Through the Oddest Circumstance
Chapter 3: Into the Temple, A Beginning of a New Adventure
Pairings: Mimato, Takari, Jenruki, Kouzumi, Kouyako, Taiora and Ryo/ OC
Takari-san: Though not much people read the third chapter, I really like this story so I decided to continue on with this with the fastest speed in which I can write, possible. I'm currently working on "I Wish…" so I'm a bit slow but I'll try my best to finish this, I'm actually done with the first chapter of "I Wish" and the epilogue of "Flashbacks" but I'll post it along with this with a one-shot Jenruki called "Nothing to Worry About". School's also part of the reason, we have a Chinese test coming up so… anyway I don't own Digimon and I hope you enjoy this one! ^_^
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Yamato Ishida panted as he clutched his shirt tightly, his brown gloves covered in yellow mush. A few thoughts crossed his mind… 'I'm perfectly safe here, no one ever caught me…" he thought wiping of some red moisture off his face… he peeked outside, he watched as everyone was still hitting each other… he couldn't believe the princesses actually joined in this fight… Oh well, nothing's impossible… He turned away, facing the other side finding himself face to face with…
"Aha, caught you!" Mimi shouted throwing what seemed to be Izumi's long forgotten dessert at him.
"Ah!" he shouted, hitting his head on the table in which he was hiding under.
"Matt-kun, are you alright?" Mimi asked worriedly looking at him with pure concern.
"Hai… but I can't believe you did that!" Matt said, getting a handful of cake from his hair and smothering it on Mimi's head.
"Ah! Gomen… Gomen…" Mimi laughed since soon after, she was being tickled by the blonde.
"Will you two stop flirting? Kouji is calling for us and the other high officials; he didn't like to wait here in this mess with Izumi." Takeru smiled.
"Kouji's calling us, huh? Fine, bye Mimi-chan, see you later!" Matt said standing up, following TK and up to get Jenrya who was currently joining in the food fight, spurting Ruki with ketchup which she didn't seem pleased at, the same ketchup which accidentally hit Matt's face a while ago.
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"What happened to the all cold one routine, onee-chan?" TK grinned mischievously.
"Eh? What routine are you talking about?" Matt said, trying to sound ignorant of the way he acted before a certain someone entered his life…
"Oh come on Yamato, even if there was no routine; you surely did soften up… especially ever since…" Izzy said being interrupted by…
"Nothing, now let's go…" Yamato said glaring at Izzy.
"Mimi…" Jenrya said who appeared behind them wearing a new shirt since Ruki decided to take revenge at him by spurting mustard at him, which was the same thing on Matt's hand.
"Yeah… I think onee-chan is in love!" TK said starry-eyed.
"NO I'M NOT!" Matt said when they reached their meeting place welcomed by a cheerful Izumi, changed since a while ago she was the one to start the food fight by throwing her most hated vegetable, tomatoes at Kouji for fun.
"Hey guys! Come in… Kouji just changed, he didn't seem quite happy about the tomato but he's normal now… normal Kouji behavior anyway…" Izumi said smiling cheerfully.
"Uh… yeah…" they said entering.
"Yamato… I got the facts of that area you wanted me to find, we're arriving tomorrow afternoon… I asked them to steer there already…" Kouji said right away when they entered.
"Thanks there Kouji…" Yamato said sitting down on his chair.
"Where are we going anyway? What kind of treasure are we looking for this time, are we stealing or not?" Takeru asked playing with his blonde hair with a pencil.
"Nope, no stealing this time… we are going to old ruins, it is said that there some kind of treasure, greater than ever imagined there." Matt said.
"We're just going there because of a rumor!?! What if there's no such thing?" Izzy said flabbergasted, he wasn't somebody to believe in rumors.
"Huh? I think it's fun… I'm going, Kouji-kun's going, and you can stay if you want." Izumi said.
"Fine, but if you guys don't bring back anything it's your problem…" Izzy sighed.
"You can stay with the princesses, take care of them." Matt said, like it was an order.
"Eh? But I already asked the princesses to come, Miyako didn't want to go though, she said she doesn't believe in rumors, that a very special person in her life told her that." Izumi said as she watched Izzy's ears turn red.
"You what!?!" the others said falling down from their seats, unaware of Izzy's odd behavior.
"I asked them to come with us… they are thieves now you know, they won't be too happy if they find out that you don't want them to come…" Izumi said, looking at them with a mischievous grin.
"Izumi… I'm going to kill you." Kouji said glaring at her.
"Hush, you two… It's fine by me; we're just going to go on a treasure hunt it's alright, no need to destroy your wonderful relationship." Jenrya said as his brothers snickered.
"Shut up!" the two shouted, red as beets.
"Cool, we were just kidding, no need to take it too seriously." Matt laughed lightly.
"Humph…" the two pouted.
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"Bye guys!" Miyako waved at them, Izzy beside her.
