YuGiOh Love Edition 1 Killing for Love

by Archery-Princess57

As soon as Joey Wheeler saw Hana Taylor, he thought he saw the most beautiful thing on earth. Just leaving a relationship, Hana renters another one and falls deeply in love with Joey. When Mai Valentine steps in, horrifying tragedies happens.

9. Welcome to Domino High, Miss Taylor! and...

Hey guys!!! It's Archery!!! Your lovely writer that happens to be the princess of bows and arrows. Anyways, I happened to be the writer of this fic. Lolz. I hope you guys enjoy this chapter. You may find it very interesting. If you read the last chapter (Chapter 8 Trying to Relax) you may probably get a clue on who blue waters is. But if you're tired of my blabbering and don't feel like guessing, be my guest and go on reading this chapter.

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To all of my wonderful reviewers: Thank you for reading and reviewing! If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be this far with my story now!

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! All the characters belong to the great anime called Yu-Gi-Oh! Except for the characters I made up.

I never thought I need this but:

Warning: This chapter includes bloody murder. You have been warned.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Love Edition
#1 Who will Joey pick? Mai or Hana?

Chapter 9

"Welcome to Domino High, Miss. Taylor!!" and FAREWELL TO THE BLUE WATERS

At a gas station somewhere around 11:00 P.M.

A car pulled up at a Stop 'n' Fill in a hurry. The driver was in a hurry for there were still more hours in the night shift at the store. Seeing no one was around to fill up the gas tank, the driver stepped out of the vehicle and walked over to the gas pumps.

Shivers of coldness made the driver shudder and get impatient of how slow it was to fill up the car. The night was pitching black and the sky was moonless with no sight of any stars.

Shivering again, the driver glanced at the old ticking clock which was part of the Stop 'n' Fill sign. 'Does it take this long to fill the car up?' A sudden movement made the driver freeze. "Who is there?" the driver called out.

Another movement. "Who is there?!"

There was no answer but this got the driver furious. "I'm not playing games!! Who ever is there better step out right now!!!"

Suddenly, arms grabbed the driver from behind and slam her to the automobile. The grabber tightly seized the driver's arms again but more painfully.

"Tell me where she lives!"

"Who are you talking about?!"

"You know who I'm talking about!!!!"

"No I don't! Leave me alone!"

The grabber twisted the driver's arms even harsher making the driver winced in pain.

"Tell me!!!!!"

Trying to keep the tears in, the driver choked out, "Please leave me alone! I don't know who you are talking about!!!"

"TELL ME NOW!!!!"

"But I told you already! I don't know-" The shadowy intruder pulled out something shiny and silver which made the driver gasped. "Please no......."

"Do I really need to use this on you? Just tell me now and I will release you."

"But I don't-"

"Don't make me force you! Do you really want me to hurt you?"

"But I-"

"I tried to be nice but you only returned angriness. How sad. How mean. And you know what happens to mean people." The intruder smirked. "They get punish."

"Please no...."

With a single slash of the silver object, a blood curling scream left the driver's lips and mixed into the frighten air. It was then quiet. The kind of quietness which makes your skin freeze with death spiders crawling on to you.

"That's what you get. You should have just told me. You get what you deserve."

The door of the mini market of the gasoline shop flew open and out came a short elderly man with a couple of white whiskers holding firmly to a flashlight. "Hey who is there?!"

But the intruder slip away just as quietly it first appeared.

The old man shinned the light onto the parked automobile and gasped seeing the bloody body sprawled onto the ground.



A shadowy night.........

A gasoline aroma.....

An impatient driver.....

A dangerous intruder.....

A silver blade......

An ear-piercing scream....

Then.......it's just quiet......

Very quiet.......

Deadly quiet....

Death's silence..........

"Hhhhhhhhhhmmmmm, you............................ you have to get away from him he's mine!"

"Please leave me alone! I don't know who you are talking about!!!"

"He's mine! He's mine! He's MINE!!!!!!!!!!"

"Hana.....................are you alright? Don't worry you're safe with me."

"You can't have him, you can't! He's in love with me not you so just leave! Leave now or you will pay............ with your life!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Who are you talking about?!"

'You will pay with your life you will! That's a promise I will keep for once you're gone, he's mine!'



"Noooo!!!!!!!"

"Hana wake up!!!!!!"

"Huh?!" The violet eyed teen woke up with a startled.

The young teen plopped up on bed and looked over to find her brown haired cousin watching her. His hair was in a mess and he was still wearing his old white t-shirt with a pair of blue striped boxers.

"Hana are you okay? I went to wake you up before you die in your sleep. You kept saying all stuff and you kept flipping over. The next thing I need to find is you dead on the floor," the violet eye's cousin muttered.

"Oh sorry Tristan. It's just........" Hana trailed off staring straight ahead past Tristan remembering those voices.

"Hana? Hana are you okay?" Tristan asked again, softly shaking his cousin.

"Huh? Oh sorry it's just that I heard....voices."

"Voices?" Tristan sat next to his cousin raising his eyebrows.

"Yeah. I heard my voice and other voices which sounded so.................familiar."

"Whoa okay. Well you better get well before school."

"School? Tristan what time is it?!" Hana shouted panicky throwing off the quilts and blankets.

Her cousin let out a long yawn and stretched out his arms. Scratching his back he gruffly answered, "Five 'o clock."

"What?! Omigosh I'm going to be late!" Hana rushed out of bed knocking over her cousin.

"What?! Hana we still have about three hours of sleep before school starts!" Tristan called out to his cousin but she was already in the bathroom.

After a very long steamy shower, Hana changed into her pink and blue uniform and curled up her hair. The reason she wanted to get ready so early cause she wanted to be fully ready with herself groomed nicely and her supplies packed ready in her new book bag.

Slowly tiptoeing down the stairs, she could hear her cousin back to sleep snoring loudly.

For breakfast she had two blueberry muffins with a tall glass of milk.

As she munched away on her muffins, the small, plastic, gray radio was turned on a news station reporting away a bunch of news.

One particular report, however, perked up Hana's ears.

"Today, a body was discovered at a local Stop 'n' Fill gas station near a filling up vehicle in Domino City. The shopkeeper of the mini market found the body at his station at around eleven yesterday night after he heard the painful screams of a woman. The dead female still isn't identified and news will be told as soon as we can identify this person and find out who the killer is. And in New York-"

'Here at Domino? Wow things here at Domino City are getting even stranger....'

She walked to the couch after her meal and pulled out her favorite novel and her small rectangular reading glasses to have the time pass by.

Her alarm clock, which was set to seven thirty, began beeping loudly and she knew it was time to go. The beeping stopped almost immediately and Hana's heart froze for about a second as she wondered who or what may have pressed the button to shut off the alarm. Footsteps patted down the stairs and holding her breath in, Hana turned to find her cousin dressed in his school uniform.

She sighed of relief but it was uneven as Tristan ran to her and exclaimed, "Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Omigosh Tristan what is it??!!!!!" Hana shouted her heart skipping more than two beats.

"You are not going out like that!" Her cousin then grabbed a heavy, furry winter coat off the coat rack and tried to force it on Hana.

"What?! What do you mean?! I'm just wearing my school uniform."

"No you're not missy. You call wearing a skirt that barely goes pass your thighs your school uniform!!!!!!! You are not leaving the house without wearing this coat. Got it?!"

The brown haired rolled her violets as she threw the coat on the wooden floor. "Tristan my skirt is just fine. And it DOES go pass my thighs. You think I'm going to go out as a-"

"Okay okay maybe I am just exaggerating Hana but the problem is guys are going to ask you out and then you go out on all these dates and then you go too far cause one day you're reported missing because one of the guys took advantage of you then there's going to be this whole funeral and then I'm going to have to make a speech and then I get all teary eye and you know how I don't like to cry and then people are going to ask me questions and then call me the worse cousin ever then I'm going to earn a bad reputation then-"

"Okay Tristan I get the point. But honestly cous the uniform is just fine." And Hana was right when she said that. Her skirt wasn't too short and yet it wasn't too long. Besides, she looked just fine in it. Her cheeks were rosy, her eyes glimmer with eye shadow, her lips were smeared over with her Strawberry lip gloss, her hair went up to her waist and was curled with a matching blue velvet bow, and a crystal brooch was clipped right into the middle of the bow on her uniform.

"Okay well we better get going then." With that, Tristan and his cousin left to the car.

On the car ride there, Hana went over what she will say to the class when she introduces herself. 'Hi? No, um hello? No um hey guys what's up? Oh, man what am I going to say?'

Tristan noticed his cousin shifting uncomfortably in her seat and he let out a sigh. "Relax Hana. You're going to do just fine. There is nothing to be nervous about. We will all be there and you know that."

I know I know but-" She turned her violets to the door window. "But I'm new here. Things in school could be-"

"Chill Hana. Things in school are going to be fine."

Hana turned to her cousin and smiled but she till felt unsure.

The violet eyed closed her eyes and dozed off into sleep.

Before she knew it, the car halted to a stop and Hana trudged forward to the dashboard but thankfully, she had her seatbelt on.

"Tristan! What are you doing?!" Hana exclaimed hugging her book bag tighter.

Tristan turned the key and said, "We're here."

"Oh." She slowly stepped out of the car to find people in crowds.

She heard girls whispering, boys laughing, and "Hey Hana!"

She spun around and waved back to her sapphire eyed friend.

"Hey Téa! What's up?"

The sapphire eyed began coughing from all of the running she did. Hana's smiled slowly faded. 'Okay I know she must be tired from all of that running but it wasn't that far away. She didn't even have to run to get here. But she must be just tired out. Or is she? With all of that huffing and puffing I doubt it.'

Téa finally looked up and smiled. "Hey Hana. What you think of the school so far?"

Hana put her hands on her hips and rolled her eyes. "I think its awful Téa. I hate it. This is one of the worse schools I ever went to."

Téa laughed but she started coughing again.

"Téa are you okay?! We should get you inside. You need water now," Hana said worryingly but her sapphire eyed friend shook her head.

"No no, it's nothing. Really," Téa continued and finally straightened up. "So you want to get in now?"

"Are you sure you don't need water?" Hana asked eyeing her best friend but Téa dragged her away. "C'mon Hana. Time for school!"

Before Hana knew it, she was in the school. Right now. In the building. "Whoa...." Hana said her eyes widened as she stared down at the long hallway.

"I know right. The school is pretty big. Well got to go to class." Téa mumbled and turned around to smile brightly at Hana.

"But Téa! I don't know where to go!" Hana whined but Téa shook her head.

"The office is right over there," Téa pointed out pointing at a room not so far away from them. "You just go in there, introduce yourself to the secretary and she will give everything else you need. Before you know it, you will be a social butterfly through out the school. Okay? I will see you later." The sapphire eyed waved good-bye to her best friend and skipped along the hallway.

"Okay okay. Let's see. The office is right over there. Well here I go." The violet eyed slowly dragged herself to the office to see a plump woman with dirty blond haired typing away on a typewriter.

A big pink bubble gum popped out of the woman's mouth before she murmured, "The principal will be waiting for you in the office Miss. Taylor." She must have been used to this or she was really good with this because she didn't even look up to know it was Hana.

"Okay thanks," Hana replied and she walked off into the other room.

"Uhuh."

The office was sort of tiny for a principal and it scented of different kinds of chocolate. The curtains were drawn open leading in rays of the golden sun. Before Hana was a large wooden desk and an old weary leather chair.

'I wonder where the pr-' But Hana's thoughts were interrupted by a cherry, "Hello!!!!!!"

The violet eyed turned to find a tall woman with short blond haired that draped down to her shoulders and small gray eyes. She was around the age of forty but she looked too old for her age with a couple of gray hairs and a ton of wrinkles.

"Hello, you must be Hana Taylor. Am I correct?" the woman said with a high squeaky voice roughly shaking the new student's hand.

"Uhuh. I mean, yes. I'm Hana Taylor. You must be um well oh I forgot I know I have it in my mind but I keep forgetting. Um...." 'Oh gosh I feel so stupid. I can't believe I forgot her name. Oh man. I'm doomed!!!'

But the woman didn't notice the nervousness that ran down through Hana. She let out a hearty laugh and shook her head. "I don't bite! It's the first day of your new school so it's okay for you to feel nervous. Here are all of your schedules and papers you will need. Well you better go before the bell rings."

"But-" Then Hana all of sudden felt determined. "I mean yes. Well I better go now. Thank you very much miss. Bye!"

The violet eyed turned and stumped right out of the office. 'Now where to go?'

"Excuse me miss? Are you lost?"

Hana turned to find a very tall man wearing thick black glasses. He was wearing a black coat which went down to his feet and he almost looked like a detective in movies; in disguise and full of lies to get the truth out of you.

The violet eyed hesitated. She had a feeling maybe she shouldn't trust him, especially by the way he dress. After all, he could be some kind of sniper sneaking into schools trying to rape young teenage girls.

"Well um......"

"You look lost. Hey wait...." He then stepped closer to Hana and closely observed her.

Hana felt really uncomfortable and staggered back a couple of steps.

He then stepped back and grinned. "Well I know you! You must be Hana Taylor!!"

Those simple words made Hana's eyes widened with fear. 'Omigosh! This guy is some sort of freaking stalker!'

"Well, are you ready?" The man eyed Hana as he put his hand in his pocket ready to pull out something.

The violet eyed managed to choke out, "R-ready for what?"

