disclaimer: Emerald Twin Blade does not own Yu-Gi-Oh! GX or any of the characters, settings, etc. that may appear in this fic that you find familiar from the show. The only thing she owns is the plot. The idea for the fic. Ta-da!

Emerald's News & Nonsense:

Okay, it took a day longer than I thought it would... but it's done! I just had to revise and edit the chapter to find any mistakes before I posted it up here.

Unfortunate to say... almost this entire chapter puts Judai through necessary pain. My random research of comas and what can lead to them led me to writing this story, so this is how it has to be.

There's a little piece of Johan in this one! ... well, kinda. XD! He'll show up by Fragment No.05, at latest.

REMEMBER! Everything that happens here in NECESSARY!

: Fragment No.03 : Memories

-------[Fatigue & Weakness]-------

A low groan echoed down the bottom floor halls of the Obelisk Blue dorm, hopefully not signaling to anyone that he was there. Yuki Judai was currently sitting up against a light gray wall with his legs spread and bent at an angle so that his elbows were propped up on them, letting his arms hang limply. His chocolate brown eyes were slightly downcast as he stared down at the floor.

The moment he had made his way out of the infirmary, half the school's students had found him and tried to ask him a million questions at once. He wound up getting freaked out by it and turning around to high-tail it out of there. After a while, the brunette had run around the second floor hallways so many times that everybody else just seemed to give up, or just lose him, because he was able to sneak down to the lower level easily enough without being seen.

He panted calmly, feeling his head throbbing from all of the running he had just accomplished. It was almost funny how he was so tired after that; normally, he could run for miles without getting this exhausted. Picking up his right hand, he wiped the back of it against his forehead, only to pull it back and realize that it was now slick with sweat. Blinking in confusion, he touched his forehead again, but with the front of his hand.

Oh, yeah! There were bandages wrapped around his head… well, very damp bandages, at least. Judai made a face as he shook his hand in mild disgust away from his body, seeing small droplets swing off from the movement. Sticking out his tongue, he rubbed his hand over the stomach area of his plain black T-shirt, trying to dry it a little bit.

Maybe it was high time he just went off to his room again… Sure, it was coming up on evening, so it would probably be a good idea. Not to mention, if he went there, nobody would be able to get to him, because he installed a lock to his dorm room. Wasn't that just so smart of him to do before Johan left? It had actually been Johan's idea, too…

He frowned, letting his arm go limp and fall motionless to his side, bouncing for a split-second against the cold, silver tile of the floor. Johan… What could he be doing at that moment? Probably having fun sharing stories with the old friends he had left behind at North Academy of all the weird things that happened at Duel Academia. Judai couldn't help smiling weakly at the thought of Johan smiling and laughing.

Shaking his head, he shoved himself up to his feet to get his mind off of the blunette. A few seconds after standing up straight, however, his eyes screwed up a bit and he fell back into the wall. Shutting his eyes tightly in an attempt o bring them back into focus, he began to pant again as he pressed his palms flat against the wall that held him up.

Wh-what's happening to me…? Why am I getting dizzy… and getting tired so suddenly? He thought, opening his eyes when he thought it would be okay to, Yubel's power should've completely turned on all the bells and whistles in my head… but why am I having problems?

The brunette had actually been expecting an answer from the spirit living inside of him, but when he focused on the spot inside of him that he usually heard her voice from, all he was able to hear was soft breathing and slight snoring. He suppressed a chuckle; so even Duel Monsters had to get some sleep…

Sleep… His mouth opened wide in a huge yawn, his hand automatically came up to cover his mouth some. Blinking open his eyes again, he took a few steps forward, with one hand on the wall just in case, to see if he would be alright to walk normally. Nothing seemed to happen… no weird feelings, other than the throbbing in his head that he just knew was going to become a full-on headache. Taking his hand away from the wall, he started walking toward the exit, easily walking out unseen because he lacked his Slifer Red jacket.

