#fubuki x saiou

[higuchimon]

[fanfic] Song of Starting Anew

Saiou's fingers danced elegantly across the keys.  He may well have lost his gifts to see the future - something he struggled to adjust to even now after five years - but he'd focused on his music once he began to be in a position to do so, and he enjoyed creating the greatest beauty that he could.

"That's not too bad," an unfamiliar voice spoke.  He glanced up to see someone lounging in the doorway and blinked towards them.  So far as he knew, he hadn't invited any guests over, nor had Edo or Mizuchi. So what this stranger wanted baffled him.

"Thank you,"  he replied first.  The stranger did look familiar, now that he considered it, but he couldn't place the name at first.  "Might I know who you are and what you're doing in my home?"

The stranger pushed himself off the doorway and strolled in.  His smile was wide and warm and accepting. "We never did really meet at Duel Academia, so I'm not surprised you don't know me."

Hm.  That must by why the face seemed oddly familiar.  He didn't wear an Academia uniform, or anything like it. In point of fact, he wore a Hawaiian shirt and shorts, as if he'd just come from the beach or planned on going there.  The more Saiou considered it, the more he thought he might have seen someone in similar garb around school grounds.  That time wasn't very clear anymore, of course.

When he got close enough, the stranger stuck his hand out.  "Tenjoin Fubuki.  My sister's Tenjoin Asuka and my best friend is Marufuji Ryou."

Oh.  That made a great deal more sense.  Saiou remembered Tenjoin-san and he certainly was aware of Marufuji Ryou, given that he and Edo dated off and on.  They'd had dinner together more than once, and Saiou thought that this elder Tenjoin had been mentioned.

So he carefully rested his hand in the other's and Fubuki pumped it cheerfully.  "Anyway, like I said, you're pretty good.  Mind if I join you?"

Saiou hadn't expected that, either.  But he shifted over.  "Go ahead."  He wasn't certain if this were a good idea, but even though he didn't have the gift of foresight anymore, he didn't think this Tenjoin Fubuki was a threat to anyone.

Fubuki settled next to him, then looked towards him.  "Play something?  I'm not good at playing, at least not piano."  His deep brown eyes twinkled briefly.  "But I am really good at singing."

Saiou considered that briefly, shrugged to himself, then started to play again, the same melody that he'd worked on before.  He'd written it himself, though he'd never bothered writing lyrics for it.  Fubuki listened for a few moments, then started to hum, matching the rhythm effortlessly.  Saiou continued to play, losing himself in the music as he did so often. 

Somewhere in there, Fubuki started to sing, and the lyrics he crafted, apparently off the top of his head, fit the melody almost perfectly.  Saiou's fingers stuttered briefly on the keys, then he recovered himself, listening to both the music he made and what Fubuki made.  He couldn't help but smile at the lyrics; he'd never envisioned them before, and yet they fit as if he'd crated them perosnally.

"Why did you come here?" Saiou asked as the song finally came to an end.  Fubuki looked at him.

"I heard the music,"  he said after a few moments.  "I was coming over to see if Ryou was here, since I wanted to see if he were free to go to a movie with me and Yuusuke."  His eyes lit up.  "You should meet Yuusuke, too, you know.  He knows a lot about that spooky stuff."

Saiou blinked a few times.  He'd met Fujiwara Yuusuke before, if only for a short time, at Yuuki Juudai's graduation ceremony.  They'd spoken briefly and they did exchange e-mails on occasion.

"We've met,"  Saiou said at last, quietly.  "He's an interesting person."  Though truth to tell, Fubuki was equally as interesting, if in a different way.  He'd never seen someone so utterly open in heart and in mind.  Saiou knew very well what he'd done to Fubuki's sister and he regretted it, and all of his actions in those long ago days.  But Fubuki hadn't even mentioned it. 

Fubuki nodded cheerfully before he started talking more about music.   Saiou listened quietly, offering his own comments at various points, but something became very clear as they went along - what Fubuki wasn't talking about.

When Fubuki actually stopped talking for a few minutes, Saiou made an effort of his own.  He'd been wary of what might happen when Fubuki appeared, but now he thought he needed to ask.

"Why don't you say anything about what happened at Duel Academia?  I - I brainwashed your sister.  I know how much you care about her."  He remembered seeing that at the graduation, and having heard a few rumors that he remembered now.  He'd used Manjoume to do it, but he'd had his own hand in matters.

Fubuki stared at him, blinking in confusion, before he laughed.  "Did you really want me to yell in your face about something that happened five years ago?"

Saiou couldn't quite believe that he'd heard that.  There were few days that he didn't at least think about what he'd done and try to make up for it in some fashion.  Creating music was one of those way - creation to counter the destruction he'd sown and wanted to sow.  He wanted to say something but no words came out of his mouth.

Fubuki must have seen something of that surprise in him, since he softened a breath later.  "It's not just that, though.  I mean - you were possessed, right?  The Light of Ruin." 

Saiou nodded quietly.  No matter how long he lived, he'd never forget the clean, sharp presence of that entity inside of himself, in those times before it forced him out and used his body like its own personal puppet.  Even the Darkness of Nihility hadn't done that to him. 

"I know.  I know what it's like."  Fubuki's fingers slipped over the keys randomly, not making music but just touching, quietly.  "You're not the only one who has been possessed, you know."  For a breath he hesitated, then dipped his fingers inside of his coat and pulled out a card, setting it down.

Saiou glanced at it.  He'd never seen this card before but he knew what it was at once.  Darkness hadn't worn that form when it came to him, but it was familiar nevertheless.  "Darkness..."

"Yup.  Long story on there but I had that living in me for a couple of years."  Fubuki regarded it thoughtfully before he picked the card up and put it away. "But I can control it now.  It hasn't bothered me in years.  Sometimes i think it's gone altogether."  He shrugged.  "Point is, I know where you're coming from.  I've done things that I wish I hadn't too." For a few seconds, his eyes were distant, farther away than even a whole other world.  Then they sharpened and refocused, a brilliant smile wreathing his features.  "But you can't let it get you down.  So if you ever want to talk about it, let me know."

In all of his life, Saiou hadn't encountered someone who truly knew.  Edo tried and they were very close indeed, but it wasn't quite the same.  He suspected that Fujiwara had some ideas on the subject, but he'd never properly brought it up.  Those who had been part of the Society of Light - well, he wasn't sure if he'd ever be able to talk to them about.

Fubuki didn't have any of those problems.  Saiou didn't doubt for a second that he had problems - you didn't spend most of your life being able to read minds and not understand that about people - but Fubuki's issues would be different.  He found himself curious as to what they were - and curious as to a great deal of other things as well.

But for now, he raised his hands and set them on the keys again, this time remembering a different song that he'd created some time ago, and trying to remember all the notes.  Fubuki tilted his head, that same sharp listening expression in his eyes, and they started to create together once again.

The End

Notes: Getting caught up on Rare Pairs Week! I’m going to try to post two more tomorrow, but I can’t be certain.

[roseprlnce]

tagged by @jjohnnyjoestar a while ago! Thanks!!

rules: choose any three fandoms (in random order) and answer the questions. then tag some friends.

ain’t gonna tag anybody cuz I’m shy but any of my mutuals can consider themselves tagged if they wanna do it

You choose: jojo’s bizarre adventure, boku no hero academia, yugioh gx

The first character you loved:

jjba - oh god I don’t remember.....I mean I have a lot of love in my heart and I liked pretty much every character in part 1 but I think the first character I really Loved was Speedwagon.

bnha - uhh probably Midoriya I guess! How could I not love him. 

yugioh gx - Judai!!! a blessed blessed boy 

The character you never expected to love so much:

jjba - Kakyoin lmao before reading SDC I thought they were just gonna be a minor villain and did not anticipate them being the Love of my Life

bnha - hmm....I dunno I think I actually did expect to love everyone lol 

yugioh gx - Ryou lmao. Season 1 I was like “oh yeah he’s fine” but then in season 2 he put on a shock collar and a long black jacket and Oh Boy

The character you relate to most:

jjba - Jotaro of course

bnha - Midoriya I guess....but also Shigaraki. And Hagakure kind of! That’s three characters. Whatever

yugioh gx - Judai!

The character you’d slap:

jjba - Annasui...fuck that guy

bnha - I want to slap Endeavor and All For One so hard their heads do a 360 spin and they die

yugioh gx - Manjoume’s brothers

A character you liked at first but not so much anymore:

jjba - my love for JJBA characters never cools it is an eternal flame

bnha - I go back n forth on Bakugou. I find him very difficult to understand 

yugioh gx - no one really!

A character you did not like at first, but they’ve grown on you:

jjba - Iggy! I thought he was gross at first but he really grew on me. I miss that nasty fart dog

bnha - Dabi lol. Didn’t much care for him at first but now I will admit he is good looking and I’m curious about his backstory

yugioh gx - Saiou I guess....my interest in him has really grown as season 2 has progressed. 

3 OTPs:

jjba - JotaKak!!! 

bnha - me x Shigaraki lmao (also, TsuChako)

yugioh gx - again....me x Ryou (I don’t really have any strong ships for this series yet actually...maybe Ryou x Fubuki or Kenzan x Shou?)

[higuchimon]

[rewrite list]

okay, a bit later than I'd thought at first, but here is my rewrite list. It is long because I've been at this a while. My goal isn't perfection but to have every fic be at a point where it's A: finished and B: I like it the way that it is. This list will probably never be finished, but I'm going to do whatever I can.