"Ready, for this..........."

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"And I use the combine powers of the Dark Magician and the Dark Magician Girl and together it will be enough to destroy your Panther Warrior!!! Now my all powerful magicians! Attack with Double Dark Magic Attack!!!"

"Awwwwwwwww man!!!!! That's the fifth time you beat me today, Yug!! And I really thought I would beat you today! How I'm ever going to give Hana the money now if you never loose a game and give me the money!!!!"

The young multi-color hair laughed. "Even how hard you try Joey, you will probably never beat me in a Duel Monsters game. All I got to say is-"

"Yeah yeah I know. Believe in the heart of the cards," the blond haired sighed shuffling his deck.

"Exactly."

Young Yugi Motto and his best friend, Joey Wheeler, was sitting at their desks, playing their usual game of Duel Monsters. And of course, Yugi was winning as always.

"Hey guys!!"

The boys turned to find their friend, Téa, walking into the homeroom and as usual, flashing her pearly whites.

"Hey Téa. How are you?" Yugi asked quickly standing up to let Téa sit down even though she refused.

"Wassup T?" The blond haired said slumping down in his seat.

"Hey guess I ran into today," Téa replied and her eyes sparkle as in holding a secret.

Yugi immediately noticed the glint in the sapphires and displayed a confused look on. "Is it somebody we know?"

Her head full of brown hair shook as she nodded, giggling.

"Yeah."

"Well I give up," Joey complained not even trying to guess up the answer. "Who is it? The janitor?"

Téa rolled her eyes, ignoring Joey's complaining.

"No stupid it isn't the janitor. It's someone you will be glad to see Joey. Actually, it's somebody you like." Just saying this made the sapphire eyed laugh.

"I like Mrs. Dawson," Joey said now but his interest in knowing who Téa was speaking about faded away.

"Joey! It isn't the janitor!" Téa yelled at Joey's stupidity.

"Then who is it Téa?" Yugi asked and his warm voice made Téa calm down.

The sparkles returned in the sapphires as she cleared her throat and said, "Well its no other than-"

As soon as she was going to reply her answer, the sensei rushed in rather strangely and in his hands was a notepad.

Instead of returning to their seats as the class usually did, the groups stared up at their teacher waiting for his explanation for being such in a hurry when there were still a few more minutes before classes start.

"Well um...."

The class waited quietly awaiting their teacher's answer.

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'Omigosh! The man is going to pull out a knife! And he's going to rape me!' Hana gasped. 'He could be the one that killed the girl at the gas station! I better get out of here! Now!' Hana tried her best to move her legs but she was frozen. Glue to the ground to prevent her from escaping; from escaping the grasp of evil that is.

The man's hand was slowly pulling out of his coat pocket and he was definitely holding on to something.

'No, no!! I got to get out of here now! It's just fear that's holding me down and I can't let it keep me here!'

The item he pulled out was-

But the violet eyed didn't want to see what he was about to pull out. Instead, she spun around and her legs were moving faster and faster and she had no clue where she was going. But she didn't care where she went. As long she was away from the man, she was safe. Right?

"Hey wait! Hana wait!" The man called out but there was no way Miss. Taylor was going to turn back now.

Unfortunately for Hana, the man gained up on her and the last attempt Hana had in mind to escape was rush into a classroom. He can't murder her in front of a class. Or will he?

But plans changed and instead of running into a local homeroom, she swerved to the side making the man run into the homeroom.

The chattering stopped as soon as the sensei entered and each waited for him to answer.

"Well um-" He cleared his voice and used his normal, stern voice. "Okay class back to your desks."

In a blink of an eye the groups separated back to regular rows. "Before classes start, I want to give all of you a surprise."

Joey waved his arm high up in the air. "No homework for the rest of the year and free cupcakes?"

"No Joseph and I am sure that will never happen. Actually, it's somebody new."

The blond haired raised his hand again.

The teacher sighed. "Yes Joseph?"

"Is it a new custodian?"

"Joey!" Téa yelled rather loudly signaling Joey for the third time it was not a new janitor.

"No Joseph. It is not a new custodian," the sensei sighed shaking is head. "Actually it's-"

"A new lunch lady that can actually cook?" Joey went on again.

"Uh no. It's-"

"A new principal that makes up great rules?"

"No-"

"A secretary that doesn't chew gum everyday like a horse?"

"No Joseph. – "

"A new homeroom teacher that doesn't keep his students guessing?"

"That's enough Joseph!"

Joey slumped back in his seat and turned his attention back to his cards. "Then I don't really care who it is."

"Well let me tell you then." The teacher grinned and slightly turned toward the doorway. "I would like to introduce-"

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'Am I safe? Can I leave now? Where could I go? Man I should have asked the secretary for directions. Well I'm safe as long as that weird guy doesn't get close to me again. Geez I wonder what is he doing.' Hana peeked into the classroom and saw the man talking to the class. He was then facing her direction. Hana turned and pressed her back against the wall. 'What am I going to do?'

"I would like to introduce our new transfer student all the way from Tokyo, Japan- Hana Taylor!"

'What?! Oh gosh how could I have been so stupid?! He's my homeroom teacher! Ugh, I'm such an idiot. And he probably just wanted to welcome me here to Domino High School. Oh I feel so terrible. Making him run like that. I probably made him worry. Well....' The violet eyed peered in the incredibly quiet classroom. 'Here I go.'

Taking a deep breath, Hana walked right into the classroom.

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"I would like to introduce to our new transfer student all the way from Tokyo, Japan- Hana Taylor!"

"Huh?" Joey quickly looked up and saw a young teenage girl wearing the same pink and blue uniform all the other girls were wearing, with curly brown hair, in front of the classroom bowing to the class. Her name was written in chalk on the blackboard in both English and in Japanese symbols.

"Hana....."

The new student straightened up and gazed around the classroom. The whole class was whispering and even some boys were whistling. Téa, Duke, and Yugi called out to her, waving and her cousin gave her a thumbs up. The first person that caught her violets was Joey Wheeler. As soon as their eyes met, both blush furiously.

"She just moved in last Friday and is Tristan's cousin." The sensei faced Hana and grinned goofily. "Welcome to Domino High, Miss. Taylor!"

"Oh thank you. Sorry for what happened it's just-" But the homeroom teacher cut off Hana's words.

He shook his head and handed her a notepad. "I shouldn't have been chasing you like that. Sorry but I just wanted to give you the easy steps on how to fit in here just fine."

"Oh." Hana took the notebook and sweat dropped seeing what was written on the booklet. In huge neatly cursive letters it read "Be you!!!!"

"Oh thank you. I think I will do just fine." Hana managed a small smile signaling the teacher she was doing okay.

"Good! Okay well take your seat next to Joseph Wheeler. Joseph, raise your hand that way-"

But the violet eyed was already taking her seat. "Thanks teach but I already know who Joey is."

When she took her seat, Hana smiled brightly to Joey and whispered, "Miss me?"

The blond haired shook his head. In a jokingly tone he said, "Nah."

"Eh yeah right!"

"No really. I even forgot about you," Joey continued on with his joke.

"C'mon. Don't tell me you forgot my pretty face," Hana said with a wink.

"What pretty face?"

"Bwah! Like you're any better you ugly buffoon!"

"A buffoon looks better than you."

Seeing the two teens already knew each other, the boys who first whistled gave up their chances to ever get with Hana and they assumed Hana and Joey may be a couple already.

"As usual, classes begin after announcements," the teacher reminded the class.

The intercom soon boomed with the daily news from the cherry principal.

After announcements, the class quickly split up and left their separate ways.

"Hey guys!" Hana greeted her friends embracing each one of them in a hug.

When Joey hugged her, he embraced her tightly and swung her high up in the air.

Hana giggled at how muscular Joey was and when he put her down, she danced around him and planted his cheek a small kiss. Wheeler blushed lightly and began chasing after Hana.

As the two teens played their little game, Téa noticed a sheet of paper had fallen out of Hana's folder. It was her schedule and Téa knew they had to hurry up or they will be late for their first class.

"I can't wait to show you around the school Hana! What will our first class be? The cafeteria?" Joey asked twirling Hana around.

"How about Hana and I start with Spanish?" Téa suggested still studying Hana's schedule.

"Huh? But won't you miss your first class Téa," Tristan stated confusedly.

"Nope, we both have Spanish first period. Actually, we can all show Hana around today. All of us share some certain class with her." Téa paused as the bell rang. "Oh no! C'mon Hana we're going to be late. Bye guys. See you later." With that, Téa grabbed Hana's hand and dragged her down to the Spanish room.

"We're sorry Miss. Santiago for being late!!" Téa burst out as she dashed into the classroom.

"Si, Señorita Gardner pero gracias a dios llego ante que la clase comenzaran. Ahora por favor tome su asiento," said a young woman.

The woman had long, red flowing hair that was tied up into a high ponytail. She had warm honey color eyes that were small and always seemed to be filled with sadness. She was very tall that she towered over all the students in the class. She was wearing a long skirt and a brown turtleneck.

"Sorry but um I was sort of... busy," Téa replied but her Spanish teacher shook her head.

"No excusa Señorita Gardner. Usted debe de hablar en español cuando usted esta en mi salón de clase. Usted conseguirá grado más alto," Miss. Santiago continued, folding her arms across her chest.

Téa blinked numerously. "Huh?"

The Spanish teacher sighed and decided to speak in her American tongue. "Never mind Miss. Gardner. Just take your seat."

Téa quickly hobbled to her seat leaving poor Hana alone in front of the classroom.

"Uh hi. I mean hola," Hana said nervously giving a small wave to the Hispanic teacher.

She tilted her head and realized she never had seen Hana before so she must be new. "You're new?"

The violet eyed nodded. "Si, yo soy nueva," Hana tried her best Spanish hoping the teacher understood.

"Que es tu nombre?" Miss. Santiago asked trying to see if Hana knew her Spanish.

"Me llamo Hana Taylor."

"Cuanto anos tenes?"

"Yo tengo quince anos."

"Como estas?"

"Muy buen señora."

"Aye si muy buen.Vaya a sentarse con Señorita Gardner."

"K." Hana made her way to the back of the classroom and sat next to Téa.

"Okay clase-" Miss. Santiago began her teaching as the students scribbled down her every word.

"I didn't know you could speak Spanish Hana," Téa whispered.

Hana shook her head. "I know just a bit. I'm really rough on it though. I actually had a Hispanic friend back in Tokyo."

Téa raised her eyebrows. "Had?"

The violet eyes wandered down to the blank notebook page she hasn't started writing on yet. "Yeah but an accident happened and-"

Téa placed her hand on Hana's arm. "You don't have to tell me. It's okay."

"K."

The two girls continued on scribbling down notes.

Soon the bell rang and it was time to move on to the next class.

"Now I got to go to biology. I'll see you later. Bye," and with that, Téa left around the corner.

"K, well I guess next I have to go to-" Hana began but was interrupted by, "Art."

Hana turned to find no other Duke Devlin walking her way.

"Huh?"

"Oh well I have art now. How about you Taylor?" Duke asked as he stopped by Hana.

"Well um..." Hana took a glance at her schedule and sighed. She looked up at her friend and smiled. "My next class is Art, Duke."

"Then let's go," Duke led Hana down the hallway and into a classroom.

"Wow. This classroom is ," Hana stated in awe.

Colorful paper rings hung everywhere and the walls were splattered with paint. It smelled of crayons and markers and very strong paint.

"Ya ya it's colorful. Well to you anyways," Duke commented and this made Hana look up at him confusingly.

"Then what does this classroom seem to you, Duke?"

"Dull," he simply answered taking a seat.

"Dull? Duke, are you color blind?! Look around us. There's color everywhere. So how can you find this so dull?" Hana continued and in reply Duke snorted and replied, "'Cause she isn't here."

Hana paused and titled her head a bit. "Who isn't here?"

"Serenity! Serenity isn't here! If she isn't here, then my world is dull! She's my sunshine! My sunshine!" Duke called out to the ceiling and his calls were so high, everyone in the room stopped their business and stared. Some girls even giggled while some boys snickered. "Why?! Why?! Do you have to go to a different school don't you see this is killing me inside!! Why my love?! Baby girl, why you playing with me like this?! Why baby girl why???????!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Awwwwwww Duke!! You know we all love you!!!! You don't need Serenity to be your sunshine! With me around, your world will never be dull!" Hana exclaimed soothingly.

Everybody returned to their gossip and Duke softened a bit. "Really Hana?"

Hana's expression turned dark as she snatched Duke by the ear. "You wanna be quiet, idiot! I'm new at this school and you want to humiliate me in front of everybody!"

"Gomen Hana! Sorry!" Duke yelled as pain shot up in his red ear.

"Okay now isn't that better," Hana responded with a smile, releasing her friend's ear.

"Damn girl you don't have to hurt me!" Duke complained rubbing his ear.

"Relax Duke. I was just playing. I mean it didn't hurt at all. Right?"

Duke continued on whimpering while he slowly massaged his ear

"You better shut up you idiot or I'll kill you!!!" Hana's expression returned with a hard cold stare and she tightened her hands around Duke's neck and began choking him.

"MURDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Duke tried to choke out.

Hana's grasp finally released and she let out a laugh. "Aw c'mon Duke. I was PLAYING. Don't take it all serious." Even though it seemed much like reality, Hana wasn't really choking Duke. It was more of a playful thing. But Duke was on the edge to pull his raven hair out since he thinks Hana is so clueless on how much he's obsessed with Serenity.

