This chapter is really long. I apologize.


He felt like his smile was almost sinister as it crossed his face. His target was no longer Kululu, there was no reason to change Kululu's thoughts on the matter.

If my buddy wants something he'll get it. Although the thing he wanted was the innocent girl Angol Mois who, unfortunately was hopelessly in love with Keroro. Saburo hoped he could change that though.

He walked up to Angol Mois. This mission was easy. The wingman's guide had made it simple. "Sometimes when you're trying to pair up two people who are already friends you can get one to deny they like the other so much that they'll start feeling it's denial and wonder if they really do like the other person. They'll get unnecessarily embarrassed." The book had advised.

And pressing Kululu on the matter had worked. Well, Kululu had never admitted to it, but Saburo had figured out he liked Angol Mois anyway.

He leaned against the arm of the couch, almost smugly. Angol Mois didn't realize he was staring at her as she worked, cleaning things and putting them away. "D-do you need anything? You're kind of staring at me."

"I've figured you out." Saburo smiled.

"Oh?" Angol Mois tilted her head to the side curiously.

"You're so against the idea of me trying to set you and Kululu up because you already like him. You feel its awkward and don't want him to look too much into your feelings or have your friendship change. Especially when he's acted rather disinterested in you." Saburo remarked.

Sure this was actually Kululu's feelings, but why couldn't he project them on Mois too?

Angol Mois shook her head. "And why would you think a little thing like that? I value Kululu as a friend, but I don't think I've shown any romantic interest in him around you." She kept her calm, instead of getting panicky about the accusations like Kululu had.

Darn. Wanted her to get more in denial. Saburo frowned. "Oh, but Kululu tells me about every little thing between you~." Saburo tried to lie, "And there's tons of moments that have looked a little suspicious to him."

She thought for a moment. "Like? What looks suspicious to him?"

"Huh?" Saburo was confused. He didn't have any evidence for Mois, Kululu didn't tell him that much about his and Mois's relationship. He didn't expect her to be so calm about this whole accusation thing.

Perhaps it was because her heart belonged to another. She didn't seem to feel much of a need to defend herself.

"Well, I'd like to know myself. I don't not believe you Saburo, but maybe I was acting a little too close or weird. I would have rather had him confront me himself, but I'm curious as to what I did wrong that made it look like I had a crush on him." Angol Mois frowned.

"Do you have any guesses?" Saburo asked. "I mean, I'm sure a smart girl like you has guesses as to what he misinterpreted." If she has guesses then that means there is something there.

Angol Mois smiled politely. "Not really!"

Crap. Then I got nothing. "I mean it's pretty clear that you like him. After all you get embarrassed over really small things, like I saw you two in the park and he was licking your fingers..."

Angol Mois gave a big sigh, "Have you ever had someone suck on your fingers? It's embarrassing stuff. Anybody would be embarrassed regardless of who did it. And we did it to get you off our back! Unfortunately it didn't work."

Saburo frowned. She made a good point. "It's...Just so obvious. I mean he's your exact type of guy. Smart, into all sorts of technology, destructive…." He couldn't figure out any more reasons to get her to deny it, to make her embarrassed.

"H-hey! That's not my t-type!" Angol Mois tried to defend.

Saburo smiled. Ah yeah. She doesn't know that I'm Mutsumi...And I read her type. Well at least there's something.

"Sure it isn't. You don't have to hide it from me, Mois. I mean I know you have a big crush on Kululu. Hey, I'm happy for you! I want to help you, if you'll let me…." Saburo trailed off.

Angol Mois looked irritated and angry for a second at the accusations, but she calmed down. "I...I guess I can understand you confusing things...I just...I don't know how much more obvious I have to be that I'm in love with Uncle? I say I love him every moment I'm around?" Angol Mois frowned, "But you're not even the first person to confuse mine and Kululu's relationship."

Saburo didn't want her to be thinking of Keroro. He wanted her to be thinking about Kululu. "Maybe you're using Keroro as an excuse because you really like Kululu!"

Angol Mois shook her head. "I...Don't think so." She seemed pretty set in her ways. "I mean it's fine what you're saying, I'll try not to be angry about it, but it's weird and untrue. I'm sorry but I just don't feel that way about Kululu."

"You sure...So hypothetically speaking you wouldn't...Date him if he suggested it?" Saburo asked. He waited for Angol Mois to blush or anything.

"Ha. I'm not falling for that again." Angol Mois smiled remembering the blind date that Saburo had organized.

And with that she went back to her work, no more defensive words to say about it, nothing to offer the conversation.

Saburo continued trying to tease her about her big crush, but she always brushed it off. The entire day he tried to get her at various times and remind her that she had a crush but she easily corrected him telling him she liked Keroro.

There was nothing like a lie in her tone.

Crap. This isn't working. What do I do now? Saburo wondered.


Angol Mois didn't spend the entire day being hounded by Saburo so that he could accuse her of Kululu related things. She had other people who needed to con and trick her after all.

Saburo noticed that other person was Tamama for one.

"Woman! I heard Mr. Sergeant really likes natto." Tamama grinned. "Why don't you give him some? I got an extra slimey batch with my Nishizawa money, but you can give it to him instead..." Tamama knew full well Keroro hated natto with a passion.

He was sure if Angol Mois gave Keroro natto Keroro would hate her.

"Okay! I would love to! If it'll make Uncle like me I'd be happy to do it!" Angol Mois smiled and took what Tamama handed her.

She bounced off, for her gift to probably blow up in her face and her to not learn her lesson at all.

