Me: Well you all right know I don't own Digimon, so don't bother to ask.
Rika (Looking really irritated): Okay you; I want some answer, what are you planning on doing to this time?
Me (Waving a finger): Now that would bet telling, wouldn't it.
Rika (Looking really mad): If you don't tell me now, I really going to let you have it. (Then holds up her fist)
Me (Looking over Rika's shoulder): Tell what, if you can got those love sick digimon out of my room, then I would tell you something.
Rika (Looking over at my room): No problem. (Then goes into my room)
BlackRenamon (Shacking his head): She's never learns does she?
Me (Smirks): Nope and that's what I like about her. Now on with the chapter and see how if I can be as funny as I am cool.
BlackRenamon (Looking confused): Why are you planning on doing something funny.
Me (Grinning evilly): Oh trust me I have something in store for our little cursed tamers.
In-Training: Chapter 7: Bad Fur Day.
"Lower, lower. Yes right there Renamon, oh yes that's the spot," the high pitch voice of Rika was saying.
"Well I warned you that missing with the ally cat would be trouble," Renamon said.
"Hey I was bored and beside how would I suppose to know that cat had fleas," Rika argued.
"But still you shouldn't have bothered that cat in the first place, so I think this is a suitable punishment," Renamon said.
About a day ago, Rika was heading home from spending the day with the transformed gogglehead and decided to have some fun with an ally cat. She used her bubble attack to scare the poor thing. But Rika got it in the end. For when she spooked the cat, it had jumped and landed on Rika. And it just happened to have fleas too. So now Rika had a really bad case of Fleas and with no hands it was had to scratch herself. But the larger fox- like digimon was gladly lending Rika a paw.
But as Renamon was scratching her former tamer's back her mind was still racing about a few things. But namely that twisted human name Kai was in front of her mind. Mainly because of the run in, Rumiko and she had two nights ago. And he was starting to work on Renamon's last nerves. Anytime she or Rika's mother ran into him and tried to catch him, that human would use some kind of trick ball to escape. And Renamon really hated that.
That was about the time, Miss Makino enter into the living room with her sleeve rolled up to her elbows.
"Oh Renamon, Rika's flea bath is ready," the elder said in her soft tone.
"Flea bath?" Rika exclaimed. "NO way! I'm not getting any flea bathes!"
The little red-coated fox-like digimon tried to jump out of the larger digimon's arms. But Renamon had a firm grip on her.
"No, you're getting this bath, I don't want those fleas on me," Renamon said in a motherly tone.
"When did you become my mother?" Rika asked, while trying to break free.
But Renamon was just to strong and Soon Rika found herself hanging over the bathtub filled with soap bubbles. Then Renamon dropped the little digimon and she landed with a splash, throwing up some drips of water onto Renamon and Miss Makino. Next the elder kneeled down besides the tub and grabbed a brush Once Rika surfaced, her grandma grabbed her gently and began running the brush through the fur of her granddaughter. Rika was complaining about being treated like a baby as her grandmother washed her, while Renamon watch from the right side of the tub.
(Elsewhere)
The famous model was racing across rooftops in her attire of dark blue jeans, white high tops, black long sleeved shirt and black jacket. Rumiko was in search of Kai. She knew she just couldn't leave that twisted minded beast out on the street.
As she was leaping across, she came across a familiar looking building. The bakery that the Matsuki family owns. Just see that building bright a sigh to the famous model's lips. She felt at fault for what happened to Takato.
Kai had seen that the young man had deep feeling for Rika, so he had created a copy of the necklace that held the ancient curse and put it on Takato. Now he was in the same boat as Rika.
Rumiko sighed again. She knew her twisted older brother was just doing to break her will, so she would be easier to fight. But she would let that happen. She had to be strong so she could keep her daughter safe.
Rumiko then remember something her late husband had said to her. He had once said, if you fight, fight for a reason not just for yourself. Rumiko had asked why do I need a reason to right?
"Because if you fight for no reason, then you really no better then who you're fighting against."
There it was again, that strange ghostly voice. And Rumiko could feel his presence. The presence of the one she loved. But as usual it was gone, just as fast as it came.
The famous model sighs again and was about to leave when she spotted Renamon making her way to the bakery. And in Renamon arms was her transformed daughter. But Rika looked a little different today. And Rumiko tried her best from laughing.
Rumiko turned to leave as a few small giggles escape her. Maybe I should have told Rika that the first bathing is always the hardest on the fur.
(To the two foxes)
Everyone that passed by the two vaccine-type were giving the former human strange looks. By now most people had gotten use to having digimon walking around. What the public where really staring at was a fuzz ball with an equally fuzzily tail.
"Renamon couldn't you have just walked in the shadow or leapt across roof instead of just walking?" Rika asked annoyingly.
"But Rika it just was a nice day and I thought the light breeze might help to tame your fur," Renamon replied.
"And you could have told me your fur stands on end when giving a bath," Rika said.
"Well I never really had your kind of bath before so I didn't know myself," Renamon answered.
Rika's red fur after being dry had stood up on ends and now she looked like a fuzz ball with a fuzzily tail. As another pair of people walked by, they stared at the little digimon, which caused Rika to turn her head away in embarrassment.
