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Chapter Three

It was four o'clock before anyone really noticed, and Ryou was already driving Kida home, accompanied by Rirsi, who couldn't be left alone at home, so he came with them. It was about a five-minute drive over to the apartment building Kida lived at, and they got there quickly, not running into traffic at all.

They finally found there way to the Gardner's apartment, and Tea opened the door. She really didn't look surprised to see Ryou, and she let them in without more a 'hi' to Kida, she didn't even seem to notice the other two.

"Rirsi, Kida, why don't you go watch TV for a while?" She asked the two children in front of her, they nodded and Kida led her friend into the living room. After finally being sure they were gone, Tea turned to Ryou, "Hi," She started, "I guess that you noticed she's yours and Yami's, isn't she?" Ryou asked quietly. Tea nodded, "Is that why you left?" He looked up at her.

She once again nodded, "I couldn't stay, I was sixteen and pregnant after a stupid incident. Yami and I we got carried away, it just happened, we were just doing it to keep away the pain" she stopped for a moment, and Ryou saw a tear fall down her cheek, "Yugi just left us, we were hurt, and it was comforting" She looked away from Ryou, tears gushing from her eyes.

"You know" Ryou said, gaining her attention, "Yami- when you left, he was the most hurt of all of us, I guess now I understand why." Ryou gave a hollow laugh, "You know, we were all so sure you two would eventually get together." Tea just stared at Ryou, "It always seemed that you were so close, and- well- you really were, I guess."

"Yeah," Tea mumbled, "I guess we were."

"Well," Ryou said, "Rirsi and me should get going, there is school tomorrow." Tea laughed, "Yeah, and it's really weird, just a few months ago we were the ones going to school."

"Well, I guess I'll see you again sometime."

"Yeah," Tea smiled at him, "Oh, wait! Ryou" She looked at him with pleading eyes, "Please- please don't tell anyone."

Ryou smiled, "Don't worry, I won't." Tea smiled back at him, "Thanks."

"He he!" Kida giggled, "I won again!" she put her cards back down and looked at Rirsi. He looked like he was in shock, and very embarrassed. He just got beat by a girl for the fifth time in a row.

"How- how'd you do that?" He stuttered. It was almost incredible about how good she was, and he wasn't the only person who thought so. She had dueled everyone in the class who knew how multiple times, and won every time!

"What can I say?" She said sarcastically, "I'm just really good at duel monsters." She told him proudly. Lately, with all of these victories, her ego had been boosted a bit, though she still knew her limits, and that there were people out there better than her. That was another good quality about her, she may have had a big ego, but she was wise.

Ryou sighed, he never got a good answer out of her, and when he asked who taught her how to duel, she told him that she had taught herself. He had been taught by his brother, who was quite a good duelist, he had been a finalist in the first Battle City finals, and he was still pretty good. Rirsi was even starting to doubt that even his brother would be able to beat her!

"I give up, I'm not going to bother trying again." He told Kida, she didn't really look disappointed though. "Thank goodness! I was starting to get tired of beating people!" She yawned, stretching. Ryou sweat dropped, when she was dueling, she seemed to be very mature, but when she wasn't, she acted like the five-year-old she was.

"Alright class, we're all done, you can go outside and wait for your parents now," Ms. Livin called out.

Everyone rushed out of the classroom as fast as they could to wait for their parents, happy that school was finally over for the day.

One Year Later

"Mom, kidergarten was a bore, why's first grade gonna be any better?" Kida asked. She hadn't enjoyed her last year in school, it had been all fun and no work, and all of the word was much to easy.

"Well, you said you'd rather be with your friends than skip a grade, so you'll have to live," Tea told her firmly. Kida sighed, and got in the car so her mom could drive her to school. Even though through the summer she had sort of looked forward to going back, when she had to, she really didn't want to.

When she got there, she was a little shocked, the school was HUGE! Much bigger than the small kindergarten of last year. She walked down the side walk that led to a large block of pavement where all sort of kids were playing. There were kids who looked about her age and there were kids who looked like they were at least five years older than her.

"Kida!" She heard a voice shouting at her, when she turned around she was being tackled by and over excited Rirsi. "I missed you!" He said.

"But you just saw me yesterday!" She choked out, "Let go, you're choking me!" She shouted at him. He walked away slowly, blushing madly. "Sorry bout that, just needed to get your attention," She apollogized.

"That's alright," Rirsi said, "I'm the one who should be saying sorry. I didn't mean to do that, it's just, I'm so nervous! I don't even know if we'll be in the same class!" He ranted.

Kida giggled nervously, when Rirsi got like this is was worse than her when she got sugar high, and that was scary enough. "Uh, Rirsi? We better go now, they're telling who's in what class." It was then that she got his attention, "Oh, well, let's go!" He stammered.

They rushed over to where all the other students had gathered, and they saw that the first grades were being called out first. "Mrs. Rassd's class: Rirsi Bakura, Hannah Dulr, Tarra Gabcan, Kida Gardner" Neither of them listened to the rest, they were just happy that they were in the same class.

"Okay, follow me," Called the woman they could only assume was Mrs. Rassd, the quickly obeyed, getting in a straight line behind the other students. They headed inside and into the first classroom on the right. Mrs. Rassd walked up to it and opened the door, a few first graders stepped out of the path of the door as she did so.

"Go on in, line up against the walls, and I'll tell you where you sit." She told them. All of the students filed in and did as they were told, soon she came in and started assigning groups of four, apparently, like their kindergarten teacher, in order of the first letter of their last names.

Rirsi and Kida were lucky, they once again got placed in the same group, and once again, Kida was unlucky because she wasn't at all challanged by any subject they had. Kida also was more teaching than learning like she was last year, but she did learn a little, but not enough to make anything interesting.

"Don't worry," Rirsi said as they headed out for recess, "I'm sure that you'll eventually learn something new." He tried to reasure her, but it really wasn't working. She just glared at him and answered, "Yeah, 'eventually' meaning years from now." Rirsi sighed at how negative she was being, but it didn't matter, she was doing better with it, seeing as she was getting closer to a challenge.

"Why do you always like things to be so hard?" He asked her. It had been a question that had puzzled him for a long while, and he was dieing for an answer.

"I, I don't know," She told him truthfully, "Life wouldn't be any fun wihtout a challenge here or there. That's one of the reasons I like duel monsters so much, it's something that can always provide a challenge."

He just stared at her. She really didn't act her age, it was like she had knowledge that wasn't supposed to yet be accessed, and the more he hang around her, the more he seemed to act like her. Why was she so strange?

That question had also puzzled him for the same time, yes, she was the child of the pharaoh, so she was destined to be wise. But why so soon? What had gone wrong to do this to her? Or was it a sign that she was ready? But no, that couldn't be true... there was still one more thing that had to be completed before she was ready...

A/N: Hi, sorry that these chapters aren't longer, I just haven't been able to right as much, I just don't really know how to. I need to eventually stop the chapters, so I just thought that I'd try to stop them along the lines of 1500 words, and turns out, that's a little shorter than I thought it was. The first chapter was longer, but the only reason why was because of the prologue, so I'm just asking you, please don't criticize the length of my chapters, I'm doing my best. But I do want you to review, just no flames, I don't need the torches yet! And now I'll thank all you nice reviewers!

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