Day 12

January 25, 2013

The Boat To Australia

12:30AM - The Harbor

Asuka sat making mist in the air with her breath as she shivered next to Toppa and J. It's been an entire week since Asuka brought the boys in, almost more than that, now. Jim realized there was a YuGiOh! Tournament being played in his home country, Australia. Everyone around the world would be participating. Westerners no longer call Duel Monsters by it's original name. In fact, they never did. Only expert duelists outside of Japan knew it's true name.

Asuka knew that this would be more than just some picnic. Asuka just learned that even though Manjyome is letting Toppa and J go, some of the other cops would not even think to do such a thing and are still hunting for them.

"Excuse me, miss...", a security guard on the boat noticed.

Asuka gasped, her adrenaline pumping through her veins scared of what's to happen.

"May we inspect these girls?", he asked politely.

The funny thing is, Toppa and J were wearing the disguise Toppa suggested that last Thursday as a means to going to school. Asuka stole the two boys Battle Spirits decks and hid them in her pockets, switching them out with a copy of her two best friends' decks. It was smart. After all, they only suspected them and not her.

"Go on ahead, sir.", Asuka smiled, her hazel eyes looked worried for them.

"Alright. You two look suspiciously like Toppa Bashin and J Sawaragi. Seeing you ladies are minors though, I won't dare ask for your IDs. However, I'm only here to make sure you guys don't have Battle Spirit decks."

Toppa and J blushed as they handed him their decks. Their faces read, We're screwed! We're so screwed! but they felt a breath of relief as well as surprise as the security guard handed their decks back.

"Sorry for suspecting you ladies of anything evil like being Battle Spirits players! You can go on right ahead!", the security smiled.

They nodded and ran back with Asuka.

"Did you steal our decks?!", J whispered nervously.

"Yeah. I didn't want you guys caught when we just had the money to go with Jim and live there permanently!", Asuka replied.

"Thanks a bunch! If not for you, we'd be handcuffed and sent to jail!", Toppa smiled.

"You're welcome! Now keep it down! You have to wear your tags now.", Asuka muttered.

They were name tags that read in nice clean kanji "Maaya Kurenai" and "Jun Shiranui". Asuka showed them her name tag which read "Asuka Tenjouin".

"Crossdressing is hard. Actually speaking like a girl is harder...", Toppa whined.

"But we'll have to do this until we get to Australia. Since Australia doesn't have horrible laws like here in Japan, when you show them your passport, and after we sign those papers, we can live with him from now on or until the Kaiba Corporation gets overthrown.", Asuka smiled.

"That's okay, I guess...", J smiled.

"You guys made it!"

Toppa and J turned to see Nezumiko.

"Nezumiko!"

Nezumiko no longer wore glasses. She was a wallflower back in Domino City, but now she was a beautiful angel, with her dark brown locks made into two curly pig tails, with dangling strands of dirty blonde locks here and there, and her bangs were kept back finally revealing her teal eyes a lot more. She also wasn't wearing glasses. Her dress was long and flowing, a soft yellow color, and overall because of it, she looked like a princess.

"What are you doing here?", Asuka gasped.

"My mom said I had to keep an eye on you. The Kaiba Corporation may follow us to the land down under. There is also that YuGiOh! Tournament, so this boat is from the Japanese division of duelists. On this boat, we'll actually duel.", Nezumiko noted.

"Ah. How lovely. We're escaping a corrupt government doing the one thing they expect us to do: Duel and lose in this god forsaken tournament."

Asuka turned to see Richard. Richard wasn't too happy to see Asuka talking about signing papers.

"But Richard. You taught me English pretty well! I think I can teach Toppa and J if I can. And Judai and Sho are no slouches on the language either; It was mandatory to take a class in it back in Duel Academy and that was one of the very few classes Judai took seriously!", Asuka hissed.

"Asuka... What about Ryo Marufuji?! What would he say?!"

"He would agree with this. No way can I live in a country that refuses to give people the right to have a choice in favorite card games to play. As childish as this is, I can't control it! I'm sorry I'm walking the coward's path. But I'll have to do this. My goal is to protect these guys, just like your goal is to protect me. Maybe Australia is a better option than Japan seeing someone already kidnapped and attempted to drug rape Ms. Shiranui.", Asuka then said in a normal voice.

Asuka knew that the security guard was being suspicious of them so she had to say J's alias whether they liked it or not.

