Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh GX

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Two Sides to Every Story

Jaden was away from his three best friends Takuto, Meroko, and Izumi whilst sitting at the top of some cliffs that surrounded the ocean. These cliffs however, were a part of a school that Jaden once attended called Duel Academy. This was the top dueling school in the world founded by the one and only Seto Kiba, one the best duelists in the world and only second to one, Yugi Moto and possibly Jaden himself.

"Ju-di…" Izumi called.

Jaden realized his friends must've been searching around for him since he did leave without warning the gang.

"I'm coming; I'm coming just hold on Izumi." Jaden replied slightly dazed.

"Jeez, Judai next time would ya warn me that your gonna run off before I get a heart attack or something." Takuto replied with annoyance evident in his voice.

"Yeah Judai who knows what we'd do without you." Meroko chirped from behind Takuto.

Jaden is a shinigami, or a harbinger of death. And because they are all in the pediatrics department, they have special outfits.

Izumi wears a yellow long sleeved dress shirt with a collar and black cufflinks with two yellow strips, black vest on top with a red tie tucked inside, long black pants, black dress shoes, with a black cap with two floppy dog ears on top of his chin length golden honey blonde hair, and a medium sized pair of white wings.

Meroko wears a red lacey outfit that covers her chest with a pair of medium sized wings, a matching skirt with a belt, long white stockings that reach her calves, red boots, red gloves, and a red top hat with rabbit ears pocking out from the top and covering part of her cotton candy light pink hair with curls on the sides and ends of her long flowing hair.

Takuto wears a half cut long sleeved black shirt covered by a long white trench coat, long blue jeans, large black shoes, a moss green backpack with his medium sized wings coming out, and two gloves with blue on the edges with a white plushy cat face on the front and cut off by the finger tips, he has his sleek black hair that is as dark as night and it is tied up in the back with a purple ribbon his former band mate Aoi gave him before he died, and a cap with cat ears on his head to match his white cat tail.

Jaden wears a half-length red blazer jacket without a collar with gold cufflinks and black buttons, which had three buttons and a diamond shaped logo with a cheerful smiling cat at the top right hand comer of his jacket, a tight black shirt underneath the jacket, a red scarf tied around his neck (A/N: like Fred from Scooby-Doo), a belt with a buckle that says DA (Death's Angel or Duel Academy), black skinny jeans with a gold tailored trim rolled up a little on the bottom, with black high topped shoes with a red spirals at the ankles, one glove that has a yellow smiley face and is cut off at the finger tips, a pair of medium sized wings, and cat ears adorning the top of his head full of chocolate brown hair that is a sunburnt orange at the top, he also has a brown cat tail and a red top hat with a gold streak in the middle and cat whiskers along with a tiny cat nose and smile on the hat.

He, Izumi, Takuto, and Meroko are all the top four shinigami (1), and it is there job to collect the souls of all people who demonstrate inhumane behavior towards others. Even though they all are in the pediatrics department they have taken the lives of millions of people older than 21 who were cruel and didn't really have the motivation to live or do not deserve the gift of life. Each one of them has their own style of collecting a soon to be lost soul.

Izumi uses his bow of purity and shots an arrow at the heart to collect a soul. Takuto sings into the ear of the soon to be dead person. Meroko always gives a kiss on the cheek, and Jaden…well, you never, ever, EVER want to get on Jaden's bad side, or want him to be the one to collect your soul; but don't be deceived for Jaden has collected the most souls in shinigami history apart from the Grim Reaper.

"Yeah, yeah I know…but something feels familiar about this place. I just don't know what." Jaden said.

"Judai if it has to do with your past, please don't try to force any memories on yourself. If you remember everything about your past you'll be turned into a ghost, for sure." Meroko declared warily.

"Humph, don't worry about it Judai. I've already remembered all of my past before and I'm still perfectly fine." Takuto stated rather victoriously.

"Idiot, you could only do that after Me-chan almost died trying to retrieve the flower of forgetfulness for you from the other world. Not to mention the fact that you still lost your powers, risked Miki's life, almost turned into a ghost, became human again, and now work as a part time shinigami which might I add shouldn't be possible, all just so you could prove to me that you're not a complete failure, and to help cleanse the world of rotten people." Izumi stated calmly with a smile on his face secretly knowing just how to push Takuto's buttons.

