I'm in a really depressed mood. So, you're getting a chapter very early, because reviews will make me feel better. And I like how this is going too, 100 reviews per every five chapters, very nice! I do not own Yugioh, enjoy! [YUGI, YAMI, and ATEM]

Chapter 11

He still couldn't believe his friends had forced him to come to this. It was an amateur only dueling completion. He wasn't an amateur, but apparently they had convinced the judges to let him duel the winner, they only asked that Yugi go easy on them. He was gonna murder his friends later. So far it looked like the winner was going to be a kid named Tony Anderson, a 5th grader from Chiba. His only competition was a girl named Elisa Jackson, a 2nd year from Aomori. They were both very good, and Yugi was looking forward to their duel.

"So who do you figure is going to be in the finals Yug'?" Jou asked sitting down next to him with a foot long hot dog in his hands. It was loaded with everything on it. Yugi shook his head, it really was a wonder how Jou was so skinny with how much he ate.

"Tony Anderson and Elisa Jackson." Yugi said pointing them out.

Elisa had just finished of her opponent, a 6th grader from Sapporo, and Tony was in a bind with a 1st year from Tokyo. He had no monsters on his field, and one card face down. His opponent had a Ginzo on the field, so trap cards were out. Still, with the one card face down, no monsters on the field, and 50 life points left, he didn't have much to lose. It was his turn though, so let's see what he would do. Strangely enough he summoned Kuriboh, and then the card multiply. That was his trick, and one of his favorite card combos too. Well, his life points were practically untouchable now. Yugi looked away towards the board to see that the winner of Tony's match would be the facing Elisa in battle.

"No!" a sudden shout drew his attention. He blinked in shock at what he was seeing. Somehow Tony had lost, and the kid that Yugi had written off before was declared as the winner of the duel and would be facing Elisa for a chance to duel against him.

"Looks like you were wrong." Jou said.

"Yeah, I'm going to go get something to eat." Yugi said getting up. As he passed the score board he learned that the kid's name was Oliver Kilvor. Well, he hoped that Oliver and Elisa put on a good show.

Yugi yawned as he stood in line to get food. This was the only café around here that sold food with the FBR-18 drug in it. He saw Malik ahead of him getting his order from the girl behind the counter. Ryou wasn't with him, so he must have wandered off somewhere else.

"Hey, Yugi, what are you doing way out here?" a voice asked from behind him. Yugi turned around to see his sister standing there.

"Oh, Jou dragged me to an amateur only dueling competition and somehow convinced the judges to let me duel the winner." Yugi said moving up in line.

"And where are the blood suckers slash brother stealers?" Sakura asked.

"They're at home." Yugi said.

"And they let you out?" Sakura asked in disbelief.

"Yeah, they tend to do that." Yugi said like it was no big deal.

"Huh, I'm surprised with as many human attacks that have been going on; I'm surprised you're not glued to their hips." Sakura said in a mildly impressed voice.

"Yeah, well a vampire would have to be a fool to attack me." Yugi said moving up in the line again. He was six people away from the head of line.

"There are plenty of those in the world." Sakura said smiling.

"There are plenty of fools period." Yugi said back.

"So where are you staying?" Sakura asked casually.

"At home." Yugi said she didn't need to know where his temporary home was.

"No you're not, all humans have been chucked out of the Palace since the attacks have started." Sakura said knowledgeably. Yugi scowled, sometimes having a clever sister was a real bummer.

"At Kaiba's home." Yugi modified.

"Oh, well do you think you can spend the night at the caves tonight?" Sakura asked grabbing his hand and squeezing. Her question immediately made him uncomfortable.

"Uh, well, actually I have an appointment with Isis tomorrow morning." Yugi said uneasily as he moved up in line.

"What for?" she asked.

"Um, she's taking my blood so Atem and Yami don't have to skip eating this week." Yugi explained uneasily.

"Oh of course you're choosing them over your own flesh and blood, how silly of me to think otherwise." Sakura sneered letting go of his hand and turning to leave. Yugi grabbed it back, and held on tightly.

