Author's Notes: So, another installment in the Believe in the Cards! saga. Ahh, how do you live without it?! Heh, erm...don't know where that came from. Anyway, Pegasus rocks. Watching this Saturday, when he was playing against Kaiba with those toon cards, well...I found my new role-model. I want to be just like Pegasus! Yay! I want to own a...a...business...and take over other people's businesses even if those businesses don't have anything they specialize in. (What the hell does Kaiba Corps do?! ARGH!) Anyway, yeah. That's my rant. Ed-Di-Oh hates me. He tried to take over my kingdom and steal it away from me...but that's okay, because I'll still dedicate this chapter to him since I don't have anyone better to dedicate it to. Hope you all enjoy the insanity! It still really has no plot, and I doubt it'll get one by the end...but eh, who cares? It's humor. ^_^;

I don't know how I got myself into this. I could be somewhere else...doing SOMETHING else. Why, oh why did I have to come to the Duelist Kingdom...? Tristan peered at his reflection in the bathroom mirror, flinching as Pegasus's voice rose up from outside the door.

"Yoohoo...Triiiistan...?" He began in a singsong voice. "Surely you must be done in there. Come on out! Please? Oh, pretty please...?"

The youth sweatdropped. There was no fighting it. He had to go out there. Thankfully it was only him and Pegasus, and no one would be around to laugh at him. At least Yugi didn't have to worry about going up against a nut case like him, if he was smart about what he did. Slowly, his hand inched along the door frame, pushing it open as he stepped out laggardly. Tristan came to a complete halt, shrinking down in posture as though he could disappear somewhere into oblivion. Gee, the shadow realm seemed really nice right about then. Fending off creepy monsters and other scaries was like a tea party in comparison to 'hanging out' with Pegasus.

The creator of Duel Monsters closed his eye happily, clasping his hands before his face, "Don't you just look so adorable!"

Tristan stood there...in an ugly red suit that was the exact copy of the other's. His shoulders slumped, "I feel stupid."

Smack. Pegasus's hand whisked across the side of his head, "No you don't! You look absolutely adorable. You could be like my twin! Or my junior president, hm? That sounds like so much fun, doesn't it?"

"No. No not really."

Smack!

"Ow! I mean...uh...yeah. Sure. Fun," Tristan lied. It was quite obvious that he was lying, though Pegasus pretended not to notice.

"Great! Now I can show you all the rare monsters I stacked my deck up with..." The supposedly evil genius trotted on over toward the table, sitting on one of the seats and crossing one leg over the other. He patted the one next to him invitingly. "After all. I made the game, so it only makes sense I have all the best cards! Oh ho ho, I tell you even if I didn't have my all-seeing eye, I would be able to win against Yugi Mudou..."

"Mutou."

"Excuse me?"

"His name's Yugi MuTOU. Not Yugi MuDOU."

"Are you questioning me...? The insane, silver-haired bishounen of the show...?"

"I thought...that there was that other kid. I don't remember his name, but uh...he's got silver hair, and he's insane...sometimes. Plus, a lot younger than you..."

A vein popped out on the side of Pegasus's head...or rather just where that hair parted and it could be seen. Normally it appeared on the other side, but you had to make an exception with Pegasus, "Are you calling me...old?!" He regarded him like he had said the most terrible thing in the world. It probably WAS the most terrible thing to Pegasus.

"Uh...er...um...of course not!"

"Good," He smiled pleasantly. "Well come on..." Barely containing a grin of delight, he added in. "Pegasus Jr."

"I am not..." Ugh, better appease him. This is why I prefer not having a purpose. Then you don't have to deal with weirdo's like Pegasus... Tristan inched forward, sinking onto the chair beside him with a soft sigh.

"I know you're going to be so excited about my cards..." Which the author conveniently left out what they were, since she of course didn't know. Plus, it just leaves it a mystery to all you cool Yu-Gi-Oh fans or something.

Tristan only gave him half of his attention, sinking into thought, Yugi needs to rescue his grandpa from the Shadow Realm. That means he'll have to come here eventually. I know he will. Yugi always does what's right. I just hope he'll swing by to rescue me on his way...

Tea crept into the castle, wearing her tacky little pink outfit, and sneaking around in a not-so-hidden manner. She could probably get caught, and chances are she would, but that's okay because she had the power of friendship on her side. The heart of the cards guided her, and with that...no harm could come to her! Yes, she would forever be protected by the heart of the cards. And~! Oh, er...ahem. Sorry. Anyway, the girl moved along, glancing around thoughtfully.

"I wonder where Tristan is..." A fingertip came to her bottom lip, tapping it lightly in thought. "Maybe if I yelled his name really loud, he'd come running!"

