a way we use that time and the way that it is looked for us, the younger people, to the older people, and hell even the more young than us. One year to us is like seven percent of our life, while one year to a six year old is sixteen percent of our life, while one year for a sixty year old is just slightly over one percent of our life." Peggy said and Kazu considered that for a moment.

"I guess it is true that it is more of a matter of perception than anything else really. Nothing really makes a year all that different besides our life to then." Kazu said and they both agreed.

"I don't want my life to go to waste when I grow older. I would hate that so much, it would make me feel like nothing went well." Peggy said and Kazu gulped at that idea, wondering how his life would turn out.

"As long as we don't just let people do things for us, and you try to do something yourself, this should really not be a problem at all." Kazu said and Peggy nodded in agreement on that. Kazu was a decently well put together dude, he just needed to sort of have the mold broken in on him before you would really get his true thoughts on a lot of matters. She just hoped that he would never lose sight of this out look he was able to slowly develop as she got to know him more.

"Wow, it seems like we went a little bit on the deep end during that conversation. I was not really expecting something like that to be honest." Kazu said when he was sort of bringing himself back to the moment of the dance and then he looked over at Peggy who seemed to be thinking about that exact same problem. They really did go a little bit crazy with that one just then, and there was no real context to explain why that happened in the first place. "I mean it is important to talk about these things I suppose, but we should be having fun, not talking about end of the world shit."

"Yeah, you're right. I have no idea why we even forced ourselves into something like that. Let's just enjoy the rest of the night." Peggy and Kazu laid down on the microphone stand and were just laying down for the sake to pretend like they were outside in some great and green fields. The songs that were playing the back ground were closer to Kazu's tastes than it was to Peggy, but even then it wasn't really one hundred percent his style. He had no problem with it, he just never really cared for it.

"I know this may sound a little bit of a strange question, but doing this right now is sort of making me think about it. But if I just continued to lay here, for a while, would you continue to lay with me, and in a way, just sort of forget the world? I guess that kind of goes against everything we talked about earlier, but holy shit, just thinking on this here is sort of making me really consider that a bit." Kazu saw Peggy glance at him and stare really deeply into his eyes. It was a combination of kind of odd but also a little bit romantic.

"I would say that I would not mind doing that. Although we would have a little bit of a time limit since we kind of can't really do things until past midnight here. So if you wanted to lay down here for the rest of the dance, that would not really be too big of a deal, but once the dance is over, we have to get the fuck out." Peggy said as the two of them started to hold each others hands a bit after that.

It was a nice moment, and for a thirteen year old stand point, a little bit of a romantic idea, but it could not last forever. In fact, after like ten minutes or so they were both kind of starting to regret this idea and then they decided to get up and start to do some other things. They thought that while it was in no way their taste, maybe doing a one song dance would not be too terrible of a idea, to sort of capture the point of this dance anyways.

They only did two songs before they decided that maybe doing some dances like this was not really their cup of tea, so they decided to head on out and go to Peggy's house. Kazu was thinking that he knew what she was planning on doing now, and since they had been together for a little bit, maybe it wasn't a gigantic rush to do this, but at the same time, he still was not one hundred percent sure if he should really be doing this now. But either way, the idea of it was a little bit too much for him to resist and his will power was just starting to crumble at the thought of it.

"I think that you are a good guy. I was not really too sure when I found out that you had been smoking and drinking, and that almost turned me off from you in every single way. But since you have started to change your ways on that, I don't really mind anymore." Peggy said as Kazu was sort of debating to himself if he should tell her the truth or not. But he thought that things were going so well between them, that if he told her, nothing would be able to repair anything they had, so he was just going to keep the lie up and hope that she would never catch him doing it or something. He was just glad they were not heading on over to his house, or that would have blown the whole operation.

Eventually, Peggy and Kazu reached her house and they went inside when they were sure that none of their parents were around to see what they were planning. So they closed her bedroom door and then turned off the lights and Kazu was hoping that this was going to go the way that he was thinking it would, and if it did, he would have sort of been on the fence of telling Takato and Kenta or just keeping it to himself.

