Story summery: Yugi gets turned into a dog, but no one knows how...Now he's living inside Joey's house with Casie a beautiful white cat with a tough tongue and a few issues of her own. But will Yugi be able to say a proper goodbye after turning his back and leaving her?

Warnings: A bit of fighting in next chapter. That's it...

Pairings: …wait…

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or its characters…But Casie's mine! So back off the pretty Kitty! …slowly…slower…a little slower…that should be fine.

Chapter Two: The Adventure: Part one

Out of breath, Yugi turned the corner of the hall and ran back in the room of which Casie had flown into. However when he looked around he didn't see Casie at all.

'Oh boy…' He thought as he began sniffing around trying desperately to find her scent. Yet; because Casie had lived here for so long (as he had presumed) her new scent had mixed in with the older scents; and man, were there a lot of them! More than once, he caught himself incessantly turning around in circles and tripping over his own paws while is snout was pressed to the ground, vainly sniffing each part of the carpet. Suddenly his nose picked up a stronger scent. He followed it realizing it led behind him. He continued to track it until he lost it at the foot of the bookcase he had looked at earlier.

'Well, that's not fair at all...' He lifted his head and pointedly saw Casie at the very crest of the bookcase looking like she was trying to hold back a fit of laughs.

"What are you doing up there!"

Casie stopped her small fits and bowed her neck to look down upon him with her eyes.

"I'm examining; but if you were here you'd be taken aback by how much dust there is! It's like a zoo up here!"

Yugi's nose twitched with the mention of dust causing him to duck his head to stop the oncoming sneeze. He didn't allow the small tingle take over. He blinked a couple times and looked back at Casie with pleading eyes.

"Oh come on! You have to come down! What about the adventure?"

"Isn't this a good adventure? You are trying to get up here, aren't you?"

'Is she mad!' Yugi thought with bother in his mind. 'Does she actually expect me to get up there? And if so; Heaven forbid. Just how does she expect me too?'

"No! I'm not a butterfly. I honestly can't just flutter my way past each and every one of those shelves and land next to you as happy as a smiley face you know..."

"True…" Casie looked thoughtful for a moment before speaking up again. "Tell you what; I'll come down if you'll do a surprise for me."

Yugi pondered that statement for a second. 'What would I have to do for her? Hopefully nothing that'll break my back! I don't think she'd do that—but then again, I don't really know her that well…"

"Hey Casie? Tell me what I have to do before I agree."

"But Yugi! Then it wouldn't be a surprise!" Don't you call for a little suspense in your life?"

"WHAT!" Yugi rose up in anger. "Weren't you the one that got angry at suspense! Weren't you the one that said I hurt the things that have suspense?" Casie gazed at him a shook her small head at Yugi.

"Yugi, I said I get angry at things that give me suspense. However; in your case you are the one with the suspense. You're hopefully not giving any to me, are you?"

Sighing, Yugi sat lamely back down figuring he couldn't win this conversation when he was already losing it. "No…I think not Casie; I can wait."

"FINE! Yugi, I'll come down and inform you of what you have to do!" Complaining noisily, Casie stood up and leapt down from the high bookcase. Surprised, Yugi yelped and moved out of the way so she could land. With no sound, Casie landed on her feet and surprisingly didn't buckle her legs. Dust was stuck at her paws and around the tip of her tail, but she brushed it off with little hesitation.

"Alright…come with me." She huffed looking a bit ticked at having to come down from her nest of dust.

Following close behind, Yugi noted that Casie led him straight into a tiled room. The walls in this room were smoothed with white paint, and --Yugi looked up-- counters with glass doors were placed on the sides of the room, holding diverse types of dinning objects. The kitchen came complete with a stove, sink, dishwasher, fridge (in which the freezer was on the bottom) and an island. In the far back of the kitchen a table was held with paintings and drawings around the walls. 'Joey's kitchen looks better than mine…' Casie had jumped up on the island and was impatiently waiting for Yugi to do the same. Yugi walked over to the bottom of the island and sat down.

