HELLO READERS I AM NOT DEAD! I know I have not updated in almost two years but I have been super busy! I have now just got time to work on updating (Thank you random Ohio weather and going to a CTC {I bet no one knows what that means!} kind of school). That and the multiple snow days and delays. I could give you a list of what I have been up to but most stuff people would not understand unless they went to my school. OK I am done blabbing. HERES CHAPTER 5!
(Danielle's P.O.V.)
"Mayonaka! Give that back!"
"Danny? What are you doing?" asked a voice from behind me. I let out a yelp and fell off the chair I was standing on and I flipped the chair and landed hard on my back.
"Danny! Are you ok?!" Now I recognized the voice of my mother.
I groaned "I'm fine." I sat up and glared at the top of my dresser, where my cat Mayonaka sat with my red MP3 player hanging from her mouth. "If only she would give me my MP3 back!"
My mother rolled her eyes and sighed. "Does she do this often?" She asked.
"Honestly?" I set the chair right "All the time." Climbing back on the chair I turned my attention back to my stubborn cat. She backed a little farther back, I retch for her. "Here Mayo-oyo, here Kitty-girl!"
"DEK I don't think that's working." I let out a yelp and jerked back falling off the chair and landing hard on my back, Again! Honestly could people stop sneaking up on me?
"Urusa(Shut up), Dan." I growled at my brother. "If you think you're so smart then why don't you give it a shot?" I said irrelatively while gesturing at Mayonaka.
"I will." Dan stated while setting up and climbing up on my desk chair. Our mother shook her head, "Just don't break anything and/or hurt and/or kill each other.
"No promises!" We chorused. Mom rolled her eyes and left us to it.
Dan turned his attention to Mayonaka. "Alright here, boy here black cat." I rolled my eyes at Dan. He wasn't even calling Mayonaka by the right gender. Mayonaka backed even farther away from Dan and eyed him wearily. Dan lunged at her, "Come here you little Kitty-brat!" He managed to catch Mayonaka's tail and pull it. She hissed at Dan and gave him a light surface scratch with her claws, not enough to bleed but enough to sting. She jumped off my dresser drop my MP3 on the floor and land in my arms neatly. Dan landed on the ground with a pretty solid thump. He groaned looked at me and glared at Mayonaka. He said simply, "Stupid cat." Mayonaka hissed in return.
"Hush my Sukoshi Kage(Little Shadow)." I said to Mayonaka while petting her to calm her down. She purred at me and climbed onto my shoulders. She decided to perch there. I put my hands on my hips and glared at Dan "Don't call her stupid." I snapped.
"She scratched me!" Dan retorted.
"You scared her and pulled her tail!"
"You wanted me to get your MP3!"
"You volunteered!"
"I…' Started Dan,' whatever you ready to go?" At least Dan has the common sense to drop a losing battle.
"Do I have to?" I wined. "I loathe sleepovers." I pouted.
"Yes and it's time to go." Said Dan while stifling a laugh at me. I stuck my tough out at him. He did the same back.
I sighed. "Fine." I grabbed my black messenger bag with a medium sized red heart on the right side of the top flap. I put Mayonaka on my bed who protested with a light, 'meow'. "Sorry Mayo." I patted her head. I swiped my MP3 off the floor and put my desk chair away. Stowing my MP3 in my bag and grabbing my sleeping bag I said, "I'm ready lets go. Time for a night in ochira(H*ll)."
Dan chuckled. "You still live up to Mr. Kazami's nickname for you. Don't you ?" He asked.
"Witch one?" I asked he had given me multiple ones.
"Ritorufu-Yuri(Little Fury)." Responded Dan.
"Urasa, baka(Shut up, Idiot.). Lets go before I decide to pull a disappearing act. I said while brushing past Dan and out the door. "And if you don't stop laughing I will tell the girls what Mr. Kazami used to call you." I yelled back to my laughing brother in our door way. He stopped instantly.
"You wouldn't!" He yelled to me in a scared sounding voice.
"Wanna bet? Wa Dare(New Blood)?" I said teasingly. "DEK!" I laughed. Then I realized something.
"Dan?"
"What?" He asked grumpily.
"I have no idea where I am going." I admitted reluctantly. Dan smirked and started walking in the other direction. "This way." This was going to be a long night…
"Here we are!" Dan yelled gesturing to Runo's parent's café when we arrived.