Now, this is what I've got here. It's all divided into sections: rewrites, fics planned for Bad Things Happen Bingo and event weeks/months, and tumblr prompts being answered. Sometimes there will be overlap between those sections. I also have a small section for currently posted fics that need to be finished. I have a rough plan for writing - the fics with DaiKen Week & Zexal Week first and foremost, as I want them finished before their weeks start. Next comes the fics and collections already in progress. Then I will alternate between BTHB and answering tumblr prompts. Somewhere in there I will probably write other things that are just regular fics (probably challenge fills. I have a lot of those).

Tumblr Prompts

The One Forgotten: Hayate/Windy's Origin: 0/1: 0/999: 999

To Walk Together: Manjoume x Fubuki: 1/2: 1,500/3,000: 1,500

Time To Break The Rules: Kinshiro x Atsushi: 1/3: 3,213/9,600: 6,400

Ice, Snow, & Keeping Warm: Ken x Daisuke: 1/3: 3,258/9,937: 3,000 wpc: 6,679

Avenge The Strike: Hikari, Ken: 0/3: 0/9,600: 3,200 wpc: 9,600

Sweet Sorrow: Ken x Daisuke: 0/3: 0/9,600: 3,200 wpc: 9,600

Like The Rising Tide: Johan x Yubel: 0/3: 0/9,600: 3,200 wpc: 9,600

The Way To Win: Shingo x Yuugo: 0/3: 0/9,600: 3,200 wpc: 9,600

What Was & Will Be: Ken x Daisuke: 0/8: 0/18,000: 2,250 wpc: 18,000

Savor of Wine: Yubel x Juudai x Johan: 0/12: 0/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 18,000

Not Anything But Everything: Yuuto x Yuuya: 0/12: 2,687/38,274: 3,000 wpc: 35,587

Miracles Can Happen: Ken x Daisuke: 0/15: 0/45,000: 3,000 wpc: 45,000

Boy In The Tower: Taichi x Daisuke: 0/15: 0/45,000: 3,000 wpc: 45,000

Counting Down To The End: Edo x Ryou: 0/15: 0/45,000: 3,000 wpc: 45,000

Dangers of Curiosity: Yubel x Juudai x Johan: 0/15: 0/45,000: 3,000 wpc: 45,000

Back To Danger: RYouken x Yuusaku: 0/15: 0/45,000: 3,000 wpc: 45,000

Forever Mine: Kaiser x Daisuke: 4/65: 3,052/48,750: 750 wpc: 45,698

Open Your Heart: Kaiser x Daisuke: 0/6: 0/48,000: 8,000 wpc: 48,000

Spellbreaking: Ken x Daisuke: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Your Pain Is My Pain: Yubel x Juudai x Johan: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Key To A Bad Bargain: Ken x Daisuke: 0/20: 1,063/62,630: 6,263 wpc: 61,567

Team Bonding: 02 Chosen: 0/30: 0/156,900: 5,232 wpc: 156,900

Unforgettable Summer: Yubel x Juudai x Johan: 0/24: 0/258,060: 11,220 wpc: 258,060

Bad Things Happen Bingo

Illness: Ken x Daisuke: 1/3: 3,200/9,600: 3,200 wpc: 6,400

Not So Common Cold: Ruki x Renamon: 0/10: 0/12,460: 1,246 wpc: 12,460

Beginning Bargains: Kaiser x Daisuke: 3/12: 4,678/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 13,322

Flames of Justice: Juudai, Ryou: 0/12: 0/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 18,000

Inner Pain: Asuka, Fubuki: 0/12: 0/18,504: 1,542 wpc: 18,504

Mine At Last: Juudai, Shou: 1/25: 1,860/45,000: 1,800 wpc: 43,200

Only One Answer: Ken x Daisuke: 0/12: 3,597/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 44,403

Shirt For A Bird: SHun, Yuuri: 0/18: 0/47,196: 2,622 wpc: 47,196

Assassin: Edo x Ryou: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Whispers of WInter: Yubel x Juudai: 0/15: 0/54,780: 3,652 wpc: 54,780

Lost Feathers: Ken x Daisuke: 0/18: 0/56,016: 3,112 wpc: 56,016

Rewards of Victory: Ryou, Yuuri: 0/17: 0/56,100: 3,300 wpc: 56,100

Deadly Mistake: Shun, Yuuri: 0/10: 0/75,000: 7,500 wpc: 75,000

Reason For Choosing: Juudai, Johan: 0/15: 0/90,000: 6,000 wpc: 90,000

Payment: Shun, Yuuri: 0/25: 0/91,400: 3,656 wpc: 91,400

Demon Lord of the Underground: Ryou: 0/21: 0/91,172: 4,532 wpc: 91,172

Prey & Hunters: Shun, Yuuri: 0/30: 0/93,750: 3,125 wpc: 93,750

That Voice: Ken x DAisuke: 0/16: 0/101,376: 6,336 wpc: 101,376

Bloodfire: Yuuri, Shun: 0/10: 0/103,220: 10,322 wpc: 103,220

Hell Sees The Light: Edo, Ryou: 0/24: 0/108,552: 4,523 wpc: 108,552

Kept In Shadows: Yuuri, Shun: 3/20: 18,246/127,320: 6,366 wpc: 109,074

Keys To The Tower: Durbe x Chris: 0/20: 0/120,000: 10,000 wpc: 120,000

God Granted: Piemon x Takeru: 1/16: 9,035/144,272: 9,017 wpc: 135,255

Divergences: Juudai, Shou: 0/24: 0/147,504: 6,146 wpc: 147,504

Craft The Bonds: Kaiser x Daisuke: 0/30: 0/398,700: 13,290 wpc: 398,700

DaiKen Week

day #01

day #02: Coming Out

day #03: Through Amber Eyes

day #04

day #05

day #06

day #07

day #08: Winning Move

Zexal Week

day #01

day #02

day #03

day #04

day #05

day #06

day #07

Finish Posted Works

Savor The Display: Vector x Mizael: 1/2: 2,500/5,000: 2,500

Royal Hound: Juudai, Wolf: 3/5: 11,493/18,000: 4,000 wps: 6,507

Love Is In The Cards: Shark, Ryuu: 1/6: 1,616/9,645: 1,600 wpc: 8,029

Choice To Protect: Ken x Daisuke: 0/3: 1,008/18,000: 6,000 wpc: 16,992

On The Other Side: Rune: 0/12: 0/18,000: 1,600 wpc: 18,000

In Any World: Yubel x Juudai: 4/7: 23,565/48,000: 8,000 wps: 26,434

Passing The Torch: Yubel x Juudai: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Call The Darkness: 3/10: 27,686/90,000: 9,000 wpc: 62,314

Kingseeker: Baou, Juudai: 0/20: 0/90,000: 4,500 wpc: 90,000

Unholy Desires: Taichi x Yamato: 0/27: 0/359,343: 13,309 wpc: 359,343

Rewrites

Through Divine Eyes: Gods: 0/1: 0/1,500: 1,500

Truth: Juudai & Shou: 0/1: 0/2,500: 2,500

A Teacher's heart: Samejima x Tome: 0/6: 0/3,000: 500 wpd: 3,000

Parental Duties: Shinobu, Masami: 0/2: 0/3,000: 1,500 wpc: 3,000

Corrections: Hayato, Juudai: 0/1: 0/3,500: 3,500

To Fuse The Worlds: Brron: 0/1: 0/4,500: 4,500

Rebirth of Darkness: Destructive Darkness: 0/1: 0/4,692: 4,692

A Soft Moment: Ruki x Juri: 0/2: 0/5,000: 2,500 wpc: 5,000

Under a VElvet Sky: Kouji x Kouichi: 0/2: 0/5,000: 2,500 wpc: 5,000

Answer To PRayers: Yubel x Juudai x Johan: 0/5: 0/5,000: 1,000 wpf: 5,000

Upon a Pedestal: Ken x Wormmon: 0/5: 0/9,000: 1,800 wpc: 9,000

Wings of Love: Miyako x Hawkmon: 0/5: 0/9,000: 1,800 wpc: 9,000

At The Beginning: Jou x Takeru: 0/3: 0/9,000: 3,000 wpc: 9,000

Where I Belong: Hikari x Mimi: 0/5: 0/9,000: 1,800 wpc: 9,000

Deepest Darkness: Juudai, Jim, O'Brien: 0/1: 0/9,000: 9,000

Best Medicine: Zhane, Andros: 0/3: 0/9,600: 3,200 wpc: 9,600

Crimson Gold: Maya x Leo: 0/3: 0/9,600: 3,200 wpc: 9,600

PRice To Be Paid: Jun x Osamu: 0/3: 0/9,600: 3,200 wpc: 9,600

Seduction: Ken x Yamato: 0/3: 0/9,600: 3,200 wpc: 9,600

Love In The Night: Jou x Sora: 0/4: 0/9,600: 2,400 wpc: 9,600

Partners of Love: Sora x Piyomon: 0/8: 0/9,600: 1,500 wpc: 9,600

Devilchild: Jun x Sora: 0/8: 0/9,600: 1,500 wpc: 9,600

Heart of a Lion: Juri x Leomon: 0/8: 0/9,600: 1,200 wpc: 9,600

Assistance Needed: Kouji, Izumi: 0/3: 0/9,600: 3,200 wpc: 9,600

Quick Lessons: Shou, Johan: 0/6: 0/9,600: 1,500 wpc: 9,600

Dreamshadows: Yubel x Juudai: 1/12: 1,600/18,000: 1,600 wpc: 16,500

Chaos in the Family: Jun, Daisuke: 0/12: 1,136/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 16,864

