HELLO PEOPLE! This is my second fanfic still featuring our beloved pair, yusei_x_aki! I hope you also support this one. It randomly appeared in my mind and kind of wanted to give it a try…This is not the typical scenario of the two wherein they are friends. Actually I put some twist on the yu-gi-oh universe and seemingly add some spice while on it…
Note that all the characters used in this fic is still in the original installation of the anime and not on the English Dub…
So without further adieu, let's get ready to RRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUMMMMMMBBBBBBBBLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEE EE…
Disclaimer : I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's. This belongs solely to the author and its staffs…
Chapter One :
In a room a certain five-year-old burgundy-haired little girl slightly yawned after being awake in her deep gentle sleep as the rays of sunlight, despite the curtains, pierced through the transparent clear window. She blinked a couple of times as she sat up in the bed, ruffling and twirling her messy hair. She reached for her unique hairclip as she rolled her bangs upwards before leaving her bed; the two long thick burgundy streaks running through each side of her face slightly covered her perfect dark brown eyes.
She then leisurely went downstairs where their family butler along with a number of maids was preparing the meal in the family dining table. She saw her mother emerged still wearing a nightgown while his father was in the living room reading some newspaper. As her parents saw her, they gave her their solemn smile and in return, she smiled back as they approached for the finished-prepared breakfast.
"Good Morning Honey! Did you slept well last night?" her mother asked sweetly as she sat down
"Yes mother!" Aki, the little girl, replied with a smile on her face
Aki Izayoi was born in a decent, rich and prominent family lineage. Her father was not only a senator in the state of Neo Domino but also owned a real state, and at the same time a big time major shareholder in huge companies. He worked almost every day and just barely home during weekends. Despite that, their relationship as a father and daughter didn't falter at all.
Every now and then, when his father was not busy, he would take her along with her mother to the amusement park and to everywhere else she wanted to go. At that time, she enjoyed every single second, minute and hour in their moment of get-together; their bond solidified more and more. She knew that despite the tight schedule, her father, Hideo Izayoi, would always try to find time to spent with her; even how limited it was.
Her mother, Setsuko Izayoi, filled what her father couldn't. She decided just to become a housewife to monitor and survey all the developments in Aki's growth. In Aki's opinion, she was the perfect mother that every child wanted.
She was caring loving and most of all, understanding in every child's call. She was always there as a pillow whenever she cried for missing her father soothing her in every possible way. The one she could depend on every time she had difficulty in learning things and stuffs. And the most important, she was the greatest source of unlimited warmth that she could get wherever and whenever she wanted.
"Next week or rather this coming Monday you will start going to school, I presume?" her father asked while taking a sip on his coffee
"Yes!" she responded with a light blush stained on her cheeks; she wanted to please them, after all specially her father
"I see! Good Luck and maybe I'll be the one to drop you off this Monday! How does that sound?" he stated as he looked at her daughter with a light smile
"Really?" she asked excitedly. Of all things, her father would be the one to accompany her. This was great, she thought.
"Yes honey! So can you promise me that you'll do your very best?"
"Of course, dad! You can count on me on that!" she said placing her hands in her chest
"That's my girl. Then at this coming weekend after the start of classes, if you had done great, as a reward, we will go to the newly opened Musical Theatre. Call?..." he said
That lifted Aki's spirits upraise. "Then, it's a deal. I'm pretty confident that I'll get this without drop of sweat. I have a wonderful teacher, after all." she stated before giving a wink to her mother.
Her father chuckled at her energetic response. He also had faith and confidence on Aki's skills and abilities; she was tutored before even going to school after all, courtesy from his wife. If not reading her stories, oftentimes, Setsuko taught Aki every basic and fundamental lesson that might be learn at school – from counting numbers ranging from hundreds to thousands, then writing her full name and some selected words, to the proper grammar in the language department.
Even in manners, Setsuko put emphasis on how Aki should behave and act. From the proper grooming, proper gesture as a lady all the way to how she should deal situations that might come to her. In his opinion, she grew up perfectly that he had envisioned.
"Then I'll wait for the results, Aki!" he uttered as he stood up after finishing his food. "Dear, I need to go now! I had appointment with one of my colleagues. Excuse me!" he finished as he took his suit.
"Take care!" his daughter and wife said simultaneously
He nod and kissed each of his two most important women in his life as he left the dining table, leaving the two. As he was not in their field of sight, the two resumed eating their meals discussing what would be nice to do in the remaining day.
In the outskirt part of the city, a certain raven-haired lad was walking in a staggered motion on the streets with his right hand placed on his growling stomach. He didn't eat for the past three days and was barely conscious as he was maintaining his posture, careful not to pass out. He decided to take shelter at the nearby waiting shed. His blue jacket and pants was torn off and the pair of his shoe was missing from his escapade on the raging people that was after his young sprout of his face was full of bruises and scratches, a complete evidence of a desperate struggle to just live another day.
Being an orphan at an early age, he didn't know what was his purpose or even if he deserved to be born. Why he had to be brought in this scary and hateful world if he was destined to suffer this much? Why he, of all the other people who deserved to be in his place, had to be the one involved in this mess. All he wanted was to have a normal life and what did he got?
