You're Only Deceived Once
By SariaSubi-kun
SariaSubi: Hey all! I finally got a review on this story! Yes! Thank you so much, helldragon400! Well, yet another chapter. Now, many a friend (actually just one) asked me why I put the concept of deception in my title. Well, many things can be deceived. Many, many things.....
Don't own, so don't friggin sue me.
Chapter 4
"Yes? Is Tou there? Sure, I'll hold on." Matsu looked the other direction at Ishizu and winked, Ishizu sighing. She held the phone to her ear and spoke up. "Tou! Haha, I knew you still worked here."
"Not for long," the voice came out of the receiver. "I'm getting a new job at a computer sales store next week. This is my last day, really."
"Oh, Tou! Uh, anyway, I wanna give you your special last order. Uh-huh, the usual. An order of steamed dumplings, uh, shrimp teriyaki, and shrimp tempura and Ishizu-sama, what do you want?"
She sighed again. Matsu was hopeless when it came to Japanese food. "Just some pork fried rice, please."
"Ya-huh. Yeah, that's it, and some steamed, too. Sure! I'll have some fried ice cream and some oobanaki for dessert. Thankya, Tou!"
Ishizu slapped her head. "Why did you order all that?"
"Huh? You wanted an egg roll? But that already comes with the meal."
"Oh, Matsu," she groaned, but she soon giggled. For spending so many years with the sixteen-year-old, she could not stay mad at her.
A beeping was soon heard. Matsu looked down at her belt resting on her jeans. In one of the pockets, she pulled out a dark blue, chipped cell phone that looked like the Eiffel Tower collapsed on it and it still survived. The old phone continued to vibrate.
"Oh, it looks like I have a call at home." She used to be so proud of herself that she programmed her phone to vibrate when she received a call at her house on her cell phone. "It says it's from....!" All of a sudden, she gasped and dropped the phone on the tiled floor of the museum.
"Matsu! What happened?" Ishizu rushed to her friend's side, eyes full of worry.
Matsu just smiled through the locks of hair shadowing her eyes. "We have to get to my house so we can get the food, and then, you can watch me prepare the best dueling deck ever!"
//-//-//-//-//-//-//-//
Ishizu picked up her chopsticks and dug into the rice as she watched the young girl look at all the hundreds of cards on the carpeted floor before her as she munched on a dumpling. "I have a card for you," she managed through the rice in her mouth.
"Oh really?" Matsu looked up, breaking her spell of concentration.
"Yes, hold on." Ishizu dug into the pocket of her dress and pulled out a card with a ball of blue energy on a background of green vortex. "It is called Gravity Bind*. It's a trap card. All monsters with a level of four or higher cannot attack for the whole game when it is activated. Every card summoned of that level area will be paralyzed. I believe your opponent has that one weakness."
"Yeah, he did with Pegasus, but he completely reformed his deck. I mean," she dug her chopsticks into the tempura, "I would after that incident."
"Yes, I guess so, Matsu. Then you should make sure that you put together a very good deck. I know if you used that combination with that new card you bought, you will blast Seto Kaiba away."
She held up her fist in confidence. "All right! Yes! My Tsuki Combo will blow Kaiba away!"
//-//-//-//-//-//-//-//
"Fallen angels at my feet/Whispered voices at my ear/Death before my eyes/Lying next to me I fear/She beckons me/Shall I give in?/Upon my end shall I begin/Forsaking all I've fallen for/I rise to meet the end. There is a holiday coming to town, behind it, at least. Just past the rocks." Seto's eyes scanned the text message he received, but had no idea what it meant. Those were lyrics, all right, but what about this holiday? It was early September, there were no holidays. Labor Day, maybe?
"What kind of a clue is that?" he snorted at Matsu's clue where to meet her. He had to trace back to which band created those lyrics. After some research, he found it was a band called Evanescence. "Evanescence," he said aloud. What about them? Evanescence was a dark rock band from Little Rock. 'Just past the rocks......' So it had to do with Little Rock. After he looked into a website, he wondered what it had to do with a holiday. "I just have to wander a little more...." Damn, this girl was good with riddles. The last place he looked on the Little Rock website was the accommodations section. Of course, this was a stupid place to look, but what else was there? He decided to skim the hotels. Ah! There it was! Right in front of his eyes the whole time, was an advertisement for the Holiday Inn.
"So," he leaned back in his chair, "that means she wants me to meet her behind the Holiday Inn next to my office. Makes sense. More convenient for me."
//-//-//-//-//-//-//-//
"Master, I am not sure what we should do with the girl. Her spirit is not at rest, and her body is rotting again."
"Do I have to do everything!" he slammed his hand down on the corner of the table and turned violently and stormed out of the room.
