Well, I've asked my friends (okay, I think I only asked Tek) and my readers about the whole idea for changing the name to Gou. Well guess what? I've changed 2 names! You guys know who Gou is now, well Jason is now Makoto! I went through the trouble of going back to my previous chapters and changing their names. I also had to redo a few lines. If you guys want to go back and see the changes go ahead, and if you catch a name that wasn't changed, let me know. So yeah, that's why I couldn't update soon.

"Oh my gosh! Uncle Hiro is missing!" Makoto exclaimed. Everyone in the area turned to look at him. They were on a cruise ship to Europe, but they recently got the news that the European tournament was cancelled. They found out a little too late. Now they have to get to the next tournament in Russia after they get to Europe. If that wasn't bad enough, Hiro told Kaiya that if he doesn't arrive, take the cruise ship to Europe and he'll meet them there, unfortunately, he's no where on the ship. Now, Makoto and Cam are panicking. Mark is at the edge of panic, Gou and Rayna are trying to calm the three down and Kaiya is just getting annoyed.

"EVERYONE JUST SHUT UP!" Kaiya shouted and they all fell silent.

"We're going to stay calm and not panic!" she said strictly.

"But-but-but!" Makoto was about to freak out again.

"I said NO PANICKING! If there's anyone that should be panicking is me because I'm left in charge of you babies!"

"Who are you calling babies? And technically, Makoto is the oldest," said Mark.

"How did you find out when my birthday is to know that information?" Kaiya asked. Mark took a quick glimpse at Gou,

"I just did," said Mark.

"Gou…" Kaiya growled.

"Hey! He was wondering!" said Gou.

"I'm the oldest? Cool!" said Makoto and ginned, completely forgetting about their situation.

"Okay, now that Hiro's not here to guide us, we're on our own. So, we get to Europe, and we'll head straight for Russia," said Kaiya.

"Can't we tour Europe? I mean, I've never been there before," said Rayna.

"Yeah, and even though the European tournament was cancelled, they didn't move the date of the Russian tournament so we have almost a month to get to Russia," said Cam.

"Did you guys even hear what I said?" Kaiya asked.

"Yeah, this might end up being good, now that we don't have a baby-sitter! For crying out loud! I'm twelve!" said Makoto ignoring Kaiya's question. Actually, he's ignoring her completely.

"You have a very small brain for someone older than me by a few months," said Kaiya.

"WHAT? SHUT UP! And that's stupid! You're the stupid one!"

"Those that call other people stupid are usually the stupid ones," said Kaiya smirking.

"Here they go again," said Gou.

"I know," said Mark.

"Well, maybe we can have fun here. We're on a cruise ship aren't we?" Rayna pointed out.

"Well…" Cam looked over at their two team captains. They were still at it.

"Um, guys!" Mark called.

"WHAT?" the two exclaimed, already at each other's throats. Almost literally too.

"I have a few questions. First off, without Hiro, how are we supposed to support ourselves?" Mark asked. The two released each other. Makoto turned his back to Kaiya.

"Before Hiro left, he handed me money for Europe and Russia," Kaiya explained.

"Good, let's go eat!" said Makoto. Everyone sweat drops.

"Second question is um, how do we get to Russia?" Mark asked.

"We either take another ship there, take a plane, or find some miraculous way to get from Europe to Russia," said Kaiya as they headed towards a restaurant on the ship.

"And where's Hiro?" Mark asked.

"That I don't know," Kaiya replied.

"The money is used for hotels and such. Not for big lunches. So we all pay with your own money so choose your meal carefully," said Kaiya looking at the menu.

"WHAT?" Makoto exclaimed.

"SH!" everyone else went. It was a pretty fancy restaurant so they didn't want disturbance. .

"But I only have 20 dollars with me!" Makoto complained.

"Order something less than 20 dollars then," said Kaiya.

"Easy for you to say, you're rich," said Makoto.

"Wow, you noticed," said Kaiya.

"Why you-"

"Makoto, this isn't the best place to be fighting," said Mark.

Makoto groaned, he was very hungry and the meals under the price of $20 won't fill him up that's for sure.

The food arrived. The others weren't as hungry as Makoto so they had average sized meals. Except for Kaiya who got a giant bowl of noodles.

"Kaiya loves noodles, she never gets enough of them," Gou explained.

"Shut up!" she said and would've tossed something from her bowl if she didn't love her food so much.

Makoto sat right across from Kaiya and was starting to whimper. He loved noodles too.

Kaiya looked at him; she was taken back at those puppy dog eyes he's giving her. After a couple more minutes, she dared to look up again. He was still giving her that look. Except this time, she wasn't sure if he was whimpering or literally crying for food. Kaiya sighed, she wasn't sure what it was, but something about him or that look made her feel sorry for him.

"Here, hand me that bowl," said Kaiya. Makoto's eyes lit up. Kaiya could've sworn that he saw stars in them. Kaiya poured him half her meal. Makoto got out of his seat and waited next to Kaiya.

