Cherry blossom's fell from the nearby trees in the cold atmosphere. It was the cold month of March in Kyoto as a 10 year old girl sat on her table. She carefully cut off a part of the model kit she was working on. She could hear the sound of her brother happily singing outside, which she did not mind.

A woman entered the room and sighed as she looked at the young girl. The young girl felt her presence but continued on with her business. The woman got concerned and sat next to the girl.

"Gaige, you're not gonna say goodbye to your family?" The woman asked.

"I already said goodbye a while ago," The young Gaige said, "Plus I'm busy."

"Are you not gonna miss them?"

Gaige sighed and turned to the woman and said ,"Yes, Aunt Sakura, I'll miss them. But if I chose not to go see them go off, I'd miss them even more if I did."

Gaige got up and walked to the nearby window. There she saw a black car that had her family. Her eye's were focused on the windows, where she saw her mother looking at her. Her mother began to become teary eyed as she continued to look at Gaige. The young girl however, stood there emotionless as the car drove away.

The typical morning started as a tired Gaige got up from her bed. The annoying buzzing of her alarm clock quickly got her up from her slumber. She furiously pressed the snooze button and yawned. She took a quick shower and put on her regular clothing, the typical grey sleeveless hoodie, red undershirt and skirt that had two gear symbols on it, a utility belt, black and white pants and blue sneakers. As she was about to head downstairs for breakfast, she stopped on her tracks when she saw Treble on his doorway with displeased look.

"Sis, why'd you bring Japan home?" Treble asked.

"That sounded racist," Gaige answered, "Considering that you're also Japanese, not just me dude."

"My point is, why in Ragga_Muffin's name are you still wearing those old mechanic apparels?!" Treble exclaimed in shock.

"BAKA! These clothes serve as a memento of Japan! Plus I got them on sale!"

"...You got them from a department store."

"STILL!"

As the two siblings were arguing, Moxi, their mother, was passing by carrying a bag and noticed her two kids. She smiled as she approached two. She then noticed what Gaige was wearing and looked at her in horror.

"Good heavens Cupcake what are you wearing?!" Moxi exclaimed.

"MOM!" Gaige shouted in embarrassment.

"Quickly Treble! Grab her and take her to my changing room!" Moxi commanded, "She needs a makeover!"

"Wait,wha-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

Gaige was lifted into a fireman's carry by Treble and dragged her to Moxi's changing room. She began to struggle out but with no avail. Gaige soon gave up and went with it.

Inside the room, Treble and Moxi sat on two chairs facing a room divider where Gaige was changing. She kept on making a few clothing combinations, but was disapproved by her brother and mother. Finally, Treble and Moxi nodded in agreement when Gaige came out wearing a dark gray long sleeve jacket, her plain red shirt that had a cartoonish skull on the center, red skirt, black and white striped pants and blue sneakers.

"Perfect!" Treble and Moxi exclaimed at the same time.

"...I'm wearing the same damn thing except only I'm wearing a jacket instead of my armless hoodie." Gaige facepalmed.

"Oh Gaige don't be so modest," Moxi chuckled, "That hoodie's already tattered and old."

"Plus it gives you an awesome character design!"

Moxi turned to Treble and raised a brow, questioning her son on what he just said. Gaige however, just stood there annoyed at the two. She could already tell her day's gonna be hell.

"Gaige you look good with that jacket!"

"You too Rarity?!" Gaige replied to Rarity.

It was now lunch time in Canterlot High and Gaige joined the girls once more. When Gaige entered the school, she was bombarded by compliments from various students that she looked good with the jacket her mother gave. Even with the compliments, she did not like the jacket for she did not like the typical teenager look and wanted her old steampunk type look.

"I mean what's so cool about my appearance?!" Gaige questioned the girls.

The girls looked at each other, followed by an awkward silence, a couple of "Ehhh's", and a few awkward coughs. Gaige let out an annoyed expression and sat down. The usual business happened in the table as Gaige sat there and just stared at Sunset, again (Which she decided to ignore).

"So do you guys ever do anything except gossip and talk about your boyfriends?" Gaige said as she leaned to Rarity.

"Errrr... Nope," Rarity said.

"I feel so out of place." Gaige groaned as she slammed her face on the table.

