After using her buddy skill for the 12th time with fail, Yuna's fear finally engulfed her mind. Backing up slowly, she bumped into Tasuku in the process as he grabbed her shoulders, noticing that she is shaking quite a lot. Instead of calming down, her shoulders stiffened by the sudden gesture and turned around immediately, facing Tasuku. Grabbing onto his shirt, she slowly sank to her knees, dragging the boy down along with her.

"H-hey! Are you alright?" Tasuku looked at her with concern written on his face.

"I.... I can't take this anymore!" she whispered quietly, trying to keep her tears back.

Looking over at their buddies, he signal them to block the way in between the two and the tree, a sign that says she doesn't have to try anymore.

'I saw this coming... If only she had no fear with heights...' Psy mumbled. Tasuku shot a look to the dragon, telling him to zip it.

"Hey, Yuna. You don't have to force yourself to keep trying right now. You can always try this later on in the future, okay? Take it at your own pace." Yuna looked up at Tasuku, seeing his reassuring face as she wiped at her eyes and nodded.

1 Year later.. (LAST TIME SKIP I PROMISE LOL)

"Hey, did you hear about the one and only 'Child Prodigy' and 'Boy Genius'?"

"Who didn't? Oh, in fact here he comes!"

As a group of girls squealed at the one 'Prodigy', Yuna shook her head at the girls' reactions.

"Sorry I couldn't walk with you lately," Tasuku said.

"It's all right, mister genius, haha," Yuna joked.

"Hehe, Just call me what you always do."

"Oh all right. It seems like your voice gotten deeper."

Tasuku smirked at her. "Does that mean I'm finally becoming a man or what? Hahaha!" Giggling at his remark she rolled her eyes and answered back,

"Yeah, sureeee. Hehe."

"Want to hang out later afterschool?" Looking over at Tasuku, Yuna smiled.

"Are you not busy today?" Tasuku shook his head.

"Free day today." Yuna nodded in approval.

"Yeah, sure. Why not?"

"So, have you finally mastered your buddy skill?"

Yuna hesitated to answer this. "Well, yes and no..." Smiling a confused smile, he restated her answer into a question.

"Yes and no? What do you mean by that?" Yuna smiled shamefully.

"Errr.. I'm still scared of landing... So... I end up have to have Psy catching me..." Yuna brought up her hands to cover up her bright red face.

Tasuku laughed. "How about trying it now? I'll be next to you at all times, just in case."

Yuna removed her hands from her face and looked at Tasuku. "O-okay.."

Taking out their cards, Jack's card flew out of Tasuku's hand while Yuna threw Psy's card into the air, allowing the dragons to appear in the sky.

"Are you sure you're ready to use your buddy skill once more?"

Yuna nodded. "I think so."

'Buddy skill on!'

"Let's head to your house now."

"Mm."

Leaping on the tree branches and roofs, Yuna looked over to see Tasuku fly directly next to her, making sure she is alright. Tasuku looked over at Yuna and gave her a soft smile. "Are you holding up, alright?"

Yuna returned the smile to the boy. "So far I am. Oh! I can see my house from here."

"Yuna, move more to the left. You might slip off this roof if you continue your path right now!"

Nodding, she leaped over to the left, but then noticed a tree ahead. Slightly sliding off the roof and wall jumping off the side of the house, she closed her eyes as she calmed herself down and got ready to land and push herself off a window ledge, up into the sky as hard as possible to get back in the air. Pushing herself to reach Tasuku's height, her foot almost missed the ledge, making her jump a little too low to reach. Tasuku flew underneath her and caught her before anything happened and gave a slight chuckle.

"You sure have a lot more control with your skill now! Just practicing landing and you'll be safe to use your skill whenever." Smiling at Tasuku for helping her, she nodded.

"Sooner or later, I'll master it.."

Grinning a big grin Jack and Psy pointed over at the house signaling that they were getting close.

"Looks like we're here! Oh, and here's a tip., Try not to close your eyes when you're falling~! Hahahaha!" Tasuku said.

"Wow, nice tip Tasuku-kun. Haha," Yuna laughed, rolling her eyes over that little joke.

Once they entered the two story house, Tasuku noticed the house only had some furniture and all the photos were either turned or facedown. Psy immediately shrunk to size and walked right in while Jack hesitated to shrink until a few seconds later.

"You can head up stairs and into the second room on the right. Would you like anything to eat or drink?"

Looking over at Yuna, he plastered on a smile, having a thought of how lonely she was living by herself for so long before meeting Psy and himself. After all, he had the buddy police force taking care of him while her neighbors just help her when she needs it.

"Now I think about it, I haven't actually been inside your house before, huh?"

Yuna looked over at the stairs. "When you visit, it's always during or after work and you end up wanting to stand outside near the window to talk to me instead," Yuna stated as she grinned a huge grin. "

Right.... Heh.." Tasuku scratched at his cheek, embarrassed of the correct statement.

Walking into her slightly empty room, Tasuku looked up at the girl and stood up to help her.

"Here, let me help you."