A fucking hellish life in five years of existence.
Born without a father and mother, he was brought to an orphanage in the satellite. But that was the starting point of the life-embodiment nightmare this boy had. The one managing the orphanage proved to be a major bad ass. At the early age of three, they are already subjected to forced labor around the vicinity; he included. Those who didn't cannot have a meal for a day or two.
When they are caught slacking at work, they were punished in total humiliation. Meaning, the offender is tied in a post with his or her back totally exposed and then, whipped in the presence of all people in the area with the inflictor sadistically laughing at their demise and cries of scorching pain. Hell, even he had also a taste of being scourged almost to death, as what he described it. This type of punishment would serve as a reminder and a testament of their lack of freedom and right, that the moment they step and enter in that place, there was no escape.
Being in the satellite with no governing laws that abided every citizen, they couldn't help but fall in emotional distress. No one who will rescue, no one who listen in their desperate pleas and no one to comfort them in the most difficult times. Such thing happening to their body of a three year old and having trauma that scarred their life, some of them even accept their awaiting fate, being a lifeless puppet that waited the command of its master.
But he didn't want to lose to this so called fate. If there was a thing such called as fate, then he would continue to defy and fight it. Even if the odds was against him, he wanted to prove that even he could come out the victor in the duel with his arch-time nemesis – destiny.
And so a plan had been carried out by him and a number of his associates. For almost a year, he developed an escape route that was only known by them. And at last it was completed in the midst of their misery. This is their escape, their salvation and their freedom. But then again, as if being toyed with his long-time adversary, the planned was sabotaged and they were cornered in the cliff surrounded by the sea below. With an all or nothing choice – to either return to the fucking fake orphanage and enjoy another hell for the rest of their life in the human slavery junk or jump to the cliff with a 90-10 chance of sure death or survival respectively.
And the choice was made.
He jumped to the cliff, much to the surprise of the rest, to the middle of the vortex of the raging ocean. There was no guarantee that he would survive anyway but returning to that piece of shitty place would be death itself, so why not chose the one fast type on dying. After all, if he was even an ounce lucky, then he could survive and claim the victory of his over death and he would rub it on its face.
A day later he found himself in the outskirts of the city. He was overjoyed for the fact that finally, he had escaped from that cursed place, now away from the torment and anguish that haunted him every single day of living.
But that was only temporary.
In the end reality is harsh. Now he had to feed himself, but the compensating part was he didn't have to do force labor works. And now here he was in this situation, for over a year now, a cycle of never ending fight for survival.
Back to the present, amidst the painstakingly sensation that erupted all over his body, he reluctantly struggled to bring his hands on his swollen face. It was an evident proof of abuse from the store-people beating him after he was caught shoplifting in a nearby store. What he really wanted was just to feed his growling stomach that hadn't stuffed for a number of days. He couldn't open his eyes properly merely because of the swelling from the punch he received from one of his assailants.
He was only five years old and pretty ironic he couldn't do what mostly his age has to. Reading books, playing with friends if there were any and spending time with loved ones which obviously he couldn't do primarily with the reason of being an orphan in the first place.
He then traced his criminal mark that run just below his left eye. For Christ sake, he became a criminal at the age of five. If something like the Guinness World of Records or the likes existed, then probably he would be awarded as the youngest law troublemaker in Neo Domino City. Though he received it from the violation of way in – means illegal entry in the foreign soil. But because he was just a child, after a day, he was released but the mark that branded him a criminal with disregards to the type of offense committed would forever be inerasable.
He breathed in a slow motion, all because of fatigue as he watched the dark clouds still present in the sky bringing enormous drops of rain, as if sympathizing with him.
"THERE IS NO GOD IN THIS WORLD!", he said as he leaned in the wooden pillar as he slowly fall in his sleep
Meanwhile, Hideo inside the limousine had everything planned so he could fulfill his promise to his little rose. He wanted at least to make up for the days he was absent in his daughter's growth. Even if she didn't say it, he as a perceptive person could really tell that his daughter wanted for him to be at the house. But given the circumstances, he had to earn a living for his family and he wanted to monitor every detail in all of the company he had shared stocks with. He felt relieved that all he had to do this week was to meet with his co-associates and in the weekend a session in the senate. Then, he could plan a leave in Monday so he could drop his little rose now a kindergarten – 1 student in her school not far in their neighborhood.
As he leaned in the window noting the decent amount of raindrop that stained the window shield, a scene hadn't escaped his field of vision. He saw a young boy in a waiting shed full of bruise in his body, clothes torn and as if passed out from pain.
"Stop the car, Sebastian!" he commanded
"May I ask why, sir?" the driver inquired being puzzled on his master's action
"Just do it" he replied
He really had a soft spot for these kinds of children. That is because…
He was an orphan himself.
He also had to feed for himself, but luckily a certain couple had been merciful enough to adopt him in an orphanage and a good as well as kind at that. He persuaded education as it is the only answer to succeed over hunger and poverty. Then he took course in Economics to better understand the contributing factors that lead a nation to became a either a poor or a rich country. Also on how to fully handle such circumstances that required maturity and level-headedness for the leaders in the respective country.
