Dark-Angel: First of all, I'd like to apologise to everyone who is against
the romance in this story, but this was intended to be a Ryuki.
Second of all, I would like to thank all of my reviewers for being so great and encouraging. I'm sure everyone one of you has different ideas for this story, but I can only write what I write and if it doesn't apply to you, gomen.
Okays, so now that that's out of the way, here's chapter 10.
Disclaimer: I wish I did but I don't own Digimon. ;_;
Chapter 10
Anger, Confusion, Hatred..Love?
~~~
"Desolation Claw!" Cyberdramon yelled his attack at Koryomon, who seemed to be enjoying toying with him.
Koryomon easily dodged the attack, allowing time to pass for the smoke to clear. "So, you still seem to be keeping an extra eye on your Tamer over there. Why?"
"His friend has changed. She's different somehow and more powerful. What did you do to her?" Cyberdramon growled, still watching the two Tamers, who had since separated. Koryomon just grinned evilly, then punched his opponent straight in the temple, causing Cyberdramon to fall to the ground, unconscious.
"Thanks, Rika." Koryomon looked at his beaten opponent one more time, then turned around to look at the two teenagers.
"What happened?" Rika asked, a dazed look on her face. Instead of answering her, Ryo just gave her a confused look.
"Well, you should know. Apparently you started it." Ryo finally answered, stepping back a bit, not sure of what Rika would do to him. He knew that she was crazy, but he never dreamed that she was capable of doing what she had just done, at least not yet.
"Oh.." Rika trailed off, wondering why she had just done that. 'Why the hell would I just run up to him, torture him, then open myself up to him? What made me do that?' The fire had died down a little now, so Rika thought that it was best if it disappeared altogether.
A sudden surge of anger and hatred filled her body and mind, instantly making her draw back her fist. She threw the punch at Ryo's head, but unfortunately, he caught it with his right hand. She threw another punch, this time aiming for his stomach.
Ryo cleverly inched back a little, caught the punch, then pushed her towards the wall. Rika's back hit the wall, but then she remembered that his hands still held hers. She used her energy to drive forward with her arms and push Ryo to the ground.
"Why, Rika? Why are you doing this? I thought that.."
Ryo was cut off when he felt a bare foot on his chest. Rika drove her foot right down, consequently making Ryo scream in pain.
"Well, well. I thought the Legendary Tamer could not feel any pain. Wow, now I know that he's human. Just a mere human, unable to do anything, just another stepping stone in the road to perfection." Rika glared down at Ryo, until she thought of a better idea. She carefully knelt down beside the boy, taking a good look at him.
"Rika, please don't!" Ryo pleaded, still unable to breath properly as Rika had put more pressure on his chest by leaning down.
"Don't what? I'm not doing anything." Rika replied innocently, before the look of innocence turned into a dark frown. "But what have you done to me, Ryo? You made me inferior to you by beating me in that tournament all those years ago, you saved my life more times than I count, and you made me lose control. I think your crimes outweigh mine."
"Ok, then. You win." Ryo stated simply. For the first time, he didn't feel like fighting. He felt as if all the crap had been beaten out of him. He felt inferior, weak, and completely shocked at what had happened since he had come here. He never would have even thought that Rika could do that to him, or anyone for that matter. What had happened to her? Why was she acting like this? Him defeating her, saving her, and even kissing her had never been such an issue before, so why now? What had she discovered? Was it some secret that had been kept from her for too long? Or was it a desire that had driven her crazy by being kept in control for too long? Or maybe it was something else..
Rika looked shocked for a moment. 'Did Ryo just admit defeat?' She quickly recovered, standing up and looking at Ryo, who just lay there, relieved that he could breath properly again.
A smirk started to form on Ryo's lips. Rika looked at him curiously, lowering her defences involuntarily. He took this chance to swiftly sweep her legs, causing her to fall to the ground beside him. However, this just made Rika even madder. She lifted her right arm, then drove it down into Ryo's face.
