Alright, everyone, here's One-Shot number two! Prolly won't be that good, but I'm going for innovation on this one! Here it is, the first ever YubelxJudaixAsuka fanfic on the web (prolly not, but it'll be the first on this site, anyways…;;;;…unless there's one on Mature rating…Ah, whatever). I rewrote the whole Gambler thingie, so…yeah. This one is quite a bit darker than the last one, and involves SPOILERS for the third season of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX. Here it is!
PS, they're like eight here.
II: Forget Me Not
Asuka rolled her eyes with frustration due to her current predicament. She looked down at the duel field on the table in front of her and nonchalantly stated, "And Cyber Blader will attack you directly. Looks like I win again."
Mitsuo growled in annoyance. "But…how can you win every duel? We've played fifteen times!"
Asuka began to put her deck back together. "It's not my fault my deck and skills are just head-and-shoulders better than yours," she scoffed. "It's your fault for winning my friends' stuff. Now, if you'll please, could you give them back?"
The boy lifted his eyes to the girl. 'I can't lose to her…she may be pretty, but I can't let her just defeat me so easily!' He glanced down and noticed a red handkerchief in her pocket. "I'll beat you one day, eventually," he started, causing Asuka to raise an eyebrow in confusion, "so that red handkerchief is mine!"
Before Asuka could move, the boy dove for her pocket and grabbed the red handkerchief. "What…!" she gasped. The boy rushed off away from her. She instantly gave chase. "Give me that back! It's my mother's memento!" The boy, however, was better suited for running and had soon placed a great deal of distance between himself and the girl.
Asuka had reached the stairwell heading to the first level, but could hear only faint steps, meaning he was near the bottom, if he was even still on the stairwell. 'I can't give up…!' she told herself, panting. She began stepping as fast as she could in her uniform and heels, hoping against hope that something would happen to help her get the handkerchief back.
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Mitsuo looked behind him to check to see if Asuka was still following him. He cackled to himself. 'Even if she is still chasing me,' he realized, 'there's no way she could possibly run me down in this school's uniform. And because I'm new, here, no one will believe I would've stolen it.' He saw the doors in front of him and burst through them.
'Once I cross the street and get into the park, she'll never find me, and I'm home free!' he excitedly mused. He raced down the steps and across the road. As he reached the other side, however, his shoelace became untied. Unbeknownst to him, he stepped on it with his foot and began to have his momentum take him forward. He flew over the grass area and was about to careen into concrete. "No…!" he shouted in surprise.
Just then, a brown-haired boy in a gray sweater-jacket was walking down the sidewalk. He was paying strict attention to ground and looked extremely troubled and lonely. Due to his attention being focused on the ground, he did not notice the well-dressed individual flying at him. "Out of the way!" Mitsuo ordered.
The boy's head flipped up just in time to see a boy in a white suit crash into him. The two were tangled up with each other and rolled a coupled of feet to a stop. The unknown boy began to rub his head. "Ouch…" he breathed. He turned and saw the other boy lying next to him. "Hey, are you alright?" he asked.
Mitsuo noticed that the knees on his suit were now scuffed and tarnished. He felt his blood boiling. "Who do you think you are!?" he demanded, backhanding the boy in the cheek. "I told you to get out of my way! Now look what you've done to my clothes!"
The boy stared downcast at Mitsuo. His eyes then fell downcast and turned to the ground where he noticed a red handkerchief. He bent down and picked it up. He caught the scent of an unknown substance off the rag. 'Is this really his…?' he wondered.
As Mitsuo dusted himself off, he realized that the handkerchief had fallen from his grasp. He whirled around to look for it, when he saw the boy holding it and staring at it. "Hey!" he called. "Give me that, its mine!" The gambling boy strutted over to the unknown boy and reached for it.
"Wait…" the boy said, "boys don't normally carry scented handerchiefs. At least, as far as I know…"
Mitsuo gasped as his eyes flared. "Well…ermmm…it was my mom's!" the well-dressed lad stated.
The boy's brow furrowed at Mitsuo's answer causing the latter to become angry. He snatched it from the lad and turned around to rush off. He then saw Asuka coming out of the school. Mitsuo quickly spun back and hurried in the opposite direction, when the boy stopped him by grabbing his arm.
"That's not your mom's, is it?" he questioned defiantly.
Mitsuo grumbled in exasperation. He tried to tear his arm away from the boy's grasp. "Let…go…of…ME!" he hollered.
