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Fable: "Thanks! I will say this Bittersweetshipping chapter lives up to its name. This chapter is both sad and sweet at the same time. Hope you enjoy it though."

Seena87

Fable: "No problem. I love talking to my reviewers."

queen of stars

Angel: "Ha!"

(Declan lets out a deep sigh.)

Fable: "Umm..."

Declan: "Don't say it. I'm already going."

(Declan says before leaving to change. As he was leaving, he passes by Sylvio.)

Sylvio: "She got you too?"

Declan: "You tell me."

Fable: "O-okay then. Sora? Shay? Yuya? You guys are on."

Yuya: "Alright! You ready, Sora?"

Sora: "Of course I am, coach!"

Shay: "Let's get this over with."

Angel: "And now we're onto Bittersweetshipping! The shipping name for Yuya Sakaki, Sora Perse, and Shay Obsidian! This AU is a bit sad. For this one, after the final battle with Zarc, Yuya falls into a coma and Sora and Shay try to handle the aftermath."

Ship Name: Bittersweetshipping (Shay Obsidian x Yuya Sakaki x Sora Perse)

Name Reason: Named as such because Shay is bitter (or at least he looks pretty bitter), Sora is sweet (and he likes sweets) and Yuya's constantly switching between happy (sweet) and sad (bitter) emotions.

Bittersweet End

Zuzu slowly walks out of the room, quietly shutting the door behind her. Her eyes were red and puffy from crying, but her cheeks were dry. Lulu walked over to place a comforting hand on her shoulder but Zuzu just shakes her head. Shay waits for the door to open again, but it doesn't.

Shay gives it a little more time.

Still nothing.

"Shay?" Lulu whispers to him. Shay looks up. "You should go in. Talk to him." She nods at the door. Honestly, Shay didn't want to go back into that room. He had already saw him once and it took everything Shay had to not start bawling like a child. "Shay." Lulu repeated again, knowing her brother's hesitation. "He needs you too. You've been quiet for too long." Shay sighed, approaching the door and slowly turning the knob.

When he poke his head inside, Shay could see Yuya, his lifeless body still laying in the hospital bed. Sitting in a chair, beside the bed, was Sora. Like Zuzu, his eyes were red and puffy from crying, his cheeks still mark with dried up tear tracks that he hadn't bother to wipe away. Shay felt his heart break for the second time that day. He shuts the door behind him and stands by Sora's side, staring down at Yuya's face. If he didn't know better, he would have guess that Yuya was sleeping, and technically, he was just sleeping.

It's just that no one knows when he is going to wake up.

He has been like this since Zarc was defeated. Lulu and her counterparts were fine. Each of them waking up in their home dimension, but not Yuya. Yuya was found in the Fusion Dimension by Sora and Aster. And unlike the girls, Yuto, Yugo, and Yuri were nowhere to be found. Declan theorized that Yuya, for some reason, didn't split apart. He thinks it may have been something Riley had caused when she absorbed Zarc and released Ray.

Shay wanted to blame Riley for this mess, but he knew he couldn't. Zarc was going to be reborn and Riley thought that sealing him would fix the problem. Nobody knew that it would end up turning Riley into an infant and putting Yuya into a coma.

"We were suppose to go home together..."

It was the first time Sora had spoken to Shay once Yuya's condition was announced.

"He told me...that..." Sora choked on his words. Shay could see his tears free falling. "...everything was going to be fine." Sora brought his knees up to his chest, hugging them tightly. "Why...why did I let him face Yuri alone?"

"Sora, you were hurt. There wasn't anything..."

"I SHOULD HAVE BEATEN YURI!" Sora suddenly screech, much to Shay's shock. "IF I HAD BEATEN YURI, HE WOULDN'T HAVE CARDED YUYA'S FATHER! THEN YUYA WOULDN'T HAVE HAD A REASON TO DUEL HIM!"

"Sora..." Shay tried to step forward to calm him, but Sora jerk his head up to fix him with a stare full of rage. Not at him, but at himself.

"OR EVEN ZARC! IF I HAD JUST BEATEN EITHER OF THEM, NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPEN! RILEY WOULDN'T HAVE USED THE EN CARDS AND NO ONE WOULD HAVE GOTTEN HURT! BUT NO! I WAS TOO FUCKING WEAK!"

"Don't talk about yourself like that-!"

"Don't give me that bullshit! Everyone knows it! That's why you hate me!" Sora's yelling had decrease in volume, but not by much.

