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Today we have the much needed and long overdue cool-down chapter for GYGOD. I skipped many possible ones because they all sucked.

Chapter 32- The Cool down Chapter

"Damn now this is a festival!" Naruto grinned as he shovelled his sixth bowl of ramen down his throat, dropping the chopsticks down with a clang. "More please~!" The chef took his bowel and started working on another.

"…I'm not sure what I just saw….but it was most certainly unnatural…" Alexander deadpanned, pushing his own bowl away with a queasy expression. All around them was the hustle and bustle that came with the Academy's annual festival. Several stalls were lined up next to the Ra Yellow dorm room where a large number of students from all three dorms went from stand to stand, or gathered around the duel field to watch duels. Naruto and Alexander were sat at a ramen stand, which had naturally been the first place Naruto had gone to.

"Here you go, Uzumaki-san." A cheerful Ra Yellow in a white hat and apron put another bowl before Naruto, which was immediately snatched and devoured. "Are you done with yours, Belmont-san?" Alexander glanced at Naruto, before grimacing and nodding. The chef went to take it, but it was taken by Naruto before he could.

"Man you are a Ra send, Icheriku- I haven't had ramen this good for years!" Naruto said around his food. "Where have you been hiding all year?" Icheriku grinned as he started washing Naruto's used bowls.

"Well I've been honing my skills until the festival! I wanted to make my ramen even better than it was last year." Naruto nodded absently, only actually half listening.

"Ah! That was some good eats!" Naruto grinned as his bowl clattered against the counter. He stood up and turned to Alexander. "Come on Belmont; let's go get some of that takoyaki I've heard so much about!"

"Ah- Naruto-san! Your bill!" Naruto slowly turned to face Icheriku, his eyes wide.

"Eh, bill? But it's a festival!"

"I paid for these ingredients out of my own pocket!" Icheriku protested, waving his arms wildly. Naruto sighed and reached for his wallet.

"Alright, how much do I owe you?"

"15,000 Yen." Naruto's hand stopped just shy of his pocket.

"EH?! 15,000 YEN!" He spluttered in shock. "But I only had seven bowls!"

"Eight if you count mine." Alexander added, watching with a small smirk. Naruto flipped him off.

"Stay out of this, Belmont!" He pointed at Icheriku indignantly. "There's no way in hell I'm paying 15,000 Yen for a few bowls of ramen! That's extortionate!"

"You're paying for quality!" Icheriku yelled, slamming his hands down on the stand. By this point some bystanders had stopped what they were doing to watch. "I used the finest ingredients on the market!"

"Oh yeah what did you use? Golden eggs?"

"Yes! From the bird that hatches the eggs for the Golden Eggwidches!"

"Oh…I'm still not paying that much for it!"

"Why you punk!"

"Hey, why don't the two of you just settle this with a duel?" Alexander suggested, catching their attention. "If Uzumaki wins he pays you in full for the eight bowls he had, but if he wins you wave our bill."

"Hmm, sure I'm game for that!" Naruto smirked, and Icheriku returned it angrily.

"Fine by me; I can show you first years what happens when you mess with your seniors!" Within a minute they were at the Duel Arena with a large group watching them. After all, Naruto's duels are usually exciting.

"Kick his ass, Icheriku!"

"Show that overcharging bastard what for, Naruto!"

"Go Pharaoh-kun!" Naruto sweatdropped when he saw Kurayami nearby dressed up in a 'Harpie Lady' costume…if 'Harpie Lady' had decided to take up a job at the red light district that is.

"'Harpy Lady' does not look like that; trust me I know." Naruto muttered, quickly looking away before the head of his fan club got the wrong idea. He almost regretted helping clear things up for her, considering the crowd she had pulled together full of his fan girls and boys. Yeah, fan boys… the club was pretty open with who it let in. "Alright Icheriku, let's get this over with! I have some takoyaki to try out!"

"Just be prepared to cough up, Uzumaki!"

