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The RyuRyu Bakery: Today Double!
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Post by Rai Ryuichi on Mar 13, 2023 3:50:05 GMT
Rai stood outside his parent's bakery yet again on a Tuesday morning, opening up the front of the shop to let the aromas of all the fresh breads, pastries, cookies and other baked goods waft out into the street. "RyuRyu Bakery is now open!" he once again called out to passersby in a surprisingly spirited tone-- for himself at least.
He'd only recently begin to break out of his shell, having suppressed his emotions for most of his life. It had been pretty normal for him to do this with a lack of tone that made people think he was dead inside.
Thankfully it was a popular bakery, which meant Rai generally hadn't had to to try very hard, but the customers had definitely taken notice of his improved mood. He wasn't quite full of enthusiasm but it was a marked improvement.
"Daily special on chocolate cookies! Buy two cookies and get one of our ganache filled cupcakes half off!" he called out.
Everyone on the street had previously become well used to him not showing much in the way of emotion; people always came regardless for their favorite baked goods. His father's bakery had almost everything, from biscotti and cannoli, to muffins and danishes, cakes and cookies, breads and sandwiches-- and many many other kinds of baked goods that he couldn't name yet.
Of course this meant his parents were always baking, and rarely had time for him. But it was okay. He had a few friends these days-- one of them was the white cat with strange eyelash-like markings above its eyes that liked to sit at his feet and sway like a reed. Y2K actually looked like a sort of wacky blue jellyfish with arms, but the holosuit meant he didn't have to stay in the digivice all the time.
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Post by Ryu Yoshida on Mar 13, 2023 4:21:29 GMT
"And the reason why I have to stop by before the arcade is that I have the same name as this bakery?" Ryu asked as he and Daten were standing in front of the building with a sign that said "RyuRyu Bakery" on the top.
Yep, yep! A name with your name repeated two times is funny!
Ryu groaned at the context of his Kuramon's joke. "I know you love to joke around and all, but the execution of that joke could have been better."
Hey! A joke is a joke!
"Right." Ryu sighed before he turned to look at the front of the bakery. "Still, their bread and chocolate cookies look delicious. Thank goodness we have enough allowance from our Digital World trip. Let's see if we buy some for both us and Dad's."
He then entered the bakery with Daten still inside his backpack peeking out from the half-opened zipper. It took him a few minutes to window shop around as he felt a bit overwhelmed by the grand selection of pastries and bread on display. He wanted to choose some right now, but...
Ryu, Ryu!
The boy groaned as he grabbed his phone, not wanting to pull Daten out and have some kids rat him out for carrying a plush everywhere at the wrong time.
Please don't tell me you have another lame joke to tell, he texted.
No, no! I sense a Digimon! And it's something familiar!
Ryu dropped his exasperation when he read this. Familiar? But I thought Ferrost is back at CAT Street and Dad is still at work and his Digimon is still with him.
I know, but it's something very familiar. To me, at least.
He groaned at this. There was no way he would start searching around the bakery for Digimon, but something about his wording made him wonder what he meant.
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Post by Rai Ryuichi on Mar 13, 2023 5:00:24 GMT
Rai perked his head and looked over in the direction where his 'cat' had moved from his side to follow a customer into the store.
Y2K had followed the boy with the backpack into the store and was ready to pounce on the backpack before he was suddenly picked up. "What are you doing?" asked an unimpressed sounding Rai holding him up in front of him at arms length. "You know you're not allowed inside the shop."
Y2K twisted around in his grip trying to face the backpack. "Hellooo!" he said excitedly forgetting that cats do not talk. This caused Rai to take on hand off of Y2K to gently rap him on the head with Rai's knuckles. "You mean meowww."
Y2K twisted around, only being held in one hand getting Rai to drop him. "No, I mean Helloooo!"
Someone was looking at them oddly. Rai quickly chuckled, "Ah, just our ventriloquism act." which caused the person to thankfully disregard them... for now.
He picked him his 'cat' again and this time held his cat close to his chest, quietly asking him, "Do you want to go in the Digivice?"
"Can you come with me?"
"No."
"Then I don' wanna!" said the 'cat' quietly.
