A/N: I've been working on a few Drabbles about post-canon Yuri and decided to post one! The first drabble is almost done but i finished this one first so… tah-dah? (These take place after 'The White Day Festival'!)

I tried to keep them in character and to catch any grammatical errors but if i messed up i apologize!

Also, there is a lot symbolism in the chapter titles (Hanakotoba is perfect for symbolism!).

Disclaimer: I no own arc v

~Yuri's Violet~

"Yuri?… is that you?"

Yuri turned around and looked at Asuka. She was wearing the standard Obelisk blue female uniform and her blond hair was being ruffled in the light ocean breeze. Her hazel stared at Yuri in shock, as did the light green eyes of Sora and the dark gray eyes of Edo, who stood on either side of her.

"Of course it is me." Yuri raised one of his short but thick pink eyebrows and put his arms akimbo. He leaned forward a little and smirked one of his mischievous smiles. "Do I look like someone else?"

"No you don't!" Asuka exclaimed.

"But you should!" Edo added.

"You're just screwing around with us, aren't you?" Sora crossed his arms and gave the pink and violet haired boy a flat look.

"Eh?" Came the unison confusion from the two older teens.

"You're using the Vision Bracelet, right?" Sora stated more then asked.

"Correct~!" Yuri sang as he smiled and clapped his hands. "As expected of the mighty Shiun'in~!"

"Don't patronize me." the shorter teen grumbled. "You know full well Yuya told me about it."

"Of course I know." Yuri's smile dropped for a moment before he smiled again and looked at Edo and Asuka. "But they did not and I could not resist seeing the looks on their faces."

"You're hor-" Sora stopped himself, then tried again. "You're a troll, you know that? An absolute troll."

"Yep!" Yuri cheerfully agreed.

"Wait!" Edo stepped forward. "What in the world is going?' he asked a bit exhausted.

"What is going on is this." Yuri said as he lifted up his right arm and pointed to a thin but wide red bracelet that had 'Joeri' written in glowing pink-purple letters. "This is a Real Slide Vision Bracelet or Vision Bracelet for short. The Professor made it for us and the girls." he tapped his name and a small blue screen popped up with a list of names and words. Edo could see in big bold letters the names, 'Ute', 'Hugo', and 'Joeri', as well as the English word 'Off'. There were some smaller words he couldn't make out at the bottom but he could see Yuri's name was glowing.

Yuri tapped the 'Off' command and a small golden glow covered his body before breaking up into small particles and instead of Yuri standing there, it was Yuya; Yuya's green and red hair, his orange shirt and new green pants, and for once his was wearing his school jacket properly.

"Wait..." Asuka covered her mouth in excitement. "Are you saying that the Yuri we just saw was..?" she began.

"Yes." Yuri's pink eyes stared at them from Yuya's body as he confirmed her suspicions. "What you saw was Solid Vision. The Professor designed these bracelets so that Yugo, Yuto, and I could look like ourselves when we are in control." Yuri tapped the (now blank) bracelet and flicked the name 'Hugo'. Golden partials of light appeared around Yuya's body before quickly cleaning to him, covering his body in golden light for a few seconds. The light quickly faded to reveal the Blue and yellow haired Yugo, wearing a loosed green shirt and gray baggy shorts. The only thing that didn't change was Yuri's pink eyes, Yuya's belt, roller boots, and pendent.

"That's amazing!" Asuka clapped her hands together. "You all must be so exited!"

"Indeed, they are." Yuri gave an exasperated sideways gaze to someone only he could see before sighing. "Yugo wants me to show you something..." he drowned. He tapped the glowing blue 'Hugo' on the bracelet and then one of the smaller words at the bottom of the menu. The screen switched to one filled with small images of various different outfits. Yuri fiddled with the screen a bit before returning to the main menu and selecting his name.

The glowing lights quickly appeared and disappeared, revealing Yuri's body again but this time instead of the simple t-shirt and jeans he had been wearing before, he now wore a long sleeved button up purple dress shirt with light blue dress pants. Once again, Yuya's belt, roller boots, and pendent remained unchanged.

"He pre-programed different outfits into it!" Asuka exclaimed her eyes sparkling. "Yuzu and the girls must love that!"

"They do..." Yuri frowned. "As do my other selves… They spent almost an entire day going through all the options..." his face only got more grumpy and comical as he hunched his shoulders a little. "No, Yugo, I don't care..."

"That's amazing and everything but that's..." Edo hesitated. "That's not why you called us here is it?"

Suddenly the grumpy look on Yuri's face disappeared and a look of uncertainty flashed across it, only to be quickly replaced by one of nervous conviction.

"No… It is not..." Yuri licked his lips nervously before balling his hands into fits and taking a deep breath. He placed his arms to his sides, his hands trembling, and bowed deeply towards the other three. "I… I apologize for all I have done… I know what I have done is unforgivable and I do not expect you to forgive me but… please believe me when I say I am sorry..."

"Huh?" an almost silent sound of confusion escaped the trio as their brains tried to process what just happened. A moment of silence stretched on for a bit before their brains finally registered what just happened.

