Hey guys, can you believe that it's already been two weeks? Feels like only a couple days. Oh, right it was…oops. This beginning scene is for my reviewer, Nightlover2! Hope you guys enjoy.

DISCLAIMER: Don't own bakugan, nor will I ever. Too bad… oh well. Oh, and guys, please read the end this time, it contains important information. Thank you.

Bold is thoughts

Italics is flashbacks

Ch. 25

SPECTRA POV

It was actually quite amusing to see the girls, including my dear sister, furiously attack Shun in an attempt to get him to rest. Shun wasn't usually the type to let himself give in so easily, but he knew Runo, Julie, and Alice better than I. Still, even the rest of us could tell that messing with these girls right now would be dangerous.

"Is it always like this?" Linehalt asked, watching Dan snicker at Shun's problem.

"Most of the time. Dan and Shun get roughed up a lot, either from battling, Shun trying to stop Dan from doing something really stupid, or Shun's training, so they're prepared a lot of the time," Marucho answered.

"They're not going to give up, are they?" Helios growled.

Ace input, "Probably not. Both sides are stubborn, so it might take a while."

"We don't have that kind of time."

Dan shrugged, "That's true Drago. Might as well get going. Too bad. This is always fun to watch."

Nemus chuckled, "You enjoy this too much."

Dan sighed, putting his hands behind his head, "True." Daniel was pure hearted, no doubt about it. But, he had strange quirks, didn't he?

Baron said, "Maybe we should stop them though."

"Fine," Dan replied. He cupped his hands into a makeshift megaphone and shouted at Shun, who was still protesting, moving around to dodge the three that were making grabs at him. Julie was simply cheering on from the side and Alice stood there, giggling at him.

They expected him to shout, but the group did not expect Dan to start speaking so strangely, "Itigil na! (A/N: Stop!)" he shouted.

Without pausing Shun responded, "Walang paraan. Makakakuha ka sa kanila na itigil ang unang. (A/N: No way. You tell them to stop first.)"

"Kukunin ko sabihin sa kanila tungkol sa kanya! (A/N: I'll tell them about her!)'' Dan said back. By now, the girls had stopped. They all listened to the two, trying to pick up any clues to what they were saying.

Shun stopped, knowing he wasn't in any immediate danger, and answered dryly, "Namin parehong alam hindi mo ay. (A/N: We both know you won't.)"

"Mangyaring? (A/N: Please?)" Dan asked. It looked like He was asking Shun something. Yet another secret about these two…

"Multa.(A/N: Fine.)" Shun proceeded back to the boys.

The girls stood where they were, stock still. Shun and Dan walked forward, "Well are you coming? He's gonna change his mind again."

Shun looked at Dan with his eyes narrowed, but didn't say anything. "Since you girls are so eager to play doctor, we can go back to Marucho's."

The pair walked out. Baron voiced what all of us were thinking, "What just happened?"

INGRAM POV

It was nice to see that Dan and Shun were friends. Though they didn't realize it, they were only so great at what they did because they pushed each other along. Hawktor and I watched as Skyress floated alongside Shun.

Shun looked at Skyress, "I never got a chance, but I'm glad you guys are back. I missed you."

"Yes, it had been a long time, hasn't it?" she asked.

"Didn't you say we'd never see each other again?" he said.

"I stand corrected."

"Good."

Hawktor flew up to our brawling partner, "What was up with the funky language?" he questioned bluntly.

Dan grinned widely, "That's something we did a long time ago."

"When did you learn to speak a secret language to each other? You can barely speak one language correctly," Runo asked.

Shun chuckled lightly at that, "She's got you there."

JULIE POV

After a lot of asking and prodding, Dan finally agreed to tell us about their secret code. Actually, it might have been the fact that Shun mentioned something in their code lightly, still looking forward. For some reason, Dan turned pale, his eyes flicked to Runo, then he answered in a whiny tone. Shun simply answered shortly, and the discussion ended there.

We were all together in Marucho's huge ballroom, and Alice was fixing up Shun's bandages on his arm, "You actually did a pretty good job the first time, I was surprised."

Dan smiled, "He's had practice."

We, as in us three girls and Marucho had thought we knew them, well at least Dan, but we clearly didn't. But, we let this one slide. "So, tell us about this code!" I gushed. Even though they had secrets, it was fine with me. I had plenty with Billy. Plus, it was nice to hear Dan talk so happily after all that drama a while ago.

"It was during school. You know how Shun is better than me in pretty much everything but bakugan, which he's pretty much tied in."

"Tied?" Fabia asked.

"He's only lower than me because he's always training."

"A battler is always-"

Dan waved Shun off, "I know. Honing their skills." Shun didn't say anything to the interruption.

"Anyway, it was the same back then. So, I tried to get a one up on him by learning a new language. So, after working super hard for, like a freaking two months, I learned enough. So, after school one day, he came up and said hi. I just burst out in the language. He looked confused, and I thought I won for once. Suddenly, he starts speaking in the same language. He already knew the language!" he ranted.

"So…?" Ace led off. We all looked at Shun who was smirking, "Continue Dan."

"He just smirked and told me to try harder the next time. He'd already known what I was up to. So, later, we decided that it be our code."

"So, then, what's the language?" Ren pressed.

Dan glanced at Shun, who didn't seem to do anything. Apparently, he had, because Dan nodded and turned back.

The pyrus brawler grinned, "That's classified."

Hey guys, it's Jazz. This was a filler chapter with a bit of light hearted friendship in there.

Um, well I do have some things to tell you, but first I needed to let my readers know that a fellow member of this site just recently passed away. He was FootballandBTR. I don't know if any of you know him, but his writing was amazing and he had a personality of huge determination. :) So, please, it would be great to have a moment of silence for him. Thank you.

It was also recently (on Friday) the Day of Silence, where people stand up against bullying, I hope you guys participated, I know I did…

And lastly, the language that Shun and Dan were speaking is Filipino (Tagalog).

I got this language from Stephy825's story, Pyrus 'n Ventus. Which, by the way, if you haven't read, go check it out. IT explores Dan's and Shun's childhood and is super cute and funny XD

I'm sorry if it was wrong in any way, I used Google Translate… ^^

See you all next time, and remember to be thankful for everything you have :)