Sorry for the long wait guys. Here's the next chapter though.
"So how did Kaiba take it yesterday?" Kiba asked as she and Asami watched Tristan tell Joey off for skipping out on cleaning the day before while Yugi tried to placate him.
"Ah, well...he took it as well as he did in the episode. The trophy room was absolutely destroyed. I haven't heard of him trying to get Game Masters yet though so I hope he'll let it go..." Kiba scoffed.
"Kaiba? Let Yami beating him go? Yeah right." The girl said with a small shake of her head. "Though, I guess there's very little we could do against it so here's to hoping." The two girls raised a hand in mock toast, smiling at each other.
"Yugi!" The two turned to the door of the classroom, where Tea was standing. "Hey, Yugi..."
"What is it, Tea?"
"Never mind that. Hurry up." Yugi nodded and started towards her. Kiba and Asami watched the familiar scene play out before them.
"This is the episode with the game against Chono-sensei right?" Kiba questioned the brunette next to her. Asami nodded.
"Us too?" Joey asked as he and Tristan took a step forward but stopped when Tea snapped back at them.
"You don't need to come! Just Yugi!"
"What was that about?" Joey questioned Tristan who shrugged.
"Beats me..." Kiba suddenly straightened out slightly.
"Hey, Hey, Asami, I don't think we're going to be in the mists of this episode." Asami nodded, crossing her arms and leaning back against the wall slightly.
"It would make sense I guess. Mayumi only confided in Tea and Miho, while Tea questions Yugi since Joey's his best friend...Think this means we'll get a break from being the ones in Tea's place?"
"I don't know but for now let's just enjoy our small break."
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Asami looked at the door when it was slammed open. Joey stood in the doorway looking very pleased with himself.
"I'm on time!" He cheered.
"Joey! You're late!" Miho scolded.
"Hurry up and sit down! The teacher's coming!"
"Yeah." Joey came in, closing the door behind him before sitting down at his desk. "I overslept because I stayed up watching videos..."
"Porn?" Tristan asked quietly.
"Don't be rude! It was a Hong-Kong action movie!" Before a fight could break out, the door opened and Chono came in. Asami sighed upon seeing her. She knew that Chono would still be their teacher for a while since their usual teacher was away on vacation, but she didn't like it-didn't like the woman.
"All rise!" As one, everyone did. "Bow." The class bowed. "Be seated." The students all sat back down.
"Open your textbooks." Chono told them with a smile on her face. Asami looked down at her textbook but quickly looked back up when she realized something. "Joey! What is this, in the middle of class?" Chono asked as she took the wrapped present from him. Asami glanced over at Kiba, who had a scowl on her face as she looked over at Chono. "Early lunch? It certainly is a sweet looking bento." The class laughed and Asami frowned. She had never liked this part and now she couldn't do anything about it since she wasn't in the 'know' about Mayumi's crush.
"That's not mine." Joey replied with a shrug.
"Not yours? But you had it, didn't you?"
"It was just in my desk. Someone probably put it there by mistake."
"A mistake? I see." Chono turned and went back to her desk, lightly hitting it with the box. "But haven't I told everyone not to bring unrelated things to class? So what is this, Joey?"
"I told you, I don't know!"
"Really?" Chono cruelly ripped the wrapping off, causing Mayumi to gasp slightly and some of the jigsaw pieces to fall out. Asami grit her teeth to keep herself from saying anything and glanced over at Kiba, to see the girl equally forcing herself to remain quiet and seated. "A jigsaw puzzle? You can't bring this to school!" Chono started putting some of the pieces together. "These things, you can't stop once you started. It is no good for study." The woman paused upon noticing what was on the puzzle. "Oh! How interesting. There's something written on the pieces. What is it..."
'That's not yours to read!' Kiba thought irritably.
'Can't do anything, you're not involved this time remember?' Asami thought to herself.
" 'You've been on my mind since I first met you...' Oh my, a love confession?" Chono laughed and everyone but Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Miho, Tea, Mayumi, Kiba and Asami laughed with her. Asami felt her hands tighten in a fist as her teeth grinded against each other slightly. What was so funny about a teacher making a mockery of someone? The part of her that wasn't growing more and more angry with Chono, was feeling sympathetic towards Mayumi. She knew how it felt to be laughed at by others. The first year or so of her childhood in Kiba's world hadn't been the best. She had been an outcast and had been made fun of because she was different and bullied because she hadn't known, at first, how important it was to hide her tail from others. "This isn't good at all. This is quite the distraction. In other words...it breaks school rules. Depending on the situation, this is grounds for expulsion. I wonder who it was. Now to continue." Chono started to continue the puzzle when Tea stood up.