"Bye…" Mimi waved.
"Bye. Bye Yolei-chan!" Izumi waved back to her usual cheerful self.
"Take care… it's your problem if you can't find anything." Izzy said.
"You're mean…" Izumi pouted.
"Fine Good Luck…" Izzy said, sighing.
"Take care of the ship…" Jenrya said.
"Don't make the thieves do anything stupid." TK said.
"Have fun with 'your Yolei-chan'" Matt laughed as they turned around and rode motor-powered scooters, which floated to their destination. (A lot like Zoids Chaotic Century, first episode, Van's skateboard.)
"Damn you, Matt." Izzy muttered, ears red, while Yolei was blushing.
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"So brother… what exactly are we looking for?" Jenrya asked.
"A way in the ruins, of course…" Matt said in a know-it-all attitude.
"Where is that way?" TK asked irritated.
"The information I got about the place tells me it should be around… here." Kouji said, moving his scooter to flat land which looked more like a vast plain.
"But this place is huge!" Izumi whined.
"Yeah… that means we have to search then." Kouji said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Can't you wait till we're back on the ship, before you two start flirting again?" Matt laughed and so did everyone except the two.
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They had separated into two groups, to have an easier time finding the treasure.
"You know it's odd…" Ruki said, as she was walking with Yamato, Jenrya and Mimi.
"What?" Jenrya asked.
"The last time I had this much fun, must've been the time I was still with my real parents… or that time…" Ruki said.
"Don't tell me, your knight and shining armor spent a whole night with you." Mimi said butting in.
"As a matter of fact, that's true, because if he hadn't spoken that time, I would've been dead." Ruki said angrily, Jenrya having no idea what they were talking about.
"So that makes him your hero… how sweet. Don't you get it? He works for the same woman that killed your parents!" Mimi said looking at her with the 'you're-absurd' look on her face.
"You don't understand… he just doesn't know the truth about her." Ruki murmured.
"Believe what you want, we don't get to see him anymore anyway." Mimi said walking away.
"What were you two talking about?" Jenrya asked worriedly.
"Iie… it was just that time when I was… captured by the queen…" she narrated the story as Jenrya listened intently, both of them not caring about the ruins…
*Flashback*
"Kill the child, now!" the queen ordered a soldier of some sort.
"I do not kill women, nor children, for I am honorable and want to remain an honorable man." The boy said.
"You call yourself a man? You are barely even 10… you may have fighting skills of a skilled warrior but your mind is still of a child." The queen said.
"If acting like a child means not killing an innocent then I would prefer to be childish than mature." The boy replied still not following orders, looking at the innocent nine year old with a look of care and pity.
"You still think of such foolishness? Then I command you to spend the whole night with her, hear her whine, share the food she gets. Let's see if she'll be alive the next morning, this should teach you not to be so soft anymore." The queen laughed knowing that the girl herself gets less food than mere paupers who didn't earn enough that day.
"Fine, but if I can stand it, you shall take her in, treat her as a princess." The boy said.
"Fine… if that is so, then so be it." The queen said, knowing that he won' be able to do it, and even if so, the child had a huge inheritance that she would be credited to if she took her in.
"I thank you my queen…" the boy bowed down.
"Go in boy." The queen pushed him in.
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9 year Ruki Makino shivered, she was obviously cold, wearing rags in such cold weather. She was imprisoned in a cell, not alone though, a boy accompanied her, trying to make her live. She turned to look at him, he had a friendly face but his eyes contained nothing, emotionless, a man filled with masks.
"Don't worry; I won't do anything that'll put you in danger or such." The boy said, putting a coat over her shivering body.
"… Thank you…" she murmured, blood rushing to her cheeks.
"It's nothing, I, myself could never forgive myself if I had killed or put to danger an innocent, of course freezing to death isn't an exception." The boy smiled, there was something incredibly odd about him, and he seemed lonely in a way.
"Then why do you follow her orders?" Ruki exclaimed.
"I follow the orders of the queen because, I swore I would protect and serve whoever rules the kingdom and any Tachikawa for that matter." Ryo said sternly.
"I see…" she said, she didn't want to pursue this conversation any further, she might let the boy about a year older than her lose his temper, and soon let her say good bye to this world.
There had been no exchange of words between the two for a long time, there was peace and Ruki was seemingly reassured that this boy won't hurt her.
"Wake up!" a soldier commanded, as I turned around to find that the boy was actually sleeping.
"Huh? Oh, yeah…" the boy said.
"Here… enjoy." the soldier said handing him a piece of bread and a glass of water.
"Thanks." The boy smiled falsely, accepting the meal of some sort given to him.
Ruki looked at him for a while then he smiled…
"Here…" he smiled, offering the whole meal to her.
"But aren't you hungry?" she asked in a soft voice.
"No… no I eat much when out of here, so there's still tomorrow for me to eat a meal, a feast even. You, on the other hand does not seem well fed in your days here, so eat the few that is given to you." The boy smiled.
