A/N: Hi peeps! Sorry 'bout my last story but I haven't received a letter or anything so for now I'm gonna put this taster chapter up and see if you like it or not ok. Please review, flames taken and doused with water.
"Oh no I'm late!" Joey shouted as he looked at his alarm clock, "not again!" he carried on as he rushed around his bedroom looking for his school uniform while beams of sunlight entered from gaps in the curtains. Ten minutes later he was running out of his house with a slice of toast in his mouth, in the direction of Domino High School, 'Not another detention please, that'll be the third one this month,' he thought while sprinting down the road.
"Yeah, the new cards I got yesterday from my grandpa will surely strengthen my deck," Yugi told Téa as they walked through the school gates,
"Look out!" someone screamed from behind them, they both turned around to find Joey, sprinting at great speed, towards
them. Yugi and Téa jumped out of the way just in time,
"Don't tell us you slept in again," Téa told Joey,
"Something like that, heh," he replied as he scratched the back of his head,
"Well you made it in time today but if you carry on like this ... well who knows," she carried on, unaware that the bell had rang,
"Are you coming Téa?" Yugi asked her when Joey sneaked away from her lecture,
"You bet."
As Yugi took his seat in room B-2, his Teacher, Miss Avalon, walked in,
"Now then everyone before I take the register, we are lucky to have a new student in our class. Please say hello to Hironobu Aida," she told the class as Hironobu walked in and stood next to her. He had black, spiky hair, was about 5"6' and had a slight sun tan, "Hello everyone," he shyly told them before slightly staring at Yugi then at his Millenium Puzzle with his dark blue eyes. The class replied and Miss Avalon showed him his seat, which was behind Tristan, who sat opposite Yugi next to the window.
Hironobu couldn't take his eyes of the Millenium Puzzle for most of the lesson before break, he sat there in a trance like state from what Joey could see and when the bell rang he snapped out of it. Bakura was the last one to leave before giving Hironobu several dirty looks before leaving himself.
As Tristan and Joey leaned against a wall while talking to Yugi and Téa, they noticed Hironobu sat on his own under a shady tree,
"Why don't one of us go over to him and see what's up with him," Téa asked them,
'Because I don't trust him,' Tristan thought as he remembered the way he looked at Yugi earlier on,
"Because I don't want to," Joey honestly replied,
"Same here," Tristan voiced,
"Why don't you go over if you're that bothered," Yugi told her, thinking that she wouldn't do it,
"Alright then," she told them before walking over to him. A few minutes later she returned with him, "I thought that he could hang out with us," she told them,
"It's fine with me," Yugi replied,
"Yer, it's no problem," Joey and Tristan both lied,
"You don't know our names yet do you?" Téa asked Hironobu,
"Not really," he replied,
"Well I'm Téa Gardner,"
"Joey Wheeler,"
"Tristan Taylor,"
"And I'm Yugi Muto. Are you interested in Duel Monsters?"
"Yes I am, but where I came from it wasn't that popular,"
"Don't worry about that here, it's a big hit," Téa told him, "show him your cards Joey," she told him,
"Why me?"
"I left mine at home,"
"Alright then," Joey said as routed for his deck in his jacket pocket, "here you are," he said as he passed his deck to Hironobu. He looked through them all, taking note of what cards he had,
"This looks like a good deck," Hironobu told Joey after a while,
"It is," Joey bragged,
"Well would like to duel me later," he asked as he passed Joey's deck back to him,
"Alright then," Joey replied, accepting the challenge, "how about at lunch?"
"Fine with me," he told him before moving his eyes to the Millenium Puzzle. Yugi noticed the unwanted stare that Hironobu gave his item and placed his hand on the puzzle with concern, "I'm just going to take a walk you guys alright," Yugi informed them,
"Okay then, see you back at class," Téa replied as he walked off.
Yugi walked around the corner and under the shade of a nearby tree, 'Why is he always staring at the Millenium Puzzle? Alright I admit when I first got it, people were always staring at it because of the design but I don't think it's because of that with Hironobu,' Yugi thought as he sat down, 'maybe I'm worrying over nothing but every time he comes near me I get this strange feeling about him.' He sat there thinking about the new kid until the bell went once again, he got to his feet and walked back inside to B-2.
Yugi followed some others inside and sat down facing Tristan and started to have a chat with him until the teacher came back. Téa leaned on Yugi's desk while Joey leaned against the window and they started to talk about the latest in the music chart when Hironobu walked past to his seat just before Miss Avalon walked in and started her lesson.
All the way through the Geography lesson Yugi kept drifting in and out of his thoughts about the Millenium Puzzle and what he already knew. He'd just learnt that he has to save the world along with Yami, recover Yami's memories and that someone was after the Millenium Puzzle. He wasn't sure how he'd be able to recover his counterpart's memories let alone save the world,
'I can't do this, putting the puzzle together was tricky and now I'm going to save the world somehow, it's so hard,' Yugi thought as he stared out the window, not noticing that Tristan was poking him in the arm with his pen,
"Yugi," he whispered, "Yugi! Here read this and give me a reply." Tristan carefully handed him a note and went back to his work. Yugi opened it up, it read: Hey Yugi, wanna go back to Joey's place after school?
Yugi wrote yes, folded it and gave it back to Tristan to read while he tried to concentrate on his work, but found it difficult.
It seemed like forever for the lesson to finish for Yugi, his mind was asking him so many questions he didn't know where to start,
"Alright let's get this duel started!" Joey declared as he and Hironobu shuffled their decks.