Chapter 21

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Thought / dreams

'Telepathic voice'

[Voice from the past]

-Telephone-

Letter

"Dialogue"

Emphasis

Dangerous tone

The One Inch Terror? Doesn't Count For Me

Jounouchi yawned when he received a call that morning, he saw that it's Yugi, with a raised eyebrow, he answered the call, "Hey, Yugi." Jounouchi yawned and rubbed his eyes to get his sleepiness away, "What's wrong?".

-Hey, Jou.- Yugi replied, then silence for about a minute, -How are you?- She asked.

"I'm fine." Jounouchi answered uncertainly, he got a bad feeling from this, "What's wrong, Yugi?" He asked in worry. He really hope that nothing happened to his friend, but when he received the answer, his blood turned cold.

-I'm bored.-

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"Thanks for asking me to come here with you, Jou." Yugi said with a grin when she met up with Jounouchi in front of the arcade.

Jounouchi laughed, "It's better than having you hacking the whole town again, without the painkiller I mean." He said with a big grin.

"That's really a nightmare, huh?" Yugi asked as she scratched the back of her neck with sheepish look.

"Yes." Jounouchi answered deadpanned.

Yugi laughed, "Well, I really was bored earlier." She pouted, "Grandpa was out to get groceries, the shop is closed since it's Sunday, the others are all busy, and I couldn't get in touch with Mokuba at all".

"Mokuba? Who is that?" Jounouchi asked in surprise, he never heard his friend mentioned that name before.

"Seto's Little Brother." Yugi answered nonchalantly, "Anyway, what do you want to play?" She asked as she looked around the arcade.

"I don't know." Jounouchi answered as he looked around, "Maybe a game that will be easy enough to beat Kai's record".

Yugi chuckled, "Again? You had tried to beat his record for thousand times now." She said in teasing manner.

"Well, I want to." Jounouchi pouted, "And didn't you managed to beat his record?" He asked as he remind his friend when she beat the record in the Dance Mania's game.

"Because I'm good at dancing and he is not." Yugi retorted.

"Funny." Jounouchi chuckled as he remember Yugi's contest with Anzu, that event was the one that makes Yugi beat Kai's record, Anzu was even gaping openly when Yugi won since the girl didn't attend dancing class like Anzu. "But I will still beat his record." He said firmly.

Yugi smiled, "Sure, good luck then, but know that it's hard to beat Seto and Mokuba." She answered cheerfully.

Jounouchi looked at Yugi in surprise, "Kai is actually Kaiba Seto and Mokuba?!" He asked with wide eyes.

"Kai from Kaiba." Yugi nodded, "The Kai in Dance Mania is Mokuba, he is a pretty good Dancer if you ask me, and the shooting game. The rest is Seto's record, we even have our match here last time, when you are at work and the rest were too busy, so I hacked Seto to play fighting games against me." She explained, "That's when I know that Kai was Seto".

Jounouchi looked at Yugi in awe, "You even managed to hacked Kaiba Seto." He said while clapping his hands.

Yugi grinned, she then spot a fighting game, "Talking about fighting game, I want to play that one." She pointed at the machine. Yugi sat at the seat and inserted a coin to the slot machine, she chose Bruce Lee as her character.

"Hee, Bruce Lee?" Jounouchi's eyebrows raised, "You like him?".

"Yup." Yugi answered with a small smile, remembering the times she had to learn Aikido during the time she live with Seto and Mokuba before she ran away, it's a must for a Kaiba to learn how to protect themselves in case people decided to attack them. Although, even after she wasn't a Kaiba anymore after she ran away, she learned Kung-fu from the previous Ace and inherit The Trump gang, that's why during her reign as their Leader, her group was called The Trump Legacy. "He is strong after all, I like him and his style." She grinned at her friend.

Jounouchi grinned back, "Want me to become your opponent?" He asked as he sat beside the girl.

