Disclaimer: see prologue
Chapter 6
During class, Professor Banner was giving a lesson to the students and Jaden as always was sleeping in class and both Yusuke and Keiko could hear the snore.
"Why must we put up with this?" Yusuke muttered only for his girlfriend to her
Keiko sighed in annoyance, "I really have no clue, Yusuke," she replied in a low tone, "I'm still surprised that the snore is also annoying you of all people."
Kagome, who was sitting by Keiko was also annoyed by Jaden's snore, "What could he have been possibly been doing all night?" she muttered
Keiko got out her PDA communicator and typed: Syrus, Ryoko, Chumley don't wake Jaden up I want to do this myself and hopeful it would be the LAST time.
Jordan was looking at Jaden, who was sleeping, 'And this is the guy that Asuka-onee-chan has a thing for.' He thought
Later after Prof. Banner was done, teaching it was lunchtime and Yusuke, Kagome and Keiko went up to the Slifer row, where Ryoko, Syrus and Jaden, who was still sleeping until now, are.
"What are you planning to do to Jaden, Keiko?" Syrus asked
The brown haired Ra Yellow got out her duel disk out of her bag
WHAP!
"OUCH! OUCH! OUCH!" Jaden, after waking up, screams getting up from his seat and holding his head in pain
"That has got to hurt," Syrus said looking at his friend yelling in pain
After the yelps of pain, Jaden could feel the lump on his head and glared at Keiko, "What the hell is wrong with you, woman!" he yelled, "You have no idea, how much that hurt!"
Keiko glared back, "And you have no idea, how it's so annoying that we have to put up with YOU sleeping in class, Jaden!" she yelled back
"Try shaking me, like every normal human being!"
"I'd try that, but we've been do that for the past TWENTY TIMES and that DIDN'T work!"
Jaden, in anger, turned away from Keiko's glare at him, "God, she must be a demon," he muttered. Then suddenly he felt this chilled down his spine and a pair of red eyes was glowing behind him (anime style). That chill made Jaden realized that Keiko heard what he said and after all the stories that Yusuke had told him about the brown-haired girl hitting him for doing stupid things at him. Jaden had now regretted say that as he turned to see Keiko, with an anime vein on her temple, face and eyes red.
"Uh oh!" Yusuke muttered, knowing that Jaden will get a beating
Jaden backed away from her and Keiko was following him, "Now, now, Keiko, I was only kidding say that……"
"Jaden, a word of advice," Yusuke started, "RUN!"
"That's a good idea," Jaden said as he ran from Keiko, but the brunette Ra ran in pursuit, waving her duel disk, "Jaden Yuki, you better hope I don't catch you!" she yelled chasing him out of the classroom.
Jaden was running through the halls, trying to get away from the enraged Keiko. The brunette duelist looked behind him to see Keiko was still running faster him, leaving dust behind her. Jaden was freaked, so he can ran he never ran before, "Can't we talk this over!" he asked, while running
"Sure, as soon as you stop running so I can hit you!" Keiko replied, trying to hit Jaden's head, but the Slifer was too fast for the Ra.
"Bad idea!"
Keiko got close enough to Jaden and lunged at him and crashing on the floor with him. Keiko was now on Jaden's back and she raised her duel disk, and then struck him on the head, multiple times (anime style). Just as Keiko kept striking Jaden's head, something grabbed her duel disk. The brunette turned to see Alexis and Jordan behind her, "Keiko, what are you doing?" Alexis asked, grabbing the duel disk and looked at Jaden, who was lying on the ground, with five lumps on the head, swirls for his eyes (anime style), and moaning in pain, "Don't tell me that you used this duel disk to hit Jaden on the head!"
"Well, yeah!" Keiko replied getting up from the injured and unconscious Jaden's back and putting her duel disk in her bag.
"Let's get Jaden to the nurse's office for him to regain conscious there," Alexis said walking over to Jaden and picked up his upper body, "Hey Keiko, mind you help me?"
"Sure!"
While outside Yusuke and the others (Syrus, Kagome, Ryoko, Chumley and Kari) were outside in the school courtyard having lunch.
"Hey Kagome, I'm wondering what's with that bead necklace of yours?" Syrus asked
Kagome's eye twitched, forgetting that the rosary was on her neck, "It's a family heirloom, which provides the wearier luck." She lied
"Luck?" Chumley repeated
"Yeah, since Duel Academy is the top dueling school in the world, I have to wear this thing to bring good luck."
"But, you beat Chazz Princeton in a duel and you didn't have that thing with you." Yusuke pointed
"Yeah, but now I've been promoted to Ra Yellow and I was told that there are few things that could get you demoted."
