I'm just warning you; this chapter will be slightly different compared to the anime.
Disclaimer: I do not own any Yu-Gi-Oh characters! I only own my OCs!
Chapter 8: The Approaching Beautiful Teacher's Secret Mask
Aurora was on her way to school with Anzu and Miho for some girl-time. Joakim needed to help out a bit in the karate dojo at home, so he couldn't go with her. When the girls were close to the school building, they spotted a female teacher that really stood out. She was tall, had pale skin, reddish hair and aquarium eyes. Her clothes consisted of a green suit with a tight mini-skirt and some of her bust was being revealed. Her name was Ms. Chouno, a very popular teacher among the male students and teachers.
Aurora didn't really like Ms. Chouno. She could clearly see how much makeup the female teacher was using. She had enough experience to see how many layers there were on Ms. Chouno's face due to all the other female singers she had met during the time in Canada.
"Ms. Chouno is beautiful again today", Miho commented.
"Whether the teacher is pretty or not has nothing to do with us", Anzu told her.
"Correct", Aurora nodded. "Besides, all the makeup will just make her uglier in the future."
"Hey, you", Ms. Chouno called.
The trio stopped walking and watched the scene in front of them. Ms. Chouno was pointing at a female student who had a keychain figure attached on her school bag.
"What is that?" the teacher asked with a fake smile.
"It's a mascot", the female student relief.
"That's against rules. Hand it over", Ms. Chouno said, and instead of waiting she took the keychain away from the student. "Be careful next time." With that, she turned on her heels and went to school.
"Plus she's strict with rules", Anzu added after the scene.
"But a keychain figure like that can't make any harm at school", Aurora frowned, her dislike on Ms. Chouno growing stronger.
"But that's what teachers have to do, right?" Miho questioned.
"Ms. Chouno is trying to make them even more strict", Anzu said. "There's a rumor that she has been making a lot of proposals."
"You're kidding!" Miho gasped.
"I wish", Anzu shrugged.
"Ridiculous", Aurora shook her head.
"Anzu-chan. Miho-chan. Aurora-chan", a soft and shy voice spoke up behind the trio.
The girls turned around to see a girl with green hair and brown eyes. She was one of their classmates Mayumi.
"Good morning, Mayumi", Anzu greeted.
"What's wrong?" Miho asked.
Aurora noticed that Mayumi looked a bit sad or rather concerned. "I need some advice", the green-haired girl told the trio.
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During lunch break, Mayumi told Aurora and the girls about her small secret. Apparently, Mayumi had a crush on Joey which was a huge surprise for both Aurora and Anzu.
"Huh? Joey?!" Anzu yelled.
Miho quickly covered Anzu's mouth before Joey or someone else could have heard her. "No, Anzu!"
"Anzu-chan, your voice is too loud", Mayumi whispered.
"This is not a live-concert", Aurora said with a normal voice.
Anzu pulled off Miho's hand from her mouth. "I get it! But…" She looked into the classroom where Tristan and Joey were fighting while Yugi tried stopping them and Joakim just watched the scene with an amused smile. "Just what do you like about Joey?"
"It's hard to say what…", Mayumi confessed.
"You shouldn't ask things like that, Anzu! Love doesn't need a reason!" Miho said, going into her own little perfect world.
Aurora shook her head at Miho's naivety. Real life worked in a whole another different way than what Miho thought. Life wasn't all colorful and bloomy. Aurora knew that by her own experience.
"I wonder what Joey-kun likes", Mayumi said.
"What he likes?" Anzu questioned.
"What are you going to do?" Miho asked, returning from her world.
"It's a present! I'm going to give Joey-kun something he likes as a present", Mayumi explained.
"What does he like?" Anzu wondered out loud.
"He and Tristan-kun often talk about lewd videos", Miho said.
"I can't give that as a present!" Mayumi said irritated.
Aurora shrugged, "Better call the secret weapon."
The girls blinked confusedly as Aurora walked to the doorway. "Mutou-kun", she called.