"No, it's not like that! We made this plan last night, and perfected it over the link this morning." Yugi explained moving up in line and taking Sakura with him.

"Well, I miss you Yugi!" she complained.

"How about this then? Monday through Thursday of next week I spend the night in the caves, as long as the wolves promise not to go after Koneko." Yugi reasoned.

"Who's Koneko?" Sakura asked.

"My kitten! The guys got me a pet for my birthday." Yugi said cheerfully.

"Well I can't promise that they won't, but I'll look after him while you're at school." Sakura said a smile forming on her face.

"Her." Yugi corrected as he moved up again.

"Huh?" she asked confused.

"Koneko is a cute little long white haired blue eyed Persian female kitten. She's quite the little cuddle buddy too." Yugi said his smile getting brighter.

"Has she been keeping you company in their absence?" Sakura asked as they moved up again.

"Yep!" Yugi said nodding.

"Well, why can't I have you Monday through Friday?" Sakura asked as they moved up again.

"Because Friday night, we're having a guy's night out." Yugi said.

"No females allowed huh?" Sakura asked.

"That's right." Yugi confirmed.

"Are your vampires going to be there?" Sakura asked.

"No, they'll be at home." Yugi said as they moved up, he was next in line.

"Ahem, will Yugi Mutou please report back to the dueling arena, it's time for the final duel. Will Yugi Mutou please report back to dueling arena, it's time for the final duel." A loud voice said over one of the intercoms in the café.

"No, Yugi Mutou cannot, because he's hungry." Yugi said as he stepped up to the counter.

"What can I get you sir?" the girl behind the counter asked with a smile.

"Uh, the bologna sub on Italian bread, with spinach, tomatoes and banana peppers, all injected with the drug FBR-18." Yugi said with a smile.

"Anything to drink?" she asked.

"No, I'm good." Yugi said.

"Okay, that'll be $6.15." she said.

Yugi fished out his wallet and paid for the food. The girl handed him his sandwich, and Yugi unwrapped it and started to walk back towards the dueling arena eating his sandwich. Sakura walked next to him, and that's when Yugi noticed for the first time that she had her sword on her. Either she was paranoid, or her back felt too light without it there.

It was an intricate little thing. Slim, light, and long, it was nearly the length of half her body. The handle was carved to look like a crescent moon, while the blade gleamed like one. Yugi turned away from it as he made his way back into the dueling arena, where Jou was arguing with the judges. Yugi walked up behind them still eating his sandwich, and just waited to be noticed.

"I told you, I don't know where he went! He just said he was going to get something to eat, he'll come back!" Jou stressed.

"Well, he was supposed to be back five minutes ago when we paged him!" the judge said back.

"Well, my buddy doesn't come when called, he comes when he feels like it."Jou said leaning back and crossing his arms.

"Um, Mr. Rudolph?" Elisa asked as she noticed Yugi eating his sandwich behind them.

"Not now little girl." He said rudely.

"Okay." She said walking around them to stand before Yugi.

"So who won?" he asked her quietly.

"Oliver, he's really good. Even my best strategies didn't cut it." Elisa said shaking her head in disappointment.

"That's too bad, but you were runner up, so that's still good." Yugi said as he crumpled up his paper form his sandwich.

"Yeah, but nobody remembers the runner up." She said kicking her foot.

"Sure they do, right Jou?" Yugi asked gaining the blonde's attention.

"Huh? Wait, when did you get back?" Jou asked looking over at him.

"When you and the judge were arguing." Yugi said.

"But I don't-! Yes, I understand." Sakura said with her finger pressed against her ear.

"What's wrong?" Yugi asked.

"I've gotta go, there's a loose vampire in Sendai that has already brutally murdered five humans. One of our trackers finally got a picture of them off of a street camera. I'll see you Monday night, okay?" She asked hugging him.

"Okay, I'll see you then. Be safe." Yugi said giving her a hug back.