Huh...Interesting...So Mois is easily conned. Saburo realized. A malicious grin spread across his face. He should have known this.

This was his ticket to get her to fall for Kululu. She was way too trusting. She just hung onto every word that someone said and took it for granted.

He approached her later after she was done pouting about how much Keroro had yelled at her for the bad natto gift.

"Oh...Saburo. Here to tell me I like Kululu again?" Angol Mois guessed. "I'm pretty sure that's not true considering how worked up I am about Uncle being unhappy."

Saburo reached out and pat her on the back. "Well, I mean I'm not saying I'm here to not tell you that, I mean I still very much believe it...But I mean you're my friend too just like Kululu is so I decided to give you some advice."

"Kululu related advice?" Angol Mois was tired.

"No, Keroro." Saburo smiled.

Angol Mois perked up instantly.

"I think I know why he's never interested in you and doesn't pick up on your flirting, why your crush is always unrequited." Saburo told her.

"Why?" Angol Mois grabbed onto Saburo's shirt, her eyes wide and desperate for answers.

He's gay. Saburo decided that wasn't his information to give and also had nothing to do with his current goal. "Well you said it yourself. It wasn't just me who thought you and Kululu were super close, right?"

Angol Mois nodded.

"I actually talked to the rest of the platoon, the Hinata's...Everybody, really. They all think you have a thing for Kululu!" Saburo lied. "Even Keroro. So of course Keroro hasn't picked up on any flirting because he thinks you're hopelessly into someone else!"

Angol Mois covered her mouth, a gasp escaping her lips. Could that really be true? Was that the source of all her Keroro related problems? He just thought she was super in love with Kululu?

They did talk an awful lot on the sidelines. She wouldn't be that surprised if Keroro, with his denseness did think that. The rest of the platoon? Well she questioned their intelligence on a daily basis so they were fair game too.

"I..I...But I'm not going to cut Kululu out of my life or spend less time with him just so Uncle will maybe think I don't like him! That's really stupid and I care about Kululu far too much to do that!" Angol Mois was too good of a friend to put her relationship with Kululu in jeopardy for Keroro.

Saburo smiled as he pat her shoulder. I'm glad of that. At least you care about him as a friend and can admit that. That was something, right? Kululu wouldn't be truly alone when he left. "I mean, it's just that everybody is so convinced, even Kululu's wondered...It makes me wonder, do you truly know yourself if you like Kululu or not?"

"Of course I know where my own feelings are!" Angol Mois protested.

"But, I've been thinking about it...And like you weren't embarrassed at all when I was teasing you. But at the same time I know, from the things that Kululu said, that you do like him from the way you act." Saburo referenced something that never actually happened. "So it makes me wonder if you can truthfully 100% tell yourself that you know that you don't have even the teensiest crushes on Kululu."

Angol Mois opened her mouth to protest some more about how if she wasn't embarrassed that should be proof enough.

"Let me remind you that sometimes other people can observe things better than others, because they're outsiders. For example everybody except Fuyuki knows that Fuyuki likes Momoka. It could be the same for you." Saburo was very persuasive.

And unfortunately Angol Mois was very easy to convince.

"Well...I mean that's true...You make a good point..." She bit her lip.

"Also I'm like 70% sure you guys almost kissed yesterday?" Saburo scratched his head. Had that been part of their act? He could believe Kululu would do that to get him off his back. Angol Mois might be willing to go that far especially if Kululu had asked her to do it beforehand, but Kululu hadn't seemed prepared for it, not did he still realize they had indeed almost kissed. So likely it had been unplanned and more genuine than either of them want to think about.

Angol Mois covered her face and instantly turned red. This time she really was embarrassed. "That...Never happened."

Now that was a straight up lie.

"I don't think you actually know if you like him. Or you don't want to think about it at least." Saburo shook his side. "Man for someone who lives on emotion and impulsiveness so much, destroying planets just cuz, not destroying them on someone else's small whim, you sure don't like to think about anything that might be too hard for you."

Angol Mois just stared at him. She shook her head, but as Saburo predicted his logic was starting to work on her. She was becoming less and less sure of herself.

"No. No. He's just a friend." Angol Mois reassured. She sounded like she was talking mostly to herself.

Saburo smiled. "It sounds like you need to confirm this, confirm for yourself that you don't like Kululu. Lucky for you I know how."

"How?" Angol Mois asked.

"Kiss him." Saburo shrugged.

Angol Mois shook her head and just blushed. "I can't do that! Why would that confirm I didn't like him?"

"It might. Or it might not. If you kissed him and there was nothing there, you felt no connection or no rush of embarrassment, enjoyment, positive emotions, you don't like him. Simple as that. If you don't feel like there's a spark everybody was probably wrong about you and Kululu." Saburo told her.

She was blushing but she listened to his words. "I-I...I can't. That's cruel to Kululu. I mean he isn't...He isn't going through this." Angol Mois pointed out. "It would make him feel awkward! I don't want to hurt him like that."

You two care about each other so much in like...the exact same way, worrying about each other. You're both idiots. Just let me help you! They were stubborn fools. Neither of them really wanted to make the first move.

"That and I like Uncle. I can't kiss someone else." That statement was the afterthought to Kululu feeling uncomfortable.

Saburo just blinked. Now I'm wondering myself if Mois likes Kululu. I know I made that up to convince her to fall for him, but...Maybe I'm believing my own lie. She certainly sounded like she kinda did.

