Spread your blue wing, Aoi!
Disclaimer: I don´t own anything except the concept. Yugioh is owned by Kasuki Takahashi
Chapter one:
Here we go again, is time to give the audience what they came for, a little glance of their favorite girl. If only they knew what kind of person they're cheering for. My name is Aoi Zaizen, aka. Blue Angel, the most popular Idol in Link Vrains, right now I´m having a duel against one of the fans who usually challenge me whenever I enter the game. Even when most of the people thinks I´m dueling just for fame or to be idolize by my fans I have other motives to do it. More… personal motive. My brother, Akira is the head of the security division on SOL Technology, so he doesn´t have a lot of time to spare for his little sister. I know he loves though, always trying his best to protect and look out for me since mom and dad died. But he tends to be overprotective with me, especially with my "condition" (As my neighbors usually whisper whenever they see me). I need to prove to him that I´m not a little girl anymore, that I can stand up for myself and make the world accept who I am.
But anyways, back to the duel, I have this guy on the ropes, just this turn and everything will be over, my fans will be cheering, and I'll go back to the real world, alone in my room waiting for my brother´s usual call of the day. So, it´s time to give it my all to pretend to be this perfect girl everyone sees.
-Everyone! Here I come! - I shout to my fans who are watching outside of Link Vrains- And now get ready for this! This will be the end! – I turn my head around to see my best friend floating besides me ready to end this, she nods at me with a smile and I declare the attack- Trickstar Holly Angel! Direct Attack! – as I say this she spreads her wings and prepares to take down my opponent. It´s over in an instant and my victory is declared – This is it! Everyone, be good until my next live show! See ya! Bye bye! – I say while I make a pose for the camera and prepare to disconnect from the server.
I wake up in my living room, sitting on the sofa I use to enter Link Vrains, my duel disk is saying something but I decide to ignore it, probably just notifying me about my recent disconnection from the game. I stand up and take a bottle of water, walk over to the loveseat we have, and take a sip of water while I watch outside the window. Everything is slightly orange because of the sunset. Tall building is all I can see, except for an occasional bird flying around. Everything inside the apartment is dead quiet until Holly Angel appears besides me and snaps me out of my trance.
-So, we totally rocked today or what? - she says with her usual cheerful voice. I wasn´t expecting her to appear without any warnings so I almost spit my water because of the sudden jump scare.
-You almost make me spit my water- I reproach her while trying to calm down- I´ve told you thousands of times to not appear from nowhere-
-But if I take you on that, where would all the fun go? – I can´t help but chuckle a little at that. She is my best friend after all, the only one who has been with me and has accepted me for who I am without any kind of prejudice of any sort. Ever since I was little, 4 or 5 years old, I have been able to see duel spirits. At first I didn´t knew what they were so I just treated them like any other friend, but when I tried to introduce them with my classmates they told me I was crazy, duel monsters couldn´t possibly be our friends because they weren´t real. The other kids started avoiding me as much as they could, and it only got worse when I came out of the closet.
-Let's go Angie, it´s best if we get comfortable for my brothers call, you know how he gets when I don´t answer him as soon as it rings- I get up and head towards my bedroom, lay down on my bed and watch as Angie sits on the edge of the bed. My brother called me almost as soon as we got into the bed, he apologized as usual for not being able to come home early today, I just told him it didn´t matter, it was for the best of us both. After the call, I prepared my things for the next day and went to bed, today will be just like today. It always is…
Meanwhile in a Hotdog truck
Ignis, Shoichi and Yusaku were watching the duel Blue Angel just won, while Ignis and Yusaku concentrated on her strategies, for different reasons non the less, Shoichi was looking for information about the dueling Idol. It wasn´t much but with the bits of info that he discovered he was already planning a way to use them to their advantage.
-Just as I thought, this is amazing- Shoichi told his two partners- Look at this- in the screen appeared a picture of a young girl, around Yusaku's age- Aoi Zaizen, 16 years old, she is the little sister of the security chief on SOL Technology, and the true identity of Blue Angel-
-Really? -asked Ignis with a surprised face.
-And? – replied Yusaku.
- "And?" – Shoichi looked at him as if it was a joke - Don't you notice anything strange with her uniform? – If Yusaku couldn't pinpoint this one out Shoichi will seriously start to fear for the boy´s social skills. Even Ignis realized what was happening- Can't you see what you have right in front of your nose? -
-She goes to my school? – Yusaku finally realized.
-Exactly, I thought that if you get close to her you could obtain information about your lost memories and the location of my brother from Zaizen himself – suddenly a grin appeared in his lips- But I know this is impossible-
- Why is it impossible- asked Ignis confused.
-Because we´re talking about Yusaku. Can you honestly imagine him talking with a girl? -
- You're right, it´s certainly impossible-
- Exactly, impossible, impossible, impossib…- he was suddenly interrupted by Yusaku who told them something that shocked the other two.
-You two are right, it will be impossible. Look closer to her personal information. Aoi is a boy – this revelation left the other hacker and the AI frozen in place. If Aoi was a boy, the things he did made no sense. Except if…
-Yusaku, Aoi is probably a trans girl – it was the only conclusion Shoichi could get from all of that.
- Sorry, but what does that mean? -Ask Ignis, and for the first time Yusaku was happy his partner was so curios.
-Boy this is going to be a very long night- he stood up to take a sausage and a soda from the fridge- listen you two, because this is very important for you to understand- he started explaining the meaning of the term, what it implied and all he considered important for those two to learn about non-binary people. Al least 2 hours passed before both understood everything.
- After all of this, I feel like I need to apologize – said Yusaku surprising the others- I said she was a male and I was wrong so I´m sorry, I'll see if it is possible for me to become close with her- he stood up and took his duel disk- I'm going to go home, see you tomorrow Shoichi-
-Good night Yusaku- when the door closed he just let out a sigh- that boy sure is something else. I really hope this doesn´t come back to screw with us-
Only time could tell, and they didn't even know how much this would change their lifes.