"No way…" Sage and Kazekage was astonishingly exasperating.
Both of their index fingers were pointing in the direction of the purple haired male, who was now currently standing on the side of Kamikaze.
"Guys, Akihito will be your babysitter for the night." Kami announces as she returns her arms to her side.
Their mouths bus drop while she eagerly waves her hand toward Yusei to catch his attention.
"If you need anything just call me." The red head with black streaks asserts as she faces him after Yusei stands next to her.
The young man rests one of his hands on her left shoulder and confidently responds with, "Trust me, I have everything under control."
The young woman simply wears a smile on her face, nods her head up and down, extends her hand out to Yusei, and guides him along until they were out of her home.
Kaze swiftly faces Sage and whispers, "Pinch me and tell me that this is a horrible nightmare."
"Ouch..." She painfully mumbles as she snatches her arm away from him, rubs her bruise, and challenges, "What was that for?"
"This is a horrible nightmare." The silver haired boy affirms as his eyes narrow in on the purple haired man that was in front of them.
"Yo…" He cheerfully shouts with one of his hands up as his palm faces them while the other hand was inside one of his jeans' pockets.
"It's good to see you again Aki-san." The tot cordially greets him as he directs his attention back to Akihito, "It seems as if you've grown up quite well."
Sage's statement earns a smile to appear on his face, "I see you've successfully gone through your reincarnation stage. It's good to see you as well, Sage-sensei."
Kazekage was currently glaring a hole in to the man in front of her that she was forgetting to even breathe that until he was mentioning, "Uhm...you might want to start breathing Kazekage,"
"It seems as if I have left her a tad bit speechless…" The purple haired male boastfully teases as a smirk appears on his face at Kaze's current facial expression.
The young boy peek upwards to the still stun Kazekage, whose eyes were wide and mouth open when an idea pops up in his head.
"Hey Akihito…" Sage calls out to young man, "Do you want to spar?"
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"So are you excited for our date?" Kamikaze was posing to Yusei, who was staring at the scenery instead of paying attention to her.
He slightly nods his head, exhales a held breath and speaks up, "I just thought that…"
Kami could tell from the tone of his voice that the raven haired male was still in shock about her gesture and his current location of being at her side.
She scoots a little closer to him so she could get a better read of his body language. "I'm glad that you didn't give up too early or this might not have happened."
"Even I have to admit that all of this is rather new to me." The red head confessed as her eyesight was directed at the front window of the taxi.
"Same here," The young man quietly admits all while she silently relishes the feel of her slender body presses against his.
"I'm glad then." Kamikaze adds in and cozies in closer to him and his natural body heat, which seems to flare up whenever she was near him.
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Stacy makes her way over to her couch, plops down on the soft cushion and releases a sigh of relief. 'I got the hardest part out of the way.'
She directed her sights toward her luggage that was stacked against the side of the front door. 'I guess it's about that time for the family to gather up again.'
The blonde lifts her head so that her gaze was now on the ceiling of her apartment. The young woman was envisioning how her family would react to her being a single mother and shacking up with a famous singer.
Some of her cousins would be openly jealous about the latter part rather than care about another addition to the Sluppoper's family line.
The young mother could not bring herself to shame their mindset because at one point in her life, she ran right along with the pack and would more than likely be the main one out in the front.
Yet that all changed when she was pregnant with Jack Atlas child, she vividly imagined that she would not have to struggle with bills or childcare needs since he would take care of that.
They would have moved in to his penthouse that overlooked the entire Neo Domino's landscape and would watch every sunrise and sunset with each other as a family.
She, along with Amanda, would have taken pleasure in being lavished with various expensive gifts and resided in his personal suite for every Turbo Duel all while they cheered him on to victory.
But none of that mattered because there was Kamikaze, who she had to routinely compete with for the umpteenth time.
At first, Stacy was constantly living in regret for teaching her "younger sister" about the rules in engaging with the opposite sex while still maintaining a sense of pride by coyly directing their patrons away from anything physical.
As much as the blonde desperately tried to hold that over the girl's head, she just could not bring herself to detest her.
Regardless of how hard she was trying and no matter how many times, she was willingly ignoring the signs and signals of Kamikaze meteoric uprising.
The young woman felt some type of satisfaction as she witnesses Kami emerged to the forefront ad the most sought/requested Gift at their company.
Personally, it meant that her teachings paid off and that it was time for her to be a backseat driver.
It was not until the red head began to divulge some of her darkest secrets from her tainted past, which thoroughly sickened Stacy to her core.
Kamikaze had absolutely no one in her corner, her back or even stood by her side instead it was always someone in front of her with their back toward her.
But what really drove the nail in her coffin of guilt was when Kami faithfully remained by her side and never wavered in her affections for her best friend.
'Even after all that I put her through with my pregnancy and cheating with Jack, she firmly stated that I was still her best friend.'
