me: whee! finally! the big chappie!
SYRUS: ((still in maid costume)) what makes it so big?
me: you shall see!
JADEN: where's Zane?
me: (points to the unconscious Zane who is still hanging upside down)
SYRUS: why is his face all bandaged up?
me: Ronin 32's sadistic plot bunny
SYRUS: could you let him go?
me: okay! (presses button)
ZANE: (falls on head) HEY! DO YOU WANT TO ADD HEAD TRAUMA TO THE LIST OF THINGS YOU DID TO ME!
me: that wasn't my plan...but that's not a bad idea...
Ronin 32: yeah...where have you seen that before? lol. but i made up the getting caught in rain suicide before i read Blood Brothers((which, by the way, is the shiz!))
Darker Sides: who said anything about Syrus dying?
xXanimeluverrrr372Xx: here...ish...fanfic!
DarkElixer66: so do i!
The Masked Duelist: how are you going to save Sy-Sy? and no, you can't. but you can torture him with Darker Sides!
lifluvanime: yup twas horrible. OH WELL! really...you like my fic that much! OH YOU'RE TOO KIND!
Hyper Ryou-Chan: im glad you think tis cool
me: (opens door) too all those who want to kill Zane, i throw him out on his butt!
ZANE: what!
me: (kicks ((literally)) Zane out) ENJOY! (closes door) hey, where'd Jaden and Sy-Sy go? oh well, start the ficcie!
ac-the-brain-supreme does not own Yugioh GX. she owns the plot and the F-Closet though.
me: ...(opens door of F-Closet) you're a perv Jaden (closes door)
\Jaden's Dream/
Darkness. That's all that he could see. Pure darkness.
"SYRUS!" Jaden called into the darkness.
A soft glow emanated from behind the brunette. Jaden turned to see his blue-haired friend. But the sight was heart-stopping. Syrus looked like he had jumped into the ocean and then rolled around in the dirt. His glasses were messed up; he was paler than should be allowed.
"Sy…" Jaden whispered in fear and worry.
"Jaden" Syrus started in a soft and hurt voice. "Jaden…I…I wanted to tell you…tell you goodbye…before I left."
Jaden looked confused. He ran up to his smaller friend and held onto Syrus's shoulders. They were wet and cold. And now, up close, Jaden could hear his friend's labored breathing.
"Syrus…we need to get you some help!" Jaden said hastily as he tried to lead Syrus out of this abyss. Syrus didn't move though. He stood there, looking down at the floor. "C'mon Sy…we have to-"
Jaden saw Syrus's feet. Starting from down there, Syrus was disappearing in golden sparkles. "S-Sy…"
"Jaden, thank you for putting up with me...I know it must've been a stretch…pretending to like me for that long. You really didn't need to do it. I…I would've been fine if you had just ignored me. I've been ignored for so long…" Syrus's words were broken by held-back sobs.
"What? What do you mean Syrus! I never pretended to like you! I honestly do, buddy! You're my best friend!" Jaden cried as he gently shook his small friend.
"But…you don't now. At least you shouldn't…because you found out and…Jaden…you were the best thing that happened to me in my entire life. I'm…I'm so happy to have met someone who was kind enough to pretend to like me." Syrus's body was nearly gone completely. His chest up was now the only things that hadn't disappeared yet.
"SYRUS! NO I DO LIKE YOU! I-I L-!" But Syrus was gone, before Jaden could make his declaration. Tears rolled down Jaden's cheeks. He clutched his arms and fell to his knees. A fox came to his blurred vision. The creature looked sad…like it had done something it didn't want to do. Or was going to do something, and it was pleading to Jaden to stop it from doing so.
Jaden faced what should've been the sky and screamed, "SYRUS!"
\End Jaden's Dream/
Jaden's head shot up, his face feeling wet. A hand came up to feel streams of tears.
BANG BANG!
Jaden looked at the door next to his chair, then at the clock. It was one in the morning.
Who's here at this hour!
Jaden was compelled to go back to sleep, but the thought that it could be Syrus pushed Jaden to open the door. When Jaden did open the door, he didn't find his roommate, but his roommate's older brother.
"Zane…you, uh…you didn't look in the mirror before leaving, did you?" Jaden asked when he saw the older Obelisk's disheveled appearance.
True. Zane's hair was in a mullet, his white coat was crooked and falling off one of his shoulders, and he was only wearing one shoe. (A/N: lost the other while running over to Jaden's dorm)
"Where is he? Where's Syrus?" Zane asked frantically as he pushed past Jaden into the room while panting.
