DISASTROUS BOND
By: Mai a.k.a. BlastHornet
Disclaimer: Look at the previous chapter.
Notes: There are several new people that you readers might want to get acquainted with to be able to understand the story a lot better. Let's start with the previous chapter.
One. The girl who is looking at the computer and talking to someone at the phone is the same girl with Ryo, and you might have a good guess as to who is the person on the other side of the phone.
Two. That Tanaku Tsukishiro guy is related to the girl. Uncle, to be precise.
Now, there's a little tidbit before anything else. If you skipped that particular phrase while reading chapter I, I'll give you the benefit of having to hear from it. Henry is Rika's best friend. So if you think I'm promoting HenryXRika – which I don't usually do, but I happen to like the pairing (not as much as RyoXRika, though) – then screw you.
CHAPTER II: acquaintance
1:00 PM: Hypnos
Rika found it quite strange why she and Henry were the first to arrive at the building. Both of them had deduced that Ryo and his companion arrived here earlier, so it puzzled them.
Henry found Yamaki and Riley talking to each other at another room. When he already caught their attention, they walked up to him and all three went back to the room where Henry left Rika.
"Uh, Yamaki, where's Ryo?" Henry asked, feeling that he would know why they got there first before the Digimon King.
"He said he was coming with his friend who just arrived from the States." Yamaki answered, a hand on his hips. "He informed me about our current situation earlier on the phone, and promised to inform all the Tamers when we assembled here. He told me that he was going home first to change, though."
'That explains the phone.' Rika thought, and then frowned. 'Something's up, and whatever it is, I don't think I'll like it.'
One after the other, the Tamers went back to Hypnos. The next to arrive is Kenta, who looks like he just went back to sleep – actually, that's what he just did – and then followed by Takato, who brought along some Guilmon bread. Then along came Ai, who informed them that Mako went back to sleep.
"Okay, here's the scoop. Kazu and Jeri haven't attended these meetings. We have to tell them when they get back." Takato said. The others nodded.
After a few minutes of conversation and waiting for the host, they finally heard voices from the hallway. Rika raised an eyebrow at the voices.
"I told you he recognizes me!" goes a female, who Henry and Rika assumed to be the girl.
"How was I supposed to know? He only saw you once, and that time, he and grandma are still at the warpath!" another voice – Ryo – answered.
"I guess.........hey, I need to see Elecmon later at the nursery, can you loan me your laptop?"
"Seeing Hebimon is your top priority now, is it not?"
"Why, you got a problem with that?"
"No! No problem at all!"
Silence went after that round. The double doors opened automatically, revealing Ryo and the girl. Rika glanced at the girl with the smallest hint of admiration. The girl has class, and anyone with a fashion-trained eye can see – with a mother for a model, even Rika had to have one. Her Chinese- style shirt hugged her curves, and her pants and sandals matched evenly.
"Um, hello guys. Sorry I wasn't been able to come to the meeting." Ryo apologized. "I was going to, but I had to fetch her from the airport; apparently, she's not familiar with the place." Then it hit him. "Ah, before I completely forget, let me introduce Kayra Tsukishiro, a friend and a fellow Tamer from the States."
"Welcome to Japan, Kayra." Takato first greeted – after all, he's the leader – with a bow. The others did the same. "I'm Takato Matsuki."
"As I've seen from the news and papers." Kayra acknowledged. "I'm really sorry to not have helped during the D-Reaper incident. I wasn't a Tamer back then, and I have problems with my family that needs serious fixing."
"Ah, that's alright." Henry said, taking her reason in. "By the way, my name's Henry Wong. Nice to meet you."
"Hello, I'm Kenta Kitagawa." Kenta smiled, bowing. "There's others, but they have important things to do. Hello Kayra."
Kayra nodded in return and turned to Rika. "If my eyes aren't deceiving me, you must be Rika. Ryo has told me a lot about you."
"Rika Nonaka." Rika started, pulling back any kind of backlash. "Good day, Kayra."
Kayra blinked. ".........Nonaka........." When Rika's eyes are on her, she looked up and faintly smiled. "Ah, no, I'm just talking to myself. Forgive me."
A cough was heard and all eyes and ears turned to Yamaki. "Yamaki Mitsuo. I've heard about you, Kayra." He said. "You are the only girl in your clan, right?"
"Yes. That's right." She looked at a distant object, away from the eyes.
