Regless: Well now that Viral State is officially over, I can work on this a little more. I'll probably start on the sequel to my other fic after this chapter then just alternate.

Black: Okay quite a few people seemed unhappy that the Tamers were so useless against the enemy. That should be solved shortly… We hope.

Yami Hamtaro: It better. And what's up with that insane asylum reject, Kurashell?

Regless: You'll learn more about our trio of evil doers as time goes by. For now, I'm going to focus on… Well I'm thinking Ryo. Also the other Tamers in terms of how they're going to deal with this latest episode of events.

Black: The D-Reaper never looked so weak…

Digital Hearts – World 01 – Small Town Folk

Jeri's POV: Traverse Town: Unknown

"Welcome to Traverse Town!"

I blinked. It was a gorgeous town, even at night. The oil lamps lit up the scenery like fireflies. "Traverse town… it's so pretty."

"It's also safe-haven to a number of survivors from different worlds, including myself and now you."

I could feel warm light on my back. The others must have de-biomerged… or at least that's what I think it's called. I don't know exactly since I'm usually away from the fights. I took in a deep breath admiring the sights, only to be shoved off the side of the building we were standing by something.

"Eeeeeek!"

I reached out for the ledge but Takato grabbed my hand before I even got near it. I had to wonder how his reaction was so fast since, at school, his reactions were anything BUT speedy. I could almost imagine that he was watching me from behind, but that's silly. He pulled me up with a bit of Henry's help and I got to see who shoved me over.

"Justimon! How could you treat a girl like that." I put my hands on my hips. I was trying to imitate Rika… Ryo's afraid of Rika. But he didn't even seem to notice as he jumped into the air and disappeared behind a building to do his own thing.

"What's up with metal mouth?" Impmon asked, finally regaining consciousness. We all shrugged.

"Relax, I'll bring him back, kicking and screaming if I have too." Rika stepped forward. She seemed to be in a slightly worse mood than usual.

Takato stepped forward like he was approaching a rattlesnake. "Uh, do you… want me to come with you?"

"Hmph. You don't need my permission to do everything you know."

Takato blinked. It looked like he was having trouble telling if that was a Yes or a No. I giggled at him, and then he looked down blushing. I turned back to scenery, we were right next to the town walls and in front of us was a wide-open area complete with a few small grassy spots. The right of that was a large gate and straight in front there was… another gate. The left however there was a stairway leading to more of the buildings. I was still in aww when I noticed something very familiar in the middle of open area.

"What… Is that… Calumon?"

"Calumon zoom zoom, Calumon zoom zoom." The little In Training was singing and running around in circles completely oblivious to anyone else.

"Oh it's so cute." Jaarin called out in a babyish voice.

Henry's eldest sister ran ahead, shoving everyone out of her way, which by the way included Takato and Riku, and jumped over the edge. I guess Henry wasn't the only one to study martial arts because she hardly even slowed down when she landed. Takato, on the other hand, backed up over Guilmon and tipped over the side. Me and Henry made a dive to catch him but… umm, well we missed. Instead Takato grabbed onto Guilmon's tail and pulled his partner over with him. Riku started laughing at that, and to be honest, it was kind of funny.

"Oww, Guilmon, did you have to land on me." Whew, he was alright.

"I don't know. Maybe you're just lucky."

I could hear Takato groan sarcastically. "Oh yeah, so lucky to get my middle crushed by a vacuum cleaner with legs."

"Sorry Takato."

Terriermon started clapping. "Bravo, that was great. I wanna see Jaarin do that again."

Suzy silenced Terriermon by grabbing by the ear and wrenching him off Henry's head. Then she did the usual thing and began squeezing the life out of him with one arm, while picking Lopmon back up with the other. "Hey daddy, when can we go home?"

Janyu sweatdropped and looked up at to Riku in hopes that he could answer. The KeyBlade Master seemed to get a bit nervous, and I had a feeling I knew why. "That's a very good question. We should talk about this at a nice diner I know of."

Guilmon called from below. "Where is it? I wanna go there now."

