~*~ A Lily Amongst Daisies, Will Bloom and Grow~*~
Author's Note: Have you guys decided if you think adding magic is a good idea? =P Ai Akadia *********************************************************************
:: RING RING ::
The bell had gone and the whole class stormed like a herd of ruthless bison. Yuri remained sitting in her seat thinking; "What an earth do they think they accomplish by stampeding like that?"
"I'll be right back you lot stay here" said Miss. Blunt who had walked out and shut the door behind her. "Lot?" questioned Yuri in her mind. Then she noticed, Jema and Sami had remained behind. "Why are you guys here?" Yuri asked sweetly. "Yuri-Chan speaks" said Sami in a happy tone, "I'm Sami Keshi by the way. Nice to meet you". "And I'm Jema Matsu" said the other girl. "Hi! I'm Yuri Akari. I thought everyone in this class hated me. Thanks for being nice" Yuri said politely. "We're being us as we are. And yeah, they probably do hate you... They don't like us either" Jema said. "They don't like what's better and different. Which is a shame because there are only a small handful of us" added Sami. "That was the same story in my old school. All the nice people left and there were only a few. In the end it was just me" Yuri replied. "Well let's make us a threesome" Jema said excitedly. "Three new friends in this evil place" added Sami, as she put her hand over Jema's. Yuri smiled brightly as she put her hand over Sami's, "Deal" she said happily. "I didn't think I'd make any friends here, especially not on my first day" Yuri said after they dispersed their hands. "On the first day is when the people either join the good side or the bad side. And unfortunately they join the bad side all the time" Sami said. "But you didn't" Jema interrupted. All three girls smiled.
"If you three are going to continue with this female bonding, then would you mind getting me a bucket first?" said a cold and mean voice from behind them.
Yuri jumped around while Jema and Sami didn't even flinch. "Get your own bucket Kaiba, you spoilt baby" replied Jema simply. "We're sure you can afford yourself one" Sami added on. Meanwhile Yuri had just noticed who it was. "Oh, are you the boy everyone talks about?" questioned Yuri innocently. "Man" Seto corrected briskly. And when he did, a short burst of laughter came from Jema and Sami. "Not a man but a mouse" corrected Sami, as they laughed and Yuri cracked a smile. "Why are you here?" asked Yuri again. "Unfortunately we somehow got placed together" replied Seto. Yuri had a puzzled look on her face, "Placed?" she questioned. "No one told you?" asked Jema. "No one tells me anything" replied Yuri. "We have our own class duelling team. The names get picked at random. There should be four in a team, but the girl who was in our team dropped out and joined another class's team so we were one short. When Miss. Blunt knew you were transferring she saved the place for you" Jema informed Yuri. "She said we needed more good people. She's a really nice teacher" Sami added. Yuri smiled, "Schools need more of her. She's really lovely" she said. At that moment the door opened and in walked Miss. Blunt, "I take it you told her by now?" she asked freely. "Yeah we did miss" Sami said. "While having a bonding session" grumbled Seto under his breath, which Miss. Blunt just shook her head at and ignored. "Right, well you'll need a deck Yuri..." and before Miss. Blunt could finish the sentence, Yuri interrupted insecurely. "I have a deck... With me. I take it around because I tend to draw a lot and use them for ideas". At this Seto looked at Yuri, he didn't expect her to have a deck at all, let alone be into duelling. Normally his assumptions of people were correct but this time it failed him, something he didn't particularly like.
"That's great! Do you know how to duel?" asked Miss. Blunt. "Well I dulled with my friend back home. I'm not a great strategist and I don't know some good combo moves... But I know how to duel" replied Yuri. "That's okay. Seto is an exceptional dueller, I'm sure you know of him. And Yugi Moto is master. I'll get them to help you out" Miss. Blunt kindly said. But Seto was outraged. Him, exceptional! And Yugi a master?! Those just didn't go together. Miss. Blunt saw the look on Seto's face and smiled. "Well you four have some friendly matches while I go and get Yugi and Joey" she said leaving again. "Not the dog boy" Seto mumbled. "Dog boy?" questioned Yuri, who heard him. "You have exceptional hearing. Maybe you're his companion" retorted Seto. "Leave her alone Kaiba" Jema began. "Who wants to duel first?" Seto said switching the subject. "I will" Sami said. "You can go after Yuri. I'd like to see what she has" Seto said as he got out his cards and giving them to Yuri to shuffle. Yuri smiled weakly and shuffled them and then returned them to their owner. She then got her deck out of a pretty little box and gave them to Seto, and in turn he shuffled them, and then returned them. "Okay, let's make it simple. One thousand life points each" he said egotistically. Yuri looked at him with a confused frown, "I really don't need that..." she began as Seto cut her off. "With a master like me I think you will need this. Now draw five" he inserted. At this Yuri gave him a blank stare, "I do know what to do" she coldly said as he smirked in doubt.
