Disclaimer: see chapter one

Chapter 55: The Tennis Jock

Kagome was running in a forest, while hurt and betrayed, by the people that she has considered as a second family. Just then, a huge boomerang came flying towards her, while cutting a few trees down. She ducked and the boomerang flew over her head and the boomerang flew back and caught by a young woman in a demon slayer outfit and she says, "Damn it, I can't believe that I missed!"

Kagome slowly looked up to see a familiar face, with a cold smile, "Sa…Sango!"

The woman known as Sango unsheathed her katana and charged at Kagome. Kagome jumped out of the way and made a run for it, once again.

Sango roars out, "You can run, Kagome, but you can't hide for long, bitch!"

Kagome was panting as she was trying to find the bone-eaters well and she see a stream of green fire coming at her from the right side, but she moved out of the way and landed on her behind. She jumped onto her feet and started running, until she made it to the Bone-Eater's well and without a second thought, she jumped right in.

She jumped out of the well and went to seal it, just in case that Inuyasha tires to get through. After she was finished, she pants and fell to her knees, relieved that the well was sealed. Just then, she heard a familiar feminine scream and Kagome thinks in her mind, shocked, 'That's mom!'

Kagome dashes towards the door and ran into her house. As she entered, she was horrified to see the dead bodies of Yusuke, Keiko, Kuwabara, Kurama, Hiei, Syrus, Zane, Hikari, Sota, her mother and grandfather in the kitchen. She dashed into the living to and more disgusted to see the dead bodies of Jasmine, Mindy, Kelly, Catherine, Chumley, Jaden and Bastion lying on the ground

Just then, she heard a familiar feminine weak voice, from behind her, "Ka…Kagome."

Kagome turned to see the beaten and slashed form of Alexis. Alexis had her Obelisk Blue vest torn off with claw marks on her face as well as bruises all over herself and Kagome whispers, "Alexis, what happened!?"

Alexis coughed blood out and says, "There were…" She was interrupted, when a familiar male voice boomed, "That's enough, wench!" Alexis felt something tearing her back through her stomach, which freighted Kagome. Alexis coughed blood out and Kagome screams out, "ALEXIS!!"

Alexis's body was thrown away to the ground and Kagome sees the smirking from of Koga.

Kagome stammers, "Ko…Koga!"

Just then, a familiar male voice came out, "And he's not alone, wench!"

Kagome knew that voice too well and she looks back to see Inuyasha stalking over her, cracking his claws and says, "Well, I believe it's time to play 'Kill Kagome'!" Inuyasha charges over to Kagome, planning to strike her with his claws.

Kagome screams out, "SIT BOY!"

However, Inuyasha is still running over to her, which scared her as she planned to make a run for it. However, she felt a jerk to her shoulders and she was held down by Koga. Kagome tries to struggle, but to no avail as she sees Inuyasha's claws coming straight for her stomach, "Let me go!" she yells.

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Kagome was struggling and muttered, "Let me go! Please let me go!"

"Kagome, wake up!" Alexis yells out, shaking her friend. Kagome had fallen asleep on one of the couches in the Obelisk lobby arena, with Alexis, Kira and Hikari trying to wake the reincarnated priestess up.

Kagome groaned and yells, "Let me go!"

Alexis yells out, annoyed, while shaking Kagome, "Kagome, wake up, dammit! You're having a nightmare!"

Kagome opens her eyes and sees Alexis, Kira and Hikari looking at her, perplexed. Kagome pants and thinking, 'Another dream about back-stabbing friends, of course.'

Hikari spoke out, "You've been moaning and groaning in your sleep for the past week, what's wrong, Kagome?"

Kagome sighed and replies, dryly, "I've been getting nightmares about you-know-who for a while."

Alexis says, perplexed, "Who are you talking about?"

Kira says, "Her ex-boyfriend."

Kagome decides to change the subject and asks, "So, what time is it?"

Alexis replies, "Ten minutes until Gym class."

Kagome gets off the couch and says, "I think that'll clam my thoughts a bit!"

Months have passed, since Chazz's departing from Duel Academy.

