Little Richard's Intentions for Ryo & Rika
Good Things Come With A Price
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DF103: -.-;; um…okay then…ideas starting to circulate my brain, once again…okay…I dun own Digimon, Amber, orAshley…I own myself, Richard, and Melanie…and my four counterparts, own themselves…now without further ado…here's Little Richard's Intentions for Ryo & Rika – Good Things Come With A Price…inspired by "My Immortal" by Evanescence.
Rika awoke the next morning, with the drizzling rain, lightly hitting the roof and the window. She sat up in her bed asking herself if everything that occurred the night before, was a dream. She looked around the room and saw her clothes from the night before, draped over the arm of the sofa.
"I guess it wasn't a dream," Rika said to herself, looking at the clock.
Right then, Renamon materialized in front of the bed. Rika looked at her and smiled.
"Good morning, Renamon." Rika got out of her bed and stretched.
"You seem like you're in a good mood," Renamon answered, an emotionless face spread across her face.
"Hmm, not that I'm being rude or anything, but don't you always watch over me?"
"Well, I decided not to last night, so what happened?"
"Well, you remember when Henry, Amber, and Jeri came over that one night, right?" Rika asked, uncertain if Renamon was present at that occurrence.
Renamon merely nodded, as she sat down on the window sill.
"Do you remember what we were talking about?" Rika looked at Renamon's calm blue eyes.
"Yes, wasn't it something about you and Ry—" Renamon paused as she sorted out her thoughts. "You two are going to get married?"
"Mm-hmm," Rika said, opening her mouth to explain what marriage is before…
"I know what it is. Don't worry about explaining it to me," Renamon said, peeking out through the window. "Your mother and grandmother have talked about it once before."
"Really?" Rika sat on her bed. Her head drooped down, at those two forlorn words. "Was it when I was gone?"
"Yes, after your presumed death, they were saying how much they thought you would live to marry a fine young man, and how sad it was that you had to disappear like that," Renamon explained.
Rika wiped away a stray tear, off her face. She glanced at Renamon.
"Maybe I'll go visit them today. I mean, it can't be that hard to find a cemetery with the infamous Rumiko Nonaka and her mother," Rika said, a weak smile slowly creeping upon her face.
"That's not a bad idea." Renamon looked at Rika.
"Better call the others and tell them that I may be a little late. Well, on second thought, Renamon, could you tell them? I have to get washed up."
"Sure." With that, Renamon disappeared.
Renamon took off and went to the closest tamer's house, which was Ryo's. The digimon took one large leap towards the balcony of Ryo's room. Once getting there, Renamon disappeared and reappeared in Ryo's bedroom.
"Ryo," Renamon said, shaking Ryo's sleeping form.
Ryo just mumbled as he turned to his side, and covering himself with his blanket.
"Ryo!" Renamon whispered loudly, shaking him more roughly.
"Mm, just give me five more minutes, dad," Ryo said, in his sleep.
Renamon sighed and looked for Monodramon, to leave a message. The closet door opened, revealing Monodramon.
"Renamon?" Monodramon looked at the other digimon, eyes still half shut.
"Monodramon, can you tell Ryo that Rika maybe late to the group meeting due to the fact that she is going to visit her mother and grandmother's grave," Renamon explained.
"Okay," was all that came out of Monodramon's mouth, as he yawned.
"Did you get anything I have said?" Renamon asked, making sure, he got the message.
"Oh? Oh, yeah…yeah," Monodramon mumbled, stifling another yawn.
'I better go tell Henry, or someone who's actually awake, just in case,' Renamon thought, leaving, without a goodbye.
Renamon jumped out the window and jumped from building to building, to Henry's house. Renamon found herself in Henry's living room, where Richard and Terriermon gazed at a ring. All Renamon could see, was the rainbow colored light reflecting off the carpet.
"What is that?" Renamon walked towards the two.
"Um, nothing?" Terriermon laughed very hesitantly, as he slowly backed away from Renamon, the ring box in his paw.
Richard and Terriermon looked at Renamon, fearfully, as she approached both of them.
"Hey, Renamon," Henry said, coming out of his room, "what brings you here?"
