Takato X Renamon B1 Ch1

Chapter 1:

Renamon’s best gifts

“Man, another great night.”  A familiar yellow goggle wearer said after a yawn.  He was Takato Matsuki, unofficial leader of the Digimon Tamers, and was right now getting out of bed.  “Well, I would see my friend Guilmon, but he is busy with that pink Agumon he met last week.”  He added, thinking of what to do with his Saturday after putting on a pair of jeans.  After the D-Reaper incident six years ago friendlier Digimon have been making partners and that met that most of them were seeing the first-landers.  The teen walked over to the window, opened the blinds and was disappointed by what he saw: clear blue sky, bright sun, and warm temp all the best things for a beautiful summer day; the only problem was that it was December.  “I guess I should see if mom needs me to do anything.”  He muttered, truthfully he did not like doing errands PERIOD, but there was nothing else he could do.  ‘I can’t believe that all of my friends have found someone: Henry has Jeri, Kazu has Alice, Rika has Ryo, Terriermon has Lopmon, and the others do to.’  He thought as he brushed his teeth since his parents were both stiffs for clean mouths.  After wiping his mouth off he pulled a card from his back-pocket, a card that he has had with him since he started his Tamer career. ‘I bet even she has found someone.’ He thought glumly as he put the card back and his hands in the front two pockets.

“Oh, hello Takato, did you sleep well?”  A woman with short brown hair that was a head or so over him said with a smile.

“Hey mom, all right.  Do you need anything?”  He questioned, trying to hide the board tone in his reply.  His mother unfortunately heard it and said to him.

“Yes can you go to the pharmacy and pick up some headache medicine, I think I’m supposed to make a cake today and that is going to give me a migraine”  She said to her son while thinking, ‘He still doesn’t know.’

“Ok, see ya in a few minutes.”  The blue shirted boy said as he walked out of the store and headed left.  Once her son was gone from view his mother said from behind the counter.

“All right, Renamon, you can come in now.”  As if on cue a familiar yellow fox with purple gloves and yin yang symbols walked into the bakery.  The creature walked over to the counter ready to speak but the mother cut her off.  “You can go on ahead, that task should keep him occupied for a half hour or so.”  The canine nodded and headed for the doorway until her right arm was grabbed.  “You really should tell him.”  She said in soft yet serious tone.  This has been going on for three years now when that fiend rookie found someone else.

“N-no, I think it best that my feelings for him remain anonyms.”  The female Digimon said and after the grip was loose she continued her way upstairs and into his room.  After closing the door she walked to the center of the room and took in a big whiff of this Tamer’s scent just like she had done since that “dream” he kept talking about.  She then walked over to the windows to see the area from his view.  ‘When we stayed here for bread during the fight against the D-Reaper for some unknown reason I wanted to see the view from his room, and truly is beautiful.’  She thought as she gazed outward. The creature even decided to lie in his bed, loving the fact that it was still warm.  Takato, on the other hand, who was already done with his task and on his way home when he spotted the jewelry store and for an unknown reason he found himself walking in and heading for the necklaces.  While he was looking around a bad to good voice was heard, heading his way.

“Been a while, Takato.”  The voice belonged to Yamaki, a man that at one time swore to wipe out all Digimon, was wearing the same look as when they ventured into the Digital World.

“Yes, it has, what are you doing here.”  He responded before looking back to the necklaces.

“Getting Riley a pre-proposal gift, and since this is where the others bought their lady’s stuff I might as well try it.”  He said with a slight smirk before thinking coyly, ‘Ten bucks says Takato is doing the same for Renamon.’

“Yeah, me, I’m here for an early Mother’s Day gift.”  The goggle-head said to the former villain, hoping that he did not stay.

“Personally, I would get the third one on the fourth shelf and the sixth one on the second shelf.”  The blonde man said and waited for Takato’s reaction before smiling.

“It’s that obvious: me liking Renamon, I mean.”  Takato whispered so only the adult could hear.  The man smiled for a few moments and answered.

“No of course not, by the way you should watch what you say when you pace in pure darkness.”  The first part was sarcastic but Takato could tell the last part was serious; he must have had a ‘what are you talking about’ expression because Yamaki continued.  “Kenta made it a point to tell those that did not go short stories of what happened and one in particular had you and your friends spending at a weird looking house and you were pacing around their room muttering and I quote: ‘Where is Renamon?  I hope, no, I know that she is going to be all right.  What if she has been turned into data by those Devas then she will never know how I really feel.’

