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Chapter 8: Interviewing the New Nanny's Assistant Part 2
Previously…
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" Akiza stared at him with a confused look on her face that she didn't know what she was feeling right now. She felt her stomach fluttering with excitement and at the same time with fear.
Yusei doesn't know what to do as he continues to stare at Akiza with a sad/mad expression. He almost made her have an accident but luckily for him he didn't crash into her. He began to notice that he was getting wet by the rain and that he and Akiza were causing some traffic jam that he walks up to her, grabs her hand and makes her get off her duel runner.
"Hey, where are you taking me?" Akiza pulled back but Yusei pulled harder.
"Somewhere private. I need to talk to you about something." Yusei and Akiza left their vehicles behind as he continued to drag Akiza into an alleyway where they can talk and get away from the rain. Once they found a place to get away from the rain, Yusei made sure that Akiza would listen to her. "I'm sorry for everything, Akiza."
Perplexed on why he was forgiving her she wanted to know why he was saying that he was sorry, "About what?"
"Everything! Akiza, I'm sorry if accused you for kidnapping Leo and for almost sending you to the facility. I'm sorry if I'm causing you such bad luck Akiza. Can you forgive me?" he asked as he grabbed her hands and intertwine with his.
Akiza left her stomach flipping and her neck tied in a knot. Here was Yusei Fudo asking her to forgive her for everything that he has done to her. Isn't this was she wanted him to say? But she felt that she was not happy when Yusei was asking her to forgive her. In fact, she felt guilty for asking Yusei to forgive her. She felt Yusei staring at her as he is waiting for her to answer him. "I don't know" she said in an auditable voice.
Both Akiza and Yusei were still wet that he notices that water was dripping on Akiza's face that he grabbed a handkerchief from his pocket and dabs it on Akiza's face. Akiza felt her whole face and body getting warm by Yusei's touch. She immediately grabs his hand and snuggles against his hand. Closing her eyes, Akiza wonders if she could ever forgive Yusei for all the bad things he had accused her of. Opening her eyes, she begins to notice how close they were and blushes a little. "I forgive you, Yusei. For everything"
Yusei starts to feel relieve to hear her say that she has forgiven him. He also notices how close they are that he's not aware that he's leaning in towards her that he was about to kiss her when his phone started to ring. Akiza and Yusei took one step back as Yusei takes out his cell phone and sees that his girlfriend Ran is calling him. He ignored her call and sees Akiza looking around her surroundings.
"So," Yusei began as he felt uncomfortable and awkward to be talking to Akiza, "…do you need something? Ask me anything, Akiza."
"No, I don't. Look Yusei, I really have to go."
"Did you lose your home or your job, Akiza? If you don't have a home, then you can come and live in my house."
"No, no, it's okay. I was…uh…driving my way back to my old apartment but thanks for the offer Yusei." Just as she's about to go back to her duel runner she pulls Yusei into a hug and hugs him for thirty seconds and kisses him on his cheek. Akiza felt something tickling inside of her heart as her lips touches his cheek and makes her way out into the streets and rides on her duel runner.
In the alleyway, Yusei is still there with a stunned expression. He felt something funny inside of him that he wasn't sure what he was feeling but he liked it as he caress his cheek where Akiza kissed him. Yusei closes his eyes and starts to trace where Akiza's lips touched his cheek and begins to drag his finger over his lips. It would've been better if she had kissed him on his lips but he remembers that he has a girlfriend already.
Yusei walks his way back to his car as he gets in and smiles for the first time. Just as he is about to start the engine, his phone begins to ring. He looks at his caller ID and sees that Ran is calling her. Might as well answer her call "Hello, Ran"
"Yusei, why didn't you answer my previous call!" exclaimed Ran with an upset tone.
"I'm so sorry Ran but I was busy interviewing some people for Martha's new assistant. What's wrong?"
"Yusei, we should go to this event and it's very important that we should go together."
"Why?"
"What do you mean by why, Yusei? We have to. It's a charity auction for children that are homeless and we should be there supporting this event. The news and the press are going to be there." So Ran only wants to go to this event because she wants the press to take pictures of her and post them up in the newspaper. Did she really care about this event at all?
"Ran, right now this is not the right moment to be going to a charity auction. We have to find Martha a new assistant to help her take care of my family."
"But Yusei" Ran began to whine, "We have to. Think about all of those children that are living out on the streets, Yusei. Please we have to! I'm begging you!"
"I'm not sure about it Ran. I'll think about it."
"No, I don't want you to think about it later. I want to know right now!"
Yusei sighed in defeat, "Fine, we'll go to the charity."
"Great, then I'll get ready for the event. See you later in the night, Yusei. You're the best!" Ran hung up on Yusei.
Yusei doesn't really want to go to this event but since his girlfriend convinced him, might as well then to go. He takes out his paper and sees whose he's going to visit next for the next interview.
Bruno runs his way into the arena as he places his duel disk on his left arm and takes out his deck from his pocket. Near the entrance of the arena, Andre was standing there with his arms crossed. He was not happy at all that Bruno blew off his training. "Where were you Bruno?"
"I was…uh…helping a lady how to duel." Bruno said as he was buttoning up his shirt since he came in the stadium showing off his bare chest.
"Well, you should have abandon her and come to your training. Bruno, you don't know who you're up against. Chase Princeton means business when it comes to dueling." Andre checked his watch and noticed that Bruno is almost about to lose to his duel. "Come one Bruno, you only have a less than one minute to arrive to your duel or else you surrender."
