Chapter 8: A route to the Answer.

I re-adjust my gloves and look to (Y/N), he/she was getting their (Sword/Gun/Gloves) ready for our fight and I suddenly got pumped for this fight, one reason just being that I had never fought against him/her before so strength wise I didn't know what was in store for me. But the other reason was that maybe If I won this I could insure victory in the tourney, but maybe I could also ask why he/she wanted to win so badly as well and clear this whole thing up.

"So how should this be, one-on-one? Free for all? Stock?" I think for a minute.

"One-on-one, no items, three stock, and… damage ratio 0.5" He/She stops and looks at me.

"That's way too low, we'll be here forever with three stock!" I nod.

"Look this is a battle to increase our endurance and nothing more alright?" He/She blinks several times before sighs and moving on with it.

"Alright fine… but I still don't think that this is a good idea" I smirk.

"When do you ever?" He/She smiles and nods.

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This is never going to end! I knew that it was a stupid idea but not this stupid, the match, I'm sure, went on for nearly four hours and that's not counting the breaks between. I was getting annoyed that (Y/N) wouldn't give up and was nearly on the verge of just losing myself and giving him/her the win. (Y/N) pants and wipes the sweat away.

"See… I told you… this was stupid" I grunt and run toward him/her again. (Y/N) grunts and tries jumping around to avoid me. I smile finally finding a change to grab and knock him/her out. This fails when I miss my chance and I'm sent flying by an attack my damage was high enough and I lose my first point. Enraged by this cheep attack, I going back when I see that one of his/her's lives was gone and the damage was reverted back to 0%.

"Why…" He/She cuts me off.

"Look, this match isn't going to get us anywhere… and we've trained enough don't you think?" I sigh and nod agreeing with the choice.

"You're right… but still good job!" I walk over and offer my condolences with a handshake. "But still I think I won because you had the most damage" (Y/N) sighs.

"Just end the match already!" I chuckle and call down the hair to pause the match.

Want to end your match and bring it to a no contest? I nod before it goes up and does a series of movements and we're forced from the match. Me and (Y/N) decided to rest up for a while seeing as how our next match was yesterday, while he/she was cleaning herself up from all the stage elements and sweat I couldn't help but stare. Not like I was just staring but for a reason, it was bothering me that no matter what (Y/N) was just in this tournament just for the fun of it and not any real reason otherwise I would have known about it so I decided to ask anyways.

"Um… (Y/N)?" He/She looks up. "I was wondering… why did you want to enter this tournament in the first place?" He/She looks up to me.

"Well isn't is obvious…?" I shake my head. "Well it's only because I wanted to see if I could at least get to the Semifinals, or make some new friends and so far I made one of those come true, but now I want to to at least get to the Semifinals with you!" I blush and start to feel terrible at my thoughts at first about this whole thing.

"Oh…" (Y/N) looks at me.

"What, you sound disappointed" I nod.

"Well not disappointed but just sort of relieved" He/She looks at me once more.

"What for?" The tone had changed but I just ignored it.

"Well because I had thought that you wanted to win so that the Mii fighters would be back next time, but I guess I was wrong and can take this less seriously now" I lean back relaxed.

"W-what?" I chuckle.

"But that doesn't mean anything, a big misterunstading anyways" (Y/N) Stands up gripping his/her's fist.

"What exactly do you mean, if this really was just a misunderstanding then what were you planning on doing if you hadn't asked me right now?" I smile.

"Of course drop our partnership in wanting to work up to the top together and went off on my own and won, plus I would have probably take no mercy on you either" He/She gasps.

"A-and you were just okay with taking me down like that?" I nod

"Well of course, I mean it's not like beating you was going to be anything new right?" (Y/N) growls and punches my stomach before yelling out.

"Mac I hate you and everyone in the tournament… if you really felt that way then fine we'll just go off and see who's better and if you lose I want you to stay away from me!" I get up from the impact.

"(Y/N) wait you don't have to act like this, it didn't mean anything!" He/She looks up.

"Oh yeah right, like saying I'm weak isn't uncommon the only person who honestly hasn't said that is a few close friends but everyone else just said that I was weaker than anyone else that they fought this far, so it's not like I can just say that this hasn't been said before" I sigh realizing how much of a jerk I must have sounded liked.

"But, it's between us, you know that I don't find you weak" (Y/N) rolls his/her's eyes.

"Yeah right, people lie Mac and a lot so honestly this doesn't mean a single damn thing to me anymore…" He/She pauses starting to walk off. "And here I thought that we were actually starting to become friends…" He/She leaves the room, I don't follow seeing as how my mouth had already gotten me this far deep in this mess so I just sit there and wallow in the emotions (Y/N) must have been feeling. But really is it that big of a deal, everyone calls me the biggest loser or cheap or broken but I'm fine… maybe it was because it was from me! I get up and decided to go to the only person that I felt could answer that.