"Hate...you?" Shay echos. Lulu was right. He has been quiet for too long.

"And of course you do! Why wouldn't you hate me?! I've been nothing but horrible to you ever since we met! Yuya was literally the only reason why you even tolerated me!"

"How dare you..." Shay growled, his angry rising. He knew that Sora was only saying these things because he was deeply hurting. But so was he! "How dare you assume how I feel."

"Well, excuse me." Sora scoff in a childish tone. "It's not like you did a very good job of hiding it. You wouldn't even talk to me-"

"That's because I wanted to give you space! Hell, I needed space after everything that has happen!" Catching another sight of Yuya, Shay forced himself to calm down. Regardless of the reason, Yuya wouldn't want them yelling at each other like this. "I'm sorry I made you feel like that, Sora. And I'm sorry I didn't get to tell you that I forgave you. I forgave you the moment you saved Zuzu's life, back in the Synchro Dimension. Both me and Yuya."

"B-but I took away your home, and your sister, and because I wasn't strong enough...Yuya too..."

"Okay, you're giving yourself way too much credit." Shay said, shaking his head. "You didn't take away my home. Leo did. You didn't take away my sister. Leo did. And you're not the only one who failed against Zarc. All of us failed to defeat Zarc, not just you." Shay grabbed a nearby chair, pulling it up beside Sora's chair and sitting down. "It wasn't anyone's fault. None of us could have predicted that 'this' would happen to Yuya. Just as good things happen to bad people, bad things happen to good people. We can't control it. The only thing we can do is keep our future bright-"

"-and our smiles shining." Sora finish, wiping his eyes. This was something Yuya would tell them all the time when things got tough. Shay gives Sora a small smile, before wrapping his arm around his shoulder. Sora leaned into his touch, his anger gone, but now replaced with sadness.

"I miss him, Shay."

"I know, Sora. Me too."

Shay was awoken by a nurse. His neck and back ached from his sitting position, but he couldn't move. Sora had also fallen asleep on his shoulder and too much movement could wake him.

"Sir, visiting hours will be ending soon." The nurse whisper quietly. Shay nods in understanding.

"I understand. We'll go." As the nurse began to get Yuya ready for bed, Shay gently nudge Sora awake. "Sora. Sora, come on. We gotta go." Sora slowly blinked open his eyes, letting out a massive yawn. Shay looked out the window to see that it was dark, the star already twinkling. It was probably around 8 or 9. "Visiting hours are closing. We have to go."

"Oh...alright." Sora stood up as Shay stretched, trying to get the kink out of his neck and back. Sora reached over, grabbing Yuya's hand. "I promise, we'll visit you again soon, Yuya. Get better, okay?" Shay placed his hand on top of Sora's, gently squeezing the two together.

"Stay strong, Yuya. And don't worry about us. I'll keep an eye on the little gremlin until you wake up." Shay said, smirking as Sora huffed at him.

"I'm not a gremlin!"

"Sure, whatever you say." Before Sora could launch into a tangent, the nurse quietly interrupts them.

"Uhh...sirs, I'm sorry but you must leave soon." She points at her watch on her wrist. "All visitors must be gone by 8:05."

"Yes, of course." Shay leans forward and presses a light kiss to Yuya's forehead. "Good night, Yuya." Sora does the same.

"Night, Yuya." He murmurs. Taking Sora's hand into his own, Shay guides them out of the room. The hospital was deathly quiet and the hallways were nearly empty except for the occasional nurse or late night doctor. Shay check his duel disk to see that his sister had texted him, having left hours prior. She said she saw that they had fallen asleep and didn't want to disturb them. She also texted again, a few minutes ago, saying that she had dinner waiting for him and Sora at home.

"Lulu made dinner while we were gone. Hope you like vegetable stew as much as you like sweets." Shay said causally. Sora looked up at him, startled.

"Dinner? For me?"

"Is there something wrong?"

"No, no." Sora said, shaking his head. "I guess I just...didn't expect it, is all."

Sora was silent for a moment, but Shay already knew the question was coming.

"Can we get some dessert too?"

"Nothing too sweet."

"Chocolate cake!" Shay lets out another sigh.

"Fine."

"Yes!"

Fable: "Next up is Blackbirdshipping with Shay and Crow."

Shay: "Me and Crow? Seriously?"

Angel: "You two got pretty close during the Friendship Cup. I would be more shocked if you both didn't get a ship name."