AN: Yep.. Another one…

Dai: Hey, I think these kids are kinda cool!

Pietro: you would…

Joey: Can we get a house like that? Minus the hamsters or gerbils or whatever?

Shippou: YEAH!!

Pietro: Am I alone here?

Draco: No… Me and Yama are with you.. so it's an Even Three on Three…

Yama: Please review.. it's only chapter one…

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"Numbah 4! What is the meaning of this?!"

"Meaning of what numbah 1?" the other asked as he worked on his homework locked in his room until disturbed by his best friend.

"The meaning of why you're avoiding us!" the bald preteen insisted.

"I've to get this stuff done for school."

"Hacking into the system, you're ahead! You've almost finished this semester! What is going on, Wally?"

"Nothing Nigel! I just have to get this done okay?" he yelled at his friend.

"Fine. But you have to be at the meeting in ten minutes…" Nigel said leaving the room slamming the door behind him. Wally sighed and pulled open a drawer of his desk and looked over the formal looking paper.

"Why'd it haveta be now?" he asked.

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"Four this is insane!" Two declared.

"Numbah Five thinks this is looking real bad on your part, numbah Four."

"What's wrong Numbah Four?" Three asked as he sat in an agitated heap on the end of the couch.

"Four answer us!" One insisted, not showing how worried he really was on the inside. The other four sighed as their blonde companion just sat there ignoring their questions. One started in on the meeting, when it finished, the others left except for him and Four. "Wally. Please. You do know that you are my best friend," Nigel said sitting next to the blonde. "Can you tell me what's wrong?"

"I already would have if I could have found the words Nige'…" he sighed greatly. "I want to! Don't get me wrong… I want you at the very least to know what's going on… But I can't…"

"What do you mean by 'what's going on' Wally? If it's a family problem, I can try to help out…"

"Don't waste your time Nige'… It won't make a difference anything that you do…" Wally said getting up and leaving an odd tone in his voice as if he were ready to break down and fight anything in his way to something.

The alarms started to sound, loudly.

"ADULT!" Three ran in yelling before a crunch was heard and a teen came in.

"'Ello!" she said.

"Who are you?" Five asked holding up a gun.

"Chill, girl. I'm looking for Four," she paused. "If that made any sense at all…"

"I'm right here," Wally said walking over solemnly.

"Come on, short stuff," she said placing a hand on his shoulder.

"NUMBAH FIVE ASKED A QUESTION!"

"I know you did. You really want to know? Erazulie. That's who I am. Now, if you'll excuse us, we need to go!" she said as they headed down the stairs.

"Two, you're in charge till I get back," One said as he followed Four and this 'Erazulie' outside where they got into a black jeep. Her long dirty blonde hair blew in the wind as they drove. Numbah one followed in a one operative vehicle.

"Wally, I can't help it either! You know that I'll have it all straightened out in a few weeks!" she said to her passenger.

"Why do you have to take me before it's figured out?!"

"I was under strict orders to get you by the end of the week or you weren't living with family period, Wal! You know so well I would have let it slide if not…"

"It's not fair Erazulie…"

"Life isn't fair…" she responded taking a turn to go up to the look out over the city. She pulled a large box out of the trunk as well as a guitar case and sat on the hood of the car. "But there are things that can help us get through it."

"Like you're music?" Four asked as she nodded.

"And any cousin of mine, has got to have a proper outlet," answered handing him the large box. One watched from his hiding spot as his friend tore open the large present before hugging the girl. He pulled out a guitar case and then the guitar as the wrappings and box clattered to the ground. Erazulie took out her own guitar and set to teaching her cousin the cords and notes.

One watched as his friend put together harmonies with the mysterious girl. The music was all he could hear from his position. 'Wally, what is going on? Why can't you tell me?' Nigel thought as he watched them. Wally started to hum a bit and his companion encouraged him to put his thoughts to the music.

"Been friends forever, never knew how the feelings grew like this, but I wouldn't give them up because moments like this are almost bliss…"

"Never knew…. You never knew.." Erazulie came in with. Wally gave a real smile.

"How it felt to see you go… how it felt when I was pulled away.. I can't understand this world around us but with you, I knew I had a glimmer of hope, some slight chance…"

Erazulie smiled as her cousin played. "Oh no, you never ever knew….. How could you never know.. You just never knew…"

"What it meant when I was with you… when we fought side by side, when we battled for our rights, saved this town under the streetlights!

"But you'll never know… won't get the chance… Fate has come and left a blank. Fate has come and tried to be sure that we're not…" Wally paused almost completely. "We're not here anymore….."

"And people wonder why we're related! Wally we're writing that down as soon as we get back okay? A little tweaking and we'll have a real song there!" Wally smiled as he put the guitars in the back and Erazulie picked up what his present was wrapped in. "I'll give you a moment, okay?"

"Thanks Erazulie…" Wally said walking over near where One was hiding and sat down looking down at the city, mostly at the tree fort.

"What's this about Wally?"

"Nigel!?" he asked looking up slightly frightened eyes.

"Talk to me Wally!"

"I don't think I got time…" he whispered. "Erazulie says we ain't got long ta-"

"Who is she to you?"

"She's my cousin! Don't you recognize 'er?" Wally asked.

"Now that you said something…" Nigel said sitting beside his friend. They were quiet a moment. Wally memorizing the view and Nigel memorizing how his best friend looked under starlight with wind moving his hair slightly.

"I gotta go Nige'…" Wally said quietly standing up. "I'll see you tomorrow.."

"Of course…" Nigel said as he watched his friend climb into the jeep and it drove away.

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Four walked into the hideout early in the morning and had taken two loads of his things down to the jeep before He ran into One, literally. "Morning," he said as his blonde friend looked like a puppy who'd been caught chewing on his master's shoe. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing…" Four muttered going into his room and shutting the door. He sighed leaning against it. It shouldn't be this hard. Within two months at the most he'd be back, why was it so hard to face his best friend then? It wasn't normal. It was like a vacation! Not like he was really moving… He pushed himself off the door and finished packing the last box. He was able to get down and put it in the jeep before getting back in and leaving a note for the whole team in the main room. Then a separate note for Nigel in his room, which he knew that the leader would definitely be off to after finding the first note.

"Hard ain't it?" Erazulie asked her cousin as they started for the train station. They moved Wally's stuff into a trunk and then had a suitcase and their guitars to take on the actual train with them.

"Much too hard…" Wally said as they climbed into the train. Erazulie put her things in their car as he watched from the door. They were just pulling out and the guy who was to close the door was working somewhere else when Nigel came through the crowd and was running towards the train as it started to crawl out.

"WALLY!"

"Nigel!" Wally breathed looking up to see his friend. Erazulie came up behind him.

"I'll be damned.. The kid made it…" she said with a smile.

"NIGEL!" Wally yelled back to his friend as the small bald British child ran up and was just able to give Wally something before the train was going to fast and Erazulie had to grab the blonde before he fell out trying to reach his friend. Nigel's glasses had fallen askew, and his eyes looked ever saddened, as his friend's shirt became a small orange dot with a blonde top. "NIGEL! I'M SORRY!!"