Anything For A Friend
By: The Smashfriends
Aerisakura: Sorry for the long delay and for taking down those fics. We could say that from the SF only remain my cousin and myself, and is very difficult for us to get in touch with MMX2 and Freak (only by e-mail) so that's why it was decided take those fics down, because it would be me the only one writing since my cousin's English is worse than mine. And for me it's to difficult to write lately, my sickness is, only for the moment I hope, getting worse, so I really don't feel like writing so sorry for those of you who complained, but I really need to rest, I don't really like talking about it, it to much of a sore subject and I really don't really like to talk about it and I don't really think you would care to know, if you do I thank you and one day I may tell you about it, for now let's just go on with the fic as we (the whole SF team) planned since the beginning, this was just me being my nervous self wanting to apologize for the mentioned above. Now let's just go on with the fic.
Rika: Now start taping and this better be good or…(cracks knuckles and turns to see a beaten up Logan and a tied to a chair A.)
Logan: *mumbles* damn Freak *mumbles* pushing me when came back fro cousin…
Rika: Don't complain, those two are gonna get it when I find them!! And that green bunny too!! And you star taping!!!
Aerisakura: O-kay with an incentive like that one who wouldn't want to write.
Logan: *mumbles* Damn rabbit, we don't own Digimon…*whispers* and thank good or we'd have to deal with this every day.
Rika: What was that!!
Logan: Somebody Save MEEEE!!!! *kind of sing like that song "Save Me" from Smallville).
Chapter 8: Just When I Thought Things Couldn't Get Worse….
'I love you'-Yuna/Lenne, Final Fantasy X-2.
'Hey, but that's what friends are for'-Tidus, Final Fantasy X
'You sound sad'
"I'll be waiting for you, in my heart you are the one
If I cannot find you, I will look up to the sun
(do you believe, do you believe?)
If from where you are standing, you can see the sky above
I'll be waiting for you, if you still believe in love"
-Legend Of Dragoon: If You Still Believe.
Rika was still sitting at the small table in her room, the only thing on her mind was the goggle-head, she felt…glad he had come to see her…glad that he missed her…but he was gone again and now he would probably go and tell Jeri how he feel about her and then he would again stop coming to see her, or he would come with Jeri and it would be worse for her to handle. She was sure that it will hurt but…she had to stand it, she was Takato's friend and…she was supposed to support him and be happy for him, right? She sighed for what could be the thousand time since Takato had left.
Someone knocked at her door and she heard a girl's voice say "Hey Rika, it's me Rei. Remember we had a work to do for school?" (SF: Really, you remember, we sure almost forgot about it…-_-UU. It was around chapter 3 though we didn't gave her a name then…now she has one).
Rika felt like slapping herself she had completely forgotten about it (SF: -_-U and it's spring break…wish our spring break was as long as it has been for them XDD), she had been delaying it and now they didn't had mush time left so they had to work now. 'Great, just what I needed!'
She stood up and opened the door to her classmate, and let her inside her room. Rei gave a small smile and walked in making herself comfortable near the table and prepared everything to work. 'This is going to be a really loooonggg day…working on some stupid project, just peachy!'
Rika closed the door and sighed again, now with boredom and prepared herself for a boring afternoon and sighed yet again now catching now the attention of her classmate.
Jeri was sitting on the roof of her house, she was next to her room's window, like she used to do when she had Leomon with her…but now she was thinking of Takato, she was trying to decide what to do.
'Should I go and tell him how I feel? But…what if…well, Rika said she doesn't like him but…what about Takato? Maybe Rika doesn't really know how Takato feels. Maybe Takato feels something for Rika. What should I do?' Jeri though resting her chin on her left knee and looking at the sky, her thoughts didn't went further, she made her decision. She went inside her room and got ready to go. Without losing more time Jeri walked silently and slowly towards Takato's house, again with the excuse that she was buying bread for her family but she really wanted to see the goggle-headed tamer and clear all her doubts…or so she hoped.
Takato had took a lot of time to get home, he was walking so slowly and stopping so often to think, sometimes he would even walk towards Rika's house but then change his mind and go to his own house, then he thought of going to see Jeri but again he changed his mind and tried to go home, he really didn't know how much time has been since he had that little chat with Henry. Just when he had managed to place the nagging and confusing feelings and thoughts he had at rest, Henry comes and releases a bomb on him. He was still wondering why was he thinking of Rika when he had a chance with Jeri and why it had bothered him to hear those rumors about Rika and Ryo but still got all nervous around Jeri.
