A/N: Chapter 11 is here! Thank you guys for your patience again. Had a little bit of a writer's block, but only for about 2 days. Sorry I couldn't put this up last Sunday guys. I didn't finish it, and it wouldn't be fair if I had rushed through it. So, I've decided that I will post a new chapter every 2 weeks instead. I'd rather give you all quality after all, since you've all been reading my story so far. Which, I thank you all so very much for! Started watching anime again, since I was mostly just reading manga all of the time. I highly recommend Danganronpa the animation, which is based off the game. If you guys like survival kind of anime then you'll love this one. Back to the story at hand, please enjoy my latest chapter guys. As always, a review is appreciated.


Chapter 11: Dirty Duelling

"Kaiba?" Yugi was surprised that Kaiba was looking for him, and that he'd interrupted his moment with Anzu. Perfect. He had to know.

Kaiba was by himself this time, wearing his usual attire. He was poised in the way he typically is, arms folded and all. What could he possibly want?

"Pardon me for interrupting your childish activity, but I have something I want to discuss with you," Kaiba states boldly.

Yugi turns his body to face Kaiba. "What is it?"

"I'm sure you remember what I said to you the last time we saw each other."

Yugi nods in response. Yes. He wants to duel 'me' this time.

He begins smirking. "Well, in four months, we shall duel."

Yugi became confused. "Huh? Why four months?"

"No offence Yugi, I respect you as a duellist and all, but at your current level you have no chance of defeating me."

"What do you mean by that?!" Anzu butted into their conversation. "Are you forgetting that Yugi himself defeated Atem?"

Kaiba's smirk lowered. "Of course not. The only reason he won that duel was because he knew all of his tactics. Naturally, Yugi would have come up with a way to overcome that."

Anzu became angry. "Yugi fought Atem fair and square. Yugi has gotten much stronger now and can easily beat you!"

"Humph. If only I could believe that."

"But…!" Yugi stopped her by holding onto her arm.

He looks at her with a reassuring smile. "It's okay Anzu." He then let's go of her and redirects his attention back to Kaiba. "I'll be ready for our duel, Kaiba."

"Good. We shall see if you really deserve that title. Anyway, I have business to attend to. I'll be sure to give you the heads up of when our duel will be set." With that, Kaiba turned away from them and headed to the parked limo which was waiting for him.

Anzu clenched her teeth. "That guy is such a jerk. Even after all this time."


The next day. "What!?" Katsuya grabbed Yugi by the shoulders, shocked at what he'd just said.

"Yeah, Kaiba said that." Yugi sweat dropped at his friend's reaction.

Yugi was currently in his bedroom. He asked for Katsuya, Honda and Bakura to come and visit him. Ryuji was unable to come, due to some business that needed taken care of at his game shop. After what had happened yesterday, Yugi knew he had to explain the situation to his friends.

Katsuya let out a huge sigh, and withdrew his hands from Yugi's shoulders. "Kaiba is the same as ever I see. But, man! Just who does he think he's talking to?"

"Yet, he must see Yugi as an equal," Bakura points out.

Katsuya became confused at his choice of words. "You're kidding right? From the way it sounded, Kaiba must've forgotten who exactly the king of games is."

Bakura pressed his hand to his chin. "It might come off like that, but, I believe that Kaiba sees Yugi as a willingly opponent. Sure, both Yugis worked together when duelling Kaiba before. But, if Kaiba directly wants to challenge Yugi on his own, it must only mean that he respects Yugi as a fellow duellist."

Katsuya scratches his head. "I guess so...but why wait? I have no doubt that Yugi could easily…" He stops suddenly.

"Something wrong Jonouchi?" Yugi asks him.

From where he was standing, Katsuya noticed the small panda plush which had been supposedly pushed out of view, under Yugi's bed. Katsuya narrowed his eyes and began smirking at Yugi. "Is that a present for a certain someone?"

Yugi blinked a couple of times. "What is?" Katsuya averted the boy's attention to under his bed, the others looked too. Yugi gasped inaudibly. Why did he have to see that? Now what do I say? Yugi tried to put on a straight face. "N-no. I got this from the arcade."

Honda spoke. "You went to the arcade without us?!" He began animatedly crying. "How could you be so mean…?"

The other boys sweat dropped. "Yeah sorry Honda. But, I only went for a little bit. I just decided at the last moment."

"Oh, that makes sense," Bakura says.

"But why get a panda, Yugi?" Katsuya asks him. "Oh…I see. You going to give it to Anzu aren't you."

Yugi blushed slightly. "N-no, why would I?"

"Oh come on…It's obvious that's why you got it."

No! I originally got it for Anzu but ended up unintentionally winning two plushies. She took the alpaca plushie instead and let me have this one. But, I can't tell you all that because yesterday was our date and I promised not to say anything about it to you guys. Agh! Why is this so difficult?

"Back to what you were saying before Jonouchi…" Honda changes the conversation.