Sound of Waves: Tanya x Adam: 0/4: 0/18,000: 4,500 wpc: 18,000

Energetic Encounter: Aisha x Zack: 0/4: 0/18,000: 4,500 wpc: 18,000

Waterbeads: Cestria x Billy: 0/4: 0/18,000: 4,500 wpc: 18,000

Truth Hurts: Rita x Zedd: 0/4: 0/18,000: 4,500 wpc: 18,000

Maligore's Children: Kim x Jason: 0/4: 0/18,000: 4,500 wpc: 18,000

Adjustments: Karone: 0/4: 0/18,000: 4,500 wpc: 18,000

Fireflower: Kendrix x Leo: 0/4: 0/18,000: 4,500 wpc: 18,000

Wait No More: Maya x Mike: 0/4: 0/18,000: 4,500 wpc: 18,000

Angel's Light: Hikari x Angeomon: 0/12: 0/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 18,000

Change: Miyako, Daisuke: 0/4: 0/18,000: 4,500 wpc: 18,000

Mutual Growth: Jou x Taichi: 0/12: 0/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 18,000

My Spirits Rise: Ken x Iori: 0/6: 0/18,000: 3,000 wpc: 18,000

To Keep A Promise: Jou x Iori: 0/12: 0/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 18,000

Violet Visions: Jun x Miyako: 0/10: 0/18,000: 1,800 wpc: 18,000

Runaway Passions: Takeru x Koushiro: 0/12: 0/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 18,000

Hopeful Patience: Takeru x Iori: 0/6: 0/18,000: 3,000 wpc: 18,000

Remember It So Well: Jun x Hikari: 0/12: 0/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 18,000

At The Bottom, Being On Top: Haga x Ryuuzaki: 0/12: 0/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 18,000

Brightest Light, Darkest Shados: Johan x Ryou: 0/6: 0/18,000: 3,000 wpc: 18,000

What We Need: Asuka x Manjoume: 0/12: 0/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 18,000

Always Someone Better: Amon: 0/5: 0/18,000: 3,800 wpc: 18,000

Everything Wants To Eat Misawa: Misawa: 0/10: 0/18,000: 1,800 wpc: 18,000

What My Teacher Taught Me: Chronos, Ryou: 0/12: 0/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 18,000

Subtle As Tomorrow: Asuka x Jim: 0/12: 0/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 18,000

Rainbows of White Light: Edo x Johan: 0/8: 0/18,000: 2,250 wpc: 18,000

STorm Descending: Manjoume: 0/6: 0/18,000: 3,000 wpc; 18,000

Five Deaths We Never Saw: Juudai: 0/5: 0/18,000: 3,800 wpc: 18,000

Warrior's Code: Taniya, O'Brien: 0/4: 0/18,000: 4,500 wpc: 18,000

Cure For The Common Cold: Takeru, Taichi 0/4: 0/20,000: 5,000 wpc: 20,000

Competition: Edo, RYou, Fubuki: 0/7: 0/22,631: 3,233 wpc: 22,631

Meeting The Babies: Vector, Yuuri: 0/6: 0/25,000: 4,000 wpc: 25,000

Two Days Off: Ken x Daisuke: 0/12: 0/27,600: 2,300 wpc: 27,600

Dark Revival: Camu;a: 0/15: 2,119//38,274: 2,500 wpc: 36,155

To Dream of Thee: Daisuke x Takeru: 0/14: 0/37,800: 2,700 wpc: 37,800

A Digital Mess: Caerula Adamas, Kaiser: 1/10: 4,705/45,000: 4,500 wpc: 40,500

Succumb To The Shadows: Juudai: 0/17: 0/43,095: 2,535 wpc: 43,095

One of Those Days: Yamato, Hiroaki: 0/8: 4,845/48,000: 6,000 wpc: 43,155

What It Feels Like: Jou x Koushiro: 0/15: 0/45,000: 1,500 wpc: 45,000

Angel's Heart: Angemon x Takeru: 0/25: 0/45,000: 1,800 wpc: 45,000

Of A Summer's Evening: Jou x Yamato: 0/15: 0/45,000: 3,000 wpc: 45,000

Racing Into Danger: Jou x Daisuke: 0/15: 0/45,000: 3,000 wpc: 45,000

Until We Meet Again: Ken x Koushiro: 0/15: 0/45,000: 3,000 wpc: 45,000

Siren's Song: Fubuki x Yuusuke: 0/10: 0/45,000: 4,500 wpc: 45,000

Time Away: Saiou, Edo: 0/15: 0/45,000: 3,000 wpc: 45,000

Nature of Fear: Trini x Billy: 0/12: 2,809/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 45,191

Iceheart: Ruki, Takato: 0/12: 9,444/56,840: 4,500 wpc: 47,396

Lunar Ice: Aisha x Adam: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Rain, Rain: Trini x Billy: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Sharpshooter: Kim, Scorpina: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

False First Kiss: Kim x Tommy: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Really Relate To: Kim x Billy: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Ghosts & Darkness: Trini x Tommy: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Onyx Tavern Tales: Aisha: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Shades of Green: Billy, Rita: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Stealer of Souls: Tommy, Jason: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

All Through The Night: Ashley x Andros: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Destiny's Awakening: Ashley: 0/5: 0/48,000: 9,600 wpc: 48,000

All Through The Night: Ashley x Andros: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Bald Legends: T.J., Elgar: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Dweller in the Shadows: Carlos, Darkonda: 0/5: 0/48,000: 9,600 wpc: 48,000

To Carry The Blood: Parents: 0/15: 0/48,000: 3,200 wpc: 48,000

Two Made One: Sora x Miyako: 0/5: 0/48,000: 9,600 wpc: 48,000

Before Every Dawn: Yamato x Daisuke: 0/20: 0/48,000: 2,400 wpc: 48,000

Freedom of Choice: Ken x Daisuke: 0/24: 0/48,000: 2,000 wpc: 48,000

Just A Suggestion: Ken x Daisuke: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Wish of a Djinn: Jounouch x Otogi: 0/15: 0/48,000: 3,200 wpc: 48,000

Perils of the Dark Dragon: Jounouchi: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Walking A Slender Thread: YnM x Bakura: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Classes: Teachers: 0/5: 0/48,000: 9,600 wpf: 48,000

Reflections on Beauty: Asuka, Fubuki: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Sand World Stories: Cast: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

To Bear The Blood: Chosen: 0/7: 0/48,000: 7,000 wpc: 49,000

Tiger's Heart: Taniya x Misawa: 0/20: 0/50,000: 2,500 wpc: 50,000

Magic's Heart: Shou x BMG: 0/20: 0/50,000: 2,500 wpc: 50,000

Crafted Heart: Kenzan x Alice: 0/20: 0/50,000: 2,500 wpc: 50,000

CHild of Shadows: Celestia, Juudai: 0/6: 0/53,280: 8,880 wpc: 53,280

Warrior's Wound: Edo, Ryou: 0/12: 0/54,000: 4,500 wpc: 54,000

ETemon's Envy: Yamato, Mimi: 0/10: 0/54,321: 5,000 wpc: 54,321

Consort: Ken x Daisuke: 0/6: 4,129/58,800: 9,800 wpc: 54,671

Whispers of WInter: Yubel x Juudai: 0/15: 0/54,780: 3,652 wpc: 54,780

Hunting Games: Baou, Juudai: 0/21: 0/55,062: 2,622 wpc: 55,062

Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen: Yubel x Juudai: 0/28: 0/56,000: 2,000 wpc: 56,000