He sighed in exasperation not knowing what to do. In the same day he had found out that two girls that are very close to him, one which he likes, maybe even loves and other who is a very good friend that he doesn't want to lose…Rika's friendship was to important to him…could he risk it, could he risk losing her? No he just could lose Rika, but wasn't Jeri just as important? He had risked a lot when the D-Reaper took her away…but if it had been Rika he would had done the same....but…then why he felt more scared at the idea of losing Rika than losing Jeri?? And then he felt terrible at that very though.
Takato felt like screaming, he was too confused now, and now that Henry told him about what he feels for Jeri…it only made it more difficult for him to resolve this problem. Sighing again with even more tiredness, Takato finally decided he had had enough for one day and started his way home.
Rika and her classmate were about to finish their school work. Much to Rika's relieve, this Rei had investigated a lot and with the help of her grandmother's computer, they had made quite a progress and now they were only giving the final touches and…Rika sighed again.
"Ok. what's wrong?" Rei finally asked after giving in to her curiosity.
"Wha!? What are you talking about!?" Rika said not really knowing what her classmate meant.
"It's like…the million time you sigh since I got here…so…?" the girl said rising an eyebrow.
"So, what?" Rika said now knowing what the girl meant and trying to hide all of her emotions…the bad thing was that now it was a little difficult to do…all thanks to the same person she was thinking about.
"So, come on, tell me. What's wrong?" Rei said now turning her full attention to Rika.
"……." Rika refused to say anything at all, much less to one girl from her school, all girls there, excluding her obviously, where not to be trusted.
"I promise I won't tell! I swear I hadn't say anything about your cute boyfriend…wait, is this about him" Rei said with a little smirk while Rika cursed herself for letting herself being affected by this and blush at that comment.
"Oh, I see. So…" "He's not my boyfriend" Rika interrupted her classmate and turned her back to her, trying her hardest to stop the sighing and above all…the blushing.
"So...he is not your boyfriend but…you want him to be, right?" Rei said and when she saw Rika stiffen she knew she had guessed.
"…..Are you always this annoying!? Let's just finish this work so you can go home, ok?" Rika said with another sigh.
"You can talk while I finish it, we are almost done anyway" Rei said almost smirking when Rika said nothing but send her murderous glare.
"It's…nothing really, besides, why should I trust you?" Rika replied giving up on the murderous glare.
"Well then. I will make my own assumptions about this and I will know if I'm right or wrong depending on your reactions…but I warn you, my assumptions could be a lot worse than reality" Rei said with a little laugh that it was almost creepy.
Rika blinked and for a moment didn't know what to say or what to do. And all that was banished when Rei started with her first assumption: "So, let's see…you like the guy I saw with you the other day but…your mother…or maybe his parents don't approve of your relation ship and you are thinking of running away with him because he got you pregnant!"
'What the hell!!!!' "Who…what…you are crazy!! Who do you think you are!? What's wrong with you!!??" Rika almost yelled trying hard not to so not to call her mother and grandmother's attention; she cursed her self since she felt her face burning, she was sure her face was all red if not her whole body turned red.
Rei just laughed almost evilly and said "Told you my assumptions could be a lot worse, so it would be better if you just tell me what's wrong with you?"
Not wanting to give in to her demands but fearing that Rei could come out with something worse than "the goggle-head got you pregnant theory" and that her family could hear any of what Rei had to invent, Rika finally sighed and prepared to tell Rei everything that has happened in the last couple of days.
"Fine, fine I will tell you!! But you better keep your word and never speak of this ever again unless you have a death wish, you got it!?" Rika said again not bothering to hide her anger and waited for Rei to give her a sign that she was to do as told. Rei smiled and nodded.
Sighing deeply Rika started her story: "I…do…feel…something for the boy you saw me with the other day, but he has feelings for someone else and…I was supposed to help him to find a way to tell her how he feels…but…"
"You are finding it hard to do since your own feelings are getting in the way, right?" Rei said with some kind of understanding and preceded "So…if you like him that much, why don't you tell him?"
"I don't see the point. I already know he doesn't feel the same; it would only trouble him. You don't know him, if he can return my feelings he will feel very guilty and I know he would end up doing something stupid like trying to force himself to feel the same way for me or just avoid me completely and I don't want to lose his friendship" Rika said, her sighing now returning to bother her.