Kazu and Peggy started to kiss each other and this made Kazu feel like he was on the top of the world. Sure, it was a little odd since he was terrible at it, and he felt like she was ten times better than he was at it, and that made him feel a little bit guilty that they were doing this and he was just so shitty at it, but he was telling himself that it didn't really matter all that much, as long as he enjoyed it, and he sure as hell was.

As that happened, and Kazu and Peggy were sort of escalating a little bit more, Rika was at the dance with Kenta, and for some reason seeing that guy and his dumb but also cute attitude was making her start to rethink her life, and in a way was sort of planting the early seeds of her change as a person. She didn't want to admit it, but hanging out with Kenta that day and before, she realized that as much as nobody was allowed to hear this, especially not Renamon or Kenta's friends, and even more especially not Kenta, but she had a crush on the dumb kid.

"Rika, are you a dancer at all?" Kenta asked at the start of it all, and he was having such a uncetrain sound to his voice that Rika almost felt bad for the guy. He had no idea what he was saying, and how to really talk with her, and that was certain. He kept looking down a couple of times, and it was only one sentence. Rika thought that if Kenta was trying to get her to dance, then he was doing a terrible job. But if she was trying to get her to appreciate his silly life style, then maybe he was actually succeeding at least a little bit.

"I don't really dance to often, it's not like a full on hobby of mine, but I might try it out if you are into that." Rika said as she was sort of curious how Kenta was going to take that advancement. If he was going to grab it and run with it, or fall back in fear because of it. Either way, it did sound entirely possible to her. Kenta wildly shook his head and then he was letting her knew that it would be terrible if he dances and Rika put up her hands to show she got the point.

"I could never dance to save my life. Trust me. If I tried dancing, it would make Takato look like high art in comparison." Kenta said and then Rika totally forgot about Takato. She honestly did not want to be reminded about him, but she thought that maybe Kenta didn't realize that, so she decided that she was going to let it slide this one time. "Oh sorry, I forgot that you two were like the worst enemies possible..." Kenta said when he just remembered that fact, and then he was thinking about how badly he was doing at this whole thing. He probably made Takato look like a master picker upper by comparison, which was what he had said about his god awful dancing.

"I mean, I think in a while, he will start to know how to talk to me without letting the fists do the talking. But until then, he does have a long ass way to go. Not that it is bothering me too much. At least you are nothing like him in that regard. You are actually somebody who I can talk to. Besides, I doubt that you could punch somebody. It just seems like that is not really in your personal ability." Rika said and then Kenta slowly nodded to that. She was mostly right.

"I mean, only on like life risking cases would I do it. I don't want to pick fights, and the idea of picking fights just for the sake of fighting seems so fucking insane to me, that I have no idea why anybody would do it." Kenta said as Rika was looking off to the sides, hoping he would not really pick up the context of that. Besides, most of the time it was something she had to do.

"Fighting is a bit of a subjective matter. Some people will think that it is something that you should do no matter what if something starts to go the other way, while some really try their best to work through it. I feel as if you might be the type of guy who works his way through it, and that when you are able to work your way out of it, you can show them that there is nothing wrong with just words. I mean, there is nothing wrong with fighting, but even I have to admit that diplomacy is better sometimes, and this is something from somebody who does fight relatively often." Rika said and then Kenta nodded, as if he was actually really understanding Rika and that Takato should have just given her a chance.

"I just have seen a lot of side effects that come out of fighting, and I am scared of what it would do to me if I start to follow down that path. Do you get what I mean? I think that if I began a fighting career, then eventually, that will be like my whole life, and it will be like nothing else I would be living for. So I sort of figure that I should just stay away from it. You seem like you do understand me, even if our ideas are not always one hundred percent the same. I think that there is a little bit of a middle ground with us." Kenta was saying as Rika saw the easing in that Kenta was having in this entire conversation. It really was something that she had to admire about him, and in a way that didn't really feel forced.

"I want to really see how you are more of as a person. I don't see why people have such a huge problem with you. I think that you are actually a really nice girl." Kenta said and that statement actually really put a lump inside of Rika's throat. She had no real clue where to go with that. It was one of the best things anybody ever said to her.

"Thank you Kenta... I never really thought somebody would ever tell me that. This is actually really making my day." Rika said and then Kenta started to tilt his glasses around to make them not fog up or feel like they were about to fall off of him, which he was thinking could happen if he didn't focus enough.

