All's Fair in Love and War

by Tensa-Zangetsu102

Cousins, Yusuke and Kagome, have been brainwashed by a new evil bent on destroying the balance of Light and Darkness. Inuyasha and Keiko are the only ones that can save them, will they succeed or will they be engulfed by the darkness of their pasts?

59. The Graduation Match

Disclaimer: see chapter one

Author's Note: please update this chapter.

Chapter 59: Graduation Duel

Zane is lying on his bed in his room in the Obelisk Blue male dorm, staring at the ceiling.

Flashback

Dr. Crowler was standing in front of the class and calling up the list of the top ten scorers of the final exam on the classroom's video screen. Zane's score was 1000 points and as always the top ranking student.

Dr. Crowler gasps as he turned to Zane and says, "Congrads Zane, you've done it again!" Every student looked at the blue haired teenager and Dr. Crowler says, "You've got the highest score in the school and you know what that means, you have the honor of being the headliner of this year's Duel Academy prestigious match!"

Zane says, with a smile, "Why thanks…"

Dr. Crowler says, "And tradition dictates that pick whoever you want to as your opponent. So who will it be, Zane?"

Just then, a familiar female voice boomed out, "Way to go, Zane!" Before Zane could act, a pair of arms was wrapped around his neck, hugging him. Hikari says, "I knew that you'll get the highest score!"

End Flashback

Zane was still lying on his back and thinks in his mind, 'Who will I choose? The only ones worthy...' Zane sits up and walks over to the window and opens it, "It's time to give those two their rematch..."

At the Slifer Red dorm, Syrus is shocked to see his big brother, Zane, in his and Jaden's room. Earlier on, Chumley had graduated and got a job in Industrial Illusions and working for Maximillon Pegasus.

Syrus says, with a little shock, "Sorry Big Bro, you kinda scared me there…"

Yusuke, who was wearing a large, golden pendant with a ruby stone in the middle of it around his neck, says, "Zane always scares you, Sy!"

Jaden, who was wearing the same thing around his neck, then says, "So, what's up?"

Zane walks around the room and says, with a smile, "You know this is the first time that I've stepped into this dorm room, during my first time here! Now, I've come with a purpose."

Jaden says, "Ah sweet! So, why you'd come here, Zane!? You came to invite us to lunch in the Obelisk cafeterias!"

Zane crossed his arms and says, "To duel you." And with that reply Yusuke, Jaden and Syrus fell over.

Yusuke sits up and says, "Wait a sec!"

Syrus then says, "You want to duel…"

Jaden then says, "Me…"

Zane tells Jaden, "Not you alone…" the three younger boys got onto their feet and Zane says, "To duel you and Yusuke, Jaden. I've decided to duel you two in my Graduation match!"

The three younger boys gawked in shock and Syrus yelps, "The Graduation Match! That's the biggest duel in the year!"

Jaden says, "And you want to duel both Yusuke and I?"

Yusuke asks, "But won't that be an unfair two-against-one match, Zane?"

Zane chuckles and says, "Actually, it will be a two-against-two match with your sister and I against you and Jaden. Till then…" Zane walks out of the room, looks back at the younger boys and says, "By the way…I like your dorm room! It's nice fit for you kids." Zane then walks off after closing the door.

Yusuke says, with an anime glee, "The Grad Match!"

Jaden says, with an anime glee, "This is so sweet! The last duel of the school year and I'm gonna be in it!"

The next day. A large crowd of students had gathered in the Duel Academy stadium, with our heroes and heroines, Syrus Truesdale, Kagome Higurashi, Botan, in her Obelisk Blue uniform, Hiei, Kira Urameshi, Alexis Rhodes, Bastion Misawa, Chazz Princeton and a young man in an Obelisk Blue uniform, with was almost like Zane's, that almost slightly looks like Alexis, which was her older brother, Atticus Rhodes, sitting in another part of the stadium.

Syrus calls out, anxious, "It's about to start!"

Alexis replies, "Yeah…"

Atticus says, "Zane, Kari, Yusuke and Jaden dueling it out in the last throw down of the year…Who could ask for a better match!?"

Bastion gets out his PDA and says, in logic tone, "A mismatch! According to my figures, Zane and Yusuke are quite the favorite!"

Kira says, "Some things you can't figure!"

Chazz thinks in his mind, frustrated, 'Yeah and I can't figure that the Chazz was left out in this duel!'

Botan says, "I never that to see Yusuke actually dueling in this kind of match! Of course, there was that school duel, but this! Wow!"

Hiei thinks in his mind, 'I can't believe that I'm watching this pointless game of cards!' For the past months, Hiei was learning the game of Duel Monsters and already he was learning fast, but thought of Duel Monsters is a 'pointless' slightly less and less by the month.

Zane and Jaden entered the arena in the same time, walked side by side, with the Urameshi twins following behind. While walking, Syrus notices a different facial expression from Jaden and says, "Jaden looks serious…"

Kagome says, "That's gotta be a first!"

Alexis says, in a concern tone, "I wonder if he's nervous…"

Bastion says, in his logic tone, "Well, he ought to be…"

Atticus says, "Yeah, it's Zane's last duel and he's gonna duel big!"

Zane and Hikari walked on the side, with Yusuke and Jaden walking to another side and the four duelists walks towards each other in the center of the stage.

Yusuke held his hand to Zane and says, "Alright guys, may the best team win!"

Zane nods his head and shook Yusuke's hand to agree and Hikari did the same with Jaden.

A few moments later, Yusuke and Jaden's duel discs activated and the two drew their five cards, while Zane and Hikari did the same after their duel discs were activated.

Dr. Crowler stands up from his seat, with Chancellor Sheppard and calls out, "And now ladies and gentlemen, we'll commence the two-against-two duel with Zane Truesdale and Hikari Urameshi against Yusuke Urameshi and Jaden…is it Yucky no…Yuki!"

Hikari says, with determination, "Enough small talk!"

Yusuke says, "Yeah…no joke!"

All four duelists yells out, in unison, "Let's Duel!"

Jaden calls out, "Get your games on, guys!"

Starting Score:

Zane and Hikari: 16000

Yusuke and Jaden: 16000

Jaden asks, "So, who makes the first move!"

Zane replies, "You can choose!"

Jaden says, "Then, go right ahead we'll go second!"

Zane says, perplexed, "Second?" Zane thinks in his mind, 'Interesting choice…'

Yusuke thinks in his mind, 'Awesome! Jaden must have known that by going second, Zane wouldn't summon that powerful Cyber Dragon, during the first round, because there won't be a monster to let him do it!'

Zane thinks in his mind, 'It looks like someone's being studying up on me…'

Hikari thinks in her mind, 'Jaden actually did his homework for once in his life! However, it wouldn't be enough to save him and my little brother…'

Jaden calls out, "Alright Zane, time to throw down!"

Zane draws his sixth card and says, "Ore no time! Alright, here goes!" Zane looks at his card, sliding it into the spell/trap slot and says, "I activate the spell card Polymerization! Now by selecting a few monsters from my hand to the grave, I can summon a fusion monster!"

Jaden gasped in shock and says, realizing his mistake, "To the grave!"

Zane calls out, "That's right, Jaden! There's more than one way to skin a cat or in this case summon a dragon!"

Yusuke mutters in annoyance, "Oh great!"

Zane calls out, "I'll send the three Cyber Dragons in my hand to summon the Cyber End Dragon!" Soon after, the three Cyber Dragons (ATK: 2100/DEF: 1600 X3) appears on the field and were sucked into the vortex above Zane and Cyber End Dragon (ATK: 4000/DEF: 2800) appears behind Zane, roaring out in fury.

Bastion says, in shock, "Dear…me!"

Ryoko says, in shock, "And…me!"

Alexis says, in shock, "He's good!"

Kagome says, "Summoning a monster with four thousand attack points on the first turn!"

Catherine says, "Something tells me that Yusuke and Jaden have their work cut out for them!"

Jaden thinks in his mind, with his mouth open, 'I was wondering why he didn't care, who went first…he was prepared for any situation. The question is…am I? Especially when that Cyber End Dragon out! When it attacks a monster in defense mode, its attack points and the defending monster's defense points are taken out of our life points! Damn it…how could I have let this happened!?' Jaden was staring hard at the Cyber End Dragon, while grunted and calls out, "Is there anything else you want to throw at us!?"

Zane pulls a card from his hand, sliding into the spell/trap slot and says, "As a matter of fact yes there is…Different Dimension Capsule!" After the green tomb came to the field, Zane pulls out his deck, fans it and says, "Now boys, I select one card from my deck and remove it from play! But then, in two turns, it returns to my hand!" Soon after the tomb closes, the tomb was lowered to the ground.

Yusuke says, "Hey! I know this strategy!"

Jaden thinks in his mind, 'In our first duel, Zane used that Different Dimension Capsule to put Power Bond in there! I wonder if he's done the same thing, now!'

Zane slides another card into the spell/trap slots and says, "Finally, I place one card facedown and end my turn!"

Jaden thinks in his mind, "A facedown too, I might not know what he has facedown, but I definitely have a hunch! Yeah, that facedown card must be De-Fusion! He must be planning to de-fuse his Cyber End Dragon and finish me off!'

Zane tells Jaden, "Jaden, go on. It's your move now!"

Jaden is still thinking of a move, which Yusuke could take in account and thinks in his mind, 'What's going on here!? It's like he's all frozen up!"

In the audience…

Alexis asks, "What's wrong!?"

Kagome asks, "Yeah, it's like he's frozen up!"

Syrus says, "I never seen him like this before!"

Jaden is still thinking of a move, 'Zane thinks he's going to outsmart me, again! But not this time, this time I'm gonna outsmart him and I'm gonna start right now!' Jaden draws his card and says, "Ore no time! Alright, here goes! I'm gonna summon Elemental Hero Wildheart in attack mode!" Soon after, Elemental Hero Wildheart (ATK: 1500/DEF: 1600) appears on the field. Jaden slides a card into the spell/trap slot and says, "Next, I activate the spell card, Cyclone Boomerang and use it on Wildheart!" A huge boomerang appears in Wildheart's hands and his stats increases from 1500/1600 to 2000/1600. Jaden says, sliding a card into the spell/trap slot, "Finally, I'll place a facedown and end my turn!"

Hikari draws a card from her deck and says, "Watashi no time!" Hikari then slides a card into the spell/trap slot and says, "I activate Call of the Mummy! As long as this card is on the field and there aren't any monsters out on my side of the field, I can summon a zombie monster from my hand and I choose Despair from the Dark!" Soon after, Despair from the Dark (ATK: 2800/DEF: 3000) appears on the field in attack mode. Hikari then places a card on her disc and says, "Next, I summon Regenerating Mummy in attack mode!" Soon after, Regenerating Mummy (ATK: 1800/DEF: 1500) appears next to Despair from the Dark. Hikari says, "That's all for now!"

