I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or it's characters. Just the OC.
"It's not your time yet." A voice said standing in front of him. Akira knitted his brows together as he looked around. It was incredibly dark here, there was no where for light to break through. The only sounds he could hear was his own breathing and that of this mysterious voice. They were feminine, he knew that much. But he didn't know who it belonged to.
"Your life is precious, you have something to do before it's over." The voice said, calming, soothing, it seemed quite gentle. Then again most feminine voices did. Akira looked around once more hoping to find where it belonged to. When he tried to speak his throat closed, cutting off all ability to do so. He could hear footsteps coming towards him, and hesitantly placed a foot back, ready to run if need be. The walking stopped, he felt a hand on his cheek. It was warm.
"Just keep going for a little while longer... you'll be glad you did." The voice said standing directly in front of him. He could have sworn he saw a flash of brown eyes before suddenly dropping through the floor. Their touch gone. Where he was falling to, he didn't know; his mind was battling if he should trust that voice.
There were voices buzzing around the room, filling his ears although greatly muffled. Footsteps everywhere around him. He could hear them. That was normally a good thing. He tried to open his eyes, groaning as his lids opened slowly, taking in the light from the store. He was lying on his side, his hand under his cheek; he assumed to stop him from swallowing his tongue should that had occurred, or choking on his vomit if he did throw up. He doesn't believe his ever done that, but no one could ever be too sure. He heard the voices stop as well as the footsteps. He's hand twitched as his body slowly moved. He could hear relieved sighs escaping peoples mouths; there seemed to be more people here than what began with.
"Take it slowly you've been out for about ten minutes." A female voice said, causing him to stop briefly. He placed his hands under himself and pushed himself up, shuffling himself to at least sit up properly.
Akira took a slight look around as he held himself up on his hands, he wasn't in front of the door anymore but instead in a new room all together. It seemed like a living room of some sort, that would meant his card shop was also a home. He knew there was at least one other person here as they spoke earlier, but he wasn't too sure where the others were.
His head pounded, he couldn't quite remember if it had hit the floor or not. His heart beat felt regularly too now. A hand was placed on his back, making him turn his head slightly to see who it was. It came from the woman who spoke earlier. She had short brown hair and blue eyes. Her hair was tied up into a pony tail. Akira adverted his eyes from her once he caught a glimpse of a glass of water held in front of his face. Taking it gingerly he took small sips of it.
"How ya feeling, Akira?" Joey asked him. Akira thought for a second before answering.
"I think I'm fine now, thank you." He spoke quickly finishing off the glass of water that was handed to him.
He heard the door to the front of the shop open and then speaking, but in another room it sounded awfully muffled and distant. Akira looked around to see where he could put his now empty glass and opted for reaching in the front of the brown haired lady and placing it on the coffee table. Taking a deep breath, he stood himself up slowly, feeling the hand leave his back.
"Are you going to be okay? Do you need to go to the hospital or anything?" The girl had asked, standing up after him. Akira shook his head feeling around in his pockets. He still had his keys luckily so he could get into the house again which if he was honest was all he wanted to do.
"No... I'm used to it now." He said to her rather casually, indicating that this happened a lot and shouldn't be worried about.
Walking towards the front of the shop again, Akira came out from behind Yugi, gaining the attention of both Yugi and his customer. Yugi smiled warmly at him as he leaned against the counter top. Akira smiled a little back at him as he walked back onto the shop floor and away from the back room. He briefly looked at the person who was also in the shop. She had brown hair and brown eyes, much like his. Akira knitted his brows slightly pressing his lips together as the girl quickly turned her attention away. She seemed familiar. He recognised her. Akira breathed in slightly through his nose and turned his head to Yugi.
"I think I'll go home properly now. Thank you for letting me rest here." Akira said to Yugi, his small smile coming back to his face. Yugi nodded his head, keeping the warm smile; it never seemed to have left his face. With a wave, Akira left the game shop. He thought maybe it'd be better to go home now, tomorrow was a school day and he still had some homework to do. Not to mention he was going to be helping Mokuba with planning and such for their roles in this whole tournament.
