In the middle of a dark forest near a river of purple and red liquid Yuya lay down in the dark black grass.
"W-Where am I?" Yuya said looking around.
There was a gray fog that hung over the area all around him as he could smell the scent of blood.
Yuya began to get really scared.
"Okay, this is really beginning to creep me out." He said nervously.
"How did I get here? The last thing I remember was I was sleeping in my bed. Is this a dream?" Yuya mused concerned
"If this is a dream then all I have to do is wake up right?" He lit up a bit.
"If only I knew how. That's strange why can't I wake up? Isn't this a dream?"
"Yuya, can you hear me?" Said a voice.
"Who is it?! Show yourself!" The Tomato haired boy demanded.
"You need to wake up now," Yuto said appearing in front of him as Yuya jumped.
"Sorry I didn't mean to to scare you," Yuto said as his gray eyes met his.
"I thought you were dead." Yuya looked shocked.
"My body is dead, but my spirit is not. Yuzu tried to explain this to you. My spirit rests within you." Yuto reminded Yuya.
The tomato haired boy gazed curiously into Yuto's gray eyes, examining his face, scanning it. He had to confirm what he already knew.
Yuto didn't question it, he stood there with a cool calm gaze as per usual. He knew exactly why Yuya went to check his face.
Yuya stood there for a good moment spacing out, Trying to locate and determine what exactly it was he was looking for, Only to have his concentration broken by a sudden sigh and smile from yuto, that in turn made Yuya remember something he had almost completely forgotten.. Yuya's cheeks turned Red with embarrassment and reacted by suddenly slapping Yuto.
"Hey, what was that for?" Yuto asked angrily.
Yuya looked away face red.
"You make me feel dirty and impure, and you really worried me earlier."
Yuto blushed and looked away ashamed. There was no mistaking it, not only did he touch Yuya without his permission the first time, he got Yuya involved into this mess. It was because of his encounter with Yuto that this horrible condition was forced onto both of them and although Yuya himself was the one to start touching himself. The fact that he had no idea that he wasn't alone while doing it means it was almost as if they both had actual sex together in some bizarre strange way. And unfortunately, if they didn't fix the situation, It probably wouldn't be the last, as well as many other awkward situations. It was no wonder Yuya felt this way.
"V-Very well. I'm sorry. I deserved that. however, this is neither the time nor the place to worry about such things." Yuto closed his eyes.
"W-Where are we anyways?" Yuya asked Not making eye contact with Yuto as his face was completely red
"Inside your mind." Yuto opened his eyes dramatically.
"Every square inch of your mind is filled with Pure darkness. Ever since I merged with you, I have been stuck here."
"Wait... What? Since when have I been so dark that my mind would create this?" Yuya asked.
Yuto looked around.
"I Don't know, but I will tell you this. I have seen this place before in my dreams before I merged with you." Yuto said seriously.
Yuya thought about it for a second and suddenly realized.
"That's right! I have seen this place before too! I was being chased by a dark presence. How do I wake up?" Yuya asked.
"I'm afraid that's not possible right now. " Yuto said turning Yuya's head towards him as Yuya blushed again, hiding his face with his hands.
"Stop Yuya. Turn and look at me. I'm not going to do anything weird." Yuto said.
"W-What is there something on my face?" Yuya said still red faced.
"It's not something on your face. It is your face. Your eyes to be more exact." Yuto gazed into them curiously
"Whats wrong with my eyes?" .
"Follow me." Yuto grabbed Yuyas arm.
"Whoa! hey! let go." Yuya tried to grab his hand back.
"Fine, but just follow me okay?"
Yuya nodded and followed Yuto through the darkness of Yuya's own mind until he came to the only area of his mind that was not entirely corrupted by darkness. In the Sky, there was a swaying pendulum like the one that he wore around his neck and it seemed to protect the area from the surrounding darkness, however even though the area was the brightest area of the mind, it showed signs that the darkness was eventually beginning to break through even here in small bits.
There was a small puddle of water, and although it was beginning to change color to red, it was clear enough to see a reflection.
