A/N: Here's chapter seven to this story. I'm glad that everyone enjoyed the last chapter but I promise you that the following chapters will bring more excitement. I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's nor the characters and I also don't own Lola, Erase Una Vez. That belongs to Pedro Damian, Luis Luisillo Miguel, and originally created by Cris Morena and to Televisa Productions. The only thing that I own is this story title and the plotline. Chase Princeton belongs to RobotFish (from his story Our Little Secret). Be ready…in the next chapter, Chase will make his appearance.

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Chapter 7: Interviewing the New Nanny's Assistant Part 1

Previously

"Did you know that I caught Carly coming home late last night?"

Yusei's thought of train was broken as he heard Carly's name, "What about Carly? I let her stay over at her friend's house. She told me that she and her friend had a project to complete with."

"Really?" Barbara's eyebrow rose, "Tell me something Yusei, since when does Carly come back home wearing a sultry red dress like she was some kind of prostitute? I'm not sure if Carly told you the real truth but I'm sure that something's up with her."

Yusei couldn't believe what he just heard. But he wasn't sure if what Barbara said was true or false. He was going to talk to Carly before she goes to school.


Poppo Time

The same lady that came into the clock shop came out extremely mad. She had her watch in her hand as small parts of the watch fell out of her hands. Akiza ran after trying to get her back inside and to fix it back to normal. "Wait! I'm not finished yet!"

"Forget about it I'm going to another clock shop that can really fix watches." She began to run even faster as Akiza tries her best to catch up to her but it was no use.

"Damn it. I already messed up. Maybe the next costumer that comes in makes me replace the batteries. I hope." Akiza sighed as she made her way back in the clock shop waiting to assist the costumer.

Down the streets, Martha marched her way to Zora's clock shop hoping that Zora could replace the batteries to her watch and maybe fix it. A few people noticed Martha as they moved aside to let Martha pass by. Martha stops in front of the clock shop and is relieve that it's opened early. She goes in the shop but to her surprise she doesn't see Zora but someone else. "Excuse me but is Zora here today?"

"She's here but not present. Zora went to the mall and get some things for the clock shop. Can I help you with something? I'm her new assistant."

"Yeah but since Zora is not here I'll come back when she's comes back." Martha turned her back on Akiza as she makes her way out.

Akiza ran after her trying to not let her second costumer get away, "No, no, I can help. Please, just let me help you."

"Fine. Then can you replace the batteries to this watch," Martha said as she took out an old pocket watch. "And maybe if you're up for it, can you fix it?"

Finally! A job that Akiza could do right without messing up, "No problem. Your watch is going to be like brand new, I promise." She placed a chair for Martha to sit while Akiza replaces the batteries. Before she could start her job she was curious to know her name, "Excuse me but can you tell me your name?"

"My name is Martha and I work at the Fudo Mansion as the nanny."

"Nice to meet you Martha. I'm Akiza, Zora's goddaughter." She extends her arm out as she shook hands with Martha.

"A pleasure to meet you too Akiza. I hope you can fix my watch before noon. I have something important to do today."

"Don't worry Martha. I'll get it fixed in no time." Akiza started to work on Martha's pocket watch.


Fudo Mansion

Carly comes out of her room as she is talking on the phone with Amanda about what happened last night with Michael. She was still at home waiting for Sayer to come and pick her up and take her to Duel Academy.

"So how did things work out with Michael, Carly?" asked her blonde friend.

"Good. I think I had him drooling over me. He grabbed me by surprise and he couldn't tell if it was really me!" Carly jumped in joy.

"Good job Carly. Now that this plan worked out, I'm going to need your help."

Carly stopped jumping, "What is it?"

"Help me conquer Bruno's love."

She laughed, "I think Bruno's way out of your league my friend." She laughed again while on the other side of the phone Amanda laughed with her.

Yusei came out of his office and noticed Carly waiting downstairs and talking on the phone. Maybe this was a good time to ask her about what Barbara just told him earlier ago. He made his way downstairs to meet up with Carly as she continued to talk. "Carly can I talk to you about something important."

Carly turned around and saw Yusei coming down. "Amanda, I'll see you later in Duel Academy and finish talking about what happened okay…bye." She looked at her older brother, "Okay, I'm listening. What is it that you want to talk about Yusei?"

"Is it true what Barbara told me?"

Carly's face went pale but just to make sure what he was asking, "About what?"

"She said that you came here late wearing some kind of dress that makes you look like a prostitute. I thought that you were going to stay at Amanda's house over the night to do a school project. Why did you come back here so late by yourself? Do you know how dangerous it is to come on your own? Anyone could kidnap you Carly."

'It figures that Barbara told Yusei about last night. Why does she have to be so nosy?' Before she could answer his question she inhaled deeply while closing her eyes. Was she really going to tell Yusei that she was wanted to meet with Michael? No way! She exhaled as she opens her eyes ready to answer his question, "Why would you even care what Barbara says about me? She's not our mother to be telling us what to do!"

"So it is true what she said."

"I didn't say she was right Yusei. I came back home because…because," Carly was trying to figure out what to say before he could uncover the truth, "…Amanda and I had an argument about what our project should be on."

Yusei crossed his arms in disbelieve, "Come on Carly. This is the same Amanda that you met since kindergarten. You've been best friends ever since that day that you met."

"So you're going to believe in Barbara than me? Yusei, I'm your sister for crying out loud!" tears began to form in Carly's eyes, "Why don't you believe in me? I…I wish you could believe in us Yusei." Carly began to cry.

Yusei didn't mean to make Carly to cry but who was he going to believe in? Barbara? Or Carly? This was a tough decision to make. Right now he wanted to hug her and let her know that he cares for her and for the rest of the family. He reached out to her to hold her but she pushed him away.

Carly quickly wiped the tears away from her cheeks as she grabs her back on the floor. She as she about to step out of the house she has one last thing to say, "Sometimes, I wonder if you do really care about us Yusei." She walks out of the house as the black car comes by.

Sayer comes out as he leads Carly inside of the car. She closes the car door with such force that Sayer didn't know what to do but he didn't complain. He went in the car as he begins to drive Carly to school.

Back in the house, Yusei stood there with a blank expression. Carly's words hit Yusei hard. It was still buzzing inside of Yusei's mind, 'Sometimes, I wonder if you do really care about us Yusei.' Why did he choose to believe in Barbara instead of his family? Didn't he care about his family?


Poppo Time

Martha fell asleep waiting for Akiza to fix her pocket watch. It was almost noon but Martha decided to take a small nap. She was shaken awake by none other than Akiza. "Are you done fixing my watch young lady?"

Akiza's face went red for a while and coughed, "Y-yeah, I-it's f-fixed" she stuttered. She had Martha's pocket watch behind her back. She did what Martha had asked her to do but she was only able to replace the batteries. While fixing the watch, Akiza didn't know what the problem was until she moved some gears and then when she tried to fix back to normal she couldn't remember where the piece belong.

Something wasn't right. Why was Akiza stuttering? Martha eyed Akiza with suspicious look, "So, where it?" Akiza tried her best to hide Martha's pocket watch as Martha got up from her seat looking for her watch. "Where is my watch?"

"You see…Martha…I fixed it but the problem is that…"

"What happened to my watch, Akiza?" She slowly took out the pocket watch from her back and handed it back to Martha. To Martha it seems that nothing bad happened. "It looks okay Akiza. Why are you worried?"

