Chapter 5
Tasuku looked around the card office to find Stella and Takihara after he decided to take his little lunch break.
"Hey there, Tasuku. Back already?" Takihara called.
"Still nothing from Yuna?" the boy asked, waving a bit.
The man shook his head and looked over to the blonde girl entering the room.
"Hello again, Tasuku. Looks like none of us were successful once again?" Stella asked.
Tasuku sighed and earned a pat on the back by Takihara.
"That's right," the man answered for him.
"Well, well, well! Look who we have here!" a male voice called.
Everyone turned around and fixed their attention to the entrance to look at the two detectives entering with a smirk plastered on their faces.
'Mr. Seichii..' Stella muttered.
"Once again, you still visit these two when you feel like it even though you've been relieved from your position?" Nobari Seichii asked.
"You know you shouldn't be pulling any funny stunts. Unless…. You're actually here for another reason like to cry about your buddy, Jack? Oh how heartbreaking! Wahhh!" Shido Suoroku taunted.
"Like hell…" Tasuku said quietly.
The boy walked out of the office in rage and waited for Takihara to follow him after the detectives left. Right on cue, the man came outside of the building and waited for the boy to speak up.
"Have you heard about the rumor of the Grim Reaper challenging fighters and then taking their buddies and core decks away after a one sided battle?" Tasuku began. "Why haven't the police officers taken actions yet?"
Takihara remained quiet and then shook his head disappointedly.
"Look, Tasuku, I really want to do something about this too. Sadly, I was told to stay put."
The boy glared at the man and stalked off in the direction of the card shop.
"Yuna, I'm going to head out for a bit ok?" Psy asked his buddy.
"It's getting late though?"
"I need to get something quickly over at Gao's house," the dragon lied.
"Sure then, I guess," the girl replied.
The dragon walked over the door and turned around to face Yuna once more.
"Whatever you do, don't listen to that boy, Kyoya, okay?" the dragon warned.
"Uhhh… sure… I don't even like him anyways," the girl replies casually, shrugging at her own answer.
'She's totally laid-back…' Psy muttered.
The girl looked at her proclaimed buddy curiously and blinked at him, wondering what he just said under his breath.
"Nothing," the dragon said, noticing her expression and cutting Yuna's thoughts short.
"Okay then…"
And with that, the white armor dragon grabbed her dirty clothes near the doorway and left the room without another word. Yuna stared at the door and sighed, shaking her head to stop her thoughts from flowing once again.
'I will never understand these guys….' the girl thought, pulling at her skirt.
'That uniform pisses the hell out of me…' Psy thought, remembering the black, purple, and gold clothes Yuna was given to wear. 'It's not like she'll be a member of the Disaster Force anyways..'
Kyoya looked over his shoulder to see the dragon walk out of the hall and to the exit.
"And where do you think you're going?" the boy asked.
"None of your business."
The boy shrugged and turned back to his organ, sitting in a relaxed manner and tossing a yellow deck case with a red core in the center up and down.
'If I'm not mistaken, that must be Tasuku's deck.'
"So, what do you think of my home? I never got to ask you that," Kyoya asked, smirking to himself.
"How can you call this base your home? It gives me the creeps," the dragon responded, grabbing an empty bag.
"Really? I think the aura in this place is just perfect! Even the looks of it make it perfect."
'Crazy…'
Psy left the hideout without another word and immediately headed over to Gao's house. Knowing the boy, he was probably at home from school, fighting over food with his buddy Drum Bunker Dragon.
Ding dong.
The dragon rang the young boy's doorbell and waited for an answer, ringing it again after a minute passed. Quick heavy footsteps could be heard from the other side of the door as Psy waited impatiently for the owner to answer.
"Uh yeah?" Gao said, opening the door. "Ah! Psy! Err… What's with the bag?"
The dragon lifted up his arm and dropped it back to his side lazily.
"Hi. Drop something in here, please, like food. I'll explain later."
"Where is Yuna-senpai?!" Gao asked frantically looking around.
"About that….. Let's go find Tasuku first," the dragon said, taking out Yuna's clothes and shoving it into Gao's arms. "Also, clean this for me please?"