"Kululu won't care if you kiss him." Saburo reassured, putting his arm around Mois's shoulder. "I mean he's kind of a perv, got no good morals too. He doesn't care about being kissed." Saburo shrugged. "Believe me a cute girl like you kissing him would be a gift."

Angol Mois frowned. "Well….I mean...Maybe...He is kind of a pervert...And you're right that he does have no morals about that stuff...He teases Giroro and asks him for kisses all the time. I mean, it doesn't happen." She continued to frown. "Also I feel like he licked my fingers the other day just to be a jerk?"

"Sounds like Kululu." Saburo replied. "And Keroro...Well, Keroro would be totally jealous if you kissed Kululu in front of him! It might make him realize he didn't want you with Kululu."

"Ah! You could say, two birds with one stone? Figure out my feelings for Kululu and get Uncle jealous!" Angol Mois clapped.

"Yeah. Yeah, exactly." Saburo gave her a thumbs up.

He didn't really need her to do it in front of anybody, but he knew doing it in front of Keroro would get her to kiss Kululu. After all now she wanted to make Keroro jealous.

He just had to hope that there was a spark there and this caused the seed of doubt that Saburo had planted to take growth.

Wait...But what if there isn't? Kululu can't be a really good kisser, and he is rather ugly...Saburo knew he couldn't stick Angol Mois in an unhappy relationship. After all that would make it so she might risk leaving Kululu.

But he realized all too late that this plan was going to blow up in his face. Because Angol Mois would feel nothing except disgust at kissing Kululu and then it would be near impossible to get her to fall for him.

He ran off to go stop her, seeing her run off to wherever Kululu and Keroro were. But he was all too late.


As soon as Saburo had convinced her that it was okay by Kululu, Angol Mois left for the meeting room. Kululu was probably in there browsing his computer as Keroro ranted to him about a boring invasion plan.

She opened the door to the board room. Keroro stood on the table ranting about some plan. Kululu was tuning him out at his computer. Giroro and Tamama had long since left bored of Keroro's pointless idea and how little it would work.

Dororo was there, but nobody noticed him. He was crying for attention and for Keroro to notice him.

Good! It's just Uncle and Kululu. Angol Mois smiled. That was her target audience. She really didn't need Tamama of all people to see this, or Giroro. Giroro would just be like 'yuck why'd you do that.' and Tamama would make fun of her.

She hoped Saburo was right that Kululu really didn't have morals about kissing. She had never really asked or talked to him about it before, his own romantic feelings, towards well anything. She really suspected they weren't there and he just liked to prank people a lot.

Just one kiss. That's what Saburo said. This ought to reassure everybody. She knew for sure it wouldn't be a big thing. Saburo had been right about Kululu that he wouldn't be mad.

After all Saburo was Kululu's best friend. He knew so much about him.

She glanced at Keroro.

"Oh! Lady Mois! Did you need something? Did you want to take notes?" Keroro smiled broadly.

"Actually I came for Kululu." Angol Mois replied honestly.

Keroro's smiled dropped. This was a surprise.

Kululu stopped browsing his computer. This was a surprise to him too honestly. "Yes? My lab didn't explode or something did it? Is there some emergency? Ku, ku, ku" He asked. Those were the only reasons he could logically come up with that Angol Mois had come to see him over Keroro.

She shook her head and walked over to him. For some reason she didn't really need to swallow and get into a head space of what she was going to do. Probably helps that Kululu is a cutie. She decided.

Kululu looked around trying to figure out why she was walking up to him. She could talk to him from across the room? Was it one of those polite things that was one of those social cues he had never really picked up on?

She bent down so their faces were on the same level.

Ku! I guess the lab did explode. And I can bet who did it. I guess she came to apologize? This sort of close, eye contact level he knew was reserved for serious conversations and apologies. He wanted to prod her into talking more, but she leaned forward before he could.

Her lips met his and she kissed him. She reached forward to hold one of his hands or something since she didn't know what else to hold. That and she could easily figure out if Saburo had tricked her and this was taking advantage of Kululu and he didn't like it.

"WHAT." Keroro stopped ranting and just stared forward in pure shock.

Dororo's mouth hung open. "I...I...Um...We're in the room!" He blushed.

Unfortunately for Dororo and Keroro, the poor onlookers, Kululu and Angol Mois didn't stop kissing. And it wasn't completely Angol Mois's fault.

As soon as Angol Mois's lips met his, Kululu completely forgot what was happening and what he was doing, he reached up to her hair to weave his fingers through it and draw her closer as if to drink up her lips. He kissed her back fully and slowly.

He had wanted this for so long. And if Keroro was right there...Well, it had to mean something. He couldn't really psycho-analyze her actions at the moment. He was just too busy getting lost in the moment and kissing her.

"GUYS! GUYS! Please stop kissing!" Keroro said frantically at all the gross kissing sounds. The kiss was tame as of now, romantic and sweet, but he had no idea how long that would last. It was awkward to see his niece in a romantic kiss with Kululu anyway.

"Umm...Perhaps it would be a better idea to suck faces somewhere else?" Dororo spoke up. "Unless….What if they don't even know that I'm here? Oh no...What if they forgot about me!" He cried.

"Dororo? You're here?" Keroro asked.

And with that, knowing that Dororo was in the room, Angol Mois pulled apart. She hadn't expected several things and Dororo being in the room was three too many surprises.

She hadn't expected Kululu to kiss back so lovingly and be so into it for one. And that was something he just could not deny.

