Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Rikamon ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

Rikamon

Chapter 2

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The group had finally stopped running. In between panting, Takato asked "Do you think we lost those weirdos?"

"I hope so" Henry replied. He was also out of breath. "I wonder if they we just after Guilmon or if he knew more than he was letting on?" He and Takato looked to the purple haired half Digimon, half human. Oddly Rika seemed to be the only one who wasn't out of breath. "Must be Impmon gets a lot of exercise chasing Guilmon" Henry joked.

"We are not far from where I live." Rika walked a bit ahead and peered around the house. "There's my house."

Sure enough her house was there, along with a few police cars. Rika scowled. "Damn! My D-Arc is still in my room. Renamon?"

"Yes, Rikamon?" the fox appeared from the shadow.

"Can you sneak in there and get my stuff?"

"As you wish" she said and disappeared in the shadow. She kept her eyes on the scene by her house. She could see her grandma holding her mom, trying to comfort each other.

"Holy..!" Henry exclaimed as he saw the time in his D-Arc. "The school's almost over and we've missed all of the class."

Takato groaned "Oh no! I'm supposed to be there for my detention after school! Now I'd be stuck in after school detention for the rest of the week."

"What did you get detention for?" Henry asked out of his curiosity. But Takato didn't want to talk about. He only blushed a bit.

Rika joined with the group. "I'll bet you were late for classes."

"How did you know?" Takato was getting a bit red with embarrassment. "Wait a minute, I'm always late for the class." He scratched his head. "You know, I can't remember why I got the detention."

Guilmon could only look in confusion. "Takatomon?" he queried "Will you have time to play with me?"

Henry decided to change the subject. "We still haven't figured where you're going to sleep for the night. I can't invite you over because I have two sisters and my apartment is not exactly big like your house."

"How about at my place? I've got some room since I don't have any brother or sister." Rika's stare into Takato' were like daggers to his head. He continued "If it makes you feel better, I'll leave the bedroom door wide open so my parent can check on us."

"As if I have any choice" she huffed. "I'll stay over until this mess is all fixed up."

It was just at that time that Renamon reappeared and handed Rika her D-Arc and her clothes. Rika hadn't noticed throughout the whole day she had been wearing purple shirt with funny yellow face and a red scarf around her neck. "Thanks, Renamon. Should we be going?"

"Yes, we should" Henry said. When Rika and Renamon started to walk ahead, Henry grabbed Takato's arm and whispered "Be careful around Rika. She seems to be taking all this a little too easy. The reality may not have quite hit her yet and when it does, I'm afraid her wrath would be more than you can handle."

Takato nodded. "Thanks for the warning. How did you know?"

Henry chuckled and rubbed the back of his head. "My sister went through something like that when she had a pimple on her nose, and I quote her, the size of Mount Fuji." He rubbed his head "My head still hurts from when she pulled my hair out. I tried to comfort her but I said the wrong thing instead."

Henry continued "And another thing, we have seen Rika's side so far but not of Impmon's side. Should his personality surface Rika might start doing nasty stuff. You know how he is about human."

Takato groaned. "Is it too late to switch rooms?"

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After hiding Guilmon in the tunnel, the trio continued their way to Matsuda Bakery which was also Takato's home. "It's starting to get dark and it's time for me to go to my home" Henry spoke. "I'd have some serious explaining to do if my teacher called my parent about my absence from the class today."

"OK! I'll see you at school in the morning." Takato waved back. Then both Rika and he entered the bakery through the side door. He shouted "Mom! I'm home!" all the while trying to slip Rika up the stairs.

"Takato! I got a phone call." Takato's blood went cold. If that was from his teacher, he'd be grounded for so long he might forget what flower smelled like. "Rika's mother said she was missing. Have you seen her?"

Takato sighed in relief. "No I haven't seen her today." Ok that was a lie but it'd be hard to explain to Rika's mother about Rika's precedent. "By the way, I invited a friend to stay over."

Mrs. Matsuda appeared in the stairway and saw the purple haired kid. "Oh? Who's he?"

