Disclaimer: I don't own Rika, Alice, Takato, or any of the other tamers....I don't own Ryo either....*looks around sadly while hugging a picture of Ryo*. Kidding. I'm not as obsessed as some people.*Tosses photo to a very enraged Ryo fan club, who then picks it up and places it back on a pedestal, and begin drooling and worshipping.* O...K....now that is weird. *slowly moves away from them* Oh yeah, I DO own Miranda though. She is a character created by me. She was created originally to represent a basic Ryo fan. I decided to give her some character and depth, though. I like to keep my stories realistic. Everyone has more to them than meets the eyes. You just have to look. *thinks of Kylee and McKenzie from history* Ok...sometimes you have to look really REALLY hard. *looks at Kyle* I mean those two have got to be more the airhead hic blonds, right? *Kyle laughes* -_- *Hits Kyle and walks off* Jerk...
Miranda is not based on either of them though, I met them about a week after Miranda's first appearance. Anyways. On with the show!
This chapter is dedicated to Katy, Katytopia, the freshman sacrificing cult, Sporko the spork-god, and to the memory of Boris I-IV.
Boris V: High ass cumquat.
Me -_-: ...dorky Fanta bottle....
I don't own Fanta!
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Anyone But You
By: Empress Hikari
Chapter Eleven
Rika thought back to her conversation with Miranda. It was the weirdest one she had ever had, and she hadn't actually cared about any of it that much, but it got her mind off of a certain topic.
~*Flashback*~
Rika walked away from the event grounds, and on her way to her tent. She was deep in thought about her situation with Ryo. "Uh...Rika?" an unfamiliar voice said in a rather soft tone.
The amber headed girl turned to see Miranda standing there, for the first time looking rather solemn and quiet. Her voice wasn't whiny, bitchy, rude, or ditzy. It was sweet, near silent, calm, completely the opposite of her usual self.
"Yeah?" Rika replied, unsure.
"May I please talk to you in about a half hour?" Her platinum blond hair fell in her face with the swaying pace she was making.
"Uh...yeah...sure...what about?" The girl was now thoroughly confused.
"I'll tell you later. Where should we meet?"
"Well...here or my tent...or yours...iono where ever you feel like, I guess."
"Ok, yours then." The girl stated while nodding in agreement, and left.
~*Flash to Half Hour later*~
Rika waited in her tent for Miranda to show up. Sighing impatiently, she cracked open the book Alice had her borrow. The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice. Alice had liked the series and wanted Rika to read them. Despite the fact she thought it was a good book and was over halfway done with it, she couldn't really concentrate while reading it. It had a lot to do with the emotional involvement of the main character, Lestat, with the other characters around him, and had no real plot until probably towards end of the middle, or beginning of the end. Not really her type of book, but it was still pretty neat.
Still staring at the first line on the page, another thought interrupted her. Ryo. A sickening feeling flooded her system. 'Damn butterflies.'
A shadow fell upon her tent, causing a silhouette of her visitor.
"Rika?" Miranda asked, unsurely.
"Come in."
The blond stepped in through the tent flaps, and sat on the floor. "Whatcha reading?"
"Vampire Lestat."
"Really? I've read that. I liked it a lot. I thought it was a bit weird that Lestat was not just interested in females, but I thought it was cool over all. No one else I knew had read the Vampire Chronicles though."
"Oh."
"Jeri and Takato took me out of the digital world earlier this morning to call my friends on my cell phone. We got into an argument."
Rika said nothing, but instead wondered about the relevance of that information to the conversation.
"I'm sorry, Rika. Tell Ryo I'm sorry too. I was being a real idiot hanging all over him like that. I didn't even really like him. I mean I thought I wanted to go out with him but I don't and I'm sorry."
"Oh."
"I know you two aren't actually going out, you know."
Rika quickly looked up in surprise. "What?"
The girl smiled at her , amusedly, "Oh, please. It really was obvious. Why would only you and Henry, Alice, and Ryo know about it? And why would you two appear to be avoiding each other. He rarely mentions you, and you rarely mention him. That and it's obvious that if you were already going out then you wouldn't act all blush and such around each other."
Rika had never realized how bad her acting was before. 'I'll have to work on that.' Then again, none of them were counting on Miranda being anymore than a ditzy blond.
"My friends and I are all cheerleaders at our school in America. We have to dress and act a certain way. Blah de blah. Two of them wanted me to go out with Ryo when they found out I was coming here. I could, after all, get any guy I wanted at our school, and nearby colleges. It was stupid. But today when I was talking to them, I realized I didn't care what they thought of me anymore. It's stupid, but I'm glad I came back here, well not here, to Japan. It reminded me of who I was."
Rika just stared. She would have never thought that Miranda would say this to her...or even just say this.
"Also...um...do you think that Kazu might, like, you know, like me?" She lapsed back into ditzville.
"Kazu!?!"
