Ch. 3

Hey! Now for Yuya! Sorry for the delay. School sucks. Thanks for the reviews! It really motivated me! XD Sorry, no pairings. I suck at romance. Anyways, on with the story!

Yugi stood in front of his neighbor's door. It was the morning after he had met Yuma. He was going to sleep in today since he didn't have a class until 1 pm on Fridays. Sadly, that wasn't the case when he was awoken by a loud thud from next door. It was followed by shouts and banging.

Yugi bit his lip. /Should we enter…?/ He really did want to get to know his neighbors, but they seemed violent with all that banging earlier.

/ Do it, Aibou. Make them pay for waking us up/ Yami growled, swearing under his breath. He hated being woken up early. He had broken their alarm clock more than once back in high school. The millennium puzzle flashed angrily.

Yugi gave a nervous chuckle. /Now, Yami-/ His thought was cut off when the door swung suddenly. It caught the duelist off guard and hit him in the face.

"Ouch!" He stumbled backwards, his hands flying to bruised forehead. /Just great/ Yugi thought bitterly, rubbing his head. /first being awaken early, now this. Why does the world hate us?/

If Yugi was slightly miffed, then the pharaoh was pissed. Nobody, nobody woke them up early AND hurt his Aibou without some revenge. He took control of the body in an angry flash.

"Watch where you are going," He said coldly, glaring at the person who opened the door. The person had gotten out of the apartment, and stood apologetically in now closed door. The person, a boy, had bright crimson hair below forest green hair.

/a tomato?/ Yugi asked, not having realized he was in his soul room yet.

Tomato-as Yami decided to call him- had goggles sitting snuggly on top of his hair. A crystal necklace dangled around his neck. His cargo pants were a slightly darker shade of green than his hair.

"So sorry, mister!" He apologized, rubbing the back of his neck while chuckling nervously.

Yami continued to glare. His sleep was not recovered just because Tomato had said "sorry". The other shifted anxiously, noting the aura of annoyance coming from Yami

"…..You know what?" Tomato asked, his crimson eyes glancing at Yami. His hands fiddled with the crystal pendant, making it twirl. "Why don't I show you an Action Duel? To make up for waking you up?"

/Action Duel? / Yugi echoed, cocking his head. /Isn't a duel already action? I wonder if this is a different type of dueling. /

Yami's poker face stayed firm, but he was now buzzing with curiosity. He was still angry, but it was tinged with wonder. As Yugi and Yami met more and more duelists, they learned so many more ways to duel. They even heard of a company-not Kaiba Corporation surprisingly enough-trying to create a virtual world just for dueling. Yami wanted to see this action duel.

"Fine," He answered coolly, not letting his excitement show.

"Great! I need you to follow me into the duel arena, mister," Tomato said, turning as he began to lead the way. He bounced out onto the campus, seeming to choose to go towards a huge white dome. Yami strode after him, half with suspicion and half with burning excitement.

When they arrived at the dome, Tomato had pulled out a shiny gold card and swiped the door into the white dome. Yugi and Yami observed in silent shock as they entered the dome. It was lined with bleachers and large TVs. It was clean and smelled on new rubber seats. In the middle of the ceiling hung a small ball, reminding Yami of a disco ball.

"This is where Action Duels will be taking place," Tomato explained, wide grin on his face. He waved his hands over to the bleachers. "I just know that these bleachers will be filled with fans! Anyone who loves dueling should come!" The boy turned to Yami. "Ready to experience your first amazing show by Yuya Sakaki?"

/Yuya?/

/ I think that's his name/ Yugi replied, still taking in the fresh stadium with disbelieving eyes.

Yami smirked. Yuya would always be Tomato to him, unless he beat Yami in a duel, which was highly unlikely.

The two boys stood on opposite sides of the stadium.

"Duel!"

"Action Duel Start!"

The stadium was suddenly transformed into a circus tent. Large bouncing balls rolled around. A trapeze and tightrope stood above their heads. A huge slide twisted from the ceiling to the floor. Yami and Yugi gaped for a whole minute before Tomato's- /Yuya-kun/ Yugi corrected -chuckle woke them up.

"Amazing isn't?" Tomato- /Yuya-kun/- grinned at them, eyes sparkling at them. He seemed to be waiting for their comments. He stood at the top of the slide. Yami wasn't going to give him that satisfaction. He just nodded at Tomato. Yugi just sighed. /Hopefully Yami doesn't call Yuya Tomato out loud…./

Suddenly a large bang was heard. Yami jerked his head upwards. He saw cards flying out of a giant ball.

"In an Action Duel, you can move and use the landscape to help you duel." Tomato explained, his voice seeming to echo in the large circus tent. "The cards that you just saw are scattered throughout the field. You can go pick them up and play them whenever you want! Sadly, you can only have one of these cards at a time." Tomato wheeled-were those wheels on his shoes?!-down the slide. "I'll go first!"

Yuya: LP 4000

"Ladies and Gentlemen! For tonight's show I will show you a truly magnificent Action Duel! But first I need my trusty assistant! I summon Enetermate Discover Hippo!"

Tomato swiped his hand down as he placed his monster on his duel disk. As soon as he did, a pink hippo with a black top hat appeared on the field.

