Never Too Far From Home
Piece By Piece
DF103 – Wassup! I am back once again…I finally found my twisted notebook of unused ideas… …and now I'm back on track again…I think…first of all…I do apologize for this fic to "not having enough Ryo x Rika" in it…I am writing a sequel to this fic though, that is completely Ryo x Rika…I am out with another chapter…my friend Cliffie finally left…so on with the story…Never Too Far From Home – Piece By Piece…
"Rika?" a dark shadow asked.
Rika tried to see the outline of the figure. The being slowly crept out of the shadow.
"Renamon," Rika said, as she ran towards her.
"Rika, I knew you were out there somewhere," Renamon said.
"Am I glad to see you," Rika said, hugging the graceful yellow fox digimon.
"Why did you leave, Rika, why?" Renamon said, with a hint of anger in her voice.
"Well, I didn't like the way I lived here, so I moved to the US," Rika said.
"Without telling any of us?" Renamon said.
"Yeah, I guess I wasn't thinking at the time," Rika explained
"Are you planning on staying?" Renamon asked.
"I don't know, these three kids came and said I needed to come back here," Rika explained.
"You're not going back, are you?" Renamon said, shuddering to think what Rika's answer would be.
"No, I'll probably stay. I guess I missed West Shinjuku a lot more than I thought," Rika said, giving Renamon a reassuring smile.
"Good, I don't know if you know this, but everyone misses you," Renamon said.
"Yeah, Ryo told me," Rika said, walking out, "come on, lets go back to my place."
Renamon followed Rika, as they crossed the busy streets. Everyone started to stare until, they finally recognized who the two were.
"She's really back! It's Rika and her digimon, Renamon. Everyone should remember her from when that red blob attacked," a man said, pointing directly to the two of them.
A mob of people came rushing towards them. Rika and Renamon started to run as more people, especially reporters, joined in on the chase. As they ran, Ryo heard the people yelling Rika's name, so he followed them as well.
As they ran, Rika made her way towards her old neighborhood, where her old house was, to lose at least some of the people. She and Renamon, ran into one of the gates of the houses. Little did they know, it was the gate to Rika's old house. They heard the crowd of people rush by the two gates. Then, they hear distant voices from inside the house.
"…and now we will start the will reading," a voice said, from inside the house.
"Rika, I think you should take a look at this," Renamon said, looking through one of the windows.
Rika walked up to the window and saw some of her possessions held up. Surprised at the sight, Rika ran in to stop them from giving her things away.
"Wait, I'm alive!" Rika said, barging into the house.
"Rika, is that really you?" one of the attorneys asked.
"In the flesh," Rika said.
"Prove it," the other attorney said, anxious to see if it really was Rika.
"Well, I have this," Rika said, taking out her old digi-vice.
"Just that? Little kids these days buy those in stores, so that one could be a replica of the real one," the attorney asked.
"Oh yeah, well how about this," Rika said, opening the door, "Renamon."
Renamon appeared almost instantly after she was called. The attorneys got up and looked over Renamon. They both turned to Rika and gave her a smile.
"Welcome back, Miss Nonaka," said one of the attorneys.
"We missed you a great deal, as well as your mother and your grandmother. If they were here, I'm sure they would've been happy to see you," the attorney said.
"Thanks," Rika said.
"Well, since you're here, you get to claim all the things your family left," a voice said from behind her.
Rika turned around and saw Jeri's little step brother, Masahiko.
"You know that Jeri and the other tamers were really sad when they heard that you were claimed dead?" he asked, "they'd be pretty mad right now if they saw you here."
"They probably know that I'm around, since Mr. Perfect, knows that I'm here and that he probably told them already," Rika said.
"Oh, well, glad you're back Rika. I better get going, I promised mom and dad that I'll be home whenever this was done. I'll see you around," Masahiko said, walking out of the house.
"I bid you good luck, Miss Nonaka," the attorneys said, as they shook hands and left.
Rika shook hands with everyone else that left, and then closed the door. Renamon followed Rika as she looked around the house, getting acquainted with it again.
"So Renamon, what have you been up to, while I was gone?" Rika asked, walking towards her old room.
"Throughout the day, I stayed in that hideout, keeping an eye out for little Richard, and at night, I wandered along the streets," Renamon explained, opening the door to Rika's room.
"Wow, sounds like me, except I basically worked all day," Rika said, looking into the room.
She saw that every piece of furniture was in the exact same place as it was before she left. On her faded, dusty bed, she saw three human figures. Rika saw a small outline of their faces, then recognized them, as the three teens that have been following her.
"Miss us?" one asked, as it turned towards her.
"We don't have much time, but we just wanted to let you know that if you don't leave soon, the mob of people will eventually find you again," another said.
The third person nodded. Rika, looking shocked, she looked over to Renamon.
"Did you see that?" Rika asked.
"See what?" Renamon answered back.
Rika looked and pointed back at the bed, only to find that the three of them were gone.
'Hmph, they probably went and hid somewhere,' Rika thought.
"Nevermind, come on. Let's go back to the apartment I'm staying in right now. There's a better chance that people won't find us there than here," Rika said, walking out the door of her room.
This time, Renamon carried Rika to her apartment. That way no one would've seen them and they wouldn't be chased again.
Simultaneously, Ryo was on his way to room also, because he was exhausted from his search for Rika. Almost as soon as he got to his floor, he found Rika and Renamon, standing by the door, trying to unlock the door.
"Rika, there you are!" Ryo shouted to her.
"Look, I'm sorry for leaving. I was just upset and I needed to get out," Rika said.
"I was so worried that you might've gotten hurt or something," Ryo said, embracing her into a hug.
"Let go of me," Rika demanded, shoving him away, harshly.
"I'm sorry…for caring," Ryo said, sadly, as he unlocked the door to his apartment room.
Rika stood there in awe. Renamon and Rika stood there, watching Ryo take one last look at them, before he went inside and closed the door.
DF103 – AHH…I made a sad end-of-the-chapter…what will happen next? Since I don't want the next two chapters to be short…I'm combining my last two chapters together…so the whole story will come back together…in the next and final chapter…like I said in the beginning…I'm making a sequel of this…pure Ryuki…with little Richard on the side laughs so…please review…and I do accept flames…although I don't flame anyone…but I still accept them…till next time…PEACE