A young male with hair features consisting of multiple layers including long blond crooked, pointy locks for his fringe; the rest features a set of five large spikes and two smaller spikes colored black with a magenta sheen along the edges was seen with a duel disk. He smirked, winning another match against one of the neighbourhood children.

The male had on black jeans with a blue shirt.

"Good game, Joey." The male said.

The male with short blond hair, light complexion and brown eyes sighed. He had on a white shirt with a green jacket, blue jeans and black sneakers.

"You win again Atem." Joey grumbled. "I can never win against you."

"Anyone else wants to challenge me?" Atem asked, looking around. "Tristan? Duke?"

The two other males in the area backed away, shaking their heads.

"I will duel you." Someone said.

Everyone looked to see someone with a light complexion, blue eyes and brown hair walking towards them with a duel disk. The person had on blue jeans with a black shirt and blue hat.

"You any good?" Atem questioned as the person walked to where Joey had stand.

"You will have to play me to find out." The person replied, activating the duel disk.

Atem activated his before they began to duel.


As Atem's life points went down to zero he looked at the person before him.

"No way!" Joey, Tristan and Duke gasped.

Joey mentioned. "No one has ever beat Atem before."

"Until now." The person cheered.

The wind blew hard and the person's cap blew off and her hair fell down to her shoulders.

Atem gasped. "You're a girl."

"So?" The female said. "Got a problem with that?"

"No." Atem shook his head. "You just happen to be the first girl I have ever seen play duel monsters."

The female walked over to him and extended a hand to him. "My name is Anzu Maziki, your new neighbours. Met your Mom and little brother, Yugi earlier and she said she had a son named Atem that is my age playing duel monsters not too far from the house. Thought why not grab my duel disk and see how good you really are."

Atem smirked. "Well Anzu, I am happy you are my new neighbours. At least I know where to find you when I want a rematch."

"Whenever you are ready." Anzu replied.

"Atem!"

"Anzu!"

The two eleven year old turned to see their mothers along with Atem's younger brother coming towards them.

"It's time for dinner." A woman with long brunette hair, light complexion and brown eyes said. "The Mutou's will be joining us for dinner."

"Coming Mom." Anzu said before she and Atem headed to them.


After dinner Atem headed outside to give Anzu a piece of cake his mother had bought and carried over for the dinner.

Looking up at the jungle gym, Atem noticed that the brunette was gazing up at the stars.

"Anzu." Atem called out, climbing to the top of the jungle gym. "My mother bought this cake earlier when she heard we were getting new neighbours. If your Mom asks though, it was homemade and not store bought."

Anzu giggled. "You're Mom can't cook, right?"

"You hit the nail on the head." Atem nodded. "Let's say my Dad didn't marry her for her cooking."

"Does it have nuts in it?" Anzu asked. "I am allergic to it."

"I think it does." Atem checked. "It does."

Putting it down, he continued. "Where did you learn to duel like that?"

"My Dad carried me to a match between the creator of Duel Monsters and Bandit Keith. From that match I got hooked and fell in love with the game. I began to practice whenever I have free time from school and dancing." Anzu informed him. "What about you?"

"My Dad is a star in the game and he is the one that introduced me and Yugi to it." Atem told her. "My aim is to become the King of Games and make a career out of duelling."

"Well if you become the King of Games I will become the Queen." Anzu smiled. "I want to a great duelist as well."

"According to my Dad every King needs a Queen. So you want to be my Queen?" Atem offered.

"I will have to think about it." Anzu pretended to think about it for a moment.

"Anzu." Atem nudged her before leaning over to kiss her lips.

Anzu kissed him back as both experienced their first kiss.

Ending the kiss, the two looked up at the stars.

Atem placed one of his hands onto one of Anzu's own, happy to have met some and live next to someone as amazing as the brunette beside him.