A/N: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF YU GI OH 5DS OR PRINCESS MONONOKE! ALL RIGHTS GO TO THE CREATORS! THE ONLY THING I OWN ARE MY OCS!
Chapter 10: One Last Explanation
Jack, Crow, and Yusei pulled over to the side of the road as Aporia's damaged runner sped past them and ramped into the water where it blew to pieces. The three Signers demounted their runners.
"Nice win, Yusei," Jack complimented.
"The three of us did it," he stated. "We should get back to our other friends." They looked up to see Moro watching them, approval on her face.
"You're going to be leaving now, aren't you, Yusei?" Crow asked.
"Yeah," Yusei answered. "But we can talk to the others first. So I don't just disappear on them." Jack and Crow nodded and they returned to the stadium.
The twins, Bruno, and Akiza rushed over to congratulate them once they arrived and they were quickly followed by Mina, Carly, and Stephanie who hurried to compliment Jack. Trudge, Team Ragnarok, and Elsworth also came and began to praise them.
"Thanks, guys," Yusei told them.
"Think it's over, Yusei?" Luna asked him.
He looked at the sky to see it clearing. "Yeah," he answered. "For you guys, at least. What we need to worry about now is keeping that future that Yliaster supposedly came from from happening."
"Right," they all agreed.
"We'll make sure of it," Crow assured and they all smiled in relief that it was all over.
"Wait, what do you mean just for us?" Akiza asked. "What are you going to do?" They looked as Moro came running up beside Yusei who looked at her calmly the others were shock. "What is that? It's not a duel monster."
"I am Wolf God Moro, Akiza Izinski," the wolf answered, surprising all but the three male Signers and Team Ragnarok.
"Wolf God?" Trudge questioned.
"Yeah," Yusei answered. "And she's my mother." They went wide eyed in shock. "I'm not really human, guys. Not anymore. Over a hundred years ago, my parents left me to be sacrificed to Moro as an infant. But she took me in as her own. The great Forest Spirit, who is the god and embodiment of life and death, gave me eternal life and made me a spirit, for the most part. There is a small fraction in me that is human. But most of me is a spirit. I grew up in a forest known by us as the Forest of Life. No human is allowed in there. We scare them off, or we kill them. And that was pretty much how I was raised. Fighting to defend my home and family. And that's what I'm doing after this, once I get back."
"You're leaving?" Luna asked sadly.
"Yes," Yusei answered. "And I don't think we'll ever see each other again after this. Since you won't be allowed in the Forest of Life. Not without a valid reason or blessing from the Forest Spirit."
"But, Yusei…" Leo trailed off.
"I'm sorry, guys," he told them. "But I've been away from my home and living with humans for too long. It's time I head back."
"Yusei… Don't leave us…" Akiza tried.
"I understand you find my son as a true friend. I respect that. But he is still the Prince of the Spirits as marked by the Forest Spirit. And made obvious by the crystal arrowhead the Forest Spirit gave him many years ago. He could not have stayed with you forever. And would you really want him to have to watch you get old and die while he doesn't age at all?" They looked down sadly.
Yusei easily jumped onto Moro's back, surprising them considering how high the jump was. He sighed. "I am sorry that I have to leave like this. And that I waited so long to tell you. But I hope you understand that this is something I have to do. Maybe we will see each other again. As much as it is doubtful, it is possible. So until then, take care of my runner." They gave a small, sad nod. Moro then took off with Yusei on her back.
"Yusei will come back, right? We will see him again?" Luna asked sadly.
"I'm sure we will, Luna," Crow assured.
"I'm just worried it's not in the way we'll want," Akiza commented.
Jack nodded. "Let's just hope that that feeling is wrong."
End of Act I: His Truth