Chapter dos! Yumeí's POV, and she is running around BI on a request. This is (drumroll please) the run in!
Yumeí ran past a crowd of BI battlers, skidding around a corner.
I am not gonna be late! she thought. I'm gonna be early and prove all them all wrong!
Rounding another corner, Yumeí suddenly found herself on a direct collision course with a boy in a long green coat. She didn't have any time to do anything but cry out. The boy whipped around and said "Wha-?" before Yumeí slammed into him, head-on.
The two of them both landed on there backs, Yumeí's momentum throwing her into a flip over her unfortunate crash victim.
Groaning, Yumeí sat up.
" 's gonna leave a mark," she moaned. Surveying the damage, she saw the boy she'd run into struggle to sit up. "OH MY GOSH I AM SO SORRY! Are you hurt?"
Letting out a small groan, Jesse pulled himself into a sitting position, and place a hand on his arm. Wincing, he said: "I may be bruised, but nothing beyond that."
"I really am sorry," Yumeí apologized again. "I seem to be doing that a lot. Running into people, I mean. I actually did the same thing to Ren when I first met him."
Jesse considered this statement as he rose to his feet. Yumeí followed his example promptly.
"So what's your name?" she asked.
Jesse's face was calmly blank, not betraying his thoughts.
Do I lie or tell her the truth? She knows Ren, and may know of my status in the "Neathian infiltration".
I must have more information, he decided.
"I believe I am entitled to yours first."
Yumeí nodded before happily announcing: "I'm Yumeí Kazami!"
Jesse considered this before he remembered that Kazami was the surname of the Venus brawler in the Battle Brawler's group: Shun Kazami.
Yumeí watched him for a few seconds before asking impatiently: "Are you gonna tell me your name?"
"Jesse," he told her, telling himself that it was alright if she only knew his first name. There were hundreds of people name Jesse.
Suddenly, Yumeí's bakugan, Darkus Haloid, flew up to Yumeí's eye level.
"I thought we were going to get that data. Not that I really mind if we don't-"
"Ugh!" Yumeí cried, throwing her hands up in exasperation. "I hate the way those guys are always telling me to do this, or fetch that! What am I? Some kind of messenger chick?"
Remembering that Jesse was there, Yumeí turned around to explain.
"Ren needs some data to complete the new battlefield, and asked me to help him out by getting it. I was running to get it done faster, so I could have some time to brawl."
Jesse nodded, as if in approval.
"An ancient proverb reads: Those of fleet foot save sand in the hourglass."
Yumeí suddenly seemed to have an epiphany, because she blurted out: "Hey, you're a brawler, right? You wanna battle? I have some time before I need to get back to Ren."
"All the battlefields are occupied," Jesse said, looking at the monitor. "There is no stage for us to perform upon."
"Hey, no problemo!" Yumeí replied cheerfully. She turned her Baku-meter on. "Hey, Marucho?" she asked. "Can you open that warp thingy to our arena?"
The yellow round portal appeared in front of them. Grabbing Jesse's sleeve, Yumeí lead him through the portal.
I probably could've made this shorter, but I was in the zone when writing this. And would y'all please review this for me? I NEED THE FEEDBACK!