‘Mental note, pour enough sand in his pants to make the Sahara Desert jealous.’  Takato thought after Yamaki was done.  The blonde then had another thing to ask.

“Why didn’t you and Jeri ever go out and why is she with Henry?”  The adults thought that Takato liked Jeri more than the others, but they also knew that he also liked Renamon in that way too.  With a heavy sigh the Tamer answered him.

“I suppose the reason for both is that Jeri was still a little brokenhearted about losing her partner for good and every time I think of that day, I only think of how I lost it and forced Guilmon into mega.”  He stopped for a few moments trying to shake off that demonic looking mega before continuing, “She took my ‘not sharing her pain’ the wrong way and Henry helped her with that.”  Yamaki stared at him for a few minutes in a ‘is that all’ way.  The goggle wearer stared blankly into a corner of the store before continuing.  “The real reason is that she wanted a real relationship fast and all I wanted to do is play duel monsters and chaotic.”  After a few moments the former human villain heard Takato mutter, “I can’t believe Impmon.”  This got the adults attention.

“Oh, you mean how he is going out with that Ladydevimon?”  He questioned and got a PISSED look from the teenage tamer.

“Yeah.  How can he do that?  I mean he went out for Renamon for two years.”  He said before pausing to think, ‘Those two years really hurt seeing her with that Kinevil wannabe.’  He then went on, “Then a big chest plated Ultimate shows up and he forgets all about her.”  He could feel himself becoming as angry as when he became a berserker but he was able to quell it…just a little bit.  “I swear if I had power without the help from Guilmon I swear by the creator above that I would teach that Mega a lesson.”  He said with clenched fists thinking of that device from the show: Ben 10.

“You keep talking like that and EVERYBODY will believe you like the canine in that way.”  Yamaki whispered which caught the red raptor tamer off-guard.

“What do you mean Yamaki, I would only do that to show what a reliable friend I am.”  Takato said trying to save himself from being truly discovered.

“Right.”  The leader of HYPNOS said as he paid for his gift and Takato’s objects and they headed for home.  As Takato was leaving the store Renamon was just getting up from a nap on Takato’s bed.

‘Not bad, didn’t even know that I fell asleep.’She thought after stretching for a few moments.  She sat in his bed for a few moments and pictured Takato sitting beside her.  ‘No, you don’t like Takato in that way.  You are only thinking like that because Guilmon and Impmon have someone and Rika is busy with Ryo.’  She thought failing miserably of convincing herself that was the truth.  Trying not to think that way she noticed a book on her desk that said: do not open; naturally that only made her want to open it even more.  She did so and was blown away at the sheer depth each picture was, all of the pictures that she saw looked like those from a museum.  ‘Why can’t he use this skill when it came to those flags?’ She thought as she began.  Fifteen pages into the book she noticed one thing, “These are all of Takato and myself simply enjoying each others company.”  She whispered and then she noticed that a few of them had something written on them.

“Mom, I’m back.”  Takato said after entering his bakery.  He walked into the kitchen and placed the medicine by the sink.  He did not see any cake, but he saw that his mother was in the oven.

“I’m making some broccoli tart; it’ll be done in a minute.”  She said, concentrating on the oven.

“All right mom, then I’ll just go to my room.”  He said and headed for the staircase to his room as for his mother she remembered one very important thing.

“Oh no, Renamon usually tells me that she is leaving and she hasn’t so that means she is still here.”  She muttered and after remembering that her baked good has barely started to cook she decided to eavesdrop.  While the two humans made their way to the chosen room Renamon was engrossed in what he put down on the pictures; they weren’t dirty just truly passionate.

“If his words have this kind of feeling does that mean…”  She began but was interrupted by a different voice.

“Renamon, what are you doing here?”  Takato questioned after entering his room and seeing the fox creature hold his personal drawings.  Renamon could only stare at the Tamer and then down to the book before coming up with something to say.

“I was just finding a place to think, I will go now.”  She said and then placed the notebook back down.  ‘There is no way a human can think that way of a Digimon.  No matter how much the HUMAN wants the Digimon will never accept it.’  She thought gloomily before opening the window.

