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YUYA SAKAKI UN: FUNDIRECTION

STATUS: Student Grade 9

ACCOLADES: (Here is a list of leading roles Yuya's has in school theater performances over the past two years, plus a glowing review of his familiar Odd-Eyes)

BIO: Hello! You can call me Yuya. I'm from Sendai, Japan. This is my second year in Daybreak Academy. I'm a Tamer, and Odd-Eyes is my familiar. He's the big red dragon that hangs out in the courtyards. He's friendly but he tries to steal food sometimes. I speak Japanese and English but not very good French. I'm also in the theater club. I'm in Lumiere 203. Let's be friends!

© TESSISAMESS

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[suddenlybees]

[ not slowing down ]

I HEARD THAT.

[ Yeah, Yuya, why are you bringing Toki along?? Why is Yuya coming along, too, leaving all those candles unsupervised, watch them come back to Tsuyukusa's shrine on fire. ]

[yokeye]

[He just made it worse, didn't he? But Kano really doesn't need to see... that. Nobody does! They shouldn't be going in there! What if something happened to Nana too?! Or like the whole floor while they were outside doing... whatever they were doing!? ...And he definitely would have said all that out loud.]

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[It's candles in snow, they're probably not going to have to worry about a fire.

But he still braces his hand on Toki's shoulder and decides to use exactly that as a distraction.] Hey--can you go get the candles from the shrine? I'll follow Kano and make sure he's okay.

[Yuya's pretty sure he's going up to where Minako's room is, and if she's there then everything's fine--if she's not and not picking up Kano just might have a damn heart attack.

He pats Toki's shoulder, like that's that before turning to pursue Kano.]

[yokeye]

[He watches Kano and Yuya run off, and yes, he shouldn't go, but...]

What shine?

[He'll find it, he supposes. And text Yuya the vision notes on his way just in case they need them.]

[suddenlybees]

[ By now, Kano's finally gotten a hold of Minako, who reports that she's in his room and what the fuck's going on Kano?? but while he's relieved to hear that, he only speeds up instead of slowing down, because he can't rest until he sees her with his own eyes that she's okay. ]

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[Yuya misses the speakerphone conversation when he's trying to catch up, bounding up the stairs two at a time. He peeks from the top of them on the third floor, staring down the hall after Kano.]

[suddenlybees]

[ I guess at this point, he's at Minako's door, pounding on it and screaming, like an ex who's been kicked out of the house and is begging to be let back in. ]

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[Yuya creeps closer down the hall, hand outstretched.] Kano...? Hey, if she's not there, we can look for her together.

[Like, without frantic desperate scrambling.]

[suddenlybees]

[ Have some frantic desperate hands on Yuya's shoulder instead ]

She's inside!! Here, you see if you can get the doorknob off, I'll go look for one of those "break for emergencies" axes!

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Hey, hey. [Yuya reaches to brace his hands on Kano's shoulders as well, brows knit and trying to be reassuring.] If she's in her room she's okay, right? Toki's visions are getting clearer... but it's still not the full moon, and Minako's been on missions and fights before. That might be all he saw.

[Yuya just. Assumes Kano, as her brother, knows how her powers work.]

[suddenlybees]

[ She's in her room, the door is locked, what if she has a gun!!!!!!!!!

laughs, Kano knows fuck all about everything, don't assume he knows anything about anything, ever... ]

Toki said "maybe"!! And the moon's plenty full already and maybe it's the stress from all the missions and fights driving her to do that!!

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To do what? [Yuya pauses, mentally running over the description again. Luckily, Minako was only really doing one action that Toki mentioned, so Yuya's able to connect those dots quickly.]

... You mean the gun? That's how her powers work, so it makes sense what Toki saw was probably a mission or something, right?

[suddenlybees]

[ Is Yuya going to be the one to out her ]

What powers.

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[Nobody told Yuya it was a secret.]

Uh. You know, her summoning? She points the gun as herself and says a... name, I guess, and when she pulls the trigger she summons them. I guess they're something from the Outlands like Odd-Eyes?

[suddenlybees]

[ uh

whispers to himself: ] That's fucked up.

Why is it a gun? What the fuck.

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... I don't know. [It is pretty fucked up.] That's just what I saw at the ball. If it's a flame power, those get kind of weird.

[suddenlybees]

[ ............ ]

Yuya, pinky swear me that's all it is, and when Minako opens her door, we're both going to pretend I didn't freak out, okay.

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Kano, she definitely already heard you freak out. [He can't promise the impossible.]

[suddenlybees]

I'm going to pretend she had her earphones in the entire time! Let's pretend, okay, Yuya!!

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I can't stop her from bringing it up, but okay. [He tilts his head.]

Kano... did you really not know about her powers? [If she's new to Daybreak, maybe she only got them recently, but... has it never been something they talked about?]

[suddenlybees]

Hm, well... Talking about that would mean telling her everything that's up with mine, you know?

[ It's not just the illusions, but it's how he got them, what he traded for them, how he'd met Michael and the circumstances surrounding that, nothing he wants to talk about.

It's the same with Ellie, whatever her powers might be... They're "siblings," but they really know nothing about each other, they never talk. ]

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And you don't want to tell her? Those kinds of things about yourself.

[Yuya's noticed, of course, that Kano holds so much close to his chest. But he thought, if it was anyone, surely his sisters got through to him in ways nobody else did.]

[suddenlybees]

[ He actually laughs at that. ]

No way, no way! I'm not telling her, ever!!

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Why? [Yuya asks honestly, his expression open for the answer.] You don't think it would change her feelings about you, either, do you?

[suddenlybees]

Uh. It's not like that, but more like... I'm not telling anybody, ever??

[ If he told her, what's the worst that could happen..... It'd be breaking an unspoken rule, and maybe he just doesn't want things to change, for better or for worse. It's a stupid rule, the not-talking rule, that they'd made when they were kids and didn't know any better, but it'd worked well until now and there's no reason to talk about things that would just make the other person upset.

EXCEPT THIS EVOKER BUSINESS, MINAKO!!! All of Kano's issues are invisible ones nobody needs to know, but this gun stuff is the opposite of invisible, how did she think she could get away not talking about it?? ]