I eyed the café wearily, "Do I have to go in?" I asked.
Dan opened the door and said very frankly, "Yes, you have too." I followed him inside the café and glanced around. The café looked different when it was empty than when it was busy. Waite why was the place empty? Are we even-
"Runo! Alice! Julie! I have arrived with your prisoner!" yelled Dan.
"What!?" I screeched. I spun around to yell at Dan, and he waived at me and yelled at me, "See ya DEK! Have fun!" He spun on one foot and sprinted out the door. "Dan!" I yelled at him. The door slammed behind him. I glared at the spot where Dan once stood. "When I get home you are so dead Dan." I muttered to no one in general.
"Relax he does that all the time." Said a voice from behind me. I spun around and came face to face with Runo. "Nice to know he hasn't changed." I said dryly.
Runo chuckled, "Come on the others are up stairs." She led me up stairs to her room. She opened her door and motioned me in.
"Great Danielle's here!" Yelled Julie excitedly when she caught sight of me. "Now we can get this sleepover started! Lets play Truth or Dare!" Already? I thought. She sure doesn't waste time.
"How about we let Danielle get her things set up and let her get settled in first?" Said Alice nodding to my rolled up scarlet, green, black, and white sleeping bag and my messenger bag that I was holding.
That's when I noticed Alice sitting on a black and purple sleeping bag. Julie was sitting on a pink, brown, white, and pink sleeping bag. Runo was standing on a yellow, white, and light blue sleeping bag. They had all placed their sleeping bags in a circle leaving a space between Alice and Julie. As I was setting up my sleeping bag Julie asked me, "Do you have a nickname?"
I paused, "What?"
"Do you have a nickname?" Julie asked me again, "You can't go by Danielle, like, all the time!" Exclaimed Julie to me.
"Danny." I said simply while sitting down.
"Hu?" asked Julie giving me an odd look.
I looked at her. "Danny, it's the most common nickname I go by. I do have many others though but Danny is my most often used. That was when Alice broke into giggles, Runo mumbled, "Well that explains a lot." And Julie had a kind of dumfounded look on her face. I eyed all of them wearily, "What did I say?"
Alice stopped giggling and explained, "When the Bakugan were here Julie used to often call Dan, Danny." Runo cut in at this point, "He would always get this weird look on his face when she did. Danny being your favorite nickname would explain why he would get that look."
"First off Danny is not my favorite nickname." I said a tad on the harsh side getting me odd looks but they got the point-Don't ask. Then something occurred to me. I had to ask, "What?' I asked teasingly, 'Did Julie have a crush on Dan or something along those lines?"
Runo seemed to sulk, and Alice gave a little grin and said, "A huge one." Hu didn't see that one coming. I was just teasing. Suddenly Julie jumped up and explained, "I may have had a crush on Dan, but now I'm over that petty crush! And Runo's got Dan and I've got my Billy!" Julie said in one big rush and she sat down with a thud, crossed arms, and a 'Hump'. Ok good to know and does she even breath? I thought.
"Ignore her." Runo said while turning to me. Then she asked, "Anyway did you battle when the Bakugan where here?" This got all attention turned to me.
I shrugged, "Not particularly, I preferred to watch others battle, but those who did see me battle, which was mainly when those Bakugan invaded, said I could have wiped the floor with the number one. Which was Dan when those Bakugan invaded. Those who knew Dan was my twin were constantly laughing when people said that. Very few knew that the number one was my twin brother."
"What attribute did you battle with, when you did battle?" asked Alice.
I grinned; time to throw them a curve ball. "I didn't battle with just one attribute I battled with two; Pyrus and Ventus. I had one guardian Bakugan of each attribute." Lets see if they saw that one coming.
"That's unusual." Said Alice. "Not many people battle with two attributes. It is a very unique battling style that very few utilize."
"Right." Runo nodded in agreement. "Like I battled with Haos mainly with my Blade Tigrerra." Julie cut in, "And I mainly battled with my precious Subterra Hammer Gorem. " Then she suddenly changed gears, "Now! Truth or Dare time! Runo start!"
Wow I thought amusedly, she's like my cousin, saying one thing then Squirrel! Off in a whole 'nother direction.