Both young men ran even faster that Bruno was finally able to reach to the arena and take his place. Across the field, Chase was not happy at all that Bruno arrived late. He looked at his sidelines and saw Aracely nodding her head and smirked at him. He focused back on Bruno, "I was wondering what took you so long to come. What are you afraid to lose?" he taunted at Bruno.
"I never surrender in a duel and I'm not afraid to lose against you" retorted Bruno.
"Enough talk! It's time to duel!"
Both duelists activated their duel disks as their life points appeared on the big screen. "Duel!"
"I'll go first since you arrived late," Chase mocked Bruno for his tardiness. "Draw!"
[Chase]
[Beginning of Turn One: No monster on the field; no Facedown cards; 6 cards in hand; 4000 LP]
"Before I can summon this monster, I'm going to discard this one to the graveyard in order to summon Dark Grepher (1700/1600) in attack mode and I place two cards face down ending my turn. Show me what you got Mr. Tardy."
[End of Turn One: Dark Grepher (Level 4) ATK1700/DEF1600 in attack mode; 2 Facedown cards; 2 cards in hand; 4000 LP]
"My turn!" Bruno growled in anger.
[Bruno]
[Beginning of Turn Two: No monster on the field; no Facedown cards; 6 cards in hand; 4000 LP]
'Not bad. I'll show this rich stuck up kid that he shouldn't mess with me.' "I summon Tech Genus Rush Rhino (1600/800) in attack mode. Now T.G. Rush Rhino attack his Dark Grepher!"
Chase began to laugh, "What is wrong with you? Haven't you noticed how weak your monster is? But if you insist on losing the duel let me help you."
"I don't plan to lose this duel, Chase but this bad boy has an effect, it gains 400 attack points during the damage step," Bruno said as his T.G. Rush Rhino attack points increased from 1600 → 2000 ATK points.
"I don't plan to lose either, so I active one of my facedown cards, Lightning Vortex. By discarding one card to the graveyard I can destroy all monsters, or should I say, monster you have out in the field."
"Not so fast, T.G. Rush Rhino has another effect. If it's affected by a spell or trap card I can halve the attack and defense points of my monster," Rush Rhino's attack and defense points were cut in half (2000/800 → 1000/400) as Bruno's monster still launched itself to attack Chase's monster.
"What a dumb move you just made! You know that your monster is going to be destroyed anyways," Chase said as T.G. Rush Rhino destroyed itself since it was weaker than Dark Grepher.
"That doesn't matter because if T.G. Rush Rhino gets destroyed I can draw one Tech Genus monster from my deck and add it to my hand," '…Even thought I can't summon it this turn.' Bruno finished his last sentence. "I end my turn with two cards facedown."
[End of Turn Two: No monster on the field; 2 Facedown cards; 3 cards in hands; 3000 LP]
"I was expecting a little bit of a challenge from you Bruno, since you're Duel Academy's number one student. What happened? Did you think that I was going to go easy on you? Wrong! You don't know who'd you're messing with. I want a real challenge not a friendly competition!"
'He's right! I better get my act together or I'll end up losing this duel. I don't want to fail everyone in Duel Academy and my family. Okay Bruno, keep your head up and give Chase Princeton the ass-whooping he's going to get.' "It's not over until the last card is drawn. So make your move, Rich Boy."
Chase snarled at Bruno's commentary but he chose to ignore it, "It's my turn!"
The Garage
In the garage, Blister is wondering if he's going to be able to fix Sherry's burned duel disk as he analyze where the malfunction started. Meanwhile, Sherry and Misty are busy reading a magazine that Misty brought along with her.
"I love that dress and I love how this model is wearing it." Misty sighed as she flipped into the next page.
Sherry didn't know what to say as she continued to look at the magazine. She didn't even know why she was even bothering looking at the magazine in the first place when she, Kalin and Jesse should be registering for the WRGP as a team and take Akiza to register for Queen of Queen title match. She groaned when she heard Misty making another comment.
"I think that dress would look better on me."
"If you think that dress would look better on you then why don't you become a model?" asked an annoyed Sherry while she crossed her arms.
"Me? A model?" Misty got up and looked at herself in the mirror and twirled around, "Do you really think so Sherry?"
Sherry rolled her eyes. In came Kalin as he was checking on Blister and the equipments. "How are the equipments, Blister? Do you think you can fix them like new?"
"I'm not sure. I'm thinking that we should buy some new duel disk and you guys should buy some new cards. Do you guys have a name for the team?" Blister continued to work on the non-working duel disk as he grabbed Kalin's duel disk.
"No, unfortunately we don't. We need Jesse's help to decide a name for the team. I have a few but who knows if Sherry and Jesse will like them at all."
"What about Akiza?" Sherry interrupted the conversation between the two male friends.
"What about her?"
"Shouldn't she be here and help us too."
"She will be…soon. Right now, she's moving back to her old apartment and that's going to take some time."
"What if she blows it off at the last minute and decides to not come at all, Kalin? Then what?"
"Sherry stopped thinking so negatively of everything. I know…I mean, we know Akiza and she's not going to fail us."
Blister was done checking the duel disk that he gave Kalin's duel disk and check if anything was wrong. "See if it works."
