AnimeKiwi369: I am SOOOO glad to be back! Anyway, this chapter was originally combined with chapter 7, but it was getting to b too long so I made this a separate one. This chapter focuses on Yusei, Akiza, and Copper a little bit.
Akiza: So we find out whether Yusei really loves me or not.
Yusei: Akiza, I-
AnimeKiwi369: No time. You guys should already know this anyway. I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's or its characters, just my own characters and the plot/storyline. I added a duel in this chapter and any card that is bold faced is one that I made up, just to let you know.
Chapter 6
Invitation to the Banquet
Yusei had said those three words; I love you, and realized how true they were. He did love Akiza. She took a small step forward, a confused look on her face.
"You what?" Akiza asked, not sure she had heard him right.
"I love you," he repeated, and she started to walk slowly towards him. Yusei looked at Sayer. He was very, very angry; his eyes betrayed his hatred for the dark-haired duelist. He looked back at Akiza, who was less than two feet from him; her eyes had mostly gone back to normal. They were still a little distant. Yusei was breaking Sayer's hold on Akiza. No, I can't let Yusei break my hold. Sayer thought.
"Is it true? You love me?"
"Yes," he nodded and took a step closer to her, "Akiza. I love you. I love you more than either my head or heart can comprehend."
"Yusei…I—" she started but from across the way, Sayer snapped his fingers and Akiza collapsed before she could finish. Yusei caught her before she could hit the ground and held her tight. He lowered himself close to the ground and laid Akiza across his lap.
She stirred a little, and opened her eyes weakly at him, strands of hair falling across her eyes. "Yusei…" she said, almost inaudibly.
"Yes, Akiza?" he asked her gently, brushing hair away from her face, which had gone very pale, forgetting Sayer was still there and getting angrier by the second. She placed one hand on his chest, directly over his heart.
"Help me."
"I will. Always. I promise."
She smiled weakly at him, "Thank you."
He put a finger to her lips, "Don't talk; just rest. I'll get you out of here. I promise." She nodded weakly to respond as he brushed his fingertips lightly over her eyes to make her close them. She closed her eyes and rested her head where she had, had her hand. Yusei picked up Akiza and glared at Sayer.
"I won't let you leave." Sayer said, coldly.
"And how are you going to stop me?" he asked angrily.
"I told you this once before, Akiza belongs to me. You can't save her."
"We'll see about that."
"Duel me or else."
"Or else what? If you think I'm going to put Akiza down, even for a second, to duel you, you're crazy!"
"Then I have no choice. If you won't let her go willingly, then I'll have to make you!" He pulled knife from his jacket, "Farewell, Mr. Fudo."
Sayer threw the knife right at them. It was half way towards Yusei when he heard someone yell, "Stop!" and a red duel runner went speeding towards the knife backwards and stopped the knife with a duel disk. The duelist pulled the knife out of their duel disk and took off their helmet. It was Copper.
"Yusei get Akiza out of here. Now." She commanded.
"What about you?"
"Don't worry. I'll take care of him." She said with a slight tone of malice, "Please, just get Akiza back to her house."
"Okay, Copper. Be safe." He started leaving as fast as he could without running so he didn't hurt Akiza. Only when he felt he was far enough away from Sayer did he slow down. Yusei looked down at Akiza; her body was tense and shaky at the same time.
"Akiza," he whispered. He gently carried her back to her house; hoping one of her parents was there. Her mother was standing by the window and she saw him. Mrs. Izinski came out with a worried expression.
"What happened?" she demanded.
"I promise you, Mrs. Izinski I didn't do anything to Akiza. It was Sayer; he put her in a trance and when I started to break it, Sayer made her collapse using his powers."
Akiza's mother nodded, "Bring her inside and follow me." Yusei silently obeyed and followed Mrs. Izinski to Akiza's room. "Lay her down on the bed." He put Akiza down on her bed. Her mother put a hand on her neck and her worried expression increased, "She's running a fever, I'll be right back." Mrs. Izinski left the room. Yusei looked at Akiza with as much worry as her mother.
"Akiza," he whispered again. "Please be okay."
Why did it take me to so long to figure out that I love her? He asked himself. Mrs. Izinski returned with a cloth and bowl of water. She soaked the cloth in the bowl and then laid it on her daughter's forehead. She walked out of the room and motioned Yusei to follow.