Rainbow Dash soon noticed Gaige's statement and looked at her. She began to smile deviously as she coughed and said, "Maybe you should get a boyfriend Gaige."

"WHAAAAAAT?!" Gaige sprung up with a blushed face.

The other girls (except Fluttershy, who was busy reading a biology book) began to join in and also wore devious smiles as Gaige began to sweat.

"And oddly, you've been talking alot about Flash lately and asking questions about him," Sunset snickered, "Oooooh, crush alert."

"I DO NOT LIKE THAT STUPID BAKA!" Gaige said as she violently blushed, "Watashi wa kare ga kirai!"

"Then why are you red as a tomato dear?" Rarity added.

"GAH!"

Gaige furiously stood up, grabbed her tray and walked away from the table. She headed for the guys table, until she realized how rowdy they were and went to a different direction. She saw a table in the distance and decided to sit there instead. As she got near, the unexpected happened and Flash sat there first.

"To hell with it." Gaige surrendered as she headed for Flash's table.

As Flash was about to eat, he was soon disturbed when Gaige slammed her tray on the table and ate her lunch. Flash looked up to Gaige and noticed that she was blushing red as a tomato.

"Uh-"

"Not a damn word Brad." Gaige threatened.

"Okay."

There was silence between the two as they quietly ate their lunch. Gaige began to question on why she was sitting with Flash and began to blush violently. She could not take the awkwardness any longer and decided to speak up, but was soon interrupted when she saw the two guys she saw yesterday that ask Flash for money.

"Yo, Flash." One of them greeted. He had long moderate opal hair, pale yellow skin and opal eyes. He was wearing an orange shirt and blue denims and named Brawly Beats.

"What's up Brawly?" Flash said with a smile.

"Who's this?" Brawly questioned.

"My friend Gaige."

"Friend?" Brawly raised a brow and glared at Gaige, who had her eyes turned away from them.

"So Flash, could you lend me some money?" The other guy said, who's name was Ringo. He had grayish violet skin, black hair that had highlights and was wearing sunglasses, which hid his eyes. He was wearing a red shirt complete with an opal necktie and white vest and black skinny jeans.

"Again?" Flash raised a brow.

Gaige's attention was caught when she heard what they were conversing about. She stopped eating and began to eavesdrop on the boys.

"I screwed up and my parents won't give me money." Ringo added.

Flash glared at Ringo for a while as the later got uncomfortable from the stare. Gaige however was still eavesdropping and pretending to not listen to them.

"Come on, we're FRIENDS right?" Ringo said.

Upon hearing the word friend, Flash smiled and took out his wallet. He took out 50 dollars and gave it to Ringo. Gaige facepalmed at the sight of stupidity.

"This guy's an idiot." She thought.

Ringo and Brawly bid their farewells and started to walk away. The two then noticed Gaige and glared at her for a long time. Gaige ignored this and continued eating. The silence continued as soon as the two left. Flash turned his attention to Gaige and smiled.

"So, what's it like?" Flash asked her.

"Huh?"

Suddenly, Flash slammed his fist on the table and stood up, startling Gaige.

"DON'T PLAY DUMB!" Flash shouted at Gaige, earning the attention of the people around them including Gaige's friends, "I KNOW YOU HAVE A GROUP OF FRIENDS!"

"Wh-What's your point?!" Said a horrified Gaige, "Man he's scary when he's pissed off!"

"Is it fun?"

"Huh?" Gaige raised a brow.

Gaige did not understand what Flash was saying. She couldn't tell if Flash was anxious or just asking how is she doing. To her, Flash is a difficult person to understand from the start.

"So, this is kinda like hanging out with a friend at lunch right?" Flash said with a slight nervous tone.

"Flash," Gaige said in a serious tone, "Are you saying that you want to have more friends?"

After hearing her statement, Flash glared at Gaige, which horrified her. The glare went on for seconds until Flash sighed and looked down. Gaige began to feel her heart beating fast, which she still could not explain as it only occurs when she's with Flash.

"Dude, it's easy, just walk up to someone, introduce yourself and be nice to them. It's like walking in the park." Gaige instructed.

This made Flash exhale loudly and looked at Gaige with a worried expression.

"I'm scared," Flash proclaimed, "Everyone is always afraid of me for some reason. It doesn't take too long before they all start avoiding me, that's why I never have that many friends."

