A lot of you are going to hate this chapter. For one it doesn't have any dueling. Another is it's short. The third is the surprise that will make all fan boys and girls crazy. Just kidding. Zexal only has one of those and it's me. I did this chapter by myself but information came from 90sboy. Please enjoy.

" Here's your cards back, Yuma Tsukumo. I removed all my cards and put all your cards back where I found them." Shin using Yuma's deck made him feel cold and icy. If he summoned Baby Tiragon he was going to freak.

" Why do you keep using my deck?" His only complaint to the multiple times Shin used his deck.

" Your deck is the only one that works with my cards," Shin said showing his XYZ monsters to Yuma and Phoenix of the Blue Flames. " I don't have enough cards to make a deck and yours fit perfectly with mine. It's like a mix of pedestrians with gods. It's like we have a connection."

" You should really use your own cards," Yuma said loudly. Shin backed away a little when Yuma talked that loudly. " If you can't than borrow other people's cards."

" That's something I want to talk to you about. Today I was going to tell you about a deck my father gave me. Well, he hasn't given me a deck yet. He says it wasn't a necessity for me to have it. He said it is something I must earn. Yesterday he said I could finally have my own deck. He said I stopped being arrogant—"

" You're still arrogant!" Yuma interrupted.

" Only because I have to keep using your deck. I wouldn't have to if the same guy didn't challenge me over and over again." Shin responded without hesitation. " He said he's sorry about the things that have prevented me from having a real deck. He says when I get home, at eight o'clock because they have to prepare for the ceremony, I will get my own cards. Right now it's..." Shin rolled his sleeves away to look at his watch. " Six-fifteen. Only an hour and forty-five more minutes to go."

" Your father must be some kind of magician if he expects his son to leave the house to decorate it for a weird ceremony," Yumi murmured. Shin heard him and responded with a smile.

" My father actually works in a grocery store. You know that small grocery store built for a very rich old woman so she could get her groceries and barely have to leave her house? The one with a memorial outside that tells you she used to live next door. Obviously, there's roses on that memorial."

" I can't believe I'm asking this, but what does your mother do?" Yuma was frightened to hear the answer. It would continue the onslaught of questions bombarding inside him trying to understand Shin.

" She works in a daycare." That was interesting. Yuma was actually glad she worked at a daycare. "She mostly does kids from ages of four to twelve. Those kids in the daycare like sugar, but she doesn't give them sugar so they're a little mellow. One time a girl ate the raspberry pie on the counter and my mother thought she had blood on her mouth. It was so funny an eleven year old girl videotaped it."

Yuma was lost, in more than one way, and not because he wasn't the brightest student in his school. His parents were normal people. They didn't sound like duelists; why wouldn't they want their son to have a deck. In his current situation a boy walked up to them. The boy was wearing a gray hoodie. He had cream white skin and purple eyes. One hand was reaching into his right pocket and the other one had a duel disk strapped around his arm. He was a duelist. Yuma heard the sound of music in his pockets. The boy turned off the music and smiled.

" Shin. What's up man? How have you been?" The boy exclaimed seeing Shin standing next to Yuma. Yuma looked at Shin and quickly turned to the boy.

" You two know each other?" Yuma said loudly. His voice echoed in Shin's ear and shorted out his deaf perception.

" YES!" Shin yelled finding himself unable to control the volume of his voice. He waited until everyone stopped talking, took a deep breath and said, " He was a guy who challenged me to duel. I used your deck. He was good but I beat him. Thanks for letting me use the cards back then."

" We become good friends Yuma. We talk about duel strategies and—"

" Wait," Shin interrupted. " How do you know this guys name is Yuma? Do you guys know each other?"

"Of course. Believe it or not I'm Yuma's twin brother TJ Tsukumo." TJ put down his hood. It was the first time Shin ever saw him without his hood on. His hair was big with downwards spikes instead of Yuma's doo. He had one prominent giant hair strand like Yuma's pink strand but his was gray instead one.

" You have a twin brother, Yuma? Why didn't you ever tell me?" Shin asked.

" Because I don't even know you. We don't hang out. The only reason I do know you is from you keep borrowing my deck for you duels."

" I have a wonderful idea," TJ said. " Yuma, let's have a duel."

" You want to duel your own brother?" Shin asked TJ who immediately put on his Duel Gazer. His duel disk flashed on with multiple lights glowing in a visor.

" Oh course. He's my brother and I want to duel him." Yuma immediately turned on his Duel Gazer and activated his duel disk. He could hear someone breathing behind him and recognized him immediately as Astral.

" Does your brother use Number Monsters?" Astral the blue ghost over his shoulder asked.

" I don't think so. Last time he didn't even have XYZ monsters. It was only fusion and normal monsters."

" Then I'm not needed here. After that loss you suffered against Kita, you'll probably want another nap after this."

Yuma and TJ started with 4000 life points like in any duel. Yuma was smiling and so was TJ. Yuma had a bunch of new cards he wanted to show TJ. If only he could summon his Number cards. It was just a regular, fun duel they were having.

" If you ever have trouble picking a card just tell me and I'll pick it for you," TJ smirked; Yuma scoffed.

" I'm going to win, TJ."