Hello again, here's the latest chapter! Actually I had it ready yesterday but for some reason I couldn't log in at all. It said there was an error and it'd take a few minutes. Few minutes? I doubt seven hours is a 'few minutes'? Don't you? Oh, well. Anyway, this chapter is a little longer than the rest and I've just noticed but every chapter is getting longer and longer. Also, I don't know when I'll be updating next, I hope I can do it weekly but well, my drive to write chapters so fast is already beginning to fade. I need to feel inspired and we all know what helps right? Reviews! So I hope I can get more reviews, please and thank you all who have review till now. I'm very grateful you all have like my story, it really makes me happy. Well, that's all I have to say for now. On with the story...

Chapter 5: Dueling, Rooms and Cards

"You're really bad." Ralph commented as he picked up his cards from the table in the dinning room.

He had spent about thirty minutes explaining her about monster cards, magic cards, trap cards and how those three groups divided themselves in other groups. After that, he thought that the best way to teach her dueling was by dueling. Since she had just been released from the hospital and she shouldn't exert herself they didn't' use the duel disk, which made Yori glad. She wasn't ready yet to see a 3D monster and 'feel' their attacks.

"Gee, really?" Yori said sarcastically. "Did the fact that I've lost fifteen times in a row clue you in or did someone tell you?"

"The fifteen times in a row," he replied with a grin. "Still, maybe you'd do better with your deck instead of my spare one."

Yori made a face and looked at the ceiling as if she were thinking. "Nah."

"Why not?" Ralph as curiously as he silently asked Yori for his cards.

"No reason, really." She replied.

"There must be a reason." He insisted and he put his cards away.

"It's nothing I just don't want to play with my cards for while." She replied offhandedly.

He didn't believe her and just stared at her. Jeez, this guy was really like her brother!

Yori sighed defeated. "Fine." She groaned, giving in. "I'm thinking of making a new deck."

"A new deck?" Now that took him by surprised.

"Yeah, I mean why not? I'm thinking of using old cards, though." She said. 'My cards.' She added in her mind. 'I'll feel more comfortable that way when dueling.'

"You mean like your cards from when we were kids?" He asked skeptically.

"No," She replied. "I mean cards that are from Yugi Mutou's time, back when he was just beginning dueling."

"Then you're deck is gonna be made up of ancient relics," He joked.

"Laugh if you want, but that won't change my mind." She said stubbornly.

"So, you're serious?" He asked, he had thought she was joking. "Well, I guess that fine if that's what you want to do."

"Glad you understand." She smiled pleasantly.

"I'd better get home!" He suddenly exclaimed as he stood up abruptly from his chair. "I still have to do my homework. I'll see you tomorrow in class."

"Oh-okay." She replied. "That reminds me," she mentioned as she followed him towards the door. "I didn't see you in any of my classes today."

"That's 'cause we had different classes today, sweetie." He grinned. "Tomorrow we do have classes together."

He stood outside the door. "I'll come to pick you up."

"That's unnecessary; I can go by myself to school." She replied.

"I said I'm gonna come to pick you up, you just be ready." Ralph replied more forcefully.

"Whatever." She said indifferently.

"Later, sweetie." He leaned and kissed her on the cheek before dashing off. She could swear that she caught a glimpse of a blush but decided against it. He had said so himself after all she was his 'little sister.' She shrugged and went to her room to do her homework.

"Well, that's about it," she said when she finished her homework, half hour later. 'I'm bored.' She looked at her cat-shaped clock in the wall. It was black, except for the paws and the end of tail which was white. 'It's only six thirty?' She groaned. 'I think I'll watch a movie or something.'

She got up form the chair and looked around her room. There were only books on the bookshelves, school books and reference books.

"I don't have movies?" she asked out loud. "Just great." She murmured.

The small chess on one of the bookshelves again called her attention. She took it in her hand and opened it. Orange box with a flowery designed and velvet covered interior did no have what she had expected.

"Keys?" she took the two small keys and looked at them. They were regular keys but they had a different color. One was golden and the other one was silver. Still there was nothing special about them, she decided. So, why would they be in a jewelry box?

There was a knock on the door and the housekeeper entered. "Miss, your parents just called saying they won't be able to make to dinner." She informed.

"Eh?" she turned around and looked at the older woman. "Oh, I see. Um," she tried to call her by her name but it was just then she remembered she didn't know it. "Err..."

"It's Higgins." The housekeeper supplied. "Do you need something miss?"

"Um, yes, Mrs. Higgins, this key," Yori showed her the key. "Do you know what does it open?"

"Those are the keys to your rooms." Ms Higgins replied.

"Rooms? What rooms?" Yori was surprised.

"Your private library and the entertainment center as you called them. I'll show you." The elder woman went outside and Yori followed her.

"These two rooms are also your rooms." Mrs. Higgins pointed at the two doors next to Yori's bedroom. "Well, I'm going to start making dinner. Would you like something special to eat?"

