Crazy trouble with love part 8
Alternate Anna and Yuma
Series: Yugioh Zexal
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-Heartland City, Tsukumo residence-
Yuma was panting as he was currently in the middle of push ups. "One...two...three."
All the while Astral watch on with mixed feelings.
"Are you sure this is a good idea?"
"Yeah...I gotta build...muscle mass." He groaned in pain while his arms started to get cramped up.
"But isn't that something you do when in school?"
"This...works...fine…"
SQUEEZE!
And cue him getting a massive cramp in both his arms.
"AH!" he let out before falling down as his arms gave out and groaned. "Ow ...I should have stretched."
"Observation, you need to eat more fiber."
Yuma frowned at that. "It's not just about food, I mean if you don't stretch you'll get cramps."
Astral blinked before noticing a strange flux in the entire dimension, like something just punctured it with a needle for a brief second. "Pardon me Yuma, but I need to check something."
"I'm...ow!" He groaned while getting a cramp on his legs. "Coming…"
"I believe that is alright, you may want to rest your arms."
"No...I'm coming." Yuma groaned while crawling on the ground like a slug.
"I would not recommend that."
And cue-
CRASH!
Yuma falling down the stairs and passed out on the floor.
Astral sighed before floating away.
(Elsewhere in the city)
People were going about their day as normal as usual with several kids going out and dueling their friends in the free space.
However, that was when the peace was shattered by a large explosion from the nearby alleyway followed by a large tear in space appearing from the spot, looking like a rusted demonic gate with broken chains on it. Coming from it was a tall figure with a brown cloak on who fell down onto the ground with a groan and twitched.
The figure groaned while slowly rising up and revealed two things, one a small pair of pistols on their hips and two, a small key with golden curves, a ring on the top of it, a green gem in the center with cracks on it and looked almost ready to break, on the figure's neck with a black chain.
"Wha...What the…" they spoke before turning to the rift and ran at it, only for it to close. "No! What happened?! Where am I!? Why did that happen?!"
The door then dissolved into rust and black energy as the figure looked ready to cry in rage.
"OPEN UP!" they yelled punching at the ground, but it didn't appear.
That was when they looked around and frowned.
"Heartland City? Why am I back where I started from?!" they questioned looking at the towers and buildings and felt a sense of deja vu. "How come everything looks the same? Everything should be bigger and more crowded, but it doesn't look like things changed."
That was when they turned around and saw a light blue figure floating over them.
"Huh? A Barian? No, this one has no chaos energy around them."
The figure turned to him and pointed. "Astral? What are you doing here?! Aren't you back in Astral World?"
"You can see me?" he spoke with surprise.
"Of course I can see you, I can also hear you, and I'm talking to you!" they yelled. "What's going on here? What are you doing back here? For that matter, why am I back here?"
"...what?" He said before seeing the emperor's key around their neck. "And why do you have a fake key?"
"It's real you fucking alien!" They snapped before calming down. "Breath. Don't let those anger management classes go to waste."
"That's not possible." he replied as the figure walked over to him. "Who are you?"
The figure was silent and crossed their arms. "Astral, I swear, if this is one of your jokes, I'm gonna slap you, intangible or not."
He raised an eyebrow before sensing something odd about the key. "I feel all the numbers in that key."
SLAP!
"Well duh! I helped your friend collect them all and now I own them all after you ditched our dimension for your own!" They growled.
"You are an enigma." he remarked holding his chin. "You act and talk as though you've known me for some time, but that cannot be possible."
"Oh yeah? Alright, I'll play along. Tell me, how is that NOT possible?" they asked with annoyance. "Go ahead, tell me how it's nowhere near possible when my experience and memories say otherwise."
"You could be a clone."
They slapped him again, even though it went through him. "Cloning isn't a thing now! Jeez! It's been so long and you still think cloning is possible with our species you stupid...breath. Breath in…breath out...ah…"
"Perhaps showing me your face would help."
"Oh come on, you've seen what I look like, it's not that hard to forget a woman this hot you know." they smirked while hearing footsteps running coming down the alley. 'Great, it's probably some annoying cop who thinks I'm a mental case.'
"Astral! Wait up!"
'Wait…no...it can't be!' They thought as Yuma ran down the alley with a groan.
"Ow...stupid cramps." He groaned while panting a little. "Astral!"
'It's...It's….' the figure stared down at Yuma who got up and felt themselves bite their lip. 'But…'
Yuma himself spotted the figure and was confused, but on guard. "Astral, what's going on?"
"I do not know, but this person here is able to see me and has knowledge about the numbers."
"What?!"
The figure looked at Yuma before letting out a loud hiccup as tears went down the cloak and onto the ground. "Y...Yuma…"
"And she has the emperor's key." Astral concludes before seeing the figure crying very loudly.
"No way!" spoke Yuma before spotting the key and went wide eyed before looking at his own. "But...how?"
"You...You're really...you're really here."
"Um, are you ok?"
GLOMP!
And cue the figure giving him a very affectionate yet slightly tight hug as they cried even louder.
"YUMA!" they cried out with Yuma grunting due to the grip. "YOU'RE ALIVE!"
"GAH!" He groaned while falling on the ground.
"Oh my god! You're not dead!" They cried out. "I-I thought you died from Don Thousand's powers!"
Astral shivered at the mention of that 'deities' name.
"Can't...breath…" groaned Yuma. "Can't...breath…"
The figure let go quickly, but held Yuma's shoulders and stared at him. "Oh man...you still have that goofy look on your face." they spoke with a joking tone while sniffling. "It's so good to see it, it's been so long…"
He looked lost. "Who are you exactly?"