"My poor ear! You're a killer, Hana!"

Hana rolled her eyes but stopped when a plump teacher walked in.

"Well hello my little children!" the arts and crafts teacher greeted her students.

The fat woman had very dark brown hair, which almost looks like black, and it hung down to her ears. She had gray orbs as eyes and her mouth was thin and was colored a bright red as a cherry. Her ears were decorated with small metal rings painted a fainted pink and her large white t-shirt had "Art is a BEAUTIFUL thing!" in bold letters.

"Is she the Art teacher?" Hana asked studying the cheery woman wobble to her desk.

"The one and only Ms. Herman," Duke whispered back. "She's the Queen of Color. We think she's a bit obsessed with too many colors."

Hana nodded. "I can see that."

"Yeah but she's a really good Arts and Crafts teacher. Just last week, we learned how to make sculptors of somebody we deeply admired. Can you guess who I picked to make a sculptor of?"

Hana rolled her violets. "Geez Duke I don't know. The school principal?"

Duke's expression hardened. "No Hana. Don't you know who I made a sculptor of?"

"No Duke I don't," Hana continued on in her sarcastic tone even though she knew it was no other than-

"Serenity!!!!"

Exactly.

"So what else can you tell me about Miss. Colorful," Hana decided to change the subject since Duke was getting on her nerves.

"Well like I said before, she's really good in Arts and Crafts. Today we're going to learn how to do-"

"Tea sets!!!" Miss. Herman shouted joyfully, clapping her hands.

"How did I know?" Duke said in a sarcastic tone as he took his regular seat and since nobody sat next to Duke, Hana took the spot.

"C'mon class. It's time to make our wonderful tea sets!"

Her eyes gazed around the classroom and smiled at the groups of girls who were shrieking happily. One girl, however, was chattering along with her dice-shaped-earring-wearing friend. The teacher's eyes squinted as she tried to see if she could recognize the female student. The orbs of gray widened and the teacher gasped. "Delancy.........."

"Looks like you're not really ex-" But Hana was interrupted by a blissfully call.

"Delancy! Oh Delancy!!!"

"Huh?! Aah!" Before she even knew it, Hana was wrapped in the stubby arms of the art teacher.

"Delancy!!!!"

"What?!"

"Why didn't you tell me you were stopping by?!"

Hana began coughing and her face turned red. The teacher was suffocating her with her blubbering arms!

"Look, you got the wrong....." Hana's face turned redder but she managed to finish the sentence. "Girl......."

"What do you mean?" The now confused woman released the choking girl who was now being comfort by Duke.

"You got the wrong girl." Hana restated again. "Ah!"

Chubby fingers tightened onto her cheeks and it was no other than the art teacher who was now closely observing her.

"You just dyed your hair and put on violet contacts and lost some weight and-"

"Whoa!" Hana pushed away from the teacher. "Look I'm new here. My name is Hana Taylor. This is my first day at Domino High."

"Oh...sorry...I thought you were my niece, Delancy." The Art teacher frowned then cleared her throat. "Okay let's go back to work."

After minutes of molding, baking, and painting clay, the teens were done with their tea sets.

"Just leave them here to dry and........."

"Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggg!!!!!!!!!" The bell rang and the students quickly scampered out of the classroom.

"Remember reports on your assignments are due soon!!!!!"

"I thought she will never let you go!" Duke laughed as he and Hana walked down the hallway.

"Uh yeah. So are you giving your tea set to anybody special? I'm thinking of giving it to my mom but-"

Hana stopped in mid-sentence for she noticed Duke wasn't walking with her anymore. Instead, he was by a locker with a blank expression.

"Hey Duke. Is there something wrong?"

The raven-haired boy continuing on staring in blank space but then splattered out, "SERENITY!!! I'M GOING TO GIVE IT TO SERENITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Duke, calm down!!" Hana shouted but that didn't help. Instead, Duke ran off covering his ears and he continued on yelling Joey's younger sister's name.

A big sweat drop formed on Hana as she watched her friend run off to practically.....nowhere. She shook her head and sighed. "Who knew he was THAT obsessed with her?"

"Ya I know. He needs to get away from MY girl."

Without looking up, the violet eyed knew it was no other than her cousin. That was because of two reasons. The first reason was because of his voice and the second reason was because Serenity is Tristan's girlfriend. Who else will be mad about Duke claiming Serenity is his girlfriend?

"Heya cos," Hana greeted her cousin. "Biology?"

"I mean Duke is such an idiot to even cross the line between Serenity and I! The next time he tries to make everybody think Serenity is all his, I'm going to murder him!!"

"Okay I know but I have Biology next. Do you?"

"I actually feel like killing him now! Where is he?!"

"Tristan!"

"Huh?! Hey Hana. I didn't know you were there," Tristan said as he blinked confusingly to his cousin.

"Of course you didn't know I was here! That was because you were so engrossed in trying to kill Duke you didn't even know your baby cousin was here," Hana stated loudly her arms crossed.

"Oh yeah. Ehe. So what do you have next kiddo? I have biology," Tristan asked peering down to the schedule Hana was carrying.

Hana's frown broke into a smile. "Biology."

"Great! Let's go then."

The two teens walked along to the other end of the hallway and entered a classroom.

The desks were in rows and several kids were seated, chatting away.

Hana and Tristan sat by the window which Hana found a great seating. It was just by an open window and it gave a perfect view of outside.

Hana gasped. "This is perfect!"

Tristan turned to his cousin. "What is?"

"This!" Hana took a deep breath and exhale as she stuck her head out of the window. "This is wonderful! It's so perfect! I mean look at this view Tristan! There's grass everywhere and look at all of these flower petals! And the breeze is so cool and relaxing! And-" Hana took in another breath and exhaled again as she closed her eyes and rested her head on the window pane. "The scent. It smells of fresh violets and roses and daisies and-" The violet eyed went on daydreaming and her cousin sweat dropped yet smiled. It was her first day at Domino high and his cousin found everything so.......interesting.....

'This is perfect. Just-'

"Hana?"

"Huh?" Hana turned to find no other than "Joey........." standing before her.

"Hey Hana. Long time no see," the blond haired replied simply.

The violet eyed giggled. "Joey, it's only been-" As Hana said this, she took one step and everything turned black. The only source of light was a small stream of sunshine pouring down upon her.

The violet eyed soon realized she was wearing the same red dress she wore in her "imagination" incident.

"Joey? What's h-happening?"

"Goodbye Hana," Joey turned and left into the darkness.

"Joey? Where are you going? W-what's happening?" Hana watched with grief clearly in her purple orbs. The once "perfect" nature Hana was daydreaming about, was now dust and vines. Deadly vines. Deadly vines which crawled around Hana, choking the life out of her.

"Goodbye Hana!!!!" His voice was mixed with another voice. A familiar voice. The purple orbs grew wide with fear. "It's that voice.........."

The blond haired figure threw back its head and let out a laugh. It was a creepy voice which sent shivers crawling down Hana's back.

"That's right Hana!!!!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The body Hana thought was Joey's, was now surrounded by shadows and evolved the figure to a silhouette. And two bodies lay before the black figure.

One was no other than "Joey!!!!!!!!" But the other figure, the other figure was also hidden into the shadows.

The violet eyed struggled to move out of the grasp of the vines but the grip grew stronger and the thorns pierced deeply and painfully into the delicate skin. "Let me go!!!!!"

"Muahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hana there's no use in trying! As for little Joey over here," The figure faced the blond haired body and smirked. "He's mine."

"No please stop! Leave Joey alone!" Hana called out but her voice barely came out. It was barely a whisper but just a whoosh of wind.

"You should have left him alone! You should have never met him in the first place! He's mine I tell ya! Mine!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"No st- ah!"

The vine that was around Hana's neck grew even tighter and it made the body go white.

"J-joey......"

"RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Huh?! What?!"

"Hana you're finally awake! I thought you wouldn't wake up at all!"

"Huh?" Hana lifted her head up and saw her cousin looking down at her with concern. Miss. Taylor was still at the window and the classroom was completely empty except for the two cousins and a bald man at the front desk who Hana assume to be the biology teacher.

"Tristan? What happened?"

"Well looks like nature made you fall asleep at the windowsill."

"Really?"

"Yeah but since you are new, Mr. Connor decided to slip it by."

"Oh, nice guy."

"He said you probably woke up extra early to get ready for your first day here and had quite an adventure on your first two classes."

"I had quite an adventure in my dream," Hana mumbled.

"Huh?"

"But it couldn't have been a dream. It felt so.......real......."

"Hana are you okay? All you talking about are dreams."

"Sorry if I was worrying you Tristan. It's really nothing actually."

"Are you sure? Hana if anything is bothering you, you know you can tell me."

"Right. Anyways we should get going." Hana started walking leaving Tristan by the window.

"Really Hana? What's going on?"

"Oh well there goes the bell! See you later Tristan!" Hana waved to her cousin and before he could reply, she ran out the classroom.

Tristan sighed and stared out the window.

"You should get going Mr. Taylor. The bell is going to ring," Mr. Connor warned his biology student.

"K, I'll see you tomorrow Mr. C."

"Mhm."

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'Study Hall? Finally, a free period.'

The violet eyed strolled down the hall but stopped when hearing a cheerful, "Hey!"

Hana turned to see the sapphire eyed waving and running up to her.

"Hey Hana! Looks like you've gone through the first three classes just fine," Téa said as Hana and she continued their walk.

"Yeah except I sort of dreamed through biology." Hana ended this with a laugh so she won't confuse Téa.

Téa too laugh and asked, "Study Hall?

Hana nodded as both entered the room.

Hana gazed around the full up room but was startled when somebody came up from her behind, covered her eyes, and pulled her to a corner.

The violet eyed gasped as darkness fell over her eyes.

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"One, two, three, four! C'mon girls you can do it now! Fix, six, seven, eight! Do some exercise and let your back ache! Great job girls! Are you up for another round of stomach crunches?!"

"Whew! No way!" Serenity sat up and pause the exercise video. "Why did Madame Perry HAD to send me this video?! Just one day when she's sick! ONE DAY! And finally that day comes. And she STILL has to send me this video and tell me there's a test the next day! Ugh!"

It was a cool day outside but Serenity Wheeler had to stay inside all stuffed up. Since she was staying over at Joey's house for awhile, she was receiving her homework assignments by e-mail (she had her text books with her) but her teacher didn't want her to miss out on ANYTHING. So she now has a temporary personal tutor, artist, musician, librarian, computer genius, translator, and finally, a physical education trainer who happened to be Madame Perry.

Now Madame Perry wasn't your average gym teacher. She's short and plump and has a bad attitude. Her raven black hair (which also has a couple of grey strands) was always put up in such a tight bun, which makes her gray eyes arched. Her skin was full of wrinkles and her appearance made her look much older than the age she really is.

Being from Europe gave her such an accent which made her students coward in fear. Well it wasn't of her accent. It was because of the whip she always carried around with her that made her pupils try their best not to displease her. The whip she carried was only use for threatening; not for slashing at misbehave students.

Her motto simply was "Children are just like animals. They're filthy, disgusting, wild creatures that are always easy to tame." She came up with that when she used to work with the famous traveling carnivals as a loin tamer back in Europe.

Today she was very ill and even though she was on the edge to come over, she still had the nerve to send an exercising video over to Serenity and this got the chestnut haired furious.

"Why, why, why?! I'll LOVE to show that woman who she thinks she is by giving me more work than I really need! Oh I'll teach that woman she's messing with the wrong girl! Just she wait!" Serenity tossed the remote onto the carpet floor causing the VCR to shake and eject a tangle videotape.

The chestnut gasped. "Oh shit! If Madame Perry figures out I damaged her tape, I'm doom! AUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Serenity fell unto the floor as in defeat but looked up and gazed at the T.V. that was now presenting breaking news.

"News is in about the incident which happened at a gas station in Domino City. Still no news about who the sniper might be and officials may not have enough evidence to crack this up. However, a heartbroken family revealed the female as-"

Honey colored eyes widened and pink lips hanged open. "Omigosh.........."

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The violet eyed mumbled cries as thoughts ran through her head. 'Oh no! The killer got me!'

"Hahhahahahhahahahhahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

'Hey........I know that voice............' "JOEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Bwah! Damn Hana, don't need to yell so loud!"

The blond haired released the now-relaxing brown haired.

"Joey you-" Hana gasped. "Oh Joey, you're okay!"

She embraced the blond haired who now looked down at her with confusion.

"What are you talking about Hana?"

"Oh........." Hana stepped back and her cheeks were colored a tint pink.

"Sorry Joey it's just that I've been.............worry........." Hana stated in a low, whispery voice.

"Worry? About what?"

"Nothing it's just that....... I've been getting these nightmares about......about.........."

Joey wrapped his arms around Hana and in a soft voice asked, "About what Hana?"

"About-"

"Well, well, well. What's our favorite couple doing today?"

Hana and Joey quickly moved away each other just to see Tristan followed by a snickering Yugi and a giggling Téa.

"Tristan! Uh hi!" Hana piped up nervously.

"Only you Joey will pull a girl in a corner and scare her half to death. Only you," Téa giggled causing Joey to turn red.

"You better be careful Joey or else you will scare your girlfriend to death," Yugi snickered and this made Joey bright red as a strawberry.