"Here," she said handing him the bowl.

"I can really have it? Kami! I love you, Kaiya!" He gave her a hard gripped hug.

"Hey! Let go of me! Don't touch me!" she uses her arm to get him to let go.

The others stared at that very strange moment.

"Okay, I thought you cared about no one but yourself and your brother but I guess you do have a heart! Thanks again!" Makoto rushed back to his seat to eat his share.

"Yeah…that makes me feel very appreciated," said Kaiya.

No one was sure whether that was sarcasm or maybe she really meant it. It was leaned more on sarcasm, but you never know with Kaiya.

After lunch, the team explored the ship,

"That was so weird," said Mark to Rayna.

"If you're talking about our lunch, yes I agree. One moment Makoto and Kaiya were fighting and the next, one was generous and the other hugged," said Rayna.

"Maybe they get seasick and that was the effect," said Mark and Rayna shrugged a maybe.

"That was funny!" laughed Gou.

"There was nothing funny about our lunch so zip it already!" said Kaiya sitting under the shade while Gou spends time in the pool. His hair was tied in a ponytail then it was looped to cut the long length of it.

"Yes it was! You actually gave in to his puppy-dog eyes. Pretty good puppy-dog eyes may I add. But anyway, you actually were nice to him. So you're really giving him a chance?" Gou asked.

"Chance at what?" Kaiya asked.

"You know, back in the hotel in New York, we were talking about you and Makoto's relationship. How you guys don't get along, and I said to give him a chance. I mean, Makoto isn't stupid you know," said Gou.

"Yes he is," said Kaiya.

"You are so cruel. But it looks like someone besides me can get your soft side out," said Gou and was about to swim some more.

"It won't happen again!" said Kaiya.

"Sure it won't," said Gou and swam off.

"Sheesh! You'll do anything for food!" said Cam. She and Makoto were looking in the arcade room.

"I know," said Makoto watching a table hockey game go on.

"You scared me! You hugged Kaiya!" Cam was almost freaking out.

"I was happy okay? I wouldn't have done it if I wasn't desperate for food," said Makoto.

"That's my point!" said Cam.

"You're overreacting; I'm just going to forget about this by tomorrow anyway, said Makoto.

"Makoto! Alright, I'll just put this behind me. But you and Kaiya scared me," said Cam shaking her head.

That evening, everyone started meeting up with each other again.

"Okay, we're all here except…Kaiya," said Gou after checking everyone in.

"Wasn't she with you?" Rayna asked raising an eyebrow.

"Was with me," said Gou.

"So where-"

Mark was cut off by a cry for help.

"AAH! No! Daisy!" It was a little girl's voice. The team rushed to the back end of the boat. There was already a crowd of people.

"What's going on?" Makoto asked one of the people there,

"I girl's dog fell overboard," the man explained.

"Dogs are allowed on the ship?" Cam asked.

"No, but somehow, it seems that the family snuck it on. After the dog fell overboard, a girl with unusual colored hair jumped in afterwards," said the man.

"Oh my Kami…If he means my sister, just who does he mean by saying we have unusual colored hair?" said Gou and pushed his way through the crowds.

"Wait! Gou!" the others cried and went after him.

"Daisy…" a little blonde girl with a pink ribbon in her hair was crying. Judging by how she was dressed, she was rich. Fancy blue dress, perfect hair done, yeah, rich.

Some people were holding a rope that was attached to something in the ocean.

Gou looked over worriedly. The others joined.

"Miss Serena! I see her! Daisy is alright!" said a man, presumed a butler judging by his clothes. The little girl went to look over. The people were pulling the rope up now.

"Kaiya…" Gou whispered.

"Wait, Kaiya's down there? That figure holding the dog is Kaiya?" Mark asked in surprise.

The rope was being pulled up faster, and the black and dark blue hair made it positive that it was Kaiya. She was holding a white and brown dog with floppy ears in one arm and with her opposite hand, she was holding the rope.

"Oh Daisy!" Serena cried when the dog came into reach. The people helped Kaiya on board. She collapsed on her back breathing heavily.

"Kaiya! What in the world were you DOING?" Gou exclaimed.

"What (pant) did (pant) it look (pant) like?" she asked taking in deep breaths.

"Like you were trying to get yourself killed!" Gou answered.

"Tell that (pant) to the dog," said Kaiya. Gou helped her sit up. The girl named Serena holding Daisy and her butler walked up to them.

"Thank you so much, Miss. How can we repay you?" the butler asked.

"You save my Daisy's life! You're so brave!" Serena said.

"Yeah…you could say that. It was no problem…you can repay me by watching over that dog more carefully because I don't want to be jumping into the salty ocean anytime soon," said Kaiya taking slower breaths.

"Oh I will! Thank you so much! Please! We can treat you and your friends to dinner!" said Serena.

"That would be good, but it's alright," said Kaiya.

