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Chapter 70: Old Secrets Revealed

(At the Higurashi shrine in the mid-morning; A day later after Jaden was given the title Spirit Detective of the Earth)

At the Higurashi shrine, we find our Elemental Hero duelist, Jaden Yuki, packing his things in his bag for his first assignment as Spirit Detective. Soon after, there was a knock on the door and Kagome's voice calls out, "Hey, Jaden! May I come in!?"

Jaden says, with a smile, "Sure thing, Kagome!" Kagome came into the room and asks, curiously, "Do you really have to leave?"

Jaden replies, "Yeah, my mother told me that to come home, right away! They didn't say why…!" Jaden thinks in his mind, "Sorry, Kagome, I hate lying to my friends, but I can't tell you! But I promise to bring you and Yusuke back from that asshole!" Jaden places his backpack on his back and says, with a wide smile, "Seeya! Thanks for having me! Tell Yusuke, Chazz, and Sota that I said bye!" Jaden walked pasted Kagome and walked out the door.

Kagome calls out, with a smile, "Sure thing!"

Jaden walked down the stairs, while pasting by the kitchen to find Mrs. Higurashi, doing the dishes.

Jaden calls out, "Hey, Mrs. H.!"

Mrs. Higurashi turns from the dishes and says, with a smile, "Jaden, you're leaving, so soon!"

Jaden says, with a fake smile, "Yeah! Mom says that I have to be home right away. Thanks for having me, Mrs. H.!"

Mrs. Higurashi replies, with a smile, "It's no problem, Jaden! You're welcome to come over anytime you feel to."

Jaden says, "Thanks, again!" Jaden dashed towards the door, opened it and closes it. Jaden springs towards the stairs, while rushing towards the bottom of the stairs and ran out of the shrine. Jaden dashes on the sidewalk, on his way to the train station.

Just then, a feminine voice calls out, "I didn't expect you to leave so soon, Jaden!" Jaden turns to see Alexis, walking towards him, with a serious expression on her face.

Jaden says, with a smile, "Hey Lex! Sorry, can't chat! I have to get home now!"

Alexis says, plainly, "You don't have to lie to me, Jaden! Atticus told me everything!"

Jaden twitched, anime style, and says, fearfully, "Everything!?"

Alexis says, in a serious tone, "That's right! I'm a little confused with the situation here and I want to have things cleared up!"

Moments later, Jaden and Alexis arrived at the train station, while Jaden explained things to Alexis, while Jasmine, Atticus, Yuka, Eri, and Ayumi were waiting for Jaden.

Jaden says, in a serious tone, "And there you have it, 'Lex! I don't doubt Yusuke or Kagome! I'm just feeling like they've been lied to."

Alexis says, seriously, "True, those photos could have been forged and those voices have been digitized in those tapes, as well as." Soon after, Atticus, Jasmine, Ayumi, Eri, and Yuka run towards Jaden and Alexis and Ayumi asks, "So, you believe us?"

Alexis says, "It's a possibility that someone wants Yusuke and Kagome for something and using them to get it."

Jasmine says, in a serious tone, "That's why were going to find this Keiko girl, the one, who's supposedly is Yusuke's ex-girlfriend. We'll find some answers to see if she knows anyone, who could have something that they want from either Yusuke or Kagome."

Alexis says, in a plain tone, "I'm coming with! Yusuke and Kagome are my friends as well and if someone is using them, then I'll see it that they're going down!"

Eri says, with a smile, "Thank you!"

Alexis says, with a smile of her own, "It's no problem! Besides, I know that you guys aren't the kind of people that'll have someone hurt their own friends, like said someone to rape one."

Yuka nods her head and says, seriously, "Whoever is telling Kagome this lie is going down!" The group walked towards the train and soon after they left, towards Yusuke's hometown.

(At the Yukimura diner; Keiko's room sometime later)

Inside of Keiko's room, we find our still heartbroken Keiko sitting on her bed and looking through an album where she was looking through pictures, seeming to be filled with younger versions of her, Yusuke, Hikari, Kagome, Syrus, Zane, Yugi, Joey, Mai, Serenity, Duke, Tristan, Bakura, and Tea. By her bedside, where a box of two albums.

