Unintended Love Part I
(C) Rukato Freak a.k.a. Dark Fox
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon. However I do own the plot.
A/n: Ok, this is my second Rukato fic, and it's also my first attempt at a tear jerker. I hope it's enjoyed by everyone who reads it. And please, no flames, I worked really hard. Also I was to say a special thanks to Kouen- Thanks for always having faith and confidence in me Kouen!
Key:
italics= thoughts.
"Quotation marks "= speech.
Bold Italics= words to a song.
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Groaning loudly a young boy slammed his hand down on the alarm clock, to stop its annoying buzzing. Slowly Takato rose sleepily from his soft, comfortable bed. He looked at the clock and realized he had slept in, and was late for an official tamers meeting at Henry's house. Softly cursing under his breath he ran to his drawer and pulled out his blue sweatshirt, grey pants, and yellow goggles. He smiled at his reflection. Then he glanced over at his picture of all six of the Digimon Tamers all together, although his concentration was set on the beautiful Rika Nonaka, the 'Digimon Queen.' As usual she had a stone cold expression on her face. 'One day I'll break through that ice.... and when I do, you will be mine Rika, Takato thought, his heart fluttering at the thought of a kiss from Rika. Though, even if I became her friend, Takato thought, she'd never kiss me.
Takato raced rapidly down the stairs, turned the corner and grabbed a bunch of bread from the counter, rapidly shoving some of the huge pile into his mouth. The rest he quickly shoved into a bag, before running out of his parents bakery.
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"Takatomon!" Takato's digimon partner Guilmon exclaimed, as usual happy to see Takato.
"Hi Guilmon. Sorry I'm late, I accidentally slept in," Takato said. "Here's the bread. I have to go now, I'm late for the Tamers meeting."
"Ok Takato." Guilmon replied smiling at Takato before almost diving into the pile of bread, happily munching away at it. Takato turned and ran out of the shed, running like lightning to Henry's house. The others were probably worried by now.
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Rika paced back and forth about the room. Why was Gogglehead so late? Had he run into a dangerous digimon? Did something bad happen to him? Her face contorted into a frown. She paused momentarily and said slowly, "Where's that stupid Gogglehead?"
"Rika, are you worried about him? Oh, I get it, RIKA LOVES TAKATO!" Kazu taunted, knowing he would be hurt by Rika. But, in a way it was worth it. All of them watched Rika blush. She was blushing harder than Kazu had expected. Then, looking around Rika, Kazu saw the reason she was blushing. Takato had burst through the door just in time to hear him say the last part of his sentence.
Takato dashed up to the apartment and burst through the door. Just as he did he heard Kazu yell, "RIKA LOVES TAKATO!" Was it true? If it wasn't why was Rika blushing like that. Then she turned towards Kazu and slapped him viciously across his cheek.
"Don't you dare say something stupid like that again if you want to live," Rika said, her voice a low angry growl. She then slowly walked over to the couch and sat down, slipping on her head phones, making sure one part was behind her ear so she could hear what was said. Rika clicked the forward track several times until it came to, 'Crash and Burn,' by Savage Garden. Instantly she relaxed as she closed her eyes.
Takato slowly walked over to the couch, and sat down beside Rika. He said hello to her, but she didn't even acknowledge him. Takato then realized she was asleep. So, deciding it would be best to wake her up he leaned over close to her and whispered slowly in her ear, "Anata wo daku." (A/n: He just said, "I want to sleep with you" in Japanese)
She sat up quickly, in fact so quickly she fell off of the couch. She turned to look at Takato. "What??!!"
"Sorry, I had to wake you up," Takato said blushing slightly, offering her a hand to help her up from the floor.
"Oh." She couldn't believe he had said that, even though it was just to wake her up. Though, she couldn't help but laugh at the way he looked so cute when he blushed... Wait! Where did 'cute' come from? She asked herself, shocked.
Henry sighed and stood up. "I think we better get this meeting started, now if I could find Terriermon we could......," he trailed off as he saw Suzie run through the room holding Terriermon in her arms. Rika smirked, and Takato suppressed a giggle at the sight of Terriermon in a dress. Kazu and Kenta were deep in conversation and didn't notice, and Jeri simply thought it was cute.
