Ray Akaba took a deep sigh as she was finishing some work her father asked her to do.

While she didn't mind her job in Leo Corporation at all, it sometimes annoyed her when she wanted other things to do…

Especially recently since it keeps her away from…well, let's not get too ahead of ourselves.

"And done," Ray said.

"Thanks Ray, studying this new method of summoning has gone smoothly thanks to your help" Leo said and he ruffled the top of her head.

Ray only giggled at that, she was 20 years old yet she still loved those displays of love from her dad….and someone else when he did feel like it.

"Well you discovered it thanks to me in the first place too, I mean we basically made it so…"

Leo frowned at that, knowing what she was referring to…

"Well, how long do you think until we can finally release it to the public and start producing these new cards?"

"Not a lot I say, with his cooperation it would be done quickly…also remember he's gotta be credited as the founder of it"

"...People are gonna ask about him Ray"

"Well make something up and silence any…interlopers if they try to be funny" Ray shrugged.

Leo sighed. "Ray, you're playing a dangerous game here…"

"Not really, the Colosseum dueling style has gone down massively so…"

"Ray, you know what I'm referring to…"

Ray narrowed her eyes.

"I'm not letting him go dad"

"Ray people are still looking for him"

"And nobody will track him to us, it's fine…and even if it wasn't I'm not letting him go" Her face shadowed as her eyes lost the light in them.

Leo sighed again. "If you say so…"

"Come on dad, you helped me with it, so you can't say you're clean"

"Because it makes you happy"

Then Ray's face went back to normal. "And that makes you an awesome dad, don't worry, eventually he'll come around and we can make something up to prevent suspicion onto us"

"If you say so…though even despite all he did I don't think this is the right way to go about it"

"He's just confused and doesn't know he's mine, but I'm getting through it…" Ray dismissed it.

"...Be careful"

"I will be, you worry too much…so…you don't need me any more for the day?"

"No I don't"

"Good, anyways, I'm going back to my love nest, you know we're to find me"

Leo nodded and went back to his work as Ray excited the room

"My dad is just the best, I should get him a gift or something nice" Ray muttered with a smile as she strolled through the building to her office to pick up her duel disk and a few things.

She picked the teleporter option and now warped to her house.

"Home sweet home" She said with a smile and went to pick up a few things in her house.

After that, she finally entered her room, clean, nothing out of place or suspicious…it looked like it wasn't used much at all lately.

And it was true, she was sleeping somewhere else…

She went to where a poster of a certain someone was.

"Voice recognition:Ray Akaba" She said.

"Voice recognized" an electronic voice spoke.

Suddenly the wall moved to reveal an eye and fingerprint scanners.

Ray then took out some contacts she was wearing and let the machine scan her eyes, then she let it scan her fingerprints.

Suddenly an holographic keyboard popped up.

Ray input her password.

"Access approved" The computer said and it opened a door that had some sort of energy field on it.

Ray passed through it harmlessly and it closed behind her, satisfied with this she walked as she was humming some songs to herself.

She was descending some stairs and went deeper and deeper underground until she was in a pretty massive labyrinth.

She smiled and shouted "Sweetie I'm home!"

He didn't show up, which means he was either exploring somewhere else or he was hiding from her.

"Do you really wanna play Hide and Seek? That's fine, but I could use some cuddles you know? Just saying" Ray said as she started walking through the maze while humming.

It was fun really, sometimes she caught him by surprise and sometimes he caught her, both of them had a lot of knowledge of the place given how much they spent on it…willing or otherwise.

"Let's see let's see…kitchen?" She entered one room that as the title implied looked like a kitchen, complete with a table, microwave, oven, fridge and all other things.

"Hn, wish you surprised me with a meal or something, I guess that depends on your mood" She said.

Leaving the room behind, she kept moving through the maze until she arrived at another room.

"Bathroom?...No?" She looked around the room that was indeed like a bathroom "Wait, you showered? I mean that's good but I hoped we could take one together again…oh well, another time it will be" She said and kept moving.

She was having a certain feeling she was being watched, but couldn't pinpoint where it was coming from, not that she needed to guess who it was…

"Duel Arena? No? I mean I am kinda in the mood for a duel, especially since it would help us develop that new summoning method you created, you can see your dragons again too!" She said while she was in a room that there were many duel arenas for different dueling styles.

"Huh…He didn't get angry when I brought them up, he's controlling himself better" She commented and moved on.

"You know this is just delaying the inevitable? I mean I enjoy it but you know we're gonna meet face to face at the end" She said.

No answer again.

"Suit yourself…let's see…personal room!" She jumped into the next room.

There was a lot of stuff there, kinda messy and was filled with photos, trophies and other personal stuff.

Ray looked around the room and was enjoying looking at his face in the photos, especially of his happier days…only thing better would be seeing him in person…

But it was then she spotted something, among all the photos of him and his monsters there was one that wasn't there before…a photo of her.