"You too." She replied. He watched her walk away.

"Yes, runner ups are always remembered. I mean I'm sure you know who I am?" Jou said cockily. Yugi hid his smile as he waited for the usual answer.

"The King of Game's friend?" Elisa said. And there it was. Yugi muffled his laughter behind his hand.

"Go duel." Jou said shoving him towards the Oliver who was waiting patiently.

"Get ready to have your title ripped away from you old man." Oliver said rudely as soon as he was in hearing range.

"So you're saying you don't want me to go easy on you?" Yugi asked as he stepped into the podium and he was raised up to duel the kid.

"That's right." He said cockily.

"Okay, but remember it was your choice." Yugi said grinning.

"I'll go first." Oliver said drawing five cards and laying two face down and putting a silent swordsman in attack mode.

"Hmm, interesting first move." Yugi said placing one card face down and Celtic Guardian in attack mode. He could attack his opponent easily and defeat his monster, but those two cards face down had trap written all over it, so he ended his turn instead.

"Why didn't you attack?" Oliver demanded.

"Because I'm not an amateur." Yugi said simply.

"Yeah, well you…" he trailed off staring at Yugi with an odd look on his face.

"What?" Yugi asked feeling his face thinking he had something on it.

"Uh, nothing." He said before placing another card face down, and summoning a Water Pom. Yugi couldn't help but smile at it, that was a really cute card. He then sacrificed both to bring his Ginzo to the field. Well, there went all Yugi's trap cards. Thank Kami the one on the field wasn't a trap.

Ginzo attacked his Celtic Guardian. And he lost some life points making the crowd gasp and murmur amongst themselves. Yugi took it in stride, by summoning his Beaver Warrior, and using brain control on Ginzo, he sacrificed both to summon his Dark Magician, which he used to attack the kid. He was so shocked at Yugi's come back, he forgot to use his face down cards, meaning he had only 1500 life points left after the attack.

"Are you sure you don't want me to go easy on you?" Yugi asked.

"My Ginzo!" Oliver exclaimed.

"Looks like I can use trap cards again. I play another card face down and end my turn." Yugi said grinning.

"You're going to pay for that!" Oliver said angrily.

"Sure I will." Yugi said lazily. He wasn't cocky, he was bored.

"Oh, you will!" he proclaimed summoning a Rocket Warrior to the field in defense mode and ending his turn.

"Okay, that was riveting." Yugi said as he summoned his Queen's Knight and King's Knight to the field, automatically allowing him to summon his Jack's Knight straight from his hand. He sacrificed all three to bring out Slifer the Sky Dragon. The kid said he didn't want him to go easy on him, so he wasn't. He ended his turn. He heard ooo's and ahh's all around the stadium.

"Yugi, you could have gone a little bit easy on him!" Jou yelled up at him.

"No, he said he didn't want it, in fact I'm still waiting to see how he's going to make me pay for taking his Ginzo." Yugi yelled back down to him as he brushed some his hair back away from his neck.

"My turn old man!" Oliver shouted across the way to him. He played a Kuriboh, and then sacrificed both his Rocket Warrior and the Kuriboh to summon Gaia the Fierce Knight. It was pretty impressive, Yugi had to admit to that, but he had forgotten about Yugi's special effect. Slifer opened its second mouth and shot a ball of 2000 attack damage at Gaia, leaving him with only 300 attack points.

"No!" Oliver screamed.

"You've gotta love those special effects." Yugi said grimacing as Oliver's turn came to an end, seeing as he couldn't really do anything. He attacked with his Dark Magician well aware of the fact that he was headed into a trap. He had to activate one of them eventually though, so what was wrong with this turn?

"I activate my trap card Mirror Force!" Oliver said grinning.

"Activate magic card Magical Hats." Yugi said flipping it over.

"No!" Oliver screamed again as the Magician was hidden and the backfiring attack hit an empty hat.

"You should be ashamed of yourself Yugi!" Jou yelled up at him.