"How about Italian?" Yori suggested.

"Very well" and Mrs. Higgins went back to her duties.

She tried to open the door to the one next to her bedroom but the silver key wasn't the right one. On her second try she was able to open it. The room was just as spacious if not more so than her bedroom. To think that just a few minutes ago she though she didn't have a movie, well that was proven wrong. There were three bookshelves full of movies as they were books in a library. The four bookshelves in the room were full of video games, she noticed. To her right side was an 83" TV and three game consoles underneath it, in the table that TV was resting on. There was also a comfortable couch right in front of the TV.

"Wow." She said in awed. 'And here I used to think I had a lot of movies at home.' She thought.

She was going to look around to see what movies she had but decided against it since she knew that once she started doing that, she'd spent the rest of the night looking through them and wanting to watch them; probably.

She left the room and closed it back again. She opened the next one and was even more surprised than she had been at the other room. She felt herself in paradise. Her breath was taken for a second.

There was manga everywhere she looked. This room only had bookshelves of manga, a desk a chair and a lamp. This room was slightly small than the others but still, there was so much manga. There were also posters on the wall and she recognized them as the ones she had in reality. Not that she actually had them hanging on her room since she shared her room with her twin. So she couldn't put them up. She looked around to see if she knew any of the titles and she was shocked to see that, she had had read many of these manga. As she looked around, she found that on the last bookshelves there was no manga but novels. She grinned. She loved reading so she picked one at random and took it with her. She was going to take it to her to school tomorrow.

As she was making her way to the door she noticed that in the other side of the room, in a corner was a desk and a computer and near the door there was a sideboard, which she hadn't seen when she first came into the room. I was light brown and its door made of crystal so she could see what was inside it: cards. Not just card but old cards, the cards she had in her deck in the world she belonged and from the GBA game she played. About one thousand cards in display and in the center, a deck and the first card was a synchro monster: Ancient Holy Wyvern.

She opened the sideboard and took the deck out. She read the card's description.

"Cool, though if I don't play it right it could be bad." She mused.

She scanned through the deck to see the rest of the cards and noticed it was full light attribute monsters. Her deck back home was full of cards that were put at random, mostly. Though she had managed to make it balance and complement her cards with each other.

She looked at the other cars on display, she knew them all though she couldn't say that remember every single cards' effect. As she was looking through them, without noticing she started making her deck.

"Miss, dinner is served. Where would you like to dine?" Mrs. Higgins asked.

She snapped back to reality as she had been immersed with the cards. "Could you bring it here, please?"

"Right away, Miss."

She hadn't managed to form a deck yet but she was almost done. She decided she was going to have sixty cards just like in her game. So between traps and magic cards she decided to have around twenty five to twenty eight. The rest would be monsters: only one synchro monster, she decided as that was her first her to include "Ancient Holy Wyvern." Though she had said she was going for a deck with old cards she found herself with that synchro monster thus she had no choice but to put the only two tuners she had found in the deck.

Dinner arrived and reluctantly she got up from the floor and sat on the desk. Mrs. Higgins moved the keyboard of the computer so Yori wouldn't be uncomfortable. She had no paid attention to the computer, she hadn't even realized it was there till she was seating in front of it.

She turned it on, out of curiosity. She looked through 'My documents' she was no longer surprised to find that there were fan fictions there. That didn't surprise her, what did it was that those were really hers. There were only on missing but she guessed that was normal; since it was a drabble she had written about people she wasn't suppose to know.

She looked into the 'My music' folder and sure enough all of her favorite songs were there. She used the windows Media player to play them and was surprised when she understood the songs that were in Japanese. She tried with the English songs, it was the same no change. It was like it was on the same language, she shrugged. There was no point in trying to understand something she was sure she wouldn't be able to find an explanation for. She let it playing as she went back to her deck.

It was hard deciding what cards to use. As she was putting her deck together she was thinking about the strategies she could use. It was going to be different than her old deck back home but not by much. It was like she was giving it an upgrade.

By the time she finish putting it together it was time to sleep. She didn't know the time but she felt tired and sleepy. She went back to the door after picking up the cards on the floor and returning them to their places; except for her new deck, of course. Her deck she took it back to the room with her and placed it on her desk. She changed into her pajamas and tucked herself in bed. Tomorrow, she was going to ask Aki to help her improve by dueling, she just hoped Aki would go easy on her unlike Ralph.

The next day in her excitement to try out her new deck, she completely forgot Ralph was going to pick her up. As she arrived at Duel Academy she saw Aki talking with Rua and Ruka. She wanted to call out to them but if she did then people would instantly known she had arrived and focus their attention on her again just like the day before thus she refrained herself from doing so. Sometimes she wished she wasn't so shy; then she would give a da- she wouldn't care.

She sighed in defeated and continued her way. As she was about to entered the building Aki called her.

"Good morning, Yori." The twins greeted her also.

