Phew, Christmas is almost here, I Hope I can post a new chapter on that day as a present for everyone

Also thanks for the help darksawr, This chapter I hope it will be more enjoyable for everybody, and that's because I was reading that story you gave to me

So that's it, !Enjoy the reading!

Chapter 4: Yuma's decisión

Thinking about those happy days on Hearthland, and how everything changed in only one day, that terrible day when Vector showed his true intentions in a duel in which, if Yuma just had the courage on that crucial momento, nothing would have happened and everyone would be happy right now

"Everything is my fault"

And then he remembered how Astral sacrificed himself trying to protect his partner life, and giving him an oportunity to complete his new mission

"What can I do?"

And then he woke up, he was having a dream with that memories, but those were more like a nightmare, one that he doesn't want to experience again, then he looked around on his bedroom, it was so simple that it was making him upset, he missed his old room with his hammock and his antiques on grandma house, that room that always was filled with the morning light, now was replaced with a sad room that looked for single people.

Then he got up of his bed to open the curtains, only to watch the city environment, the sky have also changed, it was no more blue and happy, now it was grey, like it will be raining on any moment, looking thath he decided to go outside his room to eat breakfast, but when he arrived to the living room, it was not so different to his bedroom, then he looked again, the kitchen was close to the living room and inside, Akari was cooking

"Hi Akari nee chan" greeted Yuma to his sister, with a slight depression

"Oh hi Yuma, How did you sleep?"asked her while still cooking

Yuma was still paying attention to the living room "Well it's not easy to get used to this sad world" But his sister was still on her labour

"You don't have to feel like that, in fact, I supposed that you were happy for being back, because you were sleeping a lot"

A little worried about that Yuma asked "How much time I was aslept?" then he watched his sister finishing the food

"Enough time to tell you that this is the lunch"

Then, Yuma's stomach made some noise "Oh… that explains why I'm so hungry"

Akari then told him with a little smile "Well, Grandma Haru isn't here anymore, but I'm trying to be a good chef, aside of working"

Looking at her Yuma asked "But, Why are you here if you have a job?" Akari almost laughed hearing that "Jaja, today is Saturday, it is free day except for some patrolmen"

Then he realized something, he was here to learn about what happened 3 years ago, and maybe Akari was ideal to ask him some of these questions

"Akari, Can I ask you something?"

His sister, not aware of Yuma's intentions asked him with ease "Sure, What do you want to know?"

Then her brother asked instantly "Please tell me, What happened with the others, with Kaito and Shark?"

She was not surprised for that question "Well Yuma… there are some people who can not understand eachother, that happened with our friends, they went into three groups and went to thei own cities"

Yuma lughed ironically after that answer "So, they're not in the same cities?" Akari asked instantly "No, As we know Ryoga right now is in Atlantia, and Kaito is in another city, Dissidia"

"So, Are all of you also upset with them?"

But then again, the red-haired girl asked with ease "No, Atlantia, Dissidia an Lone Star doesn't want to know anything for eachother, We can say that we are indifferent of their luck but with the same objective, fighting against the monster from the other world, if we survive everything will be fine" then she finished to serve the food "Well Yuma, enjoy the food"

She served a beef steak with some salad for both of them, Yuma then gave a taste to the meat, not bad but nothing too spectacular

"Good job nee chan but…I think that I'm going to miss Grandma Haru cooking"

Akari sighed, she knews that matching her grandmother cooking abilities will be a hard task "Agh, I knew that you would say something like that, mom and dad thinks the same as you about my cooking abilities"

He realized something, yesterday and today he haven't watched his mother, what happened with her?"Wait, I know that we are used to not watching mom in a while but, Where is she?" The he realized that maybe something bad happened with her when Akari's face turned a little sad "Akari I asked you something, What happened with our mom?"

The red haried woman then reminded that day "She tried to bring the peace with the governors of the other cities… but that was a year ago, I haven't watched her since that day"

Yuma smirked "I supposed that, it was predictable, mom was always a good woman…- then he looked around "And where is dad?"