Yugi turned to the doorway while Tristan and Joey stopped fighting. Joakim blinked confusedly at his sister.
"Can you come here for a moment, please?" Aurora asked Yugi.
"Sure. What is it, Aurora-chan?" Yugi wondered.
"I'll tell you when you join us", Aurora replied.
Yugi nodded and walked over to the small group of girls.
"What? Us too?" Joey asked.
Before he and Tristan could follow Yugi, Joakim grabbed them by the collar of the school uniform from behind, holding them back. "I don't think so, guys", Joakim said. "If Aura wanted you too to join them, she would have asked for you."
"Exactly!" Anzu nodded. "You guys aren't needed!" She shut the door once Yugi was with the girls.
"What is it, guys?" Yugi asked.
"What does Joey like?" Anzu asked him.
"Something Joey likes?" Yugi blinked confusedly.
"Yeah. You'd know, right?" Anzu said.
Yugi pondered about it for two seconds before he replied with an innocent smile. "He probably would like lewd videos."
The girls except Aurora anime-dropped at Yugi's reply.
"Not something like that!" Anzu yelled. "Something a girl can give as a present!"
"And you're going to give it to him?" Yugi wondered, tilting his head lightly, looking really surprised.
"It's actually about Mayumi-chan", Aurora told Yugi. "She has feelings for Wheeler-kun."
"Hey! Aurora-chan!" Mayumi exclaimed, embarrassed to hear Aurora tell Yugi the truth.
"It's okay. Yugi wouldn't tell anyone", Anzu told the green-haired girl. "Right, Yugi?"
Yugi nodded, "If it's a secret, then I'll keep it a secret."
"Do you have any idea about the present, Mutou-kun?" Aurora wondered.
Yugi thought about it again. "Joey likes games. Maybe something from our shop?"
"I see. Yugi's grandfather's place", Anzu nodded.
"Let's look after school", Miho said.
"I would like to join you, but Joakim and I have a meeting after school today", Aurora said.
The group turned to Aurora with confused eyes.
"What kind of meeting?" Anzu asked.
"You'll know about it during summer", Aurora replied before winking.
Yugi secretly smiled, knowing what Aurora meant by that. He had a feeling it was about Aurora and Joakim making a comeback in the music world. He was very curious what kind of songs the twins usually sang.
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The weekend came and went and it was now Monday. The girls and Yugi went earlier to school to discuss about the present Mayumi bought at the Kame Game shop. Mayumi had bought a blank jigsaw puzzle and wrote a message on it that Joey would have to solve by completing the now shattered puzzle.
According to Solomon himself, he won his late wife's heart by the very same jigsaw puzzle.
The group was all alone in the classroom. There were barely any students or teachers in the whole school building at the moment, but soon it would get overflowed.
"Did you write it? Did you write it?" Miho asked.
Mayumi nodded before she opened her school bag and pulled out the present. It was wrapped with purple wrapping paper and had a red ribbon on.
"Cute!" Miho giggled.
"I did my best all weekend", Mayumi told the group.
"So what do we do?" Anzu wondered.
"Probably secretly leaving it in the desk is best", Miho suggested.
"Better than in the shoe locker", Aurora commented.
"But if that guy finds it, wouldn't he just start working on it in front of everyone?" Anzu pointed out.
"When that happens, I'll bring him to the roof", Yugi told the girls.
"Okay, let's do that", Anzu nodded.
"Yeah", Mayumi agreed.
She placed her gift in Joey's desk, making sure it was being hidden so no one else would accidently see it and open the present. You never knew what kind of other idiots and dummies were in the class.
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Every student in the class was settled and waited for the first teacher who happened to be Ms. Chouno. Well, almost every student because one was missing and that happened to be the very same person who Mayumi had feelings for.
"Joey isn't here yet?" Anzu said.
"Could it be he's absent today?" Miho wondered.
"No…", Mayumi mumbled sadly.
"He's probably just late", Aurora told the girls.
Straight after that, the door slid open to reveal said boy the girls had just spoken about.