"Yuya go look in the reflection," Yuto told yuya.
Yuya looked at his reflection, and he did not like what he saw. His body was enveloped in a blackish purplish mist and his eyes were glowing a demonic looking shade of red. his hair even began to defy gravity compared to normal. He looked evil, even if he did not feel like he was any different.
"What happened to me?" Yuya asked.
Yuto sighed.
"Right now you are in a state of mind where you allowed the darkness to possess you."
"How?"
"Yesterday so much things happened, and you went to Meiru for help ,Meiru told you about the unknown darkness and you became afraid of that, and then when you were already scared enough as it was then Akaba Reiji came to you and offered you an opportunity. He told you that you had a chance to save the world...however because you were so worried about the unknown darkness inside you made you incapable of doing that, you got scared and allowed it to possess you." Yuto closed his eyes again.
"Wait so this happened all because I am scared?"
Yuto then waved his hand over the water and suddenly Yuya could see what was going on outside of his mind.
"Take a look. as you are now you cant do anything."
Yuya looked towards the reflection and then he saw himself, and what he would see next was something he wished to forget.
~~X~~
"Yuya are you okay?" a concerned Yuzu asked.
Yuya, with his hair in front of his face just enough to hide his eyes just stood there silently. something about him was off.
"yuya?" Yuzu walked up to him.
"Are you feeling okay? Are you sick?" Yuzu said reaching her hand over his forehead to check his temperature only to find her arm to be grabbed by Yuya in a forceful way.
"Ow That hurts, let go! What the hell is wrong with you Yuya!? Let go!" Yuzu demanded.
Yuya Suddenly Looked up and glared at her in the face. His eyes were glowing the same demonic red that he was in his mind. and slowly Yuya began to emit a strong mist of darkness from his body.
"Don't fucking touch me you bitch!" Yuya Angrily said Throwing Yuzu across the room.
Yuzu gasped in pain as Yuya got up and put one of his feet on top of Yuzu's face and began to push down hard.
"Y-You're not yuya! Who the hell are you? What have you done with him?!" Yuzu winced in pain.
Yuya just gave off a menacing smile and then released his foot from her face.
"Don't ever interfere again, Let this be a warning." He said slamming the door and walking out of the house."
Yuzu slowly got up.
"I gotta call someone to help!" Yuzu panicked looking through her phone contacts.
"Gongenza, Dennis, Mieru, Anybody!" She said trying each number.
"Come on, Somebody, pick up!" Yuzu Cried. Finally, she got a hold of Meiru.
"Hello?" Meiru asked.
"Meiru is that you!? I need your help!" Yuzu pleaded.
"Whats wrong?" She asked.
"No time to explain, its about yuya please just come over."
"Darling is in trouble?!" Meiru panicked. as she hung up.
~~~X~~~
15 minutes later Meiru was waiting towards the door.
"I'm Here! what's wrong!?" She demanded.
Yuzu began to explain the events leading up to this event from what little she knew.
"Looks like darlings possessed by whatever darkness I saw earlier. Before it shut me out but now that it's active I can do something...but it will only be a temporary solution."
"What do you mean?" Yuzu asked.
"Well right now all I can do is make the darkness sleep again, but I can't get rid of it completely. So even though darling will be back to normal, he will still not be safe from eventually falling back into that same darkness in the future. It's only a temporary solution."
"Right now anything is good." Yuzu pleaded.
"It won't be easy, though. I'm gonna need someone to hold him down." Mieru said.
suddenly a knock came at the door. It was Gongenza.
"Gongenza? I had called you before why didn't you answer!?" Yuzu said angrily
"Because I Didn't have my phone on me for one, I can't have it during my training, Secondly... I was held up by someone.
"Just Let me through! I Need to speak to Yuya!" Said a voice angrily.
Yuzu looked over and saw Shun Trying to push his way through the door.
"Shun!?"
"I have to warn Yuya about something!" Shun demanded.
"Let me through."
"Why do you care what happens about Yuya so bad?" Yuzu questioned.
