Happy New Year all! Sorry I'm late with the new chapter but the chapter are gonna start taking me longer to write since I have to do research. Not only that but I'm busier with work now. BTW, thank you all to those who reviewed. I really appreciate it. Well, I think that's all for now so I hope you enjoy this chapter.

EDIT: I was reading it after the first review (Thank you!) and noticed a mistake so I fixed it. Oh, before I forgot but thank you guys!! This is the very first time I've had more than 50 reviews in a fic. I'm really happy!

Chapter 13: Searching for Clues

It was around eight when she heard a knock on the door. She hadn't realized how much time she had spent looking up Yori's uncle, or rather uncles; since she had four, at least legally speaking.

"I thought you were gonna sleep," Crow said as he opened the door and saw her sitting in front of the desk with her laptop on.

"Couldn't sleep," she replied offhandedly. "I found some interesting information though."

"Really? What did you find?" he asked with a hint of curiosity.

"How about we talk about this during dinner?" she suggested. "That's why you came in, right?"

"Oh, right." Crow said remembering why he had come in the first place.

Moments later they were downstairs, in the kitchen. They discussed what she had discovered, about having four uncles, though only two of them were related to her, or rather Yori, by blood. It turned out she was the granddaughter, legally, of Pegasus. That was shocking to everyone since she hadn't told them she was the future heiress of Industrials Illusions. One thing was being rich, another one being the heiress of an industrial empire and Industrials Illusions had made history too. It was not only one of the most important companies in Japan but in the world. Duel Monsters was after all the most popular game, just about everything in the modern world was based on duels. Pegasus didn't have any children but he had adopted five: Depre Scott, Richie Merced, Gekkou Tenma, Yakou Tenma and Aiko Tenma. The last three being real brothers.

"Why did you start looking for your uncles, anyway?" Jack asked before she could finish telling them more about it.

She was speechless for a minute. She hadn't thought about that and she didn't know what to answer. She couldn't think of a single lie and it was not like she could actually tell them the truth. She pictured how she'd say it.

"You see," she would start, "when I was sleeping I had a dream in which I met Yori." She could see their confused faces. "I'm not really Yori." She would say then. "My name is actually Cindy and I'm just using Yori's body while she is still sleeping in coma. She was the one who told me her uncle was trying to kill her."

She was sure they wouldn't believe her. It really wasn't a matter of lying or telling the truth since the truth was outrageous and impossible to believe. She still had trouble believing it herself and she was living another's live!

"I-I, um…err," she played with her long hair nervously. What could she possible say in a situation like this? Her light bulb turned on and she stood up abruptly.

The guys followed her with their gaze. Yusei, unlike the other two, noticed something he couldn't quite put his finger on it. He wasn't sure exactly what it was about her but something felt slightly odd.

She paced around a little, while she organized her thoughts together. "I was thinking," she started. "The idea of someone trying to kill me was the first thing that popped up when I said I was attacked. Of course, that only was confirmed when Ralph said that someone ran me over with a car." She made a small pause. "However, yesterday when those men broke into my house and chased me, they didn't hurt me."

"What about your hand?" Asked Yusei as he as well as Crow and Jack thought she had been injured by her attackers and had lied to Ralph as to not worry him.

She waved her hand, dismissingly, the one that was uninjured. "That was because I was clumsy," she shrugged. "If they had been trying to kill me," she returned to the topic, "they could've done it. I mean, it takes less than five seconds to shoot a gun."

"Makes sense, what's your point though?" asked Jack.

"My point is…" she made another pause just to make her point clearer "they were trying to kidnap me; not kill me." She couldn't believe it herself but what she was saying was making sense; even if she was only actually thinking about it at that moment.

"That still doesn't answer my question," Jack pressed.

"Isn't it obvious?" she asked. It all made sense to her now. "Why would anyone try to kidnap someone? Most of the time?"

"Money," replied Crow.

"Exactly," she grinned. "Kidnapping is usually done to get money easy. However, what type of person would hire some goons if they want money? I mean, why waste money hiring some people to get the money only to pay them back?" she asked rhetorically. "No, whoever is after me has to have money."

"You're right," agreed Yusei. "Those guys," he said referring to the suits he had seen at school and when he took her home, "didn't look to me like some street thugs."

"At first I thought, it could be a rival company or mafia, but they wouldn't go after me. Not if they want to do something against the company and if it's personal they would go straight to my parents. After all, Ralph told me the mafia wouldn't go after me since they're afraid of my nanny."

"So…?" Crow invited her to continue.

"I came to the conclusion is has to be someone in the family; with some kind of grudge against either my parents or me," she said thoughtfully; again with her habit of talking without really paying attention to what she was saying.