Meroko and Jaden exchanged glances and tried their hardest to stifle their laughs as Takuto's face became red hot in anger due to Izumi's accuracy and mockery of his past life experiences.

"Ugh! Izumi!" Takuto shrieked in anger.

"Yesss, what do you want Ta-kun." Izumi replied nonchalantly.

"I told you not to call me that!" Takuto hollered.

Takuto was so angry you could literally see the steam coming out from his ears. This destroyed any of Jaden's left over will power that previously prevented him from fighting his urge to laugh. Jaden shot one more look at Takuto and burst into laughter. Once Meroko saw Jaden laughing at Takuto, her own will power had begun waning itself she began laughing along with Jaden. Meroko flew over to Jaden because he had laughed so hard that he was starting to cry, so Meroko pulled out a tissue from her top hat for Jaden. Izumi, from seeing Jaden and Meroko laughing cracked his own genuine Izumi smile that only a few people could lure from hiding, and Jaden was one of those few people. Soon afterwards, Izumi had started laughing himself. Because of this Takuto's face had become so red it'd put a ripe cherry tomato to shame.

"Oh so you think this is funny Izumi, well I'll show you funny…" Takuto declared extremely angry.

Takuto began to throw reckless punches at Izumi's laughing form but he still skillfully dodged them while Jaden and Meroko were still too busy laughing their heads off like there's no tomorrow to notice anything. Until one punch hit Izumi square in the jaw which made him clumsily, stumble backwards, this was unusual for a person with as much stamina as Izumi had. That was where Jaden drew the line; he was never fond of violence especially between friends. This was one of Jaden's few pet peeves.

Jaden decided that he had to be the middle man in this type of situation as he has several other instances before and after his death.

"Guys!" Jaden intervened. "Calm down…"

"What do you mean CALM DOWN, Izumi is making a fool out of me. Isn't that why you and Meroko were laughing at me, Judai." Takuto replied ferociously.

"Well…yeah, you should've seen it though Takuto you had steam coming out of ears." Jaden replied dumbly.

"Oh really…" Takuto questioned.

"Yup." A deterred Jaden stated.

"Then I'll show you something even funnier." Takuto said slowly.

"What is it?"

"THIS!" Takuto shouted

He quickly flew over to Izumi and punched him in the gut. This made Izumi fly backwards towards blue painted dorms the size of castles.

"Izumi!" Jaden and Meroko shouted in unison.

Jaden's face became one of serious focus as he flew in front of Takuto in literally less than a second. However, in his blind rage Takuto threw punches in the air hoping to land a hit on who he thought was Izumi.

"Stop, NOW." Jaden said as he stopped evading Takuto's attacks. But Takuto didn't hear on time and accidentally punched Jaden's check.

"Dude, you really know how to throw a punch." Jaden complimented still in his same spot in front of Takuto instead of falling backwards.

"Sorry Judai, that was really uncool of me to lose my temper." Takato apologized sincerely.

"It's okay, man." Jaden responded.

"Well in my opinion Takuto should get his temper a leash if it's so difficult to control." Meroko grumpily stated while helping Izumi stand up.

"It's okay Me-chan, Ta-kun's just insecure so everything I say hurts his feelings deeply." Izumi stated with a sly smile.

"WHAT! I am not insecure, are you insinuating that I'm still going through puberty or something." Takuto questioned Izumi.

"Humph, more like metamorphosis but call it whatever you like at least we're on the same page for once." Izumi quickly retorted.

"IZUMI!" Takato hollered in sheer frustration.

"Dude seriously, didn't you just apologize for losing your temper, and now you want to start picking fights with Izumi again. That's no better than how we started before." Jaden whined unhappily to the group.

"Oh silly Ju-di, haven't you noticed by now Ta-kun's obviously the reincarnation of a broken record."

"WAH!" Takuto said baffled.

"Just so you know Ta-kun I meant broken in the head." Izumi stated simply.

"OOOH B to the URN! Wow! Takuto, Izumi got you good." Jaden stated dumbly once again.

"Judai, whose side are you on anyway…" Takuto and Meroko questioned.

"Wait we were supposed to take sides I didn't know, so when are we supposed to turn our ballots…and um… where do we get our ballots from?" Jaden openly wondered.

