a/n: This is the second chapter and I am requesting that you review it PLEASE!!
Once again, I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or any of the characters.
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"Yami, do you want to take over for a while?" Yugi was standing next to his counter-part. Yami hadn't been out and around to just hang out in a while and Yugi thought that it would do him some good to have fun.
"Are you sure you don't mind?" Yami asked, a little confused about what brought this on.
"Go ahead! You'll have fun; Kai's really nice," Yugi said.
Yami nodded. He had been watching every once in a while and Kai had indeed seemed nice. She was certainly enthusiastic. He had wondered why she had seemed uninterested in Duel Monsters, but the thought had soon passed from his mind. He would have fun he supposed. It was kind of Yugi to think of him.
The puzzle glowed as the switch took place and when the door to the bedroom opened, it was Yami who stepped out instead of Yugi.
"Hey, Yami," Tea greeted, coming out of the bedroom she shared with Kai. Kai was in the kitchen with the rest of the gang.
Yami nodded good morning and followed her into the kitchen to the others.
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Kai was trying desperately to make scrambled eggs while her friends chattered away happily at the table.
"Oh! Ouch!" she yelped as she touched the metal part of the pot handle. The eggs were beginning to turn black and she moaned, embarrassed that this would be what she'd be serving her friends on their first morning at her house. Running cold water over her hand, she reached for the spatula. She pried the eggs off the pan and they fell in a clump on the plate.
Gulping, she set it in front of Joey. "Err, sorry about that. I'm really not a good cook."
Joey stared at it. "What is it?" he asked, prodding it with his fork. Tea kicked him under the table as Kai went bright red.
The rest of their eggs looked very similar, but her friends ate without complaint. Kai was very grateful for the silence.
When she handed Yami his plate, she tried not to look him in the eye. She could feel her face grow hot as the plate connected with the table. Despite the pathetic impression of food in front of him, he smiled warmly at her. She returned the smile, though hers looked somewhat pained.
As their eyes locked for a split second, Kai felt an odd sensation in her body. It was as if she had suddenly gotten pins and needles all over. She felt slightly dizzy for a few moments, but she recovered quickly and the feeling was gone.
Brushing that aside, she sat down to her own "breakfast." Not a word was spoken as they ate. Kai felt very stupid and embarrassed.
After breakfast, Kai cleaned the table and put the dishes in the sink. Sighing, she began to wash them. She heard her friends leave and enter the boys' room, leaving her alone.
Glancing over her shoulder at the empty kitchen table, there was a sadness in her heart. She had had potential friends... did she just ruin it with her pathetic attempt at food? She had never been able to cook. Her grandmother had always done it. Then when she left... Kai was forced to do it herself. How could her grandmother not teach her how? How could she leave her to flounder like that? To make a fool of herself?
A solitary tear fell from her eye. She had left over a year ago but it seemed like it was only yesterday. She could still hear her grandmother's soothing voice. She could still see her face. How pretty it had been to Kai. A strong jaw and kind eyes, her Gran had been the most attractive person she had ever met. Maybe not at first, but when you learned of her personality... She gave new meaning to the phrase "Beauty is only skin deep."
Coming back into reality, Kai realized her neck was cramping from staring over her shoulder. Turning back to the dishes, she massaged the back of her neck with one hand. Drying her eyes, she soaped up the sponge and proceeded to wash the dishes.
A cup, a plate, a few pieces of food in the drain. Kai didn't realize that her mind was wandering. She placed the last glass into the dish rack and rinsed the sponge. Setting it on the sink, she emptied the drain, following the same routine she had created long ago. She picked up the dish towel and began to dry the clean dishes in the rack. As she dried each one, she put it away.
A few minutes passed and soon she had finished. She heard laughter coming from the boys' room and she wished she was in there, laughing with them. Pushing that aside, she tore a paper towel off the roll and dried the counter where water had splashed. Using that towel, she wiped down the table and dried it. She sighed as she saw that no one had even bothered to push in their chairs. Nobody but one. One chair at the table had been pushed in. Yami's.