The sight wasn't pretty when the master walked in. And a scream could be heard over the ocean, but no one was there to hear it.
//-//-//-//-//-//-//-//-//
"Hey, sis, how ya doin'?" Joey beamed at his sister, who just bravely came out of her operation.
"I'm fine Joey," she managed to smile, though she was blind with her bandages. "So, how is everything going?"
"Everythin's just fine, Serenity," he sat down on the bed, taking his little sister's hand. "School started three days ago, but I have the whole weekend to see ya!"
"Oh, I hope I don't miss too much of school."
"Ya won't, sis, I told the high school that you were in the hospital. They understand."
"Thank you." Joey was proud of his sister. She had always wanted to be with him, and now, they could finally be together, now that he had come in second place at Duelist Kingdom and paid for her operation.
Dueling. He wanted to do it again. Which brought the abrupt conversation he and everyone else had with Yugi. Who was this mystery girl that Yugi talked about? The fact that she had such rare cards, yet he didn't know her name...so how was he supposed to duel her, huh?
Ah, he just wished another tournament would come around. That way, he could find the tall, blue-head for sure.
//-//-//-//-//-//-//-//
"Are you coming, Seto Kaiba?" she kicked the can into the dumpster. Looking upwards, she could see the looming tower of Kaiba Corporation. Would the CEO come at all?
"Quite a place to meet. It took me a while to figure out your boring riddle, but why here? Why so discreet, Matsu?" He became cold on her name, using it for the first time in person.
"Oh, Seto Kaiba," she shrugged, "I just wanted to make sure that no one saw us introducing our selves and then dueling. It would be embarrassing if they watched you lose."
"Very funny, but I'm not here to play your games, Female Champion." She popped open one eye. "I want this to be over with. I don't want you following me, calling me, doing anything to bother me. I'll duel you sure enough, but let me make this clear: loser stays out of the winner's way, got it?"
She wasn't very pleased. "Fine," she stuck her nose up, "but I have another condition."
He was getting irritated. "What?"
"Winner keeps quiet about the other's defeat, got it?"
Seto grunted. "Fine. And don't think I'll go easy on you because you're the Female champion." He turned around and looked back over his shoulder. "Come on, this way."
Well he had a welcoming tone, she moaned in her head in complaint. He thinks it's a joke going easy on me. He'll be begging me to go easy on him! Just you wait, Seto Kaiba.
By SariaSubi-kun
SariaSubi: Hey all! I finally got a review on this story! Yes! Thank you so much, helldragon400! Well, yet another chapter. Now, many a friend (actually just one) asked me why I put the concept of deception in my title. Well, many things can be deceived. Many, many things.....
Don't own, so don't friggin sue me.
Chapter 4
"Yes? Is Tou there? Sure, I'll hold on." Matsu looked the other direction at Ishizu and winked, Ishizu sighing. She held the phone to her ear and spoke up. "Tou! Haha, I knew you still worked here."
"Not for long," the voice came out of the receiver. "I'm getting a new job at a computer sales store next week. This is my last day, really."
"Oh, Tou! Uh, anyway, I wanna give you your special last order. Uh-huh, the usual. An order of steamed dumplings, uh, shrimp teriyaki, and shrimp tempura and Ishizu-sama, what do you want?"
She sighed again. Matsu was hopeless when it came to Japanese food. "Just some pork fried rice, please."
"Ya-huh. Yeah, that's it, and some steamed, too. Sure! I'll have some fried ice cream and some oobanaki for dessert. Thankya, Tou!"
Ishizu slapped her head. "Why did you order all that?"
"Huh? You wanted an egg roll? But that already comes with the meal."
"Oh, Matsu," she groaned, but she soon giggled. For spending so many years with the sixteen-year-old, she could not stay mad at her.
A beeping was soon heard. Matsu looked down at her belt resting on her jeans. In one of the pockets, she pulled out a dark blue, chipped cell phone that looked like the Eiffel Tower collapsed on it and it still survived. The old phone continued to vibrate.
"Oh, it looks like I have a call at home." She used to be so proud of herself that she programmed her phone to vibrate when she received a call at her house on her cell phone. "It says it's from....!" All of a sudden, she gasped and dropped the phone on the tiled floor of the museum.
"Matsu! What happened?" Ishizu rushed to her friend's side, eyes full of worry.
Matsu just smiled through the locks of hair shadowing her eyes. "We have to get to my house so we can get the food, and then, you can watch me prepare the best dueling deck ever!"
//-//-//-//-//-//-//-//
Ishizu picked up her chopsticks and dug into the rice as she watched the young girl look at all the hundreds of cards on the carpeted floor before her as she munched on a dumpling. "I have a card for you," she managed through the rice in her mouth.