Ryo cringed in pain, before his smirk returned. "I guess I deserved that." Blood trickled down the side of his mouth, forming a red line that came to stop at the tip of his chin.
"You're damn right you did!" Rika shouted as she stood up again, this time stepping back, away from the range of Ryo's legs.
Ryo stood up as well, realising for the first time that he couldn't move his left arm. "You know what your problem is, Rika? You're insensitive and sullen. You don't think about what people might be feeling when you say or do things."
Rika sighed and raised her fingers towards her temple. She rubbed it gently, not wanting to hear another one of Ryo's courageous lectures. "Ryo, cry me a river, build me a bridge. Do us all a favour and jump off the friggin' thing!"
Those words deeply hurt Ryo but he didn't let it show. "My, my. Such big words for such a little girl." He muttered.
"Ryo, go screw yourself." Rika glared at the boy in front of her. 'What is he trying to do?'
"See, you don't care about what other people might be feeling. You just go ahead and say what's on your mind."
"Oh, did that hurt you? Poor baby. Anyway, I guess I'm just a very down to earth person." Rika began to turn around and walk towards the awaiting and very bored-looking Bakemonomon, until something stopped her. Ryo's hand was firmly holding her wrist.
"Would you like me to break your other arm?" She asked, staring intently at the hand that was stopping her.
"Not really." Ryo replied, looking her in the eye.
Finally understanding what he was trying to do, Rika used her mind to roughly detach Ryo's hand from her wrist.
Ryo felt the pain flow up his arm, before it disappeared somewhere below his neck. He actually was enjoying being put in his place by Rika. He knew that she had definitely become more powerful and wit full, and to tell the truth, he felt that he needed to let her do this.
"And you know what your problem is, Ryo? You're arrogant and self-indulged. You think so highly of yourself. You think that there isn't anyone on this planet who can beat you. Well, you're wrong. All of this time that I have known you; I always wanted to beat you to a pulp. Ever since you defeated me in that tournament, I've hated you. Do not ask me what happened before when you were against the wall, cause I don't know. Something just took over me, and I hated it. Finally I now have the power to do what I have wanted to do ever since I was young. I am going to show you that I can and will beat you!" Rika stepped closer to Ryo, not even aware of the fact that her face was beginning to redden.
'Ok, I either take the beating of my life, run away, or tell her how much I really care about her and then get beaten to a pulp anyway.' Ryo ran over his options in his head, unable to decide which one to take. Not even aware of it, he took a step forward. The two young teenagers were almost nose-to- nose.
"So, you're not going to run away?" Rika asked with a smirk.
"No way! I'm not going to run away from a girl, especially when I love this girl." Ryo replied with a smirk of his own, before his brain registered what he had just said. 'Oh, shit!'
"You what?!" Rika yelled, and quickly took a step backwards. She was aware that the wall was just a couple of inches behind her, so she swiftly moved to the other side of Ryo.
"Uh, forget that." Ryo said quickly, mentally cursing himself for allowing that to come out of his mouth. 'What was I thinking? Now Rika's gonna be even more mad and I don't think that I'm gonna get of here alive.'
Renamon suddenly stopped struggling and froze. 'Did Ryo just say what I think he said? And if so, why?'
Byakkomon quickly released Renamon out of the unbreakable hold and was about to tell her something, when Koryomon suddenly came flying through the air and hit Renamon in the temple, much the same as he did Cyberdramon. The Rookie Digimon fell quickly to the ground, unconscious, half dead.
Byakkomon looked away, not wanting to fight the stronger Digimon in front of her. She then heard Bakemonomon's evil laughter cry out throughout the room.
"Ryo, why? Why did you just say that?" Rika asked, backing up even more. She was afraid of even hearing the answer.
"I didn't." Ryo looked away from the angry and confused Rika. As much as he had wanted to tell Rika about his feelings for her, he couldn't. Not yet, not now. But it had come out, and there was no taking it back. He had told her that he loved her and it was a fact that he had to live with.
