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Warning: semi-long chapter ahead. Sorry guys! Not much happens, but this chapter was necessary for what I want to do next.

This is all based on the plot of the show with no changes, so who has a guess as to what the following "low voice" is? :)

Do I have any Kingdom Hearts fans in the audience? Because I'm one, and it kind of influenced this chapter. You'll get exactly what that "platform" is when I describe it.

A shudder ran down my limbs, and I gasped for breath, quickly opening my eyes. My heart seemed to spring to life, suddenly racing, as though it hadn't beat for a while. It felt like I had been shocked to life.

Before moving, I tried to analyze things, but there was only darkness surrounding me. Black sky, a black floor, and no visible features of anything anywhere. The only color was a purple fog churning around my ankles and stretching as far as I could see.

Despite the ache in my arms and legs, I slowly rose to my feet. My body burned, but I didn't have any damage on me as far as I could tell. My head spun, and I fought to remain standing. Once the wave of dizziness had retreated, I looked all around me as I recalled what had happened to me.

Stunned, I painfully remembered sacrificing myself for Yuya. I remembered the Pawn of Fusion's attack crashing into me. I remembered Yuya gently lifting me from the ground and the conversation we had. And I remembered the pain stabbing my heart… I was certain I had died. Where was I now? Was this…hell?

I had nothing to do, so I began walking in the direction I was facing. I was uncertain of where it lead, if it lead anywhere at all. I walked for what seemed an hour. But I had no way of tracking time. Where was I, really? Surely I wasn't the only one here.

As if to answer my question, I heard a distant growl from somewhere behind me. I whirled around, flicking my gaze left and right. The growl didn't sound very nearby, but a low voice seemed to fill the sky around me.

"Another one for me to consume."

My heart pounded. What was this thing? I saw nothing. I glanced down at my left arm. My Duel Disk wasn't there. I doubted I could fend it off physically. I needed to flee.

I then heard a pleasant ringing noise behind me, like a string of chimes in a breeze. I turned back to the way I had been walking. A rift of light slowly opened in the darkness, like a tall, thin doorway. It didn't seem too far off. I didn't know what it was, but I was sure it was better than being here in the darkness with that thing.

Without much hesitation, I raced toward the door of light and charged through.

I was so unexpecting of the change of ground underfoot that when I crossed to the other side of the light, I stumbled and fell, catching myself with a hand and a knee. I eyed the area under my feet, in awe of the beauty underneath me.

I was kneeling on a large circular platform, maybe as long across the middle as the width of a football field. Its surface was made of stained glass. Shards of red, green, and light orange glass were scattered across the platform in close proximity. There were also pieces of a crystalline sky blue amongst the rest. It was breathtaking... The colors were vivid and glinted with light.

I looked to the sky to see that here, there actually was one. All around the platform was an indigo canvas dappled with gleaming white stars.

Was this a real sky? And where was I now?

I got to my feet and looked over my shoulder I was nearly halfway to the center of the platform, from what I could tell. I then looked back ahead toward the center. My heart sank as I caught sight of a familiar figure lying in the center, not moving.

Yuya!

I tore toward him, ignoring my body's protests as the movement reminded me of my injuries. I finally reached Yuya, breathless, and slid into a kneel beside him to stop myself.

He was lying on his stomach with his head tipped to one side. His eyes were closed, but he was breathing. I rolled him onto his back and lifted his back off the ground to hold him, shaking him gently.

"Yuya. Yuya!" I called. You can't be unconscious too! I thought. I saved you—why are you here too?! "Wake up, Yuya!"

A few seconds passed, in which I shook him again and held his jaw in one hand. Then his face twitched. He winced, pained expression crossing his brow. It softened as he opened his crimson eyes, gazing up at me.

His eyesight must have focused as I removed my hand from his face, because his eyes widened in surprise. "Yuto! What's going on? Are you okay?"

