Author's Note:

I will try to control my language, and that of the characters, but sometimes it is understandable for them to curse.

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Chapter 2: Jonouchi, the Time Machine, and the Guy in the Overcoat

Anzu sat up, having lost consciousness a few minutes earlier.

"Where did my brother go?" Shizuka was asking Katsuya. The boy shrugged.

"I dunno. He must have got transported somewhere on accident. It's da same thing dat happened to me. He could be anywhere in time or space."

Tears welled up in Shizuka's eyes. "Can you bring him home, my-brother-one-day-from-now?" Katsuya scratched his head.

"No, I think dat he has to come back on his own. Hopefully he…I mean I…whateva. Hopefully he'll figure out how ta use the time machine."

"Jonouchi, this is you we're talking about", said Anzu.

"Wha…? Hey!" He simmered as the others (who were all awake, by the way) laughed.

Suddenly, there was a similar explosion to the one when Jonouchi had disappeared. And everyone was knocked out…again.

But rather than being out for five minutes, they were out for four. When they woke, they saw a man wearing all black standing before them, shades covering his eyes, a long black overcoat making his form look huge and looming.

"It's you!" he said, pointing to Katsuya, "Return the time machine. Please…I need to destroy them."

"I don't have it", Katsuya replied, "The past version of myself accidentally transported himself…myself. Whateva."

Cursing, the man pulled his own time machine out of an inside pocket of his coat. It looked exactly the same as Katsuya's, except this one had silver grains of sand instead of gold.

"To locate his coordinates…" the man murmured. Without warning, he walked over to Katsuya and pulled out a strand of the boy's blonde hair.

"Ow! What the hell…?"

"Since it was your past self that took the time machine, I'll use the DNA sample from your hair to track him."

"Wow, dat's some pretty deep stuff. You must be really smart ta think of stuff like dat."

"Well, he is the genius who discovered the secret of time travel!" Anzu pointed out, marveling at how dense her friend could be sometimes.

"Hey, you're makin me feel stupid", Katsuya replied.

"Well, it's not hard", said Honda.

While Katsuya tried to strangle Honda, Anzu and Yugi turned to the scientist, who had his back turned to them and was doing something with the time machine.

"Um…excuse me?" said Yugi, "But do you know where Jonouchi is yet?"

"Dark magic!" said Atemu from his soul room, "It's part of a sinister plot to take over the world! Let me duel him! We'll do mind crush, and then see what he thinks about sending Jonouchi to the Shadow Realm!"

"Atemu, stop it. You're overreacting. Yesterday, you thought the teacher giving me an 'F' on my history test was a sign of Dark magic. And the day before that, you wouldn't let me eat lunch because you thought the lunch ladies were plotting to take over the world!"

"But the lunch ladies are trying to take over the world!" Atemu protested.

"Atemu, just admit it, you overreact."

Yugi accidentally said the sentence out loud, rather than in his head, and the scientist looked at him, confused.

"What are you kid, mental? Well, I've tracked him down. By the way, go hide in a classroom."

Anzu and Yugi got Shizuka and Otogi, and the four of them ran into the nearest classroom. Katsuya and Honda, who were too busy fighting, didn't notice. When the man left and the explosion ensued, they got knocked out.

Meanwhile, in the dark classroom, Otogi was touching someone's hand. He remembered Shizuka being right next to him. Thinking it was her, he blushed as he held her hand, thinking how jealous Honda would be, and commented, "You have lovely hands."

"Was that you who said that, Otogi?" came Yugi's voice.

As Otogi began to caress the hand, Anzu turned on the lights, and it was revealed that Otogi was caressing Yugi's hand. Yugi was staring at him with a horrified expression.

"Ugh!" yelped Otogi, backing away as far as possible.

"Otogi, you pervert, I didn't know you were like that", said Anzu.

"I'm not! I thought he was…"

"It's okay Otogi, you think that you actually have a chance with me, you and Honda both do, I understand. But for future reference, my hands smell like lavender", said Shizuka.

Anzu and Yugi sweatdropped.

"Noted. Heh. I'll bet Honda doesn't know that", said Otogi, more to himself than anyone in particular.

"No, actually, he's known for the past two weeks."

"WHAT? Shizuka…why would you tell him something like that?"

"Why would I tell you something like that? I like to taunt you two. You are such idiots that you think I'll actually go for you", Shizuka replied.

As she flipped back her brown hair and flounced out of the room, Anzu and Yugi thought they heard the buzzing sound of rejection as Otogi gazed after her, openmouthed.

"She totally wants me!" he said, then followed her out. Anzu put her head in her hands.

"What a moron…"

"I never thought Shizuka played so cruelly with boys", Yugi said, "Do you think like that too, Anzu? If you're mean that means you like me and if you're nice that means you don't like me?"

"Of course I like you Yugi, you're my friend."

"I meant…like like me." Blushing, he said hurriedly, "Oh, I think I hear Jonouchi and Honda waking up, I'll go see if they're all right, bye!"

Anzu stared after him, wondering why boys had to be so confusing and the reason that they were incapable of expressing their feelings to a girl.

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Meanwhile, Jonouchi sat up and looked around. He was in a very strange place indeed.

"Where the hell am I? Shizuka? Yuge? Anzu? Honda? Otogi…wait, I don't even like him. Where did you all go?"

He was in the middle of a busy highway, which he didn't even realize for a minute, until he saw the huge truck coming towards him, the headlights shining across his face, as it came so fast it couldn't stop in time…

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Author's Note: Well, that's Chapter 2! Hope you like! I've reduced the language, and left a few cliffhangers. I do love doing that.