"Ryo, I know what you said and I know you were being sincere, even if you didn't mean to say it. So why did you say it? Why do you..yeah that word, you know?" Rika knew that he had feelings for her and she had feelings for him, but she had just based them on hormones. When she had seen that image of Ryo in her mind, she dismissed it as just a hormone thing, and when she had seen him in the doorway of the room, she felt mixed emotions, and considered having feelings for him greater than friendship. But now, she wondered how she could care for him. After everything that he had done to her, he had no right to love her, and she had no right to love him. They were rivals, comrades and even friends, but nothing more. How could they be?
"I don't know, Rika. It may be wrong, but I do, and I can't deny that feeling. By the way, what did happen back there? You know, that thing that happened before?" Ryo said quietly, looking down at the floor.
"I had the Devil on my shoulder, Ryo. But to answer your question truthfully, I don't know how that happened, or why for that matter." Bakemonomon's effect on her was starting to wear off again. "Something just came over me."
"Oh.." Ryo said, confused at why Rika wasn't still yelling at him.
'The One who will lead you to success will be the One who will lead you to defeat..' Bakemonomon recited his well-know prophecy that had been founded when he captured Byakkomon when she was delivering a message to the Digimon Sovereign. She had been a faithful servant to Inarimon, his most feared enemy. He had trained all of his servants and henchmen to defeat the powerful Digimon, and they had succeeded. They had brought her to her knees, killed her, then loaded her data, not even thinking twice about it. Since then, Bakemonomon hadn't paid much attention to the prophecy, thinking that it was useless now that Inarimon had been killed, but maybe, it was true. If it was, was Rika the one who would bring Bakemonomon to his knees?
Bakemonomon hadn't even noticed that his effect on Rika's mind was wearing off; he was too deep in thought.
'Why was it so wrong for me to love Ryo, again?' Rika asked herself as she found herself staring into his blue eyes. 'So enchanting..'
She then felt a force enter her mind. An angry force, telling her to stop being so foolish. She identified this force as Bakemonomon, her master, and the one who she must listen to.
Ryo was jerked out of his trance when he felt something in the back of his mind.
"Arrogant, self-indulged, too damn perfect, too damn caring, too damn weak.." The voice spoke to him inside his mind.
"Rika?"
* What's the difference of never knowing at all?
When every step I take is always too small
Maybe it's just something I can't admit but lately
I feel like I don't give a shit
Motivation such an aggravation
Accusations don't know how to take them
Inspiration's getting hard to fake it
Concentration's never hard to break it
Situation never what you want it to be
What's the point of never making mistakes?
Self-indulgence is such a hard habit to break
It's all just a waste of time in the end
I don't care so why should I even pretend
Motivation such an aggravation
Accusations don't know how to take them
Inspiration's getting hard to fake it
Concentration's never hard to break it
Situation never what you want it
Nothing's new, everything's the same
It keeps on dragging me down, it's getting kind of lame
I'm falling further behind, there's nothing to explain
No matter what you say nothing 's gonna change my mind
Can't pretend on doubt until the end
It seems like leaving friends has become
This years trend and though I can't pretend
It's not the same but who's to blame
For all those stupid things I never said
Motivation such an aggravation
Accusations don't know how to take them
Inspiration's getting hard to fake it
Concentration's never hard to break it
Situation never what you want it to be
Motivation such an aggravation
Accusations don't know how to take them
Inspiration's getting hard to fake it
Concentration's never hard to break it
Situation never what you want it to be
Never what you want it to be
Never what you want it to be*
Dark-Angel: So how'd you like it? Heh, personally I think Ryo needs to clean out his mouth, but hey, what can you do?
The song is "Motivation" by Sum 41.
And shadow wulf, sorry if the quote wasn't exactly what you intended but I tried. @_@
I'll be back soon for chapter 11 if anyone's still reading this.