Akiza didn't say a thing as Martha opened her watch. It was ticking and tocking until one button fell off the watch. Martha stood there with a blank expression until she screamed. "AKIZA!"

The whole neighborhood heard someone screaming that they started to run in different directions. Small children that were playing in front of the clock shop abandon their toys as they too also screamed and ran away. Akiza ran out of the clock shop as fast she could that she climbed up the water fountain. Martha was furious.


Today is the day that Bruno has his duel with Chase Princeton and he hasn't trained since yesterday since he spends his time with Aracely.

"Is this how fast you go Bruno?" asked the lovely Aracely as she held onto Bruno's waist.

"Yeah, I do. What are you scared?" he smirked.

"No, I'm not but I've never felt this kind of acceleration before."

Bruno did one more lap around the duel arena while Aracely held on tighter to Bruno. Once they made it to the pit stop, Aracely hopped off Bruno's duel runner. She took off her helmet in a sensual way that Bruno's breath was taken away. "Wow!" he mumbled to himself. How lucky was he that he was training such a lovely girl?

"So what's next Bruno?" she leaned closer to Bruno.

Bruno heard his phone ringing that he had to answer the call, "Hello?"

"Bruno it's me, Andre. Where are you man? Do you even know what time is it?" Andre yelled at Bruno.

"I'm here training some right now," he turned his back to Aracely, "…with a beautiful lady."

"Well Bruno I just want you to know that you should be here training for you duel today with Chase Princeton. I want you here in ten minutes! Is that understood?"

"Don't worry Andre, I'll be there I promise."

"You better be there or else." Andre hung up on Bruno.

How was Bruno going to tell Aracely that he has to train for today's duel? He couldn't just abandon her. Bruno turned around and saw her standing there with a big and flirtatious smile, "Hey…I better get going. I'll see you some other time. Is that okay with you?"

She frowned but she didn't want him to go just yet. The fun was just getting started. "Wait, don't you want to show me some moves to win in a duel? Please Bruno, stay with me for a little while. That's all I'm asking you." She begged.

He felt bad for leaving her that maybe for this one time he was going to skip his training and stay with her. Maybe this was the last time that he would see her ever again. This wasn't like him at all but if a beautiful girl asks him to stay a little bit longer then it was okay with him. "Fine, I'll show some moves."

Aracely hugged him and planted a kiss on his cheeks. Bruno blushes a little but he was now happy.


Poppo Time

"AKIZA YOU BETTER COME DOWN RIGHT NOW!" yelled an upset Martha.

"No way am I going to come down and especially with not that kind of attitude." Akiza said as she was sitting on top of the water fountain still trying to avoid from Martha's wrath. "I'm not coming down at all until my godmother comes back."

Martha tried to get Akiza for messing up her watch but it was no use. Akiza was too hard to reach and she definitely didn't want to go in the water fountain and she definitely didn't want to get wet.

The bus that took Zora to the mall came back as she came out of the bus. She walked her way to the clock shop when she saw her goddaughter sitting on top of the water fountain and some lady trying to get Akiza. Zora ran up to them wanting to know what was wrong. Knowing what Akiza did, Zora was not going to like this at all. "What's going on?"

Martha turned around and saw Zora standing there with some bags in her hands. "Zora, it's good to see you again." She looked at Akiza, "Unfortunately for Akiza, she destroyed my pocket watch!" Zora flinched. "Tell her to come down right now and apologize to me right now!"

"No way!" Akiza screamed, "Zora you gotta tell her to calm down or else I'm not coming down at all or at least get her away from me from attacking like a rat."

Zora looked at Martha, "Just move away from the fountain but please promise me one thing Martha."

"What is it?"

"Don't hurt her at all."

Martha rolled her eyes but if it made Akiza to come down from the fountain and apologize then she won't have to pulverize her. She took one giant step away from the water fountain and waited for her to come down.

"Take two more steps back" Akiza yelled.

Martha did what she was told and took two more steps back. Once she was away from the fountain, Akiza climbed down the fountain, wet as she approached Zora and the angry Martha. Akiza stood there as she looked down the ground too ashamed to even look at Martha or even at her godmother.

"I'm sorry if I destroyed your watch. I know how to replace the batteries that's all."

"If you could only replace the battery then why did you even bother fixing my watch? You could have told me that, instead you take things at your own hands."

"I'm sorry, okay!" Akiza stomped her way into the clock shop and into the apartment as she ran up to her room. She slammed the door with such force that she didn't even want to speak nor look at anyone.

Outside of Poppo Time, Zora gave an apologetic look to Martha as she suggested her to come back inside and let her fix the watch but Martha didn't want to. She was running late for the interview for her new assistant. Martha said goodbye to Zora as she ran her way back to the mansion hoping that she won't arrive late for the interview.


The Garage

At the garage, Kalin, Misty, Sherry and Blister were busy fixing their duel disks that they managed to retrieve the other day from the Fudo Mansion. Blister and Kalin were the only one that was doing most of the job while Sherry and Misty stood their helping them getting the tools.

"Where's Akiza? She should be here helping us and fix the duel disk?" asked Misty.

"I bumped into Zora in the mall and she said that Akiza was at Poppo Time taking care of the store" said Sherry.

"Sometimes, I even wonder if Akiza really cares about us and the duel disk. Why should we even repair her duel disk when she should be and fixing it herself? Or at least help us?"

"Look Misty, Akiza is a very busy lady and you can't expect her to do everything. I know that the Fudo's still hasn't paid us just yet but we gotta keep our head up hoping that we can be in the WRGP" Kalin said.

"If Akiza really does care about becoming the new Queen of Queen then she should at least try to be here and help us out."

"Misty's right" Blister stopped working on Sherry's duel disk, "Akiza is also part of our team and we need her here now." Blister finished wiring Sherry's duel disk that he decided to test drive just to make sure that her duel disk would be working perfectly fine. "Sherry, see if your duel disk works."

He handed Sherry her duel disk as she took one step away from everyone else puts the disk on her left arm and activated her disk. The hologram projector were working fine as she nodded at Blister, "Okay, it works." Sherry took out her deck and places it on the deck hold as it automatically began to shuffle her deck but then something unexpected occurred.

The deck hold started to act strange as it continued to shuffle Sherry's deck until it began to shoot her cards everywhere. "Quick, grab my cards!" Misty and Kalin quickly chased after Sherry's cards. They were able to get all of her cards. Sherry was not happy at all.

"So it has some glitches I see" Blister said.

An electrical spark began on Sherry's duel disk that Sherry automatically took off her disk and threw it on the floor. The duel disk began to spit out some sparks that Sherry and the rest of the gang jumped back and saw the duel disk starting to explode.

"My duel disk!"

Kalin grabbed the fire extinguisher, pointed at Sherry's duel disk and sprayed it. Once the fire was out, everyone in the garage looked at the burned duel disk with shocked expressions.

"Now what Kalin?" hissed Sherry, "My duel disk is burned! How am I going to compete in the tournament?"

"Sherry's right and when will Crow pay us?" asked Misty.

'Akiza where are you? We need you here' wondered Kalin.


Poppo Time

After Martha's departure, Zora was not happy at all that Akiza had ruined two watches in one day. She was waiting for Akiza to come down from her room since she last heard her say that she was going to change into another set of clothes. Once Akiza came out of her room, she is wearing a tight, light pink dress that reached above her knees, elbow length sleeves and some black stockings.*

"I can't believe that I actually left you in charge of my store Akiza. And what did you do? Instead of helping me with the costumers you ruin everything! God how dumb was I to leave you here? I never thought that you would be so dumb to do this kind of thing Akiza but now I'm starting to think that you really aren't responsible."

