AnimeKiwi369: Wow. This got more attention than I thought it would.

Anny: That's a good thing right?

AnimeKiwi369: Yes. I wasn't expecting this to get 9 reviews, 12 favorites, and 9 story alerts. I thought it would be a lower count.

Anny: That's good. Even if it was sad in the prologue.

AnimeKiwi369: It's sad a lot. Fair warning.

Anny: Okay.

AnimeKiwi369: But there will be its happy parts and funny parts and suspenseful parts.

Anny: Oh, no.

AnimeKiwi369: But this is a happier-note chapter.

Anny: That's good.

AnimeKiwi369: This chapter has a lot of dialogue in it and so will the first part of the story will. So I'll get on with it. I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's or its characters, but I do own the plot and all my own characters.

Psychic Connections

Chapter 1

Thirteen Years Later…

"Dad!" Fifteen year-old Anny shouted as her father came into the house they shared with Crow and Dove from the job he worked when he didn't have a turbo duel. She rushed over to him, throwing her arms around him hard enough to knock them both down. She was almost sixteen, but she loved her dad and when he was around, she felt like a little kid again.

"Easy, Anny." Yusei told her, "I'm not as young as I used to be, you know."

"I missed you; I haven't seen you since last night." It was true. Her father did work an awful lot it seemed; maybe he was still trying to fill the void her mother had left all those years ago. "Sorry," she apologized with a small laugh. She got off her father's chest and helped him up.

"I'm definitely not as young as I used to be." He said with a slightly tired smile, and kissed his daughter's forehead, "Hi, sweetheart. I missed you, too."

She noticed the small stack of papers in his hand: the mail. "Is it here? Please tell me it's here." She snatched it from him and looked through it. Anny pouted a little, "Still not here." School had been out for almost two weeks and there was still no report card.

Yusei patted her shoulder, "I'm sure you report card will be here soon. But I don't know what you're worried about. You're top of your class at the academy."

"I know, but I don't like waiting." Her father chuckled a bit, "What?"

"You sound like your mother when we were expecting you."

"Oh." She responded quietly. She had heard about her mother several times throughout her life, but had no recollection about her. Anny didn't even know what she looked like.

Her father had told her that the night her mother left them, she had taken all of the pictures they had and cut herself from them. And he said that he had found all the other copies of them missing throughout the house the next morning. Anny only knew of descriptions and had a vague memory of having a nightmare when she was three that her mother was in. But that was a distant memory and blurry. They hardly even talked about her mother; her father hadn't even told her, her mother's name. He said that he couldn't; that it brought up memories he didn't want to relive. And Anny was surprised when Yusei had brought up her mother. He brought her up so little, unless it was important.

A familiar blonde head looked out of the kitchen. "From that crash on the floor, I assume you brought in the mail, Yusei." Dove commented.

"I did." He said and took the stack of envelopes from Anny and handed them to Crow's wife. "Not really anything there. Crow's still working?"

She sighed, "Yeah. Seems like he's always working these days."

"Hey!" Came a familiar voice, "Do I hear someone talking about me?"

Anny turned around to see the familiar, heavily markered face.

"Uncle Crow!" she exclaimed and rushed over to hug him, like she had with her father a minute ago. Anny knew that Crow wasn't actually her uncle, but she'd grown up with him, Jack, Carly, Brandon, Kellie, Dove, Leo, Luna, Misty, Kalin, Luke, Sierra, Mina and Officer Trudge. And to her, they were her family.

"Hey there, little bird." He greeted using the name he had given her when she was younger. Crow broke away from Yusei's daughter and went over to his wife. "Hey, you." He said and kissed her.

Anny frowned a bit. She'd been seeing those two kiss since she was six, after they had gotten married, but had never seen—or at least never remembered seeing—her father kiss anyone like that and it saddened her. Crow and Dove had moved in shortly after they had gotten married. At first they had refused, but her father had pointed out to them that they had room and it was a better idea to live together with the prices of housing. And Anny had a feeling he was also lonely.

Yusei noticed Anny look a little sad, briefly, and put his arm around her shoulders.

"Something wrong, Ann?"

