Hello! This is the long-awaited chapter for you! Hm.. I hope it answer animeparody-san's question... Okay, maybe the reasonable was too funny but that's Miki. She has her way to be unique XD

I'm so sorry for cream pie-san, I can't make brawl story, I'm bad at playing cards and that includes brawling but maybe I can make some action as azure blue espeon-san request but it will be around late chapters since I was just getting started to introduce my OC to help Alice :)

Snowroseangel-san hey! Is that you, Sha? XD

Ah, thanks for the critique ThatbloodyTartarus-san :) I'm in progress of learning some grammars from other authors and speaking of beta reader, I can't ask one yet since I don't know who want to be my beta reader XD I don't have many friends here...

The rest of you, thanks for reading my story! XD

Disclaimer: Nadia-san don't own any of the characters! Nadia-san owns the plots of stories and Nadia-san's OCs.

Chapter 3: Alice, Miki's secret and Shun.

The dinner was delicious. I was serious. Aunt Sarah made it very good and even better than mine! Before the dinner started, Miki's father and big brother went home and were surprised to see me. Well, I couldn't read what was in their mind but after Miki explained everything, putting aside the details that I was in my runaway, the two men nodded and smiled to me.

The man who was about his fortieth, named Takahashi Yamamoto got black spiky hair and dark brown eyes. Now I knew where Miki got her dark brown eyes. And there was her big brother in his early twentieth named Takeshi Yamamoto, who got black spiky hair same with his father and light brown eyes from Aunt Sarah.

I saw these two siblings were closer than anyone. It seemed that they had brother-sister bond since they were babies. After introducing myself, the two men left us in the living room. They were going to bath before dinner time.

In my head, I was still confused as to why Miki took me, a mere stranger to her house, offering the bath, sleep and even dinner. People would say she was the weirdest girl ever, bringing a stranger who they just met, to her house and offering a place to stay. I wanted to ask her why and when my chance closer to me. I asked her with a little hesitation.

All she replied to me was a small sad smile. I couldn't help but wonder what's happened to her.

"You see… When I was little kid, I never got a friend. Want to know why?" She managed to make a small fake smile which I usually wore to everyone. The surprised was stamped over my face when I heard her story. She never had a friend?

"It's because my personality. You see, I got a very..well.. rare personalities which could confuse people. Whenever a stranger talked to me, I always spat them away with my cold eyes." I could see the resemblance when I met her for the first time a few hours ago. Her eyes were cold and it scared me. But why she didn't spat me? Instead she said she was hungry?

"After I realized that I got this weird personality, I slowly started to change to be a better person. Better as in I have to start being a friendly girl with others. Although, it failed." She looked down to her thigh. But still it didn't answer my question. Why did she help me if she had that personality?

After a few second paused, she didn't continue instead looking down her feet as if its were the most mesmerizing things she ever saw. So I bravely asked her the question I wanted to ask since I arrived here.

"So why didn't you spat me when we met in the road?"

She lifted up her head while smiling, "It's because my focus was food." A sweat dropped from my face as I laughed nervously toward hr weird reply. "If I was too focused on something and bumped into a stranger, my weird personality won't have too much affect." She shrugged her shoulder. "And I managed to talk with you." She made a peace grin which made me smiled and giggled at her airheaded.

"But.." she looked down again, bowing her head as if she had lost to me. "I never get many friends. Only a few of them who had managed to cool me down." She sighed in desperation while I looked at her with guilty feeling. Ah. This guiltiness again.

Okay, so I concluded that she wanted to help the poor me because her intention was only to be friendly with everyone and helped them. And I concluded that she had this hobby of helping stranger she met. Well, aside of my runaway, she desperately wanted to help me. But why?

I asked her why she wanted to join on my runaway journey and she answered this with her gleaming eyes and it seemed she had forgotten her sad feeling.

"It's because my dream is to be an adventurous girl!"

"Adventurous?"

"You know, the people who went to another countries to experience how the cultural there! I love it! It is my dream since I was kid!" She told me she has that kind dream when she was 5. Well as for me, I was more than glad she joined me. I didn't have a company since my runaway journey and I didn't know much about outside world.

"And this is the chance to fulfilled my long dream!" She pumped her fist to the air with fired up eyes. I sweat-dropped at her silly yet funny action.

After our little talk about Miki's little secret. I went to bed. I kept thinking about how these past years Miki has through. Was it hurt for her not to get many friends? I meant, I got a lot of friends back in Wardington. And.. well.. it was before I became Masquerade. But hey! I got a lot as well after Masquerade event ended. I befriended with Mira, Ace and Baron from New Vestroia and if you included Lync… Don't forget about Spectra or Keith. I thought back about how I helped a Vexos and I thought myself as a stupid who helped an enemy.

How stupid was I.