"I'm sorry Zora, I didn't mean too. I try my best on the next costumer that comes by and I'll help you pay for the broken grandfather clock that I broke the other day. I promise."

"No, Akiza. I want you to stay out of the clock shop and not help me at all. Anything that you touch gets destroyed."

The phone began to ring as Zora excused herself to go and answer the call. Akiza was starting to get sad. Everything that her godmother had just said was true. She was useless to her. She couldn't bear with the idea that her very own godmother had called her useless. There was only one thing to do and she knew that she was good at it: run away.

Akiza held back her tears trying to make sure that she was no weakling. She made her way out of the clock shop and started to run somewhere…somewhere, where she knew that she won't be useless at all.

Zora finished talking on the phone that when she came back to the store she noticed that it was empty. "Akiza?" but no response was heard from her. "Akiza? Are you there?" Still nothing occurred. Then something hit her. She just said some of the most mean and terrible things to her goddaughter as she checks outside of the store just to see if she was still there. When she came out she saw Akiza running away. "Akiza! Wait come back! I'm sorry! I didn't really mean all of those things that I just said."

But it was no use for her to call her back. Akiza continued to run as fast as she could. She heard Zora calling out to her but she didn't even turn back. She was going to run away and find a place where no one can judge her.


Fudo Mansion

Jack, Yusei, Barbara and Stephanie walked into the living room ready to interview the possible candidate for Martha's new assistant. Jack just noticed that Stephanie was in the room, "Why are you here Stephanie?"

"Because I want my daughter to be here." Barbara answered Jack's question before Stephanie could answer it herself, "She's here to represent for my precious daughter, Ran. I hope that's okay with you Yusei?"

"Not at all Barbara." He looked at his watch waiting for Martha to come, "What's taking Martha so long to get ready?"

"Calm down Yusei" Jack said, "She'll be here in no time, I promise."

Right on cue, Martha came in the living room exhausted and out of breath. "I'm…h-here." She started to take out a paper that contains the list of people that they were going to interview today. Martha's pocket watch came out of her pocket and Stephanie noticed it falling on the floor.

"What's this?" she bends down to pick up Martha's watch.

Martha sees Stephanie picking up her broken watch and takes it away from her, "That's mine!"

Barbara noticed Martha's rude behavior towards Stephanie, "What's in your hands Martha?"

"My watch but now it's broken."

"How?"

"I took it to get it repaired but instead of my watch being repaired, it got destroyed to a clumsy girl."

"Sorry to hear that Martha but I hope you can take your watch to a real clock store and not some cheap store."

"Martha" Yusei interrupted the conversation between Barbara and Martha, "We can now start the interview. Bring in the first candidate will you?"

"Yes, of course Yusei." Martha stepped out of the living room and went to get the first person to interview. Martha came back within thirty seconds with the woman who looked like she was fifty years old. She was dressed in a military outfit along with biker boots and a dog tag around her neck. On her right hand she held a whip. She looks scary looking to Yusei, Jack and Stephanie but to Barbara she looked okay to her. "Name please?"

"My name is Geraldine."

"Geraldine, can you tell us how you can help me babysit the kids?"

"I will show them discipline and respect by showing them that they need to listen to me when I ask them to."

Barbara got up from her seat and applauded for her, "Perfect! Don't you agree Yusei?"

Yusei looked at Martha, then at Jack as Jack nodded no. Stephanie didn't seem to like Geraldine at all and she too nodded no to Yusei while Barbara was talking to Geraldine as if she hired her.

"Name please?"

"M-m-my n-name's M-Miranda" the second candidate said. She was dressed in a white turtle-neck sweater with long jean color skirt and she carried some books in her hands. Her hair was tied up into a messy ponytail and she also wore glasses. Miranda didn't even bother to look at the people that were interviewing her.

"Miranda can you tell us what would you do if one of Yusei's siblings gets sick?"

"I-I would take them to the d-doctor b-but before that I-I would give them medicine" Miranda said in a low voice that no one heard her.

"Can you speak up dear, we can't hear you at all." Barbara yelled at her causing Miranda to jump in surprise.

"Name please?" Martha asked while holding the door as the third person entered Yusei's office.

The third person that walked in begins to walks like she was a supermodel. She had a petite body dressed in tight black tube dress that showed off her long legs with light brown hair, pretty red lips and wore black stilettos shoes. She walked towards Yusei and Jack turned around and walked towards Barbara and Stephanie. "My name is Britney."

Jack and Yusei looked at each other and nodded yes at the same time. Jack couldn't deny it but he liked her and so did Yusei but Barbara didn't seem to like her at all. "Why are you walking like that?" she asked Britney.

"What do you mean 'why do I walk like that'? I'm a supermodel. Isn't this an audition?" she asked as she looked at Yusei and Jack and blew them kisses.

"No this isn't and in case you don't know this is an interview to hire a new nanny's assistant" said Martha.

"Name please?"

"My name is Haruhi" the fourth person said. Haruhi was dressed in old and raggedy clothes that you could practically see that she sows her own clothes. She wore sandals that were about to break anytime soon.

"Can you tell us how will you help Martha?"

"I can help Martha in many ways and I can also help her cook if she asks me too. I can also wash clothes and clean the house."

"I like Haruhi!" Stephanie jumped on her feet but Barbara pulled her arm just to control her.

"Well nobody asked your opinion" Barbara hissed at her.

Back to the first interviewee, Barbara was still gushing over Geraldine. "I like your personality and character." She looked at Yusei, "Yusei, you definitely have to hire her. She's perfect!" Yusei was still nodding no and looked at Barbara and with his expression Barbara's excitement disappeared. "Why not Yusei?"

But Yusei remained silenced.

"Thanks for everything Geraldine," Jack said, "We'll call you and let you know if you get the job."

Geraldine walked up to Jack and shook hands with him. Jack winced in pain. Who knew that an old lady like her has some strength? "You're welcome and I'll be waiting for the call." She walked out of the living room. Jack rubbed his hands trying to sooth his pain.

Britney looked at Barbara, Stephanie, Martha and the two gentlemen sitting behind the table. "Oh, so this isn't an audition for a reality TV show?"

Martha and Barbara slapped their foreheads at the same time. Jack managed to hold in his laughter but Yusei answered her, "No, this isn't an audition but do you know how to take care of children?"

"No"

"Then why are you even here?" asked Stephanie.

"I don't know. I saw this advertisement for an audition and that was all. I came here for an audition not babysit some kids. You know what, I'm out of here." She walked out of the living room with her head held up high.

"Who knew she had a dirty attitude?" said Jack

"Can you repeat what you just said Miranda?" asked Martha.

Miranda slowly looked at the people that were interviewing her and blushed when she made eye contact with Jack. Jack just looked at Miranda and noticed that she began to blush but he choose to ignore her. Miranda felt more confident and said in a loud and coherent voice, "I said that I would take them to the doctor but before that I'm going to give them medicine if it's something small like a fever."

"Okay. Are you studying?"

Miranda nodded eagerly. "I'm studying to become a nurse but I like to take care of children."

"Good, good, good." Martha looked at Yusei waiting for his final approval while he shrugged at her. Yusei wasn't sure if he should hire her.

