The new chapter I here. I hope you enjoy this one. Although, I should warn all of you, there'll be mention of bulling in this one again.

P.S. I was torn to called this chapter "Friends" or "Friendship". What did you guys think of the title? Did you guys think that "Friends is the perfect name for the title of this chapter.

Friends was something that Jaden wasn't good with. While he does have friends, such as his Duel Monsters. But making friends on his own was something that he had no idea how to do. When he came to Duel Academy, he quickly found himself with friends that actually liked him. For awhile, Jaden was happy. He had made friends that like to play Duel Monsters like him.

But before that, his only friends were his Duel Monsters. They would often played with him whenever they can. Most of them were still adults who had things do to like other grown ups do. But they will still have enough time to spend time with Jaden. The brunette boy didn't mind. His Duel Monsters would often take turns to watch over him while the others do their heroic work in the Spirit World.

The younger Duel Spirits would often take care of Jaden like a little brother. In fact, all of Jaden's monsters had treated him like he was theirs. Although, to Jaden, it was. They were his and he was theirs. To Jaden, that's all that mattered to him. His Duel Monsters had always been the ones to take care of him. They love and protected him ever since he was young. Remembering one time that he told them that he didn't need more friends because ha had them. However, his Duel Monsters had told him that he needed human friends. Friends that will care about him and understand him and his ability to see the spirits of the cards.

Jaden didn't understand what they meant by that. He was around five when they told him that. But he did hope that someone will be his friend who likes Duel Monsters just as much as he does. So, when Jaden began to go to school, he was nervous. His school didn't allow the card game in it. He wanted to bring his monsters with him to at least comforted him if things became to much for him to handle.

But they told him that this is something that he must do alone. Jaden knew that they were right. His female Duel Spirits told him to smile and that the other students will be very lucky to have him in their class. Jaden became less nervous as they encourage him to go school. Even if he could take them with him, his "big sister" Card Ejector said that they will be there for him when he gets home from school.

When he got to his classroom, Jaden meet all new faces. He quickly became very popular with everyone in class. The other kids were amazed that Jaden already had his own deck of cards. Unlike Jaden, they had to wait until they were older to get their own. The fact that someone in class already had played Duel Monsters was cool to them. Even asked Jaden if he could let them see them sometime. Jaden agreed.

When Jaden came back from school, he told his monsters about everything. How he quickly made friends at school. His Duel Monsters were happy that their little Duelist had made friends with his own kind. But they were still worried about him. The fact that human children were said to have be cruel towards others who very different from them. The Elemental Heroes had heard from other Duel Monsters who Duelists had been bullied by other humans because of they were different and/or didn't fit in Human society.

This caused all of Jaden's monsters to worry about his future with other humans. Although, they knew that Jaden will have friends that will accepted him for who he is. But that never stop them from worrying.

Jaden and his new friends would often talked about Duel Monsters and how awesome it was. They even talked about famous Duelists like Yugi Muto, Seto Kaiba, and Joey Wheeler. All of his friends say that all want to be like them when grow up.

"Man. I can't wait to grow up and become Joey Wheeler someday."

"Yugi Muto is the best! He's the King of Games after."

"Kaiba is so cool! But my brother said that guy needs to get laid or something."

Jaden was happy that he had friends that were kind to him. He hope that it will last forever. But some happiness had to come to an end.

When Jaden turn six, his father had given him a new monster card as a birthday gift. The monster almost look like a dragon. It's hair was wide with one half being white and while the other one being blue. It had big wings which to Jaden they were beautiful. It also had heterochromia eyes, the left one being orange and the right one being teal. According to the card, the monster's name was Yubel. Jaden loved Yubel like he love his other monsters. They became Jaden's favorite card. Which it became a joke in the Spirit World with Jaden's monsters who joked about Jaden replacing Flame Wingman who didn't find it funny at all.

But there's one problem with Yubel that everyone in Jaden's Deck that didn't enjoy. Yubel was overprotective of Jaden. At first they didn't mind but as time grew, Yubel became too overprotective with the boy's safety. Whenever Jaden's friends came over to play Duel Monsters with him and whenever he lost, Yubel harmed his friends because they hurt him despite that they were just holograms that could cause little to no harm at all to humans.

Jaden didn't understand why was Yubel hurting his friends. Whenever he tried to play with them, all of his friends would usually try to make excuses of not playing with him. But as time went on, no one wanted to play with Jaden, not with Duel Monsters or anything at all with him. When Jaden asked them why they didn't want to play with him anymore. They told him that their parents don't want them to hang out with him anymore since strange things started happening since he got Yubel.

"Sorry, Jaden, my mom won't let me come over anymore."

"My parents don't want me to hang out with you again."

"My dad told me to stay away from you, Jay."

Soon some of the kids began to bullied Jaden. Some of them were once Jaden's friends since preschool.

"Hey, that's the creepy kid that talks to himself all the time."

"I can's believe that I used to hang out with that weirder."

"He's scaring me."

"I heard that one of his neighbor fell into a coma after he lost a duel to them."

They were talking about Osamu when the rumor about how he fell into a coma. It wasn't Jaden's fault, that's what his monsters had kept telling him. After Jaden sent Yubel up in space, his Duel Monsters hope that everything could go back to the way it was. Sadly it could never be the same again.

All of Jaden's friends either moved away to get away from him or they became his bullies. Jaden tried to make new friends again but no one wanted to be near. They all say that he was bad luck to be around.

"Uh? I don't want to be friends with you."

"In your dreams. Like I would hang out with a freak like you."

"Get lost, loser."

"Look at him. He's crying. Hey, Jaden, run home to your Mommy. Oh, wait you do..." That bully crossed the line when he tried to mentioned his mother. Let's just say Jaden finally snapped and punched the bully. Of course, this was notice by the teachers who called their parents. Jaden was suspended from school for two weeks. Jaden's father apologized to the other boy's parents.

Jaden could still remember the time when his only friend with the same ability was with him. Despite that didn't knew each other for long, Jaden still missed him a lot and wondered if the teal haired boy still remembered him as well. When his Duel Monsters could see that their Duelist was in pain. So they decided to do something about it.

When Jaden went the Spirit World again as usually, his monsters introduced him to other humans who could see Duel Monsters. Jaden was happy to meet other people like him. He even met kids his own age that he play with. But there was still no sign of his teal haired friend anywhere. Although, Jaden was sad, he hoped that he'll ran into his friend someday.

He was happy that could finally have friends, but he was still sad because his new friends couldn't hang out with him at his house because they live different parts of the World from him. But he was still happy that made new friends at least.

When Jaden went to his dream school Duel Academy, he was glad to make new friends there. But he was worried that they would leave him too like all of his former friends did to him. His Duel Monsters understand his fear, saying that no matter what happens, they will always be by his side.

So what did you guys think of this chapter? Again, do you think the name of this chapter is good or do you think that "Friendship" was better? Let me know in your review.

You could also see that I made a reference to the abridged series.