The boy nodded and headed back inside his house quickly to tell his mom where he was going, dropped the girl's clothes into his dirty laundry basket, and grabbed some food, or to be exact his lunch, and a water bottle. Gao then headed back out with Drum following him this time and dropped the contents into the empty bag. Gao then signaled the white dragon to follow him before he closed the door behind him, not knowing what Psy wanted.
"So you're going to tell us the whole story correct?" Gao asked, not bothering to catch up with the dragon.
'Not so loud, Gao,' Psy told the boy. 'Yes, I'm going to tell you what's up, but try not to get me caught or I'll get punished..'
"Sorry…"
"So, do you know where Tasuku is?" the dragon asked without looking back.
Gao nervously looked around and then decided to glance back at the dragon's back.
'About that…. Tasuku-senpai has been acting strange lately and he won't tell me what's wrong,' the boy muttered worriedly. 'Well, except the disappearance of Yuna-senpai.. I'm worried about that too..'
'It must be problems in the Buddy Police office.. Damn it Kyoya,' Psy thought, recalling a core deck case similar to Tasuku's.
"You know anything about Kiri?" the boy asked out of nowhere.
"Didn't he accept a dark core case?" the red dragon responded.
"Yeah… I wonder what he's up to now.."
'Looks like I didn't need to respond to that question, thank god,' the white dragon thought.
"It'll be fine, Gao. We'll snap him out of it somehow," Psy reassured the boy.
"Ah well, let's head over to Castle first and look around there. Tasuku-senpai might be patrolling there right at the moment," Gao suggested.
'Buddy skill, on!'
A neon yellow-green hover board that looked like the sun appeared from underneath Gao's feet, lifting him off the ground ever so slightly. Drum suddenly grew a pair of maroon ripped up dragon wings from his buddy skill.
"Let's roll!" Drum exclaimed, flying into the sky.
"Uh, right, yeah," Psy said, following the red dragon on foot for a little while longer.
Gao followed his buddy up into the air and soared through the sky quickly to start looking for the young policeman.
It took a while to get to the card shop, but the group of three finally made to their destination and began looking around, Psy arriving at least 3 minutes late. A lock of blue hair suddenly caught the corner Gao's eyes, making him react quickly.
"Tasuku-senpai!" the boy called out, turning around and running towards the officer.
'Hm?' Tasuku hummed to himself.
Tasuku turned around curiously and caught the sight of Gao running over to him waving and then the two dragons behind him.
"Gao? Drum?" the boy called back. "And Psy?"
Psy looked away awkwardly and fluffed his wings uncomfortably, standing a few feet away from everyone.
"Psy! Where were you and where's Yuna?"
'Shhhhhhhh….!' Psy hushed. 'Come with me and I'll tell you everything.'
The dragon turned around and began stalking off to a vacant dark place where he knew or just thought Kyoya wouldn't be able to track them. Tasuku looked at Gao confusedly and earned a shrug from the boy.
"I don't know what's wrong either," Gao told the older teen.
"I see…"
"So are we going or not?" Psy asked impatiently, looking over his shoulder a bit, yet he was still walking.
"We're coming, Psy. Be patient," Tasuku grumbled.
The boys and Drum began to follow Psy and held up small conversations between each other as they strolled over to the area.
'What's with him today? He comes back and asks things from us,' Gao said.
'I don't think he's just asking for no reason. Besides, he does seem to be in a hurry,' Tasuku whispered back.
'Gao, I'm hungry…' Drum complained.
'You just ate!' the boy replied.
Still within a certain distant from each other, the group looked around their surroundings before entering the area and sitting down in a circle.
'Okay, we need to whisper at this point…' Psy told the boys. 'I have a feeling he's watching…'
'Alright then… So what's up?' Tasuku whispered back.
'Yuna is safe, so don't worry too much about it. I know about her whereabouts because I've been with her ever since I was notified.'
'So that's why you were gone for a while..' Drum chimed in.
'We check up with Yuna's house everyday to see if she's at home and found a note underneath the front door afterschool just this afternoon,' Gao told the dragon.
'Oh. That note. The note was left by Kyoya before we left,' the dragon said.
'Kyoya is with Yuna? Do you know what exactly happen?' Tasuku asked, keeping calm.
