Promise of the Heart
Intro: Yep, here's the actual story! The Prologue was a tad long eh? Well, there's more Rukato here, but there is a bit of another pairing, Lee/Juri of sort. R+R
Hopefully you won't kill me by the end of this chapter. Oh yes, there are a few songs in this, just not in this chapter (Can you tell I love song fics?).
()= Rika's thoughts
{}= Takato's thoughts
[]= Henry's thoughts
''= Anyone else's thoughts
""= Speaking
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon or the songs
***7 years later***
Part 1
Matsuki Takato leaned against the wall of his parents' bread shop. He was working part time there for the time being, that is, until he got enough money to go to the appropriate school for architecture. He ran his fingers through his shortened hair. His hair still looked the same, as always. He smiled in spite of himself. He began to walk toward the college where he knew Lee would be, studying as usual. He walked into his dorm, which also belonged to Hirokazu, Kenta, Ryo, and Lee. Only a young man was there, typing away at his computer, his short blue hair in a crew cut. To the right of him stood a Terriermon "doll". Takato shook his head. "Lee? When are you going to get off that computer and go out for a while?"
Lee smiled without taking his eyes off the computer screen. "Would you stop calling me that? It sounds so formal."
Takato leaned on the wall. "Fine...Jenrya."
Lee finally turned to him and laughed. "Ok, ok. So what's up?"
"I was about to ask you the same thing," said Takato, smiling. "How's the studying going?"
"Good," said Lee, turning to his computer. Terriermon exhaled. "Geez Takato, for a moment I thought I'd turn into a balloon, next time tell me if it's you or not! That way I don't shrivel up and die."
"Ha ha," chuckled Takato. Terriermon gave a quizzical look, and then he growled. Takato raised an eyebrow. "What?"
"A digimon," growled Terriermon. "And it's not friendly..."
"Oh boy," said Takato. Lee smiled and Takato turned to him. "Well...it'll be just like old times then?"
"Not quite..." said Lee. Takato's face fell a little. "Oh, yea...that..." Takato sighed and got up. "Well...come on."
Takato and Lee ran out the door, pulling on their coats. Nowadays they helped Hypnos get rid of the wild ones. Yamaki still ran the system, watching carefully from his office on the top floor. The lab was in a better spot, and Janyuu still worked there along with the other people in the Wild Bunch.
Terriermon popped out of nowhere and landed on Lee's shoulder. Lee whipped out his shades and put them on. Takato pulled out his goggles from his pocket. Lee stared at him. "What's the occasion?" [Usually he never wears his goggles, it's too painful for him, mainly because it reminds him of her...]
Takato shrugged. "Old times." Lee laughed.
"Guilmon are you ready?" asked Takato. Guilmon nodded as they ran. "Ready when you are Takatomon!"
Takato sighed. "Oh would you stop calling me that Guilmon?" Lee and Terriermon laughed. They looked up ahead. "Well, there it is," said Lee. "It's a big one...by the looks of it..."
"Aren't we Mr. Obvious?" said Takato smiling. Lee turned to him. "You still miss her don't you?"
"Sure do," said Takato. He put on his goggles. "Let's go."
They entered the foggy Digital Field to find a wonderfully evil digimon waiting for them. "Oh goodie," said Lee sarcastically. "A BlueMeramon, ultimate level."
"You heard the man," said Takato turning to Guilmon. "Matrix Digivolution Activate!!"
WarGrowlmon landed with a harsh wind. The paved road crumbled beneath his feet as he roared, "Atomic Blaster!!!" The shot hit BlueMeramon right in the middle of its stomach, blowing him a few yards. The dust cleared and BlueMeramon lay on the ground. Takato jumped in the air. "Alright we did it!!"
"I wouldn't be so sure," said Lee, pointing. BlueMeramon flipped back up, not a scratch was on him. Takato's eyes widened. "Oh great..."
"Rapid Fire!" cried Rapidmon, blasting their foe with a hefty amount of green bullets. BlueMeramon merely swiped them away. "You think you can defeat me that easily?" it sneered. "Think again!"
"Cold Flame!" it bellowed, sweeping everyone off their feet and throwing them to the ground. Takato winced and got up tentatively. "We have got to stop this..."
