Chapter 10 : A Place to Call My Own

It had been a good day. Yuko and his friends had all been swimming for two full hours and had had a lot of fun altogether. Yuko's hair was now back to normal and he was all bandaged up again. He had been swimming with Luna and Leo, watching the others have a small diving competition. Akiza and Carly had been the judges and always rated either Jack or Yusei as being the best (favoritism much?). Crow got really annoyed, since he always got the lowest rating from the girl judges and ended up quitting half way, joining Yuko and the twins.

Now everyone was back at Yusei's and squashed together on the crouch, snuggled under a soft blue blanket while watching a few live duels that were happening in the Kaiba dome on the Tv. Before the commercials, there was a small ceremony dedicated to a duelist named Zane Truesdale who had been missing for 47 years now, which bought people to assume that had died. Being one of the best duelists in the world, a big gathering was being presented in the Kaiba dome before the dueling finals began. Yuko shrugged as he closely listen to the speeches of the ceremony, since Zane had been an inspiration to many duelists.

"By the way, this reminds me. Yuko, how about tomorrow we go back to Satellite to find the kids. We could have a small duel in front of them just to show that your fit and fixed. I bet they are worried sick about you, and Itzuki probably thinks that he killed you", said Crow amused, and sniffed.

Yuko smiled lightly, but let Crow finish. "Since I have a permit, I'll be able to take you past security and back, so you don't have to worry if we get caught", finished Crow still sniffing, since it turned out that he had caught a cold from swimming to much.

"Sure, I was gonna ask you at some point", said Yuko happily.

"Why are there still so much security around? I thought that since the criminal is now behind bars, they should have nothing to worry about", stated Akiza, who was curled up against Yusei.

Jack snorted. "That's true. Yesterday night, I was driving home and got stopped by a security punk. He was asking me all these strange question about whether I had been in touch with the Arcadia! Can you believe that? Did they even know who they were talking to?!" said Jack, a tone of anger in his posh voice.

Yusei cleared his throat. "Maybe I should check it out tomorrow?"

"I'll come too since tomorrow I'm free" said Akiza softly, causing Yusei to smile and kiss her gently on her warm forehead. Yuko rolled his eyes as he glimpsed over at the happy couple and sighed grinningly.

He noticed that the twins were already asleep, Leo was snoring against Crows shoulder while Luna was sleeping peacefully on Yuko's lap. The twins were looking almost identical since they had both taken out their hair bands. The only way that Yuko could tell them apart was from the length of Luna's hair which was slightly longer at the front then Leo's hair, but even then, it wasn't easy to see. Plus, Leo snores while Luna doesn't.

Carly had also fallen asleep against Jack's chest, with Jack's arm put over her shoulder. Yuko smiled at the sight and looked around at everyone. "All one big happy family", he thought. There was no place that he'd rather be. Yuko had finally found where he belonged. It was here, in the middle of these very kind, funny and trustworthy group of friends. Home.

Yuko: That day had really been exhausting, and I can tell all you readers that we were all really happy to finally be relaxing altogether on that warm couch! ^_^ I hope you all thought this chapter was nice and don't forget to Review, Follow or add to Favourites! :D

Crow: Yuko. It's morning! Aren't you tired of writing?

Yuko: zzzz...zzzz...n-no...zz...zz...I'm wide awake.

Crow: (Sighs) I'm telling you, you need to sleep more! :p

Yuko: I told you...zzzz...I'm just gotta publish this cha...zzzzzzz...pter...zzzzz (Yuko falls asleep)

Jack: (Yawns and grins as he notices Yuko sleeping) Oh Yuko...let's get you to bed.

Jack: (Picks Yuko up and carries him upstairs) Crow! You go ahead and publish the chapter!

Crow: (sighs) Fine! Well folks, it seems I'm the one that gonna publish this chapter! So don't forget to Review! I'm sure it'll make Yuko happy! ^_^