AAAH. I'M SORRY. PLEASE DON'T SHOOT.

It's been... three weeks since I updated. I'm. So. Freaking. Sorry. -bows-

It's just, I've been losing so much inspiration for this story, and I think it can definitely show in my writing. I just have so much more inspiration for my Pokemon stories, but not this, frustratingly enough. The pains of not prewriting. GAAAH. I'm so sorry, I worked overtime to churn out this chapter for you. It's definitely not my best work, and it shows. Ugh. I'm determined to finish this, though. Two more chapters! It's supposed to be a lighthearted short fic, so, er, I added a bunch of random things you may or may not find funny. Guh. Rambling again. Anyway, without further ado, Five Ways to Get Someone to Fall in Love- Chapter Three!

Disclaimer; I don't own Phoenix Wright, Capcom has that lovely honour.

Samurai Convention and Revelations

Chapter Three

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III: Go somewhere fun, like a show or an amusement park, while paying attention to their personal preferences. For example, if they're scared of a roller coaster, take them to the ferris wheel instead. But most importantly, be yourself and have fun!

-x-

"A..an amusement park?" Pearl repeated as Trucy set the magazine on the table in the Meditation Room.

"It's kind of a place where there are a lot of rides you can go on, like a giant spinning thing called a ferris wheel and a kind of train thing that sometimes spins upside down." Trucy frowned at her own explanation. "Uh... I think I phrased that wrong."

Pearl grinned, before the tips of her mouth curved down slightly.

"I have a feeling that this would end up backfiring on us." Pearl admitted, and Trucy scoffed.

"I do too, but hey, what can you do?" Trucy shrugged. "When you've got someone as dense as Daddy and someone like Maya, it's probably not going to end up well."

"Yeah, I sort of figured that out." Pearl laughed.

"So I was thinking that maybe we could suggest to them to go to an amusement park, and we'll sort of wing it when it comes to getting the two actually together." Trucy said, looking proud of herself. She faltered as she noticed Pearl's confused expression.

"Trucy..." Pearl began, the brunette trailing off momentarily. "Where's the magazine?"

"Huh? It's right he-oh." she pointed at the table where she left the magazine, but widened her eyes when she saw that there was nothing there. She furrowed her brow, deep in thought. "Where could it be...?"

Pearl looked confused, helping her friend search for the magazine.

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"You're horrible." Maya chided, and the black haired ex-attorney shrugged, fanning himself with the magazine that he had snatched when the two girls hadn't been paying attention.

"Thanks. I try." he answered, a smirk on his clean shaven face. The black haired young woman rolled her eyes, a smile on her pale face.

Pearl looked up from where she was looking, seeing the amused expression on Maya and Phoenix's faces.

"Daddy!" Trucy cried, barreling into Phoenix's arms.

"Uh, hey, Trucy. Why so excited?" he questioned warily, looking at Maya. "Did you let her have sugar?"

"Nope! Not sugar!" Trucy exclaimed, clapping her hands eagerly, wearing a smug smirk. She held up her cell phone, that picture maximized on the screen of the Samsung touchscreen.

Phoenix sweatdropped, feeling some heat rush to his face. He looked away, knowing that seeing him blush would be the best way to confirm the two girls' suspicions.

"This-" she pointed at the screen, "is what has me so happy. Care to explain?"

"Tch. Sleeping. I thought he was an oversized teddy bear." Maya said nonchalantly, waving a hand carelessly. Despite her words a faint pink was brushed on her cheeks.

"... oversized teddy bear?" Phoenix repeated, smirking. "So you still sleep with a teddy bear?"

"Uh. Whoops. Said too much, there." Maya blushed, looking away.

"So, does it have a name?" the black haired man teased, and Maya stuck her tongue out at him.

"You and your stupid lawyer ways..." she mumbled.

"That's a really strange name." Phoenix remarked cheekily, and Maya facepalmed.

"Ngh..." Maya groaned, and the ex- attorney poked her, causing her to smack his hand away. "What are you doing?"

"I'm checking to see if you were okay. I thought you picked up something from Edgeworth or something." he explained, and Maya threw back her head in exasperation.

"So this is a lover's quarrel..." Trucy remarked, causing both the adults to look at her sharply. The brunette raised her hands in submission. "Sorry, sorry!"

"Teenagers." Maya grumbled, and Phoenix raised an eyebrow.

"Says the once-eighteen year old who crashed my place for three years and did absolutely nothing." Phoenix snorted, and Maya glared at him.

