oNote: In this story, I'll be using the dub names instead of the original, since most people know them more than their nihongo namae (Japanese names)

***Intermezzo*******

Chibi Varon: WAAAAAAAAAAII!!!! TSU-MA-NAI !!!! VARON TSUMANAI!!!!!

DDA: Onegai... Urasai... -_-;;

Chibi Marik: The mini cloning muse of DDA has finally started to rub off her back... Whatever that means...

Chibi Noa: *Whistles innocently*

Chibi Marik: -_- what did you do?

Chibi Noa: What? ^_^

Chibi Marik: Spill it.

Chibi Noa: Fine...-_- I screwed up Varon's genetic code while he was in the middle of his creating process...

Chibi Marik: Make sure you don't tell DDA =_=;;

Chibi Noa: I won't ^_^

Chibi Varon: Varon tsumanai!

DDA: CAN'T YOU SAY SOMETHING ELSE??!!!

Chibi Varon: Fine. Do you in any way have an ability to calibrate a character's personality matrix? Because in a way we all have a character inside, in which we need to control by using our hidden charismatic reaction that reacts to our most negative emotion. There.

DDA: O_O

~~blah blah blah~~= dream

[Thought]= thinking

******Intermezzo end*********************

~~"Onee-sama!!!!"

"Ki...rito..."

"Oneesama!! Shikarishite!! I'm going to get help now!!"

"Iie... Damme... Kirito, akiramenai"

"Oneesama...."

.........

"ONEESAMAA--"~~

"--AAAAA!!!"

Kana shouted as she wakes up from her dream. Her one arm stretched out into the air, her eyes wide open in fear while drenched in cold sweat. She softened expression, & relaxed her arms.

"Kuso... What the hell is with that dream?!"

She screamed to herself. She got up from her bed, & looked at her clock, which reads exactly 5:26am.

"Still early... Doshite watashi?"

With that, she got up & took a shower & drank an espresso.

AT SCHOOL....

"........"

"Harukaze..."

"............."

"Harukaze?"

"....................."

"HARUKAZE!!!!"

The coach shouted in her face. She looked up & saw her coach's weird stuck up, angry face, and stared at it for some, and...

"Yeah?"

She finally broke the moment of silence. The coach fell down anime style, & with a vein blinking on her head, shouted:

"HARUKAZE KANA!! CONCENTRATE ON THE LESSON!!! NOW GO TO TEAM A & PLAY BALL!!!!!"

Spit coming out of the coach's mouth, she just stared half-eyed & wiped her face, then proceeded with her instruction. Her opposing teams dribbled towards her, pass her, & went her way towards the ring. But when she was ready to shoot, she didn't have any ball to shoot...

"Looking for this?"

Kana said, while running towards her opponent's ring. Two girls faced her off; she passed them with a back turn & gave the ball to her comrade. She ran towards the ring, & as she reaches the two-point line, her comrade gave her the ball where she then dribbled backwards from the rest of her opponents & made her way for a three-point shot. She then went back for defense.

Te`a watched the play from the sides, & blinked at the new girl's performances.

[She's gonna have a lot of coaches running after her for her skill...]

She thought to herself. Sports ended, & the girls went back to each of their classes, likewise for the boys & their sports class. As a certain CEO sat in his seat, he looked next to him & saw that Harukaze wasn't in her seat, which was suppose to be next to him.

[Where is she...?]

Kaiba thought to himself.

MEANWHILE....

At the school's rooftop, a purple-blue haired girl lay down gazing at the white clouds above her, her arms behind her head, cushioning it. She then crossed her legs, put an open book over her face, & drifted off for a nap....

1/2 AN HOUR LATER....

Break time, to be exact.

"Hey Yugi, how about we have lunch at the school roof? The class is gettin' pretty crowded & I can't hear myself talk!!"

Joey suggested, getting up from his chair.

"Sure!! Hey guys, you 'coming?"

"Of course!"

They agreed, & made their way to the school roof. As they got there, they were greeted with a girl lying lazily with a book covering her face, peacefully napping.

"Damn, the place's taken"

Joey stated first & prepares to leave when...

RIIIIIIIIIINNNNNGG!!!!!!!

