Koibito
Chapter ~3~ Challenger; the Bet
~Ryo~ *Home*
"Guys. for the fifth time, NO, RUKI ISN'T MY LIVE-IN GIRLFRIEND!!!" Ryo roared, "Shit! Get it through your thick head!!!"
They were at his house, drinking coke and simply talking in the living room while waiting for the pizza they ordered to arrive.
"Ryo, calm down!" Jenrya said still a little shocked.
"I should, shouldn't I?" Ryo asked grinning a bit.
"Hell ya!" Kikuyu said.
"What you think? Smart-ass." Jeri asked.
"Okay! Watch the language." Ryo said.
"I beg your pardon?" Takato asked astounded, "and who was the smart-ass that was just shittin' a minute ago?"
Jeri pretended to gasp. "Takato!"
Kikuyu laughed, "I think Ryo gets the point." Ryo nodded sheepishly.
"So," Ryo said, "who won the tournament?"
Kazu immediately jumped up and exclaimed, "I thought you'd never ask!"
Ryo looked at him with narrowed eyes, then turned to the others, "Don't tell me he won."
They all laughed, including Kazu, then Kikuyu said, "My god! No! Is that how bad you think we are?"
Ryo chuckled, "I guess not, but who won?"
Takato shook his head, "Who else?" he raised his hands to his chest and patted, "me of course."
Jeri hit him.
"Ow! Jeri! That hurt!" he cried.
They all laughed. "Serves you right," Kenta said, "for beating my marine angemon."
"It was strong, but it had its flaws." Takato began his usual lecture about Digimon battling skills, until everyone stopped him 2 minutes later. When Ryo asked why Kazu was so excited just a while ago, it turns out that he almost beat Kikuyu, which she defended by saying she wasn't focusing enough then. They chatted until the pizza came, Ryo took notice that Ruki never ate dinner yet, so he asked her to eat with then instead, but she ignored him again. Since it was a school night, everyone turned in early, they were gone as fast as the pizza disappeared.
By the time Ryo finished cleaning up, it was 8:00 pm. He did some homework and watched some TV, soon it was 10:30 so he packed up and prepared for bed. However, it took him a bit more time to fall asleep then usual because what seems to be an annoying girl, with flaming red hair kept popping into his head.
~Ruki~ *Streets of Tokyo*
2 weeks flied by with out much happening, although she did learn interesting little facts about her roommate. Rumor has it that he liked to eat so and so, he likes to listen to whose songs, and that he has a messy room. things she didn't care about, but knew wasn't true. God, just thinking about her roommate sickens her. Well, maybe not totally, but he is annoying. Always asking her if she need help, whether she needs a ride to school. annoying definitely belongs in the same sentence as 'Akiyama Ryo' is in.
Not taking any notice of the street she is walking on, not that she needs too, she makes her was to the destination.
A couple of days ago she overheard a group talking about a Digimon tournament. It sounded interesting, besides she needed to test out the level and skills of the Japanese digimon players here. In America, she was considered the best, no doubt here too, but the question still remains unsolved; How good are they? She was going to find out.
When she entered the store, which was decked out for the tournament, a person carrying a clipboard with a pencil behind his ear came up to her.
"Miss," he began, "Are you planning on entering the tournament?"
"Yes." Was her curt reply.
"Then may I have your name and group name?"
"Makino Ruki."
"And you group, miss?" he asked.
"Don't have one."
"But-" the teen stuttered under Ruki's glare, "You plan on battling alone against all the group's members? That's impossible!"
"That is what I'm going to do. Mark my name down," Ruki ordered. And he did.
It didn't take long for Ruki to earn herself a reputation and legend. To give them credit, some people have heard of her. And asked so, just to confirm the fact. When she answered, some, as usual, didn't believe her, until she won every battle she was ever challenged to, and some, also as usual, gasped in admiration. Although she ignored all that, there was always a smirk on her soft lips ever time she won a battle.
