A Signer's Destiny

Chapter Six

By Kellyq

Carly watched Jack closely and noticed a lot of emotions surface in his eyes when he talked to Yusei about Kiryu. Carly's bit her lower lip and glanced over her shoulder to the door. I've got to find out what really happened! Yusei doesn't have to keep things from Jack! They're best friends, Carly thought. She sighed. Even though I hate to admit that I have a feeling that Jack loves Yusei. Carly frowned. It's decided! I'm going to find out right now! Misty watched Carly turn and tiptoe toward Kiryu's room.

"And where do you think you're going?" Misty spoke up, her deep voice edged with suspicion.

Carly froze and everyone turned their attention to her. The young woman turned and laughed nervously. "I was just - I was -"

Before Carly could finish, a dark strain of energy blasted through the door, tearing it off its hinges. Everyone moved out of the way as the door came flying. All the kids were awake by now, and hugging each other out of fear. Kiryu slowly staggered out, putting his hand on the side of the door frame.

Yusei's mark was the first to glow, and he gave Crow a quick glance. The red-haired teen nodded his head and dashed upstairs, getting the children into a corner. He pulled out two prongs, and slammed them onto the floor. The prongs glowed and a shield was formed.

Kiryu let out a dark eerie chuckle. He eyed everyone in the room. "I didn't think you'd catch on so fast." By now all their marks were glowing.

Carly and Misty stared at their marks and back at Kiryu. They couldn't sense his emotions at all. Jack, Akiza and Luna could feel Yusei's emotions of guilt, hate, and fear. Jack stared at his friend. What happened ...? Jack thought.

"You let go of Kiryu right now," Yusei ordered in a dead serious tone, hate flashing through his eyes, "you already displayed that it's me you want, now let him go."

Kiryu chuckled darkly. A dark strain of energy reached for Yusei. Jack dashed in front of his friend and took hold of the strain. Kiryu growled. He took hold of the strain and tugged, but Jack tugged a little harder.

"I don't know who the hell you are," Jack seethed, the outer rim of his eyes flashed black for a moment. He gave it a hard tug and Kiryu stumbled. "But you stay away from Yusei - you got that?"

Kiryu chuckled again and regained his balance. He dug his heals down, took hold of the dark strain and yanked quite hard. Jack let go of the strain, and gave Carly a glance, and she understood. She waved her hand and a strain of dark energy reached for Kiryu. He jumped into the air, did a somersault in the air and landed gracefully behind Yusei. The young Signer pivoted and stepped back. Jack turned and stepped halfway in front of Yusei, his arm out to the side.

Kiryu glared. "Kiryu always thought you were annoying when it came to you trying to steal what is his."

Jack growled. "I always thought you were a pig, but this definitely proves that you are!"

Jack was about to make a move, but Yusei shook his head. He stepped up and pulled up his sleeve to reveal the glowing mark on his arm. Akiza watched for a moment. I get what he's doing, she thought, remembering how he approached and helped her get out of a mans grip named Divine. Just be careful, this is different than what happened to me, Akiza thought.

"I know you're in there, Kiryu," Yusei said, walking close to his boyfriend, holding out his arm that had the mark. A lot of emotions could be seen in his eyes. "I know that you can fight!"

A smirk made its way to Kiryu's lips, as he eyed everyone in the room. "Fight? You want to fight instead of play? Hmm." Kiryu eyed everyone and his gaze landed on Crow and the kids. "I think I'll take you out first." Kiryu turned and dashed forward, but he stopped when Yusei stood in front of him, ready to fight.

"If you want to hurt Crow and the kids, you'll have to get past me first," Yusei spoke in a crisp voice.

There was a flicker of emotion in Kiryu's eyes, and a tingling feeling Misty and Carly felt through their marks. Kiryu ... you really are fighting against Rudger's control, aren't you, Carly thought. Yusei continued to stare into his boyfriend's eyes, the mark on his arm glowing intensely bright. Kiryu growled and took a step forward, but his body lurched. Kiryu covered his ears and started to scream out of pain and frustration. He dropped to his knees, shaking.

Yusei stepped up and dropped right in front of his boyfriend. Yusei reached out but Kiryu grabbed his arm and dug his nails into the mark. Yusei yelped in pain and he tried pulled back as he was rammed sacked right in the gut. Kiryu lifted his head and Yusei's eyes widened with shock, pain, fear and misunderstanding.

Kiryu's eyes held a lot of anger and hate. He stared right into Yusei's eyes. The young Signer couldn't look away from Kiryu's piercing stare. "This is your fault, Yusei! If you just allowed me to go after that bastard, none if this would have happened, right?"

Yusei was about to answer when Jack stepped up and yanked Kiryu off and threw him two feet away. The blue-haired teen landed really hard on his side. Kiryu slowly rolled to his side and picked himself up, so he was on his hands and knees, glaring at Jack.

The blonde-haired teen returned it. "You bastard!" Jack barked, standing in front of Yusei. The dark-haired Signer slowly picked himself off the floor. "You should be grateful that Yusei loves you, and he doesn't like to see you get hurt!"

Kiryu glanced at everyone in the room to see they had disapproving stares. His eyes landed on Yusei to see a lot of emotions that Kiryu saw in his boyfriend's eyes, and one of them was hurt. Kiryu lowered his gaze. He picked himself off the floor as Yusei sidestepped Jack and made way over to his boyfriend.

Kiryu stepped back. "Yusei, what are you doing? You shouldn't come near me!" The young Signer took another step. "Yusei, stop!" He took another step. "I'm warning you - if you don't -" before Kiryu could finish, Yusei pulled him close. Kiryu fought out of Yusei's embrace and slapped him hard across the face, sending Yusei to the floor. "Just stay away from me!" he ordered, the look of hate still in his eyes.

With that, Kiryu turned and walk back into the room, not even caring if Yusei was hurt or not. Jack stepped up and helped Yusei stand, but his legs gave way. Jack wrapped his arms around Yusei and had him lean against his chest. Carly watched the whole quietly. She tiptoed into the room to see that Kiryu was about to use one of his strains and drive into his chest. She yelped in horror and everyone ran in. Yusei's eyes widened his heart contracted in his chest. He ran up and used his body to shield Kiryu. The strain was gone before it touched Yusei, and they both stared at each other. There was a lot of emotions in their eyes and tension was thick.

"Why?! Why would you try and ...." By now Yusei had tears was sliding down his cheeks, and his heart was pounding painfully in his chest, "Kill yourself? Do you hate me that much? If that's how you really feel ...." Yusei's voice dropped to a whisper. "You should have told me, I would have understood."

Kiryu closed his eyes and tears slid down his face."Why won't you let me go nor listen to me?" he opened his eyes, there was a lot of anger and hate still fixed in them. "I'm tired of this! I want to end what we have!"

To Be Continued ...