#Yuma is Astral's last thought before he became stone

[astralhope]

- Yuma... Someday, once again, we will... -

Rank 55: Yuma Jet!!

[lazella]

Yugioh Infinity Stone AU: Discovery

I wrote more. You’re welcome. Original plot bunny came from @nightfurylover31

Yugi was very uncomfortable for the next week. He could see the orange stone somehow every day. It could be in his hand or pocket one moment, then gone, then back in his hand again. Yami said that the stone never left the floor of their soul room though meaning it’s most likely projecting itself from their shared mind. Not to mention that every time they switched control; the stone would cry out with power ripping energy through them. It had gotten to the point that they were avoiding switching at all possible to avoid the sensation. Deep down Yugi knew it bothered Yami greatly to not have control from time to time. So, he thought of a plan.

No way aibou.

“Come on! We can’t let a rock take control of our whole lives!”

But switch for the whole evening?

“We’ve done a whole day before. When I set you up on that date with Anzu.”

That was different aibou and I’m still mad at you for not telling what you were planning. That should have been your date.

Yugi blushed, “It wasn’t like that…”

Yami sighed, Aibou I do appreciate your kindness, but this is your body. I’m only borrowing it.  You shouldn’t have to give it up like that.

“Need I remind you that we are partners in this? And besides…I already told the others that you wanted a night out.”

Aibou what…

“Have fun! They’re waiting for you down in the shop!” Yugi then enacted the switch before Yami had a chance to protest again. It took all of his free will to drown out the roar of the stone as they switched. Once things calmed down, he could feel Yami’s confusion and panic at suddenly being in control. Eventually Yugi felt Yami’s acceptance at the situation and started making his way downstairs. Now that Yami was sufficiently distracted, Yugi sat down in the Soul Room hallway and stared at the stone, “Now then…let’s see what we can do about you.”

“So this rock destroyed a table?”

“In quite the lightshow Johan. I’ve been keeping it under wraps since then.” Judai said.

“And you thought I would be the best expert on this?” His good friend Johan asked.

“You’re the crystal guy.” Judai grinned. “And Yubel kept teasing me about how I needed and excuse to visit you.”

“You know you don’t need an excuse…you can just come over…” Johan sighed.

“But about this stone?” Judai asked.

“Right…I don’t think it has anything to do with my Crystal Beasts.” Johan said as he scratched Ruby Carbuncle on the head, “And Amethyst Cat is very insistent that it is not an amethyst.”

“So back to square one….” Judai sighed as he leaned back in his seat.

“Have you looked at it with Yubel’s vision yet?” Johan asked.

Judai’s head met table.

“Didn’t think of that?”

“No…and now Yubel is laughing at me.” He groaned, “In hindsight…should have been the first thing I tried…” Sitting up, he focused so that eyes switched to the green and orange of Yubel. What he saw was intense. The stone in normal vision was already glowing rather brightly, now with Yubel’s sight it was like looking directly at the sun! He wanted to look away, but the glow became more beautiful. Like he was looking into galaxies that unfolded more galaxies releasing hundreds of stars.

JUDAI! “JUDAI!”

The sensation of being shaken around snapped him back to reality. At first, he thought everything had gone dark, but a few blinks revealed that his eyes were getting used to the imbalance of light. Eventually he could see Johan and Yubel looking at him rather worryingly.

“What happened?” He asked

“I don’t know…you just kind of zoned out…” Johan asked.

I thought you were going to go blind…the stone started glowing brighter when you started looking at it.

Judai rubbed his head and eyes. “Not doing that again…Is there anyone else we could call and ask for their opinions?”

“The only person I can think off is Pegasus but even he might be warry about looking at this. He once told me he learned his lesson of seeking powers he never fully understood.” Johan admitted biting his thumb.

“It wouldn’t hurt to try…..do you have his number?

“Not since he retired.”

“Track him the old fashion way it is then.”