That and...She didn't curse. Saburo's advice to reassure herself that she didn't like Kululu didn't work at all! Of course there was a spark there because Kululu was a damn good kisser. It still embarrassed her how much he had tugged at her lips, how soft some of the kisses had been.

Her face was completely flushed. She had expected it to be just short. I was an idiot! I should have known he'd be a good at it. How can I figure out how I feel about Kululu when my body betrays me by liking kissing him? Hormones aren't love. She knew she had a problem with her hormones already. Saburo had been right that she had almost kissed him the other day too.

Kululu glanced at Angol Mois his head spinning more than the spiral on his hat. His glasses were probably spinning too, but he didn't pay attention to that. He wanted to figure out why she had kissed him, but he was smart enough to know.

The shock on her face was evident when she glanced at him shyly. She hadn't expected him to kiss back or be into it or like it at all.

If she hadn't expected him to kiss back, why had she kissed him? It had to be more of Saburo's doing. He had to have convinced her somehow, used some sort of bad logic to con her.

Kululu knew Angol Mois was way too easily conned. The poor girl had fallen hook, line and sinker for Saburo's terrible advice and had kissed Kululu or something.

And like a fool his body had betrayed him and for a moment he had allowed himself to believe she was kissing him because she wanted to. And he had kissed back.

He frowned, letting his head stop spinning. The Saburo issue of him meddling in his and Angol Mois's lives brought him back to reality. The shock on Angol Mois's face brought him from wherever he was on the clouds.

"Did Saburo con you or something to do that?" Kululu asked, irritated.

"H-huh?" Angol Mois was still blushing. She wasn't sure how Kululu could get so calm and composed so soon. Maybe he was just cooler than her. "H-he...He didn't con me. I mean he did suggest that I do that and advice it. But..Wait, did he con me?"

"Duh." Kululu replied. "Ku, ku, ku. Can't believe you fell for whatever stupidity he said."

Keroro was so confused. "Are you and Saburo having a prank war or something Kululu?" He felt a little better that the world was turning right again. Angol Mois hadn't kissed Kululu because she wanted to.

Kululu ignored Keroro.

"I-I'm sorry..." Angol Mois apologized.

Kululu sighed. He knew it wasn't really fully Angol Mois's fault. Shouldn't expect for her to not be conned by Saburo if she trusts me, Tamama and Keroro and does whatever we want too. And we're way worse. He was glad she hadn't gotten herself in any real trouble yet although he always did have to keep tabs on what Tamama was tricking her into to make sure that it didn't cross any lines.

"Come closer." He requested.

Angol Mois turned bright red. She did as he wanted. He reached over to her forehead and flicked her with his finger.

"Ow!" Angol Mois childishly replied. She was smiling though as she rubbed her forehead. She was glad Kululu wasn't too mad.

"Idiot. I'm going to have to bop you more for falling for a trick like that. Next time don't listen to Saburo telling you to kiss people." He bopped her gently again.

"I'm sorry! I'm really truthfully sorry!" She apologized over and over again.

Kululu's gaze softened. It was nice to know that things instantly went back to normal after that. And he knew she was sorry. "If you're really sorry, eat this chili pepper." He grinned. "Ku, ku, ku. You make the cutest expressions when you have to eat overly spicy foods."

He pulled out a chili pepper from nowhere.

"No...Don't make her do that… Those things are awful." Keroro frowned.

"Ku, ku, ku!" Kululu laughed.

Angol Mois took the chili pepper and ate it her face lighting up from the spice. Kululu gave her water after the ordeal and she chugged it down. "Ah! That was hard!"

"Ku, ku, ku." Kululu grinned.

Angol Mois frowned and pouted and the two of them teased each other.


Despite how quickly the two of them had recovered from the kiss, Angol Mois couldn't stop thinking about it. She knew Saburo would say that if she was thinking about it she was in love with Kululu, and she knew he was right, it had been amazing from her side, she had loved it and her mind just kept going back to it, but there was something that confused her a lot about it.

He kissed me back. And there was no reason for him to. She recalled, touching her lips. He had kissed her back a lot too. He had been clearly into it.

She could feel his fingers running through her hair making her heart speed up, his lips hungrily kissing hers. But she wasn't sure why Kululu would act that way.

She had been wondering...having a flake of suspicion for a while that Kululu's actions towards her won't the most normal. She wanted to label them as normal friends, sure, but it was kind of hard to label them as normal friends when one of them was terrified of the other.

She knew Kululu didn't hate her, but he always got so embarrassed around her. She didn't mind and tried to ease his mind and fears, but that always seemed to make things worse.

And then there were times on top of that where it almost felt like he was flirting with her? She always quieted that feeling down because she didn't want to be stupid and think that Kululu was flirting with her when he clearly wasn't- that he was asking her on a date or something. That would get her overly attached to him or something like that for the wrong reason and she didn't want another Uncle on her hands.

She knew a lot of the things Keroro did that she read as romantic weren't. She didn't need to over-analyze Kululu's actions too. She was probably wrong about them after all and he didn't deserve her to be doing that.

Still...She was very confused about Kululu. And her suspicions were starting to pile up. She didn't want to be dense, but she needed confirmation or someone to tell her that she was fully wrong.

She decided not to ask Kululu. So she went to Saburo knowing he'd probably give her the wrong answer, that Kululu was hopelessly in love with her or something. But maybe I want that answer. Angol Mois quieted that voice in her head.

She approached Saburo, walking up to him slowly. "Does Kululu like me?"