"I…I guess so." It was odd to look down at Yuya, holding him. Our earlier roles when I had died were now reserved. Am I even dead? I wondered.

Yuya sat up, clearly not weak or in pain. I withdrew my hands and just stared at him, confused by all of this.

"Where are we?" he asked.

"I don't know," I replied. "Are you alright?"

Yuya frowned. "I…I fell unconscious in the park. But I'm not in pain. What about you?"

"I'm okay," I lied. Just hurt and really confused.

"Wait!" Remembrance dawned on Yuya's face. "You…you took that attack for me! I thought you had been transported back to the XYZ dimension… How are you here? Where is here?"

I wanted to answer Yuya's questions as best as I could, but a voice interrupted us. It came from all around us, like the low voice back in the darkness. But I recognized this voice. It was Yuzu.

"Why did this happen?!" She sounded distressed, even near tears. "What if Yuya never wakes up?"

"Yuzu!" Yuya exclaimed.

They then heard another voice, one I didn't recognize, but Yuya identified it for me. "Mom!"

"Just like when he woke up when he fought against Strong Ishijima, he'll definitely wake up again. He'll become even stronger than he was before!"

I looked back at Yuya, standing as I spoke. "They're waiting for you to wake up," I told him. "You need to go."

Yuya blinked, hesitant, but then sprang to his feet with a determined expression.

"Yeah, but what about you?" he demanded. "You need to wake up too, and keep fighting! To defeat Fusion… And save Ruri!"

I was startled by his remark, and stood stunned for a moment. Who would help find Ruri now? Shun had no one to fight alongside him now. No. Yuya would help him—I believed in him. Yuya would realize Shun's reason for fighting, and he would help him somehow.

With a chuckle, I thought of Shun seeing Yuzu for the first time and insisting so much on her being Ruri that I had to knock him unconscious to keep him from revealing anything to Sora, who I didn't trust even then. Shun. I'll bet he would come to treat Yuya similar to how he treated me. Shun always brought out my smile and a deeper personality in me similar to Yuya's. If Shun didn't treat Yuya like me for our similar personalities, it would be for our identical faces.

I met Yuya's gaze and managed a smile.

"You'll be the one to defeat Fusion, Yuya," I assured. "And Shun will save Ruri. I…I know he will. Maybe with your help." I made my smile as convincing as I could. "I'll be fine. I'm the one who needs to be asleep, not you. Now go. Your friends need you."

Yuya hesitated for a moment, but then nodded, smiling back at me. "Thanks, Yuto. I'm glad you're okay. When you gave me Dark Rebellion and disappeared… I wished for you to survive. I wanted to keep you safe any way I could."

Yuya closed his eyes, and I assumed he was willing himself to awaken. He was enveloped by a soft white light. It masked him entirely and then faded, leaving Yuya gone.

I dropped to my knees the moment I was alone. The tears I had held back through my smiles escapes my eyes and slid down my cheeks. I looked to the sky, my fears crashing over me. Shun. I had left my comrade alone, after all we'd been through, and we hadn't left on the best terms—we were still amidst an argument over whether to fight others in Standard, and I had been chiding him on his insistence to fight while I believed in not causing conflicts. I had always kept him from acting recklessly and fighting unnecessary battles. Would he be okay without me? And would he be able to eventually find Ruri?

Ruri.

I closed my eyes and thought of the way she would always look back over her shoulder while walking beside Shun with a bright smile toward me. I know both Shun and I wished we could take her place. Though she too had been hardened by war, her real self was optimistic, loving, and peaceful. She was a light among the darkness of war. I yearned to keep searching for her and return her home.

Who—or what—had that voice belonged to back in the darkness? Would it follow me here? Why had Yuya been here, with me, when he was clearly alive and I was…dead?

As I thought of Yuya, my head started to ache. I pressed a hand to it and winced as the pain grew stronger. I gasped as my vision began to cloud over.

What's happening to me?!