With all this going on, no one apart from Jema and Sami noticed Miss. Blunt, Yugi and Joey walk in quietly.
Seto and Yuri both drew their cards. Seto drew his Blue Eyes White Dragon, two trap cards and two magic cards. On the other had Yuri drew her beloved Curse of Dragon card, followed by Ansatsu, Koumori Dragon and Ancient Elf. Her last card was the Dark Hole magic card.
Yuri was trying to hide her joy, not that Seto would have noticed. He was too busy wallowing in his gigantic ego. And since he was doing that Yuri thought she might as well bring him down to Earth. "Who goes first?" she asked sweetly. Seto looked up at her with his 'I'm going to beat you' smirk, "Seeing as you're the newcomer I'll let you go first" he said. "So that means I can attack you?" she asked, playing dumb. "If you have a card strong enough" replied Seto in doubt. "But if I did, then I'd be attacking your life points" Yuri said. At that Seto laughed menacingly, "Haha! I think I can manage" he answered. "If you say so. But I really don't know what card to choose. They're all so cute" said Yuri shrugging her shoulders. As she said that she got strange looks, mostly from Seto.
Yuri's urge to use her Curse of Dragon card was immense. She loved that card amongst others and she really wanted to thrash Seto. But she knew there would be an even better day for the Curse of Dragon to shine with all of its power and glory. So it was between skilled and sleek Ansatsu, adorable dark Koumori Dragon and cute handsome Ancient Elf. "My two handsome guys, you'll have your turn later. Right now it's dragon power" she said to herself as she took the Koumori Dragon in her right hand, away from the others. "We don't have all day you know" Seto said coldly. "I'm sorry. I'm not good with choices. But I've made one!" Yuri said happily. "I choose the cute Koumori Dragon! And I also attack your life points directly!" Chanted Yuri as she placed the card face-up on the table. "I do believe you have no more life points Mr. Kaiba" Yuri said in a teasing, informing and slightly sarcastic voice. Everyone looked at Seto's face, which was priceless. His jaw would have hit the floor if it could have. "Such a Kodak moment" Yuri said as she burst into giggles.
"Woohoo For the new girl!" yelled Joey as he clapped. And of course when Seto noticed Yugi and Joey were standing there the entire time he could have dropped into oblivion. "You shouldn't underestimate people Kaiba" Miss. Blunt said with a smile. "I was being nice" grunted Seto. "Oh please! You don't know the meaning of nice" attacked Jema. Seto glared at her. Yuri thought she saw a hurt expression from Seto for a split second. But she definitely didn't want to start anything so she just set it aside.
After the duel, which deserved an entry in the record books, Miss. Blunt introduced everyone and informed them of practise dates. "The classes have matches against each other to see who wins. Then the winners go on to face the others and so on and so forth. Until you get to the final. The winners from the final go on to the school duels. Those are matches from other schools in the area. And then it goes from there" She said until finally telling them they could leave. "I will see you all on Monday. Have a good weekend. Oh and I want you six to get together over the weekend. See if you can discuss some strategies" Miss. Blunt added. "We will miss" Yugi replied as all of them said bye to the teacher and walked out of the classroom and down the corridor.
"When shall we meet over the weekend?" Yugi asked. "Oh... Um well you guys can come around my house tomorrow if you want. We've just got nearly everything placed where it should be. And mum was inviting some people around for a house warming barbeque. So it's no trouble for us" Yuri said uncertainly. "Uuu! Barbeque! Yum! I'm coming!" Jema said energetically. "Count me in!" Sami agreed. "Sure we'll come" Joey said tapping Yugi on the back.
