Notes – For the gx_100. Set post-GX.
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It would be wrong to say that Fubuki couldn't remember the last time Ryo wore white. He could very well remember that time, but because of everything that had happened he tried not to.
Because Hell Kaiser was not the Kaiser of the Academia anymore, he was a changed person. A person who wanted others to accept that he was different. So out of respect for him Fubuki stopped thinking about the times when Ryo had wore white.
It was difficult at first. All he had known of Ryo had been the friend from Duel Academia, and all of his memories of the times they had spent together Ryo had dressed in the white uniform with its blue trimmings.
But after a while it stopped being so difficult. Eventually he just started to see Ryo as Hell Kaiser, the one who wore black. New memories were created of him through Ryo's attempt to create the new Pro League. Ryo had never directly asked for help from anyone, but Fubuki being a rising star would often advertise the new Pro League on the Bucky Show even without Ryo's permission. He would reference matches that were held their in the talk part of his show, often matches centred around Shou, and tended to refuse guests associated with the original Pro League that had caused so much suffering.
So when he saw Ryo now he saw a man dressed in black, a man who was improving the world for others where it had caused damage to him.
Which led Fubuki to think of the last time he'd worn black himself.
More so than he pushed the memories of Ryo wearing white from his mind, he tried to forget ever wearing black himself.
It had not truly been him who had dressed that way. It was Darkness's clothing, and when it was on Fubuki's body it usually meant the other being controlled him. Darkness wanted black. Regardless of what Fubuki happened to be wearing at the time when Darkness took over that outfit would change to his own black one.
Darkness had been a horrible demon that had hurt the lives of many he knew, trying to force them to live out their greatest fears in life. And he had used Fubuki to hurt others. Not at the end, but for a long while Fubuki had been connected to Darkness.
Nowadays Fubuki wanted to move on from that time more than anything. He wanted to be a person who helped others not harmed them. Maybe that was one of the reasons why he promoted Ryo's Pro League and the matches of various duellists he'd known from school so much.
For a long time Fubuki had been a boy who had worn white. He was a student at Duel Academia for a lot longer than most others were, having started in the same year as Ryo but because of being taken as one of the Seven Stars had graduated in the same year as Juudai. He hadn't wanted to do his education half way; he'd wanted to make up for everything he'd missed out on during his disappearance so that was why he'd stayed.
However he had abandoned his white uniform to the cupboard it belonged in when he'd left the school. He was not a boy of white anymore.
As he picked out his clothing he considered there had been too much connection to black and white over the years. The elite uniform, Darkness, Hell Kaiser, Johan when Yubel controlled him, and it was impossible to forget the Hikari no Kessha.
Everything had been black or white.
Fubuki did not want to be a man of black or white.
He wanted to be a man of colours. Red, yellow, green, purple, and any other colour that he came across. He wanted to be someone who lived for today and showed people how wonderful the world could be.
And he hoped that maybe one day those who had limited themselves to black or white could learn from that.