Takato was fumbling at words. He didn't want to use Rika's real name as it'd arouse suspicions. Then Rika said "I am Takeru but most calls me T.K. for short." Takato had to stifle a chuckle.

"Well, pleased to met you, T.K. And Takato, behave! Don't think I forgot about the incident the last time you had sleepovers." Takato started to blush a bit but he was still chuckling at Rika. Rika started pulling Takato up the rest of the way to his bedroom.

"Takeru? Don't tell me you got the hots for a cartoon character?" He finally broke out in full laughter.

"As if you weren't impersonating the dimwitted Daisuke" she snapped back. That pretty much brought Takato back to reality.

"You sure know how to hurt a guy" he mumbled as he rummaged through the closet for roll up mattress. "I did that because Guilmon didn't understand me when I met him the first time. I thought he would know me better if I wore the goggle.

"Well, goggle boy, goggle boy, goggle boy! It's time to face reality, you will never be a hero of the Digimon. They were just fictional show!"

Takato stopped for a minute. It didn't sound like Rika was talking but the Impmon. He just ignored the ranting for now as he pulled the mattress out and then the extra blanket and pillows.

"If they were only fictional, how do you explain yourself?" He hoped Rika would forgive him for what he's about to do next as he threw the pillow at Rika.

It was enough to get Rika to stop babbling and being Rika back in. She was a bit confused. "What happened?"

"Impmon was getting nasty with me. He was about to bite my head off" Takato replied. He untied the mattress and rolled them along the floor. "You can either sleep on the floor or on my bed."

Rika choose the floor as she was more used to sleeping on the floor. "Renamon, where are you?"

The mysterious yellow Digimon appeared from Takato's closet. Rika asked "Will you be around in case Impmon tries to do something funny?"

The fox only nodded and then vanished.

"Oh shoot, I don't have any pajamas and I sure don't want to sleep in these clothes."

"I have some extra clean pajamas in my dresser. You're about my size so there shouldn't be any problem." Rika went to find Takato's pajamas, and then headed for the bathroom. Takato took the time to change his over to pajamas as well. Finally he climbed up to his bed and started to rest. The adventure he had today was still running through his head when Rika came back, plopped down the red and purple clothes and lay on her bed.

"How does Renamon do it?"

"Do what?"

"Like that. She looks like she could pop in anywhere and disappear at will."

"Just one of the great Digimystery for me to know and for you to figure out.. Good night, Takato."

"Nighty, Takeru" He stifled his laughter again but he had to do it in case his parent were listing outside his room.

"Takato?"

"Yes?"

"Thank you."

"Rika?"

"Yes?"

"Do you really have the hots for T.K.?"

"Shut up."

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Henry has finally reached his apartment when his little sister burst through the door. She was holding Terriermon with poorly applied lipstick smear, too much pink powder on his cheek and a number of pink bows along his ears. He was practically crying from the humiliation while doing his best to be like a doll.

Henry chuckled nervously. "Give him to me." He picked his Digimon from his sister as he entered his apartment. Only his father is up.

"You're late."

"Sorry, Dad." He started to sweat a bit and only hoped for a quick walk to his bedroom.

"Your teacher called. You never showed up for class all day today."

It would be a long night for poor Henry.

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Elsewhere, at the school. Kazu was still wandering around, calling out "Takato? Henry? Guys? Hide n seek was over ages ago so show yourself! I give up." He had already searched every nook and cranny at least twenty times.

Kenta caught up to him "You might as well forget about them. They are probably at home by now. And your mother would start worrying if you don't go home soon."

They walked out of the schoolyard and just before they went separate ways, Kenta told Kazu "If you see Takato, tell him his teacher nailed him eight hours of after school detention for missing the whole class today and another four hours for missing today's detention."

"Great, there goes my plan for a card battle this Sunday" Kazu groaned.

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What adventure would Tamers face in the next day? Would Takato ever survive the backlog of detentions?? What would Rika do until then???