Takato, Henry, Rika, and Kenta looked at Yamaki and back at Kayra, not really getting anything at all. Ryo sensed the confusion, and decided to speak. "Uh, you guys, see, umm, the Tsukishiro clan only allow their inheritance to be passed on to the female members of the clan. Kayra's mother married a man against the clan's wishes. Kayra took her place as the heiress."
"Ah."
Henry glanced at Kayra, who was still looking away. Her black eyes may seem emotionless, but as he stared right to her eyes, he found pain. He walked towards her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Hey, Kayra, are you alright?"
It looks like as though Kayra snapped out of it, and looked at Henry with a pleasant smile on her face. "Of course I'm alright! Why wouldn't I be?" When Henry looked again at her eyes, the pain he saw earlier simply disappeared. 'How did that happen?'
"Okay, now that we're done with the introductions, let's get to the meeting proper." Yamaki started. The people went to the table and sat down at the chairs. "Now, there's a reason why Kayra went here, and all of us know it's not for vacation. She has something to do with the present situation of the Digital World. Kayra, take the floor."
When the attention of the people turned to Kayra (AN: .........umm, the attention of the people was turned into Kayra? That's rich. Uh, nevermind me.) She started. "The present danger of the Digital World is caused by my clan corporation, the Tech Sun Industries, led by my uncle, Tanaku Tsukishiro. Apparently, he had been the head for a while since I'm not of legal age earlier, but now that I am, I had plans of taking what is supposed to be mine.
"However, he had other plans. It seems that uncle doesn't like the way the clan passes its inheritance. So he's after me. Unfortunately, he brought the Digital World with the problem when he learned that I am a Tamer. He asked an illegal laboratory to create him data probes that have the capability of destroying data, like what D-Reaper had done.
"These data probes are highly dangerous, and I am still thinking of any way to stop them. Mr. Yamaki was right to warn you not to investigate. I could've faced Uncle Tanaku earlier, but the inevitable death of my grandmother, Amy Tsukishiro, lost my balance, and thus this started my battle.
"I've contacted Ryo since I know he's one of the Tamers who had stopped the D-Reaper from causing more chaos at the Real World, and because he's the only one I trusted at that moment. I've heard of Hypnos more than once, and for one thing, I believed that the Tamers can take on this problem that will not only affect the Digital World, but the Real World as well."
Takato blinked. 'How?' "Uh, excuse me, Kayra, how can the probe affects the Real World, if you don't mind me asking?"
"Ah, sorry, I haven't cleared it up." She sheepishly apologized. "You see, the Tech Sun Industries has plans on realizing these data probes in the Real World. Once this happens.........who knows what kind of threat it will bring........."
Each person was quiet and is deep in thought about the situation. Kayra sighed, and looked at Ryo, who nodded. Rika just watched as Kayra clenched her fists with her expression going from bad to worse. To imagine that such a company could easily take over the Digital World, Rika thought.
"Now that you've heard Kayra's side of the threat, we've got enough sources to lead us into those probes and find a way how to destroy it.........." Yamaki started saying, but he was cut off.
"No, don't do that!" Kayra nearly shouted. When all eyes fell on her again, she slumped at her seat, covering her mouth. "Sorry, I didn't mean to burst like that."
"Why the objection?"
"It's just that.........these probes are dangerous to humans within ten meters. I found that out after hours of continually hacking the company's database. Not only does these probes dangerous to humans, it also has these sub- probes that can do twice as much. And that was after I saw the complete format of the plan."
Henry frowned. This is not an ordinary enemy. Actually, all their enemies happened to be not ordinary. He looked at the reactions of the people at the table. Takato has that expression of confusion written on his face. Kenta looked rather angry at the situation, after all, who wouldn't be angry at what Kayra's uncle did? He saw Rika's eyebrow twitched. He knew she was getting pissed at the situation, but for some reasons, she remained polite. Ryo looked calm. No surprise there. That must've been the topic when they were chatting at the café.
"So, Kayra, how do you propose to eliminate these certain data probes?" Yamaki asked. "If they cause a huge threat, should we do something to somehow pause their actions while we find a way to completely stop its progress?"
"Honestly, I don't know." She answered. "But whatever is happening at the Digital World, I'm responsible for it. There's always a solution, and I know I'll find it when I enter the Digital World. But then, to temporarily halt their work, I'm sorry; I don't have any more ideas. I've stopped their work before, but they just established a firewall and security........."
