AnimeKiwi369: Thank you, my faithful readers! I got ten reviews for the last chapter. This is by far my most popular story, review wise. And I have decided to give sneak peeks at upcoming chapters.
Copper: That makes me happy.
AnimeKiwi369: And Kalin is leading! *Giggles*.
Copper: That's good.
Raven: What's this chapter about?
AnimeKiwi369: Well, you guys learn about your father's parents. And then Copper's grandparents, her mother's parents, are in a little bit at the end. And I couldn't resist, but put humor in.
John: I have a bad feeling.
Lane: I do, too.
AnimeKiwi369: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's or its characters. Just my own characters and the storyline.
Chapter 5
Grandparents
Copper sat down on her bed, as her friends sat beside her, all of which had the folders with the information Mina had given them just a little bit ago. None of them had looked yet. They all stared at the pale folders. The dark-haired girl's hands trembled as she stared at hers. She looked at her friends nervously. She wasn't sure if she wanted to see them without her parents.
Raven felt the same. Just not to the other girl's extent. Lane and John felt the exact same. Even if the blonde didn't show it. The ice-blue-haired boy felt an odd combination of compassion for the dark-haired girl and curiosity and anxiety for what waited for them behind the thin cardboard paper.
The mostly blue-indigo-eyed girl absently began biting her bottom lip, tying to gather her thoughts. She was so nervous. What were her father's parents really like? What did she have in common with them? What had they done before the Enerdy Reactor? What were their lives like?
She wondered if they would like how their son's life had turned out. If they would be proud? They probably would be. They were her father's parents after all. Most parents were proud of their children. A strange though came to mind as she pulled her bracelet back into place as it began slipping. How would her father's parents have reacted when they found out that Akiza was a psychic duelist and that she was one as well? Afraid or concerned? Would it have changed their thoughts on whom Yusei had fallen in love with and had a child with?
Some psychics were respected, like her and her mother. Others just lied in the shadows. And others were feared. Like Sayer. Although her mother simply hated him as she did, she was a little afraid of him. When she had dueled him, she had been so afraid and doubtful. She had really thought she wouldn't win. But her friend's had helped her.
She tasted a somewhat bitter taste in her mouth, catching her attention. She felt a little pain in her lower lip and realized it was bleeding. She had bitten her lip too hard when she had been thinking about that. She and her mother had always had a bad habit of that. At least her mother used to. But Akiza had passed that annoying gesture to her.
Copper looked each of her friends in the eyes, "On three?" she asked and saw them nod.
"One…" they started in unison, "Two…" they grabbed the edges of the folder, preparing to turn, "Three!" they opened the folders and looked down at the pages.
The four held their breath slightly as they looked at the first page. On each of the four duelist's first page of the information was split into two columns. In the columns there were just some general information, such as name, that included first, middle and last name and maiden name for their fathers' mothers, date of birth, spouse, child (all of their father's were only children; that they did know), height, occupation, etc.
Copper looked at her friends as she finished the first page. John had a sour expression, like he didn't like something he read. Figures he'd be displeased with something. She thought. Raven was gaping openmouthed at the page. And Lane was gaping a little, but not to the ginger's extent. His pale brow was furrowed in concentration.
The dark-haired, double-Marked Signer turned to the next page. An image of both Professor and Mrs. Fudo was there. It wasn't the photograph that she saw every day. Both of them were in white lab coats. She read the date scribbled at the bottom. August 10th. What's so significant about that date? Copper wondered. It sounds kinda familiar…wait! I know! She quickly got off her bed, getting a confused look from her friends, and got the logbook from downstairs. She flipped through it until she reached that date. She had read that passage before, but now reread to refresh her memory; the entry read:
'August 10th
Today our team began our biggest project for the city. The Enerdy Reactor. We finally started it up. Many thought it might not, but we showed them wrong. Both Roman and Rex were thrilled. We've been planning this project for the longest time. And now it's finally ready to help this city. We had a large celebration that our supporters provided with pictures being taken and such. I had several photographs taken with Roman and Rex and of course with my wife considering tomorrow will be our third anniversary. The Enerdy Reactor is the start of a new beginning for Domino.'
