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I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh, though the small purple lizard in my friend's hair tries to tell me I do.

"Hey, it's Tea here! Look at me, I'm announcing! My friends are so nice, they're letting me do the commentary! Isn't that great? Now everyone can hear my nice, short friendship speeches! Friends, blah, blah, blah, take care, blah, blah, blah, help each other, blah, blah, blah..."

Three days later...

"Blah, blah, blah, FRIENDSHIP!! Oh, maybe I should tell you why we're here. This is the annual Yu-Gi-Oh soccer game. All my friends are playing in this great game and I'm sure we'll have fun together! Now the players!!! On the Tea's Best Friends team, we have Yami!" Yami runs onto the field. "Joey! Tristan!" Joey and Tristan run down opposite sides of the field, then down the center, body slamming with Yami in the center. "Mai Valentine!" Mai is riding a scooter at max speed, which is one and a half miles an hour. "Mako Tsunami!" Mako is riding a gigantic snapping turtle and is racing Mai. He's winning. "Seto and Mokuba Kaiba!" A helicopter lowers them onto the field. Yami spends the rest of the intros trying to fix his hair. "Aaannnddd!! Grandpa!!" Grandpa runs to his circle of teammates, beating both Mako and Mai there, but coughing and gasping for breath. He pulls out an inhaler.

"Now, on the Soon to be Tea's Best Friends team (if no one can tell, I made up the team names myself). Yami Bakura!" Yami Bakura runs onto the field, being pulled toward Yami's Millenium Puzzle by his Millenium Ring. "Rex Raptor!" Somehow, Rex has saddled a huge monitor lizard and is proudly seated upon it (O, the simple pleasures of the intellectually challenged) "Weevil Underwear! Wait a minute that's not right! OK, who was messing with my announcing cards?" Tristan and Joey are laughing as Weevil enters the field, sulking and glaring at the announcer's box. "The eliminator Panik!" Panik is encased in a large plastic bubble, to protect him from disgusting germs. "Maximillion Pegasus and Duke!" Pegasus is wearing a gold crown and long velvet cape. Duke is following him, holding the cape off the ground "The evil side of Kaiba!" Fat guy waddles out. "Aaannnddd!!! Marik!!!" No one comes out, so Tea tries again. "MARIK!!!!" Finally an extremely drunk and high Marik staggers onto the field.

The two teams come together to discuss some very important topics.

Joey speaks up "I speak for myself, Tristan, and Rex when I say, can you explain again why we're letting Tea do this? We don't understand."

"It's simple." Yami replies. "Tea agreed that if we let her do this ONE thing, and not try to kill her, she won't make any more friendship speeches for an entire year. In fact, she will not utter the dreaded F word during that time. So, we just have to bear it for a couple of hours, then it's 365 days of not having to listen to it."

"We're really going to have to watch Marik, then, aren't we?" Mokuba says.

Seto is standing next to Marik. He reaches out and taps Marik's forehead lightly with one finger. Marik begins to wobble dangerously and falls flat on his face. After a moment, he begins laughing hysterically and saying something about pretty colors.

Seto stares at Marik. "You don't need to worry about him, Mokuba. He can't even stand up."

Tea comes back on the loudspeaker. "Okay, everyone, it's time to begin! Let's all play fair and safe, now. Remember, we're all friends!"

All the players moan. "I don't think we're gonna make it!"

...to be continued

And you thought some of the stuff these guys went through before was trying! This is a great test of self-control and "I'm not listening, la, la, la" skills. Which is more important to them, the bet or their sanity? We'll find out whenever I decide to write some more. (Confidentially, I wouldn't wager on the bet)