Keiko wiped her tears away from her face and she thinks in her mind, "We were so happy together." She was looking at pictures of the younger versions of her, Hikari, and Yusuke playing in the sand, pulling on a sixteen-year-old Joey Wheeler, young Yusuke painting black ink on sixteen-year-old Joey Wheeler's face, and Joey wailing about it. This brought a small smile on Keiko's face, but soon enough, they disappeared when she reminded herself that they were no longer her friends.

Keiko thinks in her mind, angrily, "Damn HIM! Damn that manipulative asshole! If it hadn't for him, been for him, then everyone of my friends would be with me! I'd probably do what ever it took to gain Yusuke's trust again, even if it took my more than a year." Keiko then thinks in her mind, solemnly, "I wished that I have listened to everyone, my parents, Kuwabara, Mia, Yugi, Joey, Tea, Mai, Duke, Tristan, Shizuru…everyone! But I was so stupid that I shut everyone out of my life! I don't blame them if they don't even want me around! I don't think that I could ever show my face towards Yusuke ever again, or even Hikari, Kira, and Zane." Keiko puts the album away and went to get another, until she heard her mother's voice calling out, "Keiko, you have company!"

Keiko felt relief and hoped that some of her friends have come here. She got up, while fixing her skirt as she walked out of her room. She went downstairs to the diner, to see to her surprise, she saw the face of Jaden Yuki in front of her.

Jaden says, with a smile, "Hey!"

Keiko says, stunned, "It's you…" Keiko then noticed Alexis Rhodes, Atticus Rhodes, Jasmine Kurada, along with Kagome's 'former' friends, Ayumi, Eri, and Yuka coming behind Jaden.

Alexis, Jasmine, and Atticus look from Keiko to Jaden and thinks in their minds, in unison, "Whoa! They look too much alike!"

Keiko says, surprised, "Ayumi, Eri, Yuka, what are you guys doing here?"

Ayumi says, solemnly, "Truth be told, Keiko, we came here to talk."

Keiko looks at her parents and they nod their heads in unison. Soon after, the group along with Keiko entered Keiko's bedroom, as the brunette closed the door.

Keiko asks them, "What is it that you guys want?"

Eri says, solemnly, "Keiko, we were what happened with…you know."

Keiko says, sadly, "Don't worry! You were right, along with everyone else, Eri." Keiko tries to fight off the incoming tears coming down her eyes and Yuka asks, with concern, "Hey Kei, are you okay?"

Keiko exclaims, in a solemn tone in her voice, "How!? How could you guys stand there, asking me if…I'm okay!? I abandoned all three of you guys, along with my other friends and the boy that I care deeply, for a guy that I thought cared for me! You guys were right about him! I was so stupid not to believe you!" Keiko says, in a solemn tone, "One day, he saw that bastard lying on the alley, beaten and battered! He told me that Yusuke did this to him, just to tell him that to stay away from me! I went to confront Yusuke and told him how I felt about it, but instead I found out that asshole, Reginald Haga was there, only to cause more problems for me! Then, afterwards, Kagome threw me out of the apartment and I lost three more friends that day."

Jasmine says, horrified, "That's terrible!"

Keiko shook her head and she says, sadly, "No, I deserved it! I abandoned my friendship with them as well as you three! I don't deserve your friendships, after what happened! When I snuck out for the Japanese Independence Fireworks show and found that lousy son of a bitch making out with another girl and told me to take a hike, I felt so horrible about the warnings that you guys told me! I felt that I was used and tossed aside like yesterday's garbage! I should have listened to you guys and broke up with him, rather then go through this pain!" Keiko slumps to her knees, quickly bursts into tears, puts her hands over her eyes, and with her face buried in her hands as she brawls and cries out with sadness, guilt, and pain in her voice!

The group gets solemn expression on their faces, as Yuka, Eri, and Ayumi walked towards the crying Keiko and went to her comfort.

Alexis sighs and says, solemnly, "Poor thing."

Atticus says, in a whisper, "Maybe, it wasn't such a good idea to question her about the jerk, who's spreading lies in Yusuke's and Kagome's heads."