"I made it in time!" Joey gasped in relief.
Mayumi couldn't hold back a smile when she saw his crush. That brightened her day.
"Joey-kun, you're late!" Miho told him.
"Take your seat already. The teacher will be here soon", Tristan said.
Joey closed the door behind him and settled down by his desk. "I stayed up watching videos last night. I went to bed late."
"Oh, lewd videos?!" Tristan teased.
"Don't insult me! It was Hong Kong action!" Joey yelled.
"He's trying to teach himself martial arts?" Joakim mumbled.
The front door of the classroom slid open before Ms. Chouno stepped inside. She walked up to the cathedral and settled down her books before the students bowed to her.
"Okay, open your textbooks", Ms. Chouno told the class with her big, fake smile.
Joey smirked proudly as he stretched for his textbook under his desk, but his hands grabbed something else. He arched an eyebrow and pulled out said item that didn't used to be there.
It was Mayumi's present!
Mayumi held back a gasp when she saw Joey had found her gift, but he held it up clearly for everyone to see. And when you had Ms. Chouno as the teacher, she wouldn't let the student having something unrelated during class.
"What is this?" Joey wondered.
The alarms were blaring in Aurora's head. She saw how Ms. Chouno had spotted Joey holding the present.
"Stupid Joey! Hurry and hide that!" Anzu whispered to the blonde boy.
"Joseph Wheeler, what are you doing during class?" Ms. Chouno said as she walked over to said boy. "A bunny lunch? What a cute lunch box." She ripped the present out of Joey's hands as everyone except Yugi's group, the twins and Mayumi laughed.
"That's not mine", Joey retorted.
"Not yours? But you had it, right?" Ms. Chouno asked.
"It was just in my desk. Someone must have put it in there by accident", Joey replied.
"Accident? I see", Ms. Chouno said as she returned to the cathedral. "But… The teacher always tells you. Don't bring things to school that aren't related to class. What could this be, Wheeler?"
"I already told you I don't know!" Joey replied, holding back the growl that was in his throat.
"Really?" Ms. Chouno smiled wickedly.
The teacher used force to open the present and ripped the wrapping paper apart, making pieces of the jigsaw puzzle rain down on the cathedral.
"Oh! Jigsaw puzzle? That's no good", Ms. Chouno shook her head. "You shouldn't bring a plaything." And things got even worse when the teacher started working with the puzzle.
Aurora did not like this at all. A couple of seconds ago, Ms. Chouno told the whole class to not bring any toys or games to school, and now she had the nerve to play games in front of the students? What kind of role model was she? What a disgusting witch!
"You'd probably take it out and completely lose yourself in it", Ms. Chouno said with a playful voice.
Aurora had enough and stood up from her chair with force that made the chair scrape against the floor. "Stop it, teacher."
Ms. Chouno looked up from the puzzle. "What, Ueda-san?"
Aurora really wanted to give Ms. Chouno a piece of her mind, but decided to play around with the words instead. "That jigsaw puzzle happens to be a letter. And if I remember correctly about the etiquettes, it's considering cruel to read other people's letters."
"Cruel?" Ms. Chouno got a slight dark face, but hid it quickly with her façade. "But as a teacher, I must know who brought this to school."
"Then I confess right away it's mine", Aurora said with a determined glance in her eyes.
Joakim knew that look in his sister's eyes. She had a strong sense of justice and hated when people made fun of others, like now before she stopped it.
"I see. So it's Ueda-san's", Ms. Chouno said. "When class is over, go to the advisor room." She placed back the jigsaw puzzle and the pieces into the box and put it aside for now.
Aurora sat down and returned to the studying, ignoring the worried glances on her back. Amaura couldn't help but look worriedly at her host. But her glance landed on Ms. Chouno who had a very disgusting aura. It literally screamed egoism and the need of control.
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Aurora and Ms. Chouno went straight to the advisor room after the class. The teacher picked up the puzzle and placed it on the table.
"This is no good", Ms. Chouno said. "You shouldn't bring something like this to school."