Second of all, I would like to thank all of my reviewers for being so great and encouraging. I'm sure everyone one of you has different ideas for this story, but I can only write what I write and if it doesn't apply to you, gomen.
Okays, so now that that's out of the way, here's chapter 10.
Disclaimer: I wish I did but I don't own Digimon. ;_;
Chapter 10
Anger, Confusion, Hatred..Love?
~~~
"Desolation Claw!" Cyberdramon yelled his attack at Koryomon, who seemed to be enjoying toying with him.
Koryomon easily dodged the attack, allowing time to pass for the smoke to clear. "So, you still seem to be keeping an extra eye on your Tamer over there. Why?"
"His friend has changed. She's different somehow and more powerful. What did you do to her?" Cyberdramon growled, still watching the two Tamers, who had since separated. Koryomon just grinned evilly, then punched his opponent straight in the temple, causing Cyberdramon to fall to the ground, unconscious.
"Thanks, Rika." Koryomon looked at his beaten opponent one more time, then turned around to look at the two teenagers.
"What happened?" Rika asked, a dazed look on her face. Instead of answering her, Ryo just gave her a confused look.
"Well, you should know. Apparently you started it." Ryo finally answered, stepping back a bit, not sure of what Rika would do to him. He knew that she was crazy, but he never dreamed that she was capable of doing what she had just done, at least not yet.
"Oh.." Rika trailed off, wondering why she had just done that. 'Why the hell would I just run up to him, torture him, then open myself up to him? What made me do that?' The fire had died down a little now, so Rika thought that it was best if it disappeared altogether.
A sudden surge of anger and hatred filled her body and mind, instantly making her draw back her fist. She threw the punch at Ryo's head, but unfortunately, he caught it with his right hand. She threw another punch, this time aiming for his stomach.
Ryo cleverly inched back a little, caught the punch, then pushed her towards the wall. Rika's back hit the wall, but then she remembered that his hands still held hers. She used her energy to drive forward with her arms and push Ryo to the ground.
"Why, Rika? Why are you doing this? I thought that.."
Ryo was cut off when he felt a bare foot on his chest. Rika drove her foot right down, consequently making Ryo scream in pain.
"Well, well. I thought the Legendary Tamer could not feel any pain. Wow, now I know that he's human. Just a mere human, unable to do anything, just another stepping stone in the road to perfection." Rika glared down at Ryo, until she thought of a better idea. She carefully knelt down beside the boy, taking a good look at him.
"Rika, please don't!" Ryo pleaded, still unable to breath properly as Rika had put more pressure on his chest by leaning down.
"Don't what? I'm not doing anything." Rika replied innocently, before the look of innocence turned into a dark frown. "But what have you done to me, Ryo? You made me inferior to you by beating me in that tournament all those years ago, you saved my life more times than I count, and you made me lose control. I think your crimes outweigh mine."
"Ok, then. You win." Ryo stated simply. For the first time, he didn't feel like fighting. He felt as if all the crap had been beaten out of him. He felt inferior, weak, and completely shocked at what had happened since he had come here. He never would have even thought that Rika could do that to him, or anyone for that matter. What had happened to her? Why was she acting like this? Him defeating her, saving her, and even kissing her had never been such an issue before, so why now? What had she discovered? Was it some secret that had been kept from her for too long? Or was it a desire that had driven her crazy by being kept in control for too long? Or maybe it was something else..
Rika looked shocked for a moment. 'Did Ryo just admit defeat?' She quickly recovered, standing up and looking at Ryo, who just lay there, relieved that he could breath properly again.
A smirk started to form on Ryo's lips. Rika looked at him curiously, lowering her defences involuntarily. He took this chance to swiftly sweep her legs, causing her to fall to the ground beside him. However, this just made Rika even madder. She lifted her right arm, then drove it down into Ryo's face.
