R.J: All right everybody, I'm real sad about something now but not to
worry! I will write more, this is the only place where I can smile. Hehe!
Yami: Oh, you still upset about that?
R.J: Yes! Now o-
Yugi: Don't take it to hard, you probably needed more training.
R.J: I'm trying to forget about that now you know.....
Yami: Oh okay.
Kaiba: So what happens in this chapter?
R.J: Stuff happens, (sighs) I'm in no mood....who wants to do the disclaimer?
Bakura(h): I can do it for you.
R.J: Knock yourself out.
Bakura: Yugi-oh and all related materials such as characters names and the TCG do not belong to her. Yati yati ya.
R.J: Thanks. Okay guys hope you all enjoy. -_-
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The whole table was quiet. Everyone stared at Yugi. He could feel his face turning redder and redder by the minute. Yami was inside his little "soul room" whistling incoherently, acting like nothing had happened.
"Duel monsters? Nice aim Yugi." Tea thought to herself.
Then came the reply.
"Well, yeah, sure I do!" Ayane smiled.
"You do?" Joey asked.
"Yeah, I have an okay deck, I've won some inter-school tournaments before too." She answered.
"Wow, you must really be good." Tristan exclaimed.
"Let's duel then!" Joey said, standing up and almost knocking the table down.
"Hold up Joey, I think Yugi was the one who brought up the subject." Tea pointed out.
"No, it's okay I don't mind at all." Yugi said, relieved everyone had forgotten about what he did.
"Alright!" Joey said. This was his chance to prove to Ayane that he was a "man" and better than Kaiba.
"Sure, let's do it." She said.
They set up their game mats (c'mon you wouldn't really think there would be a ring or duel disks in school would you?) and they shuffled their decks. (For everybody's info, I do play duel monsters, and I do okay so I know what I'm talking about.) Then, with calculators in hand, (how do they calculate their life points anyway? I use a calculator hehehe.) Ayane won the coin toss so she chose to go second.
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R.J: Yet another interruption! Haha!
Yami: Wow you're laughing now!
R.J.: Right, I feel better, anyway, so about the duel, I'm not going to add lots and lots and lots and lots of details because.... I dunno why, just deal with it.
Yugi: Do you really duel?
R.J: Yah..... me and my sister both.
Kaiba: Which deck?
R.J: I have your starter deck, and I mixed up some booster packs.
Joey: Why didn't you get my starter deck?
R.J: No offense Joey but your deck doesn't suit my style.
Kaiba: Naturally his deck won't fit ANY humans' style.
Joey: Kaiba.....(grits teeth.)
R.J: Oh okaee...... So I'll just save you the dead space of argument. On with the story.
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"Dark Witch, destroy his card." Ayane said. With that Joey's life points were reduced to dust.
For the past minutes the match went on. Although Joey was good, it was clear that Ayane's level was way above his. Using a trap card, she destroyed his red eyes black dragon and using a monster reborn magic card, she took control of it. Even though many of her monsters weren't powerhouses she still managed to win with 1400 life points to nothing.
"Man...you're good." Joey admitted in defeat.
*Yami to Yugi*
(Wow she's really good)
(I admit she is very skilled.)
(Hey Yami.)
(Yes Yugi?)
(What should I do know?)
(You actually want my advice after THAT incident?)
(You know better than I do.)
(Well, maybe you could offer to show her around the school after classes, your school is quite large.)
(Good idea Yami!)
"Riiiiing!" went the school bell.
"Hey Ayane, what's your next class?" Tea asked.
"Umm, History with....*looks at schedule* Mr. Tomoya, room 301."
"Figures, everyone in those rooms are geniuses." Tristan said, leaning back on his chair.
"Huh?" Ayane asked.
"Don't worry about it...oops we're gonna be late, well see you guys in lunch!" Tea said, dragging Tristan, Joey and Yugi with her.
(To the readers: Don't worry, it'll be explained.)
She saw that Bakura hadn't gone with them so she turned to him.
"What was Tristan talking about?"