"If I don't attack with Slifer will that make you happy?" Yugi yelled back down at him.

"Hey, I thought you were supposed to be going easy on them?" Malik asked walking up with Marik.

"It's the kid's own fault; he said he didn't want Yugi to go easy on him." Jou grumbled.

"Oh, well have fun clobbering him then." Ryou said grinning.

"This duel seems kinda one sided." Marik commented.

"Yeah, it is." Yugi sighed as Oliver summoned a Feral Imp, and ended his turn. Slifer's second mouth opened and just like that it was gone. Yugi then attacked Gaia with his God card ending the duel swiftly.

"Yugi!" Jou scolded.

"What?! You never answered me!" Yugi said in his defense.

"No! I'm supposed to be the best!" Oliver said stamping his foot.

"Well, you are, of the amateur competition, you just need more practice to make it to the big leagues." Yugi said kindly as he packed up his deck, putting it back on his belt.

"I've beaten everyone I've ever dueled." Oliver continued like Yugi hadn't even spoken.

"Right and I'm the King. You didn't think I was just going to hand my title over did you?" Yugi asked in disbelief.

"Well, it would have been appreciated." He said rudely.

"Yeah, come back in couple of years when you can take down a God card, then we'll see." Yugi said jumping down.

"Is that even possible?" Oliver asked.

"Of course it is, every card has a weakness, and the Gods are no exception." Yugi said grinning at him.

"Ha, well when I find all of their weaknesses, I'll be back for the KOG title." Oliver said running off.

"Wait, sir! Your trophy and prize money!" one of the judges said running after him.

The gang laughed at the sight, as duelers poured out of the stadium towards them to get Yugi's autograph. By the time he had signed the last one, his hand was so cramped he wished that Atem would just magically pop up to give it one of his infamous massages. The gang headed to the arcade, a favorite past time of theirs. They spent the rest of the day playing games, eating snacks, and teasing Yugi about his long flowing hair. Yeah, either the bologna or banana peppers had caused his hair to…deflate, I guess you could say, and hang out around his mid back. He just prayed it was back to normal by tomorrow. He was tired of random guys coming up to him and saying 'hey sugar/baby/sweet thang/girl, you want to go out?'

"No! I'm in a relationship and I'm a guy!" Yugi shouted at the guy that had just asked him out.

"That's okay, I swing both ways." He replied trying to get an arm around Yugi but he dodged away from it.

"Hey, he said no, so beat it loser!" Jou said coming to his defense.

"Whatever." He mumbled and moved away.

"I think this is one of my least favorite side effects of that drug." Yugi groaned as he slumped into his chair. Before that guy had asked him out he had tried using the bathroom, and well, he probably should have just used the women's. It would have saved him so much trouble, and time.

"What's number one?" Malik asked.

"Why getting sick of course." Yugi said grinning at him.

"Oh yeah, that's one's no fun." Malik said grimacing.

"Hey baby." A man said coming up to them grinning at Yugi.

"GET LOST!" Yugi screamed at them. He got lost, really quickly; with a look of 'what did I do?' on his face.

Yugi, you okay?

Just peachy.

"Can we get out of here?" Yugi asked the group.

"Yeah, that's probably best, before someone tries to sweep you away." Malik teased.

"As long as it's my mates, I don't mind." Yugi said getting out of his chair.

"Hey, where's Marik?" Ryou asked looking around.

"Oh, Seth showed up and literally dragged him off. After he stole some kisses from me of course." Jou said.

"Don't tell Kaiba, he'll throw a hissy fit." Malik teased him.

"Don't I know it." Jou grimaced.

You don't sound peachy.

Yeah, well this is why. Yugi took out his phone and snapped a picture of himself smiling, he then sent it to Yami's phone.

What did you do to your hair?!

Nothing, your drug did it. If Yugi were an anime character he'd have an angry sign on his forehead. Then again he didn't need it, they could probably feel his anger.

Oh, and do you know what food caused this?