Grabbing the tray in her hand, Tasuku headed to the short table in the middle of the room.

"Oh, thank you, but you didn't have to..."

"Nah. I'd help you anytime and with anything."

"Thanks, Tasuku-kun."

Sitting down onto the pillow cushions near the table, the two began to eat the taiyaki Yuna made the day before and enjoy the green tea she just finished brewing. "Hey.. Since you're turning 13 in a few days, do you plan to get a job? You can't always rely on the neighbors, you know?"

Yuna took a sip of her tea and slowly set it back down on her table. "O-oh, yeah I know that, but there isn't a job that would fit me.." Yuna hesitantly looked over at her bed where the dragons sat.

'Thing is I already have a job.....' she thought, smiling a guilty smile. Yuna thought that keeping her job away from everyone would keep away swarms of people and attention, so she never told anyone about her career. Not even Tasuku. Besides, she managed to get this job by coincidence and it wasn't her choice of career.

-Flashback-

"So where do you want to go today, Psy?" the aqua green haired girl asked.

"Hmmmm.. How about visiting Tasuku?"

Looking over at the dragon, she grinned at him. "You want to see Jack and his buddy, huh?"

"Maybe..."

As the two headed to the buddy police headquarter, a group of people were frantically looking for something. Ignoring the group, the two continued on their path.

"Look, over there!" Yuna heard one of them says.

"Hey! Excuse us, do you have a minute?!"

Yuna pretended that she didn't hear them call out to her and kept her straight face on as she walked.

'Hey are they calling you..?' Psy whispered.

'Just pretend that you didn't hear them...' Yuna sighed back.

"Excuse me, miss!" A man came running up to Yuna, trying to catch up to her.

'Oh god,' Yuna mumbled under her breath.

"Are you interested in taking a job?" the man asked her.

"... No...? I don't think so..." Yuna answered hesitantly.

"Well then. Do you like to sing?" Yuna looked at the man questionly.

'I thought I said no...?' she thought.

"You can say I do...?"

"Great! You are perfect for the job, then! You look like you could be a mini model and that voice of yours is guaranteed to drag in crowds of people!"

The girl looked at the man, still confused at what he said. "And what if I can't sing at all, what would you do?"

"Hmmm good question... People may be lying about that so we end up taking them in and asking them to sing something for us."

"And if they are faking their singing voices...?"

"Oh, don't worry about that! It's quite obvious when someone is faking it or not!~"

'I find that a lie, sir..' Yuna thought as she looked at the man weird.

"Come, come! Follow me and let's see if you CAN sing!" Dragging her away along with the group of people, Yuna's face had confusion and hesitation slapped on her face as she mouthed out the words 'Help me!' to her buddy, who just shrugged and followed.

-End of flashback-

"Hey, are you okay, Yuna?"

Shooting her gaze back to Tasuku, she managed to flash out a smile. "A-aahh! Yes! I'm quite alright! Aha-hahaha!"

'Ehhhhh.....' She mumbled at the end.

"Oh, okay.." Tasuku managed out. "So, what are you interested of and what do you have in mind for a job?"

Yuna looked out the window behind Tasuku. "Hmmm... I'm still not sure.... I love music and art... but it just doesn't hit me." Tasuku nodded at Yuna understandingly.

Just take your time to think, okay? You don't always have to take everything in such a quick pace." Yuna grinned at Tasuku as she said softly 'I know.' "You can always ask or talk to me about anything. I'll be gladly to help."

Walking to school by herself the next day, Yuna ran into three guys that she never saw before. Staying away as far as possible and ignoring them, one of them walked towards her and started to sweet talk her.

"Hey there, girlie. Looks like you're heading to school."

Avoiding eye contacts with the boy as his friends came over, Yuna decided to keep quiet and leave immediately.

'I sense trouble right now..." she thought.

As she walked away, one of the boys grabbed her arm. "Hey now! What's the hurry? Come have fun with us!"

"She looks like she's in middle school! That's a score for us!" the other boy exclaimed.

"Excuse me, but I have to get to school right now.." Yuna said between grinded teeth.

"No can do girl~!"

Psy appeared out of his card from Yuna's pocket. "You three! Get your mucky hands off my buddy!"

"As if! It's not like buddy monsters can do anything when we aren't buddyfighting anyways."

Hesitantly finding a way to help the poor girl, he decided to fly in and get the girl out, but he was scared to hurt her in the process. As Yuna struggle to get the boys' grip off her, they started pulling her closer to an alley.

"Get away from her, right now," a voice called out in a threatening tone. Tasuku was walking towards them as he had a cold glare aimed at the three.

'It's the buddy police kid... what should we do..?' Yuna heard them whisper.

Tasuku already has his buddy skill on and immediately ordered Jack to grab the girl and fly off. Tasuku caught up with the two a minute later after the save.

"Jack you may let her go now."

"Wait. What? Wait..WAIT W-WW-WAIT NOT YET!I'M NOT READY TO BE DROPPED!"

Jack opened his mouth to let go of Yuna.