Son of Trees: Spectre: 0/20: 0/56,000: 2,800 wpc: 56,000

No One Knew: Piemon x Vamdemon: 0/25: 0/56,840: 2,000 wpc: 56,840

Strange Friends: 0/11: 0/57,486: 5,226 wpc: 57,436

Moments Without You: Taichi x Yamato: 0/10: 0/64,680: 6,465 wpc: 64,680

DEvil's Daughter: Sora, Devimon: 2/12: 15,179/79,372: 7,500 wpc: 64,193

Subtle Clues: Taichi x Yamato: 0/10: 0/65,240: 6,524 wpc: 65,240

Colors of the Heart: Mimi x Miyako: 0/10: 0/64,220: 6,422 wpc: 64,220

Lessons in Demon-Hunting: Ryou, Samejima: 0/15: 0/69,385: 4,500 wpc: 69,385

Snowfall: Ryou: 0/18: 0/72,000: 4,000 wpc: 72,000

Fatherhood: Brron, Johan, Rune: 0/6: 0/73,866: 12,311 wpc: 73,866

All The Risks: Ryou, Juudai: 2/15: 14,774/90,000: 6,000 wpc: 75,226

Moonlight Pearl: Juudai: 0/29: 0/76,299: 2,631 wpc: 76,299

Silent Song: Taichi x Yamato: 0/22: 0/77,506: 3,523 wpc: 77,506

Seven Strange Days: Jun x Momoe: 0/7: 0/77,714: 11,102 wpc: 77,714

Road To The Glass Tower: Ken x Daisuke: 0/10: 0/78,890: 7,889 wpc: 78,890

Shards of Ice: Rio, Rin: 0/15: 0/83,040: 5,536 wpc: 83,040

Undead: Yubel x Juudai x Johan: 0/20: 5,979/90,000: 4,500 wpc: 84,021

Magician's Loss: Yuusuke, Saiou: 0/16: 0/88,720: 5,545 wpc: 88,720

A Greater Demon: Juudai, Belial: 0/20: 0/88,720: 4,436 wpc: 88,720

Fragile Kisses: Taichi x Yamato: 0/16: 0/89,056: 5,566 wpc: 89,056

Backbeat: Zack, Zedd, & Zordon: 0/15: 0/90,000: 6,000 wpc: 90,000

Alliance of Onyx: Kim x Rocky: 0/15: 0/90,000: 6,000 wpc: 90,000

Under Soft Starlight: Kat x Billy: 0/25: 0/90,000: 3,600 wpc: 90,000

Switching of the Gold: Aishaa x Billy: 0/15: 0/90,000: 6,000 wpc: 90,000

Cross The Line: Justin, Astronema: 0/15: 0/90,000: 6,000 wpc: 90,000

Arrow of Love: Ashley x Carlos: 0/15: 0/90,000: 6,000 wpc: 90,000

LEader Loss: Taichi, Vamdemon: 0/30: 0/90,000: 3,000 wpc: 90,000

Streaks of Red & Gold: Koushiro x Yamato: 0/30: 0/90,000: 3,000 wpc: 90,000

Rose's Kiss: Mimi x Lilymon: 0/30: 0/90,000: 3,000 wpc: 90,000

Crestfallen: Vamdemon, Taichi: 0/30: 0/90,000: 3,000 wpc: 90,000

Heart's Desire: Jun, Wizarmon: 0/20: 0/90,000: 4,500 wpc: 90,000

Targeting A Cold Heart: Io x Ryuu x Akoya: 0/16: 0/90,000: 5,625 wpc: 90,000

Present Unwanted: Ryou, Ruthven, Camula: 0/20: 0/90,920: 4,546 wpc: 90,920

Emotional Damage: Kat x Tommy: 0/7: 0/91,756: 13,106 wpc: 91,756

Dragon Wings & Demon Hearts: Ruki, Juudai: 0/26: 0/94,224: 3,624 wpc: 94,224

Soul of the Gem: Masumi x Yuzu: 0/18: 0/94,572: 5,254 wpc: 94,572

Giving Chase: Hikari x Miyako: 0/36: 0/94,716: 2,631 wpc: 94,716

Sealing The Beast: Izumi, Ranamon: 0/16: 0/98,000: 6,125 wpc: 98,000

Offering: Durbe x Chris: 0/20: 0/92,300: 4,615 wpc: 92,300

Effects of Terror: O'Brien, Juudai: 0/12: 0/94,536: 7,878 wpc: 94,536

Chains of Blood: Ruki x Renamon: 0/18: 0/99,468: 5,526 wpc: 99,468

Twilight's Embrace: Yuugi x YnY: 0/50: 0/100,000: 2,000 wpc: 100,000

Broken Illumination: LadyDEvimon x Hikari: 0/16: 0/101,546: 6,346 wpc: 101,546

PRaise The Enemy: Ken x Daisuke: 0/30: 0/106,350: 3,545 wpc: 106,350

Deathflower: Death Rosemo x Mimi: 0/9: 0/107,262: 11,918 wpc: 107,262

To Frost The Flames: Ryou: 2/20: 12,204/120,000: 6,000 wpc: 107,796

Crystal of Nightmares: Tamers: 0/18: 0/108,000: 6,000 wpc: 108,000

Behind The Scenes: Sora x Yamato: 0/20: 0/110,700: 5,535 wpc: 110,700

Out of Time: Brron, Juudai: 0/18: 0/112,734: 6,263 wpc: 112,734

Change of Will: Kaiser x Daisuke: 0/18: 0/114,156: 6,342 wpc: 114,156

Layers of Deception: Vamdemon, Daisuke: 0/12: 0/118,644: 9,887 wpc: 118,644

Moonwhispes: Sora x Hikari: 0/11: 0/118,998: 10,818 wpc: 118,998

His Crown Tainted: Ken x Daisuke: 0/10: 0/119,220: 11,922 wpc: 119,220

Supernova: Emily x Jason: 0/30: 0/120,000: 4,000 wpc: 120,000

Queen's Knight: Karone x Zhane: 0/20: 0/120,000: 6,000 wpc: 120,000

Change of Heart: Cast: 0/30: 0/120,000: 4,000 wpc: 120,000

Correct Mistakes: Ken x Daisuke: 0/12: 0/120,000: 10,000 wpc: 120,000

Hunting The Hunter: Ruki x Renamon: 0/30: 0/120,000: 4,000 wpc: 120,000

Keys To The Tower: Durbe x Chris: 0/20: 0/120,000: 10,000 wpc: 120,000

Why Was It You?: Taichi x Yamato: 0/24: 0/125,664: 5,236 wpc: 125,664

Taste of Darkness: Takeru, Ken: 0/19: 0/133,000: 7,000 wpc: 133,000

God Granted: Piemon x Takeru: 1/16: 9,035/144,272: 9,017 wpc: 135,255

Across The Threshold: Ryou x Mizael: 0/12: 0/146,412: 12,201 wpc: 146,412

Divergences: Juudai, Shou: 0/24: 0/147,504: 6,146 wpc: 147,504

Summons of the Dark Side: Taichi x Yamato: 0/18: 0/149,436: 8,302 wpc: 149,436

Six Secret Shadows: Rangers: 0/50: 0/150,000: 3,000 wpc: 150,000

Snowball Effect: Rangers, OC: 0/50: 0/150,000: 3,000 wpc: 150,000

Domination: Rangers: 0/30: 0/150,000: 5,000 wpc: 150,000

All The World's A Stage: Chosen, Dark Masters: 0/25: 0/150,000: 6,000 wpc: 150,000

Shards and Sunlight: Asuka, Mizuchi: 0/12: 0/152,612: 12,801 wpc: 152,612

Tangled Emotions: Mimi x Sora: 0/12: 0/156,144: 13,012 wpc: 156,144

Treasure Hunt of Terror: Chosen: 0/36: 0/159,192: 4,422 wpc: 159,192

Valentine Visions: Cassie x Phantom: 0/40: 0/160,000: 4,000 wpc: 160,000

It Started With A Wish: Rangers: 0/40: 0/160,000: 4,000 wpc: 160,000

Fireborn: Asuka, OCs: 0/15: 0/179,750: 11,990 wpc: 179,850

Always Back To You: Ryou x Yuusuke: 0/30: 0/180,000: 6,000 wpc: 180,000

Of The Heart: Mai x Isis: 0/20: 0/181,840: 9,090 wpc: 181,840

Sidesteps: Ken x Daisuke: 0/15: 0/183,015: 12,201 wpc: 183,015

BTABTA: Piemon x Yuusuke: 0/36: 0/199,548: 5,543 wpc: 199,548

Eyes of Light: Kouji, Kouichi: 0/25: 0/205,000: 8,200 wpc: 205,000

Adulthood Issues: Chosen: 0/16: 0/207,840: 12,990 wpc: 207,840

Shadow Strings: Yubel x Juudai, Johan: 0/20: 0/221,480: 11,092 wpc: 221,480

Pay Thee In Pain: Johan, Yubel: 0/36: 0/234,396: 6,511 wpc: 234,396

Mixed Destinies: Rangers: 0/50: 0/250,000: 5,000 wpc: 250,000

Changes Along The Way: Chosen: 0/50: 0/250,000: 5,000 wpc: 250,000

Creatures of Dark: Edo x Saiou x Ryou x Yuusuke: 0/21: 0/253,722: 12,082 wpc: 253,722

Touched By The Moon: Kat, Selena: 0/22: 0/263,994: 11,997 wpc: 263,994

Not The Word: Yamato, Piemon: 0/20: 0/266,380: 13,318 wpc: 266,380

Incubus of the Millennium Puzzle: Yuugi x YnY: 0/60: 0/300,000: 5,000 wpc: 300,000

Fist of Velvet, Glove of Steel: Taichi x Yamato: 0/25: 0/304,925: 12,197 wpc: 304,925

No Matter What: Johan, Brron: 0/30: 0/308,640: 10,288 wpc: 308,640

Rage, Revenge, & Reprisals: Kouji x Kouichi: 0/36: 0/331,623: 9,212 wpc: 331,623

War Between The Worlds: Ken x Daisuke: 0/30: 0/360,060: 12,002 wpc: 360,060

Way Too Easy: Yuus: 0/36: 0/367,884: 10,219 wpc: 367,884

Broken Wings: Ken x Daisuke: 0/30: 0/368,910: 12,297 wpc: 368,910

Walk The Dark Path: Yamato: 0/36: 0/433,116: 12,031 wpc: 433,116

War of the Undead: Ryou, Samejima: 0/75: 0/450,000: 6,000 wpc: 450,000

So that's all of my rewrites - I think. For now. Plus a few other things.

[higuchimon]

[fanfic] Ways To The Soul

“So what kind of a soulmate mark do you have?” The question came from one of her classmates; she couldn’t remember their name anymore. It had been a good many years since then. But it was innocent – almost everyone asked that kind of question sooner or later, especially if the answer wasn’t obvious.

Not all of the ways were. Not everyone had a clearly marked countdown on them or a mark waiting to glow at the right time or a name written on themselves. There were less obvious ways, of course, such as sharing dreams or healing via touch or when one couldn’t see colors until meeting one’s soulmate. There were even a few rarer ones – such as those who sprouted wings upon meeting their soulmate.