She immediately went to look at it, he must have took it while she was asleep that one time, it was scribbled all over with hearts, skulls and question marks and the words "The frustrating lump of flesh that makes me feel confused beyond belief"

Her heart skipped a beat over that and her happiness was rising. She knew she was making progress but everytime she was shown that it still surprised her like the first time.

She smiled and ran into the next room.

"Bed-"

She wasn't able to Finish the words because something tackled her into the ground and they rolled around until she was pinned down and someone was on top of her.

And it was the face she wanted to see, angry look and all.

"Hi sweetie," Ray said.

"Piss off" Zarc responded annoyed.

Despite that Ray was smiling and she went in for a kiss that Zarc dodged.

"Ah come on, where's my welcome kiss?" She asked.

"Kiss your own damn hand" Zarc growled at her.

"Kinda hard to do if you keep it pin down"

He just rolled his eyes.

"So…what are you gonna do to me?" She asked.

"Nothing fun I can tell you that"

"Everything you do to me is fun"

"Well this one won't be"

"Aha, so are you still gonna play tough guy act even though it's pointless? Or you can give some love? Or I can give you love if you want"

Zarc growled again and just got off her in frustration.

"Nice ambush by the way, you're really getting the hang of being stealthy" She dusted herself off as she got up.

He didn't answer her.

"Kinda wish you did something else After you caught me, but we have a lot of time for men that anyways"

He wasn't looking at her.

"So how was your day? Mine was a bit tiring working out Pendulum summoning, don't worry you will get credit for it once it's done"

...

"You know giving me silent treatment doesn't work"

"And trapping people and stripping them of their freedom doesn't endear them to you either" He finally replied to her.

"Except it does, as you been graciously showing me"

"You're being delusional"

"Nope, you're just a tsundere"

"And you're a crazy toxic bitch"

"I guess the fact I fell in love with a crazy attempted mass murdering maniac makes sense then"

…he didn't reply to her, but she could tell she struck a nerve.

"But it's ok, I know you no longer want to do that, we been making a lot of progress…soon you'll go back to that amazing person you used to be"

Zarc wasn't looking at her, he didn't want to look, but he could feel a pull from his arm that got more forceful until he finally gave in and looked at her.

"Let's go to bed and watch something, ok?" She asked softly and kindly.

He should have said no, he should have pulled away and run away to find another hiding spot, it would do night in the end but piss her off and that was certainly worth it…yeah, worth it…

But despite that, he let her guide him to the bed, getting some snacks she must have brought from the outside to eat, she jumped at the bed and patted the side to motion him to sit with her…

And he hated himself as he went and laid beside her.

She beamed at him, making him hate the way it made him feel warm inside, then she proceeded to hug and nuzzle him a lot, it was clear she missed him…even if she spent most of her time with him.

He at least resisted the urge to wrap an arm around her.

She put some movie they both barely gonna pay attention to before going back to seducing him or some of her tricks.

"I missed you"

"Thanks, I didn't"

"Liar liar pants on fire"

"Believe what you like, trying to convince you is pointless"

"Or maybe you're just lying"

"Ugh…shut up"

"Fine…"

The two went back to watching the movie…for a whole two minutes.

"So how was your day?"

"Come on, you haven't told me yet"

"Trapped, what else?"

"I don't get why you keep complaining about that, you have everything you ever want here, I don't keep you chained and sure you don't have your dragons always like you used to be, but you still see them…and you even have a human companion when you never had it before!"

"We're not close, being away from my dragons does upset me…and I rather have a hard time out there than being stripped of my freedom, something you will never get"

Ray rolled her eyes. "Suit yourself…not that you deserve freedom anyways…"

"..."

"Come on, regardless of what I do here you're the evil one for trying to kill everyone and hurting so many people beforehand"

"..."

"Be glad you're here, we're properly cared for and not in prison…"

"..."

"People got worse for less…"

"..."

"You're not gonna answer me?"

"If I'm so bad, why do you let me live then?"

"This again? I hope you're not going back to your silly suicidal phase, do you know how worried I was? How worried your monsters were? All because your stupid pride and need for freedom"

"..."

"...Come on, I'm sorry if I'm being too mean, but you're frustrating me with being stubborn for stubborness sake"

"..."

"Hey, look at me" Ray positioned herself much to Zarc's annoyance so he was looking directly at her.

"Regardless of how much you "hate" this…you can't say it's worse that when you were hurting people, right?"

For a second Zarc's frown faltered and she saw her opportunity.

