Ok although sometimes I take criticism the wrong way, I appreciate the constructive criticism. Yes I haven't explained the strengths and weaknesses of the characters I made up, especially Nanase. So sorry about that and enjoy this chapter!

Chapter 13

It's a new day/ But it all feels old

It's a good life/That's what I'm told

But everyday it all just feels the same

At my high school... Good Charlotte

Nanase

These words from my CD player/alarm thing woke me up on this, the first day of high school. I looked over at the clock to see that it was... 7:56?! OH CRAP! I'M GOING TO BE LATE! I quickly got out of bed and changed into my uniform noticing that the necklace I found didn't look good with the uniform so I tucked it under my shirt... and then I continued running around, getting my stuff ready. I didn't wake up Rakster since freshmen and sophomores are supposed to be at school at eight and then the juniors and seniors come at nine. I think it's so freshman and sophomores can get acquainted with one another but I 'm not sure. Anyway, after I made a quick breakfast (toast bread) and did my hair, I grabbed some mints, my bag, and ran out the door.

"At least today is a half-day." I told myself over and over while running. When I arrived at school I saw no one there. I ran towards the doors and quickly stopped and took a few steps back to look at the clock. It was 7:12. Oh that sucks! I read my clock wrong! I heard someone running behind me and I knew who it was already.

"NANASE?! YOU'RE LATE TOO? SHEGARABABA! ('shit' in our own little small language)" Izumi yelled. I grabbed her arm just before she ran past me.

"What are you doing?" she asked. I pointed at the clock. Izumi looked up at the clock. "Oh we're so early." she said.

"Yup." I said.

"So now what do we do?" she asked.

I shrugged, "You want to go find our lockers?"

"Nah, we have loads of time for that." she said.

"Dude, we have loads of time for everything." I said.

We stood in silence.

"I'm hungry, I didn't eat this morning." she said heading off to the cafeteria. I didn't eat much either so I followed her. After we got our food we sat down and ate in silence since we didn't really have much to say.

"How much time before people actually start coming?" Izumi asked. I looked at a clock on the wall.

"About twenty minutes I guess." I said.

Izumi sighed and said, "Great now what do we do?"

I smirked and said, "Wanna learn how to play Duel Monsters?"

Well she fell asleep within about five minutes. That didn't go too well. Izumi liked to sleep and it's hard to wake her up. You pretty much have to scare her to wake her up (trust me I know). So I went through the rules again as if she were still awake.

"Hey you!" someone yelled. I turned around and a couple of girls (juniors and seniors I guess) were setting up a table for SOCCER.

"You look like you have a good kick," one of them said in that sort of way where it sounds like they're complimenting you but they're not, "You're going to try out for soccer right?" they asked.

"Sorry, not this year." I said even though I really thought "No, I don't like soccer anymore." I mean it wasn't really I didn't like soccer, (actually I don't like many sports at all), it's just that I have never had any luck when it came to the competitive part of soccer or any sport for that matter. I tried to have fun with it, but eventually everyone gets so caught up in winning it was crazy. It really ruined sports for me. So I don't play spots that often or very well since I'm out of practice and I don't have much talent. I like the arts; acting, singing, dancing, and that sort of stuff. I even like figure skating cause I see it more as an art than a sport.

"Oh that's too bad. Maybe next year." she said.

"Ya, maybe." I said. Seeing as that short conversation didn't wake up Izumi, I continued teaching my nonexistent student about Duel Monsters.

Ryou

Surprisingly I did not wake up to the sound of my alarm clock but to the sound of footsteps running outside. I got out of bed and changed my clock's settings so it wouldn't go off. I slowly got my things together and ate breakfast. It was really quiet since Father had to go to Domino Museum relatively early this morning and my Yami was being quiet for some reason. After I finished breakfast I did one last check to make sure I had everything I needed for school. Then I left.

When I arrived at school I saw a bunch of people in my class, a bunch of freshmen, and some upper classmen (and women) who were setting up tables for different clubs and sports (by the way I'm still 20 min early). I noticed the two girls we saw the day before were here and the one who looked like she had just woken up was now not awake at all and the other was playing with her cards.

"And that's how you play Duel Monsters." she said to her sleeping friend.

I felt a quick pang, if she is a duelist then it is very possible that she could have something to do with ...well anything.

Nanase

"And that's how you play Duel Monsters." I said. Izumi was still asleep and I don't blame her. I looked around and noticed that more people had shown up. I also saw the guy I (literally) ran into yesterday. Well it would've been rude to not say hi so I got up and walked over to him.

"Hi, my name is Nanase and I'm a freshman." I said.

"I'm Ryou Bakura and I'm a sophomore." he said.

We stood in a brief moment of silence.

"So you're a duelist?" he asked.

"Ya but I suck." I said.

"I doubt it, what kind of deck do you have?" he asked.

"It's a... well I think it... I'm not sure, my brother, Rakster, keeps changing it. He thinks I should change my deck altogether. But I said no so I think it is still some sort of gain life deck." I said.

"HEY BAKURA!" someone yelled from behind us. I looked and saw Bakura's friends run up to us. I had seen all of them yesterday but the only one I knew by name was Yugi.

"Hey guys." Bakura said," This is Nanase she's a freshman and she's also a duelist"

"Really? Cool!" Yugi said,"You're going to join the Duelist Club right?"

Oh no, there actually is a Duelist Club? I thought.

"You mean they're actually going to have it this year?" Bakura's female friend asked.

"Ya, Tea, two seniors decided to run it so the school allowed it and besides, haven't you heard that rumor about a high school Duel Monsters tournament?" Yugi said.

"Another tournament? All right! Time for me to kick some major butt!" the one with the Brooklyn accent said.

They continued their discussion for a while although I didn't really listen. Something about Yugi interested me. It wasn't his spiky hair, his top rank duelist reputation, or his shortness. It was that pyramid thing he was wearing around his neck.

"What's that?" I asked.

"This? It's a puzzle from Egypt." Yugi said. I squatted down to get a better look at it.

"Geez, this must have taken forever to put together. I probably would've worked on it for like five minutes and given up." I said.

"Ya, it did take a while to finish." he said.

Out of curiosity I was going to turn it around but as soon as I touched it ...

"Can I introduce myself, Yugi?" said an older, deeper, stronger voice said. I let go with a jolt and caught Yugi's look of confusion.

"I'd better go find my locker nice meeting you!" I said quickly before running off.

Damn that's the third time something weird has happened to me within three days.

wow this is fun yet hard to write. almost every time I think something up, I watch or hear something right after that sounds almost the same as my idea. I already know the end of this (hee hee) but I need to fill everything in and plus school is not letting up on homework which adds more to my schedule. I am trying to fight the urge to make this a crossover with Yuyu Hakusho or anything that seems interesting but I dunno what I'm going to do right now. I might end up changing the end of this story, cutting this into two different stories altogether since it is so long , or I dunno it's too early to tell.

P.S. Nanase is not a "Mary-Sue", her weakness is that she is not very good at sports.