Hi everyone! Thank you again to all those who were so kind as to leave me some reviews. Really guys, getting reviews is the best. It really helps my motivation. It seems that the little mystery really did the trick to get me more reviews. I do love mystery after all, I just hope I can pull it off since this is the first time I'm writing it. I've tried it before but it didn't work because I ended up telling the readers and the mystery was only for the characters and that was a bit boring. So this time I'm really trying hard to keep the mystery for both the characters and you my dear readers. Ok, I'll stop babbling now. Go ahead and I hope you like it! This is ones of the longest chapters of the story so far. Ok, I'll really stop now!! Please R&R! Enjoy ;)

Chapter 10: Unexpected part 2

It was finally after school and the day had been pretty normal. The only thing interesting thing so far had been Yusei being at school earlier that morning. She had asked Aki during lunch time and she had said that Yusei had brought something Rua apparently forgot the day before at Yusei's place.

"I'll see you at the lobby then," Aki said as left the room.

"Thanks, Aki." Yori replied as her friend was leaving.

She sat at her sit by the window and looked out to the sky. It was cloudless and beautiful. As she continued to look outside she noticed a car park right in front of the school. That was not strange as many students had chauffeurs and their own cars but this one somehow emitted an aura. She could feel there was something peculiar about it. She just knew that the person inside there were those men from earlier. She had the feeling she was being watched.

"Hey, shortie" greeted Ralph as he entered the classroom, startling Yori a bit.

"Ralph!" she exclaimed as she snapped out of her thoughts.

"Well? Are you going to tell me now?" Ralph asked straight forwardly.

"It's not really important as I said before it's just that it got me curious what you said on my first day of school after my accident." Yori explained.

"What did I say?" Asked Ralph confused.

"You said I still had my reflexes and that you didn't have to worry about me being attack or something like that?" she said as she tried her best to not let Ralph worry about her being danger or anything like that. She didn't want to worry him or anyone for that matter.

Ralph crossed his arms in front of his chest as he tried to recall that day. "Oh, I remember now. What about it?" he asked after a brief paused.

"I wanted to ask you what you meant by that? I didn't have the chance then, so…" she wasn't sure how to continue.

"Nothing really" Ralph replied with a shrug. "I was just curious since you did practice Karate when you were little although you stopped five years ago; but I wanted to see if you could still move even with amnesia."

"Oh, I see." Yori said understanding.

"Why you asked?" Ralph asked almost immediately suspiciously.

"As I said, just curiosity." Yori replied as she felt that he hadn't bought it.

"Did anything happen?" he asked again this time shortening the distance between them.

Yori backed away against the window glass and looked outside. He was standing close, too close. His face was right there in front of her. She felt caged.

"No, of course not." She said almost with a scoff. 'Nothing yet.' She added in her mind. "I mean, what could happen?" She asked rhetorically.

"You're right," Ralph said as he walked away from her. "As long as Mrs. Higgins is around taking care of you, there's nothing to worry about."

'As long as she's around? What does that mean?' she felt she was not going to like the answer and that her worries were going to be for real. "Even if she weren't around I could still protect myself, right?" Yori scoffed again. "I'm a big girl; I can take care of myself."

"I'm sure you can," Ralph said seriously "but with your parents away without her it'd be just you on that huge house; an easy target for thieves and all kinds of delinquents. You should remember whose daughter you are, Yori. You are not an ordinary girl and there are people who would do anything to hurt you because of who you are and what you stand for."

"What kind of people?" she asked as she tried to her cool and did a very good job.

"Mafia, rival companies, I don't know." Ralph shrugged.

"In any case, Mrs. Higgins is not going to be much help against mafia or anyone who'd try to harm me." Yori started. "I mean, even with her around it'd be a middle age woman and a teenage girl."

"Except that 'middle age woman' is an ex-security who is a living legend and many mafia members are afraid of her." Ralph corrected.

"She is?" Yori was shocked. That was the second time that day. "Amazing, I'll ask her to tell me more about it." She said and decided to leave otherwise Ralph could get suspicious. "Well, I'll see you tomorrow. I'm going with Aki somewhere." She said happily.

"Ok, see you tomorrow." Ralph said as he looked at her get her bag and left the room.

He looked out the window and saw a black car. The window of it was slightly open and a man with shades and in a suit was looking at the school. After a few minutes he saw Aki and Yori leave the building and walked towards the park. The car started moving too in the same direction.

"Mrs. Higgins is away. I wonder if… I'll tell her tomorrow." he mumbled to himself and decided to leave too.

The two girls were walking now through the park to go Yusei's place.

"Is that were you were taking me yesterday? To Yusei's?" Yori asked.

"Yeah, that's right." Aki replied. "By the way, weren't you going to work there?"