Everyone was looking at Seto to say something. When he realised he turned his head to face them. "I'll have to bring Mokuba. I promised tomorrow I'd spend the day with him" he said coldly. "Wow he actually knows how to care about something in his life" Yuri thought to herself. "Bring him along!" She said happily to Seto, "There's a boy who's around eleven who lives with his mother next to us. So he'll have company" she added. "Well then it's set. What time and where?" Sami asked. "It starts at one in the afternoon but if you want to come earlier you can. And it's on Blossom Avenue. The Heiwa Shrine" Yuri answered as there were a few gasps. "You moved into the Heiwa Shrine?" Jema said with a surprised look. "Yes. It's really amazing and beautiful. There's four acres of Cherry, Peach and Apple trees and..." Yuri began as Sami interrupted, "And a lake with swans. Not mentioning the Zen garden at the front. Even the paths are pretty!" she said softly. "Yeah, how do you know?" Yuri asked. "Oh we used to go there. A lot of people still do. They buy the charms and home made goodies that the people used to sell over there. I haven't been there for a bit. I don't know why" replied Sami. "Sensei Takashi told us that he and his wife did that. We promised we'd carry on the tradition" replied Yuri. "My granddad is good friends with Sensei Takashi, they moved to Shinji Temple not far from here" said Yugi, "Anyway, I promised Grandfather I'd unpack the new things for the shop so I'll see you all tomorrow!" he added as he waved and ran down the corridor and out of the doors.
The group of five continued on walking down the corridor and eventually out of the same doors that Yugi ran out of. As they got out they saw a long black limousine which was obviously there for a certain rich arrogant kid, namely Seto. "Tomorrow it is" he said coldly as he stepped into the limo. The driver who was holding the door for him went back into the driver's seat and drove off. "His manners are impeccable" Joey said sarcastically, "Well I guess I'll see you girls tomorrow. Bye!" he added as he walked off down the road. "Ah the peace" Sami said closing her eyes and turning her head up to the sky. "Yeah, now that the boys have gone" Jema replied with a laugh. "Shall we go for a hot chocolate in town?" Sami asked, bringing her head back down. "Okay" replied Yuri, "But I have to get some food for tomorrow as well" she added. "That's fine with us" Jema said as she linked arms with Yuri on one side and Sami on the other as all three walked off towards the town.
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That's the end of chapter 2. Slightly slow start I know. But you need to have an introduction no mater how boring it is. But I promise it will get more exciting V soon! And the hostility between Yuri and Seto's girlfriend might just lead to someone being in hospital..... Oh no! Will someone die?
Like I'm going to tell you! =P You just have to read!
Ai Akadia!
P.S
V = very
Author's Note: Have you guys decided if you think adding magic is a good idea? =P Ai Akadia *********************************************************************
:: RING RING ::
The bell had gone and the whole class stormed like a herd of ruthless bison. Yuri remained sitting in her seat thinking; "What an earth do they think they accomplish by stampeding like that?"
"I'll be right back you lot stay here" said Miss. Blunt who had walked out and shut the door behind her. "Lot?" questioned Yuri in her mind. Then she noticed, Jema and Sami had remained behind. "Why are you guys here?" Yuri asked sweetly. "Yuri-Chan speaks" said Sami in a happy tone, "I'm Sami Keshi by the way. Nice to meet you". "And I'm Jema Matsu" said the other girl. "Hi! I'm Yuri Akari. I thought everyone in this class hated me. Thanks for being nice" Yuri said politely. "We're being us as we are. And yeah, they probably do hate you... They don't like us either" Jema said. "They don't like what's better and different. Which is a shame because there are only a small handful of us" added Sami. "That was the same story in my old school. All the nice people left and there were only a few. In the end it was just me" Yuri replied. "Well let's make us a threesome" Jema said excitedly. "Three new friends in this evil place" added Sami, as she put her hand over Jema's. Yuri smiled brightly as she put her hand over Sami's, "Deal" she said happily. "I didn't think I'd make any friends here, especially not on my first day" Yuri said after they dispersed their hands. "On the first day is when the people either join the good side or the bad side. And unfortunately they join the bad side all the time" Sami said. "But you didn't" Jema interrupted. All three girls smiled.
"If you three are going to continue with this female bonding, then would you mind getting me a bucket first?" said a cold and mean voice from behind them.