"Why is it such a bad thing?" Aurora asked.
"Excuse me?" Ms. Chouno arched an eyebrow.
"I didn't bring it to bother anyone", Aurora replied.
"Rules and disruptions are connected", Ms. Chouno retorted.
"If I may ask; what is a "distraction"?" Aurora continued asking. "It's obvious we students shall not play games during class, but what about during recess or lunch break? We can't have our heads several hours a day, so we have to dispose the pressure by playing games so we can continue studying with fresh brains."
"Exactly", Amaura nodded with her arms crossed. "A human brain is not like a digital machine's CPU, or whatever you call it. They just can't store everything they learn at once."
Aurora could see how shocked Ms. Chouno was by being lectured by a student who dared to be smarter than an adult, but the girl continued. "And what's with this rule about banning part-time jobs? That's ignoring the students' needs, especially for those who want to learn to become independent after graduation or have goals they want to achieve. You're cutting off those possibilities by robbing the students' freedom."
Ms. Chouno turned around on her chair, feeling her anger burn by Aurora's arguments. *Cheeky. How cheeky!*
"Ms. Chouno?" Aurora blinked confusedly.
Ms. Chouno turned back on her chair, having her fake smile once again. "You may say that, but do the other students say the same thing?"
"They do", Aurora nodded.
"Is that so?" Ms. Chouno smirked. "Why not prove it by gathering signatures?"
"Signatures?" Aurora arched an eyebrow.
"If you want the rules revised, then gather the students' signatures and bring it up at the staff meeting", Ms. Chouno challenged the half-Japanese girl. "If they are enough, the teachers might ease on the rules and even remove the proposals."
"That includes the part time jobs?" Aurora asked to be certain.
"Depends on what the students say", Ms. Chouno said.
"I'll do it", Aurora nodded.
Ms. Chouno handed over the jigsaw puzzle to Aurora before the girl left the advisor room. When she opened the door, she saw Anzu, Miho, Mayumi, Yugi and Joakim waiting outside worriedly. Joakim saw the gleam in his sister's eyes again, knowing nothing bad had happened to her yet.
"How'd it go?" Miho asked worriedly.
"I'm sorry. It's my fault", Mayumi blamed herself.
"Hey. What did she say?" Yugi asked.
"First things first", Aurora said before holding up the box with the jigsaw puzzle. "Here."
"She gave it back?" Mayumi asked in shock.
Aurora nodded, "I wish you good luck with your confession." She turned to Joakim. "Kim, we've got some work to do."
Joakim grinned, "So what's up this time?"
"What? What happened?" Anzu wondered.
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Aurora and Joakim were working together to set up posters about changing the rules at school, allowing things that were usually normal in other high schools. They were currently outside, putting on a poster on the school's billboard.
Yugi and the others just watched the twins' work in the background.
"You're really doing this, Aurora-chan?" Yugi asked.
"If a few rules are gone, the other students will gain more freedom like part-time work", Aurora replied.
"But…", Joey began.
"What do you think about the rules, guys?" Joakim asked.
"I think I'd be better without that", Joey confessed.
Aurora held up a clipboard with a pencil and paper. "Then give me your signature, thank you."
Joey grabbed the clipboard and wrote his name on the penetration list. Once he was done, Anzu ripped the clipboard and pencil out of his hands.
"I'm definitely signing on this. I need to work so I can get the money for my future", Anzu said, referring to her dream to go to America to learn dancing.
Tristan, Yugi and Miho added their signatures too.
"Um… Maybe I can help?" Yugi offered.
"You're sure, buddy?" Joakim asked.
Yugi nodded, "Yeah!"
"Then put this poster up on the west tower, Mutou-kun", Aurora said as she handed him a poster.
"Okay!" Yugi grabbed the poster and ran off.
"Mutou-kun!" Aurora called, making the boy turn back to see the girl smile at him. "Thank you."
Yugi blushed at Aurora's smile, but brushed it off before running to the west tower of the school building.
