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"I'm hungry," Jaden whined a little, waiting for the elevator to return seemed to take forever.
"Me too," Yusei said, giving Jaden a sweet kiss on his forehead, as if to console him. Finally the elevator was back, and the ride up they stood hand in hand, their backs towards the door, looking at the many lights of the city. Jaden shifted on his feet, wondering. But then he just grabbed Yusei's jacket and once again kissed him deeply. When they let go, he shrugged.
"Told you I was hungry," the boy said. Yusei laughed and ruffled Jaden's hair.

They decided to eat Japanese curry and get an ice cream at the ice cream parlour afterwards. Jaden must really have been hungry, because he stuffed himself quickly, finishing his plate long before Yusei finished his.
"That was good," he said, rubbing his belly. Yusei smiled and watched as Jaden gulped down his glass of water afterwards.

After Yusei was done, they went to the counter and paid.
"Are you sure you can still eat ice cream?" Yusei asked. Jaden punched him on the shoulder.
"Of course I can!" he said, convinced that he could. "But I want to share a parfait. Because… you know… that's what people do on a date, right?"
Yusei nodded. He took Jaden's hand in his own and they walked over to the ice cream parlour, which was also on the same floor. It was small, but still had some seats that gave a wonderful view over the city.

"What would you like?" Yusei said, standing in front of the display of all they had to offer. Jaden looked at the different parfaits and things, and tapped his chin, thinking.
"Strawberry-chocolate parfait, please!" Jaden pointed at a tall glass filled with vanilla ice cream, strawberries, chocolate sauce and sprinkles and whipped cream topped with some strawberry sauce.
"Alright," Yusei nodded. They went inside and Yusei ordered their ice cream. They were told it would be brought to the table, so they went to sit at one of the free tables with a view.

Yusei sat down, put his wallet on the table and looked outside.
"The city looks so different from within," he said, more to himself than to Jaden, but the boy turned his head to look at his lover. "I guess so," he said, hoping to made Yusei talk more about it. He still didn't know all that much about him, so Jaden would really enjoy the stories Yusei told him. He just wanted to know what kind of life he had, what he had done and experienced, his joys and fears.

"I've always watched it from afar… watched as the sun set, and the lights went on. They seemed so bright when it grew darker, and it was pretty dark in the Satellite." Jaden turned himself to Yusei, leaning on the table with his arms. The black-haired boy was still staring outside and didn't notice he had Jaden's full attention. Jaden wondered if he could say something that would make his friend tell him more.
"Dark, huh?" he said, softly, matching Yusei's tone.

"Yeah. There was a curfew, even. A few hours after sundown, the streetlights would go out and you were expected not to go out anymore."
"Oh," Jaden said. He couldn't really imagine that it would happen in an entire city. Yusei turned back to Jaden and showed him an apologetic smile.
"I'm sure you don't want to be bored by this talk of…"
"No!" Jaden interrupted, louder than he had wanted. Yusei looked surprised.
"No… please, Yusei, tell me more. I want to hear about your life." The elder teen paused for a bit, and in the meantime their ice cream was brought over. The lady who brought it smiled widely at them, and Yusei thanked her.

"Well," Yusei scooped up a strawberry and some cream, and brought the spoon to Jaden's mouth. The brown-haired teen ate it quietly.
"The curfew was to prevent people from going out at night, drinking, gathering, creating a disturbance… you know. But also for preventing us to stand up to the fact that everyone who lived or ended up in the Satellite was being discriminated. I guess they feared that the most. Which is why, at the time, Security let me and my friends wipe out the gangs that caused trouble. They saved themselves the work, and if we would go too far they'd simply put a stop to us. I only realized that when it was too late, though."
Yusei ate some ice cream before continuing.

