YU - YA
"I just don't understand why I wasn't put in Obelisk with you..." Yugi said as he talked to Yami on the plane on the way to Duel Academy. He was sitting at the window seat, wearing a Slifer red jacket while Yami sat next to him, wearing an Obelisk blue jacket.
"I don't know, but you shouldn't concern yourself with where you're placed. You're a great duelist and everyone knows that."
"Yeah, but I just don't understand it. I mean... I got a 99 on my written test and I even beat that teacher, so, why aren't I in Obelisk?" (I would of given him a 100, but that seemed a little too far to go!)
"Don't concern yourself with useless placements, my hikari." Yami said, and Yugi couldn't help, but smile. He loved it when Yami called him names like "my hikari" and "my aibou". He didn't exactly know why, but he also really didn't care. He loved it, and he knew that no one could be called that by Yami but him.
Then the pilot of the plane came on the intercom.
"We'll be landing at Duel Academy in 15 to 20 minutes so please buckle up and prepare for landing." He said, and everyone did what they were told.
-- Roughly a half an hour later --
Everyone was now on Duel Academy and were looking for their dorms. Yami, Tea, and Kiaba were in Obelisk. Ryou was in Ra Yellow with Bakura. Yugi, Joey, and Tristan were in Slifer. (A/N: I know, some of these don't make sense, but it's my story!)
Yami decided that he would walk Yugi to his dorm before going to his.
-- At the Slifer dorm --
Emily Lynn, Annie, Jazzmine, Victoria, Lily, and Amanda were all sitting on the deck of the Slifer red dorm, talking when Amanda noticed two people coming towards them, and immediately recognized one of them.
"Yugi!" Amanda yelled as she ran for him, then tackled him to the ground.
"Amanda! What are you doing here?"
"I go to school here, didn't you know? So... what are you doing here?" Amanda asked.
"I'm... starting school here next week."
"And... why are you a Slifer? I thought you'd be able to be an Obelisk." Amanda asked.
"I don't know. I got a 99 on my written test and I even beat a teacher so I don't know why I didn't get into Obelisk." Yugi answered.
"Who's the teacher?"
"I think his name was Dr. Crowler." Yugi answered.
"That would explain it then. Jaden beat him also, and he's in Slifer... of course Jaden did get a 70 on his test." (They need a 70 to pass!) "But he should of at least of been put in Ra yellow."
"Oh..." Yugi and Yami said at the same time.
"Yeah. So... who are you?" Amanda asked as she pointed to Yami.
"Amanda, I'm disappointed in you." Victoria said as she walked up to them with everyone else.
"What?"
"How could you not recognize Pharaoh Atem?" Victoria asked.
"Well, uh... I'm not exactly a Pharaoh anymore." Yami said as he scratched the back of his head.
"No one can stop being who they really are... not even a Pharaoh. You can not have the job anymore, but you are a Pharaoh by birth." Victoria pointed out.
"Right." Everyone said, slowly, except for Yugi and Yami who just stood there, shocked.
"A fan?" Yugi asked.
"I just love Egypt and the history of it." Victoria said. "That's how I managed to get into the Ra dorm. Because half the written test was over where Duel Monsters came from and things like that." She said. "Not to mention the fact that I was originally born in Egypt." Victoria said with the rest of the girls saying it too. "How did you know?"
"You only say it all the time." Lily said.
"And... you know what else?"
"You can read, write, and speak Egyptian." Amanda said.
"How did you know?"
"You only say it all the time." All the girls said, and Yugi laughed.
"Well, she's got a gift." Yugi said.
"That's right. Listen to the cute one." Victoria said, and Yugi blushed like mad.
Yami got jealous of this, but luckily held it in.
"Well... I better be getting to work." Jazzmine said.
"Work? Where do you work?"
"At the library. I need the extra money. Anyway... I've got to go or I'll be late. Bye." She said as she ran off towards the library.
-- At the library about an hour later --
Seto slowly walked down the book asile of shelves lined carefully with covers that held knowledge in between them. He had a small book in his hands, reading it open as he continued his steps, not taking notice of the running sliding-ladder.
He carefully walked around it expertly, not even looking up from the pages in front of his face. But what happened out of great surprise was when his foot got caught from behind one of the wheels.
The ladder came down to an abrupt stop as the wheel was sent out of balance by coming loose to the wired floor. The ladder was no sooner falling out of position and falling off the tall shelf to the hard, wood floor with a great scream coming from the top.
Seto instantly captured with two, ice blue eyes a nearly crying teenage girl falling down from the ladder, probably have been up there to put books away, but didn't expect to have his fault take towards her.
He dropped the book, stood under the girl as she came loose from the tumbling ladder, now sobbing only to be gratefully caught in the warm arms of Seto. She immediately clung to him as if he were her dear life line. She winced slightly at the sound of the ladder hitting the floor and snapping in half.
"...T-thank you... so much... I'm really afraid of falling... it's one of my greatest fears." She wiped her eyes on his shirt. For once, Seto didn't care if his clothes would be soiled.
"Why?" He asked her, gently, slowly bringing them to sit on the floor with her in his lap.
She looked at him for the first time with small hesitancy as if she would only find herself waking up from a soft dream and be truely still free falling in the air. Her eyes carefully widened as a rose pink came across her cheeks.