'Not at all, but I know he's trying to get her to use the dark core deck case.'
"YOU'R-"
Tasuku immediately covered up the young boy's mouth, cutting him off, and finished his sentence for him.
'You're kidding, right? She might get hurt if she ends up accepting it,' the boy said. 'But I doubt she will.'
'What about the Buddy Police?' Gao asked, pulling Tasuku's hand off his face.
'Yeah, you guys haven't been doing anything,' Drum said.
'….. They won't be helping anyone for a while…'
Psy released his breath once Tasuku answered Gao's innocent question.
'I'm sure Kyoya will allow Yuna go back to school tomorrow, but he'll have the other officers keep watch on her and not allow her contact anyone,' Psy whispers.
'I understand,' Tasuku said.
'Who are the other officers?' the red dragon asked.
'I'm not so sure actually… I tend to breeze pass them to check on Yuna and keep her out of trouble. Oh and she has amnesia unfortunately.. I must inform you both with that.'
'Amnesia?! …. What's amnesia?' Gao whispered.
The group smiled uncomfortably at the boy and explained amnesia to him as they scratched their heads.
'Let's just say brain damage then.. She's lost her memory and it's unknown to us how she lost it. Kyoya said she fainted in front of his "house", but she wasn't even near his area when she was visiting the Police Headquarters,' Psy answered.
'Apparently, she's never made it to the card office…' Tasuku said.
'I see… Well, as much as I want to help her right now, this is the most I can do…' Psy replied.
'You're powerless against that Kyoya guy, huh?' Gao asked.
'Obviously, kid.'
'Wait, a question,' Tasuku interrupted. 'If Yuna has amnesia, then how does she act like? Innocent? Frighten?'
Psy thought for a moment as the tiny ensemble stared at his silhouette intently.
'She's certainly gotten meaner and cold… Also very sarcastic and distant. The exact opposite of what you said,' the dragon listed. 'I've never seen her like this and I was thinking maybe it's her past self?'
Tasuku nodded and thought a little.
'You're probably correct, Psy… It must be 9 year old Yuna again…' the boy said.
'What?' Drum said confusedly. 'I don't get it.'
'I only know that because when I met her, she refused to talk to me and shot cold glares at me when she had the chance to,' Tasuku explained. 'She would also answer me in a very sassy and sarcastic way…'
'And you happened to meet her at that age,' Gao added.
'Yeah, pretty much. This is going to be problematic…' the officer said.
'How so?' Drum asked.
'Has she said anything harsh to you, Psy?'
'A few sassy and sarcastic remarks,' the dragon answered. 'Gotten very impatient as well and she keeps sending me death glares….'
The dragon and Tasuku shuddered at the thought.
'Okay, that won't be too much of a problem for you and I since it's only a few bad remarks,' Tasuku began. 'Keep talking and bothering her until she warms up to you.'
'Is that what you did when you first met? Bother her?' the dragon asked in an uninterested way.
'Not exactly… She almost fell off the escalator and I helped her before she did. After that, I sort of kept apologizing to her… Okay, maybe I did, but I had no choice okay? She was a pretty interesting person too, so that certainly didn't help,' the boy retold.
'I understand. I was interested in her myself when you gave her a core deck case and the dragon world deck,' Psy said.
'So that's how she got her deck!' Drum exclaimed quietly, making Psy and Tasuku release a sigh.
'Do you think we can make contact with her soon?' Gao asked out of nowhere.
'Maybe just as long-'
'We get her away from the people watching her, right?' Drum asked, cutting the dragon off.
'Yes..'
'Not going to be easy, but we'll try,' Tasuku said.
The white dragon nodded in response.
'Alright, then. Nearly everything has been revealed. Now let's get out and disband before we get discovered… I also need to return back to Yuna's side..' Psy said, leaving first. 'Stay there until a good minute is up.'
The group obeyed and waited for a minute to pass by, leaving right after.
'I think I forgot to- Right…. The location of their base… Eh… They'll find out somehow, besides we're being watched. First priority, getting Yuna's second card deck, the communicator earpiece, hair brush probably, and her spare clothes. Oh, and also her school uniform..'
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