It was small, but it made Kai smile none the less. Pushing the other chairs in, she wondered if she should join the others in the bedroom. They sounded like they were having so much fun... should she try to join it? Or would they see it as an interruption? Kai stood there with one hand on a chair, staring down the hall at their room. It was her house, she could go where she wanted. So why did she feel so uncomfortable?
She wanted to be accepted as their friend; she didn't have many. What should she do? If they had wanted her company, wouldn't they have stayed in the kitchen instead of going off without a word to her? Or was that just their way?
They would have spoken a few words to her had they wanted her to join them, even if it were only to tell her where they were going and to come in when she had finished with the dishes. But they didn't. Had her so-called cooking made that much of a bad impression? She supposed it could have. She had only met them the night before.
With a disappointed look, she went to the couch, grabbing a piece of paper and a pencil on her way. Sitting down, she leaned on the coffee table, pencil poised above the paper...
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"Where's Kai?" Tea asked after a while.
"I don't know. I thought she'd come in when she finished the dishes," Tristan said.
"I'll go see where she is," Yami volunteered. He stood and opened the door. Even from where he was he could see her in the living room, bent over something. His curiosity overwhelmed him and he said nothing to the others, closing the door behind him as he left.
He slowly approached the couch from behind. "What are you doing?" he asked as he neared. He came around the back of the couch as Kai jumped and folded a piece of paper in half and covering it with her arm.
"Nothing," she replied quickly as he sat down next to her. She gave the paper another fold under her hand and tucked into her sleeve. She buried the pencil between the cushions with her other hand.
Yami's curiosity grew, but he didn't ask again. "Why are you out here?"
"Uh..." she stuttered. What should she tell him? Surely not that she was afraid to go in. "I... had other things to do." It was somewhat true.
Yami could see she was uncomfortable and didn't press the subject. Kai looked around the room, at the door, anywhere but at Yami. "Sooo," she said slowly, her eyes passing quickly over his face.
"We were going to go to the park to duel. Do you want to come?" he asked.
"No, you go ahead." She was less than interested in Duel Monsters. She wasn't sure why exactly, but it just wasn't the type of game she liked.
Yami was a bit surprised at this, but recovered quickly. "We will at least need directions."
"Oh, yeah, okay," she said. Yami could sense that something was wrong. She was avoiding looking at him and she was fiddling with her necklace.
"Are you all right?" he asked, leaning forward to look her in the face. Turning her head briefly in his direction and back, she nodded.
"Yeah, I'm fine," she said, realizing her nervous habit and bringing her hand back down to her lap.
"Hey, what are you guys doing?" Kai looked over the back of the couch to see Joey and his friends.
"Talking," she replied, turning around again. Why did she feel so out of place?
"Are you gonna' come watch us duel?" Joey asked, dropping onto the couch next to her. Suddenly, he jumped up, rubbing his butt. "Aaah! What was that?" He dug the pencil out from between the cushions and held it up.
Snatching it away, Kai stood up. "Uh... thanks, I've... I've been looking for that," she stammered.
The others gave her curious looks. Yami wondered why she was acting so strange.
"So are you coming?" Tristan asked as Joey sat down again. Though he made sure there were no more pencils in the couch before he did.
"No, I'll stay here," she replied, wrapping her arms around her middle and turning away.
"Hey, what's that?" Joey's voice made her look over her shoulder. He was holding a piece of paper that had been folded over.
"Nothing," she practically cried as she dived for it. Kai managed to snatch it out of his hand before he could open it. "Nothing," she repeated. She put it safely in her pocket and placed the pencil back on the table where she had found it.
"Are you feeling okay?" Tea asked, giving Kai a concerned look.
"I'm fine," she replied. "You'll need directions on how to get to the park. It's easy to get there though. It's basically just a straight line. Leave my house and make a left. Follow the road past Randy's Pizzeria a ways. The park will be on your right. Pretty straight forward," she said.