Kalin was a bit nervous about his duel disk may malfunction like Sherry's but the only way to find out was to test drive it. His duel disk activated and just as Kalin was about to place his deck of cards in the slot, electrical sparks started to spit out on Kalin's disk that he immediately took it off, dropped it on the floor and kicked some dirt on his duel disk so his won't get on fire like Sherry's.
Once the electrical sparks faded, Kalin, Sherry, Blister and Misty stood over the almost-burned duel disk with wide eyes. "We definitely need the money for our duel disk" muttered Kalin.
Fudo Mansion
Martha and Antonio are in the kitchen as Antonio is preparing to cook dinner for everyone living in the house. "This house became from bad to worse ever since Barbara and Stephanie started to live here. When am I going to have my assistant helping me with the younger Fudo's?"
"Patient Martha, Yusei is trying his best to pick the best nanny's assistant. Speaking of which, where is he anyways? I haven't seen him all day?"
"Yusei and Jack went to interview some of the candidates."
In came Carly with her bag as she drops it on the chair, "Martha can you iron my dress for tonight's party. You know the purple-grey stripped, tube dress?" Martha had no idea what Carly was talking about. She was about to ask which dress when Carly said, "Thanks Martha, you're the best" she walks out of the kitchen when she bumps into Ran.
"Ow! Watch where you're going Carly!" she shouted at her. "Martha!"
"You too, Ran" Carly scold Ran while she rubbed herself and walked out of the kitchen.
"Martha!"
"Speak of the devil," muttered Martha, "Yes Ran?"
"Martha, where's my cup of water? Do I have to do everything myself?" she said in upset tone.
"Here," Martha was about to get a cup for Ran when Barbara came into the kitchen screaming at the top of her lungs "Great, more trouble."
"Why isn't anyone helping us?" exclaimed Barbara and Ran at the same time.
"Why even bother?" Barbara said as she stomps her feet, ignoring the fact that Martha and Antonio were in the kitchen, "I'm so angry! I can't believe that Zora won't tell me where Setsuko's daughter is! I just want to offer her some money so she can't get the money that Hideo left for us."
"You actually went to look for her? What happened mom? Tell me everything."
"Zora said that she didn't know who is Setsuko's daughter is. That old lady," she growled in anger, "Why can't things go smoothly? Martha! When is my food going to be ready? Where's my makeup box? I can't find it anywhere!"
'They're going to kill me if they keep ordering me around like a servant.' "Dinner is almost ready, I placed your makeup box in the bathroom and don't worry, if you still can't find it then I'll go look for it." Martha said in a single breath.
"I'll be in my room sleeping," Barbara said as she left along with her daughter.
"I thought that they would never leave." Martha checked to see if Barbara and Ran had really left. Sure enough they were gone, "These two ladies are going to be the end of me, Antonio. I just can't handle each and every one of their demands. It's always, 'Martha this' and 'Martha that'…I need my assistant soon." She saw Antonio almost done with dinner, "What's that suppose to be?"
"Grilled shrimp with tilapia" Going back to Martha's complaints "Martha, I'm sure whoever Yusei picks as your assistant…I hope she can handle with Barbara and Ran."
"I hope you're right, Antonio," Martha sighed.
Akiza's Old Apartment
Kalin and Zora are walking their way to Akiza's old apartment where Miss. Ramirez rented the apartment as Kalin is telling Zora about the problems that they are having with their duel disks. "We don't know what to do Zora. No matter how much Blister and I fix them there's always some problems. Like when we thought that Sherry duel disk was working fine and the next thing you know it burns up. I'm worry that Crow and Carly won't pay us just like they promise."
"I'm sure that Crow and Carly will pay you" they stopped walking as they noticed that the gate was closed. "I wonder what Akiza's doing."
Miss. Ramirez noticed Zora and Kalin standing outside of the apartment as she grunted. "Why are you guys even here anyways? Didn't I make it clear that I don't want you to ever come back to this place ever again?"
"I'm not here to live in this apartment, Miss. Ramirez. I'm here to see my goddaughter since you were so nice to let her come back."
"What are you talking about Zora? I never let Akiza back in this apartment nor do I ever want any criminal living in my neighborhood."
"Who are you calling a criminal? I'll let you know that Akiza's no criminal. She's already proven not guilty for kidnapping Leo."
"But to me, Akiza's a criminal!"
That was the last straw for Zora as she grabbed Miss. Ramirez's arm through the gate and twisted her arm. "Nobody calls my goddaughter a criminal!" she continued to twist Miss. Ramirez's arm back.
"Ow! Ow! OWWWW!" she wailed in pain. "Let go of my ARM!"
"No way! Not until you say that you're sorry for calling Akiza a criminal or shall I break your arm," she hissed at her.
Kalin tried to separate Zora and Miss. Ramirez but Zora still held onto Miss. Ramirez's arm. "Zora, let go! I don't think it is worth your time to be twisting her arm. We have to find Akiza."
Immediately Zora let go of Miss, Ramirez's arm as she rubs her arm, "You're right. We have to find Akiza but where can she be? If she's not living here, then where is she? Maybe we should call Sector Security and—"
"I don't think that will be necessary Zora" Kalin was thinking of all the places where Akiza could be until it hit him, "I think I know where Akiza could be. I'll bring her right back, safe and sound." Kalin ran his way to the garage to get his duel runner and look for the redhead.
'Please be safe Akiza,' thought Zora.