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When the other teachers got to know about the rule revision, the female teachers were more than happy that a student was rebelling against Ms. Chouno. But that witch had manipulated the male teachers, telling them that Aurora was the bad guy in this and that made the male teachers target Aurora a lot during class.
Despite that, and other harassment by childish students, Aurora worked on hard to get as many signatures as possible. Her deadline was Friday this week, but she had already more than seventy signatures after Thursday's school day. But that wouldn't be enough to convince the teachers to change the rules. They needed like around two hundred signatures or more in order to win the "war", and there were around four hundred students at school.
The group was heading home after school. Aurora and Joakim were still trying to do their best and keep the mood up, but they couldn't help but feel a bit uncertain. They had one day left to gather more signatures.
"If only people would be more brave and sign", Anzu murmured.
"Aurora, Joakim-kun, haven't you heard the rumor?" Miho asked the twins.
"What rumor?" Joakim asked.
"Students that signed for the rule revision have been targeted by the teachers", Miho said.
"That explains the male teachers' sudden change of attitude and targeting Aura during class", Joey pointed out.
"But not the female teachers", Tristan said. "From what I heard, they're all against Ms. Chouno."
"Besides, they've only targeted Aurora so far, so that can't be true, right?" Joakim said.
"Yeah, who would say that?" Anzu wondered.
"I don't know…", Miho confessed.
"Unless it was the demon herself", Aurora said.
"You mean Ms. Chouno?" Yugi asked.
"Who else? Only the guilty spreads such rumors", Aurora shrugged.
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Friday came. The staff meeting would begin after school, so Aurora had to take every single opportunity to gather signatures, even in the morning when the students arrived to school. The majority of the students ignored Aurora, except three boys that looked to be street fighters. They surrounded Aurora, and the girl could tell they only wanted trouble. But Aurora kept the truth and went into business mode.
"Will you give me your signature?" Aurora asked.
"Who would do that?" the first boy with long hair snorted.
"The rules are fine as they are right now", the second boy with short orange hair said.
"So you're saying it's fine that the teachers will keep their eyes open to make sure none of us students will go and have fun after school, like the arcade or karaoke?" Aurora retorted. "Don't you feel your freedom is being robbed by that?"
"No one would sign that!" the third boy with short green hair told Aurora.
"Yup. There's no point", the second boy added.
Joakim saw how one of the boys was ready to rip the clipboard out of Aurora's hands, so he stepped up from behind and pulled back the orange-haired boy by the collar of the school uniform. But thanks to Mako, Joakim knew these boys were just troublemakers, so he threw down the boy on the ground, giving him some punishment without kicks and punches.
"You say so, but your attitude tells us more than that", Joakim frowned as he stood in front of his sister. "Were you perhaps paid by someone to make sure the signatures we collected so far won't get delivered to the staff meeting?"
The other students stayed in the background, seeing and hearing everything that was happening. Yugi's group stood in the background, watching the scene. Yugi was really scared that a fight might break out, and all the work Aurora did for the school would get wasted. Joey was holding himself back to not get involved in the soon-to-be fight. Tristan held him back to make sure the blonde boy wouldn't do something stupid. Anzu and Miho were worried, but Anzu had an angry expression.
There was one more person who was watching from the school gate, but decided to wait and listen closely at the conversation. The twins sounded very interesting and intelligent.
The boys flinched back a bit by Joakim's question, which actually answered the boy's question. The body language could reveal a lot more than just verbal words.
"So what if we were?" the boy with long hair spat. "We need the extra cash!"
"To go and have fun?" Joakim asked. "Then why don't you just look for a part-time job and save your earnings to then go together and spend the weekend to have some fun?"
"Because we can't due to the bastard rules!" the third boy retorted.
"So you're admitting the rules are too strict", Joakim grinned in a way that said "jackpot".
"Besides, if you were paid to harass us, this means you're doing a part-time job right now", Aurora added.
The boys cold sweated at the twin girl's statement. When she put it like that…
The students in the background started whispering and talking to each other how Aurora was right. The boys got paid to do their job, so technically this was a part-time job.