Copper reread the paragraph a few times as she climbed up the stairs, almost tripping a couple times. She placed the old logbook on her desk and sat back by the folder. She looked back at the photograph. Her father's parent's contrasted each other much. Her grandfather was tall, while her grandmother was a good four or five inches shorter. Dr. Fudo's skin was tanned a tone darker than her father's, while Mrs. Fudo's had light skin like the dark-haired girl and her mother's. His hair was completely black whereas her hair was medium brunette. Their eyes were the most similar to any other physical characteristic. Yusei's father had blue-green eyes whilst his mother had blue-indigo.
They look so happy. She thought, tears almost at her eyes, I can't believe they don't have each other anymore. It's so sad. I wonder if either of them misses each other. It be romantic if they did and I bet they do.
The dark-haired girl went back to the first page and went over it, really reading it for the first time. She decided to start reading the information for Yusei's father first. Hakase Fudo. Hakase? She thought curiously, Interesting. There's no middle name; guess my great grandparents couldn't think of a good one to go with the name 'Hakase'. Born on April 30, Occupation: Scientist—expert in physics and quantum physics. These are things I already know. She sighed and looked over at the right-hand column where her grandmother's information was. Let's see what I can find out about her.
Copper began to read the information on her grandmother. Name: Nan Elizabeth Fudo (formerly Robertson). Nan? So that's her name. She thought. Elizabeth…Like my name. The second part of my first name is her middle name. I wonder if dad knows that. I know that he just like the name Elizabeth, but I was still partially named after her, even if my parents didn't know it.
She continued reading. Occupation: Scientist—expert in physics. Spouse: Hakase Fudo. Child: Yusei Ryuushi Fudo. Ryuushi?
The dark-haired girl began to laugh silently, amused by her father's middle name. He definitely had the most interesting name of all three living in the house. Her mother's full name was now Akiza Rose Fudo, but formerly Akiza Rose Izinski. And then her full, real name of course was Cyli-Elizabeth Sori Fudo. The young girl began to shake with laughter as she fell back onto the bed as her laughs were no longer silent; it was the first real laughter she had let out in days.
Her friends gave her a funny look as she couldn't stop laughing and soon enough all of them were laughing hard, though the other three didn't know why they were laughing. All of them laughed until their sides hurt. Although laughing this hard was painful to her ribcage, Copper couldn't stop. It was just plain funny. She was kind of glad for this laughing fit. She needed something cheerful, since the previous day hadn't had too much of a light note after the hospital. None of them knew how long they had been laughing, but by the time they had calmed down from laughs, they were all gasping for breath.
"Why…did…you…start…to…laugh…all…of…a…sudden?" Raven asked, still catching her breath.
"My…dad's…middle…name." she responded, just as winded, as she looked at the medical history for her father's parents, finding that her grandfather had been hospitalized for the same reason her father when she was three and then her the previous year—for an appendectomy for an inflamed appendix. There were a few more minutes of silently reading, the only noises were of the four teens trying to catch their breaths. There were a fourth and a fifth page that held slight biographies of their grandparents, just containing some explanations for things. Copper finished reading and looked at her friends, "What'd you guys find?"
"I'll say one thing, I found some shocking things." The ginger-haired girl commented.
"So spill, Hogan." John commanded.
"Yeah, tell us everything." Lane added.
"Well for starters, under the child part for my grandparents, it said my papa's real name is Caleb Thomas Hogan."
"You've…" the blonde started.
"Got to…" the ice-blue-haired duelist added.
"Be kidding me!" the dark-haired one burst out laughing again.
"Actually…No." Raven told them, looking like she was suppressing laughing herself, "And my papa's parents were Thomas and Julia. His papa was a construction worker and his mom was a preschool teacher. In the medical history is basically just when Julia went in to give birth to my papa. And something interesting is that my papa's papa was the head construction engineer to the Enerdy Reactor."
"So our grandparents probably knew each other." Copper commented, "Anything else?"
"Not really." The other girl responded, "Who's goin' next?"
"Not me." John declared.
"I guess I'll go then." Lane said, "Well my dad has his father's name for a middle name and his parents were William and Ava Kessler. So my dad's whole name is Kalin William Kessler. And my dad's mom was a singer and musician from here in New Domino, while my dad's dad was a musician and physicist from Holland. And—"
"You're Dutch!" the blonde exclaimed incredulously, the one laughing this time.