And in all of her years, Asuka hadn’t experienced any of that. No signs or clocks or names upon her, and she’d never shared a dream or felt anyone else’s thoughts and she could see colors as well as anyone else.

But they asked. It was just a thing. Sometimes marks didn't show up right away, after all.

“You really don’t need to worry about it,” Fubuki told her one afternoon, not long before he was to start his first year at Duel Academia. “I mean, there are so many ways that you could find a soulmate!” He strummed a little at his ukulele. He still wasn’t very good at that.

“I didn’t say I was worried about it,” Asuka replied, going through her deck. She still had two years before she could start at the Academy, but she did have a very important duel against one of her friends that weekend and she wanted to do her very best.

Fubuki blinked at her. “I know you are. You don’t have to lie to me. You’re worried because you’re one of the rare ones.” He tapped his fingers on his instrument for a few seconds. “You know, I bet you’re a Name-speaker. So there’s no way you’ll know your soulmate until they say your name.”

Asuka debated the ethics of grabbing the nearest magazine and whacking him upside the head. It was a very tempting thought. She kept her focus on her deck instead. The magazine hadn’t been invented yet that could get through his thick skull.

Why won’t he believe me? As far back as she could remember, she’d never been interested in having a soulmate. Once she’d checked out a book from the library about all the different ways that one could find one’s soulmate, and spent a very informative weekend checking herself to be sure that she didn’t possess any of them. She’d contorted herself into many unusual configurations making sure that there weren’t any marks on her back before giving up and asking Junko to check for her.

She’d never had a mark. She decided at a very young age that she didn’t want a mark. There were a couple of people that as she got older, she found mildly interesting but that was it – a mild interest than happily settled itself into warm friendships over and over.

Time ticked by, as it had a habit of doing. Fubuki went on to Duel Academia and vanished before the ending of his first year. Asuka held fast to the hope that he would return – Fubuki carried a song in his heart, a beautiful melody that his soulmate would know the other half of when they heard him singing. Because of that, he would return. She held faith in that.

Being able to spend time with Ryou helped ease the loss of her brother. She never asked about the odd mark on his right hand – the one grayed out, as if his soulmate perished. He never talked about it either.

She met others who had marks or signs of some kind. Juudai proudly showed off the name on his left arm, written in yellow and green – Yubel. A name she’d never heard of before – nor had Juudai. He held out hope that he would meet them one day, though.

Momoe’s timer wouldn’t run down until she was close to twenty-five. Junko already shared dreams with someone who she wouldn’t name. A few casual conversations she overheard indicated other options – rumor had it that Ayanokouji Mitsuru and Kouchou Ran ended up as soulmates, having brushed against each other at a duel tournament and knowing in that moment.

Quite honestly, Asuka could hardly go anywhere without talk of soulmates. They were almost as hot a topic as dueling was. At least Ryou never spoke of his mark, and once Juudai determined that no one in school knew who Yubel was, he was far more interested in talking dueling anyway. Misawa looked forward to late May of the following year, when his mark decreed he would meet his soulmate. Manjoume didn’t have a mark either, but he told a few tales about how his family tended to have the rarer signs, such as being a HealTouch or a TruthTeller. He had hopes of turning out to be a Name-speaker himself.

Shou’s mark was different from Ryou’s. Not all family members who had marks shared them, after all. His mark wasn’t one o the visible ones – he couldn’t see color at all, and wouldn’t until he met his soulmate.

Hayato had a name on his wrist as well, not one that anyone recognized. He said nothing about it, but Asuka suspected that he hoped he’d meet this “Sugiyama Takara” when he went to Industrial Illusions.

With every year that passed, there were more people who had marks. Some of them didn’t ask about hers – she would forever be grateful that Jim Cook wanted to talk more about geology than the mark on his own hand – but there were always those who could not help but press to know about hers and so many of them offered the same platitudes when they found out that she didn’t have one.

Most of those were the same ones that Fubuki offered before, promising that there were so many different ways that just because she didn’t have one now didn’t mean she’d never have one. It could happen any time. Maybe she was just a late bloomer. There would be someone for her.

“Maybe I don’t want someone!” Asuka snapped finally, on a day close to the end of her third year, when Fubuki checked in again to make sure she hadn’t had any shared dreams or unusual emotions overnight.

Fubuki stared at her, mouth open slightly, but no words coming out. He blinked a few times before he did manage to say anything.

“Are you sure?”

At least he didn’t deny the possibility. She gave him that much credit.

“Not yet. But it’s the best option I see so far.” She’d never really been more than superficially interested in anyone anyway, and never romantically. Potential dueling opponents only interested her. Not to mention she hadn’t yet decided what it was she wanted to do with her life. She waffled between teaching – which did have an appeal – and trying to enter the Pro Leagues or entering research related to dueling. Ayukawa-sensei had also suggested that she study medicine for duel purposes. With more injuries turning up related to the game, those who knew how to deal with that kind of ailment remained in high demand.

There was just always so much to do that wasn’t romantic and she wanted to do it.

Fubuki drew in a long breath and, of all things, smiled at her. “All right. I’ll stop asking. If that’s what you want, then I just ask one thing.”

Asuka crossed her arms over her chest. “What?”

“If you ever do decide to date someone – with or without a soulmate mark – let me know, please?” He tried to look a little like a puppy dog but she’d seen all of his looks growing up. That meant nothing to her.

But what he asked, she could do. “I will. Just don’t wait for it.”

Fubuki nodded. Asuka suspected it would be abut a week before he asked again.

At least more people were finding their soulmates and thus had less to talk about with their marks. Juudai knew who Yubel was – had fused their souls together, in fact. Asuka had to say she’d never heard about that before. Hayato wrote them all a mass e-mail gleeing over having finally met Sugiyama Takara. They hadn’t started dating yet but Hayato hoped to ask his fellow card designer out for tea sometime in the near future.

Misawa had settled happily into the Amazon Village with Taniya. It hadn’t taken long before he’d built a device that could transmit between the worlds – sort of a souped up mobile phone, as he’d described it, and started to make arrangements for long-distance lessons. He would be graduating with them, even if he couldn’t physically be there.

She’d learned that Professor Chronos also didn’t have a soulmate identifier of any kind, and she’d spent some time with him just talking about how sometimes their lives were far less complicated than those of their friends. She would miss being here for him.

As soon as Juudai defeated Darkness, Ryou’s mark flared into full life again – as did the matching one of Fujiwara Yuusuke. They hadn’t spent much time apart since then, learning about one another all over again. A great deal had changed between the last time they’d seen one another and now.

Maybe she would develop a soulmate attachment or fall in love in a different way. Non soulmate relationships existed, after all. She could see it when O’Brien visited Sea God’s Priestess. But right now, that wasn’t what she wanted to do with her life, and she couldn’t imagine being any other way.

The End

Notes: Asuka is asexual/aromantic in this. She doesn’t have a romantic soulmate at all. If she were going to have a platonic one, it would probably be Jim and/or Mizuchi. I might go into further detail on some of the ships mentioned here, and ones I didn’t mention (such as Edo and Saiou, who share an emotional link once the Light isn’t an issue anymore). But not right now. I’m getting ready to start finishing WIPs and write stuff that’s not GX.

[higuchimon]

[fanfics] WIPS & Prompts

This is my list of WIPs and prompts that I'm going to work on finishing and filling in 2021. I'll see what I can do in what we have left of 2020 as well. Whenever I fill one, it gets marked off the list here.

WIPS

Secrets of Ears: Ken x Daisuke: 4 chapters: 1,500 wpc: 6,824

What's Mine Is Mine: Kaiser x Daisuke: 8 chapters: 900 wpc: 7,200

Royal Hound: Juudai, Wolf (OC): 2 fics: 3,800 wpf: 7,600

Meeting The Babies: Vector, Yuuri: 5 chapters: 1,600 wpc: 8,000

Succumb To The Shadows: Juudai: 7 chapters: 1,200 wpc: 8,396

Strange Friends: Rin, Rei: 7 chapters: 1,200 wpc: 8,397

Fatherhood: Brron, Rune, Johan: 7 chapters: 1,200 wpc: 8,499

On The Other Side: Rune, Latinum: 7 chapters: 1,500 wpc: 11,052

Chains of Blood: Ruki x Renamon: 3 chapters: 4,500 wpc: 13,220

Hunting Games: Juudai, Guardian Baou, Hane Kuriboh, & Geise: 13 chapters: 1,000 wpc: 13,711

One of Those Days: Hiroaki, Piemon, Yamato: 9 chapters: 1,600 wpc: 14,355

Shards of Ice: Rio, Rin: 10 chapters: 1,500 wpc: 14,938

Choice To Protect: Ken x Daisuke: 17 chapters: 1,000 wpc: 16,992

Call of Darkness: Lucifer (OC), others: 4 chapters: 4,500 wpc: 18,000

In Any World: Yubel x Juudai: 5 stories: 5,000 wpf: 28,000

Shadow StringsS: Yubel x Juudai, Johan, Rune: 15 chapters: 2,000 wpc: 30,549

Kingseeker: Guardian Baou, Juudai: 44 chapters: 1,000 wpc: 44,000

Passing The Torch, Willing Or Not: Yubel x Juudai, Johan: 39 chapters: 1,200 wpc: 46,800

Unholy Desires: Taichi x Yamato: 33 chapters: 2,000 wpc: 66,000

Across The Threshold: Ryou x Mizael: 34 chapters: 2,500 wpc: 85,000

War of the Undead: Ryou: 31 chapters: 3,000 wpc: 93,000

Here is my current tumblr prompt list. Some of these will be fused into one fic (most likely with those for the same ship).