Yusuke draws his card and says, "Ore no time!" Yusuke slides a card into the spell/trap slot and says, "I activate Pot of Greed, now I can draw out two cards from my deck!" Yusuke draws two cards and says, sliding another card into the spell/trap slot, "Next I activate Black Luster Ritual!" Yusuke pulls out two cards and displaying them as Luster Dragon #2 (ATK: 2400/DEF: 1400) and Masked Dragon (ATK: 1400/DEF: 1100). Yusuke then says, "Now by sacrificing both Luster Dragon #2 and Masked Dragon, I can summon forth Black Luster Soldier!" Yusuke sends Luster Dragon and Masked Dragon to the Grave slots and Black Luster Soldier (ATK: 3000/DEF: 2500) appears in attack mode. Yusuke says, "That's all for now!"

"Ore no time, draw!" Zane draws a card, sliding one card into the spell/trap slot and says, "Cyber End Dragon, attack Wildheart with Super Strident Blaze!" Cyber End Dragon fires its three way blast directly at Wildheart.

Jaden calls out, "Not so fast, Zane! I play Negate Attack!" Cyber End Dragon's blast was absorbed by a swirl in front of Wildheart and Jaden says, with a sly grin, "Thanks to this trap, your attack is negated!"

Zane tells Jaden, "I'll end my turn!"

"Ore no time, draw!" Jaden draws his card, slids it into the spell/trap slot and says, "First, I'll play the spell card, Wild Half to cut the attack strength of your End Dragon!"

Soon after, Cyber End Dragon roared in pain as its stats decrease to 2000/2800.

Jaden says, "Now a token with the same attack points of your weakened dragon is summoned to your side of the field!"

A token that looks like Cyber End Dragon (ATK: 2000/DEF: 2800) is summoned to the field.

Jaden yells out, "Alright, Wildheart, attack that Cyber End Dragon with Wild Walloping Boomerang!" Wildheart throws his boomerang at one of the Cyber End Dragons.

Zane presses a button on his disc and says, "I don't think so! I play De-Fusion on my Cyber End Dragon!" Cyber End Dragon glows and splits into three Cyber Dragons (ATK: 2100/DEF: 1600). Wildheart's boomerang steered away from one of the Cyber Dragons.

Jaden says, to himself, "Against those Cyber Dragons, Wildheart can't win, but against that Cyber End Dragon, Wildheart might stand a chance, yeah maybe a slim chance. But I have to go for it and hope for the best, otherwise we'll be bested." Wildheart's boomerang went straight towards the Cyber End Dragon token and the boomerang crashes into the dragon, causing an explosion as the three headed mechanical lizard token had been destroyed. Because Jaden's Wildheart had the same amount of attack points as the Cyber End Dragon token, Wildheart had self-detonated, leaving Jaden wide open.

Alexis says, amazed, "He did it…"

Kagome says, "Jaden destroyed the Cyber End Dragon token!"

Bastion says, in his logical tone, "Indeed he did! Jaden must have calculated that Zane's facedown card must have been De-Fusion. Most impressive!"

Botan says, perplexed, "Jaden thinking? That's a first!"

Syrus says, in unsure, "I guess, but that's not Jaden's style at all."

Ryoko then says, "For once, I agree with Truesdale! Jaden just used a new way of dueling."

Yusuke thinks in his mind, while looking at Jaden's side of the field, 'I hope that Jaden knows what he was doing when he pulled off that suicidal move.'

Jaden calls out, "Sure Wildheart's gone, too! But since Wildheart was equipped with Cyclone Boomerang, every Spell and Trap card are now destroyed!" Zane's capsule was brought up and was destroyed, while Zane was unfazed by this and Hikari's Call of the Mummy spell card was destroyed to the elder Urameshi twin's frustration. Jaden calls out, "And plus for every Spell or Trap that was destroyed, you lose five hundred points for each one!" Zane, who still remained unfazed, and Hikari's life-points decreases by 1000 points.

Dr. Crowler says, horrified, "Not only that he destroyed Cyber End Dragon, he's able to get a lead in the duel without Yusuke's help!"

Chancellor Sheppard says, amazed, "It sure looks that way! Jaden really must have done his homework!"

Dr. Crowler says, with disbelief, "Done his homework! Well, that'll be the first!" Dr. Crowler growls, in anger, "That Slifer Slacker!"

Jaden calls out, "Yeah, not anymore! In this duel here, I'm playing with my head not my heart!"

Yusuke yells out, "What!" Yusuke thinks in his mind, surprised, 'Playing with his head!? Jaden's never done that before, as the time I've known him!" Yusuke tells Jaden, "Hey Jay, I don't think that this 'new way of dueling' of yours isn't such a good idea!"

Jaden tells Yusuke, "Relax, Yusuke, I know what I'm doing."

Yusuke wasn't so sure, even Zane and Hikari had agreed on what the Obelisk Prince was saying.

Hikari thinks in her mind, 'Playing with his head? This should be interesting, with no monsters out on the field!'

Jaden slids a card into the spell/trap slot and says, "Next, I'll be throwing down a facedown and ending my turn!'

Current Score:

Zane and Hikari: 14000

Yusuke and Jaden: 16000

"Watashi no time, draw!" Hikari draws her card and says, sliding a card into the spell/trap slot, "First of, I play Pot of Greed!" Hikari draws her two cards from her deck, slids a card into the spell/trap slot and says, "Next, I play Black Pendant to increase the power of my Despair from the Dark by five hundred points!" A black necklace appears around Despair from the Dark's neck and its stats increases from 2800/3000 to 3300/3000. Hikari says, "Now Despair from the Dark, attack his Black Luster Soldier! Ghoul Claw Slash!" Hikari's ghoul thrusts its huge claws at Black Luster Soldier, slashing it and costing Yusuke and Jaden 300 points. Hikari calls out, "Now Regenerating Mummy, strike him down!" Regenerating Mummy charges towards Yusuke and slaps him in the face. Yusuke rubs the spot where he's been slapped as he and Jaden loses 1800 life-points. Hikari slids a card into the spell/trap slot and calls out, "Finally, I'll place a facedown and end my turn!"

Current Score:

Zane and Hikari: 14000

Yusuke and Jaden: 13900

"Ore no time, draw!" Yusuke draws his card, sliding a card into the spell/trap slot and says, "First, I play Card of Sanctity! Now all of us draw until we're holding six cards from our decks!" All four duelists drew until they were holding six cards and Yusuke says, placing a card onto his duel disc, "Next, I summon Red Eyes Black Chick!" Soon after, Red-Eyes Black Chick (ATK: 800/DEF: 500) then appears on the field in attack mode. Yusuke then says, putting another card on his duel disk, "Then I will use his special ability to summon this! His big daddy: Red-Eyes Black Dragon!" Just then Red-Eyes Black Chick glows in a bright red light, grows and expands, and then Red-Eyes Black Dragon (ATK: 2400/DEF: 2000) appears on the field in attack mode. Yusuke puts in another card into the spell/trap slots of his duel disk and says, "Now, I play my Inferno Fire Blast spell card! Since I have Red-Eyes on the field, as long as I don't attack with him this turn, you take damage to your life-points based on his original attack points!" Zane and Hikari gasps in shock and Yusuke shouts out, seriously, "All right, pal, show'em what you've got!" Red-Eyes Black Dragon launches a sphere of black energy right at Hikari and it slams into her with a powerful force. Soon after, she screams out as she and Zane loses 2400 life-points in one shot. Yusuke slids other card into the spell/trap slot and says, "Next, I play my Metamorphosis spell card, to sacrifice my Red-Eyes Black Dragon to summon King Dragun!" Soon after, Red-Eyes Black Dragon glows and forms to King Dragun (A: 2400/D: 1200) in attack mode.

Zane and Hikari gasped in shock as they realized what Yusuke will do.

Yusuke places a card onto his disc and says, "Next, I'll activate Dragun's special ability to summon Blue-Eyes White Dragon!" Soon after, Blue-Eyes White Dragon (A: 3000/D: 2500) appears on the field, next to King Dragun.

Hikari says, "Hate to tell you this, bro, but your dragon isn't strong enough to take on my monster!"

Yusuke says, sliding a card into the spell/trap slot and says, "I'm not done yet, sis, next, I play Graceful Charity to draw three new cards as long as I discard two!" Yusuke draws three new cards and sends two the grave slot and says, as a card came from the grave slot, grabs it, displays it, which was a trap card that had a picture of a masked robber, stealing money from a bank and it read 'Stolen Mysteriously!' , and says, "More bad news! I discarded a trap card from my hand, which was Stolen Mysteriously! Thanks to this, whenever, I send it to the graveyard by a card effect and I have only one card in my hand, I get to draw five new cards!" Yusuke sends the trap card back to the grave slot, draws five cards from his disc, slid one card into the slot and says, "Next, I play Gift of the Martyr! By sacrificing King Dragun, I can transfer all of his attack points to my Blue-Eyes!" King Dragun had glowed and bonding its body to Blue-Eyes White, giving all of its strength to Blue-Eyes, which makes the white dragon glow as its stats increases from 3000/2500 to 5400/2500.

Zane and Hikari gasped in shock and exclaims, in unison, "Fifty-four hundred attack points!"

Yusuke slid another card into the slot and says, "That's right! But first, I'll like to use Monster Reborn to summon back King Dragun!" Soon after, King Dragun appears on the field and Yusuke yells out, "Now Blue-Eyes, attack with White Lightning!" Blue-Eyes fires a huge white blast towards Despair from the Dark, which rips apart the huge ghoul and causes an explosion, costing Zane and Hikari 2100 life-points.

Hikari yells out, "Thanks for that! Now I activate the special ability of my Black Pendant! Whenever it's destroyed in battle, I can inflict five hundred points of direct damage to your life-points!"

Yusuke and Jaden's life points decreases by 500 points and Yusuke calls out, "I'm not done yet, King Dragun, attack with Fire Scourge!" King Dragun's claws fires a stream of flames blazes towards Regenerating Mummy and slams into it. The mummy screams as the blaze tore it apart and costing Zane and Hikari 600 life-points. Yusuke slids a card into the slot and says, "Next, I'll play a facedown and end my turn!"

Current Score:

Zane and Hikari: 8900

Yusuke and Jaden: 13900

Zane says, "That's it, huh? Ore no time, draw!" Zane draws a card from his deck and says, "Very well, then! First of all, the card removed from play using the capsule returns to my hand."