Saburo looked surprised at that question. He had expected Angol Mois to be disgusted by her kiss or think that she liked Kululu. Not ask that question.

What should I do? Lie and say he doesn't? That wouldn't help her fall for him. He tried to figure out a plan of action.

He knew sometimes people fell for others when the other person confessed to them. He had seen it happen in several movies like 'the girl who leaped through time'. So hopefully it would work for Angol Mois too. "Yes." Saburo sighed.

Angol Mois didn't look too sure, since it was Saburo saying this. "How do I know you're telling the truth? Why hasn't Kululu told me?"

"Because he might not...Know himself." Saburo confessed. "Or he would rather die than tell you."

Angol Mois this time looked surprised. That sounded like Kululu.

"Heck! Maybe He'd rather you die than confess his feelings. Who knows? That sounds like Kululu." Saburo shrugged. He didn't know the full extend or Kululu's feelings.

Angol Mois looked at the ground. That did sound like Kululu. "I need to talk to him then."
"No. I...I think you shouldn't confront him. He wouldn't give you the answers you want. It wouldn't be a good idea." Saburo shook his head. "You just asked what I thought and I told you."

Angol Mois nodded. She still fully didn't know if Saburo was right, but it sounded like a believable conclusion that he could draw from Kululu's actions.

Still she decided to ignore Saburo's advice and confront Kululu.


She decided to ask Kululu during work, while he was distracted.

"Kululu...Do you like me? Like...Do you have a crush on me?" She mused.

Kululu sputtered, slamming his fingers down on his keyboard. "W-what?"

"Well I mean I'm asking because Saburo seems pretty convinced you do. Don't worry I'm not convinced because Saburo's been doing a lot of crap because he thinks you or me like each other or would be a good couple. I just wanted to ask you, yourself, for clarification." Angol Mois replied. "You could say, I'm not getting the wrong idea?"

"Heck no! I don't have a crush on you." Kululu answered her question. "I'd rather the planet be destroyed than go on a date with you." He paused. "Ku, ku, ku. I mean I'd rather you destroy the planet, and I guess you could make the point that I sure would love to go destroying planets with you, but...uhhh where was I going with this? Uhhh Don't get confused. My love for your planet destroying doesn't mean I like you." He said frantically.

Angol Mois wanted to sigh deeply. How can he both say he doesn't like me and then hit on me moments later asking to go planet destroying with me and implying that the planet being destroyed isn't that bad so it doesn't help his point at all? Angol Mois wanted to shake her head.

Instead she leaned over to Kululu's seat, the one next to her, as if about to kiss him again. There was only one way to figure out if he liked her or not.

She waited to see if he freaked out or if he stayed put. He must have known at that point that she was going for another kiss.

She could hear him suck in an intake of breathe. He didn't move as she moved closer as if about to kiss him. She saw his hand reach forward for her hair again.

So he does want to kiss me! She realized. She pulled away. That was her answer.

He had been totally okay with her kissing him, in fact he wanted her to kiss him, about to kiss her too.

Kululu was blushing she noticed and frowning at her. He probably realized what she had done and was doing, using his body against him. He was way worse at hiding how his body reacted verses his words. "Ku. Low blow, Mois."

"What do you mean?" She played innocent.

"Didn't know you were a jerk like me who liked to play with people's feelings. Pretending you're about to kiss someone to see their reaction...Ku, ku, ku. Seems like something I would do." He pointed out. "Not that I'm not a little proud that you're picking up on my lessons..."

Angol Mois felt a little bad that he was so insulted and bitter. "I thought you're actions would be stronger than your words."
"I don't like you, Mois." Kululu said harshly, hoping she'd get the idea. "And I don't want to talk about the subject anymore. I have tons of floor panels, I could banish you to an even deeper basement than this one if you wish. Ku, ku, ku. So no more talking about it."

Angol Mois frowned. Saburo had been right that he really, really didn't want to have feelings for her.

And she didn't really know how to reply. He had made it clear that he didn't want to talk about the subject. And she still wasn't fully 100% sure. After all he could just like kissing and be captured in the moment of hormones like her. He could definitely make a case for that, although he wasn't now. Probably because that requires admitting he likes kissing me. I would have used that reason if he had asked, but...She didn't know how she felt about Kululu. She knew she loved kissing him apparently. Not much else.

So she didn't have a reply for his feelings.


Angol Mois was beginning to suspect that despite the fact that Saburo's words had come from a lie and no actual knowledge, she actually didn't know if she liked Kululu or not.

She knew or suspected Kululu liked or had a crush on her, at least a little bit, but she had no reply for Kululu. Nothing she could give him like a 'I like you back' she was just too unsure of herself.

She didn't want to think about it. She was too indecisive. Too embarrassed.

She wanted guidance. Someone to decide for her. That was something she knew she shouldn't want, she should take the responsibility of her own feelings, her own actions, but she didn't exactly know how.

She had gotten way too used to Keroro ordering her around. All she ever had to be decisive about was her love for Keroro. She had gotten spoiled. And now she wasn't sure how to make other decisions, have other feelings.

I'm pathetic. My feelings, who I love...It should all be up to me. It should be something only I know. Yet I've always relied on other people to tell me what's true or not. If Uncle says he's amazing than I'll believe him. It's as simple as that. There were so many problems and faults with her too trusting nature.

She was just so lost. So confused. Maybe she was just so in a muddle of her own feelings that she wasn't sure how to accept if she did like Kululu.