"Okay, see you later. Come on guys!" Joey said, jumping up and heading for the front door.
"Bye," Tea said, waving to Kai as she and the others followed Joey. There was a slight look of concern on her face, but Kai didn't notice.
Yami said nothing, but looked over his shoulder at her once before closing the door behind him. She had seemed upset about something, he assessed as he began to follow his friends. But why? What had she been hiding? What had been on that paper? Why hadn't she wanted him or Joey to see it? She was being so odd. Was she just uncomfortable about breakfast? It had been bad, but it shouldn't have caused her to act like this. What was it?
~%~
Kai stared at the door after Yami closed it. They had been so eager to leave her. Leave her alone there by herself.
Alone.
Just like her grandmother had.
Alone. What a horrible word. She had been alone for nearly a year now with just a few friends to hang out with once in a while.
And now Yami and his friends had left her alone. She wanted more than anything to be their friend. To be able to spend time with them and laugh and joke the way they did. How wonderful that would be. But they didn't seem to want that. Or they wouldn't have just left her alone.
Sighing, she entered her room and dropped onto her bed. She felt the paper in her back pocket and threw it into the trash, hoping never to see it again. Her aim was excellent; the paper ball fell dead in the center of the pail.
Kai stared at it with an utmost hatred for a few seconds before getting up and pulling out a pack of cards from her drawer. Sitting back down on the bed, she shuffled the deck repeatedly. She then laid the cards out and began to play a game she was well skilled in.
Solitaire.
~%~
Yami couldn't stop thinking of the way Kai had been acting earlier. So upset... distracted. She had been preoccupied. But what with?
Yami couldn't stand it any longer. He wanted to know what it was. They had almost reached Randy's Pizzeria when he announced that he was going back.
"Huh? Why?" Joey asked, turning around and staring at him in shock. The others turned as well and gave him puzzled looks.
"I don't feel right leaving Kai there by herself," he replied.
"What do you mean? She's been alone plenty of times," Joey said.
"That's not what I meant. We're her guests. I feel like someone should be paying attention to her. You go on. I'll see you later," he said.
"Is it that or do you just want to be alone with her?" Joey asked, folding his arms.
"No," Yami said, giving Joey a penetrating look. With that he turned and headed back to the house.
"See you later," Tea said, slightly confused.
~%~
Kai was on her third game of solitaire. It had gotten to be so boring, but she continued none the less. What else had she to do?
Placing the two of hearts on the three, she won again. She sighed as she reshuffled.
"Kai?"
She snapped her head up and dropped the cards all over. Putting a hand to her chest, she breathed heavily. "You scared the living daylights out of me!" she said as Yami chuckled.
"What are you doing?" he asked, entering her room.
"Well, I was playing solitaire. I guess now I'm playing fifty-two pick-up!" she said with a laugh as she bent to pick up the cards that had fallen. Yami laughed too and stooped to help her. "That was fast," she said. "You weren't gone for very long at all."
"I didn't feel like playing Duel Monsters, so I let the others go on without me," he said, handing her the cards he had picked up. They stood and Kai put the deck back together.
"Oh," she said, surprised. "So now what?"
"I was hoping you'd know," he said with a slight laugh.
"Uh..." She looked around the room. "Wait! Do you know how to play spit?"
Yami stared at her. "No," he said. He wasn't sure if he wanted to know.
Kai laughed at his confused face. "Oh, it's nothing like that! It's a card game." She held up the cards and indicated them.
Yami breathed in relief slightly. "I don't know how to play that."
"It's easy. But it requires speed and lots of it. You want to play?"
Kai seemed much more enthusiastic now. Maybe it was because she had something to do. She did seem sort of bored when he had first come into her room. Yami nodded.
"But you'll have to teach me the rules," he said, sitting next to her on the bed.
"No problem. But we have to go in the living room. We have to be across from each other to play this."
Yami nodded and followed her to the living room. Pushing the coffee table away from the couch, she sat down on the floor and indicated for Yami to do the same on the other side of the table.
