I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or it's characters. Just the OC.

Mokuba watched as Akira struggled with his sister. He wasn't the strongest boy around, and it was clear Ito was gaining an advantage over him. Akira however remained determined, keeping his feet planted on the floor as he kept a hold of her arms. Mokuba was thankful she hadn't carried out her threat to yell rape. They did not need that right now. Mokuba stopped rubbing his stomach and stood up straight as he watched his friend's struggle. Akira took a deep breath through his nose and lent backwards, lifting the young girl off her feet as she stumbled back slightly with her weight suddenly on his chest.
"H-Hey! Put me down!" She yelled, kicking her legs out in an attempt to get him to drop her just as the rain started pouring from the skies. Akira however was not deterred. He was luckily taller than her and that helped a lot.
"Akira are you...?" Mokuba began saying stepping forward slightly. He was glad his friend was not going insane; that had worried him for the past week or so. Akira nodded his head, gaining his balance as Ito continued to kick out rather violently.
"Yeah...never better! Let's go somewhere quieter to question her." Akira said through struggling breath as he took a step forward.

Ito continued her kicking as the pair walked to somewhere quieter to talk to her. They received odd looks from people but they never stopped to question seeing as Akira and Ito looked similar despite not having seen each other for a number of years. Her weight pressed against Akira's chest, it felt like it was pressing on his heart making carrying her harder than it should have been. Mokuba kept glancing at his friend, who had to stop every now and again to recompose himself. He wondered if Ito even knew she was causing her brother such discomfort; but then the thought also crossed his mind that she did and was using it to her advantage.

They managed to find a quiet spot just off the pier. There wasn't any people round and Akira had hoped that maybe the smell of sea water would calm her down; it was one of her favourite places to be when they were younger so it seemed logical to him. Akira placed her feet back onto the ground again and turned her around by her shoulders so her back faced the rail. She glared bitterly at him, annoyed that her kicking had not deterred him. Akira tried his best to match it; but he was a gentle soul. He couldn't look at her with the same amount of hatred she was able to give off. Mokuba remained silent as he watched the twins silent gazes. He kept his hands out of his puffer jacket in case she decided to do a runner; he was quite fast so he'd be able to catch up with her no problem. Akira on the other hand seemed like he needed the rest.

"How...how are you still alive? I watched you drop dead." Akira explained to her, gaining a new interest from Mokuba. He knew that his friends sister was dead but he never tried to get out of him how she died, it happened before they met. From what Mokuba understood after Ito had died, Akira was transferred to Domino High which was now an all boys school. That's how they met. Hearing that she just suddenly dropped dead was new to him; he turned to look at Ito who remained silent. It didn't seem like she dared to answer his question, or even speak at all.
"I went to your funeral...you were gone. If you've been alive all this time why didn't you come back?!" Akira asked her again, but this time it seemed more angry and upset. Mokuba watched as this new side of his friend started coming out. He had never seen the boy angry and upset at the same time. Heck he never really saw him angry, just concerned, or worried. He had seen him cry; Akira wasn't afraid to cry round him. Mokuba just put it down to the two of them being very good friends. Heck they even acted like brothers most of the time. Seeing this new emotion from Akira...it was unnerving for him.

But Ito refused to answer. Instead she continued her hateful glare, her fingers digging into the palms of her hands. Akira knitted his brows together, his hair soaked with rain and covering his eyes partly, it did the same for her. Even Mokuba was having some issues with the rain covering part of his eyes too. Akira took a deep breath through his nose as he stepped closer, Ito visibly tensing up and trying her best to step back only for her back to hit the rail. She looked over her shoulder briefly before looking back at her brother.
"Please Ito...How are you still alive? I just want to know." Akira explained to his sister reaching out to touch her shoulder. The last time he did that was a week ago and he was socked in the face for it. He was hoping the result would be different. He only wanted to hug her if anything, he knew she was real after all her weight was on his chest not moments before.

Ito tensed up more watching him before suddenly leaping at him and forcing him to the floor. Akira gasped stunned at the sudden action feeling her weight on his chest again. Mokuba stared stunned at what she just did, he couldn't work out why she was acting so hostile. He could only guess something must have happened in the five years she was gone. Akira never mentioned her to be hostile. Her hands were on Akira's throat, grasping at him tightly. Akira placed his hands onto her wrists attempting to pry her off with very little success, the glare hardening on her face; her eyes narrowed and full of spite.
"Do NOT touch me! You understand?! Never touch me!" She shouted at him, lifting his up head by his neck and slamming it onto the wooden deck underneath him. Akira gritted his teeth as he tried to take in air, he was feeling light headed from both the lack of air and having the back of his head slammed against wood.

