The Blooming of the Lady of the Night

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'Italic' – Thinking

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Chap. 1 – The new Girl

It was just another normal day in the city of Domino. Yugi and the his friends were inside their High School classroom, talking the daily routines of their lives. After all of the events of Duelist Kingdom, they were back at school, now with the acompany of Duke Devlin.

Siting in their usual seats, the classmates were talking feverously, when suddently the teacher came in and reported to the class:

"Hello students, this year we will have a new student with us, so let me introduce her" the teacher gestured with his hand towards the door, "This is Ann Midnite, our new colleague," he introduced, "she just moved from Tokyo to here."

A girl came into the room. Wearing the school uniform, she smiled at her new classmates. She had long brown hair, reaching down to her waist, and had equally brown eyes. She was very beautiful and seemed to be a kind girl.

'Cool, she seems to be very nice.' Yugi thought.

Joey's thoughts, however, were more on her physical appearence. 'Wow...she's very cute!' He thought.

The teacher indicated for Ann to sit in the seat behind Yugi, saying, "Fine, you can sit there, just behind Mutou."

She agreed and walked over to the empty seat. Smiling, she sat down and held out her hand to the boy. "Hi! I'm Ann," she said, shaking hands with him, "What's yout name?"

"My name is Yugi Mutou," he smiled, "it's a pleasure to meet you."

She smiled too and then concentrated on the lesson. Later, in the interval, Yugi introduced Ann to the rest of the gang.

"Guys, this is the new student, Ann," he announced.

"Hi Ann!" Tea greeted, "I'm Tea Gardner."

Yugi then indicated to the other two boys. "Ann, those are Tristan and Joey," he told her.

Tristan got up and shood hands with the girl, smiling. When he finished introduncing himself, Joey walked over to Ann quickly and said in a cheerful tone, "Hi!! The name's Joey Wheeler, at your disposal!" he softly grabbed her hand, "it's always good to meet new people, especially a beautiful girl like you."

"Oh... thanks, Joey" she griggled.

He smiled too, enjoying how cute her laught was. After the introductions, they started to talk, and Ann told them that she was sixteen years old and that she had moved a while ago because of her mother's job.

"But I'm living alone near here, because my mom is always traveling," she said.

"Alone? You don't mind?" Yugi asked.

"No no, I'm already accustomed. My mom has always worked a lot."

Over next few days, they got to be best friends, Ann always walked with them and the gang all loved her company. She was very funny, too.

One week later, Tea was showing everybody in the class to her.

"That one in the back is Bakura. He's kinda shy, but he's very nice" she indicated to the boy with silver hair, "He had some problems last year, but he's a great person."

Tea called Bakura over and introduced him to Ann.

"Hey Bakura, this is Ann Midnite, our new classmate!" she told him.

"Oh yes... I remember" he replied. He turned to greet her, shyly smiling.

"Hi Bakura, it's a pleasure to meet you! Tea has told me that you're very symphatic... and it look's like it's true," she said and smiled.

"Really?" he asked, a confused look coming upon his face, "Well... thank you."

Ann said that was nothing, and the boy blushed, walking back to his seat at the end of the classroom. She sat again and observed the room. Then she turned to Tea again and asked, "Hm... and who's that, Tea?" she indicated to a boy with blue eyes sitting in the middle of the classroom.

Tea looked over to the boy that she had pointed at and said, with an indifferent expression, " Oh, that one? It's Kaiba."

Ann's eyes widened surprisingly and turned to Tea in a quick motion. "Kaiba?? Seto Kaiba???"

"...Yeah, why?" she looked intriguinly at Ann.

"Wow, he's famous! I didn't knew he was still in school!" she gasped, turning around and looking him again.

Kaiba was sitting at his desk, reading a book. When he found out that he was being watched, he closed the book and looked in the girl's direction. When he saw her, she immediately looked away, fiercely. He stared her for a while, intrigued with her behaviour, but then he turned back to his book again. Tea become surprised with Ann's reaction and asked, "What's the problem?"

"I...I didn't knew he was so beautiful..." Ann explained, ashamed, still looking him.

Joey, who was near there by, suddenly got angry and jumped inbetween of the girls, saying, "Aaaahh, let's change the subject, ok??" grabbing their arms, he brought them over to where Yugi and Tristan were.

Tea and Tristan exchanged amused looks and griggled. Ann didn't saw that and started to watch what Yugi was doing, interested.

"Yugi, what's that you're doing?" she asked.

"Oh, I'm playing Duel Monsters!" he replied enthusiastically.

He was ordering a lot of cards on the table to the top of a board. Ann watched intensely and then remebered that she knew that game.

"Hey, I know this!" she exclaimed and pointed to the cards.

"You do?" Yugi asked surprisingly and looked at her cheerfuly.

"Yeah, I have some of these cards..." she agreed, "I just don't know how to play."

"Cool!" Joey exclaimed.

"I can teach you one of these days" Yugi proposed to his friend.

"Really? Great!" she cheered "But it will have to be another day, because today I can't."

"Oh, alright," Yugi nodded "we'll figure out something."

Ann happily agreed. She loved having friends like them, friends that were so nice and symphatics. There were just one thing that she wanted to ask Yugi, thought... What was that necklace around his neck...?

End of the 1st. Chapter