Author's note: Phew...finally back to this story. And we get to see some of Kasumi's past. I got nothing to say except hope you guys read and review!

Chapter 3

Painful Memories

"Y-Yusei?" My voice vibrated as I stared at my long time, raven hair friend. He certainly hasn't change, expect that he probably grown few inches taller than the last time I seen him. Which was like two years ago.

"So this is where you were, Kasumi. I'm so glad that you're alright," Yusei said as I noticed not only the look of relief, but also a look of concern on his face, "But what happened to you? How did you end up in this place?"

I turned my face away and looked down on the ground solemnly, "I-It's…It doesn't matter. It's none of your concern anyway."

I noticed Yusei clenching the chained fence between us and heard his voice growing firm, "Kasumi, it does matter. Because I was worried what happened to you when you all of a sudden disappeared for two years. And it's just not me who's worried. Crow is worried about you too. And so is Jack, and…"

"And Dia?" I said her name coldly. "Yusei, are you trying to tell me that Dia is worried about me as well? Because I couldn't imagine to see her to finally forgive me."

Dia is also a friend of mine…or was. The memories began to burn into my mind. Our friendship was torn apart because she thought I was the cause of her twin sister's death. Even though I tried to argue that it wasn't true, she threw insults at me to the point that I had finally gave in and ran out of the orphanage out of anger, and never looked back.

Yusei shook his head and looked straight at me with his sapphire eyes, "Kasumi, Dia didn't mean what she said to you. She was upset that she lost her only biological sister, that's all."

I gritted my teeth and turned around to lean my back against the chained fence. "Whatever. I don't blame her either way. Dia has the right to hate me for what happened to Crystal. It probably was my fault that she died anyway. Besides…" I bit my bottom lips really hard, trying not to cry, "She's not the only one who lost her beloved sibling."

I noticed the raven hair duelist stared at me, wide eyed in fear of the realization, "Wait a minute. Kasumi, are you saying that Kiryu-"

"He's dead, Yusei. Kyo nii-san died right in front of me!" I blurted out, remembering the last time I saw my older brother before he held out his last breath. I looked up, noticing the look of shock on Yusei's face.

"H-How? When?"

I took a deep breath before hesitantly speak again, "Kyosuke's health began to deteriorate a few months after I was thrown in prison and saw him again. I could've done something to help him escape, but his frail body beat him. I…I was with him when I noticed that he wasn't feeling to good. At first, I thought it was just a fever, but then I realized that he was suffering from tuberculosis."

I took a deep breath and cringed, "There wasn't anything I can do about it. And those Security Officers don't even give a damn about him anyway. By that time, Kyosuke collapsed and wasn't breathing anymore! The guards came over to check him, and found out that he's dead. They took his body away, and God knows what they did to him! But that's…that's the last time I ever see him alive again!"

I fell to my knees and started sobbing hysterically. I don't know what's worse, forcing myself to spill out what happened to my brother, or to see the shock look on Yusei's face from finding out the truth of his death.

"Kasumi." I heard his voice stammered, "I…I don't know what to say. I…"

I look up with tears in my eyes and noticed a hurt expression on his face. And I knew why. Yusei felt that he was responsible for my brother's death because of that incident. But I stopped him before he can continued, "No…It's alright, Yusei. It…It has to be done. We have to stop him…We all have to. There's no other way."

I rushed back into the Facility in tears, without even looking back or even bother to hear Yusei calling out my name in distress. I dashed inside the hallway, without even noticing the Executioners passing by. Then, I entered my room and slammed the door shut. As my back hit the door and slided down against it, I buried my face to my arms, curled my knees to my chest, and choked into sobs.

I tried to dispel the memories that happened in the past, but it kept flowing into my mind. And these were the memories that will always come back to haunt me…

"YUSEI, YOU TRAITOR!" Kyosuke screamed as two Sector Securities restrained him and dragged him away. "I'll kill you for this! All of you!"

"No…Kiryu…I…"

"Save it! You decided to sell me out, didn't you?" Kyosuke accused him, "Well guess what? It works. And I'll make you pay for this! All of you will!"

"Onii-san, wait!" I ran past by the Sector Securities and stood next to the raven hair duelist, "You misunderstood! Yusei was trying to turn himself in instead of you!"

"Hmph! So my little sister decided to take the traitor's side instead of mine," I saw him sneered at me, making my heart froze, "Fine! Don't even try to make an attempt to save me, Kasumi. Because I bet you'll be happy once I rot in prison!"

My legs started shaking and made me collapsed to my knees in utter shock. "No…that's…"

Before I can make any retort, the security officers locked Kyosuke in the back of the wagon and drove away, leaving the rest of us watched it leave in the dark rain.

It was only the next day later that all of a sudden I was kidnapped by the duel gangs and was tied up and severely beaten. However, I didn't make an attempt to cry or show fear in front of these guys. So instead, I continued to glared at them. Rain poured down all around us, and all the Team No Securites stared back at me with the malicious grins on their face.

"Hmph. How boring!" Gushizawa, the leader of the duel gang, said to himself, "Why do I even bother trying to torture this brat? She doesn't even cry." Then, he reached down and grabbed my hair up, forcing me to look at him, "But I have to admit, this is so much fun, considering that your leader of yours is gone and he won't be there to protect you anymore."

I flinched at the last statement, but continued to glare at him.