On the road, Akiza is driving her way into another city where she can live happily. She could have said yes to Yusei when he had offered her a place to stay and a job but instead she didn't want to cause any mishaps to his family and his girlfriend. As she's driving down the road, some papers fallout from the boxes that she doesn't even seem to notice until some of those papers are blown in front of her. She sees some papers on the floor that she realizes that she's about to lose important papers. Immediately she stops her duel runner and gets off to pick those papers. Some of those papers are getting wet while others are being blown away into the forest.
"Great, I'm losing everything that I have, literately! I've lose my home, my job and…" she looks down on the ground, "my prince charming. I hate my life" Akiza continued to pick her papers when she hears a loud honk miles away. "Oh, no" she muttered. Quickly she tries her best to pick up her papers that the honking was louder than before.
Down the road, a really big truck was coming by and it was honking at Akiza to move out of the way. The truck was coming closer, closer and closer to Akiza that she stops picking up the paper as she stands in the middle of the road waiting for the truck to stop anytime soon but it didn't stop at all. "Move out of the way Miss" yelled out the truck driver.
"No, stop, you're going to run over my duel runner and some papers! Please STOP!" she shouted at him while she waved her hands to signal him to stop. It was no use for her to make the truck driver to stop because the truck was less than a mile closer to Akiza and her duel runner. Not knowing what to do with the paper still scattered on the ground, Akiza runs towards her duel runner but she trips.
Akiza gets up fast trying to reach up to her duel runner and tries to start the engine but her duel runner wouldn't start. "Come on! Please start" she tries again to start her engine but nothing happen. The truck driver honk the horn as Akiza had no choice but to abandon her duel runner and all of her possessions that she carried with her. She ran out of the way as the truck smashes into Akiza's duel runner causing an explosion to happen.
When she heard the explosion, she jumped into the forest trying to cover herself from the falling pieces of her duel runner and the truck. Akiza fell on the ground with her head hitting first knocking her unconscious.
Fudo Mansion
In Barbara's and Stephanie's room, Barbara is looking at herself in the mirror trying to finish up the last touches to her disguise as she puts on the wig. In comes Ran as she sees her mother adjusting her wig. "What are you doing mom?"
"I'm going undercover and try to find out where Zora's hiding Akiza. I just hope that this plan won't fail me."
"Okay" Ran said and jumped into another conversation, "Mom, I'm going to go shopping today. Yusei and I are going to a charity auction for the homeless and the press is going to be there. Finally, things are going back to normal." Ran went to search for her wallet and purse.
"That's great, dear but we need an Izinski to be here and represent us for the interview. Yusei, Jack and Martha are going to interview more candidates for Martha's assistant." Right on cue, in come Stephanie with a blow of grapes, "Stephanie you just saved us"
"Eh?" she asked as she ate her grapes.
"You're going to stay here for the interview and help Yusei pick the new nanny's assistant. I'll be going out and your sister will be shopping and I don't know when she'll be back." She turned around and saw Stephanie eating grapes, "Can't you go without a day eating Stephanie?"
Stephanie shrugged her shoulder while Barbara rolled her eyes at her. "I must be going then. See you girls in the afternoon." Barbara grabbed her purse and walks her way out of the room and out of the house to stake out of Zora's clock shop.
"Draw!"
[Chase]
[Beginning of Turn Three: Dark Grepher (Level 4) ATK1700/DEF1600 in attack mode; 1 Facedown card; 3 cards in hand; 4000 LP]
"First, I'm going to activate Dark Grepher's special ability; I'm going to discard another card to the graveyard. I summon Axe Dragonute (2000/1200) in attack mode. Since you have no monsters on your field I'm just going to attack you directly. Go Axe Dragonute attack Bruno directly!"
"I don't think so. I use one of my facedown cards, Battle Stun Sonic. This card negates one of your monsters attack and it allows me to special summon a monster that is a level 4 or below. So say hello to T.G. Werewolf (1200/0)."
"Nice move but you have to do better than that, so let me show you. I activate my other facedown card, Trade In. I discard one level eight monster to the graveyard and draw two new cards. My monster almost attacked you but at the end of the damage stage, he changes into defense mode. Since I can't attack you again, I'll set one card facedown and switch my Dark Grepher into defense mode, as well ending my turn. Your move, Bruno."
[End of Turn Three: Dark Grepher (Level 4) ATK1700/DEF1600 in defense mode, Axe Dragonute (Level 4) ATK2000/DEF1200 in defense mode; 1 Facedown card; 2 cards in hand; 4000 LP]
"You want a real challenge you say? What happened?" Bruno mocked Chase as he watched him getting angry. "I'm going to show you and everyone in Duel Academy why I'm the number one student and you're about to witness your own defeat."
"Really? You don't know what's in store for you. Little by little you're falling into my trap and soon you'll fall into it, Bruno."
"Don't let him get to you, Bruno!" shouted Andre from the sidelines. "We're all counting on you!"
Bruno took in a deep breath and tried to relax. He gave thumbs up to Andre and to all his fans sitting on the sidelines supporting him. He just has to win this duel. "Ready? Draw!"