"Because He is also Yuto, who is my comrade. Now let me through!" Shun managed to push his way through.
Meiru Looked at all of them.
"IF you are done arguing if you would be so kind as to shut up and actually make yourself useful! We need to save Darling!" Meiru spat.
Gongenza and Shun looked at each other.
"Is Yuya in trouble!?" The both said together.
Meiru explained the situation to them.
Shun Looked serious.
"Its too late. I knew this was going to happen."
Everyone looked at shun.
"How could you predict this?" Meiru asked.
"Because As I have told you before There are four dimensions, And for each dimension, There is someone who looks just like Yuto. In the Synchro dimension, there is a Pawn of Fusion."
"A Pawn of Fusion?" Yuzu looked at him strangely.
"He say's his name is Yugo, then suddenly he starts demanding me and Yuto to a duel, saying something like we took things from him even though he's from the Synchro dimension. I don't know much more than that, however, what I do know is when Yuto and Yugo both summon their dragons, they both enter a state of rage similar to what you just described." Shun slammed his fist on the table.
"The feeling of rage, anger, and the fact that they enjoy destruction is something that is very different from the yuto I personally know, and so after he calmed down I asked him about it."
"And? What did He say?" Yuzu asked.
"He said that there was a gap in memory during that time and the last thing he remembered was challenging him to a duel."
"A gap in memory?!" Gongenza, Meiru, and Yuzu said together.
"It's not just one occurrence where Yuto has had a gap in his memory, There have been other times even if he was not in a fit of rage..Have you noticed any instances like that with Yuya?" Shun glanced at Yuzu and Gongenza.
Yuzu and Gongenza looked at each other.
"Wait I do recall one time!" yuzu exclaimed.
"It was right before he performed pendulum summoning for the first time! although the only change was him becoming more confidant. He was asked by nico smiley what type of summoning he had just performed but all he said was 'what form of summoning?' He did not even recall what he even did."
"Wait...so you mean to tell me the very first person who performed pendulum summoning was Yuya?" Shun asked surprised.
"Yeah and it was not until he had looked at the recording that he realized it," Gongenza explained.
"After Yuto fused with Yuya..." Shun began to say.
"I know, The darkness must have worsened." Meiru closed her eyes and folded her arms.
"Now that we have somewhat of an idea what happened You guys are going to help my darling. I can do as much as locate him with my crystal ball, but I'm going to need you guys to get him to stay in one spot so I can perform my spell on him. It won't be easy but I'm counting on you."
"So? How the hell do you expect us to do that?" Shun Glared.
"First and foremost we should determine where darling is heading and based on that we can make our plan." Meiru held up her crystal apple.
"I see it! It looks like he is headed towards a group of duelists in strange outfits I have never seen before."
"Those academia bastards!" Shun yelled angrily.
"Shun?" Gongenza asked.
"Those bastards took everything from us. Serves them right If Yuya attacks them."
"I understand your frustration, however, just because they did things to you dose not mean anyone has the right to hurt anybody. If that were the case then we would be no better." Yuzu said seriously.
"However, this dose gives us an advantage," Meiru said.
"How so?" Gongenza asked.
"well If he's angry enough to attack those soldiers then I assume that he won't be leaving anytime soon. It will give me a chance to perform my spell on him." Meiru said.
"What do you need us to do?" Yuzu asked.
"I'm gonna need you hold Him down" She yelled.
"What?!" They all said together.
~~~X~~~
Meanwhile, Yuya began to make his way angrily towards The academia soldiers.
"I will never forgive you Academia!" Yuya said in a deep menacing voice.
"Huh?! Who the hell are you?" One of the soldiers questioned.
"It's that one Kid, Sakaki Yuya idiot. He's the one we fused together." The other soldier spat.
"Oh? Is that so? I never make an effort to remember the names of the scum of the other dimensions." The soldier sneered.
In hearing this Yuya got even angrier.
"You bastards, Duel me now!" Yuya demanded slapping on his duel disk.