"We're here," Renamon said.
Rika sigh in relief as the pair entered into the Matsuki Bakery. But then they saw Takato, lying on the counter, his skin a pale green and his mother was rubbing some kind of cream over him.
"Good day, Miss Matsuki, what's wrong with Takato?" Renamon asked.
"Oh he just stayed out in the sun for to long and now his skin is all dried out," the female bread maker replied.
She notices Rika's puffed out fur, but decided to not say anything about it. So she just continued to rub moister cream in her son's skin. Just then a loud crash noise filled the air followed by the child-like voice of Guilmon, only it sounded like he was in a battle of some kind.
"Get back here you rat, so I can make a rat burger out of you."
"Why is Guilmon chasing a rat?" Rika asked.
"A rat bit Takato's tail, see," Takato's mother held up her son's tail to show all, but did it a little to roughly.
"AAAAHHHHH, mom, that's hurts!" Takato whined in her new higher pitch voice.
"Oh sorry honey," Miss Matsuki said as she let go of her son's tail.
Then Guilmon came in with a look of defeat and flour on his face. Renamon had top stop herself from laughing out loud at the sight. He's looks so cute when he pouts, she thought dreamily.
"Something wrong dinoboy?" Rika asked teasingly
"I didn't catch that rat," Guilmon muttered sadly.
"Like I said before Guilmon don't worry about it," Miss Matsuki said, kindly.
But just from on the red dinosaur's face told Renamon everything she needed to know. He like her felt it were their duty to watch out for their cursed tamers more then usual. At times, Renamon felt more like a parent instead of a partner and friend.
Rika jumped from Renamon's arms to the counter and walked up to Takato. The little virus-type looked exhausted. Just then Guilmon notices Rika's fur and was about to laugh, but one look from Renamon stopped that.
Then Takato's father came from the back of the store and said," Honey its time to go."
"Oh sorry I completely lost trick of time," Miss Matsuki said in a surprised tone.
"Going somewhere, ma'am?" Renamon asked.
"Yes, my husband and I had go out for a few hours to get supplies. You and Guilmon wouldn't mind watching Takato for us?" Takato's mother asked.
"Not at all," Renamon replied evenly, but at the same time her mind and heart must have been racing like 70 miles a minute.
She was going to be left alone with the digimon she secretly loved. Maybe this would be the best time to tell her feeling about him. At the same time, the same thought were racing through Guilmon's head. But then both looked at their transformed tamers and both let out a silent sigh.
Miss Matsuki gather what she needed and was about to leave when she stopped and turned to Renamon. "Oh and Renamon I need to ask a favor."
"Yes what is it?" Renamon asked.
"Every two hours could you apply that cream I was just using to Takato's skin?" Miss Matsuki asked.
"Yes of course I will," Renamon replied.
Thank you Renamon," Takato's mother said.
Then she waved good-bye as she and her husband left. Guilmon waved back, and then turned to face the fox-like digimon he had loved for a while now, his heart beating like a wild bore. Each wanted to say something, but their hearts had seemed leapt into their throats. So both just stared into each other eyes and became lost in them. They stayed like that for a few minutes before the silence was broken.
"UUUMMMM, Renamon would you like to have a sparring match?" Guilmon asked nervously.
"Sure that's sounds fine," Renamon said evenly.
"We could have it on the roof so nothing would get damaged," Guilmon said cheerfully.
"Sure lead the way," Renamon said, hiding her own joy.
A sparring match wasn't what they really had in mind, but it was close enough. So the two rookies left the small cursed human as they went to the roof.
Takato finally got up and stanched. Rika could her his bitter, dry skin cracking as the little brown lizard stanched.
"Oh hi Rika," Takato said. "What's with your fur?"
"Don't ask," the little fox-like replied coldly.
"Okay," Takato said.
Soon those two became lost in each other's big round eyes. That continued for about two minutes before Takato broke the silence.
"Sooooo what ummmm, go to my room and watch something," he asked in a nervous tone and with a light blush coming over his pale green skin.
"Sure got nothing better to do," Rika replied in a cold manner.
"Okay," Takato replied happily.
The little virus carefully jumped off of the counter, so not to irritated his dried out skin. Rika followed suit and Takato took the lead. And with their new size it would be a long walk to the stairs. Plus Takato was taking things easy because of his skin. When they reached the stairs, Takato need to stop because of his dried out skin to catch his breath. But at the time, Rika wasn't paying attention and didn't notice that the other in-training digimon had stopped. And she stepped right on the sore part of Takato's tail.
"AAAHHH! Rika you just stepped on my tail?" Takato roared.
Rika finally notice that her foot was on the little lizard's tail and quickly removed it. But the former digimon queen didn't take being yelled at to lighten.
"Well maybe if you haven't stopped, I wouldn't have stepped on your stupid tail, gogglehead," Rika snapped back.
"You should have been looking where you were going!" Takato exclaimed then to Rika and his surprise, he began growling.
"Oh yeah," Rika said angrily and started to growl herself.
The two little digimon looked liked they were about to get into a fight. But luckily, Renamon had heard all of the yelling and she with Guilmon came rushing to their former tamer's side, expanding trouble. But all they found were the two enraged in-trainings having a growling match. Then for some reason the two rookies leveled digimon laughed into a parenting figure mode.