Jaden nods his head and says, "I agree."

Ayumi says, "No Keiko! It's wasn't your fault! You weren't thinking straight with that jerk!"

Eri says, seriously, "That's right! You had a right to doubt us, it wasn't your fault at all!"

Yuka says, in an angered tone, "Though, I'd like to get my hands on that asshole for doing this to you!"

Eri says, angrily and seriously, "That's right! If he was here, we'd tear him apart for what he did to you!"

Ayumi says, with sympathy, "Keiko, we know how you feel about this! Now, Kagome wouldn't talk to us, anymore."

Keiko sniffed and asks, curiously, "What do you mean?" Soon enough, the group told Keiko about what happened with Kagome and the destroyed friendship that happened.

Keiko says, horrified, "That's terrible! I never thought that Hojo would do such a thing!"

Jasmine says, seriously, "He didn't necessarily did it, intentionally."

Jaden says, "That's right! A friend of ours checked the drink that Hojo had and it had a drug in it that's used for mind control."

Keiko says, "You mean, someone got Hojo to almost rape Kagome! Who would do something that sick!?"

Jasmine replies, "We believed that you may know someone that may want something from Yusuke or Kagome."

Keiko shook her head and she says, "Not that I know of! Why would you ask?"

Jaden replies, "Not to long ago! Yusuke got a tape recorder that had the voices of Ayumi, Eri, and Yuka on them about them planning to hurt Kagome."

Keiko gasps in shock and says, horrified, "You're kidding!"

Ayumi says, solemnly, "No joke! It's the main reason that Kagome and Yusuke wouldn't look or talk to us, again!"

Atticus says, seriously, "We believe that those voices may be digitized by someone, who wants Ayumi, Eri, and Yuka, or any of Kagome's old friends out of the way."

Keiko says, plainly, "You know! The same thing happened with me! When I went to confront Yusuke about him beating up that asshole, that creep, Reginald Haga, showed Yusuke and everyone in the house pictures of him and I dating and a tape recorder with my voice, that asshole's voice, and Syrus's voice in it, saying that I had HIM attack Syrus, when I was 'planning to hurt Yusuke'. But you guys have to believe me, I'd never hurt Yusuke anymore than I already may have!"

Jaden says, seriously, "Don't worry, Keiko! We believe you!"

Alexis says, plainly, "However, I think it's safe to say that this, Reginald guy is the one, who provided Yusuke the tape recorder that may had your voice, along with that jerk and Sy's voices, along with the tape recorder with Yuka's, Eri's, and Ayumi's voices! As for those pictures, they may have been digital as well."

Atticus says, seriously, "Damn it! If only we'd have those pictures, we'll see if they're real or fake!"

Just then, Keiko's parents came inside the room, with everyone looking at them. Keiko asks, perplexed, "Mom, Dad, what's up?"

Mr. Yukimura says, in a serious tone, "We heard that you kids are looking for the person, who's responsible for feeding Yusuke's head with lies, but I never thought that Kagome's head was filled with lies by this person."

Mrs. Yukimura says, plainly, "We want to help you kids! Since, I know the identity of the person feeding Yusuke and Kagome these lies."

Alexis asks, curiously, "Do you know who?"

Mrs. Yukimura nods her head and says, with a smile, "That's right! Keiko, honey, does the name 'Saiou' rings a bell?"

Keiko gasps in shock and she replies, "Yeah! I do! Last summer, when Yusuke and Kagome were staying with Seto Kaiba, 'Saiou' came to Yusuke's apartment and asked if Yusuke was home. He clams that he manages pro-duelists, but…"

Jaden asks, "But what?"

Keiko replies, winching, "The feeling that I got from him was so creepy."

Ayumi asks, curiously, "Do you think that this 'Saiou' guy is the one that's putting in lies into Yusuke's and Kagome's heads?"

Mrs. Yukimura says, in a serious tone, "I don't think so, Ayumi, I know so! You see, when I was coming home from the store, I spotted Yusuke and Kagome going into the park with this 'Saiou' character. However, Kazuma Kuwabara spotted me and we continued to listen in their conversation, then we saw that horrible boy, Reginald Haga, with 'Saiou' and they were telling Yusuke and Kagome that Keiko hanged around with them and Yusuke believed, but Kagome wasn't so convinced, until Reginald brought out the pictures of him and Keiko."

