Me: I really don't have the energy to come up with any type of banter. So, onto to the disclaimer and then the stor-zzzzzzzzzzz.
Tari: I'll finish this for her and make this a happy chapter, not a life risking, dangerous, and depressing chapter. KaimelarTheDreamer does not own Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's.
Chapter 7: Officially Family
Trudge P.O.V.
I honestly couldn't believe Yusei was asking me to do this! It was illegal. What I couldn't believe even more was that I agreed to help.
"Yusei, you sure you want to do this?"
"Absolutely." he responded resolutely, holding the left hand of the girl who had just been released from he hospital the day before. Her right arm was in a sling as it completed its healing process. She limped a little, but that would be gone in a day or two.
Yusei sighed,"Look Trudge, she has no identity any where, just look her up. No files exist about her. Except for your recent investigation files and the hospital's.
Just then the fourteen year old blond spoke up,"I am not even from this dimension."
"Yeah right kiddo." I couldn't help but snort.
"Oh, then I guess everyone in the city knows you have a major crush on Mina." she retorted. I quickly reached over y desk and clamped my hand over her mouth. "How do you know about that?" I growled.
She firmly shoved my hand away from her mouth. "I told you already, I'm from another dimension. Just look me up in every piece of record you have, you won't find me in any of it. In fact, it appear I never existed until the incident that left me in the hospital for months."
I quickly looked her up. I drew in a surprised breath. The kid was right. The only evidence that she existed was the information on her kidnapping, the hospital information, and the fact she is sitting ,living and breathing, right in front of me. There was nothing before that. Nothing.
I looked into her eyes, trying to read the truth. Her eyes startled me. I had questioned her a few days after she had gained consciousness. Even when I brought up the worst days of her life, her eyes had held a bright, cheery, and innocent glow. Now her eyes glittered with seriousness and cold hard ice. I searched carefully for a crack in the ice, a crack to show that she was lying or joking. Nothing, there wasn't even a scratch.
"You're not kidding." I admitted grudgingly. "But why don't you go home?" Natsumi stood up as quick as lightning, but quickly fell back down into her chair with a grimace of pin as she gingerly touched the left side of her hip. She attempted it again, but Yusei kept her down.
"Natsumi, you may be out of the hospital, but you still need time to heal before you an move that quickly again." Natsumi's posture relaxed slightly, not much though. "Trudge," he said turning around to face me, "we try not to bring that subject around her, she does not wish to think of that place, much less go back there. Besides we do not know how she got here, she doesn't even know, therefore we do not know how to send her back. That is why she needs to set up an identity file and record file. Once those are done, I can send her to school and set up everything thing she needs."
"Yusei had a point. He always has a point. "Alright, I see your point. So do you want her as your daughter, adopted daughter, or what?"
"Adopted sister."
"Does she have a birthdate she wants to use or does she want to use her actual birthdate?"
"I have one. But I do know that years can change or be different in different dimensions. What year is it here?" Natsumi spoke.
I nearly jumped out of my chair when she talked. A moment ago, she had been talking with a quick, serious tone. Now she had a lighter more optimistic tone, and her eyes were no longer ice cold, but had a diamond bright shine to them. Man, I thought, once we get these files completed, she needs to see a psychiatrist, that girl has some personality issues. "2014." I replied.
"Month?"
"March."
"Now let's see, when I left my dimension it was August and that was…1,2,3… 7 months ago. So that means that our time matches my dimensions time. If I were there now it would be the March of 2014 too. Okay, put my birthday down as July 25, 1999."
Tari P.O.V.
It went on like that for a while. We had to make sure that everything we should know from our fake information and files was memorized and matched up with the real stuff.
Finally, after 48 hours, we left his office with everything set up, including me going to the Duel Academy on free tuition because I was the little sister of Yusei Fudo, the greatest turbo duelist ever!
We had gotten very little sleep and very little to eat. We only left Trudge's office to go to the bathroom and occasionally, get a bite to eat. But it was all worth it. In four days, Yusei would drop me off for my first day of the academy and I would start my new life. I was happy, even if I had a huge, important destiny hanging over my head. It felt nice to be loved and cared for, for once.
4 days later...
I waved good-bye to Yusei at the front gate as he sped off on his bright red duel runner. I was wearing the school uniform. A crimson jacket and mini skirt, with a white shirt and knee high stockings, and black flats and a tie that was tucked underneath the jacket, but above the shirt. My right arm was still in the sling, but Yusei had allowed me to take it off to get my shirt and jacket on. Its navy blue color contrasted greatly with the crimson uniform. I turned around and walked through the gates for my first day of school. Leo and Luna were there to help me find all my classes.
A school day later...
I plopped myself right on a chair when we got home. "How did school go?" my officially adopted big brother asked as he quickly started working on his duel runner.
"Just great. Except for the part where every girl in the locker room saw my scars as I got undressed for P.E. because I had to be slow and careful. Oh, and my teacher made me brush my hair out of my face, and doing so revealed my marker." I moaned.
"That must've been embarrassing." his voice sounded from behind the bike.
"Yeah, when the teacher saw the marker, she marched me straight up to the principal's office and asked why she had a criminal for a student. The principal then took his time looking through my paperwork and finally explained it had happened during a kidnapping incident a few months back, and I, in fact, was innocent and not a criminal. The teacher cooled down and then became extremely flabbergasted when he mentioned that Yusei Fudo's little sister should not be treated this way." I couldn't help but giggle a little when I recalled the image of the teacher standing there, her lips moving like a fish desperate for air, but nothing coming out.
"So how was the rest of your day?"
"It was fun. It had its ups and downs like any other day, but it was great."
"I think I know something that will make it better."
"Like what?"
"A friend of mine wants a new bike for her birthday. Would you like to help me build it?"
"Is Lazar a a two-timing coward that just wants to save his own skin?"
He smiled, "I'll take that as a yes." I quickly leaped to my feet and ran to his work station.
"When can we start?"
"How about now?"
Tari: Well, I hope you liked that chapter. Now I am going to see if I can rouse our lovely writer from her deep, deep slumber. Until next time as Porkie Pig would say, "Th-th-that's all Folks!"