"Want to go outside? This dance room is really sort of making me feel like I am being spied on. Besides, I think that we would rather enjoy the nice view of the city than the view of guys getting all sweaty." Kenta said and then Rika liked that little bit of attitude that he showed for literally one second and then the two of them went outside and they were thinking about what was going on and how this really even happened at all. It was kind of just a huge escalation.

Once Kenta and Rika were sitting down and at the bench outside, Kenta looked over at Rika and he was doing his best to really try and figure out what the hell she was thinking. He thought he had probably figured her out more than anybody else, but this was still something he needed to really pin point. He felt like he was starting to really break into her tough girl mold, and that was what was making him still go through with this. It was obvious that there needed to be a lot more effort here, but it was the effort that he was willing to take to really change how Rika looked like life and everything else. So it was the time and commitment that he was willing to take, if it meant making everything between his friends and her to be much easier.

"So, how do you like Renamon? Do you view them as a friend, or just something that is used to help get you power? I honestly have no place to judge you at all for what you say, I am just curious on what you say. If I had a digimon, I would try and look at them as a friend, but I do see that in some cases, I might have to use them as just a tool to help me win a battle, and that could be a bad way of looking at things though." Kenta said and then when he had said that, Rika could understand the defeated tone in his voice, as if he could not believe that he was suggesting using something for duel.

"You just have to do what you think will work best for you. Sometimes, that may be just using diplomacy, sometimes you have t be rough with your digimon. I am glad that you don't have one. If you did, then I could not begin to imagine the crazy turmoil that would be taking you over and you would probably be wanting to never have to fight or do anything like that again after just a first time." Rika said and Kenta nodded.

"I guess I am easier to understand than you. Probably not that hard though to be honest. You are a tough cookie to break." Kenta said and then something happened that made them both stop what they were going to say next.

"Is that a digimon coming up?" Kenta asked and the fear in his voice sky rocketed at that statement, and Rika stood up and was taking a few steps forward. She was wanting to make sure before she made any decisions right then and there, but she was sure that Kenta was probably right on the dot in his theory of what it was. Rika took out her digivice, she brought with her just in case she needed it and then she pressed the on button, ready for Renamon to come and help.

Before Kenta could even fathom to ask any questions, there was a tiny white digimon with a red triangle on its face running towards them. Kenta would very soon learn that this one was named Calumon. As that was happening, there was a digimon that was small and purple running towards them, which Kenta knew was named Impmon later on down the line. So this was confusing since Kenta was wondering why Rika would feel the need to fight two things that were not even a tenth of her own size and even she could kick their ass. But then the thing that scared those digimon and made Rika more aware of what was going on showed up, and Kenta understood the whole thing then.

The digimon that had been chasing them was a giant spider digimon, one that looked like it was the size of a quarter of a soccer field. Kenta was on the verge of screaming when he saw that, but Rika decided that she would stop that from happening as she did not want to cause any form of mass hysteria or something like that. She just covered his mouth and then Kenta was slowly nodding as he was thinking he was starting to get the point she was trying to make.

"Kenta, try and keep Calumon and Impmon safe. You can stay here and watch if you want, but just make sure nothing happens to them. I need to take care of this, since they are about to trash the school if we do not be careful." Rika said and then Kenta slowly nodded and he took a couple of seconds for his mind to calm down but once it did he grabbed Calumon and Impmon didn't want to go, but even they knew that there was no way they can take this spider thing out before they got stronger, so they started to follow Kenta as well, for the sake of thinking long term.

It took like thirty seconds for Kenta to really navigate his way through this insane moment but soon enough he reached the end of the school yard and he placed Calumon on the ground and then looked at Impmon. "What the fuck is going on? Do you have any idea what is happening? I feel like I need to get in there and help out. But I have nothing to fight with..." Kenta said as he looked forward at Rika. Seeing her in any possible danger was scaring the shit out of him.

Rika got slapped in the chest by the digimon and she flew backwards onto one of the seats and then she yelped in pain when she had that happen to her. Kenta was on the verge of coming in there and doing something to help her, but there was something that stopped him. He started to see a giant yellow fox digimon, Renamon, running in their direction and Kenta took a deep breath. He figured that maybe this thing could be able to help out and safe the day after all.