"Guilmon!"

Riku laughed. "Actually we're standing on it."

"Rock Cracker!"

The white haired boy paused. "…What the hell was that?"

"Guilmon! There was probably a door on the other side. Oh great now they're going to make me pay for this and allowance was tomorrow."

Renamon folded his arms. "Sometimes… you just have to admire his focus on some things."

Impmon frowned. "I didn't know being a glutton counted as focus."

Terriermon wanted to say something too, but he was busy running out of oxygen. Henry spoke instead. "So shall we go inside now?"

Rika nodded. "Yeah, I'll guess I'll chase Ryo down after. I really wanna here the explanation to all this."

No POV: The Hall of Darkness: Unknown

"Kuri-Kuri! Reseal! Explain to me how we could have let those weaklings escape so easily!"

Reseal visibly backed down. "Uh, w-well we didn't exactly… let them get away… easily."

"Are you saying we lost because we're inferior!" Lumiere's voice once again caused her subordinate to become offset.

Kurashell chuckled and made a whipping motion with his hand. "Wa-chish. Heh heh. Dude it's not our fault you didn't know that Ryo has two hearts."

Reseal looked at and snapped back at the gunner. "Shut up! You should have nothing but respect for Mistress Lumiere."

"Respect… Respect… how do ya spell that?"

"Both of you be quiet! I can't believe we're already encountering problems, and on such a weak world too."

"No kidding, even if we weren't Heartless they were pathetic." Reseal muttered.

"So what now? Can we please go to a World where I can chill out. I mean, if I don't get vacation time I'm going on strike. Hell I might even form a union and sue."

Lumiere let out a very vexed sigh. "Kuri… just… please be quiet while I think about this…"

Reseal took a few cautious steps forward. "Mistress, I took the liberty of doing some research. It seems someone was missing from our battle. She's hardly important but we can use her-"

"-To draw the others out. Sounds good Reseal. Kuri-Kuri!"

The gunner had curled up and gone to sleep. Boredom was a powerful thing to one so simple minded. "Zzzz"

Lumiere groaned. "Just great, there's no waking him up now. We'll have to wait."

"Not if you use those…"

"Hmm… fine, I've been getting tired of waiting anyway."

Takato's POV: Traverse Town: A few Minutes Later.

I was sitting quietly munching on a piece of bread with Guilmon as everyone else began to sit down. I offered Jeri a seat next to myself and she took it thankfully. I felt myself get warm again so I tried to focus on something else, like Guilmon's table manners. Henry sat next to Jeri, followed by Rika, and Henry's family. Kazu and Kenta sat on my other side and taken the liberty of ordering a couple of soft drinks for themselves. Impmon and his two Tamers sat beside them.

"Ummm, Kazu, do they except our money here? I mean, if this is another world then…" The two both sweatdropped as I said that.

"Relax, I got it." Riku replied casually pulling his hood back up. He gave the duo some strange metal things that I didn't recognize and started his explanation. "Alright, first I should probably start with the Heartless. This is complicated."

Rika smirked. "That's why we have Henry here. He can make sense of anything you can come with no matter how weird."

"Uh, thanks… I think."

Terriermon chuckled. "Momentai Henry. You just got a compliment from Rika. That doesn't happen too often."

"I guess." Henry seemed kind of distracted. He kept shifting his glance sideways too… right at his parents. It must be hard since he has to deal with them and protect them at the same time.

"Hey what are those little pudding creeps?" Kazu asked loudly. Leave him to him, to be direct.

Riku hmph'ed even though he was smiling. He obviously enjoyed Kazu's depiction. "Well, the ones that you saw are real Heartless. It's important to know that because there's two types. If you see a real one other than the shadole , either call me, or if you can't, turn, and get the he-" He stopped, looking at Suzy, he continued. "ee…eck out of there. There's nothing you can do because the real ones go after worlds like a deluge of Darkness."

Henry nodded. "Like the ones we encountered. Once Kuri-Kuri went black there started to be millions in seconds. Not we did had any affect after that."

