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Chapter 7

Foreshadowing

As the rain poured heavily, the wind blew colder and harder. All the tamers were sleeping peacefully except for one, and she was about to wake from her dream soon.

"Where am I?" asked Rika to herself as she wandered around the place to find out where she was. She could see nothing… nothing but darkness surrounded by a white mist. It seemed like forever while she was wandering around this unknown place. While see was wandering around nowhere, she saw a light. She ran towards the light, but when she reached the light, she saw that she was in a place that somehow seemed familiar to her.

"What is this place? Where am I? Why am I here?" Rika asked herself, when suddenly, she started walking; she didn't know why, she didn't know where she was going, it was like she had no control over her body and movements.

As she was walking, she saw the tamers. Kazu and Kenta were playing Digimon cards under the penguin slide, while Guardromon was taking a nap, and while MarineAngemon was floating around. Ai and Mako were playing catch with Impmon, while Suzie was making Lopmon's face stretch. Henry was sitting on a tree branch reading a book with Terriermon on top of his head reading along with him. Takato was sitting on a bench beside Jeri with Calumon sleeping on her lap while Guilmon was trying to chase two butterflies. Leomon was practicing his sword techniques behind the bench Jeri and Takato were sitting on.

"What is this?" Rika asked herself as she scanned the whole area. "This is the west Shinjuku Park, the place where the tamers and I hang out when we still had our Digimons with us." Rika wanted to stop, but her legs wouldn't make her stop. While walking, she saw the place where Takato kept Guilmon; the area that connects the Digimon and human world together. Just at the side of Guilmon's house, she saw Monodramon sitting with one leg extended; and above the house, Renamon was there, standing with her arms crossed, just like always.

"Are you afraid?" asked Monodramon as he slowly turned into data, the other Digimons at the same time were becoming transparent, all except for Renamon.

"Show him how you truly feel, before it's too late" said Renamon as she turned into data together with the other Digimons.

"Renamon?" Rika called out her name as she saw everyone around her including the tamers turned into data of different colors.

Rika wanted to turn back, but she couldn't move on her own free will. Instead, all the data went ahead and started aligning themselves in front of Rika as if they were leading her somewhere. By the time all the data aligned themselves, Rika was able to move on her own free will. Due to her intuition and curiosity, she followed the path of the data. When she was about to reach the end, she saw a light and went through it. And there, she saw a wonderful view of the whole city of west Shinjuku and the hills at the background.

"This place seems so familiar" Rika said to herself as she scanned the whole area, she saw someone emerging from the trees, and it was…

"Ryo?" said Rika as she ran out of things to say to him.

"Rika" called out Ryo as he started approaching her with a warm smile.

"Ryo, what is it?" said Rika as she stepped one step forward.

"I wanted to see you before I leave…" Ryo said as he held Rika's hand. It felt so warm and gentle, that Rika didn't want to let go. A plane passed by above them which made Rika look at it.

"Ryo…I…I want to tell you that…I…um…" said Rika as she tried to tell Ryo how she felt; but at the same time, her other self is making her hesitate.

"Ryo…I…just want to say…umm" Rika still tried to tell him, but her fear of rejection grew even stronger.

When the plane was out of sight, Ryo started floating away in the air and slowly turned into data.

"Rika…"called out Ryo, as Rika tried to hold on to him. His hand became transparent, and he continued floating away, and all Rika could do was to chase him.

"Rika…I just wanted to tell you…that I …" Ryo's last three words were cut off as he turned into data faster and disappeared, leaving no trace behind.

Rika fell down on both knees as tears started coming out of her eyes.

"Why? Why is this happening?" Rika asked herself as the background disappeared, and only darkness was seen.

"Why is this happening??!!" Rika cried out as her voice echoed around the big empty space.

Rika suddenly woke up and sat up. She clutched her heart and found out that it was all a dream. She found out that she had been crying, and she wiped her face before anyone saw her crying; but who could? It was 4 o' clock in the morning.

"Why was I crying?" Rika asked herself, but she didn't notice that the hand she was using to wipe her face was the hand attached to Ryo's hand. Ryo felt the movement and sat up too.

"Rika? Are you alright?" asked Ryo who could see Rika's face even if it was dark.

"I'm fine, shouldn't you still be sleeping? It's 4 in the morning, and I know you're not the early bird type" said Rika.

"You're the one who woke me up Rika" countered Ryo as he looked at the hand-trap which connected both of them.