"Only a quarter, since my dad's only half and his dad was whole, so that makes me only a quarter. And my dad's mom was half Gaelic, so before you laugh again, John, I am also eighth Gaelic."
"You said that your dad's dad was also a physicist?" Copper asked.
"Yeah, that's what this says anyway. But yeah, he also helped with the Reactor. On weekends, though, he was a musician. Like my dad's mom. It also says in here, that he was especially skilled with a harmonica."
"Just like your dad!" The ginger exclaimed.
"And apparently, throat cancer is hereditary. In medical history, it mentioned that my dad's mom had to have throat surgery like my dad, but it was a few surgeries, since it was found a little later than when my dad found out about it. But that was before my dad was born and unfortunately forced her singing career to be cut short. She could still sing, just not to a certain extent, like holding notes for too long, high notes, and such. She could sing just little things like lullabies and to the radio, I think, and things like that. But she was still a musician, on the cello mainly."
"So basically you're saying, your dad's parents were all sophisticated and mannered and then some?" Raven asked and the eldest Kessler child nodded, "And yet your dad didn't get any of that rubbed off on him?"
"Hey!"
"Kidding…Kinda." She apologized.
"Whatever. That's about all I have to say." Lane concluded, "I think John should go next."
The said boy blushed a little, embarrassed by something on the papers before him. He looked down, "Fine. My dad doesn't have a middle name. Thankfully. That way our family's not embarrassed any further."
"'Any...further'?" the other three repeated.
"My dad's mom's name was Isabelle and my grandfather's name was...Leslie."
"'Leslie'?" the other's repeated again.
"Leslie." The blonde repeated as the others' stifled laughs, "Get your laughs out now. I'm not going on until your laughter dies down." The three calmed themselves quickly to hear what else there was to the unknown Atlas family, "My dad's mom was a librarian and my dad's dad was a firefighter. There's nothing that really stands out in medical history."
"So your dad's dad is the only one that didn't know my grandparents probably."
"Actually no. It says that my dad's dad was the firefighter that helped out in mapping out the building and different fire escape routes in building the Enerdy Reactor was in."
"So all of our grandparents knew each other. Or at least my grandparents anyway." The dark-haired girl concluded, thinking, I never thought that it would be like this. This is amazing.
"And finally we come to our dear, little Copper." John taunted slightly, "Tell us what you found out about your grandparents."
"Well, to start, Professor Fudo's name was Hakase and my dad's middle name is Ryuushi. I don't know where they got that from, though. But it might be another name for the planetary particles he discovered. Yusei Ryuushi. And apparently an inflamed appendix is hereditary, like with throat cancer in your family, Lane. We, of course, know that he was the head scientist for the Reactor along with my grandmother and the Goodwin brothers."
"Now tell us about your grandmother; the one you saw yesterday." Lane pressed, curious about who his friend saw.
"She was an expert in physics like my grandfather. My grandmother's name—according to this—is Nan Elizabeth Fudo."
"Your grandmother's name is 'Nan'?" Raven inquired and Copper nodded, "Hey, if she wakes up, you could call her 'Nanna' instead of 'grandma'."
"I guess so." She agreed quietly.
"Her middle name is Elizabeth, just like your second first name."
"Yeah."
Wow! We found so much about our grandparents and kinda each other through just these few papers. She thought to herself as the blonde and ginger argued a little. I wonder how mom and dad are going to react.
She felt some catch her attention by tugging on her hair a little. She looked over at Lane, "What?" she asked.
"Think their fighting is their way of flirting?" he asked slyly in a whisper. She giggled a little.
"Maybe." She responded, not feeling a blush, "Should we stop them?"
"Nah. We need some entertainment."
"True how true."
Truth be told, Lane wasn't really paying attention to their ginger-haired and blonde-haired friends. He was paying more attention to Copper again. And again noticing how cute she was. She smiled at him before turning her attention back towards the papers with the information with her grandparents.