Yuri jumped around while Jema and Sami didn't even flinch. "Get your own bucket Kaiba, you spoilt baby" replied Jema simply. "We're sure you can afford yourself one" Sami added on. Meanwhile Yuri had just noticed who it was. "Oh, are you the boy everyone talks about?" questioned Yuri innocently. "Man" Seto corrected briskly. And when he did, a short burst of laughter came from Jema and Sami. "Not a man but a mouse" corrected Sami, as they laughed and Yuri cracked a smile. "Why are you here?" asked Yuri again. "Unfortunately we somehow got placed together" replied Seto. Yuri had a puzzled look on her face, "Placed?" she questioned. "No one told you?" asked Jema. "No one tells me anything" replied Yuri. "We have our own class duelling team. The names get picked at random. There should be four in a team, but the girl who was in our team dropped out and joined another class's team so we were one short. When Miss. Blunt knew you were transferring she saved the place for you" Jema informed Yuri. "She said we needed more good people. She's a really nice teacher" Sami added. Yuri smiled, "Schools need more of her. She's really lovely" she said. At that moment the door opened and in walked Miss. Blunt, "I take it you told her by now?" she asked freely. "Yeah we did miss" Sami said. "While having a bonding session" grumbled Seto under his breath, which Miss. Blunt just shook her head at and ignored. "Right, well you'll need a deck Yuri..." and before Miss. Blunt could finish the sentence, Yuri interrupted insecurely. "I have a deck... With me. I take it around because I tend to draw a lot and use them for ideas". At this Seto looked at Yuri, he didn't expect her to have a deck at all, let alone be into duelling. Normally his assumptions of people were correct but this time it failed him, something he didn't particularly like.
"That's great! Do you know how to duel?" asked Miss. Blunt. "Well I dulled with my friend back home. I'm not a great strategist and I don't know some good combo moves... But I know how to duel" replied Yuri. "That's okay. Seto is an exceptional dueller, I'm sure you know of him. And Yugi Moto is master. I'll get them to help you out" Miss. Blunt kindly said. But Seto was outraged. Him, exceptional! And Yugi a master?! Those just didn't go together. Miss. Blunt saw the look on Seto's face and smiled. "Well you four have some friendly matches while I go and get Yugi and Joey" she said leaving again. "Not the dog boy" Seto mumbled. "Dog boy?" questioned Yuri, who heard him. "You have exceptional hearing. Maybe you're his companion" retorted Seto. "Leave her alone Kaiba" Jema began. "Who wants to duel first?" Seto said switching the subject. "I will" Sami said. "You can go after Yuri. I'd like to see what she has" Seto said as he got out his cards and giving them to Yuri to shuffle. Yuri smiled weakly and shuffled them and then returned them to their owner. She then got her deck out of a pretty little box and gave them to Seto, and in turn he shuffled them, and then returned them. "Okay, let's make it simple. One thousand life points each" he said egotistically. Yuri looked at him with a confused frown, "I really don't need that..." she began as Seto cut her off. "With a master like me I think you will need this. Now draw five" he inserted. At this Yuri gave him a blank stare, "I do know what to do" she coldly said as he smirked in doubt.
With all this going on, no one apart from Jema and Sami noticed Miss. Blunt, Yugi and Joey walk in quietly.
Seto and Yuri both drew their cards. Seto drew his Blue Eyes White Dragon, two trap cards and two magic cards. On the other had Yuri drew her beloved Curse of Dragon card, followed by Ansatsu, Koumori Dragon and Ancient Elf. Her last card was the Dark Hole magic card.
Yuri was trying to hide her joy, not that Seto would have noticed. He was too busy wallowing in his gigantic ego. And since he was doing that Yuri thought she might as well bring him down to Earth. "Who goes first?" she asked sweetly. Seto looked up at her with his 'I'm going to beat you' smirk, "Seeing as you're the newcomer I'll let you go first" he said. "So that means I can attack you?" she asked, playing dumb. "If you have a card strong enough" replied Seto in doubt. "But if I did, then I'd be attacking your life points" Yuri said. At that Seto laughed menacingly, "Haha! I think I can manage" he answered. "If you say so. But I really don't know what card to choose. They're all so cute" said Yuri shrugging her shoulders. As she said that she got strange looks, mostly from Seto.
Yuri's urge to use her Curse of Dragon card was immense. She loved that card amongst others and she really wanted to thrash Seto. But she knew there would be an even better day for the Curse of Dragon to shine with all of its power and glory. So it was between skilled and sleek Ansatsu, adorable dark Koumori Dragon and cute handsome Ancient Elf. "My two handsome guys, you'll have your turn later. Right now it's dragon power" she said to herself as she took the Koumori Dragon in her right hand, away from the others. "We don't have all day you know" Seto said coldly. "I'm sorry. I'm not good with choices. But I've made one!" Yuri said happily. "I choose the cute Koumori Dragon! And I also attack your life points directly!" Chanted Yuri as she placed the card face-up on the table. "I do believe you have no more life points Mr. Kaiba" Yuri said in a teasing, informing and slightly sarcastic voice. Everyone looked at Seto's face, which was priceless. His jaw would have hit the floor if it could have. "Such a Kodak moment" Yuri said as she burst into giggles.
