Anything For A Friend

By: The Smashfriends

Aerisakura: Thanks for all you reviews and sorry for the delay.

Freak: A. will explain why we have been delaying in posting.

Aerisakura: Fine, but just because I think the readers deserve an explanation.

Logan: Don't worry cousin.

Aerisakura: I will just repeat what I already said: My apologizes for nor posting sooner, explaining why we haven't been able to post is resumed to: It's my fault, I haven't been able to reunite with my friends, I haven't been feeling that well and in less than a month I will be leaving to an hospital (is not on the same city were I live but that is more difficult to explain) so I been a little worried about it and for that we haven't had any reunion to continue writing any of our fics, and for we will continue writing slower than usual and sorry for that too I also have to study for an exam, but anyway now I'm trying to just get distracted from this matters…

MMX2: That means playing a lot of videogames and writing!!

Aerisakura: Yeah what he said.

Terriermon: Well, the Smashfriends don't own Digimon and now we go to read the next chapter.

Chapter 3: Stupid Questions That I Can't Answer…Or Just Don't Want To?

'Someone must've set your behavior switch on "morbid"…'-Clemment, Shadow Madness.

'You are perilously close to the worst beating of your life'-Jirina, Shadow Madness.

'Stupid goggle-head!' Rika thought, it was just yesterday when they played soccer and she "accidentally" hit him with the ball and after that very moment Rika had been thinking that she should apologize to the goggle-head….but of course she wouldn't and for making her have those thoughts she will make him pay and for that she couldn't help but smirk in devilish way.

She was in a coffee shop, she was supposed to meet a classmate of hers to do a homework project and, as Rika put it, the stupid girl had wanted for them to meet at this place, she was exasperated as the girl was delayed several minutes, another thing to add to Rika's dark humor.

And to make things worst, the image of Takato walking home with the help of his stupid crush, thing that she caused by hitting him with the stupid ball, things didn't went as she wanted them, she wanted Takato to fail at his tries to get Jeri to like him, and what now worried Rika is that other thoughts came to her head or better said another reasons of the why she want the goggle-head to fail, other reasons besides the fact that she wants to use this opportunity to cause some pain to the goggle-head, reasons that didn't make her happy by having them, and she again said those words that she almost always used to call Takato, but this time she spoke them out loud "Stupid goggle-head!!"

"What did I do this time!?" came a voice next to her, this surprised her since she hadn't noticed that someone namely the goggle-head that had been present on her mind for the entire day had been standing next to her, she, for a reason she couldn't quite put her finger on it, turned red…of anger….she did not liked to be surprised like that and much less by the wimpy goggle-head…wimpy to her at least.

Takato gave a funny look to Rika but when he noticed her angered eyes placed on him, he did what it was more convenient and took the seat in front of her to put some space between them for his own safety, once he was as comfortable as he could, he gulped and dared to talk to the angered D.I.Q.

"So…whatz up?" Takato said as casual as he could be almost terrified by the girl in front of him.

Rika said nothing for a moment, her anger disappeared for a brief moment when she noticed the bruised face he had, bruises she had caused and again the nagging feeling that she should apologize to the goggle-head came to her mind to do just that and annoy her but it didn't last long and she glared at Takato trying to avoid see him to the eyes were the black-eye was…thought he deserve it, or that was what she thought anyway.

"What are you doing here?" Rika said with a calm tone of voice, thing that frightened more at Takato, he feared that it was as they said: The calm before the storm.

"Well….I was passing by and I saw you here…and I wanted to talk with you" Takato said trying to hide his fear, thing that didn't went quiet well, Rika did hear the fear on his voice and she smirked at that…but a very small part of her felt bad, of course she chose to ignore that small part.

"And about what did you wanted to talk with me?" Rika said still smirking at Takato's discomfort.

"Well….I was…wondering if you will keep helping me…with…you know?" Takato said, fear almost gone replaced by nervousness and embarrassment that thoughts of Jeri always brought to him and Rika sensing that, smirked at the possibility of keep "helping" the goggle-head.

"What? Didn't the help I gave you yester day was enough to make Jeri like you?" Rika said mockingly, feeling both amused and sorry at the memories of the ball smashing against Takato's face.

"You mean you did that on purpose!?" Takato wondered almost shocked, he knew that Rika sometimes was cruel but not as much to do something like this…at least not to him…or so he thought.