"Stupid hand-trap…the sooner we remove it, then the better" said Rika as she tugged the hand-trap.

"Well, lets get back to sleep; we have a physical fitness test tomorrow, and we need all the energy we have to pass" said Ryo as he started to lie down.

"I don't want to go back to sleep…" said Rika as she looked down on the floor.

"You can sleep if you want to, but I don't feel sleepy anymore. Besides, it's just a stupid gym class test, and do you expect our teacher to even give us this test in this condition?

"Rika, is there a reason why you don't want to go back to sleep?" asked Ryo as he was concerned and worried about Rika.

"I have my reasons, and besides, why should I tell them to you?" said Rika aggressively as she tried to tone down her voice.

"I'm not asking you to tell them to me, I just want to help you" said Ryo.

"How can you?" Rika asked.

"Well, I heard that if you have problems, you will feel better if you talk about them with someone else" replied Ryo as he gave Rika a friendly smile.

"Well…it's because…I had a dream" Rika said as she looked at Ryo. "I have a strange feeling that it is trying to tell me something."

"Did you know that some dreams can tell the dreamer what is about to happen in the future?" said Ryo as the rain started dying down.

"I didn't know that, but I can't tell you what happened in my dream" Rika said as the rain stopped pouring. "But it did feel good to tell you about this" said Rika as she smiled back at Ryo.

After a few moments, they broke away from staring at each others eyes and started looking away because both of their faces turned red. But that moment when their eyes met, it felt so long, yet the time was so short.

"So what do we do now, its 4:15 am?" Ryo asked Rika as they both stood up and silently walked out of the room.

"You want to prepare breakfast now for the others?" asked Rika as she and Ryo secretly and unknowingly enjoyed the time they are spending together, all because of Kazu's stupid and yet brilliant hand-trap idea.

"It's too early" said Ryo. "School doesn't start till 7:00 am, and I bet the others won't wake up later than 6:00 am."

"But we should wake them up now, they still have to go back to their houses and change into their uniforms" Rika said as she and Ryo headed to the kitchen. "They had so much fun yesterday, that they forgot that we have school the next day."

Ryo and Rika tried to prepare early breakfast, and they managed to do it even with they were tied up together. The first one in the kitchen was Kazu; he could smell the aroma of the food even if he was four rooms away from the kitchen.

"Oh, it's you…dork" Rika exclaimed as she gave Kazu an icy glare. "If you want some food, go wake up the others."

"But its 4:30 in the morning…" complained Kazu as his tummy started to rumble.

"You guys slept in my house and forgot that today is a school day. You all have to go back to your houses and change into uniform; and I don't want to be responsible for your tardiness" Rika said to Kazu as she gave him an 'I'm not gonna give you food if you don't start doing what I say' glare.

"Yeah, yeah, what ever you say…" said Kazu as he yawned and proceeded to the guest room to wake up all the tamers.

The tamers were surprised to see that Rika and Ryo prepared breakfast even with their hands tied up. Excited to eat their breakfast, the tamers sat down the table and said "Thank you for the meal, let's eat now!"

"So…why did you guys make breakfast this early?" asked Henry as he helped himself with another serving of rice.

"You guys slept in my house and forgot that today is a school day. You all have to go back to your houses and change into uniform; and I don't want to be responsible for your tardiness" said Rika who was tired of repeating the same words over and over again.

"How did you guys manage to make breakfast in such a short time with one of your hands tied up?" asked Takato.

"We don't know either, so don't ask us!" answered Rika.

"This is sooooo delicious!!" Kazu was gulping down his food one after another. "You guys should run a restaurant!" said Kazu while getting another serving.

Just then, Rika gave him an icy glare which made him say "Um, I'm full, so I better be going…catch you guys later!"

"Wait up Kazu!" called out Kenta as he put down his empty plate and followed Kenta out the door.

"We better be going too. Thank you; that was a pleasant meal" said Henry as he and Suzie went out the door.

"So how are you going to change into your uniform Rika?" asked Jeri as she stared at the hand-trap.

"You know, maybe we should have removed the hand-trap first before the others left!!" said Rika as she tugged the hand-trap.

"How am I going to change with Ryo in the same room as me??!!" Rika said as she turned a bit red. "Jeri, you're coming with me. You're going watch Ryo and make sure he doesn't look!" she said as the three proceeded to Rika's room. Jeri gave Ryo a bandana to cover his eyes while Rika was changing. Somehow don't ask me how they did it, Rika managed to get changed with one of her hands tied to Ryo's hand.