"Hana is n-not my girlfriend," Joey stuttered out.

"Hey look at the time! Geez who knew time can fly this fast! Well I got to go to my next class! See you all later!" Hana said this as if she was reading it directly from a script without any enthusiasm.

Before any of the teens could reply, Hana ran out with a wink and a wave.

'Whew! Well let's see if I could find-" glances at her schedule, "English."

"Ah yes English is a wonderful class. Isn't it?"

"Huh?" Hana looked up from her papers and saw no other than a white haired waving at her.

"Ryou! Oh I shouldn't be surprise in seeing you here." The violet eyed relaxed her rapid breathing and smile.

"Salutations Miss. Taylor. Do you enjoy Domino so far?" Bakura walked up to Hana and peered down at her happily.

"Of course I do! Anyway, I guess you have English next huh. Care to show me the way?" Hana said in her best British accent.

"Be glad to", Bakura said as he linked his arm to Hana's and guided her to the classroom.

The two students entered the classroom and noticed the room was full of chattering, non-stopping gossiping teens.

"Would you care to take a seat next to me fair lady?" the white haired asked letting go of Hana's arm and facing her.

Hana giggled. "You're so polite Bakura."

This made Ryou's smile sink to a frown. "Am I being too nice?"

Hana froze in the middle of her fit of giggles. Her violets peered into the soft chocolate ones searching if Bakura was acting serious. And not finding the key to her search, she let out a sigh.

"I'm sorry Bakura if I offended you. What I mean is you're such a sweetheart. I'm really sorry if you thought I-"

But Bakura lifted up a hand stopping Hana in her words.

"You shouldn't be sorry for something that didn't even happen. What I was really asking is if you are comfortable here."

Hana gave Bakura one of her grand smiles. "As soon as I stepped out of the plane, I was comfortable right away. And having great friends like you, Bakura, made things even more comfortable for me. Thanks."

Bakura put a hand on Hana's shoulder. "Just being a true friend, Hana."

"Well, well, well. Isn't it the new girl. I love your hair! Not!!!!!!!! Hahahhahahhaaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Hana huh. Well doesn't that mean flower? If I'm right, which I know I am, no wonder you look so dumb like one! HAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Bakura and Hana turned to see two teenage girls heading their way. The first girl had green contacts (which were beyond neon); dusty brown hair that reached passed her shoulders, and recently tanned skin. The second girl had plain brown eyes, gelled black hair highlighted with blond streaks, and really, really, REALLY pale skin.

"Bakura- who are these two?" Hana asked Bakura in a low voice.

"Jackie McCauley and Angelina Baxter," Bakura answered through gritted teeth.

It was clear Bakura was angry. 'Who were these two girls?' Hana wondered as the two teens finally approached Hana and Bakura.

"So you're new here? That doesn't mean any difference to me anyways 'cause you will just be another dork like all the others," Jackie (the one with green contacts) snorted.

"Uh yeah. I'm new. I'm Hana and-" but Hana was cut off with a snort.

"Ppuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuullllllllllllllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaa aaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You think pulling off an act with us will make us consider you as a friend? Think again loser!" Angelina (the one with brown eyes) sneered.

"Hey! The girl is new here! Give her a break!" Bakura shouted angrily towards the two girls.

But Jackie and Angelina paid no mind and went off into a fit of giggles.

"Is the guy who can't-afford-to-color-his-hair-something-other-than- white your boyfriend? Boy do you guys mix!" Jackie howled with laughter.

"Who are these girls exactly, Bakura?" Hana asked again not bothering to lower her voice to a whisper.

"They're just a bunch of annoying, gossiping, bitchy sluts. Just about everybody who knows them, hates them. And that definitely includes me," Bakura mumbled angrily.

Hana was stunned. She may not have known the sweet and polite Ryou Bakura for a long time but hearing Bakura say a word like bitchy was a big surprise to her.

"Omigod, Angelina! Isn't that Sherri? What is she doing talking to Travis?" Jackie pointed out to her best friend after their little "giggle fest".

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!! Travis is my man! Who the hell does Sherri thinks she is by being all over him?! Ooh once I'm done with her, she will be sorry she crossed Travis and me!" Angelina added and both girls disappeared to go claim their so-called "man".

Hana let out a sigh glad the girls left her and Bakura alone.

"I'm going to the Ladies' room," Hana said as she began walking to the door.

"Okay! Be back before the bell ring okay?" Bakura called after his friend as she turned and gave him a wave.

When the violet-eyed was in the bathroom, she splashed cold water onto her face from one of the sinks.

'Finally, I can cool off. I wouldn't want to be stuck in the classroom with a bunch of girls who barely knows me and go off gossiping about it anyway. Already am I not liking Angelina and Jackie.'

Hana dried herself off and studied herself in the glass mirror.

She gasped seeing the reflections of the two girls in the mirror.

She spun around seeing Angelina and Jackie with a smirk across their faces.

"What are you guys doing here?" Hana asked them quickly not wanting them to be here with her.

"Hey it is the school bathroom. I can enter whenever I want to," Jackie stated with her hands on her hips.

"Well yeah, don't be following me around," Hana answered back trying to lower the harsh tone in her voice.

She moved her way past the two girls, towards the exit of the bathroom, but was immediately blocked by Angelina.

"Hey-! Get out of the way! I'm going to be late for class!" Hana shouted but Angelina didn't budge.

"We heard the boys whistling this morning," Jackie said with a glare as she came up from behind Hana.

"Yeah and Travis was one of the boys," Angelina stated with a growl.

"Yeah and? It isn't as if I made him and the rest of the other guys to whistle. Now can you move out of the way? We're all going to be late if you don't move," Hana responded trying to be calm.

"Don't you understand?! Travis was one of the boys who whistled this morning! My man was one of the boys who whistled this morning!" Angelina screamed even louder.

"I told you already, I don't care! I didn't make him and the other boys to whistle at me! Now get out of the way!" Hana shouted the anger in her voice rising.

"Sherri and he were talking about you! Sherri said you had great hair and Travis said you look hot! You-you put a spell on him! He would never talk about some other girl being hot behind my back!"

"Oh come on! I don't even know who the hell is Travis! Now get out of my way- NOW!"

"NO!"

Angelina lunged herself on top of Hana with a scream.

Both girls began hitting each other and Angelina had a good hold of Hana's hair.

"Let go of my hair, BITCH!!!" Hana screamed scratching Angelina's hand with her nails.

"No!"

"Get off me!" Hana bit Angelina's arm and caused her to finally let go of her hair and yelp with pain.

Just when Angelina was going to strike Hana again, a loud voice boomed through out the room.

"Get off the girl, Angelina!"

Strong hands wrapped themselves around Angelina's neck and pulled her off of Hana.

"Hey-! Let me go!" Angelina screamed struggling to get out of the tight grasp.

Hana gasped for air and began choking again when she saw who grabbed Angelina.

"Bakura!"

But was it Bakura? He did looked like Bakura but this being had crimson eyes and wild hair.

Whoever this was, yanked Angelina to the hallway, which was, according to Hana, thankfully deserted with teachers and students hard at work in the classrooms.

Or was it a bad thing to have a quiet hallway when such a crucial fight was going on? Well here's one thing: it wasn't so quiet anymore as Angelina's screams echoed along the walls.

"Jackie! Help me!" Angelina called desperately to her best friend.

"I'm not gonna help you," Jackie said in such a clam tone it surprised Angelina.

"What?!"

"You heard me! I'm not gonna help you! You're on your own."

"What?! You- Hey!"

Bakura kept on shaking Angelina as if she was some sort of rag doll.

"Let go of me you jerk!"

"You worthless mortal! Do you think I was lying when I said I will get you for toying with my item?" The evil being said who appeared to be Bakura.

Angelina laughed despite what was happening. "Oh you mean that golden ring-necklace-thingy? I was sure going to go to a pawnshop and get lots money for it. But then I just realized something. Who would want to buy a piece of shit that's cheap like that?"

Bakura's (if it is him) hand tightened around Angelina's neck. "You imbecile! Do you think it was funny messing with the Millennium Ring?!"

Angelina let out another laugh. "Oh so it has a name now? God, Bakura I knew you were weird but who knew you were that strange?! Hahahahahhahahahaha!"

"Do you think this is FUNNY??!!!!!!!!!!!!" With that, Bakura slammed Angelina against a row of lockers, his hand digging in to the skin of her neck.

Her eyes looked as if they might bulge right out of her head. Different shades of reds and purples scarred her pale face, which turned ghostly white. Then, her mouth opened as in gasping at what was happening. And when Bakura released her, her eyes rolled back in to her head revealing white.

Hana's mouth hanged open. She couldn't believe what just happened. Isn't Ryou Bakura the sweet and thoughtful boy that everyone adored and gushed over? If not, Hana thought she had a lot of catching up to do.

"Oh well. There goes the bell. I got to go to class. See you two dorks later," Jackie said without any sadness about her best friend's death in her voice.

"You think I'm letting you off the hook? Think again mortal!" Bakura trudged forward to Jackie and grabbed her wrist.

"What are you doing, you freaking idiot?! Let go of me," Jackie mumbled loudly staring in to Bakura's wild, red eyes. She didn't dare draw her eyes away. She thought if Bakura stared into her cheap neon, catlike contacts, he would let her go nice and softly. Nice and softly.

But she was doing Bakura a favor without even knowing it.

"You foolish girl! You are only feeding the shadows!" Bakura growled shaking Jackie violently.

Her neck cracked under such strong and painful shaking.

But she managed to escape Bakura's tight grasp.

She took a deep breath and walked without a care towards the stairwell.

"You guys are such losers!" Jackie yelled back at Hana and Bakura. She rubbed her neck not knowing just how much Bakura really injured her.

Bakura growled again and ran after Jackie with such hatred in his eyes.

Hana gasped. The stairwell. Jackie was heading to the stairwell. Bakura was going after her. She couldn't think about of what might happen next.

Bakura was only a couple of feet away from Jackie. She was only a couple of feet away from the stairs. They were both a couple of feet away from what just might happen.....

"Bakura-no!" But it was too late.

He jumped Jackie and both tumbled down the cold, hard stairs.

Hana pressed her hands on her ears trying to seal away Jackie's screams.

When the hallway filled with such an unsettled silence, Hana ran to the stairwell not wanting to even know what happened to Bakura and Jackie.

She held onto the railing and screamed.

Blood was everywhere. It splattered the steps, the walls, the railing.

Hana felt herself go dizzy but snapped back to reality when she heard somebody groaned.

"Bakura!"

She continued down the steps and fell on her knees next to Bakura.

"Bakura- Are you all right?" Hana asked placing her hand on his shoulder.

"Hana? What happened?" Bakura asked in a bewilder tone. He looked down and saw Jackie covered in dark blood on the bottom of the steps.

"What happened to her? Did I just walk in a play audition?" Bakura asked with the same confusion as before. "All of this seems.... real......"

Hana couldn't believe it. Did Bakura just forget he murdered two girls he hated? Did he just forget that he almost killed himself? Did he just forget that he turned into a complete wacko and would have committed another crime if it weren't for his deadly fall down the stairs?

"Hana- are you all right? Jackie and Angelina aren't really dead, are they?"

Hana remained silent. She wanted him to answer her questions. But what questions? She hasn't said another word to him so how can she get her answers?

"Hana- who killed Jackie and Angelina? I didn't kill them right? Right?"

She wanted to smile and clap her hands and shout, "Cut"! She wanted to tell Bakura he did a great job on acting and gets the part for the play. She wanted Angelina and Jackie to "come to life" and give each other high fives for being so great at playing dead with large amounts of ketchup.

But Bakura, Angelina, and Jackie didn't seem like they were acting. And the dark substance that covered their bodies didn't seem like catsup. It looked very real as blood. Very real.......

"Hana..... Who killed Jackie and Angelina? I didn't kill them right? Right? Hana, please tell me I didn't kill them? Please?" Bakura pleaded his chocolate eyes filled with such innocence Hana couldn't stand staring into them any longer.

She looked away trying to find the right words to explain to Bakura what he did. What he did and he has no clue he even did it.

This was getting too confusing. Hana held her breath and when she withdrew it said, "It was you."

"You're serious," Bakura replied staring back down at Jackie's bloody body.

Hana nodded. "But Bakura, why? I mean I know you hate Jackie and Angelina but I didn't know you would hate them this much to kill them."

Bakura stared right back at Hana with wide eyes. "You really believe I'm a murderer?" His voice was so soft and filled with dread; it hurt Hana's heart to have her friend be sad because she knows he committed a crime before her eyes and he denies it.

Or is he denying it?

"Bakura I-"

Hana stopped in the middle of her words. A door opened from the downstairs hallway and hurried footsteps.

A girl's voice mumbled curses and she was quickly approaching the stairwell.

Hana hushed her voice to a whisper and said in a low voice, "C'mon! We can talk about this later. Let's go!" She took Bakura's right arm and placed it around her neck letting it rest on her shoulder.

With a groan, she helped Bakura up the stairs.

It wasn't long until they heard the terrified scream of the girl who was cursing before.

Hana helped Bakura through the deserted hallways hoping not to bump in to anybody.

"Hana?" was the first word Bakura said since their quick and quiet movements throughout the hallways.

"What is it Bakura?" Hana asked.

"Where are we going?"