Mokuba knew he needed to do something and quickly jogged up behind her. Panicking he looked between her hands connected to his friends neck and then back at Ito. It was then he elbowed her in the back of her head, causing her to instantly let go and slump next to Akira. The brunette took in a deep breath of air, coughing and choking at the sudden filling of his lungs as he pushed himself up. His sisters actions worried him, she was never violent. Multiple thoughts crossed his mind as he tried to think what could have happened. He leaned back on his hands, continuing to take deep breathes and coughing occasionally now that his body knew it wasn't starved of air. He turned his attention to Ito, seeing her unconscious and looked at her wide eyed.
"You knocked her out!" Akira yelled, stunned, to Mokuba who looked equally as stunned about having done it.
"I panicked!" He retorted back, his voice equally as stunned.
"You knocked her out!" Akira repeated still unable to believe what had just happened.
"She looked like she was going to kill you!" Mokuba retorted back to Akira. A silence fell over the three of them as Akira looked wide eyed at his sister. She seemed peaceful like this, breathing gently. He looked back over to his raven haired friend.
"...You knocked her out!"

Ito laid on Mokuba's back, her head dipped on his shoulder and arms lazily flung over on his shoulder too. He had his hands under her legs to keep her up right. She remained unconscious and if anything that's how the boys preferred her at the moment. Akira rubbed his throat, it felt sore to touch. Finger marks started to slowly appear around his neck where she had gripped, trying to choke him. Mokuba had volunteered to carry her on his back, it seemed like Akira needed the break and even if the brunette wouldn't admit it he was thankful Mokuba did offer. He didn't feel like he had the strength to carry her this time.
"Something's happened to her in those five years..." Akira said to him, stating the obvious. It sounded more like he was voicing his thoughts. Mokuba remained quiet, only nodding his head and watching Akira as he rubbed his throat again, wincing at the touch.
"She was never violent when we were younger...something happened to make her this way. I know my sister is still in there I can feel it." Akira continued on, his gaze falling to the floor. "We need to find somewhere she can rest... actually now that I think about it mum and dad are out of the city for a while; she can stay there until I think of something else." Akira said more to himself than Mokuba. Mokuba knitted his brows together, it was hard seeing his friend so confused and questioning.
"I'll stay with you as well... just to help keep an eye on her." Mokuba said to him, giving his friend a reassuring smile. Akira snapped his head at his raven haired friend, smiling back kindly and gratefully at him, glad that he had suggested to do so. The brunette wasn't sure if he'd be able to cope on his own.

The three of them got back to Akira's house just as the rain had started to let up. They removed their shoes before stepping in, with Akira removing Ito's shoes. Their clothes were soaked all the way through. Akira turned his attention to Mokuba briefly.
"Keep an eye on her, I'll bring down the spare futons and some clothes." He said to him. Mokuba nodded his head, adjusting Ito slightly who was still on his back.
"I'll call Roland in a little bit and ask if he can bring me some spare clothes. In all honestly I'm a little worried leaving her alone with you." Mokuba admitted to Akira, making the brunette smile apologetically to him. He didn't mean to cause his friend concern and knew Mokuba was doing this so he could make sure Ito didn't try to strangle him or worse now that they were in the house. The brunette nodded his head as he quickly ran up the stairs to grab the things.

Mokuba gently placed Ito onto the floor, propping her back onto the back wall of the couch. He didn't think she deserved such treatment at this point but knew his friend would be upset if she was treated any other way. He removed his phone from his back pocket and began ringing Roland. It didn't take long for Roland to pick up.
"Hello Roland. Can you do me a favour and grab some clean clothes for me then bring them to Akira's house? I'll tell Seto later." He asked the man. Sure he was just a driver, but Mokuba also knew Roland wouldn't question things either. With a grumble Roland agreed, making Mokuba thank him for doing so. He ended the call and quickly glanced at Ito who continued to remain unconscious. He couldn't help but sigh, if she wasn't crazy; they could have been really good friends.

The raven haired boy jumped as things landed on the landing of the stairs. Futons and blankets sprawled across the floor. Mokuba looked up to see his friend come down afterwards. He had changed into some dry clothes and held some out to Mokuba as well, keeping a wide smile on his face.
"I know you said you're calling Roland but I thought you could borrow these until then." Akira said to him. Mokuba accepted the change of clothes gratefully; he wasn't sure how long Roland would take especially if Seto caught him so a change of clothes was nice. Mokuba excused himself to go change as Akira grabbed the futons he had thrown down the stairs.

It had taken a while, seeing as Akira needed to move the furniture a little bit as well but everything was set up. Ito was in some clean clothes; Akira had taken liberties of changing her she was his twin after all. It also gave him a chance to see if she was hurt. He couldn't see anything to indicate that she was hurt which one of hand was good; on the other it still didn't explain her odd behaviour. Roland had come with a change of clothes for Mokuba, leaving him set for a few days until he either had to get more or borrow Akira's washing machine. Akira and Mokuba sat on the futons talking to each other, occasionally glancing at Ito who still remained unconscious.
"How long do you think it'll be until she wakes up?" Akira asked Mokuba, who shrugged his shoulders. He honestly had no idea; the only reason how he knew how to render people unconscious was because Seto had taught him a while back. Something along the lines of knowing self defence was a good thing.
"Maybe not till morning...I did hit her pretty hard I think. Harder than I thought anyway by the looks of it." Mokuba admitted, smiling both apologetically and sheepishly. Akira sighed slightly and shook his head indicating it was fine.