Jack, on the other hand, didn't seem to like Miranda at all. Sure she might look nice and decent but she wasn't his type of girl. "Thank you Miranda and we'll call you to let you know if you get the job."

"You're welcome." She winked at Jack and left. Jack sweat drop.

"Do you have any experience with take care of kids?" asked Yusei.

"Of course. When I was younger I took care of my brother and sister back in the farm. Not only that: I also took care of pigs, goats, sheep and many more."

Everyone sweat drop at the same time. Barbara didn't like Haruhi at all and she definitely didn't want a farm girl to take care of the Fudo's. "So," Barbara began, "You just came into this city?"

"Yeah, but I'm not from New Domino City. I come from Vietnam."

"So that explains why you're dressed like this."

Haruhi looked down at herself and she didn't seem that there was nothing wrong on what she was wearing. "What about my clothes?"

"We can't have a farm girl as Martha's assistant, Yusei!"

"But mom," Stephanie started to whine, "Haruhi can cook for us."

"Once again Stephanie nobody asked your opinion! So please keep your mouth shut!" Barbara yelled at her daughter. Everyone in the living room looked at Barbara with perplexed look on their face while she felt everyone's gaze on her. She noticed her mistake and pulled her daughter into a hug and laughed, "Stephanie, darling, you know that I really didn't mean all of that, right?"

Stephanie couldn't breathe but she managed to say, "R-r-right"

"We'll call you Haruhi and let you know if you get the job, okay?"

"Thank you and I'll be waiting for the call." Haruhi made her way out of the living room and the house as she began to wonder what was wrong with her clothes.

Yusei was still taking notes along with Jack. He looked at Martha, "Is there more people to interview today?"

"Nope that was all, Yusei. So who's going to be my assistant?"

Barbara muttered, "We all know it's not going to be Haruhi or Miranda."

"Well I'm not convinced that these people that we just interviewed today are good candidates for Martha. Jack?"

Jack stopped taking notes and looked up, "Yes?"

"Can you call the agency and let them know that we need a new nanny?"

"Sure, I call them right now." Jack took out his cell phone and walked out of the living room.

Barbara stopped hugging her daughter and grabbed her purse, "Well Yusei, I must be going. I have some business to attend to. I see you later in the afternoon."

"Can I join you mom?"

"No, you can stay here and wait for your sister to come back from her shopping spree. Tell Ran that I'll be back okay Stephanie?"

Stephanie pouted. "Okay mom"

Barbara was finally relieved that the interview was over as she walked out of the house. 'Soon, I'll get my hands on Setsuko's daughter and finish her off.' Barbara smirked wickedly.


The Garage

"You know that this is all of Akiza's fault right Kalin?" asked an upset Sherry.

"And how is this Akiza's fault, according to you, Sherry?"

"Well for starters, if Akiza didn't accept the invitation to Crow's party, our duel disks won't be damaged."

"But Akiza did accept the invitation and she did bring a lot of attention to other duelist, Sherry. She also did meet one girl who joined in our team while she's trying to enter in the tournament to become the next Queen of Queen. Crow promised us that he would pay us and help Akiza get her license."

"I can't believe that Akiza would believe in Crow's lies!" Sherry began to exclaim.

"Sounds like someone's jealous" muttered Misty to herself but Sherry managed to hear her but choose to ignore her.

"Why? What's wrong with that promise?" asked Blister.

"One: did Crow pay us?" she looked at everyone as they nodded no, "That's what I thought." Sherry began to pace around the garage. "What did Crow and Carly do about the party? They blamed the whole thing on Akiza and let's not forget about how Yusei blamed Akiza for kidnapping Leo."

"What's your point Sherry?"

"My point is that Akiza shouldn't have accepted to Crow's party! Am I not clear on that?"

"Why?"

Sherry stopped pacing around and looked at everyone, "Because things would have been better if Akiza didn't accept the invitation to Crow's party and we wouldn't have to be in this messy situation."

"So" Kalin walked around Sherry "…what you're saying is that it would have been better if Akiza didn't say 'yes' to Crow's party and we won't have known about the WRGP tournament rules and we won't have a new team member?" he stopped walking around Sherry and stood in front of her.

Sherry didn't know what to say. It was all thanks to Akiza that they have a new team member and without Jesse's knowledge about the WRGP they would have nothing. Sherry's silence answered Kalin's question. "I thought so."

Outside of the garage, Akiza stood there as she heard the discussion between Sherry and Kalin. Was everything that they said is true? She didn't mean to cause any trouble. Akiza wondered if she should go in and ask them to forgive her.


Poppo Time

Barbara walked down the urban part of New Domino City as she gave some disgusted look to some guys that were whistling, calling, and telling her things about her body. She couldn't believe that she was walking down the same street that she passed by the other day. This time Barbara hoped to find Setsuko's friend and daughter and reclaim what belongs to her and to her two daughters. Barbara finally found the clock shop and saw that it was open as she walked in the shop. She noticed someone cleaning a clock as she approached to this person. "Excuse me but are you the owner of this clock shop?"

Zora stopped what she was doing and turned around only to be surprise to see Barbara standing here in her clock shop. "Barbara?"

Barbara drew in a sharp breath, "Zora? You're the one who owns this clock shop?"

"Yes, I do."

Barbara laughed. "I should have known that you end up working like this. So tell me Zora how's your husband doing?"

"I rather not talk about that" Zora looked away from Barbara.

"Why did he abandon you?" she laughed even louder.

Zora couldn't take it anymore of Barbara's insults, "For your information Barbara, my husband is dead!"

She stopped laughing, "That's so sad Zora. Tell me something Zora: do you and your husband have any children?"

Zora gritted her teeth in frustration. Just how long was she going to handle Barbara? "That's none of your business you dumb Barbie!"

Barbara faked a gasp, "I'm shocked to hear you speak like this Zora but I guess that you get for stealing him away from me you witch!"

"I didn't steal him away from you! You married someone else who could provide you money. You pushed him away from you! And you know what, we actually did fall in love and I was able to make him forget about you."

"Why you…" Barbara also gritted her teeth as she clutched tightly to her bag. Zora too clutched onto her wash cloth as they started to reminisce about their past life.

~Flashback~

A younger Zora dressed in a grey dress that reached up to her ankles and covered her neck was waiting for Barbara to come out of her house. According to Zora, Barbara was finally to go out on a date with the guy that she liked for such a long time. Out came Barbara from her department dressed in a floral dress that reached above her knees and that was showing off her shoulders. She had some makeup on her face that made her look even sexier than she ever looks like. Barbara noticed Zora waiting for her outside of her apartment.

"Zora!" Barbara ran her way towards her and hugged her. "It's so good to see you here."

Zora embraced Barbara "I know. I'm also glad to see you. So are you ready for your date tonight?"

"I am Zora but I'm a little nervous."

"You? Nervous? You're the most confident person that I known for such a long time?" Zora laughed.

"I know that I'm the most confident person that you know Zora but I'm just so nervous. Zora, I really, really, really like him."

"So you really do like him, eh? What about your interest in money? Has that also disappeared when you fell for this guy?"

"Of course Zora. I'm no longer looking for a guy who can provide me with money. Zora…I'm in love!" she said in a dreamy voice.

A guy about twenty-seven came by dressed in a white shirt with black pants with grey eyes and brown-black hair that was combed neatly. Zora blushed when she saw him approaching her and Barbara.

'Wow he's so…so…handsome' thought Zora to herself.