"I know," said Rapidmon, also wincing as he roused. "But we've got a problem."
They were in a circle of blue flame, too high to jump, and it didn't look promising to fly over. Rapidmon flew up into the sky. "You think you can trap us that easily?!"
He flew to a certain length, and the fire licked upward to match his level. Then it spread above him to make a roof to fit the cage. "Ok...so maybe you can..."
"Rapidmon come back down here!" cried Lee, the flames threatening to burn him to a carcass. Rapidmon flew down almost instantly. "Time to fight fire with fire! Rapid Fire!!"
The flames backed away at the attack, but formed the wall once more. Then the flames parted, and BlueMeramon came through them, walking toward them with a sinister look on its face. It stopped before Takato, who was the closet, tending to the unconscious WarGrowlmon. It reached out toward him and a blue fireball formed in his hands. "Say goodbye... Tamers..."
"Takato no!!" cried Lee, running to Takato, but he was blocked by another wall of fire. Takato backed away. "Guilmon get up!!"
WarGrowlmon didn't answer. Takato's eyes widened. "GUILMON!!!"
Lee sunk to his knees on the other side of the wall and sighed. He turned to the now de-digivolved Rapidmon. "Ready Terriermon?"
"Let's douse that flame!" cried Terriermon happily.
Bio-merge Digivolution
MegaGargomon landed with a thud. "Alright then, Giant Missile!!" The missile rammed into the wall, but it was absorbed. "What the?" cried Lee.
"No way!" cried Terriermon. "That's not fair!!"
BlueMeramon was closing in on Takato, who was almost backed against the flame wall and could feel the intense heat. BlueMeramon grinned. "Aw...are you hot? Let me turn up the heat!" He shot out his fireballs toward Takato. Takato shut his eyes tight. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"
Nothing happened. Takato opened his eyes, and before him hung a shield, and a darkened shadow. "Talisman of Light!" cried the creature in front of him. Takato's eyes widened. "No way..."
On the other side, Lee heard Takato's scream, and the attack. "That can't be..."
"What Lee?" asked Terriermon (MegaGargomon). "I didn't hear anything..."
Lee shook it off. "Never mind, let's focus on getting rid of this wall..."
"Giant Missile!!" cried MegaGargomon, blasting the wall again, and this time it went through, colliding with the attack made earlier for an explosion that threw everyone off their feet.
Takato was thrown against the wall. He opened his eyes wearily. "W-What happened...?"
He opened his eyes fully and blinked. The whole place was a mess, but he wasn't concerned about that. "Hey! Where'd she go?" he looked around frantically in search of his savior.
He sighed and got up slowly, wincing. {Great...I broke my wrist...} He rubbed his swollen wrist and looked around. He heard a moan and Lee and Terriermon aroused, looking quite battered. "You guys ok?"
"Yea," said Lee. "I think I sprained a few things, but other than that I'm fine..." He stared around. "Where's BlueMeramon?"
"Speaking of which where's Guilmon?" asked Terriermon. Takato looked around, then he spotted them and smiled. "Look."
Guilmon was soaking up BlueMeramon's data. The explosion had killed him. Guilmon turned around when he was done. "Hey Takatomon?"
Takato blinked. "What?"
"I heard Taomon in my dream," said Guilmon. "When I was WarGrowlmon and I was knocked down...I had a dream that you were about to get killed and I was unconscious and... Taomon appeared."
"I heard her too," said Takato. "Weird... you don't think...?"
"No," said Lee. "She's in Beijing. How could she have gotten here so fast?"
"Ruki is an amazing person Lee," said Terriermon. "No one should underestimate her..."
"I guess you're right," said Lee, rubbing his chin. "But still, that's impossible."
"Yea..." Takato's brow furrowed as he looked around. Then he spotted something. "Hey Lee..."
"What?" asked Lee, turning to find Takato a few yards from him, kneeling over something. Lee walked over. "What? What did you find?"
Takato turned and held out something small and blue colored. Lee gasped. "What the?"
