The Better Life
Author's Note and Disclaimer: PG-13 for language and... stuff? I don't own
any of the Yu-Gi-Oh! characters and the only characters I created in this
story are Rei and Hikaru Kimura, and Emi, Mr. and Mrs. Tanaka. Feel free to
review, but no flames please, this is my first fan fiction.
Chapter 1
Beginning- Welcome to another ordinary day at Domino High School, or so it
seems...
Ishizu- "Hello class! We have another great day ahead of us today! But, we have two new students joining us today. And they happen to be cousins! First of all, here's Miss Emi Tanaka."
A young girl enters. She looks to be about 14, and has bright, bouncy red hair in two small ponytails, one on either side of her head. She has tanned skin and bright blue eyes and she's wearing the normal school uniform. She looked rather cute, then there was her personality. She came in and looked about the room. She saw Bakura and went insane.
Emi- "Oh My GOD!!!! HI!!! What's your name??!! I'm Emi!! You are indeed the hottest person I have ever met! I soooooo love you!!!!"
She proceeds to give Bakura a huge hug, nearly squeezing him to death.
Bakura-" Help!"
Marik- "HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!"
Ryou, Yugi, Yami, Joey and Tristan- "Eep! 0_0"
Ishizu-"umm..... Up here Emi! Would you sit here please! Up here, in the front, next to Tea, please."
Emi- "oh! Alright, Teacher!" She sits.
Ishizu- "Thank you, Emi. Now, for our second new student, Miss Rei Tanaka, would you like to say-..... where is she?" No one else was there.
Emi- "OH NO!!! Rei! Reeeiii!!!! Where are you??!! Cousin!!!! Where are yo--- --" She is cut off by rather loud voices in the hallway....
Man's voice, yelling- "You are a disgrace trying to skip school like this! You make Emi look bad!!!!"
Girl's quiet, icy voice- "Emi makes herself look bad, why does she need me?"
Same man's voice- "Shut up, delinquent! Get in the classroom!"
The door opens to reveal three people, the principal, looking somewhat overwhelmed by the "family love", an older man in a full black business suit, and a girl about 14-15 years old.
Emi- "Daddy! You found Rei-chan!"
Mr. Tanaka- "I am so sorry, Sir, I did not have the time to make her wear the uniform..."
Principal- "Ohh... umm... we don't really seem to enforce that rule as much anymore.... just on field trips and such...."
Mr. Tanaka- "Ah, yes, of course. Excuse us, Miss Ishtar."
Ishizu- "Of course." The two men leave. "Well, Miss Rei, isn't it? Would you like to say something about yourself to the class?"
At last, the group got to really see what Emi's cousin looked like.... and she looked nothing like Emi. She was taller than her cousin, with blonde hair tipped with red that came below her shoulders, bright green eyes and very pale skin. She had double-pierced ears and was wearing cargo pants and a black shirt with blood-red lettering saying "I Bite", and combat boots. Very little like anyone at Domino High.
Rei- "No...."
Ishizu- "Oh, come now, Rei, won't you at least say something? Four words. Just say four words, Rei."
Rei- "Four words"
Ishizu-"Rei!"
Rei- "Where. Do. I. Sit?"
Ishizu- "We'll work on this,Rei. Please sit in the back, next to Marik; the seat nearest the windows." Rei sits. "Now then, let's begin with Algebra. Who can tell me what the Pythagorean Theorem is and what it does? Tea?"
Tea- "Ummm... B2?
Joey- "You sunk my Battleship!! hehheheheheheh!"
Ishizu- "No, Tea. Kaiba? How about you?"
Kaiba- "It would be a2+ b2= c2. It is used to find the length of a missing side of a triangle."
Ishizu- "Very good, Kaiba. Now, if side 'A' equals 6, and side 'C', the hypotenuse, equals 14, what is side 'B'?" silence..... silence.... crickets chirping..... silence..... "OK..... Rei? How about you? Any ideas?"
Rei- ".... side 'B' would equal 12.64911." ..... silence... stare.. stare... stare....
Ishizu- "Marik?" Marik takes out a hidden calculator and calculates the problem.
Marik- "Yeah, Sister. Exactly."
Ishizu- "Wow, very good Rei!" Rei then sulks and gazes out the window. Several hours later, the bell rings for lunch. "Very well, you are all dismissed. Have a nice lunch!"
