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Confessions and Explanations.

Third Person P.O.V.

Rika took a look at Kari and then to Takato, as he knelt to check on Kari. "Is there anything you want to say Gogglehead?" she asked. "Um...well you see uh..." Takato stuttered, "Well, remember when I first went to 'run into the Digidestined'?" he asked.

"Yeah and...?" Rika said with a bit of an edge. "Uh...well I kind of...CLUNK!" Takato started when a large doughnut pan fell on his head. The Gogglehead fell instantly while Rika's eyes widen for a second. She then looked up and saw Impmon sitting on the chandelier that hung in the throne room, with a doughnut in his mouth.

"Thanks a lot Impmon, I needed to talk to him about something." the redhead said with sarcasm. "Your welcome Rika. Maybe you ask the girl in pink, I think she's waking up." Impmon said as he went to play with Ai and Mako.

Rika glanced at Kari to see that the imp was right; Kari was starting to wake up. A somewhat evil thought ran through our favorite redhead. "Wh...w... what are you doing h... he...here?" Kari asked the scowling redhead above her. Curiosity was getting the better of her as she could not help but ask, though she was well scared out of her mind. Rika could sure do that to a person.

"Haven't you figured it out yet? I'm the Digimon Queen, and I have a few questions for you." She said with an overly sweet smile on her face, standing from her throne. "In fact, I need to ask what happened when you first met Takato."

"Takato? What does he have to do with this?" Kari asked, confused. She started to look around and gasped when she saw said boy unconscious on the floor. "What did you do to him?" Kari said accusingly.

"I had nothing to do with that actually, blame Impmon for that. Now on to the story, I'm getting impatient here." Rika said.

"Wait, so Takato is the..." Kari started, but was cut off by Rika, "Yes, he's the Digimon Knight, get on with it." she said, annoyed. Kari sighed, apparently, stalling wasn't going to work very well. She began the tale going through all of the losing battle they had with Takato. But left out the part when Takato has kissed her, but Rika was too smart for that. "I know there is something you're not telling me, so out with it." Rika said knowingly. Here Kari blushed, she didn't want to reveal this next part.

"Ah...well...he said somethings concerning you and then well..." Kari blushed even harder. "Yes...?" Rika said. "He kissed me." Kari said in a quiet voice, hoping that the redhead didn't hear her. Rika did and what little of her heart that was starting to mend, began to break again.

"Well, if you have any questions on why we are doing all of this, let me wake up Gogglehead and have a talk with him, then we will talk over dinner. Now go entertain yourself for about an hour, and don't try to escape." Rika said. Kari left the room to find those two kids that she saw earlier.

Rika on the other hand filled a bucket with ice cold water and dumped it on Takato. "Why did you do that, Rika." Takato asked. "We need to talk Gogglehead." Rika told him with some steel in her voice. "About what?" asked Takato. "The kiss you shared with Kari." Rika said with a glare. Takato paled. Rika continued to glare at Takato with such intensity that would kill most other boys (or men for that fact), but Takato took a deep breath.

"Well in my defense: One: I was in character, two: it was the heat of the moment, and three: it seemed like a good idea at the time. That's why I kissed Kari on the cheek." the Gogglehead stated as calmly as possible.

"That's the same thing that the guy who jumped into a bed of cactus said and wasn't that what you said about most of your ideas?" Rika questioned with a raised eyebrow. That when she registered that he only kissed her on the cheek.

"So you didn't give her one on the lips?" she asked, and Takato shook his no. He then continued pleading. "Okay, I get it, most of my ideas don't usually work out very well. But will you hear me out before you start planning my death." Takato said looking down.

"Fine, you got two minutes." the redhead said as she crossed arms over her chest. "Well, for a while now I have these feelings for you and I've been trying find out if you feel the same and tell you." Takato starts with a shaking voice. Then good old Gogglehead came and he started to ramble.

"And I came up with this crazy idea, and since they sometimes work, well better than my logical ones anyway, I thought that maybe using a girl the complete opposite of you, I can see if you liked me..." he was suddenly cut off by an awkward hug courtesy of Rika.

"Takato, please just once use that thick skull of yours and tell me what your common sense told you if you just told me." Rika told him gently, trying to calm him down.

"Well the first thing I thought you would do is simply laugh at me and then it got worse. You would insult me, slap me, humiliate me, and then they just got kind of crazy." Takato rambled on and on.

The strange thing was that Rika believed him. She knew that if it made sense in his head, it wouldn't in real life. Yes, she was still quite violent towards people in general but she did, oddly enough have a small soft spot for the Goggleheaded leader.

He gained her respect and trust a long time ago and knew that he wouldn't hurt her intentionally. And the weird thing was that his stunt didn't affect like she thought it would. In fact, it kind of touched her that he would do all of this just for her, risking his health and a few more things to see if she liked him that way and see if he can be with her. Ok, sure that sounded selfish but she knew that he did almost everything for her happiness. Yep, Rika now knew she was crazy.

"And then you said you were already dating Ryo." apparently Takato continue to explain himself while Rika was lost in thought. This comment made her snort involuntarily. Takato finally stopped talking to look at her.

"Takato, really? I can barely stand Ryo on my best days, how the Hell would I be able to date him." Rika responded, shivering at the mere thought of it.

"But you guys are the Digimon 'King and Queen', most people say you belong together." Takato said. At this Rika sweat-dropped. "And you really believe the rabid fan base that we have to deal with. And besides, there's another analogy that would fit me better." she said "Really? What is it?" Takato was curious now. "Well Takato, do you know how original Kings are normally chosen?" Rika asked, hoping that she can convince him. "Um...no... not really." Takato said, somewhat confused.