"…Maybe you are right but I believe he has a right to know…and perhaps this could be a step forwards to moving on…that's if he really doesn't feel the same way. This way you get it out from your chest and you stop thinking on the 'what ifs' or in the slight possibility that he could feel the same. And as I said before move on and in that way…you may be able to keep his friendship" Rei said picking her stuff and left Rika's room and just waved her hand as a goodbye. She closed the door behind her leaving Rika lost in her thoughts as she was seriously considering Rei's advice.
Maybe she should pay a visit to the goggle-head and try to make her decision once she was there, or just spend some time with the goggle-head though he was at her house just a few hours ago, not that she already missed him or anything, she just wanted to take a decision and act upon it before she could regret it. And with that last thought Rika left her house just saying an "I'm going out!" and closing the door behind her before her mother or grandmother could say anything.
Henry was just wandering around the city, leaving Terriermon to the "care" of his little sister (Logan: Take that one little rabbit!!) so he could think with more calm what to do now: 'Try to talk to Rika again could be dangerous and…I did enough with Takato…maybe I should talk to Jeri now and find out what does she feel for Takato'
So he turned his walk towards her house but he wasn't even half way to her house when he saw her walking and, some of Terriermon's bad habits must have stuck with him because curiosity got the best of him and decided to follow her, and again it hadn't been to long after he had started following her when he saw her arrive to her destiny.
"Takato!" he heard her said and saw that Takato was about to get inside his house when she stopped him. He walked a little closer so he could hear what they were saying but careful enough to not be spotted.
Rika walked hastily towards Takato's house, she was almost running and soon, as Henry had done, she stopped herself when she saw Jeri talking with Takato, but she did something different than Henry and she juts watched what transpired by those two, trying hard to ignore the growing fear in her heart.
"Jeri, what's up!?" Takato said, he was very surprised, he was just about to went inside his house and take some rest from the tiring day he had, he was so tired of thinking and just wanted to sleep…maybe eat something since the long walk made him hungry, but talking to Jeri was always good…except that now he had very present what Rika told him, and if he thought of his feelings for Jeri, he also thought of what Henry told him and then he tried to solve what does he feel for Rika.
"I…I just wanted to talk with you" Jeri said trying hard to smile but Takato could see that she was very nervous for a reason…this was something that made him very uncomfortable.
"Oh, do you want to come in!?" Takato said and was about to walk inside his house when he was stopped by Jeri.
"No! Ahh…let's just stay here. It's…aaahhh…It's nice out here" Jeri said, her voice even more nervous now.
"Okay…so…what do you want to talk about?" Takato said now stating to get, not only uncomfortable, but nervous; he could almost say he was scared, so he did the only thing he could do and gave her his full attention to her.
"Well…I…I wanted to tell you that…I…" Jeri's nerves were getting to her and couldn't continue.
"Jeri, are you…" Takato didn't got to finish as Jeri interrupt him.
"I love you!" Jeri finally said and kissed him on the cheek not being bold to do more.
Henry felt a lot of pain, he could almost feel his heart shattering and with bitterness he thought 'At least now I know how she feels' and then walked slowly towards his home, fighting to keep his eyes dry, he didn't wanted to let himself cry. Without raising his eyesight from the floor he walked home trying hard to forget what had just happened.
Though from where she was standing she hadn't been able to hear what they were saying, she did hear the most important piece of information of their talk since Jeri had practically yelled. Though she already knew that, she had never really though that Jeri could tell him, she never thought that she would witness that or that she would feel like she was feeling right now.
Rika was unable to move, breathing was starting to be very difficult, she could feel a lump in her throat, her eyes were burning, and she could feel herself almost shaking. She fought hard to keep her feelings bottled up. She cursed herself for having them in the first place. As much as she tried she couldn't move from her spot, and so she stood there watching the goggle-head, watching his reaction, watching what else would do the girl once known as "puppet-girl".
Takato's eyes widened and his whole face turned red. He tried to say something but was too shocked to do anything else but stutter.
Jeri's cheeks matched his and being as nervous as she was, she didn't wait for a reply and simply said "See you tomorrow" and with that she left, leaving an extremely shocked and confused Takato standing there.