"I SAID WAITT!" Yuna yelled, pushing down her skirt to prevent it from showing any more of her as Tasuku caught up to the falling girl to catch her.

"Are you alright?" Yuna looked at Tasuku in surprise.

"Umm... Y-yes..? Tas-" Tasuku cut her off as his grip tightened on her.

"O-ow! That hurts..."

Tasuku finally snapped out of his anger and realized that he was hurting her as he loosened his grip. "S-sorry, Yuna.."

From a near distance, a conversation between the dragons could be heard slightly.

'Hey, Jack..'

The green dragon turned to face the white dragon. 'What is it, Psy?'

Psy hesitated a bit. 'Do you think it was shameful of me.... not being able to do anything to help her back there..?'

Jack remained silent.

'No, it isn't shameful.. I wouldn't be able to do anything back there if I was alone with her too, actually. I'd feel under pressure and worry about how to get her out of there without getting her hurt. That's what you felt back there right?' Jack asked.

Psy nodded slowly.

"Yuna, from now on, I'll be walking you to school and back home, okay?"

Yuna stared at Tasuku. "O-okay... It'll make me feel safer, alright..."

"If I came any later than I did, you might've been hurt pretty badly.."

"Tasuku-kun, it's alright now.. Nothing's happened to me and that's that.. Come on we need to get to class. They held us back for too long already."

"Okay class, it's almost the end of the period, so you may work on your classwork or it'll be homework tonight."

Tasuku's communicator buzzed as a voice connected on the other side.

'T-as.. Tasuku. A buddy rare card, Drum Bunker Dragon, has just appeared at the Aibo Academy's elementary area. Will you go see who owns it?'

'Mhm.'

Looking over at Yuna, he decided that she should accompany him over to the elementary building.

"Sensei," Tasuku said, raising his hand up, "May I leave class early today? I just... got an important job....."

The teacher looked over at Tasuku and nodded an approval. As he stood up, Tasuku grabbed Yuna's hand and dragged her off her seat.

"A-ah!"

"May I bring Yuna along with me as well?" Raising his eyebrow, he opened his mouth to ask something.

"The police force asked me to bring her with me." Tasuku confirmed.

"Alright, then. You both may go early."

As the two bowed and gathered their belongings, Tasuku dragged the girl out of the classroom as she got some 'Wow, you're a lucky girl' looks from the others.

Wrapping her arms tight around Jack's neck, she looked all around her and wondered why she was dragged along.

"Tasuku... where are we going..?"

Tasuku looked over at her and smiled. "Hey! Looks like you're finally getting use to the sky, Yun-chan~!"

Frowning playfully, Yuna replied back, "Yun-chan...? Where did you get that? Haha. And don't go changing the topic now!"

Tasuku's laugh rang around the small group in the air. "Hahaha! Okay, okay! We're going to the elementary side of Aibo Academy. I need to get a core deck to someone there since a buddy rare card was just pulled out and I wanted you to come with me if you were wondering. In fact, there they are."

Jack landed near the Red Dragon as it looked over and mumble, 'so that's Jack Knife Dragon..'

"Whoaaa....." A young boy with red and black hair said.

"Sorry to just drop in on you, but I'm on official business. You do know who I am, right?"

"Ryuenji Tasuku...!" the blond haired boy with black strips exclaimed.

"It's Tasuku! And Jack's here as well!" the elementary students cried.

"I should've seen this coming..."

After all the explaining and interruptions Tasuku had, Mikado Gao introduced himself and challenged Tasuku to a buddyfight.

"Hold it, boys! Class is still in session! Mister Ryuenji, I believe you have school as well as you do too, Suzuki?"

Awkwardly climbing off Jack, she bowed down to Nitsuke Nisei. "Yes we do..."

"In fact, we might be late for our next class if we don't leave now. Sorry, Mikado-kun, but maybe later."

"Tasuku-kun, are you accepting his challenge?" Yuna asked curiously as the two got nearer to her house.

"Sure, why not. I feel like having an actual challenge instead of fighting criminals all the time, you know?"

"I understand. Just.... Don't get too full of yourself. The results are always unknown. If you know what I mean.." Yuna warned.

"Your warnings usually come true, but you're thinking that I might lose?" Tasuku asked, an amused look crossed his face.

Yuna nodded.

"Alright then. I'll trust you and try my best not to. Are you going to come to the match?" Yuna smiled apologetically.

"I'm busy today, actually.."

Tasuku looked over at her, curious of what she was going to do for the day. "Really? Well, that's the first..." Giving a nod to the boy, she apologized to Tasuku.

"Call and tell me about the match later then! I wish I could stay... but I can't.."

Tasuku gave her a bright smile, showing her that he understood. "I'll call you later once the match ends, alright?"

Yuna stood in front of her front yard and waved. "Yeah, sure! Good luck!"

After Tasuku, left she ran into the house to drop off her things and left with Psy.

'Buddy skill on!'

A pair of loose light green goggles appeared around her neck. "Let's head to the studio now. The coast is all clear."