"Yusei, do you ever sleep?"
Once again, Yusei was spending the night with his eyes transfixed to the monitor, writing a program he hoped would give his D-Wheel that extra boost he needed for the upcoming tournament. The increasing popularity of D-Wheels over the course of the past year had shot up dramatically after his win in last year's tournament. With Satellite and Neo Domino City now unified at last, talent from both sides had begun to assemble, creating a much more competitive lineup than years prior. Yusei knew this day would come eventually, in fact, he anticipated it the moment he wrote his first program.
He thrived in competition, he lived for the challenge. In his eyes, nothing was ever perfect. There was always room for improvement. And that thought excited him. He aimed to understand everything. Logic was a type of arcane art reserved for only those who could think beyond the artificial walls created within society, and he aimed to knock down every single wall in pursuit of that art. He wanted to push himself beyond his limit just to see what was there, he wanted to seize the future with both hands and break it down to see what it was made of. Time doesn't wait nor does it favor those who try to slow it down. Never stopping, always changing, to live is to progress, and what a waste it would be to live without creating something new.
"Helloooooo" Crow said, waving his hand in front of Yusei's eyes, "Your soul didn't get sucked into the computer, did it? Because a comatose Yusei one month before the tournament, I'm sorry to say, would suck. Epically."
His concentration broken, Yusei blinked several times and turned to face his friend Crow, squinting his blood-shot eyes to adjust to the surrounding darkness. "Oh... hi." he mumbled.
"Don't say "hi" to me!" Crow scoffed, crossing his arms over his bare chest. "It's 4 in the morning. Only crazy people are up at this hour.."
Yusei had already adverted his attention back to the monitor.
"Ugh." Crow sighed, "You're hopeless..." He looked over at Bruno sprawled out on the couch, his one arm hanging over the sidearm and the other hanging limply on the floor, mouth open and drooling on Crow's favorite pillow. And he was snoring, loudly, too. Crow cringed.
"Yeaah.." he said, turning back to Yusei. "Why don't you put that off until tomorr- err, later today and go get some rest? Yusei?"
"Hmm.. in a bit. I wanna finish this up." Yusei replied, entering in another list of commands.
Crow yawned and sat down in the recliner. It wasn't that he didn't understand how important things like this were to Yusei, it was just every night for the past week that he didn't get. Even super humans need sleep every once and a while... which reminded him.
"Have you eaten anything?"
"Mnn.." Yusei mumbled.
"If I make you some ramen, will you eat it?"
"Mnn.."
"...Is that a yes or a no?"
"Huh?"
"That's it! I'm done trying!" Crow grumbled. Bruno snorted and rolled off the couch. "You're going to turn into a computer if you stare at that thing any longer." He stood up and yanked his pillow out from Bruno's grasp. "Actually" He said, turning back at the foot of the stairs, "You ARE a computer. Only a computer could be so...so insensible." he mumbled the last word and stomped up the stairs, slamming his bedroom door behind him a little harder than he intended.
Crow flopped onto his lumpy bed and pulled his couch pillow over his face. It smelled like drool.
It wasn't that he didn't understand how important things like that were to Yusei, it was just every night for the past week, the other side of his bed was left empty.