8.1

[Yo-kai Watch/RWBY]

Lie Ren Awoke to find himself staring out at a town from the top of a school building. He looked down, he was shorter than normal, he had some sort of moving scarf around his neck…

He checked his Loop memories and found that he was in the home Loop of Ruby and Yang's adoptive younger brother, he was a yo-kai that went by the name of Venoct… And he was on the hunt for a monstrous nekomata, by the name of Rubeus J…

The boy shuddered a bit when he looked at the Loop memories that told him why he was after this other yo-kai. It seems that he used to be a human boy, living in a village. But Rubeus J had attacked, burnt the whole village to the ground… nobody had survived, not even him.

The similarities to his own Baseline childhood were not lost on him, though Venoct's sheer desire for revenge was one thing he was surprised by, wanting revenge so much that you pursue it even after death…

He shook his head and stood firm.

"This Rubeus J can't be allowed to roam free, he is clearly very dangerous… and I don't really have much else to do here," he sighed while tapping his dragon scarf. "But where to start…" his thoughts were interrupted by the sounds of school bell ringing, signifying its end, and among the students he spotted several that he recognized, "Perhaps I should ask them."

"So, now that school's out, what exactly should we do?" Katie questioned as she walked with Nate and Inaho, followed by several of their non-Looping friends; Eddie, Bear, Sarah, Alex, Crystal, and Jessica.

Unknown to their human friends, they also had some Looping yo-kai companionship in Whisper, Jibanyan and USApyon. Kyubi was also there in his human disguise, making the group rather large.

"I don't know, it's been a little while since we all just… hung out, right?" Nate shrugged.

"Perhaps some of you lovely ladies would like to accompany me to a café?" Kyubi suggested with a flip of his hair. A few of the (non-Looping) girls blushed a little, but the thought was halted when Katie grabbed hold of the disguised yo-kai's ear and pulled him over to her.

"Calm down, you devious fox, we're all together, and we're going to do something together, and no seducing my friends," Katie hissed, Kyubi nodded stiffly and a cheerful smile came to the Looping girl's face. "Good!"

"… Nate, how exactly do you know that guy again?" Bear asked in confusion while looking at Kyubi.

"Yeah, I don't think he goes to our school… but on the other hand they do," he gestured to Inaho, Jessica and Crystal. "And I've never seen them, so…"

"No, he doesn't… He's a friend of Katie, Inaho and I, and we thought it would be nice to invite him," Nate shrugged. Well, he wasn't exactly lying…

"Look, we're all missing the big picture here," Inaho suddenly stepped forward, a determined look on her face. "If we're all to do something together, it should be something grand! A grand adventure! Yes!"

"Okay, now you need to calm down," Nate sighed at Inaho's behavior.

"I agree with the average kid," Jessica sighed, Nate's eyes narrowed at her.

"I have a name you know…"

"Come on Nate, you only introduced yourself to Inaho's friends this Loop a few days ago, you can't expect them to remember your name immediately," Whisper shrugged as he floated by the Anchor's side, Nate gave him a side glare.

"No excuse, I remembered his name when I hadn't even met him yet! Dani!" USApyon said firmly.

"I actually think an adventure sounds pretty cool," Alex said with an eager smile on her face.

"Where exactly could we have an adventure in ol' Springdale?" Nate asked with skepticism, of course he himself knew a few ways to do just that, but he didn't feel like revealing that to his non-Looping friends right now.

"Excuse me?" The sudden voice caused all parties to look up, the yo-kai and Looping humans were only briefly surprised by the appearance of the dragon scarf-wielding yo-kai. Though the other humans were either shocked or just confused.

"Venoct, now?" Nate muttered with a blink.

"Is that a floating kid in some kind of ninja costume...?" Bear asked blankly, Nate briefly nodded, before realizing what he meant.

"Wait, you can see him!?"

"Why wouldn't we be able to see him?" Eddie questioned suspiciously. "… Also, what is…. Um, him?" Venoct landed before the crowed of children and yo-kai, before looking towards Nate.

"Um, hello there. Are you feeling a little Loopy perhaps?"

"I'm rather Loopy, but still pretty Anchored," Nate answered almost automatically, he ignored the strange looks he got from the non-Loopers before stepping forward, "Excuse us for a moment."

He took 'Venoct' a few feet away and looked him over.

"… Venoct?"

"No, Ren, Lie Ren," The dragon-themed yo-kai said calmly.

"Lie Ren? As in Lie Ren from Remnant Lie Ren?" Nate questioned, Ren sweatdropped.

"What other Lie Ren do you know?"

"I'm just a little surprised to see you is all… are Ruby or Yang here?" Nate asked, a hopeful look on his face.

"Not that I know of, sorry," Ren shook his head and Nate sighed.

"Too bad… Oh wait, you wanted something?"

"Yeah, I was wondering if you wanted to help me take down Rubeus J?"

"Take down Rubeus J?" Nate blinked and looked like he was thinking about it, he glanced back to his friends that were waiting and a smirk formed on his face. "Question, can we make it fun?"

"I don't see any reason not to," Ren hid his own smirk under his dragon-scarf. "Did you have something in mind?"

"Just give me a minute, we wanted something fun to do with our friends… I think this can become our adventure," Nate said as he started walking back over to the others. Ren's eyes narrowed a little when he looked at one member of the group.

"Is that the playboy fox over there?"

"Oh yeah… Forgot about that," Nate groaned, recalling the history Kyubi had with the Remnant Loopers, before shrugging and continuing. "We'll deal with that in a moment…"

"What's with that guy? What are they talking about?" Bear questioned as he watched Nate and Ren.

"Nate seems to know him, I wonder how," Eddie muttered curiously.

"Yeah… how?" Katie sweatdropped as she tried to look away.

"What are you doing?" Whisper asked Katie blankly.

"I don't want to try and explain anything," the Looping girl whispered to the ghost, her eyes narrowed.

"Okay guys, I've got a lot of stuff to explain to you!" Nate announced as he came back over, Ren hovering behind him calmly. Katie blinked in confusion.

"Looks like he beat you to it," Jibanyan said in a disinterested tone, taking a bite out of a chocobar.

"What's the plan, what are we doing?" Inaho asked excitedly.

"Well, it looks like we're going to have an adventure after all," Nate said, a smirk on his face.

"Woo!" Inaho cheered, throwing her hands into the air.

"Way to go Nate!" Alex exclaimed, a fist extended outward in victory.

"Okay, seriously. What is going on, Inaho?" Crystal questioned her excited friend, but she didn't seem interested in answering.

"I would very much like to know what is going on as well," Eddie interjected, a confused look on his face.

"Everybody calm down!" Ren held up his hand and all attention turned to him.

"Thanks, Ren," Nate nodded before looking towards his friends. "As I said, this here's a friend of mine. And with his help we'll all be going on a grand adventure… But first, there are a few things that need to be made clear to a few people here. Guys, I'm just putting it all out, you should make yourselves visible!" at this exclamation, the non-Looping kids looked confused, Inaho retained her excitement, Katie crossed her arms with an unsure expression, and Kyubi seemed disinterested.

To say the there was some surprise when a trio of strange creatures appeared out of nowhere, would be a bit of an understatement.

"Yo-kai, seriously!?" Eddie questioned in disbelief at the explanation they had been given.

"The proof's right in front of you Eddie, you're interested in the facts. Well here they are," Katie shrugged nonchalantly.

"Sorry for the abrupt appearance, but Nate here clearly has a plan," Whisper said as he hovered by his master/friend's side.

"I'm very confused," Sarah said, looking between Jibanyan and USApyon.

"Ditto," Alex and Bear both said in unison.

"No need to stare, dani," USApyon sweatdropped at the attention, Jibanyan just ate another chocobar.

"Inaho! What is going on!?" Crystal exclaimed, a little loudly. Inaho winced slightly.

"Tone it down, Crystal. Nate's still explaining," the purple haired girl insisted, trying to calm her friend down.

"This is so confusing…" Jessica muttered.

"If any of you ladies need some comfort, I'm available, just ask," Kyubi said in a charming manner, Ren glared at him slightly and Katie groaned.

"Okay, enough Kyubi. If we're doing this then we should be open about you too," the Looping girl said blandly, Kyubi blinked, before smiling a little nervously.

"What, why Katie I have no idea what you– "

Katie hit Kyubi over the head, and in a puff of smoke the human boy was replaced with a nine-tailed fox creature. The non-Looping kids gasped in surprise.

"Bravo! An amazing trick!" Inaho clapped her hands, USApyon glared at her in annoyance.

"You knew who he was the whole time! Dani!"

"Katie, why did you do that!?" Kyubi questioned seriously.

"Look, if we're doing this, we're doing this. Guys, my friend Kyubi is a yo-kai," Katie looked the confused classmates for a second. "A nine-tailed fox spirit to be exact… a kyūbi no kitsune."

"… I did think that was an odd name actually," Eddie admitted after a moment.

"I thought his name was 'Kiwi'!?" Bear exclaimed in confusion, a tick mark formed on the fox yo-kai's head as he growled a little.

"Seriously!? That again!? What's so hard about the name 'Kyubi'!?" the fox yo-kai exclaimed angrily, Ren crossed his arms as he glared at him and hovered over.

"Kyubi, correct?"

"Yes! That's what I was saying– "the S rank yo-kai froze up a bit when he saw the cold look Venoct's replacement was giving him. "Oh… You're from Remnant, aren't you?"

"Lie Ren, you're the fox that tried to romance all my female friends, including my mother and sister…"

"… Didn't you already punish me over that? Along with your dad and those other guys?" Kyubi questioned, backing up a bit, his eyes narrowed.

"Ren, calm down. He's my friend," Nate said, the (currently) Slippery tribe yo-kai looked down at the Anchor and grunted before backing up a bit.

"I'm not fond of that fox," he growled, his dragon-scarf hiding his expression, other than his scolding eyes.

"Well, could you keep the hostility low at least? He's not that bad, you got the wrong impression of him," Nate pleaded with the visiting Looper, whom gave him a skeptical glare in return, "… Okay, so he kind of is that bad, but please!"

"… Fine."

"Thank you, Ren!"

"What are you guys going on about?" Alex asked, crossing her arms.

"It's rude to intrude on others personal matters, you know," Whisper popped up behind the girl, causing her to yelp in surprise.

"Kind of hard to keep it personal when they're talking right in front of all of us," Inaho pointed out with a shrug, USApyon groaned.

"It doesn't matter, I won't drag the rest of you into my little… dispute with that fox," Ren stated calmly, though he still glared at Kyubi.

"Dispute? If he's going to get all passive-aggressive on me for this entire Loop, I swear I am not putting up with it," Kyubi growled quietly, so only he and Katie could hear.

"He has every right to be angry at you after your previous actions," Katie whispered, the fox yo-kai let out a dismissive snort, Katie glared at him, "Look, he's willing to put in an effort not to attack you, So, I expect you to put in some effort as well."

"You're not the boss of me," Kyubi huffed indignantly.

"I am if you want to keep getting your ears scratched!" the irritated girl snapped, Kyubi's ears drooped a little as his eyes widened, before he sighed in defeat.

"Okay, fine…" after the fox spirit's admission, he and Katie noticed how the others were staring at them, "… What the heck are you all looking at!?" they all immediately looked away, Katie let out a small chuckle as her fox companion grumbled. "I can tell this is gonna be a fun Loop…

8.2 KaiserRichard

"ARRRRRGH!" a certain purple-haired looper yelled in angrish "First me not able to get Space Pier powers and now my name being changed MID-LOOP?!"

The certainly named Nate and Miifu simply smirked at the newly named Hailey, "That's what you get for bugging US about changing names every loop!"

"Why couldn't I be like USApyon and not have my name changed?!" Banging her head against a wall.

"Could we hurry this up? I got a thing to do at three..." A sweatdropping Hinozall said waiting to battle.

8.3

"So, anybody know why Keita called us all here?" Fumi questioned, standing in front of the Amano house along with all of the other Loopers, aside from Jibanyan, Whisper and Hikikōmori. Everyone was Awake this Loop.

"Maybe he's having a party, zura," Komasan suggested with an innocent smile.

"Maybe he wants to discuss what the next expansion could be like? Dani," USApyon scratched his head in thought.

"Oh! I bet he wants us all to make a super hero team!" Inaho concluded with an eager smile, the others looked at her blankly, except for Guts K.

"That sounds like a great idea!" the small, shadowy yo-kai exclaimed, striking his signature pose. "Guts!"

"Yeah! Guts!" Inaho mimicked him, Fumi sweatdropped at this behavior, before turning to Kyubi and Ningyo. "What do you guys think?"

"I don't know, and I don't care," Ningyo grunted with an annoyed huff.

"Come on, babe. It could be something exciting," Kyubi said smoothly, looking at Ningyo with a smirk, the aquatic yo-kai glared at the nine-tailed fox, before abruptly slapping him with her tail. "Ow!"

"Call me 'babe' again, and see how painful it can get," she huffed while crossing her arms.

"Whatever dad wants, I'm sure it's really important!" Hanahojin insisted with a confidant nod, still keeping his fingers in his nose.

"… Well I'll just ring the doorbell," Fumi muttered, an unsure expression on her face, but before she could, the door suddenly opened.

"Hey everyone, come in! Come in!" the smiling Keita greeted, motioning for them to enter his home.

"I've got a bad feeling about this…" Jinmenken muttered.

"Do you ever not have a bad feeling about something?" Kyubi questioned, floating into the house, the human-faced dog paused with a thoughtful look.

"… Come on," Ningyo grunted, grabbing hold of Jinmenken's tail and dragging him inside.

"I am very excited for what lies ahead," Guts K grinned, Inaho nodded in agreement.

After the group made it to the Anchor's room, they found themselves standing before the closet, Whisper and Jibanyan beside them.

"Um, guys, what's this about?" Fumi asked the two resident yo-kai questioningly.

"What's dad planning?" Hanahojin interjected curiously.

"Don't knyow, but when Keita found out everyone was Awake he got all excited, nya," Jibanyan explained with a shrug.

"I can't even fathom what he might be planning, wissu," Whisper added, looking a little nervous.

"Guts! Guts! Guts! Yeah!" Inaho and Guts K exclaimed as they repeatedly struck heroic poses, USApyon growled in annoyance at this.

"Welcome!" Keita exclaimed, bursting from the closet, halting any shenanigans from beginning.

"Keita, what gives? Why did you call us all here? Don't you know I have ladies to woo?" The Looping fox yo-kai stated with an annoyed glare.

"Trust us, he's doing them a favor keeping you here," Ningyo glared at Kyubi, whom shot a glare back at her.

"Oh! Is the party in the closet? Zura," Komasan asked in a cheerful manner.

"Bro, I don't think there is a party…" Komajiro sweatdropped. Keita chuckled a bit.

"Really Keita, why call us here?" Fumi questioned, feeling a little impatient from all the mystery of this meeting, and all the reactions of the other Loopers weren't helping…

"Don't worry my friends, all will be revealed in just a moment," Keita stated with an eager smirk, before turning to the inside of the closet. "Everything ready, Hiki?... Great!"

"Why is Hikikōmori involved, while we're not? Wissu," Whisper asked Jibanyan with an offended expression, the small nekomata shrugged uncaringly, shoving a chocolate bar into his mouth.

"Step inside and prepare to be amazed!" Keita exclaimed, sounding very excited. The other Loopers warily stepped forward and into the closet.

"I still have a bad feeling about this!" Jinmenken insisted as they moved forward.

"Where are we? This doesn't look like the closet, nya," Jibanyan pointed out, the group having seemingly just appeared in a void of darkness.

"Everyone, over here!" Keita called out, the group finding him, along with Hikikōmori, standing by an illuminated, metallic door.

"This is cool, like an episode of the Twilight Zone, have we Looped into the Twilight Zone?" Inaho questioned USApyon as they walked through the void.

"I don't know! Don't ask me stupid questions! Dani!" USApyon snapped out of annoyance, Inaho seemed unbothered by her friend's attitude and just chuckled with contained excitement.

"Keita-kun, what is this?" Fumi asked, furrowing a brow in confusion.

"Step inside and have a look," Keita said in his calm, yet eager tone, opening the door and leading the group into some sort of storehouse; filled to the brim with all sorts of weapons, armors, or other machines.

The Loopers looked around in both surprise and amazement at the assorted items that were visible on the walls and few tables there were, some items seemed either incomplete or in-disrepair, while others looked to be in perfect condition. But every item seemed to have one or more slots for yo-kai medals implemented into them in some way.

"W-what even is this!?" Ningyo questioned, shocked at the enormous number of weapons the Anchored had stored in… wherever this place was. "Why did you bring us here!?"

"So many things…" Hanahojin seemed mesmerized.

"Simple, my friends. This here storage house is in my sub-space pocket! I've been working on all these modified weapons and other items for many Loops, with Hikikōmori-chan's help. And in the process, I made a little something for each of you!" Keita explained, looking quite proud.

"Something for us, like what? Nya," Jibanyan questioned, tilting his head.

"When exactly did we enter your pocket?" Kyubi asked, hovering a bit as he stared at the Anchor.

"When you entered the closet," Hikikōmori answered simply. Keita stepped over to Jibanyan, nodding to the bat yo-kai as he did, before turning to the cat one.

"I knew something was wrong here! I knew it!" Jinmenken exclaimed frantically.

"Oh, calm down, it's not like you're trapped here," Keita patted at the nervous human-dog-yo-kai on the head before turning to his nekomata companion, "Let's start with yours, Akamaru. Can you become Robonyan first?"

"Oh, sure. Regular, or Type-F?" Jibanyan asked, scratching his ear.

"Either will do," Keita shrugged, Jibanyan nodded before his body flashed and he was replaced with Robonyan.

"Robonyan!"

"Is it necessary to shout that every time you transform? Dani," USApyon questioned plainly.

"… Yes!"

"Great, hold on!" the brown-haired boy exclaimed before he started rummaging through the devices in the room.

"Oh! This is so exciting!" Inaho said eagerly as she moved around in an animated fashion.

"I'm not sure what to think about this…" Ningyo sighed.

"I'm sure Keita knows what he's doing, he's got a good head on his shoulders!" Guts K stated with a proud smirk, "He gets that from me."

"Well now I just have a general uneasy feeling!" the mermaid-like yo-kai growled.

"Ah, here we go!" Keita exclaimed, holding some sort of jetpack, he moved to place it on Robonyan, it seemed to go over his regular jetpack like a casing, the Anchor strapped it on with a belt attachment, which appeared to have a slot for a yo-kai medal on the buckle.

"A jetpack? But I can already fly in this form, Keita," Robonyan pointed out plainly.

"But this isn't a jetpack, Akamaru," Keita grinned widely, "It's a jetpack-enhancement!"

"Enhancement?" the (currently)mechanical nekomata tilted his head questioningly.

"Yeah, if you insert a yo-kai medal in that belt-buckle, it will improve your jetpacks abilities, like say, using an atsugaruru medal will give it a super rocket-boost! Or, some medals might give it utilities beyond just flying, though you may need to experiment a little," Keita explained cheerfully, Robonyan pulled the jetpack-enhancement from his back and looked at it, before storing it in his sub-space pocket and reverting to Jibanyan.

