Bound by Destiny

Hey there, peoples of fanfiction. Here is my second Yusei and Akiza fanfic. This has absolutaly nothing to do with the manga or the anime, nor will it involve any form of the Yu-Gi-Oh card game. Instead, the story will be have a more fantasy/ middle ages feel to it. There will be no guns, vehicles, or modern day technology, but there will be castles, kings, queens, princes, swords, bows and arrows, sorcery and all that good stuff. The plot is simple. Yusei is a prince with a secret hidden even from his parents, while Akiza is a mercenary/apprentice sorceress with an even bigger secret that may bring about the destruction of the country. Anyways, on with the disclaimer.

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds or the characters. I only own this plot and any characters I make up.

Chapter 1: Special Assignment

It had been a relatively quiet night in the land of New Domino, except for one area in a forest, where a girl was running through it. Tree limbs cutting into her arms as she flew by. Rough bramble scratching at her legs as she pouded through the forest. Needles and leaves getting caught in her dark burgundy hair. A wicked dagger held firmly in her pale hands. All of this was happening to Akiza at the moment, but she took no notice of these things. Her amber eyes were completely focused on the man running away from her. The small scratches would pale in comparison to the wound she had in plan for the man.

The man she was chasing was considered to be quite a looker to the women in the village. He was the classic tall, dark, and mysterious man that many women seemed to crave. He had jet-black hair that came to his shoulders and piercing brown eyes. His crooked smile could charm almost any normal girl.

She had already cursed herself for getting into this situation in the first place. The man should not have been able to breathe, much less run. But, of course, everything had gone wrong. Even from the beginning of her mission, things were off. She should have just marked the mission as a failure and gone home. But Akiza Izinski is not one known for failure. 46 assignments, 46 deaths, no failures. That was her record. She would not fail to bring in this man who had just gotten lucky.

Though she did wonder just how much luck this guy actually had. There seemed to be no end to his good fortune. It had all started two days after she had arrived in the town. Akiza was part of a hidden society of trained mercenaries called the Arcadia Movement. She was the best they had, aside from her leader and significant friend, Sayer, of course. Her newest assignment was to kill a cocky pretty boy who was taking advantage of the town's females.

It was a simple assignment: get to know where the guy goes and stick him in the head with an arrow, then return. Simple. But, after a while of surveillance on the guy, Akiza began to notice some changes in his behavior. He began to seem sort of nervous and started to pay large, strong men to act as guards. It was if she had been discovered. But that was impossible, she thought. No one but the Sayer knows what I'm doing here. Whatever the cause, she eventually found a way to kill him quickly and quietly.

Every Tuesday, the man would walk to a neighboring village for a drink with his perverted buddies. They would talk about every girl they had sex with over the week, get drunk, then stay the night at the inn, and go home together in the morning. Akiza had decided that the best time to take him out would be on his walk through the woods to the town to meet his buddies. She had set up in a tree and cocked an arrow, prepared to launch it and then run before the two guards who accompanied him even knew he was dead.

At least, that was the plan. Things did not go so smoothly, though. She had waited until he came by. The tree she was in had given her a perfect shot as his head. She had launched the arrow as soon as he came in sight. It was on target... Then a guard tripped. He took the arrow in the temple instead of the target man. Chaos ensued. Akiza cursed, drew her dagger, dropped to the ground, and slit the other guards throat. Only the man was left now. When he saw her, he screamed and rand. Akiza chased him.

He was surprisingly fast. Eventually, he managed to disappear from her sights. She looked all around but couldn't find him. She let loose a string of curses and prepared to head back. That is, until she found herself on the ground, looking up at her target. He now had a wicked grin and she could see why. He had her dagger in his hands. He had hit her in the back of the neck and picked up her dagger that fell when she did. That was her only weapon aside from her bow and arrows.

"I knew you were following me little girl" he said as he stared at the v-cut in her shirt. He made no attempt to disguise the fact that he was checking her out.

Despite the fact that he disgusted her, she only said one word. "How?" She had to keep him talking, wait until he let his guard down. The situation was too delicate to jump up and just attack him outright.

"I have my sources" he said as he ran his eyes up and down her body. Then he stopped and looked her straight in the face, still wearing his crooked smile on his face. "Now I just need to figure out what to do with you. I should just kill you know, but you have such a great bod that it would be a real waste, and I wouldn't stand fucking a corpse." He pondered this for a little bit. Then his eyes lit up. "How about this, I kill you as we have sex, right here, right now. That way, I get my to have some fun as I see the life run out of your body."

