Odd Couple | By : DragonetteVie Category: Yu-Gi-Oh > Het - Male/Female Views: 4539 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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In spite of the relaxed mood of the finalists, there was a heavy weight of suspicion in the air. The presence of Bakura, whose injury was grievous, and the strange behavior of Namu both weighed heavily on the duelists in attendance. There was no way that Marik was the only Rare Hunter in the competition – he was full of confidence, but he wasn't stupid enough to bet everything on himself. There were so many duelists who could be on his side – Bakura, Namu, even the eighth mystery duelist, or perhaps even Jou under Marik's mind control. Kaiba's unusually abrasive behavior did little to help – the God Cards were more important to him than safety, even in regards to his own brother.
The young man was ripped from his thoughts by a knock on his door. He left his cards on the table and rose to answer it – it came as no surprise that it was Kokoro on the other side. She had somehow found his favorite soda, which hadn't been put in his mini-fridge, and handed him one as though it were a peace offering.“I ran into someone on my way here.”He couldn't tell if her tone was good or bad – her face was a solemn mask and her voice flat. Her only tell was the way she tapped her fingers against her soda bottle, and her nerves began to make him nervous.“They knew.”He felt Yami surge to life. It seemed as if Kokoro could see him just as easily as he could – her eyes flickered to the cushion where he appeared in his apparition-like form. It was possible she didn't. The other spirit, or Shuujin, as she had begun to call it, responded to his presence, and she could tell them apart when his friends could not – she could easily sense him, through it.“About Shuujin?”She nodded slowly.“Who was it? Marik? What did he say?”The idea that anyone knew about Shuujin was enough to frighten him and Yami alike. Part of it was the same fear anyone felt when someone important to them was in danger, but the other part was the fear it could be turned against him. Shuujin seemed to ally himself with Kokoro, and trusted those that she trusted – whether it was truly good or evil might not matter if Marik were able to possess Kokoro's mind and make her his slave. The chance that he could take control of something as potentially powerful as Shuujin was enough to make him cringe.He found it odd that Kokoro had pulled her deck from it's hiding spot in her jacket. She stared at one card for a moment, as though it might reveal a message she hadn't seen before.“Do you sometimes feel like your cards are something more?”He paused. Why had she changed the topic?“Sometimes. When I first found the Dark Magician, I knew it was a card I was meant to have. Why?”Her expression morphed the longer she stared at the card. Her brow furrowed, and she began to worry her bottom lip as though she might burst into tears. A gust of air blew through her nose, and she dropped the card onto the table. It landed face down, but he hesitated to reach for it.“I bumped into the eighth duelist. She told me it was time to stop being afraid of myself, that I had to protect not only myself but the people that I love. It got me thinking about you and the spirit. He became a part of you when you got the Millennium Puzzle.”She reached down and lifted the card. She placed it face up and pushed it towards him. It was a monster – a powerful one. The image reminded him of his own God Card, and he realized that the reason he was afraid to flip it over was because of the power that seemed to emanate from it.“The first time I felt Shuujin's presence was after I added this card to my deck.”While AFF and its agents attempt to remove all illegal works from the site as quickly and thoroughly as possible, there is always the possibility that some submissions may be overlooked or dismissed in error. The AFF system includes a rigorous and complex abuse control system in order to prevent improper use of the AFF service, and we hope that its deployment indicates a good-faith effort to eliminate any illegal material on the site in a fair and unbiased manner. This abuse control system is run in accordance with the strict guidelines specified above.
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