You're Only Deceived Once
By SariaSubi-kun
SariaSubi: Okay, I don't own this anime...believe me, I did NOT create Yu-Gi-Oh
"Hey Yugi, what's up? You seem a little distant today."
"It's nothing, Tristan," he sighed with his head in his hands, yawning slightly. "I just stayed up late last night. There's another thing that's been perturbing me."
"What is it, Yug?" Joey asked, a bit concerned.
"It's nothing, really. It's just, the other day, this girl came to my Grandpa's game shop. She seemed nice, and she said she might come to this school, but she's not here. I'm just wondering. It's the third day of school, and I haven't seen her."
"What does she look like, Yugi?"
"All I know is she is tall and has blue hair and glasses."
"No name?" Tristan questioned, seeming a bit suspicious.
"She never told me, but there's something more. When she came to the game shop, my grandpa told her that he had a new shipment of cards, one of them being extremely rare. So rare that there is only one of them." He watched his friends blink in surprise. "Yeah, I know. Anyway, he apologized to her because he didn't have the other three cards that were essential to the card's combination. So, out of nowhere, she pulls out the three cards, which are rarer than the magic card my grandpa had! She said she had been all over the globe to get them, but when I told grandpa that, he said that he would have known if they were someplace else on the market in another country "
It shocked all of them. "Wow," Tea blinked, "that doesn't happen everyday. Quite a coincidence, I should say."
"Really, too much of a coincidence, I think," Yugi spoke again. "Her emotions kept on changing. One minute, she was as happy as you, Tea, the next, she was as serious as Kaiba." All of them shuddered. None of them wanted to think about that sleez, Kaiba.
Though it seemed, someone else had different thoughts.
//-//-//-//-//-//-//-//
"Gah! He refused! That jerk!" She threw her arms up in the air as she walked down the sidewalk in Domino City. "And to top it off, I'm lost. Man, I should have stayed in Nevada. I have no friggin clue where I am, I was REFUSED in a duel, by Seto Kaiba of all people, I have no idea where I am, oh wait, I said that already. Damn this city!" She hated today. The local high school, she deemed, had a gay uniform, and besides, why should she start school now? She was sixteen, and she had never attended school in her whole life. Not that she needed it, though. All she needed to know was how to count the low amount of money she had, how to win a duel and devastate your opponents, how to talk to strangers, and that she must find Krita and set her free...
"And to win at a duel with Seto Kaiba!" she finished her thought aloud, though soon regretted it when she caused a few stares from people walking by. She could hear one lady whisper, 'Shouldn't she be in school?" but it wasn't the worst. She had heard much worse about her before....
She passed numerous areas that she had been to before numerous times, and started to wonder if she would ever figure her way out of this maze of alleys. Thugs waited for her in every alley, but none of them talked to her until now.
"Hey babe, lookin' hot today," one of them smirked, looking her up and down.
"You talking to me, or your friend over there?"
"Oh," the other one stepped forward, "that hurt. Listen babe, we need you to help us with something."
"Really?" she cocked one eyebrow, "well, first, you can stop calling me 'babe' and I just might listen."
"Okay, listen up," the first one stepped up as well, no longer kidding around, "we need you to set up a diversion."
"Oh?"
"Go into Kaiba Corporation and make Kaiba come down. Even the kid is good enough. We'll do the rest."
"Interesting. Now tell me why I should do this for you." She set her eyes on the tall building ahead of her and smirked. "Why don't you just challenge him to a duel? He'll refuse, of course, but you'll be able to get close enough to him to do whatever you want."
"Oh, really?" their suspicions rose. "How did you come up with this idea?"
"Because as soon as you are done with him, I'll challenge him to a duel. That's what I was going to do in the first place before you two showed up. Now, you have ten seconds to get out of my way before you regret standing still. One."
They didn't move; just looked strangely at her.
"Two," she stepped towards them with a menacing look. "Three," she raised her arm and positioned herself to launch an attack. "Four. And oh, by the way, tell him that Matsu wants him. Five." Stepping forward again, she scared them off and watched them run towards Kaiba Corporation as she laughed at them.