"Woohoo For the new girl!" yelled Joey as he clapped. And of course when Seto noticed Yugi and Joey were standing there the entire time he could have dropped into oblivion. "You shouldn't underestimate people Kaiba" Miss. Blunt said with a smile. "I was being nice" grunted Seto. "Oh please! You don't know the meaning of nice" attacked Jema. Seto glared at her. Yuri thought she saw a hurt expression from Seto for a split second. But she definitely didn't want to start anything so she just set it aside.
After the duel, which deserved an entry in the record books, Miss. Blunt introduced everyone and informed them of practise dates. "The classes have matches against each other to see who wins. Then the winners go on to face the others and so on and so forth. Until you get to the final. The winners from the final go on to the school duels. Those are matches from other schools in the area. And then it goes from there" She said until finally telling them they could leave. "I will see you all on Monday. Have a good weekend. Oh and I want you six to get together over the weekend. See if you can discuss some strategies" Miss. Blunt added. "We will miss" Yugi replied as all of them said bye to the teacher and walked out of the classroom and down the corridor.
"When shall we meet over the weekend?" Yugi asked. "Oh... Um well you guys can come around my house tomorrow if you want. We've just got nearly everything placed where it should be. And mum was inviting some people around for a house warming barbeque. So it's no trouble for us" Yuri said uncertainly. "Uuu! Barbeque! Yum! I'm coming!" Jema said energetically. "Count me in!" Sami agreed. "Sure we'll come" Joey said tapping Yugi on the back.
Everyone was looking at Seto to say something. When he realised he turned his head to face them. "I'll have to bring Mokuba. I promised tomorrow I'd spend the day with him" he said coldly. "Wow he actually knows how to care about something in his life" Yuri thought to herself. "Bring him along!" She said happily to Seto, "There's a boy who's around eleven who lives with his mother next to us. So he'll have company" she added. "Well then it's set. What time and where?" Sami asked. "It starts at one in the afternoon but if you want to come earlier you can. And it's on Blossom Avenue. The Heiwa Shrine" Yuri answered as there were a few gasps. "You moved into the Heiwa Shrine?" Jema said with a surprised look. "Yes. It's really amazing and beautiful. There's four acres of Cherry, Peach and Apple trees and..." Yuri began as Sami interrupted, "And a lake with swans. Not mentioning the Zen garden at the front. Even the paths are pretty!" she said softly. "Yeah, how do you know?" Yuri asked. "Oh we used to go there. A lot of people still do. They buy the charms and home made goodies that the people used to sell over there. I haven't been there for a bit. I don't know why" replied Sami. "Sensei Takashi told us that he and his wife did that. We promised we'd carry on the tradition" replied Yuri. "My granddad is good friends with Sensei Takashi, they moved to Shinji Temple not far from here" said Yugi, "Anyway, I promised Grandfather I'd unpack the new things for the shop so I'll see you all tomorrow!" he added as he waved and ran down the corridor and out of the doors.
The group of five continued on walking down the corridor and eventually out of the same doors that Yugi ran out of. As they got out they saw a long black limousine which was obviously there for a certain rich arrogant kid, namely Seto. "Tomorrow it is" he said coldly as he stepped into the limo. The driver who was holding the door for him went back into the driver's seat and drove off. "His manners are impeccable" Joey said sarcastically, "Well I guess I'll see you girls tomorrow. Bye!" he added as he walked off down the road. "Ah the peace" Sami said closing her eyes and turning her head up to the sky. "Yeah, now that the boys have gone" Jema replied with a laugh. "Shall we go for a hot chocolate in town?" Sami asked, bringing her head back down. "Okay" replied Yuri, "But I have to get some food for tomorrow as well" she added. "That's fine with us" Jema said as she linked arms with Yuri on one side and Sami on the other as all three walked off towards the town.
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That's the end of chapter 2. Slightly slow start I know. But you need to have an introduction no mater how boring it is. But I promise it will get more exciting V soon! And the hostility between Yuri and Seto's girlfriend might just lead to someone being in hospital..... Oh no! Will someone die?
Like I'm going to tell you! =P You just have to read!
Ai Akadia!
P.S
V = very