"If it's against your parents why would they go after you?" asked Yusei.

"Simple," she said her face without an expression. "When you're taking revenge always attack the weakest link, or where it hurts most." She replied. "That's what I would do, at least" she added with a smirked. "Right now, I'm most vulnerable. I don't know anything about anything. My parents are away, same with my brother and my nanny. I'm defenseless and weak," she faked a sighed. "And easy target…or so they think."

"What you mean?" asked Jack curiously. She didn't look like a defenseless and weak girl who she was professing to be and the smirk on her face only made it more obvious.

"I refuse to play the role of a damsel in distress," she said in a business-like manner. "If they want to hunt, I'm game but the hunter will be me."

"Do you have a plan?" asked Yusei slightly surprised by her attitude, same as Crow and Jack.

"Yes, but I want to first see what would my hunter's next move will be. I need to watch my opponent's movement before I make my counterattack." She said her head brainstorm with ideas.

"You look like you're having fun," Crow couldn't help but point out.

She smirked.

"You're really not what I expected," admitted Crow. Jack nodded in agreement and Yusei let out a small grin.

"Hmm?" she looked at them curiously. "Well, what did you expect?

"I don't know," Crow shrugged "a pampered princess who would be crying her eyes off and too scared to even look out the window."

She scoffed. "Me? A princess? Ha!" she started laughing. "You only say that 'cause you don't know me yet," she said once she stopped laughing. "They don't scare me. I only ran away 'cause ten people against one is a little too unfair." She explained and shook her head. "Even at my best, five is the most I can fight at the same time but that's unarmed." She thought out loud. "Maybe I should start training." She murmured to herself.

"Training?" asked Yusei.

"Well, I have to defend myself, right?" she asked rhetorically.

"Isn't that the reason why you came here?" asked Jack slightly confused though he seemed to hid it well.

She shook her head. "I didn't come here to have you as my bodyguards."

"Eh?" exclaimed Crow. Jack and Yusei looked surprised.

Yori rolled her eyes and sighed. "Oh boy," she muttered. "I don't need you to defend me. I don't need you to be guardians." Her tone was strong and firm. "I need you to be my friends and just be close to me. I only need you to encourage me." She added softly and more like she was asking for favor. "I'll take care of the rest."

"You're not gonna let us help you?" Asked Yusei surprised.

"Help? Yes" she nodded. "Take care of this matter for me?" she smirked playfully "over my dead body."

"Interesting choice of words," Crow commented. She grinned.

"You are stronger than you look," said Jack with an approval nod.

She shrugged. "I don't want to rely on you. If I do, I'll become too dependable. I've always somehow managed things alone."

She felt her head suddenly heavy and when she looked up she noticed Yusei standing in front of her, his hand on top of her head. "You're not alone. You can rely on us" he petted her.

She looked down again, feeling shy. Her cheeks bright pink, she was glad she long hair covered her face as she couldn't suppress a smile from escaping her lips.

"So, in short, even if you say it's someone from your family, what makes you think it's one of your uncles?" asked Jack.

She started pacing again, a little reluctantly since she wanted to keep being petted by Yusei. "Quite simple, my dear Jack," she said with an English accent as she tried mimicking Sherlock Holmes and she put an invisible pipe in her mouth. "They are my only family, aside from my parents and older brother."

"You have an idea who it is?" Asked Yusei.

She turned towards him, since he was standing behind her. "No idea," she replied with her normal tone while shaking her head.

"Well, what kind of relationship do you have with them? What about the relationship between your parents and them?" Asked Jack thinking that would give them a clue.

"I have amnesia," she replied, "how would I-?" she gasped.

"What is it?" Asked Yusei a little concerned.

"The journals!" she exclaimed. "I forgot! I can be so stupid sometimes" she hit herself mentally "I haven't finished reading them yet. I have to check them; there might be a clue there."

"Journals?" The three boys asked not knowing what she was talking about.

"Yori wrote in her journals pretty much every single day since she was six. The recent entries, or at least since a year ago are the most detailed which is why I still haven't finished them. I mean, reading about twelve years worth of entries in about a month, it's impossible." She complained. "I only have read a few entries here and there, not in any specific order but maybe I should start reading from the last year." She thought out loud. "Why did Yori write an entry every single day and with so many details about her day? I don't want to read it all."

"Why are you speaking of yourself as third person?" Asked Crow bringing 'Yori' back from her trail of thought.

"Eh?" she gulped nervously. "Um, well, err-" she was trying hard to look for an excuse but nothing was coming to her head.

"Aki said that Yori used to be a little different so maybe that's the reason?" suggested Yusei. "You have read your old journals but the person you read about didn't seem quite like you, or am I wrong?" He was observing her carefully.