"Rika Nonaka," Renamon said in a firm mother voice.
"Takato Matsuki," Guilmon said with a scolding like father tone in his childish voice.
The two little digimon looked at the larger ones with surprised expression on their faces. Renamon had her fist on her hips, tipping her right foot; while Guilmon had his arms crossed and were looking at the littler digimon with a scolding father's eyes.
"What is the meaning of this?" Renamon asked in a motherly tone.
"Well she stepped on my sore tail," Takato complained.
"Hey I wasn't paying attention, all right lizard baby," Rika snapped angrily at Takato.
The two looked liked they were about to pounce on one another when Guilmon stopped it.
"I don't care who started it, but I want it stopped. Do you two understand me?" he asked in her newly found father tone.
"Yes Rika, we're visitors in this house, so I want not funny business for either one of you, you got that?" Renamon asked, pointing to each one of the cursed tamers.
The smaller digimon just nodded their heads, still in shocked from what was happening.
"Good, now Guilmon let get back to our sparring match," Renamon said, sounding like her usual calm self.
"Okey-dokey," Guilmon said cheerfully.
Then the two rookies left the still shocked in-trainings. But soon Rika pulled herself together and said in a mildly surprised tone," I just don't believe that, they treated us like little kids."
Then Takato started to chuckle.
"What's so funny, gogglehead?" Rika asked angrily.
"Well since we are copies of their in-training forms, we are like children to them," Takato answered.
"Yeah, whatever, I thought we were going to your room?" Rika asked coldly.
Takato just rolled his eyes as Rika began climbing the stairs. Once she got up to the second floor, she wasn't at all surprised to see the door to Takato's room was opened slightly. So she went in without waiting for gogglehead.
Everything was the same as always, say for the pile of clothes that made up Takato's temporary bed. Takato came in about a few seconds later completely out of breath. He found Rika already on near his temporary bed with the TV remote close to her. The little virus-type walked over to his larger bed and leapt onto it, his bitter, dry skin cranking in the process. He then lay close to the small vaccine-type and she began flipping through the channels. But after like 20 channels, nothing good was on, but she continued to surf. But that soon got boring and both began falling asleep. But since Takato's dry skin kept him up most of the night, he nodded right off. Rika decided it was better then thing, got close enough to him so not to irritated his skin and wrapped her tail around Takato's uninjured tail area and drafted off.
(In the Park)
Rumiko had decided to take a break had headed to her favorite spot in the entire park, her and her husband special spot. She was now sitting at the edge of the river, skipping rocks. Most went half way across the lake.
The famous model grabbed another pedal when she felt another presence in the area. Still with the rock in hand, Rumiko got to her feet and began searching the area. It didn't take her long to locate where this mysterious figure was hiding and with lightening fast action, Rumiko throw the rock into a tree right in front of her. She heard the rock impacting with someone, followed an oof sound and finally a little figure falling out of the tree.
Rumiko quickly rushed over to see if the person was okay, only to found that the person was actually a little purple digimon with a white face. He had a yellow toothily grinning face on his stomach. He had red glove and scarf of matching color around his neck. And his eyes were ember green.
The little digimon set and rubbed the sore spot in the center of his forehead. "Oh what did I even do to you?"
"Sorry I get edgily when someone creeps up on me. Say do I know you?" Rumiko asked.
"Doubt it. The name's Impmon, the most powerful and slickest digimon you would ever see," Impmon boosted.
"OHHHH yes, Renamon talks about you sometimes," Rumiko said.
"Oh so you know foxy face," Impmon said.
"Yes, I'm Rika Nonaka's mother," Rumiko introduced herself.
"Oh so your da little foxy mother," Impmon said.
"How do you know that?" Rumiko asked as she raised her left eyebrow.
"Are you kidding, every digimon who knows that girl had already heard about it from long ears," Impmon exclaimed. "Yup, heard pineapple head's tamer also in the same boat too."
Pineapple head could only be Guilmon by the famous model's guess.
"Yup serve those two right," Impmon said smugly. "Maybe I would go and gave them a good scaring." Then he raised his right hand with his finger out and a small fireball appeared above it.
Rumiko couldn't place it until now, but this little digimon reminded her of someone. And that someone was her own twisted brother. Impmon and Kai had almost the same attitudes and that kind of made Rumiko mad. And before she knew what came over her, she had gave one sift kick to the rookie leveled digimon, sending him soaring through the air.
The famous model couldn't help but grin like her daughter as she called out," Sorry that just slipped!"
Then she decided to get back to her searching.
(Back at the Bakery)
A small black rat raced across the floor of Takato's bedroom, looking for anything to eat. It's feet making a tip, tip sound as it scurry across the wooden floor. It spotted the bed and hurried over to it, knowing fell well that food is left there some times. The rat climbed up the bed in hopes of finding anything to eat. But he only found two strange looking creatures, one his recognized because he took a bit out of his tail. The rat was about to leave after searching the bed when Rika's swinging tail hit the rat by accident. By reflex, the rat bit down hard on the little red-coated digimon's tail.
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Rika screamed.