Surprisingly Jeri turned and leaned in on the blue haired boy. "Except Takato. He hurt that girl remember?!"

Impmon swiped Kenta's drink and handed it to Ai, ignoring the Angel Tamer's 'Hey'. "You hurt one of those nutballs? Hmph, must've been a lucky shot."

"I uh… Hey!" It took me a second but I realized he just insulted me.

"Yeah I saw that as I was heading to your world. I don't think the girl was a Heartless, but I don't think she was working with the organization either."

"Organization?" We all murmered.

"Err, don't worry about it. Anyway, I can sense darkness, and the girl was definitely not a heartless… she's something else entirely."

"So then, what we're we fighting?" Terriermon asked, temporarily being serious for a change.

"Well…" Riku started. "I keep thinking about when that gunner-"

"Kurashell." Henry stated. It would be quite hard for him to forget than name.

"Whatever, when he transformed into that winged creature. THAT looked closer to what a real Heartless should look like. Another thing is that Heartless have simple thinking patterns, they would never work with something else and I've never seen one smart enough to Bargain. And… Yeah there's really something weird about that girl."

"…" There was an awkward silence. I needed to break it but… I didn't know what to say…

"About home…" Henry interrupted. He had as serious a look on his face as I've ever seen. It kinda reminded me of that time when he found out Suzy was in the Digital World.

"Right. When the real Heartless come believe me, there's no stopping them. They take out world's in under and hour."

That can't be. I didn't want to think of what life would be like without mom and dad, and even Ms. Asagi. I stood up suddenly knocking my chair back and I forcefully planted my hands on the table. "There has to be something we can do!"

"Nope. There's isn't a single thing YOU can do. Buuuut"

"But? But what?"

Riku grinned. "Like I said, there's nothing you can do. But every world has a Key Hole. Lock the Key Hole with a KeyBlade and the Heartless can't get to your world. And if you can get rid of the leader, their influence disappears."

"Sweet. Then why don't we just go back with you and lock up this Key Hole thingy?" Kazu cheered.

Henry nodded. "That's right, you can hurt those things can't you."

Riku smiled again. "Sorry. Dark KeyBlades are incapable of locking things."

"U-ummm." Jaarin was piped up. "Does this mean… we can't go home."

Suzy turned very quickly to her older sister and started to tear up. I could see Henry becoming annoyed again. "…Suzy…"

"Well, if I can find who I'm looking for… or even King Mickey."

Rika blinked skeptically. "King Mickey?"

"Well, King Mickey Mouse. He wields the strongest Light KeyBlade. Light KeyBlades do the opposite of Dark KeyBlades. They lock things. He even sealed the do… well, it's not really necessary to fill you in on that yet."

Guilmon looked up from his meal. "Is he really a mouse?" Well, that was kind of an odd question, but then again I've seen giant Tiger's take on walking fireballs so I guess everything's fair game.

"Yeah. Of course, what did you think he was?"

I sweatdropped. I thought it was just a nickname, "…uh, well…"

Riku kicked his feet up onto the table. "The person I'm searching for is called Sora."

At least that one had a normal name. "What does she look like?"

Riku stared at me for a moment. "…HE… has spiky brown hair and a giant Key in one hand. Believe me, he's not easy to miss."

I blushed slightly from embarrassment while Kazu nudged Kenta. "Mickey Mouse? Finally something with worse luck with girls than Kenta."

"Actually Mickey's happily married… To Mini Mouse."

Rika arched a brow giving a half glare. "Are you trying to be funny?"

"Nope. They have a great marriage."

Jeri laughed quietly, but I could still hear her. "Mickey and Mini Mouse… Cuuuute."

Renamon was one to bring us back on topic. "You said there were two types of Heartless…"

"Oh right. The others are colorful and, compared to the real ones, they look quite advanced."

I gulped. So far they sounded worse than the ones we had already fought against. "U-Umm."