"They are usually the bravest, or craziest, Knight in the kingdom and had done some sort of great deed to them. And that Knight is selfless, kind, caring, loyal and a strong sense of justice. These were warrior kings, the first true kings and then the line would continue from there. Oh, and either the Queen or a Princess chooses them because of this." Rika explained.

"Okay...I still don't..." Takato continued to be confused. Rika really was getting a little impatient and nervous. If she wanted him to understand, she was going to have to put it in lamest terms, and be open to him and herself. That was something she wasn't used to. But it was something she had to do to show him what she felt.

"Ok, how's this. Since I'm the Digimon Queen, that means that get to choose who I want, and that person is you." Rika said sincerely. Suddenly, Takato looks down at the floor.

"You really mean that Rika?" Takato questioned in a small voice. Rika could feel that something was bothering him. Now this was starting to annoy her a bit. Here she was trying to convince the very same she has a crush on but it seems that he won't believe it. It was almost like...

"Takato, do you think you're not good enough for me?" Rika asked and after a couple of seconds he nodded. Now this really confused the redheaded Tamer. "Why do you think that?"

"Because! Your Rika Nonaka! Your rich, famous, beautiful and well, you. I'm just a boy from a bakery that has a Digimon obsession. Why would anyone ever choose me?" Takato explained sadly.

"Takato, you already know that I don't care about any of that stuff. And like you said, your one of my best friends and you are the person that helped me open up to other people like my mom and you guys. But doesn't Jeri still like you like that?" she asked. She really thought that he had at least gone on a date with Jeri before.

"Nope, she has a thing for Henry of all people. It's kind of weird if you ask me. Besides, didn't you think about why all of them chose me to ask you for a date to watch the cherry blossoms?" Takato chuckled slightly. Now that Rika thought about, she did wonder why it was Gogglehead that had asked her on a date back then, and then remembered that she never gave him answer to go with him.

"Yes, I'll go with you Takato." she said out of the blue, while said boy looked even more confused. "What are you talking about Rika?" he asked. "Man Takato, you really are a Gogglehead sometimes. I'm taking you up on your offer from that day, 'yes I'll go watch the cherry blossoms with you, on a date once we are done with this', does that spell it out enough for you Gogglehead?" Takato looked up at her with hope in his eyes.

"Really?" he asked. "Yes, really." she said. At that he picked her up and twirled her around. "Stop, stop, OKAY GOGGLEHEAD I GET IT!" Rika yelled out, laughing as she did. Once she back down, she punched him in his arm. "Ow, what was that for?" Takato asked, rubbing the part of his arm that was attacked.

"Simple, pull a stunt like that, I'll kicked your butt okay. I see you kiss another girl and you'll be out cold." Rika said to him, then giving him the biggest hug she ever gave anyone. And then a voice interrupted.

"I hope that I'm interrupted something you two." a voice said. Both Tamers instantly sprang apart, blushing like mad when they heard Impmon speak. "It's time for dinner and our guest is getting impatient." he said.

Rika, Takato, and Impmon left the throne room and soon entered a small informal dining room where Ai, Mako, Guilmon, Renamon, and Kari were waiting. "If you've got questions. Now's the time to ask them." Rika said as she sat down. "For one what is going on here?" Kari asked. "We're here trying to prevent a disaster more dangerous than any world has ever known." Takato said. "Isn't that the job of the Digidestined? Why hasn't Azulongmon told us of any threat?" Kari said. "To answer your first question, normally you be right. But this started outside your jurisdiction. The reason why Azulongmon hasn't told you anything is that this is my mistake that I need to fix." he said.

"What's that supposed to mean?" she asked. "This whole mess started because an old cleanup program attacked our home town of Shinjuku, we're form the southern quadrant which has its own regular and digital world, any way after Rika, myself, and our friends stopped the cleanup program things sort of went back to normal, but every once in a while, you'd hear a snide comment against virus types, blaming them for the cleanup program's attack, made by humans and Digimon. It wasn't until a few months later after a failed invasion of Parasimon, that a mass Genocide against virus types began. Most of my team got involved, but not Rika and my second in command and his sister. Foolishly I started saving virus digimon that appeared in our world, until a week ago I took my ex-friends that were involved with the genocide the digimon I saved. We were attacked by the oldest digimon I saved. The leader swore to return add destroy the human race. After we got away my ex-friends grabbed me and threatened to delete my partner, Guilmon, if I didn't surrender my digivice. I refused and had Guilmon fire a low powered attack at the feet of my captors. Now you know what's going on." Takato said,

"if you tried to reason with the digimon surely they'd stop. Even if they didn't you don't java to completely delete them." Kari said. "The foolish ideals of a dreamer." He laughed mirthlessly. "It seems you and TK have lost your touch. I guess this generation just doesn't have what it takes. The first generation faced the black gear digimon, Devimon, Etemon, Myotismon, The Dark Master, and Apocalymon. But they pulled through. Would you have felt satisfied that Wizardmon didn't sacrifice himself in vain if you just knocked Myotismon out? Some virus type digimon have good in them, but other don't. you need to grow up and stop playing Russian Roulette with your friends live, and your own, at stake. before one of you loses their lives." He said, before slamming down his fork and knife. "I've lost my appetite. Meet me out side in an hour and I'll takr you to the nearest portal so you can go home." Takato said, then walked out.

Takato P.O.V.

I sat on my bed and pulled out the communicator Yamaki gave me. "It's me I need a favor…"