Yusei read over the calculations on his computer. The green stone was now safely encased in a testing lab allowing him and his colleagues to run tests on it. No one had an idea about what the stone was made out off and the only attempt to get a sample fried their machines. Yusei called a few other scientists for their thoughts and some were on their way over to check it out. In the mean time his own lab were running their own experiments. Currently the favorite thing to do was to leave old object by the stone and comeback later to find them repaired. This only happened when Yusei was in the lab though which lead to some humorous encounters of Yusei being dragged away mid conversation because someone wanted to try a new thing. They started with broken bricks, rulers, and pipes and about thirty minutes being close to Yusei and the stone caused them to repair themselves…as if time itself rewound.

They had moved onto more complex items recently like watches and small bits of machinery. Even the sample cutter that had been fried was found to have been in pristine condition the next morning. Many of the other lab members joked and laughed about what a discovery they had made and began discussing ways to implement this throughout the city to help with infrastructure but Yusei was just unnerved. He thought about the implications hard. Was this stone a byproduct of Z-One’s manipulations of the timeline? Or was this the source of the technology that Z-One used to travel to the past?

Yusei bit his lip and looked at the time. Nine in the evening…he should be wrapping up and heading home. Sighing he went to save his calculations when a voice cut in.

“Dr. Fudo…can I ask you something?”

Yusei looked up, it was another one of the scientists who worked here. A rather older gentleman.

“Sure…what do you need?” Yusei answered.

“I just…wanted to know if I could leave this here….” The other scientist held up his hands cupping what looked to be an old necklace, rather tarnished looking and a few bits had broken off.

“You want to leave it…by the stone?” Yusei looked on in amazement, “Why?”

“It…belonged to my daughter….I lost her in Zero Reverse.” The older scientist said with a few tears in his eyes, “It’s the only thing I have to remember her by….her whole home was…gone….When I heard the other boys mention how anything left by that stone got repaired I thought….Maybe I could save this memento….”

Yusei found himself blinking back a few tears as well, “You’re welcome too if you want…I can’t guarantee the results. We haven’t documented how long the effects last and if they remain if they leave the lab.”

“That’s fine…even if it gives me a few moments to see it brand new like the day I got it for her…that would be enough….thank you Doctor…” He placed the necklace in a dish and left it by the stone’s containment before leaving.

Yusei stood in silence for a bit. Maybe the stone wasn’t a sign of bad times…..maybe it could be a sign of hope.

Eliphas frown a bit looking at the stone in Yuma’s possession. “That stone had an ability to bring you here with just a mere thought?”

“It did…to be honest it was rather scary….” Yuma admitted, “I didn’t know what was happening.

“We were rather lucky it only brought us here…” Astral said, “Who knows what else its capable off.”

“May I?” Eliphas held out his hand.

Yuma nodded and handed the stone over. With in an instant he could feel the power radiating from it. The sheer shock nearly caused him to drop it. But he was able to sense something.

“This stone seems to be reaching out and connecting to other worlds.” Eliphas explained, “That’s why it was able to teleport you here.”

“Do you think it can do anything else?” Yuma asked.

“I’m not sure…but I am going to hand this back to you…” Eliphas said as he did so, “It’s starting to become painful for me to hold it.”

This alarmed Astral, “How do you know that it won’t hurt Yuma?”

“I feel fine!” Yuma protested.

“Considering he had not complained, and he held onto it for so long we can make another assumption that Yuma holds some sort of resistant to it.” Eliphas said, “But just in case...” A silver cuff formed in his hand with an indent big enough for the gem, “In theory this should prevent the stone from acting up from passing thoughts.”

“Thanks! I really would hate it if it activates when I’m sleeping.” Yuma placed the cuff on his right wrist and placed the gem in the indent.

“Thank you Eliphas.” Astral said.

“Please keep me informed about anything that happens involving that stone.”

“We will….” Yuma said as he turned his focus back to the stone, “Take us home please….”

The stone glowed and the two were gone.

Yuya laughed as he jumped from platform to platform. He was having a duel against Sawatari at LDS taking advantage of the larger space. Currently he was in the lead and Sawatari was…well…

“GET BACK HERE SAKAKI!!!!”

Was the usual Sawatari.

“Oh come on…..we’re just having a fun duel!”

Sawatari just declared an attack.

Yuya above you!

“Thanks Yuto!” Yuya jumped for the Action Card above him allowing him to negate the attack. A few moves later, Yuya gained an easy victory.

“That’s not fair! You’ve got three people helping you out!” Sawatari complained.