"I don't think I can be together with Kululu, I just can't see myself together with him." Instead of asking for advice and guidance, she told Saburo a bit of a lie.
She knew he'd give her the guidance on his own. She just felt too embarrassed to ask or wonder 'what am I feeling'. What were the differences between lust and love? Friendship and love? If Kululu told her that he loved her would she be able to respond in that moment that she loved him too?

What did she truly feel? She didn't know anymore.

Saburo frowned. "Kululu's a great guy. I know a lot of you don't think he is, thinking he's only a jerk with no feelings, but he can be helpful when he wants to be. He's helped me out several times when I needed him too. He's given me my reality pen. He's a great inventor. He makes funny jokes..." Saburo tried to tell her lots of good things about Kululu. "You'd never be bored around him if you were dating him. You'd have a great time even if it wasn't a full on deeply romantic relationship. You could start off casual and slowly fall in love?" Saburo suggested. "You two just would mesh real well together I think."

Angol Mois tried not to let her emotion show on her face. You could say no wearing your heart on your sleeve for me? She knew she'd never be bored with Kululu. He was always really fun to be around. She knew she got bored listening to Keroro a lot and his lectures, but she needed more reasons than 'it's fun'. After all, not being bored and having fun with someone was a great reason to be friends to her. Didn't mean there was anything romantic there.

She loved her time with Kululu. She knew there were a lot of great things about him. It didn't mean that she was in love with him though. "I don't think we'd be good in a relationship." She tried to say. She wanted more advice, maybe Saburo would say something that would unravel the mystery and tell her if she liked Kululu. But really Saburo wasn't her and wasn't offering anything.

"I mean I don't think he'd take it seriously." Instead she accidentally frowned and voiced her real concerns and some of the reasons she had never considered dating Kululu before. "I don't think he likes me, if he does like me, enough for it to be anything more than a temporary fling. And that might wreck our work dynamic or friendship when it ended. That and I..." She stopped herself. She didn't want to continue. Get a little disillusioned with love and exist only for it sometimes. It feels like a bit of a false reality, unreal. My opinions are always the same as the person I like and I can't form my own. And I respect Kululu and like him enough to know that is in no way healthy and would want to do something more real with him if we had a relationship.

It was incompatible on both sides- a relationship between them, she realized as she talked to Saburo. It made her feel a little better because it was giving her the answers she sought. It would get too unreal and over-the-top from her, which wasn't...that great and Kululu wouldn't take it seriously enough. Too opposite.

She dismissed the fact that she did want something real with Kululu.

"That's not true! He takes his friendship with me very seriously. So I think he'd take a relationship seriously too." Saburo frowned. Unless you want to move away. Then he'll be quiet about it. "I think you two are so perfect for each other that you won't have a temporary fling. You'll stick by each other. After all I don't think there's anyone else in the world who will tolerate Kululu and he's not going to meet another planet destroyer like you who likes technology. That and he's not getting over that sparkle thing." Saburo tried to explain. "You want someone who understands you too? Well Kululu understands you. He likes your destructive side, and I think he even likes your pure side. So I think you two have the potential to stick things through for life."

Angol Mois frowned. That was true, but she didn't know for sure. That didn't mean that she liked him still. Or that he liked her. Just that they sounded sometimes perfect for each other. They had a lot of common interests.

"Well then, I'm glad we'll be friends for life. That makes me happy." Angol Mois nodded. "That was always one of my wishes."
She turned around and left since Saburo wasn't helping her sort any of this out.

Saburo sighed but did not go after her. He knew that she knew or suspected Kululu liked her. She hadn't mentioned it much but from their previous conversation he knew.

And because of his knowledge of movies he knew all he had to do was wait for her requited feelings to start budding. She might just be stubbornly sticking to her love for Keroro at this point. But eventually she'd start falling for Kululu since he liked her.

Just gotta get him to supposedly do more 'confessing like things' that ought to get her heart racing. Saburo decided.

She would fall for Kululu. He would make sure of that.


Kululu wouldn't actually confess to Mois. But Saburo knew how to get her to think Kululu was confessing or at least feel like Kululu was being romantic towards her.

"Hey Natsumi. I bet you could really bond with some of your female friends if you got them to listen to Mutsumi's radio station more. I've heard that radio star is really dreamy." Saburo winked.

Natsumi was still rather awkward around Saburo after getting politely rejected. "I mean he is dreamy...You're right. Momoka doesn't really like listening to him though. Neither does Koyuki. She doesn't get the radio. Angol Mois I guess would like him?"

"Great!" Saburo smiled. The trap was set! And he knew Kululu wasn't able to rat him out about being Mutsumi.

He could impersonate a letter from Kululu on air and read it. She'd be swooning before he knew it.


Natsumi brought Angol Mois upstairs with her to her room when it was time to listen to Mutsumi's radio station, just as Saburo had suggested. Giroro was sitting on the floor too.

"It makes me feel bad to break up some special Giroro time with you." Angol Mois winced. "You could say threes a crowd."

"You could say that." Giroro grumbled bitterly. He thought Angol Mois made a fine point. He loved being alone with Natsumi.

Although things never usually ended well with Kululu, Keroro or Tamama interrupting his Natsumi time listening to the radio with her. At least the interruption had happened today sooner rather than later.

"It's fine, Mois. Giroro and me spend enough time together alone doing other things. You're no bother." Natsumi reassured. "And I'm sure you would like Mutsumi's radio station. It's really nice and relaxing."

"W-we do?" Giroro stuttered.

"Well yeah. We roast sweet potatoes together a lot by the fire." Natsumi replied. "So it's not like Angol Mois is stealing my time away. You already get way more time with me than her."