Ryo cringed in pain, before his smirk returned. "I guess I deserved that." Blood trickled down the side of his mouth, forming a red line that came to stop at the tip of his chin.
"You're damn right you did!" Rika shouted as she stood up again, this time stepping back, away from the range of Ryo's legs.
Ryo stood up as well, realising for the first time that he couldn't move his left arm. "You know what your problem is, Rika? You're insensitive and sullen. You don't think about what people might be feeling when you say or do things."
Rika sighed and raised her fingers towards her temple. She rubbed it gently, not wanting to hear another one of Ryo's courageous lectures. "Ryo, cry me a river, build me a bridge. Do us all a favour and jump off the friggin' thing!"
Those words deeply hurt Ryo but he didn't let it show. "My, my. Such big words for such a little girl." He muttered.
"Ryo, go screw yourself." Rika glared at the boy in front of her. 'What is he trying to do?'
"See, you don't care about what other people might be feeling. You just go ahead and say what's on your mind."
"Oh, did that hurt you? Poor baby. Anyway, I guess I'm just a very down to earth person." Rika began to turn around and walk towards the awaiting and very bored-looking Bakemonomon, until something stopped her. Ryo's hand was firmly holding her wrist.
"Would you like me to break your other arm?" She asked, staring intently at the hand that was stopping her.
"Not really." Ryo replied, looking her in the eye.
Finally understanding what he was trying to do, Rika used her mind to roughly detach Ryo's hand from her wrist.
Ryo felt the pain flow up his arm, before it disappeared somewhere below his neck. He actually was enjoying being put in his place by Rika. He knew that she had definitely become more powerful and wit full, and to tell the truth, he felt that he needed to let her do this.
"And you know what your problem is, Ryo? You're arrogant and self-indulged. You think so highly of yourself. You think that there isn't anyone on this planet who can beat you. Well, you're wrong. All of this time that I have known you; I always wanted to beat you to a pulp. Ever since you defeated me in that tournament, I've hated you. Do not ask me what happened before when you were against the wall, cause I don't know. Something just took over me, and I hated it. Finally I now have the power to do what I have wanted to do ever since I was young. I am going to show you that I can and will beat you!" Rika stepped closer to Ryo, not even aware of the fact that her face was beginning to redden.
'Ok, I either take the beating of my life, run away, or tell her how much I really care about her and then get beaten to a pulp anyway.' Ryo ran over his options in his head, unable to decide which one to take. Not even aware of it, he took a step forward. The two young teenagers were almost nose-to- nose.
"So, you're not going to run away?" Rika asked with a smirk.
"No way! I'm not going to run away from a girl, especially when I love this girl." Ryo replied with a smirk of his own, before his brain registered what he had just said. 'Oh, shit!'
"You what?!" Rika yelled, and quickly took a step backwards. She was aware that the wall was just a couple of inches behind her, so she swiftly moved to the other side of Ryo.
"Uh, forget that." Ryo said quickly, mentally cursing himself for allowing that to come out of his mouth. 'What was I thinking? Now Rika's gonna be even more mad and I don't think that I'm gonna get of here alive.'
Renamon suddenly stopped struggling and froze. 'Did Ryo just say what I think he said? And if so, why?'
Byakkomon quickly released Renamon out of the unbreakable hold and was about to tell her something, when Koryomon suddenly came flying through the air and hit Renamon in the temple, much the same as he did Cyberdramon. The Rookie Digimon fell quickly to the ground, unconscious, half dead.
Byakkomon looked away, not wanting to fight the stronger Digimon in front of her. She then heard Bakemonomon's evil laughter cry out throughout the room.
"Ryo, why? Why did you just say that?" Rika asked, backing up even more. She was afraid of even hearing the answer.
"I didn't." Ryo looked away from the angry and confused Rika. As much as he had wanted to tell Rika about his feelings for her, he couldn't. Not yet, not now. But it had come out, and there was no taking it back. He had told her that he loved her and it was a fact that he had to live with.