Jaden exclaims, stunned, "Wait! So the card that you had in that capsule wasn't Power Bond!"

Zane says, "No, it wasn't! It seems that you over thought that, Jaden! It was Card from the Different Dimension!"

Jaden says, "Boy I didn't see that comin'!"

Yusuke says, drolly, "Yep, we're in trouble!"

Zane then says, "Thanks to this, all of us get to draw two cards from our decks!"

Chazz says, "Oh I see! Summoning his Cyber End Dragon, Zane needed to use at least four of his cards!"

Kagome then says, "That's right! So, therefore, if Zane used De-Fusion and then use Power Bond, right afterwards, there wouldn't be any cards left in his hand to use!"

Bastion then says, "And that would put Zane in tough spot!"

Kira says, "Whoa! I see!"

Kelly says, "What a smart strategy! No wonder that Zane-san is the best duelist in the school! I hope that Yusuke-san and Jaden-san wouldn't make anymore huge mistakes in this duel."

Alexis says, "That's right!"

Atticus tells his sister, in a teasing tone, "That's Zane's! He's sure is a clever one! Maybe, you should root for him and Kari, instead of Yusuke and your boyfriend, Jaden!"

In response, Alexis punches Atticus in the face, making her brother fall back and yells with an orange anime stress mark and a hint of red cheeks on her head, "SHUT UP, BEFORE I BECOME AN ONLY CHILD!!"

Chazz mutters, "Awkward…"

Bastion, Botan, Catherine, Kagome, Ryoko, Kelly and Kira nods nervously.

Syrus tells Yusuke and Jaden, "Come on, guys!"

All four duelists drew two cards from the top of their decks.

Zane calls out, "Alright, Cyber Dragon, wage a direct attack with Strident Blast!" One of the Cyber Dragons powers up a blue blast in its mouth and fires it at Jaden.

Jaden calls out, "Don't think so! I have a Trap! Draining Shield!" Soon after, a transparent shield appears, between Cyber Dragon's blast and Jaden and Jaden calls out, "Sorry Zane, but your Cyber Dragon's attack is cancelled and Yusuke and I get life-points equal to its attack points!" Yusuke and Jaden's life-points increased by 2100 points.

Yusuke tells Jaden, overjoyed, "Nice save, Jaden!"

Zane roars out, "That's fine! You two will need them because my two remaining dragons are going to attack you, Jaden! Strident Blast!" The two remaining Cyber Dragons flew past Zane and fries the blast towards Jaden, which hits him as he and Yusuke loses 4200 life-points. Zane slids a card into the spell/trap slot and says, "Next, I'll place a card facedown and end my turn!"

Current Score:

Zane and Hikari: 8900

Yusuke and Jaden: 11800

Alexis says, "Wow! Yusuke and Jaden just barely got out of that round!"

Kira says, "Yeah too close!"

Bastion says, "It will be even closer next turn! Those Cyber Dragons are still out! This means that Yusuke and Jaden are in a constant peril! They must neutralize them!"

Atticus tells Bastion, "Yeah, no joke, Bastion! But the question of the day is: when? More importantly, how?"

Syrus says, "You know, normally, I say 'not to worry'!"

Ryoko laughs and says, nastily, "You saying not to worry!" Syrus growled, in anger and glared at Ryoko and Ryoko says, "You're the first to worry!"

Syrus yells out, "Watch it, pigtails!"

Ryoko glares back at Syrus and yells out, "Or what, twerp!?"

Chazz and Bastion pulls Syrus back, as Alexis and Kagome pulls Ryoko back and Alexis shouts out, "Break it up, you two, for once!"

Chazz says, "No joke! I'm sick of hearing you two argue left from right!"

Atticus says, "Like a married couple!"

Syrus and Ryoko yells at Atticus, in unison, "WE'RE NOT MARRIED!!!"

Hiei grunts in annoyance and thinks in his mind, 'I can't I'm with these fools!"

Syrus says, "As I was saying, the way that Jaden's over thinking much, I'm not so sure!"

Alexis says, solemnly, "I know…"

Jaden thinks in his mind, 'Come on, Jaden, use your head! You've got to find a way to beat those Cyber Dragons and you've got to start right now!' "Ore no time, draw!" Jaden draws his card and says, "Here we go!" Jaden puts the card into his hand, pulls out another one, slids one card into the spell/trap slot and says, "I play the Warrior Returning Alive! Now I can select any Warrior in my Graveyard and place it in my hand! So, come out, Elemental Hero Wildheart!" Soon after, Elemental Hero Wildheart comes from Jaden's Graveyard slot, Jaden slids another card into the slot and says, "Next, I activate Polymerization to fuse Wildheart with Elemental Hero Bladeedge to summon Elemental Hero Wildedge!" Soon after, Elemental Hero Wildheart (ATK: 1500/DEF: 1600) and Elemental Hero Bladeedge (A: 2600/D: 1800) appears on the field, jumped into the fusion vortex over Jaden's head and Elemental Hero Wildedge (A: 2600/D: 2300) comes out and lands in front of Jaden. Jaden says, with a sly smile, "And he's gonna edge you two out, by attack of Zane's monsters have on the field in one devastating attack! So, do your think Wildedge and go wild on those three Cyber Dragons!" Wildedge pulls his sword out and jumps towards Zane's Cyber Dragons.

Hikari presses a button on her disc and says, "Sorry, Jaden, I play my Mask of Weakness Trap Card! Now your Wildedge loses a few points from his attack points!"

Jaden calls out, horrified, "Oh no!" A weird looking mask appears on Wildedge's face, dropping stats decreases to 1900/2300.

Yusuke presses a button on his disc and says, "Sorry, sis, I play my Trap Jammer Trap Card! Now your Mask is destroyed!" The mask on Wildedge's face is destroyed.

Hikari calls out, horrified, "Oh no!" Wildedge's stats returned to normal and Jaden says, "Thanks, Yusuke, now Wildedge, continue with your attack!" Wildedge slashes all of Zane's Cyber Dragons with his sword, causing an explosion to destroy the three dragons and dropping Zane and Hikari's life points by 1500, not even fazing Zane at all.

Dr. Crowler screams out, horrified, "My goodness! All three Cyber Dragons were destroyed in one shot!"

Chancellor Sheppard says, stunned, "How remarkable! This duel is truly living up to its hype!"

Yusuke tells Jaden, "Awesome, Jaden!"

Hikari says, to herself, "He took out Zane's Cyber Dragons in one shot."

Jaden says, with a sly smile, "That was the sweetest! There's something to this 'strategizing'!"

Zane tells Jaden, with a sly smile, "You're a fool."

Yusuke and Jaden says, perplexed, "Huh?"

Zane presses a button on his disc and says, "I'll activate the Trap Card, Lost Soul! Now all monsters that were destroyed this turn are returned from my deck!" Soon after, all three Cyber Dragons returned to the field and disappears and flew back into Zane's deck, with Zane smiling.

Yusuke thinks in his mind, 'Damn it, we're in trouble now…'

Jaden thinks in his mind, annoyed, 'Damn it! Just as I thought I was rid of those things, they come back and ready to get rid of Yusuke and me!'

Zane pulls out his deck, shuffles them and says, annoyed, "What a shame…I picked my girlfriend's brother, Yusuke Urameshi and he's doing fine, while I also picked Jaden Yuki as his partner in this two-against-two duel. I wonder where he is now."

Jaden says, perplexed, "What?"

Hikari says, "That's right! You're not being yourself, Jaden."

Zane says, "That's right! That's what I'm seeing right now…you're not the Jaden Yuki I know…you're not playing with your heart!"

Jaden says, "That's right! Because in order to beat you, I have to play with my head not my heart!"

Zane says, annoyed, "What you're doing now, Jaden, is wasting my time!"

Jaden says, in an annoyed and sarcastic tone, "Sure I am, Zane! You can stop with all the mind games! There not gonna work!"

Yusuke thinks in his mind, 'Jaden's not quite getting it! Normally, I'd say something like this, but that's the old stupid Yusuke Urameshi and I'm doing quite fine of being the 'new' Yusuke Urameshi!'

Syrus says, "Mind games? I don't think that's what he's doing."

Ryoko says, "Yeah, Zane has a point! Jaden is dueling differently!"

Current Score:

Zane and Hikari: 7400

Yusuke and Jaden: 11800

"Watashi no time, draw!" Hikari draws her card, slids it into the spell/trap slot and says, "I activate Graceful Charity! Now I get to draw three new cards as long as I discard two!" Hikari draws three cards from the top of her deck and sends two to the grave slot. She slids another card into the spell/trap slot and says, "Next, I activate another Call of the Mummy spell card! Now I can summon another zombie monster from my hand. Now rise, Vampire Lord!" Soon after, Vampire Lord (ATK: 2000/DEF: 1500) appears on the field in attack mode. Hikari places another card onto the disc and says, "Next, I'll remove from play Vampire Lord to summon Vampire Genesis!" Soon after, Vampire Lord disappears and Vampire Genesis (ATK: 3000/DEF: 2100) appears in its place.

Yusuke asks, perplexed, "Why would you summon a monster with equal attack points as my dragon!?"

Hikari discards another Despair from the Dark (ATK: 2800/DEF: 3000) from her hand and says, "I'll get to that in a sec, but first I'll activate Vampire Genesis's special ability, by sending a monster card from my hand, I can summon any zombie monster with lower stars then the monster I've discarded. So, I send Despair from the Dark, so I can summon Ryu Kokki to the field!" Soon after, Ryu Kokki (ATK: 2400/DEF: 2000) appears besides Vampire Genesis.

Yusuke yells out, "I didn't send him to the graveyard!"

Hikari says, with a sly grin, "No! That was one of the cards I've discarded with Graceful Charity's effect!" Hikari then slids another card into the spell/trap slot and says, "Next, I activate Book of Life to summon back Despair from the Dark from the graveyard!" Soon after, Despair from the Dark appears on the field and gave a loud roar. Hikari says, "Thanks to another one of Book of Life's effect, you lose a monster from your graveyard, like your Black Luster Soldier!"

Black Luster Soldier (ATK: 3000/DEF: 2500) is slid out of Yusuke's grave slot and Yusuke sends the card into his deck holder.

Hikari places a card onto the disc and says, "Then, I summon Vampire Bat in attack mode!" Soon after, Vampire Bat (ATK: 800) appears on the field.

Our heroes and heroines, including for Zane, gasp in shock and Jaden yells out, "Wait! I know that monster!"

Yusuke then says, "Yeah, it's one of those Shadow Riders, Camilla's, monsters!"

