Here's chapter 2! Enjoy! We don't own Yugioh GX.
Ryo called Ed while Sho called Duel Academy to get hold of Asuka.
"Hello? Is this the principal's office?" Sho asked.
Principal Samejima sighed. "Hello, Sho-kun... Let me guess, you're looking to talk to Miss Tenjoin. You do know she's in class, right?"
"I know! But—"
"No. No need to finish that," Samejima sighed. "I'll send for her at once."
Samejima was getting a little tired of this. Sho called the school a lot these days, panicking and begging to speak with Asuka.
When Asuka answered, she sounded extremely annoyed. Sho had, for the umpteenth time this year, pulled her out of class for some stupid reason (more likely than not).
"Sho!" she scolded. "How many times do I have to tell you, only call during class time if it's an emergency! And, no, 'I'm dueling the world champ soon' doesn't count!" Exasperated, she finished, "Now, think, Sho. Is this an emergency?"
"That depends," Sho answered. "Is Aniki acting weird an emergency?"
"Judai!? He's always weird, Sho!"
"But is he always this weird!?"
Sho put the phone on speaker and hid near Judai and Rei. The spell was out of control, causing Judai to say some of the cheesiest lines ever invented.
"Oh, Judai," Rei said. "You're soo romantic!"
"Well, I've got the most amazing girl in the world," the spell made Judai say. "I've got to make sure nobody steals you away from me, don't I?"
"What!?" Asuka exclaimed, not taking this well. "Was that Rei I just heard!?" She growled. "Why is he with her!? I should have known! Sho, don't ever call me again!" Before Sho could explain, she hung up.
"Asuka! Wait! It's not what you think!" Sho said, not realizing that she had hung up on him. "Hello?"
Asuka stood there for a moment, fuming. "Arg. I don't believe this! Well, only one thing to do now!"
Leaving the office, she pulled out her phone and dialed a number. After a couple rings, he picked up.
"Hey, Manjoume-kun? Can we talk?" she flirted.
Sho and Ryo rejoined Rei and Judai, bringing the food with them.
"Oh, boy," Sho muttered. "Did I ever mess up."
"What? Get the wrong thing?" Judai teased.
"Uh, well... We'll talk about it later, Aniki..."
Judai cocked his head. "Okay...?"
"Hey, guys?" Ryo said, blushing furiously. "Can we talk about guy stuff in private?"
He had to get Judai away from Rei for a moment to talk to him about his problem, and he couldn't think of any better excuse.
"Yeah, okay," Judai nodded. "Excuse us for a minute, sweetheart."
"Okay! Good luck with Ryo's 'private business!'" she teased.
Totally embarrassed, Ryo walked off with Sho and Judai, heading to a part of the park that was practically deserted. Once they were alone, he got down to business.
"Well, I just called Ed. He wanted to know where this happened."
"Uh, somewhere in Europe," Judai answered. "Either Britain or Ireland. Or was it Whales...? Anyway, it was somewhere around there. Why?"
"Because Ed said that England's filled with real witches." How Ed knew this, Ryo would rather not know. "They set up shop all across the country."
"Really?" Sho asked.
"So, Rei got her whatever-it-was from somewhere in England?" Judai asked.
"From the sound of it."
"So, what? Do we have to go to England and search the whole country until we find the store she got that thing from!?" Sho asked. "But we don't even know what the thing is!"
"Judai, think. Try to remember the night Rei made you dinner. Did anything seem off about it?"
"Well... I don't think so... She was acting different, that's about all I can say."
"Come on, Aniki!" Sho exclaimed. "There had to be something! Did she give you anything with a funny taste!? A funny smell!? Anything!?"
"Tea!" Judai exclaimed as a light bulb went on in his head.
"Huh?" Ryo and Sho asked, confused by this nonsensical exclamation.
"She made tea! It tasted kinda funny, now that I think about it..."
Ryo nodded. "Okay. That narrows it down to a liquid or something that would dissolve in liquid, which is still too broad. Hmm. What to do?"
"Well, for starters, we should try to figure out what kind of a spell it is," Sho said. "Any guesses?"
