"Ahhhh! Why is school so agitating!?"

"Because the world says so."

"Thank you so much, Renzo!"

It's lunch time at Domino High School. On the school rooftop is Renzo Koyama and Angel Mazaki. Renzo is son of a little convenience store owner, Kina Koyama, his father. Angel on the other hand is younger sister of Anzu Mazaki. It has been a couple of years since her sisters adventures have ended. While her sister has been gone from her life she began to become a rebel. She started to abandon her school work in favor of things that were more interesting. Though she still likes cheer leading, she would rather work on routines by herself. You Would think it would be impossible for someone to do this herself, but she manages.

"Wanna ditch today, Renzo?"

"Nah. I got a...a...damn what's that thing called again?"

"What thing?"

"You know that paper thing where it's got a bunch of other papers stapled to it."

"You mean a test?"

"That's it."

"Since when did you care about tests?"

"Since my dad threatened to kick me out of the house if I didn't get my grades up."

"Typical."

Angel slide down next to Renzo against the chained fence. It was a partly cloudy day but they would eat there everyday even if it was raining. She looked down at her unbuttoned jacket and shortened skirt. She really hated the uniform. She can handle the blue but not the pink. She does like pink just not wearing it much. She rather the uniform be green and black but this'll do for now.

"Hey, Renzo? When did you get partially dye your hair blue?"

"Yesterday. Why? Wanna dye your hair?"

"Yeah. I mean I can totally rock the look can't I?"

"Totally can. Reason why I hang out with you. You can pull off the rocker chick look. Most girls can't at this school."

"Yeah. Rocker chick. Maybe I should ask my sis to make me a rocker outfit."

"Anzu?"

"Nah. My younger sis. Mikaru. She is like totally into fashion. Maybe she can make me something."

"Don't you got a younger brother too?"

"Kouji. He's a brat."

"Dude. Dye your hair green."

"Where would I get green dye fro-..."

Renzo holds out a box of green hair dye. Angel blinks at her friend. She couldn't believe it. He actually carried a box on him. No, wait...that's not right. That's weird. Angel is use to weird things but this is just too weird. Renzo's up to something.

"Planned. Wasn't it."

"Hells yeah. Please let me do it."

"What you think I can't?"

"Angie...You can barely pick the right outfit in the morning without me."

"That was once in middle school and I thought we said never to speak of it ever again."

"Yeah. But I got an idea for your hair."

"Okay. Fine. Today, after school."

"Sweet."

The bell rang. Angel cursed at the bell and started to get up. If Renzo doesn't ditch neither does she. They walked down to their classes and left. Renzo ended up in math with his precious test and Angel ended up with History. In history with a not so big surprise that they started about Egyptian history. Angel didn't want to side with stuck up Seto Kaiba but she was kind of sick of all the Egyptian talk. They were only on this cause Yugi is opening Millennium Hall this afternoon. Which is perfect since Anzu won't be around to tell her not to partially dye her hair. Everyone will be at the ceremony. She was seated in the front of the room. She looked out the window to the street. Cars passed by. Time slowly passing by. She was bored out of her mind. She started to think of what to do to take time up.

She started to tap of her desk with her fingers in a rhythm. A nice 4/4 time beat. She started to think of other beats to take time up. She's allowed to do this. Mostly because she was passing the class anyway and even if she was daydreaming she could answer the question on the spot.

"Miss Mazaki. Would you mind telling the class what this hieroglyphic says?"

She rolled her eyes. "Akhenamkhanen. One of the great Pharaohs, father of the Pharaoh Atem, whose successor was Priest Seto. And if I'm also correct Atem had a daughter as well."

Well the teacher couldn't be disappointed. She got it right. And it's not a surprise. She has been around Yugi and his friends for so long she picked it up. She mostly picked this bit of information when she overheard Yugi talking with the Ishtars. They are interesting but irrelevant to her.

She continued to tap on until the end of class. The bell rang and she went through P.E and Guitar class. In that class that beat came back to her and she started to play it. It felt right. It felt good. Maybe she was on to something. She's gotta show Renzo later. She continues to play the guitar at request of the teacher as she was ahead of the class already. She would much rather text Renzo but it won't happen.

Finally the end of the day bell rang. Angel grabbed her guitar put it back in it's case and grabbed her bag. She walked over to her shoe locker and switched shoes. She got them on and waited for Renzo. After about 15 minutes he finally appeared.

"Finally."

"Yeah, Yeah, let's go."

They head off to her home while everyone else heads on to Millennium Hall. Actually it's more like the whole city is. Why wouldn't they? The king of games cutting the ribbon for a new building he himself decided to add to the city to add more history to their already rich culture. Surely one person hates it. Hirito Takumi. That's for sure. He's been trying to get the city council to veto Yugi's idea. But as you can see he's failed miserably.

Angel unlocks the door to her home and let's Renzo in. It's quiet which means Anzu, Mikaru, and Kouji are out. Thank god. Angel wouldn't want to deal with them. They both head up to her room. Renzo takes out the box of green hair dye.

"Alright. You gonna let me do my thing?"

"Yeah just don't over do it. I do wanna keep some of my natural color."

"I got this."

Hours have passed and Angel has a towel on her head. She looks over at her guitar case and picks it up and takes her guitar out. "Listen to this Renzo" She played the guitar to the beat from earlier. Renzo started to move his head to it and started tapping another beat to it.

"I like it."

"...We...should start a band."

"Seriously?"

"You play guitar right? Electric?"

"Yeah. But we can't be a two person band. We need three other people."

"I know someone who can be our bassist."

"Who?"

"Chick in my class named Crystal. She's good, she's an american, but she's ahead of the bass guitar class."

"I think I might got our drums."

"Is is Nikoji?"

"Have you heard him?"

"Yeah, but isn't he in another band?"

"They broke up. He's looking for another place to rock."

"I think we got some recruiting to do."

"Yeah. Now take the towel off I wanna see the results of my masterpiece."

Angel took the towel off and let her hair down. Her hair was brown and green now. A nice shade of green to her. She looked in the mirror and she really liked the look. If she wasn't a rocker before she is now. She went to her closet and got out a leather jacket and put it on. She looked back in the mirror and saw her look. She was ready.

"Perfect."

"What I tell you?"

"Yeah. Well we gotta get this going. I'll tell Mikaru I'm gonna have some friends over and that we are starting a band and shiz."

"Matching?"

"No way. Too retro. Gotta give everyone their own flair."

"Yeah I see where you're going with this."

"We need a name."

"But those are hard to come up with."

"I got it."

"That was quick."

"7 Strikes."

"7 Strikes?"

"Yeah. 7 is lucky and Strikes cause I like bowling."

"Bowling? But people could make fun of us and call us 7 Pin Strikes."

"You really care about other peoples opinions?"

"Yeah your right. Screw them."

"Come on. You go get Nikoji, I'll get Crystal."

"Yes sir."

They got up and started running out the door. They had a mission and that was to get a band together. This is what she was missing in her life. A band. It's exciting to her right now. Who cares about the hall. Who cares about the crowed of people she had to go through to get to her band future band mates. This will be her treasure. Her new escape from life. 7 Strikes is gonna be big.