Chapter 9: Rare Cards are more rarer than perfectly-cooked meals (Part 1)
Kuro woke up with a migraine, he sighed under his breath, he wasn't the best when it comes to going to sleep after ten, it would always get him some head pain, no matter what, he had no idea why these morning migraines happen, but it happens, and similar to the shadow of his sister, he just has to live with it.
He groggily got out of bed, only to notice that his whole room was littered with heavily dirtied cooking appliances, he mentally slapped his forehead, he forgot to clean them after his dinner thing with Jasmine, he thanked the universe Professor Banner was very lax when it came for Kuro to leave the Slifer Dorm after dark, but then again, Kuro had to bribe him with food usually so it was a two-way street really.
His whole room smelled like burnt ash and raw chicken, the many pots, pans and bowls were scattered all over his room, the only place that was relatively clean was almost ironically his closet, wear all his smelly clothes were, at least they were all neatly slumped at the corner of the closet.
Kuro was simply to tired to even think about cleaning up the mess, he sloppily put on his clothes and went out to the outside world, wanting to nothing to do with his messy and pigsty of a room.
The Sushi-Samurai Duelist got out of his room, not even bothering to clean up his room, he noticed that there was another letter on his front door, it looked crumpled and hastly written, almost as if Jasmine was the maker of the letter, Kuro uncrumpled the messy Letter and read it slowly.
'Sorry for calling you a Big Oaf before and during our duel, Momma's Boy :3,
Anyway, today is class advancement duels, you basically duel someone from your own dorm to advance up to Ra Yellow Dorm.
Just wanted to tell you, Because I'll be spectating your duel.
By the way, you're really good at dueling Kuro, perhaps better than your bully of a sister.
anyway, I'll see you at the Dueling field, maybe booing you, or cheering you on, I'll think about it.
P.S. Come to my dorm tonight, I have a surprise for you.'
-Jasmine
Kuro blushed when he read that Jasmine was expecting him to duel in front of a large crowd once again, the thought of the Strawberry Blonde cheering him on and giving him some sort of surprise in the middle of the knight only made his flushed face furrow even further, with a slow and controlled motion, the Sheepish Kuro stashed the letter within his jacket.
He should get to the Main Duel Academy building so he can get his dueling on, he was very willing to advance up a dorm even if he wasn't ready to advance in a technical manner, especially considering that he needs more space, more genuine space so he can be comfortable with his tall stature.
Nevertheless, the Sushi-Samurai Themed Duelist went on his way to get his class advancement duel done.
"Lets hope the universe decides not to test my patience once again..." Kuro said aloud, his voice being quiet but hopeful that nothing eventful will happen, except for his incoming victory and class advancement of course.
Little did Kuro know, his class advancement duel will also affect the standing of a certain Slifer Red Student.
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"I have mail?" Was the first thing that Kuro said to the package that was awaiting in his mailbox, in contrary belief, mail from relatives and anyone was directed to a massive locker room, solely dedicated for the students when they have mail being delivered from home to the academy, while Kuro was notified that he got mail...He wasn't expecting a package.
The package was quite big, big enough to simply be stuffed into the locker rather than snugly fitting it within the metal hole, with some curiosity, the Sushi-themed grabbed the package, without a second thought, Kuro opened up the package, using his bare hands to rip the tape out and dig out the packing peanuts within.
To his surprise, it was a small pile of duel monster cards along with a little note, the cards were definitely Sushi-Samurai themed, with their Japanese-based character designs and their food items serving as materials, a couple monster cards, and a single fusion monster card.
"Huh...Well soy sauce my steak and call me a Weeaboo..." Kuro said to himself with a scratch of his head, he quickly skimmed through the note, seeing who was the one who sent this package of Sushi Samurais.
'Found this back at home, in came in the mail, felt like you have better use than me.'
-Sis.
Kuro couldn't help but smile, as much as he dislike his sisters antics and quirks, she was still family, no matter what, and families will never backstab each other, stashing the cards within his deck sloppily like some kind of clueless kid and throwing away the package and note, the Sushi-Themed Duelist went about his task for the day.
He walked through the halls of the Duel Academy building, he noticed the Card shop, it was strangely...Empty...He went to the card shop several times before, and there was always at least a couple pairs of students at the very most, but now? it looked like a ghost town.
It was intriguing enough for the Sushi-themed Duelist to investigate, there he saw that there was actual students at the card shop, it was the two fellow Slifer students, Jaden and Syrus, they looked absolutely flabbergasted for some reason.
"Man, I slept through the written test, now I'm going to flunk my duel test because I can't upgrade my deck!" Kuro gasped loudly but not loud enough to grasp the two Slifers attention.
"So take the pack Syrus." Jaden said with a friendly and kind voice, causing Syrus to gasp in surprise.
"Really Jaden? But you slept through the written test too!"