Her plan worked! Turing her heel in the other direction, she headed for the Domino Museum.
//-//-//-//-//-//-//-//
"Mr. Kaiba, there are two gentlemen who want to make an appointment with you. They say it's urgent." Kaiba looked up from his laptop and down at the speaker placed on his desk. He should have never gotten it; people were always bothering him.
He grunted. "Well, since it seems I have nothing better to do, send them up. What do they want?"
"They're coming up right as we speak, sir."
"All right," he grunted again, thoroughly annoyed. Sure enough, two gangsters came into his office, panting and gasping for breath.
"Ah...Seto....Kaiba," the first one with spike blue hair breathed. "We...came...to..."
"What is it?" he stood up, slamming his hands on the table. "You already lost more than half my interest by coming up here and bothering me. Now what do you want?" His voice was cold.
But all words left the two thugs. They forgot what they wanted. What should they do, come into his office and say, "Hey Kaiba, I want to pound your face in"? It didn't make sense anymore, but not that sense had inhabited them in the first place. Some force in the back of their minds was controlling them to forget about their earlier thoughts...
"Uh, Mista Kaiba, sir, uh," the second one with shoulder-length cherry-red hair rubbed the back of his head, "we uh, kinda forgot what we wanted to tell ya. But...we ran into this girl. Eh...she said that she was coming here, but sent us up when we ran into her. She said, 'Tell Seto Kaiba that Matsu wants him.'"
"Oh, great," he grumbled as he slumped down into his chair again. Realizing that the thugs were still in his office, he glared up at them. "You can leave now," he spat coldly, causing them to run out of the room in fright.
Imbeciles, he thought, for tough gangsters, they can be scared too easily.
//-//-//-//-//-//-//-//
"Ishizu-sama, I am here. I brought another deck." The cold green eyes looked up the stairs to the beautiful Egyptian woman standing at the top of the flight.
"Oh, Matsu, you spent your uncle's money again. You never have any money to support yourself, yet you are flinging money from your uncle's account left and right," she came down the flight of stairs to greet her young friend. "So, what else is knew?"
Matsu shook her blue-haired head, the locks at the side of her face moving with her head. "I still can't find her."
"You mean Krita? She must be somewhere." Ishizu put a comforting hand on the younger teen's shoulder.
Matsu gladly accepted. "Thanks. Hey, can I come inside? I'm not having a good day."
"Sure," Ishizu smiled warmly. Once they were inside and seated, Matsu looked around her setting. "I wonder if any of these have her on them."
"I don't think she played a large part in the great chaotic history of Yami's past."
She smiled sheepishly and shook her head. "Neither do I. I guess you're right." Matsu looked towards her mentor and started to think that she would never get that duel with Kaiba. "Ishizu-sama?"
Ishizu smiled. "Just Ishizu, Matsu."
"Yeah, whatever. Anyway, I challenged Seto Kaiba to a duel, via phone, yesterday."
"And?"
"He refused."
"That wasn't nice at all."
"And for Seto Kaiba to refuse a duel!" she spat. "Probably thought it was a waste of your time." She leaned forward on the decorated stone bench they were on, putting her elbows on her knees.
Ishizu's eyebrow popped up. 'You tried to sell him something as well, didn't you?"
Matsu laughed bitterly. "I didn't know that that necklace of yours could also read minds."
//-//-//-//-//-//-//-//
'Matsu. Sixteen years old. Blue hair, green eyes. Resides in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Not much background information is known about the teenager, only that she is the top duelist in the West Coast, received two titles; Female Duel Monsters Champion, Duel Monsters Champion of the Western United States. Currently has traveled east to New York, Domino City. Temporary location in Domino is unknown. All other information has been deleted by file.'
"So, this is who this Matsu is, huh?" Kaiba sat back in his chair, un-amused. "Of course. The female champion wants to challenge the world champion. Makes sense, though it still is a waste of time." However, his thoughts dwelled to his deck. He had been extremely busy and caught up with lost time in work ever since he got back that he forgot about his new enforced deck. Maybe he could try it out. This was the perfect opportunity...
Seto Kaiba, being no idiot, quickly checked his caller ID records.
