Ch 2

Parent Trouble

It was 6:00 only an hour left before the conference Yusei finished getting ready and was on his way to pick up Aki. He was looking forward to being able to spend some time with Aki although he did wish Jack and Crow would stop giving him a hard time about it.

As Yusei was getting his duel runner ready Jack said, "Yusei a true gentleman would pick up his girlfriend in a car."

"Jack, Aki is not my girlfriend she and I are just filling in for Rua and Ruka's parents." Yusei replied.

"Besides we can't even afford a car because a certain freeloader who lives here keeps spending every cent we earn on blue eyes coffee." Crow said.

"What was that bird brain!" Jack yelled out.

"You heard me!" Crow started. "Because of you and your coffee addiction we are barely able to afford living here it's a miracle in fact that we were able to make this month's rent!"

Yusei saw this as the perfect opportunity to leave before he got involved in this dispute.

It was 6:15 in about another five minutes Yusei would be at Aki's house to pick her up. Just like Yusei Aki was excited to be able to spend time with him. A few seconds later she saw head lights coming up to hear driveway she looked and saw it was Yusei.

Aki came down to open to the door for him. "Hey Yusei." She started. "Wow I must say you clean up rather nicely Mr. Fudo." She said in a jokingly way.

"Thank you Mrs. Fudo." Yusei replied in his own joking way.

This caused both of them to laugh a bit. They were enjoying this game of husband and wife. They were about to leave from Aki's mom called out. "Hang on you two I want to get a couple of pictures."

"Mom." Aki said getting a little embarrassed.

"Oh come on. You two look so cute together I can't pass on this opportunity."

Aki then sighed. "Alright but only a few."

After a few seconds of pictures Yusei and Aki were on their way to duel academy. Once they got there they found Rua and Ruka waiting for them at the entrance.

"Yusei, Aki-nee chan." Rua called out.

"Hey there Rua did you two wait long?" Yusei asked.

"No we just got here ourselves." Ruka replied

All four went inside. The place was packed with parents and their kids walking in and out of classrooms. After waiting for about 10 minutes it was Yusei, Aki and the twins turn. Although they were not happy to see that the teacher that they were meeting with was Rudolph Heitman.

However after his match with Yusei he did change his ways of teaching and became a little least strict but he was still the least liked teacher at the academy. After a 20 minute discussion it was revealed that while Ruka was getting excellent grades Rua on the other hand was just barely slipping by.

After the meeting was over Yusei gave Rua a stern look.

"You mind explaining yourself Rua?" Yusei asked.

Rua laugh nervously. "Ha ha ha well you see…"

"How do you explain this!" A man yelled.

Everyone turned to look at two adults with angry looks on their faces looking down on a young boy. "Is this what you call doing your best?" The angry women yelled.

I'm sorry" The boy said looking down.

A second later the man slapped the boy. "You're a disgrace to our family name!" He yelled.

Just then tears started welling up in the boy's eyes and the father was about to slap him again but then Yusei cried out. "THAT'S ENOUGH!"

"What do you want?" The man yelled. "Stay out of our business."

Then Aki came in by saying, "I think you hurting a kid while he is down is our business."

"You would do the same if he was your kid and was second best." The women replied.

"Wrong it doesn't matter if he is first second or third what matters is that he is doing the best that he can" Ruka said.

"Only those who don't aspire to be great say that. If you're not number 1 then your nothing." The man replied.

Then a second later he took a good look at Aki then said, "Wait a minute I know you you're Senator Hideo Izayoi's daughter aren't you?"

"That's correct." Aki replied.

"Well then you above all others should know what it means to stand at the top." The women replied.

"Being the best doesn't mean having to be the best at everything. It means to try your hardest at what you do and in the end if you don't give up then you will reach your goal." Yusei said to both of them.

Aki nodded. "That's right."

"Ah I know you as well your Yusei Fudo the man who stole the title of king from Jack Atlas. Don't kid yourself you know if you didn't beat Atlas then you would still be in the slums of Satellite." The man said.

"Maybe but in the end that was not the case." Yusei said fighting back.

Aki then had a surprised look on her face. "Wait I know you as well your Kazuma Daido of the Daido card industry."

"Daido card industry?" Rua asked.

"Come on Rua even you should know who they are." Ruka replied. "The Daido card industry is the best place to get the rarest form of cards anyway in the world."

"I..I knew that." Rua said looking a little embarrassed.

"Look I don't have time to argue with scum like you." The man then turned his back on grab his sons hand and yanked him up."Come on you loser."

Yusei and Aki looked at each other they had enough of this.

"Hold it!" Yusei yelled. "We challenge you both to a tag duel. Me and Aki vs the two of you."

"A tag duel? Interesting what's in it for us if we win?" The women asked.

"If Yusei and I lose then we will work for you."

"But if we win you will leave the boy alone." Yusei said.

"Alright we accept." Kazuma said. "But you're dreaming if you think for a second you're going to win."