The figure gasped. "H-How can you not know me?! We've been friends since preschool!"
"Uh...we have?" he looked lost before finding himself hoisted up off his feet with the figure growling.
"Yeah! Think real hard on it you bozo!"
"I-I swear! I don't know! I don't know who you are!"
"Just give me a guess you motherfucking baka!"
"I-I...um…Kotori?"
They headbutted his head hard. "WRONG!"
"OW!" he held the spot with a wince.
"Try again!"
"Um...Cathy?"
BONK!
"WRONG!"
"OW!"
"Again!"
"Um...Droite? Rio?"
BONK!
"WRONG!"
Yuma groaned before growling. "Stop that and take off that stupid cloak!"
They frowned. "Why should I?! You should know me by my voice!"
"I've known Kotori since I was little, and if you're not her, than I don't know you!" he grabbed at the hood and yanked it off, only for his eyes to slowly widen.
For in front of him was a tall twenty five year old woman with dark yellow eyes, long reddish orange hair with two long bangs going down her cheeks and had three long ponytails, two on both sides of her head and one on the back of her head that reached to her large ass, an H cup chest, wearing a dark pink shirt with a skull on it, a dark brown cloak on her back like a cape, black elastic pants with white saddles, black gloves that extended to her elbows with golden lines on each of the fingers, a long scar over her right eye with a white mask like visor over her forehead and connected to the bridge of her nose, and had a small pink and black watch with a golden line on the right side of it, on her left arm.
"Kotori isn't your friend baka." She sniffled sadly while her eyes looked very puffy. "I...I am…"
"You...You…You're Anna!" he gaped while she let go and let him fall on his ass.
"Of course I am!" she snapped while clenching her hands. "I can't believe you didn't recognize me!"
"B-But...how can you be Anna Kaboom?!"
"It's Anna Kozuki." She frowned. "I stopped using the kaboom nickname when I faced the Barians, the numbers and a god of chaos! So how in the world do you think I still use that stupid nickname?!"
"Because it's your last name!"
"NO IT'S-" she bit her finger and inhaled and breath out while closing her eyes. "Breath in...breath out...breath in…breath out…"
Yuma looked completely lost while looking to Astral for help.
But he was too busy looking at the sky to help.
'Such perfect cumulonimbus clouds.'
"Ok...I'm gonna ask you some stuff, and you answer them honestly, got it? I gotta try and figure this out." Anna sighed. "And no lying or I might blast you with my proton pistols."
"Don't you mean your bazooka?" he sweatdropped.
"Got destroyed by Vector." She grumbled. "Went for pistols, for better hits and kills."
"Ok…"
"Look, focus." she frowned. "This is serious, now first question. When was the first time you ever met me?"
"You tried to kill me with a bazooka while saying I was your first crush."
"..." she sighed. "Didn't happen, that was Kotori, after you accidentally pulled down her panties in middle school."
Yuma blushed and shook his head. "T-That never happened!"
"Next question." she continued, ignoring him. "What was the first number you ever used?"
"Number 39."
"Ok, so that's true. What was the name of Cathy's first pet dog?"
"Dog?" Yuma looked confused. "Cathy doesn't have any dogs, she's a cat person."
"...what?! What?!" She gasped in shock. "But she's a dog person!"
"No she's a cat girl."
"...holy fucking shit." she muttered. "I think I'm starting to see what's going on...but it's so crazy and nutty I don't wanna believe it."
"What?"
Anna sighed before saying. "I accidentally entered another dimension." She then looked at herself. "Oh thank god! No mutations or side effects! Thank the lord!"
Yuma stared at her like she was nuts with Astral nodding.
"I believe you might be right."
"What?!" gaped Yuma.
"I felt an odd disturbance and that's what led me here. It felt similar, and if she has your key, I believe that the energy from her key, connected to the energy to your key, causing a rift in space and time to occur, letting her cross over here."
Anna took a deep breath and pointed to Yuma. "What I'm going to say is top secret. If you tell it to anyone else, consider yourself a corpse, got it?"
He gulped.
"In my dimension, I graduated Neo Duel Academy under a Duel History major." She said as Yuma fell on his face. "What?"
"Neo Duel Academy…you mean the school that's insanely expensive and hard to get into?"
"Yep." She said with pride. "Was an Obelisk Blue like my mother and was able to pay the tuition bill with...part time jobs." 'Among other things.'
Yuma sweatdropped at that 'secret'. "What kind of jobs?"
"I'll tell you later, but just know they weren't easy." she frowned. "Come on, if I'm gonna tell you more, let's grab a little snack, I'm hungry and wanna see if they still have some of those stands they use to have around here."
"What do you mean?"
"Let's just say that some stands were discontinued and leave it at that." She said before picking up Yuma like a princess and carried him out of the alleyway.
"Hey, what's the big idea? I can walk." he frowned.
"I know, but you look cute in my arms." She teased. "I used to do this to you when we were kids."
He looked at her in disbelief.
(Later)
"Ah man, I miss crepes." smiled Anna biting into her second one.
"So…"
She looked at Yuma. "You want to know about something? Ask away, as long as you get me more crepes." 'Yummy!'
"Can you start from the beginning? The very beginning."
"Ok, but I don't recall much about being a fetus." She stated with a teasing smirk.
"I mean when we met." he sweatdropped.
"Oh that, well…"
(Flashback)
Yuma, a small little tot, looked around the park while looking for bugs to play with, all the while the other children were playing in the sandbox or playing tag in the distance. He had a bag with a bug net and was hoping to find a rhinoceros beetle.