"Thanks Keita, I'll try it out later! Nya," the cat yo-kai nodded.

"Oh! Oh! Me next! Me next!" Inaho rushed forward, jumping up and down in excitement, getting a few annoyed looks from the others.

"Fine, Inaho, you can be next," Keita shrugged, before he moved to find whatever device he had made for Inaho.

"What is it!? What is it!?" Inaho jumped around a bit more, before Keita revealed what looked like a wand with a yo-kai medal slot on the top.

"This wand will allow you to use the attacks of yo-kai, depending on the medal you put in," Keita explained, handing her the wand, Inaho stared at it blankly, "I wanted to make you a device that would make you a magical girl… but I really couldn't figure that one out, sorry Inaho, my expertise is in tech and yo-kai energy, not magic."

Inaho kept staring at the wand for a few more moments, before she broke into a huge grin and jumped with glee.

"COOL!" she waved it around excitedly, "It may not be a way to become a magical girl, but now I can cast spells!"

"Use yo-kai attacks," Keita pointed out, Inaho shrugged the comment off.

"Same difference! Thanks, this is awesome! Seriously, I'd tell you I love 'ya Keita, but Fumi's right there!" Inaho cheered as she examined her new weapon. Fumi glared at the other girl

"Wait a minute, what's that supposed to– "

"And let's move on to the next gift, shall we," Keita interrupted with a fake cough, bringing attention back to him, "Fumi-chan, I think you'll like this?" at this, Fumika's expression brightened.

"You have something for me, Keita?"

"He said he had something for all of us," Kyubi pointed out bluntly, though the glare Fumika sent him shut him up.

"As I was saying…" the Anchor spoke up again, looking towards Fumika, "Check this out," the Looping girl grasped the object her friend had handed her.

"A watch-cover?" she looked it over, it seemed to be a plastic-looking cover that would fit snugly over her yo-kai watch-pendant, primarily pink in color, with several multi-colored gem-stones circling the opening for the watch's face, "Knowing you… there's more to this, isn't there?"

"Yup," Keita smirked proudly, tapping the watch-cover, "This is another type of enhancement, this watch-cover will enable your yo-kai watch-pendant to use any yo-kai medal we've encountered in Baseline," Keita took the cover and slipped it over Fumi's yo-kai watch, she did not object, "I know you already have all of the yo-kai watch models we know of, barring the black yo-kai watch, but this way you won't have to switch them out."

"Huh, thanks Keita-kun, that's really nice," Fumika smiled kindly, a gesture that Keita returned.

"… Oh yeah, also, the gems can shoot lasers," he quickly added, Fumika rolled her eyes in amusement.

"Of course, they can, I'll try that later," they exchanged a hug for a moment… which started to last for several minutes…

"… Excuse me," Whisper spoke up, Keita and Fumika blinked, looking towards the yo-kai butler, "I hate to interrupt the moment, but don't you have more to show, Keita-kun? Whiss…" Keita and Fumika stared at Whisper silently for a moment, before realizing what he meant and separating, both going a little red in the face.

"So, uh, yeah, thanks," Fumi took a step back, waving her hands.

"Y-yeah, you're welcome," Keita bowed, stiffly moving back to look through his other inventions, Inaho chuckled under her breath at the scene. "Right, right, now, who's next?"

"Do you perhaps have anything for me, Keita-kun? Whiss," Whisper questioned as he hovered over with a smile, Keita nodded, digging through the pile of random devices again until he pulled out a small, radar-looking device.

"Here, attach this to your yo-kai pad!" the Anchor suggested plainly, handing his ghostly-butler the device. Whisper stared at the small machine in confusion for a moment, before pulling out his current yo-kai pad, plugging the device into the correct port.

"… What exactly does this do? Whiss."

"Congratulations Whisper, you now not only have access to all currently known information on our Baseline yo-kai, but most variants we have encountered, yo-kai that exist in other Branches, as well as most any other creature you could think to ask about," Keita explained proudly, "I even uploaded all the known pokédex entries, though I'd take those with a grain of salt."

"… I'm not really following, Keita-kun, what did you just give me? Whiss," the ghost asked, sifting through all the new information that was now available to him.

"I've been keeping track of things for a while Whisper, though I admittedly missed a few things, especially since I didn't start recording as soon as I started Looping, but I figured keeping notes on all the things Yggdrasil has to offer would be helpful, and who better to have access to all that information when we need it?"

"Well… I'm touched you place that level of trust in me, Keita-kun, whiss…" Whisper gave a bow, looking at his yo-kai pad once more, before coughing and taking a more dignified pose, "But you do realize that most of the yo-kai information is superfluous, as my brain is as good a yo-kai encyclopedia as we need."

"I know Whisper, I know," Keita hid his laugh at Whisper's typical act, before the yo-kai butler took on a humbler pose again.

"Still… thank you all the same, at the least all this other info you have given me will be useful, whiss…"

"I thought you might say that."

"Okay! USApyon next!" Inaho suddenly exclaimed, pointing to an irritated otter yo-kai.

"Don't volunteer me, I can speak for myself, dani!"

"Well, do you want what I have for you or not?" Keita questioned plainly, USApyon grumbled to himself before nodding.

"Yes, I want it… dani."

"Okay, well then I'll get it," the Anchor smiled, pulling a lightsaber from the pile, though it had a slot for a yo-kai medal on it.

"Well, I think I can figure out what this thing does, dani," the otter yo-kai chuckled as he looked the device over, "I'll probably stick to my standard lightsaber most of the time, but cool gift, I'll need to test it out sometime, dani."

"Good to know you like it," Keita nodded, before grinning and looking through the pile again, "And who do we have someone for next, could it be… Hanahojin?"

"Dad? You have something for me?" Hanahojin waddled over to his father excitedly, whom smiled down at him and nodded.

"Of course, how could I forget about my little snot-son!" he held up some kind of backpack before placing it on Hanahojin, a pair of robotic arms emerged from it to the nose-picking yo-kai's amazement.

"Wow!"

"Yeah, I still want you to stop picking your nose all the time," Keita explained with a firm look, Hanahojin looked down a little, seeing as his fingers were still up his nose, "But… I know how yo-kai are, and with this you can at least use your hands more…"

"Thank you dad! And I will try to pick my nose less, I promise," Hanahojin bowed seriously, Keita nodded.

"As for you grandpa!" Guts K looked over at that, Keita continued, "I made you this morpher from Super Sentai and Power Rangers tech, it should change you into a sentai-like hero based on the yo-kai medal you insert into it," Keita handed his grandfather a wristwatch-like device.

"That sounds awesome! Great gift, Keita! Guts!" the small yo-kai posed, Keita shook his head with a small smile.

"Hey! If you could do that, why couldn't you make me something that makes me a magical girl!?" Inaho suddenly interjected loudly, Keita sighed.

"I told you, I couldn't figure that out, I barely altered the super-sentai morpher for grandpa, it still makes a body-suit, I haven't had much opportunity to study magical-girl stuff."

"Dangit," Inaho sighed, before going back to looking at her weapon, Keita shook his head before focusing on Ningyo, who had her arms crossed.

"I doubt you have anything that would interest me," the mermaid-like yo-kai huffed, the Anchor shrugged.

"Maybe I don't, but I can still try…" he handed her what looked like a crystalline-blue yo-kai watch, she took it with a confused expression.

"… A yo-kai watch?"

"No, actually it's a device that changes your attributes depending on the medal you insert, while you wear it," Keita explained, "Like if you used Jibanyan's medal, you would gain fire and cat attributes."

"Nya?" Jibayan tilted his head, Ningyo stared at the device plainly.

"Well… I suppose it could be useful, but couldn't you have made something to stop whatever weird force causes you to catch me whenever you go fishing?" she asked bluntly.

"I would've, but I have no idea how that even works," Keita shrugged, Ningyo groaned.

"… Well, thanks I guess," she relented with a nod.

"Now, Komasan, Komajiro," the two yo-kai looked over as they were called, Keita smiled, "You guys like to do a lot of sight-seeing, right?"

"Well, we have been taking a bit of a liking towards visiting different places since we started Looping, zura," Komajiro nodded, looking towards his brother.

"Yeah! There are so many cool places to see! Zura!"

"Thought so," Keita nodded at the two brothers, "I'll show you two to the airship I made for you guys afterwards," at this, the koma brothers' eyes widened.

"You made us an airship!? Zura!" Komasan exclaimed, Komajiro nodded with a look of just as much shock as his brother, the others in the room were also looking at Keita in surprise.

"Er, a small one, don't get your hopes too high, but it will be able to get you around the world pretty quickly," Keita assured, the two komainu nodded, "Now then, Kyubi? Jinmenken? You guys are the last, right?"

"I don't see anyone else here that you haven't already given something to," Kyubi shrugged.

"I fully expected to be last…" Jinmenken muttered, this was ignored.

"I don't think you could have anything I have any interest, though," Kyubi smirked, Keita simply started searching through his things again.

"Let's see… aha!" he handed Jinmenken some kind of a blank card, much to his confusion, "That should stop you from being arrested so much!"

"… I don't understand, what is this?" the man-faced dog asked.

"It's a blank I.D you can put any information you want on," Keita explained kindly, "It's actually like a little computer with touch-controls, you can alter it with a few taps, no police, in our Loop at least, should be able to tell that anything you put is fake, it's not a perfect plan, but it should stop some of the arrests depending on what you put…"

"I'm not entirely sure if this will help, but thanks anyway," Jinmenken nodded, pocketing the I.D.

"Just remember that it's not likely to fool any Loopers, and to be careful with it," Keita stated plainly, Jinmenken nodded again.

"Excuse me!" Kyubi called out, looking annoyed, probably because he was being given something last in favor of Jinmenken, "I'm here too!"

"I didn't forget you, Kyubi," Keita chuckled, "Though, I admit I had a hard time thinking of anything to make for you."

"I suppose that's to be expected," Kyubi rolled his eyes, Keita looked through some of the items before pulling up what looked like a chainsaw, with a sniper built into it… Kyubi's expression was blank, "Um, what is that?"

"An experimental weapon of mine, it can change form so it doesn't have to be a chainsaw, but it always has a sniper rifle," Keita explained, tossing Kyubi the weapon, "Since I can't really think of what to give you, I thought you might like it, sorry that it wasn't made specifically for you, but I'm sure you can find use of it…"

Kyubi looked the weapon over, pressing a button on it and watching as its form shifted from a chainsaw to a long staff, he twirled it a bit before pocketing it.

"Well, with the powers I have I don't really need a weapon, but learning to use one could be a nice skill to add to my arsenal, and with a weapon that can change form that means I could learn many different weapon styles… yes, I think I can work with this," Kyubi smirked a little, Keita smiled.

"Well, I'm glad that each of you enjoyed what I had for you, to some extent at least."

"Hold on, Keita-kun," Fumika spoke up, all looked her way before she gestured towards the little bat yo-kai, silently sitting in the corner, "You forgot Hikikōmori-chan…"

"Actually, he didn't…" Hikikōmori spoke up before the Anchor could respond, "Keita gave me my gift before this happened… I did assist him with some of the others, you know…"

"Oh… well, thank you," Fumika stated, the others nodding a bit, "What did Keita-kun give you?"

"I made her a secluded room to put in her pocket, with a fully functional entertainment system, food replicator, and wi-fi access," Keita interjected, sharing a nod with the bat yo-kai.

"Thank you again, Keita," Hikikōmori bowed.

"You're welcome," Keita smiled, "Now then, shall we see the Komairship?"

"Komairship?" Komajiro questioned blankly, Komasan seemed to like it though, clapping his hands in excitement.

"Oh, you can change the name to whatever you want later," Keita shrugged, leading them deeper into the room, "I did say it was small," Keita pointed out when they made it to the back of the room, in some sort of mini-hanger was a ship that resembled a komainu statue, it was silver and gold, split down the middle, and it was about the size of Keita's bedroom.

"Well, it's decent sized, not too small that it would be uncomfortable, zura," Komajiro shrugged.

"It's amazing! Wowie! I can't wait to try this out, zura!" Komasan ran around the ship with childlike glee, Komajiro let out a bit of a chuckle, Keita gave a thumbs-up.

8.4

[Excerpts from RWBY Loops Elevator Saga 2: Maiden Voyage]

Floor 147

The doors opened to a small space, dimly lit by a laptop computer's screen, the only occupant of which seemed to be a small, bat-like creature.

"EEK!" the creature gave a startled yelp, hiding herself in her blanket-patterned wings.

"Hidabat, it's fine, it's just me," Cinder assured plainly, Hidabat peeked out nervously, "And these two, but don't worry about them."

"What is that thing?" Vernal questioned.

"A yo-kai," Cinder answered, Vernal looked confused.

"A yo-kai?"

"A yo-kai," Raven let out a groan.

"… Um, excuse me?" a small voice interjected, the three women looked to see Hidabat looking at them curiously, "Is that an… elevator glitch?"

"Yes, you've heard of it?" Cinder asked with a raised brow.

"I was told about it before, Nate and the others experienced something like it before… but they were in a tunnel, at least that's what they said…"

"Tunnel?" Cinder shook her head, "Sorry for disturbing you, but tell my brother I said 'hi,' would you?"

"Sure," Hidabat nodded before the doors closed.

Floor 201

"Fuu, Fuu2!" a blue ghost-like creature exclaimed, holding up two fingers, before he noticed the elevator and groaned, "Why can't I stop doing that…?"

"Hey bro," Cinder waved.

"Hey sis," the ghost waved back.

"Hello Nate-Keita-whatever," Raven greeted.

"Hello Auntie Raven," Fuu2 nodded.

"What killed you this time, fall down a manhole again?" Cinder teased, the blue ghost grumbled.

"Is that a ghost? Bro? Sis? Auntie?" Vernal questioned blankly, before sighing and shaking her head, "No, I get it, Loop stuff, I won't question it…"

"Thank you," Fuu2 bowed.

"… Seriously, what killed ya Nate?" Cinder prodded, the yo-kai raised a finger with intent to answer, but the doors closed before he could.

8.5

[DinoZaurs/Yo-kai Watch]

"This tree just won't stop messing with me!" Sabre, who had currently taken the form of the yo-kai Blazion, growled as he followed the local Anchor's lead. He had freed him from some sort of capsule machine called the crank-a-kai, and Sabre apparently had the device that set most of the Baseline events of this world into motion with him; the yo-kai watch.

The kid had been surprised when he had come out of the machine, instead of Whisper, but he had gotten over it quickly and decided to take the time to show him around the Loop.

"Would you relax, Blazion's more about getting people 'fired-up' rather than actual fire, anyway," Nate explained calmly.

"I have a mane of fire!"

"And you're speaking English… or whatever language we're supposed to be speaking…" Nate looked contemplative for a moment, before shaking it off. "Blazion usually just makes a lot of roaring noises… not that he can't talk that is…"

"Fascinating… what are we supposed to be doing anyway?" Sabre questioned blankly.

"Usually this is around the point that we'd meet Jibanyan. He's another fire-cat," Nate explained.

"I've met Jibanyan before," Sabre stated plainly.

"Well then, you should already have a pretty good idea of what he's like," Nate shrugged as they continued.

8.6 Black Omochao & Boohoooo!

Katie sat on her bed, her arms crossed and a frustrated, yet contemplative look on her face.

"… Okay, that's it!" she opened her eyes and exclaimed, Kyubi (whom had Woken up and come to her house) looked at her quizzically. "I'm done…"

"… Done what?" the fox yo-kai questioned, ears twitching a little.

"Done with getting inspirited!" the human girl stated with a firm look. "Why am I always the target!? I'm sick of it!"

"… To be fair, you're not always the target," Kyubi pointed out, but Katie did not seem to be in the mood to listen.

"I swear! No yo-kai is going to make me humiliate myself, act like a jerk, or any other nonsense, for at least the rest of this Loop!" Katie announced with fire in her eyes.

"Katie! Who are you talking to!?" the concerned voice of her mother called from downstairs, Katie and Kyubi both froze.

"… Um, nobody, mom!" Katie called back before letting out a sigh. 'Note to self; do not loudly announce troubles related to yo-kai within earshot of parents…'

"Tattletell!"

"Oh no you don't!" Katie quickly blocked the attempt to latch onto her by the small, elderly-woman-like yo-kai. "You are not making me say embarrassing stuff about myself, Nate, or anyone else this time!" the mysterious yo-kai was seemed surprised that Katie could see her.

"… Tell, tell! Tell!" with a huff, Tattletell turned and hopped away, Katie crossed her arms and gave a huff of her own.

"Serves you right, she may become a useful friend later, but at the beginning she's an annoying little pest," the Looping girl growled.

"Katie, who are you talking to?" Katie blinked, before looking towards one of her non-Looping friends; Sarah, whom was looking at her with concern.

"Um… myself…" she nearly facepalmed at that pathetic excuse.

"… Yourself?" Sarah questioned with a skeptical look.

"Er… Yeah! Darn you Katie, you annoying pest! Stay focused!" she lightly tapped her head while feigning frustration, Sarah's concern remained, "You see I sometimes get distracted and start daydreaming, lose focus, all that, I was thinking negative reinforcement might help… yeah, that's it!"

"… Negative reinforcement? By scolding and insulting yourself?" the black-haired girl did not look convinced.

"Oh, Sarah!" the pair were suddenly interrupted by the appearance of the Anchor, whom grabbed hold of the non-Looping girl's arm, "I'm glad I caught you!"

"Huh, Nate?" Sarah looked surprised at the sudden interaction, as did many of the other students, including Eddie and Bear, they watched in confusion.

"Yeah, see, I was hoping you could help me with my homework, I was having a lot of trouble with one of the book reports and since you know a lot about books I was hoping you could help me!" Nate spoke quickly, the pink-clad girl barely had time to respond.

"Well, I suppose I could, but we don't really talk much and– "

"Great! Than this is the perfect opportunity for us to get to know each other! To the library!"

"Um… ok, bye Katie… I guess…" Sarah replied in a dumbfounded manner as the boy dragged her away, Nate gave Katie a wink before he left, she gave a smile of thanks in return, before letting out a relieved sigh.

"Did Nate just make a move on Sarah?" Eddie suddenly asked in confusion, at this Katie's smile faded as she twitched a little…

"Huh, that's weird," one of the Katie's other non-Looping friends; Alex, spoke up suddenly, "I always thought Nate liked you, Katie…" the Looping girl stiffened and went red at the blunt comment, before turning and seeing Tattletell attached to her friend's chin, Katie grit her teeth with an eye twitch.

Katie looked annoyed as Wazzat was about to Inspirit her.

"Don't even think about it!" She glared.

"OK, I won't think I'll do!" Wazzat smiled obliviously, attempting to eat Katie's memories... however, there were SO many memories, Wazzat exploded!

Katie stood there stunned... until Manjimutt showed up and played the Classic 'wah wah wah' sound on a trombone.

"Heyo! Sans taught me to use the Trombone!" He smiled. Katie promptly kicked Manjimutt out of the classroom.

"... Was it something I said?" The Dog Yo-Kai blinked.

8.7

[Yo-kai Watch/We Bare Bears]

"It was an ordinary day, just like any other day you might expect to find in this sleepy little town, but I had a feeling things were about to take an unexpected turn…"

"What's going on here!? How are you talking without moving your mouth!? Why is everything black and white!? Dani!" USApyon shouted as he paced around the detective room, Inaho didn't acknowledge him, continuing her weird, inner-outer monologue.