Seto had been one of the few gorgeous, and so far, sweetest Obelisk guys she's ever seen.
He seemed just as captured by her beauty, for he couldn't hold down a small gasp that escaped his mouth. It had been the first time that Seto's emotional mask cracked and revealed two shocked, ice blue eyes, staring back into her dark, kitty blue ones. He'd never seen anyone look more gorgeous with long, dark blue hair; but she had pulled it off.
"I... I..." She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, then opened them again. "It's because I nearly fell off a tall hill when I was younger... and I could of killed myself. I've been scared of falling ever since.
"Well, what's your name?"
"J-Jazzmine... Jazzmine Truesdale. And if you're wondering... Zane Truesdale is my older brother." She said.
"Well, I hadn't really put two and two together yet, but thanks for the tip." Seto said. He didn't know what to say now.
Then, all of a sudden, Amanda came running up to them yelling Jazzmine's name.
"Jazzmine! Jazzmine!" Amanda yelled, the saw her sister sitting on the floor, on the guy's lap. "Sorry... am I interrupting something?" She asked, and Jazzmine blushed.
"No, no, no. Not at all. You see... I was up on the ladder and I fell, but luckily he caught me before I really did fall and possibly die." Jazzmine explained.
"You mean that ladder?" Amanda asked as she pointed to the broken ladder that was on the floor in front of them.
"Yes. Unfortunately... thanks to my clumsy walking, I made that ladder fall, which made her fall." Seto explained.
"Ah." Amanda said. "And... you are?" She asked.
"I'm Seto. Seto Kiaba." He introduced.
"Seto Kiaba?!" Jazzmine and Amanda said at the same time.
"Is there a problem?" He asked.
"Only the fact that you're the richest guy in Japan." Amanda answered.
"So?"
"Plus I thought everyone is saying that you like Joey Wheeler." Jazzmine added.
"That's a lie! I may want to start becoming friends with him, but I don't like him that way!" Seto yelled.
"Okay, okay." Jazzmine said.'Yeesh! I think he really does like him and just wants to keep it a secret.' She thought. 'So then... why did he look at me the way he did earlier? I've never seen another boy look at me that way before.' "Anyway... what is it that you wanted to tell me, Amanda?" She asked.
"Okay. Our cousin introduced me to one of his friends, and his friend is totally cute! Should I say something?"
"Do you really feel that you should?" Jazzmine asked.
"Kinda. I don't know." Amanda said.
"Who's your cousin?"
"Yugi Muto."
"Yugi's your cousin?!"
"Is there a problem?" Amanda asked, obviously mocking Seto.
"Only the fact that he's my number one rival." Seto said, mocking Amanda back.
"Right back at me, huh? Nice." Amanda said with a giggle, then looked at Jazzmine. "You know... I wanna see more of him, and less of your ex-boyfriend."
"Me too." Jazzmine said.
"Ex-boyfriend?" Seto asked.
"Yes. There's a boy on the island. His name is Jake, and he stalks me all the time."
"How did he become your ex?"
"He nearly raped me. He said he wanted to play an innocent game of Duel Monsters so I went to his room, and he tackled me to bed. If Amanda hadn't barged into the room and kicked right where it hurts, I would've been raped." She told him, shuddering at the memory.
"Jazz... you do realize that you just told your most locked away secret to someone who's technically a stranger." Amanda pointed out.
Jazzmine gasped and placed a hand over her mouth. 'She's right. Why in shadow realm would I do that? I just let it slip, but why? Usually I would of caught and stopped myself. I was just so open with him.' She thought. "Maybe we should go." Jazzmine thought as she finally got up from Seto's lap, and walked away with Amanda, leaving Seto to wonder what the hell had just happened.
-- Back with everyone else --
Joey, Tristan, Yugi, and Yami had all agreed to join what was known as the "Rebellion Group" on the island. That was because everyone in that group was against the "separate and not equal" rule. The rule states that if you're an Obelisk Blue, you hate everybody except other Obelisk Blues. If you're a Ra Yellow, you are hated by Obelisks, and the Slifers like you, but you can't like them. And if you're a Slifer Red, you're hated by everybody but other Slifers.
The group basically was made of the whole GX gang, Amanda, Annie, Emily Lynn, Victoria, Lily, Jazzmine, now Yugi, Joey, Tristan, and Yami also.
Amanda and Jazzmine came up to them and Victoria told them the news.
"You guys are joining us?" Amanda asked, happily.
"Yes." Yami answered with a nod.
"Well, welcome aboard!" Amanda said as she hugged all of them at the same time.
"Basically... the only rule of this group is that if you decide to leave, you can never come back in." Jazzmine said as she gave them a hug too.
"Why is that?" Yugi asked.
"Because those idiots out there may want you to become a spy. That happened once already last year and that's when we made up that rule." Zane explained.
"Oh." They all said together in understanding.
"Just one question." Lily said. "Are you guys scared of getting hurt?"
"Not really." They all said.
"Oh good. No worries then." Lily said.
GX - GX
Okay... what's going on? Why did Seto act that way around Jazzmine when it's obvious that he's not the most emotional guy alive? And... why did Lily say "no worries" when Yami, Yugi, Joey, and Tristan said that they weren't really scared of getting hurt? What's gonna happen to them? Are some of them gonna get hurt? Tune in next time to find out!
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