Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Duelists of the Elemental Spirits ❯ Chapter 12: Never Ending Story ( Chapter 12 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Disclaimer: I still don't own Yu-Gi-Oh. Oh, I also don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!GX. I do own all OC's in this fanfiction. (and boy, are there alot of them!)

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Have you ever looked back and wondered where your life went? Everything has blown by so fast that I can’t help but stop and stare in shock. Sixty years ago if you had told me I’d go through all that I’ve been through I would have looked you straight in the eye and told you you were crazy. Now, however, you’d tell me that I was crazy.

This is the final chapter of my diary, as I hope it will be the last chapter I write. I want to spend my remaining years, however many there are, with my wonderful husband Ryou. I’m also hoping they’ll be peaceful years and I won’t have to write more.

Ra, so much has happened in my life that it’s almost hard to summarize it and keep everything important in tact. However, I will give it a try.

I lived in Domino City until I was seven with my older brother Kiba and my dad. My mom passed away when I was just a year old, so I’ve been around guys my entire life. My best friends were even guys and they were Damian Mizu, Seto and Mokuba Kaiba, my cousin Yugi, and my brother.

When I was seven we, meaning myself, Kiba, and my dad, moved to England where I met Ryou Bakura. We got along perfectly from the start. I offered him protection from bullies and he’d comfort me and cheer me up when I was down. The first summer after we moved there, he went on a trip with his dad and Damian came over from Japan to visit. That was the summer that Kiba, Damian, my dad, and I went to visit my cousins Malik, Odeon, and Ishizu in Egypt. I think we annoyed Ishizu a little too much though.

Ryou moved away a little after he turned eleven and I never hard from him after that. When I was twelve Damian moved from Domino City, Japan to Virginia in the United States. When I was thirteen I got the Dragon Pendant and the three Chaotic dragons for Christmas. It wasn’t until after my fourteenth birthday that I first met Yume.

Two years after that I moved back to Domino city by myself. My dad went to New York in America while Kiba went to spend some time in Egypt. I met Ryou in Domino City, but was angry with him for not writing so I ignored him. I regret that. Malik, Ishizu, and Odeon were also there.

I eventually talked to Ryou and regained my friendship with him. Soon after, I moved in with him. It sounds weird now, but I made complete sense then. He lived all alone and I felt I still needed to protect him. I was also remembering how in England we would sleep over at each others house all the time.

Soon found out that I wasn’t the only one with a darker half. Both of my cousins had one and Ryou did as well. I’m not even going to get into how much trouble they’ve caused, as you’ve most likely already heard at the very least.

Skipping forward a few years, Ryou and I became engaged during out last year of high school, during which Malik was in America getting to know his betrothed, Ashling Phoenix. That was one hectic year. In fact, that was the year that Mana (Dark Magician Girl) claimed she “accidentally” turned Yugi into a girl and then Yami got Yugi pregnant.

Going forward a little over twelve years, just about all of our group had kids. The oldest was Suma, Yami and Yugi’s daughter. Ryou and I had Amane, Taro, and Mana (who was named after the Dark Magician Girl). Malik and Ashling had Zahur and Liam, Ophelia, and Salim. Mariku (Malik’s yami) and Holly, who he met in America, had Ryan and Matsu. Mai and Joey had Jono, Seth, and Maiko, and their adopted son Kevin. Seto and Serenity had Chizu and Yukio. Bakura and Yume had Yasu and Ammon. Damian and Riley had Ebony.

Then the older kids were sent to Duel Academy to seal a rip. They borrowed the Millennium Items to do so. Suma, who was the oldest, was sixteen. They spent a little over half a year there and met Jaden Yuki, Zane and Syrus Truesdale, Alexis and Atticus Rhodes, Chumley Huffington, Chazz Princeton, and Bastian Misawa. Each of them, except for Chumley who works for Pegasus, have placed in high ranking positions in tournaments around the world.

Mokuba, after spending nearly a year in England, brought Rose and Selene home to meet the family. The whole family. Mokuba and Rose married two years after that.

Ryan and Chizu officially became a couple in their second year of high school. They married the summer after they both turned twenty. That same year Amane ran into Atticus at a tournament that Seto hosted and soon after the two of them started dating. They later married and had two kids.

During their high school years, Ophelia and Kevin got a band started. They named themselves the “Elemental Spirits” and their first song was dedicated to their dueling obsessed family members and close friends. The name of their third band member was Rin Nekoki, who was an excellent drummer and songwriter. The three of them made it to the big time and had three albums produced.

The fall after the two of them turned twenty-five, Kevin and Ophelia married.

Now onto a subject I’m sure you all are the most curious about: Yami and Yugi’s second child.

Yami had a little boy after months of sending Bakura, Mariku, and Yume to the Shadow Realm along with various household appliances.

The amusement of finding out or seeing the three of them sent to the Shadow Realm time after time did wear off after a while, however the objects sent to the Shadow Realm never ceased to be amusing. We still laugh about them.

The two of them named their son Atemu. He was a perfect mix of the two of them with the classic red and black hair and golden lightning bolt shaped bangs and he had Yami’s eyes. However, he wears glasses, pulls back his hair so it doesn’t stick out as much, and is taller than both of his dad’s and his sister at 5’8”.

Atemu is currently a professor at the Advanced Duel Academy that Kiba had build with Seto and Pegasus’s help. Two of his colleges are Noa Shirozaki and Daiichi Banner. Pharaoh, nicknamed the “Immortal Cat” is still by his dear professor’s side.

Most of the Larks have married and had kids and if I were to list everyone then I would run out of pages and time, so I’ll decline and just say a few.