After a few seconds, or maybe minutes, he couldn't really say; he finally reacted and was about to get inside his house when he saw Rika standing not so far from where he was standing. Gulping as he was still a little shaken about what happened and still being too confused about everything, he called for her but he got no answer from her.
"Hey Rika, are you alright!?" Takato said as he walked towards her. Rika didn't trust her voice so she just nodded. Takato found this a little weird but he let it go for the moment.
"Rika, do you want to come inside?" he asked softly, he was starting to get worried when she still didn't spoke but nodded again and walked towards his house. Takato slowly went after her.
Once inside Takato's house, he lead her to his room and Rika just continued to walk silently, and Takato was starting to follow her example since he was very troubled, he didn't know if he should tell her what happened and about the talk he had with Henry.
Takato closed the door after Rika entered his room, she didn't waited for him to talk and took a seat on the chair and turned to look at him, waiting for him to talk about whatever he wanted to talk.
"Ummm…Rika, you sure you are okay?" He asked worriedly and frowned when she just nodded again.
Rika continued to just stare at him waiting for him to talk, while in the inside she was still trying to get a hold in her emotions and she was sure that her eyes and her face showed no emotions at all…but she still didn't trust her voice since the lump in her throat was still there. She just hoped that Takato could stop staring at her like that.
"Ummm…Jeri had just left when I saw you…mmm…she told me that…" Takato was having a hard time trying to tell Rika what had just transpired between him and Jeri, he couldn't stop his earlier troubling thoughts and now he was very worried for Rika, he had noticed the blank expression on her face and eyes.
Rika was biting her inner lower lip; she already knew what he was going to say, probably a 'Thanks for everything! Jeri and I finally got together!!' and an 'I couldn't be happier!!' and so and so. She wasn't really going to enjoy any of this.
After a few seconds Takato found himself, almost desperate, he had imagined how would be to hear Jeri said those three words; he had imagined fireworks exploding behind them, doves flying around them, red balloons falling all around and romantic music playing on the background…ok maybe all that was exaggerated but he surely never thought of feeling like he was feeling after hearing those three little words. His heart started to beat faster as he had realized something, and so he continued his speech.
"She told me I had always wanted to hear…she told me that she loves me" Takato sighed after that and took a seat on his bed and looked at Rika, then quickly at the ground.
"….Congratulations. I'm happy for you" 'I guess that's what I should say, right?' Rika finally decided to speak and cursed herself for doing so; her voice did come out sad, soft, very unlike her, which didn't went unnoticed by Takato.
"Rika…are you really okay? At risk that you get angry at me and hurt me, you sound sad" Takato said frowning.
"I'm not sad…I'm tired. After you left, this classmate came to finish a school paper we had to do and I just got tired and bored so I took a walk and found myself near your house so I came for some bread and then here I am, still tired by the way" Rika said, her voice still sad but she felt a little glad that she had come with such a great excuse.
"Oh, then you want to go and get the bread? I can leave you alone so you can rest here if you want" Takato didn't really buy her explanation but didn't want to push her.
"No that's ok and I will take the bread on my way out. You continue with what you were telling me" Rika said trying to avoid any eye contact with him, and not really wanting to hear but…after all she was his friend and she had to hear him out, right?
"Ok then" there was a little silence after that but then Takato continued with his story before loosing his courage.
"After I heard her say that I…I didn't feel…I didn't feel happy like I thought I would, I was very confused and I still am. You see, on my way home I…meet Henry and…he told me that…." He finished trying to make eye contact with her.
Rika almost gulped, but it passed quickly as her expression turned now dark at the look Takato was giving her. 'Had the brainiac dared to tell Takato about the talk they had the other day!? If that's the case…he can give himself for a dead man!!'
"What did he told you?" Rika said her voice still sad but now mixed with anger.
"He told me…he told me that he too loves Jeri" Takato stopped there before saying everything else that was spoken between the two.
"So? Jeri says she loves you and if Henry is your friend…he will understand and be happy for the two of you" Rika said, though she knew that it would be very difficult for Henry to deal with it since she was in the same position.
"But…" Takato was starting to lose his courage and fear was slowly filling his heart. Fear of what, he wasn't really sure since he was certain that it wasn't fear of being beaten up by Rika.
"Takato, trust me. Henry wouldn't be angry at you. You won't lose his friendship, he might need a little time to adjust to the idea but that's all" 'Just like I would' Rika said suppressing a sigh at that last thought.