I think Riku sensed my feelings. "Don't worry. They generate slower, and even if some are pretty dangerous your red angel form seems… really impressive. They also move in waves, but it's nowhere as sever as the real ones. Actually they're supposedly trying to occupy this town right now."

WHAT?!

"The Heartless are already here?" I asked. Guilmon's eyes went rabid and Rika suddenly seemed to gain a much deeper interest in what we're talking about.

"Yeah. You'll find there's certain areas of town closed off, but we have a few strong people here already. And besides, they haven't moved since Ansem was killed."

Renamon arched a brow. "Really, sounds invigorating."

"We got a pair of girls by the name of Yuffie and Aeris, and another guy by the name of Squall."

"It's Leon."

We all turned to what appeared to be the human version of Beelzemon walk in through the door. His was complete with tight black leather pants and a wicked weapon I've never seen before. It looked like a gun and a sword in one and it also had a small lion symbol dangling from it's hilt. His hair was brown, same as mine but it went down his neck. His last, and most noticeable feature was a scar that went down between his eyes at a slight angel.

"Can't you get my name right even once?"

Riku smirked. "Yuffie would've told them anyway. She always tells. Anyway what brings you here?"

"I heard you were back. I thought you might've brought Sora with you, but since you didn't." The man turned around left. He didn't even say one word to us.

I heard Jeri grumble. "Ruff- How rude."

"Wonder if that guy's tryin' to compensate for something." Impmon snickered. We all, (With the exception of Ai and Mako) turned and stared at him. "…What?"

Riku stood up suddenly and began to follow. "Well that covers my explanation… Oh wait." He stopped and turned. "Two more things. The manufactured Heartless all have a crossed heart symbol on them, as does everything made by Ansem. It's unique and very recognizable, even to one who's never seen it before. And don't leave the town, I've got a lot of work to do plus chasing after kids wastes too much time."

Suzy had something to say about that. She hopped off her chair and put her hand on her hips, trying to look mature. "Hmph. I'm not a kid. I'm a Tamer."

Riku didn't turn around, he just continued until Renamon phased directly into his path. "It's curious you know so much about these things. And more importantly, there's quite a bit you're not telling us. Who, may I ask, is Ansem?"

"…" The white haired boy simply side-stepped and left.

"Well… he's a barrel of laughs."

"Uh, but he seemed nice right until the end." Kenta muttered. No one seemed to actually hear him though. I only glanced at him for a second before Henry started.

"True, but I can kind of understand where he's coming from. These things are serious. And if he has to fight them all the time…"

"Then he must need a lot of Tylenol." Terriermon quipped.

Rika started massaging her temples. "I think I could use on of those. KeyBlades… Heartless… married mice… this is definitely one of my longer days." I felt a little guilty… I was suppose to be with her today but instead… here we are. I'll have to talk to her soon.

"But dude, did you see that Squall guy's weapon. I want one of those for my birthday."

"You're dangerous enough without it." Kenta replied back meekly. I smiled at those two.

"Well, I'm going to check up on Ryo now. See ya." Rika stood up as Renamon disappeared.

Great, next time she shows up it'll most like be right behind me.

Jeri got up with her. "And I'll go look for Calumon. Want to come Takato?"

I felt my face get red again, and all the affirming words disappeared from memory. "Eh? I… uh, erm." Kazu whacked me on the back. "Yes!"

Henry followed suite immediately after. "And I'll-"

"You're not going anywhere." I saw his mom lash out and grabbed his wrist. She was really rough. Henry was turned away, and I saw his face get angry when she did that. But he managed to put on a subtle expression before turning back. It looked so real… he must have to do that a lot to be so good at it.

Maybe I… should stay with him. His mom looks really angry. But I don't just wanna leave Jeri without any protection.

"Hey Kazu, do you mind going with Jeri instead?

Henry seemed to figure out what I was planning. "It's alright Takato. You go on ahead. I'll catch up."

"Speak for yourself. Get me out of here before Suzy does permanent damage." Terrier called out. I tried to ignore him.