Once Renamon was on the battle field, things did start to seem to let up for the good guys, Renamon picked up Rika and then ran her really quickly to Kenta where Kenta was forced to grab Rika and hold her for a minute or so, which made Kenta really wonder what he was going to do if and when Takato had found out about this. Renamon then jumped to be in front of the spider digimon once again after this was over and then when that was going on, they brought their arms together and then after a few seconds of charging, they fired a shit ton of diamonds at the spider.

As this was going on, Kenta felt like he was losing his mind a little bit, and like he was watching some form of crazy video game come into reality. It was a little bit exciting to see, but at the same time, he had no idea if this was really real and that the stuff he was seeing was what actually made sense. The spider started to move their legs around a little bit, and after a couple of seconds, Kenta was able to figure out that this thing was wanting to create some webs to trap Renamon up in.

Kenta looked down at Impmon and he was wondering if maybe the small thing could actually be able to help them out, it was a distant and sort of retarded hope Kenta had to admit, but it was still a hope that he had nonetheless. So he looked over at Impmon and then he was nodding at the digimon and that was when Impmon was seeing what Kenta was implying. He thought that Kenta was a understandable bloke after all and that maybe Kenta could actually be able to help out more on his own right.

Impmon started to run at the digimon and was shooting just a bunch of tiny fire balls. They were just doing this to distract the spider and that was doing decently well enough that it made the spider turn around and stop tying Renamon up for the time being. Kenta slowly placed Rika down on the ground, hoping that what he was doing was not a move that he would regret and then when he had done so, the spider swatted Impmon aside and really badly hurt them, but both Kenta and Impmon knew that they had truly done their job for the moment.

Renamon was getting up and they jumped behind the spiders back, which scared the spider for a moment and as this was happening, the spider was starting to fumble around and Kenta knew that he was doing the one thing that was needed to be done, and that was just distracting the spider long enough for Rika to really gain a sense of what was going on, and then the spider grabbed Renamon and threw them down to the ground in annoyance.

Seeing Renamon being abused like this was starting to trigger a wide ass range of emotions for Rika who had not come even close to wanting to see something like this. It really was hard to see her edition get beaten up like this. That plus the dance she had with Kenta, it really was like a huge eye opening experience for her and this was making her start to wonder the true merit of all of what she had done up to that point in time, and if she had made the right choice or not on any of this. As she pondered it she started to see that the answer very well be a resounding no.

Rika began to make her way to Renamon as she was hoping this moment can be able to start to bring them a little bit closer to each other which was a thing she was slowly and progressively wanting. She did not want to let Renamon down and she also did not want to let Kenta down as she knew he had some hope in her and he wanted to make that hope justified for him to have in the first place. Out of all the people in that group he hung with, he was the only one who was in any way a friend of hers and she did not to make that feel unjustified.

Kenta was amazed at how Rika had been able to handle the whole thing and seeing her run straight into like she did was truth be told a little bit hot and he enjoyed seeing it from a personal level, and her entire appearance went along with it all to make a perfect set up to Kenta having a full on, rock hard boner. It was a terrible timing to get one, but that part if him gave zero fucks at all and Kenta had done his best to make it so that Rika would never have to learn of it. As that would have made things a thousand times more uncomfortable for both him and for Rika. So he tried to keep himself a little bit busy there.

Renamon stood up and as they had done so, Rika could feel something was just about to go down, and both she and Kenta st of back to see what the digimon was going to end up doing. Even the spider was taking a couple of steps back when they saw what was about to go down.

Kenta just stood in amazement as Renamon began to glow. Knowing what went down last time, she knew exactly what was happening. Renamon wad now on their way to the second stage of life, and the evolution would be the only thing that would keep all of them alive from the spider, which was the main thing she had any true fears of. As Renamon was changing, even the other two digimon were watching in disbelief at the fucking situation.