"Don't worry I'll explain on our way up to the class."
The two then proceeded out of the cafeteria and through the halls.
"Okay, you see, the building we're in now is the largest one, the main building. It has mainly classrooms and some faculty rooms and the office of the principal. The first floor has the announcement boards; some special rooms and conference rooms and is basically just an entrance hall. Second floor has the classrooms for first year students and the office of the coordinators and faculty rooms. Those are rooms that start with one (101- 108). The third floor is where most of the second years stay for their class hours (201-208), this floor also has the principal's office and a ballet room. The fourth floor is usually where the juniors stay. They stay in rooms 306-313, some sophomore classes stay in 301-305." Bakura explained, they then had to pause because of some papers Ayane dropped. Then Bakura continued.
"The reason why there are sophomore classes in that floor is because they're a bit......how do you say this? Advanced. That's why sophomores who have their classes in this floor are called upper-level students, because they're smarter. Well, that's not what the faculty say but you get it."
"Oh, so this only happens after first year?"
"Yeah, first year we're all equal, but in the higher levels this thing appears."
"Oh, so you're one of the smart ones?" Ayane teased.
"Hey, so are you?!" He playfully shot back.
"You have all your classes in the UPL (upper-level) rooms?"
"Yeah, so do you. You know." Bakura said, peaking at her class schedule.
"So do we have any class mates in the same rooms?"
"Yeah, actually, let's see, there's Jean the girl sitting nearest to the door in homeroom, there's Josh, my seat mate, oh and Kaiba too."
"I figured." Ayane said. There was silence for a while as they climbed some more stairs. Some students going down the staircase said hi to Bakura. Then Bakura finally spoke.
"I pity you." He laughed a bit.
"Huh? Me? Why?" Ayane asked confused.
"You're gonna be stuck with Kaiba.......for the whole year."
"Really?"
"Yeah, I mean, the Lab partner thing isn't just done in Science you know, it's done in almost every subject. You'll be his seatmate and partner for all those subjects." Bakura said, wishing he were in Kaiba's place right now.
"I don't mind." Ayane said.
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"What's wrong Yugi?" Tristan asked, concerned for his friend.
"Yeah, you've been looking down ever since we left the cafeteria." Tea said.
"Our friend Yugi here has a big case of the Love syndrome!" Joey said while giving Yugi a pat on the back.
"Joey!" Yugi said.
"Oh don't be ashamed of it, everyone can tell you like her......you to Joey." Tristan commented.
"I don't like-like her! I was just being friendly that's all" Yugi said, turning a brilliant shade of red.
"Oh yes you do." Yami's voice suddenly popped out from nowhere. "You like her very much."
"Haha, there Yugi, you see." Joey laughed.
"C'mon guys we're going to be late for class" Tea said, quite agitated over all the talk about Ayane.
"You guys go ahead, I need to talk to Yami"
The three continued heading for their classrooms. Tea purposely lagged a bit behind, trying to hear any of the conversation with Yugi and Yami. She didn't hear anything except for a line Yami said that made her a "BIT" angry.
"What? I think it's nice if you have feelings for a girl who's nice, smart, good at duel monsters and Beautiful." Yami said laughing.
"Even Yami thinks all that about her?! He never said I was those things! Ooooh this makes me mad!" She thought.
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*Ryou to Bakura*
(What's wrong Ryou?)
(I wish I were Kaiba right now.)
(Why?)
(Because he's so lucky.)
(Could you expound on that a little more?)
(Well, he's lucky because he's got Ayane for a Lab partner, I mean she's nice, smart pretty, and she's really hardworking, and all he does is treat her like she doesn't exist or something. He's not being very nice. I mean, here he is with a partner who sticks up for him when everyone else is making fun of him and is willing to stick with him, and the least he could do is make life a little bit easier for god sakes!)
(Didn't know you felt that way.)
(Ayane deserves someone who appreciates her.)
(I agree, but maybe this is her challenge)
(???)
(Let her deal with it in her own way.)
(Why?)