"Well… Alright, if you insist…"

The blue haired Tamer put on that same smile again, grabbed me by my shoulders, spun me around and started walking me out the door. "I insist, I insist. You two just have fun."

So we took off, leaving Henry to fend for himself against his parents…. I felt bad about that already. But Jeri's smile helped me out… even if it was just a little.

Ryo's POV: Traverse Town: Ten Minutes Later

I came too sitting on the cobble stone floor of an alleyway I've never been in. It was quite neat and tidy and there was a drainage ditch in front of me, equally clean. I looked down a ways to see it was dark out, but I didn't recognize the city either. Monodramon sat patiently in front of me wide eyed, and obviously glad to see I was awake.

Milleniumon… What a pain.

"Alright, what the hell did psycho dragon do now? And why do I have the world's 2nd worst headache."

Monodramon shrugged. "We're in a place I've never been before and it's not Canada."

"Funny." I rolled my eyes sarcastically and got up.

This would require investigation… crap. Ken was always better at these thing than me. I was better running head first into stupid situations. And speaking of which, I saw another figure enter the alley. She was back-lit so I couldn't see any detailed features, but she was power walking and she was cracking her knuckles… Crap… She was Rika. Well I could easily say hi, start apologizing, or just cut out the first two bits and go straight to groveling, however there's something about Rika that gets my pulse going just a little bit quicker.

"Hey Wild-"

- Smack -

She hit me… well… I wasn't really surprised. Guess Milleniumon ticked her off too, or maybe this is how she always is. I have trouble telling sometimes. I took this moment to look around and see if I could spot Renamon. I couldn't but it was worth a shot. I put my hand on my cheek and turned back. It didn't really hurt I'd rather try to earn sympathy here so she won't hit me again. Problem was, I started smiling when I turned back to her.

"It's great to see you too."

"Can it Ryo."

She's so spicy. Heh.

"What the hell happened before? Why were you acting like more of a creep than usual?"

Hey I'm not a creep!

"Well I saw you and Takato heading for the same romantic spot and I got overrun with jealousy."

"W-What?!"

Okay so I lied. I didn't buy Takato's earlier excuse for a second and I'll be the first to admit I was a little jealous. The reason I'm laying in on thick is, well, Rika has trouble with this kind of stuff so hopefully I can get her to leave me alone without really doing something stupid or mentioning a word about Milleniumon. Heh, the way Rika was looking at me now, narrowed eyes twitching with a bit of shock and a bit of anger… I could practically see Terriermon in my mind's eye dragging his hand across his throat. I was just waiting for the rabbit to pop out somewhere and scream 'dead man walkin'.

"Hey Akiyama! Are you listening?"

I smiled again. I think it's a sickness, honest. "I'm listening to you're every breathe."

"Yeah right. Try again."

Crap! She's not buying any of this.

Well it looked as though I'd have to do something really stupid and painful to get out of this. Let's see I have a few options to choose from, but since all of them involve Rika with a heavy blunt object at the end, I'll pick whatever's most enjoyable to me. She was still trying to say something but I had the general idea of the lecture already.

"Dammit Akiyama, stop zoning out when I'm speaking to you."

"Wasn't zoning out…"

This is really gonna hurt…


I jumped at her in one of those diving hugs. She raised her arms defensively and thus I was able to catch them between us. "…I'm just so happy you were worried about me!" We skidding as Rika tried to get one of her arms free.

"What the hell have you lost you mind?"

Actually having lost my mind would've been a pretty good angle too, but there was no backing out of this now. I just continued to drone on with whatever popped into my head at the moment. "You really do care! This could be the beginning of something beautiful." She got a hand free.

Hmmm, That was over pretty quick. Maybe I should've used my hands more.

Using her free hand she grabbed a fist full of my shirt and pushed up into the middle of my neck. I had to let up a little, which allowed her use of her second hand. I clenched my eyes and tensed up every muscle I had. Since I was still holding her close and restricting her movement, I wagered she'd be socking me in the side of the head in a second, most likely the temple.

"Ryo! And… Rika?!"