"-and after I add this card to Renamon," Ruki said, smiling a bit too evilly while putting the card in place on the table, "you are history."
While the judge announced her as winner, and the victim of her last battle whined and pouted, (god, he was a guy too.) Ruki gathered her cards and stepped away from the ring. Wandering around she decided to visit the only other battle ring she haven't been in, Room 25, and was what it was called. Her next battle, which is against the 'Tamers', is held there.
As she treaded into the large room piled with fans and viewers, she suddenly heard loud cheers from many of the viewers. Abrupt curiosity caught the better of her and she squeezed to the front where she met her nightmare.
~Ryo~
He grinned with triumph as he stood and enjoyed yet another moment of being a winner. He walked over to his team mates where he was congratulated again.
"Haven't lost you touch I see," Jenrya's joke earned him a light punch on the shoulder.
"Of course!" Ryo said imitating Kenta and Kazu's face and gesture whenever they won. (Although compared to Ryo, Jenrya, Takato and the girls Kazu and Kenta may not be the best, to others they are above average, believe it or not)
Ryo's pose got him two not-so-light punches from Kenta and Kazu. "Hey!" they said frowning, "That's our pose! We have it copy righted!" they joked.
"Well, now that we won, who are we goin' up against now?" Jeri asked.
"Me." A voice said.
Everyone turned to look at the face of Ruki Makino, gasped, just like they did last evening at his front door, then. hell broke loose.
Jenrya and Takato both yelled at her, saying things like, "it's you!" or "what are you doing here!?"; Kazu and Kenta both ran up to her and kneeled in front of her, and kissed - correction, tried to kiss her hands (she frantically tried to pull away); a pair of excited (or you can just say 'dangerous') Jeri and Kikuyu were asking if she battled also, just adding a lot of drama into it, squealing and all; Ryo-, well, Ryo just stood there staring.
To the audience, although they didn't know it, this was the second show Ryo and Ruki had put on in public for the past two days.
When things finally calmed down, namely Jeri and Kikuyu, and people finally can keep their hands to their selves, namely Kenta and Kazu, Ryo, also finally, asked what she was doing here.
Just as calmly, she answered, "I came to battle."
"Your group is . where?" Takato asked this.
"I don't have a group."
"Then how the hell did you manage to get here!?" Ryo bellowed. He ignored to faces he got from his friends.
"What do you mean, 'get here'?"
"Our group," Jenrya quietly explained whilst Ryo tried to calm down again, "is exclusive. Not many people get to challenge us. So far, none of them has beaten us."
If Ruki was impressed, she didn't show it. "I beat my opponents."
"How many of them in a group?" (You have to beat 2 out of 3 people in the group to win the match)
"Everyone of them."
The 'Tamers' were impressed. Ruki, however, still didn't show any emotion, she said, "meet you later, in the ring," and left.
By now, most of the audience who stayed for the verbal match after the battle has scattered. Since they still had 30 minutes before the next match, the 'Tamers' were sitting together, drinking some soda.
"So," Jeri began, "whose gonna go up against her?"
"I wanna! I wanna! I wanna!" both Kazu and Kenta chanted.
"Not this time," Jenrya corrected, "we already know she's good, very good. We can't take chances." They whined but agreed.
"I would like to give it a try." Kikuyu said. No one objected.
Takato, team leader, laid out the plan, "Okay, Kikuyu try her out first, if you really do get beaten, then either me, Jenrya or Ryo go out, depending how good she is, and what kind of strategy she uses. Okay?" Everyone nodded, although their reputation feels a little threatened, everyone wants to try their best.
Takato was right, Kikuyu did lose, much to her surprise and gratitude. (It's strange but Kikuyu is really glad there's a girl that good out there. It's a female thing. LOL) The 'Tamers' decided that Ryo would go out against her, they thought she was too good. Jenrya and even Takato had doubts about beating her, and they like their unbeatable legacy the way it was. Ryo, in spite of this, wanted to beat her for many other reasons, hope that her pride is as big as it seems, he walked on to the 'battle field'.
