Nekomi smiled to herself as she sat in the small ice cream shop. She had Yugi Moto eating out of the palm of her hand, right where she and Malik wanted him. Even Seto Kaiba seemed to be furious. She knew that at that moment, both Seto and Yugi were probably looking for her. Seto having just figured out that she had basically called him a moron and Yugi... why would Yugi be following her? Probably because he knew that she had the Egyptian God Card. Whatever. Anyway, all was going according to the plan.

The teenage boy behind the counter handed her the shake she ordered, his glance staying a moment too long, then he hurried away. Boys, Nekomi thought irritably.

The bell atop the door rang and Seto strode straight up to her, not bothering with a greeting or explanation for his rudeness, he said "I challenge you to a duel!"

"Oh brother," she said under her breath, but still loud enough so he could hear.

Seto's voice took on that of an angry parent scolding a child, "Don't you take that tone of voice with ME!"

Nekomi ignored him, apparently enthralled with twirling a strand of hair around her finger. Her eyes flicked to the man behind the counter, she bet that if she called him, she would have a fairly good chance of getting Seto thrown out of the shop, but then he'd wait outside and attack her again. She stood up and brushed past Seto without another glance at him.

"Hey!" he protested, following her. "I challenged you to a duel! I would at least like an answer!" He barred her way out of the ice cream shop.

"You want an answer? Well wouldn't we all like to ask questions of the world and have them answered? You, Seto Kaiba, will just have to hang in suspense for a while, I'm contemplating my answer." Seto fixed her with a blank look. She rubbed her temples, "I'm thinking, Seto, now get out of my way."

Seto, wordlessly moved, so surprised to hear that tone coming from someone other than him. Nekomi strode past him.

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Yugi didn't realized his cell phone was ringing until the third or fourth ring. He thought he had seen her, but he wasn't sure. He fumbled for his phone in his pocket, "Hello?"

Relief spread over him when he heard Joey's triumphant voice, "Yugi? Is that you?"

"Yeah?" Yugi was anxious to hear Joey's news so he bit back his reply of 'No, I'm just the only one who is holding this cell phone!' and waited.

"Oh, ok. Well you'd better come back here, quick. We've gotten into Seto's computer system, but if we don't get off it within an hour, he'll be alerted that someone's hacked in, AND he'll know our location."

Yugi was already turning around and running back to Tristan's house. Without bothering to shut his phone off, he jammed it in his pocket.

"Yugi?...... Yugi? Are you there?"

At that moment, he burst into Tristan's room, "Yes, I'm here."

Joey looked perplexed. "How'd you get here so fast? You'd think with your little legs you wouldn't be able to run very fast."

He ignored the joke and sat in Joey's chair, his gaze intent on the screen. Then with a yelp of triumph, he shut the computer off and stormed out of the house.

"He's getting weirder and weirder all the time."

Joey nodded his agreement. "Challenge you to another game?"

Tristan grinned an evil smile, "Sure, I'd be glad to whip you again."

"That's the last straw! I'm gonna beat you good this time!"

Yugi smiled at how dorky his friends were and resumed his frantic walk out the door. Now that he had found out where she was, the only thing left for him to do was get to the ice cream shop as fast as he could so she wouldn't leave before he got there.

He skidded to a stop and slammed straight into the glass door. "Ow."

"Ah, I see," said a cold voice, full of malice, "I had always wondered how a bug can run into a piece of glass. Now I know, they're all just really stupid."

Yugi looked up to see Seto Kaiba standing above him. Shoot! Seto had found her, too! Which meant that they couldn't be alone, and that he'd probably drive her away, again.

"Kaiba, I'm not it the mood to be trifled with!" He tried to shove past him, and just succeeded in noticing that Nekomi was no where to be seen. "Where did she go!?"

Kaiba inspected his nails on his left hand, "Who? Your GIRLFRIEND?"

Yugi blushed and said angrily, "She's NOT my girlfriend."

Seto grinned, mischiviously, "Oh, well then. You'll have to break the news easy to her, she was under the impression you two where a 'thing'. She'll be sooooo disappointed."

Yugi's face shown with a mix of bravery and stupidity. He muttered "Shut up, Kaiba!" right before he slammed his fist into Seto's stomach, winding him. Then Yugi turned and began wandering aimlessly again.

Where would Nekomi go? Just then he heard his name.

"Yugi! Yugi, wait up!"

He turned to see Téa rushing towards him. "Oh, hi Téa, I didn't see you."

Téa panted as he fell into step with her. "Yugi, I wanted to talk to you about Jac-"

"It's okay Téa, I don't mind."

Téa looked anything but relieved, "Yugi, Jace and I aren't... well, 'a couple' or anything."

Yugi sighed, whould nothing go right for him? "That's not what it looked like yesterday. But I told you, I don't mind. If you two get together I'm happy for you." Yugi saw Nekomi out of the corner of his eye, looking like the wrath of God. "I gotta go, Téa, see you later!"

As soon as he was out of ear shot of Téa, he called out, "Nekomi?"

She turned and flashed him one of her perfect smiles, "Yugi! What a coincidence that we'd meet again here."

Yugi had barely noticed that they were feet from the bench where they had talked the first time. "Yeah, what a surprise."