The cold night breeze caressed her slowly, making the hair on her arms stand on edge.
She sat at her desk looking at Magician's Valkyria, it was one of the only female cards in her deck and she treasured it deeply.
Taking out a small cloth from the drawer she started wiping the card clean, she had had a duel earlier and the jerk had pushed her after losing, making her accidently drop her deck on the ground.
Her deck mostly consisted of magicians, spellcards and trapcards, and even though Magician of black Chaos was her favorite card, Magician's Valkyria was close behind. She had lost count on how many times she had summoned the female magician and then she had drawn the attacker towards herself, Valkyria was a truly brave woman and her master wasn't sure if she knew how much she respected her.
In some way she felt bad for mostly bringing this monster on the field for her special ability, but then again she was also slightly ashamed for having a crush on her trump card.
As her thoughts drifted to the onyx colored magician a slight blush spread on her cheeks, she looked down at the card in her hand and in her mind she could almost her Valkyria giggle at her.
"Oh shut up" she said laying the card face-down on the table, sighing loudly she too laid her head on the deck, fade-down. "I'm going out of my mind, yep, that ought to be it" blowing the hair out of her face she looked back to her deck and grabbed the cloth.
"What a sore loser, you would think that people had just a little bit of modesty, but then they just go and prove you wrong" she muttered annoyed picking up the next card in the pile and started wiping the mud and dirt off. It had been half an hour now and she was already done with over half of her deck.
She looked over at the clean pile and smile warmly as she picked the next one up.
Her Skilled White Magician was completely covered in mud and she had to be extremely gently in case of destroying the card. She sighed in content as she held the card up to scan for more dirt, when she found none she laid it into the pile of already clean cards and continued with the next.
When she pulled the next card out, she couldn't help the warm smile, it was White Magician Pikeru. "Hello dearie" she said to the card and started wiping the dirt away. A warm feeling settled in her stomach and spread to all over her.
When she was done she brought the card to her face and kissed the top of it before lying it down into the pile. Pikeru was very special to her, it had been a gift from her sister and she couldn't stop the happy feeling every time she looked at the card.
There were one card left and she knew exactly what it was. Taking a deep breath she lifted the card up. She smiled at her Magician of Black Chaos; she felt a slight tingling in her stomach but no more than that. It didn't matter though, it was as if he had acknowledged her presence and for that she was happy.
In the beginning she hadn't felt anything when touching her cards, but as she grew more experienced she felt it.
Most people didn't understand and some even started to avoid her when she started talking about it. After that she stopped talking about it and just kept it to herself. She had only told her sister once, but she didn't think much of it and brushed her off.
Nervously she opened her mouth to the magician. "Thank you for today, you did really good" she said and smiled even wider, she usually talked to a few of her cards but she was a very quiet person. "Kid deserved it, really. I had no idea he would be such a sore loser though" she huffed the last part out, annoyance seeping back into her. She rubbed gently at a spot that just wouldn't seem to come off.
She quickly hid the card under her open math book when she heard a soft knocking on her door.
"Mitsu, how are you coming along with your homework" her mother asked as she entered.
"Just fine, I'm almost done" The young duelist lied. Her mother didn't need to know that she hadn't even started yet.
She was a moderate student in school; she was not really good but not bad either. But she could probably be a real good student if she didn't use so much time on dueling.
Next year she would graduate, she hadn't told her parents of her plans to start at a dueling academy. They weren't very supportive when it came to dueling, they saw as a complete waste of time, which was why she never told them whenever she had been out dueling.
Mitsu had battle most of the kids on the block and a lot from the others, she had only lost a few times, but only when she was in a really tight spot. There weren't many duelists around here and if she wanted real challenges she would have to go to the center of town.
Her mother thought she was just hanging out with her friends, which she actually was. Many of her friends approved of her dueling, but they weren't close enough for Mitsu to start talking crazy-talk about her cards being alive.
Her mother had just come in to ask her if she wanted a snack for her homework, something she had nervously turned down. It made her feel guilty whenever her mother did that and she wasn't doing what she was supposed to do.
Pulling her favorite card back out from under the book her smile vanished. "Talking about making me feel guilty" Mitsu muttered, starting to rub at that spot again.