Yori turned and saw the twins and the older girl approaching her. She smiled. "G'morning, guys. How are you today?"

"We're fine." Rua replied unenthusiastically.

"Is something wrong?" Yori asked concerned, it was so weird seeing him down.

"Today, our teacher asked us to bring our parents or a relative to talk about our progress in school. However our parents are away on a business trip and since it's mandatory to bring someone…" Ruka trailed off.

Yori knew what she was talking about back in elementary every semester she had to bring her mom to talk with the teacher about her progress. Her mom couldn't make it once so she told her brother's girlfriend, who was also her neighbor and friend to go. Anyone could go in place of the parent as long as it was someone close to the children and would tell the parents; at least that was how it was in her old school.

"Does it really have to be your parents?" Yori asked as she remembered.

"Well, it has to be an adult." Ruka replied not really understanding where Yori was going with this.

"Don't you know of anyone who could go instead of your parents?" she suggested. 'Like Yusei, or Jack, Crow, Himuro, Yanagi, Saiga?'

"We could ask Yusei!" Rua exclaimed excited.

"Rua!" Ruka scolded. "Yusei is busy with the new runner. We can't bother him. Besides, the meeting is in an hour and we don't have any way to call him."

"I have my cell," Yori said as she took the small object from her pocket. She was trying hard to keep her excitement inside her and keep her cool. It was hard; she was barely suppressing a small grin.

"You know, you're not supposed to have that in school, don't you?" Aki said amused that Ms Role model student was breaking the rules.

"Technically, we're not in yet." Yori smirked.

Aki rolled her eyes.

"So, you guys calling or not?" she asked she hoped they decided to call him then maybe she could meet him.

"I don't know." Ruka said.

"C'mon, Ruka, let's call him." Rua insisted.

"Ruka, I don't think Yusei would mind if it means helping you two." Aki offered.

"I guess. Then I'll call him." Ruka said as Yori gave her the phone and she dialed the number.

The bell rang as Ruka was finishing dialing.

"Finish making the call, later." Yori said as she and Aki were walking away from the kids to go to class.

"Thanks, Yori." Rua and Ruka called out in unison.

The girls ran to the elevator which was packed with people, who like them fear they were going to be late. Unfortunately they didn't make it.

Aki sighed. Yori groaned. "We're so late."

"So," Yori tried to be casual "who is Yusei?" Her heart was beating fast.

"Yusei, Yusei Fudo is our friend, but you probably know that already." Aki said. Yes, Yori knew that. "He's a really nice guy."

Yori was kinda disappointed. Aki really wasn't really saying much.

"So, what does he do?" Yori asked. "Ruka said he was busy with the new runner."

"Oh, he's –"

"YOORI!!" a male voice called, the elevator arrived.

"I'm having deja vu." Yori said to Aki, not wanting to turn around.

"You and I both." Aki said almost expecting what was coming next.

The girls entered the elevator and turn around once in there. Ralph also entered the elevator a few seconds after and he looked angry.

"Good morning, Aki." He greeted courtly the red-haired girl.

"G'morning." She replied.

Ralph turned towards Yori looking angry again. "Why didn't you wait for me?"

"Huh?" Yori looked confused.

"Don't tell me you forgot." Ralph calmed down and sighed defeated. 'This girl…'

"Oh," she said as realization hit her. "Sorry, I forgot." She giggled.

"Why, you…!" He gritted his teeth.

"Still, I don't see the reason why we should come together." Yori said. "I like walking by myself I have time to think." She defended.

"Think about what?" he glared.

She almost flinched. "Well, I finished putting my deck together yesterday so I was thinking of some strategies to play next time we duel." She replied hoping that would calm him down.

"You finished?" He asked rhetorically, all anger gone.

"You made a new deck?" Aki asked, which reminded them she was there also.

"Yeah, it doesn't really have a type or theme or anything like that, though." Yori said.

"You just put a bunch of cards together then?" Ralph said skeptically.

"Not really, I chose them carefully." Yori said thoughtfully. "Oh and also, even though it does have old cards like I told you I would put. I've also ended up adding my 'Ancient Holy Wyvern' after all. Most cards are old though."

The door of the elevator opened. "Too bad we have to go to class now. I'd like to see it."

"Too bad," Yori replied though she was smiling.

Ralph gave her a look of understanding her message. She didn't want him to see it.

The second bell rang and class started. She was excited, maybe today she would meet Yusei. She really hoped so.

Well, what you think? I actually did my homework and looked up Yugioh cards. Actually I did more than that, I made a deck for Yori and as she said it has 60 cards. I did it because I know that at some point I'm going to have her duel since that's what Yugioh is about, Dueling. So, I need a reference and just mentioning cards as I'm writing a dueling scene it's way too hard for me. I'm not sure if I should post her deck though, unless you guys want to see what cards it has, that is. Well, I'll leave it up to you. Please review, k?