"The police station." Hana said this so simply, it was hard not to believe it.

"But Hana! You can't! I mean I can't go to the police station. I don't want to go to jail! Please Hana! Give me another chance!" Bakura pleaded and Hana let out a laugh.

"Do you really think I will bring you to jail? What kind of friend do you think I am?"

"The real question is what kind of friend am I?"

An awkward silence followed before Bakura spoke up again. "So where are we going?"

"The nurses office of course."

"Well you're going the wrong way." Bakura gave Hana instructions to the office and she groaned some more when she realized she was wwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy off from the Nurse's Office.

"Thanks Hana for helping me."

Hana flashed Bakura a smile. "Just being a true friend, Bakura."

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"You got all of this from playing football?" the nurse asked the suspicion rising in her voice.

The white haired nodded. "Yeah. We were playing football just now. Uh practicing for the game."

"Well, how can your girlfriend get small cuts and you get bruises from playing a simple game of football?" She asked eyeing the violet-eyed teen that stood by the door.

Bakura shrugged. "Who said it was a simple game? We played rough and I just got injured badly. Besides, I'm glad she isn't really hurt like I am."

"Awww, caring for your girlfriend....... How sweeeeeeeettttttttttt," the nurse said in a sarcastic tone. She sorted through a metal box on her desk and mumbled, "Shit...." under her breath.

"She isn't my girlfriend," Bakura added but smiled at the thought.

She slammed her medical box shut and declared she had to go get some more supplies from the office. She waved a finger at him telling him not to mess with any medical equipment until she came back. She soon left the office leaving the two teens by themselves not before whispering to Bakura, "Pay attention to your girlfriend. She seems distracted."

"She's not my girlfriend," Bakura softly mumbled. "But I wish she was......" He rested his head down on the worn-out cot used as a bed but quickly stood up wondering if Hana heard him. He turned his head towards the doorway and saw Hana not paying attention to anything. He sighed and looked away.

Hana was looking down at the palm of her hand, which was decorated by colorful band-aids. She fingered the healing cuts wondering if some of the blood that spluttered the stairwell was also hers. She shook her head and stared out the huge, glass window.

Outside, a squirrel climbed an orange blossom tree in a hurry with alarm. It faced the window and made a chirping sound. It's large, black eyes reflected the sunrays and with one last chirp, the small critter scattered away.

The sweet smelling petals floated in the gentle breezes and clicked a thought in Hana's mind.

'This is just like my dream...... Petals floating everywhere...... Nature trying to seize life away from me....... All seems so real..... So......real.....'

"Hana?"

Reality transporting her back out of her fantasy, Hana answered her friend with a simple, "Yeah."

"You okay? You seem like you're in a trance," Bakura asked studying Hana with much interest.

Hana nodded. "I'm fine. Are you okay?"

Bakura looked down at his feet and nodded. "Fine. My ribs hurts really badly though. Other than that, I'm fine."

This perked Hana's ears. "Really? Well lemme see then."

She walked over to Bakura and kneeled next to him. His t-shirt was soaked in blood, Jackie's probably, so it was bunched up in a ball next to him. Hana gently touched the bandages that wrapped Bakura's bare chest and trailed her fingers along the cuts.

Bakura blushed at Hana's delicate touch but the violet-eyed didn't seem to notice.

She stood up and shook her head. "I don't know how you can do you all this damage, Bakura. Murdering Jackie and Angelina and getting injured yourself." She gazed into his chocolate eyes and asked, "Why?"

"You don't really believe I murdered them do you?" Bakura asked displaying that irresistible puppy face.

"Bakura! I saw you kill Jackie and Angelina, Bakura. I saw everything."

"But Hana! I didn't kill them!"

"Then who?!" Hana was growing angry. Not at the fact Jackie and Angelina were dead but because Bakura was denying something he did do. She was sure it was Bakura her violets saw murdered the two girls. It had to be him.

"But it wasn't me! I swear Hana! It wasn't me!"

"Bakura I saw everything! You were right there! You even said you hated Jackie and Angelina!"

"But I didn't hate them that much to actually kill them."

"Bakura, it was you! It's not like anybody could have framed you! It isn't as if you had an evil spirit in you that....." Her voice trailed off. Yami Yugi's words crept into her mind. His words that were about Millennium Items and evil spirits. Like his words about the evil sprit in Bakura's ring.......

"Oh .... God..... It was....."

Bakura nodded. "It was Yami Bakura."

Hana collapsed on the floor in shame. She buried her face in her hands as she mumbled loudly, "I'm such an awful friend! I immediately believed you were actually a murderer without even asking about your side of the story! I accused you for being a murderer! I'm such a horrible friend! I'm so sorry, Bakura! So sorry......"

"It's okay, Hana. Not even I knew it was he until now. I couldn't control him. He took complete control of my body without me knowing."

Hana stood up and tried her best to get rid of her scrunched up face. "Then how did you know something was going to happen in the bathroom?"

Bakura shrugged. "I saw the two girls following after you. Angelina looked pretty mad and was yelling at Travis and she kept mentioning your name for something. I knew something might go wrong. The last thing I remembered was storming into the girls' room and loosing complete control. My hands began choking Angelina automatically. I had no control. Then I felt like somebody crushed my conscious. And then- I was blacked out. I woke up when I felt my body hit the last step I landed on the stairs."

Hana walked over to the window, her eyes following the remaining whirlwind of petals. "But even if it was Yami Bakura, how can he do all of that?" She shuddered at the thought at what Yami Bakura really might have done to the two girls. She shook her head and quickly added, "Let's forget about that."

She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, trying to really mean what she was going to say next. Keeping a promise not to say anything about "Bakura" murdering Jackie and Angelina was pretty hard. Remembering all what happened and trying to keep it tucked in a far, forgotten corner of her mind is too much. But she knew if she told on Bakura, he had no defense against the authorities. Who would believe the fact that some evil spirit possessed Bakura momentarily to slaughter two teens?

Exhaling her breath and turning around, Hana softly said, "I promise I won't tell anybody about what happened. Okay?" A silence followed and when Hana opened her violets, nobody else was in the room.

"Bakura?" Hana headed to the door and peeked out but didn't saw Bakura at all in the hallways. A shadow crept over Hana and sent shivers down her back. "Bakura?"

Hana gasped as somebody harshly grabbed her wrist and threw her onto the medical bed. The person jumped on Hana and wrapped his arm around her neck, chocking her.

When she finally got a glance on who was hurting her, she screamed. "You're Yami Bakura!"

"Hush you foolish girl! You better not tell anybody what happened or else!" he hissed.

"Or what?!" Hana growled. She was at first fearful, but it all drained away replaced with shear angriness. She was mad at this evil creature for taking over Bakura's body and cause the poor boy to go on a murder spree. It was his fault sweet Bakura was injured.

"Or this!" His nails grew long and sharp. He traced along her neck with one of his nails. He stopped at her throat and chuckled. "Do you want to have the same fate like those two pathetic girls?"

The thought slapped Hana. "So that was how you killed Jackie! It wasn't only the stairs, it was-"

"I shredded her chest open," Yami Bakura breathed hoping to calm Hana under a dangerous, "seductive" spell.

"Well you're getting nowhere near my chest with those nasty claws of yours!" Hana shrieked knocking the evil spirit off her with a hard kick.

Yami Bakura tumbled to the floor giving Hana a chance to get off the bed and stomp on his neck with her foot. "Die you idiotic ass! Die, die, d- "

"Hana stop!"

Hana froze. She immediately stepped away from Bakura as he got up on his knees, choking.

"Bakura! You're back!" She kneeled next to him and tightly embraced him. "I'm so sorry, Bakura! I totally forgot even though I'm yelling at Yami Bakura, I'm really injuring you. I'm so sorry! I always have to ruin everything! If I never came to Domino High, Travis would have never whistled and get Angelina mad at me! It's my entire fault you're hurt! Oh Bakura, if I didn't came here then you will be all right and-"

"Don't say that!" Bakura shouted, hugging Hana with such incredible force it almost knocked the air out of her. "Don't say that, Hana! Don't say it was your fault you came here! Everything will be dull if you didn't come here! Please blame me instead! Don't blame yourself!"

"I'm not going anywhere, Bakura," Hana soothed. She helped him on the bed but this time it wasn't as hard as before.

The bell rang and alerted Hana. "Oh no! That was the second bell! I already missed English and if I don't hurry, I'll miss lunch with the guys!"

"See you later, Bakura." Hana was about to leave the Nurse's Office but stopped when somebody gently tugged her hand.

She turned and saw Bakura's eyes filled with such sorrowfulness; her heart fell rock bottom just staring into those pleading, chocolate eyes.

"Yes Bakura?" she whispered after a matter of seconds.

"Please don't tell anybody what happened. I know they will soon figure out about Jackie and Angelina being dead but don't tell them my Yami or I did this. They won't believe you and me if I tell them an ancient spirit did all of this. Please don't tell anybody. Please believe everything that I told you that are true. Please?" He looked and sounded like a little three-year-old boy who pleaded his older sister not to tell his parents about something he did wrong.

"Bakura." Hana embraced Bakura and since he seemed shorter than her 'cause he was sitting on the bed while she was standing, she let her head rest on top of his, her soft, brown hair flowing down on Bakura.

They stayed in this position for a while until somebody called the violet-eyed's name.
"Hana?"

Hana released Bakura and looked over at the doorway where the blond- haired was standing.

Her face flushed a deep red. Not because the blonde saw her and Bakura but because who the blonde was.

"H-hey Joey."

"Hello Joey. Your girlfriend was just about to leave," Bakura quickly said covering up what happened.

"Hell yeah she's my girl," Joey almost shouted.

Hana gave him a weird look but then laughed.

"C'mon Joey. Out," Hana gently pushed Joey to the door and added, "Aren't you going to show me the best part of the tour?"

Joey grinned his cheesy smile. "Yup. Time for lunch! The King of food fights is about to show you my kingdom!"

Hana laughed. "Okay, O Lord of Food fights. Wait for me outside. I'll be there in a bit."

"Okay," Joey said as he left the room.

Hana turned and saw Bakura was now facing the window.

She came towards him and rested her head on his like before, taking him by surprise. "I promise Bakura," she softly whispered in his ear. She gave Bakura a small kiss on his cheek and said so low and whispery, "I promise."

Bakura didn't want Hana to leave him. He wanted this moment to last forever. But he then remembered how Joey was deeply in love with Hana and she was deeply in love with him. Even though they weren't officially a couple because of both of them ignoring the facts, he knew there was no way he can break such a strong bond that existed.

He let out a sigh and as if Hana was reading his mind, she said, "I know Bakura. But we're true friends and I promise."

She gave his hand a squeeze and even though Bakura silently didn't want her to, she left the room but not before saying, "Feel better okay?"

Bakura was soon alone with his thoughts. He gazed out the window tracing his cheek where Hana kissed him.

Despite the sadness that curtained his heart, he smiled that Hana at least sort of knows the way he feels about her.

But will she ever feel the same way and return the feelings?

Will she ever understand?

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"Mmmmmmm. Cold sushi is good. Yummy," the violet-eyed said in a sarcastic tone popping another fishy treat in her mouth.

"You should have bought the school lunch. Man, you think just because those lunch ladies are mad old that they make bad food but girl, they make the best lunch ever!" the blonde declared stuffing his face with fried chicken.

Hana shrugged. "I thought maybe the food here would suck."

Joey shook his head and gave her a fake frown. "C'mon Hana. The food here at Joey's food kingdom is the best! Why would you think it might suck?"

Hana laughed and playfully (but gently) poked Joey with her fork. "Well you should have told me before I came here. I guess I'll just have to wait till next time to try this "great" food."

"You're not going to wait," Joey said taking another bite of his lunch.

"You want to buy me lunch?" Hana joked.

"Nah. It's best when you just try the food for free."

"So you want to try stuffing your shirt with food to secretly smuggle it here?"

Joey shook his head. "Nooo."

Hana dropped her fork on her crinkled foil. "So what are you going to do to get me to try out the cafeteria food for free?"

"This." Joey took a drumstick and stuck it in her mouth.

"Joey no-" But the huge piece of chicken was already in her mouth.

Hana's face suddenly had a pleased expression on and she licked her lips when she was done. "Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!! That was delicious!!!!!!"

Joey laughed. "I told you the food here was the best!"

Joey Wheeler and Hana Taylor sat in the overcrowded cafeteria snacking on their treats. They were waiting for the rest of their gang.

Hana popped another sushi piece in her mouth and slightly chew. She titled her a bit and was lost in her thoughts.

"Hey Hana? You there?" Joey asked waving his hand in front of the violet-eyed's face.

She shook her head and made a face. A gagging noise escaped her throat and she chocked out the chewed sushi.

"Ugh, I don't know how I can eat this! It's all frozen," Hana complained. She took her sushi and wrapped it in napkins.

Joey watched as Hana scrunched it up in a ball. She sighed and took a sip of her drink. Her face twisted in disgust.

"Ugh, this grape soda sucks! Oh it tastes like dirt!" Hana crammed the balled up food and drink into her brown paper bag.

She closed her eyes and leaned back in her chair.

"You're hungry aren't you? You didn't eat anything," Joey said, poking Hana's stomach.

"Ow! Don't poke me!" She laughed holding her stomach.

"I'll buy you something," Joey insisted getting up. As soon as he stood, voices called out to him.