Keiko asks, curiously, "Wait! Kagome too!"

Alexis says, seriously, "Well, this confirms it! This 'Saiou' and Reginald guys must be the ones, who's responsible for the whole thing!"

Keiko thinks in her mind, solemnly and angrily, "If that's the case, then that would mean…." Suddenly, images of Reginald kissing Keiko came into her head and Keiko thinks in her mind, angrily, "This could be planned out from the very beginning! Reginald kissing me, Yusuke breaking up with me for it, and those lies 'Saiou' planted about me in Yusuke's mind, not to mention Kagome's."

Yuka says, in a serious tone, "Though, those are good clues to go by, we still need to figure out, how we are going to those pictures that Reginald had with him!"

Mrs. Yukimura giggles as she pulls out, an envelope and says, with a sly smile, "You mean these! Kagome gave them to me to look at, when she was finished looking at them." Everyone looked to see as Keiko's mother got out the pictures and showed them to the group. Keiko gets the pictures and looks through them, carefully. Keiko raises an eyebrow and says, seriously, "Hold on! These look familiar!"

Jasmine asks, "What do you mean?"

Keiko quickly gets to her desk, searches through it, pulls out two envelopes and dropped the three envelopes to her desk. Keiko then quickly takes out the pictures, which were pictures of her and Yusuke as well as got out the pictures of her and Tyku and the pictures of her and Reginald. She searches through them and she gasps in shock. Keiko says, stunned, "No!? No way!?"

Everyone goes over to Keiko and Mr. Yukimura asks, "Keiko, honey, what's up?"

Keiko says, seriously, "I knew it! These pictures are fakes! Somehow they digitized my pictures with Yusuke and Tyku and managed to add Reginald's!" Everyone looks at the pictures and Atticus says, stunned, "You're right, Keiko!"

Alexis says, seriously, "These pictures are fakes!"

Mr. Yukimura says, plainly, "Plus, there are other clues that they may have been fakes! Look closely everyone! Keiko wasn't that orange shirt of yours burned when you had nasty stain on it!"

Keiko says, seriously, "Now that you mention it, Dad, yes it was!" Keiko points at a building at one of the fake pictures and asks, "And look that building was torn down, just a month after Yusuke, Zane, Hikari, Kira, Syrus, and Ryoko left for Duel Academy!"

Yuka says, seriously, "So, they were fakes! Someone must have copied these pictures!"

Mr. Yukimura says, seriously, "Hold on! If they copied the pictures with Keiko and Yusuke, as well as that punk, Tyku, then they would have been here to steal them to make copies."

Keiko shook her head and she says, "No, they're here, because, I told a worker from the store to make copies, so I can give them to Yusuke, when he comes back from Seto Kaiba's place and that my so-called boyfriend has the copies of the pictures that had us in them."

Jasmine says, plainly, "I have a theory on this! What if the worker made copies of the pictures that had Yusuke and Keiko in them, as well as that jerk, Tyku, of his or her own."

Alexis says, "You know, you may have a point there, Jaz! Hey Keiko, who's the name of this worker, who works in the photo department?"

Keiko replies, "I've seen her all the time! Her name is…R…Rose…Rose Tenku!" Keiko gasps in shock as the images of what happened that broke her heart the second time came into her head as well as the face the girl that Tyku had made out with. Keiko says, horrified, "Oh…no!"

Mrs. Yukimura asks, with concern, "Keiko, what's wrong?"

Keiko says, horrified, "She….she's…she's the one, who I saw in the arms of that manipulative creep at that horrible night! I thought I recognized her from some where!"

Yuka says, in an angered tone, "Oh I'm tempted to find that creep and that wench, right now!"

Eri says, seriously, "Get in line, Yuka! I'm giving that creep a piece of my mind when I find him!"

Jaden says, in a serious tone, "We'll we got what we came for! Now, I think we should leave."

Mr. Yukimura asks Jaden, curiously, "You're leaving so soon?"