Akari asked without looking at him "He went out to buy something with Kotori, but he haven't told me what"

Yuma then sighed "Fine…"

The lunch continued in silence, some hours later the young man decided to go out with his new clothes to walk around the city, trying to learn about his new home, during the walk he tryed to remember anything that was learning since yesterday

"Atlantia and Dissidia… Shark is on Atlantia… The last time I saw him was when he was yelling me for not killing Vector…What would happen if I go to that city?"

He continued walking towards the city exit, looking the houses there was no much people outside it, it was normal becuase it was Saturday, and he was almost assured that on this city there was almost no kids, one hour later he arrived to the enormous exit

"The laser wall, How they managed to create something like this?..." Then he analyzed "Maybe Kaito created it before leaving the city, only a smart guy like him ould be capable on constructing something like that" But was not aware of something, because he was in the middle of the Street, then he watched a patrol jeep aproaching to him

"Go out of the road you moron!"

"Yikes!" Jumping outside the road, Yuma was able to dodge the car, the jeep managed to stop with violence, nothing bad happened aside of Yuma's face going to the floor"Auauauauauau, I've forgot that the patrolmen were working today" and he rubbed his face for the pain

"Idiot, you almost made us to crash!"

That angry voice, it was easy to identify "That voice argh, just the man that I didn't want to meet today"

And of course, that man was Misael "What in the hell are you doing here?"

"That's something that I have to ask you Misael, knowing you, you should be with Shark and Rio…" Then he realized something "…But something tells me that they're upset with you"

Misael didn't wanted to ask that "That's nothing that matter you"

Then again Yuma decided to ask "Oh it is, because you are in the same city with my family and Kotori, and something tells me that the synchro dragon which is now with Kotori is the reason"

On that moment, the barian decided to retire the patrolmen doing a sign with his hand "Sigh, if you insist I'm going to explain you what happened, but only because it has no sense having you knowing about nothing"

And he started remembering some things that happened during the 3 years gap

"It's true that I was with Merag and Nasch on Atlantia, during the time that all our friends separated from each others… but two of them decided to went to the punches and after that, Kaito left with his group"

That worried Yuma a lot, he could not believe in something like that "Wait, Kaito and Shark were fighting?" asked him

"Yes, They almost kill themselves and left some scars in eachother, before Merag, myself and the others stopped them"

Still worried for them Yuma continued the conversation"So, now they hate eachother but, Why?"

But at this time, Misael gave no importance to that situation "I don't know why, I just learned that Nasch produced it, he stole 2 card that Kaito created"

Inmediatly Yuma realized something, the dragon that Misael was using against Kotori "And he gave one of them to you, Valyon, Am I right?"

Misael smiled after Yuma's resolution, he was right "Yes he did, but I ignore how the other song dragons looks, because Nasch kicked me out of Atlantia" Yuma instantly analyzed the situation "That cards must have an special value for Kaito and even more if he punches Shark for them, But why you didn't returned Valyon to Shark?"

Then again, the blonde barian face turned angry "Because since the day he and Kaito went into that fight he turned into a tyrant, and I decided to leave but Nasch went first to kick me out"

After that Yuma was satisfied with the information "I see… Well I must go home, thanks for the information Misael, even if you hate me"

But Misael decided to answer that "Well Yuma the truth is that I don't hate you, but certainly you lost my respect, And you know why?" the human was trying to remember but Misael asked him "Guess what, after losing against Vector not only Astral died, you lost that all mighty card I gave to you"

"Numeron Dragon!" Yuma realized that and he turned a little sad, because Misael had a hard time for obtaining that godly card, he put his hands to his face in sorrow "Damn I should have knew that the Numeron Dragon was the reason of your disrespect to me, I'm sorry"

"That's why, I was so frustrated with your loss, that Numeron Dragon went into enemy hands that I've thought that the day you will be returning, I must have to make you stay away from us, no more mistakes" and then the barian decided to leave that place "Well now that you are awake, I hope that you are not more like 3 years ago"

"I hope so…"Yuma then looked to the exit gate, strongly guarded "So this is Lone star exit gate, mom is somewhere outside, Shark, Kaito, III, Droite, Anna and Rio must be there also" and then he decided to return home, he decided something on that second

But in the dinning room of his home while speaking both of them, Akari answer was predictable "Leaveing Lone star, have you went nuts!?"

