Three Months chapter one: The First Month.
Author's Note: Wow… here I am starting another multi-chaptered story! I know…. I promise to finish all the other ones, but this has just been on my mind for days. I decided to watch Yu-Gi-Oh again and here I am…. Writing a 5D's fiction!
Summary: On the first month, she awoke. On the second month, she was officially diagnosed with depression. On the third month—she lost her sanity.
As always, I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, nor its story and characters as it belongs to the respective author.
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On the first week of the first month she awoke.
She opened her eyes and she saw that she was in a dull white room, with a vase of flowers on the table. Doctors immediately rushed in and everything to her became a total blur.
From underneath the oxygen mask, she whispered one name.
Yusei… save me.
But no one could hear her, not even him.
The doctors left and the room became calm again. Someone informed her that her family and friends have been contacted and they were coming to see her.
She had no friends. Without him, who would actually be her friend? Her family, although they had reconciled due to him, they were still always out of town and never cared about her existence. To them—image is everything, even if it meant rejecting their one and only daughter.
To be affiliated with the Black Rose Witch was taboo.
She shut her eyes and starting thinking about him. Only when she dreamed about him, her mind was at complete peace.
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The second time she opened her eyes, she saw her friends… no, his friends, but he always told her that "My friends are your friends," reassuring her that when she wasn't imposing her presence on everyone and that she should stay.
The twins looked at her, staring at her with teary eyes, Jack with his arms crossed and Crow, being absolutely obnoxious in an attempt to relieve some of the tension in the atmosphere.
Then there was Martha, the woman that he called his mother… the closest thing in his heart. She smiled and started stroking her hair. If she was his mother, why couldn't she be her mother as well?
She looked up at the ceiling with her dull brown eyes and then stared at them.
"Aki-nee-san…" Rua began speaking, but couldn't finish his sentence.
Underneath the oxygen mask lay a pale, haggard and sickly girl, not the usual Aki that everyone else knew.
Trudge and Mina walked in, holding cups of coffee and Mina walked over to Jack, offering him some.
"Atlas-sama, please take some coffee!"
He took it without a word, despite the fact that it was as he called it, "commoner's coffee," and drank it. He was completely silent.
He didn't know what happened three weeks ago, yet he felt like part of it was his fault. He failed to protect her as he promised Yusei he would.
'Yusei…'
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No one spoke. Slowly, everyone started leaving one-by-one as they couldn't bear watching her anymore. It was just too heartbreaking and everyone left extremely distraught.
No one even knew what happened.
All they knew was that Yusei and Aki were found in the city unconscious. No one knew how they ended up there.
Everyone came everyday visiting Yusei and occasionally they would stop by at Aki's room. Jack and Crow helped bring all the children from Satellite to the city where they could visit Yusei twice a week. Martha would go to Yusei's and then Aki's room, stroking her hair and muttering loving things to her.
One time after Martha left, Aki cried. A single tear fell from her closed eye.
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In the middle of the third week of the first month, Aki was officially discharged from the hospital.
The nurse put her on a wheelchair and attached an oxygen mask on her.
They walked down the hall and Aki saw the sign on the door.
Fudo Yusei.
She raised her hand and the nurse stopped. She wanted to go in that room. The nurse opened his door and pushed Aki in.
"Yusei…" she whispered.
How could he not awake before her? That was impossible. She thought that she had suffered more damage than he had. The Yusei she had painted in her mind was one who was indestructible, impervious to pain. To her, he was immortal.
She touched his cheek, which was slightly bruised and then traced her finger around the markings on his face. She fitted his hand around her hand so it was like they were holding hands together. She smiled for the first time in a whole month.
Although she had to leave the room, it was like they were holding hands for all eternity.
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On the third day of the third week, her parents finally came home.
They welcomed her with open arms and showered her with gifts.
They were happy she was home and began with the pampering session she had missed for over ten years.
It felt different that she was home… but to her, it didn't feel like she was at home. Home was never home without him… being next to him, even standing in the same room—that was home to her.
This place that her parents talked about was just a house to her, but not a home. These people that were identified as her parents she never really considered her parents.
