Chapter 6: Leaving For Now

"What do you want to do to him?" Taruto asked.

"I don't know…" Pudding replied.

They were standing over a sleeping Chocolove. He had gone to sleep to try to allow himself to heal.

"I know." Pudding smirked kneeling next to him. She sucked in a breath of air, and then blew. Fire flew out of her mouth, and set his afro ablaze.

Chocolove immediately jumped up, screaming at the heat from his head.

"AHH! MY HAIR!" Chocolove screamed as he tried to put it out with his hands.

Pudding and Taruto just watched him try to put it out. Taruto began to chuckle, Pudding smiled and began to laugh as well. Chocolove rolled on the ground and finally managed to put out the blaze. He lay on the ground panting.

"Dude… I didn't think my fever was that high…" Chocolove said between breaths. He glanced to his left and saw to children caught in a fit of giggles. "What are you two laughing at?" Chocolove said angrily.

"You… your… HAIR!" Taruto managed to say between laughs.

"WHAT HAPPENED TO ME?" Chocolove asked sitting up and grabbing bits of burnt hair.

"Well… You see…" Pudding began as she started to calm down. Taruto and she stood up, still giggling here and there. They used each others shoulders for support. "Well, I couldn't resist…"

"YOU SET MY HAIR ON FIRE! WHAT, ARE YOU SOME KIND OF INSAINE PYROMANIAC?" Chocolove screamed, then realized something, "Wait, how did you set my hair on fire?"

"Pudding breathed fire on your head." Taruto said as his laughs finally stopped.

"You… Breathed fire?" Chocolove asked, not believing. He suddenly broke out into laughing. "YOU? BREATHED FIRE! THAT'S A LAUGH!"

"Its true, Na no da." Pudding said looking down at him.

"How can a little girl breathe fire? Unless…" Chocolove stopped for a moment and looked suspiciously at Pudding. "You… Perform?" Chocolove asked raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah, Na no da!" Pudding said nodding.

"Wow. So young!" Chocolove said standing. "I'm Chocolove. And you are Pudding right?" Chocolove asked remembering when she introduced herself.

"Yeah, and this is Taruto." She said gesturing to Taruto. He lifted his hand and waved it once, then crossed his arms again. "Taru-Taru, be nice! Say hello, Na no da!"

"Fine… Hello." Taruto said looking bored.

"He's my best-est friend!" Pudding said smiling and putting her arm around Taruto and pulled him closer in a playful way.

"NU-UH!" Taruto yelled pushing her away.

"YEAH-HUH!" Pudding yelled back.

"NU-" Taruto started but was stopped by Chocolove.

"Would you two please keep it down, my head hurts." Chocolove said rubbing his head.

"Fine…" Pudding and Taruto said in unity.

Lyserg was speechless. He just stared at Lettuce and Pai. He slowly lowered his hand to his side and looked at the ground.

"Lettuce…" Lyserg whispered quietly to himself.

"Are you alright now, Lettuce?" Pai said softly into Lettuce's ear.

"Yes, thank you Pai-san." She said slowly taking a step back as they stopped hugging.

"Good, I was worried." Pai said, with a slight smile lighting up his features.

Lyserg felt a tear run down his cheek, but quickly brushed it away, not wanting to be seen crying in front of Jeanne and the rest of the X-Laws. In truth, he had fallen in love with Lettuce in their last encounter, when she had been hitting him with the broom, he had seen her face and fallen for her kind ways.

Marco came up from behind him, and rested his hand on his shoulder. "You loved that girl didn't you?" he said softly.

"What? How did you know?" asked Lyserg feeling his eyes blur with tears.

"I know the feeling. To love some one and to have them not return the feelings, to love another…it hurts, a lot." Marco said a sad smile on his face. "You have to move on, Lyserg. It's the only way you can get through the horrible pain you are feeling at this moment."

"Well, how can I do that? I mean, I really thought I loved her…" Lyserg said his eyes swelling up with tears again.