"Okay. It's pretty simple, really," she said as she cut the deck in half. "Shuffle these." She handed half the deck to Yami and he obeyed as she did the same.
"Now count out fifteen cards." She counted her own out while she spoke. Yami was somewhat impressed with the speed that she took the cards from the deck and put them on the table. He followed suit, though he was slower by far.
"Sort them by what they are. So you'll put queens with queens and twos with twos." Once again, she did this with such speed that he could barely see her hand. He did the same; this time he came close to matching her in speed.
"Okay, now put the rest of your deck here, opposite mine," she said as she place her own deck between them and to the right. He put his to his right and waited for more instructions.
"We both will flip a card from our decks over, but don't yet. When you flip..." She turned a card from the top of her deck and put it face up to the left of the deck. It was a five. "You can either go up or down... meaning that you can either place a four or a six on that and go from there. You can change whenever you want whether you're going up or down too. So you could go five, four, five six, five, etc., etc. You can also do the same thing on the other person's pile. So while you're reaching for a card, I could snake mine in and put it there instead. If we run out of moves in both piles, we both flip over another card and the game continues. What it all boils down to in the end, is whoever has no cards left has to hit the pile with the least cards in it." Kai smacked the five that was face up. "If that person isn't fast enough though, the other one can slap it, even if they haven't used up their cards. If you're not sure which one is smaller, get both of them. The winner takes the smallest and the remainder of the other players cards and the loser gets the bigger pile. That's the first round. The game continues until someone has no deck from which to flip cards. Then there's only one pile to flip with and play on. Then, whoever runs out of cards, has to slap the pile with no cards in it." She hit the table next to Yami's deck as a demonstration. "If the player who hasn't gotten rid of their cards yet gets it, the game continues. If the person who has run out of cards in both their deck and playing cards gets it, the game is over and that player wins. If there is not enough cards in one person's deck to play a full fifteen, the other has to give them some cards. Do you gave all that?" Kai asked, putting the two face up cards under her deck.
"I think so," Yami replied.
"Well then, let's go."
They grinned at each other as they flipped...
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"Yami, do you want to take over for a while?" Yugi was standing next to his counter-part. Yami hadn't been out and around to just hang out in a while and Yugi thought that it would do him some good to have fun.
"Are you sure you don't mind?" Yami asked, a little confused about what brought this on.
"Go ahead! You'll have fun; Kai's really nice," Yugi said.
Yami nodded. He had been watching every once in a while and Kai had indeed seemed nice. She was certainly enthusiastic. He had wondered why she had seemed uninterested in Duel Monsters, but the thought had soon passed from his mind. He would have fun he supposed. It was kind of Yugi to think of him.
The puzzle glowed as the switch took place and when the door to the bedroom opened, it was Yami who stepped out instead of Yugi.
"Hey, Yami," Tea greeted, coming out of the bedroom she shared with Kai. Kai was in the kitchen with the rest of the gang.
Yami nodded good morning and followed her into the kitchen to the others.
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Kai was trying desperately to make scrambled eggs while her friends chattered away happily at the table.
"Oh! Ouch!" she yelped as she touched the metal part of the pot handle. The eggs were beginning to turn black and she moaned, embarrassed that this would be what she'd be serving her friends on their first morning at her house. Running cold water over her hand, she reached for the spatula. She pried the eggs off the pan and they fell in a clump on the plate.
Gulping, she set it in front of Joey. "Err, sorry about that. I'm really not a good cook."
Joey stared at it. "What is it?" he asked, prodding it with his fork. Tea kicked him under the table as Kai went bright red.
The rest of their eggs looked very similar, but her friends ate without complaint. Kai was very grateful for the silence.
When she handed Yami his plate, she tried not to look him in the eye. She could feel her face grow hot as the plate connected with the table. Despite the pathetic impression of food in front of him, he smiled warmly at her. She returned the smile, though hers looked somewhat pained.
As their eyes locked for a split second, Kai felt an odd sensation in her body. It was as if she had suddenly gotten pins and needles all over. She felt slightly dizzy for a few moments, but she recovered quickly and the feeling was gone.