It was gym class and the students were playing tennis. Yusuke and Catherine were partners and were hitting the ball like crazy, but didn't want to go crazy considering that they want to keep their demonic strength a secret from the students.

Yusuke still hold a winning streak in Duel Academy. He became one of the best duelists in Obelisk Blue, with Hikari, Alexis, Kagome, Kira, Catherine and Zane. He still doesn't want anything to do with romance, much like Kagome and Catherine. He still hang out most of his time with his friends at the Slifer Dorm, which Jaden, Syrus, Chumley and sometimes Ryoko, even though she was less wary of him as the days passed. However, Dr. Crowler had to lecture him about hanging around with 'Slifer Slackers', but he chose not to listen. Amazingly, he's managed to stay out of trouble, which was a rarity to those who know him away too long.

As for Syrus and Ryoko, they still argue like there's no tomorrow.

Jaden was panting hard as he was trying to hit the ball and complains, "Why tennis!? What does it have to do with dueling!?"

His opponent, Mindy, replies, as she was hitting the ball over to Jaden, "The point of tennis is that the better you are in tennis the better you are in dueling."

Jaden grins and says, "If that's the case!" Jaden jumps up and hits the ball as hard as he can, but missed its target and was heading towards Alexis and Jaden calls out, "Alexis, heads up!"

Alexis turns to see the ball headed towards her, before she can act, seeing that a stranger had hit the ball out of her path. Her attentions were diverted to the man that had saved her. Her savior wore a jersey, and had brown hair with the same color irises as his locks.

Following the path of the tennis ball that had nearly hit her, she saw that Crowler was now sporting a very shiny black eye.

The boy that had saved her from the fate of the professor spoke, "Hey that was a close one wasn't it?" As he turned around to face her, his expression changed from smug to absolutely in love.

"Hey…" he spoke up again. "You're… 'The queen of the Obelisks!' he thought in his mind. Raising an eyebrow, she cautiously introduced herself. "…Alexis Rhodes."

Alexis groaned in annoyance, thinking that its one of those flirting Obelisks, again.

Just then, a familiar feminine voice calls out, "Hey Alexis, are you okay!?"

The blonde turns to see Yusuke, Kagome, Catherine, Jasmine, Mindy, Hikari and Kira running towards her, "I'm fine, Kari."

Jasmine and Mindy looked at the young man, who saved Alexis, from Crowler's fate, and were anime-lovestuck, which made the Urameshi triples, Kagome and Catherine rolling their eyes.

Just then, a familiar girl like voice called out, which made the students flinched, "JADEN YUKI!"

Crowler stormed over to the confused Jaden and yelled at him thinking that it was him that hit the ball. "It was you who hit that ball wasn't it! I'm sure of it!" The injured teacher ranted. Clearing her throat, Yusuke aided Jaden, "Sure, it was Jaden who first hit it, but this guy…" she pointed to the boy directly behind her, "…was the one who deflected at just the right angle to hit you."

"Well, yes." The teacher countered immediately, "…but if Jaden hadn't hit the ball the wrong way in the first place, then Harrington wouldn't have had to step in at all."

'What!?' Yusuke thought incredulously 'That logic's not fair at all!' Before he could say anything, Harrington covered his mouth with his callused hands. "You're absolutely right, Dr. Crowler. Go ahead and punish that Slifer Slacker to your heart's content!"

As soon as Crowler walked away to his office, forcibly dragging Jaden along with him, Yusuke grabbed his hand and slapped it off of his mouth. Looking at him in unsuppressed outrage, he cried out, "What the fuck you think you were doing!?"

Hikari dashes towards Harrington and grabs his collar, which freaked the red head and Hikari screeches, "Hey asshole, you have exactly three seconds to clear that Slifer's name or you'll have a date with the ground, soon!"

Yusuke cracked his knuckles and says, "Mind if I join ya, sis!"

Harrington close his eyes in reminiscence, he put on a playful smirk and says, "Well, he wasn't a very good tennis player to begin with anyway, so…"

Harrington was interrupted, when Hikari slams her fist onto his face, making him crash onto the ground, face-first. Before the Urameshi twins could pound the young man, Jasmine and Mindy grabs hold onto them and pulls them back and Jasmine says, "Now, now, guys, no need for violence!"

