Fun Fact: Sometime after Yuya's duel with Reiji, the remains of Yugo's bike were found in the Fusion Dimension. Yugo and Rin worked together to repair it, while Yoko supervised and gave them advise. Yugo really liked having a mom to watch over him.

Chapter Summary: Yuri starts to question his sexuality, which poses a problem for the other boys.

Deep within the mindscape, four boys gathered. In an empty, colorless void filled with fog, three of them stood and faced the fourth, waited for his words. They stood under a spotlight; something that kept their vision unobscured by the area around them.

"I'm sure you're wondering why I gathered you all here today," Yuri told them.

His face was a combination of boredom and seriousness. The faces of the other boys were just of boredom.

"Probably for something stupid," Yugo groaned.

"Are you going to apologize for ruining our lives?" Yuto asked.

"No and no," Yuri answered. "No, but I need to discuss a... personal matter with you all."

Yuto and Yugo turned to Yuya for guidance on this one. Yuya, although looking rather skeptical at first, gave them a very small, very sheepish egao.

"Let's hear it, Yuri," Yuya said. "We're here to listen, if you're going to be nice."

"Thank you, Yuya. I knew you were my favorite for a reason."

Yuya had to egao at that one, much to the annoyance of the other two boys. And while he didn't forget that Yuri was a horrible jerk who did horrible things, it was nice seeing him seemingly make progress.

Yuri put a hand to his chin, then turned his head to the side. He seemed rather lost in thought, confused on what to say. The others could only watch and wait for Yuri to collect his bearings.

"I... No." he muttered. "Well...?"

"Yeah, can you hurry this up?" Yugo said. "Today's my day to take the body, and you're cutting into that time."

"Wait, just hold on!" Yuri pleaded. "I just... It's really hard to talk about, but..."

"You can tell us anything, Yuri," Yuya told him. He gave Yuri another comforting egao.

"I think... Gosh, how do I say this? I think I..."

Yuri paused for a moment, then let out an exasperated sigh. "I think I like men."

"Yeah, guys are cool," Yugo said. "Like Jack Atlas is a-"

"Not what me means, Yugo," Yuto told him.

"Oh... O-ooh."

"Yeah."

"Jack Atlas isn't my type, Fusion," Yuri sighed. "I like them older, like our father."

"That's not my name, first off!" Yugo snapped. "Second off, what's wrong with Jack Atlas? And third off, you're gross!"

"Yuto, Yugo," Yuya said. "Group huddle."

The two nodded, and the three of them ran away from the scene. Once they were several feet away from Yuri, they huddled into a circle and put their heads down.

"This is a big problem," Yuya told them.

"Yep," Yuto agreed.

"Yep," Yugo agreed. "Wait, why?"

"We share my body with Yuri," Yuya explained. "Our body. If he turns out to like men, he'll be... liking them with our body."

"Oh. Gross."

"That raises another question," Yuto said gravely. "Right now, we all have girls we're dating."

"No, I didn't ask Rin out yet," Yugo replied.

"I think you should," Yuya said. "She'd be lucky to have you."

"Agreed, Yugo would be a great boyfriend," Yuto added. "But what will we do when it comes to... well..."

"Marriage?" Yugo asked. "I thought about that, too."

"Not what I was thinking, but also right."

"Well, Yuzu and I aren't dating either," Yuya said. "We won't be getting married, so that's one less issue to worry about."

Yuto and Yugo looked at Yuya in disbelief and annoyance.

"What?"

"You're not dating Yuzu?" Yuto asked skeptically.

"No, we're just friends!"

"Yeah, uh-huh," Yugo said flatly. "You know she talked about you all the time when we were in the Synchro Dimension?"

"He talked about her a lot after she disappeared," Yuto added. "Every time she vanished, he'd talk more and more about her."

"Yeah. Even you don't talk about Ruri as much as he talks about Yuzu."

"Hey."

"Eh? What are you guys talking about?" Yuri called out.

The trio looked up from their huddle to look at him. Yuri looked at them with a confused and exasperated look on his face.

"Are you guys talking bad about me?" he asked.

"No, no!" Yuya told him. "We're just working something out."

"Yeah, just hold on a moment," Yuto said.

And with that, the trio returned to their huddle.

"Okay, back on track," Yuto told them. "What are we going to do?"

"We have to let him know we accept him, first off," Yuya said, nodding.

"I don't accept him!" Yugo huffed. "He's causing problems again. And how we know if he's serious?"

The trio lifted their heads to look back up at Yuri, who was just glaring them at this point. Then they tucked their heads back into their huddle.

"Yugo's right," Yuto said. "Is Yuri even capable of love?"

"Of course he is, probably," Yuya told him. "Though Yugo's right; he could just be pulling a prank on us to make us squirm."

"So we should punch him in the face!" Yugo concluded.

"Yes," Yuto agreed.

"No," Yuya disagreed.

"Yuri's a jerk, and we should punch him," Yugo explained. "Even if he's serious, he's still an assface."

"Yugo raises a good point," Yuto said.

"Shut up," Yuya told them. "We're stuck with each other, so we need to all get along. So let's tell Yuri we accept him, and we'll deal with the... other stuff when we get to it."

Yugo frowned. "Fine, I guess."

"We don't have any other options, do we?" Yuto sighed. "It still feels like we're giving into Yuri's demands, though."

"We could still accept him and punch him."

"Good enough for now," Yuya sighed. "Let's go talk to Yuri."

The trio removed themselves from the huddle, then walked towards their fourth musketeer. Yuri only shrugged at them, before turning to look at the watch on his wrist.

"Yuri, we're doing to accept you, no matter who or what you like," Yuya said proudly.

"Yeah, of course you would," Yuri said. He sounded rather detached and uninterested in Yuya's words.

"Ey yeah. Just don't go around town with our body," Yugo growled. "Also, I get to punch you."

"Yuri," Yuto added. "It takes courage to tell us what you to... Wait, why are you checking your watch?"

"Since when do you have a watch, anyway?" Yugo asked.

Yuri looked up from the watch and egaod wickedly. "Isn't it weird how time just passes so quickly in the mindscape?"

"... No!" Yuto gasped. "Yuri, you..."

"It's 6 o'clock in the PM!" Yuri exclaimed happily. "I'd say that's a good time to cut this meeting short."

Yugo slammed his hands against the side of his head. All the color faded from his face. His jaw practically dropped to the floor.

"Wait, I ran out of time?!" Yugo cried out. "But I was going to hang out with Rin today! We had plans, and..."

"You can alway have tomorrow!" Yuya said as he patted the boy's back. "Tomorrow was supposed to be Yuri's day, but I don't think he'll be getting control for a while.."

"Worth it," Yuri said smugly.

"Oh, that's not the point!" Yugo whined. "Rin's been waiting for hours! She's gonna kill me now!"

"Oh jeez, look at the time!" Yuri yelled. "Sorry, Fusion. But I think it's best I get going now."

"Not before I beat your face in!"

I hope you enjoyed this story. I wanted to do something lighter and more dialogue-heavy, since the last three chapters put so much emphasis on action.

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