“They don’t help with strategies!” Yuya argued back

We do…Yuto chimed in.

We are technically one person.  Yuri added.

“Both of you stop it…” Reiji’s voice echoed out from over the intercom, “Make sure you get back down to the ground before I deactivate the field.”

Both boys complied, safety was important in Action Duels after all. Yuya smiled, the carnival themed field was fun to play on. The Action Cards were even hidden in the carnival games.

“Wish we could play on it a little longer.” He whispered as the field faded away.

The red stone in his pocket to this moment to shine brightly surprising Yuya and Sawatari. Then Reiji’s voice came back over the intercom.

“Yuya you better have an explanation for this.”

The arena behind Yuya was now an exact replica of the holographic field that was just up, only this time real and solid.

There was collective panic inside Yuya’s head.

Did we do that!?

No you idiot the stone did!

But we’ll still get blamed for it!

Yuya you need to fix it!

“I know! I know! Just give me a minute!” Yuya hollered looking at the stone. He made a wish before so maybe again.

“I wish for the area to turn back to normal….”

Again, red energy flashed out. The tents and the balloons retreated back into concrete pillars and platforms.

“Yuya….”

He flinched. Reiji’s voice was coming from behind him, not over the intercom.

“My lab pronto….we have to analyze that stone.”

“So what now?” Ai asked.

Yusaku looked over at the yellow gem which was now incased in a glass box. If he didn’t make physical contact with it, the headaches stayed away.

“There’s no record of such a thing in SOL Technologies’ database. I would disregard Knights of Hanoi, but it can be difficult to determine their skills considering the Tower of Hanoi.

“And this is nothing like what we have in Cyberse…” Ai mused, “Hey! Think we can ask Soulburner and Flame?”

“Takeru? Why him?”

“Second opinion, I guess. It’s not like we can hop into Link Vrains willy nilly with all those bounty hunters after you.”

Yusaku groaned a bit, he didn’t want to return to Link Vrains but with whoever attacked Jin…he had no choice if he wanted to track down the culprit.

The stone started flashing at the exact moment Yusaku thought about Jin. Too much of a coincidence he thought. Grabbing the container, he held the stone up to his eye level as the flashing became more intense.

SOMEONE SAVE ME!!!!!

Yusaku screamed in alarm dropping the container and falling out of his chair.

“Whoa Yusaku! You okay! You’re eyes got all glowy and…” Ai kept rambling on but Yusaku wasn’t listening. He grabbed the stone and his duel disk making Ai let out a surprised yelp.

“Let’s go.”

“Go where?” Ai asked.

“We’re tracking those bastards down.” Yusaku said getting into his log in terminal. He really hoped he wasn’t hallucinating but he swear he just heard Jin’s voice, and he was crying out for help.

[city-writes]

Soul Eater: Zexal!

Its a new year at the DWMA, and that means fresh new faces for the academy! Following in his parents' footsteps, Yuma Tsukumo joins the school for fun, adventure, and long lasting friendships.

For Zexal Month Day 15: XYZ Beyond Time! (The Crossover Day!)

Warnings: Soul Eater AU; Multi chapter fic

Characters: Yuma Tsukumo, Astral, Ryoga Kamishiro, Rio Kamishiro, Durbe, Lord Death, Sid Barrett

[Read it here on AO3!]

The sun was laughing high in the cloudless sky, looking down over the Death Weapon Meister Academy as new students began to gather at the entrance of the school, each separated into one of two groups: Meisters, or Weapons.

The students were all chattering amongst themselves, and only quieted down as Lord Death made himself known, towering above the crowd of children as he spoke in a playful tone. "Why yes, hi, howdy, hello! What's up, kiddos?"

There were scattered greetings returned to Lord Death, though most people were silent, not having expected the Lord of Death to greet them in such a... playful way.

"It's great to see a bunch of fresh new faces for the academy!" Lord Death continued, gesturing to the crowd of students with a large, oversized, gloved hand. "Now before we get right down to business and head inside, there's the matter of matching you kiddos up with a partner! So take this time to get to know your future classmates, and find yourself a suitable partner!"

