Anything For A Friend
By: The Smashfriends
Freak: Here we are with the second chapter o f this fic.
Aerisakura: Thanks for all your reviews and hope you like this chapter.
Logan: We had already written this chapter but Freak erase it and this time we didn't wrote it on a notebook so everyone give your thanks to Freak for the delay in posting this chapter.
MMX2: You are free to kill him if you want, but anyway, this time we won't say anything that could be considered nasty against that person that insulted us.
Aerisakura: I have more important things to worry about and…
Freak: We will say another piece of our minds at that fic when we finish writing it, that unfortunately went through the same thing that this chapter….I kind of erase it.
Terriermon: What an….well let's just say: Thank God that they, and more importantly, that Freak doesn't own Digimon.
Chapter 2: Trying To Be The Best.
Rika smirked at the thought of "helping" the goggle-head, a smirk that didn't went unnoticed by the goggle-head, and all he could do at it was to sweat drop and be afraid at the look on her face, but being the goggle-head he is, he waited for Rika to tell him her first helping plan.
Takato waited a few minutes more but Rika didn't reacted, she was still in deep thought and smirking, now Takato was even more nervous but he decided to try his luck and made the question.
"So…..what do you think I should do?" Takato said nervously and gulped as soon as he said those words.
Rika woke from her daydream of teasing a goggle-head and looked at Takato, her smirk grew as she saw the look on his face, and what Takato did was gulp again.
"Alright goggles, the plan is this, you will show her that you are the best at everything" Rika said trying to put a serious face.
"Be…the best? But….that's what Ryo tries with you and you don't like it right? ……Or you……You LIKE RYO!!!" Takato said not believing what he was hearing….or what he thought he was hearing.
"SHUT UP GOGGLE-HEAD!!!! Of course I don't like Ryo; we are talking of JERI not me!!" Rika yelled angrily almost about to punch the living days out of the goggle-head, but she couldn't help but think 'Damn goggle-head since when he decided to use his brain and play to be smart….and how dares he to imply that I like that idiot!!'
"Then you don't like Ryo?" Takato said surprised and curious.
Rika glared at him, a sign for him to shut up and a sign that she hoped that the goggle-head would take as a "NO" but she didn't have such luck.
"Don't worry Rika, your secret is safe with me. Then, you think that Jeri is going to like that?" Takato said a little content to know more of the mysterious Rika Nonaka.
But what he got for an answer from Rika was a punch on his right eye that left him unconscious for some minutes. When he woke up he looked around to find the glaring face of Rika. He slowly sat up and rubbed the area around his eye and winced in pain, right there he knew that Rika's punch had left him a black-eye.
"Jeri and I are different goggle-head, hope I had left that clear enough for you" Rika said trying to calm her anger towards the goggle-head.
"Alright, point taken…you don't like Ryo" Takato said still subbing his eye, Rika watched him with an eyebrow raised.
"What? You would be doing the same if someone left you with a black-eye" Takato said noticing the look she was giving him.
"Want to try it goggle-head?" Rika replied clenching her fists.
"No, no, no, no. I might be a stupid goggle-head but I'm not a stupid goggle-head with a death wish" Takato said quickly and laughed nervously, he was surprised to see that Rika also laughed.
"You are a wuss goggle-head" Rika said laughing and shaking her head, Takato smiled not being nervous anymore, there was a moment of silence after that.
"Rika, but at what can I show Jeri that I'm the best?" Takato asked breaking the comfortable silence.
'He is right, in WHAT can HE show that HE IS the best? I can't think of anything…maybe if we ask the two bozos…' Rika thought and smirked again 'That would be funny to see'
"I couldn't show her that I'm good at the Digimon battles because she doesn't likes that, so in what else could I show that I'm good at" Takato said and tried to think of something, he didn't liked at all the look on Rika's face.
"We could say to your friends that help you, you could pay them to let you win" Rika said smirking.