Just then, a shadow appeared behind Yusuke and the Ra Yellow noticed it. Yusuke looked at the figure, which was a seventeen year old boy, with short red hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a third year Obelisk uniform, "May I help you?" Yusuke asked
"If you're Yusuke Urameshi, then yes there's something you can help me with." The boy said
"I'm him," Yusuke said getting up
Kari knew this boy right off the bat, "Harrington Rosewood, what are you trying to pull?" she asked getting up from her seat
The boy known as Harrington looked at Kari and he was a little frightened, "H-Hi-Hikari Urameshi!" he stuttered and regained some of his confidence, "I wasn't going to pick on Yusuke, I wanted to duel him that's all." he said, with fear
Yusuke knew when he looked at Harrington's face that he didn't trust him, but he couldn't put his finger on it. To Yusuke, Harrington had a face of a snake, someone that would do anything to get what he wants.
"Sure, why not," Yusuke said, "I just put one of your Obelisk pals on my duel victim list."
"Yes, and you beat them in two turns!" Harrington said, with a smirk
"Hey that was only luck or that he must have been the weakest of your rank!" Yusuke spat
"I know that you're only saying that for the sake of your sister," Harrington pointed, "But, you're right, I mean, let's get real, Yusuke, there is no way that you can have defeat an third year Obelisk, like me, in just two turns!"
"What will happen if I refuse?"
"Then, I can't tell what will happen to your pretty little girlfriend, Keiko Ukimura."
"You wouldn't!" Ryoko yelled
Yusuke and Kari were now angry, "What have you done to her?" Yusuke yelled
"Rosewood, if you have a death wish, let's have it!" Kari added, ready to beat the Obelisk up
"I haven't done any to her, yet," Harrington said, "I mean I didn't kidnap her or didn't do anything to her, yet. What do you say, Yusuke?"
Yusuke knew what he has to do, "Okay, let's go!" he said getting out his duel disk and activating it (4000/4000)
A few minutes later………
Yusuke had backed Harrington to a corner, when he blew away his monsters and his facedowns, "What! Yusuke, you know I was only joking about me hurting Keiko, right!" Harrington said (LP: 100)
"Harrington, when someone uses my girlfriend's name, to get to me, I get real pissed!" Yusuke said (LP: 2000), "Now, Gearfried attack Harrington directly!" Gearfried charges and slashes Harrington's shoulder, bringing his life points down to zero, "You lose!" Yusuke yelled
"I hope you've learned something from this, Rosewood," Kari said walking towards the red head, which was freaking him out.
Yusuke knew what his sister was going to do, but decided that he deserved it for using Keiko's name to get to him.
"This is gonna hurt," Ryoko said, "But the jerk asked for it!" she added and follow by crashing and whacking noises
The gang winced as the noise was brought and Harrington being thrown to the bushes.
Kari dusted her hands off, "Some people are just so stupid," she said to herself
"Way to go, Yusuke!" Kagome cheered
"Yeah, funny I thought that dueling a third year Obelisk would be most than a challenge for me." Yusuke said
"Well, I guess what the rumors about Harrington being as good as Zane Truesdale aren't necessarily true." Chumley pointed
Meanwhile at Obelisk arena………
"Go Blader, attack Infernal Flame Emperor with Trident Blast!" Alexis commanded (LP: 400) as Cyber Blader blasts Infernal Flame Emperor and destroyed on impact and blowing away Keiko as her life points went from 300 to 0.
Jordan appalled, "Good job, Asuka-onee-chan!" he cheered and unconsciously moved his eyes around and when his eyes stopped, it was because he was stunned. He saw a thirteen-year-old girl, with long blue hair, to her waist and piercing green eyes. He wondered who that girl was, he couldn't go there for himself because he had a fear of girls and another problem was she wouldn't talk to him because she was wearing a Ra Yellow uniform and won't bother talking to a short 'Slifer Slacker', like him. Plus, she was talking to her three Ra Yellow friends, so what would the point is.
Keiko got on her feet, with the help of Alexis, who was grabbing her by the hand, "That was a great duel!" Keiko said, with glee
"Yeah," Alexis responded and glanced over to Jordan, who was walking to her and grabbing her arm. The blonde ruffled with her cousin's messy hair, with delight, "Hey Asuka-onee-chan, it's time for lunch!" Jordan told her, pulling Alexis's arm, like a child pulling a parent's arm
"Okay, okay, Jordan!" Alexis said
"Mind if Keiko-nee-chan comes, also?" Jordan asked, gleefully
Alexis was surprised at this and turned to Keiko, "Hey Keiko, you want to join us for lunch?"