As he looked around, he noticed a praying mantis on a nearby tree and walked over to it. He grinned and got the net ready before bringing it down.
"Got you!" He grinned before looking down at his prize. "So cool." he moved his net to his bag and deposited the bug inside it and looked around. "What other bugs can I get?"
That was when he saw something pointed and red in one of the bushes.
"Ahah!" he grinned before running towards it.
Poof!
And caught it.
"Got you!" Yuma grinned before pulling out...a small girl in a pink dress and red stockings.
"Get that net…." She growled before grabbing him and judo flipped him into the ground. "OFF ME!"
"OW!" he let out when he fell and groaned with swirls in his eyes as she pulled the net off with him getting up and frowning. "Hey! That's not nice!"
"You're the one trying to put a net on me!"
"That's 'cause I thought you were a bug!"
"I'm not a bug you little brat!" She growled in anger. "But YOU are a cricket!"
"Hey! I'm not little!" he frowned standing in front of her. "I'm bigger than you!"
"No you're not." She stood on her tippy toes. "You're the short one cricket!"
"I'm not a bug!"
"Yes you are!"
"No I'm not!"
Both glared at the other while not noticing a wasps nest under their feet.
"Yeah well, who has red hair anyway? It looks silly!"
"A lot of people have red hair! Who even has that crazy hairdo? You look like a cricket and a hedgehog!"
"I do not!"
"Yes you do!"
"No I do not!" Yuma growled before they stepped on a wasp.
BZZZZZZZZ!
And started a frenzy of very angry wasps.
"AHHHH!" they screamed and started panicking before running away. Only to get stung everywhere with wasp stings.
(End of flashback)
"And after that we started hanging out." Anna concluded. "Even though we still fought over who's a bug and who's not for a long time."
"I don't look anything like a cricket." he grumbled.
"You do have a resemblance to one." Astral said while looking at the points in Yuma's hair.
"You're not helping!" He yelled as Anna chuckled and ate another crepe.
"So good." She sighed in total bliss. "I feel like I could melt away, the sweets in the future just aren't as good as what they use to be growing up."
Yuma huffed. "Anything else?"
"About the sweets or my life's story?"
"Your life."
"Ah, well we kept on being rivals for most of the school year up till middle school. At that time there was a cosplay ball and everyone was with someone...well…except us."
(Flashback)
We find ourselves in the school gymnasium with the students in various outfits and mingling or dancing.
All except Yuma and Anna, who were dressed as Dark Magician and Yubel respectively, as they sat on some benches, alone and without a partner.
Yuma looked at his cup of punch while Anna propped her head with her hands while looking at the crowd and was pondering on just leaving. 'This sucks.'
'I should've just stayed home.' She thought while looking at Yuma. 'And away from the cricket.'
Yuma caught her looking and looked away with a frown. 'She's probably calling me that stupid nickname in her head, I can just feel it.'
"Cricket."
'Ugh!'
"Want to ditch this place or look for a partner...like you could get one now."
"Hey! I could get one! If they all weren't taken." he grumbled.
"Or because you were scaring the other girls with your loud voice." She muttered out loud.
"You're one to talk."
She stuck her tongue out at Yuma.
"You probably scared the guys off with how loud and rough you are." he smirked.
"Oh shut up." She frowned. 'Coming here was a big mistake.'
Yuma sighed. "You got that right."
"Especially when you're alone." Anna grumbled. "And almost naked with these costumes."
"I just got mine because it was the only one I could get. Don't know what your excuse is."
"My mom wanted me to dress up like her." Anna muttered. "And dad loved the idea."
"Your mom thought it was a good idea to dress you up like that?" he sweatdropped. "But it's so…"
"What?"
"Nothing."
"Just spit it out." She deadpanned.
"You look like you're nearly naked."
"...so?" She sighed.
"Then why complain about being almost naked?"
"Because I have underwear under this thing." Anna grumbled. "My moms...and they're itchy." 'And so are the wings! Gah! Mom! Why do this to your only daughter?!'
'Didn't need to know that.' blushed Yuma.
Anna noticed the blush and looked away. "J-Just stop talking about my costume."
"No need to worry, I'm leaving." he tossed his punch in the trash. "I didn't even wanna come, but my sister and grandma talked me into it."
"Well my dad wanted me to find my 'betrothed'." She sweatdropped. "He still thinks that word means friend, even after his Duel Academy days."
"Doesn't it?" asked Yuma innocently.
"No. It means soon to be wife."
"You're getting married?!" he gaped.
"NO!" she blushed. "H-He's just dense and has no idea what he's saying!"
"Really?"
"Yes! Even mom calls him dense!" she turned and stomped off to the exit.
Only to find a guard blocking her path.
"No leaving the ball until the end of the night."
"Oh come on! I'm not having any fun at this stupid dance."
The man picked her up, placed her back on the bench, and walked back to the door. "No exceptions."
"Hey!" She growled while Yuma laughed and accidentally touched her right hand. "Shut up!"
"Wow, that went real well."
"Why you-"
"Hey." One kid in a Gagaga Girl costume said while pointing to their hands. "Aren't you two going to dance? It's almost the love song finale."
They looked at their hands and blushed before taking them away.
"N-No way! Why would I dance with this cricket?!"
"Or to this bug!"
"Are you sure? You two are the best ship in the school."
"What are you talking about?"
"Ship." She pointed to both of them. "Aka, a couple. You two are the number one ship in Heartland City."
"...WHAT?!" they gaped with bright faces.
The girl pointed to the middle of the room. "Go out there and dance you two lovebirds."
"We're not a couple!"
