Title: Hope
Summary: Tsukumo Yuma has his friends and family, and yet, there is still something missing.
A/N: Spoilers for the last two episodes? Sort of?
Everyday is the same schedule.
Wake up, eat breakfast, run to school, sleep. duel.
When did Yuma's life get so boring? He wasn't sure.
When Yuma goes to sleep, he doesn't know why he leaves the TV on. It must be a habit, but why would he keep the TV on?
Yuma stays up until 3-4 AM, feeling a sense of loneliness sweep through him as he watches reruns of Esper Robin.
While dueling, Yuma suddenly feels a rush of anxiousness, and draws a card (it is his turn, after all)
What is this card? Has he seen this before?
Numbers 39: Aspiring Emperor Hope
He snaps back to attention, and with a sense of disappointment he cannot explain, he realizes that card is just a spell card.
Yuma instinctively reaches towards his chest some days, knowing that there was something there, something missing
What Yuma doesn't understand is what- no, who, is missing from his life. Mom, dad, Akari, and Grandmother were all there. Obomi, Kotori, and Tetsuo were okay.
So, who?
One day Yuma is walking by the center, just strolling around with no purpose, when he sees something glinting in the sunlight.
Never one to curb his curiosity, Yuma looks closer, and sees a necklace, with a key on it.
The key looked golden, and he picked it up, ready to look for any people who may have lost their necklace.
He doesn't expect for the key to suddenly begin glowing brightly, and he is enveloped in light.
A blue alien is floating alongside a boy with blue and pink hair. Yuma watches as the boy stops running, and turns, almost bounces, towards the blue man.
"Nee~ -he misses the name- how did you think I dueled today?"
The alien smiles at the boy, and replies, "You did wonderful Yuma."
The memory leaves a rush of warmth within him and it disappears as Yuma has only one thought in his mind.
Astral.
Memories start coming back with a full force, as Yuma remembers the War between Humans, Astral Beings, and Barians, he remembers the bonds he forged with Shark and Kaito, he remembers everything.
Yuma especially remembers Astral's use of the Numeron Code to save all worlds.
Where did you go?
Why did you erase my memories of you?
I will see you again.
My friend.
The Key clutched in one hand, his hand formed into a fist, Yuma declares, loud and clear and very confusing to those around him
"I will definitely find you one day! I will not give up on my Hope!"
Yuma feels that empty hole in his chest slowly fill.