"I was never a girl who believed in fate, never into fairy tales, but I knew the second he walked through that door, something magical was going to happen."

"What, who!? Dani!" USApyon questioned, on cue the detective agency's door opened.

"Wow, this is so cool, it's like an old detective movie!" a grizzly bear exclaimed with an eager smile as he stepped in, USApyon stared at him blankly, Haku had been dusting the shelves, and continued to without looking at any of them…

"He looked to be the strong, silent type, but you know what they say; looks can be deceiving…"

"… Is she talking about me?" the bear asked USApyon, whom just groaned in annoyance, Inaho just seemed to be staring into space while her monologue continued.

"He approached me with a simple missing person case, something that should have been no problem for a detective of my caliber, right?"

"Oh, right!" the grizzly bear exclaimed, having been reminded of why he had come here, he carefully approached the front desk, "So, um my name's Grizz, before we get to this… are you Looping?"

"How blunt, dani," USApyon grunted in the background, Inaho looked straight into Grizz's eyes, and silently nodded.

"Oh, good!" he smiled, before pulling up a photo and sliding it to her, "So, I guess my UnAwake self was looking for Chloe, she's gone missing apparently…" his eyes suddenly widened, "Oh no! Chloe's gone missing! We have to do something!" Inaho looked at the photo with a stoic expression while the bear panicked.

"A young girl, lost in this wide-open world of ghosts and monsters, truly a terrifying thought to behold, perhaps if I had known then what I know now, I wouldn't have taken this job, rather sending that poor bear on his way, heartbroken. But I knew not… and maybe even if I did, I'd have still done it, my duty as a detective, to this town, to the people, is too great…"

Grizz and USApyon stared blankly at the silent Inaho while her monologue continued, occasionally glancing around to try and pinpoint where Inaho's voice was coming from.

"… So, are you going to help?" Grizz asked, a few moments after the room had gone silent, Inaho stared at him for a good few seconds more, before finally speaking.

"Yeah, I'll find your friend…"

"Oh! Great, so I should probably take you to where my brothers and I last saw her, oh yeah! We should probably get them too!" Grizz exclaimed, quickly nodding, Inaho nodded back and pulled herself up from her chair, moving towards the door, grabbing a coat along the way.

"There was a cool summer breeze, I remember that distinctly because it was winter, but also because that was to be the beginning of one of the biggest cases of my life…"

"Is she going to be doing this the whole time?" Grizz asked USApyon as they followed after Inaho.

"Don't ask me anything, I'm just going along with this for now… dani," the otter yo-kai grunted.

"I think the last time we saw her was around here…" a panda muttered as he, Grizz, Inaho, USApyon and a polar bear looked up at the Mog Mog Burger shop's sign.

"Ice Bear distinctly remembers pastries," the polar bear stated in a monotone.

"No, I'm sure it was burgers," the panda insisted, "Grizz, you remember, don't you?" at this, the grizzly bear shrugged.

"Burgers, pastries? Decisions upon decisions, alternating paths without any way of knowing the right one. It was truly the most perplexing of situations, how could one tell in this crazy town where exactly one had disappeared. But those are the questions I need to deal with, after all, I've been lost in this town for as long as I can remember…"

The three bears stared at Inaho as monologue went on, USApyon just seemed to be ignoring everything.

"… Um, was she talking?" the panda asked with a troubled expression.

"There's only one thing to do," Inaho spoke with narrowed eyes, adjusting her glasses slightly, "We need to get answers," she marched up to the door and stepped into the burger shop.

"Grease, that's the smell that assaulted my senses when I entered that building. Not that I expected much else, what else is there to associate with burger places than grease? Meat? Yeah right… Despite the smell of grease, I had a feeling that there was going to be a lead here, a lead that would put me on the path to the answers I was looking for… but what I didn't know was; I was better off without those answers."

"Seriously, this is kind of creepy," the panda whispered to the other two bears as they followed the young detective into the restaurant.

"Oh, come on bro, it's like a detective movie, you know?" the brown-furred bear offered with an enthusiastic grin.

"Ice Bear wishes to speak to his agent before taking part in any movie…" the white bear stated in his monotone. Inaho looked around the building, glancing between the various patrons enjoying their food, before settling on a little, white-furred creature, sitting on a table, eating an ice cream cone.

"Local komainu: Komasan. A simple creature, some would say. There's no way he could be involved with a missing-persons case. However, those ears aren't just for show, and along with those big eyes, if something happened here recently, that little lion-dog would probably have noticed…"

"Wow, you are so analytic," Grizz praised, Panda looked skeptical.

"… But what if he wasn't here when it happened?"

Inaho ignored both of them, stepping forward and looking Komasan in the eye. The country yo-kai was happily eating his ice cream when he noticed the purple-haired girl staring at him, he gave a friendly smile and waved.

"Oh, hiya Inaho! How's everything going? Zura," he blinked, looking around, "… Oh, are you Awake? And if ya are, do you know why everything's black and white like one of them old-fashion movies? Zura."

"Yeah, I'm Awake, but that's beside the point," Inaho leaned against the table with a cool-demeaner… before slipping and falling to the floor, "Wha!"

"… You okay? Zura," Komasan stared down in concern, the three bears watching with blank expressions. Inaho pulled herself back up, giving a few fake coughs, before returning to her previous position and demeanor, as if the little slip-up hadn't happened.

"The point here is, someone's gone missing, maybe around here, maybe not, but if it was here, I'd bet you might have caught a glimpse," she carefully slid the photo of Chloe the lion-dog's way, he blinked as he looked down at it, "Look familiar?"

"Hmm… oh! That's Chloe! Zura!" Komasan cheerfully exclaimed in realization.

"… Yeah, and…?"

"… I think she was here a couple days ago, I remember because it was Octuple Swirl-Tuesday, zura!" Komasan stated, before his mind seemed to drift elsewhere, "Mmm, octuple swirl…"

"Koma-man, focus!" Inaho slammed her hands on the table, shaking the yo-kai out of his day-dream.

"Wha…?"

"What did you SEE Komasan!? What happened to Chloe!?"

"Oh, I didn't really see anything, zura," the white komainu shrugged, Inaho nearly fell over again, "Well, I did see her leave with Keita… but nothing else I can really remember," he added before returning to his ice cream, Inaho's eyes widened.

"Keita…?"

"Oh yeah, he's the Anchor isn't he? Maybe we should ask him if he knows what happened to Chloe," Grizz concluded, Inaho seemed to go into thought.

"And there it was, just when I thought this trail would run cold, a new lead, but one I would've never expected. I can't say that Keita and I are close, but the idea that he could be involved with something like this filled me with unease…"

"… So, are we going to go to his house, or… what?" Panda asked after a moment of Inaho staring off into space.

"Ice Bear would like a Mog Mog Burger to go, please," the white-furred bear spoke to the woman behind the counter. During this all, USApyon just sat outside with a bored expression…

"Keita Amano, if you asked any other person on the street about the kid with that name, they'd probably not be able to tell you anything remarkable about him, except for maybe that he was 'remarkably average.' But there was a hidden side to young Mr. Amano that not many people knew; if you wanted to find a yo-kai in this town there wasn't a much better person to ask for help around here, because chances are, if a yo-kai exists in this town, Keita Amano has met and befriended them."

"So, should we just knock on his door and ask him, or do we wait until she finishes?" Grizz asked his brothers and USApyon as they, and Inaho stood before the Amano household, Ice Bear motioned to speak, but Inaho's monologue continued before he could.

"Some called him the 'Yo-kai Master,' yo-kai have even traveled overseas just to meet with him, what was his secret? I don't know, maybe something in his eyes… Still, Yo-kai Master or not, if Keita knew anything about this case, I was going to find out what that was."

"… So, you done?" Grizz questioned, with a serious look on her face, Inaho silently began walking towards the front door, "I guess she's done," Grizz shrugged before the bears followed her, USApyon groaned, following soon after.

Inaho glared at the front door in silence for a few seconds, before carefully moving her hand to the door and knocking, a few more moments passed before a dark-haired, bespectacled woman wearing yellow answered the door.

"Hello?" Mrs. Amano looked down at Inaho and smiled, "Oh, are you a friend of Keita's?"

"Some could say… we have a history," Inaho explained in as serious a tone as she could, moving her detective hat over her eyes, Keita's mother chuckled a little, finding the act cute.

"Well, he's upstairs in his room if you'd like to see him," the woman said kindly, before noticing the three bears and jumping a little, "Oh, um… bears?"

"Hello ma'am, we're also here to talk to your son!" Grizz waved.

"Ice Bear would like to give Keita a present," the polar bear stated plainly.

"Wait, present? What are you talking about?" Panda questioned his brother curiously, Ice Bear didn't respond.

"Um… well, I suppose…" Keita's mother rubbed her head unsurely, Inaho had already walked past her and into the house.

"A messy room, socks and shirts strewn about carelessly, toys and games cluttering the bed and desk, a boy sitting on his computer, truly nothing out of the ordinary at first glance…"

The Anchor looked up from his computer with an annoyed expression, turning towards the intruder.

"What are you talking about Inaho? Your room is often messier than mine! What are you doing here anyway?" Inaho seemed to ignore Keita's annoyed query, opting to step into the room and take a seat on the bed, waking the napping Jibanyan along the way.

"Nya!" the red nekomata yelped in surprise, before glaring at Inaho with a hiss, the girl just sat, a contemplative expression on her face.

"Few people know the truth, am I lucky or unlucky to be one of those few? Hard to say, but what's not hard to say is that Keita Amano's room, nay, his life, was haunted…"

At the sound of Inaho's voice speaking from seemingly nowhere, Keita and Jibanyan exchanged confused looks, before the Anchor chose to speak again.

"Inaho, where is your voice coming from? Are you doing that?"

"Are you the reason everything's black and white!? Nya!" Jibanyan interjected with his own question, Inaho seemed to take a deep breath, before looking at Keita with a serious expression.

"… Okay, what's with the face? Are you even Awake?" the Anchor asked plainly, he let out a Ping which Inaho responded to, but gave no visible indication that she did, "… Okay, I don't even know if that was you or not."

"… Keita Amano," Inaho finally spoke, out of her mouth, getting up from the bed and walking, "You and I have a habit of running into each other, don't we?"

"Habit? Half the time you go out of the way to derail Baseline by meeting with me the first day I get the yo-kai watch, not like many of us bother with obeying Baseline much, other than to keep the time-travel junk stable…" Keita seemed to pause in thought for a moment, before looking towards the intruding Looper with a confused expression, "Why are you here again?"

"Does the name 'Chloe Park' mean anything to you?"

"Chloe?" Keita questioned blankly, Inaho's eyes narrowed further before turning away from Keita and thinking.

"Playing dumb huh, a typical tactic of Mr. Amano, it is one of the few things he is exceptionally good at, after all…"

"Hey!" Keita cried out in offense at the monologue, Jibanyan just looked between the two humans blankly, before yawning and curling back up to sleep. Inaho didn't seem to notice, as her monologue continued.

"I knew it would be hard to get him to talk, but I wasn't prepared for this much resistance…"

"I have no idea what is going on!"

"It was clear, he was hiding something… and my course of action was also clear, it was time to unleash my secret weapon…"

"Secret weapon, you better not pull out that wand I gave you!" Inaho didn't respond to the Anchor's statement, she just turned towards him, and stepped closer to him… uncomfortably closer, "… Inaho, what are you doing?"

"Come on, Keita-kun, you can tell me…" Inaho spoke in a (very unconvincing) innocent voice, taking her glasses off and giving a wink, grabbing Keita's hand with her free one, Keita stared at her with an unreadable expression for a couple of seconds…

"… Inaho, if you don't back away from me right now and promise never to do that again, I swear I will lose all restraint and punch you." Inaho immediately jumped back and put her glasses back on, giving a nervous cough before regaining her serious expression.

"Drat, I should've known, Mr. Amano was too devoted to his love for Fumika Kodama to ever fall for such a tactic…"

"Wait, I'm what now!?"

"But, with my secret technique defeated, what could I do now, how could I get the information I needed?"

"I have no idea what you're talking about!"

"Oh, excuse me," Grizz spoke up, entering the room carefully, "Oh, cool room!"

"Oh man, is that an old sock!?" Panda questioned incredulously, looking at the floor as he stepped into the room, Keita glared at the new intruders.

"Ice Bear brought gift from home-branch," the white-furred bear spoke up, stepping into the room and handing Keita a box, the local Anchor blinked in surprise, before opening the box a crack and peeking inside.

"… It's a stag beetle?"

"… Ice Bear heard you enjoyed insects."

"Bro, where have you been keeping that?" Grizz asked blankly, "Oh man, now I feel bad for not bringing a gift!"

"Um, it's fine guys," Keita spoke up, placing the beetle-box on his desk, "You're, the bears, Charlie's friends, right?"

"Oh, yeah, that's us," Panda confirmed, Inaho still seemed to be lost in thought as the three bears stared at Keita, before Grizz's eyes widened.

"Oh yeah! We need to know what happened to Chloe! You saw her, didn't you!?" the grizzly bear grabbed hold of Keita's shoulders, he started shaking him, "You gotta tell us man! You gotta!" Keita's body went limp, Grizz paused, shaking him a bit more, and getting no response… "Huh? What…? Oh no! I killed him!" Grizz shouted in shock, Panda fainted, Ice Bear was looking up at something above them, "Oh man! I'm so sorry!" Grizz hugged Keita's body in regret.

"Hey!" Keita's voice called out in an annoyed tone.

"I can still hear his voice!" Grizz cried out.

"That's because I'm RIGHT HERE!"

"Huh?" Grizz blinked in confusion, Ice Bear tapped his brother's shoulder, before pointing in the air above them, where a blue (or, it would be blue, if everything weren't black and white…) spirit, with a familiar hair-style, and a star-shaped hole in his chest floated, "… Ah! A ghost!"

"How long have you been Awake in this branch?" Fuu2 questioned blankly, hovering down to the bears eye-level, Grizz dropped Keita's body and went into a pleading position.

"Oh! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to kill you! Please forgive me!"

"You didn't kill me!" Fuu2 snapped in annoyance, Grizz stopped pleading and looked at the ghost in confusion, "I just left my body because you started shaking me! It's annoying!"

"Oh… "Grizz glanced between Fuu2 and the body on the ground, before pushing the body towards the spirit, "Um, sorry?"

"It's fine, now what do you want?" Fuu2 questioned, floating into his body, Keita quickly got back to his feet and brushed his shirt off.

"Ice Bear would like to know how to leave your body," Ice Bear spoke up, before Grizz's eyes widened again.

"Oh, wait! No, we need to know what happened to Chloe!"

"… That too," Ice Bear nodded, Keita seemed to pause in thought.

"Chloe?" Keita questioned, thinking to himself, "Chloe? Do I know a Chloe?" as Keita thought about this, Ice Bear walked over to Inaho (whom still seemed to be stuck in thought, unaware of what was happening) and took the photo of Chloe from her, before showing it to Keita, "… Oh! That girl!"

"So, you did see her!?" Grizz asked hopefully, Panda groaned as he got back to his feet with a confused expression.

"What's happening…?"

"Yeah, I saw her at Mog Mog Burger!" Keita spoke in realization, "We spoke for a bit, didn't get her name, didn't even realize she was somebody from another Branch, I don't think she was Awake," Keita nodded, "We did leave the burger shop at around the same time…"

"… And?" Grizz urged.

"And…?" Keita rose an eyebrow with a confused look.

"What happened after that! Where did Chloe go!?" Panda spoke up frantically, Keita looked at him for a moment before shrugging.

"I don't know, that was the last time I saw her… sorry," Keita stated plainly.

"… Oh," Grizz and Panda both sighed.

"Ice Bear is disappointed with this dead-end," Ice Bear stated, his monotone still unchanging.

"Well, I may not know where she went, but if you want some help, I could– "

"I've got it!" Inaho suddenly shouted, interrupting the Anchor, "It's so obvious now! Keita doesn't know anything; how could I have not realized it! He and Chloe were just at Mog Mog Burger at the same time!"

"… Wait, did you hear our conversation, or are you trying to pass that off as something you figured out on your own?" Keita questioned with a disbelieving expression.

"But still, maybe this wasn't a waste of time after all! Keita!" Inaho spoke up, moving to the boy's side, he seemed apprehensive

"You better not do that thing again! I swear, I will punch you!"

"No, no, this isn't that!" the young detective assured, "What I need you to do is get your yo-kai friends to help us find clues on where Chloe could be! You've got the most 'connections' after all…"

"… Well, yeah, that's what I was going to– "

"GREAT!" Inaho cheered, Keita gave the bears an annoyed look, Grizz smiled and waved, Panda shrugged, and Ice Bear just stared, Inaho regained her serious look, but with a satisfied smirk on her face.

"Ah, they do say when one door closes, another opens, and while this may not have been the lead I hoped it would be for the case, we might just be able to make this a win yet…"

"… Really, what's with the monologue, do you even know it's happening?" Keita asked plainly, "… Also, is your monologue supposed to be present or past-tense!? Because I feel like you aren't being consistent!"

"I'd just go with it, man," Panda sighed, Keita groaned.

"Keita-kun! I'm back, whiss!" Whisper fazed through the wall with a happy grin, and a shopping bag in hand, before he noticed the visitors, "… Huh?"

"Better set that stuff down Whisper, we need to call on a few friends," Keita sighed, patting the ghost butler on the shoulder, Whisper just looked confused.

"An unusual group of individuals, but if they could help with the case I wouldn't get hung up over it, after all; in this world you need to take what you can get when it comes to help. And when a lone girl is lost somewhere, her friends and family worrying for her safety, sometimes you need to step up and realize allies can come from even the most unlikely of places..."

Inaho stood with a serious expression on her face as her monologue filled the room, the friends Keita had called; Fumika, Kyubi, Orochi, Jinmenken, Merameraion, Nogappa, Guts K, and Fuyunyan all stared at her with blank expressions.

"Hey, where are Chloe's parents?" Panda questioned, Ice Bear shrugged. Grizz decided to take this moment to speak up.

"Okay, listen up guys, Chloe's missing! And we really need to find her!" Grizz exclaimed, before letting out a sigh, "I know I don't know any of you, we've never spoken or hung out, but I'm asking for you to look into your hearts and ask yourselves; what is the right thing to do? Well I think it's obvious that helping find a poor, missing girl is definitely the right thing to do!" Grizz gave a thumbs-up.

"… Just help find the girl," The human Anchor stated plainly.

"Very well," Orochi nodded, Guts K and Fuyunyan gave nods as well.

"Orochi, Guts K, and Fuyunyan; all very powerful yo-kai you would definitely like on your side if you could get them. No doubt they'll have the air covered in the search, and with their unifying sense of justice they certainly won't rest until young Chloe is found."

"Um, thank you?" Guts K responded to Inaho's monologue with a confused expression that he shared with Fuyunyan.

"I suppose I can look around the alleyways for any signs of her, maybe the bar tender has seen something," Jinmenken said with a thoughtful look.