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Post by Ryu Yoshida on Mar 13, 2023 15:27:11 GMT
Even with Daten's warning, he knew it wasn't enough to react appropriately in public. For now, he should act normally for now while texting his Kuramon who was still in the bag. Just keep an eye on them and see if you can find them.
If anything, Daten's great perception should help them detect the Digimon currently in the bakery.
No worries! In fact, I'm gonna try meeting them right now!
Ryu's eyes when he read the reply. "Wait, what?!"
Before he knew it, he watched the small gray Digimon leave his backpack and started heading to the young man near the entrance. "You idiot! I said to observe them, not going around like a rat!" Ryu quietly scolded. "Come back here!"
Ryu quietly chased the Kuramon around the bakery until eventually, he reached the young man holding a cat and started to crawl onto his leg. Of course, he even sent a text to the young man's phone.
Hello!
Whether the young man and the cat took notice or not, Ryu was quick enough to grab Daten and said, "Oh, I'm very sorry! My toy plush malfunctioned and I accidentally drop it and..."
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Post by Rai Ryuichi on Mar 13, 2023 20:25:10 GMT
Rai casually checked his phone and smirked before looking at the familiar baby digimon in the stranger's arm. "Right... plush toy."
Y2K however spoke again, replying to his favorite word with his favorite word, "Hello!" before Rai put a hand over his mouth. "Why don't you buy something, and we sit down over there and talk?" he said indicating a round table with an umbrella that was out of the way, set to the side of the bakery's front. "My cat is eager to meet new friends."
Now that one might see, the markings above the cat's eyes were identical to a Keramon's 'eyebrows'.
Rai pulled out a coupon and gently placed it on top of the Kuramon. -Free Smoothie (with an order of two or more items)-.
"I'll be waiting. No need to rush though." he told the stranger (whom he was certain was a Tamer) with a peculiar sort of calm, almost stoic demeanor.
Rai checked his watch before he shrugged and meandered over to the table in question to take a seat with his cat, leaving the new boy to order something inside.
Y2K sat on the table, strangely swaying side to side like a reed in an imaginary wind, while Rai did his best to gently but firmly scold him for his behavior.
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Post by Ryu Yoshida on Mar 14, 2023 14:49:02 GMT
Ryu was surprised to see that the boy wasn't weirded out by Daten's text and the fact he almost tried to crawl over his leg. Not only that, he simply responded by giving him a coupon for a smoothie and wanting to talk with his cat. Now that he thought about it, he did hear the cat say hello many times. He thought he was imagining things or that Daten could talk. But now that he took a closer look at it, he noticed some familiar eyebrows on that cat.
See, see? There's another me!
He sighed once he saw Daten's text. "More like another Kuramon or Keramon. Still, they are friendly. Let's hear them out what they say first."
Not wanting to waste the coupon, he went to buy some chocolate cookies for them to share, a milk chocolate smoothie for himself, and a few chocolate chip brownies in case Daten might scarf the cookies by accident. Once he got his orders, he left the bakery and joined the boy and his cat(?) by the table with an umbrella and noticed him scolding the cat while sitting down and letting Daten out of his backpack again. He guessed their dynamic was a bit different than his and Daten's.
"Okay. I'm guessing both of us need some introductions and explanations for all of this," Ryu spoke up to the boy. "Is that cat your Digimon?"
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Post by Rai Ryuichi on Mar 14, 2023 19:00:05 GMT
Rai took notice of exactly what this new boy had bought from inside and made a mental note of it.
"Mhm." Rai replied casually as he himself opened a simple pack of chocolate pocky sticks, "This here is Y2K."
The 'cat' interrupted to say "Hellooo!" again.
Rai nodded before picking up again, "He's got a holosuit on so he can be outside my digivice without attracting too much attention... convenient right?" He patted his 'cat' on the head. "Except when he can't seem to control himself, because another digimon comes along."
"Thats because always new friends! Kekeke!" Y2K cackled cheerfully. The friendly jellyfish was always more concerned with making friends than the consequences of if things could go south. It had nearly got them both killed once. But he wasn't trying to think about that. They were in the human world! What was the worst thing that could go wrong?