Jaden looked over to the beds. Syrus wasn't in his. "I-I don't know" Jaden responded.
Zane whirled around and grabbed Jaden's shirt collar. "What do you mean you don't know! You're his friend and roommate! Shouldn't you, at least, know where he should be!"
"We had a fight and I haven't seen him since!" Jaden yelled as he pushed Zane off him.
Zane looked like he had just seen a ghost. Staring at Jaden in disbelief, he started mumbling, "No…no…you…where…Syrus…can't…no…I have to apologize…I have to…"
Zane made for a break at the door, but Jaden stopped him from leaving. "What do you need to apologize for?" Jaden asked as he pushed the older boy into the chair that Jaden had only recently been sitting in.
Zane gave in willingly. As Jaden closed the door, he thought he heard something. Turning to his side, he saw Zane's shoulder's moving gently and his head was down.
Zane was crying.
"Zane…what…what happened?" Jaden asked softly as he put a hand on his friend's shoulder.
Zane said everything. About how Syrus had talked to him about something so immensely private, about how Zane reacted, about how he had had a dream only minutes ago, in which, Syrus apologized for being a horrible little brother and how he said that his death wouldn't be too long from then and that Zane was finally free of him.
"Thank you for putting up with me for this long."
"I…I would've been fine if you had just ignored me."
"I'm so happy to have met someone who was kind enough to pretend to like me"
"Zane…we need to find Syrus" Jaden said softly as his dream came back to him.
"Why do you think I'm here" Zane said, his crying finally slow enough to talk through.
"No, I mean, I think he ran away to another part of the island. Or at least he could be with Banner in his room" Jaden said as he looked out the window.
"Better than any idea I could come up with right now" Zane said.
The two boys decided to see if he was with Banner before running around in the middle of the night.
It took Banner a few minutes for their teacher to wake up and answer the door, but he eventually did and, once seeing Zane, fully woke up.
"AH! I mean what are you doing this late…or early…?" the black-haired professor asked with his kind and Chinese-accented voice.
"Syrus is gone. Has been for a few nights and we just wanted to see whether he was with you" Jaden explained.
Banner shook his head. "I'm sorry boys, he's not. Why don't you two come inside and you can explain this to me a little better" he offered.
Jaden and Zane took the offer graciously. After some tea, and stinky kitty breath courtesy of Pharaoh, Zane and Jaden started to explain what had happened. After a few minutes, with the stories told and the tea gone, Banner stood up and said, "Jaden, you should've told me that he was missing as soon as school got out earlier. This is a big island that has not only a volcano, but a huge forest. Syrus could've easily gotten lost and since it had rained last night, he could be very sick."
"Yes Professor" Jaden said with his head bowed.
"And Zane," Banner said turning his fury onto the older boy, "I know you and Syrus don't get along that well, but you shouldn't have done such a thing! Hitting him after saying something so private, well that has to be the worst thing I have ever heard!"
Zane didn't respond, but the way his head dipped so that his messy blue hair covered his face said volumes.
"So, what are we going to do?" Jaden asked finally.
Banner stood up. "You two are going back to your dorms and are going to bed. I am going to change and alert the other teachers on the island. Hopefully, by sunrise we'll have a search party up and going."
Jaden and Zane did what Banner said and went to their separate dorms. Before parting though, Zane said, "They aren't going to find him. We're the only ones who can."
Jaden couldn't help but feel that Zane's words were absolutely true.
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The sun rose and burned Syrus's eyes. He turned over gently and laid his head on his folded arms.
Why did I do it? Why did I ask for another day? I know Zane and Jaden aren't going to look for me. I wouldn't look for me.
Syrus closed his eyes. A gently glowing light was in the middle of darkness.
I am dying. I'm just barely alive. That fox from last night is keeping me alive.
When Syrus opened his eyes, everything was a dark gray. Drained of every color except gray, the world was bleak.
It's going dark. The world I should live in. A world of darkness; a world where I can't bother anyone; a world made for my loneliness.
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A glorious fox sat on top of a tree, her charge within view blow. She seemed to sigh as she looked at the mortals that ran around like little ants on a hunt.
They search for him. But none are the ones that the boy wants to see. I must sure the fact that they do not see the child.
The fox's eyes glowed and an invisible force field was created.
Now…I must wait.
She looked at the blue-haired boy below her.
They must come. Of all souls I must take, his is the last I wish to deliver.
