Cat: Hey peeps, here's episode 9 in Yuzu's point of view!

Rena: Please review

Cat: There isn't much from the duel in here because it didn't have much to do about Yuzu.

Rena: This story is in Yuzu's POV. Please give me some artistic licence. If i put some stuff that isn't in the anime in here, don't flame. There would be no point in reading, if it was just the anime in words.


Chapter 9- Judgment of the Stars! Xyz User "Hokuto Shijhima"

I don't know whether I was still traumatised from my encounter with the other Yuya or I was just overreacting. My stomach churned when Yuya's opponent XYZ summoned on his first turn. The monster looked nothing like the XYZ monster I had seen the night before and didn't give off such a foreboding aura but it still made me want to hide in the girls' bathroom. That way, not even Yuya or my dad could reach me.

However, I stayed. I would like to think that I stayed to cheer Yuya on. But really, I stayed to convince my heart that the person I saw last night was not my best friend. I could say a million times, to every person in the world that I trusted Yuya. I kept on saying it to myself. I wanted to and I was trying so hard to but there was a small voice in the back of my head, nagging at me.

Granted, they couldn't expect me to forgive him like that. I still needed a few days. Why couldn't this duel be postponed? So I had time to think? To talk to Yuya and hear his side of the story? And apologise for what a bad friend I have been the past twelve hours, since this whole palaver began.

I was itching to tell someone. Even my Dad. But, knowing him, he would probably just pass it off as hormones. Ok, I am a teenager but not everything I think is down to some chemicals in my pituitary gland, in the middle of my brain! Honestly, it was so irritating.

If I was angry- I was told it was the hormones.

Sad? Hormones.

Depressed? Hormones.

Tearful? Hormones.

Annoyed? Well, probably because the hormones hate the fact it is the hormones fault.

I blamed the hormones when my heart lurched in my chest, as Yuya's opponent demands why Yuya doesn't XYZ summon. Was he told about the XYZ duellist last night? Or was he arrogant enough to think that everyone could afford XYZ monsters?

"I didn't attack Sawatari!" Yuya yelled from across the Action Field. "I have never XYZ summoned in my life!"

That's right, Yuya is fighting them for us! What good does it do if I don't believe him?

What good does it do? The nagging voice drawled. It warns you of dangers yet to come. Leave Yuya before this becomes bigger than the both of you!

Shut up, Yuzu! I tried to mute the sound in my head. I didn't like this person. It was like a dark version of me, sitting in my mind and playing with my weaknesses. The second I became vulnerable, she attacked my conscious. All I needed to do was build higher walls, to keep her at bay.

I have to believe in-!

"Yuya!" I cried, as his attacking Odd-Eyes was sent back to his hand. This wouldn't be the biggest problem, if Yuya hadn't been attacking at the time, riding on its back. The dragon vanished, and Yuya was sent flying.

"It looks like he wasn't lying, when he said this field was his specialty," I grumbled, swearing to murder my father for picking such a stupid duel field. You would have thought he would go for one in Yuya's favour but oh no he had to use the one that used the most effects, to show off. And that just turned out to be the opponent's specialty field. To the point that he had memorised where the Action cards fell.

I shouted his name again, as his swordfish was destroyed and he lost life points. I honestly had nothing else to say. He couldn't hear me but for some reason, shouting his name gave me comfort in the smallest way. It also showed that I was still concerned. Gongenzaka gave me a strange look and asked me if I shouted anything else during Yuya's duels. I scowled, not being able to retort a good comeback.

Then, Sora shouted that Yuya was being too serious and that his duel was not very entertaining. Yuya shot back that it wasn't the time to be having fun. Everyone from You Show Duel School froze. What? Yuya wasn't even trying?

"To think he's gotten that upset…" I whispered. And here I was thinking I was having a rough time. Yuya had probably woken up this morning thinking it would be a pretty uneventful day. However, he discovered that he was facing charges of assault and people trying to take over his father's duel school. No wonder he wasn't trying to make us laugh. He had to win, he said. Did he remember that it was best of two? If he lost, Sora and I could still take LDS down.

