Chapter Four

It wasn't supposed to be me!?

Lena grinned as she heard the bell ring at school. Even though she only just started she wanted it to be over as fast as possible. The only things she liked here were lunch and breaks where she could hang out with the gang. The brunette quickly packed her bag, even though she had to wait for Nailah to meet her here, and then decided to walk over to where Yugi and Joey was.

"S'up" She smiled jumping to sit on Joey desk.

"Hey Len, do you want to come out with me and Yugi today. Nailah too." Joey asked her.

"Sure I don't mind neither would Nailah, where do you guys plan on going?" Lena question, even though she had her own hunch since the weekend.

"We can go to the new place that just opened- Burger World." Yugi suggested and added. "Their burgers are famous for being really good."

"Really? I'm okay with that." She agreed seeing as it was the episode in which this happens.

"Wait a minute, you guys." We heard Tristan behind us and looked over at him.

"The one who failed to become a first year student president, instead becoming a janitor, Tristan." Joey announced Tristan and Lena smiled.

"Not janitor, Beautification club!" Tristan clarified, but then began to tell them that we will be breaking the rules. "Hey, you! You know stopping on the way home is against school rules."

"Really?" The female scoffed. "They surely can't tell us what to do once we leave the premises." Lena shared her view. "And it's not bad or anything, I mean the last school I went to didn't have that rule."

"But it is." Tristan points out.

"Yeah well who's going to find out." The brunette retaliated and Miho ran over to us.

"I want to check out Burger World!" She announced to us.

"Yes, another person to join!" Len grinned at Miho, who smiled back at her.

"Let's go!" Tristan soon changed the way he was acted and Lena only shook her head.

"Hey, you…" Joey began, but Tea began to join in.

"Hold on, everyone…" Lena looked over to the girl who just spoke. "...Did you just say Burger World?" I could tell Tea looked nervous.

"Tea, want to come too?" Yugi grinned at her.

"Don't joke! I heard that restaurant's food was terrible." Tea claimed. "It's true! I heard people became sick on the grand opening day. You definitely should not go!" Len looked over at everyone's faces and a part of her wanted to laugh at their reactions. "Anyway, didn't the teacher say that a villain broke out of prison?" Tea pointed out.

"Ah, that's right! A big villain! The whole town is in panic." Yugi explained.

"What the heck? You scared? You've got no guts." Joey told Yugi.

"But I heard he had a pistol." Yugi sounded worried.

"I think we'll be safe what would he want with a couple of school students anyway unless he needed to use one of them as bait." Lena shrugged, touching Yugi's shoulder, not really scared.

"Hey you know, Guys… Hasn't Tea been weird lately." Joey began.

"Yeah, it's been a while since we walked home together." Yugi understood what he meant.

"Could it be, Tea, that girl… is doing "dating for pay"? Joey wondered out loud and Yugi began to blush, freaking out slightly.

"What are you saying?! Our school doesn't have people like that!" Tristan shouted at Joey.

"Our school doesn't have what?" I heard from behind me and saw Nailah standing there.

"Teenage prostitution." Lena answered her before turning back to the gang. "Even though I've only met Tea recently. I don't think she would do something like that."

"Yeah, Tea would never do that!" Yugi agreed with the brunettes.

"Why so upset? Your face is all red, Yugi. Could you be." Joey teased Yugi and Nailah tapped Lena's shoulder to get her attention, which she did. The blonde then pointed to Miho who was worried, of course she would be. Lena jumped off of Joey's desk, and the girls went over to Miho. while hearing Yugi deny what Joey said.

"Hey Miho, are you okay?" Nailah questioned.

"D-dating for pay? Tea?" She answered.

"Aw don't worry like Yugi, She would never do that." Lena put a hand on her shoulder.

"But what if it is true, Lenny, Nailah come with me." She asked us.

"Sure thing. Happ[y to help a friend, lets go!" Nailah insisted and Miho smiled at us.

"Okay, but lets try not to be seen." Lena agreed and they nodded.

Miho, Nailah and Lena all hid behind a wall as Tea walked down a street. Miho was in front, followed by Len, and carrying the back was Nailah. The brunette could tell the blonde recognised the street we were in. Nailah gave Lena a look as if to say the episode at begun, which Lena simply nodded to.