"Wha….? Nooooo, I can't tell them, if I tell them they will tease me for the rest of my life, besides, they will know that you are helping me and that would ruin your reputation, right?" Takato said hoping that Rika would drop the idea of telling the others about this.
'Damn, he is right about that one and what do you know, he used his brain twice today, that must be a new record' Rika thought and smirked at her last thoughts.
"Besides, I asked Henry's help and he said he couldn't help me" Takato said and sighed.
'I wonder why the brainiac didn't help the goggle-head' Rika thought.
"So…?" Takato asked, hoping she had thought of something he could do.
"Why don't you play that game where you kick a ball in to a net, Takatomon?" a voice said behind them making them jump with surprise, they turned to see the small dinosaur like-Digimon.
'Who could have thought that dino-boy could use his brain too, today sure was a great day for them, both learned to use their brains and actually say something intelligent' Rika thought with a smirk.
"Guilmon!! Since when are you there?" Takato asked nervously, fearing that if Guilmon heard what he said, he would tell everyone.
"Since you said 'so in what else could I show that I'm good at' Takatomon" Guilmon said tilting his head to the side.
"You wouldn't tell anyone what you heard right Guilmon…if you don't say anything I will give you more Guilmon bread" Takato said and hoped Guilmon accepted his offer.
'That was a good one Ta…goggle-head, three times in just one day you used your brain' Rika thought.
"Okay Takatomon, Guilmon won't tell anyone that you and Rikamon were talking here" Guilmon said happily waving his tail.
"Alright, dino-boy had a good idea there, we could play soccer….I guess that your friends must be at the playground" Rika said and she stood up.
Takato followed and just nodded, he was thinking about why she refers to the rest of the tamers as "his" friends and not "our" friends, but decided to ask her about that later, he could risk receiving another punch today.
After walking a couple of minutes, they arrived to the playground where the rest of the Tamers where. Kazu and Kenta were playing cards, their Digimon were next to them watching every move they made at the card battle. Henry was looking at Jeri who was in front of him but he pretended to be looking at the card battle, Terriermon was on his shoulder snickering, he had seen where or either who he was really looking at. Jeri had her eyes on the card battle, she was trying to learn new tricks when she noticed Takato's and Rika's arrival.
"Hi guys!!" Jeri said cheerfully making Takato blush and Rika rolled her eyes, Guilmon waved with his paw, Renamon had appeared during Rika's and Takato's "chat" but remained hidden, and it was until now that she made her presence be known.
"Hi Jeri" was all Takato could say as he turned redder than before.
"Hey, Takato! Why do you have a black-eye? Did you get in the D.I.Q.'s bad side again? Or did you try some moves with her and she shut you up with a punch?" Terriermon asked giggling, this time Henry didn't made any attempt to stop Terriermon.
"What? Takato tried to hit on Rika!!?" Kazu said losing taking his eyes of the game to look at his goggle-headed friend.
For the rest of the people present, they were just staring at Takato's black-eye and at Rika's glaring face, wondering if Terriermon's accusations were truth.
"I hit Takatomon with my head" Guilmon said looking at the ground pretending to be upset.
Rika remained silent, again surprised with the intelligent act of the dino-boy while Takato only laughed nervously and scratched the back of his head. Everyone took Guilmon's words for the truth, knowing or thinking that Guilmon wouldn't lie and they returned to what they were doing before their friends arrived.
Takato sighed in relief, he didn't want Jeri thinking that he liked Rika, while Rika remained silent the whole time, just glaring at the still giggling green Digi-bunny.
"Not again!" Kenta said after Kazu placed the winning card finishing the game with him as the winner.
"Who's next?" Kazu asked looking around but as soon as he saw the glaring Rika he quickly said "I think I had enough of playing cards for today"
"Do you guys want to play soccer?" Takato suggested hoping that they agree so he could start with the plan.
"I will watch and cheer for you. Rika, you could help me to cheer for them" Jeri said again cheerfully.