"Oh really?" Matsu looked up, breaking her spell of concentration.
"Yes, hold on." Ishizu dug into the pocket of her dress and pulled out a card with a ball of blue energy on a background of green vortex. "It is called Gravity Bind*. It's a trap card. All monsters with a level of four or higher cannot attack for the whole game when it is activated. Every card summoned of that level area will be paralyzed. I believe your opponent has that one weakness."
"Yeah, he did with Pegasus, but he completely reformed his deck. I mean," she dug her chopsticks into the tempura, "I would after that incident."
"Yes, I guess so, Matsu. Then you should make sure that you put together a very good deck. I know if you used that combination with that new card you bought, you will blast Seto Kaiba away."
She held up her fist in confidence. "All right! Yes! My Tsuki Combo will blow Kaiba away!"
//-//-//-//-//-//-//-//
"Fallen angels at my feet/Whispered voices at my ear/Death before my eyes/Lying next to me I fear/She beckons me/Shall I give in?/Upon my end shall I begin/Forsaking all I've fallen for/I rise to meet the end. There is a holiday coming to town, behind it, at least. Just past the rocks." Seto's eyes scanned the text message he received, but had no idea what it meant. Those were lyrics, all right, but what about this holiday? It was early September, there were no holidays. Labor Day, maybe?
"What kind of a clue is that?" he snorted at Matsu's clue where to meet her. He had to trace back to which band created those lyrics. After some research, he found it was a band called Evanescence. "Evanescence," he said aloud. What about them? Evanescence was a dark rock band from Little Rock. 'Just past the rocks......' So it had to do with Little Rock. After he looked into a website, he wondered what it had to do with a holiday. "I just have to wander a little more...." Damn, this girl was good with riddles. The last place he looked on the Little Rock website was the accommodations section. Of course, this was a stupid place to look, but what else was there? He decided to skim the hotels. Ah! There it was! Right in front of his eyes the whole time, was an advertisement for the Holiday Inn.
"So," he leaned back in his chair, "that means she wants me to meet her behind the Holiday Inn next to my office. Makes sense. More convenient for me."
//-//-//-//-//-//-//-//
"Master, I am not sure what we should do with the girl. Her spirit is not at rest, and her body is rotting again."
"Do I have to do everything!" he slammed his hand down on the corner of the table and turned violently and stormed out of the room.
The sight wasn't pretty when the master walked in. And a scream could be heard over the ocean, but no one was there to hear it.
//-//-//-//-//-//-//-//-//
"Hey, sis, how ya doin'?" Joey beamed at his sister, who just bravely came out of her operation.
"I'm fine Joey," she managed to smile, though she was blind with her bandages. "So, how is everything going?"
"Everythin's just fine, Serenity," he sat down on the bed, taking his little sister's hand. "School started three days ago, but I have the whole weekend to see ya!"
"Oh, I hope I don't miss too much of school."
"Ya won't, sis, I told the high school that you were in the hospital. They understand."
"Thank you." Joey was proud of his sister. She had always wanted to be with him, and now, they could finally be together, now that he had come in second place at Duelist Kingdom and paid for her operation.
Dueling. He wanted to do it again. Which brought the abrupt conversation he and everyone else had with Yugi. Who was this mystery girl that Yugi talked about? The fact that she had such rare cards, yet he didn't know her name...so how was he supposed to duel her, huh?
Ah, he just wished another tournament would come around. That way, he could find the tall, blue-head for sure.
//-//-//-//-//-//-//-//
"Are you coming, Seto Kaiba?" she kicked the can into the dumpster. Looking upwards, she could see the looming tower of Kaiba Corporation. Would the CEO come at all?
"Quite a place to meet. It took me a while to figure out your boring riddle, but why here? Why so discreet, Matsu?" He became cold on her name, using it for the first time in person.
"Oh, Seto Kaiba," she shrugged, "I just wanted to make sure that no one saw us introducing our selves and then dueling. It would be embarrassing if they watched you lose."
"Very funny, but I'm not here to play your games, Female Champion." She popped open one eye. "I want this to be over with. I don't want you following me, calling me, doing anything to bother me. I'll duel you sure enough, but let me make this clear: loser stays out of the winner's way, got it?"
She wasn't very pleased. "Fine," she stuck her nose up, "but I have another condition."
He was getting irritated. "What?"
"Winner keeps quiet about the other's defeat, got it?"
Seto grunted. "Fine. And don't think I'll go easy on you because you're the Female champion." He turned around and looked back over his shoulder. "Come on, this way."
Well he had a welcoming tone, she moaned in her head in complaint. He thinks it's a joke going easy on me. He'll be begging me to go easy on him! Just you wait, Seto Kaiba.