And he looked to another place just to not look to her worried face "Maybe that hit on my head is affecting me right now but I'm not crazy, I want to gou out and find Kaito and Shark"

His sister then went a little angry "They don't want to know nothing about us and we don't want to know about them, If you find them they could kill you!"

But she know how her brother is, and he stood up of the chair with a determination on his eyes"Do you think I'm not concerned about the risk?! Misael was alright in something, it was my fault that the 3 races, and somewhere is Vector laughing at me for the day he defeated me, I must do something to fix everything and the only way that I can do that is going outside to speak with Shark and Kaito, please understand that Akari nee!"

Akari then went a little scared for her brother reaction, he looked anxious for going to a new adventure, but not in a positive way, it was like a redemption road for him "But Yuma…" was the only thing tha se could say on that moment

And then he continued "And also, you don't need me here at all, Kotori now is an extremely strong duelist, I was amazed of her victory over Misael with such category, and he is also here to protect all of you and you managed to survive without me during 3 years…and at last mom is outside somewhere…-talking about her turned Akari a little nostalgic "…So please, tell dad that I must go out"

Akari was unable to refute that, he has lots of reasons to think like that, and as she learned to live with an hiperactive and crazy little brother, she decided to let him go "Ok Yuma, but please if you are able to return, give me a notice of our mother" And she took her pad to make that call

In just a matter of minutes Kazuma face turned a little worried, while he and Kotori were still on a market "Tell him that we will see him on the exit gate" and he hung up the call

And the green haired girl heard the entire conversation "So, mi duel the last day was for nothing"

Kazuma looked at her and gave an ironical smile "Don't say that, it is Yuma's decisión to go out, and you gave Misael a good punishment recovering your card"

Then both of them lifted a pair of boxes, Kotori's one was smaller than Kazuma's box

Then, some minutes later, almost at the sunset of the day Yuma was looking at the exit gat with Akari, with a big backpack on his shoulders when both his father and his friend arrived on a jeep

"Hi dad, hi Kotori" was the only thing he said while looking at them

Kazuma looked at him, it was no more that little kid that he was unable to take care like a normal father, in fact, he didn't spend any quality time with his son during the past years and now that he's back that will happen again and he felt guilty for that, because the reason of everything was that key that he found that everything was happening and he wished he could do something, but he is the city's governor, in fact he can do something

"Do you really thought, that I will allow you to go out to that dangerous environment" Kazuma decided to not allow his son to go outside

But Yuma was resilient, he knews that his father would be angry with his decisión, but that was irrevocable for him "But with all the adventures I had when I was a kid I supposed that you wouldn't mind at all"

Kazuma then went a little angry with his son's answer "That was before, when I was unable to care about you and your sister, now that I'm here and this situation is more dangerous than before, If you go out you will get killed for sure!" Kazuma was against his son, and with his position Kotori and Akari were waiting just for Yuma's answer

His fathher will not allow him to talk with Shark and Kaito, to find his mother and to retrieve anything he can to save the world, Are too big his worries that even knowing that he was the key to the victory his father will not let him to go?

"Father please, you know that I have lots of reasons to go and also, How many times anyone tried to kill me and failed, Even a god failed to kill me with an insane giant thunder and I'm still here!"

"But Yuma…" he tried to counter that answer, but he couldn't

"And also Akari told me tha mom is outside somewhere, the woman you married, the woman tha gave birth to mi sister and me, and I have to rescue her, I want to watch her once more, Don't stop me to do that!"

On that moment, tears started to apper from Kazuma's eyes, he was sad of course and the only thing he could do was hugging his only male son that now was as tall as he is, Yuma then, like his father, started to cry a little

"It's just… that I will not stand that I'm going to lose you like your mother, it will be too difficult to me"

Yuma then retrieved the hug "I know, but you know me, it is on my blood the Tsukumo spirit, to fly towards the sky in order to achieve our objectives, Do you remember that, the kattobingu that you lend to me?"

That word, that simple word was enough to convince him, and breaking the hug the father smiled

"I hope that you analyzed your decisión my son" Kazuma was really worried for him, but now he decided to let his son to go to that adventure "I'm letting you to go, but please take care

"I did father and I've decided…" and he turned to Kotori "I'm sorry Kotori, your victory was in vain thanks of my decisión, you were amazing yesterday"

Kotori sighed "Now that has no importance Yuma" she said with an ironical smile, but trying to change it for another more happy "I hope that wou find that thing you want on this new adventure"

"Thank you…" and then Yuma noticed the boxxes inside the jeep "And also, Why have you brought that boxes?"

