"It's..."

As the girl was about to say her new buddy's name, a card flew out of her bag and flashed a yellow glow similar to Jackknife's. A large, white armored, human-like dragon with feathery wings appeared in the sky. When the wind finally died down, Yuna looked at the monster in shock as it stared back at her.

"Young girl..." it finally said in a harsh voice. Yuna slowly stood up and flinched when it referred to her.

"..... Please allow me to be your buddy!"

".....eh?" Tasuku and Yuna said, dumbfounded.

"PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" he whined in a high pitched voice, tears starting to prick at the side of his eyes.

"Is he really crying?!" Tasuku exclaimed in surprise. As the kids started to panic at the situation, Yuna finally answered him, "Ahhhhh...! Okay, okay! Just, please don't actually start crying!"

"Well, that was easy," the dragon answered in a normal tone.

"...? Eh?" the two said once more.

"Hahahaha! You see, I wasn't expecting you to say yes! Oh, and I was just messing with you. Looks like we're buddies from now on then!" Yuna looked at the excited monster, flying in circles around their heads and just laughed.

"What do they call you over in your world?" The monster stopped and landed in front of the students.

"I'm Psychic Knife Dragon," he said as he shrank into his other form.

"Oh, well, may I just call you Psy?" The dragon grinned. "Sure, why not? And you are?"

"Ah, right. I'm Suzuki Yuna. Just Yuna is fine."

"Yuna, sounds about right. And who's that?" Psy asked, pointing at Tasuku.

"Ummm..." Yuna nudged Tasuku slightly.

"Oh, uh, I'm Ryuenji Tasuku. Nice to meet you..."

The now small dragon nodded his head at Tasuku. "Same goes to you, kid." Sparks could be seen flying between the boy and the monster as they stared at each other and smiled cold smiles.

"Since you're friends with my buddy, make one wrong move and you'll get cut."

A vein could be seen popping out of Tasuku's head. "And since your buddies with my friend now, if anything happens to her your toast."

"Umm, guys I thought we were headed to my house? Please don't threaten each other.." Yuna said hands up between the two.

Finally reaching the front of Yuna's house, Tasuku stared at the building with wide eyes and turned to look at Yuna.

"You live here?" he asked shocked at how big the house was for the little girl.

"Apparently, yes. Is it that surprising?" Yuna asked nonchalantly. The boy nodded in shock. Yuna just shrugged it off and unlocked the door.

"Thanks for walking me home Tasuku-kun. Psy you should thank him too."

"Oh it's nothing! You're welcome, though," Tasuku said glaring at the dragon that was ignoring him. Sighing, the girl turned to her new buddy and said, "If you want to be my buddy, at least get along with Tasuku-kun." Groaning in protest, he complied with his buddy and mumbled out a low 'yea right, thanks.'

"See you tomorrow at school then, Yuna. Bye!" Tasuku gave a small wave and headed back the way they came from.

"..... You just had to take his side, didn't you?"

"Well, you didn't have to hate him so much... what did he do to you?"

"....." Yuna smiled and shook her head.

"Yeah, I thought so.."

"Hmph. I still don't like that Tasuku kid." As the dragon turned back into a card, Yuna let out a heavy sigh.

"You'll like him soon enough..."

"That monster seems troublesome.." Tasuku pouted as he flew with Jack back to headquarter.

"But, I feel like I can trust him with her." Jack grunted, "He did threaten you about doing something stupid to her...."

Tasuku laughed, "Hopefully he doesn't mean it."

"Rightttt.... Anyways, let's get back quickly and start our work." Jack looked over at Tasuku.

"Don't forget, you also have homework to finish." The blunette frowned a bit.

"I know that! I'll do it when we finish whatever the commander wants us to do."

Jacked sigh and looked straight ahead."Tasuku, slow down. Everyone believes you should take care of you own business first before you start these work as a buddy police. Besides, you're a kid! Only 10 years old, so you need to relax and go at your own pace, okay? " Sad to hear Jack lecture him like the others, he finally agreed with him and decided to do his own business first.

"Fine.." he grunted.

"Since you now have a deck now, I'll show you how to buddyfight."

Yuna nodded and just sat there and listened to what Tasuku had to say.

"You're allowed to have 4 of each card not including your buddy's card. You also have one flag card that represents the world you are playing for. Always shuffle your deck before play and you may also shuffle the challenger's deck as well. When you're ready, you'll both say 'raise the flag'. Your buddy will be on hold and stands near you. Yuna took in everything Tasuku explained even though she never has any intentions to actually have a buddyfight. 'It won't hurt to try, right..?' she thought.

"Hey, Tasuku-kun?"

"Hm?" Tasuku didn't even bother raising his head to look at her instead focusing on the cards in his hands.

"Want to try buddyfighting each other someday?"

Looking up at the girl in front of him, a wide smile plastered onto his face in an instant. "How about now?"

Yuna looked at him, surprise to hear his response immediately. "Well, why not?" she answered, grinning back.

"Looks like you're going to lose, kid! She's on my side now!"

Tasuku smirked at the dragon and coolly responded back. "You wish she picks whoever side she's on, right?"

As Yuna looked at the two, she started getting bad feelings about the conversation. "Ummmm, yes I guess.. And I don't think we'll win that easily Psy, after all I just started..." The dragon looked over at the girl.

