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): Chris, Kaito
Challenge(s): Friendship Diversity Boot Camp, #001 – empty
Kaito was too young to understand how Chris could go from loving him to hating him overnight. But Chris knew – knew how one tiny bit of news could change everything: the way he looked at Doctor Faker, the way he looked at Kaito…
One tiny bit of news was enough to hollow out a bond he thought could only grow stronger.
Father's apprentice was how it had begun. Mentor and mentee it had become – and then, through Kaito's determination and passion and Chris teaching him the ways of duelling, they became friends. Firm friends that began to move away from only duelling to going out for ice-cream and watching movies together and doing other things that friends did away from Doctor Faker's laboratory.
Chris had never seen that ending, but it had. By that simple bit of knowledge – of Doctor Faker's betrayal.
All that time he'd spent in the laboratory, searching – and the answer had been right in front of him. The whole reason he'd met Kaito to begin with…and it had all been for naught. Doctor Faker had known. He'd always known – he'd done the deed himself, snatching away his father and the father of his brothers just for his own selfish desire. He'd betrayed their father – and he'd betrayed that other man as well, a man who'd been a father as well and had also left children behind.
Not like Kaito. Kaito's father had come back. Chris – could, and had, always been a little jealous of that fact. Even after Kaito had found a place inside his heart – but it was different now. It wasn't jealousy. It was self disgust. It was anger. It was an emotion he couldn't tolerate.
He couldn't be friends with the son of the man who'd done what Doctor Faker had done to Byron Arclight.