"Ah, Jinmenken, what could be said about our local human-faced dog? Drunk? Pervert? Creep? These all perfectly describe this unholy combination of man and man's best friend… Still, doubt many others know the underworld of New Sakura Town as well as he, while also being willing to work with a detective, for now I'll just have to grin and bear with his presence."

"… Unnecessarily mean," Jinmenken muttered.

"I'll take a look down the riverbanks, dudes!" Nogappa gave a thumbs-up.

"Nogappa, a strange kappa if there ever was one. He prefers sushi to cucumbers, likes walking on land more than swimming in the water, and talks like a character out of an American cartoon from the 80's. He's known to be forgetful, it's doubtful that he will actually come up with anything useful for the case… still, with my usual partner having deserted me, I need all the help I can get."

"Not cool, dudette," Nogappa glared at Inaho.

"… Where is USApyon anyaway?" Jibanyan lazily questioned while looking towards Keita, the Anchor shrugged. Kyubi rubbed his chin with a sly look.

"So… how old is this girl anyway?" before any response could be given, Kyubi found himself being yanked away by the ear, "OW! HEY!"

"I think you need to come with me," Fumika said with a firm expression as she dragged the fox-spirit out the door, "Sorry everyone, we'll ask around the neighborhood," the Looping girl assured as she left.

The remaining group just stared, even Inaho seemed surprised by this event, no monologue emitting through the room as she stared at the door, just as befuddled as the others.

"I'll just find that girl myself, dealing with Inaho's stupidity in this Loop is too much, dani," USApyon grumbled as he walked down the sidewalk, away from Keita's house, "Now, where to start looking? Dani…"

USApyon didn't ponder for very long before he noticed a car pulling up to a nearby house, parking and the doors opening, when he spotted one of the people exiting the car, his eyes widened.

"… You've gotta be kidding, dani!"

"The search is on, the players are set, but what to do in the meantime? Do I set my full-energy to helping in the search? Do I wait at my office in case of a call that could provide a vital clue? Do I go and find my wayward partner and make him explain himself? So many decisions, yet so little time…"

The three bears stared at Inaho, all of them stood in Keita's living room while the others were out searching.

"Shouldn't we be searching too?" Panda asked in concern.

"Ice Bear is making snacks for Chloe's safe return," Ice Bear voiced, stepping into the kitchen.

"You're right Panda, I can't just sit here and wait for info! I need to go help!" Grizz exclaimed, he moved towards the door and opened it, ready to charge out.

"STOP! DANI!" a shout caused Grizz to freeze, the bears each looked out and spotted a very annoyed USApyon, with a… confused young girl, following after him.

"Guys? What's going on?" Chloe asked with a bit of concern, the bears stared at her blankly for a moment.

"CHLOE!" Grizz and Panda shouted, running over to hug the small girl, Ice Bear followed shortly after.

"Come on guys, I told you I was only visiting my grandma for three days," Chloe muttered as the bears hugged her.

"Wait… you did?" Grizz blinked, freezing.

"Yeah, REALLY!?" an irritated USApyon growled.

"Ice Bear has no recollection of this."

"Really…? But, I sent a text," Chloe scratched her head in confusion, the two other bears blinked, before looking towards Panda.

"… Oh!" Panda pulled out his phone and began scrolling, "Let's see… huh? Here it is… must have missed it," Panda chuckled nervously as Grizz and Ice Bear kept staring at him.

"I can't believe this, dani," USApyon grunted.

"And so, another case is solved by ace-detective Inaho Misora, truly a happy ending for all. A lost girl found, three bears reunited with their friend, and a case closed. Just another day in the life of a real detective…"

USApyon stiffly turned and glared at Inaho as she stood in the doorframe of the Amano house, a smug look on her face as she looked out at the sky.

"Okay, that's it, I've had it! Dani!" USApyon growled, pressing the two buttons on the bottom of his helmet.

"VADER MODE!"

"AH! I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY! I'LL STOP! PLEASE! NO FORCE-CHOKE! NO FORCE-CHOKE!" The bears and Chloe watched as Inaho was chased down the sidewalk by a lightsaber wielding USApyon, the bears and Chloe looked to each other for a second.

"So, uh… who's gonna tell those other guys to stop searching?" Grizz questioned.

"Guys, what happened while I was gone?" Chloe questioned, still looking very confused…

8.8

[Yo-kai Watch/Rick and Morty]

"We now return to Mangey-talk with Manjimutt, now here's your host; Manjimutt…"

The aforementioned human-faced dog was sitting in an arm chair in a dimly lit living room, a fireplace was lit to his left, and he had a cup of coffee in hand/paw… the yo-kai took a sip from his coffee before letting out a sigh.

"… When I was alive… I would often wish for a simpler life, but I– "whatever he was about to say was cut-off by Rick turning the channel.

"Hey, Rick!" Morty protested at the channel being changed so quickly.

"Trust me M-Morty, that was going nowhere, if-if you want to listen to some sad, pathetic guy go-go on about his sad, pathetic life, just talk to your dad."

8.9

[RWBY/Red Vs Blue/Yo-kai Watch/Fairy Musketeers/Skullgirls/Hyperdimension Neptunia]

"Okay! Large, confusing, family diagram/history time!" Ruby exclaimed, pulling down a large chart from a wall in the Xiao Long/Rose household, all occupants let out groans, "Oh come on don't give me that, it'll be fun!" Ruby was currently an adult, in her twenties, the Loop having started later than normal.

"Can't we just talk to each other?" Cinder asked plainly.

"Nope! This is important!" Ruby shot back, before going back to the diagram and began pointing at parts of it, "Okay, so it all starts here, when dad decided it was a good idea to sleep with his teammate, Qrow Branwen, who is a girl this Loop!"

"Did somebody make reference to me?" Taiyang asked, coming into the room, only to be baffled at the sight of Ruby's chart.

"Not in a way you'll find pleasant," Cinder grunted.

"Anyway, this led to the unexpected pregnancy that gave birth to Cinder Fall Xiao Long! Why Qrow did not seem to mind when Taiyang then went on to marry her sister, is a mystery for another time!" Ruby chuckled a little, Taiyang let out a sigh, edging his way back to the kitchen, "Taiyang and Raven then had a pair of twins; Yang Xiao Long, and Dexter Grif Xiao Long!"

"How come I don't get a middle name?" Yang questioned, Grif shrugged, letting out a yawn in the process.

"However, shortly after the birth of the twins, Raven Branwen abandoned her family to return to her bandit tribe, though she did still secretly keep tabs on them," Ruby nodded, Yang crossed her arms plainly, "Despite being on his own with three kids to take care of, Taiyang couldn't help but take in an orphan faunus boy that showed up one day, looking through the trash for food, this boy, despite claiming to have no name of his own, would later come to be known as Val Xiao Long!"

"Yes, yes, is there a reason for this, I've got steak to eat," Val growled from a corner of the room where he stood beside a bored looking Akazukin.

"Please hold all questions until after the presentation is complete," Ruby lightly chided, before continuing, "Taiyang would later get together with his last teammate; Summer Rose, together they would miraculously be blessed with another set of twins; myself, Ruby Rose, and my twin sister; Akazukin Rose!"

"Zukyun!" Akazukin held a fist up happily at her name being mentioned, but quickly went back to looking bored.

"Zukyun, indeed…" Ruby shook her head, "Sadly, Summer Rose soon died during a mission, leaving dad in sorrow, and with six kids to take care of alone, however Taiyang eventually remarried to the widow Lily Adams, also taking in her son; Nathan Adams."

"Yeah, hi, I still don't like this idea that keeps popping up," Nate huffed, one of his hands being held by a green-skinned child, whom was picking his nose with the one Nate wasn't holding.

"Together, Lily and Taiyang would have two children of their own; Neptune, and later; Nepgear Xiao Long," Ruby nodded to two purple haired girls.

"That's us! Yeah!" Neptune cheered, Nepgear waved shyly.

"And… that's it for dad's escapades!" Ruby smiled and laughed, "Four partners, three wives, and nine kids!"

"Great! Can we go home now?" Yang asked tiredly, gesturing to Nadia and Blake, seated nearby.

"Not so fast!" Ruby shouted, before pointing to a lower section of the diagram, "Yang would in her teen years go on to date a cat faunus by the name of Blake Belladonna, who she would later marry in adulthood, they would then find and adopt an orphan faunus girl by the name of Nadia Fortune!" Ruby pointed to another section, "Meanwhile Nathan Adams would foolhardily volunteer for an experiment involving inhaling lots of random dust, the results of was one of his boogers taking on a sentient, humanoid form, eventually growing into the child known as Snottle!"

"foolhardily?" Nate grunted, patting his son's head.

"And… okay, I think we're done!" Ruby nodded proudly, everyone else let out a series of relieved sighs.

"Seriously, do we have to do this every time we're all Awake together?" Nate questioned grumpily.

"Nope, not every time, just when I think it's worth looking into," Ruby smirked playfully.

"Val, Blake, I know you guys are a dog and cat faunus respectively, but you both have to admit this is dumb," Yang sighed as she watched her brother and girlfriend glare at each other from across the room.

"I'm not a dog! I'm a wolf! Wolf!" Val snapped.

"And our species is not what this is about," Blake added blandly.

"Than what is it?" Yang asked in confusion.

"Cheap shots!" Val shouted loudly.

"It's not a cheap shot, you weren't paying attention," Blake countered.

"Why you little!" Val looked like he was ready to lunge forward, but Yang quickly put herself between the two.

"Wow! Wow! Seriously, what the hell!?" she asked, looking between them, "Cheap shots at what, were you two fighting!?"

"Video games," Nadia suddenly interjected with a bored expression.

"… Huh?" Yang looked confused.

"Uncle Val keeps losing to K-mom at video games…"

"… That's what this is about?" Yang looked like she wasn't sure what to think.

"I want another round! This time I won't let you pull any cheap tricks!" Val exclaimed with a determined glare.

"Fine, let's get this over with," Blake grunted, Yang shook her head and groaned.

"Are you sure this isn't about the species-thing?" Yang questioned as Blake and Val exchanged a few hisses and growls.

"If there's one thing I can appreciate about the expanding family, it's that I am no longer the baby!" Nate exclaimed, looking toward Nepgear with Akazukin at his side.

"Zukyun?" Akazukin tilted her head in confusion, Nate frowned.

"Please stop saying that…"

"… Zukyun!"

"What does 'zukyun' even mean?" Nepgear asked, looking a bit apprehensive.

"'Zukyun' means 'zukyun!'" Akazukin stated smugly.

"'Zukyun' means 'nothing!'" Nate hissed in aggravation.

"Let me try!" the UnAwake Neptune suddenly jumped in excitedly, "Zukyun!"

"Yeah! Zukyun!" Akazukin cheered.

"Seriously! Stop it!" Nate growled.

"You're my big brother, it's my job to annoy you!" Neptune stuck out her tongue, Akazukin giggled and Nepgear looked nervously between them, Nate sighed but allowed himself to smile a little.

"Hey! Baby bro! Come help me with this Christmas tree!" Ruby called from the other room, Nate's smile disappeared.

"Don't call me that! I'm not the 'baby' anymore!" he shouted back as he moved to go to her.

"Still the youngest boy! Still my baby bro!" Ruby countered, Nate groaned as his younger sisters and Akazukin shared a few laughs.

Nadia sat on the couch with a bored expression, she glanced down at the floor, where Snottle sat, his eyes glued to the TV, and his fingers firmly up his nostrils.

"Um… so, cousin?" she spoke unsurely, Snottle glanced her way with a blank expression.

"Hello…"

"Yes, hello…" the two stared at each other for a few moments, "… Do you need to keep your fingers up your nose all the time?"

"Nose-picking is good, it feels good and is good for you," Snottle stated plainly, Nadia's expression scrunched a bit.

"I'm not a doctor, but… I don't think that's right."

"Come on cuzz! It feels great, let's dig for gold!" Snottle did an enthusiastic twirl, the cat-girl gave a small chuckle.

"Sorry, but I'm not interested in picking my nose, you can continue though," Nadia waved off the offer, but soon noticed that her hands were moving against her will, "Huh, what the…!?" her hands moved towards her nose, two fingers outstretched, "Hey! What do you think you're doing!?"

"Dig for gold! It's fun!" Snottle exclaimed, Nadia let out hiss as she tried to move her head away from her hands.

"I don't want to pick my nose!" she growled, she charged forward from the couch and knocked Snottle off his feet, she immediately felt her hands return to her control and gave a sigh of relief.

"Ow, that hurt," Snottle whined from the floor, the cat faunus sent a glare his way.

"Well, that's what you get for trying to get me to do something against my will! I will not be picking my nose anytime soon!" Nadia huffed, crossing her arms, Snottle pulled himself up into a sitting position.

"But it's fun," he insisted, keeping his own fingers in his nose, the cat-girl sweatdropped with a blank expression.

"You and I have very different ideas of fun…"

"Snottle!" Nate entered the room with his arms crossed, the green-skinned child looked his way, "What did I tell you about making people pick their noses?"

"But dad…"

"Don't you 'but dad' me! Now, apologize to your cousin!" Nate snapped with a firm expression, Snottle stared blankly at him for a moment, before turning to Nadia and bowing.

"I'm sorry, I just wanted to share my interests with you…"

'Your interest is picking your nose?' Nadia thought with a blank expression, she shook the thought away and shrugged, "Eh, no harm done, just don't do it again."

"Okay…"

"Good," Nate nodded with a small smile, before turning to leave, "Now be good! I need to help grandpa-Taiyang with the food preparation," and with that, he left for the kitchen, and the two cousins were left in silence once more.

"… So, what's up with you and your dad anyway?" Nadia questioned after a moment.

"I was one of his boogers that gained sentience and traveled the world, until returning home where I became a yo-kai after being sucked up a by vacuum and thrown out…"

"… Huh, really?"

"… Yes."

"Christmas dinner is served!" Taiyang announced to his family seated at the table, including his nine children, two grandchildren, wife, daughter-in-law, her parents, Raven, and Qrow (both Awake, and Qrow not very pleased that he was a she this Loop…)

"Zukyun! I'm so hungry!" Akazukin cheered, reaching for some of the various food items that were spread out at the table, only for her to be bopped on the head by Val, who sat beside her.

"Idiot! Don't just go grabbing food like that!" the wolf faunus growled, Akazukin drooped a little.

"Here," Ruby tossed a roll that her twin caught, before giving her a happy smile, Val however…

"Throwing food is also unacceptable!"

"Says the guy who likes to eat raw meat off the ground…" Blake muttered from across the table, between her parents and Yang, Val glared at her.

"Hey, do you have something to say to me!?"

"Guys, really?" Yang sighed in embarrassment as Val and Blake glared at each other while exchanging growls and hisses.

"Snottle, don't pick your nose at the table!" Nate scolded his son in the seat beside him.

"Um… excuse me?" Taiyang tried to speak, but nobody seemed to hear him.

"This is boring, can we eat yet?" Neptune questioned hungrily.

"Neptune…" Nepgear whined a bit, sinking into her seat.

"Why did I even come here?" Raven muttered boredly.

"Because I wasn't going to face everyone else like this by myself," Qrow angrily whispered into her sister's eat.

"Yet, you were fine with facing me?"

"Look, I'm hungry, why can't we just take food?" Grif questioned.

"You should wait for papa-Taiyang to speak first," Nate stated, gesturing to the man who was still trying to get a word in, before looking back at his son, "Snottle! I told you to get your fingers out of your nose!"

"Ah, never a dull moment here, huh?" Kali questioned good naturally, Ghira didn't look like who knew what to say…

"Excuse me!" Taiyang spoke up loudly, all eyes went to him, all shenanigans stopping, Lily nodded in approval, the Looping father sighed, "Thank you, now…" a confused look suddenly came onto the man's face, realizing he had no idea what to say…

"… Dad?" Ruby spoke up in concern, Taiyang opened his mouth and closed it a few times, before putting on a calm exterior and letting out a cough.

"Enjoy the food everyone…"

"… That's it?" Cinder asked blankly.

"Good enough for me!" Neptune lunged forward, grabbing whatever she wanted for her plate.

"Um, sis, that's rude…" Nepgear muttered unsurely.

"Would you two knock it off and just eat?" Yang tried to mediate between Val and Blake.

"You're not getting any food until you get those fingers out of your nose and wash those hands," Nate stated sternly to Snottle, the child simply stared at his father blankly, his fingers still firmly up his nose.

"Grandma Kali, Grandpa Ghira, can we spend next Christmas with you guys?" Nadia questioned tiredly.

"Sure thing, it will be great to have everyone over!" Kali nodded enthusiastically, Nadia and Ghira both stared blankly at her.

"That's… not what I meant."

Ruby laughed as the chaos continued, grabbing some food for herself and patting her father on the shoulder.

8.10 Boohoooo!

(Yo-Kai Watch/Super Mario Bros/Kirby)

King Dedede strutted down the street, flanked by Manjimutt and Waluigi. They were wearing excessive bling and shades.

"Uh uh, we're totally rad boiiiii!" Dedede exclaimed.

"Yeah! If you step up to us, you must be wiggity-wiggity-whack!" Manjimutt scoffed.

"WAAAAAAAA!" Waluigi exclaimed.

As the trio continued to strut and talk in slang, Luigi watched on with Kirby and Nate, blinking in confusion.

8.11

[Yo-kai Watch/Seaman]

Seaman let out a content sigh, it wasn't often to have a Loop where he was so free as he was now, as a yo-kai and able to float at that, he just wanted to relax and enjoy his freedom…

"Seaman! Just the man-fish I wanted to see!" Inaho exclaimed, moving over to the floating human-faced fish, whom let out a sigh of annoyance before turning to her.

"Do I know you?"

"Of course you do! It's me, Inaho!" he just gave her a confused look at that answer, "Or Hailey, now, sometimes… we met in the tunnel!"

"… Oh yeah, now I remember," Seaman grunted before turning away from her, "I'm busy right now, please go away."

"But I wanted to talk to you about something! Come on! Please!" the purple-haired girl pleaded loudly, Seaman groaned, turning to her again.

"Okay, what is it?"

"I want you to help save the Nostalgia Critic's Christmas party!"

"… What?"

"Yeah, a bunch of no-fun jerks are planning to ruin it, and why? I don't know! But I don't want them to!" Inaho ranted, throwing her hands in the air, "I got Komasan and Komajiro to agree to help, bless their little hearts, but nobody else from my branch wants to get involved one way or the other! Not even USApyon! But I noticed you were here and thought you might be interested…?"

"… Why?" Seaman asked blandly, Inaho blinked with a confused look.

"Well… I did see a picture of you dressed like Santa once…"

"And because of that, you assume I care about Christmas?"

"… Don't you?" at this, Seaman took a deep breath.

"Let me tell you a few things about myself, I am the perpetually reincarnating form of an ancient pharaoh's son, while what exactly my time in Egypt entailed isn't exactly clear, I'm sure Christmas was not a part of my life then, my life in your present time is almost entirely spent inside a fish tank, nothing more, you know what Christmas is to me? Another day in the tank!" with a huff, Seaman turned away from the dejected Inaho, "I have no interest in getting involved with such a thing, so go away! I can't even imagine who would care enough to bother ruining this party anyway…"

"Oh, well a lot of people actually," Inaho muttered, thinking about who she had heard was on 'Team Scrooge,' "Like Timmy Turner–I think he started it, Danny, The Angry Video Game Nerd, Adri– "

"Wait!" Seaman interrupted, Inaho looked confused as the human-faced fish turned back to her, wide-eyed, "Did you say; 'The Angry Video Game Nerd?'"