"What are you waiting for Yugi, get up here!"

"I'm not a jumping dog Casie. I don't jump."

Pouting, Casie once again stood up and jumped off the island to sit next to Yugi.

"You make life difficult for cats Yugi."

"Sorry…"

Casie looked around for a few minutes and eventually let her eyes fall on a picture in the far back room. Yugi sneaked a peek at the picture and saw that the image was of a small white kitten huddled in a warm light blue blanket looking with wide eyes at the camera.

"Is that you?"

"No. It's the neighbor's cat. See it has brown eyes; not blue."

"Oh…"

Hardly any seconds passed by before Casie's jerked her head up to look at Yugi with excited eyes.

"I figured out what I want you to do Yugi!"

Smiling nervously, Yugi got up and followed Casie to the back door that was shut. Casie looked the door up and down before looking back at Yugi.

"You can open this, right?"

"Ummm, is it locked?"

'I would think that any door that led to the outside would be locked…unless Joey's stupid'

"Try it. But this isn't what I want you to do"

Yugi walked beside Casie and jumped up to the knob, doing the same thing that he did with the bathroom door. However, this time he didn't hear any 'click' and dropped down to the ground again.

"It's locked Cas-"Yugi looked around but couldn't see Casie anywhere. "Casie?" He called, getting slightly upset. 'This stinks…I hate being abandoned'

"Yugi over here! I found a way out!"

Yugi bounded over to the sink and saw Casie near an open window on a ledge behind the sink.

Grousing, Yugi looked frantically around for something to help him get up to the window sill.

'There's nothing I can get up onto that's low enough for me to jump up there.'

"Yugi! Get that chair and push it over here to help you get up!" Casie called, pointing a paw at a wooden chair near the far wall.

"Ok!"

Yugi sprinted over to the wooden chair and bit the rear leg of it with his teeth, making sure it was firmly in his mouth before he began dragging it over to the sink.

'Joey's going to kill me for these bite marks…'

A few minutes later he was able to get the chair to the side of the counter were the sink was held. He let go and rushed up to the front of it. He jumped on it and then jumped to the window sill that Casie was waiting for him at.

"About time." Casie replied still pre-occupied with the outside.

"Oh? Well…now what?" Yugi replied, letting her comment slide.

"Come with me." Casie said taking a leap out of the window and onto the soft grass of the backyard. Yugi climbed onto the windowsill himself and looked down to where Casie was already sprinting off.

"Wait!" Yugi cried, "What about Joey! We have to stay here!"

"Forget it Yugi!" She called still running ahead.

'Fine!' He thought. "I'm coming!" He called. Getting his footing steady he jumped awkwardly out of the window. Scrambling up as fast as he could Yugi raced off, trying vainly to keep Casie in his sight. At this point Casie was a good two yards in the lead.

'Please wait…or at least SLOW DOWN!'

There were no fences in the backyard, so Casie never stopped for him, alternatively she ran for a couple of outsized bushes that blocked the outlook of a street.

Panting like mad, Yugi strained himself to run faster until he laid eyes on Casie again. His muscles throbbed and he swore that he had busted at least two nails with trying to keep up with her. Luckily--for Yugi--Casie did ultimately stop (on the other side of the street) for him.

Yugi stopped at the street and checked for any cars before racing ahead. Collapsing next to Casie he let out a soft moan and closed his eyes.

"Heh, you need to work out Yugi."

"It's not that. I'm just not used to this body yet…that's all." Yugi replied, looking up at the sound of a car coming.

"Come on; let's go somewhere we can rest without becoming road kill, hmm? Casie said nudging his belly until he got up and followed her slowly over to a couple of large bushes.

Yugi rested in the shade while he watched Casie lick herself clean.

'If you ask me, I think you look exactly the same way you did before you climbed out of the window.' Yugi thought resting his head back down and closing his eyes for a nap. The nap; however good it felt; didn't last long for Casie soon came up to him and started poking at his sides.

