Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! or its characters.

A/N: I always wanted to write a genderbend-AU story, and here I am now.

Just so that no one gets confused, I choose Joanna as Joey's genderbend name, Sam is Serenity and I think it's kind of obvious who is Mrs. Crawford and Mrs. Paradius are supposed to be (you can take a guess of course)

I know, some things might be confusing at first, but there will be further explanations in the next chapters~

Please keep in mind that english is not my first language, so if you spot any errors, please forgive me for those.

It was still early in the morning when Yugi Muto rang the doorbell of the Wheelers. She heard muffled yelling which she assumed was Mrs. Wheeler trying to wake up Joanna.

Yugi sighed. If she was right, her best friend probably overslept again and they would be late for school as always.

Finally the doorbell was answered by Sam, Joanna's younger brother, who went to their High school as well, but was still in his first year. "Good morning Yugi! I'm afraid, Joanna just got up, you'll have to wait."

Behind him, Mrs. Wheeler's head popped out of the living room. "Yugi, would you like something to drink or to eat while you wait for little Miss Slowpoke here?" Yugi nodded, since she had no other choice and entered the house.

She hated being late, but since Joanna always 'took her time' – that's how she called it - to get ready for school it had become almost routine for her to have breakfast with Mrs. Wheeler and Sam, and she loved it.

"Would you like some tea, dear?" "Yes, please."

"Mom, I'm leaving now, goodbye Yugi!" Sam called as he grabbed his bag from the steps.

"Yes, have a nice day, honey!" Mrs. Wheeler said as she took a cup from the shelve and handed it to Yugi.

"Bye, Sam!" Yugi shouted but only got the slamming of the door as answer.

Mrs. Wheeler poured the girl some tea into her cup, then sat down next to her. "So how's your mother doing?"

Yugi took a sip from the cup "She still has a lot of work to do, since my grandfather needs more help with his shop, but she's fine, I guess."

"Give her my regards, and please remind her of the tea party we're having next Thursday."

Yugi smiled "I will."

Just in that moment Joanna entered the kitchen. "Morning, Yugi. I'm ready, let's get outta here."

Mrs. Wheeler shoved her daughter to a chair at the dining table. "Not until you eat something, young lady!"

"But mom, we're gonna be late again!" the blonde groaned but was stopped as her mother stuffed a toast into her mouth.

"Then get out of your bed on time."

Joanna rolled her eyes, but had scoffed her toast in no time. "All right, let's go! Mom, where is Sammy?"

"He already went to school, because unlike you he isn't a dawdler. Now hurry up! Yugi, honey, I'm so sorry. Now you'll be late because of Joanna, do you want me to write you a letter of apology?" Mrs. Wheeler asked with concern.

"What? And I get none?" Joanna protested.

"Yugi was here on time, and I don't want her to get in trouble because of you, lazybones!"

"Don't worry about me, I'll be fine. Besides we have art class by Mrs. Crawford and she never gets mad."

"Well, I hope so, now you really should get going."

"Yeah, bye mom."

"Goodbye, you two. And Joanna, I want you to pay attention in class, understood? I don't want Mrs. Paradius to call me again because you're failing another class!"

"Ugh, yes mother."

"Don't sass me!"

"Sheesh, how am I supposed to stay focused on class, when I'm tired…" Joanna sighed.

Yugi tried to hold back her grin. "Maybe if you went to bed earlier, you wouldn't be so sleepy…"

"But how am I supposed to sleep, when I have to catch up with 'Black Velvet'?"

The smaller girl furrowed as she tried to remember what show Joanna was talking about. "That's the show you've told me about just yesterday, right? The one with the werewolf-girl falling in love with the vampire-guy?"

"Yes, that one. We really have to watch it sometimes. But it's not my fault if you get just as addicted as I already am." she grinned.

As her friend continued to talk about what she watched in TV yesterday, Yugi was distracted by a familiar voice.

'Yugi.'

'Good morning pharaoh, I almost thought you were gone. What is it?'

By pharaoh she meant the ghost from her puzzle which she wore around her neck. The pharaoh looked a lot like her, maybe a few years older and she had introduced herself as the former empress of Egypt, but that was all she remembered about herself.

'You two will be late, if you keep drifting like this…'

'I know, but try telling that to Joanna.'

Suddenly Joanna stopped her talk and took a look at her phone "Dammit! We should stop talking about TV shows and start running instead! Mrs. Crawford maybe forgives us, if we're five minutes late, but not a quarter!"

'Have fun running.' the pharaoh disappeared. 'Oh, be quiet!'

After an exhausting morning jog, they had finally arrived at school. As expected Mrs. Crawford didn't even say anything as they snuck into the class. Both of them took their seats as Joanna noticed something. "Son of a… I forgot my gym bag. Looks like I have to call mom during the break…" Yugi sighed. This school day would be just the same as always.

Well that was actually just the introduction to the whole thing.

As you might have noticed, Joey's (or Joanna's) parents aren't divorced in this AU and they live together as a happy family. Just to inform you, almost every character has a different, less tragic, backstory, as in the canon, because I really wanted them to live a happier life...

Uhm yeah, and Black Velvet is not a real show, I just made that up...

To be honest I felt really stupid finding names for the girls, but I tried my best. Don't worry, because I'm planning on getting almost every character involved. In the next chapter's titles I will also mention who is the main character of the current chapter.

I have planned to write a chapter for each character, to introduce them and their role in this AU and when I'm done with this, I'll start to include some shippings.

I hope you liked it so far, because there will be more~