Shatter dreams

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh...... I wish I did... Well I only own Kairi, Chris and everyone related to them.

Chapter 6 - Phase Two

"Ok since you should know every rule of Duel Monsters let start playing games" Yugi smiled.

"Ummm" Kairi a little unsure.

"Don't worry, remember what I said?" Yugi reassured her.

Kairi nodded and smiled.

"Ok I lay one face down card and I put the Feral Imp in attack mode" Yugi started off.

~*~

"No, you got this wrong because there's a different between sprains and strains" Chris pointed to each word in the book.

Kairi watched him explain.

"Sprains are referred to ligaments and strains are referred to tendons" Chris continued.

Kairi nodded.

'A new approach' Chris thought to himself. "Here it's easy, just remember the tendons start with a "t" and there's a "t" in strain and the other one, sprain is for ligaments"

Kairi smiled widely.

'Good' Chris smiled too.

~*~

"Let's try something new" Tristan led her into an empty room surrounded by mirrors.

Kairi followed.

"Self-defense doesn't mean you have to be strong" Tristan began his lesson for the day.

Kairi doubted that.

"If I come out and grab your arm like this" Tristan grabbed Kairi's arm. "Try and get out"

Kairi shrugged but it was useless.

"See I'm stronger than you, but noticed that four of my fingers are on one side of your risk and only my thumb on the other" Tristan began to explain.

Kairi noticed it but didn't see the point.

"Now instead of a fight of your arm strength against mines, make it into a fight against your arm strength against my thumb"

Kairi didn't quite get it.

"Swing your arm in a circular motion going the same way my four fingers are pointing too and against my thumb points too, try it" Tristan said.

Kairi did as she was told and swung her arm against Tristan thumb and to her surprise her arm was free.

"Good" Tristan smiled.

~*~

"Here more html that you should get to know, the more you know and memorized the more you'll know how to use and create programs" Mokuba started another program also designed for basic users.

Kairi typed and did what Mokuba and the program told to her to do.

~*~

Tea poured out a bag of lipsticks and gloss onto the lunch table.

Kairi looked at her confused.

"Here a paper, they might look different on paper than in their container" Tea started. "Try and find your best color, it may not always be the color that you like"

Kairi nodded and she brushed each color on the paper, she liked the deep red, but then she noticed her lips were more pinkish so she chose the medium red gloss. She tried it on and it didn't contrast with any of her facial features.

"Good" Tea said happily.

~*~

"I lay two cards face down and that's all" Yugi awaited her next movement.

Kairi looked at his side and blinked. "One card down" She said quietly and she switched her monster to defense mode.

"Good, you think of all the possible outcomes" Yugi smiled.

~*~

"Kairi, tell me the differences between Concentric contraction and eccentric contraction" The teacher called on her.

Chris turned his head to see what her respond would be; usually her respond would be a quiet head shake, wondered if she made any improvement.

Kairi hesitated for a moment and searched her mind for an answer. A few moments passed then Kairi softly answered. "Concentric draws towards and Eccentric draws away"

The teacher whom wasn't expecting an answer smiled. "Good, now can anyone elaborate on that?"

Chris smiled at her even though she wasn't look at him.

~*~

"There will be plenty of times when a opponents thumb can be stronger than your arm, so to bring them down to your own strength you can either stomp on their foot, it doesn't take much to break their toe bones" Tristan explained.

Kairi listened.

"Or you can kick their knee or push it back, it will cause them terrible pain, but everything I'm telling you can be reversible"

"Meaning I won't cause permanent damage?" Kairi softly asked.

"Yes"

~*~

"Now what code would you input into this program to make it work?" Mokuba asked.

Kairi look at the short simple sequence of scripts and studied it. Kairi took a few minutes to figure it out, and she typed in the correct code.

"Good" Mokuba smiled.

~*~

"I think you got the point of makeup, why not try dancing?" Tea smiled.

"Dancing?" Kairi looked questionable.

"It'll be fun, come on!" Tea jumped with excitement.

~*~

Months passed by as Kairi struggle with everything she pushed herself to learn, some days she felt like quitting on the spot and others she felt like she was never going to get this. Kairi kept telling herself that she must learn all this for Kaiba, for her newly found friends that took the time and the patient to teach her. She knew from the start it wasn't going to be easy and she told herself she would stick through it and hope the best would come out.

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