"No, that was just a little bonus" Rika said with amusement, at what Takato narrowed his eyes at her and Rika returned the gesture, both entering to a staring contest that was stopped when Takato felt a hand resting on his shoulder and squeezing painfully to it and he noticed Rika giving her hate glare to someone behind him, Takato turned to find Ryo Akiyama standing there. (SF/N: Don't you dislike it when he appears from nowhere to ruin what could become in a very nice Rukato moment….like Rika beating Takato XDDDDDDDDDDD….not, seriously, in this case could be something like Rika possibly apologizing to Takato or something like that, this happens a lot in our fics and someone out there asked us to do much more Ryo bashing XDDD)

"Hello Rika…Hello Takato" Ryo said with some kind of anger on his voice.

"What are you doing here Akiyama" it was a demand not a question that Rika made placing all her anger in those words to make him understand that he was not welcome.

"I saw my two friends all alone here and I decided to come and say hello" Ryo said still squeezing painfully Takato's shoulder who now was glaring the auto-named Digimon King.

"Well….you already say it, so….goodbye" Takato said to surprise of both Rika and Ryo, Ryo glared at him while Rika smirked.

"So Rika, you didn't tell me you liked the goggle-head here…" "Leave Akiyama" "Rika.." "I wont say it again Akiyama, leave" having that "cute" chat with Rika, Ryo decided to follow Rika's "orders" and take his leave before Rika gets violent.

"I will see you later Rika" Ryo said with a smirk and left, Takato waited until Ryo was out of hearing range to turn to look at Rika, a smile formed on his face, it was time for him to do some teasing…thought it could cost his life…it was worth it.

"Sorry Rika" Takato said faking his voice to sound almost sad.

"For what?" Rika said arching an eyebrow at him.

"Well because I ruined you date with Ryo…but don't worry, I will help you to get him" Takato said patting her hand with his and then leaving it were it was.

Rika turned red from anger at what he said and from embarrassment at what he did with his hand, she glared at him and was about to yell or cause some pain to him but was stopped when she heard what the waitress and the people around them said "Awww, what a cute couple!!!"

Takato froze at those words and did nothing to take his hand of Rika's hand while Rika was about to take violent actions when the worst that could happen to her happened (SF/N: ^_^U).

"Rika!! I didn't know that you wanted to be with you boyfriend, If I had known I wouldn't have asked you to meet today!!" Rika's classmate said and Rika cursed mentally, soon everyone at her school would think that same, that she has the stupid goggle-head as a boyfriend.

"Wait!! HE is NOT my boyfriend!!" Rika said trying to release her hand from Takato but the goggle-head was frozen in the spot and she couldn't remove his hand from hers, that was getting her more angered. 'Later, when there be less witnesses…I will kill you goggle-head!!!' she thought as she glared at him.

"Don't worry Rika, I won't say anything to anyone! And don't worry, we can reunite later to finish that homework" Rika's classmate said smiling at her.

'Yeah right, you won't tell anyone that you saw me with a guy. Damn goggle-head!!! I'm gonna kill you for this!! My reputation is sooo ruined!!' Rika thought as her classmate said something else about calling her later to finish the stupid homework and then left.

Rika glared at Takato, who was still in a trance like state, when a devilish thought crossed Rika's mind…she will wake the goggle-head from his trance…in a painful way….

Meanwhile in Takato's mind, he was repeating the same phrase over and over 'I'm holding Rika's hand and everyone thinks we are a cute couple!! I'm holding Rika's hand and everyone thinks we are a cute couple!! I'm holding Rika's hand and everyone thinks we are a cute couple!!' but all those cheery thought were stopped by a intense pain in his shin and on his hand, he jerked his hand from where it was and he woke from his trance to see a very angered Rika who was pinching his hand and kicking his shin…she continued to kick his shin.

"Rika stop that!" Takato said trying to avoid her kicks but in vain since Rika always got her way and kicked him.

"Be thankful that I didn't kick a few inches above" Rika said angrily and stopped her kicking with a last one with much more force than the ones before causing Takato to bend over to rub his injured shin.

Rika said nothing else and stood up and left Takato was about to leave to follow her when the waitress stopped him and give him the bill of what Rika had ordered, he sweat dropped but paid not wanting to get into trouble and then ran looking around for Rika. He found her not to far from there since she was walking slowly.

"Rika!!" Takato yelled and ran to her, she stopped to turn around and look at him.

"What?" she said as soon as he was in front of her.

"Well….ummm….about…Jeri" Takato said not fully daring to say that again.

Rika sighed tiredly and said "What happened yesterday?"

"Well…" Takato said trying to remember the events.

