Happy New Years! 

I know I'm late, but I did get grounded. Anyways, just as there was a Christmas special, there is a new years special! This is from Seto's childhood with his dear childhood friend, Tyler. In the picture they are probably about 6-7 years old fyi.

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Seto sat, hugging his knees close to his chest as he sat on the already cooling desert sand. It was a new year, for some reason he didn't feel especially happy about that. He wish he could go back to the old year, but alas time moves forward and not back.

He shivered a little, since the air was cooling down as the sun sunk closer to the horizon. Every new year Seto would come to this little, sandy hill just on the outskirts of the city and wait for the sun to set, but he always did it with his friend... But today his friend would not be here...

He was sick, Seto assumed it might be the same sickness his friend's mother has, the one she could never get rid of. 

Seto stared off into the distance, he was in no mood to day dream of the new year. It was silent for a few minutes as the sun steadily sunk, until he heard the light scuffing of feet in the sand behind him. He perked up, then yelped as he was tackled to the ground. At first he panicked until he heard the fits of laughter coming from his attacker, he realized is was his friend!

"T-Tyler!" Seto squirmed from underneath his friend then pushed him off, "Wh-what are you doing here!"

Tyler, his friend with thick black glasses, laughed and sat on the ground next to him, the air getting warmer from the sun's beautiful rays sinking over the hilly horizon, "What do you think?" he grinned, "I'm here to watch the sunset silly!" He laughed followed by coughing.

"B-but you're sick! You should be in bed," Seto looked at Tyler with concern.

Tyler looked back and showed a very tooth grin, "And? We do this every year, I'm not gonna let one little cough get in the way of that."

Seto stayed silent and watched as Tyler look incredibly calm just staring in the distance, a calm smile on his face. Was he not worried, he was sick, the same sickness that had plagued his mother for years now. Seto hated to think it, but Tyler's mom was dying, and now Tyler had the same thing. He must've realized it, he could die too, he should be resting, but here Tyler was. Sitting on this sandy hill, completely relaxed.

"Seto," Tyler broke the silence, "Do you see that sun," he pointed.

"Y-yea."

"Isn't it absolutely beautiful? I wonder if it is as pretty here elsewhere..." without waiting for a reply Tyler continued talking, "When we're older, let's leave."

"H-huh!" Seto looked over at Tyler, "What!"

"Let's leave, and explore the realm."

"Where would we go?" Seto asked, he was shocked of the question, but welcomed the idea. It sounded very appealing to him in all honesty. Traveling the realm with his best friend, seeing the very things he's only read about in his books, seeing new things. Seto liked the idea of travel, he really did.

"To the sun of course! We'll go together, we'll keep walking until we find something great, something ours and only ours!" Seto watched with curiosity as Tyler daydreamed of this miraculous future, the sun was already below the horizon. The new year had begun.

"So, what do you say!" Tyler looked to Seto grinning, Seto looked over. At first he said nothing.

Then answered, "Of course! We'll head to the sun until we can walk no more!"

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I know this probably sounds weird, but it's supposed to be. They're little kids, they say odd things, and that is what is supposed to make it cute.

~WrittenDarkness