OnlyI again. Still up, unable to sleep. I have two and a half hours before I'm supposed to get up… and there's a really annoying bird chirping directly outside my room! And I feel like I had 300 cups of coffee… still… Haven't moved from this spot in I don't know how long, but I'm tipping my chair back and forth, because I am hyper.

Anyway. Besides my abnormal sugar rush… I have been getting magnificent ideas for this story! :D though they aren't for this chapter :( This chapter was my horrible attempt at a filler type chapter. It WILL be short (I hope), I don't have the patience right now for a long one.

I don't own Bakugan (If I did. AXR would be a canon couple)

Anyway, Chapter 1 up!

Ashes

Runo ran through the hallway hiding her face under her bangs.

'Why did she have to look so much like her?' Runo thought ignoring the

"Hey isn't that Runo? The one who fainted when that new student came in?" 's around her. She didn't like attention being drawn to her anymore. It felt like people were criticizing her.

She picked up her speed and ran into her science class, bumping into someone.

"Sorry" She mumbled kneeling down to pick up her books.

"Let me help you with that" Runo froze. She slowly looked up to see Alice Cullen kneeling down next to her to pick up her books.

'Why'd she have to look so much like her?!' Runo screamed mentally. Alice smiled at her.

"I'm sorry I made you faint in homeroom. I don't know what I could've done to make you faint" Alice laughed picking up more of Runo's books.

"I-I-It'z okay" muttered Runo blushing. She touched he pouch once again.

'You seeing this Alice, she looks exactly like you, she even acts a bit like you from what I've seen of her'

"What's that?" Alice asked pointing at the pouch Runo was holding while handing Runo her books.

"It's nothing"

'I take that back, she's nosy'

Much to Runo's dismay, Dan happened to be walking by and spotted Runo standing near Alice while rubbing the small pouch.

"You still carry that around Runo? I thought you got over that habit a year ago!" He asked walking over to the two girls. Runo glared.

"It's my business and only my business if I still carry some of my best friend's ashes around with me Dan!" Runo shouted. Everyone in the room at the time stopped and looked at her weirdly, before continuing their previous conversations.

"Best friend's ashes?" asked Alice. She looked at Runo in a confused manner. Runo blushed and nodded.

'That was such an adorable look she gave me' Runo mentally giggled.

"Her Best friend, who happened to have looked a bit like you, and had the same first name as you, died two years ago. I thought Runo had gotten over it though, maybe that's why she's so distant from the rest of our friends" Laughed Dan. Runo glared.

"Just because you and everyone else got over the fact she's gone forever, doesn't mean I have" Runo shouted running over to her science desk in the far corner.

Runo sat there in silence for a couple of minutes when she saw a shadow hovering over her.

"Can I sit next to you?"

"…….Sure"

And so, Alice Cullen and Runo Misaki became science partners.

If you don't get the ending, let me clarify a bit for you. In my school, whoever you sit next to is your Science partner. Usually, we stay in whatever seats we feel like instead of switching our partners because we are lazy. So basically, by Alice, sitting next to Runo, because she wants to get to know her better after learning the whole "I wear my best friends ashes in a pouch" thing, they become science partners. :D

A bit of fluff in this one, not much though :D

R and R please!