Dr. Crowler screams in fear, "Oh no! Not that monster! I'm still having nightmares from that encounter!"

Syrus and Ryoko were trembling in fear at the sight of the monster and Syrus squeaks, "Oh…great!"

Ryoko stutters, "It's one of those horrible Shadow Riders, Camilla's monsters!"

Alexis says, stunned, "How in the hell did Kari get that monster!?"

Kagome says, fearfully, "And Kari saw how Camilla used that monster!"

Kira says, "It gives two hundred points to every zombie monster on Kari's side of the field!"

Chazz says, "Plus, if it's going to be destroyed…"

Bastion then finishes for Chazz, "…then, all Kari has to do is send one Vampire Bat from her deck to resurrect it!"

Zane asks Hikari, "Uh…Kari, where did you get that monster?"

Hikari replies, "Oh…from a booster pack at the store!" Hikari calls out, "Now thanks to Vampire Bat, all zombie monsters on my side of the field, gains two hundred more attack points!" All of Hikari's monsters roared as Vampire Genesis's stats increases from 3000/2100 to 3200/2100, Ryu Kokki's stats move up from 2400/2000 to 2600/2000, Despair from the Dark's stats from 2800/3000 to 3000/3000 and Vampire Bat's stats from 800 to 1000. Hikari commands, "Now Vampire Genesis, attack with Crimson Storm!" Vampire Genesis turns to streams of crimson red and rushes towards Blue-Eyes White Dragon. The white dragon roared as it was torn apart, costing Yusuke and Jaden 200 life-points. Hikari calls out, "Now Ryu Kokki, attack!" Ryu Kokki roared as it threw sound waves towards King Dragun and the dragon roared in pain as it was destroyed, which lowers Yusuke and Jaden's life-points further by 200. Hikari calls out, again, "Now Despair from the Dark and Vampire Bat, direct attack!" Vampire Bat turned into a swarm of little bats as it flew at Yusuke, with Despair from the Dark's claws lunging at the former spirit detective as the bats bit him, costing Yusuke and Jaden 1000 life-points and Despair from the Dark's claws hitting Yusuke. Yusuke grunts as he and Jaden loses 3000 life-points. Hikari says, sliding a card into the spell/trap slot and says, "I'll end with this!"

Current Score:

Zane and Hikari: 7400

Yusuke and Jaden: 7400

Yusuke draws his next card, "Ore no time!" Yusuke slids a card into the spell/trap slot and says, "I activate Lightning Vortex, now by sending one card from my hand, I can destroy all monsters on your side of the field, Kari!"

Hikari takes out her deck from her disc, fans it and says, "Thanks to Vampire Bat's effect, I can send another Vampire Bat from my deck and negate the destruction of my Vampire Bat!" Hikari takes another Vampire Bat (ATK: 800) from her deck and sends it to the grave slot as a lightning bolt hits and zips every one of Hikari's monsters and Vampire Bat reforms itself.

Yusuke slids another card into the spell/trap slot and says, "That wouldn't be a problem! Now I play Soul Release to remove my two Blue-Eyes White Dragons from the graveyard!"

Zane and Hikari gasp in shock and Hikari says, stunned, "You haven't played your other Blue-Eyes, yet!"

Zane gasps in shock, realizing something and says, stunned, "Unless…Graceful Charity's and Lightning Vortex's side effects! One of the cards that he discarded was one of his Blue-Eyes White Dragons!"

Yusuke says, with a sly smile, "That's right! I used Graceful Charity's and Lightning Vortex's effect to discard my Blue-Eyes to the graveyard!" Yusuke grabbed his two Blue-Eyes White Dragons (ATK: 3000/DEF: 2500 X2) from his grave slot and places them into his deck holder. Yusuke slids another card into the spell/trap slot and says, "Next, I play from my hand another spell card, Dimension Fusion!"

Zane and Hikari gasped in shock and Zane thinks in his mind, stunned, "I knew it!"

Yusuke then says, "At the cost of 2000 life-points I can bring back every monster that was removed from the game!" Soon after, the three Blue-Eyes White Dragons (ATK: 3000/DEF: 2500 X 3) and Black Luster Soldier (ATK: 3000/DEF: 2500) appears on the field. Yusuke slids another card into the spell/trap slot and says, "Next, I play Dragon's Mirror! Now removing all three of my Blue-Eyes from play, so, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, come on down!" The three Blue-Eyes White Dragons were sucked into the fusion vortex and Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon (ATK: 4500/DEF: 3800) comes out of the vortex. Yusuke slids another card into the spell/trap slot and says, "But wait! I'm not done yet! Go Polymerization, merge Black Luster Soldier with Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!" Black Luster Soldier and Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon went into the vortex, "To create the Master of Dragon Soldier!" Soon after, Master of Dragon Soldier (ATK: 5000/DEF: 5000) flies out of the vortex in attack mode with the three headed dragon roaring in its appearance as it landed behind Yusuke.

Our heroes and heroines gasps in shock and Syrus exclaims happily, "It's Yusuke's best monster!"

Ryoko says, in a serious tone, "But there are no dragons to activate Master of Dragon Soldier's special ability!"

Yusuke calls out, "Now, my Master of Dragon Soldier, attack her Vampire Bat with Dragon Saber Blast!" Master of Dragon Soldier prepares for an attack and hurls its attack at Hikari's Vampire Blast. The attack slams onto the vampire causing a huge explosion, costing Zane and Hikari 4000 life-points.

Hikari yells out, taking a card from her disc and fanning it, "Thanks to the special ability of Vampire Bat, I can bring another Vampire Bat from my deck and discard it to the graveyard!" Hikari takes out another Vampire Bat (ATK: 800) and sends it to the graveyard slot and soon after, Vampire Bat reshapes itself.

Yusuke says, with a sly smile, as he slid another card to the spell/trap slot, "I know and that was your last Vampire Bat! I play De-Fusion to separate my Master of Dragon Soldier!" Master of Dragon Soldier glows and splits itself to Black Luster Dragon (ATK: 3000/DEF: 2500) and Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon (ATK: 4500/DEF: 3800) appears on the field in attack mode.

Zane and Hikari gasps in shock, thinking in unison, 'Oh no…'

Yusuke calls out, "Now my Soldier, attack with Chaos Blade Strike!" Black Luster Soldier lunges forward and slashes Vampire Bat in half, causing an explosion as it lowers Zane and Hikari's life-points by 2000 points.

Yusuke shouts out, "And now for the finishing touch, Blue-Eyes Ultimate, attack with Neutron Blast!" Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon hurls its attack towards Hikari.

Hikari presses a button on her disc and calls out, "Not so fast, I play Draining Shield!" A shield was brought out and Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon's assault hits it and Hikari says, in a sly grin, "Thanks to this, not only your dragon's attack is negated, but our life-points are increased by your Ultimate Dragon's attack points!" Soon after, Zane and Hikari's life-points increased by 4500 points.

Yusuke grunts in anger, as he slids another card into the spell/trap slot and says, "I'll end with this!"

Current Score:

Zane and Hikari: 5900

Yusuke and Jaden: 5400

Syrus exclaims out, "Oh man! Yusuke almost had them!"

Kira says, "Yeah, too close!"

Zane grunts as he drew his card and says, "It's my turn, now!" Zane slids a card into the spell/trap slot and says, "And I play Future Fusion! Now I can fuse monsters from my deck, not in my hand!" A fusion vortex appears above Zane and Zane says, "Therefore, I send three Cyber Dragons from my deck to the graveyard, so I can summon the Cyber End Dragon!" Soon after, the three Cyber Dragons (ATK: 2100/DEF: 1600) appears on the field, flew into the vortex and Cyber End Dragon (ATK: 4000/DEF: 2800) appears on the field, giving a loud roar at his appearance.

Jaden takes a step back in shock and Zane says, "Of course, monster summoned by Future Fusion can't attack on the turn they were summoned, but I can wait!"

Jaden thinks in his mind, 'Yeah, but I can't! I have to find a way to destroy that dragon and I have to do it right now! Come on, Jaden, use your brain!' Jaden draws his card from the top of his deck and says, "Ore no time!" Jaden slids three cards into the spell/trap slots and says, "I'll throw down three facedowns and that's it!"

Yusuke opened in his mouth in shock and thinks in his mind, 'Jaden just made an obvious move…'

Hikari shook her head and says, "Still with your head, you can't win this way!"

Jaden says, with a confident smile, "You don't think so! Go ahead, Kari! It's your turn!"

Zane says, in an annoyed tone, "What a disappointment, you've become!"

Jaden says, in an annoyed tone, "Enough with the mind games, already!"

Hikari says, in an annoyed tone, "Okay, fine then, Jaden! If you won't listen to our words, perhaps you'll listen with my cards! Watashi no time, draw!" Hikari draws a card from her deck, slids a card into the spell/trap slot and says, "I'll activate Scapegoats to bring out four sheep tokens!" Soon after, four little goats (ATK: 0/D: 0) appears on the field in defense mode. Hikari slids another card into the spell/trap slot and says, "Next, I'll activate Misfortune! Now I can choose one monster on your side of the field and you guys take damage equal to half of the chosen monster and I choose Yusuke's Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!"

Yusuke and Jaden gasped in shock as Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon unleashes its blast at Hikari, as a green barrier appears to block the assault and turns back to hit Yusuke hard. Yusuke screams as he and Jaden loses 2250. Hikari slids a card into the spell/trap slot and says, "And that's it!"

Current Score:

Zane and Hikari: 5900

Yusuke and Jaden: 3150

Yusuke draws his card and says, "Ore no time! Now Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, attack with Neutron Blast!" Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon hurls its attack towards one of Hikari's sheep tokens and engulfing it in the blast, destroys it. Yusuke then calls out, "Black Luster Soldier, attack with Chaos Blade Slash!" Black Luster Soldier jumps at Hikari's sheep token and slashes it in half and returns to his master's side. Yusuke slids a card into the spell/trap slot and says, "That's all!"

"Ore no time, draw!" Zane draws his card and looks to see that it's one of his most prized cards, Power Bond. He places it in his hand, takes out another one, slids it into the spell/trap slot and says, "First, I'll play the spell, De-Fusion, activate!" Cyber End Dragon glows and splits into three Cyber Dragons (ATK: 2100/DEF: 1600) in attack mode.

Yusuke raises an eyebrow and thinks in his mind, perplexed, 'Why would Zane split his Cyber End Dragon?' Yusuke gasped in shock, thinking what the eldest Truesdale brother would do, "He's gonna…"

Zane slids another card into the spell/trap slot and says, "Next, I'll activate my spell card!"