"Huh?" Dark Pit drops down from flight practice and stands in front of me.

"Look you heard me the first time, do I really have to repeat it?" He scoffs.

"If you keep talking to me like that I just might make you… but anyways why do you wanna know anyways?" I sigh.

"Cause I made (Y/N) upset cause I was-" He cuts me off.

"Talking, but not thinking?" I nod.

"Exactly, but I know you've been through this at least once in your life, I did meet Cassie and she seems like a handful and a half" He closes his eyes.

"Please shut up… but yeah you could say that, but overall yeah when you hear something like that from a person who you believe that you can trust it starts to hurt…" He pauses and raises a finger. "A good example, I'll just use Cassie since you know her, but one day she had wanted to do all these things for and with me but it was just so annoying the way that she was approaching me with it that I lashed out at her" He pauses. "She didn't yell or beat me up like usual but instead she made me feel terrible that I had done her that way when she had really done nothing to me, but really the only way she recovered was by me explaining why I had did that, if (Y/N) could understand why you said those dumb thing then maybe it'd all work out in the end, but then again that's just with normal things, yours might not be so normal" I sigh.
"Okay, so what is normal?" He thinks for a second.

"How should I know, I will only put up with one person and no one else so I wouldn't know any other problems like that but I have seen them and know how to help other people with it" He gains a smirk on his face.

"How?" He chuckles and closes his eyes putting them up next to his head.

"All you gotta do is give something important up, everyone loses it when that happen, especially when it seems like you really were trying to get or keep whatever it was; in your case it's win… so" He pauses. "Are you willing to lose this for (Y/N)?" I stare at him.

"You know for a dark version of Pit you sure are more… I don't know what the word it but like it means something with being able to think really well" He sighs.

"Intelligent, tactical, critical thinker…. I could go on" I shake my head.

"Nah, that's cool but still I the day before I made a promise to Gannon, Capt. and Bowser to win this because they had lost to Link plus a few other things I'd rather not get into to, I can't break a promise no matter who it's for" He sighs.

"Then I guess you're out of luck, cause' I can't change minds but all that I'm saying is go by your own choice not one that was chosen for you" He walks off, I sigh and look down at my fists.

"Arugg! Why did I make that stupid promise!"

Your P.O.V.

I didn't know that I could feel this angry over a fighter, I just met him and already I felt more attracted to him than the actual person who created me! But like he said maybe he was just saying that because he knows that I actually can fight… but then again like I told him. People lie and I've met some good ones since I got here really.

"Hey (Y/N)?" I turn around and see Cronus staring at me as if she were afraid of something. "Are you alright?" She points down to my hand, I look down and see it bleeding I grunt and release the grip I had on myself. "I've never seen you angry before, did something happen?" She walks over to me and takes out a first aid kid that she always had with her.

"Nothing important… just a fight with Mac" She sighs and cleans up the wounds before patching them up.

"Well don't say that I didn't warn you about people like him, most of these guys and girls here a full of their pride and it's impossible to get them out of it once they're inside" I nod.

"But I wasn't upset about that, it was because he told me that he had thought I was in this tournament because I was fighting to get that invite for next time" She stops and looks up to me.

"I may not have known you before this but I sure as hell know that you're not that kind of person, you're more humble and respected than anything so there's no way you would knock anyone else down for something you weren't aiming for" I look down.

"Well apparently it wasn't as obvious as it seemed…" She goes back to patching me up.
"So, what are you going to do drop from the tournament or fight on?" I sigh.

"Fight on, but I want you or anyone to train me to be the best that I can be I don't care if I wind up passing out because of it" She smiles and pats my hands before helping me up.

"Well if it's training you want I'll try my best to help in which ever way that I can!" I smile to her.

"Thank you Cronus" She giggles then sighs.
"But still I was really hoping that you and LM would have started a ship together, cause all these other ones are boring" I laugh.

"Well look you should just enjoy what you have, because something like mine is best left alone…" She shakes her head and gives me a small hug.

"Common, I'll help get your mind off of it, you feeling up to it?" I nod and take a breath.

"Yes… I am"

I can finally write! Not that I couldn't before but blah, blah, blah. This chapter was helped by a lot of terrible thoughts in my mind as I'm going through a writers block at this moment but I plan to go back through the most of my stories and fix any typos (Seeing as how there's a lot of important ones in there!) and come back with the last chapter for the Little Mac saga, soon after I will post the next character chapters who I will most likely decide on my own unless you all want to help me pick but if not then I will pick on my own. But other than that, I hope you enjoyed this very delayed chapter update and favorite and review everyone!