𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 15: 𝐒𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲.

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After a few hours waiting inside Yuven's house, the limo arrives outside his place. The driver blows his horn gently, which informs Asea inside the house that they've arrived.
Asea: "He's here, guess it's time for me to go."
Yuven: "Guess so."
Yuven opens the door for her as Asea puts her shoes on, but before she walked out. She turns around to face Yuven and Ami one last time.
Asea: "By the way guys, please don't Duel each other. Okay?"
Yuven: "Hm?"
Ami: "How come?"
Asea: "Well because..."
Before she could continue, she was suddenly interrupted by the limo's horn again. Then the manager comes out from the front side of the vehicle and opens the passenger door for Asea.
Manager: "Asea, it's time to go! Your next Duel begins in an hour."
Asea: "Coming."
While still facing Yuven and Ami, she comes up to her best friend and gives Ami a hug.
"Please don't Duel each other Ami, I mean it. Okay?"
Hearing Asea whispering in her ear what she wants had her curious. But before Ami could ask her why, Asea released her from the hug and made her way to the limo. She enters and sits down in the passenger seat, which prompted the manager to close her door. Once she was in, he re-enters the front side of the limo and orders the driver to go. As Yuven and Ami watched the limo leave, both of them were curious about Asea's last words. Then suddenly Yuven remembers exactly why, which he failed to mention during their meet up. So he taps Ami's shoulder to get her attention and faces her.
Yuven: "I agree with Asea, we shouldn't Duel each other."
Ami: "You too Yuven, but why?"
Yuven: "Because..."
As Yuven explained to her everything that Eden told him regarding to the Life Links, within the limo Asea looked down with concern as she recalls what happened at the hospital.
Flashback:
Asea: "Ami, what's going on? Why're you acting like this?"
Ami?: "Oh I'm sorry, but I'm borrowing her body to talk with my brother."
Kaiza?: "As am I."
Asea: "Wait a second, what do you mean 'borrow'? Just who are you?"
Fusindria: "My name is Fusindria, I was once a dragon. But then..."

Xylon: "Whatever you do, do not allow any of us to Duel each other. Otherwise..."
Present:
Asea: "If only Xylon could've finished what he said. Just thinking about it is making me concerned for them. But more importantly, this evil entity Yuven mentioned. Does it have something to do with the incident from Duel Academy?"

Meanwhile at Heartland, Takuto was scouring the internet for any news relating to the Numbers. That was until he heard the front door open, Takuto turns his head to the hallway and saw Kaiza. However he was looking down, almost like he was depressed and heartbroken.
Takuto: "Kaiza?"
Kaiza doesn't respond, instead he walks passed his doorway and goes into his room. Takuto gets up from his desk and goes to his room, knocking on his door to see if he'll talk with him.
"Hey Kaiza, is everything alright?"
But again he doesn't respond, and as Takuto attempted to enter his room. The door was locked, it was clear to Takuto that he wanted some time to be alone. But it also made him more eager to know why Kaiza was feeling like this. Determined to get the answers, he goes back to his desk and takes a different approach. By hacking his way into the hospital's surveillance footage.
"I'm in, now let's have a look."
Once he successfully hacked in, he finds an assortment of footages taken each day. So he scrolls to yesterday's footages and looked around until he found one of Kaiza in his room. He plays it and pays careful attention for anything unusual.
"Hmm..."
Nothing was happening, so he fast forwards the footage until a nurse came into his room. It looked as though the nurse was allowing Kaiza to leave the hospital, which prompted him to get out of bed and head to the bathroom to change clothes. From what Takuto has seem, there wasn't any change in Kaiza's behavior.
"Nothing unusual here, so what else could it be?"
He scrolls around again until he found another footage of Kaiza leaving the hospital. He plays it and pays careful attention once again. It didn't take long for him to see something, or rather someone else in the footage.
"Who's that?"
As Kaiza approaches the figure, they too stand up and approach him. The footage couldn't make out the figure since it's too far to be seen clearly. Luckily for Takuto this was something he had no problem with. So he zooms in towards the two and starts enhancing it little by little until the resolution was perfect. When he saw who it was, his eyes widened and his jaw dropped slightly. He couldn't believe who it was.
"To think he'd show himself again... Arata Igarashi."
Takuto clenches his hands and grits his teeth in anger, clearly he wasn't happy to see this person out and about. But he wasn't going to let this stop him from figuring out what happened to Kaiza. So once he composed himself, he continued the footage. From there he watches the two Duel, prompting Takuto to fast forward to its conclusion. He sees Arata laying in defeat until Kaiza lifts him up and bringing him towards a tree. Even though he couldn't see Kaiza's face, for Takuto the gesture alone marked a change in his behavior. Afterwards Kaiza lets him go and Takuto watches as Arata leads him somewhere.
"Arata, you're up to something if you came for him. And I think it's time to find out."
Now that he knows Arata played a role in Kaiza's upset behavior, Takuto leaves the hospital's surveillance footage and hacks into the KaibaCorp satellite again. From there he types in Arata's full name, but his location couldn't be traced.
"Covering your tracks huh? Well then..."
He changes things up by hacking into the KaibaCorp mainframe instead. He browses around for their Duel until he found Arata's profile.
"Ha! You can hide your location, but you can't hide your information."
Once he found his profile, he sends him an anonymous message. Telling him to meet at the chosen location around night time.

