It was a beautiful, clear summer morning in Domino city. The early morning sun cascaded over the dull grey sky scrapers of Kaiba Corporation, and shimmered over the enchanting blue lake in the park. The sun began to rise over the Turtle game shop where Yugi was sleeping in his warm, cosy bed. Yami woke up first per usual; he waited for Yugi's Grandpa to wake them up. When trying to wake up Yugi it takes a lot of persistent nagging and a lot of perseverance, otherwise he would never be ready when Anzu came to walk with him to school.
"Yugi, get up now or you'll be late for school, again!" yelled Yugi's grandpa from behind his door, followed by two loud thuds.
"I'm up! I'm up! I'm" He was off again.
"Yugi you need to get up, Anzu will be here any minuet!" Yami stressed in an irritated voice.
"Oh for God sake Yami can't you take over today and let me sleep in my soul chamber?"
Yami needed to think of something quick to get Yugi up
"Ah, maybe a little perswagen will wake him up"
He thought, as he looked through the window and saw Anzu in the distance.
"Very well then Yugi, but isn't it your birthday tomorrow? I don't think you told Anzu what you wanted. I'm guessing since you two are really close that she will be using any method necessary to try and get you to tell. I wonder what techniques she will use?"

"All right, I'm up!"
Yugi, immediately jumped out of bed and got ready for school by putting on his uniform. Yami gave Yugi a smile, he saw himself in the vertically challenged 16 year old. Not being able to remember his own past was hard on him. Only knowing that he was the pharaoh of Egypt who sacrificed himself to save the world over 5000 years ago was difficult to handle too. He was cautious of learning what his memory had forgotten, all the people he had left behind, but he always told himself he would not burden Yugi with such questions.

Yugi's grandpa was sweeping the pavement outside the shop,
"Good morning Mr. Mutou, lovely day isn't it?" It was Anzu, in her normal, bubbly voice
"Good morning Anzu, you look nice this morning"
"God if I was fifty years younger" he said in a low, muffled voice
"Sorry Mr. Mutou, what did you say?" He nearly jumped out of his skin when he thought she'd heard what he'd said

"Oh! Nothing, nothing at all! I didn't say anything!" he quickly carried on sweeping, silently. Yugi ran down the stairs, past the kitchen, through the shop and burst through the front door.
"Morning Anzu, come lets go!"
Yugi grabbed Anzu's arm and they belted down the street
"Yugi, what about breakfast?" his Grandpa yelled
"I'll stop off at a shop and buy some chocolate, bye Grandpa!" "Bye Mr.Mutou!"
And they were gone.
"Oh so he's too late for school to eat breakfast but he has enough time to stop to buy sweets? I swear that kid is going to put me into an early grave!"

Anzu and Yugi kept running until they reached the corner shop just down the road from school. Out side the front door drinking cans of cola were Jounouchi and Honda. They obviously had no sense of time and forgotten that they have no time to be drinking cola when it was this late.
"Jou, Honda we're late, come on, hurry!"
"What's wrong with you two? Chill! We have plenty of time." Jounouchi said in a calm and relaxed tone. Anzu was increasingly getting more frustrated about being late and getting a detention
"Jou, are you as stupid as you look? I's 9 o'clock and school started 20 minuets ago therefore it means we are late! So get both your arse's moving and lets go, coz I swear to God if I get detention I'll be using the time in detention thinking of ways to inflicting pain on you two, and I already have an idea of what I wanna do!"
"Shit Anzu are you on your period or something?" Honda said, a bit nervous of what Anzu would do after that remark. "Shut the hell up and lets get moving!" Anzu stormed off down the road.
"Uh, maybe we should go now, and save all the bloodshed for later?" said Yugi in a reasoning voice.
"Yeah let's go, it was getting boring here anyway."
The three boys ran down the road into the school.

