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[FIC] Martyr-verse, currently untitled

Companionfic to

imprisondmartyr's Kiryuu. Written in Cetus' POV.

Category: Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
Characters: Yuusei and Kiryuu, some Jack and Crow
Rating: T
Warnings: It's Martyr-verse, dollface. What do you think?
Summary: AU!drabbles with some canon at the beginning. Yuusei would have done anything to keep his friends safe. Even if it meant giving them up. Companionfic with Icey's fic.
Disclaimer: If I write fanfiction, do you really think I own any aspect of this series?

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Yuusei had never seen Kiryuu look so elated.

After everything they had gained, even he could afford to forget what they almost lost (him), and feel like (for the moment) kings of the entire world. (Their small, isolated world of chain link fences and criminals and slums that was Satellite.)

Because, as Kiryuu colored the last spot on the map black with hands shaking and threw said map into the sky (letting it flutter away in the wind along with their cares and their worries), they had done it, fulfilled their goal, they had made Satellite theirs.

And then they laughed, almost unanimously, and all unrestrained, free as the map colored black. Yuusei felt their joy, their satisfaction with themselves and what they had done, and he couldn't help but join in on his friends' happiness, relishing in their smiles and joy-faces on Jack and Crow that he hadn't seen in a long time, Kiryuu almost never.

This, he thought, was true satisfaction, seeing everybody smiled. He wished (unreasonably and uncharacteristically of his realistic character) that this moment could grow and stretch across time, to last forever.

-----

Yuusei watched as he continued to hunt.

He saw as Kiryuu grasped at the moment long gone in the past, the moment of freedom when their laughter sailed through the sky. He knew that Kiryuu wanted everyone to stay together, because their unity now just wasn't the same (could never be the same) as that one time, when they had been bonded by their joy.

He saw what Kiryuu feared (because he feared the same to a lesser extent), and his desperate attempts to keep everyone in their team (their FAMIILY) together, to keep them bound by that purpose.

And he couldn't help but be (disappointed in) worried for Kiryuu. Because he saw what Kiryuu was too blinded by his fear to see-that he himself was driving his family away. Instead of trusting in them to stay, he tried to entrap thhem into staying, with promises of glory long gone.

Yuusei wondered how Kiryuu had gotten this way. How he had lost trust in them.

He wanted to tell Kiryuu so many times that he didn't have to worry, that he could trust everyone to stay with him-they were his nakama, and he was theirs. Their bonds would never shatter, never break. Kiryuu never seemed to listen.

Or maybe it was that he was afraid to listen, to trust.

Yuusei wanted to warn him that he was driving his family away, but he didn't. Even when looking back at that time, he wondered why he never said a word abou that.

Perhaps it was because he never thought that Crow and Jack would leave.

-----

Yuusei looked on in fear as Kiryuu had found what he declared to be their true, final enemy.

Had Kiryuu gone mad? Perhaps, he had never been quite the same after Crow and Jack had left. He had hunted even harder than before for a purpose to bring them all back together (and Yuusei could never help but muse at how pointless it all was, he still had firm faith in Jack and Crow, and that they would come back regardless of what Kiryuu did-they were nakama after all).

He listened stoically as Kiryuu's insistence that Satellite would truly be free if Security was taken down, that they could do it if everyone was just back together.

That this would be Team Satisfaction's Last Duel.

(Last duel indeed...)

-----

Yuusei couldn't do it. He just couldn't do it.

He couldn't leave Kiryuu on his own.

He had thought, perhaps, that if he had left Kiryuu alone, without anybody to aid him, he would stop, reconsider-know that no matter what he did, they would still be nakama...

But, a deep dark voice inside him (the voice of cold reason) told him that Kiryuu would still do it, that he was beyond the point of reason...that they had to stop him.

He knew that Kiryuu wanted Team Satisfaction together again. He knew that by getting the others, he'd be playing right into Kiryuu's hands.

But he couldn't, he thought as he ran into Crow's home and found one of the orphans to deliver the message, couldn't leave his nakama alone.

-----

Yuusei could feel the tension between the four of them, something he had hoped would never have happened.

Kiryuu seemed oblivious to it all (or perhaps he was ignoring it, hoping against hope just like Yuusei was) and cackled madly in glee as he went on about Team Satisfaction's last duel.

The look of shock and betrayal on Kiryuu's face as they put down the duel disks on the table cut Yuusei to the core.

He couldn't let Kiryuu do this to himself, Yuusei thought as Kiryu seemed to become even more maddening than before.

And he wondered, in the deep dark recesses of his mind, where the cold truth (something he usually embraced, but had been avoiding as of late) resided, whether they would really be able to stop him.

-----

Yuusei acted on impulse when he tackled Kiryuu to the ground, stopping him from killing that Security officer. The only thought rushing through his head was to stop him, he had to stop him. He had to make this madness end.