[Bruno]
[Beginning of Turn Four: T.G. Werewolf (Level 3) ATK1200/DEF0 in attack mode; 1 Facedown card; 4 cards in hand; 3000 LP]
Bruno looked at what he draw and smiled. This was the beginning of a real duel. "No more playing around Chase. Now I'm going to show you all of my power. First, I summon T.G. Catapult Dragon (900/1300) in attack mode. Although his attack points are lower than your two monsters, I'm going to use this monsters effect. Now I special summon a monster that's a level three or below and I choose T.G. Striker (800/0)."
"Is that it? You've got to do better than that Bru—"
"I'm not done just yet," he interrupted Chase, "Next, I'm going to synchro summon T.G. Werewolf with T.G. Striker. Come my two monsters and become one powerful monster. I synchro summon T.G. Gladitor (2300/1000). Now his effects are so simple, Chase. I'm going to attack your Dark Grepher since the difference between my T.G. Gladitor's attack points and your monster's defense points are going to deal you some damage but before that I'm activating my facedown, Limiter Removal. This card allows me to double my monster's attack points!" Bruno smirked as his two monsters attack points increased as the crowd around them cheered for Bruno. "Go T.G. Gladitor attack Dark Grepher directly."
T.G. Gladitor attacked Dark Grepher making Chase's life point drop 3000 points down to 1000. After his monster attacked Chase's monsters both T.G. Catapult Dragon and his T.G. Gladitor were destroyed. Bruno forgot about that but it hadn't caused him his life points. He had no idea what Chase had in plan. If only he knew. Chase growled in anger, "You have no idea what you have done Bruno. Just wait and see what I've got install for you."
"All that talk you're doing is just some bluff. You're all bark and no bite Chase! And you're about to lose this duel."
Across the arena, Chase was getting irritated that Bruno was about to win the duel until he remember that Aracely was watching the duel. He looked to his side and locked eyes with her and nodded almost as if he was saying, 'Do your thing'.
Aracely knew what she had to do. She stood up and shouted at Bruno, "You can do it Bruno. I'm counting on you!" She blew some kisses at Bruno which caught his attention and made him blush a little.
On the sidelines, Andre didn't like what he was looking at. He saw Bruno blushing and forgot that he was dueling. "Hey Bruno! Pay attention will ya! You're in a duel not on a date with that girl!"
Bruno broke eye contact with Aracely and looked down at Andre as his blush subsided. Aracely, on the other hand, was getting mad that Andre was interfering with Chase's plan a she sat back down on her seat as she kept an eye on Chase and Bruno. 'He's right! I better attention to the duel or else I'm doomed! God, why did Aracely do that?'
"I end my turn by setting one card facedown."
[End of Turn Four: No monster(s) on the field; 1 Facedown cards; 2 cards in hand; 3000 LP]
Chase liked what he saw out in the field. Everything was set for the main show that was going to occur in the following turns. He smirked without Bruno noticing as he got ready to draw his next card. 'This is it, the moment I've been waiting for.'
Poppo Time
Zora just came back from Akiza's old apartment as she prayed for her goddaughter's wellbeing. She just couldn't help it but to think many bad scenarios that she tried her best not to think of them but she couldn't. She couldn't even do her job that she closed her clock a bit earlier than usual. 'Akiza please be okay.'
Outside of Poppo Time, Barbara was waiting for Zora to come out with Akiza but she saw nothing happening. All she saw was Zora walking back and forth in the clock shop. "Why isn't she doing something?" she muttered. "Come on Zora. Come out with your goddaughter." Just then, she saw Zora coming out of the clock shop and stood there with her arms crossed and had a worried face. "Where's Akiza?"
Zora looked up and noticed a woman dressed in a black and long coat with black, short hair that reached up to her neck and she wore some sunglasses. It took her a moment to realize that the mysterious person standing across the street was none other than Barbara. It was a clear give away that it was Barbara because Barbara was looking at Zora. Barbara felt that Zora had caught her that she hid behind a post.
While she was hiding from Zora, a drunk guy passed by Barbara and whistles at her. "Hey there pretty lady!"
"Go away!" she hissed at the drunken guy, "You're going to spoil my undercover!"
"Whatever" he began to walk his way home.
Across the street, Zora saw the whole thing that happened between the drunken guy and Barbara that she was definitely sure that Barbara was spying on her. "I knew it was her." she whispered. "She's probably waiting for Akiza to show up. Well that's not going to happen. It's time to call for backup!" Zora closed the clock shop and began to walk her way to someone that she knows for a long time while Barbara followed her to wherever Zora was going.
"My turn! Draw!"
[Chase]
[Beginning of Turn Five: Axe Dragonute (Level 4) ATK2000/DEF1200 in defense mode; 1 Facedown card; 3 cards in hand; 1000 LP]
Chase smiled as he drew the card that he needed to win this duel. He laughed as Bruno wondered why he was laughing. "Are you ready Bruno? I activate my facedown card, D.D.R. (Different Dimension Reincarnation). Now I'm going to bring back my most powerful monster from the graveyard."
Bruno didn't see this coming. He was thinking for a while why Chase kept discarding his card but he was going to see what Chase has planned for him. 'Whatever this is, I'm not going to like it one bit of it.' Bruno braced himself for the inevitable.
"Come on out Dark Horus (3000/1800)!"
Bruno wasn't expecting this to happen. 'Where did I go wrong! How did this happen to me?' On the sidelines, Andre didn't like what he was seeing on the field. Andre knew that Dark Horus could wipe away Bruno's life points. He looked at Bruno who was confused and he saw that his best friend was sweating like mad. 'This is not good at all,' thought Andre.