Takato jolted awake, irritating his dried out skin. Renamon appeared in the room about five seconds later with Guilmon busting through door ten seconds after Renamon appeared. But once he got a good look at the rat, he began growling
"That's the same rat the bit Takato's tail," he said angrily.
The rat sensing trouble let go of Rika's tail. He scurried off of the bed and across the floor with Guilmon in hot pursuit. The rat ran into a small crank, barely big enough for him and Guilmon ran into the wall headfirst. He filled backwards with a dumbfounded look on his face.
Rika was trying her hardest not to cry like baby, but the pain was just so much. Just then another figure appeared in the room much like Renamon does. Takato immediately recognized the new person as Rika's mother, only dress in clothes he wasn't used to.
Renamon gave the woman a quick nod before saying to Guilmon," C'mon lets get that rat and make a meal out of him."
Guilmon got up, the pain in his head completely forgotten and said in his battle tone," I'm right behind you."
Then the two digimon left the room, hunting down the creature that caused their tamers pain.
Rumiko just shook her head and then went over to the two small digimon. She picked up her daughter and began stroking her fur. She was about to leave when she notice the bit marks on Takato's tail. The famous model picked up the little pale green digimon carefully and went down to the kitchen. Once there, she set the two in-training down and began searching for something. She soon found a roll of bandages tape. The famous model unrolled some and took a pouch out of her left jacket pocket She opened it and took some kind of green mush out of it. Once the mush was spread on the bandages, Rumiko wrapped it over her daughter's tail. Then she did the same for Takato. Once everything was put away, Rika's mother just simple vanished.
"How do she do that?" Takato asked in a surprise tone.
"That's just something my dad taught to her," Rika said proudly.
"And what was that stuff she put on bandages, my tail feet great," Takato exclaimed, waving his tail around.
"Don't know, but it does feel good," Rika said, waving her own tail about.
That's when Renamon and Guilmon came in, looking pleased with themselves. Guilmon was chewing on something, which could only be the rat, by the former tamers guess.
Renamon looked around the room, before saying," Guess Miss Nonaka left already."
"Yeah as soon as she was doing treating our tails she vanished," Takato said.
Renamon looked at Takato's pale skin, then looked at the clock. "Oh yes, your mother wanted me to rub some of that cream on your skin."
The vaccine-type then went and found the cream. She put some on her gloved hand and began gently rubbing on the little virus's skin.
(Later that Night)
It would seem that fleas really liked Rika's fur, because as Renamon and she was heading home they must have passed an animal with fleas and they just seemed to jump on to the cursed tamer. So Rika found herself back in the tub, but this time her mother was bathing her. The famous model's jacket was off and her sleeves rolled up as she washed her daughter.
"You know it still amazes me of how much I forgot about you. I didn't even wash you when you were a infant," Rumiko said. "But then again I was still hiding in my work, trying to escape my past."
Rika was quiet as her mother left her from the tub and began drying her off slowly. Rumiko then set her daughter down in front of the mirror and the little red fur fox was surprised to see her fur was no longer standing on end.
"I see you like it," Rumiko said as she dried her hands. "That's was just one of the many things I learned from you father."
"Mom I like to know why don't you hardly talk about dad?" Rika asked.
"Well you know that the past can really be painful," Rumiko answered in a soft voice.
"I know, but I would really liked to know more about him," Rika said.
"Well you know I was pretty young when I got married. People called it a mistake, but I knew it wasn't. But I did some times wandered what would happen to the child I gave birth too. But Matt always said it didn't matter, he would be happy even if it was a boy," Rumiko voice was soft almost like a whisper.
The woman and her transformed daughter stood there in silence as the famous model became lost in one of her deep hidden memories. But she quickly snapped out of it after a few seconds and said," Well that's enough of remembering the good old days, I can smell dinner, so let get going."
She then picked up Rika and made her way to the kitchen.
(Kai's lair)
Kai had spent the past two days, looking through the many spell books he had collected over the past 13 years, trying to find the prefect spell to help him in his plot of revenge. And he was getting irritated that he hadn't found in all of that time and books.
No, not that one. That one is too easy to counter. No not this one either. Wait! This is the spell I need; he ran his finger along the first few words of the spell
"Yes this spell is just perfected. And all I need is the worse enemy, my darling niece ever fought," he said out loud.
Me: Well that it, finally.
Takato: when you said Rika's worse enemy does you mean the D-Reaper?
BlackRenamon: Well that's true, but I don't think that's what T have in mind.
Me: Right old friend.
Takato: Then who?
Me: That would be spoiling and you know that's not me.
Rika (Exiting my room) Alright I got Renamon and Dino boy out, so tell me something.
Me (Facing Rika): Yeah duck.
Rika: Duck?
Me: Yeah duck as get down, before you get a ball to the back of your head.
Rika (Duck just as a blue ball go soaring over her head): Who threw that?
Me: Renamon.
Rika: So tell me.
Me: I just did.
Rika (Getting annoyed) I mean what do you have in mind for the next chapter.
Me: Now that would be telling and you know I don't tell.
Rika (Mad) What! I just got those two digimon out of your room and now you're not going to tell me anything!
Me: No I told you to duck and that was your reward for getting those love sick digimon out of my room.
Rika: That's it! (Charges): I'm going to kill you!