"Kyubimon!" Was the name of the second form Renamon had as can be figured out when that was what they had yelled and then Kyubimon turned to the spider and was ready to do anything possible to save Rika or hell even Kenta to some extent. Kyubimon started to grow some fire balls which did look pretty cool even I, the heat of the spider could be able to make any webs as Kyubimon would burn them all down and soon enough Kyubimon breathed enough fire to make the spider fade away into dust. It was a bit amazing how fast the battle went after Renamon became Kyubimon, and Rika was glad her digimon was the one who got the second turn, so to speak.

"Well, that was fun." Kenta said and then he saw that Kyubimon became Renamon again. He could not blame the digimon. After all, they were in a huge battle just now. The thing just needed some rest now. Kenta saw that Rika was standing in front of Renamon, to make sure everything was alright. Kenta looked and saw that the other two digimon were gone. Probably left after all the action was gone and there was nothing left to witness so they could just call it quits.

Rika walked on to Kenta to be with him once again and to make sure that he was still totally fine with all of this. Maybe this can show Kenta why sometimes there needed to be a fight in order to try and keep the peace, as the spider would not do anything besides just try and duel them out to the death. With that, the two of them started to walk away from the scene if the fight and just sort of ponder what this all meant for the group and the digimon. Maybe Rika would have to team up with the boys after all. Maybe it won't be so bad after Kenta started to try and get through towards her. Rika looked at Kenta when the were under a tree and then she thought about what to say.

"Renamon was really impressive out there, seems like you have taught them well after all. Seems like you do know how to fight after all." Kenta was thinking maybe sooner or later he might have to retract what he said earlier, for her at the very least since damn she was a good fighter. Rika really appreciated the way Kenta treated her in this situation. Maybe he was more grown up than she thought.

"I wanted to show you my thanks for taking to to the dance tonight." Rika said and Kenta was not sure what she meant as Rika pushed Kenta to the tree. Despite the usual case and how this would be a instant red alarm, Kenta was ready. Despite this being the second time she saw him, he was already her best friend and her trusted ally. She started kissing him very deeply. Kenta took a moment to ease in but when he did be was loving every second of the kiss and he was ready for more.

Rika and Kenta kept it up for a little longer before they had felt like they needed to go back home or at the very least go somewhere else so that nobody else would follow what was going two of them were sort of trying to fully understand what was going on, and they felt as if they had sort walked in on a rough to get out of situation. Kenta never really had any interest in getting Rika to get all wet over him but since it was happening, he would go along with it gladly. If it meant the group can start to get along with her, and if it meant him getting a girlfriend, it would be a double victory.

As Kenta and Rika were walking around the area, the more that the previous battle was sort of going off their mind and it was slowly getting more and more clear that they did not really feel all that bothered about what had gone down earlier. In a strange way, it kind of was just business as usual, and Kenta and especially Rika were well aware of that being just how it was. Kenta did sort of wonder of it was even worth having a digimon if this was going to happen on a daily basis.

"Are the digimon one of the reasons that you do not mind going out and fighting all of the damn time? That would actually explain quite a bit I suppose." Kenta said as he was feeling like he was truly starting to see what the digimon were like and how it was slowly starting to form Rika's character a little bit more. At the rate it was heading it would not shock even him if be was starting to become more pro fighting and trying to do it for the sake of all humans and digimon.

"I will not say it is the full reason, but it does have some share to my idea in why fighting is not really all that bad. Even before digimon, I have had to fight a share and it does open my view to it and accept it more. Besides, your friend likes to punch me when he sees me. After the fourth time or so, I have sort of grown to expect it though. I feel like fighting, to some extent, is what sort of drives me onward with my life. You might say I should not live that way. Maybe you are right. But it is the way that I have to live for the time being." Rika was saying, as Kenta considered her strange but also valid point of view.

"While I do not want to say so as it would require me to change my mind set and all that, but maybe you could be right. I guess I don't like that idea though... I feel like maybe we should try a different topic though, and while I can not read your mind, I feel as if you might agree with me just a little bit." Kenta said and then Rika was sort of having a mental sigh of relief this topic was a little much to handle at times.

The two reached the front of her house and as they did so, Rika looked over at Kenta as if to fully get ready to part ways with the guy who was slowly winning her over. "Well I guess we will have to leave each other now." Rika said and did kind of mean it when the tone if her voice did show a faint hint of sadness. Kenta looked over at her and thought of what to say next and how he can find a way for them both to win. As he was heading back he turned at Rika and shook his head to show he was not scared anymore. Or what be thought was not scared anymore but in truth was just being retarded.