But something told me that his pride was in the way.

Then, the images were back. My friend Yuya and the other Yuya, side by side. Then, slowly, merging into one body with the same face.

Yuya was duelling like that person was last night.

See? What did I tell you?

S-Shut up!

"Yuya…" I sighed. I was too wrapped up in my own thoughts to focus on the duel. I was snapped out of it when the people around me started shouting.

"That guy! He did it purposely at that timing!" Gongenzaka yelled. What? What did he do? My blue eyes followed the terrified stares of the others, only to see Yuya slide dangerously down the roof and plummet to the floor.

"Yuya!" I screamed, flinging my thoughts of the purple haired guy out of my head. I had more important things to worry about, such as if Yuya will make it through this duel alive.

He managed to save himself by activating a trap and re-summoning swordfish, only to stab it into the temple roof. He dangled over the edge precariously but, at least he wasn't falling. I thought my stomach was going to concave as I sighed in relief, as he flipped himself back onto the ceiling without breaking any limbs.

I tuned in and out of the duel. I should have been paying for attention, I know, but I just couldn't. I couldn't stand seeing more XYZ monsters summoned and Yuya being tormented by this ace of the rival academy.

I swear my heart did stop as the temple began to crumble around him, due to the XYZ monster's attack. It chilled my heart, reminding me of the mess that XYZ monster caused the warehouse the night before. I stifled a genuine scream, as the debris began to fall, threatening to crush him flat. "Yuya!" was, once again, all I could say.

"Get out of there!" Gongenzaka cried. We watched as Yuya took a few steps back. Then paused. Oh god, he wasn't going to-? Yeah, great Yuya, just run back into the falling building! Don't worry us stupid or anything!

Then, emerging from the clouds of smoke, was a familiar figure.

"Don't say it…" Gongenzaka grumbled at me. "Your repetitiveness is giving me a headache!"

"Yuya!" I cheered, as he emerged from the danger zone unharmed, just to annoy the duellist beside me. However, he didn't look bothered for long. He was just as relieved.

We watched in amazement as the XYZ user completely exploded over the fact that Yuya had managed to take 500 lifepoints off him. Yuya only had 400 life points left but, to this guy, this was the final straw. He halved Yuya's points with one trap card, destroying the field with falling comets that were the size of Yuya.

"What do you think a duel is!?" Futoshi shouted down to the opposing school's duelist.

"Yeah!" Ayu backed him up.

"Shut up! A duel is a fight! If it's to win, you can't be too picky about your methods!" he smirked.

"You're wrong!" Yuya snarled. "I don't want anyone to get hurt!"

I could just make out grey eyes through the lenses on his mask. "I don't want you to get hurt anymore…" he said.

The duellist last night crawled into my mind, repeating the words. The words so similar to the ones Yuya had just uttered.

Again, the two people morphed into one face. Go away, go away, GO AWAY!

My rebuilt confidence in Yuya cracked slightly.

Yuya's mood took a turn in the opposite direction. Once again, he was happy and was determined to give the audience a good time. How did he always manage to have these mood swings? Must be hormones.

I'm sure he won in an amazing way. A way that nobody was expecting him too. I don't know, I wasn't paying attention. However, I smiled and chanted with the others, staring down at Yuya.

I looked down at Yuya too, my mind processed him, standing and waving.

"I don't want anyone to get hurt!"

But my mind created an image of the purple haired duellist, standing right beside him.

"I don't want you to get hurt anymore…"


Cat: Please review! I'm curious to hear what other people's opinions are of Arc V! Love it? Don't mind it? Hate it? (though if you do, why are you reading this?)

Rena: Big thanks to Sanokal and Takawai for reviewing ^^ I do agree, Sanokal that BelievexBelieve would be the worst song for the previous Yu-Gi-Oh!s because they were very serious but that's probably why i don't like it because i'm used to the seriousness...