She had been waiting for hours for the invite.

Leo on her shoulder, check.

Webcam, check.

She smiled brightly when the invite appeared on her screen, clicking on it.

"And there she is." Dan gestured to her.

"Hey." she greeted.
"So you're Mana and Leo." a boy with glasses, Marucho?, spoke.

"Yup! You're Marucho, right?"

"That is correct."

"Nice ta meetcha!"

"Same to you." Marucho gave her a nod. Mana began to speak with each of the Brawlers happily for a few hours, before her brother called her for dinner. Apologizing, she logged off and went to the dining room for some Onigiri and leftover steak. After dinner, the normal routine happened; she went to bed.

"Its time, huh, Vladitor?" Kazuhiko placed his half mask on his face, "I already called Kuso out."

"We'll defeat him easily, Marduk."

"Indeed."

Marduk left his house, heading directly for his meeting place with Dan.

Only hours later would his name be fully known.

When he defeated, and crushed, Dan Kuso at his own game.

For days after, Dan and Drago weren't seen. No one knew why, exactly.

They only knew that he had been defeated by a Darkus brawler who used dirty tricks to win. They also rarely saw Mana; all points lead to her. Darkus Brawler… 'Dirty Tricks' could be translated into being over-aggressive.

Runo and Julie quickly jumped to this conclusion, and gave Mana the cold shoulder. Marucho did nearly the same; but he was looking for a bit more proof to prove that it was really Mana.

… Didn't mean he wasn't wary and untrusting. Mana didn't even know what was going on with Shun, but it wouldn't surprise her if he thought she defeated Dan as well.

The only person who really gave her a chance was Alice, who was actually quite nice.

"Here, Mana." Alice had a Darkus Ability Card in her hand, "I got this for you. It may help you and Leo someday."

The card was Alpha Blaster, Leo's character ability card.

"Honestly, I just found it." the orangette admitted, "I guessed that it must be Leo's."

"Thanks anyway, Alice-san." Mana smiled, placing her new card into her pouch; there was a special little pocket for both gate cards and ability cards.

"Its no problem." Alice smiled back, "I'm sorry that everyone else is giving you the cold shoulder though. You don't seem the type to use dirty tactics."

"Its fine. Its not like I'm not used to having barely any friends." Mana chuckled to herself, "Before I meet you guys, I only had Kazu-nii and Vlad-kun."

"Vlad-kun?"

"Hai. He's my big brother's partner bakugan. He's really nice too."

"I see. I'd like to meet your big brother sometime." Alice smiled gently; there was no hostility, per usual.

"I'm sure he'd like to meet you too, Alice-san." Mana grinned, "He's always happy to meet my friends."

-LeoIsInnocent!BelieveMe!-

Five chapters in like five hours...

Imma go to bed.

Its 3:07 am.

Review!

Edit, 4-26-15: Changed the final scene and added a scene with Alice and Mana talking. Thanks to SHSL Hope G Komaeda for the suggestion of rewriting it; looking back the original kinda...

Was really bad, oh my god, really bad XD

I also attempted to fix the previous chapters. ^^'

Like I said two days ago, review! :D

Its 5:15 am, and as I am listening to Cosmic Love by Florence and The Machine(Not owned by me. XD), I shall be working on chapter six of Fighting For What's Right! *3* Keep on brawling, my friends.