Brushing that aside, she sat down to her own "breakfast." Not a word was spoken as they ate. Kai felt very stupid and embarrassed.
After breakfast, Kai cleaned the table and put the dishes in the sink. Sighing, she began to wash them. She heard her friends leave and enter the boys' room, leaving her alone.
Glancing over her shoulder at the empty kitchen table, there was a sadness in her heart. She had had potential friends... did she just ruin it with her pathetic attempt at food? She had never been able to cook. Her grandmother had always done it. Then when she left... Kai was forced to do it herself. How could her grandmother not teach her how? How could she leave her to flounder like that? To make a fool of herself?
A solitary tear fell from her eye. She had left over a year ago but it seemed like it was only yesterday. She could still hear her grandmother's soothing voice. She could still see her face. How pretty it had been to Kai. A strong jaw and kind eyes, her Gran had been the most attractive person she had ever met. Maybe not at first, but when you learned of her personality... She gave new meaning to the phrase "Beauty is only skin deep."
Coming back into reality, Kai realized her neck was cramping from staring over her shoulder. Turning back to the dishes, she massaged the back of her neck with one hand. Drying her eyes, she soaped up the sponge and proceeded to wash the dishes.
A cup, a plate, a few pieces of food in the drain. Kai didn't realize that her mind was wandering. She placed the last glass into the dish rack and rinsed the sponge. Setting it on the sink, she emptied the drain, following the same routine she had created long ago. She picked up the dish towel and began to dry the clean dishes in the rack. As she dried each one, she put it away.
A few minutes passed and soon she had finished. She heard laughter coming from the boys' room and she wished she was in there, laughing with them. Pushing that aside, she tore a paper towel off the roll and dried the counter where water had splashed. Using that towel, she wiped down the table and dried it. She sighed as she saw that no one had even bothered to push in their chairs. Nobody but one. One chair at the table had been pushed in. Yami's.
It was small, but it made Kai smile none the less. Pushing the other chairs in, she wondered if she should join the others in the bedroom. They sounded like they were having so much fun... should she try to join it? Or would they see it as an interruption? Kai stood there with one hand on a chair, staring down the hall at their room. It was her house, she could go where she wanted. So why did she feel so uncomfortable?
She wanted to be accepted as their friend; she didn't have many. What should she do? If they had wanted her company, wouldn't they have stayed in the kitchen instead of going off without a word to her? Or was that just their way?
They would have spoken a few words to her had they wanted her to join them, even if it were only to tell her where they were going and to come in when she had finished with the dishes. But they didn't. Had her so-called cooking made that much of a bad impression? She supposed it could have. She had only met them the night before.
With a disappointed look, she went to the couch, grabbing a piece of paper and a pencil on her way. Sitting down, she leaned on the coffee table, pencil poised above the paper...
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"Where's Kai?" Tea asked after a while.
"I don't know. I thought she'd come in when she finished the dishes," Tristan said.
"I'll go see where she is," Yami volunteered. He stood and opened the door. Even from where he was he could see her in the living room, bent over something. His curiosity overwhelmed him and he said nothing to the others, closing the door behind him as he left.
He slowly approached the couch from behind. "What are you doing?" he asked as he neared. He came around the back of the couch as Kai jumped and folded a piece of paper in half and covering it with her arm.
"Nothing," she replied quickly as he sat down next to her. She gave the paper another fold under her hand and tucked into her sleeve. She buried the pencil between the cushions with her other hand.
Yami's curiosity grew, but he didn't ask again. "Why are you out here?"
"Uh..." she stuttered. What should she tell him? Surely not that she was afraid to go in. "I... had other things to do." It was somewhat true.
Yami could see she was uncomfortable and didn't press the subject. Kai looked around the room, at the door, anywhere but at Yami. "Sooo," she said slowly, her eyes passing quickly over his face.
"We were going to go to the park to duel. Do you want to come?" he asked.
