Hope in the Shadows

Spring

AN: Hi it's me again! Sorry I haven't updated sooner but it wasn't my fault, this time. I was going to update yesterday but the page crashed toward the end of me typing it and I lost the whole thing. Almost 800 words gone! Unfortunately after that it was too late to start again. But I'm here now so let's get on with the story!

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Yugioh Zexal. Or do I? No, I don't

In the last chapter Shark starts sleeping with Yuma in his bed to keep warm during the winter and sees Yuma knock out Mist by barely touching him.

It has been a few months now since I had started sleeping in Yuma's bed with him. Now winter is pretty much over as it starts to warm up outside. As much as I hated to admit it I was really going to miss winter. Mostly because without the cold of winter I no longer have any excuse to sleep in Yuma's bed with him. Without Yuma right there by my side every night I was going to feel so alone.

Things had been going well with my day life too. Yuma had promised to teach me how to do that little ninja knock out trick he had used on Mist. And true to his character, well his character that was left over from being turned into an Eternal, he has started teaching me. At first he taught me thee basic sciences of it. Things such as the lay out of nerves and pressure points in the body and what angles you have to hit them at to get the result you desire. For a while now Astral has even volunteered to be my guinea pig and let me test it out on him while he asks me more of his questions. I eventually got it which I thought was pretty good for the only a couple months of practicing. The only real problem was that because I did actually do it I ended up having to carry an unconscious Astral back to his room.

As wonderful as my life has been right now I haven't been ale to stop this weird feeling that there's something strange going on around here that I don't know about. I know it sounds like I'm being a little paranoid but when it comes to living with an Eternal and two fledglings can I afford not to be? I wouldn't be so worried about it if they weren't spending so much time alone together and discussing things when I'm not there. To make things feel a little bit more strange, whenever they're talking about something and I walk into the room they automatically stop talking and go their separate ways. Now if that's not suspicious I don't know what is.

To be perfectly honest it's not like I believe any of them would hurt me, well anyone other than Mist. I think the biggest reason it has been bothering me is because they don't trust me with their secrets since I thought we were friends. Excluding Mist who doesn't like me, doesn't trust me, and probably wants to kill me where I stand. I mean Astral loves to asks me questions and trusts me enough to let me try that weird knock out trick on him and Yuma has been taking care of me for years now, even when I was not aware of it. Well I can't force them to tell me whatever secret they're keeping so I guess I'll just have to wait for the time they feel they can trust me with their secret.

Today was the first real warm day of Spring, well first real morning since the sun wasn't even going to be up for another three hours at least. You could even feel a little of the warm air starting to move throughout the cave. I woke up again in Yuma's bed, just like I did all winter long. To be honest though, it had been warm enough for me to sleep with just a Lion's skin blanket or two for a couple weeks now but Yuma said I should continue to sleep with him because " even though it's a little bit warmer outside, since I've been sleeping with Yuma and his excessive body heat for so long it might be a shock to my body to just sleep with a couple lion's skins blankets so early in the Spring. " I knew he was really just using it as an excuse to be ale to keep sleeping in the same bed but I didn't say anything about it. Mostly because this kind of proves that, in a way, me and Yuma want the same thing. To be able to stay together for at least a little bit longer.

I rolled over to get a little more comfortable when I noticed that Yuma was no longer in the bed with, which was pretty strange. Especially when you take into account that Yuma usually slept in later then the rest of us, another one of the few things left from when Yuma was still human. As I looked around the room I discovered that the twins were gone as well. I jumped out off bed and started run through all the tunnels and caverns looking for them. Was this the secret that they had been keeping from me? That they were going to just abandon me here while they went off in search of a new home?

I eventually found them in a cavern on the far left to where are room was. It looked to me like they were starting to pack up their stuff. So I was right, they were planning on abandoning me. Suddenly Yuma looks up and sees me. Then he smiles and says, " Oh Shark you're already up. That saves me the trouble of waking you. " Yuma must see how confused I am because he continues, " We're all going on a walk through the mountains to see the sun rise and wanted you to come with us. We have been planning the trip for a little while as kind of a surprise for you, which believe me it's really hard to keep something from you. " So they weren't abandoning me, they were trying to surprise me. I felt so happy as I packed my things. But if this was such a happy time then why did Yuma look so sad?

AN: Okay I'm thinking of what my next Zexal crossover should be once I finish this one. Should it be Black Butler or Devil is a Part Timer? Review and tell me which one you would like to read. Bye everyone!