Nobody on the second floor seemed to recognize him without it, so he was pretty much as visible as a ghost to them. Easily ignoring this fact, he walked leisurely back to the Slifer Red dorm.

-------[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]-------

It was finally Friday, a day that meant both good and bad things to the students of Duel Academia. The good thing about it was that there wouldn't be any class for the next two days… but the bad thing about it was that there were some teachers who thought it was appropriate to give students tons of homework to do for their weekend-off.

Manjoume Jun walked through the open doorway to Professor Chronos's lecture room, his pale hands stuffed into the pockets of his long, black coat. His dark grey eyes scanned the near-empty room, immediately spotting the one he had been looking for. His spiky, jet black hair bounced a bit with every step he took down the stairs, until he sidled his way across the empty chairs into one of them beside a certain blonde-haired girl.

Tenjoin Asuka looked at him out the corner of her eye before rolling them away and looking back to the open book sitting in front of her, "What is it? Isn't it a little too early for random jobs?"

The teenaged boy laughed sarcastically for a few seconds before narrowing his eyes slightly at her sternly, "I'm not here with any assignments… I'm here because we need to figure this thing out about Judai."

The girl flipped closed the book and turned to face him, an eyebrow raised, "And since when do you care so much about him? I realize that you see him as a powerful rival and all, but seriously?"

"It's nothing like what you're thinking!!" Manjoume snapped, a blush of embarrassment painting his cheeks bright red as he averted his gaze from the girl, "I… I just kinda feel responsible… I was the one who pushed the metal table out of the storage room, after all."

The look of curiosity on Asuka's face turned into one of mild surprise, "Manjoume-kun…"

"I wonder if Aniki is going to come to class today…" a familiar, high-pitched voice spoke aloud.

The two Obelisk students looked to the row behind them, seeing a sad-looking Marufuji Sho slumping over the table with his bush of mint blue hair nearly hiding his face from view. Considering the fact that Sho had been in that position every morning for class all week, asking the exact same question, you would think that they would just ignore him this time around. However, they both only made slight looks of sympathy.

They were all friends to the accident-prone brunette, but the smallest of the trio seemed to be the closest and most loyal to him. They were all worried, but perhaps he was just a little too worried. Asuka picked up her right arm and placed her hand to Sho's forehead, lightly patting it comfortingly.

"Don't worry about it, Sho… If he doesn't, then we'll know that his head injury from yesterday was what kept him down, not his depression over Johan."

The girl's reassurance was enough to have Sho lift his head up, the small boy showing a shy smile. Apparently, she had seen through him and found that he was actually a little bit jealous of Judai's almost-obsession with Johan. Some times, when he thought really hard about it, Sho even thought that maybe his best friend could be… Naa, that thought was a little too normal to be something Judai would think of, or even understand, for that matter.

-------[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX – Irritability & Apathy]-------

"Kuri, kuri, kuri~!" a certain little Duel Monster spirit sang, floating all around the room.

Yuki Judai was currently sitting on the side of his bed, glaring at the alarm clock that he had acquired before Johan left as the numbers changed from 7:29 AM to 7:30 AM. Chocolate brown eyes took on a burning, piercing effect as his death glare was turned onto the spirit, making it freeze in mid-float.

"WHY ARE YOU WAKING ME UP SO EARLY!?"

The teenager pushed himself off of the bed so hard that he shot toward the spirit, arms reaching out to capture the monster. When the brown ball of fluff glided out of the way, Judai was unable to do the same. His eyes shut tightly as he lowered his head inward, making himself literally do a mid-air flip before landing on his back upon the dirtied floor. Those eyes reopened to see two purple eyes staring back down at him. His eye twitched as he quickly threw his hand up, grabbing Winged Kuriboh by a wing and pulling it down so they could be face-to-face again.

Can you say replay?