That voice… could it be… I'm saved?

I looked up, and sure enough I was right. I truly was saved thanks to Gogglehead of the South Quadrant. Takato… one thing I've learned about him is that Takato has more influence over his friends than anything I've ever seen. I've only been around him a few times and only for brief periods, but I can already start to see why.

When it came to Tai or in particular Davis, they were both courageous, forceful with their opinions, and generally someone you followed. You can depend on them no matter what you do cause they're always in front, leading. Takato is different. You worry about his opinion, and he's usually worried about yours. You can't rely on him the same way because he depends heavily on his closest friends for support. Not that Tai and Davis didn't, but it's far deeper with Takato.

Also, I noticed that no one ever talks up to him, even when he's leading a fight or just leading the group. He never seems to be as strong as he really is… I admire him for that quality. Ironically I'm also well aware that he admires me similar to the way Kazu and Kenta do. The difference is that he takes it on a lesser extent. Every match Rika and I have ever had, he always sits on her side. He never even made a move to my side even just to try and see what cards I had.

"Gogglehead! This isn't what it looks like." Now that her anger had been replaced with embarrassment I could see her blush. Cute.

A second later Jeri rounded the corner and saw us. This just kept getting better as Rika forgot totally about deleting my life span and focused on explaining our situation. I was tempted to help her but… naw it was way more fun to see them draw their own conclusions. I got up and folded my arms behind my head.

Jeri looked too uncomfortable to say anything on her own. So it was her sock puppet to the rescue. "Ruff- Does this mean Ryo's feeling better?"

"I feel like a new man." I replied casually. Near death experiences can do that.

I looked at Takato and Rika… They stood only a few feet away from each other but neither of them we're saying a word. Kinda strange since I was expecting Rika to defend herself with a vengeance… I think I may have really stepped in it. Rika was staring straight ahead with probably one of the most worried expressions I'd ever seen. Granted I was looking at her from and angle behind but my view of Takato was fine and I could see made sure not to make eye contact.

Nothings ruins a friendship like a romance… Damn I really went overboard this time.

The things I have to do to keep Milleniumon a secret I started walking out of the alley but as I got to Rika my feet 'accidentally' fumbled and ended I rammed into her from behind, causing her to stumble forward until she was only a foot away from the South Quadrant gogglehead. Takato went wide-eyed as I suspected, and Jeri did as well. Rika managed to keep her cool, one of her best traits I must say.

"Sooooorry!" I said and chuckled, grabbing Jeri's hand as we (Monodramon and I) kept going.

"U- Ummm, Ryo…"

I turned back and smiled… I really have to stop doing that whenever I get uncomfortable. "Relax. They just have one or two things they need to sort out."

Besides if they sit there staring at each other for too long I can always just run in screaming 'The Heartless are coming! The Heartless are coming! Or better yet, have Kenta do it for me.

I round the corner and stopped, finally letting go of Jeri's hand as well. She was looking at me kind of funny. I think she's not exactly sure what to make of me. Rika's the only Tamer I'm close with since we spend a lot of time working on our rivalry, granted it's a bit easier for me though. Kazu and Kenta are… well, they're nice but I never know what they're really thinking about because they're always acting like my servants. Takato and Henry are friends, but Suzy and Jeri I barely ever see. I pretended I didn't notice.

"So…"

"So…"

"Why weren't you feeling well earlier." She asked with the most innocent of expressions. I smiled.

Crap…

Henry's POV: Traverse Town Diner: Unknown

Mom's yelling did a good job of keeping the other people away from the diner, and the host looked none to pleased. But that was the least of my problems, so long as she was around she would try and stop me from getting hurt. I'm thankful that she cares, but it's like being in a cold iron cage to deal with. She was currently telling me to let Riku handle the new menace… how selfish.

"But what if Riku's parents get worried and tell him to stop." I said that innocently enough, but everyone knew I was being sarcastic. Why won't she let me go. I could see Jaarin, and Rinchei glancing at me out of the corner of my eye, but I kept my gaze focus on mom. I won't look away, if I do, she'll win.

