Me: Hey! How ya doing! Welcome to the ninth chapter of this story! I am your sort-of host Tsukuyomi-chan! And this is my sidekick Astral!

Astral: Since when am I your sidekick? And what is a sidekick?

Me: Basically, it's the person on my side, so you're not that important cause you only help! You don't do much!

Astral: . . .

Me: Yeah my explanation sucks I know. Um, reviewers! Please help me explain what a sidekick is! Also, I do not own Yugioh Zexal!

Astral: What happened to we?

Me: Oh silly Astral! Sidekicks don't need to get mentioned!

Astral: . . .


Chapter 9: EXTRA! Saturday Morning TV!

At six-thirty in the morning on the next day, which was Saturday, Sarah quietly crept down the stairs. Everything was completely silent in the house, and it was still dark outside. She snuck into the tv room, opened the mini-fridge in the corner, took out a giant bag of barbeque chips, and sat down on the middle large couch, with two empty couches around her.

"What are you doing?"

"ACK!" She jumped and turned around, to see Kaito standing there. "What the heck?!" She whisper-shouted.

"I heard footsteps so I came to see what it was." He said matter-of-factly.

"Well tell me about it before you scare me to death next time!"

"That was my way of telling you that I was here."

Sarah stared at him. She sighed.

"So why are you up so early?"

"I wake up every Saturday morning early so I can watch Saturday cartoons."

"Oh. So what's on?" He said and sat on the other couch in the room.

She stared at him again. "You're staying?"

"I see no reason to go back to sleep now."

"That's right!" Orbital beeped from next to Sarah, who jumped again.

"What the heck?!" She yelled again.

"We've come to observe what goes on in this world's television system!" Orbital said as he rolled into the room next to Kaito.

"Yeah. It should be interesting." Shark said as he sat on the same couch as Kaito did.

Sarah stared. "Is everyone here?!

"Not yet…" Kaito started.

Kotori yawned as she walked into the room wearing a pair of pink pajamas. "What's going on down here?"

"Yeah. Who wakes up this early in the morning?" Yuma yawned.

"It seems to be some sort of gathering Yuma-kun." Rei said. He didn't seem to be sleepy at all.

"A gathering? What are you doing?" Yuma asked, suddenly not sleepy anymore. He ran and jumped onto a couch. "Watching tv? I wanna watch with you guys!"

". . . Now everyone's here." Shark finished.

"Be quiet!" Sarah hissed, making a shushing motion. "If my parents wake up that'll be a disaastor! They don't know that I do this!"

"How long have you been doing it?" Kotori asked as she and Rei both sat on Yuma's couch.

"Seven years."

"And they haven't caught you yet?" Shark said.

"Nah. Anyway, refreshments are in there if you want any." She pointed at the mini-fridge. "Today's a Zexal marathon—"

"Zexal?!"

"U-Uh, you see," Sarah began to explain, trying to ignore the staring at her, "the show that you guys are in over here is called Yugioh Zexal, and they're having a marathon of episodes today, starting right now!"

She grabbed the remote, turned on the TV, and flicked it to a channel. The familiar scene of Yuma and Astral waiting outside their house for Yuma's heartpiece to come played.

"Hey! It's me!" Yuma said and pointed at himself happily while munching on some chips. "I'm on TV!"

"That is very strange." Astral said, floating next to Sarah's couch.

When Yuma and Astral started talking, the Yuma in Sarah's house began laughing like crazy. Kotori, Rei, and Shark laughed some too. Even Kaito snickered slightly.

"What's wrong with my voice?!" Yuma choked out, spilling chips everywhere with his shaking from laughter. "It's so, so, I dunno what it's called but it's so funny!"

"O-Oi! Stop spilling my precious chips!" Sarah yelled.

Then came the scene where everyone at school was happy about the WDC coming up.

"Oh yeah! Just saying, but Tetsuo's name has been changed to Bronk. Class President, or Takashi's been changed to Caswell. Tokunosuke's Flip, and Cat-chan's, well, Cat." Sarah said.

"W-What?!" Kotori choked on some of the chips she was eating with Yuma. Beside her, Yuma laughed like a maniac.