She turned to the crowd. "Hey everyone! The ship don't want to dance! Will you allow such a cute pair of monsters wallow in pity or do you want to see them dance!?"
And cue the entire student body cheering yes.
"Then make room for the couple!"
"Uh uh, no way, I'm not dancing." spoke Yuma firmly.
"Y-Yeah!" Anna blushed before some students pushed them into the middle of the room as the spotlights turned pink and landed on their forms as romantic music blared in the background. "Hey! We're not-"
"Dance dance dance dance dance." The students chartered while they clapped their hands in unison, making the two blush bright red.
'I can't believe they're putting us on the spot.' Yuma thought while Anna started to look like a tomato as she accidentally activated her wings and made them twitch like she was shy.
'Gah! Why me?!' She thought with anger. 'I get it but...he's not even that hot!'
'Maybe I can make a run for it.' wondered Yuma.
The music kept on playing as the two unfortunate dancers looked into each other's eyes and started to slowly see each other...in a different light. Like they were slowly revealing their inner selves.
"Uh...Anna?"
"What?"
"Do you think...maybe we...should give it a shot?"
"Why?!" She blushed while her heart started beating faster.
"Well...because it might be fun?" He said with a blush. "I mean, it's gotta be more fun than sitting down, right?"
"True…" She said as they started to unconsciously dance to the rhythm of the music. "Just don't trip over my feet."
"Like I could." He smiled as the students cooed at them.
'He's gonna trip over my feet, I just know it.'
(A few minutes later)
Both danced on while the other students left for the night, all the while in a dream like state you can only find in fairy tales. They stared at the other while not realizing they weren't tripping over the other.
'This is nice.' Anna sighed happily. 'Is this how mom felt when she was with dad that one time?'
'Man, who knew it'd feel this good to dance with someone? I feel light on my feet.' He thought while the music started to enter its climax.
Both kept on dancing until they moved closer together and looked as if they were one person now. But right as it seemed they were about to kiss, the music came to an abrupt end.
All because the guard pulled the plug on the music. "Go home."
They blinked and saw their lips were almost touching. They reeled back and looked away from the other in the blink of an eye.
'Too close!' Anna blushed while accidentally activating her third eye and sent a laser blast at Yuma, sending him flying into the punch bowl. 'Crap! Damn it mom! Why did you add that feature to the costume?!'
"OW!" He groaned while getting up and glared at her. "Hey!"
"Sorry!" she blushed. "That was a complete accident!
He threw some punches at her.
"GAH! CRICKET!" she growled before tackling him and started grabbing at his face.
(End of flashback)
"And that's how we started a ship." Anna sighed while finishing her crepe. "And caused the school to catch on fire from my laser eye and your punch to the face...and my left eye."
Yuma sweatdropped. "And the scar?"
"Got that from a sword to the face."
"So wait, you mean you and me...got together?"
"Well duh." She smirked. "After that night we became a couple, met each other's parents, but we didn't kiss until much later. Just hugged and punch each other's ribs, lightly that is."
Yuma blushed at the image while really caught off guard, and tried imagining that happening with him and the Anna from his world.
"What?" Anna asked with a raised eyebrow. "Why are you blushing?"
"N-No reason."
"Spit it out." She deadpanned.
"Really, it's nothing."
She gave him a glare. "Yuma Tsukumo."
He gulped.
"You really don't want me to make you tell me, do you?" She cracked her knuckles. "Well? Do you?"
'Oh no!' He thought in fear.
"You got three seconds to talk."
"Ok ok! I-I'm just...surprised!"
"Why?"
"I-It's because my Anna is crazy!"
She blinked and looked at him in confusion. "What?"
"She's…well she's not like you." he admitted. "I mean, when we first met, it was during the tournament, and she had this hovering bazooka she used on me and Kotori. Apparently she had a crush on me, but it was a misunderstanding and she just got the names mixed up. I still don't get how she can fly around on that thing and not get arrested, she was firing at us wherever we ran to."
Anna stayed silent while her hands twitched and started moving towards her pistols. "..."
"But, I don't want to worry about her." he spoke with a serious look. "What I wanna know more about is...what happened when I didn't make it."
"..." she looked at Yuma before sighing. "I'll tell you after I find this bitch and give her a stern talking to."
"No, you don't need to do that."
"I'm still going to do it regardless." She frowned and crossed her arms. "Plus she blasted you! That's just immature."
VOOOOOOM!
And cue a pink hovercraft flying passed her and caused the crepe she was holding in her hand to land on the ground.
"YUMA!"
"Oh no she's found me!"
She placed her hood up and looked up to see a young girl on the hovercraft. "..." she pointed at her. "Hey! You destroyed my crepe! You better have some money to pay for that snack!"
"Huh?" Anna swervied the craft to a stop and landed. "What are you talking about?"
She pointed to the crepe. "You made me knock it over. Also...holy crap, did I really have a flat chest? Wow...puberty really hit me later in life."
"HEY!"
"Don't yell, I'm right in front of you."
"I'm not flat!" she shook her fist. "I'm growing just fine!"
"Yeah." She deadpanned before pointing to Yuma. "Also, stop blasting my pal here. If you have a crush on him, why kill him with that bazooka of ours?" 'So this one's pink...huh, mine was all black. Must be the dimensional differences.'
"I-I-I don't have a crush on that baka!" she stuttered with a blush.
"Then how come you're getting flushed?"
She turned bright red before aiming her bazooka at her. "S-Shut up!"
The woman deadpanned and looked at her with a very serious glare. "Don't even try it. I've been blasted by rocket launchers AND survived being in the middle of space. Your little toy would just piss me off further and trust me, you don't want me to hit my boiling point."