"DUEL!"

"My turn, draw!" Naruto started the duel off with an over the top draw. "I summon 'Akatsuki- Deidara' in attack mode!"

#A-D Atk-1600#

"When 'Akatsuki- Deidara is normal summoned I can special summon two 'Clay Tokens' on your side of the field in defence mode." Two clay birds flew from 'Deidara's' mouth hands and landed on Icheriku's shoulders. "Next I place a face-down and end my turn."

"My turn, draw! I summon the 'Marauding Cook' in attack mode!"

#Marauding Chef- Warrior/Earth Lvl: 3#

#Atk/Def- 1200/400#

"His special effect activates! When this card is normal summoned I can take one card from my hand and shuffle it into my deck." He took a card and shuffled it into his deck. "Next I draw one card from my deck, and if it is a monster card then I can special summon it to the field." He drew a card and smirked at what he drew. "I special summon 'The Bistro Butcher' in attack mode!"

#The Bistro Butcher- Fiend/Dark Lvl: 4#

#Atk/Def- 1800/1000#

"'Now I attack with 'The Bistro Butcher'!"

"I activate my trap card, 'Paper Person of God'!" Naruto countered with one of his signature traps. "When your monster declares an attack, I can destroy it!"

"I activate the Quick-Play spell card 'My Body as a Shield'! By paying 1500 life points I can negate your trap card!"

#Naruto- 4000#

#Icheriku- 2500#

"Tch." Naruto grimaced as his trap was destroyed before 'The Bistro Butcher' slashed 'Deidara' with its hook hand.

#Naruto- 3800#

#Icheriku- 2500#

"Because you destroyed 'Akatsuki- Deidara' the 'Clay Tokens' on your shoulders detonate, inflicting 500 damage each!" Icheriku yelled out as the birds exploded.

#Naruto- 3800#

#Icheriku- 1500#

"Speaking of card effects, since 'The Bistro Butcher' inflicted battle damage on you, you draw two cards." Naruto shrugged and drew them. "And now 'Marauding Cook' attacks you directly!" Naruto deadpanned as the apron clad man bopped him on the head with a ladle.

#Naruto- 2600#

#Icheriku- 1500#

"I end my turn."

"You know…you really came of badly that turn." Naruto smirked, looking at the two cards he drew. "Not only did you lose most of your lifepoints but you gave me two more cards." Icheriku shrugged.

"Yes, but now I have two monsters on the field and you have none. Next turn I'll win and get the money you owe me." Naruto shrugged.

"Well, we'll see, won't we? First of all, I draw a card from my deck and then play 'Pot of Greed' draw two more cards. Next I summon 'Akatsuki- Zetsu' in attack mode."

#'A-Z Atk-1000#

"Now I play the spell card 'Edo Tensei' to special summon 'Deidara' from my graveyard by removing 'Zetsu' from play." The Edo Tensei coffin absorbed 'Zetsu' before spitting out 'Deidara'. "'Deidara' destroys your 'Marauding Cook'!" 'Deidara' threw some clay bombs at the chef, taking it out with an explosion.

#Naruto- 2600#

#Icheriku- 1100#

"I put down a face-down and end my turn."

"Not bad, Uzumaki, but I've only just gotten started! I summon 'Killer Tomato' in attack mode."

#Killer Tomato- Plant/Dark Lvl: 4#

#Atk/Def- 1400/1100#

"And now-"

"I activate my trap card!" Naruto interrupted, making Icheriku choke on his next word.

"Huh?!"

"Trap card open; 'C0'!" Icheriku blinked.

"Huh, what does that card do?"

"I can only activate this trap card when there are two specific conditions fulfilled. One, I need to have 'Akatsuki- Deidara' on the field, and two; I need to have five or more cards in my hand. Now," He pointed at 'Deidara', "I have him on the field, and I also have more than five cards in my hand. So, do you know what that means?" As he was talking, 'Deidara' had thrown off his cloak to reveal a large mouth on his chest. His body had started to fade away and black veins coming from the mouth was all that remained. "It means that by discarding my hand to the graveyard, all cards on the field are destroyed." Icheriku took a step backwards in shock.