"What about it?" Katsuya asks him.

"There might be another reason why Kaiba's decided to prolong the duel."

"What other reason?"

"Well, I'm not sure if you guys have heard of the recent rumours going around but, a couple of weeks ago, I overheard in the neighbourhood that there's this thing going around called 'dirty duelling.'"

Katsuya sighed. "Look piggy, we don't want to know what the new fad is from one of your carnal websites."

"You idiot! I'm being serious about this. Because of this many duellist aren't duelling anymore."

Yugi was shocked by this. "Is that true Honda?"

"It is a rumour, but it could be the reason why Kaiba doesn't want to duel you yet."

"A rumour is just a rumour. Kaiba's just being a big jerk about not wanting to duel Yugi right now. A bet he's doing it because he doesn't have what it takes to stand up to the king of games," Katsuya faces Yugi with his hands clenched, "right Yugi?"

"I guess…" he says unsurely. I wonder if it's true though. To think that some kind of duelling could allegedly cause duellists to stop playing duel monsters.

Knock, Knock… They heard from the door.

"Yugi? Can I come in?" Asked his grandpa from the other side of the door.

"Come in grandpa!"

Sugoroku enters. "I just came to see if you all wanted any drinks?"

"I'm good thanks grandpa. Did you guys want anything?"

"Thank you, but I'm all right," Bakura politely declines.

"I'm good thanks," Katsuya declines.

"Thanks but no…" Honda also declines.

"Now this is a surprise. You always have soda every time you visit Honda. Are you not feeling well?" Sugoroku asks him.

"I did have soda earlier today. That might be it," he explains.

Sugoroku senses the dull vibe around everyone. "What's really going on? I can read the atmosphere. Did something happen?"

"Well…" Bakura starts, "apparently less people are playing duel monsters…according to Honda."

Sugoroku lets out a disappointing sigh. "So you've heard then…about 'dirty duelling'."

"Wait, you know about this grandpa?" Yugi enquires.

"Isn't it just a stupid rumour?" Katsuya assumes.

"I'm afraid it's true," Sugoroku sadly points out, "but there's more to the story." Sugoroku goes and sits down on Yugi's desk chair, arms folded. "It started about two weeks ago. A duel monsters tournament was held in Tokyo. Typically, only duellists of certain ranks were allowed to enter. They conducted a series of preliminary rounds to determine these duellists." He stops and closes his eyes to think momentarily. "The first couple of rounds went smoothly and fairly, but that went downhill in the third round. An untitled duellist, wearing a mask, used a specific type of duel disk that was not invented by Kaiba cooperation. The disk seemed harmless at first, but when the duellist attack the opposing duellist with a monster card, the duellist was physically injured."

The boys were shocked at this news. "How were they physically injured grandpa?" Yugi asks him.

"Well, the duellist's arm began bleeding because it had been burnt."

The boys all gasped. "That's crazy!" Katsuya exclaims.

"That's not all. The burnt duellist continued, but eventually surrendered, due to the pain. I was surprised by what happened next. The untitled duellist took their cards and burnt them to a crisp."

"How awful…" Bakura says sadly.

"But, maybe it was an act put on by the tournament holders or something," Honda suggests.

Sugoroku shakes his head. "The people in charge of the tournament were shocked as everyone else. They announced that they had nothing to do with it. Also, because of the casualty, they had to cancel the tournament all together. Security tried to locate the untitled duellist, but no matter where they looked, they couldn't find him."

"Has this happened again?" Katsuya asks.

"Not on TV, but I've been hearing around that it's starting to spread across Japan. Therefore, it's not just the one duellist who is doing this."

"He's no duellist grandpa," Yugi begins, a slight serious tone in his voice. "That person has no respect for duel monsters. They must be trying to hurt players in order to prevent people from duelling anymore."

"But why?" Honda questions. "What possible reason could someone have for wanting to hurt others?"

"I don't know…"

The boys remain silent for a few minutes, trying to process the information that's been given to them. Someone trying to force others to stop duelling? Why?

"Listen, all of you," Sugoroku grabs the boys' attention, "I know what you are all thinking, but, none of you are to get involved."

Yugi immediately rises to his feet. "But grandpa! We can't let this problem continue, we have to…"

Sugoroku becomes angry. "Enough Yugi!" Sugoroku stands up and faces Yugi. "I know you want to do something about this, I do too. I would feel awful if something bad happened to you. So promise me not to get involved."

Yugi didn't speak, but nodded his head to show he understood.

"Well good. I must get back. Can't leave your mother to handle the shop all day." And with that, Sugoroku left the boys.

Once he was gone, Katsuya looked at Yugi and began smiling. "I know that look Yugi. There's no way we're ignoring this."

"You got that right," Honda agrees.

Yugi smiles at them. "Thanks guys. I know I shouldn't, but I love this game so much. I can't just sit back and let whoever is doing this get away with it."