"Seems that someone already decided to challenge me." Yugi told him after she saw the challenge notice on her screen, she then played her character and won, she grinned, "Nice to know that I can still hold my record." She said before the challenge note appeared again, "Huh? Again?" She asked herself in confusion before fighting with the challenger.

"Beat him again then." Jounouchi grinned as he inserted a coin for Yugi.

Yugi shrugged and played again, and again he won. "Yeah." She grinned, but then the person challenge her again, "Um, just how much money they want to spend just to defeat me?" She asked as she inserted another coin, "I hope they wouldn't make me waste all my money here".

This continued until Jounouchi yawned, "Well, I want to buy a drink, do you want some? My treat." He said as he rubbed his eyes.

"A coke please." Yugi answered as she focused on her opponent.

"Okay, wait for me, and beat him." Jounouchi said as he walked away.

Yugi won again and noticed the person didn't challenge her again, she smiled and stood up to turn around, then she come face to face with a man copying Bruce Lee's hair style. "Do you think you are great just after winning a stupid game?" The man asked, Yugi blinked at him, "Let's see if you are great in real fight." He continued before punching Yugi right in the eye.

Yugi thrown backward and fell to many chairs, she groaned and wanted to stand up, but she fell again when the pain from her twisted right ankle hit her, she absently wondered how come she was so easily gotten a twisted ankle lately. The man took advantage of it and beat her up, it's angered her that she couldn't fight just because of her ankle twisted. The man kicked her again, throwing her backwards, just when Yugi had had enough and decided that no matter how hurt it was, she will fight back, the man grabbed her Puzzle.

"I will take this." The man said as he pulled the rope of the Puzzle then wear it himself.

"No! Yugi!" Yugi heard Yami's shout and . . . She was seeing red.

"Yugi! What wrong?!" Jounouchi yelled as he run to his friend, he then saw a strange man wearing Yugi's Puzzle and Yugi got beaten up, "Hey! Give that back!" He yelled and want to punch the man, but a hand grabbed him. Jounouchi looked back and saw that Yugi was wearing the same face from Rintama Gang incident, but with her hair still in star shape and not falling to her shoulder like before, he still shivered though, "Yugi?" He asked in fear.

"I will take care of him." Yugi said with dead voice, she look at the man, "You wanna fight? I will fight you, outside." She hissed dangerously.

The man stared in fear at Yugi before he glare, "Fine." He answered and they walked outside, to an empty alley so they won't disturb anyone. "But I have a rule." The man said and showed a knife, "We fight with this knife in our mouth, so if you lose, you will die".

"Yugi, don't." Jounouchi tried to reasoned to his friend, "I will fight him, I noticed that you twisted your ankle, so you shouldn't fight".

"No one could have my Puzzle without my permission." Yugi answered her friend with a grim look, she then looked at the man coldly, "Fine, but there's no need for you to have it, I won't satisfied with only hitting you once after all." She grinned wickedly, "I will make sure you regret messing with me and took my Puzzle from me".

The man gulped but narrowed his eyes and laughed, "I will warn you, I'm a master at street fight." He said as he handed Yugi a knife, "I called this fight as One Inch Terror, since with that knife in your mouth, there's only an inch distance before that knife struck you to death".

Jounouchi stared in horror when Yugi bit the knife with her teeth, he then saw Yugi just stood there looking at the man with a cold and dead eyes.

Yugi was beyond angry, she was mad, no one could have her Puzzle unless she give it by herself. She will get Yami back from the man, and she will make sure the man pay for messing with her. She take a short look at the Puzzle, Yami's spirit was standing behind the man, looking worriedly at Yugi, 'Don't worry, Nii-chan, I will get you back.' Yugi said to him through their link, 'I promise'.

"Be careful, Imouto-chan." Yami said to her in concern, "I know you will win, but don't strain your foot so much".

'Yeah, I know.' Yugi answered as she took a deep breath through her nose, she looked at the man and nodded.