Digimon Adventure 02

Ken & Hikari: complaint to file/taking the hit

Taichi x Daisuke: look at me, just breathe

Kaiser x Daisuke: heart grows 3 sizes

Ken x Daisuke: it's a Christmas miracle

Ken x Daisuke: cuddling for warmth [breeds]

Ken x Daisuke: the nutcracker [breeds]

Ken x Daisuke: ouija board

Ken x Daisuke: kiss on the shell of the ear & kisses exchanged while one is on the lap of the other

Kaiser x Daisuke: obsession

Kaiser x Daisuke: tucking their hands under the shirt

Kaiser x Daisuke: traces lips with a finger until they can't resist & tilt their head back for a kiss

Kaiser x Daisuke: A Kiss, followed by more that trail down the jaw & neck

Kaiser x Daisuke: pet

YGO GX

Manjoume x Fubuki: holding hands in snow

Yubel x Juudai x Johan: drink me

Edo x Ryou: please put it down

Edo x Ryou: date of death on wrist [soulmates]

Yubel x Juudai x Johan: soulmates share extreme physical sensation

Yubel x Juudai: a Kiss that lasts so long they're sharing each other's breaths: Mistletoe Kisses

Yubel x Juudai x Johan: Summer camp AU & Bathtub fic

Juudai & Shou: I thought you said you didn't have any powers

Yubel x Johan: please listen to me

Yubel x Johan: moving around while kissing

Yubel x Johan: stopping the kiss to ask do you want this

Yubel x Johan: I told you not to fall in love with me

Edo x Saiou: an accidental brush of lips followed by a pause and going back for another, on purpose: Favorite Birthday

YGO Zexal

Kaito x Chris: a kiss to distract/a kiss pressed to the top of the head

YGO Arc-v

Yubel x Juudai x Johan in Arc-v world

Shingo x Yuugo: too much/hurt comfort/An awkward kiss given after a first date

Yuuya x Yuuto: please shut the hell up

YGO VRAINS

Yuusaku x Ryouken: sleeping together

Yuusaku x Ai: holding hands

Yuusaku x Ryouken: call me

In addition:

Soulshipping Week: 4/7

Hugsaku Week

Aiballshipping Week

Taichi x Yamato Week (??)

Ken x Daisuke Week (??)

That's all of my prompts and WIPs. My main focus for 2020 and 2021. And probably longer, depending.

[higuchimon]

Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! GX; 17-19, 21, 25

*cracks knuckles* All right, let's do this!

17: fics you’ll continue next year: War of the Undead will update twice a week until it's done!

18: current number of wips: Oh, this is difficult. If you count just the ones posted, then just one: War of the Undead. But if you count the ones I have written on but not yet posted, then we have these (& how far I've progressed, what my expectations are, & the focus of the fic because I don't know when to stop):

: After Academia: Dark Revival: Camula x Ruthven: 2,119/38,274

Colors of Flight, Colors of Love: Not Because Destiny Says: Edo x Saiou: 1,510/7,500

Diversion: Juudai: 2,507/45,000

Everything Wants To Eat Misawa: Misawa: 1,026/18,000

Hell's Ice: Snowfall: Ryou: 3,030/79,372

In Johan's Closet: Johan, Manjoume, Sangenma: 525/42,484

Not Quite Forgotten: Yubel x Juudai: 2,791/90,000

Pride of Fire: Asuka: 500/18,000

Reversal: Meaning of Money: Manjoume: 552/18,000

Reversal: All The Risks: Johan, Ryou, Juudai: 14,774/90,000

Royal Purchase: Yubel x Juudai x Johan: 429/45,000

Rules of Hospitaltiy: Edo x Ryou: 4,346/90,000

In Darkness We Find Fire: Born of Fire: Ryou: 578/150,000

In Darkness we Find Fire: To Spark The Fire: Juudai & Shou: 5,031/150,000

Undead: Yubel x Juudai x Johan: 5,979/45,000

Unto Darkness, Unto Light: From Shadows We Rise: Ryou, Fubuki, Yuusuke: 578/150,000

And not to mention the fics I plan to rewrite (which may or may not have ever been posted), which include the following:

After Academia: Fireborn: Asuka: 0/90,000

Bridges: Lessons in Demon-Hutning: Ryou, Samejima: 0/69,385

Effects of Terror: O'Brien, Shou, Haou Juudai: 0/90,000

To Frost The Flames: Ryou: 0/300,000

Hole In The Heart: Divergences: Juudai, Shou: 0/150,000

In Solitude Lies Strength: Moonlight Pearl: Haou Juudai, Chaos Sorcerer, OC: 0/90,000

In Solitude Lies Strength: A Greater Demon: Haou Juudai, Belial - Marquis of Darkness, Death Duelists: 0/90,000

Infinite Love: Present Unwanted: Camula x Ruthven, Ryou x Yuusuke: 0/120,000

Infinite Love: Always Back To You: Ryou x Yuusuke: 0/120,000

The King's Champion: Magician To King: Yuusuke, Juudai, Yubel, Brron: 0/150,000

No Matter What: Johan, Rune, Brron: 0/150,000

Paladin's Quest: Spiritual Revenge: O'Brien, Ryou, Yuusuke: 0/45,000

Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen: Yubel x Juudai: 0/90,000

Pay Thee In Pain: Johan, Gem Beasts, Yubel: 0/150,000

Quick Lessons: Shou, Johan: 0/9,000

Rainbow of WHite Light: Johan x Edo: 0/9,000

Reversal: Long Live The King: Ere Shadows Fall: Juudai, OCs: 0/400,000

Reversal: Mission One: Asuka, Edo, Misawa, Jim: 0/153,005

Sand World Stories: Choice of a Warrior: Shou, Manjoume: 0/3,500

Creatures of Dark: Edo x Ryou x Saiou x Yuusuke: 0/400,000

Warrior's Price: Warrior's Wound: Edo, Ryou, Juudai: 0/50,000

To Choose A Name: Juudai, King Aodh, Queen Kaien: 0/1,000

Relative Measures: Kenzan: 0/1,000

Placing Blame: Rei x Martin: 0/1,000

Other Games Duelists Play: Ryou, Fubuki: 0/1,500

Deepest Darkness: Haou, Jim, O'Brien: 0/3,000

19: any new fics to start next year: Yes. So very many. Whether I will or not remains to be seen but I intend to!

21: most memorable comment/review: I've had several that I love so much but I have received comments this year to the tune of "you got them very in character" and those are the ones that I always remember.

25: a fic you read this year you would recommend everyone read: Hm. It's rough finding something in GX that I rec, because I honestly have insanely high standards, but let's see... if you like the Haou arc of s3, then this here is an extremely good read: Wiped Clean.

[higuchimon]

fanfic requests

Since my inbox is getting awfully stuffed, I decided to make a proper list of all the requests for fics I've got in there. These will all be written in due course. I don't plan to write these in any given order - just whatever comes to mind and can be finished first. So, here we go:

Manjoume x Fubuki: holding hands while it snows: silvormoon

Ken x Daisuke: on the verge of consciousness: yuukiwarashi

Hida Iori: broken glass: anonymous

Ken x Daisuke: hurt/comfort, bullied: healingmichiko

Kinshiro x Atsushi: librarian/avid rader AU: silvomoon

Ryuu & Akoya: please don't have an emotion in front of me: silvormoon

Ken & Hikari: taking the hit cityescape4

Yuuma & Michael: at a museum silvormoon

Juudai x Saiou x Edo: ice cream (Yubel's going to be involved too) pierrotguru

(Kaiser) Ken x Daisuke: give up control: robo-whiskers

Yubel x Juudai x Johan: Drink me: anonymous

Edo x Ryou: "Please, put it DOWN!": zexal--arc-v--1412

Yamato x Taichi: "Look at me - just breathe, okay?": healingmichiko

Yubel x Johan: "Please listen to me": anonymous

Yubel x Juudai: "I'm right here - I'm not going anywhere" silvormoon

Taichi x Daisuke: "Look at me - just breathe, okay?": anonymous

Ken x Daisuke: Ouija board: healingmichiko

Haru x Yuujin: I've missed you kiss: healingmichiko

Ryouken x Yuusaku: sleeping together: healingmichiko

Toby & Jim: two pizzas & an entire package of Oreos

Kaito & Chris: kiss to distract: silvormoon

Shingo & Yuugo: too much: silvormoon

Ryouken x Yuusaku: call me: silvormoon

Edo x Ryou: soulmate: date your soulmate dies on your arm: zexal--arc-v--1412

Taichi x Yamato: Breeds: soulmate universe: healingmichiko

Yubel x Juudai x Johan: soulmates: share extreme physical sensation: anons (two of you!)

Asuka & Juudai: Amuse me: anonymous (that good for you, anon?)

Shun & Yuuri: Break Me: anonymous /strike>

Yubel x Juudai x Johan: Arc-V verse: anonymous

I'll try to keep this list updated for the future.

[higuchimon]

[fanfic] Embrace of Fate:  Chapter 5

Juudai stared at the cards, picking through them over and over, hoping for the fainest hint that something would change. That he could once again see the bright colors and hear Hane Kuriboh’s voice.