"No way!" Naruto grinned widely.

"Yes way! Because you see, Icheriku… art… IS A BLAST!" What was left of 'Deidara' grinned before blowing up in a huge explosion that could be seen for miles. Once it had died down, and everyone's ears had cleared out, they opened their eyes to see the field empty. Icheriku stood agape as his field advantage had gone. He stood there for a moment, before picking his jaw off the ground.

"Not bad, Uzumaki, but you've left yourself wide open to attack!" Naruto grinned.

"Uh huh."

"I end my turn."

"I draw! Not that I need it, because I activate an effect from my graveyard!" Icheriku gasped as bulge of writing tentacles shot from Naruto's duel disk. "By removing one monster in my graveyard from play, I can special summon 'Akatsuki- Kakuzu' in attack mode!" The tentacles merged together to form 'Kakuzu'.

#A-K Atk-2000#

"Two thousand attack points!" Icheriku gasped, and Naruto smirked.

"Yep, and that's a lot less than what you have left! 'Kakuzu' finish him off!" 'Kakuzu' fired his fist from his arm, still connected by the tendrils from earlier, and punched Icheriku in the face.

"Grk!"

#Naruto- 2600#

#Icheriku- 0#

"That'll teach you to try and overcharge me you bastard!" Naruto jeered as he walked out of the duel arena, leaving an irritated Icheriku behind.

"Yeah well don't expect to get any more ramen out of me anytime soon, money or no!" The chef yelled, shaking his fist angrily. Naruto stumbled slightly before flipping him off.

"Ass." Naruto scoffed, walking away with Alexander behind him. "Let's go get some takoyaki!"

"With what?" Alexander deadpanned, "You don't have any money, and I doubt anyone will serve you after that spectacle." Naruto faceplanted.

"Well shit." He grumbled, pushing himself back to his feet. "And I was so looking forward to trying some." Suddenly, out of nowhere, Kurayami wrapped hers arms around his left, smiling up at him.

"I'll buy you some, Pharaoh-kun." She fluttered her eyelashes at him, and he extracted his arm with a grimace.

"Yeah but no, sorry, my girlfriend probably wouldn't be too happy about that." Kurayami pouted and stormed off. Alexander turned to him with a raised brow.

"Speaking of, why are you hanging out with me instead of Asuka, hmm? I'd have thought you'd want to go around the festival with her?" Naruto frowned.

'As much as I'd like that, she and the others are still moping about Daitokuji.' Naruto could understand why they were down about it, but as far as he was concerned he'd done enough worrying as it was lately. 'I for one am going to have fun today, take my mind off things for a bit.' "Speaking of girlfriends, why aren't you with yours? You're barely apart from each other- particularly your faces- these days." Naruto deflected the conversation back on Alexander, who slumped.

"Urgh, don't remind me. I asked if she wanted to come with me, but she blew me off for Junko. Those two are hanging out at the Blue dorm, probably eyeing up the waiters and such." The European turned to him with a pained expression. "What if she's growing bored of me?!"

"Wouldn't surprise me, you're a pretty boring person." Alexander glared at him, and Naruto rolled his eyes. "Don't worry about it! She probably just wanted to hang out with her friend, since she's been with you so much lately."

"But if I blew her off to hang out with you or Misawa, she'd have a fit." Alexander protested, and Naruto snorted.

"Yeah but she's a woman, they can get away with it; guys not so much."

'That's sexist.' Haku growled.

'But true.' Yami shot back.

'Truth.' Itachi agreed.