"Zora let me introduce my date: Brandon. Brandon this is my best friend Zora."

Zora snapped back from her thoughts as she saw him holding out his hand to her and she greeted him. "Nice to meet you Brandon."

"It's a pleasure to meet you too Zora. Barbara talks a lot about you all the time." He leaned in forward and kissed her on her cheek.

'Oh god, oh god, oh god!' Zora felt like she was going to faint any second but she managed to stand on her two feet. She blushes a little as she watched him wrapping his arms around Barbara's waist. "She does?" Zora looked at Barbara.

"Yes and I was dying to meet you someday and today's the day that I get to meet the great Zora!" Brandon exaggerated.

"Wow! I'm speechless. I'm also glad to meet you too. Barbara also talks about you all the time."

Barbara laughed "Stop it Zora, you're embarrassing me." Zora also laughed.

"Well, I'm not surprised at all. Every girl that I used to date always talked about me, about my looks and my charming way to get a lady's attention. You know, when I first met Barbara for the first time, I thought she was like all the other girls who wanted me because of my looks but she's different."

"That's good and I'm glad for you and for my friend are in love."

"Me too Zora. Me too." Brandon looked at his watched and noticed that they're almost late for their date. "Well we better get going on our date. It was good to meet you Zora."

"You better bring her back home on time Brandon."

"Don't worry mom!" teased Barbara.

Zora watched Barbara and Brandon walking away from her as they stopped walking, faced each other and kissed. If only Zora could find a guy like him but she knew that no guy would ever love her.

~End Flashback~

"So, Barbara what has your life become because all I know is that you married someone who provide you money and that now he is dead."

Barbara flinched. "That's none of your business!"

"Of course it's my business because I read it on a magazine about your husband's death."

She laughed, "Wow!" Barbara applauded for Zora, "You're just like all other people that live here…just plain and simpleton people."

"And you know what you are Barbara? You're a man-eater! Just how you reclaim that I 'stole' Brandon from you, you stole Hideo away from Setsuko!"

Barbara stomped her feet in frustration. "Enough! Why even bother talking about our past? Do you want to know why I'm even here?"

"No and I don't care so please get out of my clock shop!"

"Well too bad but the reason why I'm here is that I want to know is: where is Setsuko's daughter?"

Zora's eyes went wide. 'How does she even know about Akiza?' she wondered to herself. She wasn't expecting Barbara to know about Hideo's and Setsuko's daughter being alive and how was Barbara able to find out about Akiza? Zora wasn't expecting her to know where she was but here she was standing here in her clock shop asking for Akiza.


The Garage

Akiza couldn't keep hiding from her friends that she came into the garage standing there nervously. "Hey you guys" she said in a nervous tone. "So, how are the duel disks being repaired?"

Everyone turned around and saw Akiza standing there shaking a little. "Well, look who decided to come and help us. If it isn't Akiza, about time!" exclaimed Sherry with an angry tone.

Akiza looked down at the ground as she didn't want to see the disappointed look on Sherry's face. 'Clearly Sherry's mad at me for her burned duel disk' Akiza thought. "I'm here to tell you guys that I'm sorry for causing you so much trouble and I really didn't mean to get our duel disk to be damage, I swear."

Kalin walked up to her and hugged her and began to sooth her back trying to calm her down. He faced towards everyone, "Come on you guys, Akiza is asking for forgiveness" he looked at Akiza, "You already got my forgiveness Akiza."

Misty and Blister walked up to Kalin and Akiza and they too forgave her. The only one who needed to forgive Akiza is Sherry as she crossed her arms and looked away from the rest of the guys.

In came Mina as she saw Akiza in Kalin's arms and she was surrounded by Misty and Blister. She saw Sherry standing alone with her arms crossed. "Well, well, well, what do we have here? Is everyone against Sherry?" she laughed in a cruel manner.

Misty walked to Mina and hissed at her, "Why are you here? I thought you were gone for good!"

"Why shouldn't I be here and miss all the fun?" Mina looked around the garage and notices that Sherry's duel disk is burned as she starts to laugh, "Oh my god! Is that what I think it is? No…its Sherry's duel disk!" she laughed even louder.

Sherry's eyes opened in a flash and anger was written all over her face and eyes. She looked at Akiza and then at Mina with such rage that she wanted to chock her neck. Then she fixed her gaze back at Akiza.

"Let me guess whose fault is it? Is it Akiza?" Mina guess right as Sherry was still staring at Akiza. "So it was Akiza! God Akiza you bring everyone such bad luck!"

Kalin was getting annoyed by Mina's presences that he grabbed her by her arm, tight as Mina winced in pain, "I want you out of here Mina, now!"

"Ow! You're hurting me Kalin!"

"I don't care if I'm hurting you but I want you out of here, NOW!"

"Kalin, that's enough!" screamed Akiza. Everyone looked at Akiza like she was crazy, "Stop hurting Mina!"

"Why are you defending her Akiza?" asked Misty. "After all the things she said about you."

"I'm not defending Mina okay! Mina's right! I caused you guys so much bad luck that I…I…" Akiza didn't finish what she was saying as she ran out of the garage crying.

Everyone saw Akiza running out of the garage crying that they felt bad for her (except for Mina). They didn't mean to hurt her at all. Sherry's anger soon faded and started to feel another feeling: guilt.

A buzzing sound was heard as Blister took out his cell phone, "Hello…yes this is Blister speaking…yes…yes…yes…tomorrow night…okay…we'll be there…okay, bye." He looked at Kalin, "We have been invited to a party at Duel Academy tomorrow night and they want Akiza to be there."

Sherry couldn't believe that they were invited to another party and it was all thanks to Akiza's duel with Jesse. She felt so bad for Akiza and for blaming her for her duel disk. Just as she was about to go out and follow Akiza, Kalin ran faster than her and made his way out to follow the redhead.


Duel Academy

As Carly and Amanda are still discussing about her relationship with Michael she was trying to find Darien and ask him if they could have classes with Michael. "You know that if Michael forgives me then I'm good to conquer his heart."

"You're really crazy about him aren't you Carly?" asked Amanda as they walked their way to Darien's office.

"No, I'm not that crazy about him Amanda…I'm in love, seriously." Darien came out of his office as he bumped into Carly and Amanda. "Ow! Watch where you're going!" Carly noticed that the person that she bumped into was none other than Darien. "Darien, good to see you. I was just about to come in to your office and ask you if I can have Michael as my personal trainer."

"What? You want Michael as your trainer why?" he asked.

"Because I really need help with dueling and I need someone who has experience in dueling."

"I'm sorry Carly but Michael has a very busy schedule." Darien knew Michael's schedule and he was lying to Carly trying to keep his promise that he made with Bruno. "He has many other students who also want to have him as his personal trainer."

"Can you check his schedule if he has any free time?"

"Carly, I know his schedule and I'm sorry to say that all of his timings are full. I'm sorry!"

"No, this can't be!" Carly began to run through her hair in a frantic way. It couldn't be true! "Can you see if you can squeeze me in his schedule?"

"Really Carly, his schedule is full, so there's no extra space for you. I have to go and see my student. Will you excuse me?" Carly and Amanda let Darien go while he quickly ran to a corner as he took out his cell phone and called one person in particular.

"Hello?"

"Bruno, this is Darien. I have some news about your sister."

"What about Carly? Is she okay? Did that bastard do something to her?"