"Um… yeah?" Inaho blinked at Seaman's sudden interest, the man-fish seemed to scowl for a moment, before nodding.

"Very well, count me in…"

"… You're going to help us save the party?"

"Yes."

"Awesome! I knew I could convince you!" Inaho cheered, Seaman just nodded again, a determined look in his eyes.

'Try to destroy me, will you Nerd? Well I'm going to show you why you should never mess with Seaman…' Seaman thought to himself, not noticing as Inaho prattled on about how fun the party would be.

8.12 Boohoooo!

(Yo-Kai Watch X Family Guy)

Manjimutt whistled as he walked around the supermarket.

"YO-KAI KICK TO THE CROTCH!" Peter Griffin exclaimed, appearing out of nowhere and kicking Manjimutt in the crotch. Manjimutt collapsed, squeaking in pain,

"RHYMES, SUCKA!" Peter laughed, running off... only to be tackled and arrested for assault.

8.13

[Yo-kai Watch/Kobitos Zukan]

"Bug… bug," Keita muttered as he walked through the forest, bug-net in hand, Whisper not far behind, "Where to find a bug?"

"Why are we doing this, Keita-kun? Whiss," Whisper asked while scratching his head, Keita turned to the other Looper and shrugged.

"I like catching bugs, it's a good way to relax after having to deal with both yo-kai, and Looping craziness," Keita spotted something on a tree and smiled, "Aha!"

"What is it, Keita-kun!? Whiss," the spectral butler asked curiously, Keita was looking at what appeared to be a large, one horned beetle, clinging to the bark of the tree.

"A unicorn beetle, I'll have to show this to Fumika later!" Keita cheered, throwing his net onto the beetle, Whisper floated over and looked over his master/friend's shoulder as he pulled the beetle out, "Check it out, Whisper, this beet– "Keita stopped talking when he got a good look at the beetle's belly… and the humanoid face that was staring at him, occasionally blinking. "… What the? A yo-kai!?" at the Anchor's exclamation, the 'beetle' let out a small scream.

"Yeah… that's not a yo-kai, whiss…" Whisper muttered with a weirded-out expression. Keita stared at his catch for a moment longer, it let out another scream, before the boy sighed and placed it back on the tree.

"Let's keep going…" Keita spoke, already moving forward, wanting to forget what just happened…

8.14 smxsonic

[Hyperdimension Neptunia/ Yokai Watch]

Nate was walking home from school when he found a familiar otter yo-kai sitting on a bench, crossing his arms in consternation.

"USApyon?" Nate asked in surprise, "What are you doing here? Is something wrong with Hailey?"

The otter sighed and shook his head, "You... you need to see this, dani."

USApyon led Nate to the forest clearing where he and Hailey usually built the Rocket, but instead of Hailey, Nate found a girl with lilac hair wearing a school uniform with purple accents.

"She keeps tinkering with it even though I keep saying that the next part won't come until next week, dani."

"Wait," Nate raised his eyebrow, "Nepgear!?"

Nepgear and The Family Tree: Nate Adams/Keita Amano

The girl looked up from the rocket, "Hm? Oh, Nate! or is it Keita?"

"Nate, this time around."

USApyon jumped back, "You know her, dani!?"

Nate scratched the back of his head "Hehe, Well, she's kind of my sister..."

"DANI!?"

"It's... you remember Ruby, right?"

"Oh, right, dani." USApyon nodded, suddenly understanding everything.

"I sort of met Nepgear when the entire family Looped in to Remnant that one time."

"Well, everyone except big sis," Nepgear amended.

"Which reminds me," Nate put his hands on Nepgear, "Please tell me I'm no longer the baby of the family."

Nepgear paused in thought, "Well... it's... Loop variable"

Nate's head fell, "... And Neptune?"

"We're pretty sure she's been counting her age in centuries before she started Looping"

Nate sighed, while Nepgear sweatdropped.

"Wait, you have a watch, right?"

Nepgear showed him her purple Yokai Watch U. Nate smiled and then fished out a medal from his pocket. He handed Nepgear a medal.

"What's this?"

"Well, I become a Yo-kai in Baseline, that's my medal."

"Oh," Nepgear vocalized not really knowing the implications of that, "Um, Thank you."

"I know we only really know each other because of someone from a completely different loop, but I hope that you and I can be friends. Neptune too, if she wants. I really hope to meet her Looping-self one day. "

"Thank you, Nate, I really hope we get to know each other too, as siblings should. Neptune is still getting used to the idea of having extended Looping family, "But I think she would love to see this branch. She loves importing games from Lowee!"

"Uh, What?"

"Oh... I guess I should tell you more about my branch…"

Nepgear faced down CFW Magic as was baseline. She smiled as she got what she thought was a great Idea at the time. She un-pocketed her watch and a medal.

"Come on out, Brother!" She called out, "Calling: Fuu2! Yo-kai Medal, Set On!"

She inserted the medal into the watch.

"Ladies and Gentelmen, SummmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmm~"

It was then that the world around Nepgear started to glitch out, as if someone was running her Hub backup on an AMD Proccessor.

It was that day that Nepgear learned 3 things:

1. Never try to summon something from outside her loop, Especially the Anchor.

2. There's a reason why you never crash Loops.

3. She was getting Vert a Massage chair next Nepmas (Or whatever equivalent there was in that iteration).

8.15

[Yo-kai Watch/The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]

"GET BACK HERE WITH MY HEART!"

"SWIM FLAP!" Captain K'nuckles shouted to his young companion, the mermaid's heart clutched in his wooden hands, as the two quickly moved through the water to get away from the enraged Mermaidyn.

"She seems really angry, cap'n!" Flapjack pointed out as they kept moving, "Maybe you shouldn't have taken her heart?"

"Never mind that now! JUST KEEP MOVING!" the old pirate snapped back as the aquatic yo-kai kept in pursuit of them.

"I AM NOT IN THE MOOD FOR THIS NONSENSE!" in a flash, Mermaidyn evolved into Mermadonna, and began to charge up a soultimate move.

"Bubby! Get us out of here!" K'nuckles shouted to the whale as they reached her, climbing into her mouth.

"Okay, what did you do now!?" she questioned critically.

"JUST GET MOVING!" K'nuckles shouted frantically, before hastily adding; "Please…"

"TIDAL WAVE!" Mermadonna shouted as she unleashed her soultimate, a giant wave forming behind the retreating trio, any protest died in Bubby's mouth.

"Okay, I'm moving!" the whale complied, swimming fast away, Mermadonna huffed as she glared in the direction they fled in, a look of annoyance, and rage in her eyes.

"And I thought this Loop was going to be peaceful, what else is there to deal with here…?" she groaned, "Why do I even need a heart? I'm a spirit… Better get it back anyway," she groaned, reverting back to Mermaidyn before following after where the thief had gone…

8.16 Boohoooo!

(Yo-Kai Watch X Dragon Ball)

Manjimutt Awoke and noticed he was a human again. Specifically, Master Roshi... peeking under a woman's skirt.

One beating later...

"Huh... Been a while since this happened." He mused in dull surprise, rubbing his injuries.

"GIVE US YO MONEY, OLD-TIMER!" A group of thugs exclaimed. Manjimutt screamed and fired off a Kamehameha... which destroyed half the city.

"Wellp, that's my cue to go into hiding..." Manjimutt gulped, running off.

8.17

[Yo-kai Watch/RWBY]

"So, Emerald, you're Looping now?" after class had finished, Emerald found herself being approached by a familiar, brown-haired boy, only now he was a mere eleven-year-old child, as opposed to the fifteen-year-old version of him she had seen at Beacon.

Though, she too was only eleven-years-old right now…

"Yes, I am, and you…" the Looping girl put on the best polite-face she could, but she couldn't help but stare at the boy before her with a critical eye, "are… Keita?"

"Actually, right now I'm Nate, but yes," the boy nodded, Emerald's face scrunched a bit.

"Right, the name thing, Cinder… mentioned that," Emerald internally groaned, she was going to have to remember both his names, wasn't she…?

"I know it's a little odd, many Loopers have alternative names that they sometimes have in variants, but most of them have a name they can pinpoint as Baseline and stick to it," Nate chuckled a little, "But, not here, we shift between what the hub would call the 'dub' and 'sub' version of our Baseline so often we don't know which is the original… so we just go with whatever name we have at the time."

"Sounds confusing," Emerald muttered, the Anchor nodded.

"Oh yeah, Hailey is still getting used to having two names, she's only been Inaho for so long, and now suddenly she has another name," Nate explained, still laughing a bit, Emerald gave him a blank look. "We did offer to just keep calling her 'Inaho,' but… she interpreted that as us trying to leave her out…"

"… Okay, whatever, look I actually wanted to talk to you about something anyway," the new Looper tried to explain, the Anchor gave her a strange look.

"You did? What?"

"Well, mainly… to apologize," Emerald tried her best to look sincere as she spoke, Cinder told her to apologize to her brother and she would, though she didn't have to like it…

"Apologize, for wha…" Nate seemed to pause as he trailed off, his eyes turning suspicious as he looked her over, "You were the one who assassinated me that Loop, weren't you?" Emerald blinked in surprise.

"Wait, how do you…?"

"I woke up, just not soon enough to stop you," Nate groaned, "Gah, I let my guard down, even in a Null-Loop, to be taken out by a new Looper…" Emerald stared at him for a moment, before what he was saying processed.

"Wait a second, you're embarrassed that I killed you!?"

"I've been Looping for a very long time, kid," Nate grunted, not even flinching at the glare Emerald gave him.

"Kid!? You are a kid!"

"Baseline-wise, yes, but I've also been Looping for billions of years, to me you're practically an infant," Nate stated, Emerald felt her patience wearing thin…

"Look, I'm trying to apologize to you! Could you not insult me by acting like I'm a new-born chick or something!?"

"I'm not insulting you, you're new, it's a fact, you will get stronger," Nate explained, though Emerald didn't seem any happier, "But still, I let my guard down in a Null-Loop! And I was the only Anchor, that's inexcusable, seems I've gotten too used to death not mattering!" this comment gave Emerald pause.

"What… do you mean by that? 'Death not mattering,'?" the Anchor blinked at this question.

"… Cinder didn't explain what my Loop is like, did she?" Emerald shook her head, Nate nodded, "Okay… well than I guess I better... come on, this will be easier to discuss at my house," and with that Nate began to lead the visiting Looper to his home, Emerald let out an annoyed groan, but followed without complaints.

"The duty of a butler is never done," Whisper happily hummed as he dusted Nate's room, Jibanyan lazily watched from the bed.

"You do knyow this is pointless, right? Nyate doesn't care if you do work or nyot, and even if he did, everything will be undone at Loop's end," the ghostly butler looked over at the nekomata crossly.

"You know, that mentality is basically the same as 'why clean now, when it's just going to get dirty again,' right?" Whisper huffed, "Besides, I don't know about you, you lazy cat, but I'd rather not live in a pigsty during the Loop, and I'm sure Nate would agree with me!"

"Whatever, do what'cha want, I nyeed to get back to my laziness exercises if I want to impress Master Grif nyext time we see each other," Jibanyan seemed to sink into the mattress of the bed, somehow, Whisper sweatdropped.

"Has Nate ever told you that his brother is a horrible influence on you?"

"Repeatedly…" before any further conversation could be had between the two Looping yo-kai, they were alerted by the sound of their Anchor/friend calling from downstairs.

"Mom, I'm home! I brought a friend from school!" the two Loopers glanced at each other curiously.

"Can't be Eddie, Bear or Katie, Nyate would say their nyames, not just 'a friend from school…'"

"Yes, it's also unlikely to be Hailey," Whisper stated with his arms crossed, "Though, I wouldn't put it past that girl to go stealth, last I checked she wasn't Awake, and Nate almost never brings UnAwake versions of her to his house this early in the Loop…"

"Could it be Kyubi in human form?"

"You know that fox is never far from Katie when they're both Awake, and even if it was, why would Nate lie and say he was from school? He could just say 'a friend' and his parents wouldn't question it…" the two stared at each other for a moment.

"… Why are we speculating on this?"

"Because you and I are both really bored."

"It's probably just a visiting Looper," the quiet voice of Hidabat sounded from a crack in the closet.

"Mom, this is Emerald, she's new, I offered to help her study, and maybe show her some of my games," Nate introduced as his mother looked over the young girl with a kind smile, Emerald tried to put on her friendliest façade, though she couldn't help feeling some faint, dangerous aura, emitting from the woman, warning her not to cross her…

"Oh, how nice Nate! Making new friends so fast and offering to help them, you're turning into quite the little gentleman, aren't you," Nate's mother affectionately ruffled the boy's hair, Nate blushed in embarrassment.

"Mom…" Emerald looked between the two with a baffled expression, before Nate had an air of confidence and experience, now he just seemed to be like any other child, and the dangerous aura she felt from his mother had vanished in an air of love and pride, however the dangerous feeling was back full-force when the dark-haired lady looked back towards Emerald.

"You two go on up and have fun, make sure to actually get some studying done and not spend the whole time playing games."

"Will do, mom," Nate nodded as he led Emerald up the stairs, the green-haired girl trailed not far behind him.

"Oh! And keep your door open!"

"Okay!" Nate called back down the stairs before the two continued, Emerald glanced back the way they came before looking towards Nate again.

"Um… is your mom Looping?"

"No," the Anchor answered simply, Emerald didn't know how to feel about that…

"Hey guys, Emerald's Looping," Nate stated as he walked into his room, Emerald followed soon after, looking around with a confused expression.

"Who are you talking to? There's nobody else here," the green-haired girl pointed out, Nate nodded to her before looking back to the room.

"Also, make yourselves visible so I can explain things easier," moments after the Anchor said that, Emerald was surprised when two beings seemed to appear from nowhere; a two-tailed cat-like creature resting on the bed, and some sort of ghost floating around the room…

"Well, out of all the possibilities, this girl wasn't who I was expecting," Whisper said, he seemed to be looking at Emerald critically, making her uncomfortable.

"Visiting Looper, knyew it," Jibanyan lazily raised a paw, Whisper twitched before glaring down at the nekomata.

"No you didn't, that was Hidabat!"

"Just because she said it, doesn't mean I wasny't thinking it."

"What exactly am I looking at?" Emerald asked, looking unsure of what to think.

"Emerald, I'd like you to meet Whisper and Jibanyan, two of my closest friends, follow Loopers, as well as yo-kai," Nate explained with a cheerful smile, this answer didn't do much to cure Emerald's confusion, if anything it added to it…

"… What in the world is a yo-kai!?"

"Um, hello, right in front of you," Jibanyan grunted, Whisper let out a sigh.

"Right, because that's all the explanation she needs."

"Don't worry guys, I've got this," the Anchor assured his friends, before he took Emerald aside and began to explain exactly what a 'yo-kai' was to her.

"So, they're like ghosts and spirits…?" Emerald muttered, feeling tired after Nate's long-winded explanation on these strange beings that inhabited his (and apparently many others'…) world.

"To call yo-kai simply 'ghosts,' or 'spirits' is an oversimplification, but with how they are in this world, it's the easiest way to describe them," Nate stated with a kind smile, "For example, we're pretty sure two of our other Loopers; Komasan and Komajiro, were born as komainu, as opposed to say, Jibanyan here, who was a regular cat before he got hit by a truck, so it's not so cut-and-dry," at the mention of Jibanyan's method of becoming a yo-kai, Emerald seemed to frown, but didn't say anything…

"I'll beat those trucks eventually," Jibanyan stated with a yawn, Nate and Whisper both sweatdropped, neither wanting to comment on how the little nekomata probably already had the power to 'beat' any truck…

"And as for me, I become the yo-kai Fuu2 when I die," the Anchor added, "Which makes it a bit harder to crash our Loop than most, since usually just killing me doesn't do the trick."

"So, the reason Cinder called your Loop 'Yo-kai Watch' is because of these… things," Emerald glanced at the yo-kai again, before looking back at the Anchor, "But… watch?"

"Oh, yes, the yo-kai watch," Nate showed his wrist, where the strange watch was strapped on, "This is the standard model, though there are several others that show up later on, and I've made plenty of custom-mods," he pulled another watch from his pocket as an example, though, other than being green, Emerald didn't see much of a difference, "As for why our Loop gets called the 'Yo-kai Watch Loop' a lot… well, it's the thing about our Loop that 'stands out' most, and it's what the show and game we have in the Hub are called. Plus, calling our Loop 'the Yo-kai World' would be both inaccurate, since the Yo-kai World is only a part of our Loop, and easy to confuse with a few other Branches. So, 'Yo-kai Watch Loops' it is!"

"Look, I don't care why your Loop is named after that watch, but why is it so important,'" Emerald questioned, rolling her eyes.

"Well, without the yo-kai watch, Nate here would have never been able to see yo-kai in the first place," Whisper explained, Emerald jumped a little when he came over and floated around her, "It's also used to summon his yo-kai companions, like Jibanyan and myself."

"And yet, you still haven't given me your medal in Baseline," Nate commented, tossing the green yo-kai watch to Emerald.

"You call your Baseline-self an 'idiot' all the time, Nate, so don't start asking me about that stuff now," Whisper defended.

"Why did you give me this?" Emerald questioned, looking over the yo-kai watch skeptically.

"Standard precedent; your first time here, you get a yo-kai watch, being able to see yo-kai, at least, is important if you don't want some of them randomly deciding to mess up your day," Nate answered with a shrug, "You should be able to see them without it after a while, so long as you know where to look and they're not trying to stay hidden, it's mostly a matter of honing your spiritual senses."

"… Okay, if you say so," Emerald let out an annoyed sigh, before pocketing the watch, she would decide if it was important to heed his advice, or toss the watch out later, "You know, Nate-Keita-whatever, you're really not what I was expecting…"

"What do you mean by that?" Nate frowned as the younger Looper looked him over.

"Well… the yo-kai stuff is weird, but other than that, I wasn't expecting for someone Cinder calls 'brother' to be… such an average kid…" Emerald didn't notice the way Nate twitched as she finished her sentence.

"What did you just call me…?"

"Oh, nyo she didn't," Jibanyan hissed, he and Whisper backed away with fearful expressions.

"Look, I mean no offense," Emerald waved her hand dismissively, "All I'm saying is, you're supposed to be this 'ancient Anchor' or whatever, someone I should feel intimidated by, supposedly, maybe this world where 'death doesn't matter' has made you slack off a bit, I mean, even if it was a supposed Null-Loop, I did kill you the first time we were Awake together."

"I see…" Nate seemed to have gone calm, Jibanyan and Whisper had hidden in the closet with Hidabat, all three peeking out from the cracked door, "Okay, let's go outside."

"Huh?" Emerald looked confusedly at the boy, who was staring at her with a friendly smile, though something about his eyes seemed… off, "Um… okay…"

"So, what's this about?" Emerald questioned, having followed Nate to a grassy area, near the river in Uptown Springdale.