"If that's how you feel, then I will help you too," Bakura says, "I'll be sure to let Otoji know about the current situation."

"Thank you Bakura."

"But, where are we supposed to start? I mean, we have no idea how to find this guy," Honda states.

The boys all think for a moment. What were they going to do? Could duel monsters really cause pain towards a fellow duellist? It doesn't make sense. Perhaps a deeper meaning is hidden under all of this. In any case, this situation must be stopped.

"I have an idea," Yugi explains, "Bakura, you're good with computers. Why don't you look further into the Tokyo case, see if you can find out something."

"All right, I'll try my best," Bakura agrees.

"Jonouchi, Honda. Let's have a look around town to see if we can find anything related to this incident. If this is starting to occur over Japan, we might find someone who's witnessed this."

Katsuya and Honda nod in agreement. "Good idea Yugi. We'd best let Anzu know about this too," Katsuya mentions.

Yugi inwardly gasps. He'd forgotten that Anzu doesn't know about this. I don't want Anzu to get involved in this. This is bad. Anzu asked me to teach her more about duel monsters. But, if there's a person or possibly a group plotting out to hurt duellists, and to force them to give up on the game…I can't let her know about this. I couldn't bear it if she became a victim of it. "W-we don't have to explain it to her right away," he insists.

"Why not?" Katsuya asks dumbly.

"Well…"

"Isn't it obvious Jonouchi? He doesn't want her to know, because he doesn't want her to get hurt," Honda explains amusingly.

"But Anzu doesn't duel a whole lot. I'm sure we can tell her," Bakura clarifies.

Yugi tries to put on a poker face, in order to not respond to Bakura's statement. Katsuya raises an eyebrow at him. "Is there something going on between you and Anzu, Yugi?"

"Of course there isn't," he lies. This would be so much easier if they already knew.

Honda stands up. "Come on guys, we shouldn't wait any longer. Let's find this creep and teach him a lesson."

Bakura said he'll give Ryuji a call and tell him what they're up to. He explains that he'll begin his research on the Tokyo duel tournament right away, and see if he can find out more about the untitled duellist. He'll present his findings to them tomorrow, at school.

The others, Yugi, Katsuya and Honda, head towards town. They start off with their usual arcade and game shops. So far, from asking the staff members, they don't find any luck with regards to the Tokyo incident nor any mentions of the specific duel disk.

Next, they try comic books stores, located inside the shopping mall. Disappointingly, everyone they asked had no clue to the untitled duellist. The boys decide to stop and take a rest at their local park. "Man…this is harder than I thought," Katsuya exclaims, as he rests his hands behind his head. "Maybe there hasn't been any duels like that around this area."

"That could be it. But, oddly enough, we haven't run into any duellists yet. Don't you think that's a little weird?" Yugi asks them.

"You're right. I didn't notice at first," Honda points out, "usually there would be at least one duel going on somewhere."

"Tsk. What the hell is going on around here?" Katsuya asks himself.


At five, the boys parted, and settled on waiting until they heard something from Bakura. As Yugi was walking home, his phone began ringing. He reaches into his pocket to see who is calling. Anzu. He answers the phone. "Hi Anzu."

From the other end of the phone. "Hi, I was just calling to ask how you were."

"Oh, I'm doing okay. How about you?"

"I'm fine. Just happy to hear your voice." Yugi smiled at that. "O-oh sorry, that sounded really corny, huh?"

"No it's fine. I'm happy to hear your voice too."

Anzu pauses briefly. "Yugi…is everything okay?"

"Huh? Yes, why do you say that?"

"You sound troubled by something."

"I do?"

"Yes, you do."

"It must be your imagination, I'm fine really."

"If you say so…but you would tell me if something was wrong, right?"

"Of course I would." I can't believe I'm lying to her.

"U-umm Yugi?"

"Yeah, what it is?"

"I've decided that we should tell the others…together, u-um this Wednesday."

"Really? You sure?"

"I'm sure. We can't keep it a secret forever," she laughs awkwardly over the phone. "I'll see you tomorrow."

"Yeah, see you…"

Yugi ended the call. He's glad that he'll be able to tell the others about him and Anzu. At least then nothing will need to be kept hidden. Well…apart from…

"Let's duel!" Yugi heard shouting not too far from him. He follows the chanting. Once he'd found where the noise was coming from, he finds that a circle of people have gathered around two duellists, located near one of the 'bad' parts of his neighbourhood. He decides to observe the duel, considering that it's got a lot of attention for some reason. Hold on. One of the duellists is…

"You're going down whoever you are! You've made a big mistake challenging my insect deck," described the duellist.

The other duellist didn't respond.

"Huh? Don't talk a lot do you? Is that because you wear a mask?" The duellist activated his duel disk.

Following on from him, the other duellist activates his duel disk as well.

Wait a minute. Yugi thinks. That duellist is Haga. But, the other one is a complete mystery. And what's with that duel disk…oh no. I-it can't be! Can it…?