"Well, you can rule out gratitude. That kiss was too real."
"Please don't remind me." Judai shuddered. "I have to force myself not to go buy her jewelry when we pass a jewelry store, and you know what kind of jewelry I mean!"
"So, a marriage spell, maybe?" Sho suggested.
"She's got me feeling like...like I can't live without her. Like I need her in my life or it's not worth living anymore." He dropped to his knees, begging, "PLEASE HELP ME!"
"Ah! That's it!" Ryo said, snapping his fingers. "A love spell! Everything fits. The kissing, the cute nicknames, the romantic compliments. There's no doubt about it. She put a love spell on you!"
"So!?" Sho panicked. "There's probably dozens of those! How can we tell which is the right one!?"
Ever the calm one, Ryo said, "Well, we'll just have to go to England and start looking.
"Well, good luck with that," Judai said sadly. "Let me know what you come up with."
"Huh!?" Sho blinked. "You're not going to help!?"
"You think you can convince Rei to let me go hunting for her little love spell in England? As if she's not gonna wonder what's going on!" After all, Rei was bound to go with them, and Judai didn't see any way around the problem of telling her.
Ryo smiled evilly. "Good point. But who said she had to come?"
"Huh?" Judai blinked.
"Well, you could go and 'prove your love for her' by sending her on an all-expenses-paid trip to an island resort and spa while you work on a 'private' surprise for her in England," Ryo said. "But that's just a suggestion."
Judai pulled out his cell phone and dialed a number. "Mom, hey!" he said when she answered. "I need to borrow a couple grand?" He paused as his mother spoke. "Yes, it's for that crazy girl I have inexplicably fallen for."
The boys rejoined Rei after that.
"So, Ryo? Solve that little problem of yours?" she teased.
Judai didn't wait for anyone to answer. "Yeah, that's all good, Rei, honey. But, anyway, on to more important matters... I've got a surprise for you!"
"A surprise!? For me!? Oh, Judai, darling, you shouldn't have!" she exclaimed, blushing.
"Well, a guy's gotta treat his lady right, doesn't he?" Judai asked. "I've arranged an all-expenses-paid trip for you to an island resort!"
Getting romantic, Rei said, "Oh, Judai. That's soo sweet."
Judai fought the spell, really not wanting to do what it was trying to make him do.
"Yeah," he said. "I wish I could go with you, but I'll be working on an even bigger surprise for you in Europe." His spelled mind forgot all about the England bit and went for some place more romantic. "Somewhere in Italy, mio amore."
"An even bigger surprise?" Rei said flirtatiously.
"Yeah! And..." Judai ducked behind Ryo, hoping that getting Rei out of sight would help him fight off the spell. "These guys are gonna help me get that together!"
"Wow! So was that what you guys were really doing?" Rei teased.
Grateful for some other excuse, Ryo said, "Well, yes. That's exactly it."
"Yeah! Aniki thought it up earlier!"
Rei was so happy that she thought she might kiss him. "Judai-sama..."
Unable to resist anymore, Judai walked over and wrapped an arm around Rei. "I'm really gonna miss you while you're off on that island. But, as they say, absence makes the heart grow fonder."
Sho smacked himself in the face. Ryo sweat a little.
"I'll miss you, too, darling..." Rei said.
That's when she kissed him. Judai wrapped his arms around her, looking like he might start something really dirty if someone didn't stop him first.
Not wanting to see that, Sho interrupted, "Anyway, Aniki! We should get going, don't you think!? Nii-san's already volunteered to take Rei to the airport! Meanwhile, you and I are going to my place to get ready, okay!?"
Judai broke away from Rei. "Yeah, okay!"
He snapped out of it suddenly. Whatever it was that he was about to do, he didn't want to do it right now.
Judai and Sho walked off, leaving Ryo with Rei. Ryo took Rei to the airport and stuck her on a plane to the resort, which had been sent especially for her.
In Sho's limo, Sho muttered, "Geez. That's one powerful spell! Doesn't it know to at least get a room!?"
"I don't even know what I was just doing!" Judai said, slightly horrified.