(That's the way girls work........Wait, she sticks up for him?)
(Yeah, Joey and Tristan were making fun of him, and she told them he wasn't so bad.) (That doesn't seem that serious. Maybe you're just jealous)
(Yeah.....)
Ryou (Alright I'm probably confusing you all here with his names, sorry!) just sighed. Maybe Bakura was right. He looked at Ayane with caring eyes. She was fumbling with her deck while sitting on a desk. Maybe she didn't notice it yet, but he really did care for her. He walked towards her, deciding, this might be her challenge but she wasn't going to fight it alone.
"Hey, mind if I sit here until the bell rings?" Ryou asked, inquiring to the empty chair beside her.
"Not really, hey Ryou, I wanna thank you, a lot."
"Huh? Why?"
"For being my friend, I'm glad you're here." She said, smiling at him.
"No problem." He said simply, and then realized he had called him by her first name.
"Hey, how'd you-"
"I saw it on one of the labels you put on your books, do you mind if I call you that?"
"No, in fact I like it that way."
They both smiled at each other. Then the bell rang, everyone started to get into his or her proper seats. Someone cleared his throat behind Bakura. It was Kaiba.
"I believe I'm supposed to be sitting here." He said in a smug sort of tone.
"Sorry." Ryou mumbled and left while gesturing a small wave towards Ayane.
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Tea couldn't concentrate her attention on the teacher. She was too preoccupied with her own thoughts. She was bothered by the fact that Yami.....no wait, maybe she was bothered by the fact that Yugi probably didn't have a crush on her anymore....but wait, why on earth did that bother her? Tea couldn't think right now. She put her head between her hands and closed her eyes.
"Ms. Gardener are you alright?" The teacher asked stopping his lecture.
Tea looked up. "No actually, I'm getting a bit dizzy sir, could I possibly get a drink from the drinking fountain?" She lied. She just needed to get out.
"Yes, by all means go, but come back right after." The teacher said, handing her the hall pass.
Tea walked out of the classroom. She had to get these thoughts together. Was she jealous? Was she just mad? Or was it just really first day jitters. She walked over to the drinking fountain to drink. The water was cool and refreshing. When she stood up, she yelled.
"What's happening to me!"
"Tea?"
Tea looked and saw Bakura looking concerned He was carrying a bunch of papers.
"Bakura! What are you doing here?"
"I was gonna give these papers to the office......are you alright?"
"Yeah, just first day jitters I guess." She shrugged and headed back to her clasroom.
"Well okay." Bakura replied.
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"Class, I'll leave you to the chart with your partners, it's to be passed by the end of this period." Mr. Tomoya said, he then turned to his own work.
The class started working, it was evident in the noise they were making. It wasn't really noisy noise; it was the sound of work.
"Okay let's do this." Ayane said. She took some of the papers and started studying the history book. Kaiba just concentrated on his own book.
After a while, Ayane sighed. She was done with the book. She started to write on the sheet the teacher had given them. Unfortunately Kaiba finished at the exact same time and reached for the sheet.....at the exact same time. Their hands bumped each other.
"Oh, go ahead Kaiba." Ayane said, she gave him the sheet.
He smirked. "Don't think I'm going to do all the work."
Ayane looked at him. Her bright green eyes looking at him straight.
"I'm sorry Kaiba, but that's not the kind of person I am. I work hard if I want something." She said.
Kaiba looked at her. She was looking at him. He felt a feeling inside of him, anger mixed with something else. He gave a cold smile, his eyes looked angry, his face leaned in closer.
"Prove it."
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Bakura: Well I sure did!
Yami: What about me?!
R.J: What about you? I'll fit you in somewhere.
Kaiba: What takes you so long to update?
R.J: I'm not allowed to use the computer on weekdays unless it's for school or something. Yuck!
Yugi: Oh.....hey, what was that "something else" Kaiba felt, you know the one mixed with anger?
R.J: Oh, I'll let you imagine for yourselves. Oh and, all that about the upper level rooms, I just did it to create a sort of setting, so, I don't think it's real.
