Chapter 15 : Misunderstandings

It was midday and Yuko had just made to the entrance of the New Domino City Duel Academy. He remembered seeing in the newspapers images of where the previous location of the school was. It had been on a island (which Yuko thought was quite inconvenient), but now it was easy to get to and it looked as stunning as it did before.

Yuko strolled down the path which lead to the entrance and looked around him. There was no one around, which bought Yuko to assume that the students were all still in class.

Yuko sighed, relived to see how quiet it was and that no one was around to judge him in his PJs.

Yuko ran up the stairs and barged in through the front entrance to find the area peaceful just like it was outside. Yuko thought it was best to go find a receptionist of some sort so to give him a clear indication as to where Akiza was at the moment. He slowly began to walk down the long corridor which lead to a big round room and instantly noticed a person (Yuko couldnt judged whether the person was a man or a woman, but just declared the person to be woman) rushing down the stair with a black clip board in her hand. She seemed tall, her long blond hair was held back into a pony tail, but she didn't seem to look to happy. She wasn't young, as Yuko could notice when he closed in one her and she was very formally dressed, wearing a long blue coat with yellow shoulder pads.

Yuko smirked, but tried to keep a straight face. "Finally, someone can talk to!", he thought happily, and dashed over to the woman, who looked at him confused and a little surprise as to what Yuko was wearing.

"Hi, I'm Yuko Tatsumi and I'm here to see Akiza Izinski. Could you please tell me wear she is?"

The woman smiled and nodded. "She's in PE class at the moment, just down the corridor to your left" she said, point at the direction of the corridor.

Yuko nodded in appreciation and began running towards the corridor entrance.

"Oh, and one more thing, young man", yelled the woman, almost making Yuko trip and fall at the raised voice. Yuko turned round to find the woman jogging up to him. She then handed out a small see-through package with clothes inside it. "I noticed that you forgot these. Here. I'll just put it one your school bill".

Yuko's eyes widened. He was about to explain that he wasn't a student when a large group of adults, all formally dress came through the front entrance. The woman turned to greet them with a tired looking smile and waved Yuko away quickly, leaving him with a confused state of mind.

Yuko sighed and continued to walk through the left corridor, the last things he could here from the room behind him being, "My name is Chancellor Crowler and I've been the head of this school for over 40 years now. I welcome all of you to Duel Academy".

Yuko chuffed. "So that was the principle", he thought, and continued to run do the corridor, which lead to some very modern changing rooms. According to the door signs, Yuko hesitantly entered the boys changing rooms which was very well organized and well cleaned up. So clean in fact, that Yuko could see his reflection on the ground as he walked over it.

"Wow", he whispered, and sat on a small changing room bench in between two rows of sports lockers. He quickly tore open the package and in it was a sports kit with a grey jacket (with a duel academy logo on the front) and also a pair of grey jogging bottoms.

Yuko put them on, wanting to see how he looked in them. He then quickly ran over to the mirror and smiled gleefully. " Not bad! I look rather good in them", he told himself and posed a few times. The fabric of the clothes were very soft, that it bought Yuko to decided that he should wear these more often.

He threw the empty package wrappings into a small bin next to the entrance to the boys showers and turned over to a light blue door to his left. There was sign carved on the front which read "Entrance to gym".

Yuko took a deep breath. He had never been in a school before and didn't know what to expect. He just knew that he had to talk to Akiza and that was reason why he was here. After having built up enough courage, Yuko pushed against the door and it slowly opened.

There was a lot of noise as Yuko entered through the gym. The noise of many footstep flooded the room and Yuko could see a whole bunch of people running around the gym in a great big oval. There was a woman with long red hair in the middle of the gym who was encouraging them, pushing the students to do better.

The running shortly finished as the whistle was blown and everyone went over to the side for a short rest. Yuko walked over to the woman and presented himself to her.

"Hello, I'm Yuko Tatsumi and I'm sorry to bother you, but I need to talk to Akiza who I was told is in your class", said Yuko casually, unaware about the hordes of stares coming from the students resting.

The woman nodded presently and smiled. "Pleased to meet you. My name is Fonda Fountain and I will be your new sports coach from now on. You can talk to Akiza while we do the next bunch of exercises".

Yuko shrugged and was about to object to the fact that he wasn't a student,when Fonda clapped her hands and yelled at her class, "Break times over! Now time for some sit-ups". She then pointed over to Yuko and smirked. "You too Yuko! No excuses!"

Yuko sighed. "What have I gotten myself into?"

It was now lunch break, and Yuko's muscles were burning after having participated in the rather tough PE session. He had noticed that Akiza had been avoiding him every time he managed to come close to her which really bothered him. It had also started to bring suspicion amongst the other students and rumors started to quickly develop, but Yuko didn't notice.

As he left the changing rooms, he decided that to avoid getting lost, he'd follow the crowd of students the were now flooding the corridors. They lead Yuko to a very long and wide room (which wasn't very high) with yellow walls and rows of bench tables. From the smell of food and the trays piled up next to the entrance, Yuko could instantly make out that he was now in the cafeteria.

Yuko smiled, being as hungry as he was, Yuko decided to eat first and find Akiza later.

