Shit man, all the work that goes into this. I thought this would be a fun thing where i write little chapters for each episode, but nooooo. I have to read the manga and i have to watch the show and make it super detail. *sigh* All this tension is killing me. I also have TO TYPE EVERYTHING THEY SAY WORD FOR WORD. ACTION EPISODES ARE GONNA BE HELL. WTF WTF WTF WTF. WHHHHY. -This has been a AN by Kiba, written while Asami paced the room and ranted.
Kiba: Asami, Chill. Pls. I have angst too.
Asami: but-but T-T all that writing...
Kiba: 'sami, it's ok. I mean look at me, My origins confuse the fuck out of everyone. I have to find ways to simplify it.
Asami: Okay okay enough, ranting and stuff, time to get on with the story...
Kiba: Once upon a time, there lived two girls, Author-chan and her Editor. Author-Chan got so tense that Editor had to write down the words she was saying because it was gold. The End.
Asami: You forgot the epilogue Kiba.
Kiba: And Editor forced Author-Chan to use this in the story because it is gold.
Okay Real Story Start!
"Duel Monsters?" Joey asked. He and the others were crowded around both Joey and Tea's desks.
"Yeah it's getting pretty popular among the third year students." Yugi told them.
"Wow! How pretty!" Miho exclaimed. Kiba noticed Asami walk in and set her things on her desk, taking her time to unpack her bag. Finding this odd, Kiba went over and placed a hand on the brunette's shoulder.
"Asami? Are you okay?" Kiba questioned seeing the small tension in her friend's shoulders. Asami turned to her and Kiba saw the conflict in her eyes.
"Kiba..." Asami trailed off, seeming to not know how to put her troubles into words. "We need to talk...Se-" the brunette was cut off by the bell.
"We'll talk at break okay?" Kiba decided as she started moving back to her seat.
"But what are we going to do?" Asami asked, her voice no more than a whisper as she sat down.
"Today I'm going to introduce our newest transfer student." Kiba tilted her head to the side in confusion. Who was the transfer student? Ryou maybe? Or maybe it was someone else? "Come in please." The teacher called. The door to the classroom opened and Kiba gasped slightly, in shock when she noticed exactly just who it was. "This is Seto Kaiba." Kiba turned to look at Asami, remembering that the girl had wanted to tell her something. The girl looked back at her and gave her a slightly awkward smile. Whispers broke out among the class and Kiba turned to her brother when she heard him whisper, 'it's him.'
"Yugi-nii?" Her brother jumped slightly and turned towards her.
"He was the one who saved us from those three sisters." His words were half question half statement and Kiba nodded.
"Yeah. That's Kaiba."
"Let's see now...Ah, you can sit next to Asami." Kaiba made his way over to the free desk by Asami and sat down. Asami gave him a smile before looking back at the teacher when he continued. "Asami, please show him around." The girl nodded and class continued.
Kiba narrowed her eyes as she took in Seto Kaiba's form. He looked like Season 1 Kaiba, what with his brown hair instead of green and dark blue eyes instead of grayish colored ones.
'Wait. In the episode, doesn't Kaiba sit next to Yugi? Is it because I'm sitting next to him and Asami is next to me?' Kiba thought questioningly. 'And how weird is that? It's Yugi, then me, then Asami and then Kaiba in the back, with Miho, Tea and Joey sitting next to each other in the front and Tristan sitting behind Miho.'
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It was break now and Asami had just finished showing Seto around and they returned to the classroom. Joey noticed her and was quick to call her over towards he and the others, who were around Miho and Tristan's desks, watching Yugi and Kiba play a round of duel monsters. Asami hesitated, not wanting to give Seto a reason to look into the game shop or anything, knowing that he'd somehow find out about grandpa's blue eyes but at the same time knowing that Seto was a big part of the show and Yami's rival.
"Um, would you like to join us?" Seto nodded, his eyes briefly showing recognition when he looked over at Yugi, Kiba and Tea. The two made their way over to the group and Asami smiled awkwardly again. "Uh, guys, as you know, this is Seto Kaiba. Seto, these are my friends, Kiba, Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Tea and Miho."
"That's duel monsters. You play?" Seto asked seeing Yugi and Kiba's cards. Yugi nodded while Kiba leaned back, not answering Seto's question.
"Are you into games like these?" Yugi questioned.
"Yeah. I love them." Seto said with a small shrug of his shoulders and a small smile.