Yori nodded happily. "Yes, I have to go tomorrow. It's going to be great." She smiled.

"I wonder if you're going to any work. Somehow I think you're going to end up reading all that manga." Aki commented.

"Hey!" Yori said while pretending to be insulted. "I won't do that. I mean, I'm going to meet other people who also like the same things as I do." She explained. "I have to work properly in order to help them find what they're looking for. I have to have some knowledge about manga and anime to better serve the customers. After all, I have to try my best to sell the manga and the anime dvds and stuff. It really is going to be work, Aki."

Aki sweat dropped. 'This girl really gets fired up when it's about anime and manga related.' Aki thought.

"We're here!" Aki announce minutes later when they arrived at the building.

Aki entered first and Yori followed soon after. She was looking around at the structure.

'This place is even bigger than I thought.' Yori observed. She saw the D-Wheels neatly aligned next to each other covered by a white mantle. She could still see the wheels and shape, that's how she knew. She saw many computer and other machine parts around the place. "It looks like the basement…" she thought out loud, referring to the basement in Yori's house. Big and full of machine parts, Yori had written an entry in her journal that her big brother used the basement as a workshop and built a D-Wheeler too. It was still there too since he never took it with him.

"Like the basement?" Yusei asked as he cleaned his hands with a rag.

Yori looked at him a little startled not realizing she had said it out-loud. "Oh, um, yeah. It looks like my basement at home." She replied. "M-my brother also is good when it comes to fixing stuff?" she said unsurely. She was hoping she hadn't said anything wrong or out of place.

Yusei smiled. Before he could say anything Aki asked. "Oh, you had a brother? I didn't know."

Yori nodded. "Yeah, he's currently studying abroad so I haven't met him yet." She offered. "Personally," she added almost immediately.

"What do you mean?" Yusei asked curiously.

"I talk to him pretty frequently through the net. We chat almost everyday." She replied. "That's also how I know that the motherboard needs to be change. I told him what happened and he said that if I did that it would be fixed. Probably. I hope." She added as she realized that one thing is having someone know about computers and look at it and another is to tell the 'symptoms' someone who knows.

It was probably the same as being sick and sending someone to the doctor to tell him what the symptoms are and getting the medicine without being completely sure what the disease is in the first place.

"As I said to you earlier," Yusei started. "I invited you here to see if you have any of the motherboard I have here. If you can remember which one is the one in your computer, I mean."

Aki and Yori both walked down the stairs as Yusei was talking. "I do remember what it looks like." Yori said thoughtfully.

Yusei showed the girls five different types of motherboards. Yori looked at each one of them very carefully. She shook her head after a little while.

"No, none of these are like the one I have at home." Yori said somehow disappointed. "I really gonna have to buy it. I'm so lazy I don't want to." She whined.

Yusei and Aki laughed at Yori. Well, Yusei chuckled.

"If the guys at school could hear you," Aki started.

"Don't say that," Yori said pretending to panic. "Do you want to destroy my perfect image?" she added dramatically which made the other two laughed even more.

'Yusei looks so cute laughing like that. I wish they'd show this face on the anime. He looks so adorable.' Yori thought as she tried her best to keep the fangirl inside her calm. She felt like squealing and then hugging him as he were a plushie.

"Aw, man, I'm tired!" A male voice said as the door opened again.

Everyone looked up to see Crow coming back from work, apparently.

"Welcome back," Yusei said as a greeting.

"Hi Crow," Aki greeted.

Yori was unsure of what to say. It would be the first time meeting Crow but she already knew him, it was still weird meeting people like this: knowing them without being introduced.

"Hello," Yori opted to say.

"Hi Aki," Crow greeted as he looked at her. "Hi there," he greeted as he looked at Yori. "Who might you be?"

"My name is Yori. Nice to meet you, Crow." Yori smiled.

"Same here, Yori." Crow replied. "So, what brings you here?"

'My feet,' was the first thing that popped in her head but she said "I need Yusei's help with my computer."

"I see," Crow replied.

"Anyway, I think I'll go this weekend to buy the motherboard and when I have it I'll let you know, is that okay, Yusei?" Yori asked.

"Sure." Yusei nodded.

"You're going to wait a week to go buy it?" Aki asked.

Yori looked at her. "No, I'm going this Saturday."

"You mean tomorrow?"

"Huh?" Yori asked confused. "Today's Friday?"

Aki nodded.

"Oh," she made a long pause. "No" she finished after a whole minute unable to find a better word that wasn't a curse word. She looked at her watch and it was four fifty. "Aki, how do I get to that shop?"

"You mean the one you're gonna start working?" Aki asked.

Yori nodded. "I have to be there in less than ten minutes! I was supposed to be there at five." She panicked.

