Prologue
Once upon a time there was a teen named Jaden Yuki. He was fresh blood that had just got out of high school, and he had dreams of someday being the number one greatest duelist in the world. After he had seen prior kids his age rise to the top of the dueling game, it all seemed possible that he could be next.
So, after he got done with his boring classes for high school he registered for the Duel Academy (one of the greatest colleges around). However, there was one big problem Jaden didn't realize until it was too late.
He registered for the college just a little too late.
Yup, that's right, the eager prepared young duelist of the next class slipped up on that one tiny little factor. Well, the Duel Academy didn't think it was tiny though. At first, when Jaden realized he was supposed to turn the papers in a week ago, he thought nothing of it. He turned them in anyway and hoped that it wouldn't become an issue.
That's when he read his mailbox and got a huge fat stamp saying he wasn't accepted.
Ever since then, Jaden was furious.
"I just don't get it!" Jaden snapped, pounding his clenched fists on the desk of his computer reading an e-mail that restated what the written letter had said. He was denied. He got the big goose egg. He was rejected. He got nada, nothing, zip. They said hasta la vista, try again next year, too bad so sad and so forth.
Words could not describe the feeling that overcame the duelist. For once, he thought he had a chance at becoming the number one duelist. He lived close nearby the campus where he could receive some of the best teaching of the game. Now, there he was, unable to do a thing about it all because he messed up.
As if that wasn't bad enough, now he had to tell his parents. Oh boy, Jaden could imagine the joyous amount of fun he would have with that.
"How am I gonna tell my parents I messed up with this? And what in the heck am I gonna do?" Jaden stared again reading the e-mail, which sealed his doom. His parents already had spent a lot of his money just applying into the popular college and now they were getting nothing in return.
Jaden sighed, brushing his fingers through his brown dirty hair. "I guess the cards are really gonna hit the fan tonight when I tell them about this…"
Then the idea struck in the mind of the young duelist. That was it. He was going to go to the academy. He was going to school anyway, and he was for sure not going to tell his parents of his little boo-boo that he made.
"I mean… how hard can it be?" Jaden stared at himself smirking evilly in the mirror the day before classes started. "I'll just ask one of my friends that did get accepted to like loan me one of his uniforms and schedule or something… heh then they'll never know that I wasn't accepted. Yeah. I'm the man, and I'm gonna be number one!"
Ever since that decision, little did the naïve duelist realize all the chaos he was bound to get into…