A/N: Ok so this is my attempt at a story where Judai finds out about being The Supreme King early. Therefore this will be slightly AUish but I want to try to keep as close to canon and the character's personalities as much as possible. So if something is off please let me know and I'll try to fix it.
Disclaimer for entire story: I do not own Yugioh GX it belongs to its rightful owners, plain and simple.
Turn 01 - The Decision that Changed Fate
A pair of heterochromic eyes, consisting of orange and teal, was narrowed in contemplation looking at the young boy's peaceful sleeping form. The sleeping boy of course had no idea that he was being watched at the moment as he was abiding in the comfort of his warm bed and sweet innocent dreams. Unfortunately for the one that was watching the boy, there was too much brewing in the creature's mind for it to rest as peacefully as the boy.
"Curse that light!" thought Yubel bitterly with a scowl forming on her pale blue lips.
Her hands which were claws had balled into fits as her anger grew. However Yubel managed to quickly gain control over her emotions knowing that this was not the time for her to let her anger get the best of her. After all there were more important matters that she had to think about and being angry certainly wasn't going to help her now. So instead of a scowl a frown took its place upon her face. Her eyes once again focused on the small boy as events from the past few days played over in her mind causing a deeper frown on her lips.
"I had to protect him no matter what," Yubel told herself thinking about the ones who dared to hurt her Judai.
For Yubel it was a no brainer to punish those who made her Judai cry when they defeated him, but what she had discovered to her surprise and chagrin was that a small fraction of the Light of Ruin had somehow inhabited Judai's opponents without her noticing. It was only when Judai had lost and the light tried to sneak its way inside of Judai that she had sensed it and if it wasn't for her quick actions in dealing with the hosts to stop its assault, the light would have had a hold on Judai by now. The light knew that Judai was very vulnerable right now and had apparently decided to try and deal with him before he could become a threat to it.
In fact it had almost succeeded with Judai's latest duel against Osamu who to her displeasure Judai referred to as onii-san. Yubel had not been fond of him in the least as she had felt he was taking too much of Judai's attention away from herself, however he had seemed to make Judai happy so she had held herself back countless times when Judai was around him. But in their last duel the boy had crossed the line and made her Judai upset so punishment was the only correct response. Yet once again she had been caught off guard by the light's presence surrounding the boy. It had been then that she noticed that the source of the light had come from the very card that had been used to negate her summon, Perfect Counter Code -123. Though unlike the others, there had been a stronger portion of the light involved and it had attacked her vigorously without either of the two boys being aware. It had only been Yubel's persistence and her desire to carry out the just punishment on Osamu that allowed her the victory and placed the boy in a coma successfully cutting off the light's source. Sadly Judai did not take Osamu's punishment well and it wasn't long before Judai started putting the pieces together.
So now the relationship between her and Judai was being threatened because of his lack of understanding. Judai was starting to believe that something was wrong with her and that the only way to fix it was by sending her into space. But that was not the case at all; Yubel was simply doing what she was supposed to do. It was her that needed to protect Judai from anyone who dared to harm him along with the Light of Ruin until he was ready to handle the responsibilities of being the Herald of the Darkness of Justice. She had given up her humanity for Judai and in turn he had given her all of his love just for her. And she had no doubt that Judai loved her just as much in this life as he had in the past. But his innocence and naivety of the danger he was in and the truth about himself and their love was about to make Judai do something treacherous and stupid. He was actually planning on sending her away and if she was gone Judai would be unprotected and at the mercy of the light with her not being able to do a thing about it.
A heavy sigh escaped Yubel's lips at this as she realized the only possible way to change Judai's mind about sending her to space was to tell him the truth about who he was. The problem with that was that the sweet and innocent child that was currently sleeping would never be the same again. The light would not give up so easily and Yubel was sure it was just going to come at Judai again and stronger with every attempt to dispose of him. Meaning that she would have to eventually start training Judai to use his power and improve his dueling to a much higher level if they were going to keep the light at bay until he was fully ready to defeat it. The irony of that did not escape Yubel as the whole point of her becoming Judai's guardian was because he had been too young to harness the power of gentle darkness, now he would have to be forced to try and control his powers at a young age anyway.
"But I should have known that the light wouldn't just sit around and wait for Judai to get older. If I don't tell him the truth now my precious Judai will be harmed and I'll be dammed if I let that happen," Yubel thought with determination as she had finally come to a decision.
Yubel's spiritual form floated closer to the sleeping Judai and lowered herself so that her face was right in front of Judai's. Yubel gazed longingly at Judai's face very aware that this would be the last night Judai would wear a peaceful look on it. She allowed her translucent clawed hand to caress his cheek before bringing her lips closer to Judai's. Yubel let her lips lightly brush over his for a second before disconnecting her lips from Judai's.
"I can't put this off any longer," Yubel dejectedly thought before moving her face just a few inches away from Judai, yet still keeping her hand on his cheek.
"Judai, wake up," called out Yubel after finally taking her hand away from the boy's face.
Judai hearing the familiar voice slowly began to awake from his sleep. When his slightly open eyes saw Yubel before him, he sat himself up to better face her.
"Yubel? …What is it?" asked Judai in a tired voice while rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.
Yubel smiled at the child, savoring as much as she could of his innocence before she ripped it away from him.
"I want to tell you more of that story you love so much," she answered causing the sleep to immediately leave Judai as excitement spread all over his features.
"You mean the one about the prince and his best friend who became his guardian?" Judai said eagerly, almost bouncing in his bed at the thought of hearing more about one of his favorite bedtime stories.
Yubel's smile grew at seeing Judai's enthusiasm, glad that he was looking forward to more of the tale that she had started telling him since he was five. Of course Judai had no idea that the story she had been telling him was in fact about them. Part of her believed that if she had started telling him some of their past that his memories would begin to surface, though so far it seemed that Judai still thought it was just a fairy tale. But tonight he would discover just how real the story actually was.
"Yes that's the one. Last time I talked about how the prince became king and how he reined over the kingdom correct?" asked Yubel, getting an affirmative nod from Judai.
"Yeah, so what happens next?" inquired Judai with readiness, causing a slight chuckle to escape Yubel's lips.
"Well, we finally reach the point in the story when the evil light attacks the prince and his guardian."
A/N: So there's the first chapter. The way I plan to have this story go is have at least the first three chapters happening before the anime starts off and then we'll get to Duel Academia.
P.S. For those who are still waiting on "The Baby Project" I'm having some writer's block so just bear with me I promise you that I will get back to it when inspiration hits me.