"Hey! Joey! Hana! Over here!"

The two teens turned their heads to find Téa followed by the rest of the gang.

"Here Hana." Joey handed the violet-eyed his lunch tray. "Go follow the guys. I'm going to get your lunch," Joey said walking away towards the lunch line.

"Okay but get me a salad," Hana called out to him.

She approached her friends and greeted them.

"C'mon, we're going outside to eat our lunches. Where's Joey going?" the sapphire eyed asked watching the blonde head to the lunch lines.

"He's getting me some lunch," Hana replied, following the gang outside.

They found an empty table, which was tucked beneath some shade.

"Mmmm. The weather is so nice......" Téa mumbled titling her head towards the sun.

"The pizza has extra cheese than usual," Yugi stated taking a bite of his pizza.

Hana's stomach rumbled and she sweat dropped. "Just mentioning food makes me hungry!"

"If Joey is buying you lunch, then what was that brown paper bag at your table?" Duke asked taking a sip of his orange juice.

"That was my lunch. But I barely ate it. The sushi was frozen solid and the grape soda tasted bad!" Hana made a fake choking sound and laughed.

"You don't like the lunch I made you?" Tristan asked with a fake hurtful look on.

"You made me that lunch?!" Hana exclaimed, surprised.

"Uhuh. I made the sushi and the grape soda," Tristan stated pointing at his own lunch. "See? I made the same thing for me also."

Hana stuck her tongue out. "The food you make sucks, Tristan." She laughed to show Tristan it was a joke.

"Hey guys." The blonde walked up to the table holding a lunch tray. "Here Hana." He handed the violet eyed her lunch.

Hana's eyes lit up at what Joey brought her. Her tray held two jumbo sloppy Joes, a large plate overflowing with chili fries, two cans of cherry cream soda, and four king size chocolate bars, and a small plate of salad.

"Thanks for buying me lunch, Joey but I don't think I'll eat this much," Hana laughed.

Joey grinned goofily as he took a seat next to Hana.

Téa frowned at Hana's tray. "Ugh. How will you eat all that?"

"She'll eat it like she always eat food. Like this," Joey said and he took one of Hana's sloppy Joes and took a bite from it.

He wiped his mouth with a napkin and said jokingly, "You see Téa? Easy like that. Bite, chew, swallow. Want me to show you again?"

Téa stuck her tongue out in disgust. "No, thank you. I think I just lost my appetite."

"Relax Téa. You can't loose your appetite with what you're eating," Hana said surveying Téa's tray. On the tray were one tuna sandwich, a small bottle of orange juice, and a plastic bag of seeds.

"I can manage with my healthy lunch, thank you very much," Téa scoffed. She took a handful of seeds and tossed them in her mouth. She made a face and forced herself to swallow. "That's strange........" She took the bag and read the label. "Ew! These aren't sunflower seeds! These are birdseeds! I must have taken the wrong bag this morning!"

Everybody at the table laughed except for Téa and Yugi. Yugi's face remained slightly serious. "You should really eat more than that, Téa." Yugi began taking a candy bar from Hana but stopped. "It's okay-?"

Hana nodded. "Go right ahead."

"Thanks." Yugi took the bar and tossed it at Téa.

"Well, I'm sort of craving for sugar," Téa said uncertainly.

"Go ahead. Eat up, Téa," Hana said through bites of her burger.

"K." Téa unwrapped her bar and began eating it.

"Have anybody heard anything from Serenity? It's been a while since we talked to her," Duke stated ripping the crusts off his sandwich with his teeth.

Everybody else at the table sweat dropped.

"Gggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!! When will you understand?! Serenity is MINE! So back off, Duke!!" Tristan growled. He smashed Yugi's juice box, which caused the juice to spurt out all over on Duke.

"My apple juice........." Yugi uttered slightly sadly.

"Hey! You guys aren't even dating," Duke shouted back. He quickly stood up and shot Tristan a dirty look.

"What are you talking about?! The chick is my girlfriend! And you say we're not dating?!" Tristan shot back.

Duke snorted. "Please! You know how she can't resist my charms. Now who's her boyfriend?!"

"Why you-"

"Hey, hey, hey!! Break it up!" Joey said getting up from his seat. He immediately held back Tristan who was just about to beat Duke to a pulp.

Duke smirked and took his seat. "That cherry bunny is mine."

Tristan cursed beneath his breath and took his seat. Everybody let out a sigh of relief glad the boys stopped their bickering. But the tension remained in the air and Duke tempted to make it stronger.

"You know," Duke began pulling a cherry out of a plastic bag. "Serenity laid her beautiful eyes on me first." He took the cherry and rolled it around in the palm of his right hand.

"What do you mean hotshot!" Tristan sneered. "I was the one that stood by her side when she was recovering from her operation!"

"True," Duke continued. "But did she really believed it was you?"

"'Cause I told her," Tristan muttered through clenched teeth. He wanted to pound Duke. How dare he act like Serenity was all his when she was already dating Tristan?

"True," Duke repeated with a renewing smirk. "But after I told her I was really the one who helped her through the pain she was experiencing and you were just a liar, who did she believed then?"

"Yeah like she believed you," Tristan muttered.

"Remember this, dimwit." Duke took the cherry and popped in into his mouth. He smoothly chewed it and he let cherry juice run down his chin. "The lovely cherry bunny," he swallowed the tasty fruit and licked his lips. "Is mine."

Hana felt like she was going to explode of laughter. They were turning a little argument into war. Who knew the lunch table can be used as a battlefield?

She didn't want it turn to a real fight so to start some fun, she took her cherry soda and shook it really hard and at the same time, a troubling joke was beginning to brew.

"Hey Duke? Do you like cherries?" Hana asked. There was a sparkle in her violet orbs. Joey immediately noticed it.

He glanced Hana a curious look, but she ignored it and went on with her prank.

Duke narrowed his eyes. He seemed to sense something was up, but he ignored it. "Yes....." he answered slowly. "Didn't you just here what I said? Didn't you see me eat my cherry?"

"So do you want one of cherry sodas?" Hana asked, trying to act casual. She hid the soda behind her and shook it continuously.

Duke's expression quickly lightened up. "Sure!"

The smile on Hana's face grew. "Alright. Catch!" She threw the can with such incredible force, it smacked Duke's forehead. The soda can exploded the creamy drink all over the raven-haired. The group roared with laughter and Joey gave Hana a high five.

"That sure makes me feel better!" Tristan laughed, giving his cousin thumbs up.

After a while of laughing, Hana glanced at her wristwatch and stood up. "I got to go. My next class is going to start soon."

"Aaaaawww! Already?" Joey gave Hana his famous puppy eyes.

Hana laughed. "Hey buster. Classes starts for you too. You better get a move on."

"Aw, I'll be there in a sec," Joey said so surely; Hana actually believed he'll make it to class for a second.

"Well, you might not care about being on time to class, but apparently I do," Téa said, standing up and brushing the breadcrumbs off her skirt. "C'mon Hana."

The violet eyed took the last sips of her creamy beverage and tossed some chili fries in her mouth. "Thanks again for the lunch, Joey. I promise I'll pay you back as soon as possible." She waved at the boys at the table. "K. Bye boys," Hana called to the boys over her shoulder as she began walking away with the sapphire eyed.

"Bye," the boys chorused together.

Tristan snickered. "So Duke. Do you like cherries?" he said imitating his cousin's voice.

"Shut up," Duke muttered, dabbing his uniform with napkins.

The other boys at the group laughed as Duke cursed silently.

"You know what. Hana reminds me of you, Joey. Always cracking up a joke when tension is in the air," Yugi said.

Tristan nodded. "Yeah. Just like you, Joey. Man, you guys are perfect for each other."

"Yeah....." Joey leaned back and closed his eyes. "Just perfect with each other."

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After finishing packing her books and waving good-bye to Téa, Hana walked down the now-filling hallway on her way to History. To her disappointment, she didn't share History class with anybody, leaving her on her own.

Turning a corner, Hana soon realized she had no clue where the History room was. Slapping her forehead for forgetting to ask Téa for help, Hana continued her way until she stood at a stairwell. She froze. Just looking down at what seemed like never ending steps, made her remember Jackie's death. How Yami Bakura controlled Bakura unnoticeably and jumped and shredded Jackie apart as she fell to her death. Hana shuddered. 'I just saw somebody commit murder right in front of me. I just saw somebody being murder. I just witnessed death.'

"Hey!"

Hana jolted sharply out of her thoughts. It was the principal, shouting in a fake angry voice to hurry up to class to groups of chattering students.

Hana knew she had to hurry, but she had no clue where to go. Staring down at the staircase, she held her breath and hurried down the stairs. But as she reached the bottom, her strides became uneasy and she bumped right into somebody.

"Oh I'm sorry!" She looked up to see whom she had bumped into and found herself staring in midnight mist eyes. She felt as if though the mist enveloped her and the young male to a different world. She wondered whom these mystical orbs belonged to which were so seductive, so dangerous, so-

"Are you going to stand there all day or are you going to get out of my way!"

The sharp and angry voice cut through her thoughts and snapped her back to reality. Midnight mist eyes? Yeah right! What she first thought were so sexy and risky were now icy stones.

Hana shook her head and looked up and down at the male figure. The fact slapped her right in the face.

She bumped into Seto Kaiba!

"Well?!"

"Uh. I'm sorry. I-"

"Look girl, I have no time for apologies. You're just making me late for History. Now move!" He grabbed her arm and pulled her out of the way. He went up the steps as if he owned the place.

Hana felt like as if though an iceberg went through her. She wasn't going to let some snobby rich kid push her around!

"Hey!" Hana called out after him.

"What is it now?!" Kaiba snapped. He jerked his head around and stared at her with his narrowed icy blues.

"Look," she started, her calmness trying to hide her anger. "I'm new here. You can at least show me where the History room is instead of walking around as if you're the King of the World!"

Kaiba smirked. "Then get a map." He continued up the stairs not looking back at the furious teen.

"C'mon Kaiba!" Hana ran up the stairs staying two steps behind Kaiba. "I know there's some kindness in that cold, black hearts of yours! Please show me the way." She quickened her pace and stood in front of Kaiba staring at him with a phony sweet and pleading expression.

"I have no time for this!" He pushed her away and continued walking, now in a hallway, taking longer and rapid strides.

"Kaiba! Please! Pretty, pretty please!!!!!!!!"

Hana followed Seto Kaiba bothering him to show her the way.

Kaiba stepped into a classroom and whirled around to face Hana. "Look girl! I have a class to attend to and you're just getting in my way."

"Thank you!!!!!"

"What?!" Kaiba was dumfounded at the suddenly joyful teen.

"Thank you for showing me the way to History class! I really appreciate it!" Hana laughed in Kaiba's face.

"Huh?!" He soon realized he was leading Hana to the room all along!

Hana let out another laughed. "Do you actually think I'll give up that easy? Ha! I tricked you, Kaiba, into showing me where the room is. Thank you very much, Seto Kaiba!" She stood with her hands on her hips, sticking out her tongue.

"Why you little-"

"Please excuse our interruptions, but we need students to enter the auditorium promptly in an orderly fashion. Thank you," the intercom boomed suddenly disrupting the yammering students.

Strange, Hana thought. The secretary's voice sounded so hoarse and weary. It came out so stuffed and had such stifled breathing. Was she crying?

The pupils started whispering to one another and scurry out of the classroom in huddle gatherings.

"Class, settle down. Class!" the History teacher, Mr. Burns, tried to shout over the students' excited voices. He banged his metal ruler against his desk, but not even that stopped the students into flooding into the hallways and scatter to the auditorium.

Maybe they also heard how uneasy the secretary's voice was, Hana thought, but when she heard the wailing sirens and saw the flashing red and blue lights, it occurred to her that they were thrilled 'cause something happened at the school which must considered police.

She was about to leave the room until somebody grabbed her wrist.

She was twirled around and soon met glacial ices.

"I'll remember you, girl. Next time, stay out of my way!" Kaiba hissed, his grip on her wrist growing.

"Let go of my arm," Hana growled.

"Are you listening to me?! We will never meet again, and if we do, that encounter won't be so easy going as this one."

"Let go!" Hana murmured angrily, her violets reflecting flames of abhorrence.

"Got that, girl!"

"Let-"

"Are you paying attention to me!"

"Me-"

"You better be li-"

"Go!" Hana's fingers tightly wrapped around Kaiba's hand, and she jerked his arm towards her mouth. She opened her mouth, bared her teeth, and bit Kaiba's arm!

Kaiba immediately liberate her and winced, his face twisting with confusion, then pain, then irritation.

"You little-" As Kaiba said this he swung his hand to her face. But Hana knew better and ducked out of the way just in time making Seto miss and slap thin air instead.

Kaiba grabbed her again with fury. His fingers dug in her skin.

"Stupid girl," Kaiba muttered.

"My name isn't girl, it's Hana. And I pray our paths never meet again," Hana snapped, her violets glaring back the same hatred and revulsion Seto gave her.

Seto yanked her closer to him, his hot breath heating up her face. "I swear if we ever meet again, you'll regret ever standing in my way," he huffed in her face. With that, he heaved Hana towards a row of desks causing her to topple over the seats and onto the floor. He exited the room, his trench coat flapping behind him.

"Bastard," Hana mumbled, getting up from the carpeted ground. Her eyes shifted to her wrist. A crimson red mark scarred her wrist and pain throbbed through it.

