a/n: hello minna! i’m back with another jenruki!!! yeah! the title was inspired by a quote from a Ryo/Ruki site I went... (don’t hit me.. i went there accidentally...)

amyho.. this is a AU, doesn’t related to the Tamers plot at all, and Henry and Rika don’t know each other... all the tamers are around the age of 17-18.^^. please review!


More than Rivals


“ Rika I’m going to miss you dear!” the girl’s mom cried, hugging her only daughter tightly in her arms, making the 17 years old girl choke.

“ *Choke* Mom, cut it out! *choke* it’s embarrassing, and *choke* I can’t talk!” the girl said difficulty. The lady soften her arms around her daughter, tears coming out from her eyes.

“ Rika, I’m really going to miss you.” she said in tears. The girl sighed at her emotional mother.

“ Me too Mom, besides it’s only for few weeks. And you were the one who wanted to go at the first place.” Rika replied, trying to make her mother feel better.

“ Yeah, you are right, I hope you have a good time there.” the woman sniffed, then use some tissue wiped away her tears, and a smile appear on her face.

Rika turned to a older lady standing besides her mother.

“ I’m going to miss you grandma.” she said, with a small smile.

“ Me too Rika.” the old lady smiled back at her granddaughter.

“ And remember Rika, once you got to Uncle Janyu’s house, behave yourself, you can’t act the way like you act at your own house. Show respect and manners to Uncle Janyu’s family. “ her mother said in a serious tone.

“ Yeah, I know mom.”

‘ The flight from Tokyo to Okasa(sp?) is about to take off. All passengers please head towards the gate and ready to enter the plane.’ a female voice spreading out through the airport.

“ I think I have to go now,” Rika said, picking up her suitcase from the ground. “ Bye mom, bye grandma.” with that she turned and began to walk away.

“ Bye Rika!” her mother cried, tears began to coming out from her eyes again. But the old lady just watched and smiled as her granddaughter began to enter the gate.

***
Rika sat in her seat comfortably, no one was sitting besides her. She sighed, and closed her eyes trying to get some rest, it’s going to take at least few hours getting from Tokyo to Okasa. (a/n: I don’t know.)

‘ Great, now I have to spend my summer holiday in some Uncle’s house with his family who I never met or knew before.’ She sighed again as she recalled how she ended up here.

A week before....

+Flash back+

“ Rumiko, there’s a letter for you from Okasa.” Rika’s grandmother said, giving a letter to her daughter. Rika’s mother took the letter in her hand, unwrapped it, began to read. Rika sat there silently as she watched her mother read the letter, her grandma was sitting on the other side of the table, and with her mother was sitting the opposite to Rika. Three of them squatting on the floor, with a cup of tea in each of their hand.

Rumiko put down the letter after she read it, surprise and excitement showed on her face.

“ Mother! Rika!” she cried in excitement, “ it’s Janyu!” Rika’s grandmother’s eyes were widened. Put down her tea cup.

“Really?” she asked in surprised, “ What’s the letter say.”

“ Janyu invited us to visit his family next week, he said that Mrs. Wong really wants to meet us again, it’s been so long since we last met.” Rika sat there, listening to her mother and grandma talk, totally confused, but she didn’t say anything.

“Oh, that’s great! This year we can bring Rika along with us again” grandma said, both her and Rika’s mother turned to look at Rika with a smile on their face.

“ What you say Rika?” her mother asked. Rika looked even more confused.

“ Who’s Janyu? And where are we going? what you mean by ‘again’?” Rika’s mother smiled more.

“ Janyu is a very old, and good friend of our family, he and his family use to live in Tokyo too, but they moved about 10 years ago, now they are living in Okasa. The last time we went visit them you were still young, so you wouldn’t remember. This year you are coming with us again!” her mom exclaimed excitedly.

Rika rolled her eyes, “ I’m not going.” she said in a plane tone.

“ What? You have to Rika, we can’t leave you here alone in Tokyo, we are going to be away at least for a month!” Rumiko exclaimed.

“ So what, I’m old enough to take care of myself.” Rika replied.

“ But Rika--”

“Rika,” the old lay cut her daughter off, calling Rika gently.

Rika turned her head to her grandma, “ Grandma?”

“ Please come with us, I’m sure you would be fun.”

“ But I don’t even know who they are, who is this Janyu Uncle anyway?” Rika asked, annoyed alittle.

“ Like I said earlier, he’s family and our family were very good friends. He has a son your age, a older daughter, a older son, and a smaller daughter. You’ve met them all, but that was long ago, you were still very young, that’s why you don’t remember them. But Uncle Janyu still remember you, and their family really likes you as well..” Her mother answered. Rika rolled her eyes again.

“ And besides, if we leave you alone here, and go there without you, we would you worry about you all the time. You don’t really want us to worry, and can’t have a good time, do you?” her grandma continued.

“Oh, and I remember the last time we went there, you and that boy Henry got along very well, you two always seemed to be closer, we spend the whole summer at their house, you two didn’t even fight once! Unlike the other kids in the house, fighting with each other all time. You two were so cute together, playing hide and seek! Oh and-”

“Okay mom! I got the point!” Rika exclaimed, cutting off her mother from going on and on.