"Oh, I just thought you and I could have a little spar," Nate said with an innocent smile, Emerald looked at him with a blank expression.

"Um… are you serious?"

"Of course I'm serious, my sister always talks about how great and loyal you are, I think I'd like to see some of your skills for myself," Nate kept his smile, though there was a sinister gleam in his eyes, Emerald didn't notice though, focusing more on what the Anchor had just said.

"Cinder praised me? Well…" she the green-haired girl glanced to the ground before looking back at the Anchor, "Okay, if Cinder gave you that impression, I've no choice but to live up to her expectations… but keep in mind that I won't go easy on you just because she calls you 'brother.'"

"I'm sure you won't," Nate nodded calmly, Emerald got ready to take a battle stance, but paused and looked around at the various people going about their days.

"Wait, what about all of them?"

"Don't worry about them, they won't even glance in our direction," Nate waved off the concern, making the visiting Looper curious.

"How so? Did you make us invisible somehow?"

"Well… it's more like a passive 'don't notice me' suggestion, but the principal is similar," the Anchor shrugged, Emerald gave him a confused look, before shaking it off and standing ready.

"Okay, whatever. You want a spar, you got one! So let's go!" Emerald narrowed her eyes.

"Yes, let's… go," Nate twitched a little as his eyes flashed blue, Emerald not noticing as a faint aura surrounded her. Emerald began charging towards Nate, but almost immediately slowed to a stop as she found herself unable to use her semblance.

"Huh, what the…?"

"Best not get distracted," Nate surprised the other Looper by zipping behind her, now with Spectral Fang in hand, Emerald shook off her confusion and attempted to do a backflip… only to fail at it and fall on her back.

"Ow!" the currently-eleven-year-old girl cried, "W-what's going on here? My semblance? My reflexes?" she noted the boy standing over her, a pleased grin on his face, and something clicked, "Y-you! What did you do to me!?"

"Yeah, sorry Emerald, hate to break it to you, but…" Nate went onto one knee and looked the fallen girl in the eye, "The 'average' person in this world doesn't have the capabilities of a hunter…"

"W-what?" Emerald wasn't sure what was happening, but Nate just shook his head and stood up.

"I've made my point, you're not strong enough to resist my inspiritment yet, maybe with a few more Loops…" Nate turned to walk away, Emerald stood up, a look of fury forming on her face.

"Why you…!" she pulled her weapons from her pocket and attempted to shoot Nate, but he dodged every hit in a blur of rose petals, "What the… Ruby?"

"Not exactly, but it is her semblance," Nate appeared by Emeralds side, before knocking the weapons out of her hands.

"What the!?" she tried to punch the boy, but he effortlessly caught her fist.

"Give up yet?" at this comment, Emerald seethed, trying to find a way to attack the Anchor, but every time he just stopped her attempts, as if she was a powerless child.

"I don't understand! I thought you wanted to spar! What are you doing!?"

"You could never beat me as you currently are, Emerald, a spar between us now would be pointless," Nate looked at the girl with a serious expression, "If you can't even resist my inspiritment, how can you even hope to actually fight me when I'm using my other abilities? I did this to prove a point."

"What point? What did you do to me!?" Emerald growled as she glared at Nate.

"I just told you, I inspirited you," Nate stated plainly, "I'm pretty sure I explained the concept to you earlier; yo-kai can inspirit others, I can become a yo-kai, and have been one enough times to use my powers in my human form; I can make anyone I inspirit 'average.'"

"Average…?" Emerald paused, remembering what had sparked this event, "Did… did you do this just because I called you an average kid!?"

"No… Well, not entirely," Nate looked sheepish for a moment, before regaining his serious stance, "Never underestimate a Looper because of their Baseline, especially not an Anchor!" at this, Emerald gave the local Anchor a confused look, "Admit it, you didn't think much of me since the moment we met!"

"Well… I mean…" Emerald tried to look ashamed…

"You were thinking about how this 'average little boy' could be your glorious Cinder's brother, how could this pathetic little child claim such a place by her side?" Nate grunted, looking to Emerald again with serious eyes, "In your hasty judgement of me, you failed to take several things into account, including my experience, and the fact that I'm an Anchor."

"I…" Emerald froze for a moment as she processed what had happened in the last few minute, she drooped a bit, "I did do that, didn't I? What was I thinking!?" she shook her head with an incredulous look, "I didn't see you as an Anchor, or a Looper, I just saw you as some kid… GAH!" Emerald threw her face into her hands, Nate moved over to her and put a hand on her shoulder, "What happened to everything Cinder told me about the Loops!? I just couldn't believe that you were that strong!"

"Yeah, that's nice to hear," Nate muttered sarcastically, but kept his hand on the girl's shoulder. Emerald let out an annoyed groan, before taking her face out of her hands and looking towards Nate, she sighed.

"I suppose I owe you… two apologies now," the visiting Looper begrudgingly admitted, Nate shrugged.

"Meh, maybe I could've made my demonstration a little less… hazing?" the brown-haired boy admitted, before holding a hand out to the girl, "How about you just not tell Cinder about what I did, and we call it even?" Emerald looked at the hand for a moment in consideration, before grasping it.

"Okay, but only if you don't tell Cinder how I underestimated you."

"Deal," the two shook hands, before getting back to their feet.

"So, what do we do now?" Emerald questioned as the two began walking back towards Nate's house.

"Simple, we go to our homes; tomorrow, we solve a yo-kai problem," Nate nodded to himself with a thoughtful look, "Buhu should be showing up tomorrow if this Loop continues to follow Baseline…"

"Okay… I suppose I'll talk to you tomorrow," Emerald looked unsure, before she started walking in the direction she lived this Loop, she glanced back towards Nate, "Say, Nate… did Cinder really mention me to you?"

"… Yes, she only had good things to say," the Anchor smiled, Emerald smiled back before they continued on their separate ways.

"… Do you think it's over yet?" Jibanyan whispered from within the closet, huddled up with Whisper, Hidabat seated nearby.

"I don't know, I didn't hear any crashes…" Whisper shivered.

"Do you think we should check?"

"You crazy cat! Don't open that door," Whisper pulled Jibanyan away from the door and hid further in the closet, Hidabat sweatdropped.

"Seriously guys…"

"You know, you don't have to follow me to school," Katie commented to Kyubi, currently in his human-disguise, as they walked down the path to school, "Especially not in that form, you'll give people the wrong idea," the fox-spirit let out a chuckle.

"What? Katie, my dear, if people get the impression that we're dating wouldn't that only do good things for your reputation?" at the fox yo-kai's remark, Katie let out an annoyed groan, "Though, I suppose it would be quite cruel to shatter so many young ladies' dreams by letting them think I'm taken."

"I'm pretty sure it's your dreams that would be shattered," the human Looper commented with a dull expression, "Or, should I say 'delusions?'"

"Oh, you're just jealous," Kyubi scoffed, crossing his arms, Katie sighed. The two friends continued on the path for a few more minutes, before the yo-kai's eyes were drawn to someone walking on the sidewalk across from them, "Whoa, check it out Katie! Cute new girl at nine-o'clock!" at the fox's exclamation, Katie looked over.

"Oh, that's Emerald," the female Looper commented casually, having recognized the girl from her occasional trips to Remnant, as well as from class the other day, she instantly noticed Kyubi's scheming expression and internally groaned.

"Emerald, huh? Hmm… I smell an unsuspecting heart of a maiden, crying out to be given to one whom can offer her with affection she so desires," Kyubi gave a dazzling smile as he spoke, Katie didn't look impressed.

"All I can smell is this cheeksqueek," at this comment, Kyubi looked over at his friend, his face twisted in disgust at the sight of the butt-faced yo-kai standing beside her.

"What is that even doing there?"

"It was probably attracted by your cheesy lines," Katie chuckled, Kyubi gave her an unamused expression.

"… You summoned it, didn't you?"

"Maybe I did, maybe I didn't."

"… You know what, forget it," Kyubi scoffed, turning to look back at the further away, but still in-sight Emerald, "Forgive me my dear Katie, but I must leave your company to work my magic," Kyubi gave an arrogant smirk, Katie rolled her eyes.

"I'll get the first aid-kit," at this comment Kyubi narrowed his eyes, before moving to cross the street, Katie shook her head, before a farting noise reminded her of Cheeksqueek's presence, "Um, thanks for coming, you can go now."

Emerald sighed as she walked down the path to school, Nate said today he would show her how to deal with a yo-kai problem, though personally she still didn't know how to feel about this Loop, or it's Anchor.

No matter how she looked at it, Nate, or Keita (that was still confusing for her…) didn't come off as someone she felt deserved her respect. He had it easy, other than the weird spirit-stuff, he lived as an ordinary kid. His world wasn't under imminent threat, his power was to take away the abilities of others, he didn't even have to worry about death…

Emerald quickly shook those thoughts off, she would have to get used to this kid. She was going to be stuck in this Loop for… who knows how long (she would need to ask him how long it usually lasted…), and with him being Cinder's brother, he was going to come up again eventually. No matter how much she disliked him, she would have to get along with him.

"Well, hello there," a suave-voice interrupted Emerald's inner-thoughts, she blinked before looking over at a boy the same age as her, with grayish-blond colored hair, looking her over with interest, "What's a lovely lady like you doing out by your lonesome?"

"Um… going to school?" the visiting Looper rose a brow as she looked at this boy, she could already tell he was trying to flirt with her… and she didn't know how to feel about that.

"Oh, of course, going to further your education. Obviously, it's destined that one of such beauty, would have brains as well!"

'Who is this guy…?' Emerald thought with a sweatdrop.

"Emerald, right?"

"Huh?" Emerald blinked in confusion, "Yes…"

"Aw, what a lovely name, and quite appropriate for one such as you; with your fair-green hair fluttering in the breeze, and your eyes that sparkle like gemstones," Kyubi took Emerald's hand and kissed it, "My name is Kyubi, it is a magnificent pleasure to make your acquaintance…"

Emerald stared at Kyubi for a few moments, he stood holding her hand with his head down, eyes closed, and a charming smile on his face, finally curiosity got the best of Emerald and she let out a Ping, Kyubi noticeably twitched.

"Um okay, so you're a Looper too," Emerald pulled her hand away, Kyubi opened his eyes and looked at her blankly, "I can't say I didn't get what you were trying to convey there, but I can say that it pretty much confirms that I am definitely gay… So, thanks, I guess."

Kyubi looked like he needed a second to process this, his expression morphed from blank, to shocked, before he coughed and regained his confident look.

"Er, of course! That was my intention all along! Why I could tell just by Looking at you that you were having some internal issues, and being the kind soul that I am, I wished to help a fellow Looper out!" Kyubi let out a chuckle, "Why, if you didn't fall to my charms, it indeed confirms that you do not fancy men, there is no denying it!"

"I guess so, I mean, my feelings for Cinder were kind of complicated but I wasn't entirely sure, now I at least understand myself a bit more," at the mention of Cinder, Kyubi seemed to stiffen up, a look of fear on his face, a pair of fox ears and nine tails appeared on his body in a burst of smoke, Emerald almost thought Kyubi had spontaneously transformed into a faunus, before she remembered what world this was and realized he must have been another yo-kai.

"Did you just say Cin-Cin-Cinder?" Kyubi stuttered nervously, he started to sweat as he looked Emerald over carefully, he suddenly realized exactly who this girl was, and that she wasn't just any Emerald… "W-Well, I, um, aim to please!" Kyubi let out a few nervous chuckles, Emerald looked at him curiously, "Of course, when you speak to your friends back home about your self-realization, feel no need to credit me, I'm happy enough just to have helped…" Kyubi nervously looked around, almost afraid that Cinder would pop out any moment now, if she found out about this there was no way she wouldn't know what he was actually trying to do…

Emerald looked at Kyubi with suspicion, a realization seemed to strike her, he was afraid of Cinder… the Looping girl felt a smirk creeping onto her face, which she quickly hid.

"Oh, well that won't do Mr. Kyubi," Emerald waved her hand, trying to sound as naïve as possible, "it wouldn't be right if I didn't tell my friends of your selfless assistance to me, especially Cinder, she cares about me a lot after all, and I'm sure she'd want to thank you personally."

"Th-That won't be necessary!" as Kyubi stuttered, his form was covered by a burst of smoke as his disguise broke down to reveal his true.

"Oh, but I simply must!" Emerald showed her smirk as she looked at the fox-spirit, "Your honorable deeds must be properly credited! It would be unjust to do otherwise!"

"No, no they…" Kyubi looked around, trying to think of something to say, anything, that would get Emerald to agree never to speak of this to Cinder, ever! Finally, the S-rank yo-kai swallowed his pride, getting onto his knees, in a begging-position, "Please! Don't say anything, what do you want!? I'll give you whatever I can! Just don't tell Cinder!"

On that day Emerald learned two useful pieces of information. 1; even in the Loops, there were still beings that feared Cinder, and 2; she could use that to her advantage…

"Who says birds and snakes can't get along?" Nate smiled as he sent Buhu off with her new companion; Noko.

"Thank you, Nate, with Noko by my side I won't be causing people as much trouble anymore," Buhu smiled.

"Noko!" the Noko nodded cheerfully, hopping off with Buhu not far behind, Emerald watched this scene with her arms crossed, her yo-kai watch having revealed the presence of the two creatures.

"And, that's one way to deal with a yo-kai problem," the Anchor stated as he came to the visiting Looper's side, "Wish I thought of pairing up yo-kai that cancel each other's powers out in Baseline, but what can you do?"

"… I still don't know what to make of you," Emerald stated bluntly.

"Duly noted," Nate nodded with a grin, which just frustrated Emerald.

"I don't get you, you have the power to disable all of these 'yo-kai's' abilities, don't you? Why don't you just block them all out from messing with you?"

"Now where's the fun in that?" Nate shrugged, walking through the hall, Emerald groaned.

"This world is started to nauseate me…"

"Well, with that attitude, Nate will never respect you," at the sudden voice, Emerald turned to see a girl she recognized from class and had seen walking with that 'Kyubi' guy…

"Don't talk about me as if I'm not within earshot, Katie," Nate chided from down the hall, Katie chuckled.

"I assume you're another Looper," Emerald grunted, looking Katie over skeptically, she just gave the green-haired girl a friendly smile.

"Yeah, Katie Forester, AKA Fumika Kodama, nice to officially meet you!"

"Likewise, I guess," Emerald shrugged, shaking Katie's hand, "Weren't you with that fox-guy earlier?"

"Yup, that's my good friend Kyubi," Katie shrugged with a humorous expression, "Sorry about his behavior, but that's just who he is, I've tried more times than I can count to try and get him to at least drop all the cliché pick-up lines, but what can you do?"

"Is there a reason you're talking to me?" Emerald crossed her arms with a suspicious look, she glanced down the hall and noted that the Anchor was gone, probably to let the two talk in private, "And what did you mean about getting his respect? I could care less if that guy respects me."

"Correction, you care about his opinion of you, because his opinion matters to Cinder," Katie smiled, Emerald narrowed her eyes.

"Cinder won't change her opinion of me based on what her 'brother' thinks, he doesn't even live in our Branch, he's not even really her brother, in fact, he should be worried about my influence on Cinder if he crosses me too much…" Emerald grunted, Katie tilted her head with an innocent smile.

"Oh, what does that mean?"

"Make no mistake, I can't tell Cinder what to do or think, but I'm sure she values my opinion over some kid from another world who plays the part of a brother to her, I can at least buy that Ruby and Yang have a true sibling relationship with Cinder with how much time she at least must spend around Ruby," the visiting Looper shrugged, "But this guy? All I need to do is show Cinder how pathetic he really is, and she'll get over the whole 'brother' thing pretty quickly, I'm sure, and she'll probably be able to convince Ruby and Yang the same, than it's goodbye smug-ghost-brat, no more siblings for you," Katie kept staring at Emerald with her smile, Emerald blinked, "So… he best just watch his step."

"… You really think it would be that simple?"

"Huh?" Emerald looked towards Katie, who's smile had grown unnerving.

"Loopers can remember things for a lot longer than normal people, bonds can stay strong through billions of years of not seeing each other. Do you really think Cinder would call Nate her brother if she didn't genuinely care about him?"

"Well…" Emerald was unsure what to say, Katie placed a hand on her shoulder, with a grip Emerald found slightly uncomfortable.

"You should really be careful Emerald, Cinder cares a lot about you, and Nate cares a lot about Cinder, so I won't do anything to you… but just remember this, I care a lot about Nate," Katie held out her hand, a few sparks dancing across her fingers, "And I'm not the kind of person you want to be on the bad side of…"

"… Are you threatening me?"

"Me? Threatening you? Of course not," Katie let out a friendly laugh, patting Emerald on the back, before her eyes narrowed, flashing pink, "I'm warning you…"

"Hey, Em! Something wrong?" Nate asked with a smile, walking up to the girl sitting on the bench by the river.

"Don't call me 'Em!'" Emerald snapped with an annoyed look.

"Okay, what's wrong, Emmy?" the Anchor gave a teasing smirk as Emerald fumed, before looking away from him, "Did Katie say anything to you that put you on edge?"

"What? Of course not!" the visiting Looper shook her head, trying not to look at Nate.

"Than what are you doing just sitting over here, by yourself?" Emerald narrowed her eyes at the Anchor's concern.

"Nothing is wrong! I just don't want to deal with you or any of those freaky spirits for a little bit! Leave me alone!"

"Fine, fine, just call me if you need anything," Nate shrugged, before pulling out a medal and flipping it over to her.

"What is this…?" she stared at the medal, which depicted a blue ghost, with a hair-style similar to the Anchor's.

"That's my yo-kai medal, just summon me with your yo-kai watch if you need me and I'm too far away for convenience," Emerald looked at Nate skeptically at that explanation, "Just be wary that it literally rips my soul from my body, so don't summon me arbitrarily…"

"Er… thanks," Emerald pocketed the medal.

"See ya!" Nate waved, before speeding off, leaving a few rose petals behind. Emerald grunted and shook her head, looking out at the water.

"He can be a little pushy, can't he?" the green-haired girl blinked in confusion at the sudden voice, before looking around, "Over here!" she looked into the water, spotting what looked like a small girl waving at her.

"Let me guess, Looper?" Emerald sighed, she didn't want to deal with another of these guys…

"Name's Mermaidyn, though I also go by Ningyo sometimes," she swam closer to the shore, Emerald could see that her bottom half was a fish-tail, she narrowed her eyes.

"Another yo-kai?"

"Well, excuse my species," Mermaidyn huffed, Emerald sighed and got up from her seat.

"I'm not dealing with you…"

"Look, I get that you're annoyed with our Loop, frankly I am too a lot of the time," at this statement, Emerald turned back to the mermaid-like creature, "And, my guess is your previous encounters with our Loopers wasn't very good either…"

"Other than that brat of an Anchor and those three house guests of his?" Emerald muttered, crossing her arms and glaring at Mermaidyn, "Some sleazy fox that tried to hit on me, and a psychotic little girl who I feel belongs in a horror movie!"

"Oh… Kyubi, I understand," the local Looper nodded, having had to deal with the nine-tailed fox habits many times herself, "But… 'psychotic' little girl? I'm going to assume you must mean Hailey…"

"No!" Emerald snapped with an annoyed look, "I mean that crazy Katie! Or whatever her name was!"

