me: hatcha! i gots the new chapter up! whee!

SHO: what're you gonna do to Aniki?!

me: uh...send him home...

SHO: really?

me: uh-huh! Judai goes home in this chapter and tells his mama about the shit going on in his life!

SHO/JUN: O.O

me: what?

JUN: you cursed...

me: uh, yeah. and when did you get out of your restraints?!

SHO: when did you start cursing?!

me: what's wrong with me cursing?

SHO: well, you don't seem to be the kind of person who curses

me: well, you don't seem to be the kind of person who likes to (explicit sexual reference)

SHO: (fainted)

KagomeGirl92: thank you! and im glad the update made you happy! that makes me happy, which makes the rest of the worl happy! and yes! they do! which makes me so happy!

Cherry Romancer: O.O...i couldn't have done that better myself...

Yami'sPrincess4: why are people so shocked by that?

Lady Blade WarAngel: why, thank you

blue-demongirl: again, i ask why people are surprised to see that here. and thank you for the cookie! (eats cookie) and i will! for it is fun to torture Jun-kun!

JUN: no it is not!

me: yes it is!

LadyLove92: but the exciting stuff happens BEFORE they go back!

me: Sho-kun? Sho-kun? Sho-kun, are you okay?

JUN: maybe i should go get help...i'll just leave the room and--

me: (presses button and large glass cage falls on Jun)

JUN: GAH!!!! (string of curse words that are too profane for general audiences)

me: (faints)

JUN:...start the stupid fic

ac-the-brain-supreme does not own Yugioh GX. she also doesn't own the tickets to her boyfriend's homecoming because the school sold his tickets!
I see the docks of Domino harbor slowly coming out of the aqua horizon of the water. I'm getting more and more thrilled, thinking about what will be happening over the next few days. Being back home with my mother, seeing my aunt, having my cousin ask me which tattoo she should have tattooed on her ass next. Okay, I'm not looking forward to that last one, but I'm really glad to be able to be back home with my mom. To smell the burning food she attempts to make. To feel the cold, hard cylinder of the fire hydrant in my hand. Pulling the triger, realeasing the flame retardant white foam over the ruined meal. My mom turning to me and saying, "Well, howabout some take out?"

I wonder how many warnings she's received from her landlord. I wonder how many nights she's gone over to my aunt's to have dinner with her and my tatoo parlor-owning cousin. I wonder if she's gotten a raise or gotten promoted. This is the only downside of going to Duel Academy, I can't keep in touch with my family.

I can see the throngs of people clumped together on the peir. I see a two women I know by heart. One looks like she's twenty or twenty-one; the other is an older woman with graying brown hair. I jump off of my seat and run down to the room where baggage is held. It's down the steps, below the level where people can get off at. On my way down, I'm witness to one of Jun and Daichi's secret makeout sessions. At that moment, Daichi was sucking on Jun's neck and Jun was trying to get Daichi to touch his groin. It's kind of like some of the make out sessions me and Ryo have. Only I don't need to make Ryo touch me, he does it on his own. I sneak by my two friends and tip-toe into the luggage room. I close the door and sigh.

Apparently, Daichi and Jun have been seeing each other since Reika first cheated on Daichi. They ended up kissing and that's when their relationship started. Secret dates, Daichi sneaking out to meet Jun in his room; they were even better at keeping their feelings away from our friends than me and Ryo. Eventually we had to out ourselves because of Sho and because some of our other classmates were sending us threats to out us if we didn't. Even go to the headmaster and claim that we were having sex, something strictly forbidden on school grounds.

I search for my old suitcase. It's under a pile of suitcases, making it difficult to remove mine. Eventually after a lot of tugging, and an avalanche of luggage, my suitcase is free and I escape with a bad headache. I look out of the few windows that are in the luggage room. The boat's finally docked and the sign-out people have started to walk down the plank. I feel heat rise to my cheeks as well as a smile. I squeeze my way past a couple of Obelisk girls going to the luggage room and run as fast as I can up the metal stairs. I bump into a few people on my way up, one of them being Jun, who had probably realized that people were going to start coming by where they were and got Daichi to stop his vampire impersonation.

