Hina: Ok, I really didn't see anything going well with the story going as it was, so I decided to try and put a little more depth into it. So instead of starting off where we only know a few facts and he's off to school, we're starting off where we know a bit more about his past and who was looking after him. Trust me, I will go back into the regular plot, but only a little bit later. Thank you! Yu-Gi-Oh! Does not belong to little ol' me!
With Yugi Mutou, being an orphan the last thing he wanted to be. He never really knew his parents since they died in a car crash when he was staying with grandfather. And when he was nine his grandfather was killed before his eyes by an angry customer. It's easy to say that Yugi has a hard life. It would also be easy to say that from that day on he was led to believe that he was bad luck.
When he was ten, the government took notice of an additional orphan and they took pity of the poor boy. They took them into the the mental length department to see if he would be worth paying for. It turns out that Yugi had an IQ of almost 120. At that age, that's almost calling him a genius. But when they offered him to skip all the way to eighth grade, he refused and said that he would prefer to stay with his age group. But the government had another idea. He got a fully paid for apartment and another surprise.
From that day forward, Yugi has been home-schooled by a young blond woman named Mai Kujaku. At the beginning, Mai looked like she could care less and she had more important things to do. Saddened by this, Yugi asked a rather innocent question. "Do you want to play a game instead?" he asked. Mai looked at him with a questioning glance. "I don't know who you think I am if you want to play Hide and Seek, because I-"
"No! Something better!" he exclaimed. Now Mai was getting interested. "Ok then,. What game?" Yugi ran off into his room and didn't come back for a while. Mai sighed and got up from her chair. "I'm not going to play tag either-What the hell?!" she yelled as she went into Yugi's room only to find him in his toy chest, headfirst.
"Yugi...how did you get in there exactly?" Mai asked a now winded Yugi. "Well, I was looking for these," he showed her a dueling deck. "But it somehow got to the bottom of the chest." he smiled. "So, do you want to play?" He was answered by Mai walking out of the room. He looked down in sadness, figuring that she thought that he was an annoying little boy. But to his surprise, she came back with a deck if her own.
By the end of the day, Mai was on the way home. "Bye Mai!" Yugi shouted at his teacher. Normally, Mai would wave back, but today she was shocked beyond belief. And to think, it all happened when her and Yugi were playing a game.
"You're card won't be of use to the game we're going to play." Yugi looked at her with confusion. "What do you mean?" he asked while sitting on his knees on the floor. Mai joined him as she spread out her cards. "It's fairly simple. You pick a card, make sure I don't know what it is, and I will guess what card it is. Sound simple?" Yugi nodded excitedly. Mai handed him her deck and told him to shuffle the cards well. He did as he was told and started to play.
During the first half of the game, Yugi was amazed that Mai got every card he chose right. But it all changed when he finally realized why. "Hey Mai, can I try to guess the cards?" Mai looked at him strangely. "Uh, sure. Why not?" she took the deck and shuffled it. She held up one card and held back a smile. It was one of her favorites.
"Harpy Lady."
Before then, no one was able to guess why she always won her little game. But now, she's convinced that Yugi is the only one who got it. I guess you aren't an annoying little brat after all. You didn't rub it in my face like anyone else would. I applaud you for that, kid.