My eyesight became nothing but white, and I closed my eyes tightly in an attempt to fight it. But a feeling of vertigo clutched me, like the falling feeling that sometimes accompanies falling asleep. It felt like I was tumbling through air, and I couldn't tell if my feet were even on the ground anymore. Panicking, I opened my eyes. They took a moment to adjust, along with my hearing. When my eyesight sharpened, I saw that I was no longer in the same place.

I was in a bedroom I'd never seen before, standing beside a desk. To my surprise, I was holding a card in hand and looking down at it. It was Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon.

No. It couldn't be. I had given him to Yuya. There was only one copy of the card created in Heartland.

I tried to move my head and look at my surroundings, my body, out the window, anything. But I was paralyzed. I couldn't move anything, not even my eyes. All I could see was my arm and hand holding Dark Rebellion. But I wore long sleeves, white with green check. A shirt I'd never seen before. Then I realized that I couldn't feel anything. I couldn't feel the card I was holding. I couldn't feel the floor underneath me. I couldn't feel any sensation at all through my body. But I could feel emotion, and right now I was scared and confused.

Just like earlier with Yuya, I heard a voice around me—from behind me. It was Yuzu again.

"Why do you have Yuto's card, Yuya?"

Yuya? Was Yuzu seeing me as Yuya right now? It was understandable if she was; she wasn't the only one who got us mixed up. But then I heard another voice—this time Yuya's, and it sounded extremely close to me, even right in front of me.

"He was…protecting me… I don't remember anything after that. Or what happened to Yuto."

Did Yuya not remember meeting me in that place and the conversation we had? Then again, his body had been unconscious, and I guess he had only been there in spirit. Maybe that meeting had been like a dream to him—one he had forgotten when he had awakened.

It was then that I realized they were both talking about me. As if I wasn't there.

"But…" Yuya went on. "Why would he give me this card?! Yuto told me to make people smile with dueling. And then gave me this card… Why would he do that?!"

"Yuya…"

"I don't get it! And not just Yuto!"

If I had had control of my body, I would have flinched as I brought my palm to my face and covered my eyes. Because I didn't tell myself to do that. And I didn't feel the hand on my face, nor did I tell my eyes to close.

"Who the heck is Yugo?! Why do they have the same face as me?!"

I didn't choose to whirl around to stare at Yuzu in front of me either, but it happened as Yuya yelled the last line that I heard.

It was then that I realized what was really happening. Yuya's voice sounded so close to me because it was coming from me. No…not coming from me. I was viewing things through his eyes. In his body. That's why I didn't feel anything physically, but saw everything. That's why I was closing my eyes and moving without meaning to. It wasn't me. These actions were Yuya's.

This had to be a dream. I couldn't be inside him. I struggled and tried to close the eyes I was looking through, but it had no effect on Yuya. My voice was gone, but I could still think. So I willed myself to go back to where I had been before. Wake up! This isn't happening—it has to be a dream!

Everything flashed white again, and suddenly I was standing back on the strange platform I had been at before that vision. I stared down at myself, holding out my hand to inspect it, tapping my foot, running my hand through my hair, all to convince myself that I was me, back in my body again.

I didn't know what that vision had been or how it had happened. But I was even more confused now than I had been before. I didn't know if I could will myself into another vision like that again, but for now I didn't want to try—I wanted to focus on figuring out what had happened already.

And the only way that I could find answers in my own skin was by exploring where I was now.

So Yuto saw things through Yuya's eyes... How Yuto exists inside Yuya isn't explained in the show, so I took some freedom with it. At this time, Yuto can't feel anything through Yuya's body, but as they become closer (and as Yuya becomes aware of Yuto inside him) Yuto will have more feeling and control over when he can do this, plus the ability to appear as a spirit beside Yuya even while Yuya can't see him.

I don't really like this chapter... And I may alter it within two days just a bit. It's a filler chapter, but still, I hope you can enjoy the unique twist of it. Please review! Love you guys!