"You don't know or you don't remember?" Sho asked, wanting to find out as much about this spell as he could.
"I don't know. I mean, I remember it, but I don't have a clue what I was doing."
Honestly, he was still working on figuring out why, too.
"So, at least you don't completely space out!" Sho said. "So the potion we're looking for doesn't cause that."
Judai wasn't sure if that was good or bad—he thought he might be less miserable if he didn't remember doing this stuff afterwards.
The two of them arrived at Sho's mansion. Well, Sho and Ryo's—they were living together.
"Hey, what was it that you messed up on earlier?" Judai asked. "I mean, weren't you just getting food?"
Sho tensed. "Uh, well... Nii-san should be here soon! I should probably go pack!"
Avoiding the question for his own good, he ran off to pack, leaving Judai alone in the living room. Judai stared after him for a moment, getting a bad feeling.
"What did he do...?"
Soon after, Ryo came in. Sho was still packing, and Judai was lying on the couch in the living room.
"Well, that takes care of that for now," Ryo said.
"Yeah, I guess..."
Judai was still thinking of what Sho might have done. His theories had ranged from started the Armageddon to called Asuka and told her that Judai was dating Rei.
"Something wrong?"
Judai sat bolt upright on the couch as he realized what Sho had done.
"He called Asuka!"
"What?" Ryo asked.
"Kaiser, would Sho...of course he would be, what am I saying?"
He pulled out his phone and dialed Asuka's number, hoping she wasn't too mad to listen.
"Hello?" she answered.
"Hey, Asuka, it's Judai."
She hung up before he could say anything else, confirming his worst fears.
"...Crap."
He called her again.
"What do you want?" she asked, sounding annoyed.
Hoping to get her attention, he made a weak attempt at a sort of joke. "An antidote to this poison I drank...?"
Ryo decided to give Judai some privacy so he could deal with this. "Well, I think I'll go get ready," he said, walking off to pack.
"Poison!?" What poison!?" Asuka suddenly sounded worried.
"It's a really long story, but someone I thought was my friend slipped something into my drink, and, well..." He wasn't sure how to explain this without angering her more.
"Judai!? Are you okay!?" she said, sounding even more worried at his pause.
Judai hated to worry her, so he said, "Yeah, mostly. It's not a lethal poison... It just causes one heckuva lot of problems for me."
"Oh." Asuka was relieved—and annoyed. She thought he was dying or something! "Okay. Don't scare me like that!"
And she hung up again, mad.
Kicking himself for lying, Judai called her back again.
"WHAT!?" Asuka snapped. "Honestly! You're as bad as Sho!"
"You keep hanging up on me!" Judai said. "What if I really was dying? How would you feel if you knew that the last time you had a chance to talk to me, you just kept hanging up the phone?"
"Look, Judai, I'd love to talk about this, but I've got better things to do." Silently, she added, Like teach the same class twice. Really, she didn't want to talk to him right now. "So don't call me again unless it's a real emergency, okay!?"
"This IS an emergency!"
"If it has anything to do with dueling—"
"How about kidnapping, poisoning, and whether Sho stupidly called you earlier today?"
"What!?" Honestly, what did any of those things have to do with anything!?
"It's a really long story," Judai said. "I don't have time to explain right now because I've got to go to England and fix this whole mess I'm stuck in. Just tell me if Sho called earlier, okay?"
He sounded desperate.
Asuka's land line rang. "Hold on, Judai. I've got another call."
"Asuka!"
She picked up the other phone, leaving Judai on hold on her cell phone. Was it just him, or did he hear the faint sound of giggling?
"Sorry, Judai, can we pick this up later?" she asked, suddenly sounding a lot happier.
"...Asuka, did I do something wrong?" he asked, sounding hurt.
"Oh, no. Not really," Asuka answered. "My boyfriend's on the line, that's all."
"Oh. You have a boyfriend? When did this happen?"
"Oh, just recently. Hey, Judai. Can we pick this up later, please?"
"...Uh, yeah. I guess..."
"Okay. I'll talk to you later, then! Bye!"
And, for the third time that day, she hung up on him.
