Author's Comment: All right, here's chapter 2. Hope you guys like this chapter. Oh and I like to thank my beta editor yugisgal for helping me. Enjoy!

Character's Used:
Yuugi Mutou -- Age:18
Anzu Mazaki -- Age:18
Arisu Mazaki -- Age:18
Katsuya Jounochi -- Age:18
Hirito Honda -- Age:18

Chapter 2: Memories and Hallucinations

After the principal welcomed his senior students back to school, he went on to talk about the many senior activities that were to take place, and the rules that applied to them. When he was finished, he allowed his students to go back to class to start the new school year. As they had a little free time before their first lesson, Yuugi and the gang went outside to look at their class schedules.

"So, what classes do you guys have now?" Yuugi asked.

"I got science." Answered Jounochi looking down on his schedule. He noticed that he had no electives this year due to failing 2 classes last year.(1) Looking over at Honda, Jounochi asked, "What classes do you have?"

"Maths." Answered Honda.

"Me, too." Anzu added quickly.

"So, we're in the same maths class?" Honda asked looking over at Anzu's schedule, hoping to have the same class.

Anzu looked at both her and her friend's schedule. "Hai (2), we have the same class."

After hearing the news, Honda gave Anzu a high five because he was glad that he wouldn't be taking maths alone this year. Yuugi looked down at his own schedule with a disappointed look.

"I have physical education."

The group looked over at Yuugi wondering what was so bad about physical education.

"Why so down about that?" Jounochi asked with a clueless look. "You got an easy class!"

"Well, it won't be an easy class for me. You guys know that I'm no good at sports, and we have to wear those shorts. I hate wearing them. Plus, it will be harder to hide from the fans and duelists that are obsessed with dueling me." Yuugi answered, getting worried that he might get mobbed by a group of people that were either obsessed in dating him or dueling him. He let out a sigh, wishing that one of his friends were with him to help him out of this problem.

Anzu looked over at Yuugi with a worried look on her face, not because of what could happen to her friend, but because he was starting to doubt himself when it came to sports. Yuugi was great at games, why not sports too?

She walked over to him and asked, "Yuugi, have you ever played any supo-tsu (3) before?"

"Huh? What?" Asked Yuugi, surprised to hear Anzu's question. He wondered if he had heard her right.

Anzu saw the look of surprise on Yuugi's face, and asked with a smile, "Have you ever played any supo-tsu before?"

Yuugi look at the group for a few moments, wondering if he should tell his friends about the one time he had tried to play sports. Looking up at his friends, who all had curious looks on their faces, he knew that he should tell them, or they would never leave him alone.

He took a deep breath, exhaling loudly, and explained. "Yes, I've played basketball before when I was a kid. I was no good at it because all the kids would block me or steal the ball from me quickly. At one point, I got hit on the head by a basketball. Since that day, I haven't played."

Jounochi and Honda only looked at one another, both confused, because they didn't understand why Yuugi only hated basketball because he hadn't won that one time. Honda looked at Yuugi with a grin on his face and asked, "So, the King of Games is a sore loser when it comes to sports."

"I am not!" Yuugi argued, getting upset over Honda's comment.

"Then why don't you like sports?" Jounouchi asked. "Is it because you don't win or aren't good at it?"

Hearing those words caused Yuugi to blush in embarrassment, because he had left out the fact thatwhen he had played basketball that day, he had played with a group of girls. He looked over at Anzu with pleading eyes, silently asking her to help.

Anzu looked up her two loud mouth friends. "Oh all right, enough you two. We've got to get to class before we're late." She grabbed Honda by the collar of his blue jacket.

Honda gave a small yelp as he was dragged away. "Bai (4) Yuugi-kun, and Jounochi-kun. We'll see you at lunch."

Both Jounochi and Yuugi waved 'good-bye' to their friends, before both boys began to head over to their classes together, Jounochi offering to walk with Yuugi to his class. Neither paid attention to the figure leaning against the wall, reading a newspaper.

The figure gently pulled down the newspaper, peeping over the top. It was Arisu, and she had heard everything the group had just been discussing.

"Yuugi, you still feel ashamed of what happened that day, when I beat you in basketball. Ha! Well, it serves you right for taking my aneue (5) from me." Getting her class schedule from the pocket of her pink jacket, she looked down on the paper. She smiled. "I'll see you in physical education." She headed straight to the locker room to get changed for her class.

Back with Jounochi and Yuugi, both boys were walking down the hall together. Jounochi looked down at Yuugi. He said to himself, 'I still don't get it. Yuugi would never stop playing a sport or game because he couldn't win at it. But, on the other hand, he's never lost a game before...hmm...maybe I should ask.'

Looking over at his friend, Jounochi asked, "Yuugi-kun, what's the real reason?"

"Real reason about what?" Yuugi asked, surprised to heard Jounochi's sudden question.

The tall blond teenager asked, "What's the real reason why you don't like basketball?"

Yuugi only looked at Jounochi, wondering if he should tell him the whole truth. But that would be hard for him to do, considering the only two people that knew the whole story besides himself was Atem and the girl that had beaten him. He remembered the day that he told Atem about the story quite well…

- Yuugi's Flashback -

It was late at night, a couple of weeks after the Grand Prix and before the gang left for Egypt to search for the lost memories of mou hitori no Yuugi. Yuugi was in Yami no Yuugi's soul room, where the two were talking to one another.

