A/N: This collection contains uncorrelated drabbles (no poetry) part of several different challenges (and possibly competitions too) from the Yugioh ZEXAL Fanfiction Challenges Forum (link's on my profile).
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a collection of drabbles
Character(s): Akari, Haru
Challenge(s): ZEXAL Flash Bingo, 048 - spoil
Akari thought their grandmother was a little too soft on Yuuma sometimes. Like all that duelling he managed to sneak in when Akari had specifically told him he wasn't allowed to duel. And she had her reasons. Their grandmother knew full well what they were. And yet Haru would still encourage his duelling.
And then there was the coming home late, the trouble he got into at school – Akari would have grounded him for life for all that if Haru didn't tell her to "let Yuuma do those important things." And it frustrated Akari to no end, because she didn't know what those important things were, just that they were related to duelling and what had stolen their parents from them and what might one day swoop in and steal Yuuma away as well.
There was a reason Akari wanted Yuuma to stop duelling, to try harder in school and to stay out of trouble. Because she didn't want to lose him, like they'd both lost their parents. And their grandmother had lost a child…so why did she encourage Yuuma instead?
"He needs to grow," Haru said often, when Akari brought it up. But that didn't have to be by duelling, Akari thought. It didn't have to be by the thing that was guaranteed to snatch him away from them.
Because her parents had warned her about duelling, about his duels. To watch them, to be careful of them – but Yuuma was growing with them out of her sight no matter how he tried to stop them, and his grandmother was helping with that. If only she'd been on her side they might have been able to discourage him instead.
"Duelling's in his blood," Haru would point out when that thought crossed Akari's mind. "You won't be able to stop him. All you can really do is watch."
And, unfortunately, that was all she could do.