"Don't worry, Tea!" Miho began to speak. "Miho, Nailah, and Lenny's going to save you from the hands of old men!"

"You know some old men can be really attractive." I whispered to Nailah.

"I don't even want to know." Nailah commented and Len laughed quietly. Miho soon began running out. "Oh looks like we running again." Nailah breathed as they followed Tea all the way to Burger World, which Miho was shocked about, before they all began to freaked out when they ended up seeing Tea behind them looking angry. Lena soon began to explain with Miho that they thought she was in danger. After the explanations. Miho decided she wanted to get a job there too. Seeing as it would be easier for them as well decided it would be good to help out well.

"Also, it's so hard that I can't even clear the first level" Joey told us, while Len stood next to Tea casually waiting to go to Burger World. "You guys should try it!" He suggested.

"Okay" Yugi agreed.

"Sounds fun! Miho wants to go too!" Miho exclaimed, which caused Tea to call out her name or they would be late.

"Ah, that's right… sorry, I can't today." Tea told Joey.

"Huh what about you Len?" He questioned.

"I'm sorry, I can't as well today." Lena sadly replied.

"Yeah me and Lena have to go home straight away because of the criminal, mother orders." They heard Nailah say, who was leaning by the door. Lena nodded her head in agreement.

"Her mother can be very serious and strict." The brunette continued the lie they were giving them. "Come on we should probably go. Bye bye Joey, Bye bye Yugi." She waved at them, walking over to Nailah. Tea and Lena agreed that to cause less suspicion that they should go at different times in pairs. As we left we heard Tea saying that her and Miho was busy, and that they shouldn't tempt them.

"You know even if we didn't go in a big group there still going to be suspicious." I told her.

"I could tell." Nailah responded. "You know I agreed to work there, but I find it really difficult in the clothes they don't suit me at all." Lena laughed.

"I know what you mean, and I like the colour green, but not sickly green." They continued to walk and the rest of the day went as planned, as we could tell that Tristan was following us because of Miho. He also decided to get a job here when he found out as well. Lena wondered when they would stop employing seeing as they already have four new workers in two days.

"Hey Lena, do you still have to go straight home today?" Yugi questioned me, as I packed my stuff off.

"Yes sadly, but once the villain is caught I don't have to go straight home. Maybe after he is caught, we can spend a day playing duel monsters like the other night." I grinned at him.

"Yeah!" He beamed happily at my suggestion. "That was really fun."

"Yeah it was! And we definitely got Nailah into it, I mean when we got straight back home we spent practically the rest of the night trying to improve her skills, she is definitely into it." Lena told Yugi.

"Oh really, that's cool, I am glad she liked it so much. Have you played any board games your brought so far?" He wondered.

"No not yet, we were planning to at the weekend, you can join us if you want, Akila won't mind, plus I think she would really like you." I grinned at him.

"Oh yeah, I'll join." He returned my grin.

"So it's a date then." Lena winked and waved at him to go meet up with Nailah. Even Lena was surprised when she winked at him, she never really had done that before, but then hanging out with them, brought another side out of her, then at back home, when she didn't feel like she fitted in, while here she did.

Lena and Nailah, soon met up with Tea and the gang, down the street leading to Burger World. The long haired brunette knew that Yugi and Joey was following them, and found out that what Nailah and she said was a lie to them. She hoped that it wouldn't upset Yugi too much and technically it wasn't a lie, after they finished work, they had to go straight home, by Akila's orders. They decided that they wouldn't tell her about the bad guy working at Burger World.

"Hey guys." Nailah greeted and they said there hello's back and we began to walk.

"My briefcase is kind of heavy today." Miho announced.

"Oh I'll carry it." Tristan spoke like a gentlemen, while Tea soon stopped at looked at a general direction, probably the direction Yugi and Joey were.

"What's wrong?" Miho questioned her friend.

"Nothing, it's nothing. Lets go." Tea told us, but Lena looked to where she looked to see if she could see them.

We soon finished walking and entered Burger world. Tea, Miho, and Tristan stood by the doorway waiting for customers, while Lena and Nailah went to go wait some tables. We heard the doors open and Lena leaned to look, from where she was serving. As she expected it was Yugi and Joey and she could tell that Tea was know pissed, of course she would be after the third day of someone following her. Lena soon finished her order and went to go over to them. She came over at the time of Tristan telling them it was a part time job.

