Syrus Fanatic 4-Ever: "Hey! SF4E here with Divine Child comin' right atcha with a new fanfic!"

DC: "Similar to 'Best of Both Worlds' but still an original idea."

SF4E: "So, onto the disclaimer!"

DC: Disclaimer: Syrus Fanatic 4-Ever doesn't own YGO GX, its characters, or Duel Academy. Nor does she own the idea for a band to come to DA and secretly enter as students! Takes place in Season 2 with new storyline... NO FLAMEZ WOULD BE APPRECIATED... Hope you R&R!

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Chapter I

Opening New Eyes

"Another year here at DA..." Jaden Yuki sighed deeply, resting his head in his hands.

Syrus Truesdale nodded in agreement, "At least we've made some new friends."

The two boys sighed again as they looked at the warm sun shining down upon them. They were relaxing in front of the Main Building, leaning against one of the stone carvings, and watching the leaves rustle in the warm breeze. Bastion Misawa, a friend of the two adolescents, smirked as he arrived.

"Still bored, I presume." Bastion said.

Both answered at once, "Yeah..."

The English boy chuckled, "Cheer up. We've still got the Welcome Back Dance to look forward to."

"Have you asked Alexis yet, Jay?" Syrus piped up.

Jaden turned pink and shook his head, causing the two Ra Yellow students to sweatdrop in reply. He sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck and Bastion rolled his dark grey eyes. Syrus' silver eyes only closed in annoyance.

"You've had the entire week, Jay!" He exclaimed, putting his head in his hands.

Bastion groaned, "How hard is it, may I ask, to go up to Alexis and say "Hey, would you like to go to the Welcome Back Dance with me?" Jaden?"

Jaden's chocolate brown eyes closed, "It just is okay... y'know how long... I've tried understanding these feelings... I'm not familiar with 'em and all..."

Syrus patted his best friend on the shoulder reassuringly. Jaden smiled gently before he sighed again. Bastion finally sat down on the grass and began to read. They all jumped when they heard a new voice break into the conversation.

"Well, well, well. What do we have here?" Atticus Rhodes had swung down, by the back of his knees, from the tree above. Syrus and Jaden grabbed onto each other in surprise while Bastion dropped his book. "Some girl problems I believe?"

"Geez, Atticus, easy on the stealth!" Jaden exclaimed.

Syrus was trying to get his heart down a few beats, "You need to quit sneakin' up on us, y'know?"

"Sorry," laughed Atticus, "But it's so much fun scaryin' you guys!"

"Haha, very funny." Bastion snapped.

Atticus smirked with his devious grin, "So, what can I do for you guys?"

Bastion and Syrus exchanged a glance and hatched the same idea.

"It's not us who needs help, it's Jaden." Bastion replied.

Jaden turned red, "Bastion! Don't tell 'im that!?"

"Alexis Problems, to be exact." snickered Syrus.

"SYRUS?!" Jaden hollered, taken aback. "ARE YOU INSANE?!"

Both Ras burst into laughter while Atticus smiled. Jaden crossed his arms huffily.

"I hate you two so much right now." He muttered.

"Finally realized you liked my sister then, Jaden?" questioned Atticus casually.

Jaden blinked in surprise. Atticus wasn't blowing up or going into overprotective big brother mode like normal. The truth was that Atticus felt sorry for the poor dude and wanted him and his sister to be happy together. Plus, there was the whole thing of stealing Alexis' diary and reading a confession on her crush on Jaden... which resulted in complete HELL from Alexis...

"Yeah..." answered Jaden slowly.

Syrus and Bastion looked confused as well, but they shrugged it off.

"The dance is tomorrow, Jay." Syrus reminded him.

Jaden pouted, "I know, I know..."

Bastion smiled, "Just ask her."

"What about you, Mr. Genius!? Have you asked anyone?!" Jaden snapped suddenly.

"No." Bastion replied, "Syrus and I intended to go stag in the first place."

Syrus was looking annoyed again, "More like I'm the one bein' dragged there in the first place..."

"I don't see why you're scared of girls, Sy." Atticus replied from the tree. "You're very nice."

The bluenette's face had descended to an unidentified shade of pink, "I know... but I just get nervous... and feel like a complete moron..." His silver eyes sharpened, "And I hate to dance."

"We believe you!" Bastion chuckled, ruffling his light blue hair brotherly. "We believe you, Sy!"

Jaden finally groaned, "Fine! I'll go ask Lex! Sheesh!"