Me: Well until next time folks.
Rika (Looking really irritated): Okay you; I want some answer, what are you planning on doing to this time?
Me (Waving a finger): Now that would bet telling, wouldn't it.
Rika (Looking really mad): If you don't tell me now, I really going to let you have it. (Then holds up her fist)
Me (Looking over Rika's shoulder): Tell what, if you can got those love sick digimon out of my room, then I would tell you something.
Rika (Looking over at my room): No problem. (Then goes into my room)
BlackRenamon (Shacking his head): She's never learns does she?
Me (Smirks): Nope and that's what I like about her. Now on with the chapter and see how if I can be as funny as I am cool.
BlackRenamon (Looking confused): Why are you planning on doing something funny.
Me (Grinning evilly): Oh trust me I have something in store for our little cursed tamers.
In-Training: Chapter 7: Bad Fur Day.
"Lower, lower. Yes right there Renamon, oh yes that's the spot," the high pitch voice of Rika was saying.
"Well I warned you that missing with the ally cat would be trouble," Renamon said.
"Hey I was bored and beside how would I suppose to know that cat had fleas," Rika argued.
"But still you shouldn't have bothered that cat in the first place, so I think this is a suitable punishment," Renamon said.
About a day ago, Rika was heading home from spending the day with the transformed gogglehead and decided to have some fun with an ally cat. She used her bubble attack to scare the poor thing. But Rika got it in the end. For when she spooked the cat, it had jumped and landed on Rika. And it just happened to have fleas too. So now Rika had a really bad case of Fleas and with no hands it was had to scratch herself. But the larger fox- like digimon was gladly lending Rika a paw.
But as Renamon was scratching her former tamer's back her mind was still racing about a few things. But namely that twisted human name Kai was in front of her mind. Mainly because of the run in, Rumiko and she had two nights ago. And he was starting to work on Renamon's last nerves. Anytime she or Rika's mother ran into him and tried to catch him, that human would use some kind of trick ball to escape. And Renamon really hated that.
That was about the time, Miss Makino enter into the living room with her sleeve rolled up to her elbows.
"Oh Renamon, Rika's flea bath is ready," the elder said in her soft tone.
"Flea bath?" Rika exclaimed. "NO way! I'm not getting any flea bathes!"
The little red-coated fox-like digimon tried to jump out of the larger digimon's arms. But Renamon had a firm grip on her.
"No, you're getting this bath, I don't want those fleas on me," Renamon said in a motherly tone.
"When did you become my mother?" Rika asked, while trying to break free.
But Renamon was just to strong and Soon Rika found herself hanging over the bathtub filled with soap bubbles. Then Renamon dropped the little digimon and she landed with a splash, throwing up some drips of water onto Renamon and Miss Makino. Next the elder kneeled down besides the tub and grabbed a brush Once Rika surfaced, her grandma grabbed her gently and began running the brush through the fur of her granddaughter. Rika was complaining about being treated like a baby as her grandmother washed her, while Renamon watch from the right side of the tub.
(Elsewhere)
The famous model was racing across rooftops in her attire of dark blue jeans, white high tops, black long sleeved shirt and black jacket. Rumiko was in search of Kai. She knew she just couldn't leave that twisted minded beast out on the street.
As she was leaping across, she came across a familiar looking building. The bakery that the Matsuki family owns. Just see that building bright a sigh to the famous model's lips. She felt at fault for what happened to Takato.
Kai had seen that the young man had deep feeling for Rika, so he had created a copy of the necklace that held the ancient curse and put it on Takato. Now he was in the same boat as Rika.
Rumiko sighed again. She knew her twisted older brother was just doing to break her will, so she would be easier to fight. But she would let that happen. She had to be strong so she could keep her daughter safe.
Rumiko then remember something her late husband had said to her. He had once said, if you fight, fight for a reason not just for yourself. Rumiko had asked why do I need a reason to right?
"Because if you fight for no reason, then you really no better then who you're fighting against."
There it was again, that strange ghostly voice. And Rumiko could feel his presence. The presence of the one she loved. But as usual it was gone, just as fast as it came.
The famous model sighs again and was about to leave when she spotted Renamon making her way to the bakery. And in Renamon arms was her transformed daughter. But Rika looked a little different today. And Rumiko tried her best from laughing.
Rumiko turned to leave as a few small giggles escape her. Maybe I should have told Rika that the first bathing is always the hardest on the fur.
(To the two foxes)
Everyone that passed by the two vaccine-type were giving the former human strange looks. By now most people had gotten use to having digimon walking around. What the public where really staring at was a fuzz ball with an equally fuzzily tail.
"Renamon couldn't you have just walked in the shadow or leapt across roof instead of just walking?" Rika asked annoyingly.
"But Rika it just was a nice day and I thought the light breeze might help to tame your fur," Renamon replied.
"And you could have told me your fur stands on end when giving a bath," Rika said.
"Well I never really had your kind of bath before so I didn't know myself," Renamon answered.
Rika's red fur after being dry had stood up on ends and now she looked like a fuzz ball with a fuzzily tail. As another pair of people walked by, they stared at the little digimon, which caused Rika to turn her head away in embarrassment.
"We're here," Renamon said.
