[closed] Hello my friend

[darkduelist]

Who: Yuto (darkduelist) and Shun Kurosaki (revolutionfalcon)
What: Yuto and Shun talking about the past.
When: Some time before the Spring Cleaning event
Where: Some shady rooftop in the Near Shore
Warnings: Shun being Shun?

[From his vantage point up on the rooftop, Yuto is observing the streets, waiting. He's sent Shun a message with this location. It's better to meet in such a natural place than in any of the shrines.

Yuto still doesn't know what he thinks of Shun Kurosaki... That guy introduced himself as Yuto's friend from the past... except what Yuya says and what Shun says don't exactly match. But considering the fact that Yuya also has holes in his memory, maybe this shouldn't be too surprising. Maybe it can all be explained somehow.

Yuto sighs to himself.

That's why he needs to talk to Shun, ask him about things he already knows and then maybe this strange puzzle will start to form a clearer picture. Though, he's more than sure Shun won't be willing to tell him much (again), but Yuto won't stop trying.

Then he remembers Yuuki's words. We aren't supposed to remember. He closes his eyes.

Is it really such a bad thing to wish to know your past?]

Comments

[darkduelist]

[It's funny how it takes only one sentence to suddenly change everything.]

...Your not from the same world...? [Yuto repeats that clearly surprised, then he looks away, trying to think this over.]

...I thought... something wasn't right. [He mutters as if to himself.] When Yuya was a shinki he acted a little different than now. Could it be...? [He shakes his head, trying to push that thought away, almost afraid to dwell more on it. If Yuya he knows right now isn't the same person he knew before... then what should he do?

And more importantly, if there are two versions of the same world, then which one does he belong to? Is he the same Yuto that Shun knew or not?

Suddenly he regrets ever trying to find out, but that regret lasts only a few seconds. He clenches his firsts in determination. He still wants to know the truth.

And yet he remains silent.]

[revolutionfalcon]

[It was a hard sell even for Shun, who's been at least familiar with the idea of different dimensions for a while now, so Yuto's reaction doesn't surprise him. Actually, if anything, he looks a few shades sympathetic. Though it's not an issue of memory and so it presumably isn't hurting him, it has to be hard to get his head around - especially if, as he knows from both Hajime and now Yuto, Yuya had been here before.

He can see how the thought of it being a different Yuya entirely could be unsettling. Of the changes in personality he's observed, most of them he hasn't much appreciated.

From Yuto's reaction, it's not difficult to tell he's trying to go further, but can't quite get there. He still hates everything about this situation and what it's doing to Yuto, but with the lack of answers he's been getting about even the people seemingly getting memories back, there's nothing he can do about it for now.

The silence does prompt him to remember something else he discussed with Hajime, though, and rather than push Yuto on or away, he reaches back and pulls out his own duel disk.

If Yuto still has his, the design is identical.]

I asked Hajime if you still had your duel disk the other day, but she didn't remember seeing it. I thought I'd ask you the next time we met.

[darkduelist]

[Hearing Shun speak up again pushes Yuto away from his own thoughts. He blinks at the duel disk, then shakes his head.]

I don't have it and I've never had one in here. [Calmer now, he crosses his arms over his chest.] The first time I saw a duel disk was when Yuya came back.

[Then an explanation:]

When he was here for the first time he didn't have anything like that.

[revolutionfalcon]

[Interesting...it's something he supposes he should have expected in the case of a shinki, and Yuya not having had one before seems to confirm that to be the reason. With a short nod, Shun puts it away again.]

Yuya's is a different style from mine. It might've helped identify which world you were from, but I didn't think the idiots running this place would've let a shinki keep something like that if it'd trigger memories.

[It's impossible not to catch the derision and edge of bitterness in his tone at the mention of the people who run the Heavens. From the start, he'd been given no reason to trust them given this, and it's done nothing but get worse from then on.]

If it's probably not the same Yuya, I wouldn't call it Yuya "coming back".