"Yuugi, have you ever had an embarrassing moment in your childhood?" Yami suddenly asked.

Yuugi looked over at Yami. "Yes, I've had many embarrassing moments in my childhood. It's a part of life. Why do you ask?"

"The other night, I saw that you had a nightmare, and the only images I could see was a girl and a basketball. What happened that day?"

"Wait, you look at my dreams!?" Yuugi exclaimed, hoping that his other half didn't see the dreams that he sometimes had about Anzu.

Yami chuckled. "Relax, I don't see all your dreams. Only the ones that frighten you. So, what happened that day?"

"Do you really want to know?" Yuugi asked, with a light blush on his cheeks. Well, it was embarrassing for him to talk about that day. Yami nodded his head, so Yuugi began to reluctantly tell the story. "It was the first day of school, when I was in the 1st grade. It was recess and I had a basketball in my hands...I was playing by myself until a friend of mine named Arisu Mazaki came over."

"Arisu Mazaki? She has the same last name as Anzu?" Yami asked, wondering if this girl was related to Anzu.

"Arisu is Anzu's twin sister." Yuugi stated.

"Why haven't I ever met her?" Yami asked, interrupting Yuugi for the second time.

Yuugi answered, "Because Arisu moved with her father to New York in Kitaamerika (7). Anyway, back to my story, I was playing by myself until she asked me, 'Can I play?'. Of course, I said 'yes', and we began to play. Whilst we played, Arisu-chan stole the ball from me, blocked me, and scored more points than me. The boys in my class laughed at me because a girl was beating me. At the end of the game, I got so mad that I told Arisu, 'I should have never let you play! Your such a baka ga-ru (8) and I never want to see you again!' After I said that, Arisu began to cry. She threw the ball hard at my head and ran away. I've never wanted to play since."

Yami remained silent for a few moments, before hesitantly asking, "What was the score?"

"0 to 100" Yuugi answered nervously, looking up at Yami.

"How many hours were you playing?"

"About 20 minutes." Yuugi really felt embarrassed now, especially when the Pharaoh thought he had played with Arisu for hours. Glancing at Yami, Yuugi saw that the former Pharaoh had started to laugh at him. "Well, you should have been there! I bet she would have even beaten you!"

That statement caused Yami to laugh even harder.

- End of Flashback -

"Earth to Yuugi? Are you there?" Said Jounochi waving his hand in front of Yuugi's face trying to get his attention back because Yuugi hadn't said a word for a while now.

Yuugi blinked as he was brought back to reality. "Oh, what Jounochi-kun?"

"Yuugi, you were about to tell me the real reason behind you not liking sports." Jounochi looked at Yuugi with a curious look, whilst urging him silently that he wanted him to tell him the whole story.

Yuugi asked nervously, "Promise me that if I tell you this story, you won't tell another living soul?"

Jounochi was surprised by Yuugi's question. "If it's the only way for you to tell me, then I promise."

Yuugi looked at Jounochi for a couple of moments to make sure he meant. "All right, I'll tell you no-"

He was cut off by the late bell that rung, indicating that class has started and whoever wasn't in class was late. Jounochi yelped in a panic. "Maybe you should tell me later. I got to go class! Bye Yuugi!" He ran out of the hallway heading to his classroom in full speed.

Yuugi, on the other hand, ran to the locker room, hoping to change quickly before he got in trouble.

- 15 minutes later -

After Yuugi had finally found his locker and had gotten changed, he ran to the court, knowing he was late. The coach was very displeased that Yuugi was late on the first day, and he told him to run 5 laps around the court.

By the fourth lap, Yuugi was sweating buckets and was very thirsty. He looked around seeing that all his classmates were given free time to play any sport they wanted to or to just hang around to talk. As he was beginning his fifth lap, Yuugi saw in the distance a girl with a basketball in her hand. But what really got his attention was that the girl looked exactly like Anzu, only her hair was longer. She was holding the basketball, playing by herself until she looked over at him.

Yuugi wondered, "Is that Anzu? No, it can't be...Anzu is in maths. Then that has to be-...'

Yuugi tripped on his shoe lace, falling to the ground. His class mates laughed.

The physical education teacher yelled out, "Mutou, you got a lap to go. Move it before I give you 5 more laps to run!"

Yuugi picked himself up off the floor quickly and began to run again. But when he looked over to where the girl with the basketball had been standing, he found that she was gone. He began to wonder if he was seeing things, because he knew that Arisu was never coming back. Not since he broke her heart all those years ago.

End of Chapter 2

Author's Comments: I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter. Please review. -

(1) I am putting the American Class system in fusion of the Japanese Class System.

(2) Hai -- Yes

(3) Supo-tsu -- Sports

(4)Bai -- Bye

(5)Aneue -- Older Sister

(6)Mou hitori no boku -- This is what Yuugi calls Yami in the manga or undubb version of Yugioh

(7)Kitaamerika -- North America

(8) Baka garu -- Stupid Girl