He wavered seeing the hurt and betrayed expression on Kiryuu's face, his grip loosening slightly. But, he thought, as Kiryuu struggled and Jack and Crow looked on, that this was for the best, that perhaps, when all this was over, things could go back to the way they once were.

The cold truth smacked him in the face again as they all hid away from Security, insisting that things would never, ever be the same no matter how things ended-that Security would never stop looking until they had found the culprit, and as long as Security kept looking, they could never help Kiryuu. They had to get Security away from him, or it would never be over.

It was a split second decision made on the moment, that moment when Yuusei decided that he had to do what he should have done all along-listen to the truth. He told Jack and Crow to wait there, to hold Kiryuu down while he tried to make them leave.

"What are you gonna do?" Crow asked.

"...I don't know," Yuusei lied as he walked off, not pausing, not looking back.

Kiryuu's look of anger bored into the back of his skull, burning itself straight to the front of his mind as he walked away.

-----

Yuusei faced the judge with no remorse shown on his face as he calmly and coldly stated his guilt in all charges. He saw the burning expression of distaste on the jury's faces as he was sentenced-life imprisonment for a terrorist attack on Security's Satellite headquarters, additional life sentences for the lives lost in the explosion, and a pending execution sentence for a possible murder of a Security officer, who's life still hung by a thread.

He never winced once as the gavel came down, the heavy bang resounding across the room and in his ears, signifying the end of the life he once knew, and the beginning of another.

As the marker was seared into the right side of his face, he bit his toungue to try and not let out a cry-it was futile. He could feel his screams resounding across the narrow chamber and he berated himself for showing weakness.

The scar tissue still burned with heat after the procedure was done, a line of fire dancing up and down his face. That marker burned with all the memories of what he had lost-no, of what he had given up, of what he could never return to.

And for the first time, he realized the consequences of his actions.

-----

Yuusei spent a lot of time thinking.

He spent a lot of time dwelling on the days of old, when Team Satisfaction had stayed together. And he understood now, why Kiryuu was so desperate to keep his nakama close.

He searched through his fading memories of those times, looking for some sign, some reason why it all fell apart. Yuusei saw-it had been because he had let Kiryuu think that they only stayed with him because he was their savior, because he gave them purpose. If he had let him know sooner, before Kiryuu had fallen, if he had told him simply: "We are nakama. We'd never leave..."

Yuusei berated himself for being weak, for not being able to find the reason before, and for not being able to stop the team's downfall. And he decided that he had to make up for it, somehow.

There were things going on in the prison, so much injustice and foul treatment. So much that the current prisoners had all but lost hope.

He had to be strong here, to make up for being weak for his friends. He had to stop others from falling into the madness like Kiryuu had done.

And so he did his best.

But every now and then, when he was alone in his cell, he wondered about those that he had (not really) given up, and he hoped, prayed, that they were together again, that they were working together to rebuild the bonds that had been strained between them.

He had done all that he could to give them that chance, after all...so that they could be free again.

It was all for them.

---FIN---

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[Totally ignoring any concerned looks.]

Stop fretting, I know what I'm doing. I'll crush them and make them regret the day they set foot on our turf. [Giggles crazily at that.]

~~No, Kiryuu. You don't.~~

~~Of course I will. We should have already done it last time, instead of running like cowards. They are nothing against Satellites finest.~~

Kiryuu...you'll...nnh...

[He turns away.]

I didn't want things to turn out like this...

[Takes a step towards Cetus, almost hesitatingly reaching with one hand for his shoulder.]

Yusei… I… I didn't want this to turn out as it did either. But I'll get them, I swear!

[ooc: XD, I was just about to write his intro for island-dr. ~~How wrong is it that I'm already shipping those two soooo much? XD~~]

[Cetus accepts the hand on his shoulder-it feels so warm and full of life, and he shivers.]

...but...I don't want you to...

[ooc: yay! ~~I was already shipping them long before I made Cetus' account. Fffffffffffh~~

[And if Cetus doesn't protest, Kiryu will try and pull him into a hug. Cause, god, this is Yusei, his little brother who's given up everything for him and even though he won't say it aloud Kiryu has missed him terribly.]

[http://community.livejournal.com/yugioh_dr/31206.html?! ~~Really? Ffffff~~]

[Cetus missed him terribly as well, but he was frightened of this Kiryuu. Because even though he was bright with warmth and health,and god, was he so warm he was still alit with vengance. He shivered as he was pulled into Kiryuu's embrace.]]

[ooc: yay! ~~fffffffh!~~]

[He's pulling Cetus even closer when he feels that shiver, though he interprets it as fear of something totally different.]

Don't worry, it's gonna be fine. I'll get them. I'll crush them for ya.

[Cetus shakes his head, his face rubbing against the chest he was pulled towards.]

