Fluttering Wings:
Prologue:

"It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world" – Chaos Theory

He had wondered where it had all gone wrong in that moment. Perhaps it was even when he had chose to duel the Pawn of Fusion. Perhaps it was the wrong strategy. No, that wasn't the case. It was when he had chose to end his turn, without knowing what would come next. He wasn't prepared. He figured he would be prepared for almost anything; always keep a level-head. It wasn't what he had anticipated.

He could feel that there were blanks, though he was still conscious. However, throughout this time, he could hear something – no someone – calling out to him. He felt someone trying to help him.

"Quit using...quit using duelling to clash your hatred against each-other!"

It was unclear what the voice was saying at the time, like something was muffling the noise out. He only focused on what was in front of him at the time, he didn't, couldn't listen to the noise. It looked as if his opponent agreed with that.

"I won't accept this! Duels are there to make people smile! They're there to make people happy! Duelling...duelling isn't for hurting people!"

Like snapping out of some hypnotic trance, he had heard the voice clearly. The boy in front of him at the time was right. He couldn't begin to think how he would feel if he had hurt someone due to his own actions. It would be going against the cause that he and his allies, his friends had fought so hard for. He didn't want to think like the soldiers of Fusion did. That duelling was just another way to hurt people, to take people away, innocent people that just wanted to live their lives as best as they possibly could.

The hope in the boy's eyes shone brightly as the Xyz user spoke with his own thoughts. He remembered that. The boy deeply cared for those ideals. Everything he spoke of was the truth in his eyes. The hope shattered however, when the attack was called out.

If his legs could've moved that little bit faster, if it didn't feel like he was being held down by an anchor and slowed down, he would've been able to stop it. He could've saved someone. He could've helped.

But as he saw the blast connect, he knew that that wouldn't be possible. He knew that he was yet again too slow. He was too slow to save yet another person.

The blast's shockwave had sent him flying, rolling onto his side as he connected with the ground. He groaned in pain as he glanced around, his blurred vision clearing. He finally found the small, almost fragile frame lying on his back against the grass. He quickly stood up and ran towards the figure, no longer caring about the pain in his side as he tried to make sure that he wasn't hurt.

This was the whole point of trying to keep him out of the duel. He would get hurt. This would happen often whenever he was involved. The damage to the surrounding area and surrounding people would get hurt. He couldn't help but to feel a deep feeling of guilt as he stared down at the pained face of the boy who had prevented him from doing something he may have regretted.

He kneeled down next to the fourteen year-old and placed a shaky hand on the boy's shoulder.

"Yuya..." He whispered softly. "Yuya...!"

Ruby red eyes peeled open and painfully turned his head to face the Xyz user. He smiled at him weakly. "Are you...alright, Yuto?" He asked in a voice barely above a whisper.

That was a bad sign. There had to be something that could be done. Yuto glanced around quickly. There was a very low chance he could get him to the hospital that the Fusion user stayed at in time. There was nothing that could be done...

Yuya must've noticed Yuto's panic despite his weakness. "I'm fine, Yuto..." He told him softly.

Yuto couldn't help that thought of 'No, you're not!' going through his head as he stared back down at Yuya. The poor kid was bruised and scratched all over, tears in his shirt and seemed to be bleeding in some places. The fall must've been pretty bad from how far he was shot into the air. Yet he still smiled and tried to make sure that his lookalike was okay.

Yuya struggled to press a hand against his chest and looked like his was trying to feel around for something. He made a soft wincing sound as he couldn't find whatever it was. He brought his attention back to Yuto.

"I'm sorry I couldn't...help..." He mumbled, Yuto having to lean closer to him to be able to hear what he was saying.

Yuto couldn't believe it. Yuya voiced exactly what he himself was thinking. Yuya was the one seriously injured and he was saying sorry.

"Yuya, I'm-"

"Yuto..." Yuya interrupted as he breathed heavily in pain. "Can you make...Xyz smile again?"

Yuto's mouth hung open slightly at the question, Yuya staring at him as he waited for an answer. Yuto found that the words were stuck in his throat, unable to verbally answer. All he could do at that point was nod slightly as he pressed his lips tightly together, trying to comprehend what was actually happening right now.

Yuya's smile grew as the light in his eyes began to fade ever so slightly. Yuto's eyes widened as the boy didn't fall limp but instead began to fade, flickering in and out, keeping the smile glued onto his face the entire time as Yuto could feel his hand passing through the boy's shoulder. In a matter of seconds, Yuya's body was completely gone, fading out of existence. Yuto barely had enough time to think about what had just happened before he clutched his head in pain from a sudden migraine, being different to just some ordinary one.

"Just like a pendulum,"

"Coward!"

"Don't run away!"

"The more you push, the more it comes back..."

"Weakling!"

"You can't do anything if you're frozen in fear."

"I'll never run away from you!"

"Have courage and step forward if you want to win! Push forward with courage and the happiness will come swinging back at you."

Yuto couldn't even question everything that was going on through the pain that these voices and images. He couldn't focus on anything other than the pain. Everything else just seemed to be a blur to him. He felt light-headed and unable to see clearly.

He couldn't even see the figure running towards him clearly as he allowed his body to collapse.

Author's Notes:

Ok! Prologue is done! Alright so I know that I have another story to do, but this idea has been following me all day and gosh darn it, when you need to write, you can't not do it! Plus I've been feeling like I need to write this seeing as though Arc-V is ending soon, I'm actually surprised that this is now happening.

I am pretty sure that there are other fanfictions like this, but I honestly haven't gotten around to reading them so I'm unsure of the approach they took to be perfectly honest.

I know that Yuya is an innocent bean and I shouldn't do it but I do feel like Yuto did have a short-lived amount of time. He really stood out to me when I first watched Arc-V, probably because his duel with Shingo was the first one I watched. Oops.

I've planned out the next three chapters and they will definitely be longer and I will be having a bunch of character development and hopefully I will pace the rest of the chapters better. I'm going to have a lot of fun writing so many different characters, like this is exciting!

Please let me know what you think! I don't know if this was too cheesy or anything like that because I haven't really done such a scene before. So please let me know with a review! I would really appreciate it and reading them makes me both motivated and happy to know that people are interested in the story! Thanks!