Author: Kiku-chan3322
Disclaimer: If I seriously owned Yu-gi-oh GX do you think I'd be writing Fanfic?
Judai stood there in the empty room. His CD's were gone, TV, Stereo, even the moldy pizza! Judai started looking around the room nervously, "Oh my God, oh my God! They took it!" Judai stood up and looked around some more, "Those bastards to my wallet! That was all the money I had!"
Judai's worries were interrupted by the telephone. He didn't bother to answer; it was probably Asuka or something. The ringing stopped and there was a male voice on the answering machine.
"Judai, it's been a long time." said the voice.
"Oh, not long enough!" Judai said with frustration in his voice.
"This is Johan Andersen, I was wondering since I'm in town if you wanted to hang out or something."
Judai froze, "Johan…?"
"I'm in town on business and since I haven't talked to you in five years, I think I would be good to catch up on things. Well call me back, bye."
Judai sat down on his bed, "Johan….I can't believe it. I never thought I was going to talk to him again." He sat there staring at the phone but he shook his head, "No I can't call him, not after I was too much of a chicken shit to ask him out!"
Judai got up from the bed and stripped out of his clothes and walked into the bathroom. He turned the nozzle on the shower and stepped in. Judai let the warm water hit his skin and run down his body. He put his hand against the tile wall of the shower.
'What am I going to do?' Judai thought to himself.
Judai took the shampoo off the floor of the shower. He ran his hands in his brunette hair and lathered it up good. He hung his head in the water and washed out the soap.
But soon something hit Judai, he had been so oblivious to what is going on and it finally sank in. He sank to the floor of the shower and started to cry. "Why is this happening to me?!" He screamed beating the tile until his knuckles started to bleed. He looked up at the flickering light. He was starting to get nauseous from the heat of the shower and his problems. Judai turned off the shower and wrapped a towel around his waist. He walked out of the steamy room, his face flushed from the warmth.
Judai threw off his towel and put on some boxers and pajama pants. He laid on his bed and. he looked over at the phone, thinking about Johan.
Judai stood up from the bed and picked up the phone. He went to dial a button but hung up the phone. "I can't do this!" Judai looked outside to see the rain starting to pour. "Johan was the only one I actually had feelings for and I blew it!"
Lightning struck outside the city.
Judai stared at the phone again, "But…will I regret it if I don't call him now?" He took a deep breath and lifted up the phone slowly. He carefully dialed his number and it started to ring and ring and ring until…
"Hello?"
Judai gulped, "H-Hi Johan it's me Judai."
"Hi Judai! It's been so long!" Johan said so cheerfully.
"Y-Ya five years, since Duel Academia." Judai's breathe kept on shortening.
"Well I'm in town and I was wondering if you wanted to come meet me at the Café near the grocery store.." Johan said.
Judai smiled, "Sure that sound great, when should we meet?" He asked.
"Oh how about…an hour?" He said in a perky voice.
Judai gasped "An hour?!"
"Oh is that too sudden?" Johan asked.
Judai shook his head, "Oh no it's fine I'll be there."
"Alright well see you there, bye!"
"Ya…bye." Judai's voice got quiet. He slowly hung up the phone. Judai was kind of shell shocked about this. "Maybe…he can help me." He said to himself.
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Johan sat there in the café reading his book. He didn't change much since Duel Academia, actually not at all. He sat there and took a sip of his steaming coffee. He looked outside the window at the grey, gloomy, depressing scenery.
Johan looked at his watch, "Hm…Judai should have been here by now." He sighed and got up from his chair, "Maybe he didn't want to see me." Johan reached in his pocket and pulled out his wallet. He threw a ten on the table.
He started walking towards the door. As soon as he opened the door something ran into him. Johan fell to the ground, "Ow!" He looked up to see Judai on top of him rubbing his head.
"Judai?"
"I'm sorry I'm late!" Judai huffed.
Johan smiled, "It's okay, I'm glad to finally see you."
Judai smiled back, "Me too."
"Um, I would love to talk to you more but I can't if you're laying on top of me."
Judai blushed a dark red. He jumped off of Johan, "I-I-I'm so sorry!"
Johan laughed, "It's okay." He got up from the tile floor of the café. He brushed himself off and fixed his shirt. He smiled at Judai again, "You wanna go somewhere else?"
Judai shrugged, "Sure, but where are we gonna go?"
"I don't know. What about your place?"
Judai was laughing inside. Like he would even allow Johan to walk through the neighborhood let alone take him to his apartment….that was now empty.
"No trust me you don't want to go there." Judai laughed a little.
Johan thought for a minute then jumped, "I know! I saw this really cool new Duel Monsters shop! You want to go?"
"Sure!" Judai said full of excitement. He hadn't played Duel Monsters in years. After dropping out of the pros he sort of lost interest.
Johan grabbed Judai's hand and dragged him along, "Then let's go!"
Judai nodded and they sprinted out into the rain, they didn't care if they got wet.
