Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! nor any of the characters involved in it. I just own the story idea right here.

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It was so dark. He could barely see anything around himself in this place. The fog surrounding here did nothing for him in trying to find his way. Where was he? It was hard to find the right way out of this place. There was no light, nothing. At least, he didn't think so.

"Hello! Is there anyone here? Where am I?" he called out, hoping for someone to answer him. Then something appeared out of the corner of his eyesight, "Huh, who's there?" he shouted only to stared in shock.

"Dad…."

There stood a much older man. He looked just like him, with the brown hair, the dark brown eyes. His father looked the same since the last time he had seen…about ten years ago. Reaching out, he had to touch, speak to his dad at least one more time, "Dad…I-I-I-I," he gasped out before his dad disappeared into the fog.

"NO!" he cried out. Now, could he have lost this chance, before something else appeared from his left side.

"Jonouchi? Yugi? Anzu?" he gasped out at the sight of his friends. They were just standing, chatting a laughing away. Didn't they notice him there? How could they act like that? He was right there? Why won't they acknowledge him at all, "Guys! Hello!" he called out to them.

They just continue to move, walking away from him. He tried to catch up to them, but he couldn't. Soon, they disappeared just like his father before them. Why? Why was this happening to him? Why was everyone leaving him behind?!

Falling on to the ground, tears falling down as the emotion over whelmed him. He didn't want to be alone. His fists clench together while the salt-filled felled down to the ground. Choking the sobs, he listened to the world around him. He didn't think that there would be anyone else around here. That was until he heard the laugher. Looking up, he gasped at the sight of Shizuka walking away from him, laughing and holding on to Otogi.

"Shizuka!" he cried out, trying to get up, but fell back down. The only thing he could do now was watch as they disappeared like everyone else.

"Why!? Why does everyone leave me!?" he cried out, banging on the ground.

"Hiroto, time to get up."

Moaning, the light hit Honda into the eye as he rosed out of his bed. Shifting, his body felt so sore. Bah. Stretching out, Honda moaned as he glanced towards the woman with her head inside his room. She just smiled away, like there was nothing at all wrong with the world.

"Time to get up for school, sweetheart," she said before leaving Honda to get ready for the day ahead.

Sighing, Honda just sat on his bed, banging his head on his wall, thinking. That all he seems to be doing lately was thinking. After Battle City was over, things were becoming normal again. Well, for everyone else it seems. He just sat back and let the memories of the past come to him. Duelist Kingdom, getting on the boat, watching Yugi and Jonouchi kick butt, that shadow duel with the spirit of the Ring, Yugi dueling Pegasus and throwing that damn ring out the window. Then came Battle City. When, he hang out with Shizuka, saw Jonouchi and Anuz become puppets to that Marik freak, that tomb robber come back, turn into Robo-Monkey!! Then stone, finally Yugi winning it all. There was that and so much more. Still, it was all about Yugi, Anuz, Jonouchi, Kabia and even Mai. She was even sent to the Shadow Realm.

"Ok, I know I not the hero most of the time. Ok, try all the time. Never was the one person to go out when the world needed to be saved. That was always left to Yugi and Jonouchi. They were the ones that were always dueling their hearts out, trying to save the world from some untold evil. Even Kaiba seem to be a hero. I just don't know where I can fit in. Yugi has this 5,000 year old spirit in him, Kabia is suppose to be this priest guy, and Jonouchi, well...He just can't go anywhere without a fight. Anuz just say I'm being depress, but I feel like this for a long time. It like I just being held back, I'm not going anywhere.

I just ...I really don't know anymore. I just don't belong anywhere, not like the others. Yugi and Jonouchi save the world, Anuz holding us together when we are down, even Otogi (I hate that guy) has a purpose in this world. Where is my path? Doesn't the Fates have something in store for my? Is the high point in my life being turn into a robot monkey!! I hate that kid!!

There is nothing in this world for me to do. I bet even Shizuka would go for Otogi before me. He can at least duel and still hadn't lied about himself. What was I thinking!? Shees! I am so stupid." He thought

"What is there left for me?" he asked out loud as he got up and left his room.

Sitting in the living room, was his mom. He was all she had left. Of course, there were his sisters, but they all moved out of the house and rarely visit. Things had been so hard for her the past years, after his dad had died. His hands were made into fists. Why did it have to happen to him? That damn villain! Why didn't anyone stop him or try to? He just went to the corner market to pick up some milk when it happened. No one didn't do a thing to stop it from happening.

"The guy came from behind him," They said, "When the gun came beside his head, there was nothing we could do."

Yeah, right they couldn't do a thing. The bunch of chickens! They stood there with their mouths open, as the robber took the money. That when he did it.

BANG!!

A single bullet.

Right in his father's head.

It took him seven years to finally get over it. That was around the time, he met the others. These feeling were out of his mind. Now that past three years had been so busy with all that have to happening. With Dualist Kingdom and Battle City, the years seem to blow past him. Still, the past couple months, he thought back to the day of his father's funeral. He didn't know why, that strange man just suddenly came back into his line of thinking. Maybe it was because of almost losing his body. Those memories made him think that he wasn't strong enough. Then again, he really hadn't play duel monsters of such a long time. Still, he had his deck with the cards his father gave him. It was only about three months after Battle City that he took up duel again. Sure, he tried to duel before they left for Dualist Kingdom, but never got into it.

