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Chapter 61: Going Home for the Summer

Today was the last day of school, until summer for the students of Duel Academy. Everyone was especially excited about leaving for summer vacation, which was two weeks long.

Syrus says, with a wide smile, "Wow, this is going to be so cool." Syrus, Jaden, Catherine, Kagome, Yusuke, Hikari, Ryoko and Kira walked to the docks, with their things in their hands. They soon joined Zane, Kelly and Bastion. Mindy and Jasmine had decided to wait for Atticus and Alexis. Syrus says, happily, "I just love helicopter rides."

Kira asks, perplexed, "Who said anything about riding on a helicopter?"

Syrus gulped, as they arrived to see a huge ship waiting for them. Syrus opened his mouth in fear and Ryoko noticed it and asks, annoyed, "I'm gonna regret asking this but what's wrong now?"

Syrus sounds, horrified, "This is bad, really bad! I should have stayed behind!"

Catherine asks, perplexed, "What's his problem?"

Zane sighs and replies, in a plain tone, "Not only Syrus can't swim, he gets seasick."

Ryoko says, drolly, "Oh yeah, I'm really regretting that!"

Just as they began to walk up the ramp, they heard some one call out: "Wait!" They all turned around and saw Atticus, Alexis, Mindy, and Jasmine running towards them.

Jaden spoke out with a smile, "It's about time you guys showed up!"

Yusuke says, "What took you guys so long?"

Alexis replies, solemnly, "I just got off this my parents and they'll be waiting for Atticus and me, by the harbor."

Kagome looks around and asks, "Did anyone see Chazz around here?"

Yusuke says, "Now that you mention it, I haven't seen him at all."

Hikari says, in a serious tone, "Well, Princeton better come show up because the ship is leaving in thirty minutes!"

Yusuke walks ahead and says, "I'll look for him!" Yusuke runs off, with Jaden and Kagome following him, finding the youngest Princeton brother.

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Near the Slifer Red dorms, we find Chazz Princeton at the back of the dorm and looking in the sky.

Just then, a familiar male voice boomed, "Chazz! Chazz!"

Chazz looks back to see Yusuke, Jaden and Kagome running towards him and Chazz asks, in his usual manner, "What do you, guys, want? Doesn't the boat leave in twenty minutes!?"

Jaden replies, "Yeah, it does but why aren't you there?"

Chazz replies, in his usual manner, "I like I'll tell you, slacker! I'm staying here and that's that!"

Kagome asks Chazz, with concern, "How will you survive in this school for four whole months?"

Yusuke then says, "Yeah, I mean the whole school will be abandoned with no food or anything."

Chazz then says, "Who cares? I'm not going and that's that!"

Kagome then asks, "Then, could you please tell us why you won't come with us?" Kagome gasped in shock and asks, "Could it be that you don't want to see your brothers?"

Chazz huffs in reply and says, "What's it to you!?" Chazz thinks in his mind, 'Yeah, you're right, Kagome! It's my brothers, they disowned me, so how could I go back to them!'

Jaden then says, "Oh I get it! You're brothers have disowned you and you have no where to stay for the summer, right?"

Chazz says, annoyed, "Of course, I have somewhere to stay, Jaden! It's here and I'm not leaving!"

Kagome says, "But you can't stay here for four months, Chazz!"

Chazz says, stubbornly, "I can and I will!"

Kagome growls in annoyance and yells out, "Why do you have to be so stubborn!?" Kagome thinks in her mind, 'Great, it's like arguing with that dog-eared traitor, again!' Kagome shook those thoughts of Inuyasha away from her and thinks in her mind, 'Never again!'

Chazz then says, "Besides, what good will it be to stay with those two scrubs for the summer!?" Chazz then mumbles, "Besides, I'm not sure that I'm not welcome there, anymore." Chazz realized what he said and looked at Yusuke, Jaden and Kagome with looks of concern and pity. Chazz yells out, "It's not that I need you pities! Bottom line is…I'm staying!"

Yusuke says, "No, you're coming with us! Because there's no way, are we going to let you stay here for four months! You could even stay with me for the summer!"

Chazz then says, perplexed, "What? Stay with YOU!"

Yusuke then says, "Sure, why not? I can tell my mother to clean up the place with those beer bottles that she has lying around, during Hikari, Kira and I were gone. So what do you say?"

Chazz had to weigh his options. He knew that Yusuke's mother was a drunkard and unemployed. He couldn't ask Kagome, the Rhodes siblings, the Truesdale brothers, Kelly, Catherine or Bastion, because he didn't like to be needy and he didn't want to stay with Jaden all the time, during the summer. There was no way that Yusuke, Jaden and Kagome would leave him alone, if he tired. Chazz sighed and says, in defeat, "Fine! You win! I'll come!"

Yusuke says, with a smile, "That's great to hear, Chazz!"

Kagome looked her watch and yells out, "Hey guys, the boat is about to leave in ten minutes!"

The boys shrieked in horror and Chazz bolted towards his room to pack his things as fast as he could.

In five minutes, Chazz, Yusuke, Jaden and Kagome ran away from the Slifer Dorm and dashed towards the boat where they see that they were on time as they got on board.

When Yusuke told his sisters that Chazz was staying with them for the summer, their reaction was…

Hikari and Kira yells at their brother, "WHAT!"

Kira yells at Yusuke, in anger, "You're having Chazz Princeton in our home, where he'll probably ridicule our living area, considering that our mother is a drunkard and unemployed! The place would be stacked with beer and wine bottles and smoking butts!"

Hikari yells at Yusuke, in anger, "Out of the dumbest things you've done in the past, Yusuke, this takes the cake!"

Yusuke tells his sister, "Yeah, but it was either that or he'll stay in Duel Academy and how will he survive! Besides, would you let him to stay with his jerk of brothers!?"

Hikari and Kira weighed their options, they couldn't stand Chazz, but they seen Chazz's brothers and they figured that Yusuke had a good idea of having Chazz in their home. Hikari says, in a serious tone, "Okay, but if he makes one bad remark about our mother, then he's a dead man…"

Yusuke says, "Sure thing…" Yusuke's expression turned into a serious one, which got Hikari's and Kira's attention and they know why and hopefully things will be straight in the end…