"Wait… WHAT?!" three simultaneous exclamations of extreme disbelief and confusion escaped the Fusion duelists.

"Yuri's apologizing?!" Sora took a step back in wide eyed shock. "The… the world isn't ending, is it?!"

"Yuri, are you okay!?" Asuka, eyes also bulging in shock, gripped the boys shoulder and stood him up, shacking him a little. "You're not sick are?! Do you guys have a fever?!"

"I'm must be dreaming…" Edo pinched his cheek. "Ouch! Not dream… which means this is reality… Yuri is..." Edo's brain promptly shut down and Yuri could practically see the words 'DOSE NOT COMPUTE' flashing in the former commanders wide eyes.

Yuri felt a vain throbbing in anger on his forehead. He threw his hands up, knocking Asuka's hands off of him and leveled them with an exasperated glare.

"How rude! Here I am, for the first time in my life, trying to be sincere and you all just! Just! ARG!" he puffed out his cheeks in a pout, crossed his arms, and turned on his heels, giving his back to Yuya's Fusion friends.

"Ah, sorry Yuri." Asuka gently placed her hand on Yuri's shoulder turning him to face them. "Of all the things we were expecting, it wasn't an apology..."

"Yeah," Sora scratched his head in mild confusion, "I never thought I'd see the powerful and unbeatable Yuri bow his head." Edo nodded in agreement.

"I can't believe you came all the way to Academia to apologize..." Edo placed one hand on his hip and gestured with his other.

"It was not just to apologize..." Yuri averted his gaze. "It..." He hesitated, then moved Asuka's hand off his shoulder.

"It?" Asuka repeated in an urging fashion but Yuri remained quiet. "Yuri?"

"I know that, Yuya." Yuri mumbled to his unseen counterpart. "I know that..." He bit his lip as he seemed to listen to something. "Right… you make it sound so simple..."

"What did Yuya say?" Edo asked, giving Yuri an opportunity to continue the conversation.

"He said… I should explain first..." Yuri looked completely uncomfortable, like he would rather be anywhere else but in front of them.

"Explain what?" Sora asked.

"...Myself." He looked at them, uncertain and hesitant. "The truth is… I… actually do not think… friendship is as… repugnant as I made it out to be..."

Asuka and Sora looked shocked for a moment then quickly shared a glance with each other.

"Are you telling us the truth?" Sora asked cautiously. "You're not trying to trick us again, are you?"

Yuri gave him a small but amused smile.

"Do you really think the other three would let me?"

"No, of course not but… we want to hear you confirm it for us..." Asuka replied.

Yuri sighed and placed his hands akimbo again but this time his body had a tired slouch to it.

"I am telling you the truth." he bit his lip again. "I promise you everything I say is the truth… if I tell a lie Yuya will immediately retake control." Yuri's right hand gave a thumbs up before returning to his hip as he spoke the last part. "… Like that..."

The other three all exchanged looks before Sora and Edo gave Asuka a nod.

"Alright, then." she looked Yuri in the eye. "We'll listen. Please continue."

"I told you about my past before, correct?" Yuri began. Asuka and Sora nodded but Edo shook his head. "Well," Yuri took a deep breath as he continued, "I guess I should start over from the beginning again then. Yuya, was the first person to ever beat me… so, as a child everyone was afraid of me… no one liked dueling me… no one wanted to be my friend. Then, the Professor gave me a job… I wanted to please him, to make him proud. I wanted him to praise me and he did… but..." he trailed off.

"But?" Asuka urged. Yuri broke eye contact again and looked at the sky, making it difficult for the other three to see his face.

"But… he did not mean it. Eventually, I realized that his praises were empty… that he did not like me ether… the man I looked up to… did not…" he trailed off for a moment before taking a deep breath and returned his gaze to Asuka. "He hated me and no matter what I did, I would never earn his love or genuine praise… so… I gave up. I gave up on friendships and bonding with others. I had my duel monsters and that was enough..."

"Yuri..." Asuka breathed.

"Please do not pity me..." Yuri whispered.

"We're not." Sora replied. "We sympathize. Sympathy and pity are two very different things."

"..."

"Please continue." Edo said calmly. Yuri nodded and thought for a moment, trying to figure out how to word what he wanted to say.

"Since the Professor kept Serena as far away from me as he could, there was nothing to stop Zarc from waking and influencing me… and I believe when I gave up is when his influence began." Yuri placed his hands behind his back and looked at his feet. "It was small. It was always small, like a misty whisper that was always in my ear. It was a whisper I never realized was there until it was gone..."

"Until Zarc's evil was purified from you." Sora added.

"Indeed..." Yuri acknowledged him but didn't look up. "But it was small… until the Professor sent me to captor Ruri… once I began to travel between the dimensions and meet, and duel, my other selfs… his influence grew. With every duel, with every synchronization, it grew and grew until…" he hesitated again, unsure how to explain things.

