A/N: And chapter 12 is here! Hello my fellow readers, I hope you're all enjoying this so far. Did you all have a good Halloween? Not much to report on at the moment but I will tell you all this in advanced, but I will not be writing out 'duels' specifically, because I don't know the game that well and of course this is a romance/comedy fic so it would be going outside my genre a little bit. Yet, the duels will be implied because this is Yu-Gi-Oh after all. So, yeah… This chapter is a bit short than my previous ones, I hope that's not a problem…Thank you all so much again for the reviews, favourites and follows, it's what keeps me going! So my readers, enjoy the latest chapter and as always, a review is much appreciated.


Chapter 12: Awkward

"Let the duel between Insector Haga and the challenger begin!" The crowd began to cheer as the duel went underway.

Yugi thinks, this isn't good. Haga has no idea who that duellist really is. Haga could become seriously injured, though, Haga is a strong duellist so he might just survive this. But still…

"No way! Hey everyone, the king of games is here!" Someone yelled from within the mass.

Yugi was knocked out of his thoughts, when a group of girls quickly came up in front of him. "Oh my god, it is you! We love you so much!"

Yugi awkwardly smiles. "Umm, thanks I guess…"

Another girl speaks. "Oh my, you're so much better looking in person. Are you dating anyone?"

Yugi felt really uncomfortable. "Well, actually…"

"Hey!" Yugi was interrupted by Haga, who seemed to be agitated with him. "Do you mind Yugi Muto? You're stealing my limelight! This crowd is here to watch me duel! How am I supposed to concentrate with you taking away my audience?"

"Why don't you watch your tone? This is the best duellist in the world. Just what gives you the right to speak to him that way? Show some respect!" One of the girls retaliated.

"He is right in a way," Yugi admits, "We should watch Haga's duel."

"Oh all right," the girls moaned.

Yugi decides to observe the duel, especially the peculiar duel disk the challenger is using. Yugi hopes that he is wrong, and that Haga won't get injured. Knowing the previous duels Yugi has experienced with Haga, he might just win this without being attacked.

As the duel began, Yugi carefully examined the masked duellist. Nothing struck out to him as being strange from the way the duellist played their cards at first. To be perfectly honest, the duellist did attack Haga with monster cards, decreasing Haga's points, but Haga was uninjured as a result. Now Yugi was more confused. Perhaps what his grandpa told him was an act after all, but they wanted their audience to believe it was true. But that doesn't make any sense. Why go through all the trouble of hosting a duelling tournament in Tokyo, only for it to be cancelled via a duellist becoming injured?

"Ow!" Haga suddenly yelped. He falls onto his left knee, whilst his right hand clutched his left shoulder.

Yugi didn't understand what had just happened. He watched them both so closely, and the mask duellist didn't even move. Somehow, Haga had been attacked without anyone knowing. "What's wrong Haga?!" Yugi ran closer to him.

"N-nothing! I'm fine!" Haga lies, as he tries to hide is wounded shoulder, which now had blood coming out from it.

"You're not fine Haga! You're bleeding."

Haga returns to his feet. "Like I said, this is nothing."

"Haga, you should stop this duel. This masked duellist is dangerous. If you continue…"

"I don't care what you have to say! I'm continuing this duel," he ignores Yugi's warning. The crowd start cheering, encouraging Haga to keep going.

This is crazy! Haga is bleeding and he still wants to continue? This doesn't look good for the fellow duellist.

"Seems you like to fight dirty! I don't know how you did it, but regardless, I will beat you!" Haga declares to the challenger.

"But Haga…!" Yugi urges.

"Stand back, Yugi! I'll make this quick!"

The audience gasped in horror, as Haga was miserably defeated. He had gained more injuries throughout the duel, but despite that, Haga didn't let it bother him. Also, the masked duellist still didn't do anything that would have caused Haga's wounds.

After Haga's defeat, the masked duellist walked up to him. "Yeah? What do you want?" Haga asks harshly.

