Yuzu Hiragi (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
strongyuzu) wrote2017-08-07 05:57 pm
strongyuzu) wrote2017-08-07 05:57 pm
Short Story + Closed Event Post
As she hung out at the Duel College, as she did most days after school, Yuzu had...a lot going through her head, to put it lightly. After their loss to Divine Grace and Kachidoki's subsequent attack and challenge to Yuya, it was pretty clear that she and Yuya wouldn't be dueling as DoubleYu at the Duel Festival. Part of Yuzu was disappointed about that. More of her was just worried about Yuya. A tangible part of her had been scared for the two of them when Kachdioki had jumped them like that. He was way more unhinged than he had been at any point thus far. Everything with him and his family was...really complicated and hard for Yuzu to parse out. The main thing she could parse out that the people running Ryozanpaku were the dirt worst.
But even amidst everything with her team and Yuya and Kachidoki and her own desires to duel on the main stage of the Duel Festival...there was something else that was bothering her.
"I don't really wanna explain it, and I really don't want you to know either, Yuzu."
Sora's strange, cryptic words to her following his duel with Kurosaki. The strange looks and words he and Kurosaki kept sending back and forth between each other...that encounter some time back where Kurosaki had called her "Ruri"...that mysterious boy who looked like Yuya and hung around Kurosaki and had showed up when she'd gone to Ryozanpaku...
It was all. Pretty freaking confusing. And Sora's refusal to tell her anything about it only complicated matters more. Part of her just wanted to focus on something besides Yuya, Kachidoki and the Duel Festival for a few minutes, so...
When she spotted Kurosaki speaking to Johan-san about something, she quickly latched onto it. Kurosaki eventually finished up whatever he was doing with Johan and walked away. Yuzu quickly followed after.
"Trust me. Getting involved with anything relating to that guy is going to ruin your life."
Yuzu let out a huff and pushed the warning out of her mind.
"H-hey! Kurosaki!" She said, calling out to him. He briefly turned his head back, his eyes widening slightly when he noticed it was Yuzu, but he didn't say anything. "I need to talk to you about something!"
"What," he said, sharply.
"I need to talk to you about some stuff -- about you and Sora!" Kurosaki's eyes immediately narrowed again.
"No."
"But I just --"
"No."
"Will you at least let me--"
"No." Kurosaki was walking away at this point.
"Hey! Don't just walk away from me! HEY! HEEEEY!"
A few more moments of walking and a few more moments of Yuzu demanding Kurosaki speak to her later, the two were outside. And Kurosaki's patience was, in a word, thinned.
"You're not going to go away, are you," he said, flatly.
"Nope. I can be a total pain in the ass if I want to!" Yuzu boasted. "You should probably just give me what I want and save yourself the headache."
"Ah."
He was silent for a moment. So was Yuzu.
Then Kurosaki broke off into a sprint down the street, leaving Yuzu in the dust.
"E-eeehhh! H-HEY! HEY! NO WAY!" Yuzu immediately started running after him. "YOU CAN'T LOSE ME THAT EASILY! GET BACK HERE! KUROSAKIIIIIIIII!"
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[After an extended chase through part of downtown Domino, Yuzu has come to an alley near a tenement -- and unfortunately for her, it's here where she's kind of lost Shun entirely, despite keeping up with him probably longer than anybody expected.]
G-geez...! How does a guy that big run that fast...?! [She huffs and puffs a bit before she looks around.] Where the heck am I, even...uggghh...
HEY, KUROSAKI! WHERE ARE YOU?! [She keeps looking around, shouting out for Shun every so often. Pretty clear she's not giving up.]
But even amidst everything with her team and Yuya and Kachidoki and her own desires to duel on the main stage of the Duel Festival...there was something else that was bothering her.
"I don't really wanna explain it, and I really don't want you to know either, Yuzu."
Sora's strange, cryptic words to her following his duel with Kurosaki. The strange looks and words he and Kurosaki kept sending back and forth between each other...that encounter some time back where Kurosaki had called her "Ruri"...that mysterious boy who looked like Yuya and hung around Kurosaki and had showed up when she'd gone to Ryozanpaku...
It was all. Pretty freaking confusing. And Sora's refusal to tell her anything about it only complicated matters more. Part of her just wanted to focus on something besides Yuya, Kachidoki and the Duel Festival for a few minutes, so...
When she spotted Kurosaki speaking to Johan-san about something, she quickly latched onto it. Kurosaki eventually finished up whatever he was doing with Johan and walked away. Yuzu quickly followed after.
"Trust me. Getting involved with anything relating to that guy is going to ruin your life."
Yuzu let out a huff and pushed the warning out of her mind.
"H-hey! Kurosaki!" She said, calling out to him. He briefly turned his head back, his eyes widening slightly when he noticed it was Yuzu, but he didn't say anything. "I need to talk to you about something!"
"What," he said, sharply.
"I need to talk to you about some stuff -- about you and Sora!" Kurosaki's eyes immediately narrowed again.
"No."
"But I just --"
"No."
"Will you at least let me--"
"No." Kurosaki was walking away at this point.
"Hey! Don't just walk away from me! HEY! HEEEEY!"
A few more moments of walking and a few more moments of Yuzu demanding Kurosaki speak to her later, the two were outside. And Kurosaki's patience was, in a word, thinned.
"You're not going to go away, are you," he said, flatly.
"Nope. I can be a total pain in the ass if I want to!" Yuzu boasted. "You should probably just give me what I want and save yourself the headache."
"Ah."
He was silent for a moment. So was Yuzu.
Then Kurosaki broke off into a sprint down the street, leaving Yuzu in the dust.
"E-eeehhh! H-HEY! HEY! NO WAY!" Yuzu immediately started running after him. "YOU CAN'T LOSE ME THAT EASILY! GET BACK HERE! KUROSAKIIIIIIIII!"
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[After an extended chase through part of downtown Domino, Yuzu has come to an alley near a tenement -- and unfortunately for her, it's here where she's kind of lost Shun entirely, despite keeping up with him probably longer than anybody expected.]
G-geez...! How does a guy that big run that fast...?! [She huffs and puffs a bit before she looks around.] Where the heck am I, even...uggghh...
HEY, KUROSAKI! WHERE ARE YOU?! [She keeps looking around, shouting out for Shun every so often. Pretty clear she's not giving up.]
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*He smiles at her again. That same soft smile.*
I'm... Yuto.
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[The wind suddenly picks up in ferocity. Yuzu instinctively covers her face with her arm and shuts her eyes, ducking her head down.]
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*As Yuzu covers herself from the wind, Yuto slips his hand away from hers. He takes one last look back at her, before running deeper into the alleyway, disappearing into the shadows.
When the wind finally dies down, Yuzu will find herself stood in the alleyway by herself.*
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[Yuzu looks up to find the wind gone...and the boy gone as well.
She gulps, quietly.]
...Yuto...