They laughed and ran as fast as they could all the way to the card shop. They almost forgot they were even holding hands.
They walked in the store soak and wet. Judai shook his head to get the water off.
Johan giggled, "Stop you're getting me wet!"
"Sorry." He laughed.
Johan and Judai walked around the store looking at all the cards and booster packets. Judai stopped when he saw one of the cards, it was a Winged Kuriboh. He picked up the card and stared at it, that's when he heard it.
"Kuri, kuri!"
Judai gasped and looked around, nothing. He hadn't seen Winged Kuriboh since he stopped dueling. He missed his little fur ball friend, and the other Duel Monster Spirits too.
Johan pull his hand on Judai's shoulder, "You alright?"
He blinked twice then came out of la la land. "Yes." He said quickly and hid the card behind his back.
Johan shrugged, "Okay then." He walked off to look at more of the cards.
Judai slipped the card in his pocket, "This will be our little secret." He whispered to the card. He ran to Johan looking at some rare cards in a glass case.
Johan pointed at one of the cards, "Look at that Judai!"
He peeked through the glass. "Wow, a Dark Magician! I wish I had one!" Judai said in awe. He looked over at Johan, "Hey I was wondering, do you still see your Duel Spirits?"
Johan smiled, "Everyday. Do you still see yours?"
He shook his head, "After I gave up dueling they sort of disappeared."
"Ya I heard what happened with your girlfriend. It's a shame really, you were a pro too."
Judai sighed and looked away.
Johan grabbed Judai's hand, "Oh I'm sorry I shouldn't have brought it up."
Judai smiled, "Never mind that, I want to know how your life has been."
Johan laughed, "It's good. I still duel now and then. I do volunteer work at the hospital sometimes, I'm still looking for a descent job though. I live in an apartment about two hours away from here."
"Seems like life is going good for you." Judai said.
He nodded, "Yep, and what about you?"
Judai looked away, life wasn't going to good of course but would Johan think less of him if he told him what was happening? He was always an idiot in school, maybe he expected this.
"Well…life is…okay." Judai said.
Johan raised his eyebrow, "Define 'okay'."
Judai hesitated, "Well I sort of got….fired."
Johan gasped, "Fired?! Oh Judai what did you do?"
"I-I don't know I was late a lot and I was sort of a slacker." Judai sort of smiled.
Johan sighed, "Anything else?"
"Um…well funny thing happened today, I mean you're gonna laugh so hard." Judai laughed but Johan could tell that this wasn't going to be funny at all.
Judai rubbed his head, "Well, I kind of got robbed today."
Johan's eye got wide, "Oh my God are you okay? Were you home when it happened?"
Judai shook his head, "Oh no I came home and all the stuff was gone."
"Do you have any money?" Johan asked concerned.
Judai smiled, "Nope, I got three days to pay Morey and a week to pay the rent."
Johan shook his head in disbelief, "Judai this is serious! I'll lend you the money to pay your rent."
"No, I don't want your money Johan." Judai sighed, "I've hit rock bottom Johan."
Johan pulled out his wallet and took Judai's hand. He placed a wad of cash in Judai's hand.
Judai's eye widened, that was a lot of money.
"Take it." Johan said.
Judai shook his head and gave the money back, "No I can't take this." Judai started walking towards the door.
Johan ran after him. "Judai!"
Judai walked out into the freezing rain. He walked to the side of the street and tried calling for a taxi.
Johan grabbed Judai's arm and dragged him to the ally between the Duel Monster shop and the drug store.
"What are you doing?" Judai asked.
Johan put his hand on Judai's cheek, "Judai I care a lot about you. If you won't take this money then you can come live with me."
Judai was shocked at what Johan just said. "No, Johan. I can't…"
"Why not?!" Johan asked angrily.
"Because…I'm afraid." Judai looked away.
Johan ran his hand through Judai's hair, "What are you afraid of?"
Judai looked away, "I like you a lot Johan, and I mean a lot. I'm afraid that if I get to attached to you that you'll just throw me aside."
"Why would you think that?" Johan asked.
Water started to fill Judai's eyes, "Everyone else has."
"Well I'm not everyone else." Johan said wiping Judai's eyes. Johan lifted Judai's chin, their lips were just inches apart.
Judai started blushing.
Johan closed his eyes and filled the gap between them. Judai felt then warmth of Johan's lips. Judai's eyes got wide in shock and probably baffled. He dreamed of Johan kissing him but he didn't think it would actually happen. Johan started to slip his tongue in Judai's mouth. He gasped and pushed Johan away.
Judai backed up against the wall, "No, I can't I'm…I'm sorry!" Judai closed his eyes and ran out of the ally.
"Judai wait!" Johan yelled.
Judai ignored him and ran through the rain with tears streaming down his face.
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Kiku-chan: I'd updated a little faster than planned! I hope you all liked this chapter!
Judai: Please review!!!!!
