I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! GX or Yu-Gi-Oh!, besides, if I did would I really be hear right now?

However I do own all original characters introduced in this fanfiction including, but not limited to, Hotaru & Hisana Takeda, Akane Akihana and will report who ever uses these characters against my allowance.

So that you can fully understand my writing style, here are some of what I will be using to represent speech, thought etc. I'll add more as I need them.

"Speech"

"Thought"

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Chapter 1

My Rise and Shine

The sun broke through my blinds and into my eyes just as the alarm on my alarm clock went off, I let out a groan, I hate mornings and anybody who does should be shot on sight. Along with those who are forcing me to get up at this ungodly hour. I rolled over and hit the 'off' button on top of my alarm clock and then I checked the time, it read 5:30 a.m., just looking at the time made me want to kill myself, but I had important things to do today. So I dragged my half-dead body toward the side of my bed and sat on the edge and clicked the radio on to the only good station this stupid island could get. I rubbed my eyes and then stretched with a yawn. I then slumped over with my head held in my hands and my elbows balanced on my knees, this was not a good time for me to be up-and-about. I then forced myself to get up from the side of my bed and I dragged myself to the shower in my room. Gotta say, being in Obelisk blue had it's advantages. I got undressed and tossed my pajamas on the floor, got in the shower, and turned on the water.

Well, while I'm here, I might as well tell you a little bit about myself. My name is Hotaru Takeda, I have long black hair that comes down past my waist with bangs that frame my face and, despite my long hair, are only about as long as my face. I have blue eyes and that's probably my most outstanding feature because of my dark hair color versus my light eye and skin color. Let's see what else, I have a beauty mark beneath my left eye, but it's usually hidden by my bags so not to many people know I have one, and I guess that's it...I'll be sure to fill you in on all the details later.

I picked up the shampoo bottle and squirted some into the palm of my hand and began to rub it into my hair, this took most of my time since I had so much hair, but soon I rinsed out the suds and turned off the water. I slid the frosted glass door back and stepped out of the shower, grabbed a towel and wrapped it around myself and I let my wet hair fall down over my shoulders as I searched for the hairdryer, I opened up the cabinet under the sink and pulled it out. I unrolled the cord and plugged it into the outlet and flipped the switch and began to dry my hair. As I ran the dryer across my hair to dry it, my mind wondered as to what I would have to say at this meeting. Oh, yes, I should've told you earlier, I'm part of the student council here on Academy Island. They don't ask much of us, but every once in a while we have to organize some dueling event or greet new entrants to the academy, and that's what I had to do today. But this wasn't some ordinary meet-n-greet, these people I was introducing to Duel Academy were champions from all over the globe! One from each of the other schools built by Kaiba Corp, a tournament was held at each of the schools to determine the best from each school and the winners get to come here to take part in some big event we're holding. Not only that, they get to study and live here on Academy Island.

My hair finished drying and I re-wrapped the towel around myself so it would stay up a little longer while I grabbed the comb off the sink and began to comb through my now dry hair. I parted my hair down the middle so my bangs framed my face evenly on either side. I dried my body off and walked out of the bathroom and over to my closet. I slide the wooden door open and pulled out my sleeveless black turtle neck, slipped it over my head and shoved my arms through the arm holes. Then I slipped on the skirt portion of the Obelisk uniform and I grabbed the white with blue trim Obelisk issued jacket and buttoned it up my chest, this uniform was so embarrassing, I swear no matter how small you were the uniform was always too tight and too small in all the wrong places. I slipped on the uniform issued Obelisk blue heeled-boots and walked over toward my bed. I bent over and glanced down at the clock 6:08 a.m. "Hmm, for once I'm not running late, good thing they meet at 6:30 instead of 6:00 or I really would be late!" I chuckled to myself, I had a horrible sense of time and so I often woke up late, but today (unfortunately) I set my alarm so I could get up early and have plenty of time before I had to be at the meeting room to greet the champions.