"Sure!" the brunette replied walking with the blondes off the arena
While outside Chazz was walking in the courtyard, 'I should be checking with Harrington to see how well he did against Yusuke.' He thought then he heard noise coming from the bushes, which made him stop
The black haired Obelisk looked at the bush, "Who's there?" he asked, sounding a little scared, "Come out now!"
Something came out of the bushes that was covered with leaves and lunged at Chazz, which freaked out the Obelisk.
"Chazz, it's me, Harrington," the figure said
Chazz looked carefully to found out for himself, "Harrington, this would sound like a stupid question but what were you doing in that bush?" he asked
"Hikari Urameshi, she beat me up for using Yusuke's girlfriend's name to get to him," Harrington replied.
"That's your own fault, scrub," Chazz said, "So, did you beat that Ra Rookie, Yusuke?"
"H-he won!"
"Y-you l-lost to a Ra Yellow duelist," Chazz said, trying to hold back his laughter
"Hey don't start laughing, you've lost to that Ra Yellow and three Slifers!"
"And you were supposed to be as good as Zane Truesdale and you lost badly."
"Back off, Princeton!" Harrington spat, "Why don't you fight your own battles, for now on?" with that he stormed off
Chazz growled, 'Damn you, Yusuke, Keiko, Jaden and Kagome. Damn you all! I've been humiliated by you four lucky punks and one day, I'll have my revenge on you all.' He thought clenching his fists
After class, everyone was leaving the class for the day and Alexis went to get Jordan. Jordan got his bag ready and noticed his cousin was behind him, "Asuka-onee-chan!" he called and quickly wrapped his arms around Alexis's back and waist and pulling the surprised blonde to a hug, "Thank you, I passed the pop quiz with an A!" Jordan exclaimed, happily with his chin pressed on his cousin's chest and looked at Alexis, his tongue sticking up in happiness.
Alexis's face beamed at this and she wrapped her arms around Jordan, returning the hug, "That's great, Jordan!" she commented and tighten her grip on the boy, then kissed his forehead
"I wish that Fubuki-onii-sama was here to see this," Jordan said, "I wonder where he is, Asuka-onee-chan. I sure miss him." He said, with sadness
Alexis could feel what her cousin is feeling, she too missed her brother, just as much as Jordan does and doesn't know where he is now, but that didn't mean that she should show how much she really misses him in front of Jordan. That would show how weak she is to him and doesn't want that to happen, "Don't worry about Atticus, Jordan." She told him, stroking Jordan's hair gently, "I'm sure that he's all right where he is now. I miss him as much as you do, but wishing that he was here isn't going to make it automatically happen, you know." Alexis then lower her bangs to cover the sadness in her eyes, "We just have to hope that he'll return to us, someday, okay." She said, trying to be supportive
Jordan lets go of his cousin and looked at her then nodded, "Okay," he said, which earned him a ruffle of his hair by Alexis, who was smiling at him, "That a boy!" she said, gleefully, "I believe today is the day that I spend the night with you, right?"
"Uh! Huh!" Jordan replied, returning the glee
"Okay, as soon as a walk you back to the Slifer Dorm, I'll go to my dorm and get ready, okay!"
"Okay!"
The cousins left the room and walked into the hallways, "Hey Jordan, I've got a question, how come that you invited Keiko to have lunch with us?" Alexis asked
"Well, when I looked at Keiko-nee-chan, she looked like she wouldn't do anything to harm me." Jordan replied
Alexis tiled her head a bit, "Is that so? Huh?" she said, thinking that Jordan must be getting over his fear of girls.
"Hold it, Slifer Slacker!" came a voice
Alexis rolled her eyes, "Oh no, not him! Anyone but him…." She said as she and Jordan turned to see Chazz was behind him.
"What do you want, Chazz?" Alexis asked, in an annoyed tone
"I'm only interested in Jordan, here," Chazz said, pointing at Jordan, who was hiding behind Alexis
"What do you want with him?"
"I only want to duel him, that's all!"
"Yeah, right," Alexis said, "You're planning to use that ante rule on Jordan. The same way that you almost used on Jaden, before!"
Chazz snorted, "Stay out of this, Alexis," he said, "I'm sick of your inference."