Bakura: All right everybody; please leave a review, thanks!
Yami: Oh, you still upset about that?
R.J: Yes! Now o-
Yugi: Don't take it to hard, you probably needed more training.
R.J: I'm trying to forget about that now you know.....
Yami: Oh okay.
Kaiba: So what happens in this chapter?
R.J: Stuff happens, (sighs) I'm in no mood....who wants to do the disclaimer?
Bakura(h): I can do it for you.
R.J: Knock yourself out.
Bakura: Yugi-oh and all related materials such as characters names and the TCG do not belong to her. Yati yati ya.
R.J: Thanks. Okay guys hope you all enjoy. -_-
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The whole table was quiet. Everyone stared at Yugi. He could feel his face turning redder and redder by the minute. Yami was inside his little "soul room" whistling incoherently, acting like nothing had happened.
"Duel monsters? Nice aim Yugi." Tea thought to herself.
Then came the reply.
"Well, yeah, sure I do!" Ayane smiled.
"You do?" Joey asked.
"Yeah, I have an okay deck, I've won some inter-school tournaments before too." She answered.
"Wow, you must really be good." Tristan exclaimed.
"Let's duel then!" Joey said, standing up and almost knocking the table down.
"Hold up Joey, I think Yugi was the one who brought up the subject." Tea pointed out.
"No, it's okay I don't mind at all." Yugi said, relieved everyone had forgotten about what he did.
"Alright!" Joey said. This was his chance to prove to Ayane that he was a "man" and better than Kaiba.
"Sure, let's do it." She said.
They set up their game mats (c'mon you wouldn't really think there would be a ring or duel disks in school would you?) and they shuffled their decks. (For everybody's info, I do play duel monsters, and I do okay so I know what I'm talking about.) Then, with calculators in hand, (how do they calculate their life points anyway? I use a calculator hehehe.) Ayane won the coin toss so she chose to go second.
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R.J: Yet another interruption! Haha!
Yami: Wow you're laughing now!
R.J.: Right, I feel better, anyway, so about the duel, I'm not going to add lots and lots and lots and lots of details because.... I dunno why, just deal with it.
Yugi: Do you really duel?
R.J: Yah..... me and my sister both.
Kaiba: Which deck?
R.J: I have your starter deck, and I mixed up some booster packs.
Joey: Why didn't you get my starter deck?
R.J: No offense Joey but your deck doesn't suit my style.
Kaiba: Naturally his deck won't fit ANY humans' style.
Joey: Kaiba.....(grits teeth.)
R.J: Oh okaee...... So I'll just save you the dead space of argument. On with the story.
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"Dark Witch, destroy his card." Ayane said. With that Joey's life points were reduced to dust.
For the past minutes the match went on. Although Joey was good, it was clear that Ayane's level was way above his. Using a trap card, she destroyed his red eyes black dragon and using a monster reborn magic card, she took control of it. Even though many of her monsters weren't powerhouses she still managed to win with 1400 life points to nothing.
"Man...you're good." Joey admitted in defeat.
*Yami to Yugi*
(Wow she's really good)
(I admit she is very skilled.)
(Hey Yami.)
(Yes Yugi?)
(What should I do know?)
(You actually want my advice after THAT incident?)
(You know better than I do.)
(Well, maybe you could offer to show her around the school after classes, your school is quite large.)
(Good idea Yami!)
"Riiiiing!" went the school bell.
"Hey Ayane, what's your next class?" Tea asked.
"Umm, History with....*looks at schedule* Mr. Tomoya, room 301."
"Figures, everyone in those rooms are geniuses." Tristan said, leaning back on his chair.
"Huh?" Ayane asked.
"Don't worry about it...oops we're gonna be late, well see you guys in lunch!" Tea said, dragging Tristan, Joey and Yugi with her.
(To the readers: Don't worry, it'll be explained.)
She saw that Bakura hadn't gone with them so she turned to him.
"What was Tristan talking about?"
"Don't worry I'll explain on our way up to the class."
