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- Disclaimer We do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! Or its characters, they belong to Kazuki Takahashi, we do own the plot and Samira and Devin.

- Note From The Authors Hey this is SapphireShadows and Devin Kye with out first co-write together! Please R&R no flames please, constructive criticism welcome! Thanks!

Chapter 1

The streetlights flickered on and off as footsteps echoed on the pavement. She was running, something had startled her near the last alley she had come by. She didn't dare try to approach the thing further for the alleys were dimly lit as night had already fallen and there was no light to shed in the deep shadows of the alleyways. She had walked calmly by the alley at first thinking it only to be a stray animal in a garbage bin. Then she'd heard steps advance upon her, following her, and it seemed to be matching her steps, but she still heard an extra step added to hers. She looked behind her frantically slowing down a bit. Not many people were out at this time of night; she had had to work late and had no meathead to get home besides walking. As she looked cautiously around her she saw no one, perhaps it had only been her imagination, but she felt a warm breath on her, as she turned back around she was greeted by a man in a dark trench coat looking down at her mockingly.

"Hello there m'lady," he said his face smeared with a smirk. The woman backed up a few steps, now afraid of what this stranger would do to her. The flickering lights made shadows dance on his face making his features more eerie than they already were. As he advanced closer towards her she backed away farther in fear, a small hint in the back of her mind of what his intentions were. Abruptly he grabbed her by the wrist wrenching her towards the alley, then a pierce scream went into the night, no one around to hear it.

"BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!" A form shifted in the bed, the sheets thrown in every which way. A groan was heard from under the covers as a hand came out from under the mess shutting off the alarm clock, having been set in snooze. Again a few minutes later the irritating screech of the alarm filled the room again.

"Arrg!" the hand clasped down on the alarm again, a bedraggled Jonouchi sat up in the bed rubbing his eyes. "Damn alarm," he cursed under his breath, as he got up stretching out. He quickly pulled out his school uniform from the closet and slipped it on. He went into the living room, as soon as he was finished dressing, then turned on the television to the usual morning news heading into the kitchen for something so settle his stomach this morning. He listened to the droning of the television as the news reporter came on.

"This is Noriko Watanabe here at the site where another victim was found dead this morning. The nearby neighbors had heard a suspicious scream the night before, and came to check out the premises this morning. Having found the remains of a woman identified as Rika Hoashi. From what the police have investigated there seems to be evidence of a struggle. This murderer doesn't seem to be in anyway connected to the others that have been going on. If there is only one murderer guilty of these deaths, he seems to not have a pattern in his killings, only that they all have been woman. This information leads the police to believe that there may be more than one person involved in these recent streaks of murderers. For more information on this case tune in tonight at nine, now back to Yohi Horibuchi for the weather forecast." Jonouchi made his way over to the television.

"Another murderer," he muttered under his breath, turning the television of and grabbing his backpack as he headed out the door.

Jonouchi dragged his heavy backpack filled with an endless array of textbooks. He sighed as he reached his destination, Mrs. Muzuki's room. Math was his hardest subject, and if he had the choice he'd throw it out of his learning curriculum. The blonde boy entered the adolescent filled room, and threw his backpack on the ground next to his assigned desk. He plopped down on his chair and pondered about the unexplained murderers. A couple seconds later the teacher arrived with a laptop in hand. The teacher set it down on the desk and took out the lesson plan for that day. She grabbed a handy expo marker and began writing down three warm-up problems for the class to begin with while she got settled to begin the lesson. The students started to write down the problems on a fresh sheet of notebook paper. Jonouchi looked up at the problems on the board chewing on the end of his pencil in concentration. Just as he almost got to the first step of the first problem the door opened and a girl walked in. Jonouchi put down his pencil studying her as she made her way to the teacher handing her a slip. She didn't look familiar; Jonouchi didn't recognize her from any of his classes, or the halls for that matter. Mrs. Muzuki and her talked for a bit before the teacher pointed at the empty seat next to his. The girl nodded and made her way to the vacant seat setting her things down with as little noise as possible taking a piece of paper out and copying the problems as the teacher had told her too. Jonouchi went back to his work, after looking her over a few times. She had dark hair, and brown eyes, he found her quite attractive, just as he did any other girl he pretty much saw. She smiled a bit noticing he was looking at her, before she went back to working out the problems.

After Jonouchi finished his warm-up he began to stare at her once more. He liked everything about her, the silky brown hair, her chocolate colored eyes, everything was perfect. After awhile of staring he sat back in his chair waiting for the teachers instructions.