Gaige took a sip of her drink and looked at Flash. His worried expression suddenly turned to joy as he looked at Gaige.

"But you're the first person to come near me," Flash smiled, "And those guys were the first people to hang out with me without being scared, so I really don't need more friends. As long as I have them and you as friends, nothing can go wrong."

"...You're the only one who sees it that way."

"Huh?"

Gaige's expression turned into serious as she stared at Flash. From the start, she could already tell that Flash's so called friends are only using him. Flash was completely oblivious to this and considered the two as friends.

"Real friends wouldn't use you for money." Gaige stated, "I'm still new to having friends since I didn't have any at Kyoto, so I'm not an expert. And the boys at that school thought I was too nerdy."

As Gaige was talking, she did not see Flash getting extremely mad at what she's saying. Gaige continued on as she closed her eyes.

"But I'd rather have no friends than have friends like them-"

*SPLASH*

Gaige felt a cold and wet feeling from her head. She opened her eyes to see orange juice dripping from her head. She looked up to see an angered Flash with an empty bottle on his hand. Flash got close to Gaige's face and glared at her.

"You're a bad person." Flash whispered.

Flash started to walk away as everyone around them stared at Gaige. The girl sat there motionless as her pupils shrank. Rage began to build up as she slowly reached to her pocket, taking out the cube that was holding Death Trap.

"Kyō, Buraddo wa shinimasu," Gaige whispered, "SUPER ROBOT VIOLENCE FUN TIME!"

Gaige threw the cube in the air as it began to spawn Gaige's giant robot experiment known as Death Trap. Gaige wore a devious smile as she patted Death Trap. She then turned her attention at the Granny Smith, the lunch lady, duh, who was holding a big pot of gravy.

"Babe, fetch." Gaige instructed Death Trap, which it did.

The furious Flash walked out of the cafeteria as he mumbled. He placed his hands on his pockets and walked away from the cafeteria. Unknown to him, there was a robot following him carrying a pot with hot gravy.

"Sheesh, what a bi-"

*SPLASH!*

Flash's head was soon covered by hot gravy. He furiously turned around to see Gaige hogriding Death Trap. She began to laugh as she instructed Death Trap to take her away from him.

"DOMO ARIGATO SUCKA!" Gaige shouted as she disappeared in the corner of the school.

Flash however, began to get really pissed off and started punching and kicking the lockers near him.

Gaige on the other hand, wasn't really that contented on what she did. She instructed Death Trap to stop and put him back on his cube. She went to the girls bathroom and washed away the orange juice on her head.

"What's his problem? I was just stating facts," Gaige stated, "Why was he so mad?"

The thirteen year old Gaige walked in the middle of the hallways as dozens of students were crowding the area. She noticed everyone was with someone. Friends gathered and chatted as Gaige ignored everything that was surrounding her. She did not feel a thing, jealousy nor anxiety, she did not care about having friends.

A few days had passed and Gaige once again faced detention for a week (Flash never got detention because they thought he never did anything). It was now very late in the afternoon and her detention soon ended. She sighed in relief as she got out of the room.

"What a drag." Gaige groaned as she continued to walk.

She wandered the empty halls alone as she headed for the exit. Gaige soon heard the sound of a bass playing outside. She soon saw the exit and heard the sound getting louder and louder. She soon reached the doors to outside and was about to exit when she noticed a person sitting in the corner near the doors.

Gaige turned to the person and noticed that it was Flash. She was startled by him and backed away slowly, but stopped when she noticed that he had a depressed expression on his face. She heard some voices coming outside that she recognized.

"Man, what's up with Flash? He stopped giving me money." One of the voices said.

"Really? Does it really matter?" The other one said, "It's not like you're broke or anything."

"But it's lame, no point in bothering him anymore."

"So he actually has feelings," Gaige thought as she grabbed the door handles, "See, I told you so, baka."

She opened the doors and walked out to see Flash's friends, Ringo and Brawly. Ringo was playing the bass and laughed at the same time to what Brawly was saying. Gaige stopped on her tracks when she saw the two.

"Something's wrong with me today..." She thought as she clenched her first as it started to tremble, "Yes, really."

Ringo and Brawly soon noticed Gaige and glared at her. Gaige began to shiver in more as she faced the two.