"Wow… Aurora and Joakim seem to know how to twist the words around", Anzu commented.
"Impressive", Tristan smiled, still holding Joey back.
"But what if a fight breaks out? Miho is scared…", Miho whimpered.
"They better not hit the twins, 'cause I'll deliver back tenfold!" Joey growled, holding himself back.
Yugi grabbed his Millennium Puzzle for comfort. He prayed nothing bad will happen. He was more worried about Aurora for a weird reason. He didn't know what it was.
"You don't want us to tell Ms. Chouno that you have a part-time job right now, huh?" Joakim provoked.
"Shut up!" the first boy dropped his bag to lift up a fist. "You're so damn twisted, both of you! The rules are just fine as they are!"
"Hit me and you'll get target by the teachers", Joakim threatened. "Plus we've got lots of witnesses here."
The boys looked back to see the group of students who were watching the whole thing. The trio sweat dropped, feeling they were running out of option. Ms. Chouno had promised them she would erase all the incident of rule-breaking from their records.
The second boy stood up from the ground and came up with a smart retort, trying to act all cool. "Even if you told Ms. Chouno, she wouldn't believe you. She barely listens to any students."
"So she's ignoring their needs in order to grow up into independent adults", Aurora retorted.
The human being by the school gate began thinking back at Ms. Chouno's strict proposals and how the rules used to be long before Ms. Chouno became a teacher at school. Lots of things did change, some of the good, but maybe most of them were actually bad?
"That's it!" the third boy roared.
Before anyone could blink, Aurora received a big punch on her left cheek that made her fall down in the ground. The students and Yugi's group gasped in disbelief for witnessing violence right in front of them.
Aurora held the clipboard tightly as she was ready to struggle with the boy who just hit her. The boy was about to rip the clipboard out of her hands when Joakim blocked him and pushed him back. The twin brother was at his limit. No one hit his sister and gets away with it!
"How dare you hit my sister?!" Joakim yelled.
"You want a punch yourself?!" the third boy retorted.
The figure by the school gate had enough and decided to end the mess. "Stop it!"
Everyone looked up at the human being and saw it was the vice-principal! But he was looking very serious.
The trio sweated like crazy by nervousness. Had the vice-principal seen and heard the whole thing?
"The vice-principal…", Tristan mumbled.
"He looks so serious and angry too…", Anzu said worriedly.
"You three!" the vice-principal pointed at the troublemakers. "Detention after school!" He turned to the twins as Joakim helped Aurora up on her feet. Aurora had quite a big bruise on her cheek.
"Ueda Pax!" the vice-principal called, getting the twins' attention. "Go and visit the school nurse."
Joakim nodded and helped Aurora walk over to the entrance of the school building while Yugi's group waited for them.
Ms. Chouno was humming happily when she walked to the school, but dropped her smile when she saw the huge crowd of students and even some teachers. "Oh? What's going on here?"
The vice-principal turned to Ms. Chouno, but he wasn't looking at her with his usual calm eyes. The red-haired woman felt a shiver run down her spine. Something must have gone wrong with the boys who she paid to ruin Aurora's efforts and rip the signatures.
"The staff office now, Ms. Chouno", the vice-principal ordered her.
The female teachers and now even the male teachers were glaring at the witch. Oh, she was in trouble now.
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Aurora's bruise got treated by the school nurse before she and Joakim went to their classroom. When they arrived, they were shocked to see how many were now willingly adding their signatures for the rule revision. They seemed to have gained courage after witnessing today's event.
Yugi and his friends helped the twins gathering signatures, and by the lunch break the group had gathered more than three hundred fifty signatures.
"This should be more than enough for the rule revision", Joakim stated after the group had counted the signatures.
The group was in the hallway, on its way to deliver the signatures to the staff room.
"Well, you two were impressive against the bullies, twisting their words around so they could more or less reveal the truth", Anzu said.
"It's called psychology", Aurora replied. "Grandma used to be a psychologist before she got married and she taught Mom and us a lot."