Takato's flashback….(SF/N: Is on Takato's P.O.V. the parts that are between *this* are Rika's and Takato's interruptions during the narration and the ones between *this and in cursive* are Takato's thought as he narrates, hope this be clear for you)

Jeri was helping me to get to his house, I was to lost in thought, I was thinking about…

*Of what?* *Ummm….* *I can't tell her that I was thinking about why she was so upset…I'm still wondering why but to ask her that could mean my death* *Can't I leave that out of the story? Is…not really….for you to now* *What do you mean by that?* *Can't you just let me tell you what happened* *Alright, alright, go on*

And those thought kind of…make me not be aware of what was happening around me…

*You always do that goggle-head, that's nothing new* *Please Rika don't interrupt me* *Fine, I will try, now go on*

Well, when I realized, we were at my house already and it was until now that I noticed that Jeri was….

*You know you are turning as red as a tomato* *O-of c-course not!!* *You are right goggles, you are redder than a tomato* *Rika!!* *Okay, okay goggles, continue* *What was that tone she just used? It wasn't of mockery but it wasn't angered either…what could…* *Goggles, wake up!!* *Uhh!?* *Continue already!!* *Right, where was I? Oh, right!*

Jeri was kind of hugging me…

*What do you mean with that?* *If you would let me finish you would know!* *Are you rising your voice to me!!* *N-no* *Good, now continue*

She had her arm around me to support me…I was still to dizzy for the hit on the face…

*Sorry for that* *What!?!?* *Don't make repeat myself goggles!!* *Uhh…okay….don't worry about it…so that means that it was an accident?* *You think I would do something like that on purpose goggles?* *…..No…not to me…maybe to Kazu or Kenta…and of course Ryo* *Good you know that….now continue* *What could she mean with that?*

I was to dizzy to think of something and Jeri was about to say something but…I kind of got nervous and said goodbye to her and then I went inside the house straight to my room to rest and think more of….

End Of Takato's Flashback…..

"Those thought that are not to be known by you" Takato finished his tale and Rika could almost sweat drop at his actions.

"You interrupted her!? And you didn't say anything else to her?" Rika said not believing what she heard.

"Well…no…I didn't say anything…nor let her say whatever she was going to say" Takato said avoiding eye contact with her and finished on his head 'How could I say something to Jeri about my feelings for her when I was thinking of you? Though I don't know why and for the moment I don't want to give much thought of it'

"What goggles? You want me to be with you at every moment and tell you every word you have to say to her to make her like you?" Rika said and smirked at her thoughts 'Though that would give me much more fun by seeing you say something stupid and get slap…..or worst'

"N-no, of course not…but I…just couldn't….think of anything to say, yeah, that was it. I just didn't know what to say" Takato lied again hiding that he was thinking of Rika at that moment.

"Whatever goggles. Now let's think of another plan for you to try" Rika said as if she was really going to try to help him.

"Yeah thanks Rika" Takato said smiling.

End Chapter 3.

Aerisakura: That was all for now.

Freak: Hope you have liked this chapter.

MMX2: Now go on and review!!

Terriermon: Hey!! There was no me in this chapter!!! How…

Logan: Shut it bunny!! Now, what is starting to be part of our fics…

SF: The Omake!!

            OMAKE (At the end of Takato's flashback)

"You interrupted her!? And you didn't say anything else to her?" Rika said not believing what she heard.

"Well…no…I didn't say anything…nor let her say whatever she was going to say" Takato said avoiding eye contact with her.

"And why would you do something like that!?" Rika said crossing her arms over her chest.

"Because….because I was thinking of you Rika" Takato said now looking at her.

"W-w-what!?!?" Rika said taking a step backwards.

Taking advantage of her shock, Takato grabbed Rika by the arms not allowing her to move and said "Yes Rika, is you who held my heart now…Rika I like you"

"W-w-what!?!?" Rika could not take another step away of the goggle-head as she saw him leaning over to her, she gulped and closed her eyes….and nothing happened and she could hear the goggle-head laughing besides that he had already release his grip on her.

Rika blinked in confusion not really understanding why was this happening, then it hit her, the goggle-head was joking.

"Hahahahaha!! You should have seen you face!!" Takato laughed.

Rika clenched her fist and glared at Takato, and as soon as Takato saw this, he gulped and prepared himself for the worst beating of his life….

END OMAKE.

SF: That was all!!! REVIEW!!

Freak: By the way, we were thinking in creating a O.C. for some of our fics, the same character but with different personalities depending of the fic.

Aerisakura: You will know the name in some following chapter though….

Logan: If you are some of our dudes from SK, you will know her instantly, hehehehehe!!

MMX2: Another fic were we are thinking in use this O.C. is at "Takato's Story".

Terriermon: Hope not be another crazy girl like Rika, anyway, as we already say, go on and review.