She sprinted out of the room and to the assembly.

Crowds of students were crammed in the room complaining about how hot it was.

Somebody reached out and wrapped freezing, cold fingers around Hana's wrist.

She yelped. "Let go of me, Kaiba!"

"Kaiba?" She twirled around and found herself staring at a dumbfounded Tristan.

"Tristan!" Hana let out a sigh of relief. "I thought you were somebody else."

"Seto Kaiba?" Tristan asked, raising an eyebrow.

Hana nodded. "Yeah." Tristan eyes altered around and soon noticed the wound around his cousin's wrist. He reached out to touch it, but Hana pulled her hand away. "Let's just say he made it clear that I stood in his way."

Tristan's eyes widened. "He harmed you?!"

His cousin shook her head, her violets vibrating with annoyance. "I have it under control, cous. I'll make sure we never meet in any way again."

Tristan reached out and softly clutched his cousin's arm. His eyes shot around Hana's wound and his fingers trailed along her wrist. His eyes burned with anger. "He dared laid his hands on my cousin!"

He released her arm, and he began running through the crowds of students.

"Tristan, where are you going?" Hana called after him.

"I'm going to show him he should never mess with me or my family! If he has a problem with you, he has to answer to me!" Tristan replied, and soon disappeared among the seas of people.

Hana sighed and walked towards an empty row of chairs. She took a seat and massaged the scratch, which continued to sore. She hated the way Tristan treated her like a baby. She was old enough to take care of herself. Just because she was a year younger than him didn't give him the excuse to treat her like child. He was sixteen and she was fifteen. What's the huge difference? Sometimes she felt like she had to baby-sit him on how immature he could be at times. But she then remembered how comforting he could be. She remembered how a couple of years ago, she woke up from a mind- twisting dream. Shadows were chasing her down a dark alley, threatening her. When she ran into the dead end, the shadows were enclosing on her, swallowing her every breath and choking the life out of her. Using the last bits of breath, she screamed on top of her lungs. Instead of feeling cold hands wrap around her, she felt a warm embrace radiating comfort through her. The dream was over and she was wide-awake, letting out stuffed weeps. "Don't cry, Hanaita," Tristan soothed, using Hana's nickname. "I'm here. Nobody is going to hurt you. Nobody." He stayed with her all night, calming her to sleep. But that was so long ago, and Tristan never calls Hana by her childhood nickname, anymore. Everything changed yet, were the same......

Somebody forced out a cough and said impatiently, "Uh hello? When are you going to stop ignoring me?" It was Téa.

Hana snatched her mind out of her thoughts and glanced up. Téa stood in front of her, her hands on her hips.

"Hey Téa," Hana replied swiftly, returning her stare to her redden wrist.

"You okay? I've been standing here for, like, five minutes repeating the same thing over again. Gosh, I felt like some sort of zombie," Téa said, taking a seat next to her best friend.

"Uhuh. Just fine." The words scraped against the roof of her mouth and stuck there like peanut butter. Hana wasn't paying attention so the words automatically rolled out after it shifted free from rough lips.

"The assembly haven't begun yet, but I have a clue what all this might be about," Téa responded, ignoring the fact Hana wasn't paying any attention to her.

"Oh, really," Hana answered absentmindedly.

"I heard two girls were found dead in the hallways." She shook her head gloomily. "That's sad, isn't it?"

The words pinned down the violet's mind and shoved themselves into her head, invading her.

"Jackie and Angelina......" Hana stared straight ahead at nothing particular.

"What?" Téa turned her head and stared at her best friend. "How did you know? Did somebody tell you?"

"Who told you about this?" Hana asked, her eyes filling with fear instead of sadness like expected.

Téa shrugged. "A group of girls told me. Why?"

A group of girls told her. A girl was first to discover Jackie's body. Did she also see Hana and Bakura? Was there anybody else watching them? She needed to get answers.

"Téa, who were in the group?" Hana asked eagerly to get her respond.

"How the heck I'm supposed to know? It isn't as if I stopped to see whom was I talking to. I just heard parts of their conversation and they simply told me somebody found McCauley and Baxter's dead bodies." Téa eyed Hana suspiciously. "Why do you care so much? You don't even know who Jackie McCauley and Angelina Baxter are, do you?"

"No, of course not," Hana answered in a low whisper. "I don't know anything about them." Except, Hana thought, almost everybody here hates 'em and Yami Bakura murdered them. That's all I know. And I wish I didn't know them at all.

"Damn," Téa muttered. "When are they going to begin? They're taking so long. I'm bored out of my mind." She slammed her heel against the back of the metal chair in front of her.

"Are they questioning anybody?" Hana asked still into the topic of this whole murder case she knows practically everything about already.

Téa gave Hana her suspicious eye. "Yyeahh. How else will the police know whom murdered Angelina and Jackie? There barely is any evidence. I heard they washed away the blood off the stairs." She leaned back in her chair with her eyes closed. "They could have found something there, but they sort of blew it, huh. So now the only options they have is to ask questions." She folded her hands under her head as she shook it. "The cops here are sort of slow, ya know." She opened one of her sapphire eyes and added, "Of course you don't know since you're new here." She rapidly opened both her eyes and jerked her head in the direction where Hana once stood. "Hey Hana! Where ya goin'?"

Hana called over her shoulder, "I got something important to do. See ya later!" With that she dashed out of the auditorium.

"Weird," Téa murmured under her breath. "Great. What am I suppose to do now?" She thumped her heel once again against the chair.

"Would you mind?!"

"Huh?" Téa lifted her gaze and saw Seto Kaiba- who turned out to be the person sitting in front of her- fuming.

Kaiba smirked. "Well, well, well. Isn't it the friendship preacher? Why am I not surprise?" he said in more of a statement than a question.

"Zip it, snob. And I'm not a friendship preacher." Now it was her turn to leer. "But of course you only call me that 'cause you're jealous I have friends and you don't even know what friendship is."

"Don't you dare-"

"Don't I dare what, Kaiba?" Téa stood up and leaned in on Seto, her breath touching his face. "You gonna try hurt me with one of your macho moves? Then bring it on, rich boy."

"You wouldn't want to say that."

"Oh really? Why?"

"'Cause-"

"There you are, Kaiba! I've been looking everywhere for you. But now that I found you, I'm going to beat your ass down!"

Both Kaiba and Téa turned and found Tristan with fury written all over his face.

He stepped forward and grabbed Kaiba's collar.

Téa gasped. "Tristan! What are you doing?"

"It's time this idiot knows when his time is up!"

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Hana continued her way through the hallways, frequently renovating her rapid breathing to apologize to people she mindlessly collided into but never slowing down her pace.

She finally skidded to a halt outside the principal's office where police were handcuffing somebody.

Her heart skipped three beats and her breath was cut short.

They were arresting Bakura!

"Noo!!!!" She sprinted towards the cops and wrenched their hands away from Ryou. "Please, don't arrest Bakura! He didn't do anything wrong!"

"What are you talking about, Miss?" the policeman asked as he and his partner released Ryou Bakura.

"Hana?" Bakura peered down at Hana with a bewilder expression. He remembered the police still present and asked them if he can have a moment with Hana.

"Hana," Bakura whispered, "What's wrong?"

"Oh Bakura! I can't let them take you away!" Hana shouted, her face turning into shades of pink.

"Hana, they aren't taking me to the station. They were just checking me over for any weapons. That's all. Look." He glanced over at the police officers that were exchanging distrustful stares. He lowered his voice so only he and Hana can hear. "Nothing's wrong so don't worry. I promise I'll be okay."

But Hana couldn't believe that. "Bakura, these are the police we're talking about! They can find a way to get the info out of you." You're also too much of a nice guy and you will probably tell them without noticing, Hana thought, and the words threatened to escape her lips and flow out of her throat. She shook her head and cried, "You're not honestly going to let them question you, are you?"

"Hana." Bakura took both her hands and gave them a warm squeeze. "I promise everything will be alright. Okay?"

"Okay," Hana finally agreed now in the depths of defeat of assuring Bakura not to go with the officials.

"Excuse me, Miss, Sir," one of the policemen said, wiggling in- between Bakura and Hana. "We have to continue with the investigation. You do want us to find who's the murderer here, don't you?" He raised an eyebrow at Hana.

She shook her head and began walking away. "Of course. Continue with your work then." She walked away but froze in her tracks when one of the policemen called in a rough voice, "Where do you think you're going?"

Hana turned her head around but planned to keep walking. "I'm going back to the auditorium for the assembly."

"Oh no, you're not. You're going to stand here and wait for you're turn," he scoffed, his eyes enveloped in glare.

"Right," Hana answered in a tranquil voice. "I'll wait."

The police once again took Bakura by the wrist and drag him into the office.

As soon as they were out of sight Hana turned away and darted through the hallway, not knowing where exactly she's heading off to. But one thing was for sure: she wasn't going to be anywhere near the police.

I only saw the murder scene, I didn't actually take part in it in anyway, Hana said repeatedly in her head. "Then why do I feel so guilty?"

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She sunk her white teeth into the small pink eraser and let the metallic taste of rubber coat her tongue. She then pulled it out of her mouth, spitted out the sickening flavor, and inserted it back to her mouth to keep her busy.

There was nothing else to do but think.

He could tell them that he himself killed them. He wouldn't mention Yami Bakura 'cause they won't believe that and he might not mention me 'cause he wants to protect me.

She sighed and gave in to the taste, letting her teeth shred the rubbery tool.

He's so nice. Not like that Seto Kaiba. I always knew he was famous for his riches and, according to some girls I know, great looks. Eh, but of course he's also conceited and the only people he cares about is his little brother, Mokuba. But maybe- she yanked the wooden instrument out of her mouth and spitted out the eraser with the metal end and watched it bounce across the desk- but maybe he is a nice guy. I only know him universally. It's not like I actually know who he is for real life. Maybe I should talk to him. I'll tell him we started with a bad beginning. And we might actually become friends.

She let out a snort and bit into the wooden end of the writing tool.

Yeah right.

Seto Kaiba and Ryou Bakura. Both were part of some kind of trouble. S.K. was trying to hurt me and he actually succeeded in it, and R.B. has some psycho spirit in him who will kill anybody who messed with the Millennium Ring....and he actually succeeded with it.

Is there any boy out there who won't spread or 'cause or come with any trouble every time he's with me?

She shut her eyelids, but they shot open quicker than a flash of light. She rubbed her head and leaned back in her chair.

That image. Is he always there every time I close my eyes? No. That's impossible isn't it?

She closed her eyes again and massaged her neck. But the picture floated before her eyes and she didn't feel like opening her eyes. Why do that? And cancel this sort of feeling zinging through her body? Why? She sunk even deeper in her seat and twirled the bitten end, where the eraser once was, between her lips on the text utensil. Mmmmm. Practically eating up a pencil and daydream of some hot guy she absolutely love can be so.....delicious.

He's calling to me, Hana said in her head as a smile played across her lips. He's calling my name. He's sound so close. So...real.

"Hana? Hana? Ya there?"

"If only you were here with me, Joey."

"Hana, I am here. You don't talk in your sleep, do you?"

Hana opened her eyes and stared up at Joey Wheeler.

"Joey? Where is everybody?"

"Who cares where's everybody. God, I've been looking for you. I was worry the murderer might have gotten you too."

"Oh Joey!" Hana rubbed her eyes and yawned. "Thanks for the concern but I'm alright."

A frown curled up on Joey's lips. "Hey, I was just worried."

"I know you were." She smiled playfully and reached out her hands to him. "May you help me up? My butt hurts just from sitting here."

Joey snickered and jerked Hana out of her seat. "You want me to rub it? I'll be especially glad to."

As soon as she was up, she pulled her hands away from him. "Don't get any ideas."

Joey laughed and embraced Hana in a ticklish hug. "What are you doing here anyway? Almost everybody's gone."

Hana surveyed the empty classroom. After she ran from the police in the principal's office she threw herself in an empty classroom and sat for almost half an hour chewing on her pencil.

"Really? Why is everybody leaving so early? Isn't there like forty- five minutes left?"

Joey shook his head and wrapped his arm around Hana's shoulder but hesitated. She rested her head against his chest giving him silent permission. He swung his arm over her shoulder and led her outside the classroom.

"Weren't you at the assembly? They let us out early to investigate some more." He and Hana made a turn and walked towards her locker. "Wow, Jackie McCauley and Angelina Baxter dead. I don't know whether to celebrate all night with five gallons of beer or be sad-well pretend to be sad anyway."

"You know exactly how I feel and you don't even know how much it's my fault all this happened," Hana murmured, and then realized she made a mistake.

Joey softly pressed Hana against her locker and he stared into her eyes with confusion. "You know who murdered them, Hana?"

"N-no." A light pink scar of nervousness shaded her cheeks. "I-I-"

"Hana, you know you can tell me anything, right?" Joey whispered, his eyes know flooding with sadness.

"Yes. I do. A-and I do know s-something about this slaughter case." She held her breath gathering up the energy she needed just to say the following words. "Don't you dare speak a word, you foolish mortal!"

Now Joey was really puzzled. "Huh?"

Hana jolted away from Joey and gazed up and down the hallway. "H-he's here?" Can Yami Bakura possibly be here and take over my mind? That's impossible. But with everything going on nothing's impossible.

"You okay, Hana?"