Yusuke and Jaden covers their eyes from the bright light, as a dark cloud appears above the dueling platform, and Zane says, "Recognize it, boys! It's Power Bond and with it, I can summon back an old friend, the CYBER END DRAGON!" A lightning blot hits Zane's Cyber Dragons and Cyber End Dragon (ATK: 4000/DEF: 2800) comes on the field, once again.

Yusuke gasped in shock and thinks in his mind, 'I knew it!'

Every student watching the duel had gasped in shock, including Chancellor Sheppard, Dr. Crowler and our heroes and heroines and Atticus says, stunned, 'Wait…again!"

Kelly asks, stunned, "But why…?"

Zane says, "Why again, you might ask? Quite simple really, when a machine fusion monster is summoned by a Power Bond spell, its attack points are automatically doubled!"

Yusuke and Jaden grunts in fear and shock as Cyber End Dragon roared in fury as its stats increases from 4000/2800 to 8000/2800.

Jaden thinks in his mind, annoyed, 'Damn it, it looks like using my head has headed Yusuke and me to a giant loss! One that I'll never let down!'

Yusuke thinks in his mind, 'We can't lose…not this way!'

Hikari says, in a serious tone, "So what now, guys? You think you can beat Zane's Cyber End Dragon, Jaden?"

Zane says, in a serious tone, "Jaden, you have one monster and it's about to blasted to oblivion, it's over for you and Yusuke!"

Yusuke thinks in his mind, horrified, 'No! It can't be over!'

Jaden thinks in his mind, horrified, 'I know that I can think and I better start or else!'

Zane says, in a serious and taunting tone, "Come on! What are you wanting for, Jaden?" Zane closes in his eyes and says, "Useless, of course, you're afraid so that your problem?" Jaden remained slight and Zane says, in a serious tone, "Well, fine! I'll put both you and Yusuke out of your miseries! Cyber End Dragon, attack!" Cyber End Dragon roars as it prepares for attack.

Jaden presses a button on his disc and calls out, "Not so fast! I'm playing a trap, Soul Union, takes Bladeegde's attack points and add them all to Wildegde!" Wildegde glows yellow as his stats increases from 2600/2300 to 5200/2300.

Yusuke tells Jaden, "But that's not enough to take that Cyber End Dragon's eight thousand attack points!"

Zane says, in a serious tone, "Yusuke's right, that's pointless! You see, Jaden! With my Power Bond, I still have enough points to take out your Wildegde!"

Jaden grunts in frustration and thinks in his mind, 'Damn it! He's right! Guess, I have to put my thinking cap on! Oh wait…it was already on!' Jaden pounds his forehead hard and yells out, "Think brain, you have got to figure this one out!"

Hikari presses a button on her disc and says, "Plus, it'll be even stronger with this, Go Rush Recklessly! Now, Zane's Cyber End Dragon has more than enough power to wipe you guys out and it will double thanks to Zane's Power Bond spell!" Zane's Cyber End Dragon roared in fury as its stats climbed once again from 8000/2800 to 9400/2800.

Zane calls out, "Farewell, boys!" Cyber End Dragon powers up his blast in its mouth and Zane calls out, "Cyber End Dragon, attack and end this duel!" Cyber End Dragon fires its three blasts at Wildegde.

Jaden grunts, in frustration and Yusuke looks helplessly as he sees that he and Jaden are in trouble, now.

Just then, a familiar female voice boomed, "Hey Yusuke!"

Yusuke turns to see Yumi floating beside him and Yusuke says, telepathically, 'Yumi, what's up? Waiting to see us lose!?'

Yumi tells Yusuke, "Why don't you activate those facedown cards?"

Yusuke tells Yumi, telepathically, looking at his facedowns, 'But Jaden's Wildegde will still get his ass kicked by Zane's Cyber End Dragon!"

Yumi tells Yusuke, annoyed, "Just trust me on this, okay!"

Yusuke presses two buttons on his disc as Jaden's Wildegde is destroyed, but Yusuke and Jaden's life-points have somehow went to 3450. Jaden says, "Sorry, guys, but we're not done yet!" Jaden gives of a cheesy smile and thumbs up.

Zane and Hikari's eyes widened and Zane says, stunned, 'I don't understand!"

Hikari then says, surprised, "Yeah, that hits you two square on this duel should be over!"

Yusuke laughs and says, "I activated my facedowns, Burial from the Different Dimension and Dragon Soul Union! Now, with Burial from the Different Dimension, I can bring back to graveyard my three Blue-Eyes White Dragons! Next, I activated my trap, Dragon Soul Union, to transfer half of one of my Blue-Eyes White Dragons' attack points to Jaden's Wildegde's attack, giving him sixty-four hundred attack points!"

Hikari says, "But that doesn't tell me how in the hell did you and Jaden's life-points got to thirty-four fifty in the first place!"

Jaden replies, "I've activated Emergency Provisions and sacrificed my Soul Union, Yusuke's Dragon Soul Union and Burial from the Different Dimension, which increased our life-points by three thousand." Jaden then calls out, "Now, I play Hero Signal! With this, I can summon any card with 'Elemental Hero' in its name and who better than…Bubbleman!" Soon after, Elemental Hero Bubbleman appears in defense mode and Jaden says, drawing two cards from his deck, "Since, he's alone, I get to draw two cards from my deck!" Jaden thinks in his mind, 'We might have gotten out of this round, but just barely, so much for dueling with head over my heart!'

Zane picks a card from his hand, places on the disc and says, "It's my turn and I play Cyber Kurin!" Soon after, Cyber Kurin (ATK: 300/DEF: 800) appears in attack mode. Zane calls out, "And if I happened to sacrifice him, all card effect damage is reduced to zero for this one turn and of course, that means Power Bond's effect damage is automatically negated!" Soon after, Cyber Kurin disappears and thanks to Rush Recklessly's other effect Cyber End Dragon's attack points decreases to 8000/2800.

Current Score:

Zane and Hikari: 5900

Yusuke and Jaden: 3450

Bastion says, "A flawless play!"

Atticus says, "Yeah, totally!"

Zane shouts out, "Come on! Where's the Jaden Yuki that almost beat me, before!"

Jaden shouts out, "He's right here…I think…I don't know!"

Hikari says, "Of course you don't!"

Yusuke tells Jaden, "Because your heart isn't in this!"

Suddenly, a growl from Jaden's stomach occurred and Jaden sits on the platforms with his legs crossed and says, "So is my stomach…"

Yusuke's stomach growls as well as he sit down as well and Yusuke says, lowly, "We kinda skipped lunch!"

Zane and Hikari's eyes widened and they says in unison, "Huh?"

Everyone in the stadium started whispering in surprise and Jaden calls out, "Dorothy! You're around!?"

Dorothy looks at Jaden in reply and Jaden holds his hand up and says, "Hey there! How about some grab!?"

Dorothy and one of her waitresses looked at each other, nods, slimes at each other and replies, "Okay, you got it!"

Alexis asks, perplexed, "What the hell are they doing? Having a snack!?"

Atticus says, with a teasing smile, "They say, 'A way to a man's heart is through his stomach!' Jealous?" That comment got him another punch in the face by his 'annoyed' sister and Alexis, with a hint of red on her face, scowls at her brother, "Oh please!"

Bastion says, "Very odd, indeed! Do you think so, Chazz?"

Chazz says, in usual tone, "Ah hello, it's Yusuke and Jaden, everything they do is odd."

Syrus says, with a smile, "Maybe, but at least Jaden's back to his old self!"

Jaden laughed and says, "Sy's right! I wasn't being me!"

Yusuke laughed and says, "And what better way to be Jaden…than to have a big meal! Huh?"

Jaden asks, with his usual grin, "So, how about it, guys? Do you two mind if we scoff!?"

Zane smiled and says, "Why not?"

Hikari says, with a smile, "Knock yourselves out!"

Jaden says, gleefully, "Great answer!"

Dr. Crowler yells out, "Food, during a duel! No way!"

Chancellor Sheppard says, gleefully, "Can you cut them a break for saving the world from the Shadow Riders? Remember?"

Dr. Crowler groaned and says, "I'm trying not to!"

Time passes and Dorothy and her assistant have brought out a rice cooker into the stadium and finished cooking a large amount of rice. Jaden says, "It smells great! I can't believe that we sent without eating!"

Yusuke says, with a smile, "Yeah, no kidding!"

Dorothy pats it into triangular rice balls and hands two plates over, with a few slices of pickles up to Yusuke and Jaden. The two first-year students of Duel Academy started gobbling down the rice cakes and Dorothy asks, with a warm slime, "How's your heart now!?"

Yusuke and Jaden's family and friends looked at them with varying degrees of happy and frustration from Chazz and Hiei, of course. Zane and Hikari looked at them with smiles, with Hikari, giving a gleefully nervous smile as her brother and Jaden kept eating like there's no tomorrow and drinks down bottles of melon juice.

Dr. Crowler says, with disgust at the sight, "Revolting, don't you agree, Chancellor…"

Chancellor Sheppard says, with a big smile, "I think we're in for a great match now!"

Dr. Crowler asks Chancellor Sheppard, perplexed, "And just what do you mean by that?"

Chancellor Sheppard tells Dr. Crowler, still smiling, "What I mean is, Jaden learned a valuable lesson! He tried to be someone he's not and almost made Yusuke and himself lose the duel. You see, Jaden's a great duelist, not because of his book smart, because he plays with his heart, soul and even his stomach! Zane and two of the Urameshi triples helped him find the duelist that he left behind!"

Dr. Crowler raised an eyebrow and says, "Leaving behind? Please, he left nothing behind!"

After eating, Jaden loosen his belt and he and Yusuke got onto their feet and they wiped their mouths clean. Jaden calls out, "Alright, let's do this!"

Dorothy says, with a smile, "Good luck, boys! Glad I can help!"

Yusuke says, with a smile, "Hey thanks for the grub, Dorothy!"

Jaden says, gleefully, "Yeah, you rule!" Yusuke and Jaden turned to Zane and Hikari and Jaden says, "Now then!"

Hikari says, with a smile, "Bring it!"

"Ore no time, draw!" Jaden draws his next card and says, sliding a card into the slot, "I'll play Pot of Greed! Now I can draw two cards from my deck!" Jaden draws two cards from his deck and places one of them onto his disc and says, "And I'll place one of them, Elemental Hero Avian, in defense mode!" Soon after, Elemental Hero Avian (ATK: 1000/DEF: 1000) on the field in defense mode. Jaden displays a spell card and says, "And here's the other, Spy Hero, it's activated when I send two cards from the top of my deck to the graveyard!" Soon after, a black figure appears on Jaden's side of the field and disappears. Jaden says, with a sly smile, "Then, my Spy Hero cuts in and uses all his super stealth to take one of your spell cards!"