"You're not forced to be something you're not here, you're rejecting me despite all I have done for you, so clearly you finally developed some boundaries, you can be yourself…"

"...You're forcing me to love you"

"I'm being pushy, that I admit…but we both know you want this Zarc, you want my care, you want my companionship, you want my love…"

"...I don't…"

"Yes you do, I saw you back when you were dueling to hurt…I could tell you hated it despite how much you thought you enjoyed…I saw it a lot…and I don't see that when you're around me, not at all…"

"You're being delusional…"

"Guess we'll see…Zarc?"

"What?"

"You can't make everyone smile"

"Huh? What does that have to do with anything?"

"Because I see it in your eyes…slowly you're returning back to who you used to be"

"I don't get it…and didn't you say you wanted me to be who I used to be?"

"Yes, but I see you're going back to that mindset, the one who wanted to make everyone smile, I can see it…You want to see if your old methods could work, if you could duel the way you wanted you could maybe please everyone…"

"What gives you that idea?"

"Because you love my smile, you love when your purposely make me smile, I seen it and you can't hide it from me"

"...So?"

"You can't make everyone smile, that's the sad truth of this world, you're gonna try and try and be depressed trying it, you're gonna destroy yourself trying to manage that, even if you're not gonna hurt anyone else now…"

Suddenly her eyes lost all light on them and she looked directly into his eyes.

"And I'm not ever gonna let you do that, you or anyone else"

This freaked Zarc out a bit and she returned to normal.

"That ideal is noble, it makes you…you…but I refuse to let it take you away from me…again"

"...So what do you suggest?"

Suddenly she gave him a radiant smile.

"You don't need to make everyone smile…sometimes, in this world, you just need to make the people you care about smile, like your monsters…or me"

She smiled radiantly at him.

"Just being yourself always makes me smile like never before"

Ray admired how much he was holding back not looking touched by her words.

"...Do you just want to have my attention all to yourself?"

"Wow you're sharp as a knife, but yeah that's part of it" She giggled.

Zarc rolled his eyes but couldn't help cracking a smile.

"...Why are you so obsessed with me anyways?"

"Hn?"

"I mean…we didn't know each other, I think the day you stood up to me as I was preparing to Begin my rampage was the first day we talked to each other"

"...It's not like I didn't know about you before, I saw you on TV for the first time while you were starting out, I was curious of all the crazy stuff you were doing…but it was when I saw you smile…the smile you made when you made people smile, even if it was not all of them like you wanted…it stuck into my brain and planted the seeds…and the more I saw you the more that grew…" She trailed on.

"Surprised you still cared after I started becoming violent…"

"I thought I stopped caring, that you became something I hated…but I noticed it…I noticed how fake and painful your smiles became, how you were actually suffering alongside your monster but you soldiered on because you thought it was your divine mission to make people smile…"

She looked at him with empty eyes.

"Despite everything I felt bad for you, really bad for you…slowly it grew into wanting to help you…without realizing, that obsession that planted itself in my brain a long time ago came back…or to be honest, it never really left, it just grew more and more twisted…I wanted to take care of you, I wanted to protect you, to fix you…to have you all to myself"

Zarc got a bit spooked by that.

"I guess the day I confronted you in private and pressured you until you revealed your plans was the day I…snapped. You became so corrupted, so miserable, so full of hate…you stopped being you…and that pissed me off a wee bit"

"A wee bit?"

Ray rolled her eyes. "Like you're one to criticize people about snapping"

"Touché"

"But yeah…I decided that clearly you couldn't be trusted to be free and couldn't trust the world to not corrupt you…so I decided that I would have you all to myself, to love you and heal you until you were the person that you used to be"

"...I guess if I had know this would have happened I would never started hurting people"

"That wouldn't have worked either sweetie"

"What?"

"Zarc…I was always destined to be obsessed with you…since the day I saw you…It was always gonna end with us together, one way or another…"

"Yeah right, I still don't love you"

"Hn, stubborn to the very end aren't you? It's ok, it's one of the things I love about you…But it's fine…"

"Really?"

"Yup…because I'm going to win"

"Really?" He asked again in a daring manner.

"Yeah…you aren't gonna hold over much longer…as I said before, you want this, you want me…even now you're making concession after concession in giving me affection…you aren't gonna resist Zarc…"

"I can…"

"You sure? You couldn't resist hurting people even though you hated it just because it made other people happy. What makes you think you can resist something that makes you and another person happy? Something that doesn't involve hurting other people?"

"..."

"Nobody is gonna think less of you when you give in Zarc, it will be ok…I wait as long as it takes until you're ready to accept my love…everything will be better once that happens" She spoke in whispers.

"...You'll be waiting for a long time for that"

"If you say so, as I said…I wait as long as it takes, we have our whole lives to each other after all…"

Ray then turned around until she was lying on Zarc's body, her head right under his chin as she continued watching the movie…

And she couldn't help her victory smile and the warm in her chest when Zarc wrapped his hands around her as a hug.


There's a distinct lack of Yandere Ray in Genesisshipping fics...let me fix that.