Asuka, Sora, and Edo waited patiently for Yuri to continue. The formerly undefeated duelist was silent for a moment before he continued.

"Unlike the others, I never realized something was wrong… I knew something strange was going on but… by the time we had our duel… I was more Zarc then Yuri..." Yuri gripped his hands tightly and let his eyes wonder to Asuka.

"So, at the end there, that whole thing about carding everyone was Zarc?" Asuka asked, hopefully.

"..." Yuri averted his eyes, his normal confidence and mischief nowhere to be seen. "I… do not know..."

"...What do you mean?" hesitantly Sora asked.

"I am a part of Zarc… I am Zarc." Yuri looked at them, his eyes tired and looking for older then what he was. "Zarc's wants and desires are ingrained into my very soul… what he wants, I want… even if I do not want it… I still want it..."

"...like your final duel with Yuya?" Edo offered.

"Yes." Yuri looked down again. "Even though Yuya knew it was wrong, even though he know what would happen if he gave up, even though he did not want to become Zarc… even though he tried his hardest to resist… in actuality, the very desire to become one, to become whole was something that always existed inside of him and it was something he wanted and craved for more than anything else in the world…

It was the same for all of us...That is why… If Zarc could not become whole and deliver his 'audience' what they wanted as himself, then he would do it as me..." Yuri shuffled his right foot a bit as he went silent.

"Yuri..." Asuka said softly. "I don't know what to say..."

"..." Yuri didn't look up, instead he looked at the ocean. "That is all I wanted to explain..."

"If that's what you wanted to explain," Edo began.

"Then what's your second reason for visiting us?" Sora finished.

"The... second reason was..." Yuri began but stopped, eyes quickly sifting between Asuka and the ocean. "It...w-was.." He began to stutter, as if the words were dying in his throat. His hidden hands trembled and a small blush formed across his cheeks and ears. "w-was tooo... ssssee if y-your... offer... for f-f-f-frienndssship... was s-still... open..."

For the second time that day, the three Fusion duelists stared at the boy in utter disbelief and shock, their eyes comically wide.

"Sora...I think we're dreaming..." Asuka whispered.

"Me too…" Sora whispered back and they both reached over to the others arm and pinched it.

"That hurt." they said in unison.

"..." Yuri's lips trembled, unspoken words held back as silence stretched on. Yuri averted his gaze and began to wring his fingers. After what felt like an eternity, he closed his eyes expecting the worse.

"Yuri." Asuka's gentle voice pierced his unease and caused him to look at her.

Her hand was stretched towards him, waiting for him to return her handshake, her offer of friendship. Her face was lit with happiness as she smiled at Yuri.

Yuri stared at her hand in bafflement and disbelief. His eyes shifted to the side for a moment as if listening to someone, then, slowly, he reached his hand out towards hers. His hand trembled and twitched and hovered just in reach of hers as he hesitated for a moment.

Taking a shaky breath he held her hand.

"Thank you, Tenjōin-san..." Yuri's voice was uncharacteristically small and quiet but relief could be heard in it.

"No," Asuka shook her head and tightened her grip as she placed her other hand on his, "Since we're friends you have to call me that." She smiled innocently.

"Th-that?" Yuri questioned.

"You know, Thaaaat~!" she sang as poor Yuri looked incredibly confused for a moment. Then he realized what she wanted and his entire body blushed bright red and Sora could practically see steam coming from his head.

"Ahhhh..." Yuri attempted, the tried again when his voice died. "A-Aaaas-ssssuk-kaaaa..." Yuri paused for a moment, then quickly added, "San." at the end.

"Pfft! Hahaha!" Asuka tried to hold back a laugh. "It's a start!"

"Yeah." Sora agreed as he pulled out a round pink lollipop from his breast pocket. "Baby steps, Asuka. Don't overload his systems from the beginning." Sora popped the lollipop into his mouth, then reached over and placed his hand on Yuri's and Asuka's.

"To late," Edo smiled. "I think he's over heating already." He also placed his hand over the others, and together all three shook Yuri's hand as the boys eyes spun.

"What now?" Yuri asked, unsure of what friends actually did together.

"Now?" Sora asked with a wide grin.

"Now," Edo started with a smile.

"We," Asuka continued as she beamed.

"DUEL~!" They exclaimed happily in unison and proceeded to drag Yuri away, to take him somewhere with more room, so they could duel, play, have fun, and goof off.

And for the first time in his life, Yuri smiled a pure, true, and happy, smile.

~Omaki~

The Professor turned off the screen and covered his eyes with his hand. A frown carved itself onto his face and a single tear fell from his eye.

"I'm sorry, Yuri… I am so sorry..."

A/N: one note i want to make is, in Japanese, Yuri has an extremely polite way of talking and i tried to carry it over into English, so if his way of talking seems weird… that's why.

also, if you're wondering why Yuri calling her by her first name is a big deal, it's because it's proof that they are now close friends. more specifically, it has to do with the way Honorifics work. Honorifics are one of the things that make Japan so fascinating to me and i couldn't resist throwing that scene in there!