A/N: It has been three years (more than that) since I submitted claims for the gx_100 and 5ds_100 challenges. So I was digging through my old HDD the other day (to search for my old Fusionshipping stuff) and I found that I actually did finish a prompt for Aki's one. Woah. Apparently I was more of an avid writer at age 16 than me currently at age 18. Haha!
Title: To Accede
Character/Pairing/Group: Izayoi Aki
Prompt: 46 - Twisted
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Angst
Pairing: N/A.
Summary: She's twisted. A demon. That's what they always say. She never claimed otherwise.
Notes: Set pre-series. Do forgive me for my errors. I've forgotten the details of Aki's back story completely – the info I have now is fuzzy at most.
Silence. She always watched silently as her opponent – foolish ones who dared to challenge her in a pathetic attempt to prove their own worth by bringing the infamous Black Rose Witch down – convulse in pain and collapse onto the floor from her dragon's attack.
The crowd was silent, and she could see people whispering, cowering in fear and looking at her as if she was a monster, in her peripheral vision. All these never mattered; she stopped caring a long time ago.
Why bother? Why bother about how they view her? Why bother sparing her opponent the pain when they haven't even been through a fraction of what she had?
After all, physical pain is nothing compared to mental torture.
"Did you see that? She just…"
"… A demon…"
"That's really scary..."
"I mean, she can't be older than sixteen, how twisted can she get?"
When it's obvious that the crowd was just going to continue whispering amongst themselves and no one else is going to be brave enough to step up and challenge her, she withdrew her Black Rose Dragon card from her duel disk, turned on her heels, and started to leave – the crowd parting for her out of fear.
She'd heard what they said, and she didn't care. She never defended herself against what they saw her as. Twisted? She never claimed that she wasn't – whether it's the Black Rose Witch or the one who lies under the mask.
Because, why deny the truth?
A/N: I'm... not sure if I would continue on with these challenges. I mean, 5D's was so long ago (and GX even longer). I don't even watch YGO anymore to be truthful. I'll generate one out every now and then, sure. But I think I'll just post whatever I had written three years back up :)