Unsurprisingly, Yukio and Taro got together and got married the year after the banning of gay marriages was lifted. The two of them are planning on adopting a little girl from the same place Mokuba and Seto grew up.

Liam is the only one who isn’t married, although he once was. Unfortunately, his wife, Amelia, died in a car crash. He lived in Okinawa with his daughter Ailis and a bunch of cats he rescued or adopted from animal shelters. They have a lovely home out in the middle of the woods and Liam is home schooling Ailis.

That is my family and I couldn’t be more proud. There are things I regret doing, but I wouldn’t change it. I’ve noticed that everything happens for a reason, even if it doesn’t seem that way at the time.

To whoever is reading this diary/journal of mine, may I offer some friendly advice? Never regret the things you’ve done and live life to the fullest. Going over regrets will keep you in the past and not allow you to live life to the fullest. I may have had a hectic, chaotic, seemingly impossible life, but I wouldn’t change one moment of it.

To my family and dear friends, I will miss you all when I leave. I expect we’ll meet again someday; whether in heaven, another universe, or in another life. I leave my journal to immortalize our adventures and hope our story will always be remembered and told.

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“Two months later, at age seventy-two, Tamashira Yuki Bakura passed away after fighting cancer for seven years.” A young woman around the age of twenty-six with snowy-white hair and light pinkish-brown eyes looks around at her class of 6th graders. “That is the story of my grandmother; the Dragon Guardian; the Light of the Princess; the wife of Ryou Bakura; Beloved sister, cousin, daughter, aunt, and friend; wonderful mother of Amane Rhodes, Taro Bakura-Kaiba, and Mana Taikyo; and grandmother of myself, Yuki Rhodes, and my sister Asuka Rhodes. Though she has collected many titles during her life, she is best known merely as, ‘Tama’.”

The bell rings and none of the kids so much as move, almost shocked by the end of the story.

Yuki, known as Miss Rhodes to her students, smiles softly as her class. “Will you take my grandmothers advice or ignore it? Your assignment for Spring Break is to keep a journal, a diary, or a log of things that happen to you during the break. I will write one myself and when we return we will all read ours out loud to the class. I look forward to hearing about your break when we get back. You are dismissed.”

Slowly, the kids gather up their stuff and leave, some of them telling Yuki, “Have a nice break.” or a simple, “Bye.”. Yuki begins packing up her own stuff once her last student leaves. When she’s trying to figure out where to put her grandmother’s old journal, something in her pocket beeps. With a sigh, the albino girl pulls it from her pocket and watches as a hologram of her sister pops up.

“Hey, Yuki!” Asuka says cheerfully, her brown eyes shining mischievously.

Yuki eyes her dark brown haired sister wearily. “Hello, Asuka. Do you need something?”

Asuka laughs. “Why is it that every time I call you automatically think I need something?” Her grin falters under her sisters almost piercing look. “Okay, okay, but it’s a good thing this time! I promise! Ailis, Atemu, Kaisai, Fubuki, and I was to know if you want to go to Florida with us to visit Ivory and Obsidian for Spring Break. We all have time off.”

Yuki considers this for a moment.

“Please?” Asuka begs. “I’ll bring lots of pocky, onigiri, and cream puffs for you!”

Yuki breaks under her sister’s begging and bribes. “Alright, when are we leaving?” She asks, waiting for one of her sisters outrageous times.

And sure enough: “Tonight! I’ve already got your stuff packed up and Fubuki is one his way to get you right now.”

Yuki blushes at the mention of Fubuki and Asuka grins. “Yuki an’ Fubuki, sitting in a tree--”

“If you ever mention that again I will kill you.”

Asuka gulps. “Okay! No more mentioning! My lips are sealed. I’ll see you at the airport!”

The device in Yuki’s hand clicks off suddenly and Yuki sighs. “Well, I’d better get going.” She says to herself, carefully slipping her grandmother’s journal into a plastic case she forgot about and then putting that into her bag. “It’s time I follow my grandmother’s advice and have some fun.” She looks out the window to see a young man pulling up on a Harley. She blushes when he takes off his helmet, revealing his shoulder length wavy black hair that he has up in a ponytail. He’s wearing all black, which makes his tan skin look slightly lighter in color than it really is. Hazel eyes peer through the window and meet Yuki’s pinkish ones, making the young school teacher blush darker and hurry out of the classroom.

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The wheel of life turns, forever going on in an endless circle; a Never Ending Story.

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Shiro: And that's it. The final chapter and last of the 'Of the Light' series.

Damian: You- you killed Tama! How could you?!

Shiro: I didn't plan it! It just sort of happened.

Damian: I ought to pull a Nixx and strangle you.

Shiro: (pouts) Aww... but Nixxie-chan never strangles me. Just Seto!

Bast: Nobody's strangling anybody, you hear me? What happened to 'no violence in the mansion'?

Kaze: (snorts) That was terminated the moment the crossbreed invited two more idiot males into this overcrowded mansion.

Kitsune: (raises an eyebrow) Overcrowded? Kaze, we live in a three-floor mansion with beyond too many rooms!

Kaze: (ignoring Kitsune)

Kitsune: Does anyone listen to me anymore?

(a cricket chirps)

Kyle: Sadly, I don't think they ever did listen to you, Kitsune.

Kitsune: How true. I believe I'll go sulk in the library now. Good day, night, evening, whatever. (walks off)

Shiro: Anyway, I won't be posting anything for a while, since I've finished up the other story I was working on as well. There may be one little Yugioh story I post, but it'll be a one-shot and everyone will be partly out-of-character in some way. So, in other words, I'm taking a break until sometime in summer vacation. Until then, I'll be working on the stories I'm planning on posting and just relaxing. Later!