Bonds That Can Change the Future (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds)

Knowing You

Chapter 38

(following anime episodes from 123 to 129)

          There is always a way for everyone. Life is not a one-way street. Full of paths to follow and doors to open, its construction is built from various roads. Some have two ways, some only one, others have a dead-end, but regardless of their structure or their purpose, all of them have one thing in common – all of them lead to something. Simple or complicated, easy or hard, there is always a way to follow; way full of anticipation and surprises.

However, not every path is enjoyable to walk through, especially when surrounded by the same environment and knowing the outcome of the journey. Even though it wasn't always like that for Hanako, her nights became identical with a dose of monotony and sprinkle of stagnancy, as she was resting her body by sitting on one of the tombstones from her nightmare.

          "I couldn't remember a single thing again", her frowned face sighed, while resting between her palms. The restless mind of a mechanic girl started rewinding the scene from the garage, going over her conversation with Yusei again and again. "I don't get it! Every time I'm here, I know everything, but the moment I wake up, my memory just goes POOF!"

She imitated disappearance with her hands like a magician, talking to herself, before her eyes landed on the mirror in front of her, but she decided to pay no attention to what was happening around her, until her eyes noticed something worth her effort.

          "Crow?" Hanako muttered, seeing her friend in the mirror walking around the garage, so she jumped on her feet and ran towards the glass, hitting her arms against it with the attention of being heard. She knew Crow won't be able to see her, but pushing her voice to the very edge of her loudest decibel was the only way she found has a possibility to be effective. She was screaming at the top of her lungs, but no matter how hard she tried, nothing seemed to be working. Crow couldn't hear her at all!

"He won't help you, Baby", the voice she found so similar, yet rigid pierced her heart like a poisonous arrow, as her entire body started shivering, "With whatever you're trying to do with these ridiculously desperate moves!"

          "Trying to understand the things you put me through!" She rolled her eyes through the answer to his assumptions, whilst sighing before turning towards him to scan his presence with her eyes, "What do you want again?"

"When are you going to stop asking me the same question every night?"

          "When you stop eating my nerves", Hanako replied curtly, barely showing any signs of empathy around this version of Yusei, "I already agreed to go to the Future with you after the W.R.G.P. is over, so why keeping me here?"

"How can I be sure you won't betray me?" He kept his posture, seeming untouched by her behaviour, but there was still something inside of him that was yet unspoken and not shown, something wicked in the way he raised his eyebrow.

          "I gave you a promise, haven't I?" Hanako whispered, keeping their eye contact still and formal, professional to the point even she herself started believing her poker face was a result of highly educated player, "And I never break my promises... Besides, I did it to save Yusei, so you should have it as a guarantee!"

"I still don't understand what you see in him after everything he has done!"

          "He has done nothing wrong!" Hanako raised the tone of her voice, now keeping real Yusei's side, knowing what was going on, "It was just the story you made up to manipulate my mind!"

"What I told you was true..."

          "Liar!"

"I'm not lying... I already told you", his body formed a shrug and it was hard to tell whether he had nothing else to say or there was really not much more to reveal, "I am Yusei, the real Yusei who came from the Future to warn you!"