...don't want you to...

[He giggles a bit and lifts one hand to start petting Cetus' hair.]

I told you to stop worrying. Just listen to me and I'll make sure that things go the way they are supposed to.

[Cetus' hair is tangled and matted from his days in the prison, and having Kiryuu run his hair through it feels almost heavenly-but he whimpers and burrows deeper into Kiryuu's chest. He doesn't care whether this is a hallucination or not anymore-he only wants to try and make sure that he doesn't fail this time, that he gets the message across. But he felt weak...just like before. Why couldn't he find the strength to reason with him?]

...but...you'll...

[He keeps running his hand through Cetus hair, pulling the boy even closer. Yusei had been in hell, for HIM and he would never be able to repay that; not until he had crushed Security at least. And seeing Yusei like this, so obviously abused, strenghens his resolve to leave absolutly no trace of the oh so great authority even more.]

Shhhh… It's gonna be fine. I won't let them get you. I'll make them pay.

...s-...s-stop...please...don't...

...Kiryuu...

[He wanted to tell him to stop, to keep himself out of danger, but all he could feel was how warm Kiryuu was, how full of life...]

Shhh… It's gonna be fine.

[Because he was going to make it fine.]

[Cetus whimpers softly. He wanted to believe what Kiryuu was saying so much, just to stop worrying, just to believe that Kiryuu would be fine...but he couldn't, just couldn't. Nothing would be right this way.]

[He keeps his hand in Yuseis hair, though he takes a small step back to truly take a look at the younger boy. And oh boy, he doesn't like what he sees. Damn them for gurting his little brother like this.]

[Yuusei only looks up at him-he hasn't grown much since entering prison despite still having a few years left before he would stop, so it's very likely that Kiryuu's a good half a head taller at least-and shivers softly. His whole body is vibrating from trying to hold back his coughing.]

[He pulls Yusei close again and he doesn't intent to let go anytime soon. He is shaking himself, shaking with barely contained fury and the only reason why he hasn't yet run of to find something to kill is that he has to hold Yusei. Because if he has hold of Yusei, then they don't. Not that he ever intents to let them near his little brother ever again.]

They are gonna pay. I swear, I'll make them pay with blood.

[And this makes Yuusei freeze completely, his eyes full of fear-feeling that fear that Kiryuu refuses to feel-that survival instinct that screams no no, this is wrong, don't do it-that what we call common sense. He is now truly frightneded for Kiryuu's life.]

S...s-stop Kiryuu! P...please...don't...

[Common sense? Kiryu is long past that. In fact his mun wonders, if he ever had something like that in first place.]

Stop? Why? They keep oppressing us. They took you away and locked you in. They did THIS to you.

They've had it coming long enough anyway. They don't deserve pity or mercy.

[Cetus shakes his head.]

...don't want you to...

[And that sentence he never is able to complete, no matter how many times he says it. Because he's frightened of saying it, for putting the possiblity out there...the idea that Kiryuu might die.]

Yusei…

[Yusei was an idiot. Always had been. Only an idiot could keep sacrificing himself over and over for other peoples sake like Yusei did. Only that Kiryu wouldn't let him anymore. Yusei has suffered enough now.]

It's fine. I'll be fine. And once they are gone, you'll be too.

ooc: Sleepy Icey is sleepy and will go to bed in a tag or two.

...I really do want to believe that...

[But he doesn't know what's real anymore...he doesn't even know if he wants this Kiryuu to be real...he hadn't seen him for so long...but to see him like this...]

ooc: Okay. G'night in advance. :D

Then do that. I already told you to stop worrying.

[Really if this keeps up, Kiru would just drag Yusei into the B.A.D.s where they could hide. Where Yusei would be able to rest. Where he could scheme and figure out how exectly he was going to crush Security.]

ooc: Bye. ^.^

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we should really make a DR post for these two or something XD

Sorry, was gone for dinner. *points below for the rest*

It's cool. We all gotta eat. :D

:D

;D Sorry, had to help mom with something

's fine. ^.^

:D

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is it wrong that I'm having tears in my eyes from this? TwT

Nah, I'm about to start crying too. Those two are sooo precious.

*hugs them both* *sniffle*

*joins the hug and brings tissues*

*bawwwwwwwwls...sortanotreallyjusttearsandasmilebutstillbawwwwwwwwl*

*can totally relate*

*snifffff*

*offers tissue*

*sniffles in tissue nao*

*patts North*

3; *wibbles overdramatically*

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Sorry, was gone for dinner. points below for the rest

hugs them both sniffle

joins the hug and brings tissues

bawwwwwwwwls...sortanotreallyjusttearsandasmilebutstillbawwwwwwwwl

can totally relate

snifffff

offers tissue

sniffles in tissue nao

patts North

3; wibbles overdramatically