I looked away from him and back in front to see Runo and Alice staring at us shocked expressions on their faces. I tilted my head
"Are you two friends?" Alice asked and I was surprised to note a small bit of hope
"Pretty much yea" I answered she smiled
"Thank god I was starting to tire of being mad for no reason" I looked at her confused she seemed to notice this and answered "cos Dan was mad at you and you two didn't talk. When we were on the bakuroom we all had to pretend to be mad to make him feel better" Dan's face dropped yet again
"You mean you were lying when you would be like that. This is the worst day of my life" he sunk down in his seat I smirked
"Stop being a baby" I nudged his arm but he didn't move
"I'm serious it is I just found out everyone's been lying to me" rolling my eyes I explained
"They only did that to make you feel better they are your friends Dan that's what they do" I saw a flash of guilt cross his face
"That's not what I did" I had to strain to hear him so I wasn't entirely sure I had heard him right
"What?"
"I wasn't like that I didn't try to make you feel better with your mum and everything I was a jerk. I'm sorry" my smirk turned to a small smile. That was the sincere apology I had wanted from him when we had had our fight.
"Don't worry about it." I assured him placing my hand on his shoulder trying to comfort the usually hot headed boy
"Thanks Shun" he pulled me into another hug.
"Ok lot of hugs today" I noticed giving him a quick hug back before patting his back "Dan. What part of let me go and we'll be friends don't you understand? Cos I'll spell it out for you. No hugs right now too soon for that"
"Oh uh sorry" he pulled back smiling a little sheepish
"Ok I got my food" a muffled voice filled the momentarily silent room. Everyone turned to see Komba with a mouth full of food walk in balancing plates on his arms. There was a small space next to me and the wall that he squeezed into passing me a plate "you can have some of it not all though I'm starving" I thanked him but didn't have any. Marucho then walked over looking quite annoyed. I noticed he was holding something
"Here's beestriker now would you mind telling us if you have anything that can be useful to us?" he passed beestriker before turning to sit by the girls
"Yea ok so anything specific you wanna know?"
"Just do you know where masquerade is?" he nodded and all their faces brightened "he's got a new hide out it's in Nairobi but not here it's somewhere where you can find it on your own though. He doesn't know the area as well as me which meant he had to place it in a fairly populated area but it's still pretty secluded you know enough for him to feel comfortable working." Everyone nodded at what he was telling us but I had a feeling he was being vague for a reason "you'll need my help of course" he added proving my suspicion correct
"Whatever help you can offer we are grateful for" Alice smiled at him
"Thanks Alice well I guess we'll get started then. First off he's not round here he's in Bahati that much I know" Marucho stood back up
"And you're positive?" Komba nodded
"Perfect I'll go tell Kato and would you please not get crumbs on my couch" he begged before turning to leave. When his back was turned Komba started mocking him. I tapped his arm shaking my head at him he stopped hanging his head annoyed that I had stopped his fun. When Marucho had left the room he asked in a whiny voice
"Why'd you do that? I was only messing" I shrugged before saying
"Maybe still you shouldn't do it I don't even know why you don't get on" he shrugged in response
"I don't know maybe I said something cos I don't really have a problem with him but the fact that he doesn't seem to like me makes me not like him" I nodded understanding what he was saying and at the same time not
"Why don't you just ask him?" again he shrugged
"Don't really know. Only reason I can think of is that it's his problem with me and he should confront me" I didn't know what to say so I simply nodded. I decided that since this wasn't my business I wouldn't press anymore on how he felt about it so instead I changed the subject
"I can't thank you enough for helping us Komba" he waved it off
"Don't thank me Shun I'm just doing my bit to help after all I was a pain before I hindered you and the others when you were helping Dan" I only half agreed with that he was a pain and a hindrance but if it wasn't for him we would have no idea where to find masquerade. We'd have never come to Kenya
"You've helped a lot Komba we'd be at a dead end if it weren't for you" before he could respond Marucho came back in
"Ok guys we're off" everyone took their seats as Kato started the plane "so is there any movie or do we play games?" I let out a soft groan as Alice replied
"There is no movie but we do have a game we play while we're waiting if you want to play?" not knowing how tedious the game was Komba agreed.
