Chapter 7 : A Friendly Token

It was now 7:45pm and the evening stars had just begun to shine out across the indigo, night sky. Yuko had just arrived outside his new home and knocked on the front door, while trying not to spill the pot of noodles he had bought on the way here (that was in fact too salty, but it didn't bother him). The door swung opened to Crow, who looked like he had just been working on modifications for his duel runner, judging from the state of his hands.

"Well, well, well...look who decided to show up. Where have you been, dude?" asked Crow curiously and swept his hands together, trying to remove the filth from them.

"I just went for an evening walk and came across some noodles", said Yuko casually, pulling another load of noodle out of the cup and slurped it up quickly.

Crow snorted grinningly, his eyes half open and yawned. "Well, at least your back", he replied and invited Yuko inside. He found Jack was also working on the duel runner engine, while Yusei and Akiza were comfortably sitting on the couch watching Tv.

"Hey Yuko, your back! Where were you this whole time?" said Yusei sleepily, his cobalt eyes turned to look kindly at Yuko's direction. Akiza was resting her head against his shoulder, her gleaming eyes also fixed on Yuko

Yuko looked to his side and noticed Jack glaring at him with cold eyes, them cleared his throat. "I just needed some air after having lost to Leo, and then I stopped at a noodle shop and got my dinner". He slurped up the last of the noodles and dropped the empty cup in the bin next to the Tv. "Though, it was a bit too salty", stated Yuko while picking on his teeth.

Yusei chuckled. "Well, then you probably went to the wrong place to get those noodles".

Jack chuffed. "Next time, you should go get some in a small corner shop situated near the Domino City Dueling Stadium", he blurted, and put on his usual white coat. "Well chaps, I gotta get back to Carly's place. Apparently, she want to take me to this restaurant close to the New Domino City Mall. I'll probably be sleeping at Carly's tonight as well,but dont get any ideas. There is no way that I'm crashing in those pathetic bed things which you keep upstairs again!"

Akiza giggled lightly at the commented as Yusei nodded, totally unaffected by Jacks complaints. " Ok, I'll see you tomorrow, Jack".

Jack wiped his dirty hands in a old purple cloth then threw it over to Yuko. "See ya tomorrow, Yuko!" he said grumpily, and made his way towards the front door.

"See ya!" said Yuko who hadn't a clue about who Carly was. Just as Jack left, Yuko looked down at the dirty, old cloth which Jack had thrown at him and felt that there was something wrapped inside it. He unraveled the cloth and found a scrunched up piece of paper that slip out and fell on to the concrete floor. Yuko reached down to pick it up, then straightened the paper out against the kitchen table and found that it was a note, written in a very scribbly hand-writing. Yuko read it silently to himself.

"Here's a little something that I imagine you'll be now needing. I used to use it, but now I've surpassed it's power, so I'm giving it to you. Don't tell anyone about this note or you will pay the price of pain!".

Yuko smiled and looked in the folds of the cloth. It was a card, and not just any old card, it was "Magna Drago", a tuner monster. Yuko cheerfully took out his deck out from his black deck box which was attached to his belt and added the card in.

"Jack doesn't seem like such an egoistic guy after all", Yuko whispered happily. However, just as Yuko mentioned those kind words, he noticed something else written at the bottom of the page.

"If you don't want it, then I'll have it back!"

Yuko shrugged. "I take back what I said".

Yuko: Yes! That makes 2 tuner monsters which were given to me! The first one being Hanawata! ^_^ Thanks for reading this chapter and I hope you all liked it! Don't forget to Review, Follow or add to Favourites! :D

Crow: Hanawata!? You have one of those?

Yuko: Well, yes! Why?

Jack: (munching on noodles) Itsh rubbish! Chake it out!

Yuko: Oh shut up, Jack! Don't talk with your mouth full! _

Yusei: (smirks while watching Tv)

Jack: (gulps down the food) No, I'm serious! Yusei! Help settle this!

Yusei: I'm afraid that I must agree. Don't talk with your mouth full :3

Jack: -_-