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Story Title: Tiger's Eye
Chapter Title: Happy Ending
Characters: Misawa Daichi, Taniya
Romance: Misawa x Taniya
Story Word Count: 2100
Chapter Word Count: 300
LJ Challenge: This was written for the drabbleday challenge on Livejournal, using the prompt of 'price'.
Timeline: This one is set somewhere after season four.
Notes: There will be implied sex in this, but nothing very graphic, certainly not enough to warrant an M rating in my opinion.
Summary: The price to pay can be high...but worth it.


It wasn't always perfect, living here in the worlds of Duel Monsters. Running water existed, depending on where one lived. There were several places that came quite close to being 'modern' by Misawa's standards. Any place where Machine-Type monsters ran things tended to have a high level of sophistication where tech was concerned.

Spellcasters and fairies, and sometimes fiends, frequently used magic to supply their needs. Zombies seldom had needs and he kept meaning to find out how they got what they did need, but he just never seemed to get around to it.

Where he and Taniya lived was a deeply forested realm, encircled by high mountains on one side and with a deep, vast ocean on the other. The climate was all but perfect, and the woods and mountains filled with the game that Taniya hunted for their own livelihood and supplies.

He wasn't actually deprived of the comforts and conveniences of the world he'd been born in. Travel back and forth had grown easier as he and Professor Zweinstein had re-established contact and had been able to refine the methods used. But more and more, he preferred this world.

Because when it got right down to it, this world had everything that he had ever wanted. He and Taniya had each other. He was appreciated for the real work that he did. He wasn't trying to be someone that he couldn't or wouldn't be anymore. This world had given him what he'd thought he would never have: a home.

There was always the chance that something would happen to seal the worlds away from each other. If that ever happened and Misawa never saw the world of his birth again, he felt it was a small price to pay to be here, where he was truly happy.

The End