"Yeah, she is okay and no, he didn't harm Carly at all but she asked me if she could have some private training with Michael."

"You obviously didn't say yes did you?"

"Of course not Bruno. Remember, I'm trying to keep your sister safe from Michael." From afar, Darien heard Carly whining to Amanda about not having Michael as her personal trainer. "Bruno, Carly is doing one of her tempers."

"Ignore her. Thanks for letting me know about my sister's plan." Bruno was still helping Aracely with her deck that she grabbed him by his neck and kissed him that Darien heard a smack.

"What was that Bruno?"

"I-I have to go and train for my duel with Chase Princeton. Okay? Bye."

Darien had a perplexed look on his face as he heard Bruno hanging up on him. He knew something was up and knowing Bruno, he was with woman. Darien laughed and made his way to his destination. 'Well good luck Bruno on your duel.'


Fudo Mansion

Later in the afternoon, Leo and Luna are in Leo's room trying to figure out what went wrong with their plans. Rally came into Leo's bedroom and dropped his book bag and sat in the middle of the twins. "So, what are you guys planning to do to get Barbara and Ran out of the house?"

"For now nothing" answered Luna.

"We're trying to figure out why our plans are affecting Martha and not Barbara." Leo held up his spider that he supposedly placed in Barbara's sleepwear. "Too bad that this little guy wasn't in Barbara's sleepwear. But it did scare her for good."

"I know" Luna shivered a little, "Leo, how can you even hold a spider like that?"

"I'm used to holding insects and this spider isn't what I have in store for Barbara." Leo got up and opened a box that was filled with many insects big and small. "Hello my little friends" he purred at his collection of insects.

"Leo since when do you have these insects hiding in your room?"

"I've found these little critters in the park and some of them I've found them around Duel Academy."

In came Martha with a broom in her hand that she wasn't aware what the twins and Rally were doing until she saw many jars filled with insects and saw the same spider that came out of her sleepwear that she dropped the broom. "Leo! You're the one who put that spider in my clothes last night?"

Both twins and Rally jumped at the same time and noticed Martha standing there. Leo and Luna have been caught. "It was all Leo's plan!" exclaimed Luna as she stood up and away from her brother.

Leo palm-faced his forehead as he couldn't believe what Luna said. "For your information Luna, you also participated in this plan too."

Martha's eyes went wide and looked at Luna with a shocked expression. "Luna, you too also helped Leo with his mischievous acts?"

Luna began to stuttered, "Look, I was only trying to help him out figuring out how to get Barbara and Ran out of the house for good."

"That doesn't justify what you guys did yesterday." Martha looked at Leo, "I want you to take those insects back to their natural habitat, is that understood?"

"Martha, please don't make me take these insects back, please?" he went down on his knees and gave Martha a puppy glare.

Martha really hated when Leo did that but she didn't want Leo to keep those insects any longer that she began to scratch her arms. "Fine," Leo smiled, "…but I want you to keep only one. All of the other insects must go back."

"But Martha" Leo whined

"No buts Leo," Leo calmed down and finally agreed with Martha as he slowly picked up his jar filled with insects and placed them in a red wagon.

"Goodbye my friends. I'm going to miss all of you" he held up a jar that had a big and brown walking stick and kissed the jar.

Rally, Luna and Martha sweat-drop at the same time. Leo was sometimes way too weird.

Downstairs in the living room, Jack and Yusei were looking through their notes as they were trying to figure out who was going to be Martha's new assistant. They discussed which one of the following people that they interview early in the morning was going to be hired. "I don't know Yusei these people that we just interviewed today didn't convince me. Did you?"

"No, not really. I mean we weren't expecting a model to come to the interview. Can you imagine that Jack?"

"Yeah, I can" Jack smirked for a while but it soon disappeared, "Too bad that she doesn't like to take care of kids, though."

Martha came in wondering if Yusei had already picked her new assistant. "Yusei, have you decided to pick who's going to help me with your siblings?"

"Martha good to see you but we haven't picked who's going to help you. We're going to keep interviewing more people because the people that we interviewed today weren't convincing me at all. Especially that model."

'Don't remind me about her' thought Martha as she rolled her eyes. "So how many more days do I have to handle with your siblings and the mistreating that Barbara is doing to me? Yusei, I shouldn't be saying this but I think it was a bad idea to have Barbara living with us. She thinks that she's the owner of this house."

"You know that I can't leave her Stephanie and Ran out of this house after what they been through. Just hold on little bit longer and the new nanny will take care of everything for you."

"Fine, then I'll get going and do my things. I see you at dinner okay Yusei. If you need anything, I'm here for you." Just as she was about to walk out she remembered about the event that happened last night, "Oh, one more thing, Yusei, you should definitely call the exterminator and exterminate this house will you?"

"Thank you Martha and don't worry, I'll call them after this discussion is over." Martha walked out of the living room and went into the kitchen. Back in the living room, Yusei had many things going on through his mind about what Martha just said, about Carly's commentary, the way his siblings were acting nowadays and Akiza.

Jack noticed Yusei spacing out that he was starting to get worried about his best friend. "Yusei, are you alright? You're spacing out. Is everything okay?"

Yusei snapped back and looked at Jack, "I think so…well not really. You see Jack; I just can't stop thinking about what Carly told me this morning."

"What did she say?"

"We had a discussion about why she came back home so late at night. Barbara said that she saw Carly coming in dressed like a prostitute. So, we had a little argument and she told me if I actually cared about our family. Jack, do you think I don't pay enough attention to my family?"

Jack didn't know what to say since he left his own family and became the man that he is now. "Yusei, I'm not sure what to answer you but I think that Carly's right. It seems that the only thing that you care is about Ran's happiness. Think about it, the other day you told me that you haven't paid enough attention to Ran due to Leo's disappearance and now that you have Barbara and Stephanie living here under the same roof things are going from bad to worse. Don't get me wrong Yusei but I know that Ran is your girlfriend but you need to balance your relationship with her and your family."

"I know." Yusei put his head down on the table and groaned. "I feel so bad and useless to my family and girlfriend." Yusei lifted his head back up, "You know that I've been thinking about Akiza."

"No, I didn't. What about her?"

"I was thinking about how badly I mistreated her the other day when I almost send her to the facility. Poor girl. Do you think that I'm causing some bad luck to Akiza? I mean, what if my actions cause her to lose her job or even worse her home?"

"Then the only way to find out is that if you go to Akiza's house and see her personally."

"You're right Jack. I'm going to see her and ask her to forgive me."

"Before you look for Akiza, the agency called me and gave me some people to visit them and interview them." Jack took out two papers from his pocket and handed one of them to Yusei. "Here is the list of the people that we have to visit today. I'm also going to help you interview these people too."

Yusei looked over the list of people that he was going to interview today as he puts the list away. "Well then we better get going." Both gentlemen got up and left the house as they went into their own cars and drove into different directions.


Poppo Time

"I'll ask again Zora, where is Setsuko's daughter?" asked Barbara for the fifth time. Barbara was getting tired of Zora's silence that she wanted to strangle her for the answer.

"I don't know what you're talking about. I never met Setsuko's daughter so stop wasting my time and get out of this clock shop, now!"

"I don't believe in you Zora. I know that you are Setsuko's friend and that you have her daughter living here with you. Tell me where is she?"

"Why do you want to know where Setsuko's daughter is? Probably because you want something that she took away from you, eh? Knowing you, you're capable of doing the worse things to find her."

