Shin was happily waiting with his mother and Mokuba as a limo pulled up in front of school. Seto opened the door and invited everyone to hop in. Tea and Seto sat across from Shin and Hina. Mokuba decided he wanted to sit on the floor between them.
"So Shin, what kind of deck are you interested in?" Tea asked since she was curious. He looked up and Tea was happy to see and excited sparkle. "It's a surprise!" Tea chuckled with Seto behind her hand. "It will be good to see the gang again outside of school I mean." Tea had been busy dancing and helping the brothers with their game.
Seto groaned, "Just not the mutt!" Tea smacked him on the chest playfully, "Be nice to him Seto he's my friend! You like his sister just fine anyhow." Seto sighed, "Fine," He looked to Mokuba who until now had never really played duel monsters it was more his thing he had to ask. "Will you be making a deck too Mokuba? I don't mind paying for them."
Hina looked surprised since he had already said he would purchase a whole custom deck for Shin. She remained silent since he smiled and she shrugged. Tea grinned, 'Nice woman and a good mother. Loves her boy she's young for a mom though.' "Hey how did you come to have Shin? You look around our age."
Hina smiled, "Shin is actually my nephew but, when his parents passed away four years ago I was the only relative willing to take him in. I refused to let him fall into the system." Tea smiled warmly in return, "Would have done the same. Family is everything." Seto looked at Hina even more appraisingly while Tea smirked towards the window. 'Hook, Line, and Sinker…Seto's interested.'
As they parked across the street from the Game Shop the two boys hopped out excited, "I want to make a magic inspired deck." Mokuba announced as he looked up at Tea. She smiled and held out her hand for Shin to grab, "You still want to keep your deck idea a secret Shin?" The young boy nodded with a small smile. Hina watched him gladly and turned to Seto, "I can't thank you and your brother enough for doing this." Seto shook his head, "You should thank her, and Tea gave my brother the idea. We just agreed that it would be a good step to help him come out of his shell a little."
Hina still smiled and thanked him anyway, "Then let me thank you for offering to buy his first deck. I honestly have no idea how much they cost or how to build a proper deck for the game. He was already talking about practicing so he could join in the tournaments." She giggled, "I think we're creating a monster."
Seto nodded with a small smirk, "That's a good sign that he is going to enjoy this enough and start making friends. You'd be surprised at how easy it can be to do so no matter the other duelists' ages in tournaments. Lots of people make friends of all ages." Hina just saw the excitement on Shin's face, "His mother would have loved to see this. She really loved her little boy."
Tea entered the shop and Mokuba greeted the famous duelists as Shin stood star struck. "Hey Shin, come meet everyone. These guys are friends of mine." Tea moved forward with Shin as Seto and Hina stood by the door with Solomon who laughed at the amazed boys face. "Hey seems to be a shy youngster, huh?" Hina smiled, "I think he's in shock. He's meeting his dueling idol."
Solomon guessed, "Yugi?" Hina laughed, "You would think that but, no…Joey Wheeler." Seto groaned and slapped his hand over his eyes, "Not the mutt!" Hina just looked amused at the pained expression on his face.
Shin ran up to Joey who looked shocked before he smiled, "Well hey there kid, what's your name?" Tea smiled widely as she saw the eagerness, "I'm Shin and I'm your biggest fan Joey!" Yugi and the others looked shocked. While Tristen laughed, "Aw that's cute you got a little fan now Joey. Wonder if he duels better than you!"
Joey grinned at the kid before saying, "Nice to meet ya Shin. Tristen Shuddup!" Tea smiled as Shin jumped up and down, "Can you help me pick out cards for my Time Wizard deck Joey?" Mokuba had already walked up to Atem asking about a magician style deck. Tea sighed at another opportunity lost to speak with Atem but smiled at the kids. Joey crouched down and laughed, "Sure kid, why not. Let's start by finding you a Time Wizard and a Time Machine magic card and even a Thousand Year Old Dragon just to start with." He looked to Solomon, "You have those cards here Gramps?"
Solomon laughed, "I have Time Wizard and Time Machine, not too sure about the Dragon though Joey." Joey just grinned a little as the man found the cards to start with. He went to search for the dragon but in the meantime Shin started looking at other cards with Joey. He pulled out scape goat and pot of greed. Joey and Shin had fun picking out all sorts of cards while Mokuba was building his deck adding in some trap cards.
Shin started looking at some trap cards now that he had about 20 cards. He needed another 20 for a full deck. Tea went back to the magic cards and picked two cards out the swords of revealing light followed by monster reborn. She then went to the trap cards and grabbed the Energy Absorbing Monolith. "Here you go Shin these are 3 very useful cards." Shin smiled and thanked Tea as Yugi and Joey looked at the cards in awe, "Gramps I didn't know we had that card?"
Shin looked happy as he retrieved a balanced deck of Monsters, Magic, and Trap cards. Solomon rung up the cards but did mention, "I do apologize but, I could find a Thousand Year Old dragon." Joey grabbed his deck and took a card out handing it to Shin after Kaiba paid for the two decks.
"Here ya go Shin; I can always hunt down another one but, can't let my biggest fan go without a complete deck, now can I." Shin looked at the card in amazement before asking Joey, "Are you sure you want to give me your thousand year old dragon, Joey?" Joey smiled and everyone smiled as he shuffled it into the kid's deck. "Yeah, I can find another one but, this is your chance to shine buddy."
"Thank you Joey! I can't wait to join a tournament, I'm gonna beat you in a duel someday!" Shin exclaimed, Joey ruffled his hair, "I'm lookin' forward to it." The day ended full of laughter and Atem just watched his love with a soft gaze without her noticing causing Solomon to chuckle. "Ah kids these days."