"Oh that's true" Kazuma then went for the big one "As you returned I was thinking to give you a gift but… I hope that it helps you on your trip"

And when he recieved it he was surprised for the weight "A little heavy" but when he opened it he witnessed it amazed "Incredible, its a flying skateboard"

"With solar battery, look it" explained his father

"That's amazing, thank you dad" the little vehicle has red colours according to Yuma's style, and turning i ton it started to float

Kotori then decided to give him her gift "Yuma I also brought you something, I supposed that you will like a jacket with all your clothes so.."

Then he opened the second box, the jacket that Kotori brought to him was beautiful, black leather and with a little raincoat at the end, he inmediatly put it in addition to his shirt, and he looked like an adventurer

"That's really cool Kotori, thank you so much"

Kotori then sighed melancholic "Even if I have changed I'm still your friend and I can't be angry with you" and then she smiled a little, then Yuma smiled "What happens?"

"I also want you to have something for me" and he gave Kotori his Kuriboh and Kyuriboh "They are now with you, you used it against Misael so I suppose that it will be helpful for you"

Kotori then blushed a little "Yuma…"

"And I hope you could smile a little more, the Kotori that dispatched Misael yesterday, while it is sensational, made me a little scared, with an smile you look really cute"

And with that she blushed even more "Agh, That things that you say…"

Then he turned to Akari "Anything to say?"

"No this time bro, just take care" she said with a smile

"Je" and then he loooked his new vehicle "Well I understand how it works because I remember how Tetsou used his own skate so…" and he finally got on top of his skate "Kotori, Akari…father, I will be back, I promise you"

Kazuma tried to say something, but finally he said another thing "I hope you will be ok my son, please return"

"Thank you" he answered with an smile

Then Kazuma yelled to the guards "Open the gate to let Yuma Tsukumo to leave the city"

And finally he witnessed it with surprise, outside Lone Star was a desert with some dunes, but a road in the middle, an obvious option to start his adventure, with determination in his eyes he finally left the city

"See you soon!"

After Yuma's departure, both father and daughter left the gate, but Kotori was still looking at him, thinking about his childhood friend "Yuma…I know the reason why are you doing this, to get redemption with the others but, Do you think that you are a little impulsive? But that's fine, that's how you are…and I like it…"

The world was a ruin, and Yuma finally started to realice the situation "That world…It doesn't matter, I know what I must do"

But looking at him, a little monster that was surrounding the laser wall of the city looked at him, then he grabbed a comunication device

But then, on a dark room another big monster and with an armor recieved the message, outside the room, a bloody-red coloured sky was on top of an medieval-like castle, all the roms were lugubrious and a death smell was floating in the enviroment, then the monster arrived to a big room when on a throne with golden skulls, an imposing being was sitting

"My lord…he's back" was the short message

The being was not surprised, with a hand gesture he allowed the monster to leave "Wow that was a little fast…" he said while laughing "you can leave now monster, give the message to Heishin also"

"Of course sir" and the monster finally left the room

The being then started to walk, smilling with maliciousness "3 years, it's a long time ago that I achieved my biggest victory, now I'm the lord of this planet and that resistance is going to fall in just matter of time, the Divine numbers are almost at my hands but…the emotion was absent" That man was emanating such a really dark power and it was really enourmous, using adark metal armour and with chains going outside it and also using a crown with the barian emblem, he returned to his throne, then an astralian slave gave hime some wine in a cup "Now the only man that can make some problems is back, and now I can enjoy this as I wanted…" and he gave a taste to his drink "Do you think that, my beloved kitty?"

And as a surprise, Catherine appeared from behind, dressing lake an evil queen, she went to the left of the evil emperor to hug him "Of course my king, none of them are able to defeat you, even your generals are invencible to them"

"Of course, because they are just mortals, while I…I'm a god"

Then a thunder roared, lightning the evil face of the young orange-haired king, his eyes were filled with negative emotions like his smile, Vector now is decided to give another blow to the earth resistance.