She blinked stupidly. "Um, yeah," she said. "I couldn't have said it better myself." She said still surprised. 'I really couldn't have said that better myself.'

"Different?" asked Crow, curiously. "How?"

Yusei shrugged. "Aki didn't say."

"Don't look at me," she said almost immediately placing her hands in front of her as if she were pushing something. "I don't know either."

"Isn't that you though?" asked Crow almost with a sigh.

"I'm not her!" she protested. 'Crud. What am I saying?' she panicked but she was able to keep a poker face. "Let's put it this way," she started passing again, given them her back. "I'm not Sayori but Yori." She said. 'That's true.'

"Hmm." Jack grunted in understanding as did Yusei.

"I kinda get it and kinda don't." Crow confessed.

Yori laughed. "Y'know, you're suppose to either get it or don't but I do understand what you mean. Let's see if I can explain it better." She thought for a moment. "I don't know the girl before I woke up from a comma. I'm another person. I see things different than she does. We're similar in many ways but completely different at the same time." 'Gee, Cyn, why not go ahead just tell them you're in someone else's body too?' she scolded herself.

"I see," Crow nodded in understanding.

"Good that means I'm free to go to read those journals now." Yori said as she was about to return to the room.

"You have them with you?" Jack asked a little skeptical and surprised she was prepared.

"Well, duh." She replied as she turned to face him. "I don't know anything about anything. Those journals have been my guide in order to lead a normal life without anyone realizing I don't have any memories. Those journals are extremely important." With that she left without waiting any response from any of the guys.

"Jeez," Crow broke the silence after a minute or so. "Appearances sure are deceiving."

"What you mean?" asked Yusei.

"When I first met her she seemed shy and the type who needs to be look after but I don't think she needs to be protected." He explained.

Jack nodded in agreement and Yusei smiled as he looked up where he knew she was. He thought the same. She didn't need to be protected; she was strong, stronger that she thought.

It was late at night when most people were sleeping peacefully in their beds waiting the new morning to come so they could do their usual routine of daily life.

"What do you mean, you can't find her?" asked an irritated male voice over the radio. A man wearing a suit was talking to his boss and felt nervous telling his boss the mission had failed.

"We have looked everywhere, sir. It's like she had disappeared. We stood guard in all the places she regularly visits and in front of her friends' houses but no sign of her." Replied the man as calmly.

A loud thump was heard followed by a brief pause. "Keep looking." The order was given with the same irritation. "You have five days to find or prepare to face the consequences of your failure."

"Y-yes, sir."

Yori lay in bed still reading one of the journals. There were a total of three journals and all of them in different colors: blue, green and red. She was currently reading the green one, which was the second journal Sayori had finished writing. The red one, however, was the one she needed to read to know what had happened in the last year. The green one last entry was from one year and four months ago and she had found nothing of interest in that one. She had looked for the red journal, the one she hoped would tell her what she wanted to know but it was not in the bag. She was sure she had told Misato to put it there but it seems the girl had forgotten. She looked for her keys as she would have to go and get it tomorrow but they were not there either.

It was around eleven when she noticed and she couldn't call Ralph to ask him about her keys. She needed those keys since she had told Misato to tell everyone to leave the house for two weeks. In other words, everyone from the house would not go to the house till the day before her brother's arrival; which meant that there would be no one to open the door for her. If there was no one to let her in then she couldn't get the journal and without the journal she wouldn't be able to figure things out.

She groaned. She looked at her laptop which she had left on Yusei's desk on his room.

'Better have a plan B.' she thought as she got out of bed to bring her laptop and start searching again.

She opened four doc documents and in each wrote the name of one her uncles as title. She googled each one of them. She asked her brother Ren when he came online about them but the information from him was all about Depre Scott, who was one of his professors at the university. Apparently, they all got along pretty well but haven't seen him in a long time because of the distance. Apparently every year he would visit every Christmas and would stay till New Year. So, he was discarded off her list as possible suspect.

The next one she canceled out was Richie Merced, who had died five years ago in a traffic accident. The next two were her blood related family: Gekkou Tenma and Yakou Tenma, the two older brothers of her father. She stared at those names for a long time without doing anything.

'Why do these names sound so familiar?' She thought uneasy. 'It's not like I know because of Sayori so…' she closed her eyes as she thought. 'From where?'

She didn't know how long she just stayed there thinking about it but it was for a really long time. So long, that when she tried to move to get up to get a cup of water from the kitchen she fell from the bed.

She winced in pain and she bit her lower lip as to not let out a scream. Her legs had fallen asleep. The loud thud sound, she hoped the guys hadn't heard. Or worse, that she had woken them up. She listened intently but judging from the silence they had heard nothing. It took a little while but she finally managed to get up and wake her legs up.