"Can I change my mind now?" he asked looking stressed like there was no tomorrow "Have any of them ever heard of Nintendo or something along those lines" he pulled his hand up to his face looking on the verge of collapse
"Sorry Komba but this is why I block them out till they're nothing but an irritating buzz" I couldn't help but smile he was having to go through what I did and it was funny seeing how badly he was handling it
"I don't know Marucho what is it?" it was Julie who was talking apparently this game was so tedious that even Alice had gotten fed up with it
"It was um I don't remember I think it was… no wait I changed it" a shout of frustration filled the room and everyone looked over at me but I wasn't the one making the noise it was Komba who was grabbing his hat and shouting out his annoyance
"Oh my god! How on earth can you stand this game? I'm going completely crazy over here" I smirked at him he was taking it very badly
"Relax Komba. It's not that big a deal we'll play something else" Julie tried to sooth him making it all the more funny for me and from the look on his face Dan also
"How about we all just shut up?" he asked straining a smile I could see the others look confused probably because they thought it was only me who hated the game now they realised I wasn't and it actually was a bad game.
"Ok we can do that too." No one spoke after that which both Komba and I were grateful for but it didn't seem to be helping his mood
"They're gonna make me go crazy" he whispered
"Don't worry Komba you'll survive" I assured
"How will he survive?" Harpus popped open on his shoulder followed by Skyress on mine
"How you doing Grandma?" she asked
"Good to see you too Harpus" I always loved to watch this. Harpus would try to annoy Skyress but she barely ever succeeded and when she did it was only for a minute or so before Skyress was back to herself
"So how you been doing? Collect your pension?" I looked at her expectantly
"Sorry Harpus but I've been a little busy helping people you should try it you might like it" I smiled as the two flew off next to each other still trying to outdo the other
"Will those two ever grow up" Komba spoke after a few seconds silence. I looked at him silently shocked he had calmed down really quick
"I don't think growing up is the problem Skyress is already grown"
"Yea guess you're right maybe teaching them how to communicate would be better" we talked about anything after that keeping our voices down as not to seem hypocritical to the others. Though as Dan and I were friends now I was paying more attention to what he was doing and I noticed he was listening in to our conversation. Once Komba finished talking I turned to him to ask
"Do you want to join in?" he nodded moving so he was looking at us better while we were talking
"What you talking about?" he asked looking happy to have someone other than Drago to talk to
"Nothing really" Komba answered looking around for Skyress and Harpus
"What do you want to talk about?" I refrained from sighing in annoyance
"I don't know Dan you chose something?" I suggested
"Can we talk about brawling?" he asked
"Sure why not." I didn't mind talking about that
"Ok if Alice had a bakugan what attribute do you think she'd have?" I didn't know I had never thought about that
"I'm not sure maybe haos?" I guessed "what about you Komba" I tapped his arm as I spoke making him jump; he appeared to have gone into his own little world.
"What? What's wrong?" he asked trying to slow his breathing
"Dan wants to know if Alice had a bakugan what attribute do you think it'd be?" he pondered the question for a second
"Haos possibly but she could also be darkus" seeing our confused stares he elaborated "Runo's a haos brawler but well let's face it she isn't all sweetness and light while Alice is insanely nice. So I figure if Runo can be a haos brawler which is such a contradictory thing to her then why can't Alice be darkus?" I saw the logic behind it and I was shocked that I hadn't thought of it. I always like to think I thought of every single possibility even if the question wasn't anything important
"Happy Dan we have your answers haos or darkus" he seemed happy with our decisions before turning to Alice
"Hey Alice what attribute do you think you'd be if you had a bakugan?"
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