Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds: Judgement of the World

Written By: Lady Lunar Phoenix

Beta By: Lady Lunar Phoenix

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"I hope that Big Sister Asuka's brother 'is' alive! I'm sure it would make her happy to see him again," Rua commented as he walked along with Aki.

"Yes, I can only imagine," Aki began when she cut herself off. True she was an only child and thus the bond between siblings would be never be hers to know. The dynamics could only be studied via observing the twins and their bond. But again it was from an almost clinical, detached study, and kept that way because of the same reason that she didn't finish that sentence out loud.

'What it would be like to lose a brother' could easily be replaced with 'sister' and could easily at any time be replaced with Ruka. There was no promise that one day Aki wouldn't receive a call of some sort that Ruka had died. Ruka's heart issues were unique, her medication was prescribed precariously due to that. A subtle heart murmur at birth, expected to heal as she got older, suddenly turned serious at the time that she had collapsed.

Doctors couldn't understand what happened, but how could they have known she had gone spiritually to the Duel Spirit World? Dr. Nakanoii had expressed his confusion over how her heart could flair up over the coma, since there wasn't anything they could find connecting the two events. Yet now knowing what happened to Rua, Aki couldn't help, but wonder if somehow her heart condition was in connection to the night Rua was forced to kill someone?

There was a twisted sort of sadness to the fact that the doctor was forced to confide in Aki, since she was actually 'physically' there. Unlike the twin's actual parents. Forced to explain pills and what to look for in Ruka's personality or energy levels to know if a new cocktail of pills would prove to improve the situation or make it worse.

"And she won't be depressed about that guy hitting on you all the time!" Rua noted cheerfully snapping Aki back out of her mental state.

"Rua..." She groaned softly covering her face with a hand at the thought.

'That Guy'. Judai 'can you summon' Yuki.

He was a nice guy, absent minded, inattentive, and one track minded, but nice. He couldn't read a room if it came with instructions right in front of him. But for some reason Asuka excused it, for the sake of a guy who didn't automatically fall in love with her on sight. It left the rest of them baffled by this strange fascination. Was it the fact that it was a challenge? That she wasn't interested in guys who she could get with a snap of the fingers and 'only' guys who weren't interested?

Because she was seriously wasting her time with this guy... He didn't really care about his grades, or even a future because while he was obsessed with Duel Spirits. The game 'itself' was not enough of a focus for him to even hope for a future as a professional duelist.

Asuka's taste in guys not withstanding though, Aki wished Judai would just leave her alone. Getting used to her own powers was difficult enough without him constantly drawing attention to them at 'every' chance he got. She was developing an outright worry that he would find her in a public place and start up.

The whole 'school' knew what she could do, their parents were bound to know as well by now and she was a senators' 'daughter'. As the daughter of a member of the government she was expected to live up to a certain set of standards and behave accordingly. Only to have Judai come bounding over the proverbial 'Hill and Dale' to let the world know that she was a freak.

Rua looked up at Aki wondering about her silence, and more over the encroaching shadows of branches that began stretching out from the shadows of the condo. He zipped his lips and turned to face forward and watched as those shadows raced into his room.

'I think she's winding herself up...' he found himself thinking in mounting concern when the lights began to seemingly dim due to the presence of all the plants. Ruka was already in bed she had her blankets pulled up and was eyeing the amount of shadow plants with a certain amount of trepidation.

He did his best subduing his own concern as he walked over to his bed, startled to see the branches slither their way up and beginning to pull back his blankets for him. Causing him to ponder for a moment that perhaps Aki's deck had a better read on her. Perhaps they were finally well versed enough with the human world to realize when to lash out and when not to. Because as he climbed in, there were no shadows of plants peeking under the sheets. Nothing sharp or pointy jabbed at him as he tucked his feet in and laid down. Just this weird feeling of the top of the blanket dragging itself along so that it could drape itself over him properly.

"Good night Big Sister Aki!" Rua chirped out with his sister echoing him, in the same concerned and forced cheery tone he used.

"Good night kids," Aki answered with a forced smile on her face as she tried to throttle down what was turning into a mounting rage.

The twins closed their eyes and as soon as the light in the room cut out with the sound of Aki's footsteps turned their way back down the hallway...

Ruka's eyes popped open and she turned to look at Rua's silhouette with concern written on her face. Something that must have reached Rua because her twins' eyes popped open and he turned to look at her in response. Even in darkness.

"Rua? Did you say something to her?" Ruka whispered, trying to figure out what exactly could have happened to make the Spirits start giving 'warning whispers'.

