Big thanks to Koros45, whose story Loose ends: Fatherhood inspired this story.
Kiryu had aimed high throughout his life to find the meaning of satisfaction.
The first most notable attempt was his during his teenage years, when he had formed the one and only team satisfaction with his friends, Yusei, Crow and Jack. It had been a mad few years, but making satellite safe was a wonderful feeling.
Of course, that went all wrong when he got a big idea in his head and tried to take over security. Instead of victory, he ended up in prison, marked and humiliated forever.
Then there were the times as a dark signer. Although he was now ashamed of this, there were times when his possessed mind had really loved being able to inflict pain-even on a person who was his friend, always had been.
After that was depression, and all he wanted was to die. He would have been happy with that.
How wrong he was. After Yusei came seeking him out in crash Town, he ended up going on one hell of a ride which involved saving the town from all that gang warfare , with Jack and Crow making a last-minute appearance .
And then , in honour of them , the town was called Satisfaction Town. And that should have been the thing which gave Kiryu the true satisfaction he'd been searching for.
But it wasn't that. Of course it wasn't.
The true, deep satisfaction came from something way smaller. Two kids, innocents, who'd been orphaned in the process of saving the and West. Kiryu had taken them in , and although there were the down moments , such as West slowly withdrawing from everyone apart from his sister as the shock of losing his father hit him , there were the up moments , such as watching Nico sweetly sing along to the radio while helping him in the kitchen.
And that was where true satisfaction lay.