So, I got some reviews (which made me really happy) so I wanted to update. This is dedicated to all of my readers and reviewers. I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, but I do own my OCs and my plotline. (There are some readers / reviewers who have already guessed things that are going to happen. It scared me, honostly. I thought that maybe... maybe this story is see-through? . . .)
(You get to find out about Yusei in this chapter! :) )
A man with spiky, raven colored hair and bright golden highlights stood alone from a small beach house. He was watching the waves lapping at the shore, and the birds circling overhead, trying to eat at the crabs. He chuckled to himself. Something about the beach made him feel so calm.
"Yusei, sweetie!" A woman's voice called. "Come on, time to come in!"
Yusei smiled to himself. She treated him and her own son like they were really young kids. Yusei walked back into the other room in the beach house where she was.
"Hey Kathryn," he said, smiling at her.
"How's my favorite mystery man?" Kathryn asked him.
"Oh, must you always bring up my unknown past?" Yusei laughed. Though sometimes I really do wonder about it myself. Who was I? Was I a good person, or a bad one? Where did I live? Did I have a family?
"You know that that doesn't matter here," Kathryn replied. "You'll always be welcome here."
"Have you found out anything about who I was yet?" Yusei asked the brown haired woman. He had been asking her for years, but she said that maybe he should just forget about his past and look towards his future.
"Stop worrying about your past!" Kathryn scolded. "You know better! Anyway, the name "Yusei" isn't in their system, so maybe it's not even your real name?"
"No," Yusei mumbled. "I know it is. I just . . . I have this feeling that it's my name."
"Whatever you say," Kathryn replied.
The two of them lived in the beach house alone except for Kathryn's son. Her husband had left her fifteen years earlier. She had found Yusei, she had told him, alone and unconscious on the beach, so she brought him in. He has been living with them for the past thirteen years now.
She had always told him, don't worry about the time! We're on island time, nothing in the world matters. Nothing changes, and we have all day to just relax and spend our days nicely. Yusei smiled at the thought. Though, for the past few years, he had felt like there was something that he was supposed to be doing. Relaxing didn't seem to be part of his nature, but he had grown sort of used to it in his stay.
Kathryn also didn't quite seem to be "with the current age" because she said that they never had much technology at the house, ever. They each had a radio, and Kathryn kept a phone in case family wanted to contact her. But she homeschooled her son, and Yusei never really knew what he does in his room all day. He just sits there. Or . . . something.
"Where's Brandon?" Yusei asked Kathryn.
"Oh, he's probably just writing some more," Kathryn replied. She always said that he liked to write, and that's what he always did in his room, but Yusei didn't quite think that he was the type to really enjoy writing a lot.
"I'll go get him," Yusei told Kathryn. "He won't want to be late to dinner."
Yusei walked over to the younger boy's room. He knocked on the door. There was a shuffling noise and a thud as Brandon jumped off of his bed and went over to the door. There was a click as he unlocked his door.
The boy, around fifteen years of age, had dark brown hair and dark caramel eyes. His hair was sort of short, and he was tall for his age. Brandon.
"Time for dinner," Yusei said to him.
Brandon smiled. "Thanks Yusei." Yusei knew that since Brandon's dad was gone, Brandon looked up to him as a father instead. Yusei felt close to the teen, too.
The two of them went over to the kitchen, where Kathryn had laid out a dinner for everyone at their small table. Once everyone was seated, they started eating. Dinners were usually silent, sometimes they had small conversations, but mostly no one talked much.
But today, that was different.
"How was today, Yusei?" Kathryn asked unexpectedly.
"Good," Yusei said. "I love being out on the beach. It's so calm and peaceful out there - when there aren't crabs coating the beach and when the waves aren't slamming the coastline."
"Yeah, the beach is cool," Brandon said. "I love to watch the crabs fight off the sea gulls!"
"Was anyone else on the beach?" Kathryn asked. "Anyone that's not in this family?"
"Other than me?" Yusei laughed.
"Oh Yusei, you know that you're considered part of this family," Kathryn laughed uneasily.
"Yeah, actually," Yusei replied. "There was someone exploring the beach. They probably rented a beach house up on the north side, and then, even though the Southside beach has a bad reputation, they wanted to explore it. That was . . . yesterday, though." Yusei paused to think. "Oh! There were some people today. But, the looked like police, and I didn't know if there was a reason why they were here . . . so I stayed away from them, and they didn't see me."
"I wonder what they were looking for," Brandon wondered aloud. His eyes lit up. "Maybe they're looking for that stray cat that's been wandering around!"
"I doubt it," Yusei laughed. "They wouldn't send the police looking for cats!"
"Maybe," Brandon agreed.
Ding! The sound that Kathryn's phone made whenever she received a text message dinged.
"I'm so sorry!" Kathryn gasped, her face turning scarlet. She whipped out her phone. "Oh my," she gasped.
"What's wrong?" Yusei asked, with Brandon staring at her wonderingly.
"Rit texted me," Kathryn explained. Rit was her sister's nickname. No one quite knew why she was called Rit, but she was. "The store closed! I can't get those things . . ."
"Ooh," Brandon replied. "Those things."
"Hmm?" Yusei asked, looking at the both.
"We were going to throw a party for when we found you," Kathryn explained. "When you became part of this family. But we were ordering special things for it . . ."
"That's okay," Yusei said. "You don't need special things for me."
There was a scratching at the door.
"That darn cat!" Kathryn growled, placing her phone on the table. "I'm going to go chase it away."
"Yeah," Brandon said. "And I'm going to the bathroom!"
When both were gone, Yusei quietly opened Kathryn's phone. He was curious. Phones were so . . . unknown to him. The text was still open. I wonder if it says what they wanted to get . . . Yusei read the text. But it said nothing of a party. All it read was:
They found out about him - they r coming
That last line is a text message. I, being me, haven't texted yet, though I have used text talk in chat rooms online. The only shortened word (sadly) was are (r). Oh well.
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