The blond blushed and nodded, giggling. "Do ya?"
"Yeah. Sure."
She giggled some more and the something started beeping. "Aww...shoot."
"Huh?"
"Jeri wanted to talk to me so I set my watch to remind me. I got to go." She replied, standing.
"Ok."
"Bye, and thanks."
"Bye."
"By the way... I think that you two would make a great couple. Why don't you ask him out?"
Rika's head shot up quickly "What?!? What...who...wh_"
Miranda smiled at her, like she was a naive child. "Come now, Rika. I'm not as dumb as I act at points. You like Ryo and he likes you. Well forget like...he loves you and you absolutely infatuated with him."
"I am not. He does not. We're just friends. Just friends." She said for what seemed to her the millionth time. 'Why does everyone keep bringing him up?'
The blond smiled at her and chuckled, then left.
~*End Flashback*~
"Miranda doesn't know what she's talking about sometimes."
She sighed. Great. It only took two minutes to flashback and she still has a problem. Sighing again, she rolled over, attempting to go to sleep, still thinking about the one subject that could confuse her so thoroughly. Rolling over one last time, she closed her eyes.
"Ryo..."
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Turn it inside out
So I can see
The part of you
That's drifting over me
And when I wake
You're never there
But when I sleep
You're everywhere
You're everywhere
Just tell me
How I got this far
Just tell me
Why you're here
And who you are
'Cause every time I look
You're never there
And every time I sleep
You're always there
'Cause you're
Everywhere to me
And when
I close my eyes
It's you I see
You're everything I know
That makes me believe
I'm not alone
Whoa whoa
I'm not alone
I recognize the way
You make me feel
It's hard to think that
You might not be real
I sense it now
The water's getting deep
I try to wash the pain
Away from me
Away from me
'Cause you're
Everywhere to me
And when
I close my eyes
It's you I see
You're everything I know
That makes me believe
I'm not alone
Whoa whoa
I'm not alone
I am not alone
Whoa, oh, ooh, oh
And when
I touch your hand
It's then I understand
The beauty that's within
It's now that we begin
You always light my way
I hope there never
Comes a day
No matter where I go
I always feel you so
'Cause you're
Everywhere to me
And when
I close my eyes
It's you I see
You're everything I know
That makes me believe
I'm not alone
'Cause you're
Everywhere to me
And when
I catch my breath
It's you I breathe
You're everything I know
That makes me believe
I'm not alone
Whoa whoa
Oh, you're in
Everyone I see
So tell me
Do you see me?
Everywhere
Michelle Branch
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I know...I know...for as long as it took, it wasn't the best chapter in the world. It definitely, in my opinion at least, was the worst I've written, but I attempted to continue a chapter I started over a month ago, and unfortunately did not have the same train of thought. Oh well. Next is better. R&R peoples.
ANNOUNCEMENT IN MY PROFILE. Well actually you don't have to read it but it might interest you.
Miranda is not based on either of them though, I met them about a week after Miranda's first appearance. Anyways. On with the show!
This chapter is dedicated to Katy, Katytopia, the freshman sacrificing cult, Sporko the spork-god, and to the memory of Boris I-IV.
Boris V: High ass cumquat.
Me -_-: ...dorky Fanta bottle....
I don't own Fanta!
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Anyone But You
By: Empress Hikari
Chapter Eleven
Rika thought back to her conversation with Miranda. It was the weirdest one she had ever had, and she hadn't actually cared about any of it that much, but it got her mind off of a certain topic.
~*Flashback*~
Rika walked away from the event grounds, and on her way to her tent. She was deep in thought about her situation with Ryo. "Uh...Rika?" an unfamiliar voice said in a rather soft tone.
The amber headed girl turned to see Miranda standing there, for the first time looking rather solemn and quiet. Her voice wasn't whiny, bitchy, rude, or ditzy. It was sweet, near silent, calm, completely the opposite of her usual self.
"Yeah?" Rika replied, unsure.
"May I please talk to you in about a half hour?" Her platinum blond hair fell in her face with the swaying pace she was making.
"Uh...yeah...sure...what about?" The girl was now thoroughly confused.
"I'll tell you later. Where should we meet?"
"Well...here or my tent...or yours...iono where ever you feel like, I guess."
"Ok, yours then." The girl stated while nodding in agreement, and left.
~*Flash to Half Hour later*~
Rika waited in her tent for Miranda to show up. Sighing impatiently, she cracked open the book Alice had her borrow. The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice. Alice had liked the series and wanted Rika to read them. Despite the fact she thought it was a good book and was over halfway done with it, she couldn't really concentrate while reading it. It had a lot to do with the emotional involvement of the main character, Lestat, with the other characters around him, and had no real plot until probably towards end of the middle, or beginning of the end. Not really her type of book, but it was still pretty neat.
Still staring at the first line on the page, another thought interrupted her. Ryo. A sickening feeling flooded her system. 'Damn butterflies.'
