A/N: Welcome back again readers! A quick look at the mailbox and I'll get the fic going again:

The Broken Bow: Thanks for reading, and as far as that Carlos Smith fella goes, I could probably beat em. . John Cena, pretty good wrestler, but I'm not sure if I'm ready for his rapping yet. The world suffered enough with rappers trying to be wrestlers or wrestlers trying to be rappers. The Macho Man, Master P, K-Kwik, Konnan, and others have beaten that idea to death. He's a pretty good rapper, but I'm not sure he has an audience.

Anime Ruthless: Sorry for the slight confusion, I hope that you understand fully what was going on. Bill O'Reilly…too liberal? Those are words I never thought I would hear uttered in the same sentence. It's not really his political views that necessarily bug me (I'm a left-leaning Independent, by the way) its more or less the way he treats people. Back on topic, thanks for reading and enjoy the chapter!

Telecoi: HAHAHA! Yugi's fate will be revealed in this chapter…so here's your answer. Thanks for reading!

Snow Weaver: No need to apologize…just keep reading! Anyway…thanks for sticking with me and reading, and good luck with your stories.

Shy and LeighC: Thanks a bunch for reading you two, I'm glad you like it. Enjoy the chapter!

Now, a quick bit of randomness called the Dragon's Lair, and on with the fic!

What is a J-Rocker? I've read this term in YGO fanfics over and over, and I have no clue what it means! Someone please inform me!

Football season...so close, yet so far. I'm practically counting the time to Two-a-day practices. Anyway, I looked at LSU's schedule I noticed two things of relevance. One, nearly all of the big games are in Baton Rouge. Tennessee, Auburn, Florida, and Arizona State all visit the Tigers. Two, What in the blue hell is Appalachian State doing on the schedule? No offense to them, I'm sure they are a fine university, but can't LSU find a more suitable opponent to thrash in front of nearly 100,000 people? Oh well, nobody (besides myself and some overzealous OSU fans) thought Oregon State could play with LSU last year. The final score? Oregon State 21, LSU 22 (their kicker missed THREE extra points).

Just another question, does anyone think there is a slight bias against males who love female anime characters? Hear me out on this. It just seems that if a guy is ga-ga over a female character, becomes a "fan-boy" if you will, he's shunned as nothing more than a pervert and a loser who can't get laid. I don't know, maybe it's the Pepsi talkin'...

I was looking through a copy of Shonen Jump for about the hundreth time when I came across this letter to the editors talking about if YGO were ever made into a live action film that Sandra Bullock would play the role of Tea Garderer...it gave me a little interesting thought. If you could cast one person to be your favorite character, who would it be?

That's all for that...now on with the fic!

Chapter 20: Awakening

The Domino East Cougars are down, 47-28, at halftimeand the Paladins appear on the fast track to another state championship. We'll be back with you after this brief station break.

"WHAT HAPPENED IN THAT FIRST QUARTER? TEN TURNOVERS? HELL NO!"

Seto and his brother Mokuba sat side by side. If you were just listening to the assistants talk and hadn't seen the game going on, you would have thought that they were the ones losing. Mokuba, holding his head down, chose to attempt to tune out these harsh voices of criticism. His older brother, on the other hand, almost embraced them, as if he was using the anger and frustration as energy.

"Do you all realize they did not miss a three pointer in the first half? That is ridiculous!"

Yugi, Yami, Duke sat with the rest of their teammates as they reviewed their strategy and made adjustments for the second half. Their coach pointed out the mistakes, but was more calm and encouraging than harsh.

"Now...listen to me, men...we have plenty of time to get back in this game. We just have to stay focused and chop into that lead little by little. Anyone care to say a few words?"

Everyone looked around, waiting to see who would stand on the proverbial soap box and take a stand. Joey, who appeared to be very, VERY angry, stood up to speak. He gulped hard, and proceeded to speak...or yell, be that as it may.