"Then quit talking nonsense lady!"
She pushed the weapon away with one finger. "I'm trying to have an adult conversation with you. Now." She slapped her on the cheek. "What the hell is wrong with you?! Are you retarded or something?!"
"OW!"
"Who gave you the right to wave around that thing like a toy? You could kill someone if you don't know what you're doing!"
"Huh? My bazooka isn't a toy!"
"Then why didn't you register it to the Heartland City firearms unit?! Or even TRIED not to attack random people!" She growled. "Using a bazooka for intimidation is fine and dandy but attacking everyone around you and HURTING people in the process? That's borderline terroristim! And why aren't you in jail right now?!"
"I didn't hurt anyone!"
She glared as Anna gulped.
"Um...maybe I did?"
The woman facepalmed. "You. Are. An. Idiot."
Yuma nodded behind her with Anna frowning.
"Hey! Don't just agree with her so fast." She frowned.
"Um…"
"Don't answer her." The woman sighed. "She might melt your brain with her idiocy." She then crossed her arms. "Now tell me, if you ever fall in love with Yuma, and yes it will happen, what exactly will you do to him when your frustrated and upset? Talk it out or blast him every time he talks to anyone with a rack and a set of buns?"
"What?"
"Breasts and asses you idiot."
"I know that!" she blushed. "B-B-But I said I don't like that baka! He's too loud and annoying!"
"You're one to talk!" he retorted.
"Shut up!" Anna yelled while aiming the bazooka at him again, only for the woman to grab it and throw it a few feet away. "Hey!"
"Stop yelling." She frowned. "You're giving me a headache."
"He started-" her mouth was covered by the woman.
"Nooo, technically speaking, YOU started it when you got his name confused with someone else."
"Mmm!"
"Also you continued to chase after him afterwards. Either you're dense as a brick wall or you're trying to get his attention. I admire your determination but…" she removed the hand from the mouth. "You suck as a love struck woman. Actually a human being to be exact."
Anna turned red with anger and shook with steam coming from her ears.
"Now, either take your weapon and leave, or I'll call the cops."
She growled before grabbing the weapon.
BOOM!
And blasted her point blank.
Anna growled before noticing the woman was behind her with a dark look in her eyes.
"Wrong move brat." She growled while her eyes looked as cold as a glacier. "Wrong move."
"H-How did you get there!?"
"I just stepped to the side." She said while pointing to the spot, which had a large blast mark near the ground and a set of footsteps that seemed to be etched into the concrete. "You learn a thing or two after fighting Barians and entering the Neo Domino City Special OPs for ten years."
'Special ops?!' thought Anna and Yuma at once with wide eyes.
The woman sighed in anger. "To think, you are a bitch. Perhaps a duel with you would be a pathetic idea, especially if you blast at your opponents like an idiot."
Anna growled hearing that. "You challenging me? Then you're on!"
The woman shook her head before raising her left arm and brought out a large duel disk in the shape of a cannon with a dark yellow lightning bolt on the front of it as her visor glowed and became pixelated. "If I'm really in the past, my ARC system might be too advanced for you."
"What are you on about?"
"Nothing important." She deadpanned before firing the cannon in the air and caused a black ball with yellow spots on it to appear in the air and caused a large yellow and black field to cover the city. "ARC System engaged. Activate Number System alpha beta zeta."
The duel disk glowed while an extra slot appeared over the eyeball with Astral based letters and numbers appearing all over it as the woman's pendant began glowing a dark yellow hue and connected a black light onto the symbol.
"ZEXAL System activate. Omega alpha." The woman said while the cannon opened up and became a large gauntlet with steam pistons on the elbow and arm. "ARC System complete."
"Woah!" spoke Yuma putting his own D-Gazer on. "This is way cool."
"Thank you Yuma." The woman said while giving a thumbs up. "I named most of the systems after most of your accomplishments. Like the numbers and ZEXAL stuff. You are essentially my muse in system making."
He blushed with embarrassment at the praise.
"Hey! Are we gonna duel or what?" frowned Anna with hidden jealousy. "Take the cloak off so I can get a good look at you lady."
"Why should I? For all you know I might be naked under this cloak." She teased. "Or are you into naked women?"
"N-No you perv!" She blushed. "Now take off the cloak!"
The woman deadpanned before taking off her hood. "Persistent brat."
"HOLY SHIT!" cried Anna seeing an older looking version of herself. "You...You ...You're me?!"
"I'm not you. I'm Anna Kozuki." She frowned. "And you are just a brat that has a temper tantrum every time someone speaks badly about their actions."
"I do not!"
"Just take out your duel disk and see if you can even last a turn or two with an Obelisk Blue graduate." Anna said while tapping her foot.
"Fine!"
Anna Kozuki: 8000
Anna Kaboom: 8000
"You first." Kozuki said with a mock bow.
Kaboom glared and drew.
Kaboom's hand: 6
She looked at the cards while seething with rage. 'If she's supposed to be me, then her deck must be the same.'
"I'm waiting." Kozuki said calmly. "And I'm starving for crepes. So go on so I can leave and get some more with my pal Yuma."
"Shut up and let me think!" She growled as Kozuki looked at her nails.
'Oh my, I got a hangnail.'
"I'll summon Lionhearted Locomotive!"
A green steam train appeared while steam came out and covered the area.
Lionhearted Locomotive- ATK: 2400/DEF: 2100
"Then I'll put one card face down and end my turn."
Kozuki's hand: 6
She looked at her hand before saying. "First I summon Tainted Loco in attack mode."