"Oh, Rika wanted to let you guys know that she maybe a little late to the meeting because she is paying respects to her mother and grandmother," Renamon said, turning around.
"Oh, okay," Henry said, "thanks for coming to tell me. I'll let the others know."
Renamon bowed her head as she prepared to leave.
"Renamon, tell Rika I said 'hi,'" Richard said, looking up at the yellow fox.
"Okay." Renamon jumped up into the air and disappeared.
Henry glanced at Richard and Terriermon, who with a sigh of relief, loosened their tenseness.
"Hand it over, Terriermon." Henry held out his hand waiting for the small object to be placed in his hand.
Terriermon stood up slowly and walked over to Henry. Henry kneeled down, as Terriermon placed the case on Henry's hand.
"Don't touch it again, you hear?" Henry said, assertively. "It cost a lot of money, and I need to give it to Ryo."
"Sorry Henry, it's just the pretty lights that came from it made me want to touch it," Terriermon said, twiddling his little finger-like stubs.
"And you've been in the real world for how many years now?" Henry rubbed his temples.
"Aw, come on, Henry. You know the answer to that. It's been a long time since we came back and you know that you wuv me…"
Richard observed this small moment between the two. Henry smiled at the last remark. Terriermon laughed and walked off into Henry's room. Richard still sat on the floor. He looked up from the ground at Henry, and grinned.
"What?" Henry asked, feeling a little uncertain.
Richard held out the ring, and started giggling. Henry looked into the empty box.
"Terriermon!" Henry yelled out.
"I didn't do it!"
With Rika…
Rika walked through the gates of the cemetery, in the dank weather, carrying two bouquets of flowers. She looked through many of the headstone, until she came across two familiar names. "Rumiko Nonaka" and "Seiko Hata." They were right next to each other. Rika kneeled down to the two gravestones, and placed one bunch of flowers in front of her mother's and the other bunch in front of her grandmother's. She slowly traced each piece of stone with her fingers.
"I regret every time I've ever argued with you," Rika whispered, "I'm sorry, for everything."
Rika zipped up her jacket as the chilling wind blew. Then a very faint voice was heard. Rika's head perked up, hearing that faint voice. The voice grew louder as the wind settled.
"It's okay," was all it said, before the voice was no longer audible.
Rika closed her eyes to see if the voice would come back, but it never did.
'There's something about that voice.'
Another chilling wind blew across the dank place. An envelope drifted in the air, carried by the wind. This caught Rika's attention, as she got up and tried to catch it. She finally got a hold of it, after the wind settled. She read what it had on the outside. It had "To Rika" on it, in a familiar script handwriting.
"To me?" Rika asked herself, looking to see if anyone was around to drop it.
Rika opened it and took out the piece of paper. The smell of the paper reminded her of her mom's precious perfume.
"Mom," she whispered, unfolding the piece of paper, as she began to read.
Hey hun,
I'm thinking you're smart enough to know who this is, but just in case you don't, it's me, your mom. You know, I was hoping that I'd see you after I died. Guess I was wrong about that. I'm just glad to know you're okay, even though you did neglect to say where you were going, but I guess that was the whole point of running off. I mean, you did do a very good job of it. Your grandmother and I have missed you dearly during those times.
The corners of Rika's mouth curled, as she continued reading the letter.
Well, enough of that. We are so happy that you're getting married, especially to that fine young man, Ryo. I trust your judgment. You should have seen my reaction, when Ryo asked you to marry him the first time; I was very disappointed. But, when you changed your mind, I was restless. Almost made me want to go back down there and hug you.
"Ohh…mom," Rika whined, grasping the paper, holding it close to her body, "you can be so childish sometimes." She continued reading the last part of the note.
All of us, bid you and Ryo congratulations, and that is including your father. I don't know if you have noticed yet, but his grave is right before you. He sends lots of love. He's sorry that he can't walk you down the aisle on your wedding day.
Rika looked up and saw the gravestone. She saw the name "Ron Nonaka" engraved in large letters.
Well, that's all I really have to say and your father and grandmother have nothing more to say, though they haven't really said anything. I should end this soon so I'll leave you with one bit of advice. Don't choose a black dress. Knowing you, that's the color you were planning on getting, but black makes you look like you're going to a funeral. We'll be watching over you.
