Well, since Durbe-chan asked for it, here is the party chapter! Yeah, I made this one short because there really isn't much to describe...actually I'm just tired! I'm working on this and my other stories as well...Wish me luck!

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal or "Lazos".


As Kaito took Rio to her house that night, Ryouga was already there. You can imagine the reaction he had when he saw his little sister holding on to the arm of a 18-year-old guy. He began yelling at Kaito. Kaito, of course, just stood there. Rio was the one yelling back.

Well, after both Ryouga and Rio finished changing into something presentable (Is that the right word?), they all walked to the tower. On the way, Ryouga mentioned how he found Haruto and Orbital on the way here. Haruto gave him his card and told him about the party. But Ryouga didn't want to say anymore. Even though he didn't say anymore, Kaito and Rio both knew what Ryouga asked next and what was Haruto's response.

Finally, they made it to the tower. From just standing on the outside, the three already knew that everyone, everyone, Haruto gave a card to was already there. All that were left were them.

"Well...Should we go in?" Rio asked the two guys standing on each of her side. Of course, both of them stayed silent. Rio rolled her eyes and began walking inside. "Come on, Ryouga! Kaito!" She then walked fully inside.

Kaito and Ryouga stayed standing for a while. Ryouga then commented, "I'm surprised she didn't push us forcefully in..."

Kaito sighed. "Let's just go in..." Kaito walked inside with Ryouga following close behind...


Inside the tower...

Wow...If you would have gone into the party, you would have thought it was a wedding ceremony or something! Kaito sighed when he looked around the over-decorated tower. 'Haruto...You really overdid yourself...I guess that-'

"Kaito." A voice interrupted him from his thoughts. Kaito looked up to see Droite and Gauche smiling at him.

Kaito just stared back at them. "Droite. Gauche."

"Happy Valentine's Day," Droite said as she gave Kaito a box of chocolate. Kaito hesistated a bit that wasn't even noticeable before he accepted it. "I made the chocolate myself."

Gauche nodded, confirming Droite's words. "That's true! You should have seen her making a mess in the kitchen-Ouch!" Gauche exclaimed when Droite elbowed him.

"Stop telling him unecessary details!" Droite told Gauche. But Gauche just laughed.

Kaito half-smiled at them. "Yeah...Do you guys know where Haruto is?"

Gauche and Droite turned to each other. In reality, they saw Haruto about five minutes ago. But Haruto told them that he was going to try to avoid his older brother for as long as he could because he had another surprise up his sleeve that his older brother will try to stop.

"No...We haven't seen Haruto at all," Droite answered. Kaito narrowed his eyes at her, so Droite turned her gaze on Gauche. Kaito knew that they were lying. Gauche and Droite knew that he knew that they were lying. Before Kaito could call them out on it, he was interrupted by Chris.

"Kaito," Chris greeted.

Wasting no time, Gauche and Droite took this opportunity to escape. "Well! We will just let you speak with V! I'm sure you guys have a lot to catch up on!" Gauche hurriedly said as he and Droite practically ran out of there.

Kaito sighed before he turned to Chris. "Chris. How are you today? How's your relationship going?"

Chris answered, "Fine. It was just a normal day. Except I took Akari out to lunch today and followed her in one of her famous scoops. Even though we barely begun dating, we have gotten to know each other better."

Kaito smiled. One of those rare smiles that only his family and Chris ever got to see. "I see. I hope it continues like that for you guys."

Chris nodded. "Thank you. What about you? Haven't you thought about a relationship with a girl?"

Kaito shook his head. "I don't have time for any of those things."

Chris smirked. Typical Kaito. "Well, just warning you, don't say that to Thomas."

Kaito looked at his mentor confusedly. "Why?"

Chris sighed. "That guy has been wanting to play Cupid since Halloween. He's right now putting mistletoes around the place." When Chris finished saying that, both him and Kaito turned to see Thomas with a sneaky, evil expression. Chris and Kaito couldn't help but sweatdrop.

'We are going to have to be more careful then...' Chris and Kaito thought. Before Kaito and Chris could continue their conversation, they were interrupted by-

"Hey! Kaito! V!" Yuma shouted as he and his gang ran up to them. "How are you guys liking the party?!"

Chris and Kaito sweatdropped again. Weren't they supposed to be asking that? "It's...fine..." Kaito managed to say. "But Haruto overdid himself-"

"Actually! Haruto asked me to help him with the decorations and setting up the party! And then I asked him if my friends could also help. He said yes, so we all worked together on the decorations! The more the merrier right?!"

Chris twitched while Kaito sighed. 'No wonder the decorations are over-the-top.' "I see..." Kaito managed to say. But then he asked, "Have any of you guys seen Haruto?"

Yuma's friends looked at each other and shook their heads, but Yuma nodded. "Yeah! I have! He's right over there with Shark's imouto!" Yuma excitedly exclaimed as he pointed to Haruto who was indeed speaking to Rio.