"I don't care what they say. My parents will not care what I will do. I can do whatever the hell I want. If you do not mind me asking or suggesting, but would you mind if I stayed for the night and left in the morning? Besides, it is getting a bit late maybe I really should go home now as it will be past one when I do." Kenta said as Rika thought this idea can work, and after some consideration, Rika nodded and had a huge, border line strange smile on her face. As crazy as it was to say, he was sort of her best friend and him doing this was another reason to add to the growing list of how and why that was. Even after their debates he liked her enough to stay the night at her house with little to no second thought at all.

Kenta walked inside of her house, giving little to no care if he would get in trouble with Rika's parents or not. Besides the whole time thing wad a half valid reason to do what he was doing and even they must see that.

Soon enough, the two love birds went inside of her room and unlike Peggy who just went ham wild right away and closed the door instantly, then turned every light to hide what she did, Rika only closed the door and did not turn off the lights to go along wild quite yet as she wanted it slow to an extent with Kenta.

"Welcome to my humble abode. Probably where I will live until I am in my twenties." Rika said and Kenta did not say anything to that. There was no real reason to think that quite yet so he was hoping Rika would change that way of looking at things. She needed to look at things better, and he was going to do his dann best to do so. Even if the others will not.

"How long have you really been into digimon if you don't mind me asking Rika. I am just a little bit curious to see if this has been a long term thing you gave been a part of or if it was relatively recent. I only got into digimon really for my friends, even though they like it better than me." Kenta said thinking the conversation could drag on a bit gwe before they had to resign for the night, as they would both need some sleep soon after all that went was odd staying at a girls house, as well as the house of the first girl he kissed. That was still sort if sinking in for him, as he had in no way planned it.

"I got into it because of this one guy, kind of an asshole to be honest showed me it and it looked cool. His name was Ryo and we meet one day. But we played the game for a bit and I lost. I then decided I wanted to be better so when I would fight him again I would be able to win the whole thing. He was such a fucking prick Kenta. I don't know why most men are like that. You seem to be one of the few exceptions to that." Rika said to Kenta as he was hoping he would not become the gold standard of how to be a good bloke. He was okay, but not the best.

"You really did leak my interest, but what had made Ryo such a terrible person to begin with? I think I have heard of him now that I think of it and he sounded like a relatively nice person. Was it a case of good on the outside but rotten on the inside?" Of he truly was as bad as Rika had said, then this could be a really big problem. One he would not be too sure if he could crawl himself out of. But he was telling himself he was over thinking it and that this would not really be too big of a deal.

"He just seemed like he was only doing things if it were to put him one step forward. He pretended like he cared to get people to support him as this so called nice guy but it was just a cover up. He knew what to play and how to play it out was even worse than I could even dream to be." Rika loosely explained as Kenta wondered how he could make her feel better.

"Rika, you are not a terrible person. Don't say that about yourself. You need to be more confident in yourself. It seems like you truly do lack a good look at yourself. I believe from what I can tell that is part of why you are always doing stuff you normally never would. Not because you want to, but because you feel the need to. At least I can see it that way." Kenta told Rika his opinion, hoping she would be cool with it and that she would not attack him on the whole thing. He was trying his best and he hoped she can respect that.

"After the first time with Ryo, I was just focused on training myself to be ready to fight him again. When I kept fighting, I eventually found a game I could fight in. Turned out to be a tournament, and I decided to go ahead and try my skills out to see if I was any better, and I must say I did a dann good job." As Rika told Kenta that, he could not help but so wonder of perhaps he knew what she was talking about, and off the off chance he could have actually been there.

"I easily won the tournament, only starting to struggle even a little on the final two battles, and even those were sort of easy compared to how I saw people handle the fights prior to me getting the rounds. So when I was like waiting for my time to keep on winning." Rika was slowly getting to the one part she was wanting to really get to, and she was hoping Kenta would really love.