By SariaSubi-kun
SariaSubi: Okay, I don't own this anime...believe me, I did NOT create Yu-Gi-Oh
"Hey Yugi, what's up? You seem a little distant today."
"It's nothing, Tristan," he sighed with his head in his hands, yawning slightly. "I just stayed up late last night. There's another thing that's been perturbing me."
"What is it, Yug?" Joey asked, a bit concerned.
"It's nothing, really. It's just, the other day, this girl came to my Grandpa's game shop. She seemed nice, and she said she might come to this school, but she's not here. I'm just wondering. It's the third day of school, and I haven't seen her."
"What does she look like, Yugi?"
"All I know is she is tall and has blue hair and glasses."
"No name?" Tristan questioned, seeming a bit suspicious.
"She never told me, but there's something more. When she came to the game shop, my grandpa told her that he had a new shipment of cards, one of them being extremely rare. So rare that there is only one of them." He watched his friends blink in surprise. "Yeah, I know. Anyway, he apologized to her because he didn't have the other three cards that were essential to the card's combination. So, out of nowhere, she pulls out the three cards, which are rarer than the magic card my grandpa had! She said she had been all over the globe to get them, but when I told grandpa that, he said that he would have known if they were someplace else on the market in another country "
It shocked all of them. "Wow," Tea blinked, "that doesn't happen everyday. Quite a coincidence, I should say."
"Really, too much of a coincidence, I think," Yugi spoke again. "Her emotions kept on changing. One minute, she was as happy as you, Tea, the next, she was as serious as Kaiba." All of them shuddered. None of them wanted to think about that sleez, Kaiba.
Though it seemed, someone else had different thoughts.
//-//-//-//-//-//-//-//
"Gah! He refused! That jerk!" She threw her arms up in the air as she walked down the sidewalk in Domino City. "And to top it off, I'm lost. Man, I should have stayed in Nevada. I have no friggin clue where I am, I was REFUSED in a duel, by Seto Kaiba of all people, I have no idea where I am, oh wait, I said that already. Damn this city!" She hated today. The local high school, she deemed, had a gay uniform, and besides, why should she start school now? She was sixteen, and she had never attended school in her whole life. Not that she needed it, though. All she needed to know was how to count the low amount of money she had, how to win a duel and devastate your opponents, how to talk to strangers, and that she must find Krita and set her free...
"And to win at a duel with Seto Kaiba!" she finished her thought aloud, though soon regretted it when she caused a few stares from people walking by. She could hear one lady whisper, 'Shouldn't she be in school?" but it wasn't the worst. She had heard much worse about her before....
She passed numerous areas that she had been to before numerous times, and started to wonder if she would ever figure her way out of this maze of alleys. Thugs waited for her in every alley, but none of them talked to her until now.
"Hey babe, lookin' hot today," one of them smirked, looking her up and down.
"You talking to me, or your friend over there?"
"Oh," the other one stepped forward, "that hurt. Listen babe, we need you to help us with something."
"Really?" she cocked one eyebrow, "well, first, you can stop calling me 'babe' and I just might listen."
"Okay, listen up," the first one stepped up as well, no longer kidding around, "we need you to set up a diversion."
"Oh?"
"Go into Kaiba Corporation and make Kaiba come down. Even the kid is good enough. We'll do the rest."
"Interesting. Now tell me why I should do this for you." She set her eyes on the tall building ahead of her and smirked. "Why don't you just challenge him to a duel? He'll refuse, of course, but you'll be able to get close enough to him to do whatever you want."
"Oh, really?" their suspicions rose. "How did you come up with this idea?"
"Because as soon as you are done with him, I'll challenge him to a duel. That's what I was going to do in the first place before you two showed up. Now, you have ten seconds to get out of my way before you regret standing still. One."
They didn't move; just looked strangely at her.
"Two," she stepped towards them with a menacing look. "Three," she raised her arm and positioned herself to launch an attack. "Four. And oh, by the way, tell him that Matsu wants him. Five." Stepping forward again, she scared them off and watched them run towards Kaiba Corporation as she laughed at them.
