Angel: well, nobody really bothered to anwer either of my questions so no winners.

Chazz: thank god! Only slight torture!

Angel: I have reinforcements from other stories! (evil grin)

Chazz: o god!

Cole: that's what you should be saying!

Chazz: WAH! WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!!?!?!

Cole: my name is Cole for Blue Angel! Which you need to update!

Angel: I've been meaning to! Writers block is evil!

Chazz: I have no idea what's going on! But with Cole here, I see my death!

Cole: just be glad that Sam isn't here! She likes to threaten people a lot!

Chazz: O.o I need help!! SOS!!!

Disclaimer: (lawyers try and come in the door, but I come out of nowhere with a bazooka)

Angel: BACK YOU LAWYERS! BACK! (fires weapons and laughs like a maniac) I don't own anything cept my idea and OCs! Now go away!

Chapter 11: My Golden Heart

Alexis just couldn't get that conversation outta her head. Jaden had become evil? No! They must be lying! Though, it would explain a lot…No! Jaden wasn't dark! He may have been madder than he was before this whole this but he wasn't dark! Ya keep telling yourself that!

Everyone was thinking that. They weren't sure how to take it all in. Their lovable Jaden: turned to the dark side? And the worst part of it: it was their fault. Their fault that he broke down, turned evil, killed countless people. How could he forgive them for doing that to him?! Then it hit them. The reason why he didn't hate them.

He blamed himself for their deaths and figured that was his punishment.

'I still can't believe those words came outta my mouth!' Alexis shouted in her mind, ignoring the lecture that Crolwer was giving. 'I'm gonna havta make up for it somehow! I just havta!'

'I'm a horrible solider to my Serge!' Hassleberry thought. 'I was supposed to be by his side, ready for battle! But, I let my rage get the best of me and left his side. Left it right when he needed me the most!'

'Jaden should have never been through that!' Atticus mentally bitch slapped himself. 'I swore to myself that if I could prevent it, I wouldn't let any of my friends fall to the darkness like I had done. And I broke that promise! And to the last guy that I wanted to say those things to!'

'Some best friend I am.' Syrus had already known about Jaden and Haou, but being reminded of what happened made him want to think things through again. 'It was so obvious that you weren't yourself! I should have known better! I'm so sorry Jaden!'

'That would explain why he couldn't use fusion cards…' Bastion thought. 'I may not have been there, but seeing your friends die cursing you must have been one hell of a blow! Specially when that blow was to Jaden. Poor guy."

'Those bastards!' Blaire yelled in her head. 'How could they do that to my Jaden?! How?! I'll get them for this if it's the last thing that I do!'

'That slackers to much of an idiot to kill people like that!' naturally thought by Chazz. 'But then again, I've been wrong before. He should have known that I wasn't serious! I'm always saying stuff like that! How could he be so stupid! Wait! What the hell am I doing! I'm blaming him for something that was obviously our fault! My god! I'm such an ass!'

They all wanted to talk to him. Tell him that their sorry for being so mean. But, would he forgive them for doing it? Or better yet: would he forgive himself for causing all of it and not being strong enough? They all had their opinions on the matter. But they all had one thought in mind:

'I'm never gonna let that happen to him again!'

OOOOOOO

Once the boys stopped laughing at the fact that the nurse just threatened Jaden, Kyle remembered something.

"O! Jaden. I need to give you something." Kyle said walking over to Jaden's bed.

"What is it?" he asked getting a little nervous. "Remember, I'm in a hospital! So don't do anything to mean!"

"That's not it." his voice was grave and sad. "After you passed out, Layla gave this to me." He reached into his pocket and pulled out the necklace. Jaden was shocked to say the least. "She said that she didn't want it anyomore." He handed him the necklace. Jaden stared at it, speechless.

"What's that mate?" Jim asked walking over to them.

"A necklace that Jaden gave Layla when we were still kids." Kyle answered. "She loved it and almost never took it off. You said that it was a symbol of your friendship when you gave it to her, didn't you Jay?"

"Ya. I did." Jaden said just above a whisper. "She's really gone." A small tear came to his eyes. He put the necklace on and let it fall to his chest. "I don't know what to do anymore! If I couldn't save her: nobody can!"

"SHUT UP!" Kyle shouted. "Since when the fuck did you become such a downer?! There's always a way to do things! You just havta be willing to look for them and do them when the time comes! And you can always challenge her again! Her soul's not completely gone yet! I can feel it! And her guardian won't let her go easily!"

"Guardian?" Jesse asked.

"Like Jaden has Yubel. Layla has one too. Just not as overly protective though."

"I heard that!" Yubel shouted coming outta Jaden again. "I was just doing what I thought was best for my Jaden! Is that so wrong!?"

"You almost destroyed a whole other dimension!" Kyle shouted. "And in protecting him, you caused more pain than good!"

"And she did posses me! Can't forget that!" Jesse piped up.

"Thanks for being mean to half my soul guys!" Jaden yelled.

"Roar!" Red Eyes Black Chick appeared on Kyle's head and chirped at Yubel. He then jumped off and bit Yubel in the leg.

