yugixyamiforever: The idea for this story came from me thinking about what a softer, kinder Yusei might be like. Then I thought of what night make him like that. Then came Kiana. Hope you like it. Flames are appreciated as well as reviews.
Disclaimer : I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's
CHAPTER 1:
Yusei woke with a start in the darkness that came in the time after the moon had set but the sun had yet to rise. Yusei couldn't fall asleep again, he had a bad feeling about today, but he wasn't awake enough yet to realize why.
Yusei eventually got up and had just finished getting ready when he heard the others stirring. He got back to his room, just before Akiza walked out. Yusei had remembered why today was so bad.
'Kiana.' He whispered, tears filling his eyes.
He blinked them away and went to lie on his bed and think. He should be happy. The war had finished, and Crow, Rally, Blitz, Nervin and Tank, along with Martha, had been offered the chance to be brought out of the satellite by Goodwin so they could stay with Yusei, the other signers, Blister, Tanner and Yanagi.
Martha declined the offer, deciding to stay with the children who needed her, but Yusei's other friends accepted. Jack had been acting like less of a jerk now, so why was he so upset about this one person, when so much had gone right? Yusei shook his head angrily and lay staring at nothing on his bed. Downstairs, his friends were talking anxiously.
'Where is he? He hasn't been down all morning, and I really want to try out a new strategy against him.' Leo whined.
The group was worried by the fact Yusei hadn't been down, he was usually awake first out of them all as he had taken to waking early and wandering the streets for hours at a time, and in the past few weeks he had done so more often than usual.
Jack wasn't worried though, he was mad at Yusei for this.
'What is he doing? I get he's upset, but disappearing each year?' Jack said in amazement.
Crow nodded in agreement while everyone looked at Jack in confusion.
'What do you mean?' asked Rally.
Jack looked at him incredulously.
'Are you really that blind? Don't you remember what today is?' he asked Rally in disbelief.
The former satellites shook their heads in unison. '
Hello? Eight years ago today?' Crow said.
Shock and dismay dawned on Yusei's friends' faces.
'Still?' whispered Tank.
'We thought he got over it. It was years ago.' Nervin murmured worriedly.
Jack shook his head sadly. 'Didn't you ever once notice when Yusei disappeared? Or that he left on the same date each year?'
The former satellites hung their heads to Jack's question. The rest of the group had watched this exchange in confusion, and Yusei had heard all of this from where he had hidden near the door.
Yusei had to clap a hand over his mouth to stop himself from groaning in annoyance.
'Well I won't let him disappear again today. I am going to keep him in my sights all day.' Jack declared.
Yusei shook his head. Couldn't he be alone for one day a year? Yusei darted out and went into the garden before he could be seen. He found the tree he often went to when he needed to think.
He was hidden from the house in it, and there was a certain big branch where he could fit in and see but not be seen. Yusei climbed into the tree and had just started to think when he heard the rest of the group heading his way. Why did they just now decide to come out?
Yusei sighed as they came closer and hid further down, even though he knew he would not be seen. He had stayed in there before, when he wanted to see if him not being there would affect the rest of the group. He had stayed in the tree all day, while watching the group go from calm to a panicked frenzy, including Jack.
At the end of the day, he had walked in the door and almost fell over laughing at their faces. Some started crying, Akiza and Luna, some got mad, Jack and Crow, and some just stared at him before demanding answers to their questions, Rally, Nervin, Blitz, Tank, Tanner, Yanagi, Mina, Leo, Blister and Trudge.
He had told them he had been outside all day, and saw confusion spread across their faces. He then walked upstairs to his room, leaving them to their shock. Yusei laughed as quietly as he could.
Voices broke into his thoughts. He looked up towards the house and saw the group coming towards his tree. Yusei groaned silently. He realized with a jolt that Jack wasn't with them.
'I hope he can get Yusei to come out.' Akiza was saying worriedly, looking back at the house.
So that's where Jack was. Well, he'd have a heard time getting him to come out seeing as he was already outside. Yusei looked up and saw Jack storming back to them, his face a cloud of thunder.
'Where's Yusei?' called Leo. 'Is he coming out soon?' he added hopefully, his hand heading towards his deck.
'I don't know. Yusei isn't in his room.' Jack shouted back angrily.
'He has to stop doing this. He can't just leave for the day and not tell anyone, which I'm thinking he hasn't?' he said, his eyebrow raised.
The group shook their heads.
'Jack,' said Luna. 'You said earlier something about eight years ago. Can you tell us what happened?'
Jack shook his head.
'If Yusei wanted to,' Rally said, 'he would have told you already about Kiana.'
Confusion grew upon the non-satellites faces. Rally realized what he said and froze.
