Disclaimer: He is squishy and he shall be mine... He shall be my squishy. Just keep swimming, just keep swimming... I love Finding Nemo (I don't own it either)

Authors Note(s): Okay! I can tell you that this did not happen the first time I uploaded this story, this chapter is COMPLETELY new, but it's still heading in the same general direction. So, here's the deal with the guitars:

When Naota was fighting Haruko in the last episode of FLCL, he was using the guitar Haruko pulled out of his head,(the white one) and he was also using the guitar that belongs to Atomsk(the Gibson EB-0, 1961 model, it's red) then he fused both of those guitars together, and it had double strings on it, and it was still red.

In the last episode, Haruko leaves behind her blue bass guitar, and takes the one Naota was using. (probably because it was more powerful)

Another cool fact that I noticed while I was watching my copies of FLCL for the 100 millionth time, was that in the second episode, when Naota is explaining what the game Fire Starter is, in the background, mixed in with all the other voices, is Miyumiyu(the fat blue cat) talking, he says two lines: "What part of this is really the truth" and "We're talking about you." I'm not quite sure what they mean, but it's kind of cool to know that it isn't just Haruko talking to the cat, because the cat talks back.

ONE MORE THING: This chapter is really broken up, it switches from one scene in the story to another quickly. It isn't supposed to make perfect sense, so GOOD LUCK!

Chapter 3:

Duck, duck, goose.

"So, she finally came back," Amarao said quietly to Naota, who jumped out of his trance of watching the ripples in the water circle, then vanish from vision completely, while he was stationed atop the highway bridge. Amarao was sitting on his blue and yellow vespa, resting the weight of his torso on the handlebars, supported by his elbows, his dark glasses reflecting the sunshine in them, hiding his eyes. Naota turned to see him, still relaxing against the railing of the bridge.
Haruko yawned, sitting beside her banana yellow Vespa, banging a wrench at it's insides violently. She heard quiet footsteps trail up from behind her and instinctively grabbed her guitar, and swung herself around, slamming her attacker's head into the pavement. "Huh?" she said, her mouth spreading into an evil grin. "Hey Ta-kun, you might want to give a girl a little warning next time," she said nonchalantly, Naota's eye twitched, he never remembered the feeling of being hit over the head with a guitar so refreshing before.

"Ow... WHY DON'T YOU GIVE ME SOME WARNING!" he howled at her, then he sweat-dropped at her completely ignoring him, and scratching the inside of her ear with her toes.

"Do you really think it would help your cause if I gave you a warning?" She paused, and said almost silently, "Duck."

"What does it mean to you anyway?" Naota asked, feeling anything but joy to see Amarao, who had only made everything even more confusing or caused trouble of his own in their previous encounter.
"Wha-" Naota started, and then POW!... Haruko had hit him again, explaining what she was referring to.

"See?" she said, proud of proving her point. "Get up Taaaaaa-Kuun... the neighbors are watching..." She smirked as he shot up from the ground, and found that no one was looking their way.

"Arrr... didn't we already have a discussion about lying?" he said in a scolding voice, like a parent's voice right before they sentence their child to punishment. Haruko stared at the ground, pretending to be ashamed, and playing along with his game.

"I didn't lie... it was only a small bluff," she argued, then looked up from the ground, and POW!... She hit him again, but this time he didn't stay down, he ran into the house, steam foaming from his ears. "Where'd he go?" she asked aloud, genuinely clueless.

"How long has it been? Seven years now? It probably feels like it's been a lot longer to you though..." Amarao stopped his sentence without an explanation, and gazed up into the sky, searching through the clouds. "She's scared of them, her own powers are wearing thin, and your's are only growing."
"Okay, now Haruko..." he said in a menacing tone while emerging from the side door of his house a few minutes later, he was carrying something over his shoulder. "It's payback time," he threatened, wielding Haruko's bass guitar over his head, the blue guitar that she had left behind seven years ago.
"Tasuku, why do you have to carry all that gum around with you?" Mamimi inquired, as he pulled out a small square of white gum from his pockets. "What kind of gum is it?"

"It's Nicorette gum, ya know?" Tasuku replied, placing the piece of gum in his mouth, and beginning to chew. "All baseball players like gum." Mamimi raised a quizzical eyebrow his way.

"But... why do you need Nicorette? Isn't that only for people that are trying to quit smoking?" Mamimi was too naive to even think about quiting her favorite hobby. "You don't smoke, chief."