“Renamon, wait a minute.”  Takato said out of surprise.  The yellow Digimon did as he asked and stood in front of him.  “This thinking wouldn’t have to be of Impmon leaving you, is it?”  He question and when he saw her stand perfectly straight he knew he hit a soft spot.  He tried to recover with another statement, “Those pictures in that book are from a challenge that Henry gave to me.”  He said with an all out lie.

“Of course, a challenge.”  She answered with a nod and then said, “For your question, no it has nothing to do with Impmon.  I was going to the other Tamers homes to see if there was an evil Digimon.”  The fox knew that she way lying too, but she hoped that he bought it.

“Of course.”  He replied, believing her statement to be valid.  Realizing that he had two packages in his hand to prove that he really did like her with him; he decided to he decided to backtrack and fast.  “Well, I’ll leave you to thinking or leaving which ever I’m going to see if mom’s tart is done.”  He said and then headed for the door.  His mother on the other hand who was listening to the conversation just realized her predicament.

“Oh no, If Takato catches me here…” She whispered before hearing the digital fox speak.

“Takato what is in the bag?”  With that, only a few steps away from the doorknob, the tamer stopped.  He turned to where his shoulder was facing her and unfortunately the name of the store was facing her.  “If those pictures are part of a challenge then who are those things that you got for Kayes Jewelers for?”  She questioned while walking over to him.

“These are nothing, just an early anniversary gift for mom from dad.”  He was hoping that she would believe that, and unfortunately she did.

“Then you won’t mind if I take a look at what’s inside.”  She said and before he could say anything she grabbed onto the plastic bag handle and began pulling on it.  She had to pull since he still had a pretty firm grip on it.  After their little tug-of-war game the strap eventually snapped sending Takato back first onto the door and Renamon surprisingly landed on her back with the boxes on her belly.  She then took the boxes and decided to open them: the top one came first.

‘It’s absolutely beautiful.’  She thought in awe as she held a beautiful black and white ‘R’ that sparkled like diamond in her snow-white paws.  “You were going to give this to your mother an ‘R’ necklace.”  She said to Takato who was rubbing his back.  Once he saw that one of the necklaces was out of the box all he could do was stammer out nonsense.  After admiring it for a few minutes she put it in the box and decided to see what was in the second one.  This necklace was not fancy, just a simple yin-yang symbol.  When she picked it up she was worried that only the white was dangling in front of her.

“That one is a special one.”  Takato said as he walked over and knelt down to her, since she was sitting on his floor.  This one is one that I intend to share with the one person I want to go out with.”  He said while focusing on the black half since he often lost himself in her beautiful blue eyes.

“What do you mean Takato?”  She questioned and just like that the goggle-head was on the spot just like with Yamaki.

“Well, there’s this one girl in my class and I think I may like her even more so then Jeri.”  He answered while standing up and then suddenly found his Agumon bank fascinating.

“Of course, it is.”  She answered as she put the white half back and then placed both boxes on his bed.  She looked at the tamer who was still occupied and said to him, “It was good to see you again, goodbye Takato.”  She then began to walk to the open window and the leader saw this happening.

‘Mom isn’t around, the others believe that I do love her, I guess I could confess.  The worst case scenario is that I get punched into the gut so bad that I can’t eat ANY food for the next forty years.’  He thought and suddenly found himself walking over to her.  He placed his hand on her shoulder and was able to turn her around.

“Was there something else Takato?”  She questioned her voice just like most times: neutral.  He was one hundred percent nervous about what he was about to say.

“W-well, I know that Rika is busy with Ryo and the others have girlfriend or boyfriends and I was just wondering that…maybe…”  He was stuttering and losing his nerve something that has rarely happened post tamer days.  

‘What is wrong with you?  I just ask her out and tell her that you have had the hots for her for a LONG time you just didn’t have the guts to tell her.’  His conscious, which for the moment sounded like a ticked off Jiminy Cricket.  He then decided to tell her and bare the results.

“I don’t like beating around the bush Renamon so I’m just going to say it.  Those boxes on my bed are mainly for you.  I have seen how you are on the streets sometimes: depressed that there is no one for you to hang out with and truthfully I don’t like seeing that kind of look on my closest friends.”  He said to her while staring in those blue eyes.  He was still stalling; he knew that in the next sentence or two he had to finish his main thought.  “I was hoping to Double date with Rika and Ryo and I wanted you to be my date.”  As soon as he said that he saw her eyes widen in surprise or shock.  ‘Great I did it now.’  He thought and then tried to truly finish this as fast as possible.  “That ‘R’ that you saw earlier it is for you I bought it because…”  Once again he was beginning to choke and once again his conscious stepped.

