1. Chapter 1 (1/1)

disclaimer: i own nothing involved in this story unless i invented it myself. this is written for fun, not for profit. all forms of feedback eagerly accepted. concrit is loved the most, but everything is welcome.fandom: yu-gi-oh zexaltitle: patiencecharacters: rainbow kuribohword count: 407||status: one-shotgenre: general||rated: gsummary: rainbow kuriboh has been waiting for a long time. he's very patient.

rainbow kuriboh waited. he was very good at waiting. he'd been doing it for a long time. sooner or later, he knew, yuuma would come. yuuma couldn't help but come, not with astral here, waiting for him as well.

he wished he could talk to astral. astral would know what yuuma was like now. rainbow kuriboh hadn't ever properly met him and only knew what little kazuma had told him about his son. granted, kazuma did like to go on and on about yuuma, but the little boy that he'd known wasn't the person who would be coming here, and astral was who would know that person.

was that yuuma now? rainbow kuriboh surged forward just a fraction, hoping, hoping, hoping…

no, it was just a random star shooting by. he settled back down; he needed to conserve his strength. he would need all of it to protect yuuma once eliphas knew he was coming.

he wasn't sure how long he'd waited. he did know that he was glad he didn't get cramps the way a human might from staying in the same place for so long. he would be as fresh when yuuma finally arrived as he was now, even if it took forever.

not that he thought it would. from the picture kazuma painted of the boy, yuuma would have been searching for a way to come find astral the moment that he knew such a way could be found. perhaps before even knowing it.

wait…yuuma! there he was! rainbow kuriboh could see him, soaring toward this world, wrapped in eagerness and light, and tinged with confusion and concern. this is it! rainbow kuriboh shot toward yuuma as quickly as he could. the faster they got together, the better it would be.

he could already feel eliphas's power in the area. not ready to strike, not yet, but yuuma's chaos showed up against the structured order of the astral world, and it would be soon.

there was so much that yuuma needed to know and needed to do while he was here. rainbow kuriboh could only hope that he would be able to do it all. he hoped that he'd be able to help yuuma. perhaps even stay with him afterward. he hadn't asked kazuma if he could do that. he needed to help both of them, in various ways.

maybe one day he'd be able to stay with them both. he liked that idea.

the end