DISCLAIMER: WE DO NOT OWN YUGIOH!!!
Atem just tossed as turned in his sleep. His sweat wetted his clothes making them hug around his whole body. He groaned as if someone was stabbing him with a knife and digging it deeper into his skin.
Suddenly Yugi ran into the room jumped on Atem snapping him awake yelling, "IT'S THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!" "OOF!!" Atem said holding on to his stomach which Yugi jammed his elbow in. Yugi got up smiling saying, "Get dressed because its your day to cook breakfast!" Atem shook his head and said, "Whatever…"
(At School)
Kokoro noticed when she first appeared about at least ten students and 2 teachers were holding….Harus?? "That can't be…" She said as she saw two more students pass by her with different colored Harus. 'Harus are…' She thought to herself, 'My brother's specialty!' And the worse thing was that they had the Kaiba Corp sign on the bottom on each and every Haru she saw.
"Alright…" She said as she sat down on the bench near by. 'Let's think before you do anything stupid! Like for instant maybe Seto was working on something other than that tournament of his.' She thought about it for a moment but before she could dig any farther into thoughts the bell rang.
"Sigh…." She said as she stood up. "At least it's the last day in this shit hole…."
(After home room)
"In 3 hours, we're FREE!!!!!!!!!!!" Rini yelled happily, as she walked down the hallway to her locker.
"Is that a... good thing? 'Cuz Oshio-sama always says that the thirst for knowledge is unquenchable, and he says you get knowledge by school." Mana injected.
"Well, for all normal people, it is." Anzu replied.
"ARE YOU INSULTING MY BELOVED?!" Rini shouted furiously. The whole hall went quiet and stared. Anzu turned red.
"Rini!" Yamu scolded.
"Of-of course not." Anzu stammered.
"Yeah, well... good!" Rini said.
"Rini," Mai said joining them, along with Kokoro and Rebecca, "shouldn't you be using your indoor voice?"
"What?"
"Don't you get even a little embarrassed when people stare at you when you yell?"
"Uhhh, no. Should I be?" Rini asked, confused. Everyone sweat dropped.
"Well, it's not as bad as in PE..." Yamu said, laughing.
"Why what happened?" Everyone asked simultaneously.
"Yeah, what'd I do so wrong?" Rini demanded.
"Rini-Rini-" Yamu started laughing louder.
"What?" Rebecca asked.
"All I did was yell at Otogi-san for saying my aim was bad." Rini said defensively.
"Only that? How about knocking into the ball net and making all the balls fall on coach?" Yamu answered.
"It was an accident." Rini said shrugging.
"Everyone was staring at you." Anzu added.
"So, what does tha-Everyone?" Rini asked her eyes lighting up.
"Yes..." Anzu said uncertainly.
"Even... Mahado-sama?" Rini asked.
"I guess." Anzu replied.
"MAHADO-SAMA WAS LOOKING AT ME!!!!" Rini squealed in delight. She pulled off her coat (Rini wears the boy's uniform, like Yugi) and began to do Jiu-Jitsu, and while singing the Puffy AmiYumi theme. Everyone sweat dropped again.
"Rini is wei-" Anzu began.
"She's not weird!" Kokoro said angrily.
"Yeah, she's just...." Mai said awkwardly.
"Rini." Yamu and Mana said.
"For someone who always talks about Friendship, you're not friendly." Rebecca smirked.
"Shut up, Blondie!" Anzu replied.
"Who're you calling Blondie?!!" Rebecca, Mana and Mai all said. Just then Rini crashed into a locker.
"RINI!" everyone said.
"I'm so sorry!" Rini exclaimed. Honda (who's locker she dented) just stared.
"My locker!" Honda said, looking at Rini as though she had murdered his best friend.
"Uh, you can borrow my locker till yours is fixed. Here's the combination. It's the last day anyway." Rini said opening her own locker. Honda looked on mutely at Rini's Black Magician posters. Rini sweat dropped nervously. Honda started putting his things into her locker. Just then, the bell rang.
"Feh, Home Ec." Rini said, pulling Mana along. "Why I even bothered-"
"You did it because Mahado was also in Home Ec." Yamu said, before retreating into the English classroom.
"Oh yeah." Rini said, smiling to herself. She entered the classroom quietly.
"Since it's the last day, we'll be making brownies. Get into pairs everyone." The teacher said.
"Mana!" Yugi panted, grabbing her.
"Yes...?" Mana asked, staring at Yugi.
"Be my partner!" He said. Mana saw Rebecca and Anzu practically killing each other. She had a pretty good idea why, so she went off with Yugi.