Kaito narrowed his eyes at their direction. He turned to Chris, who nodded and quickly left, and then turned to the gang. "I have business to attend to. Excuse me." As soon as he said those words, Kaito walked towards Haruto and Rio's direction.


"So can you do that for today's party Rio-san?! Please?!" Haruto asked and pleaded as he was trying to get Rio to agree to do something.

"W-Well...You see Haruto, I'm not really..." Rio trailed off when she saw Haruto's puppy expression. Rio quickly rethought of something to say. "W-Well...I could try..." She saw Haruto's face brighten up, but then she quickly added, "But I can't promise you anything that it would be 'spectacular' as you said."

Haruto nodded. "Don't worry Rio-san! I'm sure that anything you do is specta-" Haruto stopped in mid-sentence when he saw who was coming. "Rio-san! I have to go! I think I left the chicken in the oven!" He didn't even stay around to hear her goodbye because he just left running.

Rio looked confusedly at Haruto's quick retreating figure. "Why-?" Rio was interrupted when she felt a hand on her shoulder. Her eyes widened in surprise as she turned to the person next to her. "Kaito?"

"What did my brother say?" he immediately asked.

Rio blinked up at him. "He...told me not to tell you..."

Kaito stared at her out of the corner of his eye. "So you have no plans on telling me?" Kaito asked, sounding as if that idea was unbelievable.

"W-Well he told me that he wanted this to be a surprise for you..." Rio said unsurely.

Kaito turned, keeping his hand on her shoulder, fully stood in front of her, and glared at her. "Don't you think I've had enough surprises for one day?"

Rio couldn't help it anymore. She burst out laughing, which caused her and Kaito to get the attention of everyone in the room. Kaito never liked and never will like surprises. He also never liked attention. And never will. "Why are you laughing? You know that you are disturbing everyone right?"

It took her a while, but Rio finally stopped laughing. She straightened up and looked around her. About half of the people have stopped staring at them, but the other half was still looking. That other half including Gauche and Droite. Droite sent a glare towards Rio, but Rio didn't notice. Instead, she smirked at Kaito.

"Oh really? Is that the best excuse you can come up with?" Rio's smirk slowly faltered, slowly, but surely, when Kaito glared deeply at her.

"Whatever. What. Did. My. Brother. Tell. You?" Kaito asked in a menancing voice.

Rio gulped. Man, when this guy is scary, this guy is SCARY. Rio looked around for some escape route or something. Kaito noticed and was about to do something about that, but he was interrupted by his very own brother. Rio, on the other hand, was saved by his brother. Haruto was standing on a stage-like platform and speaking via a microphone.

"Attention everyone! Since today is Valentine's Day as we all know (Yeah. Just go along with the story.), I decided to have a little music for you guys!" Haruto announced, his voice booming the room and stressing the word "music". At his declaration, everyone started whispering.

"Music? But that is common in parties. Why would Haruto..." Gauche stated, but then he trailed off when he realized what Haruto meant. Gauche then smirked. "That little cunning boy."

Droite turned to Gauche. "What? What do you mean? What is Haruto planning?"

Gauche pointed towards Kaito and Rio's direction. "Matchmaking."

Droite followed his finger and widened her eyes. "WHAT?!"

Before Droite could do anything, Haruto spoke into the microphone again. "Now everyone! Please welcome to the stage, Kamishiro Rio-san!" For some reason, the room burst out clapping (The people in the room, not the room itself.), save for few. The rest were too shocked at the news because they had not been expecting this. Ryouga, of course, was one of them.

"WHAT?! Why does she need to go on stage?!" the overprotective brother exclaimed.

Rio heard his outburst (Actually, everyone did.) and turned to him and smiled. "You'll find out!" The nervousness she had before was slowly disintegrating.

Kaito looked at Rio suspiciously. "Why are you going to sing?" Of course, Kaito would have already figured it out.

At this, Rio smiled even wider, if that was even possible. Kaito stared blankly at her. Not that he was ever going to admit it but she was scaring him. "It's a suprise! You'll love it!" Rio stopped smiling and pretended to have suspicous expression as she looked around. She motioned for him to bend down to her. Kaito just stood there of course.

Rio rolled her eyes. She tiptoed by Kaito's ear and whispered, "The song is for you!"

Kaito, for the first time ever, widened his eyes. "What?" He didn't get a chance to ask anymore because Rio ran up to the stage. When she got there, she made her speech.

"Hello everyone! I'm going to be singing a Spanish song! It's called Lazos, and it is sung by Belinda! Hope you guys enjoy it!" Rio cheerily exclaimed as the lights went off, and the spotlight shone on her. She began...

Son estos lazos que nos llegan a mover
Y no hay fuerza que los pueda ya romper
Somos una unidad no nos podrán vencer
Cuando algo venga mal apóyate en mi ser

(chorus)
Lazos que unen vidas

Lazos que dan amor
Son estos lazos siempre
Los que nos darán la unión

Con fuerza lucharemos
Por nuestros sueños de amor
Teniendo estos lazos juntos estaremos
(chorus)

Kaito couldn't believe what he was hearing. Was Rio in love with him? He turned to Haruto, who was smirking at his older brother. And his little brother knew? She wanted to be with him forever? Kaito looked out of the corner of his eyes to see the whole audience, even Droite, was captivated by her voice. Who knew she could sing! And in Spanish! Bonus points! Kaito sighed and paid attention to her singing.

