Disclaimer: I am here just to tell a story, not to entertain anyone. I do not
own anybody but Yumi and her Yami which shall later be introduced. I also own
the song that will be featured later. And I own the Millenium Charm that belongs
to me. And the chocolate covered rice balls in which have made this story
possible. Other than that nothing belongs to me... and this storyline belongs to
me as well. Other THAN THAT nothing belongs to me! JA NE!!

Chocolate Covered Rice Balls
Chapter Two: Home

Yumi, the girl with long dark hair, arrived home to see her brother rush up to
her wildly. "Sis Yumi! Sis! I have my strategy worked out all ready!!" he
exclaimed happily. The boy was younger than her by six years, such a dreary age
gap. Her heart was filled with emptiness as something caught her attention.
"This rain makes it good thinking time!" he added as she just went up the stairs
nearby so she could think herself.

"Where is Otoosama?" Yumi asked her little brother.

"He's in the kitchen." He replied. "Sis, will you duel me?"

Yumi sighed. Little brothers were such a pain. "I have homework, you know that,
Yoshio!"

He sulked. "Why do you always have homework?"

Yumi looked down at him from the top of the staircase. "Why do you ask so many
bothersome questions? I just started a business today, only had one customer the
whole afternoon, I am failing my math class and not only that, but you have to
come up to me as soon as I get home just to ask about a dueling strategy!" she
screamed. "You know that the only reason I had to get a job is because of what
happened!" she went inside her room and slammed the door. "Oh!!!" Laying the
papers upon her desk and her dueling deck on her nearby nightstand, she felt so
lonely.

"I don't know what's wrong with her..." the voices could be heard though the
walls of Yumi's room, even above the radio playing. "...but I suggest you leave
her alone. She is under a lot of stress."

"Yes, Otoosama." Came Yoshio's obedient voice.

Yumi didn't want to do her homework. The thought just made her sick. She wanted
to think of the person she met in the shop this afternoon, Seto Kaiba. Yumi read
a lot about him in her Duelist Handbook, which was known worldwide. The
Champion... that was what Yumi wanted to be when she was younger after taking a
liking to her first card, given to her by the creators of Duel Monsters himself,
Mr. Maximillion Pegasus.

--flashback--
A young girl sat crying in the first altar of a huge church, where a funeral was
being held. "Oh why did you have to die?" she screamed. The girl was in a
beautiful black dress and her hair was dark and long enough to reach her rear
end, even when braided like it was.

A man in a rich suit walked up to the little girl. "What's wrong, Yumi?"

The girl looked up. "You know my name?"

"Yes. I knew your whole family. But, do you like to play card games?" The man
had long silver hair, and a seemingly dark tone about him. The eerie kind of
dark tone, one that made almost anyone afraid pierced at everyone around the
church but her.

"Yes. I play Duel Monsters." Yumi answered honestly. "My family... everybody
liked to play." Beside her sat a cradle and in it a little baby. "I will teach
Yoshio to play too."

"I'm glad you like that game." The man said, putting a hand on her shoulder. "I
want you to have two cards that I don't want. They will help you in your game."
He held out two cards, one a magic and the other a trap. "This magic card is
called Reborn the Monster, which will revive any monster that dies, that way
when they do you can assure that you will never be lonely anymore. The second is
a trap card that is just for you, because I made it so. It's called Sorrowful
Eyes, which when any monster dies, you can enrage that monster's attack points
by all of the attack points of that fallen monster, yours or otherwise. I want
you to have them, they will help you in the championship."

"You know that I have plans?" Yumi asked. "Then you will bring back my family so
I can finally have someone again? I don't want to be alone!" The girl cried
aloud and the man just smiled.

"Play the game and you won't be lonely. You will have monsters to aid you and
the magic to support them and traps to fool your enemy." He reassured her. "If
you play and do it with everything that you are, you will always have something
to be with you. I promise. And to start you off with a monster that I know your
father said that you wanted, I have this as well." He held out the monster that
she liked the best, the one that supported the ones around her and was dark,
just like Yumi was inside now. The Witch's Apprentice may have had low attack
points, but the effect was just what Yumi liked about it. "Take these and not
only will they accompany you in your journey, child, but you will triumph."

Yumi took them and looked at her little brother. "I will take these and I will
help Yoshio grow up. Thank you."

The man left and soon the church was empty, but Yumi and Yoshio waited alone.
Yumi was looking at the deck she had built using those cards the nice person had
given her. They resembled the inside of Yumi so well that it amazed her. She
didn't know that her father knew such a nice silver haired man. The confusion
blurred and soon the girl fell asleep, right when a woman in a tight uniform
came up to the two children.
"Get up, little girl. You have been adopted. He knew your father." Said the
woman.

"I don't wanna leave." Yumi said.

After much fighting, Yumi and her little brother were eventually dragged to
where they should be. The only thing that they didn't know was that Yumi was so
hateful for the rest of her life because of it.

--end flashback-

Yumi had finished her homework while thinking of what inspired her to even enter
any competition for Duel Monsters. Her family except her little brother had been
brutally murdered somehow while she and Yoshio were at a friend's house. A
little friend that had strange spiky hair that was three different colors. After
all of that thinking, doing her homework and thinking some more, Yumi decided to
look through her deck just to see how much of it had changed since she added
those cards that Yumi got from Pegasus.

She thumbed through them, one by one, going and looking at each of them as if it
was special and nothing could take them from her. Nothing had changed since that
day when she was only six. The pain of thinking had grown until it had her mind
in complete knots!

"Well, Oyasuminasai!" Yumi said to her deck and turning the light off. "And
here's to you, Seto Kaiba." She fell asleep quickly, waiting for morning to show
its face so she could see what was ahead of her.

--end of chapter-

Hello my adoring fans! I have new Japanese words to tell you so you won't be
completely off!

1. Otoosama- a form of the word Otoosan, which is the formal name for father.
2. Oyasuminasai- good night

All right people, tell me what you think and what exactly does this past tell
you about Yumi? What else is there to be learned? Who what when why and how was
her family murdered and when will the true storyline actually take place? Will
these questions never end?! NO!!