Yami Kevin: EEEEK! How'd I get here?

trio: I brought you here! You're going to do the disclaimer from now on. And possibly lure Seto out from...wherever he is.

Yami K.: *glares daggers at trio the authoress* trio does not own Yu-Gi-Oh, but she does own me and Kevin, my aibou. And trio, I refuse to lure out that weirdo Kaiba.

trio: ^_^ hey people, since I got a review asking that Yugi not fail his math test, I've also decided that I'll go back to paragraphs. And it's gonna start getting really strange. Yami K is in this chapter, and that's what I'll call her for the rest of the fic. Ok...you can continue reading the story now!

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Téa and Kevin started walking. Each secretly wished the other silent, wishes that were granted. *Today I'm going to get started on that plan. And it will work,* Kevin thought, knowing her Yami would hear. \that it will,\ Yami K said in Kevin's head.

As they sat down at their desks in homeroom, Yami K looked through Kevin's eyes to find the perfect person to use, but couldn't see much because of that blond hair. But she found one, who was somewhat tall, with even taller brown hair. *Ra, that hair must add like a foot to his height!* She eased off her control of the eyes enough to let Kevin see the person she had chosen as the "victim" of her devious plot. Kevin didn't say a word about him.

"lunch, finally!" Joey said with relief. "I thought that that geometry stuff would never end!" He took a seat at the end of the table. \Sit!\ Yami K commanded. Kevin did sit, right between Joey and the person Yami K had chosen, the dude with impossibly tall hair.

"Geometry never truly ends, Joey," Kevin commented, and then added "neither does physics." Joey growled, but Tristan just laughed. Yami K had made a good choice. Across the table, Téa and Yugi moved aside so that a shortish white-haired boy could sit down.

"Hi," said the newcomer with a slight British accent. To Kevin, he said, "You must be Kevin" and continued on like that for a little while, with Kevin only able to catch his name, which happened to be Ryou. \Aren't you glad I didn't pick him?\ Yami K asked Kevin.

As they started eating their lunches, which today happened to be enchilada casserole or something like that, Yugi and Joey started talking about Duel Monsters, which at first sounded like nonsense to Kevin, until Yami K commanded \listen! They're talking about the shadow games!\ Kevin, unable to answer her Yami, she leaned forward, listening. Her necklace fell out from behind the collar of her shirt (1). Yugi noticed her listening somehow or another (2)

"Do you like Duel Monsters too, Kevin?" Yugi inquired. \Say yes!\ a little voice commanded.

"Yes...?" Kevin really had no idea what it was, but they seemed to like it, and it might have been important.

"Great! I challenge you to a duel right now!" Joey said eagerly. Eager to show off, that is.

\Move over!\ said Yami K. \it's my turn\ "I accept your challenge!" Yami K made Kevin say as she moved to the other side of the table. Kevin took a little box out of her pocket that she hadn't remembered putting in that morning. *What's that?* Kevin requested. \My cards!\ came Yami K's reply as she took the cards from the little gilded box. The Duel began.

Yami K played strategically, and had Joey stuck in her card-game trap before he knew what was going on. Kevin said nothing while she watched the two duel with the ease that only experts have. Try as he may, Joey couldn't worm his way out of the trap that Yami had set up, seemingly before the duel even began. Yami K won in a matter of minutes.

"And that," Yami K said, "brings your life points to zero." She picked up her cards quietly and put them in the box, then the box in Kevin's pocket, which to Kevin, seemed to disappear completely.

"No fair! You musta cheated!" Joey complained.

"Joey, you know you lost. Just deal with it!" Tristan commented as Kevin moved back to her original spot.

"Yeah, Joey, it's not a big deal to get beat by someone better than you! It happens all the time!"

"This coming from a midget who happens to be Domino's best Duelist?" Joey questioned rhetorically. He talked a little bit more, but Kevin couldn't hear him over her Yami muttering something along the lines of \he's the best duelist here? Feh! I find that hard to believe! Him! That midget, the best duelist around?\ which was often followed by a maniacal laugh.

"I am NOT a midget! I'm just vertically challenged!" replied Yugi, seemingly in response to Yami K's cruel joking, though it could have been meant to be heard by Joey, who wouldn't have heard anyways because he was talking. Joey then paused his yammering long enough to say, "in other words, you're a midget."

During this argument, Tristan was too busy staring at Kevin to listen to his two best friends argue. Her beautiful wavy brown hair shone in the fluorescent cafeteria lights. He couldn't see her eyes, but he could picture them. Dull, blue gray...but wait! They were pure blue! No, he told himself when Kevin turned back to face her now cold lunch, they were grayish. *But I could have sworn that they were only blue...* he thought, and then went back to eating.

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*There is silence, except for Paperback Writer playing in the background. trio is off finding where Seto went, Yami K is enjoying her lunch, and Seto...well, he's elsewhere.* *a mechanical device says in trio's voice* If you want us to come back, and you know you do, please review! Yugi should find out if he passed that test in a few chapters, but whether he passed or not depends on how many reviews I get! If I find myself with at least fifteen total reviews next time I care about it, then Yugi might actually pass! Arianlyn, in case you care, eep was my word of the day on Monday, September 23, 2002, followed by meat, happy, twik, and chi.

Notes: 1. If you want to see what the necklace looks like, email me at jbebel@wideopenwest.com or ckdb2513@yahoo.com. If you don't accept emails with attachments, too bad, you won't be able to see it unless you know me personally. 2. This will be explained in another chapter, even though you probably already know how.