Aoi: new chapter! And this one is actually long! Hurrah!
"Hay guys, where's Eiko?" Anzu asked the next day.
"Yah she doesn't seem like the kind of girl who would just skip out on work," Mai added. Yugi looked down, he was hoping the two wouldn't notice. But how couldn't they! Eiko never missed work, she was often late but she never missed work completely.
"Eiko isn't coming." Jonouchi said with a tone of annoyance.
"What are you talking about?" Mai asked looking at him.
"Sigh, some thing is up with her, and we don't know what." Jonouchi said being as vague as possible.
"What do you mean, is she sick?" Mai said in a more demanding tone. Everyone was quiet.
"Yugi…" Anzu said quietly, "Is she…."
"No she's not sick," Yugi said answering her question.
"Well than what's up with her?" Mai asked giving Yugi a bit of a look. "We have a right to know."
"Look guys we might as well tell them," Honda said.
"Than go right ahead," Jonouchi said with a bit of an angry look.
"Your still not bitter about Eiko beating you are you?" Honda said looking at his friend, already anticipating the answer. A growl started to escape Jonouchi's mouth.
"Why would you be mad about that, Eiko has beaten you a bunch of times," Anzu said.
"Grrr! Its because she took my 'Red Eyes Black Dragon' when she won!" Jonouchi said exploding with once bottled up anger.
"What!" Anzu said taken aback. "Why would she do that?"
"Why are you so shocked?" Mai asked. Everyone turned to look at her. "She saw something that she thought would improve her deck, and she fought for it. That's they way duelist work. We see something good, we fight for it, and we hope we win!" every one looked at her. "I'm just saying what's what." Mai said annoyed with the looks everyone was giving her.
"It wasn't just that she took Jonouchi's dragon," Yugi explained, "Its how she got it."
"She won a duel right, the card was an antie," Mai said looking at Yugi.
"Yah, but she won with Osiris."
"What!" Mai exclaimed. "H-how did she?" Mai stammered. "She didn't beat you in a duel too did she Yugi?" Mai asked looking down at her friend.
"No." Jonouchi said firmly. "She stole it, from the game shop." The two girls looked at Jonouchi.
"I aught to slap you Jonouchi. I've might of only known Eiko for a little bit but she wouldn't ever-" Mai was interrupted by the sound of Anzu's phone. She looked at the screen.
"It's a text from Eiko!" she exclaimed.
"What's it say?" Honda asked walking over to Anzu.
"Come meet me in the park where I found my past. The dog and Yugi know were I am taking about." Anzu said reading the text aloud.
"First she steals my Red Eyes then she calls me a dog!" Jonouchi said shaking with anger. "Grrrr, come on!" Jonouchi said heading for the door.
"Where exactly are we going?" Honda asked following closely behind Jonouchi.
"Domino Park, were else?"
The group walked into center of Domino Park. It was a big clearing covered mostly with concrete and surrounded by trees. A big clock was in the middle of the clearing the time was about three.
"Why are we here again?" Anzu asked looking around the clearing.
"The text said to meat her were she found her past right?" Jonouchi asked.
"Yah, so?"
"This is where Eiko found Kaiba," Yugi explained.
"What do you guys mean by 'found' Kaiba?" Mai asked looking down at Yugi.
"Its nothing but a long story, it has nothing to do with this meeting." The group looked up, Eiko was leaning against the tall clock smiling. She wore ripped fishnets under black shot shorts, and a black tank top. She had a red headband and matching lipstick, silver hoops could be seen slightly hidden behind her hair. Her duel disk was fastened to her arm and she wore black combat boots.
"Eiko?" Anzu said looking at he girl with shock.
"The one and only. How have you been doing peach? Mai?" she said looking at the two. Mai wasn't buying it.
"Oh I've been better, I don't exactly like it when people try to impersonate my friends. Seriously you could of at least gotten some gold contacts you fake." Mai said shooting her a look.
"Well it doesn't really matter. I'm not here because of you. I'm here because of Yugi," Eiko said looking at Yugi. He met her gaze,
"What is it Eiko? What do you want?" Eiko smiled,
"What most duelists want, to duel the king."
"You want to duel me?" Yugi asked looking at her.
"Sure why not, I've already beaten you half-act friend. And Kaiba was a synch,"
"Wait, you beat rich boy?" Jonouchi said looking at her.