"Now Dark Horus attack Bruno directly! This is it Bruno."
Bruno couldn't activate his facedown card since it was useless. Bruno braced himself for the attack as Dark Horus launched himself and hit Bruno in the chest making him fall on the ground as Bruno's life points dropped to zero. Everyone in the stadium stayed quiet. They were shocked that Bruno, Duel Academy's number one student, has lost this duel. Andre hung his head in defeat, almost as he was the one dueling Chase.
"The winner of the semi-finals of the tournament is Chase Princeton!" announced the MC.
Some people cheered for Chase while others booed at him. Bruno was still lying on the ground with an empty expression written on his face. Andre saw that Bruno wasn't moving or even getting up that he and two other men went to pick Bruno up and took him inside of the green rooms.
Fudo Mansion
Yusei, Jack, Stephanie and Martha are sitting in the living room with notepads and pencils ready in their hands to interview more candidates. Ran comes in and gives a quick kiss to Yusei on the lips. "I'm going shopping for tonight's charity auction. See you at nighttime."
Once she was out of the living room Yusei made Martha call in the first interviewee, "Alright Martha, let the first come in." Martha goes out of the living room and brings in a woman who's about twenty-five years old with black hair and eyes dressed up in a dark navy suit. "Name please?"
"I'm Marissa"
Yusei wrote down her name while Martha did the rest of the interview. The next two people that entered in the living for the interview didn't convince Yusei and Jack. As half an hour passes by six interviewees were interviewed by Jack and Martha. Once in a while, Stephanie interviewed some of these candidates but neither did Jack, Martha and Yusei agreed with her decision. As time passes by, Yusei stopped writing notes and began to doodle and without him noticing, he drew a portrait of Akiza. He drew an exact picture of her with her heart shaped face, cat shaped eyes and her lips. Of course he also drew her long two bangs and shoulder length hair.
He was almost done drawing his picture of Akiza that the next person that comes into the living room, Yusei looks up and he thinks he sees Akiza. Yusei looks at his drawing and the girl in front of him. 'It has to be her. I know it.' "Her!" he shouted.
Martha, Jack and Stephanie gave Yusei a puzzled looked, "What?"
"You" he said, "What's your name?"
"My name is Alexandra" she said. It was true…almost true. Alexandra did look a lot like Akiza but she was thinner and taller than Akiza.
"Well then Alexandra, you're hired!"
"Yusei! What are you saying!" exclaimed Martha and Jack at the same time.
"I've made up my mind and she's hired."
"But Yusei, you didn't even interview her," said Stephanie.
"I already said that she's hired as Martha's new assistant." He looked at Martha, "Martha, show her where she's going to stay and you know what else to do to her."
Martha didn't objected, "Okay" she faced at her new assistant, "Come with me" Martha directed her new assistant to her room.
"Stephanie, can you tell the other people that are waiting outside that we've already picked someone for the job, will you?" asked Yusei. She nodded and left the room.
Once she left, the only left in the living room were Jack and Yusei. "I'm actually surprised by your actions, Yusei. Stephanie's right, you didn't even interview this lady. What's going on Yusei? Why did you pick her?"
Was Yusei really going to tell Jack that he hired this lady because she looks a lot like Akiza? "I don't know what happened back there, Jack. I thought I saw…" he stopped himself before he could say her name.
"Who did she look like?" Jack wasn't dumb and he too was almost sure that this Alexandra looks like Akiza. "Yusei, please don't tell me you hired her because she looks like Akiza. Did you?"
"No, of course not." Yusei switched the conversation before Jack could ask even more questions, "Speaking of Akiza, I was able to find her and she was able to forgive me for the things I've done to her."
"Where did you find her?"
"I found her on the streets. We almost crashed into each other. She was on her duel runner while I was in my car." Yusei remember the part where he had dragged her off her duel runner and pulled her into the alleyway and had their own private conversation. He smiled as he also remembered when she had hugged and kissed him on his cheek. "What intrigue me the most is that Akiza said that she was driving her way back home when she was driving her way into an interstate that leads out of this city? Jack don't you feel that I've caused Akiza some bad luck?"
"Did you ask her if she lost her job or her home?"
"I did but she said everything's okay but I don't really believe what she said." 'I hope you're alright, Akiza.'
Kalin was driving down the same road where Akiza passed by a few hours ago. Kalin was sure that Akiza drove by this highway. Where else can she drive to?
Back in the forest, Akiza regained her conscious as she slowly sat up. "Ow!" she placed her head where she knocked herself. "Where am I? The last thing I remember was that I was driving my way out of New Domino City and some papers fell out and I picked them up." She started to stand on her two feet when she felt one of her feet odd. Akiza looked down and saw that she was missing a shoe. "Great, I lost another shoe. What's up with that?" Not knowing where to go she walked into the forest hoping that she would find the road and her duel runner.
Out in the road, Kalin was still driving until he saw some papers flying everywhere on the ground. He stopped his duel runner aside, got off and looked at the papers. Sure enough, these papers belong to Akiza. He was close on her. A few miles ahead, Kalin saw smoking rising in the air as he thought the worse, 'No, it can't be Akiza. She has to be okay.' He got on his duel runner and drove where the smoke was coming from and saw Akiza's duel runner on fire and broken into parts but no dead body. As he entered the forest, he saw Akiza's red shoe. "She's alive!" he said.