"Please stop, sensei."
"What is it, Gardener?"
"That's a message...a letter! I think it's cruel to read someone's letter."
"Cruel?" Chono put on a fake smile. "But as a teacher, I need to know who brought this into school. To do that, I'll have to put the puzzle together and find out who it's from."
"That's...mine."
"So it's you? Then please come to my office after class."
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"There we go!" Tea said as she finished hanging a poster promoting change of the school rules.
"Are you really going to do this Tea?" Yugi asked.
"If they get rid of some of the nit-picky rules, I might be able to work!"
"But..." Joey trailed off.
"What about the rest of you? What do you think of the rules?" Tea asked them.
"Well, I'd rather they didn't have any..." Joey said trailing off again.
"Here!" Tea held out a clipboard with sign up sheets on it. "Then you'll sign this at least, right?"
"Um, I'll help you." Yugi put in.
"Really? Then can you go put up these posters?" Tea grabbed a rolled up poster from the box Miho was holding for her before passing it to Yugi.
"Okay!" Yugi started to run off but stopped when Tea called out to him.
"Thanks." The girl said. Asami and Kiba shared a look before Asami took the clipboard from Tea and signing it before handing it over to Kiba.
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"How horrible!" Miho exclaimed as the gang all looked at one of Tea's posters. On it was the phrase 'against rethinking the rules. All of Tea's posters had something along the lines of this on them.
"This is ridiculous." Joey said.
"I'll just make a new one." Tea put in and started to pull it off the bulletin board.
"Harassment?" Joey asked.
"Those people exist. But most people probably don't like the current rules either." Tea tried to assure them.
YGO~~~~~~~~~~YGO
Asami watched with Joey, Tristan and Kiba as Tea and Yugi stood by the entrance to the school building, trying to get more people to sign the petition. Tea was being given a hard time by teachers and students alike and Asami was getting more and more annoyed by it and she could tell that Kiba was too. They, however, decided they could do very little about it. They would help if and when Tea need them to but this wasn't their fight.
"They're working hard..." Joey said.
"But the rumors..." Tristan reminded. For days now, a rumor had been going around, saying that those who signed the petition gained a bad reputation with the teachers. It was true to some extent but both Asami and Kiba knew that was only because of Chono's manipulation. The four friends suddenly stood straighter when they noticed three guys standing around Tea and Yugi.
"Oh! Are you going to sign?" Tea asked.
"Who wants to do that?"
"The rules are fine as they are!"
"No one will sign such a thing."
"Exactly. It's useless. The teachers will just hate you."
"If you don't want to sign it, then fine. But stop bothering us." Tea told them. One of the teens took the clipboard from her and looked at it.
"Look! You haven't gotten many at all!"
"Give that back!" Tea exclaimed as she tried to get back the clipboard.
"Cut it out! Give it-!" Yugi yelled as he moved forward to help but one of the teens grabbed him before shoving him back and onto the ground.
"Yugi..." Asami clenched her fists, her anger, having built up since the beginning of this 'episode', coming close to it's limit.
"Heh! This old thing..." The teen holding the clipboard took the sign up sheets from it and ripped them up. The look on both Tea and Yugi's faces after this, was what snapped the four watching friends into action.
"Cut that out you guys!" Joey yelled as they rushed towards them.
"Joey..." Tea trailed off.
"You're one of them?"
"You're the ones that were harassing them right?" Joey exclaimed as he pinned the guy to the floor.
"Joey!"
"You'll get in trouble, Joey!" Yugi warned but the blonde didn't listen.
"You won't get away with this!" Joey pulled his arm back and punched the dude he was holding down. At once a fight immediately started between the three guys, Joey, Kiba and Asami while Tristan, Yugi and Tea tried to get their friends to stop.
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"You've been very bad." Chono said as she looked at the five students in front of her. Asami frowned at the desk she, Kiba, Joey, Tea and Yugi were sitting at. "A fight on school grounds is a serious infraction."