Giroro smiled a bit to himself. So he was closer to Natsumi than Angol Mois?

"Still...It makes me feel a little bad...Considering yours and Giroro's relationship." Angol Mois sat down.

"Relationship?" Natsumi asked.

"Silence, soldier." Giroro shushed. He knew Angol Mois supported him and Natsumi, he liked that. But he didn't want her to reveal too much.

"UHHH Friends!" Angol Mois lied quickly to hide Giroro's feelings. "Like me and Kululu, I mean...Not like me and Kululu. Definitely not on our level." Considering I don't even know where we are at the moment. Our level's all messed up. I don't want to say our relationship is like Giroro and Natsumi's that's pretty much confirming that it's got some romantic undertones.

Giroro and Natsumi didn't pick that up. They were focused on something else. "You two are friends?" That was very shocking to them.

Angol Mois slowly nodded. "Oh look! The radio just came on!"

Mutsumi's voice was heard in all their ears. "Today on MY Radio, we're going to read poems for all the lovely ladies there and talk about appreciating people." His voice was soothing and sweet.

None of them realized it was Saburo, as per usual. He read several poems that were relaxing about appreciation, talked about philosophy and how much he loved each and every one of his listeners.

Natsumi giggled. Giroro was just lost in the fact that Natsumi was smiling and giggling and how beautiful she was hugging her pillow like that.

"We'll read a letter by Giroppe first." Mutsumi's voice snickered for a moment. Nobody realized these were some of his favorite letters since he knew who Giroro was. "My warrior princess is the strongest thing on the battlefield. I think she's ginomours. Like that godzilla lizard. Ah, it's so nice. If only I could tell her how much I think she's like godzilla. I told her once when we were watching the movie after complimenting godzilla's tactic and she asked if I thought she was big and ginormous then. Of course I said yes. She got angry and left. I wish she would understand how great she is and that I appreciate her."

"What an awful letter. Of course no girl would like being related to godzilla." Natsumi shook her head. "That guy's an idiot. I feel sorry for his girlfriend."

Giroro tried not to cry. Angol Mois pat him on the back. "You'll get better at it." She reassured.

"Next letter is from a 966."

Natsumi looked shocked. Kululu barely ever wrote letters to Mutsumi. And when he did they were usually targeting her and how awful she was. But that was clearly Kululu's name.

Giroro and her exchanged a glance.

"The only time I ever feel like there is good in the world. Real good, is when I look at you. And for once that good doesn't feel bad. Everything feels like butterflies when you glance over and stare at me and I'm on cloud nine and I just die almost instantly.

I think of you each night and day. Every night I yearn for you and dream about you.

When I see you, I see sparkles.

Words fail me a lot of the time, I don't think there are words to explain how much I care about you and love you."

Natsumi started blushing a lot and put her hand on her mouth gasping. "Wait this is a love poem? Oh my god...I didn't think that."

"Don't think that, Natsumi. It hasn't ended yet. Don't get your hopes up. He'll make it jerky around the end. That's how he is." Giroro assured. There was always a trick to this sort of thing.

But the fake romantic letter continued. "You're so terrifying! This love is truly changing me. It's disgusting!"

There was silence. That...Really sounded like Kululu.

Natsumi and Giroro glanced over at Angol Mois. It was pretty clear this letter was meant for her after all.

Angol Mois was hiding her face. She was blushing and smiling too much and she didn't want them to see.

They thought she was hiding from shame.

"I can't resisit your eyes, it's true…

The destruction and technology we both love fade into the shadows…

Around you nothing else matters, I'm just with you."

Saburo's letter was getting more poetry-y. He just couldn't keep out the sappy stuff.

"Your soul is pure, your heart is innocent.

My heart is truly in your hands.

I would touch and kiss you if I could till my life was done.

You'll always be the focus of my plans."

Angol Mois was just screaming into one of Natsumi's pillows now. This was way romantic even for her and she was embarrassed and she was dying and this was really cute.

"I got tissues too when you want to cry….There, there." Natsumi pat her back. She misinterpreted things as Angol Mois being uncomfortable.

"I die around you and am embarrassed. It's terrifying, my love.

But still Mois, every day I am thankful to the heavens above.

Thanks for being in my life. You're the best." The letter ended.

Angol Mois's face remained in the pillow.

"Well...That was unexpected….Where was the bad ending?" Giroro asked.

Natsumi had no words. She didn't really know.

"Oooh! What a romantic letter! If I was the girl who got that I'd be swooning right now." Saburo badly hinted. "I don't know anyone who couldn't fall in love after they were written something like that. I mean it was some pretty damn good writing and poetry. Pretty romantic." He complimented himself.

After a moment of silence to let that just sink into Angol Mois's mind he sighed. He had to move onto the more boring stuff then.

"I suppose it's time to read Natchi's letter-" He paused. He hoped it wasn't about him rejecting her.

"Ooh! Finally!" Natsumi forgot completely about Kululu.

At that very moment Kululu rose from one of the floor panels and into the room. He looked at the radio, took out a raygun and blew it up, frowning.

"Ku, ku, ku. Sorry, I'd say more, but right now I have to deal with a thorn in my side. A big thorn." He was ticked at Saburo.

He didn't even look at Angol Mois. If she was so embarrassed that she wasn't looking at him, that letter must have done some awful awful things.

He'd maybe talk after he chewed Saburo out.

He ran off.