Hana sweat dropped just to show Joey she must be hallucinating. "Yeah, I'm okay. I mean I'm acting like there was some sort of monster!" She laughed and threw herself onto Joey. But when she looked, she screamed. "Duke!"

Duke chuckled and wrapped his arms around Hana. "Well, I knew I got the charms. I was wondering when you, just like Serenity, will throw yourself at my feet."

"You wish you had girls follow you all around!" With Hana swung her hand to slap Duke but her hand stopped in midair.

She looked up and watched as Joey pulled her away from Duke. "C'mon Duke. You got to stop acting like girls will do anything just to be with you. You'll never get a girlfriend that way when you're just scaring them off."

Duke crossed his arms against his chest and scoffed, "I'm not scaring them off. You're just saying that 'cause Hana doesn't throw herself on top of you like she does with me!"

"Boy, you say that again and I'll knock all your teeth out!" Hana growled ready to smack Duke again but Joey once again stopped her.

"Dude, the girl almost slapped you! Are you blind!"

"You're just jealous."

"Jealous! I'm the one with a date to the dance unlike you, smart guy! Who you taking? You're m-" Hana cuffed Joey's mouth with her hand to stop him from saying what he was going to say next.

"Guys, getting each other infuriated is not going to help out." Hana removed her hand away from Joey thinking he won't continue to strengthen the tension. Then again, who said he was serene?

"Look, Duke," Joey growled, "the next time you say something like that to Hana, I'll beat you're freaking ass!"

Duke stuck his nose in the air. "Talk how much you want, Joey. I still have your sister."

"Duke, you know my cousin is dating Serenity," Hana interrupted the silence.

Duke snorted. "Oh yeah? Well your cousin just got in trouble for trying to beat up the infamous Seto Kaiba."

"What!"

Duke nodded and Joey looked on confused. "Really? I didn't hear anything."

"Maybe 'cause your deaf!" Duke yelled, but Hana shushed him.

"Anyway, Tristan came up to Kaiba and he just began beating him up."

"Oh wow." Hana shook her head. "This is ridiculous! Where's Tristan? I want to go home now."

"He's at my office being treated."

The teens looked down the hallway and watched the nurse approach them. "If you guys know why Tristan Taylor was in this fight with Seto Kaiba, you better tell me now." Her voice was strict and her eyes narrowed in annoyance. "Well?"

"Well, what does that have to do with how my cousin got hurt?" Hana snapped with her hands on her hips.

Duke and Joey stared at Hana wide-eyed.

"What did you say?" the nurse asked, rage rising in her voice.

"I said, what does knowing the reason Tristan got into the fight with Kaiba has anything to do on the way he's injured? You're a nurse, aren't you? You're only suppose to help your patient out, not ask questions." A look of regret spread on Hana's face. "Oh God." She stepped back and stroked her forehead. "What am I doing?" She glanced around at the now bewildered Duke and Joey and the impatient nurse. "I-I gotta go."

"Hey, wait." The nurse took a step up to Hana and examined her face closely. Her eyes widened in realization. "Hey, wait! You're that girl who was at my office today! You were the one that came in with that white- haired student! Ryou Bakura was his name. You came in after that girl reported the dead bodies! You-" She squinted her eyes as if trying to find out some sort of hidden secret. "You know something about the murder we don't know, don't you?"

"No! I don't know anything about the murder! What murder? I don't know anything!" Hana broke away from the stare and began running towards the exit of the school.

"Come back here!"

"Hana, come back! Why are you running? Hana!" Joey shouted after her. He then glared at the nurse and began chasing after his friend.

"Ya know," Duke began to the nurse, walking after Joey and Hana, "You could be more helpful and make the new girl feel welcome here."

She sighed, closed her eyes, and leaned sideways against a locker. "Ya know, Mr. Devlin," she mocked his, in her opinion, disrespectful tone. She took a breath and continued on, "I have a feeling some people and some events haven't been welcoming to her today."

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They can't get me. They can't find me. I'll run, run, run. And I'll hide. And nobody will find me. Nobody.

Hana dashed through the streets not knowing where she was going.

I gotta get home. I gotta get home and stay away from everyone. But where's home? Where's that true place I can finally feel....safe in.

She crossed the street, weaving between cars with their intolerant drivers.

Nothing's right. This day was supposed to be one of the best days in my life. Going to a new school, meeting new people, being a new person.....

She began slowing down her pace.

But I'm not being a new person. I'm being me, myself, Hana Taylor. And I'm proud of that. But being proud of who am I is not going to help me when everything around me isn't being themselves.

She stopped and leaned against a white fence that went around a house.

How many times do I have to tell myself-

She crushed several posies with her foot.

-that things are the same but there's things to be aware of?

Sirens blasted the air and almost sent Hana's head spinning.

No, no, no!!!!!! No more police!!!!!!! Please!!!

But police cars drove wildly along the road and made a sharp turn.

Hey wait- They're turning on Tristan's street!

Hana began running until she reached the road. She gasped. There were police surrounding the whole sidewalk!

"What's going on?" she asked to no one precise. A shadow curtained everyone. Hana looked up and saw the sky rapidly turn grayer and grayer covered by fluffs of black clouds. The shade didn't uplifted and it sent a message through Hana's head. She groaned. It was going to rain!

"Rain is just the weather to match my mood," she muttered and didn't know her voice was loud enough for the person near her to answer.

"It's a sign."

"What?" Hana turned to find a male teenager, eighteen or nineteen, staring up at the blacken sky. The black shadows were reflected in his icy blue eyes and the gentle breeze changing into harsh wind tousled his raven black hair.

"The world is crying with me," he replied without looking at Hana.

"Huh?"

"The sky.....it's crying my blue waters."

"Blue waters?"

"My blue waters....are gone. She's left me; and she took my ocean.....my sunlight.....my life....."

"Who-" but Hana words stopped in its track as somebody tugged her arm.

"Serenity!"

"Sorry," the chestnut whispered. Her freezing fingers curled around Hana's wrist and pulled her away from the boy.

"Ow!" Hana howled in pain. She pulled away her hand from Serenity's grasp.

"Sorry." Serenity's eyes quickly located the scar on her friend's arm. "I didn't do that, did I?"

"No! Of course you didn't." Hana's hand shot up to her wrist trying to cover up the wound. "How I got it is a long story." She raised an eyebrow at Serenity's wardrobe. The chestnut wore a blue bikini decorated with pictures of little cherries. A gray towel draped over her shoulders and she was barefoot. "Been swimmin'?"

"And ruin my hair? No way! I just got it washed and straightened just about now. And this bikini?" Serenity spun around as if on the runway. "I've been sunbathing outside my brother's house."

"Shouldn't you be working on school work?" Hana asked, with her arms crossed giving Serenity the "You've been playing all day instead of working right?" eye.

Serenity let out a nervous laugh. "Of course I've been working. But-" she took a glance at the teenage boy who remained staring up at the sky- "after I heard what happened, I couldn't continue."

"What is going on?" Hana asked staring at the policemen who was questioning two adults. They were questioning two adults who looked very..... familiar. Her eyes widened. "Hey! It's my mom and dad!"

She began taking long strides towards her parents but Serenity jerked her back. "Hey-!"

"No!" Serenity seemed worried. "Don't go and start asking questions. C'mon. Let's go over at my brother's house. I have steaming hot chocolate on the stove and sugary bread in the oven and we can forget about all of this and-"

"No." Hana pulled away and stared back at the sky. "Serenity, I need to know what's going on."

Serenity sighed and unexpectedly grabbed Hana again. "You see that bangin' guy over there?" She pointed at the raven haired with red eyes as if he had been crying but ran out of tears and his only options were to stare at, well, nothing. "He's a senior at my school and is the quarterback on our school football team. Girls are begging to get with him." She shook her head sadly. "Who knew we just met his girlfriend yesterday and today they found her dead."

"Whoa!" Hana backed away from her friend and stared at her hard. "Who's dead? Serenity, who exactly are we talking about?"

Serenity looked down at her feet sadly. "Remember when we were at the mall yesterday and Kari Anna gave us a ride?"

Hana had her hands on her hips and repeatedly tapped her foot on the concrete ground. "Yeah, go on."

"Well, after she gave us a ride it is said that she stopped at the gas station to refill her car. And... that was the place she ever was on Earth."

"The girl they found dead.... I heard it this morning." Hana's eyes widen in shock. "Omigod...... It was...."

Serenity nodded. "I know. This is just too much. We might not have really knew her, but she was really nice and she did help us out big time." She brushed her eyes and swallowed back any tears. "I couldn't believe it when I saw it on the news. The reason the police are here is because one of her friends at the mall who was also on break saw us in Aria's car. Since we gave them our phone numbers and addresses at the register for them to send us any catalogs, they knew exactly where to find us. So they're asking people around here questions." She glanced back at Robert and Liliana Taylor. "They didn't ask me questions yet and I hope they don't." She shuddered. "I'm already scared to death, and they don't need another dead person in their funeral home."

"No!" Hana cried. "Don't say that! Already too many people died! And it's probably all my fault they're dead!" Her shoulder heaved up and down and she covered her face with her hands.

"Aw Hana." Serenity embraced her friend in a comfortable hug from the side. "Don't cry. I mean we barely knew much about Aria except that she was an employee at Princess. It isn't ours, and when I say ours I mean Téa, you, and I, fault that she died. Please, don't be sad."

But Hana's face remained crimson-red as more fresh tears formed. "I'm sad because three murders happened today, and I have a strange feeling they happened because of me!"

A puzzled look overcame the chestnut's face. "Three? Only two happened today. Oh Hana, don't go crazy because you heard two other murders on the news and go blaming yourself."

If Hana weren't so miserable, she would have explained Serenity about the killings at school. But she was, and there was no way she could explain that to Serenity now when she was in this state. "I'm sad because I promised a friend something and I'm also being threatened to keep it."

"Somebody's threatening you? That's bad, Hana. We should talk it over, don't you think?"

If only you knew what kind of promise I'm keeping, Hana said in her fogged mind. "And I'm sad because it's as if though everybody is dying 'cause of me and I can't do anything about it!"

"Oh Hana, don't say that," Serenity soothed. "Let's go over at my brother's house and talk this over. Like I said, I have hot chocolate and warm bread in the kitchen. I'm sure that will warm you up. It's getting cold and its going to rain any second now."

But Hana continued sobbing. "Oh Serenity. No scorching drink or pastry is going to help me out. And I don't think I'll ever calm down. I'll remain cold forever!"

"Oh Hana." Serenity embraced her friend tighter.

"She's saying good-bye."

"Huh?" The two girls looked up and saw the raven-haired reaching out his hand in front of him.

"My blue waters are saying good-bye."

"Blue waters?" Hana blinked through her blurry vision.

"Yeah. That's Kari Anna's nickname. They said it matches perfectly with her hair. Only the people close to her call her that. Well that's what I heard her boyfriend said anyway even though I never knew who exactly his girlfriend was."

Blue water? Hana thought. That doesn't match with her hair. I don't even think that's her natural hair color. But then again- she glanced back at Aria's boyfriend- only through the eyes of people who are close to her see that.

"What do you mean she's saying good-bye?" Hana asked, rubbing her redden eyes.

"She's saying good-bye. You see?" The first raindrop came down leisurely. It was different from other water drops Hana saw before. This one glowed with a radiant green and blue beam. It is Aria, Hana thought. And maybe she is saying good-bye.

"She's saying good-bye." As the drop touched Kari Anna's boyfriend's hand, it immediately splashed into crystal-like drops.

"She's saying good-bye," the raven-haired replied again. His icy eyes locked onto Hana's violet orbs. "And she said not to blame to yourself."

------------ FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!! You guys are probably saying the same thing too. Lol. I'm so, so, so, SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sorry I took this long to update. It's just that I've been really busy with things. But I finally got around to finishing this up. I hoped you guys like it. Now my yami will ask me some
questions you might come up with too.

Noriko: "Kari Anna (Aria) is murdered?"

Archery: "Yup." ::sigh:: "I felt sort of bad by killing her off like that. No, the reason I put her in the story isn't I because I wanted to kill her. I put her in 'cause I needed an employee for the store Téa, Serenity, and Hana brought their dresses in. And then I needed somebody our "mystery", (yeah, like you guys haven't figured out who Kari Anna's murderer is. Or you guys don't know. Hhhhhmmmmm), murderer to kill. Was it a big shock to you guys when Aria died or did you expected something like that already?

Noriko: Will there be any love interest between Seto Kaiba and Ryou Bakura?

Archery: Ryou Bakura has a crush on Hana, but Seto Kaiba? Of course not! Just because she thinks she can break through Kaiba's hatred to meet the actual Kaiba, does not mean she has a crush on him or he has a crush on her.

Noriko: Okay and-

Archery: Time's up!

Noriko: Huh?

Archery: Talk to you later, Nori.

Noriko: But you can't take me off my talk show.

Archery: What talk show? It's my fanfic.

Noriko: So? It's my talk show.

Archery: Nu-uh!

Noriko: Yu-uh!

Archery: Well I'm not giving up my fanfic for your "talk show" unless in a fight!

Noriko: Well bring it on!!

Minutes later......

::beaten up:: I'm sort of in a rush now. Now if any of you guys have any more questions, be free to ask! Do you guys think I need to bring up the rating? Please tell me if I need to or not. Well see you later!

Till then peace!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Archery