Jounouchi noticed that Yugi looking at the Puzzle with determined eyes before nodding at the man, he understand that Yugi want to get her Puzzle back, it's from her Father after all, but to risk her life like that, he was sure that Yugi's father wouldn't like it in the Afterlife.

Jounouchi balled his hands into fists in anxiety as he watch his friend fight, Yugi could easily avoided the man's attack, but with her ankle twisted, he was sure that his small friend was feeling a great pain at the moment. Jounouchi wondered why his friend didn't attack the man, he know by experience in the past that with only a punch or a kick, Yugi could knock her opponent out cold.

Yugi was actually wanting the man to get mad for unable to touch her, she want to humiliate the man. The man had said that he was a master of street fight, the question was . . . did the man was fighting against children only? Because if the man dared to say that he was master at street fight then he should recognize her star shaped hair, because she was famous in the street fight for being The Ace of The Trump Legacy. No matter even if she hadn't appear in public that often anymore due to her protecting her school life, she was active enough The Trump that the other gangs feared her still.

The man was getting annoyed that he was unable to hit even a single punch or kick at the brat's head, so he aimed at the girl's stomach next.

Yugi know the man had become annoyed, so she finally make her first move by shielding her stomach with her two arms. She figured that since the man wanted to imitated Bruce Lee so much, he would get a surprise of his life when a weak looking girl could block his attack by a Kung-Fu's move.

The man gasped in pure shock, "You know Kung-fu?!" He asked in disbelief before Yugi kicked him high with her left leg, she then punched the man at his stomach, causing the man to leaned forward in reflex, Yugi then hit the back of the man's neck with her right elbow, lastly, Yugi kicked the man at his chest and throw him to the wall.

Yugi calmly took the knife out from her mouth and threw it at the man, the knife landed beside the man's neck, only grazing at it a bit.

The man looked up at Yugi in fear, "You- you are only a brat, but why are you so strong?" He stuttered in fear.

"4 years of Aikido, 2 years of Kung-fu, and then a year and a half of Kempo and Kendo." Yugi answered him with an evil smile, "I'm basically a living weapon, you know?" She asked coldly, "I'm disappointed that you, who dared to say that you are a master at street fight, only have this low level of fighting skill." She shook her head mockingly, "You have brought a shame to the world of Street Fight".

The man was cowering in fear, he would never thought that a weak looking brat would turned out to be an experienced fighter, "Who- who are you?" He asked with shaking voice.

Yugi smirked evilly at him and purposely giving off an intimidating aura, "Mutou Yugi." She answered darkly, "The Ace of The Trump Legacy, remember that." She snatched her Puzzle back, "And know that the next time you dare to touch my Puzzle again, you will be a dead meat." With that, she turned around and walking to her shaking friend while wearing her Puzzle again.

"You were doing it on purpose." Yami commented with a happy grin from beside her.

Yugi grinned then looked at Jounouchi, "Scary?" She asked her friend.

Jounouchi nodded many times, "Scary." He answered with a twin waterfall of tears, "I never saw you like that, you acted like you had gone ot Enraged Mode again".

Yugi laughed, "Sorry, I just want to say that line again." She grinned happily, "I haven't get a chance to say that line lately, even with me not that active in Street Life anymore, I'm still The Ace".

Jounouchi stared at his friend in amazement and fear, "I never knew you like to intimidated someone." He mumbled quietly, "I even never heard of The Trump Legacy before Rintama Gang incident".

Yugi smiled softly at him, "Soon, Jou. Soon." She said calmly, "I will tell you the story soon, please be patient".

Jounouchi smiled, "Sure, I will wait until you are ready." He then raised an eyebrow, "Do you think I can still get some information if I asked around?" He asked curiously.

Yugi raised both her eyebrows, "Why are you taking the complicate way? It's easier to just wait." She answered before smiling, "I wouldn't mind if you ask around about it, but people often exaggerated the story".