"It was only figuratively speaking Judai…sometimes you're so dense." Meroko stated slightly miffed.

"Yeah I know, but that's why ya love me…" Jaden said with one of his megawatt Jaden Yuki smiles that no one could resist.

"Whatever…" Meroko replied while giggling at Jaden's always handsome smiling face.

"Hey Meroko give me some credit I distracted Takuto long enough for him to calm down so Izumi won't have any new material to use to make fun of poor little Ta-kun." Jaden replied smugly.

"Don't call me Ta-kun!" Takato pouted instead of yelled like he would've if Izumi had called him Ta-kun.

"Okay Ta-kun…" Izumi said happily.

"Why you—" Takuto started but was cut off mid phrase.

"Don't even start that again Takuto my cheek still hurts from the last time you started throwing reckless punches at Izumi." Jaden quickly added in order to guilt Takuto into calming down.

"Oh yeah sorry 'bout that Judai." Takuto blushed in embarrassment.

"Well I'm not." Meroko stated gleefully.

"Why?" Jaden questioned

"Because I can give you a kiss on the cheek to make your boo-boo feel better." Meroko stated in a matter-of-fact tone. All three of the guys sweat dropped in confusion.

"Um Meroko…don't your kisses kill people." Jaden wondered.

"Yeah." Meroko stated point blank.

"So why would you want to give me a kiss on cheek…are you trying to kill me?!" Jaden said in mock pain.

"Well it doesn't matter." Meroko stated calmly.

"What do you mean it doesn't matter, don't you care about me." Jaden whined pouting out his lip in the ultimate puppy dog face.

"No, no it's not that I don't like you in fact I love you and Takuto, but…" Meroko started.

"What no love for me Me-chan I am deeply offended." Izumi stated in a mock hurt voice.

"But what?" Jaden pondered aloud ignoring Izumi completely.

"Well Judai you're already dead, so it doesn't matter." Meroko said also ignoring Izumi to prevent awkwardness.

"Oh yeahhhhh…" Jaden replied dim-wittedly. Takato slapped his forehead and Izumi sighed and put his hands in his pockets in a disapproving manner. Meroko flew close to Jaden and started leaning in for her kiss.

Jaden flew in the direction opposite of Meroko this continued for two and a half hours until they were at a distance far away from Takuto and Izumi. Jaden stopped when he noticed Meroko was out of breath.

"I don't really want a kiss." Jaden truthfully replied.

"NO, really?!…I thought you were avoiding me for two hours because you wanted a kiss from me!" Meroko, who was now on the verge of tears, yelled at Jaden angrily.

"Now, now no tears from my favorite bunny, okay." Jaden stated simply.

"But, no one ever seems to return my feelings I just feel like people enjoy rejecting me now." Meroko said while thinking of Takuto's numerous rejections and how hurtfully Izumi broke up with her.

"That's not true; I would NEVER let any of my friends feel any type of pain just for my own amusement and to prove it to you..." Jaden bowed his head respectfully and pulled Meroko's hand close to his face and gently left a delicate kiss on Meroko's hand.

"Meroko I want you to remember that I care about you and you'll always have a place in my heart as one of my closest friends." Just to be nice Jaden pulled Meroko closer to himself and slowly gave her a tender (A/N: FRIENDLY!) kiss on the cheek.

Meroko was awestruck at Jaden's endless amounts of sincerity and kindness towards others. Meroko wondered if it was possible that for once, her feelings were being returned and someone, Jaden, actually loves her for who she is and just the thought of it truly made her happy.

"Remember." Jaden said in an unusually serious tone. Jaden gave Meroko a tight hug as he whispered in her ear "Never doubt your importance as a person or member of our squad and never change yourself for somebody else including me." He pulled away from there hug and pulled a rose from out of nowhere and kissed a pedal placing it securely in Meroko's hands. Meroko found it hard to believe but she might even love Jaden more than she ever did Takuto.

"Thank you so much Judai-kun, you don't know how much this means to me." Meroko said as tears cascaded down her face.

"Anything for a friend right." Jaden stated happily while wiping off her tears with his thumb. And sticking out two of his fingers after winking, in other words he was striking his signature pose.

"Right!" Meroko replied just as happily.


Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh GX or Full Moon wo Sagashite

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