"Alright,' Runo started, 'Julie, Truth or Dare?"
"Dare!"
"Alright,' Runo stopped and thought for a moment, "Go make us some snacks!"
"But-" Julie tried to protest. "No buts!" Runo cut in cheekily. "Fine." Julie said reluctantly and left the room.
"Why did….? " I started to ask but trailed off. Runo grinned and said, "It gives us a few minutes of quiet and I also forgot to make snacks." Said Runo simply." And I also have the feeling knowing Julie that you are next." Runo said this last part with a smirk. Which earned Runo a, "Be nice." From Alice. Alice then looked at me and said, "Though she is correct you are most likely next."
I looked at the ground and muttered to it a sarcastic, "Lucky me." Alice gave me a soft smile, "You will be fine. Julie just gets over excited."
"I can tell." I said flatly.
"I'm baaccckkk!" Yelled Julie excitedly in a sing-song voice. She came in the room with a giant bowl full of popcorn and a tray with glasses filled with apple juice. She put the popcorn bowl in the middle of our little circle and handed all of us a glass of apple juice. Julie sat down and said, "Danny!" Why me? I thought with a mental groan. "Truth or Dare?" I thought for a moment I figured that truth would be safest. "Truth I guess….." I said hesitantly.
Julie thought for a moment. Then asked, "What were your Bakugan's names?"
I grinned. This was easy! "Ventus Tempest Chetor or Che and Pyrus Inferno Phoenix or Nix." Alice then commented with a thoughtful look, "I have never heard of those two Bakugan before."
I shrugged, " Like I said before, I didn't battle much. So I didn't know how common they were. And I was in a small town anyway. So we didn't see to many different types of Bakugan anyway."
"Considering how Alice didn't know about them then I would say that they are not very common." Said Runo.
"Alice knows that much about Bakugan?" I asked she must know a lot about Bakugan for a comment like that to be made.
"Yes!" Julie said impatiently. "Can we move on now? Danny it's your turn!"
"Julie patience!" Snapped Runo at Julie.
"Well Runo I-" I cut Julie off this time. "Alice! Truth or Dare?"
Alice thought for a moment then said, "Truth."
I knew exactly what I was going to ask. "Ya'll know what attributes I battle with and my Bakugan's names. And I know the same for Runo and Julie. But what about you Alice? What attribute did you battle with and what was the name of your Bakugan?" I truly wanted to know.
"Well that's a little hard to explain." Alice started slowly while exchanging a look with Runo and Julie. I raised an eyebrow. Why do I get the feeling I am missing something important? I asked myself. "You see I battled but I didn't."
"What's that mean?" I asked confusedly.
"I battled without my will or knowledge." Alice explained.
I rose my eyebrow again. "That makes even less sense than the other answers."
I shrugged and gestured around me, "By choice or not, I'm here all night."
Alice nodded, "Ok so it started like this…"
-One long story later that everyone who has seen the first season of Bakugan should know (but I will sum-up any way) -
I rubbed my temple, "Ok so let me get this straight, Dr. Michael Alice's grandfather built a Dimension Transporter that malfunctioned and infected the both of them with negative energy turning them into Hal-G and Masquerade without their knowledge and after Dan and Masquerade faced off Alice learned about her alter ego and ran off because she was afraid of the Brawlers reactions then later went after Dan in the Doom Dimension, as Masquerade, after she sensed that he was in trouble and after the battle Masquerade disappeared for good and Alpha Hydranoid became Alice's guardian Bakugan. Did I get that about right?" I asked after a quick sum-up of what the three girls just told me. I must admit that was so not the explanation I was expecting.
"It's a crude summery but that's basically it." Replied Runo.
I let out a breathy chuckle and looked over at Alice who was staring at the ground. I grinned. "Boy am I glad all of you is on our side now." Alice's head shot up and she locked eyes with me, "Hu?"
"What?" I asked Alice giving her my friendliest smile, "As far as I can tell the Brawlers would have never won the war against Naga without you and we all have skeletons in our closet. Some of them are just odder then others. I'm not going to judge you on who you used to be. Who we were doesn't matter it's who we are now that makes us who we are. And that's all that matters who we are now." I may have had one to many fortune cookies.
"Thanks Danny." Alice said with a grin.
"No problem Alice. Though I think I am starting to sound like a fortune cookie." I said with a light chuckle and wink at Alice.