~Ruki~
She saw him walk up to her with a smirk. She didn't like it at all. But come to think of it, she was worrying. Why is she worrying at all? No one has beaten her in years; she hardly thinks that it's going to start now.
"Confident?" Ryo asked her.
Taken back at the question, it took her a bit longer to answer, "Very." Was her clipped answer.
"I see." He said, "so am I."
"Good for you." She said sarcastically.
"Wanna make a bet, baby kitty?" Ryo challenged. God he loved teasing her. This name calling habit started about a week and a half ago. At first he called her 'wild cat', the name seemingly suits her, but when she didn't react the way he wanted her too, he decided to change the name to 'baby kitty'. For all it's worth, although it sounds stupid, it accomplishes its purpose; it ticks Ruki off real bad.
But this time, instead of glaring him like she usually does, Ruki cocked a long, slim eyebrow at him. "The stakes are.?"
"If I lose, I'll do clean up duty and dishes for two whole months, plus I'll cook breakfast too." They were setting the cards in place now.
"And if by some miracle, you win?"
"You join my team," Ryo jabbed his thumb over his shoulder at them, "and you at least try to get along with me and my friends."
Ruki almost laughed, typical, Akiyama, typical. "No, stakes are too high, but." she looked heavenward thoughtfully, "if you add 'not run from fan club for a day' to the list, I just might be worth it." She might as well get a good laugh out of this, Ruki thought.
Ryo looked so shocked that Ruki actually broke a smile, but quickly vanished. It was then that Ryo realized that she had a very pretty smile. He wanted to see more of them. It was also then that Ryo appointed himself the task of doing so. He's setting out to make Ruki smile again. For that he needed a relationship with her. This bet will do nicely.
"Alright. I agree. If I lose I clean, wash, cook and get smothered by girls. If you lose, you join the 'Tamers', and try to me nice to me."
Ruki sighed, "Deal." So it began.
Chapter ~3~ Challenger; the Bet
~Ryo~ *Home*
"Guys. for the fifth time, NO, RUKI ISN'T MY LIVE-IN GIRLFRIEND!!!" Ryo roared, "Shit! Get it through your thick head!!!"
They were at his house, drinking coke and simply talking in the living room while waiting for the pizza they ordered to arrive.
"Ryo, calm down!" Jenrya said still a little shocked.
"I should, shouldn't I?" Ryo asked grinning a bit.
"Hell ya!" Kikuyu said.
"What you think? Smart-ass." Jeri asked.
"Okay! Watch the language." Ryo said.
"I beg your pardon?" Takato asked astounded, "and who was the smart-ass that was just shittin' a minute ago?"
Jeri pretended to gasp. "Takato!"
Kikuyu laughed, "I think Ryo gets the point." Ryo nodded sheepishly.
"So," Ryo said, "who won the tournament?"
Kazu immediately jumped up and exclaimed, "I thought you'd never ask!"
Ryo looked at him with narrowed eyes, then turned to the others, "Don't tell me he won."
They all laughed, including Kazu, then Kikuyu said, "My god! No! Is that how bad you think we are?"
Ryo chuckled, "I guess not, but who won?"
Takato shook his head, "Who else?" he raised his hands to his chest and patted, "me of course."
Jeri hit him.
"Ow! Jeri! That hurt!" he cried.
They all laughed. "Serves you right," Kenta said, "for beating my marine angemon."
"It was strong, but it had its flaws." Takato began his usual lecture about Digimon battling skills, until everyone stopped him 2 minutes later. When Ryo asked why Kazu was so excited just a while ago, it turns out that he almost beat Kikuyu, which she defended by saying she wasn't focusing enough then. They chatted until the pizza came, Ryo took notice that Ruki never ate dinner yet, so he asked her to eat with then instead, but she ignored him again. Since it was a school night, everyone turned in early, they were gone as fast as the pizza disappeared.
