Chapter 9

The Build-up

When Miss Haruki reached her office she locked the door behind her and thought to herself,

'What have I got myself into, I haven't even seen Yasuo's deck but saying that he hasn't seen mine' she continued when she walked over to her desk and removed the silver key from its secret hiding place before walking over to the bookcase in the corner of the room.

When walking over to a large cabinet with the key in hand she said to herself,

"Well its time I change into something more comfortable" while sliding the key into the concealed lock and twisted the key counter clockwise when the lock clicked.

A minute or so later, Miss Haruki took grip of the two small brass handles and pulled the doors wide open revealing the contents. There standing in front of her was a glass case that lit up by a small LED light in the top of the cabinet. The glass case opened revealing a stand with her underground dueling outfit on it that was tailored herself and was made to show off her favourite colour purple. It included a pair of thigh high purple leather boots, a matching short leather skirt that sat above the top of the boots, and below a tight fitting chest garter showing off little of her cleavage and exposing her super-model hourglass shaped body. The arms are covered by a pair of matching opera length gloves and a matching leather wrap to cover the neck. While it was forbidden for any teacher or student to duel in the underground, Miss Haruki hid her identity from public and fellow teachers who were invited to the shows whenever they were in town, she would wear an eye mask around the top half of her face so she wouldn't be found out as the mask sat proud around a head stand. With the door to her office locked and the blinds closed, Miss Haruki unzipped her teachers outfit and hung it on a few clothes hangers along with her skirt and removed her bra letting it fall to the ground while standing in front of the stand and removed each item separately starting with the neck wrap and pulled it down over her head and let it hang freely over her shoulders. With the neck wrap in place, Miss Haruki took the tight breast garter and loosened it just enough as she threw it over her head and brought it down over her chest and fitted it around her breasts. When it was sitting correctly she grabbed the strings and pulled them to tighten the garter around her chest. After Miss Haruki had tied the strings at the back of her top, she took the skirt from the stand and stood in to the opening and pulled it up her legs and covered her womanly parts. With her body now covered in her underground dueling outfit, Miss Haruki sat down and removed her normal shoes before sitting up and tied her platinum blonde hair up into a ponytail with a matching bobble to the rest of her outfit. After Miss Haruki had tied her hair up, she got to her feet and walked over to the case and grabbed the tall boots before turning to a black sofa where she sat down and unzipped the boots. When the boots were flopped open, Miss Haruki took the boots and pulled them over her bare legs before zipping them to the top for them to tighten. She walked around to see if they were comfortable on her. She sat back down as she did her makeup. She applied black lipstick that shined over her lips. She extended the size of her eyelashes with them around black eye shadow. She finished with pale blemish around her face so that her makeup appealed better giving her a darker look that appealed to her outfit.

With the clock reading 8:50, Miss Haruki walked over to the glass case and removed her mask from the head stand and said,

"It's been a while since I wore this but to keep my secret save then it's a must" she said when she turned the mask around and pulled it onto her face being careful not to smudge her make-up.

With her mask securely on her face, Miss Haruki stepped on a secret switch and cloud of smoke appeared and while the air ducts absorbing the smoke from the room, Miss Haruki was gone.

Meanwhile in the main Dueling arena, Matsumoto sat in the front row with her brother Matsuda and their friends Akira, Katsutoshi, Koji and Chiyemi beside them when the lights suddenly dropped and spotlights appeared on both entrances to the arena.

Just then the curtains opened and out came Mr. Yasuo wearing his regular tracksuit with his sleeves on his top rolled up just passed his elbows with a duel disk strapped to his left wrist but there was no sign of Miss Haruki. While Mr. Yasuo was standing in the duelist's space, he thought to himself,

'Where is she? She has probably come to her senses and knew she would never beat me' he stood thinking with his arms folded.

When the Clock struck 9:00am sharp a large cloud of smoke appeared and when it vaporized into the air there stood a womanly figure while all of the students were speechless at the stunning figure as Mr. Yasuo said,

"Miss Haruki is that you?"

"No, you can call me Crush" replied the confident woman.

Just then the rules of the duel was read out but then Mr. Yasuo increased the stakes and said,

"If I win Crush, you must remove your mask and reveal yourself to us" he said.

"Fine Yasuo, but if I win then I will abolish the school uniforms and allow the students to wear anything they want and you must leave the school" replied Crush when the life point scoreboard powered up and set itself at 4000 and the duel got under way.