You walked down the street towards what you hoped was Domino High School. Domino City was so big. You were from a smaller town called Yonaguni in the Okinawa region, but your dad had gotten a promotion at work that required him and his family to move. You were rather upset about it when your parents first told you, and you still were. But they seemed so excited, you couldn't dampen their spirits. So you pretended to be happy about it too. But in actuality you were devastated inside. You've never been to a city before; Yonaguni's population wasn't even 2,000 people. You just knew you were going to get lost. Plus, you heard in the cities, there were plenty of mugging, and also perverts all over the place. You just knew someone was going to pull a knife on you or something.

So there you were, walking to a school full of strangers scaring yourself silly with horrible scenarios in your head. You wrapped your arms around yourself trying to pull yourself together. You were so preoccupied you didn't hear hurried footsteps approaching. So when you reached a corner you weren't expecting it when someone ran into you. As you fell to the ground you shrieked in terror, certain you were about to be mugged at the least.

"I'm sorry, are you alright?"

The soft kind voice was so unexpected that you gasped softly to yourself and glanced up. To your surprise, you saw a young boy in a blue school uniform with soft innocent eyes. But what was really surprising was his hair. If it had been down like a normal person's it probably would have been quite long. But as it was, it was spiked into seven points with purple around the edges and gold bangs. He also had a large chain around his neck that held a rather large upside down pyramid pendant with an Egyptian eye on it.

"Miss?"

You glanced back at his face. It was such an innocent face that most of the fears that had been swarming around inside you were immediately eased.

"Yes, I'm alright. Sorry, I wasn't watching where I was going."

"Sorry, neither was I. My brother came up sick today, so I'm running late and was running without looking for others."

He smiled at you and reached his hand down to help you up. He looked so small you didn't think he'd be able to pull you up but you took his hand anyways.

"What's our name? I see you're wearing a Domino High uniform, but I don't think I've seen you before."

"Oh, I'm (L/N), (L/N) (F/N). I just moved here so today will be my first day."

"Ah, that'll be why."

"So you're going to Domino High as well? Could you lead me there? I'm afraid I'm not sure where it is."

"Sure, that'll be no problem."

"Thanks. Um, didn't you say you were late? Shouldn't we get going?"

"Oh no, you're right! Let's go!"

With that exclamation he took off, glancing back to make sure you were following.

As you ran after the boy, you discovered you had hurt your knee when you fell. But you couldn't worry about that now. You had to follow your new friend to get to school.

The boy directed you in a hurried fashion to the principal's office and he took off for his class. As you entered the office and bowed respectively, you hoped your little friend arrived at class on time.

Shortly afterwards the principal told you which class you were going to be in and led you to the correct room. He asked you to wait in the hallway a few moments.

You had no idea why you had to wait, but you did and leaned back against the wall and lifted your weight off your leg with the injured knee.

What would it be like in a school this big? What about your new friend (if he could be called a friend since you didn't know his name)? And you wondered if you would eventually meet Moto Yuugi here.

You've always loved Duel Monsters and had a pretty strong deck if you do say so yourself. In fact you had been the strongest player in Yonaguni.

And then you heard about the dueling tournament held by Pegasus J. Crawford himself, and then the other one held by Kaiba Seto. And you were blown away that one high school boy had won both tournaments. Another thing that blew your mind was that two such dueling legends like Kaiba Seto and Moto Yuugi were located in the same city.

You weren't able to see a picture of either of them, but you were sure you'd eventually meet Moto Yuugi. You also hoped you'll be able to meet Kaiba Seto as well. Who knew how things would turn out?

At that moment the door opened and the principal invited you in.

You walked in, a little nervous, and stood by the teacher's desk looking over the class. You were surprised to see your friend in front of you, and you smiled a little at him.

Before he could smile back the red haired female teacher invited you to introduce yourself.

"Oh, I'm (L/N) (F/N). It's nice to meet everyone."

You bowed deeply with your hands on your thighs.

"Alright (L/N)-san," the teacher said briskly. She seemed to be the no nonsense type. "You can sit in the vacant desk by the window."

You looked where the teacher indicated and saw you were sitting behind the boy you met this morning.

A little relieved that you were, you made your way to your seat. He turned and smiled at you then turned back facing the teacher. So you figured you were right in thinking that the teacher was strict and would get you two into trouble for talking.

Not wanting to get into trouble on your first day, nor get your friend in trouble, you pulled out your notebook and pencil to get ready for the class.

After the class was over and the teacher left, the boy turned towards you.

"Wow, I didn't think we'd be in the same class."

"Yeah, kinda strange huh? Did you make it to class on time?"

He frowned, "No, I was late. I have to clean the room after school today."

"Oh, I'm sorry. It's because you were helping me wasn't it?"

He rubbed the back of his head and laughed awkwardly, "I'd say it's more because I practically bowled you over."