Everyone thought he took it up was because of being in that Cyber World. He never told another soul about that man with the two color eyes. No one would believe him, so Honda just kept it to himself. There was no harm in keeping that a secret. So, he took up the sport and now he was fairly descent. He actually was able to beat Jonouchi, not once, not twice but a grand total of 22 times out of 45. That was pretty good in his books and it was enough to make Jonouchi good a little crazy. He walked down the hallway and came to his mom.

Ms. Honda was cleaning away when he had entered inside the kitchen. She seems to not be watch in because she seemed to be more focus of the mess that was surrounding them, the TV playing along in the living room. Actually, it was never really dirty with just the two of them. She just always kept a nice, clean house.. She pushed her hair out the ways as she push the broom around the floor with such focus. She just seems to be so tried lately, with her work at the hospital, keeping the home clean and other things. Honda tried to do his part around home, but it just never seems to be enough in life. He just hated to see his mom to be in so much pain. She seems to have heard him and looked up at the doorway. She had this smile on her face that seemed to push away the tried lines on her face as she looked at her only son.

"Hi, baby," she said, "How are you doing?"

He walked over and grabbed a piece of toast she had left out for him, "Nothing much, Mum," he answer, with his own smile to hid his own thoughts, "Got to run to meet up with Jonouchi and Yugi for school. Might be late cause of the beautification club."

"Ok, you have a good day," she said, waving good-bye as he flew out the apartment, "Don't be too late!"

"We bring you the latest from Domino Prison where we are about to heard about the news of Don Harrison Jr."

The words from the TV made Ms. Honda gasped and dropped her broom to the floor. Anyone that saw her right now would see that she had become a pale shade of white. Something had scared the wits about her. Her face was still turned to the TV set, the screen shown a couple of police officers were bringing out a man from the jail. Reporters started to swarm around whomever the police had. It was an older fellow, around forty-six or something wearing a well tailor blue suit over his thin body. His once black hair had become mostly gray and was starting to lose it. What really caught her attention were the man's eyes. It seemed he knew them from somewhere. They were a dark brown, really dark. It was hard to tell if that they were indeed brown or his whole eye was just black in color.

"It seems with new evidences that Mr. Harrison was release from prison for the robbery of a convince store and the murders of Ethan Honda over ten years ago. So, he is being release for the lack of evidences on his part…"

"This is just not good," gasped out Mrs. Honda as she reached out for the broom.

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Way in the middle of no where, a place that could not be found on any map, stood a large stone fortress. This building stood strong through many forms of weather that traveled over the sea for over ten thousand years. The inside of the fortress was something quite as different to anything else in the world. There were decorations of serpents all over, created from stone. In the middle of a large chamber stood three large stone statues of the serpents, the glow of torches lit up the area.

A tall man stood in the middle of them, wearing long white robes, a hood covering over his head. His long blue hair was still seen within the darkness of the room. But the amount of light didn't seem to be his focus as he chanted away in a language that was thought to be lost so many years ago. Once he had finish, his eyes open revealing the two different color eyes under. One was a golden color while the other was a bluish-green. His pendent shone in the dim light, the image of the strange six-pointed star display in the middle of it.

Finishing the chant, he gave a little bow before standing straight towards the statues before him, "No longer can the Nameless Pharaoh be ignored. With the Divine cards showing themselves, it is time to strike. The plan shall beginning with the addition of the last Swordsman. Like the Four Horsemen that appear at the end of time, I shall have my Four Swordsmen to lead the coming of the Great Beast..."

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"With that attack, I'll bring out my trap card."

"What!? You got to be kidding me!" gasped out Jonouchi as he glanced across to Honda as Otogi, Anzu and Yugi looked on their latest duel before classes started for the afternoon.

"Yeah, Jonouchi," said Honda with a smile as he flipped the card around, "This is my Soul Union trap card. This allows me to raise the attack power of my E-Hero Sparkman by one of monsters in my graveyard."

"No…." moaned out Jonouchi, grabbing a hold of his hair before falling a bit, which cause their friends around them chuckle a bit at his distress.

Honda continue to smile away, "So, I am going to add the attacks points of my Elemental Hero Shining Flare Wingman, with his attack being 2500 points, so 1600 plus 2500, makes a grant totally of 4100, more than your Black Red-Eyes Metal Dragon."

"No! I lost again," whined out Jonouchi as he picked up his cards, "How did you get so good so fast? You should stink."

"Thanks a lot Jou…" sighed out Honda as he picked up his own cards and place them away.

"But it is really amazing, Honda," said Yugi as everyone started to get back into their seats as class was about to start soon. Ms. Chono didn't really like them playing cards games when she got into class, being such a stickler for the rules. She would have them all detention for weeks, "You really seem to be picking up the game."

"Have to agree, considering last time I seen you duel and how that ended for ya," chuckle Ogoti with a smirk.

"Very funny," said Honda as he grabbed his books out, "Is it so hard to believe that I might actually be good at the game."

"It just you never seem to take any interested in it, Honda," said Anzu, "The only games you seem to be interested in were always those shooting ones. I never would have thought that Duel Monster was your kind of bag."

"I just did…I mean, how couldn't I with all the duels I seen," sighed out Honda as he slumped a bit. He just wished that these guys would just drop it. What was the big deal of him getting into Duel Monsters? Why was it a bigger deal that he was getting good at it? It shouldn't be that big of a surprise. Jou duelled him a lot and Yugi always gave him great advises, how could he not become a good dualist. A good example should be Jonouchi after all. If he could learn this game and become good at it.

Honda didn't really have enough time to think it over totally. Ms Chono walked into the room, with her large smile and looked ready to strike at anyone that made the wrong move. Hopefully, that wouldn't be him today.

TBC...