The twins, with their demon strength, ripped themselves from their fellow Obelisks and Yusuke spat, "You're kidding me!" Yusuke pointed at Harrington, who was slowly getting on his feet, "This guy didn't even help Jaden out, after it was his fault that the ball hits Crowler's face!"

Harrington got to his feet and rubbed at the spot where Hikari punched him and tells Yusuke, "Hey, I don't see why the Prince of Obelisk Blue, would consider helping that Slifer Slacker!"

Yusuke yells out to Harrington, "Hey asshole that 'Slifer Slacker' is my friend and you got ten second to start confessing or I'll start kicking some ass!"

Harrington yells out, "Hey punk, no one insults or threatens Harrington Rosewood and gets away with it!"

Yusuke yells out, "Yeah and no one tries to pit the blame on one of Yusuke Urameshi's friends and gets away without an ass-kicking first!"

Mindy goes over and to restrain Yusuke and says, "Listen Yusuke, I know that Jaden's your friend, but you can't beat this guy up!"

Yusuke tells Mindy, "Just because you already have a crush on this guy doesn't mean that he gets off with me bashing his face into the ground!"

Mindy tells Yusuke, "Aren't you trying to control that temper of yours!? You know that Jaden wouldn't want you to get expelled, because of him."

Yusuke grunts in frustration, knowing that Mindy was right. Jaden wouldn't like him getting expelled to fight for the brunette's honor, 'Strike one……' He was going to put strikes on Harrington and he was going for four strikes.

Hikari gasped, in shock and says, "The Rosewoods are an incredibly rich family that own hundreds of sports stores around the world, right?"

Harrington chuckled and winked at Hikari, "You're quite right, my dear!"

(In the boys' locker room)

Yusuke, who was still pissed, slammed his locker door as hard as he can slightly scaring Syrus and Yumi, after changing into his Obelisk uniform, and muttered, "Damn that guy! He's just proved to me that he's a bigger jerk than Chazz Princeton and I didn't think that it's possible!"

Yusuke and Syrus got out of the locker uniform and spotted Jaden having a hard time trying to hit the tennis ball, thrown by Harrington. Yusuke scolded at the guy and walked over to Hikari, Jasmine and Mindy, who was watching the game.

Syrus spoke out, "What's going on?"

Hikari tells Syrus, "Jaden getting the punishment that Crowler got for him, which would be that he's on the tennis team."

Jasmine says, "That's right and the captain is that Harrington guy."

This made Yusuke even mad and spat out, "This is got to be the most bullshit I've ever known!"

Jaden falls onto the ground onto his back and Harrington goads, "Hey Jaden, get up!"

Jaden pants and says, "Come on, can't we take a break!"

Harrington shook his head and says, "No way, bro! You know what the say 'No pain! No gain'!"

Jaden sees a familiar form walking towards him, "Hi, Alexis!"

Harrington turned around at that, to see Alexis walking up to them.

"Sorry I'm all sweaty, Alexis," Harrington walked up to her, "It's just that I've been kicking this guy's-."

Alexis ignored him and walked over to Jaden, "I've been looking for you Jaden. I ran into Professor Banner on the way here and he said someone spotted Chazz."

Yusuke hears this and it's been a while since he heard anything from Chazz and goes over to Jaden and Alexis and says, "Hey Alexis, I heard that you probably know where Chazz is."

Alexis nodded and was going to say something.

"TIME OUT!"

Yusuke, Alexis, and Jaden turned and noticed Harrington stomping up to the net, "Huh?"

Harrington glared at Yusuke and Jaden, "You two can't just talk to a first-round pick like Alexis! You two can't even Buggy-Whip with a little top-spin to it, so get away from the Obelisk Pixie!" he snapped.

Yusuke's eyebrows twitched in anger, 'Strike two……'

Hikari notices that her brother's anger was increasing and says, "Uh! Oh!"

Jasmine, Mindy and Syrus looked at Hikari and Mindy asks, "What do you mean by that?"

Hikari says, "Listen guys, for some time now, Yusuke was trying not to get his temper get the better of him, but I think that Harrington is pushing his luck."