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Kiba stood by the others, watching Yugi and Asami talk to Kaiba. During the break, Yugi and Kaiba had gotten along fairly well so she could only guess that he was being invited to the Kaiba Mansion. When the car, Kaiba was in drove off, Tea spoke up.
"Hey Yugi, looks like you're already good friends." Tea commented. She, like Yugi, could remember Kaiba as the one to save them against the Kageyama sisters.
"Yeah. Kaiba is going to show me his card collection." Yugi replied cheerfully.
"Kaiba? I want to go too!" Miho put in excitedly.
"Let's all go! It'll be fun!" Kiba met Asami's eyes and the girl nodded in agreement to Yugi's words. "We'll have a blast."
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"Hey, there's gotta be some law about somebody like that guy living in a house this huge." Joey complained. Asami smiled a little nervously. Joey's dislike of her brother was already showing and her brother hadn't done anything bad or mean to them yet.
"Why would there be?" Tea asked. At that moment, Tristan and Miho arrived on a bike. "No taxis, huh?"
"Please come in." Came Kaiba's voice from an intercom. At once the gate opened, allowing them all into the Manor grounds.
"Wow!" Yugi exclaimed as the front doors to the house opened and they got their first look at the interior of the Manor. Their gazes went around the grand hall until landing on their classmate who stood in front of them with a few maids behind him.
"Hi. Everyone came together, eh?" the brown haired male said. "I'm so glad." Asami didn't pay much attention to the tour that her brother was giving them, having already gotten one when she moved in. It was only when they reached her brother's card collection room that she started paying attention again. She looked around at the cards on the wall and felt sadness fill her. A lot of these cards, Seto was able to buy but the rest...well her brother tended to go to great lengths for them. Her eyes caught sight of the newly added Dark Magician and she sadden even more knowing that the card had been a momento of the previous owner's father. A hand being placed on her shoulder snapped Asami out of her thoughts and she turned to see Kiba standing behind her.
"You okay?" Kiba asked softly. Asami paused for a second before nodding.
"Hey, Yugi. Do you have any rare cards with you?" Both Kiba and Asami tuned into the conversation and froze slightly. What were the pros and cons of stopping Kaiba from finding out about grandpa's Blue Eyes?
"Oh, well not really..." Yugi replied. Before Kiba and Asami could say or do anything, Tea spoke up from next to Yugi.
"Hey, didn't you say before that your grandfather had some great cards?" Asami sighed and looked over at Kiba who was looking at Tea with a semi murderous look on her face.
"Ugh, why couldn't you keep your mouth shut?" Kiba muttered quietly under her breath.
"Eh? I really want to see those." Kaiba replied with a glint in his eyes that went unnoticed by everyone but Asami and Kiba.
"Guess there's no stopping it." Kiba muttered. "At least Grandpa doesn't get hurt in this episode." Asami nodded in agreement and followed after everyone else as they made their way back out to visit the Game Shop.
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"My greatest card?"
"Please Grandpa. Let us see it."
"Please, sir. Please."
"It's no big deal. Hold on a sec." Grandpa turned around and started to look through some stuff. "Which one...?" Grandpa turned back and held out a card. "This one." Kiba heard Kaiba gasp and glanced over at Asami to see the girl staring at her brother now, her face blank and her eyes guarded. This look startled Kiba slightly. She had only ever seen Asami look like that during the girl's sport competitions. Her attention was drawn back to the conversation when she heard Joey cry out 'Unreal!'. Kaiba's briefcase was on the table, opened up so she guessed he had just asked for grandpa's Blue Eyes in exchange for all those cards.
"No way." Grandpa said simply.
"That's even more unreal!" Joey cried.
"Why not?"
"Kaiba was it? I understand how you feel. The reason I still have this card isn't because of its rarity. This card is something I was given when I was living in America. I thought it was the greatest treasure there ever was." Here Kaiba 'tsked' and Kiba glared at him for it. "But it wasn't so important because I had it. It was really important because it was given to me with love. That's why I can't give much important things to get this whole trunk, full of cards as it is." Kiba could see the dark look on Kaiba's face but she and Asami, who was still staring at her brother, seemed to be the only ones who noticed. Kaiba quickly cleared his face and put on a fake smile.
"I guess you're right...I was mistaken." He closed the trunk and picked it up before walking towards the door. "I'm going back home now." Kiba watched him leave before turning back to Grandpa as Joey and Miho started to congratulate him on turning down Kaiba's offer to trade.
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"Kiba, what do we do? Seto plans to switch the cards like in the show." Asami informed the girl as they walked to their classroom.