Henry looked at the group and said, "If you'll excuse me I have to save Terriermon from the 'Miss Pretty Pants' treatment."
At that comment Takato burst out laughing. He couldn't help it, it was just too funny. Henry glared at him. Takato stopped laughing.
Henry left and a moment later brought Terriermon out with him. Terriermon looked frustrated, and downright upset. Of course he had every right to, because the 'Miss Pretty Pants' treatment was not fun at all.
"Ok, now let's go before Suzie tells dad that I stole Terriermon from her," Henry said opening the door.
Jeri came towards the door and he held it open for her saying, "Ladies first." He followed her out, and the door closed behind him, hitting Kazu in the face.
"Ouch!" Kazu said. He walked out the door with Kenta behind him. Rika and Takato followed after them.
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When they reached the park Guilmon and Calumon were playing tag in the small shed. Both were laughing happily. Calumon turned and saw them, his ears expanding wider with joy. He jumped up into Rika's arms.
"Eskimo Kisses!" Calumon said, rubbing his nose on Rika's. She laughed at him. Calumon was too cute to get mad at. Then to her surprise Calumon jumped out of her arms and ran over to Takato, jumping up onto his head, saying a friendly hello before fiddling with his bright yellow goggles.
Calumon's weight being pressed on Takato's goggles caused them to slide down his face, followed by a surprised Calumon. Rika rushed over to catch Calumon. She was relieved when he fell safely into her arms. "I want to do that again!" Exclaimed Calumon flying up onto her shoulder.
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Jeri giggled at the sight and stopped the others from walking in, telling them to watch Rika and Takato, to see if anything would happen between them.
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Takato however, was not so amused. His goggles were stuck in an odd position on his face, and it happened to be rather uncomfortable. Rika reached up for his goggles, gently placing a hand on his cheek in order to carefully shove them back up to his forehead. Her hand accidentally slipped onto his lips while she was pulling at his goggles, and she didn't notice until Takato kissed her hand softly. Her eyes widened at the feeling of his lips touching the palm of her hand. She looked into his amber eyes. There was something there, something she couldn't understand. His goggles slipped into place, and then the other's walked in casually, acting as if they didn't just see that little scene between her and Takato.
Everyone sat down, and Henry spoke. "Ok, now, without further adu, let's start the meeting. Takato, please take over."
Takato took a deep breath and said, "Ok, here's what's happening, slowly more and more digimon are bio-emerging, and we need to find a way to stop them faster, and keep them from destroying the city. I was thinking we should get walkie-talkies and have us patrol the city, and using the walkie-talkies we can contact each other, and get rid of the problem faster."
"Good idea Takato," Henry replied. "Now let's see.. Who's in favor of this idea?"
All raised their hands and/or nodded their heads in agreement. "Then it's settled. Ok, here are the groups we're to spilt into: I'll go with Jeri, she'll need a guy to protect her, Kazu you go with Kenta, and Takato you uh, go with Rika," he said, stopping himself before he said 'Rika will need your protection.' He did this for two reasons. 1: Rika didn't really need protection. 2: She'd grind him to a pulp if he challenged her strength.
"Is everyone ok with these groups?" Takato asked, making sure that the groups would work. Since there were no complaints he figured that the groups were settled.
"Ok, let's start our patrols," Kazu said, eager for his first digimon battle. None complained at his suggestion, so they all filed out in the groups they were assigned, and all of them headed in different directions.
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"You just wanted to get us alone didn't you," Jeri accused Henry.
"Yeah. And it worked," he said pulling her into a kiss. She slowly began to return the kiss. They had been dating in secret for over a week, and were always trying to be alone with each other.
After pulling away from her he said, "And I wanted to get Rika and Takato alone too. They are perfect for each other, heck, they're probably even destined for each other. Takato also told me that some time this week he was going to tell Rika that he loves her. It's obvious he hasn't yet, and he needs to be alone with her to tell her. I know I wouldn't want to be caught spying on them when they finally admit it."
"Yeah, me neither. They'd kill us for watching them," Jeri said. "I know there's a good side inside Rika somewhere, and there's no one better to break through the barrier to her heart than good old stubborn Takato. Don't you agree?"
"Indubitably," Henry answered, before pulling Jeri into a breath taking kiss.
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"I'm so excited, I hope we find a digimon!" Kazu exclaimed excitedly.