"Aw... You got to be fucking with me!", Richard hissed.

"Yes, Richard. Women can be bodyguards of women too. Now shut up and start working with that deck you've been playing."

Richard nodded reluctantly.

Nezumiko blushed as she saw Richard's snow white face leave the scene.

8:30AM - Going Southward near the Equator

Asuka suddenly felt warmer. Then she remembered that Australia was far different than Japan. It's supposedly was actually a pretty hot summer right now rather than the ice cold weather she was used to in Januaries in Japan.

Toppa and J refused to change out of their Obelisk Blue girl's uniforms because of it.

"I don't want to wear a bikini... It's already embarrassing as it is wearing a skirt.", J huffed angrily at Toppa.

"Me neither. And besides, the girl swimsuits never look that special anyway."

Asuka laughed.

"You guys are having too much fun complaining in the room."

"And we're stuck with Ms. Asuka too. She's the only one that's a real woman...", J blushed.

"Well, that's okay, because I'm not interested in her anyway!", Toppa smiled hugging J.

"The good news is, this uniform is good for tropical weather. The bad news is, why do you guys wear it anyway?! The skirt is so short, when you bend down, the girl's skirt is easy to peek under! You can even notice what bra you're wearing just by looking sideways if you have small breasts! Is Seto Kaiba a pervert?!", Toppa then teased, playing around with J's uniform for a bit before J finally got mad and hit him upside the head.

"You should NEVER mock the artistic choices of the person who built that school!", J hissed disgusted.

"Anyway, Breakfast will soon be available to serve. Do you guys want to order anything?", Asuka asked.

"What's on the menu? I know Australians don't eat the same stuff we do.", Toppa muttered. He thought about the usually normal breakfasts that you'd eat in Japan.

"Well, they still have egg and toast... Let's see here... Since this cruise line is American, it looks like they have Kellogg cereals."

"Ah! Kellogg cereals are very delicious.", J smiled.

"Oh yeah! You studied abroad for a year there, didn't you J? Well, what are the cereal choices?", Toppa asked.

10:30AM - Singapore Harbor

"Ready! Draw!"

Everyone outside were dueling the locals in Singapore that actually cared about Duel Monsters (which was surprisingly not that many; in fact, some faces were protesting against the card game influencing gang violence against people that didn't. Asuka couldn't blame them, the Kaiba Corporation did this to them.

11:30AM - Out in the Southern Hemisphere

Asuka felt excited. The boat was making curves around island areas just to get to Australia. Problem is, due to the fact this was the first time Judai, Sho, and her were not participating in a tournament and just cheering on Jim, she fell asleep after Jim had his second win. She really was wondering if anything was really going to happen.

12:00PM - Manjyome's Office

"Whelp. Asuka's going to Australia. It's summer down there, isn't it?", Manjyome muttered.

"Yeah.", Misawa grinned, sipping a cup of coffee.

"Would she go to the beach?"

"Maybe..."

Manjyome blushed. Misawa after a while did. They both pictured Asuka in a skimpy bikini, with a bit of frill here and there on there. Then they thought about Asuka with the guys accompanying her.

With J wearing a puffy vest with his initial on his right breast matching with his jet black swim trunks that was form fitting and emphasizing how delicate and small his hips looked and how round his rump was. Together, they looked like sisters, J being the younger one.

"You ready guys?", Asuka asked them.

"Yes we are!", Sho muttered, wearing a lemon yellow pair of swim trunks.

"Yahoo!", Judai and Toppa shouted with glee as they jumped into the beach, Judai wearing a bright red speedo and Toppa wearing a blue one.

Jim was wearing a purely black speedo as he analyzed the beach. Karen was their protector of this summer sanctuary.

Manjyome and Misawa thought jealous thoughts about the guys splashing Asuka around with the ocean water.

Then they thought something strange. They pictured J taking off his vest blushing very terribly under a shady umbrella with Toppa right next to him.

"What's wrong, J?", Toppa muttered.

"I wish I can play with the others, but look how pale my skin is! It's so easy to burn!", J replied in Manjyome's dirty little mind, "Will you put some lotion on me?"

"Don't mind if I do...", Toppa muttered taking out the lotion but then squirting it all over his back.

Misawa and Manjyome were so scared.

J was totally covered in sun tan lotion, and it looked so suggestive that Manjyome's nose slowly began to bleed.

"Let's start rubbing it around!", Toppa smiled.

