Disclaimer: I do not in any situation own anything to do with Digimon or by Digimon.
"Sorry, Ruki. I shouldn't have done that." Ryou didn't sound like he meant it at all.
And as in meant it, as in 'shouldn't have done that'.
Ruki didn't budge. She didn't even look at him since he...fell from the sky.
Meanwhile, Hirokazu and Kenta were having some sort of discussion as that back of the group.
"It was funny though don't you think?" Hirokazu asked Kenta.
"Shhh! We'll be dead if she hears us talking about it!" Kenta hissed.
"I heard that!" She shouted from the front.
Oops...
The others had filled Ryou in with details as they were walking, reason being Ruki decided to walk off into the sunset and ditch the others. By whispered phrases Ryou had more or less got what happened. And as soon as he did he had been trying to decide if it'll be better to go apologise or should he just stay where he is so to not be beaten like bread dough.
"Really, I didn't want to. So if you don't mind I'll be going now." He said in a very cool way and slowed his pace to not be beside Ruki.
You got to admit it. Akiyama Ryou, Digimon King apoligising to Makino Ruki, Digimon Queen. It's like a queen as the country's commander instead of the King. But this is Akiyama Ryou we're talking about, who rarely says sorry to anyone because of this tragic existent of his abnormally large ego.
Sadly, Ruki didn't really bother to remember any of this so she just stayed silent and ignored Ryou as if he didn't exist.
So Ryou had a heated conversation with Hirokazu and Kenta instead, but the contents of the conversation I'd rather not reveal until the time (and youngsters) is mature.
"Oniichan, I'm tired." Shiuchon moaned. "Are we there yet?"
"Eh..." No one actually knew where Ruki was going, and nobody dared talking to her apart from Ryou since the previous incident, and she was obviously leading the 'walk', even though it seemed that she was walking around in circles. "Ruki, where are we going?" Jenrya asked.
She didn't answer but stopped walking at the lake.
"Do you guys...want to go to the Digital World?" Ruki said in a quiet voice. "We should go see Yamaki about it. We can tell him we received something from our Digivices and-"
"And you call me crazy." Hirokazu said and started pressing random buttons on his Digivice.
"Don't damage your Digivice, you'll need it." Juri told him.
"I know. I'm just testing if anything happens."
Someone snorted.
Something happened. Hirokazu's Digivice suddenly gave a bright shine and showed a slide of the analyser. Everyone gasped.
"Anomalocarimon, Perfect, Data type." Hirokazu read excitedly. "Hissatsu wa Suna Shower!"
"What happened Hirokazu?" Kenta shouted in his ear. "What did you do?"
"Stop shouting Kenta! I'll be deaf!" He shouted back.
"Then tell us how you got that to appear on your Digivice!" Ruki shouted at equal volume.
"I don't know I just pressed the buttons!" He shouted back again.
"Then tell us what buttons you pressed!" Takato shouted.
Soon everyone was shouting, apart from Ryou, who for some odd reason felt amused.
After a while they decided to calm down, since someone (Hirokazu? Kenta?) realised Ryou didn't join the conversation. And there he was, standing there looking totally cool and mature.
Jen sighed. "We shouldn't just be so reckless, if we just disappear like this who knows what our parents will do..." And an imagenary cloud formed above their heads, picturing what their parents will do.
"Yeah, we'll wait for some time...I guess." Ruki sighed. "By the way, why are you here?" She turned to Ryou.
"Hmm?"
"Why. Are. You. Here." She said slowly.
"Yeah Ryou-san, you didn't tell us." Takato said.
"Oh...ah..." Ryou scratched his head. "Well...you see..."
"No I don't see." Ruki cut him off.
"..."
"Anyway..." He tried again. "My Digivice reacted and directed me to this building and it kind of...it looked like it wanted me to jump off."
"Eh?" Ruki gaped at him. "Your Digivice told you to commit suicide!"
"...Ruki, calm down..." He waved his hands in the air. "Well...so I used my common sense and didn't want to jump off something as tall as a cliff unprotected so I wanted to go back to my house and get an umbrella or something to use as a parachute.
"Still, when I was walking back my digivice made this weird sound..." He stopped, since the stares of the others were now looking at him in complete horror. Horror that he had gone crazy. "And the next thing I knew I crashed into a tree." He pointed to the tree that Ruki kicked him in.
"I don't get it."
"Yeah, I know..."
"No, what I mean is how can you jump off a building in North Kyuushuu and drop in West Shinjuku? How tall was the building anyway?"
"I didn't count, really tall I guess."
"Strange..." Ruki kicked a stone into the lake and watched the water move.
"Ryou-san, don't you think you should contact your parents or something?" Jenrya asked him.
"Eh?"
"Kyuushuu is far from here..."
"Oh...ha..." He thought for a moment. "I guess I'll take the train back home"
"I think the train to Kyushuu today just passed." Takato said.
"Oh...ah...I'll ask if I can stay in Shinjuku for a few days I guess, Dad's coming around here for some business soon. Good thing, eh?"
"Yeah, and we don't have school these few days either."
After a few minutes of chit-chatting, Ruki and Hirokazu had another argument about where to go. Ruki wanted to go to the Digital World so to see Yamaki and Hirokazu argued about how that 'old-cigarette-lighter' doesn't need to be contacted.
All this time the others were having their own conversation, very into them too.
So after a few minutes Kenta joint Takato's conversation about homework with Jenrya while Ryou went over to one of those public phone booths and called his house. His dad answered.
"Moshimoshi?" Some annoyed deep voice said.
"Tousan?"
"Ryou? RYOU! COME BACK HOME RIGHT NOW!" He started shouting.
He held the phone away from his ear. "Calm down, Tousan. I'm in Shinjuku, how am I suppose to get back right now?"
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN SHINJUKU?"
"I jumped off a building."
"WHAT? COME BACK AS SOON AS YOU CAN!"
"Hai hai..." He muttered uncertainly. "You're coming over here for business right? So why don't you just pick me up when you do?"
There was some kind of grunting on the other side of the phone.
"I'll wait for you, Tousan." There was another reply from the phone. An unfamiliar expression passed Ryou's face.
"I'll see. See you in some time." He said and hung up.
"What did he say?" Takato asked.
"He's going to pick me up, but I'll need some place to stay for a few days."
Ruki thought about Ryou staying again. She muttered something very unintelligent.
Ryou chuckled. "I guess I'll have to stay at somebody's place then...how about yours, Ruki?"
Ruki's looked at him and it twitched.
"Eh...Ryou-san...you think it will be convinient...?" Kenta said.
"Yeah Ryou-san! You can come to stay at my place! I'm sure no one would mind!" Hirokazu said, grinning and excited.
"Hehe. Hirokazu, I really don't want to bother..."
He was thinking about Hirokazu's very violent mother, everyone knew that.
"Anyway you are NOT coming to stay at my house." Ruki said, crossing her arms and facing the other way.
"Aw Ruki, I'm hurt." Ryou whimpered mockingly.
"Che."
"You can come and stay at my place, Ryou-san, my parents won't mind." Takato, always helpful.
"Arigato na, Takato." Ryou smiled.
So that's how this day ended. Ryou went to the bakery with Takato. Juri walked back home alone (Takato wanted to walk her home but there was Ryou-san…). Kenta going with Hirokazu since they 'wanted to discover the secret of his Digivice'. The others knew they would most likely discover nothing but couldn't be bothered telling them. Ruki went home with her pride held high and Jen going back home, holding Shiuchon's hand.
Tomorrow will be much more exciting...we'll see.