"No, you go ahead." She was less than interested in Duel Monsters. She wasn't sure why exactly, but it just wasn't the type of game she liked.
Yami was a bit surprised at this, but recovered quickly. "We will at least need directions."
"Oh, yeah, okay," she said. Yami could sense that something was wrong. She was avoiding looking at him and she was fiddling with her necklace.
"Are you all right?" he asked, leaning forward to look her in the face. Turning her head briefly in his direction and back, she nodded.
"Yeah, I'm fine," she said, realizing her nervous habit and bringing her hand back down to her lap.
"Hey, what are you guys doing?" Kai looked over the back of the couch to see Joey and his friends.
"Talking," she replied, turning around again. Why did she feel so out of place?
"Are you gonna' come watch us duel?" Joey asked, dropping onto the couch next to her. Suddenly, he jumped up, rubbing his butt. "Aaah! What was that?" He dug the pencil out from between the cushions and held it up.
Snatching it away, Kai stood up. "Uh... thanks, I've... I've been looking for that," she stammered.
The others gave her curious looks. Yami wondered why she was acting so strange.
"So are you coming?" Tristan asked as Joey sat down again. Though he made sure there were no more pencils in the couch before he did.
"No, I'll stay here," she replied, wrapping her arms around her middle and turning away.
"Hey, what's that?" Joey's voice made her look over her shoulder. He was holding a piece of paper that had been folded over.
"Nothing," she practically cried as she dived for it. Kai managed to snatch it out of his hand before he could open it. "Nothing," she repeated. She put it safely in her pocket and placed the pencil back on the table where she had found it.
"Are you feeling okay?" Tea asked, giving Kai a concerned look.
"I'm fine," she replied. "You'll need directions on how to get to the park. It's easy to get there though. It's basically just a straight line. Leave my house and make a left. Follow the road past Randy's Pizzeria a ways. The park will be on your right. Pretty straight forward," she said.
"Okay, see you later. Come on guys!" Joey said, jumping up and heading for the front door.
"Bye," Tea said, waving to Kai as she and the others followed Joey. There was a slight look of concern on her face, but Kai didn't notice.
Yami said nothing, but looked over his shoulder at her once before closing the door behind him. She had seemed upset about something, he assessed as he began to follow his friends. But why? What had she been hiding? What had been on that paper? Why hadn't she wanted him or Joey to see it? She was being so odd. Was she just uncomfortable about breakfast? It had been bad, but it shouldn't have caused her to act like this. What was it?
~%~
Kai stared at the door after Yami closed it. They had been so eager to leave her. Leave her alone there by herself.
Alone.
Just like her grandmother had.
Alone. What a horrible word. She had been alone for nearly a year now with just a few friends to hang out with once in a while.
And now Yami and his friends had left her alone. She wanted more than anything to be their friend. To be able to spend time with them and laugh and joke the way they did. How wonderful that would be. But they didn't seem to want that. Or they wouldn't have just left her alone.
Sighing, she entered her room and dropped onto her bed. She felt the paper in her back pocket and threw it into the trash, hoping never to see it again. Her aim was excellent; the paper ball fell dead in the center of the pail.
Kai stared at it with an utmost hatred for a few seconds before getting up and pulling out a pack of cards from her drawer. Sitting back down on the bed, she shuffled the deck repeatedly. She then laid the cards out and began to play a game she was well skilled in.
Solitaire.
~%~
Yami couldn't stop thinking of the way Kai had been acting earlier. So upset... distracted. She had been preoccupied. But what with?
Yami couldn't stand it any longer. He wanted to know what it was. They had almost reached Randy's Pizzeria when he announced that he was going back.
"Huh? Why?" Joey asked, turning around and staring at him in shock. The others turned as well and gave him puzzled looks.
"I don't feel right leaving Kai there by herself," he replied.
"What do you mean? She's been alone plenty of times," Joey said.
"That's not what I meant. We're her guests. I feel like someone should be paying attention to her. You go on. I'll see you later," he said.
