My first 5D fic. Just this random idea I got that I want to play with it. Grammer could be a problem, since I did this really quickly. You have been warn.
Regards,
Eefi-chan (does not own anything)
The dark mountain blends the darkening clouds…
Ruka pause her pencil and shock her head. Her tiny hand torn the piece of notebook paper from the binding and quick as you can say "cliché", Ruka crumbled the paper and toss it into her pink trashcan.
"Nothing is going right!" Ruka mumbled as she stare at the blank notebook. This never happen to her before. She hope this disease never crosses paths with her. But it did, and now Ruka finally admits it:
She has caught writer's block.
Usually, Ruka can crack up any number of stories in one day. She can pick up an idea, big or small, and turn it into a best seller quicker then a blink of an eye. She has been doing this ever since she first went to the Duel Monster World. It first became dairy writing, but when her inner creative mind took over, Ruka expands it. By expanding it, it means twisting every corner, adding spices, and letting herself go without censoring herself. Before Ruka became aware of it, she had a novel right in front of her.
Ironically, the greatest event in her life is happening now and she can't even come up with a story for it. Ruka pull her right arm sleeve back and glare at her small dragon mark.
They just got back from defeating their dark counterparts, the dark signers, and now waiting word from Godwin on what to do. Until then, they are all cave at the twins' house.
A lot has happen from the last 24 hours that Ruka could use for influence. But none of those very dramatic and tragic events pop at her. The events are like gray clouds in her head, stuck in there and dull.
Ruka cover her mark and stare at the window in front of her. Convincingly, the clouds are like the thoughts in her head. Ruka frown at a sudden realization.
"Everything has been dark and dull." Ruka whisper. She can't even remember when the last time the sky was bright and anyone smile. They, the signers, had been in the "dark" so long that they become adapt to the gloomy atmosphere. Especially after their respective duel.
"Maybe I need a trip to the DVD collection to spark a light." Ruka thought, as she leap off her chair and head to the door. That's what she needs- to watch a very happy movie and, hopefully, to produce at least one story to ease her urges. She doesn't know why she thought of those old DVDs rather then the on-demand she gets on her laptop, but it's too late or, lazy rather, to turn back.
"Maybe I should also invite everyone else." Ruka thought as she travel down the hallway. Each of her comrades' faces appear in her head. Her frown deepen as she consider the possibility.
"What's wrong, Ruka?" a voice cut into her thoughts. Ruka jump out of her thoughts and suddenly became aware of Yusei being in front of her.
"Nothing really at the moment, but thank you, Yusei." Ruka replied. But she then notice Yusei's eyes wonder.
"Are you looking for something?" Ruka ask, tilting her head in confusion. Yusei pause his eye movements and look at her. His stoic expression is always the same no matter what he does. But Ruka is confuse. Yusei has been crashing at their place for a long time and he knows the house well enough to find anything.
"Have you seen Aki?" He ask her.
Well, almost anything.
"No, sorry to say." Ruka said, not surprise at his question at all. She should had know that he would be looking for her. Recently, there has been an great tension between the two of them, Aki and Yusei.
When they reunited after Aki's duel with Misty, Yusei seems to be keeping his eye on the psychic female more closely as Jack was with Carly's glasses. But when they got to their house, Aki disappears from everyone like a cat and Yusei has been cat hunting ever since.
Yusei just nods and walk past Ruka. Ruka continue her journey to her destination, deciding to leave Yusei be. As much she wants to know what happen at Aki's duel to cause the sudden silent chase, Ruka didn't want any more drama to happen. Rua asking Jack about Carly and seeing his reaction at her name two hours ago was not pretty.
"Rua is probably still kicking himself for being so nosy." Ruka thought, as she walks into the kitchen. Like she predicts, Rua is at the far right end of the table eating his sandwich slowly. The male twin cautiously peeks over his sandwich fearfully at the blond man at the other far side of the table. Jack is just sipping his 5th or more cup of coffee away, slurping off and on. Each slurp made Rua jump or disrupt his eating.
A blue hair woman, Mikage, was just watching Jack from the kitchen counter. Ruka saw her fiddling with an apple. Ruka hopes she doesn't plan to clobber Jack with the defenseless fruit for whatever reason.
Leaving the depressing scene be, Ruka open the door to the basement and went down. Ruka flick the lights on halfway down the stairs. To save her times, she leap over the low railing near the bottom of the stairs into the ground.
Dust puff out of her shoes once she lightly land.
"Haven't been down here for a while." Ruka thought examing the dust on the ground. She remember she and Rua use to come down the basement all the time to play with their toys and watch DVDs. But the internet and dueling had take them away from the place where a lot of firsts happen.
Ruka travel through the play room, to the door that leads to the threather room. Ruka had her hand on the door handle when suddenly became aware of noise on the other side.
