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On the far side of the school Serenity sits in yet another English class, dying of boredom. As the teacher talks about Shakespeare, Serenity quickly passes a note to Tea. Opening it up, Tea reads the words scribbled on in Serenity's neat handwriting. 'Seto Kaiba said hello to me in the hall! Oh my god!' Tea frowns to herself, but is interrupted when the teacher calls on her friend.

"Ms. Valentine, do you care to comment on what you've read?"

"Not really," Serenity says, flashing him a daddy's little angel smile.

The teacher lets her go and turns towards the back of the class where Ishizu sits, trying to slit her wrist with the plastic spiral of her notebook.

"Ishizu – since you're assisting us you might as well comment. I'm assuming you read the assignment."

"Uh, yeah. I read it all."

"The whole play?"

"The whole folio. All the plays."

"You've read every play by William Shakespeare?" The teacher asks, disbelieving.

"Haven't you?"


Later that day, at lunch time Mai and Ishizu sit together alone in a far-off corner of the court yard. The two of them are sharing a carton of yogurt with gusto.

"Your sister is so amazingly without. She'll never read him. She has no idea," Ishizu laments.

"The fact that you're cutting gym so you can take Sophomore English just so you can hear his name is a little without in itself, if you ask me," Mai attacks.

Mai's attention is caught by Joey, who is walking by with a bunch of friends, lighting a cigarette. Ishizu notices her staring.

"Who's that?" she asks Mai.

"Joey Wheeler. Random skid."

"That's Joey Wheeler? The one who was gone for a year?" Ishizu asks. "I heard he was doing porn movies."

"I'm sure he's completely incapable of doing anything that interesting."

"He always looks so..." Ishizu searches for the word.

"Block E?" Mai contributes. Ishizu nods and Mai shoves the yogurt into her hand.

"Ishizu, eat. Starving yourself is a very slow way to die."

"Just a little." Ishizu begins to eat, and Mai notices her wrist.

"What's that?"

"An attempted slit."

Mai stares at her, wide-eyed.

"I realize that the men of this fine institution are severely lacking, but killing yourself so you can be with William Shakespeare is beyond the scope of normal teenage obsessions. You're venturing far past daytime talk show fodder and entering the world of those who need very expensive therapy."

"But imagine the things he'd say during sex." Ishizu sighs longingly as Mai anime drops behind her.

"Okay, say you do it. You kill yourself, you end up in wherever you end up and he's there. Do you really think he's gonna wanna date a ninety pound compulsive who failed volleyball?" asks Mai, sounding meaner then she meant to. Fortunately for her, Ishizu is watching what's going on with Serenity.


"Lookin good, ladies," says Seto as Serenity and Tea walk past him. Serenity smiles her coyest of smiles.


"It's tragic," says Ishizu after watching the scenario.