"We can't really interfere though, can we? The rivalry between Yami and Kaiba is kinda important isn't it?" Kiba put in trying to think reasonably. "Besides, now that Kaiba knows about Grandpa's blue Eyes, he'll just keep trying to get it won't he?" Asami paused and Kiba turned around to face her. The girl's 'game face' as Kiba liked to refer to it, was back on. "Asami?" The brunette snapped out of it and the look was quickly replaced by a small smile.
"Well at least this way, Grandpa isn't hurt, right?" Kiba slowly nodded, confusion clear in her eyes as she looked Asami over. Kiba hesitated before asking. "Are...Are you okay?" Asami nodded.
"Yeah, why do you ask?" Kiba frowned slightly but let it go.
"Just asking." Asami probably didn't want to talk about whatever was bothering her just yet. They continued their walk to class in silence and got there just in time to see Kaiba switch the real Blue Eyes for the fake one.
"If I had this card I'd always shine whenever I had it with me." Kaiba said. Kiba glared at him but said nothing as she went to sit at her desk.
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Asami was walking with both Yugi and Kiba to the Game Shop. Yugi was staring at the fake Blue Eyes card in his hand while Kiba and Asami walked beside him.
"Yugi." Tea called from behind the three, who turned and stopped to let Tea catch up. "You're not with Joey and the others?" Here Yugi gave a confused look so Tea continued. "They said they'd be playing Duel Monsters and that they'd be with you 'cause they don't know how to play."
"Joey and Tristan said that?" Yugi asked, surprise now mixing with the confusion on his face. A look of understanding soon replaced it though and Yugi rushed off back towards the school, Asami and Kiba quickly following. Once they got to the school the two girls followed Yugi up to the roof, all three of them gasping when Yugi pushed open the roof door and they caught sight of Joey and Tristan beaten up and unconscious on the floor. "Joey! Tristan!"
"Listen, Yugi. Don't fall for their tricks." Kaiba said. Yugi took a few steps forward and when he spoke his voice turned softer.
"You switched grandpa's card for another one, didn't you? Then you left with it. But I figured your conscience would make you give it back. You said you liked games too and you saved us when Risa took my puzzle and card."
"After Asami asked him to." The formerly mentioned girl heard Kiba mutter quietly.
"Give it back." Yugi said catching Asami's attention again. "You can get a card like it yourself. This one's grandpa's most prized card. That card is grandpa's soul. Give it back...I beg of you." Yugi walked up to Kaiba and lightly grabbed his arms. Asami tensed when she saw her brother's eyes flash and she stepped forward to pull Yugi back but her brother was faster. He swung his bag at Yugi yelling 'Don't touch me!' and causing Yugi to be knocked on his back away from them.
"Yugi!" Both Kiba and Asami yelled as they rushed to the boy's side, helping him sit up.
"A card is a soul? Impossible. A card is a card." Kaiba said as he loomed over them. "That's what you and people all over refuse to believe, hoping there's more meaning to it. Explain it to your grandpa. A game is not a thing of soul. You must understand that before you can win. I didn't think I could run into such a thing at this school." Asami felt anger rise up at her brother's harsh words and she glared at his retreating form.
"Kaiba!" Kiba yelled angrily as she quickly got up and ran after him. Asami and Yugi were about to follow but they were stopped by the male's bodyguards. One of the bodyguards grabbed Yugi from the back of his collar and punched him in the stomach before dropping him and watching as Yugi fell to the ground, clutching his stomach. They turned their attention to Asami and the girl tensed. No one outside the Manor knew she was a Kaiba so the bodyguards would no doubt try to hurt her as well. One of the men threw a punch at her and just as she was going to grab his fist to flip him over, she felt Yugi's Ki spike and be covered by the Millennium Puzzle's magic. Her momentary distraction allowed the man's fist to slam against the side of her head, sending her to the floor and dazing her but not knocking her out like the man probably intended.
"...guys...out of...pay for..." Asami couldn't really tell what Yami said due to her dazed state but she was quickly getting over it. She got to her feet as the bodyguards turned to Yami. Seeing them about to attack him, she rushed forward, slamming her elbow into the first guy's back and then quickly kicking the other one in the back as well, successfully knocking both bodyguards to the floor. Yami looked at her in surprise but Asami pointed towards the door.
"Go get grandpa's card back, I've got this handled." Hesitance flashed in his eyes but slowly Yami nodded before rushing off with a quick 'Be careful'. Asami turned her attention back to the two males who were getting up, obviously having recovered already. "You know, usually I have this thing about hurting people but you hurt my friends." She told them as she got into her stance, her expression going blank.