"That's the point. In America, all the baseball players chewed Tobacco and/or smoked because they liked Nicotine," he explained. "And because I'm against smoking." He paused at the evil glare Mamimi gave him, but then continued. "I decided to chew Nicorette gum, because it gives you the Nicotine your body needs, so you don't have to smoke."

"But... why did your body ever need Nicotine?"

"Because it sounded like a cool word, and everybody else loved it!" He exclaimed happily. "But the only bad thing about it is, that I'm addicted to Nicotine now..."

"So... why don't you stop chewing it?" Mamimi said, but only got a horrified look from Tasuku.

"ARE YOU CRAZY!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. "I've chewed this gum constantly during all my games in America, if I stop now, my body will hate me! It needs the Nicotine now... just like yours'."

"Payback!" Haruko whined at his figure, that was now towering over her form on the ground.

"Duck..." Naota warned, then swung his guitar at Haruko's head, she quickly dodged. "Duck," he warned again, this time not giving her as much time, but she once again dodged and jumped up into a standing position, the Gibson EB-0, 1961 model, double-necked bass/electric guitar slung over her shoulder, (look in author's not for the full explanation) mocking him.

"Goose," Haruko said under her devilish grin. "Don't under-estimate me Ta-Kun, or else you'll get burned," she threatened, holding her cocky stance.

"Then I guess it's time to finally extinguish the fire," he spoke, then he leaped into the air at her, her blue bass guitar held high above his head, beginning a downward motion at her.

"Huh?" He said in a curious tone. My own powers...
"Oh really?" She put on her maniac grin(trademark) again, noticing her open target. She let out a high pitched battle cry, enjoying his challenge, and threw the guitar at Naota's stomach, he gagged being caught off guard. Then she put more pressure into the blow and thrust all her upper body muscles to send him flying in the air. "Beat that!"

"Argh!" Naota yelped as he felt his stomach clench into knots, and he flew thought the air, then an idea struck him. "NIMBUS!" he whistled, and almost instantly, the yellow flying Nimbus was hovering under his feet. "Haha! Yeah! Thanks Goku!"

"I don't know where you got this sudden urge to fight me from, but it's going to hurt you more than it hurts me!" Haruko screamed out, as she pulled the chain on her guitar, making a loud buzzing noise, and then she hopped onto her guitar, which was now floating in mid air. She zoomed straight for Naota, firing red, hot bullets out from the neck of it. He wived out of the way of all the shots.

"You said I was your guardian... that you needed my protection, and that I'm stronger than you, now I'm going to find out if that's really true!"

"Hey Tasuku, did you ever meet Canti-sama?" Mamimi quired, turning the subject of conversation away from gum.

"No, but he's always on the cover of the Teen People magazines that dad ships in from America," Tasuku said, thinking all the magazine covers he should have been on.

"Yeah, Cantido is quite the popular one, Chief!" Mamimi said full of happiness for her robot friend.

"Cantido?"

"Yeah, that's his another part of his name," she explained, "His complete name is Lord Cantido, Halo God of the Black(or dark) Flame!"

"Isn't that from a video game?" Tasuku asked, pulling out an article about "Fire Starter" from an American magazine. "They're finally releasing it in America."

"It's not just a game..." Mamimi said putting on a childish frown.

"I do need your protection!" Haruko said, aggravated by his disbelieving nature toward her, "But there's many things you don't understand!" She continued to fire rapidly at Naota.

"What don't I understand?" he shouted back at Haruko, swiftly twirling on the Nimbus to stay out of the bullets range.

"Right now, you don't have your full power!" she tried to explain, running low on ammo.

"You think I don't know that?" Naota demanded, flying high into the sky to stay away from her fireballs. "Maybe there's a few things you don't completely understand!"

"What do you know!" she questioned, she was out of bullets and unguarded.

"I'm telling you to take this chance while you've got it," Amarao suggested, once again leaving out a huge chunk of what he was talking about, now Naota was in an even worse state of mind than before he came. "Do what you did before, but this time she isn't going to help you. This time you have to get into full swing," he finished and drove off into the distance on his speeding moped.
Naota took this chance and went straight in for the critical blow. He made his way past the few stray bullets that were still floating around aimlessly, and dived toward Haruko, who was too busy kicking her guitar, trying desperately to make it work. He silently struck her in the side of the head with one swing of his bass.

"Hey! That was a cheap shot!" Haruko grumbled as she went slamming into the wall of the neighboring house, leaving a massive crater in the siding. She slid down from it, and stood up, her face down and darkened. "Ta-Kun..." She turned her eyes up to him in the sky, the light from the sun illuminating her features. "Tell me something that I don't know, I'm curious." She held her form on the ground, while he hovered in the air, slowly descending down.