"Well, if you forgot, Nick, I saved your ass down at court, if it weren't for me, you'd probably be in jail right now." Maya retorted.

Trucy and Pearl leaned against the wall as the two of them began to bicker again.

"This is going to take a while, isn't it?" Pearl questioned, rolling her eyes.

"Yeeaah..."

-x-

"Oooh, Mystic Maya, look!" Pearl laughed, holding up a postcard for all of them to see. "It's from Penny..."

"A Samurai Convention?" Phoenix frowned, looking at the faded background of the Nickel Samurai. Maya opened the card, her eyes lighting up as she skimmed the words on the thick paper.

"Penny's invited us to the Samurai Convention that's going to L.A. in a few days." she explained, a smile brightening her face.

"The Samurai Convention? Whatsat?" Phoenix asked, and Maya scowled, looking annoyed at his lack of knowledge.

"Seriously, Nick, this is what I assign you those reports for." she scolded, highly reminiscent of a teacher reprimanding an unruly student. Phoenix only rolled his eyes.

"Um, Maya? What is a Samurai Convention?" Trucy questioned, and Maya's harsh glare softened, which only served to annoy Phoenix further.

"From what I've heard, the makers and actors are going to talk a little bit about the franchise, and apparently, there's a new surprise they're going to unveil to the fans." she explained. "Penny's told me that there's usually a place where fans can buy and sell merchandise about the Samurai franchise like dolls and art and stuff, and sometimes people dress up. It's really fun and you get to meet a whole bunch of people who love the Samurai franchise and make new friends!"

"Sounds like a royal geekfest." Phoenix remarked dryly, and Maya looked at him sharply.

"It sounds fun!" Pearl giggled, smiling at Trucy's direction. The brunette grinned back, giving a thumbs-up sign that didn't go unnoticed by the two adults.

"I'll ask Penny if she can drive us." Maya said eagerly, bolting outside to the pay phone to call her friend and fellow Samurai addict.

Phoenix facepalmed.

"I seriously need to find new people to hang around..."

-x-

"Penny!" Maya squealed, barreling into her friend in a tight hug. The demure brunette beamed back at her, and the two started chattering excitedly about the upcoming convention. Phoenix only rolled his eyes, leaning against his hand, his elbow propped against the side of the car.

"Hey, Maya! You look amazing!" Penny gushed, and although Phoenix was trying his best to remain stoic, the kind of girl talk he was listening to made him gag inwardly. Not that he'd actually do that, considering his age.

Although the ex-defense attorney couldn't find the heart in him to listen to the conversation, he had to admit that Penny was right. Maya looked, well, pretty in her outfit. She had on a simple long, purple t-shirt that reached her hips and hugged her curves, a semi-transparent white shawl type cardigan draped over her shoulders. In white skinny jeans and sky blue espadrilles, she looked stylish, even.

Phoenix looked out at the window again. Getting caught staring would not be a good thing, considering how Trucy and Pearl were.

He hadn't had much time to properly search for clothes, so he'd tossed on a random t-shirt and a pair of black jeans over some black loafers. Now that he'd taken the actual time to look at what he was wearing, he realized that he'd chosen a unisex Steel Samurai poster t-shirt Maya had given him when he was still a defense attorney.

Penny was in a light pink v-neck tank top and had on an dark pink open cardigan made of a light material. Her skirt was a pleated pink skirt that stopped a few inches above her knee, and with her knee high pink heeled boots, it was obvious she was going for a retro Pink Princess look.

Phoenix practically groaned out loud as he realized his fatal error. Being aligned with those- he looked irritably at Maya, Penny, Pearl, and a slightly confused Trucy- freaks wasn't his cup of tea. Pearl had finished explaining the Samurai series to Trucy, who was still slightly confused over what the big fuss over a clunky metal superhero was. Phoenix couldn't help but agree.

"How long is this thing?" Phoenix demanded, his gaze still fixed outside the car window.

"You sound like a kid, Nick. The convention's six hours, and there's a second segment tomorrow." Maya explained matter-of-factly. Phoenix sweatdropped.

"You're calling me the kid...?" he muttered, trailing off as Maya glowered at him. "Are we going to the second segment?"

"Of course." she said, like it was the most obvious answer in the world.

"Kill me now." Phoenix stated, rolling his eyes.

"Aw, Daddy, don't be like that. At least you have Maya for company." Trucy winked.