I wait behind some people who decided to keep their luggage with them through the whole trip as they give their names and walk to meet their friends and family, waiting eagerly for the young duelists who left home to hone their skills. I give my name and run as fast as I can to the older woman I saw out of the window.

"Judai!" the woman with graying hair shouts as I run into her open arms. I feel someone else wrap their arms around my waist. I look down to see the younger woman I saw on her knees. "Hey, Mister Biggie," the woman jokes, "do you know where my tiny Judai went? He seemed to have disappeared!" I laugh and hug her head.

"Excuse me, Miss" the Slifer sign-out guy says to the woman who was stading up, "but may I have your signature?"

"Me?" she asks. Me and the kneeling woman smile.

"Yes, you. So you can take your son home" the man says, trying to stay polite.

The woman he is adressing to counts on her fingers. She seems confused, which makes this even funnier. "I'm sorry Sir, but I have no son. I have a daughter, but no son."

The man looks down at me, then back at the elder woman. "Well, then, uhm, I'm sorry. Can you sign your daughter out?"

The kneeling woman starts to laugh so much, she falls on her side. After realizing that the asphalt she's lying on isn't very sanitary, she gets us, still chuckling. "Oh, I'm sorry, but it was just so funny" she apologizes. The woman takes a pen out of her pocket and signs in an empty box next to my name. It's also next to a signature identical to it as well as the one on all of the tuition checks. The man takes a double, triple take between me, my mom, and my aunt.

"C'mon Baby," my mom says to me. My aunt picks up my suitcase. "Kami, Judai, what do you have in here?" she asks.

"I forget" I tell her.


My mom, Autumn Yuki, had me when she was sixteen years old. According to what my grandfather told me, my father, who I have never met in my entire life, was older than my mother. Much older. Five or six years older. Most peolpe wouldn't find it disturbing that a sixteen-year-old and a twenty-one or twenty-two-year-old would have sex. But my mom was underage the time I was conceived, and still underage when she told her mother about me. And when she ran away from my grandmother, who had gone into such a tantrum my mother feared for both our lives. She went to the father, and received just as much support from him. Apparently he threatened to kill my mom if she didn't get an abortion.

Eventually, Mom went to my grandfather's where she stayed until I was born--healthy and happy--and got a job and apartment. Its the same apartment she lives in today. The same apartment I step into with bags from a fastfood restaurant we stopped at along the way. "Home sweet home!" my mother announces. I look around. Pretty much nothing has changed, except maybe one or two less chairs. And a few more fire extinguishers. "Hey, guess what!" my mom asks. I shrug. "What?"

"The fire department training school called a month ago and asked me to do a training course for some of the students. It was a lesson in domestic small-fire calls!" my mom says happily. I shake my head. "What's that for? We got some more fire hydrants and I got paid a lot of money for doing a good job!"

I sigh again and dig through the bags for my food. My mom walks up to me. "Something wrong, Baby?" my mom asks. "You've been kinda weird since we started driving around for a place for lunch."

I look away from my mother. On the way to the restaurant, I had started thinking about me and Ryo. Then that led to me thinking about Sho, and that's what made me start to become so down. I shake my head, but my mom's wise to me. If I don't talk, she knows for certain that there is something wrong. My mom grabs me by the red blazer I still have on and drags me over to the little living room. She puts me on the couch and lies down on top of me. My mom is pretty light, but it's hard to move with her on me. "Tell me and I will get up!" my mom says.

"Moooooooom" I whine.

"Tell me!" she whines back.