"You are right." Jounouchi realized, then he blinked when he heard a car stopped near them.

Yugi and Jounouchi looked at the car, Yugi then raised her eyebrows when the car's window lowered, Mokuba was sitting there looking grim. "Get in." He said gravely.

Yugi narrowed her eyes and entered the car, "Wait!" Jounouchi yelled as he wanted to close the door, "I will go with you, Yugi." He said seriously, Yugi nodded so Jounouchi entered the Limousine.

Yugi turned to Mokuba, "What's going on?" She asked in worry but with a serious tone.

"How did Seto act around you lately?" Mokuba asked grimly.

Yugi tensed at the mention of Seto's behavior, "He would glaring at me all the time and refused to play even a simple game with me." She answered, "What's wrong with him, Mokie?" She asked with dread, she rarely saw her Little Cousin looking so gravely like that.

"I think he's starting to see some illusions and have many nightmares." Mokuba said uneasily, "Last night, he was screaming in the middle of the night, and today, he was yelling at thin air".

Yugi growled, "That bastard's lessons is kicking in." She said though gritted teeth, "Seto will break sooner or later if this going on".

Mokuba nodded gravely, "Is there a way to help him?" He asked in sadness.

"There is." Yugi said grimly, she had been discussing about it with Yami after they heard about Death-T from Mokuba that time, "But it's a high risk, there's a possibility that if Seto get overwhelmed, he could get mental problems".

"Seto-nii already has a mental problem, Yugi-nee." Mokuba reminded her, "It's better to take the risk then just do nothing, Seto-nii will go insane if we left him alone anyway, but if you do what you planned to do, there's still a possibility that Seto-nii could be cured from his illusions and nightmares problem".

Yugi wanted to replied but Jounouchi raised his hand, "Wait a minute." He said, "Could you explain to me who did you mean by 'that bastard' and who is this kid and what do you mean by what you planned to do will risking Seto's mental state?" He looked at Yugi expectantly.

"My name is Mokuba, I'm Kaiba Seto's Little Brother." Mokuba explained to him, "The one whom Yugi-nee called 'that bastard' earlier was Kaiba Gozaburou, my late adopted Father." He looked at Jounouchi, "Now, who are you?".

"I'm Jounouchi, call me Jou if you want." Jounouchi replied.

"What do you plan on doing, Yugi-nee?" Mokuba asked to Yugi.

Yugi then looked at her Puzzle, "As you know, my Puzzle has Dark Magic." She started, she then looked up to Jounouchi and Mokuba, "If I play a Shadow Game against Seto, I could use the Puzzle's Dark Magic to give a Mind Crush to Seto, after I win the duel, as a Penalty Game." She continued, "If I do that, Seto will have to get all of his Mind's and Heart's pieces to find his True Self, and once he get all of them together, he could be his true self once again, the one that not damaged by Gozaburou".

Mokuba and Jounouchi looked at Yugi seriously, "I see, that's why you said it's dangerous." Mokuba commented, "If Seto-nii unable to get himself together, he might wouldn't wake up anymore or he would woke up but his mental will be unstable." He then looked at Yugi seriously, "But Seto-nii is strong, I'm sure he can do it, so please, Yugi-nee, help him".

Yugi bit her lower lip and nodded, "I will do this after our duel in Death-T, if he really go as far as challenge me to do it." She promised.

Mokuba gave a long sigh, "This is the reason why I fetch you up, Yugi-nee." He said, Yugi raised an eyebrow so he continued, "I need to prepare you, I challenge you to a milder game compared to Death-T, but still deadly".

"Mokuba?" Yugi looked at her little cousin in surprise, "Are you serious?".

Mokuba nodded grimly, "I am." He answered calmly, "I need to let you know just how dangerous this Death-T so you can prepare yourself to face the worst".

To be continued . . .

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