"Ryo, I know what you said and I know you were being sincere, even if you didn't mean to say it. So why did you say it? Why do you..yeah that word, you know?" Rika knew that he had feelings for her and she had feelings for him, but she had just based them on hormones. When she had seen that image of Ryo in her mind, she dismissed it as just a hormone thing, and when she had seen him in the doorway of the room, she felt mixed emotions, and considered having feelings for him greater than friendship. But now, she wondered how she could care for him. After everything that he had done to her, he had no right to love her, and she had no right to love him. They were rivals, comrades and even friends, but nothing more. How could they be?
"I don't know, Rika. It may be wrong, but I do, and I can't deny that feeling. By the way, what did happen back there? You know, that thing that happened before?" Ryo said quietly, looking down at the floor.
"I had the Devil on my shoulder, Ryo. But to answer your question truthfully, I don't know how that happened, or why for that matter." Bakemonomon's effect on her was starting to wear off again. "Something just came over me."
"Oh.." Ryo said, confused at why Rika wasn't still yelling at him.
'The One who will lead you to success will be the One who will lead you to defeat..' Bakemonomon recited his well-know prophecy that had been founded when he captured Byakkomon when she was delivering a message to the Digimon Sovereign. She had been a faithful servant to Inarimon, his most feared enemy. He had trained all of his servants and henchmen to defeat the powerful Digimon, and they had succeeded. They had brought her to her knees, killed her, then loaded her data, not even thinking twice about it. Since then, Bakemonomon hadn't paid much attention to the prophecy, thinking that it was useless now that Inarimon had been killed, but maybe, it was true. If it was, was Rika the one who would bring Bakemonomon to his knees?
Bakemonomon hadn't even noticed that his effect on Rika's mind was wearing off; he was too deep in thought.
'Why was it so wrong for me to love Ryo, again?' Rika asked herself as she found herself staring into his blue eyes. 'So enchanting..'
She then felt a force enter her mind. An angry force, telling her to stop being so foolish. She identified this force as Bakemonomon, her master, and the one who she must listen to.
Ryo was jerked out of his trance when he felt something in the back of his mind.
"Arrogant, self-indulged, too damn perfect, too damn caring, too damn weak.." The voice spoke to him inside his mind.
"Rika?"
* What's the difference of never knowing at all?
When every step I take is always too small
Maybe it's just something I can't admit but lately
I feel like I don't give a shit
Motivation such an aggravation
Accusations don't know how to take them
Inspiration's getting hard to fake it
Concentration's never hard to break it
Situation never what you want it to be
What's the point of never making mistakes?
Self-indulgence is such a hard habit to break
It's all just a waste of time in the end
I don't care so why should I even pretend
Motivation such an aggravation
Accusations don't know how to take them
Inspiration's getting hard to fake it
Concentration's never hard to break it
Situation never what you want it
Nothing's new, everything's the same
It keeps on dragging me down, it's getting kind of lame
I'm falling further behind, there's nothing to explain
No matter what you say nothing 's gonna change my mind
Can't pretend on doubt until the end
It seems like leaving friends has become
This years trend and though I can't pretend
It's not the same but who's to blame
For all those stupid things I never said
Motivation such an aggravation
Accusations don't know how to take them
Inspiration's getting hard to fake it
Concentration's never hard to break it
Situation never what you want it to be
Motivation such an aggravation
Accusations don't know how to take them
Inspiration's getting hard to fake it
Concentration's never hard to break it
Situation never what you want it to be
Never what you want it to be
Never what you want it to be*
Dark-Angel: So how'd you like it? Heh, personally I think Ryo needs to clean out his mouth, but hey, what can you do?
The song is "Motivation" by Sum 41.
And shadow wulf, sorry if the quote wasn't exactly what you intended but I tried. @_@
I'll be back soon for chapter 11 if anyone's still reading this.