The dark-haired girl looked over the image of her grandparents again. It's amazing, she thought, our families have been connected to each other that goes even farther than our parents. I wonder if grandfather Hakase has anymore journals that mention any of their grandparents. Or if the journal we have mention them, but I didn't know who they were until now; I should go through it again. It's been a while since I read it considering it was in the past.
Later that Afternoon
The double-Marked Signer flipped through the journal, looking to see if her grandfather had mentioned any of the others' grandfather's. Her friends had gone home a little while ago before it got too late. She sat in the chair her father sat in when he wasn't on the couch with her and her mother. It was the chair he would normally read the paper or a novel in if he got around to it. She heard the doorbell ring, interrupting her reading.
Who could that be? She wondered, looking out window behind the couch that was on the right of the chair, both of which were just a few feet to the side of the fireplace. She saw a sleek black car outside that she knew very well. I wonder why they're here.
Copper got up from the comfortable armchair and went to the front door. She opened it, revealing her mother's parents. Their faces were a bit worried; they must've heard what happened with her father's mother. That news sure was getting around fast! They both looked about the same as they did in the photographs from twenty years ago. But both of their hair was graying and there were some worry lines on their faces. They were her grandparents and she loved them.
"I'm going to guess that you heard about my dad's mom, right, grandma? Grandpa?" she asked, motioning them inside.
"We have." The aging Senator answered as he entered the house.
"And we wanted to see how you were taking it." Mrs. Izinski added, "With everything that's happened in the past few weeks, and now this, we wanted to see how you were holding up."
"I'm fine, I guess." She responded, "Just a bit shocked and curious. Shocked because my dad's mom is back after believing her dead for so long. And curious because I want to know what she's like."
"How's your father?" her grandmother inquired, "This has got to be hard for him."
"I'm a bit unsure how he is today, but it was almost like he was in a trance last night. I can't blame him. He's known his parents to be dead all of his life. And now this happens. I'm actually a bit more shocked by this news, than with what happened with Sayer." Her grandparents tensed a little; they couldn't stand him. "Sorry."
"It's all right." Hideo told her, "How are you doing from that?" he asked, referring to her injuries.
"Still healing. But the other day I tripped and fell on my back during dance practice with Lane. I'm all right, though. Just a little sensitive." She answered, "I just need to take it easy. But I don't think that's going to happen soon."
"Oh? And why's that, Cyli?" Setsuko asked her, amused. Both her grandparents smiled a little.
Copper grinned and answered, "I'm a Fudo."
Coming up in Lost and Found...
"You won't be able to stop laughing when I tell you what our grandfather's name was."
"Which is what, Jonathan?"
"That your dad's name is—uh, was—umm…er…em…"
Meanwhile...
"'Caleb'? That's my actual name?"
"Yeah. Don't worry though, papa. To us you'll always be either papa or Crow."
"You got that right!"
Meanwhile...
"We got information on our grandparents. Our father's parents. Your parents."
"Interesting."
"Uh...What?"
Meanwhile...
"Studying."
"Copper, school ended about a month ago."
"Not school studying. More like brushing up on family history."
"'Family history'? Copper, what are you hiding?"
NEXT TIME—CHAPTER 6: RELAYING HERITAGE.
AnimeKiwi369: Yeah, I got Yusei's middle name from the original name for Planetary Particles. And I'm just using what most other people use for Yusei's father's name. I don't want to keep using Professor Fudo.
John: Leslie! Seriously!
Lane: He isn't taking that well.
Raven: Does he ever?
Copper: That would be a no.
Lane: John, it's not that bad.
John: Not that bad?
Raven: You could have a hereditary medical condition, like C and Lane.
Copper: Yeah, you got it easy. Lane and I have to worry about our kids having inflamed appendixes AND throat cancer!
John: Ah-ha! You said 'our kids'! You do like each other!
Copper: *Blushes*.
Lane: She meant, uh, that, umm... *Blushes*.
AnimeKiwi369: Anyway, ignoring them.
Copper, Lane, Raven, and John: Hey!
AnimeKiwi369: I hope you liked the chapter. I'd like to keep a steady pour of ten reviews if it's not too much trouble. So please be kind and please review. And I hope to have the next chapter up hopefully soon! MERRY CHRISTMAS!...Again, if I don't update by then. Please review. And thanks to those reviewing this far!