‘Just say it already!?’  He yelled throughout his mind and just like that he decided to say the last sentence from beginning to end.

“That ‘R’ that you saw earlier it is for you I bought it because…because I love you and I want you to wear it to make you feel special like how I know that you are special.”  He then stopped and waited for the results.

“I appreciate you being honest with me Takato but it is unnatural for a human to fall in love with a digimon and…”

‘What the hell is wrong with you?!’  Renamon’s conscious yelled out, angered that Renamon was doing this.  ‘Haven’t you been listening to him at all?  Maybe I should tell you then: he cares for you, he wants to date you, and he bought you those things without anyone asking you.  Guilmon was like a little brother and Impmon kept staring at your mane of fur.  Takato seriously likes you and you to him; considering while you were sleeping you wanted a big Takato plushie, but what you really wanted was his a bed buddy.  If that is not enough then take a look at his arms.’  It was true, Takato was wearing a sleeveless blue shirt revealing visible muscles, not like Leomon, but very noticeable.  After looking at them Renamon was resisting a blush that covered the top of her neck to the tip of her ears.  ‘Told you.’  With that her inner voice stopped.  Renamon then saw the tamer still looking at her, she had forgotten that he was now neck level with her but that did not matter.

“And when we were involved with those Jagamon stampede did you act like a deer in the headlights so I would pick you up just like I did with Kazu and Kenta?”  She questioned with a smirk and just like that Takato had that wondering eye: busted look just like when they were about to face the flaming chicken.  She found that expression of his most amusing then she decided to surprise him a bit while he was like that.  While Takato was thinking:

‘I did not just stand there so Renamon could save me.’  He thought before he felt something soft against his face.  It took him a few minutes to realize that Renamon was hugging him and after gathering his senses he found himself hugging her back.  The two enjoyed the moment unaware of the eye in the now slightly open door.  After what felt like two hours Renamon said something that he thought was not her style.

“Truthfully, I love you too.”  He was surprised by this insight and just like before he barely even registered the fact that he was holding the black half and Renamon was in the window placing the white half around her neck.  “I’ll see if Rika is ok with that, but if she isn’t we can always go alone.”  She said with a wink and headed back to Rika’s place by rooftop.  The leader was left stunned, staring out at the open window and the wind blowing on him unaware that his mother, who heard everything, and was doing a silent happy dance.

‘It’s too bad that my husband is with Henry and Ryo’s father playing all day poker to witness our little boy growing up.’  She thought and happily added, ‘I am going to be the grandmother of adorable fox children.’  That thought was short lived as reality hit her: hard!  ‘What am I thinking?!  This is my only son, he is too young to start a relationship.’  She thought and decided to tell her husband of what has been happening which didn’t take too long.

“Guys, I’m back.”  The father yelled out throughout the bakery and just like that his wife was in the doorway that led to the rooms with a serious expression.  “Don’t worry you know the John-yu’s wife doesn’t like beer so we had Root Beer and Chilli Dogs with the works.”  He said thinking of the 200 hundred dogs and 30 liters of soda.

“It’s not that it involves our son.”  She said, not caring what he had to eat with the guys.  After telling him everything that she had heard her husband thought of what to do even though he knew what to say.

“Takato.  Hey, come on down here sport.”  Takato’s father voice said upward.  The tamer, who was looking at his detailed pictures of him and the vixen, heard his father and responded.

“Ok, coming.”  On his way to his door he picked up the necklace that was on his desk and put it on, he then looked at the boxes that were still on his bed and thought of one thing, ‘She’s good, she took the ‘R’ too.  When he made it down to the bakery half he headed to the same table that they used for talking about going to the digital world.

“Now, Takato, your mother says that you are in love with Renamon, am I right.”  His father asked and Takato nodded.

“Yes, I do.  No, I do not see Renamon as a toy, I honestly love her and I would do what ever it takes to protect her.”  He said in his most sincere and serious tone.

“That’s good to hear.”  That was all that his father say.

“‘That’s good to hear’ that’s all your going to say.”  His wife question before adding one line that the men were ready for.  “I’m worried…”  As soon as she said that the two of them quickly answered.

“Your always worried.”  The both of them laughed at her expression.  While the mother wondered how the Nonoka family would react Takato was thinking of the sweet wink she gave him.