Somewhere in the forest, Akiza was searching for the open road but all she could find was more trees. She stops at a pine tree and takes a small break while she bends down holding her head since it was thumping in pain. "Just how long am I from the road?" she said out loud.
"Akiza! Akiza, are you here? Answer me!" Kalin called out but no one answered.
Akiza continued to walk in the forest trying to find what she's looking for but she felt like she was walking around in circles. Again she stops at a pine tree and notices some blood on the grass. "That can't be right." Akiza placed her hand on her head where she hit herself and saw some blood dripping. "How did this happen?" then she remember the explosion that happened that caused her to jump and knocked her unconscious.
"Akiza! AKIZA, WHERE ARE YOU!"
She heard someone calling her name that she knew that voice anywhere, "Kalin?" she wondered. "Kalin!"
"AKIZA!"
Sure enough, it was Kalin calling out to her. "KALIN! I'M RIGHT HERE!" Akiza begins to run towards Kalin while he went somewhere else searching for the redhead.
"AKIZA, WHERE ARE YOU!"
"KALIN!" Akiza walked near a cliff that she stops herself from falling down. "That was a close one."
"AKIZA!"
Akiza turned around and saw Kalin calling for her with her shoe in his hand, "KALIN, I'M RIGHT HERE!"
Sure enough Kalin turned around and saw Akiza in one piece but he started to get worry where Akiza was standing, "Akiza, what are you doing!" He really shouldn't shout at her when she started to tilt back and forth and soon enough she fell forward.
Akiza didn't fall automatically on the ground as she was saved by a tree as she stumbled and rolled down the tree trunk that she started to slide down. While she slides down, her clothes catch on fire that felt her bottom getting hot as she screamed. Once she reached at the bottom of the tree trunk, she starts to run in circles trying to put out the fire. Kalin comes down to see if Akiza is okay but he observes that her bottom part was on fire. Finally, Akiza saw a puddle of water that she dropped herself down and sighed.
"Akiza, just what were you doing? Are you trying to kill yourself!"
"No, Kalin, I wasn't. You scared me!"
Kalin offer his hand to pick her up from the puddle of water as she rubs her butt. "I'm sorry Akiza if I scared you but you had me and Zora worry sick for you. Just where do you think you're going?"
Out of nowhere, Akiza begins to laugh. Kalin had no idea why she was laughing, heck he didn't even say something funny but it was odd to hear her laugh when she was trying to run away from home. "Oh, Kalin. I'm sorry for laughing but," she continued to laugh, "…it's that I was trying to get away from you guys."
"But why?"
"Kalin," she breathes in and soon her laughter faded, "I don't want to cause you and everyone else anymore bad luck. I think it would be best if I wasn't around town. That's why I'm leaving New Domino City."
"You can't Akiza. You need to stay in New Domino City and become the new Queen of Queen of Riding Duel. What about Zora? She's been worry sick for you that she was about to call Sector Security to search for you."
Akiza had no idea that her godmother was worried about her. She still thought that Zora was still mad at her for ruining her clock shop business and especially with her costumers. "Really? Zora was about to do a search party just to find me?" Kalin nodded. "I'm so sorry for making you guys worry about me. I thought I was doing best by leaving but now I see that I'm causing more…mishaps for you and Zora."
"No need to apologize, Akiza." Kalin took off his jacket and offer it to Akiza since her bottom was being exposed, "Here, you're going to need this."
Akiza knew why he was giving his jacket to her as she felt a cold breeze on her butt that she puts on his jacket, "Thanks." She sat on the same tree trunk where she slid down but she stood up as she felt her butt burn in pain. "How did you know where to find me?"
"Akiza I know you very well and I know that you were going to leave the city through this road. Remember when we were young and I told you about this road?"
"Yeah, you said that this road would lead out into Tokyo." Kalin nodded in agreement.
"Akiza, why did you lie to us about going back to your old apartment with Miss. Ramirez?"
"How did you find out about that?"
"Zora and I went to visit you and Miss. Ramirez told us that you never asked her to come back. Why?"
"Kalin," she grabbed his hands, "I just don't want to cause any more disgrace to Zora. I was going to find an apartment but everywhere that I went to didn't want me because of what happen with the whole Leo incident."
"Poor Akiza." he pulled her into a hug, "Sometimes you are too much but I don't want you to leave and neither does Zora. Don't you understand? We love you for who you are." He kissed at her temple, "Got that?" Akiza nodded. "I got something for you." Kalin gave Akiza her red shoe.
"Where did you find it?" she asked as she puts her shoe back on.
"Outside of the forest where your duel runner is in pieces."
Akiza pushed Kalin aside, "Oh no! My duel runner! What happen to it?"
How was he going to explain that her duel runner is on fire? "I'm sorry Akiza but do you know what happen to your duel runner."
'That's right! I remember what happen.' "Kalin, I now remember. I was driving down the road when some papers fell out and I stop to pick them up and a truck came by and smashing right into my duel runner." She grabbed her head and saw that she was still bleeding. "Can we go see how bad my duel runner is damaged?"
"Let's go." Kalin and Akiza walked their way out of the forest and saw Akiza's duel runner on fire. "I'm sorry," he squeezed her shoulders.
Instantly, Akiza began to cry in silence. How was she going to participate in the tournament now? How was she going to defeat Ran in a duel when she didn't have her duel runner? "Let's go home," she said weakly.