"One condition," the boy told him, "you beat me in a duel. I win, you give that handkerchief back to that girl on the school steps. You win, I'll let you go free."
'Didn't I just do this…?' Mitsuo groaned. 'Oh well…at least he seems to be a nobody, so it should be quick.' He glanced at Asuka then to the boy. "Fine, let's get this over with." Mitsuo lead them into the park in order that they couldn't be seen.
The boy bent down and unzipped his backpack. He took out a pair of duel disks and tossed one to Mitsuo, which the boy caught. Mitsuo slid it on, and smirked. "It is proper to name each other before a duel," he stated. "Mine is Mitsuo. What is yours?"
The boy looked up and slid he deck into the duel disk. "Mine is Judai!"
Mitsuo grinned deviously. "Well, are you ready?"
Judai smirked back. "Always!"
"DUEL!!!!"
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"Where did he go…?" Asuka wondered aloud. She sighed sadly and sat on the school steps, resting her head on her hand. 'I can't believe I lost my mother's memento. How could I be so stupid!? The way he took everyone's things, I should've knew he wouldn't play fair…'
She heard two voices shout, 'DUEL!' causing her to lift her head in their direction. She saw a brown-haired boy in a gray sweater-jacket. She squinted at him. 'He looks familiar…' she thought. 'Haven't I seen him somewhere before…?'
After seeing a few turns, she decided that she would go take a look and watch the duel. Maybe, if she was lucky, he and his opponent would've seen Mitsuo, and if she was luckier, maybe she could ask for their help. She stood up and began to cross the street.
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'Alright…here we go…' Judai thought. "I'll activate Premature Burial! By sacrificing 800 Life Points, I can now Special Summon Yubel from my Graveyard!" An odd-looking demon arrived on the field in a flash of light and descended to the ground. It had half white hair and half blue hair. One eye was green, her other eye orange, a third giant eye on her forehead, its pupil red. Its lips were colored bluish-green. Half of its body looked to be masculine, yet the other half appeared feminine.
"What…the…?" Mitsuo gasped in surprise. He then felt himself begin to chuckle. His two Gamble Bunnies, however, seemed to cower in fear in front of him. "What…is that…?" he questioned. He covered his mouth to keep himself from outwardly laughing.
"It's my key monster!" Judai replied. "Don't make fun of it!"
Mitsuo couldn't help himself. "It looks like someone had been up too long at Industrial Illusions when they created that monster!" He couldn't help himself anymore, and began guffawing at the creation before him. "I can't stand it!!!!"
Yubel stiffened and narrowed her eyes. Mitsuo continued roaring with delight, when a chill went up his spine. "Keep laughing and I'll dissolve you piece by piece from the inside out…" a voice in his mind told him.
Mitsuo began to quiver and swivel his head. Judai raised an eyebrow and asked, "Is something wrong?"
Mitsuo stared at Judai in shock. "You didn't hear that!?"
"What?"
Mitsuo shook his head. "Must've been my imagination."
"Well if you're done…" Judai continued.
"MITSUO-KUN!" a voice shouted angrily. "I FINALLY FOUND YOU!"
Mitsuo stiffened and saw that Asuka had arrived. He grit his teeth. 'No!' he thought. 'I was about to win!'
"GIVE ME MY HANDKERCHIEF!" she exasperatedly ordered.
"Wait!" Judai shouted. Asuka savagely turned towards him, but her gaze softened. Judai blinked twice, then recognized her.
"You're the one from the sandbox!" they both shouted, pointing at each other. The small distraction from the handkerchief was all Mitsuo needed. He used the opportunity to escape the duel, eject his duel disk and snatching the handkerchief from its position halfway between him and Judai as the holograms disappeared.
Judai dove forward and grabbed Mitsuo's ankle. "No!" he shouted as he fell towards the ground. His chest awkwardly hit the ground, knocking the wind out of him.
Judai slowly moved up his body, not allowing Mitsuo to get free from his grasp. "Now, I'm gonna ask nicely, since you surrendered and technically lost the duel, to give the handkerchief back to her."
Mitsuo gasped from the lack of air and the pain in his arm as Judai twisted it. "Fine…Fine!" he roared.
The girl stared at Judai as he reached for the boy's wrist with the handkerchief. She smiled softly at him. "He hasn't changed, has he?" she mused.