Rai popped a stick of pocky in his teeth, "Oh that's right. I'm Rai Ryuichi. My parents own the bakery." Rai mentioned as if owning a bakery was the same as owning a bike. "You got a Kuramon. Does he become a Keramon too? Did he pop out of your computer screen?"
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Post by Ryu Yoshida on Mar 15, 2023 9:02:41 GMT
Y2K? Like the bug he heard from the internet about how everything might break down from it or something? Ryu has to admit, it seemed to be a perfect nickname for someone like Rai's Keramon. "I agree. Though I wish I can convince mine to wear one. He's grown too attached to his Kuramon form." He turned to Daten, who was busy scarfing down some cookies by his side just as he heard a ping from his phone.
Hello, new friend! I'm Daten!
Ryu sighed. As carefree as ever, he thought.
"The name's Ryu Yoshida and as you can see from his text, that's Daten," he introduced himself before he took a bite of one of the cookies. "As for him, he can turn into a Keramon like yours. Though the only difference is that I found him near a computer at an abandoned building as an egg. I brought it with me before he hatched out of it and we became buddies ever since."
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Post by Rai Ryuichi on Mar 16, 2023 6:49:48 GMT
Rai smiled at the phone while Y2K tried to paw the phone in his cat disguise, "Hello new friend! I'm Y2K!" as Ryu explained how he met his partner, Daten.
To Rai's own surprise, this caused him to smirk and actually laugh a bit. "Really? Ah, that's lucky. Y2K's egg came as a png in an e-mail one night after I'd finished my homework. Then in the morning the egg in the image had hatched and he'd eaten everything else on my laptop but the operating system." His mirth melted as quickly as it came, returning to a straight face.
"So what kind of building was it? Did you know anything about it?" he quizzed, curious what kind of place you just found Digimon. The computer he thought sort of made sense. But was it really that common for pathways between worlds to just open and spit out eggs in random places? Even now there was a lot he didn't know or really get.
"Maybe there are more Digi-Eggs there! Did you check?" the 'cat' asked excitedly. Maybe it was some sort of special egg building in the human world! "Maybe there are LOTS of Digi-Eggs! It sounds like an adventure!"
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Post by Ryu Yoshida on Mar 16, 2023 18:30:45 GMT
Daten hopped like a ball happily. Hi new friend!
As for Ryu, he listened to how Rai got his Keramon and gasped after that. "Even your homework? Man, talk about a glutton! Thank goodness I managed to stop mine before he deleted my games. Lately, he just ate some spam mail that's been invading my inbox in my phone," Ryu explained. "Although, having my homework eaten could be a good excuse..."
No, bad! Bad Ryu! Dad will get mad!
That was the few times Daten had to be serious and sounded scared even in text. Ever since they knew Ryosuke was a Tamer, he and Ryu were surprised of his father's hidden side during their past adventures in the Digital World. And Ryu was aware of it.
"Right, sorry..." He then turned back to Rai when he and Y2K asked them if there were more Digi-Eggs at the abandoned building where he found Daten's egg. "It's an abandoned one-floor office that was near my school. I played outside of it all the time with my toy guys. We did come back there after Daten was born. But we couldn't find anymore of them inside."
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Post by Rai Ryuichi on Mar 17, 2023 20:36:34 GMT
He shrugged after hearing about the rather uninteresting sounding after all building. "Well at least you checked. I guess some kind of digi-to-real anomaly could have deposited him there." he pondered. That sort of think being able to happen was potentially alarming... but he was sure it didn't happen too often...
Okay, 'sure' wasn't the right word but he didn't really want to think about the implications.
"I won't deny he is a glutton." he said replying to the previous remark. "I need to feed him 2.75 - 3 gigabytes of junk mail every day or it becomes a problem." he said patting the 'cat' on the head with a smirk.
"It's more concerning in the Digital World. Y2K sees anything composed of data--that isn't moving on its own-- as potential food." Rai took a new poky stick and gestured with it at Y2K's face, to which the 'cat' turned up its nose. Maybe Y2K didn't like human food?
"He converts everything that gets into his mouth into primitive 1s and 0s, and absorbs the resulting binary. We can't pass anything new without Y2K asking me if he can eat it." he continued to expound casually.