"Hey, you, part time work is forbidden by school rules right?" Joey told Tristan. "And you're the one that always acts so high and mighty too..."

"Which I don't understand why because these are stupid rules, has the school ever heard of experience." Lena joined in on the conversations.

"Huh!? Lena aren't you meant to be going straight home." Yugi questioned her.

"Well I might of stretched the truth a bit, we do have to go straight home, but only after work." Len explained, while Tristan began to speak again.

"Don't speak of it Joey! I also, I also was troubled…" He began. "I thought of the meaning… however…" Miho soon interrupted Tristan.

"But… Miho wants so many things."

"Hey, hey, you guys." They heard someone say from behind us. "They're customers right?" Our boss asked us and the long brunette nodded. "Hurry and lead them to their seats." He told us and Tea decided to do it, while Len went to sort out the order she was given.

As we all went back to work, Lena could see Tea was explaining why she got that job in the first place and that they wouldn't blab. She slowly walked past Len with a smile on her face.

"I told you that they won't blab." I grinned at her and she turned around to me.

"Yeah, I guess you're right." She happily spoke to Len. "Do you think I will make a good dancer in the future?" She questioned.

"As long as you put your heart into it, I think you will be the very best." Lena insisted.

"You think? Thanks Lena." She began to walk away, when we heard the door opened once again. Lena knew straight away he was the police officer in this episode and knew it was almost time. She felt a tight feeling in her chest, when she realised that Yami will take over Yugi's body soon, but to save Tea. Lena called Nailah over, to go and see what was happening.

"No way! Escaped convict?!" Miho exclaimed when they were told that there was a convict in Burger World. Tea soon cover Miho's mouth with her hand.

"So-so, you're saying the convict might be in this restaurant?" The true criminal asked, though no one knew.

"Yeah. There was a report this morning." The detective explained. "This seems to be the focal point of the break in's. So I am searching this area."

"So he could possibly be in here?" Nailah asked and he nodded.

"Um-um… What does the culprit look like?" The salmon haired man asked and the officer pulled out a picture in front of us. Yugi and the gang a part from the duo looked around the corner.

"Seems he's not here." Joey stated.

"He's a master of disguise. It's rare to see him out of disguise." The officer explained.

"Well of course he would, he wouldn't want to be found out." Len commented, with her arms crossed. Her glance her eyes in the direction of her boss. Truth be told she didn't like it being near a criminal that no one knew about. The salmon haired man noticed her looking and she quickly averted her eyes away.

"Alright then we just have to check each one." Joey the pointed out.

"No, it would be bad. He has a pistol it seems." The officer stated.

"Does the criminal have any other characteristics?" Our boss questioned.

"Three days ago, when stealing the jewels, it seems he had a struggle with the guard." He explained. "The fallen guard was able to hit the fleeing culprit in the right calf with his baton."

"That might mean that he has a mark." Nailah quickly stated.

"If so... let's use that." She signalled to the cars in the baskets.

"Yeah then it won't look as suspicious if we go down on to the floor." Lena agreed. They then threw the cars on the floor and the gang, excluding Miho and Yugi began to go and look down on the floor. They looked at the leg off practically every single one here, which Lena wasn't a fan off seeing as none of them were going to have a bruise. The long brunette slowly stood up from where she was recently on the floor from and saw Tea telling the man that he was not allowed the have his feet on the table, so she could look.

"What are you doing, you bitch!" He exclaimed at Tea and Len walked up to them, as well as the officer and our boss.

"S-sorry Mr. Customer. We have a situation." My boss spoke.

"Don't give me that! Messing with a man's resting time, what are you thinking?!" He yelled and the detective showed the man his badge. "Police?!"

"Excuse me, everyone." The officer caught people's attention. "It's probable that an escaped convict is in this shop. We have to check your legs. The culprit should have a bruise on his calf where a guard hit him."

"H-hey what's the meaning of this?!" A woman asked.

"Escaped convicts?" A bald man questioned.

"Sounds interesting!" One of the criminals in disguise spoke.