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Ryoga and Rio Kamishiro stood somewhat away from the large group, Ryoga folding his arms as he watched the other students mingle with one another. "This is stupid, Rio." He said, leaning against a pillar. "There's no point in me talking with any of these other people when I know exactly how this is going to turn out."

"Oh?" Rio asked, brushing some dust off of her skirt. "And how, exactly, do you expect this to turn out?"

"We're just going to end up together, as always." Ryoga bemoaned, "You can go see if you can find someone, but I'm just going to wait here for you to come back."

Rio gave a 'hmph!' and turned on her heel, intent on finding herself a Meister to prove her brother wrong.

As she made her way into the group of students, there were many boys and several girls eyeing her up and down, until a boy came up and began talking to her. "Hey there, pretty thing. You wouldn't happen to be looking for a Meister, would ya?"

Internally, Rio rolled her eyes, but on the outside she simply smiled. "Yes, I am." This garnered the attention of several more meisters around her, as rhe boy who spoke stepped forward.

"Well look no further, you've found your Meister!" He pointed to himself with a thumb, giving Rio a cocky grin. "Why don't you show me your weapon form and I'll show you just how compatible we could be."

Rio's smile became much more forced at that, but she shifted into her weapon form nonetheless, an ice blue shortsword, cold to the touch. She found herself on the ground in a clatter, as the boy struggled to pick her up off the ground.

"Augh, whats with you? Why are you so heavy?!"

"I'm not heavy," Rio countered, her voice emanating from the sword, "My brother can wield me just fine. You're just not as compatible as you thought, now are you?"

With a growl, the boy stopped trying to raise her, as another student tried to do the same and failed just as pathetically. This went on for quite a bit, before a young woman was able to slowly pick her up, struggling the entire way. It took the young woman a few moments to raise Rio up to the sky, but the minute she did, their soul wavelengths crashed into each other, not meshing at all. The action sent the girl reeling, and she unintentionally tossed Rio through the air.

Rio braced herself for impact as she flew through the air, staying in her weapon form, and was surprised when a hand reached out and grabbed her by the hilt, holding her up to the sky. The students who had been previously trying to use Rio watched in shock, as this boy who'd grabbed her was holding her with ease, and wasn't recoiling from the difference in soul wavelengths.

In fact, her soul wavelength was thrumming in time with his, and it felt...well, not exactly like when hers and Ryoga's wavelengths were in tune, but it was damn near close.

The boy who'd caught her was barely taller than Ryoga; he wore glasses, along with a white buttondown shirt and a black waistcoat, as well as a green scarf. He lowered his arm so he could look directly at the shortsword in his hand, and spoke. "Are you alright?"

The blade of the shortsword dematerialized and was replaced with Rio's upper half, who nodded in response to his question. "Yes, I'm alright, thanks to you."

The boy smiled and shook his head, "It was nothing. My name's Durbe. And you are?"

"Rio, Rio Kamishiro." Rio smiled back at him, before looking down to the ground. "Would you mind letting me go now?"

"Right, sorry." Durbe let go of the hilt of Rio's blade, and no sooner than he did, did she shift out of her weapon form, her feet landing firmly on the stone floor beneath them. "There you go. Well, it was nice to meet you." He said, beginning to turn with the intent of walking away.

Rio gave him a funny look, shocked that this Meister who handled her without any issue was just walking away as opposed to ogling over her like most people did. "I'm surprised that a partnerless Meister is passing over a weapon they flowed well with."

Durbe stopped and turned back to look at Rio. "As honored as I'd be to be your Meister," he began, raising his hand to motion to the tag on his chest. "I'm looking for one myself."

Oh, Rio realized. His tag said 'Weapon', too. What a shame, she could have proved Ryoga wrong by showing back up with a Meister that would have matched her soul's wavelength. Wait... if Durbe matched her soul wavelength... it'd make sense that he'd match Ryoga's too, right?

Rio smirked then and folded her arms. "What if I said I could find you one?"

"I doubt it," Durbe said, shaking his head. "No one's wanted me as their weapon."

Rio frowned at that, tilting her head just slightly. "Why's that?"

"Because I'm not exactly a 'weapon', per se." Durbe pushed his glasses up then, looking somewhat embarrassed. "My weapon form is a metal shield; A heater shield to be exact, one that curves and comes to a point on top."