"No thanks, I prefer to play" Rika said quickly not wanting to ever thing about being cheering for the guys.
"Then I think I better not play" Kenta said cleaning his glasses.
"Hey Henry, wanna play?" Kazu asked and waited for Henry's answer, he didn't want to be in the same team that the D.I.Q. nor with Takato.
"Well, yeah I will play" Henry said and Terriermon jumped from his shoulder to Jeri's shoulder.
"Then you are in my team, Takato and Rika are the other team" Kazu said quickly and didn't wait for them to answer.
Rika just glared at them, she didn't want to be in a team with either of them and she was supposed to help Takato so this went out okay…for now.
They went to a place where they could play, Kenta, Jeri, Terriermon and MarineAngemon seated in a safe place to watch the game while Renamon was standing on a tree watching amazed that Rika had agreed to play.
(SF/N: To lazy to explain all the game, let's leave it like this, the first one on score 5 goals will win, after a few minutes, Rika, Takato and Guilmon the goalkeeper were winning 4 at 2, from those 4 goals Takato had scored 1 goal)
Rika and Takato were playing what could be their last tactic, Rika had the ball and had juts avoided Kazu's dumb attempt to steal the ball, then Rika continued running towards their goal, where Guardromon was waiting for her to try and score a goal, Henry was on her way and it would be difficult to pass him, but then she saw Takato, no one was trying to block him so she kicked the ball towards him, but Takato didn't reacted in time and the ball hit him on the face and bounced towards the goal, Guardromon being to amazed by the scene of Takato being hit by the ball didn't even move to try to stop the ball from scoring.
Henry and Kazu hung their heads seeing that they had lost, Guardromon continued to stare at Takato who had his face all red and bloody from the nose, his right eye was still black, everyone else were looking at Takato with concern.
Just then, before anyone could get close to him and ask him if he was okay, he felt backwards and everything turned dark for him.
Everyone but Rika rushed to Takato, they tried to see if he was okay. A few minutes passed and Takato hadn't woke up, Kazu and Kenta left knowing that he would be fine, they were even laughing at how funny it looked when the ball hit him.
Henry, Jeri, Terriermon and Guilmon were at Takato's side, trying to wake him up, Renamon continued to stare from the tree and Rika had finally walked towards Takato to see how he was doing, she was feeling guilty.
Just as Rika had kneeled down next to Henry, Takato slowly opened his eyes, he could see the worried faces of Henry and Jeri and surprisingly enough, Rika's worried face, he saw a red blur that supposed to be Guilmon.
"Takatomon you finally woke up" Guilmon said happily waving his tail fast from one side to the other.
"What a way to win Takatomon!" "Terriermon!!" Terriermon continued to giggle not listening to his Tamer's words.
Takato sat up and took his hand to his head, he felt a little dizzy.
"Takato, how are you feeling?" Jeri asked in concern.
"Uh….a little di-dizzy, that's all" Takato replied blushing.
"Do you want me to walk you home?" Jeri said and as soon as those were out of her mouth, Henry stood up and left, Terriermon stopped giggling to watch and try to decipher his Tamer's expression, Rika also left, her guilt was fading as it seemed that what she did actually helped the goggle-head.
Jeri helped Takato to stand up, he was to dizzy to do anything else but wonder why Rika had that look on her face and to blush at the fact that Jeri was helping him….but it was difficult to know if his face was red with a blush or…if it was red for the little accident with the ball.
End Chapter 2.
Freak: Well that was all.
MMX2: There were many changes of what we wrote first.
Freak: u_uU Sorry!
Aerisakura: I liked more this version.
Logan: Yeah, me too.
Terriermon: And me, I got to make more jokes!
Freak: Then…
MMX2: We still won't trust you to keep the floppy disk nor the notebook…
Logan: Better be safe than sorry.
Terriermon: That's the spirit!! Now, go on and review!!!