Rika sigh in relief as the pair entered into the Matsuki Bakery. But then they saw Takato, lying on the counter, his skin a pale green and his mother was rubbing some kind of cream over him.
"Good day, Miss Matsuki, what's wrong with Takato?" Renamon asked.
"Oh he just stayed out in the sun for to long and now his skin is all dried out," the female bread maker replied.
She notices Rika's puffed out fur, but decided to not say anything about it. So she just continued to rub moister cream in her son's skin. Just then a loud crash noise filled the air followed by the child-like voice of Guilmon, only it sounded like he was in a battle of some kind.
"Get back here you rat, so I can make a rat burger out of you."
"Why is Guilmon chasing a rat?" Rika asked.
"A rat bit Takato's tail, see," Takato's mother held up her son's tail to show all, but did it a little to roughly.
"AAAAHHHHH, mom, that's hurts!" Takato whined in her new higher pitch voice.
"Oh sorry honey," Miss Matsuki said as she let go of her son's tail.
Then Guilmon came in with a look of defeat and flour on his face. Renamon had top stop herself from laughing out loud at the sight. He's looks so cute when he pouts, she thought dreamily.
"Something wrong dinoboy?" Rika asked teasingly
"I didn't catch that rat," Guilmon muttered sadly.
"Like I said before Guilmon don't worry about it," Miss Matsuki said, kindly.
But just from on the red dinosaur's face told Renamon everything she needed to know. He like her felt it were their duty to watch out for their cursed tamers more then usual. At times, Renamon felt more like a parent instead of a partner and friend.
Rika jumped from Renamon's arms to the counter and walked up to Takato. The little virus-type looked exhausted. Just then Guilmon notices Rika's fur and was about to laugh, but one look from Renamon stopped that.
Then Takato's father came from the back of the store and said," Honey its time to go."
"Oh sorry I completely lost trick of time," Miss Matsuki said in a surprised tone.
"Going somewhere, ma'am?" Renamon asked.
"Yes, my husband and I had go out for a few hours to get supplies. You and Guilmon wouldn't mind watching Takato for us?" Takato's mother asked.
"Not at all," Renamon replied evenly, but at the same time her mind and heart must have been racing like 70 miles a minute.
She was going to be left alone with the digimon she secretly loved. Maybe this would be the best time to tell her feeling about him. At the same time, the same thought were racing through Guilmon's head. But then both looked at their transformed tamers and both let out a silent sigh.
Miss Matsuki gather what she needed and was about to leave when she stopped and turned to Renamon. "Oh and Renamon I need to ask a favor."
"Yes what is it?" Renamon asked.
"Every two hours could you apply that cream I was just using to Takato's skin?" Miss Matsuki asked.
"Yes of course I will," Renamon replied.
Thank you Renamon," Takato's mother said.
Then she waved good-bye as she and her husband left. Guilmon waved back, and then turned to face the fox-like digimon he had loved for a while now, his heart beating like a wild bore. Each wanted to say something, but their hearts had seemed leapt into their throats. So both just stared into each other eyes and became lost in them. They stayed like that for a few minutes before the silence was broken.
"UUUMMMM, Renamon would you like to have a sparring match?" Guilmon asked nervously.
"Sure that's sounds fine," Renamon said evenly.
"We could have it on the roof so nothing would get damaged," Guilmon said cheerfully.
"Sure lead the way," Renamon said, hiding her own joy.
A sparring match wasn't what they really had in mind, but it was close enough. So the two rookies left the small cursed human as they went to the roof.
Takato finally got up and stanched. Rika could her his bitter, dry skin cracking as the little brown lizard stanched.
"Oh hi Rika," Takato said. "What's with your fur?"
"Don't ask," the little fox-like replied coldly.
"Okay," Takato said.
Soon those two became lost in each other's big round eyes. That continued for about two minutes before Takato broke the silence.
"Sooooo what ummmm, go to my room and watch something," he asked in a nervous tone and with a light blush coming over his pale green skin.
"Sure got nothing better to do," Rika replied in a cold manner.
"Okay," Takato replied happily.
The little virus carefully jumped off of the counter, so not to irritated his dried out skin. Rika followed suit and Takato took the lead. And with their new size it would be a long walk to the stairs. Plus Takato was taking things easy because of his skin. When they reached the stairs, Takato need to stop because of his dried out skin to catch his breath. But at the time, Rika wasn't paying attention and didn't notice that the other in-training digimon had stopped. And she stepped right on the sore part of Takato's tail.
"AAAHHH! Rika you just stepped on my tail?" Takato roared.
Rika finally notice that her foot was on the little lizard's tail and quickly removed it. But the former digimon queen didn't take being yelled at to lighten.
"Well maybe if you haven't stopped, I wouldn't have stepped on your stupid tail, gogglehead," Rika snapped back.
"You should have been looking where you were going!" Takato exclaimed then to Rika and his surprise, he began growling.
"Oh yeah," Rika said angrily and started to growl herself.
The two little digimon looked liked they were about to get into a fight. But luckily, Renamon had heard all of the yelling and she with Guilmon came rushing to their former tamer's side, expanding trouble. But all they found were the two enraged in-trainings having a growling match. Then for some reason the two rookies leveled digimon laughed into a parenting figure mode.