Only nothing happened. No matter how much he stared, how much he listened, there wasn’t anything to be heard. Bright white alone looked back at him. Even when he listened to people he could normally hear – like Manjoume or Shou or Asuka or Fubuki-san – he heard them as if someone shoved cotton into his ears.

His cards tumbled from his hands and he didn’t bother to pick them up. What use did he have for them when he couldn’t see them?

Paper, that’s all they are now. Just paper and ink. No spirits in them, no souls that waited for him to call.

But throughout all of this, there was one more point that was even worse, and he wished that it wasn’t. For all the confusion that his soulmate mark gave him over the years, for all that he couldn’t remember who his soulmate was, and he worried and worried that something had to have happened to them that he couldn’t do anything about…

He’d always hoped that his soulmate was out there somewhere. His faith that they lived hadn’t wavered in his entire life.

But now his arm was bare and smooth, as if the mark and the counter hadn’t ever been there at all. He rubbed at it hard, wondering if he did this often enough, he might at least get an image of the mark.

Just like with the cards, nothing changed. Nothing looked as if it ever would.

He rubbed his forehead, wincing. Nothing had been right ever since his duel against Edo. He wasn’t sure of why; just that since that moment everything seemed so cold and so white.

In the deepest depths of his mind, he thought he could hear the tiniest of voices, whispering enticingly to him. He wasn’t sure of what it said in detail, only that it seemed like a promise. A very wonderful promise, everything that he’d ever wanted and even things he’d never known that he wanted.

Juudai ignored it. If it didn’t get him his cards back, then he wasn’t interested in it, and it probably wasn’t real anyway.

Voices in his head were never real. He didn’t remember much from when he was a child, but he remembered that, at least. His parents made it very clear once he got home from the hospital: if he kept hearing voices, they’d have to take him back. That was what the treatments were all about. It would make him better. He wouldn’t -

Juudai wasn’t sure of what he wouldn’t anymore, but the sickness he’d had involved some sort of treatment and he thought it involved hearing things. He must have been extremely sick for that.

He tilted his head back and stared up at the ceiling of his dorm room. At least when he looked up that way he didn’t expect to see anything. Not like when he looked at his arm or at his cards.

His arm tingled. Just a little and so much more like he’d slept on it wrong than anything else. He didn’t remember anything else like that before.

Juudai absently rubbed his arm, thoughts tugged inexorably back to his missing soulmate. No one knew exactly how tightly wound together soulmates could be. It seemed to vary between match-ups. Some people could barely stand to be around one another. Others couldn’t bear to be away from each other more than necessary.

I guess we’re in the middle. After all, he’d gone so long without his soulmate, even though their bond had been confirmed.

Or sort of. The mark meant that.

Only he didn’t have the mark anymore and a tiny part of Juudai wondered if he’d ever see it again. Nothing could erase a soulmate mark. Even when one part of the bonding passed away, the mark could still be seen. Faded and grayish more than anything else, but it was there.

He hadn’t ever studied what it would take to erase a soulmate mark completely. He didn't’ think anyone ever had. Or if they had, no one talked about it. That didn’t surprise Juudai at all. Who would want to study anything that could maybe destroy a soul?

That was all he could think of that would maybe wipe away a soulmate mark: a soul being destroyed. Just the thought it made his stomach churn and his heart skip beats, his skin break out into a cold sweat and his breath stutter in his throat. He tried not to think about it. Souls couldn’t be destroyed. A soulmate wasn’t even a real soul; it was just a word people used to describe someone who matched them.

But wouldn’t that mean my soulmate doesn’t match me anymore? Or... Juudai swallowed at an even worse thought.

What if he didn't match them? What if whatever happened to him so he couldn’t see his cards meant that he couldn’t be their soulmate anymore?

His heart stuttered and he lurched to his feet, icy talons of fear swiping all over him. He couldn’t stay here anymore. This was Duel Academia, home for duelists: and he wasn’t a duelist, not anymore. He couldn’t be one without his deck.

There wasn’t any use of packing. All he had here were Osiris Red uniforms and he didn’t need those anymore anyway. No books – he couldn’t even see the pictures in them and he’d never bothered reading most of them – and there wasn’t any need for his PDA either. Even when he tried to hold it, he ended up dropping it for how much his hands shook.

Where are they? Juudai wondered as he started out of his dorm room. The others had all visited him earlier – hours? Days? Something else he wasn’t certain about. Now they had all vanished and he couldn’t imagine where they were.

He’d taken a few steps out before another slash of fear ran down his spine and fairly well against his will, he turned.

The first thought through his mind was that he saw a spirit, and it might not be the kind of Duel Spirit that he wanted to see. Then his eyes adjusted and there in the shadows, far too close to his dorm, there stood a tall figure dressed in a Duel Academia uniform. Not one like his; what he saw here was far more like the Obelisk Blue uniform.

Not quite, but close enough.

The stranger raised one hand and gestured towards Juudai. Juudai started to take a step back, but the soft blur of white in his head had other ideas. His feet moved forward without asking permission from his brain, taking him closer to the stranger. Juudai wanted more than anything to get out oft here, to get into a boat and leave the island, never to return.

What he did was follow the stranger deeper into the forest, until he couldn’t see the Red dorm building or the main building or hear the crash of waves on the shore or smell the thick salt in the air that said he was home.

In a small clearing, the stranger turned and stared down at him, lips curved upward into something Juudai thought probably should have been a smile but which came nowhere close to making him happy or relaxed.

“I know you.” Juudai murmured, throat dry and limbs weak. “You’re...” The name failed him, but the other only continued to smile.

“I know you, Yuuki Juudai. Though you should be my servant, you are not.” The tall stranger’s waterfall of evening blue hair glinted in the moonlight as he continued to stare at Juudai. His eyes – an odd shade of violet – turned toward the blank area where Juudai’s soulmate mark had been. “You are in quite a predicament. You can no longer see your cards and your mark has vanished.”

Juudai wanted to say something to the effect of Tell me something I don’t know or Can you get them back for me? He’d never been one to ask for help, but in this case, he thought he had little choice.

But words continued to fail him. That white blur overpowered what he wanted to say, in favor of him staring at the stranger almost hungrily. He didn’t know what was meant by should have been his servant. Juudai didn’t serve anyone. He never had and he couldn’t think of why he would serve this one.

Because he’s strong. Because he’s wise. Because he can help you. Juudai wouldn’t go so far as to say that the white blur spoke those words, but he could feel them inside of himself regardless.

“You may call me Saiou Takuma. I am Edo Phoenix’s manager.” The stranger made no move. Juudai couldn’t say that he was in danger, but he still wanted out of here as fast as he could get himself to go. Only he wasn’t moving. That white blur kept him in place.

Somewhere underneath the blur, something else, something he couldn’t define, twitched ever so faintly, so much so that Juudai didn’t notice it all that much, not when this guy kept looking at him and white light all but surrounded him.

“Okay. Nice to meet you.” Juudai dragged the words out, trying to move over and over and still not able to do it.

Saiou’s smile didn’t change for a single breath. “You can’t see your cards. Your soulmate mark has disappeared.”

“I know.” Juudai bit those words off, wondering what this guy wanted. The longer he stood there the less he wanted to be there and the more that white blur in his mind wanted to overwhelm everything. He knew he had to get away. He knew that he couldn’t.

“I can change that for you. I can make sure that you get it back.” Saiou’s persuasive voice echoed softly in Juudai’s ears. “That’s what you want. You want those spirits of yours. You want that soulmate of yours.” For a heartbeat he stared down into Juudai’s eyes and all Juudai could see was burning white.

“The one who is in pain..”

Juudai jerked, eyes widening, heart pounding. “What?” His soulmate in pain? No. Couldn’t be. Juudai refused to let it be. His fingers tightened and his throat dried to the point he wasn’t sure if he could talk anymore.

“You don’t remember them. How interesting.” Saiou’s features fell into a blankness that Juudai had never seen before. His voice held an echo to it now, one that called up images in the back of his thoughts that Juudai hadn’t ever heard or seen before.

Every breath of those images terrified and enraged him. He wanted to scream, to wrap his hands around something and squeeze until there wasn’t anything left at all.

He didn’t want to hurt Saiou. The longer he stared at that nightmare, the more he wondered if Saiou even knew what was going on at all. That blankness, that mocking tone…

“What do you know?” Juudai forced the words out of himself, taking a single step forward before his muscles all locked down. “Where are they? Who are they?”

“How delicious. I really wouldn’t have presumed that the procedure worked so well.” A mocking, sliding taunt of a voice and Juudai hated it so very much. There had to be a way to stop it, and yet if there was, he didn’t know what it could be. That deep darkness in his mind that the white blur prevented from moving more than the tiniest scraps, stirred and twitched and heaved, though not enough to do anything.

Juudai’s fingernails dug into his palms. Tiny beads of ice-cold sweat beaded down his cheeks. “What are you talking about?”

“You don’t remember that either? Well, I don’t see any reason to tell you – unless you become mine.” That smile twisted up across Saiou’s lips. “Give yourself to me and I will give you back your duel sight. I will give you back your mark. I will give you your soulmate. And all I ask for it is you”

Juudai’s heart skipped a beat and then another. Breathing hadn’t ever been so difficult in his life. There it was laid out before him. If he accepted this offer, he would have it all back. Everything that he’d missed, whether he knew that he missed it or not.

“Is it that bad of an offer? I will restore everything that you’ve lost. You’ll never lose it again, I swear. I could even provide you with a new deck.”

