Me: Let's see, plot for this chapter should be….. uh…..

Astral: Write and find out.

Me: Yes! That's great! Now what?

Astral: You write.

Me: Oh yeah! Here's the chapter!

Astral: We do not own Yugioh Zexal.

Me: When is it my turn to do the disclaimer!

Chapter 4: Meeting Mysterious People With Weird Hair

Yuma lay on his actual bed. After he had got home from his humiliating defeat against Shark, he had asked Akari if she could find a way to seal up the way to the attic. She had, of course, refused.

Yuma sighed and picked up the strange pendant. It really did look familiar, but he couldn't figure out how!

He stared up at the ceiling. "Maybe I'll go to sleep and it'll turn out that this is all a bad dream!" He closed his eyes.

BOOM!

"What was that!" Yuma jumped out of the bed and looked out the window. A guy was standing on the street with a robot by his side. On the other side of the street was a man knocked out on his back.

"Umm, what do I do?" Yuma freaked out and ran around. He jumped onto his bed and pulled the blanket over his head to hide.

"Wait! Hiding here will do no good! But it'll make me live longer!" He hid deeper. "Someone else will take care of it!"

He stayed and waited. There were a few more booms. It was about a half hour before he came out. "Is it clear?" The clock next to his bed said 2:16 a.m.

He slowly crawled out and went to the window. The people were still there. Yuma wondered why nobody was going out to check out the booming.

"Uh, maybe I should see what's going on." Yuma looked at his bedroom door. "Um, sure. I'll take a quick look and then come back in!"

He crept downstairs, past the living room and to the door. The door opened a bit and a red eye peeked out. Yuma pushed it open a bit more.

He leaned on the door to open it some more, but tripped over his feet. "Ack!" The door slammed open and he fell to the ground with a thump.

"Ow…" He got up slowly.

"Tsukumo Yuma?" A voice said. Yuma looked up. A teenager wearing a black jacket and yellow-green hair stood staring at him with a puzzled expression.

"W-Who are you?" Yuma asked as his heart started beating faster and faster. Who was this guy and how did he know him?

The guy frowned. "What are you talking about? I'm just hunting Numbers like usual."

"N-Numbers? What are those?"

The guy stared. "Are you serious?"

"Perhaps Touma hit his head Kaito-sama!" The robot next to him said.

"Huh?" Yuma was confused. What were they talking about.

"Hmph! Whatever!" The guy said and turned away. "Just have Astral explain it if you really don't remember." And with that he walked away down the street. Yuma watched him walk away.

"Numbers? Astral? Kaito? Touma?" Yuma lay there on his side, thinking about what Kaito had just said. "What?"

After what seemed to be an eternity, he walked back inside to his bedroom. As he got into bed, he realized that he was still holding something. Yuma opened his hand. He was still holding the strange pendant.

He put it back onto the desk and then looked at the clock. His eyes widened. It still said 2:16 a.m.

Yuma was sure that he had been there for at least half an hour! Why was it the same time! What's going on!

The next morning….

Yuma slid into his seat at school sleepily. He had barely gotten any after meeting that strange person in the middle of the night.

"Yuma! Good morning!" A cheery voice said. Yuma looked up.

"Oh. Mizuki-san. Good morning." Yuma replied expressionlessly, then went back to staring at an invisible spot on the desk.

"N-Ne, Yuma? Me and Tetsuo and the others are going downtown to a duel field after school. Do you want to come?" Kotori tried to smile and say.

"Nah. I'll pass." Yuma said.

"O-Oh. Okay." Kotori sat into her seat. They stayed there for a while before Yuma spoke.

"Mizuki-san? Do you know what an Astral is?"

Kotori snapped her head up. Her eyes widened. "Oh! I can't believe we forgot about him!" She stood up.

"U-Uh Mizuki-san? Do you know what Astral is?" Yuma tried to attract her attention.

"W-What? Oh!" She sat back down, but for the rest of the class, Yuma could tell she wasn't paying attention and thinking about that Astral.