"Are you done yet?" asked Takato "It's been 25 minutes already!" Rika came out with her uniform on along with Jeri and Ryo.

"What would you expect Takato? I mean, they're both tied to each other" countered Jeri.

"Now it's Ryo's turn to get changed; this time, Takato will be the one to accompany Ryo" said Jeri as they went out of Rika's house.

"It's okay, I can change by myself, so I don't need help, thanks anyway" said Ryo. Takato and Jeri went home to get changed into uniform, while Ryo and Rika went to Ryo's house so that he can change. Somehow once again, don't ask me how he did it, Ryo also managed to get changed with one of his hands tied to Rika's hand.

"Are you done already? It's been 20 minutes?" asked Rika as she was starting to remove the blindfold from her eyes.

"Yeah I'm done, at least I was faster than you!" said Ryo who gave Rika a smirk.

"Try that again one more time and I'll give you a trip to the hospital! You won't get away with what you say as long as I'm around!" Rika said as they both walked to school, when they heard a voice from behind them.

"Ryo dear, wait for me!!" a voice said as Rika and Ryo sensed it getting nearer and nearer.

"Oh great…it's her again" said Rika as they started to walk faster.

"Better run for it Wildcat! I'm felt a chill in my spine, and that's not usually a good sign…" Ryo said as they started walking even faster.

"Ryo! Wait for me darling!" said another voice.

"Ryo! Honey" said another voice which was coming near them. "

Better run for it wildcat! Three of them would spell disaster!" Ryo said as he started running away.

"Slow down Ryo! You know I can't run faster than you!" Rika said as she tried catching up with Ryo. After several minutes of running, they saw their school's gigantic clock.

"Only three more blocks and we're safe" said Ryo as they kept on running with three girls behind their back.

"Shoot! Don't those three jerks run out of gas!" said Rika as she tried her best to keep up with Ryo.

"When they're chasing after me, they hardly break a sweat" said Ryo as he continued running; but at one point, Ryo tripped over a crack in the sidewalk and Rika fell on top of him afterwards.

"Watch where you're going you clumsy twerp, why does everything have to fall on top of me??!!" yelled Rika as she stood up.

"Ryo dear, we're here!" the three girls said together. 'Shoot, they caught up with us' whispered Ryo as he stood up.

"Hey Ryo darling!" said Julie, the girl who had the same hair color with that of Ryo.

"Would you like to walk with the three of us to school?" asked Joanna, the girl who dyed her hair blue.

But Ryo replied "No thanks I'm already…" before Ryo continued his sentence, a blonde girl stepped forward and spotted Rika.

"Like, what are you doing with my Ryo you loser?!" said Jessica, the leader of the "Ryo Akiyama Fan Club".

"Nobody owns Ryo Ms. 'I think I'm so attractive'!" countered Rika as she started clenching her fist.

"Whatever…Like, you better stay away from my darling from now on, got that!" said Jessica as she fixed her shinny blonde hair.

"Now you're going to get it!!" said Rika as she lifted her fist. Before she punched Jessica in the face Ryo stopped her, due to the fact that the hand she was about to punch with was the hand attached to Ryo's.

"Like, what the hell is that thing attached to your hand!!!" yelled Jessica as she started feeling jealous.

"It's a hand trap Jessica, we're stuck together and we don't know how to…" Ryo explained when Rika dragged him away.

"Come on Akiyama, I'm not hanging around these three snobs for another minute!" yelled Rika giving Jessica, Joanna, and Julie an icy glare before walking away.

"Rika Nonaka…we'll get you someday, I swear…" Jessica quietly said to her self as if she were planning something nasty.

"Phew, that was close…thanks pumpkin, I owe you one" said Ryo.

"If you hate those three and their stupid fan club, why don't you just ignore them, or tell them straight that you don't like them" said Rika as she walked angrily ahead of Ryo.

"Well I can't help it" said Ryo as he looked down on the ground. "How could you be nice to those three snobs?!!" Rika said as she continued walking ahead of Ryo with out looking back. "Jessica Baden, Joanna Aykuza, and Julie Daikura; put them together and they literally and figuratively spell B.A.D.!!"

"Look on the bright side Rika, at least we got rid of them" said Ryo as he tried to cheer her up.

"I guess you right…" Rika said as they both walked towards the school. 'Why do I get the feeling, that something bad is about to happen?' Rika thought as she and Ryo went in the school gates before the bell rang.

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