* * * *
A woman of 20 sat in the waiting room at the airport. Planes whirred and roared as they took off outside the window she sat beside. She stared out the window, as if in a trance, her reddish hair hanging to her mid-back in a loose ponytail. Her hair band was tied right near the ends of her hair, so the tips spiked outward. Her two side bangs hung over her ears and her front bangs still looked the same as they did 10 years ago. She was wearing her mother's old heart shirt with a black leather jacket over it that reached to her waist. She wore a brown belt, blue jeans, sneakers, and had a tiny, strange looking machine strapped on her belt.
After a while she got up and began to walk toward the exit. She scanned the streets of Shinjuku and sighed. "Shinjuku hasn't changed a bit..." She flipped her hair back and smiled thoughtfully. "I wonder if the people have..."
She wandered around until she remembered something. Cursing, she searched her bag, but did not find what she was looking for. "Dang it! When I get to my house I'm going to get her good..."
She cursed as she walked briskly down the street to a large house. She stopped cursing and knocked on the door, in which an elderly woman opened it.
"Grandma?" she asked, smiling. Seiko smiled happily.
"Ruki!!" she cried happily, making way for her to come in. "What brings you here?"
"Mom's on some modeling thing here," said Ruki in annoyance. "She said that I can stay here with you again to go to college... she wanted me to transfer anyway..."
Seiko nodded. "Well, I've left your room you as you left it, so go on down and start unpacking."
"Thanks Grandma," said Ruki, smiling. She walked down to her old room and found it bare, only her bed, dresser, and table was there. She sat down on the bedroll and sighed. "Renamon..."
Renamon materialized in front of her. "Yes?"
"Don't 'yes' me," said Ruki, annoyed. "Where is it?"
Renamon blinked. "I think... I lost it." She smiled.
Ruki sighed. "Well go get it..." She blew a strand of hair from her face. "Please..."
"Of course," said Renamon, disappearing.
Ruki lay down on her bedroll. (I wonder...if he remembers...)
* * * *
Takato stared at the stuffed blue bear in his hands. "Lee...she's back..."
"No," said Lee. "Millions of people have stuffed blue bears Takato. It can't be hers..."
"Oh yea?" said Takato. He turned the bear over and his face fell. The stitched nameplate with his name on it wasn't there. Lee looked over his shoulder. "See?"
Takato sighed. "I guess you're right..." Defeated, he pocketed the bear, not realizing that the bear's fur on the back where the nameplate was supposed to be was ripped...
They came to their dorm to find Juri standing there beside the door. "Hey Juri," said Lee, blushing slightly. "What brings you here?"
Juri smiled and blushed a little. "Um...can I talk to Takato? In private?"
Lee raised an eyebrow at Takato. Takato shrugged at him and followed Juri into the next room. Juri smiled at him. "Umm...Takato..."
Takato was only half listening. "What?"
Juri pulled something out of her pocket. "I was just wondering if..."
Takato's eyes widened when he saw what it was. He was totally speechless. Juri giggled and held up a tiny ring box with a single ring inside. "I know this isn't proper tradition but... will you marry me?"
Takato stood there slack jawed in amazement, staring at the ring, and then at Juri. Juri giggled. "Your silence is enough," she ran up and hugged him, shoving the ring at him. "We'll be married in five days."
She kissed Takato on the lips and took off merrily before Takato could protest. Takato gulped and ran his fingers through his hair, amazed. Then he realized what just happened. "Oh my god..."
He sat down and turned the subject over in his head. On the one hand, he didn't want to marry Juri because Ruki had said she'd come back and he loved her. On the other, he didn't want to hurt Juri, and rejecting her request of marriage would make her depressed...still...
He sighed and pulled out the bear. "Now what?" {I don't want to hurt either friend... but... it doesn't seem like Ruki's coming back, and I do kind of like Juri... maybe...} he sighed and stared at the bear. {Face it Takato...she isn't coming back...} he sighed, his heart ached for her...
He finally got up, making a decision... and slipped on the ring.
**End of Part 1**
And the plot thickens... Takato has just made a huge mistake... I'll give you three guess on if Ruki finds out... don't worry however, this isn't Jerato, it's Rukato, so this will be Rukato, just... not right now... Heehee, now I'll just sit back and relax and wait for the flames...