The two then proceeded out of the cafeteria and through the halls.
"Okay, you see, the building we're in now is the largest one, the main building. It has mainly classrooms and some faculty rooms and the office of the principal. The first floor has the announcement boards; some special rooms and conference rooms and is basically just an entrance hall. Second floor has the classrooms for first year students and the office of the coordinators and faculty rooms. Those are rooms that start with one (101- 108). The third floor is where most of the second years stay for their class hours (201-208), this floor also has the principal's office and a ballet room. The fourth floor is usually where the juniors stay. They stay in rooms 306-313, some sophomore classes stay in 301-305." Bakura explained, they then had to pause because of some papers Ayane dropped. Then Bakura continued.
"The reason why there are sophomore classes in that floor is because they're a bit......how do you say this? Advanced. That's why sophomores who have their classes in this floor are called upper-level students, because they're smarter. Well, that's not what the faculty say but you get it."
"Oh, so this only happens after first year?"
"Yeah, first year we're all equal, but in the higher levels this thing appears."
"Oh, so you're one of the smart ones?" Ayane teased.
"Hey, so are you?!" He playfully shot back.
"You have all your classes in the UPL (upper-level) rooms?"
"Yeah, so do you. You know." Bakura said, peaking at her class schedule.
"So do we have any class mates in the same rooms?"
"Yeah, actually, let's see, there's Jean the girl sitting nearest to the door in homeroom, there's Josh, my seat mate, oh and Kaiba too."
"I figured." Ayane said. There was silence for a while as they climbed some more stairs. Some students going down the staircase said hi to Bakura. Then Bakura finally spoke.
"I pity you." He laughed a bit.
"Huh? Me? Why?" Ayane asked confused.
"You're gonna be stuck with Kaiba.......for the whole year."
"Really?"
"Yeah, I mean, the Lab partner thing isn't just done in Science you know, it's done in almost every subject. You'll be his seatmate and partner for all those subjects." Bakura said, wishing he were in Kaiba's place right now.
"I don't mind." Ayane said.
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"What's wrong Yugi?" Tristan asked, concerned for his friend.
"Yeah, you've been looking down ever since we left the cafeteria." Tea said.
"Our friend Yugi here has a big case of the Love syndrome!" Joey said while giving Yugi a pat on the back.
"Joey!" Yugi said.
"Oh don't be ashamed of it, everyone can tell you like her......you to Joey." Tristan commented.
"I don't like-like her! I was just being friendly that's all" Yugi said, turning a brilliant shade of red.
"Oh yes you do." Yami's voice suddenly popped out from nowhere. "You like her very much."
"Haha, there Yugi, you see." Joey laughed.
"C'mon guys we're going to be late for class" Tea said, quite agitated over all the talk about Ayane.
"You guys go ahead, I need to talk to Yami"
The three continued heading for their classrooms. Tea purposely lagged a bit behind, trying to hear any of the conversation with Yugi and Yami. She didn't hear anything except for a line Yami said that made her a "BIT" angry.
"What? I think it's nice if you have feelings for a girl who's nice, smart, good at duel monsters and Beautiful." Yami said laughing.
"Even Yami thinks all that about her?! He never said I was those things! Ooooh this makes me mad!" She thought.
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*Ryou to Bakura*
(What's wrong Ryou?)
(I wish I were Kaiba right now.)
(Why?)
(Because he's so lucky.)
(Could you expound on that a little more?)
(Well, he's lucky because he's got Ayane for a Lab partner, I mean she's nice, smart pretty, and she's really hardworking, and all he does is treat her like she doesn't exist or something. He's not being very nice. I mean, here he is with a partner who sticks up for him when everyone else is making fun of him and is willing to stick with him, and the least he could do is make life a little bit easier for god sakes!)
(Didn't know you felt that way.)
(Ayane deserves someone who appreciates her.)
(I agree, but maybe this is her challenge)
(???)
(Let her deal with it in her own way.)
(Why?)
(That's the way girls work........Wait, she sticks up for him?)
