Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh.

The Gift of Love
By: She Wolf Demon

Chapter One:
The New Girl

It early afternoon, the burning hot sun shone on the black pavement of Domino High School. Everything was going on as usual the uniformed students walked to their classes or stood out front of their classes conversing with other students.

Freshmen Joey, and Yugi were sitting at their desks dueling in class because they had been given a free day in class. Tea, Tristan and Ryou Bakura were watching them duel interestedly. Seto Kaiba was sitting at his own desk thinking of a new dueling strategy that he could use to defeat Yugi in their next tough duel.

The teacher who had gone out into the hall to speak with the principal came in the room and a young girl followed him.

"Students I would like to introduce you to our new student Jade. She just came here to this school and she is currently living with our student Seto Kaiba. Please make her feel welcome."

Jade was about the same height as Ryou, slender, she was wearing the school uniform, her hair was dark brown and layered and her eyes were an amazing jade green.

"Excuse me sir, but were do I sit?" Jade asked with a voice that was sweeter than honey.

"Um, Ryou raise your hand."

Ryou raised his hand kind of shyly; he was trying not to stare at the new girl.

"Take that seat right next to Ryou, please." The teacher said.

Jade nodded her head and then walked over to the seat right next to Ryou and sat in it. She then looked around the room and saw Joey and Yugi dueling.

"Hey do you like Duel Monsters?" Joey asked after a few minutes.

"Why, yes I do happen to like Duel Monsters." Jade said reaching into her pocket and pulling out a deck.

"Just out of curiosity why are you living with Kaiba?" Yugi suddenly asked.

"Well my older sister in Egypt has known him for a long time. Since my parents died she wanted to take care of me but could not afford to send me to Egypt and she did not like the idea of my going to school in Egypt. So she asked Seto if I could stay with him and he agreed." Jade explained.

"That sounds very nice of Kaiba." Tea said taking a quick glance at Seto Kaiba.

"You guys maybe we should introduce ourselves before we start huge conversations." Ryou said.

"Oh, yea, I'm Joey."

"Hi. I'm Yugi."

"Hello. My name is Tea."

"Tristan's the name."

"Hi, I'm very pleased to meet you my name is Ryou."

"I am very pleased to meet all of you of course. It is so great to have so many friends already." Jade said smiling happily.

"We have lunch next. Would you like to join us?" Yugi asked nicely.

"Yes of course I would, I would love to have lunch with you all." Jade said.

"What are your classes?" Ryou asked blushing slightly.

"World Geography, Choir, I.P.C., lunch, Dance 1, English 1, and Algebra 1." Jade said after taking a quick glance at her schedule.

"Neat we have World Geography, English and Algebra together." Ryou said before he started to go red again.

"Hey what about I.P.C. and lunch? Why did you leave those out?" Joey asked.

"You moron. WE are in I.P.C. and you just said that you were going to have lunch with her." Seto said.

"Seto can't you be nice for a single moment." Jade said a little defensively.

"Whatever." Seto said turning around in his desk.

"Wow. Jade you just stood up to Kaiba. Hardly anyone has enough courage to do that." Tea said in awe.

"Yea most people who stand up to Kaiba get themselves told off or beaten up pretty bad." Said Tristan.

"For one thing his name is Seto. Kaiba is his last name, when you say it you could be referring to Mokuba. Standing up to Seto isn't so hard when you live with the guy." Jade said as if it was nothing at all.

"Whatever." Tristan said glancing at the clock after his stomach growled. "I can't wait until lunch. I am starving."

"We still have a while." Said Yugi making an impressive combo lowering Joey's life points.

"I duel winner." Jade said quickly.

"You are going to get your butt kicked, Joey came second place at Duelist Kingdom and Yugi made first." Tea said.

"I'll take those odds." Jade said simply and shuffling her deck at the same time.