It is because of this that inspired him to enter politics. His first mission is to eliminate famine in the area of concern. Together with his colleagues, Neo Domino became one of the richest cities in the world in terms of production of raw materials, annual export and natural diversities that benefited the land. The other one was to eliminate discrimination between the people in the city and the citizens in the Satellite. He was the pro-advocate of abolishing the illegal entry of Satellite citizens to the rich city as he reasoned out that they were all in the same land and so, it was normal if the Satellite people could also enjoy the luxury that most people in the city enjoyed.
But even if he exerted all of his efforts, he knew that there were still group of people that didn't support his advocacy towards co-existence. Some people still viewed them as scum, trash and maybe even lower than that and so, he needed to work harder for the benefit of all.
As he approached the young lad, he noticed all of the bruises present in almost every part of his body. He almost cringed but had suppressed it as he studied the boy more closely.
'How could someone do this to this innocent one?' he thought as his eyes narrowed
The sound of the slight cracking noise in a plastic cup alerted the boy in his presence. The boy came face to face with Hideo, the pale sapphire eyes stared lazily to what he considered as an intruder – to its own brown eyes. Almost immediately, Hideo had to ponder what would have caused for this boy to be like this as almost his face was covered of blood that trickled in the side of his face. His eyes showed nothing but void emotion as if he lost all of his interest and gave up on this world. As the boy realized his intruder, he instinctively covered his own body as he waited for the inevitable which greatly surprised Hideo.
"What are you doing?" he inquired
"You…would h-hurt me, r-r-right? S-s-so just do it and g-g-get o-over with i-i-it!" he stammered as his body tensely shaking
Hideo's eyes widened, "Why do you think I would do that to you? Much less to a child?"
'And to someone much beaten up pretty badly on the first place' he finished in his thoughts
"That's because…" he trailed as he slowly looked at him
"That's because?" Hideo dared him to finish
"Because you are like them, right? You viewed me and other Satellite people as scums right? So just get over with it and leave me alone. You just enjoy in hurting like me anyway." He finished as he closed again his eyes
Hideo could understand his predicament and his unwillingness to trust the others. This kid had suffered more than anything he was aware of. If this kid would experience a different one than what he had suffered, would his view change?
Instead of a fist or a metal that made contact on his fresh wounded skin, the boy found a pair of arms framing his entire body, shielding him from further cold.
"Of course not! I will not hurt you…in fact I have a proposition for you" he answered
"A-and what is that?" the boy asked masking his anticipation
"Well, since you don't have a place to go to…why don't you just come along with me?"
"What?" he exclaimed, "Are you out of your mind? I am j-"
He was cut off as Hideo buried him even further on his chest. For the boy the warmth illuminating was indescribable as it was the first time he felt something like this. Not fear from the other people, not hunger from days of skipped meals and most importantly not hate that filled his heart and soul over the years of his existence in this world. He stifled a cry as he finally let it out, his true self afraid of being alone in his whole life. But still he had his doubts.
"Are you really sure about that? I don't have-"
He was cut again as Hideo butted in, "Yes I am very sure about that! You deserve something and a place where you can call home…this place doesn't suit a child like you at all! It is alright you will be safe with me, because for now on, I am with you!" he responded
The boy felt overwhelm in his emotion. After all these years, he finally found the one. Now that he found someone whose really had a potential of being a father-figure to him, it crept a smile on his lips. He thanked slightly kami-sama that he was found by this man, at the right place at the right time. He couldn't place what it was but he felt that he could trust this man and so he smiled at him genuinely as a sign of appreciation.
That action made Hideo gasped a little bit. His smile was so genuine and it reminded him of his little rose, his daughter. Speaking of which, his daughter had bothered them to have a sibling. This would be a perfect course of action, he will adopt this child and would give any comfort and warmth that he naturally deserve, away from his life in the streets. He gently ruffled his hair as he took off his jacket to cover the very wet boy as he signaled his driver Sebastian to open the door which the latter complied. As he walked, he suddenly remembered the most important thing and suddenly had the urge to bang his head on a nearby wall or post for his stupidity in missing the most vital detail. He kneeled around the boy's line of sight and placed his hand on the raven-haired boy's shoulder.
"Now tell me son, what is your name?" he asked as he looked at him with a soft gaze
The boy in question was slightly taken aback but managed to regain his composure. There was no harm in telling anyway because now and onwards, his life would revolve around this man as his future father figure. He cleared his throat and breathed heavily to ease himself as he answered…
"Y-Yusei…Yusei Fudo!"
Chapter End
(A/N): Now that was for the first chapter of my new one! I wanted to try a different approach on the genres that involve the two of our favorite characters in the YU-GI-OH! 5D's universe…you might got an idea on how the story would turn out but anyway that is just the beginning…
So yeah! So any comments and reviews are much highly appreciated…Suggestions are much more highly appreciated and be taken into account! So that's it for now…I will be busy in typing the chapters for my other story, BONDS THROUGH TIME! Hope you also support that and also this newly formed one!
Karling_21 signing out . . . . . .