Atticus let go of the branch in surprise and landed in the bush below. The others quickly pulled him upright.

"Really?!" He exclaimed, pulling the twigs out of his dark chocolate brown hair.

"Yes, really! Now can we talk 'bout somethin' else, puh-leeze?!" Jaden begged.

The others exchanged a look, "How are you going to ask her?"

"ARGH! YOU THREE ARE HOPELESS!"

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"Relax, Graceful Shadow." said Ms. Fontaine. "It's going to be alright, sweetie."

"And now, the Fallen Angels!" Chancellor Crowler's microphoned voice shouted across the crowded dance.

The entire school was in Obelisk Stadium. The duel arena had been cleared off and set up like a stage. Bastion, Syrus, Jaden, Atticus, Chazz Princeton, Tyranno Hassleberry, and Alexis Rhodes were all in a group nearest to the stage. Alexis was wearing a dark blue tube top kneelength dress and around her neck was a silver necklace. Jaden was wearing a pair of black slacks, his Slifer sneakers, and a red and white polo. Syrus was wearing grey-black jeans, a longsleeved white shirt, a button up open yellow shortsleeved dress shirt, and his Ra sneakers. Chazz, Atticus, and Bastion were wearing suits. And Tyranno was happily dressed in his normal uniform. They all looked up just as the stage lit up on an all-girl rock band. Crowler began to introduce them as a violet spotlight landed on one of them.

"Graceful Shadow!"

The lead singer was a girl of fifteen or sixteen who was small for her age. Her eyes were a stunning amethyst and she had raven hair that was straight and stopped at the nape of her neck. Her parted bangs were shoulder length and covered her left eye. She was wearing a white dress shirt that had the sleeves ripped off, an amethyst tie, black fingerless knuckle gloves that stopped in mid-forearm, a black and dark purple pleated plaid skirt, which stopped a few inches above her knees, amethyst kneehigh tights, black zip-up combat boots that stopped in mid-shin, and dark purple cat ears and a cat tail. She gripped the microphone stand and closed her eyes.

"Summer Sunshine!"

A gold light landed on the pianist and background singer. She was a girl of fourteen going on fifteen. She was only slightly taller than Graceful Shadow and had elbow length straight white blonde hair. Her eyes were cerulean blue and had an innocent gleam within them. Gold highlights were throughout her hair and shined in the bright lights. She was wearing transparent glittery gold fairy wings, a gold mini-skirt, a white spaghetti strapped top, kneehigh white lace up boots, and a white trench coat with the sleeves ripped off. Around her wrists were fifty or sixty gold and white bangles and around her neck was a sunstone pendent.

"Autumn Breeze!"

A red light landed on the oldest and drummer, who was a tall girl about Chazz's height. She had dark brown hip length curly hair pulled into a low side ponytail with natural auburn highlights throughout it. She also had hazel eyes and was wearing a red-orange halter top with black attachable sleeves, a black and red-orange stripped kneelength skirt, black leggings, and black combat boots with red-orange laces. She also had a red bass strapped to her back.

"And finally, Winter Moonlight!"

The last white light shined on the guitarist. She was the barely the drummer's height. She had long silky ebony black hair, with neon green tips, that was thigh length. Her jade green eyes were bright and filled with excitement as her sideswept chin length bangs fell into one. She was wearing a light silver Chinese martial arts kneelength dress with neon green trimmings, black Chinese martial arts pants, light silver martial arts slippers, black armbands, and neon green kitsune ears. Her dress was slit until mid thigh.

"This is a song is by the band that inspired us to start playing music in the first place. You may recognize it." said Graceful Shadow into the microphone. "Give it up for Taking Over Me!"

Autumn Breeze tossed Summer Sunshine the bass and they began to play immediately.

After the song, Graceful Shadow looked out and into the crowd. Her heart began to pound as she locked eyes with a Ra Yellow boy of sixteen. He had light blue hair and silver eyes and was wearing glasses. Graceful Shadow began to feel nervous again and quickly shut her eyes. The applause reaching her ears made her calm down.

"You're all wonderful!" Winter Moonlight shouted into her microphone. "How 'bout a request?"

"WHISPER!" shouted a few of the students.

"You heard 'em, Angels!" Summer Sunshine winked, getting ready to play the keyboard.

An extra bass player came out onto the stage and they began to play.

"Pretty good, eh, Sy?" Jaden smirked.

Syrus came to life after Jaden elbowed him hard in the side.

"Y-Yeah!" He hastily cried, his cheeks a faint red. "They're awesome..."