"Okay then. We have no choice but to wait on this situation." Yamaki decided. "It's too dangerous to let you guys take on these things, so for the time being, you're dismissed."
When Yamaki and Riley left the room, the group recollected the events.
Kayra allowed silence to pass through for a while before speaking. "Guys, I know this is not a good time, but I really have to go. There are still some things I have to do. For some reason, I know you had to talk privately. Ryo, stay with them, I'll be fine now."
With that, she exited.
Takato was really confused this time. "How are we going to stop an enemy that we can't really go near to? I mean, ten meters is barely long, but what about the sub-probes? They do twice as much........."
Rika didn't like what is happening. It's starting again. It's the time where children depend on the adults for answers. Well, I'm not going to let that happen now, she silently said, as she made her way to the door.
"Hey Rika, where're you going?"
"I'm going to stop this."
Unfortunately, Ryo had other plans for her. When she started walking past him, he managed to get a gentle but firm grip on her hand. "Rika, you had to listen to them for once. This one's dangerous, and I've seen it. This is not your regular enemy."
"Then again, do WE have a regular enemy, Ryo?" Rika asked, trying to break free. No use.
Ryo smiled, and tried to lighten up the mood. "Your regular enemies would be those rookie level digimons who had been itching to fight someone."
When Rika pulled her hand away, feeling that she should not have this conversation, Ryo suddenly let go, causing her to stumble back. She might have fell head first if not for Ryo to catch her by the waist. For a moment, she stared into his blue eyes, a small blush staining her cheeks. But when she realized the proximity of Ryo's face on hers, she immediately pushed away.
"Fine, I won't do anything. But once something happens, I'm not going to be the one to stand around here." She marched out of the door.
Henry sighed, and smiled at the sight. With that blush, Rika must really love that moment, he thought. I'll check on her later to see what's up.
NOTES: I know, I really don't look good at this one, either. There's not much RyoXRika, and the story is starting to look boring. With an added plus, the grammar is bad off. I need to review on the English books......... I was about to type in the name of Kayra's mother back then, but if I do, you readers who already read 'Hidden' will know who Kayra really is. Thanks for reading. Reviews and flames.........If you can guess anything about this story, don't be shy to tell!
By: Mai a.k.a. BlastHornet
Disclaimer: Look at the previous chapter.
Notes: There are several new people that you readers might want to get acquainted with to be able to understand the story a lot better. Let's start with the previous chapter.
One. The girl who is looking at the computer and talking to someone at the phone is the same girl with Ryo, and you might have a good guess as to who is the person on the other side of the phone.
Two. That Tanaku Tsukishiro guy is related to the girl. Uncle, to be precise.
Now, there's a little tidbit before anything else. If you skipped that particular phrase while reading chapter I, I'll give you the benefit of having to hear from it. Henry is Rika's best friend. So if you think I'm promoting HenryXRika – which I don't usually do, but I happen to like the pairing (not as much as RyoXRika, though) – then screw you.
CHAPTER II: acquaintance
1:00 PM: Hypnos
Rika found it quite strange why she and Henry were the first to arrive at the building. Both of them had deduced that Ryo and his companion arrived here earlier, so it puzzled them.
Henry found Yamaki and Riley talking to each other at another room. When he already caught their attention, they walked up to him and all three went back to the room where Henry left Rika.
"Uh, Yamaki, where's Ryo?" Henry asked, feeling that he would know why they got there first before the Digimon King.
"He said he was coming with his friend who just arrived from the States." Yamaki answered, a hand on his hips. "He informed me about our current situation earlier on the phone, and promised to inform all the Tamers when we assembled here. He told me that he was going home first to change, though."
'That explains the phone.' Rika thought, and then frowned. 'Something's up, and whatever it is, I don't think I'll like it.'
One after the other, the Tamers went back to Hypnos. The next to arrive is Kenta, who looks like he just went back to sleep – actually, that's what he just did – and then followed by Takato, who brought along some Guilmon bread. Then along came Ai, who informed them that Mako went back to sleep.
"Okay, here's the scoop. Kazu and Jeri haven't attended these meetings. We have to tell them when they get back." Takato said. The others nodded.
After a few minutes of conversation and waiting for the host, they finally heard voices from the hallway. Rika raised an eyebrow at the voices.
"I told you he recognizes me!" goes a female, who Henry and Rika assumed to be the girl.