One of Saiou’s hands moved and cards appeared all around Juudai, each one with a shimmering white square, that faded away to show new images. Heroes of all kinds stood there, similar to the Elemental Heroes, but one important change.

“These are the Heroes of Light. Aren’t they what you would want? Powerful heroes that will help you and stand beside you. No one can ever take them from you. Do say yes. I’m certain that your soulmate would approve. They miss you.”

Juudai raised one hand to reach toward the closest, his fingers ghosting ever so close to the card. He couldn’t read the name on it but this one looked tall and strong and powerful, with all manner of muscles and clad all in pure white from head to foot. All of them wore white, he noticed. He strained harder to see the names, but they were too blurry.

“What are they called?” He asked, traces of reluctance in his tone.

“This one is Hero of Light: Earth. He’s quite powerful and his effect allows all other Heroes of Light on the field to be immune to destruction by battle. Strong and steady as the earth itself.” Saiou – or whatever wore Saiou’s body at the moment – smiled a warm and comforting smile. “Once you accept these, you’ll see them all. You want to, I’m sure.”

Juudai wanted to touch the cards, to see if those glorious images would remain there when he laid his hands on them. His heart beat faster in anticipation. Whatever this was, whoever it was, they weren’t asking anything of him that was wrong. In fact, they weren’t asking anything of him at all.

It couldn’t be wrong to do this. He started to open his mouth to agree when another thought crossed his mind.

“You said my soulmate misses me? You know where they are?”

“Of course I do. I’ve been watching over them for years.” One of those soft, far too pleased with themselves smiles came. “I can take you to them, or bring them to you. They’re very hurt and without you, they might not survive. They’ve done so this long, but if they hear that you’ve turned away from them, I can’t promise what they would do.”

Juudai pulled his hand back, fingers tightening once more on his palms. Something didn’t feel right about this. That tiny dark spark inside of him screamed even louder, screamed so that even he could hear the faint echoes of it, demanding to know what he thought he was doing, how dare he do this, how dare he step away from what he was, he couldn’t do that, he couldn’t betray his nature…

He couldn’t fall prey to the Light of Ruin.

“I know you,” he murmured, staring into those violet eyes. “I know you.” He’d known who this was all along, even if he hadn’t been able to bring the name to his lips. “You’re the Light of Ruin. You want to destroy everything.”

Juudai couldn’t have said, in that moment, how he knew that. But he knew that he knew it, like he knew the sun was warm and grass was green and water wet and somewhere out there his soulmate loved him and he loved them.

“So what if I am? So what if I do? What can you do to stop me, Yuuki Juudai? You’re alone. There is nothing that can be done by you against me.” Saiou's’ eyes mocked Juudai’s anger. “I have seen the future with his eyes. This world belongs to me and there’s nothing you can do to stop it. Not now and not ever.”

Juudai took a few steps back. “You’re wrong. I don’t know what I can do, but it’s something. Maybe it’s not even me. But someone can stop you.”

“Are you so sure? But you’re right on one thing: it isn’t you.” All around him the images of the cards and monsters vanished, popping out of existence with little puffs of smoke. “Because you can’t duel. And so long as you can’t see your cards, you never will be able to again.”

Juudai’s feet worked with him now, pulling him away and darting down through the trees until he reached the docks. He didn’t look behind himself, not until he’d already taken a boat and headed out onto the moon drenched waters. Looking at the silver-touched waves sent his stomach lurching and if he hadn’t needed to pilot the boat, he thought he would have just curled up somewhere and tried to forget the rest of the world existed.

He did glance over his shoulder once, when he was too far from the shore to see anything clearly back on the island. He could feel those eyes on him and he jerked himself around, staring at the waters ahead.

What was that? He knew, even if he didn’t put it into words. That was a monstrosity. That was the worst thing that he’d ever faced, up to and including Darkness, Camula, and the Mythic Demons.

That thing, the Light of Ruin… That’s why I can’t see spirits anymore. And why my mark is gone./i> Juudai shuddered, hands clenching harder on the wheel, wanting to do something and not knowing what it was. Whether he liked it or not, the Light had been right about one thing – if he couldn’t duel there wasn’t anything that he could do about it.

He would have to count on his friends being able to do it. They were strong. They would be able to manage this without him.

Another look, but by now he couldn’t see anything of the island but a vague smudge in the distance. It looked a lot like how the white blur in his mind felt. He shuddered and looked ahead again. If he could find a way to get that out…

If anything could get it out. Was there something stronger than the Light?

Juudai didn’t know. He wondered if he’d ever find out.

Saiou – or the Light of Ruin – stared in the direction Juudai vanished off into for several moments, before turning and walking deeper into the forest. The Light allowed more of Saiou’s mind to take back over. He would remember a bit of the encounter with Juudai, enough so that he’d not ask annoying questions, but not so much that he would cause trouble for the Light itself.

The awareness of the Light turned elsewhere, shifting and changing and twitching. In point of truth, it hadn’t expected Juudai to take up the offer. It would have been quite pleasant if he had; it wouldn’t have taken long at all to get to the serious business of destroying everything in sight, and keeping Juudai and Yubel both alive long enough to watch everything shiver into non existence.

But now Juudai had departed the island, and the Light made plans for his inevitable return. What it said about seeing the future through Saiou's eyes remained the absolute truth. Juudai would return and fight again, but the Light intended to destroy him, through one path or another. The future had been set, but the paths to reaching that future remained as uncountable as the stars themselves.

Saiou will deal with this. His Society of Light will get everything in readiness for when the fool returns.

Even without having lips, the Light smirked at that. Juudai was indeed a fool, whether or not he knew of his own true nature. He would learn far too late how much of a fool he was, and the Light so looked forward to that.

It wasn’t entirely impossible that Juudai could find a way to defeat Saiou. Many of those possible future paths led to such events. As for what came after that… that was what the Light chose to deal with now.

There was awareness. There was a flicker of a soul tied to the Gentle Darkness. The Light forever found this repugnant, but it would have to work with what it had, for now at least.

What the Light saw, if ‘saw’ was even the correct word for an entity that could regard all of creation at once, was a demonic arm floating inside of a slender tube. That tube provided nutrients to a degree – the energies that Yubel needed to survive and couldn’t get hold of at the moment without assistance. The arm flexed and shifted on occasion, full of Yubel’s indomitable will, forged into diamond hard perfection by pain and heartbreak and passion.

I’ve spoken to your beloved. The Light didn’t believe in beating around the bush, at least not when matters wouldn’t be served by doing so.

The moment that it spoke, Yubel’s awareness flickered towards it. Any human viewing would have seen little more than an arm moving around and a shimmer of pure white light. The shimmer expanded to take the arm in completely and the Light could see all of Yubel now, even the parts that no longer existed. Yubel’s essence: their soul stood there now.

“What are you talking about?” After all the years that they’d been together – though the Light knew well that Yubel didn’t think of it in any such was – Yubel still hadn’t wavered from their utter devotion to Juudai.

One thing the Light prided itself on was being quite patient. It had forever to work.

As I said. I spoke to your beloved. I asked if he wished to be with you again. The Light picked up a few human traits here and there, and copied others for the effect of it, or on occasion just for the raw amusement of it. Sometimes even the Light didn’t know which was which. He didn’t seem interested. In fact, he looked far more involved in dueling than anything else. I thought that you’d want to know.

Yubel’s eyes narrowed, a low hissing sort of growl erupting from the depths of their throat. “You lie!”

Do I? What would it serve me to lie about this? It’s as I’ve said all along – he doesn’t love you anymore. The Light sadly made a gesture that roughly analogized to shaking a human head. He didn’t even have your soulmate mark anymore. I suggested ways that he could recover it but it was as if he didn’t even know you or care about you. He didn’t even know your name.

What erupted out of Yubel’s throat weren’t coherent words in any sort of language. The Light stepped back as Yubel ranted and raved, swearing vengeance and demanding more information. For now, the Light would remain careful on what it told Yubel. Lies could be easily picked out and exposed for what they were. Truth, tailored especially to the proper needs, would be far more difficult to disclose.

What amused the Light most of all was how their plans for Juudai meshed well into one another. His friends would be his downfall, one way or another, and his love for Yubel would lead to the forging of the Light’s finest weapon against him.

The Light almost anticipated the defeat of Saiou, which would lead to the arrival of Yubel back into Juudai’s life. Seeing the look on his face when they crossed paths again…

Absolute bliss, and it hadn’t even happened yet. What a glorious future remained ahead of them.

Notes: Okay, one chapter to go. Third year. I might write something circling around season four in this world eventually, but I have so much else to do first.

[higuchimon]

[fanfic]  Down To The Wire:  drabble 1

Ryou didn’t trust his two soulmate counters. If they’d led him to Yuusuke and Fubuki, it might have been different. They were his friends. He wouldn’t have objected to spending his life romantically with either one of them. But the counters didn’t so much as twitch when he crossed paths with either of them.

Neither gave a twitch until the night he dueled Edo Phoenix, and as his life points drained away to zero, he looked up in time to see the counter on his right arm run down to zero as well.

He didn’t move. Edo looked from his own counter to Ryou’s, then turned away, clearly as uncaring as Ryou himself.

He and Edo Phoenix: soulmates. Impossible.

But who would be their third?

Notes: I'm pretty sure you can tell, since I kind of told you already. But Ryou has no idea Saiou even exists, let alone could be their third. And Edo... we get his reaction and a bit of information next drabble.