A dark covered train with twin cannons on its sides appeared on the field while smoke came from its sides.
Tainted Loco- ATK: 2000/DEF: 2000
"Then I activate its effect, I can activate one spell card from my hand without any problems in exchange for one card being placed in the graveyard." She said while smirking. "Now I activate Rails of Destiny!"
A large railway covered in golden light appeared on the field as it connected to the deck.
"Now by sacrificing my monster, I can overlay that monster with any number of cards I send to the graveyard by its total level." She smirked while the number 27 appeared on her lenses. "Now I overlay the chaotic darkness."
A dark galaxy appeared on the field as a large storm cloud formed over the field.
"Come forth! Number 27: Dreadnought Dreadnoid!"
A large gray train-like ship with its number on the side, a yellow core on the tip of the ship, giant cannons sitting on the hull, sides and back of the boat, appeared from the depths and realigned its cannons to face Kaboom.
Number 27: Dreadnought Dreadnoid- ATK: 2200/DEF: 1000
"Wow!" spoke Yuma. "That's huge!"
Astral looked at the ship while surprised this number even existed.
"Now I activate Rails of Destiny's other effect." Kozuki chuckled. "When it's used, for one turn your monsters lose about three hundred attack points."
"What?!"
Lionhearted Locomotive- ATK: 2400-2100
Kaboom paled.
"Now time to destroy that ship." Kozuki said while the monster aimed all its cannons at the train. "Go! Dread Barrage!"
BOOM BOOOM BOOOM BOOM!
Kaboom: 7900
"Also." Kozuki smirked. "Since I destroyed a monster, at the end of my battle phase, I can summon a level ten or eleven Xyz monster and add half my number's overlay units to it."
The ship let out a loud noise as a dark galaxy appeared on the ground and the number 81 appeared on Kozuki's visor.
"Now come! Number 81: Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Super Dora!"
A massive train with four light green legs, a large upper body with a giant orange lined cannon in the center of it appeared from the ground and caused steam to pour out of it.
Number 81: Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Super Dora- ATK: 3200/DEF: 4000
"That...That's insane!" gaped Kaboom. "Where did you get cards like those?!"
"My adventures with Yuma." She deadpanned. "As for how I got it, I obtained it when I was your age, after a certain event lead to my pendant to come into my possession. Now, I just place two cards and end my turn."
Kaboom's hand: 5
Kaboom gulped seeing the two cards and felt envious. 'How can I even defeat those...those...monsters?!'
Kozuki yawned while fine tuning the disk. 'Looks like the core needs some recharging. Better find a solar panel after this duel.'
'No! I can't get cold feet, the duel's just started! Me or not, I'm gonna show her what I've got!' She thought while Yuma was a little confused about the numbers.
"When did we ever battle these numbers Astral?"
"Never."
"Huh? What do you mean? We must have."
"No, remember this Anna is older than you are, thus she must have encountered more numbers then you have. As for the key around her neck." He frowned slightly. "I sense a similar presence within it."
"Wait what? But didn't she explain-"
"No. She didn't explain much, just her past up to your introduction to me. Meaning she's either withholding information or trying not to tell us the entire truth." Astral interrupted. "But let us watch this duel and find out the answer to this troubling dilemma."
"I'll summon Ruffian Railcar!"
A red and gold train with a pissed off face appeared on the field while making a very low hissing sound from the steam.
Ruffian Railcar- ATK: 1800/DEF: 1000
Kaboom smirked with arrogance. "And now I'll use it's effect and hit you with 500 points of damage!"
Kozuki: 7500
Kozuki looked at the train while shrugging off the train's effect. "That tickled. Not even worth even considering that an attack."
"Then I'll put down one card and end my turn."
Kozuki's hand: 5
She chuckled before pointing to Number 81. "First, I use its overlay unit to make my Dreadnoid unaffected by card effects for this turn."
BOOM!
The monster blasted the smaller ship with an orange ball of energy as it covered the ship in a barrier.
"Then I use a special effect." She grinned. "I use my Number 81: Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Super Dora as a material for my new monster."
A large yellow galaxy appeared under her as the giant ship turned into a ball of light.
"Come forth, the cannon of destruction." She cackled as a large ship appeared. "Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Judgement Liebe!"
A titanic train like airship with large cannons, a dark green and orange line design, and a massive cannon with a red cockpit behind it appeared from the galaxy and let out several warning fires from its barrels.
Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Judgement Liebe- ATK: 4000/DEF: 4000
"Astral?"
"Yes?"
"I think I feel like asking Anna if I can use that card." he admitted with awe.
"You can." Kozuki waved to him. "You only had to ask."
Kaboom frowned at that while seeing green. 'Damn it, I want that card too!'
"Anyway." Kozuki smirked. "When I use one overlay unit on my ace, it gains two thousand attack and defense points for the rest of the turn but I have to attack with it only, no other monsters."
Superdreadnought Rail Cannon Judgement Liebe- ATK: 4000-6000/DEF: 4000-6000
Kaboom went wide eyed and exploded in rage over that card's effect. 'Aw come on!'
"Also when attacking, my monster can fire at you for as many overlay units I have plus one. So go! Super Rail Judgement Barrage!"
BOOOM BOOOM BOOOM BOOOM BOOOM!
Kaboom: -28,100
She went flying while hitting a wall and had the wind knocked out of her as Kozuki's gauntlet changed back into a normal duel disk.
"Huh, two turns." She said calmly. "Looks like I got a new record for the shortest victory in my entire dueling career."
"Wow!" Yuma cries out in amazement. "That was awesome Anna!"