"We believed we could make a difference. But in the end, we gained nothing at all. Kallin got arrested, even though I tried posing as the leader of our group to protect him." Yusei fed Jaden while talking.
"You wanted to sacrifice yourself for your friend?" The spiky-haired teen nodded.
"I felt guilty for not stopping him before. Like it was my fault that it had gotten this far… I wanted to be the one responsible. But they knew." Yusei stared out of the window again, pausing. Jaden took the spoon from him, and scooped up some ice cream, feeding it to his lover.
"You couldn't help it," he said, trying to console Yusei a bit.
"Yeah. But Kallin believed I had betrayed him, that I had sold him out to Security to save myself. He never knew it was exactly the other way round, and… he started hating me." Yusei looked up at Jaden, and ate some more ice cream. "You know the rest," he said, adding a smile.

Jaden nodded. He still had a hard time believing that such painful things had happened to Yusei. He wasn't the most cheerful guy on the planet, but you'd never guess he dragged along that much.
"Come on Yusei, eat faster, the ice cream is melting," he said, smiling, as he gave the spoon back to Yusei.
The blue-eyed boy took it and scooped up a strawberry, eating it himself before feeding Jaden another one.
"Don't you think ice cream is the best thing ever made from milk?" Jaden asked, licking his lips.
"Uh, yeah, I guess so," Yusei replied, surprised about the sudden remark.
"And milkshakes! But that's milk and ice cream, so…" Jaden laughed, which made Yusei smile.
The boys finished their parfait while Jaden talked about random things, and left for the arcade.

They took another elevator that brought them to the right floor. Evening was a busy time for the arcade, and there were many youths playing games, or just hanging out. Girls fluttered by, always leaving a smell of perfume in the air. Yusei looked after them, and for a moment wondered if Aki would be doing things like this as well. He didn't really know if she had made good friends at school, but he hoped that she did.

The arcade itself was filled with noises from all different games, laughter and yelling. Jaden watched in awe, since the games here were obviously different from what they had in his time. Most games were in real 3D, others were full-simulation games where you'd wear a vision helmet and feel as if you were right inside the game. He wanted to try so many of them that he didn't know where to start. A simulation shooting game for two players was free, so they just decided to play that.

They didn't manage to get very far in the game, but when Jaden took off his helmet, he felt that his head was turning a bit.
"Woah… this is pretty intense," he said, rubbing his eyes. Yusei had to agree with him, since it was the first time he ever played a game like this as well.
"I think I like regular games better," he said, thinking of the simple game console Crow owned, that they all used to play games on. They left the booth, and wandered on through the various machines and booths. There was a purikura corner where girls were lining up for.
"They have 3D pictures as well?" Jaden wondered aloud. He went closer to take a look at the modern age print club machines. Yusei followed him, his hands casually in his pockets. A few girls were looking at them and pointing. Yusei caught his own name in between the chit-chat. Maybe duelling was bigger business than he thought it to be, if girls remembered his name.

"Girls never change, do they?" Jaden said when he returned to Yusei's side, and grinned.
"I don't think they do." Jaden clung to Yusei's arm, and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. Immediately they heard the noise behind them increase. The shorter teen glanced over his shoulder, and stuck out his tongue. He liked to show them that Yusei belonged to him. Yusei wrapped his arm around Jaden, deliberately confirming this.

Next, they went to a floor with bigger games. There was a boxing game, table-tennis and some others. But the biggest was the bowling court. It was entirely black, with UV light that made the painted universe visible on the walls, and many many lights shining and flickering.
"Woah," Jaden exclaimed, his eyes sparkling. "Can we do this? Can we?" He looked at Yusei, his expression hopeful. Not every court was taken, so Yusei nodded.
"Sure, why not."