"Is it that or do you just want to be alone with her?" Joey asked, folding his arms.
"No," Yami said, giving Joey a penetrating look. With that he turned and headed back to the house.
"See you later," Tea said, slightly confused.
~%~
Kai was on her third game of solitaire. It had gotten to be so boring, but she continued none the less. What else had she to do?
Placing the two of hearts on the three, she won again. She sighed as she reshuffled.
"Kai?"
She snapped her head up and dropped the cards all over. Putting a hand to her chest, she breathed heavily. "You scared the living daylights out of me!" she said as Yami chuckled.
"What are you doing?" he asked, entering her room.
"Well, I was playing solitaire. I guess now I'm playing fifty-two pick-up!" she said with a laugh as she bent to pick up the cards that had fallen. Yami laughed too and stooped to help her. "That was fast," she said. "You weren't gone for very long at all."
"I didn't feel like playing Duel Monsters, so I let the others go on without me," he said, handing her the cards he had picked up. They stood and Kai put the deck back together.
"Oh," she said, surprised. "So now what?"
"I was hoping you'd know," he said with a slight laugh.
"Uh..." She looked around the room. "Wait! Do you know how to play spit?"
Yami stared at her. "No," he said. He wasn't sure if he wanted to know.
Kai laughed at his confused face. "Oh, it's nothing like that! It's a card game." She held up the cards and indicated them.
Yami breathed in relief slightly. "I don't know how to play that."
"It's easy. But it requires speed and lots of it. You want to play?"
Kai seemed much more enthusiastic now. Maybe it was because she had something to do. She did seem sort of bored when he had first come into her room. Yami nodded.
"But you'll have to teach me the rules," he said, sitting next to her on the bed.
"No problem. But we have to go in the living room. We have to be across from each other to play this."
Yami nodded and followed her to the living room. Pushing the coffee table away from the couch, she sat down on the floor and indicated for Yami to do the same on the other side of the table.
"Okay. It's pretty simple, really," she said as she cut the deck in half. "Shuffle these." She handed half the deck to Yami and he obeyed as she did the same.
"Now count out fifteen cards." She counted her own out while she spoke. Yami was somewhat impressed with the speed that she took the cards from the deck and put them on the table. He followed suit, though he was slower by far.
"Sort them by what they are. So you'll put queens with queens and twos with twos." Once again, she did this with such speed that he could barely see her hand. He did the same; this time he came close to matching her in speed.
"Okay, now put the rest of your deck here, opposite mine," she said as she place her own deck between them and to the right. He put his to his right and waited for more instructions.
"We both will flip a card from our decks over, but don't yet. When you flip..." She turned a card from the top of her deck and put it face up to the left of the deck. It was a five. "You can either go up or down... meaning that you can either place a four or a six on that and go from there. You can change whenever you want whether you're going up or down too. So you could go five, four, five six, five, etc., etc. You can also do the same thing on the other person's pile. So while you're reaching for a card, I could snake mine in and put it there instead. If we run out of moves in both piles, we both flip over another card and the game continues. What it all boils down to in the end, is whoever has no cards left has to hit the pile with the least cards in it." Kai smacked the five that was face up. "If that person isn't fast enough though, the other one can slap it, even if they haven't used up their cards. If you're not sure which one is smaller, get both of them. The winner takes the smallest and the remainder of the other players cards and the loser gets the bigger pile. That's the first round. The game continues until someone has no deck from which to flip cards. Then there's only one pile to flip with and play on. Then, whoever runs out of cards, has to slap the pile with no cards in it." She hit the table next to Yami's deck as a demonstration. "If the player who hasn't gotten rid of their cards yet gets it, the game continues. If the person who has run out of cards in both their deck and playing cards gets it, the game is over and that player wins. If there is not enough cards in one person's deck to play a full fifteen, the other has to give them some cards. Do you gave all that?" Kai asked, putting the two face up cards under her deck.
"I think so," Yami replied.
"Well then, let's go."
They grinned at each other as they flipped...
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