"Oh great. Well, if we win then you must be an instant pro." Yuna sighed and looked at Tasuku who nodded his head in agreement with a serious face on.

"Okay, Yuna, are you ready?"

"Mm.." The girl glanced over at her buddy nervously, mumbling to herself 'this wasn't a good idea at all.'

"Assemble dragon army! Dragonic Force, luminize!"

Yuna sighed, yelling out, "I SORT OF REGRET THIS, TASUKU-KUN!" Tasuku let out his usual chuckle when they messed around.

"No turning back now!"

"Ohhhh...! Barrier dragons come forth! Dragon Knights, luminize!"

"Raise the flag!" The two said as both dragons rose out their flags.

"I fight for dragon world!" Tasuku exclaimed.

"I as well. Ryuenji-kun you go first."

Tasuku gave her a confused smile. "Are you going back to calling me Ryuenji-kun all of a sudden? Heh, alright. Charge and draw! I call Latale Shield Dragon to the center!" he called as the dragon world circle appeared in the center. "Attack Yuna!"

"Oh great." Yuna mumbled, really regretting this as she took position for a block. Losing 2 damage from the dragon, an 'end of move' was heard over on Tasuku's side. As her core gadget was to be heard 'your move,' she sighed, "looks like it's my turn."

"Draw. Charge and draw! I call Blade Wing Dragon to the left, Grave Horn Dragon to the center, and Thousand Rapier Dragon to my right! Thousand Rapier, attack Latale Shield. Blade Wing and Grave Horn, perform a link attack on Tasuku-kun!"

"Oh, now you call me Tasuku-kun again?" he said, smirking as he readied for the link attack. Smiling back at him with confidence, all of her regrets melted away.

As one of the dragon world flag shattered into a bunch of cards, the students smiled at each other after their very first match with each other.

"Game over! Winner is, Ryuenji Tasuku!"

Yuna walked over to Tasuku as Jackknife Dragon returned into his card form.

"As expected! Of course you'd be the winner!" Yuna exclaimed.

"You know, you did come pretty close to beating me, Yuna. On your first time too! That's actually impressive!"

Psychic Knife Dragon stared at the two and mumbled a muffled 'you're not half bad, kid.' causing Tasuku to look at the dragon and smirk.

"You'll make a fine buddy for her. Do take good care of her. Let's get you back home now, okay?"

As the dragon looked away, he puffed out his cheeks and returned into his card form. Laughing at the scene, Yuna followed Tasuku out of the police headquarter.

"Yeah, let's get back. "

Upon reaching her doorsteps once again, he still couldn't believe that she lived by herself in a quite large two story house.

"Would you like to come in for a bit or are you busy today also?" Yuna asked, tilting her head a bit. Looking at her surprised at her invitation, he manage to say, "Oh, I would like too, but I am quite busy today." Yuna gave him her usual warm smile she always gave him.

"Well, that's too bad. You can visit anytime and stay over if you ever want! I'll be glad to accept you as a guest. Also, thanks for teaching me how to buddyfight today. I didn't really expect myself to actually try out buddyfighting until you came along, haha." Yuna let out a soft laugh as Tasuku smiled nervously as he blushed slightly.

"You're welcome! I thought maybe if I taught you how, we could buddyfight anytime and all. Thanks for the invitation. I'll be sure to visit whenever and not just walk you home." Yuna waved to Tasuku as he left her front yard.

"So, what do you think of her now, Tasuku?"

"Zip it, Jack. I know what you are thinking of." Tasuku gave a small smile to himself, looking up into the sky as he flew next to Jack back to headquarter.

"I'm still not sure, really. Just probably a maybe."

"Really now? It sure doesn't seem like a maybe to me, Tasuku. Just tell me the truth! You know you want to~!" Tasuku chuckled at this.

"Stop it, Jack! You'll know if I do or not sooner or later. Even I'm not sure yet."

"Hey, Yuna?"

"Hm?"

"What do you think of that kid? What was his name again... Oh yes! Tasuku."

Yuna looked at the dragon's card in confusion, blushing a bit. "What do you mean by that?" The dragon sighed trying to think of a way to make it not seem too obvious to the oblivious girl.

"Well, do you feel funny inside when you're with him or talking to him? Anything like that?"

Yuna thought for a moment at the question the dragon asked her. "Well, No, I don't think so?"

"Oh for the love of the dragon world! How are you so unsure?"

As the card flew out or her hand and summoned a Mini Psy, yuna looked at the dragon in surprise. The dragon started pacing around in her room starting off slow and then slightly speeding up his pace.

"Yuna, it just seems that you act differently around others compared to him. Like you guys are friends, right?" Yuna nodded in confusion.

'What is he getting at...? Does he mean that?' she thought to herself.

"It's just that you guys seem more than just friends. Like, really close friends or even closer than that." The dragon looked over at Yuna as she sat there and processed what the dragon was saying.

"I personally just think that we are really close, like siblings... we both relate somehow with our past, so that's one way of connecting us."

The dragon mentally facepalmed himself. "Yuna, I think it's more than that really." The girl knew what the dragon was trying to say, but she was just avoiding it.

"Hm."

'Maybe. Just maybe,' the two students thought.