Disclaimers: I don't own Yu-gi-oh, but the characters 'Neko' and 'Nataku' belong to me and my friend.
Millennium Shades
Eventually their wandering led them to Kaiba Land, a place for the general public to enjoy Kaiba's holographic dueling arenas.
"Hey, do you guys duel?" Yuugi asked the two girls.
"Yeah, a little," Neko said, casting Nataku a slight grin.
"You two want to duel? Just a friendly duel of course," Yuugi invited.
"Yeah right," Jou said. "Don' let his innocent look fool ya. Yuugi here won the Duelist Kingdom tournament!"
"Really?" Nataku asked. "Way to go."
"Thanks," Yuugi said blushing a little, "But Jou-kun is a good duelist too. He made second place in duelist Kingdom." Jou grinned.
"Well natural-"
"You're kidding, right?" Nataku asked.
"Hey! What's that supposed to mean?!" Jou demanded as Honda held him back. "I'm a great duelist!"
Nataku looked at him. "Really." she said in obvious disbelief.
"Well why don't you show her what a good duelist you are," Neko suggested. All looked at her. "You can duel Nataku and I'll duel Yuugi-kun."
Jou seemed to consider the idea for a minute before agreeing. Yuugi too agreed.
"I was thinking we could double duel, but two singles are fine with me."
"Alright then. Let's see if we can't get a dueling arena. Have you two ever dueled in one of those before?" Honda asked. The Americans both shook their heads.
"Then you're in for a treat! Kaiba-san's arenas practically bring the duel monsters to life!" Yuugi said happily as they entered Kaiba Land.
After promptly running into Mokuba (and with a great deal of his help), the group was able to secure an arena for their duels.
"So who's up first? Yuugi-kun and Neko-san or Jou-kun and Nataku-san?" Anzu asked.
"I don't care either way," Yuugi said, being perfectly amiable while Jou's only comment was "I'm ready whenever she is."
The decision left to them, the two girls looked at each other. "Coin toss?" Neko suggested. "Loser goes first." Nataku nodded assent and Neko reached into her pocket, pulling out a large handful of change and presenting it to Nataku. Nataku fished out a 100-yen piece and Neko dumped the rest back into her pocket.
"Call it." Nataku said, flipping the coin.
"Heads."
"Tails. You go first."
"Rats!" Neko stuck out her tongue, but pulled out her deck and made her way to her side of the arena as Yuugi did the same. "Don't worry Nataku! I'll make this as short as I can," she called back smirking.
Jou started snickering. "I don't know what kind of duelists you had back home, but Yuugi won the Duelist Kingdom tournament. He's one of the best! This isn't gonna be no walk in the park for you."
Neko glared at him with a small smile. "Alright, Jou-kun. You owe me a duel," and turned back to face Yuugi without another word.
"You keep diggin' the hole deeper," Nataku muttered, shaking her head.
"Wha?"
"Never mind. Just watch and see what you're in for."
"You can go first, Yuugi-kun."
"You sure Neko-san?" She nodded. "Okay, I'll try to go a little easy on you at first."
"Whatever you say," was all she said, though she shook her head as well.
"Alright." Yuugi drew his first hand only to gape in amazement. "I know I said I'd go easy, but this is ridiculous! Oh well; I'll put the Celtic Guardian in attack mode and end my turn. Your move."
"How could you?!" Yuugi looked up shocked, as did everyone else except Nataku, who was used to this kind of thing. "How you put the Celtic Guardian in such a vulnerable position?! You're just doing this to make me feel bad aren't you?" Neko continued as she drew her cards, frowning at the results. "You guys aren't helping either!" she said, apparently to her deck.
"I'm so sorry Celtic Guardian! I play Nekogal #2, equipped with Black Pendant," the already 1900 attack monster was raised to 2400, "and… I'm sorry! …attack your monster!" The cat-girl on the field carried out its orders and Neko whined as Yuugi's Celtic Guardian disintegrated and Yuugi's life points fell from 2000 to 1000. " Wai! This is horrible! At least when it's just cards you can't see them getting destroyed! I'm sorry Celtic Guardian! I place a magic card face down and end my turn. * sniff * Your move."
There were blinks all around, though whether they were more for Neko's behavior or at the fact that Yuugi was already down by half his life points was up for debate. After a moment, Neko again reminded Yuugi that it was his turn.
"Oh! Yeah, right." He drew his card and smiled. "Alright! He's never let me down before! I play the Dark Magician in attack mode!"
"Noo! Not again!" Neko wailed, biting her lip. "Summoning him activated my Trap Hole. You're so mean!" she said as the magician was destroyed.
"He's not going down that easy! I play Monster Reborn!" Yuugi played the card from his hand and the Dark Magician reappeared. "Now, Dark Magician, attack her Nekogal!" The magician attacked, the cat-girl was destroyed, Neko's Life Points dropped by 100 and Yuugi's dropped by 500."
"Huh? What happened there?!" Jou asked.
"The Black Pendant she was equipped with. It inflicts 500 direct damage when it's sent to the graveyard," Neko informed him.
"I guess that ends my turn. Your move," Yuugi said.
Neko drew her card, and looked at the card and her deck several times before starting to laugh. "You're not being very nice today," she admonished her deck. "Ah, well. I've learned to listen to you so I'll do it, mean as it is. I play my Dark Magician, in attack mode, and equip him with a Malevolent Nuzzler. And, as much as I hate it, Dark'll attack your Dark Magician." Neko's Dark did as he was bidden and took out both Yuuigi's magician and the rest of his life points. The arena was quiet for the next few seconds.
"That's it? It's over?" Honda marveled.
"Wow," was all Anzu could manage.
"I don't believe it," Jou muttered.
"Che, over already? You went much too easy on me! Or maybe my deck was just too eager for a decent duel," Neko turned to said cards, "weren't ya?" She picked up her deck and made her way out of the dueling area, praising her deck for the win.
"Seesh, is she always like that?" Jou asked.
"Yep, but you can see the results she gets," Nataku affirmed. "We're up," she reminded him.
"Alright, alright. Don't expect me to go easy on you though!" Jou answered as the two took their places and prepared to duel.
Notes: Yay! Chapter four! Finally. Would this count as a cliff? I know the duel is ridiculously short, but duels are hard to write! Too much to keep track of! And I have to write another one next! Bleah! Ah well, I already have it plotted, I just have to write it out, so chapter 5 shouldn't take too long. Anyway, please review and tell me what you liked or didn't like.