By the time Ryo finished cleaning up, it was 8:00 pm. He did some homework and watched some TV, soon it was 10:30 so he packed up and prepared for bed. However, it took him a bit more time to fall asleep then usual because what seems to be an annoying girl, with flaming red hair kept popping into his head.
~Ruki~ *Streets of Tokyo*
2 weeks flied by with out much happening, although she did learn interesting little facts about her roommate. Rumor has it that he liked to eat so and so, he likes to listen to whose songs, and that he has a messy room. things she didn't care about, but knew wasn't true. God, just thinking about her roommate sickens her. Well, maybe not totally, but he is annoying. Always asking her if she need help, whether she needs a ride to school. annoying definitely belongs in the same sentence as 'Akiyama Ryo' is in.
Not taking any notice of the street she is walking on, not that she needs too, she makes her was to the destination.
A couple of days ago she overheard a group talking about a Digimon tournament. It sounded interesting, besides she needed to test out the level and skills of the Japanese digimon players here. In America, she was considered the best, no doubt here too, but the question still remains unsolved; How good are they? She was going to find out.
When she entered the store, which was decked out for the tournament, a person carrying a clipboard with a pencil behind his ear came up to her.
"Miss," he began, "Are you planning on entering the tournament?"
"Yes." Was her curt reply.
"Then may I have your name and group name?"
"Makino Ruki."
"And you group, miss?" he asked.
"Don't have one."
"But-" the teen stuttered under Ruki's glare, "You plan on battling alone against all the group's members? That's impossible!"
"That is what I'm going to do. Mark my name down," Ruki ordered. And he did.
It didn't take long for Ruki to earn herself a reputation and legend. To give them credit, some people have heard of her. And asked so, just to confirm the fact. When she answered, some, as usual, didn't believe her, until she won every battle she was ever challenged to, and some, also as usual, gasped in admiration. Although she ignored all that, there was always a smirk on her soft lips ever time she won a battle.
"-and after I add this card to Renamon," Ruki said, smiling a bit too evilly while putting the card in place on the table, "you are history."
While the judge announced her as winner, and the victim of her last battle whined and pouted, (god, he was a guy too.) Ruki gathered her cards and stepped away from the ring. Wandering around she decided to visit the only other battle ring she haven't been in, Room 25, and was what it was called. Her next battle, which is against the 'Tamers', is held there.
As she treaded into the large room piled with fans and viewers, she suddenly heard loud cheers from many of the viewers. Abrupt curiosity caught the better of her and she squeezed to the front where she met her nightmare.
~Ryo~
He grinned with triumph as he stood and enjoyed yet another moment of being a winner. He walked over to his team mates where he was congratulated again.
"Haven't lost you touch I see," Jenrya's joke earned him a light punch on the shoulder.
"Of course!" Ryo said imitating Kenta and Kazu's face and gesture whenever they won. (Although compared to Ryo, Jenrya, Takato and the girls Kazu and Kenta may not be the best, to others they are above average, believe it or not)
Ryo's pose got him two not-so-light punches from Kenta and Kazu. "Hey!" they said frowning, "That's our pose! We have it copy righted!" they joked.
"Well, now that we won, who are we goin' up against now?" Jeri asked.
"Me." A voice said.
Everyone turned to look at the face of Ruki Makino, gasped, just like they did last evening at his front door, then. hell broke loose.
Jenrya and Takato both yelled at her, saying things like, "it's you!" or "what are you doing here!?"; Kazu and Kenta both ran up to her and kneeled in front of her, and kissed - correction, tried to kiss her hands (she frantically tried to pull away); a pair of excited (or you can just say 'dangerous') Jeri and Kikuyu were asking if she battled also, just adding a lot of drama into it, squealing and all; Ryo-, well, Ryo just stood there staring.
To the audience, although they didn't know it, this was the second show Ryo and Ruki had put on in public for the past two days.