"I'm sorry, but Jordan is not dueling you!" Alexis spat
"Why don't you get shut that trap you call a mouth and let Jordan make that decision for himself? Because, all you're doing is nothing, but babying him." Chazz informed
Just then Yusuke, Jaden, Keiko and Kari came by to see the quarrelsome between Chazz and Alexis
"Hey, what the hell is going here?" Yusuke asked walking towards the blondes
Chazz glanced at the newcomers and he was freaked that Kari was with them, "H-Hikari!" he cried, knowing that he'll be dog meat soon
"Chazz is trying to get an ante duel with Jordan, here!" Alexis replied
"He just doesn't quit!" both Jaden and Keiko said in unison
Kari glared at Chazz, "Princeton, if you have a problem with death, then now is the time to work them out." She threatened walking towards the scared Chazz
"Listen Hikari, I was only kidding," Chazz begged then Kari grabbed him by the collar, "You're about to take a trip through the window!"
"No wait, please don't!" Chazz begged as he was carried by the collar
"Kari-nee-chan, don't!" Jordan called coming out of his hiding place, "I'll duel Chazz!"
Alexis glared at Jordan, "Jordan, you don't have to do this!"
"But I want to Asuka-onee-chan, if I don't then Chazz was keep doing this over and over."
"How about throwing him out the window?" Kari asked gripping Chazz's collar, "He won't be bothering you, when he's dead." She added getting ready throw Chazz out the window
Jordan ran to Kari and wrapped his arms around her waist, hugging her, "Please Hikari-nee-chan, I want to get rid of Chazz my own way!" he said facing the brunette
Kari sighed, "Okay for you, Princeton lives for now!"
Jordan was satisfied and looked at Alexis, with pleading eyes and his cousin sighed in defeat, "Okay Jordan, you can duel Chazz," she said, "And I'll be watching for any dirty tricks!" she added with a glare at Chazz
"You heard Kari," Chazz yelled, "Now let me go!" Chazz didn't realize his huge mistake as Kari punched his gut and the Obelisk coughed out blood, which sent him flying making his back hit the wall. Kari pinned Chazz's neck to the wall and the brunette put her mouth by his ear, "Don't. Ever. Call. Me. 'Kari'.!" She said in a soft and threatening tone, "This is a warning of what will happen to you if you pull anything in the duel." She added as she punched Chazz's stomach again and letting go of the Obelisk's neck and making him fall on his knees, coughing blood, while holding his gut. Kari then kicked Chazz's ribs making him landed on his back and the brunette stomp hard onto Chazz's chest, "If there's anything abnormal going on in the match then I'll personally break both your legs!" she threatened as she pressed her foot onto Chazz's chest, almost breaking his chest bone, "Y-yes, I promise!" Chazz cried as he could feel his chest bone getting crushed under the weight of Kari's strength. Kari got her foot off of Chazz and stomped on his stomach, making him turn over as he coughed out more blood, knowing that one day Kari's blows would kill him.
"That was the warning, next time, I will kill you!" Kari said walking away with her brother and friends
After a while of regaining his strength, Chazz slowly got up on his feet, but he was struggling and he fell to his knees. Just then a shadow appeared above him and he noticed it. Chazz looked up to see the blue eyes of Zane, "So, I see that you've picked on another Slifer, Chazz." He said
"Hey, help me up, will ya?" Chazz begged
"I saw you making a deal with Harrington to duel Yusuke Urameshi, just this morning, Chazz." Zane said, "Why did you do it?"
"I've been beaten by that no good slacker and his friends in a duel." Chazz replied, "I need to prove to them that I won't be beaten by luck."
"Oh, is that so," Zane responded with his arms cross, "Or is it that you're too ashamed to admit the truth that the dueling skills of the Ra Yellows, Yusuke Urameshi, Kagome Higurashi and Keiko Ukimura and the Slifer Red, Jaden Yuki are so superior to yours."
"What are you getting at, Zane?" Chazz asked, "That was nothing but luck that those punks beat me!"
"Then, why don't you settle your revenge on them instead of Alexis's cousin, Jordan?"
Chazz growled, "And why don't you mind your damn business?" he asked and got enough strength to get on his feet, "Now, if you would excuse me, I'll be somewhere about the dorm recuperating from the blows that Hikari Urameshi had giving me." And with that he walked away from the blunette duelist
"Hey Chazz," Zane called out, which made his fellow Obelisk stop in his tracks, "What do you want now?" Chazz asked
"Do you know where Hikari is?"
Chazz looked at him, "She's with her brother and friends," He replied then went on his way, limping in the hallway, while holding his ribs.
"You sure you don't want help getting to the dorm, Chazz?" Zane asked
"No way, I can handle this myself," Chazz replied, "It's not that this is my first time that I had to feel Hikari Urameshi's blows."