“So does that mean you are coming?” her mom asked, grinning at Rika.

“No, I don’t remember any of what you just said.”

“Okay, then I’ll remind you all the time, until you remember them, then we can go.”

Rika looked at her mom, then sighed, “Okay I’ll go.”

+End of Flash Back+

Rika sighed again, it annoyed her alot when her mother talked about that boy and her when she was little. She frowned as she thought the reason why her mom and grandma had to stay at Tokyo. Which was another long story...

+Flash Back+

It was about two days ago, when they were all ready to leave for Janyu’s house, Rika’s mom was rather excited, and happy.

‘Ring.....Ring.....’ Rumiko picked up her cell phone and brought it to her ear.

“ Hello? Rumiko speaking.”

“Hello Ms Nonaka, we have some news for you.” a male’s voice came from the other side and began to talk with Rumiko. She listened carefully, stayed in silence, sometimes nodding her head in response while saying ‘okay’s and ‘uh-huh’s. Rika and her grandma just watched her for a while, and turned their attention away from her.

After a few minutes, Rumiko nodded one last time, “ Okay, thank you every much Mr Tamachi for calling me. Bye.” she said politely and pressed a button on her cell phone to hang up. Then she turned to Rika and the older lady.

“ What was that all about dear?” the old lady asked in concern as she saw the look on her daughter face was full of disappointment, and sadness.

“ I think we have to cancel the visit to Janyu’s house mom.” Rumiko sighed.

Rika’s face suddenly lightened up, “ REALLY?!” Rika exclaimed in happiness, her violet eyes were shining. Rumiko and Rika’s grandma turned their head to look at her.

The look on Rika’s face switched back to her normal expression, and coughed in a fake tone, “I - I mean.... oh that’s too bad.”

Rumiko and Rika’s grandma turned their gaze back to each other again, “ So what happened?” the older lady asked.

Rika’s mother sighed, “ Mr. Tamachi, my manager just called, said that I have to stay in Tokyo for a big fashion conference that’s going to be a few days later, and after the conference I’ll need to hold a reporter conference to tell the reporters about the fashion conference. After that I’ll have more work to do, which will assign to me later on.”

Rika and her grandma listened carefully, Rika was secretively glad that her mother had to stay in Tokyo so that they wouldn’t have to visit some Uncle she never met. Even though she knew them before, Rika still didn’t like going to other people house.

“ So what are we going to do now?” Rika’s grandma asked.

“ I think I’ll just have to tell Janyu that we wouldn’t make it this summer.” Rumiko sighed, then walk towards the phone, and looked into the phone book which was hanging on the wall, and dialed a group of numbers. She waited for about few seconds, and then started talking again

Rika listened, as her mom and Janyu began to exchange greetings, and then she started explaining the situation, apology one after another. Then Rika saw her mom paused for a while, the expression on her face slowly began to change, her lips formed a big grin on her face, and smiling happily as she listened to the phone.

Rika looked confused at the look on her mother’s face, but she got a feeling it wasn’t something good, for her at least. Finally, Rumiko hang up the phone happily, and turned to Rika, the grin on her face got wider.

“ Good news Rika! You can still visit Uncle Janyu, but you have to go there alone since me and grandma have to stay in Tokyo.” Rumiko announced.

“ What?!” Rika exclaimed in surprise, her eyes staring at her mother in shock. “ Why?”

“ Because Uncle Janyu and his family really wants to meet you. They said it’s really too bad that we can’t come along, but it would still be very nice that if you would go. You see Rika, Uncle Janyu and his family really likes you.” Rumiko explained, smiling at her daughter.

Rika rolled her eyes, and looked at her grandma, “ what about grandma, why couldn’t she come with me?”

The old lady laughed softly, “ I think I better stay here, ‘cause I got a feeling that your mother is going to need me more than you do. And besides, I’m getting old now.”

“Then, there’s no way I’m going there alone!” Rika exclaimed.

Her grandma just smiled at her, “ You are not alone, you just need to get there alone, when you get off from the plane there would be people waiting for you there. And you would live with Uncle Janyu’s family. They have so many kids, one is at your age, you are not going to be lonely, and all of their kids are very nice. Especially the boy that your mother told you about, Henry.”
“But-”

Rumiko instantly cut her off, “ Don’t’ worry Rika, it would be fun living with Uncle Janyu’s family. And besides, they really likes you.”

Rika sighed, then walked out from the room without another word.

+End of Flash+

Rika sighed again heavily, she’s not even there yet and she’s already regret it.

‘Great, now I have to spend my summer break at some Uncle’s house who I never met or knew before! How did this happened anyway?’ Rika thought, angry at herself.

She looked outside the window, the plane was already flying in the high sky, all she could see were clouds. She turned her gaze away, no one was sitting besides her still.

Her mind began to wondering, ‘Who is this Henry boy anyway?? I can’t seem to remember anything.... oh well... ‘

She then closed her eyes trying to take a nap, knowing the fact that it would be a long way.

***
End of Chapter One

a/n: hope you liked chapter one. I know that was really crappy, and it’s long too. I tried to add Henry into this chapter, but then it would be too long for one chapter. There isn’t any romance yet, but it will come up soon!^^ and sorry for any grammar spelling mistakes please review!!

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