Jasmine says, horrified, "You don't thing that Yusuke will pick a fight with Harrington, would you?"

Hikari says, "I would think so, because he just blow three of the four strikes."

Syrus says, perplexed, "Three of the four strikes?"

Hikari nodded and says, "That's right! The first strike was when Jaden accidentally hits the ball over to Alexis, but Harrington saves her from that fate and hits the ball to Crowler's eye and made it look like it was Jaden that started it. The second strike was that Harrington said to Yusuke's face that he was chasing after Alexis, which as you know that my brother's refusal to ever fall in love, again."

Harrington yells out, "Listen you two…just step away from the beautiful girl. She's way outta your leagues, so don't make me go athletic on you!"

Jaden blinked, "We're just talking...,"

Yusuke yells out, "Yeah so back off, pal!" Jaden turned back to Alexis, "So what were you saying, Lex?"

"Lex?!" Harrington popped up between them, "What is that, some kind of pet name? Where'd you come up with that, what's it mean, what's it stand for?!"

Yusuke gets close to Harrington and yells out, "It's short for Alexis, asshole, and it's not a pet name at all, I use it sometimes when talking to her!"

Harrington huffed, "That's what you want me to believe, is it, prince!"

Yusuke growled, "What makes think that I'm chasing after Alexis, when I think of her as a third sister and I'm only in love with dueling!"

Alexis covers Yusuke's mouth, with her hand and says, "None of these guys are after me, so back off!"

"That's right! Back off," Jaden shot back, "I'm just trying to talk here!"

The tennis player grinned and walked past him, "I've just thought of a way to settle this. You and me, Jaden, right now!"

Jaden's shoulders slumped, "Oh c'mon, a tennis match? You gotta be kiddin' me,"

Harrington giggled and turned around, "Not a tennis match, Jaden. A duel!"

"A duel?"

"That's right, a duel! The winner of the match gets to be Alexis's fiancée!"

"Whoa, hold up!" Alexis blinked, "Fiancée?!"

Yusuke yells out, displaying his demonic aura, "STRIKE THREE!!!"

Everyone was looking at him, with shock and Syrus says, in a panicking tone, "It looks like Harrington just blown his third strike!"

Harrington grinned and says, "Well, well, it appears that I've hit the prince's nerve! I know that you had…"

Yusuke glares at him to shut up and yells out, "No you've done it! First, you pit the blame on Jaden for giving Crowler a shine! Second, you didn't seem to understand that I only love dueling and won't have anything to do with this romantic garbage! Third, you're displaying Alexis, the one I think of as a third sister, as if she's some kind of prize!" Yusuke looks at Jaden and says, "Jaden, I'll duel with asshole first and if I lose, you can take him!"

Yusuke looks at Harrington, with a cold stare and says, "Hey asswipe, I've a deal with you, if you're lucky enough to win then you can duel Jaden and if I kick your ass then you leave me, Alexis and Jaden alone for life and you confess to Crowler that you were the one, who hit that ball!"

Harrington shook his head and says, "Sorry, bro, but this is between Jaden and I!"

Yusuke says, coldly, "The only you'll get to Jaden is that you get through me!"

Harrington says, "Okay then fine! It'll give Jaden something to know when it's his turn to duel me!"

Alexis gasps and tells Yusuke, "Yusuke, are you aware of the rumors in the dorms. The rumors that Harrington is as good as Zane!"

Syrus gasped in shock and thinks in his mind, 'As good as my brother…'

Yusuke scoffs and says, "Yeah right! Zane's the best duelist around and I'll believe it when I see it!"

A few moments later……

Harrington and Yusuke activates their duel discs and says in unison, "Game on!"

Starting Score

Harrington: 8000

Yusuke: 8000

"Ore no time, draw!" Harrington draws his card and looks at it. He slids it into the spell/trap slot and says, "I activate Servers Ace!"

Yusuke raises an eyebrow and says, "Now you pick a card from your hand, and I can guess whether it's a Spell, Trap or Monster. If I guess right, I'm fine, but if I guess wrong…..then I get served with a stinging 1500 points of damage!"

Harrington says, with a sly grin, "Hey, you got it, prince! Now guess!"