"Hey Mahado-sama!" Rini called.
"Oh no you don't!" Vivian said, appearing out of nowhere. Rini ran toward Mahado. Vivian did the same thing.
"Hey Mahado-kun, will you be my partner?" Ryou asked.
"Alright Bakura-kun." Mahado said, stepping out of Rini and Vivian's way. CRASH!!! They both knocked into each other.
"Get your hands off me!" Vivian screeched.
"You get your hands off me!" Rini answered.
"Here you go." The teacher said, handing Rini a bowl and Vivian a spatula.
"I'm not her partner!" Vivian and Rini yelled.
"Good, good." The teacher said distractedly, seeing as how Rebecca and Anzu were now throwing brownie ingredients at each other. Rini furiously stood up and went to a table. She started throwing flour haphazardly into the mixing bowl.
"Not like that! You're supposed to measure it out first!" Vivian shouted, dumping out the contents of the bowl and starting over.
"You do it then, I'm not good at making brownies, or cooking anything in general." Rini said dismissively.
"Then why'd you take Home Ec?" Vivian asked sardonically.
"Because… I have to cook stuff for Len." Rini said quickly.
"Len? Who's Len? Is he a guy?" Vivian asked.
"Of course he's a- DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT, WONG!" Rini shouted, "Len is mine! MINE MINE MINE!"
"Greedy little idiot, aren't you? You say Mahado's yours, and now you're saying that this Len is yours." Vivian retorted.
"Shut up! Len is my- It's not you're business anyway." Rini said, turning away from Vivian. She watched the rest of the class. Jounouchi and Honda were working efficiently, but had more batter on them then in the bowl.
Yugi and Mana's batter looked perfect, other than the fact that when they tasted it, they looked as though they were going to throw up. Mai seemed to have dropped her ring into her mixture, so she and Kokoro were busy searching for it.
Rini's eyes rested on Mahado and Ryou. Ryou had a single streak of chocolate on his cheek. Mahado gave him a small smile and handed him a paper towel.
"His smile is so dazzling!" Rini thought to herself, "I wish he'd smile at me sometimes, but I'd probably faint out of pleasure." She mused, grinning. Vivian glanced at her, then followed her gaze.
"You aim high." Vivian muttered.
"What do you mean by that?" Rini asked, thinking about something else.
"The fact that you think you can pick up on someone Mahado!" Vivian replied.
"I don't 'pick up' on anyone. I'm not a slut, which is more than I can say for you." Rini answered. Vivian slapped her.
"Well it's true." Rini said defiantly, the bright red bruise slowly disappearing from her cheek.
"You know what's true about you? You're a cross dresser, you're front's flatter than a pancake, and even guys are shorter than you, King Kong, so you look just like a guy with long hair!"
"Really?" Rini said, running her hand through her rippled black hair, "Well, if I put a football helmet on, no one can tell. And the girl's school uniform designers are playboys. And being tall means I can at least shoot 3-pointers in basketball. Besides, there's nothing wrong with long haired guys." Rini said, looking fondly at Mahado's shoulder-length mane of perfectly straight auburn brown locks "Anyways, I bet YOU never were able to get into the boy's bathroom or locker room all year."
"WHAT?" Vivian shouted, shocked.
"No, I'm no pervert. I did it only once on accident. It's lucky, 'cuz if I looked anything like you, I would've been expelled." Rini said. Vivian stared before she was able to gain recomposure. "You should chase after Yugi, or Kaiba, just like you did in the Grand Prix, and keep you're eyes off MY dream-boy."
"Well, there's no way Mahado-kun would choose a girl like you." Vivian said. Rini dropped the measuring cup she was holding, which broke into tiny shards of glass. Rini hurriedly dropped down to clean it up. Vivian smirked, knowing she had got to her. She bent down beside Rini.
"I bet you even asked him to take you to the dance." Vivian said. Rini didn't look at her, but she wasn't looking at the floor either, since her hand was bleeding by the glass, and she didn't seem to notice.
"You're just not good enough for him." Vivian said, with a wide smile. Rini leapt up and ran out of the classroom.
"What happened, why'd Rini-san leave without a hall pass?" The teacher asked, coming to Vivian. Vivian shrugged.
Rini was walking along, miserably. She had run out of the building (which was stupid, seeing as she left everything there and it was the last day) and was now aimlessly wandering around.
"Vivian is right. I'm just a stupid, plain klutz. Why would a guy like Mahado even think about me?" She thought sadly. She was passing the Kaiba Corporation building when she saw someone familiar.
