A/N: Written for the Diversity Writing Challenge, e9 - a drabble novel (like how you would write a regular multichap) with "chapters" under 500 words, and for the Mini-Fic Masterclass, #5 - The AT Tracks.
his guard and his goaler
1.
When Kogami Ryoken met Fujiki Yuusaku for the first time, he didn't learn his full name, or where he lived, or what his favourite colour was. He only knew the boy held a deck and could duel, and that meant he'd be able to help them with their research.
But Fujiki left without a word and it was days before he saw him again.
When Kogami Ryoken met Fujiki Yuusaku for the second time, he learnt what it meant to be uncertain, to be lost, to be scared. Because his father was a kind man and trying to save humanity… and yet they were screaming, this boy was screaming…
He shouldn't have looked. He shouldn't have looked but he did and now he knew, and he knew that face as well and now it wouldn't leave him. And he couldn't leave things like that either, could he?
Though if he'd known he'd be trading a tentative friend for his father, he would have left it forever. But that was easy to say in retrospect.
It was also easy to dig himself into a hole the third time he met Fujiki Yuusaku, but he also couldn't repeat his mistake twice in a row, could he?