One thing did cross his mind as he was walking. Well two. The first one being Yugi and his friends were very kind, especially to a stranger, which technology Akira was. But they were kind from the beginning. Akira would have to ask Mokuba if that was normal for the group. The second thing was the girl in the store. She looked somewhat like him, if he was a girl. Akira has heard of people that look like doppelgänger, it was a rare thing but it happened and Akira couldn't help but wonder if he met his...as a woman. He sighed through his nose as he removed the deck Yugi had helped him build back at the game store. He wasn't sure how to play, but in a way he was excited. He knew he was gonna show Mokuba at least, he had some duelling experience; maybe he would practice with him.
"So what is Tachycardia?" The raven haired boy asked his friend as the pair sat in the library, getting whatever homework they could get done before their next class. They hadn't done it the night before, opting instead to play the various video games Mokuba had in his room and now they were paying the price for it.
"It's a heart condition." Akira replied back, flicking through the pages of his maths text book to look for the examples of a problem he was stuck on. Mokuba hummed slightly, indicating for him to continue on with the explanation.
"My heart beats too fast at times although for me it's regularly. I have to take medication to steady it." he explained further, writing down what he thought was the answer. He knitted his brows slightly, he wasn't exactly too sure if that was correct; maths was not his greatest or best subject. Mokuba hummed once more.
"What happens if you don't?" He asked, dragging his eyes from the text book to look at him properly. Akira looked up from his own text book to answer his friend.
"I faint. I usually know when I'm about to, my chest hurts." He said to him rather plainly. Mokuba slammed his hand on the table pointing his pen at Akira's face as he leaned over the table. Akira crossed his eyes to look at the pen, his shoulders hunched as he just concentrated on that object.
"Remember to take your medication!" He yelled at him, drawing attention to the pair of them. Akira remained silent and nodded his head, keeping his eyes crossed to look at the pen. It was pushed forward, pushing his nose up and making Akira close his eyes tightly as it felt like his friend was trying to jam it up his nostril with very little success.
The raven haired boy sat down again, removing his pen from his friends face as he crossed his arms and nodded his head.
"Good. I don't feel like telling people to go away while you decide to faint in the middle of class or something." Mokuba said in a matter-of-fact tone of voice which Akira couldn't help but snort at slightly, his mouth covered over his hand to do so earning a questionable look from Mokuba. Akira shook his head, humming to himself.
"It's nothing. But thank you for looking out for me." He said to him grinning at the raven haired boy. This just caused the boy to grin back at him, before turning it into a smirk. At least Akira knew he could rely on him, should he be around and something happened.
He was glad to have met him.
The school bell went off, signalling the end of the day. Akira barely had classes with Mokuba today, so they had agreed to meet up outside for the lift back to Kaiba Corp. Akira bounced from one foot to another. Today was hot and while they weren't allowed to remove their school jackets they could leave them undone. That's what Akira chose to do but it still wasn't enough to keep him cool. He dug through his bag for his water bottle taking a big gulp of that, before nearly spitting it out at the sudden grasp of someone's arm around his shoulders.
"You ready to head to Kaiba Corp?" Mokuba asked him, keeping his arm around his shoulder. Akira swallowed his water and glanced at his friend from the corner of his eyes.
"Yes, I assume you are?" He said to him as he was released from his grasp. Mokuba nodded enthusiastically, patting Akira's back as looked around for Roland.
As the pair waited, Akira spotted somebody. It was the girl from yesterday. Except, she was just standing there; looking directly at the pair. Akira squinted his eyes to see if he could get a better look at her, but she was just that little bit too far away. He felt his legs move towards the person, ignoring the questions coming from his friend. He's fast walk turned into a small jog before he was stopped by someone grabbing his wrist. Car's zoomed past on the road, Akira could understand why now he was stopped. His gaze however kept on the girl on the other side, this time he could see her mouthing something. Her own brows were knitted together as she continued saying something. What Akira could make out, it sent shivers down his spine and made his eyes widen slightly in fear and blood run cold. "I'm not dead." Was what he was able to make out.
Just as he was about to shout over to the person, another voice cut him off.
"Akira! What were you doing?!" Mokuba's panicked voice shouted at him, making the brunette turn his attention to his friend. He could only look at him, before he turned his attention back to where the girl was standing; she was gone. Akira turned back to his friend, who looked at him concerned wondering if he was really alright. Mokuba had heard that he fainted at the Kame Game stop yesterday and couldn't help but wonder if he was really okay.