Although her thoughts were originally that Kami could not bear the lost another important person in her life. Those thoughts begin to erode because of her actions.
'She was there for Amanda's birth. And even took extreme honor in being the godmother of a healthy blonde haired and blue eyed baby girl, name Amanda Sluppoper.'
'She was there when Mau and I were sent to the hospital because that Black Rose character's actions and even wanted to enact vengeance for our sake.'
'She took proper care of Amanda with no hesitation and almost didn't want to return her to her very own mother until she was completely healthy.'
Those fond memories brought tears to her eyes as she allowed them to fall because her best friend definitely deserved to be cried over after all that she had done for her.
Mau leisurely strolls in with a concern expression evident on his face when he spots his girlfriend on the couch with her head toward the ceiling and tears stream from her eyes.
"Are you alright baby?" He inquires as he quickly makes his way over to her side as she tilts her head forward and brushes the tears away with the back part of her hand.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Stacy reassured him with a nod of her head as she continued to wipe her tear-stained eyes with her hands.
The red head gently rests one of his hands against her back and starts to rub small circles to show that he comforts her and that he was not leaving until she was better.
The young woman sniffles a little until she lifts her head up in the direction of Mau and simply whispers to him, "Those were for Kamikaze."
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'Where did I go wrong in my life?' A quiet Jack Atlas mentally groans as he shifts his hands from underneath his neck so it would not become stiff.
His mind reels back to when he was in his homeland, the deserted Satellite, and how one of his friends Yusei begins to construct a duel runner.
As the bike was coming together, Jack's dreams of escape from that retched place seems to be inching closer and closer.
The blonde was definitely not happy so he was going to make a change about it. The young man forces his emotions to the farthest corner of his conscious in order to fulfill his personal dream.
Jack knew all too well how Yusei blindly trusted his companions to the point that he probably would have never thought that his D-runner would have been stole by one of them.
He lifts his right arm until it aligns with his line of vision as his fingers spread apart from each other and clenches it in a fist. 'I went out to grab and took ahold of my intended destiny.'
Jack silently relished the attention that he was given but it was outweighed for his love to prove that his dueling skills were better than his challengers, who aimed for his throne.
The sights of his opponent's duel runner abruptly screeching to halt as a large red "X" brightly flashing on their screen then the declaration of Jack Atlas as the victor was enough to bite back the quiet regret of abandoning his friends in the manner that he did.
'As long as the crowd was cheering then I didn't have to think about my beginnings but instead focusing in on my future.'
Yet, his ability to escape and dodge the truth would soon come full circle with a vengeance and a brand spanking new duel runner.
'The damage that he has caused for me…' The blonde reviewed how his personal life speedily derailed with the arrival of a ghost from his forgotten past.
He then lifts his arm until it was back at his side and then turns to adjust himself on the couch.
His eyes settle in on his deck, which has been one of his two comforts whenever he could not think straight. The other one was probably far gone by now, after all that his actions have done to them.
Jack reaches out to the picture frame that was next to his deck, picks it up and stares at the image behind the clear glass.
'If you were just honest from the beginning then you wouldn't have to be looking at this picture when you could have the real thing.'
He prolongs his gaze a little longer before he returns the frame to the coffee table with its portrait face down instead of upright.
Jack's gaze returned back to his deck along with the white envelope that has the emblem of the Fortune Cup graced the cover.
'I'll get to have my own revenge in a couple of more days. I'll annihilate him the instant he steps foot in my territory.'
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"Oceania's Shorefront," Yusei verbally reads aloud the name of the restaurant where Kamikaze instructs the taxi driver to drive them to.
He was turning to see Kami finishing paying the fare for the cab before strutting over to where he was currently standing.
"I probably should've asked you earlier if you were allergic to seafood or shellfish." She conveys to her date with a sincere expression on her face.
The young man shakes his head left then right before he confirms to her, "I'm not allergic," which causes the red head to exhale a sign of relief.
"So shall we?" The raven haired male suggested to her with his left arm extended out to her.
A smile then visibly graces the young woman's face and she gently hooks her arm through his, "We shall."
Once they reached the entrance of Oceania's Shorefront, Yusei held the door open wide enough for Kamikaze to past through first followed by himself.
Kami quickly comments, "Such the perfect gentleman" as she directs her attention to the hostess, who wears a smile and politely greets the two.
"I have a reservation for Fujita, Kamikaze and a party of two." She informs the woman in front of her in a cordial manner.
He was merely observing the woman grabbing a yellow highlighter while softly repeating Kamikaze's last name until pointinb to it and highlighting it, "Fujita and a party of two".
A similar smile appears on the red head's face as she turns away from the woman, who begins to search for menus, "Let's go and enjoy ourselves tonight…the kids have a babysitter."
The young man only chuckles at Kamikaze's antics when the hostess appears in front of them and guides them to their reserved table.
"So…"
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Author's Note:
Major editing revisions 06.19.17