"…"

"If this conversation is over… I'd like to go see my friends."

Mom started at that. "This is far from over and there is no way on this earth that you're going out there while those things roam the streets."

"But I…"

But I can help…

It's what I wanted to say but I knew the words were in vain. Then Jaarin did something I never expected. Whether for humor, complete boredom, or some other reason that no other human or Digimon can possibly fathom she stood up, calmly placed her hands in her pockets, and said...

"I'm going out with Kurashell!"

Things just kept getting worse as Rinchei mimicked our sisters actions. He didn't get up and say it though, he just kicked his feet up on the table (Something of which mom hates) rolled back his sleeves and murmured. "And I'm going out with that white haired chick."

If two words could describe the scene that unfolded next, they would be 'planned chaos'. The chaos bit was mom and dad sending their chairs over as the stood up with Kurashell's kind of speed and immediately started barraging them with questions, demands, and pleas. The planned bit came when Jaarin stood still with a smirk and winked at me, a sure sign to get away while I had the chance. I took it, but I wish I had stopped to notice Suzy was following me.

Rika's POV: Traverse Town: Unknown

I should have K.O.ed Ryo when I had the chance…

That thought, while mildly comforting, failed to answer my question of what to do about my current predicament. Takato hadn't said a word, nor did it look like that would change. Looks like I'd have to start things off.

"Listen Goggle-"

"Sorry."

"Huh?"

Why's he apologizing? I was the one that was caught in that… urg… position.

Don't ask me why, but I blushed remembering that. No one needed to tell me either I could just feel it. I was thankfully when Gogglehead continued speaking, hence taking my mind away from it. "I tried to call you because I wasn't sure you'd show up, then I ran into that weird Samurai, then… you know… I'm really sorry."

"…"

"I mean, I feel real stupid now cause I was worried that we were going on a… ummm… what's the word."

Date? Yeah I knew what he was talking about, but I didn't want him to know I was worrying about the same thing.

"Anyway. It works out better this way becau-"

I cute him off. "What do you mean, 'this way'?" Don't tell me he actually thought Ryo and I…

"Eh?" I could see him start to get flustered already. He so bad at these things, at least I know what I'm doing. "Well, I just thought Ryo and you…"

Someone… Please kill me now.

"Listen Gogglehead. Ryo and I aren't anything. I think he must of slammed his head into something like a rock twice 'cause he dove at me just before you got here. And you owe me for not showing up at the Sakura Trees."

"Eh? Y-Yes ma'am." He did a military solute… stupid Gogglehead. Dropping his hand he got that solemn expression again. "So, just to make sure… we're… alright…right?"

"Gogglehead. Sometimes you over think things way to much." I walked past him towards the entrance of the ally. I could her him murmuring something, it was low, but I could just barely make it out as his lips curled in a smiled.

"Thanks… Rika."

Oh, a review from AnT. For those that don't know, he is my favorite author and skilled in the art of crossovers. And thanks for mentioning that Court of Souls fic. It's really good.

Now for the Q's

Q: Which KeyBlade Rika using?

A: Soul Eater, see , fixed.

Q: Shouldn't this be in the Anime Crossover section.

A: My apologies. I originally already had an answer to that question in CH1 but I edited it out by mistake. I'm putting this in the Digimon section because, while other characters may come and go, this will stay largely focused on the Tamers. If it's deemed that I must move it, I will probably move to the Kingdom Hearts section, not the anime crossovers.

Side Comments:

-I will try not to add to many characters since that became quite a problem in my last fic… still is actually since I need to continue it.

-Kingdom Hearts is a game, one that I highly recommend.

-Sorry about the Riku spelling mistake. I'm pretty sure I got that worked out now.

-I'm going to try and keep the chapter under 10K words as they're a real headache when they're any bigger.

-Decent enemies, well, I got quite a few ideas already. Anyone see FLCL or Shamanic Princess?

-I'll try not to draw this out, It shouldn't be that hard.