A/N: Wow you guys are amazing! I already have a bunch of reviews and it was only published yesterday and only one chapter! It really makes me want to write more so here I am! Thank you all so much!\

I'm just going to call the characters by their English names, mixing them confuses me.

"No!"

"But Ame-chan, it's the uniform!"

"Yes and it combines two things I refuse to wear pink and a skirt,"

"Aw it's not that bad, all the girls at school wear it!"

"Can I get the guy's uniform, it's even cheaper than this one!"

Here's the setting, Mr. Muto, Yugi and I are in a uniform shop, of course because I'm a new student I have been excused from not having one and because I don't have a sports uniform I got excused from that too, to be honest I don't mind sport problem is I'm clumsy. But I'm getting off topic, want to know what's wrong here? The uniform top is pink and the girls are all required to wear skirts…I can stand dresses but never, NEVER skirts! So now I was arguing with Yugi while Mr. Muto watched and laughed.

"You can't wear the boy's uniform Ame, you'll get in trouble!"

In his panic (which was quite touching really but no skirts for me!) he forgot the honorific, which I personally never used, I mean I'm not Japanese so I'm not used to it to be honest, another weird thing is how I can understand them, to me it just sounds English.

"Well they should get in trouble for being sexist!"

Yugi sighed, he was obviously getting no where with me, I crossed my arm and like a toddler I dropped down to the floor. Childish, Yes, Yugi's reaction? Priceless.

"Come on Ame-chan! Let's just get the uniform and go!"

"I want pants!"

"But that's not the girl uniform!"

"Why don't you try a skirt and see just how uncomfortable the things really are! Better yet wear one on a windy day!"

Yugi face palmed and shook his head, and that is when he pulled out the big guns…puppy dog eyes. No he did not do it on purpous, actually it was because he really WAS disappointed, I felt a pang of guilt and quickly turned away.

"NO NOT THE PUPPY EYES!"

Oh damn, I shouldn't have said that, because Yugi came around and this time gave me intentional puppy eyes and they were even cuter! I cried out and turned away closing my eyes,

"Must…resist…cuteness!"

By now Yugi was laughing and Mr. Muto was in hysterics, I peeked my eyes open to see, you guessed it, puppy eyes. I gave in tackle hugging Yugi making the poor kid (despite him being older than I) fall over,

"Fine I'll wear the stupid uniform but I'm still complaining to the school for being sexist!"

Yugi laughed and finally we grabbed the uniform that was my size and left. I held it up and made a face, this particular face forced Yugi to hide a smile, I scrunched up my nose and crossed my eyes and stuck my tongue out at the uniform, it was such a revolting thing.

"I got to say you're the first girl I've met who doesn't like skirts Ame-chan!"

I rolled my eyes and shook my head,

"That's because most girls you know probably stay out of the rain just because their hair is going to go frizzy, unlike them I am not afraid to get dirty, seriously I'd rather og naked than wear this thing,"

I smirked and looked over at him and with a completely serious tone and expression asked,

"Can I go naked?"

Yugi's eyes grew double their size and another panicked expression crossed his face, I'm probably bad for the poor guy's health, with my jokes and confident nature and his shy and quiet one I often could get him to react in such ways if I pushed the right buttons.

I laughed,

"Relax, I'm not going to go naked! That's what birthdays are for!"

He started laughing but then noticed my completely serious expression and opened his mouth to ask when I couldn't hold back and burst into loud laughter,

"Oh my god you take things too seriously!"

XXX

"Hey Yugi,"

Yugi looked up from the piece of toast he was eating as I walked down the stairs in my uniform…of course I modified it a bit, I had stockings on underneath the skirt, of all things I was most conscious about my pasty legs. Also I was wearing a jacket on over the stupid pink shirt thing, zipped up so you could see the slightest bit of pink, so the teachers would know I was wearing it. Yugi grinned at me and nodded for me to go on,

"Can you teach me to duel? I kinda didn't get it the last time you told me,"

Yugi tilted his head to the side and a big goofy grin crossed his face, excitement lighting up in his eyes,

"Of course, Grandpa told me you have been buying cards! Can I see what you've gathered so far?"

