Short Chapter; just to get some things out of the way...

He looked around the house, seeing everything as it was before everything that had happened. Stains on the floor, beer bottles all over the place, dry blood all over the place, crap all over the place. The only difference before everything else was that the light was on, right after bothering to put on the bulb in the socket that was long absent.

Now that he sees the light of his ways, he feels…bothered.

"…Shit," Luxray said to himself, looking around.

"Thanks for helping me out."

"No problem. It's kinda nice to see you finally cleaning up your house."

Luxray wanted to say something back to her, but something held him back to do so. He just kept cleaning up, picking up empty bottles from the previous year and putting them in the trash bag that was almost ripping. Even then, he kind of enjoy their moment.

He tied up the back and dragged it along the two other bags near the front door. He picked up another bag and continued on cleaning up. There was still much to clean up, but he didn't seem to be in a rush. The stains on the carpet he couldn't do much, but he didn't bother; he could've bothered to hire a guy to change the carpet.

"So…" she started. Luxray turned to the white-furred Pokémon, seeing what she had to say. "…How did you get out of those bandages?" Luxray looked into her eyes, not sure what to say. "…Full Restore." She tilted her head.

"You sure?"

"Yeah…" He still kept his eyes on her.

"C'mon, tell me."

"…Alright, well you might not believe me…"

From there, he told the small event that happened the day before, dealing with Alex's 'adopted' child. Even after what he had to say about it, the story only lasted about five minutes. After telling the story, the white-furred Pokémon only started at his eyes.

"That's just…" she started. She looked around him, not knowing what to say.

"See? Told you that you wouldn't believe it."

"No! I-it's just…"

"I'll show you when it all comes around, alright?"

She didn't know what to respond, but Luxray took it as a 'yes' and continued on cleaning.

After several minutes, the whole area was cleaned up for the most part. The only thing that couldn't be cleaned were the carpets. Luxray sat down near the front door, side-by-side with Absol, looking around the area. He really never thought his own house be so clean…even after meeting up with his new friends. Looking around his room again, he felt a bit…warm. He didn't know why though.

He turned his head right, looking at Absol.

"Oh…" He lowly said to himself. He looked away thereafter. Shit… He thought to himself …It's either now or never… Even at the thought of it, he blushed a bit. He turned a bit further away from Absol in hope of her not seeing.

He'd known her for so long, but really hadn't felt like this other than going into that Mystery Dungeon. This time his warmth felt more than just the wet dream before the suicide attempt. Fuck it.

He took a deep breath and waited for the blush to sly away, and turned to Absol.

"So…uh, Absol…" He stuttered. Absol turned to him, meeting eyes. "U-uh…" Shit-!

"What is it?" She asked. He didn't respond on the point; he blushed again, looking away. She could clearly see that he had something in mind, but didn't know what… Or at least anything out of the ordinary. He took a deep breath and met eyes again.

"…Uhm…w-want to go out sometime…? Like on Saturday?"

Absol felt surprised at the question, nearly blushing furiously. She looked around in thought, not sure what to say. Alright… Luxray thought I think we're in the same page here… Better than I expected, I think… Awesome.

"Well…" she started. "…Yeah, sure. Saturday."

"Alright…Saturday…" …It's actually gonna happen. It really is…

"Alright…well I gotta go now."

"Oh, now?" Luxray asked, getting back into the world around him.

"Yeah. Got things to do, y' know?"

"Uh, y-yeah," He leaped to the door and opened it for her. Luxray gave a little smile as Absol walked off to the front door.

"See you later," Absol said to Luxray as she walked out. Luxray smiled at her, still feeling warm.

"See ya." As she walked off, Luxray closed the door, looking back into the room. What else was there to do?

He looked down at his carpet. It still bothered him.

"…Know what, fuck it."

"So…uh, you sure want to do this?"

"Yeah-yeah, don't care how much it'll take!"

"Well, uh, it may be pricey…" The Pokémon turned around, looking up at Luxray. He smirked at pointed at him. "…Hey…you're that one guy…at the bar." Luxray gave a weird look to him.

"…Yeah…at the bar…"

"Yeah…you are. You wacked Heffron after taking a wild beating from him…"

Luxray couldn't remember, but Heffron was a heated Primeape constantly wanting to fight. Word was that Luxray said something muffled and Heffron speculated that what he muffled was on him; so he ran up to him and beat the living crap out of him. Walking off in the same attitude as he was in walking in the bar, Luxray ran up from behind and swung from behind, knocking him down. He swung again, bring Heffron's head deeper into the floorboards. No one joined in or fled; they all froze. Luxray then left in the same attitude Heffron was in.

"Damn, made the bar a safer place without him around."

"…Didn't even know the bar was safe in the first place…"

"Tell you what, how about I do a little…pro bono? On me."

"…Whoa, thanks."

"Anything for a guy who can take a beating and still not get killed. Shit, at least help me out on this one."