"I.. mentioned that one guy... Judai..." Rua replied in a whisper of his own, his tone conveying his uncertainty as his eyes started to adjust to the darkness of the room.

"Rua! You don't bring him up to Aki!" Ruka scolded with a frown on her face. She didn't know much about him, but she and Patty had caught sight of him grabbing Akis' hands and talking animatedly to her on multiple occasions. It was pretty clear that whatever it was about him, Aki was not happy and Ruka wasn't happy with anyone trying to step into Yusei's place. He was important to Aki's confidence, helping her deal with her powers and it was like Judai was trampling over all of it.

"Yeah, you're right, he's got no business trying to steal Yusei's woman."

"Rua!"

"What?" He asked blinking at her surprised at how offended she sounded. "Its true."

"They're 'friends'," Ruka corrected, just barely able to see a dipping of the eyebrow.

"Yeah, boy and girl." Rua retorted his lips twisting into a sarcastic position.

"They're not dating, Rua." Ruka elaborated with a resigned sigh realizing they were about to go to bed arguing.

"Yet."

"Rua." Exasperation was starting to settle into Ruka's voice as the stark blackness of the night began to ease into the deepest of blues now that her eyes were accustomed fully to the dark.

"Look me in the eyes, lie to me and say you can't see them as a couple." Rua retorted, pushing himself up from his bed to lean over the space between their two separate beds for his sister.

"... They're not dating." Ruka argued now properly miffed, but she tucked herself further into her blankets, seeking the comfort of a blanket cocoon. Better that than sitting up and smacking Rua.

"Yet." Rua countered again with more smugness in his voice seeing his sister backing down.

"Why are you so sure they're going to date?" Ruka demanded in a mounting huff. Had the lights been on her eyes would have been beady little eyes of stubborn determination.

"Because no guy gets slammed from any height into the ground by a girl only to get up and ask for 'more'. 'Unless' said girl is the mother of all his future children!" Rua retorted. "You take the hit and you stay down because you know whats good for you. If getting up is what you're considering 'good for you' then you must want more of something from that person!"

Suddenly out of the shadows came a polite, throat clearing sound, then "Preach on Rua."

The twins shot up into sitting positions in their own respective beds in mutual shock, looking around wildly in the room before their eyes settled on each other in the darkness. Rua's eyes shinning in his triumph while Ruka gave a disgruntled, "Ancient Fairy how could you betray me like this?"

"I'm sorry Ruka, but in this instance, Rua is right."

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Yusei watched the trio walk away before he swung his gaze back around to look at the sliding door to the outside. His back lit by the light of the dining room tossing shadows forward in straight lines and shapes that he could recognize belonging to the couch he sat on. Disrupted only by his own presence breaking the smooth lines of the furniture with himself and he could still feel Aki's fiddling with his hair.

Just why did 'everyone' have to have a moment where they fiddled with his hair?

His eyes stayed fixated on his shadow as he thought about the masked stranger, now that he knew who the second person most likely was. Yet they wore the same attire or near enough to make Yusei ponder if somehow Tenjoin had joined a gang. Coats, or full outfits, of that quality suggested either a well to do organization or an actual military outfit.

That mask brought to mind a Duel Monster and it didn't make sense to use in a military group. So perhaps a gang? Yet that didn't fit into what the twins described of Tenjoin either, in how he treated others or who he hung out with. Yusei had been in a gang, understood the various reasons why people chose that life, granted from the view point of poverty. Yet the Tenjoins didn't seem to come from that back ground either from what he had heard of.

"They're in bed," Aki's voice interrupted all the thoughts in his head despite how softly she spoke. Her voice over his right ear was neutral in tone as her fingers, warm to the touch, rested on his shoulder.

He nodded and stood up, a toss of the head as a signal to show her that he wanted to talk outside. The skyline outside could barely be seen when compared to the light in the dinning room, the artificial light bringing the image of the interior of the condo onto the surface of the glass. Yusei reached for his deck that he carried with him taking comfort in the feeling of their weight hanging off his hip. Granted the only one he could think that might be able to help was Stardust, but he wasn't one to discredit what information the other Spirits might have.

But his gesture wasn't lost on Aki, who had been following him dutifully and she glanced around to check for any signs of his Duel Spirits. Yet there were no shadows of sharp nose dragons or sparkles of seeming dust that glowed with all the brightness of the stars. So she returned her gaze to his back and how he moved, pondering about the text file the pair had gone over. Had Yusei learned something else during the day? It seemed strange, considering the strangeness of meeting Fubuki out of the clear blue what else could have happened on what was essentially Yusei's first day on his own?