Suffice it to say, after a good talking to, Winged Kuriboh squeaked an apology and Judai was satisfied enough to get up and change again. He picked up a random black T-shirt from somewhere on the floor, but he could tell it wasn't the same one as from yesterday because he had stuffed that one into the trash bin. He wasn't really big on washing something with blood stains on it…

Moving on, he pulled on a pair of white pants and then looked around the room for his Slifer blazer. For about two minutes he dug into the piles of junk on the floor, but then he remembered how Manjoume had tried to force him back onto the infirmary bed and how he had left the blood-stained blazer behind. Having remembered the stains, he was kind of glad that he left it behind. Turning to look through the dusty old drawers that he hadn't used in ages, he managed to bring out another blazer from it. It looked a little bit worn out, with its flare red color having faded to a shade darker than violet red. Shrugging, he pushed one arm through a sleeve while thinking that no one would notice.

Judai didn't even bother looking in the mirror; his hair always looked the same, so what was the point? He approached the door and slipped his feet into his usual red-and-black shoes before leaving.

-------[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX – Moodiness]-------

Considering that he hadn't been to class in such a long time, the brunette had started walking off for Professor Chronos's lecture room, ignoring all of the looks and stares he was getting from the students he passed by. Just what were they looking at?

"He's got a red mark on his forehead…" a particularly loud whisper reached his ears.

"… I heard that he ran into something and started bleeding!" came another whisper.

He resisted the urge to touch his forehead to check if he did indeed have a mark there, but it wouldn't be like he could see it, anyway. Putting his hands into his pockets, he lowered his head so that his bangs hung low over his forehead and eyes, hiding both. Even with this done, the whispers were still rampant and getting beyond annoying.

"EXCUSE ME! Do you mind not talking about me behind my back so loudly?" he snapped coldly at a random Obelisk Blue girl who had been the unfortunate one to cut the thin thread that had been his patience, his eyes narrow in a glare that instantly froze the three gossiping girls in front of him.

After a few seconds of making sure they had gotten the message across, he turned back around so that he could head toward his class, but he then noticed the silence and the direct stares he was now receiving. A blush of embarrassment surfaced on his face; wow, he must have just made himself look like a huge jerk…

But they started it by talking about me, anyway… What do I care what they think of me, anyway? He thought bitterly, his embarrassment dissolving back into his cold glare as he continued on his way.

It wasn't even that far from where he had stopped to let everybody gawk at him, so once he got there, he just walked right on in. The brunette didn't say 'excuse me' or 'sorry' as he walked normally through the row to the center of it where an empty seat awaited him by Sho. All the grumbles of the students he had completely ignored died away once he took his seat and put his elbow on the table so that he could cradle his cheek in his hand.

Sho blinked as he stared at the Slifer Red student, the sorrow on his face melting into happiness with every two seconds that went by, "Aniki! You came!"

Judai turned his head slightly, just enough to flash the mint-haired boy a weak smile. When he didn't say anything, Sho's thoughts led him to the bump on his best friend's head. When his gray eyes glanced through the other's thick brown bangs, shock was evident in his expression as he suddenly pushed his chair back and stood up, putting his hand lightly to Judai's forehead and pulling his bangs up to completely show the wound there.

"You took your bandages off! Why did you take your bandages off??" he asked worriedly.

Judai picked up his right hand and swatted the smaller boy's hand away, keeping his eyes closed as his head turned in the other direction, "Because they were uncomfortable… and they got soaked in sweat when I ran away from all the people trying to find out what happened to me yesterday."

"Were you running? In your condition!?"

"Marufuji Sho, please take your seat and keep quiet! The class has started!!" Professor Chronos shouted from the bottom of the lecture hall.

The small Obelisk student immediately fell back into his seat and scooted up closer to the table before lowering his head. Several of the other students were chuckling at him, but right now, that didn't matter to him. Judai wasn't taking care of himself, so he thought that it was up to him to make sure he didn't get hurt again.

-------[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX – Daydreaming & Sleep]-------

Halfway through the class, Judai had begun to act a little bit more like his usual self. He wasn't paying any attention at all to the teacher and just seem to be staring off into space, daydreaming.