"I will not allow you to talk to me like that, Zora! Tell me where is Akiza?"

Down the street, Kalin and Akiza were walking down towards the clock shop as Kalin was trying to calm Akiza. Luckily for Kalin, he had found her hiding in the Rose Garden in the park. He explained that it wasn't her fault that they were going through the messy situation and that everything that Mina said before was not true. They finally made up to the clock shop and just as they are about to enter, Zora saw them coming in as she waved at them to not come in as Barbara didn't know why Zora was waving her hand.

'Please don't come in Akiza. You're in danger. Stay out of the clock shop, I'm begging you' thought Zora as she frantically waved her hands trying to shoo Akiza and Kalin away from Poppo Time.

Perplexed on why Zora was waving her hand, Barbara was getting frustrated. "Fine, if you're not going to tell me where is she, then I'm going to look for her myself." Barbara almost made it out of Poppo Time that she bumps into Akiza and Kalin just as they walk in. "Watch where you're going!"

"I'm sorry" Akiza and Kalin got out of Barbara's way as she notices the white hair duelist, Kalin.

"I remember you; you're that same person that asked me if I wanted an appointment, right?" She looks at Akiza and observes her from head to toe and notices that her hair color reminds her of someone that she despise but she couldn't but her finger on it. What amazed her was the color of Akiza's eyes, 'Her eyes are just like…him.' "Who are you?" she asked at Akiza.

Before Akiza could answer Barbara's question, Zora intervene the conversation. "This is Kalin" she pointed at the white hair duelist, "…and the girl next to him is his girlfriend."

'What!' thought Kalin and Akiza at the same time as their eyes went wide and they looked at each other while they blushed at the same time. Kalin and Akiza are not in a serious relationship, heck they weren't even dating to begin with.

Barbara looked at Kalin and Akiza and laughed like a hyena, "Come on! You can date some other girl who's way prettier than this girl. I mean, look at her, she looks like some kind of whore!"

Akiza never met Barbara before but she didn't like to be insulted by someone like her, "Look here, Miss. I don't know who you are but I don't like the way you're talking about me. I'm not a whore but you probably can't tell the difference between a lady like me and some whore like yourself!"

Barbara stopped laughing as soon as she heard Akiza calling her a whore, "Watch how you're talking you stupid girl. You have no idea who you're dealing with."

"Oooo, scary! What, am I suppose to be afraid of you? Well for your information, I'm not afraid of you or any of your threats."

Barbara gritted her teeth in anger as she clutched tightly onto her purse, "Why you insulted brat! I'm going to get you one day! You hear?"

"Get out of Poppo Time, NOW!" exclaimed Zora as she pushes Barbara out of her clock shop.

"Don't touch me! I can get out all by myself!" Barbara semi-pushed Zora as she walks out of the clock shop. Never in her life would she ever think that she was going to be humiliated like this.

Once, Barbara was two blocks away from Poppo Time, Akiza wanted to know why her godmother said that she's Kalin's girlfriend. "Why did you say that I'm Kalin's girlfriend, Zora? I was going to tell her my name."

"Anyways, why was she here?" asked Kalin.

"Akiza you have to be careful with that woman. She's the most dangerous person ever known. She was looking for you and I don't want her to ever find you at all."

"Why not?"

Should Zora tell Akiza that Barbara was the one who killed her mother and separated her family apart? Not knowing what to say she just said, "Because she's dangerous, Akiza. I don't want you to be near her at all. Is that understood, Akiza?"

"Yes, Zora" Changing the subject, Akiza has some news to tell to her godmother and Kalin, "Zora, I was able to convince Miss. Ramirez to let me have my old apartment back and she said it was okay. She also forgave me for accusing me of kidnapping Leo. I'm going to move back into my old apartment. I hope that's okay with you?"

"Now that sounds odd of her. I know that she's down-right mean but at least she has a gold of heart. Are you sure you want to go back into that old dinky apartment?"

"I'm sure. I don't want to cause you any more trouble. Can you help me pack up my things?" she asked while she looked at Kalin.

"Sure" both young adults walked in the clock shop as they made their way to the apartment when Zora held Akiza back.

"Akiza, I'm sorry what I told you earlier ago. I didn't mean to say any of those nasty things. Can you forgive me?"

"Don't worry Zora, you're already forgiven. I'm sorry if I scared you in any way with my temporary disappearance."

"Come on; let's help you pack up your things so you can have your old apartment back. I'm not going back to that old apartment. I like it here better than to see Miss. Ramirez's old face every day."

Both Zora and Akiza laughed. "Alright"

Barbara made Zora believe that she really had left when she was hiding around the corner trying to find out if that girl who Zora introduce was really Setsuko's daughter. All she saw them was talking for a little while and they just walked in. "I know you're hiding Akiza in the clock shop and when I find her, I'm going to get rid of her and get what's mine. Zora, you know that you can't hide her from me. I'm going to find Akiza sooner than you think."

She started to walk away from the clock shop that she wasn't aware where she was stepping on until she felt something squishy on her feet. Barbara looked down and noticed that she stepped on poop. "Eww! Oh god! My shoe is dirty! This place is so nasty!"


Bruno was being dragged by Aracely to a massage room that he wanted to go and practice his duel later on in the afternoon. "Aracely, I already spend a great time with you but I gotta go and train for the duel."

"Bruno, I promise that where I'm going to take you isn't going to take such a long time. What you need is a massage so you can be relaxed for your duel. I have the best hands for massaging a body like yours. Please let me massage you."

"Thank you Aracely but I'm already running late and I don't want Andre to be mad at me. I must go and I insist."

"Just let me massage you for five minutes and then you can leave for your training, please Bruno."

"Alright, you can give me a massage for five minutes then I'm off." Aracely jumped happily as they arrived to the massage room and made Bruno undress himself. Two minutes later Bruno came out with a towel that was wrapped around his waist. "Okay, I'm ready for the massage."

Aracely was staring at Bruno's body that she felt her whole face set on fire. Never in her life would she ever think that Bruno was so darn handsome. She shook her head snapping back to her real mission as she grabbed Bruno's hand and made him lay face-down on the bed. "Are you ready Bruno?"

"Remember that I'm only getting massaged for five minutes and then I'm out, okay?"

"I won't forget that Bruno and get ready. My hands are so magical that all of your aching muscles will relax." She placed her hands on his back and started to rub nice and slowly.

Bruno's body began to shiver in delight as he felt Aracely's hands rubbing down on his back and his legs. Who knew that she could massage so well? He felt all of his body to relax as his head began to rest on the pillow. Suddenly he felt some weight on his back. "I hope you don't mind if I sit on your back while I massage you?"

"No not at all."

Aracely started to rub Bruno's body again as he felt his eyes starting to close when he heard his phone ringing. "Hello?"

"Bruno, are you ready for your duel with Chase Princeton?" asked Yusei on the other line.

"Yeah, I am…hold on a minute," he held his phone away from him and talked to Aracely, "A little more to the left…yeah…right there…ahh!"

Yusei held the phone away from him as he heard Bruno moaning. He has no idea what Bruno is doing right now but he wanted to know anyways, "Bruno, are you sure that you're training?"

"Yes I am. It's that…I-I…umm…I'm trying a new method."

"Oh, well I'm calling you because I was wondering what was it that you wanted to talk to me about Carly. I received your email the other day and you said that you have something important to tell me about Carly. What is it Bruno? Is she okay?"

