This idea would not leave me alone. So I'm hoping by writing this that I can clear my head.
Disclaimer: Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal is copyright to Yoshida Shin, Miyashi Naoto, Shueisha, V-Jump, Takahashi Kazuki and Studio Gallop. I claim no rights to the characters, monsters, setting or plot.
A Hunter's Aftermath.
The smell of antiseptic. The color white. Everything so uniform. From the employees to the patients. Though there were other visitors in the building, sticking out like a sore thumb unnerved her a little. But there was really no one else she knew that could accompany her to this suffocating place. Or would want to. Considering who she was here to see.
The dark haired girl walked down the white hallway slowly, the slight clicking of her boots echoing off the walls, slightly covering up the beeping of machines or the wheeling of carts as she passed room after room and individual after individual. As a nurse station was passed, one of the nurses cut across the student's path, which caused her to stop for a moment. Light blue-green eyes surveyed the employee, who was holding a clipboard and wearing a light pink uniform. A color that the teen had long since come to dislike.
"Do you need any help?" the older female asked.
"Uh.. no. I know where I am going. Thanks." the girl replied, bowing quickly before continuing her trek down the hall. The smell in the building was starting to give her a headache but that would not deter her from the reason why she had come in the first place.
Her central heterochromic eyes flicked back and forth from room to room, focused on the plates beside the door, looking for the name of her classmate. Finally, her vision came across the subject of her search.
Kamishiro Ryoga. AKA Shark.
Her other classmates thought visiting Shark was a bad idea.. mostly because he rarely comes to school and all the rumors that floated around about him.. but the dark haired girl never really listened to idle gossip. It was for people who didn't know how to think for themselves. Which seem liked most of her middle school. It was kind of annoying.
While she did not know Ryoga personally, the fourteen year old girl had read about his participation in National Duel Circuit. Though the end result really didn't matter to her. One of the reasons why tournament participation wasn't really interesting.
The young teen had heard a little bit of what happened at school from a few people and the end result.. though it was a mystery to her how a duel could land you in the hospital. Here was where the lightly tanned girl stood, having gone immediately home after school to change out of her school outfit and into clothes that felt more comfortable.
Slowly, her feet moved the dark haired girl closer to the door, which opened on it's own. The beeping of several machines was the first thing that was heard, just as it had been in the other rooms along the hall and through the building. Though it was much louder then it had been.
The light blue fabric of her pant legs rubbed against each other as the teen moved closer to the bed. Ryoga looked older then he normally did.. which was another thing that the eighth grader found odd. There was no way a duel could do this to a person. While the full details of the duel were not at her disposal, that aforementioned fact was still an obvious one.
Light blue-green hetrochromic eyes shifted to the monitor on the wall, which recorded Ryoga's vitals. A soft sigh escaped her lips before running a hand through dark strands which covered her right light blue-green eye. Vision shifted from the monitors on the wall and back to the aged figure in the bed. It was kind of frustrating that none of the staff really knew what causes this. And from what the young teen has read on the net, Ryoga is not the first victim.
The tanned girl shook her head slightly, which caused some strands to fall over her left eye. They were quickly tucked away as she walked out of the room. It was pointless to be here any longer.. and the smell was really starting to bother her.
Walking quickly down the center of the hallway, the young teen ignored everyone and everything she passed before making her way outside. After inhaling the fresh air, light blue-green eyes looked up at the stormy sky. The ground was still dry.. but the clouds could open up at any time and soak the world. Not that it really mattered to her though.
The middle school student looked at her surroundings for a moment before moving away from the building. Light blue-green eyes were focused on the ground beneath her feet and not the gloomy sky above her head. Today had been gloomy enough anyway.
About a block away from the hospital, a slight glow caught the teen's eye, which caused her to stray from her course. The glow stopped once she moved closer. In it's place was a blank dueling card. After bending down to pick it up, light blue-green eyes looked around the area, the young duelist behind them wondering who could have left a card here.
The card was quickly slipped into her jacket pocket, as the rain finally had decided to descend down to Earth. The young teen then walked over to the crosswalk and waiting for the light to turn. It wouldn't be until the next day that the card's transformation would be noticed.
Ok.. I have not watched Yu-Gi-Oh since the second season of the original series with Yugi and Atemu. There are a lot of new things in Zexal.. so I probably took some liberties. And this is in no way a romantic oneshot. And it's staying a oneshot because I think my writing is rusty right now. So enjoy. And if you don't like it, that's fine. I just wanted to get this out of my head.