"GET THIS THING OFFA ME!!" she shouted, hopping on one foot trying to shake off the baby dragon. "OW!! IT'S STARTING TO BLEED! GET IT OFF!" Red Eyes then let go, flew up to her face, and breathed fire on her. He then flew back onto Kyle's head. "MY FACE!! MY FACE!! STUPID DRAGON!!"

"Calm down Yubel!" Jaden yelled.

"But-"

"Just go back." Jaden sighed as Yubel went back into his soul. (FOR YOU ANGEL DUELIST 153!!!) "You two never did get along. And was that necessary?"

"Is half the stuff I do necessary?" Kyle asked sitting on the bed and lying back.

"You've got a point there…"

"So, what do we do know?" Jesse asked, sounding a little board.

"Wanna go to the cliff?" Kyle asked.

"But isn't Jaden supposed to stay here mate?" Jim asked.

"Jaden's supposed to do a lot of stuff!" Kyle started to help Jaden up and walked to the door. Jesse followed and Jim gave up and went to leave as well. Just then, Ms. Fontaine walked out of her office and saw what was happening. "O shit!" Kyle lifted Jaden up bridal style and ran like holy hell with the other two following right after him.

"KYLE!! BRING HIM BACK NOW!!" Ms. Fontaine shouted after them. "DON'T MAKE ME PUT YOU IN ONE OF THESE BEDS FOR TRYING TO ESCAPE AGAIN!!" she started to run after them.

"AGAIN?!" Jaden, Jesse and Jim asked.

"I get board!" was all Kyle offered as defense. The turned a corner and found themselves by the front doors. "Run faster boys!" they sprinted to the doors and to the forest. They ran pretty deep into the forest before they got the cliff and lost Ms. Fontaine. Kyle put Jaden down and leaned him against a tree as he caught his breath. "Jaden, dude, LOSE SOME WEIGHT!"

Jaden just punched him in the stomach.

They sat there in silence for about 30 minutes till someone had to break the silence.

"Was there a point to us coming here?" Jesse asked.

"Ya there was." Kyle said.

"And what would that be mate?" Jim asked.

"To get Jaden in trouble with Ms. Fontaine!" Kyle smirked at this. Jaden, or course, hit him upside the head. "But also to come up with a plan on how to save Layla. Who wants to duel her next?"

"I'll do it." Jesse offered. "Anybody have any objections?"

"Nope" the other three said while Shirley just growled.

"You're all just to lazy and chicken to do it, aren't you?"

"DUH!" they all said together.

They started to talk about strategies that Jesse could use against Hinata's deck. They came up with a lot when Jaden realized that classes would be getting out soon and if Alexis saw that he wasn't in his bed, well let's just say that it would involve a lot of weapons of mass destruction pointed at Jaden. Kyle got up and helped Jaden to his feet. They walked back slowly since Jaden still couldn't walk completely well just yet. They reached the nurses office without anyone seeing them and Jaden was back in bed just before the bell rang. A few minutes later the room was filled with people. They all started to talk at once. After staring at them wide eyed for a few minutes, Jaden finally spoke up.

"QUIET! So, you're all saying that you're sorry for what you did in the Dark World," they all nodded at him. "And that it was all your fault and not mine?" nods again. "Did you guys even pay attention in your classes or just think about all that happened their?"

"Mostly thinking really." They said in unison

"Wow. Chazz can think! Who knew!" Jesse cut in. Chazz turned around and glared at him. Just then Ms. Fontaine walked in gasping for breath.

"There you are Jaden Yuki!" she shouted as she walked over to him. "I tell you not to leave and what do you do? You get Kyle to carry you out to lord knows where for the whole damn day! What do you have to say in your defensive?"

Jaden quickly pointed at Kyle and said: "It was his idea! Blame him!"

"Kyle…" Alexis slowly turned her head like a psycho would in a horror movie. Kyle whimpered and slowly went to the door. "YOU'RE GONNA PAY FOR BEING A BAD INFULENCE ON JADEN!!" she shouted as she jumped on him. She landed on his back and just sat on him crossing her arms with a 'humph'.

"I hate you Jaden" Kyle said weakly. Must not be able to get air. Wonder why…

"Love ya too Kyle!" Jaden beamed

OOOOOOOOO

Hinata was in a hotel room, reading some random magazine. Just then her cell rang.

"What?" she asked in her cold tone. "You wanna do what? When? Gladly!" she smirked evilly at this. "You sure about this? You are? Fine. I'm not complaining. Bye" she hung up the phone and went back to her magazine. "Things just got fun again." She smirked again.

OOOOOOO

Angel: would write more, but that seemed like a good place to end it!

Chazz: that and it's really late at night!

Angel: that wasn't my fault! Some guy PMed me and I started to talk to him and helped him with a fic that he's writing! I would be up anyways!

Cole: you need more sleep!

Chazz: WHERE'D YOU COME FROM!?

Cole: everywhere!

Angel: in honor of Cole: black roses!

Cole: don't those symbolize death?

Angel: whenever we're involved, well me and Indi I mean, death follows sometimes!

Cole: true!

SEE YA TOMORROW!! -Angel