A shadow fell upon her tent, causing a silhouette of her visitor.
"Rika?" Miranda asked, unsurely.
"Come in."
The blond stepped in through the tent flaps, and sat on the floor. "Whatcha reading?"
"Vampire Lestat."
"Really? I've read that. I liked it a lot. I thought it was a bit weird that Lestat was not just interested in females, but I thought it was cool over all. No one else I knew had read the Vampire Chronicles though."
"Oh."
"Jeri and Takato took me out of the digital world earlier this morning to call my friends on my cell phone. We got into an argument."
Rika said nothing, but instead wondered about the relevance of that information to the conversation.
"I'm sorry, Rika. Tell Ryo I'm sorry too. I was being a real idiot hanging all over him like that. I didn't even really like him. I mean I thought I wanted to go out with him but I don't and I'm sorry."
"Oh."
"I know you two aren't actually going out, you know."
Rika quickly looked up in surprise. "What?"
The girl smiled at her , amusedly, "Oh, please. It really was obvious. Why would only you and Henry, Alice, and Ryo know about it? And why would you two appear to be avoiding each other. He rarely mentions you, and you rarely mention him. That and it's obvious that if you were already going out then you wouldn't act all blush and such around each other."
Rika had never realized how bad her acting was before. 'I'll have to work on that.' Then again, none of them were counting on Miranda being anymore than a ditzy blond.
"My friends and I are all cheerleaders at our school in America. We have to dress and act a certain way. Blah de blah. Two of them wanted me to go out with Ryo when they found out I was coming here. I could, after all, get any guy I wanted at our school, and nearby colleges. It was stupid. But today when I was talking to them, I realized I didn't care what they thought of me anymore. It's stupid, but I'm glad I came back here, well not here, to Japan. It reminded me of who I was."
Rika just stared. She would have never thought that Miranda would say this to her...or even just say this.
"Also...um...do you think that Kazu might, like, you know, like me?" She lapsed back into ditzville.
"Kazu!?!"
The blond blushed and nodded, giggling. "Do ya?"
"Yeah. Sure."
She giggled some more and the something started beeping. "Aww...shoot."
"Huh?"
"Jeri wanted to talk to me so I set my watch to remind me. I got to go." She replied, standing.
"Ok."
"Bye, and thanks."
"Bye."
"By the way... I think that you two would make a great couple. Why don't you ask him out?"
Rika's head shot up quickly "What?!? What...who...wh_"
Miranda smiled at her, like she was a naive child. "Come now, Rika. I'm not as dumb as I act at points. You like Ryo and he likes you. Well forget like...he loves you and you absolutely infatuated with him."
"I am not. He does not. We're just friends. Just friends." She said for what seemed to her the millionth time. 'Why does everyone keep bringing him up?'
The blond smiled at her and chuckled, then left.
~*End Flashback*~
"Miranda doesn't know what she's talking about sometimes."
She sighed. Great. It only took two minutes to flashback and she still has a problem. Sighing again, she rolled over, attempting to go to sleep, still thinking about the one subject that could confuse her so thoroughly. Rolling over one last time, she closed her eyes.
"Ryo..."
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Turn it inside out
So I can see
The part of you
That's drifting over me
And when I wake
You're never there
But when I sleep
You're everywhere
You're everywhere
Just tell me
How I got this far
Just tell me
Why you're here
And who you are
'Cause every time I look
You're never there
And every time I sleep
You're always there
'Cause you're
Everywhere to me
And when
I close my eyes
It's you I see
You're everything I know
That makes me believe
I'm not alone
Whoa whoa
I'm not alone
I recognize the way
You make me feel
It's hard to think that
You might not be real
I sense it now
The water's getting deep
I try to wash the pain
Away from me
Away from me
'Cause you're
Everywhere to me
And when
I close my eyes
It's you I see
You're everything I know
That makes me believe
I'm not alone
Whoa whoa
I'm not alone
I am not alone
Whoa, oh, ooh, oh
And when
I touch your hand
It's then I understand
The beauty that's within
It's now that we begin
You always light my way
I hope there never
Comes a day
No matter where I go
I always feel you so
'Cause you're
Everywhere to me
And when
I close my eyes
It's you I see
You're everything I know
That makes me believe
I'm not alone
'Cause you're
Everywhere to me
And when
I catch my breath
It's you I breathe
You're everything I know
That makes me believe
I'm not alone
Whoa whoa
Oh, you're in
Everyone I see
So tell me
Do you see me?
Everywhere
Michelle Branch
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I know...I know...for as long as it took, it wasn't the best chapter in the world. It definitely, in my opinion at least, was the worst I've written, but I attempted to continue a chapter I started over a month ago, and unfortunately did not have the same train of thought. Oh well. Next is better. R&R peoples.
ANNOUNCEMENT IN MY PROFILE. Well actually you don't have to read it but it might interest you.