You like a girl Yugi.

No, and thanks. A lot of guys thought so too, which is why I've been asked out too many times to count in the past three hours.

Who? I want names!

Too bad, because I don't have any.

Well why didn't you take names?

Because I didn't plan on going out with any of them.

Oh.

Don't you have a meeting?

Nah, we're on break right now. So what did you do today besides shamelessly crush a kid that was much younger than you?

Um, we spent some time at the arcade, and are now heading somewhere else.

Tired of guys asking you out?

Yes. I'm happy with my current relationship; I don't need anyone on the side too.

Good to hear it.

"Yugi? OMG, is that you?!" a very high pitched and familiar voice rang out making the entire group freeze.

Uh, gotta go.

"Not her, not now." Ryou grumbled.

"OMG, you like a girl Yugi! I bet if we like put make up on you, it would like totally bring out the feminine features. Oh we could so like find you a boyfriend that way." Anzu said skipping across the street towards them.

"Hey Anzu." The group said warily. They had kind of shoved her out of the group ever since she had hit on Kaiba when she knew that he and Jou were dating. She had simply shrugged it off and became friends with Miho, Vivian, and Mai, the cattiest girls in school.

"So I was like thinking the other day, and like thought it had been a while since like any of us had like hung out, and was like wondering if you were like doing anything tomorrow?" Anzu asked.

"Uh, yeah, I'm hanging out at Kaiba's." Yugi said.

"Same." Malik said.

"I have a date." Ryou said.

"I'm in charge of being host to Yugi and Malik." Jou said. They didn't even deter her.

"Oh well, then I'll like just go over to Kaiba's too. Don't worry I like still know where it is. I'll like see you tomorrow!" she said walking off.

"Does it bother anyone else that she just invited herself over?" Malik asked watching her disappear into the crowd.

"Yes, I have to live there; I don't want her to come over!" Jou cried out in frustration.

"Well, you guys make sure to have fun with the slut; I'll be sleeping off my blood loss." Yugi said cheerfully.

"What? You don't need to sleep after a feeding." Jou complained.

"I give away two pints a week, believe me I need the rest." Yugi said back.

"Oh, well in that case, we won't let her near your room." Jou said.

"Yeah, she might try to violate you in your sleep." Malik added smirking. Everyone shivered as they recalled that time that they had found Anzu hovering over Malik, her face inches away from his exposed chest from when they had gone swimming at the beach.

"Ugh, that was disgusting." Ryou said looking away.

"At least it wasn't you she was hovering over." Malik said moodily.

"No it wasn't but still, do you guys want to come over to the caves tomorrow?" Ryou asked.

"That'll probably be a good idea." Yugi said nodding.

"But what about Isis?" Jou asked.

"I'll have her meet me at a half way point. We'll do the trade there, and then I'll be on my way to the caves." Yugi said.

"No, I'll stay with you, and carry you to the caves." Jou said.

"Fine, just so long as Koneko can come." Yugi said.

"Of course, who knows what trouble that little ball of fur could get into without anyone at home?" Jou asked. They all laughed as they remembered coming home to find one of Kaiba's leather couches with little claw mark tears in it, and Koneko sitting only too innocently nearby looking all cute and adorable. The couch was ruined and Koneko had been confined to his room. He was told to scold her, but you try scolding a face that's just too adorable for words.

We do all the time.

We also fail, all the time.

Good to know I'm being compared to a kitten.

Oh, meetings starting again, we'll talk later.

Promise?

We promise.

"Wait a minute; did anyone count how many times she said the word like?" Ryou asked. They all burst out laughing.

"Nope! It was probably about ten or so times though, in that one sentence alone." Malik said.

"So that'll be a total of twenty likes?" Jou asked. They all laughed again as they headed off towards Kaiba's.


Huh, I have nothing to say. Interesting. KOG=King of Games. Thanks to everyone who are/have following/favorited this story. Also, thanks to everyone who reviewed Guest and User alike. Please review. Midnight ;p