"While you were gone," he started, then he jumped off the Nimbus, and it jetted away. "I learned how to control what N.O I have."

"You-You what!" Haruko stammered, shocked to hear that he was using his own power to his advantage.

"Although... without you being here, Canti and I had to fight those big bad robots that came out of my head all by ourselves," he said in a cocky tone. Naota snapped his fingers, and the garage door opened almost instantly, revealing a shinny white Vespa lingering inside it. "This was only one of the many things that I gained from using my head, but I stopped doing it along time ago, after I acquired this bike..."

"Ninamori! Ninamori! Did ya hear!" Goku asked Ninamori, who was sitting at the Dairy Queen, licking her chocolate ice cream in it's cone. She looked up from her cool ice delight to see him.

"Hear what?" she replied lazily, being used to Goku's obsessed rants of "Did ya hear," It can be really bizarre sometimes...

"About the Vespa Woman!" Goku yelled, in the same excited manner that he used the last time he had gotten some sweat information about Haruko.

"What about her?" Ninamori asked, more interested in her ice cream.

"She's back!"

"Yeah, I know, so what?" she said, disappointing Gaku. "I don't think it's any big deal."

"I didn't expect this from you Ta-Kun..." Haruko said in a low voice, a smirk planted on her lips.

"I've been training off-and-on for the past few years," Naota said, almost bragging.

"So tell me Ta-Kun, why aren't you fighting me with all you've got?" Haruko asked, slowly walking up to him.

"Because half of my power is in America."

"Good show tonight Canti!" Canti's manager, Kitsurabami said, patting the robot's back in congratulations. Canti's screen flushed, and he waved dismissively. "No really! I mean it."

"Canti, the crowd's requesting an encore," a member of the stage crew interrupted.

"Then an encore they shall have!" Kitsurabami blurted out, before Canti had a chance to object. She pushed him out onto the stage, now he was back in front of the huge audience in the Commerica Park stadium in Detroit Michigan, only one of the very many tour stops Canti and The Village People, are planning on preforming at in the United States of America.

"Okay folks! Here they are again!" A booming voice erupted from the loud speakers, "Canti and The Village People!" He finished, which was followed by clapping and cheering from all of the fans in the over-packed arena.

Yeah! Canti's part of the Village People, they're the ones that sing the YMCA song.

To my reviewers:

Luv ya! - It really makes your day to get a good review. Bad reviews make you feel bad and lonely inside, but they're helpful. Thank you, to both the good, and the bad reviews that were sent to me.

Alright! I just want to explain myself really quick to one of my reviewers: Mamimi-chan. (didn't leave an email...) - This was her review:

Mamimi-chan 2004-05-17 2 Anonymous

I think you have a lot of grammical errors...at the end I got confused because it said:
Maybe I should warm someone...
I read the paragraph over about 3 times and finaly realized that it mean:
Maybe I should WARN someone...
I know my work has spelling errors and I try to fix them with the Quick Edit/Quick Preview, not having Microsoft Word is NOT an excuse because you can download it in like 3 minutes. I understand a lot of people like your work and wouldn't appreiciate it if it got taken off Also, if you look on the Rules, it says you must have ALL punctuation errors, spelling errors etc. corrected. I'm not trying to be a grouch, and I'm just trying to help you out. When you have things mushed together like that, people won't understand it, try harder, and it'll work out!

Jane!

(Perfect-For-You)

My reply:

I'm trying to fix it. Thank you for the review.When I uploaded this story, the WONDERFUL Quick Edit feature wasn't available yet...(It truly is a great thing...) I don't have Microsoft Word, and I didn't know you could download it. I used to write in Notepad, then I would spell check in Outlook Express email thing. Obviously the Outlook Express does not have as good of a Spell Check system as the one you can now use on I'm not perfect, in fact, I'm no where near being perfect. I'm just a kid, I'm still in school learning proper grammar. I'm trying, really I am. Also note that this was my first fanfic I ever wrote, and I wasn't good at grammar AT ALL back then. Now I have some idea. Yes, those are the rules, but I didn't intentionally have bad grammar, it was an accident, and I looked over my story many times, but I missed stuff, I always miss some errors. Just trying to explain my side, that's all. Thank you for the advise, but please don't try to remove my fic... I work very hard on this stuff, I don't know if it shows or not, but I do. Other people also have grammar errors too... Sorry that you had to read it when it was messed up, and thanks for the review.

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