"I thought you said you had to go tomorrow." Aki replied as she was also getting anxious like her friend.

"I thought it was Thursday!"

"Oh, jeez," Crow mumbled as he watched the two girls panic. "Yusei why don't you give Yori a ride?" he suggested.

Yusei blinked. "Mine D-Wheel is one passenger only." He replied.

"Mine has enough for two," Crow replied and threw the keys at him. "I'm going to rest a bit. Later!" He went after with that said.

"Yori?" Yusei said.

She followed Yusei outside along with Aki. From the corner of his eye he saw those men from the morning again, this time inside a car. He pretended to not have noticed. Yori also saw those men and became slightly pale.

"Yori, are you alright?" Aki asked worried when she noticed the color of Yori's face drained.

Yori looked at her and smiled nervously. "Yes, I'm just a littler nervous since it's my first time to get on a bike." She lied.

"I won't go too fast. Don't worry." Yusei reassured her as he handed her a helmet.

"Thanks," she said as she tried to smile but couldn't help but look at those men from the corner of her eye.

She sat behind Yusei and put her hands on his shoulders. She didn't dare what she really wanted: put her hands around his waist and cling onto him as tight as she could.

"I guess I'll see you guy, I think I'll go home now." Aki said.

"Ok, thanks Aki. Bye." Yori said as Aki started leaving.

"You need to hold tighter otherwise it's going to be dangerous," Yusei said as he put her hands around his waist. His touch made her blush. She was glad she was wearing a helmet and since he was in the front he couldn't see her face. "Better. Now, just hold on tight." He said before speeding off.

Five minutes later, she was in front of the store. It was close to the place where Yusei and the others lived but since she didn't know her way very well. She might not have been able to make it on time.

She got off and took the helmet off and handed it to Yusei. "Thank you, Yusei. You're a real life saver."

"I didn't do much." He replied. He heard the engine of a car as it park close by, somehow he had the feeling it was the same car with the same men from earlier. "At what time you get off?"

Yori thought for a second. "Around eight o'clock," she replied. "Why?"

"I'll pick you up." Yusei said.

Yori blinked. "What?" she asked but not loud enough for him to hear her.

"I'll see you later," Yusei said before leaving. Yori stood there as he watched Yusei go. 'Did he just say that he was going to pick me up?'

"Hello Miss Yori," said the owner of the store with whom she had spoken before.

Yori gasped, startled. "Mr. Owner."

"Sorry, did I startle you?"

"It's okay. I was spacing out." She replied.

"What bring you here today, miss?" the man who was in his early thirty asked.

Yori blinked. "Um, well, you said to come on Friday for the training, Mr. Owner." She explained.

"Eh? Today's Friday?" the man said confused. "I thought it was Thursday!"

She sweat-dropped. At least, she wasn't the only one.

"In that case, let's go inside and I'll explain you what you will be doing." He said. "Another thing, just call me Jeff."

"Ok, boss." She replied.

"Jeff." He corrected her as they both entered the stored.

Her work was exactly like she expected. She was to work on the register which she knew how to handle very well since that was her job back in her own world. She knew how to treat the customers well too. However, she didn't know she would have to help organize where everything went. The movies and manga had to be in alphabetical order and she would have to restock them every once in a while so the customers won't have to be asking if they had certain movie or manga in stock.

Even so because it was a small store her job was pretty simple and the store was not as busy as the one she worked back home which was always busy. It made her feel more at ease and it was fun to talk with her co-workers who were other two girls a little older than herself who also were anime fans. She had fun and just like it happens whenever we are having fun time flew by and her first day was over.

"Good night, guys. See you tomorrow!" Yori said as she left the store wearing her school uniform again. During her shift she had been wearing a light blue shirt and a black apron. She was to wear black pants but since she didn't have them she was allowed to keep her school skirt as long as the customer didn't see it; which was hard to do when she was behind the counter.

She looked at her watch and noticed it was seven thirty. She had told Yusei she was coming out at eight and she didn't know how to contact him nor was she sure how to go to his place to let him know.

'I guess I'll read the manga I bought yesterday and wait.' She thought as she sat on a bench in front of the bus stop which was next to the shop. She became immerse in her own world; she was so into it she didn't hear or see anything besides what was written in her book. 'What is this?' she thought as she was half done with her book. 'No way! I didn't know this had smut!' even her ears were red. 'This is so good though, I can't stop now' she didn't want to read any longer but she just couldn't stop.

"…ri. Yori?" again a male voice called her and finally snapped her out of her world to reality.

"Yusei!" she gasped surprised looking up to him.

"Why is your face so red?" he asked curiously.

She shut her manga and put it on her back so he wouldn't see it. "Um, err, it's um, nothing!" She said nervously. "Don't worry about it, it's nothing."