He got himself two pots of noodles (which looked a bit different then to the ones he usually had) and sat down on a table next to the cafeteria walls, but still close to the center of the room. A few students came by and smirked as they passed Yuko (who was still in his gym kit). He smiled back at them awkwardly, but then concentrated on eating his lunch.

"A free lunch is the best kind of lunch"L he thought to himself, and gulped down the noodles at an incredible speed. He could here a few students giggling to his right which made him feel a little uncomfortable, but he tried his best to ignore them.

Suddenly, as Yuko was about to start on to his second cup of noodles, a girl came over and sat down in front of him. Yuko looked up, and was relived to find that it was only Akiza. She was wearing a scarlet red jacket and skirt which once again, looked very good on her. Under the jacket, she wore a snowy white shirt which was buttoned up, covering most of her chest area. Yuko still thought that she looked as divine as ever and blushed lightly at the sight of her ruby colored eyes staring directly at him.

He quickly drank the rest of his noddles (almost choking) and threw the empty cup over at a bin to his right, a few feet away from him (which he missed...again, causing other students around him to giggle some more).

Akiza a grinned slightly, but tried to keep a serious face. "What are you doing here, Yuko! The people from my PE class are asking really awkward questions about you and it's starting to bug me", she whispered, her eyes fixed on Yuko.

Yuko shrugged. "I'm sorry. I only came here cause I needed to talk to you".

Akiza looked down at the small green and black rucksack next to Yuko's leg and pointed at it. "Then why did you bring that with you?" she said grumpily.

Yuko looked down, then back to Akiza and grinned. "I found this in the boys changing rooms and took it so that I could put my PJs into it".

Akiza looked at Yuko confused, which bought Yuko to explain what had happened when he had just arrived at Duel Academy in his PJ's on and how two teachers had mistook him for a student. He kept the explanation brief, but it was enough to make Akiza giggle and laugh almost throughout the whole story.

After finishing, Akiza sniffed and nodded with a smile. "Now I understand...sorry".

Yuko nodded back in appreciation and was about to explain to Akiza about the duel disk when the school bell rang. Akiza sighed, then got up and grabbed on to Yuko's sleeve, who tripped on the table leg and quickly swiped his bag from under him as he was being tugged off his seat. "My final two classes are Biology and Art and your gonna sit right beside me so that I can supervise you and prevent you from getting yourself into any trouble".

Yuko chuckled, and followed her closely. He was happy to finally be spending time with Akiza, since he hadn't had time before because he was afraid that it might annoy Yusei. Akiza lead Yuko towards her locker, but claimed that she had to quickly stop by the ladies toilets which meant that Yuko needed to wait out in the corridor for a bit, and decided to go lean against the wall opposite the toilet door.

As Yuko took a step back towards the locker wall, all of a sudden a foot from behind tripped him up. He fell to the ground backwards and bumped his head hard against a lock door, yelping in pain as he felt his chest sting and burn, causing his body to overheat. He stroked the back of his head and looked up to find a group of around 11 boys looking down at him. They were all glaring at him with evil, jealous eyes and a few of them laughed at the sight of Yuko.

One of them then stepped forward, which Yuko assumed was the leader of this group of bullies. He had short spike black hair that shot up vertically, wore a dark blue jacket which was clearly filled in by the muscles under it, and was also wear big maroon boots which went over his blue trousers sleeves. However, what Yuko thought was the most intimidating aspect of this person was his t-shirt that read "Guns don't kill people, I kill people".

Yuko gulped at the sight and got up trying to keep his cool, but still rubbing his head.

"What can I do for you gentlemen?" said Yuko in an unfriendly, mocking tone.

The tall boy grunted. "Why is it that Akiza, the prettiest and hardest-to-get girl decides to suddenly become friends with a new kid and gets him to follow her around".

Yuko rolled his eyes, and cleared his throat. "Well, firstly Akiza is hard-to-get because she already has a boyfriend. Secondly, I am not a new kid and thirdly I am a friend to her and to her outside of school. Right now, Akiza's dragging me with her simply because she's just trying to keep me out of trouble!"

After hearing the explanation, the gang of bullies around Yuko closed in, trying to block any means of him escaping. The head bully began cracking his fingers and sniggered. "You've got guts to talk to us like that, runt. Not only do you steal Akiza from us, but you make up excuses just so that you can keep her to yourself! Everyone here has tried to claim her, how is it that you made her laugh so much at lunch break and to us she hardly even smiles!" he stated grumpily, then raised his right fist high in the air above Yuko, and the gang began cracking their fists intimidatingly.

Yuko sighed. "This day just keeps getting better and better".

Yuko: Oh crap, this doesn't look good for me :P Oh well...Review, Follow or add to Favourites! Also, if any of you have found any mistakes in my writing, please tell me! Thank you all for reading this far and I'll try to keep the story spicy! :D

Jack: Wait...when did this happen?

Yuko: Last year.

Jack: WHAT! Why didn't you call me? I could've helped you out?

Luna: What happened?

Jack: Last year, Yuko got beat up by a gang of Duel Academy seniors.

Luna: WHAT! Yuko!? Why didn't you tell us? O_O

Yuko: (sighs) It's not what it seems, as you may soon find out in the next chapter!

Jack: Ohh...well, that's a shame -_-

Luna: (angry) Jack! Fightings bad! :(

Jack: Whatever. Fighting usually helps me to solve my arguments.

Luna: Yes...we all know that T_T