"These two are invincible…", Joey murmured in the background.
The group was just several meters from the staff room when the door slid open and a furious Ms. Chouno stepped out. Her grimaces made her makeup loose and reveal some of her true ugly face. Yugi's group shrieked at the sight, but the twins were unaffected by the glare.
"You two!" Ms. Chouno marched towards the twins. "You ruined everything for me! You're just like your interfering mother!"
The twins blinked confusedly. Did Ms. Chouno know their mother?
Ms. Chouno raised her hand, her anger pointed at Aurora who started the whole thing. "Why don't you just go and burn in hell?!"
But a hand grabbed Ms. Chouno's wrist from behind, stopping her from slapping Aurora on her bruised cheek. The red-haired woman looked over her shoulder, ready to snap at the person when her angry face dropped and got replaced by a shocked one.
Yugi's group watched the woman who held back Ms. Chouno. She looked like an older version of Aurora, except she didn't have the blonde shade in her hair. Her face showed she was over forty years old, but she held a natural beauty unlike Ms. Chouno.
"A-Akane…!" Ms. Chouno exclaimed.
"Mom", Joakim smiled as he made sure Aurora was behind him so he could protect her.
Akane had a small smirk on her lips. "I got a call from school that Aurora got hurt, so I decided to come and see if she was okay. But also hearing what you've been doing lately…is just so you, Chouno. You wanted control back in our days at school and even wanted to become the president of the student council. But since the teachers used to be smarter back then, you weren't allowed to be a candidate."
Ms. Chouno growled and ripped her wrist out of Akane's grip. "You know I can sue your family for humiliating me! I've got money to send you straight to the court!"
"And you should be aware of my husband's family back in Egypt", Akane replied, making Ms. Chouno blink confusedly. "They are hundredfold richer than you and they adore the twins. Your choice."
Ms. Chouno realized she would lose the fight, so she walked past Akane and left the hallway, having a thundercloud above her head.
"M-Mom…", Joakim stuttered.
Akane turned to her son. "Yes?"
"Were you two schoolmates?!"
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Monday came with the news of Ms. Chouno being kicked out from Domino High School and would carry on a bad reputation that would affect her job searching and even arranged marriage interviews spread around the school.
Yugi, Aurora, Joakim and the rest of the group were on the rooftop during lunch break, talking about Ms. Chouno.
"So the whole case is down now?" Joey asked.
"Yep", Joakim nodded.
"As a beautification member, I think Ms. Chouno was unreasonable", Tristan commented.
"Your mom was so cool, Aurora, Joakim-kun!" Miho smiled. "And so beautiful too!"
"No surprise where you got your natural beauty, Aura", Anzu said.
Aurora smiled gently. "Thank you."
"What about me?" Joakim asked.
"Well… I'd say you're quite handsome", Anzu replied.
"By the way, what was that jigsaw puzzle, Aura?" Joey asked.
Aurora chuckled, "It was just a prank."
Joey snorted, "Just a prank."
"Mayumi confessed to a second year senior!" Miho whispered to Anzu and Aurora. "We can't tell him now that she doesn't like Joey-kun."
"That's fine!" Anzu whispered. "He's probably better than Joey."
Aurora and Joakim smiled to each other before looking up at the sky. The spirits of Amaura, Mako and Yami joined them as they watched the white fluffy clouds in the blue sky. They didn't need to use the Shadow Games this time to punish Ms. Chouno, but if the woman dared to come back, she would get a taste of it.
Yugi couldn't help but feel a huge relief that everything turned okay in the end. The only part he didn't like was that Aurora got punched and got a huge bruise that was still visible on her cheek.
The boy wished to become stronger so he could protect his friends. He wanted to become just as strong as Joey or Tristan, or maybe even stronger than Joakim.
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Well, what do you think? Something unusual, right? I'm not sure about Ms. Chouno's true age, but it's possible she was around 30 years old in the anime, but here I made her just as old as the twins' mother who is 40 years old. Akane got the twins when she was 24 years old and got married at the age of 23.
