A/N: If you haven't read the second chapter of Dear Diary, do that first before you continue. The same note for that chapter also applies to this one.

Yo Journal,

What's a fiancée?

...Gotcha!

I'm not completely daft, you know. Who doesn't know what a fiancée is?

It all started in gym class when I accidentally almost hit Asuka with a tennis ball. Fortunately for Asuka, this guy, Ayanokouji Mitsuru, deflected my wild shot away from her. Unfortunately for Professor Chronos, the deflected shot hit him in the eye. Gave him a real shiner, too! And unfortunately for me, I got blamed for the whole incident. Chronos gave me extra tennis lessons as punishment, led by none other than Ayanokouji! Man, the dude is tough. He made me try to hit 50 tennis balls in a row, and he serves hard! I can easily see that he's got the same passion for tennis that I do for dueling. The problem started when he tried to turn his passions elsewhere.

Asuka showed up to the practice to give me some news on Manjoume, who, it seems, left Duel Academy just because he lost a few duels (he's kinda emo, if you know what I mean). Ayanokouji interrupted us, saying that I wasn't worthy of Asuka, and asked if I was her boyfriend! (Yeah, I wish...) I tried to explain the misunderstanding, but he challenged me to a duel with Asuka's hand in marriage as the prize.

Now, I had two problems. One, I didn't think Asuka was a prize to be dueled over, especially when the duel wasn't her idea. If I accepted the duel, Asuka would probably hate me for treating her that way. Two, I had never backed down from a duel in my life, and I wasn't about to start now. If I backed out, Ayanokouji probably would have claimed Asuka as his fiancée, and I could tell she didn't want that. I figured the latter problem was the bigger one, so I dueled Ayanokouji so that he'd give up his "claim" on Asuka. Besides, I heard that Ayanokouji was as skilled as Kaiser in dueling, and I wanted to see that for myself.

It was a tough duel. If it weren't for a couple of lucky breaks, I might have lost that one. Although, looking at Asuka, I could see she was pissed, so I did the only thing any rational male would do: I played dumb. "What's a fiancée?" I asked. She called me an idiot, but I could see she was relieved that she wouldn't have to marry me. I guess she doesn't share my feelings for her. All the same, I guess, though I wonder what would happen if I suddenly "figured out" what a fiancée really was...

Nah, I couldn't do that. Kaiser'd kill me!

Ja ne,
Judai