Yusei went to pay at a counter and the game started. Jaden picked a bright red ball to use, even though it was actually pretty heavy, while Yusei tried holding a few before he made his choice. He grinned.
"I've seen how it's played but never did it myself," he said, and he looked both happy and a little nervous.
"Relax, just throw the ball and see what happens!" Jaden took the first turn, throwing his ball, and watched how it slowly, very slowly headed for the gutter.
"Ah man!"
"Better next time, Jaden," Yusei said, patting his fluffy hair. Even though Yusei's first ball also went straight to the gutter. Jaden grinned at him. "Better next time, Yusei." The taller boy laughed a bit. It was harder than it seemed just to throw a ball straight…

In the end, Jaden did try other bowling balls because he started to notice that the red one he liked just was too heavy for him. He succeeded in throwing his first strike, which made him jump for joy.
"Yusei! Yusei, did you see?," he yelled, pulling on Yusei's arm. The taller teen couldn't help but laugh a bit at Jaden's enthusiasm. "Yes, I saw," he said, sounding genuinely impressed. "Your next score will be doubled then." Jaden nodded

"I'm gaining on you now, Yusei," the boy said, looking proud.
"We'll see about that," the spiky-haired boy replied, taking a bowling ball and getting ready. He knocked down nine cones, and aimed for a spare, but the ball just missed the last cone.
"Too bad," Jaden said, giving his lover a pat on the shoulder when he took his turn. This time Jaden got six of them down, and he looked disappointed, but it wasn't such a bad score since it got doubled anyway.

Yusei enjoyed himself a lot, trying to aim for the highest score with every try. And he could see Jaden laughing and having fun, which was more than worth it.
"Whew, my fingers hurt a little," Jaden said, looking at his right hand, stretching his fingers. "Guess I'm not used to this." Yusei nodded. He could feel it in his fingers as well, but it did remind him of something completely different.
"I might be a bit," the taller boy whispered near Jaden's ear when he took a bowling ball for his second throw.

Jaden stared at Yusei, feeling a blush rise to his cheeks as he understood what his lover meant. Yusei managed to get a strike as well, earning him a glare first, and then a quick kiss.
"I knew you could do it," the brown-haired boy said. Yusei smiled back at him and frankly, he just wanted to kiss him back. But people were already staring at them, and he didn't want to attract more attention than needed.

The game ended with Yusei's last turn in which he finally got a spare. Their score sheet was printed out at the counter, so Yusei went to get it.
"Aw, no fair," Jaden said in a whining tone. Yusei had won, but only by eight points.
"Come on Jaden, I know you wouldn't like it if I had let you win." He took Jaden's hand in his own and squeezed it. "Besides, didn't we both do our best?"
"Yeah, it's way harder than it looks, don't you think?"
"Sure is."

The two teens walked away from the bowling court, and looked around.
"You know, things aren't all that different in the future," Jaden said. "Well, they are, but the basic idea is still the same." Yusei looked around, thinking and comparing what he knew about Jaden's time.
"I guess so, yeah. But it would be weird if everything changed a lot, because people don't change as much as, say technology and sciences."

"At first, I expected to feel like I was walking in a SF movie when I came to your time, but it's not really what I thought it would be." They took the elevator to the lower floor.
"Are you disappointed?" Yusei asked, looking into Jaden's eyes. The boy shook his head.
"Not really. It's more comforting this way. It's still very different from what I used to, though, and my expectations weren't exactly… realistic." He fell silent for a moment.
"But you're here. That's all that matters." Yusei felt his heart skip a beat as he looked at his younger lover. Happiness overflowing, he couldn't keep himself from hugging Jaden all of a sudden.

When he let go, they were back at the floor with the print club booths. It was quieter now, and some of them seemed to be free.
"Hey, shall we do that too?" Jaden pointed over his shoulder, looking expectantly. Yusei glanced at the booths, all pink and with enormous close-up pictures of girls, and held his head a bit to the side.
"Oh alright," he said, laughing a bit. It wasn't something he'd seriously consider doing himself, but it seemed rather fun, and it would be nice to have a picture of him and Jaden together.