So, after mentally patting myself on the back for being early I stepped outside of my room and locked the door behind me. I shoved the key into my skirt pocket and started down the hall. I rounded the corner at the end of the hall and went down a flight of stairs, then I took a short cut through the bath house in the girl's dorm to the back door and soon enough, I was outside and on my way to Duel Academy's main building. I crossed over an open field and I cut through a small chuck of trees, this was my shortcut that I took all the time when I was late, or in this case, trying to prevent. Just after this little clearing, the trees break and- "Hissssssssssssss" I stopped dead in my tracks "Meep…"

A wicked hiss came from below my feet, I looked down and underneath my boot was a tail. A green scale-ridden tail, and it was huge. I followed it with my eyes and gradually the tail lead to a fat green body and then to a narrow green head of an alligator...ALLIGATOR?!. I jumped back off of it's tail and it quickly turned it's head to glare at me dead-on. My mind raced, "Why is there and alligator in the middle of the woods? How did it get here? Does it eat people? WHY ME?!" just then I saw it jerk it's head and I thought it was coming after me so.…"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" I let out a high-pitched scream and turned to run when SMACK! I hit something not two seconds after I turned to run and I thought I'd hit a tree, but it was so warm. Last I checked, trees weren't warm. I looked up and I saw that it wasn't a tree that I'd run into, it was a boy!

He then placed his hands on my shoulders to calm me down "Your alright mate, she's not gonna bite yea'" He had an Australian accent, it was heavenly "Are you alright?" He asked again and I snapped out of my accent-love bliss "Y-yes! I'm-" I heard the leaves rustle and I jumped and buried my face in his chest, he kept his hands on my shoulders and gave out a chuckle "You sure? You jumped pretty high just now!" He gave another little laugh and then I pulled my face away from his chest and with a blush across my face as I glared up at him "It's just so nice that you can make fun of me after that alligator nearly took a bite out of my leg!" he laughed again, did he really find this whole situation funny?

"I'm tryin' to make yea' feel better mate, since she did give you a good scare. And she's not an alligator, she's a crocodile"

It was then I noticed that the alli-er-crocodile had moved away from us and was a staring at the boy, and then I also realized he was still holding me and I blushed even harder and I spoke "Umm, you can let go of me now" I said it in a hushed tone because I really didn't want him to let me go, I felt like he was the only thing keeping the crocodile from biting my leg off. I looked back up at him he blushed too and dropped his hands to his sides

"R-right mate sorry…"

"It's alright…"

It was awkwardly silent after that and we just stood there with our heads staring in opposite directions, but soon I broke the silence and looked over at him

"Umm, the crocodile, is she your pet?"

He lifted his head up to meet my gaze and it was then I got a closer at him. He was wearing a white button-up shirt with a black leather vest over top. Tied around his neck was an orange bandana and he wore black pants with cowboy-like boots and a hat to match with jet-black hair spiking out from under it, but what caught my attention the most was his eye. He had blue-green eyes, but the right one was all bandaged up. "What if that crocodile did that to him..." I shivered a little at the thought, but I shoved that horrid thought out of my brain as he spoke to answer my question.

"Oh no, she's not my pet, she's more like family"

He smiled at me and I could feel my face turn a little pink as I spoke again

"Oh, so does she have a name?"

"Her name is Sherly, and what about you? I think I should know the name of the person Sherly almost had for lunch"

"Right, I'm Hotaru!" I gave him a smile

"I'm Jim and it's a pleasure to meet yea'"

He smiled back and then walked around me and bent down to Sherly, picked her up, and strapped her onto this holster on his back. I just watched in amazement at how easily he stood up and carried her around, she must have been so heavy, that meant that he must have been very strong to be able to carry her around like that. He then turned to face me and he held his hand up.

"It was nice meeting you Hotaru, but I've gotta be headin' off"

I grabbed my cell phone out of my skirt pocket and glanced down at it and it read 6:20 a.m.

"Whoa! It's already that late?! Aw man! I knew I wasn't allowed to be early!"

I swore under my breath while Jim just looked confused

"Everything alright sheila?"

"No! I'm gonna be late for my meeting! I'm sorry, but I have to go too!"

He nodded as I bowed to him and then I broke out into a run. Before I made it to the end of the clearing I waved my hand back to him and yelled.

"I'll talk to you later Jim!"

He shouted something back , but I couldn't make out what it was so I kept running and soon I was at the front door of the huge academy.