"Rika Nonaka," Renamon said in a firm mother voice.
"Takato Matsuki," Guilmon said with a scolding like father tone in his childish voice.
The two little digimon looked at the larger ones with surprised expression on their faces. Renamon had her fist on her hips, tipping her right foot; while Guilmon had his arms crossed and were looking at the littler digimon with a scolding father's eyes.
"What is the meaning of this?" Renamon asked in a motherly tone.
"Well she stepped on my sore tail," Takato complained.
"Hey I wasn't paying attention, all right lizard baby," Rika snapped angrily at Takato.
The two looked liked they were about to pounce on one another when Guilmon stopped it.
"I don't care who started it, but I want it stopped. Do you two understand me?" he asked in her newly found father tone.
"Yes Rika, we're visitors in this house, so I want not funny business for either one of you, you got that?" Renamon asked, pointing to each one of the cursed tamers.
The smaller digimon just nodded their heads, still in shocked from what was happening.
"Good, now Guilmon let get back to our sparring match," Renamon said, sounding like her usual calm self.
"Okey-dokey," Guilmon said cheerfully.
Then the two rookies left the still shocked in-trainings. But soon Rika pulled herself together and said in a mildly surprised tone," I just don't believe that, they treated us like little kids."
Then Takato started to chuckle.
"What's so funny, gogglehead?" Rika asked angrily.
"Well since we are copies of their in-training forms, we are like children to them," Takato answered.
"Yeah, whatever, I thought we were going to your room?" Rika asked coldly.
Takato just rolled his eyes as Rika began climbing the stairs. Once she got up to the second floor, she wasn't at all surprised to see the door to Takato's room was opened slightly. So she went in without waiting for gogglehead.
Everything was the same as always, say for the pile of clothes that made up Takato's temporary bed. Takato came in about a few seconds later completely out of breath. He found Rika already on near his temporary bed with the TV remote close to her. The little virus-type walked over to his larger bed and leapt onto it, his bitter, dry skin cranking in the process. He then lay close to the small vaccine-type and she began flipping through the channels. But after like 20 channels, nothing good was on, but she continued to surf. But that soon got boring and both began falling asleep. But since Takato's dry skin kept him up most of the night, he nodded right off. Rika decided it was better then thing, got close enough to him so not to irritated his skin and wrapped her tail around Takato's uninjured tail area and drafted off.
(In the Park)
Rumiko had decided to take a break had headed to her favorite spot in the entire park, her and her husband special spot. She was now sitting at the edge of the river, skipping rocks. Most went half way across the lake.
The famous model grabbed another pedal when she felt another presence in the area. Still with the rock in hand, Rumiko got to her feet and began searching the area. It didn't take her long to locate where this mysterious figure was hiding and with lightening fast action, Rumiko throw the rock into a tree right in front of her. She heard the rock impacting with someone, followed an oof sound and finally a little figure falling out of the tree.
Rumiko quickly rushed over to see if the person was okay, only to found that the person was actually a little purple digimon with a white face. He had a yellow toothily grinning face on his stomach. He had red glove and scarf of matching color around his neck. And his eyes were ember green.
The little digimon set and rubbed the sore spot in the center of his forehead. "Oh what did I even do to you?"
"Sorry I get edgily when someone creeps up on me. Say do I know you?" Rumiko asked.
"Doubt it. The name's Impmon, the most powerful and slickest digimon you would ever see," Impmon boosted.
"OHHHH yes, Renamon talks about you sometimes," Rumiko said.
"Oh so you know foxy face," Impmon said.
"Yes, I'm Rika Nonaka's mother," Rumiko introduced herself.
"Oh so your da little foxy mother," Impmon said.
"How do you know that?" Rumiko asked as she raised her left eyebrow.
"Are you kidding, every digimon who knows that girl had already heard about it from long ears," Impmon exclaimed. "Yup, heard pineapple head's tamer also in the same boat too."
Pineapple head could only be Guilmon by the famous model's guess.
"Yup serve those two right," Impmon said smugly. "Maybe I would go and gave them a good scaring." Then he raised his right hand with his finger out and a small fireball appeared above it.
Rumiko couldn't place it until now, but this little digimon reminded her of someone. And that someone was her own twisted brother. Impmon and Kai had almost the same attitudes and that kind of made Rumiko mad. And before she knew what came over her, she had gave one sift kick to the rookie leveled digimon, sending him soaring through the air.
The famous model couldn't help but grin like her daughter as she called out," Sorry that just slipped!"
Then she decided to get back to her searching.
(Back at the Bakery)
A small black rat raced across the floor of Takato's bedroom, looking for anything to eat. It's feet making a tip, tip sound as it scurry across the wooden floor. It spotted the bed and hurried over to it, knowing fell well that food is left there some times. The rat climbed up the bed in hopes of finding anything to eat. But he only found two strange looking creatures, one his recognized because he took a bit out of his tail. The rat was about to leave after searching the bed when Rika's swinging tail hit the rat by accident. By reflex, the rat bit down hard on the little red-coated digimon's tail.
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Rika screamed.