"Ice cream boy-kun!!!" She yelled, running up to a man in a business suit and glomping him to the ground. The man sweat dropped.
"Rini-chan, when you're an adult and have a husband and kids, and I'm a 50 year old man, are you STILL going to call me that?" the man asked.
"Yes! Because you always gave me 2 scoops of ice cream instead of 1 when you were an Ice-Cream boy." she said happily. She hugged him again. "I never see you any more, is Seto-chan not giving you any breaks?"
"Well..." he said uncertainly, "We can have all the breaks we want until Kaiba-sama comes to work after school. But it'll end now that school's going to be let out. Speaking of which, why aren't YOU at school?"
"I... " Rini looked down sadly.
"Never mind. Look I still have a while till Domino High lets out. Why don't we go out for ice-cream?" He asked quickly.
"Yay!!!" Rini exclaimed. They walked to an Ice-cream parlor, got Ice cream, and sat down at a table.
"Rini!" 'Ice-Cream Boy' exclaimed, while Rini was slurping a Cookies 'n Cream "What happened to you're hand?"
"Oh, that..." Rini said, trailing off.
"Um," he said, trying to think of something to cheer Rini up, "Hey, guess what? Did you know Kaiba Corp. is thinking of throwing another tournament?"
"REALLY!?!" Rini asked, jumping up. "That's so cool!!! I couldn't get into Battle City, and I wasn't good enough for the Grand Prix, but maybe I can enter this one!"
"Rini, don't tell anyone, it's supposed to be-"
"Thanks for the ice cream!" Rini exclaimed, hugging him. Then she ran out of the shop.
"C'mon, open up already!" Kokoro said, ringing the doorbell for the twentieth time. She, Mai, and Yamu were standing in front of Rini's house. The door opened.
"Finally, It's about time!" Yamu exclaimed.
"What do you Girl Scouts want?" Len said irritably.
"Hey Len," Kokoro said, "We just wanted to talk to Rini and give her her stuff." She handed Len Rini's school bag.
"Rini's not at home!" Len answered, and slammed the door in their faces.
"So THAT'S Rini's brother." Yamu said. "He's cute."
"Don't let him hear you say that." Kokoro said warningly. She then sighed.
"Well, she's definitely not at home."
"Did anyone... hear what Vivian said?" Mai asked tentatively. Kokoro and Yamu shook their heads.
"I was in English, but Vivian was in History with me. She was grinning like a Cheshire cat." Yamu said. Kokoro looked away in disgust.
"I hope she's okay. Rini isn't the type to commit suicide, but you never know." Mai said anxiously.
"She'll be fine." Kokoro said firmly. "We might as well get home."
"Yeah," Yamu said. Slowly, the trio broke up.
Seto Kaiba was coming out of his jet-black limousine.
"School's finally over. Time to cut off the slacking that's been going on around in Kaiba Corp." Seto thought to himself. He was about to enter the sparkling glass building when-
"Hey! Seto-chan!" A voice called. Seto turned around furiously, to see who had the nerve to speak to him in such a way. It was a girl, who looked weirdly familiar.
"Um..." Rini said, "You're Kokonut's boy-boy-..." She turned an embarrassed shade of red "Kokonut's Sempai, right?"
"If you're a reporter, you can tell your paper that I don't give a da-" suddenly Kaiba figured out who she was, and grabbed her neck.
"YOU!" He said, fuming, and about to choke her. Rini reached into her pocket and pulled on her fake Harry Potter glasses
"You wouldn't kill a person wearing specs would you?" she asked.
"You nearly ruined the Grand Prix! I'd kill you even if you were wearing REAL glasses!"
"All I did was asked the contestants for autographs! It was Sieg Lloyd who was the hacker!"
"Sieg Schroider. And you didn't just get autographs; you went unauthorized into the computers of KC's mainframe and looked through the Duelist's profiles." Seto said, letting go of her throat, thinking that this stupid girl wasn't worth it.
"I was only trying to find out what shampoo Sieg-kun was using. His hair is so shiny," Rini said enviously. Kaiba, disgusted, was about to get into the building when she grabbed his coat from behind.
"Wait! I forgot to ask you! Is it true you're throwing another tournament?" Rini asked excitedly.
"What? That's confidential!" Seto said angrily, "How did you find out?"
"Will you let me enter? Onegai?" Rini said, making big puppy eyes at him.
"I wouldn't let you in if your life depended on it." Kaiba said calmly. He turned around, and was about to enter again when he heard her mumble:
"I'll ask Yugi if he wants to enter." She had already turned to go when Seto grabbed her again.