As her parents were conversing over dinner and chattering to Aki about their trip to different parts of Japan, she closed her eyes and wished that it would all just stop. The noise was just too much… it was suffocating.
"Aki? Aki…" her mother began saying, "Are you okay? Do you need to go to bed?"
Aki got up and her father immediately stood up, attempting to help her. She shook away from his grasp and slowly walked away on her own.
She didn't need her father's help, as she didn't want any pity. If her parents were cared about her, then they would have canceled their trip to stay by her side. Gifts meant nothing to her, as they were just extra junk that would be storage in her room.
She tried climbing the stairs on her own, relying heavily on the banisters and started breathing deeply.
She didn't need anyone's help. All she need was him… and at the time that she really needed him, he failed to come and save her.
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Everyday was the same to her. You get up, eat, walk around, eat again, sleep and the whole process begins again the next day.
It was repetitive. Living like this was suffocating. She remained cooped up in her room most of the days, sketching and drawing her surroundings around her.
She closed her eyes and thought about the twins. She thought about Jack and Crow, always trying to improve their Duel Runners and then there was him.
She could draw a million pictures of him… it was all she saw in her mind. She closed her eyes and tried to imagine him.
For the first time, her mind was a blank; she couldn't see him. All she could see was her dragon.
'Black Rose Dragon…'
Looking at her deck, she quickly shuffled her cards and looked for her dragon.
She looked at the card and held it close to her heart. The Signers all had a strong bond through their birthmarks and their dragons—somehow she dreamed that if she held her dragon close to her heart, Yusei could get her message of help and would wake up.
She knew it wouldn't work, it was all a dream that she made up. Everything to her was a dream.
She began drawing her dragon: big, ferocious and beautiful. It was a force of nature, yet its Rose Gale was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen.
After Black Rose Dragon came Rose Fairy and Rose Knight. Eventually, she began making a collage of all her monsters and looked at them. She missed dueling and wanted to duel someone. Her parents refused and didn't allow her to. The doctors said that it would be too much on her physically and mentally if she dueled again. It was just too much.
But to her, everything everyone else said was nothing. To her, they were all strangers that were giving advice. She refused to listen to them. Dueling was her passion, and she wanted to continue what she loved doing.
And this time, she found a good reason why she wanted to duel.
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On the last week, Aki was finally able to walk around slowly with help.
She was able to leave her room and walk around the gardens, admiring the flowers and landscape.
She looked at the roses and sighed.
Her mother found Aki everyday at the rose garden, sketching and drawing. Aki never talked but got up every morning and walked straight to the gardens, not uttering a single word.
Yusei was quiet. She thought that if she was quiet too, she could feel his aura in her presence.
The drawing that was supposed to be her Rose Knight turned out to look like Yusei's face without her knowing it.
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On the last day of the first month, she woke up and looked at her calendar.
Every day, she would walk to her calendar and draw a giant red X on every day.
Every X stood for the day she stayed at home, away from the public, and away from all of her friends.
She wasn't allowed to go outside since her mother said that it was too unhealthy for her to be outside in the sun for long hours.
It drained her energy—that was true. She loved it.
But feeling like she had no more energy reminded her when she had a hundred life points in a duel. Even if you were losing, you had to keep on going just to finish and to win.
She didn't care about how exerting her energy wasn't good for her health—at this point; she didn't even care about her body. She needed a rush; endorphin rushes that would keep her on a high and would make her forget about everything in her life.
She looked out the window and saw a black limo come towards the house.
Out came a man, one who was very distinguished and was wearing a suit talking to her parents. Aki looked down at her lap and closed her eyes.
Even though she had changed—no one wanted to be known as the "Parents of the Black Rose Witch." Being an important political figure in Neo Domino City, her parents tried to keep their names out of the paparazzi and away from media attention.
And the fact that her parents gave birth to a… monster… once everyone knew, than everyone would hate them and would impeach her father.
Aki looked at her hands and said, "I am a monster."
She put her hands on her face in front of her eyes and cried.
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So here it is. Kinda short? Yes….
It's definitely a different perspective of Aki and it's very Aki-centered. It's semi-poetic and I just thought about it in school and started writing about it.
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Please note that this has NOT been edited yet and I do not have a beta.