"Yusei, thank you for bringing Akiza back here."
"It was no problem, Mrs. Izinski." He responded.
"No problem for you to do what, Yusei?" Akiza's father inquired as he came into the house.
"It was no problem for me to bring Akiza back here, Senator."
"What happened to her?" Yusei told Akiza's parents what had happened with Sayer, excluding his confession. When he finished relaying the story to them, both her parents had concerned expressions. After a while in silence, Akiza's father repeated what her mother had said before he got there.
"Thank you, Yusei."
"I'm should go see how Akiza is doing." Her mother said, and left, leaving Yusei and Akiza's father alone.
"Senator, is it all right if I come see how Akiza's doing in a few days?" he asked.
"Of course." The senator liked Yusei, despite the fact he had been to the Facility; after all, Yusei was the one that had brought their family back together. The young man began to leave.
"Thank you."
"Yusei before you leave."
"Yes, Senator?"
"What exactly did you say to my daughter to start breaking Sayer's trance?"
Yusei looked away for a few moments, "I told Akiza that I…" he let the sentence trail off.
"You told my daughter what?" The dark-haired duelist looked at the senator.
"I told Akiza that I loved her."
Akiza's father nodded, but remained silent. "That's all I wanted to know." He said as a form of good-bye.
"Good-bye Senator." Yusei said back and left.
Meanwhile
Copper threw the knife on the ground and glared at the younger version of Sayer. He glared back, even though he had no idea who this 'Copper' was. Or why she didn't like him.
"If you know what's good for you, you will stop your plans." She hissed, her anger at the younger version of Sayer beginning to take over.
"I don't know who you are, but you shouldn't involve yourself in other peoples' business." Sayer reprimanded.
"Oh, I believe it is my business."
"Leave if you know what's good for you. Or you'll be very, very sorry." He warned.
"I don't care!" Copper seethed. He had tried to get her mother back and attempted to kill her father! Luckily, she had followed Yusei and stopped the knife with her duel disk, creating a small puncture in the device. All she wanted to do was make him pay, like Misty had wanted to do. Calm down! She commanded herself, You know what happens when you get mad. Copper fingered her bracelet, and took several deep breaths.
"If you don't care, then I'll have to teach you a lesson. And I know of only one way to do that." He held up his duel disk and inserted his deck.
"It's on!" Copper told him, inserting her own deck in her held up duel disk.
"Let's DUEL!" they both shouted.
Copper: 4000; Sayer: 4000
"I go first. I draw." Sayer said, "I summon Krebons in attack mode. With that I end my turn." The creepy clown-like monster appeared on his side of the field.
Krebons: Lv. 2. 1200 ATK/ 800 DEF
Copper: 4000; Sayer: 4000
"It's my turn and I draw!" Copper looked at her hand, and thought Perfect. "All right. First I summon Star-Rose Archress LV. 4 in attack position." A silver-white female archer with rose petals for clothes and vines for hair appeared on her side of the field.
Star-Rose Archress LV. 4: Lv. 4. 1400 ATK / 1500 DEF
"Now I'm gonna use one of her special abilities which enables me to special summon another monster as long as it's in defense mode and as long as it's level 4 or below. So now I summon Copper Synchron," a dark red machine-like phoenix creature appeared in front of her.
Copper Synchron: Lv. 4. 1850 ATK / 1600 DEF
"But they're not staying around because I tune Copper Synchron with my Star-Rose Archress to synchro summon my Copper Phoenix!" the machine-like monster turned into four rings and the female archer turned into four stars as the two creatures combined into one; the was a flash of light and a copper red phoenix appeared on front of the young girl.
Copper Phoenix: Lv. 8. 2700 ATK / 2500 DEF
"Impressive. But you can't touch me. If you attack I can use my Krebons' special ability to stop your monster by sacrificing 800 of my life points."
"You mean that you would've done that if I didn't have this," She said, holding up a card.
"What is it?"
"I play my spell card, Opponent's Demise. With this I can destroy as many cards on your field as I have on mine, but I only have to choose one, Krebons." Sayer's only monster was destroyed. "And now I activate Double Trouble, which allows any and all monsters on my side of the field to attack twice per turn."
"What?"
"That's what you get for trying to get Akiza back and trying to hurt Yusei! Now, Copper Phoenix attack Sayer with Element's Fire!"
