Phoenix: Okay, I know that in the last chapter I didn't really follow the rules during the duel…but I didn't really know how to end it in a draw. Next time I'll be sure to follow the rules. And have a more reliable source of where I find out how many monsters you have to sacrifice to summon an 8 star monster, the source I have now obviously can't be trusted. **glares at sister** so, yeah….enjoy!

Chapter 11: Wake Me Up When History Ends

Months had passed ever since Kari dueled Kaiba. In fact, it was September…the month that school starts. And it was the day that school starts. Kari just enrolled in Domino High School. After moving to the city a few weeks before her first meeting with Yugi and his friends, she needed to find a new school. Speaking of that meeting, or interview, she declined that reporter job. She decided that she didn't need such a big job at fifteen, and it just got plain boring. Anyway, she wasn't that nervous for her first day at this school; she already had friends other than Yugi and company that she knew who was going there. If you really wanted to count Kaiba as a friend.

Kari walked out of James's car, and yes, she was still friends with James. She approached the school with confidence, for she always had a strong and confident will. She spotted Yugi and everyone, just as you-know-who came from behind her.

"I wouldn't go over there if I were you," Kaiba said. "I know that you hang out a lot with them, but it's still not too late to save yourself from being converted into a geek."

"They're cooler than you'll ever be." Kari ran over to them, not even making eye contact with Seto. Seto secretly admired Kari for sticking up for her friends and not caring about what anyone thought of her, but he didn't show it. He just watched as she left him.

"And to think that I'm 'destined' to be with him…" Kari muttered.

"Hey, Kari! What are you mumbling under your breath?" Bakura asked as Kari approached them.

"Nothing. I just can't take Kaiba's attitude! Is he always that mean to you guys?" Kari asked.

"Yeah, pretty much. But we just ignore it." Téa waved it off and smiled.

Then the school bell went off...and her first day began.

"Yes! History's my first period!" Kari said happily as she picked up her schedule from the office. But then she realized how big the school truly was. This was going to be complicated.

"Ok, I think that it's…this way!" She turned a random corner only to find more doors. "113, 113…Where the heck is room 113?"

She was running down completely random hallways now, trying to find this history class of hers. Come to think of it, it must have been a while that she was doing this…

"Ha! Found it!" Kari said as she triumphantly pulled open the door and bolted into the room.

"—and Ancient Egypt is going to be our first unit." The teacher concluded as he addressed the class. He turned coldly to Kari, who so rudely interrupted his teaching. "Can I help you?"

"Oh, this is the right class!" Kari said, out of breath. "See, I was lost in the halls and I couldn't figure out where room 113 was and I thought I was going to be really late and so I rushed down here and—did you say we're learning about Egypt?"

"Please, take your seat," he said, pointing to a desk at the back of the room. "You came too late to claim a closer desk." He said in a monotone.

"At least then I can sleep without you seeing me." Kari mumbled. "Then I wouldn't have to listen to your boring voice." Then she defiantly walked to the back of the class; right behind Kaiba.

"Smooth," he whispered. "How much later can you get."

"Hey, it was only around 5 minutes…" Kari said.

Kaiba pointed to the clock, and it read 9:40. "This period started at 9 and now it's 9:40. Each period is 45 minutes long. You call that only 5 minutes?"

Kari gasped. "So that means…I missed 40 minutes and there's only 5 left!"

"EXCUSE ME! I'M TRYING TO TEACH!" The teacher shouted at Kari, hearing her talk while he was... It wasn't exactly "teaching".

Wow, he gets ticked off easily, Kari thought. Then she smiled. This is going to be a fun class…

And the bell rang. Thankfully, Kari found the rest of her classes on time. Now it was time for lunch.

Kari had packed her lunch and decided to eat outside. She found a big tree with low hanging branches, so she did what any other person would do—she climbed it.