The night settled in as Takuto waited patiently for Arata on top of a high rise building. The clouds started covering most of the sky, followed by some thunder. Suddenly out of nowhere a dark portal appears, Takuto watches as Arata comes through it. They face each other and prepared to talk.
Arata: "Well well well, if it isn't Takuto Yureshiki. I never thought I'd see you again."
Takuto: "Spare me your sentiment."
Arata: "Well it's true, after all you were in prison."
Takuto clenches his hands and looks at him with anger in his eyes, whatever Arata meant regarding to him being in prison really got under his skin. So much so that Arata started smirking at him.
Takuto: "You're the reason I wound up in prison anyways."
Arata: "That's true."
Once Takuto realized that giving into his anger is exactly what Arata wants, he takes a big deep breath to calm himself down. Arata didn't like this, replacing his smirk with a more serious look.
Takuto: "What has happened to you? We used to be best friends."
Arata: "Get to the point, why did you call me here in the first place?"
Takuto: "What did you do to Kaiza?"
Arata: "Kaiza? Oh you mean Kaiza Akechi, why?"
Takuto: "You've done something to him thats made him depressed. What was it?"
Arata: "Oh, guess he's still in shock huh."
Takuto: "What does that mean?"
Arata: "Why do you care?"
Takuto: "I'll ask you again, tell me what you did to him?"
Arata: "I don't have to tell you anything, what I did to him has nothing to do with you fool."
Takuto: "Then I guess you leave me no choice..."
Takuto takes out his Duel Disk and attaches it to his arm, then he jumps back a few feet away from him. Arata could've just left since he didn't pose much of a threat to him. And yet he decided to take out his own Duel Disk and attach it to his arm. Once Takuto saw him readying himself, he fires an energy cord towards his Duel Disk. Arata was surprised, he never saw this coming.
Arata: "What the hell is this?!"
Takuto: "A little something to make sure you don't escape."
Arata tries to detach his Duel Disk, but nothing happened. And when he attempts to force it off his arm, the cord generated a bit of electricity. Shocking Arata and putting a stop to him.
Takuto: "Don't bother trying to remove it, once this cord gets ahold of your Duel Disk. It won't come off unless you defeat me."
Arata gets annoyed, to think his former friend would go to great lengths to get the answers out of him. It was clear that Takuto was concerned about Kaiza. So the two activate their Duel Disks and prepared to face off.
Both: "DUEL!"

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