AN- Ack gomen, for all the typos in my last chapter UU. I see you liked my co authors humor. (If ya read the other reviews you know I reviewed my own story) I'm glad what you like what we've written so far ^^!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is important to know that I switch Povs often. This is because I want to make something more personal. I sincerely hope this dose not turn you off from reading my fic I assure you that even though I don't tell you who is talking is it is easy to tell by the description.

- By the way Dark Elf I don't really think its necessary to have the "entertainment chapter" but I wanted my co author to feel more involved that's all.

~~~~~= A lapse in time okie?

~~~~*~~~~= a change in place

Chapter Three- The truth of you're soul

I could hear the rain outside as I walked into my room. Dropping my things I walked over to my bed and flopped down. I never realized but it was so quiet and alone in my room I guess I was so used to it I never noticed. I sighed and brushed my blonde hair out of my face. Today had been so long, I mean with the new Kaminare girl coming to school and all. It brought to mind the thing that's had been bothering me lately. It was plain to see that even though Yugi was my best friend and even though he did tell me what had been going down lately I felt like he didn't tell me everything there was to tell me, like we were growing apart from eachother. Just thinking about grown apart from my friends made me shudder I don't know what I'd do if I was alone again. From the time I was six to about the time I met Honda in middle school I was alone with nothing to do but wander the streets and pick fights. To tell the truth I although I never let onto it I hated that feeling of being alone and now that I have friends I don't ever want to go back to the way I was. After recalling a little bit I turned over. Using my arms as a pillow I closed my eyes and began to fall asleep.

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As I began to wake I felt frozen drops of water fall on me. The air around me was cold too. I stopped in mid thought; I didn't remember falling asleep anywhere like this. Was I dreaming? I opened my eyes to find I was in an alley. I shielded my eyes when I found out that the cold water that was falling on me was actually rain.

This sucked I didn't know where I was and much less it was raining outside. " Well this is just great," I said softly to myself.

As it turned out I found myself in an alley although I still don't know quite how I got there. Not like it was the first time something totally freaky had happened to me and it wasn't unnatural for me to have bad luck either. I got up onto my feet and walked out into the streets. I looked around it was a complete ghost town nobody seemed to be around it was like I was the only person in this place.

Not like it mattered but I kinda felt creeped out and alone being here. It was nothing new to me but I still hate feeling that way'n all. Suddenly out of no where I start to hear this loud whimpering and crying. Without even thinking I dart in the direction in which it was coming from. While I ran I noticed that I was near the park I also sensed like I had seen all of this before like it was deja vous.

When I had finally reached the park the slight rain around me turned into a sudden down pour. Things just couldn't get worse could they?

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Yugi flipped through his new rulebook for the tournament. No matter how serious his situation was right now he couldn't help but feel excited about going to the tournament. This would be a good chance meet some new friends and to re sharpen his dueling skills. Then he remembered Huriko. " Maybe she's going to the tournament too," he murmured to himself," it would give us the perfect chance to fix things up." He flipped to the next page

Some bold print caught his eye:

Important Things for All Duelists to Remember:

Before the actual tournament there will be a brief pulimonary tournament held on the Island itself. This will be done in Double Duel style. Each duelist will be paired off by room Numbers. Whomever a duelist shares a room with will be his or her partner. You're room number is posted in the back of this rulebook.

Yugi looked down at the page with up most interest. It looked as if this tournament would be a lot more difficult than the previous tournament. Hopefully if Yugi had any luck he would be paired of with Jou but with the amount of duelists going it seemed unlikely. Yet again he had the most bizarre things happen to him so it wasn't like it was out of the question. The thought of making new friends entered the young duelist's mind again. " Maybe" he thought to himself.

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At the same time I began to walk inside the park I slipped and fell on my face. I began to ponder if the world hated me which I don't believe was. Letting out a big sigh I got up onto my feet yet again and carefully walked into the park being sure not to trip.

" Seemed to come from around here," I spoke softly to myself as I looked around or the person who had been making the loud screams. From afar, despite the heavy curtain the rain had produced, I could see two figures. One was a blonde-headed boy and the other was a raven-haired girl from what I could see. Why a boy that age and his girlfriend were out here in this kind of weather was beyond me but then again I was much better standing out here myself.

All this seemed freakishly familiar, especially that girls scream. I found as I walked deeper into the park, I became more and more nervous. Whatever was going on I didn't like it. When I had reached the center of the park everything became clear to me. The boy in front of me was no ordinary boy it was I and as for the girl I remember being her friend at one time or another. For whatever reason I couldn't remember her name but I knew that I had known her. I froze in horror at what I saw. The nervousness I was feeling turned into a sick, sinking feeling. This was exactly like I was reliving one of my memories and not one of my favorite ones either.

I was frozen, unable to move while everything started to come into play. Standing still I watched the young me walked over to the girl I knew was his good friend and told her that everything was going to okay. You see When I was younger I had this friend she kept me company when I was all-alone. It had been so long since I've seen her` I've forgotten her face. Her stay in domino was only temporary so she said she had to move and ever since then I have never seen her again well at least I haven't seen her around yet.

I could hear in my ears the sound of my old friend's cries." I'm sorry but I can't stay," she turned from my younger self's grasp and looked from over her small shoulder" Promise we'll always be together okay?"

"Yes I promise," "I" said in a very low almost whisper like voice.

" Then I promise too," she talked in a cute reassuring matter. As she began to walk away the young me started to cry. At the same time the image in my mind became gray and I became suddenly cold. I felt my throat muscles tighten and before I knew it I was in a battling against my flowing tears. Not like I was really crying or anything. It's my subconscious self I swear. The next thing I heard was the sound of footsteps echoing and then the sound of evil laughing.