Akiza had become enraged. This failed target not only outmanuevered her and took her favorite dagger, but he had dared to attempt to rape her? She could feel her powers building inside her, strengthening as her emotions grew stronger, grew angrier. It was like an explosion in her body and the only way to quell that power was to release her powers. The only thing in the way of that was her modified hair curler.

She quickly ripped the hair curler out of her hair. Her long bangs fell in front of her face. Before the man could react she used her powers on him. A thick vine shot up from the ground and wrapped around the man's wrist, thorns digging far into his skin. The dagger fell from his hand. Three more vines rose from the ground as Akiza stood up and stared at the man mercilessly. The vines wrapped themselves around his other wrists and his legs, making him fall on to the ground in the same position Akiza had been in just a few moments ago.

The man was absolutaly terrified now. "What the hell are you?" he asked Akiza. She now wore a creepy smile on her face. She was enjoying his fear and pain. Seeing these emotions on his face gave her sheer pleasure. Finally poeple would suffer as much as she had...

"You may call me the Black Rose Witch." She flicked her wrist and immediately a fifth vine appeared, this one through his chest. His entrails were lodged in the thorns on the tip of the vine. He cried out in agony for a few seconds and then was forever silenced. After a few minutes of reveling in the man's death, Akiza took on her usual stoic expression. She summoned many vines which encased the man's body and dragged into the ground, shrouding him from any other people forever. Her mission complete, Akiza went back to the inn, picked up the rest of her stuff, payed the innkeeper, and started on the long path home.


"Congratulations on another successful mission, Akiza" said a man with brown hair and who was wearing a lon trench coat, "But I heard you had a few difficulties along the way."

Akiza flushed in anger. Of course the man, Sayer, would know about her blunder. That was one of his psychic abilities, like her ability to control plants in nature. He was able to read minds, that is how he always knew whether someone had succeeded or failed and also made him their leader. Known only to Akiza, though, he also had the powers of Telekinesis, the ability to throw objects with his mind.

"My target just seemed to be very lucky" said Akiza through clenched teeth. She actually was troubled on the inside, though. The man had said that he had inside information on her. This troubled her. Sayer had raised an eyebrow and Akiza realized that he probably had just read her mind again, but he pressed the matter no more.

"Well, now that you are back, we can begin the meeting to determine who gets the special assignment." Akiza nodded and followed Sayer through the hallways of the Arcadia Movement to the meeting room. She was trembling with excitement. This past month had all been about the special assignment. Only one of the mercenaries in the Movement would be able to attempt it. The mercenary who did the best in the last month would get the assignment. She had sworn that she would be the one to receive it and prove that she was the best, but her latest partial blunder made her think that she may not obtain it.

All the other members of the Movement were in the took a seat near some of the older and experienced fighters but didn't talk to them. She never really befriended anyone else except Sayer, who had taken his place at the head of the meeting.

"You all have so well this month" started Sayer, "but, as you all know, only one of you can receive the assignment you all have been hoping to earn." No one spoke. When Sayer talked, they all listened. "I have finally come to a decision. The one to receive the assignment shall be... Akiza Izinski!" He pointed at her.

Akiza was shocked, but she seemed to be the only one as everyone else started to file out of the room. "But my last target had figured out I was following him."

Sayer laughed. He stopped as the last person left the room. "Akiza, I was the one who told them that someone had been sent to kill him. We needed to make sure that you could complete your mission even if your target knew you could be trying to kill him. Before we sent you on that mission, it had already been decided that you would take the special assignment, so we needed to prepare you for it, and you passed. Besides, you are the only one powerful enough to complete this mission, aside from me, that is."

Needless to say, Akiza was angry. Hell, she was pissed. She had been tricked into taking an assignment that was even more dangerous than it had appeared to be. Not only that, but the person she trusted more than anyone else in the whole world, had deliberately set her up for a fall.

She took a deep breath before letting her anger get the better of her. Though she didn't like it, she did understand why Sayer did what he did. Most of the time, her assignments were finished by an arrow to the target's throat. Sayer needed to know that she could handle a chase and close-quarters combat as well. She realized just how important this new assignment must be if Sayer was taking this many precautions.

"So what exactly is my oh-so-important special assignment now?" asked Akiza. "Is it multiple people or some other mercenary group that has been getting in our way or what? Do I have make it look like an accident?"

Sayer smiled in a sort of evil way that Akiza had never been able to pick up on. "It is a simple assassination. You only need to kill one person and it can be done any way you want. This may sound easy, but the person who must kill is a unique individual. The man's name is Yusei Fudo, the only heir to the rulers of our land of New Domino.


Well, that's it for the first chapter. I know cliffhangers are a pain, but you guys will just have to live with it. Tell me what you guys think. Please read and review. See ya!