'Now you've done it.' said Jack angrily. 'You won't be able to make them stop now.'
'Who's Kiana? What does she have to do with Yusei?' these and a babble of other questions tumbled from the groups mouth.
'Stop!' shouted Jack from where he sat below Yusei.
Yusei jumped and nearly fell out of the tree while the group fell silent immediately and looked at Jack.
'Now then. If Yusei hasn't told you about her, then we won't either.'
Yusei felt he should speak up now. Maybe he'd feel better about Kiana if his new friends knew about her.
Yusei took a deep breath and started to speak. 'Don't worry. You can tell them. I don't mind.'
The people below him looked around in surprise and fear for the disembodied voice. Yusei spun around in the tree and dropped to the ground, almost landing on Jack.
'Yusei!' they shouted.
Jack spun around and looked like he was about to have a heart attack when he saw the blue coated figure with spiky black hair behind him.
'Have you been there all this time?' Leo asked in disbelief.
Yusei nodded, and he saw Rally looking worried.
'I'm sorry Yusei.' Rally hung his head. 'I mentioned her. I didn't mean to, but I did.'
Yusei smiled. He walked over to the small child, knelt down and put his hand on the sad boy's shoulder.
'Don't worry.' he said.
Rally looked up in surprise. Yusei felt a tug in his heart when he saw Rally had tears in his eyes. Rally had seen so much, he had seen Jack and Yusei leave, he had been kidnapped by Goodwin and then after that the dark signers, but as far as Yusei knew he had never cried once.
'I was thinking about telling them anyway. You guys are way to observant for me to sneak away even twice.' Yusei shook his head.
The group grinned.
'Not to mention you Jack. I was listening at the door earlier, and Leo, we'll have a duel later. I want to see your new strategy.'
Leo smiled, but Jack still looked mad.
'Why?' Jack shouted.
The group looked taken aback by his sudden outburst, but Yusei wasn't surprised. He had expected it, in fact he wanted to be shouted at.
'How could you have been sneaking away, for eight years.' Jack yelled
Yusei shook his head.
'What am I supposed to do?' he asked, his quiet voice getting more and more angry and his face growing taught with pain.
'She was my sister! What am I supposed to do?' he repeated.
Yusei's new friends looked at him in surprise.
'You have a sister? Where is she? What happened to her?' asked Akiza in surprise.
Yusei shook his head and went back to his tree.
'You tell them Crow. You're the storyteller.' he said, before turning and climbing back into his branch.
After a few moments, the group could hear the quiet, muffled sound of someone crying. They looked up at the tree in surprise. Yusei was always the strongest of them, he had never shown his feelings.
Something really bad must have happened, and it must have involved his sister, who they now thought was probably this Kiana Rally mentioned. Crow nodded.
'Okay then.' he said to Yusei.
'You all know Yusei was bought to the Satellite when his parents died, right?'
The group nodded.
'But what you don't know is that he didn't come alone.'
Crow paused as his listeners gasped.
'And sometimes I wish I had come alone.' Yusei called. 'Then none of it would have happened.'
Luna looked up at the tree worriedly, but she couldn't see Yusei. He had chosen a good place to hide, she realized. You would never now he was there if he didn't tell you.
'What does he mean?' she asked, both afraid and curious as to what had happened.
'That will be explained later, but lets start at the beginning, when Yusei and his little sister Kiana arrived at the Satellite…' Crow began.
Yusei sat in the tree, trying not to listen. He didn't want to hear anything about Kiana, that's why he said Crow could tell them about her if he wished, so he wouldn't have to.
Crow's story:
'It started on the day Yusei and Kiana were brought to the Satellite. Me and Jack were waiting with Martha outside the Orphanage, we were the oldest there at the time. Martha had been told the day before by Sector Security that we would be having someone new, Yusei, but we weren't told about Kiana.'
The group looked confused.
'Why wouldn't they tell you about her though if you were to have her?' asked Akiza.
'Because they weren't meant to.' Yusei said.
He hadn't meant to but he had started listening and had sat up so he could be seen.
'Sector Security meant to split up me and Kiana, I was to go to Martha's orphanage and Kiana was meant to go somewhere else. We didn't know that though, me and Kiana. It wasn't until they tried to leave with Kiana that we knew.'
The group saw Yusei's eyes were red. Crow nodded.
'So on the day when Yusei was to come to the orphanage we had everything ready for one person. It was the middle of winter, and there was snow everywhere. It was freezing as well, so we had blankets and soup and stuff ready for him…'
yamixyugiforever: sorry if it wasn't very long, it was six pages in word. Also, sorry if nothing much happened. Stuff will happen in the next chapter. Will update son, I promise!