Yusei couldn't help but crack a smile. She looked cute being all nervous like that. 'Did I just think cute?' he asked himself.

"Yusei?" Yori asked as she had put away her manga back into her bag and was looking at him with curious eyes as he seemed to be deep in thought.

She was standing close to him almost about to touch him, he blushed. Not at her closeness but because of what he had previously thought for a moment.

"Let's go," Yusei said as he started walking. Again, Yusei noticed those men from earlier. It seemed to him Yori hadn't notice them.

"Okay," she replied cheerfully as she followed him. She told him where she lived and both headed in that direction. She didn't know what to talk about with him, she felt shy being alone with him. Yusei seemed to be thinking of something and remained quiet.

"Thank you, Yusei!" Yori said when they arrived.

"The lights are all out, isn't anyone there?" Yusei pointed out.

Yori shook her head. "No, my parents are out of the country and my nanny had an emergency so she's also out of the city."

"Are you ok staying by yourself in such a big house?" he asked concerned which surprised Yori.

She smiled tenderly at him. "It is my home. Isn't one's home supposed to be the safest place or at least suppose to feel like the safest place?"

"I guess you're right." Replied Yusei after a prolonged pause.

"Um, then I'll see you tomorrow. I'm going to buy the motherboard then go by your place to give you the motherboard since I have to work. You can just come here since the maids will be here till I come back tomorrow. I'll let them know you're coming so they let you in." she said. "Is that alright?" she added, she felt the need to ask him if he was okay with it.

"That's fine." He replied. "At what time you work tomorrow?"

"Four to eight." She replied.

Yusei nodded. "I'll walk you tomorrow too then," he said as he started leaving.

"Eh?" Yori was again surprised. "Yusei!" she called after him. He turned around. She looked at the ground, shyly. "Why are you…doing this?" she asked meekly.

It caught him off guard. He didn't answer. He was still thinking when she started again.

"Yusei, you really don't have to walk me or help me. I know you're doing it because of Aki but you don't have to force yourself." She said as she tried to not sound bitter or sad. She knew though, she knew very well that to Yusei she was only a friend of a friend. Or maybe the friend of the girl he liked, though she really didn't want to think that.

"I'm not forcing myself." He replied. "I'm doing it 'cause I consider you a friend too."

Yori could feel her tears forming in her eyes. She blinked them away. She was so happy to hear those words but somehow they were a little painful too. She was important to him, she was friend. Friend was someone who was very dear to Yusei, all of his friends were and now she was one of them too. Wasn't that her wish? Hadn't she wished to be someone important to him?

She couldn't contain her feelings and ran towards him and hugged him tightly. "Thank you." She said as her voiced started breaking. "Thank you so much Yusei. You have no idea what those words mean to me." She looked up to him and smiled as a tear rolled down her cheek.

Yusei was surprised at her sudden actions. He put his hands on her shoulders and looked down at her. Her eyes were glistening with tears.

"W-why are you crying?" Yusei asked unsurely.

It was then she noticed she was still hugging him and immediately let go of him. "Don't worry about it. It's nothing." She smiled at him. "See you tomorrow." She said hurriedly as she went inside her house.

Tears started overflowing as she ran to her room, locked herself in and reclined against the door as she started crying. She covered her mouth and nose with both of her hands and slid against the door and fell on the floor.

'This is it,' she thought as tears wouldn't stop. 'This is the closest thing I can be to Yusei.' She thought sadly. 'I'm such an idiot!' she thought angrily. 'I fell in love with an anime character and wished to be here but I knew my feeling for the anime Yusei were not real. What should I do now?' she was confused. 'This time he is as real as I am and these feelings are real now. I really am in love with him now. He is even a better guy than I already knew he was. Being considered his friend makes me so happy but I still wish to be more important than that. Why am I so greedy? What should I do?' Her tears stopped after a long time and exhausted she felt asleep as soon as she lay on her bed.

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Inside the black car which was park in front of Yori's house. One of the men talked through a radio. "The target is inside. She was accompanied by a young man, sir."

"Find out who he is and continue observing her. Remember, don't let her see you." A male voice said through the radio.

"Affirmative, sir. Over and out."

Well, what did you think? I hope Yusei or any of the characters were OOCs. I hope you guys liked this chapter even though it was sorta a rush job since I started on Friday night, wrote a little yesterday (which was my day off from work) and just finished now (which I started around 9 and it's currently 11. Wow, I wrote half chapter in only 2 hours? That's a new record for me.)

Anyway, I think I"m gonna hold a poll on my profile to see what your guesses are on who is behind the mysterious men who are following Yori. Please don't forget to review, 'kay? Till next time! (next chapter will be release in October, due to I'm writing another Yugioh 5D's fic and the NYAF is next week. Sorry!)