I'm incredibly effing sick, colds man, colds.

Welp, in the meantime, this chapter, and also, Lost World!

Bushi is way too effing high lately, all of the Lost World cards cost next to nothing, and they do more then what they cost...

Welp, time to get right into this chapter!

Gao was in a predicament, yes he had been in bad situations before, fighting Kyoya, saving the world from Yamigedo, fighting Kyoya again, Wisdom and Geargod, moving to America...

But none of that compared to the task of talking to, and cheering up, a likely very heartbroken girl, who was just rejected by his best friend.

Girls truly are in a complete other-dimension from world-threatening villains, he felt like he understood Zanya a little better now.

Well, as much as he would have loved to just walk up to her and start talking, he had already tried that, and his head was surprisingly empty when coming up with things to say, which was uncommon for him.

Luckily, he knew just who to ask for help.

"Hey Kuguru! Could you come over here for a sec?" He yelled over the sound of music, "yes?" She said, walking over, "what's up Gao?" She asked.

"See... I need some advice..." he said, "and well, since your a girl... I figured you would be the best person to ask..." he said, lowering his voice, "hm?" She said, listening to the boy.

"Well uhh," he said, rubbing the back of his head, "how do you well, talk to girls?" He asked, looking away, "what are you talking about your talking to one ri-" she said, before coming to a sudden realization, "ohhh, I see..." she said, grinning, "who is it? Who's the girl that's caught your attention?" She asked excitedly, turning the lamps in her hair on.

"H-hey! Cut it out!" He said, his cheeks having a slight red to them now, "it's nothing like that! It's just... a girl I know is a bit down and for some reason I can't find the words to say to her..." he said quickly, Kuguru may be one of his closest friends, but he wanted to keep Paruko's privacy well, private, he wasn't about to go telling everyone what he knew.

"Ah..." she said, understanding, "well, the only advice I can really give you, is be yourself! The Gao I know can always brighten people's hearts! So just take a deep breath, and do what you normally do!" She said smiling, "oh! I see!" Said Gao, "thanks Kuguru! Your the best!" He said, walking away.

Kuguru smiled, "I wonder who's taken residence in Gao's heart..." she wondered aloud as the boy ran off.

"Hey Paruko!" He yelled, running over to the pinkette, "hm?" She said, snapping out of an apparent trance, "what's up Gao?" She said before being grabbed suddenly by the shoulders.

"This is the best idea I've ever had..." Gao thought, "do you mind if I stay over at your place for a while?" He said.

A moment of silence passed...

"Huh!?" She yelled out in, understandable, suprise, "Huh!? What!? Why!?" She yelled out, "weren't you going to stay at your friend's place?" She said quickly, her face, understandably a little red due to the situation.

"Well the truth is..." he said, rubbing the back of his head, "the original plan was to stay at this fairly-okay hotel for the week" he said, telling the truth for now, "cuz' I didn't want to inconvenience anyone and I wanted to show my mom that I could handle myself on my own..." he said, lowering his voice to a whisper.

"But I just got a call that said an... incident, not that I know what THAT means, happened to my room and they don't have any other open rooms available," he said, "what!? That's awful!" She said, "but then why don't you just ask one of your friends? I mean, I'm flattered you asked me... but why me?"

"Well you see..." he said sheepishly, "I kind-of-sort-of-maybe-definitely bragged a bit about how I was paying for my own room..." he said sheepishly, "I know I'm delaying the inevitable but I don't wanna say that I essentially got kicked out of the hotel just yet..." he said, "besides, after we found out about what happened, Batzz grabbed the phone and threatened to shock the entire staff if they didn't fix this, but they just hung up, they probably don't want to talk to me again." He said.

"Please Paruko?" He said, bowing his head down, "pleaaaaaaase?" He said, shutting his eyes and hoping for the best.

He at least thought the story was convincing, it was actually all true up until the part where he said he didn't want to ask his friends yet, yes he bragged a bit, but he was still okay with asking for a favor here.

~flashback~

"HUH!? Whaddya mean 'Incident'!?" Gao yelled into the phone as he was getting off the plane, "we are terribly sorry Mr. Mikado but all other rooms are booked for more than a week" Said a voice from the other end, "what's going on?" Said Chibi Panda who was walking with Batzz along with Gao.

"Apparently an 'incident' happened and we can't stay at the hotel anymore!" He said angrily, "HUH!?" Said the voice of his buddy, who jumped up and grabbed the Buddyfigher's phone, "Now you listen here you ingrates!!" He yelled into the phone, causing people around them to stare, "if you don't fix this, I the Demon Lord Dragon Batzz, shall come over and SHOCK EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU INTO SUBMISSION!!" He screamed, causing a baby somewhere to start bawling.

"Batzz calm down!" Gao yelled, trying to grab his phone back, "shut it kid! You hear me ingrates! YOU HEAR M-hey! THEY HUNG UP" he yelled angrily.

~end of flashback~

Truth be told, he had no problem asking any of his friends for help, but the first step for helping Paruko is to get closer to the girl, and this might work.

"...I only have one room, but I have a blow-up mattress you could use and the couch is okay..." she said quietly, Gao perked up, "so is that a yes?" He said excitedly, "o-oh fine sure..." she said, her face a tad pink, "but I don't need anybody getting the wrong idea okay? Go to the card shop after this party and I'll pick you up out in front of there okay?" She said.

"Gotcha! Thanks Paruko!" Gao said before running off, "worked perfectly!" Gao thought to himself while the pinkette was left to talk to her buddy, "Takosuke... why did I say yes?" She asked.

"Takochu"

"Really?"

"Tako Takochu"

"Well yeah I guess you're right..."

"Takochu"

"Yeah yeah..."

Paruko looked out a window, of anything she owed Gao multiple favors already, he refereed for her when she ended up a baby, he helped her become a better reporter, and he encouraged her even when things looked bleak, say for example, the whole Yamigedo thing.

Still though, a boy at her house? Even if they weren't in that kind of relationship, still...

She took a glance at Tasuku at the other side of the room, chatting to the purple- haired Darkness Dragon World user, her mood instantly took a nosedive.

Before, she could look at the boy-wonder and her heart would flutter tremendously.

Now, her heart just ached tremendously instead...

HOLY SHIT I DID IT

BAJESUS HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN, school is leaving me half dead sheesh

Anyways, see you next time, and hopefully sooner then this wait...