It was one of those days; Mitsu couldn't really focus on anything. Whenever she tried to distract herself in some way, she always found herself ending up thinking about him. She hadn't had a good duel in a couple of days now and had only been able to summon her trump card once.

Her deck was quiet again, it didn't matter what she tried, it was impossible for her to hear them.

Right now she was doing chores for her mom, the laundry didn't pull itself down her mother had said. Mitsu sighed and let her thoughts drift back to the male magician; she couldn't stop herself from thinking about him anyway.

It had been one of her first duels with him, when she noticed how his hair shone; the sun had been setting giving it an orange glow, she hadn't thought much of it back then but now she couldn't help but wonder what it felt like to run her hand through it. It always looked so beautiful and maintained even if it was a wild mess.

She had looked him in the eyes so many times by now that she had stopped counting; every time her heart had raced in her chest making her worry if it was going to stop. The first time she had seen his eyes a part of her had been so afraid. They were crimson red, the eyes of a demon.

His eyes could still make her freeze on the spot, but in another way. She wasn't afraid of him anymore, there were a certain cool control underlining the red, it was reassuring and held a promise of protection.

The laundry was down in a flash and she soon found herself walking to the grocery store. As always her deck was secured in a pocket on her belt. There weren't that far to the store, but she had made it a habit to bring her deck wherever she was going somewhere.

It made her feel secure to have it with her for some reason, like a warm ball of confidence settled in her stomach when she carried it.

It wasn't much she needed to buy and she was soon on her way back with the wares, when she passed the local card store; it had been a long time since she had been there. It was a nice elderly man who owned the place and with how popular duel monsters was it was no surprise that it was going so well for him.

In the beginning she had gone there all the time, now she mostly waited for her uncle to come back from business trips, he always had a bunch of cards with him and he just gave them to her. Buying cards like this weren't a very good way of getting a strong deck, you never knew what you were getting your hands on, but there had been those times were she had gotten something really good.

Feeling lucky she decided to enter.

"Mitsu! Long time no see girl, how are you" Mister Shou greeted the moment she stepped a foot inside the shop. Mitsu smiled warmly and nodded to him.

"Quite good Shou, school have been keeping me for a while but I'm finally starting to see the light" she joked. There were three boys in the shop, looking over the new shipment of cards. "Got anything new?" she asked standing behind the boys, and looking over the packs.

"Always, I just had a new shipment come in an hour ago" He said loudly picking up a spellcaster booster pack. "It was spellcasters you collected, right?" Mitsu nodded and picked up another pack.

"The pack you got there and this one, I'm feeling lucky today" pulling out the rest of her money out, she paid for the packs. The first pack wasn't anything to get worked up for, but there were some good cards anyway, Magical Marionette and the spellcard Dark magic attack was the only once she really could use.

The second pack though, that was really something; it contained Dark red enchanter, Dark sorcerer and Dark Eradicator Warlock.

"Wow, when did you start getting good cards!" Mitsu said in awe, not believing her luck. The old man huffed in annoyance.

"It's not my fault your luck is horrible".

"My luck is not horrible; it's just scarce that's all" she muttered putting the new cards in her pocket. "See you around mister Shou!" As she left she noticed the boys looking at her, trying to be discreet, but there were something unsettling about the glint in their eyes.

Brushing it off as nothing she left.

The sun had set almost an hour ago; Mitsu was finally done with her homework and was looking over the new cards. They were really good and the fact that they had only been in one pack was amazing, she had never gotten a pack like that.

Grinning like the Cheshire cat she started putting them in her deck, figuring new tactics and tricky ways to use them. She was very excited for the Warlock, her luck was really bad and she rarely got any rare cards when shopping packs.

It wasn't long before she had completed her deck and she grinned overjoyed as she flipped through it. Her grin vanished though and a dark blush crept onto her cheeks as she stopped at the Magician of black chaos' card. She quickly put her deck down, ready to smack herself. "What is wrong with me" she muttered under her breath. Annoyed at her own behavior. Turning off the lights she made her way to her bed.

It was night. It was impossible for the young girl to find rest. After almost two hour of twisting and turning in a desperate attempt to fall asleep Mitsu finally gave up. Her parents were defiantly asleep since the house was quiet.

Mitsu sneaked over to her desk and turned on the lamp, there were no reason to fumble around in the dark anyway. She was so nervous, getting into the duel academy meant that her grades had to be good, meaning that she had set her homework as her top priority, Her parents weren't very supportive but after a long talk with her uncle had they agreed to let her go. She hadn't had the time to duel in almost two weeks now. Her entire body was aching; she was itching for a fight. It was not just dueling, it was a way for her to get all the frustration and anger out, and the gods should know that she needed it now…

As she picked up her deck she was met with utterly silence, a calm and sincere aura feel over her and she immediately felt more relaxed than she had in days. Sighing in content she flipped through the sleeping deck.

Her hands fell upon her trump card, her beloved Magician of black chaos. She laid the rest of her deck down and caressed the chosen card softly.

In the dim light of her lamp he seemed to glow ever so softly. It was funny how he would shine in the sun and glow in the dark like this, he was so amazing. Right now she didn't care what he thought of her, she needed to be in touch with him somehow. She hadn't seen him for real in some time so she just felt that she could be selfish, just a little.