"Me too Kazu, me too," Kenta said, looking at his d-power to see if there was any digimon signal other than their own.
"By the way did you notice how strange Chumly was acting around Rika?" Kazu asked Kenta.
"Yes, actually I did. It's because he likes her. He told me himself. It seems like Rika likes him too, but I think the world would turn flat before she's admit that she had feelings for him," Kenta replied.
"Yeah, we need a plan to get them together!" Kazu exclaimed, still rather excited, and hyper. While waiting for Takato to come he had drank five cokes so he was full of both sugar and caffeine, and with Kazu that was a very bad combination.
"Uh, Kazu, this was the plan remember! We paired them up for patrol! They're probably already kissing," Kenta replied.
Suddenly they saw Rika standing with her back against a pole. Her eyes were closed, and her head phones were on. She seemed to be asleep.
"Rika? Hey Rika! Where's Takato?" Kazu and Kenta called together.
Her eyes snapped open, and an almost worried expression shifted onto her face. Where was Takato? She had thought she had just closed her eyes for one minute, where could he have gone? Unless... Oh no! I fell asleep! He could be anywhere! He could be in trouble! She thought worriedly, glancing about frantically.
Suddenly Takato walked around the corner, a chocolate bar in his hand. He took a bite. "Hey sleepy head," he said handing her a chocolate bar that he had put in his pocket. Her cheeks turned a delicate pink. She couldn't believe her foolishness. Of course! He had just gone to get us a snack!
"Hey, Kazu, Kenta what are you two doing here?" Takato asked turning his attention to them.
"We were just heading that way," Kenta said pointing, "when we ran into Rika."
"Oh. Ok, well, Rika and I better get back to our patrol," Takato said. The two of them left. He smiled as he gazed at Rika. She was just too beautiful, he couldn't take his eyes off her. She was graceful, and strong. That was partly why he liked her, she wasn't one of those kind of girls who are weak and rely on a guy all of the time, she was independent, and had a personality of her own.
Rika turned towards him and noticed that he was staring at her. "What? Is there something on my face?" She hardly thought that was the reason, for if there was he'd be laughing, not staring at her.
"No! I just um...," he turned away blushing. I like you, he thought, but couldn't say it.
"Whatever Gogglehead." She turned away from him, and suddenly a digital field appeared. It was large, and no doubt the digimon inside would be powerful.
"A digital field!" She said quickly.
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Henry and Jeri pulled out of their kiss once again, only this time because they heard Takato's urgent voice on the walkie-talkie. "Guys! Guys! Come quick! A digital field! Get Kazu and Kenta!" Then his voice faded. Both glanced at each other and instantly contacted Kazu and Kenta, the four of them hoping they'd arrive on time.
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Takato pulled down his goggles to shield his eyes as the misty cloud appeared. Rika pulled down her sunglasses and said, "We don't have our digimon! What are we going to do?!"
Takato looked down at the ground. What could he do? Without his digimon he was nothing. And Rika needed protection. He shook his head. It was hopeless. The only thing to do was to distract the digimon long enough for Rika to go get the others.
"Go. Go get the others Rika!" He yelled stepping in front of her protectively as the bio-emerged digimon stepped forward.
"Are you insane? That's suicide!" She yelled back.
Takato looked at her sadly, ignoring BlackWarGreymon as he stepped forward. He laughed at them. They were easy targets. His energy began to grow as he powered up for the attack. Takato felt the heat energy building up behind him, and began to run, shoving Rika as far away as possible.
Rika stumbled backwards, a little ways out of BlackWarGreymon's attack radius. She watched in horror as the blast shot out from BlackWarGreymon's hands, headed straight for Takato. With all her might- for the first time- she yelled out his real name.
"TAKATO!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
He turned to look at her, and they locked eyes for a millisecond before the blast hit his body.
He turned to see the blast, and cried out in pain. With a loud scream the blast began eating away at his shirt, burning through his flesh. "Goodbye Rika...," he whispered with the last of his strength.
Matt appears and says: Cliffhanger!!!!!!! Ooh! Will Takato survive? Will they realize their love? With the others ever arrive?
A/n: Thank you for those interesting questions Yamato. Now, if you want to know what happens please review. No flames please. ~Dark Fox (Rukato freak)