He looked up at the clock, it was getting quite late and neither of them were hungry. The cat had made herself at home on Akira's futon; rolling about on her back and purring quite happily. Akira poked the middle of Podge's stomach, making the cat roll about with her head turned upside and paws outstretched. She was quite the fat cat; considering she was meant to be a Siamese. Akira didn't believe for one second she was full Siamese, that or his parents were over feeding the thing. The brunette turned his attention back to Mokuba who was happy keeping himself amused on his phone. The two sat in silence. They were quite happy to do so; they couldn't be loud anyway in fear of waking up Ito prematurely and considering how she acted earlier on today they certainly didn't want that.

Akira laid down on his futon, crawling under the quilt as he played with Podge. He scattered his hand on the floor in front of her, gaining her attention as she attempted to bat his hand with a paw. He'd occasionally poke her nose lightly, making the feline sneeze and shake her head before attempting to bat his hand again. She didn't seem off put by the sudden reappearance of Ito in fact she seemed quite at home with the twin being there. Akira could only assume that Podge had missed her as much as him or simply didn't notice that she ever left.

-x-

They had been playing in the school playground with some other kids. Catch was a favourite among the group of school children. Akira smiled widely with anticipation as he watched for the ball; Ito stood ready with her arms loosely open and fingers separated. The ball came straight for Akira, and so did the other people who wanted to catch it. Their game of catch was odd; it was more of an anything goes type of thing, as long as you caught that ball and it never dropped to the floor it was okay.

Akira readied himself for the impact of his fellow classmates and sister. He was tackled by one of the other boys, who in turn tackled him causing the three of them to fall to the floor in a heap with Akira on the bottom. Ito used this as her chance and quickly ran towards the group. She stood on the boys back and jumped up catching the ball, then landing with a thud onto her bottom onto the small dog pile. She waved her arm happily, keeping the large smile on her face.

"I got it!" She yelled happily, sliding off the three man pile and straightening out her school skirt.

The boys got off of Akira, the last one helping him up as he seemed rather winded from being landed on. The school bell rang, indicating that it was time to go back inside. As the other three boys turned to leave, Akira waited for his sister who threw the ball away. She began walking forward then stopped suddenly and dropped to the floor.

"Ito!?" Akira cried out panicked, gaining the attention of the group as well as everybody else who was coming back into the building. He quickly ran to her and skidded down onto his knees, shaking her body to try and get her to wake up. A group started forming around them as mutters spread in the circle. Akira could feel tears come to his eyes as he continued shaking her trying to get her to wake up; but she wouldn't respond. It didn't look like she was breathing, but Akira had no medical experience to tell.

A teacher soon came over, pushing their way through the group and gasped at the two pre-teens. Akira gripped onto his sisters school shirt, continuing to shake her and yelling for her to wake up. The teacher ordered a student to go and tell another while she helped with the situation. The teacher walked up calmly and knelt next to Akira, gently putting her hands onto his and prying off his fingers from his sisters shirt sleeve. He went numb. He couldn't take his eyes off his sister, he didn't even hear what the teacher had said to him. He couldn't hear what anybody was saying to him, everything was just static and his sister...his twin... it seemed like she had left the world.

-x-

Akira was the first one up between him and Mokuba. He fluttered his eyes open. He spotted Ito. She was sitting up the cat in her lap. Ito didn't seem to notice Akira was up yet as she played with the cat's paws, muttering something to herself. From what Akira could make out it seemed like she was just making the cat hit air drums going "boom boom boom" with every imaginary strike. Akira couldn't help but smile gently to himself as he begun shifting himself. This caught Ito's attention as she immediately snapped her head up and watched as her brother pulled himself up to sit up. The brunette boy kept the smile on his face as he watched his twin, laying his hands in his lap and crossing his legs over.
"How you feeling?" He muttered to her so that he didn't wake Mokuba; catching her completely off guard.

Ito remained quiet, trying to figure out if he was serious. She strangled him and here he was asking how -she- was. She could see the bruising on his neck caused by her own hands. Akira noticed as she knitted her brows together in disbelief to what she was hearing. The male twin noticed, and kept the calm smile on his face.
"Does your neck hurt? Where you were struck?" Akira asked her in a whisper, gesturing to the back of his neck. Ito slowly shook her head, keeping her eye on him.
"Why are you asking me? I nearly strangled you!" Ito asked him matching his whisper, confused more than anything. Akira took note of her mood change, it was certainly more different than yesterdays not that he was complaining. Still, he kept the calm and gentle smile on his face while he watched his sister.
"It's fine; I don't believe you meant to. Besides your my little sister...I need to make sure you're okay right?" Akira explained to her, if anything he sounded naive to believe she wasn't trying to harm him, It catched the girl off guard even more.

She pressed her lips together forming a small line as her eyes half closed. She moved her hands around the cat better, stroking her fur out of both confusion as distress. Akira furrowed his brows as he witnessed his twin begin to break down; almost like she hadn't experienced kindness in general for a long time. Tears rolled down her cheeks as she bought Podge up and buried her face into her fur. Podge didn't seem to mind and purred loudly at the "attention." This only confused Akira more and more; it made him wonder...what had Ito experienced in the five years she was gone? What had she seen and more importantly, what was actually down to her?