Author's Note: Heyo! A chapter taking place from Bruno's perspective, I had a lot of fun writing this one. By the way, has anyone else been having trouble posting new stories? I have two one-shots I've been trying to publish for the past three days but the category selection window has gone M.I.A.

*disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's*

She whirled around, eyes looking like any of the weapons that she had wielded all her life, ready to sear a crack into my very being.

Her eyes softened when she saw it was only me, a hint of a smile cracking, only for a moment, on her permanent scowl. "Oh, it's only you." She stated factually.

However, the same look she met me with never left my facial expression.

"What's wrong?" she asked me, realizing my anger was meant for her, as I had pulled away from her attempted embrace.

"Why? Why'd you have to do it, Tati?" I asked her. I set my jaw and looked into her beautifully cold gray eyes. They were like a glacier- frozen cold, and as equally tempting to inspect as they were dangerous.

She sighed. "For the same reason I have killed so many other people, Bruno. For money, to buy food, clothing, shelter- to survive."

I had met her about a year ago- she's the one who found me on the beach and tipped of Sector Security that I was there. I remember waking up to see her face, splattered with blood from her most recent murder, but her eyes looking down at me with pity.

Who does she think she is, God?

"That doesn't make it okay." I began my long lecture, the one she had gotten so used to. "Taking away the lives of so many people so you can keep only yours doesn't make it okay. I don't understand why you didn't just let me take you in- even if Jack and Crow didn't like it, I'm sure Yusei would have been able to convince them." My eyes flashed at her angrily. "It's because of him that I have a place to live, food to eat, friends to share my life with."

She looked at me, half like she wanted to apologize for everything she has done, throw herself into my arms, and let me carry her away from the life she had made. But the other half of her won, the steely guilt inside of her that made her truly believe that this was the only way for her to live- that it was all she would ever know.

"That offer is out now. I mean, God, Tati! It had to be Yusei Fudo!"

I must have been shaking now. She took a step back, like she wanted to bolt. She knew what I felt about Yusei- he was the only one who let me stay, recognized my abilities, gave me a purpose.

But I had a new purpose- one I realized was mine after he dueled Primo- when I realized I was Visor. Something I had yet to tell anyone, even her. That I was not of this world, and how great Yusei's destiny was. It was going to ascend all of ours- he was going to save the world.

It was my purpose to protect him at all costs. It was my job to keep him safe, and the love of my life almost ripped him away from me.

"Alright, Tati. I'm going to say this only once, and if you screw it up, you're going to pay the price." I looked at her, as she was slowly backing out towards the door, to leave the business complex where her new employer must work.

"If you ever, ever, lay a hand, knife, or bullet on Yusei Fudo again, I will end you. I don't want to, but he needs to stay alive. I don't care how much you're being paid, and I don't care who is paying you the money. I'm willing to go to jail to protect Yusei, and I am willing to kill you. Never forget that I do love you, Tatiana. But there are more important people in this world than us."

I don't know if she caught that last part, because she had already slammed the door.