Zane says, with a smile, "Seems like the old Jaden's back!" Soon after, to Zane's surprise, Jaden's Spy Hero comes out from Zane's graveyard slot and throws one of Zane's spell cards to Jaden.

Jaden catches it and looks at it, then displaying it once more and says, "Hey thanks Zane, Future Fusion! Now all I have to do is sacrifice a couple of monsters that could be used for a fusion monster!" Jaden takes out his deck, fans it out and takes out two cards, which were Elemental Hero Burstinatrix (ATK: 1200/DEF: 800) and Elemental Hero Clayman (ATK: 800/DEF: 2000). Jaden discards the two hero cards to the graveyard slot and says, "So say goodbye to Elemental Heroes Burstinatrix and Clayman and hello Rampart Blaster in defense mode!" Soon after, Elemental Hero Burstinatrix and Elemental Hero Clayman appears on the field and flew into the fusion vortex and Elemental Hero Rampart Blaster (ATK: 2000/DEF: 2500) comes out of the vortex in defense mode. Jaden slids two cards into the spell/trap slot and says, "And next, I'll throw down a couple of facedowns!"

"Watashi no time, draw!" Hikari draws her next card, looks at it, displays it, which was the Card of Sanctity spell card and says, "I activate Card of Sanctity spell card! Now all of us draw until we're holding six cards in our hands!" All four duelists drew until they were holding six cards in our hands. Hikari places a card onto the disc and says, "I summon Regenerating Mummy in defense mode and end my turn!" Soon after, Regenerating Mummy (ATK: 1800/DEF: 1500) appears on the field in defense mode.

"Ore no time, draw!" Yusuke draws his card and calls out, "Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, attack with Neutron Blast!" Yusuke's three headed beast hurls its attack at Regenerating Mummy and vaporizing it. Yusuke shouts out, "And now, Black Luster Soldier, attack with Chaos Blade Strike!" Black Luster Soldier lunges at one of Hikari's sheep token and slashes it in half, before returning to Yusuke's of the field. Yusuke slids a card into the spell/trap slot and says, "I'll end my turn!"

Zane says, with a smile, "Impressive! But…" Zane draws his card and says, "Too little, too late! Ore no time!" Zane displays a monster card, Cyber Phoenix and says, "I summon forth Cyber Phoenix in attack mode!" Soon after, Cyber Phoenix (ATK: 1200/DEF: 1600) appears beside Cyber End Dragon and Zane says, "With Phoenix on the field, all spell and trap targeting a certain monster are destroyed, which means that the effect gets cancelled out, you see where I'm going with this, boys!"

Jaden shouts out, "Yeah, yeah, we get it, Zane!"

Yusuke says, "Your Cyber End Dragon! It can't be touch by any spell or trap cards!" Yusuke thinks in his mind, horrified, 'Which means that's practicality invincible!'

Chazz asks in annoyance, "Could Yusuke and Jaden hurry up and lose, already!?"

Bastion says, in his logical tone, "This is a tough spot!"

Atticus tells Alexis, teasingly, "Yusuke and your boyfriend, aren't doing so well!" In response, Alexis lunges over to her brother and beat him on the head on every syllable, "Shut up! Shut up! SHUT THE HELL UP! DAMN IT DON'T YOU EVER SHUT UP!"

Zane points his finger up and says, "I'm glad that you two got to enjoy your lunches, just try not to lose it! Cyber End Dragon, attack Rampart Blaster!" Cyber End Dragon prepares to attack Jaden's Rampart Gunner and hurls the attack.

Jaden calls out, "I activate De-Fusion! It let's me take one fusion monster from the field and splits them back apart!"

Hikari says, "Sorry, Jaden, Cyber End Dragon can't be touched by spell or trap cards! Cyber Phoenix is protecting him, remember!"

Jaden calls out, "I'm not going after him! I'm defusing one of mine! By defusing Rampart Blaster, I get two monsters and you get no attack!" Soon after, Elemental Hero Clayman (ATK: 800/DEF: 2000) and Elemental Hero Burstinatrix (ATK: 1200/DEF: 800) got out of their fusion forms and got out of the way of Zane's Cyber End Dragon's attack.

Syrus exclaims, "Alright!"

Ryoko then says, "Now that's a lineup!"

Kagome then says, "Jaden's got four Elemental Heroes!"

Zane thinks in his mind, perplexed, 'If you add all their attack points, none of them would come close to be a match for my dragon. He's making a grave error.' Zane gasps in shock, "Unless…"

Jaden then says, "I'm not attackin' I'm sacrificin' and you'll see why when I activate this!" Jaden presses a button on his disc and says, "Here comes Elemental Burst!"

Zane and Hikari gasps in shock and says, in unison, "Oh no!"

Jaden yells out, "Oh yeah! Now, but sacrificin' an Earth, Water, Fire and Wind attributes, all cards on your side of the fields are all destroyed, guys!"

Yusuke tells Jaden, excited, "Awesome move, Jay! Bye-Bye pain-in-the-ass Cyber End Dragon!" Soon after, all four heroes explodes into geysers of their elements, with dirt and stones from Clayman, blue water from Bubbleman, red flames from Burstinatrix and swirling wind from Avian. The four streams lash out and destroys Zane's Cyber End Dragon and Cyber Phoenix and Hikari's remaining scapegoat.

Jaden giggled and says, with a sly smile, "So long, Cyber End Dragon!"

Yusuke says, with a sly smile, "We can't really say that we'll miss ya!"

Zane's voice boomed, "You two don't have to miss it! Because by destroying Cyber Phoenix, I get to bring one card from my deck and place it in my hand. Ore no time, draw!" Zane draws a card from the top of his deck and says, "Don't you see! The way that I calibrated my deck, Cyber End Dragon won't be gone long! I'll always find a way to bring him back!"

Yusuke says, in a disbelieving tone, "You're bluffing!"

Zane says, in a serious tone, "But I'm not, Yusuke! Because the card I picked was this one, Time Fusion!" Soon after, a hole with a bright light appears above Zane's head and Zane says, "And with it, time is on my side!"

Jaden asks, perplexed, "And how is that exactly!?"

Zane replies, in a serious tone, "Because, by removing one card from my hand and the game, it activates! Meaning I automatically summon a fusion monster from my graveyard next turn, without a single summoning requirement!"

Yusuke and Jaden grunts in annoyance and Yusuke thinks in his mind, 'So, he's right! The Cyber End Dragon will come back and soon too!"

Zane smirks and yells out, in a serious tone, "You two can't win! And in just one turn, you two will see why! Don't be feel bad, boys, you two lost to the bests!"

Yusuke says, "All ready making your graduating speech, Zane!"

Jaden then says, "Not so fast, we're still here!"

Chazz rolled his eyes and says, "Oh please, not for much longer!"

Bastion says, "Perhaps…"

Syrus says, "All they need is one good draw!"

Kagome says, "That's right! One good draw!"

Atticus nods his head and says, "Yep!"

Alexis says, worriedly, "Come on, guys, try to hold on much longer."

Jaden draws his card and says, "Alright! Ore no time, draw!" Jaden slids his card into the spell/trap slot and says, "I think I'll throw down a facedown!"

Hikari draws her card and says, "Watashi no time!" Hikari places a card onto the disc and says, "I summon Master Kyonshee in defense mode!" Soon after, Master Kyonshee (ATK: 1750/DEF: 1000) appears in defense mode. Hikari slids a card into the spell/trap slot and says, "I'll end my turn!"

Yusuke draws his card, places on the field and says, "Now, Black Luster Soldier, destroy her Master Kyonshee with Chaos Blade Strike!" Black Luster Soldier charges towards Master Kyonshee.

Hikari calls out, "Thanks for that! Go Mirror Force!" A transparent shield appears in front of Hikari, which Black Luster Soldier's sword hit, and Hikari says, "Thanks to this, all of your face-up monsters on your side of the field are destroyed!" Yusuke's Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon and Black Luster Soldier were instantly destroyed.

Yusuke growls in anger as he slids one card into the spell/trap slot and says, "I'll end with this!"

Zane thinks in his mind, 'You'll have to do a lot better than that, Yusuke, especially for when you see what Kari and I have for you and Jaden' Zane shouts out, drawing a card, "Brace yourselves! Ore no time, draw!" Zane digs in his card pouch, behind him and says, "First, this returns to me…" Zane displays it as the Card from the Different Dimension spell card and says, "Card from the Different Dimension! I removed from play, while using Time Fusion and it's special effect activate, we get to draw two new cards from our decks!" All four duelists drew two cards from their respective decks and Zane thinks in his mind, seriously, 'Too bad, nothing is going to save you two, boys!'

Yusuke and Jaden think in unison, with sly smirks, 'Zane is pretty confident if he's letting us draw cards!'

Zane calls out, "And now I call out, Cyber End Dragon!" Soon after, Cyber End Dragon (ATK: 4000/DEF: 2800) appears on the field.

Ryoko exclaims, in distress, "Not again!"

Alexis says, drolly, "You think for once, Zane would use a combo without that dragon."

Botan and Kagome nodded in reply and Atticus says, gleefully, "Hey if it ain't broke!"

Bastion gasps in shock and says, "I see, the monster summoned by Time Fusion can't attack, until next turn!"

Chazz exclaims, in annoyance, "Next turn! Damn it, how long do I have to wait until I see Yusuke and Jaden lose!?"

Cyber End Dragon roars in fury as Yusuke and Jaden stare at it and Zane says, sliding a card into the spell/trap slot and says, "And I'll finish up with one facedown!"

Dr. Crowler is sweating and says, "Oh dear me…I'm sweating molecules…"

Chancellor Sheppard watches with eagerness, with shining eyes and says, "And this duel just so exciting!"

Jaden draws his card and says, "Ore no time, draw!" Jaden displays his Fusion Recovery spell card and says, "I'll play Fusion Recovery, it allows me to bring one fusion material monster and one Polymerization in my hand." Soon after, Elemental Hero Burstinatrix (ATK: 1200/DEF: 800) and Polymerization cards comes from the graveyard slot and Jaden says, "Sorry Zane, but you're not the only one that can re-summon a monster!" Soon after, Elemental Hero Burstinatrix appears on the field. Jaden then displays his Miracle Fusion spell card and says, "Next, I'll play Miracle Fusion, now by removing Avian and Burstinatrix from play!" Soon after, Elemental Hero Avian (ATK: 1000/DEF: 1000) appears on the field and went into the vortex with Burstinatrix and Elemental Hero Flame Wingman (ATK: 2100/DEF: 1200) appears on the field. Jaden displays his Polymerization spell card and says, "But wait, I'm not done yet!" Soon after, another fusion vortex appears above Jaden and Jaden says, "Go Polymerization! Merge the Sparkman with Flame Wingman!" Soon after, Elemental Hero Sparkman (ATK: 1600/DEF: 1000) appears on the field and followed Flame Wingman into the vortex and Jaden calls out, "To create the Elemental Hero Shining Flare Wingman!" Soon after, in a flash of bright light, Elemental Hero Shining Flare Wingman (ATK: 2500/DEF: 2100) appears on the field. Jaden calls out, "And here's the cherry on top, for each Elemental Hero, I've got chillin' in the graveyard, Wingman gets three hundred points!"