She laughed and winked back, "Maybe one to many." We all burst out laughing.
"Ok,' started Julie, 'lets start again! Alice it's your turn!" Dang I thought I had hoped everyone had forgotten about the game.
"OK, Runo, Truth or Dare?" asked Alice.
"Dare."
-An undetermined amount of time later-
"Danny, Truth or Dare?" Julie asked me some time later.
"Truth." I responded. This night had not been as bad as I thought it would be. I still hated sleepovers, just not as much as I had before. Dan was still dead when I get home and- Hu ho. Julie was giving me this most gleeful grin. Like I had just walked into a trap. What had I just gotten myself into?
"Danny,' The way Julie said this made me think of a cat who had cornered a mouse. Dan I'm so going to kill you. 'Who do you like?" It's going to be slow and- say what? Then it hit me. "Like as in friends or as in something more?" I asked eyeing Julie wearily.
"As in boyfriend like." Dan. I hate you.
"And if I don't want to say?" I asked indifferently.
"Then,' Julie started in thought, ' you have to," She tapped her chin in thought. She suddenly snapped and looked at me with an evil grin on her face. Dan is so dead. She motioned me closer to her and whispered in my ear. I jerked quickly away at what she told me.
"Heck NO!" I exclaimed.
Julie smirked and crossed her arms. "It's either that or tell us who you like. And judging by your reaction we know them or have heard of them from either Dan or Shun." At this point Runo rolled her eyes and Alice was watching curiously. Glaring at the world in general and, where I imagined where Dan would be laughing his head off at, also mentally cursing him to heck and back, I locked my eyes on the wall and mumbled my crushes name.
"I can't hear you." Julie said in a sing-song voice.
I dropped my eyes to the ground and, while fighting a blush, said louder, "Shun." All movement and sound in the in the room stopped. I refused to look up.
"You have a crush on your brothers' best friend?" Runo asked slowly. Blushing I gave a sharp nod. I still didn't look up.
Suddenly Julie shrieked in laughter. This startled me and my head shot up. Julie was laughing her head off, Runo was also laughing pretty hard, and Alice was at least trying to suppress her laughter. Key word: trying. And failing miserably. I huffed at them and crossed my arms and said sarcastically, "Nice to know you think that's funny.
Alice stifled her laughter and cleared her thought. "Sorry Danny. But having a crush on your brothers best friend? The only thing worse is having a crush on your best friends younger sister."
"That's a guy problem." I exclaimed while throwing my hands up.
"Exactly." Runo said with a smirk.
Oh. Shun's my brothers best friend. I'm Dan's younger twin sister. Duh. I crossed my arms. Hold on wait wouldn't Shun having that problem imply…? "Shun doesn't like me like that." I only got laughter in response. I glared at the world again and said, "Oh hardy, har, har." They only laughed harder. I threw my arms up and looked up. "Why me?"
There was a knock at the door. It opened and we all looked at the door when it did. A nice looking lady stood in the door way. She looked similar to Runo but older and bigger." I heard a lot of commotion is everything all right?" She asked.
"Yes Mom/Mrs. Misaki." Coursed Runo, Alice, and Julie.
The woman now identified as Mrs. Misaki, Runo's mom, glanced at me. Then glanced back and then blinked. I mentally rolled my eyes. This always happens when people meet one twin then the other later. "For a moment I thought you were Dan." Every time.
I put on a small smile, "No ma'am, my names Danny. I'm Dan's twin sister."
"Oh now none of that. There's no reason to be so formal." She then changed thoughts. "Dan has never mentioned a sister."
"We just found out earlier today." Started Runo. " Do you need something mom?"
"I just came in here to tell you that it is late and that you girls should be getting to bed." Said Mrs. Misaki. "So goodnight girls. And nice meeting you Danny."
"Goodnight Mom/Mrs. Misaki." All of us girls coursed.
"Night everyone!" said Julie with a yawn. We all said our goodnights and shut off the lights. I stared up at the ceiling and listened to the others fall asleep. Today was an OK day but Dan was still dead for roping me into this. I wondered how the next few weeks would go. I wonder how many other friends Dan has and how bad I can confuse them? I do pretty much look like a female Dan after all.
Hope you enjoyed Chapter 5!
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~B.C.13