"After the tournament was over with, I ended up being able to see Ryo once more. I wanted to defeat him in a second round. While I did take down some cards and I made him actually think his moves out, he still beat me. But trust me Kenta when I say this, third time will be the charm. Next time I will crush him and make up for all of the loss I have had to deal with just because of that cunt." Rika did not care how Kenta felt with her saying that, at least she was telling the truth.

"Are you sure it will even satisfy you to beat him now. It feels like it would not be worth it after all you have been trying to make it out to be. I just sort of fail to see where this will take you. Maybe it was one of those things I had to be there for to get, but so far I do not fully understand." Kenta said as Rika took a shirt but very deep breath. Maybe explanation and examination can help him grasp it all.

"I guess it is a thing you needed to be there to get. But trust me, if you were, none of this would even be debated. He'll, you might even be helping me out as best as you could to defeat Ryo. In a way, he is quite the illusive man in a way. I just wonder if he knows I am after him, or if he thinks I have given up on it. I will never give up until I beat him, even if it is the last thing I do." Rika finished and Kenta wanted more details, like the full extent of what exactly he had done.

"Was it really all that bad? I seriously fail to see what he might have done to you that was so terribly awful. Did he try to use you for his own gain or something?" Kenta questioned as Rika out a little bit more thought to it and why duo was so awful. She knew why for herself, but she was thinking of the way that Kenta could finally once and for all see her point. Maybe if she gave the long version of the story, maybe then he would understand.

"I don't like this, but I trust you enough to talk to you about it. So it started when I first met him, which had happened back when my mother was sort of becoming a fashion star. Ryo was there trying to help get her career going as he was doing this as a bit of community service. My mom was sort of thinking that he was a nice guy and she had started to earn his trust after helping her out for a little while. Hearing what my mom had been saying about him made me really excited to meet him, which my mom said it would be a little bit. I was so excited to see how he helped the fashion career of my mom." There was a hint in her voice that gave Kenta the clue she was sort of having some father issues at the same time, and that was a part of where she was coming from.

"Was there something going on with your father at the time? It seems like that is a piece of the puzzle I am missing, or maybe I could be wrong. It would put a couple if things in perspective." Kenta waited for the next bit of the story.

"My father is dead. He died just about a month or so before Ryo shower up for the first time. He was heading off to work and he sung me a great song. But then two days later we got news of his death. I just cried. And cried. I kept doing so for nearly three weeks. But Ryo had made me hope I could have at least a form of back up. I thought I would be able to move on and do something I knew I would enjoy. But he knew I was weak and he used that to his favor, and he did show absolutely no regret for what he had done." Rika looked like she was about damn ready to cry.

"Did he try to use you... Sexually?" Kenta said as he was feeling terrible to have that idea even come to his head. He felt like he was sort of falling to the lowest level of accusations. There was no proof Ryo did that and even if Rika hated him there was no sign that she was going to say he did that to her.

"No, it never had gone down to that. For that at the very least, I guess I should be grateful. But still, I would not be shocked if he had wanted to do something like that. He was quite the extreme dude. But he would however always talk about me behind my back and make fun of my skills and tell me that I was no good to be playing that game or to be going around and having a social life. He seemed to give zero ducks how I felt by the stuff he said. In fact, it was pretty obvious he found my reactions funny." Kenta was still listening while thinking about the whole dead father ordeal.

"It must have been truly terrible to lose your father. I am kind of curious if you guys were close or if it was one of those cases where you started to only appreciate something after it was taken away from you. I would probably be that way with my parents. I am not super close to the point of unwavering loyalty with them, but I would never dream of wanting then to die." Kenta saw Rika starting to stare outside her window and Kenta wondered if he should drop the case. For both their sakes, he was thinking that maybe he should to avoid any possible conflict.

"I was really starting to get close to him lately. When he and I would meet up, he would always have a new song for me, and seeing him sing the songs he had for me really put a huge amount of joy on my life. I know no matter what, the songs can never be replicated and his style was truly one of a kind. I remembered how my dad said one time that the greatest stars will shine brightest, but the shine will not be as long. I wonder if he was a bright star and that was why he died first. But if you like have a long life, does that mean you were a dim was light that just lasted a long ass time. It is a interesting look into perspective." Rika said and while she had no idea at the time, she was having a slight reference to Kazu's fate as compared to the rest of them.