Goes the bell. But the girl didn't flinch; she just lay there, peaceful. Seeing this Yugi went up to her to wake her up, to inform her that class will start. He shook her raised elbow, but didn't wake up. He then took the book covering her face, in hopes of her waking up from the sudden brightness. But nothing worked.

"I think she's dead guys..."

Tristan stated.

"Naaah!!! You just need a way with waking her up. Watch & learn, Tristan"

With that, Joey grinned & bent down & gripped the girl's left *Chest*. Slowly, she woke up & saw a hand. A hand on her chest. A hand in which she scanned up to find it was a guy's. And did I mention that it was a hand on her chest?

(..............................)

*Glare*

(...................)

*Glare*

(..........)

*Glare*

(...)

Flocks of pigeons flew away, & the wind swayed against the tree's leaves, making the green leaves drop from its branch, from its cool, fresh atmosphere, giving the place a cold yet gentle breeze.

AT THE SCHOOL....

Student 1: Was that an earthquake?

Student 2: It definitely was... The window was shaking....

Random students: *Bickers about the 'earthquake'*

WHERE YUGI & CO. IS....

"I'm watching, but I'm not learning"

Tristen said, finally breaking the long silence. Joey lay on the ground, jaw opened wide & out of place, blood coming out from his mouth, not to mention he's trying to grip his stomach in pain, but failed to do so for his hands & arms are numb & wouldn't do what he commands. The girl gave him a final kick on his back, & left the "body" at the "scene".

"She had every right to do that though. Now Joey, listen from a girl, to a woman... Her body is a sacred & pure treasure; compare it with an angel & her wings. Understand?"

Te`a lectured the half-dead Joey.

"Big Brother, Te`a's right... you really messed up by waking her like that"

Serenity added.

"Not to mention, Women become extremely strong & frightening when facing things they don't like."

Duke also added. Te`a & Serenity glared at the raven-haired boy, & he stepped back from their fiery eyes. (Damn... Serenity's being OOC like that, dontcha think?^_^) With no choice, Tristan & Yugi dragged Joey's dissembled body back to class, Bakura, Duke, Serenity & Te`a following behind.

"You're back, huh?"

Seto said to Kana. After the words fell out of his mouth, he couldn't help but think [Where did that come from?] He didn't expect to get much answer from the cold, silent girl, but couldn't stop thinking about the strange feelings he's been getting whenever he's around her.

Or when she's not with him.

Yesterday, as soon as Kana left him, a rush of uneasiness flows through him. And the way she replied him, the way she turns her back, & the way she talks... Just makes her seem more closed, mysterious, unpredictable....

"So I am"

She finally said. Seto broke out from his thoughts, & looked at her. By now she's just looking at the board, resting her chin on her palm & just as he wanted to say something to her, the teacher came in.

AFTER SCHOOL.....

"Harukaze-san?"

"Hai...?"

Kana looked behind her, while passing by the tennis field to find a man wearing a tennis shirt with a whistle around his neck. Kana has already changed from her uniform to a plain shirt & a pair of brown canvas pants, with one of her hand in the pocket of her trench coat, & the other holding the school case.

"Harukaze-san, I want to make a proposal to you, I've seen the way you do sports, although it was only a brief moment. Please think about it, I want you to join our volleyball team"

"Sorry. I'm not interested"

With that, she left leaving the coach to remind to think it over. She walked on to exit the school, but was confronted by another coach, her gym teacher to be exact. She said the exact same thing, except she was proposing for the Basketball club, but Kana rejected like previously done.

"Did you see that?"

Joey said to Yugi & Tristan behind the walls. They all saw what has happened, & decided to follow & spy on her.

Well, JOEY wanted to spy on her.

Right, he still had something against her when she... "Massacred" him. Kana finally exited the school after 4 proposals from coaches & captains of different types of clubs, without realizing she was being followed. She walked on, & made her way to a flower shop & brought white roses.

"What do you suppose those are for?"

Yugi asked.

"Dunno, Yug. We just have to keep following her until we know"

Joey answered back. The cardinal red-eyed girl walked on through the streets of Domino, until she got a small shop. She brought a pack of cigarettes & a bottle of beer, & walked on to...

"Thi--This is the 'Dark Zone'!!"

Tristan said to Yugi & Joey.