Smiling at her incredibly ingenious idea, she prepared to do just that...only to pause and glance down toward the deck of cards in her pocket. No, letting the heart of the cards guide her was a much better idea. You see...Tea was an incredibly stupid girl. She never had an intelligent idea. Heck! She didn't even go to the same school Yugi and the others went to. After all, her uniform was frilly and pink...and theirs was blue. You'd think that the teachers would notice, but no. That just goes to show you that no one pays attention to their students in class, and that teachers are even dumber than the students. No one seems to think it's bizarre that Tea's the only girl in an all-boy's school (even if there were a few girls in the class...they were just extra's!). No one confiscated their cards because you know damn well they could put out an eye or something, especially with people like Tea playing them. And most of all, no one noticed that Yugi is the height of a six year old and probably the age of one as well. But that was okay...because somehow or another, the show was addicting anyway regardless of their intelligence factor.

So, the heart of the cards led Tea...to a dead end. She paused, and frowned, placing a hand against the wall to confirm it was just that...a dead end, "Hm...I just wasn't believing hard enough. I have to not only put my belief in the heart of the cards, but the power of friendship! Those two things will be unstoppable! All right...here I go! Tristan...you can count on me! I'll get to you! The power of friendship bonds us together! I wrote on your hand with mascara...and made a stupid happy face just to show our power of friendship! Never stop believing in the power of friendship! And the heart of the cards...we've gone this far through here, and we're not going to turn back now! The heart of the cards will guide us! The power of friendship will--"

"Uh, miss?"

Tea blinked, turning around to see that about five guards had gathered there while she was trying to do one of her friendship monologues. A sweatdrop appeared on the side of her head, "Uh...hi! You wouldn't be interested in hearing about the heart of the cards, would you? It's Yugi's secret strategy?"

The men glanced between themselves with a blink, stating comments such as, 'Yugi Mutou? The one who defeated Seto Kaiba? His secret strategy? You know it?'

"Uh huh! His secret strategy is a big secret for me and all his friends to know! So, do you want to hear it?"

"Yeah, yeah! Please!"

Tea grinned. All right! She had roped people into hearing about the heart of the cards! This was so great! And so she began to talk...which for the sake of saving the readers from incessant Tea rambling...there was a conveniently placed scene-switch!

***

Bakura and Joey walked along aimlessly, trying to find clues as to where Yugi could have been taken, passing by the same landscape over and over as often happened in cliché cartoons. The silver-haired youth brought his hands downward to surround that Millennium Ring, glancing over it before his brows set together. Joey paused beside him, blinking a couple times.

"What're ya doin'...?"

"Well, I had the thought that maybe if I used my Millennium Ring to locate Yugi's item, we could find him," He closed his eyes with weak happiness.

"Dat's a great idea! Why don't we do dat, huh? Dat way, we could find 'im quicker, and give 'im back his puzzle."

Bakura sweatdropped. How stupid could Joey be? He really ran a close second to Tea. But, alas. At least Joey was dumb in that cool kind of way, so he responded, "Simply because we have the Millennium Puzzle with us." He held it up to display.

"Oh...right! I knew dat!" He didn't really, but he was going to pretend like he did. "So, uh...what d'we do now? And why d'you get ta keep dat puzzle? You got two of 'em..."

The platinum-haired boy closed his fingers around it possessively, drawing it back, "I'm afraid you will lose it accidentally on the way."

"I would not. I'm not dat stupid."

"Oh no? Then can you tell me what my name is...? After all, we've been classmates ever since we were children or at least since the first season, you should at least know..."

Joey blinked, scratching the side of his head, before he laughed out loud, "Ha! Ya thought I was stupid, yer the one who forgot his name!"

Bakura sweatdropped once again, pinching the bridge of his nose in annoyance, "Never. Mind. Then."

"Heeh...of course!"

They walked along quietly, still glancing around for any clues that might just magically pop up in their way. Maybe...a piece of Yugi's hair, maybe a thread from Kaiba's billowing trench coat, or a blue paw print...wait a second. Wrong show. But, no...none of those things showed up there. And little did those two know as they moved along peacefully, that they were being followed. Stalking them in the shadows was none other than...Bandit Keith! His eyes narrowed behind those sunglasses, and he parted the shrub's branches so he could watch the two.

"Look at them...thinking they're all good and cool. I'll show them a thing or two..." Keith lowered his hand into a bag of some sort, revealing several products that went by the name...'Acme.' A smirk crossed his lips. "You don't grow up watching American Cartoons and not learnin' nothing. Plus...I got a gang...and I'm much cooler..."

Of course, he beat up his gang and stole their star chips, but he was sure that they would still be his 'gang' because...let's face it, he thought he was really cool. But, what he didn't seem to recall was that those Acme items, which were stolen from the toon-aholic Pegasus, had a tendency to backfire on the one pursuing the main heroes...no matter how annoying they happened to be. Even though everyone always seemed to root for Sylvester, it was Tweety who won...and the same with the Road Runner, Bugs Bunny, etc. Their counterparts always lost, but it was the zany antics that just kept everyone watching. Especially Pegasus.