"Oh that is good! That is good! Just wait until I tell everyone back home about it! Ha! That'll be real good!" He laughed.

They got to the scene where Yuma just found out how he didn't have a heart piece and was running all Heartland Tower in a panic. Sarah was laughing.

"You, you, you look, so, ridiculous!" Sarah managed to say between laughs and imitated Yuma's expression. "It's just so weird how you run like that!"

"Hey! I was upset! I didn't get my heart piece!" Yuma yelled back.

Shark had gotten himself a pop, and when it got to the scene when he confronted IV, he spit out the juice he just drank.

"W-What the hell?!" He yelled.

"Oh yeah, IV's name has been changed to Quattro. Just to let you know." Sarah said to him. "Also, III's been changed to Trey, and V's been changed to Quinton."

"III's Trey?" Yuma said.

"V. V's name, got changed, to, Quinton?" Kaito said to himself quietly.

"And," Sarah held up her finger. "Tron has been changed to Vetrix."

They all stared at her except for Rei, who looked around confused.

"Also, you're Reginald Kastle in here. That's where I got your alibi from." She continued. "Kotori, you're Tori Meadows."

"What about me?" Rei said, pointing at himself excitedly.

"Uh… You… haven't appeared in any episodes yet, so, you're just Rei Shingetsu."

"Oh." Rei looked disappointed.

"B-But, I'm sure you'll appear in some later episodes!" Sarah said, trying to cheer him up.

"Sure…" He still sounded disappointed.

The TV got to the part where Yuma was outside Heartland Tower and begged for a heartpiece.

"You were that desperate?" Shark asked.

"Hey, I didn't get my Heartpiece!" Yuma complained.

"I was embarrassed just being there with him." Kotori sighed.

"I wasn't that bad!" Yuma said back.

They get to the part where Yuma was pretending to die because he wasn't getting what he wanted. Kotori gave him an 'I told you so' look.

"Okay, I was pretty bad." Yuma agreed.

When it got to the part where Kaito, Mr. Heartland, Droite, and Gauche, the Kaito in Sarah's house stared.

"Oh, also, Droite's now Dextra, and Gauche's Nistro. And you're name's Kite Tenjo. Also, Haruto's Hart Tenjo."

Kaito stared at her. "Why. Just…. Why."

Sarah shrugged. "At least you get to keep your last name! I mean, look at Sharky! He got changed from Ryoga Kamishiro to Reginald Kastle!"

"Sharky?" Shark now stared at her as well.

"It just came out. I think it suits you!" Sarah shrugged.

Shark sighed.

Then the TV came to the part where Orbital 7 and Kaito were talking about Yuma and Astral.

"I am not an idiot!" Yuma protested. "And what do you mean I'm harmless except to myself!"

Kotori sighed. "Kaito-san actually has a point there."

"What's that supposed to mean?!"

"It means he values me more of a rival than you." Astral said to Yuma, smiling slightly.

"What?!" Yuma stared at him, and then at Kaito. "I can duel too!"

"That's, not really what I meant." Kaito said.

Yuma didn't say anything. He just sat there pouting. The TV went on to the part where Mr. Heartland came out and gave Yuma his Heartpiece.

"You… called Mr. Heartland dude? And then Mrs. Heartland?" Shark stared. "And you still expected to get a Heartpiece?

"No wonder he was mad when he came back in." Kaito shook his head in disbelief.

Then it came to the part where Yuma, Astral and Kotori talked.

"Beg like a dog?" Kaito stared at Yuma. "And what's wrong with my new name?"

"It wasn't me! It was the people who made this!" Yuma yelled.

"But still," Kotori smiled, "you still promised to win and you did!"

"Yeah…" Yuma smiled too.

"They lllliiiiiike each other!" Sarah giggled.

Yuma and Kotori's faces both turned red. "We do not!" They both yelled at the same time.

Sarah just giggled and turned away. "Sure you don't!" She sang. Then the TV showed Kaito watching over Haruto. "Aww it's so sweet how you care about Haruto that much!" She squealed to Kaito.

Kaito looked uncomfortable. "They show everything?"

"Everything that's important and won't spoil too much of what happens later on!"

