"Be careful what you wish for... because you WILL get it.... and be even more careful what you work for.... because you will get it even QUICKER..." - Colin Cunningham

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    A raven haired male and a blonde haired male could be seen near the turbo duel track, the blonde seemed extremely irritated, the raven haired male raised his voice as he shouted at him back. All this fuss was over a simple duel, but it all went south with the blonde haired man said one thing at the top of his lungs, the raven haired male stared wide eyed at him. He then turned his back on him, and walked to his red duel runner, then got on and sped away. This is when the blonde man looked up at the twilight night sky, and saw a falling star. He closed his eyes and made his wish...

"I wish you were a little baby again.... that way you'd never be able to defeat me..."

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Before The Duel

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    It was a cool spring day, the sound of a engine revving soon filled the air, overpowering the chirp of the birds. It came from an open garage door, where a Raven haired male worked on a bright red duel runner. Once he finished revving the engine, and he turned it off once more, he looked back to his computer to see where he could improve the system, and make it faster and better. His work was interrupted though when a silver single wheeled duel runner pulled up, one that anyone in the city could recognize. It was Jack Atlas' duel runner, and carefully getting off and walking over to the Raven haired male. He pointed his finger at Yusei, "Yusei! I challenge you do a duel.... and this time... for sure I will win!" The Raven haired male sighed, "Jack... you know what happened last time... you lost and got angry again.... I don't think you want to-" he was cut off by the blonde haired man picking him up by the neck of his shirt, "Just duel me! I won't lose!" Yusei sighed and agreed finally to duel him, though he knew it would end the same as it had the last time, and the time before that, and before that, and even before that. Jack smirked, "Meet me at the Kaiba dome at 6 tonight, and don't be late!" He laughed and got on his duel runner, driving off to prepare for the duel.

   The Raven haired sighed and sat back down in his office chair, "When are you gonna learn Jack?.... Your arrogance is blinding you..... causing you not to see what's important...." he knew no one would he him, but he just wished Jack would see what truly mattered. He went up to his room, digging through his drawer next to his bed. He pulled out a photograph, one that was of him, Jack, and Crow when they were little, all three of them smiling. Yusei smiled a bit, remembering how cheerful Jack used to be, but now with age, and ever since he was recruited by Rexford, and was the so called, 'King of Turbo Duels' for so long, he had changed from who he used to be... he was not the same Jack He knew.... not the same Jack he Grew up with... he missed that Jack, the one he thought of as a brother. The one who cared about his brothers...  but he knew that Jack would never come back... not until he was shown what was more important than a title and a reputation.

Not until he saw that family was more important....

    That Evening, Yusei rode onto the Kaiba dome turbo duel track. Well a silver duel runner was waiting for him, Jack standing next to it, he smirked, "Glad you showed up and didn't back down." Yusei sighed as he pulled up, "Jack.... you sure you want to do this?" Jack growled slightly, "You'd think I'd back down after getting you here?! No way! We're going through with this duel!" Yusei sighed, and put his helmet back on as Jack put his on and got on his duel runner. Within a few seconds, they had raced off, and the duel had begun.

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A Couple Hours Later

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     The silver duel runner started steaming as it slowly came to a stop, the red duel runner racing by, as it came back around, it slowed to a stop next to the silver one. Jack had thrown his helmet to the ground out of frustration and anger, the Raven haired male took his helmet off, "That was a close duel Ja-" Jack cut him off, shouting, "A close duel?! You were 2000 lifepoints ahead of me the whole time until the final blow!" Yusei sighed, "Jack calm down." "Don't tell me to calm down! Why do you have to hold me back, and keep me from accelerating froward Hmm?!" Yusei looked at him with confusion and a slight bit of hurt at this comment, "Jack! I'm not trying to hold you back! I thought we were just dueling for fun! Like when we were kids!" "WE'RE NOT KIDS ANYMORE YUSEI! Things are different now..." Jack exclaimed, huffing out of anger at the end. Yusei couldn't hold it in at this point, "What happened to the Jack I knew?! You weren't like this before you met Rexford! You weren't like this before everything happened! WHAT HAPPENED TO THE JACK THAT CARED ABOUT HIS FAMILY, HIS BROTHERS, HIS FRIENDS?!" Yusei shouted the last part at the top of his lungs. Jack was shocked by the sudden change in Yusei's tone, since he is usually so in control of his emotion, but his anger still raged like a burning fire. "What about family?! WHAT ABOUT FAMILY?! I'VE BEEN WORKING MY FUCKING BUTT OFF TRYING TO BECOME THE BEST DUELIST IN THIS SHITTY WORLD TO MAKE OUR LIVES BETTER!!" Jack shouted as loud as he could. "HOW IS SPENDING OUR FUCKING FUNDS ON BLUES EYES WHITE MOUNTAIN COFFEE MAKING OUR LIVES BETTER?! ME AND CROW ARE OUT WORKING OUT ASSES OFF AT OUR JOBS, WHILE YOU JUST DUEL AND DRINK YOUR SHITTY COFFEE!!!!" Yusei shouted back, tears were forming in his eyes, his stoic cool and calm nature breaking, he started to walk towards Jack after throwing his own helemt, "HOW DO YOU EXPECT US TO BUY FOOD TO EAT RATHER THAN INSTANT RAMEN CUPS WHEN YOU SPEND ALL THE MONEY WE MAKE, HUH?!" Jack shoved Yusei away as he got closer, he was like a boiling bot of water, steaming and bubbling with torrents of rage, "HOW DO YOU THINK I PLAN TO MAKE OUR FUCKING LIVES BETTER WHEN I KEEP BEING HELD BACK BY MY FUCKING BABY BROTHERS?!"

    Yusei stopped there, he had nothing else to say to jack after that comment, does Jack really see him that way? Just a worthless, defenseless, crying person? He picked up his helmet, and walked off to his duel runner. "DON'T WALK AWAY FROM ME YUSEI!" Jack shouted, but Yusei ignored him, he put on his helmet and revved his engine loudly to block out Jack's attempts to shout and yell at him again, and he then drove away. Jack growled out of pure anger and looked up at the sky, just at the right time to see a shooting start streak across the sky, he took a deep breath, but still was full to the brim with anger, and that's when he made his wish, the one that he'd regret.

"I wish you were a little baby again.... that way you'd never be able to defeat me..."

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"Anger doesn't solve anything... it builds nothing.... but it can DESTROY everything...." - Unknown