Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Never Forgotten ❯ Never Forgotten ( One-Shot )

He opened the door and looked into the dance club were he had spent the last year of his life, ever since... Well, that wasn't important right now. He entered, smelled the beer and drug smoke and wondered 'Why?'. He could have had it all, and nearly did, but now. Now he was just Jounouchi Katsuya. A drunk, a loser, another unhappy youth.

Lately I've been thinking about the past.

About the good times,

And have they all come and gone.

And are there more years behind than ahead?

Then I say to myself,

Fuck it, let's rock

He danced, half-high, half-drunk, trying to forget the past. 'I placed second in the Duelist Kingdom, damn it!' he thought 'And I was one of the best duelists in Battle City and yet, I never realised how good I had it' The memorys hurt. 'Back then, I had had it made and now. Now my life isn't worth anything'

Lately I've been thinkin' about who's in charge

About who they are

And are they looking down and laughing hard

Are they aliens or robots or humanoids or Gods

I think I'm just paranoid

Fuck it, let's rock

'Why does it seem like no matter how hard I try, I can never get back on top? I had the life everyone dreamed of. The girl of my dreams loved me, I had the best friends a person could hope for and a kind and caring sister but now, now they're all gone. Now all I have are memorys, good and bad. That's all I've had since I... I... even thinking about it makes me feel as if I'm reliving my stupidity. Every time I've ever come close to forgetting and being on top of my game, those already up there have forced me back down. Forced me to remember my mistakes, to relive my sins.' He walked over to an out of the way corner of the club and cried, his face in his hands. He looked at his hands and cried harder. 'My hands, which came so close to wearing a ring...'

What if someone takes my cat and what if she runs away

What if she gets hit?

What if someone takes my chick and what if she runs away

I wont be blue

Cuz I know what to do.

He was at home now. It was almost one a.m. but he didn't care. All that mattered right now were the pictures before him. He looked down at them and wiped his eyes. He picked the first one up and stared at it. It was him and his friends at the park on a sunny day. 'But that was almost seven years ago. I haven't heard from them in so long.' He looked at each of them at a time. "Honda and Miho, last I heard they had gotten married. Just what Honda had always wanted.' He laughed aloud. 'And Yuugi and Yami are still playing professional Duel Monsters. Anzu is now a famous dancer, she was on TV two weeks ago.' But the last person, he didn't know where he was. 'Bakura.' he remembered hearing about how the boys "friend" Malik torched him but never found out if he survived. He looked out his apartment window. "Are you still out there?" He turned back to the picture. 'They all achieved their dreams,' he thought 'They're all what the want to be.' He sighed, tears welling up in his eyes. 'They're all happy.' He set the photo down and picked up the next one. This one was even more painful. It was of him, seven years ago, at his twenty-first birthday party. The day he had asked her to marry him. The day both of them had made a vow to love each other forever. The day she had said "Yes". It had been the happiest day of his life. His crush since sixteen would soon be his wife, or at least so he thought. "Mai Kujaku," he said "I miss you most of all." A tear fell on the photo of him and Mai. Then he turned to the last photo, the one of her, the person that all this happened because of, the girl who was no longer here... His tears began to flow, harder and stronger then ever. "Shizuka," he whisered in a mournful voice "Why did you have to die?" He remembered it like it had happened yesterday. The wreck, the flame, her car had been totaled but she hadn't felt a thing. The paramedics said she had died almost instantly.And that boy, the one who had caused the crash, the one who had killed her, had barely gotten a scratch. He had ended up in intensive care all the same though. And I had ended up in jail. "If Honda hadn't held me back," he shook his head "I don't want to think of what would have happened." He wiped his eyes again and blew his nose. 'I came so close to killing that boy. And then I came close to killing myself.' He looked at the scar on his wrist "I lost everything I ever loved." Jounouchi fell to the floor, wracked with sobs. He cried the rest of the night away.

Lately I've been thinking about my vices

And about the prices

That I'll later have to pay

I've been thinking about myself

And about my health

Then I say, What the hell

Let's rock

Jounouchi looked around his now empty apartment. ''Time to start anew." he said "Time to return home." He picked up his suitcase and left that hell hole behind. Left that crummy neighborhood without a backwards look. Left to try to get his life back on track in a different place, a better place. He drove to his new house in good old Domino city. He carried his bags into his already fully furnished home, took out his new cell phone and called a long forgotten number as he began to unpack his things. After several rings a little girl answered "Hello?" Jonouchis eyes started to water again. "May I speak to Honda?" "Sure. Daddy! Phone call." Then Jounouchi heard a voice he hadn't heard in far to long. "Thanks sweetie. Hello?" Jounouchi rubbed his eyes. "Hello my old friend." he said. And his new

life began.

Disclaimer: I do not own Yugioh or this song. Kazuki Takahashi, Konami and Smashmouth do. XP So there!