"Okay everyone pass up your warm-ups please," asked the teacher a smile on her face. The students did as they were told and passed up their paper filled with calculations to solve the problems. As time passed the bell to signal the end of class rang. Everyone in the room began to pack up their things quickly sprinted out the door. Jonouchi noticed the brown haired girl walked past him he quickened his pace to catch up with her. She glanced at him, noticing he was walking besides her. Jonouchi smiled a bit before being the first to speak.

"Hi," he said a friendly smile on his face.

"Hi," she said looking at him, stopping at the door. Jonouchi stopped walking as she stopped.

"My name is Jonouchi Katsuya, what's yours?" he inquired.

"My name is Samira," she replied.

"It's very nice to meet you, Samira." She smiled.

"Nice too meet you as well."

"I haven't seen you around here before, are you new?" Jonouchi asked.

She nodded, "Mm hmm," she replied.

"Well I was wondering if you'd like to join me and my friends for lunch," he asked looking at her.

"That'd be nice, sure I'd love to," she replied smiling.

Jonouchi smiled back and asked, "Need any help getting to your next class?"

"No thanks, I'm sure I can manage, wouldn't want to make you late," she replied.

"Alright, I'll see you at lunch then," he said. She nodded leaving the room going to her next class. Jonouchi headed in the opposite direction to his next class which was before lunch.

Samira navigated her way through the halls finding her next class. She looked up at the room number then back down at her schedule to make sure the room numbers matched. As she made her way in she was greeted by a large group of peering eyes. Slowly she made her way towards the teacher; he like the last teacher instructed her to sit down in a seat and gave her instructions on what to do, after making sure she had all the correct textbooks. She made her way towards her seat, this time she was seated next to a boy with tri-colored hair. He smiled warmly at her as she made her way to her seat. She returned the smile, taking out what she'd need for this class period. After reading through different excerpts of the textbook the bell rang as she packed up her things and made her way to the teacher handing in the paper.

"Thank you Miss Watsuki," he said taking the paper from her. She smiled and nodded making her way out of the classroom and towards the lunchroom. She stood at the door, seeing the familiar face of the blonde she'd met earlier. He smiled at her and greeted her again.

"C'mon, I'll show you where we sit," he said as she followed behind him to where he led her. To her surprise the same boy with tri-colored hair from her English class was at the table as well. She smiled at all them taking a seat besides Jonouchi. Jonouchi smiled as the beautiful girl inched closer to him at the sight of a freaky bug.

"What the fuck is that!" Jonouchi glanced on the other side of her noticing what she was startled with.

Jonouchi simply replied, "Oh…that's Weevil."

"That thing is actually a human?" she asked pointing at it. Jonouchi nodded as his reply. Samira cringed in disgust. Unexpectedly a pointy brown haired teenager walked over to Samira with a tray full of food. His eyes widened at the site of the attractive girl. He snaked his way past Jonouchi and towards the girl.

"Hi my name's Honda Hiroto, what's yours? It's nice to meet you," he rapidly said in one breath.

Samira backed away and replied, "Samira," quite overwhelmed with the attention he was drawing to them. Jonouchi pushed him off the seat and scooted closer to Samira.

Suddenly the boy with the tri-colored hair pipped up and asked, "So you're new here right?" he asked. She nodded.

"Yes I am," she replied to add on to her nod. Another brunette was sitting next to boy with tri-colored hair. Her hair was about shoulder length, and she had blue eyes.

"This is Anzu Mazaki," the boy with tri-colored hair said motioning to the girl next to him, "And I'm Yugi Mutou, it's nice to meet you," he finished with a smile.

"The pleasure is all mine," she said her eyes drawing to the large pendant around his neck. Yugi noticed she was looking at his puzzle, when she saw that he was aware she looked away from the pendant around his neck. Suddenly a teacher came into the lunch room trying to make all the teenagers go quiet.

"A strange character has been spotted near the school; we are now in a lock down! Please stay calm while the authorities arrive and give the next order of what we should do," he looked at all the frantic faces and finished, "Please head to your homerooms now for further instruction," with that he left them among themselves to talk about the matters. While Jonouchi was making his way to homeroom he'd lost track of Samira, when he reached the room, he noticed everyone was there but her.

- Note from the Authors Well how'd you like it? Please R&R and leave your opinions. Next chapter coming soon! Thanks for reading!