Author's Note: I wanted to end the story the way that I did for a few different reasons. (It's the ending I differed with Kaitlyn with) I wanted to do it because it was a HUGE twist that I suspect nobody saw coming! It's the writer in me that's always planning for ways to shock you and make you think. Also, I wanted to do it to show how suicide affects the people around you. Yusei's death would have changed everyone's lives, not just his.
An air of both sadness and happiness hung over New Domino City for the next few days.
The sadness because everyone knew that Yusei Fudo could no longer be their savior. He was flesh and blood like everyone else- he couldn't save everyone from their darkness, and he couldn't be the eternal light. He was mortal, he was only human.
The happiness was there because he had finally admitted it. He came clean and said that he needed help, both saving the world and mentally. He was going to be monitored until they felt he was emotionally stable enough to be on his own.
Jack and Crow were horrified that they hadn't noticed this sooner. He lived with them, dueled with them, and fought beside them for so many years. He had become their rock, whether Jack wanted to admit that or not. So when their brother began slowly slipping, and they were locked in their own little worlds, he was left to face the mental torture on his own, the mental torture of trying to protect an entire world.
They wished he would have let them know sooner. They wished that he would have held out his hand and asked for help. They would like to say that they would have given it to him, but they knew better. Even if he had got down on his knees and begged that they even take care of their own runners instead of him doing it all, they knew they would have been too preoccupied in one of their petty arguments to even notice he was talking.
So they guessed that this was the best situation they could have gotten- he was alive, and they had been shell-shocked back into the real world. And they were happy for it. Now they did all the housework, took care of their things, and even did all the cooking (ordering out, if you can call that cooking) while Yusei worked on only his job in making repairs.
The twins had been left in a state of panic. They wanted every second of every day to be spent with Yusei, to make sure that he never did anything "bad to himself "again. They were his personal guards, standing at the gateway to his soul. They were the guardian angels that every Signer secretly relied on, the ones they trusted to keep an eye on their fragile leader.
They followed him everywhere they could, doing small little tasks for him. He had told him that they didn't need to do anything, he could show them how to do things if they wanted, but they weren't there to work. They joked, telling him "You're still healing, big bro., Besides, I don't think getting a wrench for you is too much work!"
But in reality, they wanted to do things for him. They wanted to show him that he didn't always have to do everything on his own- he had his fellow Signers to help.
Akiza had taken it the hardest out of all the Signers. She didn't go to school the day after the trial. She sat in her room, refusing to budge. She had even locked her door on her parents, something she had never done before. After a long day of crying and raging and loving again, she came out around midnight. She flew down the stairs, past her smiling parents, and out the door.
She pounded on the door to her friend's garage, to find Yusei opening the door for her, even at midnight. She threw her arms around him and cried, rubbing him back, telling him to never, ever scare her like that again.
She held him tight for as long as she could, even when the rain began to fall.
Bruno wondered day and night how he had let this happen. He wandered the halls outside Yusei's bedroom late at night, thinking about what he could do, how he could do it, how to redeem himself.
He would have gone crazy if he didn't believe that Yusei was finally in good hands.
Stella Ross had gone with Trudge for farther questioning. Even after hearing the full story, with permission from Yusei, they made no arrests. She was so relieved, so thankful that it was finally all over. Yusei never had to deal with the weight of the lives of so many people on his shoulders, at least not all by himself. He was finally given the love he had long since deserved
Something she knew that she herself would give to him unconditionally.
And me? Well…
Let's just say that I finally have found some friends for life.\
Author's Note: We have come to the conclusion of 'Don't!' I hope everyone enjoyed the story and keeps their eyes open for the publishing of my Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D'sone-shot, 'The Stardust Effect!'