Blah, it's been a little bit more than a year COUGHMORETHANAYEARCOUGH since I last written a fanfiction so it's not going to be that great. Moreover this is the first time I ever writing a fanfiction for YGO in general, but it doesn't make that much of a difference since I'm not involving any duels in this due to my poor inexperience. I was debating in which POV I should have done it, I might even bother (if I'm bored enough and up to it) will write one in Yusei's POV. There will be two parts - probably.

This is somewhat based off one of the shippy scenarios I visualized would be happening while trying to figure out where the hell are Yusei and Aki in the ED sequence by the shining dragon and how they got there. Although this is actually said quite differently from how I imagined it.

Title: Last Breath

Type: Oneshot (Two Parts)

Anime: Yu Gi Oh 5Ds

Pairing: Aki x Yusei

Summary: Aki knew something was going terribly wrong. [ LOL FAIL SUMMARY ]

WARNING: MAY CONTAINS SPOILERS UP TO EPISODE 144

Aki wasn't sure what to do or say. This was the second time she started feeling uncomfortable as she, Crow and Sherry made their way to the core of the Arc Cradle. Her birthmark pulsing against her arm, sending chills down her spine. She was growing even more worried now, not that she wanted to at least. What scared her was she knew, she knew that this nerve-wracking feeling was coming from Yusei's battle, and she was the only one who was getting this feeling. She was so sure when Crow called out for her to hurry, that he was going to mention along the lines that Yusei was in a pinch. However much to her surprise his mark was not glowing like hers. Now with this happening the second time round with the same result as earlier, she was starting to question this mysterious phenomenon, and she was growing more anxious. When it stopped glowing once more, she felt that something was terribly wrong.

Yusei was in no shape to be battling ZONE. His last battle with the loss of Bruno who sacrificed himself in the end to prevent Yusei from being sucked into the black hole broke his heart. Then when ZONE announced that he was Fudo Yusei, that was the final blow leaving Yusei in an unstable state facing an overwhelming amount of shock and despair. It didn't help that anyone who was in the room – and in this case everyone was, were chained up so that they couldn't escape and were forced to sit back and watch Yusei be brutally attacked and wounded. Finally, just when Yusei managed to summon three of the Signers Dragon that everyone given him while Aproria fought to set an example, two of the of the three were instantly destroyed by ZONE's overwhelming power. Yusei fiercely tried his best to prevent his own dragon, Stardust from being destroyed – miserable that he was unable to summon neither Majestic nor Shooting Star Dragon. The room grew silence as Yusei was forced to put a card face down and end his turn with Stardust going into defense. Yusei knew better than anyone else in this room, that he had already lost.

It was as if time was passing more slowly than it should have when ZONE raised his arm and ordered his monster to destroy Stardust. The android like monster charged towards Stardust, piercing it right through and continued to furiously charge full speed towards Yusei. Jack by instinct immediately reacted by grabbed both twins who were fortunately close to him to begin with and forcefully covered their eyes.

As if the universe couldn't have been crueler, it was as if time had stopped the moment the duel monster pierced its weapon, through him. Yusei's blood chilling scream of pain lasted barely lasted even a second. He was silenced and was dropped to the floor like a rag doll, blood furiously flowing out of his severe wounds.

Tears began to flow down Aki's cheeks like a river. She lashed violently against chains holding them down, screaming. She instinctively activated her dueldisk summoning whatever monster she drew first to break the chains that pinned her down. Jack and Crow tried calling out for her to calm down, knowing just how bad it'd be for her to go berserk, fearing that she would rashly attack ZONE herself. But attacking ZONE did not cross her mind at all. All she could think of is getting to Yusei's side try to save him, do something, anything!

When the chains were finally snapped she sprinted to Yusei's side as ZONE himself approached his corpse. Falling onto her knees by Yusei's side, she took his hand and called him name, begging him to not to die how it was too soon for him to die. A small flame of hope flared when his eyes weakly shifted to her, his voice cracked barely making out a whisper, "…on't c…ry…Ki…"

"Don't speak! You'll be okay! Everything will be fine! Don't give up yet!" she said squeezing his hand giving him a determined look as her tears continued to fall.

"Leave him. He's done for."

Aki snapped her head at ZONE who reached for Yusei's fallen deck only to have his robotic hand slapped it away furiously yelling, "Don't you dare touch his deck!" Gripping it protectively in her hand holding it to her chest, "You have already done enough!"

ZONE eyed her and then back at Yusei who coughed up more blood, struggling to move his hand gripped protectively in Aki's. Noticing this she released her grip and watched his arm reach for her face, she held his arm lightly, supporting the weight to reduce his struggle; a sad smile appeared on his lips, "…ank…ou…A…ki." He struggled to speak; she had to lean closer to hear him. His fingers weakly and lightly stroked her cheek, as if trying to wipe the tears from her eye, "…ease…do…e…one…m..ore…vour…"

"A favor?" she asked, he continued, "-ake…ou…Sta…ust…"

"Stardust? You want Stardust?" his arm lowered as she went through his deck and withdrew Stardust from the pack, placing it into his hand. Much to her surprise, instead of trying to hold it up to look at it, or hold it close to him, he grabbed her hand with the last of his strength and firmly set it into her hand and left his hand there knowing that she would try to return it, "please," was the first and only word Yusei was able to pronounce since he been dying there, "…ake…ar…ust."

Aki eyes widen and more tears began to fall, she grew frustrated, "IDIOT! Don't you dare die on me, don't you dare leave us! Stardust belongs to you!" she tried to forcefully return Stardust, but feeling of Yusei's last of his strength doing everything he could to keep her from pushing it back to him made her stop.

When his hand grew cold, Yusei closed his eyes knowing his body was at its limit. His time in this world have come to an end, unable to protect his city, his friends, moreover defeat himself from the future. What bothered him the most was that he was unable to keep his promise of staying alive.