Takato jolted awake, irritating his dried out skin. Renamon appeared in the room about five seconds later with Guilmon busting through door ten seconds after Renamon appeared. But once he got a good look at the rat, he began growling
"That's the same rat the bit Takato's tail," he said angrily.
The rat sensing trouble let go of Rika's tail. He scurried off of the bed and across the floor with Guilmon in hot pursuit. The rat ran into a small crank, barely big enough for him and Guilmon ran into the wall headfirst. He filled backwards with a dumbfounded look on his face.
Rika was trying her hardest not to cry like baby, but the pain was just so much. Just then another figure appeared in the room much like Renamon does. Takato immediately recognized the new person as Rika's mother, only dress in clothes he wasn't used to.
Renamon gave the woman a quick nod before saying to Guilmon," C'mon lets get that rat and make a meal out of him."
Guilmon got up, the pain in his head completely forgotten and said in his battle tone," I'm right behind you."
Then the two digimon left the room, hunting down the creature that caused their tamers pain.
Rumiko just shook her head and then went over to the two small digimon. She picked up her daughter and began stroking her fur. She was about to leave when she notice the bit marks on Takato's tail. The famous model picked up the little pale green digimon carefully and went down to the kitchen. Once there, she set the two in-training down and began searching for something. She soon found a roll of bandages tape. The famous model unrolled some and took a pouch out of her left jacket pocket She opened it and took some kind of green mush out of it. Once the mush was spread on the bandages, Rumiko wrapped it over her daughter's tail. Then she did the same for Takato. Once everything was put away, Rika's mother just simple vanished.
"How do she do that?" Takato asked in a surprise tone.
"That's just something my dad taught to her," Rika said proudly.
"And what was that stuff she put on bandages, my tail feet great," Takato exclaimed, waving his tail around.
"Don't know, but it does feel good," Rika said, waving her own tail about.
That's when Renamon and Guilmon came in, looking pleased with themselves. Guilmon was chewing on something, which could only be the rat, by the former tamers guess.
Renamon looked around the room, before saying," Guess Miss Nonaka left already."
"Yeah as soon as she was doing treating our tails she vanished," Takato said.
Renamon looked at Takato's pale skin, then looked at the clock. "Oh yes, your mother wanted me to rub some of that cream on your skin."
The vaccine-type then went and found the cream. She put some on her gloved hand and began gently rubbing on the little virus's skin.
(Later that Night)
It would seem that fleas really liked Rika's fur, because as Renamon and she was heading home they must have passed an animal with fleas and they just seemed to jump on to the cursed tamer. So Rika found herself back in the tub, but this time her mother was bathing her. The famous model's jacket was off and her sleeves rolled up as she washed her daughter.
"You know it still amazes me of how much I forgot about you. I didn't even wash you when you were a infant," Rumiko said. "But then again I was still hiding in my work, trying to escape my past."
Rika was quiet as her mother left her from the tub and began drying her off slowly. Rumiko then set her daughter down in front of the mirror and the little red fur fox was surprised to see her fur was no longer standing on end.
"I see you like it," Rumiko said as she dried her hands. "That's was just one of the many things I learned from you father."
"Mom I like to know why don't you hardly talk about dad?" Rika asked.
"Well you know that the past can really be painful," Rumiko answered in a soft voice.
"I know, but I would really liked to know more about him," Rika said.
"Well you know I was pretty young when I got married. People called it a mistake, but I knew it wasn't. But I did some times wandered what would happen to the child I gave birth too. But Matt always said it didn't matter, he would be happy even if it was a boy," Rumiko voice was soft almost like a whisper.
The woman and her transformed daughter stood there in silence as the famous model became lost in one of her deep hidden memories. But she quickly snapped out of it after a few seconds and said," Well that's enough of remembering the good old days, I can smell dinner, so let get going."
She then picked up Rika and made her way to the kitchen.
(Kai's lair)
Kai had spent the past two days, looking through the many spell books he had collected over the past 13 years, trying to find the prefect spell to help him in his plot of revenge. And he was getting irritated that he hadn't found in all of that time and books.
No, not that one. That one is too easy to counter. No not this one either. Wait! This is the spell I need; he ran his finger along the first few words of the spell
"Yes this spell is just perfected. And all I need is the worse enemy, my darling niece ever fought," he said out loud.
Me: Well that it, finally.
Takato: when you said Rika's worse enemy does you mean the D-Reaper?
BlackRenamon: Well that's true, but I don't think that's what T have in mind.
Me: Right old friend.
Takato: Then who?
Me: That would be spoiling and you know that's not me.
Rika (Exiting my room) Alright I got Renamon and Dino boy out, so tell me something.
Me (Facing Rika): Yeah duck.
Rika: Duck?
Me: Yeah duck as get down, before you get a ball to the back of your head.
Rika (Duck just as a blue ball go soaring over her head): Who threw that?
Me: Renamon.
Rika: So tell me.
Me: I just did.
Rika (Getting annoyed) I mean what do you have in mind for the next chapter.
Me: Now that would be telling and you know I don't tell.
Rika (Mad) What! I just got those two digimon out of your room and now you're not going to tell me anything!
Me: No I told you to duck and that was your reward for getting those love sick digimon out of my room.
Rika: That's it! (Charges): I'm going to kill you!
Me: Well until next time folks.