Hugs & Kisses,
Mom, Dad, and Grandma
"Oh mom," Rika said, once again, before folding the piece of paper back up and placing it back into the envelope.
Rika got up and looked at the three graves again before leaving. The rain began to hastily make it's way down to the ground, as Rika made her way to the restaurant, where she was to meet with the others.
"Hey Rika!" someone called out, from behind Rika.
Rika turned around to see a growing figure, running towards her. She squinted to get a clearer view of who it was, but the rain made it hard to see.
"I thought I would be the only one who was going to be late," the figure said, as he came closer.
Rika raised an eyebrow, as soon as she saw the distinct blue eyes and messy brown hair.
"Ryo? Is that you?" Rika asked.
"Yeah," Ryo said, stopping and to take a breath, "I kinda overslept."
"I can tell," Rika said, messing up Ryo's hair, "nice hair. How long did it take to make it look like this?" Rika continued teasing him, throughout the whole walk to the meeting place. It didn't seem to faze Ryo at all, though.
By the time they got to the eatery, their clothes were soaking wet. They walked in as some of the customers glanced at the two.
"Hello, how many of you will ther—" The hostess looked at their wet clothes.
"Um, actually, there should already be a table for us. We're with Henry Wong," Ryo explained.
"Oh, okay. Come with me," the hostess said, grabbing a couple of menus and walking the over to Henry's table.
Ryo and Rika followed as diners looked up, noticing the 'squish-squish' sound, the two made as they walked. In a distance, they saw a large table, with a many empty seats. They only saw Henry, Amber, Ashley, Alice, and Richard, sitting at the table.
"Here's your table," the hostess said, setting the menus down, "now, could I get you anything?"
"Right now, could you get us something to dry ourselves, if it's not too much trouble," Rika asked, as she crossed her arms, shivering in her wet clothes.
"Sure, and for you sir?" the lady asked, turning to look at Ryo.
"Um, same thing as her," Ryo answered.
"Okay, I'll be right back." The hostess walked off.
While Rika was looking away, Henry signaled to Ryo and threw the little box to him. Ryo caught it and set it down on the table.
"Well, two more here. Five more to go," Henry said, leaning back in his chair.
"What? We're not the only ones late?" Ryo asked.
"Nope, Takato, Jeri, and the trio aren't here yet," Ashley explained.
"Then, what about Kazu and Kenta?" Rika asked.
"They had to work," Amber said, "and as for Takato and the others, we don't know."
The lady came back with some clean, dry kitchen towels, and handed them to Ryo and Rika.
"Can I get you anything else?" she asked.
"A couple of glasses of water would be fine. Thanks," Rika replied, as the lady briskly walked off.
Henry watched Ryo and Rika, dry themselves. A thought stuck out in his mind.
"Hey, Ryo, why were you late? Rika had Renamon tell me she was going to be late," Henry asked.
"Um, I overslept," Ryo answered, then turned to Rika, "and, why didn't you have Renamon tell me you were going to be late?"
"I didn't really tell her who to tell. I just told her to "tell the others," not a specific person," Rika answered.
Right then, it hit Ryo. "That's what he was trying to remember."
"Remember what?" Alice asked, crossing her arms.
"Monodramon woke me up saying that Renamon came over, but he forgot what she said," Ryo replied, "I don't know how he can forget something that simple."
"Beats me," Suzie said, walking over to the group, "sorry I'm late. It's pouring like crazy out there."
She glanced at Ryo and Rika.
"Well, I can see that I'm not the only one late," Suzie said, "you guys have fun in the rain?"
"Oh, yeah," Rika said, a hint of sarcasm in her voice.
Suzie smiled, as she took a seat at the table. She looked to see who was there and who wasn't.
"What's with Takato and Jeri? I know they're not working today," Suzie asked.
"I don't know. They haven't called or anything," Ashley replied.
"Maybe they're out having some fun or something," Henry said, "you know, like out at the movies or just having a little time to talk. You know Jeri, once she starts some type of conversation, she can go on for a while about it."