She looked at her father and smiled.

"No." she replied. Nothing was wrong, really. She did get a little sad that her mother wasn't around, but she didn't mind. She liked living with her father, Crow, and Dove. "Nothing's wrong, daddy."

The rest of the evening was quiet, but Anny was restless for the night to end and was glad when she began to become drowsy.

"'Night, daddy." She said sleepily as she kissed him cheek, "'Night Uncle Crow, 'night Aunt Dove."

She fell asleep quickly after her head hit the pillow.

The next morning, Anny slowly opened her eyes to the ceiling after the light streaming through the window. She felt a smile form on her lips a little. She got up and showered, knowing her father wouldn't be at work yet. Not until he saw her and stayed with her for an hour or two. Anny dressed in her black jean shorts, dark red v-neck shirt with an unbuttoned, short sleeve black button up shirt over it. She put on her long black stockings and gloves and riding boots similar to her father's; she messed with her medium length, thin, dark hair until it was in a hanging loosely in a braid. It was her normal look when she wasn't at school. She fingered the natural, single magenta-burgundy streak that ran through her hair; it was the only thing she knew about what her mother's hair looked like.

Anny quietly went downstairs, and into the kitchen, where her father was looking at his laptop. Crow and Dove weren't downstairs yet. Yusei heard his daughter's footsteps and turned towards her, a smile coming to his face as he saw her.

"Hey, there." He greeted as he stood up and pulled her into a close embrace. "Happy birthday, Anny, baby."

She smiled into her father's chest as she hugged him tightly, "Thanks, papa."

Yusei rested his cheek against the top of her head. "You're growing up so fast." He told her, "It feels like you were six just the other day, and now you're sixteen."

"I can't stop growing up." She told him quietly.

"I know." He responded, "I don't want you to stop growing up."

"I love you, daddy." Anny said as she kissed her father on his marker.

Yusei smiled, "I love you too, Anny."

He pulled away from his daughter and left the room, momentarily. She sat down in the chair next to his and waited for him to come back. Yusei returned a couple minutes later with a couple small packages in his hand and handed them to Anny. She carefully opened a small rectangular package. It was a book by her favorite author.

"Dad, I've been wanting this book for months!" she exclaimed, "Thank you!"

"I know you have. And you're welcome."

She opened the other small package and threw her arms around her father again, "Thank you!" she repeated. "The 'Star Garden' field spell isn't out yet. How did you get it?"

"I have my sources." He said slyly. Being Duel King did have some sweet advantages.

"Daddy, these are wonderful gifts. I love them. And I love you." Anny kissed her father's cheek again.

"I'm sorry I can't afford to get you anything else."

"I don't care, dad. I don't need a lot to be happy."

"Wait, I have one more gift for you." Yusei pulled a small box out of his pocket and opened it, revealing a red and gold locket. There was a scarlet 'A' on the front. He took it out and placed it around his daughter's neck. "I think you're old enough to have this."

"It's beautiful, dad."

"It was your mother's." he told her, "I want you to take care of it."

"I will. I promise."

Yusei turned around. He took something out of one of the cabinets and used it on something. He turned back around with a single lit candle in a cupcake. It was their little tradition. Yusei gave Anny the cupcake and cupped his hands around hers.

Yusei kissed her forehead, "Make a wish."

Anny closed her eyes, and wished for the same thing she did every years. She made the wish and blew out the candle even though she knew her wish was probably be in vain. Like all the other years. I wish for mom to come back.

AnimeKiwi369: And we learn that Anny still wants her mother to come back. That is dedication, if that's the right word for it.

Anny: Why don't I know anything about my mother in this when everyone else does?

AnimeKiwi369: It's called dramatic irony and it makes for a good story. I put in a lot of dramatic irony in my stories.

Anny: I see.

AnimeKiwi369: And I'm also evil in my stories. I have quite a bit of evilness in this story.

Anny: Oh, no.

AnimeKiwi369: Oh, yes. But not until the end of the next chapter.

Anny: *Sighs*.

AnimeKiwi369: So I'm going to go to my review request. Please be kind and please review! ;D