Yusuke closes his eyes and says, "A monster?"

Harrington looks at and turns it around, which appeared to be Rising Energy trap card, "Wrong! It's a trap!" The holo-card on Harrington's field glowed and let out a beam of light that crashed into the ground at Yusuke's feet, blowing nearby tennis balls into the stands and lowering Yusuke's life points by 1500, "15-Love...I'll just place this card facedown, and finish the set," Harrington smiled as he inserted another card into his disk. Harrington thinks in his mind, 'As soon as that punk attack, I'll have my Receive Ace to back me up!"

Current Score

Harrington: 8000

Yusuke: 6500

"Ore no time, draw!" Yusuke draws his card and slids it into the spell/trap slot, saying, "I activate Future Fusion!" Yusuke takes out his deck and fans it and says, "By select a few cards from my Deck and sending them to the graveyard, I can summon a fusion monster with the same name of the cards that I send to the graveyard. So, I'll send three of my Blue-Eyes White Dragons to the graveyard to summon Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!" Soon after, the three Blue-Eyes White Dragons (ATK: 3000/DEF: 2500 X3) appears on the field and flew into the void into the sky and Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon (ATK: 4500/DEF: 3800) appears and floats above Yusuke's head.

Harrington goads off, "One problem, Yusuke, you can't attack with a monster summon by Future Fusion, this turn!"

Yusuke slids a card into the spell/trap slot and says, "Silly me, how can I forgot! Guess, I'll just play this spell, Polymerization to fuse both Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon and Black Luster Soldier to summon Master of Dragon Soldier!" Soon after, Black Luster Soldier (ATK: 3000/DEF: 2500) appears on the field and went with the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon into the vortex in the sky and Master of Dragon Soldier (ATK: 5000/DEF: 5000) appears in attack mode. Yusuke shouts out, "Any hopes you have on using that facedown on me will be dashed away with my Lord of Dragons in attack mode!" Soon after, Lord of Dragon (ATK: 1200/DEF: 1100) appears besides Master of Dragon Soldier.

Harrington gawked out, "Oh come on!"

Yusuke slids another card into the spell/trap slot and says, "Sorry, bro, but that's how the cookie crumbles! Now I activate Soul Release, so I can remove from play my three Blue-Eyes White Dragons!" Just then, the three Blue-Eyes cards were sent from the graveyard and placed into Yusuke's deck holder. Yusuke slids a card into the spell/trap slot and says, "I activate Dimension Fusion!"

Harrington gawked out, "Oh no! It's your one-turn finish!"

Yusuke roars out, as his life points dropped by 2000, "I'm glad that you know one of my one-turn strategies! I mainly use these techniques on jerks that love pushing people lower than them around, meaning you!" Soon after, the three Blue-Eyes appeared on the field and Yusuke says, coolly, "Now the special ability of my Master of Dragon Soldier activates, giving him 500 points for every dragon monster on the field!" Master of Dragon Soldier's stats increase from 5000/5000 to 6500/5000. Yusuke roars out, "Now my dragons, blast this jerk into the next Millennium!" All of Yusuke's monsters blasts towards the frightened Harrington and slams into him, causing an explosion that blew away 16,700 life-points away, ending the duel automatically.

Final Score

Harrington: 0000

Yusuke: 4500

Soon after, the final holograms disappeared and the Snobby Obelisk fell onto his knees and cried, "No, I lost in one turn! No! It can't be!"

Everyone sweatdropped as Yusuke says, "You remember the deal, Harrington, you confess to Crowler!"

Harrington growled and groaned, in defeat, "Fine…"

Jaden goes up to Yusuke and says, "Yusuke, don't you think you're being a bit too harsh? I mean he took losing in one turn so hard, maybe you could let him off the hook, for now."

Harrington hears this and looks up at Jaden, perplexed and Yusuke tells Jaden, "What? So, you would just allow Harrington to be off the hook, while you get punished unfairly?"

Jaden says, "Hey, don't worry about me, bro! I'll be fine!" Jaden turns to Alexis and says, "By the way, Alexis, what's a 'fiancée'?"

Everyone did an anime fall, including Harrington……