Anzu was leaning against a locker with the rest of her class.
"Anzu what's going on?"
"Oh hi guys, look sorry 'bout my little vendetta back at the corner shop I just didn't want to be late. But I guess that doesn't matter since the teacher is half an hour late himself."
"Typical!" Said Honda, annoyed that he'd just ran for nothing.
So they waited, and waited, and waited but still no sigh of the teacher.
"Where the hell is he?"
Jounouchi was getting more annoyed by the minuet, he'd never wanted to go into the classroom so badly before.

Just left of the hall was a congregation of girls, they all seemed to be looking and pointing at Anzu. One of the girls came over,

"Anzu, can we talk with you for a sec?"
Anzu, looking very confused about what they wanted, but she still agreed to go over there anyway. Anzu hardly ever talked with the girls in her class, they all seem to think of her as a tomboy even though she looked more womanly then them. They thought this because she hangs around with Yugi, Jounouchi, Honda and Bakura, plus she plays Duel Monsters, which is so un-lady like.
"So, uh, what did you want?" The girls started to giggle.
"What's so funny?" Now Anzu was feeling extremely confused. Then one of the girls blurted it out through fits of giggles. "Are you going out with Yugi Mutou?"
"Yeah are you going out with the little pip squeak with that huge piece of costume jewellery around his neck?" Now Anzu was fuming, she hates anyone making fun of her friends, nothing means more to her than friendship.
"No I'm not! But what the hell do you bunch of brain dead bimbo's know about him anyway? He happens to be an extremely loyal and caring person, more than I can say about you lot! What do you have against him anyway?"
The girls in her class knew she would give a little friendship speech, also she takes thing too seriously, that was another reasons why they didn't like her too much.
"Chill Anzu! God you take things so seriously! We don't hate Yugi."
"Yeah he's just a bit wired, that's all."
"I mean before he just sat in the class room with that strange pyramid puzzle thingy. But when he started wearing it he seemed much taller."
"And cuter." "And sexier."
"I wouldn't mind that Yugi showing me how to be loyal and caring!"
This was getting serious. Only a few people actually knew about Yami Yugi, what if they went around telling everyone that there are two Yugi's? It might go to the government, they might start experimenting on him, they could put him in a freak show kind of think. O.k. maybe they are over exaggerations, but it could happen. She couldn't leave anything to chance.
"I don't know what you're talking about, you lot must be loosing your minds, there's only one Yugi, and he's standing over there."
Anzu turned and walk away.
"Oh, somebody's touchy over a certain someone."

"Yeah they must be boyfriend and girlfriend!"
Anzu turned and gave them 'the stare of death!' and carried on walking.
"OOOOH!"
"What was that all about Anzu?"
She just looked at Yugi and froze. She didn't know what to tell him.
"Oh, that. Nothing, that was nothing, they just wanted to know where I got this bracelet from."
"Anzu, I got you that bracelet a year ago."
"Yup, and I made sure they knew it too…ha, ha."
She quickly stopped her nervous laugh, and remembered that she needed to ask him about his birthday present.
"Oh Yugi, that reminds me what do you want for.."
"Sorry I'm late class! I had to deal with the new student coming today!"
Just as Anzu was about to ask Yugi, guess what clueless teacher turns up? That's right it's Mr Anami. This guy is so absentminded. One day he spent three quarters of an hour looking for the board pen, when it was in his hand the whole time. Also he's as camp as hell. The students weren't sure if he was gay, but he definitely acted the part. Everyone got settled down at their desks.
"O.k. class today we have a new student joining us. She is from England but she speaks very good Japanese. I want you all to be nice and helpful to her. You can come in now, sweetie."
The door opened. The girl in the doorway was of average height, small build. She had white blond hair with black bits underneath which came down to her chin. Her hair was obviously dyed but it looked good. Her eyes were a beautiful marine colour that sparkled like the sea at sunset. Her skin was also fair and clear; she looked like a princess from a fairy tale, or a porcelain doll.
"Everybody this is Layna"