When Jyounochi and Honda arrived at Shizuka's, an unexpected guest was accompanying her in the front living room.
"Otogi!" exclaimed Honda when he answered the door. Then he knew that Shizuka wouldn't be all his the whole weekend, "What the hell are you doing here?"
"Well, Shizuka told me about this camping trip you guys are having so I figured I should come along too." Then the dark haired boy, who fiddled around with a pair of dices between his fingers smirked as he said, "Besides, I'm you guys wouldn't mind me tagging along since its no fun with a small group."
"You weren't doing anything with my sister, now were you?" Jyounochi grew suddenly impulsive as he held a fist ready.
Shizuka saw that Otogi was already holding his hands up in the air to defend himself from Jyounochi's fist. She giggled at the boys as she cut in between them, patting her brother's arm. She managed to speak through her laughter, "Don't worry, we just sat here waiting for you guys. Besides, Otogi didn't arrive until fifteen minutes before you guys came."
Easily, this calmed down her brother as things were normal for milliseconds before she took a glance around at the room. She frowned when she asked, "Where's Yuugi and Anzu?" Silence seemed to be passing through everybody's face. Instantly, Shizuka sensed there was something going on. Were they in a fight?
"Well," Jyounochi started, trying to find better words to put the confusion among them, "when you get into senior year, you'll see there are changes." He patted her head as if she were a puppy as he added on to that, "We're all applying for different colleges because we're all after different goals in life, but some day we'll wind up on the same road again. Don't worry we'll have another road trip with them someday." In the look in her eyes, he knew Shizuka didn't buy his explanation but she didn't bother to bother him about.
Otogi was about to say something but Honda stopped him by whacking his back hard. He then suggested that they should get ready soon and everybody was roaming around the house, double-checking everything to confirm that they weren't missing anything for their camping trip.
When everything was checked, they all packed their bags in the back of Jyounochi's car. After a couple of minutes of getting a good stretch before seating themselves in the car, they were out in the empty road. Blasting the music they all began to sing along with the radio, laughing at each other.
'This is great.' Jyounochi thought as he enjoyed the sounds of his friends' laughter filling up the air. Just being with them felt like the only things that mattered in this world…
"Jyounochi!" Otogi nearly screamed, "Keep your eyes on the road!"
"What?!" he snapped back into where he was. He looked forward and saw a group of people in the front and he swerved the steering wheel and it made a screeching noise. Suddenly, he felt a gust of wind spin the vehicle and the world around them began to spin and form multi-colors. Shizuka's screaming was hear (along with Otogi's) and Honda shouting a prayer to himself. Jyounochi's heart was beating faster than it usually did until finally it stopped.
First, he realized that his car was off the road and on the dirt (then he realized that Honda was clinging on to him and quickly backed away saying, "Stop touching me, man!") and then realized the group of people in the middle of the road were dressed kind of oddly, but familiar. He looked at the dark skinned people, wearing long gowns and shimmered themselves in gold jewlery. At first he pondered, 'who are those people?'
Then it hit Jyounochi of who it was…
No way…"he could barely speak once he figured out who it was and his breathing stopped as he managed to gasp, "it can't be." But it was. Standing before them was the Other Yuugi, Atem.
"Hey Atem!" Jyounochi jumped out of the car quickly as everybody else followed. He looked at them and gave them a warming smile as he immediately recognized them calling out to them.