'...Test...Written...Written...WRITTEN...TEST.' Kuro heard within his mind.
'...THERE WAS A WRITTEN TEST?!' The shadowed Helheim Sibling screamed inwardly, he mentally cursed himself to oblivion as he stormed out of the Card shop, he was passively furious.
'After a full frontal onslaught of non-school related classes like Card analysis and effect management, none of the teachers said a single clue about a WRITTEN TEST. In fact, Jasmine didn't even tell me, I bet for a fact that she didn't know either...' Kuro seemed to calming down from his inward outrage as he took a deep breath.
'Seriously, no wonder why those slept through the whole thing, they must've didn't know either...Yeah...Yeah thats the truth!' Kuro thought to himself trying to justify his own mistakes by believing that others was making the same error.
"That's no reason to get mad Kuro...you made a mistake...You might as well own up to it." Kuro said to himself as he came up a plan to maybe and try to fix this for himself.
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"I'm so sorry for sleeping in for the test Professor Banner! I wasn't very informed on such a test having a written part...I thought it was just going to be some dueling and be done with it..." The regretful Helheim said with a somber and guilt-ridden voice as he clasped his hands together as an attempt to show the Slifer Red Dorm Headmaster that he was trying to apologize for his actions.
"Hmmm..." Was all Lyman Banner said as he placed a thoughtful hand on his chin as the Slifer Red Student and Headmaster was at the very empty classroom, the students were either off to do their respective test duels or perhaps watch others do theirs.
"Please Professor Banner...I'm so sorry for being such a bad student..." Kuro admitted to himself with a big frown on his face, disappointed within one's self.
"Hmmm, I think I know what you can do to make it up for me." Professor Banner said with a child and relaxed tone, this instantly got Kuro to question the Slifer Red Professor.
"What it is Professor Banner? I'll do anything! I almost never miss any tests! No matter what!" The Sushi Samurai Duelist asked, the Professor paused before speaking, clearly taking enjoyment by the over seriousness of the Shadowed Helheim Sibling.
"Well, how about this, if you can join Jaden Yuki in a tag duel, then I'll forget about you missing the writing test!" He said cheerfully, Kuro raised an eyebrow from such a specific task.
"Wait...Why? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the class advancement exam?" Kuro objected, Professor Banner got a little bit closer to Kuro as he said in a playful whisper.
"Well, I heard from Professor Crowler that forcing Jaden Yuki to duel someone in the Obelisk Blue dorm, its only fair to have more of my dorm be represented and make it a true show! So go represent!" Professor Banner said as he pushed Kuro suddenly, causing the Sushi-themed duelist to yelp in surprise from the sudden shove, quickly falling flat on the ground.
"Oops! Sorry." The Slifer Red Headmaster said as Kurro groaned in annoyance from the sudden drop to the floor.
"It had nothing to do with you missing the Writing test, nothing at all." The Professor said in a coy tone before lightly chuckling as he walked away from the recovering Kuro, he growled in annoyance as he got up to his feet.
"I swear, why do these things happen to me?" Kuro questioned himself as he exited out of the empty classroom to get to the Dueling Field with a furrowed eyebrow.
"I guess even admitting your mistakes will result in you having to do something eventful and showy...Well...At least Jasmine has something stored for me..." Kuro started to talk to himself like some sort of nut, causing the Duelist to shake his head as an attempt to cut the erupting habit off, with a light grumble, the Sushi-themed Duelist got his sister's duel disk ready for this tag duel that he was going to duel with Jaden.
Kuro hoped that it wasn't going to be splendor or heavily attentive, he just wanted to finish the tag duel, win or lose and be on his way.
Although...Jasmine was going to be watching...The desire to impress the strawberry blonde girl captivated the Sushi-themed Duelist, perhaps it was his driving force that made Kuro abide to the situation before him? His stance was a bit more courageous, his movement was starting to pick up as he fantasized the Rock-using Strawberry Blonde cheering Kuro on.
'Kuro! Kuro! He's our guy! He's the only one that I can trust to fry!' Kuro chuckled at the thought, he knew for sure that Jasmine would never say something like THAT, but a guy can dream no?
Nevertheless, with some motivation behind him, the Sushi-themed Duelist walked to the Dueling Arena, the intention of winning the approaching duel coursing through his mind.
The Sushi-themed Duelist arrived at the duel arena, the dueling field was filled with many smaller dueling fields, each of the dueling battlegrounds had a pair of students dueling against one of another, they were all paired up in colors, as they should be, the Slifers duel the Slifers, the Ra Yellows duel the Ra Yellows and the Obelisks duel the Obelisks.
The dueling field that truly stick out of of the eight total dueling fields was the one with Jaden Yuki on it, it caught most of the crowds eyes as they never seen a Slifer Red Student having to duel with a Obelisk Blue, in this case, it was Chazz Princeton.