Her plan worked! Turing her heel in the other direction, she headed for the Domino Museum.
//-//-//-//-//-//-//-//
"Mr. Kaiba, there are two gentlemen who want to make an appointment with you. They say it's urgent." Kaiba looked up from his laptop and down at the speaker placed on his desk. He should have never gotten it; people were always bothering him.
He grunted. "Well, since it seems I have nothing better to do, send them up. What do they want?"
"They're coming up right as we speak, sir."
"All right," he grunted again, thoroughly annoyed. Sure enough, two gangsters came into his office, panting and gasping for breath.
"Ah...Seto....Kaiba," the first one with spike blue hair breathed. "We...came...to..."
"What is it?" he stood up, slamming his hands on the table. "You already lost more than half my interest by coming up here and bothering me. Now what do you want?" His voice was cold.
But all words left the two thugs. They forgot what they wanted. What should they do, come into his office and say, "Hey Kaiba, I want to pound your face in"? It didn't make sense anymore, but not that sense had inhabited them in the first place. Some force in the back of their minds was controlling them to forget about their earlier thoughts...
"Uh, Mista Kaiba, sir, uh," the second one with shoulder-length cherry-red hair rubbed the back of his head, "we uh, kinda forgot what we wanted to tell ya. But...we ran into this girl. Eh...she said that she was coming here, but sent us up when we ran into her. She said, 'Tell Seto Kaiba that Matsu wants him.'"
"Oh, great," he grumbled as he slumped down into his chair again. Realizing that the thugs were still in his office, he glared up at them. "You can leave now," he spat coldly, causing them to run out of the room in fright.
Imbeciles, he thought, for tough gangsters, they can be scared too easily.
//-//-//-//-//-//-//-//
"Ishizu-sama, I am here. I brought another deck." The cold green eyes looked up the stairs to the beautiful Egyptian woman standing at the top of the flight.
"Oh, Matsu, you spent your uncle's money again. You never have any money to support yourself, yet you are flinging money from your uncle's account left and right," she came down the flight of stairs to greet her young friend. "So, what else is knew?"
Matsu shook her blue-haired head, the locks at the side of her face moving with her head. "I still can't find her."
"You mean Krita? She must be somewhere." Ishizu put a comforting hand on the younger teen's shoulder.
Matsu gladly accepted. "Thanks. Hey, can I come inside? I'm not having a good day."
"Sure," Ishizu smiled warmly. Once they were inside and seated, Matsu looked around her setting. "I wonder if any of these have her on them."
"I don't think she played a large part in the great chaotic history of Yami's past."
She smiled sheepishly and shook her head. "Neither do I. I guess you're right." Matsu looked towards her mentor and started to think that she would never get that duel with Kaiba. "Ishizu-sama?"
Ishizu smiled. "Just Ishizu, Matsu."
"Yeah, whatever. Anyway, I challenged Seto Kaiba to a duel, via phone, yesterday."
"And?"
"He refused."
"That wasn't nice at all."
"And for Seto Kaiba to refuse a duel!" she spat. "Probably thought it was a waste of your time." She leaned forward on the decorated stone bench they were on, putting her elbows on her knees.
Ishizu's eyebrow popped up. 'You tried to sell him something as well, didn't you?"
Matsu laughed bitterly. "I didn't know that that necklace of yours could also read minds."
//-//-//-//-//-//-//-//
'Matsu. Sixteen years old. Blue hair, green eyes. Resides in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Not much background information is known about the teenager, only that she is the top duelist in the West Coast, received two titles; Female Duel Monsters Champion, Duel Monsters Champion of the Western United States. Currently has traveled east to New York, Domino City. Temporary location in Domino is unknown. All other information has been deleted by file.'
"So, this is who this Matsu is, huh?" Kaiba sat back in his chair, un-amused. "Of course. The female champion wants to challenge the world champion. Makes sense, though it still is a waste of time." However, his thoughts dwelled to his deck. He had been extremely busy and caught up with lost time in work ever since he got back that he forgot about his new enforced deck. Maybe he could try it out. This was the perfect opportunity...
Seto Kaiba, being no idiot, quickly checked his caller ID records.