"Hey Yugi, lets get going."

"Whaaaa?" Yugi opened his eyes again and yawned loudly. "Why?"

Casie walked away from him calling out loudly. "Because we're on an adventure, Remember?"

'damn…'

Yugi sprung up, not wanting to be left again and gradually followed in her footsteps.

Casie led him to the top of a hill were they could see many shops and houses. She turned around and asked Yugi what he wanted to do.

"Umm…Let's go and just walk for a bit?" He suggested lamely, nothing better coming to his mind at the moment.

"Alright…come on, and stop walking like that! You look like a lame horse."

Sighing needlessly, Yugi straightened his back and hurried to walk besides her. They soon got down the grassy hill and entered into the city.

Casie glanced at Yugi while they walked across the street and onto the sidewalk. They got curious stares from the people that shared the walk but nobody touched them.

"Sooo…" Casie dragged out slowly trying to make a conversation with the small dog beside her. "What's up?"

"Not much…just walking next to you on the hottest damn day of the year, getting many odd stares, and trying to think of my past life. What about you?"

"Oh? Nothing much…" Casie replied looking down.

'Maybe this wasn't such a good idea. Yugi doesn't seem to be having much fun…'

"So, how was your past life?" Casie asked, suddenly interested. "I mean what did you do as a human?"

"Well…I was a freshman at Domino High School, and I used to get bullied a lot; but not as much anymore. I duel—wait…You know what that is, right?"

"I've heard of it…a card game right? I think Joey has a deck or something like that…"

"Ya…and you know that Joey's my friend right? Well isn't it strange to be the cat of an owner whose best friend is a human—but not really—who's right next to you?"

"Ummm, are we getting off topic? Because I'm not sure."

Yugi chucked and soon began to tell Casie what the game Duel Monsters was and of all the different places he went to and of all the different people (good and bad) that he met along the way. He told her of the challenges that he had faced and how he got out of them with his friends help. He told her of the millennium puzzle and of Yami (the good and bad of him). He also told her that if his friends hadn't been there--especially Joey; then he probably wouldn't be here today."

"WOW! So that's your life, hu? Hey! Is that why Joey's never home? Because he's always out with you and your friends?"

"Partly; but he also has to go to school." Yugi explained. When Casie asked him what school was he sighed and quickly told her the basics of what Domino High was. He further went on to tell her that people don't just go to High Schools; but they go to the appropriate schools placed for them, depending on there age and knowledge.

"Wow…that's actually really interesting. You know, Joey never talks to me so I don't know much about this human stuff like you do."

"That's ok Casie…I'll tell Joey to talk to you more when I turn back to a human if he doesn't first think I'm crazy or something."

"Heh…I thought you thought you weren't going to be his friend anymore…or did I here a slip of the tongue just now?"

Yugi shoved her playfully on the shoulder causing her to purr with amusement.

"Maybe you changed my mind."

Casie smiled, blushing a bit at the comment.

"Maybe…"

Yugi blushed, but waved it off thinking it was just the heat. There was an awkward silence between them for a couple of minutes before Yugi spoke.

"Sooo, Now what?"

"Well…Let's go and meet some of the city cats that I know! I don't think showing you around would be very helpful considering you already know the place; but I still think meeting some of my friends would be a good idea. Get to know them." Pausing slightly, she bit her lip and looked back at the ground. "If you want to I mean..."

"Ok! I'd love to see them! As long as there nice."

Confused, Casie stared at Yugi with questioning eyes. "Did you say 'as long as they're mice?'"

"Nice."

Casie's expression lit up in understanding and she laughed a bit.

"Oh! Well of course there nice! You'll love them!" Bounding off down the rest of the sidewalk she quickly turned a corner and ran into the near ally. Yugi raced after her dodging the people in his way and followed her into the ally. 'Usually I wouldn't go in here…but whose going to hurt a puppy?'

TBC

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