"Hah! Time to crush you! You Slifer Slacker! you were lucky that you didn't bring your duel disk last time! You would've get thrashed otherwise!" Chazz taunted witha nasty but cocky smile on his face, Jaden didn't seemed to be fazed by the Chazz's words as he looked more braver than the elemental heroes that he summons and uses.
"Well, you can't say that for sure Chazz! Anything could happen in a duel! I think everyone knows that!" Jaden retorted, not really being serious about his starting duel with the Snobby Obelisk Blue Student.
"The only thing that is going to happen is that you're going to lose Jaden! Lets duel!" Chazz said with a mean growl, his duel disk activating and coming to life, Jaden's duel disk activated in the same way as they were about to duel.
"Umm...Guys?" Kuro chimed in, stopping both the two duelists right in there tracks.
"Oh, hey Kuro! You came for a closer look of this soon-to-be awesome duel?" Jaden asked, Chazz was quick to correct the Duelists words.
"You mean getting a closer look of me crushing a fellow Slifer Slacker?" Chazz said with a mean tone, Kuro huffed loudly as he struggled with his words, the Sushi Duelist could feel the crowd of eyes were staring at him, most likely in distaste, as Kuro was the one that practically put the duel on pause.
"Well...Due to not, doing the writing test of the advancement test..." Kuro coughed aloud in social angst, struggling to be more vocally confident as he felt the crowds of students looking on.
"C'mon, hurry it up! I didn't know Slifer Reds are this slow when it comes to speaking No wonder they take so long with their turns!" Chazz insulted to try to prod Kuro to spit it out.
"Well...I sort of have to duel you as well Chazz..." Kuro said with a sheepish look on his face, Chazz was at first a little surprise before he laughed aloud.
"Fine! Right after I squash Jaden into a pulp, I'll take you out right after!" Chazz continued to laugh until the quiet and somewhat mumbling Kuro continued on with his words.
"We'll see about that Chazz! I'm not going to hold back!" Jaden warned the Snobbish Obelisk Blue student, Chazz only laughed harder, not at all believing Jaden's statement.
"I'm not dueling you after you duel Jaden...I'm dueling WITH Jaden, against you, at the same time, two versus one..." Chazz eyes widened from such a turn of events.
"Wait what!? How is that fair?" Chazz argued to the two Slifer Red Students, a two-on-one duel is like fencing against two people at once, they have the same equipment, but they have the numbers gain.
"To be honest it really isn't...But hey! I got to correct a mistake on my part, nothing personal Chazz." Kuro said as he walked next to Jaden, getting his Sushi-Samurai Deck and slamming it into his deck slot of his Sisters duel disk, the ruby on the duel disk began to shine with its crimson-hued light. Chazz growled loudly as he was ready to accept this change of rules.
"Wait, lets make this fair! Chazz, if you can get a partner then we'll make this into a true tag duel!" Jaden smiled brightly as an idea just came up in his mind.
"Uhh...Jaden? We really should just duel Chazz alone, I mean...The Strength of numbers really do apply to duels you know..." Kuro tried to object but it seemed like Jaden was having none of that.
"That is true Kuro, but I want to have a challenge, and I never dueled Chazz yet so its only fair for him to be on the same level as us!" Jaden defended his actions.
"Hah! Yeah, I'll just get one of my friends so we can both crumble you two slackers into a trashy mess! RAIZOU!" Chazz yelled, calling the attention of his fellow Obelisk Blue friend, the friend known as Raizou came forward to Chazz after he was done dueling, he was smiling rather wickedly, as if he was truly satisfied after testing out his new and improved deck.
"What do you need Chazz?" Raizou asked as he started to scuffle through his cards, scanning through his newly acquired cards with a impressed look, Chazz scoffed loudly before speaking to his friend.
"I need you to duel with me, and teach these two Slifer Slackers some manners! You get it!?" the Snobbish Obelisk Blue Duelist barked at Raizou, the bulky and noticeably fit Raizou quickly agreed to Chazz's command with a swift nod.
"Hehehe! Lets do it!" He said as he inserted his deck into his duel disk.
"Time for you two Slifer Slackers to be sent back to dueling kindergarten!" Chazz said with a laugh as his Duel disk activated.
"Getting real tired of your insults Chazz...But lets..." Kuro took a deep breath as his own and his partner's duel disks activated.
"DUEL!"
Author's Note: Sorry for leaving it up for a cliffhanger ;-; and saying it was going to be the longest chapter, I decided to split the long chapter into a single bit, I didn't want to over-saturate the chapter length.
I also wanted to make sure I'm more grammatically correct and have my spelling correct, anyway,
I've been also been having writers block later and my motivation is decreasing recently, but it isn't decreasing enough for me to make more chapters of this story! :D so I'll see you guys later.