Jaden picked the least girly booth after having checked them all out, and put money in the machine.
They followed the instructions on the screen until it was time to pick a pose. For the first one, Jaden just grabbed Yusei's arm, and made a peace sign, leaning forward a bit. It went so fast that Yusei wasn't really ready yet when the shot was made.

"You gotta try harder, Yusei," Jaden said, pinching his lover's cheek. "Smile, smile!" The next one was a close-up, so both held their heads together, Jaden poking both his own cheeks, while blowing up his face. It made Yusei laugh, and so he ended up on the picture with a really happy face. He didn't have much time to reflect on how he looked on the picture because they had to find a new pose.
"This is a full-body," Jaden said, "quick, hold me!" And he jumped on Yusei's back, climbing higher so he wasn't hidden behind Yusei's hair. The black-haired boy had to go through his knees a bit to make them fit on the photo, but it resulted in a cute shot were Jaden was being his happy self and Yusei tried to look up at him, smiling.

"Last one! Let's make a silly face, okay?"
"Okay," Yusei nodded, standing close to Jaden. The brown-haired boy pulled an extremely surprised face, leaning back a bit, his mouth open and eyes wide, his hand in front of his mouth, all dramatic. Yusei held his left hand above his eyes, squinting and pursing his lips together as if he was trying to see something far away. After choosing the pictures to be printed, they moved out of the booth.

"We can decorate them now!" The two took the pens provided and started to add images, stars and sparkles, text and decorations. Jaden laughed, giving Yusei a moustache and himself a fancy hat. Yusei first checked what he could do, and then added some hearts and sparkles to one of their pictures. He elbowed Jaden somewhere halfway, asking if it was too much. Jaden answered with a quick kiss.
"It's perfect."

The two had fun playing with their pictures, putting stuff on them and erasing it again, until the machine started to count down. Yusei added the date to one of their pictures, and Jaden wrote their names with a heart in between.
"Done!" Yusei put the pen back in its holder and watched as Jaden drew a star on his face.

"That went fast," Yusei said when they stood next to the machine, waiting for their pictures.
"You never did this before either, right?" Jaden looked up at his lover, a sorry feeling in his eyes, then he gently took Yusei's hand and looked down at his feet.
"You've missed out on so much," Jaden whispered, a little overwhelmed by the realisation that his lover never had a normal life, right when it would've been the most important.
"Jaden?" Yusei sounded worried. Gently, the taller boy lifted the other's face, making him look in his eyes. "It's okay, Jaden. I'm making up what I can, thanks to you," he said softly, a faint smile on his face to counter Jaden's hurt look.
"But Yusei…" He put his index on Jaden's lips, preventing him from saying more.
"Don't worry about it." Yusei then put both of his fingers on the corners of Jaden's mouth, pushing them into a smile.
"Put that smile back on, Jaden, this date isn't over yet."

When the pictures were ready they cut the sheet in half so that they both had the same number of stickers. Jaden laughed when he saw Yusei making a weird face while looking at them.
"What did you draw here?" Yusei asked, seemingly confused.
"That's, uhm, a flower," Jaden replied, grinning. Now that he saw his drawing again, he could see why the blue-eyed teen had thought it could be something else.
"You've got a dirty mind, Yusei." Taking his hand, Jaden planted a soft kiss on his lover's cheek.
"Then so have you," the taller teen objected with a smile.

They left the arcade after looking around for a bit longer, and now it was late enough for shops to start closing down in the shopping center. It was becoming much less crowded, so they took a normal elevator down.
"What's up next?" Jaden sounded eager. They exited the elevator that had brought them to the underground parking lot, walking slowly, hand in hand.

"I'll take you for a drive. There's something I want to show you."
"Alright." Jaden noticed how Yusei's face became more serious again, as if he was thinking about something. Yet he decided to let him be and wait what it was that he wanted to show. It felt like it might be something important.

Anyone who can guess what it is gets a cookie! xD Reviews are very welcome and much aprrecitated! 3