In his mind, he was going over what had happened when his best friend left that last Saturday. It had been just like any other day to him… The two had been having fun talking about Duel Monsters and playing around with Winged Kuriboh and Johan's Duel Monster spirit Ruby Carbuncle. Even when it had been time for them to part ways… nothing was different.

The blunette had smiled that special smile of his, standing still for a long time as if he were trying to decide on what to do. Judai himself had noticed this and just held out his hand to him, his own smile still in place. All he had said was that they would meet again, but Johan's reply had brought a serious look to his face. He had replied back by promising that, no matter what, he would find a way back to him. Judai could even remember how his cheeks had warmed up significantly upon hearing his best friend say such a thing. The other had smiled again, as if to say "cute."

By now, Judai's daydream had caused his face to paint itself light red. His eyes, which had been staring unblinkingly at the wall above Professor Chronos's head, began to droop lazily until they just closed completely and his elbow bent to the side, causing his head to fall with a dull thumff into his sleeve.

Sho turned his head to look at his friend, instantly becoming nervous that his friend had just passed out. When he moved his head closer to the other boy, he heard a quiet snoring and steady breathing come from him. He smiled meekly before going back to paying attention to the lesson.

Judai probably needs to get some more sleep… especially with everything that's happen to him. He shouldn't have come to class today, but I'd give him an A for effort. The small Obelisk boy chuckled silently.

-------[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX – Headache & Confusion]-------

Once the class was over, Sho, Asuka, and Manjoume all followed Judai out of the room, wondering about whether he was really okay or not. The Slifer Red student tried to wave them off, answering their questions with short, quick answers and hoping that they would believe him and leave. Unfortunately, they were pretty persistent, so things weren't going well.

"Aagh…" he groaned, picking up a hand and holding it to his forehead.

"What's wrong? Is your wound hurting you? Is it bleeding again??" Sho questioned constantly, getting closer to him with each one he threw out.

Judai lightly pushed the shorter boy away so as to give him some space, the other hand fisting and lightly pressing against his temple, "It's nothing… I've just got a headache. It's not even in the same spot as that little scrape."

"Judai, maybe you should just go back to your dorm. You've missed class all this week, so what's today going to matter?" Asuka suggested, folding his arms and tilting her head off to the side a bit.

"It's a good idea! So we don't have to be tailing you all day to make sure you don't pass out or something." Manjoume said, not meaning for it to sound offensive, but you know how this guy talks; he could turn a compliment of a girl's dress into a full-on insult without meaning to.

With the throbbing in his head starting up again, all he could manage to do was send a meaningful half-glare toward the unwise black Obelisk student before speaking, "Yeah… I think I'll just go back. Later, Guys."

"Aniki, hold on! I'll walk with you!" Sho offered, coming up to his side and putting his hands over Judai's left forearm.

On instinct, Judai ripped his arm out of the other's weak grasp, spooking the smaller boy into backing up a little bit. His wide gray eyes made the brunette realize what he just did, but even though he knew he should feel sorry, he just… didn't.

"S-sorry, Sho… I can handle it on my own, though. I'm just going to my room, y'know!" he tried his very best to sound cheerful again, but his current headache wasn't exactly helping.

Flashing what he hoped was a reassuring smile, he turned and walked off toward the rundown Slifer Red dorm. His friends, left behind, merely stood and watched him go off on his own. Each got a nagging feeling that they should follow, but they went against instinct in order to go back to class.

Several minutes of aimless walking later, Judai found himself standing in front of the boys Obelisk Blue dorm. He blinked in confusion, tilting his head a bit as he took his hand away from his head and scratched the back of it a bit.

"… could've sworn I was heading toward the Slifer dorm…" he mumbled, shrugging and turning around to try again.

Another several minutes later, the teen found himself in the exact same spot as he had been before. He stood in front of the Obelisk Blue dorm, sighing hopelessly.