"You want to fight Trash, Fine be prepared to be stomped. You will regret picking a fight with us." The third soldier spat.
"There he is" whispered meiru to the rest of the party who was hiding behind the building nearest to them."
"Let's get this over with now," Shun said angrily.
"No. Not yet, We have to wait until yuya is completely distracted..and furthermore... them." Gongenza said.
"Besides, If we Blindly charge in... Then one of us might get hurt." Yuzu said concerned.
Gongenza and Meiru looked at Yuzu strangely.
"How so?"
"Well, When Yuto and Yuya battled them last time...The damage was real. If we blindly intervene we won't make away with just minor injury's." Yuzu looked at shun.
Shun just slowly nodded.
"So what are supposed to do?" Gonganza asked.
Meiru looked at Gongenza.
"You did not think I had not come here without a plan did you?" She said proudly.
"You said the effects were real right? Well, that may put us at a disadvantage, however... it will also be our key to victory. If we decide to randomly intrude on the battle and attack them in a surprise attack. Shun I will leave that part up to you."
"What!? why me?" he glared.
"Because You are the only one who has that effect out of us. You are from XYZ dimension and were in standard. Plus you want to attack the fusion academia soldiers anyways right?" Meiru convinced him.
"Fine, I will attack them," Shun said angrily.
"Now that leaves the matter of yuya after that. Gongenza will hold him down. and yuzu, I'm gonna need you to help me in the spell." meiru said.
"Wait why me?" Yuzu asked.
"Because even though I hate to admit this as a love rival, You know Darling more than I do and for longer and you will have to get through to him. Don't make me regret this!" She pointed at her.
"Love rival?!" Yuzu blushed in embarrassment.
"Don't tell me you don't like him!" Meiru glared.
"Well, It's not that I don't but..He's already.." She began to say but then shut up. She Did like him but she felt that even though Yuya himself wasn't aware, she knew that he liked someone else. And honestly even though she wanted to be with him...She slowly found herself trying to push Yuto and Yuya together. She had no idea what made her do that, Its not like she wanted to give yuya away to someone else but more than anything she was bothered by the fact that yuya was clearly crying on that day she found him, and although she had no idea what had happened one thing was clear, Yuya was suffering, and whatever was going to fix the situation was something she was incapable of providing. She had guess she had just assumed out of nowhere that He liked yuto, But clearly the day he was upset he did not ask to see her. He wanted to see yuto. He had even said so. She was trying to do the best she could to make yuya himself happy even at the cost of her own happiness, although to be honest, If yuya was happy then she would be too. Clearly he's suffering, and just watching this duel made yuzu realize that.
Between the anger, rage, sadness, regret and hatred and most of all confusion He was suffering and he was lashing out, even at the cost of other people's safety. And it wasn't just yuya who was suffering. Yuto was clearly suffering too. Yuzu did not know yuto that well but based on what yuya told her right before he passed out a few days ago He had seen yuya before when he was pendulum summoning for the first time. Yuto had been struggling with His emotions and clearly, both of them were battling against their own darkness and now that they are fused as one being they are struggling against not just their own but each other's emotions. She just wanted to end the confusion and then maybe if they were aware of their own feelings maybe they could do something to solve the situation. Their minds were Working against each other and their emotions were clashing in a negative way. If there was anyway that they could be helped then Yuzu would help without hesitation.
"He's already?" Meiru asked.
"Nothing. Never mind. What can I do to help?" She asked.
"I enter thoughts into his mind. I need you to convince them both to calm down. I just need you to talk to them." Mieru told her.
"Fine. I will do it." Yuzu said.
"Okay, now all we need to do is wait for the right moment. is everyone in agreement?" Meiru asked.
Everyone nodded.
"Okay let's all keep quiet and wait our chance," Meiru said finally.
In the middle of the grass, the rage filled duelists stood in silent darkness as the wind was the only sound that could be heard. Yuya's friends who were secretly watching the duel waiting for the chance to make their move looked in horror as the silence was finally broken by a single word.
"Duel!"