"What!?" came a loud exclamation of outrage. You turned and saw a tall blond boy standing over you two.

"You mean you flattened a pretty girl on your way here today? I sure hope you apologized." He leaned down and glared into your friend's eyes.

You blushed hotly at the comment to your appearance while your friend hastily assured him he had.

"All right then," he said, standing up straight. "I guess I can forgive you." Then he turned towards you. "Hi, my name is Katsuya Jonouchi. You've probably heard of me."

Your mind lit up, "Yes, I have actually. You won second place in Duelist Kingdom and then fourth place in Battle City."

Jonouchi looked stunned for a few seconds, as if surprised someone would actually recognize his skills. Then he grinned and opened his mouth to say something, then an even taller boy with pointed brown hair wrapped his arm around Jonouchi's shoulders and leaned on him.

"Wow, someone knows you Jonouchi, that's a first."

You wondered what he meant, everyone in the dueling community should know of him.

"Well, I can guarantee she'd never heard of you, you nimrod."

"We'll just see about that." The tall boy stood up and pointed his thumb to himself, "The name's Honda Hiroto."

You drew a blank, "No, I'm sorry, but the name doesn't ring a bell."

Honda sweat dropped, and then a girl with short brown hair stepped up next to him. "Well, you shouldn't be surprised. She probably knows Jonouchi's name because she likes Duel Monsters. If so, she wouldn't know your name since you don't really play."

"Yeah, I guess you're right."

"Of course I'm right. Hi, I'm Mazaki Anzu. You wouldn't have heard of me either."

"No, I haven't. But that doesn't matter. I know you now."

"Yep, that's true. But we're missing lunch. You want to join us?"

"Oh, sure. Thank you."

You reached for your bag and pulled out your bento lunch.

"Alright, let's go then," Anzu said and turned.

You stood up to follow them, but your injured knee gave out and you crashed to the floor with a small cry.

"(L/N)-san, are you alright?" Anzu asked, worry tinging her voice.

"Sorry, it's my knee. I, ah, hurt it earlier."

"Wait, is that from when I ran into you this morning?"

You didn't want your friend to feel guilty (and you can tell right away that he was the type to feel guilty about this kind of situation), but you didn't want to lie either, so you nodded.

"Oh no, I'm so sorry. And then after that we ran here. It must hurt a lot. Let's get you to the nurse's office."

"No, I'll be alright." You tried to get up, but Jonouchi and Honda stopped you.

"No, I also think you should go to the nurse's office. Need to make sure it's not too serious right?" Well, you gotta hand it to Jonouchi, he did make sense there.

You looked up at the faces of your new friends, and saw concern in each one, and gave in.

"Fine then. Where is the nurse?"

Honda took your arm and gently lifted you up and raised your arm over his shoulder.

"Hey, I can walk myself."

"Yeah, I know, but this'll be less painful."

You looked at everyone, a little surprised that they were so concerned for you, you had just met them. You were so surprised that you didn't object when Honda started walking, along with everyone else.

"Well the good news is that you haven't damaged your knee, just bruised it rather spectacularly."

You looked at your knee and sure enough, it was starting to purple. Great, with the blue miniskirts that were part of the school's uniform for girls, everyone would see it.

"Just ice it tonight and most of the pain will be gone. Here's an ice pack for now."

The nurse handed you an ice pack, you thanked her and pressed it against your knee. It actually did feel pretty good.

"I'm really sorry (L/N)-chan. I didn't mean to hurt you." Your little friend hung his head in guilt.

"It's alright, I know you didn't intend to hurt me."

He still looked guilty and troubled, but you didn't know what else to say.

"Heh, heh our little Yuugi packs quite a punch when he wants to huh?"

"Hey, it's not as if I wanted to hit her."

You lost track of the friendly argument. Your mind blanked, and then whirled.

Jonouchi called your little friend Yuugi. THE Yuugi? Moto Yuugi? Really? Now that you thought of it, it is said that Katsuya Jonouchi and Moto Yuugi were personal friends, so it made sense.

You just couldn't believe it. The first person you met in Domino City was the one and only legendary Moto Yuugi.


A/N: It's funny how sometimes the story you're writing can just run away with you and not follow the plans you had for it. This was originally supposed to be a one shot story, but it has turned into a multi-chapter fic. Stories have a mind of their own don't they?

So, this'll be my first time writing a Yu-Gi-Oh! story. I hope you all like it. I was requested to write a reader insert love triangle between the reader, Yuugi, and Atem. I know Atem hasn't shown up in the story yet, but he will feature quite prominently in the next chapter so look forward to that. And I think that Kaiba might even make an appearance in the story as well. We'll see if I can fit him in.

The person who commissioned this story asked for the Japanese names (which I prefer as well), but it's been a very very long time since I've watched Yu-Gi-Oh! in subs, so there will be more references to the dubbed versions than the subbed one (like Jonouchi calling Honda a nimrod).