"Thank you…" she whispered as she took a bite.
"You know, there's a ball tonight, and I'm afraid a friend of mine is furious of me right now." He smiled looking out at the window, his eyes not emotionless as before but somewhat happy.
"Furious?" I asked.
"Yes, furious. I asked her to go with me and even begged so she could agree; now she'll find out that I'm not there and surely tomorrow my head will be broken and my bones fractured." He laughed lightly. "Don't you hear it, the music?" he asked.
Ruki closed her eyes, yes there was a soothing melody being played. Its tune was wonderful, peaceful and calm.
"So you do?" he asked.
"Yes, it's a very nice song; it's very soothing to the ears." Ruki said.
"Indeed, it was always my friend's favorite tune to dance to… would you care to dance?" he smiled.
Ruki didn't know what came into her but she stood up and nodded, wrapping his arms around her, they danced in the small space they had.
"You know you are a lot like my friend…" he said.
"Really?" she asked, there was something about this boy she can't put a finger unto, she seemed attracted to him somehow.
"Yes, but thankfully you didn't get her loudness and temper." He laughed, as they danced.
"Yeah I guess…" she smiled as the music stopped and they were no longer in each other's arms.
"I'm Ryo Akiyama by the way, but call me Ryo." He smiled.
"Hai Ryo-san" she smiled as soon they she fell asleep in the bed as Ryo slept on the stone floor.
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She woke up the next morning, no longer in a cell but a huge room, finding a letter beside her…
I had fun princess, enjoy it here. –Ryo
*End of Flashback*
"Oh… he was a nice man then… that Akiyama." Jenrya said coldly, clenching his fists hoping that she couldn't see.
"Yeah… he is." She said "I'll go talk to my sister then." She said running off.
'Ruki, of all the princesses was the one who had someone they left behind. I don't understand why I feel this way… What is Ruki to me anyway, isn't she not a companion I have gotten to enjoy her company? Or is she much more? What am I thinking there's no way,' he blushed 'No of course not… the only time he felt that way was when…' he thought.
"Jenrya, help us out, will you?" a voiced called.
"Hai, Takeru." He sighed, 'this can't be happening all over again… can it?'
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{Sigh} 'I don't get why did she fall for such a man… of all the people why Ryo? Yes, he was quite nice… compared to some other generals and of course the queen, but he was still a scumbag who follows that whore.' Mimi thought sitting down on the ground, since she grew tired of searching.
"Mimi," Ruki said appearing behind her.
"Oh… hey Ruki…" Mimi said, turning around to find her sister looking quite apologetic.
"Gomen… I know you know what's best but…" Ruki said.
"Hey, it's alright, I just lost my temper there…" Mimi said smiling.
"Thanks… I gotta go now, I'm helping Jenrya with the search, good luck!" she smiled, it was the first time Mimi noticed, Ruki still had that frying pan with her, it was hung on her back actually as she laughed good-naturedly.
"{Sigh} Oh well, this search isn't really going too well… maybe Koushiro was right… We might not find anything." She muttered under her breath when she noticed something odd on the ground she was sitting on. There was a hue of light green on the ground, it didn't seem as if it was soil but yet something of glass. She wiped the soil that it covered with, shocked to find the symbol of their family, in some sort of stain glass.
"Guys! Guys! Look over here!" Mimi shouted, signaling her companions.
"Mimi, what's wrong?" Yamato said, who hurriedly rushed to her thinking there was something wrong, soon followed by the rest.
"Look… it's the symbol…" Mimi said pointing down.
"Eh? What symbol?" Yamato asked confused.
"That's…" Ruki gasped, as Mimi nodded.
The two remained silent for a while, ignoring confused glances from any one when the ground shook… There was suddenly a huge dark hole that appeared, making them all fall… fall to the abyss.
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Mimi woke up, clutching her head tightly, there was an intense amount of pain but luckily there were no wounds or bruises. She looked around, they were all unconscious but none seemed hurt. She looked around find a huge door made out of what she guessed was pure silver and two shadows in a corner. A voice was suddenly heard…
"Are you the Chosen One?"
*tbc*
Takari-san: Yes, a cliffhanger… but I had to rush this since I have tons of assignments and I need to hurry up, I'll be posting the next chapter along with "Force of Nature" and "I Wish" chapter two, I have such a hectic schedule, see you next time!
Preview: Chapter 5: A Boy with Two Faces, A Story about Ryo Akiyama
Ryo Akiyama, an orphaned boy had fighting skills of a skilled knight, but there's something wrong he works for the wrong side… There's always something that bothers him, nightmares he's willing to forget…
Takari-san: Hmm… I just thought I needed a break from Mimi and the others, Sorry if the Ryouki part over there was huge, but in the next chapter it'll soon show that Ryo likes someone else! Don't forget to R/R on this chapter! R/R