"Well if I didn't then how would I have this," Eiko said holding up the 'Blue Eyes White Dragon.' Everyone just looked at her, shock on their faces. "Anyways, I figure I might as take a shot at the king. Considering I've beaten two of his biggest competitors." A grin spread across her face, "and taken their best cards in the process." Yugi gritted his teeth,
"Fine, but on one condition."
"Shoot," Eiko said crossing her arms.
"If I win, you return all the card you've won to their rightful owner," Yugi said looking up at Eiko. The corners of Eiko's mouth tilted downwards a bit as she considered her options. 'I have to duel him, but if I mess up I'll lose all that I've worked for.' Eiko thought to herself. She suddenly had and idea.
"Fine, but lets even the playing field shall we?" she said advancing words Yugi. "If I win you give me all the God cards and renounce your title as king." Yugi considered it for a moment.
"Fine," he finally said. Eiko smiled. "But just remember Eiko, I wont be easy to beat." She smiled some more,
"I vaguely remember a boy named Seto Kaiba saying much of the same before I beat him." Eiko turned and started to walk away.
"Tomorrow, seven o'clock at Kaiba Corp. stadium," Eiko said back turned to the group. She stopped suddenly, "that's fine with you, right Kaiba?" she said. She turned to face the group. They turned around to see Kaiba coming out of the surrounding brush. "I thought a scavenger like you would be following me." Seto clenched his jaw,
"Don't you dare call me that." He said an angry look on his face.
"Whatever," Eiko said tilting he head to the side and making a gesture with her hand. "I'll see you tomorrow Yugi." Eiko said. She started to walk away,
"Wait." Mai said. Eiko stopped in her tracks.
"Dose little Miss Harpy Lady want to duel me too?" Eiko asked.
"What I want to know is why did you only steal Osiris?" Mai asked with a serous tone.
"Come again?" Eiko asked looking at Mai strangely.
"If I understand correctly, all the God cards are in one place, if you were able to get one of them, why not take all?" Eiko was silent for a moment. She brought her hand to her chin contemplating her answer.
"I guess you could say it wasn't my 'fate' to take the other two Gods. Much how it was only in Yugi's fate to win the God cards in Battle City."
"Ha!" Kaiba said, his arms crossed, "you honestly don't believe that do you?" Eiko didn't reply. She just looked at Kaiba with a look of annoyance. He groaned, "not any more of this 'fate' crap. Magic, destiny, fate it doesn't exist!" he said looking at Eiko. "That's just stuff people use to make them self's feel better. But it's not real! Fate doesn't shape what happens to you. You chose what you do and the outcome is. So just drop this whole 'it was meant to be' crap." Eiko just smiled.
"Ironic, that out of anyone here your life has been changed the most by fate Kiaba." She closed her eyes shaking her head, "but maybe you'll like this answer better. I have a 'connection' with Osiris. Much like you how you have a connection with your Blue Eyes." Before Kaiba could say anything, Eiko continued. "Don't try and deny it Kaiba. Even now as we speak it's eating you up inside about the fact that I have one of your Blue Eyes. You feel as if you failed. Because it's your job to protect them, much like it is their job to protect you." Her smile broadened, "I can't help but feel as if you're compensating for some other failure. Like say, oh I don't know, having the inability to protect someone's life?"
"That's enough Eiko!" Yugi yelled. Everyone looked at him. It wasn't like Yugi to just barge in like that. "I'll be there, seven o'clock, tomorrow"
"All right then. I'll see you then Yugi." Eiko said walking away. "Feel free to bring a few friends!" she said waving as she walked. As she diapered form sight Kaiba stated to leave too.
"Yugi," he said stopping in his tracks. "I've had my chance to beat her, and I failed." He turned to face his rival. "You better not screw this up!" he yelled. He then continued to walk away.
"I wont Kaiba. I wont."
Aoi: I hope I got the whole, "I don't believe in destiny" speech right. It's a lot harder than you think! I got to give Kasuki Takahshi credit. (Not that I didn't already give him credit) as for Eiko' s speech, did you guys catch the Kisara reference? If you did I love you all forever! I was so sad when she died! You might think that because I am a Kaiba shipper that I wouldn't like Kisara but I really do! She is one of my favorite charters in Yu-gi-oh and defiantly my favorite female lead. Any way, what do you thing about this whole situation? Eiko taking cards and nailing Seto in the gut. Give my your predictions! I want to see what you think! (No cheating PK! You know what I'm talking about!) See you guys next time on, 'The Dragon Tamer and the Goddess'!