I grinned and reached into my pocket pulling out my 20 or so cards, not a very big deck but I was very selective with what cards I got, I made sure everything matched up with everything so I would never be put into a completely helpless spot. Yugi took the pitifully small deck from me and looked through.

"Magic cards, trap cards and strong monsters, you're making a pretty good deck,"

Then he stopped and pulled out one particular card, he turned it around to reveal a Kuriboh…I giggled,

"I couldn't resist."

He just laughed in return and went back to looking through,

"Do you like dragons Ame-chan?"

I nodded,

"Loved 'em ever since I was five!"

He nodded and as we headed off to school he began explaining the rules of the game, in simple terms though so I could understand it.

…

I kept glancing out of the corner of my eye at Joey, I know he didn't really pay attention to his school work but he has slept through every damn class today! When the bell for recess went I walked over and grinned evilly, pay back time!

"BOO!"

Joey leapt up and screamed loudly, I cackled evilly while most other people in the class laughed at us, Joey turned and glared at me as I pulled a sandwich out of my bag and chewed it, trying to put on as innocent a look as I could muster. Joey just glared,

"What? Does my self appointed job of alarm clock displease you?"

Tea giggled while Tristan and Yugi laughed, I slung an arm around Joey's shoulder and said seriously,

"If there's anything keeping you from your sleep you can tell me, I'll listen and help you as best I can, unless the reasons you are not sleeping are hazardous to my innocence, then I am quite happy to be ignorant,"

Joey shook his head,

"Naw it's nothing like that, it's just that Yugi's gramps really runs a tough training schedule,"

I smirked, Joey had been coming over a lot to learn duel monsters from Mr. Muto, every now and then I'd watch and laugh as Joey panicked as he was being owned by an old man, of course I probably couldn't beat Mr. Muto either but hey, I'm not stupid enough to verse him.

I giggled quietly remembering Mr. Muto had watched Yugi teaching me how to play, he had asked me questions and because the adorable midget next to me had engraved everything into my skull I had managed to answer a lot of his questions, although I'm still clueless as to the strongest duel monster, I simply replied with 'Exodia' remembering the thing from the show, he had been surprised, so had Yugi because the kid never taught me that. Both took it as a good answer.

Joey glared at me, probably thinking I was giggling at him, I rolled my eyes and gave him a lovely noogie, he laughed and tried to grab my hand before I leapt back and he ended up chasing me around the room. People leapt out of our way as we barreled into random objects, knocking many things over, but of course we were having a ball. Eventually the guy did catch me, quickly scruffing up my hair, when we both got up again everyone started laughing at our hair styles. I laughed and headed out of the class to go find a mirror.

As I walked down the hall towards the bathroom I began to zone out, these characters were so different in real life…so much more three dimensional, so much more…real I never really noticed it before until Yugi tripped and scratched the palms of his hands, I had knelt down and yelled 'are you okay!' to the poor guy's face, he had laughed and said, 'it's just a scratch. But that simple scratch really opened my eyes, I was really here and these anime characters were not characters at all, the were real, living, breathing they could feel hurt they could feel happiness.

In my thoughts I failed to pay attention to where I was going, so I ended up walking into someone, that someone fell back onto their butt and I simply took a step back, remember what I said being more of a masculine build? Yeah, I don't really fall when people walk into me, especially the small males. I looked down and indeed he was not a very muscular guy, actually he was Ryou Bakura and another one of my favorite characters from the show.

"Oh sorry I wasn't watching where I was going!"

I smiled kindly at him, offering my hand, he looked up at me, a look of surprise at the thought of having a girl walk into him and he being the one to fall. I laughed,

"Yeah, I have a mix of European and Australian in me, it makes for a strong build,"

Ryou smiled and grabbed my hand, I pulled him to his feet and we began to talk, it was very casual conversation, but I was quite enjoying talking to the guy, he was almost as cute as Yugi is! I told him funny stories and jokes, he commented on my memory loss and I quickly stated 'they've been an interesting few weeks,' to which he laughed.