Intro: Yep, here's the actual story! The Prologue was a tad long eh? Well, there's more Rukato here, but there is a bit of another pairing, Lee/Juri of sort. R+R
Hopefully you won't kill me by the end of this chapter. Oh yes, there are a few songs in this, just not in this chapter (Can you tell I love song fics?).
()= Rika's thoughts
{}= Takato's thoughts
[]= Henry's thoughts
''= Anyone else's thoughts
""= Speaking
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon or the songs
***7 years later***
Part 1
Matsuki Takato leaned against the wall of his parents' bread shop. He was working part time there for the time being, that is, until he got enough money to go to the appropriate school for architecture. He ran his fingers through his shortened hair. His hair still looked the same, as always. He smiled in spite of himself. He began to walk toward the college where he knew Lee would be, studying as usual. He walked into his dorm, which also belonged to Hirokazu, Kenta, Ryo, and Lee. Only a young man was there, typing away at his computer, his short blue hair in a crew cut. To the right of him stood a Terriermon "doll". Takato shook his head. "Lee? When are you going to get off that computer and go out for a while?"
Lee smiled without taking his eyes off the computer screen. "Would you stop calling me that? It sounds so formal."
Takato leaned on the wall. "Fine...Jenrya."
Lee finally turned to him and laughed. "Ok, ok. So what's up?"
"I was about to ask you the same thing," said Takato, smiling. "How's the studying going?"
"Good," said Lee, turning to his computer. Terriermon exhaled. "Geez Takato, for a moment I thought I'd turn into a balloon, next time tell me if it's you or not! That way I don't shrivel up and die."
"Ha ha," chuckled Takato. Terriermon gave a quizzical look, and then he growled. Takato raised an eyebrow. "What?"
"A digimon," growled Terriermon. "And it's not friendly..."
"Oh boy," said Takato. Lee smiled and Takato turned to him. "Well...it'll be just like old times then?"
"Not quite..." said Lee. Takato's face fell a little. "Oh, yea...that..." Takato sighed and got up. "Well...come on."
Takato and Lee ran out the door, pulling on their coats. Nowadays they helped Hypnos get rid of the wild ones. Yamaki still ran the system, watching carefully from his office on the top floor. The lab was in a better spot, and Janyuu still worked there along with the other people in the Wild Bunch.
Terriermon popped out of nowhere and landed on Lee's shoulder. Lee whipped out his shades and put them on. Takato pulled out his goggles from his pocket. Lee stared at him. "What's the occasion?" [Usually he never wears his goggles, it's too painful for him, mainly because it reminds him of her...]
Takato shrugged. "Old times." Lee laughed.
"Guilmon are you ready?" asked Takato. Guilmon nodded as they ran. "Ready when you are Takatomon!"
Takato sighed. "Oh would you stop calling me that Guilmon?" Lee and Terriermon laughed. They looked up ahead. "Well, there it is," said Lee. "It's a big one...by the looks of it..."
"Aren't we Mr. Obvious?" said Takato smiling. Lee turned to him. "You still miss her don't you?"
"Sure do," said Takato. He put on his goggles. "Let's go."
They entered the foggy Digital Field to find a wonderfully evil digimon waiting for them. "Oh goodie," said Lee sarcastically. "A BlueMeramon, ultimate level."
"You heard the man," said Takato turning to Guilmon. "Matrix Digivolution Activate!!"
WarGrowlmon landed with a harsh wind. The paved road crumbled beneath his feet as he roared, "Atomic Blaster!!!" The shot hit BlueMeramon right in the middle of its stomach, blowing him a few yards. The dust cleared and BlueMeramon lay on the ground. Takato jumped in the air. "Alright we did it!!"
"I wouldn't be so sure," said Lee, pointing. BlueMeramon flipped back up, not a scratch was on him. Takato's eyes widened. "Oh great..."
"Rapid Fire!" cried Rapidmon, blasting their foe with a hefty amount of green bullets. BlueMeramon merely swiped them away. "You think you can defeat me that easily?" it sneered. "Think again!"
"Cold Flame!" it bellowed, sweeping everyone off their feet and throwing them to the ground. Takato winced and got up tentatively. "We have got to stop this..."