Graceful Shadow looked out into the crowd once more, her face burning unpleasantly as she looked at the blue haired boy once more. Autumn Breeze noticed and began to grin slightly psychotically.

"How 'bout we go a little more... serious?" Autumn Breeze exclaimed to Winter Moonlight and Summer Sunshine.

"The cat chick is now actin' strange." commented an Obelisk. "At first, she was doin' great and was relaxed, but then she looked towards those guys and stiffened up." He indicated towards Jaden and the others. "But other than that, the Fallen Angels sure are doin' a really great job..."

Alexis' mouth had dropped open, "Wait a second… I've heard of the Fallen Angels! They're an international Japanese female rock band! Mindy and Jasmine totally worship them!"

"Yeah. I mean, she did say that the first song was inspired by their favorite band. I read that Graceful Shadow is completely nuts about the lead singer." Atticus pointed out, "That's Amy Lee, lead singer of Evanescence."

Syrus looked up just as Graceful Shadow looked directly at him. Her face was emotionless, but her eyes were wide in embarrassment. Syrus weakly smiled and he jumped in surprise when she smiled back.

"One last song. You've been a great audience!" Summer Sunshine cried in her microphone. "Imaginary!"

Jaden and Alexis finished dancing just as the song ended. Blushing faintly, the two best friends looked down.

"Welcome back to Duel Academy!" The Fallen Angels shouted, "Hope you have a rockin' year!"

Crowler stepped back onto the stage, "Thank you very much, young ladies!"

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The Fallen Angels quickly gathered their equipment and carried it backstage. Syrus immediately began to make his way towards the back area. He wasn't watching where he was going when he rammed straight into a girl with her back turned. Both fell down at once and groaned in pain.

"Sorry..." moaned Syrus, pulling her and him to their feet.

"T-That's okay." said a slightly familiar voice.

Syrus started to tremble in horror. Standing directly in front of him, holding his hand was...

"G-Graceful Shadow!?" Syrus whispered in shock.

She closed her amethyst eyes, "Um... yeah. Hi." Syrus was turning bright red, "Um... I saw you in the crowd... and you smiled at me..."

"Y-Yeah." Syrus said, unsuccessfully, trying to keep his voice steady, "I-I did..."

Graceful Shadow took his hand, "Wanna dance?"

"Sure!" exclaimed Syrus.

Jaden and the others looked over just as they spotted Syrus dancing with, none other than, Graceful Shadow. They all anime-collapsed in sheer shock before cheering him on. He wasn't stepping on anyone's feet for once!

"You're a gifted dancer." complimented Graceful Shadow.

Her bangs were hiding most of her face, but Syrus could tell she was cute.

"You're a gifted singer..." Syrus whispered in reply.

Her face started to turn pink and she quickly looked down at her feet. Many people were whispering to one another. Jaden and Alexis soon danced next to them.

"Thought you hated dancing, Syrus?" Jaden hissed, as payback.

"I thought you were a chicken, Jaden." smirked Syrus back.

Alexis rolled her light golden hazel eyes in reply. Graceful Shadow looked at Syrus' silver eyes and felt something she had never felt before.

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"Y-You're name is Syrus?" Graceful Shadow said in surprise.

The bluenette nodded shyly as they continued to dance. She began to feel her knees trying to shake and ceased them immediately.

"Syrus Truesdale?" Graceful Shadow guessed.

"Yeah. How'd you know that?" Syrus asked, taken aback.

Graceful Shadow avoided his eyes.

"Oh, lemme guess, 'cause of my older brother Zane." Syrus muttered.

"No..." She said softly. "Because I've heard of you before... not your brother..."

He only blinked in surprise, a smile spreading across his face. Graceful Shadow looked over just as the other Fallen Angels appeared at the doorway, beckoning her. Jaden and Alexis had danced away.

"I-It was nice meeting you." Graceful Shadow said sadly. "But I must go, Syrus."

"W-Wait!" Syrus exclaimed, grabbing her wrist. "W-Will I ever see you again?!"

She winked, "If you follow your heart..."

Syrus closed his eyes as he felt Graceful Shadow gently kiss him on the cheek for a second before she disappeared into the crowd. He stood there, his fingertips brushing over the spot, with a new feeling emerging inside of him...

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SF4E: "Hope you liked Chapter 1!"

DC: "Please R&R!"

SF4E: "Get Your Review On!"

DC: sweatdrop "Y'know... that only works if Jaden says it..."

SF4E: "Shut it!"