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Author: Higuchimon
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh GX
Title: Always Room For More
Characters: Juudai, Hane Kuriboh, Yubel, Honest||Romance: Yubel x Juudai/Juudai x Yubel
Word Count: 500||Status: One-shot
Genre: Friendship, Romance||Rated: PG
Challenge: Written for the Diversity Writing Challenge, A92, fic with at least 2 dividers; GX Flash Bingo, #200, a home for everyone
Challenge Location: Diversity Writing Challenge & GX Flash Bingo may be found at the Duel Monsters Writing Academy forum on FFnet.
Summary: Juudai's soul is always open for more people to live in.

It began with a partnership.

It began with Hane Kuriboh.

Nestled deep within Juudai's heart and soul in a way that no other card Juudai could remember did, Hane Kuriboh cracked open that heart and soul, long ago sealed off by a procedure that Juudai didn't remember.

Fuzzy and strong and sacrificing himself for Juudai over and over again, Juudai could not help but call Hane Kuriboh his partner. What else would he be? Someone who gave their all for him, every time, no matter what?

Sometimes Juudai dreamed dreams that he didn't remember. Hane Kuriboh could, however, living as he did tucked into Juudai's heart, and he chose to say nothing. It wasn't time. Juudai wasn't ready. He had no idea of when Juudai would be ready.

But having Hane Kuriboh with him would help him be ready. At least that was what Hane Kuriboh hoped.

It peaked with a love.

It peaked with Yubel.

Juudai understood love so much better than he had for the last handful of years. He understood the love that wove him together with his friends and his deck – all the creatures of his deck.

He understood the love that bound him to Yubel.

It was that love that led him to reach out to his past and accept Yubel as his future.

He could remember now what it was like to love Yubel and he knew that he could do it again.

More so, he wanted to love Yubel again. He'd made so many mistakes and this would be just the beginning of trying to repair them all. Maybe he wouldn't even succeed. But he had to try.

He'd never felt as if he missed part of himself. He couldn't remember there was anything to miss in the first place. Not until he met Yubel again and memories of childhood stirred once more.

But when he remembered everything, when he remembered years of growing up with Yubel in the days when Yubel was human, when he remembered seeing the transformation and hearing Yubel's screams…

He'd hurt Yubel. Not on purpose, but after everything that Yubel did for him, after all the pain Yubel suffered on his behalf, he'd hurt Yubel again.

Yubel did it all for him. What could he do but try to help, in the only way that he could?

He had a promise to keep.

It continued with a friendship.

It continued with Honest.

He'd found Honest's card with Hane Kuriboh's help, and Yubel confirmed this card had a spirit attached to it. He would do what he could to help the warrior angel find his partner.

If that meant letting Honest live in his soul, then he accepted that. He had plenty of space in there, after all. No matter what happened with his deck, he always had plenty of space in his soul.

Yubel only rolled all three eyes and told him that he should charge rent for anyone else.

Juudai smiled. He always had room for more.

The End

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