Soon after I got out of the bathroom he was waiting patiently for me, and we walked back to class happily chatting away, he was very shy at first, mainly listening to me but soon he was talking as well and we swapped stories and jokes and we had a ball all the way back to class, I invited him to sit with Yugi's group and he closed up again, though he did not decline, as the conversation went on I kept asking him questions and when I spoke I would often look at him, making sure he was included. He noticed my effort and would smile a thanks at me every now and then and of course the gang welcomed him with open arms, for one thing he was already a class mate and for another they were very nice people.

I admit I was cautious and would check to see if his dark side emerged, to bad his dark side is a damned good actor, so even if he was out I wouldn't be able to tell, then again I doubt his dark side would engage in casual conversation or even bother to come at during school hours unless Ryou was endangered.

The school day went by normally, as the group split up and it just ended up being Yugi and I he reminded me that Joey, Tristan and Tea were visiting that night. I nodded and headed up to the guest bedroom, I still couldn't bring myself to call it 'my' room it was just weird.

I flicked on the stereo and a song that I really like came on, I found the music here was the same as in my normal world and I began to sing along, when I sang along everyone just thought I was good at memorizing lyrics.

"Oh yeah! Roaming around at the speed of sound, got places to go gotta follow my rainbow!

Can't stick around have to keep movin' on, guess what lies ahead only one way to find out!

Must keep on moving ahead, no time for guessing follow my plan instead!"

There was a knock on the door and I immediately shut up, quickly pulling my casual black shirt on and opening the door, Yugi was there with Joey, Tea and Tristan all of them smiling broadly. I grinned and came out, we all jogged to the lounge and switched on the T.V to some card dueling channel, I'll be honest with you, I have no interest in cards, I was learning because I had to, but I guess it really was fun when it was played with people you like.

"I'll go get us some snacks,"

I passed Mr. Muto who was getting drinks, then it struck, this was the episode where Yugi got invited to the tournament, I made a face, what if all this was actually shown? Oh god that would be terrible.

I quickly got an assortment of treats and walked back into the room just in time to see Yugi opening the box, inside were…pink, gloves and all those other things the contestants got.

"Yugi you're not going to wear those things are you?"

Yugi looked up and me and then looked at the gloves and then he started laughing loudly, gaining confused looks from every one else, when he finally settled down he shook his head,

"Well yes, I probably will, why do you hate pink so much Ame-chan?"

I grinned,

"In the sunset or on flowers it's pretty but on clothing it's terrible!"

I set down the treats and grabbed a chocolate biscuit, pulling it apart and licking the creamy filling as I listened to the others discuss the tournament.

XXX

I had to get on the ship somehow now didn't I? I actually couldn't find Tristan or Tea so I snuck in on my own and now I was wedged between two boxes. I sucked my gut in and pushed my boobs against my chest with my hands, I slowly slid out and let out a breath I didn't realize I had been holding.

I looked around and realized we were already sailing away from the shore, I grinned, success! I leaned back and closed my eyes, I don't know how long I stayed like that, with my eyes closed, smiling peacefully as the wind played with my hair and brushed softly against my face. There's something relaxing about wind and water, the ocean mixes them both with a pinch of mystery, it makes quite a good mix.

I stayed so long that I didn't actually end up moving until I heard a call of 'JOEY!' from a very familiar, panic stricken voice I darted to where the sound came from and tried to slide to a halt, slipped in some water and fell off the side into the water…curse my luck.

Now this was not a good thing, I was a terrible swimmer, I could barely keep afloat in a freaking pool! Let alone the ocean and when Yugi realized who it was who had tried to rush to the rescue but had just made it a bigger rescue his eyes widened and he called out to me. I saw Joey sinking and felt helpless, I couldn't do anything! I was struggling to fight the current myself!