J moaned and cried as Toppa did so, first rubbing his chest, being surprisingly sensitive. Later the belly, which didn't looks so bad, but then the thighs which showed that Toppa slipped his leg under his swim trunk, and J and Toppa started kissing.

Just when it got to anything even dirtier in this fantasy scenario, Tyranno slammed a TV on the desk revealing an image of Yugi Mutou battling Seto Kaiba.

"Manjyome! Quit fucking around and get back to investigating this guy!", Tyranno hissed.

"Yes, Sarge...", Manjyome teased.

"Don't you go mocking me now, Sarge! Get your priorities straight!"

Misawa couldn't help but snicker. He was still in his little fantasy. Asuka was playing tag with Judai, Sho, and Jim. You see, Asuka's skimpy bikini was starting to show it was about to break apart. Just when she was fully naked and she had to cover herself, Tyranno hit Misawa upside the head to snap him back to reality.

"And you! Aren't you supposed to be teaching a class or something?!", Tyranno asked a little irritated.

"Fine... Jeez...", Misawa huffed. He really wanted to see what would happen after Asuka's swimsuit fell off, but he lost focus and decided to depart the police station.

"I hope you're happy. We were just discussing it.", Manjyome lied.

"You sure?", Tyranno muttered.

Manjyome nodded.

"Well, after we search for Yugi, we can also search for Toppa and J next for Mokuba. He's now anxious to see them.", Tyranno muttered.

"Can't really blame him. Some people never met a person that was a champion of Battle Spirits before.", Manjyome smiled anxiously.

5:30PM - Darwin, Australia

"You'll have a book to study the laws of this country. Are you sure you want to be a permanent citizen of this country with your... family.", a government official in Darwin asked.

"Yes.", Asuka muttered.

"Very well, then. Come back in two to three days at least.", the official muttered.

"Thank you very much.", Asuka smiled.

This was where Toppa and J were homeschooled on more than just children's card games, advanced math andAustralian English, but Australia in general. Every now and then the two boys would go outside and point what was new in the picture.

7:00PM - Jim's house; actually southward into Australia's outback.

"HEY! It's a kangaroo! Look how beautiful it is!", J gasped in awe.

The kangaroo was just jumping around in Jim's yard looking for grass to eat.

"Jim told me their claws are like daggers...", Toppa muttered, a little nervous.

The kangaroo decided maybe it would resolve his hunger problem with a bit of leaves dangling in a tree like fruit.

"I guess it really is a new world here...", J muttered happily.

Then they saw rabbits. 50 of them sitting outside.

"Aww man! No wonder the kangaroo didn't try to eat the grass... There are too many of those rabbits!", Toppa then groaned.

Soon he ran into the yard scaring the rabbits off, eventually scaring the kangaroo as well.

"Aww man... I scared the kangaroo off!", Toppa said saddened.

"It probably wasn't a great idea to scare off those rabbits now, is it...", J chuckled.

"What does that supposed to mean?!"

"Hey guys! Come back inside! Jim's on TV!", Sho shouted.

They ran inside and saw Jim battling Yugi. Yugi didn't have that insane look on his face that he did when they first saw him in person. They watched attentively though in case he did.

Jim unfortunately lost the battle. But he kept a smile still.

"Great game, Yugi! Good luck at the tournament!", Jim smiled.

"Thanks!", Yugi nodded, shaking his hand as they both left.

9:00PM - Kaiba Manor

"How was your search?", Kaiba asked.

Mokuba didn't even want to speak with Kaiba about it. He was tired.

"Oh, Seto... Those Battle Spirits players are like mice! They're hiding somewhere!"

"Have you checked, Australia?", Seto asked.

"Huh?"

"Someone suspected that Toppa and J disguised as girls and hid on a boat on their way to Australia. It may be too late, but maybe you can go there and check for yourself?"

Mokuba was astounded, "Those smart little pests! Filthy Battle Spirits vermin... Emperor Mokuba will capture them... And test them like rats in a lab..."

Mokuba had a twisted mind, as he fantasized the moment he had them in his grasps. They squirmed in his own little labyrinth that he built. It was a blood red color, which matched what he wanted to see them bleed.

"Come, Seto... The country of Japan needs an example to make... Nobody escapes their fates as dead in the world of Duel Monsters!"

Seto nodded as he followed Mokuba on an airplane.

TO BE CONTINUED...