Chapter 5 : Practice Makes Perfect

It was 3:30pm and Jack was sipping his cup of "Blue Eyes Mountain Coffee" in front of a cafe close to Yusei's house. He was reading a book, the front cover showing a duelist standing in front of what seemed to be the three Egyptian God cards. The duelist on the front cover was wearing a small cape and had the craziest hair Yuko had ever seen. Yuko walked in closer to check the title of the book. It read "The King of Games" in big, bold letters.

"Probably a fictional story", he thought grinningly.

Yuko decided to take a seat in front of Jack who was ignoring him completely, and noticed Leo and Luna walking towards them. Not wanting to disturb Jacks privacy, he walked over to the twins who apparently had just finished school. When Leo saw Yuko, he started waving and jogged up to Yuko, bursting with energy.

"Yuko! Did you get your deck together yet? Cause I know I'm ready!" yelled Leo energetically, clicking a button on his duel disk which caused it to swing open. "Now how about a duel?"

Yuko nodded. "Alright, though I would have liked more time in finding some better cards".

It was true, Leo hadn't really given many good cards, but that didn't bother Yuko very much, since Yusei had given him a few spare cards too which were actually pretty good. Yuko was just glad that he finally had a deck together and was ready to duel once again.

Leo jumped in the air with excitement, but then stopped when he noticed Yuko hadn't attached a duel disk to either of his arms. "Umm, Yuko. Did you forget to bring your duel disk or something?" he asked, sounding a little bummed out.

Yuko looked down at his arm and sighed. "Yeah, about that. I think I'm gonna need to buy one at some point", he admitted, causing Leo to shrug while Luna reached into her bag and took out a pink duel disk.

"I know its kinda girly", she remarked shyly, and handed it over to Yuko.

"That's fine, I really don't mind", said Yuko reassuringly and smiled.

Luna smiled back and happily handed him a card. "Here, take this card. Since Leo gave you some of his cards, I wanted to contribute in making your deck better as well".

Yuko nodded and thanked her. The card read "Hanawata".

"Funny card", he whispered to himself, and placed it in his deck taking out a card that was only put in his deck just to make enough cards (basically, he took out a filler card).

Yuko loaded his new deck into the duel disk and strapped it on to his arm after having adjusted the size. He then pressed on a small pink button and the duel disk clicked open. His deck started shuffling uncontrollably and then stopped as quickly as it started.

"I'm only good for one duel, since I still need to rest from my last duel", said Yuko, trying not to sound like he had already given up before they had even started the duel.

"That's fine by me, one duel is all I need to win!" Leo shouted in excitement and the two duelists took their places in front of each other and they both drew 5 cards, starting the duel..

The duel went on for quite a while. People had started to crowd around at the cafe, which started to put pressure on Yuko, while Leo had most of the fun in summoning his "Morphtronic" monsters and using strategies that prevented Yuko from attacking. At one point, Leo excitedly managed to summon his most powerful monster, the "Power Tool Dragon", which was very troublesome for Yuko to fight off.

Near to the end of the duel, Yuko managed to use the effect of "Hanawata" against Leo's Trap card "Magic Cylinders", protecting his life points which got Leo really worked up at his sister because he could have won, if Yuko wasn't given that card by her. Leo then began to brag about how his dragon was unbeatable, but in the end, Yuko managed to destroy the Power Tool Dragon using a combination of the monster card "Gigastone Omega" and the trap card "Torrential Tribute".

Now the field was empty and it was Yuko's turn, so he drew a card. The card was "Swords of Revealing Light". He ginned lightly and was about to activate it when he noticed that Leo had a few tears developing in his eyes.

At that moment, Yusei walked in to see what was happening, with Akiza along side him.

Yuko sighed, taking another look at the card he drew and looked back up at Leo. "I give up! You win, Leo".

Leo looked up in surprise and wiped his eyes with is sleeve. Everyone looked at Yuko, puzzled and confused, even Jack who had now finished reading his book was staring at Yuko with judgmental eyes.

"What did you say", said Leo, making sure if what he had heard was correct and that he wasn't just imagining it.

"Even if I just destroyed your Power Tool Dragon, you still have more life points than me and you still have 4 cards in your hand, while I only have 1. Therefore, there is nothing more I can do since on your turn, you'll probably summon a monster and finish me off. Therefore, I give up".

As the duel came to an end, the audience of people that had been watching the duel began to applaud after having seen the very impressive duel, even Yusei and Akiza were clapping. Yuko collected all the cards that he had used from his graveyard and shuffled them back into his deck. He noticed Jack get up and leave as some of Leo's friends ran up to Leo, to compliment him for his skills and his victory. Yuko walked over to Leo and placed his hand over Leo's head, who looked up with puzzled eyes.

"You did good, your skills are impressive and you really caught me by surprised when you summoned that Power Tool Dragon", Yuko complimented.

Leo grinned. "Yeah, but you managed to destroy my Power Tool Dragon!"

Yuko noticed Yusei followed by Akiza coming towards them. "It's because you rely too much on that one card", said Yusei with his comforting smile. "Even if my Stardust Dragon falls, I always have Junk Warrior or Nitro Warrior still ready to let out some steam".

Leo chuckled and scratched the back of his head. "Yeah, I guess your right", he replied grinningly.

Akiza turned over to Yuko, still clinging on to Yusei. "Well played, you did the right thing", she reassured.

Yuko blushed slightly, but tried to hide it from Yusei.

Yusei turned to Yuko. "You have some skills Yuko. I'd like to duel you some day as well, when you get your deck all sorted out".

Yuko nodded and yawned."Yeah, cause right now my deck really isn't as good as Itzuki's deck. I'm sure in time, I might even be able to get a synchro monster and then I'll start winning", he claimed and put his deck back into his black deck box.

Yusei shrugged. "I know what you mean. It was difficult for me to find a synchro monster in the Satellite, let alone a tuner monster".

"Hey Yuko!"

Yuko turned to find Jack gazing at him from a distant. "Follow me, I wanna show you something".

Yuko raised an eyebrow, a little puzzled by the sudden demand, but nodded and turned to thank Leo for the duel who still seemed a little down. He then, went over to thank Luna for the card (who strangely blushed and told Yuko that he could keep it), and paid for Jack's cup of tea to the waitress, Stephanie (who blushed just as much as Luna did and asked whether Yuko or Jack would be back for more tea tomorrow). Yuko was bout to answer when he hear Yusei cut him off.

"Don't worry, Yuko", said Yusei making his way to his duel runner with Akiza tagging along closely. "I'll tell Jack to pay you back tomorrow morning".

Yuko smiled and put a thumbs up to Yusei before following Jack.

Yuko: I hope that you all like the story so far and don't forget to Review, Follow or add to Favourite! :D

Leo: Hey Yuko!

Luna: Hi Yuko!

Yuko: Hey guys :)

Leo: Whoa! What's all this?

Yuko: I'm just writing fan fiction.

Luna: That's so cool, Yuko! Can I read it?

Yuko: Uhh...maybe later :P

Leo: By the way, Yuko! Out of me and Luna, who do you think is the better duelist?

Yuko: ...

Yuko: umm...I'm not sure (Luna obviously :3 )