Author's Notes: Well, this has been requested numerous times by one user, and, if you are planning on reading A New Hope (a collaboration between myself and ElodieKumari94), this story will be helpful (though not necessary).
Hopefully you already know my policy on comments, but, just in case you don't, here it is again: Comments=new chapters. No reviews=no new chapters. Simple as that. Constructive criticism is always welcome, but flames are not. (And, yes, I do know the difference between the two! So don't be afraid to offer concrit!)
A brief introduction of original characters:
Naomi Mori - protagonist.
Ryan Mori - older brother to Naomi.
Meike Kyro - friend of Naomi.
Jori Kuma - you may recognize the name if you've read Changing the World. He is a friend of Crow's and of Naomi's. Also a "lover" of Naomi's.
Alex Haru - The same Alex whom Yusei roomed with at the Facility. Another friend and "lover" of Naomi's.
That said, enjoy=)
Chapter One - Rollin' With the Good Times
"You can't outrun us, you little devil!" a man shouted as he and several other Sector Security officers zoomed through the streets on their duel runners.
Naomi Mori almost burst out laughing at their stupidity as they drove right past the alleyway she had concealed herself in. 'How do such dimwits ever survive?' she thought, shaking her head. She pulled off her navy blue stocking cap, combing her fingers through chestnut brown hair that fell to just below her shoulders. As she re-adjusted her hat back on her head, a cold, strong hand clamped itself over her shoulder, spinning her around. Her green eyes flew wide as she thought, 'Crap! Someone saw me after all!' Then she saw whom it was behind the hand.
"Ryan! Don't DO that!"
The boy laughed. "Can't help it! You're so much fun to tease, little sis!" Ryan Mori had only a year on his sister, but he was a good eight inches taller and lean but muscular. He brushed shaggy brown hair out of his sky-blue eyes as Naomi stood, hands on hips, a crooked half-smile on her lips, trying not to laugh herself. "So did you get whatever it was you went after this time?" he asked, changing the subject.
"Yup." She flashed a mischievous grin, holding up the card Change of Heart. "Now my deck is complete!"
"Good! Now I can stop worrying about you getting caught every time you feel like adding to your deck!"
Naomi rolled her eyes. Those officers had never come anywhere close to catching her. "C'mon, we'd better get back before it gets dark."
"What's the hurry?" a voice spoke from behind her.
Naomi spun around again. "Jori! What are you doing here?"
The freckle-faced boy laughed as he gave her a one-armed hug. "When you didn't come back before dinner, Ryan came by and asked me to help hunt you down. Ya know, just in case Sector Security actually caught up with you for once," he teased, winking down at her.
Naomi rolled her eyes for a second time. "Like that would ever happen. After all the times I've gotten away, you'd think they'd catch on to where I disappear everytime!"
"Just be glad they haven't! I've heard stories about how people - especially Satellites - are treated in that Facility..."
"Well, don't worry, Jori; my sister swears she's done stealing cards now," Ryan inserted, folding his arms and staring pointedly at Naomi.
Jori raised an eyebrow and gazed down through rust-colored bangs at the girl by his side. "You really believe that, Ryan? 'Cause that's exactly what she said after she got Chaos Goddess, remember? This is the sixth card she's gone after since then!"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah! Trust me, Jori; Change of Heart completes my deck! This really is the last card I'm going after."
"Well, I need to be getting back to Martha's," Jori commented. "She counts on me to help with the younger kids. I'm just glad they didn't catch you. See you guys later!" He gave Naomi another one-armed hug, then disappeared around the same corner he had emerged from only a moment before.
Naomi and Ryan turned and went the opposite direction from their friend. The two of them had lived by themselves for a year now, ever since the woman who had taken them in had past away. Ever since their parents had been killed when the city split, she had protected them, fed them, and given them a warm place to sleep for fourteen years, but now they were on their own.
But it wasn't all bad; they were on their own, but they were far from being alone. Apart from her brother, Naomi had several close friends, Jori Kuma being one of them. He was three years older than herself, but that didn't keep them from being close friends. When they had first met, he had invited her to come stay at his foster mother, Martha's, saying that she would never turn away anyone without a home. Naomi had declined the offer, but the two still became close friends.
Alex Haru was another friend, but Naomi had known him far longer than Jori. She had been only five or six at the time, but she could remember the meeting as if it had happened only yesterday. She had been outside playing with a big red ball when it rolled across the street. Alex had been the one to kick it back to her, thus starting a game - and a friendship - between the two.
Mieke Kyro was yet another long-time friend. The same age as Naomi, she lived with her uncle near Martha's place. Naomi met her through Jori; Mieke would often go to play with the kids staying at Martha's and was always talking about someone named Yusei or Crow or the like, but Naomi had never met anyone but Jori from there.
By the time Naomi and her brother reached their "home" - an old abandoned warehouse on the edge of the ocean - it was already dark. Naomi loved this spot; it was one of the few places one could look out at the ocean and not see New Domino City on the horizon. She could simply stare out at the waves, the stars and moon reflecting in the water on a calm night.
"I think I'll stay out here for awhile, Ryan."
"Suite yourself. 'Night, sis!"
"'Night!" She walked over to where the rocks dropped away to the water below and perched on the edge. A cool breeze lifted her hair and swirled it around her face. Some day she would know what it was like to be free as the wind; someday she would escape the oppression of the Satellite Sector and start over somewhere far from this place.
She sighed. Who was she kidding? There was no way off this island. ...Yet it never hurt to dream, did it? What was life without hopes and dreams? Especially living in the Satellite one had to have hope for a brighter future or else you'd go mad! And that was her biggest hope, her biggest dream: A life outside of Satellite, a life as free as the breeze tossing her hair.
But for now, she didn't have a choice. So for now, she would keep on dreaming. Besides, what more could she want right now, anyway? She had everything that mattered: her brother, her friends, her deck... As much as she would give anything to get away, she found a strange kind of contentment in what she already had.
Someday, she knew, she would be free, but for now, this was as good of a life as any! She was much more fortunate then most here, and she really had no complaints. She regretted not having parents, but at the same time, she had no restrictions this way either.
'This is the life!' she thought as she gazed up at the stars. In most parts of the Satellite, one could barely see the moon through the smog, but at this far edge, the sky was clear. As she continued to gaze up at the night sky's constellations, she felt as though nothing could be better in her own little world.
Yet despite it all, there was always this nagging in her soul to be free, to simply fly away from the depression of Satellite.
"'Going through this life, looking for angels,'" she sang softly to herself as the waves beat a steady rhythm the rocks below. "'People passing by, looking for angels; walking down the streets, looking for angels; everyone I meet, looking for angels...'"
Author's Notes: All credit for the song in the last line goes to Skillet and their song "Looking for Angels;" I only own my characters and the plot but none of the elements of Yugioh 5D's.
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