"Hey boss!" One of his members spoke up, "This girl is one of the psychic duelists in Team Satisfaction, isn't she? That means she is also considered to be a witch! Why don't we either drown her or burn her alive, like they did to the accused witches in the medieval days?"

"Hmm," The leader thought it over, "Sound like good ideas. I would go for the second option, personally. But we don't have anything to build up the fire. So I guess it's the first option it is."

Then, he literally threw me across the ground, making me slide over the cliff…just barely though. I looked down the cliff to see how high it was and the ocean water started splashing all over the place.

"About fifty feet from here," he smirked and tied a giant rock with a rope around my leg, "That's more than good enough. Along with the storm brewing, you'll never be able to reach back up from the ocean with the stone on your leg."

I closed my eyes, waiting for Gushizawa to pushed me over to the cliff and into the deep water. However, nothing happened. Instead, I heard the members screaming and lightings all over the place. That was when I saw all my friends, Yusei, Crow, Jack, Crystal, and Aoi, in combat with the Team No Securities. And it turns out Aoi was the one who created the lightings to scare the members away.

"Kasumi! Are you alright?" The female voice spoke out, and I recognize it as soon as I saw her coming towards me.

"Crystal!" I cried out. The violet-eye girl knelt down and started untying me. "Crystal, I'm sorry. I ran out of orphanage in anger and…"

"Shh. It's okay," she said soothingly, "We'll deal with this later. Right now, we-"

"Damn you bitch! Get out of the way!" Suddenly, Gushizawa stood up and his fist collided with Crystal's face. She recoiled and tried to get back up, only to find herself pinned on the ground by the duel gang with a knife in hand. As Crystal tried to struggle against Gushizawa's grip, his knife drew deeper to her throat, drawing blood.

"NO!" I shrugged of the ropes around me and struck Gushizawa on the back of the head, knocking him down unconscious. I kicked the knife away and helped my friend up, only to hear a crack below us.

Then, in a matter of seconds, Crystal grabbed my hand and threw me across the ground, where it was more solid, and let the erosion of the cliff took her down instead.

I screamed as she fell. And suddenly, Aoi ran pass by me and seemingly to grabbed Crystal's hand firmly. However, thanks to the wet ground below him, he slipped and was dragged down by her weight and into the ocean.

A loud splash was heard. Yusei, Jack, Crow, and I ran over to the cliffside to see if either one of them were coming up, but they didn't. They were completely washed away in the storm. I collapsed to the ground and cried.

"NOOOO! Crystal! Aoi!"

"Why…why didn't you save them?!" I flinched as Dia yelled and glared at me with the violet eyes of hers. Apparently, we had to tell her what happened when she noticed that neither Crystal or Aoi came back to the orphanage with us. Of course, she didn't take the news very well.

"Oi. Dia, calm down," Crow reassured her, "I know it's hard to take in, but-"

"Kasumi, THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!" The younger twin sister screamed, "This is your fault that all this happens! If only you haven't gotten yourself kidnapped, then my sister would've lived!"

I stared back at Dia, who had her face filled with fury. Her face was identical to Crystal's, which made me wonder that if I ever see Crystal's ghost glaring back at me like that, would it be because I was the one caused her death.

But then again, Dia was right. It was my fault that both Crystal and Aoi drowned. Crystal was the one who saved me and let herself take the fall instead. And then Aoi tried to save her, but fell into the depths of the ocean as well. That was also my fault, because I could've done something so save them. So why I didn't?

I looked down, let the bangs covered my eyes, and felt the tears rolling from my eyes. "Dia…you're right. It is my fault. And I'm sorry….I'm so, so sorry…"

I jolted back, fresh tears in my eyes. The memories was no doubt painful. Two of my closest friends died. And to make the matters worse, my brother died. I couldn't save them. Not one of them at least…

"There's…no way I can take this anymore," I whimpered and continued to cry for the rest of the night.

I couldn't get enough sleep last night, so I pretty sure I have dark circles around my eyes. My head hurts from crying so much. I took a deep breathe to relieve myself before heading inside the room and wait for the chief to arrive and give us the announcement.

"Hey, how's it going?" I turned around to see Takuto standing next me, with a concern look on his face, "Listen, I'm sorry that I badgered you yesterday. I guess…well…it's not my best way just to get to know you."

I stared at him before turning away, "It's no big deal. I'm not bother by that."

Takuto sighed in relief, before peering over to my face, "Um…hate to ask but did you have a hard time sleeping last night? You have dark circles on your eyes."

I remained silent before sighing, "Yeah, I guess you could say that."

Before he can ask anymore questions, the chief appeared above the stage and cleared his throat to get everyone's attention.

"All right everyone! Listen up!" Chief Takusa yelled over the crowds, "I hope you all are enjoying yourselves as Executioners inside the Facility. And I see that a few of you are close enough to get a ticket out of the Facility!" I can see that he was eyeing on me, though I didn't respond and let him continue the announcement, "Anyway, I didn't call all of you hear just to give you complements. What I did call you here was to inform you all this alerting news in this place. We got a spy around this building!"

Author's note: And that's that...yeah, I made Dia Crystal's twin sister instead of a clone in this story. And we definitely have a spy inside the facility, but who is it and what is his or her motive?

That's all I got to say for this story for now. Oh, I posted the new story called Crimson Blood Academy, which is a crossover of Yugioh 5Ds and Vampire Academy. You don't really need to read the Vampire Academy to know the details, because pretty much I am going to explain every in the first few of the chapters.

...R&R anyone?