"Or not. Jeri didn't really talk a lot on the way to her house last night. Maybe something's wrong," Ashley said, a worried look spread across her face. 'Should I tell them?'
"Well," Ryo said, finally feeling dry enough to sit down, "what could possibly happen?"
"Yeah, they have been together for a while," Rika said, sitting down next to Ryo.
With Takato and Jeri…
"What?" Jeri shouted, in anger and disbelief.
"I said I found another girl, and I made a date with her..." Takato said cautiously, to ease the blow on Jeri. "It's not like I don't love you, but I think this is the one. I just couldn't let her get away."
"You'd just better hope so, Takato Matsuki."
"I know so."
"Okay…" Jeri said, uncertainly, "now could you please leave? I have some thinking to do."
"Um, sure. Are you okay? I'm really sorry, Jeri, if I hurt your feelings. We can still be friends."
"Just go," Jeri whispered, pointing towards the door, avoiding Takato's eye contact.
"Aren't you going to go meet the others?" Takato asked, before stepping out the door.
In response to his answer, the door was slammed right in front of his face. The rain fell softly as Takato trudged over to the restaurant.
"Well, that went well," Takato said to himself, placing his hands into his pockets.
Jeri sat in her chair, staring into space. The room was quiet, and nothing, but the rain, could be heard.
Doubts in his mind slowly flooded his mind as the rain pelted down to the road. 'Was it worth making her sad again?' Takato thought.
"Hey, why the long face?" a voice asked, coming from behind Takato.
"I just broke up with my girlfriend, for this other girl and—" Takato turned around to see Ai and Mako, "oh, hey guys."
"So you did break up with Jeri," Mako said, "and now you're with Ashley."
"H-how did you know?" Takato asked.
"Suzie's intuition," Ai answered, "now, come on. We're already late."
"But, what about Jeri?" Takato asked, concerned of her well-being.
"She'll be fine, now hurry up," Mako answered, rushing passed him.
Jeri sat on her bed, pondering over her loss: Takato.
"Humph. Alone once again," Jeri said to herself, her fingers tracing the cold, slick blade in her hand. "Slow death…"
She slowly brought the blade to her wrist, the point barely touching her wrist. She looked around the room once more, thinking it'd be the last time she'd see it. While doing so, she spotted an old picture; a picture of her and Takato. The picture stuck out in Jeri's mind, as she fell to the floor, crying, the small knife, still in hand.
Richard sat at the table, watching the adults talk. He tugged on Henry's shirt to get his attention.
"Henry, there's nothing to do," Richard whined.
"Well, here," Henry took out a piece of paper and a pen, and gave it to Richard, "you can draw or something."
Richard took the pen and started doodling on the piece of paper. Few minutes later, Henry felt another tug on his shirt.
"Hmm?" Henry looked over and saw Richard holding up his little doodle. Henry smiled. "What's this?"
"It's you and everyone else. See?" Richard answered, smiling at his accomplishment.
Amber looked over and saw the picture. "Hey Henry, there's you," she said, pointing to person in the picture.
"I see you, too," Henry said, pointing to the person, next to the person Amber was pointing to, "right there."
They looked at the two people, closely, and saw that they were holding hands.
"Aw, Richard. That's so sweet," Amber said, giving him a hug.
While this went on, Alice watched the two. She took a glance at the picture and smirked.
"Aw, what a happy couple," Alice said, crossing her arms, still smirking.
Henry and Amber blushed as the rest of them chuckled at their expression.
Right then, Takato, Ai, and Mako ran into the restaurant, and found the table. Suzie sat back in her chair, and crossed her arms, as she noticed that Jeri wasn't with them.
"Sorry, we're late," Takato said, out of breath.
"Where were you? We've been waiting forever!" Alice said, a bit of anger, getting the better of her.
"More importantly, where's Jeri? We thought you'd be coming with her," Amber asked.
"She…um…sorta kicked me out of her house," Takato said, hesitantly.
"What do you mean, "she kicked you out." It's not like you broke up with her or anything," Rika retorted.
"Actually, that's exactly what happened," Takato said, his head, hanging low.
"What? Why?" Ryo asked, surprised at Takato's sudden loss of interest.