"How much does Datten eat regularly?" he asked curious to learn more about the differences between their two similar Digimon.
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Post by Ryu Yoshida on Mar 18, 2023 16:36:10 GMT
As he sipped on his chocolate smoothie, Ryu listened to Rai's explanation of his Keramon's diet, which was a big pain in the neck on his end. "You can say the same. I need to feed Daten with spam mail and some files I don't need anymore, including cookies that have been filling up the storage. And I don't mean the ones he's eating right now."
When the topic of the Digital World came up, Ryu looked at his Kuramon, who was still enjoying the cookies. "Well, a Trailmon warned us not to eat random stuff during our first trip to the Digital World. And I had the same issues when we pass by some stuff. But in some cases, I did take advantage of Daten's gluttony on occasions such as eating some rubble to save a Digimon. At least he knows the difference between snow and ice cream."
Ryu hummed as he tried to recall how many did he ate lately. "Probably about 2 gigabytes or more, which means I had to find any spam mail I can find not just in my inbox. Thank goodness Dad is willing to share his inbox or else, I have to sneak into my school's computer lab again. Don't ask."
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Post by Rai Ryuichi on Mar 19, 2023 3:51:12 GMT
Rai nodded, "I actually opened two new e-mail addresses of my own, bento1@ and bento2@. Then I used a bot to offer and sign those two addresses up to every mailing list, spammer, scammer, and donation solicitor it could find. Soon enough, I had tens of thousands of e-mails each day for Y2K." In his opinion it was absolutely necessary. That with the fact he didn't trust Y2K with the freedom to roam multiple directories... and discern spam and non-spam.
"We learned lots of restaurants in the Digital World have a special high data menu! After one meal I only wanted a snack!" Y2K supplied enthusiastically. It was a huge thing to learn about for them.
Ra proceeded to remark dryly, "Since you are never full? Yeah, I count only being peckish as being well fed."
"Ehehehehe!" cackled the 'cat' causing someone to look over for a moment before moving on.
Rai glanced the person's way before he took the pocky stick in his hand and began quietly munching on it.
"Anyway, if you wanted help setting up something similar... I could probably help out." he said with half a pocky stick in his mouth, making the offer blandly.
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Post by Ryu Yoshida on Mar 20, 2023 8:23:29 GMT
Two email addresses? He never thought of that before. "Sounds like an interesting plan. Dad is running out of spam mail for Daten to eat soon, so I'll let you set it up if he agrees to do so."
So more data for me, Ryu?
Ryu smiled as he stroke his Kuramon's head. "Yep, more data. If you keep your promise not to eat anything valuable like our files, photos, and the Digital World itself."
Yay! I promise! I promise!
He then turned to Rai next. "But this is still a huge help, Rai. Daten gets to eat more spam while those scammer jerks send us mail that we might never open anyway. A win-win victory! But yeah, I'll try to keep him away from my emails when feeding him data. I hate homework, but I don't want to see my teachers and Dad angry."
Ryu and Daten briefly trembled at the mention of his father.
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Post by Rai Ryuichi on Mar 22, 2023 1:17:27 GMT
Rai nods, writing down a phone number and an e-mail address on a box flap he ripped from his pocky box. "Let me know what your Dad says then, and if he gives the all clear we can meet up, or set it up over our devices." he said passing the small rectangle of cardboard over.
"Speaking of devices... isn't there some sort of neat thing on your D-Terminal for talking with other Tamers?" Y2K asked, wondering why Rai was writing these things down.
"I never actually signed up for Tamernet. Never got around to it." Rai replied, casually putting the end of another pocky stick in his mouth. "Besides, most of our friends are digimon, not tamers."
"Not an excuse! Not an excuse!" the 'cat' pressed scoldingly, bapping the pocky stick out of his tamer's lips. He thought it could be really useful! Useful for meeting up and having fun!
Rai shrugged, "That excited about it huh? Maybe I'll consider it a bit more." giving a bland reply and drawing another pocky stick.
Y2K simultaneously put his cat head and butt on the table like he was a slinky, thinking this was less than the response he was hoping for.
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