Nearly everyone- "YAY!!!!!!"
Rei is sitting alone at a table in a dark corner, her hands quietly moving over the table. Across the room, Bakura is sitting at a table with Marik, Yami, and Kaiba with Emi clutching Bakura's arm. Bakura is trying to duel Marik one handed while Yami is dueling
Kaiba... and losing badly.
Yami- "I must trust in the Heart of the Cards!!"
Bakura, Marik and Kaiba- "SHUT UP!!!!"
Emi- "Hey! I've seen this kind of cards before!" Everyone stares blankly at her, rather annoyed.
Marik- "Shut up, baka. We're busy...... HA! Winged Dragon of Ra! ATTACK! And that, Tomb Robber, brings your Life Points to zero!!"
Bakura- "Oh crap, here, take the che cookie."
Marik-"Yeah!!!"
Emi- "But Rei has those cards too! She used to beat up the kids at our old school and make them duel her, just so she could get better! Of course, that got her in jail a couple of times, but Mom would always bail her out... She's really good!"
Yami- "She ever been in any tournaments?"
Emi-"No, she says they're for amateurs and really obsessed people. But I know that's not true! Right, Bakura-kun?" She hugs Bakura tighter, and he shoves her off as he gets up quickly.
Bakura- "Get off me idiot!" Marik, Bakura, Yami and Kaiba walk over to Rei's table and Joey tags along. Emi dashes after them.
Emi- "Wait! Bakura-kun!!!!"
They all arrive at Rei's table, but she doesn't look up. She's moving cards about and seemingly dueling herself, practicing some advanced strategy.
Joey- "Hey, whatcha doin' Weirdo?" Rei still doesn't look up. "You awake, genius girl? Talk!"
Rei- "If you have nothing of actual intelligent to say, then please leave." She still isn't looking up.
Joey- "Well then, Duel me, baka! Or, seeing as you're too scared to look at me, maybe you're too scared to duel me too!" Rei finally looks up at him with a bored and somewhat exasperated look on her face, gathers her cards together, and stands up.
Rei- "You look like you've been beat far too many times before, why should I ruin everyone else's fun by finishing you off? I'm outta here. See ya, idiots." She walks off. Emi screeches at her;
"REI!!!!! You can't leave! Dad'll be so mad!" Rei stops at this, then turns walks back, hits the side of her cousin's head, says "Do you really think I care?" and leaves. the whole group's eyes follow her out.
Ishizu- "Hello class! We have another great day ahead of us today! But, we have two new students joining us today. And they happen to be cousins! First of all, here's Miss Emi Tanaka."
A young girl enters. She looks to be about 14, and has bright, bouncy red hair in two small ponytails, one on either side of her head. She has tanned skin and bright blue eyes and she's wearing the normal school uniform. She looked rather cute, then there was her personality. She came in and looked about the room. She saw Bakura and went insane.
Emi- "Oh My GOD!!!! HI!!! What's your name??!! I'm Emi!! You are indeed the hottest person I have ever met! I soooooo love you!!!!"
She proceeds to give Bakura a huge hug, nearly squeezing him to death.
Bakura-" Help!"
Marik- "HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!"
Ryou, Yugi, Yami, Joey and Tristan- "Eep! 0_0"
Ishizu-"umm..... Up here Emi! Would you sit here please! Up here, in the front, next to Tea, please."
Emi- "oh! Alright, Teacher!" She sits.
Ishizu- "Thank you, Emi. Now, for our second new student, Miss Rei Tanaka, would you like to say-..... where is she?" No one else was there.
Emi- "OH NO!!! Rei! Reeeiii!!!! Where are you??!! Cousin!!!! Where are yo--- --" She is cut off by rather loud voices in the hallway....
Man's voice, yelling- "You are a disgrace trying to skip school like this! You make Emi look bad!!!!"
Girl's quiet, icy voice- "Emi makes herself look bad, why does she need me?"
Same man's voice- "Shut up, delinquent! Get in the classroom!"
The door opens to reveal three people, the principal, looking somewhat overwhelmed by the "family love", an older man in a full black business suit, and a girl about 14-15 years old.
Emi- "Daddy! You found Rei-chan!"
Mr. Tanaka- "I am so sorry, Sir, I did not have the time to make her wear the uniform..."
Principal- "Ohh... umm... we don't really seem to enforce that rule as much anymore.... just on field trips and such...."