Jaden says, with a smile, "Yeah, I sure am! Thanks for everything, Mr. Y.!"

Just then, a female voice calls out, "Jaden, wait!"

Everyone turns to see a mid-age woman walking towards him and Jaden asks, perplexed, "Mom? What are you doing here?"

Mrs. Yukimura asks the group, except for Jaden and Keiko, seriously, "Will you guys wait downstairs for a second? There's something we need to discuss with Jaden and Keiko." The group gets up of the room, while Ayumi closes the door on their way out.

Jaden asks the woman that's his mother, "Hey, mom, what's up?"

Keiko says, seriously, "Yeah, I don't like this."

Mrs. Yukimura gets out an album from her back and gives it to Jaden and Keiko. Keiko takes it from her hands and Mrs. Yukimura says, seriously, "There's something that you two should know."

Keiko opened the album and she and Jaden gasp in shock. They see a three-year-old version of Keiko playing in the sand with a three-year-old version of Jaden.

Jaden asks, perplexed, "What this all about? Why is there a picture of me in there?"

Jaden's mother says, solemnly, "Jaden, I think it's time for you to know the truth about the two of you."

Keiko asks, perplexed, "What do you mean? What's going on?"

Mr. Yukimura says, in a serious tone, "Keiko, you have a brother! A twin younger brother that's three seconds younger than you."

Keiko says, shocked, "What! I have a brother! Who is he!?"

Keiko's parents pointed at Jaden, who had a shocked expression on his face. Jaden exclaims, shocked, "Me! Someone please tell me this is a joke!"

Jaden's 'mother' says, solemnly, "Actually, Jay, it isn't. I think you should remember what happened that day."

Jaden thinks real hard about it and his eyes widened, in shock, as the memories came into his head. He remembers a masked man carrying him out of a diner, where a female voice calls out about giving back her baby. The masked man, with young Jaden, got pretty far away from the diner and then the masked man threw young Jaden away, which the concrete and his head connect and knocked him out. Jaden then remembers waking up to a home where a younger version of his 'mother' was taking care of his wounds. The woman asks young Jaden of his name and he says, "My name? My name is….Ja…Jaden Yu…Yuki…I think that's it! Jaden Yuki!"

Jaden says, stunned, "Oh man! I remembered now! Some creep kidnapped me away from here!"

Mrs. Yukimura says, solemnly, "Your real name is Jaden Yukimura, which would explain the 'Yuki'. When I saw that awful man took you away from us, I was so worried about your health and as years pasted, I continued and hoped that one day, I'd find you, again, alive and well."

Keiko asks, seriously, "If you guys knew, then why didn't you tell me!?"

Mr. Yukimura replies, "We thought about it and we didn't want you to worry about it so much."

Keiko clenched her right fist, as her nails punctured her hand and blood came out and she brawls out, angrily, "Not wanted to worry about! My brother was kidnapped by some sicko and you thought I shouldn't worry about it! I figured my life can't get any worse! First, I find out that some sick asshole was using me, while I completely brushed aside my friends as well as the boy that I loved the most, because they didn't like him! Now, I found out that my parents had a secret that involves a family member and they couldn't tell their own daughter this! GET OUT OF MY ROOM, NOW!!" Everyone winches at Keiko's yell, which was filled with anger, sorrow, and pain!

Mrs. Yukimura was about to speak, but her husband shut her down, and Mr. Yukimura says, seriously, "Let's go! We should get out now." The group left Keiko's room, which was followed by Keiko falling her bed, with her face covered in her bed and she lets out a loud cry that was filled with anger, pain, and sorrow.

While downstairs, Atticus, Alexis, Jasmine, Ayumi, Eri, and Yuka were waiting at the diner, as Jaden and his and Keiko's parents came by the diner.

Alexis asks, curiously, "What's up?"

Jaden says, with a small smile, "It's best that we don't talk about it now, Alexis." Soon after, the group walked out of the diner to their homes.

(At the Higurashi shrine; Sometime later)

In Kagome's room at the Higurashi shrine, we find Kagome telling Yusuke and Chazz about Jaden's departure.

Yusuke says, "So, Jaden, up and left like that!"