'I have way too many voices in my head.' Naruto deadpanned. He turned back to Alexander. "Look if it bothers you so much then go and find her. I'm sure she'd appreciate you trying to get on with her best friend…even if she is annoying." He muttered the last part to himself, personally finding Asuka's friends to be very irritating. Alexander seemed to consider this for a while, and Naruto let him as he looked around at all the stuff he couldn't do. 'This festival is a lot less awesome now I've realised that I need to actually pay for stuff…'

'Couldn't you just get some money from Pegasus or something?' Yami asked, and Naruto snorted.

'Maybe, but who knows what he would want in return. Besides, I kinda want to save up my favours from Pegasus for a while…'

"Alright, I've decided." Alexander declared, pulling Naruto from his thoughts. "I'm going to go find Momoe! Later, Uzumaki." Naruto watched with a deadpan as he walked away.

"…Poor sap, he might have been better of here." Naruto scratched under his ear, taking one last glance around. "Fuck this noise, I'm going to check Slifer out. At least anything they're doing probably won't cost any money."

"Wow…I know that this is Slifer and all… but wow." Naruto looked at the half painted duel field with a blank gaze. "Talk about shit city."

"Naruto-san!" Shou called out to him, waving at him as he pushed the line painter along the ground. However, Shou paid for his inattention by colliding with some paint cans and falling flat on his face. His crash kicked up a dust cloud which had Shou hacking his guts out. "Hayato-kun, this is the Duel Stage! Go paint your sign somewhere else." Naruto strolled over, hands in his pockets to see what Hayato was painting.

"Sorry, sorry." Hayato apologized sheepishly as Naruto stopped next to them.

"So what're ya' painting big man?" He queered, looking down at the painting on the ground. The three of them looked down at the painting of 'Death Kangaroo' and 'Death Koala' with Duel Disks. "'Red's Specialty Cosplay Duel Tournament!'" He and Shou read aloud at the same time.

"Hayato-kun, your painting's great!" Shou breathed in amazement, and Naruto felt himself nodding along.

"Yeah, not to shabby."

"It is, huh?"

"Still," Shou turned to Hayato, "it won't be that popular with just 'Death Koala' and 'Death Kangaroo'. You should really put 'Black Magician Girl' in the main spot!"

"Hmm…'Black Magician Girl', huh?"

"…Shou's creepy obsession with the BGM aside, it would make sense since she's a popular Duel Monster." Naruto added, crossing his arms thoughtfully. "It'd be even better with a 'Black Magician' there as well."

"Exactly!" Shou smiled, nodding enthusiastically. "Besides, since Aniki and the others aren't in the spirit because of the whole thing with Daitokuji-sensei we have to liven up the Academy Festival!" As he said this, Naruto spotted the others moping around the top of the stairs to the second floor of the Slifer dorm.

"Yeah, they do look a bit moody." Naruto muttered. Hayato looked at him.

"I'm surprised that you're not up there with them. Aren't you feeling down about it at all?" Naruto shrugged.

"Eh, not really, I never really knew him all that well. Besides, after the mess with Akio, my fan club, and Titan, I've stressed out enough already. Besides, this is a festival! Who's gloomy during a festival?!"

"You said it!" Hayato agreed cheerfully, glad to see someone else not being all depressed and stuff.

"All right, let's do our best!" Shou started digging up his line drawer thing, kicking up another dust cloud. Hayato and Naruto coughed and covered their mouths.

"You're too enthusiastic!" They both grumbled. Naruto waved some dust away from his face as he stepped away and walked towards the stairs.

"Yo guys, what's up?" Naruto called, grabbing their attention.

"Naruto, where have you been?" Misawa asked with a raised brow.

"Dude you have seen our dorms festival section, right? There was a ramen stand! Although the guy running it was an overcharging bastard, I set him straight in a duel and Belmont and I ate for free!" Naruto grinned as he folded his arms behind his head. "It was some damn good ramen though." Misawa snorted.

"Of course you wouldn't skip out on some ramen." He deadpanned, and Asuka giggled slightly, easily picturing Naruto getting into an argument with the ramen chef.