She chuckled while the smaller Anna twitched with rage and grabbed her bazooka and aimed it at them. "Don't you-"
"SHUT UP!"
"Anna wait!" called out Yuma.
"JUST SHUT UP YUMA! SHUT UP!" She snapped in pure envious rage. "I'M TIRED OF DEALING WITH THIS FAKER!"
The older woman pinched the bridge of her nose. "You really are trying my patience. And there are no fakers here, just a mature adult and a trigger happy child."
The younger Anna growled before letting loose.
BOOM BOOM BOOM!
The older Anna's pendant glowed a dark red before covering the two in a barrier and after the bullets and muscles stopped firing, it vanished. She saw the young girl going pale and looked at Yuma before letting lose a heavy sigh. 'I hope she doesn't say anything bad about him or I'm killing this brat, a dimensional copy or not.'
"W-WHAT ARE YOU?!"
"She's you." Yuma got out while still amazed about the barrier. "But nicer and not a bitch."
The younger version growled and pointed her bazooka at Yuma. "SHUT UP YOU BASTARD!"
"That's it." the older Anna ran over and kicked the bazooka away while also slamming her fist into the smaller Anna's sternum.
"AH!" She cried out before getting kicked in the stomach and got knee kicked in the face.
"I have been nice with you, but you pushed my rage for TO LONG!" She growled while continuing to kick the girl in the face. "YOU KNOW NOTHING OF LOVE OR BEING HUMAN!"
Yuma flinched and had to look away to avoid looking at the blood with Astral not bothered.
"YOU THINK BLASTING PEOPLE CAN MAKE THEM LOVE YOU?! HA YOU ARE A BITCH!" She growled while kicking harder. "LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING! UNLIKE YOU I LOVED MY YUMA! I WAS ABOUT TO KISS HIM BEFORE HE WENT TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM DON THOUSAND! THE FUCKING GOD OF CHAOS! AND HE DIED FROM FUCKING EXAUSTION BECAUSE HE HAD TO KEEP HIMSELF FROM GETTING KILLED!"
CRACK!
SNAP!
"AND HIS FRIEND HAD TO SEAL THAT BASTARD IN THIS PENDANT INSEAD OF HIMSELF BECAUSE HE WAS IN COMPLETE GRIEF! HE EVEN HAD TO GO HOME AFTER TELLING ME THAT FUCKING NEWS!" She growled while braking her arms. "FOR TWENTY FIVE YEARS I WORKED MYSELF TO THE BONES TO KEEP HIS NAME ALIVE! FROM MAKING TOP OF MY CLASS TO MAKING A FUCKING DUEL DISK BASED ON HIM! HIM! AND EVERYTIME I LOOK AT YOU I SEE YOU DISRESPECTING HIS NAME! YOU LITTLE SHIT! YOU FUCKING EXUSE OF A HUMAN BEING! YOU WANT LOVE?! EARN IT AND TRY TO LIVE BY THE FUTURE! NOT BLASTING HIM TO OBLIVION! YOU WILL DIE FOR THIS! LIKE ALL THE OTHER SHITS THAT I HAD TO KILL!"
"ANNA STOP!" yelled Yuma running over and grabbing her arm. "That's enough!"
She panted in rage while the younger version was completely bludgeoned. "Ah...ah...ah...ah…"
"It's over, it's over, just calm down."
"Ah...ah…" She panted while looking at the girl. "You're lucky. If he didn't stop...you would be another casualty in my hit list...now get up."
The young girl groaned in pain.
"I said get up!"
"Anna! Stop!" yelled Yuma. "Just stop, right now."
She frowned as the girl got up and grabbed at her shirt. "Run, run away and never come near me or Yuma again or I swear on my mother's life, I will kill you in the most gruesome way ever imagined by humans."
The young Anna shivered while looking at the older one in the eyes.
"Go!" She snarled while dropping the girl on her butt.
Anna screamed and took off running.
The woman panted while taking very long deep breaths. "Ah...ah...damn. I haven't gotten this angry since...well ever." 'Still can't believe I have that rage inside me.'
"Don Thousand." Astral said gravely. "To think I would seal it in the Emperor's Key and gave it to you. Either you have a strong connection to the barian or...you really cared from Yuma."
She looked at Astral and sighed. "He was my world. Losing him was...too much."
"You really loved him, didn't you?"
"...yes. And I thought we could get married, but that dream shattered the day you brought me this key." She said sadly. "It broke me to the point I became an OP's member and…a Neo Rare Hunters Organization."
"What?!" Yuma cried out. "But they're bounty hunters!"
"...it paid the bills and...helped me forget." she admitted closing her eyes while gripping the key. "It dulled the hole in my heart."
Yuma looked at her with a sad look on her face. He saw her slowly start to cry and felt that hit him right in the chest.
"I..I...I can't...forget...the dreams...sniff…" she spoke biting her lip.
'Oh no!' He thought while seeing her crying and felt compelled to hug her. He moved over and patted her back. "Hey, it's gonna be ok."
"Sniff...sniff...sniff…" she sniffled before wrapping her arms around Yuma and pulled him into a hug. "OH YUMA WHY!?"
"Gah!"
"WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DIE?!"
'Wow, she's strong.' he thought while trying to keep patting her back.
"WHY?!"
(One hour of hugging later)
"Sniff…" Anna sniffled while Yuma looked as white as a ghost.
'I can't...breath….' He thought while his spine cracked a little.
"Sniff…" Anna cried while Astral watched them.
'Five ribs cracked…huh. She must have lifted a lot of weights.'
"Thank you Yuma…I've been feeling like I was gonna go mad, I haven't cried that much in so long." She said while hugging him still.