Copper: 4000; Sayer: 1300
"And thanks to my spell card, my phoenix can attack again. Copper Phoenix, show Sayer what he gets for his plans."
Copper: 4000; Sayer: 0
Sayer stood there with a dumbfounded expression on his face. How did I let her beat me? A mere child! He thought angrily.
"How did you get to be that good of a duelist?"
"Let's just say it runs in the family. The one you're trying to make sure never exists." She responded, her voice trembling with anger, fear, pain, and sadness. She slipped her deck back in the deck box on her belt. Copper turned and ran back to her duel runner, put her helmet on hastily, and took off.
That was too close. He almost had mom! She thought with tears stinging the corners of her eyes, but then a thought came to mind. But dad did admit he loved her.
With Yusei
Yusei made his way back to the apartment slowly, trying figure out what would happen with him and Akiza, now that he had told her his true feelings. He wondered what would become of the friendship. And did she feel the same way he did? He started thinking he made the wrong choice telling her he loved her. No, he thought, shaking his head, if I didn't tell her, Sayer would've gotten her. Or worse.
"Yusei are you all right?" a female voice asked from behind him. He turned and saw Copper; he had been in such deep thought that he hadn't heard her come up behind him on her duel runner.
"Not sure." He said honestly.
"If you were fine, I'd be worried. I mean, you told Akiza you loved her. And then Sayer tried to kill you."
He nodded, then a thought came to mind, "You saw all of that?"
"Yes," Copper responded truthfully, "But, Yusei, I had a bad feeling about what was going to happen."
"Well, it's a good thing you showed up. Thanks." Copper smiled at him.
"No problem. I'm just glad Sayer didn't manage to keep his hold on Akiza."
"I don't even want to think about what Sayer would've done to her if he got her back." Yusei looked away.
Neither do I. Copper thought.
"I wish I had figured out how I felt earlier." Yusei said quietly.
"Yusei, what really matters is that you figured it out."
"I guess so."
"I'll see you later." Copper said and rode off.
Yusei continued to walk slowly back the apartment; when he reached it, he slipped in quietly so Crow and Jack, who were both arguing, wouldn't notice him. He walked into his room and laid down on the bed. Why did it take so long to figure out what I feel for Akiza? Yusei asked himself again and sighed in frustration. He took Stardust Dragon and stared at it for a few minutes, wishing his parents were still around. Why did Roman have to go and cause Zero Reverse? If he had just accepted Professor Fudo shutting down the Enerdy Reactor, then he would have someone, either his mother or father, to talk to about why it had taken him so long to figure out his feelings. He did have Martha, but most of the time Akiza was brought up, she would tease him about how he felt about her. When he agreed to go with Senator Izinski to help to wake Akiza up from her coma, Martha had teased him by saying he should take Akiza out on a date after the whole Signer-Dark Signer fiasco was over. He sighed again. Jack and Crow came in without knocking.
"Yusei, you are here." Crow said, surprised, "We didn't hear you come in."
Jack let out an annoyed sigh, "That was probably the point Crow. Or maybe it was because of your shouting."
"My shouting? What about your shouting?" Crow exclaimed, his voice rising.
"Crow, don't start. I'm not in the mood to be playing the peace keeper tonight." Yusei told them half-heartedly. Both his friends looked at him.
"Is something wrong?" Crow asked him sympathetically. He had always been the most expressive of the three (or four, depending on if you Kalin or not) and could sense when his friend wasn't all right.
"It's nothing." Yusei lied
"We've both known you long enough, Yusei." Jack said, though he was nowhere near interested.
"Sayer's back." Was all he said.
"What?" Jack exclaimed. What Sayer did to Carly had turned her into a Dark Signer.
"Okay, I'm not following." Crow announced
"Sayer was the head of the Arcadia Movement. The same Movement that Akiza was a part of." Yusei answered, with a soft tone when he said the psychic's name.
"Well what happened?" both of them inquired at the same time.
Again, Yusei told what happened earlier with Sayer and Akiza, and, again, leaving out what he had told his fellow female Signer.
"Then why do you seem distracted?" Crow asked
"In other words, what did you tell Akiza to break Sayer's hold?"
Yusei sighed again; there was no way in trying to lie to his two best friends. He looked at both of them. Quietly he repeated what he had told Senator Izinski, "I told Akiza I loved her."