This isn't going to go well for me, so I just sigh and throw my head back. "Over the year, I got a boyfriend--"

"WHAT?!" my mom asks enthusiastically. She sits up, giving me the chance to throw myself to the floor. Unfortunately, my mom is just as quick as me and throws herself on top of me. "Ha ha!" she announces proudly. "I have defeated you!" She always says that. When I was little and we played Duel Monsters, I would let her win and she would say that same thing. Then she would make me play her again, which made me very happy. My mom adjusts herself so she's sitting on my back. "Now tell me, my beloved son, why does that make you sad?"

I hesitate. "Well," I say, "having a boyfriend doesn't, it's everything that's happened because I have my boyfriend."

"Like what?"

I tell my mom about how me and Ryo first started to date after he and I had dueled each other. We had decided to keep it secret because his little brother was my roommate and best friend and we didn't know how our other friends would take the news. Then, one day, after Ryo had a rock thrown into his dorm that threatened to tell the principal that we were dating and throwing in the lie that we were sleeping together on school grounds, we decided to beat the person to the punch. After that, we told our friends. After that, none of them seemed to treat us the same.

I told my mom how Asuka had just stopped looking and talking to me and Ryo. How Jun would say innapropriate things to us and how Daichi just became more into his own girlfriend, who he had just recently dumped. When my mom asked why, I told her about how he and Jun were together during the time Reika and Daichi were together. "Oh," my mom said, then made me go back to the subject of me and Ryo. I said that the only person who didn't seem to be as upset or angry or any more different was Sho, Ryo's brother. In the month after Ryo and I had come out, Ryo was coming over to my dorm instead of me and him meeting in some private spot. There we would start to make out, sometimes to when dinner bell is rung or if Sho walked in on us kissing. After a while, Sho and I stopped talking to each other or seeing each other as much. I would get in late, since Ryo always invited me to his dorm for dinner, and I would get up early since he came in and woke me up.

"Your boyfriend can wake you up in the morning, but an alarm clock or your loving mother can't?" my mom asked. "What's his secret?"

"Licking my cheek" I answer.

"Oh" she says. "Ew."

"Actually it's not all that bad" I said in defense of the way Ryo wakes me up in the morning.

"I still don't understand. Other than loosing your friends, I can't seem to see what'd make you so down about being with Ryo" my mom says.

"Well," I say, "recently Sho moved out of the dorm we shared. But, because we didn't speak to each other or see each other or anything, I didn't know until the dorm head came to my room and asked if I was okay with living by myself. But, I didn't know that he was talking about that, so I said I was okay with it. When I found out, I ran to Sho's new dorm to talk him into moving back in with me and...and we had a fight."

Actually, he yelled at me everything he couldn't tell anyone else. He screamed how painful it was to see his brother and his best friend--no, not his best friend, the person he loved--kiss in his room. He shouted what it was like to take the front of having your friends turn their back on you and slowly loose your best friend at the same time. He exclaimed what it felt like to see the person you love and your own flesh and blood have sex in your own room. I can't imagine what that feels like, especially since I know Sho had trouble making friends back when he lived on the mainland. He must've been so lonely.

"I see what's wrong" my mother says. "You're worried that you've lost your best friend because of your relationship with his brother, right?"

"Yeah," I say. That's not the full reason, but I don't think that telling my mother that Sho loves me, Ryo and I have done it twice in the past couple of weeks, and that I don't think Ryo really loves me, like he once claimed the night we first kissed.

"Honey" my mother says, "you have no need to worry. Just try talking to Sho again. Maybe he'll understand that you and Ryo really like each other. Personally, I think he's being a bit selfish, but that's my opinion and my opinion alone." My mother gets off of me. "C'mon, Judai, let's start eating and enjoy the few weeks we have together!"

I stand up. I go to the table as my mother gets plates out for our little luncheon. But during the entire thing, I can't help thinking about Sho. And the more I do, the more the burgers we got seem to taste like cardboard.


JUN: AC is still unconscious...so...what do I do know? uh...review, please. and get me out of here!