However, I never regretted helping Lync.. He was a good guy although his prank annoyed me. I stirred to the left while thinking about a certain person. Shun. How was he? It was only a day of my departure and how were they? Did they miss me? Or did they ignore me? Oh, they must be. I was nothing but hindrance to them. I couldn't do anything to help myself or the others. Shun must be thinking of that as well. Thinking that I was a hindrance and anything… Well, that was hurt. I couldn't imagine which expression they were using when they opened the note. Sad? Happy? Or ignore?

Okay, stop thinking about it Alice! Tomorrow you and Miki have to get out from Tokyo as soon as possible before they found out me here! I had discussed it with Miki before we went to bed, she said that before we headed to China, we would go to a mall to buy me a wig and a pair of contact lens to hide my real identity. I thought it wasn't a bad idea since they will identify my usual orange curly and dark brown eyes.

As to why Miki took China as our next destination because she had a hunch that they wouldn't aware I went to China, because I couldn't speak Chinese. Good suggestion. Soon, my eyes blurted, the drowsy took me and I saw only black vision. The dreams had eaten me and I wondered, what dream would I get this night.

…

I went to Miki's room and knocked it, "Hey Miki. Have you done, yet?" She said to me that she had to get ready after we finished our breakfast. Takeshi and Uncle Takahashi had gone to work leaving me, Miki and Aunt Sarah.

The door opened, revealing Miki with her yesterday's attire. I bet she loves this kind of clothes. Miki scanned from head to toe over my attire with a frown, her face obviously told me that I had a lame sense of my clothes.

"Oh God, Alice!" She face palmed.

"What?"

"Look at you! Duh, you didn't want to get caught in the mall while using these clothes, aren't you? Come, I will lend you some of my clothes." I was about to reject her when she dragged me to her room. It was a dark-blue colored wall with anime posters around it. Woah, she really was something. 2 closets with study desk, 2 cassette cabinets, LCD computer, medium sized bed with dark blue sheet and 2 bookcases, I was in awed seeing her room, although it was a bit dark theme. On the top of her cabinets and study desk, a lots of figurines standing there. Ah… anime freak.

She opened her closet while I sat down to a silver chair. She took out a black short with white blouse and a pair of black sandals. Miki told me that I had to wear these for my own good. So I reluctantly changed my clothes into hers.

After a few minutes passed, we went out and I wore her clothes. It was much cozier than my usual attire, I had to admit. She told me to tie my hair into a ponytail so it wouldn't reveal much of my true identity. Woah, I didn't know she got a good sense of fashion although it was a simple, yet I still amused by how she directed my hair and my clothes.

We had arrived in a big mall and we went inside it. The sea of humans filled in the mall as I was in my own awestruck seeing so many people all of ages walking and shopping. Miki told me with her own proud that this was the biggest mall in Japan, people liked buying their things here although it was a bit expensive. I shuddered when I spotted a pair boots with price equals of my ticket from Moscow to Wardington.

It was totally incredible mall, I let out a small nervous laugh while Miki grabbed my hand and brought me to a wig shop.

"I think red suits you." She observed a waist-length red hair but I shook my head in disagreement. It looked more revealing to me. She quickly ran over to a yellow short bob wig, when she pointed it I abruptly shook my head. Yellow was too much for me. It's too bright and I didn't think it suited me well.

Miki pouted at my rejection, her eyes rolled to scan the entire wigs and she stopped when she spotted a wig… Her eyes sparkled in excitement as she pointed at the wig childishly with her gleaming eyes like a kid wanted the biggest candy she ever saw.

"How about that one?"

…

"We will split into 3 groups. Shun, Dan, Runo, and I will search in the city. Jake, Ren, Fabia, Julie take a look at the harbor." Marucho directed them and the group nodded. They ran as fast as wind to their searching place. Shun huffed in the middle of his run, Dan took a look on him and sighed.

"Chill out, Shun. We will find her." as if the raven haired felt a little relieved, he sighed and smiled toward them.

"Thanks, Dan."

On Runo's shoulder, Tigrerra and Hydranoid rested there with their ball form and suddenly the dark purple bakugan popped out, sensing a great aura around him. "I feel Alice's…" In quick the four kids flown to the city.

Alice and Miki went out from the mall with Miki smiling widely like an idiot falling from the skies while Alice sighed in desperation.

"Seriously Miki…You really love dark blue color." She was wearing the wig because of Miki's nagged. To be honest, Alice couldn't reject her chosen wig for her. She was too exciting. And Alice couldn't make herself reject the short dark blue wig because Miki wouldn't be happy for it. A few minutes ago, Miki was buying her a short dark blue wig with shoulder length. In addition, she also bought her a pair of light blue contact lens.

"Welcome to my world." She winked happily toward the orange haired girl as Alice sighed for thousand times seeing her new and odd friend.

"So, I have been thinking about this…"

Alice furrowed her eye-brows.

"Do you have a crush on someone?" Alice chocked out, confused at Miki's sudden question. Of course she got one. And that boy was…

Miki cursed. She cursed the second times when Alice widened her eyes in disbelief at what she just saw. A short raven haired male with antennae, a brunette boy, a blunette girl and a short height blonde little guy with glasses. Their eyes were searching all over the city.

