Well, eee. There's a bad storm right now. Bizz finds it amusing. x3 Chapter 7 is here, though! Yeay! Well, also, if you see any spelling mistakes or anything, I don't have any spelling or grammar checks on these documents.. but well, I try my best. And I mean, I saw like one DDR fanfic that had.. around 200 reviews? Or something... and another had, like, 50.. But, oh well, my writing may not be the best out there but I still like doing what I do, whatever I do I stick with it no matter what. Like how I had someone say to me that they hated DDR and wanted me to stop talking about it.. x3 And I've been really busy lately, so.. sorry about that. I have a good friend that's going to be gone for three weeks starting Wednesday... so writing will probably help me find something to do. x3 Well, I love writing anyway.. like I said, I do what I do and I stick with it. But well... onto chapter 7 nowz.

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Chapter 7- A Way Back Home

Natsumi was let out of the hospital the next day. As she was walking outside of it, she realized that she had been lost again, but she actually didn't care all that much. For now, even though it was weird, she almost enjoyed being lost. She was aimlessly wandering around like some stray animal on the streets, but she didn't mind it. Finding herself at some public park, she decided to sit under a tree as she watched some little kids play around. Violet had returned Natsumi's cell phone to her when they had all been at the hospital, and so she was glad to at least have her phone with her. For now, it was just one of those moments where you just dream to yourself...

"Hey, out of the hospital already?" Came a voice through Natsumi's scattered thoughts. She snapped to attention and looked up to see Rage standing over her, and in an instant she stood up. "Uh, yeah.." She replied, a little embarrassed.

"Yeah, I'm sorry that I wasn't able to visit you yesterday. There was a lot of crap going on, and so I had a lot of things to do..." Rage looked up for a second, but then returned to the conversation, "But, yeah. How're you feeling?"

"Oh, I'm feeling okay. I guess I just pushed myself a little too hard earlier." Natsumi had wondered how she all of a sudden had all of these guys apologizing to her out of nowhere, but she figured that it was better than them just not caring at all.

"Well, hey, then don't push yourself so much next time unless you want people to worry!" Rage laughed a bit, Natsumi laughing along with him. "Well, I better get going, there's some stuff I still need to do today... I wish I didn't have to, but well, you know how it is." Rage turned around and started to walk away, but suddenly halted and turned back to the girl under the tree. "I just realized. You still don't know this place, do you?"

Natsumi sweatdropped and was about to say something, but the look on her face was enough for Rage to know that Natsumi actually was lost. Rage had offered to bring her back to her house, but Natsumi had asked him to take her to Emi's instead. She wanted to get Violet first. However, on their way, they ran into Bizz. She looked as if she wasn't doing too well.

"What the-- where did you come from?" Rage asked, but no respond came from the fairy girl. She just looked up at Rage for a minute, and then looked down again. Her face was blank, but it sounded as if she were almost singing something to herself, but it was barely audible. Natsumi blinked. "Bizz, are you okay?"

".. Uh?" Bizz finally replied, seeming to have returned from her absence of mind, "I'm sorry. I was.. thinking of something."

"Thinking of what?" Natsumi asked, with Rage seeming kind of confused. "Wait, are you that weird Bizz girl Emi was telling me about on the phone earlier?"

"Uh, yeah.. probably," Bizz replied, "And I'm sorry, Natsumi. It's.. just that I was thinking of someone."

"Heh, it wasn't Akira, was it?" Natsumi teased, and Bizz turned red. "No, it wasn't! It was someone different! Someone I might never see again..."

"Aw.. did something bad happen?" Natsumi asked in concern, but Bizz shook her head. "It's not that he hates me or anything, we just had to part one day and I never knew where exactly he went. I guess it's just that Akira reminded me of him. I... well... you see, it's weird when you don't know where you came from." She sighed and looked up at a butterfly flittering past her head. "I don't know. I get like this every once in a while. I don't feel well." Bizz began to walk away, and she soon found herself running, as if she were being chased. "Bizz, wait.. !" Natsumi shouted, but the young girl was already too far away to hear.

"Eh, she's probably just having one of those days," Rage said with a shrug, "I mean, I know how it feels. It happens to me, too." Natsumi had nodded in agreement, though she had looked back again, Bizz now completely away from her view.

"Hey, Natsumi, do you recall seeing any other paitents at the hospital?" Rage had asked all of a sudden when they were halfway to Emi's house.

"Like, which ones?" Natsumi replied.

"Well, like, any weird-looking ones in particular?"

"Well, I did see one with a purple afro, but.."

Rage then burst out in a fit of laughter. Natsumi looked at him in confusion, and Rage had said, "Haha, so the rumors were true after all!"

Natsumi blinked. "What do you mean.. ?"

"Boldo. They said he broke his leg playing DDR. He was dared to do something that went over his limits." Rage finished his laughing fit, and the way he sometimes broke into laughter was similar to what Bizz had always done, except he had done it less often.

"Broke his leg playing DDR.. ?" Natsumi was reminded of a story her friend Moe had told her. Something about some guy trying something really hard on a DDR machine and passed it, but twisted his leg in the process. She snickered to herself, even though she felt sort of bad about it. She had just been in the hospital too, after all.

Afterwards, on the rest of the way to Emi's house, the two didn't really say much else. When they arrived, and Rage knocked on the door, it took a minute, but then the door opened, and Emi appeared at the doorway. "Oh, Natsumi, you're out of the hospital already? And hi, Rage!" Emi's cheerful face made Natsumi smile. "Hi, Emi. Yeah, she had been kind of lost though," Rage replied, "But she wanted me to take her to your house. We saw Bizz along the way. She seemed kind of upset, though."

"Oh, I see. But, upset? Why?"

"She said she was thinking about some guy she knew a long time ago. She said that Akira reminded her of him. I wonder what he'd think..." There were a few snickers, and soon Violet appeared from behind Emi. "Natsumi? Natsumi is here? She's better already?" Her little eyes met Natsumi's, and soon, the PiX's eyes started to sparkle in excitement. "Yay!" She cheered, jumping into Natsumi's arms. "Haha, hey Violet," Natsumi replied, laughing.

After the two were reunited, Rage said, "I have to go, would you mind bringing her home for me, Emi?"

"Heh, no problem," Emi replied with a wink. Rage let out a small smile and left. Soon after, Natsumi, Violet, and Emi started heading to Natsumi's house. They talked a little bit, but the real commotion didn't start until they were walking by the pizza palace. Emi happened to notice a rather oddly-dressed boy staring at them, and even though it took a bit, Emi did recognize him. He recognized her, too, and so before Emi could say anything, he said, "Hey, Emi, is that what I think that is?"

"Huh?" A puzzled Emi replied. Violet noticed that he was looking right at her, and so she hid behind Natsumi in fear.

"I heard about it, but I wanted proof... you're a lost PiX, aren't you? I know a way to get you back home!"

-End of chapter 7-

(The dude that Bizz mentions plays a major role in the sequal, so sorry if that was confusing to you.. this simply was a weird and confusing chapter, wasn't it? Lol, sorry about that.. my writing style is weird sometimes... by the way, the story that Moe told Natsumi is something that my friend really did tell me XD)