Zane narrows his eyes and Jaden calls out, "Now let's count off, Hero Role Call!" Soon after, images of Elemental Hero cards come out of Jaden's grave slot and Flare Wingman's body glows and his power increases from 2500/2100 to 4900/2100.

Yusuke exclaims out, with joy, "All right, now take it away, Jay!"

Jaden says, "Don't worry, bro! It's on! Now attack Cyber End Dragon, Flare Wingman!" Flare Wingman lunges towards Cyber End Dragon and used his power to take down Zane's mechanical three headed beast and took 900 points away from Zane and Hikari's life-points. Jaden then calls out, "Oh yeah! And Flare Wingman doesn't come empty handed, whenever he takes out a monster, you take damage equal to your destroyed monster's attack points and that's four thousand!"

Zane and Hikari gasps in shock as Flare Wingman gets brighter and Yusuke says, "School's out, guys!"

Zane presses a button on his disc and says, "Not yet, it's not! Damage Polarilyzer!"

Yusuke and Jaden says, in unison, perplexed, "Damage Polarilyzer!"

Zane says, in a serious tone, "Due to its effect, the damage is reduced to zero for one turn only!" Flare Wingman jumps back to Jaden's side of the field. Everyone in the audience, including Hiei, were looking at the duel with anticipation. Zane then says, "Then, there's the other effect of Damage Polarilyzer, all of us get to draw a card from our decks and I hope for you two, boys, it'll be a good one." All four duelists drew one card and they looked at it and Hikari thinks in her mind, stunned, 'No way!'

Yusuke thinks in his mind, stunned, 'I can't believe it!'

Jaden thinks his mind, stunned, 'I just…'

Zane thinks his mind, stunned, 'drew…'

All four duelists think in unison, still stunned, 'BATTLE FUSION!'

Jaden slids the card into the spell/trap slot and says, "I'll place this facedown and end my turn!"

Current Score:

Zane and Hikari: 5000

Yusuke and Jaden: 3450

"Watashi no time, draw!" Hikari draws her card, slids a card into the slot and says, "I activate Monster Reborn to bring back Ryu Kokki from the graveyard!" Soon after, Ryu Kokki (ATK: 2400/DEF: 2000) appears on the field and Hikari yells out, "Ryu Kokki, attack Yusuke directly!" Ryu Kokki roars and sends sound waves over to Yusuke. Yusuke covers his ears as he and Jaden loses 2400 life-points in one shot. Hikari says, sliding two cards into the spell/trap slot, "I'll end my turn!"

Current Score:

Zane and Hikari: 5000

Yusuke and Jaden: 1050

"Watashi no time, draw!" Yusuke draws his card, slids a card into the spell/trap slot and says, "My turn! First, I'll activate Card of Demise! Now I can draw until I'm holding five cards and in five turns I have to discard my entire hand!" Yusuke draws until he's holding five cards and then puts another card in her spell/trap slots and says, "Next, I play my Polymerization! I fuse my Dark Magician with my Buster Blader!" Soon after, Buster Blader (ATK: 2600/DEF: 2300) appears on the field with Dark Magician (ATK: 2500/DEF: 2100), the two monsters go into a fusion vortex, Yusuke calls out, "All right, guys, meet my big bad, Dark Paladin!" Out of the fusion vortex, Dark Paladin (ATK: 2900/DEF: 2400) comes to the field in attack mode.

Zane and Hikari gasp in shock, knowing what Dark Paladin can do and Yusuke then says, in a serious tone, "And here's the cherry on top, for each dragon we got chillin' in the graveyard, Dark Paladin gains five hundred points! Now let's count off, Dragon Roll Call!" Soon after, eight images of Yusuke's dragons come from Yusuke's graveyard and Dark Paladin's stats then increase from 2900/2400 to 6900/2400. Yusuke slids a card into the spell/trap slot and says, "I'll activate Tribute to the Doomed to send one card from my hand to destroy Ryu Kokki!" Yusuke sends Masked Dragon (ATK: 1400/DEF: 1100) to the graveyard slot and a thunderbolt hits Ryu Kokki and destroys it. Yusuke says, "Since I discarded another dragon card, Dark Paladin gains five hundred more attack points!" Dark Paladin's stats then increase from 6900/2400 to 7400/2400. Yusuke calls out, "Now, Dark Paladin, attack with Dragon Slaying Blast!" Paladin leaped into the air and spun his staff wildly as he charged towards the elder Urameshi triplet and shot an energy arc at Hikari

Hikari presses a button on her disc and says, in a serious tone, "I activate Negate Attack! Now you're battle phase ends!" Dark Paladin's energy arc is neutralized and Zane and Hikari's life-points are safe.

Yusuke slids two cards into the spell/trap slot and says, "I'll play a facedown! Alright, guys, this is it! It's been an honor dueling you guys!"

Zane says, in a serious tone, "The same here!"

Jaden says, in a serious tone, "Good luck, because something tells me that this is the last round!'

Hikari says, in a serious tone, "I agree!"

Zane thinks in his mind, in a serious tone, 'The last round for you two! Our victories is assured, prepare for the bitter taste of defeat, boys!' Zane draws his card and says, "Brace yourselves! Ore no time!" Zane looks at the card and smiled.

Syrus looks at his brother's smile and says, fearfully, "I don't like that smile that Zane has!"

Alexis nods her head and says, "Especially, when Zane never smiles…"

Kagome says, "Yeah, I wondered what's up?"

Atticus says, "Yeah me too! Get set for the last round for this school's top duelists!"

Zane says, with a smile, "Boys, it's been fun, but now it's over! I play Power Bond, by sending three cards to the graveyard, I can summon the Cyber End Dragon!"

Chazz says, perplexed, "But how, you have to more than one card to do it!"

Bastion says, stunned, "Chazz's right for once! His field is bare!"

Zane says, still smiling, "I'm sorry, I forgot, I don't need monsters!" Zane pulls out a card from his hand and says, "I play Cybernetic Fusion Support! By trading half my life points, I don't need monsters to summon my fusion monster, so without further ado…" Zane and Hikari's life-points dropped by 2500 points and three of Zane's Cyber Dragon popped out of Zane's graveyard slot. Zane then says, in a serious tone, "Let's welcome back, Cyber End Dragon!" Soon after, Cyber End Dragon (ATK: 4000/DEF: 2800) appears on the field.

Yusuke and Jaden think in their minds, in unison, 'You know, I'm pretty sick of looking at this damned thing!'

Hikari says, with a sly smile, 'You know, I'm getting used to looking at this dragon!"

Zane's voice boomed, "And thanks to Power Bond, its attack points are doubled!" Cyber End Dragon's stats increased from 4000/2800 to 8000/2800. Zane pulls another card from his hand and says, "And I'll activate this, Limiter Removal!"

Chazz says, stunned, "Trouble!"

Kagome says, stunned, "Big trouble!"

Bastion says, stunned, "Very severe big trouble!"

Alexis exclaims, "All coming towards Yusuke and Jaden!"

Zane says, in a serious tone, "Thanks to this all machine type monsters' attack points are doubled and guess what type my dragon is!" Cyber End Dragon's stats increased further from 8000/2800 to 16000/2800. Zane roars out, in a serious tone, "You two are through!"

Jaden calls out, pressing a button on his disc, "Don't think so! Go Battle Fusion, when used in a battle, Flare Wingman's attack increases by the number of attack points as Triple Corm Dom over there!" Flare Wingman's stats increased from 4900/2100 to 20900/2100.

Dr. Crowler says, in his usual tone, "That must be against the rules!"

Chancellor Sheppard jumps out of his seat and exclaims, happily, "Oh please! This is what dueling's all about!"

Hikari presses a button on her disc and says, "I activate my own Battle Fusion to increase the attack of Zane's Cyber End Dragon!"

Jaden says, fearfully, "Oh no!" Cyber End Dragon roars in fury as its stats increases further from 16000/2800 to 36900/2800.

Yusuke presses a button on his disc and says, "Well, I activate my Destruction of Destiny trap card! Now I can send up to five cards to the graveyard and I choose my three Armed Dragons level three and Armed Dragons five and seven!" Yusuke takes the said cards from his deck, puts into his graveyard slot, and says, "Now the special ability of Dark Paladin activates it gains twenty-five hundred more attack points!" Soon after, Dark Paladin's stats increased from 7400/2400 to 9900/2400. Yusuke then presses another button on his disc and says, "And then, I play this, Covering Fire, to increase Jaden's Flare Wingman's attack points by the same as my Dark Paladin!" Jaden's Flare Wingman's stats increased from 20900/2100 to 30800/2100.

Hikari says, "But it's still weaker than Zane's dragon!"

Yusuke grins as he presses another button on his disc and says, "Not after I play this, Battle Fusion, to give Jaden's Flare Wingman more power!" Jaden's Flare Wingman's stats increased from 30800/2100 to 67700/2100.

Jaden tells Yusuke, excitedly, "Awesome save, Yusuke!"

Zane grins and says, "Nice move, Yusuke, but it's all for not! I use the spell card, Battle Fusion! That's right, boys, I have one too!"

Yusuke and Jaden says, fearfully, in unison, "Uh oh!" Cyber End Dragon's stats increased from 36900/2800 to 104600/2800. Yusuke says, with a wide smile, "Wow, Zane! You and Kari are great!"

Jaden says, with a wide smile, "I'm gonna miss you!"

Zane says, in a serious tone, "And I too, Jaden, that's why when I step down, I'm giving you two the torch! Despite your grades and your rank, Jaden, you and Yusuke will be the best so, you two, make me proud!"

Yusuke says, "We'll give it our all, Zane!"

Jaden says, "That's right, starting right now! Because this duel isn't over!" Zane and Hikari gave the brunette Slifer a puzzled look and Jaden says, with a sly smile, pressing a button on the disc, "I still have one last card to play and here it is, the trap card known as Final Fusion!"