Kagome replies, "Yeah! He said that his mother told him to come home right away."

Chazz says, in his usual snobbish tone, with a shrug, "Oh well! This means that I got the whole room to myself. You know, I've been thinking, Jaden has been going out quite a bit these days."

Yusuke asks Chazz, "Yeah, so?"

Kagome says, "We've notice it to. Though come to think of it, Jay, didn't tell us what he was doing."

Chazz says, in a serious tone, "And I've figured out we haven't heard about that slacker's input about your so-called friends."

Kagome says, in a plain tone, "What are you suggesting, Princeton? That Jaden may have been hanging around with those bitchy traitors!?"

Yusuke says, seriously, "No way! Jay would never hang around with people that hurt other people!"

Just then, Yumi appears by Yusuke and says, in a cold serious tone, "Though, we were chewing out that bitch and those wenches, we didn't hear him say anything. In fact, he's been quiet, especially with Keiko, even with the proved evidence. I'm getting the feeling that Keiko must be leading Jaden somehow."

Yusuke yells out, mentally, in a cold angered and serious tone, "What! Those dorks aren't going to touch my pal, like they did with Syrus! That's it, we're warning Jay about this!"

(Back at the Yukimura dinner; Keiko's room in the early evening hours)

Back inside of Keiko's room, we find Keiko lying down on the bed with tears stains on her face. Just then, there was a knock on her door and Keiko calls out, "Go away!"

Jaden's voice calls out, "All right." Keiko realized that it was Jaden's voice and she jumped off her bed and dashes towards the door. She opens it to see Jaden going down the stairs and she says, "Jaden, hold on!"

Jaden looks at Keiko and Keiko says, with a small smile, as she wiped the tear stains on her face, "Do you want to come in?" Soon enough, the two entered the room as Keiko closed the door.

Jaden says, with a small smile, "I take it that you're pretty much upset about what just happened, huh?"

Keiko says, with a fake smile, "You can say that."

Jaden says, seriously, "You're not the only one, who was infected with this. I was pretty much upset as well. I mean I never thought that I'd have a sister as well."

Keiko says, plainly, "I never thought about haven't a brother as well. Though I wondered when I saw your face that you looked familiar to me, as if I knew you from somewhere. It was at the entrance exams for Duel Academy, wasn't it?"

Jaden replies, with a smile, "I guess so, I wondered why you looked so familiar. Plus, when you defended that you had nothing to do with Syrus's injuries, not only I could tell that you weren't lying, I could believe that you weren't the kind of person that would play with other people's emotions, like Yusuke and Kagome calmed."

Keiko winched at this and she says, seriously, "We definitely need to find this 'Saiou' guy, so we can get him to confess to Yusuke and Kagome that he was lying!"

Jaden says, with a smile, "So, you do love him? Yusuke I mean?"

Keiko brought out a blush on her cheeks and she says, "Yeah, but he has Catherine now."

Jaden replies, nervously, "Uh right…about that…"

Keiko asks Jaden, "What does that mean?"

Jaden sighs and says, "Actually, Yusuke and Catherine aren't boyfriend and girlfriend. They never were."

Keiko says, stunned, "Say what!? But they…"

Jaden says, "They kissed and that's about it. Apparently, Kari didn't get the whole detail and assumed that they were going out, but weren't. As a matter of fact, every time that I girl from our school, asks Yusuke on a date, Yusuke just rejects them."

Keiko says, stunned, "You're kidding!"

Jaden shook his head and he says, "No joke! When girls start flirting with him, Yusuke sends them a glare that makes the whole room drop below forty."

Keiko thinks in her mind, seriously, "The same with Kagome at our days at Sarayashiki Junior High! What if…?" Keiko asks, "Hey, Jaden, in these attempts about girls flirting and asking Yusuke out, did he say that his love is only dueling?"

Jaden replies, "Yeah! The same went for Kagome as well. As a matter of fact, we know much about this 'two-timing boyfriend' of Kagome's…"

Keiko says, angrily, "You mean the jerk that goes after his ex-girlfriend, behind Kagome's back."

