Setting her suitcase down Rika stood for a moment admiring the cabin. It was quaint and cozy and even…intimate. It was miles from anyone else and the surrounding bamboo forest was older than ba-chan.
"Will you take it off now?" "If you don't stop asking, I may never take it off."
Renamon huffed indignantly. "We're completely surrounded by a beautiful forest with no one and nothing for miles and I get the pleasure of sitting next to you doing absolutely nothing for the next 72 hours."
Rika debated telling her now the real reason for their excursion. 'No. I've got to time it right.' "Come on, let's get everything inside before it gets dark.
It was a few hours from then when they said much other than "Hand me that." and it was beginning to get quite boring when Rika had an idea.
"Hey Renamon, I was thinking if you want…maybe we could watch the sunset? I'll even take the leash off if you promise not to run."
"I'd like that." She smiled and then Rika pressed a button on her digivice. The leash slowly faded into nothingness.
The vixen rolled her head and stretched, each sinuous muscle popping and crackling as she twisted and turned.
Rika caught herself staring and quickly looked away. She felt the heat in her cheeks burn and they burned all the more for it. "Better?"
"Much."
A few minutes later the two of them were lying on a blanket on the roof watching the sun set against the seemingly endless forest below. The twisting winds had brought two clouds together and they swirled around each other, never quite touching. Bathed in the golden light of the sunset it shimmered and shone brightly.
"How long has it been since we were out here last?" Rika asked.
Renamon thought for a minute and then said, " You were thirteen then so I think four years."
"Kami, has it really been that long?" It was felt strange thinking of those days as such a long time ago. Now they were memories.
"I miss the old days. I miss the challenge."
"It was more fun back then."