Me llenas de amor conoces mi corazón
Siempre estás ahí cuando no puedo más
Somos una unidad no nos podrán vencer
Cuando algo venga mal apóyate en mi ser

(chorus)

(Son lazos de vida)
Los que unen y dan alegría
(Son lazos de sangre)
Lo que te hacen parte de alguien
(Lazos de esperanza)
Los que te regresan a casa
(Son lazos de amor)
Los que mueven tu corazón

Son lazos de vida (los que unen y dan alegría)
Son lazos de sangre (los que te hacen parte de alguien)
Lazos de esperanza (los que te regresan a casa)
Los que mueven tu corazón

Son lazos de vida
Son lazos de sangre
Lazos de esperanza
Son lazos de amor...

Se acabó!

Everyone, excluding Kaito, stood up and clapped loudly. "WOO! Rio-san!" Kotori shouted.

"That was awesome! You're the best Rio-san!" Tetsuo shouted.

"Alright! That singing was defenitely kattobingu Shark's imouto!" Yuma yelled.

"Yosh! What great fanservice that was! Kaito's a lucky man!" Thomas shouted. That's when everything went downhill...

"WHAT?! What do you mean 'lucky man'?!" Ryouga angrily demanded. Everyone seemed curious as well because they were all staring at Thomas.

Thomas smirked. "Well, when Haruto asked Rio if she could sing this song, she agreed wholeheartedly!"

"WHAT?!" the twins exclaimed. Whispers suddenly sprung. Rio tried to explain. "Actually, no! Haruto-kun asked me if I could-"

"Haruto, Rio-san. Call me Haruto. I've told you that many times before," Haruto smartly and smoothly interrupted.

Rio looked at him. "Yes, Haruto, but-"

"So this is the suprise? That you are in love with me?" Kaito asked Rio, looking directly into her eyes.

Rio tried to break his gaze not because she was in love with him but because his eyes were intimidating. She couldn't. So she shook her head rapidly. "No! I'm not! Your brother asked me to-"

"So when's the wedding?!" Thomas asked, obviously on purpose.

Everyone, except the Tenjo Brothers and Chris, stared open-gaped at him. Rio glared at him. "NO! We are NOT getting married! I sang this song for Kaito, yes, but-"

"So what's the problem then?!" Thomas irratingly interrupted her again.

Rio glared deeper at him. "But that's because his brother asked me to sing the song for him! Haruto-kun-"

"Haruto, Rio-san!" Haruto interrupted.

Rio twitched but remained her calm. "Haruto wanted to give something to his-"

"Hey! Who wants pizza?! The pizza is here!" Yuma shouted and interrupted when he got the call for the pizza. This one, though, was not on purpose. But before Rio could unleash her rage on him, he took people by the hand and lead them out. Others, like Tetsuo and Droite, wanted to stay to hear what she had to say, but they were dragged out. Tetsuo by his friends and Droite by Gauche. Ryouga was forcibly taken by Thomas and Haruto.

Kaito, though, did stay behind with Rio. The people knew better than to take him along forcibly...and for other reasons too... So Kaito and Rio watched the people leave. Rio chose this time to take out her frustration.

"Argh! Why did they keep interrupting me?!" Rio screamed as she sat by the stage's edge. "They are on top of my list..." As Rio was ranting, she didn't notice that Kaito had come up to her.

"Rio," he called softly.

Rio, still angry, glared up. "What-" She was interrupted when Kaito placed a kiss on her lips. She went wide eyed. But before she could question his motives, he was already half-way, almost to the door. "Kaito!" she called.

Kaito stopped and turned to her. "What?" he asked as if he didn't kiss her.

Rio blinked. "Why-" Kaito pointed up. Rio looked up. She understood. A mistletoe. "Oohh..."

Kaito began walking, but then he stopped after a few steps foward. "And Rio." Kaito waited until Rio was looking at him. "I liked the song. You should sing more often." With that, Kaito left completely.

Rio stayed there, thinking about the little kiss he gave her. Then she stood up and smiled. "I should sing more often huh..." Rio murmurred to herself as she went to join the others...


Wow...No way...He gave her a kiss?! WHAT?! Lol. Here's the party you asked for Durbe-chan! Even though you were the only one, I forced myself to write this, so this is dedicated to you! I apologize if there are spelling mistakes. I just got back from a swim meet and stuff, so I'm a little dizzy and stuff. Um. Oh yeah! Check out the song Lazos by Belinda! I love that song. It's in Spanish, I know, but you guys can try! I left parts out, yes, but you guys can read between the lines right? If you guys can't, tell me in a review and stuff, and I'll try to explain...Yeah. I'm unreliable...Well, that should be it! ~Ja ne!