"I know," said Rapidmon, also wincing as he roused. "But we've got a problem."
They were in a circle of blue flame, too high to jump, and it didn't look promising to fly over. Rapidmon flew up into the sky. "You think you can trap us that easily?!"
He flew to a certain length, and the fire licked upward to match his level. Then it spread above him to make a roof to fit the cage. "Ok...so maybe you can..."
"Rapidmon come back down here!" cried Lee, the flames threatening to burn him to a carcass. Rapidmon flew down almost instantly. "Time to fight fire with fire! Rapid Fire!!"
The flames backed away at the attack, but formed the wall once more. Then the flames parted, and BlueMeramon came through them, walking toward them with a sinister look on its face. It stopped before Takato, who was the closet, tending to the unconscious WarGrowlmon. It reached out toward him and a blue fireball formed in his hands. "Say goodbye... Tamers..."
"Takato no!!" cried Lee, running to Takato, but he was blocked by another wall of fire. Takato backed away. "Guilmon get up!!"
WarGrowlmon didn't answer. Takato's eyes widened. "GUILMON!!!"
Lee sunk to his knees on the other side of the wall and sighed. He turned to the now de-digivolved Rapidmon. "Ready Terriermon?"
"Let's douse that flame!" cried Terriermon happily.
Bio-merge Digivolution
MegaGargomon landed with a thud. "Alright then, Giant Missile!!" The missile rammed into the wall, but it was absorbed. "What the?" cried Lee.
"No way!" cried Terriermon. "That's not fair!!"
BlueMeramon was closing in on Takato, who was almost backed against the flame wall and could feel the intense heat. BlueMeramon grinned. "Aw...are you hot? Let me turn up the heat!" He shot out his fireballs toward Takato. Takato shut his eyes tight. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"
Nothing happened. Takato opened his eyes, and before him hung a shield, and a darkened shadow. "Talisman of Light!" cried the creature in front of him. Takato's eyes widened. "No way..."
On the other side, Lee heard Takato's scream, and the attack. "That can't be..."
"What Lee?" asked Terriermon (MegaGargomon). "I didn't hear anything..."
Lee shook it off. "Never mind, let's focus on getting rid of this wall..."
"Giant Missile!!" cried MegaGargomon, blasting the wall again, and this time it went through, colliding with the attack made earlier for an explosion that threw everyone off their feet.
Takato was thrown against the wall. He opened his eyes wearily. "W-What happened...?"
He opened his eyes fully and blinked. The whole place was a mess, but he wasn't concerned about that. "Hey! Where'd she go?" he looked around frantically in search of his savior.
He sighed and got up slowly, wincing. {Great...I broke my wrist...} He rubbed his swollen wrist and looked around. He heard a moan and Lee and Terriermon aroused, looking quite battered. "You guys ok?"
"Yea," said Lee. "I think I sprained a few things, but other than that I'm fine..." He stared around. "Where's BlueMeramon?"
"Speaking of which where's Guilmon?" asked Terriermon. Takato looked around, then he spotted them and smiled. "Look."
Guilmon was soaking up BlueMeramon's data. The explosion had killed him. Guilmon turned around when he was done. "Hey Takatomon?"
Takato blinked. "What?"
"I heard Taomon in my dream," said Guilmon. "When I was WarGrowlmon and I was knocked down...I had a dream that you were about to get killed and I was unconscious and... Taomon appeared."
"I heard her too," said Takato. "Weird... you don't think...?"
"No," said Lee. "She's in Beijing. How could she have gotten here so fast?"
"Ruki is an amazing person Lee," said Terriermon. "No one should underestimate her..."
"I guess you're right," said Lee, rubbing his chin. "But still, that's impossible."
"Yea..." Takato's brow furrowed as he looked around. Then he spotted something. "Hey Lee..."
"What?" asked Lee, turning to find Takato a few yards from him, kneeling over something. Lee walked over. "What? What did you find?"
Takato turned and held out something small and blue colored. Lee gasped. "What the?"