"They're the ones at fault." Joey muttered.
"But I heard you were the first to throw a punch."
"They started it!" Kiba exclaimed, done with staying silent.
"It's not Joey's fault." Tea added.
"That's true. After all, you started the whole thing.-" Chono was about to continue but was cut off.
"How did she start this?" Asami asked, just as equally done with her silence. "She wasn't doing anything. Those guys came up and started harassing her so Joey defended her and Kiba and I defended Joey when they tried to gang up on him." Briefly Chono looked annoyed that Asami had interrupted her but she quickly cleared it and continued as if the girl hadn't spoken.
"-It wasn't necessary to rethink the rules, it seems. The students say it's fine as it is."
"That can't be..." Tea quietly let out.
"Gardener, depending on the matter, I might have to expel you." Chono said shocking Tea, Joey and Yugi, while causing some of Kiba and Asami's anger to return though the two girls didn't say anything more, knowing Yami would be dueling her soon. As far as her punishment went, as long as she didn't actively try to harm anyone, Chono could keep her pretty mask so they thought Yami's game with her would be fine. The five students were dismissed and they went out into the hall where Tristan, who was lucky enough to not get in trouble, and Miho were waiting for them. The three guys that had been harassing them were also there, waiting for their turn to talk to Chono. The woman let the three in before turning to them again. "Once I get my report together, I'll bring it to the faculty meeting's agenda to determine your punishment." Joey tsked before walking off, Tristan following after him. Tea followed his lead soon after and Miho went with her leaving Yugi, Kiba and Asami behind.
"Tea..." Yugi trailed off watching the girl walk off. Chono went into her office and both Asami and Kiba watched as Yugi mentally debated with himself before he went to the door and silently opened it slightly. Kiba and Asami followed him to the door, listening in as Chono thanked the three teens for their help.
"It wasn't a big deal." The one with brown hair replied.
"It's a favor for Chono-sensei that we can't refuse." The one in the middle added.
"That's true. So now, I'll ignore all your past violations."
"Can we go now?"
"Yeah, but don't violate any more rules. The next time, I'll expel you." This seemed to be all Yugi needed to hear because he moved away and Kiba and Asami followed, Kiba silently closing the door. Asami felt the now familiar spike in Yugi's Ki and watched as Yami took Yugi's place.
"She set Tea up." Yami stated as he motioned for them to follow him as he started to walk away.
"Mhm. From the very beginning." Asami confirmed.
"After talking to her the first time, Chono gave her a bad reputation with the teachers and probably got some students to spread the rumor that anyone else who signed her petition also got a bad reputation. Then of course this." Kiba told him. Yami glanced over at Asami and then at Kiba, taking in the anger simmering beneath the surface.
"Now, Kiba, are you angry on Tea's behalf? I thought you didn't like her very much?" He teased, trying to calm them down slightly. Kiba looked at him surprised for a second before crossing her arms and glaring off to the side.
"I don't! I just-she-It's different if I pick on her because she's my friend and will at least know I'm joking about it-well half joking anyway." The three of them laughed slightly, some of the tension in Asami and Kiba's shoulders leaving. "Alright, alright, so how are you gonna handle this?" Yami considered it for a moment, knowing that the girls knew but that they still wanted him to think about it.
"Hmm...I'll need to small mirrors, two pairs safety gloves and two blindfolds." The girls nodded.
"During your game, we'll go see how the others are." Asami said, letting him know that he wouldn't have an audience this time. Yami nodded and the three set off to get the stuff he needed for the game.
YGO~~~~~~~~~~YGO
"Chono-sensei hasn't said anything, so I guess it's alright now." Joey commented a few days after Yami's game with her. The group of friends were up on the roof just relaxing as they talked.
"Even from my perspective as a Beautification Committee member, that was unreasonable." Tristan put in.
"Come to think of it, what was up with that jigsaw puzzle, Tea?" Joey asked. The girl in question startled for a second before speaking.
"S-Sorry! Just a little joke."
"A joke huh?" Asami and Kiba laughed to themselves as they watched Tea and Miho immediately whisper between themselves as they remembered that Mayumi gets confessed to and forgets about Joey.
Alright, so how was that? I really am sorry for the wait, I've just been busy. See ya ^w^/)