"Y...You're welcome…" he gasped out in pain. 'I'm not gonna last….'
She let go of him while patting his head. "So...are you mad at me? Sad that I'm not a pure girl anymore? Or you don't want to be friends with me…?"
Yuma groaned and rubbed his back. "Give me a sec...I need to...pop my spine back."
She blinked before striking his back, causing it to pop. "There you go."
Yuma jumped and hissed, but felt the pain fade away quickly. "...ow."
Anna rubbed her right arm. "So….you want me to go?"
"Anna...why would I want that?" he asked bluntly. "I'll admit, hearing all that was a lot, and seeing you do that to...Anna was brutal, REALLY brutal, but that doesn't mean I'm cold enough to not be grateful." he admitted. "I mean, you doing all that, going through so much, just for me? That takes a lot of guts and courage, and it makes me feel touched you felt that way to the other me."
"..." she looked at him with surprise. "Really? You mean it?"
"Of course I do."
And cue her kissing him on the lips multiple times.
"Mmmm!?" Yuma let out with wide eyes.
(Two long hours of kissing later)
CHU~
CHU~
CHU~
"A-Anna!" he cried out trying to hold her head away while covered in lipstick marks...somehow, when she's not wearing any. "That's enough kissing!"
CHU~
Anna blinked before kissing him again and moved back with a blush. "S-Sorry...got caught up in the moment."
"I noticed!"
She blushed again. "So...since I have no house here…um...can I stay with you?"
"Well…I guess? I mean I'd have to talk to my sister and grandma."
And cue another kissing spree.
"Not again!"
(Omake)
-Tsukumo residence-
"I'm home!" Yuma yelled while entering the house, only for his sister to see his lip stick marks.
"Yuma? Where did you get those?" she asked with a raised eyebrow and crossed arms.
"Um...Akari." He sweatdropped while pointing to Anna. "This is Anna Kozuki, and she's the one that kissed me."
"Hello." She bowed. "Pleasure to meet your acquaintance again."
"...Yuma, I've seen Anna before, and this isn't her. Anna's your age, and she looks more like Anna's older sister."
"I'm from another dimension." She said with a smile. "And I'm twenty eight right now, a long time as when I saw you last...you started becoming obese."
"..."
"Anyway." She gulped. "Can I stay here for a while?"
She slowly turned to her brother with a non-amused expression.
"What?"
"You can't let strangers into the house."
Anna looked at Akari before saying bluntly. "Your mother, Mirai Tsukamo, she's in another dimension. And she's very nice, despite her being given eternal youth...still can't believe it."
Akari and Yuma looked at her in surprise.
"What?" She asked innocently. "I wanted to hold that information until you were older, but you really matured Yuma."
He blushed at the compliment.
Akari shook her head. "You've gotta be kidding with me, because I'm not laughing."
She shook her head no. "I'm not kidding with you." She then sat at the kitchen counter. "Why would I lie about something like that?"
"I don't know! But it sounds too crazy."
"So is the fact that Yuma groped me." She lied with an innocent smile.
Akari turned to Yuma with flames in her eyes. "You did what?!"
"I didn't do it!"
Anna chuckled before looking at Yuma. "So, want to sit down and talk about our families?"
"Not when you just lied to my sister!"
She gave a thumbs up.
(One family assembly later)
Anna looked at the resident family members while hugging Yuma lightly. "So, how are you two?"
"Very happy seeing Yuma finally bringing home a girl."
"Baa-chan!" He blushed.
"I see." Anna chuckled. "Well for me, I kicked my counter parts's ass."
He paled at the memory.
"And she's way too old for him." remarked Akari.
"True."
Anna sweatdropped. "That didn't stop Rio from dating her brother…oh bad example. Um...Kite with Droite? Yeah, that's the right one."
"Baa-chan, even if she IS Anna, from another world, she's still an adult, and Yuma's a minor."
"Dimension." Anna said. "And I won't do the sex thing until he's thirty. Kissing is good for me."
"That's still wrong!"
"Not really."
"Baa-chan!"
"There is no law saying that men and women should only date people from the same age group."
"...well yeah."
"But I thought there was." blinked Yuma.
"No there isn't." Anna sweatdropped. "If there were then my dad wouldn't have married Yubel." She then covered her mouth. "Oops...shouldn't have said that out loud."
"Wait...your mom's Yubel?!"
"Well yes." She sweatdropped. "And my dad is Jaden Yuki, the Neo Duel Academy professor of fusion history. Although they are still technically fused...a hermaphrodite if you will."
Akari coughed out her coffee. "What?!"
"Yeah, it's not public knowledge." She sweatdropped. "Although having a mother and father in the same body is kinda odd. But they pull off the sexy mom look quite well. And well...it's not that odd in my opinion."
And like that, Akari passed out with Yuma close behind her.
Only for Anna to punch his neck lightly and looked at the older woman. "Baa-chan, with your blessings can I be Yuma's betrothed?"
"Oh my, I didn't think I'd ever hear that. Kids nowadays have forgotten what that even means."
"So will you bless our union?" She asked as Yuma slowly turned bright red.
"Hmmm, well you do seem like a nice choice, and Yuma might be happy with you."
She bowed. "Thank you baa-chan."
And cue Yuma fainting from overheating.
"Yuma? Yuma? Oh Yuma?"
"Seems like he fainted from excitement."
"Ah." She said before patting his head. "I guess I should put him into his bed. Thank you baa-chan."
"No problem deary." She said before seeing Anna picking Yuma up and walking him up the stairs. 'What a cute pair.'