"You...didn't see her?" Akira asked him. Mokuba narrowed his eyes at him, wondering what he was going on about. "The girl, across the road. You didn't see her?" Akira said again, this time explaining in a bit more detail. Mokuba looked across the street before looking back at his obviously delusional friend.
"I was more worried about you getting yourself ran over! What were you thinking?!" His friend questioned him once more, his voice becoming demanding and raised. Akira could guess he picked it up from his brother. But he couldn't answer that question. Instead, Akira looked back across the road again where she once stood and shook his head.
"I guess I wasn't... Sorry." He said to him, turning his attention back to his friend. Mokuba sighed and let go of his wrist, nodding his head back towards the school car park. Akira looked past him and could see the black limo waiting patiently for the two. He followed the raven haired boy back, his mind playing back on what he saw. He had to find out; he just knew it.
The journey back to Kaiba Corp was quiet. Akira was still running over his head what he saw and Mokuba was too angry at him to speak without sounding like his brother. Akira glanced over at his friend, he sat very much like his brother; arms and legs crossed. He stared out of the window, a rather annoyed look on his face. Akira turned his attention away to the other window, watching the people on the street walk by. Compared to Mokuba, Akira was very scatty with what he did, or as a person in general. Then again he was also very timid as well, even more so compared to Mokuba.
Kaiba Corp came into view. The massive glass building with a canapé saying "KC" and two Blue Eye White Dragon statues standing outside in the front. The man certainly loved his dragons and often used every opportunity he could to make something into them. The pair got out of the limo, neither speaking a word to each other. Akira wondered if it was better for him to return home for the night and leave Mokuba alone. But he also knew how important this tournament was and how important to Mokuba it was that everything was done right on their part; he had to endure it. They walked into the building and stood in the elevator in silence as it took them to the top floor where Seto's office was. The meeting and planning also included him of course so it naturally made sense.
Akira took a deep breath through his nose.
"Hey Mokuba, about earlier I-"
"Don't worry about it." Mokuba said, cutting off his friend. Akira knitted his brows together as he looked at the boy, who in turn had closed his eyes slightly and taken a deep breath himself.
"Just be more careful. Last thing I want is to visit you in hospital." He said to him, grinning over at his brunette friend. Akira couldn't help but smile slightly at him and nodded his head. He felt the elevator come to a stop and turned his head forward again. The pair walked out and towards Seto's office. Akira couldn't help but look around at the building. It was massive. He could see the entire city up from here. Unfortunately for Akira he hadn't been paying attention and walked straight into the door that separated Seto's office to the rest of the corridor. Mokuba snorted at him as Akira rubbed his face with his hands, looking at the door.
"That'll teach you to pay attention." Mokuba said just as a "Come in" was heard from the other side of the door. Seto had taken Akira's thud as a knock; making him wonder just how hard people bang on his door in the first place.
The two walked into the office. It was quite neat and tidy. There was various folders on shelves, all labelled in date order. Akira looked around the office as he and Mokuba stood on the opposite side of Seto's desk; who didn't even seen bothered they were there as he was busy typing away on the PC. Akira looked ahead of him after he was done gawking at the older brother's office. He heard Mokuba clear his throat slightly, gaining his brother's attention.
"I know you two are there." He simply said, clicking a few times with his mouse and then turning his attention to the two teens. "We have a couple of more people turning up." He said simply.
The meeting seemed to have gone well. The city was divided into four sections, west, east, south and north. Akira and Mokuba would be in charge of West. It was their job to make sure nobody was cheating and resolve disputes. Seto said he would be competing as well, so he would be able to keep an eye on the city that way. Over all it seemed rather productive, although it was clear the other people on duty were not pleased with Akira being involved, with one of them even commenting why he was around; his never done anything like this and didn't look like he could hold his own against someone if he needed to. Of course, Mokuba stood up and said he was the one that offered it to him, and he would be learning on the job anyway.
The night time air was refreshing. Akira said he would walk home that evening, he just wanted some fresh air after being stuck in a meeting for a couple of hours. This concerned Mokuba, especially after today with him nearly walking into traffic. Akira calmed the boys nerves, telling him he'll text him as soon as he was home. It wasn't long until Akira spotted someone. Narrowing his eyes, he noticed it was the girl from earlier. She seemed to have spotted him and ran for it. Akira, against his better judgement, ran after her; he had to know who this was.