"Are you sure you're not mistaken? Anyway, this town's police are out of it!" An old man claimed. "You lost the convict that escaped before too!"

"That… is true…" The officer admitted.

"Mr. Cop is there no other clue about the culprit." Joey questioned him.

"Yeah… in prison he was once admitted to the hospital. He had an allergic reaction to eating eggs." He told us and Tea got an idea.

"Allergy to eggs? Oh, if that's true then… If the culprit is here, we'll know right away." Tea smirked and so did Lena. "Because our hamburger buns have plenty of egg in them." She grinned. We looked over to see the guy, Lena knew was one of the criminals starting to freak out and the detective began to walk up to him.

"What's wrong? You don't look well?" The officer spoke now knowing it was him.

"Shut up! move!" He yelled pushing him away only to be grabbed, by the policeman and his disguise came coming off.

"Tasuki Tetsu, you're under arrest!" The officer tells the man.

"First call an ambulance! Please hurry and call an ambulance!" The man panicked. "I'm extremely weak against eggs!"

"You know that was a lie." Lena laughed standing next to Tea.

"What." He looked at Tea and I.

"Yeah, our burgers is one hundred percent wheat flour." Tea explained and Len nodded.

"Shit!" He swore and tried to get away from the officer, which he did only to fall into the manager. The criminal saw the bruise on the boss calf and was shocked. "This man is the culprit." Tetsu yelled grabbing his shirt. "Jerk." The officer dragged him away causing the shirt to rip, showing a tattoo of a spider. "This, this tattoo…!" He noticed shocked. "The Yellow Spider, Jirou."

Jirou quickly stood up grabbing Tetsu's gun, like he did in the episode, but what surprise Lena more then anything. He didn't grab Tea, no he grabbed her. She froze scared and confuse, surely he was meant to grab Tea, she thought. She began to panic. She heard Nailah shout her name, but my mouth was quickly covered.

"If you move, she's dead!" He warned and Lena grabbed his arm that the hand on her face was connected to.

"You're…" The officer began. "The Yellow Spider Jirou?"

"Yeah. I changed my face with surgery and blended into the town." Jirou explained. Lena's heart was beginning to rush, this was the first time she was even been used as bait, and it wasn't even meant to be her! "Tetsu the Hedgehog, I never thought you'd come to the restaurant." The man spoke to the other criminal. "Even in disguise, I could recognise you in a glance. I was able to tell what places you were going to rob. I'm different from before. Right. I was the one that robbed Ushijima bank and stole the jewels!" He revealed and Lena watched how Tetsu put his head down in shame. "Everyone get down!" He ordered and everyone did what he said, but she saw that Nailah was a bit reluctant to do so. Nailah wasn't expecting this as well, she couldn't let this happen, but what could see do, she was only told to keep her company and make sure she found out things, when it was time for her, not for her to be kidnapped by some criminal. The long haired brunette began to panic even more, when she felt a cloth cover her eyes, making her world go black.

"Humans, when they lose their sight, become so scared they can't even scream." The salmon haired man lectured. "Look." He began dragging Lena to a seat. He sat down first, dragging her down with him.

"Lena!" She heard Yugi called and her hands tightened, she needed to calm down, she knew everything would be alright. She remember the episode clearly, she knew that the pharaoh came out when Tea called him. She might just have to do that, she hope it would work seeing as she wasn't Tea. She would of looked down if she could when she thought about that, but couldn't.

"So… Someone bring me what I demand." Jirou spoke with a smirk on his face. Nailah lay on the floor glaring at the man, that had her friend hostage, she also hoped everything turned out right. "You, the gutless looking kid, you do it." Lena knew straight away it was Yugi. She didn't like that fact he called him that. "The rest of you close you eyes and don't move." Lena closed her eyes behind the blindfold she needed to calm herself down, before shouting out. She knew it would cause her getting slapped for the very first time, but she needed to do it, but her heart went fast again when she heard the gun shot with him saying that if they move that's what she is going to get. "First bring alcohol and tobacco." He demanded. "I had quit all my old hobbies. I had quit drinking and smoking… However, now, in reverse I suddenly feel free!" Lena knew it was her time to react, even though she didn't want to sound too much like Tea. She took a breath and quickly stood up and began to shout.