They both walked up to Kalin's duel runner and got on, "Before I can forget, Akiza when you left crying out of the garage, Sherry felt really bad for you that she was about to go after you just to apologize."
"Really?" she wiped away her tears, "So, Sherry isn't mad at me?"
"No, she's not. You really had us really worried. Come on, Akiza let's go home and get all fixed up." He grabbed her head and notices some blood on his hands, "Yup, you definitely need a fix up." He started his engine and they drove back into New Domino City.
Bruno couldn't believe that he lost the duel against Chase Princeton! Where did he go wrong? Everyone in Duel Academy and his family were counting on him to win this tournament. How was he going to explain to everyone that he lost? By now, the news probably reached up to Duel Academy. Bruno wondered where he did wrong. If only if he had listened to Andre about going to practice but no, his hormones got the better of him.
"I'm a loser." Bruno sighed in defeat as he threw himself onto his bed. He remembered when Andre told him that Chase Princeton is the son of the wealthy owner of Smith and Princeton Dueling Legacies Inc. "Where have I heard that company before?" Bruno wondered.
Just thinking about it made him think about Yusei and his company but that doesn't mean that they have some business going on between them. He sighed. Throughout the whole duel, Bruno thought he had Chase until he lost his focus. To make matters worse, Aracely ruin his mood.
After he left the dueling arena, Bruno got a good scolding from Andre and it still burns inside his head. 'What's wrong with you? Why didn't you come to practice like you're supposed to? Everyone was counting on you!' "Andre was right, everyone was counting on me and I failed everyone. I'm sorry everyone, Crow and Carly."
Since he didn't make it to the finals, Bruno didn't want to stay in this place so he picked up the phone and called his travel agency about his flight to New Domino City. "I need an airplane ticket to go to New Domino City by next week, please."
Carly and Amanda are getting ready for the party tonight that she was sure that Michael is going to be there waiting for her. "Oh Amanda that kiss we shared was so magical. I'm definitely one hundred percent sure that Michael is the one for me!" she lay on her bed with a big smile on her face.
"Yeah, but what about that girl he was with earlier ago? I mean, she was pretty and all. Did you ask him who she was?"
"I did but he said that she was a 'nobody'," Carly emphasized 'nobody' to the orange-hair, blue eye girl. "You know," she sat up on her bed, "Michael has invited me to go to a party tonight."
"Really?" Carly nodded, "So do you know what you're going to wear, Carly?"
"Yeah, I do. Martha is getting my dress ready for tonight. Now my only problem is Yusei. I need his permission to let me go."
"I'm sure he's going to let you."
"I doubt it Amanda. You remember the other night when I told Yusei that I was going to stay over at your house?"
"What about it?" Amanda got up and grabbed her cup and drank.
"I thought I had everything planned out until Barbara," Carly shuttered in disgust when she said Barbara's name, "caught me coming in my house late at night."
"What did you do? What did she say?"
"I didn't do a thing but she was in the living room drinking some wine on the couch like it was her house asking me where I was and why did I come dressed up as a prostitute. Can you believe her calling me a prostitute? The nerve of that witch! You know what else?" Amanda shrugged her shoulders, "She even told Yusei about it!"
"Ouch, but how are you going to convince Yusei to let you go to the party?"
Carly started to think but she couldn't figure out what to do. How was she going to convince to Yusei to let her go to a party?
In the kitchen, Antonio was almost done cooking dinner for everyone that he started to hum a song that he knew very well. Martha came in the kitchen to find out who was humming and saw that the only one in the kitchen was Antonio. Soon Martha started to like what she was hearing that she too hummed along with Antonio and dance. He turns around to grab a cup of water just only to find Martha dancing and singing.
Martha stopped humming and singing when Antonio was looking at her like she was crazy. Antonio began to hum that same music that Martha covered her ears trying to pretend that she didn't like what she was hearing. "Where's Alexandra?"
"She's on her room trying to settle her things in."
"When she's done ask her to come and see me. There are things that we should discuss about." Antonio nodded in agreement and continued to hum as Martha left the kitchen and continued to cover her ears.
A/N: And that concludes chapter eight of this story. I hope that you guys enjoyed that small faith-shipping that was put in the beginning of this story. Did you guys notice that little Akiza x Kalin? You weren't expecting that, were you? What was that all about Yusei picking a girl who looks like Akiza? f0.o and…How sad that Bruno lost the duel with Chase. =(
Also, please do forgive me on the duel. I think I figure it out; every time that I'm going to write out a duel, it's going to take me at least two months to figure out what to write. So please keep that in mind, in case if I write another duel scene. It's not very easy.
Now I have a small pop quiz for you, the readers, about this story: In this story, Bruno plays as Marcus Von Ferdinand (in Lola, Once Upon a Time) and Bruno's favorite thing to do is to duel. In the original soap opera, what is Marcus' favorite sport? To find you answer you have to see the original show (Hint: See episode eight of the show).
And…
I already finished the last final, bonus one-shot story called, A Good Year for the Roses, so please be ready when it comes out.
And Finally…
Chapter nine will be posted soon and it will be the last time we'll be seeing Chase (or not). Due to schoolwork and all my research for my Drama classes I'm not sure if I'll be able to post chapter nine but please do hope for the best that I do. As always, please review and thanks so much for all of the comments and support from all of you, readers/reviewers! :)