"Where could Daitokuji-sensei have gone?" Judai decided to ruin the mood that Naruto was trying to create, causing the light levity to be lost. Asuka's smile dropped and she looked down at the railing she was leaning on.

"He couldn't be getting done in by a Dark Duellist or anything, could he?" Misawa lifted his head slightly.

"That's hard to picture. It was Daitokuji-sensei who sent Fubuki-senpai to the World of Darkness, after all." Naruto snorted mentally.

'Yeah, where he suffered the oh so terrible fate of duel training. Forgive me if I'm unimpressed.' Naturally he didn't say this out loud, but he was thinking it. He didn't want Asuka getting pissed off with him after all.

"Nevertheless," Ryou interjected, "we shouldn't fix our minds on our enemy." Naruto clapped his hands together with a grin.

"Truer words have rarely been said, Ryu-teme." Naruto climbed up the stairs- stepping over Judai on the way up, and wrapped his arms around both Asuka and Misawa's shoulders. "Come on, come on, it's a festival! Let's take our minds off all this dark and dreary stuff for a while!"

"Grk- leggo!" Misawa choked, as Naruto had actually grabbed him around the neck. Asuka blushed slightly at the contact, but she didn't shy away from it. If anyone were to look at him, they would see an unnerving gleam in Fubuki's eyes.

"I believe in Daitokuji-sensei." Judai blurted out, before yelping as he dodged a kick from Naruto.

"Shaddap Kuriboh-head! Stop bringing the mood down!" The action made Misawa choker more as Naruto put some of his weight on him to deliver the kick.

"Leggo!"

"Loo la loo loo loo!" The antics ceased as they heard Manjoume making strange noises, and Naruto finally let go of Misawa in surprise. "Loo la loo loo loo!" Manjoume was walking around on the ground, waving a cat toy while glancing around the area.

"C'mon! I've got a green foxtail here!" Judai sat up from his slouched position and looked down at Manjoume quizzically.

"Hey, Manjoume!" Misawa coughed and rubbed his neck.

"Thunder!" Judai chuckled and turned to look at Misawa. "What are you up to?" Manjoume Thunder stopped what he was doing and looked over his shoulder at them.

"Can't you tell, I'm trying to lure that chubby cat out?" He turned back around and continued his glancing. "Wherever he is, that's where Daitokuji'll be!" The group let out a collective hum at his logic.

"Uh, Manjoume-kun?" Shou muttered as he started walking over.

"What's up, Shou?"

"A Cosplay Duel?" Judai exclaimed, while Naruto stared agape at the picture being shown to them.

"The Red Dorm's traditional performance, which Hayato-kun told me about!" Shou explained with a flourish. Naruto picked his jaw back up before pointing at the poster.

"How the hell did you redo that so quickly?!" He spluttered, marching over to Hayato and getting up in his face. "I saw that about two minutes ago and it was completely different!" And indeed it was- instead of having 'Death Koala' and 'Death Kangaroo', Hayato had somehow already repainted them as 'Black Magician' and 'Black Magician Girl'. Hayato just laughed nervously until Asuka dragged the blonde away by the scruff of his orange jacket. "What sorcery is this?!"

"Is that right?" Judai asked, ignoring the Ra's most recent outburst of incredulity. After a while, you got used to them.

"Y-Yep, that's right!"

"Sounds fun!" Fubuki added, causing Hayato to look over at him.

"You don't know about it?"

"Well, we've only gone to Yellow's festival." Ryou explained.

"We've never come out here." Fubuki added. Naruto took a look around.

"Why, I couldn't possibly imagine why!" He muttered, getting a small jab to the side from Asuka.

"That's it!" Shou exclaimed, raising his finger up. "Nobody comes to Red's performances because there aren't any girls in Red!" Naruto and Misawa blinked.

"No, there aren't any girls in Yellow, either." Misawa protested, raising his hands up. Naruto nodded.

