Behind the Scenes

By Anime2000

Disclaimer: Don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!. Simple as that!

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"I'll play the Mystical Elf down in defense mode. End turn." The Duel was on. Since there were no fancy Duel disks or arenas, the two Duelists had to make do with the sticky tile floor of the arcade. Both Duelists started at 8000 Lifepoints and six cards in each hand. Yami had made the first move. Then he waited.

And waited.

And waited.

And waited.

Some more.

"Kaiba, the monsters aren't going to come to life," he finally said after five minutes.

"I know that!" snapped Seto; looking up from his and Yami's cards that he had been boring holes into with his eyes. "Great strategies take time!"

"Admit it," laughed Yami. "You're nothing without the script!"

"Dark Hole, Lord of D., Flute of Summoning, and two Blue Eyes White Dragons. Attack," The young CEO said placing down all the necessary cards in order. "Leaving you with less than 1000."

Yami blinked and stared at what Seto had just done. "......... Ah........." He drew a card from his deck and looked at his hand. He had six cards again. "I'll play Change of Heart on your Lord of D. Darkness Approaches allows me to flip if facedown. That lets me play Soul Exchange on your two Blue Eyes. I'll sacrifice your three monsters and summon the powerful Slifer the Sky Dragon! Attack!"

Seto looked at him with a cocked eyebrow. "Yami, you could just tell me that I lost 2000 Lifepoints."

Yami sighed and grinned embarrassedly, "I know, I was practicing for the next episode, you know?"

"And another thing," said Seto, holding up the crimson dragon card. "No God Cards." Yami picked up his opponent's deck. "Hey! What are you doing?!" Seto cried as the spiky-haired teen searched through his deck. When he found the card he was looking for, he held it up to Seto's face. Seto recognized the blue card as Obelisk the Tormentor.

"Wow, Kaiba. I didn't think you'd sink so low," Bakura piped up. Then he put a hand to his chin in mock thoughtfulness and then said, "Well, actually, yes I did."

"You just keep your mouth shut," growled Seto. But Bakura had been for the past......... time. He had been after he, Malik, and Mariku caught up to Ryou. Even though Ryou was slightly battered up, you could tell that he didn't go down without a fight. Considering the identical black eyes that the Egyptian twins now sported, and what seemed to be some of Bakura's hair that was clenched tightly in Ryou's hand.

While the tension builds up between the two Duelists, Yugi and Mokuba weren't so competitive.

"Look!" Yugi showed his friend the prize he got for his tickets. "It's the last Yami Yugi plushie! I'm gonna give it to my brother!"

Mokuba nodded and sighed, "They were out of Seto Kaiba plushies. I don't understand how. They restocked ten minutes ago before those girls came. I got a Blue Eyes White Dragon one instead—"

"Hold up," Yugi said suddenly. "There were no Kaiba plushies. There was only ONE Yami plushie. And a bunch of girls Sooooo........."

It took a while for those two to realize but when they did, they looked at each other in horror and whispered at the same time, "Fangirls."

"Yugi!" a high-pitched squeal came from their left. "Mokuba!" Before the two had a chance to run, they found themselves trapped in a crushing embrace. "Look everyone! Look who I found!"

Soon more and fangirls had come over. "Yami!" screamed Yugi trying to escape, but it was useless. The girls blinked. And then began looking around, scouring the place for a certain tri-haired teen. They found him. And half of them were even more excited to see Seto Kaiba with him. They left Yugi and Mokuba alone.

"Whew!" sighed Mokuba. "That was close. I always knew that my big brother would come through for me!"

Yugi nodded, hugging his Yami plushie. "But, um, should we help them?"

"Nah," the raven-haired boy said, shaking his head. He pulled on one of the Blue Eyes White Dragon's wings to see how far they would stretch. "They'll be fine." Yugi wasn't so sure.

Their older brothers were much too focused on the Duel to realize that a group of girls were running towards them. Seto had tried a couple of unsuccessful attempts to destroy Slifer by trying to prevent it from using its effects, all including Buster Blader. Yami countered with all sorts of traps and spells(I think they changed magic cards to spell cards to avoid confusion with the card game 'Magic').

Yami was the first to notice that a bunch of girls had crowded around them. "Hey!" said Tea. "Where did they all come from?"

"None of your business, cheerleader," one of them said rudely to her. Tea gave her a surprised look.

"Wha—what?" Tea asked, though she knew that that girl was a Tea basher.

"You heard me! And Kaiba's mine! You can have Yami!"

"HUH??" gasped Tea, blushing.

"Leave her alone!" The two girls turned their heads to the direction that voice came from. Yugi was trying his best to look tough, and Mokuba was trying his best to drag his friend away. "I mean please leave her alone! She's my friend!"

Yami, who had been in this situation many times, did the first thing to come to his mind. He gasped melodramatically, "Kaiba, you beat me!"

"I did?" Seto asked, not understanding how because Yami definitely had the advantage. Slifer got another direct attack on him, and then Yami's Beta attacked him directly too, leaving him with 300 Lifepoints. Yami gathered up all his cards and shuffled them in his deck before anyone else saw their Duel.

He got up and then sighed in mock defeat. "Oh, whatever shall I do? Does this mean I have to give up my title as Game King?" Tears streamed down his face as he turned around with a noble smile on his face. "I'm glad it was you who defeated me. I couldn't stand it if anyone else did." He turned back around for a very grand exit.

Suddenly, the girls swarmed around him, Kaiba fans congratulating him, and forever Yami fan yelling hateful things at him. Yami took that as his cue to grab his brother by the arm and leave quietly; it wasn't as great as he would've had it, but it'll do. Those who weren't swarmed by fans, in other words everyone else besides the Kaibas, followed.

"Bye Yugi!" said Mokuba, waving. "I'm gonna wait for my brother."

Outside, the sun was shining, and it looked like what the weatherman had said earlier today was right. No rain.

"Not bad," said Mariku to Yami. "Well, not too bad."

Yami shrugged, but looked extremely proud of himself. "Hey, I'm a good actor!"

"Yami," said Yugi, handing his prize to his older brother. "I got this for you!"

Yami placed it back in Yugi's hands. "No, little brother. Today's YOUR birthday. You keep it."

"Gee, Yami. Thanks!" Yugi said happily giving Yami a hug. Yami hugged him back.

The rest of the gang clasped their hands together, smiled warmly, and said—

"Ah, shut up!" snapped Yami glaring at them.

—, "Awwwwwww."

"You never do," said Yami, sighing.

Tea smiled mischievously and was about to start a friendship rant for the fun of it said, "Well, friends always do things to embarrass friends!"

A very weird sounding growl. A few random people walking by gave them a weird look. Joey put a hand to his stomach and grinned sheepishly. "Uh, guys. I'm kinda hungry."

"See?"

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