Title: Bonds
Summary: Mizael wasn't sure how to act towards the family of the man he had killed.
A/N: Spoilers past episode 135
"Mizael... follow... the path you believe in..."
Kaito's last words kept echoing through his mind, his eyes focused on the dead duelist in front of him.
Now that he had learned that Tachyon was a curse, and everything he stood for as a Barian was meaningless... well...
What path, what future, did he believe in?
"Hey Mizael?"
Mizael stiffly stood off to the side while Kaito's family sobbed over his body, of the duelist he had thought of as a worthy rival.
"Mizael?"
He couldn't look them in the eyes, let them see his grief stricken eyes as he carried his rival from the moon back to them. The young one had already begun crying, and the older man had thanked him for bringing his son's body back.
"Mi~ za~ el~!"
Kaito had a family. And he robbed them of him.
"MIZAEL~"
Mizael had to grit his teeth to not shout at the boy - no, Haruto -, and instead , replied with a "What."
And so, it came as a shock to him when Haruto hugged him.
He hugged his brother's killer.
"We don't blame you, you know. Nii-san had already figured out that he was going to die on the moon. It wasn't your fault entirely."
To his horror, Mizael could feel tears sliding down his cheeks and Haruto wrapped his arms around him tighter.
"You fought for what you thought was right. Nii-san understood that."
As time went on, Mizael stopped acting more stiffly to the Tenjo, or technically his, family. They cared for him, and soon he had adjusted to life there.
He helped out Faker, and took care of Haruto, and sometimes even dueled the others - for fun even - but most of all, he forged bonds,
Hey, Kaito.
I have found a path I could believe in.