"I know it will be hard at first, but you will get through it Lyserg. I know you can." Marco said reassuringly.

"Thanks Marco, you're like a father figure. Like the father I had taken from me." Lyserg muttered bitterly, a sour thought of Hao streaking his mind for a brief moment.

"You are too young to worry about love my young friend. There will come a time where it will be important, but not now, so early in your life."

"Lyserg." Came a voice from inside the suit of the iron maiden.

"Yes Jeanne-sama?" replied Lyserg looking to her cold shell.

"We have come here for your reason, Lyserg. We must go now." she said calmly.

"Yes Iron Maiden Jeanne, I suppose, my reason for coming here was futile." He said looking at his feet. "I didn't even get a chance to tell her about being drug-free for almost a full month now…" he thought to himself, walking back through the bright light.

"Lyserg?" said Lettuce turning back to her friend. He was gone. "I wonder where he could have gone."

"Forget about him." came Pai's voice. "He is not important."

"Lyserg…" she whispered to herself as Pai took her away from the spot and towards Kishu.

Again, Faust and Eliza floated by, levitating off the ground, still in their same positions, and continued threw the town.

"Ah, hello Pai, Lettuce." Kishu said smiling.

"Hello Kishu, what have you done to her?" Pai asked referring to Ichigo kneeling on the ground with her hands over her mouth.

"Well, it was her own fault." Kishu said showing his teeth in a grin.

"YUCK!" Ichigo screamed spiting on the ground.

"Anyway, Pai, we must gather up and be on our way." Kishu said looking a little more serious, yet still slightly smiling.

"Yes, I suppose." Pai said as he walked over to the bench Mint and Zakuro were sitting at.

"What do you want?" Mint asked angrily.

"Kishu would like it if we were to gather up." Pai said frowning.

"Alright." Zakuro said standing up and walking to where Kishu was. Mint immediately followed after her.

Pai glanced around until her saw who he was looking for.

"You two kids are so weird…" Chocolove said fiddling with his burnt hair.

"You're the one wearing the skirt." Taruto said dully.

"HEY! Don't mock the skirt, man." Chocolove defended. "And look at you!" Chocolove said turning to Pudding. "What are you wearing?"

"It's a uniform." Pudding said lowering her eyebrows.

"YOU GO TO SCHOOL LIKE THAT?" Chocolove yelled.

"No. I WORK like this." Pudding said putting her hands on her hips.

"WERE THE HECK DO YOU WORK IN SOMETHING LIKE THAT?" Chocolove screamed.

"Café Mew Mew, Na no da." Pudding said getting annoyed.

"More like Café Puff Puff." Chocolove joked.

Pudding and Taruto froze with pity for that horrible joke. Just then, Pai walked over to them.

"Taruto, Pudding. Kishu would appreciate it if everyone were to gather up in one area, we are leaving." Pai said neutrally.

"FINALLY!" Taruto said levitating, "It's so boring here."

"And finally I can get some rest…" Chocolove said lying on the grass.

Pai and Pudding walked over to where Kishu was, Taruto floated.

"Alright, well, I knew we wouldn't stay very long here, I'll be seeing you Jun, Renny." Kishu said smiling.

Kishu extended his hand to Ren as if he were to shake Ren's hand. Ren hesitated then extended his hand to Kishu in return, but right before Ren reached Kishu's hand Kishu retracted it and grinned. Ren frowned.

"Bu-… you… my… hand…. Huh… wuh… Brother!" Ren managed to yell. Kishu laughed at Ren's speechlessness.

"Oh brother, you are so hilarious." Kishu said reveling his fangs in a grin.

"Wha-… Why?" Ren asked lowering his eyebrows.

"Because you don't even know it." Kishu laughed.

"I'll miss you Kish!" Jun said waving to Kishu.

"I will miss you as well, Jun." Kishu said waving in return.

"As much as I hate to get all mushy, Brother, I will miss you too." Ren said frowning.

"And I will miss you too, Brother." Kishu said smiling.

Kishu and his friend's teleported back to their dimension.