"You WHAT?" both of the other Signers exclaimed.
At the Arcadia Movement
Sayer reentered his officer, where his older self sat at the desk.
"You failed." He stated bluntly.
"I would've succeeded if Yusei hadn't shown up and broke my trance." Sayer retorted. His future self looked up, alarmed.
"What did he say?" he demanded from behind the desk.
"Yusei broke my trance by telling Akiza he loved her." His other self hit the desk and muttered to himself, "And then younger girl showed up and dueled me as Yusei took Akiza away."
The other Sayer's head shot up. "What did she say her name was?"
"Yusei only once referred to her as 'Copper'."
From behind the desk, Sayer let a hollow chuckle. "So you did follow me after all."
"What do you mean?"
"Miss Copper is the other reason I was never able to get Akiza back."
"I'm not following."
"I did tell you Akiza started a family. You dueled Miss Cyli-Elizabeth Fudo; Yusei and Akiza's one and only daughter."
A Few Days Later
Yusei still felt distracted, but not as much as he had a few days earlier, but felt like he should do something for Akiza. He was in the garage again, with both the twins, who found out about the event from Crow, and Copper.
"I can't believe you actually told her you loved her!" Leo kept exclaiming about every ten minutes, just like Jack and Crow kept saying 'finally' since he told them.
"Neither can I." Yusei said for about the sixteenth time that day.
"Yusei, do you know anything about how Akiza's doing?" Luna asked him, concerned for the older, female Signer.
He shook his head, "No. I'm thinking about stopping by either today or tomorrow. But I don't feel like I should see her without doing something for her."
"Maybe you could do something to help her with her psychic powers?" Copper suggested. She was still a little shaken from Sayer's antics.
"Like how?" Leo asked for Yusei.
"Well, you could try to make her a more powerful energy stabilizer to control her powers," Copper suggested, trying to get Yusei to make the same bracelet she and Akiza wore back in her time. "In the form of, say, a bracelet." She held out her left wrist, containing her stabilizer bracelet.
"Where did you get that?" Luna inquired
"My dad made it for me when my psychic powers first showed up." Copper said
"Wait! You have powers like Akiza's?" Leo asked.
"Yes. Anyway, what about something similar to this to give to Akiza?"
"That doesn't sound like a bad idea." Yusei responded
"What else do we not know about you?" Leo asked suspiciously
"That I'm an international spy on a mission to take over New Domino City for my employers, whose cover is a professional dancer and duelist." Copper replied sarcastically, rolling her eyes.
"That's not true."Leo said
"Of course it's not. But, the part about a duelist and dancer is true. And I do, however, already happen to know about Signers, The Crimson Dragon, Dark Signers, Earthbound Immortals, the whole war between the Army of Shadows and Crimson Dragon that happened over 5000 years ago. Same with the war went on last year."
"Do your parents know you're here?" Yusei asked the twins for about the thousandth time in the past several days. He didn't want those two to get in trouble because of him.
"Not exactly. All they know is that we're with 'a friend', and they probably think it's Dexter." Luna told him, "We're still trying to figure out a way to tell them about this past year." He nodded at her response.
"You sure you don't want me there with you when you explain?"
"Not entirely." Leo said, "I know we want you there, but our parents probably don't want you there, since you've been to the Facility." Yusei traced his index finger down the marker on his left cheek, below his eye.
"Speaking of our parents, we should probably get going, before they wonder where we are, call Dexter, only to find us not there and send Sector Security to come find us." Luna said.
"As long as they don't send Trudge, I'll be fine with it!" Leo joked, but agreed to leave, to keep Yusei safe.
After the twins left, Yusei turned back towards Copper, "Now how does that bracelet work?"
After several long hours of building a replica of Copper's bracelet, Yusei finally finished one. He took Copper's advice to personalize the new energy stabilizer to Akiza's style; to her personality. So he took the time to make intricate little roses and Akiza's name around it. When the bracelet was finally finished and Copper looked at it, she gave Yusei a smile. Indicating a job well done.
"Looks perfect." She told him. It looked exactly like the one her mother wore back in her time, "Akiza'll love it." She reassured him.
"I hope you're right."
"Oh, don't doubt your work, Yusei. You know I'm right. Akiza will love it." Copper reassured him, with confidence, "When are you going to see her?"