Mr. Tanaka- "Ah, yes, of course. Excuse us, Miss Ishtar."
Ishizu- "Of course." The two men leave. "Well, Miss Rei, isn't it? Would you like to say something about yourself to the class?"
At last, the group got to really see what Emi's cousin looked like.... and she looked nothing like Emi. She was taller than her cousin, with blonde hair tipped with red that came below her shoulders, bright green eyes and very pale skin. She had double-pierced ears and was wearing cargo pants and a black shirt with blood-red lettering saying "I Bite", and combat boots. Very little like anyone at Domino High.
Rei- "No...."
Ishizu- "Oh, come now, Rei, won't you at least say something? Four words. Just say four words, Rei."
Rei- "Four words"
Ishizu-"Rei!"
Rei- "Where. Do. I. Sit?"
Ishizu- "We'll work on this,Rei. Please sit in the back, next to Marik; the seat nearest the windows." Rei sits. "Now then, let's begin with Algebra. Who can tell me what the Pythagorean Theorem is and what it does? Tea?"
Tea- "Ummm... B2?
Joey- "You sunk my Battleship!! hehheheheheheh!"
Ishizu- "No, Tea. Kaiba? How about you?"
Kaiba- "It would be a2+ b2= c2. It is used to find the length of a missing side of a triangle."
Ishizu- "Very good, Kaiba. Now, if side 'A' equals 6, and side 'C', the hypotenuse, equals 14, what is side 'B'?" silence..... silence.... crickets chirping..... silence..... "OK..... Rei? How about you? Any ideas?"
Rei- ".... side 'B' would equal 12.64911." ..... silence... stare.. stare... stare....
Ishizu- "Marik?" Marik takes out a hidden calculator and calculates the problem.
Marik- "Yeah, Sister. Exactly."
Ishizu- "Wow, very good Rei!" Rei then sulks and gazes out the window. Several hours later, the bell rings for lunch. "Very well, you are all dismissed. Have a nice lunch!"
Nearly everyone- "YAY!!!!!!"
Rei is sitting alone at a table in a dark corner, her hands quietly moving over the table. Across the room, Bakura is sitting at a table with Marik, Yami, and Kaiba with Emi clutching Bakura's arm. Bakura is trying to duel Marik one handed while Yami is dueling
Kaiba... and losing badly.
Yami- "I must trust in the Heart of the Cards!!"
Bakura, Marik and Kaiba- "SHUT UP!!!!"
Emi- "Hey! I've seen this kind of cards before!" Everyone stares blankly at her, rather annoyed.
Marik- "Shut up, baka. We're busy...... HA! Winged Dragon of Ra! ATTACK! And that, Tomb Robber, brings your Life Points to zero!!"
Bakura- "Oh crap, here, take the che cookie."
Marik-"Yeah!!!"
Emi- "But Rei has those cards too! She used to beat up the kids at our old school and make them duel her, just so she could get better! Of course, that got her in jail a couple of times, but Mom would always bail her out... She's really good!"
Yami- "She ever been in any tournaments?"
Emi-"No, she says they're for amateurs and really obsessed people. But I know that's not true! Right, Bakura-kun?" She hugs Bakura tighter, and he shoves her off as he gets up quickly.
Bakura- "Get off me idiot!" Marik, Bakura, Yami and Kaiba walk over to Rei's table and Joey tags along. Emi dashes after them.
Emi- "Wait! Bakura-kun!!!!"
They all arrive at Rei's table, but she doesn't look up. She's moving cards about and seemingly dueling herself, practicing some advanced strategy.
Joey- "Hey, whatcha doin' Weirdo?" Rei still doesn't look up. "You awake, genius girl? Talk!"
Rei- "If you have nothing of actual intelligent to say, then please leave." She still isn't looking up.
Joey- "Well then, Duel me, baka! Or, seeing as you're too scared to look at me, maybe you're too scared to duel me too!" Rei finally looks up at him with a bored and somewhat exasperated look on her face, gathers her cards together, and stands up.
Rei- "You look like you've been beat far too many times before, why should I ruin everyone else's fun by finishing you off? I'm outta here. See ya, idiots." She walks off. Emi screeches at her;
"REI!!!!! You can't leave! Dad'll be so mad!" Rei stops at this, then turns walks back, hits the side of her cousin's head, says "Do you really think I care?" and leaves. the whole group's eyes follow her out.