AN: Sorry, it's been a long summer and the stupid document didn't want to load...but look, another chapter! And yay for crappy minor characters from season 1 and sisters who double as spell-checkers!

WARNING: We don't know the Japanese names of some characters, but they only appear once. And Mai is referred to by her dub name because I can't spell it otherwise. And cards...they're ALL English-named.

The weeks passed with one duel after another. Yugi spent the mornings dueling, the afternoons with Anzu, and the nights getting used to the spirit that had returned to living in his head. It wasn't long before he made it into the finals.

Jonouchi wasn't doing too bad, either. He'd defeated Rex, Weevil, Mako, and others Yugi had never met before, and was currently dueling Mai Valentine.

"Now, I'll play Time Wizard to change my Baby Dragon into Thousand Dragon!" Jonouchi called across the dueling field. "Now, Thousand Dragon, attack her Harpies and destroy her life points!"

Mai flinched as her precious harpies were destroyed, taking her life points with them. Shizuka cheered.

"Way to go, Jonouchi!"

Jonouchi grinned. "I won!"

"Only because I let you," Mai said, wrapping her arms around his neck. She and Jonouchi were in something of an on-off relationship.

"Of course you...hey, is that Bakura?"

"I think so," Yugi said. "And...is he dueling Kaiba?"

"Let's go watch," Honda decided.

So Yugi, Anzu, Jonouchi, Mai, Honda, Shizuka, and Yugi's grandpa(who seemed to have nothing better to do than watch his grandson's best friend play children's card games) went over to watch Bakura's duel.

His opponent was, in fact, Seto Kaiba, who had three Blue-Eyes White Dragons on the field and barely a dent in his life points, where Bakura was down to 800 life points and had only a single Kuriboh. Yugi didn't even know Bakura had a Kuriboh.

"What's wrong with this picture," Honda said, causing Bakura to notice their presence.

"You never told us you were in the tournament, Bakura," Anzu accused.

"Not for much longer," Bakura said, as Kaiba attacked, destroying Bakura's life points. Bakura sighed and hung his head in shame.

"Hey," Yugi said, coming up to his friend, "why don't you come hang out with us? We haven't seen you since you got back from England."

Anzu shrugged, "I have to work, but you boys have fun."

"Now way! That's what wanker means!"Honda cried as Yugi and Jonouchi stared in amazement.

Bakura took a sip of his smoothie, smiled, and nodded, "We have all sorts of ways to cuss out Americans while still being 'polite' and 'Britishy..."

Then his jaw dropped as he stared out the window. "That's disgusting!" he cried, "There are classes for that!"

Jonouchi looked out the window and laughed. There was a sign that read: "Shagging Classes."

"It's a dance," he assured his British friend. Bakura blushed and took another sip of his smoothie.

"My, my. larry, are they all here?"

Larry swam in little circles, snapping up the flakes of food sprinkled in the water.

"Then the Game begins," she smiled and pressed a button on her desk, "Bring the girl."

Shizuka made her way down the street, looking at stores as she went. She preferred this to listening to the boys talk. They made no sense. She sighed inwardly.

She heard a soft rustle, then a painfilled moan coming from the ally on her right. Turning, she saw a woman crumpled on the ground. She instantly ran over to help.

"Ma'am?" She asked, "Ma'am, are you-" arms wrapped around her from behind and a rag was pressed to her face. She tried to scream, but no sound came. She could feel the drugs seeping into her system, making her wozy. She couldn't feel, couldn't think.

All went black.