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Jaden and Zane spent the entire day in Chancellor Shepard's office. Answering questions and stuff like that. Both boys were seriously on edge. Except when being interrogated or asking about the progress of the search, neither talked.
"That's it!" Zane exploded.
"What?" Jaden asked.
"They're not going to find Syrus! And if he is hurt or sick, he's in some deep trouble! I'm not going to stand around and wait for my little brother to show up when I know that he isn't going to!" Zane yelled.
Jaden agreed and the two boys slipped out when nobody was looking.
The search took forever. They stuck to the forest around the Slifer dorms, knowing that Syrus couldn't have gotten too far.
While resting, Jaden couldn't help but say, "So…you hit him?"
Zane's head came out of a bush when he said, "Yeah. And I'm feeling like shit because of it." Zane sat down next to Jaden as he said, "And you yelled at him."
"Yeah. I bet what I did was worse." Jaden rubbed his forehead. "I bet you weren't too happy with what he told you."
"Yeah, at least I wasn't at the time. Now that I've thought about it for a while, I can't blame him for what who he's decided to like." Zane sounded sad.
Jaden remembered how hesitant Syrus was when he was going to tell Jaden who he loved. Syrus had probably told Zane first.
"I just wish that I had done it differently. I wish that…that I hadn't yelled at him."
"Wishing gets us nowhere, Jaden" Zane said flatly. He stood up and brushed some dirt of his pants before saying, "C'mon, we need to find him. It's almost sundown."
"Yeah. That way we can help him and tell him we're sorry. Then I can make it up to Sy for yelling at him by hooking him and Alexis up!" Jaden said enthusiastically.
Zane stared at Jaden. "Alexis? Why would Sy love Alexis?"
Jaden scratched the back of his head. "Well, she's pretty, popular, smart…"
"Yeah…she is something, isn't she" Zane whispered as he momentarily stared out into space. He quickly came back down to Earth though and said, "No, what I mean is that why would Syrus love Alexis since he's gay?"
Jaden's heart started pumping harder. "S-Syrus is…"
Zane nodded his head. "I thought you'd be the first to know."
Jaden was too stunned to think. Too…happy? Wait…why was Jaden happy?
"Why shouldn't you?" a voice in Jaden's head asked.
"No time to stand around! We need to find Sy before the sun goes down!" Jaden said as he ran ahead with new found energy.
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Syrus stared at the pink sky.
This is it he thought. Tears welded up in his nearly sightless eyes. Why did I even, for one moment, think that I could have a good life or a person who loved me? The person I loved?
Syrus closed his eyes and readied himself for the light at the end of the dark tunnel.
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"We can't give up! We have to find him!" Jaden yelled after seeing how low in the sky the sun was.
"Jaden wait!" Zane called breathlessly.
"NO! I HAVE TO FIND HIM!"
Jaden ran on. He eventually ran straight into a little meadow.
Time froze for him. It seemed like the world dropped everyone off, except for Jaden and the boy that lay across from him. Still. Dirty. Wet. Half-dead.
"Sy…rus…" Jaden whispered as he ran over to the body. He picked up Syrus and stared into his paler than pale face.
"No…please…you can't be…please…you…can't…" Jaden muttered over and over again as he held Syrus closer to him so that the smaller boy's head was squeezed against Jaden's chest. Tears were streaming down his tan cheeks.
"J..Ja…den…"
The brunette's eyes doubled in size. Jaden pulled Syrus's head away and stared into Syrus's half-lidded silver eyes.
He was awake.
He was alive.
"S…Syrus." Jaden held the cold boy closer again, but this time, much more gently.
Zane walked up to Jaden, who greeted the older bluenette with a smile.
"He's alive, Zane. He's alive" Jaden repeated over and over again.
Zane kneeled in front of Jaden and his little brother. Jaden released his grip on Syrus a little so that Zane could move Syrus so that the sick boy's burning cheeks were within his older brother palms.
"Big…bro…" Syrus whispered weakly.
"Syrus" Zane whispered. He dug his nose into his little brother's soft hair, more than elated to see Syrus alive.
Zane pulled away and said to Jaden, "We need to get Syrus to the island hospital."
Jaden nodded as he stood up, Syrus lying limply in Jaden's arms bridal style.
me: WHEEE! SY NO DIE! SY NO DIE! WHEEEEEE! i love sy-sy too much to kill him! anyway, two more chappies! so, review and read!
ZANE: (crawls in with half his clothes torn off) help...someone...help!
me: awwww...! (starts bandaging Zane) tis alright Zane...(pats Zane's head)