The masked duellist didn't reply, instead, he forcefully removed Haga's duel disk from his arm. Next, he removed all the deck of cards. He lets go of the duel disk, so that it slams onto the ground. Haga becomes infuriated. "Just what do you think you're doing!? That's my deck!"

Ignoring the protests from the boy, the duellist takes a few steps back, lights a lighter, and ignites the deck. Haga, Yugi and the crowd watch as the deck falls to the floor. The flames become bigger. The masked duellist turns around and quickly leaves the scene.

Haga reaches his arm out. "No! My deck! Ow!" Haga winces, and quickly clutches his left side.

Yugi runs to his side. "Haga!" Yugi looks at the bewildered crowd. "Someone call an ambulance!"


The following day…Monday. Yugi, Katsuya and Honda were currently waiting for Bakura to arrive. The boys decided to meet at school early, before classes started. Yugi had yet to tell the others about what had happened yesterday. "Seriously, what is taking Bakura so long? He's usually the one who's here before us," Honda moans as he stretches his arms.

"Quit complaining piggy. The school's gates aren't even open yet, so it's not a problem if he's a little late," Katsuya explains causing Honda to become irritated.

"You know Jonouchi? You always try to find a way to annoy me, maybe you should get a new hobby already."

"I don't think I will."

"Sorry for making you wait guys!" Bakura called out to the others as he was running towards them. He stops in front of them, and places his hands on his knees, whilst panting heavily.

"Geez Bakura, you look like you've just run a race," Honda notes.

Bakura caught his breath before speaking again. "I was printing off the information that I found," he then hands each of them a copy. "I couldn't find anything else to do with the Tokyo duelling tournament or the untiled duellist, but I did find this." He refers them to the paper he gave out to them.

"What is it? It looks like a website," Yugi comments.

"Indeed it is. This wasn't easy to find. What I've given to you, is the home webpage of the 'dark corporation," Bakura explains.

The others examine the sheet of paper. The website's background was completely coated in black. However, in the middle of the page was a white coloured web link which read, 'dirty duelling.'

"What exactly is this website, Bakura?" Katsuya asks.

"Well, as I said before, this is the 'dark corporation' website. This is no ordinary website though, as you cannot find it if you search through a search engine. I found out about it through a series of blogs."

"So how did you get to the website?" Yugi questions.

"I managed to find an anonymous writer, through a long chain of web links, which said you need to perform a sequence of steps online in order to access the website. I followed the steps accordingly. Once I'd completed the process, my desktop screen went blank at first, but after about 30 seconds, the website appeared. However, that was all I could access. I tried the 'dirty duelling' link, but, a password screen showed up. So it seems only members of this 'dark corporation' can access the rest of the website."

"It seems they don't want the public to find out what they're up to," Yugi points out. "But, this is a clue at least. If we could figure out this password, we may be able to find out just what this 'dirty duelling' is all about."

"How are we going to figure out the password though? It could be a sequence of random numbers for all we know," Honda explains.

"That's true. But, I know something else," Yugi clarifies.

"What is it Yugi?" Katsyua asks him.

"Well, yesterday…" he begins, "I saw Insector Haga duel a masked duellist."

The other boys were shocked. "No way. What happened?" Katsuya allows him to continue.

"It was strange, because the masked duellist didn't so much as do anything when Haga suddenly became injured in the duel. Also, Haga's cards were burnt and the masked duellist quickly left. Another thing, was that Haga's wounds weren't just flame wounds. He had wounds such as cuts and bitten marks." Yugi paused. "I tried to warn him, but he wouldn't listen."

The school gates opened and other students began to arrive, including Anzu who had spotted them. She waves at them to get their attention. They all notice her and drop the current conversation. The boys quickly hide their sheets of paper. "Morning everyone," she greets them cheeringly.

"Morning Anzu. You're in a good mood today," Bakura greets her back.

"I suppose it's because I had a good sleep," she assumes. "How is everyone?"

"Not bad. But I hate Mondays…" Katsuya yawns.