"Yeah, I think I would have noticed if there were." Asuka narrowed his eyes on him, and he too brought his hands up. "What, it's true! It wouldn't be hard to miss!"

"That's why I thought of something!" Shou continued, undeterred much to Misawa's exasperation.

"I guess he's not listening…" He said to Judai.

"To have a flower here for something like this! And so, Asuka-san!" Shou turned around with a big smile. Asuka stopped glaring at Naruto and pointed to herself in surprise.

"Huh? Me?"

"Yeah, what about her?" Naruto frowned, glaring at Shou, who had gotten down on his hands or knees.

"I was hoping to save the Red Dorm, so I beg you!" He bowed his head to the dirt, and Naruto's glare fell in bafflement.

"W-Wait, Shou-kun! Quit it!" She blushed "Besides, I'm a Blue…"

"That's fine, isn't it?" Fubuki interjected with a calm smile, making Asuka, Ryou, and Naruto look at him in confusion. "I'd want to check out your cosplay too, Asuka." Naruto twitched and took a step back.

"What kind of family dynamic I have got myself into?" He muttered, slightly disturbed.

'Talk about a total siscon!' Yami agreed sweatdropping as he appeared next to Naruto.

"Nii-san!" Asuka protested, embarrassed by her older brothers words.

"I wonder if I should take part in this, too." Misawa wondered.

"Sounds fun!" Judai agreed.

"S-Still, what about the 'Bla-Magi Girl'?" Hayato asked, before Shou piped in excitedly.

"All right! Your big brother gave his blessing!" Naruto growled.

"Oi oi! Keep my girlfriend out of your 'Black Magician Girl' fetish fantasies ya' little creep!" He was ignored as Shou started jumping up and down, yelling;

"All right! All right!" Over and over again.

"I guess it can't be helped." Asuka sighed, and Naruto crossed his arms with a pout.

"Little blue bastard…" Haku appeared next to him, sending him a raised brow.

'I'd have thought you'd drool at the prospect of seeing Asuka dressed up like the 'Black Magician Girl'?'

'Well yeah, but I'd rather it be in private rather than in front of everyone.' Haku sweatdropped.

'…Pervert…'

In the end, Asuka wasn't the one in the 'Black Magician Girl' outfit. Neither, unfortunately, was it Ayukawa-sensei, or even any of the other girls in Obelisk Blue. Not, sadly for all of the guys…it was…

"WHY'S TOME-SAN DRESSED AS THE 'BLA-MAGI GIRL'?!" Shou wailed in despair, clutching his cheeks as tears flowed down them. Naruto, Misawa, and Judai gaped in various degrees of horror, while Asuka observed them with an odd expression.

"I-I forgot to tell you…" Hayato stuttered sheepishly, "Every year, Tome-san dresses up as the 'Bla-Magi Girl'…" Shou cried out, almost as if he was in actual pain.

"I'm not listening! I'm not listening!" Asuka glanced at Naruto's face, which was slowly turning a faint shade of green.

"I've seen a man use his bones as weapons." He whispered so quietly so that only Asuka and Misawa (who he had told his tale to the night before, which had gone down well, if not for a few surprised yells from Misawa) could hear him. "I've seen a snake man climb out of the carcass of an actual snake. I've been EATEN by a giant snake…but this is the most disgusting thing I've ever seen…"

"My how rude of you!" Tome snapped, only hearing Naruto's last sentence, "Being the 'Black Magician Girl' is my specialty!" She struck a pose with her fingers up in the peace sign. "See? This is perfect for me!" As soon as she finished her sentence, a tear appeared in the armpit of her costume, making the guys in the room freeze in horror. "How strange… This costume was a perfect fit last year, too. Did it shrink?" The five boys shook their heads, while Asuka made an even odder face than before.

"I think I need to a bucket." Naruto whimpered, clinging to Asuka's waist pitifully. She just patted his head comfortingly, not really knowing how else to react.