"What the Hell? It's still a freaking dorm, isn't it?"

Taking lazy steps toward the building, he reached out a hand to push open the glass doors that served as the entrance and exit. When he tried to push, however, nothing happened. Another push, and still nothing happened. He was starting to get confused again; did somebody lock the door from the inside or something? Why wouldn't it open?

He pressed both of his hand up against the glass surface, leaning all of his weight against it in hopes of getting it to fall open. Lucky, or unlucky for him, a random Obelisk Blue student saw him having difficulty and ran on over to the door, pulling it open from the inside.

"Judai-sempai, were you trying to open the door? Or was that some kind of mime exercise?" the boy asked.

Judai flushed, embarrassed at how weak he must have looked, but the other had just given him a way to keep himself from being too embarrassed, "Y-yeah… that was a new trick I learned. Cool, huh?"

"Yeah! Can you teach me?" the other said, excited.

The brunette laughed nervously, shaking his head as he inched inside of the building, "Naa… Maybe some other time, okay? I just remembered that I've got something to do in here. So… later!"

He turned around and ran off down the hallway, following its familiar path unconsciously. His mind was elsewhere as he ran, his legs taking him to the first place they could remember on their own.

By the time Judai had come back to reality, he was already standing in front of that room… His room…

Johan's room.

-------[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX – Staring, Glazed Eyes, & Delirium]-------

Chocolate brown eyes stared at the door with his mouth hanging open slightly, panting lightly. His right hand reached out toward the doorknob slowly, so slowly that it seemed as though time was beginning to slow itself down gradually. His hand froze before it could touch the cool metal of the knob, a knocking sound echoing in his mind.

Knock, knock, knock!

Taking a breath, he gulped and clamped his hand over the handle, twisting it to the side and pushing it open.

Creeeeeeak! He took a step into the clean, near-empty room. His eyes scanned the furniture and technology. The couch was still there, untouched since a week ago. His left hand unconsciously pushed the door closed behind him, making it creak again before it stopped softly against the threshold, telling him that it didn't close completely. He didn't seem to care, however, or notice.

Judai took two steps forward toward the couch before he heard a smashing sound. An abrupt CRASH! He turned in every direction, looking in every way he possibly could from where he stood. What had just…? He stopped moving as the light in his eyes vanished, leaving nothing but his thin chocolate brown irises and slowly growing, black pupils.

His eyesight should have been failing him… but instead, he saw all of the lights on, the items that had been previously removed were still there, and there seemed to be broken glass on the floor. If he had complete control of his body, he might've blinked and bent down to pick it all up, but he merely stood there, staring unblinkingly.

"Aww… not another one!" a familiar voice said.

Judai's heart stopped as the heavenly sound reached his ears. It seemed like… so long since he had heard that voice. Turning his head unhurriedly, his eyes grew wider than they already were at the 'sight' he was met with.

There, standing before him, was the spiky teal blue-haired teen that had departed for a whole different continent only a week ago. The boy's blue Obelisk vest was falling off of his white, long-sleeved shirt. One frilled wrist was bent forward as it leaned against his hip, while the other was behind his head, scratching it some.

The thing that completely stunned the brunette was the other's shocking emerald eyes, those perfect pools of light green that he had never seen on anybody else and never wanted to look away from.

He gulped, wondering if he should believe what he was seeing or not. Even so, it didn't stop him from stuttering, "J-Johan…?"

Anderson Johan smiled at him softly, "What is it, Judai?"

His voice! Judai wanted to melt right then and there; it had to be Johan! There was no mistaking that voice, or those eyes, or that hair… He could feel the heat rush to his cheeks to warm them into a faint blush as tears began to collect at the sides of his eyes. He may not have been able to blink, but his tears easily overflowed to form a thin stream on either side of his face as he felt himself begin to cry.