Bruno was completely lost into the massage that he didn't hear Yusei talking but he managed to hear something about Carly, "Yeah, don't worry Yusei about Carly. She's fine but you should be aware on what she does. I gotta go Yusei and finish up with my training."

"Okay, then I wish you good luck on your duel…and be careful with Chase. He's not that kind of person that you should fool around with. Chase means business when it comes to dueling. Are you even listening to mean Bruno?"

"Yeah, I am. Don't worry about my duel with Chase. Later Yusei" Bruno hung up on Yusei as he puts his cell phone on the table while he tries to relax and lose himself into the massage. Soon enough he fell asleep.

Yusei was done interviewing the first person on the list as he walks into the car and drives off to the next address that was listed on the list. Some clouds began to cover the clear and blue sky that Yusei started to get worry that it was going to rain any time soon.


Duel Academy

Carly is walking down Duel Academy as she tries to find Michael to see if he was going to forgive her for the other night. As she is walking down, some boys couldn't help it but to gaze, whistle and howl at Carly as she passes by them. Some girls gave Carly some dirty looks since they envied her. One guy was making with a brunette stopped kissing her and whistled at Carly. She chose to ignore every boy in Duel Academy while she is trying to find Michael.

Amanda finally caught up with Carly that she was pushed aside by her while Carly smiled as she saw Michael standing there happily. "Michael…" Carly whispered in awe. Just as she was about to surprise him again another girl with orange hair and baby blue eyes had made her way to Michael.

"So are you ready to go?" Michael asked.

"I'm ready!" the orange hair said as she held his hand as they started to walk away from Duel Academy.

Carly couldn't believe this. Was everything that he said the other night was a total lie? Didn't he say that she was unique from all other girls that he has met? She stomped her feet with anger. Was Michael cheating on her? The only way to find out is to follow them wherever they go.


Akiza drove down New Domino City trying to find a place to relax. In her duel runner, she carried all of her things that she packed out from Zora's apartment. Finally, Akiza found an empty park bench as she stops right in front of it and gets off. "Well, this is my new home." Akiza exclaimed to herself. She began to take out her pillow, quilt and a photograph of her mother as she placed them on top of the bench. Just looking at her mother's photograph made her feel sad, "I miss you mom. I wish you were here with me and with dad."

So, Akiza was never moving back to her old apartment. "I'm sorry Zora if I lied to you about this but I can't just live with you anymore and cause any more disgrace. I just hope Sector Security don't mind me sleeping here." Akiza took out her favorite bedtime story as she covers herself with her red quilt and begins to read it. "I just wish my life could be like a fairy tale and hopefully I can find my prince charming." She continued to read her book that she wasn't aware that she was falling asleep.

Akiza imagines herself sitting on the grass filled with many different types of flowers with many pretty colors as she lies on the ground looking up into the blue sky. Everything was so quiet and peaceful that she didn't want to ever wake up. Soon Akiza hears some voices.

"Akiza, don't ever give up on your dream."

"I won't" she got up and started to search for the person that was talking to her, "Where are you?"

"You can't see us but you can hear us. Akiza were duel spirits and we're trapped. We need you to set us free."

"How? Where can I find you and set you free?"

"In the castle. Prince Charming castle. Akiza, will you set us free?"

"Of course but who's my prince charming?"

"You already met him before. Find him Akiza and set us free. We're counting on you Akiza and don't ever give up."

"I won't" Akiza lays back on the ground and starts to relax as the cool and gentle breeze blew her face. Everything was so peaceful that she closes her eyes and takes a small nap.

Akiza woke up surprised as she sat up and hear the sky rumbling with thunder. A few raindrops fell on Akiza's head that she looked up into the sky and noticed how dark it was getting. "Great, I wasn't expecting to rain right now." Quickly she grabbed her book and quilt and puts them away in her duel runner while she quickly grab her other things that she took out from her duel runner. Suddenly it starts to rain heavily as Akiza gets on her duel runner trying to find a safe place to stay dry from the rain.


Duel Academy

Back at Duel Academy, Michael and the orange hair with blue eyes began to run as fast as they could trying to get away from the rain that they ran into the playground where they hid underneath a slide. "You look so darn amazing you know that?"

The girl began to blush at Michael comment, "Thank you"

Carly finally caught up with Michael and the girl that she stomps her way to them. She saw Michael leaning in almost kissing the girl. "Michael!"

Michael jumped in surprised as he turns around and notices Carly standing there with her arms crossed on her chest and she didn't look too happy. "Carly, what brings you here?"

"I should be asking you the same thing, Michael. I thought that you loved me and you said that I was unique."

"I do and I do love you like for real. She means nothing to me" he said while he pointed at the orange hair girl. "She's a friend of mine and she was asking me about…her duel runner, right?" he looked at her.

"Yeah, that was all I was asking him" said the orange hair girl. "Thank you Michael, I gotta go," she winked at him without Carly noticing it.

Carly couldn't believe what she heard; that he loves her. Now this was something that she always wanted to hear him say and now she felt like an idiot for claiming him as a cheater. "I'm so sorry Michael. I thought that you were cheating on me but what you said is true?"

"Yes, I do. I really mean it and I'm sorry for abandoning you the other night. I was such a jerk. Can you forgive me?"

Carly smirked as she went under the slide and pulled him into a kiss. As they are kissing underneath the rain, Amanda comes by trying to find Carly until she sees her kissing Michael under the slide. "Carly! We have to go back to Duel Academy. Our next class is about to start any time soon."

Carly broke the kiss and looked into his eyes "I see you later after my classes are over."

"I'll be waiting"

"Come on Carly we don't want to be late for our last class or do you want detention?"

"I'm coming!" Carly was about to lean in to kiss him goodbye that she was pulled by Amanda as they started to run back to Duel Academy.


As Yusei is driving his way to his second interview with the new nanny, Yusei is trying his best to drive under the heavy rainstorm. Just as he is about to go around a corner another car passes by him, making him almost crash into a duel runner.

Akiza was trying her best to drive in this rainstorm that she noticed a car coming by her that she stopped. She heard the car's tires screeching into a sudden stop. Inside the car, Yusei beeps the horn with anger that he smacks the wheel. He comes out of the car to see who he was about to crash into as Akiza took off her helmet and saw someone coming out of the car.

"Watch where you're," Yusei stopped talking as he sees Akiza sitting there on her duel runner, "…going."

"Yusei"


*The dress that Akiza is wearing is the same one that is seen on episode 153 & 154.

A/N: And that's chapter seven of this story! I won't be updating this story until three weeks from now since the next chapter is where Bruno and RobotFish's OC, Chase are going to duel.

I'll be answering some of your questions or comments:

Seeker Heart: I'm glad that you enjoy this story and I know that I've been writing long and lengthy chapters but I guess the longer you write the better you entertain the readers.

AkixYuseiGRL: Yes, this is the same Barbara from Crashtown and I know she might seem a bit off…but that's why the story is AU.

RoseAngel16: I'm not sure on what chapters will Yusei's character will change but one thing I can say it's going to be a long way. Sorry! =(

Be sure to read my one-shot story called, My Heart Beat for Love. In this one-shot, it has everyone's favorite couples like: Yusei & Akiza, Jack & Carly, Misty & Kalin, Patty & Rua and finally Crow & Luna & Rally. This story will be focusing on Luna after eight years Team 5D's departed their own paths. This story will probably be posted next week around Monday or Wednesday.

Kindly review. :)