"… Katie?" Mermaidyn looked very confused for a moment, before she suddenly seemed to realize something, "… What did you do to tick her off?"

"Huh?"

"With what I know about Katie, the only way you could possibly have gotten that kind of impression of her is if you did, or said something to make her angry…"

"Are you trying to interrogate me?"

"Just trying to understand, don't get so defensive…"

"Well I'm getting really sick of older Loopers trying to 'understand' me, or 'help' me, or whatever else!" Emerald growled, she and Mermaidyn kept glaring at one another, "Just leave me alone…"

"… Fine, all I wanted was to help a bit, but I suppose I was wrong to try. Farewell…" in a splash, Mermaidyn was gone. Emerald sighed.

"What weirdo am I going to have to deal with next…?"

"Spoiler-alert! It's Hailey and USApyon!" a small, ballerina-like being, twirled by with an innocent smile, Emerald stared.

"… Okay, now what's that thing!?"

"Another day, another weird yo-kai…" Emerald muttered as she leaned against a wall in the mall, having been dragged there by Nate, along with Katie, and two of his annoying, non-Looping friends. Now the Anchor was negotiating with some weird, floating, one eyed clam…

"So anyway, we were planning on spending our money anyway, there's no need to mess with our day," the brown-haired boy assured the yo-kai, Spenp seemed to consider his words.

"Who is Nate talking to?" Bear whispered to Eddie with a confused expression.

"Nate's talking to a yo-kai that was going to mess up our day, so be grateful," Katie interjected with an innocent smile, causing the two boys to look at her blankly.

"Yo-kai? You can't be serious, Katie…" Eddie muttered in disbelief, Emerald let out a sigh as she watched, she really didn't want to be here, why wouldn't that dumb kid just leave her alone?

"I'M IN!" a loud voice suddenly exclaimed, before a purple-haired girl with glasses rushed into the mall and over to the group, just as the yo-kai Spenp had given Nate his medal and left, "I'm Awake! Who's feeling Loopy!?"

The response to this, was for all except for Nate, Katie and Emerald to stare at the new arrival with confusion, the remaining three simultaneously face-palming.

"Hailey, you sure seem pretty Loopy, just shouting that out of nowhere, but I'm pretty well Anchored," Nate stated, walking over to the newcomer and shaking his head.

"Do we know her? I don't remember seeing her?" Bear asked while scratching his head.

"I think I've seen her at school, but I'm pretty sure she goes to a different class than us," Eddie commented, watching Nate speak to the girl, "She must be Nate's friend…"

"First Emerald? Now her?" Bear crossed his arms, "Why does Nate keep bringing girls into our group?" Bear suddenly felt a shiver go down his spine, "Well, Katie's different, she's been in our group since forever…" the feeling went away, "But, this is getting a little weird…"

"You're all weird," Emerald muttered under her breath.

"Oh, is that Emerald!?" before Emerald knew what was going on, Hailey was up in her face, "Hi! So you're Looping now too? Right!?"

"Hailey, stop talking…" Nate hissed, glancing at Eddie and Bear, who looked even more lost now…

"Hey, guys! Why don't we head on ahead to the game store, leave Nate here to introduce his two friends!" Katie suddenly put a hand on both boys' shoulders, pulling them along.

"Wait, hold on!" Eddie cried out.

"What is happening!?" Bear exclaimed.

"Catch up when you can guys!" Katie called back, dragging the two away. Nate let out a sigh of relief.

"Thank you, Katie…" he muttered, before looking back to Emerald, who was currently trying to move away from the overeager Hailey.

"Can you make any kind of illusion!? Because I would like to see myself as a magical girl, could you do that!? Huh!? Huh!?" Emerald's eye twitched as this girl kept talking, Nate was about to step in, but someone else beat him to it.

"Hailey, get off her, dani!" USApyon cried out as he charged over, making himself visible to Emerald.

"Oh great, another one," Emerald muttered, feeling a headache coming on. Hailey turned her attention to the otter yo-kai, giving the visiting Looper an opportunity to get away from her.

"When did you get over here, USApyon?"

"I Woke up not to long ago and found a Mirapo, dani…"

"More of your Loopers," Emerald concluded as she walked over to Nate, sending a glare his way.

"Yeah, please excuse Hailey, she can be a little… overzealous," The Anchor shrugged, Emerald groaned.

"Why'd you interrupt USApyon!? I wanted to talk more with Emerald?" Hailey asked her yo-kai friend, whom gave her a dull look in response.

"Sounded more like you were harassing her, dani…"

"I'm getting tired of all your Loopers showing up to bother me…" Emerald gave the Anchor a critical look.

"Look, this is our Loop, so just try to get along with them," Nate sighed, before he started heading in the direction of the game store, "I'm going to try and clear up confusions with Eddie and Bear, just stick around for a bit, I promise we'll have fun!" as he left, Emerald let out a huff.

"'Fun?' Who does he think he is anyway…" she glanced at Hailey and USApyon, who were still arguing, she smirked a little, "Hmm… maybe I can have some fun…"

"INVADER MODE!"

"I REGRET EVERYTHING!" Emerald cried out as an enraged USApyon used the Force to toss her through a wall, before chasing after her with a red lightsaber.

"DON'T LOOK HIM IN THE EYES! JUST RUN!" Hailey called, Emerald did as she suggested, USApyon not far behind. Nate and Katie walked over to Hailey, staring at the hole in the wall, before looking at her.

"… What did you do?" the Anchor asked blankly.

"Why do you assume it was me!?"

"I hate these people! I hate these yo-kai! I hate this Loop!" Emerald cried out herself as she hid in an alleyway, USApyon luckily didn't seem to be following her anymore.

"What are you so upset about?" Emerald blinked, before looking down and seeing what appeared to be a small brown dog, with a man's face, staring at her, "… GAH! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU!?"

"That's not very nice…" Manjimutt muttered.

"Oh, there you are, Emerald!" it was sundown when Nate found Emerald sitting on a park bench, accompanied by the Koma brothers, "I see you've met Komasan and Komajiro."

"Yeah… more weirdos that won't leave me alone," Emerald stated bluntly, the two komainu looked at her with concerned expressions, before glancing at each other.

"Brother, are we weirdos?" Komasan asked innocently, Komajiro seemed to consider this for a moment.

"By human standards? Yes, by komainu standards?" Komajiro seemed to think for a moment more, "… Also yes, since we don't guard a shrine, and we are Loopers and all…"

"What about Looper standards?" Komasan questioned.

"Nobody's a 'weirdo' by Looper standards…" Nate interjected, glancing at the two yo-kai curiously, "How did you two end up with Emerald?"

"We found her freaking out around downtown…" Komasan answered with a smile, Emerald twitched and glared at him.

"I was not 'freaking out!' I just wanted to escape that psycho rabbit!"

"Otter," Nate corrected.

"Huh?"

"USApyon is an otter, not a rabbit…" Nate and Emerald stared at each other for a moment.

"… Whatever," the visiting Looper sighed, "I finally got away from him when I ran into some sort of freakish mutant in an alleyway! Like a man-dog hybrid! What is wrong with your Loop!?"

"… I suppose Manjimutt is a little unsettling if you've never seen him before," Nate muttered to himself in thought, before looking Emerald's way again, "So after that you encountered these two?"

"Yeah, and they made me come here," Emerald crossed her arms with an annoyed look.

"We had ice cream!" Komasan cheered.

"Of course you did…" the Anchor rolled his eyes.

"Not by my choice…" the green-haired girl grunted.

"Guys, why don't you head on home, I think Emerald's not in a good mood," Nate suggested, Komasan and Komajiro glanced at him.

"Oh… okay, you sure there ain't anything we can do to help?" Komasan questioned.

"No, I don't think so, not at this time, I'll handle this," The Anchor stated, the brothers shrugged before leaving.

"Hope you have a fun time for the rest of the Loop, Emerald!" Komasan waved as they left, Komajiro nodding along the way. Emerald grumbled under her breath as Nate took a seat beside her.

"So… not having a good time?"

"What do you think!?" Emerald glared at the boy, whom gave her a sheepish smile that just annoyed her further.

"I'm sorry about USApyon, he has an easy to push berserk button," Nate explained with a bit of a sigh, "Even after all this time, Hailey still can't seem to avoid pushing it every single Loop, though I think she just refuses to learn from experience…"

"I don't care," Emerald kept glaring, "Not about your Loopers, this Loop, or anything you have to say to me…" they sat in silence for a few more moments, before Emerald let out a sigh, her glare softening, "I know you want me to have a fun time here, but… I just really don't like this place, or you."

"… I know," Nate admitted in a defeated tone.

"You just… make me angry…" Emerald's fist balled as she closed her eyes, "You're just a kid, a normal kid, sure you have all this yo-kai nonsense, but that never really gets in the way of you being a kid! You just make friends with them and move on," Emerald opened her eyes again, looking straight at the Anchor, "And you humiliated me! I couldn't even do anything against you, you left me powerless! Dying doesn't even faze you! I know dying isn't really a big deal for Loopers, but for you it was even before that! You died in your Baseline, and it didn't matter!"

"… It mattered a little." Nate looked away, this surprised Emerald a bit. "I'm sorry Emerald… I know I apologized for the fight before, but maybe that wasn't enough, I thought getting you to enjoy this Loop would make up for it, but I guess that didn't work…"

"… I guess not," Emerald looked unsure if she should say anything else. "… What do you mean by 'it mattered a little?'" Emerald suddenly asked, Nate froze up and seemed to be internally debating if he wanted to answer.

"… I don't really like to talk about this, but…" the Anchor let out a sigh, "For the first few Loops after the Expansion where I got my yo-kai form… I was really freaked out."

"How so?"

"How so? Emerald, I died!" Nate took a deep breath, Emerald giving him a confused look, "You said it yourself, I'm a kid… even after being the Anchor of this Branch for so long, I'm still a kid, I wasn't ready to die."

"But you became a yo-kai, and you came back to life, didn't you?" the green-haired girl pointed out, now looking a bit curious.

"Yes, but… that doesn't change the fact that it happened, and not just as a random Loop, but something ingrained into Baseline," Nate let out another sigh, "At eleven-years-old, I fell down a manhole, hit the concrete below, and died…"

"I suppose that's not something you like thinking about," Emerald concluded softly.

"Sometimes I talk to Rudy about it…" he noticed Emerald looking confused, "Jibanyan… or Katie, since she's been in my place so many times, but I prefer just not to bring it up…" he smiled a little, "It's not so big a deal anymore, I've lived, and died, with it for so long it's hard to not get used to it, especially since I can just leave my body now without issue, but that time when it was new was… scary."

"I suppose I can understand that…" Emerald let out a bit of a sigh, "Sorry, maybe I should know better than to take things are face-value by now…"

"It's not an issue, I didn't give you much reason to believe otherwise," the Anchor smiled, Emerald smiled a bit as well.

"… I still don't like you, though," she stated firmly, "And even if you might, potentially not be so bad, at least two of your Loopers are definitely psychopaths!"

"Katie really isn't that bad, you should try talking to her again…"

"I'm not so sure about that. But, I wouldn't necessarily be opposed if you wanted to show more of the Loop to me."

"Noted Emerald, noted," Nate nodded with a bit of a laugh, Emerald rolled her eyes, but chuckled a little too.

Emerald was walking home after school, the Loop had been getting better for her since her talk with Nate.

Katie seemed to have lost whatever aggression she had towards her, Hailey hadn't been so annoying, and she hadn't seen USApyon since the incident at the mall. Plus, having Kyubi as her servant was a nice plus, he really didn't want her to tell Cinder about him hitting on her…

Emerald let out a little chuckle as she continued, though he thoughts were interrupted by a voice calling her.

"Hello young lady! How has everything been!?" Emerald blinked, looking around before spotting a small, shadowy figure sitting in a tree, watching her.

"… Yo-kai Looper?" she guessed with a small sigh.

"Correct!" he smiled, before jumping from the tree and preforming some sort of super hero pose, "Moxy!"

"… Moxy?"

"Hey, grandpa, don't confuse our visitor," Nate interjected as he walked over, Emerald was now even more confused.

"… Grandpa?"

"Oh, right!" the Anchor nodded, before gesturing to the small yo-kai, "This is my grandpa, he dies before our Loop normally starts, but he sticks around," Nate explained with a smile, Emerald looked unnerved by this, "Normally I meet him when he's a kid with time travel…"

"But, I Woke up extra-early this Loop, and took care of the wicked yo-kai problem, so no need to time travel this Loop," Nathaniel assured.

"Yeah, so you don't need to worry about that headache," the Anchor nodded, Emerald grunted and looked away from them both, only to see some sort of green, humanoid creature, with its fingers up its nose, staring at her.

"Hello…"

"GAH!" Emerald jumped back in shock, Nate chuckled.

"Oh right, that's my son, Snottle."

"… Your son… your son?" Emerald seemed to be disbelief as she repeated this to herself.

"Hi dad! Hi great-grandpa!" Snottle briefly stopped picking his nose to wave.

"Hello Snottle!" Nathaniel waved happily, before bowing to Emerald, "Sorry for not meeting up with you sooner, Hovernyan and I have been tracking down the remains of the Wicked Yo-kai army for the past sixty years, but I figured I should say hello at least once before the Loop ends!"

"Hovernyan, who's Hovernyan? Another Looper?" Emerald questioned warily, Nathaniel shook his head.

"No, but he's a good friend of mine anyway! Hey, Hovernyan! Come and meet a friend of my grandson!" Nathaniel called out.

"I'm not exactly his friend…" Emerald muttered to herself, just as a blue, cat-like yo-kai with a cape floated over, doing a heroic pose and speaking in a deep voice.

"Hello! I am Hovernyan!"

"… Right," the visiting Looper sighed, Nate let out a little chuckle as he sweatdropped, Snottle just stared blankly as he kept picking his nose.

"Nathaniel explained the time travel stuff, though we never had to use it! I still have the time-stone!" Hovernyan exclaimed, holding up a small stone with a swirl pattern on it.

"Again with that Doraemon act of yours?" Whisper floated over from behind Nate, his arms crossed.

"I have no idea what that means!" Hovernyan exclaimed with an unchanged expression.

"Is this Loop ending soon?" Emerald asked Nate with a tired expression.

"Should be at least a few more months…" the Anchor thought for a moment, Emerald let out another sigh, but she did smile a little.

"I think I can live with that…"

8.18 Boohoooo!

(Yo-Kai Watch X Super Mario Bros.)

Manjimutt blinked as he Awoke and noticed he was in a fancy office.

"Hmm... interesting..." The dog-faced Yokai mused, checking his Loop Memories. He blinked upon getting up to date.

"Huh... I'm the President of Level-5. This could be fun." Manjimutt chuckled.

Three hours of paperwork later…

"Nevermind." Manjimutt muttered.

"MANJIMUTT! HELP ME!" Hailey exclaimed, running past being chased by USApyon.

"...No." Manjimutt deadpanned. He got a call and answered, tuning out Hailey's sputters as she was force-choked.

"Hey, is your refrigerator running?" A gruff voice snickered.

"... Is this Wario?" Manjimutt deadpanned.

"CRUD! HE'S ONTO US!" Wario shouted, hanging up. Manjimutt stared at the phone, unsure how to react.

"Mr. Manjimutt, Sonic the Hedgehog is here threatening a lawsuit." Cadin explained, walking in wearing a stereotypical sexy secretary outfit.

"Thanks, mis- er, Mr. Cadin." Manjimutt murmured, going to investigate.

8.19

"Why is this happening!?" Katie cried out as she, Nate and Whisper hid under a table in the school cafeteria, while all the other kids were relentlessly throwing pies at each other, Whisper searched through the yo-kai pad while Nate and Katie looked around with their yo-kai watches.

"There!" the Anchor exclaimed, shining his watch's light towards the center of the room, where a familiar yo-kai became visible, "… Is that a Shmoopie?"

"It's holding a pie…" Katie pointed out, another glance at it confirmed for Nate that it was holding a pie, instead of the heart the yo-kai usually did.

"I've got it!" Whisper suddenly exclaimed, before showing the children his yo-kai pad, "All of your classmates have been inspirited by Shmoo-pie!"

"Shmoo-pie…?" the two kids had deadpan expressions as they stared at the ghost, suddenly, all three of them were hit in the face by pies.

"HA! Got you!" Hailey gloated before running off…

8.20 GarnettFoxy

[Yo-Kai Watch/Scooby Doo]

Nate froze and groaned as Terror Time asserted it's self on the world. He was not looking forward to running from oni ag-

"Is that rock music?" Nate questioned as music started to fill the air. He blinked as four adults and a dog ran past in a panic "Wait how did adults get in–?"

"Like kid RUN FOR IT!" The guy in a green shirt yelled Nate staring at him still befuddled by the music and adults in Terror Time. He yelped as the ground shook paling when he realized the oni was running right for–

He blinked as the oni ran past him in its own panic. Morbidly curious about what could scare an oni Nate peered around the corner and paled before chasing after the two grounds. "ZOMBIE PIRATES?! WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE ZOMBIE PIRATES!?"

8.21

[Yo-kai Watch/Pokémon]

"Hey Whisper, so you finally replaced Rotomdex?" Ash smiled as he and Pikachu looked at the visiting Looper as they stood in Prof. Kukui's home.

"This is so strange, it's like I've been fused with my yo-kai pad! Whis." The white rotomdex commented, moving around quickly as he tried to get used to the mechanical body.

"Yeah, I was just telling Ash something like that a few Loops ago, see Ash, he thinks so too!" the Anchor exclaimed, waving his arm around, Ash sighed.

"Well, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to see if I can find Keita, there were about four other Pings, one of them might be him! Whis!" the currently ghost-electric type exclaimed, before quickly floating towards the wall.

"Wait Whisper! You can't– "Pikachu started, but he and Ash winced when the visiting Looper crashed into the wall, "Go through walls… in that body…"

"You don't say…? Whis…" Whisper muttered dizzily.

8.22

[Yo-kai Watch/Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]

"Halloween again, what to dress as?" Nate muttered, subtly skimming through his pocket.

"Why not just wear what you wear in Baseline? Like Jibanyan?" Whisper questioned, before gesturing to the nekomata that was standing nearby.

"I'm Dracunyan! Blah! I'll suck your blood!" Jibanyan chuckled as he put on the act, Nate smiled.

"Hey! You can't be Dracunyan, only Dracunyan is Dracunyan!" a deep voice suddenly came from the window, the three Loopers blinked, before looking over to see an actual Dracunyan climb through the window.

"What the…?" Nate muttered, before Dracunyan walked up to the dumbfounded Jibanyan.

"Let me tell you all the ways you ain't Dracunyan!"

"Um…" Jibanyan looked to his friends for help.

"First of all, Dracunyan ain't no dummy! Second, Dracunyan don't suck blood! Dracunyan scrape and lick! See?" the vampiric nekomata proceeded to make the motion of his teeth scraping, before licking the air.

"Well… I didn't knyow that," Jibanyan muttered.

"Me either," Whisper shrugged, Nate let out an annoyed sigh, feeling that this would take a while.

"Next, Dracunyan don't wear no cheap, Halloween-store cape! See this? That's real silk!"