"I found someone else, who I want to be with more," Takato said, softly, glancing at Ashley.
"Who?" Amber asked.
Takato gestured to Ashley. The rest of them turned around and looked at her.
"Um, hi?" Ashley said, a nervous laugh escaping from her mouth.
Richard continued drawing, completely oblivious to what's going on.
"Well, I hope Jeri's okay," Takato said, taking a seat.
"What do you mean? Did she not take the news well or something?" Rika asked.
"I don't think so. I guess that's why she kicked me out of her house," Takato answered.
"Hurry up and go over there," Suzie suddenly said, rising from her chair.
"Why? She is okay, isn't she?" Ashley asked.
Suzie didn't answer. Henry got up, and put pressure on her shoulders.
"Look, if you're not telling us something, tell us now!" Henry shouted, not so loud that it would disturb anyone around them, but loud enough to frighten Suzie.
"She's gonna kill herself," Suzie said, sheepishly, wincing at the painful sensation she was feeling.
"WHAT?" was all that came out of everyone's mouths. Even the oblivious Richard heard what she said, and started to breakdown into tears.
"Why didn't you tell me this earlier? You and your guessing games," Henry said, overreacting, letting go of her.
"I thought Takato would convince her to come, so she wouldn't end up trying to. Bu—" Suzie tried to explain.
"But, you thought wrong," Henry said, finishing her sentence.
"I'm sorry," Suzie said.
"I'm gonna go see her," Rika said, running out the door. 'Hang in there, Jeri.'
Rika got to Jeri's house, and found that the door was left unlocked.
"Jeri?" Rika looked around the small house, for Jeri.
She walked into Jeri's bedroom and saw that Jeri was lying face down on the floor, curled into a little ball with her hands tucked under body. At the sight of this, Rika didn't know if she was still alive or not.
"Jeri," Rika said, softly tapping her over the head.
She didn't move.
"Jeri," Rika said, a little louder, tapping her back.
She still didn't move.
"Jeri!" Rika started to panic, but she didn't see any blood, so there was still hope. She shook her, trying to get her up. Jeri's head slowly moved on it's own.
"Jeri? Jeri! You're alive!" Rika said, happily.
Jeri sat up, her cheeks covered in wet and dry tears. The knife fell from her hand. Rika gasped and embraced her into a hug.
"I heard what Takato did," Rika said, pulling away from Jeri.
Jeri sat there, her hands shaking like mad.
"Jeri, you've got to calm down," Rika said, grabbing her hands, to make them quiver less.
The door was heard from a distance and then a rush of footsteps. Distant voices were heard as the group of people came closer. Jeri's hand quivered, reaching for the knife. She brought it close to her. They barged in, scaring Rika and making Jeri look up.
"Jeri, I'm so glad you're okay," Takato said, embracing her into a hug.
Jeri stayed quiet, sitting there, her eyes gaunt. Takato and the others backed away, to give her some room to breathe.
"Jeri, are you okay?" Ashley asked, sitting down next to Jeri.
Jeri grabbed the knife and threw it towards Takato, not exactly aiming. The hilt of the knife hit Takato's arm and fell to the ground.
"Jeri," Takato whispered, looking at Jeri's sad state.
Jeri brought her legs close to her body and wrapped her arms around them, beginning to cry again.
"You can get over it, Jeri," Alice assured, "and besides, you can't stay moping around forever."
"O-oh yeah? W-watch me," Jeri said, in between her sobs.
Henry stood there, thinking of any idea that might cheer Jeri up. He looked at the others with their fretful looks on their faces.
"Hey Jeri, Amber and I are going to a rave tonight," Henry paused to see Amber's reaction and smiled.
'We are?' Amber thought, excitedly.
"Maybe you could come with us, to get your mind off of things," Henry said, finishing his sentence.
Jeri's face immediately lit up. "I'd love to go with you two, since I haven't gone in a while."
'Hopefully, they're not going to same rave Ashley and I are going to. I don't think Jeri will take the news about me and Ashley too well,' Takato thought.
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DF103: - -;; Well, there's another chapter for all you people…and I'll try to get the next chapter ASAP…
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