Silently, she made her way to the kitchen and served herself a cup of water. The picture of the two brothers, who were identical twins, pursued her. 'What's with me?' She thought grumpily. 'Why can't I remember? Where have I heard it before? Where!?' She finished her water and washed the cup.

She let out a sighed full with frustration. As she was on her way back to the bedroom she noticed the silver light coming from a window. She approached it and looked up at the almost full moon.

'It has almost been one month since I came here.' She thought. 'It seemed to me like it passed so fast but so slow at the same time.' She opened the window and let some of the cool air in. The night was chilly, summer was really over. 'Five more months. I have to start looking and thinking of a way to go back too.'

She looked at the sky, only the moon was visible. It didn't surprise her. Stars were hard to see in the city. She stood there looking while thinking. 'I'm not gonna run away, not this time. This time I-'

The weight of a hand on her shoulder startled her but as if it was a reflex she pulled the hand her shoulder to the front and used her elbow to hit her aggressor on the stomach before throwing him over her shoulder.

"Ugh! Ow!" groaned the aggressor.

Yori gasped when she saw him. "Y-Yusei!" she panicked. "A-are you okay?" she asked worried and ashamed. "Why am I even asking?" she said to herself. "Of course you're not. I'm so, so, so, sorry, Yusei" she finally started helping him up.

"What was that?" he grunted as he rubbed his stomach, which was where it hurt most.

"Sorry," she apologized again. "Reflex."

"You know karate?" he asked surprised.

"Apparently," she replied with an uneasy smile "and a little Judo and kung fu. Anyway, I'm really sorry about that but you startled me."

"Don't worry," he said gently. "No harm done."

She made a face. It was hard to tell what kind it was since she looked a little angry and ashamed.

"You're too nice, Yusei" she sighed. Somehow it felt like she was accusing him. "I'm always doing this to you. I've already lost count of how many times it has been."

"Are you doing it on purpose?" he asked coolly.

"Of course not!" she protested making her voice louder unintentionally. She quickly covered her mouth.

He chuckled. "I know you're not." He put his hand on her head and looked at her tenderly. "Don't worry too much."

She pouted. "You're treating me like a kid." He retired his hand from her head and remained silent. She sighed. 'I guess Yusei does think of me as a kid. He isn't saying anything.'

"I don't think of you as kid," he finally said. "If it bothers you," he said referring to petting her "then I won't do it."

She looked at the floor and felt her face burn. "It doesn't bother me," she said quietly. The atmosphere suddenly felt awkward. "It's just that you wouldn't do that to Aki," she stated and immediately added "right?" as confirmation.

She wasn't wearing her glasses again. Big brow eyes were looking straight at him. "No, I wouldn't." he confirmed. "I don't do that with anyone" he added.

That perked her attention. "Eh?"

He put his hand on her head again and this time scratched it as he was doing it to a cat. She leaned into his touch. He smiled tenderly at her as she closed her eyes leisurely.

"If you keep doing that I'm gonna~" she covered her mouth as she yawned "get sleepy."

"Okay," he stopped. He put her in his arms again just like he had done before when she had a fever.

"Eh!?" she gasped. "What are you doing?" she reminded herself to keep her voice low.

"You said you were sleepy." He replied coolly.

"Put me down, Yusei." She struggled. Her face was flushing and she was pretty much awake.

"If you make too much noise you're gonna wake up Crow and Jack." He replied. She pouted.

"You're unfair," she stopped. "You're acting strange too. This is out of character; I know you wouldn't do this."

"You seem to know a lot about me for someone who I just met recently," He point out. "You also seem to know a lot of things for someone who has amnesia." He looked down at her once they were in front of the room.

Yori gulped. Her heart was beating against her chest rapidly. 'He knows? It can't be!' she panicked but she kept her poker face.

"I don't know your reasons but you can trust me. I won't tell anyone," he said as he put her down. "And I won't force you to talk either." He petted her again. "You should get some sleep now. Good night." He left her stupefied, completely startled and taken aback.

'How did he find out?' she couldn't help but think. 'And what does he know or think he knows?' With new questions and worries she went to bed hoping the new day will bring some light to uncover some of the mysteries.

Now, that was unexpected wasn't it? To be honest, I wasn't planning that at all but as I just continued to write it came out like that. I wonder what she's gonna do now so don't ask me because I don't know yet. This story is pretty much writing itself after all ^__^ Anyhow, sorry if Yusei and the guys were OOC and for any grammar mistakes (I got tired of reading it so many times that I memorized all the pages word by word -__-) See you next chapter!