"Wait. roses + cigarettes + beer+going through the dark side of Domino= She's got a "Meeting" here?!!"

Yugi & Tristan covered Joey's mouth & hid behind the walls, just as Kana looked behind her. Figuring it was nothing, she walked on with a couple of men offering some money for her so-called business, but she turned them all down coldly.

"She's not taking any of them... She's probably just going through to get to another place..."

"Yeah right Yug, what kind of girl would walk through this part of town just to get to where she goes with a bunch of roses, cigarettes & beer? Besides, maybe it's just because she already has an "Appointment" with someone else."

Joey replied Yugi. They kept following her, hiding behind each wall every time she turns her back. Yugi & Tristan sweat dropped with Joey's illusive moves [Joey could get a well pay job as a spy...] both of them thought. They kept following her until she made it to her destination.

The graveyard.

Kana went through the gates of the Hatogaya Domino Graveyard, while Joey shivered just at the sight of the place. Being a hardhead, he continued on his 'mission' & followed on the girl. Tristan & Yugi sighed, following him behind.

Kana made her way to the tombstone on the edge of the hill, where there lays the grave that faces the most beautiful scene of Domino, there you can see the city, where it was especially pretty at night. Unfortunately, it's a graveyard, so not much people likes watching the scenery here.

"Sashiburidanna... ne? It's getting pretty cold too..."

Kana spoke to the tombstone. She lay down the flowers on the grave, & took out the cigarette she just brought.

"Once a year on this day, right? Here, smoke all you can, in replacement of the incense burner this is better, don't you think?"

With that, she took out a piece of cigarette, lit it up & smoked it once. Afterwards she placed the inhale part of the cigarette on the bowl of soil that's supposed to be where the incense burner is placed. She then took a piece for herself & smoked, & at the same time took out the beer, opened it & poured 3/4 of it on the tombstone.

"And this is for replacement of the water I should've poured on instead. And it's your favorite type too, just to warm up. Like I said, it's getting cold, don't you think?"

She said, smiling sadly yet mockingly. She took the cigarette from her mouth, & drank some the remaining beer. She inhaled the cigarette again, & smoked out the smoke of her cigarette while staring at the tombstone, not looking at the scenery behind it.

"Kaze ni natte mori wo kakete
Ame ni natte kawa wo kudari
Kaze ga kawaru
Mata ashita..."

She sang, in a lullaby-like tune.

"That's what you sang me before... It still helps me every time I sing it"

She said, smiling mockingly at the tombstone again. She then finally got up & left, & gave the rest of the cigarettes & the beer to the old man who takes care of the graveyard, where he took it happily.

"I guess that explains the whole thing, happy now Joey?"

"Yeah, I guess so Yug..."

After watching what she did, Yugi & Joey was about to leave when...

"Umm... Guys? Come here & please tell me you're not reading what I'm reading on the tombstone of the grave Harukaze just visited..."

Yugi & Joey went up to the tombstone where Kana just visited, while looking at a very scared & disturbed Tristan. As they looked at the tombstone, they also froze & looked as disturbed as Tristan, for the writing on the tombstone, neatly & beautifuly carved on it was....

Harukaze Kanna
1978 - 2000

"Guys...."

(....................)

(.............)

(......)

(...)

"She's..."

And all together, they said out loud.

"She's dead....."

******Randomness************************

DDA: Phew....That was a hell of a long chapter...

Chibi Noa: Mou, so Kana is actually dead?

DDA: I'm. Not. Telling. ^_^

Chibi Noa: -_-

****Randomness end*****

VOCABULARY

Iie, damme: No, don't

Gommenasai: Sorry

Shikarishite: Be steady/Hang on

Kuso: Damn

Doshite watashi?: Why me?

Oneesama: Sister

...San: Ms, Mr, Mrs

Hai: yes

Sashiburidanna...Ne?: It's been a long time...Huh?

Akiramenai: Don't give up

Hatogaya Domino Graveyard: The hatogaya means dove

The long words ^Above^:

Be the wind, run in the forest
be the rain, follow the river's flow
The winds will change
& see you the next day

Aren't I poetic? ^_^ It's a weird lullaby that I made up... Making it up in Japanese is easy, but when it's translated in English it didn't make sense so it took me a while to get the English grammar right.