Disclaimer: I have not do not and never will own Digimon.
Authors Note: I am so incredibly sorry that this has taken so long I really had no intention of dropping off the face of the planet like I did. But I'm back now and I am going to finish this fic.
Renamon had to suppress a sigh as she looked down at Takato groaning on the dojo floor. She was proud and surprised by the progress he was making but, training him was both harder and easier than she thought it would be. He was an eager student and took every correction she gave without complaint. On the other hand when sparring he had a nasty habit of allowing himself to over commit if it looked like the spar was going his way.
"Back on your feet, I didn't hit you that hard!" she demanded, her face an unreadable mask. Swaying Takato clambered back to his feet. A look of annoyance very visible on his face.
"I thought I was finally land a blow on you." he winced "I noticed your tail tends to twitch in the direction your going to dodge, I should have had you dead to rights so how is it I'm the one coughing up my guts?" he asked while holding his stomach.
Renamon allowed herself a small smile. "I'm impressed, your getting much better at observing your opponent, however you were too obvious while doing so." she informed him "I saw your eyes flickering to my tail when I would dodge and that let me counter you."
Takato's eyes widened when she suddenly vanished, before he could even begin to search for her, she had grabbed him from behind and pulled him into an embrace.
"Don't be so hard on yoursel.." she began only to move like lightning to throw him, but to her surprise his legs suddenly wrapped around her waist and he threw his hands out and flung her across the room as he flipped.
"Lesson two friends can be enemies" he called out "While training your my teacher not my beloved." he chuckled "As many times as you made me learn that the hard way, I'm not going to forget it."
Renamon couldn't help the smile the spread across her face. "Yame!" she called out while assuming the at rest position. Takato also eased out of his stance Yame was the command to stop, not only the current spar but the session as a whole. She strode towards her student and once again pulled him into a hug, but this time there was no throwing.
"That, was a perfect response to my attempted deceit, and here is your reward." she purred while pulling him in for a kiss. As she pulled back laughter bubbled up from her chest from the dazed look on Takato's face. Said look quickly morphed into a loving grin
"I love you." He whispered to her " I love you to." she replied. Her smile suddenly dimmed, which Takato noticed.
"Whats wrong?" he asked worriedly "I'm sorry, it's just , I have a feeling we're going to have a long hard fight ahead of us." she exhaled. "You know there will be those who object to us." Takato's reply was just what she expected
"This is one fight I will not Loose!"/"This is one fight I will not Loose!" Renamon snapped back to the present with a jolt and to her surprise Rika had actually managed to grab Takato and was trying to throw him. A feeling of deja vu settled over Renamon as Takato wrapped his legs around Rika and catching himself on his hands he threw her while completing his flip. As Rika hit the floor the dojo was silent.