Jaden says, "We may have theories that this 'Saiou' guy must have feed lies into Kagome's mind, believing that this 'two-timing boyfriend' isn't as 'two-timing' as you make it."

Keiko says, seriously, "That may be a possibly, Jaden. If that lying asshole is good on making Yusuke think that I was playing with his emotions, I'm pretty sure that he lied about Kagome's 'boyfriend' too."

Jaden thinks in his mind, "If only you knew, the whole truth! This 'Saiou' must be Sartorius, who has Yusuke and Kagome under his control. I promised Koenma that I won't say anything to Keiko about her 'role' in this plan or she'll really be devastated." Jaden says, with a smile, "Hey Keiko, why don't we go to Yusuke's place? I'm pretty sure with the evidence that we showed Hikari and Kira, I'm sure that they'll be your friends again."

Keiko says, getting her hopes up, "You really think so! I missed them a lot and I really wished that there's a way that I could make it up with the others."

Just then, a female voice calls out, "I think there's a way, Kei!" Jaden and Keiko turns to see the faces of Hikari, Kira, Zane, Mia, and Ryoko.

Jaden says, with a smile, "Hey guys, what's up!?"

Zane says, in a serious tone, "We came to see Keiko and to apologize about our behavior earlier."

Hikari says, in a solemn look and tone in her voice, "Yeah, we should have never doubted you for a minute, when you said that you had nothing to do with Syrus getting beaten up."

Ryoko says, solemnly, "We don't blame you if you don't forgive us?"

Keiko says, with a smile, "I forgive you guys, but I should be the one asking for your forgiveness."

Kira says, with a sly smile, "Oh Keiko, we know about how that asshole played with your emotions."

Keiko asks, curiously, "How did you know?"

Zane and Hikari made way as Syrus Truesdale walked in with crutches, with a cast on his right leg, to Keiko's horror and Keiko says, horrified, "Oh Sy, what happened?"

Syrus replies, winching, "Tyku, he did this to me, when I supposed him and his girlfriend were planning on something that involved you, Yusuke, and Kagome."

Keiko couldn't control herself as she dashed towards Syrus, while wrapping her arms around his neck, hugging him and cries on Syrus's right shoulder.

Syrus says, a bit unnerved, "Uh Keiko…?"

Keiko cries out, solemnly, "Oh Sy, I'm so sorry…! I'm so sorry!"

Hikari kneels by Keiko and tells Keiko, while placing a hand on Keiko's back, "Keiko, it wasn't your fault! This was all that asshole, Tyku's, fault! We should have known that twerp, Reginald, was lying to us."

Syrus says, seriously, "That's right! You weren't thinking straight when you were with that creep."

Kira says, with an angered tone, "I just wish that lying little bastard was here, so I can show him how I feel about lying to us about our friends, along with that asshole that hurt you!"

Zane says, in a serious tone, "Don't worry, Keiko. That punk, along with Reginald, will pay for this."

Keiko pulled herself from Syrus and she asks, "Syrus, you said that asshole was planning something with Yusuke, Kagome, and I. Did you know what it was?"

Syrus says, in a serious tone, "I sure do, Keiko! He was planning on breaking your heart, right from the very beginning! Plus, Tyku and his supposed girlfriend were talking about the things filled in Yusuke's and Kagome's minds!"

Jaden says, seriously, "What I like to know is why they would have something against you to pull this stunt."

Keiko replies, "I don't know. Kari, do you remember that guy, who was at your apartment last summer?"

Hikari says, "You mean that 'Saiou' guy!"

Keiko says, seriously, "Yeah! My mother said that she and Kuwabara heard that 'Saiou' guy, Reginald, Yusuke, and Kagome talking at the park. Most likely 'Saiou' is the one feeding Yusuke and Kagome these lies. We may also believe that 'Saiou' had lied to Kagome about her 'boyfriend'."

Kira asks, "You mean the 'two-timing' one."

Zane says, in a serious tone, "All we have to do is to keep looking for this 'Saiou' guy."

Mia asks, curiously, "Do you think that asshole, Tyku, is working together with that creep, Reginald and that 'Saiou' guy?"

Zane replies, "We can't assume that now. We just have to wait and see."