(Yeah, Joey and Tristan were making fun of him, and she told them he wasn't so bad.) (That doesn't seem that serious. Maybe you're just jealous)
(Yeah.....)
Ryou (Alright I'm probably confusing you all here with his names, sorry!) just sighed. Maybe Bakura was right. He looked at Ayane with caring eyes. She was fumbling with her deck while sitting on a desk. Maybe she didn't notice it yet, but he really did care for her. He walked towards her, deciding, this might be her challenge but she wasn't going to fight it alone.
"Hey, mind if I sit here until the bell rings?" Ryou asked, inquiring to the empty chair beside her.
"Not really, hey Ryou, I wanna thank you, a lot."
"Huh? Why?"
"For being my friend, I'm glad you're here." She said, smiling at him.
"No problem." He said simply, and then realized he had called him by her first name.
"Hey, how'd you-"
"I saw it on one of the labels you put on your books, do you mind if I call you that?"
"No, in fact I like it that way."
They both smiled at each other. Then the bell rang, everyone started to get into his or her proper seats. Someone cleared his throat behind Bakura. It was Kaiba.
"I believe I'm supposed to be sitting here." He said in a smug sort of tone.
"Sorry." Ryou mumbled and left while gesturing a small wave towards Ayane.
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Tea couldn't concentrate her attention on the teacher. She was too preoccupied with her own thoughts. She was bothered by the fact that Yami.....no wait, maybe she was bothered by the fact that Yugi probably didn't have a crush on her anymore....but wait, why on earth did that bother her? Tea couldn't think right now. She put her head between her hands and closed her eyes.
"Ms. Gardener are you alright?" The teacher asked stopping his lecture.
Tea looked up. "No actually, I'm getting a bit dizzy sir, could I possibly get a drink from the drinking fountain?" She lied. She just needed to get out.
"Yes, by all means go, but come back right after." The teacher said, handing her the hall pass.
Tea walked out of the classroom. She had to get these thoughts together. Was she jealous? Was she just mad? Or was it just really first day jitters. She walked over to the drinking fountain to drink. The water was cool and refreshing. When she stood up, she yelled.
"What's happening to me!"
"Tea?"
Tea looked and saw Bakura looking concerned He was carrying a bunch of papers.
"Bakura! What are you doing here?"
"I was gonna give these papers to the office......are you alright?"
"Yeah, just first day jitters I guess." She shrugged and headed back to her clasroom.
"Well okay." Bakura replied.
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"Class, I'll leave you to the chart with your partners, it's to be passed by the end of this period." Mr. Tomoya said, he then turned to his own work.
The class started working, it was evident in the noise they were making. It wasn't really noisy noise; it was the sound of work.
"Okay let's do this." Ayane said. She took some of the papers and started studying the history book. Kaiba just concentrated on his own book.
After a while, Ayane sighed. She was done with the book. She started to write on the sheet the teacher had given them. Unfortunately Kaiba finished at the exact same time and reached for the sheet.....at the exact same time. Their hands bumped each other.
"Oh, go ahead Kaiba." Ayane said, she gave him the sheet.
He smirked. "Don't think I'm going to do all the work."
Ayane looked at him. Her bright green eyes looking at him straight.
"I'm sorry Kaiba, but that's not the kind of person I am. I work hard if I want something." She said.
Kaiba looked at her. She was looking at him. He felt a feeling inside of him, anger mixed with something else. He gave a cold smile, his eyes looked angry, his face leaned in closer.
"Prove it."
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Bakura: Well I sure did!
Yami: What about me?!
R.J: What about you? I'll fit you in somewhere.
Kaiba: What takes you so long to update?
R.J: I'm not allowed to use the computer on weekdays unless it's for school or something. Yuck!
Yugi: Oh.....hey, what was that "something else" Kaiba felt, you know the one mixed with anger?
R.J: Oh, I'll let you imagine for yourselves. Oh and, all that about the upper level rooms, I just did it to create a sort of setting, so, I don't think it's real.
Bakura: All right everybody; please leave a review, thanks!