Yubel's duel spirit watched the scene unfold and saw the look Asuka was giving Judai. "He's mine!" she shouted, as her spirit sped towards Asuka. The duel spirit entered the girl's mind and erased any memories of Judai from her mind. She then caused her a great deal of pain for an instant.
Asuka felt something penetrate her. She stiffened, before a jolt of pain ripped through her body, as if she was being torn from the inside out through every pore of her body. She clutched herself with her arms and squealed loudly in pain, which echoed through the streets.
Judai, surprised by the howl, turned around in time to watch Asuka slowly drop backwards to the ground. "Hey, are you alright? HEY!" he shouted, as he crouched over her.
Mitsuo, in the confusion, hurried away and disappeared around the gathering crowds. Soon, an ambulance came and took her away on a stretcher. The crowds that had gathered and all began to blame Judai for what had happened to Asuka, as he was the only one around. He tried to explain what happened, but the crowd's fury and a lack of the 'other boy' Judai kept mentioning didn't allow them to believe him. He rushed away from the violent and hate-filled crowds. Finally after escaping the raging mob, he found an alley, where he hid behind a dumpster.
Judai lowered his head and began to cry. 'How could this have happened…?' he tearfully wondered. 'Why does this always happen to me…?'
He looked at his deck and saw Yubel sitting on top with an evil smirk upon her face. "It was you, wasn't it?" he asked rhetorically.
"I didn't want you to get used by that harlot, Judai," she whispered.
"Harlot…!" Judai cried. "I've met her before! She's very nice and wouldn't use anyone!" He sighed heavily, trying to calm himself down. He glared at the card. "That's it, Yubel…you've hurt everyone I've come into contact with! Osamu…I'm guessing you scared Mitsuo…and now that girl! No one will be friends with me, anymore!" he sobbed. Tears dripped onto the card.
"But Judai…" Yubel began.
"No!" Judai shouted angrily. "I can't take your evil actions anymore! I've made a new series of heroes to get sent into outer space! Maybe, if you go, you'll learn to be nicer to everyone!"
"Judai…!" Yubel gasped, shocked Judai didn't listen, however, placing the deck into his backpack and began walking home.
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A few days later at the Spaceport, Judai watched as the pod containing his Neos and Yubel fly off into the sky. Hesighed heavily. 'I'm sorry, Yubel,' he silently apologized, 'but your actions just couldn't be tolerated anymore…I hope you become a better Duel Spirit…' He walked away from the platform, before seeing a television.
"And in local news, the girl found unconscious in the park four days ago has awoken, much to the delight of her friends and family," the female news reporter stated. "Apparently, she does not remember meeting a Brown-haired, bowl cut child, but does remember a child in a white suit that had stolen her late-mother's memento, a red handkerchief."
Judai lowered his head. 'She doesn't even remember me?' he wondered as a lump rose to his throat. He smiled. 'I guess it's better this way…now I won't get in trouble…'
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Asuka stood near her window and stared outside. Her forehead was wrapped in bandages, as she received a laceration from her fall. She exhaled deeply and sadly peered through the curtains. 'What's wrong with me?' she wondered.
The door opened, causing Asuka to turn and see the visitor, who was her brother Fubuki. "Hello, Nii-san," Asuka greeted, trying to put on a fake smile.
"Hey there, Asuka!" Fubuki said. "How are you feeling?"
"I have a little headache, but otherwise I feel pretty good," she told him.
"Really?" Fubuki inquired, his eyes bearing into her.
Asuka bit her lip. She could never hid her secrets from her brother. They had been together so long, that he could read her like an open book, now. She sat down in a chair and sighed. "That story I told the policeman…I feel like I'm missing part of it…" she began. "It was really important to the story, because whatever…or whoever…I'm forgetting was trying to help me, but I can't remember clearly…like something is stopping me from remembering…"
Fubuki continued to look at her. It was a look of concern , yet calmness. "Ok…" he started, "but why mention this now?"
She lifted her eyes to him and Fubuki was surprised to find them glittering with tears. "Because I feel that if I don't remember, I will have lost something great…and someone will be very alone…"
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Here we are, the first YubelxJudaixAsuka fanfic (a hermaphroditic card, a boy, and a girl…alrighty, then…;;;;). Many of you may think why I did this, well it's simply because, AIN'T NOBODY CRAZY ENOUGH TO DO THIS GIG…'cept for the Jaded Fox. Some credit has to go to one known as the Ice Queen for helping me get ideas for this very good (I think) fic. Read and Review, please!!