She was leaning against the tree trunk about 15 feet off the ground when she started eating her sandwich. She sat there for a while, then noticed Tristan and Joey in the distance looking around a lot, probably for her.

Kari sat up. "Hey!" She shouted. "Up here!"

They both turned and looked up into the tree. Sure enough, there was a blue-eyed, white-haired girl waving to them. They stared for a while, shrugged, and ran over to her after calling Téa, Yugi, and Bakura over.

"What are ya doin all the way up there?" Joey yelled up to her.

"It's nice up here!" She responded.

"We would try and climb it, but we're not really allowed to." Yugi told her.

"We're not?" Kari questioned. "Well, the teachers won't see me up here, so I think I'll be fine."

"Okay then," Bakura said. "If you need us, we'll be sitting at that table over there." He gestured toward a lunch table nearby.

"Alright." Kari said. And she continued eating her lunch peacefully.

A few school days passed. Kari got used to her classes, and always slept in history, that boring teacher's class. She would always tell the girl whom she sat next to and befriended, Misty, to wake her up if there was a project or something that she had to participate in. That rarely ever happened, so she would sleep right through the period and let the bell wake her up. As for lunch, Kari sat always sat up in the tree. That's basically how every lunch period went, until Yugi and his gang stopped worrying about where Kari was and looked towards the tree. But today, that cold history teacher, whom Kari figured out was called Mr. C, was on lunch duty.

"Hmm, I don't see that annoying student anywhere…" (He never did remember her name; he always referred to her as the "annoying student", ever since their first encounter) Mr. C looked around, and then spotted blue and white in that tall tree. He looked closer. It was definitely her.

He needed to get her down somehow…he was no climber himself, and nobody ever listened to him when he shouted. So he turned to other ideas.

"You there, Kaiba," Mr. C walked to the lunch table where Kaiba was eating alone. "Tell that girl you occasionally flirt with in my class to get the heck out of that tree."

"Oh, you mean Kisara. And I don't flirt with her, moron." Kaiba retorted. "Anyway, are you blind? She's been sitting up there during lunch every day since she got to this school."

"Well, she has to stop. Tell her to get out of that tree."

"And why can't you do it? You're the teacher."

"I can do whatever I want, and right now I'm telling you to tell her to get down from there."

"She never gets hurt, so why does she need to get down?"

"Stop asking questions and just do it!"

"I can ask as many questions as I want."

"You have to obey me! I'm your teacher!"

"You have to answer me, I'm your student."

"You can't back talk to me! I'll give you a detention!"

"I just did."

"Well you can't do it again."

"Sure I can. And plan to."

"No you can't."

"Yes I can."

"No you can't."

"Yes I can."

This went on for about 10 minutes. The gang watched and laughed.

"So that's what happens when you put two stubborn minds together." Téa said.

Lunch was almost over, so Kari had climbed down and met them at their table. She saw that they were all trying to contain their laughter.

"What's so funny?" She asked.

They all pointed to Kaiba and Mr. C.

"No you can't!"

"Yes I can."

"NO YOU CAN'T!"

"Yes I can."

"NO. YOU. CANT!"

"Yes. I can."

Kari walked over. "What are you guys even arguing over, anyway?"

They both stopped and stared at each other. "Dang. I can't remember." Mr. C said. The bell rang for next period. "Go to class, my…wonderful students." He said sarcastically.

"Well isn't he a load of sunshine." Kari said after him. Students around her laughed at her joke, and Kaiba just walked right past her. But did he just...smile?

Yugi saw this. Kaiba's actually taking a liking towards Kari. Maybe destiny is starting to work its magic on the two of them. Could Kisara be starting to warm his cold heart?

Phoenix: And it ends there. I'm begging you to review! Oh yeah, and aoi-akai and Akina Sachi, Mr C. is the based on the actual Mr. C. at school, if you haven't guessed. The chapter name was also based on the song "Wake Me Up When September Ends" by Greenday. I love that song.