" Aww isn't it so sad too painful for the little weeping, weakling to handle?" I turned around to face an extremely tall man with brown hair and dark green almost black eyes, his voice carried a British accent.

" What do YOU mean weakling and for you're information I wasn't crying I'll have you know!" I whipped my face and turned around to face the asshole making fun of me.

" Wow such spunk I like that, in some one," the guy said in a teasing manner that screamed I'm trying to piss you off.

" Who are you ya creepy asshole?"

" Who am I, You have more to worry about than who I am," He tossed his brown hair over his shoulder as if he was some Great King.

" Don't play games with me! Now tell me!" My voice grew loud.

" Hmm going back to the reason I'm here. I'd watch your step because pretty soon things for you and your pathetic little friends are going to start to get messy."

I stopped in mid thought. What did he mean messy? Was something going to happen between Yugi and me? That feeling of sickness filled me up again and I knew who ever this jerk was he wasn't anyone who wanted to help me. I crossed my arms and cocked my eye brow" And why should I believe you?"

"Fine don't believe me, I honestly don't care but when you're left I the dark don't say you didn't see it coming."

" Be that way ya' snotty ass, I don't wanna hear about you and your stupid warn'ns anyway!"

He laughed maniacally, giving me an awful smirk at the same time. The place turned dark and all I could see was total abyss and his figure. I don't know what was with this guy but whatever it was I didn't like it. Then, It dawned on me that this dude was almost like he guy Yugi and I saw at the park when we walked home yesterday. After awhile the laughing stopped, leaving my ears to stop " bleeding."

" But don't forget this," He walked up to me and put his hand to my face. I froze wanting to pull away but I was too freaked out by this obvious weirdo. I stopped my breathing and I felt my heart stop as he leaned closer to me. The only thing I could feel was his hot breath against my cold skin. It felt horrible to be near him; almost as if I was being drowned in those awful feelings that I got from him, or suffering something much worse, but it was clear he wanted to be near me. Finally I unfroze and I pulled myself from him, falling onto the ground. " I will be waiting to see you again, love, its such a shame we can't spend more time together" he let out one last laugh and walked onto the darkness.

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" Maybethe person who wrote the letter was right maybe I will find the keepers of the items," Yugi smiled to himself. The thought of finding new friends reminded Yugi of how he should call Jou and ask him if he received an invitation, if not they would probably have to find a way to sneak him in as usual. He snickered to himself at what crazy thing Jou would do if he weren't invited. Then with out hesitation he dialed his friends phone number.

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I woke up at the sound of my phone ringing. I was really thankful someone was calling cause if I had to stay in that dream for any longer I would have probably cracked and that wouldn't be fun. I quickly grabbed my phone and put it to my ear.

" Hello?" I heard a familiar voice at the other end of the line.

" Yugi is dat you," I said in a tired way.

" Yeah Jou it's me, did I wake you up because if I did I can talk to you tomorrow."

" No it's all right I was having a freaky dream anyway."

" Really well then that makes two of us," I could hear him giggle on the other end of the line.

" Yeah, there was I flashed back to the memory and how painful it was then to the guy who was all up on me." Uh never mind." I let out a nervous laugh and tried to change the subject by asking Yugi why he had called.

" Oh about why I called," His tone got serious and it got me thinking something terrible had gone wrong," When I came home this evening I found a strange package on my bed. As it turned out it was an invitation to the second annual Duelist Kingdom tournament I was wondering if you got one too."

"Uhh," I said as I looked around my room" was it in a sliver package thingy cause if so yeah I got one."

" Yes that's it," his voice lifted up from his serious tone and I could tell he was soo happy to hear what I just said. Do you have it with you?"

" Hold on a minute," I leaned over my bed and reached under to pull the heavy package out "yeah now I do." I sat upright again with the invitation in my arms.

" Okay take out the rule book and flip to the last page." I didn't see what was so big about the rulebook but I did it anyway.

" Alright I'm there,"

"What's the number printed on the page?" he asked me with such excitement it kinda scared me being as it's just a number.

" It's 144." I spoke flatly.

" Aww man," I hear his voice drop like an anvil.

"What is that bad."

" Kinda you see before we really get into the tournament we have to fight in pre tournament to get in. So to do this they paired off duelists by the room numbers of the dorms they're given. "

" I take it these numbers are put in the back of the book and you're number is not the same as mine." I finished for my friend.

" Yeah," he with even more depression in his voice." Well look on the bright side at least we'll get to work together when we actually get in to the tournament. "
I smiled even though I know Yugi couldn't see me, it was so funny how he could cheer me up. We talked until we had to and then decided to meet tomorrow to make plans for the tour. Looking to the ceiling I let out a big sigh. I wondered what my dream was about was something really going to happening between everyone and me? No matter how hard I tried I could shake that sick feeling I got from that guy even though my dream had ended. I walked to slowly to the window; the rain had stopped now. Somehow the rain always made me a little on the uneasy side but I guess we all do. As I looked to the street below I caught site of what I thought was impossible. Naturally I thought I was seeing things but it was true the man from my dream stood right there staring at me.

An - I can't believe it I finished my third chapter I'm so sorry it took so long to write. Cho-chan is right third chappie's is so hard to write. By the way I would like to thank her for all that she has done for me ^^(minus the reviews she gave me ranting about how often I post) but that's okay I love her anyway! Yet again sorry for the lateness of my post I will get started on chappie four immediately! Ja! R@R dozo!

*Dozo- Japanese term for please