8.23

[RWBY/Yo-kai Watch]

"Onward Greta! Slaughter all that stand in the path of victory!" Nate cheered as he rode on the giant deathstalker, plowing through the Emerald Forest, and all smaller grimm, with ease.

"… He tamed the deathstalker, again!?" Weiss questioned from nearby, a completely blank look on her face.

"Wait, 'again!?'" Ilia; currently replacing Blake, looked unsure how to respond to this comment.

"Yeah! Go little bro!" an UnAwake Yang cheered loudly. Nate laughed as Greta tossed several ursa into the distance.

"Somebody please help me!" Jaune (also UnAwake) cried out, hanging from the deathstalker's stinger.

"Don't worry, you're in no danger," Nate assured, before gaining a manic grin, "Now, let's go clip that giant nevermore's wings off!" Greta gave a strange noise in approval, before continuing to charge forward.

8.24

Inaho hummed a bit to herself when she Woke up, it seemed she was the last to leave class since the classroom was empty, save for her…

The purple-haired girl let out a Ping, she only got one response back, she tried to open her pocket for a yo-kai watch, but was unable to, "Huh? Null-Loop…?" the sound of the classroom door opening caught her attention, she spotted the Anchor entering with a fearful expression, before focusing on her.

"Inaho, are you… feeling Loopy?" he spoke carefully, glancing around.

"Yup! I most certainly am Keita-kun, so just you and me? Guess you'll need to include me in whatever adventure you have this Loop, huh," Inaho let out a humorous chuckle, though Keita seemed more on edge than anything, frantically motioning for her to be quiet, "… What's with you?"

"Keita-kun, where are you…?" Fumika's voice called out from the hall, the Anchor stiffened, Inaho looked at him with confusion.

"Isn't that Fumika? Why is she looking for you?"

"Just be quiet, and don't let her know I'm here," Keita hissed, though the warning came a bit too late, as the door behind him opened and a brown-haired girl walked in, a kitchen knife in hand.

"So, this is what you're doing Keita-kun? Seeing other girls behind my back, huh?" Fumika gave a crooked grin as she approached the duo, Keita nervously stepped back.

"Y-you've got the wrong idea Fumi-chan, um…" Keita was frantically looking around for an escape, Inaho smiled obliviously.

"Oh, hey Fumika! What's going on… why do you have a kitchen knife?"

"Inaho, run! She's crazy!" Keita shouted in urgency.

"Huh?" the purple-haired girl blinked in confusion.

"Inaho, huh? You think you can just steal my Keita-kun, huh!?" Fumika kept smiling, but Inaho felt a sudden air of dread as Fumika stared at her.

"Er… steal Keita…? Oh! No, Fumika, you got it all wrong!" Inaho laughed nervously as she backed away from the approaching knife-wielding girl, "Keita's my best friend, we're like family! No romance going on here…"

"Well, family can get in the way of love too…" Katie let out an innocent giggle, that just made Inaho and Keita more uneasy.

"I said run! Run now!" Keita shouted, opening another of the doors and running into the hall, seeing Fumika's grip on her weapon tightening, Inaho seemed to realize what the Anchor was getting at…

"Well, so good to see you Fumi-chan, but I need to get home! Bye!" Inaho sped off, just missing Fumika attempting to stab her.

8.25

"Great, Terror Time again…" Keita sighed as the world lost all color, the UnAwake Whisper and Jibanyan cowering behind him, "Would you guys relax, I told you the oni are no match for me…"

"You keep saying stuff like that, Keita-kun, yet I still find it very hard to believe, whissu!" Whisper exclaimed fearfully, the Anchor sighed.

"It's coming, nya…" Jibanyan whimpered as the ground started to shake, Keita pulled Spectral Fang from his pocket, standing in a combat-ready stance.

"Aka…" an Aka Oni growled as he came stomping down the street.

"Halt!" the oni stopped in its tracks, its eyes going wide, Jibanyan and Whisper shared a confused look, while Keita just looked surprised.

"What the… Fumi-chan!?"

"Hi Keita-kun!" the Looping girl smiled as she stepped out from behind the oni, a golden crown decorating her head, letting out a Ping, "I was just making sure that somebody wasn't going to ruin my friend's day…" she glared at the oni, who got on its knees and started begging for forgiveness.

"Oh, she's being the 'Oni Queen' again…" Keita muttered to himself with a blank expression.

"Oni… Queen… whissu?" Whisper blinked, Keita nodded.

"Come on, we shouldn't have trouble with onis for a while," the Anchor assured his friends as he dragged them off, while Fumika kept berating the oni about 'proper behavior.'

8.26

[RWBY/Yo-kai Watch]

"I know we don't all end up in Remnant at the same time very often, especially not during a Chibi Loop, but why are you dragging me!?" Nate cried out as Hailey cheerfully dragged him by the arm, through the Emerald Forest. "I want to spend time with my sisters!"

"That's the problem, Natey, that's all you want to do when you're here!" Hailey exclaimed with a big smile, Nate scowled.

"Don't call me 'Natey…'"

"But you can't just neglect your partner for the Loop! We need to train together!" Hailey continued as if he hadn't spoken.

"No, we don't, it's a Chibi Loop!" the Yo-kai Watch Anchor protested, Hailey just happily hummed to herself as she continued, Nate sighed, considering if he should just break free…

"Huh? Nate, look!" Hailey suddenly looked excited, Nate looked to where she was pointing, and blinked at the sight of a big, red button, on a tree…

"Hailey… I know what you're probably thinking, but– "

"BIG BUTTON!" the purple-haired girl paid the boy no mind, slamming her hand on the button, Nate winced as he expected something to explode, but a couple of seconds passed with nothing happening.

"… Huh, well that wasn't– "Nate started, before he froze, twitched, and was suddenly engulfed by a puff of black smoke.

"Nate…?" Hailey looked surprised, before the smoke cleared to reveal Nate had transformed into an oversized red caterpillar, with a somewhat disturbing version of Nate's regular head, and human hands coming out of the front segment of the body, "Um…"

"… I WILL KILL YOU HAILEY!" the bug-like yo-kai suddenly shouted, Hailey screamed and started running from the angry, transformed Anchor, "I WILL TEACH YOU NOT TO MESS WITH RANDOM BUTTONS! GET BACK HERE SO I CAN TEACH YOU A LESSON!"

"I'M SORRY!"

"Sorry, should've warned you about the button," Ruby sighed, Hailey hiding behind her with a paranoid look, while Yang was petting Nate's caterpillar body as he lay in her lap.

"Eh, this ain't so bad," the blond shrugged, Nate growled under his breath, "Come on Nate, you know I love you, my little… bugger," Yang cracked a smile, Nate glared at her, "… Yeah, that one wasn't very good, hold on," the older sister went into thought, Nate just grumbled some more.

"… Anyway, I suggest you and the rest of your Loopers stay away from any strange buttons when you end up in Chibi-Loops, got it?" Ruby crossed her arms while looking at Hailey.

"Yes, no more buttons!" the purple-haired girl nodded quickly, "… But, what about the rest of our Loopers that are here?" Ruby blinked.

"… Oh yeah."

"Got it!" Yang suddenly jumped.

"Ow…" Nate fell to the ground with a soft 'thump,' though he looked more annoyed than hurt, Yang just looked at him with a big smile.

"So bro, you know I'm a cat person, but I didn't expect you to turn out to be a caterpillar-person!" Yang kept smiling, the other three occupants of the room glared at her, "… Yeah, you're right, too easy…" the blond huntress resumed her thoughtful look, Nate and Ruby shared a groan.

"So, there's this big red button in the forest, that makes random junk happen?" Manjimutt asked as he and Qrow both sat at a bar, beers in front of them, and clearly drunk.

"Yeaaaaah… what of it, dog-man?" Qrow gave a drunken laugh, Manjimutt hiccupped, the bar-tended watched them both with a disturbed expression, mainly towards the yo-kai…

"… Let's go press it," Manjimutt almost whispered, taking a sip from his drink.

"I don't know, Winter doesn't want me messing with it anymore…" Qrow wobbled a bit as he looked at the other Looper, before smirking, "Let's do it…"

"Yeah! We're gonna do it!" Manjimutt cheered, they both laughed as they danced out of the bar, the bar-tender just watching blankly.

"What did you learn?" Winter questioned with narrowed eyes

"Don't go drinking in Loops where it affects me…?" Qrow sighed.

"Right, and don't disregard my warnings!" Winter nearly barked, which was ironic since Qrow's head was now on a black-furred, poodle body.

"I don't know, I feel pretty okay with the results," a fully human Manjimutt shrugged, Qrow glared at him before kicking him in the shin, "OW!"

Jibanyan and Zwei stood in front of the big red button stuck to the tree, the cat and dog blinked a few times, glancing at each other.

"So… dare me to press it, bro?" Jibanyan smirked.

"If I do, in all likelihood it will be me who suffers for it," the corgi pointed out.

"True… and if I go and press it anyway after you said that, it will be me who suffers, won't it?" Jibanyan scoffed as he glared at the button, Zwei nodded in affirmation. The nekomata hummed for a moment with a frustrated look, before his eyes widened in realization, "Wait a minyute… what if we… didn't press it?"

"… Can we do that?" Zwei tilted his head questioningly, his nekomata friend shrugged.

"Only one way to find out…" the two stared at the button again, before nodding and beginning to walk away.

"Oh, Komajiro look! A big button!" Komasan cheered as he ran into the scene.

"Big brother! Wait!" Komajiro called out too late, Jibanyan and Zwei stared blankly as the white komainu jumped up and hit the button, a flash occurred.

"… Really!?" Jibanyan cried out, seeing that he had become a dog, Zwei gave a dissatisfied hiss at his now-feline form.

"I knew we couldn't escape fate…" the local looper grunted, the two glared at the komainu brothers.

"What gives, you two weren't even effected!" Jibayan barked, Komasan and Komajiro looked at each other briefly, before Komasan let out a cough.

"Not true, we were lion-dogs, and now we're dog-lions!" at his brother's exclamation, Komajiro facepalmed, Jibanyan and Zwei looked annoyed.

8.27

[Yo-kai Watch/Kirby]

"Come on out my friend! Calling Kirby! Yo-kai Medal, do your thing!" Nate inserted a medal depicting a pink, spherical creature into the watch, before it activated.

"Summoning Charming! Alarming, boom, boom! Walla, walla, dance, dance, Charming!"

"Kirby! Kirby!" the pink puff-ball cheered after appearing, the wicked yo-kai army did not look impressed.

"What sort of joke is this? I thought you wanted to save your friend!" Dame Dedtime let out an evil laugh, Nate smirked, looking towards Kirby.

"Kirby, if you would," the local Anchor offered, Kirby let out another cheer before he held up his little, nub-arms, and a pink heart-shape formed. Dame Dedtime looked confused, before Kirby started throwing the hearts at all the wicked yo-kai.

"What sort of attack is this!?" the wicked yo-kai boss questioned, before one of the hearts hit a loiter, turning it yellow. Dame Dedtime watched in shock as her minion happily flew over to Kirby's side, "WHAT!?"

More and more hearts flew through the air, hitting the wicked yo-kai servants that floated around, all of them changed to either yellow, blue or green when a heart hit, and they all went over to the little, pink creature's side when they did.

"NO! What is this!? STOP THAT THING!" the boss yo-kai cried out, but the only ones left on her side were Kin, Gin and Bronzlow, who were all being overwhelmed, "NO!"

"Yes!" Nate smiled as the multi-colored wicked yo-kai freed Jibanyan from his cage.

"Hi!" Kirby waved happily, Dame Dedtime was about to attack the little puff-ball out of anger, only for her to find herself swarmed by her former minions as well. Nate and Kirby high-fived, Nathaniel, Hovernyan, Jibanyan and Whisper watched with varying looks of amazement and terror.

8.28 Darkflare75

[Yo-kai Watch/RWBY]

Ozpin spoke into the Microphone "Attention students. As some of you might know with the spring season approaching we will have to contend with the yearly Migrations of the Grimm known as the Eastern Bunyips. Or as some people have taken to calling them the Easter Bunnies. These Grimm are known for constantly migrating west while laying brightly colored "eggs" that when disturbed explode with the force of a large dust crystal." Ozpin stopped to take a sip of his hot cocoa before continuing." Earlier this morning we received reports of Easter Bunnies being spotted in the Agricultural district. The hunters in that area believe that they have cleared out the infestation. however, since we are not sure how long the Bunnies were in the area or how many eggs have been laid it has been decided that Beacons students will be brought in to hunt down and detonate all of the eggs until we have ensured that the area is safe for the civilian population.

Nate looked over at his teammates Yang, Cinder, and Emerald. "You know its loops like this that make Ruby's fear of rabbits so much more reasonable."

His sisters and Emerald all nodded in agreement.

"Sigh, well let's go ruin Easter egg hunting for ourselves."

Yang smiled as she put an arm around Nate. "Come on baby bro it's not going to be that bad. How many missions do you get where the whole point is to set off explosives?"

Nate glared back. "That's easy for you to say. In my home loop, Easter eggs are filled with candy that kids go looking for. After this loop, I'm going to be paranoid that Yggdrasil downloaded one these eggs by mistake!"

8.29

"I'm not doing this, dani!"

"Oh come on, you look so cute!"

"I'm not a rabbit! Dani!" USApyon glared angrily at Inaho, said girl just smiled back, "This is humiliating, I absolutely refuse! Dani!" the otter yo-kai tore at the white bunny suit he had been forced into, throwing the basket of candy and eggs on the ground.

"Please USApyon, just do this for me! Easter needs an Easter Bunny," Inaho pleaded, USApyon growled.

"That's the second stupidest excuse to dress me up in a humiliating costume I've ever heard! Dani!"

"Come on, just go around town and hide those eggs and treats, the kids will love it, nobody will see you anyway," the purple-haired girl reasoned with a cheerful grin, the blue-furred yo-kai gave her an angry look, before letting out a sigh.

"You are going to owe me a truck load of donuts for this, dani…"

"Understood!" Inaho cheered as her yo-kai companion begrudgingly went out into the town.

8.30

Nate found himself standing against an army of wicked yo-kai minions, along with an UnAwake Whisper and Jibanyan, narrowing his eyes, the Anchor moved to pull Spectral Fang from his pocket.

"Hey!" a female voice, as well as the sound of a gunshot, halted all actions from both the Anchor, and his opposition, all turning to see the new combatant…

"Katie!?" Nate cried out in shock at the sight of his friend/crush, wielding a shotgun.

"Hi Nate!" the girl waved, before her eyes narrowed and she shot another bullet that the enemy yo-kai dodged, "Alright, listen up you ethereal degenerates, this is my BOOMSTICK!" another shot was fired, "And if there's one thing you should know about a boomstick, it's that you do not mess with a girl's boomstick!" another shot, at this point the wicked yo-kai were cowering.

"Wait, would guns even work on yo-kai?" Nate quietly questioned to himself, Whisper and Jibanyan were too shocked to say anything.

8.31

"Okay, Keita, this has gone on long enough!" Keita stared blankly at the purple-haired girl that had decided to barge into his room, Whisper, Jibanyan and Hikikōmori weren't Awake this Loop, and Fumika had gotten the yo-kai watch, so nobody else was in the room.

"Inaho, what are you doing here? And what has 'gone on long enough?'" the Anchor asked in a clearly annoyed tone, Inaho didn't seem to notice.

"As your best friend I'm obligated to look out for you, especially when it comes to you getting your matesprit!"

"… Matesprit?" Keita looked both annoyed and confused at that comment, Inaho nodded, before her eyes widened a little.

"Oh, I just realized! You and I are totally moirails!" Keita stared at Inaho with a blank expression, before he came to a realization.

"… Oh! No! Stop!" the Anchor glared at the female Looper, "Keep that troll stuff out of our lives!" Inaho stared at him for a moment, crossing her arms.

"Keita, what's this about?"

"What's what about!? You're not making any sense!" Keita snapped angrily, Inaho let out a sigh,

"Fumika!"

"… What about Fumika?" the brown-haired boy questioned, averting his eyes from the intruder.

"What about her? You like her, she likes you, you both know the other likes you! Why haven't either of you done anything!?" Inaho threw her arms into the air for emphasis, Keita's face turned slightly red, but he still refused to look at the girl, "How are you two still 'just friends!?'"

"None of your business, that's how!" Keita angrily got to his feet before pointing towards the door, "Out!"

"Oh come on, Keita! At least talk to me about this a little bit!"

"OUT!"

"… Fine," Inaho huffed, walking backwards out the door, her eyes not leaving Keita, "But we're not done with this!"

"INAHO!"

"I'M GOING!" the door shut closed, Keita let out a sigh as he slumped on his bed.

"Stupid Inaho…" he muttered to himself, though he couldn't help thinking about what she said… 'Maybe it is getting to be time to talk to Fumi…' he let out sigh, moving over to his window and looking out at the sky… only to let out a surprised gasp when he saw Inaho, standing on the street in front of his house, glaring up at him, the Anchor let out an angry grunt before closing the curtains, 'Still, Inaho should mind her own business!'

Closing comments time!

8.1: An adventure begins, possibly? To be continued (maybe?)

8.2: Welcome to the Dual-Name club Inaho, er, Hailey!

8.3: Gifts for everyone!

8.4: Wonder what's going on with them…

8.5: Fire-power, yes?

8.6: She does seem to get targeted a lot.

8.7: No matter the case, Detective Inaho is on it! Probably…

8.8: I regret to inform that 'Mangey-talk with Manjimutt' has been cancelled due to low ratings.

8.9: The family tree may be a bit confusing, but Ruby seems to enjoy explaining it.

8.10: …Um… I don't even know…

8.11: Seaman has a score to settle.

8.12: Karma?

8.13: Looking for kobitos? No? Well sometimes you find them anyway.

8.14: Family will always come to help you! Unless it crashes the Loop…

8.15: Not sure who will be worse off by the end of this…

8.16: Manjimutt, master of martial arts?

8.17: New Loopers, new experiences, new friends!

8.18: It's always Wario…

8.19: Pie.

8.20: Terror Time Again!

8.21: Whisper-dex, away!

8.22: Only Dracunyan can be Dracunyan.

8.23: A boy, and his giant, soulless, scorpion-monster.

8.24: Yandere Katie/Fumika? I'm sure this is a yo-kai's fault, somehow.

8.25: All hail the Oni Queen!

8.26: Press the button, don't press the button, either way, you can't avoid fate…

8.27: If you can't beat 'em, make friends with them! Or eat them… either works for Kirby.

8.28: Exploding Easter Egg Hunt… fun?

8.29: Easter USApyon!

8.30: That is a good question, would they work…?

8.31: Inaho is tired of Nate/Keita and Katie/Fumika's uncertainty… and, has apparently read Homestuck…

A little note: I intend to, in the near future, go back and edit the earlier chapters; to include if the snip is a crossover in brackets [] as I did in this chapter, since I feel that makes it easier for some. Also, to possibly improve spelling or grammar, and to add closing comments like the above, to the chapters that do not have them, and give each chapter its own name, excluding the Infinite Tunnel Chapter.

Nothing that would require one to go back and reread the older chapters if you already have, but just a little something to improve the story.