Hello people! I have been watching Yu-Gi-Oh! ZeXal or Zexal lately, since I was bored and wanted to watch an anime. Guess who my favorite character is? He calm, cool, blue, and he's a ghost. Still don't know him? What if I say he doesn't remember his past unless he collects all of the Numbers cards? He has weird patterns on his body, has a yellow and white eyes, awesome style of hair?
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His name is Astral for Pete's sake. I'm just kidding. I guess you can tell who he is when I wrote blue and ghost. Ha ha. I do have a another favorite character. He's cool and is a skilled duelist. He also has blue-ish gray eyes. Can you guess who he is? I'll give you until the next update to guess! Read the bottom Author's Note for more information. Darn... I sound like those people in TV commercials...
I was getting off topic. -.- So this is an AU fic... I think. Let's just say, it's like a regular school life, but Astral is human and is Yuma's "best" friend in the other city he used to live in. Ha ha... Completely AU since Astral isn't completely human. Ha ha... You'll find out what I'm laughing at later.
So... On the the chapter. Wait, it's not a chapter. It's the Prologue! Ha ha...
Disclaimer: I own Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal as much as I own the other Yu-Gi-Oh! Series. Which is 0 percent...
Prologue, Before
It was the end of fourth grade when I moved. I remembered that day. The day I left my best friend because my parent's job moved somewhere else. I still don't know why he was my best friend. He seemed to understand me more than my other friends. Heck, knows even more than my parents. He's there when I needed comfort and seems to always cheer me up... Even though most of the time he pisses me off more than anything... But there was one thing strange about him...
He never smiles.
He's always frowning and has his arms crossed over his chest. He's mostly quiet but after I lose a duel, he's always telling me "I should have done this and not that." or "You should have known this was coming." or something else along those lines. It's SO annoying! But... He's a strong duelist. I bet he's even stronger now.
His hair is funny though. Ha, like I'm to talk. It's like he has a Mohawk going off to the side. Not really though. His hair is just... Stuck together to form a couple curved spikes... I don't know. His hair is super hard to describe... Let me try again... His hair is spiky, sort of.
Just pretend you never read that. His eyes are funny too. One of them is yellow while the other has the outline of a pupil but it's completely white. Weird, huh? He also wears earrings... Why would he wear earrings, I mean... The dangling kinds. The one that dangles around, you know? I just think it's weird, that's all. Moving on...
His clothes are simple. T-shirt and jeans most of the time. And let me tell you, he has a poker face 24/7. You never know what he's thinking or what he's about to do.
But he's nice. He comes to visit my place often. We've known each other for awhile, ever since kindergarten. He knows my sister and my grandma. He seen my parents once or twice. I've seen his parents a couple times too. He is nothing like them.
His parents are cold and dark people. I saw them smoke a lot and a bunch of empty beer bottles on their front yard. His house looks old and it looks like it'll fall down any moment. There are dead trees surrounding his house. The house looks even worst than prison and I think living there feels like prison. They don't even know his son usually stay at his friends house most of the time.
Yup, he lives with me most of the time. Why? He hates his place. I saw some scars on his arms and legs before. The teacher's never caught any of this because one, he wears long sleeves and pants all the time and two, he's really good at making excuses. Plus, teachers really seem to like him, a lot. I wonder what would the teachers expect when he's in middle school. But I never knew because I moved.
Oh yeah. Wasn't I trying to tell you the day I left my best friend? I guess I got a little out of hand. Going back to the subject. Summer just started and he was at my place, helping me pack up. I told him that I was moving. For that moment, I felt sorry for him since he didn't have another place to stay but his own place. I wonder how's he doing now...
When it was time to leave, I hesitated on going into the car since he was there. He tilted his head to the side in confusion when I walked up to him. I handed him a chain that had my name on it. I was about to turn and leave but he grabbed my arm and put something on my hand. A key on a thin piece of string.
Then the unthinkable happened... Want to know what it was? I'll give you three guesses.
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Try again.
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One last guess.
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You used all your guesses. This is what happened...
He smiled! He freakin' smiled! A sad smiled, but he smiled! It wasn't a smile really. It was mostly a little twitch for like five seconds. Then his poker face took over and he said that it was uncomfortable to smile, which made me laugh. I was gonna miss him, for sure. I wonder if he's okay...
Oh yeah. His name is Alex "Astral" OKO. His real name is Alex Ogasawara/Kobayashi/Oikawa (and yes, he does have three last names). His parents were to lazy to name him a good Japanese name so they took a random name they had in their mind. He has three last names because his parents are, you know, different in a bad way. So they changed their last name a couple times. So he took the first letters of all three of them and made OKO, his permanent last name.
After years of being known as Alex (which doesn't fit him much), he changed his name (nickname) to Astral (which suits him better). Only his close friends call him Astral, everyone else calls him Alex. So far, only my sister, my grandma, my parents, and I call him Astral. That's it. No more, no less.
Right! My name is Yuma Tsukumo.
How did you like it? Weird, huh? I had this in my mind for, like, FOREVER (a couple hours)... I hoped you like it though!
And like I said at the top, here is the more information thing.
If you can guess who my favorite character is (skilled duelist, cool, and blue-ish gray eyes) you can win a story of your choice! I did this before and do not expect it to come out anytime soon. PM and/or review your answer! Your answer must include:
-Name of Character
-Why you think its that character
-Why do you think I like that character
-What do rainbows taste like
The middle two are optional... But you MUST include the name of the character and what you think rainbows taste like if they have a taste. So, good luck to all of you.
The prizes:
I'll be rating them so there will be a first, second, third places.
Third Place:
-Characters
-Pairings
-Genre
Second Place:
-Characters
-Pairings
-Genre
-Title
-Summary
And First Place:
-Characters
-Genre
-Title
-Summery
-Plot
-Pairings
-One-shot, Drabble, or Chapter Fic
I don't know much fandoms so if you win, we'll contact each other of which fandom it'll be. Thanks. Good luck to all of you and hope you enjoy this chapter! Please review! :D