"WAAAAAH! MY BLA-MAGI GIRL! SHE'S…!" Shou screamed in despair.

"Wow! What's this?!" Hayato cried as he looked at Asuka in her 'Harpie Lady' costume, complete with pointy ears. "Asuka-san, you're 'Harpie Lady'!" Naruto grinned, his eyes drawn directly to her cleavage.

"Indeed she is." He muttered gleefully. Asuka stared at her taloned hand unsurely.

"It's a bit flashy, isn't it?" Naruto shook his head and brought his eyes back up to her face.

"Not at all! You look super cute!" He declared, getting a blush from Asuka.

"It's fine! It works!" Hayato agreed enthusiastically, "It's just right!"

"In fact," Asuka added, "Junko and Momoe called me, too. We were going to be the 'Harpie Lady Sister's'…At least, we thought of doing it, but they got away…" Naruto snapped out of his daze too glance away and whistle innocently.

'…Probably not my fault…'

"So, Naruto, Judai, what are you putting on?" The two of them blinked.

"Hmm…I'll…" Judai muttered, putting a finger on his lips in thought. Naruto scratched the back of his head as the two looked about the costumes they had in the room with them. Soon, Judai had put on a variety of costumes, making up his own cosplay.

"Aniki…what's that supposed to be?" Shou asked in bafflement.

"If I was choosing this or that, then I wouldn't know which one to go as." He explained.

"You can't call that a cosplay…" Asuka said, and Naruto deadpanned.

"Great, thanks Kuriboh-head now what the hell am I going to wear?" Judai chuckled sheepishly.

"Sorry, sorry." Naruto hummed and rubbed his chin, before snapping his fingers.

"I'll be right back!" With not another word to the others, he ran out the door, leaving them wondering what he would dress as. Minute later, he returned in full costume. "Who'd have guessed that this costume that Pegasus gave me would come in handy!"

"Ho-How did you get that so quickly?" Hayato asked, and Naruto shrugged.

"I dunno, how did you redo that painting so fast?" Naruto was dressed up in a rather bizarre costume.

"Um, Naruto…" Asuka started unsurely, "What costume is that?" He lifted up a mask from his face, which had a huge wedjat like eye on it.

"Hey it's all I've got ok? It's the 'Dark-Eyes Illusionist', one of Pegasus's monsters." He lowered the mask and waved his blue gloved hands. "It's pretty much the only humanoid monster Pegasus has that isn't some kind of loli version of a female Duel Monster." He shrugged again and crossed his arms. "Dunno why he gave me this at the time, but now I'm glad that he did." Before anyone could really respond, they heard loud noises coming from outside. As they went out to investigate it, in Manjoume stomped with an even more ridiculous costume than Naruto's.

'Yo, Manjoume-Thunder!' One of his Duel Spirits, 'Ojama Green' cheered, floating alongside his brother, 'Ojama Black'.

'You're the best in Japan!' Black added.

"Call me the best in the world!" He snapped back.

'You look so handsome!' 'Ojama Yellow' simpered.

"That's obvious!"

"Man! XYZ-Dragon Cannon?!" Judai gasped.

"Whoa! That's no amateur's work!"

"Hm. I'm a guy who does things when he wants to do them."

"Still, it might just look good on you." Asuka complimented, now wearing the wig for her costume. Naruto scoffed.

"Puh-lease, he looks ridiculous." He said, placing his huge blue hands on his puffy, stripped waist, the jester-esc end of his hat bobbing as he nodded his head.

"Shut it!" Manjoume snapped, turning around to stomp away. "Now, everyone, what do you say we hurry and start Slifer Red's traditional Cosplay Duel?"

"He's oddly in to it." Naruto whispered to Asuka, who laughed in response.

"First off," Manjoume declared as he stood in the centre of the Duel Field, "which daredevil Duel Monster is going to challenge Yuki Judai over here?"

"Me, right off the bat?" Judai almost yelped in surprise. Well, alright! Thunder, let's do this!"