"It's the girl who was with Flash." Ringo pointed out.

"Why the hell am I doing this?!" Gaige thought as she bit her lip and started to shake even more.

Gaige felt sorry for Flash. After seeing the look on his face, she couldn't stand the fact that he's being used. She began to speak up and defend Flash.

"Fl-Flash thinks you guys are his friends," Gaige nervously said to the two, "So, if you consider him as a friend, then you should be honest with him!"

She began to sweat and become even more nervous as Ringo walked up to Gaige. He grinned as he held his hand up and attempted to grab Gaige by the head.

"What's your problem?" Ringo said as he prepared to grab her head.

Gaige closed her eyes in fear as she prepared to get the consequences. She waited for it to happen, but there was a long silence. She slowly opened her eyes to see Flash holding back Ringo's hand. Flash wore a serious expression and glared at Ringo.

"F-Flash?!" Ringo exclaimed.

Flash soon lifted Ringo by the collar and lifted him up. Gaige could tell the look on Flash's face on what he's going through at the moment. She could sense depression and anger from the boy defending her.

"We're through," Flash proclaimed as he put down Ringo, "Come on Gaige, let's go."

Gaige was surprised at what Flash did to them. The two soon walked away from the school, leaving Ringo and Brawly to contemplate on what just happened.

Afterwards, Flash walked Gaige home without saying a word. The sun was setting in the background as the two walked side by side. After a while they passed by a walkway where they can clearly see the sun setting. As the two walked, Gaige began to hear sobbing. She then turned to where it was coming from and saw Flash had teary eyes. Gaige became mad at this and started to scold Flash.

"Y-You don't need to cry!" Gaige scolded as Flash wiped some of the tears away.

"No," Flash sobbed, "I-I was so happy.."

(Play this song for an emotional effect)

Gaige did not understood what was happening nor Flash's feelings. She did not know what was wrong of losing people you are close to, as she did not shed a single tear when her family left her in Japan nor when she was all alone in her old school. The sight of Flash being devastated made Gaige's heart feel heavy, as if she felt like she was about to break down. The feeling of empathy began to surround Gaige.

Flash felt comfort as Gaige hugged him. His heart began to beat rapidly because of the girl infront of him. They felt the warm sunny breeze coming from the air as the two embraced.

"It's okay," Gaige silently said with sympathy, "It won't be long before you're surrounded by lots of people."

Silence went on as Gaige tried to console Flash. He soon realized that he still had hope, he did lose his so called friends, but he still had one person left and that was Gaige herself.

"If you're there for me," Flash sniveled, "I promise I won't be violent or rude to anyone else, even your brother."

The two then broke their warm embrace as Gaige smiled at Flash.

"I'm glad to hear that," Gaige happily said, earning a smile from Flash, "Plus, you have me!"

Flash began to feel light hearted and hugged Gaige once more. All his past problems seemingly vanished when he felt the warm embrace from the girl who defended him. All his worries faded away to the sunny atmosphere of Canterlot.

But joy was not the only thing they felt, the two's hearts began to beat rapidly after hugging for a long time.

".....Why?" The two thought.

Nevertheless, the two were happy, especially for Flash, for he was grateful that he had a friend like Gaige. The strong bond of friendship was strengthened even more.

"Gaige?"

"Yes, Aunt Sakura?"

"Your parents sent you a letter."

Gaige went downstairs to check on her Aunt, who was holding a letter. She quickly opened it and read it's contents.

Dear Gaige,

How's Japan? It's been a three years since we left you there. Look, there’s no easy way to say this, but we miss you. We miss your smile, we miss the way you smell, we miss your little inventions, we even miss the dumb jokes you used to tell. It was your decision to study there, and we respected that.

It was pretty overwhelming to leave you there, but soon enough, we'll be together again soon. We miss you Gaige. We really do.

Mom

P.S. If you do plan to come home, buy Treble Japanese Pepsi.

As Gaige finished the letter, she soon inspected the other contents. She was surprised to see it was money; ten thousand yen to be exact. Gaige felt light hearted as her eyes began to become teary. No matter what she said and claimed, she indeed missed her family.

Author's Notes:

See Gaige understands. You should too.
#MakeFlashGreatAgain

Now, do you know what I'm going for now? Of course you do.

And now for the multicultural:

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