"Really?" Makoto asked with a lot of hope to Serena and her butler. His friends sweat dropped.

"Oh yeah! Now this is a meal!" said Makoto stuffing himself. It was like a buffet laid right on the table.

"Makoto…" everyone sighed. Kaiya started coughing.

"Yeah, you tell me to stop street blading and you start jumping off ships into the ocean to rescue dogs," said Gou.

"Hey! At least I'm only coughing and not in a hospital in a coma!" Kaiya pointed out.

"It could've been worse!" Gou argued back.

"A lot of things could've been worse for me," said Kaiya and coughed again.

"Yeah? Like what?" Gou asked.

"Being stuck with ONLY Makoto. I'm just lucky I'm surrounded by smart people as well as dumb people," said Kaiya.

"And just WHO are you calling dumb?" Gou asked.

"Well, depends," Kaiya answered and coughed harder this time.

The ship finally reached Europe the next morning; Cam has been trying to get the team into considering about training more before the Russian tournament but no one really wanted to listen.

Everyone got off to have their feet walk on the hard ground again.

"Okay, so…are we doomed because Hiro's not here?" Makoto asked trying to stay calm.

"No because I didn't come this far and not win," said Kaiya and coughed again.

"So where are we in Europe?" Rayna asked.

"I think we're in France," said Mark looking at a map of the world.

"France! Nice!" said Makoto.

"The place for romance," sighed Cam and started to get all dreamy. Everyone just looked at her weirdly.

"You know, I'm hungry," said Makoto and everyone groans.

"We have to find a hotel," said Kaiya strictly.

"So we'll just buy snacks on the way! How's that sound, Mako?" Mark asked.

The team stopped by a bakery and got some bread and sweets to eat. Everyone carried something for themselves.

They walked for a while until they heard a little girl crying. She was speaking in French so none of them understood what the girl was saying. Kaiya looked up, there was a red balloon flying away. She sighed and walked towards the girl and her mother.

"Where are you going, Kaiya?" Rayna asked when she was walking off course.

"Here," she said to the little girl handing her the small bag that Kaiya had. After a short conversation, the girl and her mother had Kaiya's snack.

"What did you give her?" Mark asked when Kaiya got back to them.

"A slice of cake," Kaiya replied.

"What? You could've given that to me and you gave to the girl?" Makoto asked between mouthfuls and stuffing himself with sweets.

"Yeah except you didn't need it, you pig!" said Kaiya and walked ahead of the others.

"Shut up!"

"Make me!"

"Guys please! Don't start fighting again!" Cam cried stepping between the two before they actually want to start getting physical. They gave each other the cold shoulder and ignored each other until they stopped to get ice cream.

"Here…" said Kaiya quietly giving her cone to a young boy who dropped his cone.

"Gou, your sister is scaring me," Makoto whispered to Gou when they were sitting at a table to eat their ice creams.

"Why? She does this often, we just never saw a child in need until now," said Gou and licked one of his two ice cream. One chocolate and the other vanilla.

Kaiya sat with her friends and sighed,

"You're hungry aren't you?" Gou asked before licking his second cone.

"Shut up," she said glaring at him.

Makoto stared at his treat. A giant ice cream sundae. He was the one who sighed this time.

"Hey Kaiya, I'm willing to share this with you," he said flatly.

Kaiya looked up at him; she went over to him…then hits him causing Makoto to fall off his chair and cry out in pain.

"Kaiya!" Gou said angrily.

Makoto was already back on his feet to take over Gou's anger.

"WHAT IN THE WORLD DID YOU DO THAT FOR?" he exclaimed angrily with a huge anime vein. Causing people that could hear him freeze and stare at him.

"Simple…that's what boys get when they START HITTING ON ME!" Kaiya exclaimed glaring at Makoto.

"What…? EW! EW! NO! There's no way! Why in the world would I be HITTING ON YOU?" Makoto yelled with a horrified look on his face.

"Gee I don't know. You tell me you pervert!"

"I'm no pervert! I haven't had a crush for almost 3 years! Plus, you're not even attractive or my type! Why in this beyblading world would I hit on someone like YOU?"

"Uh oh, he just said she wasn't attractive…" Gou thought now with a very worried expression on his face.

"Not attractive? YOU DID NOT JUST SAY THAT! I happened to have been voted the most hottest blader in the world!" said Kaiya angrily and proudly.

"She means hottest female blader. I'm the hottest male," said Gou.

"Well the world must be blind because I don't see any beauty in you, Kaiya! And how the heck were you voted the as hottest guy? I'm way better looking than you!" said Makoto looking at Kaiya then to Gou weirdly.

"What?" the two asked giving Makoto one of their father's most famous death glares. Kaiya was cracking her knuckles while Gou puts a first in his hand.

"Uh, Makoto, I really advice you to shut up right now," Mark bent over and whispered strongly in Makoto's ear.

Please R and R!

Note that when the characters say stuff like "Oh my Kami". It's like the Japanese way of saying "Oh my God."