A/N: Yay! Another chapter! I'd like to thank Aqua girl 007 again for her suggestions and help. This chapter shouldn't be as slow as the last one, so that's good. Well, let's get into it!

Disclaimer: For disclaimer look after the first A/N in Chapter 1


I'm sitting in class. The teacher is just sitting at her desk like she normally does, just typing away on her laptop. Everyone is causing a riot about some city thing that's happening soon.

"Did you hear about that Battle City..." Battle City what? What? With everyone talking at once I couldn't hear the end of the questions. At least the kid behind me isn't yelling about it. He's actually just sitting there reading. I can't believe he can read in all of this commotion. I sit in front of a white haired kid. I don't really know him too well, but I sit in front of him, so that's good enough for now. I turned back around in my desk.

"Hey, Za!" I looked over to the source of the sound. It was Tea calling me from over near Yugi and his friends. I waved back quietly. She motioned for me to go over there with them, so I did.

"So have you heard about the Battle City Tournament? Oh, who am I kidding? Of course you have! No one can shut up about it!" Um, well I haven't heard about it.

"What are you talking about?" Maybe I shouldn't have asked that...

"WHAT? You mean you haven't heard about it?" Well, geez.

"No, what is it?" Yugi, Tea, Joey, and Tristan all looked at me like I was insane or had just killed seven people.

"It's a Duel Monsters tournament." Oh, figures. It's a Duel Monsters tournament. No wonder why I hadn't heard about it.

"It's only gonna be one of the best things ever!" Joey said. Huh, well good for all of those people who are absolutely crazy for Duel Monsters. I've played it before, but I'm not absolutely nuts about it like Yugi and Joey. They started to go into details and I kinda started to tune them out. After-all, it's not like I'm going to duel in it. I started looking around. There were little circles of classmates everywhere discussing the tournament. The only people who weren't were the kid that sits behind me and Seto Kaiba. They were both reading. HOW ARE THEY READING IN THIS LOUD ROOM? While I continued looking around, I saw the kid who sits behind me out of the corner of my eye. He was looking at me. He must've saw me looking at him before. I went back to listening to Joey and Yugi talk about the tournament.

"Anyway Yug, we've got some training to do." What? Why do they need to train? They're already top of the line duelists. I got side tracked with this thought and hadn't noticed that the kid who sits behind me had come over.

"Hello, Yugi and Tea and Tristan and Joey and-" He stopped. "I apologize, I don't know your name."

"Oh, hi Ryou. This is Zazunum. Zazunum, that's Ryou." Yugi introduced us.

"Hi, Ryou. It's nice to meet you." Oh, gosh. I'm horrible with introductions. Hey, at least he has something in common with me: white hair. As if that actually counts for anything, though.

"It's nice to meet you too, Zazunum. Wow, that name's a mouthful." I laughed. Yeah, nobody calls me by Zazunum anyways, so...

"You can just call me Za, if you want. Not even my sister calls me Zazunum anymore." Tea and Yugi laughed, given the stuff they already know about my sister.

"So, are you a duelist as well?" Ryou asked.

"Not really what I would consider a 'duelist'; I don't think I'm that great. How about you?"

"I am, although I prefer RPGs, but I hardly play them anymore."

"Oh really? I like RPGs, too, but why don't you play them very often anymore?"

"I'd prefer not to talk about it." Nice. I just met the guy and i've already said something I shouldn't have.

"Oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to make you feel bad." Ryou smiled.

"It's okay. I have my friends: Yugi, Tristan, Joey, Tea, and you."

"Oh, that's really nice." I smiled back. "So, are you going to join the tournament, Ryou?" He shrugged.

"I don't know. Maybe."

"You think about that." Joey chimed in. Now came on the excessive rambling of Joey about Duel Monsters.

"Just shut up and duel." I said. Tea, Tristan, Ryou, and Yugi laughed.

"Yeah, Joey. It's been your turn for minutes, now." Yugi said. Joey continued to duel with Yugi until the bell rang.

"Guys, meet up outside in fifteen minutes and we'll all go together to get the duel disks." I went back to my seat and grabbed my stuff. I waited and held the door for everyone. After everyone left I said goodbye to the teacher and left the room. I looked out the double glass doors and saw Tea and Yugi talking. Yugi was blushing. Ooh, is he finally doing it? Is he finally going to ask her out? Oh gosh he looks happy he must've done it. I went outside to meet them. A little while later, everyone else came too. We started walking to the place to get the duel disks.


A/N: Yay! Three chapters in two days!? Fantastic, right? Feel free to review; I could always use the suggestions.