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Chapter 37- The Destiny That Starts Moving

It was getting dark. It was late; I was cold, I was hungry and I was fed up. We had lost Sora but it also looked like we had lost Yuya. Like Sora, he had vanished. I shuffled down the streets, my destination the park. That's where Yuya said he was going. If he wasn't there and he still wasn't picking up, I was going to… Do something.

It wasn't weird that Yuya wasn't picking up his phone. It was the norm actually. He never used it, which was really annoying. So, I doubted Yuya was in trouble. He was probably still running around, screaming for the missing Fusion summoner. But even Yuya's stamina can begin to waver. He would be running on empty now. He was probably slumped on a bench somewhere. But where? He couldn't stay out all night, no matter how desperate he was to find Sora.

I had called Yoko and he hadn't gone home (though I doubted he would go on his own accord, I imagined him being dragged by a certain parent) and, according to Gongenzaka, he wasn't back at the hospital, where he and my father were.

Speaking of my father, he appeared at the hospital minutes after my hysterical phone call, saw that we were all missing and assumed we had been kidnapped. Luckily, there were several members of security (and Yoko) to calm him down. He then called me, only to be sent to voicemail because I was trying to call Yuya at the same time. It was like a weird chain of events: Sora doesn't pick up, so Yuya doesn't pick up, so I don't pick up and my father concludes that we have been tied and gagged and thrown in the back of a van.

That was the last time we were watching American crime drama in our house.

I was strolling now. I was close to the park and that was where I was going to start my search for the pendulum duellist. I may as well save my energy, I thought, this is going to be a long-

Boom!

Suddenly, the ground shook, the lampposts began swaying side-to-side and several parked cars bounced slightly from the explosion. What on earth had that been? I looked around, assuming a gas explosion in a nearby house or something. Perhaps there was an Action Duel going on in one of the (many) arenas in the area?

"Woah!" a passer-by grabbed her boyfriend as they walked down the street. "What was that!?"

Several other members of the public were now stalk still glancing around. Late commuters, duellists and teenagers all paused but then began on their way again.

"Hey man, that was intense!"

"Yeah, what kind of party are they having at the park!?"

"Whatever it is, it looks weird. Best stay clear."

Oh, not the park! Anywhere but the park! I took off again, pushing past the slow walkers on the pavements as they grumbled. I shot past, crossed the road and ran up the side street. I was almost there. I could see the trees and the park shelter. As I ran, my arms pumped either side of me. Then, a familiar pink caught the corner of my eye.

"The bracelet… Again?" I asked, staring around. Was Yuya here? Or Yuto? I took the final steps into the large area of green shrubbery- man's poor attempt at creating woodland in the vast cityscape. I followed the twisting paths, nothing changed since I was last here, a few weeks back with Yuya, Ayu, Futoshi and Tatsuya. Then, I saw the main centre statue had been completely eradicated. It lay on the ground, completely destroyed. A powerful force would have had been needed to achieve such destruction (and I was sure Sawatari Senior was going to be very happy about this).

"Yuto?" I called out, slowing to a stop. "Was Yuto here?"

Then, I turned to my right looking at the top of the hill, to the pretty shelter situated at the top. And to the right of it, slumped on his knees, staring up at the sky was-

"Yuya!" I cried, trying to get his attention. However, he didn't reply, didn't acknowledge me at all because the split second after I called his name he slumped forward like a lifeless doll and lay face-down on the grass, not moving. "Yuya!" I hollered sprinting over and dropping to my knees. "Yuya! Yuya… Yuya?" I shook his shoulders, trying to wake him up. "What's wrong? What's going on? What happened!?"

However, he was completely unresponsive. I honestly didn't know what to do. There was nobody in the park, he was as cold as ice and I was all by myself. Did I try get him home? Did I call someone? An ambulance? Yoko?

In the end, I speed-dialled his mother. I tried desperately to drag Yuya to the park shelter where he could lie on the benches in there but it became apparent quite quickly that Yuya ate far too many pancakes and there was no way I could drag him the few metres it was and, even if I could, I couldn't lift him up the stone steps without causing more damage. In the end, I could only manage to flip him so that he was lying on his back and rest his head in my lap.

I put my phone on loud speaker and held it up to my mouth, as I shakily ran my hand through Yuya's hair.

"Hello?" a tired voice said after the third drone.

"Yoko!" I burst out, trying to control my panic. "It's Yuzu!"

"Yuzu? Why are you calling so late? Are you ok?" she asked urgently.

"Me? N-No, I'm fine," I gulped, trying hard not to have a crying fit down the line. I was so tired. The grass was damp and soaking my legs and skirt, Yuya was like an ice-block and he was soaking from the grass too. "I don't know what to do…" I whispered, chocking down on my sobs.

"What is it? What's happened?"

"I-I-I've found Yuya but he's passed out," I sniffed. "He's not moving and it's dark and it's cold and… and… should I call an ambulance or what?"

"No, no, no, don't worry honey, I'll be right there. Where are you?" she asked soothingly, immediately making me feel much better.

"The park," I said weakly. "In the centre, just by the shelter on the hill."

"Right, don't panic, I'll be right down," she assured me, then hung up.

I waited barely five minutes before I saw the running figure. Yoko charged up and flung herself down beside me, feeling her son's temperature and checking his pulse. Then she smiled, ruffling her fingers affectionately through his hair. "He's ok. Come on, let's take him home," and then she picked him up in one sweep and began to walk off in the direction of her car, me following behind (goggling at her amazing hidden strength).

We got back to the Sakaki residence easily enough. She parked the car in the garage and carried Yuya to his room. I waited patiently outside the door, petting the many animals that had come for my affections. After a while, she came out clutching Yuya's clothes in one hand and a pair of his clean pyjamas in another.

"Here," she thrust the sleepwear towards me. "Put these on and give me your clothes. I'll wash them and dry them for tomorrow."

"Are you sure?" I asked. "I'm sure I can survive the night-"

"They may as well. These rags," she held up Yuya's orange shirt. "Are either going in the wash or the rubbish heap. But I don't think he'll forgive me for throwing them out, so their being washed ASAP. You may as well and it saves water, when you think about it."

I nodded and slipped into the bathroom, changing and passing the damp skirt and sweat-soaked (gross!) shirt out to her. She dashed downstairs and immediately put the washing machine on. I undid my pigtails, pulling the bands down my wrist so I wouldn't use them and padded over to the spare room, beside Yuya's.

It wasn't like I hadn't been here before. I had had sleepover's countless times and it wasn't the first time I wore his pyjamas either. However, normally I stayed in his room on the floor on a camping bed and we would stay up all night chatting and duelling and playing games. It suddenly occurred to me that we hadn't done that in a while.

Yoko popped her head around the door. "Goodnight Yuzu, I'll wake you up if he decides to grace us with his presence."

"Goodnight," I said quietly before curling up, wishing that I was in that comfortable camping bed beside Yuya and not in the bare room in the large bed, where I felt isolated and useless.

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Rena: Hopefully the running lateness of these chapters will be going very soon because the exams have started! Next Friday we will be FREE!

Cat: We started today and... OMG... Essay writing at 9am immediately after Christmas? Are they insane!?

Rena: So, we figured that the reviews for this chapter can be dedicated to Yuto, who died (?) in this episode! (so sad!) He had quite a fan club on this fanfiction... So, feel free to unleash your sorrows!

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