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"Kaiba!" Kiba yelled out as she rushed to catch up with the brown haired male. Once she caught up to him, she got in front of him, forcing the male to stop. "What's wrong with you? Why are you doing all these things?"She glared at him heatedly. "You hurt my brother and my friends and all of it for a card!" She saw Kaiba glare back at her and growled slightly, her clenched hands shaking slightly in anger. Briefly she entertained the thought of punching him but shook it away after a few seconds.
"Out of my way." Kaiba ordered. This only served to make Kiba more angry.
"You-You-!" Kiba bit out, about to insult him but getting cut off.
"Kaiba!" The two turned to see Yami just a bit down the hall they were standing in. "It's time to play..." Kaiba stepped back surprised.
"Yugi."
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Joey and Tristan both came to, their memories of what happened quickly filling their minds. They looked around and paused, their eyes widening when they took in the sight before them. Asami was standing next to the bodyguards, facing them. The bodyguards were on the floor, back to back, looking thoroughly beaten up, while Asami stood with a bruise blossoming on her left cheek.
"What the...?" Joey said shocked. Asami, realizing they were awake, gave them a smile, though she winced slightly in pain.
"Hey guys."
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Kiba continued to glare at Kaiba angrily as he and Yami spoke. They had moved into a classroom and set up a table for them to play duel monsters on. Yami and Kaiba both sat opposite each other while Kiba sat by the wall, wanting to watch the duel but also staying out of the way. When they started the duel, Kiba eased up on her glare slightly, finding some amusement in Kaiba's surprise. A half pout half frown took over when Kaiba started to enjoy himself slightly in the duel. Was it too much to ask for Kaiba to be a little miserable?
"Well, play your next card." Kaiba said snapping Kiba out of her thoughts. "Just go, you can't find a card stronger than my Minotaurus." Kiba watched Yami draw and then place Mystic Elf in defense mode. "Give up...With a simple swing of an arm I can gut your life points down to nothing."
'And yet you still only managed to tie.' Kiba thought irritably.
"I just got a good card...I'll set this one aside for later." Kaiba continued.
"My next card." Yami said as he drew. "White. It's your turn."
"Then let's do this. My magic card from before...Enlargement! The Minotaurus' attack points increase even more. Now it's even more helpless, no matter what monster you call." Kaiba's Minotaurus swung its axe at Mystic Elf, destroying her. "I can't lost to whatever card you try to play next. Give it up Yugi. It's over. Come...Play your last card!"
"I have no reason to give up."
"Very well then."
"What I hold in my hand is...the strongest card. The Summoner of Demons. His field is the dark forest."
"What!?" Kiba smiled slightly at the shocked look on Kaiba's face. "The card that destroys even those with the best hands."
"Obviously a Minotaurus is no match."
'And there goes Kaiba's monster.' Kiba thought as she watched it get pulverized.
"My strongest card...the Minotaurus is..."
"I guess you just didn't get it. You're through. You can't beat this card."
"I don't think so. This game isn't about heart. It's about aggressiveness." Kiba went back to glaring at Kaiba when she realized what he was doing. He was adding grandpa's Blue Eyes to the top of his deck so he could 'draw' it this turn. "My card is...The Blue Eyes White Dragon."
"I thought you would." Kiba heard Yami mutter.
"And the field is the lake, of course." Kiba watched in fascination as Blue Eyes came out of the water. Blue Eyes was definitely nice. She snapped out of her thoughts, which had wondered off topic, in time to see the table being split in two as smoke came from it and watched as Kaiba disappeared in it.
"I figured he didn't call himself a Duel Monsters expert for nothing." Yami said as he stood, looking down at the broken table, hands clenched at his sides. "We'll meet again in the dead of night." He leaned down and picked up grandpa's Blue Eyes from the floor before passing it to Kiba. "I got grandpa's card back."
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Asami winced as she took in the state of her brother's card collection room. All the trophies were on the ground, some of them broken, others a bit dented, while the glass casing for the cards had been broken and some of the cards now lay on the floor. Her brother had long since gone up to his room so Asami had come to see the mess. She felt a bit conflicted. On one hand she was glad that everything had ended up good on Yugi's side but was a bit weary to find out how bad this would end up on her brother's side. Was he going to send word for his game masters or would something else happen? When the maids came in to start cleaning the room, Asami decided it was best to go get some rest now since it was late and she had school tomorrow.
Okay, finally finished. A million apologies on the long wait for the update by the way. See you guys later. Bye! ~/)