"You are not, under any circumstances whatsoever, to disclose to Yugi, or Atem, or anyone else, information about this tournament!"
"Why?" Rini asked. Seto stared. Why would she listen to him? He couldn't fire her because she didn't work at Kaiba Corp. There was no leverage he could use against her.
"Because it's not to be let out until I want it to."
"So? I wonder if Wong is entering. Feh, she's the best Duelist in China, of course she'll enter!" Rini said. Seto was getting very worried. What was the point of throwing a tournament if everyone already knew about it and was prepared for it? He thought frantically of how to buy Rini's silence. Suddenly it came to him.
"If you don't tell anyone about this tournament, I'll let you enter." Kaiba said hurriedly. "Here," he said, pulling out a contract, "sign this."
"Huh?" Rini said.
"It says: The party of the first part agrees with all conditions set by the party of the second part, and vice-versa."
"You're throwing a party? I didn't know it was you're birthday!" Rini exclaimed.
"JUST SIGN!" Seto shouted. Rini shrugged and got a pen. She looked around, and finding no other place, she said politely:
"Turn around, Seto-chan."
"Wha-Just sign and swear you won't tell anyone about my tournament!"
"Alright, alright!" Rini said. She held the paper to his chest, and began signing her name.
"What are you-" Seto said, looking down. But Rini had already signed it. Kaiba shoved her away and grabbed the paper from her and hastily scribbled his own name.
"Alright, I'll register you, as long as I don't hear a single word about the tournament." Seto said turning around for the 4th time to enter the building.
"Really? ARIGATO! ARIGATO GOZAIMAS!" Rini exclaimed happily, glomping Seto from behind, and knocking him down. She swiftly kissed his cheek in gratitude.
"You won't regret this, Seto-chan!!! And Happy Birthday!" Rini said, getting up off him and running toward the direction of her house. Seto stood up and angrily glared at her.
"I should've killed her!" He said, storming into the KC building.
"Len, Len guess what?" Rini said excitedly as she glomped him.
"You're going to New Zealand for free-fall Bungee Jumping" Len said sarcastically, trying to push her away.
"Oh, I just remembered, I can't tell you." Rini said as her face fell. Then she brightened. She took off her phony glasses.
"I'm going to go get my deck looked over by Yugi! Maybe he'll have some tips for me!" She exclaimed. She went up to her room to change. A few minutes later, she came back to the living room, wearing an open black leather vest over a glitter-silver halter top and matching leather pants, which were held back by a silver studded black belt with a deck holder.
"Do I look like a Duelist?" She asked Len.
"You look like a idiot, as usual." Len said, not even looking at her.
"Anyways, see you in a while, Len!" She glomped him again, so tightly that she almost cracked his ribs, and headed off for the Kame Game Shop.
"Sisters!" Len spat, angrily massaging his waist.
"Silent Magician, attack his lifepoints directly!" Yugi commanded. Atem watched his lifepoints drop to 0 for what seemed the hundredth time.
"How-Do-You-Keep-Winning!" Atem said, pulling off his Duel Disk and throwing it on the sofa.
"I guess I have better strategies." Yugi replied.
"Don't be stupid, I know all your strategies, cuz they're MY strategies!" Atem answered.
"It's Yugi's destiny to always beat you." Mana said. Atem sighed.
"What am I going to do all summer? It's barely started and I'm bored."
"You will think of something Pharaoh-sama." Mahado said from a corner. He was buried in a book about Epistemology, whom anyone else of his apparent age would fall asleep to after reading the table of contents. Atem gave another sigh.
"Like what? There're no tournaments, no contests, and no one worth Dueling. Well, other than Yugi and Kaiba-kun." Atem said wearily. He flopped down on the sofa next to his Duel Disk.
"Poor bored Pharaoh." Mana said sitting next to him and hugging him. He hugged her back.
"You make me sound pathetic." He said grinning. He pulled on his Duel Disk again.
"Yugi, I challenge you!" He said, jumping up. Yugi sighed. This was going to be a LONG summer. Just then, the shop bell rang.
"Your turn to watch the counter!" Yugi said, throwing himself in front of his XBOX.
"But-" Atem said crest-fallen.
"I'll go for you, Pharaoh-sama." Mahado said, leaping up, ready to serve him. Atem sweat dropped.
"No that's okay. I'll go." Atem said.
"Yeah, Atem will go." Yugi said desperately looking at Mahado
"I will do it, My King." Mahado replied, going downstairs.