"You idiot!" Manjoume muttered out of the corner of his mouth, "You think I can duel in this costume? Try thinking for a change!"

"I'm not even sure how you can walk in that costume." Naruto deadpanned, looking at its legs.

"Oh, that right?" Judai asked, turning to Hayato with a grin, "Then, Hayato!"

"I'm working behind the scenes today."

"Uh…then, Shou!"

"Man, I completely forgot my own cosplay! I'm doing the broadcast today!" The conversation was cut off by a camera flash, and they all turned around to see Fubuki holding a camera up at Asuka.

"Nii-san!" He held it up with a closed eye smile.

"Well, your brother's just glad to see his little sister turn into this beautiful woman while he wasn't looking!" Naruto sweatdropped behind his mask.

'Sis-con alert!'

"Nii-san, those pictures!"

"I was thinking of sending them off to the members of your fan club, Asuka!" He opened his eyes just in time to dodge the swipe she made for his face. He ran off as she chased him.

"Wait, Nii-san!" Naruto watched blankly as they ran away. "Give me those pictures!"

"So, Fubuki-san…" Shou started.

"…was a character like that?" Judai finished.

"Siscon alert." Naruto muttered aloud this time, face-palming his mask. 'Though I do want those pictures…'

"Oi, Naruto, how about we duel?" Judai asked, but Naruto shook his head.

"Nah, I've already duelled today, can't be bothered to go again. Besides, you try holding cards with these gloves on!" He once again waved his big blue hands and Judai slumped slightly in disappointment.

"But now I don't have an opponent…"

"Excuse me! I want to duel too!" The three Slifers and one Ra gasped in amazement.

"'Black Magician Girl'?!" A perfect copy of the 'Black Magician Girl' stood before them, her staff held daintily in front of her.

"It's not Tome-san!" Shou practically whimpered in joy at this fact.

"Hey, look! It's the 'Bla-Magi Girl'!"

"She's really cute!"

"She looks just like the real thing!"

"Is that right?" The girl said, smiling cheerfully.

"Of course it is! I, Manjoume Jun, head of the Cosplay Duel Action Committee, approve it!"

"Is that what you were?" Judai asked, not having heard of this before.

"Still, just who could it be?" Shou wondered. "Since there aren't any girls in Slifer Red…" The girl giggled.

"Don't be too hard on me, please!" She did the DMG's pose perfectly.

'I'm starting to think this girl's a Duel Spirit.' Yami said thoughtfully, and Naruto shrugged.

'Could be.' He glanced around the area, and almost burst into laughter when he saw Misawa's costume. He quickly made his way over, ignoring both Chronos and Ryou who were with his fellow Ra Yellow.

"Misawa, when I called you a furry I didn't think it was true!" Chronos and Ryou blinked in confusion, and Misawa blushed angrily.

"I am not a furry!" He snapped, stomping his foot and clenching his fist angrily. "Besides just what the hell are you supposed to be anyway? Some kind of gay clown?" Naruto twitched, but lifted his mask up to smirk.

"At least I don't find animals attractive!" Misawa growled.

"Ok, that's it!" He leapt at Naruto angrily, and the two boys started writhing on the ground in some kind of wrestling match/brawl.

"AH! Get off'a me ya' damned furry!"

"I AM NOT A FURRY!"

Naruto and Misawa were soon separated and taken to the infirmary to patch up the injuries they each inflicted onthe other, and the two sat with their arms crossed, pouting petulantly as they turned away from each other.

"…Furry."

"Gay clown."

Needless to say, it was a somewhat eventful festival.

Chapter End

Urgh, it took me longer to finish this than it should have. If I didn't have a chest infection for like the last week then this probably would have been finished weeks ago.

I know this ended abruptly, but it was already at about five thousand words, and I didn't feel that it needed any more.

Anyway, hope you enjoyed the chapter, and I'll see you guys in the New Year!

Ja ne!