"Awww, aww man! He got so embarrassed he took it out on me!" Natsumi frowned. Why was her life like this?

"I...I am honestly surprised." Giroro admitted.

Angol Mois just said nothing.


Angol Mois didn't know the letter was fake. After all, Kululu was too busy dealing with Saburo and telling him to not read fake letters impersonating him on the air to clear things up with her.

So just as Saburo wanted the poems and letters just sort of kept in her mind, sitting. She found herself doodling little hearts with swirls during the invasion meeting in her notebook.

It's cute. She thought to herself. It's cute him trying to woo me like this. She actually enjoyed it. It made her giggle a lot and smile to herself.

Kululu wasn't looking at Angol Mois during invasion meetings. He was paying attention to Keroro's bad plans. She probably knows they're fake. No need to tell her the obvious. That and if I did that it would sound like bad denial. I don't want to get into another conversation about my feelings. He decided.

It took Angol Mois about three days to be able to think clearly. She was just too busy doodling, being lost in her own thoughts and oddly staring at Kululu sweetly, almost swooning a bit.

"Hey wait." She said to herself suddenly on the third day. Nobody was around while she was doing chores and her head was clear. "That letter wasn't from Kululu!" She realized.

Of course it was from Saburo. Saburo wanted her to get together with Kululu! And she knew the exact technique Saburo was using on her.

He's using that classic technique of making me think that Kululu's confessed to me so I'll fall for him. I've seen enough romances to recognize it. Angol Mois frowned.

She threw her broom down. And worst of all it had been working too! She hadn't been able to think of anything but Kululu in the last three days.

Ugh...And now I've been thinking about Kululu and how he likes me but I can't ask him about it because he'd just deny it and all and I knew that...Angol Mois frowned. She wished she could just have an honest conversation with Kululu.

But Kululu was in no way honest.

If she was examining everything Kululu did for signs that he liked her too did that mean that she liked him? If she was getting blushy over little things like their fingers touching when she asked for chapstick, did it mean anything?

Saburo's trick was working. And she hated it.

"I won't fall for Saburo's mind games!" Angol Mois resolved. "And Kululu's! Doesn't matter how cute he is!" She frowned and covered her mouth.

Nope. Stop thinking that. You only think Kululu's cute and that he's involved in mind games with you because you've been looking at him like he's super in love with you. She was okay now.

She knew who had written that letter and it hadn't been Kululu.


She got a little better, but not by much. She kept getting a little frazzled around Kululu, not because she believed he liked her, but just because she couldn't help it.

She finally decided that she couldn't take it. She needed to have an honest conversation with him.

They were working in silence. Kululu was trying to avoid any deep topic that didn't have to do with work.

"Kululu...I...I um...I don't have a crush on you." Angol Mois said mostly for her own sake. She needed to say it out loud just so she could believe it.

Kululu glanced up. "...Okay…." That had been out of nowhere. "I knew that already." He hoped this didn't have anything to do with Saburo's letter. He didn't want to have to tell her Saburo was Mutsumi.

She has been acting super odd..Man, I over-estimated Mois probably. I do need to clear up that letter. "Mois, you do know that I didn't write that letter, Saburo did to get a rise out of you-" Kululu tried to clear up.

Angol Mois wasn't really listening. She already knew that. "But we could figure out if we could work out!" She didn't know what she was frantically saying. She had only really planned to say that she didn't have a crush on him.

Wow. I really am confused about my feelings. She realized.

"Like we could go on a date." Before Angol Mois could stop herself or let Kululu get a word in she had finished her thought and statement. She covered her mouth. God. Why did I say that? Nope. Nope. Why did I say that? She was super embarrassed.

This whole thing was getting to her. But she waited for Kululu to respond. To maybe look happy. She suddenly realized she didn't know if she had suggested such a thing for her sake, or just to make him happy.

She literally didn't know anything anymore. He did say that blind date was a date...Maybe he'd be okay with one date.

Kululu looked confused, but examining her expression he was able to see more of Mois's thoughts than she herself was able to. He had always been really good at reading Angol Mois. Ah. She still thinks I like her a bit or something. She probably wants to make me happy. She's always like that.

Well he wasn't interested in getting her affection just because she wanted to be a people pleaser. That felt like her and Keroro's relationship already.

She was covering her mouth to prevent herself from speaking more. "I mean if you want to. I mean we are friends, if you want to see if something would work… I mean just ya know?" She was kinda at a loss for words.

Kululu would have thought it was cute if it came from any place of actual embarrassment besides messing up her words. "Nah." He rejected her firmly. "I'd sooner die than date you. I mean, I wouldn't be able to jerk you around because you'd make me feel bad about it because you'd be so terrifyingly cute!" He pointed out.

"Oh okay..." Angol Mois paused. "That's kinda of a confusing reason..." That didn't make much sense to her. He couldn't be a jerk to her? Wasn't that a good thing?

"That and I don't want to be your rebound guy." Kululu shrugged, giving her a moment of honesty. Perhaps she was also suggesting this to finally get over Keroro. Maybe she had picked up on how gay he was. "I know it's a good idea to get out of your gross Keroro phase, but I can't help you with that. It's your own thing to deal with. Ku, ku, ku. You signed up for it by falling for Keroro."

Angol Mois nodded. That made a lot of sense. She did still have feelings for Keroro after all. So...I can't like Kululu then. Since I like Uncle and all.

That was a relief. Kululu had helped her figure that out.

She was relieved that he had rejected her. But at the same time she felt a small amount of disappointment.

That disappointment probably wasn't important.


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