If it was something that involved Fubuki and the text though, that could make things more awkward she realized.

Once they were outside, Yusei shut the door behind her leaving them alone with only the responsibility of adults. The type of responsibilities that couldn't be shared with the kids, and Yusei found himself unable to think of a way to make this sound sane. So instead he went to the seats that they used when they had discussions.

"I don't know what I'm supposed to call it, but I saw someone wearing the same outfit here after the twins left for school today." He explained as he sat down, resting his elbows on his thighs before glancing up at her to see her expression. "I was inside, and just..."

Aki joined him, sitting down across from him while fascinated by how he tried to explain what wasn't physically in his presence. She watched as his hands gestured occasionally while he described what sounded as though a memory or a ghost rather than a Spirit. Instilling some sympathy for the guy, talking about something that was clearly out of his depths. His inexperience and attempt to be as thorough as he could was also endearing. Indeed the fact that he was willing to even give it voice and not just pass it off was interesting.

Because Yusei was a hands on guy. Spirits or ghosts were not in his forte, and Aki wouldn't have been surprised if he didn't even 'believe' beyond what the game provided. Accepting Ghosts or Spirits as nothing save holograms only now having to accept that they were 'real' and something 'else' into his life. However; it 'was' alarming that he saw the same mask and clothes on two guys in two different places. One here. At the window where Rua would have had that duel.

Aki sat there processing the information that he provided and trying to decide if this 'was' a type of Duel Spirit or if this was something else. Yusei didn't have any psychic abilities as far as Ruka or she could see or tell. The only being that could have know for absolute sure was Stardust and yet what were the odds of seeing a figure in a glass door. Only to turn around and see that style of clothes again on someone else off in the city? Who then got teleported away?

A stranger wearing all black with a black mask appearing in the glass door of the twins condo when they 'knew' someone had been killed by Rua. Fubuki teleporting away on that roof explained how a stranger could show up at the condo at all. Though in the admittance of that fact there was the unsettling realization that was possibly more than just a random burglar. "Yusei let me see that card."

Aki held her hand out expectantly for the card, deciding it needed to be activated and see what they could get from it. Then it occurred to her that she might need more back up, "Witch? Black Rose? I think I'm going to need you guys."

Yusei extracted the card from where he carried it from earlier, glancing at it and thinking over how this card connected two souls. One lost to who knew where and one who was alone thinking that her brother was dead. He held the card out to Aki as Witch of the Black Rose faded into view while Aki's shadow rose up into the form of Black Rose Dragon.

But it didn't stop there, as light seemingly bloomed from the condo as Ancient Fairy settled herself over the roof, resting her fin like hands over the doors blocking the pair from going back inside. Or blocking those inside from hearing outside, "Stardust will be here soon enough if you need him."

"Thank you Ancient Fairy, I thought the twins would already be asleep," Aki responded to the Ancient Fairy's sudden appearance with an apologetic smile.

"Oh they'll be asleep soon enough, but, we all know Rua. Give the boy enough information and he'll spill all of it," the Fairy Dragon explained kindly as she rested her head down so she could watch them.

Aki nodded before holding the card up to her Witch, "any thoughts before I do this?"

"Costume huh? Not really no," Witch confessed with a shrug.

"Alright then," Aki replied before she activated the card.

Black smoke began to rise from the window of the card, swirling around Aki's hand like a warm wind that brushed against a person coming in from the cold. Smoke began running up her arm, like an eager snake slithering up a branch, and as her hand was revealed it was suddenly in black. Her attire was being transformed with every touch of that dark smoke. Yusei and Witch both held expressions of calm, analytical study, there was nothing malicious in the smoke that she could feel.

But then her vision was covered by a vivid red glass that turned the world into red hues as all the color in the world became narrowed down to only two colors. Black and red with all the shades between while at the same time bringing things out into her vision so she could see them more clearly. She felt like she was wearing a pair of infrared glasses with the way the colors suddenly changed before her eyes. While the smoke wrapped itself down her legs encasing them into pants with strong work heavy boots.

The coat and clothes felt weighted, like what she would imagine Kevlar would feel if she was covered in it. She reached up to touch her face where the mask rested, Yusei still sat before her, but his features were wiped out by the mask, only his eyes and the vivid, yellow Mark on his face stood out. Otherwise he could have been nothing more elaborate than a mannequin on display in a store for all the complexity of his presence.

But it didn't hide his concern as though he was seeing something that he was uncertain about again. And he was.