"Wait." Yuma began thinking. "If they show almost everything, then does that mean—"

"They showed the part where you were on the toilet and sort of explaining the human body to Astral." Sarah said.

Yuma stared. "Oh my god they showed that too. Everybody saw me doing my business!"

"W-Well, they didn't show that much…"

"Everybody still saw it!"

Sarah laughed nervously. "T-That's not really the point here…."

The TV advanced to the next day, with Mr. Heartland explaining all of the rules for the WDC. They watched as everyone on screen ran off to their own duels and Yuma getting smacked in the face by the soccer ball. Sarah and Kotori burst into laughter.

"You got smacked so hard! And he has a British accent!" Sarah laughed.

"It figures only you would get smacked in the face with a soccer ball like that." Shark said. "You're the only one absentminded enough."

"Hey!" Yuma yelled as Kotori giggled slightly.

"Anyway, the episode's over!" Sarah said when the ending credits played. She stretched and stood up. "Whatdya all think of it?"

Yuma, Kotori, Astral, Shark, and Kaito all stood up and looked at her. "Weird." Then they all walked out, well, Astral floated, of the room, Orbital following Kaito.

"I thought it was cool." Rei said, not understanding what was going on.

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As far back as I can remember, I've been scared of everything. People, spiders, the dark, swimming, small spaces, just about everything. And people made fun of me because of it, because it was easy to make fun of a girl who was scared and wouldn't stand up for herself. I figured it would never change, that I'd just one day disappear from everyone's lives and nobody would notice at all. Nobody's seemed to notice me at all. Until now.

All the sudden, the life I once had has been thrown into a world where just about everything's possible. My favourite anime characters somehow coming into my life, and they sure make a mess of it! Yuma doesn't seem to understand anything here. Kotori's actually really cool! Astral's okay, in his own Astral way. Shark less scary then I imagined, and Kaito's, well, Kaito! There's honestly no words to describe him, he's just Kaito! And then there's Rei. I have no idea what to make of him, cause he hasn't shown up in any of the episodes, but he's somehow here. I guess he's also from Yuma's world. He's a strange person. But then, they're all strange in their own special ways.

I guess it's just weird how one day can change so much. They've been here for just 3 days and it made me change how actually saw things just because they were there! I've always been a bit scared of change, but I knew it would always come. I just imagined it would be the bad kind of change, not this kind. This kind of change is sudden, random, indecisive. There's no way for me to tell if the fact that they're now with me in my world is good or bad. It's such a strange problem that I don't know if it's ever gonna get fixed!

But then, having them here, it's just so weird! I'm laughing with others, crying with others, getting annoyed with others, hanging out in groups, a whole bunch of things I thought I'd never be able to do are happening. Occasionally, I get this warm feeling in my heart that I haven't felt before. It really is a strange change of life.

I don't know why though, but, I think I like it!

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"Collect the Numbers, team up with the Number 39's Yuma, and save all of the worlds! Easy!"

"It's not that easy and you know that."

"Jeez One! Even if it's not easy we still gotta do it!"

"You still haven't grown at all."

"I've grown up some! Watching and going through all those worlds does that to you."

"Yeah, that happened…. Anyway we know the Barians are still going to go after the Numbers. We'll have to intercept them at some point."

"It's gonna take a while to build up enough power to travel to that world!"

"A week at least. Let's just hope nothing serious happens before that. When we get there, are you still using the name One?"

"Of course! Do you realize how they'd react if I told them who I really was! Anyway, just keep letting me borrow the name until the time is right! Hopefully, they won't find out at all and we came save everyone who's trapped!"

"Yeah. We need all of the Numbers' powers, including his. It's not going to be easy."

"It's never easy! That's why we're going to do it!"


Me: Ahehe, Merry Late Christmas! I'll give a cookie to everyone who can guess which episode they watched, although with all those hints I'm pretty sure it's easy. So I guess a whole bunch of people are getting cookies today! It's not even a 5 chapter anniversary!

Astral: Just consider it a later Christmas present since she didn't get this up on the day. She got it 3 days late.

Me: I'M SORRY! I have other things to do! Anyway, review, and my sidekick and I bid you farewell!

Astral: You're still on the whole sidekick thing?

Me: You are my sidekick and that is final!