"What…?" Ruka froze dead in place. Regaining her control, Ruka carefully place her ear against the door.
Music. There was music playing at the other side of the door.
Ruka press her ear more to the wood.
Words too. Not clearly because of the door, but clear enough to catch that it was a man and woman singing.
"What the heck?!" Ruka mouth, and without thinking, fling the door open.
Ruka was then stun at the sight in front of her.
"Aki?" Ruka ask out loud. Aki jump and look behind her.
"Oh, Ruka!" Aki said, surprise. Ruka sees Aki laying on one of the beanbag chair, looking rather comfortable a couple seconds before. Ruka then saw the DVD case of Sleeping Beauty next to her and, looking to the TV, the said movie plays on the screen.
"You been hiding here all this time?!" Ruka ask, the first thing that came to her head. Aki quickly snatch the remote next to the DVD case and hit the pause button. The screen pause at a very close up verison of the prince and the princess about to kiss.
"I guess you can say that, if it looks like it." Aki said, staring at the couple on the screen oddly. Ruka heard Aki mutter about pausing at the most awkward parts. Aki press the rewind button and pause at the part of the animals dancing with the princess.
Remembering about Yusei, Ruka decide to at least remind her of him looking for her. But before she had a chance to move her lips, Aki continue on.
"I was looking for a washing machine and instinctively went down here." Aki continues, "But I guess I got distract with this."
"A washing machine in a basement?" Ruka though, finding it odd. Their washing machine is in a room next to the kitchen. Aki saw the confuse look at her face. Her face redden as she pick up the Sleeping Beauty DVD.
"Sleeping Beauty is my favorite movie." Aki confess, her voice softer then usual. Ruka's eyes widen.
"Oh, really?" Ruka ask. Ruka felt her inner self pushing her to ask Aki more.
"Yeah, I use to watch it all the time while waiting for papa to come home." Aki said, her eyes looking nostilagic at the DVD cover.
Obeying her inner self, Ruka settle down at a bean bag chair next to Aki.
"But ever since my powers awaken, papa burn it along with other things that relate to witchcraft, and so forth."
"Like Disney will advertise witchcraft and whipping." Ruka blurt out before catching her tougue. Ruka blush and hopes that Aki didn't catch on what the statement ment. But Aki chuckle at Ruka's suppose joke.
"True." Aki said. Ruka relax a bit. Close call.
"Why do you love that movie so much?" Ruka ask, decideing to keep the fire going with this discussion. What's the chance to see Aki being this open? Maybe Yusei.
Aki hugged the DVD tightly into her body and laid back. She look to the ceiling and stare at it for a while. Ruka wait patiently for her answer, praying that she didn't hit the wrong nerve.
"… Before my powers awaken, I dream of having a life like this fairytale." Aki confess, still looking at the ceiling, "But I guess I got a fairytale alright."
Aki laugh at her sentence, but Ruka could tell that she is being sarcastic. Ruka frown at her.
"Aki." Ruka said her name with concern. Aki look at her. They both stare at each other for a while until Aki turns her head back to the ceiling.
"I guess my life is like Sleeping Beauty, except mine was is not fairytale. Frankly."
Ruka didn't know what to say about Aki comparing her life to a Disneyfied fairytale. Silly, but I can bear with it.
"But I was put a curse on, taken away from home, trick into the curse, and was rescue by my savior." Aki said, removing her right glove to reveal her dragon mark. Ruka's ears perk up. Something in her blood is boiling for information.
"Can you tell me your story?" Ruka ask, leaning forward towards Aki more in curiousity. Ruka regret for letting excitement show in her tone when she saw Aki stiffen, like a cat in water.
Ruka lean back at the bean bag car.
"Sorry, got carry off, Aki. You don't need to tell-"
"Actually, I feel like I need to tell."
Ruka turn her head sharply to see Aki's true grin looking at her.
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30 minutes later....
"Finally got to finish my sandwich..." Rua said, as he travel down the hallway. He was constantly itching his butt from the stillness of sitting in his chair from the last smile when he was about a feet near his door. He had his hand place on the doorknob.
"Now to change my underware-"
Rua was interrupt by a blur of green hair flying by him, opening the door to their bedroom, and slamming it right in front of Rua.
It took Rua a while to get what just happen.
"Ru-Ruka?!" Rua pound on the door, horrified at what is happening, "I need to change my underware, can I come in for a second, er, please?"
"No." came the curtly replied of Ruka. The sound of paper from the other side of the door made Rua jump.
"Ruka! Don't tell me you are in story mode!" Rua complain, slumping down to his knees.
There is nothing to break out of Ruka's story mode, and now he must suffer bad underware until then.
Slow-pace story, I should be shot.
Hope you had fun! See you in Chapter 2!