"Shit." Miki cursed for the third time.

Alice froze while gripping Miki's hand, Miki took it and rubbed her knuckle to calm the panicked girl. As Alice's new friend, she had to help the poor Russian girl but what she had to do to save her? If only she had her big brother here, everything would go smooth and she was sure Takeshi could come out with a good plan of running away. Miki gritted her teeth, she felt the plastic bag on her left hand. An Idea came out from her head as she grinned in satisfied.

She quickly grabbed Alice by her hand and turned her over from Alice's friend, she took out the contact lens and asked Alice to stay calm and believe in her. Alice nodded and tried her best to calm down. Cold sweats dripping from her face and Miki knew she couldn't stand seeing her friends not until the girl in front of her changed for the better.

"Here I go…"

Shun looked at a raven haired and a dark blue hair girls who wasn't facing them instead backing him. His suspicious grew up. Slowly he approached them, abandoning Dan, Runo and Marucho. "Shun! Hey Shun! Where are you going?" Dan yelled at him.

Shun made a light tap on the dark blue haired girl. The girl turned over to face him.

"Ye—Yes?" She stuttered. Shun scanned her from head to toe. She was familiar to him. But who was she? He couldn't remember.

"Ah.. it's nothing. You looked familiar to someone. I'm sorry for disturbing you." Shun bowed down apologetically and head back to his friends. Runo stared at the sweats face girl who got a pale skin and her face seemed familiar to her but she couldn't remember who she was. She got a shoulder-length dark blue hair with light blue color eyes, at the girl's left, a raven haired female glared at them back making Runo shuddered and averted her eyes away.

That girl is scary…

Marucho asked Shun what's happened and Shun replied, "The dark blue haired looked familiar to me…" Dan led the way to the main city, passing the two girls. Shun glanced his shoulder to observe the dark blue hair for the last time, he swore she reminded him of someone but he couldn't figure out who was it.

"Phew! That was close..!" Miki rubbed her forehead. Alice nodded in agreement as she wiped her cold sweats, her heart was beating faster when she faced her old friends. Guiltiness started flowing.

"It's good thing that they were fooled especially him.."

"You mean Shun?" Miki smirked playfully while arching her brow up and down.

Alice blushed while nodding her head, the two girls then headed to Miki's house quickly, not wanting to meet the guys. Alice hadn't readied yet. It's not the time. Not yet.

"Oh God… I have to buy wigs and contact lens then.." Miki ran her right hand to her hair, ruffling it with stressful expression. Of course she had to if she wanted to travel with Alice. She would bring a huge suspicious if she remained her true form.

"I will help you with that." Alice smiled slyly.

"Thank you for your compassion." The raven haired sarcastically said then followed with a small chuckle so as Alice who giggled.

"Girls, have you packed everything?" Sarah went to the living room to see her daughter and her guest zipping their bags. Miki got a black-red medium sized bag pack while Alice's still the same yellow sling bag. The new friend took an emergency bag on her right shoulder, a black sling bag which could be useful enough for their wigs and contact lens.

Not that Miki wanted to bring it along but her mother forced her to bring if her's or Alice's bag full with things and wigs couldn't hold it.

Alice wore the same outfit when she ran from Runo's house and Miki wore a dark blue shirt with black color on its side, a dark blue trouser, and a dark blue wristwatch.

"Yes, mom/aunt." The two girls replied.

"Good. Now take this with you." Sarah gave them amount of money for their travelling. Miki nodded and took it while Alice rejected softly.

"But I don't deserve it."

"Impossible! You are my daughter's friend and our family." Sarah smiled gently, "Although we just met you yesterday, we have a feeling that you are part of family." Hearing those, Alice couldn't hold tears to drip. It wasn't the sad tears but the joy of being accepted as part of a family. Sarah went to her and patted her head gently.

"Alice..you are such a great girl. I hope you could return to Wardington after your travel with Miki." Alice widened her eyes in surprised.

"Ho—How did you know?"

"Miki told me everything. I think you need some spaces from your friends and I won't stop you if I were them. I hope you can find the lessons in your runaway job." She teasingly said. Miki giggled at her mother's tease, "Oh mom, don't tease her."

Alice made a soft giggle hearing Sarah's tease and wiped her tears away with her bare hand, "Thank you, auntie. Thank you for everything you, uncle and big brother had done for me, and that include you, Miki." Alice smiled to Miki who smirked and nodded.

"Well then, let's go, Alice." Miki extended her hand to Alice.

The girl nodded, "Yes. Next destination…"

"China." Both girls said simultaneously.

So? How was it? Bad? Good? Please review! I need some encouragement to do the chapter 4 because this month I will have space to write but not next month, exams will come and the Semester time is going to make head explode!

And so, please review :)

Oh oh, if anyone wants to volunteer to be my beta reader for this story, I would be glad to :)