"Tomorrow."
The Next Day
Yusei rode slowly back to Akiza's house; not sure what to say to her. Copper gave him a small, red box to put the bracelet in, along with a note explaining what his gift was. He didn't know whether or not he would feel awkward being with her. When he reached the Izinski's, he walked up to the door and knocked on it. Mrs. Izinski answered.
"Hello Mrs. Izinski, is it all right if I see Akiza?" He asked her politely.
"She actually hasn't stayed awake for very long or very much and isn't up now. And her fever broke only last night."
"Should I come back later then?"
Mrs. Izinski shook her head, "No it's all right if you see her now."
"Thank you." She led him upstairs to Akiza's room, where the psychic lay asleep. "May I have a couple minutes alone with her?"
Her mother nodded, "I trust you, but I'll be downstairs."
"Thank you." He repeated as she left. Yusei walked over to the side of Akiza's bed and kneeled down, "I'm sorry I didn't tell you earlier." He whispered as stroked her cheek lightly with the back of his hand. She only reacted by turning her head slightly towards his touch. He stood up and took out the box containing the bracelet and placed under her hand. Yusei whispered, "I love you, Akiza," before he left. Her mother was at the bottom of the staircase. He gave her a small bow as he reached her, saying "Thank you Mrs. Izinski."
"You're welcome Yusei." Akiza's mother responded as he left and rode back to the apartment. For once both Jack and Crow were working on their runners, while Copper and Carly watched. The young girl turned as he came in.
"You delivered it?" he nodded, "How is Akiza?"
"She was unconscious when I was there, so I didn't get to talk to her about what happened." He sighed.
"I cannot believe Sayer's back!" Carly said, her eyes unable to be seen beneath her glasses, "Or that you told Akiza you love her!"
Yusei looked at Jack, "You told her didn't you?"
"Yes. So what?" Yusei didn't respond.
There was a knock at the garage door, and Mina walked in.
"Good you are here." She said, and handed an envelope to each of the three Signers, "These are for you."
"What are they?" Crow asked, staring at the envelope.
"It's an invitation to banquet."
"A banquet?" Crow said skeptically, "That's not exactly my up my alley."
"Even if you're one of the Guests of Honor?" Mina asked.
"'Guests of Honor'?"
"What is this banquet about, Mina?" Yusei asked
"It's to celebrate a year of peace in New Domino City." Mina turned to Carly, and held out another envelope, "This is yours," she said dryly, since she was still jealous of the reporter.
"I'm invited?" Carly stated in disbelief.
"Yes, and," then she turned to Copper, with another envelope, "I figure since you've been hanging around these guys lately, that you should be invited."
"Thank you." She said, then asked, "Would you like any help setting up?"
"Yes, thank you for offering."
"Who else is invited?" Jack asked
"The people who are invited are you Signers and Leo, plus the former Dark Signers, that's why she's invited," Mina indicated towards Carly, "and the allies and/or supporters to the Signers and whoever was absorbed by the Earthbound Immortals. And Copper."
"I think pass. I'm not much for fancy parties." Crow said, waving his hand nonchalantly.
"Crow, think about it. Anyone who was absorbed will be there. That means Martha will be there. Do you think she's going to let you sit around and not go?" Yusei argued reasonably.
The orange-haired duelist gave a sigh, "Fine I'll go."
"Are you hand delivering them to everyone?" Copper inquired.
"No. I'm only hand delivering to the Signers, Dark Signers, you and Dexter. Speaking of which, I should probably finish my deliveries." Mina said before she left.
"This is going to be boring."Crow said after Mina left.
"You never know." Copper stated a bit cryptically, "You might meet someone you think is special."
"Sure," he responded, rolling his eyes, "I'm gonna meet some girl at this event who I like and likes me back. Yeah, right."
Copper smiled inwardly at her knowledge of the first of yearly banquets. Knowledge that none of the others knew.
Yet.
AnimeKiwi369: I was quite proud of this chapter.
Crow: Again with the italics and bold face words?
Carly: You finally added more of me in.
AnimeKiwi369: And there will be more probably. I'd really like to know what you thought of this chapter, and please be kind in your review.
Crow: When do we find out if Akiza feels the same way?
Copper: Chapter-
AnimeKiwi369: Don't reveal anything! Please review!
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