I went under as a wave crashed against my head and resurfaced hacking and coughing, it tasted absolutely awful, I heard a splash as Yugi jumped into the water and he swam over to Joey, I was still managing to stay above the water, kind of, but Joey had gone down, he did the logical thing.

In my struggles I noticed a card float by…okay some god has a really twisted sense of humor, I grabbed it and kept trying to stay afloat but my arms were beginning to feel like lead. I continued thrashing around and then like an idiot it hit me…float. I sucked in a breath and leaned back, it was rough floating but it worked, well mum thank you for drumming that into me, you just saved my life.

I felt something grip me and I flinched and began flailing again, oh god tell me it isn't a shark, or a whale or a sea serpent!

"Ame-chan it's just me!"

I replied by coughing up water and did my best to paddle as Yugi began dragging me to the rope. Who ever said being clumsy can't kill you was dead wrong. When we got to the ladder I made sure Yugi let me go and went first, he tried to pull me up after him but it's not like the guy's tank or anything, I'd like to see him drag me up, although he did drag Joey up, either way.

"But Ame you're going to get hurt if I go first!"

"Get your ass up there Yugi," I coughed, "before I kick it up there, I'm not moving until you go,"

Yugi looked at me in concern and grabbed onto the ladder and began climbing, I waited until he was about half way and started climbing myself, I paused in the middle to cough up more water and catch my breath. When I did he stopped climbing and looked down at me, waiting, not moving until I was climbing again. When we finally were pulled up Joey was starting to come to and Yugi was breathing heavily, I leaned against the side of the boat and sighed, this was not a good start.

XXX

I groaned as I felt the light go through my eyelids, I coughed and sniffed, finding I couldn't smell…a cold…great. I pushed myself up and stood slowly, heading to the bathrooms and changing. I looked in my reflection to see puffy red eyes from the salt water and I looked pale and sick. When I returned most people were awake, I looked around and jumped when I heard a voice behind me,

"You don't look very well Ame-chan,"

I smiled at him, this probably made me look worse but to be honest I've never been one to complain to people, I have problems with opening up and admitting that I need help, I like to fight my own battles and I lied again,

"Nah salt water always does this to me, that's why I don't go to the beach during the school week,"

Being the gullible little cutie he nodded,

"Well that's a relief!"

I grinned and hugged him tightly,

"Thanks you saved my life,"

I admit it was weird hugging Yugi, I won't ever say otherwise, I'll say this now and will probably say it again, the guy is short I'm sorry but it's true, I have to bend down to hug the guy and make sure I hug him from an angle or else there's a risk of the poor guy getting squashed by…two particular parts around the chest area.

I mean short is useful but sometimes it's a damned pain. I can only imagine its worse for the person who actually is short. Yugi returned the hug for once, yeah I've noticed he doesn't mind it when I hug him anymore but he still doesn't hug back. It surprised me really.

"You're my friend, of course I did!"

I grinned down him and then frowned, changing the subject,

"Are you ever going to grow taller?"

His face went red and I felt bad, I laughed and began apologizing,

"After all it isn't your fault you're grandfather put bricks on your head when you were growing up,"

"Hey!"

"Oh sorry, are you actually a hobbit?"

"Huh?"

I raised my finger to my mouth thoughtfully,

"Or maybe a garden gnome,"

Yugi shot me an annoyed look, and I started laughing resting my arm on his head,

"Well you make a good arm rest, OH WAIT I GOT IT! You're a star fish!"

He shot me an 'are you crazy?' kind of look, I don't think he realizes I was referring to his hair. Just for the hell of it I stepped in front of him and leant down to his height, he gave me a confused expression, I planted a big kiss on his cheek and ran away calling,

"Kiss tiggy, you should chase after Tea!"

I swear the guy's whole face went red I laughed out loud, I was going to get him and Tea together eventually, it was now on my to do list, another thing on my to-do list, save the Phaero. I stepped out side and saw an island in the distance, I smiled, I was ready. I got out my now good sized deck and nodded. I was ready.

That's chapter two! I realize it's kind of slow right now but trust me! It'll go faster soon! Bye