Dimensions in Someone Else's Shoes

Author's Note: Enjoy the story and R&R.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to or of the Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V series.

Pairings: Established Yuya x Allen. Referenced one-sided (canon) Mieru x Yuya.

Summary:

What's it like to walk/skate several dimensions in someone else's shoes?


Yuya liked to think he had an intimate understanding of Allen now. He'd walked – and skated – several dimensions in Allen's shoes, whatever the unit of measurement between dimensions was.

Maybe Reiji knew. Yuya sure didn't. The formula to solve for distance required variables x, y, and z, and Yuya in the beginning had a hard enough time wrapping his head around the existence of an Xyz Dimension.

Miles was the conventional scale. The saying is "Walk a mile in someone else's shoes," and not "Walk an (advanced algebra problem from which you'll never recover) in someone else's shoes," after all.

Without knowing what Reiji would say, Yuya had a feeling the math was closer to the latter, however. Upper-level Linear Equation Cannon-style mental acrobatics!

He hadn't been keeping track of the distance he actually covered from the Xyz Dimension to the Fusion Dimension, and then from the Fusion Dimension back to the Standard-turned-Pendulum Dimension.

Counting on his fingers wouldn't help.

How do you account for unexpected teleportation?

You obviously don't factor in the pained staggering about Yuya did in Allen's rollerboots inside his own head while Zarc was in control, right?

Yuya swung his feet over the bed, where they sank comfortably into the inner lining of his – of Allen's – shoes. Normally, he'd avoid wearing his (again, Allen's) shoes upstairs, but…hey, he wasn't paying attention to where he stepped when he got up.

Allen was still asleep.

Unlike the peace between the Xyz and Fusion Dimensions now, that lasted FIVE seconds.

"DARLINGGG!" the intruder by his window shrieked against the glass.

"M-MIERU?" Yuya choked.

Allen poked his head out from under his poncho like a turtle. "Your stalker's back…"

Fortunately, Yuya was already wearing the rollerboots. He had a head start skating outta there!

"Morning, Mom! Bye, Mom!" He breezed by Yoko.

"Yuya! No rollerblading in the house!"