But, for now, Bandit Keith grinned somewhat to himself, "All right, boys...this time things're gonna change. This time, I'll get you for sure...muahahahaha." He coughed and cleared his throat, stopping the maniacal laugh so that he could follow them.

***

Kaiba spared a glance toward his watch, furrowing his brows somewhat, "They're late."

Yugi didn't say anything, because he always seemed to get into trouble every time he opened his mouth. He just sat on the pier ledge, dangling his short legs over the side...watching the laces that dripped over those sneakers. The wind ruffled his multicolored hair, but that wind was what Kaiba was sure to catch with his trench coat...making it billow out even more than it naturally did. The shorter of the two spared a glance at his 'big brother,' before he looked upward in time to see the seagulls circle overhead. What was life going to have in store for him now that he was...Yugi Kaiba?

Ugh, that didn't even sound right. Yugi Kaiba...it was awful. But, what could he do? Seto was...taller than him. Maybe he could duel him to be free or something, but without Exodia, all hope was lost. Stupid...bug boy. If he was taller, he would have beat him up. Well, he could have been taller, but back then the heart of the cards guided him to be nice and peaceful. So even his alter ego couldn't do anything about it.

"Hey look! It's Seto Kaiba...the Duel Monster's champion!" Someone called out from behind them.

Both Yugi and Kaiba turned to glance in that direction, seeing a band of misfit toys...er...misfit guys more like it. The adopted Kaiba's eyes widened as he recognized them, and he shot upright, "Kaiba! Kaiba!"

"Niisama. If you talk to me, even though I told you not to...you're to refer to me as that!"

"But...er...Niisama...we don't speak Japanese. I mean, we should, but this is the DUBBED version."

"Oh. Right. Well, then call me big brother. That's what Mokoba calls me. Even though no one ever refers to anyone as 'big brother' normally, but hey...they gotta match it up to their lips, I guess..." He shrugged, and then shifted a cold glare back in the other's direction. "Yes, I am Seto Kaiba. What of it?"

"And is that...Yugi Mutou with you...?" One of them peered at the boy.

"Yugi Kaiba...my NEW little brother."

"Oh. Then must not have been who I thought. Okay then. Sorry to bug ya..." They started to walk off.

But, Yugi shook his head in protest, "Kaiba! That's Bandit Keith's gang! They kidnapped Joey and forced him to duel with them!"

"Huh? Why should I care? I don't like Joey. And aren't you forgetting what I just told you...?" Seto's brows raised upward.

The trio paused at that, turning back to face them again, "It IS Yugi Mutou!"

Though, it wasn't a moment later that they began to cry, hugging each other for support. The other two were nameless, but Bonz was there in the middle of this group hug, and he was the one who began to speak, "It's because of you that Bandit Keith left us...he was like...like...a father to me!"

"Yeah..." The one with the Australian accent added, swiping away a tear. "He went an' stole our bloody star chips, and took off like the wind..."

"Off to da castle...leavin' us behind..." The last henchman added, before breaking into a violent bawl with the rest of them.

Yugi blinked a couple times and sweatdropped, "Well...I'm...I'm sorry to hear that. But, why were you looking for me...?"

"Not just you..." Bonz looked up finally. "Your friends too."

The others nodded, before one spoke up, "We're gonna kick your ass, mate!"

His eyes widened, and he backed up slightly as they approached. Finally, all three yelled out to get him, and they piled on top of the boy, pummeling him variously. Kaiba blinked, sparing a glance toward the group, before he just went forward on the dock, peering over the side.

"Damn it, what's taking them so long?"

"Ow! Hey! Stop! Ouch! Kaiba! Big brother!! Help me!" Yugi managed to emerge from between the taller guy's legs, holding out a hand desperately. It was just a benefit of being short. He crawled through the group, clutching onto Seto's leg. "Please?"

"Stop whining, and go deal with it yourself. You know, I never had a big brother to protect me when I was growing up. I always had to protect Mokoba. He was always whining and complaining, but I needed something to make me somewhat of a good guy, so I had to love him. It's no wonder why he never got adopted really..." Kaiba paused thoughtfully, but then he nudged the other off his good pants, giving him a shove back into the fight.

The bigger guys dragged him off, and Bonz commenced beating on him, since they were about the same height give or take if one counted the hair. Meanwhile, Kaiba simply watched, shaking his head with a somewhat proud smile. A Kaiba just wasn't a Kaiba without getting into a first fight. Maybe Yugi would be a good little brother after all. Well, regardless, he was well-known, and it would gain him more popularity, so it'd be good in the end. But, maybe...just maybe...if Yugi was beat up too much, Seto would step in. Though, it was highly doubtful that he would be, because he had the heart of the cards on his side or something; Kaiba never listened to the rambling of that Tea girl.

Yeah, and that made a chapter of sufficient length, so this was where it would end until the next time.