"So I don't see any other reason for you to not be happy. After all, Jeri told you what you always wanted to hear" Rika said after a few seconds of silence. She wanted to leave before losing her "cool" in front of him…or anyone that could see her on her way home.
Feeling very desperate Takato finally ignored his fear and said what he had just discovered, Henry was right, he was very dense if not stupid as Rika used to call him.
"Rika I think I love you!!"
Rika: ……. (Blushing madly)
Logan: What!? No comments queenie!!? Well, that's better than a beating, right coz?
Aerisakura: Right…cause the beating would be for you…
Logan: ….Just cuz I'm not the one she needs to tape this…At least she is spacing out.
Rika: Whatever! I just kind of lost myself after the 'The goggle-head got you pregnant theory'. Now…I will let the two of you alive for two reasons. First, so you can finish this story, and second, because you didn't ruin my image…that much.
Logan: Gee, I would have thought that that Takato finally said those 3 little words was going to be a reason.
Rika: Shut it if you don't want me to take back my words and kill you right here!!
Logan: Okay, okay no need to get all…
Aerisakura: Okay, before my cousin here says something that could get him killed…thanks a lot for reading and as you know…
Logan: The thanks to those who reviewed are on its way!!
Thalian: Thanks for your comments. We really appreciate it. We hope you keep reading and keep liking what we write. Don't miss the next chapter for it might be the last.
Gtajake: Sorry for causing that headache and glad you liked the last chapter. Hope you keep reading our fics. Poor, poor Takato, we always torture him XDD. Thanks for the comments.
DigiDestined of Courage: Well, as you can see, some made it and ran away, while others where beaten up and other just tied to a chair…the good side it's that we didn't have Terriermon's mockeries (A: But we had Logan's). Yes it took a lot from Takato to realize that and he is still a little confused…and Rika might Takato for being so slow… Good BlackTerriermon, continue like that, Rika might forgive your life. Keep reading and thanks for the comments.
Archangemon: Sorry, we already explained…well A. explained why we removed those fics. But we'll continue the ones that we still need to finish. Hope you don't continue mad at us, but if you do then…well we did what we could. You can't make everyone happy and still do something that you need to do. But thanks since this means you like our fics. Hope to still see you around.
AnT: XD Takato is starting to see the light. And a sad ending…ummm…XD A. likes to make sad ending from time to time, don't give her ideas. Keep reading and thanks for the comments.
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Logan: Now, a little preview of a new fic from the SF (just A. and me really). It will be posted when we finish this one.
Aerisakura: Go and read and tell us what you think.
Logan: It's kind of an A.U.
Everything Was Fine Until You Came.
By: The Smashfriends
Chapter 1: Something I Never Expected
Rika was sitting at her table checking her deck of Digimon Cards, she was trying to make a new strategy and play it on the goggle-head the next morning. She smirked but her thoughts of the silly goggle-head were lost when she heard someone knocking at the door. Groaning in annoyance she stood up to open the door since she was home alone.
'Who could be out in this weather?' Rika said as soon as she realized it was about to rain, the sky was very dark, lighting illuminated the dark sky every few seconds. 'Maybe the stupid old goggle-head came with some dumb excuse to spend time here. Great, now I don't have to wait until tomorrow to show him my new strategy and beat him again at a game of cards' Rika thought with a smirk.
However, when she opened the door she felt disappointed and angered to find some weird girl standing there. She thought that it could be the daughter of some new neighbor or something like that, it had happened before, only that it had been a boy and he had tried some moves on her, needless to say she had giving him the beating of his life.
The girl said nothing, and Rika felt even more bothered now and she too decided to ignore the girl. Several minutes went by and now Rika started to imagine the girl to be a witch. She had long black raven hair, ice blue eyes and very white skin; she was covered in a long black cloak, she seemed to be around the same age as Rika, maybe one or two years younger. This girl was very creepy and if she wasn't Rika Nonaka she would have said she was starting to get scared.
Finally after several minutes the estrange girl spoke "Hello, you must be Rika Nonaka, right?"
Rika didn't bother to speak and just nodded, she was already annoyed with this girl.
"Glad to meet you. I think that you could say that I'm your sister……"
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Rika: Why do you insist in messing with me!!!???
Logan: Oh, just because we already messed enough with the goggle-head.
Aerisakura: That's right now it's your turn and…thanks again and…
Logan: See ya!! And don't forget to REVIEW!!