"A shield?" Rio murmured incredulously. This was the first time she'd heard of someone's weapon form being something more defensively based as opposed to offensively based. People were usually swords or scythes or something of the sort, but a shield? She took a moment to think, before smiling knowingly. "I don't think that will change anything. Follow me."

With nothing to lose, Durbe agreed, and followed Rio as she made her way back to Ryoga, who was still leaning against the same pillar.

"Back so soon?" Ryoga questioned with a smirk.

"Oh, hush." Rio chided, before gesturing a hand to Durbe. "This is Durbe. Durbe," Rio looked to Durbe then, now motioning at Ryoga. "This is my twin brother, Ryoga."

"Your twin?" Durbe inquired, looking between the two. "It's nice to meet you, Ryoga."

"Really? This nerd is your partner?" Ryoga asked with a bit of snark to his tone, causing Durbe to frown slightly and Rio to put her hands on her hips.

"Nope," Rio replied, leaning in a bit, a mischievous grin on her face, "He's yours." With that, she looked to Durbe. "Do you mind showing us your weapon form?"

Durbe shook his head, and quickly shifted from his human form to his weapon form, which was true to his word, a white metal heater shield. Ryoga instinctively caught Durbe before he hit the ground and blinked frowning as he begrudgingly strapped Durbe to his left arm. He was about to make a comment about how in the hell would he be able to use this guy as an actual weapon, but as Ryoga took note of their matching soul wavelengths, he kept his mouth shut, but frowned nonetheless, a low hum escaping him.

"Well?"

Ryoga looked at Rio upon hearing her knowing tone. "His soul wavelength matches almost as well as yours does." He admitted. When Rio smirked and nodded, he rolled his eyes and looked down at Durbe. "Alright, nerd. What do you have to say about this?"

"My name is Durbe, not nerd, first off." Came Durbe's voice, emanating from the shield. "Secondly, I'm willing to see where this partnership takes us if you are."

"Can you attack at all?"

"Not to my knowledge." Durbe explained, sounding downtrodden, "But perhaps I just need a Meister to draw out my latent abilities."

"Hmm." Ryoga frowned still, but sighed and shrugged his shoulders. "I guess I can work with that." He looked to Rio then, who looked pleased with herself. "And what about you? You still haven't found yourself a Meister."

Ryoga's only reply was Rio saying, "Catch."

With that, Rio lunged for her twin brother, quickly shifting into her weapon form, and Ryoga was quick to catch her, wielding her in his right hand. The moment his hand grabbed at the hilt of her blade, he gasped, feeling the power of two different soul wavelengths mesh in near sync with his own. It was unlike anything he'd felt before, unlike how he felt simply wielding Rio by herself. He didn't know how to describe it, but if he had to put it into words, it was like his soul was humming a tune, and both Rio and Durbe's souls managed to not only match his tune, but find their own respective harmonies to compliment it.

"I think..." Ryoga said after exhaling a breath he hadn't even realized he'd been holding, "I think we can make this work."

Simultaneously, Rio and Durbe shifted out of their weapon forms and were soon standing on either side of Ryoga. Looking at themselves amazedly. They surely had felt it too, the same near synchronization that Ryoga himself had felt... They both looked at Ryoga, Durbe with a weak smile on his face, and Rio practically grinning from ear to ear. "I think we can too, Ryoga." They both looked at Durbe then, who was still looking at his hands in awe. He looked up then, feeling the twins' gaze upon him, and nodded in agreement.

"Yes, I think this will work."

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Yuma Tsukumo watched as a purple haired Meister paired up with two weapons - a sword and shield - and pouted, rubbing the back of his head with a hand. "Man, I hope I find a partner soon." He looked down at his Meister tag, then began walking around, trying to find a weapon who he could match up with. He was met with nothing but denials and refusals, all from weapons who'd already partnered up with other Meisters.

"Gah!" Yuma used both hands to scratch at his head, a look of duress on his face, "Why is this so hard?!" All he wanted to do was find a partner to be best friends with and go on cool adventures and---

"Alright kiddos," Lord Death announced, "Everyone seems to have found themselves suitable partners! Let's start heading inside!"