"And I end my turn!"

Yami glanced down at his hand. He had Kuribo, Magicians Unite, Magic Cylinder, Red Gadget, and Swords of Revealing Light.

/ Not bad hand…./ Yugi commented, looking over Yami's shoulder. The phaoraoh nodded in thought.

Yami: LP 4000

"I summon Red Gadget in defense mode. Its effect lets me add Yellow Gadget to my hand. I then place two cards face down and end my turn!" A red gear materialized in front of them, it's arms crossed over its chest.

Tomato hummed as his eyes landed on Red Gadget. "I draw!" A grin lit up his face at the card he got. Yami and Yugi kept their eyes on him, growing suspicious.

"I set the pendulum scale with Timegazer Magician and Stargazer Magician!" Two pillars of light shot up from the ground. In the pillars were the two different magicians. A large pendulum swung between from the two pillars.

/Wha…?/

/Pendulum summon?/ The star shaped duelist could only watch in fascination.

Tomato payed them no mind as he summoned his monsters. "With the Pendulum scale, I summon Performalpal Stamp Turtle, Preformalpal Secondonkey, and our main star for today's show: Odd Eyes Pendulum Dragon!"

Three monsters shot out from between the pillars. A donkey, an old turtle and, as the name suggests, a dragon with mismatched eyes. The ground trembled as they appeared.

"Please welcome Odd Eyes Pendulum Dragon!" Spot lights activated and pointed at the dragon. They flickered before staying on. Its roar was loud and resonating. Clapping could be heard around in the stadium even though there was no audience.

"And now for Odd Eyes' special partner for tonight! I build the overlay network and overlay Stamp Turtle and Secondonkey!"

The two monsters swirled away in a flash of yellow and purple light. They were replaced with a dark dragon that looked similar to Odd Eyes. It had a long purple neck with inky black wings. It roared, but it was cut off unnaturally.

"Dark Rebellion xyz Dragon!"

Then the lights went out.

It took a moment for the red dim glow of the emergency lights to turn on. They had no time to recover before a voiced shouted down at them.

"YUYA SAKAKI!"

Tomato winced, and even in the dark lighting they could see that he was nervous. He glanced around. He whispered something to himself, before beginning to tiptoe away.

"Hey!" Yami called out. He was not going to left here! He didn't want to be left here to face the wrath of whoever was calling Tomato earlier. The footsteps got closer and faster as they got nearer.

BANG!

A pair of double doors were wrenched open. In the door stood a small figure. It was a girl with cherry pink pigtails. Her lake blue eyes glistened dangerously. Although she was short, even Yami feared for Tomato.

"What did I tell you about using the Solid Vision?! You just broke it! I told you Pendulum summoning hadn't been programed into the Solid Vision yet!" She angrily stomped over to the other boy. The boy with googles took several steps back.

"Y-Yuzu…." He mumbled weakly, looking anywhere but at the girl. Yami watched the scene with growing amusement.

/Yami!/ Yugi scolded, sending waves of mental disapproval.

/What? You have to admit, it's fun not being the one yelled at/ Yami pointed out, crossing his arms over his chest. They had been scolded by all of their teachers more than once for 'daydreaming' in class. Not to mention, being reprimanded by Grandpa when he noticed their deep dark bangs under their eyes after a long week.

By now the girl-Yuzu?- had pulled out a white fan and began wracking Tomato with it. After a couple good hits, she turned her attention to the King of Games. Yami took a step back, mentally bracing himself. Instead, she bowed.

"I'm so sorry for all the trouble this stupid idiot has caused."

Yami and Yugi blinked. Yugi pushed Yami back into his soul room. The 5000-year-old pharaoh wasn't very good with his social skills just yet. Or dealing with females outside of dueling.

"It's no problem! I got to somewhat see a new type of dueling!" Yugi grinned. He had really liked seeing the monsters Yuya used and he appeared to be an aspiring new duelist.

Yuzu returned his smile with one of her own, lined with relief. She snapped her attention back to Yuya. Her face narrowed back into annoyance.

"I have been looking all over for you! Do you even know what time it is?! We promised to meet up with Reji and the Lancers for lunch! It's 12:30! We're late, you idiot!"

Yugi smiled fondly at them. /I remember being yelled at like this by Anzu/ Then his brain caught up to the girl's words. /12:30? I have Calculus at 1pm!/

Oh no!

"Igottogo!thanksfortheduel!" Yugi gave a quick wave before dashing off to his first class of the day.

/….sorry, Yugi…./ Yami meekly said, his embarrassment clear through their bond.

/Don't worry! We still have time! Besides, you almost had a duel! And you love dueling!/

/Yeah…./

/You can finish your duel with Yuya later. If not we could find Yuma again. Or even some other good duelist/

A figure glanced at Duel Academy as he walked by on his way home. His pink hair stood out against the grey and black of buildings he past. His emerald eyes narrowed at the sight of two duelists coming out of campus.

He hates dueling.

Cut! Thanks for reading! Please leave any thoughts in the reviews! I have only one more chapter in mind. An Epilogue type thing. A little bit of Yusaku. Love that kid. It will probably be shorter too. Thank you everyone