"How was I supposed to know? He only saw you once, and that time, he and grandma are still at the warpath!" another voice – Ryo – answered.
"I guess.........hey, I need to see Elecmon later at the nursery, can you loan me your laptop?"
"Seeing Hebimon is your top priority now, is it not?"
"Why, you got a problem with that?"
"No! No problem at all!"
Silence went after that round. The double doors opened automatically, revealing Ryo and the girl. Rika glanced at the girl with the smallest hint of admiration. The girl has class, and anyone with a fashion-trained eye can see – with a mother for a model, even Rika had to have one. Her Chinese- style shirt hugged her curves, and her pants and sandals matched evenly.
"Um, hello guys. Sorry I wasn't been able to come to the meeting." Ryo apologized. "I was going to, but I had to fetch her from the airport; apparently, she's not familiar with the place." Then it hit him. "Ah, before I completely forget, let me introduce Kayra Tsukishiro, a friend and a fellow Tamer from the States."
"Welcome to Japan, Kayra." Takato first greeted – after all, he's the leader – with a bow. The others did the same. "I'm Takato Matsuki."
"As I've seen from the news and papers." Kayra acknowledged. "I'm really sorry to not have helped during the D-Reaper incident. I wasn't a Tamer back then, and I have problems with my family that needs serious fixing."
"Ah, that's alright." Henry said, taking her reason in. "By the way, my name's Henry Wong. Nice to meet you."
"Hello, I'm Kenta Kitagawa." Kenta smiled, bowing. "There's others, but they have important things to do. Hello Kayra."
Kayra nodded in return and turned to Rika. "If my eyes aren't deceiving me, you must be Rika. Ryo has told me a lot about you."
"Rika Nonaka." Rika started, pulling back any kind of backlash. "Good day, Kayra."
Kayra blinked. ".........Nonaka........." When Rika's eyes are on her, she looked up and faintly smiled. "Ah, no, I'm just talking to myself. Forgive me."
A cough was heard and all eyes and ears turned to Yamaki. "Yamaki Mitsuo. I've heard about you, Kayra." He said. "You are the only girl in your clan, right?"
"Yes. That's right." She looked at a distant object, away from the eyes.
Takato, Henry, Rika, and Kenta looked at Yamaki and back at Kayra, not really getting anything at all. Ryo sensed the confusion, and decided to speak. "Uh, you guys, see, umm, the Tsukishiro clan only allow their inheritance to be passed on to the female members of the clan. Kayra's mother married a man against the clan's wishes. Kayra took her place as the heiress."
"Ah."
Henry glanced at Kayra, who was still looking away. Her black eyes may seem emotionless, but as he stared right to her eyes, he found pain. He walked towards her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Hey, Kayra, are you alright?"
It looks like as though Kayra snapped out of it, and looked at Henry with a pleasant smile on her face. "Of course I'm alright! Why wouldn't I be?" When Henry looked again at her eyes, the pain he saw earlier simply disappeared. 'How did that happen?'
"Okay, now that we're done with the introductions, let's get to the meeting proper." Yamaki started. The people went to the table and sat down at the chairs. "Now, there's a reason why Kayra went here, and all of us know it's not for vacation. She has something to do with the present situation of the Digital World. Kayra, take the floor."
When the attention of the people turned to Kayra (AN: .........umm, the attention of the people was turned into Kayra? That's rich. Uh, nevermind me.) She started. "The present danger of the Digital World is caused by my clan corporation, the Tech Sun Industries, led by my uncle, Tanaku Tsukishiro. Apparently, he had been the head for a while since I'm not of legal age earlier, but now that I am, I had plans of taking what is supposed to be mine.
"However, he had other plans. It seems that uncle doesn't like the way the clan passes its inheritance. So he's after me. Unfortunately, he brought the Digital World with the problem when he learned that I am a Tamer. He asked an illegal laboratory to create him data probes that have the capability of destroying data, like what D-Reaper had done.
"These data probes are highly dangerous, and I am still thinking of any way to stop them. Mr. Yamaki was right to warn you not to investigate. I could've faced Uncle Tanaku earlier, but the inevitable death of my grandmother, Amy Tsukishiro, lost my balance, and thus this started my battle.
"I've contacted Ryo since I know he's one of the Tamers who had stopped the D-Reaper from causing more chaos at the Real World, and because he's the only one I trusted at that moment. I've heard of Hypnos more than once, and for one thing, I believed that the Tamers can take on this problem that will not only affect the Digital World, but the Real World as well."