One Class Later…

As soon as Uyko-sensei dismissed the class, Kotori was the first person out the door, dragging Tetsuo and Takashi behind her.

"Emergency meeting for the Numbers Club in the tree at the back of the courtyard!" She said. "Get Tokunosuke and, uh, oh yeah! Cat-chan!"

"O-Okay!" Tetsuo ran off in one direction and Takashi went in the other. Kotori ran to the courtyard with a determined look on her face.

One (or two) Gatherings Later… (dotting is fun)…

"Kotori! What is it?" Tetsuo asked as soon as all the members of the Numbers Club were gathered.

Kotori took a breath. "Yuma asked me about Astral."

They stared at her. "So does he remember now?"

"No. He just randomly asked me if I knew what an Astral is."

"So he doesn't remember-ura?"

"NO TOKUNOSUKE AND THAT'S NOT THE POINT HERE!" Kotori stopped yelling. "The point IS that maybe if Astral comes back then Yuma will remember!"

"That's a great idea!" Takashi shouted. They all nodded and stood there.

"So….How do we get Astral back?" Tetsuo asked.

"Hmmm…" They stood there thinking. Then their eyes lit up and they took a breath.

"Absolutely no idea."

Meanwhile, Somewhere Else…

Yuma walked home from school alone. He didn't know why, but he felt really lonely. He usually walked home alone and he was used to it! Yuma didn't get it.

Without realizing it, he had walked to the entrance of Heartland Tower. Yuma looked up at the large heart at the top. There was a commercial about the WDC spinning around it.

He took out something from his pocket. The commercial said that if someone had collected all 5 heart pieces, they could participate in the finals. Yuma stared at the red heart in his hand.

"When did I even participate in the WDC! I know some others did but I didn't!" He stared at the heart some more. "Maybe if I get rid of it, then I won't go to the finals! There's no way I could win anyway."

Yuma walked over to the edge of the platform and looked down below. Heartland Tower is located in a large platform with many stairs leading up to it in the middle of the city. If he threw it from here, it could land anywhere! Then a better duelist would find it and Yuma wouldn't have to be bothered with it.

He took a breath, then prepared to throw.

"Oh! Yuma! What are you doing here!" A loud voice said from behind him.

Yuma lost his balance and fell forwards. He was about to tumble off when a man jumped out, grabbed his arm and pulled him back onto the platform. Yuma fell on his bottom.

"Woah! Don't fall off! Not when you finally got a full heart! You won't be able to participate in the finals if you die!" The man joked.

"T-Thanks." Yuma got up and looked at the man. He had brown and red flaming hair and a very large coat.

"Gauche! What are you doing!" A woman with purple-blue hair said behind him and walked up.

"Oh! Droite! Yuma just nearly fell off!"

Droite sighed. "Probably because you talk too loud and made him lose his balance."

"I do not talk loudly!" Gauche shouted.

Droite sighed again and turned to Yuma. "So why are you here?"

"Ah, uh, well," Yuma didn't know what to do with the two proctors staring down at him.

"h-Here!" Yuma shoved the heart to Gauche. "I-I don't want it!"

"Huh?" Gauche looked at Yuma. Droite frowned.

"What are you talking about! The finals are in a week and 3 days!" She said.

"I-I know. I'm not going." Yuma stuttered.

"Teme…. You're giving up all the sudden!" Gauche shouted. Yuma had already started running away. He stopped when he heard Gauche.

"Don't I always?" He ran down the stairs, leaving Droite and Gauche speechless.

Me: Great. Yuma gave away his heart piece. Just great!

Astral: You are the one in charge of this story. You made that happen.

Me: I did not! The story goes wherever it goes and I just write it down!

Astral: You are the one who makes the story go.

Me: Look can you stop contradicting me!

Astral: Just post it online and go work on your other story.

Me: Okay. Here's an advertisement! Read my Naruto story if you like Naruto! It's gonna be awesome!

Astral: Review the chapter.

Me: Hey I'm not finished here!

Astral: See you next chapter.

Me: I said I'm no—