"WHAT'S WRONG WIT YA? DESE BUMS ARE NOTHIN! THEY BLEED LIKE US! THEY SWEAT LIKE US! THEY AIN'T GODS OR MACHINES...DEY HUMAN, JUST LIKE US! THEY WENT THROUGH TWO A DAYS? WE WENT THROUGH FOUR A DAYS! THIS IS OUR TIME, THIS IS OUR TITLE, LETS GO GET IT DAMMIT!"

Yugi looked at his best friend as if he were possesed. Joey usually treated basketball as a secondary pasttime in his life, and hardly behaved as if he genuinely cared about winning.

"Well said, Wheeler..." The coach knew after that little rant, nothing else he could have said would matter.

Joey Wheeler has come out in the second half and scored eight straight points! They've tried putting Seto Kaiba on him, Mokuba Kaiba, even Carlos Smith...no one can stop him right now! Here he is again with a steal! He passes it to Devlin on the fast break for an easy layup! It's now Coach Gaines who calles timeout, with 5:50 to go in the third quarter, Domino East is within 10, 50-40...

Mokuba and Carlos were getting a harsh talking to as they came to the bench during a timeout.

"Sir...We can't.."

"I hate the word 'can't'. Don't you dare use it around me! Look at me...I'm seeing the floor. SHOW ME SOME HEART!"

After the blowout in the first half, we've seen a basketball game break out in the third period. We head to the fourth quarter with Domino West still leading, 62-56.

The players weren't aware at the time, but several college and pro scouts were in attendance. One of them, a dark-haired man of medium height, wore a blue polo shirt with khaki pants with a logo of a Jayhawk on both. The other, a redhead standing near six feet tall. He wore a midnight blue shirt with blood red trim, the words "Ole Miss" written across the front.

"You think they can come back and win it, Nathan?"

The Kansas Jayhawk assistant shrugged his shoulders. "I dunno, Chris...basketball is a crazy game."

Back in the present...

Domino City Hospital

Yami sat alone, waiting for news of his twin brother's fate.

Why didn't I notice something was wrong with him sooner? Maybe I should have paid more attention...said something to him...

He noticed that Tea had come to sit by him, but did not speak.

"Yami...you know it's not your fault for what happened right?" Tea reached over and gave the young man a hug.

"What would make him do that to himself? I mean, I've never seen him like this before..." Yami couldnt' help it. He broke down and cried. He felt as if it was his personal failure that landed Yugi in the hospital, and he didn't know how he would survive without him.

"Excuse me, are you Yugi's brother?" A woman in her mid thirties adressed the two. "Come with me, please."

"Um...Seto...even through all of this talk, I still don't see why you hated my brother so much."

Serenity and Kaiba had left the restaruant they were dining in, and were taking a stroll in the downtown area.

"If you don't know by now, you haven't been paying much attention, have you?"

Serenity put her hands on her hips and made a pouty face. "What's that supposed to mean, huh?"

Kaiba looked down on her, a slight smile on his lips."I say what I mean, you should know that by now."

Damn, she's so cute when she's angry.

"Whatever...hey...isn't that your coach's car?" Serenity pointed to the blue Ford that had just passed them and now was making a crazy turn through busy traffic, much to the angst of fellow drivers.

"Kaiba, Yugi's in the hosptial! You two get in, and I'll get you two over there!"

Serenity and Kaiba hurridly got in the vehicle, and the three raced to the hospital.

"So you see, Yami, the alcohol poisoning is minimal to moderate at worst, and he should pull through. We'll have to hold him here for about a week or so, just to make sure there is no permanent damage to his nervous system."

Yami breathed a slight sign of relief as the doctor told him the good news. Even though his brother would recover, he knew their relationship would have to chage drastically in order to prevent something like this from happening again.

HA! You didn't think I would kill off little Yugi, did you? Next time, Yami and Nathan sit down for a long talk about all things Yugi, plus Nathan reveals something to him about his past that Yami can fully relate to. Plus...The Midshipmen of Navy come calling! Can the team pull together and get another victory? Or will the Middies pull off the upset? Find out next time!

Well, that's it from me people. If this chapter leads to me getting to 100 reviews, I have a little something planned to say thank you. Take care!

BDB...out