Disclaimer: I do not Yu-Gi-Oh, let's continue.

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In a somewhat large apartment in the city of New York Serenity Wheeler sat on couch staring through the window to the city below her. It had been a year since she had heard from her older brother. He usually checked in with her every 2 months or so, but it had been almost 12 months. She continued to stare at the city below her when a door slamming suddenly startled her. In the doorway was her roommate, Mai Valentine. "Hey Serenity," Mai put her keys on a table nearby.

"Hey there Mai," Serenity's roommate joined her on the couch.

"You're thinking about Joey aren't you?"

"How could you tell?" Serenity gave her friend a sarcastic look.

"I'm sure he's alright, Joey knows how to take care of himself." She gave her an assuring smile. "You know what, I'm hungry, let's go eat."

"All right," the look on Serenity's face told Mai that the thought food highly comforted her.

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The two girls entered the diner they usually ate at and the usual waiter led them to their usual table. While walking towards their usual table a hand grabbed Mai from one of the tables. "Mai?! Is that really you?"

"Tea?! Oh my God!!!!!!!!!!" The two embraced totally ignoring the bewildered Wheeler. "You haven't changed a bit! How long has it been now?"

"Almost 10 years I think," Tea finally noticed poor Serenity next to Mai, "Aren't you going to introduce me to your friend Mai?"

"Oh, I thought you already knew each other, Tea, Serenity, Joey's little sister, we're roommates."

"Oh! You're Joey's sister, he use to talk about you so much. He was always talking about you back at the duelist kingdom."

"Really?"

"Yeah, you were the whole reason he was in the tournament." Tea covered the smile on her face. "That and the fame he would be getting." All three girls exclaimed in laughter.

"Yep, that's my big brother Joey, the perfect role model."

"So? How is your brother?" Serenity's spirit seemed to dampen.

"I wouldn't really know." Mai leaned close to Tea so only she could hear.

"Joey's been missing for the past year, she's taking it rather hard,"

"I would too if my older sibling went missing." The two suddenly straightened up.

"So Tea? Where are you headed?"

"The airport,"

"Airport? How come?"

"Well, Kaiba sent me this funky invitation, supposedly Yugi and everybody will be there, why don't you come along, you are part of the gang after all!"

"I'm not sure if we should. Anyway, we would need tickets."

"It's on Kaiba's private jet, I don't think you need tickets, they can just call Kaiba and tell him I'm bringing two more of the gang. "

"You up for it Serenity? You can finally meet all of your big brothers friends?"

"Sure."

"All right then let's go." Tea gathered her things and the three girls went out of the diner."

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Just as Yugi was about to rip open the envelope from Kaiba there was a faint knock on the door. "Who could that be?" Yugi got up and when he did open it someone almost fell on him.

"Yug-"

"Joey?!"

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I have a few orders of business to attend to.

This is not a yaoi fic. Jeni Wheeler, that was really flattering. Special Message to Pharaoh's Queen. Just to let you know I have watched every American episode of Yu-Gi-Oh. I know about the Battle City Tournament and I know that Joey is currently dueling Mako Tsunami and I know that Kaiba just helped Yugi in a duel and as soon as Yugi knows his friends are safe he and Kaiba are going to duel! So if you don't mind use your imagination when reading this story. Just pretend that the Battle City Tournament never took place!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry, I lose my temper a lot.