When things finally calmed down, namely Jeri and Kikuyu, and people finally can keep their hands to their selves, namely Kenta and Kazu, Ryo, also finally, asked what she was doing here.
Just as calmly, she answered, "I came to battle."
"Your group is . where?" Takato asked this.
"I don't have a group."
"Then how the hell did you manage to get here!?" Ryo bellowed. He ignored to faces he got from his friends.
"What do you mean, 'get here'?"
"Our group," Jenrya quietly explained whilst Ryo tried to calm down again, "is exclusive. Not many people get to challenge us. So far, none of them has beaten us."
If Ruki was impressed, she didn't show it. "I beat my opponents."
"How many of them in a group?" (You have to beat 2 out of 3 people in the group to win the match)
"Everyone of them."
The 'Tamers' were impressed. Ruki, however, still didn't show any emotion, she said, "meet you later, in the ring," and left.
By now, most of the audience who stayed for the verbal match after the battle has scattered. Since they still had 30 minutes before the next match, the 'Tamers' were sitting together, drinking some soda.
"So," Jeri began, "whose gonna go up against her?"
"I wanna! I wanna! I wanna!" both Kazu and Kenta chanted.
"Not this time," Jenrya corrected, "we already know she's good, very good. We can't take chances." They whined but agreed.
"I would like to give it a try." Kikuyu said. No one objected.
Takato, team leader, laid out the plan, "Okay, Kikuyu try her out first, if you really do get beaten, then either me, Jenrya or Ryo go out, depending how good she is, and what kind of strategy she uses. Okay?" Everyone nodded, although their reputation feels a little threatened, everyone wants to try their best.
Takato was right, Kikuyu did lose, much to her surprise and gratitude. (It's strange but Kikuyu is really glad there's a girl that good out there. It's a female thing. LOL) The 'Tamers' decided that Ryo would go out against her, they thought she was too good. Jenrya and even Takato had doubts about beating her, and they like their unbeatable legacy the way it was. Ryo, in spite of this, wanted to beat her for many other reasons, hope that her pride is as big as it seems, he walked on to the 'battle field'.
~Ruki~
She saw him walk up to her with a smirk. She didn't like it at all. But come to think of it, she was worrying. Why is she worrying at all? No one has beaten her in years; she hardly thinks that it's going to start now.
"Confident?" Ryo asked her.
Taken back at the question, it took her a bit longer to answer, "Very." Was her clipped answer.
"I see." He said, "so am I."
"Good for you." She said sarcastically.
"Wanna make a bet, baby kitty?" Ryo challenged. God he loved teasing her. This name calling habit started about a week and a half ago. At first he called her 'wild cat', the name seemingly suits her, but when she didn't react the way he wanted her too, he decided to change the name to 'baby kitty'. For all it's worth, although it sounds stupid, it accomplishes its purpose; it ticks Ruki off real bad.
But this time, instead of glaring him like she usually does, Ruki cocked a long, slim eyebrow at him. "The stakes are.?"
"If I lose, I'll do clean up duty and dishes for two whole months, plus I'll cook breakfast too." They were setting the cards in place now.
"And if by some miracle, you win?"
"You join my team," Ryo jabbed his thumb over his shoulder at them, "and you at least try to get along with me and my friends."
Ruki almost laughed, typical, Akiyama, typical. "No, stakes are too high, but." she looked heavenward thoughtfully, "if you add 'not run from fan club for a day' to the list, I just might be worth it." She might as well get a good laugh out of this, Ruki thought.
Ryo looked so shocked that Ruki actually broke a smile, but quickly vanished. It was then that Ryo realized that she had a very pretty smile. He wanted to see more of them. It was also then that Ryo appointed himself the task of doing so. He's setting out to make Ruki smile again. For that he needed a relationship with her. This bet will do nicely.
"Alright. I agree. If I lose I clean, wash, cook and get smothered by girls. If you lose, you join the 'Tamers', and try to me nice to me."
Ruki sighed, "Deal." So it began.