Takato blinked. 'How?' "Uh, excuse me, Kayra, how can the probe affects the Real World, if you don't mind me asking?"
"Ah, sorry, I haven't cleared it up." She sheepishly apologized. "You see, the Tech Sun Industries has plans on realizing these data probes in the Real World. Once this happens.........who knows what kind of threat it will bring........."
Each person was quiet and is deep in thought about the situation. Kayra sighed, and looked at Ryo, who nodded. Rika just watched as Kayra clenched her fists with her expression going from bad to worse. To imagine that such a company could easily take over the Digital World, Rika thought.
"Now that you've heard Kayra's side of the threat, we've got enough sources to lead us into those probes and find a way how to destroy it.........." Yamaki started saying, but he was cut off.
"No, don't do that!" Kayra nearly shouted. When all eyes fell on her again, she slumped at her seat, covering her mouth. "Sorry, I didn't mean to burst like that."
"Why the objection?"
"It's just that.........these probes are dangerous to humans within ten meters. I found that out after hours of continually hacking the company's database. Not only does these probes dangerous to humans, it also has these sub- probes that can do twice as much. And that was after I saw the complete format of the plan."
Henry frowned. This is not an ordinary enemy. Actually, all their enemies happened to be not ordinary. He looked at the reactions of the people at the table. Takato has that expression of confusion written on his face. Kenta looked rather angry at the situation, after all, who wouldn't be angry at what Kayra's uncle did? He saw Rika's eyebrow twitched. He knew she was getting pissed at the situation, but for some reasons, she remained polite. Ryo looked calm. No surprise there. That must've been the topic when they were chatting at the café.
"So, Kayra, how do you propose to eliminate these certain data probes?" Yamaki asked. "If they cause a huge threat, should we do something to somehow pause their actions while we find a way to completely stop its progress?"
"Honestly, I don't know." She answered. "But whatever is happening at the Digital World, I'm responsible for it. There's always a solution, and I know I'll find it when I enter the Digital World. But then, to temporarily halt their work, I'm sorry; I don't have any more ideas. I've stopped their work before, but they just established a firewall and security........."
"Okay then. We have no choice but to wait on this situation." Yamaki decided. "It's too dangerous to let you guys take on these things, so for the time being, you're dismissed."
When Yamaki and Riley left the room, the group recollected the events.
Kayra allowed silence to pass through for a while before speaking. "Guys, I know this is not a good time, but I really have to go. There are still some things I have to do. For some reason, I know you had to talk privately. Ryo, stay with them, I'll be fine now."
With that, she exited.
Takato was really confused this time. "How are we going to stop an enemy that we can't really go near to? I mean, ten meters is barely long, but what about the sub-probes? They do twice as much........."
Rika didn't like what is happening. It's starting again. It's the time where children depend on the adults for answers. Well, I'm not going to let that happen now, she silently said, as she made her way to the door.
"Hey Rika, where're you going?"
"I'm going to stop this."
Unfortunately, Ryo had other plans for her. When she started walking past him, he managed to get a gentle but firm grip on her hand. "Rika, you had to listen to them for once. This one's dangerous, and I've seen it. This is not your regular enemy."
"Then again, do WE have a regular enemy, Ryo?" Rika asked, trying to break free. No use.
Ryo smiled, and tried to lighten up the mood. "Your regular enemies would be those rookie level digimons who had been itching to fight someone."
When Rika pulled her hand away, feeling that she should not have this conversation, Ryo suddenly let go, causing her to stumble back. She might have fell head first if not for Ryo to catch her by the waist. For a moment, she stared into his blue eyes, a small blush staining her cheeks. But when she realized the proximity of Ryo's face on hers, she immediately pushed away.
"Fine, I won't do anything. But once something happens, I'm not going to be the one to stand around here." She marched out of the door.
Henry sighed, and smiled at the sight. With that blush, Rika must really love that moment, he thought. I'll check on her later to see what's up.
NOTES: I know, I really don't look good at this one, either. There's not much RyoXRika, and the story is starting to look boring. With an added plus, the grammar is bad off. I need to review on the English books......... I was about to type in the name of Kayra's mother back then, but if I do, you readers who already read 'Hidden' will know who Kayra really is. Thanks for reading. Reviews and flames.........If you can guess anything about this story, don't be shy to tell!