"Well, come back quickly. You know what happens when I draw the Black Magician. We don't want any customers scared away again," Atem called. He then turned to Yugi "Are you going to Duel me, or forfeit like a chicken?"
Yugi moaned piteously, and looked at Mana for help. Mana looked at him blankly. Sighing, he activated his Duel Disk once again to beat Atem.
"Konnichiwa, How may I help-" Mahado started, "Oh, you." Mahado said, seeing Rini. He closed his eyes and braced himself for one of her glomps, but none came. He opened his eyes to see her looking down sadly.
"Did you want to look over our Single cards, or would you like to see our booster packs?" Mahado prompted.
"I- I wanted Yugi-chan to look through my deck." Rini said her voice barely over a whisper.
"Oh, he's busy. You could come back tomorrow. Or I could look through it." Mahado suggested. Rini silently unzipped her deck holder and put her deck on the counter. Mahado picked it up and looked at her cards.
"You're deck is a high-average standard, but not expert. Your Magic and Trap cards are all right. You're Monsters have great effects, but they don't have high attack or defense points. So you should look through the Singles." Mahado said. Rini, still not looking at him nodded.
"You're deck is made up of Water-attribute monsters, so you should use these." Mahado said, plunging his hand into the counter and pulling out Aqua, Sea Serpent, and Fish type Monsters. Rini reached out for them and looked up at Mahado. Suddenly, the miserable look she was wearing vanished, and her blue eyes widened. Rini watched, astounded, as black flames flickered along Mahado's body. His cinnamon colored hair turned deep lilac, and his amethyst purple eyes turned bright azure blue. His golden tan skin became creamy pale as his clothes turned into violet armor. Mahado had turned into his Duel Monster form.
"Black Magician!" Rini whispered.
"You want to add a Black Magician to your deck? The Black Magician isn't exactly a great addition to a deck, unless you build your deck around spell-cast-" Mahado began. But then he noticed she wasn't talking about cards. Mahado quickly looked down at himself.
"I think Yamu told you about me already." Mahado said simply. He looked at Rini, and stared. Her cheeks had a slight blush, and her eyes were trembling and sparkling with... Mahado didn't even know what. He felt uncomfortable under her gaze. Though he hated the soppy look she usually gave him, he liked it much better than how she was looking at him now...
"Maybe you should come back tomorrow," Mahado said, picking up her deck. He tried to hand it to her, but it simply fell out of her hands.
"Sorry." Mahado said bending down to pick up the scattered cards. Rini knelt down beside him.
"I didn't believe her." She said quietly.
"Yes, I thought you already knew. I heard Yamu telling you about me." Mahado said, turning away and picking up more of her cards. Rini just gazed at him. Suddenly, Mahado felt something on his face. Rini had her hand on his cheek. Mahado reached over and grabbed her wrist to pull it off. He was going to ask her to keep her hands to herself when she drew herself closer to him, her face barely an inch from his. She closed her eyes and…
She kissed him.
"Rini-san!" Mahado said, pushing her away and jumping up. His heart was pumping faster than a bullet train. He could almost feel her lips on his (which tasted strangely of cookies n' cream), and he wasn't even sure whether she had attacked him or what. Rini just looked at him with the same gaze, and then held his knees to her chest.
"Let go of me," Mahado requested in an almost calm voice. But she looked as though she didn't hear him.
"Hey Mahado, could you get up here, please?" It was Yugi's voice. In an instant, Rini seemed to wake up.
"Did I just- Did I just- OhmygoshIdid!" She let go of his legs and leapt up.
"I'm sorry," she said, running out of the shop, forgetting she had left her deck there.
(At Kokoro's home)
Kokoro tried filling out the answers of the Harus appearing. 'I swear on my blood. How could've Seto gotten the idea of a Haru? I never showed any of my brother's precious inventions to him. Never…' she thought to herself.
She sat on the couch and watched the cartoons on the TV whack each other mindlessly. She laughed at who ever must've been the stupid creator of the show.
'Must've been bored out of his mind….' Kokoro thought as she shut it off. She stood up and started walking towards a door which like it was a closet. But when Kokoro opened the door it was filled with mechanism. Kokoro sighed closing the door behind herself and started walking into the room thinking, 'I haven't done this in a while….now have I?'
She then put on a green bandana to push her long side bangs back (since putting it in a pig tail won't hold it long) and started pulling out nails, screwdrivers, hammers, and powered objects out of the draws.
All was heard from outside the door were the sounds of metal clashing against metal and the banging sounds of the hammer. She never came out of the room until the next morning.
WA: --;;; sleeeep……..zzz…….zzzzz……….