* * * *
A woman of 20 sat in the waiting room at the airport. Planes whirred and roared as they took off outside the window she sat beside. She stared out the window, as if in a trance, her reddish hair hanging to her mid-back in a loose ponytail. Her hair band was tied right near the ends of her hair, so the tips spiked outward. Her two side bangs hung over her ears and her front bangs still looked the same as they did 10 years ago. She was wearing her mother's old heart shirt with a black leather jacket over it that reached to her waist. She wore a brown belt, blue jeans, sneakers, and had a tiny, strange looking machine strapped on her belt.
After a while she got up and began to walk toward the exit. She scanned the streets of Shinjuku and sighed. "Shinjuku hasn't changed a bit..." She flipped her hair back and smiled thoughtfully. "I wonder if the people have..."
She wandered around until she remembered something. Cursing, she searched her bag, but did not find what she was looking for. "Dang it! When I get to my house I'm going to get her good..."
She cursed as she walked briskly down the street to a large house. She stopped cursing and knocked on the door, in which an elderly woman opened it.
"Grandma?" she asked, smiling. Seiko smiled happily.
"Ruki!!" she cried happily, making way for her to come in. "What brings you here?"
"Mom's on some modeling thing here," said Ruki in annoyance. "She said that I can stay here with you again to go to college... she wanted me to transfer anyway..."
Seiko nodded. "Well, I've left your room you as you left it, so go on down and start unpacking."
"Thanks Grandma," said Ruki, smiling. She walked down to her old room and found it bare, only her bed, dresser, and table was there. She sat down on the bedroll and sighed. "Renamon..."
Renamon materialized in front of her. "Yes?"
"Don't 'yes' me," said Ruki, annoyed. "Where is it?"
Renamon blinked. "I think... I lost it." She smiled.
Ruki sighed. "Well go get it..." She blew a strand of hair from her face. "Please..."
"Of course," said Renamon, disappearing.
Ruki lay down on her bedroll. (I wonder...if he remembers...)
* * * *
Takato stared at the stuffed blue bear in his hands. "Lee...she's back..."
"No," said Lee. "Millions of people have stuffed blue bears Takato. It can't be hers..."
"Oh yea?" said Takato. He turned the bear over and his face fell. The stitched nameplate with his name on it wasn't there. Lee looked over his shoulder. "See?"
Takato sighed. "I guess you're right..." Defeated, he pocketed the bear, not realizing that the bear's fur on the back where the nameplate was supposed to be was ripped...
They came to their dorm to find Juri standing there beside the door. "Hey Juri," said Lee, blushing slightly. "What brings you here?"
Juri smiled and blushed a little. "Um...can I talk to Takato? In private?"
Lee raised an eyebrow at Takato. Takato shrugged at him and followed Juri into the next room. Juri smiled at him. "Umm...Takato..."
Takato was only half listening. "What?"
Juri pulled something out of her pocket. "I was just wondering if..."
Takato's eyes widened when he saw what it was. He was totally speechless. Juri giggled and held up a tiny ring box with a single ring inside. "I know this isn't proper tradition but... will you marry me?"
Takato stood there slack jawed in amazement, staring at the ring, and then at Juri. Juri giggled. "Your silence is enough," she ran up and hugged him, shoving the ring at him. "We'll be married in five days."
She kissed Takato on the lips and took off merrily before Takato could protest. Takato gulped and ran his fingers through his hair, amazed. Then he realized what just happened. "Oh my god..."
He sat down and turned the subject over in his head. On the one hand, he didn't want to marry Juri because Ruki had said she'd come back and he loved her. On the other, he didn't want to hurt Juri, and rejecting her request of marriage would make her depressed...still...
He sighed and pulled out the bear. "Now what?" {I don't want to hurt either friend... but... it doesn't seem like Ruki's coming back, and I do kind of like Juri... maybe...} he sighed and stared at the bear. {Face it Takato...she isn't coming back...} he sighed, his heart ached for her...
He finally got up, making a decision... and slipped on the ring.
**End of Part 1**
And the plot thickens... Takato has just made a huge mistake... I'll give you three guess on if Ruki finds out... don't worry however, this isn't Jerato, it's Rukato, so this will be Rukato, just... not right now... Heehee, now I'll just sit back and relax and wait for the flames...