"Are you going to drop this anytime this year?" Phoenix groaned, and Maya nodded in agreement, albeit with a slight hesitation.

"Nope." Pearl answered lightly, grinning broadly.

Phoenix chuckled, amused at Pearl's more outgoing personality.

Penny only laughed good-naturedly, a knowing smirk on her face.

"I wonder who we'll see there." Maya frowned, and Pearl clapped.

"Ooh, maybe we'll see Will Powers." Pearl giggled, and Trucy raised her eyebrows.

"Old client. Actor for the Steel Samurai." Phoenix explained, and Trucy opened her mouth in a small o.

"I think Klavier Gavin'll be there for a performance." Phoenix remarked casually, and Pearl's eyes brightened, as well as, to his slight annoyance, Maya's.

"Klaver Gavin? Of the Gavinners? How do you know?" Maya interrogated, and Phoenix rolled his eyes, deeply annoyed at her sudden interest.

"Heard Ema mumbling about 'stupid, glimmerous fops too idiotic to hire their own security for their own stupid glimmerous shows'... that, and it was in the pamphlet." the black haired man said, rolling his eyes. "Fangirls."

"Am not! Mr. Gavin's just a very interesting prosecutor!" Pearl said defensively, crossing her arms over her chest. "And a talented musician too!"

"Edgeworth's an interesting prosecutor too! Come on, he's thirty four and he has a head of silver hair. You can't say that's not interesting." Phoenix pointed out, smirking. Maya laughed, and Pearl looked mildly annoyed.

"Daddy, I'll tell Edgeworth that next time we see him." Trucy laughed, and Phoenix shut up.

"Wh..what? Please, don't." he widened his eyes, which only made Maya laugh even more.

"Aw, is Nicky scared of the big mean prosecutor?" Maya teased, and Phoenix scowled.

"He'll introduce me to Franziska's new whip." he grumbled, and the two women in the front of the car smirked.

"Wonder if we'll see Mr. Edgeworth at the Samurai Convention..." Pearl mused. Phoenix and Maya exchanged a glance, before both of them burst out laughing.

"E..Edgeworth? At the Samurai Convention? He won't be caught dead in one!" Phoenix said between peals of laughter.

"AHAHA, Edgeworth... Convention... that's funny! Pearl, you're too good!"

Pearl was very confused.

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Penny left as soon as they arrived at the convention to meet up with some of her cosplay friends, although Phoenix secretly thought that she just wanted to get away from the two adults' bickering. The brunette had said that she'd pick them up at the entrance at seven p.m., leaving them with eight hours of socializing with Steel Samurai nerds. Joy.

There was a large crowd gathering in front of the four, and a disgruntled brunette was pushing her way through the throng of people. She caught Phoenix's eye.

"Ah, Mr. Wright!" Ema burst out, shoving her way out from the crowd. The people she'd shoved glared at her, and she glowered at them with a glare that sent them scattering. She looked frazzled and deeply annoyed. "Glimmerous fop's too damn famous for his own good..."

"Aw, Ema, don't be like that. We all know he has the hots for you." Trucy winked, and the detective glowered at the brunette.

"That's amusing." she said dryly.

"Fraulein!" there was a shout from the middle of the crowd, and Ema gnashed her teeth.

"If I had any sense, I'd just leave the fop there to die." she muttered under her breath, before stomping over to the crowd of fangirls and pushing them away.

"... I like her." Maya remarked, and Phoenix looked at her in disbelief.

"Of course. The violent have to be friends with their kind." Phoenix snorted, and Maya glared at him.

"The idiotic do too!" she snapped, and Phoenix smirked.

"Didn't you hang around me for three years?" he asked innocently. Maya flushed.

"Sh..shut up!" she growled, and Phoenix laughed.

"I won that argument." he stated, and Maya rolled her eyes.

"Lover's quarrel." Pearl grinned.

"Definitely." Trucy agreed.

Phoenix was looking superiorly at Maya, who looked disgruntled, crossing her arms across her chest. Her eyes lit up as she ran over to a stand where the vendor was selling a bunch of Steel Samurai plush dolls.

"Nick!" Maya called over her friend. "Look at these!"

"I don't have money." he said blankly, and Maya shot him a chilling glare. He held up his hands in an act of surrender. "Alright, alright... jeez, Maya, you're scary..."

The black haired young woman said nothing, only looking at the bills in her friend's wallets, taking out a twenty and paying the slightly disturbed vendor for a medium sized Pink Princess doll.