"I wonder how you father would feel about you if he were alive. I wonder if he would approve of me talking with you at all. I wished I could have met him to know what he would have said to me in terms of general advice." Kenta was slowly feeling like he would have really needs Rika's fathers way of life now.

Rika was considering that as well as what it was like when she first met Renamon. She felt like that would be the next bit of the story she would give Kenta is this night of her life being a prequel. If Kenta even gave a shit anymore.

"Are you even interested in what I gave to say anymore? We have been talking about this for a while. I would not blame you if you are not interested in this anymore. I don't really want to bore the living shit out of you or anything like that." Rika asked Kenta, worried that she had pressed this thing so far down to the ground that it will not even be worth going on for. She figured that it was impressive he had even gone on for so long in the first place. Kenta stood up as be was walking on his way to Rika. He was doing his best to make sure that she understood that he respected her and wished to know the rest of her story, to see if she can have a fully transparent thing with him going on.

"I am interested in what you have to say. I would worry that you would keep information inside of you for too long for your own good. That seems to be another problem that you have with yourself that I have noticed. You seem to have a certain level of insecurity in you that makes you not open with others. Don't worry about what I may feel on what you tell me." Kenta was hoping soon enough she would be broken in enough to get it.

"Well in case you are curious, I had gotten Renamon soon after I had my first card battle with Ryo. I was in a truly bad place after he beat me in the card game the first time." Rika started as Kenta began to fear the worst on the stuff he was going to get told here, wondering if Renamon was just a tool for power, a idea that seemed really likely with the current context clues he had been given.

"Are you using Renamon for power? I don't know how to really feel about that honestly. Just seems like a bit of a low blow." Kenta was hoping he was wrong about that assumption and that Renamon was not just a battle slave after all. But in the current case so far, he really was just not sure at all and he had to take the extra level of caution here, to make sure he wasn't a tool either. Kenta wasn't Renamon, in fact he was not a digimon at all, but still, it was a little hard to be fully sure with stuff like this. He had hoped Rika could see his point in view though at the very least.

"Well, I would be lying if I said power was not tempting. It was tempting and it still is. But I would also be lying if I said that was all I was going off of. It really is not. In a way, I felt like I needed something to be a support for me since I was alone and I felt like I needed something there as a sort of helper for what I lost with my father. Something that made me felt like I was cared about. But instead, I treated Renamon poorly and I lost sight if that." Rika said as Kenta thought that one out. He felt it was true enough if he was her, he could have done something like this for his own gain.

"So you do see a lot of the failures that you have with Renamon, and I am sort of assuming that now you are going to do your best to change that all? I feel as if Renamon will be able to really appreciate that, and maybe it will be able to get Takato and Henry to see the good side in you after all, and that can truly be able to turn it all around I feel like. Just really five it a try and see how it all turns out." Kenta said as he saw the look on Rika's face when she turned around to see him that he was truly getting to her, and that she was probably going to turn around and start to follow down his path is slow spinning redemption.

"Maybe you are right here. Thank you for setting me down the right path. Next time I see them, I feel like things will slowly go more and more in my favor." Rika said as she slowly placed a kiss on Kenta cheek and then she went in her bed. "I will be going to sleep now. Thank you for talking with me. That was something I really needed on all honesty."

After Rika decided to go down for the night, Kenta was sort of thinking to himself and he was just not really able to understand how all of this could even play out. He was hoping this would go the way he thought it would. Plus it had seemed like Rika was placing a lot of trust on him, and there was no way in hell he was going to let this down for her.

Eventually though, Kenta laid down on the ground and as he was thinking, he was slowly letting himself go to sleep. He was just wanting this to be over. He closed his eyes and soon after wards he was just as asleep as Rika and he felt like this was the way things were sort of setting up destiny with each other now.

As they were both asleep, things went quietly for the next couple of days. It was not until Wednesday that week anything of worth went down, and when the group would slowly but surely fully establish the tamers as well as get to really know Impmon for who they really were, and start to track down the true meaning of all of these digimon and all of that stuff. In a way, the legend of the tamers was really growing here, and it only really took a couple of weeks to get there.