"Come on, we might as well head inside," Honda says and the gang start walking towards the entrance.

As they were walking, Anzu quickly and slyly grabs Yugi's hand, giving him a piece of scrunched up paper. He looks at her and she responds by winking at him. Once they were at their shoe lockers, Yugi unravels the paper. "Hiya Yugi. I was wondering if you wanted to come back to mine today for dinner? I could teach you how to make chicken katsu, since you said you wanted to learn how to cook." Once he'd finished reading the note, he turns to look at Anzu, who was already looking at him. He smiles at her and nods his head. She smiles back.


"I'm home!" Anzu calls out as she and Yugi step into her house. "Mother? Are you home?" Anzu removes her shoes and goes to the kitchen, finding that it is empty. She sees that a note has been stuck to the fridge. "Hi darling, going to be late today. I'll buy myself some dinner, so you just make enough chicken katsu for the two of you, okay? Love you darling."

"Hey, Anzu?" Yugi says to her.

Why did you have to be late today mother? N-now I'm alone with Yugi…in my house…why!?

"Anzu?"

"Hmmm?" Anzu finally responds, turning around to face him. "Sorry, did you say something?"

"Are we…alone?"

Anzu began blushing. "I-it seems so," she says awkwardly.

"You trust me don't you?"

That surprised Anzu a little. "Of course I do. I know you wouldn't do anything weird."

"Just making sure. I don't want you to feel uncomfortable."

Anzu smiles and goes closer to him. "I couldn't feel uncomfortable around you Yugi." She then hugs him and he immediately hugs her back. After a while, she breaks the hug. "Shall we go to my room?"

"O-okay," he responds timidly. She holds his hand and leads him up to her room. This will be the first time that I've been in her room. I'm so nervous.

"Here we are," she announces as she opens the door. Yugi was amazed to see how girlie her room actually was. She's quite tough on the outside usually, but she is still a girl on the inside. Her room was very tidy and it smelt a lot like her. He follows her inside. "Please do sit down," she offers as she closes her bedroom door.

Feeling unsure he asks. "Where should I sit?"

"The beds fine," she says, almost too casually. Yugi awkwardly sits on her bed and she goes and joins him. "You okay?" She asks him, noting his stiffness.

"Y-yeah, just the fact that this is the first time I've been in your room…"

"Oh, yeah it is." She begins playing with her hair. She looks at him and leans close, so that her breath was near his neck. "I…really like your scent."

Yugi shudders. "Anzu!" He then swiftly looks at her and pushes her back down onto her bed. He quickly climbs on top of her.

Anzu was shocked by Yugi's reaction. "Yugi?"

He looks at her half seriously and half awkwardly. "F-forgive me." He then begins leaning closer to her.

Anzu's eyes widen and her cheeks begin to heat up. He's going to kiss me! Anzu watches him closely, but then slowly begins to dip her eyelids. He's breath and body are so close to mine…

Beep! Beep! Anzu and Yugi suddenly freeze as Yugi's phone suddenly went off. He blushes madly and quickly removes himself from Anzu, who was also blushing madly. He answers his phone. "H-hello?"

"Hey, Yugi," it was Katsuya. "Bakura was meant to tell you this at school, but you'd already left, but on the back of the piece of paper is a sentence of instructions on how to access the 'dark corporation' website. I was going to check it out now, see if I could figure out the password."

"Oh okay, thanks for letting me know."

"You okay, Yugi? You sound troubled."

"Nope, I'm fine, I'll speak to you tomorrow."

"Okay, see you Yugi." Yugi then hangs up the phone. He eventually turns to look at Anzu, who was keeping quiet. "Sorry about that."

"T-that's all right. It's no problem," she reassures him. "How about we start on the dinner? It takes at least 40 minutes."

"Okay, yeah…" Yugi turns away from her. Where did that come from? It was like my body all of a sudden reacted. But, she didn't stop me, so I think she was okay with it.

"Ready?"

"Yeah," they both then leave her bedroom.