"Yugi!? If that's you! stay away!" The long brunette suddenly felt a painful sting on her face and she fell down onto the seat as the man told her to shut up, but all Lena did was pray.

"Lena!" The girl heard Yugi shout her name, knowing now that the Pharaoh has decided to take control.

"Those who manhandle my precious Lena will suffer." Lena blushed slightly when she heard that, but was also shocked. He was meant to call Tea precious not her, but maybe he meant precious as a friend. Lena thought, but all she cared about mostly was how nice that sounded coming from his mouth. Len felt the pressure of fear slowly lifting from her shoulders. Ever since she was a child, whenever she heard his voice it would slowly calm her down. "However I like letting chance decide that." When she heard that she felt chills up her spine, apart of her want felt the urge to smile hearing his voice. "I brought it just as you wished."

"Hey, you! Who said you could stay?!" Jirou asked.

"What? I thought you'd want a game partner." Yami told the criminal. "It's game time." Lena tried to move her head downwards, stilling trying not to smile. Even though she was in a tough situation, she couldn't help, but feel all happy and bubbly inside.

"Oh, game? I guess I'm interested in it for a bit." The salmon haired spoke agreed to play the game. "In the past I used to gamble non-stop."

"However, it will be no ordinary game." Yami stated. "It's the Shadow Game, a game where you life is at stake."

"Sounds like fun! What's the rules?" Jirou questioned.

"Rule… just one." The Pharaoh told him. "And that is, out of these ten fingers all but except the one cannot move. We both choose our own. And only that finger can be used. So which finger do you choose?" Yami asked the man and Lena knew straight away which on it will be.

"If that's the case, then of course it's the pointing finger. The finger used to pull the gun's trigger." The criminal picked his index finger.

"Ok. Then I chose this finger." Yami signalled to his Thumb. "After the game starts, you can do as you like, even pull the trigger. So... let's go! Game start!"

"One second and it's game over!" The man laughed, but didn't pull the trigger as Yami flicked the lighter open. "That's right, it hasn't been lit yet."

"The lighter… you can have it back." Lena couldn't help but give into the smile when Yami spoke those words. The lighter dropped from the Pharaohs hand onto Jirou's. "I'll leave it there. That is Russian Senowolf. Ninety percent alcohol." Yami stated. The criminal began to panic. "I'd like to see you fire your gun. The recoil would drop the lighter." Lena felt a hand on her arm pulling her along. "Let's go, Lena." He began to drag her away from the Yellow Spider. Yami stopped when he noticed that Jirou broke the rules and turned around, Lena behind him. "I knew you wouldn't be able to obey the rules."

"What?!" Jirou questioned shocked. "What's that eye on your forehead."

"The Shadow Game reveals the true nature of human." Yami explained. "For rule breakers, it's destined to be a punishment game."

"You brat, how dare you feed me that crap!" The man exclaimed, grabbing the gun.

"The door of darkness has opened" Yami revealed and Lena then heard a gunshot and screaming. Yami turned to Lena who was still blindfolded. With a soft voice Lena began to speak, for she knew he was there, holding her arm.

"Thank you." She thanked. The female felt pain as she spoke, due to the slap. She was going to touch her on face, until Yami beat her to it and told her.

"Be careful, Chione." The moment she heard that name, her heart beated slightly. Chione? Who was Chione?

"Hey! you're late!" Joey yelled to Yugi and Tea who was walking towards him with Nailah. "Look! Opening today is this beef noodle shop, I hear it's delicious!"

"Welcome" The door opened to show Miho and Tristan standing there causing Nailah to laugh.

"You guy's are still doing that?" Joey questioned.

"But… but… I want new clothes!" Miho told them.

"I… I… will fall as far as needed, so long as I'm with Miho" Tristan pointed out and Nailah sweatdropped.

"Hey Nailah?" Nailah heard her name being called and she looked down at Yugi. "How is Lena?" Nailah smile softly at Yugi.

"She's fine, but my mother disagrees and won't let her leave the house until she is convinced she is fine." Nailah responded.

"That's good, I was worried about her" He smiled up at the blonde.

"I'll tell her that, I think she would like to hear that." Nailah looked back to where Tristan and Miho and sighed at them.