Zane and Hikari gasp in shock and Zane says, with a smile, "How clever…"

Jaden says, with a sly smile, "When used in a battle, the total amounts of attack points of all our monsters are taken out of our life-points and you know what that means!"

Zane says, with a sly smile, "Sure does!" Soon after, the whole stadium glows bright green as Zane's Cyber End Dragon and Jaden's Elemental Hero Shining Flare Wingman explodes sending huge winds away. Some of the students were blown off their seats and causing Syrus and Ryoko to fall on an awkward position as Ryoko fell onto her back and Syrus fell onto her and their lips smashed into one another. This both surprised one another, as well as their friends. Syrus gets off of Ryoko, who was in still shock on what happened.

Syrus says, worriedly, "Uh oh!"

Kira says, "Yeah 'uh oh!' is right, Sy!"

Syrus exclaims, "That happened on accident and you guys know it!"

Alexis hushed the two and says, "The duel is about to finish!"

Soon after, the smoke was clear to see Yusuke and Jaden on their backs and Zane and Hikari on their knees as both dueling teams' life-points were dropped by 171300 points, immediately ending the duel.

Final Score:

Zane and Hikari: 0

Yusuke and Jaden: 0

Soon after, one by one, the student body was on their feet and silent. Chancellor Sheppard got onto his feet and clapped his hands and Dr. Crowler did the same, as well as the rest of the student body and our heroes and heroines, including Chazz, Botan, Ryoko, who got out of her shocked state and even Hiei, with a smile. He hated to admit it, but Hiei was starting to like Duel Monsters.

Yusuke and Jaden sat up and Zane's voice asks them, "Are you two alright?" Zane and Hikari got on their knees, again and Jaden says, "We're good! How's my hair!"

Hikari tells Yusuke, "I never thought that I'd see the day that you with Jaden's help could win a match with Zane, bro!"

Yusuke tells Hikari, "Maybe, it'll teach you not to always underestimate me!"

Jaden asks, "Do we get to duel again?"

Zane says, with a smile, "Yes, someday we will!"

Yusuke and Jaden held their hands out for Zane to grab both Yusuke and Jaden's hands and Hikari grabbing her brother's other hand and Zane says, "Until then…"

Jaden says, with a smile, "Good, because I'm tired!"

Zane gets out a small laugh and says, "Me too!"

Yusuke says, with a smile, "Me three!"

Hikari says, with a smile, "Me four!"

Four of Duel Academy's best duelists collapsed on the platform, laughing away, as all the student body, as well as our heroes and heroines kept clapping. Soon after, all of our heroes and heroines came to their family and friends and Kira says, "Good job out there, guys!"

Hikari says, with a smile, "Thanks sis!"

Atticus says, with a smile, "Yeah, I just can't wait until next year, though!"

Jaden says, with a smile, "Yeah, I mean, all of us will go home and…"

Just then, Yusuke's voice squeaked, with a hint of worry and hurt, "Home?" The former spirit detective jumped to his feet, remembering that this was the last duel for the school year, meaning that he has to go back home for a few months.

Chazz asks, in his usual tone, "What's wrong with you, slacker!?"

Yusuke didn't give a thought the Graduation Match was the last duel in the school year. Yusuke didn't want to leave Duel Academy, if was the first school that he wanted to stay in. In this school, people, including Chazz, sometimes, treated him like their equal, mostly from teachers, unlike the teachers from Sarayashiki Junior High, who think of him as a worthless street punk. Despite the numerous times that the most of the boys in his class and girls wanted to date him, which he had to put up with thanks to his sister, cousin and Alexis's teaching of him not to lose his temper on things on small things, Yusuke still loved this school. Sure, he had friends back at home like Genkai, Kuwabara, who he misses the feel of his fist to his face, Kurama, Hiei. However, the main reason that he didn't want to leave was that he'll have to face the one person in the world, who hurt him emotionally at some point. He wasn't ready yet to face Keiko, yet.

I hate you

"I was lying from the beginning. Playing with your heart. Hurting you in every way possible, but probably knowing you, you'd think this isn't real. Open your eyes to reality, dork. I hate you."

Flashback

"Keiko, why…" Yusuke whispered as a he was having a hard time to breath and he dropped Keiko's gift.

However hearing her soon-to-be ex-boyfriend whisper her name, even though the fireworks were fired, Keiko eyed where Yusuke was, which was enough to push Reginald away from her.

"Yusuke…" Keiko said, looking at the ex-spirit detective's brown eyes, tainted with hurt, anger and betrayal as she got on her feet, "It's not what it looks like."

Keiko took a step to Yusuke, but Yusuke took a step back, "How could you……I trust you……."

Keiko shook her head wildly, "No Yusuke, it's not…" she took another step to him.

Yusuke took another step back, "Stay away from me……" he whispered, with a little tear coming from his eyes, "Just stay away from me……Keiko Yukimura…just stay the hell away from me, it's over!"

Keiko couldn't believe the words from her now ex-boyfriend, "No Yusuke, please just…"

It was too late, Yusuke dashed away from Keiko as fast as he could.

-.-.-.-.-.-.-

Yusuke looked away from her eyes, as Keiko could feel her heart being ripped in half. Yusuke looked back at Keiko and sighed, "Keiko, I can't say that I feel the same way about you." Yusuke narrowed his eyes, cold-heartedly, "…at least not anymore."

"W…wha…what!" Keiko gaped, thinking this can't be happening.

Yumi sighed with relief, "Great job, Yusuke," Yumi said, "You almost had me there. I thought that you're going to fall into her trap."

Keiko could feel a piece of her heart get broken off, "B…but… I thought…"

Yusuke looked at his ex-girlfriend, with a cold and superior glare, "Did you honestly think by that apology and new outfit that you'll win me over that easily!?!" Yusuke yelled loudly.

Keiko couldn't believe this was happened, she knew that Yusuke was a pervert and at least try something, but she realized that Yusuke was really angry with her and she just made it even worse, "Besides, didn't I made this clear to you that we're through? It's over! I'll appreciate it, if you would just leave me alone, in the future." He said cold-heartedly and turned and ran away from Keiko.

"Yusuke, wait, just let me explain!" Keiko ran after Yusuke, in desperation.

Yusuke was running in the hallway, while knowing that Keiko was running behind him while calling his name.

Yusuke stops running and whirls ferociously, then intensely glared at Keiko, who stops before him, "Do you realize how old this is getting!?!" he asked, in a cold tone.

Keiko finishes her panting and looked Yusuke, "Yusuke, I don't know why you're trying to run away from me!" she said, "But whatever, it is we can……" Keiko was about to touch his check when Yusuke pushed it away.

Yusuke took another step back away from Keiko, "I thought I told you that I don't want you anywhere near me, anymore, you disgusting vermin!" he said, in a cold tone

"Yusuke? What…?" Keiko stared at the person that she loved in front of her "Yusuke, what the hell has gotten into you?"

Yusuke snorted and crossing his arms, fixing his glare, "Nothing's gotten into me, but revelations, so just drop the 'I really care about you' shit, I know!"

"Know what?"

"You don't care for me. You never cared for me. After all, who does love a worthless street punk not to mention a pathetic half breed? You…never did you care for me."

Keiko was having a hard time register what Yusuke is saying, 'Never cared…' she thought, "Yusuke, how could you say that!?! Of course, I do care about you!?!"

"It's not a lie, it's the truth! I'm not going to fall of that, again! Not anymore! All you cared about is your pathetic reputation as a model student! All those things, including that kiss, which brought me back from the dead a year ago, that you've done for me was all out of pity!" Yusuke yelled. "You didn't think that I'm always hurt on what Iwamoto and the other teachers say about me and my mother! When you see that four-eyed old loser, tell him that Yusuke Urameshi nobody's mutt!"

"Nobody's mutt…" Keiko repeated, "Yusuke, where are you…"

Yusuke swatted the air between him and his ex-girlfriend, "Don't you dare lie about that! You know, it's a blessing that I have good friends like Kuwabara to tell me what goes on in school, when I'm not there, including those two friends of yours, trying to set you up on a date with other guy, in order to get you away from me, fearing that one day I may hurt you! Well, you know that's the other way around! I'm actually glad that I'm going to Duel Academy, so I'm far away from you, the person who I blame for all my confusion, anger and frustration on!"

-.-.-.-.-.-.-

"Yusuke, wait!" she called again.

Yumi appeared by Yusuke, "Yo Yusuke, let's humor her some more before we actually leave."

Keiko grabs Yusuke's sleeves of his trench coat and made him turn around to meet with her, "If you came here to waste my time, then you're doing a good job." Yusuke sneered, in a cold tone.

"Yusuke, I want to let you know that, I still care about you!" Keiko cried, "I don't understand why you would actually say that I don't care about you! Besides, you've done your share of mistakes and that doesn't meant for me that you didn't care about me. I did just one mistake!"

Yusuke yanked his wrist from Keiko's grip, "If your referring to those days that I had to leave you on our dates for Pacifier Breath's little demon hunting errands than you must be the most selfish person that I've ever known. Did it ever occurred to you that I didn't enjoy leaving you! And for your information, Keiko Yukimura, that one mistake really did some damage to me! I admit I don't have one romantic bone in my body, but kissing another guy, while playing with my emotions is ten times WORSE than the shit that I've been though in my LIFE!"

Keiko got this realization into her head just now. Sure Yusuke's ditched her on her dates, because of Koenma. That meant that Yusuke enjoyed having her company, the same that she enjoyed his company.

"Here…" Yusuke threw a card at Keiko and the brunette caught it. She looked at it and her eyes widened, "Blast Magician…" she murmured and looked at Yusuke, "Yusuke, why are…"

"It seems that you didn't have me in your heart, so what's the point of holding this card? I used to have a special place for you in mine, before you showed your true colors to me that night. Maybe you should give it to your new boyfriend," Yusuke explained

"Yusuke, you're not making any..."

"In case you're a bit slow to get this…YOU DISGUST ME AND I WANT YOU TO GET OUT OF MY LIFE, PERMENANTLY!!" he yelled, as he ran away from the now broken Keiko and towards the helicopter.

End Flashback

Ever since that evening with Catherine, Yusuke was very wary about not falling in love, never again. He didn't want to experience that kind of pain, ever again.

Kagome takes a small step towards her cousin and says, "Yusuke, what…?" Soon after, Yusuke ran out of the stadium and away from his friends.

Atticus asks, perplexed, "What happened?"

Jaden asks, perplexed, "Yeah, was it something I said?"

Botan, Hiei, Catherine, Kelly, Zane, Syrus, Hikari, Kira and Kagome knew why the sudden change in Yusuke's behavior and didn't know how to explain to the rest. They didn't think that Yusuke would appreciate them telling about his past.