"W-Wait, what?!" Yuma asked, his cry going unheard by Lord Death due to the chatter of dozens of students excited by what awaited them, "Does everyone have a partner but me?"

As the students began funneling their way into the school, Yuma simply stood in place, watching as they entered the school without him. "Maybe somebody's late!" He told himself, standing tall with his hands at his hips. "Maybe this is just how mine and my partner's story starts!" He turned and looked out to Death City, seeing if he was right and someone was late. "Maybe--"

"Uh, hello?"

Hearing Lord Death's voice, Yuma froze, and slowly turned his head to look over his shoulder. Upon seeing Lord Death waiting for him patiently, Yuma blanched and turned around immediately, booking it towards the school's entrance. "Sorry, Lord Death!"

"Hold your horses there, kiddo," Lord Death held out a hand in order to slow Yuma down, and looked at him curiously. "You look familiar. What's your name?"

Yuma blinked at that. Familiar? How did he manage to come off as familiar? This was his first time meeting Lord Death face-to-face! "Yuma Tsukumo."

"Tsukumo? Tsukumo..." Lord Death rose a hand to the bottom of his mask, tapping it gently as he looked upward in thought. "Tsukumo... Aha!" Lord Death clapped his hands together, then looked back down towards Yuma. "Your parents wouldn't happen to be Mirai and Kazuma, would they?"

"Yeah, that's my mom and dad!" Yuma said proudly, smirking as he did so. His smirk faltered slightly though as he asked, "How did you know that?"

"You're the spitting image of your father!" Lord Death replied cheerfully. "I remember him and your mother well! They worked for me for a short time, and your mother was well on her way to being a Death Scythe when she and Kazuma decided they wanted to start a family together. How are they doing?"

Yuma looked downward for a moment then, exhaling before looking back up at Lord Death. "They went missing several years ago. There was a gathering of witches near our town, and everyone who could fight went to do so. They never came back."

"Oh..." Lord Death's usually goofy boice became serious then, and he placed a hand onto Yuma's shoulder. "I'm sorry to hear that. Your mother and father were good people."

"Thanks." Yuma nodded at that, then looked up to Lord Death with a smile. "That's why I came here, I want to be as good as my parents were; better even! Then maybe one day I can go out and find them!"

"That's an admirable goal, Yuma!" Lord Death's voice was back to its goofy self again, and he removed his hand from Yuma's shoulder, turning to look towards the school's entrance, "Let's get you a partner and get you settled into the DWMA nicely!"

"But Lord Death," Yuma began, walking with the headmaster into the school, "isn't it too late to find a partner?"

"Not at all!" Lord Death's voice was chipper, and there was a bit of a bounce in his proverbial step as he floated down the hallway, guiding Yuma to where the other students were being shown around by various teachers. "There are some students here who still don't have a partner, so perhaps one of them will be the key to finding you someone to partner up with!"

"You think so?"

"My boy, I know so!" As they joined the rest of the students in the hallway, Lord Death continued, "Let's just have a looksee at your soul," Lord Death said as he stsred right at Yuma, "and I'll be able to tell you if... you... Huh."

Yuma blinked. "Um, Lord Death? Is everything ok?"

Lord Death was quiet for a moment, but soon snapped out of whatever caught him off guard, laughing slightly. "Oh, its nothing. The souls of you youngsters never cease to amaze me!" His laughter slowed to a stop, before he cleared his voice. "How about this: After classes today, before you head home, stop by my office and we'll see about finding you a partner?"

Yuma smiled brightly at that, "Alright, sounds like a plan!"

"Well then, get along and join your fellow classmates before we lose them again!" Lord Death patted Yuma's back gently, and Yuma nodded walking towards the group and waving back at Lord Death, who enthusiastically returned the wave. When Yuma was out of sight, engulfed by the mass of students, Lord Death turned to one of the teachers nearby. "Sid?"

Sid Barrett turned at the sound of Lord Death's voice, and stood at attention. "Yes, Lord Death?"

"How's our friend downstairs doing today?"

Sid hummed lowly, shaking his head. "He still refuses to talk to us, sir. He only asks for books to read and paper to write with. Why do you ask?"

Lord Death looked back towards the disappearing mass of students, and spoke softly, "I believe we might have found a Meister for our magic friend."