"J-Jo… haan…" he stammered, falling to his knees and pressing his palms against the floor so as to keep himself from completely dropping to the floor. His tears, now with a new direction to fall, were dripping off the center of his cheeks and the tip of his nose to hit the floor, darkening the ground's color slightly where they landed.

The blunette approached him and bent down in front of him and looking at him with a sympathetic look, "Why are you crying, Ju-chan? It's just a cup; I have more…"

Judai looked up to Johan, smiling his first true smile in a long while, "I-it's just that… I really… really missed you."

Johan tilted his head to the side in confusion, "Missed me? I didn't go anywhere!"

He shook his head, "Mm-mm… You did, but… that doesn't matter anymore, because… you're here now!"

The way his heart was racing right now, and the way he just couldn't keep himself from crying… What was this unusual feeling he was getting? He had felt something like this before… before Johan had left on the boat, but it was slightly fainter. Now, it was so strong that… he just couldn't control it! Couldn't control himself… He picked up his hands from the floor to reach out and touch the other, but by doing so, he took away his only stability to staying upright. When he fell forward, just about to land in Johan's waiting, open arms, everything that he had seen… just disappeared.

The lights, the glass, the knickknacks that they'd collected together, and most importantly… Johan himself.

Chocolate brown hues went wide in confusion and then realization the moment everything went back to normal. Surprise was written all over his face, and still his tears fell… but no longer tears of joy. For that instant, time had seemed to stop, but nothing lasts forever.

The second that his body hit the floor, he felt himself go completely numb. He couldn't feel anything, but he knew he was awake… He couldn't see very well either; his vision was blurry, but… he could tell that he was moving. His limbs were twitching, going off in random spasms.

What was happening to him?

-------[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Seizure]-------

Marufuji Sho scurried through the second floor Obelisk Boys dorm, trying to rush to get to his room. When he had gotten to his next class, he had forgotten to bring along a specific book that the teacher had ordered everyone to bring to class that day. He, having been so worried about Judai, had forgotten about it entirely.

Kree, kree, kre-kree, kree!

The mint-haired boy stopped for a moment; what was that sound?

Kre-kree, kree, kree, kre-kre-kree!

He turned his head to the door nearest him, noticing that it was the room that once belonged to Anderson Johan. He pouted slightly, jealously bubbling up inside of him. His mind literally burst out yelling 'Best Friend Stealer!!'

Tossing that thought aside, he listened more carefully and realized that the sound was coming from inside the room. Also, upon closer inspection, the door to the room was open by a crack. Approaching the door, he gently pressed on it to open a little bit wider, just enough for him to look inside. What he saw, however, was the absolute worst thing that he had ever seen.

"Aniki!"

The brown-haired boy was lying on the floor, going through random convulsions. He wasn't blinking, and his pupils were much bigger than they were supposed to be. With gray eyes wide in fear, he didn't know what to do, who to call, or how he was supposed to go about this situation.

He threw open the door and shouted at the top of his lungs, "ANIKI!!!!"

Somehow, after Sho's yell echoed through the room, the hallway, and likely the entire Obelisk Boys dorm, Judai's body became motionless. Even his eyes had fallen closed. The mint-haired boy slowly inched closer, frightened that his best friend might start another seizure if he got too close. When he got close enough, however, he realized that something wasn't right. He didn't look like he was sleeping normally… Something was up.

He gulped, hearing several running footsteps and turning toward the doorway, only to see Ayukawa-sensei, Asuka, Manjoume, and Chronos-sensei standing there. Sho's tearstained eyes stared at them with a pleading look in them.

"Wh… what happened to him?"

-------[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX – Comatose]-------

Emerald's Nonsense:

Hahaha!! Please, dont think I'm a sadist for doing this. There's a plot behind all this... somewhere.

If you don't see it yet, hopefully you'll see it in the next chapter.

Here's some bad news... I can't post the next chapter for a while... At least not until next Sunday or Monday.

Too many things are going on, but I'll do my best to at least start on it.

See y'all next time! XD