"You creeped out the seller." Phoenix pointed out. Maya rolled her eyes.

"So?" she said, hugging her new toy. Phoenix looked deep in thought for a moment, before he smirked again.

"Is that a friend for your teddy bear?" Phoenix asked, and Maya stared at him, before smacking him.

"Shut up... don't people usually get more mature when they get older?" Maya grumbled. Phoenix sent her a smirk that would have made Klavier Gavin proud.

"I'm not normal, Fey." he said, smiling.

"...is that a pick up line?" Pearl said in disbelief, watching the two from afar.

"...I have no idea." Trucy said, still confused over what had just happened.

"Why's this so hard? Most people would've just confessed their undying love for each other by now." Pearl said, disgruntled.

"Most people aren't this dense when it comes to their feelings." Trucy rolled her eyes, and Pearl laughed.

"Agreed..." Pearl trailed off. Trucy scoffed.

"I mean...seriously... we're fifteen and even we can tell." Trucy sniffed disdainfully. "Sometimes adults are silly."

"Yeah..." Pearl sweatdropped as Maya smacked Phoenix over the head with her newly purchased teddy bear.

-x-

"Nick, don't you just love my new Samurai bookmarks?" Maya giggled, holding up a three-pack of Samurai cards. Phoenix sniffed.

"That's four dollars and forty nine cents." he said blankly. Maya frowned. She looked through her bag, pulling out a pair of gloves similar to the ones the Steel Samurai wore.

"How bout these? They're cute!" she fawned over her purchased gloves. Phoenix's gaze was still dull.

"That was eleven dollars and fifty nine cents." he mumbled.

"I like these, they're cute." Maya smiled, getting slightly irritated by her friend. She pulled out three keychains that had chibi Samurais on them.

"Three fourteen..." he mumbled, and Maya twitched.

"Will you stop thinking of money?" she snapped, whacking him with a bag.

"Ow, damn, Maya, that had a water bottle in it..." Phoenix grumbled, rubbing the spot on his head where Maya had hit him.

"Hey, Mystic Maya, isn't that Mr. Edgeworth?" Pearl questioned, pointing to someone in the throng of people.

Phoenix squinted, an increduous expression on his face.

"Edgeworth, that you?" Phoenix shouted, and the silver haired prosecutor looked sharply at him, eyes widened.

"Oh, uh, Wright." he stammered, pursing his lips.

"Why are you here, Mr. Edgeworth?" Pearl asked.

"Ngh...you know... a case..." Edgeworth mumbled, and Maya raised her eyebrows.

"Don't you prosecute overseas now?" she asked. Edgeworth gulped.

"Nghoo... Franziska insisted I come back to America... after I completed my international studies..." he said.

"But why are you here, Mr Edgeworth?" Trucy asked. "It's a Samurai Convention, not somewhere where you'd think you'd find an internationally famous prosecutor..."

"Er... client of mines... designated meeting spot here..." he stammered.

Phoenix stared at him, before a smirk crossed his lips.

"Edgeworth, you've got a bag from a vendor." he laughed. "So, you're a closet Samurai fan?"

The three of them all stared at the prosecutor, before Trucy burst out into laughter. Phoenix and Maya chuckled, before escalating to full blown guffaws. Edgeworth stood there awkwardly. A rare flush appeared on the silver haired prosecutor's face.

"Nnngh... Wright...!"

Pearl was looking very peeved.

"See, Mr. Nick? I still don't get why you were laughing at me..."

A/N: Please don't shoot.

Yeeah, I know, not my best work. I think, honestly, except for my Edgeworth/Kay friendship/mild fluffiness oneshot and the Franziska and Edgeworth fic, don't expect too many other Ace Attorney fics from me... I'm sorry, I just don't think I'm suitable as a writer for Ace Attorney. Hn, maybe I'll put up a oneshot compilation. Who knows. And I stuck in a bunch of random Klema 'cause Klema's amazing.

Anyway, I hope this chapter wasn't TOO bad. I didn't proofread very vigilantly, so there may be some spelling mistakes or grammatical errors... constructive criticism? eheh...

TO CLARIFY, I have nothing against conventions. And yes, I know this chapter didn't have many NaruMayo goodness to it but hey, there were SOME hints. ^_^;

Oi. I need to learn how to stop rambling.

R+R? (: I have donuts ! Or, if you're a health freak, -points to buffet table- pig out. But please be dears and leave a review!

-NaruMayoi